1957-06-22 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1957.

*** SHOW BUSINESS VISITS A RETURNED WANDERER * * *

HOW I DID THE COOKING

FOR MISS

KENDALL ()

by COWARD

Twas past noon. The sun was shining. And Noel Coward was abed-wearing unbuttoned green pyjamas and an expression of pained benevolence.

(For some reason which I am at a loss to explain, Cowart is always nbnd when I call round. Last year, in New York, when I dropped in without warning at 8 pm, there he was ... in bod.)

The man known "The Master" by his cronies and something less flattering by his crities has just completed his arst week back in his native land after more than a year in exile,

They cheered him

It has been, for him, a heartening home-coming. He has not, it soema, been stoned by Irate surtax payers, enraged that another of their dwindling numbers has found sanctuary abroad. On the entrary, he was actually cheered when he looked in on his own play Nade with Violin at the Globe.

"It has," said Coward, from the depths of his giant beth, "been most gratifying. Most gratifying.

Thanks to the poured Upon my months I now

by RODERICK MANN

MARLA LANDI

---who, as model girl Maris SCRIMIN adorned the pages of many a glossy maga- xine has just completed her fest (lm Across The Bridge with Rod Stolper.

Maria, a 25- year-old from Turin, пом plans to make Beting Ber She career. should prove u welcome

addt- tion to British Alms, never strong in the glamour depart- ment.

Married to 31 Italian business MAN. abe lives Int

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vilifications hend in recent find myself almost as big a celebrity as Debbie Reynolds,"

"And Rex?"

about my

a "bit" part of only a frw

"Quite useless, Though he seconds' duration,

Startering its very

Indeed, the reenes in which coolding."

she appears are over so quickly for a moment, many people will not spot her

ALTMI. isn't a man

then sold:

He pondered

"Monstrous,

of my talent wasting time cook- ing for Rex Harrison. I got no writing done at all."

Who is sic?

Jenn Kent.

A decade ago, in the heyday

of British pictures, when He adjusted himself in the Stewart Granger, Jean Sim- giant bed, being care- mons, Patriela Roc, and Sally

not to ful

disturb the tele Gray atrode the long corridors phone, the propped-up novel, at Denham, Jean Kent was .* the address book, and the pile very big stor. She made of letters which adorned the Trottie True, Madonna of the coverlet

Seven Moon, and Fanny by Gralight.

"Life in Bermuda," he said, "1s good, Apart from the cooking. I do my own shopping All I have to do is swim out to loolding rather my speedboal, magnificent, tear at great speed over to Hamilton across the bay and then take my metal trolley roundi the super-market. So

enjoyable. I can't tell you the thungs 1 end up with,

He adjusted the four pillows behind is back, lit a cigarette and tung me ono of his famous lizard smiles.

and They come in three sizes, 1 pot the medium

Size.

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"Apart from giving you a permanent sun-ten,

what changes has living abroad made to your life?" I asked.

"Well," said Coward blandly, "I have learned to cook. And i am rather good, Especially at pastries. I excel at pastries.

"Are you better than Cole?" (Cole Lestle is Coward's long- time friend, secretary, and con- panion. L

Coward gave this question sume thought.

"Yes," he said at length. "'I think I am better at pastries than Coley, Though he is better ut roasts."

"Do books?"

"Several.

you linne

many cook-

It's all quite fn- rinating. Especially making puff- pastry. That takes some doing

"Do you ever cook for your frienda?"

"Of course. Not long ago Kay Kendall and Rex Harrison come down to the island, Coley and I shared the cooking anik whipped up three meals a day. She laid Kay helped, of course, the table."

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Jean lost her place in the film In 1950 came the slump and

Jungle.

The other night, on the phone farm in Sussex, she from her told me:---

"My part in The Prince and the Showgirl is tiny and Sir Laurence said i was mad to do it. But I had to do something, otherwise my screen carcer would be non-existent,"

Where did gone wrong? enchant- "By playing women much (She's older than I really üm." 37.) "Nowadays when my nunc's mentioned producers gay; Oh, yes-poor darling. She's

"At home 1 go to bed at 8.30

rise about Gu,m," he

1 continued. "Then work or read unta hunchtime, when I Join my friends by the pool, What could be more ing? I like the simple life, All-thir"—and he gazod around Oliver at the opulence of the Messet suite at the Dorchester- "is terribly exoticbut it is not really

Still

Inc.

shall try to rise above it."

