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WHAT IS

THE COLOUR OF LOVE?!

By Chapman Pincher

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colours

stands for danger

for

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do

you

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"love"? people have firm

with a word like

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well 115 red!

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*THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1954.

THE

ART

BEING

are

N Rome Today

three of the mont talked-about

women

of the moment Ameried's Ava Gardner, Italy's and Sweden's Ingrid Berg

man.

OF

AVA

Robert Ottaway goes be-

A CRITIC'S EYE TURNS TO THE STARS

dewy, run-ted

indeed. If Ava

There's Character In Your Tootsies

By J. W. Taylor

DURING a recent inapee- knowledge to be gained

from

the

for

tion of the 17th Port à careful perusal of the toes.

"Take the second toe we've Training Regiment of the

been talking about. It is spil, despite Royal Engineers at March- must important of the lot thirteen years of re-lights."

wood, near Southampton, Ute tharacter reader. It simply Gardner Had Brigadier C. H. Barnett on with character and shows not beert spotted in a photograju picked individuals from the Just how much uitlative the displayed by her brother-in-law,

owner possesses. If it's long he he ranks and ordered boots and is destined for great things. professional cameraman, might have

the steady spelts off for a foot Inspec- "The nails simplify the task routine of a secretary, the action.

of the reading considerably."

· * !leed. oupation she'd mapped out for

expert herself.

eaty to plek out, for instance, the lazy churnsters. The length of "I'm strictly arnail-town Regiment enjoys for personal their icr-nails gives them away,

Our although this analysis

There foolproof.

girl," she confessed to me.

In

What the Brigadier

reputation confirmed the

lot

found.

this

And it

not

Bre

why

are quite unable

studio minbons us if she's boen | initialed as he won in the art me helt own toe-nulis,

on

I found! the contrast almost ludicrous. It is the secret of her discontent.

reading.

WHOCH

Says our

expert are the most

discipline und stüariness. chiropodist, however, told us Yet there she was, decked out that those bare fort could have always

told gulle a

one various physical reasona silk brocade, summuhitig

to anyone a

practising

1 Fron aged Southern of character

that it does not always follow retainers for years.

Blumihaung part of the body that the long and badly-tended

tre-Allis We

"to"

Indicate taziness of asked

Imagine

character, but mostly they do. that four men with certain kinds of feet had been ordered:

Not Bad Boots off for Inspection," What But I wan

surprise br her

would he read from those bare genuine modesty ntiout het activities before the camere. If teet

that д modesty

"Thut This was his sunelines amounts th indifferenes.

raan with ghurt, round fat toen on who has time and patience is full of fun and happy-go to manfeuire the toes.

Indeed, lucky. The second fellow must biting of loc-nails is almost as

In the billes, common as inger-nail biting." be quite pogled tues signify- What else do the toe-readers

The feet and 1

for he has

report:

"Neither does it totlow that only trimmed toe-nails are a sign of Industriousness, although: this is usually a sign in a per-

them

hard

ing abounding persunality. But divine? According Lo awkward for him, however, is people with big feet are that dimpled toes indiente hul workers and stalwart in charac- Nervously. she recalls from it is time for the owner to marl any question that might take

new life. He must fart hts ond they advise you when

dinosing

friends to look at their her out of her death,

She best foot forward, and his best feet, Big-footed friends are said switches on the portable radio. root is the one with m to slick by the through thick

she draws dimples. music,"

and thin, and it is merely

"[

languoruusly. "und esprecialty loudi musle."

Yet Joseph

mcan

Mankiewicz-— [U

The

Steady Type

"Steady

type. that

stroke of hard luck should they happen to tread

on your toes. However much the

handsome fellow boy friend in size 11's tramples

of

dancing hin

shallow picker and no thinker wunited her abore nil with the long thin toes; betongs on the feet others for the icet in "Barefoot to the more serious sort of partner, she should endure It Contessa, Aa

the mortais. Most successful bust- With patiento thinks

and fortitude, nesa me of the world knows why:

usually for he's

at fellow.

have such toes. Likely soth of hind really not such a bad | chop for promotion. Perhaps Pople with naturally anall The fourth fellow night like to feet are said to be very prae- for he tient and fully aware of where

delve

Into his

has

" have such beautiful feet."

