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THE CHINA MATE," SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1968.

SHOW BUSINESS

Life-by an actress at the dangerous age

WHAT HOPE IS THERE?

ASKS CLAIRE BLOOM

℗ ACTRESS June Thorburn-26 years old and blessed with a youthfül and lovely face-complains that the roles she is offered get younger and younger. In her latert Alm, M-Q-M's Tom Thumb, she is the Fairy Queen. “I've tried everything I know to look older," she said last week, "büt'it's no good. I must be the only woman in Britain who looks in the mirror overy morning and prays for some wrinkles."

SINAMENTO BARRIE FEJEM (FZRENITEZEL BUELLEN BE LED FRIESTE AVENUE JEREZATURING TERÄ

What 'Liz Can Learn About Life From Me

-Says Lauren Bacall

TN Bel Air the houses are solid and large and the district is so esclusive that the roads are not provided with pavements: no one is expected to walk when every home has two or three cars,

It is here that Lauren Bacall new lite that Elizabeth Taylor

is living with her two children. Stephen, aged nine, and Leslie, six. She moved to this house after husband! Humphrey

Bogart died. Ou the day I saw her the news www out hot shooting in Cal On A Hot Tin Ron had to stop completely for two days becauIES star Elizabeth Taylor was 1 and too tired on.

must find too.

ຕ

Out of the past year and half Lauren Bogari has de- veloped philosophy. She said: Work? Make #lms? Let me tell you. Just working is never LL answer to anything.

pass

"It makes the days quicker but there are always the nights and thase five

7HEN Claire Bloom came into the restaurant the eyes of every man in

Misa Bloom, with all that delicate Dresden beauty. It makes men instinc- tively want to protect her from everyone but themselves.

"London," fald Miss Bloom, sitting beside me and wringing rain-water out of her hair, is dreary. Do you know my chief picarure in Wie? Going to bed with a book."

"No?" I snl.

"Yes," she said. "In New York or Parla it's fun to go out. But in London-ugh.”

1

"If you think this is bad,"

said, "you should try the provinces."

did," said Miss Bloom, "I hud six weeks out on tour with my play Purt of Angels.

She pulled a roll of film out of

her handbag.

"Do you know what I've got here hideous views of railway lines token from my Glasgow hotel room.

The

main Bae ran right through our dining- room."

A waller spiralled over with an autograph book. Miss Bloom signed between Agatha Christie and a name that looked like and probably was-Hogsnurton Killwilling.

*What hope there here?" sald Miss Bloom crossly. "Da You know what my agent kaya? I'm at the dangerous * as far on British firms are concerned liko Virginia McKenna. In other words I'm past the stage of playing war- termines But I'm not vid enough to play some war- hero's suffering mother."

She

INSULT

Roderick

Mann

ence with household detergrents has this to say about Princess and the Marquis of Milford Haven.

*

Miss Dore was the first to this. Always adding. however, the reminder: "Don't forget-he good material.”

Grace of Monaco, with whom he Bas been friends since they mude a $im together:-

"Grace is like my wife Betsy was working with Drake in that she can do an egg

anytime she pleaser. I mean [! she's bored and doesn't want to Now Miss Nom, witbeat the show it she just retreats behind help of the master-mind, has m smiling shell and nothing pulled off quite a next -coup you're talking about penetrates Jerself. In October sta is through You'd never know It: booked to open in Las Vegas you'd think she was quilo -the world's splashlest and fascinated by everything you toughest show-business venue, were saying."

For what kind of money?

For this kind of money," said

NO ESCAPE

continued: "I've Just Dors yesterday. "Six thousand Masini d two big pictures in pounds a week, I am having a Hollywood-The Brothers Kara- dress made that will make There is a new wide-screen muzon and The Bucgineer, But Marlene Dietrich's look Iko system coming along-Planai what do they want me to do something out of 11 missfen Aren Interdimensional Cyclo- over here? Star in Son of barrel. I'm not a singer. I've Stereophonic Sound, Robin Hood, I asked them what only got personality to sell-so

part they wanted me for and I may na well wrap it up as In this, gather, the screen ibey said: 'Oh-the son. I attractively as possible."

knew there is a growing tends cacy in Brah to defembiso women-but that's golog 100 far,"

I told her that Spn of Robin. Hood was one of those clever- eliver scripts where the boy turns out to be a girl, and that seemed to make her happier,

Before

we plunged out into the rafo again I asked her if she'd been seeing much of her friend Curt Jurgens.

