THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,. APRIL
1986.
WENDY BARRIE TELLS OF BROKEN HEART'
Hongkong Film Star's Story Of Romance With Heir To Millions
"I'M STILL LETTING
LOVE ALONE”
'DONT'S^ FOR JILTED GIRLS AFTER your heart is broken-what?
The question was asked by Mary E. Parks, a Holly- wood news reporter of "Modern Screen", a film magazine, and answered recently by Wendy Barrie, Hongkong's film star.
Wendy Barrie's father was the late Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., who died under tragic circumstances last month, just before one of her recent Paramount films was screen- ed here.
IT WILL BE RECALLED THAT, SHORTLY BEFORE WENDY WENT TO HOLLYWOOD, SENSATIONAL NEWSPAPER REPORTS WERE BROADCAST TO THE EFFECT THAT SHE HAD BECOME ENGAGED TO AN HEIR TO THE HUTTON MILLIONS, AND THAT THE ENGAGEMENT HAD SUDDENLY BEEN BROKEN OFF.
THE INTERVIEW WITH WENDY IS DESCRIBED BY MARY PARKS AS FOLLOWS:
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We sat in the garden of Wendy's] found out! And so I made several Westwood Hills home, And pungent pictures, over there in England. And chrysanthemums and vivid China] then I fell in lovet Oh, a dreadful, filles flowered about the feat of the dizzy, crashing head-on fall China-born young Wendy Barrie an she repeated my sad question, with a laugh though the laugh, like the question, held a knife.
"After your heart la broken," she said, "violence! Do something vio lent, just at first. Do something different. To cut the cord, you know. Run away from wherever you are. If you live in a small town, go to a big city. If you live in a big city go to some rural village. Anywhore
anywhero-so long as it is away! "Or do something violent! Turn into someone you never were before. Do something radical and desperate. Do anything but one thing. Don't pity yourself.
'Know Bill For Agos'
"I'd known Bill for ages.
I'd gone to his cousin's wedding in Paris. Wo'd all played around together, in London, in Paris and the Lido and Biarritz. It had all been terribly glamorous and exelting and colourful
"BILL" DONOHUE AND WENDY BARRIE and sweet. He was a spoiled child, Photograph taken on Riviera shortly after announcement of engagement with a heart of gold, and I was a of young couple. Donohue is cousin of Barbara Hutton, visited Hongkong spoiled child who had given my heart with her (when she was on honeymoon with late Prince Alexis Mdivan?) away and didn't have one anymore and most of my senses, too, I guess. I was terribly happy and really quite terribly love and very terribly and triumphantly sure that we would soon be married and have a home and a baby of our own.
"And another 'don't' to girls who have had their hearts broken-don't) "And then he asked me to come to try to lick heartbreak by plunging America. His mother Wan there, into another love affair. It isn't a In New York. He would go ahend, panacea, it's an irritant. It's the he said. I should follow in a week's worst thing you can do. It's like time. He would moet me at the plus trying to contract diphtheria In We'd be married.
order to forget that you have measles,
It doesn't work. It's stupid.
"And don't sit around dramatizing yourself. Yours isn't the only broken heart in the work-It's just one of man".
go to
Broke Her Contract
America
in 1034.
werex your question-after a broken heart-what 7
GANGSTER RANKS ARE THINNING
ASSASSINATION OF CAPONE GUNMEN
Chicago, Mar. 24: The assassination of "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, notorious executioner of the Al Capone gang during the bloody prohibi- tion era, has reduced nearly to zero the ranks of former Chicago. alcohol chieftains.
One by one they have dropped out, only a few reaching their graves by natural deaths. The ruthless gang war for control of millions of dollars annually start- ed with the slaying of Dlon O'Banion in 1924:
Seven henchmen of George "Buge" Moran were wiped out in the revolting St. Valentine's day massacre seven years ago.
The O'Donnell rowdies were bludgeoned into subservience in', the first prohibition war akirmish, McGurn could have predicted his own end. To-day there remain four of his former Idols, three struggling desperately for their dally meals in a territory which once produced $60,000,000 a year for them.
Al Capone la сп Alcatraz Prison Island, serving time for violation of the income tax.inws. Frank Nitti, notorious "enforcer" of the Capone gang who once gave McGurn orders about whom to kill, to-day is trying to recoup his fallen empire. Jack Guzuk, fat book-keeper for Capone, was family. Horrid things were said
released in January from Federal about me. I couldn't go about
Prison and is looking for a place chanting. I am the daughter of a made a drastic change first. to land here. Ralph Cupone, Al's Counsel of the King, the niece of Violence. I set about building up my underling brother, is attempting | Aurgeon to the King. I only body. I ate correctly, I played ten- to corral into some hurt of order know this--the I could forgive nis atrenuously, at first, so that the tremendous gambling syndi- everything but the lack of courtray. would be physically tired, and able to today that I was about to marry a wide-awake night watches when the having only mediocre success,
"If I should announce to my mother sleep. I took no chances on those cate Al once controlled. He is ne'er-do-well she might try to disticks of a broken heart become in- Kaade me, but she would certainly tolerable. I didn't read much I Patton, perennial boy mayor of meet him, accord him courtesy. advise against reading for those suffering from the hest malady. Too inactive Action' is the thing. worked like a dog. I began to regain my shattered health-and I can tell other girls that once they feel sound and healthy again their heart trou- ters and cables into his 'safe keep.ble' will trouble them no longer.
