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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1957.
Why mention age? asks that Favourite Film Star
ANNA NEAGLE, Q.C., CONSIDERS THE WICKED APPROACH
SHOW BUSINESS.
by PETER BUCHAN
NNA NEAGLE sipped her cup of tea. Out of the very best china, of course. Little finger in the very best position, of
She put down the cup and clasped her hands over her heart. "There is something," she said, "that comes from here when I am acting. I shall never give it up. I shall go on as long as I can,
"I shall go on as long as peopic want me," Always as the pillar of English respectability, the unchanging do-gooder In a changing world? Wouldn't ane ever be wicked ?
"I don't think people would like it. They expect something of me now. I represent something. They wouldn't want me to change."-
Was that the trouble with King's Rhapsody, the Alm she made with Errol Flynn in which Miss Neagle was not quite as good as usual and which her faithful public did not take to at all 7
Miss Neagle, dressed in wig and slik gown for her part as
a Queen's Counsel in a new film, which will co-star her exotic opposite, thrice-married Zan Zsa Gabor, gave the gown a swish.
"That," she said, -5 •
leading question,
"Errol is a terrific person, But there were all sorts of things. Perhaps the people who wanted to seá me didn't want to see him,
We made two nima together. The first was all right. It was only the second that didn't do so well.
*
✩
*
"But some day I might try to be wicked. Provided there
was some goodness in me.
"If I apoke French or Hallan I would love to make a filmu in Europe. They have such a per- fect touch there. Though I'm
not sure people would like that either. I've been doing the
Yee, no long."
Mka Nengle swished her gown. "Why must everyone bother about ages? They don't any. where else, It's only in Britain. I've-been-muking nima u Why should it be long time. strange people-middle-aged people-eas to me: You were my Favourite Film Star when I was at school' 7"
Miss Neagle's calm, which has stayed with her through her
H.K.T.
ANNA NEAGLE ~~ Appearing for the defence in Q.C's wig
and goton.
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COMMISSIONER OF POLICE..
the
irials as Queen Victoria, rock 'n' rolling mother of a teenage daughter, * hospital matran, and now a Queen's Counsel, almost left her,
"If anyone (swish) wants to know (wish) about my age (ash) they can always look 31 up (mith, swish,“)
1 did.October 20, 1004.
Benny's hope
MIGHT have known Jock Benny would be unorthodox. While I knocked at one door of his hotel suite the right one-Benny put his head round another and sald: "That You"
"Just got in," sald Benny. "I'm tired of travelling. We've been an vacation since July 10, Travelling all the time. When I go on vacation i want to And some place like London where I can settle and where I've got friends."
Benny is in London with his wife, Mary Livingstone, partly
on holiday, partly to prepare for a TV show which
telecast on Wednesday.
was
Str
"I also want to sec Malcolm Sargent. I want to
persuade him to conduct me in concert at the Royal Festival Hall. Yes, a serious concert. With me playing the violin sorlously.
"I've been doing it in the States. Famous orchestras. Famous conductors.
And me. But only for charity.
"I've brought all the reviews and programmes and things to show Sir Malcolm I'm serious. If I'm a lousy violinist, o.k.. but I don't try to play lousy
That's what
dets people. They can't understand how a
guy who plays as badly as me can have the nerve to stand up in front of a famous orchestra and do it. On a Stradivarius too."
Benny has just bought a Stradivarius violin, worth 25,000 dollars (nearly £9,000). He moved to his bed, where the violin was lying and handled it lovingly.
t
"I've always wanted one. ever since I learned as a kid. "There's not just nerve, there's pathos too in me play- ing with a big orchestra. suppose I'm frustrated. wanted to be a great violinist -perhaps had a "chance to be a good one. But I wouldn't practise. I played for a bit in vaudeville,then I found I could get laughs. I didn't touch a violin for 40 years.
"Now, I guess, I'm trying to get rid of my frustrailón. "It's about time."
Benny, almost unbelievably, is 03. His "stage age" is 39.
"Ive been 39 for years. I was 20 for years before that, 1 shall stay 39."
...
name
For an up-and-coming 30- year-old Benny-real Benny Kubelsky—talks what carelessly about his in- come which is around £200,000 а усог
"I honestly don't know what I carn," he says. "I don't even knuw what 1hr B.B.C. paying me."
13
I can at least tell him this: After what he has been getting In Americs, it he really was the mean man he pretends to be he wouldn't be here at all.
THE DARNING HAS TO WAIT
when mother takes time off to compose music
ABYLON the great la fallon, te fallen'
was written in a spiky hand only slightly more legiblo than the splashes of musical notation on the music shoot... and in bocome the habitation of devils
and B Cage of overy unclean and hateful bird
Strong stuff for Heath Hurst Road. Hampstead.
Background music
Piccolo, the canary, whose cage was act- ing as paperweight for the MSB, did not appear to take this last remark from Revela- klon personally, Keeping up the dismal, one-pole threnody of the canary in moult, he carried on the background noise which helps to give his owner inspiration.
