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SHOW BUSINESS ·
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1961,
Roderick Mann
SOPHIA LOREN FINDS A NEW PHILOSOPHY
MADRID.
THE big black Cadillac belted along the dusty, deserted road towards the compact white sky-line of Madrid. The day's filming over on El Cid, Sophia Loren was driving: back to town from the location.
She sat in the rear, dressed completely in black-black ankle boots, black close-fitting pants, black sweater. She wore no jewellery, save her wedding ring.
She needs no adornment, Miss Loren. She is a real woman, not a decorative doll. A sturdy wayside poppy in an industry devoted to forced roses. But it was about jewellery that she was talking-the £185,000 worth of gems stolen from her in 'London last May.
"For months," she said. kept praying for news of
Good gracious! Of course it's me MISS LOREN- who is in Madrid making El Cid tor producer ·Samuel Brenstone BAYE that some people do not bellevo it is her singing with Peter Sellers on the record Good- ness Gracious Me. "It is because I talk with
but sing accent. without one;" sho "12 is not RAYE uncommon."
an
"Jewels. Nobody really knows one. Or to be ill. That made my how affected I was by: that rob- me feel better.
bery, At first I was so stinned I couldn't even ery, but the gain in my stomach was so terrible It doubled me up.
"Then the tears came, and for
weeks I would wake up weeping, I had worked so hard for those jewels, you see.
Broken up
"Why, I asked myself, couldn't It have happened to someone both rich, not poor Bke me; to someone to whom the gems would have meant only money, not security? I wept and wept because suddenly, overnight, f found that my security was gone,
"But. I am Neapolitan and so I am philosophic. In time I realised that, if I was due for
a disaster, the theft of my jewels was the best kind to have. Much better to lose them than a loved
They say it's the Spring Sensation
BUT I SAY:
The best line
this man
ever
Purand
wrote was his
own
Not on life. But to from the present
name
A ballyhoo, one would think THE LEOPARD (Collins, 16s) knocks spots By
off every other novel of the day.
We
atten in.
170 fold that it has daughters have dwindled Into whereby the author achieved huge sales outside this sad spinsters over-devoted in cludes Ebardly Kanchronistie country. So havo "Encore their religion.
modern references,
It really will not do, when
PETER FORSTER
"For a Ume I hoped my jewels might be recovered, but now I know the police will never find them.
MARILYN MONROE ...the Dalai Lama was worried
We drew up outside my hotel. "You know," she said, "some- times a good friend like Cary Grant comes along and says to ane, 'Arc voi absolutely happy?" and I say: No, I am not. I am content. I am tran- qutl. Nobody can bc per- manently happy," And Cary smiles, as though perfect, per- manarit happiness were possible. "I wish he would not do this. However secure you try to be inside, such a question
always sows the seed of doubt in your
"I believe they were smugled out of the country the very night they were stolen-and have long since been broken up and cold. Probably the thieves got less for them than the £20,000 reward I offered but they would have bean too scared to risk retura- mind." ing them for that."
She smiled wanly, and put her hand on her heart,
"I have learned one thing from it all. Security lies here not in a jewel box. Perhaps it was o good lesson,"
She gazed for a long time out of the window of the speeding car, towards the mountains bath- ed in gold and purple from the dying sun.
"You know," she said, after while, "I'm glad I was born Poor. Poverty gives one so much more than riches the
priceless gift of real ambition,
'No other'
"I used to think at one time that it was my early poverty that made me inseclire, but it was not. It was. the fact that I came from an unhappy home. I grew up to the sound of anger
Then she smiled suddenly and waved, and the car drew away. and out of sight. speeding down the broad avenuo
HIS REMEDY
ACCORDING to dopor
here, the Dalai Lama
of Tibet thinks Marilyn Monroe kooked "pale and skinny" in her film Somo Like It Hot--the only Amori- can film, incidentally, that he has over soon,
45 am UTC she should try some of our ginseng“ tea,” ko told a companion. "It would help fatten her up.".
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