THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1959.
ASY
“How come nobody in this house ever wants to elope ?"?
SINATRA: he can
charm the birds
out of the trees!
FRANK SINATRA had his back against the wall. The wall had a look of luxury about it. It belonged to the private dining room at M.G.M.'s studios in Hollywood.
Frank Sinatra was smiling. He was talking to newspaper writer about a rapid tour of Australia, a picture with Gina Lollobrigida, televi- sion, and baseball.
Then someone mentioned Ava -Reader, Lough Gardner. The smukio froze on a face.
Almost menacingly he moved forward; then, with remarkable restraint, he sald, "Tennis, anyone?"
Holken" is trigger-happy when bo discusses say thing with you. Strong indeed are his opinións and convletions.
Loog ago Sinstra and ↑ agreed to disagree on certain subjects. One in particular 18 his bitter resentment of
He cites £nd British Press. Lady Batty Incident. bartorial I admire his loyalties and
applaud his principles.
From where I sat, a low feet away, with cherry and smoked salmon and rye toast to regate myself, Mr Sinatra was an in- teresting study in splendour, charm and sudden
moods.
His toning hair was parted bigh on the right.
His crisply cut sail, dark grey tropical worsted, Aited him perfectly.
is shirt collar was high. His
to
guy from When Lady Adele Beatty went to Hollywood to stay with her old friend, agon! Minna Wallls, the Press wanted know
Mr all about it from Sinatra.
Marriage? "Hell, no, we are good friends," he said.
Ho the
toolled down to Pain Springs in his fast car and entertained Lady Benlly Minna
his Palm Springs palazzo.
Guards kops the Press away, But, sald Miss Wallis "A British reporter kept on hound- g Adele and me, and even came down to the Palm Springs Biltmore to spy on us while wo were staying there."
GOOD EXAMPLE He states them with remark- able clority.
He is a good actor and will
silver-prey tle was worn in a discuss a role with his director,
Windsor knot.
Is cuff-links dazzling,
were
single diamonds
set in a rectangle
of platinum.
His right hand
gleamed with
u
diamond set in a
wide white-gold
band.
MICHAEL RUDDY
ni
and
"Sure, Frankie likes dumes
and guls," say
of bla one cronies, "And domes like him."
Begins the story of one of Hollywood's most colourful, controversial figures
Just as in "Tho Tender Trap," there are gala popping in to se hira at the Villa -Capri, at Puc- clul's, at ihe studio,
His black semi-brogue shoes yet Invariably interpret the part location, at Palm Springs.
were hand-made.
The Success Look.
0%
He is a good father, spends as he abs it.
time with his A good example is his per- considerable
in "Samo Came children, -- often, appes re at the formance
Purent-Teacher Association, and Running."
I'm told there was a good, energetically encourages Noney successful star in show business. deal of disagreement between 19, and Frank, Jr, 15, in their
He
And there is no doubt that Mr Sinatra, neur bankrupt seven years ago, is the most
in president of half T Slantra and the director, endeavours. dozen production companies, in Vincent Minelil,
There werO Kent cluding
Inc., Sussex, Bome compromlacs but the Dorchester. F. S. Enterprises character he plays is a Frank Inc., Kenins and Hobart Inc., Sinatra portrayal,
What Is the quality in the his music publishing company.
Ho 15 director of public Sinatra make-up that women relations for a luxurious Las ilke? Vegas gambling casino, the Sands Hotel, and is also an Im- parlant shareholder.
HIS HOME
He is one of the owners of Hollywood's best Italian restaurants, the Villa Capri, and co-owner with Peter Lawford of Puccini's Beverly Hills' lead ing aan restaurant,
He owns a magnificent house 'manzo in Palm Springs, as well as several blocks of spart
Saya Deborah Kert, who co- starred with him in "From Here To Eternity":
He loyalty is boundless. Judy Garland told me of the time she had a nervous breakdown and was in a Beston hospital.
"I don't want to sound bitter, but a lot of people forget you when that happens Not Frank. He sent me roses every day. He telephoned me every day and when he came to New York to do some recordings, he borrowed Arthur Godfrey's 'plane and
"There's a curiously tender and vulnerable quality about Frank. I think women and it came to see me. He came in rather touching. I know I dit like Sonta Claus and he barely while worlding with him.
made it back in time to New
"I think this touchica the York as the airport was forged audience and they want to in." touch back, sort of identifica- I have often wondered about
inner conflicts of ion with him. He is so like the
the
young men we have all known.' Sinatra make-up. I was present in Beverly and an opulent Grace Kelly told me, "Frank a an occasion when a columnist asked "Frank, what makes you tick?"
