1956-04-21 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956.

MAJDALANY MEETS SHE HAS A MOOD FOR EVERY MAN

N HE is like a

tog

1.) dark-haired

hair at all."

You can gener»

ally get a line on people from their books. Except in the 111m world, where books are

apt

not

to contain payer

but

drink

I know a film executive

who

or

without

uny

works

in office lined with beautifully

bound

red

volume.

with combined "Musculinity sensivity," said the lady in-

14 verely.

Laurence of Sir

"The mightiest little thing one

New York

sible therefore it was radio form a fuller Impression of her by watching the different ways active snowdrop in which she coped with differ that has been guing ent people, and all the time

with orchids, was aware Her platinum hair is a silky Olivier's remark about her being wearily. When foum of baby fluff, careful moment, perfectly innocent the ly in ita carelessness, and next." It was fun to watch this giving the impression that change of moods in net lot. she ran her fingers through it when it was soapy, and it stayed like that.

in

She is what 1

2 sure the late Will Rogers had

fre mind when be said that

not much

for dict

Care children except of course, little girl children over the age of 18.

She prettier off the serven. Paul Klee, who died a few years. ago, would have been the man to pa her

It is perhaps superfluous lo say that she Is wel Intexi

Pagle must be aware of this by now I was more interesting to discover that she hus a great lol of 69. leughs a (especially { the traditional Marilyn Monroe

jokes), has

quick

brain, and is shrewdly articulate when Tuning lences that are King to

qurated or misquoted, an stre in 21

little weaŁY of being

she laughs at that too.

I KEPT A

SCORE CARD

Though

SUPPOSE I Is the universal

male

conspiracy

Lanya

I kept a rough score card und the nough! jest Ittle thing" exceeded the other in the pro- Lutjena of 00 to 49, being seen y best advantage when dealing with which she did expertly) The kind of foolish question that is asked by these who welte for fun megazines

An interrogation of this kind was drawing wearly to its close when I arrived. A diligent lady Inquisitor was asking the usual

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

YOM

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I'm afraid, dear, that when

duem't make news - but when Marilyn Monroe cries..."

women conveniently cla-stard und labelled that has led to the questions about what colour of general sumption that if aha she favoured in a man, young female head happens to whether she pretened her male

bound to be short or long, whether ruinance

was round the corner, and the rest of jt

be blonde empty.

it is

41

We

the

1 guess so," sad Marilyn

were alone little thing" mood awiteled to a tentative servais- wandering neys and I whether to be hurt ac flattered.

She told me but her meeting with Olivier

She panicked about what fat

Hun through her entire to wan wardrobe twee disliking herself ... more and more, and then,

was not ready, so that she had to keep him willing a lang tinie

her

She told me but the porter where Be at the block of that

He tud ad pbal

Ilving

her et le vom He gave her #gly k "What's the en," "you trying to be an smething?

he said. netress on

She so she wanted to make it clear that she was it giving up what is sometimes known as cheesecake.

"Wheleve you don't l

new Monr

4 14 13

I hope being photos.aphed in swith suits as long

A

Un

the sh: pe 1.

don't Rme

as have

mit them Wint lo dat

All of a sud~

den he will dis- entangle himself from

several

telephones, grab hold of "Martin Chuzzlewit" and push, where

upxm

the

col-

lected works of Cherhes Dickens smoothly swing round to disclose ETRY ul and

an

bottles glasses.

MONROE

Page

DAPHNE FIELDING (WIFE OF AUTHOR XAN FIELDING) TRIES OUT THE HAZARDS OF HOUSEKEEPING IN TANGIER

I chase a pickpocket

in the Kasbah

IGH up in the Kasbah qulekly carted off in enormous

H the oldest part of baskets to a lorry waiting round

The

was

I thought IL would be It was also romantic. It was. quite ught we moved In we found a shake in the bedroom,

alarming.

the corner.

er

Arabic, to buy the flowers for me; the cama buck with twice the amount at a quarter of what I had pold,

Khemo taught me all I know about hopping in Tangier,

PINCH TEST

the old town of Garbage disposal to music- Tungier-there is a small a nice idea. And nicer still to Arab house which hangs like know this service is free; rates don't exist in the a bat in the 16th-century and taxes

International Zone. It Portuguese walls.

