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Kidnapping Is The Price
Of Fame
By FRANK MOORE
New York
The United States HERE is a price to pay
for fame and fortune. None may escape It. It is the fear of kidnap.
The Lindberg case of 25 years ago did something America. Ever since, the country has been thrown into what ap
protches national mourning
Whenever
carried away.
child bas been
pollifclans, the great Industrioliato and
there pro
thousands of them in this vast Jand-tho, wealthy people of Hollywood are all potential prey to the kidnapper.
And to the list are now add- ed the personalities whose every- day doings have been brought to the public in a new intimate way by television.
Lucille Ball is the most celo- brated
The of them.
two children she yearned for 50 mueli are now, tragicully, centre of her one fear.
the
Lucy la happler than any you will find in Hollywood.
Her marriage to Dest Arnaz
15 unshakable.
Her show, "I Love Lucy," the greatest family aga on the whole world's leluviiton screens is making a militou pounds
year. Little Lucie and young Dost are a great joy to be--but 400 fear of kidnap is deep-
Tooled.
No Strangers
Perhaps it is because for the first 10 years of her marriage she didn't have children. And now, when at inst she has them, she is afraid of their being taken away from her.
Nu strangers are admitted to the house on any pretext while
she is out.
Pictures of the children
not allowed
Janers,
"It wouldn'!
Ort
}}} the American
.
Ior their
Taces to get tuo well-known, There are too many crnckpots around."
Yet, Ironiently, it was fitte Desiderio who became, nearly three years ago, the most vele- brated baby in Ameries.
"It was like this," lay ex- plained. "Just when the show was going from strength to strength. "breaking all records and becoming a show-business phenomenon,
J found 1 Was
juvegnant again.
"I bad had Lucie Desiree 18 months before when
we were
Just starting and the barth didn't
upset things at all.
"But now there was ¤ full programme of shows a bem-
તા.
It looked as if the series would have to be cancelled."
Then
Jerse Oppenheimer. brilliant pro cheer of "J Love Lany." had the Big Iden. Wow! he shouted, "whutta thoughit In the show we'll let Lucy Aleardo have a baby loot"
Dangerous
The series was written around Lucille's pregnaney," said Dent. As Lucille progressed in read life, so did Lucy progress the screen. "It needed planning but as we're a team, we planned successfully."
The
both brilliant Whe and 11 hod never bern
before and it could have blown up in their faces,
But the precautions taken 10 avold offence
Intensive:
were
"WC
had a priest, a rabbi and a clergyman. on the set together throughout all rehearsals,” said Lucy.
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1957,
"Someone must have told this son of a shoik we were coming, sorgeant."
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DON IDDON'S DIARY from the Lone Star State
WAY DOWN IN
The
GLENN MCCARTHY
B
Aims to be Texan
Number One..
Houston, Texas RITAIN needs oil, but Texus needs water. In some parts of the vast State water is being sold at $2.40 that's al- most £1« burrel,
Drought and creeping
Socialism are the big worries of the Lone Star State.
oil men are
are drilling for CULTURE
or
TEXAS
are millions of Texans have never tasted alcohol.
whio
Houston, slightly larger than Dalles and its fierce rival, aisg has its temples. There is the the improbable Shamrock Hotel for
instance,
and there Is Glenn McCarthy
talk, their swagger, and Brothers building ลง New flamboyance.
York's Park Avenue United Nations building on the East River.
The local paper headline on my last visit; "Visiting Briton Says Texas Boasting Truth," and I was n!most mude 14 Texus Ranger.
It is a shining silver 40-storey
cd past,
tower with a 800ft. nean-light-
I have seen a lot and been around a bit but never have t come across a bank or anything Peise ke this.
But today Dallas and Houston are taking on a Visiting the building, I walk polish, culture, and sophie- fect of 23-carat gold leaf and ed into the lobby-3,000 square tication which would have was thinking of heading back made the old cattle kings snarl in disgust.
The loudness has gone from the Texan, and his wife is dressed quietly, al- though very expensively.
Baubles
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N dazzling Dallas there is
a store which many Texans and non-Texans consider the finest in the world-Neiman Governor Allan Shivers, Marcus. It is as good as, who retires in a few days or better than, anything in after serving longer than New York, London, or Paris. any Governor in Texas his- tory, admits it bluntly.
The water shortage is сы: worst problem," he says.
