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AMERICA GETS A PEEP...
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Hobart Harrison,
publisher of
the magazina
Confidentiat
THE probe into peephole and scandal magazines now taking place in Hollywood is absorbing the entire country.
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This
at the
Peephole
in
Press
are in
His acandal
sheet pulls
in 350,000
THE CHINA MAIL- THURSDAY, MARCH, 14,--1957. -17-
dollars an issue
Monroe, Gloria de Haven, Jeff Chandler and others, the private eye business is even more flourishing. There is not a single studio which does not employ ita own detectives.
Double-crossing
T is obvious from the hearings I
that a good deal of double- crossing by detectives has beca going on. Magazines such as Confidential get tips from ecores
detectives, of private
from friends and enemies of celebri- les frequently from Press agents, and from servants bear- ing a grudge, call girls, nursed, walters, nightwatchmen boys and hotel personnel.
year.
bell-
Monaco adapts her glamour
W
She Doe
Monte Carlo
for a "Coca Cola" age
ITHIN a few months toned casually that "people who of his necession to live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," a plain reference the Throne, the
to Rainier's friendship with Mile. Prince was involved in two Pascal. family disputes.
of
the question First came what to do with his stepmother, the Dowager Princess Chislaine,
The issue
The second family affair was far more serious and concerned his etster Antoinette.
Her story was simple; she was
Ja love,
- 1
SHE CHOSE LOVE ATE in the autumn of 1951, the Prince advised his sister
descended on
Monte
RENE LECLER
more solemn and more morose. had to be done to Something
Slate. it needed save the rich uncle, and a doting one, The answer to Monte arrived опе prayer morning in the shape of the most beautiful yacht anycat playboy Emperor Bao Dai Pascal,
white and
had ever seen,
the
map.
Everyone, not excluding tho with. Its oir of faded
grandeur, air
the
Was
Carlo's took notes about their be interior. He had great plena bright haviour.
for the boat. It was said that
included Then came trouble. Vietnam's these plans
For nearly dou усаха promptly handsome Prince and zỹ, the
entertaining the
and his wife at Орета when
councillors whispered in
CL
day
and the Prince
qu
of
Then
who had married Louls II 60 to make up her mind, She did, gaming, gliding slowly in arrived on a visit to Rainier one Inte in e, and whom Rainier at dead of night, she fled to harbour. Its owner was took him to soc the menagerie. beautiful young actress played · short tubby man called Aristotle The Emperor said, "What you an amusing but exhausting.game had hardly known,
Grock Genoa with Aleco Naghes and Onests. He was
by need of course is an elephant... of hide and seek with, protocol arose because of
the publication
profession, the Rainier agreed that an elephant publicity and the match-makers of a society register isting all there, in a small room at the birth and by
biggest undercover a
enhance the of Monte Carlo. the
members of the Grimaldi French Consulate, she became world's
Naturally. Rainier would certainly
anter prostige of the zoo. So Toko In the lovely Gisele family. Should she be included? Plain Mr Noghes. In a formal
whose ded letter to her brother, Antoinette
Onassis and his wife Earnest councillors spent over renounced her rights to the Tina as he receives every
became a boarder. It was only singing voice was full of the Style a few months old, weighed only sunny accents discussing the matter succession of Monaco for herself portant person passing through a few hundred pounds, but he France, Rainier found many
Southern a month
of and finally recommended that
and her children, if any. As the the Principality. The millionaire Rainier should disown
her couple book
quickly at outlined his plans: he wanted to the ancient palace.
around the things which as: Price, created havoc up residence Rainier disagreed and allowed
otherwise were
unattainable. Beaulieu, a
the mile outside the put Monte Carlo back on her to keep her rank, but ho Monaco frontiers, people be
His first misdemeanour In- Sho, was gra ordinary yagiri, volved breaking an insisted, the Dowager Princess
Iloved that
ancient prought up in an ordinary family room stories about big names
the episode was
For a time there was a great wrought-iron garden Often the private eye gets paid must find somewhere cise 10 closed. But it was not, quite.
scat on and with many memorice of not is being conducted after months
Jubilation. The LickeT tope which one of Rainler's fore so prosperous days. She was of urgent requests from Holly three ways first by the agency live,
Rainier's troubles were by no
buzzed in Onassis amal office fathers had done his courting, outspoken, gay, tomboyish sinki means dt an end. Out of the wood studios who fear that their which employs him to obtain
down and it wilted devoted to him. She spoke her In divorce evidence, second from a million-dollar properties
blue, great financial dificulties ashore, and aboard the Chris Toko sat
the radio
him. telephone under Carlo, tina
Rainier's mind to him, conveyed all the danger of being wrecked and peephole magazine which wants
and figures Naturally Rainier was affected, brought him facts ruined by salacious tittle-tattle the Information, and third from
world. the "Kiss and tell" publica the personalities who are in-
It seemed that Monte Carlo, from all parts of the
Then, one evening, the doting tions which are being sold here volved or the studios which
turned into an agre romantic employ them.
would its plush and gilt and its magni- Monegasques at the rate of 10,000,000 a week.
