1953-07-17 — Page 7

-

LOGAN GOURLAY'S Show Business

Pier Angeli's Puzzle

HE is 2 years old. When I went to celebrate

Sides her she looked at me gravels.

like a confused cherub, and said:-

"I suppose I should feel grown-up and mature, But I don't. Isn't it awful?”

She dropped her gravity and giggled suddenly.. I wishel her muy similar returns, It WIN umecessary to mention happiness; for if success is n contributing factor Ana Maria Pierangeli is assured of happiness in plenty.

HOLLYWOOD claimed hre from her native Rome Best about two years ago after she had captured attention in 2011 Italian Al with the un-kalian

title Tomorrow fr Too Late

HOLLYWOOD put her films like

Terenu, The Light. Touch. and The Derit Mukes Three, and gave her interna- Honal Came

BUT

Hollywood

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1953.

when I go back to follywood. follows: their four American Do you Hink I look right for | productiong Including Afe und the part?" I did.

J

Juliet and The King and earned a record box-office total of alo £70,000.

Who's wrong?

the RATING by

American National League of Decency of the im version ot the

Moon is Thr

"I don't drink--not even on my birthday. Don't like the |stuff. And I dont smoke. You probably think I might as well f dead,

I didn't. "I've been given a many forthday presents I don't know not which is has

My Broadway play my favourite

Blue: moulded her to glamorised pat-] hittle sister, who is five, want-

"Condemtied as morally tern Even the attempt 10 re-fed to buy me a crown With christen

her Pier Angel demonds on it. But she said jectionable, has

nof wholly

succeeded the couldn't afford t

Rating by petite Diana Lynn, "Please call me Anna, Dive by

That the key of the house for the posters.")

Lefore my birthday. I own a nick little bungalow in Holly- wond And I have a cur.

Of course she has change.l since I met her ut Hollywood 13 months ago shortly after her arrival there.

Her English, though still ac cented, is no longer a burlesque of the language. Her adolescent hockey-stick gare bas nited nut. Iter caluh gawkiness. J

to thoroughbredt maturing

grace. But her big green eyes Still shine with wonder.

She is still freshly unsophia- Heated. She is still golly 10-

She Bentious

stil reserves most of her acting-though it is a natural. instinctive talent-- for the screvu.

In 'Cockney'

would not be

a

to London 10

in-

who has come

the West End produr- star in tion of the same play:

"Wholesome and qulle offensive.

The Alm. I am tuld, is straight adaptation of the play was without drastic alterations.

to

"I suppose I'll be able collect all my salary: now. Fifteen per cent of it

a

So

put into some kind of trust | either Miss Lynn or the League fund

1 Wan 21" of Decency is wrong. I am (When she was 18 MGM pare} inclined 10, think 12 is

contract at | Lougue.

קינן

£580 "I'm determined 10 work hard and try to be a great actress.

really

"But Fm not sure if i have enough ability.

screen.

HEARD

In quotes

the

Them Say: Jue Pasternak, exuberant Holly-

wool producer, the ex-wailer

Dur

who discovered Denúna

★ ★ ★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★

KEN SMITH Show Talking

SH! DON'T MENTION THE

AUTRY MILLIONS

.

ring.

London Recently he told me that The multi millionaire he hopes to produce and direct it in 3-D in Europe next film star who is never Been spring. with Gregory Peck star on West End screens except as a supporting feature, and who gave up screen kisses because they annoyed his fans, le visiting London.

Incidentally, "Cheg." now Siming

The

Million Pound

completing his second film, The Boy From Oklahoma (his first was the portrayal of his father in The Story of Will Rogers):

tu ke to do another film

Note at Pinewood. looks like the right subject come along. being away from his antive

"The minute I get 00 ti Amerien for some time.

horse I'm fine and at ease. But I've only mastered two expres- sions so far-int off."

on and hat,

He is Gene Autry, dolj After he finishes the Hank of millions of children all Alm he is off to Berlin and

Munich for

for. Nunnally Johnson's over the world, who com The Cannibals, a story of the bines the roles of cowboy-conflict between American onl actor, singer, songwriter Russinn occupation forces In Pomp and strattened circum- (although he cannot read Germany, with Peck as a hard- stance? Its one american cine- word of music), and busi-bolest American Army colonel.

effect

ma the J Arthur Rank SHORT TAKES

Coronation Alm, A Queen Is nessman to such an

Most honest quote of the | Crowned,. is coupled with that his personal fortune is week: Will Rogers, junr.. after Small Town Girl. estimated at £2,000,000.

