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THE... CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 21, 1956..........
THE KISS IS TABOO
-even Hollywood daren't allow it
STARS FIGHT BAN
ON WORD ‘“LOVE'
Gretuola, West Indies since films began that there hot breath of the can never, never be shown Holywood in ee on the seroen a love interest sop 14 mmerqafortably between people of different elme da this film colour. unit making land in the Sun." For what
brin
put on the seren have javer before been attempted.
This: A ve alair be
mirt coloured tween 11 (played by Boothy Hans dridge a white mat (John Jurtan), which ends in marriage; and the love affair between white Joan Poutane
Forbidden, forbidden, for-
it is bidden unless
14 Red Indion film 242 1101
serious,
This
1 might called! ourage or crustate or some- thing.
coleured I
Harry Belafonte whick could end in marriage but is stopped short by the script which says: "It could not work between 26 white woman an! ¡L coloured
THEY'LL LAUGH
wasn't just calculated controversy good for box office which made some ni the raft load of stars angry with the director.
Dorothy Dandridge and John Justin shot their big NOUNC In a summer house
"
TO a part of the world whore the "colour problem" hardly exists .. Hollywood has taken its own strict code of must nols" for the relations between black and white. It is a code that brings about some bizarre situations... hore reported by DAVID LEWIN...
Saint Georges, with its an- cient harbour and lagoon.
"We are in love," they any "known it from the first." Not very original perhaps, but whereas any other film couple in the circumstances would kisa. Miss Dandridge and Mr Justin must not.
them agree that Harry and I can drink out of the same coconut together in a scene. But they insist no kissing, Why hot? they ask. and that we give one another Brenuse
you don't, says up at the end of the picture. director Robert Rossen. We have tried fighting, but it is like fighting marsh- It is so silly, says Miss
mallows." will
All enough to make the in the grounds of the Gov. Dandridge, people
anxiety ernor's residence on a hill laugh. hop with
town of because it has been the rule overlooking
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NO KISSING
LATER
Joan Collins has her love scenes with Boyd, and Miss You still do not, says Collins is about the most director.
untroubled member of the "I don't worry company. about anything very much." she says sitting on the sani. MINH Dandridge I just work on principle ways: "John and I had to that every film may be my fight to say the word love last and that way nothing at first the line was 'You ean surprise me. I have got know how すする feel-as on marriage behind me (ta though it could have been actor Maxwell Reed) and 1 pain we felt. Even now,
do not want to get involved although we go off to Eng in another, land together in the picture, and it is perfectly obvious we are going to get married, neither one of us is allowed to
the netual word use marriage on the serern,
"Why don't we shoot two versions? An honest one for countries which can take it and another version for countries which cannot!"
The same problem with Joan Fontaine and Barry Belafonte. Says Misa Fon- taíne: "At least I have made
"The Star
Splashed Islands
by DAVID LEWIN
THE stars of the Alm that has given Holly. wood one of its trickiest- ever subjects: the colour bar. Left to right: Dorothy Dandridge, Stephen Boyd, Patricia Owens, novelist Alec Waugh. Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, James Mason. Second row: Michael Rennie, Harry Belafonte (partly hidden). John Justin,
Out of view: the ever- watching censor.
ir London they kept say. ing learn to be an actress
and by now, had I stayed,
But since I am while I can kiss, that is all right, and there
ull go on highly paid extras else has a big
1
when sche."
anyone
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
S
**
HE- had come to help There among the belght blos
'neat rows of prize with the washing-up soms and
vegetables, the Warm SUTEMNET and was very cross air is electric with primitive
with the Russians,
<motions
the and
otherwise though completely She has been cross with honest,
of ancient gr the Russians for some time. vacant, faces
deners are distorted with haired Sho nover trusted them, and envy.
even when she was a girl, Among these simple men who which Was many years live with ago.
crocktory thas suffers,
a couple of plates and the handles of two breakfast cups during the Berlin airlift.
nature and know nothing of the fierce compell-
Whenever she is upset about tion of the cities you might ex- to hear cries of, "Well international affairs it is our pectum" and, "Good lucit,
done We lost U
George," when prizes for the biggest marrow and the fullest tomatoes are awarded.
