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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1956.
Never Since Women Dived From Skyscrapers For Valentino Has There Been A Craze Like It
Who Would Be MOST
Embarrassed By $100,000? EVER
I
By PHILIP OAKES
London "Everything was OK until
EXTEND my sympathy
to Jack Lemmon, a
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with money on his mind. Too much money.
This Venr Lemon W. Awarded an Oseng for his giet - formater in "Misleg Roberts"
"And the Cheur put my price up," he an$C$, I kept un read. Ing scripts and Birming 13144 And each time the lateks, Kot higher Now get around a bendred thousand dollars it pleture
I'm nut
down
worth it"
Lemmon earnings
J 31 1.
£80,000 average
year 1 le made his males as July Holliday's co-star in Should Happen To You" and
Phind set a new style in septen comedy, us karje
strong a dry martin
ACTOR'S ACTOR
In London he
Brat
da amatser
10: Hayworth Mitchum in
low.
the government
divided I was making too much," he said. "1 gave up and I don't want to
back."
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Lemmon's father Is also
As sale inana- The big money, ger of the Doughnut Corpora- tion of Amerien he tours the world, spending three months n your In London.
"And you
know what 11 foes," said his son "He spends all his Une Inspeeting the holes in doughnuts.”
(a)
My Lemmon sounded regret. An Our-winner {auvex the doughnut world behind,
BIC THINGS
I
FORECAST big things for 22-year-old Perilt. Neilson,
on show this week in the new I
priskelion of Seagull. She has the heari
of FA Taking
the poise of th kitten. And, more to the point, whe has a three-year
a
kost
pedigree
contract
playing his upposite
Itober with actor-manager John Cle-
"Fire Down1
Be- ments,
The bobaby-soxers de tod jast on Mr Legion's sout, buy Mr Lemotion does not worry,
"My naine," she said, "Nang
Pearl Little
It's something beought back from the
fine."
Perlita "I guess you could call me
"Money in the juvenile in
thing
She Gun
in NICCURA 10
nette," he spid
bank dextort
k
What coutils > beng able look back when you're washed
kasur up at 60 at taking
in one or two things you have done
the
of Cert- mon's best film, was the zenind of a marruge breaking up A sound that Linen has learned to ognize too well
Pettienul "
Riarlest
Argen-
ס
Your
"Annie Got
scored a personal her -hes hit
"Lace Un
And
then
the awkard age,
"
"I took a rest," she said. worked
department store In a and sult then's underwear. Un- romantic but practical
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came a starring part in the Arts Theatre production of Euchanted," spell with Vie. And then Old The Bristof Why wife and I agreed to d
with the sharp-eyed meeting tripl separation this year." ne maid of hope it's going to work Me Clements.
want her back
I
Jik
In be a stur
Meanwhile he woreles about Wilt u wuld Mi, Nell-
money, too much money
100 altuation 1 not how to him
****
Before he went to Hollywood le appeared in 800 televisiun shows and then went to pro- duelson for himsel
500
"But there's always men's underwear if I don't make the grade"
Muy Neilson 1'111 rexi
The winter wopllies are not for her,
21.4-
EVER
Quality
need not be expensive
STAGGERING STORY
IN SHOW BUSINESS
IN
DEAN-THE LITTLE BOY WAS LOST
The James Dean legend
in already an Industry
Boy
Who Refused to "Janita Dean Lives "1. Words From There
"The
Die"
On"
The Beyond." are seme
of the beadlines trom magazines SOLELY devoted to James
Giris tell how they once touched his shirt, there are pictures of the car ju which he was killed. This is the measure of the most amazing after-death adulation ever.
in his films he reached out And touched the world. To The endless life of his genius wo dedicate this story.
The
By DAVID LEWIN
has myth
taken 11 box-office for Dean
months to be hammered Into very good Indeed." shape by over-emotional
In 16 countries
Robien
Unforgettable"
The Jimmy Dean I Dated-by A Girl Friend."
There is n fact sheet on him more detalled than for a world
was "Good statesman.
Dean's first about Dean
More has now been written after death than of many im Is It
youngsters. In England during two pictures were shown after during the lives to that
time the
namo
THAT is the foreword te srutually became known.
man called Jimmy Dean - James Byron Dean in full,
It appears in an American It is just one magazine. instalment in the most stag- gering story in show busi- ness.
Staggering because the whole of this mugezhus-and the whole
"East of
DEDI
Eden" was shown while he was still alive. Business was the better than average-
which means there were seats lp
all parts of any 'cinema,
Death
on
466
his
his fatal car crash. Box-office share. It is crazy-but was brilliant: In Australla re- happening. cords were broken, although the pattern 'there usually follows England.
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not
or
will And I'll wager
I! happen when greater names like Oilvier...
