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THE CHINA „MAIL,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1956.

MICHAEL RUDDY, reporting from Hollywood, is tired of

STARS WHO TALK OF RETIRING BUT DON'T

Hollywood. Ambasador to Brazil: "I don't M just a little tired of think i wants me to continue

these "retiring" RC- tresses. Every now and then they announce their longing to get away from the bright lights and live "like ordinary hunan beings." But, of entrse, they never du.

Recent reports have come from Elizabeth Taylor, a girl for whom I have always had a soft

spot, but who, although a mother and al- most twice divorced, in still only a few years older than a teenager. And all this

talk "retirement"

coming from a girl of her age and ambition is just bunk! SHE'S AN EXPERT

seen too

—the latest is LIZ TAYLOR

.i

cotton-pickin' belle from the again. I shall film only if Gres and popular bull- approves, but we are not going Deep South fighting aficionada,

to be separated at any time, I assure you."

THEY QUIT

in films after our marriage."

(ume 1983, and Liz-now Mr

As lung: ago as 1934, Miss Michael Wilding was telling the world, In reference to her Gardner stated publicly: "I'm that keen on, being a

So far, Dana has kept her baby son, Michael: "I hope he not all

Siho I'm happiest in word.

refused to leave doesn't want to be an actor, I've movie star.

for Barbados loca- flat heels and no Hollywood much of the tragte blue jeans,

tion for "Island in the Sun," side.

I've NOL 13 some of make-up."

the

Which worked out nicely for real stars of a few years ago

Joan

who Collins, Britain's dang crowni wirk now, still record: ringing desperately

stopped into the Joselyn Fleury role, dreams.

I've learned not to dedicato myself to any career. when it up tomorrow.

Job which 1 enjoy

it

their it,

A year later sho went on "Svitio prople

enjoy but I want to leave this

business,

I could HER CHOICE It's just while i

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Not even the terrific part of The Anglo-Indian girl in "Bhowani Juncilon" reconciled Markedly. Miss Taylor's Ava to her fate. In July this earnings to get away from 11

on undirs of her somewhat tangled hardly all coincide with the peaks and year, with the dust of location shaken from her feet, announced; "I'm selling love life.

Hollywood. After 13 years. Current

9 spasm began when the Wiking romaner Ended, But There won't be many regrets. I

changed

her mind was never really happy there. "I feel kind of secure and content

Europe, Now have made up my mind to I never made my friends Bay. among film people in Hollywood There are pressures anyway

How she's again.

LOTS OF LOLLY

Dana definitely prefers the role of wife, and lives in magni- fleet style with a mansion in Bel Air, a Palm Springs place, limousines and private planes.

And there are others who

really meant it (well, so far, anyway) when they said: "I quit."

Allco

married Fayc.

Phil Harris, retired in 1945 and hasn't returned to the Alm tots, despite attractive offers.

Norma Shearer, screen idel of the thirties, ia very happy as Mr's Martin

What's Arrouge, she's proud of being a

la Liz alone among thr Nor feandles famous for this kind of Idle chatter. You hear squawks about

grandmother. "Retirement? Quilting getting up ut finin

the long hours under the studa. lights, the boredom of climbing

ul in and

of 300-mel gowns, and the ordeal of makut coust-to-cungt appearalices

You'd think, to listen to some of these bruised violet", that is, nn effort to plek up the weekly pay

packet!

al

lims?

outside

I've nev i said 'd retire or quil

movies,"

," she told me here that don't apply in Europe. making

countries. last week in between recording I've looked at most

and i have settled on Spain. dialogue fe "Raintree County,

Just place much delayed

- prolonged want

"I may

Madrid, in the suburbs. 58000,000 production. make fewer movies, that's all

For the re ord, Liz has made HATES TAXES deco Almg In the past three years The Last Time I Saw Pacts," "Citif" an "Raintree famly "

Regrettably, at kind of performance Miss Taylor hurt acquired a certain expertness ni in early age. Way back Ju 1931--She Vns then 19- claimed she was worrying her into a duodenal ulcer be cause "everybody

hates 2010 I've

which he getting so many nasty becn letters,

I don't

doen't read them any

resulting retirement talk.

more

"That

was shortly after her from husband Nicks

divorce Hiiton

heir 10 millionaire hotel owner,

Fruit-

But in 1050, before the wed- ding bells had chimed, she had been declaiming: "If my career interferes with my marriage, the career can y out of the window."

TANGLED LOVE LIFE

And a year before that, while engaged to 22-year-old William Pawley, or of a former U.S.

Mike Tiel,

Super-showman who allegedly will be her next husband and who has given her a colossal 30-earing diarim | ring, cost $100,000, object to the publicity 12344 Taylor

REVN

זין

Rhe would quit

Were Ava Gardner to marry a millionaire, Inuvyles altogether. This ste told me. What the bates is the discipline demanded in I hate getting up al filming. six in the morning, und 1 hate interviews and being forced to talk about myself," said Ava. She ulu hates paying high faxes

Add to

the weathercocks of Hollywood Betty Hutton, who tearfully announced her retire- ment two years ago Vegas, got bored within three and recently finished months,

with "Spring Reunion"

Dana taxes, Andrews.

