THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1958.
PEOPLE
in the news
A FADED These Are The Men
MESSAGE
IS WORTH
A
£7,000
By GRAHAM DARK
YOUNG Oxford gradante has made the greatest book find for years. His discovery is
worth thousands.
It was just a few scrawled and
Indied words with regal signature in one of the books sold 1 Christies from the Duke of Devonshire's Chais- worth Hbrary.
Who Smile Down From The Hoardings
THEY have probably the most familiar men's
faces in Britain-and the most anonymous. The Romeo in white tie and tails casually popping champagne corks in the glossy magazines; the boy-next-door type who bares a faultless set of teeth on the telly; ohe cheery chap in a policeman's helmet who is spread across every advertising hoarding in the country.
carcer.
These are the male models, the forward to a long and prosperous reen whose ability to wear a
10 gn. overcoat with a 20 gr. ale can earn than anything up to
£3,000 your.
The book sold for £3,200 to one
of London's leading rare book These high fees-fron 2 grs. firms. If the inscription bind an hour, 8 gas. a day-attract a been known, it would have | large number of amateure—uut- sold for £10,000 or mures | of-work actory, needy students.
experta estonated.
"The important thing in this business is to be able to relax in front of the camera," he says.
GOOD MONEY
Another model whose Jacin) versatility has made him
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The models who command top But only 28-year-old Mr P. J.
Jees are the ones when photo- favourite with photographers is Croft, glancing through the graphers can rely on, the experts 34-year-old Vic Taylor, one-time Chatsworth books before the
who can look more like a bank builder's apprentice in Poter- sale, noticed the writing Innager than the real life borough, who entered modeling Afteenth-century English:--- article.
by a violent route-as film atúng "Mistress Rose, I trust in your
Mr Taylor, who describes him. prayers the which I pray you may be partner of Murgaret
Belt us the rugged family type, R. The King's Mother,"
lives with his pretty wife Phyllis and amoll son both part-time ย small fat in models in
1494 EDITION
One of thu most adaptable man in rough-house seenes
countenances
the kade public-school-and-
belongs to Oxford educated Hubert Wood, 35 urbane silver-haired bachelor who spent most of his fifty-odd years oking out á
It is the only known seription
by Margaret Beaufort,iving In the theatre. Countess of Richmond and mother of Henry VII. In one of the world's carliest books.
She patronised Caxton and his successor, Wyakyn de Worde,
who printed this book. 1404.
Before the sale Mr Croft
in
procarious
A MEETING
Holburn.
Since he took up modelling Vic has starred in TV commer- cials, posed for countles "family group" ads, and collected
to f
enough photographs of himself a bulging sultense. He "You meet a lot of people, get
frankly enjoys the life.
Than was until six years ago, when 超 chance meeting in around television studio sot hin on the told path to security and a super-lax Mr H, R. T. Willlums, any, income as a top-flight male
director of the book model. .Aging Arm.
Mr Williams said "Naturally. I hoped no one else and heard about the discovery, But clearly no one had."
Aboul three-quarters of the Duke's books-altogether they £100,000-went to fetched Amerion that day. "I hope this
England. will stay in
said Mr Williams,
The book is Walter Hylton's
"Ladder of Perfection."
"I was very lucky, of course,'
Mr 639
Wood. "It just happened that I was a type they needed I got a job straight Bway and I havo never looked back,””
Now Mr Banic
Barn Too u bit, and money. In the old days in the building trade I earned £7 week. As a model i average 225 a week three times as much when times are good."
What of the beginners?
I spoke to Bob Waters, a good- looking square-cut 27-year-old who has only been in the game for three months.
by JOCASTA
INNES
A Weekly China Mail Feature
The Best That They
Can Hope For
Is A Chance To Referee
By SIMON KAVANAUGH
London.
CHARLES Laughton is fun to meet. At 59
(on July 1), he still has the untidy charm, the cheeky smile of a schoolboy.
His suit crumples lumpily about his enormous body. His shirt-though expensively tailored--is limp and shapeless. The grey strands of his hair are scattered to every wind,
The monk
in the
Red Beret
In repose, his face is blank-- croased Junket of a face bridged by slock, rather surly Ups. He has a button nose and luge, watery eyes which seem
to be forever squinting against and I'm a fully-but that doesn't even down to the sun.
