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The Moneyed Family
Mill's
FOUR TOP TALENTS—AND THEY ADD UP TO £110,000 A YEAR
by JAMES THOMAS
Hollywood.
[AYLEY MILLS, at 14 the new golden girl of
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on her new' pony the cinema, cantered off
of her father Beauty round, the 100-acre farm John Mills-carefree in the knowledge that £75,000 is guaranteed to her from films she will make in the next five years,
In the study was her Intext fret time is the £110,000-a-year Contract from my restalle Walt family-father, mother, and two hnrassed Disney in Hollywood-at least daughters whose
necoutant doles out posket £15,000 for a picture a year.
tuoney to all “ur them averaging the post was a contract less thun 130 a week each. from the Mills family's old
friend Hichord Attenborough, Pocket money
who will star Hayley in the fini version of her mother's novel, Whistle Down the Wind," next year.
But in spite of her huge Ineome Hayley has a sense of perspective about money-her father and mother have made Sure of tha!.
most British
Take
the look at 13 rought-after family in show business today:-
Father
JOHN MILLS. Average £39,000 a film-two a year has three pictures due for release: "Tunes ot Glory," Rebinsen. and
On the Mills estate, they take "Swiss Family success calmly. Success is not "The Singer. Not the Song."
a new word. For here for the HIS pocket money: £10 a week,
Mother MARY HAYLEY- BELL has a string of successful povets and plays behind her For (most successful; "Duet "Two Hands"), and another play, "Bucco Rest" coming up, Her pocket money: £8 a week. Daughter JULIET (18) play- ed 27 months in London and New York in "Five Finger Exercise," and is going into "Peter Pan" as Wendy this year. Pocket money-what the earns (around £100 n week).
Daughter HAYLEY shot to such fame in Pollyanna" thot producers
anywhere will guarantee her tap maney--and she can addi considerably to Disney's £15.000 with at least one other m ycar. Her pocket money: 355, a week,
Problems
Jullet Mits
£5,000 a year
Hayley Mills
£35,000 a year.
"John and I struggled hard We have been around in our carly days he started in have seen
John Mills
Mary Hayley-Bell
£60,000 a year`
And we
child stars whose No
£10,000 a year
SHOW BUSINESS
Total:
£110,000 a year
'Clan'-and that's official
With this kind of fame and this kind of income, the £110, |000-a-yenr family is crowded, a chorus at £4 a week and we mothers and fathers have
with problems.
tore ourselves up by our finger lovely house end a Cadillac..
one nasty morning the FRANK SINATRA, annoyed by fortunate to have many friends The Tax Man is pretty high nails. We want our children to until
the list. But John and Mary reailse this,
We don't think it child turns round and asks: references to "The Clan"-that's and circles of friends but there
Hollywood's nickname for nis are no membership cards, Mills have put the problem at would do their values any good 'Where's my money?"
exclusive elrcle of friends-has "Naturally people in Holly- the Inland Revenue well below, if they had too much money.
Jurmal statement woor socialise as they do in any And Hayley, the current pride issued the worry of keeping the famil,”
would denying "The Clan's" existence community, but we do not together, of striving to keep u "What would you do with the of the family, says she
There is no such entity as gather
in together
chlidish sense of values in their children, kind of money Hayley earns if not know what to do with all the.
Mary, the one behind
Sometimes The Clan and there never has fraternities." the she were your daughter? We money she earns
(London Express Service). family organisation, told me: put the lot into a trust fund. I can hardly belleve it's there." been," declares Sinatra. "I am
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JEET
THEY FOUGHT
THE TSAR
THE SABRES OF PARADISE,
By Losicy Blanch. Murray,
LESLEY
BLANCH,
most exciting and
P
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A brilliant slice of love and war
The
by WALTER ALLEN
unpredictable of writers THE SNIPER IN THE HEART. By Monica
goes to a remote land Gollancz, and a forgotten era for
her theme.
Daghestan was once a fee
if savage country in the moun
lains of the Caucasus above the
Creion Sea. A century ago,
the Tsar lost half a million
people under his heel.
The
warrior chief Shamy):
fall of Hongkong
by TIM CAREW. BLOND, found with an empty revolver
215,
Stirling-ONE lesson of the fall
THIS is the best novel of love, death and action
of Hongkong learned instantly
elght dead
in cach hand and Japanese in front of him.
The elderly businessman who was fought all night in a power station and all next day in the else streets.