From then on the narrow On one occasion we had to here that I had my first lanes are full of strange noises; buy some chickens for a cous

the bleating of taste of Pope le Moko life.

being cousa Arab dish of specially Conta

semolina, garnished milked at the neighbour: front prepared

with chicken, or lomu, chick- doers, followed by the human

Cn.5.85, spice There were left-overs:

any amount of superannuated Tommy Tuckers them in the market, strung up sing.ng for their

cx in bunoles by their legs. They rather

all for their break

much

the same to In isted Meanwhile, from the Spanish bat quarter at the foot of the old thorough examination and made walle,

the syncopated me pinch each bird's behind to tilek of castanets, accompanied make sure it was a good one. I by thriti turals of feminine sill co not know what this test was meant to reveal, I was for invective hurled from roof le root by sharp-tempered Ando-

tco embarrassed to ask. busian housew.VIS.

very Dialing of beggars, oach one fezs, nimtens highly

BERK

"Perhapi 's only A snake?

ventured,

1t looks more like Cleopatra's

1 asp," replied, As I watched the dark gun-meil colis winding them-elves round my bedroom slippers.

my husband hopefully

Neither of us wanted to kill 1; we felt it would bring bad luck. So we tried to pick it up on toolscap sheet of

paper and throw it out over the walls. But It writhed and Twisted furiously that kept falling off. There was suthing che for #1. Xon quickly despatched it with

boot,

I12

the cepted

view widly

DI

to

BC.

notion that 10

never

ould

use tude

like

1

to

words Dostoievsky, happy am

that the repart books of Marilyn Moave are pien-

Billed with pages rather bellies. than

Lire

are not

1 l

all the

Ieander other things tou."

That was the be-ls of nea quarrel with 20th Century-Fux, about which I shall have more to say in a later arleie.

SHE SWITCHED

INSTANTLY

WE began

talk about her WE

acting lexams. when breezy Canadian reporter arrived

de powerful voice und in

to know whether she ander was "through with all this Love Goddess business."

Marilyn, switching instantly It may be as well, therefore, While this went on Marilyn-, to her wicked kitten inod-und it make it clear before going in black, short-sleeved shirt instinctively releasing couple any further that this 15 the and a black skirt a trifle V of inches more leg-handled him undumbest blonde I have ever light, as one knew it would be ste must have handjed the

sted a sort of contained sergeants'

whe visited wickedness.

But it was when he entertained the soldier that she took great in Korea, 1 spent a day with 27- lyn Monat bes H. t, i due care to phrase answers so thai Along they could roomed apartment

not be

mot.

the river and not ruma kable fur

rasticenble

misunder-

way of the extravageders some- 1 like a man with poetry in

រវើរ in him--youa

know-but not

Zhares

For much of the tere we part. No. Better not say that, stu Lalked Lune,

but using the They're sure to take it the wrong

w.uld altertioon pepla

cuine way and make something of IL and go, mst of them journal- I guess if 1 ilke a man I dat

ista

care whether he's short or tall,

k!"%

In

persive bindings, are not arranged In

Cover

Y

branches

wrillen

order,

must of the word,

and all bear un- mistakable traces

of having been

handlod, opened,

and, presumably.

read

Tend

We had again "The naughtiest little thing one moment, Just

round

to talking about her acting

perfectly innocent the next."

lessons when there were more journalist foolishly held aloft a visitors. A correspondent of one notebook and pencil of the big Ammerleun magazines? turned up with a retinue of two ssistants, and a photographor who wore a coat splendidly lined with fur.

