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Liz Taylor and the pace she set in catching up on
on life...
THÈ. CHINA MAIĘ TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1961.
prinke pinta 'milka
[day]
(never
on Sunday
GILES LOOKS BACK AT THE ROYAL TOUR
AT
By DAVID LEWIN
T 29, Elizabeth Taylor has been in films for 21 years, has been married four times, widowed once; she has three children and has won four Hollywood Oscar nominations for the best actress of the year.
She is the only woman to be offered 1K$6,000,000 (op pearing in a 3bm-Cleopatra.
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From that moment unlit she married Mlice Todd, in 1957, the Now she is recovering in the studio educated her, dressed London Clinic with surges her, arranged her dales, on- and doctors and nurses whonounced her marriages and her helped to pull her through to divorces, and treated her Uke
te agam a life which she has a valuable commodity. Ilved nt such a parc that sho spemed never to learn how to sit back, relax, and enjoy it all, Only in the last three years has she started to realise that there are other Oings than parties and pictures; studios sycophauls; money and
and
andress,
Bitter
In a bitterly revealing mo- ment
Nite unce said: "My toughest role is trying to grow up."
Her beauty brought her fame, but she began to discern the dangers. "I had the face and she said, "but I had the mind of u child."
the body of a malute woman,"
Ulcers
When she was in her teens she said to me: "I've got ulcers -what do you know about that. I'm not 20 yet and I've got
fcers." That was her life.
She was married for less, then a year to Conrad Hilion, the son of the hotel millionaire, and then for nearly five years to Michael Wilding, who by con- tract was
of nature, sophisticated tastes,
Then came Mike Todd, the he was idilled in a plane crash showman, and after 13 months in March 1958. Just three years
ago this month.
It was, ironically, the death which kicked Elizabeth Taylor into life. For of Mike Toda Todd had shown her what lay
"All those with whitlows on their arithmetic fingers will stay after class for a lecture on the care of the body."
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·SPOTLIGHT ON A GIRL WHO MARRIED A MAN WITH £18,000,000.
It's not money that matters,
ONCE upon a time there was a beautiful young
model who was chosen by a rich baron to be his third wife. Fairy tales are always a bit vague after that. What, one wonders, would happen next in real life?
Four and a half years have passed since Fiona Campbell-Walter married Baron Thyssen. Recent- ly they were in London, and I went round to their suite at the Ritz for a quiet dinner with them.
During the last five months in London she has been reading, rending reading. She is racing
The still-ravishing baroness through books at the rate of two
on the other side of the studio wore a skirt and sweater and week. or three
fence.
comfortable shoes and a She
wed- perfectly WOR
happy when she esme to town in the She started saying what SHE ❘ding ring.
although
ill-health would do. clogged her. But as studio ex- ecutives fretimi and grumbled at the delays in starting "Cleo- patra" she fell she was being made the fall guy" for other peoples mistakes.
summer,
She knows about the English weather (after all, she was born in Hampstead, and has come back often enough since she went to Hollywood with her parents when the war started). She knows the original
script was not right (she has seun enough bad scripts to be able to tell that). She knows that people were saying: "Of course, it is Liz-being Temperamentul again," and she resents it.
Problems
To understand the problems and the faselition of Elizabeth Taylor it necessary to Cash bade 20 wars to the time she got her first Hollywood contract and. lost it after a year. A casting director
with a remark- able lack of foresight said then: "After all, she has nothing
Her mother, a former actress, persisted and tool nine-year-old Miss Taylor along to M.G.M. which speclulled in the training Mickey Rooney, pf juveniles: Judy Garlanti, Margaret O'Brien,
Pleasure
"Until then, even when I'd played a part which was good, such as 'A Place in the Sun,' ! thought people would dismiss it because of my, looks, I wanted to do things in my own way and to make my own decisions."
She revolted at having to work
in Hollywood and agreed to lm "Butterfeld 8" on con- dition that it was inado in New York,
She uses her money to give herself and her family plea- sure: on trips to Parts, on food flown in from New York, on Boats with mink linings, And crocodile shoes.
Elizabeth Taylor has every- thing and no time to enjoy it all. With all her sheen and her hewly acquired determination, her friends in showbusiness say that what she would really like at times would be to get away from it all with Eddie Fisher and just be an ordinary girl.
