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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1968.
THE TORMENTED LIFE OF LANA TURNER
by
LEONARD MOSLEY
Artie Shaw-
AND THE CHEMISTRY THAT
WENT WRONG!
TURNER rolled.
LANA on her pillow li
looked with fond affection
at the brandnew husband
Iying beside her.
She noted, with a mix- Lana Turner's marriage to ture of amusement and sur- bandleader Artie Shaw. It
rise, that he was reading a
thing that came book.
"What are you reading, ward. darling?" she asked.
after- set the pattern for every-
This is no place to pry into The handsome spouse on the motives that ltd Artie Slaw the other pillow languidly and Lana Turner to rush away closed the heavy volume, to an elopament and wedding of
Las Vegas, "A# મી matter of fact, honey," he said, "it is 'Das Kapital' by Karl Marx."
Mr Shaw's marital urges have always been “obscure, though he han indulged Gight times to date in blaze of publicity.
amiable fellow with a genius for making good music, in privato plicated character.
life he was a much more com-
Beneath the Jazz-band man's dinner jacket lurked a frustrated scholar with a passion for books and a mission to educate anyone who came in contact with him.
Land was
soon to
discover
concerned
2
turned out to be more interested in the social round,
In
And this time she wasn't the mood. She had played enough, in some queer places, and what she wanted now was a Hile pence,
was pregnant. courts for the
By the time she had fought her way to the divorce courts this time, she She asked the custody of her and got it.
unborn child
that the lessons the yearned to part to his blonde, 10-year- old sweater-girl ride Avens even much inare philosophical Than them physical, and more
Crane had meanwhile un- a full with
with tangled a mix-up over a pre- paychology than passion and emotion.
vious marriage, and Blarted to , woo her all over again. When
plen that They had met and fallen in the rejected a
she love while they were mak- should marry him ali over ing a film together called "Every again, he raced, his car along a Other Inch Landy," and the road close to her houre and title had some reference to crashed into a tree on the Lana Turner herself, praising Shaw's smile and his at the time.
after. Lana's social and mental status edge of a cliff.
my prowess with n saxophone, favo reason for accepting his to her
"A travel book!" said Lana. "Which capital are you taking me to, darling? is it Paris? I've always wanted to go to Paris?"
Sald her husband. "Where you should be go-
if I had ing, honey, way, is right Lack sel.col,"
Eloped
But certainly a less likely candidate for the tricky task of sharing his waking hours is hurd to imagine.
Bald.
the
In that case, she had un THIS is how they tell the doubtedly got
formula For though Show story in Hollywood of wrong.
seemed, an the dance floor and the first morning after In the Alm studio, to be
an
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She had made the grade in films so far as salary and fan- worship were concerned.
But
soun
n
IN
Why be scared of the Bay
WHERE
SHALL
WE GO?
The author of this article sailed to Biscay the tran- quil way-along the canals and rivers of Brittany. His report will provide a basis for families planning a holiday that is different.
IN Chichester Harbour they raised their eyebrows. The Bay of Biscay indeed? In a four- ton sloop? With a crew whose
experience consisted mainly of a few trips round the Solent and one- there-and-back trip to Cherbourg?
although we sailed every inch of the In fact there was nothing to it., For
way to La Rochelle, in the Bay, we took the overland route-through the rivers and canala of Brittany,
And what we did, of course, anybody can do-anybody, that is, who owns a sinall' yacht (mine cost the price of a small second-hand car) or who can borrow or hire one.
50 here is a record of a journey within the capabilities, of many of the ever-growing number of yachting familles.
-No problems
First,
of Biscay?
by MICHAEL LATHAM
At once we were provided with hot coffee, and soon came to know our new ueighbours,
Their captain, a fellow of oft. Bin, summed up our senti- ments nicely. "British and French sailormen," he rumbled between bites from an entire Joaf of bread, "tres sympathi- que." We rode across the Island with them on hired bicycles.
can
or
PLANNING NOTE: A small outboard cruiser camping dinghy
be shipped to St Mule, and thereafter the water- ways of Brittany' are open free of charge on obtaining a Permit/ de Circulation from the French Tourist Bureau' in London or any Ponts et Chaussecs Bureau.
The only other documont eded (apart from a passport) is, a tryptique obtainable from the Automobile Association, MAC, or yacht clubs,
Petrol available in St Malo"" duty-free to yachts, but there -after the regular price must be
puid.
