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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1959.

Roderick Mann

CHEVALIER (N) STILL HAS

Pergy Cummins-too rarely seen on the screen these days-appears opposite John Gregson in a new film "The Captain's Tale." "Whileb opens in Londm shortly, Married to company director Derek Dunnett. Mias Cummins is the matter of a four-year-old boy. David

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BRANDO

He's 70

THEM SIGHING

BRUSSELS.

THE cinema was packed for the premiere of Gigi. Outside, in the Boulevard Adolphe Max, necklets of light stretched far into the dis- tance. From loudspeakers came the sound of soft music.

انية سفن اب

SO I FAILED BUT I'VE NO REGRETS,

SAYS SEBERG

JEAN SEBERG, gave a small, sour smile. Said she: "I know it will take a long time and a lot of hard work to live down my first two films.

"I hope I will manage to It's simply, I guess, that a show people that I am not puppet is a poor substitute such a bad netress because for an actress or an indivi I am still very interested in dual personality. films.

"And that is what I was. "But I also know that I'm Mr Preminger was very kind not interested in sacrificing and very determined to my life to becoming a film make me a success in Saint star. I have already seen Jonn. He failed. And so too many .examples of cil 1. people wrecking their lives "Except Mistinguett," I sug-in different ways fo do

And in the foyer stood the man I had come to see... the old boule- vardier himself, Maurice Chevaller.

over, just as a pretty girl brushed He saw me, and ambled past him. Chevalier looked at her-and the blushed. And over that fined, well-ilved face a smile broke, like the sea running over the sand.

"You see," he chuckled, "I will look at pretty girls. Though looking at them and running after thens are two very different things, alas."

"I suspect," I said, shaking his hand, "that you will always look at prrity girls?".

"But of course," he said. "One must-unless one is dead or paralysed. The view is so attructive."

He took my orin and we walked away, from the crowds thronging around him. It was a big night for him, the old boulevardier. At 70 he was being discovered by a new genera- tion-the young cinema-goers to whom he had been only a name

until now.

"Old Maurice is becoming known again," said Chevalier, This time as No an unele, or a benevolent father.

"In my heart, though, I do longer as a lover. All that is past."not approve of old men and young girls together," he said. "They are not a prelly sight."

We stopped for a mumeat and looked at a pester adver- tising the film.

IT'S SO SIMPLE

"How did you know when to stop playing the lover?" I asked,

Chevaller raised his eyebrows.

"It is simple," he said. "One tay you compare the face : your mirror with your passport plcture. And if honest with yourself you you re know it is time to stop,

"It would embarras me to play the lover on the screen now. And It would embarrass the audience too. So I ani my sựe: 1 im Audrey Hepburn's. her in Love in the Afternoon...outs Jourdan's uncle In Gial

We walked on while around uk people jostled and cherred.

"Mind you," said Chevalier, "I do not want you to think I am finished.

Oh, no, no, no.

"You know," and Chevnilers "ifty years ago I sow Coletle, the author of Gigi, on the stage She was an artist thrn-il was before she became a writer- I thought she was wonderful,

"Years later 1 met her and said; 'Do you imow, I fell La love with you on that stage?" And she said, for she was then quite old; 'Maurior, you

life,"

ested,

"Yag," sald *xcept Mistingueti,

Cheveller,

that.

"Funnily enough I have

no regrets now about what "I think 1 know How I

now happened to me. It seemed loved her! How wonderful she where I went wrong before. terrible at times because I was! Like electricity! She taught men lot about life, the women i loved taught ne about life.

All

"Were Mistinguett to come back today, she would make every actress in France look like nothing. Bardot would be forgotten overnight."

"You obviously don't think Tuch of Bardol?"

TH

STAR TALK

1

had to grow up in an awful rush.

ALONE

"Most of all I had to lear to be alone. When I was fine- ing, my life was spent in front And hotel room L

of the cameras all day-

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- night.

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"Then after it all I had n housing solid year alone in New York. 1

"On the contrary," chuckled the old boulevardier, "I ke her very much. She has a lovely little figure. And she is the mostTHERE'S authentically cute Freuch girl in

shortage in Hongkong. was famous yet I had nothing to pictures today. But nobody could So Curt Jurgens, Alming proud of. I could not go back. fi there scented nothing to go there in "Ferry to SIMPLE LIFE

Hong-forward for. My small hom kong," spent Christmas town in Ohio, seemed a million

stand up against Mistinguett."

a cook, makl, and Simone, crew of four.

"I had to develop myself ás a person to get through the year.. Fortunately I had my husband Francols and his love to help

The premiero was almost due to start. People were filing into a yacht with his wife years toway,

ir seat". Everyone waited for the star, Chevaller.

