1
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1956.
GIRL IN REVOLT FINDS
TH
REFUGE IN ROME
-By RALPH COOPER~
"HAT "Forever Amber" and so she dockded that the best flasco the film was way to put over the maximum Darnell glamour and possion one of Hollywood's was to be the boss herself. costliest flops seemed to be a career kis-of-death for glamorous, tempestuous Linda Darnell, who played Amber.
are creating something for your zelf, and therefore ave an in- Mouthing tense interest in it. someone else's lines for a straight salary can get monotonous.
"I'm just as kien as the big studios were to spot new talent.
Plenty of others have tried and a good few have failed to make good, beenuse a star imm't always the best picker when it comes to buying properties for herself. But there are plenty of examples of stars who have shown that besides being good began to lose its glitter In the looking they have busines heads ing in his next pictures until
en their shoulder. Holywood heavens,
From moment she played fin her star the lead in that
But to my Lara ighting back, and has even gone late, business for her- elf by forming her own produc- Jon comp..
Linda's carver, spac d out by 11-inter runtarzes on both sides the Atlan has been in the screen deltrums 1ecently--ber
fewer appeaner tower
bome in
071:1
Now me's mi her Rome where her last three ple-
Dive
tures
The Hollywood revolution han gone so far today that the big bul a shadow of stulos tre their former selves. The day of the mighty film mogul appears to be over.
I see a worthwhile youngster 11 pul him in a picture with a shot And if he does well in couple of established stors like a that he'll get progressively better he becomes a star In his own
ដ
the
The power has been split up and sprend around among nellla.
independent com-
No tem than two-thirds of two the current production at made. and of the major studies, Columbia Warner, is now in The where her new one, to be made and for re: own comp.ny, is to cap hands
"Con- paties: and even MGM, the called screensh
toost self-contained. traditional stanta.
me that one of them all, will have ten writes to tell
made within she's going to make it to sunny independent ma Huty "beenuse that's where the its hallowed walls this year. romanlle story takes place."
Linkin
She is aiming for "Constanta"
to get a world-wide
release.
unlike her last two films, For- bidden Women" and "Last Five nitra were Matutes. which
arh in Italy
Censor trouble
mach
heavy
Unified States
After "Amber."
belled Dgainst
contract and having rules she did suited to hut.
It
Slewar: who was Jimmy set the fashion, and ofhers were the quick to follow-Alan Ladel, Doris Day, John Wayne, Gary Copper, Marlon Brando, Cornel Wilde, and even Gregory Peck, in spite of him telling me nos ro long ago that business wor rles were not for him and that he was quite content to be on netais
were
Linda It'
erm Long-term the
to play not think
unlike 15+1. she did other actresses, May in Hollywood to battle i out.
* ☆
refuge
1101
Her incurably romantic na- tire found
in Italy, where, on and off for the past two years, she has spent most of her th.
flims behind Now, with 30 ber-she started at the age of
comme hay
to 15-Linda
the turning point of her career. Suit lovely, she has an inbred which the affor, passion to majority of actresses lack and nut which, in any
cuse, does
of expression And fill chance.
thing well dune, do it yourself," saya Land,
In Hollywood,
**II
you wort
rinhi
₤1
So far the ladie have not so eager to jump into been
the теп Apart from Doris Day, Marilyn business as Monroe and Linde Damell, they happier to frecianer,
wherever possible, taking, handsome share of the prots
Like Linda, too, the one-time
cinema actresses purely
arg turning their eyes to the stage. Linda recently made her stage debut in thi
States In Roonful of
and fol- lowed, it at once with a version of TCL and Sympathy" Miami. Next autumn she hopes lo minke her bow in a new play on Broadway.
BUY BUY BUY END SPEND SPEND
LOW
Linda Darnell
Budget
CHILD MING
PUBLIC
ABOVE ALL THE LITTLE DEAR MUST NOT BE FRUSTRATED
BU SPE
SPENOL
BEGINNING TODAY... A STORY THAT EVENTS HAVE GIVEN A NEW, COMPELLING SIGNIFICANCE
Burt Lancaster intist have one of the most powerful organisa- tons, which thinks in worldwide ters makes pictures all over the globe, buys top-rate proper · ties, and can afford, as it buns done recently, to sign up Gia Lollobrigida and Tony Curtis with Su Carol Reed us dizvetor for a orcus film made entirely in Paris.
Whether this star revolution is a good thing for the industry or to be seen---but not remains Cornel Wilde, who formed his own company a couple of years bower
on the "Beyond ago, told me Mombasa" set at Elstree in Brl- tain that he thinks it is a good thing.
very
"All the business worries are worth 1" he said, "because you
T
Stalin
'Exhumed’!
A NEW APPRAISAL OF THE MAN WHOSE LIFE IS RIGHT AT THE CENTRE
OF THE MOST ASTONISHING POLITICAL SOMERSAULT OF MODERN TIMES
HE clay is not yet Colossus is solid still, with
dust. The em formaldehyde for bload. balmed body is us firm now as when it
h
"A man has died who was the
heart, renson.
and
where Stalin was born, they home talk of mon being "drunk as cobblers."
