THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18
AQUARIUS (Junuary 21. VIRGO (August 22.
February 191: Try to be patient with a loyal subor dinate
whose 'present worries are apt to reflect on his work, PISCES (February 20-March 201: In your desire to he helpful to others you must guard against neglecting your own affairs.
ARIES (March 21-April 191:
Unless you are prepared for a permanent union, it would not be fair lo the other party to continue i romance,
TAURUS (April 20-May 201: Try to find the middle rand between extravagance and u reluctance to spend on neconsilies.
GEMINI (May 21 one 210:
If you insist too stubbornly on your own point of view. you may antagonise a per: son who could help you if he chose.
CANCER (June 22-July 21):
Impatience on your purt could easily lead to com- plications. which might have the effect of delaying your progress.
LEO (July 22-August 21: Strong adherence to your principles in an argument will win the reluctant
respect of your opponent.
September 22): Don't be little an idea for a new ven Lure, just because some- body else thought of it Arst.
LIBRA
B
(September 23. October 22): A glimpse of a less pleasant side of friend's character should. not make you revise your opinion of him as a whole, SCORPIO (October 20-f
November 2001 An selfish
net of yours
is
deeply appreciated, at though the recipient may be Lon moved to thank you in so many words.
WOMAN
TO
WOMAN
SALLY VINCENT
· THERE'S MORE to a great actress thun beauty and mimicry; there's more to a brilliant inter viewer than verbatim shorthand. Simone Sig noret is a great actress, as her porformance in "Room at the Top" proved; someone who draws her brillance from the secret depths of her life. Interviewing her is reporter Sally Vincent--whose Unir is for séving, and understanding, below the surface, beneath the public face. And they meet ....WOMAN TO WOMAN.
SIMONE SIGNORET
Paris.
PARIS, early evening, late summer. A square on the Ile de la Cite explains in terms of slanting shadows and casual architecture the meaning of the French idea of ambiance. Number 15 is an open arch- way, leading to a rummage of romantically sordid passageways, strewn with dying bicycle frames and old women hunched over sinks of peeled potatoes.
Thuy
Jeast
are
45
SAGITTARIUS (November Stone stairs lead upwards into it through chinks cut by a thought people wanted to be
22-December 211: Your ne-to stray, beaten-up doors wedge-shaped axe blade. nothing but actors. tions express
ad- which nobody lives behind.
blue, "I wanted to be an probably
actres your
this although mirable character, and you?
would be the though there was nothing else to Stone stairs loud also down- have no reason to
Important part of the WANL suspect wards 10 surprising door with Ms Signoret has no pretiiness
"But on a child and an adoles- black any hidden motives.
Ineque and steganes,
(except, perhaps, that her teeth cent there seemed no point to behind CAPRICORN
which lives Simona (December 22-Signaret. It is opened by a soft
are pretty): she is beautiful. talk about it. I was, I thought, January 201: An absorbing | maid
She is also powerful, dominant a common wish, like wanting to who says hal Miss and
completely unuggressive. be handsome or rich. personal interest might Signoret is en retard.
effort She makes, no
to be provide the right antidote
friendly, will the effect is one of warmth and tolerance.
Sho doesn't apologise for being latc.
10
30
excessive worry about things you can't change.
YOUR LUCKY CARD: If this is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the EIGHT of HEARTS.
Rupert and the Secret Path-43
Alter long pause Sara makes up her mind.
The constable
was angry with you, not with me." he says. "Anyway I'm
not a tired as you are so I'd beer fetch him. though what
you want him tor i can't imagine. hope you aren't in more
trouble" And of the runs. "We'd better make sure that the second piece of crumpled paper is safe," says Rupert Yes, here it
is,” says Dingo, taking it from bi pockel and unfolding it. As they Rate at it they hear heavy foot keps returning.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Nonchalant
Inside a tong, low
"You," shc says,
So room of "are sitting in my chatz. basic formal elegance, churae- come and it in this one." terised by various esoteric irregularities.
Miss
One of the paintings on the wall is crooked; there are photo- graphs of
Signorel pores of napehet, informally with Picasso, Chaplin, and what secins Bice two-thirds of Europe's intellectuals stuffed
Irritated
an
"When I did become
wasn't actress, I realised this I move and she
accurate, but I still takes het altogether place. Within minutes she believe some part of everyone doom't
want her chair any wants to be an actor. But it's a more and slips on to the floor, complex wish, wanting to act.
one laying
proprietoriat arm "You can before you have the seat, smoking and beer ulong
OB actor, drinking whiskey.
distinguish between wanting to net and What she says—when it is not wanting to be fimous. designed to shock-is not spe when you have been un actor, cial. What she is, though, IS there is a very fine line between
the two things."
into the frame of the mirror special.
smother the Oscar an
meng
22-carat frinkets municiplece, and slands nonchalantly unco-ordinated ornanients,
television set has been dressed up as a Punch and Judy
show.
