1955-08-27 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1955.

THIS PICTURE GOT ME Welcome

THIS was the wrong type of picture to take, according to the Chinese Communists. It is of a one-oyed man tending a sick child at a small fruit stall in a Canton main street. It was after this picture was taken that my guide remarked: "These are not representative of the Chinese people."-Spurr.

CONCLUDING "THE GARBO STORY” REPORTED ROMANCES WITH MAMOULIAN, COWARD, STOKOWSKI

By

Hollywood.

N 1934 Garbo made the columns and the head- lines again in a report- romance with Rouben Mamoulian, who directed her in "Queen Christina."

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They were motoring through Arizona, a part of the West she had never seen: of

this courge,

romance was as torrid (so

said the Hollywood gossips) ns the desert heat in those parts,

In 1936 Garbo was, re- ported in love with Nocl Coward after they met at a dinner party in Stockholm.

"Oh, I'm simply mad about the gal," Mr Coward was quoted as quipping, with a neut play ca words of one of the songs he had composed.

It seems they danced a tangɔ together at this party and there was a brief whirlwind of dates. Before be returned to London, he sent her a basket of orchids. Perhaps as a souvenir of their tance together.

Actually it was just a charm ing meeting for both.

Man Of Music

MICHAEL RUDDY

Can you recogniso her?

Garbo, with dark glasses, arriving in Rome.

accomplished this against tremendous odds.

"Your graces might well have proved to be dangers to you, since those in charge of your

T

INTO

HE plain clothes man should have been a warning. He picked me up at the Com- munist station across the Hongkong border.

They

TROUBLE

ars as representative as everything else," I replied.

Mistāko number three.

I was reported to the Secret Police for unreliable conversa-

on."

1 learned what happened after wards from foreign Communists I hardly noticed him, i Peking. flipping patiently through The Secret Police sent an pamphlets on the pro urgent signal to the Communist capital describing the activities paganda bookstall.

of an apparently dangerous

But when

the

Canton character. They demanded the train came in he took the immediate conflication of my next beat and stretches out equipment. asleep..

LOSING FACE.

At least he seemed asleep. + Each time I glanced his way, his The Foreign Ministry SUM- eyelids fluttered.

He was so obviously a police 7. Ho carried no luggage, And that's something a travelling Chinese is never without,

moned me with some embarrass- ment. It was on their recom- mendation that gat my second viss; the first ever granted to a European reporter. They now stood to lose a lot of face,

this was my second visit to China. The first time in The Liaison Officer shane- January had been in the middle facedly cooked up a story about Correspondents being allowed

of the Tachen crisia.

a limited amount of photo- Since my

Now Felting was glowing with nhle equipment.

peace and goodwill-policeman For no, things would be easier.

case was rather complicated” would I please take my cameras immediately to the Secret Police Headquarters?

Cameras

I was never more mistaken.

China had changed in the past Ave months. The war drums had been silenced, but a row Two more plain clothes men hymn of hate was being ground were awaiting me with relish. out by the busy

progaganda They checked In the machines

and cross-questioned me about Counter revolutionaries, not my supplies of film. American imperialists, were the It took a very unpleasant hour main enemy. And a new purge and a half. was getting into high gear. In the end, they took the Everyone Was suspect, recorder too, without explana Especially a rather over- tion.

RUSSELL SPURR

falls foul of the

Secret

Police in the People's China

The only word I was ever able a to get was "I had infringed the security regulations of the

I was

destiny, the people you were confident British correspondent working for, charmed by your festooned with cameras and special radiation, feeling particularly sinister machine.

and how useful such "attraction wes The plain clothes man sat up Stale."

a jerk when I arst spoke in building up a presence on the with

into.

allowed to keep the mid-air. The train was screen, could solve rolling towards Canton and I films I had taken in Canton. It persunded you to let it go at that.

rolleed the village watch towers was hinted they could be handed the American cinema, glowing mellow in the afternoon in for development "if I wished" Miss Garbo, you are the most

sunshine. marked instance

turned on the small wire of glamour

Just as a precaution I packed before the public.

