MARILYN
MONROE
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1960.
ON MIDDLE AGE
by
'I don't worry about losing my looks and getting all flabby and wrinkled. I'm not going to resist it'
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Hollywood. DIDN'T raise the subject, though I might have got round to it eventually. It was Marilyn Monroe herself who focused her Wedgwood-blue eyes on infinity and said: "I'm 34 now and I don't care who knows it, probably because I myself don't mind being 34. I like it."
She said it quietly without Would over-vehemence, which have indicated that she did cate. She also said it in the thera: - teristically breathless way hers which always gives the im- pression that she has just downstairs from the bedroom to meet you.
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"Certainly I like to think now that I'm an attractive Maybe little woman.
I think plumper. But woman should look like
in woman-rounded right places. But I like man to be lean-real lean and tall."
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She gulpei 1 It conditioned stucin air before gh- ing on: She was in the mood apparently for stock-taking, the personal analysis of the woman who is beginning to approach the dresded double-chinard forties.
GRACEFULLY
Mr Arthur Miller, the play- just Mr wright who is never Monroe, came on to the set as if decidedly Jean. eued, locking
She pecked him on the cheek affectionately and said: "Hiya, papa, have a sherry."
She started again without
· prompting.
"Honestly, I like getting older! I don't worry about losing my looks and getting all dabby and "As I was saying, I knew I wrinkled. I'm not going to ru~ sist it: I'm not going to bave facelifts and all that stuff. just going to grow old gracefully. That's a terrible cliche, Isn't it?"
was
I'm
had sex appeal. i discovered helped a lot to get me adjusted that when I was quite young, to fame and all that. I don't maybe 14 or 15. But I always know anything about Jung. Just wanted to be an actress. When Freud. He's the one I believe in
If you've ever wondered what it's like never to have worried about money-listen to the Young Tycoon
AS
S the Law Courts" clock chimes 10.0 o'clock, the young tycoon steps out of his car round the corner in Fetter Lane.
By TUDOR JENKINS
the long, walnut table are about 3 dozen chairs, all upholstered in a startling shade of bright blue.
He is tall and slim and blond. From the clangour of rising sky- scrapers, Joceyln Stevens moves Modernistic? into cloistral calm. He looks in tune with round happily. This is his mind. domain.
Modern
At 28, Jocelyn Stevens is chairman and editor-in-chief of The Queen, the glossy magazine' which between the wars was carelessly left lying about in Country houses and Mayfair homes as a symbol of status,
This is a new home for the old mag.
Of course, But Jocelyn Stevens'
Stevens is a fanatic about his work. He will talk and talk about it with any one willing to listen. "I expect I bore a lot of people," he says.
"Occasionally I have to go to I love" on the banks of the Teat
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one for business reasons. But in Hampshire. Jocelyn and Mes never more than six a year, ' Stevens go down fotrà every
weekend. After his magazine, fishing is his great enjoyment.
His wife was the beautiful Jane Shefeld, a foot shorter He Jnds it restful, a place where than her husband. I remember
as proprietor and Editor-in- the night they became engaged. It was at a party at Grosvenor Chlet," says Stevens.
Ile gathered a young staff House, around him. "None of us had·· Stevens was on crutches after eny experience of the work we
a fall while skiing in Switzer. had to do. But we had abound land, but he threw the crutches ing enthusiasm and Ints of
on one side to do a celebration dance with Jane.
Their
home life would not suit most young wives. Slevers takes home each night a bundle of English and foreign
ideas.
Now he reckons there is no job on the magazine that he cannot do himself.
Reading
He can At that time
He bought the magazine about three years ago. the price was slated to be about I would say the price was little more than half half a million.
that.
Everything is light Set type
and bright and modern. In the ground floor waiting room the
floor is close-covered with bottle Finding the money was no green carpet, the chairs are Henry difficulty. He is rich. His mother Moorish in design, but brighter inherited & third of the residue of the £2,222,000 left by her father, publisher Sir Edward Hulton, who died in 1825.
in colour.
In the centre of a low, circular table stands a large green glass ashtray. When I was there the other day, no one had flicked into it.
