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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 → 1954,

LIFE

WHEN SUMMER COMES

by GILES

Now the HUSBAND'gives evidence in No. 3 of an all-star personality probe

Always ask your husband

That's the way our marriage works...

says David Lean

From the Venice Film Festival comes a story with a difference for No. 3 of the atar series "How I Manage the Man in My Life." The difference? Today it is the HUSBAND who does the talking....

W

Venice.

E were on a quay by the side of the Grand Canal, and Katharine Hepburn, camera In hand, was stepping backwards to get a view of St. Mark's Cathedral into focus. It was only ten steps to the water's edge and Hepburn had taken eight already. The canal looked black and odoriferous.

"Keep going, Kate," shouted David Lean. "Don't hesitate. Just concentrate on taking your picture."

So Kate kept stepping back-

wards. Anxi

there

ANÁ

TOOD and DAVID LEAN

suddenly by LEONARD MOSLEY fonals. "I

was no quay there

A gondoller shouted.

any more.

A flock of

pigeons exploded into the

In alarm. Down screaming, went Hepburn into the murky Venetian waters.

to

wouldn't

me to ask Ann occur to

give up a part · In Aim for my sake, have done it at all for anyone a play or

even if taking it means separu- tald else.

Professionally David Lean is ting herself from me,"

**IT fact, sometimes a director of such talent that Lean.

in the world would I insist on her playing in Alms Everybody cheered, particu- any star

or the theatre knowing that it willingly drop everything to Jarly the gondoller.

Personally he will keep us apart. But when the bedraggled work with him.

quny, in strikingly handsome.

A popular type, in fact. How, if you are Ann Todd, do you manage to keep Lean happy and contented husband- on with your and still carry own career as a star?

was back stor

on the Davki Lean said: "I think you'd better dry yourself now, Kate, and we'll do it all over again.

Hepburn looked of the canal nearl shuddered.

she Then grinned. "Okay, bul just for you, David. I'll try to make it D really big splash next time." The director

DAVID LEAN

man

of

Katharine Hepburn's willingly throw themselves into

This time I didn't ask her how she managed to do it. I asked the man in her life instead.

Compared with Ann Todd's inarttal problems, those of the ather two stars I have mention-

10 a

in

"Take the present moment as

Here I am an example, Venice making a film. I have been here since the begin- ping of July and I shall be here for several more- weeks

Ann? where's yet. And Edinburgh pinying in the Old Vie production of 'Macbeth."

In

Do they miss each other?66

Need

you ask?" said Lean. I "And need you ask where

been on should ke Monday night?" That was the night when Ann Todd opened in nervous first night Edinburgh; for her, for it was her first big role in Shakespeare.

to have Aim-director ed in this series-Olle Versois Lollobrigida -- are husband of stage and screen and Gina

Todd, is the sort of easy. star Ann

choice. If it comes players for whom

Versols will give up her career calibre

than her husband; his rather wishes come first. Lollobrigido's Umes in husband hos already given Up that his job in order to be closer to one day-to satisfy Lean this scene from bis forthcoming his wife and her work.

But both Ann Todd was just

are dedicated pro- she would David Lean

30ft. of dirty water.

Hepburn did it alx

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"It broke my heart not to be there," says Lenn.

When his present film finishes there will be a reunion between ume. Ann

and David for a "Macbeth" will have gone into the repertoire of the Old Vic in London. David Lean will come home.

But already there are plans for him to go to India to make a new film. Another Hepburn Audrey this time may get the star role,

The reason

to

TT would be easy for Ann Todd and David Lean to be to- gether and still carry on with their own jobs. All he has do is to see that his wife gets a staring role in his next film.

Ann reads all her husband's scripts and advises him on them. She has only onco turn- ed to him and said: "Darling, you absolutely must give me a In this Alm." That was part

she read the script when "The Sound Barrier,"

"N

DERYCK

"Well, here's your sun you've all been craving for."

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DERYCK WINTERTON

WINTERTON WHO TOURED RED CHINA WITH THE

A NATION FROM THE

LABOUR PARTY DELEGATION, LOOKS AT

BUILDING ROCKBOTTOM

'0" anid the cars. The first factory is now fallacious, belief that they will. The signs of frenzied energy great emphasis of the State

make themselves heard, Chinese civil ser- being bullt. vant, he had not You meet endless lines of

And then from the world of had his holidays primitive carts drawn by not pedicabs and straining muscles

good horses,

carrying you are suddenly transported to yet. He would get 10 days very

building materials, coal, blocks the showpiece rolling mills of of stone, anything that needs Anshan, In Northeast China, later in the year.

where most of the work in pressing an electric control button.

Only 10 days? Only 10 moving. days.

