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Why Mr. Steel

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ANTHONY STEEL has been in Londen for three weeks. Staying a friend's Park Lane flat. Alone. His wife, Anita Ekberg, is filming in Rome. When she is through she is going to Sweden for a holiday. Steel is en route for America to try to find a job.

He has lost a stone in the past six weeks. He looks a very different man from the Anthony Steel of two years ago-one of Mr Rook's prize specimens and a top money-making actor,

He Is.

For months he has fought a losing bottle against boredom, no work, and a foodide of rumours about his marriage.

For months he has been hanging around Nome doing nothing while his wife worked. An unpleasant situation, resulting in hot tempers.

Now an unhappy man-he is off to Hollywood to try to Une uplm.

Why Hollywood-where he is hardly known? Why Not Britath, where le is?

Sale Steel, when I met him: 'I must get dellars-that's why. I've been living of Aníta ever since I went to America. She's 10 the dollars you see, unl 1 baven't.

"That's pretty hard to take. both for her and for me. It doesn't make for an ideat relationship. Su I'm going to make another big effort to earn some dollars for myself.”

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"You've got pounds from the filme you've made in Britain,"

I said.

with his wife's determination to chair and clobbered him with remain in Hollywood wasn't he a gin bottle,” Kutting both his career and his He didn't smile as he said it. marriage in jeopardy? Presum- ably any wife was liable to tire of havlug her husband hanging around doing nothing?

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Steel. once the gay blade

with the fast Jaguar, whose Kensington parties were famous: "'1 wanted to go. 1 was married to Anita and that was where she lived."

“Since your marriage,” i said, "you've been involved in quite a jew brawls.”

'I know," he said. "But It's pretty hard to tuke-the way men look

"Now I'm trying to give Kip drinking," Steel said. "I've been on the wagon for severál days. That's why I've lost wright, I expect. I took a look at myself in Harry Black and was datusted that I looked so bloated."

"Have you still got a house in Hollywood?"

SO POINTLESS

"No." sak Steel. "We gave It . There wasn't much point in keeping it going as we were away so much,"

Anita, Especially "So actually tou've pos

ir a place like Rome. When nothing to go back to?" we're in a lift or a restaurant

"No," said Steel.

"I'm just

"Why can't you both together people look and statt golong to scout about and sse il

live in Britain?"

whispering.

"Anita wants to live in Holly know. wood," Steel sald. "That's where her career is."

"What about yours?”

"I've put up with a lot, you *Mr Ekberg' and all that kind of stuff, It's rude and it's Insulting.

"I haven't been able to make "Do you blame me for getting much headway out there," Steel angry ond using my Asts? If sald. "I sild one plcture. she were my girl friend. I Valerie, but it wasn't much of a wouldn't mind, perhaps. But

been she's my wife. success. The going has pretty rough."

"Does your wife realise what a thriving career

in you had British pictures married you?”

before she

Steel was silent for a moment, "No," he said. "I don't think she doen."

I asked the question which seemed obvious: By doing along

He was silent for a moment. "I won't take insuits," he con- tinued. "Either to me or Anita. Victor Mature insulted Anita, so I told him to apologise or I'd flatten him."

"He's a big mas,” I said. "Yes," sald Steel. "But his size didn't come into it. If necessary I'd have got up on

there's any work."

"There's nothing in Britain?-

"No," said Steel. "I've been Eway, you see, and people forget. I won't kid you. There's nothing."

"Perhaps," I said, it might have been. better if you had stayed on in Rome until your tolfe finished work?"

He looked at me sharply. "I'd hung around there long enough." he said. "It was mur der for my morale. I was find- Ing it just too easy to drinkt and wait around. Anita didn't like it."

"So you left?” I said. "Yes," said Anthony Steel. "So I left."

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difference was that whereas in the play I had a mother selling her daughter for £20, in real life she sold her for 109.

"I made it £20 to make it more believable, but people still didn't believe It. And yet it was happening all the time.”

for 10 years. This may be Jazzed up'

because he writes about work- ing-class people and, though the Lord Chamberlain has never actually banned them, are generally considered pretty taboo.

fallacy

goes up ho will inevitably be- himself off from the kind of come further removed from the life he has always known. Mr sort of people who provide him Willis has turned down offers with his raw material.

from Hollywood, "If I lived there I would bo' finished," lo syn

"I om conscious of the danger," he says, "but in my. caso I think 1 can avoid it hap- A leaser problem now con pening. It isn't simply that I fronts him. At present he has a write about -working people house at Orpington which is because I can make a lot of small to enable him to entertain money that way; I prefer the visitors for the week-end.

"When in the unenviable position of company of working people.

I started looking they an

author in search of an "There was the time I around for a larger, house audience, Mr Willls allowed his joined the Army I was posted to discovered. that in no time at all play to be “jazzed-up” a bit Canterbiny barracks. Only the you are being talked into and it ran for three year on colonel and the sergeant-major buying a place with eight tour, playing twice-nightly to the knew I wes a weller gathering bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a kind of people it was about and material. It was vory funny." tonnis court. who were prepared to belleve it. The difficulty ls that the work- "In the first year! Jars Mr

cineses ara considered Wills, it made £98,000. The A VIP dramatic only when my nie royalties 1 got, enobled me to being killed in war or when write, And I was able to turn

On ptrade or in the mess or they are on the dole in place. down 15 offer for the film in the confchouse I'd be treated

Mr Willis belleves this is, rights," falley, le has shown in a film, Today Mr Willis, the worker's like anyone else; but after lights

out I'd creep down the comidor", Woman In a Drening Gown, pinywright, the poor man's that you to not have to wear a Arthur Miller, in chenint £20,000 silk fire.ming gown to

be a year, twice as much as the Interesting.

Primb Minister. Als Income

I was treated,Jiko a VIP. television series Mr Willis ran into this prob comes from a lem ten years ago when a Blay. (Dizon of Doc Green), No Trees the Street opened in vision playa and Alma, the Weal End and closed after

ten days.

The danger

"That play, aye Wie Willis, "eame right out of my guta, 1t wae ali klimolaisty trke, EmaRCH 277) people I had knowin "The only Ada

telo-

which means that you have to have somebody to look after the house and somebody to look alter the grounds, and soon you would be writing plays about to dimeuities of getting domestic Soft-living can ruin fatty help

that."

to the colonel's office, and theh or I want to try and ayold there would be a brandy waiting for me and a rofl örmchair and

"Not because I was a writer Life Army doesn't think much of them. No, you see, the colonel Thought I was a security officor tenasquerading as a willer mRRE-

querading as a private.”.. Tim Riosaini đángr for a man: Because he knows lie could Frida wakas na lile indomo MCE`TING "KA WEIS 12 Im out

It is, of course,» ti foundďablo problem to fool like a wor on a capitaliste income.

In such a predicamens thoit authors are content to rely on their memory,

I do hot with this is true ofr Me Will, the playwright in the gan figure dressing form.

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