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SHOVW BUSINESS

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1958.

My

Mr. MATURE'S LAMENT: WOMEN Biggest JUST BAFFLE ME

by

PETER BUCHAN

*1. could cry.

\ boy. I could

cry.'

was teatime in Mayfair. The traffic buzzed by in the slanting sun- shine of Curzon Street. High heels clacked on the pavement.

The record-player in the flat was as soft as a drowsy bee. Victor Mature who has been in London finishing a North-West Frontier epic called The Bandit-lay across five cushions piled on a couch. A glass of Scotch stood on his chest. Without disturbing it he stretched a gigantic hand to the window and pulled it closed with a gentle bang.

Controlling the pitch of lis Mature's volce had risen to He took another deep sip of voice carefully-in memory of gute force. The butler whispered - whisky. ha promise to London court Sssh'' agala.

"Pop" he bellowed, "was sO nat to make too much noise--he

Mature subsided Into a right. bellowed:

muttered comparison of the girl and Anita Ekberg, the whisky glass on bis chest teelering dangerously.

"I'm not exactly a quiel-Wolu' man."

"Sash." said the butter.

"Turn down that record," said Mature. The butler turned it down untit

WIK barely audible.

PEARL it ain't entirely my“ Swalt," said Mature, "that I got n veguitation for itvin' high."

Mature took a sip at his glav of Scotch and seemed surprised when balf the contents vanished.

"Take the time they font a giri asleep in my bedroom in Italy It seems that in Italy this happens all the time. "But

I didnt even know she was there. I never even saw her. Hut, reg! She had a chosals that

* would note Ekberg go pale.

She had....

he hadn't even seen her.

"The trouble with me," said Mature, dropping the subject of Ekbers reluctantly, "{% that don't understand women."

Tix: buller poured more drinke.

"I got

"And," said Mature. two divorces to prove IL.”

The voice was rising again.

זיי

I AM SO HUMBLE'

Bueas,"

sald

Mature, "people will always get me wrong.

Gamble

BY

ALEC

GUINNESS

THE QUIET ONE they call kim ... the man with so many faces on the screen that in private life, no ons recognisse him. That la Alec Guinness, who today is among the top five m stars in all the world and who rarely talks about himself. Now he tells JOHN LAMBERT the story of the struggle behind his latest performance, which has just won for him at the Venice Film Festival yet another award as the bast actor. Bo it is Alec Guinness talking...

That sort of thing takes a curious kind of courige. The sume sort of thing, when it is well done, as the way Peter Sellers han changed his career." He could have gone on making poto of money as a "Goon" comic. Yet he has talked people

I AM glad that I have learned to say one simple into accepting him as a comedy

phrase and really mean it: "I will do it." So netor on the West End stage, often in life I have failed, and felt a terrible

"I ain't even 4- hustler," said failure, by just being a dreamer. Mature, "Not like Pop, any- way. guess be was the only Kay I ever knew who listened to what people said when he asked them how they were,

"I went with him once into A small store. Pop asks the guy

Having the confidence to carry out what one believes in is one of the most rewarding things in life....yet for me, like so many other people, it has always been one of

the most difficult.

1 only know that in my films, and getting nervous

the store how he is. The case there came a time about whether I was always y maye Fine, Then Pop asks how the guy's kids nro. The guy says 'Fine, except for the girl who's got a pain in her

stomach.'

"And see the next minute the old man's got an ambu-

lance at the store, the girl's in it and is belug whizzed of io

hospital.

"It get so bad nobody ever when my old man people said I was making 100 asked how they word. You never knew where you'd end up."

"Take that court case when answered

much noise.

"Okny-so we make a little

I said I thought he bed sal noise. But I go down on my Male finished his whisky

hands and knees to apologise to and lay back on the cushions. everyone who complains. I go right, through the charm book.

"Well, maybe i did for moment—but not 1 she had thrown all my sults out of the window.

The butter poured more drinks.

A BIG GIRL..

