THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, · JANUARY; ›-81, -1955.
How Tough Is It For
The Boss's Daughter?
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had been
another
It's tough
daughter,
10 be the boss's
RALLY
MONTE-CARLO.
By LOGAN GOURLAY
dates with Terry Moore
Romance problem.
ISS SUSAN ZANUCK ra
(" found her a dream AR has a theme song.
to be married, which she sings with who turned out
bud she forgag me"); books
Where can you And a laddie complete conviction titled and acting with Marion Brazi
who wants you and not It's Tough To Be The Boss's (when he starts talking about
Daddy? your something
Interests in
found the Daughter.
At last she had there's
no stopping him."},
Busan mall who wanted She is the daughter of Mr Brist some of the stare you
Not her money. He Darryl F. (for Francis, or, would know only too well. You'd Zanuck.
Itollywood was the son of a rich Egyptian facetiously, for him) Zanuck, be
too familiar. family, Not a career, and would be nime leading sharchokler
already established, as an inde Without glamour.
pentent flm producer, emphasised "independent."
hos of Twentieth Century- Fox, one of Hollywood's
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LIGHT "But I gave up that ad. variation of the poor
roti ly have written itle girl's Jament, when
about Hollywood and Blms. stacle her apprehrssive show
very night have been embarrassing Inistres cheat aboud two
at awkward for Dally" in a Vegne.
It's tough to be the boss's daughter.
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Waiting for the right port, she tried TV in New York
guest star She was the guest Her asked to stay. who wha
"You've
Hot atent enthused:
You could be nigh talent. aster as Susie Smith.
Instead, she decided Brst to change her name by marringe.
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She told me she was think- ing about taking up her career again "but not in my husband's flu." She curlest up comfort- ably in the antique sofa in the lounge of their Claridge's suite, looking like une of the firee French
xxxtles She keeps in Par One is name) Desiree. after one of Daly's Blans, of
course.
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Jon thisk"
Is to explain The frankly. What
I said he had been advised shrewdly And I suggested that he should have a song written for the Alm titled, 2 Tougher To Be The Boss's Son-in-Law,
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"Come, Bertie'tis time we were leaving for home."
Sefton Delmer In Franco Spain
London Express Servico
I GET 'RUN IN' FOR
M
SNAPPING PICTURES
AYBE
you
are
and want of
a diplomatic little tired of the term to describe an ally of our American athes, but an ally whe regularity with
is no ally of Britain.) which i get run in
'There I stood in the guard. every time I visit one of
Pollee room wondering what was up, these totalitarian
The bullet-beacted States. You could not be more tired of it than I am. solved the problem for me.
All the sume I feel grate- "Take the out of that ful to the chief of Franco's camera,"
Sergent
take
be snapped. 'What erack police corps of Civil have you been photographing?" Guards at Alcala de Henares,
"IN it forbidden Au near Madrid.
[hotographa?" I asked.
"No,"
vours. "We have |0} Spam, understand, liberty Complete liberty!
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Far it was the chief who sent men complete one of his with Istack patent leather resin hut and gun to appre hend me as i Wis strolling of le Heres the main squaTE
vily
And I would not have missed the bit of guardroom bullying that followes not evin for an andner with Big Brother him- telt.
THAT
THAT
'In-laws'
It puss. On he roars,
But that does not mean we are going to tet foreigners come here to search around until they
| Continuing his inside report from Spain, which caused The newspaper Arriba a quick reaction in Madrid.. published a report from its London correspondent of blas and of seoing only accusing Delmer that part of Spain which he wanted to. Says Arriba: "All this, doubt, is provoked by a that Britain has no say
sense
по
of futilo wrath
in the relationship between Spain and the U.S.
of Western bases and communi- cations in North-West Africa.
