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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

1956.

The Film Stars Revolt Against Their Bosses

-and in the van wiggles Miss Monroe

SHORT' while ago

it was fashionable to regard American film stars as gilded galley- slaves sweating under the lash of a

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By ALAN BRIEN

ande one 0lm of my own.

Bob Hope can now list himself of the few professions in which to in- considered seven-year col in the year books as "cornedion, you aren't

While crcussi producer."

ability and value as tract. The fans might gaze golfer and

stars have became you get older. You can't go on up in awe at the giant silver many other

free-lances picking and choosing being handsome for ever. I've faces with every eyelash

own, foot long. But the know-it. the parts they are offered,

To Ond out why there famous "Storm Fear." I acted it my way much seris all alls knew

serts fought for their freedom, and I directed it my way. It is I called on two American stars. geing very well in Britain and in beiter.

The States. And that is something They would tell you confiden- Both are over 40 yet stli mean business at the box office. Both

can keep on doing until I'm tally that the whole regimen have their own production com-

well past 60," was forced Day Hollyword startom

Both have ambitions to to parade and number off from pantes,

be directors. The right at the drop of a pro-

Cornel Tyrone Power Auger's cigar ash,

Wilde make 1he adjective middle-aged" seem like a com- Power still has the pliment. elegant rocking-horse face which made him a prewar pin up. Time as merely added a ruggedness frugile profile.

actors.

This description is no longer As the films even half-true, have grown bigger so have the How Wr

revolt the witnessing he stars, the mutiny of the well paid pensants of Beverly Hills,

Suggest that

before

to what

and

Was UNCL a

Too rigid

Wilde felt rather

Insurance Wilde, though not so much younger in years, comes

in

The contract star rystem xed neters too rigidly in one mould, Power was suspended by his studio

time for the first fifteen years because he object- ert to appearing in the same idad

that the over- of costume rele emphasis on the star hindered good nim making. "Sometimes a minor character may be tho dramatic focus of a

Kquence But

the Hollywood motto for to reach for their fater generation of Hollywood cameramen

Ls Follow the And at the end of stars. He made his first im money." And that means they

army wingles Miss

when Power had al- keep In 1940

the lens turned on the the largest salary ready appeared in 20. Marilyn Monroe,

actor with There are a few grey hairs whatever happens, A star is Her terms

only allowed one personality. It is the small-part players who really get the chance to Bet."

Win stars like

Wilde and de dif- Power be able to create days, perent and better stor system?

the signs All the revolution is almost complete. Victory

has been wor most of the studio cliefs tave had time lawyers. the rebel

of

among the black curls but At Brat glance she does not the tanned gipsy face is still lean, appear to be the kind of girl and he has the sinewy strength who preters her own company, appropriate to a man who was when that company is an Olympic fencer in 1936. One catial Mollyn Monroe Ine, it

less prosperous why

duels for the entertainment of Park Avenue party-givers.

La easy to understand the attrac- wdd fight in sword and dagger Wi prorducers like Wilde and tion of being your own mistress, By striking for a year she has forced the Bastille of Twentieth Century-

-Fix to surrender on her terms.

In the few short yours since

"All Abath her small part in Eve, the has won the freedon which it has taken Orson Welles and Str Laurence Olivier a life.

Olivier as a

They agreed that independence as an actor and a producer was first of all a form of insurance for a flm star,

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Power be able to create different fins? and better

1 hope so. But the omens are not entirely auspicious.

Inferior

once again back in an historical role. Among his most success- ful nìms in the past have been period ↑ piecės,

"Forever Amber."

like

It may be that the box office tnsk- will be an even sterner master to these new independent than the big stor-producers studia boss ever was.

However, the firm of Monroe has shown that it knows how

free get

world publicity dreams of Metro- beyond the

to

Godwyn Mayer. And the

إن

Larry

and

combination Marilyn, the West End night and the Broadway dome, cannot fail to be the International money spinner of all tinis—no matter how bad, or even how good, it is as film art.

-ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL-'

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

ALABAMA

UNIVERSITY

MAYBE IT DON'T APPLY TO GIRLS

London Expects. Serotco

The way to win-and keep-world markets

A NATION SACRIFICES

TO BUILD HER FUTURE

Rotterdam

WAS in the Town

By LESLIE F. DANIELLS

In a factory, where, engaging- ly enough, I saw the driers made for worm'a permanen waves, Hall of Rotterdam,

The export rate was half their Holland, the only

The m also in- total production. I spent quite a lot of time to ing through housing but

through Bizable central building dingnose why the Dulch people creasing

reclamation makes hair dyes, and, as Dutch In- women are not in the very van

schemes,

and

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has become

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Tyrone Ruy Millund and Burt Lancaster left standing there after the were so prepared to sacriice Austrial workshop in, which the of fashion, I gathered that the

I recall that the Westerns of

have been inferior to the best produced by the major studios. The latest films backed by Rose- and Jane Russell lind Russell them

ICgs worth-white roles than they often and under

that after he has Anished playing In the stage revival of "The Devil's Disciple" (costume of 1776), Power will

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AN IMPORTANT ISSUE NOW

CONGRESS AND THE LOBBIES

-By--

Alexander Broad

MY

Washington

TY dictionary suya that "to lobby" is "bo frequent the lobby in order to influence members of a collect legislature or to political intelligence."

Supporters and opponents. of lobbyists in Washington spend much of their time in a united rendering of that fine old Gershwin chorus necessarily "Oh, it ain't

BO.

H

Supporters Insist that their function is exclusively "educu- Lional."

Opponents insist that Job- byista are devoted exclusively to perverting natural justice, pressuring duly

elected and generally the United States into a paradise for morticians, haberdashers, gas companies or veterans of the Second Oregon Pig War.

Both these pleas are probably Irrelevant.

tita

ACCOUNTING

Con

In any case the United States Congress has ordained

that lobbyists shall present them selves, disclose their names, their atms, and their employers and make a due accounting of the amount of money they spend.

And The last count I shows at 812 organisations re- gistered themselves in a recent year and spent $10,303,204. Of these, 141 were

uncas business organisations, 43 were "citizens" listed vaguely groups, 30 ployees, 13 farmers, 21

fessional

cerned

as

represented

em pro

groups, 31 were con- with taxes,

"You can't put all your faith'

the bank balanec,"

Germans મા

BO mercilessly to me. Banks can Power

hard going. Dutchmen workers produce at a pace second firm had a keep a close watch representative

on Paris for the latest ideas. bombed the city during the themselves could not pinpoint it, only to Germany. Coll. Companies can go bank- time to secure. Now she can rupt.

security is

I learned here another point Your best

History, I think, has come-

Somehow the great port of of A strong cmploy

director on your own talent. That's why 1

this need for exports. The Since then Rottendam has thing to do with It.

now second in the Dutch home market could not her payroll and outbid the big- want to develop my abilities as

Calvinism is not only the basis Rotterdamn,

Protestant faith of the world to New York Ja the possibly sustain the research the gest Hollywood companies for a a movie actor, as a stage actor,

had to rebuild ita centre Ca almost completely and a Netherlands; it Influences the amount of tonnage dealt with, needed to keep up to date, but Rattigan play.

She is by no nicans alone in a diducer, and some; time as

trame the wider world market enabled Catholic of Roman

as symbolists the two-way sections most handsome piece This you can only

of the Netherlands -the raw it to do so. her escape from the Techni do on your own. Then if your

town planning it is. But in well.

But there

coming in (and wes also the late materials colour slave traffle. To the last investments pay off in eigar

the midst of all this pre-

has dow six months we have seen Ray store coupons,

nitive you've still got

war in which Holland suffered Holland Millan, Burt Lancaster, Charles something to sell."

stor Laughton and Dick Powell Cornel Wilde said: "I get in film, "Lorenzo the Magnificent its heliport.

that has come a deep desire for Both the films because 11 Is, frankly, the (costume of 1469).

There It sand it has been security-and that security can appear as directors.

from to cam Russell girls, Jane and Rosalind, easiest

In his current way for me

work which ilm "The there since 1953-only a short only came

solvent and But being a star is one Scarlet Coat," Cornel Wilde is distance from the have become their own bosses. money.

Town Hall, keeps the country and from the throbbing business provides the jobs. and shopping centre of this world port.

