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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1968,

DON IDDON'S DIARY

«New YorK

Gangster's girl

FOR

WITH A MONROE

LOOK

steps into

the limelight

very

-I have Samo very nico friends, real sweet persons,"

Whether the investigators will be able to link Liz and her friends with the Anastasio the killing is doubtful, but case in illating the publie mone than anything #ince the Hollywood v. Confidential mogo- zino trial.

Lin-

Miss Renay, about 32, has been around, and a local news- paper. the New York World Telegram, haa gleefully nounced that it was Liz who won their competition, "Which giri most resembles Marilyn Monroe?" for years ago.

Then Elizabeth was blonde, now she is na redhead. To- morrow she may be a brunetto, Compared with Virginia Hill, the most fabulous all the gang dolls, Liz has the class. Virginia is out of news naw, with an ice-cold million dollars or two stacked

of

VIRGINIA HILL, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy 'Siegal.

from tho The new man B.S.R. looks like a prosperous American business

man, and like i prosperous dresses Englishman. He speaks perfect English and la a youthful 55. no interpreter, no secretary, no When you go to see him he has. ly Hills home that the mobster recording machine. You are on

Slegol wha mown your own.

DWHY,

It was in her palatial Bever

friends "Bugcy" for photographers, to know that my MOR the past few days a stunning posing

very sweet

sen- persons. down in one of the most beauty called Liz Renay has been crossing and uncrossing her are

Is a

dear entional killings in Hollywood. a New York legs and swishing her figure. Mickey stopping the pulses of

known as the and What is Liz doing before friend, Grand Jury and making the public

Cappy (Cop Virginia was

cash-and-carry girl of The the Grand Jury? She is pola) is a very sweet person goggle-eyed..

syndicate. 18 a Indeed who once proposed She is in the gaudy tradition of the being questioned gangster's girl friend, but more beau- possible important witness marriage to me." Liful than Hope Dare, who was mixed in the unsolved murder of up with a shady gangster's lawyer, and Albert Anastasia, who was harder-boiled than Virginia Hill, the pumped full of bullets giri-friend of gangster "Bugay" Siegel, he lolled in a mid-town week, and veteran court re- the girl who scoffed at the Senate in barber's chair. vestigating committee and said: "I

don't know nothing about no one.”

Frank

I have been down to the

Social lion

Almost

DOTH

Puzzling

:

President Eisenhower and Mr John Foster Dulles have been saying a great deal about a posable Summit meet- ing, but saying it in such a way that the pubile, very worried now about the recession, cannot

thing.

More

of

NOTHER, vostly different, as Grand Jury room twice this

personality has been sharing the big type with Mies Reney. resp what is going on, if any. porters, using the old

overnight the new

Wash- phrase "This is where we russian Ambassador to

more and

the pro- came in," swear that the ington, Mikhall Menshikov, has nouncements of Mr Eisenhower stage, the setting, the cast become one of the most popular resemble the pronouncements of men in the capital, and one of Mr Ramsay MacDonald in his Miss Renay, statuesque, with a

RENAY admits are almost identical with the most written-about person declining years: 36-24-36 figure, speaks with more cul- MISS

He has "It seems

ta me--well, frankly that she num- those of the late 1920's and alities in the country. Lure, but she is just as tough as Miss

"Nothing has had more publicly, most of it course, on the other hand, un- among her friends early '80's. She bers

favourable, than all the Hill, and may be shrewder.

other less you face the fact that it is including

own OUT

up to us all to pull together. avoys, popped out of obscurity just a week Anthoy Coppola, the body- changed but the names."

Perhaps there is some excellent representative, Sir nevertheless much can be done, and, as I see it, we are on our to become one of the best-known guard who failed to guard ·

and Mickey special psychological link Harold Caccia, put together, faces in America, more Anastasia,

Ie is the socio! llon of the way, and there is nothing vitally the West Coast between the big depression Beason, roaring for Russia, wrong if we all keep our heads photographed at the moment Cohen,

the gangster who has been the of 26 years ago and the wical friends and Influencing and our confidence and do the than Marilyn Monroe,

people with fair and relish. Gabor sisters, or Ava Gard- target for six assassination little depression of today.

