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A SPECIAL INTERVIEW

Lauren Bacall

on

Why I just had to break

away from my

home and make this

trip to London

by DAVID LEWIN

BEFORE she left Lon- we and, bus, at 24 de or

don

hell you im Jus in

fly back petty dany good when to

America sperm. It

Lauren

home to

last month,

Bacall and 1

that

13 good to know you're bring actived."

ushed her how this trip

sat had been different from the

and Rome and London when Bogart win nilve.

I was part of a group

down to talk about the ones she had made to Paria major change which has taken place in her life as the result of this Euro- pran holiday, the first since the death of her husband

Bogart nearly two years

ago.

SHOW

BUSINESS

I CLIMBED to

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1959.

A

Roderick Mann NEW LOOK

PARIS the

seventh floor of an with something deprute to apartment building in

talk Paris

she sand. But

14 ..B revelation

عادل .

to

to a

tegar, to realbe how long it had legendary film character.

Through Come

takten

fr

years

I'm not suppose,

Humphrey these past two

fully through it yet, but this is 2 15xt step. You have to do it to learn to live Uli Fotz wu,"

"A lead of awakening.“ she described I herself. "The first real awakening since. Bey died."

1 bave knen Betty Borall for muny years now, meeting her in phees

vared AS the Jungle in Afrin or Maxty's in @'art

Coming back

John

towering. Huston-the

whos director eggy-feed latest picture. The Roots of Heaven, opens in London next month,

Below us, at the end of the

venue, the white neon strips of the

show! Champs Elysees

And now Lauren Raent tus tackly through the bare trees.

In decision. indy another

It was bitterly cold. January she wil come back to will Kurope and thus the she bring the children with her. She nine plaza to stay eight or

I have known her to be bright and attractive and intelligent (which

her 11-year muting. why marriage to Bogart was such a BUYERS) but

this In London

ht sha Ine

in found addition to her usual sharp wit a deep and shrewd appreciation

of life.

1

Amazed

and

For nearly a mill she was swinging bround Europe when she looked back on

immediately Wic

scrow ad u

L༥:『tyrr

1 tbluk it will be good for all ut us," she said. "I have sold the house we owned m Holly- wood and the one I've got now

i on a lease anyway

can end in January.

which 1

married is sirale state

"I suppose I'll get again, for the

strictly for the birds."

She

was smiling and she her looked wonderful and I was she glad. For Lauren Bacall wis

courage to me happy thinking of the future and coming out of the past.

on this holiday, even blue amazed.

she is a

"In Hollywood 1 was becom- ing atrophied. The atmosphere and everything there male me Deel that if I stayed mach Iompar i would have become a pretty useless me Tiber Booty.

ITJ

co

"I just lived a

house. saw a few friends, looked after) the childron and began to stag- TELLA Even when 1 went to New York for a trip It didn't make much difference. If you live in Hollywood all the far and stom': make +3 definita break, New

extension.

York Is I sort of

"Anyway In Hollywood you

miss you."

But in Huston's that--with its red walls and green vurpen, ont scattered objets d'art- warm and Inviting.

INDESTRUCTIBLE

was

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