THE CHINA MAIL; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1957.
SHOW BUSINESS probes the future with Miss Kerr
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EBORAH KERR ordered a dozen oysters; hock to
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go with them; debated the attractions of more oysters, and finally decided on a Httle plait, green salad and coffee to complete the medi.
"It's my hips," said Miss Kerr. "Put on a little bit of weight and if goes straight to my hipa.” Miss Kerr, who is still shaking the sand out of her clothes after two months with her two daughters in the South of France, gave her hips-which look slim--a slop
"And I'm not consoled by saying it wilt be a right if I wear the Sack. I had a look at the models who are wearing it. They're so thin, poor dears, but their figures show just as much in the
Sock as ever they did in the old style. They bump against Il when they walk.
Miss Kerr was offered a liqueur, She gave herself. short lecture on of alcohol, the fattening qualities decided to ignore herself, and chore a kirsch,
"The people, 1 feel so sorry for," she said, "are thả, girls, who, depend un gimmicks. The ones with the "Miss Kerr made descriptive gestures with her Hands "the big busta,"
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They weren't going to hate much of a time anyway, The most they could hope to last was 10 years, maybe only two. But now, with the Back; they are going tổ bẻ right out br it
"What are the peor things going to look like with a dress hanging straight down the
front?"
Miss Kerr sipped her kirsch and gove herself another lecture on how alcohol adds to weight ("Ghi and tone is the worst. Both the gin and the tonle are fattening"),
"And what," sald Miss Kerr, going back to the high-statistic girls, "ore they going to do when they are old?
"Now I'm not going to mind being old in the least. In fact, I'm rather looking forward to All the best parts were written for older women.
it,
OH TO BE OLDER
"For instance, I want to play Madame Arcall the comle medium in Duthe Spirit- and Madame Pompadour and lots of others."
And took the conversation abruptly back to the beginning,
"At least I shall be able to get a job of some sort when 1 am old. It's not as if I had been labelled sexy from the beginning,"
I snid it looked at one time as it she was never going to ber Tagged sexy ut all,
"I probably never would have bzen if it had been left to me, Someono cle thought of it for me."
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the rumours' from Hollywood that Mies. Kurr husband TV executive Tony Bartley, were always about to barit
Ske enia: "I am surò that the people who start these rumours, Just, chose us from a list of happily married couples In Hollywood.
"GeraisöRally it paýk off.
One of the couples dões oven- tually park. We don't because we are happily married and there's nothing in it to start with!"
Mr Hartley is in London with Miss Kort now....He, says Miss Kerr, frequently bère zeiling| TV nths. She is here to buy a flat, da discuss a play, before returning, Hollywood to make another AIA:
IN NO HURRY
She is not in a hurry, to do efther play or film. For the first: tlife in her, lite, she pays, shey? Has no Anafelat need to work.
Sho hng reached the stur rating where she is bald £30,000) a picture and the tax-bracket Did it make any difference to where she would to almost as well off if she only got £20,000. She is not, however, cutting her å price.
Bilis Kere ráve a big, bli Kerr g "Oh, there are Pụ many things one can do when one is alder. It was life? all so difficult when one was Just young and pretty,"
I suggested that Miss Kerr memmi when on Is young and preity.
Severe look, Sip of kirsch, "It is better," said Miss Kerr, who is 34, "not to be too young
"One" Miss Kerr "cannot get away
obviously
meaning
with things when one to too young.
"When one still Miss Kerr -"15 older one can. be dictatorial, one can do blunt, one can be a teeny bit diicult.
"said Min Kerr.
I suggested. "All right, me," said Miss Kem. "Te going to have fun."
UNREWARDING
"Oh, yes, I've fallen in love." But Wasn't .she happily married already?
my the
"I am. Bat this 19 sweetest man. He could be aby Japanese gardener. He's
you age between 14and 40 never know with the Japanese. "I share him with David Niven, who lives next door."
"But he's not, in love with mo. "No, not David. The gardener. In fact, I sometimes ink he Jikes David better than he likes me. It's most unrewarding."