When Dana Wynter married

and wealthy

successful lawyer, Gregson Bautzer, she toki

"My marriage will Now fel's consider another always come first. I don't really "retiring" stir-Ava Cardner, eure whether I ever made a film

UNHAPPY AVA

What Elizabeth really wants 1r own independent company, profit-sharing deals, and lots of "pily." After paying sons, expenses, income she has little left, poor girl- even though she earns $5,000 the weekly.

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Robin Hutcheon Concludes His Canton Diary

I FELT AN ASS WEARING

A PICASSO PEACE DOVE

Q

an

FELT

ass because not everything on dis- walking around Kow. play was avaliable for expart in

quantity. loon station with a Picasso

peace badge on my lapel.

dove

But it suggested an astonish- ingly versalile output.

Some enter. of the products displayed afu All visitors to China are admittedly copies of Russian or Satellite originals, but a serious given one--free.

attempt is being made now to turn them out in China,

1t comes with customs forms asking you to declare ammunition and explosives, and tickets supplied by the China Travel Service before you board the train which takes you to the Hongkong border.

218

up

this

the of the playing field looks no Admission to each pavilion is but an official living on froe. All the authorities premises very kindly escorted bigger than Hongkong's Caroline

around demand is that you drop a chip

600-year-old HR stadium, but perhaps its

of

most unusual feature is that it wood into a box as you Ming dynasty building.

nestles so comfortably in the The Chinese have

Ita construction is curious. It arms of the Yuch Hslu Hill, the passion for counting heads. This

consists of five storeys, which highest in the main city area. manla for statistics must be a

the people. At the look more like layers sweeping curse to

In the same locally is the in steps to a traditional Exhibition we saw long queues

Chinese roof.

Yat-on Memorial Hall, it is rust red in Sun stretching down the road for

colour and houses relles dating built in classical Chinese style, about 100 to 200 yards outside

from prehistory to the present. On the night we visited it, a about 10 the main gates. came back with

They filed up small window where we

model houses very pounds of literature covering to a

I am told Hong- Orchestra to these found in the Li Cheng kong's Sino-British several dozen industries which imagined they bought tickets.

also played there, and that it is Uk burial vault in Kowloon. determined bid to capture Far

But our escort explained that Eastern markets, and penetrate it was only for statistical pur

pases. My companion wondered the West in a bigger way than

with

use turnstiles ever before

why they didn't special export

with an automatie quality products. Some of these

mechanism.

show thai China is

making a

I felt on ass because I met n are on sale in Canton but they friend,

and

bashfully

struggled are

far beyond the

with a handkerchief man's pay packet,

in my breast pocket to conceal

it.

The Inhibition is understand- able. These days wo

for

to war

the sake of peace.

average

Business done

Cynics debase its purity and THESE are

make it a sham.

Besides I hate to think of Picasso

as a 20th Century PRO for Noth.

a

pressions.

counting

Park,

But at the Cultural

crowds were

where tho

dem.

This was

in

Chineso

Bhart

Including a number of red clay performed.

North Korean opera company

the

similar

Political slant

uned

mass

for meetings and railies as well. It is convenient

for any assembly on A mass scale. It seals 5,500.

It is circular with a gallery the circumference

ard

THINK the museum must be "post-Liberation" it contains sweeping barely nucleus +

of ex- from either edge of the ant the stage mouth, rather ilke dense, counting was no prob- hibits taken only from

province of Kwangtung. From London's Albert Hall, except it has only nne gallery Into Ching dynasty on that All exhibits were explained. wards they develop a diednet levet and is vastly bigger. The At the wax works Mandarin- political

In the 20th "pit" area has most of the seats slant. girls described the Century section, Sun Yat-sen should say, two-thirds. superficial

im- speaking

tableaux, end nt the art and the early Party martyrs and em not cOMT-

Smoking is forbidden, the and galleries

exhibitions their achievements dominate petent discuss the economics

natural ventilation. placards of China's reconstruction or the

gove glass showenses, leading finally there la

To the May 4th movement and Traps aro opened in the roof. quality of its products in com- relevant information,

the so-called war of Liberation It was a cool night ouside but with those turned out In Canton, the sight of half parison

ptinless education,

atmosphere Inside was dozen

French businessmen in Britain and Europe. The In other parts of the world, after the rupture of relations in the

110 Nationalist Communist pleasant, despite the Hall's size. badges, sporting the

under- crient of the business done st

We were told that late-comera coalition in 1927, Exhibition (£10.3 million mined self-righteous conviction, the

were not allowed into tha theatro once the The dove

performance went back un my at the end of November) may

We thought We Saw Chiang lapel, I was pacified and at the be doubted, but it is absurd to

had started, Kai-shek in one photograph were admitted during the first end of my three-day stay began ridleute, and rather unwise to

Our guide was rather shocked interval to think of it as an indispen- underestimate, present achieve, cable

industrial passport in

and my travels menta

the around Canton. An illusion, potential presented there. perhaps, but still..........