In tune
Mr Stevens goes in the lift um to the fourth floor, then walks. up the stairs to his office. He takes off his jacket to work. On the left breast of his shirt are his initials: J.S.
even set the type. After he left Cambridge he took a course at the London School of Printing. That training proved
of immense value during the printing strike. Stevens decided lo print in Germany. For three nights, from 6 pm till 6 am. he a machine setting the
sot at
wype for his magazine.
"Each morning," he recalls, "we had to clean up and lock everything away, so that the German
he can still think about his job. He has another house and other property in the Bahamas.
A large part of his torkne is in stocks and shares. ""They are good investments, says Stevens, and they are exactly the same as when I inherited them. I have never bought or sold a share in my life. I haven't seen or been in communication with my broker for over two years."
magazines. After dinner he sits Confident
reading and studying them.
A bit dull for Mrs Stevens? "She has been very patient with me," be says. "She realises And it is something for a wife
that any work keeps me happy.
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to know her husband is happy." Once a fortnight they give a dinner party at their home in Chelsea Park Gardens. "Eight is the usual number for us Stevens tells me.
"We prefer
to entertain our friends well in our own home rather than give a lot of boring cocktail parties.' workers coming on duty would have no inkling about what we were up to. Had they known, they might have come out on strike."
He is practically the sole owner of the magazine. It is
In Fetter Lane. Slevens tre- owned by the Cromwell Publish-
has ing Company, which
2 quently lunches in the Con- Stevens lerance Room on sandwiches. epila of £105,000. owns all the 5,000 Ordinary "I never leave before 7.30 in the Shares. He owned 99,998-all evening," he says.
two of the non-voting bui Preference Shares until Merch last year.
Fishing
On evenings when they are dining out, be gets home shortly before eight. "A quick bath and change and I am ready by 8.15." He has no time for theatres or musle.
How rich is Jocelyn Stevens?
looks
A separate company after his investments, "When I' to buy the wanted the money Queen," he says, "I simply asked this company to provide the money and it did do."
Many young men with this wealth have become mere play-
boys. Jocelyn Stevens dinds exciting, exhilarating the life he has chosen. Having money be hind him gives him confidence to plan boldly.
He tells me the Queen is a paying concera. "Since I arst bought it," he says. "I have not' had to put another penny into it."
Recently he bought another Before long he aims magazine. to found more magazines. "I have them mapped out in my
he says. mind."
"When the That makes things difficult for But this young
time is ripe, I shall move: his social life.
But he has no ambitions man who once belonged to the Is he a millionaire?
"I don't know," he replies. "I
“For one in the political field. Princess Alexandra set does not
sts Stevens thing"
"I don't mind that. "For one thing" he have never thought about it.
"I cannot stand cocktail That is probably because all my knew anything about politics
years we life I have always known there for another. I would not let any-
He then transferred 50,000 of them to his Marriage Settle- ment Trust for the benefit of says.
In the four We talked in the Conference his children. He has a son and parties. Roun adjoining his office. The daughter.
have been married, my wife and is plenty of money around." "I had never been in the I have never given a cocktail walls, unadorned, are egg-shall blue, the carpet mottled, Around Queen office till I look it over parly.
Eichmann's
In addition to his home in thing distract me from my work
as a publisher," Chelsea, he has a place "which
London Express Service).
kidnapping
I was just nine or 10. living What's that book? The Peycho-T is nothing new, they are saying. Illegal extra: I give you two flashback cases lawyers
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--if had a room-and act out
dition by stealth and force, or, in plain
with foster parents, I used to pathology of Everyday Life"? With or without the cliche, it shu myself in my little
"Sure, I still read a lot when language, kidnapping, is providing the world's will be thinking a lot about today... remarkable statement 3 from a sex symbol, a beautiful senes from the movies I'd seen. I've got the time. Yes, I re- An image who has been copiedt, worshipped, and feted. 1 gratulated her as the only one
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A MISFIT
con-
star
I've met who has philosophically "No. 1 didn't have any accepted the fact that way viction that I'd be a big including all the plastic surgeons, one day, I just wanted to be can make the image last.
an actress and hoped. Kept on
She said: "Nuts. I'm just be- hoping
ing sensible. Facing the facts. "I've still a lot to leam about Anyway, I've never concentrated on being a sex symbol,What is acting. That's what I look for- ward to. That's why I don't a sex symbol, anyway? By the worry about growing old and way, would you like a sherry?"
