1954-05-29 — Page 8

THE CHINA `MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1984.

Robert Ottaway Reveals The Truth Behind The Bergman Mystery

body. When people began 10 so-volcanle siart of the "Strom- recognise me I did not know hell" project. what to do with my hands"

She twisted them now, dikked

}

Rossellini went to HollyWood and, in eager, chaotic English.

her "Joan of Arc" hair-cut, ift explained the story to her. She

a cigarette: "They wonder way, naked for a script. "I do not

I am content to stay here max- "begin with a script," said the ing pletures with my husband, genius.

I do bermuse I belleve him,

talent and in his pur in his

POZIOM

"Also, no one else has askel

me to make pletures. Of cuta, it someone like David Lean bad ascript and wanted me for 1, I would go."

Then she bridled, defensive- Iv "What is so peculiar about a wife woning to work with her hasbrol? We understan each other **

I reminded her that when David Lean directed his wife, Ann Todt, Two Alins, "Made Jełne" artid

Passionate Friends," they were not xue cessful. 11 difficult to leave

one's wife's thee on the gulfing- room floor

to 253310

never

tought Rosselito Iyaz

terecatent The triumphs of his pstwar films, "Open City," "Paisa," and "The Miracle "

And that is the talk in Home They say that Ingrid Bergman

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Ja wasting her talent by sub- quing herself to Rossellini

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site

ISGRACE,

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Sy is hap 154 1 SOUZA Wat 1 TI

-

!ated

career of

Ingrid Bergman for this wed

four years ago,

From being

Hollywood's favourite

tress,

Bezme

whipping gir} for

Senator who though time to how he was no at heart.

In bes

Itume malment Ettered with jueupe

had a can-br. Ingrid Bergman pement for ten like my an-madele

They Jumped up auswife.

10.

NERVOUS

win her VORIS

She

called her "degenerate." Her poe was rounder than hisaol at her "vagrant im. when I saw hes lat Six veurs as the hesday of her Hotty- morality." and generally be.

She wore flat- haved as if Miss Bergman od renown.

hiret shoe

¢ la-t⌘{1-5*** my carried her own privat height and ttl !tt ¢rན་, Babylon around with her

Thai was five years ago. Now memories have soften- ed and judgments acquired the mellowness of history.

But it wasn't the timidity of But the star who inherit- ed

of Garbo's someone with something to hide scrap il

Ingrid Bergman is frank about mantle, who made £50,000

ber actions, and straight forward an in her opinions picture and kept

1's just that unspoilt simplicity rare un she keeps the slightly gatiche Who lett Beverley Hills, is allowed to uneasiness of the gl

Sweden for Hollywed in the shine

tleties.

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110 more in the English-speaking world,

And sh. paved it by either talking to

much or too little.

Then," she says, "I was such Her fan-iball has dwindlet D) a mouse that I went inlu a loon Gosalp and without being noticed by ang

a tfal trickle.

·

Protesimmally speaking They Roberto Rosseliini as ati egli, with an overweening 1 Franself, an obdurate perisetlorust to his Blay- musik treg

When a

"Stromboli"

to climb required Bergman valenne he

hes repeat i sa tipas unifi he was sati but with the result That wa three months before their son. Kobet latin, was faith.

s WILK 201 callousnes& When the shot was

complete, Rossellial rushed up to her and jed her solicitously to a chair.

But, while he is working, ke drives himself ruthlessly and drives his cast nod technicians of his own spred, disregarding the limits of their stunina.

It Is this integrity that first brought the stur and the film- anker together,

Ingrid Bergman recalls now The Arst letter she wrote to him. She had been to see "Open City." In New York, and she had never ben

Impressed and moved by a film before.

"Nothing could stand in my why it a mun of your gifts would make o flm with me,' she wrote in that first letter, und that was the tentative, not-

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was

Certainly, Rossellin! Antiered that a great Amerlean ater would leave Hollywood for him. Certainly Bergman was verwhelmed by his Integrity been and enthusiasm, having ten years in a place ruled by the cast register rather thin art.

Thus the Mush romvice gnadows.

affair began in sympathy, with Jurking

in

til.

pened,

RUMOURS

The initial rumours, the birth of Rober- tmo the Wrangles with pest husband, Dr Peter Lindstrom.

nousy

DIT:C)

It was a garish story, for the emotionally starved

It spelt anguish for Retentio For

The Fight that Finished the Champion

Wilde: He didn't know HOW to lie down

IMMY WILDE often Mit: next to me at the fights these days, and it is not always ельму to recall that

the

by George

Whiting

tubly, resente little Welsh- 5.1 Inches, reach 68 inches; world cruiserweight

enr

Ingrid

ellpper that night, and that

thigh 21 inches;

101.

to

Moot

No budging

the

senseless to beat me."

