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GOURLAY,

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1958.

Every suit has a

private swim pool

The Wildings' Honeymoon Hotel

REVERLY HILLS.

WE were sitting in the polo lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, which has nothing

to do with polo and is simply a bar. The gruesome local wits call it the polio

lounge.

Like most American bars it is as dimly lit as an opium den.

Michael Wilding agreed with my theory that the reason for the dim lights may be that the Americans, who may not have recovered from Prohibition days, are ashamed to be seen drinking.

But Mrs Michael Wilding said Bhat America, being a woman's country, dimmed the bar lights so that women of all ngas would

and Jook mkare allractive beautiful.

I did not point out the well- known fuet that any woman hows more beautiful in the eye of the beholder if he is also an Imbiber.

there. When I left London for

months

[ America six" Intended to slay only a few weeks. I didn't know I get married.

drst met Michael 14 years ago when I was married to my first husband. Hoy Kelline, but we didn't meet again for a long time."

She pondered the question of

Wilding". there

Ms why she accepted the Was Anyway.

which unie shortly Miele Wilding sitting in the propssal.

before our drinks after she cancelled plans 10 polo lounge

Neville raging manager had been served, looking most marry attractive, and ss radiant as a Clark, at Caxton Hall. recent bride should be.

She told

ti about

"We are honeymoon plans. Roing to a wonderful hotel in Acapulco in Mexico. Every suite has its own private swimming suite has 2 poul, and every

efrigerator lled with all kinds of drinks so you don't have to ring for them. One of the hotel stait checke

levels the boile every day, and the customer la charged accordingly.

we

lost my head. I suppose. Michael proposed before we left London. but I didn't accept

ww were in America util

so much publicity There was about it here that when Arally got to Las Vegas to be Je INON wha married the

conduct the ceremony was said: 's about time. I'm not sure what he meant."

And

now.

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business. They make me furious. I hate newspapermen."

I have heard exactly the same words spoken before. By Mr Sinatra.

HOLLYWOOD hasn't

changed

in some ways. It is still building rather ridiculous residences for rather ridiculous people. A new one near my hotel is advertised as follows: **It has everything from the acoustic plastered ceiling to the ancient Moroccan in- cense burners (used as front door knobs),"

Fur-lined

Çar

Miss Douglas Regrets....... A

CHARMAN DOUGLAS invited drink to her me for a Hollywood apartment in a block named Regency House, which is furnished with Regency ploces imported from England.

HOLLYWOOD starlet, called Sandra Giles, who is not related to my cartoonist col- a little league and who looks like Jayne Mansteld, was telling me about her new enr. "I've had it covered in tur.".

I asked her what kind of fur. She sold: "It's just arñelal stuff. It's sort of pink colour

Said Miss Douglas, daughter and it's called pouft fur. I'll take you for a ride if you're feeling Jf the 17 American brave enough."

Ambassador

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Landon and close friendt of Princess There is a story The Widings are now Helng Margaret:

flying around that. Princess in a rented apartment, but they

tas

an cccepted "We haven't had time for a

are looking for Hollywood Margaret

a and we hoyc real honeymoon yet,

which they

come and stay will make invitation to should have a wonderful time their permanent base.

with me here. It's not true. We'll hire a boat and drift nut

course, she would be to sex,"

more than welcome. I've always told her, and I did last summer when i was in England, she has a standing Invitation to visit America. But that doesn't mean she's coming I don't want tu say any more. I have a firm rule not to court publicity."

This must cause

conflict in heart of young Douglas. By profession she is n publicity girl. employed by fending Hollywood frm, They call themselves public relations counsellors, but they quility agan tam

I was disappointed to fear that each suflé did not have its own boat and boating pond.

TV haven

THE

has

IE Wadings leave in a few

after Michaet days appeared in a D-minute

entitled play

"Verdict Three."

He said: "Houses here Bre wickedly expensive. The kind of house we want will evst minimum ht 30,000 dollars Cabout £10,000). We don't want anything elaborate, but we must tove a few betirooms for the chulden when they stay with Lis."

The children are

Michael. y Ave, and Christopher three, by for Wilding's marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, and Lisa, eight months, by her marriage to Michael Tuld wins was killed in March when his plane crashed.

Since he came to Hollywood bis m career has diffled in the doldrums, but TV is a haven for him--and many ofer stars. Next autistin he will turn agaln to the stake the Brusdway very lon

"Hour Like a Dove."

"I've also been asked lu die am here. One at the few they are still making It looks es thought I'm pak u be a busy breadwinner after Mexien."

an

Before breadwinning they continue their honeymoon the South of France without private swimming pool.