Captain Ansari, the Indian
I have read since The Quiet American, and, where. In Singapore, as like Graham Greene's book, it depends for much it too was falling to the Nationalist, who chose behend-
Italian
Miss Stirling's heroine, Vittoria, an Imam of Deghestan during years news-photographer, turns up in a tatty South
belray the British.
Here and there Mr Carew's
of its effect on the rendering of what will be for Japanese, working par- ing after forture rather than
ties exhausted them troeps in bringing ila Mosiem most readers an essentially exotic scene.
selves trying to smash love of adinctives slows the pace, every bottle of alcohol When, may, is a bombardment not "merciless," "murderous" in the city.
and "deadly?" [
In Hongkong this had not Another fault is that the been done with the result that publishers provide na map or to the conquerors predilection plan of the complicated battle for bayoneting and beheading fought aerors a jigsaw terrain, prisoners was addet repe.
40 bitte fighting defled the Tsar's
vlcerors. He bore the American capital to shoot the revolution everyone tcars of 18 wounds and went newhere without his executioner is waiting for.
verve
Lesity Blanch managen her enormous canvas with skill and The beat of hoofs can be heard
every page. G.M.T.
(London Express Servica).
There she meets Manolo, the in an adult way, was then in Italian Resistance hero, whom love with her grandmother.
Manolo has, become a soldier The outcome of the battle was But in is a stirring, ofien, ahe adored as a child 20 years
never in doubt.
heart-breaking book and ene before and whom she realises, as of fortune, a gun-runner in this now she falls in love with him instance gun-running. for the
narty Vittorie's paper supports. We were, as was customary in can only agree with the author. who, although he himself fought unprepared; Their love Is briet, tender and 1941, scandalously violent. The high point of the there were no bombs for the the Japanese, writes that when of Hong- novel is the description of the mortars, no, torpedoes fee the he hears the story
kong "my own. coyly. modest drive to a remole altfield wherej torpedo-bombers and a gential war ceminiscences die In my
BOOKSHELF
BRIEFS
But Manolo is himself killed
Manolo and his colleagues shoo: with ult ex- and capture the revolutionary SA TOURIST IN AFRICA, agdovements,
Terence leader as he arrives, presumably Clipman and planatory notes by Evelyn Waugh,
by from the United States. HUL 104. A more or less Davla nnd an introduction amlable ar Waugh polishes tip Sir John Summerson. One for ||bis diary. of a four of Kenya, the enthusiast.
COMETH Tanganyika ath. Rhodesla, THE NIGHT
Sidgwick O'Donnell. made to escape the rigours of Eugeno
Searchlight a British winter. He preferred and Jackson, 18. stilos
to airplanes, found on South Africa again, this rocialiim dosty.
0 Urbane, time in a fervent story by
mikily wäertaining.
COMPANION
MURDEL E. Speleor Carrell.
by a sniper on his return to the Capital.
Subtle
estelly of military hardware.
Street fight
But, even had this not been
thrcal."
TARGET
so, Hongkong would inevitably have been overwhelmed and the atory Mr Tim Carew tells here
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The action of the novel fa con-is one of a lust stand and Catholic priest which points tinuous, and brilliantly described, terrible aftermath,
To the way to self-destruction for But more important is the e-
Mr Carew-himself a former
Shew, black and while alike. Rough count of the sudden eruption of Gurklis officer, of distinction-in sharp adult love and passion in which a rarabustions story-teller and edges on the prove, but 悲痛长。 Reasonably
Vittoria's whole past life as on the excllement of his narrative
entertaining comments on some observation.
of
• THE GOUFFE CASE. observer of violence, but as a never flags. Ife has interviewed arbitrarily ected murders in
survivors from this country from 1900 to 1950, Jaschim Maxss Barrie and child and as an ace photographer, dozens
21x. Rochlitt
Mit der in in somsnow recapitulated.
Hongkong and this, "combined misleadingly described dr
Monica Stirling's novel, which with his own knowledge of the dictionary. Entries, ore dipha- vestigation in Paris of the '90s, betical,but no attempt to make resulting in acquittal of the in as subtle as a short, willily Far East war, gives a vivid
raving spéci unul a finalo re-treates a South American sol | authentielty, them compnoterm{ve.
Many extraordinary things THE, ARGILIBOTURE OF fed adventure in America. ing. More than this, it reveals Hvily whenuated styld and her knowledge of the human JOHN, NASIL Studio Book, shoot weight of the book roinxes beat! female, emancipated, but were done at Hongkong that Christmas. The Canadian cost- comprehensive and Heedily Labelfiation,
atili humak. Www Cui(London Empress Kérdica), ・ Imander's last stand: bo elegant pictorial guide to Nusli's
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