1958-11-14 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, "NÓVEMBER 14, 1958.

Yes, he's back!

REPORTING AROUND THE TOWN

L88ORLAY

When WC

opened

on tour Flynn didn't know

AS I was saying before I politely interrupted rehearsals myself, I sometimes feel sorry for millionaires, nes And they are free to feel sorry for me. But most one of those idiot boards of them look as though they are too busy feeling sorry for themselves.

To paraphrase the old currenez

- want what their money cannot buy.

Tak the case

G. Huntingdon

far, part-owner

Amerlew's A

ot Hart-

stones which is of course the largest chain of grey stores hi the worki

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sad booking.

Bound Brut

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pd be enk

Key:

sehing

His loss

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presario

Elier this year he Just Musli - a - milliom doitus vying La d Bul L Is still alang im.

Eal Hymns walked mut

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Hunt put on his shoes, which his his secretary had found Tie naisted on having talked about Zen. they

"To put it very broadly and use on TV,"

the Zen philosophers simply

be you should try to AL ho moment Hartford, believe

to nature. attuned known

and Ives, properly

and Then you can sit patiently cliche, millionaires always including Flynu, as "Hunt"

sonid things will come to you. here searching for 4 leading mat for a Landon pro- duction of "June Eyre."

WHY do rich

men so

seldom laugh?

Ey saving Hartford Hunks are like the Keman, unchangeable, artel

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But they're unspeakable The play's Aasen,”

NO ONE KNOWS

SHOW

BUSINESS

LIKE HIM!

Q

NO SIR!

WHERE has Logan

Gourlay been?

Now Mr Hartford is planning to sue Flynn for half a multiots dollars for breach of contract und unprofessional conduct.

"He seldom turned up

for

to friends

Search for shoes

When I met him at lunchume the other day at the Mayful fat he be rented he was involved immediate, mace I unther, seurch for his tes

oked at tim books

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While he is awaiting. pursing theatrical success Hunt, whose income of more than 1 million dollars a year comes to him whether he is attuned nature or not, Is establishing one of America's himself as leading patrons of the Arts.

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In New York he will soon be allding the seven-storey Hart- ford Museun शु Д bome modern art.

played a table in the lounge. Cost of patronage

They meluded a collection of poems. The Rudyard Kipling Philosophy at Spinoza," and book ku! the Buddhist Zen Nothing atrout phlophy. Krety.

invite you to consider the men of the averagé millionaire. I in study in nilaery.

PAUL GETTY, who is the richest, I probably the most naddest looking.

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HER: WON'T PLAY

And

Miss Havoc is fairly versatile

ONCE AGAIN...

siars-Cesar Romero, Sir Cedric think they're the same. I'm not Hardwicke,

Basil

Rathbone, aure."

Tallulah Bankhead, Virginia They were not. Mayo, and Slapsy Maxie Rosen- bicom,"

You can, if

you like, but refuse to play with Virginia Slopsy.

I

I enlisted the manager's old. After ten minute rummaging He brought another: pair which he insisted were the

or those in the window,

Lady

Miss Havoc'a recurd Invites me to play Macbeth to her Macbeth,

I might try

same

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They were not-te he agreed when we went outside to look hi the window. He said with suZ- priac in his voice: "That's amazing. Didn't imow we bad them. Must be new stock."

1.5. to Charles Clore: Do you

It also offers, omong others, an excerpt from a play called know what's In your shop "The Bed of Fire," and invlies windows? Of course you don't. me to play the part of Colette. But shouldn't

I don't want to be tempera- mental, but I decline.

herself, She has starred in suspect...

Hollywood, displayed her legs mus shepely as Gypsy's) in

the street to get horre buggy out of the old garage." He examined and told

"g'e my

Indicated imaginative, subtle, and perhaps creative." I fear his own 8's

In California he maintains the Huntingdon Hartford Founda- Hun, where promising artists,

are the same. writers, and composers enn live

Whe Idylle surround- and work In bugs.

1

was

The gay, young thing was cabaret, written a book, "Early

Hage, which will be published ghumiy waving her prize in the shortly, und acled Shakespeare tombola at a charity ball at the at Stratford (New England),

Savoy.

the

that

down I walked street to get my own car at the

I found parking meter ominous yellow slip stuck to the But windscreen, telling me I

lo pay of course, "required

tux

charge of 103,"

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record

She brings me a present, It was a copy of "Religion sample of the latest American and the Rebel," by Colln Wilson, craze-Co-Star, acting game."

the

Donated, I suspect, by Colin

Wilson.

Hunt is free to feel sorry for leaving blanks for you to read You shoppers!

