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*THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, APRIL 26,
One way to make Martine bare her heart "Speak up in the beauty parlour.“ One way to get your money back.
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TINE'S MIRROR"
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LOT of people find it difficult to understand why my husband, Christian Jacques, will direct these pictures which you call "daring." People say "how could he want his wife to be seen like that?"
I will tell you about the first time I do a bath scene
with Christian in "Lucrezia Borgla."
...
keep
the
cameras
as told by
Ralph Cooper
dressing gown, and in a fury I modest apartment, and for the say: "There! See for yoursel" first time the luxury of a mald! The woman is very confused Paule was a character, and a
not
good SDITY. Very
friend to me. Sho and red, but I am Afterwards, think: "Mon Dieu! treated me
But all daughter, What have I done?"
my friends say: "Quite right, Martine."
I don't want you to run away with the idea that my life has bll been champagne bubbles the way.
I have had good times, won- wonderful derful times with
business this people, but there are always up and downs I have had my share a big say. share of the downs,
When they say at the begin- would. But in one scene, where ning of the film that 1 should I was coming out of a steam have a tub, I say "No! I have bath, they enough of nudity"
and turning. Christian agree with me. After all, have just bathed twice in "Caroline Cherie and twice more in "Caprice de Caroline."
Was
"Not to worry," they "We cut that bit out."
But when I see the Bnished So I am happy that is finished fim, they cut NOTHING! Not a bit! How could they do that and I can try to show that I am
-the producer and my husband actress.
"Borgia"
very big you may ask. ♫ picture, and cost a lot of money. We are only half way through the picture when we know we have spent too much ...
see the producer looking me with a certain look In eye,
and
at
his
Almost before he tell me, shout "no" at him
but he
explain that if we have
spent
be to have Martine in her bath!
a
Christian directs me in these aims and he does not make the great objections because to French producer-to French- man it does not mean any- thing. I wonder If you
can understand that?
My film reputation, of course, follows me everywhere in real
Д
The worst time, when I really hit the bottom, was just after the war. I had decided I want to net and was trying to make It was hard.
went to Rene As a start, I Simon, the star maker - man who found Michele Morgan and made her famous.
a name,
He
the
He was an Intimidating man: called bis star-making studio a factory, and he had a which often blistering tongue lashed you into tears.
Simon always saw me
1.7
of
too much money, one way of One of the few times in my dramatie actress and I got a few getting some of it back would life I get really angry is in my parts in classical plays Clouzot,
hairdresser's in Paris. I am the man who made "Wages
in me later, saw One way of making absolutely there one day and I hear
Fear" years sure of getting it all back
woman, talking purposely very
one of them and sent for me to Clouzot!
OL Here and maybe a bit to spare, in to loud two cubicles away.
She audition. have Martine In her bath-talk for me to hear,
because last was my chance!
All the way to the audition I twicet
she has even me come in.
Bow my name in lights. When Very loud, she say to her I got there I was so erVOUS frlend: "That Marine Carol, of muffed the tert piece and fled course her figure is not real. in tears. Sho have operations... she Wear falsies.'
NO FALSIES!
I was furious! But my hus- band and the producer gradually persuade me
und I agree. cut it to the
sakt
I told them to minimum and, they
Princess Garden
Presents for your entertainment
Then I managed to gel my first small Alm part, but months went by before I got another, little
flim Л
which
Was
more 11ko her
But soon I was hard up again, and Paule came to me and sald;
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Lord Hailsham makes three speeches and impresses millions
roars
lion among the HERE has been a
are still Americans, and his echoing through the canyons of New York. The lion's name is Lord Hailsham. His roar has been so loud that Americans have been startled.
...
Mr Max
and
I am so mad I dash round to and when I did I was a they her cublele, tear open my frightened of it.
It was
For years they have been world is supposed to be grateful started, but, the war interrupted accustomed to the gentle, to?
The members of Meet the star. It, and then the Annie apologetic, soft-voiced visit-
Ita Press Mr Spivak, chict given independence to India and Vernay, died
died tragically. Now ing English envoy, who has voice; Mr Marquis Childs, the the Sudan, do Pakistan, Ceylon they
finish wanted to
columnist; Mr Burma, and now Ghana, picture, and because they say produced little but explana distinguished
Malaya. look like Annie, they wanted tions and alibis, nothing Ernest Lindley, of Newsweek; soon Ma
Freedman, "Britain has gladly helped to me to take her part-to step forthright and forceful. and oven
left. of the Mancheter Guardian put Iraq on her feet, terminated into a dead star's shoes,
Then, last week, along at thero little uncomfortably her treaties with Jordan, About this time,
my parents
the Suez Canal bare and Pales came Hailsham to speak up as Hailsham talked with splen- and retired to the country,
her tine, and is now reducing did vigour and pungency. and speak out, found myself a tiny room in small hotel. This was the first
"I've glorified in the fact that forces In Libya." I am half-American, and if it of a long, long series of dreary,
weren't for the fact that I am sull proud of being British, there's no other country I would rather belong to."
