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A THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1961.
Roderick Mann
Stewart Granger says: I know now -it was my pride that was hurt
Jean Simmons with her new husband, Richard Brooks
Is Faulkner the Picasso
IS
of words?
TS nobody happy, legitimate, sober, and sane in
the Deep South of America?
To judge solely from the works Flem Snopes, did nothing u-tall of Messrs. Tennesse Williams, to help Mink-leastways Mink, Caldwell, O'Nelli, Hellman, and he Think Flem done let him the rest, everyone south of the down, so he plans when he is Mason-Dixon Line is either out of Parchinent he'll just buy depraved, dispossessed or drunk, a little old pistol and head back
It not all three,
Phonetic
along comes the
by PETER FORSTER
Lawyer and Linda git ban out of town, and Mink walks off
into unknown. End of story.
Now 1 done read-sorry. I
tlon and admiration,
ROME.
ACROSS the roof-tops and the leaf-gar- 'landed terraces, the dome of St Peter's glinted in the noonday sun. In his apart- ment in the suburban Parioli district, Stewart Granger finished dressing, and gazed out over the sun-splashed city.
It was already past midday, but there was no hurry. He had a day off from filming; a day he planned to spend at leisure. A contempla- tive drink, a fast drive into town in his new Maserati, then a long lunch at Capriccio.
At 47, Granger-his iron-grey hair flecked with white is picking up the threads of a bright new film career.
At first, stunned by the bronk-up of his 10-year marriage to Jean Simmons, he could do nothing. He hud devoted all his time to the marriage, and to making a success of their big ranch in Arizona.
In doing so he had let his Alm career slide, with the re- sult that when 31-year-old Miss Simmons walked out to marry director Richard Brooks, Gran- ger had nothing to fall back on: nothing to bolster his shatter- ed pride.
I persuaded
her
But now his career is on the upswing. Ite is starring in a big new uple The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah, which Robert Aldrich is directing, and there are three more pictures lined up.
The Alm star who really looks like a film star has more work than he can handle. "I suppose," he said, "I help- ed kill my own career."
a change. It was like someone growing up and wanting to leave home.
"Women "really bato you doing things for them, you know, I did the cooking and the organising and chose the curtains — everything. But only because Jean was so helpless. She'd sit there read. ing the comic sections of the newspapers, or looking at the pictures in magazines while I did all the work.
"I suppose I should have let her go ahead and rum the food and choose yellow curtains with purple dots, but I just couldn't, Frankly I long to meet a woman who'll do it all for me. In fact, I think maybe I have met one though I don't want to talk about it yet."
He looked out again over the goof-tops of old Rome, sipping his drink. He looked tanned, handsome,
and
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GRANGER AT 47 -a star who LOOKS a star.
probably diso said I'd be proud of um if he were a good boxer 100.
"Anyway, one year when he came over to California to visit Jean and me, he proudly showed me a pair of gloves he'd been given by Freddle Mills, and went on raving about boxing. Then suddenly he broke down and cried, and admitted that he hated it; that he was only doing it to please me.
" tell you, I wanted to cry too. It made us very elose,'
No chums
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"I accepted all sorts of sub- bish just to pay the bills so that Jean could sit It out and *valt for decent parts. She wasn't as easy to sell as people think, you know. She always "I like it here," he said. "I I might settle in wanted to do off-beat things thought
you know, but I like Home Before Dark, wülch Geneva, didn't take a penny.
couldn't stand all that Fascist
the Swiss type interrogation
through. How make you co
What do much do you earn? you plan to do? That sort of man at her wedding to Richard echoes all
Brooks." thing.
He smiled wryly. "You know greeting. what I say? Damn 'em all. except six-and they can be pal-bearers. If they stumble,; damn them too."
We went <ownstairs, anki At-better Granger took the wheel of the Maserati low-stung, gun-grey than I have seen him for a long and drove me back to my hotel Time,
through the busy traffic.
"I was the one who persuaded her to do Spartacus, and from that she got Elmer Gantry-and Its director Richard Brooks,"
He made a rule noise as ho said the name.
"I'm getting over the break- up now, of course. It was my pride that was hurt. I know .
My roots
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AT ALL THE LEADING STORES
accelerated away with Sole Agents: Fielding, Brown & Finch (Far East), Lid.
He dropped me off, and then,
Veneto,
a muffled roar.
"When my marriage broke up Now, if Brooks walked in, I 1 turned naturally back to don't know what I'd do—spit in London; to my roots. I was sweeping out into the his face, kick his teeth in, or dek of Hollywood,
where in just laugh.
who Intellectual is someone "In a way, perhaps, he did knows what films were released.
better it me a favour. It's
in 1930. But London's weather should have happened now than depressed me, and, though I love in ten years' time. But I'm the place, I knew I couldn't live SULEY for Jeun. One day her there again. Now I find Rome I'm happy here. conscience will give her a bad grows on you. time for all the lies she told me.
