THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1060.
SUSAN BARNES listens in to a star and a psychoanalyst
'My friends? They can be dukes
** Do not think I am yet a perfect specimen, but I am better.". Shirley Anne Field pressed her hands together as if she were praying and lowered her face so that the beautiful, copper- coloured hair fell over it. I noticed the crookedness of her little fingers, both of which were broken when she was a baby.
The psychoanalyst who was dining with us waited for her to look up again. Besides being pretty, Shirley Anne's face is singularly appealing.
ant
mut
conient
with myself," she continued.
It was not her physical welt to which she referved. Nor her seling (although It Improved so radically when she smeared with Olivier in The Entertainer that she was chosen to play the female lead is the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Man in the Moon.
Shirley Anne was talking about the improvement of her usyche. "Before I had psycho- nalysis," the said. "I used to be treid of the dark."
"What Frend would call the fear of death, the psycho- analyst interrupted,
you
**YCE." said Shirley Anne. "And I
was diffcunt because people
of don't approve knocking on thelk door and say: ing. I'm afraid to sleep alone.
"But since my treatment can manage to sleep on GW."
I
my
"Yes," obligingly
Fald Shirley Annic. She has particularly
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suit Shirty She ment it my father had I wont into rep. After that they
nice manners,
"Are eyelashes?" asked the psycho- analyst.
"Certainly," Anne and again hilarious laugh.
"All of them?" psychoanalyst.
she gave her
be enough
peraisted the
Shirley Aane tugged at her excoptionally long loshes, and when none of then came out,
appeared psychoanalyst the susfied for the moment.
general
*1 my entire life." Shirley "there's bean Aime went on,
daughters-there were wary of me.' were two before me. He wanted a son instead of me,
"I can remember alro my
Mio too. mather being hit.
"Did you like being asked the psychoanalyst, "I didn't. actually," Shirley Anne.
"""Who's 'they?" anked the psychoanalyst,
"Oh, people around town,' "Why they wary hit?"
"They resented my having As long as sald become legitimate.
I was an untrained starlet with a gimmick, it was all right. But rs soon as I began to educate myself to be an actrees, they resented it."
"A psychoanalyst," said the naychoanalyal, "would say you had a niort disturbing back- ground,"
'wouldn't agrec," said only one man that has really Shirley Anne. "From the ages influenced me I've always ane to 75, the average wasn't so thought of him as my guerilan. bad. I was happy in the He taught me everything,
children's home. After my own home, I was relieved to be in an "He was
400 urphanage. There were adeled.
others like me." "Hold were you when you Jenew him?" asked the psycho-
Spontaneous analyst
Shirley Anne threw brek her head and gave the deep, sp-
generai," she
"You mean," said the psycho- analyst, it wasn't an unequal How long were you
contest.
- the "You
sald mean," Dschoanalyst, "that ma soon as you went into rep of your own accord, as soon as you went into clean water so they no longer had the chance, themselves to remove you from murky water, they resented it."
-or
dustmen'
times people think I am lyinst. because I present 1b them only one aspect of myself. But when I always I were fantasica,
the truth. weave them around If I say something, I believe it while I'm saying it.
"Actually," the continued, although i claim I am from the working classes, I sometimes "werder whether 1 am not uslog snobbery in reverse, Bezsunto apparently my mother was from quite a fine family.
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"Since I left the orphanage "Yes," agreed Sitlrlay Anne. Itled doors have always opened people have always treated me to me. I am a classless person. as a figment of their imagina- I associate with titles or intel- analyst, is that though post against my own standards and
would seem to admire positive go the offer way." "I was 15," said Shirley Anne,
on, I must have a Pygmalion lectuals or
oratators."
spiritual values, the effect on them."
actual
'But you must not worry too "I've always Ilked older men. there?"
seenis much about it, dear," said the You see. I never had a father in
the (Shirley Anne has an engaging, living of your "Sonic "Ten years. I was 17 when I
people," said
"Count your the crdinary way. When I was a
blessings. With your background taneous Jough that compels baby my parents put me in a left. bersme & tharthard- psychoanalyst, "naturally evoke way of pronouncing some words to be contrary to them. This psychoanalyst.
as they are but as they isn't a criticism." Then 1 won beauty in others a maternal or paternal not
pow could have been a street- anyone around her to burst cut babies' home. And after that typist.
