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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1961.
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Roderick Mann
William Holden scotches those
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But he has my sympathy when it comes to the question of his loot. For everyone In- siste he's a millionaire al 43, and however hard he denies it and beats the table and turns his pockels out, nobody really be- leves him.
IRKED
"Why," say show-business insiders,
"Holden's so rich he rustles. He made a million out or The Bridge on the River Kwai. Everybody knows that.” At the risk of enraging the picasant Mr Holden, 1 ventured to ask him about his money when I saw him the other day. T further asked why, It he was as loaded as they suld, he didn't turn it in and spend his declining yeara watching 10 runs of his old plctures and making paper darts out of his bank statements?
stories about
all his millions
Then he
"But I tell you-with, then Ceylon, where we made affaight into The Longest Day taxes I pay, every time'n'rocket : Kwai, I spent so much time in for Darryl Zanuck. toes phul at Cape Canaveral it water that there was real fear will make The Lion in Kenya, affects me, personally,
of my developing some sort of "I work like a dog," he says, When I qui Hollywood I fungus. 1 had to bathe in "'ll never be able to retire, was crticised because everyone disinfectant every night, and No actor of my generation ever thought I was doing it to evade then go over myself with a con." tax. I wasn't.
came to cotton swab. Europe becouse I wanted my children brought up over here.
“And you know what I plek- BACK AGAIN wanted them to learn to speak ed up in Kenya? A hookworm. languages and to think nationally.
inter- I've still got it. There's 20 way of killing it except with something like arsenic, and the dose it takes to kill it is, the dose i taktos to kill you, I keep hoping I can drown It in lager, It's very debilitating.
"And like life in Europe, I never could conform to Hollywood's customs and taboos. Even from the beginning,
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AM glad to report that Mr
'Trevor Howard 1 among us once again. Even though after spending nine months in Hollywood and Tanill making futing on the Bounty—he found three days of his home In Barnet quite enough And immediately took off for n hallday on the Riviera.
"Remember, when I started it was considered bad box-office for a star even to be married. They thought if Robert Taylor or Tyrone Power married it would ruin their appeal. Well "I've got one extravagance," I learn, Mr Howard added yet During his odeurn in Tahiti the hell with that.
Holden conUnued. got married in my Continental Bentley,
another jall to his growing list. I don't Most of them I haalen to add. former Agure the money. I save on nothing more serious than an those just about pays for the understandable reluctance to car. But run a ear like that submit to petty officialdom.) away and p go your costs straight
Well he got a little irked twenties because I wanted a gamble or go to night clubs, so have been one-alehi stands for
And while he admitted he was still some distance from the hreadline, he made it clear that all those stories about his for tune were a lot of bunkum.
"Listen," he said. "Let m2 tell you something; I'm taxed right up to the eyes. I live in Switzerland now. but I'll be paying American taxes-that's $1 per cent of my salary for years to come.
"Do you know something? When I Arst started in pletures I hoped to retire at 30,
CRITICISED
family. [Married to actress Brendo Marshall, Holden has one daughter and two sons.] There's a well-known for how I feel about Holly
gesture wood's customs," (he made it).
REAL FEAR
1
"An jalls go." he told me, "it was really mulle pleasant. Not at all, bad. Though I resented a mop and pail," being woken at six and handed
LOGIC
Mr Howard's Dequaintance "π you Fin on ordinary with the Tahiti Jall came about make of car you see, you to when he was out in his car and some fellow hair a dollar to mistook the runway at the air- park it for you.
port for the main road. "But not a Bentley. Oh, no. There's another reason for You don't allow anyone else to By staying over here. For a drive it, so you park it your abroad have made more money dant double because you feel long me now, films made self-and then up the atten than Gims made in Hollywood. guilty about not letting him do Hollywood's domestle market his job, pictures have been doing dea- perately badly,
I get expenstye. But when people ask me how much it "Well, I know which side of tosta to ron I tell them I don't "What happened? The war the fence I want to be on. know, I also tell them the story A whose next film shocker will came and when I came out I Remember, if it hadn't been for about millionaire J. P. Morgan's wo nome
had three children and I owed. films like Bridge on the River yacht,
Maurier's Kical and some of the other "A friend who also wanted a Birdsi
short story The which "It was ine for Sinatra and block-busters
abroad yacht asked him how much it upon
birds turn Peek and others who
wouldn't never there
the human race-was a fim rost, to run. Morgan said: asked by a columnist what shouldered ' rifle. They kept Industry left.
'Listen-if you've got to ask logical reason there, was for -on making money throughout "It looks
how much it costs to run, you bleds to do such a thing. the war. I didn't.
business," he said. "But 1 tell simply can't afford it.*** "TUXCS were ruinous by the you it's darned hard work. I've
Shrugged Hitchcock: "Ours ume I began making real made Alms all over the world,
CAREER NOTE: When he just to scare the hell out of is not to reason why. Ours 19 money. I'm not griping, under with some of the toughest Anishes his pre-ent Alm The people." aland, I am just sloting a fact, locations.
Devil Never Sleeps, Holden goes
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In that case, we in Britain the descendants would probably not have the of Don Juan. Duke of Edinburgh we know Things have not turned out today and the Duke of Kent, that way, Byron found the too, would perhaps be somebody Alightly different.
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Lady Caroline Lamb his out conscience in rail- it their thousandth title. former mistress, now taking to way compartments when drink and lovers of an interior you've finished. Recently different, though
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Lady Byron, the widow, a
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Doris Langley Moore takes up canselessly trying to prove
and self mortification. and Ing line there's a new edition the story at the moment when herself that some
10 of Margaret Mitchell's
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dead," Hobhouse could
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