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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1959.
L&SONLAY
G
WHO
KNOWS
ANO TELLS IN
HIS OWN
UNMISTAKABLE
WAY
IAM taking you away—
for a moment or two
-to
the comparative
I've found
a Clore
who's just
starting to click!
peace of Portugal, where 12 months ago that he storied they don't have trouble a few miles along the coast for
his assault on Estoril. about free elections.
wan
dinlogue is abrolutely authen-
sic.
COVER NOTE
THE notice outside the chang
ing roonis in Estoril'a Tamariz swimming pool states that ladies Imust not wede bikinis and that gentlemen must wear trunks which cover their navels. It also states that these regulations do not opply to girls below the age of 11 and boys below 12.
It then es solemnly 'Except in cases of precocious develop. ment."
Special. Extra OFFER YOU
The label also told me that it
"King's ag" and that it was bottled in Glasgow, where I was more or Jess weaned on whisky.
say that
MY BEST HOLIDAY READ- ING:~~
Lolita, which I bought in the South of France on my way
He selected a site for a new whitch And I want you to meet 300-rom luxury hotel
of will cus HK$10,000,000.
respect is he bid for the concession of the have never seen, or sampled,
casino against a
Then
deeply en-
the take-over king Estoril. His name Teodore dos Santos and he trenched aristocratie group. le prefers to be called Teodore won. No one was more surpris even by his newly-met e thank enemies.
Mark the name well, Teodore of Estori should soon be as well known as Andre of Deau- vitle and Onasris D Arlotte
of Monte Carlo.
I met Tendare in pressive mai
Estoril casing,
the im- office of the He sat behin.f #unimpressive desk looking Hike 31 retired croupier, and
id:-
Teodore-cxrept the deeply entrenched aristocrats.
He said: "Now that I've taken
over I'm going to develop the place. I want it to rival and Cutlass the French Riviera and Munte Carlo."
I said: "I hope you plan to demelish thir eusino. It's about the dullest, dreartest place I've ever lost my money "
The plans
across the blue- the new
He pushed
casino as one of prints for
Which will cos shout a million dollars. With night clubs, swimming cinema, festaurants, pool it looks like being a place where loves can be forgotten -or drowned.
"I'm new to this ensino basi- TICES. Ful I plan to put Estoril on the map the world's leading umbling resorts It has everything in its favour, Wonderful climate. And high-class so- A eusino ciety. All these ex-kings."
It's Ironial that Teodore, som of a peasant, who hasn't a drop of blue blood in his veins, wow about the most powerful inan in Estoril, where in every uther villum ex-king or pre- tender polishes his crown
fields.
The pattern
At
It's also ironical to say the least that Teoduru has followed ther classic American fr - enterprise steerss pattern from errand boy to millionaire semi- backward, buss feudal, autocratic Portugal,
10, after three years in school, the AL 14 running errands for a Lisbon shop, 10, travelling in ladies' hand bags. JD he was operating Portugal's
good+ first leather factory. Ai 27 he was opening the third of a rhain of shops in Liston's Run do Ouro (ag- propriately "street of gold").
During the next few years he pub his money $12 property. Don't they all
1
Now, at 58, he is the Clore of Lisbon with a large stake in the modern city of angular flats Bud office blocks. The 10-storey Embaixador Hotel is his, down to the last bath plug. He built it in 15. It was only just over
EBAYOR BUY
An
He id: " hopa It will
the
luxurious tnost be Europe. I want to attract the big spenders.
"I'm going to have a floating night club to take people from
I staged Lisbon to Estoril
IL
big camival inst year just after But I I got the concession. had only three months to pre- pare it.
"This your it will be even bigger and better. I've already Kot Italian designers and crafis- inc working on the floats and decorations. The whole thing will cost abou! HK$800,000. I'm invitites
over
the world,
"Last year Maurice Chevaller was King of the Carnival. We haven't chosen one for this year,
"It's not easy to find a king. 1nald: "That's an odd re- nurk to hear in regal Estoril."
Troders smiled, showing me his glistening, sturdy dentures. Peasant's dentures.
WHAT'S A NAME-1
Yet I regret
Logan's Whisky before.
to Portught. With
to
my senior colleague John Gor-
do no! think
I also regret to say that It don, 1 not mine. In the proprietary
senise
WHAT'S A NAME-2
I
cable WAS trying to rend
from my hotel in Lisbon, but the American matron had collared the porter first. She said, as they all say:
book should be banned. It is beautifully written perhaps over-written in parts but it is not cheaply pornographic.
BEST HOLIDAY MUSIC:—
The Fado, inescapably. Also the wallz A Small Cafe and Jan other pieces composed by Tiski (Count Jan Tyskiewicz). As I mentioned in this column a few days ago he is the count who danced and talked
with than once
when
"I've only got one day for Margaret sightseeing. What do you re- Listen recently.
commend?"
He asked: "What kind of sights would you like to see?" She said: "I want to see the Palace and the Changing of the Guard
He said: "You should be in London for that."
She said: "I thought I was." I have three ear-wilnesses this testify that
who
car
5125
morc Princess vislied
SALARY SCALE: A private in the Portuguese Army is paid one escudo a day, which is about HK$1.. 50 a week.
