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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1953.

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU? A MAN NOTABLE AMONG THE JUDGES OF BEAUTY FRANKLY SUMS UP THE WHOLE SEX AND DÍVES THE VERDICT.:.

I FEEL SORRY FOR WOMEN!

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From LEONARD MOSLEY ·

VENICE.

INO DE LAURENTIS, the man who discovered' Gina Lollobrigida and Silvana Manguno; said to me: "As a man, I feel sorry for women,"

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We were sitting on the beach at the Lidó, and some of the most beautiful women were sprawled on the gands around us in every costume from the minutest Bikini to. the latest (and ugliest) robes from Paris and Rome.

"Jusi inke a look at their faces when there is not a mon around," rald Laurentis. "You will see how

discon-

and

tented, uncertain, unhappy they look. That

IB because women today no longer know how 10 cope with the world which we men have made for #till them. They are

trying to fight the bat- tle of 1853 with the weapons of the

Age

Stenc

Dino De Laurentis is

a man well qualified to talk about the female. sex. He is the mon who also discovered Pler Angeli and Alidn Vail and made them into International film stars. His own wife is Italy a most successful pla-up girl, Silvana Mangano, the

"Bitter Rice,"

Perfect

star of

TANGANO is every-

Ming

Laurentis

that De thinks #

HUSBAND. and WIFE

Domesticated interlude in Venice for Dino De Laurentis and his wolfe, Stivana Mangano. Says he : " When a wornan marries she should settle down...."

woman should be "But only because I trained her that way," he pays, and Silvana nods approval,

Printing of

Distinction

for

People

of

-Distinction

that

"I may sound old fashioned," he said, "but I bellove

marrjes sho when a woman

In his thould settle down." own case that is how it works. Silvana Mangano, after "Bit- ter Bice," became Italy's most popular star. She was offered Hollywood, Bri- contracts in tain, and France,

It seems that the mice must have

bren nibbling the power connections at

Chequers Too. Winston is considering exchanging

his set for an old-fashioned phonograph.

MACMILEAN HALN

Bucklare

NOT WORKING

WORKING

ATMOSPHERICS

MORE

"No." "He

She wanted to take them loo, when aho for her ambition started in films after the war was to become att international slar.

sald:

De Laurentis Silvane put it simply. 'told me I could be, a fim stur and or wife, but not both.

those exact without using

words neked me to choose."

She chose a family life, and

is the mother of two strapping children She has now gone back to Alm-but to star in a

Laurentis film which De producing himself (B colour Him with Kirk Douglas

based

on the legend of Ulysses). She will make no films for outside companies.

Once off the fin set she re- role veris immediately to the

of wife, and never seeks any

publiekty not approved of her husband.

Her quality

ty

CHE has, in fact, a quality which De Laurentis and a

Italian lot of other

people claim women have lost in this

modern age-subservience

the male sex,

to

"I am all in favour of women having their independence De Laurenti said. "so long as they know how to use ii. But do they? A woman who is really independent is a rarity. Modern women have achieved a free-

busi

the

dom their great-grandmothers of never dreamed of.

"They have gone into 4

ness in competition with men, and some of them are so brilliant they have pushed the

The De Laurentis linc thought Every popular Italy) is that women starte. deteriorating as a sex when they achieved their Indepen dence and started being cynica; about

men.

to bring up.

at

"There used to be a time," he said "when A woman':: TTE thearts of delight was a hus- paused and looked

couple of would-be stars band to care for and a family trying to attach themselves to Rex Harrison as he posed for photographs-so that their faces would get into the newspapers.

"But what

do good does it them? To get to the top. I

Laurentis mean," De

mar-

"When they achieved riage and a home their ambi tions were satisfled, and they spent the rest of their life, as i helpinate to their mun.

"Marriage does not mean that today, and I think it is a pity."

Her job

TE pointed to a alim

young:

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Uncle Sam Is Worried:

Nobody

Americans'?"