Instead, all
you
hear are mutterings under heavy moustaches, and all you are eye inahing venom and gnarled nats clenched in rage.
The
correspondent might be interested to hear that those I knew went to church on Sun day, but still hated the sight of each other on Monday.
Even when Stalln die and
whe elever people saw the dawn of
cra," sho
₤1
now
w only Russian jgery-pokery. and stirred tavagely at the washing- up in the enamel basin, chipping
saucers,
Her honest face was white with fury when Bulganta l Krusthey came over last spring with their gifts of sables and a baby bear, and had the Im- to "our dear pudence to speak
ittle Queen." We had to buy several new plates the next day.
"Our dear little Queen," she said at the time, "didn't ought to be asked to meet them cunning savages. They'll ask her to meet the monkeys at the Zoo next."
After reading the news on
day this particular
last week arrived she
shaking with indignation Bolling-hot water
the basin. was poured into Plalas, cups, dishes, and knives and forks were hurled after it.
The best years
NCE again the old question: what are the best years
of your 17" has been asked, Uis time by a girl writing in a magazine.
tre
As this girl stems to think the best years
romantic years when every queue at a bus stop may be full of adver ture" you have to ask yourself do how many romantle years
n lifetime? you have in n
If you judge men by Amert- actors in can college boys,
wood, and elderly Ameri- Holly
the romantic can millionaires, years seem to last quite a time. They fall in love at nimost any age between 18 and 88 and roughly about once a year.
This is because all men, even Englishmen, are polygamous by nature, the difference being don't seem to that Englishmen do much about it.
Her mop was wielded like a Her whole sword.
body our knew quiver and crockery was about to meet its
Waterloo.
Wo
give 'em sables," she said, and bang
went a teacup
"What
Most men follow only one of to the bitter these love affairs
them Communists doing end, marrying the object of a
on the draining board. are with sabics, anyway?"
We tried to save a dish before
Pastiny
whim
They spend tho rest
the and housing passing so many stars in this wet was cracked on the draining ing of their lives feeding, cloth.
board, but were too late.
whim and its children. "Our dear ille Queen," sho During this time they ard sold, "ought to send bock her falling in and out of love with sable with a letter saying, "We
other
women but suppress their don't recept fur conta
from
natural inriinations elther be- bloodthirsty, murdering peasants cause they fear public opinion
Sp like you, thanks very much. +r besaure they can't afford it,
In Боте you can put that in your pipe
Eastern countries, and smoke it, you dirty foreign where the polygamous naturo But expect she's too of man le recognised, they fall swine. much of a lady to do that."
Jove several times a year and We thought for P moment are able to do something about that her ango had exhausted It, the classic case being King itself and our crockery was safe. Solomon, who fell in love 1,000 But as she was mopping round @ Umes, married 1,000 women,
she shouted sud- china bow!
and for !ome reason or other denly,
was called the wisest man on north.
ΠΟΡΤΩΝ
In the evening the sun sets far out in a pincid seo and come on up pinpricks of light the hills round the town,
In the
streets of Saint Georges island buses scud around. They
single diekers, little larger than shooting brakes and completely
оп both open
rides, with eushion-covered wooden scats
long the width.
WEARILY...
I
1 should have been THE buses suppose working in repertory Golders Green.
are gally painted
and instead of numbers they
the have names on
back 10 Indicate which route they run There Is the Gold Dove
Carlbla, or or
Windsor
en.
"I haven't really got a **311 Hollywood they Ret home anywhere now--1 have excited and say you're great
mean you're good bus,
let my Hollywood apartment when they
1
I just travel and they say you're good when Forest Pride. had and und living out of seven they mean you're awful. suitcases and two trunks.
DIFFERENCE
JOBODY believed in me
very much in England when I filmed there.
"The big difference be- tween filming in London and Hollywood is this:----
As I walk along the bright plateau With an independent air
You can hear the girls declare Here comes a
millionaire !'-——
OLD SONG
" prefer Be incthod,
Hollywood
"I <i"l like Belors or actresses very much ro i do not spend much time with them. I prefer goiny around with the erew and the technicians.
"I marry a man in this ple- ture at the end, although there is big drama when I find I am quarter-coloured or something.
