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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1958.
RODERICK MANN'S show business
takes a trip to the Mediterranean hide - Qut blouse - painting, glass - crunching actor
Mr. FINCH FINDS HIS ISLAND OF PARADISE
W
NAPLES.
HEN I called the island from Naples, the soft, sensuous voice at the Ischia exchange insisted: "No-we have no actor on the island. Only a rather crazy artist....'
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Which should have forewarned Пue, I should have anticipated what a month on Mediterranean island can do for a basically Hemingway character like Peter Finch.
a
Far-likte his friends Errol ned floor, was already begin Flynn and Trevor Howard-ex- ning to eat away the cement, Australian Lebo Finch is
"You know," he said, "I've natural-born hell-raiser.
even bren commissioned to pala: some blouses. They'll all for £10 cash next summer in the local shops."
He was waiting at the dock- side when 1 landed, looking suitably nomadic in rope-soled sandals and slacks, and standing beside a three-foot-high vehicle which was less a car than a do- it-yourself-hunchback kli,
We raced away Into the | Mediterranean darkness.
"We've laid on a fiesta for you," sald Finch. "How long can you stay a month?"
B
speak we
Music Blared
12EFORE I could
lurched to a heart-wrene ing stop and I was thrust into | brightly-t room. Music blared from a small gramophone in the comer. Everyone was drinking o brew of elhal potency known Grappa which inakes even Yugoslav slivovitz seem like ralñeral-water.
Beveral bollits and glasses lay broken on the floor, which was littered with glam.
Without hesitation, Finch pro- ceeded to dance upon the frag- ments, spieling furious Italian
(Finch, I should tell you, is a talented artist Between glass- crunching sessions he has done more than a score of paintings on Lachia.)
Martin
GRAP
ΟΥΤΣ
wis a freezing night-but Orson Insisted on going outside the door and making his galloping-horse noises, I got the lousy part: I was the lay brother Lorry who fetched the wine. was so funny he had us rolling on the floor...
"How did you get on with -Welles?" I asked. "I remember
you wero in his play Othello."
Fingh. him," sald "I liked He continued: "We're in contemplatively. "But I don't odd lot, my family, All a bit
think I could face acting with eccentric. Even mother. She him again. He wore lifts and likes Liberace."
slood about 8ft, high on stage "I'
amazed," I said, "that as the Moor. For months after- Britain's managed to hold you wards producers assumed I was this long.
should have a midget" thought you'd have Zone to
Ho got
to 11 feet and crunched the glass again among Hollywood long ago
"I got my first offer after his laughing admirers, all of making Elephant Walk," sald whom were now in the grip of Finch. "But I wasn't happy the Grappo. there. And Larry Olivier wrote advising me against taking Hollywood contract."
(
(It was Sir Laurence who first encouraged Finch to come ic London.)
Welles Roars
THREE
FILMS-BUT
NOW
SHE APPEARS FOR FIRST TIME
By Hazel
Meyrick
played by her brother, Michael in the street wo were followed by what seemed to be about 500 children. As the sconos were shot over and over again, to know our the children got parte, and would shout out our wards before we could вду them!
Then,
In the evening
London. SAI Chin, the pretty 21- Chow. TS
year-old actress from "He's not really an actor, bu! VER his shoulder he seld:
Hongkong, is looking for an archlicctural student, Tim "I remember Woman
Chin told me. "When I was punirer saying to Orson: ward to the London pre- given my film part, they asked "He and Vivien have been Welles-you
were wonderful.mlere of her third film me if I know of a Chinese boy wonderful to me, id Fluch. When you walked on the whole "Violent Playground" to play opposite me and
because it is the first time couldn't think of anyone but well-but then we come from a theatrical family."
"People think of him only £9
a great dramatic actor but he's singe seemed to light up.'
You fool, zuadam,' roared also one of our greatest comics." Welles. It did, I arranged that she will see herself on the him. They say he has done very
Freezing Night
an his friends gathered round.
"My grandmother converted me to Buddhism when I was
AT this point, two Italian girls seven," he called happily. "Had detached themselves from my head completely shaved." the crowd, end with passionate crics of "Peetah....Peotah," tried to drag Finch back to the glass-crunching. Ho Ignored them, and continued:--
What Buddhism' had to do with dancing on glass ho didn't bother to explain.