THE
MISCHELLShabby flille rooms which I was
years.
They Fly As part in
"home" for the next few
One day I was offered a small
The
Mirror." Jean Gabin was the star.
Jean was not an easy charac-
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But he can be wonderfully kind, 100, and he was great help to me.
One day had a small scene to play on my own and I was nervous. Jean slayed behind and showed me how that it should be played. have never forgotten him for it.
It was Gabin who first dis- covered my real temperament.
In the middle of dramatic
scenes he would mutter to me: "You, you are a comich
really
But things were not going well for me. I lost a job In a play, then had no work, and practically no money,
lived on coffee and a little tiny hotel room with- bread in a out a bath.
I remember there was a choir in that room cover- ed with blue velvet. I've hated the stuft over since.
Things were so bad that friend of mine, a
nine, a gentlemon who I think
was secretly in love with me, gave me 240 pairs of nylons and said: "Sell them and you can keep the commission."
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His lordship
thundered
to
20,000,000 Americans who were watching the Meet the Press television programme:
"We saved the world from a major war. That, at any rate, is something .. I think prevented a major war.
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Pungent talk
A MAJOR war has not, in fact, happened. If i am right in saying it would have happened, we saved you from it,
As far away as Boston, pre occupied with the illness of Sir Anthony Eden, the lion's roar was heard.
08
He warned against Commum- Ism as no other Englishman has done since Sir Winston Churchill.
The New York Bar Associa- told me. "Send us more tion like Hailsham."
again.
Teetering
What he said there was
off
the record; but I can tell you it stronger
a third spooch, before the Broadcasting and television
exclusive Dutch Treat Club on officials tell me that Hailsham's Park Avenue, Hailsham roared appearance on Meet the Press was among the most surpessful "We gave you some time to since the programme develop some kind of a Middle started several years ago.
was even bolder and Eastern policy of your own, any-
Hailsham followed up with a than his public speeches. how, and for that, I think, you magnificent speech before the Rejoice in Hallsham and what ought to be very grateful" New York Bar Association
he has done for Britain in the Americans grateful for The assembled lawyers rose past few days. nnything!
these the, and cheered as he defended the Mr Dulles has become
Aren't
people that all the Western Empire: "Britain has willingly fond of the spotlight that this
ROARS!
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
trave given Europe, and chiefly the British, gigantic sums of money. They're unaware bo cause our representatives here, who are not Hailshams, have falled to tell them.
Few of my friends and nanc of my enemies are aware that Britain pays large interest on Joans from the United States.
America herself was a debtor first world nation until the war and her growth was largely Tell that weak ho was again
due to British loans. giving sial interviews
to anyone here and they'll re- to magazine
word you as a lunatic. representatives, even though he got into dreadful trouble only a
And not one in a thousand fortnight 020 over his in
Americans realises that under discretions to John Beal of Time.
•
The faster of "brinkmanship" teeters on the brink again, But since he returned from Bermuda Mr Dulles has been less critical
Brilla
He got along of the
with Mr Macallan much better than he ever got along with Sir Anthony Eden, and he struck up a personal friendship with Mr Selwyn Lloyd
I cannot tell you too forcibly how upset Americans ara by the British Budget,
I was very conscious of this in Boston, particularly when doctors, meeting at the big con- vention there, said: "It is we Americana who are financing face medical care for the Bri-
Lich."
I am even more conscious of
it in New York.
words "Foreign aid" comes military assistance—the arming
and manning of busce in Bri- tain, Iran, Kören, Förora, etc.
More than half this alleged aid, in foot, pays for a shield for America.
The biggest topic and talling point here after the mammoth Budget is the Senate Invest!- gating Committee, headed by James Eastland, of Mississippi.
There are tens of thousands of Canadians in New York (and in Boston), and they are saying plainly that Eastland, his coun sel Robert Morris, and the Com- miites as a whole, drove Canadian Ambassador, in Cairo, Herbert Norman, to his death by suicide.
Well-wisher
RELATIONS
the
between the
In Washington Congress is in I United States and Canada revolt against the $72,000,000,000 have not been so strained and.
Budget the highest in history.
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taut for years.
or
Iko will, have to trim t his popularity, already dwindl- ing, will take a nosedive
Foreign aid is particularly under attack. The Americans are under the illusion that they
Hot black coffee and the cold black Seine
"You know, my poor friend, it I had chosen and accused me of ordinary, desire to go into the
will chasing "bad dreams"
would seem that we
ono
water.
doctor take it all down, and afterwards he tell ine I talk about those things that were said about me.
