1955-06-27 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1955.

MARRIAGE AND HAPPINESS- TWO PATHS CROSS IN PARIS

"FO

By David Lewin

that.

1

out

Paris. In 1942 she married an actor, Four years later OR the first time Philip Terry.

on my honeymoon she had to admis failure ngai,

What was missing in all else someone

Has those marriages? Joan Craw- worried about the reserva- ford told me:- tions..

on the screen It was only

I could play the love For the first time I did

which escaped me Icenes not have to look behind for real life, All that love i had the baggage. I just walked bottled up had to come into the car....I didn't somewhere.

I played purposeful charac- have to worry.

ters who finally got everything It was Joan Crawford in the last reel of a Alm. They speaking the woman who were loved,

"And me? At night I walked has been a Hollywood star

The cnpty studio. I walked for a quarter of a century through deserted stages so that and now, at 47, has married anally I'd be good and tired for the fourth time.

and ready for sleep, and not have to face the loneliness..

She is on her honeymoon, in Paris 15 Mrs Alfred Steele, wife of the Pepsi-Cola premier. She talked to me,

Right Timing

"If I hadn't done all that I have done I hadn't been married before and the marri ages hac

falled I wouldn't

Tennessee Williams is 41 years cid and has the reserved manner and dress of a banke manager in a lesser ecunty town,

"I wrote it for Garbo She was too scared of the subject even to read it, i

When Je wiltes there is

could or I asked him who

**Joan the part nothing sleepy about him. He is would-net.

realist today the most important author Crawford perhaps she is rea in the American theatre. He enough, but I doubt if she would sets out deliberately to shock want to do it my way. Or Vivien his audioons and to hold them. Leigh possibly I touched on

this situation So his titles seize the `eye.

Streetcart in think Bette which Vivien. played. Bait I Davis is honest enough now to Davis Yes, Bette

face it."

After the title, the plot. Said williams: "There are three basic which people tace, problems **They are: 1, Foding beauty in a woman. 2, Fading power. 3, Fading virülty.

"I have just sketched a story about the first problem, I would the like it to be filmed. It story of a woman who wakes up She paused. That word lone- to the realisation that she is liness seemed to come eddly middle-aged and her beauty has from Jean Crawford, who hat geze. her work, her heme, her four adopted children. She explained

i learned to put on a sur- face to cover my loneliness and my fear, I know what people used to say about me they "sald I 'queened it.

They

the

said Here she comes queen' It was not queenliness I was just plain

be what I am today: HAPPY.

"It would have been nice la have met my husband years ago

and found happiness together scared, I didn't show it....be-

then. But years ago I hadn't the experience.

"Timing is the main thing.

cause I am on actress.

"That surface I had to put

on may have been too success-

Nature has a way of finding the ful. It made people think I was right timing for you

Crawford

and so so efficient so able to lake today this marriage comes, at care of myself...." the right time for both of us.. And then. Joan Everything I have done in my was ready to go out.

the life was right at private time,

"I have made mistakes-and I admit them but at the time they were the right mistakes.

On her face there was no sign of past worries and fears, only present happiness.

Pulitzer Man

The problem of happiness for Tennessee Williams, the writer "Streetcar Named Desire," of is a simple one: It is the rela- between man and tionship wife,

די

"It gets so difficult" set the man who has won two. Pulitzez Prizes for his writing. The more I go on, the more difficult it becomes not to repeat myself.'

But Mr Willams-is threr really nothing more than fading beauty, fading power, and fading virility?

DID

IT HAPPEN

?

"Television's bad for us-X films are bad for us-horror comics are bad for us--now it's sweets 11⁄2

The SECURITY OFFICER

evicted from my billet-in

the town because its owners had never before seen а Siamese cat, and thought "I make my mistakes in

that mine was some sort of public-like Ava Gardner"

wild animal of ferocious (three husbands) "and Lana

HIS happened or Turner" (four husbands)-Tor

did it happen?-at habits. And in Hogsnorton everyone to see and to criticise,

itself as the first war-time Joan Crawford deftly used on

Hoganorten during a bachelor, sald eye-brow pacelt to etch in the in Paris: believe that rela-

the first few weeks programmes included. familiar heavy lines over her tionship more

often than not of the Second German War. radio drama to produce-I eyes. Her husband came over to be strained" and kissed her.

has never seen.

Williams,

And that is the theme, as it

T

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FACT or FICTION? Again a story

in this series by famous writers Invites you to solve the pazzle. This tale COULD have happened. But did it? TomOITOW the answer will be given.

found myself doing a variety "I think It's a good idea," 1 and turn in Also, I was still

"Drama of odd jobs which ultimately interrupted.

hasn't smarting mildly from Security

scems a bit wasted on us...” telephone.