H owner la Phyllis Tate, the first woman to have a series of programmes of music in the modern British composera series. on the Third Programme.
Her policy of peaceful co existence with the penetrating distraction of Piccolo, and, let me hasten to add, one husband two children, a louse and garden, is a lesson on how to be housewife and how to be n creator of music that even men will marvel at.
Phylls Tate, according to the pundits "provides perhaps the only example of the weman composer content to be herself and free from any suspicion of self-consciousness."
Disappointment ·
A 203, gentle person with a inther of grey curis and a pair of washed påle-blue jeana, "ahe is certainly disappointing to male sceptica looking for" sus picions of any such thing.
by ANNE SHARPLEY
he
stands at the slut, of course, says, "but I find on reflection that quite a lot of the mechani cal aide of composition gela done
Way.
A pair of Kyloe hors sweeps cly have a most understanding
across the hallway of her home 10 red-brick Hampstead, their Sombre mcnace disarmed by Christmas ornaments.
The vicar's eye was on me so I had to buy them" she explains It was hard to believe, as she led the way into the living-rooni. that her head was pounding with a savage, barbarie Baby logian chant.
"Why are women comJIOMETA such a rarity Is 5 becaus abstract thinking is_supposed te be beyond them ?" I asked.
No, I think it's just life that swallows them up. They become housewives like me."
Local colour
It was no surprise that a rattle and a wire brush had worked their way into her setting for The Lady of Bhalett
One wests a little as ons
HOW TO STAY
YOUNG-by Cary Grant (AGE)
M
52
R. CARY GRANT was in the bathroom wearing only the trousers of his black popiin pyjamas. He studied the reflection in the mirror with the professional detachment of a surgeon before an operation. He looked at the eyes like badly peeled hard-boiled eggs. He examined the spiky hair retreating in disorder above the temples.. He considered the rolls of flesh fattening into an Elizabethan ruff under
the
the waistline. He noted fac stoop of the shoulders and the bulge of
There was no doubt about it. It was my reflection he was watching; I was in pretty poor shape.
Standing next to me, Cary Grant looked like the portrait of Dorian Gray. Blim as a greyhound, brown as a fried chicken, chirpy as a schoolboy, the man was obviously embalmed against time by some black magic.
1 forgot the questions I was tense-muscle in my body nowa- going to ask about Hollywood, days. I believe that 60 is the the Actors Studio, Sophia Loren prime of life, and because of In Popular Music: 8.30. - rather tertly that he must have
and Grace Kelly, I suggested that, it will be true for me." 0.70, Ometal tinental by Jeannete
I said I doubted whether spent most of his fifty-two could keep Epi- Bode 13 Tense Dramate Stories years being mamaged. életed, knees-bend carly nights, of Criminal Investigation starring medicined, combed and corset vation dicta and cold shower. Craig MacDonald as Detective Lt. Dan Brit: 19, Rediffusion Spotlight: ed by an army of studio sinves
to look so well.
Detective
Plry;
17.15, Plane choos; 10.30, Music By Andre Kostelanetz and his Orches tra:, Date With Dreamland: 11.17. Prelude To Midnight - Dance Music played by Artie Show and his Or« chestra: 12 Mianight, "God Save The Queen" Close Down,
TELEVISION
MATTER OF CHOICE
I
up a regimen
of
star-
any
"But I don't follow pattern of physical culture," argued Grant,
smoking
al given UP up 've adven I hinted that chape who had drinking because I don't need to work for a living couldn't to be reassured any more by hope to compete in appearance alcohol or nicotine, I can de with Akn inre
who devoted vole all my energy to the only their lives to their faces.
LIMELIGHT
by ALAN BRIEN
"Is that whai
tamily. They don't seem to mind if I don't sew on buttons or do the darning for a while."
He
A tip for the woman composer might be to follow Phylin Tate -and marry your musi publisher
14 long-suffering and understands when things get a bit neglected."
They met 23 years ago. was a rather horrid specimen in
big black sombrero sandals, and I was hawking my
&
and
music. He was more or less the
alice boy at a music publishers." The "borrid specimen. with bundles of MB8 and all the ren! in the world, was married to the ofloe boy who later became the boon of the musta pubilaber
The MBB were burned sITCIR).... sears inter in one glorious in ferno of self-disgust and Phyllis Tata began again.
PHYLLIS TATE—ane swsors fiftie of the kitchen sink.
Her first real success was in 104 with her popular Baxophone Concerto (she had had a sneak- ing regard for the saxophone ninoo early jazz-struck days), Since then she had written" F works. She will also admit to two "terrible ballads
Written under a pseudonym.
The household neema to take the strain of such things as the music Buripiden's "The Bac chas being composed in its buy Inidet.
Light relief
But the proof of a really remarkably tolerant household comes when, resilees and not able to sleep, one of the few women composers in captivity, opens the lid of the ancient harmonium that she bought for £5 at a junk shop.
In the dead of night the deep moral tones of the harmonium groan forth such number 2.8 Don't apoak Behind” Ra Back or the British Lion,
"Clots, rid of all my inhibs- Lions," she explains.
