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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1954,

Me Jack Foster, oditor

of the Denver Rocky Mountain `Nawa." puts

-000

series of questions to Lard: Beaverbrook on the #ab- jeci: "Why do the British apparently support plately the effort of Chinese Reds to gain ad- mission to the United Nations?"

the

Mr Foster added: “Why has American-baliing. be-. come apparently one of the_most popular pastimes In Britain?”

Lord Beaverbrook's IC- ply has been prominently displayed in Mr Foster's paper and the other 18 pspers of the Scripps- Howard chain in America.. Here is the reply:--

This lasting kinship

By

How Audrey has upset

the Hollywood form...

A

UDREY HEPBURN bought a newspaper at the airport kiosk, and stepped on the Loa Angoles to New York plane. After take-off she lit one of the four or five cigarettes she smokes per day and settled back to read. She didn't turn first to the amusement section and to the local gossip columns, which would tell her who was wooing whom. Twenty-four-year-old Audrey, with a speed unparalleled even in hustling Hollywood, hus become the Golden Giri of Show Business a valuable commodity .n on of America's larges: industries which would langulah and die without new stars of her

Lord Beaverbrook be

you

OU must put out of your mind completely the balling any idea that

of Americans is a popular sport in Britain,

His not a sport in Bri- tain at all, outside the lunatic fringe. In other words. it is on exactly the same footing as the baiting of Britain which goes

in the corresponding funn- le fringe in the United States.

If these I wo counter- balancing lubacies are dis- missed from serious dis- cussion as they should be this leaves us with the question of Britain's Chin policy.

OLD ENMITY

My newspapers have, la the pust, criticised some aspects of this polley, so I would not be everybody's choice as the best quaflied "person to expound it,

But it is at least reasonable to think that the ancient and bitter

unmity between. Chlos and Russia hou not been megleully and completely heal- cd.

On that Supposition it 211 be wiser to entre China ont Russla's arms, by soft words than to drive her more deeply

to Russia's orbit by hostility.

Her

in-

But she la European-born of an English father and a Dutch mother, and she is not a typleni Hollywood product. terests extend beyond the camera's range and beyond the swam-heated houders of Bever-

ty f

So she scanned the news of world affairs in her bulky Lus Angeles newspaper, read an Item about ex-Presdent Truman and internul American -politics- without fully understanding it. before ale came to the cinema

There, of courur, she looked at the advertisement for Roman Holiday, the film which gave her major role for the Best 1.me and sped her to intern tional fanes,

M

She sat in and looked at the advertisement again; for, though

she

By

Logan Gourlay

recognised her face, the And Audrey ffopbien is estab- y altached to it was not hers, fished as investment which Slim Audrey of the boyisti

needs no gilding. Bure hind aequired voluptuous curve azid it bust of striking She told me Later: "The whole proportions. Obviously she had afate was humiliating at the been decapitated photographic- time, but it was a minor upset. ally, and her pretty head had 1

forget how bern grafted to the body arther, unnamed, girl. indignity, a frightful insult."

"It is mattered Audrey, "an

Angry

MMEDIATELY

сал

of happened."

at ever

"She has learned to accept it philosophically, just as she hus learned to accept other hazards 03 ile for a new celebrity in Hollywood-especially an martled one.

en-

is a tribal Jaw of the tho plane community that everyone Landed at Chiengo an Trate should have a male of the Audrey rushed to the telephone opposite sex. Primitive societies

THE GOLDEN GIRL

But now that she knows what

It

to expect, her emotional equli-

brium should not be disturbed.

心

She has been properly guged once, without the plotting, or prompting of the publicists and the American columnists.

CHAPTER 2

"BAUCE PERUANTE”.

The Chef

Mile Assistantz

VITER DINKIANU

PATRICIA BARK, ALDREY, Hars

AIK LONGON'S 'WEET END ....

LATA-AUDREY HEPBURN

WITH JAMES HANSON

40ED 10

ACED 10

....... AGED 12

WAS presented by im sitting in the empty theatre presario Ceell Landrau, who after the

show while shie Shakespearo from

was among the frat to notice declaimed that Audrey Hepburn had un- the stage. But for this training usual potentialities.