"Now," he said, "you have to worry about it any more," and
Joh
don't,
going to have some good meals things would have come from wing he should not have said odds in no stato to think;"you trouble in crying.
at good restaurants, and when it. Then the film was shelved.
don't
not
Instead of being conciliatory, Eastland la being deflant. This rich plentation owner from the Deep South is a strong segrega- tionist and a disciple of keeping the black man down and out.
Now, apparently, Eastland ́ ́Americans wants to segregate and Canadians,
Today there is not much dif- ference between Eastlandiam and McCarthyism, although the man from Mississippi tas not got the platform" "magnotiam and television personality...........of Senator McCarthy.
Porhape some of us have buried McCarthy a little too hastily He insists he is not dead net
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
two
I lived on strong black coffice A taxi driver had noticed my have to part." But she did not mean it. That Paule of mine and benzedrine, and I hardly atranga behaviour and followed went on: "I have some savings, know one day from the next. me. We will share them, and see was also very much in love, but As I went into the water he it was a hopeless love because stopped me and said: "Don't be
An interesting footnote to what happens afterwards." •
the man was married.
so stupid." I remember ho sald I went back to my depress history is that Senator Mo- It was at a time when nylons Her money went as fast as
I was in this state of despair he had a daughter of any age, ing part in "Tobacco Road" in Carthy was among the hundreds were scarce. But I was not a good the littls I had left. Then sud- evening when an actor but I only heard him in fear because artists aro
of American figures who "Bent salcewoman, The weeks went denly my hopes were raised gaked me to have a drink with dream and I went on.
always too sympathetic towards messages of good wishes to Sir by and I had not sold a single The great French film producer him. What I really wanted He grabbed me and when I would-be suicides ... especial-Anthony. Eden pair and I wasn't eating Marcel Carne asked me to play was a good square meal, but fought him, he knocked me out ly when they have failed. Some very much. So I have a bright in a picture with Arletty. with him I had a couplo of with a blow from his fist.
knew the real reasons, and "I shall never be any
Ho carted me off to the understood, but others thought To a friend I say: "I am tired It was not a big part, but it
I told him, 41 am polloe, and there I make a big. I'd done it for publicity. of coffee and bread. We are was a great honour and other finished" He mid the one mistake. I give my name and In that part I had to cry, a
without thinking
and that night 'I had no at that moment"Don't make I dna it comes to the bill wo say:
Forget about understand.
I returned to my flat to And "Sorry, no money. Will you ne This bad piece of luck began such a fuss
**When I arrive home from the I was being turned out. The cept stockings?"
the darker, blackest part of my It...let it rido
I wanted sympathy and en-hospital two days later I find owner had come back from We did. Some of the restau- career.
words my apartment surrounded with America and wanted it himself: 1 rants were quite nice about it."
I was given a part in the couragement... His
sounded to me like a death- photographers, and there are argued and got compensation. Some were not. I felt much stage play "Tobacco Road," A knell.
more Inside. I knock at the With that was able to pay my better with all that good food terrible, depecasing part of a inside me except for one thing, deaf mute who sees her mother
That night I went home feel door, and Poule opens If, and I donte to Paule, who decided to I keep saying to myself: "One killed in front of her, The ing more in despair then ever. faint and do you know what go back, to the country
My faithful maid Paule was not happens? They trample on me With the money I had left I day that man como for his money was small, and most of there, and to this day I do not as I am lying there, in order to decided to strike out boldly and money, and I have not got it that went in hairdressing and
I Installed myself in the hotel And no nylons either."
make-up... I had to cover quite know, what happened after get into the house,
that.
I left the two or thros Next day, the things they Prince of Wales, one of the big nearly all my body with male-
Parle Ob I know, MAID HELPED UP, and I had to pay for that thouars we had left write about me are so cruel and hotels in
with a note for Paule,
After that I don't know any haunted me almost until now... big hotel is better than a big wrong that they have was only a little room at the
back but a tiny room In I was terrified, then one day My nerves were at breaking I meet him. He tell me not to point because this was not what left the house again, with SLEEP SECRETS An nothing at tar worry. He knew I was hard up I wanted to, do, and it seemed out any particular reason, talk and it was his way of giving at that time that I would never, ing wildly to myself and waving hany [me a prevent,
win through. The news from my hards ...so they told me It was only last year,
my exhausting trip, with Chris- A fim, in Belgium with Ray my parents in the country was afterwards Ventura saved my life that time not goods. My father wow Next thing I know I was on tian Jacques round the world and when I returned to and for theirst time they the banks of the River. Beine when I am all and in hospital Paris 'I wan able to acord 'a sounded bitter about the career, and I wụa aviona wylika da skaten- tikt- I talle in my sleep and the
thing
L TOMORROW;
after
Martine was learning her lemonaden
Why I Red from Hollywood