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THE CHINA MÁIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1953.
GREGORY PECK'S LIFE STORY
boller, clean the
THIS WEEK, THE FILM STAR TELLS 3an, each day and light the automatically wound by the PerHOW AS A YOUNG MAN HE WENT Corridors, empty the dustbins
polual "rotor" technzimm—another Relox invention.
It is in thoirability toshiyareutate undermuch incresiible testofender.
landings and
and scrap palls, and weep the
FROM GREEK DRAMA IN COLLEGE (*) sidewalk. WAS SO BAD ..... I HAD EVERY REASON
Surguidingly, woven days later, ance that Kalex watchesreti FOR QUITTING") TO A BROADWAY
they actually founil, nad It use still-keeping perfect time,
Immunity from the more moruml ille ihn benot an ordinary watch.
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After serem daya hewrath the ant, n Rulez Oyster Prapafund, brought up by direnzwar found to be allt eldaring the right time! The origin) letter of f'rus Jior Cutube can be inspected of the Holes oirra, ky que de Marché, (env.)
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I was as raw as they make 'em. Simply didn't know how to go about it. I was so green.
1 unul to exaggerate my move- anenta, erk on ear to show i was listening. It was pathetic!
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hending back to California. Two of us didn't even worry about money, We sold our Pullman reservattens, look a cheap room and went to a youth club town. Broadway was on our Four months of this was fod
programme, Init I don't know It was
whether we saw our first show retly nearly tce much for us," Married An Angel" for artis- staggering down the steps in the
Lice purposes or because of the cold light of dawn, and some- rather skimpy costumes that times got as early. The water Vera Zorina
wore. Let's be was either cold or else only honest, it was the strip that steam Issued frein the tops. We altrocled us. were fired. 1
But I got my Arst wiff at We had one or two other Broadway. It was exhilarating. rockets to make money. During and I got a glimpse of the life the football season, when there that was going to lure a raw was a game every Saturday, we country boy from, California into noticed that the car parking on adventure that would lead- situation was diflcult. People beyond his wildest dreams to had to park their cars great dis- success and romance. innees from the stadium.
So we rented à vacant lot
about there-quarters of a mile from the stadium, which meant just as long a walk as the olliers, but I was the guy who waved them in with a "The stadium
Not Amusing
AM superstitious. I I was so bad that I determines ndmit it. In my pockets to give this theatre business an- I always carry an old her go, and I sought a part in a second workshop, venture, the silver frane piece that Greek play "Lysistrata." This somebody gave me a long time I was leader of the old men's Jittie more to say. time ago, and the top half chorus with a of a well-thumbed ace
Ed
are cod Duerr and I friends. I often sze him, and we spades.
never fail
to get a laugh out of When a picture is going the mentry of those days. well. I hate to change my suit.
I went it for as long as three weeks at A time
Getting back to California was until I have, for shume, to
not so amusing. We had our give it to the presser.
road coach fares and a total
The nee of spudog, ingkent-
In these workshop playà you is just over there." It was, but captiat of 75 cents, which meant olly. WIN given
the that for four days we lived on to 103: by
enme under critical fire from the the entrance was reune Votezio cameraja Arthur audience. One fellow, Kenneth ather ale Before the whistle cheese and banana sandwiches Milk, winner of several 12. Tobry, who subsequently became went we were ins that radikim and we were very grateful and now senil-retired, During one of my closest friends with $88 in our pockets. That the huge steak meal waiting for the Bling of "Key of the tough red-headed Irishman arket farted for two and a half us of my friend's home. Kingdom" he tore in half one maite this le speech: "I don't myths during the
Now that I had made football
up my mitsel to go on the stage, I was of the cards with which we had know why we have to et me to season.
in a devil of a hurry to get in Broadway With my degree In
packet, a jette: of Introdus tion to a business friend of my bepfather's and $102 cathi, descended upon New York In the old Ford fonds.er which bought my early all-selling
The buoyancy of youth floated me along the sidewalks of New York
days.
fu:
I
I promptly sold the jalopy and added another $150 to my bank balence. I fell huge, gifted, ready to criquer Broadway. Find money, talent, ambillon, and teen 'nlaying nud said: "You're these workshop productions and There are plenty of ways of health, Later I got the order going to do all right, son. Here's watch people who don't know making mares II you re about and Importance right. I had luck." I wouldn't part with it. how to speak er net, who have it in ccricke We took to "hashi- ambition, health, some talent, neither voice nur education in ing"--waiting, at table-ht, the nnd by that time I had no money. Greek dialogue.
refer, of Sorarily
House or the school volved in a number of invest- My stepfather's friend was in- cafe, or acting as "bus boys," clearing up dishes.
ment and he listen, cigar torning In.
to my
Silly? Maybe, Sentimentat Surely
But Pate has twisted the path of my life so strangely that I cannot help feeling super-
stitious even though my mind tells me that, gleally, this is absurd.
