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THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1958,
T
The
-U.S. NEWS
Big
Bad Bump
The sweet smell of success has gone sour in Dotroit. There are almost. 300,000 workless, the car city's de- pression has hit hundreds of allied businesses...but the most pathetic sign of the times is this advertising slogan
YOU AUTO BUY NOW
year the price has gone up. To- day there is a buyern revolt against the price, the size, the fancy work, and the trend is to- wards smaller cars with simple Hes and which are cheap to
In
Detroit's dilemman is that [1 can do little about its rigkness At the present time or for winny months. Motor-cars arc de- shened 18 months before they appear in the showrooms, and the 1050 models are even big- er, envier, and gaudier than the much-criticised 1956 Jobs,
Chevrolet for The
next for Instance will be your,
and 4u. wilder. deep trouble Ain. longer Three years ago it made a fight- ing comeback with its revoli tlunary" design of year flus and clusters of rear. tamps. Last year it was decided
11 Chrysler is
THERE is the sour smell of defeat about Detroit, once dynamic, now depressed. 1 had intended to drive the 680 miles from New York, but the headlights and brake lights on my car packed up, so I flew on from Harrisburg. The breakdown with an 'expensive new car was a had men, the first of many during this visit to Detroit. Christinastree On the superb turnpikes, highways, and parkways there to make few changes and now are scores of restaurants and gasoline stations shut down. it has been badly hurt.
in secres of the foll booths mechanical Laskuts have replaced the loll-keeper. Simply to the toll fee -- perhaps 25 cents or 10 cer.15-into the basket, the red light turns 10
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ON IDDON'S DIARY
Detroit, usualy vital and alive, a Mugger among cities, today it sick. The confident men of the past few years, Harlow Curtice, psident the $750,000-a-year of General Motors, Henry Ford 1, the grandson of the founder
the Ford am +1
nad
U.S. VIEWS-
«U.S. ́BLUES-
Logan Gourlay In Hollywood
YES! THE STARS
STILL COME OUT AT NIGHT -JUST LOOK WHO WAS THERE
onilcable traditions of Hollywood divorcees they are still good friends.
I said he was Peter Glenville, who mado a very comfortable living s 5 talented director, that he had broken his orm in a car accident, and that he was decidedly a bachelor.
Mother Gabor said: "I must talk to him."
An agent with a fruit knife was demonstrating to a producer exactly how he thought Lana Turner's boy friend, Johnny Biompanato, had been stabbed.
David O. Selenlok, who had arrived late without his actress wite Jennifer Jones, was saying that Claire Boothe Luce was ageing gescefully and skilfully like an actress on the stage.
Lady Feel was leaning against another pleture of curtean dancers in the ball.
She told me: "I certainly Intend to marry again alter my divorce in final. I don't intend to live like a nun. But I don't know when I will marry and
She
me! said to
"They whom."
wanted me to do Auntie Mame Hostess Za Zsa called up, in England, I must come back
But they are so followed by George Sanders and soon.
slow Beverly Hills, Sanders, her ex-boy friend Rabi- Milchums behind the sleepy Rubiros
She pointed to the about arranging things and One in keenly Intelligent
Would you COUNT FRANCISCO rosa with his new French wife, eyes.
and, of course, Baby, who might and self-critical, even sensitive. low-cut bedice of her evening doing things. "BABY" PIGNATARI be described
"Look what something for me?" as a new boy Another is loudish and brash as gown and sold: surveyed the red-and-white friend.
though he were playing the role these silly boys have done. They pour champagne over me. Still, alloons which hung festive- Another of her ex-husbands, expected of him.
it's fun having them here to willing. The second
"Help was on parade gether." y round the walls of the Conrad Hilton, the hotel magn- ate, was not there, but his hotel
A walter with a red
Mr lining patio in the Holly had done the
lavish entering, tonight.
thu wine whiter's
Sanders and Rubitosa damned shoes off." wood home of Zsa Zsa and he had sent his son Nicky, coat and
ofce went into a corner to talk about
She leaned on my shoulder ex-husband of Elizabeth Taylor, medallion and chain of
mund his neck asked him if he motor cars, which is another of while I took off her golden Gabor,
as emissary.
would kindly take his head off the things they have in com- slippers.
air
With a determined Baby approached the cluster of balloons next to the table where I sat talking to Miss Gabor.
