Pago
The
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1961.
LOGAN
GOURLAY
many faces
but
of Gina
which one
Milko's mother?
INA LOLLOBRIGIDA, who still occasionally chews over her English as though she were negotiating a strand of her native spaghetti, said: "I am fed up. Is that the right word, ch? I 'ad too much."
I told her it was as good a description as any for the condition she had been talking about, which is at times endemic in Hollywood could be called the Sunset Boulevard creeping paralysis or boredom.
atrophy
It can on occasions the muscles of the mind com pletely.
It is another noest which has brought her
nannie for her
"My husband gues one of to London. A popers. So do 1."
four-year-old She assured me that for who has been moment she is conducting left at her tented Hollywood other legal battles, futreke.
son Milko jun..
She said: "All day I
Inter- view haries. It is a great problem to find the right one.
"I cannot spend too much time with the baby.
"He has had a good mannie but she is too affectionate. She Epoile him.
"I have to be nevere when I see him and he don't like me.
"I must find one who will be strict then I con be the affee tionate mother.
"It is sad at the moment. He is independent of me.
"When something is wrong he
the
the
I left this office in a state of weary sobriety at 11.30 the other night, drove along
no Strand and up Lower Regent-
with aircot. A policeman
the
#
At one time she was suing no waving torch stopped me. I had Less than a dozen people for a to wait while be conducted variety of alloged misde- pedestrian to safety. meanours.
:.
Formidable
Fortunately
Miss Lollobrigida for
A pedestrian who must have! strayed from the park. A small bumptious and adventurous duck.
THIRTY YEARS
OF THUNDER-
FROM CRACKER-BACK
IRENE
By William Barkley
I have known FOR about £5 a day you
10 years
tan now take advantage of of amily. No quartels. No
the latest tourist gimmick arguments. No legal Bulls, hape to keep it that way for the in Paris-a shopping trip next 10 years. She is formidable in a limousine equipped and I stumbled on an uproarious meeting at a as well as fascinating.
I would add Hligious, as well
as lovely, if I weren't afraid she might take offence at the word. Before I left she said: "Tomor never run fauit." It or by work tow night you can take me to
not his is my the to supper."
la younger he I did. No quarrel. No
argu- "When he
understand. Every mont. And, I trust, no scandal. morning when he come to see
couldn't
me I am getting made-up and E and have a different face.
"It is too confusing. He is not
fave In his Bure which mother's,"
With a resigned smile on her
ALL FOR THE SAKE OF A CAT... bs PEOPLE
"Then it is written again by now I have to be paid a special maternal, 33-year-old nanale- the author of the book." Then rate." Miss Lollobrigida encountered it is written again and it this way. Last December, by other writers, when I visited her at her home seven times. on Home's Applan
she Way,
ju Holly-
again Miss Lollobrigida didn't say Allogether
so, but I reckon that so far the chol. has eamed about 200,000
just "have some script approval. lars, or roughly £70,000,
leading man.
was eagerly looking forward to So has Tony Curtis, who is the for welting.
making a new m wood.
She arrived there on January to start work on "Lady Lan Gary's adaptation of Homain novel.
Now, four months later, nol a single foot of the film has been shot.
She said: "It is not my fault, I tell you what the trouble is.
It is the script."
Approval
She made a quick calculation on her fingers, which are small but well shaped.
is
"One, two, three times it written by a man who has much
skill and a high salary.
"So, of course, has the pro- ducer and the director. Nobody the script. Sir agrees about
in Ralph Richardson, who is the film, says one of the scripts Is the worst he ever reade.
"At the beginning of the flim
I am supposed to appear as an old lady of 80 years.
"I tell thein that if I wait
any longer I can do the
old
lady without the make-up.
"It is ridiculous. With Cleo- patra They have some for the delays.
excuse
"It is not the money I want, "You read what I say when I meet Nixon out there recently.
one who You know--the for the President.
ran
for
"I say: 'At Brst I do it the money. Now I do it for
the love."
"He say: 'First I did it for the love. Now I do it for the money."
"He la joking. Not me. Now i have all the money I need. It is pictures 1 need. Good ones."
Justice.
"Al it will be a big, big Blm. But this time, no excuse and in a light coniedy-not an eple. "Yel already they have spent about two million dollars.
"Me. I am poid my full sulary for the Alm already and orator demanding justice,
Miss Lollobrigida, her eyes as round as the Colosseum and dark an the Tiber. delivered her
like last statement
Interviewing face she added:— "Yes, I suppose II stop everything would acting O.K.
"Once I thought I would stop caked when I get enough in the bank. But as I tell you before, that doesn't matter now.
career. Nothing
give it me
up.
"I love my would make Nothing.
"Even with the problemI. And you know about one of the others. The scandal.
Scandal
"I lead a quiet life. So they make up the scandal about me. Say that in
"The
of
with chauffeur, bilingual guide, and a bottle of iced champagne "to make the shopping more pleasant,"
And, I'd say, much more dangerous.