Sinatra, looking at him hard, snapped:
menis.
is the perfect companion in a movie. He is wonderfully help ful and considerate in rehearsals and so reassuring in the actual
cen
His carnings annually from films, recordings, Llevisión and concerns
at are estimated
around two million dollars.
"And to slog with him is a experience. Ito In his garage are three cars, marvellous
coch cquipped, with private cerns to take you by the hand telephone and short-wave radio, through a song, with a jole de one, an estate wagon, vivre that is contagious.
In
there is also a higli-fidelity HANDSOME?
rocurd
Emali player and...a
-refrigerator.
Handsome Is
as
Included in his favestments are several radio stations, an does: electronics company and plastics concerti.
When The Thin Map" ` BRYS he is busy, I can wall under atand it. One of his qualities is frankness.
handsome
His ears protrude. His upper His neck, is lp is over-long. badly rearred. He is as skinny vs. o light-wolght,
———“What makes me uck? What do you think I am, a clock?" And walked away.
His old frierid," Mannio Sacks, the recording company executive who died last year, told me fals in 1983: "I have known Frank since he was gettinć around ten dollars week'singing in road- housan
"In the last ten years, in fis profession and in himself, he has matured."
vitis attitudes: have mollowed," "but the barle qualities in Frank haven't change. He is as |challenging "as he ever was. “
*HD* was just as certain of Often, he reveals a cocky i nie talent when he was a singing You know exactly where you pertinence But as one of my waiter at the Rustic Cabin, stard with him.
friends a veteran observer of near Hoboken, as he is today at By the same token, he can the Hollywood secat says, ho the Sands Hotel, charm the birds out' of the (goda - "war horn with talent, hos
*Pratike Sinatra, the real, man
and has the most glamorous developed complete confidence that I know, generons to women an admirera, 200
In that talent. and he has fault, who in't happy unless "The key word to Frank direct line to womta of all hela doing something for you Sinatra noted actress whe varieties ahd-on all levels-bus in bibawa, way, and no han workbod with him told me, i Wibe how word in IF. He is a Frank Sinatra nas been linea rónó cùis tell him the way—pe is most Ikacinating man, IF he romantically with more than 'a wants to be, 15 he feels ho it."' reory of bosutica gioco his port Amy C. talkind to him at the win, "Nanoy, divorved blm, tec requplion' I 'coalred that this years, anN
KUD MONDAY:
The Early Yearn
FRANK
London Toprum Bervice.
SINATRA-zinger, actor,
charmer.
FOUR D. JONES
TARNATIONE!!
AN IRON HORSE, BY. 40SH YOU BOYS BURE AFUI WELL, SÉQUIPEDA
NORTHERN
FARES •MORDIDE,
NOTHING IT THE BEST FOR US BLOKES. C'MON I WANT TO BE AT SCOTLAND YARD BY THURSDAY,
FERDINAND
BRICK BRADFORD
STHEK OF THE
WHAT DO YOU
MÁNY SYRETH INSTI
Vibrant, vulgar Mermaid
THIS is the time of the
year when we, who' live in London, wonder whether there are any
i
This is what the eminent painter Sir Albort Richardson has to soy about it: There is
Canadians left in Cara- Once again the astonishing expression of London itself da. On the streets, in Ingenuity of the Londoner was when the office workers havo to be seen in tho Interior of scattered to the suburbs and the the parks, in the shops, the theatre. In the foreground crowded City can stiuso in quiet the theatre and the con- was a circular stage such as they as night so falls.
had in London when Will cert halls, to say nothing shakespeare curao to Town from of the Houses of Parlia- Stratford. Behind a glass parti
tion was an orchestra where the ment, the Canadians are players could gaze on the river nothing more exciting in the everywhere.
when their instruments were whole range of pleasure than mute. In the programme we recreating the Bones of other We expatriates are de- road the words spoken on the times. That is why the theatre
opening night by the Lord has a fascinations lighted to hear the gossip Mayor in all his glory:
of his own, excolling by far the most recent of our native land and take "A company of strolling mechanical substitutes," a special pride in letting our kinafolk gaze at the Rivor from the Terrace of the House of Commons or moter them-through-the-luscious... – parks which were left to us by the profligate Charles II and, of course, the good Victoria.
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which
London Letter
by SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.
players, we are told, secks to entertain the people of this cliy hore by Puddle Dock. We bring this Mermaid. Take her upon this theatre its right and proper the stage so that you may give
name."
