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THE MAN

IN

MY

THE CHIN

DAY

SEPTEMBER

LIFE

CHAPTER TWO of a PERSONALI Y PROBE AT STAR LEVEL --

SO I KEEP HIM HAPPY... looking

after

ME!

Our reporter at the Venice SAYS THE WIFELY GINA

Film Festival continues the

slar series in which famous women tell "How I Manage the

in Man

My

Life."

Venice.

KNOW some people sneer because my hus- -and gave up his job as

a doctor when 1 became a star." said Gina Lollobrigida.

"Ther have not made it easy for us. Once when my husband came to ste me on the set sumc- one called out, Mr Lallo.'

Good evening.

"It was an insulting thing to say and It I had discovered who did I should have smidek- ed his face."

We were talking about the

problems

that consent a star 1.1 when she 13104

combine enenous publle suceees with a happy private life.

Hor best

Gina and husband.

do

menal riso to riches is a calculated business deal."

On the screen she looks like nothing but Woman, Woman, Woman. In private ile she is a trading company with plenty of future prospects.

Once Gina Lollobrigida was poor. She has not forgetten -3.

Her family was impoverished by the war. Bho spent much of her time, while the Allies were liberating Naples and Rome. the black celling cigaretios on

market in order to buy mest för her family.

SH

Her chance

CHE got her first chance in Aims as the result of Aguring in one of

those beauty contestp which the Italians are always running.

·

It was about this time that Gina met the man who became her husband. He was a young Czech doctor.

He wooed her while she was unimown comparatively atlil and married her long before she became star,

But, unlike some of the others, can she stay married to the man the loves? IR it a good thing

They not only loved each for a man to give up his own other, but had a solid admira- career to help that of his wife? tion for each other too.

Gina

tuld me:

not When stardom came to Gina problem. really no normally approve of husbands there was whose only occupation is looking She regarded the potentates of after their film star wives they the film world-especially after become

men as her experience in Hollywood, where she was paid a salary appendages

knew an English flim but never allowed out in public once afar who was inclined to be in or in a fim-as eccentrics.

But the film world had the more than constant when her husband was She

now makes

and opportunities that £100,000

There is year

no looking the other way. She felt money

for the security country In the world where very guilty about it, but hoped Gina needed

he was seeking. directors would not be glud 10 he would never and out. have her play in a film for them. "What she did not know was They are just about to show that her husband knew all about

Tow doc. Gina Lillobrigida

Of all postwar stars--Ameri- can, British. #1 Continental she has been the most success- ful.

أن

not so much

L

here in Venice the best kn 11. but did not worry so long her career. She has let me PCC S the inconstancies were im- it privately and permanent--and he got his share

br

can

tell

you of the money which went that 10 motter

the bank every week. where it is

ex- that is not nice, is it?" hibited and

סנד

LEONARD matter what pre- MOSLEY

Judices there are against foreign Alms it will be a success.

famous novel, "A

Her husband

into Now

SAID It wasn't. "But if you don't approve, why did your husband give up his job?"

Said Gina: "1 Insta ed. It

It is the Alm version of

Woman of

Was he who wanted to go on Alberto with his medlent work, I who an- said our marriage would tatt it

he did not concentrate on me.

Rome,' by. Italy's Moravia.

When production Was

Vatican frowned nounced the

upin

the project for the story is not exactly prudish.

"You see. I am different frem most stars, I need someone understands me to look It has only been mildly toned who

Nowadays i am not down, und Gina Lollobrigida after ine. does not muft her opportunity so much a woman as a business."

Her manager CAID she: "It seemed natural

to suggest to my husband man to that he was the right protect me.

"I talked it over calmly with him. Ho saw it my way. It is in no remote degree a post- tion of inferiority.

"I

acting.

I am the do the

Hc star whom the public sees. is the man in the background. contracts, My arranging my Appearances, my life. We work together as a team."

It was unnecessary to ask ber whether she was happy. Gino In her Lollobrigida

(except flims) is not the kind of person who shows wild emotion.

She is the most placid woman

on the scene her

face attitude for the photo lights up and you know she's

gind he is around. With "A Woman of Rome"

me graphers surrounding us.

"How do I manage the man Gina Lollobrigida moves into 1 knew what she meant. Of in my life?" said Gina Lollo-

Dietrich-Stanwyck-Garbo- all the stars who have been dis- brigida.

keeping him Crawford-Swanson class. She covered by the postwar cinema happy at his job of managing has achieved fame and riches. Gina Lollobrigida is the

to show that as a woman too She sighed a deep sigh and I know. But when her husband

in show herself In the comes

much in love with love Itself paused she is both exciting and pitiable, best

the

Against

skin disease and itching

Mitigal

AQINUINE BAYER PRODUCT, BAYER,

MANUFACTURED IN

LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY

only me'

one who has turned herself into an_industry.

