1956-01-07 — Page 8

THE SHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY,

THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS VOICE IN HOLLYWOOD

✪ That's the price of exfle for Richard Bavekort, Bug

Are compensations - Including

there

London.

THE head-waiter

at

T

the large, un- fashionable holel was aloofly apolo getic. am afraid we are no longer serving lunch," he Maid. "But it is for Mr Bast bart." intimated the publi-

city man,

ut is after

3.30, intimated the head

waiter.

"Richard Baschart...the film ar," said the publi- city mun by way of explana- Einn,

"Quite, but it is after 3.30," sand the waiter, AisU by way of explanation.

tried octopus.

by THOMAS WISEMAN

sonallty and no myths worth mentioning.

He joined the growing band of Hollywood ex- patriates who have made their exodus from the Pro- mised Land with their Cachillues on their backs, so to speak.

Hu yearned, like they all did. for the tradition, the culture ard the spaghetti of Europe.

"I found I belonged in Hume," The magic of a large tip,

says Basehort. however, accomplished what

To him Hollywood

ely, withoul ronin, the magic of Mr Basehart's artdeal

He just found not-lunch traditions presence rouh!

didn't belong, like a hundred movie herows by lore him. He

Was an

apaghetti and

But there is a price to be pald for this.

Hollywood, despite ila ten- stons, undercurrents and cross- currents, pul him in film tike "Fourteen Hours" and "Declision Before Dawn,” In which he made a big impact.

Today his prestige as an actor

has fallen. Inevitably. In his

Italian Blms he merely supplies the face, the mime, the move- men's. Somebody else supplies the Italian volce.

And Basehart has not been very fortunate in the voices alicated to him.

He himsel? has

strong. masculine, gruffish voice that

Kive helps authority to his rather frame.

power

and slight

Choir boy

But the voices with which he kigh-

has been dubbed he pitched, weedy and wheedling.

He sounds like a shotr whose voice has just broken.

was a rved aller 3.30 p.m.

"Now if you were found the atmosphere tense, Gregory Peck,* I said, cl ustrophobic and neurotic. "imagine what you would save in tips."

Like most of the nntives, he and a shot al being psycho- analysed. But he found Rome,

"This walter," said Base- violl and fried octopus more hari, "must be a highbrow." therapeutic.

Basebart from Ohio, the specialist in nervy, edgy. fidgety characterisations, is

Lonesome

"I don't miss much about

کار در اول کا

Baschurt is currently working on the business of regaining tisk voice. He feels he now knows sufficient Helian to enable him to speak for himself. "I'm hoping they will soon let me use my own voice." he Boys, "that should be an improvement."

A

London, At present he is in

1m producer in playing a

called "With Al My picture

a short, compact man with Hollywood," he says, "except Heart." sandy hair, blue eyes. Not the desert, I'm very lonesome noticeably nervy, edgy or to the desert. No, I don't write fidgety.

No aura Not noticeably like Gre- gory Peck, either. He does not go around with his pri- vate aura of glamour. He does not have the kind of personality or fame that im- presses head-walters, major- domos, commissionaires, or usherettes.

it is not the kind of picture to anybody in Hollywood. I'm that is likely to cause a major not the lotter-writing kind. In sensation. But major sensations Home 1 feel rolaxed the way I are not entirely ruled out of his

did Lever

in Hollywood. It's

immediate future, hard to deline what it is about

a place that attracts you tangible reasons."

there are

60

many

1t Baschart s!111 hay "Moby in- Dick" up his sleeve, This is the 11m which took so long to make and is taking even longer to be released. He stars In It Gregory Peck.

'There are also Inngible reasons: dollars, lire, pounds, sterling,

#

with

When it is shown, eventually. could mean

an urgent sun- mons to the exile to return to Hollywood.

SHOW TALK

MAUREEN SWANSON.

boautiful dark-balred actress with the look of young Hady Lamarr, schloved * measure of fame as The Cirf Who Kisted Errol Flyna at the Alepart. This was several years ago, Then she became Jonown as the gld who was edon around with the Mar quem of Milford Heved. Such ere difficult for any actrum to live down..

But Misi Swamon'k érfing

tag

Bard.

