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THE

Martine Carol

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told

STORY

by RALPH COOPER

They call me a brazen hussy-always wanting to show myself off.

THE CHINA MAIE - MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1957.

Oh, I know the things people say about me. They say so many things-and-so-often-but I forget them, because most of them are not worth bothering about,

I know you have a picture in your mind about me. You have seen my films, and in most of them I often do not wear much clothes and I play the flighty girls, so it would be surprising If you had not got your own. Ideas about the kind of person I am.

In private lite behave like 'Caroline' not me."

Ever since the first of my mire "shocking" fims came out the now-famous "Caroline Cherle" --people have wanted to believe that I mm Caroline in private life, too. The goraip about me would a library shelt full of books.

Broken

Hearts

of

They say I have had thou- sands of affaim with men, and that 1 break more hearts than any girl in France. They couple my name with a long Ust famous men Organ Welles, George Raft, Howard Hughes, John Ringling, and many others,

I will tell you the truth. will be honest with you.

I

I will tell you and will keep nothing buck-do they not also say that I am the girl who does not like to hide snything?

It

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Maybe I helped the gossip a little--nt Brst, anyway. good for the business, and my public want it and I am a girl who believes in giving the pub- lie what they want,

If you give them enough of that then sometimes, in be... tween, Just occasionally-you can give them some of what you want, 100,

Horrified

My parents, who are simple folk, were horrified when they first heard all this gossip about me. "Look at so-and-so," they say to me, mentioning the name of another French actress, "wo never road anything te this about her."

I have to say to them: "This actress, whom you so much ad

It's funny thing. often the way.

she worth getting really upset or but

angry about not even falt- ing a bath for millions of people to see.

but that is

I KNOW YOU WILL, LAUGH IF I TELL YOU THAT I AM SITY AND FOR A LONG TIME I WAS A PRUDE AS WELL.

When I was an art student in The Latin Quarter in Ports. I would never pose nude for the artists, although they ask many times.

me

So Curious

I tell you someifting: I find this interest in my baths in England very fascinating. be cause it is something I do not

understand.

I go to hundreds In France and hundreds of Press recep- tions and I do not remember once being asked by a reporter about baths ur scanty-clothes scenes.

too seriously," And I think the audience understand

LORD ISMAY comes out with a considered verdict on Generals who publish-and-be-damned"

DANGEROUS DIARIES

I trust them not T

667 TO," said Lord Ismay, "I never keep a diary. If "These

N° I did I would see that it was never published."

We had been talking about Lord Alanbrooke's diaries. late-night

This is a subject on which Lord Ismay holds most decided views.

I had wondered if we could now expect another glimpse into the Cabinet Room, another intimate diary from Downing Street,

I had wondered if this diary This subject always reminds might be the work of that bul- me of the story about the two wark of the War Cabinet and men in one of those lovely the "Chiefs of Staff Committee, malist islands off the French the legendary "Pu" Ismay, Riviera,

who then held, and still holds, All around them were beauti-the confidence of the great men

ginis with no clothes on. But of our time. these two men, they are taking no notice. None at all.

whom

entries ...

how likely to

name on a bright dust-jacket.

ready-made memolts,

In his private diary he has distort the

But

Arst he would do well to recall two cautionary inles. They are both about generals-one from World War and one from the second-who wrote diaries.

truth

PedForemost among these t

Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunninghim of Hyndhope the FRYTIQUE "A.B.C. Other Mediterranean Fleet "and" Sir 'as Dudley

Pound's First Sex Lord,

His diary, I understand, hits hard. Like Lord Almbrooke, ho complains that his particular ideas for winning the war werd not always adopted. But, as Lord Cunningham will stress, his diary is still off the record and will remain so during his life- time.

Others who broke the rule include Lieut-General Sir. Iun Jacob, now Director-General of the B.B.C., and General Sir Miles Dempsey, who command- ed the Second Army in France. General Dempsey, a recent chairman of the Racecourse Betting Control Board, tells nee The odds that my diary will remain unpublished are 106 to one."

Field-Marshal Slim admits

that

he kept "a skeleton diary," Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jurios Somerville and Admiral gir Bertram Ramsey kept detailed diarles-but both these men are dead.

Men whom one might have expected

keup diaries

to

often kept none. -Field-

Marshal Viscount Montgomery and Admiral of the Fleet Lond Fraser rely on letters, officini journals, despatchen, the First Many historians belleve him and their roemories.

reports, to have been right, Right

the Another,

forthright because a quarter of a century Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir was allowed to clapse before Arthur ("Bomber") Harris, has gave the historians time to set kept a diary. But if I had, I'd publication. Right because he told me bluntly: "No, I never

have burned it."

the scene.