I won't fight losing my looks.
a character actress like Marie Dressler. Wasn't she just great?".
1 answered the last question it. 1 be
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ABOUT SEX
I had in the way of sex appeal to
member, we talked about Oscar Wilde last time we met. You've got a good memory. I've never really felt Inadequate about lack of education and culture. That's more of the guff that's been didn't marry written. And I papa because he's an intellectual. I just love him for all kinds of reasons. He doesn't select books for me or anything like that.
"Anyway. I went to college and high school. Though that's not important. It's what you learn from life, as a man used to say whom I knew. Or should it be who I knew?"
It was difficult to detect whe-
"No, I don't feel resentful
A lot she
lawyers with their most fascinating talking point today.
→
Is it possible, they are wondering, that there is a cut and dried precedent for the abduction of Herr Adolf Eichmann from the Argentinie?
At once two cases spring up in Sherlock Holmes and Lestrade. their card-index memories. Superintendent Frank Froest was Regina versus Balfour. The under orders to arrest Balfour United States versus Gaynor and and bring him back to a cell in Greene.
ing
Followed
London.
Perhaps somewhere in the vaults of Scotland Yard can now be found Froest's confidential report on his mission.
As soon as Gaynor and Greene were in their cells in Montreal the United States began extradi- lion proceedings. They had known as Gaynor and Greene knew that the two were sale in in 1895 Jabez Balfour was up a faise front of respectability Quebey. After all, the soul of the extradition commissioner of Nothing disturbed their placid Quebec was their solicitor. sentenced to 14 years' penal ser- by giving generously to charity.
And now Quebec-all Quebec, exile until the morning of May it seemed... the police... Far more is remembered of the 15, 1902. What happened then friends of the two benefactors vitude, and that he died in 1918.
case of Colonel Gaynor and Cap is best told by a newspaper re-
... and, of course, their solici tain Greene. In telling, their porter who covered the fantastic or were demanding their re- story becomes a Keystone Cops story that began then.
lease by Montreal, chase.
He wrote: "It was a lovely In 1899, when Jabez Balfour spring morning and Gaynor was had just completed the fourth strolling along Dufferin Terrace, year of his sentence, two men Quebec, enjoying a cigar. Greene
the border from crossed
the had stepped down to the post United States into Canada. They office. were on the run,
Surrounded
harbour construction
"Nothing warned them that in a very few moments they would be racing up and down the St Lawrence River, that special trains would be carrying special
Smuggled
If the United States wanted their extradition they could apply for it in Quebec. A writ of habeas corpus from the Mon- real court should be enough to secure their release. It was.
But now came a new problem. Feeling was running high in
Extradition
Oddly, this first case was also sel in the Argentine. During
Presumably he told his seniors the last decade of Queen Vie- by what trick he managed to Pause for another sherry.
She giggled a girlish, 34-year- torta's reign, one Jabez Balfour, lure the unsuspecting Balfour Marilyn Monroe is unpredictable.
toon board a shop off the coast of Buenos Aires,
They had tried to cheat the constables, that write of habeas Montreal and the Quebec pollos "Let's see, where was 1? Yes, She's an original. She cannot old giggle. "My grammar's still financier, fled from London
the Argentine and how, once the sex stuff. Don't get this be categorised, but she has this good."
Behind him he left the wreck outside the three-mile limit of United States Government of corpus would be issued in be- feared that once the two men wrong. I'm not knocking it. in common with other actresses
contracts. would be imagining an Ameri- Montreal would rise in their That would be silly, it's a great and women. She likes to talk. ther she was being endearingly age of the Liberator Building Argentinian waters, he was able millions of dollars in traudulent Wildering numbers, that Quebec were released "the populace of subject.
When they crossed the border can invesion, and the city of thousands to retain the fugitives Sure, I used whatever
and genuinely naive or whether Society and other speculative to formally arrest his man.
Montreal wondering what all the in their midst." was being calculatingly ventures, with liabilities reach-
they were rich. men. of aver a grand total
On the run
Colonel make an impact. And I posed about being illegitimate.
John Gaynor and turmoil was about. £8,000,000.
