THORLAS
ISEMAN YI
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1958, VER
*Limelight
THIS MAN LISZT
WAS NO SQUARE
"I THINK
that
-says Dirk Bogarde
I do not know how music- Burmese in order to get vital lovers are going to feel about information.
Mr Bogarde D Liszt, but
is Actually I do play a bit. Dhich provided there are enough mums, The ineral seems to be that
og to sign a long-term con- tremendous. character-colour-
role.
muns
Con-
for me "The opportunity on my terms, not theirs. I wasn't
This chop Liszt should help.
would-be- mums or potential atrocities whoever commits trai
would really was a
"I can't worry about how the because then I
they them are box office. amongst then, Not a dirty-old macintosh critics will feel. They took their probably will not care ho in have been obliged to do any old ful
uscul Sudan 11 nê over The thumps cut the Warsaw
Read, but the certo with the toes thing they chose to give me.
his Wind Cannot rending been
loved It, Be biographies. He had affairs with Beket buyers
Spot, all the most beautiful women of darlings. Europe. For the purpose of the fkn we shall probably have to concentrate on just three or four
"And I wanted my first Holly- wood film to be a real bravura role. Somethi with attack, This is 11, I'm on every page of script. Of course, in a way, it's rather frightening."
"I've
everybody will love It," said Dirk Bogarde, "with the possible excep- tion of music-lovers."
He was talking about his first Bollywood #lm in which he will play Franz Liszi, an admirable subject for the movies ainee hly musicianah was exceeded only by his promiscuity.
A <lusburg follow
Mr Bogarde is Britain's fore- of them. who
Ullane Brousse, a 21-year-old o. would mock out भ्र trans- must remantic star, he
appents
Doctor's Dilemma That's the French glamour girl, has been him dressed in a cendental study between no ho believes to the dear old Lola. Montez, and then most distinguished film I've brought ever here to provide a padded baseball outfit and
nasismntions, Mr maternal instincts of womad, there's the Countess something made some people might say love interest in the flin Serlous mask..........a Llet
quite which may be why he has lasted or other, and then one of those the only distinguished film I've Charge, has Bo dar tren
the longer thun baexplicably neglected by
star: who Princessus torget what she made. Hollywood eplc-makers
appeal to her more changeable was Princess of exactly.
On his terms
He appeared briefly, in the Chopin story and again in the Wagner story, but this wil be
the first time he has been given
a Alm all to himself.
Instincts.
other
A AD with such suure-fire qualifications is obviously an asset to Hollywood, whose stara tend to matte their appeal on a slightly more animalistic basis.
"But we shall definitely have
Not too stuffy
"If I hadn't made myself into Crime only a popular star do you think Anatole de Grunwald would have wasted me for Shaw's. The
"But it
made
احل
the was things like
of his left Frank Sinatra ance offer- ad to punch me on tho nose. His pugilistic reputa- tion must have spread. When bo arrived in Miami recently
total
photographer met heavily
Two
Asked whether she thought Big bangs Richard Gordun Doctor Alins English actresses could play love me popular. The scenes, Miss Brousse said: "I critles don't pay your salary, you don't know. I've never seen any know, you can't work to please in British ans. All the British alms in Paris are about Scotland "Oh, JAME T
fairly them." bo authentic, you know. But we're
Mr Bogarde was not worried Yard."
modern lechagers, who not going to be too stuffy about that
"He was the unsquarest one of
Alm companies are com- peting to see who can atomise. Stanley Krumner the earth first. ts of to Australia soon to make his Alm of EXTI H-bomb "I am not going to Hollywood
annihilation, based on Noville to please the erries, sald Mr I mean Liszt was blend and make up a large part of his Britain's turn
Shute's book, On The Beach, Begarde, "unless my departure I'm dark, but I don't think, that following, might think of Liszt can be said to please them I'm matters. I certainly shan't dye as a bit of a square.
Bryna Productions are off to my hair, oh, certainly not. going there to make a colossal.
Having made a highly success. Mexicu soon to make And The Then there was his fret girl them all. We're going to deal ful-if distasteful fl-about Rock Cried Ttus is a Gien that will have
Out, based CA O old Lola friend, who, I believe, was 23 only with the period when he Japanese war atrocltics, The story by Ray Bradbury with a everything - dear
in her was at the height of his fame Camp on Blood Island, producer similar theme. y cars Monicz, Wagner, Chopin, Berlioz,
older than halen, During this time he resisted Mendelssohn, Geerge Sand, med ättles. Well, we shail have to and irresistible to women, That's Michael Carreras la now going
Both hope to get their to prove his impartiality by their must honeyed overtures, King Judy of Bavarlo-ond the make her a bit younger In the not being square, is it?
making a film about British out arst. Also, they may want their most rhapsodic invitations at the grant plane, bashing lm. I don't think anybody will
atrocitles, and financial uffers that
It's going to be made in hid that, do you?
to get finished before a real H- were away.
