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MR POWER

I'm 42

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1956,

DISMOUNTS

and that's too

old

to be a knight in shining

armour

By THOMAS WISEMAN

London THE great exodus from Hollywood

Hollywood is

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fellows better equipped for that sort of role coming along. You can kid everybody but 'fellow you shave every morning.

The day might come when your phone im't ringing any ́morts and

nobody knocks at your

door."

But Power's disenchantment with Hollywood is not due solely to a sudden lack of enthusiasm for shining armour. The whole Hollywood way of life has palled for him.

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"There," he said, "your social activities are restricted, to people you work with. You meet the same people at party after party. The cast is always the same-- and the dialogue doesn't change much either Alwars shop talk.

"At first," ho said, "you know very few people outside your own studio. If you are working at Fox, it's years before you get 10 know anybody working at Warner Brothers out in the valicy.

In London, Power hos not been confined in his social con- Lets to the people working at Shepperton Studios. His circle of friends extends into different Netch

if they still talk shop, at least

all have they ifferent shop to talk about.

Booth fu actresses, descrilog mariager Why Jat EveryoIRS

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the We sit out on

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were Shepperton Studios where he is With their Cadillacs exesapt from tax. Now this minkling a film for his own cam-

To- pany exflest "Seven Waves saut on their backs, so to speak, incentive no longer exists.

He undid his tundle of in Away INOTT the stars are fleeing from day they must

London. Purrs a Roma thon sandwiches and munched some Near by was his » means of not paying income bon sausage

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the list of the Hollywoix! Pharuchs. They pour into Fondoti Just look who is What are they all looking for here Chaplin, Monroe, in Europe that they cannot find in Hollywood" They have not Power, Gardner. Mitchum,

just emurs for a change of his Bergman. Granger, Niven,

ges deep Than that. Ant

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And Jennifer Jones, Bather Willams. Vera Ellen. And Charisse.

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"Well, there's Oliver Messej and there's a girl called Pauline Vogelpoel who works at the Tale Gallery and there is a Robler who girl called Mary works on a magazine and there is a stockbroker

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missed the experience of knowing the two ladies in ques my have to start thinking."

for anything. I think I the Parst sign of his dissatisfaction tis

with Hollywood came when he have emerged from the expert- eller, inore under- inde away to appear in "The ence #

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months ago he reported $1,000,000 (in allmony) plung The Sreret Celmes of duction

1 considered this a remarkably original Pus bernuse he wanted to live caur to London to appear 11 Joseph Stalta" (from an screenplay

Krushchev") In Europe.

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chivalrous way of putting it.

Still the gallant, Mr Mike Todd plutas

asked: "What's Moscow Marlene Dietrich As In Monte Curlo Grace Kelly is kn

work that is Monte Carl City

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NEWS ANALYSIS ON A MOUNTING POLITICAL DRAMA

IN-OUT MR HERTER

ONE MORE WORRY FOR THE WORLD'S MOST WORRIED MAN

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found de sud Power "You can't go The cheapest thing in the world is building to a climax in

All these stars--the temporary

expatriates have been able to reach grapes, Toki some have They are none the less pour.

Casked Tyrone Power why he had left after 42 Bims and two

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Three events in the past voiced the fears of millions

if few days have sharpened that Eisenhower, and stressed the situation. elected will not last out his second term, and that there- Elsenhower, in Panama fore Niron, the man "one to meet his

fellow heartbeat away from the Presidents of the Latin re White House," would auto- publics, whispers to a well.

matically become President wisher that his strength has

Truman (as

when did not come back yet

Roosevelt died, remember).

Nixon is hated and mistrusted by many people in the USA., on including the "Liberal"

wing

of the Republican Party, which

Tho

pros-

Stassen says Junk Nixon and

Herter pick

29 prospective Veep." And who is Herter?

absorbing drama He will soon be celebrat 2 Eisenhower's personally

adviser appointed concerning one man in his 66th birthday. Any --and 180 million of man of 66 who aspires to disarmament, Harold Stas- his fellow citizens the American presidency, sen, comes out flatly against Stassen represents.

pect that he might become Nixon

as President one day gives them knows that it will certainly candidate for Vice President nightmares. the "World's No. 1 job," having Richard the United States.

which Nixon is money.

Normally, American poli- make tremendous cails on (the post past None the less, the

and has held during Ike's first u prent state of tics tend to strike most of his stamina moral perience and

term). mind have given him decided the people elsewhere as re- physical,

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Jim only is Eisen-

Hagerty, marriages. When I inquired mote and difficult to follow.

He has within hower's trusty Press RECTE- ho was thinking of marrying But this year and the hower 66. again he looked at me as if I

two political "conventions." the past nine months suffer. tary, rushes out a statement had asked him whether he felt

walk across the at which the Democrats and ed a grave heart attack and that Stassen like taking

the Republicans Will pick undergone Sahara,

their choices as president elect, are only a few weeks off matters are being re- duced to a situation which is simple to grasp deeply moving.

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about it." 1 agrood that OUR old friend - and

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operation.

Now here

are

Was talking

Rebuffed

himself

'He's Terrific”

CHRISTIAN HERTER, sixty-

now

Massachusetts, pressive chap.

ist.

Governor of is a most im-

an abdominal only as a private individual, ish,

not as a high Administration the two official.