Everything that has happened

to her including her pheno-

STRANGE

"By

NEXT: The evidence of the Englishman

CARGO

OF DISEASE

New York.

A GREYING quief-spaken strange purchase which

cargo-ship; bringing with him a

American recently Balied, £1,785. from England to New York in a

DESIGNS

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

ART DEPARTMENT specialists in publicity

His

package,

which Come

YEFISH

CLEM

MORGAN

PALLISTER

MERMAID

HURRAH FOR CO-EXISTENCE AND CO-OPERATION I

London Express Service

TO PARIS.

with LOVE

T

raincoats

By DEREK HILL

Paris.

HE Rank film makers have come here with 30 million francs, their French phrase books and Alec Guinness-in search of the Englishman's private mirage: Paris spelt Paree.

They are looking for Gay Paree, Naughty Pares. The Paree of boulevards sparkling in sunshine and beautiful women in the latest Fath creations drinking their Pernoda in the cafes along the Champs- Elysees.

What they have found is Wet Parce, Cost Empty Paree, Closed Paree and Mackin- toshed Parce. For the first week of the location it rained overy day. The cafes from a laboratory at Pirbright, are empty. The theatres are closed; so Surrey, contained cattle cnd are many of the best restaurants and guinea-pig tissue infected with night, clubs. the virus of cot-and-mouth There disease, together with a quantity of serum.

no-

body left in Paris, they are So dangerous was this ship- ment that the American, Dr saying here, ex- George Cottral,

was not aggerating the

allowed to have. It unloaded at situation a tiny the dock. Instead, it was taken bit. **Every-

off by a tug, which transported body" has gone

B40-acre Plum

Alee Guinness and Co.

on a dream location start-

THEY DIDN'T SHOOT ABIE- But My Number Came In 51⁄2 Mins. Dead!

DA

Up

Nancy Spain finds that fiction ain't true in New York

New York. away from you, "No uro your O they

back and saying it's read In coming

lost stolen" If you've

the America? Well, a nice ticket," he said. "You can't wide TV screen pro vides excellent light to read by between commerciala

have it back without the ticket and that's that,"

Worried, by my Ucket I jou

And certainly, as well as students, waiting patiently for

of some kind' or other. •.

Was

eð a Utilo queue of other reading the writing on a lift to take us up to the room. the screen, everybody in where the catalogues are kept. America reads a magazine

Thera

a nice woman with a little boy of eight who It is quite usual for a was fascinated by the Uft shaft. Able," she kept saying to magazine to have a reader him, "do keep away from ship of 11,000,000 or there," She was researching for e 14,000,000. Mr Soglow, a a film company, she said, and terribly nice cab driver granny couldn't have him that

day. who let me off at the door

of New York's marble-lion- As a matter of fact Able had guarded public library a very happy day, waiting for. (equivalent of the British mum. Ho ran up and down the Museum reading room), had marble galleries, shouting all a real American horror of the time. Oddly enough none of books.

"Fiction," he said with sneer. "Fictioni No, Tliere's no point in reading, that stuff! - It

ain't true."

the guards shot him,,

Inside, so gay

THE

First you look up your sub- Guide to Current Periodicals." ject in a brown volumo entitled

New York public library marvellous. It is very Now Mr Soglow was an ex- gay for a start, much gayer tremely intelligent man, who than th British Muscum. had been commissioned in the U.S. Navy. He was considered by his friends "a great reader." Yes, indeed. As I walked away ho settled down on the cab rank, reading a digest magazine,

Oh, yes. The social history America is written in digest,

Outside, a gun

I looked up Tallulah Bankhead and little, Mra Ellm, Research looked up Marlene Dietrich, Perhaps they are going to do a film of her life.

Having looked up my subject, filled in a slip with Classifien- tion Mark, iltle of magazine, date of piece, I took my flip to a harassed woman clerk üged

TF you wish to research into a

given subject you advance-around 23. cautiously up the marble steps of the public library.

She put it in a hot-air sort of gadget they used in "drapers shops when I was young to give me my change.