And then he added: “We cannot afford long holidays, There is too much work to be done. We have 600,000,- 000 people, but that is all we have,"

with

the

rest

You see men-and worch... with heavy loads in baskets, hung from either, end of a pole across their shoulders.

In the south, there are carts pulled by one man with another man or sometimes a pushing behind.

of

woman

ere everywhere bridges being. Plarming Committee is inevit bullt or repaired, railway ably on heaty industry. With- tracks relaid, roads constructs, out heavy industry capable of blocks of flats going up every supplying her needs, China can- factories, and nos pretend to be independent." where, cinemas,

cultural centres."

So far, although the Chinese planners are forcing the to the utmost, they do not seem be distorting the economy in favour of heavy industry so 9 to run the risk of wrecking it as the Russians did,

to

One of these is being built on the site of the former dog racing track in Bhanghal. The Shanghal race courge, has beon: All the machinery here is turned into park Nelther of much

amusemchts" Russian, which

how these "bourgeals amusem "proves

1x favoured. unseinsh Russia to.",

Frenzied Energy

getting

fisturez

Going Gingerly

!

DACD

Apart from the heavy railt and wamless steel tubes which can be seen rolling off the lines. You take a ride in a pedicab

of Andian, the Chinese claim THERE is more industry still in He had that air of an excited

that, they are now enticing such

the hands of private capital- for one, or it may THIS is one of the automatic things 口烧 pride in a nation building the the taxi

Iris and mail handicraft shopa mining THIS future, mixed with a slight be two-drawn by a man on a

phrases which it is thought locomotives and heavy ical than there is under direct state defensive shame that her bicycle. There are no motorised

at to repeat proper

control. every gentrators for themselves. How standards are below those of the taxis. It is better than a sick epportunity. It goes with other many they are making 1 art-

as: other

But state matter. Preciso

Industry gete ritual West, which is met all the time shaw.

statements such. in China.

extraordinarily favoured treatment, and control You watch a gang of 40 men "Thanks to Comrade, Mao and like that are

and hard to get.

of raw material and final pro- (when

the

priocs eARLS that the Six hundred million people atraining to lift a heavy weight the Communist and an industrial labour force, two long shafts.

a sort of boat with "Since the liberation placed un

Officials' prefer to talk in duct

capitalist section can .bo They push Communists finally turned out in the Western sense; of around poles through complicated Chiang Kai-shek five years ago) terms of percentage increases, brought to heel and taken over

know tha which, unless you

wirenever 13,000,000,

the government” is Been ropes, get the poles everything has system

figural they started with, nieua ready. handicraft workers or peasants. on their shoulders and holt. betler and better,"

rothing. Official figure for in- That is the alzo of China's They work with great sidill and

dustrial: cutupt for the first But the tribute to Russi six months of this year is put, amount of problem. She is starting her an extraordinary

the chattering and noise,

having been paid, you are then Industrial revolution from

Lold, in.a. voice that is no at 85 percent above, the same

ot period of last year. rockbottom of poverty after 50

One thing the Chinese are not knger automatic but full years of bad government,

silent. They shout at each satisfaction, that the machires The fow real agures that are foreign war, invasion, civil war ather and laugh in the street, are now warloed entirely

by Rus given show how low consump and disorder.

hawkers ring bells or beat two Chinese technicians, but

tion still is. pieces of wood together; pedlesbian-trained, of course, anr. drivers ring bicycle bells, and Chinese skilled labour.

For example, cloth output is drivers never take their

Just over

never yarda of one Angers from the horn.

Onestness that Rurals would yard width per person, per year do well not to trade so much Sugar consumption is under Horn blowing is so continuous on ratitude for her unrelish, three pounds per head, But You Ay into Peking airport in

a Russlan-bulk plane. There" that it is useless for giving any ness all paid for by Chines there seems no doubt that this. are no Chinese planes. You are warning. The most agonised exports.

not make the driven into the city in a Russian, blast does be happy to work together on it,

turn his head: or pedestrian even

It is not necessary to rely on But if in

test or possibly an American the Berceri

"conceivably, a British And: the police are supplied cfficial statements that China is seems to even,

built car. There are no Chinese with red megaphones in the being transformed.

of

She subsequently played the Leading woman's role but the was in the cast because she was the right actress for tho part, not because she was the wife of the director.

If another story comes up and there is a Todd-lype role in it, will Mr and Mrs David Lean

Deborah Kerr, yer, then Mrs suit the part bet'er, Lean will not get the job: "Sho would not want it anyway. Our artistic integrity is the most important thing we have go!- and not lowering our professional standards is one of the binding Unks in our marriage,”

The adviser

WHAT aro the other links?