Sweets help
The cost of living aboard ja what you make it, and excellent aud cheap provisions can often be bought from lock-keepers. Tipping these men 14 not nteessary, but help in working the locks, and sweets for the children, are much appreciated. From Le Chuleller to Nonies is 200 miles, and there are 78 locks, which can accommodato almost any boat of 4ft, draught .or less. Sailing boats will, of
Course,
have to unstop. their. masts.
HIRING the smallest boat suitable for a Channel' crossing. costs about £30 to £70-o work
operate the contraption. But we little towns huddle in the shelter. A lot, but this gize bont takes Sunny cafes six adults (though some firms used under fire meat gute and by resort standards, are ridien to a hired hard). Insisted and finally had our way. of massive walls,
With another smalt yacht we offer delights ut prices which, may fast that jong, place gods_20
Everywhere the were courteous
and
were immediately awept down lously low. stream at a terrifying rate by people the outgoing-tite Rounding friendly. bend, we suddenly saw ahead
of course, there was the crossing to St Malo. That took 85 hours and presented no problems. We stayed there Tagy were married for long enough only to buy a chart
(tinė. Record
after he of the River Rance, and then headed for Le Chatelier which proposal.
came out of hospital.
Is at the entrance to the Inland The reunion lasted another waterway system of this top "It was pure chemistry," she to mox ef the executives and eight months, but only because left-hand corner of France.
technicians in Hollywood Lana had meanwhile given birth
Then, hostile titles to her baby, a girl christened bias, lazing in the burs, watching
hour after hour of always the most of the swiftly-risen starhe Cheryl, and she was too wrap- the mirrored countryside of was still a kid from the gutter. ped up the business, plus the Brittany slip by, the muted throb
IF YOU ARE NÓ SAILOR; † Joys and fullments of mother-
of the boat's exhaust emphasis The pretty face and sexy hood-to-care-about-anyone else ing the deepness of the summer
Tourist air fore to Bordeaux, Z figure which were working alm,
then train to La Rochelle," "costs" fans all over the world into a fever got only a cold shoulder time after a
She left Crane for the last silence into which it intruded,
bay is a £33 15s. return, Sunimer sea Winding
Fishing in the brawl with an
its way gradually all pontoon bridges, and we vigorous and thriving industry, and rail fore is 221 first class actor at a Hollywood party. And upwards to its 80011. the declared, with a gin-and-the canal passes through
were approaching it at break and the great funny boots cram return and £15 second elesa. neck speed! We stopped by the every harbour. We became usual line of on- tonle in one hand and the other succession of unspoiled little simple method of dropping every friendly with some of the sher True, the the town bachelors, like Peto eurnestly pressed to her heart:
vllages, and then descends by available anchor, and eventu- men, and were
kept supplied Lawford, Turban Boy. and
Way of the gracious uity of Mickey Rooney, queued up for *I will never, never fall in Rennes to meet the Nantes-u-
ally managed to squeeze under with fresh sardines and some-
times mackerel,
CULINARY NOTE; · At a res- dates, "but that was as far as I love again. All I shall live for Jirest Canal at Redon.
To cut the cost we breakfasted faurant now is
overlooking the Rance: on cornflakes
and Camembert a couple of miles upsteam from chrese, lunched on slabs of pate St Malo we ate Palourdes Farefo
and which and Camembert · cheeses,
were just out of this d'ned on Ash and Camembert world.
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Artle Shaw's proposal, at the
doughter."
my darling little
end of thele årst kiss-which.. But in Hollywood, as in took place before the cameras palilies, I never pays to make took her breath
and away
positive statements. They come fulfilled a growing need to be back to haunt you later.
respectable. recognised, made and helped her to feel that she belonged in this bright, strange new world of films.
But so girl can love long a man who keeps telling her sho hasn't a brain in her head. She was in no mood, at that stage in her fe, for a husband who played the clarinet all day and read books all night--and expected her, moreover, to chase him from chapter to chapter.
began when she The brawls tried to get their married life Lack Lo more magle and romantic moments.
Hell-raiser
"
CHE let kor disillusionment fester for almost two years, and meanwhile want back to her role of a hell-raising play girl.
'It didn't get her anywhere except Into some strange places with some strange people.
Love, love
Lana played the town again.
