Wait until his fans see this
FOR seven torrid days
behind closed doors at Shepperton Studios rock 'n' roller Cliff Richard (aged 18) has been reclining in the arms of metallic blonde Yolande Donlan (aged 36).
The occasion has been Miss Donlan seducing Mr Richard in a reproduction of the penthouse suite at the Dorchester Hotel for scenes in the film Expresso Bongo.,
This represents some- thing of a departure in styles for both parties. Mr Richard, with the wide.
open face of everybody's favourite nephew, must count himself professional- ly the property of every rock-conscious teenage girl.
At the gates
Hardcore members of this female fan brigade have waited daily outside the studio gates.
TIC
to
WAS
They would tear pleces if they knew what going on," said Miss Donlan who the is normally presented as ebullient dumb blonde with the most conventional love interests.
Added Mi Donlan "The situation Was pre:ly delicate. The scene needed a lot of thought otherwise it could easily have become tasteless and sordid. I decided to try and suggest zune of the suppressed maternal Instinct that lay at the back of the woman's mind."
will
This concession, I fear, not save Miss Donlan from the wrath of the nation's teenagers.
David Tomlinson has moved into the Ministry [I Atomic
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YOLANDE DOKLAN and CLIFF
KICHARD Departure in styles London Ezoiety Service,
FILM PREVIEW
by GERARD GARRETT
A
·THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1959.
Roderick Mann
REPORTING FROM A HAPPY-TAX LAND WHERE TOP STARS ABOUND
AMONG THE EDELWEISS
I'll always have
to work, sighs poor Mr. Holden
Lausanne.
FEW miles from here along the shores of Lake Geneva-at a tiny village called St Prex-William Holden is preparing to move into a magnificent two-acre lakeside home.
Only a yodel or two away along the lake towards Montreux, Mr Noel Coward is patiently sitting it out at an hotel in Glion, awaiting the completion of his new house.
Somewhat closer, at Vevey, Charlie Chaplin and his ever-expanding brood are happily ensconced in a large and expensive estate.
Towards Geneva live Richard Burton and Peler Ustinov. And no distance away
are the assorted homes of Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, George Sanders, orid Sophia Energy for a fla, called Follow That Horse. It debunks
Loren, the guardian of our, If-bomb stock-
As you see, if the Swiss ever decide to go into the picture business Hollywood had piles.
better watch out. They have the money here and now they have the talent too. And He, and most of his
they cannot go on for ever simply making cuckoo clocks. colleagues, have been moved into the job from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Will people and a light- hearted approach to the H-bomb a little too tough to swallow?
"I think people can get over- Intense about something like this," said producer Thomas Clyde. After all, we inake jokes about war but that doesn't mean we approve of 11."
MIJANOU BARDOT, sister of Brigitte, has turned down a part in the Hollywood film The Private Lives of Adam and Eve. She said: "Both the role and the costume are too small."
~(London Expres Servies).
It is not, of course, just the yodeling nit edelweiss which have attracted this gagile of.
fim talent to Switzerland
This one of the few coun tries left in the world whore ene can go in for that quaint old custom of saying money. P- sonol tax is trifling. Even Live biggest money-cammers out here probably pay a lot less tax in a year than Charlie Clore leaves in
the Upo
Dorchester cloakroom
WRAPPED UP
Tonight, as durk settled upon the lake and necklets of light sprang to life along the far shore," William Holden came by for a drink.
"I assure you wasn't simply the tax benefit that brought me
here, he said. "There were two other considerations.
HOLDEN ....._LDREN
of Europe as some kind of back- ward civilisation. Most of them sald we were mad,
"I don't mind that, of course; what I do mind is all this stuff about my being 妇 Intll!onaire
"In the past 10 years I have travelled around 100,000 miles a your looking after business in forests and making pictures. 1 spent less than two months o
and fleeing here to escape taxes. year in America, and I hardly Two people low very well that ever saw my wife and sons. I'm not a millionaire; me and
"Well, I decided that wam't my bank muger." good enough-and I knew that if had them in Europe I would see them more often, Also, my, boys are 13 and 15 and I wanted them to have a wider kind of adnextion, than they would get in the United States.