.load
HIZEH
R I
ONS
"My car wouldn't start this morning"
The
lommmmm
"You'd never catch me in a suit like that!"
psychiatrists
hit the jackpot
• Are you lazy? Too fat? Blame your mother. Blame your friends. Blame any. one but yourself, say America's psychiatrists. And the dollars roll in from patients
who are queueing up for this comforting advice.
HAVE you ever said that if you won a cash sweep the first thing to do would be to stop work? Have you ever had a headache you knew an aspirin could clear--but told the office you ought to spend the day in bed?
No longer, if your answer is "Yes," need you have a sneaking feeling that you are just plumb Recruitment is brisk. By lazy. American psychiatrists have come up with a theory to erase your guilt. conscription.
"You must not be ashamed of yourself," they say.
--London Express Service),
Now I'm
nearing 60
by
CLARK GABLE
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CRUESEMANN IN ROME YESTERDAY
LISTEN to what people tell me. #
TT was, of all places, in
Lisbon bar called, of all: things, the Monaco that I saw a bottle labelled, of all things,
Leyan's Whisky."
Very Fine воднас
MARTELL
CORDON BLE U also THREE STAR VIOP and EXTRA
..
Obtainable Everywhere Sole Agents:DODWELL & CO., LTD.
I
I guess I've made some bad mistakes, but one thing I have usually managed to do is to take good professional advice. In this I have been lucky in my associates,
When "Gone With the Wind"
came I knew Barrymore
"All that is wrong with you is AMBIVALENČE —– when the forces of repul- sion and attraction appear almost equal in any situa- tion. What you have do is to uncover the hosti- lity in yourself and under- stand it."
to
I am not sure what this means. But it does make you
realise why so many Americans are today lower- ing themselves on to psy- chiatrists' couches.
from CHARLES SCRIVENER
work out which Individuals were creating "the hostile situations" which upset his stomach.
NEW YORK
just the twoft us in crashing silence,"
SAY
The psychiatrists even you should go to see them if It is a sombre thought, as
you have an accident. For they you are having a drink with have deelded that accidents are
a friend, that later in the even- not accidental, but are causert ing he might be marking you by an intense desire to avoid
responsible for his them. down az rumbling tummy.
Dreams
Another plece of advice the hand-
an
If you fall under a bus and break your leg, they claim, the explanation is that you had such a fear of falling under a bus and breaking your leg that you did it with "deliberate but subconselous intent."
The day Inevitably had to come-and it has when the analysts started analysing them- selves,
For how much enaier it is to tell the boss: "I didn't analysts are commonly
ing out is retreat for half come in yesterday because hour every day into a room where you can lie all alone with
At a clinic in Washington the doors closed.
analysts at work are watched The idea is to let your mind through a concealed window by range freely to see if it evoltes other analysts.
conflicts." Then "unpleasant you can pinpoint who was to blame.
my psychiatrist' said I was suffering from ambivalence" than to say: "My doctor confirms what you always suspected I would make any excuse to skip work."
So strong has become the hold of psychiatry on the United States that ordinary doctors are genuinely alarm-
If you happen to fall asleep while cogitating, this can be all to the good-so long as you
dreamn.
The last thing the psychia-
Says their chief: We have found that some patients' prob- leras are so overwhelming that, by the time a session is through, they have been taken over by the psychiatrist himself."
Dumb-bells
So his colleagues have to unravel lum
It is
When you wake up, you should get your diary out again and write down your dream in this fullest detail. Your analyst will want to work out its symbolism when you next go to see him. Why this urge for psychiatry? part of an obsession atrists ever seem to suggest is Americans have with their anxiety keeps that a patient might himself health. Their be responsible for what, if any them in a constant tizzy
all thing, is wrong with him,
Not long ago Whey were sure they were going to die of heart disease if they didn't get weight off-fast. So crash diets were the craze, Business men sat in restaurants eating a heart
I have usually known just how far I could go so that I would not feeled about it.
They claim there are mil- ridiculous. Even then, on two occasions I have felt fear at what I had to do.
lions of Americans who Even so he let me go on and opposite most of the great stars only imagine there is some
Norma afterwards when I like
Shearer, Jean was to be inade I was cast as same ume Rhett Butler. And I didn't was playing in Los Angeles Harlow, and Joan Crawford. thing wrong with them, or
ray have physical ills which round and would be impossible in want to play it at all.
which was the best. All except bottle of medicine would the book had already been so suggested I make a screen tost, widely read that millions had a I was pretty sure this would one-Garbo.
put right. But Barrymore
Garbo of what spell disaster.
was and is unique. preconceived notion
"You'll be wanted She had a magic that no one Rhett was like. I would auto- explained:
But rather than hear this ibat talking pic-
has also ever matched. And for a few dollars, they are matically be up against a mass because now of prejudice.
tures are here a lot of screea aho was a wonderful person.
fuil-they an actor visually actors are going to
me heading for the soft lights, Acting You see,
doesn't interest
soft creates a part; it is an original. Just don't know how to talk."
when I'm not doing it. Of soft couches and I made the test. It was for a role and the audience know
peycho- little, if anything, about character.
