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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1956,

JOAN-A QUEEN WHO SCRUBS FLOORS....

By Logan Gourlay

London she was drinking only feed ISS JOAN CRAW- water.

M FORD, the queen

Ho kissed her on the cheek and left, followed by his valor and European sales manager.

Miss Crawford said that after 13 months of marriage to Mr stele she was still ecstatically happy.

in Hollywood'a crumbling dynasty, looked round her temporary palace in London-that gilded rococo Oliver Messel suite in "I never knew marriage could the Dorchester Hotel. She be so wonderful"

"What about your previous smoothed her tangerine marriages?" hair (two shades lighter tbon ita natural red) time." without entangling

the

"They

were

at right

the

Two minutes later the phone rang again. It titled friend.

Was

"But, darling, d'll never used to calling you Lady

ото

Yet another phone call minute later, mut a conversation with an untitled friend about

her pet poodle, Chiffon,

"My dear, I cried for three whole days when I discovered I couldn't bring her with mo,"

She settled down on the vota after the phone calls and talked her other about Chiffon and

poodle, Clicquot.

Виррове

I said I had once read

that pe when the Wast married to plate-sized emerald ring she Philip Terry (Husband No. 3) They' 'ro adorable.

"I love they used to tap out you"

on tables nt

wore.

in

murse

Then she said :-- "Yes, it's true. I often du dinner parties.

the scrubbing in my own home in Hollywood."

'Nonsense'

Mies Crowford opened her "Why?" I asked, trying not to dramatic mouth to its pillur- look seeplical,

box widest and exclaimed:-

"Nonsense. Just a publicity story."

Inquired if she would sveing Douglas Futebanks while she was here.

"I have to get rid of my she said, energy some way." fixing me with a look from these Cinemascople greyish eyes.

I marvelled ut her super abundant energy. After all she is now 48. She has made 73 films and has had four hus- bands.

She crossed her symmetrical Jegs (which showed no sign of housewife's kn) and added: -

"I really like to do the house- work and scrubbing. For me it's kinda relaxing Takes my mind off career worries,

"Bul

of making im goes into i

be

spoil them.

cute "Clicquot hes á collar for the evenings.

black Il'a

studded with rhinestones

nothing valuable. And I have a matching belt.

"They should eat horse meat, But I let them have chicken,

"And they just adore caviar, but they don't get it too often."

"No champagne?"

NOT course not. That reminds me. I must put a bottle on ice for dinner"

Or

Why

with

"Everyone asks that. cours I'll be seeing him. not? We're still friends. I had

note when i arrived

from his wife, Mary Lou.

"Now let's Talk about SOTI thing else."

"Are you still having a with Marilyn Monroe?"

feud

"Never hed a fekt. We're Irlendis. She's coming 1x>

She rushed out and came back a bottle of champagne. She put it in the soli drinks freezer.

Lost Count

Next she took me round the and suite to count the trunks intrases she has brought,

I get up 10 large trunks, and u doren suitences, but lost my count when they overflowed to the hall outside. They included my energy A pageboy brought in 11 a trunk full of furs, and Then I leave all bouquet from an admirer. specially constructed to hold all Rave me a bag full of single her make-up and pilis. mostly

when I'm party."

the chores to servants."

Miss Crawlurd is here to im

She

one

and said: "You tip vitamins. Of course, there was

The Story of Esther Costellings

hum. I've been giving handfuls a jewel case too,

for Romulus Filma, so it is une if these things and I'm told I've likely that she will be seubbing been over-deing it." out the Messel ruite.

room.

Genial.

Mr AI Steele entered the

He is Miss Crawford' fourth husband and the million- aire boss of one of America's fending soft drink companies,

The

buy Trige accepted two shillings from me,

She went

"I still don't understand your coins."

haven't brought all

my

graciously to Just a reasonable selec- No i haven't got any favourite precious stone. Love 'em all." I left Miss Crawford ** her trunks, jewels, dresses (208

pills. 271).

champagne.

Farthings!

For the benefit of Miss Craw- ford (who makes £70,000 or He was accompanied by İla 1,400,000 shillings per picture) valet and his European sales listed our coins from half

crown to halfpenny. genial mazi. asked if I'd like a drink.

others?"

g."

manager,

ม

who

"Ik I have to bother

A freezer full of ful?..

about

felt it would be discourfemus. not in sk for one of his Arm's soft drinks. bottles

prominently and

She talked The phone rang. incongruously displayed on one

to New York about her four of Mr Messel's fancy tables.

children who is expansive adopted

("I'm so Mr Steele, and

me worried about them"). They had amiable, regarded

hi returned to New York in I sipped

approvingly

product. his wife

But he also looked at

a lectionately though

and soft drinks.

