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THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1961.
Patricia Lewis
THERE'S NO LEWIS LIKE PAT LEWIS!
ON A STAR-SPOTTING MISSION... THE NAMES MOST LIKELY TO MAKE THE GRADE
Seven on the see-saw...
RIDING the see-saw of success → can prove a heart-stopping recreation. For every new hot-tipped screen personality thrown up, a dozen others never get off the ground or--at best -sink back into howhere after failing to heat their own ballyhoo. This year the fresh faces appear as plentiful and, for the most part, as standard as ever. But occasionally a really bright young talent emerges as definite star material. We have selected seven such new names, seven embryo stars who-being treated to the full'studio build-up along with a score of contemporaries -look, the likeliest to sucreed,
WARREN BEATTY
WARREN BEATTY (right) pro- nounced "Batey ia the incredibly handsome 23-year-old brother of actress Shirley MacLaine.
His role on Broadway in William Inko's play "A Loss of Roses" led him to Hollywood.
His first film "Splendour in the Grass" with Natalie Wood has yet 10 be seen here, but he has subsequently made "The Roman Spring of Mri. Blone," opposito Vivien Leigh, and has just begun shooting All Fall Down " with Eye Marie Saint
Ella Kazan, who directed "
dour in the Grass Bayle-
he couldn't act, he eculd make stardom on his looks and if he was cross-eyed and bald, he could make it or his "acting."
• BY - THE THE
PAMELA TIFFIN
AN 18-year-old top New York fashion model. Pamela Tim is someone you won't have a chance to forget.
A
casual meeting with producer Hai Wallis, while holidaying in California retted her a long-term con- tract and the juvenile lead opposite Laurence Harvey in the
version of screen Tennessee Williama's "Summer and Smoke."
She is currently filming Billy Wilder's new comedy "One, Two. Three," In Berlin with Horst Bucholz.
A pert brunette with B perfect figure. she 15 unexpectedly serious-minded. Poetry, opera, symphonies. and "heavy" theatre All her spare time when she isn't going to night classes.
She says: "I think what I most really want to be is a well-educated woman."
WAY
PATRICK MCGOOHAN
I WAS BORN in New York, brought up in Ireland. and becaise an actor in England. Bo one of McGoohan's great Baacta is a sort of Mid-Atlantic accent that permits him to play most English-speaking nationall ties, including American, with convirion,
CAROLE
SHELLEY
SHE HAS the all-round professional
background
that makes for startling versatility. Originally a chlid actress-" Give UA This Day" with Sám Wanamaker, and "It's Great to be Young." with John Mills-her accom-
At present McGoohan 1 Janking" All Night Long.“ a flim which takes the Othello theme and sets it in the present-day world of jazz. His in the lago part. He has made several ima for Rank, including “High Tide At Noon and Hell Drivers-plished
By Beachcomber
E suggestion that income One recalls the reply of Mr Quick wit tax forms should use larger Jusilee Cocklecarrot when ask-
print was me! in masterly ed why income tax forms must
fashion by the Chairman of the be milntelligible. He said: "To Inland Revenue Board.
be intelligible they would have He is reported to have ex-
to be more concise on lucid, plained that larger print would and that wouki mean smaller -Fresn bigger forma which forms, which would be more would put it into the allice rup- easily lost in the office baskets boards now in use.
now in use."
"FLATTERY may often divert
anger," writes a studles of
human nature. Nurbonne, lute for on appointment with Napo- Jean nt Erfurt, haid, "I gut annoed a crowd of kings. and had great difficulty in push- ing my way through their."
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dancing landed her the fends in the "New Cranks " revue and, last year, in the revue, "The Art of Living."
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Harry Saltzman, producer ol "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning." has Just signed Carole to star in the stage play and subsequent film version O "Tho Marclage Game."
Ho says she la" the English Bhirley MacLaine." Now 22. Carole lives in St. John's
singing and Wood.
SCOTT
MARLOWE
HIS PERFORMANCE in "A Cold Wind In August” marks him as one of the best among Hollywood's crop of young actors. An orphan (his real name la Ron Deleo), Marlowe Was discovered while studying at the New York Actors' Studio where he won an award in 1955 an "most promising actor of the year."
Now 27. there is an arresting Brando, quality to his acting.
BARBARA LODEN
P
EDWARD
JUDD
HAVING RECENTLY signed a seven-year flm contract, Edward Judd is, at 28, within striking distance of international stardom.
He made his film debut in 1948 in "Tho Guinea Pig, but it was not until the critics acclaimed his powerful stage performances in "The Long and the short and the Tall " and. later, "The Tinket" that he began to be noticed.
ANOTHER Elta Kazan discovery. He gave Barbara Loden hier Arst movie break as a rather dowdy secretary quickly In "Wild River," followed
by the part of Warren Beatty's rebellious flapper slator in "Splendour In the Grass."
She has proved such a scene-stealer that there's talk of her as "the new Jean Harlow," A country giri who can still milik a cow, she worked her way up through a modelling career in New -York and jobs as a showgirl
at the Copacabana,
In her spore time she studied acting and got her first role on Broadway in Compulston." followed by three other Broadway playa.
