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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958.

Camels Sometimes Bite by Logan Gourlay

Today: How they tried to stop the star walking out

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There IS

business like show business; and to show business writer like LOGAN GOURLAY, who has written this, his first serial, for the China Mail. Ana Price is a.. star with statistics that are thought equi- valent to tulent. Seared

by a fortune. teller's fore- east that she will be dis- figured by a camel bite, she quits a film.

PART TWO:-

TARRY

HA

Scene 2... The location: Piccadilly

LEVER, publicity director of Home and Hemisphere Filins, sat down heavily and wearily behind his large steel desk.

It was in a snail ollice n the top floor of Hemisphere Hall, head offices of Home and Hemisphere Films in Soho Square, London.

He looked at the clock on the opposite wall and said to his speretary: So the big boss was looking for me. So I'm late. So what? It's 8.30 on a filthy morning in miseralde May and C'm late. According to old Evans.

"Why does everyone. in Whenever he gets to drunk this organisation have to ulf come the clothes, start work in the mille of

the night just because he's

"One of these days little

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Starring

YVONNE BUCKINGHAM 21 Ane Price

PAT HALPIN

as Much Evana

GEOFFREY JONES

Photographed by KENNETH DENYER

Directed by RAYMOND HAWNEY

got insomnia? Anyway, Oswald will be arrested. I'm doesn't he know I was up going to tell old Evans half the night after the pre. can't cope with him much miere looking

his longer. He needs full-time after

bodyguard. I've got all the drunken leading man?"

In- Evans others to worry about

was pacing the

His secretary

bitch Price. Wilton carpet which cover- said: eluding that

floor of his large "There's a picture of him What's the latest on

that cd the

here in the Daily Film Ren- froat? } suppose that's office. He motioned to Harry fer at last Friday's pre- what old man Evans wanted to sit down beside the re- miere. It says Philip Oswald me for." was immaculate in a scarlet-

lined evening cloak."

Summons

Harry winced. "They should have seen him at

The inter-office telephone four o'clock this morning, rang. It was another sum- He was wearing that damn mons from Mr Hugh Evans. ed cloak and nothing else. Harry Was on his

Way

He should have been a mile before his secretary had put strip-teaser, not 4 actor, the receiver down.

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production period desk. which was bare except for telephones, dictograph, a penholder, inkstand, and a silver-framed photograph of Evans shaking hands with Prince Philip at the Royal Film Performance.

keeping his desk cleared for Evans prided himself on

Retion at all times.

Ile

was straight-backed flat, and plumpish, with thinning hair, pale blue

Into HE which Evans pre- ferred to Sir, because it also stood for His Excellency). "I'm sorry. But the needs a psychta- trist, not a publicity mati.

"She'a convinced if she goes on with the film she'll be dis- Ogured for Ulfe. Bitten by the ruddy camel. It would be very funny if it wasn'i JU tragle.

Upjohn, a short, bespectacled man with a tendency to stutter in moments ol stress, said slowly: "We can't shoot round the Price woman. We've got less than half to do, but she's in every scene. Can't use. a double, either. There are no long shots."

Evnus glared at him. "I know. know. What we have to do is "Sure I told her the camel's get her back, Immediately." an old crock from the circus. I

Mills, told her i couldn't bite its way

Jovial, plump, Bod in his through a stoneless date. But Czech In origin, sid she's completely sold on that old slightly accented, faintly frac- fortune-teller, She thinks the fured, English: "Drastic is what and drasur is old dame's a witch

un you say, H.E.. with canny powers. Maybe she's what I make to suggest. Do you consider the possibility of the right."

re-shoot with a new girl? We use the unknown at £30 a week. And wo 'ave no percentage tp pay to Price."

No bribe

Evans sat down

at his desk and held his head in his hands.

maniu.

the desk: Evans thumped

about the £350,000 "What

on this A study in frustrated megulu- we've already spent

Alm?

How do We get that back? Re-shooting is out of "Don't you Blart, 1 sent you the question. Anyway, where de there yesterday to make the we find another girl?" old woman change her mind.

You sound as though you'd fallen under her spell too."

"Not me. But the old dame's weird one. She's convinced she's the oracle. And a lot, of

ese half-witted actresses ready to belleve hier.

urd

"You can't reason with her. Once she says something's go- ing to happen she sticks to

J:

A stand-in

Just the girl,"

sald

"I've Evans.

The Mis protege was a red- headed graduate of a model- school. He had signed her under personal contract at £1 a week, and she was installed in a cosy bed-sitter not a stone's throw from kis own fal In Eaton-square.

door inter-

"Course 1 offered money, like you said. 1 even

A knock on the doubled the £1,000 you men

sed. But she's incorruptible, rupted

The the conference; second secretary of Mr Evans "Anyway, she says if she came into the room hesitantly. eyes, and a ruddy com- accepted bribes the lucht would

She She'd be a

saidi

sorry to plexion that varied in shade turn bad on her.

But doomed woman, It's hopeless, disturb you, Mr Evans.

I've just had a message from Miss Price's secretary.

according to his blood pres- HE." sure. He looked more like

a gentleman farmer than a film executive.

A conference

He

was

a leading ex-

ample of the theory cherish

"It seems Miss Price won't be able to keep the appointment. She's gone to the airport to Harry watched his boss catch

She'n a plate tonight. Expos picked up closely paper clip and pulled it straight Festival,"

to the Cannes going

Film

colm

was

almost

should be upstanding men leved this

Ludicrous I'd never have be- moment, unwilling to believe his

from other fields with THO practical knowledge of film-making,

mc.

that

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in His voice dustry that its leaders when he said: "It's farcient. Evans stared at her for, a could happen lo cars. Then came the eruption.

He threw out his arms in gesture of fury, knocking over falked to

bitch his silver-framed photograph of Price myself yesterday. But the Royal Film performance. Mr Evans was a banker I must have been loo reason-

for He started

the door able. I've told my seeretury to by profession who had

get her here at eleven o'clock shouting: "She can't do this to joined Hemisphere Films in this morning, but the bitch sald

me. I forbld it. I'll stop her at cho the airport, I'll see that one of the frequent periods she couldn't be here till six to-

doesn't leave the country, the of financial crisis. He was night. I suppose we'll just have

half-breed Hollywood whore." an expert in the manipula-

The others followed him tion of balance sheets.

At ve p.r. precisely he pressed a iever and eskej his uneasy procession. spcretary if Mr Upjohn, Mr Ain, and Mr Burton trader. lved from the studioa, They had. They were summoned to conference.

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When he reached the door

of his outer Meelis third Francis) secretary ran after him saying: the director and "It's the aludilos, Me Evans. They the producer of say they must speak to you on fse · film which the phone urgently. It's very

fortune-teller's important

Evana wheeled

round

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Burton.

pening about thin, woman Price. Mr David Jess Burton held can't talk to them now. Don't the title of personal assistant to you realise what's happened" "She hasn't reported' for Me vari. No one. including I must get to the airport. work again this morning. This' Mr Burton, knew exactly where

"You talk to them, Does he out his work to the be the second day. The whole his duties started

where and unit' standing Idle attitey ended. In the studios he The rest of you had better come studion, I've already invested was known malicitusly as less with me. We'll hold her back

by force if necessary.” of the £350,000 in this damned fim, the Verman, Gr Jena the

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They trooped into the room towards Oxford-street, Said she was indisposed."

nodded respectfully to Evans, agitated Burton rushed out of "Indisposed!" Even thun, and took up positions in chairs Hemisphere Hall. He ran after dored. "She's round the bend. raund the desk,

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