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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1961.
Rita and Rex-legends
who have come to
Hayworth .not an inch of change in 15 years
terms with life
Mudrid.
are
REX HARRISON and Rita Hayworth
filming together for the first time. Together they have a style and a dash and a daring which the newer legions of film stars seem to miss.
For Harrison this film, "Once Upon a Theft," is the anniversary of 25 years of being a star. A quarter of a century ago he appeared in Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" and his name and his fame were made.
For Rita Hayworth This Is nore a point of departure thon an noniversary: a final taking of her flaming redhaly at the old "Gilda" und "Cover Girl" and "You Were Never Lavelive" days, Whal days they wave fr with Hayworth hcing મા Marilyn Monroc and. Eliza - beth Taylor rolled into ene.
and
lo appear to be charming debenair and gay and the rest of it. That's the truth I saw in that pari.
But the truth alro in that off-stage I can bu far from charming. I am acid. Acid. I have a direct tongue and say what I think is the truth and I don't Rive a damn for The consequences.
Now Miss Hayworth is launch- ing herself into comedy (with Mr Harrison as guide) and from what I've sven here in
this Madrid!
combiontion 15 tilarly 10 preve the MOST alumulating of the year.
Simelating
#tita because Hayworth and Rex Harrison are the realistic and truthful about laugh. themselves and their legends,
Harrison said to me "What I have learned about neting in these past 25 years is this to search cut the truth in every part I play and to get at that truth.
A label
this VAN
"But there seems to be label 'Oh Rex Harrison charming as ever-bung around my neck. And I loathe it. The ruth is that I am not charming a? alt....unless the Dark deruanda B.
Sadness
by
DAVID
LEWIN
or sailing around the world. rough; refuge in work, I ruthed Imto it to help forget.
"I went into a play un Broad- way and then to Hollywood for a film. 1 came to England for 'Platonov,' Now I am here in Spain....
So I kept my mind off the agony of losing. Kate. But now, from being migratory 1 want to be
how shall I put it?-seden- tary.
"I would like to settle for a bit and work at just one thing and buildi for a long time something-
"The misery of Kate's death no longer forces me to keep on the move."
want to shed parts with continuous bright, gey The expectation that I'll have a casun), shrug and a Isä hangover martint glass
Rex Harrison cut a thli elgar from the days before French Without Tears, and before and we moved over to talk
Rita Hayworth and her 12-year- went into the Air Force.
"Yeu can't jump straight old daughter Yasmin. from martial xlar: into Chekhov's Platency (for which Standard he won the Evening
Best Actor Award last year)
Proud
10
without some prepatolion Rid Yasmin is staying with ber
some very sericus work."
We lkes! then of other the changes In Rex Harrison,
I is two years since his Man. whopping success in "My Fair Lady" pad 18 months since the death of his wife, Kay Kendall. He said, very softly: "I have been migratory bird deliberately.
"In a im made with Doris Day recently i who is secretly plotting to get vid of his wife, If my wife in The Alm were not to see through me right way of course I had
A play a husband
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mother during her holiday from the International School in
Rita Hayworth with her daughter (her other daughter. Rebecca, whose father is Örson Welles, is at home in California) entirely different present an ofcture from the accepted film
onm
"I have looked after them myself and
them puld for myself. There is no compromise for me where my children are concerned...and I
huld
my head high.
1
I have worked for my living since I was 13 and I am 42 years old now and I not the Bame know I'm glamour girl that I was 20 years
I have ugo, worries about growing another older and seeing wrinkle in the mirror.....
no
"I hear soray women are like that, but whet is the point af worrying. It is natural to grow old and I am a lot wiser than I used to be and I know a lo more about my craft, I want to go on acting for a long time."
No regrets
However else she may have changed since these "Cover Gir days her figure remains the same to the inch, A Balmain in veteran fitter at Paris checked on her measure- ments the other day and found after 15 years they were still 36in. bust, 25in, waist, and 34in. hips.
"I don't shim or diet--T play golf (handicap 25).
armed to relax.
I have
are
Geneva.
slip Her father was
"The old tensions Aly
and My children
my Miss Hayworth's third ping. Khan,
Yasmin is a cheerful, husband give me a security that husband, brigh child,
un perhaps was lacking." apparently spoiled. She is also an heiress.
then: "You I said to her "But I give her an allowance seem to practical and realistic children and your. of 10 Swiss francs a week (that about your is 10s. d.) and that is all
career...yel in your privale she is permitted to spend" sald fe you seem to have missed After all, you Those qualities, "I want her to
have been married five times." be practical about money."
