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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1937,
*** The RODERICK MANN Column reports from Paris ***
Mr. ZANUCK AND I -by THE BAREFOOT
Paris.
I DID NOT, I confess, pay too much attention when the girl driving me through the tree-lined Paris streets kicked off her shoes and continued to manoeuvre the huge Thunderbird car barefoot.
Only when we mounted the pave- ment at high speed-scattering enraged pedestrians on both sides did I begin
worry.
to
JULIETTE
What does Greco think of him?
Sitting at the reatnuront lable, cocooned in the warmth of the Paris night, she said:
"Yes, I love him. He is fine, wise and clever., But he is not
good for me. I told him this. you. I lose friends because of
said, 'Darry). I don't need
you.' What did he do? He loughed."
SHOW BUSINESS
As we walked to our table, 1
Of course, I should' have known better than to get into a car driven by Juliette Greco... France's High Priestess studied her carefully. For three he do? Is all his 25 years in of Existentialism and Greco reignet supremo in a anyone ever before told Zanuck currently the fastest- Left-bank club called Tabou he wasn't needed.) rising star on the show- Sartre and his friends niet over business-horizon.
the years after
wer
(What eiro, I wondered, co}Úƒ
Juliette picture-business, I doubt if
where Existentialist Jean-Paul
orinks to discuss their multiple neurones.
much in common."
SADNESS
"Men," said Greco, her mag- nicent squaw face thrust close to mine, "do not last long with "We would sit all night," me. Two years, perhaps then Her kind of driving
explained Greco, "I had a small they must go. Always they want would make Stirling attle with a window to the sky, to possess. They are not con- Moss go back to L-plates. Life was marvellously sad. But tent with just love. I have dis- I was bad for Sartre. Existen cussed this with my friend [who wrote lelism is a serious philosophy. Francoise Sagan Said Greco, her bare Because of me it became com- Bonjour Tristesse). We have toes stabbing the ac- merefalised." celerator as
Today Julietle Greco-who people
has long since lett the attic-ls slithered off the bonnet: the most talked about singer
In Paris. Thanks, in no
"You can say that again, I small
drive llico "This is nothing. When measure,
her new-found said. "You both
moro I am alone then I friendship with producer Darryl manises, Only she hits
things than you." am really wild. At five in Zanuck. the morning, you should Tough tycoon Zanuck is cap- "We both have the same sad- tivated by her. For weeks their ness," said Greco, slicking out ste me."
friendship has burned up the her tongue at a man who had telephone wires between his been regarding her with more penthouse in the Hotel Georges than casual interest. "Happiness
and her Left-bank house is not for us." and given the hotel florist the biggest orders for orchide he has ever known.
She studied herself care- fully in the driving mirror as we carcered through the trees.
"How hideous I am," she sighed, viewing her pale face and black, shoulder- length hair with distaste.
to
FABULOUS
She summoned a walter. For one awful moment I thought she was going to order poison for two. But no.
"You like Y
cart" she
asked suddenly. "I was sent
a black Thunderbird as " present. I am independent one
"She 15," rasped Zanuck, "If I could, I would change when we talked in his apart. my whole face. Except my ment, "quite fabulous. Her im- nose. I've already had that act on the screen leaves
speechless." Her off screen changed.
Impact on Big-Wheel Zanuck We screeched to a stop out has been equally explosive, side an open-air restaurant. Everything about her seems to "You think me wild?" cold hypnotise him . her rambling Greco, eyeing me accusingly, house, it almost entirely "You are right. I am a cat. I candles fight. Once," she aald proudly, her independence... her bril- "I sloshed a French Cabinet Bant artistry.
| Minister, He pinched my bat- tem. He was not gallant. He slapped me back."
stuck in bottles
by
"8be will," Zanuck serLETÜ me, "be a very great star.”
so I sent it back. Next day
■ white one aérived with, a Dote: 'Borry I sent the wrong colour.****
"Is that the one you've got
now?"
"No," said Greco, sharply, "1 sent the other one back too. I bought this one for myself."
the
cars.
LASTENSUOTINSKIY pictons.
I love tit but he is not good
for me, says the
girl from the attic
JULIETTE GREÇO .. most talked-about simpër in Paria,
G
AN
-880RLAY
GO
ON THE MOVE THIS WEEK
FROM PARIS TO TANGIER
*
& (OF COURSE!) GIBRALTAR
TANGIER. trait of the Queen. The Queen, a suitable artist? What are his
em- qualifications?" ANGIER is the city of thought, looks slightly
The Profile. The Profile
barrassed.
But the sultan's profiles are,
I mentioned that Lstrolo, who is sculptor too, had They done a bust of Prince Philip.
It was the wrong reference, his "The sultan cannot have slightly anything like that done. Allah forbids the casting of like- *nesses "
of the Sultan of Morocco I'm afraid, misleading. who makes sure everyone show a man of no more than 85
carly fifties with knows that Tangler is now and the sultan is now in under his rule,
sagging Jawline.
.A
So 's about time the por- and photographs
чисто
Too faithful
APOLOGISED and said: "Lazzolo is an accomplishod painter who can do a faithful portrait for the Faithful"
His portrait or photograph in profile is plastered everywhere traits
hotels, brought up to date, ... in the airport, (I didn't ask who had sent shops, bars, night clubs.