"I'll tell you what I did think walker, a criminal, the lot." laughing a well,
they sent me to an orphanage contest. Then I modelled. And response, And your background, ought to be).
in itself make ματι
"But the men I like," she said.
about recently," fald What
then an agent asked me if I'd would made on sigri 2
you know,
"ore those who have a sense of deeply
Shirley Anne. "I thought that "Yes, I see what you mean," psychoanalitatu?" asked
like to be an sekery. But I'll interesting to the average ran
-any man, even if he is out of spiritual values." tell you something."
"Since I element of self-sald Shirley Anne." "Where you're a wee bit of there's on the top drawer.
I rebel have had treatment I often have Prezla," said the psycho- destruction in myself.
psychoanalyst,
the
"I was comewhat inktibited,"
Shirley Anne explained,
still am.
"You say that as if I ought
101010," complained
fie
psychoanalyst..
Shirley Anne gave another
I can love rangers peal of laughter. Then she
und children and animals. But not adult individuals."
continued: "Under the drug I
"You're afraid," said the was a baby. prychoanalyt "at
Resentful
am taking in my "treatment. T Shirley Arne paused, put her can remember back to when I slender hands with the crooked tile mizers together in the releasing "I es remember a conversa- praying gesture, and lowered HOUT DIEN emotious, therefore tion I had with my mother her face, again.
When she looked up she saki: you're afraid of any person who when I was 21⁄2 years old. 'He's might release them.
had enough, my mother said. "They were all nice to me until
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thought of the song in the last|
And Shirley Anne's soft, l- Ing volce burst into a tune with these words.
"Thank God I'm normal, Normal, normal, Thank God I'm normal, Da la data da."
"I've forgollen the last line." she suld, apologetically,
(London Express Service),
What was behind the mask called Max?
CONVERSATION WITH MAX. By S. N.
Hamish Hamilton, 253.
Behrman.
FOR Max Beerbohm the afternoon of life began
at what corresponds to seven o'clock in the morning. That is to say, when he had just ceased to be an undergraduate.
A
He had entered on tame, from that moment onwards, life if not with a crash and a bang, would be one prolonged anti-
climax, at least with the effect of small pebble elegantly thrown a pool of Into the centre of scandal. It was an essay con- Book tributed to the Yellow called A Defence of Cosmetics,
Max was denounced as one of these decatients who haunted the Cafe Royal,
Enthusiasm
by George Malcolm Thomson
and the mar-
a beautiful precision and which frail: her voice had a "stained trembled on the edge of precio- glass. quality sity. But put a pencil in Max's ringe seems to have been happy hand and what caricatures were and uneventful. drawn-what a blasting saya=' gery of Batre!
Florence was very fond of Illustrated women's magazines. One of his clef, most hated Max took delight in making targets, was King Edward Vit, hideous alterations to the preisy always shown as vulpine, and ladies who were depicted in predatory Some talent Purl them. And his wife kept a tanism Max comes out in rubber to erase all the altera- Ho dedicated himself to the his caricatures of the king. But tons.
generally known," "but
Behrman's
the aro at
book has They pleasures of old age. And chief it's not
n serles of evenings Wintisor. Tho among those pleasures was re- said Max, miniscence.
tenants keep charm of About sixty years later, S. N. them behind a panel in the spent with a brilliant raconteur. It takes near enough to.Max; Bohrman met him in his little drawing room. When they have villa at Rapallo, Max was cover people they are cosy with, they, to glimpse behind the sparkle, the old-fashioned dandyism, the eighty, frall, and suffering from take them eat."
