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YOLANDE TURNER-in private life the wife of Peter Finch-has just made her film debut in No Love for Johnnie, in which her husband stars. "I play a Bohemian painter," she says, "who makes a pass at him. But he's just not interested. Imagine."
THE CHINA MAILS „SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1960.
**Roderick Mann
Mason and I are good chemistry, says Ann
THERE are some things with which famous names are irrevocably linked. With Mr Heinz it was a tin of beans; with Mr Gladstone,
a bag; with Mr Brando; a torn T-shirt.,
With Ann Todd it is a film. The Seventh Veil.
And she is sick of it!
It is Miss Todd's fate that, wäre, she to hail à Hekshaw on the Shanghai waterfront, the boy would almost certainly say, "Me likee Seventh Veil velly much" (devotees of Charlie Chan will recall that all rickshaw boys talk like that).
Wherever Miss Todd goes, it is the same thing.
And as it is 16 years since she made The Seventh Veil with James Muson, it is understandable that she would like to we remembered for some other things, too.
'been written cbout The
After all, her bright seting marrlagte but et she is runs the Actors' Studio in New talent and primrose-yellow hale there; a Name.
York, where The Method was have kept her in the public eye Happily, I report, she begins bora. for more than 30 years. So hns work on a tew Alm, Taste of "For too much rubblib has innde mey pleairns and Fear. appeared in many plays. But When I talked with her the Method," she says, "And about the can never escure That Film, sata: "I've been, busy enough, ny mother (Pauls Strasberg)-
When Michael Benthalt was you know, going cver to who is Marilyn Monroe's drama- producing the. Old Vic, he America for television, But I'm tic coach. wanted Mirs Todd to play, Lady so happy a good film has turned Marbeth. She was undecided --- up at last, until he said: "When you die, "I have had other offers, or actresses--but you always hear "you don't want your obituary course - Peeping Tom.
mother. for about just
She played floor."
Not a word
"Garbo hud n
too, you
ANN TODD........ bad luck, but no complaints
Is it Percy (or not)?
Toronto.
Babs Beverley talks about love and money
by Ramsden Greig
THE 'man in the Highgate pub said: "Go up Shepherds Hill, take the second turning on the right and you can't miss it. It looks like the back of an Odéon."
In five minutes, I had found the home of Babs Beverley, one-third of what the show-bills refer to as the fabulous Beverley Sisters. Interviewing Babs Beverley is, in certain respects, like talking to that other well-known television performer, Chingachgook, the last of the Mohicans. There she sat, the last of the unmarried Beverleys, all alone in an eight bedroomed house.
know, and so do several other THE "Duke" of Toronto So many proposals
bochise
today denied that hel ofused his uncanny resemb read, She made instance, but it was so terrible Marilyn. She gets very upset lance to Prince Philip to! The Seventh Veit, do you?" flung the script across the when it is suggested that she's That deelded her.
some idadet Svenzall was sell. five-dollar shirts.
Seid handsome, 35-year-old Lady Maneth.
manipulates Marilyn for her
Percy Curtis-a double bus "Not that it made much
own ends."
"People have talked difference," she says now. "That
I asked Miss Strasberg why player:
resemblance our it was that so few big names about Film and my cashing tw
for by the years but it has never been years ago — are bill the only Despite her bad luck, Miss had been turned out
Since the first ploited ads-that would things people remember me for. Todd does not complain. Nor Actors
like being Coshed for does she choose in the manner crop which Included Brando, be going a little too far,"
Rocders of this week's Stan England. I got a letter from Mir of so many in her profession Steiger, and Kim Stanley.
"Remember," she said, "The Weekly Magazine (circulation Hutter and calls from all over blame others for her mis- Studio pully takes three new 930,000) were startled by a full-
fortunes.
year. And tpage, advertisement showing o Two years ago she appeared students every in the West End with
dramatic school man examining a stamp collec- Vivien isn't Other offers too Leigh in Duct of ingels. It was where you. graduate. People go tion wearing. The best five
dollar shirt in Canada,'
Was It Prince Phillip? No-it was Percy. But the caption did
It was
the world."
two
་
down
like 2
Expensive
a miserable experience for both on studying there for years.
"To be a student you've got to of them-for they disliked ench Despite the fact that li is four other.
pass an audlifon, I never dared years since her last film, Mis Tedo still wears the mantle of that Miss Todd turned
And it was because of this enter, in case I flunked." Big Name.
the opportunity of going to I-luck has dogged her for Broadway with the play. years a terrifying car smash, "I don't want to talk about".
producer Herman STIOUS
When she said "I didn't the the row,” operations, eoshing, and three wrecked, at the time, and I'm glad. When Cohen decided to make a gorilla I went to partits people used to picture called Konga over here, say: Is it true Vivien hit you? he went to endless trouble to and all that sort of thing but track down the finest gorilla
costume in Hollywood. I never said a word. She was rick, unhappy woman and I was sorry for her. And I loved The part, eveb though it was such hell on stage."
When everything comes to a standstill,
take up a glass of Grant's. You'll find that this superb scotch whisky, blended and matured in the traditional manner in Grant's famous Highland distilleries, possesses a rare quality that
Grants
Blended Scotch Widy
seems to soothe the day away
like magic --
Grant's
scotch whisky.
The coach
not say 10.
"In some pictures the resem blance comes out stronger than others" said Percy. I've posed for soup aris-washing, you know and clothes and cats.