"I broke my contract in order to "A few of his friends came to call. to be married. One of them, a woman, was very That didn't matter. Nothing mat-kind. She took the pains to see the tered to me save that he had gone cables and lettore ho'd wont, asking ahead to prepare for me, that he me to come. Another friend of the would be there waiting for me when family persuaded me to give those let- my ship came into port.
And there I was," sald Wendy, "jilted. Broken-hearted. Figuring the sweetness of death as against the bitterness of life.
Need For Violence
I
'I Let Love Alone'
"I didn't go about with other boys. I knew that that sort of thing would serve only to irritate the wound. I
let love alone.
With the exception of Johnny
Burnham, vice and gambling rid- der suburb of Chicago, all of McGurn's former cronies are dead, jailed or in hiding. Pneumonia claimed Frank Rio, Al Capone's personal bodyguard, and best friend who served a year in jall with him In Philadelphia for enrrying a pistol.
of
Tony Lombardo, chief Capone's alcohol-cooking ring, died with a bullet in his head in
*I am still working hard. I am the heart of Chicago's busines3 paying off my debts. I am proving district. Gus Winkler, an aviator to myself, and to the world, that of skill and belloved to have been I can stand on my own two feet, one of the St. Valentine's Day earn my own money, make my own killers, was slain during the name, mend my own heart.
"I don't hate him. I don't know World's Fair. Louis Alterie came how I feel about him, I won't know back from his Colorado ranch last until I see him again, and one day, summer to eat bullets. Fred
Heartbreak an Ifiners
"Borlously," said Wondy, with the honey-coloured hair, and the topaz eyes, "seriously, heartbreak is not a
had laughed Wendy, not too ing gentle malaise of the imagination. gaily, "the most incredible troussenu Heartbreak is an linear, just as the Yuu see, everyone in Euroys knew break of any bene or the breakdown about us, knew that we were to be of any organ in the body is illness. married. And everyone, of course, It belongs to the surgeons. Heart knew him--and his millions. And all break in an actual physical discare, of the leading Jewellers, furriers, I know that no one has ever described designers in London and Paris simply it thus literally before. No one has pleaded with me to help myself and came upon me, I had to move, to "And then the need for violence ever thought of it clinically-always was young and very greedy. To
with get away, to shift the scene. I came, romantically. That's because of the morrow I would be mineried poets. They've dramatised it. But youth and love and gold and a baby. instinctively, I think, to Hollywood I don't know why. I had exactly I know whereof I speak.
"I lost twenty pounds when my
"He Was Not There"
$500 between me and-what? I had heart was broken. And I say this "And so I salled. The ship drew never been on the stage. I had never exactly. as. I would say that I'd lost into harbour. We docked. I stood, made an American picture. I had
I shall. I've had cables from him, Burke, n hired killer, is serving twenty pounds when I had typhoid with my friends, all laughing and broken my English contract.
"How would I stand-or fall! looking
asking me to meet him in Paris, a life sentence for an impulsive fever. I was anemic. My glandu excited, at the ship's rail, played hob with me. My skin and over, confidently, for that one beloved didn't really care.
things like that. I haven't gone. hair were feless. My circulation face. He was not there. No one was! "Perhaps because I didn't care, But I shall see him again. I wouldn't slaying of a Michigan policeman. was off. My blood count was down. there. No one, for me. He had not probably because of clover munceu be positive that I was cured until 7 Mops, Volpe, ace bodyguard, was I just didn't function, that's all, i come to meet me. No one had come ring on the part of my agents, I could prove myself immune through deported.
And so, the first and most import to meet me. But it wasn't possible! found myself with a Paramount con- contact.
John Scalise, Albert Anselmi, ant thing to do after heartbreak is I'd had cables aboard ahtp. I had his tract. I have half a dozen other "I'm going out s_little_now, And and Joe Guinta, each an acknow- what you should do after any shock, letters, making our plana, telling me exciting propositions to consider, too.
I have one very close, dear friend, ledged killer, were slain at a ban- Louis Hayward. I met him in your health back. That's what I did. he had engaged a suite for ine at a and the stage. He could not marry any illness build up the body. Get what ship to sail on, advising me that shall remain here in Hollywood until
I have made good. Then New York: London. We've a lot in common guet Capone gave them in Burn- Systematically. Deliberately. Under smart hotel.
We spend a great deal of time to ham because they were turning doctor's orders.
"And he was not there. I knew, an actress. But I shall work until gether. Love? I don't know. I traltor, and McGurn gave Capone
I am such an actress as adds lustro am still letting it alone. "Oh, there were the Arst few, crazy then.
the "tip-off". "One of these days. I shall love And then and there I did the best to that calling. And only until then. weeks of bitterness, of course. The
Scores of rivals fell. Hymir natural, melodramatle reaction of a plece of acting I have ever done, or stage or screen. I'm really, not an say good-bye to my career.
