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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1967.

He is the new-look Mario Lanza the man who denies those stories about ever drinking 30 pints of beer and eating 26 sandwiches

TH

INTRODUCING

Mr. 49-32

Rome.

THE little man who has I been with Mario Lanza for 11 years through thick and thin mostly thick- pinioned me against the wall with his eye and said: "Listen, I'm not saying he did and I'm not saying he didn't but, anyway, so what if he did cat 30 hot dogs? Anybody could eat 30 clogs."

hot

The man from MGM sak: "Why rake up the past? Those int dogs belong to the past." Erasing the painful subject of those hot dogs from our minds for we joined Marin Lanza lunch. There was a veal special- ity on the menu that day called Saltim Bocce, which means leag Into the mouth: It was drenched with sauce richer than Rocke- feller.

MARIO THE MARTYR

Lanza's was the one mouth i tild not leap into. While the rest of us, including Mrs Lanza, at- tacked ur heaped plates. Mr Lanza, wearing an expression of martyrdom, ale his private tion of boiled clucken.

by THOMAS WISEMAN

a 10-inch chent. As a mutter of feet. I'm worried I'm getting so thin.

weight-lifting and horse riding

No. I'm in great shape.

There are music critics who, having heard Lonza sing opers, egree that he would have been a great prizefighter.

The fabulous shallering voice hek noi beco given inuch exercise during the last three and a belf years. His last m Sertrade, which some peopte thought should have been called Swan Song after the reviews. 11 go, was not a success, Lanza is quick to provide the explanation. The public," he said, "ão noi want to sec Mario a heavy drain. They want to see kim gay and happy as I was born to be,"

HAPPINESS ALL ROUND

Apart from bestowing happi- DCAS all round the voice h2, cared for Lanza personally 64 inillion dollars, has given him an international following that even three and a half years of tetivity has not

Needless to say, no one has been complaining about his josing weight. And it may well be considered a stroke of genius on somebody's part to get him te. "Why should make this film in the streets of Rome during a hest blitz.

A formid sticky African wind has emptied the elty and con verted it to a kind of vast por-e-air Turkish bath which, nt course, is conducive to reducing and very conventent from Mr Lanza's point of view.

His eating habits, he said, had been grossly exaggerated.

With emotion he turned to ine and said: "By my four bubles 1 swear to you that since I've been here pasta hasn't passed these lips." I'm not sure that in Rome such an admission doesn't amount to reason.

Laza is making his first Alm in three and a half years. The Seven Hills of Rome, and as he is not playing the title role it is essential that he should keep in shape.

LURID ACCOUNT

►

His one-time Hollywood pro- ducer, Joe Pasteriak, in his autobiography, has given the Turid statistics Lanza's cuting Lubits he tells of the time he drank 30 pints of beer and ate 20 sandwiches.

diminished.

1 care what the crities say?" he asked. "My fan nail is stupendous. In 1953 It cost me 76,000 dollars, mostly in stamps answering my fan moll from England elize.

"It has been one of my most ambitious to go to cherished England and 1 shall be there this autumn to make a film. My following in England is bigger than anywhere else in the world. I love the English,"

For the next two years he will be working in Europe, besed in Home. He will sell his fantastic Hollywood home, the coo with the 16 min. cinema and the bed 10. wide and 8ft. long. "Most of the money 1 have saved is in that house, About & quarter of a million dollars."

This infuriated Lanza, whe

He believes that his future claims thal be is a fellow with a

even more spectacular small appelle. "I have never will be forgive Joe for all the lies he than his past, and he has a nive told about me in that book," said optimism that is endearing. "I'm

all the going to film Lanzu.

jeni oporus," he said, "cutting them

GRANDMA GILES WITH HER SISTER

They're safely installed at Blackpool

$7LES

"No fear! We'll toss for it. I served them when they were here last year."

SERVICE

Oh, those reluctant

debutantes!

W

/HAT has happened to the debutantes? Another glittering season has come and gone, and still the girls are as far from the altar as when it started. Nearly every night of the week, month after month, they have spent long hours in, the society of personable young men in

"I was never out of shape for down to 10 minutes each, elimi- glamorous surroundings-and still there is no news of any debutante of

any prominence becoming married or even engaged.

any of my films. I always keep nating all repetition. Do you good shape because I om know that Rigoletto says good- dediented to my work. I have my by 90 lines--now, that's over- portable boxing ring being sent doing it."

If only Lanza were a disem- bodied voice, there would be no problem. But the Lanza physique cannot be ignored sometimes only too obviously nat. Today

be Ldmilled must

he has in shrivelled down to a mere 135 stone-bis maximum weight is said to have been over 20 stone.

He is looking ft and hand- some. "I have a 32in, waist," he suid with pride, "end I could you 20 Alio sturs who name don't have a small waist ke that. You mustn't forget I've got

Clinical Tests Prove.

Are the dich escorts to learned bince the merson blame? Why are they not began. doing what is expected of

out here. You know I'm o very One cannot help liking this good boxer. My great friend, man, whose appetite for food Hocky Marciano, who sparred and life is au large, whose belief them? with me, says he would not like in himself is so unshakable, and to have faced me in the ring." I "who epproaches the stersvane! think if I had not been a pro- territory of grand opera like Cessional singer I would have prizefighter going in for the kill. been a great fighter. I also do

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How can you possibly fail to feel affection for man who

Wonderful. They said I was an

Not ready

Viewing the girls massed

"

The season is over

but there is no

score in the marriage stakes. The eligible'

bachelors are still

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cligible bachelors!

