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PREMIERE, Jot the

THE

MAN

IN

MY

LIFE

A husband isn't 'the puppy-dog' o her..!

A NEW star at the Venice film festival launches a new series... answering the questions every successful woman has asked at the point when her career begins to mix with her marriage

Venice,

OR any young actress 'honest enough to be able to asacsa her own talents there comes a point in her career when she can look at her- self on the screen and say: "Here it is

the Moment of Truth for me."

It came for Audrey Hepburn when she saw herself in "Roman Holiday" and knew atardom was hers. It came for Marlene Dietrich when her director told her to sit on a piano, dangle a leg. and sing "Falling In Love Again."

Now the Moment of Truth - the

knowledge that the

big chance has been

turned into the big

triumph

题

-- comes for

by...

24-year-old girl LEONARD

named Odile Versois.

Odile Veresta

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1954.

drawn or RED.

MOSLEY

will proval.

While she pays a flying I'll keep the one I have," she rain until they gave their ap- visit to the Venice Film said. "I don't think you Festival, London is about to need to worry about me." see her in a new British film called "The Young Lovers,"

Her performance in it is Bensitive and moving, de licately sentimental and in- finitely pathetic.

First glimpses of her per- formance in "The Young Lovers" won her co-stardom with Alec Guinness in an- other forthcoming film. And now the Hollywood offers are beginning to pour in.

She knows

ANY moment lovely Odile

Versois will be an inter- national star, What will that mean to her and to the man in her life?

For she is happly married and has a baby daughter; and she knows that stardom is n wrecker of marriages,

She explained: theory

"It was probably the only way "I have a they could get dry," said Odile. about nim-star mar-

Then she went on: riages. It is ke buying 1

"My career created problems motorcar or a washing machine,

with. plenty of flashy to begin models around, but if you are

I discovered that I had married into one of wise you choose a husband to the oldest families in France. last-and you look after him.

There are

"There are women in films to whom their career Is more important than anything. They

marry a man because he keeps them from being lonely.

"You know the sort of hus- bands mean. They are ni- ways known as Misa So-and-so'z husband.

"They follow her around a puppy, wagging their when she pals them on head,"

like tails

the

Odile drew herseif up. "I." she said, "will never allow my husband to be my puppy dog."

Positive man

"The

HE giggled suddenly.

idea is rather ridculous any

know my hus- Can you imagine him

So I asked her: "What way. Do you

happens to your private life

"I was just an actress. I was a little afraid of them... Then

I discovered that like me they had their peculiaritics."

The di Borgo family comes from Corsica and has had a feud Jasting over the centuries with another Corsican family-the Napoleon Bonapartes,

OLIVE-BRANCH CURTAIN

Defe

O SEASHE

Worid Copyright op arrangement with the Stanchester Guardian

IS CHINA IN Russia's Pocket?

W

HEN I was leaving Peking to accom-

Socialist delegation on one of Its jaunts the other day, I checked my. wallet as the car drove me out to the airport, in the soft, clear light of early dawn, to make sure that I had my travel permit.

It had taken a lot of time for a helpful official at the British Legation to get me! this permit, complete with attached photo, to go from one Chinese city to another.

Prince Napoleon, Recently present holder of the title, be- came father of twins-a boy and a girl--and wrote, to the di Borgo family pointing out that they had never had twins. "

"My husband asked me what we could do honour of the family was at Yes, all seemed in order. stake." Enid Odtle Versoia,

ola. We reached the heavily "Shortly afterwards I became

twins, unfor

or guarded airport, drove in,

about it as the

RENE MacCOLL

who toured Red China. with the British Labour Party delegation, tolls of the Big Brother Act which ... shows – up- the far-reaching Influence

of Moscow...

AND, perhaps the astonishing, tipping.

has abolished most

This last is something that neither Russia's Stalin nor the Argentino's Peron over did. The walters and the pedicab (cycle "tari") men and all the seem to have been convinced

a mother not of ughter. I and I was standing in the that to take a tip just im't,dorie.

tunately, but of a felt I had let the family down. "Luckily Pozzo's brother saved us all. His wife gave birth to # few weeks ago, two

my husband says we

band?

second place to my career?" I must be on the alert. We can

allowing himself to Lake "But

A HUNDRED ROADS TO FREEDOM

By David Laidlaw

AST" night a 21- triumphant,; ; when the frain

year-old Polish pilot reached its destination. landed his jet Generally, however, weeks, fighter on Bornholm: and months or even years of plan- asked for asylum

ning are involved. The simplest plans are often the best,For "After travelling 1,540 instance, in March 1989, a group miles underneath

of East Germans equipped them- way solves with a supply of wreaths carriages, a 29-year-ol, Bul- and escaped to the West dis- garian refugee has reached vuised as mourners, England

One Czech, a mechanie, made an armoured car by 'covering

an ordinary one with sparo

"Four, persons have escaped from Czechoslovakia parts, and drove his family by aruse which took two years to prepare ...