Failure
pictures and I try not the film called "Bird of Paradise course I like to go to plays and words of the
As it was, I had little choice
I had to play Rhett But I went
at the part with doubt on my mind,
know.
with Leslie Howard.
The head of the company pro- ducing the film, Irving Thalberg, groaned in his turn and said to Barrymore: "You've lost your mind."
job,
Hard work
to V
Divorce
D
huge
If you'
are too tht, that is of lettuce for lunch. Their wives sat at home eating an your mother's fault.
apple. And the secretaries stayed the machinery going on behind, analysts' consulting rooms.
She had a hostility to you in the office eating a minuscule There they spend HK$144 and tried to cover her gullt by carton of cream cheese,
fuss of you. an hour. Often for four for, makin
Then suddenly the psychia- meant she gave triets stepped in and said a five hours a week for This probably
you too much to eat. So for the fearful error was being made neurosis" Was months on end..
Test of your life, when you have because "diet wanted mother love but not got setting in. of
food it, you have turned to psy- instead.
It's
from
Acting is hard work, to be Ray I had an overmustering unge astonishment I got a call-from studied at the time, even to be to act, I had the desire, I didn't Thalberg.
Bread about, but not to be talked just drift into It.
over for hours.
He offered me contract and made me a star.;
Luck
is that you can
•
talco
Sweet music is relayed into
Socially I utworu few actors, As a result I didn't get the
I Cialike endless discussions
No medical men,
So now everybody who was Anyhow I got offers for other about the technique of acting.
bore. The environment course,
on a crash diet is getting off 11. that deny
Art rushing to gymnasia 13- Perhaps one should not listen ports and then I made up my
of picture-making is such that chiatric treatment is of pictures and go
A case became known recently stead. to fear too much. Maybe there's mind to quit
it is nice to get away
real necessity and value for of a young industrial designer, One chain of gyms across the a moral to this. But I wouldn't back to Broadway where I had
had some
success. The week professional talk.
some patients. But they living with his wife and two States reckons It will
this year from I am 58. Although I cannot before I was due to leave, to my
went to a psychiatrist because men and women who go there to deplore the way it has been children outside New York. Hie HK$85,080.000
he was afraid of heights.
punish themselves in the cause turned into a cult here..
The truth
First the analyst charged him of fitness. For 12 years I neled on the
I enjoy playing my age.
the deep corpofed, palm-tree- In scarcely go to a meal or a party HK$720 a week. Then said his stage before I even appeared in
lined rooms where the men flex pictures. I acted in stock com-
my last picture, which has yot with New Yorkers today without wife should be treated too,
starting to tell you which sent the weekly bill
their muscles on sparkling panies, the equivalent of your
to be shown, I act with Carroll someone
HK$1,120.
To And the inoney proved chrome dumb-bells and press- "rep," and I played everything When I began In pictures I Baker. Ant this time Ira the about his complexes, his hostel-
stach a 'struit Thork the couple machines.
The women climb aboard - a to the book except a Chinaman usually played heavy parts like man who doesn't get the gil, les, or his subconscious.
Of the men who have helped villains. I wasn't the romantic And quite right too. I'm twice-
a man the other day started having, violent rows. me along I would pick Lionel type at all.
who was troubled with indiges- The husband could now go vibrating solloe, which in 40 Barrymore.ng the one who gave
they tim. When I asiced him what to the top of the Empire State minutes gives them the equiva me the most, not so much pos-
Where is to my mind no such pleture is called "But Not For he was doing about It he pulled Building without a qualm. But kent of a 10-mile ride on hor30- sibly in advice as in active thing as good look what are
good looks?" "Wavy' haly, big To be your sto is a good In it he was recording the him. with him on the stage I did an to destroyed for all his looks motto in acting. Yet I seem to time whenever he fell a twingo
remember that when
An actor's impact, can
her age.
Appropriately enough,
24
I met
to
out a diary,
A
to
WHY TOLEN,
+
The man who runs these gym- he would also bave to go with back or nine holes of golf." out his wife. She has divorced masin lives in an HK$1,280,000 Beverly Hill mansion-with- Playwright and Author Ten= of pein, the names of the people nodson Williama says he paid twelve telephones, a swimming pool and, of course, its own gymnasiums. In fact appear on a moss of 50 with grey he was with just before the out lens of thousands of dollars
The slogan he has sold to his Domibly that is who come hand her, no one remarked on that. pain, and what they had said to for paychoanalysis before he
him
realised he was "lying there for perspiring any: Take it of.. some heroes do got destroyod.
His analyst had told him that hours with the psychiatriety Bulld it up. Make it Arm." I was lucky In those early ever any it the other
***(London Express Service). talking picture days to play
-London Express Bervice).
A
support,
In fact when I fest played eyes? appalling thing. I got a terrific pace be opens his mouth unless younger man of 35 I had laugh from the audience-in the he can talk woll. wrong place.
"Oh Lord," groaned Barry more, "why were you wished on mey"
only by doing this could they ing nothing, me sylog `nothing