Hollywood, Rome und Vienna. "I shall have
It will be called Yesterday's bomb gom off and makes both to have some
Enemy. It will show a British pictures out of date. "I was determined,” said Mr Whatever else It's going to be, additional coaching so
shocking thump the piano
--(London Express Service).
Mr Bogarde was very excited about the idea of playing Liszt, He has been waiting for eight sents to get strch an uffer from Hollywood.
sheer tome poems,
Bogande, "to go
to Hollywood It'll be big.
The time when he became on Abbe we're not going to touch, That's rather tricky. He was a
I can rather gay cld Abbe, wasn't
convincingly. he?
Roderick Mann
unit
two Innocent
TOP COLUMNIST OF SHOW BUSINESS
WELL, HERE'S A GIRL WHO WON'T
DO A BARDOT
A BEAUTIFUL, Though she married the
golden-haired girl
get on the boat train
from Paris to London man who made Brigitte
last night.
Her name is Annette Stroy- berg. She is 22 and Danish and she not only walks in beauty lite the night, but gives off such a glow that you can see to read.
Miss Stroyberk. I may tell you, is coming to London to do A flim lest
for a part in the biggest picture to be made in Brinin h year. Carl Fore-
of Alistair man's production MacLean's The Guna of Navarone.
Comparisons
inevitably plained are
everything and
being drawn between the Misses course it did. "I gos fed up with
Burviot and Strøyberi
How much do they have in
common
Denmark und went to London,
at
Aim
at
pressed. The fact that he was men in an audience Jock Bardol's ex-husband mean! Bardot on the screen they want nothing to me. But he grows lo reach out and take her on to on you
their laps." Thirty keeping wary eye on my second chair, pormitted him reaching self a bashful smile.
year old
Vadims.
"You," I said "must be the most envied
"And Annette?" I asked. "With her they feel she is out wanting to take them on to her dap."
"To me," I sit, "that seems to add up to the same thing,"
France," bald Vadim
**Iz man in the world.
First Bardot now Stroyberg." Loverely, "the technique is
Ho Axed Miss Stroyberg a everything."
long, loving look and she gave
it right back to him in good condition. I felt like an later- loper....Old Misery at the jovers' feast.
DIFFERENT
THE CATCH?
He got up.
4,
"Both girls have some things said. "For in common," he hstaner, when they laugh they both put their hands to their It mouths. But for
different reasons.
I
water-ski-ing taught Ruislip Lido."
"For long?"
MLSs
1
Vadim What hach
got? must be that lean and hungry
"You were all alone?"
*For
Stroybery.
sold months,"
по
arrived" said Misa Stroyberg-
"I knew nobody when I first
Fortunately there was knife arcunt with which to cut
throat. Instead I leaned heavily back in my chair, which promptly fell to pieces.
13-
to
'HE UNDERSTANDS To find out I lunched at the Vadims' Bat at the top of an 8th-century house in Patia Miss Stroybeng-wearing a long jumper, jeans and pumps, her hair rag
gold around her shoulders--said softly:
"Please understand that But the sort of thing happens Brigitte and I are good friends.
She has been wonderful
had the baby Why the interest? I will tell since
Daughter Nathalle is one year old. She even gave us the cot. But I have no intention of being told another Bardot. I have
he under- Roger this and as you must surely know unless stands you have been doing missionary
"I find it extraordinary," work in Outer Mongolia who said that a girl with your looks
every day.
you.
The test in being directed by her twusband, Franch Alm-maker Hager Vadim. And it was he
we
I
found, cherished, encouraged, has extaped notice for so long." "I was in England," sabi Miss promoted, and married Brigitte
Stroyberg, as though that ex- Bardot.
HOW THEY
London.
MR William Bendix sat in his chair like a fall of rock. “I have been knocking these heaters good since I arrived,” he said. "I'm cold."
Ho added: "In America the "On TV we do this 'Life of healing is hat. It is too hot but Reilly show. I didn't realise you get used to it, and 'what it would go on so long. You get Jou're used to you're used to, the point I malco?" You get my polni?"
His face hung over the con- vector stove, like the spirit of tome Jong-dead Indian,
and had extruded him.
sergeant in a m Idlo on
At home with the Vadims
They were very nice about it. and gave me another one with- out a hint of reproach.
**All kinds," said Miss Stroy- "Everything around here is
did-except
"Old and U19," said berg
An very
young, Vadir, opening a cupboard awful lot of peoplo took it up which was full of manded bits while I was there."