Reports like the above are no novelty in the nowe

papers of the free world. Yet each one summarises a

pcross the barbed wire entanglement into Bavaria, The transformation of the car was the border complete that

EU

sentries actually saluted as it went past.

•

Another Inventive. Czech

unique adventure in the life reached Vienna as recently

of June the end

1954 after of a person concerned — an awimming for three miles under adventure fraught at once water down the flooded River with danger and with heart- Dyje, past unsuspecting frontier ache. For, unless one is n guards, in a "submarine, suit". of his own making, copied from criminal fleeing from Justice, a magazino llustration of the decision to leave ono's United States Navy frogman. own country is never easy,

The fact that it has been

made by thousands of ordin-

Hint Of Arrest

were to be

A

certain

ary men and women and Having been warned that his even by children — testifies flat and furniture more eloquently than any confiscated-almost thing else do the "miscry hint of impending arrest this.

41-year-old which has overtaken the man, a

assistent, made his frogman's lands behind. the Iron Cur- it from sheet rubber of the

kind tain.

used in hospitals.

old "diving. helmet, was an

have

shop

His

of

These

Two things characterise German gas mask fitted with all these escape stories rubber hoses, with home-made valves for intake and exhaust. Same thing at the Tongshan courage and ingenuity. The The ends of the hoses were at to a plece of cork, coalfields Russian equipment courage is sometimes tached and "echnical assistance" aro breathtaking. For instance, which floated on the surface lavishly credited with having there was the 13-year-old the water camouflaged as tree upped production.

The attitude of mind of the boy who, in the winter of bark.

400 miles Some of the most spectacular people I talk to, their out- 1951, walked

the Soviet empire looks, the whole massive set-up across Poland by himself. exits from is clearly cast in Russia's Image. And the group of six Hun- trains, acroplanes or ships have been those in which whole It will take time because this is such a vast place but I's garlans and a Yugoslav who been turned from their courro

laid a row of planks across and piloted to safety. coming.

have 10 Just outside Peking, a great the minefields at the frontier.

bravado almost oula which new permanent Sovlet exhibi-and then cycled across it,

of youthful fantasy, about tion is being Fushed to

com-hearing the mines exploding them are among the most pletion by small army thing surmounted by Juntor Czecli students who for a or instance, when in 1981 a Chinese labourers, the whole behind them. And the three difficult to organise. caillon of a Kremin tower whole month fought their Czech express train was driven complete with glaring Red Star at the summit.

way sa East Germany, into the American zone of Ger hunted day and night by many, ⠀⠀ the points had to be

all along literally thousands of fully changed

the routo Just a few minutes before the armed troops.

train was due to pass, and it was only possible to give the who wore in the 30 minutes notice to pack and get to the station.

Priority

own

UENA could use those labour- ers and all that lovely Compared with the glum and building material in her defensive deportment of the desperate housing drive but Russians, the people of Peking no, Big Brother exhibition gets and the ttle men of Manchuria priority. seem full of charm. But old

terminal building with my bags when a Chinese official approached me.

Unfortunately, he ex- China hands the few that still I think the

Most Moving

But one of the most moving stories of all was that of the Czech family of Ave who

benger

a

Similarly, in March 1959, the owners of a Germen

river

take their ship off-course into

steering (dovico

now that the whole world and I couldn't. Her husband never be sure what the Bona | Mained, the man bearing the linger like ghosts hereabouts experience I have had in China de a truckload of timber. West Borlin had to. fi* ay-A-

starts taking an interest in it?"

Odile's large and my sterious blue eyes flicked for a moment across the sands of Venice's Lido to Gloria Swanson, centre of a swim- auited group.

is Count Pozzo di Borge, and he partes will plan next." Icoks like Montgomery Cf.

He is 25 but already a brilliant transport designer.

and

No inferiority

He la a strong-minded positive young man. He first CHE shock her long horse-tall met Odile wo

years ago in of blent heir and went on Paris, swept her off her feet, "So you see, although I am and proposed almost immedi- becoming more in demand as a ately, Sho wag playing

the flim star, it is. certainly not "Now there's someone who leading role la "Ondine at a giving my husband any sense of must know something about my series of open-air performances. inferiority. problem," she said. She was The weather

was bad, Pozz! the biggest star of them all.”

"She also had five husbands," I told her. "How many do you plan to have?"

