1957-03-16 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.

"O! What a Muddle

| IE photoraph being hunded around the

T'

dinner table was of Edmund Purdom's current flancer, Alicja Darr, an abstract painter who came into his life in a very con-

Linda. creto way when Christian went out of it.

It was being regarded appre- ciatively for I wan the s time that Mr Purdom's friends had seen what has newest girl friend looks like, and she is no Today the abstract painting. British public can also see Mise The Darr for the first time (on right of this page) though they like Mr Purdom, wi'l have to walt until next month they rev her in the lesh in 1 don.

"She is a lovely girl," said M.. Purdom, sipping a urundy, "I'm mad about her.

"Lovely," sald M Lelle Shk -who is a business

executive,

Mr Purdom's oldest friend nud at present his host-"but doesn't Fre remind you of so!UGHC? Doesn't the Christian?"

look like Lindu

"No," said Mr Purtium some-

sharply

what

like Liids.

"she is not a bit

The maid, whose opinion was sought, agreed with 2 15.1

a bi like the wasn't

Linda

Christian, atid tennullify wis Ure Shine again restored to

hausdrold in Willesdien.

Mra Shine said: "People have said he

home-wrecker,

11

That's so untrue-he's a bome lover."

Me Purdom mid: "I'm trying to find the happiness in merenge that my parents always hrd."

I said: "When are you getting married?"

"Soon," said Mr. Purdom, "This spring, I hope."

"Now

Edmund," said Mr Shine, "should you say things like that? Be careful. I me,o, how can you be engaged to thi girl when you are still quried. to Tita?"

71 41 my

"1' mauty her R divorce from Tia is dual," said Mr Purdon

"What

saying that are you for?" mid Mr Shine. "Are you saying 1 for her sake, Edinum 17 Why are you committing youself to marry this girl?

If you sav

• ProRDWced ALEECHIA.

that

ALICJA DARR-No abstract pointing.

it is to be

she could

sue you for breach of promise.

"But I intend to murry her." said Mr Purdom.

"Intend is all right to say," said Mr Shine, “nx lung as you don't say you will."

"But I will," said Mr Purdon, it was quite different with Linda. I never said I'd mi:ty her"

Mr Shine raised his

eyes lo the ceiling in exasperation at such youthful folly on his old filend's part.

"Don't make such faces," tald Mr Purdom. "Mr Wiseman will put it in his column, and every- body will think Pen not going to marty her."

"So?" said Mr Shine "So?" Mr Purdom looked severe.

to time. For Mr Purdom, a hand- some: talented and Likeable young man who rose to rapid stardom in Hollywood-E WAR rapid, a lot of people say-has got his affairs into quite a

muddle

"Though he has appeared in four major Hollywood films and was caring around £250 week, he had to admit to me this week: "Yes, I'm broke, It is quite true I'm behind with my alimony payments, All the money I had saved has gone on lawyers' fees and the other ex- ponses

of my divorce." Last year he had carned 40,000 dollars gross, he said. After tax deductions and his agent's per- ceninge, that left him with 18,000 dollars.

"Of that," he mid, "I have to pay my wife 12,000 dollars in alimony. Leaving me with 6,000. So you see why I'm broke.

Was there, I wondered, any connection between this and the fact that Linda Christian was no longer the woman in his life?

Three years

GE

THE CUT NO

4

HAIRDRESSER

WOULD GIVE

ERALDINE McEWAN has had her long hair chopped- off with a pair of blunt scissora. She looks a regular

sketch.

No hairdresser would do it. She had to go to a wig- maker for that pudding-basin “out. And he only did it "as a special favour,”.

Then she went into the Royal hackyard in Georgia smelling Court Theatre the other night of mashed grapes and dust, and coated herself with brown Girls of ho own age will not paint. Extra dust went on make heren member of their elbows and kners, She Berambled into shorts and shirt. ("Lovely not to have to drew up," she grinned)

stuck-up club. Her only friends are coloured folk; and they b feel sad and left-out.

her

The little girl is imaginative, And she went

the She works herself through "No," said

up into Mr Purdom with commendable candour,

of her 24 frenzy of excitement over "all the most difficult role three years I've known Linda years: the 12-year-old in the brother's wedding. She adores

She play

adores his bride. I've been broke. When I first Carson McCullers

(and tim She

daydreams of touring the

met her I was carring 300 dollar. Julie Harris Alm) "The Member world with them both.

a week us a contract artist, Well, to a woman like Linda that is being broku,"

of the Wedding."