No wonder that in the United have applauded this interesting ficent old hotels had no place in Hollywood
itscared and
world. Broadway is apprehensive. So States today there are more than development had it not born for the post-war
Gerinans, who before the war, the entertainment industry has 5,000 detective agencies employ the fact that she was a Princess
than 150,000 people of
children had Monaco, whose
boon
the Casino's best put up a $350,000 war-chest to ing more
the
Prince's ear that Onasis taking in $300,000,000 | might one day reign, and her clients were otherwise engaged. light the smear-sheets and and
intended was a Spanish-barn The British aristocracy, long the the million shares in the old had lately purchased 700,000 of rumour-mongering magazines.
Do not imagine that most de- professional tennis player.
pillars will be
Monte of
Carlo'a don't think that sum
are spying on
What was even more difficult prosperity had, perforce, to stay Societe des Bains de Mer
Cercel Mr Hober! Harrison, tective agencies enough.
des Etrangers which runs the stars. Sixty percent of the to forgive was the fact that Alto away. The few who did go felt who publishes the leader of the
Rainier begged to detectives is Noghes had been married before Peephole
of the the shadow
inspectors the Casino. Press Confidential, work by private
commercial, makes $360,000 every press day.
and had long had a gallant re- sent by the Chancellor of the be excused: he had a headache. But as the popularity for He does not fear the Govern-
putation for being a ladies' man. Exchequer peering over their Between the pinic Palace on the grows expose magazines
Antoinette and her sunburnt shoulders. It was all very un. hill and the lovely yacht in the ment or Hollywood, and is calm-
harbour there descended a cur- of private army
eyes swells athlete were the talk of Monaco, comfortable. ly going ahead with plans for a
Onassis had of alience. There are at least a with it.
were scen They British edition of Confidential score of sex and scandal sheets, gether on every tennis court of ting
playing to- The whole Riviera was pet tain
democratic. Film stars frightened off. and its associates.
the most famous of which are the Riviera and twice a week now disported themselves in the
HE CHOSE P.T. the Confidential, Hush-Hush, Top had dinner tete-a-tele on the ancient haunts of princes and Organised heads. Secret, Dynamite, Suppressed, terrace of a Cannes hotel, Once, crowned
crowdn Invaded the
LL these worldly considera- Uncensored, Rave, Private Lives, she took Aleco to a semi-metal holiday TUE private
eye is now very whisper, Exposed, Inside Story, reception at the Palace and in- resorts, Everywhere, the Coca- tions seemed to have little much In the public eye. and QT, and the craze is grow-
had effect on Prince Rainier's He. troduced him to her brother. Cola and anack-bur age had lewer were
than ten ing.
Ramier was acutely embarrassed arrived, come said, to mar for His habit of getting up early in private detective agencies in New
The smear
and finally compromised by talk over the most beautiful seashore the morning and doing a few York 50 years ago, and today
exercises ing tennis.
in the world. Millions of people Swedish
developed there are 600 licensed agencies.
the Ja
full-scale keep-t end Rainier was forced still visited the Riviera in the into are The police tell me: "There
He ran a mile, at a by public opinion to give a summer, but the winter, which routine.
trot,
rubbed himself scores of unlicensed outits, but we don't approve of them in include Victor Mature, Marilynung. In a conversation with had once been the chic season, steady
his impulsive sister he tried to was no longer popular. Monte down, spent half-an-hour fact we don't approve of many Monroe, Errol Flyon, Clark steer her away from an เม Carlo looked like Eastbourne on physical jerks under the eye of fortunate marriage. She men of the private eyes, licensed or Gable, Broderick Crawford, June
a wet Sunday afternoon,
a trainer and then took up Allyson, Elvis Presley, Grace
On
the weight
In lifting.
Monaco, Hola night in one Liberace, Diana Dora, Angeles,
winter of 1951, a total of afty- where it is often too much effort where the Kelly In Log
Daniels Billy
Marie McDonald,
three customers walked like be to raise a hand to ask for a glass televised hearings are being held
Jewelled. ghosts, through
no the of pinką champagne,
one and where a parade of witnesses Ava Gardner, Anila Ekberg.
mirrored halls of the Casino. could understand this mania, A has been appearing during the Marlon Brando, and Joan Craw-
The administration, in which friend once tackled Rainier past few days, bringing in the ford,
Some of these headliners have
the Rainier plays an Impertant un about and names of Frank Sinatra, Anita
slurred, and for
official part, did everything it answered, "It's very simple.... Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Marilyn not been
change of pace the magazine
could.
I have got to keep just as it will even pay tribute to a star.