"As Greene drew near the post for that nude calendar 50 dollars of famous people have been. naive. Whether she was acting
or not,
Balfour did not make this But it was public knowledge Captain Benjamin Greene dis- Imagine, just 50 dollars--but I Maybe I once did. And I cer-
Quebec detectives, therefore I suspect that Monroe the needed the money badly at the tainly hated being in an orphans original often finds it difficult to journey alone. Not far behind that, a few weeks later, the two appeared for a while and then ice, ave men suddenly
was a man from Scotland Yard men walked side by side off a
before his chartered a train and were seen again in Quebec. They rounded him, futtered a legal- time. I've never been ashamed home after my mother died.
the gas-IR Scotland Yard of ship on to English soil, and that lived a life of luxury. They built looking document
eyes and hustled him into a cab. right, Gaynor and Greene were of that.
hated people talking about her detect herself.
No sooner mental illndes. I suppose I was
It was over in a moment, and smuggled aboard.
safely. back In before the dispenser of charity were they knew what had happened he Quebec than American agents, found himself driven through who had followed, were demand the city to a whart on the river. ing their return to Montreal. "Meanwhile, Gaynor was still But before any action could be of Quebec enjoying his cigar when a small taken Judge Caron
men be boy approached and told him ordered that both Greene needed him immediately released.
TALKING
POINTS
Thou must live for thy neighbour if thou wouldst live for thyself.
--SENECA.
In America, the President reigns for four years; journalism governs for ever.
OSCAR WILDE.
Everything great in the world comes from neurolics.
-MARCEL PROUST.
Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clover thing to say.
WILL DURANT.
a misil once.
"Funny, that's the tille of my next film, the one Misfits.' papa wrote. The Different kind of misfits in Reno, I'm looking forward to that, with John Huston directing. 1 need good, direction. We all do.”
JUST FREUD
1 didn't mention that I had Olivier been told Sir Laurence found it difficult to give any direction in the "Sleeping Prince." But I asked her about the reports which have been tirculating that she is hopelessly unreliable, unpunctual, and Tony Curtis, after "Some Like it Hot," said "'ll never work with her again. She's hopeless and she tries to bitch up the other actors."
Her current film, "Let's Make Love," wilk Frankie Vaughan, has been held up for weeks be- cause of her frequent absences from the set.
"Punctuality? I suppose I'm often late. Show me a woman. VIZIO IST'.
"A lot of nonsense has been written by amateur psychiatrists about why I'm late. Am I being psycho-analysed now?If I were I wouldn't talk about it. That's
private too. I was once, and it
-(Londen Express Service).
“Mind if I phone my office for insizzolivem? Eve never giften Inalám þefore”
"MY NYLONS!!”
sur-
at the riverside, Gaynor hurried
The scene shifted to London.
to the wharf and found himself The United States Government the second prisoner aboard a appealed to the Imperial Privy tug, the Spray, en roine for Council of Great Britain against
Judge Caron's ruling....... Montreal,"
Full ahead
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A legal bussle followed and. finally judgment was in favour of the United States. Extradi- tion followed and Colonel
Now Gaynor's wife raised the Gaynor and Captain Greene faced trial for embezzlement, alarm, the Quebec police were They were found guilty and summoned and the great chase
Pistoris
y
between these cases and that of Elchmann? They cannot,
Balfour, Gaynor and Greene all had to face trial in the countries in which they com mitted their crines,
èrimes Eichmann's "known
began. Policemen piled into served several years in the tugs and even ferry boats. "Tal- Federal Prison at Atlanta,
Georgia. low that tug" they shouted:
The melodrama of kidnapping Up the peaceful St Lawrence, sport, can parallels be drawn between the wooded hills, steamed and sputtered the Spray and her ·labouring pursuers, Every engineroom telegraph, had tung "Full Ahead." pounded, paddle-wheels thrash ed, frames shot from funnel..
But the Spray left them in her wake and as she ran alongside against the Jewish people were the quay at Montreal, waterfront monstrous. But they were not. loafers saw the rumpled figures committed in Teras. That is of Gaynor and Greene bundled the crux of the casThat is the point of law that in Cancións- asdfore by the kidnappers:
Who were their : Tänapperst leg the minds of lawyer very No siever was ever ziren,. It where. wie weld that they were Ameri«/ vih defeckiyos. But why had the
Tom Pocock