For a wholo generation, Laughton has Jumbered top heavily, across the screen in fabulous variety of characters, Only the dashing hero, as- ho will point out, is missing,
He is an actor who has grown into a legend, largely because he approach is ever new.
But
hu is the lp to admit this-- "People have seen every aspect of me now, and they know what to expect old Laughton cookeli up."
Recently, he completext 25 years in ilms, most of them in Americo (he WUB made an American oltizen in 1950), but his richly sour, cultivated volce trace of an accent, has no Instead, it has acquired over the
years the dry authority of a
OING to church on Sunday? From the blazing heat of the great paratroop base in Cyprus, piled high with all the accoutrement of war, teacher. bring you the story of parachutist-extraordinary Peter Desmond Moloney.
Laughton at home is mild, although diffident will strangers, teinura-loving and delitverately untidy but this does
WOITY INC.'
detalls of 17th His wife r
What does worry century brushes, him is the long-lasting reaction calls he became impossible to his Captain Bligh in "Mutiny about the home while playing on the Bounty." After that part, the domingering father. In "The he couldn't get a cook for iwe Barretts of Wimpole Street" years,
for living He has a passion
he played his part. When Rembrandt, Laughton studied
every book, every pamphlet he could find about the master,
not
MART
think It may help you, what- obedience, stability, and the vow disturb his wife of 23 years, ever your denomination, when of perfection. That was my call-Elsa Lanchester. you and the family face once Ing. more that awkward Sunday question which nogs secretly at so many of us.
"The Lord Abbot sala gently to me that he thought my vocn- tion lay elsewhere, outside the Second Lieutenant Peter service of God. I had to leave the the abbey? I was heart-broken Moloney is unique among many varied types who wear at the thought, Bob, married, with a brand- the Red Berel. He was formerly
I asked, "My Lord Abbot,' went new and still largely unfurnished a Trappist monk, and
in
what can I do out there? How Manager-as house
Kent, originally direct from the monastery
cun I now
outside face the world?'
he is known in photographic intended to be a furrier but had National Service in the Army.
for give that up circles has as many jobs as he to
rin find time for, clenre up to reasons. 2100 a week, owne a plearant fat in Kensington, a poodle, motor-launch, 37 suits, and looku
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BRAVE MAN
health
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I found Peter Moloney in the grinding heat of a Cyprus sum- mer uvening, lying ill in his tent with suspected dysentery,
As I walked in he was Ula book: "Saint ham reading
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"He said to me simply: Go in pence, my son, and remember Vaughan's crossing.'"
T didn't know what he In the past three months, as a
mount," he confessed "and I had He took up the reference after raw apprentice model, he
than Bernard, and his Monks." by I left the monastery. Now I earned considerably more
Theodore Maynard. "You see," he would have in the fur trade.
Remember remarkable young "The trouble is it isn't said this
am til monk at steady, regular job. You have a "I bud weeks without any
work, heart."
when the wie gote apprehen-
His once shaven head was now sive. But there are good things
cut about it bulids up your self-covered with hair of crew
confidence, Three months ago
length. On his broad chest the
I was to chy I couldn't have said metal dogtags of the soldier re- placed the crucifix he used to boo to a goose.
"And the thing I was afraid wear.
commend it to all. Vaughan's crossing!"
1
With a gun
ASKED: "How can you recon-
cile your religious teaching
with your duties as a para-
of was that people would laugh; He was small for the average chutist? Suppose you were told at me for being a male model. parachutist-fl. Bln but wide to take a gun in your hand and It's not thalam scared of being loughed at, but I lose any of shoulder. He looked like a use it on your fellow men?"
fighting boxer in magnificent tomper quickly and I have been trin
Often he is to be seen in the fleids about Hollywood, his globular body shambling through the flowers, tweed cap perched Upsily on his head Bike a penny on an orange.
Laughton affects no airs, ex- when he is "living the part" at his eloven-room Hollywood home Ho
accepts his Appearance: "I've got u face like the behind of an elephant,
SHE
KOUD
KEES
DER
JUDGE
London.
A seventeen-year-old French "That's it," he said. "Vaug girl beamed happily in the ca hau's crossing! It is, in fact, a
Tidors of London's Old Bailey reference
the celebrated and cald with true Galile im- Vaughan, who,petuoalty "the Judge WAS SO
to
in too many fights to enjoy that curt of thing."