I asked him how much this putronege cost.

"I don't know exactly. it's all deductible Very important in CHARLES rucket." CLORE often looks like a man

Another deductible item

(in me," whone feet ache. FELIX FENS the interests

scientific TON often looks as though he research;

own Graphology. were afruld one of his

of

is his Institute of won't play

which has been

something

of A

buildings Inight fall on him. Trumming for four years. Hunt,

I after sympathy to those himself, in renticmen, And i anticipate handwriting export.

He asked me to write the fol- their reaction. You are probably

Towing: "I am walking down right. 1 am just jealous.

NELSON EDDY

(YOU REMEMBER 'ROSE MARIE'?)

FIGHTS THE WHISPERS ABOUT

HIS EYES

Montreal.

THE vuice is as rich as The songs are

dono

Tor

Answer: Doing some- thing he has never before.

The man who knows

any other has now written

as familiar as ever "Rose Marie." "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life...." Nelson Faldy

By DONALD GOMERY

I'm blind. How It began i don't know It must have been nearly 20 years ago. A rumour, or hoax, perhaps,

A

It is completely untrue. 11 1 show business better than was singing in the supper at a strange and terrible misun

club ala Montrent hotel- derstanding but is a bliter Nelson Non Eddy, who starred mystery in the life of

"People still write to me→→ with Jeannette MacDonald Eddy.

Upstairs, in his hotel sulte, he hundreds of people saying how and per in the series

of gav film

poured out a drink And sorry they are to hear that I'm show musicals that brightened

angrily: "It has chased me all blind. They come to me in the the thirties.

down the years-that story that street and say the came thing.

They stop my wife and say how sed it is.

on It goes on and and on."

bis first FICTION SERIAL -appropriately ceptively About business.

The man sitting next to

"Never l me whispered:

Gourlay has written а sizzling satire which he think it, would you? He's] calls...

blind, poor fellow. Can't see a thing." From others in "Camels Sometimes Bite." the hotel 1 heard the same Don't miss it in thecompassionate whisper:

MAIL CHINA

tomorrow."Blind."

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Tricks

Sometimes

the story varies. how "I receive letters saying

into tow. Jue Havoc Bles

Rose She is a sister of Gypsy Lee, that remarkable stripteaser who reads Schopenhauer.

know?

your

P.F.B.: I l haven't got the Ahoes.

Croupier's cuppa

It was 2 . ut one of these floating gambling parties in London.

in Unmistakably London.

to the

The coupler sald

the table! "Con players round

please. 1 have enormous hush,

And to the Faites vos jeux." young lady behind him: "Be a dear, and get me a cup of tea."

Odd. surely!

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On a long-player a star rendo the lines of one part in a play

the other part. The script is supplied.

I saw a pair of shoes I liked With a tape recorder you can in the window of a Piccadilly

Tho

I odd things whole reserve the

thing for shop-a branch of the chain now posterity

Six Indian ladies in long flow- controlled by Charles Clore.

When I went in to buy them ing saris trooping solemnly (in these the assistant asked me to point Indian file) into one of them out in the window, I did. Soho theatres which offer strip-

"I lease in he afternoon. He brought a pair saying.

ir

The blurb SLYS that addition to Miss Havoc you can "act ACENOD on other records opposite any of these wonderful

FROM - ROSE MARIE "

NELSON ENDY AND HANETTI

"I've been married

19 yeata

"The bottom dropped out of that type of musical. I went Very happy. We live on a hill back to serious singing-Schu- outside Los Angeles. Gene and bert, Brahms. that Fort of Jeanette live on a hill near by." thing. TV helped to kill that. Now I've got this act. I'm no but I'm all lenger a rich man, right."

Hits

He talked of the early days. He was born In Rhode Island, became a reporter, drifted into professional singing at recitals, There he sat around

go to Hollywood. was asked

for two усага. They end he sang too loud.

Then

Morose? No

Today Nelson Eddy sings his girl "Indian Love Call" to a named Gale Sherwood; preity, blonde, 20-year-old who part- ners him in his act.

They ga

a lot, burlesque from The Meny numberS Widow." "The But the singing la always good.

Desert Song."

