The Princess, Her Husband.
And A Waif
Sam White's Paris Newsletter
PARIS.
A STRANGE threesome are occupying a suite
of rooms in a leading Paris hotel.
It
They are the widow of Dents Taxen la a little animal. Conan Doyle, one of the late you want to be her into a Arthur Conan Doyle's sens; a garage one then the best way is 34-year-old American, Anthony to try and civilise her." Harwood; and a 10-year-old
Tibetan girl who goes by the Sulking
nam of Taxen.
Canay Dayle's widow, who is 54, is the tuner Princess Nina Meivani. She is the eldest sister first. Hulton"R
Barusora
of husbant.
Found in India
1 vishad Miss Gillen Hills the other day. She is, of ecurse, The 14-year-old English girl who was "discovered" by the French Hlm director, Roger Vadim, ad vernight firated as a new Bardol
Now Al. Vading his changent Five years tipo, shorty before has ti: d," and "instead of being the leading rule la n Deas Conan Doyle's death while given
and her extremely boundfrish film s visiting Indin, she husband care certes a Tibeten, she was promiera Miss Hill has waif on the Indi-Tibet frontier, been offered' incr role.
They decided to cater the child which, while not legally adopted, has been with Mrs Conan Doyle (ver since.
The Princess, as she likes be called, has recently mareled Mr Herwood. The marriage loot place in Paris. But they are not intredeced as a married couple, ner are they registered in hotel as such.
their
As a result she has taken to her bed, where I found her, pouting and petulant, with the bed Blanketed with Br
her mother magazines, while
like a
tres une! distraught Florence Nightingale.
For the micent she refuses to accept the minor role.
Verin has a "eninet" with her in its legally worthless The ntrriage has placed in because she is not of age to sign jei pardy the future of young an zevennent gving him a option Dit her Taxe, Thus olive-skinned, pig- seven-yeur tailed girl, who is dressed
services and stipulating a pay Tibetan fashion, ent of £150 anch for the winte-robed
ir write, la con- dret connal readl
Schr. sequence, her Bre in this luxury hotel is lonely one
Betw. the Princess and Mr Harwood there is disagreement regarding the child's future. The Princess would like to bring her up in the Western manner, but that Mr Harward is adamant she should be returned to her original primitive life.
for her He is also paying classes in a rama stool and for dancing lessons,
THE CUINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1959.
The
The fluid face
By DAVID LEWIN
THE noses of Orson Welles are baked by the dozen "just like biscuits" in America, and then flown out whenever he needs them.
He needs them every time he makes a new film because with each appearance he has a new nose. They were despatched — snubby, Billy Bunter-typo Uses to Hongkong,
The specification for each none and its original design were laid down six months ago in Hollywood when Orson Welles decided just exactly the type of nose he would need to play a British ferry-bont captain with pretensions' to dignity.
"I feel naked without make-up," says Orson Welles, "and since I always seem to be playing parts older than my age (he is 43) I'm always building up my face and particularly my nose, which just didn't seem to grow when the rest. of me did..
"I've had such complicated noses and make-ups that once when 1 was playing Benjamin Franklin in a film I had five hour work to do on my face each day before 1 could appear. When I did no one could recogniac me.
Sacha Guitry, who was rak- the film, asked: What would
1 happen if an netor with a make-no longer at home but had gone up like that just stayed at home to Paris. and employed someone vise to along every day and do his work for him? What a wonder Tul plot that would make."
of the The nose is just one
Orson which contributions Wellest making to the Bbeing For this British picture "Ferry to
Hongkong."
lle has given his part a greater depth and rounder style than ever the script called; tor in advance.
PROBLEMS
But when Orson Welles was the Bengkong 13 actually
and
In
"I New on to Paris to dis- cover that Orson had lett for Naples. So I went to London" tried phoning Orson Naples. He had disappeared.
Then he called me--and he was speaking, from a ship at sea on the way from Naples to New York, We arranged to micet in Hollywood, where he was going to film,
and.
"I flew over the Pole from London to Hollywood arranged to meet Orson the next day in his hotel.
The next day Orson had gone again-this time to Mexico for some more work on his own
director of the film Lewis hn Don Quixote,' and would
I follow him there.
10
("Reach for the Sky") Gilbert E. still at times surprised have him here at all.
"Just tracking Orson down lo start with and conxing him to sign a contract were major problems," says Gilbert.
for
"I didn't. I just waited him to return to Hollywood... and that's how I got Orson to come to Hongkong."
