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ELVIS PRESLEY -IN THE ARMY HOLLYWOOD, REPORTER MICHAEL RUDDY
I'M SURE MISSING MY CADILLACS!
JHEN I saw Elvis Presley's latest film, "King
Creole"-in my opinion, his best film yet-his| inanager, Tom Parker, Presley and. I dined together as the neon lights glittered in the celluloid city.
There wasn't a moment while by, Perry Como, Burt Iver, And We talked when ce lovely particularly liked Lauri Lon- girl was not looking admiringly don, you know," over at the dark, mnouldering- eyed Elvia. But the sloger was troubled; he gave even the pret tient of the girls not a second glanco.
And when I asked him why, murmuredi Tuminutively: "I'm sure missing a heck of + lot of things."
he
Elvis was brightening up. He throw a return smile, and one of those glanoes of his, to a girl aerose the room. She coloured with pleasure.
te sald: "I hope people like King Creole,' I think there are sume good songs in it. 1 really enjoyed making at pleture,"
I asked Tom Parker if the Army period was hitting the inances. Apparently
I said it sounded wea wasn't exactly relishing the prospect of his Army life which Prealey started at Memphis, Elvis there are no worries. nodded.
It wasn't that he objected in flatly. the Army, he declared Whatever the drill sergeant wanted to hand out, he could take. No--it was his way of He he was missing.
"I'm missing my family," he explained. "And my friends.
my
professional work and, yes, I guess I must admit it, I'm missing my Cadillacs!"
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The fact is, though, Elvis honestly enjoys singing, enter- lating people, totting his heart. go in a frenzied song. The Best really means something to him. with Whenever there's music rhythm in the air, Elvis lo there singing, swaying to the beat and strumming his guitar. Rock 'n Roll makes ha blood run live...
there's and, for fun,
brating bongos.
THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1958.
WITH £100,000
IN THE BANK
Roderick Mann ACTOR BURTON ("
SAYS 'I NEED NEVER WORK AGAIN'
GENEVA.
is after midnight in Geneva. The lights around the lake are long since out. And I have just got back after a nine-hour talking session with Richard Burton further along the lakeside.
Burton, the fiery 31-year-old Welsh actor who is due in Lon- don next week to star in the film Look Back in Anger, lives at Celigny, 15 minutes' drive along the west side of Lake Geneva."
He met me from the London plane in his Cadillac convertible. His hair was tousled and he was sunburned.
We drove out on the Lausanne.road to the village of Cellgny. There was an inn close to the station. We parked the car and went into the tha and ordered white wine. And we stayed on wine for the rest of the afternoon and evening Then Burton began to talk, In that rich, compelling volce, with the slight Welsh
"For the firm time in my, life," he said, "I've got no money worries. I've got £100,000 in the bunk here. £100,000, I need never
work again."
На looked across at me.
During his two-year 'hitch," the singer gets US$1,000 a week come rah. come shine, from his recordings "Elvis has had fourteen gold discs in two years, and I think he's singing better | thinking." he than rver," added Tom.
ས། know what you're
Sald. Tatt snags simply to avoid
SHOW BUSINESS
But even it Elvis secs About the
Army engagement, tax, That's not true.. there are the sunnier sides, too, It's almost certain, for instance, that he'll be with an namoured division in Germany.
means he'll be in Lon- don quite a few weekends, and expects he will at in some he special concerts in Great Britain, We moved on to the coffee ng we talked. About us the noise, the brashness and the fan- fare glamour of America assall- ed the car and eye. But Presicy's thoughts were in quieter realms on the European side of the Allante.
"Tell me," he cald, "to
ᏗᏓᏅᏖᏗ . will like me $7 think people Yeah, they're In- Britain? D'you think i he teresting, you know." I said yes, accepted by people?"
He
went on! "You see, I've they were. And he went on: "I listened a lot, too, to Bing Cros- been getting thousands of letters from young people in England feel I know and Scotland, I that they will like me. But naturally, I'd like to be sure. The letters from these young Scots and English are very intelligent co different to thousands I get
Like most Southerners, he hus a natural love of singing. "You know," he said, "I learned great deal studying Elizabethan madrigals.