The Parent
Then he goes on to say: "My father took me as a boy on one of his exploratory walks in the City and had explained that in the olden time Thames Street was noted for its ulmhouses as well as the theatro near Puddlo Dock known to Shakespeare and Ben Johnso11.
But the Puritans never ceased
in their attack on the theatre as an initution which glorified
The only objection to this an-
Invasion is that Canadian visitors, sometimes ask the Impossible. For example when Mr and Mrs C. turned up trom Toronto not long ago they coolly suggested that they and the Baxters should go that very evening to the Mermaid Theatre That was the christening of had just opened for the first theatre in the actual business on that part of the City of London for three hundred sex, ridiculed virtue and drew North Bank known as Fridlo. years the City of course being the thoughts of men to grossess Deck.
that financial portion of London and lechery.
Yol the Patiently we explained to which is a whirlwind by day
'gentle "Kents' 'was them that the opening of the and a descried mausoleum after moved to an almost robust Thestre by the Lord Mayor in dark. Now I must pause in my rapture when he wrote: all his robes had given the new narrative wallo the actors born Theatre such send-off prepare themselves for the that it would not be possible to play.
pet sents for a performance wa➡' der, a month at the very least.
Toronto
we agree that today is the
was the "But in the
As these particular Canadians parent of tomorrow then it must were from
they follow that yesterday probably pictured some
today. kind parent of of a lonely theatre opening for world of the theatre wo are opt busineso
like to look back upon Shakespeare Ст something Front Street, Toronto, over as the only dramallat of the past looking the Bay.
that really mattered.
Swirling
Next morning our Canadian
The truth is
the that Elizabethan cra WEE 10 vibrant, so daring, so limit=
"Souls of poeta dead and gono. What Elysium HAVO ya
known,
Happy Nelds or mossy cavern Choicer than the Mermaid
Tayoru Have yo ippled drink - mora
Ano
Than my boat's canary wine??
Too Soon?
for
may be too soo Les in imagination and 10 Canada or Australia or New Dotisummato in the arts of Zealand to look back upon the war and peace that the over- centuries. To them the glory powering story of Spain was is yet, to come. Yet aheady destroyed and she never re- the history of these countries is covered from it
rich in memory, But obviously in the period there
| friends telephoned us, "We have four seats for tonight at the Mermaid Theatre for Lock up your daughters. We shall meet you at the entrance." Some day
But the newly born Mermaid was a bawdy vulgarity Theatre,
Puddlo the future In
Destling bunch a
of
which dominated the arts in Dock, brings the past to life. Canadians will probably make n
general and continued long after-. Dickens would have rejoiced in take-over bid, for Landan.
“Lock up your daughters" is wards when Henry Fielding not to hearty vulgarity, Shakespeare „NTILIC playa Lava on the basis of twice nightly only wrale "Tom Jone but would performances, the first at 8.20 also this play "Lock up your especially for it, and even Ber
Daughters, under its original nard Shaw would and the second at 8.40. So the uue of "Itape upon Rape, cocted something for it were ho
two Baxters, sei off their own Fielding's play at the Mermaid still alive. car and joined the swirling
have con-
so healthily maelstrom of out-going motors is no coarse, yet
The Thames is more than: a we roared with river, it is liquid history, When on their homeward way to the vibrant, that
dark forgot to blush. the
comes one hears suburbe, and the incoming tide Inughter and
shouts or a lug bont of motorists en route to London No one could call the play a strango
masterploco but it had a vulgar drags its rafts of lumber past for a night out in Town.
and under "Mermaid" But our Canadian friends had buoyancy which was like a fust the
to the occasion. With of wind from the sea,
Waterloo Bridge. Tho mlat on that swift adaptability which But what we have to ask the river lends a mystery of its characterises Torontoniana they ourselves is whether the newly own to the moon as it looks from had found a spot marked "No created Mermaid Theatre, built its lofty height upon the river
the North Bank of the thr is London's main street. Parking" which could just take on
Welcome sweat, vulgar Mer- our two cars. Thus we were ablo Thames, is a mere piece dỉ show
have happy to enter the
ald! May you to lure the tourists theatre with no manship
Jears in Puddle Dock! worrice on our minda.
from abroad or whether it is an
by MADDOCKS
SOGA, KAI WILL HAVST TO GO
UNDER THE SEA. THAT JUST AINT POSSIBLE, JENP
WELL OF STAINT
YOU AH TÄRK GOING TO GET WEY, JUST. GIT AND STUỜY THE ADVERTS. IT TAXES MY MIND
OFF MY FEET.
-NEW
Lady Sheaffer
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