Let me act'
She hung up my coat, put my wet umbrella in the bath. suggested I take off my rain-soaked shoes and warm my feet by the fire and poured me a drink.”
thing like this:
I couldn't help thinking that to retire. Certainly they have she's going to make a good wife made enough money In the 12 for some man and why hadn't years, they have been in show someone asked her?
business to pension themselves She said: "I. aim proposed to off in comfort. every week, but I'll get married "When we were working at the right high pressure," sald Babs only when I find
Beverley, "we could haul in man,"
You may recall n Beverley £2,000 a week. Now that two some of us have become, shall we Sisters dilly, that went
say, domesticated, we are tak- "God assist the mister who ing things easier. Knitting mit- com.ca between me and my tens and boolees, and all that sisters," Alsa an agreement they, sort of Jazz, you know.
"We've cut out those music- once signed which said that it any Beverley Sister wanted to beli tours and the Sunday con- Recently, we turned get married she must give the charts,
'down an offer from Amerien. others one year's notice,
Now we only accept the cream
and only when the cream Is convenient" (The cream in- cludes an appearance in Dayli Nixon's BBC TV show,
"Then just under a year ago Teddy married her dentist. We are big girls now, you under- stand."
"It wasn't," said Babs Bever ley, "to safeguard the act. The idea was to keep the sister con- verned from Fushing info "I do television work, singing, foolish marriage. But after sla- end playing the bass on country ter Joy's whirlwind · KOMENCE But what with Billy Wright, two years ago And rented it at £350 a week. hoc-down shows,"
all that jazz went sui of the That was Jast March and the want to do, most is net."
Royal parts? "No. I have window. um has only just been com- pleted. So the costume was not never had anything 10 that. returned-despite repeated re-In the last TV plny I was quests from Hollywood-until dressed as labourer." The other day. By which time Toronto - bom Perry, like the renting bill was £11,000, Prince Philip, was in the Navy Before I left she said: "You Why, one wonders was thebut as a bandsman. He does know, I've often wondered what renting firm so anxious for the
some yachting but his main it was about The Seventh Veil. .return of the costume-as, no
sports are golf and ski-ing. I think was the chemistry of other, gorilla pictures appear to the costing. M801 and I be in preparation? sparked together. I did a tele- "Perhape," says a studio was vision play in America with the gorilla was getting cold." him 18 months ago called Not the Glost, and I woe just the seme. We were clapped when we walked into a restaurant after be shaw. But for all
Eddie's fan
I am told that Mr Eddle
that, I would like, to forget Fisher, who is a Jew, is net about That Film."
expecting trouble when he files to Egypt with Elizabeth Taylor for the filming of Cleopatra, On the contrary, he le looking forward to his visit.
There is, I'm afraid, only one way that Miss Todd will ever truly exorcise the ghost of The Seventh Vell.
And that is to make another film as good.
He has fust read an article in a Cairo newspaper stating that I have been talking to Miss Bing Crosby, Marilyn Monroe,
and troself
ara President Susan Strasberg, the walf-like Nasser's favourile performers. daughter of Lee Strasberg, who.
London Express Service).
Ho says: "We're about the same build. I'm a little taller, six foot two. We've got the same fair hair but I've got, a Eitle more of it."
Said
-
All in mink
Easing up
This decision bring their weekly salary down to the de- pressing guro of a 'sonnel. £800. And who's going to re- tire with
That cream Uku available?
"You could say," said Babe Beverley, that we've gone into
Pop singers in general have semi-retirement.
make
a burning ambition to their plle and buy Mu house. The Percy, married to an actress,
have gotte one better. has three young children.
has a house. She also has a selves chartering an airplane to"
get home to Mum in London his Toronto agent: | minic coat, z Everybody here calls him the So, too, have each of the for a cup of tea. We were that Duke, but we've never adver Beverley Shulers.
bury." I'don't tised the resemblance. think the Royal Family would appreciate It.
"We decided to Hart · easing Bevericy Sisters up that day in-Manchester three Mum years ago when we found our-
"He's in tig damang as a model because he's handsome and a good husband and young father type
"When we go cut together we
At this point Joy and Teddy wear identical clothes," said Beverley, accompanied by their Babs Beverley, "So when sister respective husbands and their Teddy got a mink we all had to mimics arrived to take Babe get a miak. Joy, however, has Beverley to the theatre.
Billy bought Miss Barbara put on the edge on us. her another mink as a birthday mink. present."
And I put on my shoes and "Anyway, I don't think Prince
It is frequently reported that left. Philip collects stamps.".
-(London Kapresa Cernice.) - the Beverley Sisters, are going
:.
--London Express Service),
Jeremy Campbell looks at TELEVISION
New York.
Here in New York, I see
something I'd like
to see at home
OSCAR Levant is prob press Mr Gilbert Harding himself
Snake
In short It Is 'splendid telo+ vislyn and I wish we could sea anything 19. uninhibited, unscripted, unehearsed........... mid unhealthy as this in London.
Funniest
The full, rich, secondhand life is lived to the hilton American: "week-eria: tejevision.
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day morning, and I would any“ psychlálřišť's couch, he wins for- Jack Paar show, Päär, called
consideration and "Theta Cupar Lavant „going pretty well harmless. 4, palienet,
lunch. ably America's lead-
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Ginger Rogera audience" and insults his ucts a very neurotie man who is be anion about Elsa Maxwell Bob Hope has been court whenever the mood takes him, famous for having nervous just another pretty face Jester to inora thay ona" The guests sometimes, eminent, breakdown.”
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