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"Er-am I guarding YOU—or are you guarding ME?”

Today: The first inside story of Marilyn, The Method... and the

The Princess of

F

EELING ♫ bit like Mata Hari after she the has purloined

secret documents, I bring you today the inside story of What Really Hap- pened at Pinewood while "The Sleeping Prince" being made.

Was

Yesterday Vera Day, the girl who played Marilyn's friend in the film, talked to me about what has been

going on during the pust three months.

Sir Laurence Olivier

most emerges

creditably from the ordeal. Always, it seema, he behaved like a gentleman and a knight. If he lost his temper it was only in private. If he ever #wore-and Sir Laurence can be known to swear! most picturesquely--it was out of earshot.

I gather that there were pccasions when Olivier had ample cause to curse.

In addition to the times when Mist Monroe was either late or simply did not show up at all, there were the occasions when various incmbers of her formid- #Lic entourage offered her advice. It was not always the same advice as Sir Laurence, her director, had already offered,

drama

Pinewood

said,

Hi There!

-BUT ALWAYS AT

THE WRONG TIME

moments Sir Laurence displayed indirilte patience. "But," sbe says, he may have had to bite his langue a bit.

i was this American way of acting- this thing they call The Method which caused the friction. Marilyn would always nsk Pauline Strasberg about how n scerie should

be played when Sir Laurence had alieady told her how."

Then there was the waiting.. and the interruptions,

"People got pretty fed up with SUYN Miss Day, "but that,"

crsonally, I don't see why. Every day that was

wasted

worry?

MAKE-UP

by THOMAS WISEMAN

patient Sir Laurence

Siz Lopeance hos always to peneliais the cordon of advisers

and experts.

When Marilyn Buffed her lines hours seeing to her hair and her And that meant more or chose to interpret a scene la makeup.

say sweetly: Try Marilyn,

darling."

would try again.

And

COMMIES NEW PLAN

FOR ASIA

by

JOHN COLLINS

WITH

the spotlight on

Whethe

Suez wo forgot what is going on in the rest of Asia.

We have perhaps for- gotten that the Communista have made one important change of tactics in the last two years. They have large ly dropped the use of vio- lence to get into power.

One reason why the Russian and Chinese Com- munists persisted in such crude tactics for so long was their ignorance of the true situation in free Asia. They reckoned by party dogma and counted ng an enemy everyone who was not fully with them.

The errors have been realised. One of the first reforms was to roorganise the "backroom boys* In Moscow and Peking. Oriental inalitates and the like have been set up to train specialists for such countries os Indio, Burma, Japan and Indonesia.

GREATER TACT

Such specialists are needed Tho by the political tacticians. Institute of Oriental Languages being organisexi at Moscow University is providing six-year

соиться.

So that by the 1080's the Soviet leaders will have the full use of their academic machino to deal with "bourgeois Asta,"

In the meantime they aro showing much greater tact ail round.

Nehru and Gandhi were onca hated

names in party circles. the Indian lenders lauded to the skies.

Now

To

This new "tackful" phase has led to greater activity in the multitude of Communist fronts Ike the "Friendship" movement, in the months ahead we will see a succession of Communist- inspired Asian meetings. Writers will be meeting Delhi soon.

An Asian Economic Conference and a journalists*

conference are also scheduled.

in

Among the most significant of the new "Friendship" bodies is the China-Nepal Friendship Association, just one indication of Communist infiltration in ono a way that Olivier felt would be waiting.

of the most vulnerable of India's he would a misinterpretation,

"But it was worth it. I've neighbours.

rushes and she looks aguin, en the

into Nepal This infiltration I've seen all her she just gorgeous.

films three times and I can tell started a few months ago and

Сап you sho never looked so good has grown rapidly alace. But always to get at her ha and Lever Vore buch low munist influer.co is particularly Miller made an appearance and had le penetrate the cordon of dresses, I've never seen anyone noticeable among students.

advisers and experts and friends

such

Whew! low dresses. he was on the sel almost every who constantly surrounded her. Lots of the girls around the set

OLD STORY day during the latter part of the

She had brought her own were making Catty would interrupt whatever production Marilyn

hairdresser and her own make- about her saying anybody The most advanced of the she wad

look as good as her in new fronts are the various doing even if she was in the up man from America, and they could

were In constant middle of

attendance, those dresses. But I'm telling "Aclan Solidarity Committees** scene, and rush over

could which started up in the last 18 to him, embrace him and kiss

with her film "Bus noi.”

months. So far they have ap- That's She told u19 80.

peared in Japan and India, and didn't why she

go to

In China, North Korea and the Others are ex-

WEBE

meant an extra day's pay for us. him. Then, suliably refurbish Marilyn," says Miss Day, "was you they couldn't, they

why should We

as always

tolk more

ferences than at the

And

Stop,"

it would look, cute.

►

remarks

FOR instance, there was the day when they were filming the Corunation scene. Miss Monroe had to be shown weeping.

In private conclave with her So Femi-official

autor, After all, Marilyn was paying, she would return to work. Pouline Strasberg Monroe St she was entitled to keep us But she had a disconcerting premiere. She didn't like the received the somewhat mystical walling, wan't she?"

Throughout the shooting there had been ret-up and Olivier was thought she didn't look as nice be of the famous shape clad in

habi, when an elaborate scene way she looked in dat film, She BUT the most startling vision of Soviet Union.

all for Monroe addicts will pected. advice: "Now during this scene, remember: think of Frank

thon about to call "Action," of sud- as she could have. So this time

In spite of these now tactics Sinatra and Coca-Cola,"

action, There were more con- denly noticing some friend in she was going to make sure the knee-length bloomers. This was Miss Day reports, with some

United the studie and calling out, "Hi looked real good. And she cer- Marilyn's own idea. She thought violence is not ruled out. Burma has been suffering violations of surprise, that sven at such Nations.

when Arthur there!"

tainly did. But they spent

In addition to all the other her borders by Chinese troops.

there was

and India have had distractions

Milton Singapore Greece, Misa Monroe's

more Communist-led riots. And is no sign of any per- Vice President, there

or about the set equipped manent, petice for Korea with a cine-camera.

He was Indo-China, Allming the Biming.

Peking Radio put it like this Miss Day estimates that he some months ago: "The only shot about two hours of film, way to get rid of capitalism and And

thero

are people who sug-establish socialism is to iso est, perhaps unfairly, that his revolutionary violence against documentary film about the the bourgeoisie and to establish

dictatorship making of "The Sleeping Prince" the

of the contains more drama, suspense proletariat, Peaceful means' will and tension than the picture not work." which Olivier directed,

THE DAY I FACED AN EGYPTIAN

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Finally, at the airport. Stripped. The solitary £1 note our heads. Six Egyptians little on. Or because of our During our interrogation by I had in my pocket was taken knelt and almed their rifles certainly that this was the end. the police we were told again from me.

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