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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1956.

IMPROBABLE MARRIAGE.

Begin it today the story in detail

HOW THE HIGHBROW DRAMATIST WOOED AND WON THE WORLD'S MOST DESIRABLE GIRL.

HE long, en, hand- This

T

Bone

series cabled

man picked from New York by

his way across the littered studie,

lit

chatted with the producer. CHRISTOPHER

the director, waved to some

friends, watched A Scene

being played.

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When the scene ended he Was introduced to

<f the players. She Was well-built girl with full lips and long blonde hair. "Hello," he said, "Hello"

And she.

They chutted about the film for a few moments then he moved on, just another V.I.P. visiting a film set.

And that.

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DOBSON

1961 when he was already established playwright with "Death of a Salesman.

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a roaring success, and she a starlet making her first real impact on Holly wood in the film "Asphalt Jungle."

Marilyn เฟ

Well, they met and there Monroe's first meeting with was no spark. They went Arthur Miller. It wus in their ways,

Miller returned to his wife etual friends in New York and two children, his intel-

and the intensity of his work.

To

Monroe rushed headlong

silent man. They spent their sion. evenings staring at televi-

Di.

Marilyn divorced Maggio and divorced Helly.

THE

GIRL

SHE

WAS

Marilyo

at 18

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THE

WOMAN SHE IS

Just

a shy exhibitionist

Marilyn muide

iL string

dentals. Wats

In April she told me "Reports Arthur Miller pixt

Tante and riches nud Wood at the same time. She spite their constant contact have any inten-

marriage to Joe DiMaggio, the Denis Compton of base- ball.

This

her WILS

second marriage, the first being dismal affair before she was 16.

น

was

With DiMaggio it different. She was 27, enger- preening her new found fame. Joe had lived with fame for a long time. But that marriage failed too.

They had nothing to say to one another -- be is a

WHAT ARTHUR MILLER'S PLAYS SAY...

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By JOHN BARBER

46WXILLY

"W was a salesman.

EL

salesman there

bottom to life.

And for

is no rock He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law, or give you medicine.

"He's a man way out there in the blue. riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not sufling back you're finished."

That speech is from "Death of a Salesman! It is the play I think of first when I think of Arthur Miller. i think of poor Willy Lonun The sulestron who at knows he is nutshel And I think I am right that play is central 10 his work

It was an astonishing he during its twe yeur New York run tin London, with Paul Munu, 1 [+} only 204 performances datounding t. because American dream

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An

The

it told a man who suddenly felt old ta: Ured and disappointed, who suddenly could m

go on slapping backs and cracking racks

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Problems

TOT because he hadn't un- Handled all the merchandise

he said he had. But because he had suddenly four out that selling merchanelise was the

whole of e.

LIFE

WITH

ALLEN

courage m

He had falled his hour, yêu

also his sons

But

wife

Now

Also, himself.

Al Is

# takes America to say money doesn't matter so much. The kind of courage that sent Miller inlo fuctory

Wan

earning week-so us to keep in touch with ordinary people.

ing him £1,250 A

THE DRAMATIST

decided she

wanted to be an actress, that she wanted to nequire some "culture."

She came north to New York in this quest of cul- ture. She was introduced to a life of comfort and talk. wonderful talk about ideas and words and plays and politics.

HE

COURTING

ERE she was allowed to use her brain and be treated like an intelligent being, not as just a bosomy beauty with a wiggle in her walk. She was a little lost at Arst, Some of the words were long and she had never heard of some of the people her new friends seemed to But she regard so highly. learned.

grew stronger and stronger. What they fhally decided. one of them told me, "that they are both com- pletely unsophisticated. De hat

the

sophisticated with world they have both mnined wide-eyed and spoiled." Arthur looks at life with an idealist's eyes and Marilyn is naively curious about everything.

re

tim to marry are untrue

ridiculous. "

But

true.

and

u "quickie

it was neverthe. Early irt June Miller hurried down to Russo and obtained divorce" on June 11.

He charged his

wife

with Under the extreme cruelty." divorce settlement Mrs Miller gels their town house, an old- The hioned

brownstone.

