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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JUNE

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STAR LESLIE CARON SIGHS

LIFE

By

ALAN BRIEN

London

ORD DAVID CECIL stopped with a jerk like a man who has caught his braces on a duor knob. He seemed amazed at the sight of the tiny girl and in the brown fur coat

the outsize Gurbo Bun- glasses who stood with me

in the shadow of Oxford's

seventeenth-century

donian Theatre.

Shel.

MISS CARON IN OXFORD

Owe would need to be terribly Intellectual

Oxford for

represented But Miss Leslie Caroa. And so she could. When was oblivious of her effect you have climbed the greasy more than just the last stop on The route to London. Two In show It did not occur pole of success

things I have always wanted to upon him.

a distin- business with her cat-footed do. One is go to a university." to her that even

is to ride a horre guished professor of English sureness, a little old dream- (The other

hold few well,; literature might have difing spire can culty in finding the right terrors. image

for

she

"11 must be wonderful to be one of the few girls among all

"But I suppose they to be terribly Intel-

a 24-year-old If in the past has those men in a place like this." enigma who has been de aver seomed" to lose her she waved an elegant sparrow's scribed as a wistful mon lead for heights, she is now low at the Tom Quad of Christ key, a beautiful bull-dog, a

firmly at the top. Her grip Church. luv. toothy rubber doll, a

steady, even if the all have able elf and a snub-nosed knuckles occasionally show

She was in search gazelle. of another Oxford hero and I was guiding her to shrine.

Is

while.

his

Typical

as

thought the

"1 have always

of Rex Harrison

typical undergraduate. Cum

you show me the spire he climbed

gress'7"

in 'Rake's 1To

jcclupi."

1 Fakt thet she would have been the greatest sensation since This gay, shy, tough Parisian Zuleika Dobson-especially just urchin with the face of a clown after the war when every Oxford and the legs of a guides (holl girl tried to achieve that knp- Stan Laurel, hall

Left Marlene faced, boy-hipped Dietrich) Wha

stur of the look. Ballets des Champs Elysees

Yet when Gene Kelly cull- nd buck stage to offer her a film role, she slippet away without wing him

A sensation

At 18 she Wus

Bank

in

"Loft Bunk? You can't mean look like those students with dirty hair and tight pants

Pres? St. Germain des

They dress like a crowd of hobots."

hastily changed the subject

to the British as she had seen them on tour. Despite her as-

a Hollywood surance that she was not a very At the base of the star dancing with Kelly in "An enthusiastic sightscer ("except Martyrs' Memorial a 70- American in Paris" after settling in France went all round that the dical by trans-Atlantic on a bicycle during the war).

foot-high stone pencil that telephon seems to have been badly sharpened with a hacksaw she pouted with disappoint

ment.

"In this really it?

she produced some individual thumbnail sketches of us.

Now, at 24, Leslie Caron still has two years left to run on her contract with MG M. She would

like this contruct to end "e3 sovu

THE

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"Just

of our northern

"The most

world.

as possible." For a new carcer French Why, beckons her. She has a play in might be any

"Gig." Maying towns by the sea." which made the rolo

Audrey

it isn't big at all. I could the West End,

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Excopt for their passion for beauting It looks-and pass my flowers. They stuff so many of peak at 30. them everywhere" that tho flowers got to look quite silly."-

Fler favourite sight in Britain? *Your cemeteries, So poetic with all those sad messages on the little botes."

"In movies there is peen leas freedom for a ballerina. Just stepping on to the game chalk mark again and again.

Slow motion

The provincial tour may haye been tiring. The thought of the "The only 'advarstage la'thai Arat night of "Gig!" may have you can act out things which toen unnerving. But Leslie would be censored if it weren't Caren's eyes were as bright as for the music. Examine some surgical mirrors, her grin as ballet gestures in slow motion wide and fresh as a

slice of sometime. Often they are rather <neton.

shocking.

.

It was hard to recognize the edgy, defensive wall I had met in London a year before.

"I was terrified of newspaper- een then," she said. "Now 1 tell myself they are just as terrified of me."

"But

then all movie pensor- ship is just a joke. What one star can do, another carinol. R all depends on the sort of re- pulation they've got for virtue.

"You should see some of the Hollywood censors at work, One wears a dress with a neckline which plunges down to here,

"Yes, really.