Loves Him

New York, Tuesday, reports: "From rassling arcund The lovesick republic is try shows that there is a return of HROUGH inept timing Europe lately I have been ask- ing to console herself in the self-confidence and pride in

I arrived back in New Where did we fail? Why do explanations. We are too

ing myself a couple of questions classic manner with tortuous Europe,

big. York the day the tem- they hate us? And they do hate we are too rich, we have too The newly found independence men out of the high places."perature hit 99 and the city us. What did we do so badly, much, we give too much. Our in Britain and on the Con- Her happiness was swooning. Even today, that everybody says 'Co home, symbol is the Cadillac continent is proof of the success of

when it is a mere 80 and the

vectible, we meddle. without the American aid programme, a the ahent-wave is officially over,

knowing how to do it well, and worthwhile reward for I think my friend Ruark is we are blabbermouths with our money poured out. People are going around in exeggeratingent at y secrets.

moment that "they," a daze as if they have been for hit on the head by a lead meaning Europeans, do hate

Americans, pipe..

Europe is telling the citizens It is going to take us to go home. weeks to recover. A lot of asked.

things have been lost during the holocaust-composure, temper, and perhaps a grip on the international facts of life.

"Have you ever met a success ful women who was a happy woman?"

And og Silvana looked fond- ly and obediently at him he H

woman swimming in fron feel sorry for the

repeated his opening remarks: female dip in the Adriatic, "Take her rex. They are no longer com- us an example of n moder:

pletely dependent upon men to wife," he said. "Sho has

provide for them. They go out husband who loves her anu nto the world to fight their only loves to keep her in com-

own battles. fort.

two

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"And take a look at them

She has a family of delightful girls, but does

(but do not let them see you she looking!). Have you ever seen stay at home and keep her more unhappy or more - uncer family happy? On the contrary she goes aut to a job of по own, leaves her children 11: charge of a purse and is ajonu Morning Post with her husband only at the

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Limited

Telephone 20002

and ask for Mr..Labrum

Wreum

China

week-end.

"It often happens they not

holldoy even spend their together, because she is busy when he is tree or vice versi Do you wonder that though they still love each other, thei marriage is in danger of break- ing up?

They are living together like two lodgers instead of married man and his wife."

De Laurenila makes it

I quite clear that nothing like that happens in his house.

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TOMORROW: viewpoint to challenge the stay-at-home.

THIS

Even the Adenauer

that or

This is the refrain being sung every from coast to coast under the general title of "Nobody Loves UsI Know They Don't.",

doubt that many trippers and But there isn't the slightest

tourists are disappointed in the reception

the French, the

Italians, the Germans, and even the British have given them.

Astonished

To think otherwise, to shed tears and wring hands, to rail at ungrateful friends, is to bo peurotie and adolescent.

many

course,

Iatoly

do seem to have ired to

irritate and.

cons F

own.

the

re-

and. exasperate world's strongest Power.

The reinstatement and imbursement of some Ameri- dismissed by Trygva Llo from the U.N. staff for alleged disloyalty to the US. has angered the Press.

and the public bere.

1

news-

nows-

has astonished dear, like able, wealthy Uncle Samuel that other people, and particu- It find New Yorkers more worried than usual worried to wear

It is a wounding experience larly the British and Europeans, your heart on your have minids and wills of their about the United Nations, the sleeve, to spend billions in

Even Roy Howard, stock market, the Communists, presents and And the girl

What base ingratitude, the paper owner with moderate and but most of all worried about doesn't love you after all.

disillusioned travellers wail, and International views, now znys; not being loved.

take "It was a mistake to bring the The U.S., generous and warm- somo hint that they will victory hearted, as

energetic and im- thole baseball bat home if U.N. here in the first place." has not cheered them up much. petuous as a puppy, is deeply everyone else doesn't play the And the more violent Almost every returning travel-

doesn't..game_their..way,

paper owners are saying "Let's ler, from Ambassadors to college hurt that everyone.

I have some comfort for get out pronto and kick the boys, is talking and neting like want to take her on their lap

and cuddle her.

lover-boy, some solve and-balm global squatters out of their a rejected sultor.

So

the now

great soul for a broken heart. The very glasshouse."

The sooner Sir Winston Chur- here. fact that America's allies are searching is going an

for

chill ments Mr Eisenhower the themselves, Why don't they love us? Where sticking up did

themselves, and botter, and the quicker that Mr for What's acting 'wrong? go

daring

to vote Eden our political sex occasionally

can resume his office as wrong with

against the US.