At moments,

she

YES

ลง

There

อ hysteria, with a gun, when her brother refuses to let her be a member of his honeymoon, And then her agony is over,

A moment

Now that their hecile round-touching as a maimed bird,

romance was Anally 2017-

the-world

over, wi Mr Purdom

a Star!?"

broken?

Mrs Shine looked sympathetic.

"It would not be gallant for Mr Shine looked disapproving.

me to answer that," he said, but "Your friend," I said to Mr.

not look very heart- Purdom, "doesn't seem to think he did you know your own mind where broken when he said it.

"Like all exciting relation- I think women are concerned. he thinks you are rather a fool ships," he said, "it was dimeult I has broken are women

concerned. from the start. where

It really seemed she was Are you?"

Mr Shine nodded vigorous having a better time without me

than with me," agreement.

Mr Purdom looked uncomfori- able, said: 'No, I know what I'm doing.

Then his friend: "You

to mustn't give the impression I can't manage my own affairs.

Mr Share said: "Well, can you, Edmund? Can you?"

It

ព question that others have also been usking from ume

up

And was he having a better time without her "If you love someone," he said, phrasing his reply carefully, "you only wish hor happiness. And if she is happier without me, that's fine by me."

by THOMAS WISEMANG

Outcast

|T is a play about foneliness. The little Kira has the mother. Her father neglects her. She is ler to grow up anyhow, in

Too long

TN the

last scene she has become a normal schoolkid

-her summer ordeal already half-forgotten,

Geraldine McEwan makes deft, enreful, clear occasionally in spired stab at the Вет- Impossible Juvenile.

coloured tice Reading (a scrvant) and 13-year-old John Hall (a cousin) add tender touches to a sum- mer dy which I found about

four heart-aches too long.

The Pudding-Basin Style Geraldine McEwan, as the 12-year-old giri

GERALDINE MCEWAN-UNSHORN.

WHY 00 giris go on the stags? For glamour! And what kap- pens? Lovely Geraldins McEwan stepped into the cold limelight last sight--serubbed, harshly cropped.....and gawklly plake.........

by JOHN BARBER

ZANIES

Witch-

ACHEA

"A jug of wine, an elevenpenny

loaf of bread-and then,"

**

might have known you'd be here.

You weren't in any of the pubs."

PRISON SAVERNOR

#ENILES

**Did you wish to see me, Wilson 7"

•

CYRIL STAPLETON'S COLUMN

Mitchum joins the L.P. scramble

"I record for them, then go out and make your hired all the accessories, and

own discs." That is what

F the big record companies refuse to let you "Come Rain or Come Shine" cords either. What then?

could be twisted into and "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby" Well, it softened by heat, they various some of the big old the Anished articles to attractive shapes and used na stara are doing in America, and it will not be very long Brunswick records,

ashirays, An expensive way of -The two sides have been before they are doing it in Britain.

a buying ashtrays, but then you and now Mr would have had a lot of fun. Jerry Lewis did it when he cast envious eyes at Dean colossal success

Gleason Jackic

did it Lewis is almost as well An Martin's record royalties.

established vocal entertainer TRUCK DRIVER When he became the No. 1 television comedian in his one time partner, Dean SIGNED UP America.

And

Robert Mitchum has done i beenuse he fancies his chances as a calypso singer. AND YOU can do it you want to. All you need, spart suffelent from the money, is faith in your own talents to justify the cost.

now

You might like to do what Jackie Gleason did. He hired a studio, recording equipment, technicians, an orchestra, arranger, K trumpcier named

'Hackett, and Bobby

then 8ct about putting his ideas on tape.

on

He did it so successfully that he is now one of the biggest long-playing record sellers

HARRY BELAFONTE

FACES OPPOSITION

In

the world.

tho

firmi

one, "Paris

Marlin,

Then look at what Robert TN Hollywood on business, Mitchum did. After spending E.M.I, recording manager, six months in the West Indies orchestra leader, and composer making a film, he went back to Ray Martin heard and liked a Hollywood convinced that in private recording of a

young wns the "white hope of the slager, calypso singers.