"He's not my friend," she said heatedly "That was all a joke some idiot took seriously, For heaven's sake-even iny mother thinks he's a le old."

SOLO

When the much-publicised marriage between Dluna Dors

CHANGED

To those who have seen his carller alms, the faco ot Montgomery Clift in The Young Lions" looks distinctly odd..

This is due to the amount of plastle surgery needed after Cift's near-fatal car crash out- side Elizabeth Tayor's home two years ago.

Nigel Patrick fold nie last week-

"The crash happened when WH were about halfway through flimlag Raintree County. It you watch this carefully you can ate which scenes Cufi wa after the smash.

almost completely surrounds you For wor finis gtitl Westerns, there is talk of arm- ing members of the audience se that they can fight back.

ARTIE.

正興

I

Patri

Dors pain, though he never once

complained"

and Dennis Hamilton fell apart know his whole Jaw hud to be

"He looks quite different,

many people were convinced

wired up and he was in great that with her priviste Truman, of Noel Coward and of Muchiavelli gone-Miss Frank Sinatra.

career must stultify and die.

For without doubt it had been Cary Grant-who bas just Lauren Bacall was wearing a the Herculean efforts of Mr gone back to Amerien after

Hamilton which helped promote supervising the editing of } close-thug play-ul of tan- gerie and white check. She

the name Dors to equal promin- his latest picture Indiscreet~~ poured a drink and then tailed of fundamental change, the im- possibility

back stier of going you have had Al Fuccessful marriage.

"When you are aloue-beface marriage then you sailsfy your whims and indulge yourself.

THE SECRET

"But after you have been married all that changes. The secret in being married is aut Just loving. It is the slaying

This was the picture Miss lotes when you come up that is the hard part. And Taylor was making when her stone to face, the problem of that means learning lo busured Mille Todd wer killed living.

In un clr crash. Now the film

is nearly complete but the strain "Just working is not being, a

on Miss Taylor is beginning to show,

Lauron Bacall, with her own experience and her own greatur maturity. talked of problems facing the younger actress.

"Now, soon, when her flm is finished and she has nothing to do," said Lauren Bacall, "that is when it will become really dificult for Liz.

Philosophy

woman. I used to think it was when 1 was

first married. I rhased ambition. I thought had something special to offer.

"In those days Bogie cald to me: 'It isn't all that-important --you'll and out' „have found

out.

give

things up having responsibiil- ties to others.

"There are women who don't know how to be married be- cause they don't know how to give things

Then the morrlaga tails and they get panicky and they try again ond again and again."

up.

But work by itself just to fill la time is not sufficient for the

"Now I work when enthusiastic about a part. But Icad. Her philosophy of being parts to make you enthusiastic woman rare indeed la zeem fewer. So I keep busy Hollywood.

I am life Lauren Bacall has learned to

with little things, and with two

children there is always sonic- And Elizabeth Taylor, now thing to do-Stevie is starting at

...can this help her In the

a new school next term so I shock after the death of must be around for that,"

"The

Ast

year after

the

death is the worst. To be 26

Todd?

te her and have three children

and be used to being married

She paused, thinking again of

Laurtu

Bacall

Kaya

ke

this:

always-just .think of that, those illile things, thoen” (leiveï"” “There is no advice to give. Marry again? Of course--but Liz was on cloud 10 with Mike.. to Palm Springs In the desert No otte can save you' that first How do you find a man to com-

pare with him?

"For me it was different. We

time

Boltle 10

bati

Just to help pass the days, and year.

There are always thost

down she salj: “It mems pretty sim- five minutes when you cothe up

together. Bogle won a whole less at Emes.” separate life. I make BAO CÓ TH porisons... But what do I do now?"

She paused and then walked of. On the wall the now life she must make for which wo at becaelf. And of course it is the pictures

of the room in there are signed of ex-President

alone to face part of the problems

[of living.".

-David Lewin

{SHELL}

"Pròper unpatriotic he lam wears a German imported sult and eats European

butter

in the air

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