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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1956.

Never Since Women Dived From Skyscrapers For Valentino Has There Been A Craze Like It

Who Would Be MOST

Embarrassed By $100,000? EVER

I

By PHILIP OAKES

London "Everything was OK until

EXTEND my sympathy

to Jack Lemmon, a

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with money on his mind. Too much money.

This Venr Lemon W. Awarded an Oseng for his giet - formater in "Misleg Roberts"

"And the Cheur put my price up," he an$C$, I kept un read. Ing scripts and Birming 13144 And each time the lateks, Kot higher Now get around a bendred thousand dollars it pleture

I'm nut

down

worth it"

Lemmon earnings

J 31 1.

£80,000 average

year 1 le made his males as July Holliday's co-star in Should Happen To You" and

Phind set a new style in septen comedy, us karje

strong a dry martin

ACTOR'S ACTOR

In London he

Brat

da amatser

10: Hayworth Mitchum in

low.

the government

divided I was making too much," he said. "1 gave up and I don't want to

back."

111

Lemmon's father Is also

As sale inana- The big money, ger of the Doughnut Corpora- tion of Amerien he tours the world, spending three months n your In London.

"And you

know what 11 foes," said his son "He spends all his Une Inspeeting the holes in doughnuts.”

(a)

My Lemmon sounded regret. An Our-winner {auvex the doughnut world behind,

BIC THINGS

I

FORECAST big things for 22-year-old Perilt. Neilson,

on show this week in the new I

priskelion of Seagull. She has the heari

of FA Taking

the poise of th kitten. And, more to the point, whe has a three-year

a

kost

pedigree

contract

playing his upposite

Itober with actor-manager John Cle-

"Fire Down1

Be- ments,

The bobaby-soxers de tod jast on Mr Legion's sout, buy Mr Lemotion does not worry,

"My naine," she said, "Nang

Pearl Little

It's something beought back from the

fine."

Perlita "I guess you could call me

"Money in the juvenile in

thing

She Gun

in NICCURA 10

nette," he spid

bank dextort

k

What coutils > beng able look back when you're washed

kasur up at 60 at taking

in one or two things you have done

the

of Cert- mon's best film, was the zenind of a marruge breaking up A sound that Linen has learned to ognize too well

Pettienul "

Riarlest

Argen-

ס

Your

"Annie Got

scored a personal her -hes hit

"Lace Un

And

then

the awkard age,

"

"I took a rest," she said. worked

department store In a and sult then's underwear. Un- romantic but practical

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came a starring part in the Arts Theatre production of Euchanted," spell with Vie. And then Old The Bristof Why wife and I agreed to d

with the sharp-eyed meeting tripl separation this year." ne maid of hope it's going to work Me Clements.

want her back

I

Jik

In be a stur

Meanwhile he woreles about Wilt u wuld Mi, Nell-

money, too much money

100 altuation 1 not how to him

****

Before he went to Hollywood le appeared in 800 televisiun shows and then went to pro- duelson for himsel

500

"But there's always men's underwear if I don't make the grade"

Muy Neilson 1'111 rexi

The winter wopllies are not for her,

21.4-

EVER

Quality

need not be expensive

STAGGERING STORY

IN SHOW BUSINESS

IN

DEAN-THE LITTLE BOY WAS LOST

The James Dean legend

in already an Industry

Boy

Who Refused to "Janita Dean Lives "1. Words From There

"The

Die"

On"

The Beyond." are seme

of the beadlines trom magazines SOLELY devoted to James

Giris tell how they once touched his shirt, there are pictures of the car ju which he was killed. This is the measure of the most amazing after-death adulation ever.

in his films he reached out And touched the world. To The endless life of his genius wo dedicate this story.

The

By DAVID LEWIN

has myth

taken 11 box-office for Dean

months to be hammered Into very good Indeed." shape by over-emotional

In 16 countries

Robien

Unforgettable"

The Jimmy Dean I Dated-by A Girl Friend."

There is n fact sheet on him more detalled than for a world

was "Good statesman.

Dean's first about Dean

More has now been written after death than of many im Is It

youngsters. In England during two pictures were shown after during the lives to that

time the

namo

THAT is the foreword te srutually became known.

man called Jimmy Dean - James Byron Dean in full,

It appears in an American It is just one magazine. instalment in the most stag- gering story in show busi- ness.

Staggering because the whole of this mugezhus-and the whole

"East of

DEDI

Eden" was shown while he was still alive. Business was the better than average-

which means there were seats lp

all parts of any 'cinema,

Death

on

466

his

his fatal car crash. Box-office share. It is crazy-but was brilliant: In Australla re- happening. cords were broken, although the pattern 'there usually follows England.

