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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1958.

SAVETI

VIVIEN LEIGH

JAYNE MANSFIELD Heartbeats become giggles

JOHN USBURNE

MIKE FOOD

On terms with success

New hope fat, publicity men.

No audience needed

LIMELIGHT,

IN deciding upon the outstanding show-business per- sonalities' of 1957 the interesting question which comes up le how many of them will still be personalitica (outstanding or otherwise) by the end of 1968. We are living in such a fast world that you can be a star at 19 and a has-been at 21.

The turnover in show-business idols being what it is, old idols topple before they have even got used to the high altitude up there on their pedestals.

Only this week I saw a girl who not so long ago was being written about as a new Audrey Hepburn selling chocola si a West End store.

The puple 1 have chosen as the show-business per- sonalities of 1957 will not, I hope, be selling chocolates never know.

this time next year; but, of course, you

Some of them may have a Intent vocation for selling chocolates of which as yet they are blissfully upawarc.

lie.e. then, are my per- onalities of the year, not cresarily the most talented

moat OF tinguished, but the ones

TOMMY STEELE Collecting his winnings

LOOKS AT THE NAMES WITO MADE THE BIGGEST SPLASH IN 1957 TO

MISS MANSFIELD

KM

FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER Hew life in the marque

GETS

MY VOTE-AS THE

JOKE OF

by THOMAS WISEMAN

he is much male is to make him deep level

faster: Misa changed. But outwardly he dis- breathe

Munsfield's effect 13 to is a different man.

O..e and a half years ago no make him giggle. Which

took 10 the ment (of ! kind) and contaminated; be

which he high-life with

was qualifies her for inclusion in the just becoming acquainted my llat.

who, for better or worse, is undoubtedly an achieve. spat out words as if they were

mado the biggest splash..

As the most COMICAL,

per.

The

•

has

THE

was

her former husband I do not suggest that Miss Leigh's un-

behaviour conventional designed to cash headlines - though I did that with a ven- geance; but I am sure that she has inadvertently, given to the world two absolutely new pub- Helty gimmicks,

The master exploiteers had

Miss run out of ideas. New Leigh has given them new hope. Any day now, I am sure, some blonde and busty starlet will stand up in the House of Lords to protest against the iniquity of The Sack, and most of the fading actresses have at least one ex-husband with whom they can go on holiday Miss the Leigh's achievements In

these this year were not such as to justify her inclusion in uny list of outstanding personall- ics. But her accidental achieve- ments as a self-publicist cer- taluly do.

like a fish to dry land. The very atmosphere of a fashion able restaurant seemed to get Mr Now him all choked-up. I would name Miss Jayne

Osborne

can call for a ciger Mansfield. Not because I

TRANS- at the most

Caprice

the with found her screen formances riotously funny, FORMED man of the year aplomb of one long accustom- ed to such plutocratic pleasures. but because, off screen, Miss Is Jolm Osborne who

He dresses shazzily, has de Mansfield managed to censolidated his reputation

veloped a patient forbeerence serious playwright in dealing with gushing ad- elevate sex from a snigger as 2 to a belly-laugh. On the with The Entertainer and mirers and will no longer ne- basis of audience response has suddenly found himself cuse you of being a capitalist the funniest flim of the after years of poverty, with hyna if you inquire about his royalties. The change has, I

came all third, been for the better and year must have been the a beautiful wife and

to me that succesA newsreel of the Royal Film income of close on £1,000 a indicates

has a les disastrous effect on Performance. The sight of week,

the soul than is commonly Jayne Mansfield attempting

to

curtsy in 12 dress that fitted her as if she were going to be mummified

of the year.

When I first met Mr supposed. Osborne about 18 months go, and told him that suc- cess would change him, he

The most OVER-PUBLICIS- in it got the biggest laugh snorted derisively. I Was ED lady of te year was Miss Vivien Leigh, who Fol only assuming he was as corrupt managed to get herself ejected The effect of the normal as I was, he told me. I do from the House of Lords but screen stren on the normal not know whether on any also went off on holiday with

Three big-time flm tycoons into the orbit of this column during 1957 and dis- Unguished themselves as the most LOQUACIOUS gentlemen of the year. They were Mr Darryl F. Zanuck, Mr Mike Todd and Mr David O. Selznick.