First
#1 girl's
inspiration
Somebody Tall
course,
I
to Gregory Peck."
washed it down in a emple et beers later,
1
hopes and plens,
of dad's was the
Vera Zorina, for skimpy costumes
-
a
Loy, 14 viviera to the Centre. My performances were outstand- ing. Until I knew better I inne- cently assureth, other eager out- landers that
or New Jersrooklyn was a part once fell asleep in a
a box
while
my changes stayed 20 minutes more than they should have done watching a show in Radio City. That was a dondly, sky. I was told:
heaven's sake keep 'em For
I began at the sub-basement and worked up to the 80th floor, telling on each floor a story, of what went on behind the frosted- glass doors of the offices. I had to bone up on my facts,
Protty Good
City
I wore a dark uniform and a peaked cop with a red rosette on the badge. Before I finished I knew a heck of a lot about the Rockefeller Centre and also Radlo
It was a pretty good job, I' got about $40 o week with extras. It lasted for four months, until the autumn, when I got an in- troduction to a good dramatie school through some fellows who Bad been at university with me. Snag was that tuition fees
amounted to $800, and I had to live, and all I could scrape to- gether was $200.
Getting the
and -$10 from home was one. thing, but I determined I would be independent, Then if I was going to flop there would be no regrets except from myself,
"mooned around with n face as long as a firidle until one day I had a brainwave, Had the drama school any scholar- ships? Yes, they had. So Gregory polished up a couple of monologues and
nd appeared before the faculty.
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It was awful, The whole facully just sat there looking and listening. I was trying to find somewhere to put my hands and legs which appeared to have Aown enormously during the Luckily 1 remembered my
night.
lrcs.
Lovely Letter
We lived of his friesner of an English and wore white crash' belmets me apart with exercises, jump-
:
Second Crew
voilext
14-genter
tho
a
At the end of a month I had
I smiled wanly at
I took that standing in my
Brother, I was no Then an elocution fcaeter white sheet at white hende House, I wonder if any of the something. He did. He got ine sional or starve.
It was fun At the Sorority and said he probably could x amateur. I'd got to be a profes- worked on me. 1 recited. was a cruel blow even though we 30 girls remember us. I don't my rat professional peaking
Shakespeare, and he told me Shillam istened to my spiel, exactly what was wrong with I've forgotten the parlas a barker at the New nodded expect so.
approval and said: my speech. girls, so we're qui's. But I shall York World's
Fair,
"That's one.. You're hired..... switched me from #dead-end I had every reason for quil. never forget Jessie the cook, who.
The artistic soul of Gregory $25 a week.". some quick in my dished up for the four of us Feck shuddered, but his stomach branch line on to the main high- ting, but
IL Was
12-hours-a-day stepped in, make-up, probably seme lesson as much food, I m sure, as the urica hin on. I took on the job job, six hours on the mike alter- The fate way.
Martha Graham, o famous again, added another link to my fem athletes, would no: let whole sorority ate.
a week. cable, and I became an actor by
And that is why well. me give up.
nating with my partner. We were modern dancer, took me into the the shecrest accklent.
I made the stage my career.