THIRD MAN IN HONGKONG
FINAL INSTALMENT
of
Orson Welles
How you'll see it next
"AL one
THE GIRL
inore
The girl star in the picture is
Syms, chase. I Britain's Sylvin
about
"I was in Hongkong myself is a Arphic looking for locations last year Gillian's story
when I started the illustration of the perils that the in wait for tengers who heli- day in St Tropez.
That is where she first tw Vadim, and she promptly wrote to him telling him that he had smiled at her and enclosing a and phograph of herself. buir, Vadim, always on the look-out new Barde promptly has hiret her. Since then he cenu undet ftack for employ- inggil of her tendr years in at involves three selueti ns and a preymney.
"very for t
iL role
The Princess, a stout woman who affels frilly clothes coloured ribbons in her
she was told me that happy to be protected by a very Rice man," and that after her death le could hysband's hardly er We al
The Princess's latest husband
Vadion, who is enly 31, has her third- is a tall, dark pla with a Meplasic phelein fae. He ent msxus personal charm, but is a former Harvard man who all his chirm has failed is now an architectural student, budge Gillian frem hir berl.
What He peaks in a el. pod
can you do?" he sald disdainful way with no trace of to re, despairingly. I an American accent.
locking for an actress and fund
Wis
Je use likes to speak in instead, a rendy made prima Deradox. One, et his paradoxes: canna."
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pet through a radio-phone call whom her director says: "When to Orson in Rome, where he you need someone to have 6x lives, and arranged to meet him and not be vulgar about it, I there. I flew from Hongkong to didn't look anywhere
was cept to Sylvio. Rome to, and that Orson
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"I think, perttaps, that is because he. is not scared of aeling, and because success has been easy for him. I think to be scared is a good thing. I'm scared. I know."
Slowly we got a tests and a smell of China,
We have found there is no such thing as Chop Suey, that tried and worn standby of every alleged Chinese restaurant in London.
It doesn't exit here. "In fact," says Orson Welles, "Chop Sucy was invented in America for Americans by Chinese work- 10 ing on the railroad through the West Const.
SNAKE SOUP
I have discovered snake soup made
flye from
different kinde of poisonous snakes, including the King Cobra. For the gouimet i advise this with the added relish of chrysanthe- mum petals un top.
Was
the
And around us all evidence of China: the eternal click of the inal-jong tiles the sight of old women in their Binck gyjarno-style. qutats the poling the sampans continual flash of lights on the water between Hongkong and the mainland which 24 hours a day makes this one of the busiest ports of the world.
The Chinese films with their titles like "The Unlucky Song and "Hard Won Love Girl" and Justice" and the destruc- tion of the old myth about "Insertable Chinese" because they are not inscrutable at all, just voluble and gay like people Irom the South of Italy,
'I PREFER-—”
about
She is also 'reallstic
But, despite all this, starring with such experts ns Syms, in her newly-made Orson Welles and Curt Jurgens. cheongsams with their
Sylvin
silk
was I'm 0.3. in films because my time there'
high Virginia McKenna, but she is type is not duplicated much.
with her
side of the dress concerned
"Pd like to be a star because
for "I was scared of Orson at the slits at the
the legs) of the money and the adulation husband's career" (husband
"But he (very flattering
and her coolie hats of straw, and the crowds staring and beginning," che says. Bill Travers)
act with Mr saying 'Doesn't she look good' is thrilling to today."
that on the whole Jurgens, I thought, was charm- says reflectively: "I think, you when I dress up. But what I
know. Miss Syms herself put it this want to be is an actress good ing at first, but now I think ho
beneath that prefer SOUTH KEN.... way: "I was just an ordinary enough to be able to pick the is a bit bored surface charm.
-(London Express Service). repertory actress, but I suppose parts I siar in.'
THE MARKET PLACE OF A LITTLE MEXICAN TOWN IS THROBBING WITH NEWS ABOUT BRITAIN'S FORMER PRIME MINISTER
Don
Antonio
makes a hit
CUERNAVACA,
was Delfina, my plump little Mexican cook, By JUNE
who first brought me the news. She had been
to the early morning market, which is the place to hear things in this little Mexican town of Cuerna vaca, where my husband and I have our winter
home.
HILLMAN
in
Sir Anthony Eden and Clarissa ...B. stroll in the garden.
sampling the delicious but highly-spiced dishes for which Or cke Sir Anthony and Lady Eden were coming to stay in Mexico is famous...
alarming (and
ог tales
the the town, she told me. And because she has the idea he has heard
sometimes true) that I know everyone in Britain she added happily: "We primitive conditions provalent in some parts of this vast and shall give a fiesta for the important senor, no?"