Jerry Lewis, the zany

halt

of Martin an Lewis, wise- eracked: "Autry? He's so rich the Bank of America borrows from him."

From his films, records, radio And TV appearances, and use of his name on more than 50 American products which range from soap. shirts and toys to hats, thoes and cowboy, suits, Gene has built up an income which has enabled him to buy: A chain of cinemas in Texas, dying

three radio school. two cowboy stations, publishing houses, two papers and five ranches.

music

news-

0

The Gene Autry cult is welf

Kets well established that he

mouth from 80,000 fan letters

It's

Of

A War

Curves

By ROBERT OTTAWAY

Which blonde do. gentle

The bright, all oer the world-three times men prefer?

next door if you're lucky in your neigh his bourhood, or the languid. swaying Marilyn Monroe, Pin-up No. 1 of 1953.

Betty Grable has lost the Battle of the Curves. Re- cently she tore up her 20th Century Fox contract and scattered the pieces around

as many as any other star: has relaxed Betty Grable, who had a town named after him, might live and is mobbed wherever and makes a personal appearance.

He hates references to

wealth, because he thinks it is bad publicity. "My fans, like to think of me as a simple home- Be- tycoon. apita guy, not u sides. Tve an awful lot of ex-

penses,

He is box-office "poison" ins the sophisticated West End-but Gene should not worry. Over a bin, Esther Williams, June Ally- thousand cinemas elsewhere in Beverley Hills. Pler

Britain are showing hi

or "horse-operas" more

less and actresses continually.

an actress..

with

her.

For oner. I suspect, Angel was beting a little off Beneath her fluttering shyish-exterior she has a hurd etre tti belief in herself. It is not ruisplaced,

"There are three males, females,

Boxes

Never marry You can't compele career.

Cornel Wilde, who, with Mrs the ex-Mrs Wilde, actress Jean Wallace Franchot Tone),

BUT she Dhetress without ego and

But not dead! she likes to talk about herself,

DODGERS and Hammerstein | her birthday have written an ode to the She did during celebrations in Londen, where theatre, a hymn of histrionics, she is fiming The Flame

in their new musical Me and has arrived to film Star of the Flesh with La

Juliet, just opened on Broad- (who, I presume, represents the

"Actresses make good wires way. But unlike Irving Ber- for actors." Flesh).

lin's There's No Business Like: Show Business it's not just a hymn of praise. Here is part

Turner

of the chorus:-

The theatre is dying. The theatre is dying. The theatre is

dead!

practically

dia

"Be

of

have bunged her into silered trifles, lacking in and joy

Ill-con-

fun

10

whote

"Not long ago," says Grable, I had a letter from a fan who said he had seen 'Coney Island' 14 times and loved it, but he was disappointed when he paid nearly two dollars to see me in

•Wabashi Avenue and

Fot Coney Island' all over again."

She has made inferior sub- jects out of loyalty

the studio that made her a legend.

paris She has jibbed only at sho thought dangerous to her career,

rer, like the one in "Plek. up on South Street." It means victory for Miss

Meanwhile, ag ber

carcer Monroe. It incans

Miss that Grable, at 36, having slipped world heard of Afiss

foundered through neglect, the

Monube from being the world's favourite The Monroe build-up has been to the back of the a triumph of boosting: old, has been cold-shouldered continents were flooded. when the best stories were cooked-up wisecracks

glamour pictures. ing the rounds.

Somewhere, sometime. that She wanted 10 play In girl has got to live up to her that the The went to Marilyn Mon- Dublleity. I believe

world, if it still cares, is going The snub was as plain as to have an awful let-down. roe.

her rosebud

But those the lipstick

who

say

that mouth.

Grable's exit is due to quarrels But cabling, from Hollywood, with La Monroe are barking up Betty told me: "I'm leaving on the wrong tree. a friendly basis. My plans? Simply to let nature take its course, Nature has always been

roc good to me.'