ROUND-UP

STRANGE HAZARDS

BCC

FISHERMEN around the Kent and Essex coasts are worried by the number of strange catches they are making-cutches which are ruining their nets and for which they feel they should be com- pensated. Kent and Essex Sea Fisheries Committee have been told by their lead Oleor, Mr W. H. Harvey, about two of these catches, one a torpedo warhead, the other a magnetle mine. The torpedo warhoad, weighing 300lb, was caught in the trawl of the Oshing boat Alberta. This, said Mr Harvey, was collected by the Royal Navy, but apparently no compensation for the extensive damage to the net was contemplated. The magnetic mine was caught in the trawl of the Essex Girl of Walton-on-Naze pier. Other surprise catches have included an neroplane engine. The Air Ministry refused compensation on the grounds that it was a natural hazard of Ashing. similar to that suffered by the angier who books an old shoe.

CHRISTMAS BOOM

PRITAIN

B

is already having a boom in Christmas cards, More people than ever will be wishing their friends a Merry Christ- mas on paper. It is estimated that this year 545,000,000 cards will be sent in Britain alone. An official of one well-known manufte- cards bought has turer said: "For some years past the number

be increasing by about 10,000,000 a year. "They have never been moro popular." It is thought that this might be due to the fact that people travel more and as a result meet more people. There are also more clubs and organisations where people widen their circle of acquaintances. It was a nobleman with a bad memory who started Christmas cards. In 1843 Sir Henry Cole was so busy that he forgot to write to all his friends at Christmas. He asked an artist design him a greeting which could be sent off speedily. One thousand copies were printed and those not used by Sir Henry were sold in a Bond Street shop at 1a, each.

WHISKY GALORE”

PART of the 1ste of Barra, home of the famous Clan Macnell and location for the Alms "Whisky Galore" and "Rockets Galore," is up for sale. Two-thirds of the island—a tatal of 9,000 acres are to be sold by an Edinburgh firm of catate agents at a minimum price of £10,000. The owner is the Macneil of Barra, 69, who lives in New York, where he is an architect. He is re-

"i was asked

IT to sing England," sald Nelson Eddy, but they wanted me to dress came the smash-hits up in the old Mountie uniform. with Jeanette MacDonald At my age! I'm the old gentle-taining the ancestral home of the Cian, Kismuli Castle and if the "Naughty Marietta," "Rose man of song now." Marie," "Maytrue," "Bala-

wonderful it is I've tecovered Talks." my sight. I've even read stories

Jeanette "I married

But:

"Don't think of me as morose and bitter. Jife changes. eight Once I sang in Aims, now I sing by people claiming they cured' Umes in those Alms. Some in clubs. That's all' me of my blindness.

He puffed away at his I was really people, thought

new

1 keep denying it, but It married to her, 'She's married pipe. no good. There's never been lo Gene Raymond--remember As I walked through the hotel anything wrong with my sight. him? He's doing pretty well foyer on my way out two women Sure I wear glasses sometimes with TV and that. Jeanette? were talking in front of a glant Nelson Eddy. for reading. Who docan't? She goes around doing recitals, photograph of Touch of astigmatism. But i conerts--Bitter Sweet,' "The "You sure would never guess he I'm seen wearing them you can King and I'

was blind," said one.

bet people will begin saying

That's because he's blind."

"I've had all sorts of tricks played on ine to test whether I can really see. Reporters have come up to me in the street and woved their hands in front of my face and asked: Can you see that, Mr Eddy?'

"Another reporter shoved 0 paper inches from my face and demanded: 'Read that, Mr Eddy, read that."

"Once a guy ran on the singe while I was doing my set and put an amulet over me and said that would cure me, I've had charms ecnt to me, spellis, voodoo, the lot,

"How could I do my net if 1 were blind? People say I must be guided on to the stage.

"I didn't worry about it so much, really. But I do worry when I think of all these good people who write anying they are praying for me to got my sight back. It's cruel that good people like that should be fooled,”

*All right

Fifty-seven now, Nelson Eddy is still handsome, all blond, and proud of a meorschaum pipa he has just bought.

On the chair beside kim, the music of "Ilona Mario,"

"Buro I was a filen etar once.

1 wan cerning the top-belt a militon dollars a year for many YOATE. But you can't hurt my Reelings 103k.lg about

good old days."

the

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property now being sold is disposed of the castle will be his only. property in Scotland. USEFUL CROCODILE

FTER centuries of being regarded solely as a menace, crocodilez are now being called useful and important members of tho animal community. This new opinion has been formed by Dr. H. Scott, of the University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, who has spent two years investigating crocodiles in Northern Rhodesia. He points out that crocodiles are as useful scavengers in water, as vuliures and maribou-protected birds-are on land. They feed on the enemies of flah--river crabs, giant water bugs, carnivorou water beatles, otters, cormorants and other fish-caling creatures.

JAK GOES JIVING

IMPTY

LITIZEKUHIN

and his

"Oh! Listen, darling, they're playing our tund.

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