1958-09-20 — Page 13

Such puny rewards -but Miss

Syms isn't grumbling

Ho

By PETER BUCHAN

[OW much does a film actress really earn? When she goes to a premiere dripping with jewels and wrapped in sable, how much has she got in her purse?

Consider the case of Miss Sylvia Syms. At 24 Miss Syms could reasonably be supposed to have hit the box-office jackpot.

. She was n success in the Anna Neugle film My Teenage Daughter-although the film was unkindly re- named My Stone-Age Mother.

She was a tremendous hit in Woman in a Dressing Gown.

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Bridge Axiom: Never

Be Amazed

By OSWALD JACOBY THE longer I play bridge the leas I refuse to be surprised by anything that happens, South should have passed two no- irup, but he bid three on his stoul heart and minimum 18 points.

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She collected praise by the estuota for her performance in lee Cold in Alex, a Insty, dusty story of the desert war, even though the censor out

most of the lust,

By Hollywood standards Miss

Syms should be a well-publicised,

highly-pold stor.

What are The frets? Misa Syms, understandably, is playing it dumb,

But for the 12 weeks in North African heat and cold, endur- mg fler and what Mies Syms elegantly calls ""The Tripoli Trouble," and producing at the

week.

THE CHINA MAIL,

TYRONE POWER--"a cheperone.”

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBE?

20, 1958. *

How to be a charmer after 40...

Thomas

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ELIGHT

ROSSANO BRAZZI En technique

POWER AND BRAZZI DISCUSS WOMEN, MARRIAGE AND MONEY

MR and

and

FR TYRONE POWER lanced their looks

in Rossano creased their carning power. Mr Brazzi bavo one or two Me Power, who is now 44. things in common:

grey said; hair, lines under the eyes and an appeal for women that is sometimes embar rassingly efficacious.

Both have been obliged to become masters of the diplomatic brush-off: they have had to learn how cope with strange

voracious ladies who

to

and ay-

ringes, In his bachelor phases, notable he has niso shown preference for women રમ £ pleasing shape,

Mr Brazzi, by contrast, hus "I was recently shown some been married to the same photographs of myrelt which man for 10 years, whose shape had been touched up. All the has always pleased him, though Jines of my face and

the it has sometimes weighed more wrinkles around my eyes had than 10st, been taken out..

"I called the publicity chief is taken me many years and great deal of effort to require these lines. I have wroked hard and long to get them. Now I

and told him: See that nover happens again, It has

Mr Brazzi said: "Beauty in a

wit means nothing. You get used to beauty, After emelon time, you don't see any thing.

obviously cheaper to maintain 10 ex-wives instead of one cur← rent one, and might this not. explain the high incidence of divorce in Hollywood?

Mr Power said it wasn't that simple: "You have to carn enough money to pay so much tax that you could deduct, 30,000 dollars from it."

Mr. Brazzi sald; "In Italy, the law of divorce is much better. The most you have to pay to an“ ex-wife is 120 dollars a month." In his next Alm Mr Power "You think that Arthur Miller plays a chardeter, Solomon, when he look at his wife always whose matrimonioi situation

suming the initiative usual want to see them. Don't you thinks: she is the most beautiful was more complex than any sim

ly considered the preroga dare take them out!" tive of the male appear uninvited in

suites.

their

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girl in the world? I tell you, star's. He is reputed to If she would be 2001b, he would had 100' wives, which 100 not notice the difference.

many even for an epic.

have.

is

Mr Brazzi, who is now hotel

Mr Power has found him- self in this situation only and he was so put out by the experience that he now

once;

insists on being chaperoned when strange women purporting to be journalists or agents or pro- ducers seek private inter- views with him.

The pursuer

salu

"When I was a young man was never so mecessful, I had 100 much of a beautiful face. I always had the grey hair. But I used to dye it because I think it is better to look young. Then I forget to dye my hair and suddenly I am the success,

"I appear now in films always all my lines. Women, they like without any make-up-to show to see on the face of a man the signa of all his experiences, My face now reflects much bei- ter what-I have inside.

That alimony

"After my

wife and I have

been married several years, she tells me: I have in buy some new dresses, I have put on a little weight. I eny: How much? and she says, 'Oh, 80lb,' I swear to you. I had not noticed.

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a wife beauty is of no importance: what matters is in tekigence, charm, devotion. If I were over to divorce my wife, it would be the saddest day of my life."

"Always people havo sald about me: 'My God, bow hand- This form of sadness Mr Mr Brizzi, being an Ita- some he is, I do not believe it; Power has already had to cope lian, is less cautious. "To I wear to you I never think I with twice, is marriages to am handsome. I am not at all actresses Annabella and Linda

Mr Power said: In the film - we shall concentrate on his re- lationship with Sheba. As she is being played by Gina Lollo- brigida, that should be plenty

to concentrate on.