Of course, there is some mutual flattery tou. She is flattered that this in tense, thinking man should he interested in her. And he Is faltered that this Brooklyn Heights, overlooking famous New York Harbour, and she is Woman of beauty,

shildren, Jome, 11, and Robert given the custody of their two

in her own right, should be interested in him.

Quite 2 change from Tele- vision with DiMaggio.

Pourled They

000 another quietly Miller

was still married-and it w'us not untit early this year that rumours about them began to seep into the American; newspapers

Spring came and pVLIV one knew they were in love.

out

of

She met people who fas- cinated her and

They could be seen holding were fas hands in small Eest Side res- rinated by her. There was thurants, The only time their Elia Kazan. the director. courtship stepped Lee Strasberg, director of churacler was when Miller took her to visit his parents, Mr the actors' studio, and there and Mrs Isadore Miller. was Miller himself.

Brooklyn,

York's End.

No one now seems quite sure where and when their second meeting took place.

One thing is certain. The meeting seemed important as their first.

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Gradually they began to see more and more of each other.

New

dar

East

Arthur, 9

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The stage was set.

HONEYMOON

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TT finally broke on June 21 when Miller was appearing before the Un-American Activi- ties Committoo which

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WHO THE

William Hickey

WHO

or

ON

are

COLUMN THU

the monocles Anthony Eden at Marlborough

men of 1956? Opticians House. He was a V.C. tell me that only a thousand

Mr Sidney Hughes, 65-year- monocles are now old veteran of Mons, stood alone was made each year; that half at the rear of the little crowd elving into his political past the wearers have one weak in Washington. Yes, he fold reporters, wo will be married before July 13.

That is the day Marilyn sols out for England to make "The Sleeping

Prine" wih Sir

Laurence OliviT,

and

eye, half wear for effect.

I approached the dashing 34- year-old Major Julian du Parc

You Braham

Oce him at fashionable gatherings.

He lights cigarettes in a gold

in

He hopes to get a passport... holder with a gold lighter, and held up because of his political perches a rimless monocle activities

this left eye. travel England on honeymoon.

So Murlyn Monroe, the waif who has grown to be filmland's Marilyn Monroe is here" and queen of sex, is setting out on the third stage of her marital the house was besieged.

career

Soun word went round

After that they took care not to up

D

watch Sir Anthony leave. which had gathered outside

to

In

his lapel: a strip of five ribbons, including the V.C.

"I was told I had to have en Invitation to get in," he told me.

"I came down from Bir

the mingham specially to see exhibition, wouldn't let me in

But the policeman

"I don't want to make

to do or anything. They have of their duty. He walked away.

A pity some of our polleemen don't know the colour of a V.C.

ibbon,

It has no visible means gold wire circle that fits support. Neither a "gallery" the under the eyebrow-nor a cord.

He told me: "I have short The Aryt sluge could in pubile togkither.

be sight in my left eye, of course, labelled security, the second but girls always ask me to put fame, and the third? There were no extravagant be labelled culture?

W the monocle way--t embar- presents.

Or Love? rasses them." And they did not flaunt their love.

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she

ON MONDAY: THE

MAN HIMSELF

They visited friends. The unlikely attraction and they listened to her wise. listened spellbound to their talk of these complete opposites crucks.

HOUSEWIFE'S

"I couldn't do worse, and don't visit her. No one in my

family could

othe

of

"And

Everton?"

blamed for

CHOICE

-By- Gerald Allen

were always stationed in queer the Saturday evening paper. places."

ion of Molly's selections I looked at the list again. won away from hore!

allowing for "May

beginner's I ask what womanly

the thing was staggering. intuition suggested Crystal asked Palace?"

I don't pretend to know thinking my husband was in pri dressing-room secrets, DI"

son, or some kind of hermit; no- study form."

body ever sees you. And, you've promised to take me to the Derby "Have a go," I said airly, this year, so I've put them in throwing the evening paper though I don't expect you'll take forecasts over to her. "Start me when the time comes. We've BOUT time you won with

Ascot for years the simpler and never got there."

been going to that seventy-five columns. Pick ten winners. thousand pounds," My usual plan is to pick said Molly, a little snappish four first division clubs, and smoothly, doing my best to get Willy is a typical Miller bero. y. "The weeks are slipping two from each of the other away from vexed subject,

by.

sections."