This now confidence has allowed her to give up the ballet exercises she had practised for

"There are lots of things I hours every day since childhood. She has no regrets.

went to do on the stage. Like Gigi and St. Joar, But as for "I don't want

to devote my dancing; from now on, I'm not life to physical culture-however a balterina, I'm a hoofer."

DEMOS DEPOT

"A Soviet move to reduce its conventional forces could be expected soon... manpower was needed ... The only possible source was in the over- expanded Red Army."

UNAGREED,HEY? VERY SUSPICIOUS!

World Cupright dy arrangemang ulta the Manchester Ovarian

Continuing "DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER" the new thriller by IAN FLEMING

A KISS FROM THE GIRL IN THE CASE,

SHE IS COSY AND CALCULATING

• JAMES BOND, secret service agent, is impersonating a diamond smuggler. As part of the pay-off he is taken to hunch-backed "Shady" Tree, who runs the New York end He is told to ★ of the House of Diamonds.

back a "fixed" horse at race track to

the $5,000 due to him... win

CHAPTER FIVE

OND

n

in a Florida hotel, the American secret agent with whom he had shared so many adventures.

"What are you doing here? And what do you mean playing Borul the fool in this heat?" for had walked

a handkerchief and only a few minutes took out when

suddenly wiped it over his face. "For a occurred to him that moment you almost made

nervous." he was being followed. There was no evidence for it extep: a slight tingling of the

B

map and an extra awareness of

the people near him.

but he

me

EITER tells Bond that he la

L now working for Pinker-

ton's Detective Agency, and lia is to stop the racecourse

had faith in his sixth sense, and job

he at once stopped in front of "fix" about which Bend has just

the

window he Woa shop passing and looked casually back along 46th Street.

learned. They arrange to go the race track. Then together to Bond goes off to keep a dinner date

beautiful Tifany with Case

the girl gangster who is his "contact."1

"I'm not going to have an of Madr with

TL- you' sald fany Case in a matter-of-fast don't waste your But money getting me tight. Fl have another and probably I just another one after that. don't want to drink your Vodka Martinis under false pretences."

He gave Bond laughed. order and turned back to her.

Nothing but a lot of miscel- lanecus people moving slowly on the sidewalks, mostly on the same side as himself, the side that was sheltered from the euch, There was no sudden movement into a doorway, nobody casually wiping his face with a hand voice,

avold recognition. kerchief to nobody bending down to the a shoelace.

Swiss examined the Bond watches to his shop window anri then turned and sauntered on.

After a few yards-he stopped again. Still nothing.

the

From the sun. baked sidewalks of New York, and into

the the

arms of sultry

Miss

Tiffany

Case.

DRAWING

BY ROBB

league when you sign up with the Spangles.

I were you, I'd think a long time beforo you join our cosy little circles And don't go and get in wrong with the mob. If you're plan- ning anything of that sort, you'd better start taking lessons on a harp."

TOND pold the cheque and in silence they went out of the cool envelope of the restaurant into the sultry night that stanic

of petrol and hot asphalt.

"Staying at the Astor, too," she said as they got into a cab. She pressed into the far corner of the back seat and sat hunch- ed up with her chin in her hand, looking out at the hideous deadly nightshade of the neon,

Bond said nothing. He looked out of the other window and cursed his job. All he wanted to say to this girl was: "Listen. Come with me. 1 like

you. can't be Don't be afraid. It

tone" But if she worse than. alone.** said Yes he would have been smart. And he didn't want to be smart with this girl. It was his job to uso her, but, what- ever the job indicated there could Hover was one way ho

this particular girl. Through the heart.

In front of the Astor he helped her out on to the side- walk, and she stood with ber back to him while he paid the driver. They walked up the steps in the silir silence of a after a bad married couple evening ending in a row.

we haven't ordered dinner.

ho sald.

THEY got their keys at the ★ ★

Tiffany Case,

It put him on

desk and she sold "Tive" "since it's 3 your cheque, I'm going

She laughed and looked with sharply at him.

the boy on the lift: She ITE went on and turned right to have caviar, and what you approval. st Bond.

secret agent to "Why his meltic. The Ho the Avenue of the English call cutlets, and some heavens to Eclsy, Mistah Bonth took over and his mind began stood with her face to the door. Americas, stopping in the first pink champagne. I don't often she said. "Yo all sure do say to work coldly, walebing for as they rode up. Bond sav that the kmackles of the hand the entrance to doorweg",

date a good-looking

Ing Englishman the purtiest thing to a gal," clues, for Htes, for hostations. underwear

satisfied. "It's that held her evening bog were storo, and the dinner's going to live woman's

