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SHOW TALK goes backstage In New York

to investigate a current craze

I meet the

THE. CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1956.

More-than-Marilyn

girl...

New York Axelrod has some knowledge of HE Brando

acting his subject, technique

som time referred to as The Method, and taught at New York's Actors' Studio -currently obsesses Broad-

Misa Menofeld's attitude, posture and expression spotte wer reniknie another blonds I had interview- ed a tle while opg

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of

Traur

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out on a setive, 110%

Miss Monstická playa a blonde en star by the name of Itin Marlowe who is recognisably a caricature of Miss Monroe. The precise Miss Mansfield similarity between the two is

is sprawied entirely clue

Misz

disz pouting tabbyishiy whilst her hot Mansfeld's skill as an actresa, сура svannboredit way. Practitioners of The Mia Mansfield, like so many sluit nages Method are sometimes re- young hopefuls, 35 herself quired to art the parts of recognisably a caricature of Misa cash registers

(IT ławn

mowers 21N disciplinary Exercises

The den is that any selor should be able to think himself Inte any part. aulanate oť nutimale. As a result, there are

kome

by THOMAS WISEMAN

starting portrayals of typewriters now being given.

But The ITION remarkable Monroe

frullation

fat be seen DĖL

Consequently, she has myrely to be herself in order to

extremely

Sho wire {I Tumse 2014 satelor paris which were ra tight that the sear

In one or two places.

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suppress.

of

"In the bus devs your bugun Broadway of a far from louis be a convinchin, if exaggerated, is a preity Important st E, mic

object of M Marilyn mitation of MPs Monrur

Haveg 10-21-85% ligue Monroe

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fde wamething of an exaggeration, not what is guing to kerja me called dayne Mansfield, his not

Miss Imagine that

Hot So I don't fret ashamed been to Actors' Sturti, und, an Manetet

ueleally

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of these sheesecake pictires, but far as can judge, the method

fantasy

She projects AOX on the other hat 1 don't intend The praelves in exclusively and about us nulitly as De Kinsey

to make a party out of them." singularly her own

Meeting

12 rafter hecoming Involved in

A fantasy

you

thon and vent The Vamp

War

11ke of

vies cathed

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Suggled to Miss

Mr Mansfield's version of Mansfield that there was il Copeilleial resemblance

MISS

Miss Menyen as to be seen in a Broadway hit comunly called Will briwren

11 Monro Sucre Sport Rack Hanter

she felt he

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is by George Axelted, author of con you say that she asked. The Seven Your Hich which "Um 10 Marilyn is only 37" was Bined with Miss Mobrog in This way not an athuston to age, the eart So presumably author bid to bust measurements,

ROLEX

Light relief

So far, however, Mrs. Manes feld's earces and fame base d

40-21-35% rather than a

V moro esoteric qualities.

That, in a matter of fo STPnths. che should have established herrelf as a Broost- why ligns is on leddication of America's almost obsesshiral interest in the bosanm

It would be wrong to demist | Misz Maustiehl and her bosoft- friends as fluke successty of nu imperlance. America, which

lender to be rather over-awed by The whole business of sex, netsta

Jayne Mansfield an indignant denial.

DON IDDON'S DIARY

Greedy

·UST before I left New York a cable arrived from the Australian

its com sex-symbols like Miss | Government; "Welcome to

Manstich ro that it ena men- sionally augh at what it nor mally takes so sriously and solemnly.

the

In the muralne sex fantasies of the American nation, the Jayne Marellields provide light relief As such they have on intportant pespretable and, one might almust say, medicinal function

That

Australia. Your many readers here are glad that the man whose Diary has entertained and instructed them about the American seche will report on this country."

I call that hospitality and rate it enterprising. Would the

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eyes on the 'Pearl'

Third Article: The New Germany

A nation's bank accounts were wiped out, leaving each depositor with the equivalent of only £6. Now, in one city, four hours in some of the world's most spectacular night apon càn cost you four ; weeks' salary.

BRIGHT LIGHTS AMID RUBBLE

By JOHN FISHER

OU normally have to shown

double-room-

Y wait a fortnight, to get with-bath, which barnom

a table at the Stachels to be the only suitable one chwein (The Porcupine), a then available at the Park small German night club Hotel, Dusseldorf. I rend near Berlin's Kurfursten- the price forty marka damm.

plus service (the equivalent of about £4 sterling).

the

Why the name? A bril- Haut group of five players Then I remembered that appearing on a stage at the only eight years ago a law end of the room give had wiped out all German Western Allies, the bank accounts, leaving cach Adenauer Government, and German with a balance of the German bourgeoisie so only sixty marks not many adroitly planted quills enough for two. nights at that the sents are well worth my hotel. What a long their price of sixteen shil- way Germany has Ings.

since then.

after

wor

come

Dusseldorf, by the way, is now the smartest and most expensive city in Germany. Many of the Ruhr barons transferred their offices from Cologne to Dussel- a dorf

the

because Dusseldorf

was relatively undamaged.

Hamburg is once more the big International trading city and the North Sea outlet vf the Federal Republic.