ARTIE..
Th2-
"There are other things to
worry about besides Brigitte Bardoi's engagement!”
bore.
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"I feel I would like to know the young folk who wrote them lo nik I SUTO grateful to them."
mighty
And Elvis meant every word he said
th
were many reasons.
"Oh, sure, the
Marlut
murtay talker an
Rut
stars for a final battle of wine, Then we went out to the car and # Burton drove me back to my a hotel in Genova,
aid: This Marion Brandy man you've got to stay in Hollywood. want to be a Hollywood stut
-is he good?'
couldn't. I'd
much "I said he was, and they said: rather be classed alongside the Michael Redgraves than the 'Can you beat him?!
"I said I hope so and they Rock Hudsons, ..." sold: That's all right, then."
Burton's hair was even more AL midnight we joined the tousled now.
tho . He was talking patron in
celars dowzi- quickly, now and again getting up to illustrate a point.
Thirteen stone, and just Britain ten down in Weish all over the shote under 6M., he looked paying
pizee."
handy sort of man to have "You've There
come a long way your side in a brawl His nose. from the Welsh valleys," I said. broken in д fight with Д
"Yes," Burton sald. "I have. Canadian during the war, added wife and baby daughter are
liappy here. our 13. During the depression whole family had to exist on a
given a crown a week. Five shillings!
ber of the Swims Home Guardi,
"We've He smiled a little. I've never forgolten it,"
all worked out. If the got the valley, and take to the Russians come we'll evacuate
mountains,"
business
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"Life here is good," he said, My
And I'm accepted
now.
You know some-
been
contributed to my decision. I'd When I was a kid I was one of lo the impression of rugged thing and made a mem-
made clght Hollywood pieturez, and camed a million dollars. And in the end what had I got
£1,500 in out of it all?
the bank, car, and a two-room flat in Hampstead,
"AR because I paid my taxes on the dot-unlike a lot of actors who are always behind, was brought up never to owe money, you see,"
I must save
He poured more wine. "I've been on the wagon," he said. "This is the first drink I've had for a month. It tastes good."
"Will you ever live in Britain again?" I asked,
"No," Burlon cald. "I Con sider British income-tax in- moral. But to leave just for a He had his coat
year or two to escape it would And his tie. A lock of hair fell be even more immoral." across his forehead.
off
IIOW.
"When I was considered 'hat'
in Hollywood they were paying. me £80,000 a picture," he said. lol of money. And That's I was getting hardly any of it.
"Well, I'm no fool. I reckon an actor can count on 15 years ho's of big money earning, L lucky. In that time I've got to save for the bad days.”
£100,000 is a lot of money," I said, "How did you make most of i?"
"I was in a hit on Broadway," Burlon salch, 2.03
"Time Remem- bered. And I got a percentnge
fllm from the
Alexander the Great,"
"Are you content with what you've gol?"
Burton mid. "It's enough," Though it's tempting to try for
1
a million. I've thought about it a lot All those noughts. Do you realise you couldn't count it n. if you had a million?"
It's funny..... Outside the ina loo
cloude were wedding the mountains to the lake the aly. Far out on the Genera-bound steamer was Ploughing slowly through the
green batera,
Burton
strength.
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Terrible.....
I have even
grow.up tough," Buriou sad, but một ns lough đô thị brother, Ivor, who is saying with me now. He once lifted Humphrey Bogart right off the
"I wish you luck," I said. floor by his lapels for saying
He revved the engine of the something he didn't approve of."
"Wasn't Bogart your original Cadillac and accelerated away down the strest. Soon he was sponsor in Hollywood?"
"Yes... he was a wonderful, lost to sight as he headed back friend. We had many a great again along the quiet lakeside. drinking soosion together. He was my kind of man. If you challenged him to put his hond through a plate-glass window-- he would do it. And keep 017 drinking with the other hand.
"I made a lot of abysmal Blms
in Hollywood," Burton continued. The fret two weren't too bad.... My Cousin Rachel and Descrò Rafe. But the others terrible.
