1957-01-29 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL,“

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1957.

CUMMINGS SAYS

WHY SHOULD I CUT OUT

MY CAVIAR ?

D

ARRYL

Francis)

F. (for ZANUCK

gnawed the end of his

cigar, like a rabbit worrying stick of celery, and

chewed over a question.

He is a man who spends

many of his waking hours

by LOGAN GOURLAY

gnawing A cigar and the most exciting chewing over a question.

he

This one was about the most outstanding star has handled in a long career

film-making.

Ou enme an answer in high-pitched nasal

Ipa Twang D

"7 can tell you the most tal, sted star I ever handled. Definitely the most talented.

"Shirley Temple."

you've known

"No. I wouldn't that." He chuckled.

star to bloom in Hollywood.

say

"The most exciting star I've known, without any doubt, was George Arliss, 'Bubbled with

ideas'

"Not exciting, of course, in the sexy sense. Exciting with. Exciting I could not have been to work more surprised if he had creatively. He bubbled with સ્વામી

ideas not only about how a Rin Tin Tin, for Zanuck has been associated part should be played but with most of the Hollywood how the story should be de-

veloped. stars in the past 30 years -starting with Rin Tin Tin.

Natural talent

Was

"And he was a wanderful judge of new talent."

"Like you."

"I've been wrong oftener than I've been right. As But he offered a qualifien- you probably know, I let tion.

Monroc leave our studios "What I mean is that kid when she was

a starlet, the Temple

most Then we had to grab her naturally talented

per- back, former

An ever saw.

"Occasionally you know instinctive actress. A born right away. That's star

quality, thut professional too.

is. Arliss knew whenever he set eyes on Bette Davis playing a small part, I didn't."

I

"I remember once one of her baby teeth came out while she WHs doing scone. She carried right on ELA though nothing had happened. Didn't spil it out till the cameras stopped turning.

Joan

I mentioned Richard Burlon, Zanuck for In- selected by ternatloned standum but not-so farby the public. "Nobody can deny he's a damned fine actor. But, rightly or wrongly, acting "I guess Marilyn Monroe ability alone doesn't make a star.

"Now take this girl has the same kind of child-Collies. Not another Bernhard. like instinctive talent-plus But I'm pretty certain she's star sex appeal, of course."

material. He removed the cigar, which is as much a part of hls face as his nose. Without the cigar he looked naked. He put it back,

suppose,"

"Wait you see her in this πρην movie of mine (His inion dollar production Island In The Sus now under way in Elairee Studios,)

"I just don't know," Bald Zanuck

"Maybe you put too much em, phasis on the subjects in Britain and not enough on the people in them. But the fact is you don't produce big slurs. And I can't tell you exactly why. People are always asking me,

"Do YOU know?" "ak I'd tell the organisation," I said.

.

says

Mr. Zanuck

chance to be more creative as an Independent producer.

there's the money "Suno, factor too. As a studio boss I made half-a-million dollars year, but with taxes at '02 per can I finished up in the red.

There was no way out unlees

I reduced my standard of liv- ing. And why should I do that?” d accepted without a a qualm another of the caviar canapes sent up to the Claridges Hotel salto as a pro-dimmer snack.

A

"This way as an independent I've a chance to make more dough if the film's success-

bit

til Course, if it flops I'm in trouble.

"Everybody tell mo shouldn't do the Alm about But Rank Sian I'm planning next.

I'm determined,

no-

The fact is, of course, body knows exactly what makes a star. And nobody can make one. I never made one in my I just helped conditions." create the right whole career.

Zanuck was equally uncertain about what makes his own type -the Hollywood mogul, the film tycoon.

At 23. he tan the Warner Bros. studios, Until recently he was production chief of 20th Century-Fox, Now at 54 he was switched to independent production (but held on to his major shareholding in 20th Century-130,000 shares.)

the

Essential to

storics

"How do I know what's made me what 1 an?" he said, sip- and washing ping his whisky down the cigar shreda. I asked if it was

Hollywood tycoon for a

a personal legend about create himself.

"Not essentlas. It con just all Not Варрел. aboin me are true."

"What about the one that you sometimes put a trained monkey in your excutive chair, and turned down the lights, sent for a new member of your staff?" ******Well. that's

more Dr less true. Always liked practical Jokes. Had a fot of fun with that monkey. It was a chimp.

"I had a pet llon at one time 100. Called it Metty after Metro-Goldwyn - Moyer. Very useful Metly was. around the studios, trainer one day and he had to

But he

killed

LA

But all that was in the old days. In the last few years at Fox it was all work and mostly the kind of work I didn't like, Too much businesa detall.

Complexity

way But then

*I'm intrigued by that guy. How he Gossed the whole thing. Anybody who got in the he had quietly murdered. there was more to him that.

"Should make quite a movie. From peasant to dictator,"

1 left Zanuck pacing the lounge of his suite restlessly. A fawn sports small man in

Hollywood uni- jacket-the form. A dictatorial man with a surprising attractive streak of humility. A complex, fascinat- Ing man. His own story, thought, would make quite

moylu.

