1958-08-28 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1958.

DON IDDON, back from New York, sums up Britain in 1958

ONE week in the life of

New York correspon

dent in Britain. The Ar- Nval, Monday night: Despite the many Trans- atlantic trips, I feel ex- cited as the Queen Mary slides into her dock nt Southampton.

I Smell

actresses. The sole new SPIDER-

man siis silent.

It's a treat

MONDAY and TUESDAY answering letters from readers.

Mry E. 'M. Cunliffe of Ful- wood Preston: "It did heart good to hear and see you

We walk down thes sing. Uccess in and up for Bestain on tele

plask and are led into

Immaculato,

the

modern terminal

Pot unlike New York's Grand

Central Station.

An American stuves gojzle-

eye and maya, to his wife;

makes New York's docks

like a slum"

After going through

Curdoma

his Jook:

the

The Air

and the TUESDAY Inter, 1 cape to the train.

on the phone. What with H.D.C An elegan! unique

the Pro- creaked, about appearing s polished wood which and pink hpshades and most me Tonight? phte zwartk

my

viston." A.D. Young, of Head- ington, Oxford: "Wake your- neir up and let's have some news not blah-blah."

From Sir Robert Boothby, now a fe peer: "Dear Do Tila makeu A good ending to a long political stint. Rig me up yours ever."

The crowd in the restaurant glares at the blonde Sylvia who

Mary Randall, of Tunbridge Is bubbling. But their attention Walls: "Do you need n good vanishes when there is the necretary?" Alfred Seamani, of I ha heard quite wrongly grand entrance of Sir Laurence St Albans, "Mỹ, but you have

was Olivier, Vivien Leigh, a bearded put on weight," cic., etc. And very fast (the Amerifies that this television feature

And that is about 11. No d have express trams, even similar to Mike Wollice's third Tyrone Power and his wife,

and degree, ruthless grilling or his Laurence Harvey and Margaret polities, no comment

the the Twentieth Century

United the American nu- Leighton.

Nations, the Middle Chief Super

Fire: costantly

and The diners gape Peter Black sild: "No,

President coo. East,

Eisenhower, me point).

There is a grest" intermingling Mr Dulles. Instead the first 1. non at midnight, inerell- but watch val"

of the Ashley table and the week of a holiday in a country bir, quick and efficient porter

Olivier Lable, with much kissing, which, far from having the evice, mud then to the Savoy

extravagant salulation, and tolk stink of defeat, has the and a flower-locked roo13).

the actors ands smell of success.. between

It's a pleasure TUESDAY. A day of exelte treal. The Rolls-Royce people are on the phone nui say they are very glad indeed that have #0 brought acj Amirlean en, ant us they have pointed out in their letters done, it would give them great plure to place at my dir- posal a new Rolls-Royce Silver Cled or a Sports Bentley.

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I turned ottl to lan easy, although when aske;) for drink, explaining that I was the servons type before Television cameras, │ was offered come coffee tincil I Ingisted upon il short anort of Scotch.

WEDNESDAY: Conferences, lunch and tea with the men who run the Daily Mail and Associated Newspapers. All mos: friendly,

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"I did 'car they're going to use old Bluestreak in a rocket to the moon."

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It's a sin for an actor

ROBERT MIT-

MCHUM'S face seems to

have been constructed THURSDAY, and off to Wes-around a yawn; he is the siree Sir William terham, Kent, through

I had talked to me in New +7)

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lovely

country anes past the only man I have met whose

about howing the flag superb old inns (not always eyelids reach practically to

sus past) and 10 *

English lunch

and drivings British I had bee; his diler as an elable beax.

Not reg In ten minutes flat a rix dont Slyer Clay, my Lor 2: hound, sleek and luxurious with a chauffeur a pro- [1.3

rfly named Dove, 1o outside inc hotel. I teak: "Wha. have I done la durerve this"

you

Bure magnifierat his chin-am --of-potted would nesta crane to life- shrimps, steak ant kidney plo ta pberries and cream, cheddar them. Mr Mitchum is so relaxed he is almost unron- chegar

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The old like about British scious.

When I asked him what he food is sheer non esse.

Then dinner with two long, was must interested in us

friends a

bears.iful setor, he replied, succinctly: line

Chur- "Sleep," When I asked him and house near Sir Winston

ints of good balk and what hik smbition In life was. 1 still haven' fand the answer, chills,

under the|| he said: Pura werk now I have been back to LION

"Sleep." driving it. How to and it hour. Perfect.

to get rich...