HOW TO HIRE A HURDY-GURDY
HAVE been icit a copy
are propostarous. I a new London guide A German lawyer ac- book which the publishers embezzlement, say will help me if I, for who has been on the want example:- cd list for years, has Just bean arrested by the West Berlin polico.
He could have stayed safely in East Berlin, where he had been hiding under an ossluried name. But he crossed avet "because my cat will only cat kidneys, and I couldn't buy any in East Ber- lin."
...AND FOR
Hollywood white I am waiting A BUMPTIOUS
to work I have a romance with. Tony Curtle. I hardly even mert him.
They also say my husband
PEDESTRIAN!
could only havo hap- poned in London,
is mixed up with a Yugoslav girl behind my back. A starlet, malce a Roman Maybe she is trying to
publicity, but it is all nonsense, suppose.
HEARD the girl before I saw her. A resonant, tuneful voice came my way round a corner,
works gate in Wallsend, Northumberland.
A huge crowd of men tyds
golden-haired girl."
being banged by a tavishli te noinence tatket by, men in
The workmen were thorngly tolerant of their tutililies.
this isinile world and yet
enjoylik what I thought was d
Just a few weeks ago the bell- strangely gay Labour meeting.
Jiko volce struck Mr Harold But this was a lighting Tory Macmillan the Prime Minister, and she won, putting that able when he was announcing the
Labour woman Misa" Margaret Bondfeld out of Parliament.
It was an unbelievable victory which sent Miss Irene Ward to the Commons 30 years ago.
And she hasn't changed a bit except that now she harangues Cabinet Ministers and suchlike.
Perhaps
thethan's she is not happy with
latest spy committee.
Said she "Will you get some people on it, not from the Olympion heights, but down-to- carth people who know what
oes on?
It was practically an order.
Blushes
The former Chancellor of the has put on the Order Paper. Exchequer, now Lord Amory, gallery. No, she does not "rise." In the last word.
the side was the only one who could get
Sho
"Want to hire a hurdy-gurdy-impends "Want a chair recaned. "Want fried ants or roasted caterpillars.
"Want a clarsach.
"Want to dispose of a body. "Want a second-hand chastity belt.""
I don't think I'm going to find the book indispensable.
tises
under
she takes the air with built-in
She once quoted at lum troth budyaticy: she supervtries: she
Lear's "Owl and the Pussyep!," like a cumulus cloud
Tho Bachelor Chanceller with thunder in its innards.
crushed her with: "O pussy my A blast of air almost dis- dear, O pussy my love, what a arranges the hair-do 4f every beautiful pussy you are." To M. Prin a direct line between which there was no answer but her and the offending Minister. bhishes and laughter.
She repeats her question in a But her forte, or fortissimo, voice that con jar the micro is the voice from the back phones. And
before he can benches always raised, as it answer she probably adds:---
seems, in exasperatedt but reasonable complaint.
Disarming
Д
"And don't try to crack
the head because I am It would be stupidly wrong to imagine that Dame Irene gives an impression of rude- ness. Never a bit. For the whole riotous act is accompanied by
jolly good cracker back." once a professor of Greek,
YOU can always depend dith Lady Summerskil to on make a highly debatable In the House atatement. of Lords recently she came out with this-
"A delinquent girl does nok attract a gang."
Doesn't she, Milady?
-London Express Servico).
"Now," Bic will say to Mr me Enoch
Powell who is novér allowed to forget that he was you with your great
"If classical brain can come down to details idiotic answers... of home life and not give mo Some Dame, this Irene - A name which in Greek means "peace!"
the most disarming, getlál and understanding smille.
Sub is just a clear-minded, loglent woman exasperated by
-London Expreja. Kerolcé),
-BUT WHAT ABOUT THE The top man never takes a big breakfast
MAN WHO WANTS
TO
ROPE US ALL IN?
PROFESSOR WALT-
ER HÅLLSTEIN,
the latest German with the aim
by TERENCE LANCASTER
The
Already Hollstein has 187 million people in his group. Soon, he hopes, he will have Britain's 52,000,000 as well.
BREAKFAST on £40,000 a year is a frugal meal. Orange juice, cereal, a cup of coffer and a glance through the morning papers.
by JOHN ELLISON
superihea.
He is the chairman F.J.S." that are the one out- "Big meals early slow
who never saw himself at the ward symbol of success. you up in the office," rules
Two hats a grey topper for It is a pretty terrifying out- top.
Beneath him stretches Frederick James Stephens, look.
He joined Shell from Cam- weddings and a black, one for Nothing
bridge in 1920 with a second funerals. A lllding for good food has slowed up Mr|4) £2.020 million company,
and claret, Stephens since that July day 250,000 staff turning your name class languages degree.
He worked in a department nearly 58 years ago when he Into a prayer, kingdoms of the
writh waiting
your that dealt
legal land was born in a Bristol slum, con world
that claims, but the work absorbed pay cheque of a struggling pastor (later to decision,
works out (gross) at around him and the finger of success become a canon).
£20 a working hour,
beckoned,
TERRIFYING
over
+
upon
A complete independence of cash-"Ivo no wallet just carry a couple of 10s, notes and some change in my pocket. The rest I sign for," TAX BILL
Mr Stephens has a good deal In Britain there is indecision.