It was hard to imagine anyone Jesuit, Father This is one of the hazards of less like the traditional monk. the trade which he le not likely its was the appearance of a when he first became a Jesult romantique and sympthelique to encounter. It would be a brave tough parachutist, but his words was asked by his friends haw man who mustert up enough were the words of the dedicated he felt about it.
to laugh at rugged. priest.
courage male model Bob Water.
A
For The
Three Duties
Wife
To Keep Her Husband Sane
of
the
....I could kees heo ver 'ard." Huguetto Fucilet and her sweetheart Maurice Reaux, 10,
"His reply was: 'It doesn't
|
had just been freed by Common
"I thought, and I still think," matter what 1 do, if it's the will Serjeant Sir Anthony Hawke of he said "that
a charge of armed robbery that the anest thing of God. I would not have mind- any man can do is devoto his ed if I had become a crossing, had l'amour at its bake, life to the love, the knowledge, crossing sweeper I would have held hands in the court corridor sweeper! But if I had become a
And while the young lovers and service of God."
swept my crossing so well that and explained that people would have como
'ver' sorry but....c'est miles around to see Yaughan's t'amour papa reaux, white- .crossing."
Transformed
from were
Earlier,
they
haired Mayor of Gonas, in France, wept and "When I entered the Army I South-East thought: "If it's God's will that mama, typically, scolded, taugh TUEN he told me how he came I shall be a soldier for two ed and cried all at oner.
the court jizelf, | to join the paratroops. In 1953 years, I consider it my duty to
consulate diplomats ho was a student at Liverpool be as good a soldier as possible, French University, a brilliant linguist and in life best possible regi among the spectators heard the and the university's champion mont. That is why he pointed story of how the the two sweet- debaler. He volunteered to spend to the faded Red Berit, "I am
they wero hearts met whic London.
[studying English at Oxford. Every wife had the duly to bolidays hoping to build wearing that,"
Instead of returning to France keep her husband humble and to Santa Maria, the Trappist Abbey
When I next saw Moloney he they booked a room in Grays nt Nunraw, south of Edinburgh, keep him up to the mark, sald
was still sick and he thought he fan Rad and lived together o Sir Arthur Fforde, chairman of He knew at once that this was alone, 14 Give Information of a private the B.B.C., at the last of the was his calling, went to the
man arid wife, It was not Jong .nature? (8).
world-wide menings
before their money ran out, He Guest Master and told him: "I
was kneeling by his
Hungry and desperate they Mothers Union,
believe I have a vocation to blankets on the sand.
got hold of a blank cartridge in search of Speaking at the Central Halter the service of God."
He was praying, just as he pilot and went Westminister, he said a wife
"After one month as a postu- would have boen at home in money. ought not so let her husband gellant I took the habit and became Liverpool. I can tell you one
Their victim, the court, wos too immersed in his job,
a novice," he said. "I had been thing: Second Lieutenant Peter id, was off-licenco proprietat Frederick Fielder. Maurice For children to have a good in a novitiate for 20 months and Moloney, is a very happy man.
Heguolle stayed the hok-up. home each parent must rh was entirely happy when I was
rifled the till which contained TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD-Accoss: 1 Wobble, & Socks, 8nquish any claim to possess he called one day to the Lord
20. Cath, Tights, 11 Orbit, 12 Bister, 14 Pear, 10 Eroct, 18 child. Fathers sometimes tended Abbot Hoal, 10 Gnat, 20 Pront, 24 Cairo, 25 Riding, 20 Sign, 27 to try to reallas through their
**Here was the position; Langs, 30 Edited.. Down: 1 Wits, 2 Bag, 3 Lota, 4 Easter, 3 pone, the ambitions they had
months I WAS TELO DE Shorten, 0 Cabinet, 7 Satiate, 10 Hikor, 13 Chancel, 14 Pan-failed to achieve or to try lo-so- į four-
post their ster, 15 Adipose, 17 Rupid, 19: Ocwge, 21 Find, Tilt, 23
OWN SUCCÉMIce-ready to take the eternal
ļot --poverty, chastity, Agod,
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Going to church on Sunday?
Donald
Seaman
But Fielder grabbed the girl by the hair and wouldn't let go, Maurice returned and bonded in the gun. They were arrested,
People Special.
COLON PAR
On the sut, he is not an easy actor to direk Alfred Hitch- "Directors cock said of him: can't direct a Laughton picture; the best they can hope for in a chance to referee,“
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