Secretary the happier. the U.N.

for all of us, 'for, believe me, the relations between the U.S. end the UK. are strained and tangled and only Mr Vishin- sky is happy.

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Disappointed

A Robert Ruark, who knowu how to put words together

we

for several hundred newspapers, appeal?

DIVORCE

ISLAND

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands,

West Indies. THIS lazy, sun-soaked island in the tropics has shot into the New York headlines дз America'a latest quickie divorce mill. Christine Cromwell An- serson, the Dodge heiress, appreciated its facilities to auch an extent that she divorced two husbands here.

Actress Bel Geddes, of the Broadway production The Moon Is Blue, also picked it.

Last year 360 marriages end- red here and the lawyers who are reaping a nice little income from the trade talked hopefully. about an average of 500 by 1955. But today St Thomas, sits us

Idle

watches

in

by EVELYN IRONS

Although it is built up as a divorce mill, St. Thomas keeps itself primly different from such brash vice traps as Las Vegas,

The

Foreign

of

The slump

THE

THE Wall Street slump; has not helped "America's peach mind either. The experts were almost unanimous in pre- dieting a recession or adjust ment, so there are absolutely no grounds whatever. for think Ing that a crash is coming, di Governor, Morris

More Americana 63,500,000 Castro, has implacably resisted of them are employed -- mo all attempts to legalise gamb-working than ever botore, morg ling. This summer the police.

saving mári invoked an old Danish law, "Ng Americans are

money than ever before, and one may appear in the public life insurance is at an all-time streets in dress which is against Now

validity of that decency,

thus barring bikinis peak. statute is being tested in the and short shorts, States. Unless Washington up-

"Divorce" is simply listed in holds it, the locals fear that the offelal guide book as one their divorce boom may end.

of the advantages of the place sandwiched between "equable

the dollars dwindle

WEST INDIES

ARDIN ISLANDS

The Virgin Islands of the Unilad States li 40 miles east of Puerto Rico. The 26,000 population-decreasing Year by yourmis only 9 per cent white. Sixty-nine per cent of the

landars are Negro and 22 per cent.

are of mixed Blood.

was they were

as a painted ship on the The trouble rocking blue Caribbean. Own just too easy. Complaints reach ers of twenty-eight restaurants ed Congress.

the'

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

TO STOP MURDER IN AIR

TEARLY three-quarters N

of all the coal bürned at Britain's power stations 25,000,000 tons every, year la being wasted, British Association scient- ists were told at Livor

pool.

Only a quarter of the energy in the cont dug by

the miners and carried to power stations ends as elec tricity..

The rest is lost in cool ing systems

or goes up chimneys, taking with it fumes which poison the air we breathe, There is unough of this waste heat to supply every British home with constant hot water and central-heat- ing.

Instead of getting it, housewives are having to burn 40,000,000 more tons of coal in fire-grates and sloves to produce hot water for their homes. The smoke from their chimneys fouls the air still further with grime and choking pol-

sons,

Waste Heat

None of this is neces- Mr Abraham Mar- sary, golia, an engineer with an international reputation, told the scientista.

our

If the waste heat from power stations WEB piped to the housewife, the 40,000,000 tons of coal a year now being burned, in the home fires could bo saved, and the pollution caused by that vast amount of crude fuel would be stopped.

Mr Margolis has a sys tem

this for achieving double purpose. It is simple

and it works,

The hot water unavoid- ably generated by power- station machinery would be stored in a huge communal system to which the hot taps and radiators of whole districts would be nected.

·CON-

An engineer's pipe dream? No, Such......4 district heating plant, designed by Mr Margolis, is working on London's big new Pimlico housing estate.

Waste hot water from Batter- sex power station is being piped

bunnel through a

under the Thames to a hot-water system 188ft, high on the housing estate.

More than 1,500 centrally heated homes are already draw- ing their hot water from it.

When the housing estate is finished 32.blocks of dats, com- prising 3,200 homes, will be served by heat which would otherwise be wasted.