"Of course, it takes it out of
of sympathy for that other What does £10,000 a year salary
Dr carner,
Richard of conquering became director of the Institute
This gives Hallstein one big
you though you may not realise implications Aggressive
bt- since he
day, The other
Becching of the railways. "I bring Fred Stephens? that " says Mr Stephens.
First, a iox man'a
bill for the Government is going to r Europe, has a luxurious of Comparative Law at Frank- of this revived fears of post- advantage--ever
Adenauer's man he has breakfast in a Park-lane apart- war Germany's ultimate aims, came
"But to start biting your roughly £31,750 for he is a industry they've got to be office suite on a Brussels fort in 1943.
never known just where he was going. ment belonging to Shell, he Hallstein has Two years later,
the Certainly
propared in pay industry's belief boulevard named the Russian front taking its toll, he made any secret of his
And during his talks took a long, cool look at the view fingernails and worrying about widower with no children.
A country house near Woking salaries, At present they don't Is the main with American trade on his first day at the top. The the job is, to jeopardise your
acres of land that and I don't incan only at the Avenue de la Joyeuse was called up as a reserve officer. that Cammuhlam
officials it was quite clear chairmanship
top for Mr Stephens being the sanse of judgment and your with two Captured soon after D Day he enemy.
Shell ability to take proper decisions." gives him time to garden to his top-and es a result Govern Entrec.
Stephens is something of a heart's United
content,
love ment controlled was a prisoner in the
Industry does far is the salary States for two years.
can phenomenon in th new and gardening and golf.
not compete," clite powerful
shirts going to get Britain.
Industrial Silk
-(London Express Service). He organised
tver hope to get. London Express Service).
with
of the
And, for this reason, though that he thought he was group, which is just about as
camer
In plain English, that means
camp studles. he doesn't approve of Nazis, he the Avenue of the Joyful Way-
in the Adenauer in. His inthediate object is to The Americans liked Bith.
In co-operates get Britain into the European deed, he was invited bhok two policy of allowing lessor Nazis Common
Market-Joyfully years later to be a guest profes- to seep back into the public life
of the Federal Republic.. possible, resentfully if necessor at Georgetown University,
Adeitater spotted him. He be-
aary,
Powerful
A9 bess of the market organi- came a top civil servant. With sation, he plans to dominate his fine academic brain, hls im- Europe with an idea. At the be- copacity for work, it was ginning it was the idea of trade. possible for him to tail.
State Now it is developing more and I was while he was
Now he is one of the most Secretary for Foreign Affairs powerful men in Europe. His tour of that he made his most famous authority stems from his repid- America he has cald boldly that remark. He said that, for him, ly growing organisation and his the United States should urge Europe atretched "from the At- personal Britain to make a solid con- fantle to the Urals." tribution to this unity if she joins the Common Market.
more into political unity.
On his
current
Already the Common Market has West Ger- many, France, Italy, Bel- zlum, Luxemburg, and Holland. Greece' will link up soon.
Grey...
Who is this man whose plans
to Britain?
Adenauer.
relationship with
FALSE-BEARD 'PROFESSOR'
IS AN AMERICAN
A GERMAN professor, the key figure in Ox- ford's most successful hoax, who recently fooled an entire undergraduate society and a well-known don of St Anthony's College, suddenly
could make so much difference revealed his true identity the other night. He is 22- bo-year-old year-old American, Mr Lester O'Shea, of Pem-
ด
bachelor, is a grey man-grey broke College.
Hallstein,
Bair, grey face. Ho is heavily
life has been, one of devoted
spheiacled, has no hobbies. His The Oxford's Humanist
work and little play.
Group meeting at Worcestor cented "professor's" 30 minutes'
He looks like a don or a civil College, was addressed by a in polito allence.
servant. In fact he has
both.
His brain
been
"Professor Brutkopt Bchmel.
The meeting over, the "pro-
| king of Gottingen University," fessor Iimped rapidly to a car His nubject: Neo-Dualism and and was driven off by Mr David Paycho-Pragmatic Synthesis. Buzman, 'A South African The "professor's" manner was student friend who is at Exeter. certainly peculiar. At one slago Mr Suzman explained how Top of his Rhineland class ae during his speech ho remarked the hoax was worked. "I was a schoolboy, and later a brit-violently: "There is no auch secretary of the Hutsonistą 1kst ltant undergraduate, he was thing us right or wrong, good or form,” Std guid. *During professor at Rostock when only evil." To illustrate this point he the
3 Bugged seized # henvy glass mahtray the "professor" and his sub- Ite was never a Nazi but the and shattered it on the parquet ject to Me Clive Jones,, the Natie never objected to him. He flooring.
00 bamod secretary.” He accepted. disapproved of them but he stili, humanists beard the heavily ac-
willenden Exprver Service).
Yet
vacation
of
FAIR TRADE.
BY JAK
He
mo3ogrammed
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YOU WANTED ME TO GET
SMART NEW SYTAIS FROM
BRITISH
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