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· TRE“ CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957,

ASSIGNMENT EUROPE Show Page dig out on a

with * To

* mountain top

*

✩

is

the man they say to wed the

* world's most

*

stunning girl

THE

THE Big Laughler-that's what they call Carlo Ponti. So I was told by a film producer who has done business with him. And so I have now discovered for. myself.

The classification means that if you ask Signor Poutl accept a smaller percentage, or if you ask him on awkward ques- tion, he laughs in a varying senle of deelbela--necording to th percentage and question. 's useful technique used by many politicians and executives.

Certainly in the ordinary way and just for laughing's sake Signor Ponti has a lot to laughs about. He is one of the richest and most successful of Italy's film producers.

And it has been reported that children is a reason for using

the Pouli technique of the laug -the slightly wry variety Kf course,

be may become the husband of Sophia Loren, who is at the moment that most prominent of -Italy's international sex symbols the Alm- -the girl that all conditioned incles Instincts would marry.

want most to

LOSORLAY

OGAN

SOPHIA LOREN AND HER

rund

Swiss mountains Cow-bells

valleys where the ring of cow.bells drowns the sound of echoing

HE use o

E used it frequently, when I laughter.

The fact that Signor Porti about 9,000ft. In Switzerland nirendy has wife and two He wasn't easy to find in the

cool,

quick and

easy...

LIBBY'S

Frozen

Lemonade

to

For obvious reasons, of course, he didn't particularly want be found.

Libby's

30

(LAUGHING)

CAVALIER — SIGNOR PONTI

He wasn't staying. QR I'd beard, with Signorina Loren at her villa in Mendrisio, a small village near the Swiss-Italian border, whose worthy in habitants are more interested in smuggling than sex symbols.

He wasn't, as I had been told. installed with Miss Loren in a large hotel in Lugaria,

But he was and so was

estate

in

Signor Ponti, with possessive eye, watched fier tall Ogure tight-fitting slacks, and sweater retreating down the corridor, I did too, with admiring eye.

Sigmar Ponti sald hë Was

"It is a wonderful place for a Joliday, is it not?"

The

ALREADY INN B millions tand feated by not a few), Logan GORY Joina tho Daily Express. Watch for LOGAN GOUNLAY UNLIMITED eam menting on this, that,: and every- thing, reku- larly in the Dally Express.

Owner

paid about

"For a wedding too," I said,

and (Audrey Hepburn

Mel I.,had enjoyed meeting the Ferrer were married secretly merry Signor Punti Who 250. If he's wist he doesn't here three years ngo and now wouldn't?

All the world lover, gamble too much. have a villa near by.)

a lover-and a laugher,

Signer Pontt agreed, Не tackled the question of his exact feelings for Signorina Loren with his best non-committal laugh.

But he did pin himself down to saying not that he loved her passionately or madly but thut she was a wonderful girl and nobody could help loving her.

Signor Pont, who has been marled for 11 years and whose children are nine and seven,. went on: "'1 Sophia for

The mountaina and vallers sounded quiet just after he had gone. Only the tinkle of the cow-bells....

But if you think you have a suitable fint and want to make an cay £250 don't write

The.

ta

The croupiers and waitresses who Berve champagne and expensive morsels are paid £50

ROULETTE each for the night's werk. HITS THE

have known STATELY

since seven years,

she was 18. Yes, 10. She's 23

now,

"Me? I'm 43,"

"Do you get upset about references to the difference in your apes and heights?"

I thought I'd gone too far. It looked as though this might be

too much for him. He went off into a paroxysin of laughter.

I waited till he was able to Bay?

"No! No! I don't

doca she.

HÒMES

THOSE

One of the croupiers tells mc-

"Sometimes we get na much as £400 a night in tips from winning guests. But we're not allowed to keep them.

They have to go into Tho klity."

Final word from a party

HOSE private gambling organiser: "It's a pity the lawa about gambling in England aro parties are spinning no catrictive. Pity there are no out in an ever-widening casinos here." circle from Mayfair to take A Blessing, I'd say, for Mr in the Home Counties.

The stately untry homes are

Aspinal and associates.

worry now being used as settings by THEY

gambling organisers

and

Neither the complex about plete without its roulette wheels

and chemia-do-fer tables,

soon no hunt ball will be com- TELL ME

about these

things.

"I have no height.

The word

1.

But staged once In cach home.

a party can only be AS I GO

. Otherwise I would become an

CHE, of course is very tall habitual gaming house and the ready to cope and We sat A fur a girl.. Put she is police would have to take

the butit 11 proportion AA you action.

down in the lounge near Rubens.

He is broad-shouldered, with

they.

know,

However, it will be savera) a chin that juls like Mussolini's "She is not, though, just the years, I reckon, before the did and a baldish head that will beautiful body. The personality stately country homes have all been used and the organisere Signorina Loren in Burgen soon shine like Mussolini's did. Is appealing too."

are reduced to suburban semi- stock. This is a unique retreats eyes are large, dark brown,

intelligent, and

He was talking now os dan't for the rich a private

the detacheds. professional flim producer, not always laugh when he does.

the suitor. He owns four splendid villas,

"She is unique. one in Rome, two in Millen, and

She is what one in Amal. He has four or

you cali the five cars ("I'm not sure of the

"Prototype." exact number").

"That is the word, She is the drst of her type. Others copy, →

"I give her

to many

perched on top of a sizable mountain

overlooking Lake Lucerne, with golf course, tennis

ball courts, swimming pools, rooms, funicular, chic shops, three hotels,

Signor Ponli and Signorina Loren were slaying in the grandest of the three hotels, which as a genuine Rubons on one wall and which charges

about £10 for a room (single) for one day with three meals,

When I arrived the rein was beiting down like spaghetti and a heavy mist obscured the moun- tain peaks.