PLEASANT SHOCK

This biting, eritical, and solf-critical humour Is feature of the new Ger- It would never huve many. done for Hitler.

It is one of many shocks pleasant on the whole-

It also has a highly commer- that come to any visitor to cialised night life, capable of absorbing four weeks' salary in the new Germany.

For me, the first shock as many hours, but in a rather more spectacular manner than 8000 after I was you would find in Paris.

came

HERRITARRAT SÍTENEKO ANG KASANG PESMICITARIJATENESSSTRU

DATELINE

United Kingdom Government visitors, all living in compara- wink in the eye of time—just a

I

(officials do the same for a visit- Adlai was there Australian Journalist?

doubt it, So I

set off on my "Follow this is so seems to be the fag round the world" trip fairly generally accepted. For in good spirits, despite a snow- example, Miss Mansfield Is storm in New York

the invited to all sorts of formal non-stop airliner to San Fran- fact that we had to board the functions which attended

the

cisco in a freezing hongar as by

wives

the ground crew sprayed Govenor: ani Senators.

plane with anti-icing flutch,

are

also

of

The other day Miss Mansfield attended a tea-party given by Adlai Stevenson as part of the Presidential

and

Here a Lesson

the

campaign. tisTHAT was three days ago. Here considered perfectly normal for In Hawali, the sky is blue, a man like Stevenson to meet the beach is golden, the hills

a girl like Miss Manshield in are green, and the sun is hot. the interests

publicity.

ย

mutual

Actually, Miss Mansfield re- gretted the meeting more than Mr Stevenson.

were

HONOLULU

A

Munich bas become more dependent on local heavy indus- tries than it used to be, but stu has that opera-spouting. beer- gulping atmosphere dear to the tourist's heart.

ARTISTS GALORE

Artists are to be found there in profusion, and so is a part of the German film industry.

West Berlin, subsidies

despite heavy

from the Bonn Gov- ernment, brs not yet. last its bombed-out atmosphere. But Instead of having just one street of bright lights and good' shops, as it had a few years ago, it now has several.

The Schlass-strasse in the formerly depressed suburb of Steglitz, is impressive at night by any standards.

The East sector of Berlin-" you are liable to be halted at the border if you choose a main strect or use public transport wears a sinister shabbiness,

Its most notable feature is a vast, nightmarish Gvenue of state shops crowned on top by the fials of Communist Party officials. Or private enterprise,

courage, evidence.

hope, there is

no

tive harmony,

short distance from the hotel in Here is a laboratory in race which I write this dispatch, but relations, and although there it is best never mentioned, in are shortcomings and barriers Hawail visible and invisible, the experi- When I got off the pinne ment is working well. In fact, there the Americans are going to the most elaborate lengths to please the people whose skins are different colour. colour. Boarding the Clipper at San flowers, round my neck. This is nature, has a gnawing prob. for the 850 refugees who each Francisco's brand-new inter- the standard treatment sightly lem. There is trouble in para-day cross to the West from the national airport were four mem- embarrassing, but good business, disc.

Soviet zone.

a

girls hired by the local Chamber of Commerce Europe. They are popular here. lined up, a band played Bolt And so are the British Hawailan music, and someone Hawail, despite its prosperity draped

of and the rich wreath

a lei.

ON

endowments

of

been fighting for Statehood,

The territory wants to become

bers

of the Japanese Diet. They It was night, and I don't want For years the islando have were fussed over and coddled. to libel Honolulu, but it was given free drinks in the Clipper raining. Club, escorted to the plane by anxious American officials.

Tourist boom

status.

Because of exchange restric- tions, and for political reasons, contact between East Berliners and West Berliners is gradually becoming weaker, but Berlin remains the chief rendezvous'

the

THOSE THAT FLEE a State of the Union, preferably the 49th State, It has cam- Crossing polats cisewhere To one airline official I said:

paigned ceaselessly for this along the zone border are more am Hot surprised that the "Why the V.I.P. treatment?**

caally isolated and controlled islands are called the Pearl ot

said: way it is now," he

"The Royal Hawaiian Mayor Neal Blaisdell That's the

points than Berlin, which is the normal the Pacifle. They deserve the replied. "and Japanese alrlines Hole?" to the taxi driver and out that Hawall contributed Junction for travellers in name-and no! merely for are tough competition. You was driven at tremendous speed more revenue to the United Russlan zone between Dresden their beauty,

won't find much racial trouble past garages, an oil refinery, States Treasury than 11. States and Leipzig and the Baltic. There is a lesson to be learn- In Hawall

scores of neon-lit bars, Standard on the mainland.

In theory only people who jed here by many parts of the I felt I was a long way from Oil tanks, drive-in restaurants Other officials said to TR0 She is afraid that as a resultworld,

zona for and particularly by Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, with signs, of the wide publicity given to America's Deep South, which is and Miss Lucy.

hamburgers, frankfurters, Pepsi glaring example in the world of their lives were in danger, are

"Hot dogs, giant bitterly: "If you want the most have left the Soviet

politient reasons, or because this meeting she will be con-torn with racial conflict.

