1958-06-28 — Page 13

THE CHINA" MAIL,

SATURDAY, JUNE 28,;, 1968.

I am not always

so elegant, says Mr Beaton

(IN FACT, I'M MUCH DIRTIER THAN I SEEM)

face gloss.

THEY say that at Derby week absolutely manners, elegant dress--and sur-

everybody except the horses-was wearing

Mr Beaton loathes the idea of

"I'm froid," he said,

**that

Mr Cecil Beaton's colours: black and white. A being considered glossy. case of mass plagiarism. For, of course, Mr Beaton did his Ascot scene in My Fair Lady in the idea people have been given black and white (without ever having been to Ascot to check on the practicality of such a colour achem?).

Mr Beaton has other coups 10 his credit--opart from the Derby, In America his My Fair Lady costumes are said to have pró- duced a bloodless revolution in Jadles' fashions: his designs for the film Cigi got better notices Profer than some of the stars, sionally and socially he is much sought-after man,

Not dazzled

In fact, the impeccable Mr Beaton is once again all the rage, and, if he is rather blase about undoubtedly bas this, then he plenty to be blase about.

He is rich, fashionable, a friend of Garbe, a neighbour of Sir Anthony Eden In Broad Chalke, a than who gives and

the

exclusivo gocs to

most parties.

He is also an author, a painter,

a playwright--and, of course, a

LIMELIGHT

by

THOMAS

WISEMAN

a long way

corhe Brownie.

R

It has been said that I blue my

of me is of a rather fatuous man.

hair and that I am always in

visibly washing my hands. That

I think is a most insulting thing

to say about me-and li's quite untrue."

Blended

carpets.

CAT ON A COLD

TIN POTTING SHED

Act

CECIL BEATON HAS A HANKERING TO DO A KITCHEN-SINK DRAMA ...

normal way, but one day simply covered with paint. I never appreciated in Japan and New stepped out of an early Noel shave until I absolutely have to. Coward play, is apparently quite. I would hate to be elegant every fulae.

day

very

Jenzy." Sequel

A team of tripwriters is cur- an rently puzzling out how to re- integrate the disintegrated Dra-

He would like to be considered д writer, but, though he has written several books and one play, is rather shy about describ, ing himself as one.

of Dracula the gentleman is seen to wither to a puff of dust. But the success of the film has fri- spired a sequel. And the sequel demands the return of Dracista.

He sat, as if sitting for one of his own portraits, in his house in Pelham Place, his handsome: "I'm thought of as a

"This sunumer I am going to head propped up with splayed frivolous person," he said, "and live in great discomfort on Bugers, his silver hair blending us someone who doesn't work island off Greece with Truman with the red walls and yellow very hard. My appearance is Capote, You see, I am not, cula. In the latest film version against me. But I must tell you simply a man who likes to live that I don't fect at all the way well." Naturally, in the Beaton look. on bux' household everything blends.

They are making this fuss.

my WOTK," be said. Old suits about

what' most designers "because

"I know I look elegant - 1 are asked to do is the apotheosis of the kitchen sink and I suppose can't help that. But I assure you people have got a little tired of I am much dirtier than I seem. that--and of incest in Brooklyn. I very seldom have two baths a But I have nothing agalast the day as the Americans do, and I kitchen sink play, In fact, I don't change my shirt every day. love to do one. I can be as ugly. Sometimes I wear the same one as anyone uglier."

for a week.

"In the country I wear quits Benton Was not born in the that are twenty years old and

If he fails to be dazzled by his own dazzle, this is because Mr Beaton, for all his accomplish monts, considers himself both misunderstood and unfulfilled.

Insulting

He has become klentlled with

living, flippant

photographer. Mr Beaton has sumptuous

An idea I always had that Mr

Roderick Mann

I WARN THE CENSOR- BARDOT'S SHOCKER IS

ALL THEY SAY

ON THE RIVIERA.

HAVE now seen the new Brigitte Bardot film The Night Heaven Fell-the one she made in Spain with Stephen Boyd. I saw it

at a tiny, back-street cinema in Nice this week, und 1 rate it among my most unforgetable film-going experiences.

Miss Bardot, a symphony of lingering looks and lovely limbs, starts undressing within 10 minutes of the film's opening-and after that it is every man for herself.

Before she succumbs finally to a burst of machine-gun bullets Intended for Boyit, she manages to envort through 12 different stages of undress

- Including

EL

nude love scene SHOW BUSINESS

In a ravine, while

the

camera

hangs around like a eyed octogenarian burlesque show.

Martia

Orson Welles... the man with the fabled appetite

When horror-actor. Christop- her Lee completed his role 0.8 Dracula, he sighed with rellet and salck "At any rale they "I worked on my play. The can't possibly have a sequel, Gainsborough Girls, for

·Ave Everybaly saw him entirely years," he said.

"But when it destroyed."

But a tle thing like that is not allowed to stand in the way -when there is money to be

was done at Brighton I realised it was not really ready for the stage. It was too glib. characters were, to superficial. mado.