But no expedient murders. hope-even when Metty Lion was around.

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TITO

THE importance

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The strategic value of Yugo- slavia is small. Mr Khrushchev, if he ever gets really tired of wooing Tito, could easily over- run the country anak demolish It even if he could not hold Its people down.

Titoism-an idea

and

his

dream

FOR THE COMMON MAN

Danube Federation by LES ARMOUR

the feud with given a post in the party's high command, then established in

And anyone who can inspire fear in the Kremlin musl Important.

Not long afterwards, he was not to work recruiting an Inter-

Had he followed official line, he would have lost the lot. For two years he struggled

led them into Yugoslavia. Actually, there was no need for theen. The battle for Yugoslavia

was won.

Their purpose was to secure Yugoslavia for CommunlemT), And, no doubt, but for them, there would have been elvil war. As it was, Tito's "Partisane" simply look over with the Red Army behind them,

Tito moved into a great min alon, put on his Marshai's uni- and form for the first time, settled down to be president.

Pan Danube

out on lop In his Stalin.

Morcover, the one hope for Vienna. Eastern Europe today seems to will spread

Then fitter struck. The coun-

overrun almost in and that it will tear great holes rational brigade for the Spanish try was in the Communist net, Mr divil wa

stantly

Omletaily, Yugoslavia. Khrushchev has left no one in

Thus the

years passed-un- was Hitler's "friend." my doubt that he is frald of spcctacularly enough and "Comrade Walter and his that.

Sound eventually he

hustled himself high command

from back in Moscow being groomed Zagreb to Belgrade and there, to take over the Yugoslav Com- under the reses of the Gestapo, be munist party.

started to build an organisation. Within weeks they were dis- persed across the hills and forests.

Hardly more than a year had

when At first

he gone by, however, they had no formal

dream of organisation, no weapons save began to

greater pitchforks and shotguns, But

things. If Stalin had become, the

to heir

the Romanovs why soon they had captured enough German weapons and recruited shouldn't he become the heir to enough volunteers to form the Habsburgs? He proposed

Communist Federation cf Pan

mado a whirl- Danube stater wind tour of the Balkans and came home convinced that he was on the way to fulfillpg 14 great dream.

Tito's "Importance lics In example.

But what kind of example is

The

were

Those were the days of the his great Communist purges and

the then

leaders of the Yugo slav party

ruthlessly eliminated.

So was Bruz's wife who was of "Leftist deviation" accused and shortly afterwards, was listed simply es "deceased."

It?

Josip Broz was born 64 years in the tiny villogo of ago Kumrovec, the seventh of fifteen children of a poor Croat pea- part. He went to

vlilage school for about

Ave

years, failed to come to any meeting minds with his teachers, and to become dishwasher the nearby town of Sisak.

The economic importance of Yugoslavia is nil. Its people have enough trouble staying alive, Culturally, the country is near to being a vacuum that, wore it wiped from the rate of

ប្តឹង histery. no one but a handful of dedicated scholars would ever notice.

one

But Tilelam es an idea seems Lordcurly important. That man should stand up air the ecobiried might of the Cmmunt world and ar- vive isprising enough. That Communion should have come ard stayed in a backward coun- try which has surprisingly little of the standard machinery of oppressien is much more fur-

prising..

Even these positive explana- lions of the importance of being Tito end however, to slip away and clude the enquirer when they are locked at more closely.,

Tito's feud with Stalin, after

of

In

He did a series of similarly menti tasks, tearned some of the elements of the mechanic's trade, and wow drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in ume for the First World War

RSM genius

It was in the army that he first showed his genius. Within a year he became a regimental sergeant-major-a post as imp- portant in the Austrian Army as it is in any amy.

10 Russia The war took him where he was badly wounded near the heart,

was captured, und contracted typhus.

He appeared, however, all, was prompted not so much show no tendency in rely: by any grand ideal as by

his against Yugoslavia's Austrian ego. 1le resented being cut to masters, The Russians were busy the size of local politician in a recruiting brigades from the Balkan backwater

ranks of Austrian prisoners and deserters. But, after his re- covery from his wounds and Broz is, young

stayed in his prison.

The revolution of 1917 brought about his release and he liter- ally walked from the Urals to St. Petersburg. He was deler enined to see the revolution for himself. He arrived at his de- that the end stination satisfied of the war had ended all his ok

Red joined the obligations, Army, and fought in a number of minor skirmishes.

And the refreshing tolerance of his regime has been forced upon him by circumstance. He himself has been as ruthless as any man can be. The quida- tion of Dreza Mihailoviich was sheer cold-blooded brutality.

Splinters

Tito's war on religion match od in vigour and low cunning, anything Stalin could do. (And, when it is remembered that the churches played an enormous mole in his underground, it up- pears that he did not even have the excuse that Stalin had)

It was Cpl Napoleon, Cpl Hitler, but R.S.M. Tito

Thore is no evidence that pretested

he

proper army.