Prophetic words.

the

You

The pattern of the fight was revealed

Arst two minuten. A younger Wilde had achieved no smali proportion of that had

Thai netiled it. Wilde, fretful, badgered and harassed, jumpert. of his chair ond cried: "I don't care what Herman weighs and I'm tired of all these arguments. I'm not going to let the Prince champion down). I'm going to

to fight." ehest 31 Inches; waist 264, la a supporting libut with Bom- Flye inimites inter, the Prince man by my side was free inches; bleeps 111⁄2 fuches; fores bardler Welis, pulled out with of Wales was mounting the ring known as the Ghost with a orm 81⁄2 Inches; wrist & 4 inches; a dislocated shoulder. The ring platform, thanked Wilde for his

"Do weight ist, lights were fixed so that many gesture arul asked: Hammer in His Hand.

of us in the two guinea sents think you can beat Herman?" Then 1 remind myself, The Inte C. D. Cochran

The was could see nothing.

MC. Wilde shook his head- and and him, that I once paid the frat

Wilde Ronald Adair, tirentened to go repiled: "I don't think much of I wo gusinens I could Herinn fight fur the latter's home Then, as a climax to my chances after all this bother, Everyone knows what ha afford to watch him fight world bantamweight champlan- everybody's troubles, Herman str, but he'll have to knock mo

but Himan, ship,

an Italian refused LO weigh-in at Pete Herman, and had my American from New Orleans, ringside. Quite a night. ear clipped by a steward for de

ducked

Inslend the contract.

to the Trying to take a more ex- Wilde took himself off

USA., elenged up, and decided pensive sea!.

he to retire to the new house

It appeared that Lewis, for his

fact power from the had but near Cardiff.

He called it "Tonndate," after Wilde, and manager Sam Gold- many

of his oppinenta the doner of the flyweight belt man, for Herman, bad algned stewed" themselves into semi-

different contracts, and Jimny hnd won outright,

both impotence to make weight. No parties made it quite clear that such

handicapped Then came another offer to

never the twain should meet. iferiman. fight Herman from Rube Welch,

Wilde's contract called sepan at American actor with whom

thu Wide had sparred in a muste him to weigh not hull

title!

Gib. In 961. net. Welch had

or ringside, but the earlier bidding.

this piece of paper required that he called meet the same stipulations at 2 linke he and a

partner Pollock had the business all p... an arrangement that left him free to regain lost strength In the afternoon and come Wilde was four months short

Wilde's Tredy Lewis.

ገነነ ኮነ of his 20th birthday, ive years ager, agreesl-after considerable at what weight he pleasett pats winning of

20-round Aght night. By hugg comparatively Imple

weight championship of

ring- the at Bt. lb., weigh-la at

How on earth such cork-eyed for the lupees of some other

Wilde's purso money was world from the Zulu Kid, and sid,

anomalies came to be permitted stars to be tingiven; no one vi

To far as I know, peets them to sport a hule in years beyond his introduc- £0.000 plus £250 expenses, all has never.

Ing, deposited 100 to the Blackfriars Ring,

in n Brush bank. been satisfactorily solved where

ent had the managebent

Referee Jock Smith got £50. promoter would get away with

such a stroke these days. in £1 notes. Herman got been seared stiff of exposing 59 in frat a youth to the ribaldry of cheque.

Actually Herman fought uf the crowd and the punches

Three weeks before the fight lenst

Wilde weighed Bs1. BJb

Herman stuck whom he a plece of not unfamiliar monkey 7st. b. one Young Nipper

to knurk out in 45 business crept into the New York contract. Wilde refused to budge won that first round. But further

end of the set-up. Herman, with from his dresing-room,

Rosselling, she ነ፡፡1 Hollywood. ber doughter Pla, and the security of a saintly repulation.

Jimmy got his own

wasn't all that hupperted to him. Not by a long chalk. The date W/13 January 1024.

The place was the Royal Albert Bull. The circumstances will take rather longer to

set tłowni. reason

There was

something Super vintetive about the attacks on Tergman. I believe the was that, in the pubķe eye, sar was Identitled to closely with Jean ut Arv, the characte that still haurits her Imagina- tion, the person she had re- erented on stage and Beteen

10

private,

Bul with Ingrid BergmanPANA forgiveness

OBLOQUY

Fas

seconals,

850 fights

the

13.

reely buttoned itp.

Herman

ה

No

to his

nonsense

Wike was there in gallantry else. ond spirit but not much He lookend sickly, moved slowly, lacked zip.

