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THE CHINA „MAIL,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1956.
MICHAEL RUDDY, reporting from Hollywood, is tired of
STARS WHO TALK OF RETIRING BUT DON'T
Hollywood. Ambasador to Brazil: "I don't M just a little tired of think i wants me to continue
these "retiring" RC- tresses. Every now and then they announce their longing to get away from the bright lights and live "like ordinary hunan beings." But, of entrse, they never du.
Recent reports have come from Elizabeth Taylor, a girl for whom I have always had a soft
spot, but who, although a mother and al- most twice divorced, in still only a few years older than a teenager. And all this
talk "retirement"
coming from a girl of her age and ambition is just bunk! SHE'S AN EXPERT
seen too
—the latest is LIZ TAYLOR
.i
cotton-pickin' belle from the again. I shall film only if Gres and popular bull- approves, but we are not going Deep South fighting aficionada,
to be separated at any time, I assure you."
THEY QUIT
in films after our marriage."
(ume 1983, and Liz-now Mr
As lung: ago as 1934, Miss Michael Wilding was telling the world, In reference to her Gardner stated publicly: "I'm that keen on, being a
So far, Dana has kept her baby son, Michael: "I hope he not all
Siho I'm happiest in word.
refused to leave doesn't want to be an actor, I've movie star.
for Barbados loca- flat heels and no Hollywood much of the tragte blue jeans,
tion for "Island in the Sun," side.
I've NOL 13 some of make-up."
the
Which worked out nicely for real stars of a few years ago
Joan
who Collins, Britain's dang crowni wirk now, still record: ringing desperately
stopped into the Joselyn Fleury role, dreams.
I've learned not to dedicato myself to any career. when it up tomorrow.
Job which 1 enjoy
it
their it,
A year later sho went on "Svitio prople
enjoy but I want to leave this
business,
I could HER CHOICE It's just while i
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Not even the terrific part of The Anglo-Indian girl in "Bhowani Juncilon" reconciled Markedly. Miss Taylor's Ava to her fate. In July this earnings to get away from 11
on undirs of her somewhat tangled hardly all coincide with the peaks and year, with the dust of location shaken from her feet, announced; "I'm selling love life.
Hollywood. After 13 years. Current
9 spasm began when the Wiking romaner Ended, But There won't be many regrets. I
changed
her mind was never really happy there. "I feel kind of secure and content
Europe, Now have made up my mind to I never made my friends Bay. among film people in Hollywood There are pressures anyway
How she's again.
LOTS OF LOLLY
Dana definitely prefers the role of wife, and lives in magni- fleet style with a mansion in Bel Air, a Palm Springs place, limousines and private planes.
And there are others who
really meant it (well, so far, anyway) when they said: "I quit."
Allco
married Fayc.
Phil Harris, retired in 1945 and hasn't returned to the Alm tots, despite attractive offers.
Norma Shearer, screen idel of the thirties, ia very happy as Mr's Martin
What's Arrouge, she's proud of being a
la Liz alone among thr Nor feandles famous for this kind of Idle chatter. You hear squawks about
grandmother. "Retirement? Quilting getting up ut finin
the long hours under the studa. lights, the boredom of climbing
ul in and
of 300-mel gowns, and the ordeal of makut coust-to-cungt appearalices
You'd think, to listen to some of these bruised violet", that is, nn effort to plek up the weekly pay
packet!
al
lims?
outside
I've nev i said 'd retire or quil
movies,"
," she told me here that don't apply in Europe. making
countries. last week in between recording I've looked at most
and i have settled on Spain. dialogue fe "Raintree County,
Just place much delayed
- prolonged want
"I may
Madrid, in the suburbs. 58000,000 production. make fewer movies, that's all
For the re ord, Liz has made HATES TAXES deco Almg In the past three years The Last Time I Saw Pacts," "Citif" an "Raintree famly "
Regrettably, at kind of performance Miss Taylor hurt acquired a certain expertness ni in early age. Way back Ju 1931--She Vns then 19- claimed she was worrying her into a duodenal ulcer be cause "everybody
hates 2010 I've
which he getting so many nasty becn letters,
I don't
doen't read them any
resulting retirement talk.
more
"That
was shortly after her from husband Nicks
divorce Hiiton
heir 10 millionaire hotel owner,
Fruit-
But in 1050, before the wed- ding bells had chimed, she had been declaiming: "If my career interferes with my marriage, the career can y out of the window."
TANGLED LOVE LIFE
And a year before that, while engaged to 22-year-old William Pawley, or of a former U.S.
Mike Tiel,
Super-showman who allegedly will be her next husband and who has given her a colossal 30-earing diarim | ring, cost $100,000, object to the publicity 12344 Taylor
REVN
זין
Rhe would quit
Were Ava Gardner to marry a millionaire, Inuvyles altogether. This ste told me. What the bates is the discipline demanded in I hate getting up al filming. six in the morning, und 1 hate interviews and being forced to talk about myself," said Ava. She ulu hates paying high faxes
Add to
the weathercocks of Hollywood Betty Hutton, who tearfully announced her retire- ment two years ago Vegas, got bored within three and recently finished months,
with "Spring Reunion"
Dana taxes, Andrews.
