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THE

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1954.

MY

LIFE

Personality Probe ends with a human problem faced by a rising star

HE SAYS 'NO'

So... what does a good wife do?

—gaka GLORIA's daughter A young wife, her hus- band, and # VERY FAMOUS MOTHER- that's an eternal trt- angle of a different sort in this last instalment of the "Man-in-My- Life" serles.

S

VENICE.

HE looks like a friend- ly and adorable puppy. She wanders Around with a dreamy look in her eyes and her mouth wears

a secret half smile-na it

she were sharing

with herself.

joke

Her 77137730 is Michelle Farmer. And there are lots

of things you would never her.

guess about

MOTHER and DAUGHTER.......yes, daughter on the left

Fechteler from: Naples. Audrey Kutharine Hepburn, Mel and Ferrer, Dietrich, Marlon Brando. Noel Coward, Ceell Beaton, Judy Garland, Farley Granger. und Olivia de Havilland are all

Hollywood to make a fim. J. Arthur Rank asked her to con- alder two parts.

"And then the war started," "My husband said Michelle. sald "No."

From the way she speaks French and Italian, for instance, you would never guess she is an American born in Hollywood.

She looks so young you would never gueRI that she is three years married and mother of daughter, She looks so happy

"But who do you think will Just then fobert Amon came be the lat at the party? Why in the bar, slapped her play- you would never guess the in

worried about hur career In the, of exorse. She has sent von that she has a

special and fully across the shoulders, and career. to New York for Michelle (she says it censational costume and is keep- then went to join a huddle of

French 13m producers.

Yet

Michache

coming

mother wanted in it a secret."

a boy) has problems.

Not only has she la mnoge the ind

mas and chlid in stile She has a mother in tot

100,

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celebrated

to achieve.

star

than

Names

עות

"ph yes, I was a success in husbands's Alen," sald "There were plenty Michelle. of vffers. But Robert sald 'No' repeatedly when I asked him.

H

be

bie MERE was nothing but ad- mother. A

mitations in Michelle Farmer's anther who has known dizzier

vilke av the spoke about Mother

"He kept painting out that I በ1†! triumpls as

Sw on.

1 he did admit

He said he daughter

Michelle (or nyme that beng her daughter had not was now his wife.

me to work. else for that matter) cun hepe exactly made her vn carcer a dat want

to sa' he did not Went antooth rond to succCRA.

wanted married to a fim stor, even if Said Mama is Gloria Swane.n.

Michelle

my *Imagine It" said Michelle producers to pick me as a pro- she became as famous s

and not mother. And what does a good His jut like being insing young actre Fadly.

because I was Swanet's child, wife do in those circumstances?" Beethoven's son"

So I came to Europe and used my father's name as my profes- senul name

Swaroh name defalit

Trousers

WE were sitting in the bir arche Look at inother.

the ugly and expensive Lido suit my type. hotel where gathered for the Festival.

on-p-ke pardskin,

Thoughts

ALLY NO 1

BACK FOR

SLIDING

FRET-FOR

BRACCING

isolat

solation

· EYES FOR RECOGNIZIND THE WRONG

PROPLE

ALLY NO 2 FORMER ENEMY

FRANCE

"OF COURSE, we could ALWAYS MAKE GERMANY THE FORTY-NINTH STATE." London Express Bervice

They

But

Reno, Tuesday. SHOULD have known better than arrive

in

Reno at 8.30 on Saturday night, but

I

had lingered in Sacramento,

DON IDDON'S DIARY

Live

On

Seldom

marriage, and it was full customers.

of

"no-armed bandits")-I think lot

Gambling Gamble

+

I only nee

DS

entitled:

about town of Reno, is even mota "Facts Sparks we call them frult machines in Reno,

[the adjoining flamboyant sister Las Vegas, and Washoe County, and the entire State of Nevada It looked as if I might have England-clang and bellow all town),

are close to going broke, Occasionally-very Nevada." time, to sleep in the car, but I drove the Aaround and

The booklet lists what it calls Novada, sixth largest State in Anally found a occasionally-spowing out win-

"timely Information," The in the Union, has only 150,000 motel with the sign "Vacancy." nings.

Is listed alphabetic-

though it sends two The biggest Bttle city in the formation

to Washington, came out and said: "You moed world makes most noise for its ally, but under D there I swung in, and the manager a pleasant town, and taken can

Licences." No divorce. New York does. iwo. rooms-that will cost you size in the world. Even on Sun-

Wherever you go there are the winding road over the 30 dollars." I protested that I day morning at nine o'clock Under G there is "Garbage and

the refuse."- No gambling. Perhapa the when I walked round the town

gambling machines sierras alowly..

had paid less at the Ritz, the Savoy, and Carlton, Reno

wad jammed and Bristol in Paris, but it was no imagino Sunday morning

it was full of furious sound, the booklet has something in hotel

at that phrase "garbage and the little . All and it's Saturday thronged with

my mobol,

UBC.

the

men and women

night in the middle of the ripping Scotch sours, Bourbon, Nearly broke

Mher husband fondly and motel, all with all the stars are Even lay she is still a woman- MICHELLE FARMER looked still is. I passed motel after The fellow said: "It's not nine o'clock and the gaudy bara refuse."

incerise- an Venee Film

I am the the glanced over her shoulder

blue and green neon signa perlanari-rooin type,

out: "No vacancy.” raghtforward, We glanced neress at another

look-you-in- at her mother.

girl -and kind of Swanson was Lu table where holding court and hoking like Farmer sulled me botter,

Micht lie anything but a mother.