The moment recorder which hung

like them into my hair oll packing camera from my shoulder and carton. The cuttings from Com- you appear on the screen, yout

dielated note or two into the munist

a establish a new vibration and a

newspapers and pro- particular challenge,

tiny microphone attached to my pagando cartoons To an

dealing with actress, glamour is a special gift. shirt.

the now purge were concealed in books and pamphlets in my you have, In 'Camille' you

luggage.

have committed

* yourself most positively. You

have become that rare instrumenta natural medium for the expression of poetry."

Renaissance

I

sat

but I refused.

The policeman watched warily the rest of the journey us

blithely dictating. Next morning, met him coming out of my hotel room. When I got upstairs I found my room had been still scaled with the small red searched.

MISTAKE

NO. 2

Mistake number

two

I got the cameros "back at the Hongkong frontier. They were

slamp of the Peking Secret Police.

But I nearly lost the films,

The Customs Officer asked was "Have you any exposed flims?”

""No," said.

"Where are they?"

young early this week."

"Why did you do that?"!

Across the United States, an extraordinary Garbo renaissance is going on. And It was climaxed

photographic. I began taking recently with the gift to Garbo the wrong kind of pictures. and-beauty-giving properties of of an honorary Academy Award,

It was all done, of course, "I gave them to a friend," I vegetable and fruit julees. a golden statuette, delivered by under the strict supervision of lied. "He sailed from Shanghai

She happily munched Taw

Nancy Kelly (who accepted It.on an official guldo carrots and quaffed gallons of her behalf)

in Ney York at pigtailed employee of Intourist The Customs Omclot looked celery and pomegranate juice at Garbo's flat.

Travel Agency-who stered me surprised. his bidding.

From 1920 to 1941, when she to all the approved snap spots. The

fact is Garbo all her life made the ill-fated Two-Faced

I photographed happy workers "I wanted to get them out has wanted to do the bidding of Woman," Garbo had a series of rowing on ornamental Lakes, ahead of me for quick develop- Next it was a man of music a strong-willed man or woman, artistic triumphs in her films. cating indigestible bean curd lee ment. Did 1 do anything who came into her life. None Lubitsch once told me that Garbe Generally, her films were not cream, and racing around a new wrong?"

the than

femboyant, was the easiest, most malleable profitable in the United States. sports other

He began to search effulgent conductor, Leopold actress he had ever directed. In Europe and in Britain, in But I also mapped ragged baggage, lunging straight for the Stokowski.

present time, I'm told, Australia and the

South America, beggars, bankrupt shops and follet case that contained the she SCCs three men. Allen they were enormous successes exhausted coolles lugging heavy hair oil carton. In the summer of 1937 Forter, a bachelor fifty-ish, who Before MGM Studios released loads through the Canton streets. I began to wonder what kind Stckowski cume to Hollywood arranges privato showings of her "Camille" and "Ninotchida

My young guide was shocked. of confession I would have to to score and conduct the music Bins and any others she wants to they took a survey of teenagere "Those are not representative make

see at the Museum for Allm.

of Modern in ten cities. The public poll of the Chinese people," she told Through Anita Long ("Gentle Art: George Schleg couturier revealed that the majority had me. men Prefer Blondes") he met Valentina's husband, and the not heard of Garbo and weren't Garbe

her gave

terrifle urbane Baron Erik Goldschmidt Interested in learning about her. "pitch," and soon the 35-year- Rothschild, 02, connoisseur of "I don't dig this

cat," old marsho was doing rumban paintings, well-to-do, and cer-

er teenager said, in the idiom, with the 32-year-old film star, tainly with no marriage gleam in "Who's this crazy Garboy" Not

Great stuff for the columnists his куся,

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typical, but revealing.