Whiteaways

foreign policy

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with

ollen 11 said they were Interested in "reclamation," and seven represented veterans and milltary organisations.

company's occupation, it did not forget terribly. It is natural that from essentials) and the finished goods Long Struggle

There is, of course, more to Assences were prepared both spent

ND

where factory

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with

As I write, lobbyista connected have just the gas industry pent $1,300,000 to influence a a single piece of legislation.

going out.

the port of Rotterdam. It is a great trans-shipping port for for flavouring food and inner Europe. Here goods are basla for scent, I saw the cartons unloaded from ships into the ready for dispatch to such for away places as Seoul, Kobe and In factory after factory I saw

Yokohama, N econontle expert to whom I the intense export drive. In a But for all the increasing in- A talked was forced back to a big

engineering concern at dustrialisation, agricultural pro- illustration. "A Utrecht purely humati

I saw the final work duco still remains the biggest They find it quicker to man knows that unless he works being done on an order from the export-50 percent of the total, that way then to take the air to export now, his son will be Argentine for 10 diesel locomo- and worth over £00,000,000 port bus or their own car to

without Holland's International aliport time." at Schipol, owned by the city of Amsterdam.

seven-to Brussels to join

the world air lines.

In the nature of things, the registered organisations were no doubt only a fraction of the or- ganisations devoted, in one way to influencing the or another, course of

Most organisations somehow manage to dodge the official re- gistrar by pretending very hard that they are concerned with a job In ten years' tives and 500 coaches. When yearly.

work on this order was in full

disseminating knowledge" or Those products come from land Such a statement typifies the swing. this firm

exporting which, through the threat of the influencing public opinion in the 80 percent of its products.

general, sen, has been more tended then The heli-fight 10 Brussels strong family feeling of

The group to which this firm any other in Europe. The history takes only three-quarters of an Netherlands, but it also suggests

# faith in the future quite uns belongs also specialises in the of those wide acres has been one hour: The relum trip costs £4. touched, so far as I could find, construction of

in of struggle, bridges, oll

which

It is 89. The Initiative for the service came from the Belglum Gabena by any cynicism at the thought fineries and sugar plants. Their determination has won.

Curtains and airlines. Naturally Schipol-and of Iron

atomic orders come from many parts of that determination which, bombs.

the world, but, as I found with the industrial held as well, is Amsterdam--are annoyed, but

and So Holland, despite its wide many other Dutch firms, mostly winning

keeping world moving around the world

fast

diminish from the countries farther East. markets. means more to 'Dutch business agricultural men than inter-city rivalries.

'Export To Live'

THIS summer Rotterdam will

acres

ALAS,

Was

POOR

re-

Dutch

YORİCK!

By MAURICE. MANNING

practically im- in the Soviet Union, the famous lined.

Karandash, does not always

in

native

DELUCE

One lobbyist is reported to bo representing some 35 or- In one very small ganisations office. Others maintain vast organisations to

promoto D single interest.

to re-

All of them piments of

present the true

the Great American Pubile. They have been known to organise a deluge of several thousand telegrams to swamp a Congressman at

crucial moment, and they manage to

letters whip

from stituents by the truckload. It is all very bewildering for the Congressman. So much so that Congress now has a vast dollar Tosearch

to dig up the real facts about every legislative lese, so that elected representa- will have the standard by which to judge the lobbyist's claims,

All this is doubly important at the moment.

have its own airport. It wül not be a big one, and it will cost £500,000. But it will speed the exports, and nothing, as I found on

my week's stay in Holland, is more important to THE professional jester was to reclic "Instructive the last five or six years. Again this small country than its ex-

whether in cap and bella rhymes" concerning dally prob- and again, articles have appear-

scolding the lems, such as the fight against ed ports.

The Dutchman

multi-million does not say or baggy trousers and a the kulaks, fullment of the Grimaldis. Either their delivery "Export or die.” He is much bowler hat, has been hard at economic plan, and so on. of "instructive rhymes" is not

funny enough (Pravda

crganisation watand more positive. "We must ex-work for hundreds of years. Not surprisingly, this con- them to "liquidate this weak- port to live" i was told time Iis job has never been easy, ception has been difficult to put ness"), or the ideological mess- and time again.

Communism it into practice. The leading clown age is not | but under

sufficiently under- In fact, Dutch exports are running at over 30 percent of has become the national inconto a for possible.

even attempt it, but diverts his "The Communists, B.S onc higher percentage than in most For the Communists de- audience with antics remials would expect, have always been countries. In 1984, they amount-

of the early flims of more worried about the second Sent ed to £1,255,000,000; the nation-mand that their clowns Charlie Chaplin. Karandnah, in of these shortcomings. Accord al income was £2,305,000,000. shall, as it were, sit on two fact, models himself closely up- ing to Soviet Art; speaker after With over 11,000,000 living in stools simultaneously: they on Chaplin. even to his tooth speaker at the All-Union Con its soll pres, Holland is the most crowded country in Europe. Must be at one and the brush moustache and Back-like ference Despito encouragement to same time, "fellows

of Bult. emigrate, tlie Labour force goes infinite jest," like Hamlet's up yearly.

