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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1957.

Miss KERR'S PUZZLE: SHALL

I BE A BODY OR A MIND?

PIDTUNK BY RONALD MITOHELL.

DEBORAH KERR-” The holiday is over and it has been pas. But getting book to work will be like a rest once?

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EBORAH KERR shuffled across the lounge of her hotel suite in

Dslippers and said: "My feet are killing me. I danced all night last

night. And the night before. Getting too old for this kind of thing." Miss Kerr, who is no more than 34 in years and much lesa in looku - WAS, I'd say, good for many bouts of marathon dancing. Though I wouldn't blame her if she never again faces the rigours of a holiday in London during the steaming, mid- summer social season.

She said sitting back with her feet up: "Still, it's been fun. But I'm looking

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forward to getting back to by LOGAN GOURLAY

work. It's going to seem like a rest cure after this."

Part of her "rest curs" may be a long-delayed re- turn to the London stage.

She has been asked to up pour with Vivien Leigh in a Giraudoux play translated by Christopher Fry.

"I'm dying to do some- thing on the stage here, as you know. But it's not easy to flad the right play. And I can't make up my mind about this one. There's a problem. You see, Vivien Leigh and I would be play. ing the same woman. But different parts."

I asked for an explanation.

"Well,

the idea is that one purt is the physical wamanı →→→ the body and the other is the same woman's intellect -- the wind.

EU's very difliculi, I can't decide whether I'd like to play the body. Or the mind.

"They're both good parts. The question is what I'd be most suitable for."

'SOUND JUDGE' —and diplomatic

Fortunately Miss Ketr wda tactful enough not to ask mo the question which almost falls into the "Have you stopped beating your wife?" category,

She said she was going to ask her husband, Tony Bartley,

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Mr Bartley is resourceful, and, in the words of his wife, "a sound judge." But even a husband like that isn't going to End it easy to provide the right diplomalle answer. Nor will Sir

Olivier who, Laurence imagine, is being asked by Vivien Leigh.

1 hope for the ske of the management that both husbands don't give the same answer.

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Meantime Miss Kery has a nim part to play in an adepta Hon of the precociously sexy novel Bonjour Tristesse.. Definitely a "body" part.

M159 Kerr's next film will the Hollywood probably be version of Separate Tables. She will play the pale, serawny" young spinster. Which 15 a

mind" part, of course.

So she continues to alternate her roles, according to the plan she has followed successfully since From Here to Eternity when she freed herself from the sweet English ladylike roles which were neither mind nor body.

She may even, if she's lucky, got a few roles that comble both.

COMBINATION

-it's perfect

I'm happy to report that Miss Kerr herself remains the perfect feminine corablation not too much mind and not too much body.

I have to add that this is meant to be a compliment. As I was saying, Mr Bartley has which part she's best suited for a tough lack telling his wife in that play.

He'd probably prefer to sati uhether or not he has stopped beating his wife. FEARS CONE --friendly now

When she came back, pho sald:

"I loved New York. I had a wonderful, exciting time."

Why did her fears turn out to be groundless?

She gives mo these reasons ---

"The play was a great hit,

A flop and I'd have been home before I'd time to like the place," (She collected several awards, including a "Tool," Broadway equivalent of Holly- wood's "Oscar," for her own. performance.)

9 "New York stems to me to be more theatre-conscious than London. There are fewer theatres, but there are more people interested in the theatre. After the first night 1. walked into a drug store and the nasistant sald: "Congratula- Klons. You've got wonderfull notices from the critics'

"I can't see that happening in 'Boots,'

"Lots of my friends wore there like Rex Horrison and Kay Kendall. I went to their secret wedding. I didn't know until we were driving to the chapel they were marrying that night."

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"The New Yorkers wero tremendously hospitable. I think all Americans are, Used

to be stand-offish about Ameri- cans." (No one can be more sland-offish than Miss Leighton when she feels liko it.)

"From now on I'll be very different.

"In fact, if I see any lonely Americans wandering about London, I'll go right up and talk to them."

I applaud Miss Leighton's Anglo-American sentimenta But I advise her to be careful, OUSTED

MARGARET LEIGHTON went the eggheads M to New York 10 months ago to appear on the stage in Separate Tables. She suld then:

18 haven't been there for years. I'm terribly apprehen sive. I might hate the place now. I'm afraid I might have a miserable time."

