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THE CHINA MATE,

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1958.

Maybe you won't agree

but for my money the world's

most exciting woman

THE SIGNORET LOOK as seen in La Ronde. Cavalier Gerard Philippe is fascinated.

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men

by LEONARD MOSLEY

She has the body and

MOST, non pode their someone who has been looks of was, the woman

for quite a long time, and never sible, decent, rational, and found it desirable to stini her-

accommodating about sex-wif of what life has to offer.

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and it doesn't get us any- Thirty-six. where, does it? We tell our- Belves that the qualities we desire in women sympathy, kindness, and goodness of heart. And what happens?

A female wolks in who demonstrates from the jut of her chin, the glint in her eye, and the haughty sway of her body that she doesn't care 2 Burn for anyone in the roam but herself, and every malc in sight mentally lifts up a club and roars off on the chase.

So let us face the fact that it is the challenge in a woman that sets a man on fire.

And for me a woman named Simone Signorel is the challenge. I know plenty of girls who are

I certain prettier than Simone, ty know hundreds who are younger.

NOT

That's how old she

Yet if you were to lock me 'u a room with Monroe, Mandeld, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, and this full-blown, middle-aged blonde, do I need to tell you

which four I would usher on to the fire-escape↑

And for whose suke I would thereupon throw away the key and close the window against the world?

Into battle

Ly

Simone Signorel-let me not be meagre or measly In language-makes the others look, feel, and pound insipid She is the epitome of every- thing in woman for which any nen will happily go to battle.

Most Almgoers in England this healthy female know animal only if they have seen some of the better French films over the past tow years. She

who drove distracion

(and also to the guillotine)' in w

"Golden Marie,"

brilliant gangster eple called

She was the ruthless *LI- deres, in a study in fear and pante called "The Fiends."

But now she has come to Eng- Jond to make a British film, She will play the part of the other,

older women in the film version of a Yorkshire novel called "Room At The Top."

And to everyone who mys:

cast "But why

h French- woman in the part of a femalo who comes from Bradford?" i have an answer.

For she alone, I think, cauz give this role of a womun who is not afraid of anything and anyone, particularly men, all the muscle and sinew of sex which it demands,

on

and the

Simone Signoret la the most Invigorating, stimulating, challenging woman scream at the moment,

I only wish, when I have Junch with her later, she will aim her challenge Iti my direction.

Why did she get the job?

She explained: "I remember the advice given to me by the director of the first film I made. He said: 'Sex appeal should never be vulgar!"

'Oh, unfair'

OT many

women and ing legs which are rarely

photographed. few actresses, very would sit surrounded by men in

fashionable restaurant without a scrap of make-up on their faces.

You tha! is how Simone Signoret, the French Actrest presented herself in London the other day. Her attitude seemed more starting when film pro- ducer James Woolf sald: We chese Signoret for this role be cuse none of the available British actresses had enough sex appeal to play 11." She is not beautiful by ordinary man- dards. She does not even want to be. She suid:

"I know I have

in hell's chance

not got a col

of looking pretty. But. fortunately, realised that 10

years ago. Up til then I was all" make-up And feathers like In any young girls." She always dresses, in sack-line Suits which are chic but only Rug. gest her figure. She has ravish-

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Sex appeal? She shrugged her shoulders and said: "It is there with most wamen... when they let it show through. It cannot be put on, with make- up or anything. It is better just to be a woman."

Do Belush actresses lack sex appeal? Elizabeth Boilers said:

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"Oh, how unfair, Could Sir Gordon Richards win the Derby without the right horse? Well, I would challenge any Continental actress to breathe sex appeal Into some

cort-horse of the women I have to play,"

Yvonne Mitchell said: "Oh, how typical. British Alm pro- ducers always think soxy girl can only either foreign or a dumb blonde. Either way she must be screamingly obvious, But, come to think of it, I think the only actors with sex appeal are foreign. Not the English pretty boys!"

from SAM

WHITE

Margaret Johnston said: "Oh, It doesn't sur- prisu ne. A top- flight actress should be able to assume Box up- perl liko nny other emotion. But producers Just don't be- [lieve that of Bri- Ush actresses. Think of the trouble Deborah

had Kerr

to prove it,"

A MINISTER, A MAYOR AND A GENERAL

The top three

in aland`

of terror

ALGIERS.

HREE remarkable men dominate the Algerian scene. They are the Resident Minister for Algeria, M. Robert Lacoste, the Jesuit-educated 47-year-old Mayor of Algiers, M. Jacques Chevaller, and the paratroop general who commands the Algerian Region, 49-year-old General Jacques Massu.

J

Take Lacoste first,

A former trade union leader, he greatly resembles in his stubbornness and earthy patelo- tism the late Ernest Bevin,

And like Bevin he enjoys the confidence of his Socialist Party leader, M. Mollet.

would long ago have ratted on these people,

He is convinced that the over- whelming majority of Muslims do not want independence but only complete equality as French citizens.

Intellectual

John Lambert

PICTURE BY EXPRESS PHOTOGRAPHER ALAN MERK

THE SIGNORET LOOK, demonstrated as she kept an appointment with Photonews.

place at a timo of a great French Renaissance, and nowhere is this Renaissance more evident than in Algeria itself.

In the past two years there has been unleashed here a burst of reforming zeal of such energy and imagination that it is trans- forming the country.