I suspect that he is Kruscher's The gangster's girl this time, the past six attempts in

however,

cam- personal choice. For years the years.

manding. Miss Renay says: fusions have sent a procesalon Saya Liz:

"I've always "Sure I lent Mickey 10,000 of stone-faced Every day there have

here Zarubin, Novikov. been crowd outside the wanted the headlines, the dolture (£3,000). What's 10,000 Gromyko, Grand Jury room, although spotlight, but, as an actress nollaa? I lent him the dough and Panyushkin. Only the ex- Vishinsky had mog- held in or famous model, not like because he was short of cash plosive

were the sessions are

but his hands squeezed." secret. Every day Miss this. Still, I am on all the And where did Liz get the bloody and his manner maleve

"Oh, from friends lent. Rebny has blocked traffic front pages and I want you money?

ago

LIZ RENAY : "I'vo always wanted the

ner.

headlines."

more seems

retism.

men

very best we can, bearing in At mind the various factors. least, that's how I see this. thing. But I don't wort any more of that now."

Does that answer your 'ques-

tion you from the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun, the Miami Herald and the Bullen? Right Philadelphia Next question, please,

NEVER believed that every private carried a

his knapsack, but I am coming round to the theory that once in television, one might quite easily reach 10, Downing Street,

The conception of the amateur in politics has always had a strong appeal for me, especially when the amateur in question is my- self.

I should very much like to be Prime Minister of England some day (indeed for several days); and most mornings as I lie in my bath I find myself wondering how,

if I were to be called on to take over from

Macmillan,

! ROBERT MORLEY wonders whether to join Jacqueline Mackenzie !

A

and Ludovic Kennedy in the ranks of the new-style politicians

Ji

Why shouldn't I jump on the bandwagon?

AND IF I BECOME

PREMIER I KNOW JUST

Mr I

WHAT I SHALL SAY TO MR. KRUSHCHEV...

would deal with

the great questions of the next facing Krushchev across a table in the Krem- lin.

the hour.

In point of fact, there are few problems that I can- not solve as long as I stay under water.

Moreover I am able, when comfortably submerged up to my chin, to step right out of the bath-and, in deed, my skin-and project myself anywhere in the world.

Nutional

as on the raccourse.

However,

1

In other words, five consenu- plans to address the House him- don't have to catch up with tical party, but an actor is wise

you to tive wins for any party auto- self, and is expecting the Americans....why not never to declare his allegiance.

He has matically disqualified them slay and listen to him. slow down a bit and wait

It isn't a good thing for him for standing on the sixth oo- perhaps even managed to get

caston for us or even the French?" to belleve too strongly in any-

Alternatively Lhern you a ticket is the Distin- the thing not even

might be a handicap system guished Strangers' Gallery. Theatre.

You must, of course, refuse, the More members of my profes-

these and other but in doing so attempt sion have destroyed themselves political reforms will have to almost Impossible task of ap- on the soap box than on the wait unti! I have time to pearing to regret your decision. bottle. A drunken actor some-

What we are attend to them. times manages to give a good supposed to be discussing

The party I remember mest performance but an actor who column is whether we ought to vividly at the House of Com- is politically awakened invari go on taking politicians mons was one which was given ably sends his audience to sleep. seriously,

I must Bay Krushchev usually agrees with me, 1 And him on the whole a perfectly reasonable sort of bloke. When we've Bulsted our little chat I call in on Eisenhower on the way back. The President Is waiting for me in the club "Now look here," I

tell house, him.

the "My name, by why, is Morley, but that's begin, but he interrupts. not important....