Leadon Exprras Service.
This racket in Bible THE
THE
epics
WITH ASSEMBLY LINE PRECISION THEY COME...THESE IRRELIGIOUS NOVELS WRITTEN IN THE
LANGUAGE OF THE WIDE SCREEN
HE Bible is big business-not only in that a million copies were print- ed of the new translation, but in the way it continues to provide a quarry from which modern writers hew their novels.
Pseudo-classics like "The Blg in whleit Saul and David and In.no dictionary of mine but Fisherman" and "The Robe" Jonathan and Abner were fight- whien sounds like a dog food. love sold well over half a mall- ing for power, each scarcely
Mr Israel's narrator enm- munis, in her account of the fight: "From Gollath's becunt I knew he came from the Quarter In Gath."
Idiom
Hon copies, And now along Important in terms of the num- The fortune-telling narrator- comes a bik, clever, dreadful bers of mon they commanded erune is also given to making American atury called Kirpah (David's army was only 000 such remarks as the "Happi- (Macmillan. 21.) by an author strong). They are described in ness is, after all, only a word, a
The other trouble in that there rather blissfully named Charles the Bible with a clear-eyed, vague trisyllable rust inade is in all tha o magnificent story E. Israel, which may well win unmythical frankness which quote for capturing an inade which Mr Israel constantly
even now enables us to see in quate
unstable quintes seems about to write, but never sence." Personally, I still think quite dues. The binek turbulence them a reflection of our own
the same sort of success.
and
Mr Israel, to Judge from the uneming political struggles. "happiness" is rather a good of tribal pollues, ruthless and yet
bouk-jacket, is
kandsonWE
young American, who han chosen to write in the first per- son as an aged female fortune- teller, for which at least he de- serves marks for originality.
Historic
And to certain extent Mr His text..is a verse from the Second Book of Ramuel; "And Israel dous convey the way in Saul had a concubine, whose witch Bath is not only his true noine was fizpah, the daughter storie self, a manic-depressive of Algh," which. I suppose the small-time chieftain, but also second instalment of the
Lucifer, the fallen mondrch of New English Bible will render as unkind. "Baul's girl-friend was izpah. Alalt's kid,"
Marathon
word.
für ward-
sentimental, nccasionally guts over; yet I doubt if anybody. But with such verbiage the coming to these events for use story is told, veering between Orat
fime would realise, the authentic Old Testament example, the tremendous cadences of "Go, and the Lord ginally of the Israelites in wor know that little beast Joab any- be with you," and "I should shipping a single God. whare." I really will not do.
Merry
NEW
BOOKS
by Peter Forster
"Jahveh":" Is mentioned throughout; it is the less familiar way of spelling Jehovah, but Mr Israel's uni Idfont ta broad, Hollywood-Illblical, Somehow hờ even manages to, make a novel But Mr Isract has to Invent a whole saga for Itizpah, and tell Seul. King of the Israelites, He
Rizpah soon fetches up with from the Bible seem irreligious. vet another tale of a tart. Even Instals her in an adjoining tent, whale business of quarrying faints of the harness; wherefore
My own sumption in that this' this is not unresonable, only and for a while Old King Saul novels from the Bible is a bit ito, sald unto the driver of his there are two major objections sa inerry old Saul and a merry of a racket, and not difficult to charlet, Tum thine hand, and to his method.
old Saul le ho.
learn, at that. D
Upon this verse, and the alogle, One in the language. There is, Then arlson the clanste family short chapter of the Old Testa- you see, this girl Rizpah and conflict between Saul and Jonti- inent to which it belongs. Mr se hag 10 unmern. She ink thon, and David, and. bere azo Israel has contrived a marathon napped early on by Arabs, and some good enough retiner
Bestuin novel of 535 close-printed pages. Foun goes from
to scenes involving the prophet worn as the mistressS of ⚫ Samuel, and britter with tim The point about the Books wardenile warrier with the trade- Philistines, including that den- of Samuel (so called because name of Torash they feature that vital law-guzely giver withough not written by
urdinarily candid,
Venture
carry me out of the lost, for I am wounded,
Now there is ‘a thème for Me Israel's next! Title; "Bow at avanture." Central character, that certain man, who should
1 have just opened the Old have about 50 summers, and In perately unfair condlet between Testament at random and found the film version will look David and Goliath. (For what mine oye alighting on the 24th remarkably like Charlton Hes- ton. Think what a gaudy story In the course of a battle with chance had a poot, unwieldy verse of the 22nd Chapter of the could be Invented around hipst him) is that they are extra the farasilien, Toresh in mortal- glant encumbered with 6,000 First Book of Kings, which But tell it not in the Quarter in
fy, wouridael, and Rizpah - ta khekels of brain against an reads: "And a corlain inan drew Gall They toll of a complex chapter banged about the head unii ale agile young shepherd ́with a bow at venture, and smute Lin early Middle Eastern polities, feels abelludinous," a word allug?)
the King of Israel between the
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