"You see," she said. "Alfred was in "Streetcar," of his To avoid any suspicion

me on the latest play, "Cat on a Hot Tin of needless obscurity, let included, for some 96 hours, any work to do, so this hide-out London's curtain-lecture on the

that of responsibility for security.

screen. He doesn't know me as Roof which has just won him me add at once that this a 'Alm star--but he loves me as

glitzer Prize.

not the I show the Hogsnorton strain between a man and his celebrated fictional creation

A woman,"

Always Learning

Her name then was Billle Cassin

&

the play

"And also show the power of greed when an old man is at

Was

"What can I do for you?" I inquired.

"I would wish to see every-

He said very little except that ITQ.m

time to time he made aổn miring CCTZ- ments on the decorations.

DRAWING BY SHOWELL

.--[London Express. Service)

"I didn't ask for comment. said Security London coldly. "If This was, of course, be the move takes place it will wife when physically and of Mr Gillie Potter. It was fore the days of the Home obviously imply a tightening up thing." he replied. The career of Joan Crawford mentally they are not adjusted the code name

of a large Guard.

of Security your end. I am send- But there were ing down a representative of the started when she was 14, selling, to one another," he said,

I groaned inwardly, but there dresses in a department store,"

queer people who even in this country house in the south curious, and to me, incom- European Service to see you was, no help for it. We went up Could he have been a real "He only appears to the few west of England to which prehensible, rumours tomorrow

day and age night-a Frenchman to the house, and over it from genuine live spy?

preserve French experience of police cellars to attics. A few of my

sympathies. Surely the the Irish Republican Army Els visit is not to be colleagues, busy on night-work the moment of death and the various sections

It was an exciting but also an Royalist

Grabbing for

OWNL And patrols were dark by car. Watch out for him their

business with to think what Security London when I tutored you for the wearing vast yourself, and give him whatever exemplary tact, and, remember would have to say to me on the History School at Oxford..

I did not subject. I spent the rest of that advertise my visitor by effecting night very uncomfortably indeed. sald, "that my sympathies were

And a year later she ran away to become a dancer,

"How did I become a star?

I worked, I worked, I worked

That is the only way I knew.

of

that

with

relatives crowd around lusting British Broadcasting Cor- had evil designs upon Hogs advertised. He will arrive after were about, but they minded appalling thought, when I began that's natural. And I remember

for his money.

money is a vital point in life" poration, including my own norton.

I said: "You seem to take a Drama Department,

in decline."

"What's his name?"

introductions...

He said very little, except that

were organised, 1 worked at it all the time, defeatist view of life. You deal to be evacuated in the sou'westers and vaster boots, he needs in the way of infor- ing my instructions,

mation." never stopping-unt! now,"

Tennessee Williams shook his event of the outbreak of who made up for having She added: "I was always

his most definite ). War....

little to do during the day learning and when I learn I head it was

of the evening.

of squelching through the leave myself unguarded. That moverriet way you get hurt. I got hurt, "English playwrights are just But without pain there can be more optimistic. Why should they be optimistic, you tell me no happiness.

that he said. "It is not that "It is not "security with

I am a defeatist. I just look at "money I

wanted seek, I

I have life as it is." emotional security and found it at last.

Shocks Them

Retired don

Next morning I felt the need

Your ought to remember,"

then, and still are, viclently Bonapartist. So now what?"

"I fear I can only suggest another glass of part.”

So I don't think my visitor was

from time to time he made Scully London Armly, and admiring comments on the de- corations. He expressed parti- cular pleasure over the tapes of advice. I went to luncheon tries that hung the length of the

with a retired don of my ac- the ghost of the French Fre big staircase, and a number of

And nothing happened. steel engravings

not far from Hogsnorton, afterwards at Hogsnorton to con- historical subjects which I had told him the story, and asked firm that he had been in fact never bothered to examine in any him what I should do."

Es spy: blinked. once

I had always understood undergrowth of the Hogs

"Not on the telephone!" said that the existence,

and norton garden during the rang off. the especially

where- exact abouts, of Hogs- norton was very "top

much secret." For all

་་་ never had emotional "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" will security before with anyone..." rouse a bigger theatrical tumult She did try to find emotional then did "Streetcar.” Even security. When she was 21 she in America there was trouble I know it may married Douglas Fairbanks Jun; over some of

The marriage lasted years. When she was 27 'she

married Franchot Tone.

marringe lasted four years

in 1939 was dissolved,

"This

is

four language used

the salty hardy

still remains in

"I deal with the crisis in the that category on

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and stories are savage but I deal some list in some obscure

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Final word

I went out to my patrol, and detail. - watched a splendid display of

dealing with tance, who had a charming tender.

