THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1980,
The plotting habit M stands for Montand -now it spreads
Academy...
to the
A be plotting in Paris S everyone appears to
these days it is scarcely surprising that the con spiratorial fever should have affected august a body as the French man, Aragon retains the foppish Academy.
even
но A
The Academy plot is u delicious One and richly deserves to succeed.
Somnolent
It is to elect to the Academy -which in its somnolent con- servatism makes the Athenarum Club look a junior officers' mess —a member of the central com- -mittee of the French Com
munist purly.
question The Communist in tuppens to be, in the opinion of greatest living many, France's
Louis DOCE 63 - yeur - old Aragon.
Will he make, 117
grey-haired,
handsome
inatuterisms ut a fashionable poet which he was before he became a Communist in 1930 but he can be as primitive and Byersona! in political natters us Soviet cornmissar.
He wrote a notorious obituary to Stalin. It bugan: "Only once before it my te have I fell such a sense of sorrow and per COAEL JORK flu death of my mother."
ant that was after
He also unce pronounced that every time he finished work "I always ask myself what would Convude Still think of this?"
Oddly enough, despite these sed standards his work, has continue to flower in talent with the years.
Brainwashed
is in a way fortunate that a professional army officer, 48- year-old Colonel Jean Gurde is among the 16 nocused in the recent trial of the ringleaders of last January's anti-do Gaulle revoll in Algiers.
There is an excellent chance that he will and very largely because he will have the power- fut: behind-the-scenes backing of General de Gaulle himself.
Inalde the Academy itself the prinelpul organiser of the carn- paign to elect Aragon is appro- priately enough Jean Cocteau, whose own election to the Garde, handsome, bemedalled, Academy provided a clear
with monkish air. was in warning that is days as a buck-
the witness-box for two
·walt uf conservatism were
clays and during that time ho Knur
nation
moving to a close.
He has rallied to his cause such distinguished writers, AN Pierre Benolt, Marcel Achard Henel de Mantherlant, Andra Maurois and Francols Maurlac.
His most bitter opponents are General Weygand and Marshal Juin.
Paris
It is only after he has com- Brainwashed by their Chinese and Indo-Chinese captors they pletely recovered that he will returned to France convinced consider his professional future that brainwashing was the new and especially in the light of his
which military magle
could replacement as chief designer at any future Dior by Marc Bohan. avert defeat in colonial war.
Garde, who was head of the
Army French
Psychologicul Warfare Dept., talks like a inan who has been subconsciously converted to Communism.
The words Comrade and Com- ries are always on his tips, le Recs conspiracy everywhere. Much of his evidence was truth- ful, only in the sense that he clearly believed that himself. To any outskier it sounded like the mefortromstic gibberish of il thriller-writer.
There is persistent talk In Paris that some French army officers have made contact with the French Communist Party in an effort to secure the Party's neutrality, if the army should try and seize power,
Listening Lo Garde one can well believe the stary.
now
Yves St Laurent has been given his foal discharge from the army.
He left the army hospital in which he has been undergoing treatment for a severe nervous his breakdown
since ever
und vultup three months ago. first he was moved directly to a Isand view pl the type of private clinic to continue treat- Frankenstein the professional ment. He was given prolonged section of the army had become, sleeping treatment at the mill-
tory hospital.
the
ס
Garde has been at war since 1939 and he is the perfect example of the type of French offeer who survived defeat and internment In Indo-China.
Songbird
Marilyn,
Miller and
"Misfits".
THE perfect marriage of Marilyn Monroe to Arthur Miller has come unstuck after four
I was fascinated by an altrac-years. live blonde who was one of a number of guests at a tablo prested over by Mr Charles Clore in a fashionable Parts
restaurant.
when
She had remained
utlerly silent throughout the dinner suddenly she reduced everyone else to stunned silence by bursting into an operutte oria. This lasted for a full tense two minutes after which she re- lapsed into her customary silence for the remainder of the meal.
-London Expresa Service).
QUOTE
by President de Gaulle, speak ing at Menton recently in a "incet-the-people" tour:- DUBLIC affairs belong to the
State, The Siate does not tolerate certain people seeking gain for themselves, for the trades unions, for the army, for llie Press, or for
other Any private body that can pretend to judge the conduct of France. heat conduct belongs to those and. who are in charge of her In the first instance, me.
After he leaves the clinic will undergo a long period of convalescence in Switzerland.
How much can an M.P.
ATHEN you heard that Mr Gerald Nabarro had
WH
to pay damages of £1,500 and costs estimated at £8,000 in the slander action in which he was recently involved you may have felt a great deal of sympathy for him.
How, you may have asked yourself, could any M.P. possibly meet a bill like this out of a salary of £1,750 a year?
at 14 to And what opportunity elementary school
10 B
in American can Mr Nabarro in par. Ko
Freighters. He has told how he ticular have had of supple. abandoned a seafarer's life to menting his Income from join the Army. How he rose outside work since he wIES to become a staff-servant in elected Tory M.P. for Kia.structor in musketry, how he derminster in 1950?
