* THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JUNE 1957.
The LOGAN GOURLAY personality page from Paris
PICTURE BY SIONALD MITCHELL
CHITIC
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MARTINE CAROL
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IT'S SO WORRYING
TO BE MARTINE
PARIS, Saturday. 'ARTINE CAROL lay on her back on a chintzy divan in her studio dressing-room smoking a filterdip cigarette. She said in her fractured English (which I won't try to reproduce) :—
Merbok
"It was terrible. Very painful.
I never suffer so much."
The suffering was caused by a studio accident. Her over-energetic fonding man, applying a judo hold for a alm scene, dislocated part of her extremely : valuable vertebrae.
A joyful day
This was her first day back at work (with the same leading man) after a month in bed. There were no flags hoisted but it was a joyful day for the French Glm industry, which liste Miss Caroi as its top box-office star-and for the Insurance company. The month's delay cost them about £39,000.
"I am still bandaged round here." she added, looking down.
**It makes me fat-chested. Almost like a buy. That is bad.
Today I am only nimed above the shoulders..
"But tomorrow 1 take the bandage of, And I wear a dreas with the transparent top, You must come to the studios to see it."
The inevitable bath?
I asked if I would also see the Inevitable bath scene. A Martine Carol
without one is unimaginable, Like Paris without that Tower.
She said: "Perhaps. We are not decided. If it is necessary we put it in."
The film is called Nathaile, and she plays an adventurous model under the direction of her husband Christian Jaque.
When it is completed she has plans for a fim in Britain with
NANCY SPAIN v. JÖHŃ MASTERS
I KNOW I DON'T LIKE
MOUNTAINS... BUT THIS FROM
THE AUTHOR OF 'BHOWANI JUNCTION' IS APPALLING.....
Show Business
James Mason, and A Paris Paris. The price: 9,500 franes atage appearance in Somerset (about £10). acrvice complet. Maugham's Rain.
The barman said: "The price is fixed at about 1,000 frencs for uny drink because you can see the Boor show from here."
"It will be the Arst time I appear on the stage since 1948 Road. when I was in Tobacco
I was just a beginner then. A Ailly young girl. Remember, I walked into the Seine one day when I was depressed,
that again, "I'll never do 'though I
worry about everything. And when you are a stor you have more to wOTTY about, How to remain a star. How to handle the money, And everything."
Blank mind
Miss Carol lit another alter elgarette ("They are good
for
my lungs, I think") and went
on
1 said: "I've seen the show." He said: "That's a pity." I bought one pot of tea in an hotel. The bill; 450 franes waller said: "It's (10.). The 300 francs for the tea and 160 francs for the nuts."
"I haven't eaten any." I onid: He said: "That's a pity."
to say: "No, I won't tell you how I handle tho money The about £50,000 a film]. pilia I take for my back maka the about mind blank my
money.
"No, my 'farm in Grasse in not run for a profit. It is just beautiful place where 1 can go to relax in the Riviera 507. And watch the vines grow,
"We produce our own wine but it is a lille thin and o
1039
She obviously considered a not
Carol
worth gaming
Rising carefully
divan she said:-
Chateau
from the
"I must go back to work now.
·
LIKE TO FLIRT
Miss Jones is
so shy about Miss Jones
Rome.
XTHILE Jennifer Jones
|W
WAG studying Yoga I'm sorry I talk so much about and cycling around Rome
Inflation
my back, Next time I talk
with # chauffeur-driven about ray bust, I apologise."
was Cadillac cruising a few feat I told her an apology
her. David 0. unnecessary. Quite unnecessary. behin
Selznick, currently her pro- ducer as well as husband, Parisian Inflation (or Nuts Was talking to me about his You): 1 bought two remarkable wife and star. rounds of drinks (eight brandles Miss Jones herself was too and soda) at the Lido bar in shy (and too preoccupied)
to talk about herself.
C
AUTHOR MASTERS
FALUTIN FIDDLEDEDEE!
♫
For that is what "Far,
what
Not all the philosophies In #he the world, most of which
has at least dipped into, could
rid her of the phobla she
has
-INTERVIEWS ARE JUST TORTURE
FOR HER, SAYS PRODUCER-HUSBAND
DAVID O. SELZNICK
by THOMAS WISEMAN
# problem 10
about being interviewed, "It they are is just torjure for her," said husbands. Selznick, who is fairly pre- occupied himsel though not with Yoga or cycling. They are difficult to work with
They are impossible 10
A
these days,
I owed 12 million dollars ago and I decided to stop film pro- duction because I didn't want to get in any deeper at that_mo-> ment when there was a slump in the business.
"Now that debt is paid cft, How much I am worth depends į on the value of some of my properties. For example, yester- day I was offered three-quat-
their tens of n million dollars for the! TV rights of four old films of ngine. Those films are worthi "With them it is not just thet
whatever впусте chooses to offer for them. So you see, no- live body in the picture business over knowa whether he has gət ten million pounds or owes ten million pounds."