But I was not encouraged by
became convinced that Franco and his advisers have 50 far abandoned none of the political convictions that made them sup- port Hitler in his cold blooded war of aggression, They have lost little of the wishful thinking
them which made
their put money on a Hitler victory up to an astonishingl late stage.
the
On the contrary, they appear to be intoxicated by the con- after a little agrument I managed tically-very bad for the security viction that the new American
proves sergeant-and
alliance
the 10 convince the
Western world has changed its step to the major and the colonel who
of Franco - France, that had joined him-that visitors to
champion of Western civilisation Spat photographed lottery stil- what I found in Madrid,
At Orst seemed pleasing against Soviet world revolution. because they
They even dare to hope that evidence of "backwardness" but enough. People in the streets and
enfer looked contented. I did not with the new status American because they are picturesque.
feel any of that drab, resigned economic and military aid gives "underdogness" which hits you them, they may now be able to
what the moment you cress the front- achieve
they failed to
cry
not
Patience
Fir
pp
it
ier into one of the Police States achieve in their association with of Eastern Europe.
the expulsion of the
Hitler
It was no time at all before British from Gibraltar, and the 1 found
French front
and Morocco plunged into the myself encouraging. It was some scene of social back- THE end, almost convivial, was wardness and then go home to publish lying pictures to help example of what a litle patience typical Police State atmosphere. Algeria, and the replacement of
A series of coded telephone the two by Spain. --and self-denial-can achieve calls was followed by clandestine the enemies of Spain."
even with fanatical Falangiste of meetings with people whom in the sergeant's type,
any of the Western Democracies
in
oponly and
How i
wanted to tell the sergeant I had heard precisely
Will a little British patience I could have mot the same line of talk in Con- and forbearance combined with without concern for their safely. munist Poland and Hungary, Moscow, in Tetieran eve: half-hour in the guard- Chiang's Formosa. Again I re-
most valuable strained myself, WAR 21
pointer to the complex psycho-
And what had I photographed? logical and political obsessions An old man seiling lottery which make these new Pyrenean tickets. That was the "scene of "in-laws of ours-next to Ger-
social backwardness," many and Chiang
Kai-stick
the most dangerous and explu- But did not go to prison, I give
lability of the Western did not even have to take the world today. ("In-laws" I call Alm out of my camern.
For
war
civil
Wue
Y
Anti-French
the Franco-controlled radio
a measure of American stern- These weiten and it on DAY after day during my stay. ness-indispensable to success in anarchists, but men and women both
at Tetuan in Spanish Morocco my view-produce shnilar divi- who had fought against
anti-French putting out cends
the umong
sergeant's under Franco during the
news in Arabic, calculated to Now they are hounded by the give heart to the Moorish rebels Franco police, black-jacked by against the French. of "Franco his private army Guards."
supreme bosses?
I very much want to think so. For it is going to be a bad thing for us all, the Americans included, if Generalissimo Franco does not cool down a bit in 1955. Very bad for the unity of the Western camp and-more prac-
Why? Because they publicly demand a return to rule of law, Frankly, the more I probed during this visit the
more
BOOM IN BRITISH OPERA
FOR
Germany,
poem
opera.
NO RIVALS
But this
composer,
open "Billy Buddh
winter
there for a tow per-
but In 1949,
formances
new
British орста of significance. Bir an under Walton's first opora,
on
The rebels were described as "redeemers." Their underground campaign of terrorism as a “war of liberation."
Reports of assassinations, am- bushes, and clashes were put out which French friends af mine Insisted were inventions design- ed to produce unrest,
Did I find no hopeful signs at all7
Indeed, I did. There is just a chance, it seems to me, that as far as Gibraltar is concerned United States support of Britai over Cyprus may have had a chastening effect.
Newspapers, though loud about rea Gibraltar, are not as loud as they Willam were,
Down at La Linea, on Troilus
libretto men po
ND
Pinpricks
tho
I did think it was Ant significant perhaps
friend diplomat "We Spaniards ap- that no British Gov- eniment can give up Gibraltar and survive 24 hours,
OR two centuries British Wells theatre reopened with Opera." the highly experimental stated.
opera failed to bloom in the first performance of all-make
the Coronation opera December 3 last year the first Britain. There was no coun- Benjamin Britten's large and
"Glortuna." terpart to the flourishing scale opera, "Peter Grimes," opera schools of Italy and written around the tragic current of operatic activity has and Cressida " was splendidly frontier between Gibraltar and fisherman of the East An- erupted. Betten himself leti off produced by the national opera. Spain, I found Spanish: Customs longer enforcing the described in with glian coast.
chamber орета The another Dr Johnson was justified Crabbe's
was cold blocitade ne rigorously as a Hassall Chrstruclea by "The "The Turn of the Screw," to a In calling it "an exotic and
Borough.'