She can say, "I'm not of that keen en being a mivie stor. I'm happiest in blue jeans and Hat he has to hide his heels and no make-up." (She boot, for that second toe longer and neatness, which probably needs unly a daub of mascara off then the big toe indicates that explains why so many females the set; the rest comes naturally).one has aristocratle

to crum ve taes into shoes in wide enough for a couple, the veins."

only

really got something. Pity they are going. Small feet arr feel in als said to be a sign of charm

goes be- throwing stones which the dure and I just wanted

hind the 'celluloid curtain' the truth about

Gin Lollobrigida to find

I have been there to see

three fabulous women

why people interpret them to answer for myself Errol Flynn looking for

paintings in various ways.

They are to repeat the testr from different with propte

colour towns to see whether ushociations vary from place to place.

What are YOUR colour reac

Check the cords in the Toms" chart and let me know if you citaren irith the general reac fious

-COLOUR· CHART

In black and white;

WORD

CONFIDENCE Blue

COLOUR

MURDER

JOY

Red

Yellow

REASON

DESPAIR

JOVE

SORROW

White

Black

Blue or Red

LOATHING

Dark Brown

Black

RESENTMENT | Dark BroMIT

SURPRISE

ANGER

HOPE

REMORSE

PASSION

Yellow

Red

Yellow

Dark Brown

Red

ADMIRATION Blue

JEALOUSY

SCORN

FEAR

Green

Yellow

a series of questions

the distrusted

•

•

blood

is

IN BERLIN'S RUSSIAN SECTOR:

Yet she is not propared to Dismissing the Imaginary And this, you must admit," compromise with her

our career quartette,

chiropodist sald our chiropodiat, "squeezes even to save a marriage.

That

qutta rather a lot of character out of ruminated thus: "It was the flaw int her stormy possible that, In the future, the other three tocs. Pity, be- partnership with Frank Sinatra, we-reading may become the cause There Is such a lot vi fashion among the crystal character to be read in the house life, with everyone cise Ava says, ruefully, now "Frank gazers, for there is a fund of tootsies."

a place to live-a not hurl track.

real place, with ปี kitchen. Just n place to be And looking at Ava, at the ourselves." sadness that haunts those huge

the girlish

their tempera- Exten

cyes arul

their way of life gice that occasionally breaks

permitted it. When Frank through the glandus ufitl-up, Sinatra was in London inst year, I began to feel sorry for her. he told me: "I've got a fine old Italian temper." And Ava suys! She was furious with some "When I kee my temper, you

ped her candkiv with a bull- Aghter escort.

But neither ments

# I suspected that she was still Rome photographers who snap- can't find any place." that financier.

Dennis acting. O'Keefe showing his two

person she to manipulate revealed behind the scintilla- and Spaghetti without ordering irontage, because it clashed sibly with the garish rackely portrak the events of her life have formed.

#l

how

EVERYONE WAB

THERE. EVERYONE, THAT IS EXCEPT MISS GARDNER.

root of Ava

have long Intrigued me.

How does the roar of the Mons

the panoply crowd, glure of success, affect a new tle. beautiful woman who has found fame and fortune in

Getting to the films? Where does

Gardnt is a feat of excavation. pines come in? Can such

For Ava mainising a rather Ek woman escape the en-

gauche allence, She is in circling mesh of publicity ? My first impression, by getting to her feet and dane

therefore, was of a star in ing a swaying Spanish number. I wanted to find, in fact. hiding. I found her finally. It seemed orign of convermi- the person behind the star. in a quiet, tucked-away flat tional maimutrition. and to assess that person she had rented, with sister without all the noisy disguise. Barbarn-"much more beau- of her headline reputations. tiful than I am"-as her

I sought out Ava Gardner

companion.