WADFORDE

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At the beginning of the season, says Mr Kinsman, the ballrooms rustle with Mr Tommy Kinsman, the

proposals of marriage-al avuncular bandleader' at turned down. More than most of the debutante

once, at that stage, he has parties, stands up for the been asked by a distraught young men.

young man: "Look Tommy, "It's not their fault," he can you see anything wrong asks you: "Did you rood the together in a ballroom, it tells me. "The fact is the with me? I've been asking article Confidential did on me? seems extraordinary, See girls just aren't ready for that girl to marry me all

TAR egomaniac and that I was over-how marriageable they look marriage yet. The girl of night..... sexed. I thought

their very in

to airy today wants

apend flattering."

dresses. See what prettily several years looking round Mums are best dismisses the current bunch Mr Charles MacArthur feminine gestures they have before making her choice."

of debutantes as "physical Hardy. grumbles about Apparently it takes the It is perhaps no wonder and mental puddings." office jobs and secretarial escorts of the year some that escorts grow cynical as Or like Mr Dominic courses. "So many girls time to find this out. In the season rolls on. Like Elwes, friend of Princess arrive at parties rushed and flattering, if tacit, con. Mr Lawrence ("I am NOT Margaret: "The only boau- tired and ruin an evening spiracy with the girls' the actor") Harvey, who tiful young girls at the by thinking about what mothers, they engage in now claims to be more moment seem to be models. they have to do at their the busy round of all-night interested in

the

girls' Unfortunately their mag- desks next morning," dances with bright hopes of mothers ("they are more netiam usually goes phut choosing a wife..

interesting to talk to") and once you talk to them."

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Rail For Sale

By ROBERT G. SHORTALL

New York.

Anybody want to buy a railroad station? WIZARD OF WALL-STREET

The New York Central Railroad has put 406 of its stations on the auction block and will entortain any reasonable offer.

The Rond said it already has roll system, said that whalever seld seven of the stations and profit the Central might realise. negotiations looking toward the from carrying a passenger "is sale of a number of others how completely wiped out by the are underway.

terminal ho merely walks through to catch the train,"

One of the stations already

sold located at South Chicago

$ 9.50

-will be converted into supermarket.

Ho pointed out that many

Railroad's monopoly era "and

TELLS: HOW I DID IT

From Ronald Singleton

TOW to make your first million dollars by the age of H31, tnd how to use the stock market to get it-these stations were built during the fascinating pieces of advice for the speculator come in reflect grandeur far beyond the personal story of one of America's most brilliant

worth and

their financiers and mosi distinguished elder-statesmen. and maintenance Bernard Mannes Baruch (87).

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His father wanted him to be eThre tre two principal In analysing the cost picture, doctor like himself, It was mistakes that nearly Perknon said railroads must Baruch's mother who really amateurs In the stock market bulld, maintain and pay taxes pushed him into the world of make. The stations up for sale are on their stations, while their money.

located all over the Central's competitors airlines and bus 11,000-mile system. They companies-use tax-free termic-

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Hist. able of seating hundreds,

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The drive to sell or lease its 1,50 Why is the Central sclling stations does not mean the part of what has been described Contral plans to go out of the 1.50

as its "gold mine in real railroad business. It will will .30 estato?"

run its traina over the same The principal reason is that tracks, but it will be free from the Road has been losing money the headaches of operating and 2.00 on these stations. This lose has maintaining the stations. 12.00❘ been a major factor in the Road's aprtual defelt pharongor

operations, amounted to almost $50

Main error She took him to a plireno- logist who possed his Angars

"The first is to have an in- over the bulges above the 12- exact knowledge of the securi year-old Bernard's eyebrows, tics in which one is dealing, to and said: "He will make a good know too little about a com doctor but my advico is to take pany's management, Ita earn- him where they are dolag big ings and prospects for future things-Anunco ör politics.”

He chose

Krowth.

"The second mistakes to trade beyond ono's, financial re- sources, to try to run to a far- tune on a shoestring."

The truth Is that wedding bella

in the first two years away from school is nob (mum's dream. For the present- day debutantes getting a job ronks higher, at first, then get ting a husband.

They take their eligible escorts lightly as mere sparring partners. And the escorts, a illusioned as they may be at the discovery, go on turning out at the lavish debutantó parties. As one of the younger this successfully three things ones, Mr Fergus Graham, sald are necessary; First, one must recently: "If nothing else, deb get the facts cf a situation or parties are the poor man's night problem.

club,"

"Second, one must form

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judgment as to what those facis portend. Third."

one must act

before it is too late.”

Mother's call

Ha tells this story of a strange Jocident that happened in the middle of one of his biggest deals.

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His mother called him to re- mind him that the hollest Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur was the following Monday, the next business day.

He was a devout and religious man and took no phone calls on that holy day. Then bo learned what had happened. On the market the stock in which ho was Interested had opened at 100. It dropped, but at noon was held at 97.

"Had I been there I probably The boy graduated, and read

would have closed out thon medicino but mother kept ro

But in the afternoon slock membering what the phronos "This was my mala error at declined steadily, closing at $334, Logist sak. And the wise Baruch the outset,”

which left FOO handsome A spokesman for the Railroad mihas said: "Bon, don't become from saldo many lostances

"Modera usage prost.. thea doctor unless you love the Xo go on: which Central will

Mr Baruch's profit for that million part of the stations for Is Street.

continue to us work? Bernard chow Wod has made the term speculator

Ta'synonymt for gambler and venture was 700,000 dollars operations, either on a rent-fres

plunger. A speculator fa a man (£250,000). And he attributes Alfred E. Periman, President or lease baalt, depending on the And this is what he says about who observe the future and it first to that phone call from

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Last year.

of the nation's second bi rast doal-United Pres.

HONGKONG

KOWLOON

acts before it occur, To do his mother,'

---(London Express, Service),

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