After Introducing me around, Finch took me into a corner.
"This," he said, "Is a paradise Island. Fell in love with it as soon as I arrived. Do you know they've got rats here as big as cats. Friendly, too."
While I looked warily about де he sank another
glass
of Groppa. Some of the stuff, which had fallen upon the tile
"Last time I was at his home, Notley Abbey, Lorry had just discovered that the Abbey
"
with the electricians."
screen. Finch, a star of maturity and slature who can act all of his "I had a part in the dim Pinewood contemporaries right "Yangtse Incident" she told me. under the commissary table, has "But before the film was shown just finished his most important my part was cut out completely. film Windom's Way. Now he is I was very disappointed, to co-star with Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story, This year I forecast that he will be our hottest box office star.
Before
left he walked with me to the door.
was at one time requisitioned Together we looked out over by Henry VIII. Orson Welles the moonlit Mediterranean to was also staying there, so Larry wards Capri, quiet and still decided we should re-enact the under the ice-cold stars. episode.
He played the abbol. "I guess," said Finch quietly, a drooling old roue, and Orsen "I'm a bit of a nomad. Yes played the king's emissary.
It
bit of a nomad.”
"Then I played the part of Tokyo Rose in 'Bridge Over the River Kwal-but then I only heard, not seen."
Was
In 'Violent Playground' Taal Chin (her real name is Chow Tani Chin) is a 16-year-old girl, and the part of her boyfriend is
I asked her about the story of the film,
"It's about the teenage prob- tem," she told me. "And it is treated very realistically. I don't wear any make-up for instance, and I'm dressed In dowdy clothes all the time."
The film is set in the slums of Liverpool, and while the film unit was there on location they had some diffleulty with Liver- pool's youngest citizens.
"It was terrible!" Tami Chin said. "When we were fiming
THE THEME IS LOVE
N attractive named Doris Lessing. ΤΟ
A 39-year-old woman meet her went through
the fog one evening
has just moved to her top-floor flat in into the top line of fiction writers.
Victorian house at Earls Court.
"All the doors here aro of broken," she said, "come straight of up."
In the short time since her latest collection storics, "The Habit Loving," came out have become the talk of her fellow writers.
they
Soon, I predict, she will be in the best-selling class.
Who is this newcomer to fame? She is a Rhodesian
soce agents: J., H. Trachsler (HK) Ltd.
DORIS
22, maybe
LESSING
readily admits to being 38, though
she certainly does not look it.
and she
is the most stimulating woman I know in London
By
JOHN
nowadays. But I think
men
THOMPSON
horself as she really is-and he wakes one morning to find that his wife is no longer the young girl he had thought her.
She is middle-aged, wearing a George Talbol, famous actor
sult black Plumpish, slightly hippy, wear- ond women will remain funda and man of the theatre, is drift- severe navy-blue
He does Laced shoes, and hor black hair ing black trousers, red, socks, mentally unequal, just so long ing into his sixties. black slippers, she could pass as women go on having kids.. I not look his age. He is stin pinned off her face in a clumsy for 22-capaelally in the
Talbot feel the pain of❘ glow don't see how women can ever attractive to women and knot. of a powerful gas-re and with have real equality. Don't know admired by them. But for the his loneliness again. the dispersed lighting, of her that we'd want It, anyway." first time in his busy life he is large sliting-room.
Her complaint about Eng- beginning feel the She has little ears, eyes that land? "in South Africa and loneliness. smile as sho talks and some thudcats a white person meets The girl he wants to make Doris Lessing tells in this story times seem to have
Alm of everybody-from the top to the into his second wife will not how he comes back to where he She tells how he has started. team welling up in them. Her bottom. 1 and that's not so in marry him. She prefers the fallen into "the habit." nostrills are slim. She has cople England. I'd like to meet some sunshine of Australia. where checks and a mouth that opens
For all hla charm, his good
pain of looks, his standing in the world.
only alightly as she talks: talks people at the top. Big business she bad gone during the war.
people, for example. I'd like to with that mild, chanting accent be able to write about them." that Rhodesians and Bouth Atrleans 40 often have.
the
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when we let our hotel, they would act out our scenes on the pavement in front of us"
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Tani Chin said that she had soen sonde of the films 'rushes', although the Landon premieru is not until the end of January.