The force was broken down Into battallons and companies

-cach with its officer and its

the

"political egent" elected from Every officer had the right to demand absolute obedienze in battle, but he was charged with explaining his plan before every attacle and with holding a dis- cussion in which he could be freely attacked after every en- Cagement.

"Anti-bull"

Meanwhile, to his old friend. he was his old genial easily- approachable eelt. To further his dreams abroad, he was charit- able at home.

He did not enforce collec Livization. He allowed some kinds of political spporkton, He act up: no marsive, secret police netwerk. He pandered to the rational aspirations of both - It was a strange way to run Serb and Crot and allowed a an army. But it showed "Com good part of government to stay rack Walter's" genius. He in the lands of small councils realsed

that men who

volumtgered for the underground organised like the old partisan

units.

would resert formal army dis-

:

cipline. This way gave them en Stalin did not like any of this. outlet, de also realised that Especialty. Stalin did net Jiko these units would quickly be the idra of Pen-Danube come Communist cells and that, Federation which would serious- if they ever won the war, they by wrakón Tesla's hold on the could quickly take over, the whole chain of satellites. When it came time for him to country

Tila, characteristically toll go home so many of the party

"Comrade Walter' became Stalin where to go. Stalin ro- leaders had been eliminated that "Comrade Tilo"-a name chosen spended by agreeing that the the Russian leaders seriously out of the thic and chosen headquatore of the new Comin debated cancelling Broz'e orders simply to confuse the enemy. form should be in Belgrade--on The Impiled condition that Tito But he per- Tito's war was a brutal one.

bohaved himself. When his men blow up, a bridge, the Nazis simply took the He plerted from nothing by a

whole population of the scarcit hostile country. Within a few village and excented them. months he had won a large

But the greater the reprisals, by do following principally

the greater wore his attacky. nouncing Hitler, Mussolini their allies in Yugoslavia.

and winding up the Yugoslav party altogether. sisied,

Tough welding

and

a

Emulation

Tybs

But Tho want alread with plari Pan-Dambe, Stalin It was this that first led

determined to break him. 10 spilit bolween Tito and

Tho rest-down to, Krumhichev's Mihailovitch, Mihailovitch did final, humble offer of peace is not believe in risking the lives public funowledge. of civilians.

He believed in striking only

But whint of Tito's "example"? Would

Four years later he was ព This ho welded into a now confirmed ankl Indoctrinated, and tougher party. This time when the Germans would find Can it be emulated? Communist-and ho took 4 the high command stayed home it dimeult to retaliate at them any Cotriemunist leader Moreover, while "Taoists" Russian girl home with him as in Yugoslavia and risked in his "Royalist forces gradually voluntarily decentralise his gov-

eise his wife. being locked up where, "Stalinists" were being locked up to Yugoslavia.

were

Back at work as a machinist,

he quickly became a leader in

egitator-and

a

But chicumstances intervened, the Metal Workers union, a Yugoslavia has always splinter- well-known

prisonment. Moralo improved and with that improvement came more members.

די

BE

retired

notre ndo inactivity, Then Tito began

anuarycet

that Mihailovitch was betraying him to the Germans,

have brought all the minority to five years is prisons for enemies laugh - Watchod: his turned his

the Pan-Danubo Poderation?

crnment-given the fact that no other needs tot. Has any other sufficient faith in his own in- portance to produce a plan liice.

He was just gotting the party

ne the moving when tho Russo-German Ultimately by the time. et in the hands of the ruler, wanted man,

pact was announced. The Yuzo Alles had come to his aid and And, if he had, would bring Neither the Austrians, nor King

alay party had been rebuilt on the Germans were on the run the sort of result that forged

Balin to se17 King Alexander's regime was on anti-Farxist, anti-Nazi planic, and using Yugoslavia only as a Alexander could hold the coun

known, in- corridor through which to move Anyway, what other Com- together. The imposition of far tougher than the Austrians Broz by than

had ever been and, in 1010, scrutably,

out of the Balkans-Tilo mumist, has Tito's wartime re Walter" "Comrady

Игоора an iron-dated rogino would only: Broz was arrested and sentenced tumed and

fall might en corda record which has Mihailoviich

mred hla popular - support troubles to the boil again Yugo«":

illegal audition,

Once atided that he and the Bovio has to be governed loose-. ly or not at all.

He won outspoken and brave cision, He refused to follow the "Royalists under control," he however great the oddat

Perhaps Tito is not so im-, At the same time, of course in the courtroom and this stock new line and agreed only to flew off to make ungemonta

in the Communist Party went tone down" the old line with the ited Army, then ad pottant, after all, Unicia, of Tito has mavived the pressure up. As a result, whom he The rosult was that he did, vercing through the Balkans. course, the time is now ripe to of circumstances, he did, put, enthgodt from prison. he was lowe much of his new member-The.Rusilaris made' Bian; a Mar- revive the Pan-Danube #odera- Hier to rout mid fie did comag, set out of the country and abigbut a hand core remained, shal of the Red Army and he tion, as

Then he made a bravo