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not

or

will And I'll wager

I! happen when greater names like Oilvier...

Gielgud be- Orson Welles (yes, and Marilyn Why did Dean suddenly come a hero for leenage Monroe) finally retire or die. audiences round the world?

A few days ago Dean's studio called in a psychiatrist to give

Of all the explanations offer- el the orse I accept Is this: an opinion on the "healthiness" James Byron Dean was casual of this after-death popularity.

and arrogant; incoherent but brash but in need of

of two others like Pis devotext £2,500 German racing car vocal;

10 the life and time of James Dean, who died on September 30 Lust year in a car crash.

The remarkable fact today in that Dean who was 24 yours ald is already a legent in Amenon.

1914 1974 span in Hollywood was two years. In that Ume he made only three fuss. The first was "East of Eden." The second Reber Wither a Cause." The third "Grant**

still to be shown,

Booming

LREADY there are magazines elvųcated 10 him. They York the

New

arrivest

from

other day,

Their

Alb

there

printing "The

James

500.0

Death tilles: "James -circulation 809,000, Real

Denn" circulation 5,000, new caillon coming up. "James Dean Hetums"ciren - lation nearly 500,000.

A fourth coining up is called Official Janica Dean Story" which, by the anniver sory of his death, is preparing for a sale of a million

Variety,

The show

business

HEN Dean speeded In

166 a Paso along Highway ttobles in Califor la.

comfort.

He perfected the art of play.. boy lost in D He sinacked into another car ing the little

ha

great big world. by the sine -Was dead reached hospital.

The youth

the cinemas saw For themselves just like that. the same reason "Look Back in Anger" is a play success in Lon- don-the hero has a shrill, angry sound.

His second Alm "Rebel With

was ready fur Out Cause" showing.

'The

men conferred. should Brun's name be put in smaller type? Because when an refor dies the accepted rulo is that audiences do not want to know: they prefer to forget,

When Valentino died 30 years stormed his women Ago and

funeral there

stump of was a his box-office at the cinema (there was no mass revival for Valvolino although every year

that

1

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tell them: il isn't healthy at all, just unbalanced, Ono

should be thing immediately

don

by the studio: for requests

his autographed pictures, which come in at the rate of hundreds a week, should be firmly refused.

Now-here?

ATER this year Dean's last

m. "Hart," will be shown In America

sound hug become nasty and hysterical. 1 hope it is decided that Dean's

name will not be given Already bills of Dean's smashed-

any

up ear are being sold for up to extra billing. £25 a piece us souvenirs.

WHI a Dean craze outside America?

might.

Everything

the picture start off

LI

Al

The hullities

it could. For Observer

Film

Ex-

In London-far

from

THE magazines in his honour" sensational in tone--post-card-

express sentiments like

hi grave is strewn with fresh this flowers).

When Jean Harlow died, in travelled 1937, her films were no longer searching a draw.

Rementering

this the cinema showmen watched Anu

trade paper, reports that these "Rebel Without a Cause" magazine sales

"hotter' It pistol... or Presley" (the singer)

ITAUJOF record companies HTT issung spacial Altres

the Theme muetic of Dean's Bars--with pictures Dear on the covers.

put

R out

A third company has song called illa Name Wie Dut." und by waiting. for sales to mount.

ango

And yet when a year

ü number Ballad of James Dean" was recorded there was no reaction at all.

DEAN RETURNS!

something

ever

that

nize pen sketches of Dean are on sale at Is. 3. each.

Already 550 have been bought -and this number puts Dean ahead of most of the field and alongside Marlon Brando.

"It was A Jonesome road he

→ searching.

fur seemed just beyond his reach."

Or headlines like these:- "Jimmy's Life Loves Death"

"Dean Lives On, Unfor- majority.

THE LONELY ONE

And the buyers are teeringers: 18 and 19 years old, girls in the

HE RETURNED AFTER DEATH TO THE CIRL

HE LOVED...

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THE KIKUYU CHILDREN WOULD

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BRITISH nurse, 41-

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them.

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to

back in London after work worker Evelyn Bennett's experiences during the day. ing for two years with the

Kikuyu tribe in Kenya.

Woma

was

an

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interest windows, and an open oven wld. The problem now a wood fire in the middle, to teach African parents

Red Cross teams have shown their look after

children Mothers who the Kilcuyu how to paint their go out to work leave their houses and build fireplaces. The children to fend for themselves. Kikuyu woman is the beast of,

do not even leave burden for the whole

family. Otten they food. The main

Red remedy lies Tho

Cross has provideci cloth and needles and wools, taught the womon how to The day Miss Bennett left make clothing for themselves children would and their children to replace

the rags they were wearing.