Sho seemed as for the frock," Bond where man in a tan adt with

Buddenly continued, to the occasion." trp

and called the Spangled Mob. Two white R mana a caiack, brothers called Spang. 1

the walked At the work his back to him was examining the leaned.

my it is. 1 ank you know ・him

it velvet, especially against asun for one of them in Las Vegas, quickly out and made no pro Bond

said! cularly realistic dummy. furned and leaned against

the black laço pants on a partl~ reached out a hand and past WITTICE skin, and I'm glad you Nobody seems to know where test when Bond, Zollowes her

and

"Sorry," the over his. abruptly. "I didn't mean that don't wear too much jewellery, the other one lo. Some say he's They walked round several pillar

gated lazily but about the cheque. The dinner's and I'm glad you don't paint in Europe

into the rest. on me. But I did mean it about Ami then something gripped the occasion." his pistol arm and a voice marled: "All right, Limey, Take

watchfully out into

it cosy unless you want lead

POND smiled into her

yourr

and

arm! Like lightning (he swivel-, and I won this morning; a ženy days to Saratoga," being too stupied, so DIEWER. Was agsinst his undă she švá BY-

corners until they came to her

Angernails.

I Altogether "And then there's somebody door. She bent down and fitted Into the lock and bot you're the prettiest smuggler called A 3 C. When I'm on this the key

open. Then In New

York tonight. Who are diamond racket, all the ardem pushed the door

come from him. The other one, she turned in the cab eyes, you smuggling with tomorrow?"

faced

him What am

I doing tomorrow?" Scraflims, he's the brother for lunch, and he felt some "Don't be a goose, Tiffany,"

It and started as the begi thing pecas into his buck just he said, using her fame, for the repeated Tiffany Case in the work for. He's more Interested Listes, you Bond person,

First time. I've been longing waiters, "Why I'm going to

voice one puts on in front of in gambing and horses Runs above the kidneys.

a wire service and the Tiara at ning of an angry speech, but then she paused and looked. Tak What

was there familiar for this evening. And I'm going

sastay off to Las Vegas.

Vegas,

Bond straight into his oyes, and The Law?

What do you do? about that volcet

to have just the same as you ing the 20th Century to Calengo

there The Gang? Bond glanced down And I've got plenty of money and then the Superchief to Loa

"I'lust work there," " she said, saw that her eyelashes were to see what was holding his for the cheque, Mr Tre fossed Angeles. It's a long way round, closing the subject.

And suddenly she had webd arm. It was a steel hook me double or quila for five

117

flung or "Do you like but I've had enough flying for woll, 11 the man, had only one hundred

What about

She ignored the question as arm round his neck and her Baco Shady At the mention of

to back

gicok after youself, James I "And then, there's Bhudy he went on. bringing his loft fist round in a @Tree, the girl's manner. change that a to make me

"He's not a bad don't want to love you," And except he's so then she pulled his face against falling blow, low down

"That ought to cover it," she There was a smack as his Lat mid toughly.

Just. You know Tiffany Caseurly). Sho crooked. You shake hands with hers and kiraed him once, hard count your and kng on two lips, with a was caught in the other man's what they say about this, joint? drank some of the champagne. him you better left hand, and at the same time. All you can eat for only three res, mood, had changed again. Angers afterwards. He looks flerce tendemess that was almost

after the cathouses and the dope without rex, as the contact telegraphed to hundred bucks.

She shrugged her

et oulders, afte Bond's mind that there could "If I have a son, wald Bond, "You seem to have made quite and the rest of the stuit. There. But as Bond's arms went of other fellers round her end he started to re- plenty have been no gun, there came all give him just one piece of a hit with Shady crently, le hoodlume of one sort and an- turn her clas, she

he comes of age, whe mäid *** indifferently. the lazy volco‘mying:

She stiffened and fought her way *NO.

to work good

other. Touch operators." for

looked at him and her eyes tree, and the moment was over. Bond looked. down

into the hardoned, "You'll get to know With her, hand on the knobs of. sneered You'll the open, door, she turned and

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something creeping up between him and "Hell," said Bond Indimantly low was back in her, syy

***Now got away, from me

The ning_hawk-like face of Felix hies about my dress, bromo- this girl he liked. He closed It's just another job. I've got --

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