Reporting what goes on when they make a film in Spain

HEADLINE of the week and

any

other week (trom Variety, of course, the American show business journal)-

"Sex Making 'Comeback' in Paris Egghead Cafes beat

Hasty Retreat."

Z

HUDSON

"HOW WAS THAT FOR an emergenCY STOP 1"

My J.

RODERICK MANN'S show business

IT WAS BARDOT'S TURN TO

HAVE A BREAKDOWN...

Torremolinos, Spain,

I would be pleasantly get the impression," I said,

report that when I arrived in this tiny village to meet Brigitte Bardot she made me entirely welcome. In fact, when I showed up she let loose the denkey ahe has just bought, shut herself in her villa, and had a nervous breakdown,

Having negotiated some 6ft. of flood water to reach this place-most of which seems to

ago,

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after

A little later, by careful vanished into the house. A manoeuvring, 1 bearded Bri- moment later came an anguish- gitte, unsuspecting, in her gar- ed ery: "Get doctors." den. Her blonde hair hung Ilke golden rain about her shoulders. She wore no make-up.

Vadim, is next. Then they've tom for the best angle shot.

He loped away through the "I get the impression," I said, ebbing flood waters. wringing some flood water from my suit, "that

At dinner that night I mes younte

not Bardol's husband, tall, gangling happy."

Roger Vadim-who is directing "It's the worst thing that ever the picture. happened to me," said Boyd, "I've been here two months and Some months still haven't seen a script. None Brigitte walked out an him I of the phones work. "Hall the "I've fallen in love with an- town's been washed away by other man," she said une break- floods. We're alming in three fast time) he led himself up than somewhut with a Janguages-two of which I don't more speak. I've been terribly ill... beautiful Danish blonde called

"Maybe Red Cross parcels Annette Strøyberg. will be coming through soon," I

FAR FROM FINAL FACE WENT DARK

TOW he has just discovered

that

divorce luis

from Stephen Boyd, looking hag- DOYD. looked al

with Brigitte is far from final. Which gard and 2st lighter than when sunken eyes. "See my hair," possibly accounts for the fact we last met led me away to a he said, thrusting his head that to date he has lost even local bar. He co-stars in the down. "Black, I'm light-haired, more film Bardot is making here, and I had to dye it myself for Boyd. The Day That Heaven Fell,

haye been washed into the sea -I was wet, weary, and almost too tired to care.

A NIGHTMARE

THIS picture," ho observed

in that curious *Trans atlantic accent which suggests a birthplace somewhere between

sold.

me

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weight than

Stephen

the part. Next day my whole This picture," said Vadim, Lace went dark. I looked like darting about the restaurant an emaciated Belafonte,"

like a fugitive from a Saturday "How about Bardot?" I asked, night spectacular, "is dogged by He looked away. "Don't ask misfortune. Nothing БОСЕ me," he said.

right." "How about Bardot?" I

McGill University, Montreal, peated.

to-

"How about Bardot?" asked.

I

and a peat-bog outside Bally- "All I can say," he muttered, A SPOETTI seemed to paas hooly, is a nightmare. Bardot "Is that when I'm trying to play through his gaunt frame. is having her breakdown this serious love scenes with her "Ah," he said. week. The director, Roger she's busy positioning 'her bot- Bardot "

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chin."

"Are you enjoying making this jilm?"

"No."

Before the stethoscopes were "Where did you get the back in their bags Bardot was donkey?"

car, shrieking: - "I bought it for £2 to give to the children of the village,"

"What do you think of Torre- molinos?!!

her

"Paris.

racci Vadim. croaked.

behind

already

in a and hurry After "Get her back," he

weeks "We're five "I try and forget about it." schedule already." "Some time ago you listed

Stephen Boyd WR your chief pleasures in life an dogs, birds, money, the sea, looking up flights back to Lan- "1 start another Alm in flowers, empire-style furniture, don.

ten days," he said. "Qulte grass, kittens, and baby mon- keys. Roger Vadim you placed possibly I won't get back." somewhere between the miss ***This," groaned Roger end kliens. Where would you Vadim," "can't be happening to say he is now"

me." "In the restaurant across the road," said Bardot.

LATE-NIGHT FOOTNOTE: Suddenly her searching Now they've all gone-Boyd to Angers located another spot. London, Bardot to Paris, Vadim "I am having 0 nervous to the hills. I am thinking of break-up, the shrieked and adopting the donkey,

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