THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1956.
THOMAS WISEMAN'S HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK
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CARY GRANT TRIES
SOME HYPNOTISM
'Can't stand the taste of cigarettes or alcohol now,' he says. 'A pity. I used to like it.
flas
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interest
worked now: hay
out remarkably Under is hypnotism,
hypnosis, well," he was persuaded to give up In her next film Misa Kerr smoking and drinking although will play a un who has a emotional relationship he had no particular urge to strictly
with a marine. give up either
you
ASUAL voice on 'phone
Haya: "My name Cary Grant. If don't mind talking to broken-down old actor, why don't we meet for a drink?"
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"Can't stand the Lante of cigarettes alcohol now." he "PHY Used to like #," tir at proves for from broken snys
He has pe merent cippet A few trinkets tan, spray welk, easy charm tell me. 1 on 152, 1 upare palely intre sulkan "Yes," thee's a busca of u wh wel"
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Giner Kelly comes in it fan- She 1: svitably verspr
ey Hollywood Com conver abon just now
Crant and his wife are ana ng hor best rients Hays She's a wonderful glad what
of actres
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Joan Collins of MEET Larty She is with Arthur 1. Jun., ser: of the boss of MOM Mike Collins usually wh Arthur Leew, Jun., these reys
Intee that she has given up
endume jewellery, has taken to wearing the genuine
tuit "Jui
Hinkets 21 fe w Arthur pave me for Christmas," natural abe explains
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I am sure she and the cinde a dueling diamond in
13 star-upphire Pine are very much tay love
I jemark mi how the wedding Collins must have had a
explultest lins breat
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the merry Christinas
intrests of Moshe and MGM
on with the Royal motif
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"Frustration in so much more interesting than consummation,”
she says,
When the fan was announced Catholic organisations objected. will So the nu23
be an Epls- copalian.
"The Episcopalians aren't so
explains well organised," studio executive
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No pavements IN many parts of Hollywood
there are no pavements aud you eat walk for hours without Cheguntering a solitary pedes- trian Everybody gots every- where by car The car are the sleekest, the smoothest any- where in the world (and death on the roads is probably higher than anywhere in the world).
THIS..
IF EVER HE RETURNS IN TRIUMPH by CUMMINGS
Cummings
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her Everyone mortg Now at peak of her sucress, She subhed her størring and singing role in the 5.000,900
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King delti 143 14 1
has just the most relaxei person I have met in Holly woori. Also one of the most intelligent Also one of the most casual. Also
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I can and the high notes I can't reach friends, he which
# pro..
mo singer does for says, "we just lay at home and fosshunal
You always meet 10 read books
sort of composite volee. Never been done before, but fl The same people at parties."
would rather read a book don't have mnay
sees
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There modest words hint at a massive comprehension would give a spectaj delight to every page, even if he were not a wonderful writer.
by WILLIAM
BARKLEY
TO WAR
of
the Tudors from the field Bosworth (1485), at which this volume ends.
such range until the American Civil War (1801).
The long-bow had a longer Tange than the muskets of Marlborough and of Wellington,
What
dki these victories
cialm bring? In reviving his bo most
of Frerice, Henry
V, he says, opened the greatest tragedy in our medieval history. It was a glittering victory, but the wasteful campaigns and the destroying century that ensued black shadow upon
cast
Henry's heroic triumph.
"In the
long story of a nation we often see that capable
The text abounds in dashing rulers by their very virtues sow the seeds of future evil; and analytes of characters.
weak or degenerate princes open. the pathway of progress,”
"This
ALFRED: KING sublime power to rise above the whole force of circumstances, to remain unbiased
He is here talking of Edward by the ex-, in whose reign, it he can be tremes of victory or defeat, to said to have reigned, a portent appeared: Parliament was sumn- moned 25 timest
persevere
the in
Ike the phrase with which he hernids the rise of King Alfred. He has been recording
teeth of how the Saxons nearly succumb-
disaster, to greet returning ed to the Danish Invasion.
