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THE CHINA 'MAIE,
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958.
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"Polishing rockets on a U.S. base isn't my idea of celebrating the 40th anniversary of the R.A.F."
The statuesque
Miss Shelley takes
STOLEN OIL:
THE HARD TRUTH
A
Is America now facing.
her own ABADAN?
By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
to get along without the Saudi
PALACE revolu Britain was wrongfully do work The Americans-produc tion at Riyadh in prived of an imtenge oil ing at home 40 per cent of Bil Saudi Arabia creates a she had built up with her Arabian oil production
production enterprise which the oll in the world are able
situation in the Middle own vision, her own capital, Besides, Nasser is interested thin East which affords no her own technical skill on in a project bigger even
an oll grab exceeding the grab satisfaction to friends of Persian soll.
at Abadan. He is building 00 When thio threat of empire. the United States.
confiscation came at When King Saud abdica- Abadan, Britain ted his power and authority, alone. when he handed over the Some of her friends mis-
WHI
اله
It will stretch, if his
vision is realised, from the
control of his vast revenues understood the situation. upper waters of the Nile to to his brother the Emir They affected an attitude the valley of the Tigris. It Faisal, the Americans were of indifference and neutra- brought within reach of
will include all Arabia, the. their Abadan.
Others, knowing perhaps oil of Kuwait (half Ameri Everybody remembers
A vast what happened at Abadan, that Britain had
One day I'll make
love like Brando,
says Mr. Brazzi
BUT MEANTIME THE STUDIO
PAYS HIM TO KEEP HIS
LIMELIGHT:
by RAMSDEN
GREIG
NAILS CLEAN
the back road_to_filmfame
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THE
HE waiters were emptying the ask- trays of cigarette ends, olive stones and flash bulbs. For Mr Rossano Bruzzi, the '41-year-old grey-haired Italian Casanova of the casting directories it had been a hectic reception.
Upstairs in his 20 guinep-n-day sulte Mr Brazzi sipped lime juice, asked permission 10 remove his shoes, and said: "This part of the film actor's life I do not much cure for. These past few days I have been playing the cales- man, selling my picture and noseit.
"Yesterday I was in America telling tho Press what a fine picture South Pacile is. Today I am here in London. Tomorrow I will be doing the same--thing In Paris. Have
My stomach is all screwed-up,"
Mr Brazzi looked like a vacuum cleaner salesman who had experienced the worst day of his career.
I personally, could not face one. In a voice that her friends get near a movie camera. That drink. describe
sounding like I do not like.". smouldering mirk, but which has actually not
way. through smoking 40 cigarettes a day, she told me: "I've probably taken long to make the grade because when rst
that
OUT OF CHARACTER
UT of the shadows of B pictures. co features and obscure Italian films comes Miss Barbara Shelley, Miss Shelley is London born, 26 years of Rge, auburn-haired, lush brown eyes. She is also what the eculptors call statuesque.
Now London xels its first look at a film called Camp on Blood Island, which and photographed. I realise that don't walk-about--the-from Mr Brazzi's 20-stone wife,
ROSSANO BRAZZI
The elegant lavar.
►
Mr Brozzi, authorising
lity.
superiority of military can), as well as the oll of power over the Persians, Bahrein (all American). stood aside.
The result was wretched, and Iraq (partly British). Britain allowed herself
to bo cheated out of the In carrying out that vast pro- Abadan oll in 1951.
ject the money of the Saudi Arabian offelds will be of in- It was an unjust, humiliating, esumable value to Nasser. It and disastrous surrender But will help him, for example, to when I occurred, one thing disrupt Iraq and subdue Jor- seemed certain; It would not be dan.
the last defent suffered by the
The first effect of the palace. Western Powers in the Middle revolution in Saudi Arabia may East..
If the subsidy is continued, it will certainly be on conditions that would divide Jordan from Nasser's detested rival, Nuri al
Sale of Iraq.
·
well be an end of the This dismal prediction has £9,000,000 a year subsidy, which King Soud paid to King. been amply borne. out. Hussein of Jordan." After Abadan came Suez. The lesson which the Per- sian fanatic Mossadeg taught was learned by the Egyptian military adven-
furer Nasser. It
learned well,
So the more immediate danger in the Middle East may be a political one,-ex- WOR_Lending beyond-the-borders
of Saudi Arabia.
