LOGAN
GOURLAY
Here, I suggest, is a
man who could do
better than Beeching!
I
HAVE been talking to one of Britain's leading experts on railways. Needless to say. he is not employed in any capacity by British Railways and his name is not Beeching.
He is Drain Anthony Bijan. Butler, silh Earl of La borough.
travel through two rooms on GOOD. of track at his family
Rallways and everything con- seat. Swithlands in Rothley. neeted with them are one of the main passions of his life. When he talks about engines,
Cost Curds, sidings, signals, his pale blue 42-year- old eyes light up with 14-year- old fervour.
Is passion for rnifways has Butle tine for other lefe
but and pursuits,
31 few years go be «d go of the lines for yvonne de Carlo,
Over dinner in a Chinese restaurant in London he rattled over his main points with the velocity of an express that is actually running in time, and the vehemence of a driver claiming that the 5.5 isn't al ways late.
Lost heart
He took her to (lm premieres, lunches, diuers, late suppers. She went to Swithtands for a to met ki mother weekend
Prutress Margaret once ag
"We were very fond of did). ench other," sald the eari.
of marriage.
"But
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1961.
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LIZ IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, BUT..
SHE'S GOT A FLAIR FOR HURTING HERSELF
FOR three weeks they
had read daily bul-
there was never any possibilitsletins of her fight for life against pneumonia. Now, on a chill March day, 600 members of the devoted public of Elizabeth Taylor strain-
ed out. I'm afsaid wasn't ent
Just wouldn't have work "Let me tell you what hap mit he dance attendance on a pened recently
1 remember are 30 DIV local film stor. Stution. Bothley, near Lester, fell asleep at the premiere of ** pent ben 5100_p0= one of her sms sitting next un
Equipping the signal hog. Phon~her in the tow of honour. Sheed to break the police
3 week later they closed it isn't talk lime for hours
clown
"I'd surprising that the railways are losing £ 300.000
day.
afterwards.
"Another time fell asleep
in the bath when she wan
cordon outside the Lon- don Clinic.
staying at Swithlands are kept "There she is!" Flashbulbs
"And it's small wonder that her wanting tor dianer.
the railwaymen have lost heart What they need apart fron
anything else it a
couragement.
"Once she sent me 3
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driver who was an old end of
mine. I asked him a
personal favour it he would get
agu, Arriving at such and such a
There was a shout:
exploded, newsreel cameras whirred. Pale, but lovely as ever, the dark-eyed brunette film star was lifted gently into a Rolls-Royce on the first stage of her Irishimao. journey to convalescenee dori filte being told what to do, in Californin. By hey
tune in London, Send Bower."
His motto
"Now I'm
In teter at Howers I collected 5 I told
kr
11.
in ch time becRUISE 1 band another train to catch. he could him knew You know, we were due in at 4,40, but we made it at 420.
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The other Cassengers were astonished. Nobody expects the dern trains to run
Lime nowadays. The other day my local fine there were 23 people left behindi at Baraute- on-Soar became the 1950 to Leleester which is always batt an hour late was dend on line."
No time
sark of vrgetables from Coven Side was her slim, boyish
Garden and ent The Sfourth husband, erooner was fivid ut first. But she had Eddie Fisher.
+1 sense of humor and
forgave my..
"We're still great friends, faet I'm godfather to
reihin.
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So closed another chapler la the life of 29-year-old Liz Tay- in or- Be which has known the ons of pullie adulation and pri- vote happiness, as well as the misery of broken marriages, witowhead and -beatth
The art, whose my and only marrione was dissolved in 1950, I still planning to uphold his family motto "Liberty entire."
a
It's a pity. He would be quite catch, especially for lacy who shared his passion like o well-bred ticket collector.
Hi,'s
as personable gallant and lik
Quick tempered, unpredict- able and capable of plunging in seconds from exallation to black despair. Liz Taylor has made
from the m0- world headlines ment, she burst on the Hully-
wood scene.
parents
Wealthy
He stopped for refuelling with rive and restarted: "Now
able as any of his peers, and he Born of wealthy American no sensible reason theyte
aa irreverent Trish WE
In upper-middle class threatening
the line which he can direct at himself. to close
Highgate, London, she has de down and all the passenger
I've seen him running to open!cribed herself as "the original spoon-fed child." She had ber a lady Payın!
Arst audition while in Holly- Baller by anne af battery wood during the war when she uture.”
was evacuated tu America. The eleven-year-old with the large violet eyes und rosebud mouth
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services Brem Marylebone to Leicester. I'll do everything can to stop even if I have to go out and drive the dama englies myself,”
This the earl could do. Before the war and before he inherited his title he worked for two years on the railway
to (rom Kraduating
fireman driver. Nowadays, apart from occasional guest appearances on the foolplate, he drives nuthing trains which model but the
Alog
CHAIR #TRAIN
car door for
Ive also heard him say, when told he should try to get sld caused a sensation. She
his double chin: "lost that
have no chin at all."
was
signed up to star with Roddy Me Downll in "Lassle Come Home",
Innies.
