THE CHINA MAIL,“
TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1957.
CUMMINGS SAYS
WHY SHOULD I CUT OUT
MY CAVIAR ?
D
ARRYL
Francis)
F. (for ZANUCK
gnawed the end of his
cigar, like a rabbit worrying stick of celery, and
chewed over a question.
He is a man who spends
many of his waking hours
by LOGAN GOURLAY
gnawing A cigar and the most exciting chewing over a question.
he
This one was about the most outstanding star has handled in a long career
film-making.
Ou enme an answer in high-pitched nasal
Ipa Twang D
"7 can tell you the most tal, sted star I ever handled. Definitely the most talented.
"Shirley Temple."
you've known
"No. I wouldn't that." He chuckled.
star to bloom in Hollywood.
say
"The most exciting star I've known, without any doubt, was George Arliss, 'Bubbled with
ideas'
"Not exciting, of course, in the sexy sense. Exciting with. Exciting I could not have been to work more surprised if he had creatively. He bubbled with સ્વામી
ideas not only about how a Rin Tin Tin, for Zanuck has been associated part should be played but with most of the Hollywood how the story should be de-
veloped. stars in the past 30 years -starting with Rin Tin Tin.
Natural talent
Was
"And he was a wanderful judge of new talent."
"Like you."
"I've been wrong oftener than I've been right. As But he offered a qualifien- you probably know, I let tion.
Monroc leave our studios "What I mean is that kid when she was
a starlet, the Temple
most Then we had to grab her naturally talented
per- back, former
An ever saw.
"Occasionally you know instinctive actress. A born right away. That's star
quality, thut professional too.
is. Arliss knew whenever he set eyes on Bette Davis playing a small part, I didn't."
I
"I remember once one of her baby teeth came out while she WHs doing scone. She carried right on ELA though nothing had happened. Didn't spil it out till the cameras stopped turning.
Joan
I mentioned Richard Burlon, Zanuck for In- selected by ternatloned standum but not-so farby the public. "Nobody can deny he's a damned fine actor. But, rightly or wrongly, acting "I guess Marilyn Monroe ability alone doesn't make a star.
"Now take this girl has the same kind of child-Collies. Not another Bernhard. like instinctive talent-plus But I'm pretty certain she's star sex appeal, of course."
material. He removed the cigar, which is as much a part of hls face as his nose. Without the cigar he looked naked. He put it back,
suppose,"
"Wait you see her in this πρην movie of mine (His inion dollar production Island In The Sus now under way in Elairee Studios,)
"I just don't know," Bald Zanuck
"Maybe you put too much em, phasis on the subjects in Britain and not enough on the people in them. But the fact is you don't produce big slurs. And I can't tell you exactly why. People are always asking me,
"Do YOU know?" "ak I'd tell the organisation," I said.
.
says
Mr. Zanuck
chance to be more creative as an Independent producer.
there's the money "Suno, factor too. As a studio boss I made half-a-million dollars year, but with taxes at '02 per can I finished up in the red.
There was no way out unlees
I reduced my standard of liv- ing. And why should I do that?” d accepted without a a qualm another of the caviar canapes sent up to the Claridges Hotel salto as a pro-dimmer snack.
A
"This way as an independent I've a chance to make more dough if the film's success-
bit
til Course, if it flops I'm in trouble.
"Everybody tell mo shouldn't do the Alm about But Rank Sian I'm planning next.
I'm determined,
no-
The fact is, of course, body knows exactly what makes a star. And nobody can make one. I never made one in my I just helped conditions." create the right whole career.
Zanuck was equally uncertain about what makes his own type -the Hollywood mogul, the film tycoon.
At 23. he tan the Warner Bros. studios, Until recently he was production chief of 20th Century-Fox, Now at 54 he was switched to independent production (but held on to his major shareholding in 20th Century-130,000 shares.)
the
Essential to
storics
"How do I know what's made me what 1 an?" he said, sip- and washing ping his whisky down the cigar shreda. I asked if it was
Hollywood tycoon for a
a personal legend about create himself.
"Not essentlas. It con just all Not Варрел. aboin me are true."