Is it true?
For Nabarro has been an ex- ceptionally active M.P. Few members have been as assiduous as he in attendag the House few have led more columns of Howard, Done has askol 50 many parliamentary questions,
So you may have thought It a nice gesture that an appeal should have been started among his friends to help pay his heavy bill for legal costs.
You may have decided that it was absolutely right for Mr Nabarro to accept the six id. stomps sent him by one hord-up, sympathiser and the £100 cheque which reached him from & Cheltenham doctor.
You may have agreed with him that it would be "churlish and ungrateful" to bend the money back.
developed his ramed <tri!-. ground volce,
He relates how in 1837, he left the Army to become a labourer in a sawmill.
earn on
the side?
By BERNARD HARRIS
normally leaves off his appoint- munt as a managing director.
That happened in 1948. The Company which appointed film its chier executive is No-Ball Boxes, Ltd., which has a factory on the banks of the River Dee near Chester.
" rose to a charge-hand in a In the Arst year under his
weeks," he says, "then
command the company made a foreman,
clerk, worki not proft alter taxation, of manager and eventually manag- £14,000. But with only ar. ing director."
occasional setback the profits rose to a record £00,200 last your,
No details
Throughout that period, how-
cae company is worth in the region of £100,000.
So far as income is concerned No-, Nall Boxes paid a total of
15,720 in directors' fees and remuneration in the past year.
There are only four directors, and it is likely that as managing director Mr Nabarro will have drawn at least half that amount probably between £8,000 and £10,000.
Spectacular
But the autobiography usually ever, the dividend was pegged wife will have received rather stop there. When one ques- at 10 per cont' each year, tioner sought to bring it up to
for this
date by asking how many diree-As compentation torships he now held, Nabarao stabilised dividend shareholders have regularly been given free replied, a little brusquely:
shares,
"I never divulge the detalls
of my career or my salary.”
Thus in 1951 one shure was given free for every share held.
He has, however, gone on in 1954 one for every two held: record that his way of He in 1955 ons for every three; in "demands a substantial Income:" "1059 one for every four; and
What Is this way of liter
this-year two for every five.
The result is that the capital
In addition, Nabarro, and his
more than £3,000, before tax,
dividends,
It
WT
Add in his M.E.'s pay and the income from his otber Business Interests, and would seem probable that the Nabarro
of life" *way backed by an income feast £15,000 a year. This would indeed be a bril-
for lant enough achievement any self-made man,
of at
He owns one of the loveliest of the company has been in- homes in the country-a söven-
How much more spectacular under Mr Nabaito's teenth-century Cotswold house, creased
it becomes when one remembers from £50,000 that for the past 10 years Gerald with seven acres of garden, in management
£350,000 entirely from Nabarro has also been ane of our best and most active M.Ps.
Look what he has accom- pished.
But is it really true that a man who is a good, efficient, the Worcestershire village of to motive MP. fs unlikely to have Broadway, which was for many ploughed-back proits. the opportunity or even the years the home of the Queen. energy to earn a high income outside Parliament?
The question hho wider In- plications, It raises the issue of whether we are in fact pay- ing M.P.s anough since we deny them the right to earn money elsewhere.
Off to sea
Mother's aunt, Lady Maude Bowes-Lyon,
The worth?
Be owns four motor cars. which have attained a certain What has this meant for the notoriety from their registra Nabarro family fortunes? When tlon numbers--NAB 1, 2, 8 he took on the new job he al and "4-and the fact that the his wife were very small sharo- front end of the biggest of holders indeed, with not much them is weighed down with more than 2,000 £1 shares be 25 club badgen. '
tween them..
Clearly
"
on
He is the only man in this private century to get throe
measures On the members Statute-book.
He has waged a tremendous one-man campaign against pur- clase tax, in which he has ask- od 300 questions.
He has beco tireless in fight- and ing against nolec, smoke, dangerous oll heaters.
Yot ho has done all this... and accumulated a comfortable. fortune at the same time,
He has four children, with But now, a rebuilt of this But before answering it lot two boys at Harrow. And he long string of bonuses and other has been adjudged one of the acquisitions, they have around us look at this man Nabarro
best dressed men in Briain, 43,000 between them. again. He is a typical working with an annual sponding M.P. inasmuch as he did not clothes estimated at £800,
What is that holding worth
Exchange inherit wealth,
Bear this in' mind when next.
our Mr Nobarro could There In no Stock
quotation to give a, preciso a clamour is relied that
MP should be paid more covered dividend end the sleady They may not all have Mr maica growth of the company the £1 Nabarro's chances
extra in haren can hardly be worth less thousands than £3.sch.
But his example, proves that an effelont M.P. stllí bás tlio Alyta to iske on any kisid of profitable part-time job if he wichen super
=tLondon Bsgrove Bervinė ži
has
of
As tho. organiser of the not sustain this mode of gure, but in view of the well- Nábarro appool has sald, ho merely
MP pay all the £1,750 a year.. not onjoyed
Where, than, does he derive "advantages, which some of ur have been lucky enough to the substantial income" of have in life!!
which he has oken?