both dressed in white overalls bilet room and practically fore American
J. W. Shillam, a manufac- and goggies. My Arst paid-for ing about and gyrating. There I was, tall, lean, and The University of California Is
turer of marine engines--he mesin publle went like this: rangy, striding across the unit Berkeley, near San Francisco,
Martha: mare them for the lete Sir A thrill a seconda mile "But I versity campus in my stift cor. I was very happy about this be-
only want to act." durty
leather cause I was only 20 minutes away Teepe, in, cikinger who
Among the fair of us was Fred Malcolm Campbell-who had in ralute.. Housers and
"If you want to act, Mr. Peck, ....round the walls cf vented a motor-conch wall-of- an upright bowl. has death ric. The idea was that a brother, dety Jackit, inked over with designs from my mother, who had mar-
Come on, mind and body have to be per- $15.00 and slogans in the approved ried again and
lived in
since taken up a full-time naval small
laws of feelly co-ordinated. Acting isn't - motor-ecach gravity." fashion of that year, when a Francisco, where her husband, career, 25.00
and. Slevé ("Speed") working froin a steel arin
just lines from a script; It In- vin 1:a- voler called out: "Hey, you. I an Italian, is in business. Incl- Wann, a petroleum engineer in
volves perferl control of that 25.00
speed round a sleep- want à tall guy for my next dentally, he was one of the few the Califorima oil fields.
sided bowl and gave passenter a voice like a gravel mixer. But long body of
- "qurs," 35.00 play."
people who encouraged me to
How right you were, Martha. make the stage my profession, zce Steve occasionally. He the thrill of a wall-of-death ride I learned a lot about the show
world, starting from the botton the principal of the school and
Next
I had an interview with has dropped his nickname which in perfect safely.
the real rough-and-ready the seting instructor. I left the Often when I wanted a square we gave him for being slow.
show world. I mat the freschool limp and exhausted, and meal or a $10 bill would slip
Most of my university buddies
Lindy Hoppers, not a very hopeful young man. across the new bridge. I was
and the It was Edwin Duerr, a profes- very
other "alkers," In the business Iucky. i never sent an were engineers, and when
I was a "talker." "Barker" t
But two
vo days
later the post- 4.00tional reler who had a small- SS to dad without getting majored in Elizabethan English
The secret of the coach-of- vuljar term
term for the same job. men dropped a lovely letter in salary job coaching the college $10 by return. Dad married they promptly called me the bull death ride was the powerful Then there are
man my door. the pitch man
I had been granted a dramatic society,
major. again, and I had a half-brother,
racing engine under the bonnet, and the grinder. But I saw no $500 scholarship. The buoyancy Donald, who is 18, of whom I
floated And that L. simply, how I
The neares! I got to rowing made a hell of a noise, which future in the game. My partner of youth
me along the Forsidewalks of New York that did and 10.00 came to enter the theatre. Before am very fond.
honours was in 1938, when I was part of the attraction, and got the same money s the thing could move,
he had been at it for 25 years. morning. Life was worth living. that I had never had the slightest The university holds 18,000 went along as a possible reserve
far the universky dezms to the This
The death rido. collapsed. had got my foot en profession.
Somebody wanted somebody Ford Model
Diego boys arrived there into New York was quite the niest personality. He read my letter. got another job ushering tourists couldn't be such a bad actor
"A. loaded wilit fall for a play. It was a mean baggage, no one noticed,
We exciting event of my life to date. "Huh. Well I need two barkers round the Rocketfeller Centre. after all. Look out, Alfred Lunit, doar to
this show. I've got one. This was a big talking
the boy' from La Jolla is on your to enter the theatre, and arrived broke, Desperate calls for a long time I was not sure went out to
The rowing didn't matter. What can you do." He gave me By this time I was moving, in heels!"
minutes that I wasn't Just a tall guy and assistance, and we. immediately pickle boat,"
our parents fo: I was in the second crew of the tenent outside the booth and City, I had a room on 54th Street
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The play was a "workshop sel about finding a spare-line Californians
and naval cadets watched my future partner put in one of those funtiar brown- Modellingg for food... with the job. jobs enlled "Moby Dick," and
from Annapolis. I
ting over his nut. He was cer- stone houses in the entertain- barter theatre, where they pald 5.00 was to be the Itre mate. "Work- We found une as janitors of a
tainly good. Later I was to ment district.
eggs and fojialoes 'to sco a play After the regatta some of us know that he was a mean sort shop" plays are those produced block of apartments.
My new job demanded that I ... then, called for by Guthrie song yourselves for exitistan. carried with it a free apartment decided to see New York before of chap who didn't like amateurs should give an Imur's talk to,
Mine was a small part in which and $18 month cash, We I was so glad that felt sick split the job into three so that with self-criticism.