And then, with an impact that rocked her off her feet, she suddenly discovered what love can really
met mean. She Tyrone Power and was capli vated by him.
Everything else that had ever happened to her in her troubled and stormy life faded into the background before the onslaught of this enormous, worshipping, happy, and yet tormenting passion.
She was ecstatic. She was so happy .that she fell silly Soon she was telling all her friends, and then the whole love, world, that she was in love. love, and that all she for her daughter, Cheryl, and waled out of life was a home herself with Ty.
"We'll be married soon," she
said, "After that I just be come a wife, and, live" happily ever after."
She got to know the seamy world behind the Hollywood She was neck-deep in mar- scenes the gangsters, the ringe plans, and out of her head racketeers, and the hard-men with bliss, when a cable arrived or the industry.
from Rome. It was from Tyrene Power. It simply sald: ARRIV- That was when she first ranING BY CLIPPER, PLEASE Into hoodlums like Mickey MEET ME AT AIRPORT. Cohen and Bugste Siegel. опе
of whose henchmen, Johnny Lana Turner was there with Slempanato, was to ruin her oli the photographers. And that
was 'n pily, Because she took ene look at Pawer's face, and she suddenly realised that the idyll was over,
"It's over, isn't it?" she
Her
and
In Alme she was still soaring, By 1912 she was coming nearly £40,000 a year. And who handsome, young business. man came into her circle, by name said. Stephen Creae, she decided that "Yes" Bald Power. "I've this lime she would try to be come to tell you I've fallen in practical.
love with another girl. What could be more practical name is Linda Chrisilan the toi nen to Karty I'm going to marry her Crane, who was rich and a. Lana Turnerstood; triero, stockbrokor--the kind of man looking at him, for a moment. who could advise her best how. And then she said: “I wish you to handle, her money? galda ve all the luck in the world, you Tal” and rushed 'awayilo, Her They were married in July car. of that year. Almost at once, bu
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. La Tuner ducovered that it
Wyndham Street,
| Marringo No: 1. had been to
playboy_swho, tuned out to be take
| No, 3-was to a serious coun: whó
Continued
tomorrow
summit,
We had our itinerary, nil worked out. On the map it seemed perfectly simple, The Villaine River gues down to the aca, and that was straight"
the way we would go
True, it is dammed at Redon by a huge barrier, but we were told it was possible to Dasa through this obstruction.
Evasive....
of us to great-granfather of
Settled
Is that the cheese.
But my advice route via Nantes is indeed irus
jolle, and should definitely not be missed.
there are
Hospitable
Try this
Make them by removing a dozen clama (mussels might do) from their shells, and heating them in their own Juice without letting them boll, Put them into their own empty half-shells,
From the point of view of the constal sailor, the reputation of the Bay of Biscay is not entirely We bought wine at up to 200 and arrange in an oven-dish. Justified. During the summer francs a bottle, which varied To a generous tablespoonful of the weather is much more in quality depending on where settled than in the Channel, and we were. In Poltou we favoured melted butter add a teaspoon of fine-chopped parsley, three We approached the Ponts et what atorms
scem Anjou Rose. The Ile de Re chopped shallots (garlie if you Chaussees Durenu to have the predictable and free from after makes an extremely cheap red prefer), a tablespoon of white barrier
wine which, regretfully, I cannot wine, the juice of a lemon, 4 They maths. opened for us. were polite, but evasivė.
The best time to go is June recommend.
pinch of salt, and a dash of "The route vin Nanics," we and July; it is as well to be
The yachting community in cayenne pepper. were told, "is tres felle, and back in the canals by late these parts is most hospitable. Reduce by simmering, and should on no account be missed. August,
It was 5
when we blow stir in two tablespoons of coarse Whereas the Villaino...." an The beautiful - coast and into Le Palais, on Belle Isle, butter - browned” brenderumba,
Islands of Poliou provide expressive shrug.
In the teeth of a near gale, and With a. lite of the mixture on and Secretly we suspected that sheltered
delightful brought up in the harbour each clam, bake for a minute or they were not at all sure how to cruising. - ground, Picturesque alongside a French yacht, two in a hot oven before serving,
Western Double Torn "Pop Singers of Lost
Year
am.
SUSPENSIÓN OF TESTS
MAYBE WE CAN PRETEND HE ISN'T THERE, BUT WILL THE AUDIENCE