He was unaware of her exist ene until he went to the London Hippodrom to see High Button shoes, the American musical, in which she made her first pro- fessional appearance. She hud Her dance was James Hanson, just arrived in England from

Holland, where a wealthy Huddersfield the hard years from 1940-48. son of

sho had spent business man, who was compen- sated handsomely for the loss of his road haulage company under first nationalisation.

TALL

Engaged

handsome, charming,

Landeau

told mc: impression WOR by a pair of.

big eyes and a fringe flitting the stage.

she might have failed when she was catapulted into the leading role in Gigi.

In contract

WHILE Sauce Pigrante was still running, Landeau "The presented a potted version of the made show. In cabaret in

a London dark night-club. One of the club. across owners who saw Audrey

hearsing said: "Can't think what you séc in that girl. You "I made inquiries. after the should drop her."

found out show and

they belonged to Audrey Hepburn..

new

L

IQ-

He changed his mind when discovered that the girl

a presence

which made blase waiters forget to

wait.

and eligibi James, who "I noted the name and wifen he hauled himself frequently from the show closed I offered her a had Huddersfield to London, was at job in a

revue I avas even ono time an escort of Jean presenting, Sauce Tartare, Simmons.

He met Audrey while she was still an ambitious chorus girl In London But for her unexpected transformation to star she might

In

how

her

and put through a call to the have the same law, but For publicity department of Para- sound procreating reasons, But would not such policy mount Films who made Roman Hollywood the law is applied involve Britain in some forget-Holiday.

inally for the propagation of fulness of the British soldiers

publicity. -let us say the Gloucestershire Regiment who have fought

Ahdrey Hepburn's sparkling and failen in Korea?

spinsterhood

and is, a challenge to Hollywood.

in

The British have all the less

forget reason to

their Jussca against tlic Communist Korea since they have bron fighting single-handed for much longer period against the some enemy in Malaya.

THOSE LOSSES

H

publicity

depart.

ronciliatory, SITES

The

ment sympathetic,

diplomalle.

They hadn't

disconcerted,

erch meen advertisement; they

idar't know how t could have happened; they would hure it withdrawn forth- with.

the

Rumours

It was withdrawn, but some-

NOT surprisingly she was first how-again without the know- Peck, her co-star in Roman ledge connivance of

or

Holiday, publicity department--the news was already married

The fact that Peck and had But are such losses, bitter and percolatest to the Press and the expressed no intention of seek-

Hepburn grafting reached

front pages,

the

Diviner

be young Mrs Hanson, installed in a Yorkshire manor, "SHE hadn't much to do, but

ambitions tucked neatly

she did it well. So I signed under an apri

her for my next revue, Sauce They were engaged in Decem- anore prominence,"

Piquante, and gove her a Httle

ber 1981, just after she opened

on the Broadway stage, in Gigl She was still, however, little -the beginning of the trans more

Two hundred

stardom аб a

About this ilme Landenu added a clause to her con- tract forbidding her 10 marry during the run of the show.

Che acocpled It regarding it as something ol. a Joke.

But that was the betrothal to be followed by

the: marriage between Audrey. Hepburn and career which is now so conspicuously suc cessful,

NEXT

Will the Golden

WEEK

than a featured dancer, It continued with Bus Landeau, who gave Norman Holiday; and the plans Wisdon his first West End part, for a wedding in Huddersfield is an accurate diviner of talent. successful, felicitous, and charm- It may not always be quite so were postponed until completion of the film in September 1052. Ninked in rumour with Gregory invited and all the preparations wright

ed-though there is no possibility He told Audrey Hepburn she of divorce. guests were would reach

actress, nat as A made. But the Ainas Alma dancer.

She laughed at him, too often do ran over schedule. but he did what

he could to prepare her for the future. ing divorce merely added savour to the rumour,

Her voice was then, too high and squeaky, He sent her to a Some reports stated that the

There is no body given to Audrey Hepburn had the opportunity to pick up finally

When the bride-to-be was coach, who lowered it several

released from the tones. in the advertisement was the For

evidence on the spot in Rome cameras she had to rush straight would take property of Terry Moore, whose while the flim was under pro- to Amarks to start a road tour to project the where it

undulating charms were dis-

of Gigl The Huddersfield Sheba, another Paramount film, demands of the script. played in Come Back, Little duction that they shared any

emotional Halson beyond the wedding was cancelled hurriedly and arrangements made for it to take place in Americo. A Since then they have hardly patient Mr Hanson flew out, met, so if they are what Holly- Within a few weeks he was wood calla a "twosome" they back, still a bachelor,

heartfelt as they are, lo be regarded as the sole criterion of policy?