She has no worries about the Michael Ruddy, tells me

My Hollywood correspondent, Two years ago she made he watched the shooting 100,000. Her trumpeter hus- "How To Marry a Millionaire.

The

sequence before camera was tricky.

And Miss Grable, the ex-

FRIENDLY BASIS

"Gentlemen Prefer

on

Blondes."

with

and

There's no personal feud. In fact. Betty Grable helped Mon-

NO ROMANCES Ile gave up kisses because the cutie kids didn't like romance (he's Lo the been happily married same wife for 21 years). They wanted Gene, the man, and Champion, his horse-almost as so though not famous now, rich, as his rider.

Gene is in England for the Arst time since 1939, because Nick Brodaki, composer

western show of 50 his wild My Love," "Because You're Mine," and an impressive throt performers opens at Empress 27 of hit-parade love ballads:- Hall, Earls Court on July

alment married an actress for four weeks before travelling whee, but I've stayed away from on n limited tour of Britain. the altar. I put all my emo-

Champion here lans Into my songs.

arid Liite Champlon, are They are my wife

and children. I'm

100. carrying Insurance totalling 200,000 dollars and

moving happy:"

around the country in a special air-conditioned traller. Cene band. Harry James, is no slouch дате. alse

money-making brought u. £10,000 ward- at the

He nakes around robe-a simple, homespun one, either. no doubt.

£40,000 every year. And trum-perienced thoroughbred. took HOOFNOTE:

is 44 pets have a longer fe Gene

the pain to encourage and ad years old, born in Texas; held legs.

viso Miss Monzon, the up-and- a variety of jobs before Wil

coming. Ally. Royers heard him singing and told him turn professional.

He is a 5 ft. 1 in. tall, chunky, slim-hipped, sming man with sandy hair and blue

"I'm starting my English lessons again very soon-one and a half hours every day. I've even been learning some of your how do you call it? cockney slang. Look at my plate. She held up her iny kandalled feel proudly,

"I'm reatting a lot of books In English. At the [LOW' moment. I'm halfway through Messre, Rodgers and Ham-CLASSIFIED ad, in # Lon-

don Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, merstein do not really mean it

newspaper: "Fall » have to study it because of course. They couldn't. Recent- asteep at Television with the play Juliet in an version ly they were "shellacked** as Leg Rest. Post free 79%.**

The ones who are backing -Take-a-shellacking-

And never get out of the red.

R.I.P.

The Eye-Doctor Bogey Disturbs Hollywood

By JENNIFER

OPEN RINKS DRAW

The following Open Rinks Championship matches are to be played off on Sunday, July 26, commencing at

JOHNS

and

Gardner inla

મા

His two horses,

FVCs,

His tenor volee is somnatent -like its owner when he is bored and he is a hero to loves loraca, every kid who

six- open spaces, strong men, shooters and ten-gaiton hats,

TWO REASONS Of course the trouble

than

has

that

the

She has alko persistently boosteti Mitzi Gaynor when she has was

on unknown stepper, "Betty's the bread-and-butter winner for the whole studio,' the grateful Mitzi once said,

Impressed in concrete outside Grauman's Chinese thentre wit Hollywood are Miss

Grable's miraculous loga. Like

been brewing for two years. Three times Betty Grable been suspended Hollywood's equivalent for being sent to Coventry for turning down parts she thought unsuitable.

have two reasons for suc. she says, "and 1 stand cess," on both of them.

She's never hat any illusions

..

What's best in. Kowloon?

Comfortable, Safe, Invisiblu.

CONTACT Willow inn

LENSES

ELTAIR-CONDITIONED

Most up-to-date stylo.

Worn without ffuld. 753 Nathan Road (East of

Prince Edward Rd.) Whole day wearing toleranco

Tel. 57347. No molding required.” For particulars, please contact DElicious dishes,

KOWLOON OPTICAL CO. |COCKTAILS & WINES, 20, Cameron Road, Tsimshatsui.

Attraction Everynight Head Office: 503, Nathan Rd. Branch Oce: 71, Tai Po Rd.

B. B. CO. Exporter WHOLESALE & RETAIL Alt kinds of Stylish Lampshades SALE

Orders taken & Ready made

86, Nathan Rd., Kowloon, Tel: 60938.