-You've got to act out of desperation,

says the sleepy Mr. Mitchum

LIMELIGHT.. by THOMAS WISEMAND

FRIDAY, the Day of the Big In the cir- Anthony Bartley, the cumstances, I The Rolls-Royce ro far has Names.

Deborah Kerr.felt very Fes the perors ing key to this husband

talks guilty about viat. When I brought a rather drops in for a drink and

an hour. He looks niruding, since thero fwand Buick Skylark here for over from New York three years ngu well and buoyant, and intends are only 24 steeping hours

to make his life and earcet as the day and my questions kep I was the larget of derision.

ú television producer here and] Mr Mitchum more or less awake

for two of them. revor mind Hollywood.

$1,10

After sleepless days on loro

was tion in Greece where he werking on The Angry H IMIT Mitenum tas come 16 London to finish the dim In the

down

around. He's sort of nervy old Stross."

"Careful, he's writing it all down," said Stress, and added for my belt. "he's agree fellow, Bob, great kidder, you know."

pay you

With some prompting. Mr Mitchum began to talk about his career, "At RKO." he said, "I timm after another. studion. He welcomed me to his did one

we know suite at the Dorchester the other They'd tell me, sure, day by shifting from a lying the subjects stink but you're our 5,000 to a sitting-up position, salesman, we which I considered remarkably dollars a week to sell this stuff demonstrative of him. With him for us. was his panducer, Raymond (The "I'd make a token protest Flash is Weak) Stross.

once in a while, but I didn't

1 really mind.

made their pictures. That was my job. You're our bay, they told me. It the sludio you want to have painted purple, we'll paint it jurpic.

When I wrote about the big white convertible the letters

We drive later to his spacious Colonels 215201 with anger.

flat in Grosvenor Square and would lash the tyres if I drove Bartley

tells me he liked my Vicars! down their High Street,

"Open Letter" to Deborah anel daughters were disgusted, him when they separated Sendolleys, cunched by heir earlier this year, and then we master, said the car repre- st: and talk us friends. It is _tin Lut

American more important

to be a good materialism. And even when I tried than a good newspaper

through the village man. On 15 Wily Nurth

there wer

We meet actor Leo Genn at zhocits in some instances of

the R.A.F. club, and Leo, with Take that urdine din back to that low, velvet voice of his

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that takes Aims, ut

plays, und news- herror," etc.. de.

pers. We go to the Mirabelle and 1

York's. Strag had induced him to come than New expensive ear. I wish sylvis Ashley-Lady Ashley-is to Britain to make The Angry Mr Milchum considered table with Sir Jills. 7 had one like that," a strange at the next

this question for a couple of Inici 2010 a pub in Franc)s and Lady Peake, a stun-

"He kept Hayward's Heath. I sudd: "ning brunelle named Marianne, acons, then said:

my office. L "What happens, I asked them. Ies been lent and we wish I had, too.

are asked over for a hanging around

In the when the pubile gets tired couldn't get rid of him, end it was cheaper to make the going to see

getting fim than to have him hanging nothing but rubbish

AIK thus tinc? The

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QPECIAL agents who were flown in and out of Occupied Europe during the Second World War by the RAF's Moon Squadrons to carry gut sabolage and intelligence work will take part in a re- ennetient of the kinding of an agent at the Woolwich Searchlight Tattoo in September. The agents, members of the Resistance Movements of Hotland, France and Belgium will meet many people in Britain whom they helped to escape from Hitler's Europe, A Westland Lysander aircraft, the lust one used on the missions, will make an actual landing. Former members of the Free French Forces new living in Britain will set the parts of airtelt reception committees. The theme of the tailgu will be the rocket as in- tary weapon.

"BEAKER FOLK" CHIEF?

IN

A small slabbed tomb, estimated to be 3,000 years old, humin bones and pottery have been found by workmen on a housing site Brymbo, near Wrexham, North Wales. The remains are said to be relles of the Beaker Folk, numed after the pottery beakers 'nvariably buried with them. An expert says that the position of the tomb suggests that the bones are those of some im- portant person, possibly a chtet. Beaker Folk lived at the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age:

MOTH PEST

WARMS of tiny moths are giving a harvest-time headache to farmers in many parts of Scotland and the North of England, according to experts at the West of Scotland Agricultural. College. Fields of turnips, cabbages and Brussels sprouts have had to be sprayed to keep the pest utuber control The grubs of the moth devour the leaves of vegetables causing a serious retbucit lo growth. In some cases, fullure to take timely counter-action may mean the destruction of whole crops. The diamond-back moth, as the pest is called, is little more than a quarter-of-an-inch long. A spokesman at the Zoology Department of the college said there had been inquiries about the moth from Aberdeen, Ayrshire and Argyllshire, and outbreaks had been reported from Westmorland, Cumberland and Yorkshire.