No; his heart
wrung fortune with a cool eye, to have HE English-reading
"That they did not was due," throughout at the fearful story faith in men
after repeated raises almost every of slaughter and misery, the betrayals,
Alfred for peoples are in luck. he writes, "as
of blood bath above the turmoli of barbaric They are presented critical turn of historic fortune long centuries
to the sudden which make one wonder how wars to his pinnacle of death- with a new look at has been duc, themselves and their apparition in an era of confusion the race ever survived to speak leza glory,"
and decay of one of the great English or anything else. origins, and the new look figures of history." comes from an eye that is unique in its power of be 1939. Maybe alongside Alfred
holding.
That passage was written in
in his mind he was put- or Pilt or Sir Winston Churchill, ing Lloyd George,
How was he to Marlborough, having made history, now know, writing before the war, makes a history-book. This that he was describing also the he was to be himself a volume*
400 pages is man only the first quarter of his year or two later? monumental plan to tell the story
the of
English- speaking peoples as he knows it.
of
THIS SEDATE COUNTRY
those far-off days of peace when it was fashionable to call defence "murder" and to label munition-makers as mer- chants of death, Churchill's de of tractors sneered at him. as experience
man who loved war,
"I write about the things in our past that appear significant to me and I do so as one not without some
**A History of the English- speaking Peoples," Volume 1: The Birth of Britain. By Winston S. Churchill. (Court. 24)
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He thinks of the little-known
of Roman Occupa centuries tion 18 a period "sedate luminous, and calm." Then the fall of Rome jeft the islands defenceless,
IN
2
THIS HISTORIC IRONY
the same vein of historic HENRY II (who was
irony he says of the weak Frenchman): Square, thick King John, from whom Magna **When set, bull-necked, with powerful Carla was extracted; berns and coarse, rough hands; the long tally is added it will his legs bandy from endicas be seen that we owe far more riding: a large, round head and to the vices of John than to of virtuous closely cropped
labours red hair; a the freckled face; a voice harsh and sovereigns." cracked."
The Saxons came: the Danes
I must say this is a refresh- carne; in
time these other
the French Nor- England was only a province ing way to write history. "Norsemen,"
Herry whe empire,
We used to be told; that when mans, arrived and in three to this winter months macked England which be ceaselessly patrolled, kings go mad the people suffer. the people extended to the Mediterranean, Yet the theory that the down into something which wa
beneft when kings go toft la begin to recognise.
The quarrel with Becket was. sometimes borne out in another So far these chapters have however, very English, or, as story which the volume traces;
Churchill says, those who dwell the
Parliament and been grouped as "The Island
the Commons, in England give to every particularly Race "
Now we have a group practice or doctrine that comes where the author has spent entitled "The Making of the to them from abroad its own half a century. Nation" with such significant peculiar turn and imprint. chapter headings as Growth amid Turmoil" and "On the Anvil," as we get the Churchill eye-view of No many and
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MONACO
THIS BARBARIC WORLD
LREADY in the
twelfth
rise of
The Commons took root when Edward I began to depend on It for money. It grew under weak Edward II; and strong Edward III again found it use ful for his wars. The Commons In the modern phrase insisted on the redress of grievances before Was the grant of supply. But all this took spreading, although
was to vanish. under Richard II more centuries to attain, that who persuaded the Commons to the Church should look as vote itself out of existence; to much to the king as to the be revived by Richard III, anet destroyed again by the first Tudor.
A century the idea
Pope
It
He compares Beckel's murder with
revolutions
the seventeenth Not until droves of century did its powers and bishops to concentration camps dulles re-emergo,
modern which have
sent
"or pistolled them in the nape of the neck, in the well-warmed, brilliantly Highted corridor of a prison.
"What claim have we to vount
Langton,
THIS FINGER, POINTING.