She grew up
"And I've got a new interest --collecting antique porcelain. I'm fascinated by it; in fact, I've spent £30,000 already. I've in some- got to be interested thing, you see, It ured to be "Funny, isn't It,
knew the ranch, but after I'd proved nothing about her affair with I could run it, it was only a Richard Brooks until after our question of time before I got divorce. 1 even gave her #fed up with it.
I
Mercedes 190 when we parted. "And, of course, I've always At least she had the decency got my two children-Jamie and to give that back; I suppose her Lindsay. Though I miss my conscience troubled her.
baby, Tracy, who's with Jean. Jamie's a wonderful boy. Taffer than me, and very handsome.
to Jefferson fer ter kill Flem. mean I read this novel at first "But I'll never understand her
Meantime, fanda Snopes has
with dimeulty and irritation, going off with Brooks. Never. gone to Noo York, and met a
im-so that I can retire, Communist soulptor named Ben
but then with increasing absorp- With someone like Rock Hud We may make an actor out of son, perhaps a nice quiet guy Actually he looks very like me. Kohl, and what with her so hat
after arrogant, dominant me. and him so Kohl, they done git
-The point is not whether But Brooks..." He shook his If I dyed my hair black we'd
pass as brothers. married. But Ben gits killed Faulkner's style is always effec- | head, in Spain, in that old Civil War tive, but that he writes with "What happened, ot COUTSC, "We've always got on well. all, William Faulkner, tu fake up most everbody seemed to git inmense power and range. Not is that Jean just grew up. I'd Jamie and I. I used to be a been araunECİ, doing pretty good boxer once, you killed in, and she gus wounded for nothing bas he wen a Nobel, always and made stone deal, which is Prize for Idibrature.
things for her, ever since she know and his mother, Elspeth this. She was a little girl. She wanted (March) told him
And now senior Southern novellet of them
the White Man's Bourbon again
in THE MANSION (Chaito and Windus, 215.).
Mr Faulkner here writes mally in a kind of phonetic Southern vernacular, so that summary of his tale might something like this: Well, one mawning Mink Snopes got in a
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a plty 'oos she's purty,
In trouble
"The Mansion" is the An: 1 book of a trilogy, whose under- lying theme is the way the Snopes family infiltrates its way to control .of Yoknaps- lawphia County, but it can be read for its own single sake,
Back in Jefferson, she'm in quarrel with Jim Houston over trouble for liking Negroes and this cow outen
Jefferson, having a Comununist Parly card, Yoknapatawpha County, and but she gåts lawyer to apply for And how Faulkner can write mighty aggravating it was, until a perdon fer old Mink-only by when not over-conscious of his Mink done abot Jim and got this time, having served 30 mannerisms! sent for life to the penitentiary years, Mink done got himself at Parchment. His cousin, rich relcased and shot old Flem.
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One worry
ค
BY THE WAY.
HEN
accused
by Beachcomber
well-balanced less
of printing a Y unreliable news, and even might
of inventing reports, I used to hysteria.
people, have been called There were frantic
trap the objectors by quating,, telephone calls from the sobbing Such programmes side by side, genuine news multitude. item and a report sent in by the should be prefaced by a short There is an extremely funny naking my readers which was
making it clear that the Beachcomber News Agency, and take.
death of an actor or actress who account of a political meeting
which.
is only playing a part is not, in nt which Congressman Clarence I gave it up when I found the strict sense of the words, a Sropes is taken for a lamp-post that
The reports mode the D.N.A. itema were real death, by a bunch of hunting hounds.
it clear that many viewers were NATIONAL GALLERY. visit to the South of France, And the return of poor, simple accepted as the genuine ones.
was reminded of this when I only mourning the death of two London. Bir Philip Ilendy, though the author would have Mink to the world he has not read in an American paper that Imaginary people. "But other
Hudson, 28, The done better to devote more seen for 30 years is agonisingly a New Jersey lady had had her belleved that a real mother and National Gallery collection, as space to places and
to touching and vivid,
that it child had been killed-in the cat's cors plerced, so
entertaiment. It director makes clear in his elementary advice on getting Like Picasso, William Fauli- could wear fold earrings sot Interests of brief history, is founded on the there and shopping tips,
ner seems to elioose to work out- | with rubies. That beats the ride suppose. generosity of private collectors.
wards from a small foent point, | ing boots made for a dog which Most of the book is devoted to THERE SHALL BE WINGS so that from the central but was given a horse for its birth- Platonic goings-on
Roberts, Harrap. 218. minor drama of Minkie's revenze | day. 101 colour plated with extensive Leslie notes, and there is an excellent It was not until after the 1914-on Flem sve come to learn some- pletorial index. Another bar 18 war that the Canadian Air thing about almost everything In passing
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