He is now making his first with." Aim for nine years here in Rome,
million-pound-plus Frightened version of Hemingway's Fare- well to Arms, a 1914-18 wat classic. It has already given tim enough headaches to last wm- other nine years,
Another row
and
The
Rock-like
I asked Selznick if it was true directors were frightened of directing Miss Jones, especially
I hast lunch with Rock Hud- when he was the producer, pon (who co-stars with Miss "No," he said, They are not
Jona) and discovered that he
frightener of her. They are had been aptly named by his
frighterrot of me. 1 seem
to
Ty
Said Hudson, in a sudden fil of loquacioumess; "I like to be thought of as an actor, not as a
beefcake boy,"
About his ambitions he said: good time.
fre
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have a rather frightening effect agent. Rock-like is the only way
To every-· First, there was that row with on directors. That is because I of describing him.
revealed one's surprise he has John Huston, who stamped out interfere so much with every
himself an actor and was th of Rome claiming that he had aspect of the making of
year nominated for an Oscar, in been fired. Трет there was Alms.
company with Yul Brynner another row between Selznick
"On the contrary, they are
(who got #), Kirk Douglas and and his associated producer, Arthur Fellowes Selznick, usually rather glad to be direct- James Dean accused him of impertinence on ing Jennifer, because that is the the sch
Fellowes offered to one time when I make a point and the alter was of not being around too much. HERE are all sorts Why, I want to know, climb mountains without for reasons as shown above. Do you think it sounds like a resign
fully satisfying accepted, but he was back at We have an arrangement where She leaves Peter. of ways of doing does John Masters, whose loving them, by jove.
Peter "erious
Kovel," which is
Selznick by we separate our private and the work again bad work: lack of earlier work has
been so
follows.
publisher Michael Joseph claims explains: "He resigns every professional lives. For example: concentration, lack of in- honest and satisfying, waste Wreckage She tells Peter about the for it?
Tuesday and Thursday and be if Jennifer wants to discuss like to have
doesn*+*" About his con- time writing this kind of terest, lack of joy
baby. Peter teurs off his
the filming she won't do at taster, he said: "They Or do you think, as I do, that has boca with me for 20 years." problem which has come up in Who sequeht
sheer upon
de- rubbish?
of the most D.S.O.s and his badges of it is a romance
Choosing a moment of com- hume, she will ring up my office simple. About his past, he said: ETER Savage Is not termination to make
PETly ruthless
rank and stamps out into cirish variety: a book of high with
and a soda jerk. It all helps." living.
well-have been written by Ethel body was resigning), I corner- me."
ed Selznick of the Cinecitta
Selznick plans for the im. About his huume: "I want to Le And reading Mr John seemed to me. It is a book with people, using them and private in a line regiment M. Dell and Ruby M. Ayres in station. He looks rather like one mediate future Include two films thought of as an actor."
For the Mountain Penk" mountains, he is ruthless the night to enlist as a falutin' addie-dee-dee that might porte taquility (when no and make an appointment to pee "I used, to be a post sve:
...and practically single collaboration with the president amiable buffalo with a press with his wife, Tender is
the Said a friend of his "Rock breaking them as briskly as handed, Errol Flynn style, of the Alpine Club? Masters'a new novel, FAR,
ing business engagement,
Night and Mary Magdalen, He FAR THE
MOUNTAIN entirely taken up with the most people break eggs.
goes on to turn the German
Me, I have
cautious_type,” Said another nothing against man who made Gone With will also be producing (without decant talk much. He is the PEAK (Michael Joseph, very musculine mystique of
the Battle of the rezace, as such. I think it is Wind and discovered Bergman, his wife) a stage operetia based friend Oh, Rock's an intellee He uses and nearly breaks flank at 158.), this week. several mountain climbing......
dellcicus. his best friend, a noble earl Somme....
at bry and should be labelled fer Jones, atrolbeck back his white of his fim Gone with the Wind cual. He reads books and strEI.”
It keeps nightmares Peck, Vivien Leigh and Jenni-
The possibility of alm of the Said a female admirer: "He is times I nearly flung it to
mane and talked about the most play of the film of the book is, such a beautiful piece of man Now quite a lot of my called Gerry... he also That would be enough for Romenice, Good Clean Fun. the ground in sheer ex-
Important star in his Ho-bis however, remote. " oo longer don't care what he reads. He reaction to this is personal breaks a lady called Peggy one book, you think? asperation.
own Gone with the Wind. But when one of our most in-win, Miss Jotres. marries prejudice. I am
Emily aware of Then
has got wide shoulders and per- made the mistake of selling my feet legs. I don't know about Oh, no, that. I loathe books about Fenton, who knows him for
not at all. He telligent novelists, whose fault
"There are broadly two kinda stare in it, though it could only his conversation when he talks. is usually that he is too steeped mountains. For that matter, what he is. And they have goes back to Emily. She in reality, stoops to all his poor star," he said, "the ones who be made in agreement with
I just look, I don't listen." a tiny ruthless tot called comforts him. He is A with moonshine I think it is sell cheesecake and the ores MGM, and I don't suppose t Rodney.
broken, dispirited, impotent appaling. When he writes this who sell talent, My wife belongs would be done for at least 10
su. In the second category. But I am aware that my
man who is through with monotonous mountain
about ve "their mountaineering soul, the so absolute fanatic Emily at this point gets a being ruthless. He is very thing that made distaste is not shared by
them moun- work.