The touched one of the white balloons with the lighted end of his cigarette (which ฟแร่ king-sized, of course).
honour,
The balloon burs, with a loud pop. Baby Krinted delightedly and bust a red balloon.
Miss Gabor, who was giving
party in Baby's clasped supplieating hands over the bodices of her Boming red evening gown and said: "Please, Baby, do not burst the beautiful
the cancan dancers,
Dream beds
The walter also announced Kim Novak took up her that the buffet dinner was now position in the bar lounge next being served, t the long table which was Inaded with bottles of chai I spor, whisky, vodka, and every nicoholic beverage but Hungarian Tokay.
not
She leaned against the red her wall holding the hand of escort, o good-looking young Innn with a moustache, le is South American the son of
General Trujillo.
She refused a drink which I
Rittib
Mr Mitchum sald he couldn't think of a better place for his heed to be and he didn't want any dinner.
wasting
"I don't believe In time eating in the evenings. I have another drink."
Friends
mon.
do
I said I would be more than
mc to
take the20
Bhe sld: "One can't It was about this time that steadily with these dama
heels," Baby started to burst balloons.
watle
high
She left carrying her slippers
The end
I found Jolle Gabor, cele- brated mother of the celebrated and walking steadily. Gabor alsters, watching the dancing couples in the lounge.
She talked about money. "I
By 2.30 am.
the party don't really care about it. I just like to spend it. But somehow breaking up It was generally when it goes out of the door it
agreed that Z94 Za always comes back through the excelled herself as a hostess and window."
wid
had
Someone said: "It was like
Hollywood, the
Daughter Eva danced by with who a handsome young man
"given one of the parties of the year."
of
capital."
"Who
the . There has been a complete balloons after I take the trouble thenight she might have needed alone. Icoked murprised when she had one arm round her and the a wonderful wake for the death
Usually there is a guard see that you do not clust, but economy has hit the vast road systems of the United States.
collectxi Sone tells have
is thel 3ttle revenue that it
at Chrysler Corpurilon busies are warth while to post a B30
asking then.elzea: "Where did the gates.
And they are has go wrong?" The Detroit depression
Otsale to come up with a co- hit hundred u tras
stheses allel to the maker-
Rung answer,
to
Today Detroit'a motor-car What is Detroit doing Teat the slump? 1 am sorry to production as the lowest for six report that the best idea so far years, and the massive assembly has been to launch "You Auto ints are working at only 32 per buy Now" campaign. "Auto" cent capacity. There are 275,000 nsins "Ought To." You get a* namuployed in Dettent alone, or
of cent perhaps the 17.5 per
the biner 1 consider this most pathetic symbol of a sad city.
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another white Baby burst
heit defiantly. Hostess Zsa Zsa unclasped her dress. of all.
hands, held up a chiding finger
ก
movie
I didn't agree. After all, no one bursts balloons at a wake. And no one had passed away. No one had been absolutely lifeless, Not even Miss Novak,
THE SMASH-HIT DIPLOMAT
In the Arst quarter of this ear Chrysler hus suffered a net
L'OM loss of over $12,000,000 pared with a net profit of almost the Brst three 147,000,000 - In
Ginger Rogers, who had come months of last year
So heads are being chopped
Her appearance, Wn3 wan, which might have been found herself at the same dinner other in a gling. in management reorganisation
Mother Gabor asked! due le her entirely white make table as Jacques Bergerac who being cut. und diviilends are
up and which was.
cerally had brought a blonde starlet. Also several thousand ordinary
Is he one in that young man? by her eventinted
purplish
But of the
15 trillionaires? What folk have been fred.
He looked surprised too.
13 ho The gest Riant
they needed a smiled across wrong with his arm? Bu she spoke and told me the table at each other. In the married?" Caneral Motors, has moved
seid in mock material about her new 125,000-dollar on Chrysler and Ford, but its and
of tours: "Now, Baby, you must (about £44,000) dream han iu sales are well below those
stop. It is naughty. You'll Hollywood. It has two outdoor the same period in 1957,
the "bedrooms" in
garden Ford's Edsel model has been scare all the other guests."
Baby Emiled. the
DIL of his where Miss Novak can sleep on a resgunding op (blame
One designer
but its now winning rules and said: "Okay, hot Californian nights. again), expensive Continental and I'll stop. I was just trying to room is screened by follage and
bag been rigged up the Thunderbird e selling bave Bttle fun.
