THE CHINA
NDAY
1960
WOMANSENSE
HUSBANDS: AN INQUIRY BASED ABSOLUTELY
ON FIRST-HAND
EVIDENCE BY THE ONLY
REAL WITNESSES WIVES
ALL day long, from the first com
until the last farewell to the last lata gos man may be wearing that most his public face. Only one person the face of Alfred Hitchcock his wife. knows what life is like
When the master of
MANY years ago,
when Hitch and I were very young, he told me a story about the Lord Mayor's Show."
It was one night when I was having a panle about my dress for a big-occasion
Hitch dinner, and
was trying to calm me down.
He reminded me of these funny old film strips they used to make of the Lord Mayor's Show, with all the coaches and horses and grand people in an enormous procession.
suspense
bolts
his own
door at night
by Mrs. ALFRED HITCHCOCK
the old Players Laski Stúdio at We are very happy to live in
films.
very quiet, conservative person, and dislikes anything or any- body who is ever faintly flamboyant.
He said; Supposing someone Islington." I was a' continuity America, but Hitch will never threw a stone at one of the writer and Hitch was designing become Americanised. He is a horses and the horse tripped the illustrated titles for silent up. You wouldn't really notice the slip-up from the back of the procession, and you certainly wouldn't notice It looking at the film strip as a whole. 'It' would be just one unimportant detall, not really about:
worth bothering
So placid
HAVE always remembered
Soon after that he went into the editorial department and began art directing. We worked together all over Europe.
Hitch proposed to me in the middle of the night in the middle of the North Sea, in the middle of a storn, one Christmas Eve,
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We don't have a swimming pool in our garden and we don't go to Palm Springs or to Il those Hollywood parties. And Hitch. never wears Ameri- can clothes.
Thrillers? No
We were old fashioned enough that story as a sound philo- to be engaged for two years, as Weve in Bel Air. Which sophy and es a typical example Hitch wanted to feel
of the way Hitch thinks.
He is essentially an extremely placid person with a wonderful ft for putting things into perspective and viewing life as a complete thing in which
secure
live in a not-very-large
I
before getting married. We got rim myself with the help of one married 35 years ago, at the daily womat. Brompton Oratory...
Hitch has the most wonder
ful sense of humour. It is sort of off-beat and macabre and witty-the sort of humour only English people have and which Americans ··admire EO much because it is beyond them.
Ho once had a passion for practical jokes, but he's grown out of that now.
He is a wonderful raconteur. He's the only person I know who can tell a dirty story and not offend anyone. I love to hear hen telling stories; he so well and that times them voice of his is perfect.
Most people would be excused for thinking he dislikes children, because he always refers' 10 them as "sticky fingers."
He
fingers all over
The Hitchcocks. They spend hours in the kitchen.
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was as good as everybody' said, as suitable scraps to take home she could start to learn her for them, craft properly, when she left. He always, insists I go along
He kept his promise and Fal went to .A.D. A. for two. years.
Delight
Hitch likes America because, We went to live in America like him, it is informal and
Hitch friendly.
complains about all We have a country bad early in his career.
and loud and long. AFTER her training she show days or good days are not of was getting worried because home in the mountains outside children
films he heard his
were San Francisco, Hitch likes to watches for them to put their ed a lot of talent and worked special importance.
in New York for a while. being played only at the more get up there for week-ends" so famous sticky He has the most completely obscure American cinemas that be can potter around, his nice things, but in fact he
Hitch was very satisfied with balanced mind I have ever instead of the big picture houses. sketch a lille, and read. He adores them.
her, but just as delighted when known and has a talent for total objectivity. He always says he He wont over to discover the designed and but my laundry never wastes time bothering reason and decided to work in about unimportant things. And the States.. he never does.
there.
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Fishing For Stars
--Knarf Takes Wynkyn, Blynkyn And Nad To The Sky
By MAX TRELL
KNARF, the Shadow Boy with
Turned-About name,
told his sister Hanid about it the next morning. But she could hardly believe li,
Indeed, Knart could hardly belleve it himself. It was all more like dream than like anything that had really hap~ pened.
At midnight
"It was late at night," said Knart: "The house was dark. Far away I could hear a church bell ringing. I counted the ringe There, were twelve. It was twelve o'clock.
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Knarf rowed while the Children fished for starą,
"I was curled up on the rug next lo Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and the Cat, when suddenly i heard three little voices. The voices seemed to come from the top of the bookshelf where the big book with the poems and street, I told them. "Ther sky the pictures was lying."
"Please show us where the sky is they said.