Without adequate water "They advised on matters of supplies the oil would dry taste. They sat together, ate lo- gether and almost lived foup and all the other thriving
industries-nireraft
Kether."
manu
"With their final approval the facture, chemicals, minerals, shows leading up to and includ- ing the birth wore filmed
cotton, cattle business, bank- advance and Lucille retireding and insurance would home six weeks before the baby wither.
was duc.
in
Sho had lost her first baby and wasn't risking any accidents.
more
As the most celebrated birth- modern entertainment
day
history drew nearer, fever gripped America.
The paradox
BAJECZNEGOUTALEMANIASISTENTA KARLEUKI
Oilmen's wives drop in and buy themselves a white mink stole and, maybe, a $100,000 diamond necklace- on their way to a bridge party.
Neiman Marcus is 80 opulent that the old-style Texan wonders what has
hit his State. One rancher,
millionaire
of course, went there the other day. He gazed around, and when he was naked "May I help you?" his reply was "Reckon not. Never seen so much In my life that I can do
without."
THE correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, who has been so helpful to me,, said: "Watch: water, that's the big new story baubles.
Columbin Broadcasting System revealed that Lucille's real baby was due on the same day as the show baby and leaked the fact that the, show baby was a boy. hero."
("It was played, incidentally, Lucile, "by a pair
said
But the women flock thefe spending fortunes on
of We went to the Press Club It's considered better taste Texas is becoming refined, Identical twins, Ronald and Richard. We had to use twins in Dallas, and over
now to talk about books, not
our
because a California law says whisky We talked about just bank books. that bables must not work, in water.. front of the cameras longer than two minutes at a time. So we Jept swapping thô
Spot News
Immediately the newspapers
took up the cry: "Will Lucille's
The paradox,
here
is
true. Water and oil do mix
in Toxas. Without the ono there can't be the other.
Startling
Some people here are inĺber- ably underpaid. The drivers of School buse's Rel starvation wriges of only $20 a weelt in Texas,
Twenty-five dollars a week for driving the children to and from school. The millionaires should be ashamed.
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Perhaps they are, for Jocol new papermen tell "They aim io shell out a fe bucksni aybe conscience money,"
Glenn Hetbart McCarthy is not the new quiel Texan, He's
However, I'm a guest here the minbow type, reckless and and I won't have much sold ruthless, who admits an against Tokas, s; the most
oversize
dynamic, Vital, stupentiousest place on earth.
lo
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Higgens to be the Number, One Texan, which is quite tall order. He may not make it, millions he also because although he owns many millions,
OwC3 many
He likes pubitelty and the brassy flourish.
to Barclays when a blonde girl upproached,
This Dallas bank provides. He lives in a $1,000,000 man- blonde, redhead, and brunette slon, likes bourbon in bulk 'and assitants in tight-ntung drinks "Bloody Marys" (vodka awenters and skirts to felp the and tomato julco) on the morni customers. They ara called ings after, guides.
So the best engineering THERE has been huge ex- baby be a boy, 100?" Thou- brains are making long- pansion during the past rands of phone calls, telegrams
For Hollywood #ind Broadway and letters flooded in to C.B.S. range plans to ensure a few years, Dallas and Houg
Glean and ho k A little too much for your doto Other: TV and radio stations constant and abundant ton are today among the Perhapo; but a few hours later an Authatio Hollywood charac
ven riyals-cut into grammes to give the latest spot State's 30 industries,
pro-water supply to feed the most spectacular cities in the saw the office side of the ten something of younger world. There has recently coin-inds of church-gufnk Gable, Iợa quick with his fata, Texas and Texans have been completed in Dallas Texas carrying large Bibles But even quicker to hand, out
the earth's most fabulous in their hands on their way to fils dolites,
newne
Associated Press, announced
solemnly. We are covering the changed since I was last bank, and I don't apologlaban evening mid-week service I have written a good deal
hourly Intervals." here, six years ago, on my And on the night free Town way to Mexico City. Some for the spate of superla
birth on a wartime bebis, with .bulletins at
son was born, the biggest dolo-thing new has been added.
Lucy cuddling make-believe
Vision ndiente of all new It is not the millions but the new Repubiten
the modesty. For years National, a
baby in the show.
As Lucille days: The tacuicht! Texans Have been famous
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or notorious--for their bigat
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