THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1958.
So Different, But Both These Girls Will Grow Into Stars
The Twin Faces Of Fame
ONE of them has mouse-
coloured hair, a snub- Bose, n figure that runs to puppy fat and ia total- ly lacking in dress-sense.
The other is a cool beauty with red hair and a face cle- of chiselled, classle gance. She wears clothes. Ho well that she was once America's top model.
Yet Diane Varsi (the first) and Suzy Parker (the second) have two things in common.
They both appear in big roles in a new film called ***Ten North Frederick" This week. And I pre- dict - they will Krow into important Hollywood
ktars,
Varsi will make it because
youth.
Suzy Parker
up.
She looks as if she moves in worldly places. beneath her chic яhape, the Rame thing
she has enormous talent for portraying the pathos Parker's talents are just.
But the opposite. She is calm wud mixed-up Innocence of would-be sophisticated and collected and grown-
And Now The
D
-Suzy
01 believe the cinema
is an ideal plner for teaching young people
the fuels of life?
Yes, I do and don't
• ligh, too quickly:
1 do not mean the lesBOIR
the muy learn from nature films about the mating
POCKET CARTOON
Diane Varal
shines out from Varsi
as-it does
talent, per-
sonality, the capacity for feeling.
Film Which I Saw These Girls Parker And Diane Varsi
By LEONARD MOSLEY
habits of iguanas, nor from X-films about the birth of n Taby.
1191
suffers from a disease that can often prove fatal — an over-ambitious wife. At a time of life when he wants
was he could never take advantage of anyone."
Fascinating
THOUGH *Ten North
Frederick" deals with
to take things easy, she America family, 1 found
essay in marital endt parental IN
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Mid Week Selection
ITV
JUNFAIR TO TORIES
"Couldn't you stop picketing, Henty, and have a sit-down strike for a whilë?”
"But a safe conduct pass, Comrade Tito, is not o Marxist-Leninist document occording to our interpretation."
ADUSTRIAL
Frill
"How about self determination for Tooley Street, partition for the bus garages, and a seven-year trial period at Smithfield ?"
ROUND-UP
FIGHTING GENERAL IS QUEEN'S A.D.C.
MANY alories are told of General Sir Francis Festing, who has been appointed Aldie-de-Camp General to the Queen, just over two months before he relinquishes command of the Far East Land Forces to inke up his appointment as Chief of the Imperiol General Stoff. This feet 4 inches fighting Irish son of o general served in France and Norway and led the campaign in Madagascar. Later he commanded the 30th, Division and led the Arakan cam- paign, taking over from the Chindits in Burma during the advance down the Myitkyina-Mandalay railway. His exploits include the capture of two Japanese swords from their officer-owners in com- bat. On another occasion he took over command of a platoon' when the ileutenant was killed by snipers.
THE BRAVEST
HAVE EVER
MAN MET
I
STOP THE PARSON
I mean films about people, Not all the gargle-mouth mugs and drives him into fascinating arxi instructive TN a sick room in Fulham lectures in the eluss-room, patisfying her thirst for
11 is, for
a lean, sinewy NOTHING CAN relationships. the awkward half-
power and position.
thing outspokenly frank and parson one of the truths in the home, ean
He tries to buy his way
sincere.
bravest
men I know is OF FULHAM ROAD FROM WORKING stand up to the validity of
When the daughter of the working on three important Alm which probes into into politics, and unce
the fandy becomes pregnant by projects simultaneously. ON THREE PROJECTS AT ONCE the lives of a group of he becomes absorbed in
he is prepared to him into marriage, it takes no trumpet-player, and rushes lievable human beings, and game
Project No. 1 is the pre-
by OSBERT LANCASTER
EL
"Honestly, mommy darling,
promise you it
nothing more than wint Prealdent Eisenhower calls tangible expres ton of
friendship.""
a
he
docs it with complete sacrifice anything for it - sides, but lets you make your sentation in Britain of the honesty and with no holds even his son and daughter. own judgment about how
barred.
Such a film is TEN
Honest eye
might have worked out.... He ends with nothing. her parents had not interfered, His wife despises him. His son is a stranger. His NORTH FREDERICK beloved daughter has run (Carlton), which turns แ away because he let her clinical, but never a cynical, down at the time she need eye on one of those fami-
ed him, lies which look as healthy as a red apple on the sur- riddled with face and are worms at the cure.