She was dressed in

skin-tight, half-masi

tarian

trousers,

simple black Jersey diamond clip

and

that glinted like a miniature chandelier

Her eyes flashed and her face changed expression every few seconds as she talked talked

.

and

the ve

by

LEONARD

MOSLEY

on

touring

does she keep them

The more polite and luxurious motels had signs saying: "Sorry, to vacancy."

I drove right Into the contra of the

handle two "Fancy having

onee-and carving of them at as a "voice

a career at the same time," said one of the Michelle. DET"

companies

How hur mother started

an inflamed which looked lis

carbuncle as bright after she finished as happy?

as Broadway and criss-crossed ostar of silent films.

in the case of Mama Swanson with anaking chain of French n Then

her It is the sweet way of a thought-green, purple, and yellow ligh". producer SAW and gave her a con- ful daughter. tract to stor in his forthcoming produc-

u

When they go to premieres tion, "Monte Carlo." together, though Michelle is so The name of the pro- attractive, she always drops

pace or two behind when the ducer was Robert Amen. wonderful?" He has a face like a bruiser photographers start appearing. a life-guard. She is telling and a figure like them all about her plans for the Before the end of the film he

and Michelle were married, party.

"He turned out to be a free-

talked.

"Isn't Michelle

sho

Bald.

was

With her hurbend her method

is more secret and more subtle.

At

actress,

But it seems to work 150.

rate, as ony

A Alm

since she gave

"You know about the party, fut ypo-just like mother," said Michelle Farmer's stock has don't you? The Americans are Michelle. He tried to organise risen in France taking

the my career for me too. I let him such a good performance in an old palace on Grand Canal arıd Inviting orgate a family for us Instead. poor film.

Robert Amon's film people from all over to come as famous personalities of the not

very good. But Michelle's peformance in it definitely was past 50 years.

The affers storted to come in "Ambassadress Clare Luce is

back to Rome, Aumiral She was asked to go coming from

DINE

WINE

AT

She is managing the man (ord the woman) In her life to this extent, the moment she wants Alm, neither .to make another

Swanson nor husband Mama Robert will stop her,

At 25,

with a bosSSÝ even

husband, she can mother andk afford to be confident,

reported planning

:

Latest news

season."

I took the place knowing I was being gouged and rooked, but I was too tired to argue.

Never close

#in

pinzzes, and vodka,

my

lobbies. In the drug stores, in the hairdressers, the haberdashers—yes, and in the men's rooms.

is almost in- Change here variably given in ailver

boer, tossing back

cartwheel dollars. My pockets and

with silver after buy- surged Per THE local reporter said 12 local reporter: about the Tola

of book informed ing a packout cigarettes with a ten-dollar bill. The idea, of the a не said:

live here you me about the churches, you

unload. the course, is that you will got used to it actually residents hospitals, the libraries,

At this time all

most of the like myself hardly ever gambie. theatres, and Reno has

seem to be tourists, to these, I hope you are not going

but they are obscuted, gamblers gambling places

almost lost, in the blaze and many of them women having a run Reno down" red. BARS and

never close here. When ·

I am going to try not to, but dazzle of the gaming houses Rigging Sutter, but at the faro tables I BAW professional and

bars, war began Washington ordered it ir gulng to be difficult. One

flint - øyed in ok-fashioned bulbs,

same houses to shut; but. of the few. generous things that, Last Sunday morning I never gamblers,

problem, because many can be said about it is that in heard a church bell ring. I am concentration. nounced: "Nevada Club, Har- was rah's The Nugget, Craps, Binge,, of the pleasure domes had no an age of atomie jitters Reno is sure some did, but my cardrums locks. Now gaming goes on all dead-pan calm, concerned only were numb with the rattle of con- the slot machines. If all this with such matters of The biggest sign of all said: day and all night;" Jumbo, Jackpot." "Reno--the biggest little city in The first thing and the last sequence as who won, who lost, gambling and six-weaks divorce the world." This was glitter thing that strikes or rather and what you'll have to drink. had paid off perhaps gulch, the home of gambling.. bludgeons you about Reno During my stay here I have could be made for them, but quick divorce,

and

cut-rate the noise. Slot machines (or been handed a cute little book the truth is that the wide-open

Enormous electric signs,

way.

an.