ย

But I walked with him, talked with him, and I re

or twice over his aner vividly the caped' coat,

"

Twice he stopped and waved a port and sald the conventional searchlights flickering over the plump manicured hand towards thing about sleeping dogs. clouds to the north.

desks I felt secretaries'

with their "Or perhaps." he added, puzzled, mildly apprehensive, shrouded typewriters. "We shall should say 'walking ghosts."

I spluttered,

and more than perated.

a little exa9-

do

cnce

are dis.. we

.

embamed of

those

"Ghosts!" thingy and there." he said:

smiled

"Rubbish!" nothing. To amiably. I sald

It was a state of mind which have suggested that the Euro-

"My dear boy, that place is

did not change for the better pean Service would bresurably well known to be haunted by the during the following day, which have a use for typewriters seem- Pretender's ghost. Does it really was one of continuous rain, and ed in the circumstances merely surprise you? Coming back on which became intensifed after fatuous.

dusk. For more than three hours

I hung about in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the

Private line

and of to look over the place

and see how it's getting on with simpic bourgeois tenants. Your set-up must have shaken him more than a little, No wonder he vanished without fuss when he raw an opportunity?

But, I protested, no che

Taken by and large, it night. They carried immense long drive, with nothing to do was a pretty queer place. and unwieldy clubs and made but smoke and get progressively No further message

We continued our tour, and I No doubt the experts who more noise than any bodies wetter.

had come from London. No one felt absurdly like a house-agent chose it had their perfectly I have ever heard.

arrived. Nothing hap

happened.

who shows a prospective cilent saw him except me. good reasons. Apart from

over a property, as my visitor add up." One night I was just going. Finally. its rambling size, they were

assumed the con- peered, and stood in doorways and made "taking lunars,” not obvious.

out to join one of these ventional car breakdown, and & Glistening parquet floors echoed dis- patrols when I was told 1 little before midnight went back wheezing noises to himself while to the canteen for what might pointing with his stick. French agreeably to the rattle of Was wanted on the telephone. charitably bave

been

supposed police methods, I thought, were typewriters, and what had But not the ordinary tele to represent a meal Tate it, quite certainly odd. been stables did not con- phone. This was the Special huriedly, and then retraced my

vert easily into studios for Line to Broadcasting House steps down the drive, intending about to go out again into the the broadcasting of plays.

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There was a wonderful westward view. There was a superb lawn, on which sorely peacocks rather than planners should have walk. ed, and there was a bear-pit. in the garden..

in

We were standing in the hall. to have a final word with the which was London,

guard on the big gates before darkness and visit the converted generally kept for the more turning in.

stables in which my visitor had intimate communications of

expressed particular interesti high-ranking engineers. Then, almost literally, I ran when the Night Duty Officer ran into him. In the drizzle and the down the stairs and told me. I was wanted on the Private Line, dark one could see very little, but I got the impression of a made my excuses and followed big stourish man, a pale fat face "Hello, Hogsmorton, Security?" with side-whiskers, and a heavy "Security here," 1 said un- caped coat. He was leaning on a amiably tasselled stick wheezing heavily.

"Hello, Hogsnorton that Security?"

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I thought twice quickly and replied that it was.

"Security London here,” "Oh yes. Of

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course

The comprehensive ex- you're planation of Hogston "Don't mention names on was the simple fact that it the telephone!

had once been the home of

c

an exiled Pretender to the "But I thought this was a throne of France, and de- special tap-roof line." corated accordingly. The

PIt IS But you ought to know royal fleur de lis was every that the first rule of Security is where in evidence engraved to take no risks of any kind. Of

g" upon the panelling, em- course you're only deputising." broidered upon the wallet

el meekly admitted the fact tapestries.

and apologised.

It doesn't

the plump white hands, the

tasselled stick, and boots that had curiously retained their pollsh for all the length and the mud of the Hogsnorton drive.

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I thought he looked rather odd "London Security here. Just but most of us looked a bit odd to inform you that a high-level is at that particular time, especially decision was taken today not to in

the matter of clothes, and he shift the European Service after was of course a foreigner. Hi all Sorry to have bothered

People who are emotionally immature, acquire confidence and first words by their accent con- you??

drive — often in a few days -- claim the doctors in a report issued Armed as much.

"But look here," I Interrupted, by the British Medical Association +the about

Night work

"You expected me-yes?"

Yes, of course but a good, deal earlier. I suppose you've had trouble?"

chap

Good night!"

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speak on the telephone, began to boss people. In the office about **** and summoned up enough courage to prop

propose to a girl-He married happily

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And Security London rang off. thought of ringing back Then

my Imagination began to and I bolted

Here one-tied boy of 14 suddenly became a goodi: work. byertime, London road is down into the hall. It was cricketer and wanted to pick fights. It was found he had fact altogether terrible," he said. empty colleagues nor the year

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the gates,

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