When Dana Wynter married
and wealthy
successful lawyer, Gregson Bautzer, she toki
"My marriage will Now fel's consider another always come first. I don't really "retiring" stir-Ava Cardner, eure whether I ever made a film
UNHAPPY AVA
What Elizabeth really wants 1r own independent company, profit-sharing deals, and lots of "pily." After paying sons, expenses, income she has little left, poor girl- even though she earns $5,000 the weekly.
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Robin Hutcheon Concludes His Canton Diary
I FELT AN ASS WEARING
A PICASSO PEACE DOVE
Q
an
FELT
ass because not everything on dis- walking around Kow. play was avaliable for expart in
quantity. loon station with a Picasso
peace badge on my lapel.
dove
But it suggested an astonish- ingly versalile output.
Some enter. of the products displayed afu All visitors to China are admittedly copies of Russian or Satellite originals, but a serious given one--free.
attempt is being made now to turn them out in China,
1t comes with customs forms asking you to declare ammunition and explosives, and tickets supplied by the China Travel Service before you board the train which takes you to the Hongkong border.
218
up
this
the of the playing field looks no Admission to each pavilion is but an official living on froe. All the authorities premises very kindly escorted bigger than Hongkong's Caroline
around demand is that you drop a chip
600-year-old HR stadium, but perhaps its
of
most unusual feature is that it wood into a box as you Ming dynasty building.
nestles so comfortably in the The Chinese have
Ita construction is curious. It arms of the Yuch Hslu Hill, the passion for counting heads. This
consists of five storeys, which highest in the main city area. manla for statistics must be a
the people. At the look more like layers sweeping curse to
In the same locally is the in steps to a traditional Exhibition we saw long queues
Chinese roof.
Yat-on Memorial Hall, it is rust red in Sun stretching down the road for
colour and houses relles dating built in classical Chinese style, about 100 to 200 yards outside
from prehistory to the present. On the night we visited it, a about 10 the main gates. came back with
They filed up small window where we
model houses very pounds of literature covering to a
I am told Hong- Orchestra to these found in the Li Cheng kong's Sino-British several dozen industries which imagined they bought tickets.
also played there, and that it is Uk burial vault in Kowloon. determined bid to capture Far
But our escort explained that Eastern markets, and penetrate it was only for statistical pur
pases. My companion wondered the West in a bigger way than
with
use turnstiles ever before
why they didn't special export
with an automatie quality products. Some of these
mechanism.
show thai China is
making a
I felt on ass because I met n are on sale in Canton but they friend,
and
bashfully
struggled are
far beyond the
with a handkerchief man's pay packet,
in my breast pocket to conceal
it.
The Inhibition is understand- able. These days wo
for
to war
the sake of peace.
average
Business done
Cynics debase its purity and THESE are
make it a sham.
Besides I hate to think of Picasso
as a 20th Century PRO for Noth.
a
pressions.
counting
Park,
But at the Cultural
crowds were
where tho
dem.
This was
in
Chineso
Bhart
Including a number of red clay performed.
North Korean opera company
the
similar
Political slant
uned
mass
for meetings and railies as well. It is convenient
for any assembly on A mass scale. It seals 5,500.
It is circular with a gallery the circumference
ard
THINK the museum must be "post-Liberation" it contains sweeping barely nucleus +
of ex- from either edge of the ant the stage mouth, rather ilke dense, counting was no prob- hibits taken only from
province of Kwangtung. From London's Albert Hall, except it has only nne gallery Into Ching dynasty on that All exhibits were explained. wards they develop a diednet levet and is vastly bigger. The At the wax works Mandarin- political
In the 20th "pit" area has most of the seats slant. girls described the Century section, Sun Yat-sen should say, two-thirds. superficial
im- speaking
tableaux, end nt the art and the early Party martyrs and em not cOMT-
Smoking is forbidden, the and galleries
exhibitions their achievements dominate petent discuss the economics
natural ventilation. placards of China's reconstruction or the
gove glass showenses, leading finally there la
To the May 4th movement and Traps aro opened in the roof. quality of its products in com- relevant information,
the so-called war of Liberation It was a cool night ouside but with those turned out In Canton, the sight of half parison
ptinless education,
atmosphere Inside was dozen
French businessmen in Britain and Europe. The In other parts of the world, after the rupture of relations in the
110 Nationalist Communist pleasant, despite the Hall's size. badges, sporting the
under- crient of the business done st
We were told that late-comera coalition in 1927, Exhibition (£10.3 million mined self-righteous conviction, the
were not allowed into tha theatro once the The dove
performance went back un my at the end of November) may
We thought We Saw Chiang lapel, I was pacified and at the be doubted, but it is absurd to
had started, Kai-shek in one photograph were admitted during the first end of my three-day stay began ridleute, and rather unwise to
Our guide was rather shocked interval to think of it as an indispen- underestimate, present achieve, cable
industrial passport in
and my travels menta
the around Canton. An illusion, potential presented there. perhaps, but still..........