"What
the reaction among your friends in Holly- wood when you left?" I asked. "Well, they are so wrapped up in their washing machines and power-operated cars they think
P
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...And For Your SO SERIOUS-WHEN
Bookshelf
THE LOPSIDER. Leopold
Louth, Gollancz. 16s. A Lopsider
is not quite certain whether he's
SAFARI HOTEL
"But after the
succcia of Bridge on the River Kwal, you must be quite a healthy dis- tance from the breadline. You had a percentage of that and it made a lot of money."
Indeed. it did," said Holden, "I make around HK$192,00,- 000. And I made a lot of money from it. But I also paid a lot of tax."
TWO
STATESMEN GO A-WOOING
en insider or an Outsider, s0 | MARYANNERY. By D. H. Elletson. Murray, 18s.
"he has one foot on the pave- ;
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wife,
п
and
ment and ose in the guller."
Equipped with phoney public school university background, and magnificently crooked friend,
Lopsider Fortunatus Cecil tries, with mixed success, to avoid the regimentalions of the Welfare State, There is nothing angry about his adventures--they are extremely funny.
B ENJAMIN DISRAELI meets his future wife:
"I was introduced to Mrs Wyndham Lewis, a pretty little woman, a flirt and a rattle. She told me that she liked silent, melancholy men. answered that I had no doubt of it."
by George Malcolm Thomson
Searching for I
KATHHER
CHAPLIN
SUBTOK
КЕЛЯ
"Could you retire now {} you wanted to."
"No I couldn't. I just wish I had the money they all say I have. I'll never be able to retire. I'll live well, sure. Bot I'll always have to work, how- ever well my films do.” "What about your business interesté?"
other
"Well, TVC FOL a radio In Hongkong and an
slation
Interest
in
outfit In Tokyo.
own an
hotel in
electronio
And I
Kenya
which wo are developing as a safari
hotel for Americans. But though I've 'rol' a lot of that doesn't mean Interests, I'm a good business man.” He was quiet for
a moment, For contemplating his drink out on the talos the steamer from Geneva was ploughing towards Montreux, a lights dancing on the dark water,
"I like this place," he said. "My wife and I aren't as young as we used to be, you know. Neither of us wants to jurap through hoops any more, We just want to watch our sons grow up. I want to. fish and have a boat on the lake and Uve life a little more fully."
NO RUSH
Suddenly he grinned. "For tunately," he said, "in terms of cinema, I'm just coming up to the right age. [He is 41.3 When I first went to Holly- wood before the war to mako Golden Boy the average age for a screen hero was 30. Now it's nearer 50.
"Nobody nowadays thinks it at all odd that people such as Cooper, Grant and Gable-uil over 50 should be romancing girls of 20.
BIT heiress, snatched the prize for which up to go. Disraeli had stumbled on some- half hundred sula in Paris one infinitely mare precious, were thirsting: she became the this place," I asked.
mistress of Louis XIV.
came
"Before the war it would have been considered pori- tively Indecent, Then you were on your last bere at 50 - an ageing character actor," He finished his drink and got
"What do you like most about
"The other day," he said, "Y! Abraham Lincoln meets his Distacll's views on marriage "Sympathy," he said after
tree in the future
was cutting down wife. "May I dance were hardly more
This feat, Inter performed by promising, Mary Arme's death "goes before with you the worst way, Miss then the American's. "As for beauty or talent, Sympathy countless other languishing and grounds, sawing away liked mad
ambitious Todd?" "And he certainly did," love," he wrote to his sker, and that is what I have had.”
get it finished. Then my wornen, has to young
the ack Miss Todd ster, thinking "ali my friends who married for
made Louisa a favourite subject wife
up. 'What's
• ANGELS OF PROVIDENCE. of the damage done to her pretty love and beauty either beat their
for sentimental biography. This, hurry?" she sald, this Francis Bluart.
Gollancz. 16. shoes by the uncouth, gangling wives or live apart from them.
the latest, is no worse written (Switzerland, not America, Finish Micale-aged clerk with artistic young lawyer. Mr Elletson has, I may commit many follies in Poor Abraham Lincoln wLS leanings. man-crazy cousin, had the idea of bringing to life, but I never intend to marry hot so fortuntie. His wife, Mary simple but good-hearted Irish gether In a book the two women for love, which I am sure is family
together in whose marriages began in these guarantee of infelicity," decaying manalon owned by incidents. It proves, however, cantankerous miser who stub-to be a bad idea.