Twenty-three - yase - old Miss Swanson har barn appearing In A Town Like Alica. "Next she gate an important role in a new Rank film called Jacqueline, starring John Gregson. And on Mon day she tests for the leading role opposite Dirk Bogarde In The Spawish Gardener.

He says: "Oh, 1 make much more money working in Europe. An American tax- You see, as

tel payer working in Europe

And when that hoppers I the first 20,000 dollars of

that my predict

Basehart will income tax-free. Next year. I manage to tear himself away

female Italian from the spaghetti and the tax- may be counted as resident and would pay Italian free dollars.

tax.

an

Langely, this is of his own doing. When he married the Italian star Valentina

The highest anyono pays It is strange, but when you Cortenn, he said goodbye to there is 25 percent. A lot of are a big success Hollywood somehow becomes less claustro- Hollywood, the personality- people don't pay any tax at all."

1 Just about phoble. "In Hollywood creators and the myth-

broke even. Now, for the first makers. He went to live in time in my life, I'm actually Italy, taking his own per- saving."

And the tax collector becomes suxidenly less of an ogre.

(COPYRIGHX)

In 1956, 1 predict, Maureen Swanson will shios on the screen. Bathar then flourish in the foyer.

DOWN TO EARTHA..

The two-sided woman . . . 'It's HOW you sing the words'

20.)

OUT IN THE SUDAN:

THE DANCING MAJOR

WHIRLS

AGAIN

From DONALD WISE

Do You Get Worried About Your Health?

H

E was not the first. Several new.patients of mine, American to come complaining of a variety of In and ask for a symptoms, have been surprised when I havo asked them to thorough check-up. sirip or partially strip. The in- "Yes, sir. Twice a year I ference can only be that some small minority, see my doctor back home doctors (a

certainly) writo down their and I like to keep that up. prescriptions without giving the

"Last time I had my check-up in Paris, France, I had the whole works- X-ray, blood test, sedi-

mentation rate .... every. thing, from tip to toe, liko I do back in the States.

"I'm sure appalled that you people don't have the same thing twice a year instead of waiting for symptoms to creep up on. you.

"But

If you don't mind me saying so you're a little back ward in a lot of things. Take central heating. - - -

But ARE

backward in

matters? Are such necessary for

people normally in good health? Should people visit the doctor. regularly,

they might a dentist?

as

My experience is that these invectigations cun do harm.

I had a patient the other day д 1053 who went along to radiography

unita

vary us ful enterprise in the prevention and control of pulmonary tuberculosis and ono that every- body should usb,

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Harmful

This patient was called back for A further X-ray of his chest-apparently because there something technically wrong with the X-ray piale, not because

WIODE anything was with his lungs. But he did not

know

that at the time, and between his first and his second X-ray he began

to cough all day and felt, as the himselt cold,

like death warmed up."

To go an X-ray check-up,

Grimaveri

Beware of the deo or who doesn't want you to sirip....

patient a proper clinical going- over.

-Bewaro of the doctor who listens to your chest with 48 stethoscope when your shirt is merely unbuttoned instead of being pulled right off. When you have shirt or vest on, the ductor cannot hear the sounds in your chest but only the

small noises made by your clothes

Again, if

a doctor examines your stomach and his hands are

icy cold, don't just gri and bear it, for the doctor in any caso won't be able to feel anything: vous

abdominal muscice your

involuntarily contract when a doctor's, hands

are winter-cola. Because we don't regular all-embracing

in sprochai

to muse radiography unit is investigations, it is all the more one thing, but to see the doctor important that doctors, however regularly for a blood test, elec busy. should examine each trocardiogram, etc, whon patient carefully and thoroughly.

you

feel like that," said my American caller, "come to

|nothing is wrong, is not only IL

unnecessary but for many people positively harmful

But if doctors: fend, tinlikce wink of occasionally get d their American colleagues, to have an X-ray or a blood test pain right here. Couldn't I cold-shoulder special investiga or something to make sure that tions, except as an

ancillary that's OK.1" measure, it does not mean that

"Strip," I said, blameless when it

Khartoum the Nile Waters Agreement they are

Comics to ordinary clinical FISCHIEF-MAKING of 1929, 48,000 million examination.

M

Major Saleh Salem is cubic metres of the yearly whirling among

local flood is allocated to Egypt, politicians like a Dervish Sudun dams a part, 4,000 in his race to win friends million cubic metres, and and influence the Sudanese wants at least 20,000 mill- lion of the 32,000 million people.

surplus.