After Suez came the spread
of Nasser's power to Syria. Now
Every independent State may
and
the
he controlled not only the Don be faced by the fact
ls Egyption infiltration passage of oil_by_sta_by command of the Suez Canal but threat of Egyptian overlordship
But this will afford no con- also the transit of oil front Iraq
who watch solation to those over America's oil interests and
through Syrian pipelines to the Mediterranean.
have the wit to distinguish be-. every
step tween Nasser's present stniles Nasser's prestige grew, his in- and Nasser's future demands, fluence extended. In Saudi
With
forward
These men have few Illusions. Arabla he now brings off his They are not likely to underrate biggest coup:
The second richest olifield in
to
Nasser's ambition."
almost
170,820
A-
the whale of the Middle Fast, A great prize lies explolted the American off within his grasp the company Aramco at a cost of million tons of oil of the Middle vil untold millions of dollars, yield East, 20 per cent of the fag a revenue to King Saud of production of the globe. It is a
£120 mion a year, now falls prize worth plotting for. into Nasser's power.
prize worth some waiting for.
The attack on the United Ho may not use that" power ut once to challenge the Ameti States' power to obtain, refine, and sell her Saudi Arabian olf can position in Saud! Arabin.
with her OWI He may be content with the in conformity reallly of control-with the 50 commercial notions may not be How can I disillusion them by
of Mra per cent revenues which delivered immediately.
But it is present as a threat, of Aramco has been paying order Is no Brazzl's luncheon telling them that there
It will imelicit in the new politicut mystery
that Sphaghetti Bolognaise, said: "As King Saud and which
10 be paying
Nasser's situation at Riyadh. In that Italians are regarded us rent a young unknown actor in Italy now
desert capital the ghost of Bit agent Emir Faisal. lovers only by American Indles I have played such parts,
Strong reasons should dis- Abadan is walking, the studios I work for like me and British Indies.
suade Nacer and Faisal from In facing this danger the clean.
an carly final showdown with United States will need all her "And that is because we are
"And since they pay me the the American oll concern. determination and clear-head-
·comething-of-an, er, novelly........I
money need they get me 28 At this moment there is an edness. She will need too the will guarantee that if you set a
they want me.
of Maybe when 1over-production off in the help of her friends. Scotsman down in the middle of have enough money to be inde- an Eskimo village he will be pendent I will make this kind of make regarded as a great mysterious picture. Meanwhile, I
Mertly because he is a pictures with clean finger-nalls." Brazzi looks When Rossano into his cinemalle future he can see as far ahead as 1950. By then he thinks he will be making the film he has always wanted to make the life of Marco Polo, He said: "The script in being prepared. I am ready and I am willing."
"Now acting," said Mr Brezzi, Miss Shelley, who, I should who has played opposite and in
about sex and got into imagine. Would look far from close proximity to Joon Crow show business four years ago 1 repulsive in a pin-up shot, ex- ford, Glynis Johns, Sophia Loren accided upon outrageously plained her cbjection. "Why and Mitzi Gayor, " love." orighiol plan of campaign I told bould I turn up in the newa myself: Make your Aims Arst papers wearing
only a lttle,
From the bedroom came a call That is not the real and then get yourself publicise short skirt.
Lydia. streets of London wearing only So why a little, short skirt should present myself to the newspaper readers wearing only ale, short skirt?"
1 was netthig some kind of prece
all about the hot, sweaty, tor- mented te thai was led in dent by muking Mms before gel Japanese prisoner of war camps, lug myself known. But I was Mist Shelley, all hot, sweaty prepared to take the chance. and formeated, has the femining
Thus
lead. She also has Ane leadles Shetley set off for Italy four model girl Barbara
men-Carl Mohner, Edward Underdown, Andre Morell, Wal- years ago "Intent on a holiday Fitzgerald and Milchnol but hoping that someone might Goodlife. And she is directel give me a break in films," by Val Guest.
1cr
CAUSED BY SMOKE
Miss Shelley is delighted. "A: last," she says, "I am making a
a
nim that means something..
Barbara Shelley has walled long time for the big break. And aho has walted patiently.
ANNIVERSARY STORY
In Italy, Miss Shelley met Walter Chiari, who is the man had that tempestuous who romance with Ava Gardner. Mr Chlari 'did not have a tempestu-
"Lydia," said Mr Brazzi, I love also."
But it was not a love call that come from Lydia in the bed-
She wanted to lunch. roum.
Mr Brazzi whose dietelic pre- ulicetions are less spectacular
nibbled at and polato crisp
I asked Miss Shelley, who is ous romance with Miss Chelicy, thun his wife's
lover.
novelty."