Some people can take refuge from their worries
their sadness by * Rita Hayworth. and mountain climbing, or shooting,
"Heart-coate and co what happened when pressed the windscreen washer button!”
Richard
"You might as well know now-l hato smoking!”
**This in H
the Queen
"Help, help! Not you—the company director in
Irunks-HELP! swimming green
HELP!.
the
•NDER
Rex Harrison with Rita Hayworth's daughter Yasmin, who has a walk-on part' (fee, £2 18s. 6d.) in their now
were.
film.
She answered: "Life can't all be smooth. How dull it would be if it
I don't complain about any ..but re thing, I have no regrets gret is probably the wrong word. When I married it seemed to be the right thing to do at the time.
They were not mistakes at the time. Only afterwards perhaps did they seem like mistakes.
"And the future? I just want to be content .. perhaps I shall be."
There seemed to be a question mark hanging there to which her present hus- band, James Hill, the producer of her film, provides a part answer. He describes his wife, Rita Hayworth, star, like this: "A partly subdued volcano that could erupt at any moment. She explodes about every three weeks at home but never when she a working,
That's what makes her great.“ Explosiveness in Rita and Rex - that is the key quality that makes for exclte- ment.
-(London Express Eerview).
IS THE KEYSTONE OF BEN-GURION'S
POLICY IN DANGER OF COLLAPSE?
AS
S the French government and the Algerian nationalist leaders move hesitantly towards peace talks on Lake Geneva, their actions are being watched with growing anxiety by an angry old man in a fur-distant city
By PAUL JOHNSON
her motives for assisting Israel will disappear.
Four years ago, 1 warned Peres, In his office in Tel-Aviv.
of of this danger. He discounted leadership and the polley
it. According to him, France realpolitik.
would never leave Algéria, and Ben-Gurion himself is trying thus would be obliged, in sheer to whip up Inracii nationalism self-interest, to keep Israel sup-
bours on a basis of compromise and concession.
Recently they have been able to harry the government by con-
"Lavon
"Affair." Its detalls are show-trial of Eichmann. By re-
But now the French Press is stili obscure, but there seems minding the Israeli electorate of
guarantees Hittle doubt that in November Nazi war crimes, the
premier already discussing
for France's Saharan oilfields. For Ben-Gurion, peace in Al-
1954, Israel agents, acting on hopes to sweep to victory at the These already supply France gerla could mean the collapse of discussed at secret talks between Ben-Gurion's instructions, dyna-
poils.
with a quarter of her petrol im- his personal foreign polley, builtBen-Gurion and the French mited the United States Infor-
ports, and this percentage will up in great secrecy and with premier Guy Molie: near Paris, mation Libraries in Cairo and
Crow steadily during the next eansiderable ruthlessness over French aircraft and ships pro- Alexandria in an attempt to MOTIVES WILL
decale. the past five years. It could
loss of Israel's mean the reliable ally, France.
Since the creation of the Israel slate in 1947, the Israelis have become increasingly pendent on France for their military survival.
The city: Tel-Aviv. The old man: David Ben-centrating on the mysterious by staging the present claborate plied with arms. Gurion, Premier of Israel.
one
vided vital SUR-and-air cover embroil the United States with while Israeli
smashed Nasser. troops
Despite Nasser's army in the desert
de REALISTIC”
POLICY
Britain, with her heavy com- milments in the Arab world has always been inclined to con- elliate the Arabs at Israel's On the basis of this alijanco able to pur- expense. For a few brief months, Ben-Gurion was
"realistic" during the Suez crisis, the sue an increasingly Israelis enjoyed a spell of po- polley towards the Arab states. pularity in Downing-street. Israeli plans to negotiate peace pushed into the buck- Today, with Nasser restored were to favour, and full diplomatie ground. It was made plain to the relations with Egypt resumed, Arabs that any forward moves Israel con no longer expect to on their part would meet with
n devastating rejoinder. get arms from Britain.
The United States, too, arows steadily more kosille. The 1956 elections showed that the Jewish yole in New York State was no longer declaive.
Indeed, It was even hinted Isract that, thanks to France, would soon possess anclear weapons.