Each night-three in all-we went to the Canton Cultural It cost about HK 25 admission, and I return with the conviction that we need one in Hongkong.

Bury your pride

MY dip: If you go to China

Park. cents

museums, art galleries and even theatres have, I think, an

the esoteric appeal apart from

sightseer or the person Cesuai who talcos shelter

from a sudden downpour or snowstorm We did not get an estimate of the number of visitors nightly-. sensibly is opens at 5.30 pm after people have finished their day's work and closes at 1000 pa--but I should say between 10,000 and 20,000.

Another passion

DUCATION is another passion Ein Chim. Everybody seems to be taking courses. They tell learn more,

escort an

bury your pride and your self-consciousness and wear it. Each night we saw wimething All visitors to the Exhibition different, and on our Icht night are given a tourist may of the in Canton we chausios our city. There aro

17 sights scives trying to seo all that wo olctally worth seeing of which had not seen before at the we saw 10 during our short Park. I think sheer incredulity you they want to

These included big city exhausted us as much as the If they are not learning stay,

from Mandarin, like Our blacks like the black painted Jong tramp It involved

interpreter

the Trado Department who studies Engineering in his spare time

Of Kwun Hotel and the South pavilion, to pavillon, theatre to, China Buliding (which includes theatre.

a bir department storo), and

landmarks Hoo the Pearl

bridge and the Central Fer

I did not have time to soo

the Central Park thoroughly,

Chinese art

but presumably

Dashing beauty

at the suggestion, He denied it seriously without the trace of sanile. But he was a pleasant fellow. He spoke in Mandarin, but swiched to surprisingly good English when he found THE seats were leather-cover- we bad dimicuity following his od and hard 'but that is no patter,

reflection on the opera.. It wus in Korean. Neither I nor BAUD From the top storey of the others in the audience could Museum we had a magnificent understand a word of it, apart view of Canton with a haze ect from the Mandarin prologue tling over the city,

the pdven by a' dashing beauty in a Municipal Stadium, the Sun fong while cheongsam (the Best

Memorial Yat-acu

and Waterworks sphere immediately in Canton).

the and portmaps the only one we saw

below us. Only once, botore on a prewar

We visited the Liu Yung Szo trip to Kuling, high above

Yangtse Pagoda, but only got a ground- have I coon views and level view of this eight-storey ntmosphere like this which tample. We felt afterwards.wm

painters would havo neoded a ⠀ wook to landscape pa

Chintsa

perhape very superficiality.

they are studying subjects of translate so fulthfully,' so, de-" "dn" Canton properly, though special personal interest. At licately to their silks and bam the end of my visit. I felt I bos screens. could have spent every night

end the bridge and the buildings exhibits of Chinges art for a month! studying Chinese

Unusual feature.

This "to the "meat" for the sightseeing tourist. This is what made my trip to the Chinese mainland the rare treat

проко of yesterday area into THE Municipal Stadium im- ·Our “Bags, waste"

mediately below the Museum the travel service office In

were the most beautina I Fame nothing to write home have seen anywhere in Hong-carving in wood, Ivory and about...

kong, Shanghai or the English dade at the Cultural Park. But the other six: here are and Australian homes of ixlenda Near the Exhibition ares is glimpses of old and new Chian who have spent their lives in Yuch Halu Hill which has the which any tourist would prim. China.

Bun Yat-sen Memorial; there out 165,000 to 70,000 people. A Kowoon and a bill for $227(for among the most fascinating There was another pavillon niso a large steel football match on Sunday drew two) was presented for the rights he had seen. which mode Chiness, sphere, which lonks, like an almost that mumber, guido, a journey from Lowie. It included On the porterage from Bhumchun to I have already discussed printings were shown, lone in observation balloons about to football ten told Le bebeny the Eschbition,1 mild pressive than the traditional take off (we thought it was an day we wantmetic Low, and service charges. Our

tickets was one of the most remark. 516, but I found some of the observatory but to were the bill was exorbitant Bale, and comprehensive had Impressionist exchilowwiing and something to do with the cinder or dirt, trade marrounding soda. We visited that twice. There was an aquarium with dy's water supply), the Canton the oval.) although, apart

the Municipal *** coenon, live and stuffed endalbits, several, Mizretra ve ark indview with an official, we open air thentres,, where well- People's Stadium bad, no business-to, transact known opera stats performed a The Merbocial and the curious Essentially. Bi wasi) China's puppet opers, acrobate (whom, at (0) Pat??wers @ both suarded show-window, exhibiting the lwp did not bee)); [vast scope“, of its pitmart.

and

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