He suffers rather badly from central facts underlying this

arthritis-but the arthritis does not affect his tongue. Not long situation. Ope is practical,

ago he made one of the big hard-headed politics the

speeches at the annual meeting Republican Party chiefs

Washington's But wait: Stassen's at of

"Gridiron 3 know that they can win if

an organisation of the tempt to push Herter Club."

top men in Without him

American JourTER- Ike "runs."

meets with A quick double the chances are they will

Herter rebuff.

Herter, I hear, was terrific, be beaten.

issues a statement saying and made many friends. Earlier American presidential he is in favour of Nixon in this

And battle there was a considerable

for "boomlet" Eisenhower, arriving back president. Some very big money I suggested to Mr Power whose 42 Alms and two marr!-

However, when it was gean ages have not impaired his looks man has held down three THE other fact is well, in Washington from Pana- was behind his candidacy.

you could call it a mat- ma City gives Nixon -

the heart attack but or his cligibility that he might staggering jobs: (a) Chief

the after I think that there to meet him at

before the stomach discover

that ter of faith.

operation) for of the Allied armies preference

that Ike meant to run, European women as well as for

Amashed Germany; (b) Eisenhower believes that it airport-a noticeably ardent that the European scenery.

good of greeting to make it plain petered out. But now? "No," he sad, "in this respect Chief of the postwar Allied would be for the

Steseen and the Nixon is still very What will

"beral that

stalemated his nation and the world, that

Republicans" do? between armies there is no difference

Will they quietly accept Nixon, Hollywood and Europ: Women Russlu; (c) President, for for that matter if he much "his boy."

But the point remains: or will they decide to fight the are the same everywhere. And

the were to succeed himself as the last four years, of Intention

has Stassen

indirectly vice-presidency question, President. United States of America.

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GETS HIS VERBS

SIR FRANK GETS

RIGHT BEFORE THE LAWYERS

PARIS NEWSLETTER BY WILLIAM Roland

Paris WENTY years married and never a row-that is the happy record of Mr Robert Borm-Reid, Lincoln's Inn solicitor, and his wife, Marussia, also a solicitor, who is his partner in business as well as in the home.

Many of the attending women.

Herter

mak-

ing it clear to the world on they do so that they accept the cal- culated risk of Eisenhower pot insting another four years in the White House, and that they do not relish Nixon as the next President should Ike not last the course?

In Our Thoughts

DEHIND it all there stili stalks the central dramın. The man of 68; ailing; worried. doubtless; neeking anxiously for vanished. strength and when a German colleague who, during resilience; seeking above all to

Germin

to

300 lawyers Eyebrows were raised

Occupation the conference are in this solemn acking two Bri- the

tish barristers eottled down to France, dealt with the adminis

goods belonging hear the opening speeches and tration of

Jews. One is Miss Iclal Asimgil, Ht up pipes. from Istanbul, who is also an Iternational Jurist,

Sir the

of choose the right course.

IF Iko

really docs "run" Republican again, and IF his Party: looks like splitting over Nixon, WHAT will ho decide? AT ANCHOR

Sympathy and encoitrogement In our thoughts should TOCKING up on milk, brand, about Eisenhower the man

But nobody said anything. Her Lather commanded On Hit of the meeting wha army division against the Allies Frank Soskice, delegate of at the Ume of the Dardanelles General Council of the Ber. He meat, and veg in a Parts Left the next few critical weeks.

Bank market are Me John C. Ex- campaign in the 1914-18 war, spoke for nine minuten in

Kay, vice-commodore of the At that time the future dictator cellent French.

Zaland Salling Club at Cowes, of Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, held

and his wife Gladys. a similar rank.

At anchor in the Seina is 14-con motor yacht Cruising with them

Boys Miss Asimgil, who heard Mrs Borm-Reid, an attrac-

hie French: "We were all very tivo brunette who is of

"My father greatly admired impressed. He got all his verbe

managed to their Russo-German origin and the English soldiers," said Miss right, and even

Asimgil.

introduce wit into a day subject. Dorothea. has been practising for

the lawyer's role in world is Mr. Kay's brother, Ive, seven years, specialising in

"My wife is the mate," says international law, is here Out of 2,000 Turkish lawyers, Sir Edwin Herbert, president Mr John Kay, "and she takes

of the Law Society, also spoke har turri at the' wheel." in French but his speech - was

GREAT DECORUM

to attend an international 300 are womeTI. conference of lawyers from

26 countries.

"In Turkish courts / women shorter. Jawyers mulet behave

with great decorum," she

"It

Her husband had to stay in would be an affront to the court London booRUISE, AS she co-to sit with one's leg crossed or plained, "We can't both be away with folded arma”.

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from

time

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In her spore Hima sho nita sweaters.

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"And I'm the bow'n's mate," ads Mr Ivo Kary.

pert Highlight of what is

And the bos'n? Ho Is tha work and part fun for the dele- gates was a trip to Rheims by Kays son, Trevor, director of a and A visit to cement firm, who was flying to special train

[doin, the bostj champagne cellarm.

There wnd. ona

awkard

The Dorothen is here on a Of her siccomful married Bio, The Paris Conference is sibling moment during the opening day holiday visit and the Kers will be back, for" Cowes Week, when topestry-ImNE Jahe says "I too much of in Stah

A French barrister. Is a Mr John Kay will be one of the divorce in my job ever to want. Appeal Court, which is in yaon-

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