For each of them it will be the third honeymoon. His last was with Elizabeth Taylor, Hers with millionaire dairyman Waller Nell.

10

She said: "I shall have spend some time in London when

come over

we

Alraighten out my affairs.

still have

my beauty

5

the

Are

I told her 1 was not feeling brave enough.

Turner

• WHILE Lana and her late gangster lover are very much in the news Hedda Hopper, the redoubt- able woman columnist of Hollywood, announces that she could not live anywhere else but here, "because the life is so tranquil."

Some days there is of even a single murder.

The Garbo by Brando

PUMPED-into-Afosiwa-Brandu One of their clients is that

coming out of one of the other princess-Princess Grace local bur-restaurants — which of Monaco,

was dimly 1, of course. I had irst poken to him on the roof of a tenement in New York when he was dining "On the Waterfront."

remarkable The Silent

"We saw Liz last night," said Wuding. It must have been a terrible shock for the poor girl. She has made recovery. The odd word or phrase can suddenly remind her of Mike and then she breaks down, but most of the Ume now she's all right.”

Romance

Sald Mrs Wilding: "We want TAUREN BACALL announced

have the children with

the other day that she

us as often as possible. Young would prefer not to have her

nome mentioned with Frankdie Sinatra's. Their rumoured un- gagement was off,

-te sald: "I don't want to talk to anyone tonight, I'm Just ກ guy trying to forget the mixed-up movie, world. I'm not Brando tonight. Cell me any- thing you like. Goodbye,"

1 Way tempted to call him Garbo, but i was too polite.

LAST WORD

Lisa Bas enormous eyes. Just like her mother, and she has the same thick double eyelashes. So have that

1 h[t * boys.

Now she says she was quoted TERMIONE GINGOLD, wha then. I think they ke me out of context. What she really

has been Alming here in 106."

sald was that she would prefer "Gigl," told me: "I intend to

Holding her husband's hanl she added: "I've never been so happy in my whole life. We are both very happy."

to Mr Wilding nodded

I ment

ugree-

They indicated this was parleur the marriage that would last.

H

hot to see their names men sellie down permanently In tioned together so often in the America. I love England and Press. She did not discuss their London, but the London with engagement, I wish Miss Bacall top hats, grand balls, liverie would make up her pretty servants, and no buses." mind,

I ald: "But that's 200 years ald."

She also said that newspaper- men should slop prying into her Saki Miss Gingold: "My dear,

private life. "It is none of their so am I.'

Five Frightened Men

Wait In A Grim Villa

THE SULTAN

HOLDS

EL-GLAOUI'S

SONS.

RANSOM FOR

A FORTUNE

Paris.

mrn force the present sultan into two years exile in 1053,

The last cct of el-Glout before he died two and a half years go was to grovel at the newly-returned sultan's feet- and emmend his sons to the sultan's protection.

He acted

sullan

For 18 months the (who now likes, in be called king) respected his dead enemy's request.

But a year ago

el-Glzoul's

song met in their father's giant' fort-like palace in Marrakesh 10

share out his fortune.

It was estimated at £30,000,-

000 and included 285,000 acres

· of land, four palaces, lerge sections of Casablanca, Rebat, and Tangler, and

colossal

TIVE frightened men, im- amounts etored away in foreign

FIVE

The day the sultan returned—and the pasha bowed.

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MAUREEN SWANSON

.her friends last for

—yours.

THE TRUTH

ABOUT ME-

by MAUREEN

WE were taking ten at the Dorchester, Miss Swanson and I, and she was explain. ing how wrong everyone was about her. "I've got such a terrible reputation," she said, "but actually I'm much less of a gadabout than any actress I know. Why

I go about with the same people for years and years."

She looked at me with those great big eyes as she said this, as

daring me to disbelieve her.

though

It's pretty rough," she said. "Ever since Errol Flym kissed me at the be ginning of my career people have been picking on me."

It is, alas, too true. Unkind critics have long pictured her as an untalented butterfly living in a kind of S.W.1 Aladdin'n Cave-the cupboards of which (they insist) are bursting with baubles and minks thrust upon her by countless admirers.

It was the acquisition of a £12,000 town house in Upper Belgravia which started most of the speculation.

Linda's latest

Swanson, with a Sald Miss Blight shrug of her shoulders: bothering about "I've stopped

1 can't what people say now. do anything about it anwwny. They can think what they like New She tried

a sandwich for size actress better known for her Gods,"

Almas is In than her on friends and then suid: "There's awful lot of talk about my residence.

