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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1960.
Vivien Leigh on-
ALL MY TOMORROWS
Vivien Leigh: What is important now is work. Friends and Work. I am for- tunate. I have both.”
is governl weeks since her marringe to Sir Laurence Olivier was dis- solved. I was meeting her to talk about today-and to- morrow.
Already
Tomorrow is 1901. It is shaping up to be a most unusual and different year for her. She plens to keep on the tal in Belgravia, although in a few months she wilt weave it for a world tour,
"might let friends like Rex Harrison stay in it," she said, "er perhape Larry will have t when he is here. But i have no plans to give it up although, as you know, I am a country girl would prefer a really and I
pince in the country. That is
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"And
the staff stop ou for a Christmas party. sir, they want to be naid time and a half; if you're making
speech a 70ant dordic time.”
tamilan Erprese Steaten.
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they
by
DAVID LEWIN
why I loved Notley Abbey, our old home, so much.
woman like Mrs Stone meets one gigolo she is likely at the end to turn to another.
"I think I shall be spending
"I read the script when I was a lot of time away from Eng- land now, lile being with my
In America," said Miss Leigh, friends hert: and, of course,
"and I decided to do it. It is working, but America stimulates A wonderful part." The last
ini appeared me and I expect to
there time she be
Tennessco Williams story — “A quite often."
Streetcar Named Desire”-the won an Oscar.
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The role
ASKED her if she would having a permanent base, with all the home, a travelling she has planned. "I don't know, I haven't really tried it before."
So now there is her film "The Roman Spring of Mrs
Stone" which 'she has just started in London. It is by Tennessee Williams and it deals with one of his fa- vourite themes: the fading
beauty and the
power of a woman.
fading
an
Slono IN Mr Karen actress....a successful one but actress who finds that tackling the classics and the great roles is a little beyond her.
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'Wonderful'
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1 watched her the other day ploying a scene with the gigolo -American actor Warren Beatty --who look the part at short notice after he was auditioned by Tennessee Williams to prove he could speak with an Intian accent.
In the scene I watchet Miss Leigh, as Mrs Stone, the former actress, had these lines to say;
lived a long time in a very flattering, very artificial, Very sincere kind of world-the world of an actress."
Three plays
But Miss Leigh, unlike Mrs Stone, need never stop acting. She knows, as she says, tilat work is Important and that in marriage "comman interest is the main thing."
The next four months Vivien Laigh will spend making "The Slone," Roman Spring of Mrs and then after a short holiday she will prepare for her world under- tour, the first she has
ken without Sir Laurence.
The tour, with the Vic, will end on Broadway.
Old
She will star in three plays
An-
"Camille," "Twelfth She retires from the stage Night," and "Duel of and goes off on tour with her wealthy, husband, and then he gels." She will be on tour dies.
for 18 months or two years
When she arrives in Italy she and it will be her longest is alone and friendless, and in spell away from home. Rome after a few months she meets a gigolo and falls in love. It is on affair that ends in misery for her. Tennessee Williams shows that once ឆ
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Grateful
But, of course, there will still Whatever be links with here. has happened in her private life, she is still under contract to Laurence Olivier Productions and is still a director of tant company with Sir Laurence
Just Fancy That!
THE four-letter words in "Lady Chatterley” are not likely to be included in the Oxford Dictionary as
a result of the case. "This legal judgment is irrelevant to our purpose,” said Oxford University Press. "We don't take into account anything but common usage.”
* ★
ARMER Jack French, of Heart's Delight, King- ston, near Canterbury, Kent, read about the poor condition of children's teeth. And he has offered to sell apples to schools for a halfpenny a pound to help prevent dental decay.
* *
TOTHING like it has ever happened before in the Clyde shipyards. A section of the workers there gave a pledge the other day not to strike for two years. It came from 157 burners (who trim plates before welding) as they ended a nine-week stoppage after the granting of a pay increase.
★
*
We talked about Olivier's role THE rush-hour crush in the front coach caused
"Smartacus." 1r 13 latest Bimi
the and she was pleased at
had received. good natives he And we talked of the past 20
years.,
'I shall always be grateful
for those years, for the
the 7.13 a.m. Reading to London train to stop outside Paddington for the fifth time in a month' recently. The crowd so weighted down the springs that the automatic stopping device touched the tracks-and put on the brakes.
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NIGHT-BEAT policeman found a man lying on the
great happiness they have Anoor of the empty Nottingham Playhouse thump-
by Mr W. J. Taylor, Parigiven to me." she said.
montary
Under-Steretary of
State for Air. speaking al n
She smiled so serenely House of Commons dinner re- and she looked so beautiful
renty-
ing his chest. Explained sound-technician Anthony Church, as he switched off a tape-recorder: Chest- thumping produces a better sound-effect for horses' hooves than coconut shella.
*
* BURGLAR who stole an engagement ring from a house in Maylands-avenue, Breaston, Derby- shire, left this note: "You seem poor. I am poor-- everybody is poor. Claim it from the insurance."
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