WHEN
the father, fulla in with it
10
by ALAN BESTIC
while
which was tied to the end of
his bed, and slowly, grimly,
heaved himself of the plows. His Mini face Was taut teamed with sweat.
and
He pulled out u
bundle of colour prints and flicked
th:could LICIT "Wonderful country" he murmured,
In March the Hessions camo back to Britain, back to Gray- stokes, the lovely house they run as a hotel, the headquarters of is Dawn Trust which distri- butes religious Alms through- ຍາ Britain and of Cuaci Anonymous which he founded after his first operation--
He had a lot of work to do,. And an operallon to arrange. PASSED AT LAST
film Day of Triumph. It is the story of Christ's life, filmed in colour for wide sereens, yet handled sensi- tively and with dignity,
turned from California, X-ray In London that 1 twigged Project No. 2 is the de-
told me. "I'd had 16 X-rays in Y love
young girl, velopment of Cancer Anony- where he had been advising something was wrong." Hesston on a lecture .It does not cssume anmous, an organisation he on the filming of Day of America atillude
shocked horror, has founded to help cancer Triumph. He collapsed just tour, but I thought the Yanks Even when a girl half but keeps an Impartial, devas sufferers.
before it Was completed. were just being thorough.
"I realise now, of course. "I had to finish my second his age falls in love with tafingly honest eye on the ups
Doctors told him he had Project No. 3 is the sum
that they must have been books, lou," said Hession. "It's him and offers him a
Jast pnd downs of this September-
worried. It was Catrin who told called The Gentle Step-a col- June romance.
mer programme for a hotel cancer. chance of happiness he
me the truth." It never becomes sentimental, Harbour, Dorset.
The runs, overlooking Poole mukes a mess of that too-
The mother and dies from what his son even at the end.
remains is hard, ambitious, of galloping venal Is ever. The son and calls "a case
daughter hate her just as much. comfortably dospair.”
Nagging GARY COOPER is a fifty
year-old.
eff father of a family in h Says his daughter, sadly: small American town who "The trouble with
father
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COLD COURAGE
They added he had only
lection of Intimate sermons and three days to live. But neither
prayers, I just finished corrçe Hesston or
Cairin, his wife,
ing it the night before I came in here for the operation." would accept that verdict. They searched for
From a surgeon who
that
Brian moment.
"I had to," be would
They
He grinned. operate.
found Hession needed a new type of John Howard Payne.
course -
cold, enduring sail "I didn't know if I was For 18 months he coming out again!
The operation was successful courage.
TRICKED
LUNG REMOVED
A full programme, in- This Alm is, in fact, not only deed, for any man But for
Then I was asked to handle e entertainment but a lesson the parson in Fulham Road but severe. Mr Payne had to watched those spots on his X- in family relationships and it is an epic strugglę. -
the distribution In Britain of remove a great deal to try to ray plates grow until each was check the spread of the disease. the size of his thumb nail.
Day of Triumph. It had been proof that there is more to the facts of life than just plain sex. He is the Reverend Brian Herion had just about enough
He knew that ultimately he passed by the censor at last." would have to have an opern- He did not say it had been It is given an added sting by Hession, and his first-floor left to keep himself alive. four outstanding performancestroom
tlun. But, until the moment rejected by the censor 10 months is a private ward in Best of them comes from Diane Brompton Hospital.
came, he was determined to Ilve carlier, that he had fought for Just
his normal vital life, Varsi as the lovable daughter: 13 days ago most of his
it and beaten the ban on show- I met Hession agal inv "Last October 1 was invited to ing it. In Britain, a musterly portrayal of an eager
He hauled himself off his innocent with a heart that is too tight lung. was removed. January last year the day after America," he told me. My
he had been tricked Inio ap- doctor told me I should take pllows again and pushed a pile Many another faced with pearing in This Is Your Life, my X-ray plates in my pocket, of papers towards me, "Have a this handicap would long He was annoyed about the pro- They X-rayed me again in the look at those," he said.
hnd thrown States and wanted since have given up the gramme, but
to operate
been roughing out the publicity But not this party for the friends who had immediately. But we air-molled pamphlets. struggle.
appeared In it-friends like the plates back in London and brave parson.
John Howard Payne.
they said I old wait until I That is why, having sat I did not know then that an- came home.' with him for
two hours, her shadow hung over hum.
Neither did he. In fact
only listening to him talk, I class two people in the room knew Brian Hession 08 the he had developed two cancer bravest man I have ever spota on his lung.
One was Payne. The other was his wife,
sensitive and too full of the spirit of giving.
Lovely Suzy Parker is an effective foll to her naivety as the smooth, sophisticated model who falls in love with father. This long-legged, coldly-beauti- ful one-line model shows that she can not only net but she can.
warm up when given the right
part.
Cooper gives out his usual fangled charm, and Geraldine met Fitzgerald will freeze your blood with her portrayal of a bitchy
We first met
two years
"It was only when Cat:ln
and ambitious gorgon of o wife. | ago, soon after he had re- told me that I had to go for an
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covered
"It was a wonderful trip. Wẹ visited 30 slates and 10,000 millės, I must show you my plctures,"
The man who lost u lung a fortnight ago gripped the cord
"The premiere's in September. And any way I'll be out of here in a week. If they don't want to let me out, I'll parade that corridor with a placard · saying 'Brompton Unfair Hersion."
Ho probably will, too. I miy as well warn the doctors that the Reverend Brian Hession is a man who can never be beaten.
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