A
The natural setting of Mus Signorel's private fe is now set and reluxed into, and appears.
Powerful
ste
Her clothes are anonymous, her figure assertive and 10 yours old.
H&T face has Die genic angularity of curved balsa and her eyes seem to have been set
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Tin, The Protector
-He Sees To It That No Animals Enter Playroom→→
By MAX TRELL
"You needn't feel sorry for me," General Tin the Tin Soldier, was saying to Knurf end Hanid, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names.
"But we do feel sorry for you, General Tin, dear," Honld said. "You never get any rest or any- thing. You can't even alt down," "Neither can a free," said General Tin. "And you never hear a tree complaining do you?"
1
What's the reason? Knarf asked General Tin why he always stood in front of the playroon door, day and night, with his muskėt over his shoul- dur.
"You pushed them out, of course," Hanld said.
General Tin sold No he didn'i push the crowd of Monkeys cut.
"They
made a lot of nuise,” he said, "But they really meant no horm. So I let them stay for a while.
"I hope they behaved them- selves," said Hanid.
"Indeed they id"
said General Tin, "I told them not In climb up the walls and they didn't, I told them not to jump from lamp to lump or hang on to the curtains and they didn't" Kuart asked General Tin what the Monkeys did go it they didn't do those other things.
"They sat down very quietly in that chuir sald General Tin. "It's my duty" said General He pointed to a small wooden Tin proudly.
G Suldier." chair on the other side "But why do you
of the have to ruum. sland in front of the door?
Looked at chair Can't you lean against the wall? Can't you síl over by the book-
Knarf and Hanid looked case and read a book? Do you have to keep standing all the the chair. time at the door and no other place?" asked Knorf,
"I can't take + chance on leaving." he said.
ut
"But that's so small," suld lauid. "How could they all sit
7-27
"Once a Rhinoceros came into this room," Tin told Shadows,
Feline
Mies Signoret, after some 20 years of mature success, is nut in a position to try to Impress anybody.
She has been secopted for too long as a great actress, a great intellectual, a great wit, a great liver and-most important-- great woman.
Too long, that is, to make we conscious effort to impress theas facts on a newcomer.
She has grown unwilling and unused to talking to people who don't understand.
Because 11 is unplanned, ner kindness Is almost as forceful as her feline femininity.
She will talk about things on the level she wishes and will only a short way beyond that.
She begins with things she Is sold a hundred times before
"I never wear make-up, I does nothing for me.
"I like to touch my face, run my fingers through my hair."
Like most famously feminine Miss Signoret is not a She has few women
women,
feminist. friends.
"like only women who have all the qualities of a woman and rwone of the feminine faults." She said.
of
The feminine faults, I discover
through A maze of Signoret's mocking charade the pettiness of the female-are envy, solishness and lack of generosity.
"Women are so quick to con- hide their problems," she says, Women "and this is so boring. with problems
invarlality boring women.
ני
arc
can't bear to hour con-
Adences, they embarrass me. And women seem to And it su easy to pour out their problems that they must be trivial.
"An unhappy man, though, is the maust moving thing i know. When a man tells his troubles it is because he is at the end of his tether. He is genuine. And heartbreaking.
"The trouble with women is that they do not give enough. They feel they are born entitled to take.
"They demand to be loved before they have contemplated the possibility of actually giving Even love themselves."
tense.
This is 19 much 35 she
Pressed to b wants to say. more precise, ahe waves her hands
and spentes in phrases, as though irritated.
"Wanting to act is a sort of magic, A chemistry" *** she clutches her within
As she speaks her friends begin. to
arrive receiving passionate greetings from Signoret and sliting with newspapers.
Thanks
Misa quietly
"When my husband comes in.
driving stomach: "from we're
down to the country for the weekend," she "Hell, it doesn't bear talking explains. "It's going to be a about,
marvellous, wonderful week- Aztors have the split
end." personullty. You know?
The hands stretch upwards, bear talking the head tills "But it doesn't
strenuously, and about or reading about, What again: "Thank you, deur God," actors have is magle. It should she cries.
be left like that,
"It's
not technical.
You've
got something you can't describe and If you probe it it might go. So don't."
