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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1957. “
RODERICK_MANN'S show business
· Dinner with the two stars in the news ... and a spot of psychiatry. comes along with the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding
DEBUT FOR SUZY
I have had an advance look at the film in which former model Suzy Parker makes her acting debut-Kiss Them For Me. And I predict big things for her. She has the cool. Impermonal beauty of Grace Kelly. The only jarring note is her volor, which in a little high.
SUPER HIGH PERFORMANCE WITH
Already two more films are lined up for her.
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Dr. GRANT'S CURE SOOTHES INGRID
"Leave it to me," he said. ever let me film with my shoes I HAD invited Cary Grant to dinner and
he wanted to know if he could bring Rhythm is the answer to it
"I'll relax you in no time, on." along a friend and I said Yes and he turned all* up with Ingrid Bergman.
Was it true, wo asked, that Kince her soparation from Rosselin, she might live in London?
He kept оп stroking her *** don't know, Bergman
The evening started off in lively fashion, wrist while we ordered the food
-roast beef and Yorkshire said. "I'm looking for a fint with Grant's Rolls-Royce being pursued pudding through Belgravia by a carful of French have a theory that a lot stems photographers.
"This," observed Grant, as we jumped a series of traffic lights, "reminds me of the car chase in To Catch A Thief. Pity Hitchcock isn't directink. We could switch cars somewhere."
A gentle caress
We got to Kensington without killing anyone and piled into a quiet restaurant. Bergnun sat opposite me; Grant to her right. It was bad positioning--but I didn't learn that till later.
"Things like that make me nervous," said Bergman. "No wonder I can't sleep at night. I get up and walk around for hours....
"J
Cary Grant turned a pair of magnetic eyes on her and began to caress her wrist,
EORGE QUOTE
MISS JOAN COLLINS is a girl who
always speaks her mind. "I've been bothered for some time by my parts," she says. "I've played a nub, a respectable English girl, # broken- down nymphomaniac, a Follies girl gone astray, and a 35-year-old alcoholic. None was precisely me."
It's that woord "precurely" that intrigues me.
A PALE BLUE ROLLS AND SOCKS TO MATCH
ALLESTON TREVOR is
E best-seller. It is by
n
almost impossible to believe.
in him as a character-so tall, successful.
distinguished-looking and modest is he.
"I am going to keep on
write trying to
a good book," says he.
He runs a pale-blue Rolls- Royce (1938 vintage),
(THAT'S SUCCESS!)
Nancy Spain
but if ever there was a story quietly, methodically tailored for the big sales this is it,
It is all about n smallpox epidemic in a south coast town.
The hero is a doctor called
wears socks and pale-blue Steven. sweaters to match it. He sanitary
and the Jocal inspectors and 0
is 37. His trousers are Catholic priest and matron and
black and white hounds the tooth check.
made
One carrier
"You know," said Grant.
זיי
this week-end....but I don't know how long I shall stay,
"One thing is certain," sho from the way you're rocked as continued. "I'll never go back a baby. That sense of rhythm to Sweden. Every time I go stays with you all your life. there I am criticised. It's the Bome with Garbo. That's why "Look at people like Grace she can never go back. Kelly. We call them organised, is the
place where but there's more to it than that. happiest...."
"She was a success at every-
"You haven't changed your thing she did: her sort of për opinion?" son alwaye is. She was a great
model, a fine actress, she fell in love with the right man and she had her baby right ump....
On
By will-power? "You must have been a well rocked baby," said Bergman.
Grant smiled.
"Another thing," he said, belleve a person shapes himself -like a sculptor. If you decide you'll be fit and youthful and handsome for the rest of your life, you will be."
Bergman shook her hand. "No." she said. "That's not possible. If you're ugly and fat, you cannot will yoursch other- wise."
"Yes, you can," said Grant. He continued to stroke her wrist rhythmically.
"Maybe I could will myself to be shorter," said Bargman, looking ponsive. "I'm the tallest Betresa in the world (she's b. 9.1. They hardly
All this wis served and coaxed by the ex-mayoress of Lewes who drovo off in her
own
Own
with her car assistant.
After lunch I saw the room where the work gets done. (10 a.m. to 12.30 every morning). After lunch Trevor fies his kite, Sometimes you can get them up to as much as 300ft. but my string
broke this week."