BRILLIANT BUT. PRECARIQU
Bus
confidence advertises itself with this: "Humming a song of welcome, humming a song of love, humming a song
thanksgiving of
for
your passenger every day."
High от the hill fics the Union Jack over this star- splashed island in the sun.
"And as for that [crash went the bowl! bour, who's going to take that back?"
ก
If you
think the best years prosperous years you
are the Wicked gardeners
COMPLAINT in a corrES- A
pondence column that "Nd- dling about in the garden on Sunday morning keeps people out of church" has confirmed a suspicion I have held for a long time that there
en ark: "At what age am I likely to make the most money? The answer to when you have been
married to the passing whim for several years and have collected enough dependants to spend it for you.
As the Government will take is something what the dependants have left,
wicked about #ardening and
you might also ask: Why have particularly about professional I bothered to make any money gardeners
As ono who has employed professional gardeners, I have always been amazed at the hatreds and Jealousies "their work engenders,
No professional gardener, I found, will ever praise the work
at all?
There is no answer to this queation.
You
You may then ask: At what age does my personality under- go its greatest change?
After the honeymoon with the passing whim. When you have romantic
of another. Even book reviewers awakened from and unsuccessful playwrights dream to the realities of bills, who have become drama critics taxes housing problems, the have never displayed more spito cost of fuel, Lis, tantrums, and when assessing the value of toddlers, your wife gets the first rival's efforts,
glimpse of the grungy old bore In fact, you have only to you are going to be.
village
flower show, At what age is to easiest to
Wearity, at the end of a day's work, director Rossen takes a drink and says: "I don't know why these actors are worrying me so much about their love visit recnes. After all, Grenada is where you might expect to walk learn? not the world-and this is a in beauty and see human nature If you have learned nothing movie and I'm paid to make at its best, to be profoundly from the above you will never 11..."
Jearn anything. At any age.
shocked
THE TWO LIVES OF A
GIRL CALLED MIMI+
London.
is six years and
Foronet away since I last
By GWEN ROBYNSID
poeress appearance at the op. 13, and Puddles, begalling where with Mimi since she was ing of Parliament.
Yes, Mimi has ' come along Yorkshire terrier). way since those golden days at Unifl she married Lady spoke to Mimi. She was Biarritz.
Coventry's culinary fuient was n16-year-old then... and Cone, at her, "oda pop" triedly imited to making Judge. the centre of the great exubérance as shoposed for. Now she does her own cooking. Farouk Mimi affair.
pin-up beach pictures for the and runs her flat with a staff world's press, Instead I found of one maid. a`silky ́" calm
Even tho facts
of their saying: "I want to forget those marriage (which I am the first days. Americans ara gullible, to tell) have a "true romance'?
And we were flavour, generous. na different
You remember the whole business? It was said that Farouk was chasing her from ono hotel to another on the Riviera, trying to
young
woman
is the former Hollywood
make romantic headway. Gone is
talk.. Instead I heard a Two months' after they met
די
It was a good story even if it soft measure voice, cultured they sloped to Tanglers. Hand cut-glass Gone are the in hand they waliood through
wasn't true,
Actually, an asluta publiclat ambitions to be afalzzling film the Kased to buy a bouquet
darling
of
had engineered the "romance,"
Instead I found a home- He tho for: Mimi
Loving, adoring wife........... Was
fresh orange-blown from a daughter of publicity-conselous Isn't he the most handsome flower seller for their wedding
for two at the U.S. restaurant millionaire Wils man you've
ever seen?" she for
American Con Jam Modert. And dollars
demanded, referring to her hus sulate talked,
band.
always been many hasn't agreed, Lord Coventry, co since doting parents brought
I
Ondere Guards, looks pratty Mimi to "do". Europ
The other day I saw her have a People haven't alway Boon letra,
again. She was shimmeringuri
bad beautifUR ;
Quen. (byoquí
Bouft and
lovely fat, and wo. But when she fast looked into Prin- lead very quieter lives. We the eyes of Lord Coventry at ■ party's just 18 montia ago, tha
For-with our› two!
For Mimi, now the Couhtes of
as making@ber: first. Persian cat that
#happy
For
Looked back