I asked if trifles like love for a Japanese gardener explained
IF THE WORLD
DOESN'T END IN 1961
I'll make money
says Mr. Kramer
CITANLEY KRAMER, who considers himself not so much Holly- wood's White Hopo as its White Hair, is going to make a film about the end of the world. It will be a super-colossal epic with vast panoramic scones; but it won't have a cast of thousands since most of mankind will have died before the film opens and all of it will be dead by the time it ends. You might describe Mr Kramer's film as a sort of Around
the World in Eighty Days with corpses instead of crowd scenes.
Mr Kramer assured me that the film definitely will not have a happy ending. "It is hardly possible," he said, "to make 4 film about the end of the world with a happy ending,
"But it will be a satisfactory ending: if the end of the world can be said to be satisfactory- in any sense, I don't want, the audience to
out mitting suicide,"
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com-
STRICT CONVENTION
LIMELIGHT
by THOMAS WISEMAN
WILLIAM
HOLDEN
He quelas
about meeting efore-goddess.
"It may seem silly," says Miss Kerr, her eyelids puttering, her red hair glinting, "to let the) tax-man got so much.
"But one o Mias Kerr, I presume has one's pride."
THE OTHER "LARRY'
Bod
news for those who the swim think they are in when they talk about "Larry"-- and meen Sir. Laurence Olivier The very best people now talk] about "Larry" and mean Laurence Harvey.
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at the office."
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and this keep me from følgétilág it.”
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Not the nervous type
THE prospect of making, love So Mr Holden does not. con- (on the screen) to-Holly alder it necesary to lay in a wood's latest love - goddess, stock of tranquifisera In pre- Sophia Loren, does not perturb paration for Sophia's Arrival William Holden (18 Years As I said, he is not the nervous married to one wife) one bit, type. streets crowded with long sleek "Fortunately," Raid Me He is a calm follow and does cars and
Once to prove; a point to the buildings still KramET, "I am at present in not paule easily. standing, except that the Em the position of being able to
Miss Loren is due in London dangerous for him to jump on Joshua Logan--that it was not piro Stato, has the top blown make whatever films 1 like Inter this month to join Holden
to a fast-moving train; for thơ off, and it's All Over, This Is without Interference from the and Treyor Howard in a film
film Picnic-he wolked across financiers.
called The Key which is being
tite room, climbed out of the window and hung by his finger- tips 10 storeys above the ground
I
There have been stories be- fore about the world coming to un -end, but usually at least two strapping survivors tot tie rojceted the cigarette way. If what the film may will Considering how many until Logan comedies that jump
Mr Kramer straightened his "I will put it to you thu made by Sir Carol Beed. opposite sex) are left mooching offered him and it a slightly happen in 1801 don't happen tempers were lost (atit never ing on to a moving train was among the ashes who could be less lethal alter-tipped and of...it's entertainment and will found again)
were strained and how many
ralled upon to re-start the his own.
when the last absolutely safe, child's play IT human race; and after a long
make money. If it does happea love-goddess; Miss Marilyn fact. Then Holden climbed back afarch they usually manage to "It N fantasy" Bild Mr in 1987; it won't bo enter Monroe, Wah here, it would into the room stud rave a very And a third reviver who la Kranier, "but I believe fittelament and nobody will be in bave beter reasonable to expert shaky Logan a stiff whisky. efther a ship's captain of could easily happen, and I aim any condition to care whether Me Holden (o be a Bitte, scared. "I'm really vcar to marry them and droure going to make the picture bé- that a new human race in con- cause I don't want it to happen, delved in accordance, with the and the worka ought to know Hollywood Code, ath, Kramer what is, on the carda. Also Us is having none of that. By the d' dama, dramatie thne, his film is over, nobody should be a freat success, The (which is based on is hoval
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to move your behind on to the "The pictorial possibilities,” But Vài đt: -1_anved, in the about it,” he said.
wet darling, or do I have to "And furthermore," - ho' said saki Mr Kramer excitedly, "are words of the dim, money-zben,
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