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THE CHINA MAIL,

·MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1958.

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LIMELIGHT

poses the question everyone in show business is asking

THE

Behind the freckles-mote frackles

HE inevitably loaded question asked about Julie Andrews is: has she changed? It isn't thit any

Brond- body really expects her to flicker on and off like way noon sign-little Julie after all was always a nice, respectable sort of girl-but success can have an insidi- ous effect on its willing victims.

milk ud. And

it' No, at beautiful girl, but i

wholesome as a compellingly attractive after all

dishes €10 the much-taster encounters on this beat.

When you find the world your feet the temptation to kick it around blt is often resist ible even to the nicest girl. As who knows what those fre:kl. might conceal!

I must confess I expected to And on title Julke at least few of the smudgy fingerprints of fame. At least a trace of the corrosive effect of too much (of whatever A is yir farve too much of) to TT.

The trouble was su really did look like such a thoroughly in Alri-with it enough zits keep an ant in oxygen.

Could this really be the girl all that high-class hoo-hah was about, the suceessur to Gertrude

Sell Durian Gry koked pretty good lur, se I continued to look for the evil oftermath af AUCCESS.

Her foot

-The spoils of stardom? Wha: loot did alle have stashed away? on her dress www pix bench of diamond and sapphire

1-t! forget-me-nots. thought to ourselves.

the most

We

expensive

Lnwrence-Ho Phir Ladyshin present I ever got." she admit

thu ted. "I was given to me by the phenomenon from Walton-on-owner of the Mark Heilinger

herself?

Thames,

1

examined

looking for the daw among the freckles,

What I saw was an eminently practical girl in blue beltet

Theatre where My Fair Lady played in New York. Such a nige

old gentleman in his seventies."

Has success spoiled

Julie Andrews?

could hardly be causidered anes cchsary.

Wesn't there anything-I was getting, desperate now anything wiki, mad, astiakoble and for- bidden that she secretly hun- kered after? Power! Men? Dan- delion wine?

Her fore

"Well," she wald. "I supporr but it sounds awfully boring. like every girl I want 10 be happily married and have lots of children. That's what I want.

we haven't made any definite plans yet, but I may marry Tony Watton. Or it may be some- body else. But it will probably be him. Thor's nothing holding up our marriage. It's Just that we've got time and we're enjoy

I

I'M ASTONISHED. TO REPORT:

THE

ANSWER IS 'NO'

by THOMAS WISEMAN

Ing being a boy and girl Juve,"

in

True love This was terrible, Who wanted to read about truc love when there was reums of Lana Turner every morning?

Sul there might be something here. Tony Walton was her childhood sweetheart, and girls fabulous successos who become

their are supposed to outgrow childhood sweethearts and leave them in the lurch..

is

Mr Walton

Л successful young slage designer, but not in the same income bracket as Miss Andrews (who I now estimated to be earning £500 a week).

Dot Miss Andrews did not feet that their Income differential made the slightest difference.

has, to prove himself by carning a lot of money,"

Hor vice

I began to suspect that she really was as nice as she wem- ed that the freckles concealed nothing more sinister than more freckles.

Then I discovered one vice, in the show My Fair Lady she has to use a word which, perhaps the nicest girls would only use in moments of stress. I won- dered whether she had found i embarrassing to any.

* "Oh no, not at all," shẹ, sald, "As a matter of fact I do use words like that myself. Some- ilmes, Well, you know how it Is it just slips out sometinies."

So it seems that apart from teaching her a few swear-words, success and fame have left Julle Andrews as they found her: a Nice Girl.

the

"I don't see," she said, "why a husband is necessarily oblig- ated to earn as much as als I can assure wife. Not if you're both sensi- cirrhosis of the soul has ble prople. I don't feel a man finitely not set in.

Roderick Mann

cynies that

de

LOGAN

ROUND THE WORLD

GOURLAY

NOW ARRIVED HONOLULU

A

Barbara Hutton

turns nurse

MONG the "vacationers" in Honolulu is Barbara Hutton, that poor little rich girl who is no longer a girl but who is still poor and rich. She is without von Cramm, husband number six (or is it I've lost count), but she has a new escort, Mr James Douglas. Desplie the dismal prognosis, He is the heir to a breakfast The benchen are alted with

cereal fortune, He is good- American vacationers (1's their looking and he looks so young word, not mine), and they have I don't think he can have à Every right to be there, The vole yet. It has been reported islands are American territory. that Mira Hutton, who is often But they Adopt Howalion Calling herself, has been nursing fushlons. Some of the women Mi Douglas after an Illness and weur the muu muu, This is a keeping a 24-hour vigil by his shopeless, voluminous, tent-like bedside.

Karment

SHOW BUSINESS

SHAW'S GHOST HAS

A WORD FOR IT()

REPORT an extraordinary story concerning Frances Day and George Ber- nard Shaw. Blonde Frances Day who formed a close and rewarding

Well, that was 'sappointingly | friendship with Shaw when he was alive and appeared in his play Buoyant Billions,

is said to have been in touch with G.B.S. through a medium."

tunle dress with an honest-to- innoctious. What else? goodness face.

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"I'm thinking ot buying Not really a beautiful girl: myself a car," she said, “a little the noso

solid, sensible Morris Mino A

or something. structure designed for breathing can't ses inszelf tooting along through and not some ethereal the Ringston by-pass in a Bent- the ley, s you! I hape treated plece of facil decoration: inouth_looks_as_though it might myself to a mink jacket and I've

in coping be useful

wi a got about six dresses and heaps T-bone steak--any kissing of sweaters and skirts. Heaps." might do would be a subkidura function. The eyes are as trunk usa slaving mirror.