THEY CHOSE CRAP na my pirate ancestors, ol this But
Butter most
One
nover knows when I might journalism is aimed at the smear,
RELUCTANTLY, it allowed have to take up their calling and society,
Rellents in open-necked shirts again." Then he weighted him
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ments of private eyes and penses, or prolonging
an in
95 lawyers, do not four lawsuits, vestigation wherever possible.
There is a red headline on a yellow background ori the serndal shoot The Lowdown in front of me which says: "Lillian
if Roth, sue us you dare
A scandal magazine has been khown to pay as much as 1,000 dollars for one solid gold tip.
Robert Harrison, the lord of the Peephole Press, is quite un Lillian Roth is the dancer and perturbed by the State Senate Not singer who became an alcoholle Committee's investigation. and
a television pro- whose best-selling book I'll long po on Cry Tomorrow was made into a gremme Harrison, with successful flim starring Susan aiderable affrontery, said: "When Hayward.
a man steyps into the limelight
Many people have applauded Misy Roth's frankness.
con-
he forfelts his privacy," and his
editor, Jay Breen, even compared Confidential to the Bible.
The article began: "I am writing this story because I The laws of libel are lax here, despise Lilian Roth. To put it and it looks as if the
capose bluntly, I think she is degrad- magazines will be a business Ing.
for a long time. They specialise Miss Roth has not sued. Other in, the catch-dollar headline and stars have sued, but have never startling photograph. collected large sums in demages.
Moralising
J
a curious preoccupation with
Hoodlum tactics MOST of the magazines have TODAY: Confidential ave sexual deviations, One of their
years old, is published every sickening characteristics is their two months and carries an claim lo be crusaders, and everage of 165 stories. There are watchdogs of the public morals. 12,000,000,0
dollars-worth of sum- Tho other day private øye mooses against. representing Frod Otash, who is a figure in Bower than a dozen lawsuits in the current probe, said on the 450 articic
(wilnése 'sland” “Got rid of the The private eyes methods in Communists in the movie Indus- sams Instances border on those try kick the male sex deviates of the hoodlum. They break out of the industry, kick the Into houses, ahadow suspects day female sex deviates out, make. and night, use, the telescopic malo stars stay will their wives, lens în camera focused on bed- make, female stars, stay with róðma, and ** specialise in the their husbands, brecke-in raid
Mit you have that you will Thek.: wagon vary, but 40 have. no scandal and no #vindal and lot of them make more by The truth a you will have no KOWLOON "bleeding!? "which means milk- acandal magazines" whood they
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PRINCE RAINIER & PRINCESS GRACE
Monte Carlo CathedralTM after.
christening of their daughter-Princess Caroline.
gossip of the coast to him.
The idyll which had begung in
to enter the famous rooms where self: five feet ten and a half gardener reported that Toko the little white bali trips over inches tall, with broad muscular had become very partial to the the roulette wheels. They even shoulders and the chest of a lovely red conna flowers grow the mimosa groves high above sent croupiers all the way to miler, ho weighed Just over ing under the Palace windows: Monte Carlo went on." Airouch, Ameries to learn the intricacies twelve stone, He was not for he ate a whole bunch of them months of happy smiling acroma of the crap game,
for-breakfast Shades off the piratical standards.
every morning. blue waters. Ġlsele took up Tem of Sir Basil Zaharoff, Sarah
the elephant sidence at the lovely Valla Fishing, travelling and look- Finally, when
his Bernhardt and Gloria Swansont ing after animals became
turned on the garden hose and Iberia, at St Jean-Cap-Ferrat; à dons. More than once sprayed a terrace full of guests, few miles from Monaco which In the halls of the Hotel de great passions. Paris, in the cosy little teashops he told friends that had he had Rainier had to give the word: was Monsieur Grimaldi's private
Beach, regal bosoms a choice, in te he would have Boa Dai's elephant must go. property. A handsome spaciou heaved with indignation under, become an animal trainer. Ho Most mornings, the Prince house, it has six seres offsemi- the ripple of pearls and din- first started his zoo by rescuing could be found on the decks of tropical gardena -- loading down monds. The world was chang three chimpanzees from the the handcomo yacht he had just, the hillsides of the Cap to a ing and for a time it looked as vivisection table lodging them purchased. Only a 300-tonner, small private beaci though Monte Carlo was not in a larga cago behind the Deo Juvante II could not com- quite swift enough to move with Palace. Then he acquired four pale with Onassis Christina, but dogs, a small South American Rainler, made it his second The cabinet moetings which calman, two egrets and a mon- home. Ho holystoned ber decks,
tho Prince Rainier held twice a goose. He fed the animals him- cleaned
brasswork and wock with his 18 councillors self, read a large collection of imported two boat builders and three state ministers grew books about them and steadily from Marseilles to remodel her
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