Italy am
She shook her head, "IT'S
the best country in which to bring up a family. There are no
crazy mixed-up children there. That's because Italians love children. You know my husband fat no time dild
used to pick up the scruffiest refer to Rossellini otherwise]
children in the streets and kiss them. It took me a long time to get used to that."
She smiling.
Now....sleep
was relaxed now, and
"You'll aleep tonight," sald Grant, still caressing her hand.
She laughed.
"Oh, sleep isn't all ilust Important. Did you know that Charles Boyer never sleeps, He can't. He just goes to bed and lies down."
"You'll sleep," zald Grant. "Tonight you'll sleep.
So caded, dinner with two of show business'e geaulno aristocrate....Ingrid Bergman, the only screen actress of reni dignity since Garbo, and Cary Grant, the top box-office stat in the world.
My only mistake that evening was in The way I placed my guests. Grant should never have sat facing me.
By the time we got up to go, Ingrid was laughing, joyous and relaxed,
I was falling asleep.
Dr Grant's magnetle oyes had done their stuff.
Meet the Voice
MET Mr Mario Lanza the
other night,
"Know something," he said. "I don't care what they write or say about me. I've got p volco—and people want to hear On Monday at the Royal Variety Show I'll go out there belore
and sing your Queen like a son-of-a-blich. Bellove me."
:
I said I believed him.
"Aren't you going to ask mp about my weight?" demanded.
"No."
Everyone asks me about my weight, he sald crossly.
Viwas
slightest
abould you be different?"
act haven't the interest in your weight," I said. "True-It doesn't maiter."
I also saw the garage. Here, letting down from the roof, is said Lanza.
A
ELLESTON TREVOR
A LOT OF PSEUDONYMO,"
motor-
model electrified
"It's my voice. that's what people want 10 racing track where you may hear. And on Monday I'll be out raco teeny weeny cars at 130 there singing like a son-of-a- miles an hour to scale (If you blich-don't you worry," see what I mean), controlling them by switches.
I didn't.
Feuding
hospital staff all fight
the discose. against
This means isolating infection points, He smokes a Sherlock pinning down carriers.
perpetually Holmes pipe, reflectively, cludes them. Her name is and lots of good detail about His shoes are
of. Ruth. She lo un attractive, smallpox and symptoms.
"What on earth would ho He has irresponsible, Immoral girl who Trevor mugged all this up have been. If he hadn't been a "stag's leather."
of the Encyclopaedia best-seller?" I suddenly asked one son called Peregrine has been involved in many out
affairs. love
Qae of these, Britannica.
Jonquil this as Trevor Was BRIGITTE BARDOT (9), and
self-confessed alas, was with R
our married
all this over putting away the race He told me
track
fouding with her Spanlah passionately ambitious wife hero, the doctor Steven,
lunch
Spanlah musly with when
1 complicated do-it-actor friend Gustavo Roja. called Jonquil (40).
"The Pillars of Midnight" played disconcertingly loud on yourself system of weights and She accuses him of spreading
"a damaging story" about her. has everything. A luscious the super hi-fi. We ate meion, pulleys. doctor in a white coat, scads of grilled sole,
rum baba and She shrugged her shoulders. dreamy dialoguo about love and clotted cream, and we drank "A garage mechanle," she said,
found human responsibility, white wine and burgundy.
Quietly, methodically,, he has worked his way from the days when, as in RA.F. corporal, he used to sell books for £75 out- right, to this bumper year for the Trevora when Columbia Pictures paid him $0,000 dollars for some film rights and he made at least £10,000.
"at 90%, a week."
ZANIES MOON WEEK-
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Was it that she was planning to make a fim with some of her clothes on?
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On the way up Trevor used ever such a lot of pseudonyms. His name was originally Smith, but he changed it by deed poll. Now he has dropped the lot in favour of Elleston Trevor.
he
Quietly, methodically drove me in the Rolls to hla gracious contemporary home Koost about £8,000) which Bear
| stands Ou the cllis
Brighton overlooking my old school, Roedean.
I was going to lunch because
I greatly enjoyed his now book THE PILLARS OF MIDNIGHT (Helperkun, 18/). Talm rights for this one have not gone yet,
"The big and'ı, poru
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