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THE CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1957.

ZANIES

The Dark-skinned Heart-throb Speaks of Love

"We'll have to stop meeting this - way-my husband's getting suspicious!"

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ANNE EDWARDS Yes-this is me! I've

got it too...

Rock 'n' Roll

Here's how...dig by dig

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London be said, "you must learn to "That's the uninhibited way HAT has Mr move your feet property. Then to do rock 'n' roll," he ex-

Charles Wheeler, Then you add the technique, the

you must get the timing right explained. "But you should President of the points of styling.

have landed on my lap with And finally your feet in the air. Now we'll Royal Academy, the continuity and blending of really get hep." common with the Duke steps together." of Kent?

So off we went.

in

What possible interest could Norman Parkinson, our top fashion photogra- pher, share with the learned philosopher Professor Ayer?

"Dig step, dig step, rock, and dig step," he said quietly.

Quietly I digged and stepped, "You've got good co-ordina- tion," he anid, "and a nice sense of rhythm, Let's try it with music.

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And what can artist Rodrigo Moynihan have in common with "the darling of the Guards," Mits Caroline King, or young

Confidently I digged and step- she, with Leslie Colin Kirkby, ped some more. His foot flew in tailor's cutter, of Walthamstow?

And judges

Trock 'n' roll. Everywhere I

answer is that they oll

go at this season's purtles I find everybody's doing it.

Teddy

Foets and professors do it, editors and dcbs do it. Boys and Eton do it. And at the Inns of Court dances even Judges do it.

So lets do 11, Let's rock 'n' roll, Let's learn the real thing, said I, without any more fool- ing around.

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all directions, and so did mine. "You're getting It," he said And along I went

to the "Now put your left hand Arthur Murray school dancing where I closed with a Relax."

of on my right shoulder and relax, tall, earnest, and elegant young American called Earl Manning.

I relaxed. I shouldn't have.

His right knee mado sudden contact with my rear and I shot

He began by explaining the theory of the dance. "First,' Into spaco.

JOHNNY HAZARD

MR. AMBASSADOR, I WANT

YOU TO MEET A MAN WHO

| TAKES A MOST PERSONAL |CONCERN IN YOUR FUTURE...

AIR, ENIGMA {

I-I DON'T QUITE

UNDERSTAND, COUNTESS NERISJ I DO NOT KNOW ** THIS MAN WHAT 10 THIS 7

MY DEAR JARAK,

THIS 19. ABCHITA

THIS!

I picked myself up from the noor.

'ON THE SCREEN REJECT JOAN FONTAINE,

THAT IS GOING TO SHOCK PEOPLE'

by THOMAS WISEMAN

T had all happened be it seems, have to come in

fore in the luxurious easy stages,

suite at the Savoy over- looking the Thames: the fonte, "they thought that "I suppose," said Bela- film star preening himself would be going too far. It on the settee, the photo has never been done before graphera flash-bulbs flash- for a Negro to make love to ing, the publicity man pub- a white Woman licising and the telephone screen. ringing continuously.

Even the dialogue sounded te same:

on the It used to be taboo. The Hollywood Code for- bade it.

"Now they've changed the Code. Now it "At Las

just. Vegas I was says you can't show vio- paid $35,000 a week. Last lence between a Negro and year I made $447,000. But a white woman. A white I'm not rich. I have a man can'slap his girl friend; hungry uncle-by the name a Negro can't slap his girl of Sam. He leaves me just friend if she is white." 20 cents in the dollar."

Still, it was a step for- "My record albums have ward. "In the film Joan the highest sales of any Fontaine is in love with me one. Higher than Sinatra." - and I reject her. That's

"I don't care for lush a shock.

going to give a few people Also in my poli- living. I live the simple tical and racial arguments life."

with James Mason come out top. That's going destroy him completely; I to shock people. Naturally, I'm delighted.”

Was

"Yes, I'm divorced now My wife

a school- teacher. No, I don't want to talk about it. It was just a simple domestic problem."

This was where I came in -on Д

Passport

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your left leg to leave your right / suite in the Savoy overlook- lover is due more to his own leg and your right to leave your ing the Thames.

joni."

per-

dozen previous That Belafonte is able to crash This is really a cute stop," occasions to the luxurious the colour-barrier as & screen he said. "Slowly, now. Allow

amazing, success than the pro. gressiveness of the public. As But

the result of his performance in there Wad this

the film "Carmen Jones" and We both sank gradously to difference. The handsome triumphant concert the floor. We looked at each film star on the settee laugh- formances in the United States, other. "What do I do now?" ing into the camera lens he has a vast following among I asked.

was not the normal shade of colours. He has become the first of all shapes, eges and "You just hop off like this," pink. He was dark brown. Negro heart-throb ho said,.. his legs still in the His name was Harry spilts. It makes a very effec- Belafonte. He was a Negro. live exit,"

It made a difference.

Back-slide

"Dand a step, dig step," he IG step, dig step, rock,

muttered, botting up the pace, "Nowy comes the finish....

It was taboo

women

experienced

I asked him whether he still

colour pre- any Judice. He said: "My prominence gives me a passport to many places that other Negroes cannot go. I've been the first Negro to perform at places where pre- viously there was a colour bar. They Just couldn't afford to igore my success.

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with

tiny

I don't know why it should have made a difference, but it did..

I said: "In your private life, When he talked about women, do you encounter Ore minuto I was holding

your relationship boll hands with my handsome making love to Joan Fon- prejudice?" instructor. The next there I was shooting across the floor on Island in the Sun," he

taine in his present film, He gave a big, handsome my behind.

smile Suddenly there was no described it as "a great difference between the mon in Looking up at him over any sociological advance." That the luxurious suite at the Savoy shoulder I asked: "How do you

back?" ket me

"Sometimes was different. I had not and all the other stars who hod up," he replied heard making love to any he was eminently aware of his sat on that retice. Like them, you pick 'em

"Sometimes you fono described in those terms appeal. nonchalantly. just leave them there,"

He

He mopped his brow. sat down. He was finished. I wasn't though. I'd just started,

Soo you later, alligators,

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before.

"women

"No," he said, still grimming. When we

sky that I have! went into it, "I can't we discovered that "making any dimculties where

are concerned, whatever their love" ended short of klas colour." ¡ing: sociological advances,

By Frank Robbins

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... this situation calls for a

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