In-

with the parents,"

Anding And misery lisuessnesN

they

and with Indepen- felt at being moved ato dependence Miss Bennett was sent by strange surroundings.

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This slight, small woman skla and The Lanned

showed eyes

commonsense

"I taught them how to keep their books,” said Miss Bennett, "and how to appoint a com

most practical mittee,"

endless and She arranged for materials

She was posted to Gilgil with

brillant bluc Transit Camp. Gilgil means throughout the

and "country

of dust," Evelyn Bennett was soon to ingenuity. appreciate the reason. Soon clothing after her arrival tents and supplied to the Camp inmates,

In a equipment vanished whirlwind!

Self-Help

Bo

During this time-she was also running a

Place of Safety for children who had been moved from Gilg, so many of her old

followed her Irlends

the centre, the not

ent their food, and an

"My small boy cried bitterly: white mother is going to leave mel"

Congratulated

On to anniversary

of her

to

and They also organise milk srup distribution. for the health teaching chlidren, give and handicraft instruction the women and girls. Perhaps April 3, 1950, second their greatest work in Kenya arrival in has been with children, to im-

only their health, Nairobi, Her gift with children Kenya, Miss Bennett with an- prove not

worker. Joan but their future outlook on life. Jod to her final nsignment other Red Cross

at A he mothers made clothes," the displaced children's centre Priest, was guest of honour had "I

There luncheon at Government Houre, supervise the sho said, "s I thought at Ujaria Park, Nairobi,

Nairobi, where she wan con- Transit

Camp on the medical would rise their morala

were 68 children there, whose side," said Mis: Bannelt, "Many

looked smarter, they

ages ranged from two months gratulated on her fine work by the Governor Sir Evelyn children were suffering from

wear shifts which fasten on to 17 years. Here Miss Bennett Baring. malaria measles, enteritis, the shoulder and are easy

ran a class for first aid for the bronchills,

pneumonia

and wash and iron. The men made boys. malnutrition, We whitewashed

hard-wearing * trousers from

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it

if

They

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the hospital ourselves and even calico, dyed yellow with a dye Self-reliant

mado a

enrop.

Prejudice

from

and ice cream.

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The British Red Cross Society ไป has performed miracles Kenya often under most trying conditions,

have

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

cooking rango

other Apart Scraps we found round, the made from the mustard plant,"

At Easter she took a group of nursing organisations. Within two to three

Miss

Bennett children into Nairobi for cakes, fron

from workers sent Throughout

out from This was

Red Cross teams days the little dead leaves as followed the constructive policy tea

London, the called the children-began to of the Brilish Red Croes

their reward for washing, iron- are mostly formed of settlery revive."

Society: complete Impartiality ing and preparing meals at the wives. They have helped to

When she and insistence on self-help. An centre.

went

to improve sanitary conditions in illustration of this is the fact market, she would take some of women's compe and provided that 40 temporary orphans in the children with her, and say clinics for bables accompanying Miss Bennett had to over- the camp washod and repaired to the traders: "These are your their mothers. Many, like Miss como prejudice in a sect of for themselves the second-hand own children, so don't cheat u Bennett, have done their best faith healers who would not blankets which had been found over food,

work at Transit Camps, whore allow their, sick children to go for them.

“No child", more Mies Bennett. Kikuyu families were held for screening. Red Cross workers to hospital. But after

Her pioneer work at Gilg ever condemned another. They have run clinics and corried had saved the lives of two completed, Mies Bennett moved worked well and once they out welfare woric villages. children, they supported her. to Nairobi in December 1954, ceaised that I would not let

tho

!

Many of the Kikuyu - have Regular milk and meat soup where she launched a hygiene them lle or steel, they respected

campaign and flood, ma."

boon forced to take at least one was given to the children Dolls and child welfare sent out by the British Junior among

women of

oath under pain of Miss Benoit is in. London, for Mau Mau Location Rad, Crows Society, were handed! Makadana

and

a well-earned leave. So far death, and one of the reasone out, and immediately, strapped simultaneously ran two first she has no plane for the future, these villages have been farmed,

the people from on the backs of small girls, nid classes, Mis Bennett ran "I have loved working with le "to" protect Imitating their mothers, Miss clinics for babies, taught the African children of nie aanya, attacks by Mau Mau gangs, Bennet taught the children women noedlework, housocraft "They are self-rebus and very. The people live in round, mud English games to overcome the and cooking The Kikuyu happy youngriers ( onion) Borney - Hotisne i with grass 2OODE, PRO

WHO SAID?) OKM un Ma

**Sir Anthony Bđen when

he heard Mr. Dullan: waa

Comit