Gielgud be- Orson Welles (yes, and Marilyn Why did Dean suddenly come a hero for leenage Monroe) finally retire or die. audiences round the world?
A few days ago Dean's studio called in a psychiatrist to give
Of all the explanations offer- el the orse I accept Is this: an opinion on the "healthiness" James Byron Dean was casual of this after-death popularity.
and arrogant; incoherent but brash but in need of
of two others like Pis devotext £2,500 German racing car vocal;
10 the life and time of James Dean, who died on September 30 Lust year in a car crash.
The remarkable fact today in that Dean who was 24 yours ald is already a legent in Amenon.
1914 1974 span in Hollywood was two years. In that Ume he made only three fuss. The first was "East of Eden." The second Reber Wither a Cause." The third "Grant**
still to be shown,
Booming
LREADY there are magazines elvųcated 10 him. They York the
New
arrivest
from
other day,
Their
Alb
there
printing "The
James
500.0
Death tilles: "James -circulation 809,000, Real
Denn" circulation 5,000, new caillon coming up. "James Dean Hetums"ciren - lation nearly 500,000.
A fourth coining up is called Official Janica Dean Story" which, by the anniver sory of his death, is preparing for a sale of a million
Variety,
The show
business
HEN Dean speeded In
166 a Paso along Highway ttobles in Califor la.
comfort.
He perfected the art of play.. boy lost in D He sinacked into another car ing the little
ha
great big world. by the sine -Was dead reached hospital.
The youth
the cinemas saw For themselves just like that. the same reason "Look Back in Anger" is a play success in Lon- don-the hero has a shrill, angry sound.
His second Alm "Rebel With
was ready fur Out Cause" showing.
'The
men conferred. should Brun's name be put in smaller type? Because when an refor dies the accepted rulo is that audiences do not want to know: they prefer to forget,
When Valentino died 30 years stormed his women Ago and
funeral there
stump of was a his box-office at the cinema (there was no mass revival for Valvolino although every year
that
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tell them: il isn't healthy at all, just unbalanced, Ono
should be thing immediately
don
by the studio: for requests
his autographed pictures, which come in at the rate of hundreds a week, should be firmly refused.
Now-here?
ATER this year Dean's last
m. "Hart," will be shown In America
sound hug become nasty and hysterical. 1 hope it is decided that Dean's
name will not be given Already bills of Dean's smashed-
any
up ear are being sold for up to extra billing. £25 a piece us souvenirs.
WHI a Dean craze outside America?
might.
Everything
the picture start off
LI
Al
The hullities
it could. For Observer
Film
Ex-
In London-far
from
THE magazines in his honour" sensational in tone--post-card-
express sentiments like
hi grave is strewn with fresh this flowers).
When Jean Harlow died, in travelled 1937, her films were no longer searching a draw.
Rementering
this the cinema showmen watched Anu
trade paper, reports that these "Rebel Without a Cause" magazine sales
"hotter' It pistol... or Presley" (the singer)
ITAUJOF record companies HTT issung spacial Altres
the Theme muetic of Dean's Bars--with pictures Dear on the covers.
put
R out
A third company has song called illa Name Wie Dut." und by waiting. for sales to mount.
ango
And yet when a year
ü number Ballad of James Dean" was recorded there was no reaction at all.
DEAN RETURNS!
something
ever
that
nize pen sketches of Dean are on sale at Is. 3. each.
Already 550 have been bought -and this number puts Dean ahead of most of the field and alongside Marlon Brando.
"It was A Jonesome road he
→ searching.
fur seemed just beyond his reach."
Or headlines like these:- "Jimmy's Life Loves Death"
"Dean Lives On, Unfor- majority.
THE LONELY ONE
And the buyers are teeringers: 18 and 19 years old, girls in the
HE RETURNED AFTER DEATH TO THE CIRL
HE LOVED...
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THE KIKUYU CHILDREN WOULD
NOT EAT WHEN SHE WENT AWAY
BRITISH nurse, 41-
year-old Evelyn Bon- Jean MacVean tells of Red Cross
nelt, recently arrived
Onc
them.
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to
back in London after work worker Evelyn Bennett's experiences during the day. ing for two years with the
Kikuyu tribe in Kenya.
Woma
was
an
takes
interest windows, and an open oven wld. The problem now a wood fire in the middle, to teach African parents
Red Cross teams have shown their look after
children Mothers who the Kilcuyu how to paint their go out to work leave their houses and build fireplaces. The children to fend for themselves. Kikuyu woman is the beast of,
do not even leave burden for the whole
family. Otten they food. The main
Red remedy lies Tho
Cross has provideci cloth and needles and wools, taught the womon how to The day Miss Bennett left make clothing for themselves children would and their children to replace
the rags they were wearing.