In coo
other
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To Mecover that one had to If this or the mark' one indarview | adber, nu-
conclude that the Nabatto bas told carry forward the blography can only Sho lean L.C.C. from the point at which Nabarro Nabarro family interest in its
to
by
DAVID LEWIN
It was, I suppose, inevitable. Although when they were wed-and it was an unlikely wedding- their friends said: "It is the perfect match. With her brains and his body what can go wrong' inffair between her and her is always the girl on the out-
"Thal
is why 1
When
Monroe made
"Lui's diveided to make it
ourselves 90 Make Love” there, was falk of for our own company. My wife
from side." Yves Monland
his
and weat
Arthur Miller said: " "I did not low my parents, co-star
Who now remains IS the think she is just a genius." I grew up in an orphanage and France. M. Montand called it
back o
wife Simone Pro-the stabilising force- Marilyn Monroe said: "He's through my two previous mar- "a school girl crush,
I think ringes had no real home.
Signoret. just crazy."
Miss Moaren went in Mrs Miller's Me
back to Les became back to her husband and said she will go Jewish like my husband Arthur, they were still terribly in love. Susberg and his wife Paula
gured that if the Jews had stuck together through all history of their troubles then here was something to belong to ....something of which I could
is
the
Loyal
And they were in love. Today she is 34 and he in 45 and they
who run the New York "Actors' Studio," the home of. The will seek a divorce. And she has
Melted where Marilyn studies. Just Bnished a fim, "The Mis its." which he wrote for her
When Miller was not on the which he
and co-produced
"My wife understands every- set Mrs Strasberg was, coolng which jointly they helped
thing I talk about sometimes at her and explaining what had Anance. Tronically it was shut become a part.""
a jump ahead of to be done. by in Reno, Nevada, which
dificult It perhaps.
to she is even
**My tradition is the place where reconelle the public figure of me," said Miller loyally. Hollywood stars go for divorce. Monroe-all curves and baby marriage is highly sucessful."
But fear she
In London, just before shoot has and it was tear that Arthur ing started on The Mish's," Miller helped allay. She said Arthur Miller talked to me to me: "Acting for
don't realise about Marilyn is agony and bliss all at the same his wife: "What people afraid? that she is a perfectionist," he Why am I so me. Do I think I can't. act? I know gold. 1 can act but the fear is there and it should not be and it must not be.".
It is also significant that "The Misfits" is the first original work to come from the pen of Arthur Miller, who wrote such hits as "Death
Salesman" and "View from the Bridge," since his marriage.
of
on the Misa Monroe's career other hand has blossomed. No longer is she considered merely 3 sex symbol but a comedy actress with a high degree of ability. So where has the marri- oge falled? Probably I would say in the fact that Monrċe needed Miller too much. She call- ed him "Papa," and he gave her a security in living that hitherto she had incked:
face with fear.
An affair
Is me
There are critics who say the influence was not entirely bene- felul, I agree. During a scene between Monroe and Laurence Olivier in "The Prince and the erg who said: "Think of cold Show Glit," it was Mrs Strass sausages and coke when you act it."
Withoul "That is what has caused all
Arthur
Miller, the trouble on all the Alms sho Marilyn Monroe will tam more has made until now. She is late and more to the Strasbergs for getting to the set because she is divier. Her future career and Dervous and she insists on her happinces will depend on doing take after take of a scene how she translates that advice. Jong after everyone else is Miller, with his solid pipe satisfied because she herself is
his own back- not happy. smoking and
of the disturbed ground depression-laden thirties the misery of the fifties the McCarthy purge in America, estimates any situation on the. Miller will return to his writing "work gave her comfort. Until now, basis of the sternest neakties." in his bare, simple
So Monroe grasped at the room" at his country home in During their marriage he part Miller had written in "The Connecticut. stood by at the side of the set Misfits" It is about a woman I don't know about Mr
encouraged "When I met his parents for and
her when
I believe Marilyn searching, in his words, "for a Miller, but the first time before we were things went wrong (as they
Despite her relationship" and who is dis- will marry again.. married," she told me one night oflen did) and look her home turbed by the thoughts of her fears and her anxieties she
Stic in their New York apartment, at night in what they laughingly parents who kept "disappear a butterfly made of iron. "and his mother made me called "the get-away car,"
ing" when she was a child. wants to have children and she lakshen soup form of chicken
She has worked-and--he has "Above all,”-säld-Mer, she needs to have a home because soup with thin strips of pasta in
for ¡die except
this is a girl who will not sell her she knows "that when you are it). I felt for the first time I had been
script. And it has self easily to society, When I old you can't just curl up with
much for finished writing it I knew it
t career." had to be Marilyn, and we
Fear
a mother and father of my own "Misfits"
.some roots....somewhere to probably been too belong.
both of them.
Adial
Chester Bowl
and "She is a complete realist with about
siic everything - and
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DEPTOR
STATE
'To work
Without Marilyn,
Arthur
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