Balloon-bursting was, of babbling brook. well. For the range as a whole. WALKED from the Sheraton Ford sales have token a big course, an diversion
Hotel, around drop. Cadillac
who is a monumental As a South America Cadillac Squire, and was op- By contrast, American Moters, faster, ped three times by derelicts with makes the small sconce millionaire he can afford to be.
I was Baby who recently usking fur hands.
Rambler, is the one company tej increase its sales in the first third pickets to parade in fron! quarter compared with last year.] et Linda Christian's hotel in Rio Its a strange experience of with banners saying: "Go Home e Debuit newspapers, which Lindin."
She had gone there expecting getting re are
4211 Detroit's motor-ears.
scurrying loper and longer, and med carrying large advertisements marry him after with 15 years or more service for foreign ears - Volkswagen, half way round the world with YOYO, MUS, TUNDA,"ITEMKİL" Morris, Austin, Simca.
Juree,
The beggars
I dropped into a ber and grill and the bartender fold me "We are doing only half the business we did last year. The ky ods
rm are bem DEVA. There was one ironical fa ture. I saw a group of abou! 50 men and women mesmerised by a pale-blue Mercedes-Benz with ivy leather, parked out side a smart apartment
house.
The leaders
IN
Baby,
The wake
for
OVLT
i
The other is under a tree near the swimming-pool and it has bookshelves, reading lights, 1311 intercom telephone, and a built- in lee bucket.
Sald Miss Navak: "Of course, also have an indoor bedroom with white fur carpets and white silk draperies. Yes, the bath- room is quite something too. it's in white and gold with a marble tub."
I left her to dream_of_her
dream home.
She had just finished making the Bim version of "Bell, Book n$ Coodle" with Junes
same.
Off home in
triumph..
come
from SYDNEY SMITH: Paris
best
sheat In The biggest
his not more than 50 people there- Trulls that Detroit, I'm afrail Hollywood is not Stewart, who looked no differentDARIS, in fact Western which has led so long, may | what b was. I was always a after the experience but, then,
looks the
Europe, is soon to lose were slack is the overthrow of are highly sought after.
French Centre Government by fareign, have to try to copy and improvehtened ey, now cowers he always not many There are
most
In keeping with the Kremlin remarkable
the Rights and the Communists almost apologetic, the make and the Europeans to
ature the
TV Always shy, even British, small cars
strangling
for the fact that he is one of Russian diplomat to have for having agreed to American line that de Gaulle sull the sports cars in Detroit, the motor living, let alone enjoy the mam- antenint.
with man who can ho Russia's on the dispute which gilded
through the Iron terms local pessimoth prosperity
Only a few of the big studios Hollywood's apparently indes- capital. But the
friend in France, Vino called on the the city before mists say there soon will be.
depression are si turning out big movies tructible stors.
Curtain since the war Tunisia.
blm a few months ago. The others have Detroit's top designers, who lut
regularly.
In the Stewart drawl, he said: Sergel Alexandrovitch For Vino's biggest job for two Robert McLean, n 100,000 dollars a
General close down or are gasping for rm not worried about the state Vingradov is going back to yours has been waving the bugey up to
Euro Motors favour expensive
stylist. says: "I am life-like hooked sharks,
There will Leading citizens confide "We want absolutely convinced that in the Sports
are ineinntly and incredulously that people to buy our Fords so that next 20 or 30 years we
going to see more changes iHollywood may no longer be the we can afford Alta-Roncos."
the industry than all there have movie capital of the world.
Bit Hollywood, ut the word of been up to now."
rub year, pean
1
cirs.
It is the designers who are
and de mool-discussed hutsed men in Detroit today. The real newspapermen tid me: "They
luso have got us this mess with all this chrume Junk, tull-fins, and goggle
nps,"
of the
re-
industry.
box-office
Those were his
own
of
words
He says that i was one of a
mude to de Gaulle ever since he and influence in North Africa.