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SPOTLIGHT ON

"DO IT YOURSELF"

MERICA has gone in

for the "Do It Your-

a case

with

Cheap- divorce, -

CHILDREN hover outside the entrances of the clubs, but and some- are not encouraged times shooed away. I have. seen none gambling.

Divorce is cheaper than I thought you can shed a wife or a husband for around $400 or $500, including living ex perises. During the past 20 years 180.000 women have been and granted divorces in Reno Las Vegas, sweating to take up residence here permanently-but left to the cleaners. Laundry la painting are entrusted to pro-almost all of them have packed increasingly done at home, often fessionals who are punctual, their bags and fied as soon as

washing- efficient and not too dear, In daily-hired/

their decrees, have been grant machines.

In Geneva there is hardly a One hundred and oighty An actor friend has just tied family without a motor vehicle thousand larger figure than his kitchen and re-upholstered of some sort, be it car, motor the State's entire population. Some chairs while his wife bike or scooter: Yet one seldom covered lampshades. The head ste: 4 man washing his car in Novada calls itself "The cellar for the tax- and there is nó State

self" craze in a big Do you like to do things The recent "Do It yourself? Or do you profor Yourself" exhibition in to call in a professional POSTSCRIPTLY. A New York was a sell-out, to do the job for you?

to come partly because of the high Correspondents here report ** Denmark's JTV Charlie Chaplin, cost of labour in such pro- what "most people Katharine Hepburn a Amelia fessions as plumbing, build in various countries, his

James White (Copenhagen). Earhart, Noel Coward as Kaisering, carpentry and house Wilhelmi, and Marlon Brando as Premier Mendes-France.

decorating,

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PHOTOGRAPHS

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Children's Golf

Typhoon Pictures Swimming Heats. British Council Prizegiving. Kowloon Girl Guides Presentation

St. Josoph & La Salle Old Boys Party : St. John Ambulance Brigade Aquatic Sports Confirmation at St. John's Cathedral

The Rt.

Wanc

Kaifong

Párty

Miss Farmer is, sald to be planning to come disguised as lher mother..

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

und

service the street, or thieming about do I found painting and decorating under its raised bonnte. Even to on income, no Inheritance house the other day the simplest jobs are left to the tax, no death duties, sales or trained garage and although gift tax, but somehow people: his prices are ruinou

do not linger in the sliver and The women show a different sago-brush State. Even If they picture: Almost all housewives marry here they soon quit.

Although HOO 18 in divorces ·

0

HANDYMEN ALL

more about peeling and cloining to stores have been

shoud

and

As a result, almost every Instead of sending the clothes to

the laundry. American family has some

As for the man, they show a HIGH labour costs since the do their own laundry and waves war: have given a renowed all the jam and preserves for "homework" project on trend to build small wooden impetus to the "Do It Your their family. Some boast that marriages: it is second to Las hand. Redecorating with bungatows

single handed for selly sancies himself; us

and almost every they make their own clothes, body

but the result is not always a Vogas in gambling turnover. I the new rubber-based paints holiday purpose?,

· Lew: Houry · in P, Lan happy one, Rober: Allen spent a Is. a cinch.

Vegan at the beginning... of my On the other hand, most Furniture is M

nowadays,

visit to the West, but I did not bought unassembled and housewives do not bother any

to cash in on this develope NOT HERE put together at home. A vegetables. This is all done ment, even going to the extent small family car even suc- cheaply in modern machine) self: weeks during which they

of holding "special "Do It Your Ang da cumbed to this treatment of the green-grocer's. -- recently,

Leo Hendrick (Amsterdam), The power, lathe, which

DOING IT THEMSELVES creates serviceable and good-* looking furniture, from ply wood, is a fixture in many homes.data

"

A and a post-

such a campaign hits Italy demonstrate the latest gadgets, it would dart a revolution,

:

Gangster threat

and tools for re-papering, clean Italy has two million un TUE gangsters have moved ing, - palating and so on, for employed, many, of whom only which in the old days: a home Hay alive by plaiding up odd into Las Vegas, and me owner would call inpro

ct such as paintime someone shrewd newspapermian

fence, or papering, the somo polica forecast

gang was there - uff! But this surplus

[been!

WITHIN sight of my windows gessionals. man to leuiding this future housing has so far been runt

great postwar boom

homes, stone by stond, and"; an, clent to keep the building tende

Chicago

Mlang Américans ---aro qvan: unkinekr:"is busy adding: “ în fill", employment, but once "heep. If you can siland,

to humans of " tha

soundproofing, and insulating

their houses,, und -few-

learnod to fix "their own" cara, planbingo EV - rets," Murray. (New York)..

BUNGALOW BUILDERS:

b

Awanger hotels motels, ora fuanded

the houre decorated, for buy worden bedroom and living the peak of this is over the your wife a new deter, than you

arid Lush room for summer use to his grow of "Do-It-Yourself may can azord to have it, dons for mobstar moneybay.

rond our

hedge the well hit the trade crudite severely, you painting his house

and I have

H>wall kround ou

SOUTH CHINA MORNING.