"It's outside-outside in the
That was the book I WES It's higher than the highest is on top of the lamp posts. reading before I went to sleep" house. It's on top of every- said Hanid. "I was reading the
poun about Wynkyn. Blynkyn thing. Do you want me to show and Nod. I left it open on the you where the sky is?" bookshell..
Not hue
"They were the three little Children who went fishing for stars in a Towboat. But it couldn't have happened! No one can go fishing for stars!" "I did!" said Knart. "But let me tell you the rest of the story."
"You sold you heard three on his round-the-world trips.ittle voices and you thought He doesn't like to be alone ever they came from the top of the We talk over his work together and I read all his film scripts.
He still accepts my zdviče, on everything
bookshelf" reminded Hanid.
"Don't tell me you went into the rowboat!" exclaimed Hanid. "That's what I did, all right,” said Knart.
Rowed out
"Then Wyn yn gave me the Dars and I rowed out through the door. I rowed out into the higher than the lamp posts and street. Then I rowed up, up, up, higher than the trees and higher than the highest houses until, finally, there we were up in the sky, with the stars all around us and the moon looking at us from the top of a hill."
'Hanld looked at her brother. "Are you telling the truth, 'Kaart?" she asked.
Rowboat come out "Yes," said Knart, "and the next, minute out came a row- them. We do
at it with all Fair Lady." I suppose he's my might. It was dark in the together. Like the man in "My boat, I looked
"Of course I am!" said Knart. grown accustomed to my face, room-but just then the moon "And then Wynkyn and Blyn- kyn and Nod began to fish for Not many things annoy him, came out.
the rowboat the stars. Blynkyn caught them Nod caught them for people's. faults. ›
I saw three Children sitting in in his net. And Wynkyn caught I don't think
he has much the boat. One was rowing. The them by dipping his hands down time for film directors who are second had a fishing line. The into the sky! extravagant with him money,
"I could see
He has a theory that children she married, and settled down because he always finds excuses come sailing across the room. on his hook.
be
should are people and Hitch reads a Jot, His treated as adults. favourite books are biographies. When our The reason, then was that He has just finished reading
daughter Pat was Hitch has never fought for his films only appealed to Queen Mary's life story which 16 she was put in a strange She had it was minority. Ever since he has impressed him very much. With him
Httle whimsy play.
acted before and was Apart from biographies he never
very natural and reads travel books, and all the therefore
and collected rave But he charming Famous Trial series.
notices. never, ever reads thrillers.
Success.
: Inevitable and I suspect that aimed his work, at the vast
deep down he always knew this, international audience. so that success never really overtook him or impressed him,
as a man...
Now when he's working on a
It certainly hasn't changed him scene he asks himself whether they would understand it in We met nearly 40 years ago Japan. If they would. he knows intente, when we were both working at it's a success.
He likes classical music, the involved orchestral works for 'preference.
to have three children.
At the moment. Hitch's xnen delights are his two dogs Stanley and. Geoffrey and cooking..
I took
cooking very and Hitch seriously recently spends hours in the kitchen directing me.
Up
The dogs he spoils dreadfully When the play was over When he goes to a res Hitch seat her back to school taurant he always orders some with the promise that If she thing that he knows will end up
IT'S MAMIE EISENHOWER It takes a remark
WHO HAS MY SYMPATHY
I DON'T know how. Mrs John Osborne felt when the critics said her husband's play was "slovenly." I don't know how Mrs Hugh Gaitskell took it when she read a motion on her local Labour Party's agenda: "This party believes that the resignation of Mr Gaitskell from the leadership is ́essential for the unity and progress of the Labour *Party."
But it was surely nothing to what Mrs Eisenhower, the American President's wife has suffered lately.
by SHIRLEY
LOWE
hanging in my cupboard so that I
to
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Hitch says that if the dim makes a nice profit there will be enough money left in the company to take another film, The thing that simprises me most about Hitch is that he has
Success hasn't- never changed.
altered him and neither has growing older.
spur you on to that disheartens |
last one had a pet at the end of
long pole."
"You said you heard thun talking," said Ifanid,
Knarf nodded his head.
What they said
Kept rowing
And I kept rowing the boat," Knarf went on. "Finally, the moon sunk down under the bill, the sky began to get red -and- the stars were all caught.