"Just thinking of toffee. Since you've given up sweets, i never "shali use my own methods get any; and Bury, because it's and initiative," neptied

Molly, such tapping the butt of her fountain

a delightfully depressing pen against her tooth in an im- pirasive manner. waited while she stared alterately at the cell- question of ing and the paper. At the end of The selected teams playing about hve minutes, she frenzied- to form....

He is Mr Suburbs trapped in a modem problem. All Miller's heroes are like that. They are not Just individuals with private problems

JJ

I looked up from filling in my football pools coupon, They have political and social my expression one of quiet problems that millions share,dignity. The question his plays ask is: How are we to live?

"Time is money," he says. "There is a world to make, a civilisation to create,” And he writes to expize wrongs which dishonour that world.

"it's just

ly jotted down ten names on a scrap of paper, and passed her selection back to me.

"Save the speech for the Black Lion." suld my wife, "But you've picked all away

toams," 1 objected. tartly. "Your friends may be impressed by your know-

"I've picked those I think will 40, Marilyn ledge of form I'm not, win," she answered, without So, you can see that Mr. So far, it's cost you, seven- batting an eyelid.

Sincerity

HC wrliks against hn-and-six a week for the last "But each one has a most dif- Semitism in his novel "Focus" three seasons, and you've ficult gamo," I went on, study He writes against McCarthyism won one dividend of half-a- the names on the bit of

in his play "The Crucible”.

purt on 'at London's Royal Court crown."

Theatres

He

ht the persecution

tremendously.

paper. "You couldn't have pick- od ten more difficult matches for away teems. What makes you think the Wednesday will beat United?"

"Wednesday's my lucky day,

of homosexuals In "A View From the Bridge," is latest play, in which a man accuses another (talsely) of perversion.

I admit I was

[ trifle according to my horoscope," she The

Chamberlain Lord

has piqued; one's nearest and answered blandly. "A good day refused to license it for per-dearest can be very hurtful for investments.

And I picked formanco in Britain,

times. at

the Wolves because of that nice Many wives Alsatian dog next door but In all the causes he takes would be justified in tak it always makes me think of ted one; up/ Miller sinoere, and in the theatre ona ing the same attitudo that Riding Hood. Isn't it wonderful of the most

thrilling writers mine was taking, but it so to think of the darlings carrying alive.

happens that I know quite. In the snow-or is that another benedictino to the monks lost one of, the finest LA theatrical craftsmen alive, you a bit about the game, and kind? clutch your seat every time. it is just a run of bad luck And you think heaven (at and freak results that have Jest, do) for his serious provented my caphing in

In modern inryon," he is; an engaged? willer.

this season: mayi ho takes on the big Issues, He,may, not always win......... Bui you got a too-to-log: batilo,

would

"If you think you can do better

It didn't seem worth pursuing the point.

"What about Middlesborough?" I asked aggTOOSVÕIF:

"Aunt Mmad liven there; sho's hlways writing to ask why wo

name.

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"I remember its being burned down," she answered simply adding hastly, "I was a baby in arns at the time,"

"You must have been a УСТУ heavy Lnd backward baby. You were ten years old, at least." I was becoming a bit soured. “And what beautiful

memory made you select Torquay?"

AH, THAT TIE!

TIMOTHY HORN, a 24-year- old Old Mariburian. stood of the middle

A cheap

His worst monocle moments? helplessly iri He said: "I was having lunch Belgrade during with Lady Somebody-or-other holiday. ut Sunbury. My monocle feli into the soup. Thick luckily it didn't get broken.

coup

"Once, I was dancing when It popped out and fell down the my partner's dress. | She ouch-ed. It felt cold."

front of

How long does a monocle last him? "Two years," be said, and nowadays I hardly ever drop 11"

EATING OUT

PRINCESS Chural

Senakul

He had to wait 24 hours for his tyres to be mended

Night fell. He had no money, no bad.