I spoke to one of his high- But I had #11/
ranking officials about this and It's a little like Berlin in
ho cald: "Oh yes, the sultan Hitlera days or Moscow before has decided to have first of all de-Stalinisation, except that a new portrait. He is an honest the portraits and photographs mun and he is also a good and of paper
The meal pulled out a pleca and asked: "What znan with the wise don't show a
administraler," (This about this man Annigoni and despotic gleam in the eye and was confirmed by other
un Grat.cm Sutherland, whose-- the megalo-maniac
of prejudiced sources,)
romes I have hore? Hea the chin.
Anmigon not done a
'NOT TRUE'
The next morning Groce was due to fly to Africa - 10 fm The Naked Earth with Richard Todd.
"They all say I got the part through Zanuck," 18 Greco.
"It is not true. He had nothing to do with it."
She was silent for a mement. Then she said;—
IN
thrust
Misleading
He looks
"He does not want to lead his subjects. But at the
mis. of the Queen?"
"Yes.
portrali
same time, as a descendant of
He highlights the Mohammed, he is the spiritual warts as well as the beauty
"The sultan hos no' wärla,"
I pointed out that Aungoni,
if he came la Morocco, migh!
EN fact I thought he must be as well as the temporal leader, Spots in his portraits. So does
the current Arable film hero. eyes. It is not easy to find the
su he must look worthy in their Sutherland." like romantic right artist to do the portrait."s
# "I feel sorry for Richard yashmak-fluttering sheik and I said I had been talking to sketch seme squalid aspecia Todd. He has been in Africa he tits a profile that Ramon Vasco Lazzolo, the artist from he did recently in Spain to the time. Already he has Novarro would have envled. London now holidaying in disgust of the Franco Gavern- coped with crocodiles and
Tangler, who was more than ment The official crossed snakes. Now he must
willing to take the commission. with Greco ... and
BOIYO
more
crocodile.
cope
I dangerous fhan
am
There la, incidentally, one at his come-hither projjlen
an hanging in the local equivalent "Ah yes, I have heard that of Woolworths next to a por- ho is interested. Would he be
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is saving up to buy tractors
"Weto
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AWN ADDAMS curled up in a settee, her blouse
and international.
Would 1, she asked, forgive her if she read a letter from her husband, Prince Vittorio Massimo? He was at home, she said, on their farm near Rome. She hadn't, she said, been there for a month and she always suspected bad news.
I said I would forgive her. Miss Addams started to read. Then she snorted. "Pige," she said. "He used to write love letters. Now he writes to say he has bought a new pig!
only just learning
something of an absentee land- lord before we married. He was a bachelor and was always dashi- ing around and had girl-friends to occupy his time.
"A ball doos most of the farming at the moment. He owns all the machinery. Hut his contract expires. In 1900
ourselves.
BIL
than we will take over the farm
. 4.
by
·PETER BUCHAN
Annigont of his list.
·PERSONAL MEMO "to Vasco Lazzolu: I don't want a cont mission if you get the DOTTI4 mission.
Law-abiding
I MET Colonel Richardson,
who has just retired after two and a half years Tangler chief of policë.
By
GOURLAY: You must have had a
busy time?
RICHARDSON: Not really, there is not much law-breaking in Tangier,
GOURLAY (incredulously): But I thought...
RICHARDSON: Of Courne, there are not so many jawà tôn break in Tungler,
Hashish..
Puurs wook's price list in Tanglet: Gini 8s. 64, bottle; whisky a botile; cigarettes (tobacco) 2. Od. per packet of 20; elgarettes Chash-
fron
"Elut Albert, now. he is a have the title if the wishes) sh), s. per packet of 20 dear. He is hugo und comes to was interrupted by thé an readily available at most good bare in the old qustier-open me when i call him, ¡
nouncement of lunch by her day and night. P.S.Smokers "It will be heaven when we butlera Sadenczo with tribal cani zlao obtain hashish toke over the form. Unill then sekra on his face,. who goes confectioners in the form of I have to spise all the money I with the luxurious Belgravia bon-bons. can to buy tractors." family-which now cone of
Wil she be incešusing her har slay in London.
Stefand, aged nearly three-to help rurs tho. term?\.
“Not, till... WENGL (KOŁ the tractors. They come first. I'm..... beginning to love tractors.
"I'm thinking of writing a them for children,
Bat Mias Adkisms has taken for
Signal
She will be here for about six wecks, completing a dim on the THIS is the latest naval signat Hife of frogman Crabb with story they arp falling in Gibral tar, snel vénná fær ita adwly-wed' Laurence Harvey,
digillettsetly, AM Infoming Miss Addams has one comis | signal i rendi'....whitans.mert ads.
beerd. plaint: "I don't get a sexy party merli
never get a sexy part. This trysoL* X *** followen in- tithe
“I'm just “the adimbwľa zádiktaty vo by By tha
She reeled of the pig's age, Miss Addams unrolled her-・ "I'm going to look after the weight, and breed with the air self from the settee and stretch- pigs. We have two English ones, of a woman who knows all ed her legs-her gold-pattern- and four Italian' down." about pigs. "He says do I mind' ed sandnis doing nothing to make...
eyes if he calls it. Lady Jano?”
Miss Addams's Irish her a convincing farmer'a muito, Back to the letter, "Oh, the "I do hope people don't get grow just a shade- misty: ""Poor cook · has leN." I know there bored with hearing about farm Victoria.' She was suppoend wokt be bad news. There seems ing,” she said. "I. Chink actore be:Albert's wife, but som Just book to have been sidrunken sceno, and actresses can be terrible didn't grow. Even when we dit Blefaro loves then too Wren 'secretary.".
put me to the races and
A pity. All this.anga gamous FMAGNETERAN the Tractory (déias Addama may búing, devoted to pigs.**
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