He

In the meeting places of the great war leaders the House of Lords, White's. "The Sentor," "The In and Out," "The Rag"

Up to the time I was offered / on the surface. Always putting four years ago, there exploded than give ßnal, piquant touches and half a dozen dinner tables

Then one of the men sees a girl and points her out to his pal. He whisties. Then he says "You should see her in the office with her clothes on!

She's a smasher!**

And that, I think, is the naked truth and just about sums up my views on the subject.

"Caroline Cherie" YET IN BRITAIN WHERE the role on

of "E" I had been the strict ARE CEN- THESE THINGS Aumeone

SORED, IT IS ALWAYS THE Pictures. You never get any- where that way. I wanted to be FIRST THING I AM ASKED,

SECOND, not ALSO THE

THE a good actress. THIRD ... AND THE LAST. I started my training with the

Moliere classic plays.

and Shakespeare. I was very bad, I know, and I wasn't very good in the "B" pictures, either.

The famous Freuch painter, Domergue, he has painted me and it is nude i know. The face is a bit like me, though a bit long. But you know what? He give ካቲ chest.

else's

1 did I tell you truly want to do many of the things that have made me so notor- lous. I only take a bath the first Fime in Alms because journalists of Parks choose for the part

the

ine

That is an honour-and it is also my big chance, the one wait for. What girl is going to tum down the chance she walts for-Just because of one bath?

That's what

it looked like then. But that one batáv became two in "Caroline Cherle" alone.

The producers say:

"We are laking a chance with you, Wo will have an option so that af the picture is a success we can make another one.” And ever since I am expected to take the baths in my fun.

11 is a very curious.

In France, perhaps we have a different way of looking at these things, because I tell you drankly, to show myself in a bath does not mean anything to

me.

I do not think it is being 100 sexy. You cannot be sexy with- out your clothes.

If you want to be sexy, you need a slinky dress right up to here... let the imagination do some worki

Whenever I have

But unless you get known it takes a long line to prove that you can do anything at all and it seems oven longer when you have no money. Which is why I at the chance to play Jump

Caroline."

As I have promised to tell you the truth, I will not cheat

it was

even

'UNFAIR'

men

"No," repeated Lord Ismay, "I would never keep a diary,

Once upon a time, the diaries I was disappointed. moment ago Lord Ismay had than gild an ego, or underline of great soldiers did Ilttle more been talking about the man with an epitaph. The author know he had spent the war that his diary was his own per-

that must have known years and the last week-end.

sonal thread in the tapestry of his private diaries, while they "I was with Winston right at

history.

would surely hurt his own rept What a the heart of things,

But, then, tie more than tatlon, would then do no more man he wast Always different

in the publishing house of to massivo Not only did Messrs,

structure

of the opinion is: If you have on a new show,

Eyre and Spottiswoode historical knowledge.

got a diary keep it dark until we love the man, we knew that,

na: delayed-acilon mine. This was Now Lord Alanbrooke has 1980. but for him, we should all have NOTA

a book of 300 pages called "The allowed his private diaries our throats cut"

Private Papers of Douglas to be published before And yet no human, revealing Haig H

The author, Field half of the official histories, and dimy had been kept.

Marshal Earl Halg, had been only a small part of the personal disappointing,

dead and

Fall, these eminent buried in Dryburgh memoirs of the last war have But perhaps Lord Ismay was Abbey since 1928.

there is one who is most right. As

appeared. canny soldier

The book was a sensailon, It

write i He has allowed the hero fully qualified to he must have setised that in

was intensely readable, that quiet,

It was worshipping Sir Arthur Bryant timately of the war years. That sunny valley an also racy, bitter, and slanderous, to make free with his intimate is Lord Ismay, the man "right ambush had been laid.

It presented a self-portrait of thoughts before they can be at the heart of things," But It is understandable that a

"Very

Who? senior

allocated their rightful place in he did not keep a diary. officer, who has signed a soldier far from the his name only to

He replied; orders and part, gentil knight" of the the perspective of history.