I asked Selznick whether Sho de one of the few
in the everyone. Otherwise
bit fed up with Peter: so land to all the children, tainees end not climbers, had stars who care nothing for tho there was any truth why would all those men rope
she embarks upon love particularly to baby Gerry. cast around the clean, comerete money or the glory. Her only tour that he themselves together and go
and lovely shape of the moun- interest is acting. She never milliormire, he said: "Nine year affair with the noble earl
Then he restores his virility tales a dimly defined and only takes any interest in how much clumping away to the Lake Soon there is a little ignoble
and His belief In himself by half-luminous vell of spiritual who is being paid-money is just District every year? So I baby on the way............ helping unfortunate Harry Walsh values..." is a fair sample of deposited in her account and I know that I am sticking my
who has then I must ask WHY?. Then the First World (also a mountaineer),
don't support she shown a yellow streak in some neck right out for a moun- War starts. And Petor is at are.
And I think the
case is much she's got, taineer to cleave in two with it again, making and break-
obvious. John Masters, like the
"In no way is she tempera-- And thai," as a grind climax, rest of us, thinks hơe got to his ice axe. But judge for ing people left and right, yourself.
winning D.S.O.s, and gon "Far, Far the Mountain crally being ruthless.
I hate mountains.
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Darling, the First Lesson was sheer Ellismail, about what happened to the Exyptians. when there. wain't any Linitum.
Nations
..
Penk," is all about a man called, Peter Savage who is ever so ruthless. He is also Not Quite a Mountaineer.
hc
The lot
selves
Sho
know how
real Peter and a lot of live.. he's got to keep his old mental, except on the subject or other mountaineers rope them-pol-boling, samo as you and publicity. She genuinely loatheur together end go of to me. And a pot balles is all very it. I have tried to explain to her climb a mystic mountain called well in Its way, but it's so good it is all part of the business slig Meru,
when you've been promised the bin, but she maywḍt it be nec
|sary for her to go through all the Very, very symbolically halt roast beet of Old England,
ballyhoo to stay in the businces. way up they decide, that Meru And good wild fore is what I she would rather not stay in tho THEN he and the noble-must stop these, uniaylated it have been led to expect from be
earl go off ́ on. some her eternal snow and all that John Masters..
down they secret mission that involves stuff...ant
In this mad, climbing world where crampons count (how did you guess?) a minion. for so much, you see, that mountain climb.
is like saying Not Quite a
Gentleman. A "climbor" is The noble earl gets shot.. equivalent to a filthy cad, Emily Immediately thinks Climbers actually that Peter, has shot Gerry
air
.
come
Stooping
WELL
now, you Un-Moun- taigners, what, about that?
Nancy Spain
this "Bho is problem, in cpect, but some of those self- | loving when I hove worked with, who are sinhappy" if one' week their dace is not doporučkog worn. magazine" arvere nem a bigger problem. And, they are-oostert
■ problem" "to their "produ
or 15 years."
....
lo a multi-
A Hudson is playing a Hem- ingway 'character, the casting' I should say is admirable. Hem- way's men don't talk much elther.
London Express Service,
says Marisa Alfanto, the girt -
with eight-boy frionds,
ITALY'S newest sensation is 19-year-old Marisa Allasto -- the gize whose posters were banned by the Pope at the same time, as he was banning the Brigitte Bardot posters,
I drove over the Tiber to meat Liar Aliaso'st a ruilený slation where she was making her intest film and almost halting the express trains which pats through the station Che le D delicious creature toith Monde hair and brown eyes which are the most sizfatigue that i have ever seen. The has already been dubbed The Fitri, partly because this is the title of tác, nim she is, MCQ making and because that" to what she con/cases to DOSE
have eight boy friends, she whispered to send i do not like to aupe less than that. If 7 Tore one.f-then look around to bring the number up la force dgain.. It is nothing serious witing any of them, but I like to fire
Her krat mafor Him, Young but Handsome, she qppeared in- for nothing. Now th is the second biggest money make, in Italy... 10 War and Perbeland Afya:Aligio, if, the newest,ghalanger so. (Gopala Deren and Gina Lollobrigida.,