"GUARD THAT FIRE”

ASYMBOL showing a shield-shaped fireguard in front of a fame will be used in a campaign, starting November, to try to reduce the number of deaths from burning. The symbol bears the title of the campaign "Guard That Fire." Burning causes 700 deaths a year, people are reminuled in a call which has gone out to all con- cerned in selling equipment.. Tens of thousands of people are 'seriously injured Hair the accidents are caused by clothing com ing lato contact with, unguarded fires.

a new

we get Simple, they told me. ourselves

boy. Fron whom they will take rubbish."

Mr Mitchum did not wait for that to hoppen: stirring out of his constituilonal lethargy, he went in for independent pro- duetions and revealed himself in ms like Heaven Knows, Mr Allison, as a considerable actor.

WALKED OUT

Mr Mitchu did not even read the notices.

"Walle I can go to a financing organisation with a script under my arm ex say I would like one and a halt million dollars, please, to make a film, and they say, 'When do you start?' without even look- ing at the script, I know I don't have to wOLTY.

ROBERT MITCHUM

- relaxed he is almost Unconciouя

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"He's a bundle

of contradic- sald

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"The risk isn't worth " do wih dignities and honestles

"Besides, I It isn't something Mifchum.

you can just tens, that boy." sold can't strind crowds, being say-cold. It's something you fondly. hemmed In. Gives me asthma, can't put into print. An admirer

"The worst Uhing for Crowds terrify me.

my wife They scare of mine once asked the hell out of me.

what I represent to the public. actor," said Michum, "Is to get

It's ruined Finished the dignity.

for more "What do I do with the time She said, "Sex,"

That's what story than drink. Good actors I save not seeing films? Nothing, conversation.

of their fan suddenly find that the banks are Oh, I read. I read a lot. I read we all are-part

Used to tastes. It's not such a bad thing. prepared to put up three million book a day at home.

have nice fan dollars for them to make ple- fures, and they start to think write myself once. Poetry. Very At least they

I woulda tasies. abstract stuff. No,

they really must have vast and want to be a writer. Too much

valid qualities. Or they wouldn't f Writer re-

put up three million dollars, hard work. Being quires discipline, being an actor ailendance. I'm

"When we went to Rome, they just requires

lazy, What I present to the told me you'll be all right-the public s-hope. They say it italians treat all actors as ortials "I don't read nolices. I don't that stal cart get somewhere, of greal dignity. Even if you're then we've also got a chance." Rin Tin Tin. So we went win- go to see Alms elther. Too time.

dow shopping and we created n I remember I once consuming.

truffe Jont

for live blocks. I went to see a film with my wife

was the belle of the ball. They Dolby. Thing with Ven John- of Called The Duchess

"He's a bundle of contradic- didn't treat Greg Feck like that, said Stress. So I asked why the hell do I get lions, that boy,"

a mob of 3,008 when they leave. "After an hour, we walked "always kidding, always tongue

One of the dezca Greg Peck alone, They told me, out and demanded our money In check. back at the box-office, We rarely highest paid stars in the world." You're an artist, they said, but

"Yes, suppose go to see films. I cra't stand

I am," said not n dignified artist. You're

one of them." the idea of being committed for Mitchum. three hours to sitting through some piece of rubbish."

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"It might possibly be a good him," I suggested.

HIGHEST PAID

"What-if anything-do упа belleve in?" I asked.

"Yes," said Raymond Strowy, "he's got the common lotteh. "It sounds port of datuous to Mr Milchum winced,

"got to tongue out. say it," said Michum,

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"They change their toller and go to a better borber and buy a fancy house and collect their 5,000 bucks a week and become ... dull, dull, dull. They become business mon. Is a sin for an auctor actor to get rich, An

naked electric light bulb, a should live in a duty room with brass bed and a bottle of gin. You've got to act out of despera tion. You've got to be mad."

I le Mr Mitchum la hly luxurious suite

Dur at the

(The As Raymond chester. Flesh Is Weak) Stroet

sald:

put his that boy is Just a bundle of

contradictions.

'COME NOW, NICE LION LIE DOWN WITH LAMB'”

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