Mire Linda Christian. with Lord Ednam, friendship

whole How, I wondered, was the Isn't there? But the

millionaires? Had thing has been terribly misin- market in

the terpreted by Jealous people."

the recovered yet from rebuft recently administered by "Perhaps you talk too much Brazillan Francisco Pignatari? about him?" said,

Indeed she had, She had now found on Argentinian million- "Yes" she said. " always ali One Torcuato Sozio, regret it later." She giggled.. Linda who begins to vibrate "Maybe I should charge him in the presence of big money for all the publicity he's got like a water-diviner gone mad through me."

for 45 minutes-Miss Christian has been whooping it up in the company at 22-year-old Peter N hour after leaving Miss Theodoracopulus, who told her Swanson I put in a call to in a weak moment that his York. where Brother name meant "Gift from the

Where dia Mr Theodorn repulus atand the list of favourites?

"Does the Renk Organisation ever offer you fatherly advice about 17" I asked.

"No," she said, rather sharp- ly. "The Rank Organisation never offers me any advice. fatherly or otherwise."

her

That seemed, was another cross she had to bears, slow-motion career.

"A Town Like Allee gave me

then said:

know it must seem that I'm a glutton for millionaires, Tul believe me — I'm not against poor people. Some of my best friends are poor." I asked her to tell me more about friend Sozio,

"I met him in Buenos Aires," she said, "He makes electrical appliances. He just called me from Brussels asking me to over."

That was

Now unless you have just tol- "My pictures have been tered out of a monastery you pretty disastrous,” she said, must know that it is only a few weeks alnee Linda's Inat romance went up la smoke, when Francisco Pignotari hired a bunch of characters to parade around Rio de Janeiro with

"Linda

Co placards reading: Home."

a bit of a chance, but Robbery Under Arms was the absolute end."

I asked how she was spending her Ume while waiting for a new flm to turn up?

"He

Silly

"Ho rang

me up only the other day," said Linda, "Em practising singing," she wants to be triends again. Suld brightly. "Fortunately, boy. I told him to get lost."

I asked 32-year-old Linda- where I live they're not the

sort of people who hammer on who can converse fluently with the walls. My voice is quite her millionaires in any of eight good, What I'd love to play is languages-how her career was

going.

prisoned for a year in banks.

For the sultan this way too Evelyne Kahll, now living in She says: "We are trying to Eliza in My Fair Lady."

a grim Morocco villa still do not know what charges are

much. He saw the millions

peteil

Paris

to be brought against them. disappearing from Morocco-and at Boulhout, near Casablanca.

They are the sons of el- Glaoul, Pasha of Marrakesh, a friend of Churchill and

Roosovelt; their gaoler is the Sultan of Morocco.

The five sons were kidnapped

and later the Moroccan Govern ment announced they had been srrested pending "corsideration

with their two-year-old get a trial or some hearing at doughter Alcha-are being held feast. But nothing happens. I We walked out Into Park

know my husbend is alive and Lane together, that is all."

The sultan is threatening to bring charges of "reason"

Afraid

"I'm glad about one thing," she said. "My parents live in South Afrles and, don't read loo much about' me, Though they

"I'm bored with movies," the vald, "haven't made a film for two years. All the scripts I sent to read

jack.

aro

Frankly I wish people would slop sending me their `damn stories.”

While Senor Sozla has been

Sad-eyod Evelyne is still which, I understand, would be of charges." The charges otrald to venture alone into the dropped Immediately it the sons are still being considered.

Paris atreets in case she is were prepared to sign away wouldn't believe it if they did. ruining his business with long- The sons, who include Prince altacked by Arabs"faithful to their birthright and hand over | Parents are marvellous No charge has been brought

to man whose tribes- Hassan--márriod Against the

all the money in foreign banke, wẩy, don't you agree?"

beautiful the mullan.

that distanco calls to her from the. Continent-the last one went on,

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On

LINDA CHRISTIAN.. gunite Of Het flenta dre pour.

"Not 100 high," admitie:1 Linda. "He's much too young fur and, You know I'm only Interested in men around 40."

There Was 4 BCuming. sound at the other

cheking

end of the line, and I thought for one moment Mr T, must be trying to strangle her. But 'no. 1. turned out she had a

cold from

Мапу late nights,

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I told her she should try going to bed before dawn now end again, and she said~~

"Listen....when

I

married

Ty Power nine years ago I was only 23. His advice to me wast "Wait until you're 34-you'll be the most fascinating woman. in the world.'"

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