1 feet warned off, and, wind- milling for a new subject, ray like doing, besides acting?" something like; "What do you
A well
Miss Signoret can't resist the
says opening,
Lomething un-
And then, as a concession, shu printable, adds: "Yes, it is arrogant not delighi.
and loughs with Tien she beronics
to wear nuke-up, It is also ales kind. 1 huve shocked
to have Angertips, unhampered she says, "I am sorry.
by nails, to touch things."
you,"
I
read,
of
eat, have friends, talk,
I live
Simone Signoret has 3213
for
impatience
aspects humanity that ure allen to her,
Ambition
As an established person she does not have to look backwards or aldowny, for the simple ronson there is so much in her own path.
She says: "When I was a chlid, and in adolescence,
JACOBY on BRIDGE
E doctrine of divine right of kings has never applied
at the bridge table, The king ean do lots of wrong.
Now take a look at the West and North hands only and de- fend against South's three no trump contract.
You open the five of spades "Oh, they had no trouble at and South wins the trick with "Nobody will come in except all. They sat one on top of the the Jack. This should tell you
replied General Tin. that ho nomeone we know, spid Handther,"
Alaried with exactly
You enn't be sure that one Then I gave them a tuote to the king, Jack and ten of the of these days an Elephant might read." not come in," General Tin said
in a mysterious volee.
Shadows amazed
Knart and Honid both gasped
in amazement,
"An Elephant?" they asked,
"Or
题 Rhinoceros, said
sult. If he held a low spede, "Only one book?" nskede would surely have let dum- Ilanid.
my hold the trick. If your part-
"It was enough to go around," ner held a high spade, he said General Tin, "I mean they would have played it.”
really threw it around. They Now South slaps the ace of had a wonderful time reading diamonds on the Lable
and
that book. Then I gave them your king of diamonds bt-
milk and biscuite and sent them comes a problem chlid. It will
General Tin. "One night a all home. What a minute! I hear be a sure trick if you hang on
Hhinoceros came walking right
into this room,"
"What did you do?" cried Hanid.
something!" General Tin sud-
denly said. He stood stock-still. threw
Didn't move
Knart and Hanki didn't move a muscle. They all waited and listened. "It's
a Llout"
General Tin "I dua't hear anything," said "Neither do I," said Knarf. But General Tia kept lunist- Ing that he heard a Lin, And
"Do?" repented General Tin. "I did my duty. I pushed that Rhinoceros right out! And an, other time," General Tin went
looked away cried. 01, “I had junt for a moment when I heard n squealing and aquawking and Ifanid, scratchlug fust like a whole crowd of Monkeys. I lookert around and what do you supe DURO I
Faw?"
What was it?
A few seconds later, the Animal opperred,
Kuorf and Hanlá asked it whя a Lion, in a way, a
General what he saw.
rather mall,
"A whole crowd of Monkeya," Idor),
lie said.
tame, purring It was the Cat,
away and to it, but maybe you ought to
CARD Sensek
hope for
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Opening lead—♣ 6
"No, I like to live.
and I have lived."
the passion make It
"I don't just jump from one pot to another. I live."
And the intensity, thumping gesture, the of the delivery believable.
"Every experience, everything that has happened to me in my life, I have lived it.
"Anthis sounds horrible I've used it too. My life has been a well from which I can always extract something to
use.
"How can an actress reinvent unhappiness if she has never taken time to be unhappy?
"And you can't know happiness without the extreme of the other kind."
Miss Signoret lifts her arn
high over her head, casts her
eyes to the ceiling.
"Thank you. God,
you've
made me a happy woman.
"If there was a God and t don't believe there is - that's what I'd say," she says.
But there is no facetiousness as she says:
"When I get up
in the morning, I wash my face and look in the mirror and see myself, and I can hardly believe how lucky I've been in my ilfe."
Trivial
Ming Signoret, who is married lo Yves Montand, prenently enjoying a reputation for being
most desirable the Europe, la reticent on subject of marriage.
man in the
your partner to show up with the queen.
You do a little point count ing and, after adding your 11 "Middle-class marriage, what to the 24 to 20 shown by we enfl bourgeois marriage, is n South, you mark your partner | mystory to me. with from a to
"I see it going on around me, points.
but It's ke watching a show Ite could actually hold on I'm no part of it. oce in which case you should
"It wouldn't maller to me eave your king of diamonds, whether I was a wife
& high card
or "
but it is much more reasonable mistress, Fidelity has to be to samune that he will have a there because you want it, each couple of queens so you drop minute; not enforced by a con- your king of diamonds and traet of law. hope for the bost
"Marriago makes loving legat. For me it worked."
sho gives reverent
Looking at all the bands you tee that your king of diamonte Agata piny has been die winner. Your thanka to the celling. And
in with the apologises. partner will get queen and a spade lead will
i'm sorry. I don't know why ast the bend.
keep doing that."
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