I shall not spend my life on either again, of course. And then I shall Welss died in the shadows of a sick person thinking I'd be better off ever will do so long as I live.
I shall
afternoon, machine dead, considering the relative advan- laughed. I laughed, a lot. I said actress. I want to have a home. of have my own home, my baby. And church one
I shall remember heartbreak as one gun bullets cutting away a part After that, I got down to the business known that he wouldn't be able to the gold sunlight, "I think I have an- and sighs-and forgate." tage of poison, guns, dizzy roofs, that, of course, I'd known it all along, my own.
"And so," said Wendy, relaxing in remembers a troubling dream, stirs of the comeratore. Dion meet me, that he had been called out
O'Banion shook hands with the I knew something, as you who read of town on urgent business (he, who
man who led his killers-the may know something, of the tragic never had any business, who even had
stranger's. handelasp prevented him from reaching for his own gun-United Press;
of convalescence."
tale of young Wendy. The nows police escorts when he went to foot New Empire Flying Boat papers carried accounts, mostly gar- ball games, lest he be delayed in get- blad. The young: hair to many ting in). He'd cabled me the change American millions
the pretty of plans, I said. He was returning girl who came to America to marry within the week. We would be mar. him.
Born in Hongkong Some of the details I learned that day as Wendy talked. She was saying, "You know that I was
born in Hongkong? My slater and
ried then. I'd just been a cut-up, not telling thom sooner. I couldn't let thom ace my heart break, you know. That is a horeld sight.
Didn't 'Lose Faco'
"I went off alone, protesting gaily
DUMMY PLANE THAT
WILL NEVER PUT OUT
Rochester (Kent), Mar. 25.
that it was quite all right, just what works, Rochester, constructing a giant flying-boat---only to destroy An army of workmen are engaged at Short Bros.' seaplane were born there. I lived there I'd expected, but just what I had until I was eleven. All I wanted in known for days. I probably deceived it as soon as it is completed. those dreamy days was to look no one, but I didn't lose face, as the pretty and to have a baby, I've Chinese zay.
This is a dummy of one of the fleet of Empire flying-boats, 29 always wanted to have a baby, "I didn't know a soul in New York of which are under construction for routes operated by Imperial more than I've wanted anything Only his friends whom I had known, Airways.
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else in my life. I was forever casually, abroad. I didn't know where The dummy is complete, with the cabins reveal storage room, dressing up, as a child, in scarves to go so I went to the hotel whore engines, while the interior la where the chairs can be packed at and bits of lace and things and the suits had been engaged for me. posing in front of mirrors. And I had very little money. I was ter- furnished with carpets, padded night while bunks are slung in always posed with a doll in my rifically in debt. The furs and jewels walls, electric lights, armchairs, their places. The 24-seater flying- I had been flattered into buying began and beds which passengers will bost by day can, within a fow "When I was eleven I was sent to to weigh me down like the solid gold upo when these boats go into ser- minutes, be converted to ja 16- London to enter the Convent of the they were to cost me-are still cost-vice next year.
barth sleeper by night." Assumption. Five years there and ing me. I had burned my_bridges---
COMPLETED IN DETAIL then to finishing school in Lausanao. my contract behind me. I couldn't,
PILOTS SIDE BY SIDE When I returned to London, Mother I wouldn't go back.
This flying-boat, which will There are two decks to these and I wore lunching one day at the "But why resurrect the whole nover put out to son, is being com-boats, and the pilots are on the Savoy Grill.
horrid body of the facts?" Wendy ploted in detail so that experts upper deck, where they control aald. "Let the dead past bury them, may study the position of engines, the aircraft. as I hope it will. I had a lotter from fixtures, and instruments before "Have I mentioned that I believe him, quite soon. Ils mother had sent final decisions are taken regard ward in the nose of the fuselago.
Two pilota alt side by side for- in Fate? Oh, but absolutely! I him away, Sho would not allow him have nothing much to do with my life, to marry an actress. Hu couldn't ing the road machines.
An examination of their acate
and round, while forward of their cockpit, in the extreme nose of the
Believes in Fate
Fato la the supreme dictator · And carry without his mother's consent. A tour of the dummy bout itself gives a surprisingly clear vlow all so, that day.at the Savoy, Alexander There would bo no money. What disclosed immenso aizo Korda was also lunching there. He could be do without money? He had solldity.
saw me." He came to my table and never oven thought. He wrote that There are four cabins, in the machine, in another cockpit which asked me, whether I had ever been he had instructed his valet to meet front one of which passengers at first looks like a gunner'a cabin. in pletures. I told him never. He mo. The valot had had the order will be allowes to smoke,ER asked me whether I would like to bo. countermanded, of course. If he had
Actually it is fatended for yp Isaki So much And so I began by mot me, he would have lost his job. In each cabin are six armchairs. on the water for mooring opel - playing the feminina lund in Wed-
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