The

"I have been re-writing it and

I hope I have improved it. But

I have a foeling this form of Higher

expression isn't really me. don't

I

A change of climate-and allow myself enough opportunity for inspiration. The scenery for producer Raymond kind of writing I admire requires Stross. His last film. The Flesh is Weak, was sci in Soho and tremendous profundity. I don't Curzon Street. Now he is work- know it I've got that,

ing in a more rarifed atmo- sphère. At the foot of Mount Fornassus in Greece -Jegendary home of the gods and the arts -he is making

called a film the Angry Hills, with Mitchum.

Restraint

He thought for a while. Then he said: 'Elegance alone can bo facile. It must be used with rent restraint-like vermouth in a martin)."

As he showed me out, I said: "We shall probably print a caricature 'of you with my

column."

No dog

Robert

the

The fuss cauaod when dog. Little Lemon, was sent up in Sputnik II has had reper cussions in Hollywood. Benedict Подовия, producer of the film "Looking elegant, I suppose," version of Jules Verne's From sald Mr Beaton.

Earth To The Moon, will not stick to Verne's text and include a dog in his rocket expedition. In its place will go a beautiful girl. Sald Bogenus. "People don't Ecem to care as much about what happens to human beings."

"No," I said. "Looking dirty." Mr Beaton smfled happily.

Pay off

When Mr Jerry Wald hears the word culture, he reaches for his cheque book.

Mr Wold is en Americost Alm producer who has dis- covered that a few of those classical writers had some pretty good ideas. So he proposes to Blm James Jace's Ulysses and D. H. Lowrence's Sona and Lovers, He is also interested In Marcel Proust.

For Joyce and Lawrence this means posthumous wealth; case of too much too late.

"I paid 50,000 dollars for two of Lawrence's books,” said pro- told this ducer Wold "I was

was more than Lawrence carned in his whole Bite, Why do I go

what films need today are uni- veral themes--and they had be Sorbething that

running in London. Touch of "By tomorrow," I said, "you Evil, I directed it-or most of won't be here. Anyway, you 11 They slipped in one or two never answer your phone:" Brenes after

Cone, and of "True," he said. Very true," course they wouldn't let me cut it. They usually let the studio leery to attend the febled Welles Janitor cut my alms,

Using A GOOD QUESTION to these great writers? Because (On a good day, lawn mower, Still, most of it's at

appetile. report, he has been known to mine."

4 In entire

'em down. 13 opsters, an

the village of St Paul- "You seem to have had the up in the hill behind Nipe chicken, dozens of cream cakes.

best and worst of Hollywood," found Simone Signoret soak- and several bottles of wine.)

I sold,

ing up the sun and preparing "When I made Citizen Kane," for her visit to Yorkshire next

month to Alm Room at the Welles said, "I was 25. They Top- treated me like God. Nobody

Even the French audience, 1 report, were rather unnerved by what was happening on the

screen

Newsreel

police

scenes of clashes in Puris and rioting

AN INSULT

When I walked up he gave me was even allowed to ace the mobs in Algeria left them cold. the big hello and sald: "Why rushes, except me. But when Miss Bordet began didn't you lelephone? Or leave Imagine anyone getting such disrobing, the Gallic tempera- a message?"

ment let go. There was a pro-

deal today?

He lowered himself carefully

SO TALENTED

longed burst of clapping after "I did," I said...

the nude scene.

Miss Signoret veteran of Can you such adult

and powerful ple- tures as The Fiends and Golden Marie.plays the part

of Laurence Harvey's TRĪStress Alice, "who sometimes looked plain, in fact downright ugly."

**Tho

Miles got it becZUSC

script," says

"is the most faithful *FOOTNOTE: The Night "The truth is," he said, "I young and if you're young in Signoret,

they'li give you the transcription of a book I have Iftauen Fell, I learn, will be never answer the phone, Or Amerlea

world. Now I'm 43 and they ever read." shown in London sometime. read messages."

think I'm an old-man, That's Providing the British censor Icaves, enough footage to make it worth white.

A bar' la politique. Vive le into his chair, and tried to look sport.

sorrowful,

He ordered me a drink,

I

WAS

why I spend so much time in I told her that John and "I've just seen your new flm Europe. The older you get over Jimmy Woolf-who produce the The Long Hot Summer," I said. here the mare they like you. picture are fully expecting an "That Southern accent of yours When I'm 60 they'll be crazy "X" certificate, for in their opinion the script is even more CONE TO EARTH floored mo. Pd have missed about me.”

most of what you said if it

We talked about his litterisque than the book. hadn't been for the French

for he is now the Count di

Sald Miss Signorat, who has Orson Welles had gone to sub-tuce.".

Girtalco. earth. A trick be has perfected

considerable experience at "X over the years to the dismay

Because his father-in-law is pictures: "How can it. Zali?” a Roman count with no male Every- descendants. Wolles, undet How. Indeed?

Hallan law, is a count too. Should he and his wife Prola

goes to him.

"It's that damned stereo- said. and rage of process-servers, phonic sound, Welles creditors, film producers, society "An insult to the cars. hostesses, and Mrs Welles.

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