Yorick, and faithful, un-

He is so

funny that To keep its people in work failing propagandists of the authorities. torn bolweeti (which at the moment is no

tional pride and political pur- dificulty) and pay them their Party line.

him

lobbyists low it and wages, industry has been ex- The Communista demand that pose, at one moment clap

they are laring their plans. panding by leaps and bounds, the clown shall inspire laughter, on the back and the next clap

Vaat organisations are being Firma from

other

built up, for instance, countries, but that every guffow shall ad him in gaol.

to con notably America, have set up vance the cause of Communism, In the summer of 1053, where they could make a "doop vince Congressmen that, Ameri- here, welcomed as happily as a Since speechless gestures and Karanideal was playing to pack- study: of-social-political sub-

cans are strongly opposed to now native. Industry.

grimaces would lack the de-

ed houses in Moscow's Order of Jects."

any relaxation of the embargo But such a small home market Bired "educational Impact,

against Communist China, and -----OVOD though the

SELF-CRITICISM Benelux Communist clowns have to talk Lenin Circus. He was described

programme

that anyone who helps Disen- agreement with Belgium and as well as mime.

wealth of `superlatives, as The clowns themselves, with hower to full the spirit of his "Vsessing do perfection the

* their comrades the trapeze agreement with Sir Anthony weapon of satirical ridicule,"

Luxembourg daubles -moans that Holland must export if hor industries are to thrive and her people kept busy at work.

THEIR FUNCTIONS

as: clowns in

in

the

IMPRISONED

with

tho na-

arrest-in

n

of Professional Circus Workers "stated sadly that the spoken word in the clrcus arena, designed to serve as powerful means for the Com- of the broad munist education musses, is not fullling this high purpose,"

And the Literary Gazette called for the establishment; of school for young, clowns,

!

ON my vialt to Holland, one of world, said the newipper, wine His imprisonment depletes of the Central Comelted of the

As the Presidential election approaches, Congressmen naturally, grow more jittery by the moment. A man who might have ignored ten thousand angry telegrams six months ago will now go white in the face at the sight of a here. hundrod.

The

CONFLICT

hia:

subject will find Presidential

ta himsel not forionlooking for

* Similar organimștions—one of

them led by Weller? Pierre Van

A clear definition of their But in December of the same artists and the animal trainers, Eden on the

of himself functions in Iron Curtain spelety ́year the magazine, Soviet Cul. have done their bit by way ofvididate, if he

self-criticism. For example, the his Hungarian ture, reported appeared in the

that up Desire For Security newspaper, Sabad Nox Where- dar-off Tadzikiston on a Moscow deported

the collective, fighting Job roxt the capitalist charge of drankenness,

to full the historic decisions the things that struck mo mero slapstick-mongers who

*klok ant

sate temporarily the Soviet Communist Party the way the people most was

are icicked," the at any

in ranics of a profession already ideological questions; will realised the economic facts of "great fask" "pt the clown life. For years they have been Communist countries was 4th poorly atdited in August 1983 deavour to raise further accepting lower wgaen so that a tell the truth and to exercise Izvira declared that the ideological-artistle level of

total number of clowns ENG

Vitha work.. continuing attempt can be made bold and ruthless criticism. ... to keep prices steady and the to mock the elementa that have cost of their goods to the out- remained from the past."

It seems unlikely that many ram these efforts to marry humour side world just that 'much lege An idon of how this is to be cruits have joined up? Between, and ideology. The clowns, re- thad their competitors.

done was outlined some months then and now,

main either un-funny or an orthodox, and in the patate of

In the same way over to pur-

cent of their butter goes for soport, and they content thou

Ayse withi“ margarina.

ing of the Hungarian

on

Panson and.... Louis Bromfold-

the

Its

USSR had shrunk to 18. Con- Success, however, does not aldering the hazards of the job, appear to have crowned any of

ore seeking to “belitesto" legislam tore on, the nood for arms fo temel

The only waving grace is that, most of the time, the lobbyista are in conflict with one another. When two powerful fobisies take opposite sides on the same issue

wild the Congressman is at least

earlier by onsartan Circus www.though they are, Soviet things, they can capely be certain the Force Committes" According, clowns have had a noreiben cotherwise. Benal; wordier that votiem pusile canot agree witti to stals punds the clown's dvb than that of celtiskan

Katandaan took to the bottle, botha