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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1957.
THE DOWN-AT-HEEL JOAN COLLINS
Hollywood's new Joan Collins: study in matrimony without illusions
དང་པ
Wayward
Bus Ride
With Steinbeck
By DAVID LEWIN
THESE pictures show joan Collins as she appears in her most ambitious part since she went West to the more gratifying climate of Hollywood.
In John Steinbeck's "The Wayward Bus Miss Collins slops around in a faded dressing-gown or an off-the-peg blouse in the role of a drab wife of an American bus station owrter,
The sort of shack she runs is in the midst of mud and despair and is known as Rebel Corners. Life there revolves round two poles: a full whisky bottle and an empty cash register.
Rapid rise
as อ
Joan Collins, the 23-year-old British actress whom no British producer knew how to deal with, is rising rapidly in America. One week she appears sophisticated girl in "The Opposite Sex" in a week ΟΣ two she shows up as a nun In "Sea Wife," and to-
day she is shooting the Steinbeck picture on location outside Hollywood.
Her fellow traveller (strictly non-political} in "The Wayward Bus" is Jayne Mansfield-the girl who can't help it.
Miss Mansfield, who ap- pears below, has the simpler task of presenting a show-girl on her way to Hollywood....
two inches.
ANOTHER
по
...empty glass
SLIMMING ....................................
Australia-bounil þn a singing tour in 1957: 'Big-timo dietiný něėds teftific will-power, sha says,
How I Lost Sixteen Inches Round the Waist
By DOROTHY HARRISON
ĮTREAMLINED Shel dioting needs. terrific will-
power."
ton, International sing- It certainly does. Look at ing atar with a world this typically austere dict-chart following of fans,' clutched for one day: the waist of her elogant, Breakfast: Ten (no milk or mink-trimmed black frock. sugar): three microscopic pleces "Look how it segs," she said of toast (no butter or mar-
to me happily. "I bought matode); a small piece of grilled only a month ago and, now it bacon. must be taken
Nothing, then, till lunch-time.
No wondet Aithe is happy.
For lunch Grilled steak; Since she began load-shedding lee cream or sweet; but lots of two years ligu, she has lost one salad, and fruit; coffee.
stone and 14 hill every six months,
Afternoon tea; Nono.
Supper: Salad, lean ham, ton or coffee.
Blonde, alchuster - skinned Anne, who was 16 stone In 1954, is a mobile 11 stong today.. That last mealtime Is on
And her wals!-44 inches in allding "date." She lunches at 1054-ls 28 inches today. She
one o'clock, often fasts for wouldn't tell me the other pre-
fourteen hours until an after- stlinmling statisties, but now
the-show knack at three o'elbek she has à 42 bust, 41-inch hips,
In the triorning. The decision to take drastic action came at the Royal Com- mand Variety performance in Lomion In 1954, when Anne, waiting in the wings, took stock of her slim rivais,
Today the hundreds of pounds n week
Buys!
who
earns
"Now I've stuck it," she says, "I can lock at a chocolate and pop it back into the box with- out even a, lek!"
How does she feel? "Lots healthier, vivacious and much, much happler."
My biggest thrill was buy- ing, the other day, an off-the- be able to wiggle so
for
She added: "I's wonderful to
easily."
And with a swing of a svelte, hip she proved that The Other Blonde al Monroe) Isn't the only one
'Wiggle' (Marilyn (14 Show Business. she
rail skirt at a chain store less than thirty shillings-and no letting-out was needed." She hasn't Anished. Her target is one more stone lbs.) lost by 1957. wilson begins a long Australian Far East singing tour,
HER DAY
and
"Every overweight person can do it,' she says, "but big-time
But there is one little snag. Colds come qulekly after the loss of that protective overcoat of sevenly 168. Which means no more diaphanous 'undies' in wintertime and a cosy flannel 'nightle'—for Annel
Eleven unsmiling days face Mme. Simenon
anolent telephone
Her world: allent cash register...
YO HO HO-and a bottle of ğum
look!
Why
Brynner-
WITH HAIR!
YUL BRYNNER, the film star who promoted baldness into an art-form, gets hair 1 Inside Show Business presents the first picture of Mr. Brynner as he appears in his new film, "The Buccaneer " -complete with faise hair plece to create as much stir as did his first appearance with shining pate In The King and ('' and **Anastavla." Permanently and professionally bald, Yul Brynner fits his wig with gum every Corning, uses a form of nail varnish remover to get it off at night.
DEBORAH KERR WINS
nnt siculs opened at the same
REE Dia Hollywood : DEBORAH KERI'S "The King and I." which leads BRANDO'S "Ouys and Dolls' An that Oh what a beautiful morning one, "Oklahoma 1"
time in the West End last year.
Now they are on release the box bilice stakes have been won by
THE MAN WHO IS SEVEN
✪ ALEC GUINNESS, back from hardships of a Jap prisoner-of-war camp in Ceylon (for
ke
a film, of course), finds that in his new Ealing comedy "Barnacle Bill” starling now plays not one part-but seven. He is a naval captain who is scared of the sea
and he plays, too, his ancestors, Including a Stone Age character in a coracle ; a bowls partner of Drake, and a shipmate of Captain Cook,
ENTER BETTA ST. JOHN
UT American atress at Noon (lowing in London BARBARA BATES gives up next week) in which she took her job wild Mr. Rank-and the part rejected by another another takes over, IN: 27- Rank star VIRGÍNIAMS- year-old DETTA ST. JOHN, KENNA. Daya Hotta, St. John : Die Happy Talk" ziri in "Thank goodness I was never "Buth Pacita." Sho gets the a Rank starlet. It ail means 20 Dolce contract as a reward for: much publicity for DO HO work in the Nim.“ High Tide.
work."