"A diary is a And now legends. This was not the noble

will other despatches, may yearn to see his carl who rode his bronze charger leaders follow his lead?

useful safety valve when you' are pent up and worried, You In Whitehall. This was a man It is very, very unlikely can use it to give vent to your who snarled at his friends First, the keeping of private frustrations and petty worries. behind their backs,

diaries by commissioned officers You probably welle it late at of the armed Services is for night when you are tired and bidden. It is

court-martial overwrought. offence. Even the memoirs of· For those very reasons it is That's what looks like, 1

war leaders should be sub- likely to distort the truth, know. But you must understand HEN the smoke had cleared, mitted before publication to Sir published

To me this W

verbatim, such a this very clearly

one of Earl Haig's cal Norman Brook, the Secretary of diary will be unfair not only to bathe is not of importance. It leagues gave his

the people it describes, but also considered the Cabinet, does not matter to me one ilttle judgment, Lord Beaverbrook, But neither Lord Alanbrooke to the author. That is why I

in his "Men and Power," wrote nor Sir Arthur Bryant did this, never kept D diary. What I do is natural. I do not of Haig: "With the publication Most other senior officers who

So it is curious to note that make anything terrible or nasty of his Private Papers in 1952, kept secret diaries and

Lord Alanbrooke is, even now, sexy in front of the cameras.he committed suicide 25 years mindful of the power of the allowing Sir Arthur Bryant to

after his death,”

Omelal Secrets Acts prefer to preparn the second volume of It is all a little nothing.

Earl I may I want to stop it simply destroyed the

wilfully, keep quiet, Those who admit his/war diaries. because I am tired of doing it

Idol that his to having kept diaries stress and I think It is dull to keep right or wrong?

friends had set up. Was ha that they are strictly not for

publication. on doing the same things

million people. And here she is with more baths in her Intest two film. Who does she thinks she's

by saying I am sorry I take that first bath which led to

in "Caprico de more batha Caroline," two In "Lucrezia kidding?" Borgia, one In "Adorable "Action no clothes Creatures" ond one in

of a Tiger," which I just finish muke a in Spain with Van Johnson.

on in a picture-which happens pretty often-I never wriggle with my shoulder look sexy at the camera

or

I just say, with look in the 'Scuse me rye at the audience:

It la dimoult to get out of. And it means a lot of

argu- incts which I do not like. Alno, happen to believe that there aren't many things in this world bit of nonsense, so don't take it

a moment, the producer wants me to do this. It's just a little

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My Baths

I am glad of that first bath because it give me my chance when I am working hard to be recognised. So I don't say I am SOTTY.

Aften "Caroline Cherie" is a

matter of to bathe or not to

bit.

great success the producers the time. But it is something remember that little did not the producers seem to expect of say

go again." i

me, when they me once want to do it, but they have me with that option. So it is bathe again I just shrug my shoulders and I say: "All right if you again for me,

want me to."

That "Caprice de Caroline" was a dreadful picture! And it was tough!

It was made in the South of France in the middle of summer when it was very hot indeed. I have to ride bareback and fence with three expert fighters. And for fencing I definitely have too much clothes on. Because warded to show what I could do for a change I fight them hard, and I wound one of them

too.

On The Soap

When I see the picture I nearly weep. All the camera shots are so far away that you could not recognise me. Any body could have done those scenes for mel

When we came to the second of the now well-known bath

I have nothing against these scenes if there is a real place for them in the story. But I must confess that in most of my slime the reasons for geting me to take a tub are more merelal than artistic!

Com

I I have no tusions about my- self. I know that in the past my films have succeeded more be- cause of my reputation than my acting.

scence i asic thern to put some soap in the water to cover me

The public go to see the Martine they think they know a lot about. But there is much you do not know, and much I intend to tell you in the few weeks we are together.

Black Day

About the men

In my life. What I did do the woman who said my figure was not my own

'SUICIDE'

Halk had,

war

are

TOM POCOCK

The NEW

Men of Power...

by

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

It

N astonishing revolu- Behind him were the ranks those of the men who have Ation of whe ning the sudden rise to of atom scientists led by Sir As one air vice-marshal put supremacy of the scientist William Penney and of rocket ; "I knew we should regret

scientists led by Dr Robert letting the long-hairs: It,” over the Service chief-lies Cockburn.

The Forces chiefs who fought behind the White Paper on Defence issued last week. when I come to

These men working in remote for the Services to which they research stations made the are devoted were being steadily economic

up some more. And they did.

Of course,

I slip on step out of the bath the soapy alge my fault it was there. And I fall and break two of my toesi

A fow days later an elderly and extremely heavy actor makes love to me. (These scenes were cut, I believe, in Britain.) And he treads on my other foot and crushes my big toel

. In the new picture which I Just make with Van Johnson D Spain of course I have to taire a

| bath.