We who had paid to watch this American him slaughter

skulled sat sllent as Herman Forward, took precise and care- mensurament with his left arh. and shot an unimpeded Nobolly right at Wilde's Jaw. had ever treated dinmy quite like that, and got away with it. Wilde stalls

On actual puints Wilde's still

left hand necurate

probably

where ST

WIN 1101 SU She had lend blameless ano had pinyed for the mos!

art, heroines of Irreproachable proceeded whlteness.

400 of no more intention of risking his promoters, managers, stewards, Of ha 800 bavles them in the booth. Wilde had workt title against Wilde than and what-have-you were driv Jost but two when

they

paul be had of presenting to the Ing him half crazy with advice, him £8.250 to night flerñan. British Museum, lost it the night arguments and solicitations

The Mighty Atom, they called before he sailed for London to Wilde.

The Tyturstown Terror, a fellow-American, Jur Lynch. The Indian Farine, The Furious whom Wilde bad already benten Freak and other endearments twice. all descriptive of a

pale, skinny, pipe-stem tle ex-pit-boy from the

Valley Rhonddu

with the kick of punch

An Oliver

took curious manoeuvre exasperated rule, Twist who dished out plenty care of Jimmy's bantamweight promotion

She was filled with obloquy She cringes at the nivmory of it now. She remembers a visit

nursing

from a Hollywood tycoon when the affair was at its height,

"I was Ut in the home, and this man 9010 ny only chance v returning to America was if I announced on the American

that radio

would not see Russellini again

was the victim

ratuation,

and would be forgiven

"Oл those conditions, if confessed penitence in public, could go back to Hollywood.

I

Jike

In the

Ort

Levinsky out

That Tutte

Prince arrives

Lo

n

A fine prelude Why those wrangles could have been settled outside dressing-room is pot

highlight

In those

on

shocks nwaitect

In บท

the second. A left hook from Her-

et

lead Wat man inskie Wilde's

wicked right- followed by hander, fnfs and square on the chin.

By rights. Wilde should have been pole-axed by that punch. As it was he was compelled to Aght stull,

BOL

This early effort having only Herman succeeded,

to

the partially

to poltey another settle down

allowing Wilde boxing attrition, allegedly wear himself down as he flung his attacks at a man tome 2016. henvier. Herman could afford

In the hill á flot seemed im-

to whit,

heating

H

the

By the ninth round the sting

from Wilde's Rone

Wilde, who never weighed aspirations. Six months later, good old days. much more than 7st.. had licked Herman won the world tham the lot-yweights, bantams and plonship back from Lynch, the ninent, for I remember that we He said I must admit that featherweights.

booth latter having prudently arranged cash customers, of a brief in-he toppled men twice his

own not to Agure in anything more whispering of

backstage had then my

sin weight, and unce performed the lethal than non-title contests drama, were giving free and hand; by the 12th he was draw

astonishing

ing on slender reserves; by the noisy expression to our opinions. feat of knocking during his caretaker period, over 29 opponents inside four So Herman

was in hot pur- arrived here Suddenly a red-faced messen 9th, Herman

the Ker

Wilde's suit of a game but weary little In appeared hours, All this from the frame strictly without illes, and of

The Prince of man. unhappy promoters, committed dressing-room. #gnat.

The end come to Wilde's £8,000, were stuck Wales (now Duke of Windsor),

in round 17, 1 am frequently being asked

Wilde with him. But the fun and had arrived at the Albert Hali and with it the punch thai how big, or how ́small," really was in his prime, and the games had hardly started.

and his companion, Lord Lons-

put Wilde out of following detalla may interest

scheduled dale, was on his way to talk to Batting Levinsky, these seekers after truth: Helght to show us the form of an ex- Jimmy.

"got more and more angry as he spoke to me. I don't think

myself as a wicked sinner. still don't, I would never admit

it.

makes

M

"Only one thing want to go back 10 America," she told me. "I long to see my dlaughter. She is fourteen now and I haven't seen her

for two years. It is very hard.”

is Ingrid Bergman's unty Important regret to be cut off,

from Pla, whose name has now been changed to "Jenny Anu

ROUNDABOUT BULGARIA

with RITCHIE MCEWEN

Beenuse "Pla" stands for "Peter DULGARIA is rapidly be-

| Ingrid Always."

BULGARIA is rapidly be practically every Bulgar volumes of Joe Stalin's works

und certainly was

for responsible

his

losing of the world fly-woight championship to Pancho Villa two years later.

Herman, scoming at this stage to explore with his left, shot a straight right at Wilde's unde- fender chin, and

over went Jimmy for a count of seven- half-way of the ring.