." The impact on ghost story by Henry James, based on Chaucer's account of litio while back.
Shakespeare's trrational entertainment,”
und shortly afterwards at The opera had occupied Sir. since in his time it scarcely the opening night was un. produced at the Ventes Festival the story, not
forgettable and, in my Sadler's Wells But by then William for six. yours, thereby existed in the provinces, and opinion, the composer has other compoours were joining dating from early in Britten's meteoric BUCCCRs, Now, On the royal opera houses pre- not since written a better the race.
January 27. Michaci Tippett'a sented foreign works, sung
Tho It was odd that the subject first opera
Midsummer by foreign casts.
been Marriage" of "Nelson had not
slaget at a Spanish was treated operatieaily before. This Covent Garden. as the fourth said: Admittedly the wags of
season the 81-year-old Oxford
ord new British opera of the Lon-preciate Berkeley, don seasori". Lennox fifty years ago gave the name of "The English. Ring" For a time, there were no gave us, is his first full-length (after Wagner's trilogy) to rivals to Britten, who expressed work, a richly melodie opera view that opera was his dealing with the admiral's last "Maritana," Wallace's
The production most fruitful feld for composi- years. Balfe's- "The Bohemian ton Next year his first cham- skilfully presented at Sader's Girl and Benedict's "The
"The bor
Kapo Wells,
po of
where Berkeley's satire орега,
of Kily of Killarney." But they was presented at Mr on the postwar shortage
Christie's
domcatic private
help, "A Dinner Ignored the fact that two of John
on daya Inter the composers were Irish, opera house, Glyndebourne, in Engagemany" was heard a few Britten' and although Benedict was a quiet summer's
ing in chamber. opera. But other with pinprick measure Karl contralto,
Rankl. tho postwar without the ·capellal's two and reprisals. Just let us try to a German "Jow, his subject watched the great
Covent thriving opera houses, com-get along as best we can with. Kathleen Ferrier, make her musical director was Irish.
operatic
have continued things as they are." debut as Lucretia-he. Garden, succeeded in establish posers might
That sounds sensible, enough, Opera
and it might be the new Franco British operas mostly fell on but tragically brist,
opera house, though at arst ha.
Elgar and his contemporaries line. I am a littlo wary, how indifferent ears,
Other British
composers had to employ numerous foreign watched calmly, it appeared, artists who struggled with our dispelled the Continental, Am-ever, of these changes,
Yet unil, now, the pression of Britain as "a land I have seen the somewhat die- But now the position has wille Britten's works won im language. completely changed. Opera mediate success in Britain and, compor has had few modern without music and this recouraging cample of some of markable renaissance has done Franco's own Spontanda who is assuming a prominent in many cases, were windly Brilian works to produce.
Sir Arthur Bliss, the newly the same for British open arrived had padd physically,
chily a couple of days before: 1 heard abroad He advanced place in British music.
of the with "Albert Herring to a story appointed Master
the
The Sumex Downs.
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WILS
THE STIMULUS
"Equally you in Britain must realise that we cannot stop do manding the return of Gibraltar. That is just as imposible, no This spato is exceptional, and matter what Government is in in. Inimessi wo must attribute:
power. » the neccesary stimulus
successful efforis, *So the best thing for us to
Irritating
eschi particularly his skilful pioneer- do is to avoid
to
Afterwards, a number of blossoming of a career bright, ing the nucleus of a national to write almost exclusively, for
at Britain's premier the concert hall.
The revival began in by Guy de Mauppamant, the Que' Musley heard his firat Gerard Bourke putting boir un grand
June 1945, when Sadler's children's "Love Make as opera; "The Olympiana"!,« pro« {
veron? or- this kind?".
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