Coal Saved

More than 11,000 tans of coul will be saved every year had. London's air will be spared-the Tumes which domestle fires would have, produced

This plant, which is using only a fraction of the spare Beat generated at Battersea, repre- fighting) amog and coal wastage, sents the first real progress i

-"How?

ure How many plants like it bêmg Banned

anned for other Brilish Not one, townicials of the British Electri- cily Authority claim to be "extremely interested in the but nothing cooms to

A recession? Possibly. A des pression? No, sir. "

Business in the shops and stores la brisk gain now that the holiday season is ayer (yes-

rival Reno and Las Vegas fishing."

inst Big vacation day of the (Novada scores 0,000 divorces

year) and New York has never looked.ma Florida,

FAREWELL CONGAS yearly) or

where the

Prosperous, t ⚫ annual total is something like

In my Said and woman who obtained from Mr. Anthony Eden, Harver are jetters 18,000. But It lo a source of

Virgin Islands divorco income for the island-which

hich earlier this year; "It is a place Firestone,and Marshall Field was so unproductive that when the United States bought the where really nice people go for hun All chapping Curious busiest and “most Cases are heard how three Virgin *Islands, St Thomas, St. Croix and St. John privately in chambers, and the successful people are always the

E. Moore, is most gracious. Coloured

Stewart Granger tells me ha million dollars, President Other Hoover sald she had purchased lative "an' effective poor house."

Divorce business here cannot climate" and "rood salt "water Lerday was Labour) : Day 3 thố: projectile) 30-EDDed up' tho'

be

building of other heating plants. Government and Joenl councils, and moving so slowly that the Pimilco plant is likely.

to remain for a long time only un, cžumple. i.

"The authorities are using the capital cost of the plant as an excuse for inaction,

thero

We cannot afford

from Denmark in 1917 for 25 50 very the ro- fis, to star in "Beau Brummeli" schemes just yot," they say, "Tho

ASSET: VISITORS

cheapness (mindnum They cannot line up · enough legal fee is about £70) and that pictures for Jimmy (his real Us is one of three places in the name). USA -- others being

Now Mexico and Alaska-where the It is still so unproductive that vague term "Incompatibility" is and night clubs formerly packed spouses had to do was to spend with wives and, other wives six weeks swimming, lazing and the tiny British Virgin Island of a divorce ground.

night-clubbing

Here, Tortola, three, hours distant by At the new Harry S. Truman around husbands sinking their sOTTOWE -IN

All dissatisfied

Soft words

(40

Juan,

PARBARA STANWYCK has

London:

truth, as Mr. Margolls airessed, is that we can no longer afford to do without them.

Smog is

killerá destroyer of human life, buildings, metal work and crops.). Our precau- tions against it should boas rapid, would bad thorough as they an expected gas

regardless of expense; complain, then plek one. out of eight moter-bost, supplies the native airport opened last year, gueria cabled. Robert Taylor in attack month will see the first

that business has 'plummeted.

UNCERTAIN FUTURE

grounds on which to

fita

homeward market with meat or did until departing

"Darling,"

13lodwyn divorce petition.......

recent plague of tick caused minutes fight to Ban the American authorities to bar Puerto Rico, then six hours to needs a homo-let's give it to fogs which inny, concentrate the Blodwyn Is horse al polsons to lethal, strength an The Virgin Islands Legislature

4. Now York) are regaled" by him" responded to all doubts and Tortola's cattle.

congas played on sawnsoft, cul which is also appearing in they did last December : Betause what kept things querice last May by amending But 200 visitors, staying 2. drums by alx coloured boys with "Knights of the Round Table!! when 4,000 people were booming all the year, regardless the law to make it quite clóar, minimum of alx weeks shopping rhythm, in their bones, tits of the seasonal winter tourists, that six weeks", roeldence was and, spending wore an asset.: And although, aimple hotels The British film "Mr: Denning

the scientists tell me that were the divorces. And = unili enough) and that- proof of fix Before the divorce law was charge 20 dally Inclusive, it is Drives North" is a bit hero, de there are no signs of hurry, no next month, nobody will know “wacke residente

Hollywood's Liberals say they "Algns that anyone in any offcial should be introduced at the end of the comforting to buy cigeretios, at Agrimaste #fade ravidation of war there was that might club 100% packet and Bootch at hate these days when nothing position is disturbed,

in the place

SAM170. Gd, a bottle,

what the future of Virgin Islands, divorce-will-ks.

There could be a a reconciliation.