LIZ TAYLOR—'Don't mess around,' she was told.
writera
heir to a HK$704 million hotel Linz-eyed gossip apor-girl-faithful-dog weepie earning a thousand dollars a I don't know an English which rocketed her into world werk, and starred in Life with empire. All the Hollywood big noticed she was losing weight, peers with enough unpompos si
the chain-smoked and names were there-Greer Gar that Father," "Cynthia," "Courage of self deprecating humour 20
son, Walter Pidgeon,
prom Spencer swapped at the slightest Her second film was "National Lassic" and "Little Women." make that remark. Although I
rocallon. Eighteen months later At 19, with three broken en- Tracy and the Fred Astaires, Velvet', a heart-warning tule
But ce many know many whose looks would of a horse, a girl and the Graad gagements behind her, she walk-
Hollywood she was saying: "I fell off my
II-tuk cloud ed to the altar to marry hond- tarriages, it failed. The
when I married support it,
National. At 13 she was MGM's
quarreled At 15 she way some Nicky Hilton, 23-year-old tons
repeatedly. Nicku." youngest star.
-(London Express Serulc»),
GP
**We're got to get it into Harry's head that everybody in a wheelchair isn't after his mallbage."!
London Expreso Barrica.
PROFILE,
By Simon Kavanaugh
Out of hospital after a fight with death....
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Debble Rey- Husband No. 2 was 39-year-old band of pretty suave, handsome actor Michael nolds saw the smille. It ended Wilding, who married her in what had been described as "the London after a whirlwind three perfect, al-American marriage months' romance. "Michael gives of Eddie and Debble." me a maturity I had known before. He has a sophis-
lication and
never
"It's the real thing this time" said Liz Taylor. "It's for keeps. It's made in heaven." style lacking in
Eddie other men I know. I can grow up was divorced. Liz Trylor he- with him." But The marriage
Jewers to please him. came p lasted only four years--a nerve- On May 16th, 1950 they were rucking period in her life when married. she had two dicult child-
And
con- now, while she births, recurring 1-health, the
valesces, Elizabeth Taylor is cut misery of long separations, bitter quarrels and, frosty silences.
Three months
tho after parted from Wilding, showman Mike Todd swept her off her feel. "Ho ctood over me why- ng his Boger in my face and said 'Look don't mess around, You and I are going to get married. It's inevitable. Get that into your head and ac- cept it When I got my breath back I told him he was out of his mind, but inwardly I knew he was right."
of the news. But not for long. When she has recoverxi and re- sumes filming in the fabulously "Cleopatra"um Expensive epic repeatedly delayed through her liness the world most beautiful film actress will bo making headlines again.
Moods
seen her
The public Have radiantly happy. They have seen her miserable. They have seen They were a strange mixture her furiously angry. Doubtless -burly, extrovert Mike Tould, she will be seen in one of these with all the aggressivenoser of a three moods again. for they sum self-made man with a vast for- up Elizabeth Taylor's character. tune; and the Trogle, Intense Intense, nervous, erratic. Some beauty who reached the top of thing to make her wildly happy, the ladder so fast that she never heartbroken or plain blazing mad saw the bottom rungs.
I always just around the cor ner. She knows only the ex- tremes.
Their Mexican marriage in February 1957 was the prelude to dazzling world tours. They
She is probably the most fa- were mobbed in Hongkong. shion conscious of all Holly- Singapore and Sydney. In Bel- wood stars. She rarely chooses grade police had to disperse fans
adresa until sho tries it on with with tear-gas. Austere Moscow
some new accessory or new was stunned by Liz's skin-tight piece of jewellery. Even when Chinese Blik gown with oldes who was wheeled out of the Lon- split up to the thigh.
don Clinic her grooming was Todd lavished money on her. perfect, and she know it." Sho She had the world's rarest will often blend three shades of champagne mink, a fabulous Ilpstick and likes to maite her tiara, a Persian necklace which own shade of eyeshadow. She would not have disgraced a takes hours dress and make royal neck, a Rolls-Royce with up and she turns her dressing- the most luxurious Attings. rooms into a shambles of dis-
carded clothing-
Adored
Her directors would dearly love to coat her in cotton wool. Grandfather Mike adored her "She has such a fantastic flair and Liz Taylor returned his for hurting herself" one gold re- love. There were quarrels, but cently. "I there, is a chale on they always patched them up. the sel she'll trip over it. It sho In November. 1957, after the opens a can of beer she'll cut premature birth of her third herself. It's inevitable. You just child, Liz told the world: "I am can't fight against ** Anished with being a film star.
Eddie Fisher had the
вут- From now on I just want to be pathy of the world when, palo Mike Todds' midius,”
and drawn, ho waited ét his
But lasting happiness eluded wife's bedside in the London ber. On the night of March 23rd. Clinic tont month as doctors 1D68, a telephone call changed fought for her life.
Now he says he is the hap-
bor
to and sent her tearfully back to the studios to work and plest man alive. He li immanis, had been killed in a mountain coddle her as much as tehuis to attempt to forget. Mike Toddly proud of the beautiful Mrs. Fisker. Ite la determined to alde air crash...
For months atie was pale and manly possible. And he says: withdrawn. It was the billcrest "There are very few men scho period of her te. Eventually wouldn't trade places with me. she found consulation and That's the troublemat malore smiled again. Eddie Fisher, hus-all the women to mak”