Ava and Frank

She bridled just as furiously three years ego when she was seen around Spain with that

Frank was anxious to restore earlier.

matatior, his versifying

dimming reputation-and Mario Cobre.

phy £70,000 in

back income lax. But Ava was filming in Yes, aympathise because. Africa, in Britain, in Italy.

1 even in Californila, the break-up

of marriage means unhappiness, There could be no two ways despair, & sense of failure. Be- with such 12 marriage. Onc career had to come first. Neither Cause Ava Gardner longs for would make the concession. the content of a Home and

But this wes not the cut her. ventional dumbness of a prattling feels that her private life should hhide. Ava, like Lana Turner,

stay that way. She shies away from self-sclosure. She has o record to hide.

The People Are

Very Friendly

By Norman Lindhurst

"People who are "for Soviet-Gennan

persona.

+

there is

4

It

Us.

Berlin. On Stalin Allor DEOPLE on Our Side." propaganda_sign shaped like

bridge. "Build

a bridge to friendship," ваун. the West."

That's the dominant im- We started to snap the sign, pression East

workman Berliners but

stopped that "Don't take

take sign made on Western guests in this

one," he advised The their sector for the recent worker pointed to a bill-board four-power conference.

calling for German unification. East Berlin is a **silent Then there were the East city" of 850,000

Berlin post office messenger girls watching the small- They live under the rule of screen television scl in the children, and they have eluded The Sinatra cable-and-phone the Soviet occupiers and the Soviet press centre. It must be But that is as far as I go. bill rose to £4,000just to make East German Communist wonderful, they agreed, to sec

contact with his wife. You regime.

the forest of television antennas Ava Ls 4 publicity-made might call it a bill of divorce-

in a East Berlin is supposed It's more wonderful to see pro- British or American cily, ment. phenomenon,

to be a silent city except grammes all day long instead of Certainly slir has recently

Ava must when That is the price

the government only two hours, and to be able shown sings Of the talen: pay for her ambition

presses the button for a to own your own set, they said. necessary to sustain evil an

But it Americzn reputation. But, She chates against rigid rule propaganda rally.

She isn't always ao. without the acreage of space

discipling,

The grip

The salesman. In a camera fecklessneal, that the Russians and their shop complained: devoted to Her when she was keeps a hill-bully

thon un animated an untameable independence, in- German Communist puppets ittle more

"It is not much of a life over still

have on the city is not here. Our money is not good, That record reads sadly. Even photograph, she would still Herited from her forebears,

garfibolling albig the side- It is obvious at once that, in Hollywood's marry-go-round, walks of Smithfield. North

She hates to know what she precisely an iron grip. The and we don't get enough even it it word. I spend all my time months Soviet Zone'a June, 17 anti- oft the job at the (Communist- will be doing tinte three this girl who has dragged a her

mart lages have Carolino.

hence, Because any plas Becomes Red riots--which began in run) sports centre because tempest in her wake for crashed more spectacularly than

Here's Thast.

the And laily:

East Berlin-showed this. don't have money to do any years is clinging tenaciously "Married to

Mickey Rooney,

However, the grip I still thing else." That was

the 13 years, 30 to

last ditches of 1942, divorced 1943. Married to Arile Shaw, 1945, divorced 1940. pictures and three marriages privacy.

Married to Frank Sinatra 1951, Today she has more than enough of the fame (or

first.

'A sweetie'

Ava Gardher was cooking. Cooking highly-spiced egg dishes whose recipes she had picked up on a previous, over-publicised Jaunt to

When Ava, just 18, first Spałki. weni to Hollywood, they said sho

"Aweet na WEŁN

{wice apple-pic-and natural."

ugo.