TWENTY-EIGHT TIMES

-AND IT.

No Kidding

My first love affair... at four- teen,

The blackest hour of my life the day I nearly became suicidio. The

0

multi-millionaire The terriffie decisions an advances which, when skilfully overwhelmed by the

crisis which mado cuta who offered me everything when nounced in this 10-page docu- marshalled by Brundrett in the

mentio Blask the I had nothing.

committee Navy, Whitehall

rooms, inevitable. And, why French girls have streamline the Army, and vir defeated the combined resist Their difficulties' were in- T. and how they keep it. tually abolish the R.A.F, as we ance of the Services,

creased by the fact that it in ' THERE ARE SOME OF THE know it--mean that the man The scientists insisted that almost impossible for them ta THINGS I HAVE PUT DOWN trained in the laboratory now the day of the manned Aghter challenge specialists of such IN MY STORY, AND I'PRO-

greater influence in was finished.

air enters technical brilliance MISE, AS ALWAYS,

affairs than the battle- lined up every compelling argu William Penney J MARTINE WILL HOLD

ment to prove the absolute Determination NOTHING BACK.

Whatever may be said in necessly of having at least one Parliament about "full accord more generation of fighters. BUT the event which brought

THATenced brass-hat.

Compliment?

wond

between the defence chlets," They lost. there has been a bitter struggle

The

Sir

#

the struggle to stich" sensational conclusion was the

sudden promotion of Mr Duncan Sandys to be Defence Minister. that For years the defence' scleri-

by the admirals, gesternis, stal "Long-hairs' HAVE TO GO. IN THE WATER Today my big worry is not to a marshals to prevent, or al THE scientists argued

19 FREEZING let my reputation of the past

least delay these cuts,

T manned bombers too had lists led by Brundrelt have been COLD AND I WANT TO spoll my future. What I want Some are still so opposed to reached LAUGH BECAUSE YOUR to do now is to mix my films them

the limit of their trying to get the Service chiefs that they wanted the CENSOR

AND THE AMERI- For every one I have to make Wille, Paper to carry a clause useless because of the rapid to accept the feels of atomla CAN.CENSOR WILL NOT LET ich gives me o

alothes,

one stating: that the Service chiens

atrides being made with long life. THAT SCENE BE SHOWN,

rocketa. rango

They have stood chanos to not feared the Goverment was. The air chicts countered that

by powerless And

that while projects: ; I think it 19

taking an amino risk, gradually

which

should bombers have been coming that way for me

manned Who then was strong enough must be developed as a safe they were outdated went on as

Supersonic

cancelled becau In a way, I suppose I should to defeat such tough cam guard. Again they lost, take it as a compliment that palguers as Lord Mountbatten The whole concept of

fantastic costs to the taxpayer. they still ask mo be only me the First Sem Lord, Bir Gerald

relying So why take it? I want to in pictures, because I'm not a Templer, Chief of the Imperial of the H-bomb, though violently powers and determination, ta Mr. Sandys was the - frat mainly on the deterrent effect Defence. Miniator lough a lot but I still have to little girl any longer. take that bath!, And doing that

I'm

General Staff and Sir Dermot opposed by the Army chiefs, has referee the night to a decision. 32 .... obo I breaic the top of my little how many women there are of

I wonder Boyle, Chief of the Air Staff? finger. It is a signt. No mor and age who would like to face bathe don Martinel Maybe.

a dos comers in. thein birikudtry miter Ang Tami

I know what you "We hear that one beforef Ever since Caprice de Caroline', this Martine: protei about bathm and say! sha" domalt what to do | sagt zoden The front of mƐ fru

Weight, No?

WANTOMORROW:

What I have learned

· about"menu-

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been plugged, so persuasively, by He chose the advice of the the scientists that it is now the scionista and the Cabinet has pivot of sixategia, policy,"

Se agreed will them ge

The lender. TUE mall and shoes, un caly a few years ago the The result is this rocket known "comber team of scientist was afgure of fus to revolution and the emergence of solentino who jumained t this the Service chief, a cranic whore the defence acetilist personned victory was led by Sir Frederickc views on defence worn laugh- by Bir Frederick Brundrett sa Brundrett, the 62-year-old chief able. Now those view arm the midst powneñal policy-mit | stientist at the Defence 2ilödetry","rules"\na Incre... realistic than #gure outside the.

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