"I don't blame them," I said. of chairs, and thrusting the remains of mine urong than,
LOVING LOOK
"What sort of people did you teach to water-ski?" I asked,
"I'm amazed it didn't aweep the country."
"I am
icol. That's what they went "Annette does it because when for. I pushed the bread away. she was young she broke her When I look at Annette," front teeth and used to try to it bald Vadim.
them. Brigitte does little hide frightened. Can it be happen- because she thinks her teeth are Ing all over again I ask too big. When I first produced myselt."
Bardet they sold: Why is she "How do you answer your wearing her mother's teeth?"" scht?" I said.
the door, Vadim held his "I tell myself that Brigitto wife's hand, And threin me a and Annette are totally different crumb.
he women. Some say that I married
"Annette hins a cistér," Arnelte because she reminded said. "Her name is Mercier me of Brigitte. It is not true. che is a model in New York? The best proct of how different She is very beautiful-just te they pro is the fact that Anneite."
"There has to be a eaich,”-1 Brigitte likes her. If they wcro anything alike, Brigitte would said, spil."
"Thero ig," sold Miss
"Then I came to Paris," said Miss Stroyborg, "and met Roger He turned to me. "Their Stroyberg. "She's in love with Vadim. At first I wasn't im- appeals too are different. When Sidney Chaplin..."
BELLOW AT MR BENDIX!
By Robert
Robinson
who organises church-feten in metropolitan suburbs,
manners.
*The good they're something. how to live."
Oh,
se
"And there are guys who come she has a right to be treated up and say 'Me, I wouldn't give a human being whether the la nothing for your autograph, only Bendix's wife or not.” my wife wants it.
"He's successful in the cháo- business, maybe, and he wants Ine to know.
We discussed acting, and he told me he had never tried Shakespeare.
*
Would my broken accent' do Shakespeare, any good, do you think?"
"Some guys actually use foul You know language to you as a prellrain
ary to asking for your autograşib. "I wouldn't say any part X sver played
Ho sat behind the tea-pot like Nice looking people, eating in even remotely
restaurants," a dowager Alp. He has a very Mr Bendly Has come over to resembled the port of guy I soft voice like a foghorn with His face hung appalled either
actually am," he explained. tog down it.
side of his enormous nove, "I'm Britain to play (guess whati) played Blackbeard the pirato
He said he could not be the in Britain they say Please not crazy about getting atten- leading man, the one who wina parade, to be made by Warwick, and I was in a nim called "A can I have your autography, sir. Hon, though. I don't
Girl In Every Port
agree the girl in the end. "I am physic- i But I am Nice to see you in Britain. though the heater were paychic, end an open-necked shirt, and and I never got to portray this
Mr Bendix wore a lumber jacket a kinda matried,
with it. I'm pretty democratie ally jurt not the type.” zlodgy guy,
about that sort of thing. It's not And in his chair pronomein rort of guy yot,
good publicity for an actor when He said of the Method: 11 The reason I haven't been in Warwick 00 it in spelt (1.c.
he gets preferential treatraent, have been acting 27 years, and "Onco
"In America
drunk Rome pictures for so long is a good War-wick).
I was in a flm and
you must pick up soms now- "But I don't like it the other lodge in that time. There are tenson. I have been in televi
Ahipwrecked in an open boat. boute aerosa a restaurant, Hey, But that didn't resemble me at Bendix, come over here. 56 i way, either. My wife asked the many tricks, and I know most have to go, and he says, 'Bendix, price of an antique in a store of tictn, but 1 do not think you algn your autograph for all there he was drednou pretty casually, have to stand scratching, your people. I am a freak, or some and I quere the car was a behind in order to be convincing. thing? So if I hit him, you know dusty, and her hair won't, tuo how It would appear.
To make a confession," said They'd good, and the shopgirl mid- kay Bendly was drifle and hit: 'Don't Bother about that, you Mr Bendix, looking, more like a Ha mañhere are impecenblo,.
impecentio "I wish I could tell you how a poor Innocent bystander who won't be able to afford it." churchwarden than-ovor, "I près have been good, but enrest was almost grandmotherly, "and" in much I love Dritain. It's not asked for his qulograpli. Uh? "My wife just walkers out, for the theated, on account of
has the clerken air of a man for newspaper consumption, it's You know that's how it would. She could've told her..who she you don't have to get who la fót actually a tferić, but really what I tool,
bo.
was, but she didn't. She redkola sorty,"
done two
sión, for the past six years, and It, thot time 1, have Bundred and likety-four shows, I done enough.
Now we will re-tuh them, inder will get back in plètures, Funginanolkily, the last six years:
not much good. People forget
you.
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His shape is Gothle, rather, like a window in a Methodist Mr Bendix got up to pour the chapel. Blocked in to navn tea. He moved across the room window tax.
Uke a ventry bok an častöta.
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