"Let's go home! shouted Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod,
"The first one said: "The stars are over here!' and he pointed to the mirror So I rowed them all back where some light was shining. into the house-through the
"The second one said:
door and up to the bookc "No, they're over there, case. Then they thanked me for Wynkyn' and he polated to my help and I got out and they some pins that were lying on all went back into the book!” |the desk and were shiring. . "What," said: Hanid, who "And the third one said:" didn't really believe the story, ""You're wrong, Wynkyn! "happened to all the stars they
you're wrong, Blynkkyo! caught?" The stars are all around "Here are two of them," said only we can't see them because Knarf and he pointed to his of the clouds!"
eyes.
gain that reduction and Yoder wen Wynkyn
DIETING AND DIFFICULTIES
sure enough, when Hanid looked, she saw two the bright lights in her brother's eyes. But whether they were told them that the stars star lights or just the shine of
his eyes, she couldn't telll,
"Then they spled me and the And three of them said: Blo
"Do you know where stars are?' Tthe beginning of a will it better at the waist and take seconds on favourite foods, A reducing programme,
more smoothly over the hips. reason this way: "I can have were all in the sky. You'll feel: glimmer, and this more if I choose, but I really the rewards are few and helps you to form a mental want to lose weight" When you self-denial is uppermost in picture of yourself willowy and look at seconds or rich desserts mind. At this point, the re- svelle. In turn, you will and it as going counter to your goži, mark that you look fatter casier to stretch, bend and suddenly you are not tempted is almost more.
You see, it's a matter of interest. swing into, shape-ups, than a
Now some more psychology This calightened approach real- dieter can bear.
to help you over the rough spots, ly has transtorming power. Try Dieters, it is better not to ex- Supposing you are tempted to it! pect anyone to notice or men- tion that you look slimmer-not for quite some time. And even the worst happens and an acquaintance asks if you've been gaining, grin and bear it. Ad- vance picturing can affect future practice this
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JACOBY
loves and looks after has been present a flattering picture to the the public don't like Ike as much ting exactly the way you convention, you should know.”
through it, but because the de- public. voted wife is so concerned with promoting the public face of her husband that if that face falls- evén as the result of an inter- national slanging match-she feels just a bit to blame.
Effective
It must be the private night promoting his public face is too could handle it and luxuriate in
He sur- that wonderful tobacco smell." mare of every wife to see her much for one woman. husband humiliated, verbally vives or subsides, not by what After all this, what hell it torn apart, and handed back to he says or does but by the ideals must be for her to hear that Mr her balf. the man he was in the and policies he represents. Then, Khrushchev, several thousand it takes a brace of Press agents Japanese, and a lot of politicians public's eyes.
Not just because the man she and public relations officers to and journalists, and members of reactions,
technique: Picture yourself WHEN you use the Blackwood: as she does,
When he stops being Presi-wish to react to any unflattering where you are going. South dent the best job we could offer remark. You've got a secret! You checked for aces and for kinge him in this country is a manager know that ere long, the very and after he found all of them, THEY never do the job as well of a children's home," said Mr person who spoke is due for a he suddenly realized that he real surprise. Hold fast to this might lose a club trick and was as the woman. No amount Khrushchev,
promise: You'll be the winner if wise enough to stop at the small People may say: "It's just 23 of professional persuasion is as
slam. effective as Lady Doroiby Mac smack at the West," or "It's just you let critical remarks serve an
Unfortunately for South, his millian letting us into the secret a smack at Americs," or "It's just a challenge to spur you on.
To keep enthusiastically on play was just as impetuous as that her husband "sometimes a smack at democracy,"
the course, fod wway to his bidding had been. After But there isn't a woman
measure your progress, Do you drawing trumps and cashing all have a test dress? With 4 to 8 red cards, South led the deuce pounds off, a favourite outfit of clubs.: West showed out and South remarked, "I never get the breaks," and conceded twp club, tricks
Dutiful
in
world who wouldn't consider a smack at her husband,
WHEN He's a saleunan and rings up and says he will be
doesn't bother to work too home for dinner alone. And the hard, doesn't make as much then arrives with four people." it money as the man next door, Ur Lady Attlee standing-up for can't afford to send his children Clem: "There is not a person he to a good school the devoted hales, He's not like that." Or, wife dutifully promotes the pub- for that matter, Prince Philip lie face: "Of course, Jonathan is chummily telling us that the far too artistic for this Bort Queen is otherwise engaged." of job. If only the bad time when she was busy having a
baby.
and money to paint/write/run have always thought that an art gallery
Mamie Eisenhower does as good When he's a little man the a job of promoting the President boosts him up to striends and as Prem Secretary Hagerly. She's family with Talk of what he always on the tarmac at arrivals could have done if only he's had; and departures jolly, and jaunty, the education, or the opportunity, throwing open her arms and cry. working Well done, darling. We'r or the cash,
all proud of you”
When he's a big man she tones him down for public ceassum
Defender
---(London, Express Befolce).
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