It

I prepared to watch Marilyn

her Scale One producing

I imagine aughty kok which to be reserved for photographie VETUS JONES.

surprize To my was the correspondent, a K108- The Cospdian was followed by

curlously began an allan who wanted to know sive men, who whether Signorina Monroe would drape hanself in a recumbent like to make a picture with De position on the sofa. Slea some time, and when she he saud she would, said thai that was all he wanted to know. passionately. und thanked her hurried out,

photograher his equipment, moved furn Aure

fur-coated The fictalled with the assistanle

about, the hugo

Then for the first time they took notice of Marilyn, who was told to get in the picture and look like a girl being inter- vlowed by a man lying on his back.

"That snake was determined

die," he apologi ed.

discovered it had We later come in through a hole in the But which bedroom ceiling. hole? There were

several, Short of building there seemed to be no way of blocking every entrance.

SNAKE-CHARMER

a new ro01,

CUT

carrying a bowl-not for money and but for yesterday's

comes

A

tool:ed

Khemo

to me, un a

I just went on pinching until Khemo was satisfied. Then we carried our clucking purchases home

NOW I KNOW.......... Marketing in Tangier is hazardous business,

If you The Adaninistrater of Tangler don't look out, you're certain to happens to be a chicken-fancler, have your pocket pleket. I know and had just made a Jaw this to

col, after being against chicken my

being carried a crowd and feeling upside down. jostled in

Dulifully Khemo my purse being snatched,

and I obeyed this regulation, but wits after the man in a trice,

it wren't DEY. quickly that Xan didn't realize what was up though I was shouting "Stopf Thieft in several languages. He thought

had

simply seen a friend! Some policemen joined the cha ́e and the culprit was caught.

SO

I

He turned out to be a well- known voicur a la tire called Mohammeil ben Absolam, nick- named Habibi, which in Arabic

Cans "darling." He certainly was not my idea of one,

I thought a enake charme might somehow solve the prou- lem, DIK artowany even hiring one. Then I reults. the Kasbah anake-vine would only hiss the news abroad and there would be a conta_vus cong-nine of serpents stretching right zeras, the balticmc end into

window,

1 still couldn't bear the But

of reptiles dropping in idea us while we slept, so I bought a mosquito net to protect us. Since when no snake has shown Its face again.

The Kasbah wakes carly. The I was there, I was first morning routed

at oawn by the blast of stall, brass hom.

4

This she obligingly did, and I had the feeling that I had wit-

1 historic moment nessed a had set

on Monsieur eyes Recamier.

When

they had Mone she mid: "I suppose he wants it to give to his grandchildren."

(COPTRIGHT)

NEXT SATURDAY: reclining Monroe and "The Method.”

Why, Mr Harben, you make food sound almost sexy!

PHILIP HARBEN, the TV chef, is now in America on an "Eat British" mission. But his ambassadorial adven- tures have not been confined to food...

cooker right in the dinning British Travel Association. They

room.

The company were highly impressed by the cheeses, the lke of which few of them had ever tasted, and almost equally amazed by the Southdown lamb which we had Hown over specially They don't ever get ment like that here.

are doing a really marvellous job over hom-but in their zeal they can be over-cautious,

"Don't mention tond-in-the-

П terrible name hole-such Don't show them Welsh rarebit they have exactly the same Don't tell them thing here. that in Britain toast is served cold To an American that is After a number of radlo inter simply revolting, And don't views and In appearance in wear that butcher's apron-it is What's My Line? I was booked go unhygienie:" to cook

typical British breakfast" on the Dave Gar roway show which goes out at 7 a.m. every day, This meant

'CUTE'

about

New York plates, lamp standards, metal I used for this Double Glou- getting up at 4.30, on the set at pur in fact the Americana,

D who know TANDING in the window frames, and the mail cester cheese from the 3381b. 5.30.

enough various cheeses Cheshire

The show is repeated two hygiene to know that colour has middle of the carpet in chute. It is all very disconcert- of

Ing. but if to kiss your wife Blue, Cheddar, Bilton, Fylic,

Gloucester, hours later for the West. The nothing to do with it, think my this 81st floor apart means electrocution that is bad. Werkdeydale, Red

is actually a showroom apron cute and I am allowed to ment I stooped forward to

Leicester, and Caerphilly-that studio

49th Street, on

and crowds wear no other. with Another shock not quite so brought over kiss Kathy and a spark

that this apartment personal baggage in the Queen gather at the window to stare. They think doad-in-the-hole a snupped between us, burn- ing our lips.