Geneva:
and
from "Make way for the nagter hatred that have accumulated in your hearts throughout the centuries of exploitation, suffer- Here was 110 ing, and grief."
town. and tell Stalin's at mother to say he had been
to home when he was alleged
He did have been conspiring. not mind using his mother for Stalin's father drank and his alibi. lay three years ago in Conscienco of humanity," may have beaten the boy.
In 1905 came the first revolu- of spring flower, said the idolator of that But the boy grew strongly, tion. The first spontaneous pro-
three after the fashion of
earlier test of the Petersburg workers the man and his regime. Thus although Czars. The body of the man ya Ehrenburg, three years children had died at birth. against the Czar, whose troopa who more than any other age, on Joseph Vissariono- and although his father left had fired on them.
Lenin wrote vich Djugashvili, who was him and his mother to work strode this world" like
first called Soso, or little in a Tiflis factory. Joe; who was then called Koba, or the Indomitable,
thr after
Name of Georgian Robin Hood; and who
finally called Stalin, Man of Steel.
Three years ago the near great of Russia posed by his hier, cringing before his ghost, powerless beside his memory. The puppets of the satellites and the Western Communist Parties jerked their distress, and shed real tears.
Give Your Memory
a Holiday
with the Seamaster Calendar
The new self-winding Seamaster Calendar watch is the most faithful servant of time ever devised by watch- making science ... telling the exact time and day of the month. accurately, automatically.
You can discard your wall calendar, you can forget The Seamaster Calendar old-fashioned stem winding.
Automati.
winds itself with every flick of your wrist. cally, too, the date mechanism changes every 24 hours. It's simple, sturdy, foolproof.
tember
12
13
741
T5 M
OMEGA
Seamaster Calendar
Société
Suiste
Pour l'Industrie Horlogère
ᏕᏗ .
Geneva,
Gol Agents; OMTIS LTD, OMEGA ★ TAKEOF
Switzerland.
410 Gloucester Building
was
A funeral commission was set up. The chairman of it was Comrade N. S. Krush- chev.
-
Staliu and his mother, who washed and sewed to
caution. scrape a living, lived in a hovel a kitchen und other room. The rain Stalin wrote: "Let us hold out anct each other streamed in from the gut. our hands to
com- our Party's rally round tering. The fields, especially mittees We must not forget the boy's even for a minute that only our in spring, were only pleasure, They, and committees can worthtly lead us, only they will light our way to pretty early too, his hate, the promised landı"
At his church school he learned to hate his poverty, and to hate speaking Rus sian instead of
his native Georgian.
His mother, ambitious for her son to rise to the splan- dour of priest- hood, sent him
Years before Stalin had written: "The revolution is
to the incapable either of regret ting or of burying its dead." Tiflis Theolo- Semin- Now, the words return.
gical
there till ho Comrade Krushchev, who ary. He stayed entombed Stalin, reviles his ghost and struts across his was 19. dis- ciplined by un- memory. The builder of the
welcome theo- Russian State, the Little
logical studies of Father
the Russian
by and
By 1905 Stalin had a glim- mering of his way to the pro- mised land and the flowery bler.
It was to bo by way of the Party.
In 1007 hin
wife
the
THIS SERIES HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY....
GEORGE
him In the famous
GALE
or
train. Stalin for
П
Two was the senior in the capital.
armoured week
Bolshevik
de- lie had power to make cisions He made the wrong unta. A provisional Gover ment had been set up following the overthrow of the Czar.
had the machine, and Stalln kept the machine.
"Stalin did not create tha machine but took possession of exceptional and it. For this, special qualities were necessary, But they were not the qualities of the historic Initiator, thinker, writer, or orator. The machine had grown out of ideas, Stalin's и сот- first qualification was temptuous altitude towards ideas. The itica trad
The words stop there. words stop there
because
The
the
nan who was writing them was on the head by a pickaxe
hit
wrenched
and had his brains out. There were no more ideas The picleaxe of from that pen. the assassin had a contemptuous attitude towards ideas.
Stalin Thought the Govern-
It was Trotsky who wrote ment should be supported and these words in Mexico and who Stalin Russia defended from the Ger- died from the pickax iman attacks.
did not himself wield the axe, but by 1940, when the axe fell, Then Lenin arrived to shape Trotsky was all that was left of history as a potter shapes soft opposition to Stalin. And years and spinning clay in one of the before no opposition was left in- most astonishing short spells in history. This was the time
The decision horoté decision. was Lenin's.
for
GUC
and
side Russia.