Wedding rings

the

the

the

first fim

At a recent country house ball, I'm tald, so popular was the gambling that there were almost no couples dancing to the society

Paul Adom.

mude

of

The pay-out

aliens Lollobrigida, DEASON for the

mave

to

AROUND

MET Mr George Delacort at an hotel in Switzerland. He la the multi- millionaire publisher of 117

and magazines

comics ant the owner of Dell Books, the in largest-selling paper-backs Amerisa.

He gave me this foot over a drink:-

Illa

paper-back (slightly abridged) publication of "War and Peace" sold 700,000 copies in Americs. To his astonish- ment And it sold 10,000 coples (in English). In India, To bla greater astonishment,

E twisted a wedding ring part. I also give the first part

worn on the wedding finger (Miss Loren wears what looks Mangano, Valli, Martinellid country homes may be, at It was another wet day In

now I find a new girl called course, that there are no more Switzerland. like the partner on the same Marissa Alassio.

not-previously-used Mayfair sprightly. finger), and gazed at a small gash on his thumb.

"Isn't she labelled the new flats avaliable, Loren?"

I asked if he had perhaps

een hit on by someone.

of

But Miss Loren was visible signor Ponii would fall out

I thought for a moment that standing at the hotel entrance, his chair laughing Signor Penti was just visible slanding bealde and below her. (He is 5ft 3in., she is 5ft. Da, in spike heels.)

Signor Copes

SHE gave me one of her lush, wide smiles. He removed his arm which had been round her lower waist and shook hands Пtmly.

He recovered and pointed to the gold buckle on liis pointed- 100 Italino shoes.

"I put them on in too bly a hurry this morning when I get Up."

The next question-Dia he plan to divorce his wife

and marry Miss Loren?-was

the ose he had obviously been wall- ing for.

Or il

She said she was sorry and

He laughed promptly-wryly. she hoped I'd understand, bur His eyes didn't. she couldn't, at this stage, "Anything I say might hurt grant an interview-even to an some people concerned, Important newspaper man like might be damaging legally. All me. (After her first Hollywood I can say is I hope everything trip the girl knows, among other works out in the future." things, how to throw in a little flattery.)

If she did grant one to me

Mr Delacort, a Ukablo 57-year-old. who has six, children, and 10

showing teeth nearly as while year-old

He reacted with only a smile, Mr John Aspinall, the 30- grandchildren, couldn't go ont

chlof fair-haired

for his daily game of tennis.

He zaked me if I had a book -

OFFER

and even as Loren's, with just organiser, who has a taste for a glint of dentist's gold.

gaudy shirts and who has AI could lend him. .tall, beautiful wife with an "No, she is not like Loren. inscrutable croupier's smile, Anyway, one Loren is enough, prefers to say: I am more than happy to have

from another American millionaire I travels to found one." (I didn't think

my Just that there's a the Alm demand for gambling. Always be nameless. I don't think the Miss Vivien Leigh. (He shall was talking only ns producer.)

offer will be taken up.)

The parting

he

"It'

KOHE zull has the contract with me. But it runs out roon, after seven years." "Will you give her contract?"

4 zew

will be.

"It's quite a responsibility. We handle quite large sums of money running into thousands of pounds.

"if anyone welshes-and they do occasionally and doesn't pay his losses, I have to fork out. Sometimes thousands."

Despite the occasional Mr Aspinall looks

ON

A

"Sho's a great little gal hter. I like a fighter. I'd be willing to give her the dough to keep that St James's Theatre going.

"Bot, mind you, she'd have to run it on commerolo) lines. Shakespeare won't pull 'em in. She'd have to put on burlesque, You know, striptease."

"Oh, yes, of course." I couldn't resist inquiring I it would have a marriage claumweisher,"

A near-paroxysm this time. But he got to his feet without extremely prosperous to me, ★ DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Jun, announced recently help to get ready to leave with The

duo arrangement with the with

pomp, that bo fat which is had deelded to drop the Jun. In borrowed for a party is that future he would be just Dougins the furniture and valuables are Fairbanks. (Tuugh I'm certain carefully packed and carried out he wouldn't object to the use of to a van where they atay all the courtesy "Sir".) night, and the gilt chairs and tebles are moved in.

Sophia. 'Not true'

she would offend all the other E shrugged and went newspaper men she had bri II “Of course the divorce refusing.

They drove off half an hour later in an Alfa-Romeo (Miss Loren's, not one of his four or five).

on:

is

io

He was going to his villa in Rome. (RL wife and children

difficult in Italy. But the stories She would prefer Signor Ponil that como from Italy to cope with me. Besides, she Switzerland become a had to pack because she was aldent and for the divorce are leaving in a few hours. She not true. I come here for rushed of.

holiday. With Sophia,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

FROZEN CONCENTRATED

I WANT THEM BY MIDNIGHT--DEAD OR ALIVET NO EXCUSES!

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YES, YOUR HIGHNESS!

FIND MANDRAKE AND LOTHAR BY MUDALISMT, DEAD OR ALIVE. KING'S ORDERSL

*

owner of

I'm told that a fow days later Hedda Hopper, the celebrated

are at the Amaist villa,) She In the morning, after the Amertean columnist who knew was going to meet her mother girly, ihe flat to cleaned up his father, gretted hims before leaving for Hollywood. and the furniture moved back. affectionately as "Sonny."

THIS THE KING'S PALACE, FROM MODBUS IN THERE SOMEWHERE. WE MUST

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