"I represent the common- sense point of view, the Bri- fish point of view. What we feel you should do now, old man, is to relax. Teach One moment I am sluicing your people the Everything myself with the sponge, Stops-For-Tea routine. You

** BUT THE GENERA

ANT HUMAN, BOS-

HES A SPIRIT"

LIVELY, VICTIM

"My

Name

ic Morley," I

with It's the

same

play- wrights. Once

start they writing for the political week- "Good heavens, you don't its their stalls trade practically have to tell me....saw you in disappears, Around the World best thing in it. Tell me, do you prefer acting for the screen or the stage?" I have to bring bim back to business...."Tell me," I ask him, "do you mean do deat with Krushchev? Because it so I've come to wrap it up for you."

to

I can't. of course, reveal at

this stage the details of the Ingenious scheme I bave work ed out. It is still top secret and likely to remain so for some time.

But the formula is my own ....the common-sense approach alled of course to the personal touch. It never fails at least, not in my bath tub.

this

and try to believe just after the war to Inaugurate they are human beings,

yet another National Theatre campaign.

Whale meat

Or. whether we should take human beings like Ludovic Kennedy and

Jacqueline Mackenzie, and (yes, why not?) However, I can never resist even myself, seriously, and try being a president so, although to believe they are politicians. E ate whate-meat and nearly aware of the danger, I finally But then does one really want everyone made a speech. wrole back and nocepted to, be A politician? It isn't, 'After a time our host realised Since when I've never heard after all, a very stimulating ife that we were

compared with the theatre, converted and insisted on our another word.

standing around In the lobby while he introduced us to scoreS of his fellow members hurrying to catch their trains.

I somellmes wonder [ 7 The only times I have ever imagined the whole thing. been to the House of Commons Whether perhaps the invitation. I have come away feeling rather was intended for someone else depressed.

or whether they never received my letter of acceptance.

Perhaps someone was playing

a trick on me, Whatever the reason, no one can pretend. I

Old meat

You would have thought that travelled a very long way to have had a busy term of office. THE food is wholesome enough but looks as if it has

once in five years I might have been called on to present the meet you. prizes for the spot wultz, or

When I am Prime Minister I even to bring amall party

shan't be able to stay along to a whist drive.

realise

in my bath all the time. Indeed

I refuse

I am sure I shan't need, to. For, although only an amateur, have been a practising politician now for over five years. Practis- ing perhaps is not quite the word. I have been ready to Conservative practise, but there hasn't been anybody to practise on.

No good thing

the other hand I am al- ways being asked to open Ietes and loyally refuse to do so.Of course there are a good many more Conser- vatives than Labaur supporters In my neck of the woods,

I don't suppose we've over had a Labour member of Parlin-

WHEN in 1953 I got a letter ment in this constituency, which

from the local branch of is what is known as a safe seat the Labour Party asking me to for the Tories. become their president I thought

The same can often be sold of your MP. Most of thean appear to have stepped from sleeper rather than a bandbox

Conversation at the table is apt to be one-sided, your host doing most of the talking.

No

preaching to the

Most of them seemed under the Impression that we already had a National Theatre, and were loud in praise of the splendid work we were doing.

Surprisingly (ew teemed to

out

and 1 resent

presence, only one or two ac- imagine tually missed their trains our account,

on

When it was all over, we were dismissed in a grace ful little speech. We had, we were told, had a profound effect upon the legislature....the National Theatre was a certain runner at last.

will want to desorii »

Alas, we are still waiting for to you a number of excrucial it to start, let alone finish. But ingly dull ceremonios per-

the luncheon was not entirely

formed in the House, and un-

them

for yourself

less you are very careful, ex without result as far as my wife concerned. What pect you to wiittown some of and I wero

and the after with the whate-meat

Excellent and the standing , around, our daughter arrived a Then have to do with Black trifle unexpectedly a few hou Rods, While Rods, chaplains, later...

Speaker Sir, and

luncheon,

Mr

about it for a very long «tlino Porsonally, I think it would Serjeant-at-Arms.

the

She has always been perfectly ccrtalo that she wants to be an even up things a bit if in theso so-called 'auto divisions they The greatest danger of all in actress. Polition I fancy, and

your MP. has asked not for her, I suppose, really," 'you to lunch on a day when he they are not for ma" either.

before I accepted.

I am, it is true, a Labour man

gave the other alde a look in, that

in so far as I support any, poli-

say, once every Ave times.

VOTE FOR MORLEY

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