'FATHER'
VEARS before Stalin had had his lackeys fashion the myth and had had his thugs kill off the men who disputed it.
was The chaos of war died. At
ceeded by the chaps of civil war. cemetery,
Lenin led the Red State says one of Sta- Jin's early
Trotsky led the Red Army to friends and late eventual triumph.
nemies: "Koba firmly
And all the time Stalin was pressed
on the periphery. He helped in Man Steel who led the my hand, point-
in early revolt and the coffin the defence of Tsaritsin, which Caucasus ed to
Stalingrad and which who took the head of the final and said: 'Som, became
he chose, they say, as the site revolution at the shoulder of creature this toothened my of the Inst war's chief battle. Ho Lenin. heart of alone; was a member of the Govern- sho died, and ment, competent it seemed, no
more.
ani
The first myth told of the
of
The second myth told of the Little Father who replaced the with her died
Man of Steel and whose kindly my List warm all
war face protected the peoples of feelings for
At the end of the civil human beings. this cruda, coarse Geoglan with Russia.
HO
pressed rough speech and no wit and
The third myth told of tho controlled, his hand on his an anger massively
desolato here found himself a member of Generalissimo of Victory.
Nationalities,
Commissar solate."
the myths. The for Workers and Peasants' in- now denounce
But mythe ila are smushed. Yet here, among the The underground revolution- spection. There was no glamour replace myths and terror begels
the terror. slowly expanded his here, nor did any road te monks, he first learned of ary
Dra
of the greatest singers of the stirrings of thought activities, slowly, almost imper- summit of power invite.
Stalin's mythe that destroyed his Chris- ceptibly, drew nearer
Lavrenti Berlo. tianity and formed his so- source of authority: cialism.
He began speaking to THE images of Stalin are small groups of workmen. purposes only: revolution and torn down. The myth is The schoolboy in the power; two springs: hatred and destroyed. But myths often seminary was listened to His replace myths, and terror with respect outside. begets terror. There are ambition became restless: riots in Russia: the the serf's son now belonged In 1912 come the reward He was co-opted on to the Central monolith shudders. It is to the intelligentsia. time to look again at Stalin, to separate myth and reality.
peoples, the destroyer of supervision part monastery heart: It is so
inside, so Inexpressibly de- the Politburo, Commisşar of Krushchev and the othera Fascism, is now "a tyrant, a and part barracks. torturer of children, and a man who ordered his troops not to return the fire of Hitler's first attack."
THE MYTHS
The dead man, in a bower of spring flowers, was not the saint they said he was. But there was this to bọ Baid for the man. He loved the spring, and flowers, the growth of vegetable life.
exile.
The
narrow
to the in Login
THE MACHINE
had two
umbition; -and one method: through the Party, nearer Lenin.
to
Excculive Committee
Ho became a revolution- Party. A few weeks later
to begin Pravda. ary. He went underground, helped These were the natural con- leading article sald: "Full sequences of his hate, his formity of views can only education, and his ambition. achieved at a cemetery." He became Koba, the In- domitable.
called Was Не
seng Ho sweetly of Stalin that he be come chief of the secret police.
W
camo
Ho 110 sang so sweetly of Stalin
nine months TN March 1922 when a new job that
after Stalin created Secretary- died Berla followed him, full of General of the Communist Party the bullets of a firing squad and
ho cremet a suitable, dull after a secret trial, pedestrian sort of fellow, a A new myth and a new terror good administrator,
come againmas competent could enough for the job.
myth and new terror. with Stalin's triumph in 1924. He may have smiled, then.
TOMORROW : May, when Lenin had a stroko. ho He may have smiled next March, HUB when Lenin had another stroke. con- Ho
tho
He may have smiled again In
in
QUOTE
must be have smiled When Lenin diod January Now he first becomes Stalin
1924. by name, the Man of Steel,
Nothing could shake But he was suit unknown. Lenin's
wonderful Georgian," levement,
for and Lenin called him, but still could The glamour That alone
Ho not remember his proper name. softened his spells of banishment. childhood and tempered the also married for the first squalor and poverty with time.
some grace. His father was
He worked in Tiflis, in
He began suffer That Batum. Ing
Imprisonment
born a chattel slave. Freed. In prison he threw a he tried to climb up the out of a window,
Trot- aky's. Zino- The Great War como — and yiov. and 1917. In February the revolu Kamenev too far stond tion began. Stalin was in greater than
prisoned in Biberld. He returned Stalin toute capital, before Lenin dame and
PHOTO.
was 'a Sovlet patriot and nu 'ini er nationallat,
grandmaster of the ark
and an of war ingefallgable. warrior
world
peace,
falso the
AD
uncompromising opponent of Idexe inact of 'people's enemies, and
a man” of, the› widest humanity."
in
March 5, 1954.
social rung and became u A momage wrapped round it arrived from the Finland station popularity, f cobbler. But in Georgia, asked the ander to go to his where the Germans had taken But Stalin L
Dally Worker, S
The Second Myth-or
1984 in the 30's
QUOTE
**・・ Dorversions of history which took place during the 20 YONIM
when Stalin pikovi himself above tha Paris, Ignoring
the principle of celles- live leadership. This period of arblitary: ruta resolied in mang serious mistakes and. Injustices."
Dally Worker
March 19-1938,
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.