I doubt that. She was a siar
12. She is the world's great- est star at 20. Whatever pro- blems that brings she would want it no other way.
•BARTLAN
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*Your late uncle left all his money to Charilyan
and here is Charity *[*
The Baron looked lean and natty in a grey fannel sult, When he sat down und crossed his legs, he swung a shoe with a hole in the sole with all the indiference of a man who pos sesses £18,000,000,
by SUSAN
BARNES
"I've never been
avity girl. I'd stopped modelling about three years before I got mar-
"I'm the proverbial country ri.d. girl," said the baroness. "For me it would have been all right
"I was borad stitr with
to have married a farmer, it working in smelly studios with he'd been
attractive, usually aren't though.
They unattractive people.
"And my figure gave out."
"Of course, the life we lead In
Baron Thyssen and I looked Lugano is not comparable to an
country English
In some surprise. life. Our at a wire house is like an hotel. A super- She has a particularly beauti duper hotel. Heine locks him- ful body. self in his office, so he is un- aware of the tremendous num- ber of people who visit us. Bul
"I'm too fat," she insisted.
"You're 7201
her too fnt,"
I am aware of them I'm coping husband equally insisted.. with them."
says Fiona
mistakes. I profiled from their experience.
• THE THYSSENS— "He loves me because I am so ordinary.'"
7
The World- of Science
A
They get
our teeth
into this problem
NEW idea, to protect
teeth from decay is being explored by British research dentists. It is to spray thom with plastic. The aim is to seal the natur- at enamel-particularly in the cracks between teeth- from attack by acids and bacteris. Car manufacturers use the somo principle to protect chrome fittings,
K # breakthrough can be achieved, it promises to be one of the biggest events In modera dentistry: lifelong freedom from caries. But there is a anag at present. No plastic has yet been located which will stick manently to teeth.
per➡
Other experiments have begun to discover ir CHEWING GUM can be made to armour teeth against disease. One Idea is to mix an antocid Into the gum, to boost the neutralising action of saliva after micals.
At Guy's Hospital scientists have completed a series of tests on 14 children who were asked chew gum containing fluoride.
to
Fluoride, now being mixed in tiny amounts with the water supplies in three areas Bri- tain, has been proved in
course, now I am a naturalised American trials give pro
Swiss."
"Which baroness,
tou.
**Swiss
said the means," "that I am a Swiss
vote.
women can't Actually, I think women are emotional to vote, Switzerland is well run because women have no part in politics.
"And if a woman really wants influence, she can always have After it through her husband, all,
if you're clever, you can manage him."
Bareness Thyssen handed her husband a cigaretto and then took une herself. He lighted them both.
a
"I first met Helne ski-ing on
tection against caries.
In their report to the British Dental Association, the :cion- tists reveal that the chemical climbed rapidly into the teeth. of five to "A chewing.period ten minules should be suff- clent," they suggest.
Pulling fluoride into chowing guin is good psychology. First, children can be urged to to something, instead of not doing it. Secondly it
leaves the choice of taking fluoride or not to the individual. So the anti- fluoride loyalists would have their chief grumble removed before they started.
Electronic golf
slope in St Moritz. The Do you toothe playing
both had
second time wus on a ski train golf in bad weather?. when we
frightful Here is the answer by hangovers. We did not fall in courtesy of American scient- love right away. It came only
iste. after a long time. The fact that he eculd give me anything I wanted I didn't even realise at the begining,
FABULOUS
"But It's wonderful being married to Heine and living in two such fabulously beautiful places as Lugano and St Moritz. The longest time, though, that I've ever stayed in either home
It is called the Golf-o-Tron. You face a small cinema screen, on which pictures of ~ lypleat fairways are projected.in front, stretches a net, You drive of. As ball strikes net, 10 breaks # beam from an ""elce- tric eye" and triggers oft a computer,
The computer works out in a fraction of a second how far, and in what direction, your ball would have gone if you were on reat course. Its position is miniature then flashed on
select another to fairway. You It's club and play on,
is 10 days.