NOT WANTED
no Martini type, because I have but he did introduce her to Always the Indies at these fingers of Mr Brazzi picked up R lousy ilver and every time I Italian alms. She made 12 alms Press receptions asit me about drink anything alcoholle I swell in Italy about which she can sex. It is becoming more and
of them more difficult for me
up and lurn blue," why she did toast freely because no one she not first try her hand at a film knows has seen any career in England.
in Britain
Mba Shelley said: "In Britain She returned to England last you are made to pose for still year and to date has made five pin-up plctures before you ever“flms for British studios,
give
went on: The carefully mánicured
another potato crisp, and X Baldi "When is the great but elegant lover going to get dirt under his Anger-nalls and turn up on the screen as the great but uncouth mysterious, and they want to lover to the manner of Marion Named know why the Italian is always Brando in Streetcar cuusidered to be the great lover. Desire? Or doesn't he want to?"
them the answers they want.
They
make sex want me to
II know Hollywood, and Rossano Brazzi, Marco Polo's Jaunt from Italy to Cathay wil De strewn with lovely women, London Express Service).
Park, Then Berce gusis of wind swimming around the wreckage. J-3 also braved the stun, but pliers to cut the tank free, the CLOSE to Astbury the struck the airship, which began They stood little chance of gur" was herself blown into the sea ship hit the waves. count, the fog rose higher control was curled var ve too heavy to be regulasier and one of her officers drowned. Congressional Committee
control rope was carried away ed heavy to be regularly in- and higher until the Akron and once again
Exactly, why the Akron crash criticised naval activity before the dirigible cluded in an elrship's equipment, Part of the was occasionally submerged dropped swiftly towards the There was one lift-raft on the cd has never been establishod. and after the accident, but it like a giant whale in cold sea. This time, the descent Akron, but none of the crew The disaster has, in fact, become was agreed that the ship was
one of the strangest
sound. A Naval continued machiccked.. A moment could reach it
mysteries structurally ghostly rolling sen
t-of-aviation history.
Court of Inquiry admitted that later, the rudder control snap-, Commander Wiley's first idea
errors of Judgment may havo Price that Just after 10 o'clock, the ped and it was no longer
Commander Rosenthahl, air- been mado, but clearly without coartline Was left behind and, possible even to steer the ship. was to try to regain the airship, with a terrifying suddenness, She was completely out of con- Fortunately, he had second up expert and first captain of negligence."
**This dimater," 'sold the the airship was enveloped by a trol. Tail-first, the huge craft thoughts. He managed to grasp the Akron would not belleve
a small board and clinging to that the ship was violently Judge Advocate, is part of the thunderstorm. Imust be Paid rutery's sake, wireless nerfuls
raging
For dived towards the Atlantle.
that he watched the Akram sink cucked down or wrecked by the price which must travllably be slowly beneath the waves. The weather. One of had to be drawn in, rendering "Stand by for crash"
the chief paid in the development of any the Akron alone, and silmai, WRoy, seeing the foam- Cries of his shipmates were soon factors contributing to the ac- new and hazardous art... the ::without the benefit of radio created waves through a control allenced. After half-an-hour in cident appears to have been a minds of men have projected af
fleet of such craft in the air, directions and weather reports. car window, shouted "Stand by the water, he was seen from the deceptive altimeter.
Despite her great bulk, the for a crash,”
decic of a German lanker and.. One of the marvivors, Seaman and some day it must fly there.” ship escaped being siruck by. A few seconds taler, he was rescued. Three ollier men were Deal, said, however, that Just That dream of the future lightning and for a long period sucked mirupulously through picked up by the same ship, but before the impact with the sea sever materialised. Within five and hazardous by But after the window and swept away by out of the Chief Radio Ofear he awoke to soo girders bonding years America's naval afship
midnight ran into turbulent the Sta. Lightning
fishes Copeland, died although Artif- and buckling above his bunk. comtruction programinic fir and rapidly lost height, plorcing the darkness coabled cial respiration was kept up for He ran to the gangway whose abandoned a comptage
ho' saw conteel wires hanging The Akron's sister abip. Balhat was dropped and at 700 him to see the broken Akron, several hours,
Naval and consiguard vessels loosely, although apparently in Macon, also crashed in the mes, foot Akron levelled off. Than The airship, was aubenergod for she began to rise go quickly that about one-thint at her diameter, searched an area of 100 square tact, and a fuel lank broken oarly, in 1935.. ber, nose, had to be eased down her bow inclined upwards at an miles, but no other survivors: 1001a trom (to eradio. While heHer drew was luckier all but at 1,000 froi, 20
angle of 20 degrees. Men were, were found." The small sirship was running forward to get two inirvived.
in a new
Art-
wan.
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