American grab for power regular series of visits he has
not came to France. Hs hunting ground hus been among the French
Anyway this was another one
fellow-travellers — but
com-
rades nor even the jong-haired that passed unnoticed. Paris nearly
amunk
יין
Ave years ago.
the smart und wealthy circles of After the politically disastrous French big business, He told a French friend of
French Sakiet bombing in Tunisia by de Gaullist mine: "The first your we get to lightists, the intensely nation- the French, me Mr Robert know the embassy and a bit of alistic French nobility, and the friends kaked news about this last visit and said that it had me to her the language; the second year de Gaullists,
token place after Saldet
Won
Amiable
always be a demand for good Moscow to "reap the harvest movies. I don't always make of glory." good ones, but I keep busy. 1 jog along." And Henry Ford II said when command from the right hostess, He jugs along at the rate of when he came to saw him: "You can let on big can still parade its international 125,000 dollars a film pais a changes."
stars in formal dnery and del percentage of the Mr Curtice, the titan of G.M..antly enjoy Ilselt at what is takings.
I bumped into continues to radiate confidence always called the Party of the and is really his own chief Year.
Mitchum, who led
Hu on parade for husband. Among those There is a joke that the latest designer, responsible for the
wall Robert Mitchum against the will dazzling and sometimes grotes- Zsa Zsa were General Motors model
and lounge against few que models that the public have ord wife Robert Taylor be all chromium with
French enncan wife, James Stewart and wife, of strips of paint trim as decora- queued up for in the past.
Incidentally Curtice's oflice is Kim Novak and escort, Gluger The Milchum head designers tion. Actually. the
AST your when he began almost monastic. Rogers and ex-husband Jacques kicked joyfully by one of
the But Serget Alexandrovitch, have been giving the American severe nud
paying fairly frequently publie what the pablie wartet. Please use restraint," he told Bergerac. and Lady Feel (Beat- dancers. He was watching
other guests with that Micepy-addressed by his French friends parties: "Moscow would like to or least, what the opinion the designers of his office. If rice Lille).
as "Vino," has had such a har- see France stay in Bizerta" (o With Hungarian piquancy eyed, belligerent took of his surveys showed they wanted up he had only told the designers
previously vest in reap that he is now eight long pause) "ather than I have found out of his
curs the same husless Zsa Zsa was also ad-
least two months overdue for Moscow. ing her ex-husband George that there are al
Americans getting in," he let it be known to Fronen Foreign Office friends that he was a very good shot and avallable for actions as Sakiet would compel shooting party invitations.
to now.
own
Se each your the American thing.... automobile has become bigger, titter, longer, and more ostenta- iously dressed up. And
each.
Jenning we get to know the people; the of the bar third year we get down to work an ol painting and the fourth year we reap dancers. the harvest of glory and go back
being to Moscow."
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He Recepied with delight. He quickly learned that no one wanted his political after-dinner
discourses und he became, good tun-amlable, and Jolly—and se, so broadminded,
were
The implication was that the Ruslang considered de Gaulle Es important in any crisis as Goverment the current French
self. This was Vine's line too.
But a few days later he de-. livered a verbal Note to Foreign Minister Pincau.
Ini, on instructions from Moscow, he warned that such
the Kremlin to review its polleg of supporting "z peaceful negotiated Algerian solution by in which France could remain North Africa."
Thrown out
FOREIGN MINISTER PINEAU, seeing the loss of Soviet an well an American support In UNO, hurried off to sco Prime Minister Gaillard,
He was much invited and by the kind of French who only too ripe for his warnings about "American Imperialism.”
One lilled and distinguished French last who said to him: "Of course if the Russians ever Invade France i shall be the The next day France expected irst to be hanged" Vino
the Anglo-American good offices The Communists swered with insty charm: commission.
und the Rightists in the French
an-
"Of course not, I shall come
and save you." Replied the host, Parliament later threw out the drily: "You will already
Gaillard Government, becauso have they considered those "good been hanged for being my offlecs to be in American guest," and he says now: "Vino laughed like hell."
Popular
manœuvre."
Sald one friend, "you could almost hear Vino purring."
It is sad to have to admit it, but this burly, Jovial little mazi AST Benson he was a popular with the gold-fited gaps in his gun al all the best shoots perpetual smile has done a job und he never sot oul for an for the Kremlin which well afternoon's shooting with fewer cotitles him to his diplomatio than 300 cartridges and two "harvest home," guns. He rarely finished with- out borrowing scores of cart diplomats wryly, the sooner ho the Western
ridges from someone else.
And,
soy
goes home to enjoy his victory
Il "Intimate" evening parties the better.
at his Paris Embassy-with' a
mild Itulo programme Df So long as he stays on he is "Russian 'musle and songe and a nuisance.