DRESSES, SHIRTS

SUITS Made of

Silk, Nylon & Woollen Excellent Workmanship

---at

DADLANI'S

Miramar Arcatle 134G Nathan Road

THE

BEST OPTICIAN

PETER

OPTICAL CO. up-to-date equipment 226A, Nathan Rd. Tel: 56346,

Music! Dance! "The Little Inn

That Offers You

Great Joy!"

MRS. B. BRAYNE Room 101 Kowloon Hotel — Kowloon

Offers you - Genuine hand Pointed Washable

Garments,

everyone new & individual Culture design, no two alike. pearls special Summer Prices, Whole Sale & Retail,

MAJESTIC CO.

Sales Office: Miramar Arcade, 134 Nathan Itd.. Kowloon,

Factory:

70. Kimberley Rd., Kowloon. Manufacturers & Exporters of

ART CARVED TEAKWOOD FURNITURE AND CAMPHORWOOD CHESTS.. Buy Direct from Manufacturer: Wholesale Prices for Retail Purchases!

* Cumprehensive Certificate of

Origin can be obtained for U.S.A.

Only an expert tailor can make ideal clothings

Mayai & Co.

Workshop

5 Granville Rd., Kowloon.

Main Shop:-170, Nathan Rd., (Princess Theatre fuilding), Kowloon. Best Service! Excellent Workmanship! Satisfaction Guaranteed!

ZORIC DRY CLEANING

CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A "ZORIC" UNIT, THERE IT IS USED AT... IS BUT ONE IN THE COLONY.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

Call 58266 For Collections and Deliveries

AMERICAN SWIMMERS TO

COMPETE IN JAPAN

10-Meire

when he took the

Hy since has won the NCAA One-Metre and

Joe E. Columbus, Ohio, July 16. Brown's mouth and Eddle Can- The Ohio State Univer-Platform Dive. about her dramatic abilities, tor's eyes. they are a iniquesity entries in the Japanese the AAU Indoor Three-Metre

arc

the

Helsinki.

never hankered to play Lady trade mark.

Swimming Championships national titles. Macbeth, or even Salle Thomp- Even the Communists of East TRY THIS, MB Z

Konno and Oyakawa were. Journey for Twentieth Century Fox chief son, "I just say and the Germany have recognised their start their Darryl Zanuck has put Holly-things I do every day of my influence.

Tokyo tomorrow, Ohio State members of the Olympic team

which competed wood's film workers up in arms.life. Gosh, It could be me up A Red newspaper pundiț de- coach Mike Peppe said to Konno is the national titlist in

clared: "Her legs He wants two pay rates for there on the screen.

being day.

the free style distance events. world actors-one for the actual film-. As a singer or a hoofer, Miss used by warmongers to listract

lower scale for re-

Grable

no medal-winner. She is ing anti

the masson, to confuse the Peppe said that he and Jerry while Oyakawa has a

record among his honours-- Harrison. hoider of three na- hearsals and films to be made is the average American girl-working class, and cover

United Press. tional titles, over-the-average real causes of social misery."

will fly to San I aix to eight weeks: three or friend, with

Once she played lega

I'd like to think that the

Francisco tomorrow. four rehearsing and three

period musical.....long skirts Grobię walk-out IN just

They will leave on Saturday for Honolulu The reason? says Mr Z: "It's shrouded her beautiful assets.

night by plane another attempt to remove the for economy. Cinema nt-That was the only Grable star-causes of the cold war.

where they will pick up Ford tendances are falling.

Konne and Yoshi Oyakawa, two lion costs rising."

Buckeye swimmers who live In Hawali Why not maka belter

will Mr Z?

Gable Hollywood. Once again the doctor powerful team.

TUT! TUT! bogeys-as Hollywood calls

Tut! Tut! The romantic script them are probing into the write (or should I say the effects of

dealing the cinema on seript writers

in the human eye.

romance) have given that much abused word smail C. Το Periodically they have solve the problem of finding 4 way to make boy meet been doing this for half ove century now, but the new girl they have actually dared four aiming. 4 p.m.:

R.B. Robertson, G.C. Nor-probe has got many picture to make the handsome heroes This revolutionary enough, man, F. Howarth, R.H. Browne moguls worried because it is Ko out and "pick up the girls". v. A.F. Naronhn, J. Noronha, directed particularly at 3-D. but what is the censor to say unorthodox method G.A. Noronha,,. J.E. Noronha

Several Los Angeles occulists when this ut KDC.

rendezvousing ends with Fry that since the showing of of G. Willerton, C. Cough, J.

there then

married depth-by-glasses movies

Hetting Hayward, J. Goodman v. A.C. Sequeira, A.Mt. Baptista, P.A. has tren an increased demand living happily ever after.

for treatment..