And she gave me

Cautiously, because, there is machine-the a man with a gun at the door, walting to take your typewriter

to wonder what Pigalle illusion witss: Alec Guinness rests between shots at a pavement call,

has that Pinewood lacks

to the Guinness said: "Don't you know

In that It never rains in Paris."

to

to

- Later Guinness consided me: "Personally, I'd love

view," Our

a little pink ticket (yellow after lunch) with a number on it. I got seat No. 118 and felt I'd qualified; för" a national lettery or a big, pink, plush rabbit

Then I walked, on, through echoing halls to a vast room, with scals for, at least 800; where the work is done.

"Walt," sald a notice, “by tho Indicator till

number come up."

your

Little Mrs Film Research and I obediently waited in front of an enormous board with flash- ing lights like an expensive pln table. I. am used to. the British Museum, you know, where sometimes I have waited 45 minutes for a volume to filter through. But not in time-presied U.S.A. Oh, dear me, no. My light flashed up in five minutes 80 seconds, I timed it.

claim your books

" cald the notice. Bo

Í ..staggered away to neat 118- under the accumulated weight of facts that have been publish- ed about Tallulah since 1939. Marvellous.

I

Outside, bomba?

WAS outride in sunlit streets ``again inside-coo" and 'd hálf hours with my typewriter: "But this time, the · guard with the revolver starchod my briefeuse ! (For bombe, I suppose.) ....... Ph

So they must think'a' lot of their books in America," 12 they wear, gums to guard them;,

And Americans have nice clean reading habits top

disappointing. People expect a American came to see me in my

At least I Ive nover, found Montmartre, night club to be dressing room the other day and

a cold fried egg slipped between The actual told me about a man in Now the rages of an American book places, are so small and unsails York who can get all your hair to mark the place, as I oneD factory from a film point of back. All done by massage and dki in Irelma.

art director, has oll. I shall certainly go and see bullt two wonderful Montmartre him if I'm in New York. *** night clubs at Pinewood. Mucho

Odilo Vervolwaaidi;; = "MY better than anything here."

husband is joining me - here. He is 25 and he lay a Corsican The Money Count; his father is a Duke, My husband's name is “Fránedilsi Pozzo di Borgo.: How makes Darnborough was worried as tanki. That is, he helps doslan

It direct to

roally fabulous. two miles off the north Riviera or London Idland,

*****the quest of pleasure. eastern tip of Long Island.

There the deadly virus Is

But the Rank people are make a film about Paris in the kept frozen in 100 vials in tine enclosed in

bravely struggling on with their rain. Debunke the, Paris 'myth a ting which are protected by banisters, stored in Him. It is called "To Paris, With little. The chairs piled up on padlocked boxes

the cafe tables, the cabarots, strengthened Love." with fron bands. The boxes are

looking as trily as many of them locked in a cabinet in a

a vault.

aro. It would have *such Quito cloak-and-dagger

atmosphere, But you know what Cottrel Tho

the public wants Paris to be reason for his bringing this

like." Lethal ttuft into the United States is that the Government is to spend millions of dollars ons, first research into foot- and-mouth.

D

story, said Dr

His. Illusions

ably less love for Paris then They will leave with consider

when they arrived."

· some lot “the time. "He, is will

for a while and be live in Parik the houseworks a housewife. No, I will hot do

- have! maid. I do not bellova in doing The work if you can pity)) some- The cost of a wasted morning, body else to do it for you. I would say, is about (£1,000, Bytek

There have been quite a few So Young

This isn't what Guinness ho watched, the heavy down wants of Paris. He is not stay- pour, "I don't usually worry them. He also goes to school But the Englishman's illusions, ing at one of the s-a-night he said, "but this is very studying After this films I about his dream, city - must be luxury hotels. · After the film-pit preserved. So extras are hired to ing, Quinness returns to his dis worrying. All these people The United States has suf- fered no epidemie of the dread art-lampe and reflectors supplow then retires with a French dict costing. I daren't think about art at the amply cales, powerful croet hotel, has a quiet meal and hanging about. The money it's cattle disenso since 1920, But,mant the sunlight....

tionary to read the now Francois that nya Dr Cottral, one of tho

Mauriac, novel; directors of the project, there

Aloo Guinness and Odile are two main causes for starting Versals slip out of their raincoats

nowin resourch

in readiness for to enact their romantic scenes any emergency great

during the few moments" when increase in Ona is the

the sun comes out While, ho unit wait for dhò, rain to stop Lil with trave

passengers they pass the time playing poke bringing possible infections in the clapper-boy, won (1ziere on the Irratiaes The "other", is

morning), drinking colton might "plants. Bestehand,Bodayarid, discusel; the dirette, to destroy America's rubjects ranging from

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