FLS

Marrying kind

Open-air girl

and

settled

a shackle,

with

secure enough.

the average

the street

At heat, she matches her

Bales personnel, police and arrogant asmirande

East Berliner on humility, an earthly friendlines

turn a friendly, that are her saving graces,

East Berliners do hot go in curious face to visitors from the Shelby hard at the squalls 1958."

Like, or not-and. Ava, ch

pro-Western West gossip.

1 'watelied her leave for the for flowery

speeches to Western villors, This is a girl who has never the whole, likes she has a

Saicegiris, when the bosa's should one sny notoriety?) scandal-mongering

renown. It's a studio, suramble inio the car, but they will manage to thumb back, is turned, will sell you and a fortune that swells by Ask her about the state of known at yest of placid married world-wide

their noses of the Reds, They the shop. Walters are painfully her marriage to Frank bliss. She confesses to friends position that demands & standard settle back luxuriously.

do it with little gestures, 100,000 dollars with every

because apologetic

they can't Then she leant forward. picture she makes.

Sinatra, and she curls her now that she doesn't intend to of taste und decorum, in her

Near the Soviet press centre, serve you Bordeaux or Moselle try again: "I don't seem to be public capers. fabulous nobé and snaps: built for that particular insti-

Tuff on the radio, in't you? for instance, there is a lady wines, Avt Gardner is a gli thrust It's much too quiet around people's police trame, cop. It And policentieni gö düt of their But has it all brought her "See my last statement." fution."

Into the sort of prominence she here."

says in the Red German press way to give directions. happiness? I think not. Her

to digest.

*Poople's police"-even I was struck the that

by the friend- And then comes the revealing hasn't the maturity fame, I would any, has isten

ho # La NEXT WEEK

lody, cops--are supposed to be lines towards Americans dash of anger: "Why is ovocy. She begah

Inside story of the star hard-boiled vigilant defenders the people working in stores. her misfortune.

brie to Interested lit my private daughter, a belle who tolled un-

Why can't they let me known in the deep South. that life?

Italians

their of peace; but every time we was quite taken aback when a live it my own_way?"

"National Institution"—the drive up the turns the light pollteinen politely gave minute Shd martial up-

and strebi directions from orangờ to grẻen Shd blames her ale occu- sets on having to live a glass- bere feel and still koops that fabulous Gina Lollobrigida. | waves ily,

about an address.

She knows all about being

a star, but her voice as she Dark Brown

talks sounds frightched-8

FASCINATION | Blur

HATE

ANXIETY CURIOSITY SHAMB

DISGUST

ENVY

PITT

Purple or Black

Dark Brind Yellow

hod

Dark Brown

Green

Tellow or Blug

RELIGION

MADNESS

Bröten -

Demure look

Ask her how

if the Great Ava Gardier pics her time amongst the

cannot bear to be alone with her thoughts.

She is marvellously enjoy- ing the tinsel trimmings-

rults and roues of Rome

and she will try to look demure:

"I'm generally too tired

but the main, simple reward to do anything but rest. Of of a contented mind has so course, I'm learning Spat far passed her by.

ish" and she produced

an olive-skinned Spanish

It was not easy to find girl to prove It — “and Miss. Gardner in Rome, there's always my cook- although everybody there. 18. ing...." talking about her.

It made an intriguing

I went to the vast hotel contrast to the dose Up where the privileged few picture Ava we all hold could

watch Humphrey dear picture in which "Bogart "and" Lauren Bacall everything about HUP' IS*JURE -JUOMANN «AZON JAN MENUMMERUni)-a-bij- outalse, -e

JOHNNY HAZARD

ACKMAILED. YOU INTO

DON'T YOU WOULD JPAINST

·IT IS BASY TO BAY BO, JOHNNY........ BUT HOW CAN I BE

mk' about the trops in

IN THE WORLD ONLY,

IS A TRUS FRENDALI

JONOWS......NO ONE “

of

when asked

By Frank Robbins

this situation.

Mis for a

Can Miguel