As luot Recs, it wrm't much; girl with heaps of sweaters

And to have taken down on her tape-recorder the voice of Shaw himself roundly condemning the famous musical My Fair Lady which is based on his play Pygmalion,

A fantastic story. But consider this.

A fantastle story. But consider this.

-Shaw did-liky Miss Day-immensely. - He was over-90-when- their friendship ripened, but he wrote her many letters.

Or renil: "Greer Garson come to see me, and gatecrashed. When are you coming to gateeraali?**

"Never," wrote back Franges. "If you want me, invite me -properly."

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Shaw admired her indepen dence. One year he wrote a special verse for her Christmas card,

Frederick Low, the man who wrote the music for Mu Fair Lady, said recently: ----

Shaw obviously knew nothing about love, There is gentins love scene int

battle ... Just between the suxes."

Pet

Pygmalion

Sald a friend of Show's, "Probably that's whal on- raged C.E.S. Remember-he

was very proud of his love

felters...

FAMOUS FOOTSTEPS

VIC

he tells me, he was in the -Lite Guards-and-at one point was flung into-the cells at Knightsbridge Barracks for overstaying his leave.

I felt rather... bad about f£,"_ he says, "until I looked at some

the names carved In the slonework. One of them was Victor McLaglen's. He'd besti incide for the same offence in The

30 years same regiment before.

WHITTLING -AWAY

★ JEAN

KENT-ut one Ume one of our biggest Klars-lurches from one Insignificant role 10 0-

other.

She had, you may recall.

Frances Bay

... Shaw was

I don't know about that, but the bed is now a lounger on the

beach and it is Mr Douglas who is keeping vigil on Miss Hulton, usually with several other dash ing young men in attendance,

I was introduced casually to her the other day. She salt: "I'm trying to have a quiet

holiday. But it's so difficult to escape from those newspaper- men and columnists."

I said I was sorry, but I was one of those columnists, I would have been distressed if she or Mr Douglas had suffered a re- lapse, but they sarvvled.

I am staying at a modern American hotel called The Surfrider. And on the ground Hoor is a lounge called-of all things the Commonwealth Room

It has portraits of the Queen and Prince Philly, and copies of Illustrated Lundon magazines. There is also a register in which visitors are naked for names, addresses, and comments or Honolulu.

a

which was originally Gesigned by the missionaries to oneent the sinful nakedness of the natives,

'It should only be ured now by campers.

MAKE BELIEVE

us is 1958 Honolulu, part of

[oen

new-world Amerloa:

In a

drugstore you can buy what are called "Make-believe pills for make-belleve ills."

I watched a man buy a bottle labelled "Success pills for relief In the obstructions,"

case of opportunity

He was a cigar-smoking man with on air of prosperity. He paid one dollar for the bottle. And he looked as though he thought it was worth every cent.

CAREFUL, THERE

the

is Honolulu, stilt part of old-world Hawaiit I was walking through a modern de- partment store refusing to buy any ukuleles when a coy lady's Between "fabulous" and

voice on the amplifying system "fuscinating" I found "It slinks," announced: "Will customers who from o Miss Afgeline Davis of are not wearing shoes please use Toronto.

the elevators and no! -escalefors-which-enn-cause-in-- A gentleman with a name like juries to bare feet and toes," Kel wrote simply: "Sydney was nice." He is from Kube, Japan. At least she didn't add: "This flore is not responsible for lost But my favourite is a Mr

toes," who says sadly; "Listen Luxenberg, Last week she said: If I'm not continually around

fect hurt but It's "My wife's

He Is from Cleveland, nobody's going to say:

'Let's nice." drag old Kent out of retire- Ohio, ment. Show-business Isn't like that you've just got to keep slogging away. You'll see my chance will come."

HE SHOULD KNOW

QUIZ

tainly expanding.

The Commonwealth is cer- GOURLAY'S geography qulz

for homes without TV and homes which have had too much

Yes, they do put a lei - one TV,

of those Sorat garlands round your neck whenever you QUESTION: Is Honolulu on step off the plane here Mine the Island was made of fairly fresh purple Hawall

to mules.

of Hawail or is on tho

Island

of

the

ANSWER! Honolulu is

TUE a tiny scene in The Prince and atm crisis is bring-orchids. It can be embarrassing Honolulu?

Jing out frankness in the Showgirl Now in Bonjour

I'm afraid the whole -place is largest city in the Hawaiian Trittesse. she again oppears la a

★the most

unlikely people.ail a little too much like the chain of islands, of which infnute role.

Gable, movica. Except that I haven't Hawall is the largest island. But

latest seen any brownish maidens in Honolulu da

JICTOR MCLAGLEN'S Is she wise? Would she not stand-In In the Pine do better to wait for the big comeback chante, rather than wood film Sea Fury is Mr whittle away her talents in Ski Hend. Before the war, unimportant roles?

Clork Says Mr talking about his 0lm Teacher's Peti

"I've seen it three times and I still think I stink....

situated on

tint

grass skirta dancing the hula on island called Oahu, the golden sands for sheer joy. I offer no prizes to readers They do it in ceburet alrictly who for cash.

claim they knew Oahu before. I don't believe them,

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