On inquiring about him, Ray Not being able to

convince was told: "He has given up the any of the record company business, and is driving a executives of his serious truck." Ray grabbed a car and artistle intentions, he set about rushed off to the truck depot. making a long-playing gramo- Within a few hours the truck phone record all of calypsoa. driver had вост found, auditioned, and signed up to make records for Columbia

found an

CONTRACT

THE result a five-year con- (British).

Home again Ray tract with Capitol, who are abstacle.

to

to issue his first 18 immediately. American, could not come

Hla protege, an The title: "What is this England to make records. after Generation?" and "Mama Look- So Ray had the volco

This last one is recorded in

Hollywood, the

How much did it cost him? Dark some time next month. a-Boo-B00." I'll tell you. In America, 4 But these are both examples of to bo given a big exploitation tapes flown to London, and the least five tirges as much as it expensive long-players made in direct opposition 10 the would in Britain--about £5,000, with big orchestras.

accompaniment dubbed in. Now Harry Belafonts recording.

his first recording is issued MY THREE

On a more modest scale it Robert Mitchum will sing it

here. The Uties of "Tako o would be possible to produce an when he makes his first appear- DID it myself three yours ordinary 78 r.p.m. record with a ange as a vocalist on the "Ed Walk," and "The Way: I Do,"

England. I emall group accompaniment for Sullivan Show next week. BANNED SONG made three long-playing records, as little sa £100,

you could dis- WAS BIG HIT Bo long as tribute them M.G.M. in which I sold to

the впора quickly enough, you might make - MALCOLM - VAUGHAN, the *K, MA ainging half of the double But you might, find that the, not 'Earle and Vanghan, has Stans

America, They cost me a little SUCCESSFUL FUN

under £1,000 each to produce. TERRY LEWIS did it more or a fortune..

Sinoo then they havợ bạîn ‘✔ 19% for fun. He chose two

to

rwald to Devos, who are issuing songs by would like to recordum disc jockeys did not like your made a new recording to follow

1 YOUNG LOVE. Tub Hunter, London (1)

2 DON'T FORHID ME. Pat

Boone. London. (3)

THE

TOP

3 KNEE DEEP

Philips. (5)

TEN

IN THE BLUES. Guy Mitchell.

GARDEN OF

EDEN.

Frankie Vaughan, Philips. (2)

5 BINGING THE BLUES. Guy Mitchell. Philips. (4)

6 TRUE

LOVE.

Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly.

Capitol. (7)

DON'T YOU ROCK ME DADDY-O. Lonnie Done- gan. Pyc-Nixa. (6)

AS A MATTER

OF FACT, SAYS

8 BANANA BOAT BONG. Harry Belafonte, H.M.V. (16)

9 FRIENDLY PERSUA

BION. Pat Boone, London, (8)

10 LONG TALL SALLY.

Little Richard. London. (~~)

the phenomenal success of "St Theresa of the Roses."

Theirs is one of the tow reconds which have become big hits without any help from the B.B.C. They banned it from broadcasting from the start Since that decision was taken the record has sold nearly half a million copies,

It will be interesting to see what will happen to Vaughan's nowest recording of a 800g written by Paddy ("Lay Down Your Arma") goberts, called "The World La Mine." This one broad- has been passed for casting.

HE WON HIS

OWN PRIZE

T

a charity ball held at

A Dorchester

House Last wook, disc jockey David Jacobs went up to the tombola stand to collect a prize he had won,

Imagine the look on his face when he was handed one of the long-playing records which ho

given to

the tomboin himself,

"Songs by Harry Socombe." "And," as David

CYRIL STAPLETON, #vid, it just shows,

I HAVE DONE THE

SAME MYSELF

can't escupe from that

Incidentally, Harry Become just made a now record which is issued by:Philips this wook. It is called "Catari---

Catari, and L., buckød, by "Come Back To Barrento Sounde as though the Welsh tenow

changed