The main engine for what is virtually a social revolution in the army, and what a magnificent REMY it la

It is an army which does more than fight:

Clears slums

It clears slums, bulids houses, re-settles entire villages, teached In schools, admeisters' health services, short-circuits bureau- eracy OTL behalf of nomadic

Muslims, and generally does everything but baby-sit,

Take the hideous “Bidonville" (so-called because the shacks are made from tins) on the out- skirts of Algiers.

This is important because in the state of the present French

There until recently 15,000 Parliament no government can

Chevaller, a Catholic intellec for seasonal work as dockera Arabs who flocked into Algiera formed without the Socialists, Furthermore, to the 1,200,000 als by temperament and lived in appelling squalor on a Europeans here, Lacusto hus buckground

complate 24-acre allotment.

be

the

become such a symbol of resist- opposite of Lacoste.

A one-time

led to his appointment two years

ance to the rebels that any move Mendes-France Governinent, he frem normal army service have to depose him would very likely reproduce the very riots which has been the briliantly success worked a miracle here.

fut Mayor of Algiers since 1953. They are in the process of His great achievement bas demolishing the shacks and put- been a series of superb building ting la their place' wooden projects which have provided homes.

Minister in the 15 paratroop

On an absurdly small budget, officers detached

ago.

Resolute foe

What happened to this veteran member of a traditionally emil

which makes Colonialist party him such a resolute foe of the Nationalists?

cheap flats for nearly 8,000 Even these are temporary, for farlies numbering.com 37,000 already plans are being made to people.

replace thesa with 14-storey These Bats are divided on 50-50 basis

a apartment houses. between European

Even as the. demolition work and Muslim fomilies,

forward, schools and He enjoys tremendous prestige medical centres function in the 41.ong the Muslims, Relations area, and a local council made between him and Lacoste are up from the Muslims helps in often diffleult,

the administration,

I felt we could not abandoned in Algiers to purge the city promise of full equality?

of terrorists.

Lacoste told me: "Algeria is not a colonial problem like the others. The bulk of the Euro- peans here are humble folk who have been here for generations critic of the repressive measures Muslims

Chevallor was an outspoken Is it too late to win back the and have a right to remain.

on the basis of the

There are ominous signs that them to a Cairo-inspired re- And the Army it may be EO,

Holf Incidental Intelligence: Gonoral Magsu Is a tall, the Muslim population JE hawk-nosed man who served 8,000,000 is under 20. At the rate under Leclere during the war, the Muslim birth-rate is in- He and his paratroopers smashed creasing there will be 20 million

the terrorista in Algiers,

Muslims here, in 25 years' time. Quotos of the week.M. Lacoste: "I feel I am defending France here."

bellion. Take it from me, that a Right-Wing government in Paris

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-He was given this job when the polles were overwhelmed by it, and he did it with ruthless ness and efficiency.

General Mansu, on being asked Surprisingly enough, he is this reply to critics of his policy: politically well on the Left.

reforms

"I shall continue." Ho bellovca that

A senior French ofloer: "Whol should have followed swiftly on would happen if we moved out? the heels of repression and he Ether the Americans or the bitterly regrets that the French Russiana would move in. We Parliament wasted previous know the job here. Why should months before finally pasting the we leave the talk of moderni Framework laws

Irur this country, to someone The basic tragedy of Algeria ole?”

rebellion' is tüking ---{London Bugrese Kersten),

is that the

"I know," she says. "I haven't a cat in hell's chance of looking_pretty,”

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Friell

QULLES

*And if anything happens to me it is your job to tako over the appalling burden of office."

PROSPECTNE

FOREIGH

ANTI- MUCLEAR

55-CRETARY

MARCH

"I want you to see just what it will look like if you send him naked into the council chamber.“

SUMMIT

"Funny thing. A number of our members aren't zo keen on a Foreign-Ministars': Conference since you wald Selwyn Lloyd had no intention of resigning.“.

ROUND

UP

Rome

FX-KING_Farouk of Egypt

Espring sued by Rome's

leading Jeweller for payment for two snuff boxes which once belonged to Frederick tho Great of Prussia,

Jeweller Glergic Bulgari claims in his action that Farouk ordered the snuff boxes while he was sill! King of Egypt, He made an advance payment, says Bulgari, buk the balance, arnounting to "tens of titions of

tra" has not been paid.

In his reply to the claim, Farouk says that he ordered the snuff boxes in his position as king. When he abdicated in 1052, they were seized, together with all the other Jewels.be- longing to the crown by Nassor and his revolutionary officers, "Therefore," says Farouk, "I am not liable."

No definito date has been fixed for the hearing, but it is expected to be soon.

Meanwhile, Farouk has been told that while Italy Is pleased to have him living here, would be bolter for the

a holiday abroad king to inke during the visit of Nasser to Romo at the end of May...

Nicosia

MYPRIOTS who intend going to Britain for medicol treatment have been warned by the Director of Government Medical Services that It will cost them at least £10 a week -excluding specialists'

Hundreds of Cypriots have docked to Britain in the past with no intention of working or settling there. They return with brand-now hearing, aldə " or falso teeth supplied froos, by Bellain's National Health Ber- vice,:

Now it is to stóp. Would-be patients are instructed, lo, maka Their own narrangements for să- mission into private, hospital wards-unless sponsored by the Goverment — otherwise plications for passports will: 6 refused,