"What about the one that you sometimes put a trained monkey in your excutive chair, and turned down the lights, sent for a new member of your staff?" ******Well. that's
more Dr less true. Always liked practical Jokes. Had a fot of fun with that monkey. It was a chimp.
"I had a pet llon at one time 100. Called it Metty after Metro-Goldwyn - Moyer. Very useful Metly was. around the studios, trainer one day and he had to
But he
killed
LA
But all that was in the old days. In the last few years at Fox it was all work and mostly the kind of work I didn't like, Too much businesa detall.
Complexity
way But then
*I'm intrigued by that guy. How he Gossed the whole thing. Anybody who got in the he had quietly murdered. there was more to him that.
"Should make quite a movie. From peasant to dictator,"
1 left Zanuck pacing the lounge of his suite restlessly. A fawn sports small man in
Hollywood uni- jacket-the form. A dictatorial man with a surprising attractive streak of humility. A complex, fascinat- Ing man. His own story, thought, would make quite
moylu.
But no expedient murders. hope-even when Metty Lion was around.
A
1
the
THE EMPIR
RIGHT OR WRON
FOR THE
SMEZ
GROUP
FOR
IKE
TITO
THE importance
of
being Tito is curiously intangible: a smallish country with a struggling population of 16 millions, a country scarred with moun- tains, rocky and barren, historically #t fueding ground of tiny racial and ought political minorities, anot to be a world power.
PLAN FOR DRYING
UP THE CHANNEL
WELFAREK
FOR EUROPE
U.N.Q
Cummings
FOR BIG BUSINESS
GUARANTEED NO DANGEROUS WIT, HUMOUR OR CLEVERNESS
FOR THE BUTLER
GROUP
And now, six positions which the Prime Minister will occupy simultaneously
be that "Titolom" I said,
"Monroe could be classed as
That brought us to the lei question about why sturlets like Joan Colls are feft to wither in British studios bud brought
What this new
"I'm happier now I've got
self-winding chronometer
means to you...
A chronometer is a "super watch"
It has been specially made, specially adjusted,
and has passed stringent government tests for accuracy. Every Swiss chronometer is sold with an Official Rating Certificate showing just how it performed in these govemment tests. Particularly good chronometers are awarded a distinctive notation: "especially good results" printed on this certificate.
Before you buy a chronometer, look to see whether it is officially certified with "especially good results.” Every Omega Constellation is Į Automatis, waterproof, ibock-protected, antimagnatic.
¿You'll know the Ouija Constellation by Be skarves tory expand on the back of
** especially good chronamour,**
OMEGA Constellation.
The watch the world has learned to trust Société Suisse. Pour l'Industrie Horlogère SA. Geneva, Switzerland.
Bole Agenta; OMTIS LTD.
#
OMEGA ★ 733of 310 Gloucester Building
The strategic value of Yugo- slavia is small. Mr Khrushchev, if he ever gets really tired of wooing Tito, could easily over- run the country anak demolish It even if he could not hold Its people down.
Titoism-an idea
and
his
dream
FOR THE COMMON MAN
Danube Federation by LES ARMOUR
the feud with given a post in the party's high command, then established in
And anyone who can inspire fear in the Kremlin musl Important.
Not long afterwards, he was not to work recruiting an Inter-
Had he followed official line, he would have lost the lot. For two years he struggled
led them into Yugoslavia. Actually, there was no need for theen. The battle for Yugoslavia
was won.
Their purpose was to secure Yugoslavia for CommunlemT), And, no doubt, but for them, there would have been elvil war. As it was, Tito's "Partisane" simply look over with the Red Army behind them,
Tito moved into a great min alon, put on his Marshai's uni- and form for the first time, settled down to be president.
Pan Danube
out on lop In his Stalin.
Morcover, the one hope for Vienna. Eastern Europe today seems to will spread
Then fitter struck. The coun-
overrun almost in and that it will tear great holes rational brigade for the Spanish try was in the Communist net, Mr divil wa
stantly
Omletaily, Yugoslavia. Khrushchev has left no one in
Thus the
years passed-un- was Hitler's "friend." my doubt that he is frald of spcctacularly enough and "Comrade Walter and his that.
Sound eventually he
hustled himself high command
from back in Moscow being groomed Zagreb to Belgrade and there, to take over the Yugoslav Com- under the reses of the Gestapo, be munist party.
started to build an organisation. Within weeks they were dis- persed across the hills and forests.