Friends say it is passiona interest each takes in the other's

Carts And Noise

car

NATHANIEL

"HARLEY Street

WEL

is a great deal better than it

Although things like clothes and food are

improving, In

GUBBINS

The following day the family the voluptuous should give her

handicraft The plan for the workers is to persuade them of the advantages of forming co- And at operatives voluntarity. present It probably Is volun-

tary.

In the same way, she Com munists are going very gingerly with the land. Having handed out the land to the peasants. and thereby giving themselves.

unshakable basis, they face the problem of getting more production than uny individual holdings can provide.

Mons food will be wanted the time, both for the grow ing industrial population and for export

The Communita do not seem to be making the mistados, of trying to rush the peasants into collectiva farming. The hope is to persuade them of its ad- vantages step by step."

In The Future-

work. It was Lean who per- training before beginning Invisible under 'a load of mack- that this tender and beautify Seproach to romance compared: "EST.-

suaded his wife to tackle Shake- speare; and it was on his advice that she consented to play Ludy. Macbeth.

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cises for the feet for

cheap

the

basis. Collective farms and away

charwoman, The answer was the postman, a Mrs “Mitiin hind one plastic should not once more, delight an married man Doctor," writing for

often described (as "a larky, mackintosh to carry over the eager public, one of the papers, pebbles, gradually increasing

sporty tipo" whose light-hearted

the idea is sold of advises people to get into the burden until she is almost Some readers may remember

forming mutual aid teams-- favourably with. Mr Bumbling's Intosher, wraps, towels, and fala was told through a series of morbid, self-pity, and made a everyone in a village works o

the gay

and

each man's land in turn And bathing costumes.

strong appeal to their holidays,

revealing letters, which, though. He believes in "britk exer The next step would be to vibrant with undeclared passion, vivacious charwoman, particu- then slowly through pooling of

at crops to pooling of land. descended to

larly when the was hostem, - cats every day to tone up the

give her one heavy plastic beg nøver

her wild pickled endear her Ann Todd has been accused

3 pork and All deasants are, fialbed on muscles, a course of deep so earry in addition to the cloth-yulgarity of ancistian names, nourishing Hout. parties where with the bait of government $8.50 by critics (but not by me) of

and remple on the creathing exercise" and "Ing. By the end of the week she ments, or even 15.00 being cold

those should be so tough, that the but always begas "Dere are her back and always came down Inaned tractors and machines. But only about a third of the 25.00 screen. Lady Macbeth demands with weak ankies.

family could hang bugs on both Miffin" or "Dere Mr Bumbling ptinctually at midnight w/ 199

lend is so far on a mutual ald fire and passion. L. applaud 25.00 Zean for his shrewdness in per- His unqualified colleague,. Dr arms and shoulders and, even and always crided "yrs truly, hinnad ja paina se

the children's Ellen Minin (mrs)" or "yrs truly," "The Bumbling love story was 35.00 suading his wife to tackle this. Gubbins, thinks he might have add a few of

George, Bumbling, andy man." therefore also the story of the 10.50 roke and show that she, too, can' gone further with special exer- toys.

eternal triangle in which the off fireworks.

elso for Mum, always the beast 10.50 let

As a final touch of fentium The Lean-Todd marriage is ■

of burden on a family holiday soak the banch cothes, to salt Although Mr. Bumbling, hun- faithful and unetitor prining is difficult to exe

In Decanisme Mum must remember that is

in pay for an enduring Leotion maddened by the arcotia perfume success, but 5.00 plain why. Both members

always wore temperamental

she will spend most of her time colds and rheumatism. Then that would end in joyous wed "Meet Mey, Tonights 4.00 It

kʻyou?" was behind her and tortured by crop Aartying the family's plastic give her a good, hot feed and ding bells) occasionally permitted land". Mrs Mimn 5.00 cmo'ional, both are moody, and mackintoshes, when it Brytralisharp sub down. The next himself to wandday the che sealousys was delvan, to sleeping

wonderful Both 1.00 quick-tempered!

Aing, two or three plastic bags: day she, ought to be ready for Embitious. 4.50

But is supoeeds, I think, main full of food and bottles, and anything. 10,00|15 Secuuse of clever plecy

Twinining strategy. 24:00 In this marriage Ann' manages the man in her life by nlways Koeping him aware that he l

alil of the sults him about.

of

and

half a dozen wet Bathing wraps,

of

towels and coutumes, site shoulde

start!!ber training at least Te Immortal Love

week, before they all climb into

the thaký little ear//

uf their weekly meeting) and lamp albums and studying the "wot about gittin spliced life of beer, while i birarivali upts Mrs bling, who believed in amusing its

Keeping herself to

'repiled to the

in the future and those shown to visitors are just prize, speci menu

view from

doa of the