This is the set-up in Meanwhile Costa, B.F. Marques at HKFC.

Is Blue", which the experts Moon A.A.G. Silva, L.M. Rouri-Hollywood awalts

clipped off the national release Itemedios C.E.report. IRS, A.A.

without an exhibition Danenberg v. M.A. Baptista, A.F. Gomes Recreio..

A.P. Pereira,

L.J. Castio, M.T.-Nunc3; 11's CA. Coelho, L.S. Sliva v. S. Telford, A. Banks A. Camp-have bell, G. Coles at KCC.

C.C. Pereira at

charts

and

"The

was

scal by the censorious Breen

"LOVE PLUS" What does "Mogambo" mean? Office.

the title of the Clark

which picture

after produced

R.M.V. Ribeiro, F.G. Luz, wilds

MGM many

R. F. Luz, J.A. Luz v. S. Aboo, Gable or Ava Gardner will be riches and perfect bliss.

the star of this

K.M. Omar, A.M. acclaimed

B.M. Omar, Omar at KBGC.

other

G. Hong Choy, D. Rosselet, picture is a matter of conjec-O'S

but what puzzles most Stranger". It starts with

G. Soum, C. R. Rosselet v. E. ture, White, S. Ramchand, M. J. people is the fact that not once

a

or

fans wrote in to complain

in

But I

produc-rer to lose money y.....100,000 suspect that it's merely another of sign of Tunney in high places. pietures | sacrilega.

Now

Miss thot I believe Grable has been mishandled, BING RINGS En route to America from that she has more personality kneecaps than MIKS Cherbourg the "old groaner," in her

www

West Indies

Bing Crosby, called me to say Monroe has so far displayed in Decline Invitation on a

will leave

he has had seconti thoughts about retiring from films

Into

all her glory.

snatch MU- cinema- Grable

To Tour India

Kingston, Jamaica, July 18, An invitation to tour Indin in 1054-1955 was declined by the West Indies owing to their

programme. her heavy

the West the Indies Cricket Board announced

today.

And the Ironic proof of that

I saw..a "I shall start White Christ-came when me in the late summer," said from "How to Marry the second Bing

"Then join up with Bob lionaire," BUI Holden SCCs Marzte Hope and Dottie Lamour for scope fim. Here both McNamara outside the Empire Road to the Moon, Next spring and Monroe were draped neross Gable

State building, gives her a nod

I shall go

musical the extra-wide screen. the

And Miss Grable acted ond some smart chatter, and film version of Clifford Odet's trials and tribulations in tho

marriage, of

The Country Girl (we saw I upstart rival right off Whether away they go...to Africa.

here on the stage

panorama. She hall the depth Winter 05.

The announcement added that. match the new medium, Her to The idea is catching on with Journey).

producers. It happens in

"After that I'll see how 1 personality sat her right in your prospects of a visit from Aus- With

"Farther lap, while Miss. Monroe is per tralia to the West Indios in 1053 "Affair

Bing. teel," says

appeared to be good and that Aahend: I'm not planning yet."petually one dimension short.

And

I belleve the

the Boord was exploring the Renini ANOTHER BEAST

Spyros P. Skouras, the studio posibility of a tour of New Mature to a, Jean Simmons

Zealand late in 1955, or early In 1020 John Barrymore and boss over here to launch the run of the whom he hasn't met before

Dolores Costello modo The Sta new toy, is making the mistake the following year, and doesn't know: "Didn't

3. Stollmeyer, Trinidad's Bcast, a silent version of Herof his life.

on stylish opening bat, will cap A little research into tribal know you back in Toledo?"