"I travel with Heino wherever his business is cothanusting. Sometimes IVs an
"I'm frightfully jealous, and you're always most jealous marry a foreigner. My eyes had The baroness leaned over of the unknown. That's an been turned to the Continent "Whatever else we have in to poke a long finger between other reason why I found out
for years. I made up my mind a our life, we have little privacy, a couple of the haren's ribs.
as much as possible about my long time ago that I couldn't Let's face it."
predecessors,
live in Britain-because of the "I asked my husband one
climate. he loved me. Ho "I'm no day why
longer jealous
The final puit is done on an said: 'I love you
because Helno's former wives, because "And I've always liked older enormous temptation not to go, artificial green, laid out on the you're so ordinary,
they no longer are unknown men. My husband is 12 years But my theory is that a good floor. Before you reach for factors to me. But I remain older than me. I've never in husband is hard to find, and your cheque book—whoa. 'Tho "I
was rather
offended at jealous of tho odd the time. I thought myself a frienda
gri my life lied anybody my own if you have one it's wise to stay, price is £2,000. It's cheaper to do. At Lugano, I have no to- rather glamorous model. But I selves."
present
them- age."" cial obligations
OBLIGATION
She turned to her husband. "Maybe you don't feel it.
my OWN. But I have all of yours.
you ever see it from above?
of
who
low now what he meant.
Do
of the 10 best-dressed
"I
defensive about it,"
am adaptable, sensible,
fairly unspoiled, I'm nieurotle, That's
what
"Listen now," Baron Thyssen She tapped her mvarnished interrupted. "I didn't want to have a bit nails on the table. "Jealousy is First you say you
"What's all this? A week at Lagano? All those house in Paris. I didn't want
married me people driving through
You a polsonous thing. for to be the leader of the inter- understand Intellectually
can because of the elimate. Now lunch?"
that is because I'm older." national set. I didn't want Lo "Those people," apld
the be one
our basic position is not being threatened in any way, that The baroness thumbed her baron, "represent my, busines, women.
your husband's flirtations have nose at the baron. They work in my factory."
absolutely no effect on his feel-, ings for you. But knowing all
JEALOUS
"Darling, don't be on the balanced, calm, unspoiled. Well, that with your mind stal has
"I'm not on the defensive," ordinary means,
said the baron quietly,
not no effect on you emotionally. being You go on being hurt.
FOREIGNER
"When we married, my hus "But I would never try to band asked JELA to learn to change my husband. You can't speak German, I didn't mind. His wife hesitated and then
nitèr
fundamentally. I was curious to know what he continued, "Of course. I agree
You can only adjust to each was saying on the telephone, with my Inband, People
who thing temporarily, as it presents coming
people
Itself.
"But his motive was to make an extra like complications and scenes. obligation. But it is necesury 1 don't,
"When Heme and I are out a nice gesture to the Germans. The thing :is and
he is flrting abominably People there reant him becRUSE thing goes much easier."
in
Dro
"Thera
Dro
in the lie we lead. Actually, I not to be too intelligent. Every with someone, 1 eat and drinks he's not nationalistic. They can't really like it.
"And Tyo 'arranged it very craftily that six weeks year we go alone with daughter to Jomalen.
and dance and pretend not to understand somebody who could Baroness Thyssen looked at notice. But the trouble is that have power and doesn't want it, a her husband. He was drawing I'm no good at Birting myself. They rather resent me because our on his cigarette through an When wo go home, I make I'm a Scol. A Thyssen should
deene," >
always marry, a German!" elegant holder. His brown eyes were roy,
"Even though in principle
"Everywhere in the world," you dalké scenes?" I asked. sald the baron, "I am considered a German except in Germany, 'and Ways "There are w
ways of I only go there for
business malding scence,” said the baron. Bila wito laughed. “So 1 make
"We wear no shoes and have
reasons.
no telephone, I'm very tough. "In a way," the baroness con- Anyone can borrow our house tinued, "a wife has an advantage in Jamalen when, wo're not if her husband has been martled there, but during those six before. weeks the iron curtain comes "I tried to learn what Helno's a scope, and then itaine feels "In Germany he's a bloody down.
fret wiyes were like and what like "a-lisel, and wo, both fool things in them had - mört relievet-unta tha (nie) time. *Mint way we returns (res annoyed my husband. I deter "Even before I met Heine, juvénataḍ.
ibihed hat to make the samo had always rather hoped to
foreigner," sald the baroness.
“I was born in Holland," continued the baron, "and lived thieva my youth, And, of
take up baccarat.
with him."
I left her with him. And I resected on her determination Atomic hens: to live happily ever after. She may well succeed. Clearly she knows something about adapt ing fairy tales to real life.
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