He had, however, a very slave-owning family. She was bornly refuses to die, Subse-
powerful motive for marrying wildly extravagant and mental For when cne can quent goings-on,
had.. the two Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis, a ly unstable. follow
them through misis of women in commentThey were; widow 11 years his senior. He whimsy, seem to suggest that the wives of eminent statesmen was heavily in debt and she had
the Christian happiness lies in doing what and they shared
names of Mary Annc. It is too comes naturally.
frail a link.
fetch
RANDOM AT BANDOM. Oliver Anderson, Barker, 12s. dd. If you like humour to b outrageously whimsical, with *noughly 1620-ish jokes, you will
enjoy this.
what
Their influence This suspicion seems, indeed, to have visited Mr Ellelson him- self, because he very soon drops arry serious pretence of exhibit ing one of his heroines in terms of the other.
£5,000 a year.
He protested to her that her fortune was too small to benefit him in the slightest degree "all that society can offer is at my command."
Extravagant
than most of its kind.
alive
confirms the
One cannot pretend that t Ann Todd ("One 'd' is enough for God: The Todda demand paints a portrait that is either
exciting, admirable or from a Southe Butt amply. two," came
suspicion that the splendid court of Louis was one of the most boring ineuitutions on earth
-{London Expreza Service),
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She was a prey of spiritualists and all sorts úr kúdventurers. And she was insanely Jealous of her husband.
"You know very well, Mr Lincoln, that I do not approve of your flirtations with silly women, just as if you were treeh from school." She Sew into a The truth is, however, that
violent rage on hearing that the two years of their President within
had, granted. al lady marriage, Mary Anne had raised permission to visit her huboni £13,000 to help pay Disroell's at the front. "I never allow debts and had promised to find the President to see any woman. as much again.
alone.' But very soon it was clear to
Mr Elletson does his best to
● APPOINTMENT WITH DIS- HONOUR. William H. GRES. Instead he writes two separate (Out tomorrow.) essays about two, women who Thriller about a British colonel, werd us different as could be -seized ba o hostage by EOKA, from one another and in their all London-that this marriage make a defence of this unhappy, tiresome wemIRIS. who tries to prevent the last-influence
their husbands'. between the garrulous, middle- eurotic and
aged widow and the cynical, but all that emerges from his that the Lincoin over-dressed young politician account Lincoln was a disastrous was a success.
Its roots might marriage was miserable in the and Mra Disraeli
4 have been sordid, but its fruit same degree as the Disraeli
mariago was hoppy. was splendid
minute rescue of a gunman zen-|ives.
tenced to death.
Mag
Mr Gage is a rather pedes trion story-teller, but his detail-wife-
ed description of Cyprus during brilliantly successfult,one.
the emergency is excellent.
Mr Elletson's book should not detain many readers for very
It is true that Mr Lincoln "Dizzy married me for my had probably the harder task of money," said Mary Anne, "but long, THE BIG COMPANY LOOK, the two. Lincob's approach to if he had the chance again, he
of, matringe, was would marry me for love," J. Harvey Howella, Michael the busines
Another novel pessimistic in the extreme. The
Joseph.
Louise again
dealing with that "American highest praise he could give it She enjoyed his social THE DEVOTED MISTRESS, absession: the rewards. and was that he saw no objection successer. Joved to see him... wtih
「!,
A Life of Louise de la Valliare. By Joan. Sanders. Longmans, 25%,
than younger and prettier women;-
and knew, precisely her value in One young woman whom he his life.
“Most Morten - don't understan had counted to this doleful way said afterwards; "Mr":"Lincoln stand giving: either they don't. A LTHOUGH she had a In wis deficient in thord little linke want to give or they gen i know, de a tight, figure, fin untertain that make up the chain of a how. Now I want to give and I ancestry and no outstanding w woman's happine
Loriise de în: Valilere, aged 10,
penalties of. the rat roca, This bo it. time the setting is the wholesale grocery business, and the 'sub- Ject a ruthless young marketing man who gets, to the top over the bodies of his friends,
--(London Sapress Service),
know how most exactly.”
it tomorrow."
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"So I put my saw away and went and sat by the mountain stream that runs through our grounds and drank a beer, And 1 knew she was right. This is Switzerland and there's no rush.
That's what I like about this. place.
--(London Express Service).