Hardly more than a year had
when At first
he gone by, however, they had no formal
dream of organisation, no weapons save began to
greater pitchforks and shotguns, But
things. If Stalin had become, the
to heir
the Romanovs why soon they had captured enough German weapons and recruited shouldn't he become the heir to enough volunteers to form the Habsburgs? He proposed
Communist Federation cf Pan
mado a whirl- Danube stater wind tour of the Balkans and came home convinced that he was on the way to fulfillpg 14 great dream.
Tito's "Importance lics In example.
But what kind of example is
The
were
Those were the days of the his great Communist purges and
the then
leaders of the Yugo slav party
ruthlessly eliminated.
So was Bruz's wife who was of "Leftist deviation" accused and shortly afterwards, was listed simply es "deceased."
It?
Josip Broz was born 64 years in the tiny villogo of ago Kumrovec, the seventh of fifteen children of a poor Croat pea- part. He went to
vlilage school for about
Ave
years, failed to come to any meeting minds with his teachers, and to become dishwasher the nearby town of Sisak.
The economic importance of Yugoslavia is nil. Its people have enough trouble staying alive, Culturally, the country is near to being a vacuum that, wore it wiped from the rate of
ប្តឹង histery. no one but a handful of dedicated scholars would ever notice.
one
But Tilelam es an idea seems Lordcurly important. That man should stand up air the ecobiried might of the Cmmunt world and ar- vive isprising enough. That Communion should have come ard stayed in a backward coun- try which has surprisingly little of the standard machinery of oppressien is much more fur-
prising..
Even these positive explana- lions of the importance of being Tito end however, to slip away and clude the enquirer when they are locked at more closely.,
Tito's feud with Stalin, after
of
In
He did a series of similarly menti tasks, tearned some of the elements of the mechanic's trade, and wow drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in ume for the First World War
RSM genius
It was in the army that he first showed his genius. Within a year he became a regimental sergeant-major-a post as imp- portant in the Austrian Army as it is in any amy.
10 Russia The war took him where he was badly wounded near the heart,
was captured, und contracted typhus.
He appeared, however, all, was prompted not so much show no tendency in rely: by any grand ideal as by
his against Yugoslavia's Austrian ego. 1le resented being cut to masters, The Russians were busy the size of local politician in a recruiting brigades from the Balkan backwater
ranks of Austrian prisoners and deserters. But, after his re- covery from his wounds and Broz is, young
stayed in his prison.
The revolution of 1917 brought about his release and he liter- ally walked from the Urals to St. Petersburg. He was deler enined to see the revolution for himself. He arrived at his de- that the end stination satisfied of the war had ended all his ok
Red joined the obligations, Army, and fought in a number of minor skirmishes.
And the refreshing tolerance of his regime has been forced upon him by circumstance. He himself has been as ruthless as any man can be. The quida- tion of Dreza Mihailoviich was sheer cold-blooded brutality.
Splinters
Tito's war on religion match od in vigour and low cunning, anything Stalin could do. (And, when it is remembered that the churches played an enormous mole in his underground, it up- pears that he did not even have the excuse that Stalin had)
It was Cpl Napoleon, Cpl Hitler, but R.S.M. Tito
Thore is no evidence that pretested
he
proper army.
The force was broken down Into battallons and companies
-cach with its officer and its
the
"political egent" elected from Every officer had the right to demand absolute obedienze in battle, but he was charged with explaining his plan before every attacle and with holding a dis- cussion in which he could be freely attacked after every en- Cagement.
"Anti-bull"
Meanwhile, to his old friend. he was his old genial easily- approachable eelt. To further his dreams abroad, he was charit- able at home.