Juminous," prominent eyes and nightmares, But he still had
conversation, the Max married American the artfut the same enthusiasm for the
Kahn, of shadow of something that is -pleasures of old age that he had actress, Florcape
In his twenties
whom he had written en ca- oddly melancholy, thusiastic notice
dramaNe What WAS behind the mask He could still regret the past critic. She Was lithe, thia, ·· called Mox? and conjure up its figures, Wilde, Shaw, Rothenstein, IN SPITE OF THUNDER Frank Harris and the rest."
Max enjoyed the shock and" the triumph. He decided that,
IN
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by John Dickson Carr Piecing together his talks (Hamilton, 138. 6d.): I do with Max, adding, a certain not like thee, Dr Fell. The amount of quotation from Max's reason why I can easily tell Books, Behrman has drawn a -as Mr Dickson Carr's re- sident detective you have Because Max was so polished, developed into a porfune to unbane, so civilised," and O tory bundle of mannerisms talentedt, it is easy to overlook suggesting a poor parody of the fact that he is
puzzling person indeed, the late G. K. Chesterton, Behrman shows the mask (He even arrogates to you which Max aasunod. He raloes, the famous G.K.C. story of but does not answer, the ques-COON after the netress the telegram: "Am at tion: What was behind it? Market Harborough. Where ahould I be?"). Otherwise, - this will please fans.
June looks back
fascinating diolch of an enigma. to the gay days...
Ferocity
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Autobiography. By Juno. JWM. THOMPSON
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known as June married thon a West End Star. Once she had arrived, stie' got on swim- Lord Inverclydo, she over mingly with the pacemakers of heard a rival saying loudly the now-vanished Loudon she In the Savoy Grill: "Ho reply. There were two Beerbohm hum-from steétage to Setting Genova. did a strange widow once mur familles, for Julius Beerbohm peerage.
married two sisters. Max 100k- der her husband, and is she nowed up in ediniration to His half. Long emancipated from Deb however, entled in a prosational trying to repeat process on brother, the famous actor, rett again, June, now gives her divores, pretty little Aidray Ppge?
Problem:
Little Audrey survives, but never laughs odee.
Sorgberbolim Treo,
Marriage to Lord Inverclyde zeomed to crown' It 'all., That,
· Honover, Julle evidently 614 ways responded to a challenge,
owa disarming account of that the his god was another journey, and also offer subs half-brother, Julius who went quent transformators Into Gio THE BIG MONEY BOX, by info finance with an unerring wide of a rich American based Arlaur La Bern (WHum Kim hattrick for failure, This Is it in California. bat, 156.11) As can be recalled self would have been criough to
from Always Raina on Sun him Maka affection Vanished world
days,” Mr La-Bern is an expert. In addjilon, Julliu war #cool............ en
on low-life brutality, Brydes and calm, and elegant. These EAA
rose above this disaster. Sh on also tells eandkily, how she oven made herself a successful columnist for Lord Beaverbrope (who early epinplained that she bad Dot yet, defined her philos sophy: every good Journallit
She has written an enga“
Here he retalls the foritmes wirtues on him. Mac's orally, it costly ovokes the world of must have a philosoply, he of one Baley Hall ch the Lon- faculty which seems to have the Bghter Lantion stags in sald). dont waterfront, with the teral been worn out adoring Julius, those decades with simasha hilo n La Bern kind of tuto and skil, At any rate, there is little sign had these Fun Of The which I would and rather more of it,in, Mars later, life Fayre" and "HI-diddle diddle, ing book!! as authentica palatable. If he wolitá - over. There was a vein of Larocity June) (Cochran made her dipp Press cuttings, rent alkon (Eat 10 de metrilizues de la Bimkokvalda mediappone mende, NDED WAS Ctre, child, by her andod som inkeduar me NILE WHILE Which had wit and ballerina," then "chorus), retrospection,