"Any way," "about

sald Mature, this

dame. Sumeone walks in my bedroom and wakes her up. She does not like being wakened up.

"She Is a big girl. She breaks log off a tubir and beats this Ry with the les. Then when she wants a rest from that ho throws all my sults down to the street from the 4th Hoor.

"It's my robin so I get the blame. Put what am I doing all this time?

Telal

or

Confidence

Well, at last, i did play the done a remarkable thing for me. dirty old artist, and doing so has

It has make me more determin-

that I wanted to do.

ed to get on with other things

when I had to stamp my doing the things that I had As soon as I Onished the Alm I set up a company with Daphne deter- always wanted to do, foot with as much

อน Maurier, the novelist, to mination as I could muster even taking the roles that make The Scapegoat."

I am and say: "I will do it." were best for my career. st a shocking business man, and I know I never will be. my wife Meruia just finishing Lancaster.

I got home one night to find another Mike Todd or Burt the book. She said it was funny and touching and I said "Yes."

1 had to toll other people that I was right and they were wrong, and know that

But I am developing a sort of

I would have involved a I had heard that before and frightened confidence in myself. added something more significant with trying to sell other people did not And it so. Then she la occupied at the moment to me,at that moment. She said on another idea that have she thought it would make a fine must come about before Novem- Alm.

ber, otherwise I shall have to put myself on the market again

whole lot of other people in my folly if that was not so.

Years ago

followed-the peace

I send flowers. I promise not to Curzon Siroct.

do it again. I am so humble 1 could be a carpet.

Worth it

So read the Arst 28 pages 4 an actor accepting other again and this time it ell Feople's Ideas. seemed different. I found I believed in the character of the old artist it was written about. He was disreputable in many ways, yet he had an incorrup tible integrity about the one

I still do not know whe- peace that usually covers ther the gamble I took with a film called "The Horse's ADVICE from Anne Heywood, Mouth" will pay off. But 1

the certainly Then I walk back up to a tank young aldo know that I have a feel- thing in life that really mattered the flat and hear one of my actresses, probably after a ing of satisfaction, however to him: his art. Iriends talking on the phone meal with her-the hungries, much qualified, that I have

most beautiful

I have always had sympathy,

to one of the guys who com- end with a good claim to being not known before in my and a lot of time. for that sort plained: 'Listen, buster,' he the frankest.

is saying. Just keep your trop shut, you....**

career.

because I am not anything like I shall still be taking a risk,

us wealthy is some people think,

In fact, I could alsh up with in the country behind me.

lttle besides my amali home

But

of character. I remember once I think It's worth it, because I Said Miss Heywood, who ne

in Hollywood an agent gave a am now doing what I want to Violet Pretty, won 18 beauty Mature sighed, "I could cry,

I first started reading the huge dinner party for me. It do. hy.

contests:

went to judge a novel of I could cry."

"The

Horse's was crowded with tycoons like The butler walked it and contest at which I once won

Som Goldwyn and big stars like Rita Hayworth, and i hated it

always feel uncomfortable in that kind of situation..

automatically said: "Sesh," "I guess," suld Mature, outraet trouble.

A LONG LECTURE

[1]

Speech to the contestants.

just had to be honest.

1,000. I had to make a litle Mouth" by Joyce Cary during the war. Anthony Quayle, an actor friend, and "toid thems: 'Don't go in myself were stationed at for beauty contests beenuse the time in Naples. He said the it was a marvellous, moving slours to fame, Do is for the book. Well, I read the first said money."

28 pages and threw it away.

you think it will open

"But I was warned," Mature, "When I was 15 my father took me aside, gave me LOOK-HACK - IN - ANGUISH It struck me us affected

a long lecture about the future department; Anthony Newley, "I am willing on the third and knucks my flat by saying at who was gaoied for a driving floor watching my suits go by the end of it: 'Son, I gotta tell offence two years ago, and watching everybody down you When you wulk Into a weats

black sweater em- the Street thinking it's our, people ain't gonna trust broidered in large red letters:

Carlstmas."

you.