With none of them could 1 get more than two or three syllables in edgeways, mostly calmative grunts. I cannot help

wondering what happens if the three of them should come to- gether.

YEAR

Do they all continue talking simultaneously, ench marsuing his own particular line of thought and oblivious of what the others are saying? Or do they employ a chairman who ensures that each one has hia say for a specified period and then gives way to somebody elac? But if it came to an all- out, no-holds-barred struggle for articulation. I have a feel- ing that Mr Todd would win. I defy anyone to shout him wife, Miss down. Even his

Elizabeth Taylor cannot stop

him when he is full-spale,

I heard him giving a filibuster Cannes Bfter-lunch speech in this year and even thought, towards the middle of it, his audience were creeping off for cocktails Mr Todd went co undeterred. The secret of all these loqurcious gentlemen is that they are their own best rudience, which makes their listeners rather superfluous.

Likeable and, on meeting, indie- thousands of nguishable from other coffee-bar Romeos, he emotional managed to hit some jackpot in the publie and is still collecting his winnings.

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Eat, drink and be merry..

can cause" an even

eyes

TESTIVE season and the taste of food, but certain kinda FESTIVE

greater amount of seldliy to weight of murvellous food. flow in the stomach. As when, Later, after drinks, some for example, we are told oft may be groaning under the unjustly for being inefficient of

our work. Just 白目 the table, but that's by the way water when we are profoundly Even those like Mr Price, upset, so the stomach cries acid whose appetite in generally when we feel much emotions as poor, are tempted by the hostility and resentment. delicacies offered them at

The Body Knows

this time of the year,

"That's what I can't un- derstand,” Mr Price said. "You've solved a mystery," "Usually I eat like .spar- Mr Price Bald, "1 :often

why those with

row with a hangover. Comes wonderod

duodenal ulcer feel all right

the festive season and I devour food like a lion."

at festive season despite the fact that they eat the wrong things. The very sight of tempting It's obvious they forget to revo food makes most people feel such feelings as you've dep- much hungry. Our mouths water is cribed when there's so anticipation. It is a conditioned goodwill and Conviviality reflex on our part, just so some around."

| estiumatics who develop altacks, Of course, over-cattig en In the presence,, cause kente gastrills. But ruck- say, of flowers ing ice helps during cn skick. can be equally. "That's a good tip, but I drinkt affected by an a lot of water, anyway," Mr. artificial rose. Price commented.

All in a

doctor's

day: by

CEDRIC

CARNE

even

by

"So appatito

Many so-called health experta Can be stimu talk of the benefits of swallow- Isted not only ing pints of cold water. Butt through of the body lenows how much senses, but water it needs. If a mea is

the thirsty here is no need to try idea of food." to drown himself from within. Mr Price

"As for alcohol. .". I began. nodded.

"During New Year's Day I never touch it, except with my mouth," Mr Price cald.

I reminded him of the well- known experiment conducted by Pavlov. This scientist rang a bell every time he gave food to a dog. Eventually he just rang bell without offering the Ju his wake come a succession the of other "hep" youngsters in enimal a morsel, but the dog's essorted shapes and sizes, allmouth still watered.

рер- pouring out their musical pills and semi-lyrical tranquil- Ilsers to a public that yarns alternately for stimulation und sedition.

COME-

Rings The Bell

"Yes," I said, "all that feed rings the bell for us. Our mouths water and our gastrie

juices flow,"

That's also the reason why

an

ulcer people who have should eat more than usual at a festival. If they don't tel themselves go a little the gastric juices which are stimulated are

not neutralised by food.

The most successful BACK of the year was made by Frankenstein resurrected from a horrible death by Hammer Films In order to be sent to an ovcu more horrible and protracted death. All his old chums, lise Of course, they shouldn't Dricula and King Kong and the abandon entirely their slogan of Fhoutons in the Ruc Morgue, moderation, and they should |stüll' avoid certain foods if these must be moking very calty are known to cause trouble. remarks in whatever hellish

"In my view," I said, "there Is frequented by is too much emphasis on diet in Green Room

treatment of ogres who have bocome.hps-the

.: ulcer."

Acid appetite Juice. Is gilmu- inted by the' aight, smell, and

The most OVERPAID per- zonality of the year was unbeens. doubtedly Mr Tommy Steele, us young man who, I believe, sings.

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