He did not enforce collec Livization. He allowed some kinds of political spporkton, He act up: no marsive, secret police netwerk. He pandered to the rational aspirations of both - It was a strange way to run Serb and Crot and allowed a an army. But it showed "Com good part of government to stay rack Walter's" genius. He in the lands of small councils realsed
that men who
volumtgered for the underground organised like the old partisan
units.
would resert formal army dis-
:
cipline. This way gave them en Stalin did not like any of this. outlet, de also realised that Especialty. Stalin did net Jiko these units would quickly be the idra of Pen-Danube come Communist cells and that, Federation which would serious- if they ever won the war, they by wrakón Tesla's hold on the could quickly take over, the whole chain of satellites. When it came time for him to country
Tila, characteristically toll go home so many of the party
"Comrade Walter' became Stalin where to go. Stalin ro- leaders had been eliminated that "Comrade Tilo"-a name chosen spended by agreeing that the the Russian leaders seriously out of the thic and chosen headquatore of the new Comin debated cancelling Broz'e orders simply to confuse the enemy. form should be in Belgrade--on The Impiled condition that Tito But he per- Tito's war was a brutal one.
bohaved himself. When his men blow up, a bridge, the Nazis simply took the He plerted from nothing by a
whole population of the scarcit hostile country. Within a few village and excented them. months he had won a large
But the greater the reprisals, by do following principally
the greater wore his attacky. nouncing Hitler, Mussolini their allies in Yugoslavia.
and winding up the Yugoslav party altogether. sisied,
Tough welding
and
a
Emulation
Tybs
But Tho want alread with plari Pan-Dambe, Stalin It was this that first led
determined to break him. 10 spilit bolween Tito and
Tho rest-down to, Krumhichev's Mihailovitch, Mihailovitch did final, humble offer of peace is not believe in risking the lives public funowledge. of civilians.
He believed in striking only
But whint of Tito's "example"? Would
Four years later he was ព This ho welded into a now confirmed ankl Indoctrinated, and tougher party. This time when the Germans would find Can it be emulated? Communist-and ho took 4 the high command stayed home it dimeult to retaliate at them any Cotriemunist leader Moreover, while "Taoists" Russian girl home with him as in Yugoslavia and risked in his "Royalist forces gradually voluntarily decentralise his gov-
eise his wife. being locked up where, "Stalinists" were being locked up to Yugoslavia.
were
Back at work as a machinist,
he quickly became a leader in
egitator-and
a
But chicumstances intervened, the Metal Workers union, a Yugoslavia has always splinter- well-known
prisonment. Moralo improved and with that improvement came more members.
די
BE
retired
notre ndo inactivity, Then Tito began
anuarycet
that Mihailovitch was betraying him to the Germans,
have brought all the minority to five years is prisons for enemies laugh - Watchod: his turned his
the Pan-Danubo Poderation?
crnment-given the fact that no other needs tot. Has any other sufficient faith in his own in- portance to produce a plan liice.
He was just gotting the party
ne the moving when tho Russo-German Ultimately by the time. et in the hands of the ruler, wanted man,
pact was announced. The Yuzo Alles had come to his aid and And, if he had, would bring Neither the Austrians, nor King
alay party had been rebuilt on the Germans were on the run the sort of result that forged
Balin to se17 King Alexander's regime was on anti-Farxist, anti-Nazi planic, and using Yugoslavia only as a Alexander could hold the coun
known, in- corridor through which to move Anyway, what other Com- together. The imposition of far tougher than the Austrians Broz by than
had ever been and, in 1010, scrutably,
out of the Balkans-Tilo mumist, has Tito's wartime re Walter" "Comrady
Игоора an iron-dated rogino would only: Broz was arrested and sentenced tumed and
fall might en corda record which has Mihailoviich
mred hla popular - support troubles to the boil again Yugo«":
illegal audition,
Once atided that he and the Bovio has to be governed loose-. ly or not at all.
He won outspoken and brave cision, He refused to follow the "Royalists under control," he however great the oddat
Perhaps Tito is not so im-, At the same time, of course in the courtroom and this stock new line and agreed only to flew off to make ungemonta
in the Communist Party went tone down" the old line with the ited Army, then ad pottant, after all, Unicia, of Tito has mavived the pressure up. As a result, whom he The rosult was that he did, vercing through the Balkans. course, the time is now ripe to of circumstances, he did, put, enthgodt from prison. he was lowe much of his new member-The.Rusilaris made' Bian; a Mar- revive the Pan-Danube #odera- Hier to rout mid fie did comag, set out of the country and abigbut a hand core remained, shal of the Red Army and he tion, as
Then he made a bravo