"I do not know whether. Miss Lollobrigida will play Sheba an a dark-skinned lady. That might be difficult. We are not propos ing to make a problem picture."

A Casanova

In his latest film. A Cortalh Smile, based on the Francoise Sagan novel, Mr Brazzl plays an ageing Casanova.

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Mr Brazzi sak: "When I read

end of it a major successful me." he said, "this has hap vain; When I shave myself in Christian were both dissolved. Saga's book, I did not want to pleture she was poid £40 s

pened dozens of times. Al the mornings, I close my eyes." To add to his sadness, he has appear in the film version. There ways it happens. In every country I visit. But I can manage women,

Her total payment for the alm 2000 or around was under hat of he money lee Cold will rutie into the box office of any cinema where it staye fur o

weck.

"It is a mutter of know- how. I have n technique to

Mr Power said: "I have been seding sonu of any old films on TV. I tell you, it is an ab- The vacuity of excession that solutely toe-curling experience, I had! And I obviously thought

My first car deal with these situations I was acting up a storm. What does Bliss Syms say of which saves their face and this extraordinary

of mine. affairs? Very like,

state

"I can tell you, though, that I have just bought my first cur, four-year-old Jaguar, But that came from the proceeds of lm where i wns hired to studio on a fifty-fifty another basis.

"We Ithat includes her husband. Alan Edney, "who is not a shop assistant, but

trainee executive"] live in a two-roomed fat because we connol afford a bigger one,

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"WO our own decoraling.

I do my own housework. And

I do my own cooking. And if

I et out it at a

Ilouse."

Corner

"I say: 'But my dear, you are GO beautiful that if only I had seen you I would have in sisted that you have supper with ane. But since you insist to invite yourself, I must lose interest. A man must be pusver not the pursued.**

the

On shapes

"It is a testimonial to the patience of nudiences that I

survived. Nobody could imagine that anyone could be as young as I wES"

Though Mr Power and Mr Brazzi have the same attitude to masculing beauty, they differ in their

the appreciation of female.

This line, Mr Brazzi claims, always work: 1 pass it on to Mr Power for future reference,

Apart from such trials, thesa Mr Power has been married middle aged charmers seem to three tunes, on each occasion have it pretty easy: fur from to women of outstanding ?- withering them, age has en- tractiveness,

Between mur.

had to pay out large sums money in alimony.

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was too much sex in the book and too much cynicism for my taste. But the aim is better, Christian claims that more sincere, more from the of 1,000,000 dollars, which Mr she got a settlement from him heart," Power says is wishful thinking In Mr Power's film, Solomon'a on her part, but it's a nice 990-odd loves are relegated round figure" and he will not the background. Solomon comes spoll the story by naming the home to Sheba. aciunt sum.

Mr Power said: "Of course, none of us could ever afford to et divorced if it were not for the fact that alimony in tax- deductible.

"If you

have to pay out 50,000 dollars a year to a former in actual wife, it means that cash you pay about 6,090 dol

lors."

I pointed out that us wives of film stars sometimes spent more than 50,000 dollars a year (which is not deductibic) It was

Mise Synes has a soven-year 'OKLAHOMA!”..‘SOUTH PACIFIC’“THE KING AND I'

contract to make films, In the last year she will collecti £0,000. Until then it climbs-grudually from £1,500.

That contract is suspended for a while, during which she will appear in a new play, The Today, in the West End.

Mics Syms has not, in the pas, had a reputation for soft words on things sho considers wrong.

I suggested that all this work for comparatively small rewards must make her angry

Suld Miss Symi: "I console

seven and South The queen. Now South led his jack of diamonds and West cashed his three dia-myself this way: if it hadn't mond tricks,

Three clubs were discarded from dummy nid declarer let a heart and a club go. Meanwhile, East found himself in trouble. He wished he had taken his ace of hearts or at least played the seven spot so he could complete a signal with the deuce.

Any

been for the contract I wouldn'l have made Teenage Daugther.

"If it hadn't been for Teenage Daughter 1 shouldn't have been în Woman in a Dressing Gown, If it hadn't been for that I wouldn't be in Ice Cold.

"Why" grumble? I might no have had a car at all-let alone beautiful, bulging, four-

my

way. East's wishes did him no year-old Jaguar." good. He lot two clubs go and

West made the mistake of lead-

ing a club.

Now South cashed his titron

At work again— Rodgers and Hammerstein!

to

Miss

In Mr Brazzi's Alm, Sagan's Cosanova abandons his mistresses and comes home his wife.