It does not scem an easy proposition

sustain, think of

Us:-

to

To unending hostility to the Japanese, whose prison-camp atrocities are not easily forgot ten.

To enmity to the Zionists, who not only murdered British soldiers who

Surprising

evidence and I

Motte of Nations, TS has now been disproved. sustain interest in the film.

behest of the League of Nations, but also stirred up American publle feeling against them.

To, hatred of the who killed maybe British soldiers for dead in Korea,

But as yet no one has come forward to claim the body definitely. And as yet no one Germans, hus admitted planning and per- a hundred forming the operation. every one It is not dificult to establish

why it was done,

I adduce these examples sim- ply to suggest that the events in Korea, which justify our In- dignation, are an inadequate basis for long-term policy.

'MISTAKEN'

It is not a question_ of "r warding" the Chinese Reds and "forgutung" Brillah casualties (as Mr Foster suggested). It is a question of seeking to achieve a purpose of policy by acts of policy, It may be A mistaken course,

But, then, so also may be the polles" by raisining hundreds of thousands of German boys who spent their childhood under the Infuence of 'Hiller and 'Goeb= Uds.' And" only; time will show which of these two policies is wiec.

I do not know, whether these answers of_minò are of interest to you. They, are, bolleve me, kiven with as much earnestness

are united by telepathyand of On December 15, 1952, an course publicity intended to

announcement said; · "The engagement between Mr James

Hartson arud Misa Audrey Hepburn has been broken.

MORE recently Bing Crosby A invited Audrey Hepburn to a party. She accepted.

A surprising but relevant fact is that Roman Holiday when first released was not an out-

Next day it was reported that a TOW romance had started throughout America. standing box-office

success between the "Old Gronner" and It drew the young Golden Girl. euioglos from all the critles, applause from any audiences who saw it, but inexplicably it did

not break attendance records

J

No one was shic to ex- plain the enigma. But Holly wood, like Freud and all the saleimen of America, be- Iloves that sex is at the root of everything. Xt Im Indeed # precept of Holly- wood sales psychology that a promipent best-line will break down the most stub born males resistance, Now

Audrey

Hepburn's charms are prodigiour, but they are not entirely located in the human form, as in the celebrated Curd of Marilyn Monroe,

a

Bo why not reconstruet her

in the

as you devoted to sciting da

guestícia. And they reach you from one whose attachment to the kinship between Britain

Thus was a Hollywood. rationalised and committed,

AN

Denials

N enterprising London newS ealtor picked up the story and cabled asking if it were true, Sho zopilext with an explosivo "No."

There had been no.

violent

quarrel or rift. Shortly after, she explained to me:

"It

occurred to me when the Gigi tour, started and we were trying to arrange the wedding that if it was difficult to find time for the actual, ceremony what would it be like later, on?

I decided it would be unfair to Jimmy to marry bim when I was also in lave with, and tied to, my work, Ilo

agreed.

"I apologise for using one of these awful stock plases-but we're still very good frienda,”

Her apologies were accepted.

Discovered

Another Hollywood party in- vitation came from Groucho Marx Again, she accepted, ・ Again she found according to the following sny's reports that she was more or less engaged, TEIHE only other recorded described as the mate of the romance in the life of Audrey 2-year-old Mr Marx,

Hepburn was with a young teristle, Bimaklet wally:---

Ho responded with а charac- Frenchman, Marcel le Bon

They were in a London, show Ho. was the singer: to be ungallant, but she's too she was one of the dancers. old and wrinkled for me on her new a gogat, chak, of coul

So it will det

With glow, and then drifted apart, In

"Just monense. I don't want togeth

moraleegularily she

unilkely that Twill in

become a boot-office-succoss.

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pace. Federer

yea

will team ungkariage, tradition

They probably jdidn't

each other's lives", yuy" milch',

Landenu next taught her how

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