He rose again

Ciambering up, Wilde stum- bled straight into another terri- flc right-hander, No part Jer | through the ropes and bit HA head on the edge of the ring with a thud I can hear to this that That punch ended the legend of Jimmy Wilde in burning spasm of

adull found the "beautifully bound" Soviet Society, and attends et lying in their packing- And that was the only dis-Democracy. The 15 official voluntary" Russian lessons at

cases and rotting in a corner certible shadow in the present: Communist Party organisa- our of the Society's schools. In of the yard, while the "library" tosy domestic life of this

was bring used as a store for Swedish girl who once playedtions now have a combined appreciation of the "great bene

11" conferred On them by the workers' conteen supplies. with Gregory Peck,

Gat membership of nearly 21 Mother Russia, the Bulgarian

millions. This means that electorale have just vated thres Werke still, when the Russian

inspected with a total population of Russians Into the newly-efented Investigators

sphilary arrangements, *key day. just over seven millions, the Bulgarian Parliament.

were horrified to nhd average Bulgar belongs to

They are: LA.-General "valuable -Russian techrifcal three Communist mass or- Girskay, Lt.-General Zacharier literaturo" was in great

and Comrade Balgaranoy-all manel as a tolle! requisite. Sic horrur.ganisations!

three Red Army officers,

transit gloria!

· Cooper, and Leslie Howard.

IRONICAL

It is easy for prudes to showe their heads in happy But Bergman is not the kind of woman who would lightly At the tender age of 5, Bul- break any sort of code.

Karian children are now mado

Democracy.

to

the

the Russians, however, du not shower all these cultural

concession but not immediately. Up at "nine," ho offered pathetic resistance to the on-coming Hernán took another count of five, and, Part of her distress fou

incredibly, rose again." to join the "Pioneers" and years ago was due to the fact subscribe to a Party newspaper. In spite of all this show of gifts on their Bulgarian sub-

But no knock-out was to be "loyalty" Bulgars are ex-

Mother Russlo, Jeels for nothing, In fóturn, Herman's that many people thought that At 18, young

that night. Referee her

Bmith saw to that. With one leve από cocked-to pasted to take cul membership however, there are still a few Bulgaria is expected (as fabrication to glean some of Sti

State sporis, cultural and blemishes to mar the general of the "eternal te of

Gwift movement he waved the choddy publietty.

trade union organisations. In effect of this model People's chip") to export about 30 per Amerleen diside and gathere Seeing her defer

addition, he or she must be.

crop, the wispy, pain-racked, but pro- - cent of her yearly Hull gently t›

which 15 usually abundant. testing wilde into his arms. her husband the name leng to the appropriate Party

The Communists "political" organisation and bo

bewall the Last year, the "yield" "Roberto" larded her conversa-

Wan Carrying the battered little schall, sb "De undeniable fact that the youth Ular watching

this her Inquire a member of either the

suspiciously preters sollellously about her twins,tuce of Freedom" or "Volun- of the

markod: "I'm sorry, Jimmy, but. "experts" will tour the

I have to pick you up Tenbelle and Ingrid, observing teers in the Cause of Fresdont boogie-woogle to Kusser autumn email army of Soviet body to his corner, Smith, 20

to to-operatives

because make both mammoth civil defence tongs and "American type Les terna her stroke un erring cushion

tou don't know how to inta

convinced crannisations with

to the Ale blue scarves of the Miron:

sure that no "Imperialist agents" plact, I was

down." "Peace Movement."

keep back apples for their own that, of the three stars I met Kremlin flavour. In Rome, here was the one who As every Bulgar also ដ

Russian investigators have, use. had found the truest, most acribes to at least three Party in fact, been deeply shocked to The Russian mvey will also deeply-based satisfaction from newspapers and periodicals, ho learn that the Reettan-language her lite.

spends 18 percent of his weekly libraries and political lecture lecture the fruit farmers on ironical

explain (both part that the wage packet on Parly duca and rooms"

of the brotherly love" an It seemed film which firat brought her subscriptions. Nine out of ten standard educational equipment that by sending nearly all their

NEXT SATURDAY: fame

"Escape to flims shown in Bulgaria are in every Bulgarian factory) fruit to the USSR they will Was called Happiness." Ingrid Bergman "Made in Rusalb," so hu roes are generalf non-existent. help to deepen the friendship had to wolt ten years for the

Average of eight or nine In the State Tolbuchin between Bulgaria, Russia and The championship "fake"" Soviet propagatida filins a year, bambinië,

instance, title to come true,

they the other People's Democracles," that nobody would believe

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That is as good a curtain ás uty Except to mention that Herman, some years later, went

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