CIR, WINSTON says in a
A
HERE
still
Liechtenstein, like Monaco, is "little states." The Saar has a
Luxem Europe a
number of a principality, but there is no population of 988,000.
succession problem there, for the bourg, a duchy founded in 1354, tiny states besides the prin- present prince has three sons. has a population of 300,000, but this lile its people do not enjoy the truc cipality of Monaco, which German-speaking, has recently figured with principality lies between Austria pocket-state advantages of the superior civilisation to Henry
Ded Switzerland. It has a Diet Hittle principality of Monnce. It's times? We are sunk in S preface that he planned such prominence in the of 15 members, D customs They pay taxes and are called barbarism all the deeper because world's newspapers.
unice with Switzerland, and up for the army, just like the it is tolerated by moral lethargy this book 20 years ago and had national anthem with the same people of any ordinary big and covered with a veneer of written 500,000 words when the war set it aside. So now wo There is San Marino, in tune as Britain's "God Save the brother state."
zelentide conveniences."
know what he was doing when the "leg" of Italy, for Queen" and America's "My
But what of the future for A footnote says this was he was out of office and out of instance the smallest re- Country. "Tis of Thee." Sot up
There have favour, ng a principality in 1719, Hs Monaco7 Its people, the Mone-written in 1930. re-
gasques, have acquired a lovely been subsequent examples. public in the world as
We knew he was building population today is 13,000.
princess, a new set of in-laws-
getting his brick gards aren, and with
Others whom he brilliantly walls and population of 18,600, It has
and a question-mark conilluminates are Edward I (and. layer's tickot.. But he was whi Bes in store for a customs union with Italy,
For, under a treaty of 1918, for even measure, Robert the devoted also to developing
Stephen Monaco will
sense of brotherhood between and ono of its main sources
pass into French Bruce), of revenue is the issue of There are the Channel Islands, control if the Prince dics with-Hubert de Burgh, Henry V, the the Empire and America.
Included in the British Isles, out a son or a daughter to first English king to write his English was definitely not postage stamps.
but possessing enough Indepen« succbod' him.
war despatches home in the spoken in America when 1,500 English language. These were
years of British history enda In Italy, too, is the Vatican dence to run their own aftales--
own Parlia from Agincourt, 1415.
with this volume, That country Cily of course, which has its certainly to the extent of being Monaco has its awn postal service, coins, stamps, exempt from the high rate of ment the National Council
I learn it was the Walshmen had still to wait seven years, radio and railway ino. In 1871 taxatke in Great Britain. Their 18 members and a judicial code who gave Edward III and Henry after Bosworth for Columbus to modelled on that of France,
And It. to the Holy population is 103,000.
secret weapon, the fit was guaranteed
French is the language spoken, See for ever, Its population is Lundy Island, lying between but France's "may" in the rule of long-baw.
So the deep purpose is to 040..
the coasts of Wales and Devon the principality is limited to a
fortify the ·English-speakers mouth of the Bristol customs olen that dates from what was going to hit them, trials and
The French did not know
by the · contemplation of the Then there is Andorra, in the at the
tribulations of our mountaine between France and Channel, has a population of 48 1865.
Agincourt and other victories
common. forefathers, and, Spain. The six-village mount people and thousands of birds
Spanish were won with odds of three to moreover, to play a part. In tain state of Andorra is virtually of the specics ionown as: puffine Monaco was
1824-1641, one against the English, whom uniting the whole world, self-govorning, and even has da It inuod ita own coins and protoctorate from own, inngunge Catalan. But it stampe during the 1920s part of France from 1793-1814; to calls The Tew All 250
Bardinian as protesterate om yards, he notes the arrow halle! For in his qwo wants the pays dues jointly to France and ** to the local Bishop of Urget. Is The Sale and Lencombourg 1815-1861, and acquired He In-produced effects never reached English-speaking pooping may
are the biggest of Europe's dependance again in, 1861,200 gal by Infantry, missiles at point mingway showing the wh population is 5,000.
V
their
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