In-
with the parents,"
Anding And misery lisuessnesN
they
and with Indepen- felt at being moved ato dependence Miss Bennett was sent by strange surroundings.
dence came women's clubs.
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This slight, small woman skla and The Lanned
showed eyes
commonsense
"I taught them how to keep their books,” said Miss Bennett, "and how to appoint a com
most practical mittee,"
endless and She arranged for materials
She was posted to Gilgil with
brillant bluc Transit Camp. Gilgil means throughout the
and "country
of dust," Evelyn Bennett was soon to ingenuity. appreciate the reason. Soon clothing after her arrival tents and supplied to the Camp inmates,
In a equipment vanished whirlwind!
Self-Help
Bo
During this time-she was also running a
Place of Safety for children who had been moved from Gilg, so many of her old
followed her Irlends
the centre, the not
ent their food, and an
"My small boy cried bitterly: white mother is going to leave mel"
Congratulated
On to anniversary
of her
to
and They also organise milk srup distribution. for the health teaching chlidren, give and handicraft instruction the women and girls. Perhaps April 3, 1950, second their greatest work in Kenya arrival in has been with children, to im-
only their health, Nairobi, Her gift with children Kenya, Miss Bennett with an- prove not
worker. Joan but their future outlook on life. Jod to her final nsignment other Red Cross
at A he mothers made clothes," the displaced children's centre Priest, was guest of honour had "I
There luncheon at Government Houre, supervise the sho said, "s I thought at Ujaria Park, Nairobi,
Nairobi, where she wan con- Transit
Camp on the medical would rise their morala
were 68 children there, whose side," said Mis: Bannelt, "Many
looked smarter, they
ages ranged from two months gratulated on her fine work by the Governor Sir Evelyn children were suffering from
wear shifts which fasten on to 17 years. Here Miss Bennett Baring. malaria measles, enteritis, the shoulder and are easy
ran a class for first aid for the bronchills,
pneumonia
and wash and iron. The men made boys. malnutrition, We whitewashed
hard-wearing * trousers from
10
it
if
They
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the hospital ourselves and even calico, dyed yellow with a dye Self-reliant
mado a
enrop.
Prejudice
from
and ice cream.
EN
The British Red Cross Society ไป has performed miracles Kenya often under most trying conditions,
have
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
cooking rango
other Apart Scraps we found round, the made from the mustard plant,"
At Easter she took a group of nursing organisations. Within two to three
Miss
Bennett children into Nairobi for cakes, fron
from workers sent Throughout
out from This was
Red Cross teams days the little dead leaves as followed the constructive policy tea
London, the called the children-began to of the Brilish Red Croes
their reward for washing, iron- are mostly formed of settlery revive."
Society: complete Impartiality ing and preparing meals at the wives. They have helped to
When she and insistence on self-help. An centre.
went
to improve sanitary conditions in illustration of this is the fact market, she would take some of women's compe and provided that 40 temporary orphans in the children with her, and say clinics for bables accompanying Miss Bennett had to over- the camp washod and repaired to the traders: "These are your their mothers. Many, like Miss como prejudice in a sect of for themselves the second-hand own children, so don't cheat u Bennett, have done their best faith healers who would not blankets which had been found over food,
work at Transit Camps, whore allow their, sick children to go for them.
“No child", more Mies Bennett. Kikuyu families were held for screening. Red Cross workers to hospital. But after
Her pioneer work at Gilg ever condemned another. They have run clinics and corried had saved the lives of two completed, Mies Bennett moved worked well and once they out welfare woric villages. children, they supported her. to Nairobi in December 1954, ceaised that I would not let
tho
!
Many of the Kikuyu - have Regular milk and meat soup where she launched a hygiene them lle or steel, they respected
campaign and flood, ma."
boon forced to take at least one was given to the children Dolls and child welfare sent out by the British Junior among
women of
oath under pain of Miss Benoit is in. London, for Mau Mau Location Rad, Crows Society, were handed! Makadana
and
a well-earned leave. So far death, and one of the reasone out, and immediately, strapped simultaneously ran two first she has no plane for the future, these villages have been farmed,
the people from on the backs of small girls, nid classes, Mis Bennett ran "I have loved working with le "to" protect Imitating their mothers, Miss clinics for babies, taught the African children of nie aanya, attacks by Mau Mau gangs, Bennet taught the children women noedlework, housocraft "They are self-rebus and very. The people live in round, mud English games to overcome the and cooking The Kikuyu happy youngriers ( onion) Borney - Hotisne i with grass 2OODE, PRO
WHO SAID?) OKM un Ma
**Sir Anthony Bđen when
he heard Mr. Dullan: waa
Comit