A man came darting out of a doorway. Under the street lamp Timothy recognised the Mari- borough tic.

Lis wearer: Edward Herbert St. George Moss, First Secretary, at the British Embassy.

Timothy, who told me the story at Cambridge's Trinity May Bull, got his bed for the night,

All cousin of the King of Slam A PROTEST had and mother of two boys at Even Harrow, now owns a restaurant

THE Marchioness of Winches- luck, in Kensington High Street.

ter, formerly Babsy Pavry, She chose opening day by her daughter of a Parsoo high priest,

And the business has protested hardscope,

to Lord Howard thrives.

de Walden, a steward of the The tiny (4ft. 10.) princess Jockey Club, ebout the name of told me: " got the idea when

an Ascot winner. my husband and I came here

The horse is named Zara- on a tour last year.

900 are

is owned by Mr Slamese thustra and who

T.JS. Gray. want national dishes, I gave a curry party

Said the marchioness: "Tho

Pausing only to give myself Örst ald for shock from the brandy bottle in the sideboard, I staggered out to the kitchen, where Molly was washing up.

"There students

for 430 of them-but I couldn't horse is named ofter OLIZ

from

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Lady Winchester, who married the 93-year-old premier marquis

"I suppose you remembered, to

pools coupon?" go on doing it gratis, post your

prophet. It is blasphemous. Lond decided to have a restaurant." eroaked, with a weak smile.

Howard de Walden promised The princess offers more than me he would draw the attention "Oh, I didn't actually send it 60 dishce ranging

rice of the owner to this fact.". in," said Molly brightly. "I just gruel with chicken to brown wanted to see how many I could with tamarind and mut sauce, got right, It was just a practice She has only one worry: attempt, really. Why? Did I do don't think my king would of England four years ago, toid well?"

entirely approve—wo are very me: “I am occupying my time conservative in Slam and these days being the premier "He's the paper," I said

princesses don't run restaur- marchiones of England. to remember trifies like that hoarsely. "Check the coupon for

ants,

never get bored with yourself."

social e--I had to do. It as a course."

high

priest's daughter, Suat

"Grimsby?" I inquired courts both feet right into it, Too late, 1. realised

I'd put cously. quite fascinated by feminine logic.

"Just that we spent our honey moon there. "We're having fish tomorrow,

My dear wife's lone was frigid in the extreme, And I picked-what's their name as sho matched back her ten

I don't selections. Scunthorpe, because

"I don't expect you really believe there is such a

"That makes all the difference, of course," I said ironically, "A a matter of fact, I was stationed near there during the war."

"That's what I mean," Molly chuckled triumphantly. "You

place."

With a debonair but pitying the paper away, "I don't really v.C. KEPT OUT

can't do that." Molly waved smile I watched her all up the "Friends" coupon I gave her.

understand these things."

My attitude of amusol resigna- she was to winning a fortune. O

I haven't told Molly how near

tion lasted for two days, to be need all the brandy for myself. rudely shattered by a perusal of

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

PRINCESS NARDA RECEIVED

THIS LETTER TODAY,

I TOOK IT FROM THE

WASTEBASKET.

GOOD

WORK

"DEAR NARDA,

SOME MEN ARE TRYING TO

FORCE ME TO STOP-

HE WAS SUPPOSED TO WRITE HE WOULDN'T SEE HER AGAIN!

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A TRANSOCEANIC PHONE CALL.

DON'T LIE TO

ME, FOOL. I'VE GOT THE LATTER IN MY HAND!

BUT, SIR --

I SAW IT--| MAILED ITY

much.

I asked the 52-year-old mar- chioness about NE man

fier husband. - was turned oway

Sho said: "He has never been from the V.C. Centenary in better henith." Exhibition opened by Sir

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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

DON'T ARGUE, IDIOT!

EITHER. YOU'RE

LYING OR YOU

WERE TRICKED! TAKE CARE

OF HIM! OR NO MONEY!

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