QUICK! THERE'S JEAN KENT

2. it row!

she think she'd

She feels, too, that the type of Bad Gut role in which she

excelled is not written into british_ams today.

"What parts of that kind that do come along go to Diana Dors," she said,

Kirk Douglas and Mrs. Douglas

NOW THAT WE'RE MARRIED

HE'S WORKING FOR ME

Tscourers.

like worn-out steel wool pot E eyebrows are

He has a head of light hair that looks as if it had been cut by blunt hedge clippers. But the pale eyes are kindly, and the smile could quite easily be said- to be friendly.

Kirk Douglas, sprawled over an armchair, looks out Miss Kent, wisely, is pinning through these scraggy eye- no hopes of a serven come-back brows and says: "I come on her brief appearance in The from Prince and the Showgirl,

stock."

Russian

peasant

HAVE had an advance look

at the Laurence Olivier- Marilyn Monroe film, The Prince and the Showgirl,

As in many firs of this calilee, there are a great num- ber of good British feature rather play a small part in an I take in his splendid and players in the supporting roles. Olivier picture than a larger expensive

yellow walled But it is shattering to see a part in anyone else's," once-famous British star playing

West End hotel suite, ob- I only wish she meant it,

serve that Mr Douglas is

Though she does say: "f'd

IN SHORT I

The Eddie Duchin Story for

LIMELIGHT

by RAMSDEN GREIG

refreshing himself with nu for 300,000 dollars a pic- thing less than a vodka and ture, and usually get it. tonic water and think to Which amount would myself that he has come

buy a fellow very long way indeed from enough vodica to float Russian peasant stock.

Russian battleship..

a

• IN MEXICO, fliming scents for The Sun Also Rises, Errol her, Flynn was tossed by an ungry "No," said Mics Zetterling. Fighting cow.

"I don't want to see that or any The peasant's progress

Mr Flynn hurt

lightly.

قاط

back

The cow hed suff neck for three days afterwards,

of your other pictures. You're has been prodigious. on actor. I want to see you in something worth white..........'

Nothing like building up -WORKED HIS WAY

As the son who was born

Must be a moral there some chap's ego. where.

•

CONRAD

HILTON,

JA

probably

1.

Although i do not consider the discussion of other people's earninga vulgar, Mr Douglas lalking does, So we fall to

about psychiatry which is No, in the list, ́ of American movie Stats' conversation pleces alter mink coats and other American movie stars.

swimming pools,

of

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JAYNE MANSFIELD — EX• the plaining to friends why her American hotel tycoon formerly Dance strong man Mickey to Impoverished Russian married to Zsa Zsa Gabor, in Hargays continuously als-Immigrants in New York in reputedly considering building a ing her up with one hand

Mr Douging reveals that some "I strengthens the pectoral 1916 he battled his way

best new hotel in Italy-to resemble

friends arc college and the Leaning Tower of Pist. He mucles in his chest, Mickey through

psychiatrists but that he, per- has already chosen a name for has the greatest pectorals west dramatic school, sustaining sonnily, does not use them. He

of the Mississippi...."

himself on the way by disagrees with me and whotver working as a newsvendor, It was who said that anyone who waiter and soda jerk.

it: the Tin' Hilton.

• MAI ZETTERLING, who ⚫ LAUREN BACALI, has just refuses to discuss her romance turned down the highest maga with Tyrone Powerthough zine offer yet- £30,000 — Lu she flew to Mexico recently to write about her life with the meet him is no enthusiast for late Humphrey Bogart, his films.