In parts of the Middle East people let Dervishes come into their houses, fearing luck if they refuse them.

The Dancing Major-born among the Dervish Fuzzy Wuzzies on the Red Sea cosat 89 years

Says the Kitt-in-the-mirror:ago-has found just "Singing doesn't leave me all this sort of uneasy the time

r'd like for writing reception. and reading." (Besides poetry Self-invited, Eartha le busy with her auto-looking remarkably biography--D to the

age self-satisfied, he is

phoning old enemies

and make pumping the hands of Egypt-loving friends.

He wants to coax Sudan into

the League:

"You see," cho $73,

"I loft come

school at 15 and I have to pick up my education as I go along." And how she picks it up. A Plato (Greek philo- copy of sopher) and Emerson (American poet) go with her everywhere,

Egypt's high dam project at Aswan, for which Britain and the U.S. have promised financial backing, will flood out 100.

Cedric Carne

PICTURES SKID OFF THE SKY

Square miles of CLE

Sudanese culti- vated area in the Haifa district.

The Sudanese re- sent the fact that they were not con- sulted on Aswan. to Engineers believe that up, by opening her dams at times B hostile old certain

Sudan could send the crashing the penned-up Nile Arab into Egypt - and 80 per- cent of har irrigation water would swirl away to waste.

But I am still wondering-is this the Kitt dubbed by Orson the British-sponsored Weiles, "the most exciting dad Pact, woman in the world'”?

He wants her to

avoid Bag.

So the major goes round

Round-the-bend Television

London

LEAR TV reception at 200-300 miles range and a regular exchange of programmes with America are now becoming possible,

The key is a method of bouncing ultra-high frequency waves off the sky (see diagram), This overcomes the horizon factor which today limits range to about 50 miles.

Round-the-bend TV has been evolved after secret experimenta to lighten the West's defence screen.

TRANSMITTER

200 MILES

By CHRISTOPHER HALL

MISS EARTHA KITT

in

London last week, looked into the mirror and I wondered: "Which is the real Kitty"

Is it the Kitt who leaped in- to the Cadillac class when the sandpaper in her volco put a new tone into sex?

Is it the Kitt - who sang "I want to be evil,” as though she when: (and" "Monotonate? (in a vole that invited every male to treale the boredom?

Or have we been seeing Hinge? Cam-it be that the real Kitt is the gki, who showed me thie-love" laxie which cha', - is

nál eru, for me, my love, Patti'l- ani, déend and conë, But kiss Spur hand and hold már tight lidut dress me fr chison

Eetha Kitt, the poet

that

the girl in the IIWONT WOW there

"I Am reiding the great Russian novellats at the mement" says Eartha. "I think the only way to know whether the Russians are as bad as they ere painted is to tead about them,

up.

This is how it works, Aerials. Uko bowl-type electric, firem,

He is anxious to secure and round remarkably 60ft. across, sim the waves into the sky, They strike the tropo- Sudanese for the Egyptian active and scheming, for a sphere the lower part of the upper atmosphere about six miles Army, of which they have man who says he is on a The waves skin off the troposphere and return to earth 200- always been the fighting personal visit.

plus miles away.

Excellent TV pictures have already been sent this spearhead.

distance. The system, by widening the range of first-class reception, will The major must make sure reduce the need fór só máný stations. Above all, the major is of a pro-Egypt majority now if US engineers have worked out a possible TV relay route to Britain by way of. Baffin Island, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe talking about water. From he can. He glowers at the Islands, and the Shetlands, to Scotland. No sen crossing is more his bedroom window he Nile, sluggish and low at this thin 300 mil peers at the Nile through time of the year. He can hear The tongue which mid, "The his sunglasses each morn its low gurgle taunting meisie words of songs don't mattering. For the Nile is that has act him danging harder It's the way you sing "em,”

Egypt's Iffe blood. Under than ever. (COPYRIGHT).

*So I rcad Dostoievsky, Chekov, and Tolstoy the names slide off her tongue,

JOHNNY HAZARD

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Security: regulations urovent such transmissions at proemt." Once the all-clear is given, an international conference of the television networks of Europe and America is likely to discuss programme onchanger.

(COPYRIGHTY

By Frank Robbins

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