"That's what happens when you are under contract. That's why I had to start fighting tho studio, My films were getting worse and worse.
"What about Alexander the
"Funny, you know," said, "When I go home to the Welsh valleys they can't under stand why I get paid for acting They think it' marvellous racket. That's because they're natural actors, I suppose."
"What do you do when your Great? go home to Wales?" I asked.
least "I go down the pit at
"Usually once," Burton said. for eight hours or
80, My family were miners, so I know all about it."
Off the floor "Are they interested in what you're doing?" I asked. "Do about they want to know all Hollywood?"
Couldn't stay
"That could have been good, you know, I thought it had a chance. But you can never tell. I had another epic offered my the other day Solomon and Sheba, with Gina Lollobrigida and that actor with a face like a Toby Jug-Tyrone Powter."
As I left him, the Presley face widened into a grin. "When get out of the Army, do you know what's the Bret thing I'll do? Why, I'll get myself just one Triumph motor- sickle." And he grinned wider ut his own pronunciation.
"die that Triumph. It'll be
He called across the inn for more wine, Outelde it 100 my hound down," he quipped And then the golden boy of the "They're interesting, you
"No. My family started read- geiting dark and the lights were planing discs and the Alias know, the Swiss banks. You ing the film columny when I coming on around the lakeside. "You can never become a of. "God bless," he don't use your name just a went to Hollywood, of course, called, as he waved through the number. Heaven help you it but they weren't very impressed, really big Hollywood star and do Cadillac window.
you lose it. I've got mine writ- "When i came back, they plays as well," he said. "If you
He looked at the table lost in thought.
Who can play de Maupassant?
THE life of Guy de Maupassant the Frenchman famous for his short stories, and
FILM PREVIEW by GERARD GARRETT
"A magnificent stallion of a at the city at their own studios
his even shorter love man glorying in his prowess as at a cost of £15,000.
is to be a lover," said M Nolbando
enthusiastically.
The Dutch potice banned cer- tain street fighting scenes BR 100 think of a dangerous.
affairs brought to the screen I tried bard by two of our own film- British actor who would it the makers.
While waiting for the rain to description and failed. "We stop, Eva, Bartol. is meg in may have to choose na Time firing burst after burst on a tommy-gun in readiness for
Joset Semio And Serge American,” said Mr Somlo. No bandov (who produced The film-makers will not. secit these scenes. The Kidnappers) are at the an X certificate, Bald Sergei
She hates loud bangs. During.
mament knee doop in Nolbandov: "We wish to show practice she is able to plug her blographics of the master in de Maupassant the man, no! ears with cotton wool. a Plecastilly office.
FOR THE ́RECORD. Just a sorley of sex interludes."
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France has failed to produce I now await with interest to Bariek killa two Nasis with to such a flan.. “The French don't hear of a French plan to dlm bursts. The Germans make pictures -about their the life of Anthony Trollope probably fumbling for their herpes sald Mr Nolbandoy, possibly with an Eskimo in the autograph books.
They let the Americans do it leading role. for them."
On this occasion Britain will take a bond,
GREAT LOVER
Film
people are now
SO PAINFUL
enthusiastic bidders, at sales American actor Keith Andes
of surplus service equip has arrived to make his first ment. They find it a cheap British picture as star of Model way of keeping up with the for fardor. march of the atom
Mr Antica was last in Britain
So spectacudar a subject is to gali spectacular, treatment. The nin, to be shot in France and a For a recent science just before
British studio, will cost at least horror film they almost studied, at Oxford. He has some
fully fitted
£950,000, Ainch it will introduce' such well-known literary figures
the war when he
painful menories of the way our their laboratory teachers administer discipline, am told that a I used to say to myself: 'I as Zoin, Flaubert, Turgenev and cut-price. I unAmerican Henry James £12,000 pscillograph, for in- thai guy lays a finger on me 1
the window. It will also año y de Maupan siance, was snapped up for toys him out of
They know what I was thinking sam slibet visit to England £8. whore he loathed our food and The makers of The Giant. They let me alone"
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