Behind Ben-Gurion stood two young and determined men:
and
America's oll stake in the Middle East grows stekdily. And with Mr Kennedy siriving at.all Shimon Peres, his chief assistant
at the Defence Ministry, costs to rally the "uncommitted"
General Dayan, his leading sold. States at the UNO, friendship
ier. with lacnel is a heavy liability,
SECRET TALKS
THEN.....
But in recent years, Anglo- American coldness to Israel has
been more than compensated by
the anxiety of France to build DEPLORE
If the sanction of French DISAPPEAR military power is removed from Ben-Gurion's efforts
Alkeria, France will be at the to hush up the affair, it has
mercy of Arab blackmail. And finally split his government wide
with Hut at this precise moment, the alliance
Israel, of орел. Now the issue will be decided at general elections the keystone of his foreign poll- course, will be the first cacri- which will probably be held in cy-the French alllance shows cial offering placed on the altar
of collapsing. For once of appeasement, August, in what will amount to signa a plebiscite
Ben-Gurion's France makes peace in Algeria
on
HAS AMERICA
A
--¡London Expreza Service).
GOT MAU MAU
ON ITS DOORSTEP?
NEW YORK
FANATICALLY anti-white secret society calling itself "The Black Moslems"
is causing grave concern to American polico and F.B.1. chiefs, They fear that if it ever got
out of control
AL
the movement
'Elijah
During the visit of Castro to
They receive secret traking in
lenge regregation 7aws In the
could develop into an American New York Inst year, the bearled judo, millary drill, and the use a secret meeting of kniven and blackjacks, ho Mau Mau.
meetings throughout Cuban held
two hours with the says. Negro audi Insting
It is not unukely that they are Together this trio planned America, exelted
u drumatic leader of New York's Black Mos. ences are watching and executed the Sinal war, and
the Fruit of Islam symbolic playlet put on by the lems,, who claims that he can gathering an armoury of small
whistle up 200 of his followers arms "for Jater fought and won an elec tion on this issue. Either Peres Black Moslems. Its highlight; a
within Ave ininutes of the out- looks forward to playing an role in the impending Ben-Gurion or Dayan,
hopes, white man sentenced to death.
break. nt any race disturbance in heroic 'battle The F.B.I. estimates the move-
ho of Armageddon," Harlem. will one day succeed him us
One of the declared dima of declares. premier and carry on his policy ment has a nationwide all-Negro
The Black Mualems scorn' their peaceful of tough realpolitike towards membership of 100,000.
the movement is the
Negroes who merely the Arab world.
taking over of one-fth of the fellow area of the United States to set demand equality with the whites, Much of its recruiling Ja carried out in prisons witere up A reparate "Negro only" Hold "alt-in" strikes, and chal emalttered Negro convicts make country. onay converts.
Open war
For this fanatical and fast- Recently there have been riots
Negro aniong
But prisoners in a
according to Nagre growing movement is not con- lent to share the government number of American Jails, fol- sociologist Dr C Eric Lincoln --
Muhammad myk: We must the Arab world in Algeria, suc- But there are growing signs towing attempts by the authorit- whose vook "The Black Mosioms with the willes, Coprive French governments. that Ben-Gurion is in trouble, tes to stamp out Black Moslem In America" soon to be pub
a recruiting.
Ushed the movement. alceady lake things into our own hands, randliy auppiled Tornel with Iaraci has always contained
And it w Black Moslem has a highly trattied accret. What does it matter ft 20,000,000 arma and even direct physical largo number of ideallats, who
that their thugs who recently broke up a army called the Fruit of J. of us dio? There will be 7,009,
000 of us left to enjoy justice bellava vássionately help.
tam. Btate should act only on the UND debate on the Congo.
The movement--which cialis Jancoin describes this, as "a and freedom.."" From the summer of 1950, highest principles. French Nghters and militarÝ They deplore sad dotest Den- to follow the teaching of the potential-phalanx of black men. technicians flowed in a steady Curlon's ruthlananove, and hold Prophet Mohammied-s led by a ready to wage open war ogulnat aiteam to falfa. The timing of that Iscoal can pnly become Negre calling himeelt Elijah' the entire white community in
case of white provocation the Iraeli offentlvo în Binal' was 'réconciled to t Arab "neign- Mühüminad.
up reel as a counterpoise to Nasser.
Engaged in what seemed permanent war of nitrition with
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