"Although it was rather
myself at first, shock to see I'm about 50 per cent pleased with my performance," she told me.
The Round CINCE Tral Chin came to
London four years ago, as a student at RADA, one of the world's most exacting dráma schools, she has become well- known on the stage,
She played one of the four princesses in a Christmas pro- duction "The Princess and the Swincherd at the Arts Theatre Club, and compered a Chines variety show at Drury Lane,
Alming, sho ha done some television work---
Between
including a part in a Charlle Chan detective serică, and has broadcast for the B.B.C. over,
both in Engliels
scas
and
SHINM
I asked her which she liked best-the stage or film.
both have their good points," said Tsai Chin. "Ir films you can more money, o) course, but you earn it not for acting but for waiting to so
ofyou get to the studio vers carly in the morning, to be made up and have your heir dressed. Then nobody wants you for hours, so you just hang around.
Is a "Suddenly there pante, and you have to go ot to the set and act, all in a rush
"I suppose the stage is more artistically Entisfying. In Alm they shoot very short scenes k a lune, And, of course, the don't start at the beginning o a story and work through ta the end, but mix the sequence according to the location."
Readable To Chin lives at Swis
She
undertanyaaťte | Cottage, north-west London Coorge is still "good frienda"
with her brother, but she i with his first wife. He asks her In all there are 17 stories in to come back, to him--but sho SAD story, you say? No, looking for an unfinished Bat She Is a brunette and has a the new book. A few have an
has others plans of her own.
certainly cot-not the way
so she can decorate it just n way of seratching her head as English satting, though for most
He becomes lil. A small-part Doris Leasing writes it.
she wants. thinks out
what she is of them the background
actress who le out of work makes it frank and engaging.
After four years in London South African or Rhodesian, comes to taying.
nurse bi Glowly Her writing la superbly readable
sho still went's Chinese-styl Their subjects are drawn from they fall in love, get married, and self-confident. Twice married, both marriagei
In some of dresses. Gow dissolved, she has three the lives of ordinary, everyday go for their honeymoon to a the other stories--such as the children. The youngest, Pelar, people. But each story has farmhouse in Normandy-where one called "Pleasure" about a
god 11, lives with her in Doris Lessing's touch, warm in again George becomes ill. London. The cldest came to feeling, but tough at the Bama $00 me, recently. Till, grown, timo, up, all that you know,“ da his war to Canada ta besome u forester.
"I maloo all my own clothes," she told me. "And I ngar Midlands wife who becomes “an
fashion, but I was surprised to undersea widow on a South of This time ho recuperates in France holiday when her
find that European clothes, com London, When he is
so much.” better husbarnt becomes an enthusiastic both he and his new, young underwator (atherman--she can
What are her plans for the future?
engagement an
The actor wife go back to works in the be fumy too.
dump theatre. She falls for the young man who is the partner in her
"My next Now she is well into writing one I'm looking forward t
very much--ls a part in the BBC television · "pantimim
"Everybody been very kina About The Habit of Loving the she said. "No, perwonally I've Fut no pet ideas about love Though I know of only then marriages that I think of as being really happy."
this first long story she marits For in foot she is not just a She was all in favor of the her bero a man for, whom love slip of a young girl, as he had Rhodosian novellat la an excel-mads next year. Of courme emancipation of womOI)./ !
than an supposed Like George himself lent exchange for those autos would like to make a fim, in she looks younger than she is, we have been hearing about Hongkong in my native tongiam It has developed though he She rejects her young man who have left England for But, first, I must get establis
"TAKE the title story, "The get, George' realegs what hus a new novel. She has a play Habit of Loving," as dn happened, but he does not coming, on at the Royal Court example of the way the writes. understand that his wife too Thontre She is becoming a
most of the stories the theme fealing the pain of being famous name in England. She is Aladdin' After that, thors
even beginning to make money, a chance I might got a part in
one of two fimia that are to b Personally.
the many nepects of love. In unhappy.
"Compared with 00 years ago has become moro
emotion.
we've got a much wider choice
thinkt this