"Today," he said, "I lead a simple is at my hom outside Paris. I live with my elder brother, whom I love, and we are happy. (Chevalier, married to Yvonne Vallee in 1927, was divorced in 1933).

"In this film," I sold, "you

old fool what is the rood of sing a nostalgic song "I'm Glad telling me thai now*~

I'm Not Young Anymore. Are He chuckled, "That's

you in truth glad that the heart- he said.

aches are past?"

said "Yes,"

Chevalier, "I would not want to have my life ever again. I have no regrets. I am content."

TOO ORDINARY

The cinema was fling up. Everyone was looking nt Chevaller..

ANE COMPLAINT about that

me. 10 NE

fine new play at the St Greener': why do the program- Martin's, **The Grass

imes cost 1s. This idea of

doubling the ordinary six-penny programme price seems to be catching on. In New York pro- STEMME) are free.

THE FUTURE.

"Now nothing seems as des perate as it did. It's strange ton how things build up from that realitation.

"My contract has been taken over by Columbia Pictures from Mr Preininger. I now look fike getting parts I can handle. Like this one with Peter Sellers in "The Mouse that Ronred.'

"So I hope VOL have nol. has re- heard the list of me yel. If you pinced James Mason in the hove

Miss Seberg Rited slarning role in television's her shoulders and let them fall ""Third Man” series which be- limply.

"If you

haye." she İzins filming this year.

said, "I guess I'll survive."

TRVING BERLIN is writing 10 new songs for the him musical of his "Say it With He smiled nt me: n smile Music." Un, no

"I am a simple man," he said.

which embraced mc, hig "When I was talking to Marilyn So I have never been accepted thoughts, and the long dead Monton in Hollywood only a week or by the sophisticates.

I started years. so go I found myself firting with her, as a low comedian, you see, I

Then, amid cheers, the old years im too ordinary for them. And boulevardier walked Ah, If only I had been "20

on alone have aways been my friends younger...

ilo the cineına. simple people."

-London Express Service).

He smiled, a little ruefully.

£270,000

WAYNE

HOLDEN

$270,000

MICHAEL RENNIE

You need a

cool head,

a poker face,

and the finest Scotch

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

EDITED BY JOHN LAMBERT

AND PETER EVANG

Susan Hayward in the

gas chamber!

"I WANT TO LIVE," a film of the real-life murder trial and gas- chamber execution of American under- world career girl Barbara Graham, has met with censor trouble in Britain.

The film, starring Susan Hayward as murderess Graham, has been halled throughout America as one of the finest of the year.

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BOAT SHOW

"You'ra dholly- gólag, vei,

• Tay debt. VOJAKA

The stars' pay-packet-

★ American FAIZMOOTH TAYLOH

PRESLEY

£89.000 plus 50 per cent of profits

£75,000

MOLE

BOKANDE

£20,000

British

DIANA ÞORS

150,000 olux 15 per cent of profits

STEULE

Hayward's vivid, some- times shattering, perform- ance in being strongly tipped to win the best actress Oscar award-

And the British cenaor agrees that producer Walter Wanger has indeed made a fine film. An exciting, tightly told drama of a woman waiting, hoping, finally praying for a reprieve that never comes.

Continental

£75.000

JUNGLAS

BRITTE Hanbot

166,000 plus 4 per cent of profits

£80,000

CHART BY MICHAEL RAND

-are they strangling themselves?

But the final San Quentin SOME STARS are close to pricing ga8-chamber. scones, in which even the poleon themselves out of business," snapped pellets are seen exploding, film bosa Mike Frankovich last week. have caused the censor to

ilow close la close? In the top £270,000- hold up the film.

a-picture. bracket`(sea chart) the stars seldom take their money In ons wage- packet. Usually payment is sprááá over a number of years, to ease tax problems. British star in. Bettiah Sing warm for less than top Hollywood namen. Est a British alar: it un-American-basket

For if he padds this scano it will make film history as the first legal execution ever to be shown in its entirety in the British vitete.

picture will command a higher salary, Dirk Bogarde, for example, in his first Hollywood film next year, is said to be getting £70,000. Nearly three times his Britlak salary. Continental stars have how stepped into the big-moneý bracket beatise of their. added appeal in inter- national- Bímé,

CONTRAST NOTE: In 1939 the [world's Rights) pală itar: Was Gréta

• darbo. Her salary: K90,000 'a YEAR

Grant's Scotch Whisky,

for it is the kind of Scotch that can only be made by an old family

concern who have

gaited their knowledge over genérations,

Grants

SCOTCH WHISKY

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