"I refuse to commercialise my Power

memories," she says.

offered to

SCACCI

Today Issur Danielovitch, the ∙name his which is parents gave him, can ask

At the Films with MILTON SHULMAN

BRANDO TRIES HIS HAND AT PASSIVE RESISTANCE

the if

in such American activities as kimono

N the business of Empire" democracy if I've gotta shoot soon indulging

But Fisby's naive philosophy wearing and sipping tea writte tended to isolate their social is soon no match for the wire watching the sun go down. habits from their Colonial submissiveness of the East. He

goes to a psychiatrist needs his head examined und says: "They work wonders among a certain clement in Hollywood. Who knows perhaps one day I'll let a psychiatrist run me over. Perhaps,"

For the following possible reason; "I was completely mixed up inside as the boxer in The Champion. I was pretty con- fused inside as the reporter in Ace In The Hole. As Van Gogh in Lust For Life I was mad enough to cut off one of mɔ Cats,"

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The processional neurolic goes on; "It is very moult for me to play a straightforward man. like to find the twisted element. neurotic element in mo."

So there must be

WILD WOMAN

peoples, while the Ameri- tells his interpreter, Sakini, that 11Ls complete degendation make a speech comes with his organisation of cans consider any values he wants to

that the aring the villagers

Flori

sweel-polato randy Having put me straight on but their own as slightly Americane intend to lift the industry which his villagers Kirk Douglas, Mr Douglas then suspect.

yoke of oppression

from their pedale to the occupation army. talks about his second favourite shoulders."

But his career is saved when subject, which is the film he is Congress congratulates him to currently Involved in. This is teaching the natives that great called The Viking, and produc- all-American virtue called the tion t

already started lo profit motivo,

progress.

"On, they like that," replica Sakini "It's

their favourite speech,"

OUTRAGEOUS

Scandinavia,

We still find it odd to see Nigerians wearing bowlers, or playing the Eton Wall Game. But watching For MOSS playing baseball Slowly it dawns upou Fisby

"We won't really get, under makes an American swell that the Okinawans have heard

way until we and a wild Viking woman," the Hollywood Viking with pride. It is a sign of it all before? Having survived invasions by Chinese, Japanesc,

Floating is a delicious aura of explains. "There is an important English missionaries, and locusts, benevolent satire,

Teahouse role for a large Viking woman- they have learned the art of of the Augurt Moon showw.the witly st” At least, this is tho theory resignation.

Americans at their best--when proffered to us by The Teahouse

they are laughing at their own I tell him... no doubt his of the August Moon the They

quickly adapt

the absurdities.

American movie company will hlarious stage success which has patterns, of democracy to their

ftid one in time-probubbly ki now been converted Into an own arods, They elect a mazur Glenn Ford, as Fisby, nicely Hollywood, Or Rome, Or Ken- equally hilarious film at the because he is the only citizen conveys the bamod incredulity sington, London, England. Empire,

lthis white cost.

of West Finkling to East. Paud Ford le an outrageous" - comle-

Entourage note: Adsong Mr "The Lodier League for Demo- strip charactor as the colonel Douglare party, small by Holly- cratic Action demands lessons who believes democracy can only wood standards, Bdrm on how to become a gelaha girl corne. to a village where the

wa la Press When the Army of Occupation” because guisha girls get chifrom cars all and God Bicas Douglas, who

agent before marriage, During arrives in Okinawa sets about preferential treatment from the America in English Mark moet of our interview Mir

They don't want to Brando, In plump Oriental

dimculty Douglas remained secreted in into the natives as if it were diminate discrimination they make-up, möma kind, of vaccine. to keep just want to get their fair share extracting some warm laughs the bedroom display of rail- from the role of Salina, the cence not normally associated themį umubventive,

cynical; bustling, adaptable with Pisa ngenta, Captain Fishy's instructiowm on And when Fáby urges them interpreter, who would be too

Mr Douglas explaina:: “It you for any CONCETTOT/ he goes off to look after tha to build a schoolhouse shaped much TEXTY: 2nd welfare of the like the Persiagon, they vote Machiko Kyo, a luscioția bit of were to ask her "Are you utiil vlinge of Tobiki are explicitly unanimously to build a benhouse Eastern Butt, represents an even working for Kirk?! she'd tell obavered to him by Colonel Arwbeach, Captivated by their greater hazard facing any octu-you 'No. Now that we're married Purdy, "Thoyro gonna Itaru ieliualy way of lite "Fleby i patiuni ciny,

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JUST LIKE A VACCINE

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infecting American democracy man.

of it.

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.... [hea' working dog' mwe?!!

Kirk

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