A few moments later she had put on a silk dress and I went to zip it up the back. As my fingers touched her bare back agtin that spark cracked and this time an electric shock juddered up my arm.

SHOCKS

THEY tell me it is statle rice

physical

when I ordered Elizabeth. duelt me was two Martinis and two bottles of beer from room service and signed a cheque for eight dollars!

MY CIRCUS

That sent me round to the liquor store to return with my brief-caso clinking with bottles THESE which offected a saving of 05 percent.

as mc

will chroener

travel round with me. From here

CATI

through.

delightfully quaint. name and The facilities and conditions cannot wait to try the dish. were the worst I have over They immediately *OW the encountered. They have never point of the crispness of British had a cookery spot on this show, toast as compared with Ameri- before.

toast, which is buttered All went well, but there was while still hot. And they found rorebit totally to Montreal, to Toronto, Hamli- a tense moment when J. Fred the real Welsh

com •"that roper, ton, London (Ontario), Chicago More was led past my table different

sloppy" thing floating in a sort tell Milwaukee, San Francisco,, and its mado A grab for my here to over Amerkans how good the food is Los Angeles, Harben's cheese porrl with cream but was of soup that goes under in Britain today, and so drum up crous.

Just restrained in time, Any name of Welsh rabbit here. come dollar-bearing visitors.

had bilien

nian that tude of New York to Br

food was summed up by Mac Kriendler, host at the 21 Club As I say, my mission here is party when, after listening to the fears of those my speech about how they serve

T

am

over the carpet. Every time

in its remarkable history frin thing could have happened. He But I think · the' whole The campaign opened with a speakosay days to present super morning.

Club has you put your key in the lock you the most hard to get into acon some unusual sights: but I

Irielty generated by walking

lunch party at the 21 Club, rated respectabilliy the 21

tho

get that blue shock, but it restaurant in the world. Thero doubt whether its walls have to allay doesn't hurt if you hold the key I demonstrated to a company of witnessed anything stranger than Americans who are stil terrided Sillon checro..in Melton Mow- Bald with a dreamy, of of British food. But so far the bray, firmly,

.columniste, Sir Codris Hard- the spectacle, of the quest

of only people I can find, who are, famway look in his eyes. “H Welsh rarebit on portable terribed of British food are the makes it sound almost sexy."

had shock and wicks, and other notables the honour cooking 2: portione

witch making of Welsh rarebit.

I have

pricking

burna

on

A military procession? No, only the garbage man blowing his own trumpet; the signal for people to empty their rubbish into the street, from where it is

Head-down seems to be the natural po ture for captive Arab chickens inevitably, I suppose, for generations of them have been carried in this way-and ours were no exception.

SET-BACKS

They obviously preferred

We

being curried by their legs. had to struggle to keep them upright in accordance with the new "humanitarian" decree,

Back at the

they houst were penned fo: the night in the to kitchen before being slaughtered next morning In the Moslem manner: slowly bleeding to genth with their throats slit. Their pitiful crowing at dawn made me determined in future only to buy dead chickens killed in the Christian way.

But this at least cured me of my urge to have a donkey carry my shopping. Everything I bought would have been lifted from the panniers long before I ever got home,

wish bargaining were not an essential feature of Arab com- nierce because I'm so bad at it. I used to

pride myself on doing good burinere whenever 1 bought lower.

T

went to the same where the two boys in charge made a special price for me uunily throwing in on with a servant at 25 a month, extra bunch free and presenting whisky at 125, 6d, a bottle, and me with a buttonhole as well. wine at less than a chilling the

It was rapecial price, oli litre? right. One day I asked Khemio,

alwave

#

NON-STOP

But in spite of certain set- backs of this kind, there's a lot to be said for housekeeping in Tangler,

A fillie way there

JADISSON

money goes a long Why not, indeed,

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