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The forgotton country comes back into the news-- Ethiopia. This hidden-away land in East Africa saw serious fighting between, the Allies and Italians in World War II, but after victory Ethiopia retired behind its vell of jungles. Now it attracts Europe's ottention once more. And JOHN REDFERN moves there to report on banquots galore. monious, dignified Ethiopians face-lift in advance of the thing between salmon
Mountbattens have arrived
in this flywhisk-and-traffic-.
light capital where the cere-
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hell a
"guinca ply" Vanquet the other day to get the timing and ceremonial right.
Thirly "guincu pigs" sut down
offered.
In the ambassador's dining-room to the identical menu to be They enjoyed pate de fole a In fieur nouvelle (Addis Ababa wear white jodhpurs and varicus Very Important Visitors, cerise-waited while
and means "the new flower" con- her hu- somme a la popularde, sallcoques film posters wear the long- A few weeks ago the emperor band inspeeled a guard of honcur a l'Americaine (Blown from lost name of Wallace Beery, ordered a good deal of painting from the impérial evmy,
French Somaliland), dindon reti The official British Embassy of frablages. Some roads have Several hundred Ethiopians a l'Anglaise, fraises en vallon description of the Mountbattens been widened and with the crowded against the railings and neigeux ou Cointreau,
ver watched visit o "a good-will mission and emperor's coronation anniver-
dho curtsted to the In other words, pate, chicken, recognition of Ethiopia as
flags flutter everywhere. Duke of Horrar before she shrimps, roast turkey, and feed new-born maritime Power"
□ surce: aircraft, fent, by the drove off with When this country, federated Air her husband to strawberries in Cointreau
register.
orange-base liqueur. with Eritrea д year ago It brought the Mountbatten party. They stayed
night at the the duke's palace, which is built gained two ports, Massawa and With It from Asmara new
Duty-free Assab, Now Emperor Haile Duke of Hurrar, the cnperor's like French chateau. The Selassie has decreed the estab- second son.
duke drove out to the Imperial On the actual night there will lishment of a Department of
house, formerly
the be plenty of champagne, which National Marine and is in the
Later the Mountbattens dined something, in a land where a pot
go:s duty-free to the embassies- market for ships.
The Mountbattena entourage at the embassy with the Brillth of ten costs 25. 3d, and a tonle The visit of Admiral Earl included four Röynl Navy Charge d'Affaires, Mr Caryl water 36. 6d. Mountbatten and his wife, comes officers,
threo
Royal Navy Ramsden, and Mrs Ramsden. when the European community stewards, and a Marine orderly.
Kit laid out. Berman legation.
Cocktail
party
in Addis Ababa is ragging ofter He Immediately laid out Ehrl Visit by General de Ghulle, Mountbatten's geor. in a room and a week of celebrätions in ot the British Embassy na
This gave a chance for soms of honour of the emperor's cörena- though the admiral would be the officials to attend a cocktail tion anniversary.
1h à fluŸry
The 360 Britons in the city
women's hairdressers have had and there are no night facilites sphere their best week-end for years. for planes.
The RAF crow
An escort of motor - cycle olice in smart, black tühjes BOW the Mountballens through the capital when they attended, a service at the British cemetery. These police fire the pride of force which has Swedish Instructors,
but
aBriten,
A
n Д Deputy Commis
inspecting ship, Immediately,
Three cars waited at the air party given in celebration of the Russian Revolution by port for the luggage.
Soviet Minister Rybakov. The landing, was rather lat
tha Russian acem Addis Abaha
at their And these police do an im thon anyone
portant job. People here have After an impóriál banquet for a hobit of nipping, Across the body ank been
the visitors, Earl Mountbatten rond just as a car approaches. Ho any return fight to Aden. oife who by toul, chance chanot 34.8,000 feet above sea will' give, à banquet •for the A frillah, oficini told me that. ab win praimbly deramit sulckle, Juvel in Addis Ababa and it was emperor and the royal family at Aume Ethiopia, do this in the
This city, in which, fat, sleekruid when Lady Mountbatten, the British Embassy...
pre in a lovely furry. The only half an hour before dusk, data by the finkling atmos ht, of Derbyshire "The big event is the British had only five minutes to spare fre was more members. Fribaisy 'gated very when they took off on their
belief that the car will, ill any
maybe
| börn kind · döfkeys combine to wearing a simple frock with a In, paration for, the the evil
spirit
which Iclutter up the streets, för find a little capo-both in colour some" lesser This at-our, Tembassy traillog them. :-
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