He's staking his shekels man Melville's whaling classic, He didn't, of course, and

the West Indies against Marshallsay, W. M. McCall Vingo brings forth the informa-

a tyros like Monroe and Milzi tain Moby Dick In 1930 came even ', this ́ ́'ancient chestnut

Ho's R. A. Rahman, I M. tion that

D' victim mentis n't work with demure Jean. Barrymore and Joan Bennett

John talking "Mogambo't

of England in the Test acrics carly Hollywood's

favourite

next year. Frank Worrell has Rumfahn, M. B. Hassan, U. A. Passion with a

myth capital.P. Rumjahn at Talkoo.

There's no exact dictionary But it is New Year's Eve, and

In 1040, when he was with that novelty will always bring been invited to become vice- The English tour includes Pereira, L. A. Rozario, E. M.ransistion, but it's supposed the icp is soon broken-broken Warner's, John Huston wrote a ‡ in more people than excellence / captain.

I know that Belty Grable is agalds/acon after with the new adaptation. It was never chips Voing - round; the cham- "nimed, but it remained Hus- now only twentieth on the hit five six-day, Tests, the first and Maybe It's an

accurate pagne, bottle to celebrato ton's, favourite picture-of-the-parade. But the reason for that last being, played in Jamaica description of a picture welding wedding:

is simple: Twentieth-Century | Reuter."

Divecha, F. R. Kermant at PRC. the title explained or me

tioned during K Forrow, B. Bickford, Bim. Young, K. B. Baker or W. E. Leonard, J. McLelland, W.

A.

J. F. V. Ribeiro,

Alarcoun

C. Roza

S. y.

Yusuf, A Rumjahn, O. R. Sadick, M. Y. Adal at KBGC.

to be Love Pluss

corny erack, too.

Bays

Victor

Д

future.

version,

with

the

CIVIL AID

Orders by the Hon. C. E. Terry, Commissioner, Chit 'Al Peppo sald the group Services of July 17, 1953. leave Honolulu on July 28, for. AppointmentsThe Deputy

Com- the Tokyo. After the Championship loner Admin) has made

following appointment: Mr. Lamson events, they plan to give kwak and Mr Daniel Lam to Do Assistant Store Omen w.e.f. July 9, They

Jupan on 1953

Death-The Commisioner, *Civi August 8 and fly to Indianapolis, Ald Servicer. regrets to announce Indiana Lor the Nationale death of No. Biot Warden Man Amateur Athletle Union Outdoor Tak-jing. Shanishulpa Zone.

Warden Service Championships beginning on Courses The Chief Wardeo August 14.

gratulates the following upon succes Harrison won the first of his ful completion of a couras in To

connaissance national titles in the AAU Out-UXB-220 Laur Kwok-chu: 003 Ila recognition of door. Champlonships last year. Man-wal; 650 Wong Chun-kee; 104

Lat Hod-alu; 1000 Chon Twe- 1724 Chan Man-choliA: 174 Wong Kam-yooi; 2007 Lew Nkan-hol 2031 Lee Kwong-ing

3033 l Tal-ylm: 3002 L Sing-an;

Chang Kam

"Gorgeous. Gussie'

May Retire

"

ho

and

con-

3018 Tong Bing-woon; 6300

$10 Vier={#1}:

Chung (-chuen; ooůž Tong Ying-tul

The Chlet Warden also, congratu lates the following members upon

Los Angeles, July 14, Miss Gussie Moran, who fa-passing the examination of do Stercus Couro-2006 Ng Cheuk; 2000 troduced lace panties to Inter-ul Leung: 2820 Leung Kiu: 201 national tennis competition, raid Chung Tang 2020 el "Man-sum

2011 Leung Chol; 2835 Lam Chun- yesterday she muy quit the gume cheung: 2637 Back Kin-kwort: 2838 [efter she marrjus Edward Hand. Fee. Tatewin; 2830 A Wal-hung: New York trucking firm 2010 Lee Karn-wing; 2842 Yu Tik- hang; 2013 Kam ituk-chung: 2014 executive,

Kam Kaleman: 2840 Trang, She kald she met Hand in Palm shrungi 2650 Cheung Bung-wat; 2838. Springs two months ago,

Beril Kai-yuen; 2853 Young Bin-kwong;

2016 The Fong; 2039 Chouk Nam verly Hills friends of the couple, 38 Na Kom Ngul

Alastair Todd, sny ho la a frequent visitor to

Chiet Staff Officer, tennis courts thero for lessons

Civil A Bervices. In the game-United Press,