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di Borgo's parents did not know his bride-to-be. So. he took them to the performance every night, and sat with them in the

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airport had not yet arrived. It would therefore be neces- sary to get back into the leave the airport again, and then re-enter it when the permit caught up with us.

car,

the

you

SOOD

as their change of route was noticed.

most solemned to Austria hidden in teamer, who had · decided to permit for me, to enter the assure me that this is as nothing was, that visit to". Peking 'gaol when they reached the frontier complicated

to the old days and that

On the surface it looked more they were so excited that they which would work by itself. Chinese are far less merry and

the food they had Otherwise, they would have carefree than they were before like a well-run factory than a ate ell

AS the "liberation carefully calls it.

everyone prison. But when you stopped brought with them, and drank been picked off by gurulite as

all realised that they their water. to watch

their tasks were going - about with

La dedicated

Led ferocity of

Then the train, began to move. purpose and speed the Ilke afback into Czechoslovakia, For

́had 'never: teen which

In the next three days it stood eny ordinary factory.

motionless in a station and the | HERE is a good deal of the

Because nearly, all' of

at or them family had nothing to "blg Brother! trappings and were under sentence of death, drink. Finally, the

in desperation photos of Mao and Stalin and and only by making good on began to cry, and Lenin, and the bust of Mão output for two long, lekening the grandfather made a hole in be particularly selling to the here and there. But it is nothing years could they hope for com- the bottom of the truck and Communists is when members mutation to life imprisonment. crawled out. He and his son had of delegations in foreign coun

both worked for 4

a State sow-

saw tries give their compatriots the mill, so they saw the station slip and appeal for asylum. master and showing him their There have been several cases

•

And this I solemnly did.

So engaging!

THAT is just an Instance of the way of things' under a

beyond belief.

The trappings

like-Russla yetk 7

This is a country of more than 600 million people and if you started turning out statues

No kidding

1

children

Boring Holes

One of the things which imitust

papers, urged that the load of this kind. recently among

bureaucracy that is frequentis of the rulers for the whole placeEY kooked like Btures in Luckily for them he agreed, and player, Oleg Zabrodsky::Zabrod-

the action suddenly, speeded, up, / Linz without being discovered. Switzerland, onth

I couldn't have kept up one of

זי.

"I know too that it is difficult to be a star and a wife. But I have no doubt that it will be all right with me and Pozzo.

"For the way I manage the man in my life is the way not of the. film star or the

career

should be sent on immediately, them that of the Czech hockey woman bet of someone in love.

it would take several glant "No matter what happens I

You slinll be a wife first-and star tough the

think you've had it factories running overtime to one of those films where the family eventually reached sky was given sanctuary

and was joined past few afterwards. No matter how im-

years, All the demand.

there a few

later by his pertant tho

-Alling in forms and so forth? if it comes to part,

I have had several glimpses the tasks at that pace for more

The ingenuity which marks flancee whom he had secretly Then come to China and sec a choles between husband and

troops marching, than a quarter of an hour. these

is equally instructed to "marry" Darlab escapes career my husband will win." how you can really got tangled of Chinese

Sho

matter of spur-of-the-moment of Czechoslovakia. the sand off her up in a stake's pit of red tape: along the roads in compact These men were doing it for astounding. Sometimes it is a friend of his in order to get out shook

columns and they look most costume Now 1

eight bours straight. Sandrinspiration, as in the case of the It's one long orgy of form- impressive. and fly to Britain must pack up

And of course, the public young Czech ⠀⠀ policeinan who Alling. There are lots of other

But whatever thio escapo "My husband has 'goño to

the new People's Incidentally, China must be execution of a miner after a merely off one Scotland to "shoot grouse but is Cains that could need one of the few countries of the summary trist at the Tongshan nigry slipped on his boots the method and the sorte perple not enjoying himself because of your weather. He has asked me

one of the engaging things about modern world that has not got mine just a day or two before frontiler into West Germany, Or are continually boring holes in .compulsory military service, Attlee and His friendly British the Hungarian couple from a the Iron Cintain and creeping `urgently 20 ~Join" him:,"

solletin,that they are constantly when I ricad a university pro- colleagues, got there is a further small town near Budapest who through them to freedom a thing that The Ex "You se: I may be called soliciting criticism.

fessor about it he flung up his reminder that behind all the happened to be passing the local fragle Odile Versols but I am really

Every tour of inspection ends hands.

Inns and smiles, the toasts and station and arcing a couple of success, while a matter for re- Madame di Borgo."

the

Blowers empty wine barrels labelled for joining in itself serves chiefly to with the assurance, that "We are "Compulsory service for us?! and The Remoral borbomle, the the United Sixtes zone of underline with greater, bougie far from perfect and we would he cled "Why, It would mean People's Republic of New China Austria, climbed into them the plight of thor who n welcome criticism of a friendly an army of 50,000,000 men at is not kidding

behind. and constructive nature,”

Tomorrow: The Woman In My Life

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

This is a razor-sharp contrast to the Russians, for whom criticism is about as welcome as a casa, of- búbonté plague would bo on the maiden voyage of a luxury-liner,

Least."

#

Big Brother RUSSIAN duenco?

considérable, I would say.

Very

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sicel rolling mill in Manchuria Brother

Credits

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