Mas Crawford, the loving wife. The mature beauty. The fascinating lady. The Hollywood larger-than-life queen.

And the energetic scrubber. STOP PRESS: Marilyn Monroe didn't turn up at Misa Crawford's party staged by her producers, John and Jinuny Woolf. But every other star t town did. it started in the open- air under a Mayfair marquee with pink champagne and ended dramatic. drenching,

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LOVE

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Bew

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Events are the work of men ; the most shattering recent event is the work of one man, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Dictator of Egypt. To understand the Suez Snatch, you must understand the snatcher. The China Mail has commis- sioned this three-part biography. This is Part Two: edited by Donald Edgar.

his defence scheme the wounded

For the more frequently to his office. is not easy lo a

"It is not easy to turn hatred T

with it They sat" with him on the into love"

and 0.3 turn hatred into baghdad Pact which would Masim Brotherhood,

beliefs and couches Arab fanatical religious

and sipped

offer- Turkish Nasser considered the love," said Colonel isolate Egypt from the

well, it was its plans for a great Arab world, coffee, world.

enough to make Nasser's spiritunt Nasser.

The Arab League, that loose was really

They pointed out Russia's him laugh and call for his of Arab States, home

desire help any country Cabinet. association

The Brotherhood

would make the West be free, They It struggling to which Egypt with dinculty-

members

those Stx mutter against solved.

British fatterod Nasser for what he had led, began to Nasser.

sentenced to death.

clone, They sympathised with Americans-look so foolish, It To Nasser the attempt on his him in his dimculties in getting would make Israel so furious, life was a sign that he was,

mobs of arms from the West to defend It would make the perhaps becoming slack and himself from Israel.. .or to Cairo yell with delight. DID he think the battle easy-going. That he must re-

himself for the fast. A GAMBLE

He had just initialled the Britain with agreement which

to end 72-year-old occupation the Suez Canal Zone,

Was

our of

It had been his overweening consciousness of his pride, his ability, his difficulties as poor boy from a small village in making his way that had made him hate the British. His hate provided emotional answers problems of his life.

SHOTS.

on the

the

was dis- werd

Q

revenge

to

And

those

wan A rainble. One of two of his advisers urge caution:

WON

had It was not easy, in fact it

for been won? Did he not re member

he had defeat. impossible,

ideals proved

Must blow the Nasser to turn his hatred member that Israel still existed cherished.

and flourished? Had he forgotten embers of his hate into

Nasser had been anti-Com- the dreams of a new and great flame.

munist. It was of the British into love.

difficult to And yet, for a Ume, it nearly

Arab world?-dreams nourish-

religious bedel's And, as sometimes happens, reconcile his

But Nasser laughed. He had ed

Erowing

rake-off came to pies,

'come so far against so many his escape from death increased with Communiem, from oil in a Persia, on fraq, his self-confidence

But the Russians pointed out The same

odda Allah must be with him. Saudi-Arabia

Moslems lived atili

"The that

happened to Hitler after his that 40,000,000

arms deal was made, Union and had The news announced, for a looked to oil-less Egypt

escape from the bomb plot in in the Soviet

freedom-yes perfect freedom, 1044. their imperial lead,

to practise their religion. Nasser began to realise, Uke all revolutionary Metators

Nasser was interested. These seemed to understand the before him, that he would not T IKE Hitler, he began to think people

allowed to remain still.

his difficulties. to all the be

The that he had been spared for a him and That the dynamic of the revolu- special purpose. That whatever army was restive about its lack The West had formed flon, that he had made use of, he did would have the blessing of arms,

of Providence,

the Baghdad Pact,

Nasser exulted. It looked se was now making use of him.

October 1954, The And then in

Сеста

Would Russia be able to help if the gamble had come off that had always when be was addressing

of a haunted him....fears the with arms? great crowd in Alexandria to British. .fears of the West the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement,

FLATTERY

London Washington was silent.

The ambassadors of Britain The United States called on Nasser to find out what was happening.

perturbed.. alarmed. Russia

and

British to withdraw for a time celebrate the final signature of fears for his own inferiority done thing might well be the, praise of his friends, Nasser

AN EQUAL RUT the negotiations of the Suez Zone agreement, and his final success in getting the turned that hatred into some thing like love.