I also felt, as I peered at my Cola."

taxation without representa- sidered a 12emocrat and, there Here

close to

official refugees 500,000

"There must

recognised map and spotted Pearl Har- I thought: fore, will not be invited to people Japanese. Chinese, bour that there are none like some mistake-this is New And now the black versus and flown from Berlin to West The Republican parties.

Caucasians, Pilipinos.

Germany. In white crisis in the Deep South pure the Americans (and the British) Jersey."

practice most "That would be a pity, be-Howallans, part-Hawalians, for forgiving and forgetting. The The air Was not flower has tornished Hawaiian hopes,

of those likely to make good cause Elisenhower gives such Puerto Ricans, Koreans, some attack on Pearl Harbour hap- scented, but rocking of petrol. Nils Tavares, chairman of the are accepted even if they fed goed parties," she says sadly, Negroes, and thousands of white pened only a few years ego-a That was the beginning and Hawail Statehood Commission,

it was a let-down; but it has who has just returned from the merely in order to better them. faded now. Hawaii lives up to United States, says: "The racial The "unrecognised", refugees the advance publicity dor the issue has split Congress 60 tire not sent back,' but are badly that the introduction of housed in camps, and have to

arc

and

DANCING GIRLS GRABBED AND SOLD AS SLAVES

CLAVES

secretly

have

BY PETER BLOXHAM

for

most pant.

be tion, here it is."

04

I have walked miles this any other controversial issue is mako their own way morning past magnificent hotels looked upon with blanic dia-

on the Miami model and re- favour."

splendent shops and stores. Honolulu is an exotic combina- tion of Palm Beach, Beverly

Hills, and Hollywood, with tropical overtones.

Seething

Hawall Is

THE Attorney-General, Ed- prosperous, riding a ward Sylva, says: "Washing- surging tourist boom as skil- top and the South arg seething fully as the locals ride the surf: to such an extent: Över

in the

world without unemployment

and other benefits,

- TOMORROW: PRODUCTION DRIVE

the

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LÄNCASTEL

through Kano, the Nigerian Foreign Minister in Paris.

Saudi Arabia "to the French tainers to give a dancing party Miami are eyeing it enviously consider weakening their posi-

-

outside a certain village.

Then he pays the sheikh of a

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b'o'en I saw a confidential report The Glaver arranges convoyed from the French Ambassador to wandering musicians and enter-It is doing so well that the big racial issue that Southern Gena- money men of Las Vegas and tors and Congressmen will not

town where the Queen'

and greedily.

tion by admitting two Senators This said that prices stopped

The mobsters from the main from Hawall on her journey slave markets vary according to party and carry off the girls.

in the desert tribe to swoop on the land would like to move in and home after her tour.

introduce wide-open

So this polyglot land, where garnbling, age, beauty, and the sirength

Once in the glaver's hands the quicidio divorce, of the slave. Beautiful, 15-year girls are sold oponly in the slave racing. Hayali

and organised a Chinese is Chief of Police, This is part of an old dancing girls

another says "No" and where

Chineso i are feiching

markets of Mecca or Riyadh, £200 amazing charge made to anything between

means it. It is expanding. and Speaker of the House, where and

Twelve slaves who tried to thriving without the casinos. French

Japanese are college profemora £400. authorities by

escape were overtaken in the

and hundreds of men and Awad el Joud, a 23-year-old

deseri; ning were beheaded un Gnawing problem women of mixed blood hold high Sudanese who says he is

the spot.

offloc, is barred

a fully himself the escaped slave of A man under forty, the re back to Riyadh, where they Aly begun to follow the flag- here, and there is some

The other three were taken

LTHOUGH I have not formal-fledged member of the Union.

There are come prejudices an Arab prince.

port adds, is worth £150, and were publicly executed as.

Tacial

· ពង older woman £40. Slave lesson

to other would-be the fog is following me. Today, discrimination, but by law and Awad implicates authorities merchanto send out their men escapers.

in the space four short blocks by general practice this is the In the Sudan by suggesting they to villages of the Sudan, Upper

near Walki Beach, I counted

land of

the free. Here men are have winked at the kidnapping Volta and the Niger with orders Ollen slave dealera Bond 20 British care-M.G. Jaguars, equals under the rw, regard- of men and women for sale us

to bring back a good bag." agents to Afrlen posing as Austin, Healys, Sunbeam Tri- leas of ence, colour, de creed, staver in Mecca, Djedda, and And correspondants. quoting misslorries loading pilgrim Gota

The Deep South should take other Arab downe.

places, names and tribes, told' nges to holy places.

I have not met any other notice and learn. It is a Hie full fantastic story 11 me low young girls' are kid“ Those who follow them aro Englirtimen, but have como supreme trong that Statehood soon by placed before the napped from the towns and handed over to, the plavo mer- [scrom several ́ Aurélians on should be enjoyed by Dixieland United Nations by Britain's, villages of the desert border- -chanis as soon as they have their way home efier: business and doofed Hawalć, po Anti-Slavery Society.

drr-the-Persien› Guif-

crossed the Red Sex

Várips to the United States ; and 2 Hawaii, młodni

Dan's Jes's; overdo its jum

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