Each night-three in all-we went to the Canton Cultural It cost about HK 25 admission, and I return with the conviction that we need one in Hongkong.
Bury your pride
MY dip: If you go to China
Park. cents
museums, art galleries and even theatres have, I think, an
the esoteric appeal apart from
sightseer or the person Cesuai who talcos shelter
from a sudden downpour or snowstorm We did not get an estimate of the number of visitors nightly-. sensibly is opens at 5.30 pm after people have finished their day's work and closes at 1000 pa--but I should say between 10,000 and 20,000.
Another passion
DUCATION is another passion Ein Chim. Everybody seems to be taking courses. They tell learn more,
escort an
bury your pride and your self-consciousness and wear it. Each night we saw wimething All visitors to the Exhibition different, and on our Icht night are given a tourist may of the in Canton we chausios our city. There aro
17 sights scives trying to seo all that wo olctally worth seeing of which had not seen before at the we saw 10 during our short Park. I think sheer incredulity you they want to
These included big city exhausted us as much as the If they are not learning stay,
from Mandarin, like Our blacks like the black painted Jong tramp It involved
interpreter
the Trado Department who studies Engineering in his spare time
Of Kwun Hotel and the South pavilion, to pavillon, theatre to, China Buliding (which includes theatre.
a bir department storo), and
landmarks Hoo the Pearl
bridge and the Central Fer
I did not have time to soo
the Central Park thoroughly,
Chinese art
but presumably
Dashing beauty
at the suggestion, He denied it seriously without the trace of sanile. But he was a pleasant fellow. He spoke in Mandarin, but swiched to surprisingly good English when he found THE seats were leather-cover- we bad dimicuity following his od and hard 'but that is no patter,
reflection on the opera.. It wus in Korean. Neither I nor BAUD From the top storey of the others in the audience could Museum we had a magnificent understand a word of it, apart view of Canton with a haze ect from the Mandarin prologue tling over the city,
the pdven by a' dashing beauty in a Municipal Stadium, the Sun fong while cheongsam (the Best
Memorial Yat-acu
and Waterworks sphere immediately in Canton).
the and portmaps the only one we saw
below us. Only once, botore on a prewar
We visited the Liu Yung Szo trip to Kuling, high above
Yangtse Pagoda, but only got a ground- have I coon views and level view of this eight-storey ntmosphere like this which tample. We felt afterwards.wm
painters would havo neoded a ⠀ wook to landscape pa
Chintsa
perhape very superficiality.
they are studying subjects of translate so fulthfully,' so, de-" "dn" Canton properly, though special personal interest. At licately to their silks and bam the end of my visit. I felt I bos screens. could have spent every night
end the bridge and the buildings exhibits of Chinges art for a month! studying Chinese
Unusual feature.
This "to the "meat" for the sightseeing tourist. This is what made my trip to the Chinese mainland the rare treat
проко of yesterday area into THE Municipal Stadium im- ·Our “Bags, waste"
mediately below the Museum the travel service office In
were the most beautina I Fame nothing to write home have seen anywhere in Hong-carving in wood, Ivory and about...
kong, Shanghai or the English dade at the Cultural Park. But the other six: here are and Australian homes of ixlenda Near the Exhibition ares is glimpses of old and new Chian who have spent their lives in Yuch Halu Hill which has the which any tourist would prim. China.
Bun Yat-sen Memorial; there out 165,000 to 70,000 people. A Kowoon and a bill for $227(for among the most fascinating There was another pavillon niso a large steel football match on Sunday drew two) was presented for the rights he had seen. which mode Chiness, sphere, which lonks, like an almost that mumber, guido, a journey from Lowie. It included On the porterage from Bhumchun to I have already discussed printings were shown, lone in observation balloons about to football ten told Le bebeny the Eschbition,1 mild pressive than the traditional take off (we thought it was an day we wantmetic Low, and service charges. Our
tickets was one of the most remark. 516, but I found some of the observatory but to were the bill was exorbitant Bale, and comprehensive had Impressionist exchilowwiing and something to do with the cinder or dirt, trade marrounding soda. We visited that twice. There was an aquarium with dy's water supply), the Canton the oval.) although, apart
the Municipal *** coenon, live and stuffed endalbits, several, Mizretra ve ark indview with an official, we open air thentres,, where well- People's Stadium bad, no business-to, transact known opera stats performed a The Merbocial and the curious Essentially. Bi wasi) China's puppet opers, acrobate (whom, at (0) Pat??wers @ both suarded show-window, exhibiting the lwp did not bee)); [vast scope“, of its pitmart.
and
The..., atašlum anima to have?) Suddenly born carved out of a valley, the glanced downs
of % which has been filed embar
Concrete i llery | dova
thought hit
up the sides and back. It recunod to my tiliber kirada,