WELL... HE SAID IT
● Self-revelation of the week-by ELVIS PRESLEY 1"They tell ine that if I ever learni to sing good I'll be outs the businesá.”
"BUCCANELA BAYNNIA),
WITH COVE
Grosgar Simenas
Cannes.
-That's the time it takes
husbänd Goorjéš
to
write a new best seller
the
Lessions.
by SAM WHITE
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Modöme Smiñei
the names of
leading "in novel surprised his characters (taken in order to household by his steady tippling AFTER 92 days of rest reduce 1lbel dangers from a while working on this book.
Georges Simenon, the telephone directory of a town at During his working period novelist and creator of the opposite end of France) at Simenon is surty, aggressive and Inspector Maigret, was in their family histories and pro- hyper-sensitive to the slightest cmollenal disturbance among his own terms "doing the
It is a This, Simenon best" to start work on his was all he knew about the book happy day,
assured me, the people around hitn.
for the household |167th novel published under on which he would start work when the novel is suished und
his own name and his 436th at 8.30, n.m. the following day the
Axed smile book if you include those he and finish the Best chapter in returns to a face which with its has written under a dozen time to join his wife and three long pointed nose gives him
at breakfast at 8.30 sirong different pseudonyms.
From the appearance of, his ‹- study in the house he rents overlooking Cannes one might have thought he was planning to go on a long and complicated journey. The large table was littered with maps, railway and bus timetables, and the telephone directories of half a dozen countries.
Schedule
children
a.m.
In longhand
normally
resemblance to
1
to a genial Galtskell
"I huve to go on proving myself to myself," he tells me. "If I stay two months without Jogg begin to
klow nothing about the writing. events which will occur in my confidence.” book, otherwise it would not be
The entire management of interesting for me," he told me. "I
the wille them
Simenon empire which chapter by includes dealing with publishers chapter, usually a chapter a day. In 24 different countries, The problem is always the same -how to arrange matters
so as syndication, films and TV sales
in the hands of his slightly to subject my characters to the austere-looking French-Canadian
utmost possibio strain."
the
wife. She performs herself the lusk of several literary agents an ofeo full of typists and
Nowadays Simenon wilted At the telephone his wife was busy cancelling all appointments only in
morning and for the next 11' days, THE because of neuritis in his right scheduled time it will take him shoulder he has given up using
the typewriter and writes from the business side of bis to produce his new book,
i novels in his ricat langland on
Simenon is completely cut of
work and dots not display the
slightest interest in it. A series
A last-minute detail was le arrengo a medical check-up for ordinary hotepaper. Simenon, who is something of
Corrections are fire either in of finis starring Jean Cabli in hypochondrine, and worries the original or when he revises the part of Inspector Malgret about his blood pressure.
Simenon's blood pressure goes his schedule: After breakfast he ducts to despair by refusing to goes his wife's typed copy: This are being made in France and Simenon has reduced. the pro- up during his creative bursts KOC and subsides when a book is for a solitary but marathon colaboreto in their adaptation.
and down the Croisette
walk up
pro
uninvested.
completed,(Also, an Interrup- until lunch-time, After lunch is coormous tion owing
wing to luness would, snap he takes a short nap and, on his concentration so completely waking, his wife drives him in that the novel would probably their iny. Flat
be discarded.)
around the
Riviera countryside,
incomb reihains
castle
At 54 he remains extremely Bealdo him dà ho consulta These driyes are made ih gredrious and he speists money maps and timetables was a tray almost total silence, and the freely, but does not gamble. He full of soITIO thirty newly work in progress is never dis- his given up residence in the cleaned pipes and an orange bussed between them. Is he United States, where he settled coloured manilla envelope, It concentrating on the next day's after the war and his only per Is always the same colour of
of chapter? Simenon dontest. manent hoino is in Switzerland chyatope because Simeon la fol thinking of the story where he has bought. A bastle
my superstitious man who has find tut
central overlooking Lausanne, He la not to fight hib why th
For the period of a studious man and the buik of limpoverished circumstances, and whing that novel. I am that his reading is ddvbted to we His first miccalil novel, was cha
from that
charmeter,
plotted on an envelops of just
Just The strain on my nervous
such a colour.
not inyaoli?”"
beling the Daily
Iterally act him, papers, his favourite,si
10:
On the back of this latest tem seppelling. I am simply ("What ifo, what 28 envelope was written la minute wife llustrates this point Characteristically, did or his handwalling the “ natne of thẻ with a neat story. In one of his domestic phobias of iwhich all town in which the netlod läker books the central character is a new servants are warned), 14 that, place (it is in Northom France, debrisard. Bimende, who drinks be hates to nec 4 clock fiát has Detvanix Amional and Boulogne), little and not at all when he la stoppedi