Delfine loves nothing better than a fiesta, and her as yet underdeveloped country.
takes the face fell when I confessed that I had never met "the im
At any rate, he precaution of having his most, portant senor."
fruits, and vegetables flown
Driving through the town Sir Early In the morning and again States by crimsen and magenta bougain- "73#t pochens I " 1 Sir Anthony's habits and testes, from the United
villea, honeysuckle, waxy "Cups Antheny and his wife must have at dusk the oathedral, whoo0 what private airplane.
19 of Cold," and starry-blue plum- seen, heavy elaborately comerelone was laid by. Costes, smiled, and she went back to how, he spends his days,
sounds ita melodious summons, the kitchen looking happier, time he tices and relires, how
enchanting carved doors swung open, chady and all the other churches up Thus, in a town proud of its bega tumble with he dre:923, end what he eats.
high while
marble pasteurising prodigality over
ficore, und down the town, in patios with Alas, her hopes have not We know
thrt Lady Eden refrigeraing and
he has forgone washed walls..
brightly-illed wella, arches or villageo and the hills, John · in, materialised, for Sir Anthony is writes menus and
pealing Instructions Systems,
pillers of ancient stone, perhaps ding-donging, danging, NO ESCAPE
a fountain spraying iridescence... and it would seem that some of the bell-ringers have a Rich house, these, yet stand taste for modern syncopation! Along this lane they would ing Gush with pavements where and have
PIE INGLES ! humble Indian ragged urchins play, old men in or adobe vide sombreros squat on their
Hving clmost a hermit's life. for the ecok and housekeeper, Mexico's tender ttle "Brussels" sweet baby carrots, Both in English and Spanish, rus, and that the ex-Prime Minister luscious pink grapefruit, juicy partial to tinned salmon and pineapples, and strawberries. inned blackberries,
He has missed too Le Aa We know too that he extremely sensitivo to shrill wonderful varieties of fish
He has come for peace and quiet and sunshine in which to finish his book of memoirs, and from he has a "watch-dog" Scotland Yard who guards the gates
set behind high walls.
WE KNOW.....
Been
of done
The servants call him "Den abound in them. But has religious pictures hung on the villages to the town and home senara who would: cook
the
of the lovely old heuse volcan, likes his meals served crustaceang flown olmost doby dwellings
from the Pacific Ocean, the
A few minutes ago a shadow. on the dot," must not be inter- Gulf of Mexico which is fed by standing check by jowl with tho haunches in the blue shadows,
my typewriter. It rupted when the is writing, weare the Atlantic, and from liker homes of the well-to-do, cach and young girls stride one fell across only shorts, sandals, and a straw high in the mountains.
"protected" by a cross hand-balancing baskets of laundry was Delina's, as she waited for as he sits beside the
on thele hoado, my hands to pauso so that she erinde of pine cenes or palm and vegetalles
splayed by could tell me that it and when Sir Anthony has seen only swimming-pool, and often reads
As for pigeon or dove, tho
fronds and Kaudily-coloured their dusty deat three old friends, Mr George aloud to Lady Eden from his
Journeying from the hills woods
and 1 meet "Don Antonio” end his Curren around Messerschmidt, one-time Amerle memoirs.
them can Ambastidor to Mexico, Mrs
again. on his frozen diet, inner walls.
of the English dishes I Messerschmidi, .
faring well and Merle Antonio"
themselves, and that is all that matters. among
taught her. Oberan, the film star. who was und flod Jim
The Indiana call (as who doce
And mingling with the taxig the married to Senor Bruno Paglici not?) "muy, muy guapo". Lady Eden, his attractive and inue "The Street of the 3low- and shiny American cars, about a year ago and has a very, very handsom
devoted Claris, das left him ing Dog" another," "The little burco, or donkey, carry- beautiful house "hera us well nɔ
but once, and then only for a five-der trip to Yucatan In the Street of the Leet Chliding its bale of hay or load of State of Merida
but none can tell me why; not rewood.
One thing is certain; even' in No doubt the Etchs, dising even the oldest of our gentle
Sir Anthony driven have neighbours; the story is lost in his "bermitage"
cannot acape the church bella!
in Mexico City two miles away;
FEARFUL
However, via the "Jungle-
Perhaps on account of the drum" system prevailing in the markets and kitchens, we "out- 5-health he has suffered in their occasional siders" have learned a lot about recent years he
is fearful of parred down our lane where antiquity.
...
this Uttlo
one
“Which, ono?" I-amfled,
"Ple Ingles," she beamed, and proudly showing off her English she added, "Sick and keeáncij ple!".
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