Here

was he, the unknown boy from Band Mur, mixing as an equal with British generals, Mindstors, with British with British ambassadors.

They listened to him; they relaxed with him. In the com- pany of General Sir Brian Robkristin, sp charaning and understanding, he forgot the contemptuous epithet of "Wog which had haunted him since he

served with the British Army in the Western Desert. That is why he will always have a regu

for Sir Brian.

Nasser

Не was only 30. He was Prime Minister and Military Governor of Egypt. He had got rid of Farouk. He had got rid And of the corrupt politicians. now the British had agreed to.

80.

TH

'HERO'

E crowds that swept into the broad streets of Cairo and Alexandria trom the noisome alleys acclaimed him. "Hero of Egypt!"...."Father of the People!"

They would have licked his boots. Nasser exulted.

He had arrived. Now that he

And then, as he listened to Not direct from Russia,"

conceived "a" more brilliant plan. all began to disappear. That might be too provocative. He had made his bid. He had

the end of 1954 he But, he narrowly escaped death by Towards

say, through Czecho-

sufflețint" "tricks, But" "what began to acquire the dangerous slovakia. As for payment... The five shots Bred by á self-confidence of megalomania, well, no doubt some deal with member of the Moslem Brother- It was then that the Russian that surplus Egyptian hood missed his body-but they diplomats

could be arranged, began to corne

assassination.

WINE, WOMEN.

RED

Vienna.

HAD been in Vienma

exactly three minutes

when it happened.

about finessing one more?

A TOMORROW!! His year of decision

AND A

HANGOVER

By RODERICK MANN

"You must not expect 1, The washing has gone but the

I drow up outside the said the receptionist. "We were statues remain. Why?

years cccupied for over 17 Hotel Sacher in my hired First, the

Was

the

the Prater, with its glant

wheel.ab

I went out to the hauntingly lovely

Vienna woods and looked

down over the elly. It's a won derful sight, and you can sed the Danube | enakcing" Its "way, across the plains to Hungary.

NICE-FATSAN

guide Nazis, tben

Sald ** my « Austrian We are Opel and a small, furtivo, Russions........"A

neutral. We must Thus I came to Vienna, elly, do nothing which might offend. looking, man detached him-

In time" perhaps, someone will self from the wall and of laughter.

It accidentally back his lorry - AND THE FOOD) Gotter- muttered something I could I tell you this sadly....

liko

dammerung....I've never Bnally meeting a to one of the monuments" not understand.

beautiful girl whose picture "Did the Russlang behave seen anything like it. There's

Wienerschnitzel which you have cherished all your life well?" I coda del breaded veal fried golden in and finding her a melancholy. He looked at me for a long, deep fat, there's Rehrucken, time. Then, wryly: "Let's my which is verlegg served with old woman, a

it was business as usual during cranberries altercations...

Stealth suspicion intrigue.

I said NO in four languages

hurried

was important he felt he could (it's the only word I can say in mix as an equal with the four languages) and British For

For a time his old into the hotel,

of their innate sense

What was Thoirying to

Bon. He

was not tinged eclit

too,

could broathlessly.

and penicillin.79

Man

"NEUTRAL"

I went out to Slevering on

on BUT though the galoty is,

there's Paint

schinken, which ?\tán post.

the outskirts of the city missing--this is still a fascinat pe suzette filled with

torte, mouth -wn tör I asked the doorman where Anton Karas the Third Ing cly. Across the street from cheese And Sac

"Passports

zither-player tume his the Cafe Mozart once the chocolate-cake

inter- to be arogant

restaurant; Zum Dritten Mann main, rendezvous of the

Specialities? national

al black markondi BELLATORY DENTAL "Neliher” anid the deorman

Was Vienna really as gay the Albertina Gallery went everyday fare. a few short months he coldly."He wanted to wash wanted to be friends with your car while you were having as they make out in to look at the magnificent **Yeh," said Karas, "Odet art collection and found # somia, Britain, Wanted to rest on his dinner Laurels. To bask in the sun-

have come too, thing, quite fascinating in some Thus I came to Vina, city But you

LITAT BROT g of the original munte, scores of Inte of the Nite shine

of intrigue.bi

Thus I came to Vienna, city Bach and Haydna But soon he realised that

MELANCHOLYAN Y

of Bong neither his friends

nor his enemies would let him, rest,

checked in to:

hotel. The

mob my called for mor

night and

smoothly

The

Its just a year since the Occupying Russians moved out

them win:

THE WOOD

umann,