one

and the Sunday feature writers. Garbo and Baron Rothschild

Yet thousands of teenagers Came October of 1937 and enjoy a pleasant companionship, have since

and "Ninotchka," and Stokowski sald: "Miss Garix resolved in dining quietly si ex- "Camille areen Grote Garbo in has a group of friends, and I am pensive restaurants, visite to art another poll has disclosed that a member of this group. There exhibits, shopping for art objects many are enthusiastle over her. is ponitively question

no

of on Madison Avenue, and meeting "Camille is remarkable in its marriage."

artists and writers.

freshness..

with the exception

found out quickly, as quickly as

rather youthful as her lover, in

Looking back, I would say he Living Simply of Robert Taylor, who looks he courted the tall Swedish ne- In 1952-summer. I believe it the make-up of the thirties, tress, that she simply wasn't in was-she spent some time with "Camille could. well the mood for marriage, no malter, Cecil Beaton, who

had photo- current motion picture: what destiny dictated.

graphed her during his American

In March 1938, Garbe and visits. It was through him that Stokowski were in Italy, staying she met Princess Margaret - at the Vilia Cimbrone, near Ravello. It was a Roman holiday apparently mutually pleasant

experience.

Leading Men

be

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And her leading mon? Robert Taylor is at present playing "Quentin Durward." Lew

for the reporters from Naples Will she return to Hollywood? Ayras, semi-retired, is busy and Rome, After being chased I'm sure she will," says her edlung his colour, film- on the and harassed by news photogra- old friend and my neighbour, world's great religions-a work phers and newsmen, Stokowski Harry Crocker, "and she's always which he filmed himself, and consented to separate Interviews welcome at my house. But I will take on a leche tour. in the library of the villa,

He met the Journalists first, other movie."

don't think she'll evǝr maite an Antonio Moreno, one of her early leading men does an curtly denied, romance and/or

Why should she?

occasional film, has made a for marriage-plans, and best the

AL the end of this year, A turie out of real estate. In trust fund established for her, by television, Adolphe Manjou could hor manager, Harry Edington, retire, but doesn't want to. now dead, will mature.

John and Lionel Barrymore

room.

Fruit Juices

A financial export tolls me she are dead; zo 13. Wallace Beery of Entered Garbo, wearing a blue will collect the equivalent of "Anhu Christle" and "Gran gabardine sult, yellow castunero £30,000 a year for the rest of Hotel" fame. pullover, a blue slike scarf round hor life.

Nus Asther? He is in Europe. Frer haft.

Living simply as she doce In Ricardo Cortez? Retired, New York,

this should satisfy car looks after his her needs. With this income monts, Charles Bickford? You'll What about the future? Don't she can live her own le

see him next in Not A FA want to marry, some day?" Iappily? As happily as a Stranger." Ho

Gabo

she replied to questions, "I'm not getting married."

wealthy

I would not know," she re- woman, born and brought up, in Doping, mon. In 1930. Bash piled. There seems to be a law a Stockholm sium, lonows how fathbors,lassic British actor, That/governs all our actions, so to live it.

with I never make

In December of 1937 a leading Karenina, he lives in New York, Interview Paris, End of

American theatrical

comes to Hollywood mostly for In June of 1939, while she was orkie dog "Ninotchika' under the to Garbo in an open letter

beulent guidance of the late you Firma

and

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That's only my shaving gear," I said a little hoarsely.

THESE are the type of pictures the Chinese Communists wanted me to take. Happy model workers boating on an ornamental lake, and more happy model workers, playing soccer in the new sporta stadium in a Canton suburb/-8puri.

MALZEM

Ho

went on to the suitcases licence," he said." "You', must and after a half hearted search observo our regulations in stood watching while. I mapped future.” them shut.

He waved me over the frontier bridge past the gilm little guards, "You shouldn't have sent those in pollahed in hats.-(End o}} Alms away without an export Series. Copyright).

....

SO DID THESE. The top picture of a food vendor was taken along the Canton waterfront, Ä working man having his meagre lunch, of two ounces of rice and a spot of 'green.yeg, Below are two-seamstresses at work on a pavement----Spurr.

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