And the family game
They plug their cars orikh Doston WOOL"
London Represe Servios
PATRICIA..NEAL AT HER COTTAGE TODAY. "Will people teel cheated?" Soe NOT TO TYPE,
despises Allm
shape
a
Ker
"It's
stars in their Back In New York she attend- hearts. If a man has made ed the Actors Studio. "I agree typewriter, he's proud of it. that there are a lot of sloppy You can discuss with him the mannerisms that young actors colour and the style and tho catch from each other there. of the keys. It seems But I found it showed me how
and natural
understandable. to act like a real person." But if an actor asks you whe-
first film for several years, ther he ought to part his hair A Face in the Crowd, is duo In the middle or get his teeth here soon, fixed, it's childish vanity.
Yet all those little things in Studio head Elia Kazari
Under the direction of Actors vico I've got left. Not that I mouth.
che You Alms that no one noticia take He buttoned on his shirt over consider love-making a vice, I can?"
mumbles and stutters and he asked. "All the years of practice, How to it twitches. But she produces Arm well-muscled chart, think It's the most wonderful Actors Studio stuff! All that down and cross your legs You look the way
50 moving and stinging perform- you want thing in the world. Don't you?"
and blinking
and that your feet don't look hugo. to 8 pan, Children's Hour-Cartoons: look,"
ance that even her friend Cary he said: “Everybody
Grant was now fully dressed in? It's all right it How to drink from a glass Grant would find profess[4], a starring Duncan Ronaldo 315, Painel Theatre: 5.30, Cisco in the world shapes himself like oat, matty and cool in
unt without reflecting the waterfront you're playing R
lights
Alm star Ctaco, B. Clue
a sculptor. If you decide that lightweight summer ault and tough. But Mayfair exists as Into the camera lens, 7.30 Musical
3.45, Newsreel you are going to be handsome, ready for a stroll before lunch, well
to be like Narcimus," sho really tay for a of Work and Colony Even youthful and fit for the rest of I tried to think of some niggi-
no dockland. Everybody' I left Cury
looking said. Grant
best Cantonese lim-Modam See Tan
Suppone the Баун Realin. More reallam. every inch a film star in his Shan Tools Fan Lee Wah Tires
lito, your
then you will
I have ing flaw bo.
his apparently But a duke is as realistic as
a film star hotel suite in Mayfair, example is Arlene Dahl. What about dustman,
seen her arrive at a party and NOT TO TYPE
take -up a
& SCA! in Just the right "The tough guy acting ia In a whitewashed cottage at position with just the right He shrugged. "Well, taxes take 01.3 of everything I can thing to do on the screen
easy, belleve me. The hardest Great Missenden
on lighting and then sit therp is another American fim star who being beautiful all evening. But I know I'm not going to to stand still. It nearly drove looked as if she had. DAVET “I just haven't got the energy get any sympathy from any He put on his shoes and be body over that, There's enough Dolls when they wouldn't allow Neal was wearing a shapeless people will feel terribly cheat.
Brando crazy in Guys and heard of Hollywood, Fatricle to do it. Am I always to polish them, bending easily left to make me comfortable him to roam about the set talk grey sweater over a pink dressed when they see me as 1-like
NO THREAT
ing to himselt."
hanging down to with the hem
-Look
when I'm
I'm off the Ottawa, Aug. 29.
Had he any unfulfilled ambi- Her face was shiny and
bar - screen,” Canadian rime Minister Johnely do look so much younger How did he feel about the Hono
She crossed her legs, - They Diefenbaker said today
waiting to cause tumbago looked 32. Canada believed that the Arctic Hoople are always lying to in Hollywood? He crewed up or hay fevert Did he want to
We prettier than Cary Grant's Her Hollywood career fund regions were the place to begin other people about how mar- his face
but bar foot came up là à huse like an old towel, paint or write or direct?
been short and not very slow-up. She sipped tr to: not up safeguards against vellous they look.
scratched – Jimself under the “No ambitions: Like that at comsful, “Let's face it,” she sa0. But it It's true, it all comm" armpits and muttered and all," he grinned. "Disappoint "It began with a bang and foule and the light Barbeşt from reisai-ion, I haven't mosanbled oak of the side of his 157, iant 117 I know bywybody then went down, down, ddwn,"
===(Landon Kapres Burnlet); }
It's
Times (Part 3) 8.30 "Watch the as simple as that. People create Idyllic existence. World" 0.45, bhort Film: Jack their own diseases by the troces? Webb in "Dragnet": 230, Cantonese Opera: 1030, Late Night Final Jeplousies and frustrations they. News Headlines. Weather Report bottle up inside them.” and Announcements, Clone Down
SAFEGUARDS IN ARCTIC
surprins Prede.
attacks.
NO PROOF
from the walat liko a ballet dancer.
"I never know whether
1
called
that than my age. In my business younger actors coming up fast that might be stored inaldo hair, untidy. She is 32 and pho
ixx kho, sina.
feel