BRIXTON-'56."

Now

and pretentious nonsense.

Somehow it cropped up gain four years later when

was making my way

in

Harry Belafonte Wants

a white man

to play a

HA

TARRY BELA- the Indies of the Tsac's court,

FONTE has been

He was killed in a duel,"

Life story

ines.

I loved it..

But I loved it in another way brause the host insisted on introducing the sad little trio of musicians who had played; for us to each and every one of the celebrities.

It gave the host and tho musicions a wonderful dignity, the sort that the old artist of "The Horse's Mouth" had. But

I soon found that film employers were not Interested in a dirty old artist with dignity.

They said it could never be made into a film. I wrote n script from the book....and. they were more convinced that they were right!

They were interested in put lag me in nico, amusing pictures profitable. And as they were that they were sure would be

business

men I cannot blame that Samples of the tiles

that, except are them for

be far more Hock All Night, Jali House originality can Rock, Voodoo Women, The Un-profitable than cliches. dead and Untamedi Youth.

Mies Malone's last film seen in the dusk to dawn program- hiero was Too Much, Too Soon in which the played an alcoholic in various stages of glossy dis- Integration...

telling me of his most ambitious and cherished film project: to play the great Russian writer going ahead with their plans to Hollywood is getting

fim of the sinking of

Alexander Pushkin in a film of his stormy life.

nows will come es to roelal fanaties,

bad

Twentieth-Century Fox

shoot

are

pag-

the Bismarck.

They will start the story (lim called The End of the with the bullding of the ship World—they now propose Lo

talgie. After во

muchTM destruction culminating in *

Back again The Crazy Gang move back

and end it with the Bismare make one entitled The Be into the film business today

"disappearing

for

This

shock Pushkin, although he

maternal great-grandfather who

a

boneoth

the ginning of the World.

waves.

What did Fox intend to do the Ad- about the fact that

was Abygellan, was a Russian mirely has announced that no nobleman-and white.

ships of the class that fought the battle now exist?

no

me: "I ୬୯୯

Belafonte told

reason why I should not

"All difficulties will be over-

Young thugs

They play labourers with travelling 'circus who take over the big-top when the show goes broke.

It is called Clowns in Clover

I noted that the Indefatigable and will be directed by Val Hammer people are now going (Camp on Blood Island) Guest, to film the history of the Thugs

play a white man-where it came," said Mr Spyrea Skouras, the Indion religious cult who is a case for portraying an president of Fox.

historical character or a classicnt character

from literature,”

made a practice of benting up people they did not like,

1

I am indebted to the company for informing me that the sect trained children in the art of thuggery from the age of 14.

The film could be made location in Notting Hill.

Right accent

Film getresses are'always ex- prossing, a desire to actin Shakespeare-they feel it confers respectability," Gia Scala, the Italian actress, confesses to the sama ambition. But not for the on glory. She thinks it might im

prove her accent,

Asking people to back my! ideas with motley was perhaps, the worst aspect of it all. I lack the check, and have too much

pride, to be very good at it. I Just tumble at them until they start to feel that there must be something in the idea.

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

Here is a ~revity, from the Bournemouth 1957 tournament.

My sympathies to the Irish molors who are now dress- ing up as Black and Tuna in Though elm makeru ске the IRA film Shake Hands with gradually discarding their more the Devil. Said one of the

which shows the power of two outrageous racial taboos, Belo-

Knights in combination. White: fonte is still limited in the kind gloomily: "Ir my poor father

could see me now."

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North-West, 1p in mate open-sir, Ole Nerim by "Pushkin's story," said Beja~" jir recent years have been furn, drive-in, cinemás have

be directed by Alfred Hitch¬ beun fonte, is an enormously oxelt- ed Into mooning, groaning, runping all-night shows for cock. He plays iho- villain... ing one. He was a tremendous agonising troughs. The weeping teenagerʊ. As many mo Laven ter DIPERINES AERES, **** Don Juan who seduced: many drama has been wrang dry.” * feature films have been included

Too weepy

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