1959-01-31 — Page 13

JACOBY on BRIDGE

West Leads To Wide Open Suit

To paraphrase the De- claration of Independ ence. "All bridge playera aro entitled to life, liberty and the right to play no- trump contracts."

South bellaved this.

Of course, South did have some slight excuse for his two no-trump response. He held 14 points and It balanced hand and honour combinations in two of the three unbid suits,

he

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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JANUARY). 31', - 1959.7 The camera magie of KARSH of Ottawa captures

the essence of the man whose other

name was Mr Hollywood

win my

Oscars at the

box-office,

said deMille

IT

BY

DON

IDDON

If

New York. was only recently on the Paramount lot in Hollywood that Mr Mikoyan turned to the studio chiefs and said: "How is Mr deMille?” DeMille was as well known. in the Kremlin as in the slums of Calcutta. 77-year-old deMille had not been out of town busily banging the drum for his new film The Buccaneer, he would have been at the Paramount studios to greet Mikoyan and possibly lecture him.

.

DeMille was leing of the Para presence. nr.1 sametines his

and tree mount lot, and no one challenged asistent producers Bis throne.

to trembled.

If he had not driven self so hard he would

still

ofter

be

nlive his

riding-boots with his cans and staring across the glant deMille sei.

him- Dc Mile was a tan of the He usually affected the cld- eestune of the Pre- a dustry, and somethines a fashioned open a heart against the ably

today. ant. lle toisted change-if original Hollywood director, ri- орел- exten you study the carlier deMille ing treeches and boots, final three ne-trump con- but

silver there is neckod shirt, anil The Bims with the latest, campaigning for tract. North's queen lost Five

more radical difference in their whistle cn a silver chain arcund

his neck. to East's king and a heart Buccaneer and his even

ambiti us travelling

bee kahulqw Ten return cleared the suit.

of his ende,' Th~ balf Commandments, he fell ill

South na te a despera- tion try for his contract.

is heart had bein failing for mere, and it stopped beat- He led the queen of clubs in at 636 one morning, Holly- from dummy hut the finessegrad ting. in his Beverly Hills lost and he wound up down home. At his bedside were his wife, Ccastanse, who is 85. his three,

Caughter. Cecilia, and her hug- band, who had been summoned mach Look how

easier to the house by a narse matters would have been if the saw that deMille was dying. South had made the proper

He leaves another daughter. response of two clubs. Katherine, red two sous, John North would have bid two and Richard. no-trump and East could

have opened a can of soup for all it mattered. North

would have made at least four no-trump.

Q-The bidding has been: Bouth West North

14

14 14

East

You, South, held: 4103 62 +K65 4AKJD

What do you do? A-Two spades. You would

like to find a stronger bla but thren spades would be too much.

A pity

DeMille always had

He had not the subtleties of a Card Retr the originality of my Alle Hitchcock. He unce ld me " office teleke and d:es any shots. The public not want the bizarre. The story should unfold smoothly

end climax-just like in the Bible."

to its

Sometimes he would even use a megaphone to bawl out actors.

A chair

от

"Wherever deMile walked the sound stage or on location a follewer walked bchirub with a chair ready for the Rest man whenever he stopped.

and

talking DeMille was always when

Ile net chly atcat the Bible.

DeMilio fullrave its precepts, but also

ke himself made tone meney out of it than he liked his WOTH. fle sait any dihir man in history.

-htly before he died: "Al- though The King of Kingo was probably my greatest effort, I don't like to my pletures with the others.

"it a woman

a desire

deMille

Truly there has never been anyone like him and equally truly there never will be again. DeMille's life was the story of the film industry.

he

You mini hope for further actions Loren fold Mikoyan: "I always shot jilm carefully and from your partner.

an always nervous when I meet rarely telt much on the cutting great men, but not with you." 120 floor.

compare ng

of

to gave birth 70 children each of whom W86

was best.

This porttall of deMille with Charl-

ton Heston, who

played Men, WAS taken during the filming of The Tea Commandments.. deMille's last Dible epic.

Cecil B. dcMille.

Much against his will Was persuaded to keep

Mosch

Out of the Wars of the

Roses.

He said: "Why

I' spent over $100,000 on research

practically

grand

every film I made."

Despite the nanner. the fam- beyanec, the rugal authority, deMlle was sentimental man, a loyal friend, and deeply religious.

DeMilic

Was

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of magnificent energy. HS srociates used to Bay of him: "If the Old Man ever stops he will fall hat on his Ince. He 1 cursed with momen- tum."

The Law

1

was

hobit

Pago 18

mother was HA

Mathilda Wall Beatrice Samuel, en English1~~

of

Despite his age, in the past Academy of Dramal Art, and two decades he was forward- dccitied to become an actor locking and original. He was

Although he developed Into the first tollywood producer to one of the grealest producers of

completely

fret ali time, he remained an acter not a religious was

Tribute

DeMille, who

risk

27 film on

theme....his

Sometimes when he was really times would recall a somewhat awards from every well-meaning

charged with self-esteem he misty and vague family connec- cociety in the country. to make another

From the day he arrived conceived in pleasure and de-

Hollywood was saying today: would assert himself in the lion with the great Churchills spectacular about the Russian California in 1913 and rented livered in gain, she would have

Almost every day, during "Cecil

DeMille knows, of England. 8. deMille was to third person; révolution. I do

know half barn in which to produce a difficult time saying which picture-making, deMile

would motion pictures what Sir Win- deMille'saja, deMille wants."

And what deMille wanted he CARD Sende whether Mikeyan had heard The Squaw and The Squaw Man

moter from his top castle sten Churchill was to statesman- about this, but it is a pity that deMille dominated Hollywood.

usually got, even though the-two men, the Bolshevik, with

"Each has itu virtue? und on deMille drive to his lavish chip." He made the biggest, if not

each has its faults. That is cfice in the deMille building The evangelist Billy Graham Street bankers would claim that woman who had taught English

a the fellow was throwing millions at Lockwood Academy. the showman's touch, nod the

lims. lie spent

Fuld: "Mt deMille the the greatest,

pic on the Paramount loL Capitalist. Passerk-ribbed

There he would lay down the prophet in celluloid who had the way. tures."

After a spell at Penneyivania DeMille hindi Supreme Czar of show business, more money than any other xay the way with my

law to the 64 department heads, privilege of bringing me of told

Military College, the young did not neet en that Hollywood producer-director, but

(two the word of God to more people getting 10,000,000 back for every defille studied at the American muncranda ine ence: "People may say I DeMille altered the fece of dictate his lot.

down throughout the werkt than any millica he expended. am lavish, but they can't say Hollywood and helped to change sceretaries always took During Mikeyan's tour the I am wasteful.”

it from a Calerulan village to every word that deMille ever other men."

said) end prepared specches on a capital, Everyone Russian was inviting

Actually, akhough be spent including: to the Soviet Unices,

Ho was a plence, and pillar of "the right to work," the theels his movies, he Loren millions the beauteous Sephia

the Hollywood community, to which the demilie Founda-

fr Pelicul Freedin

until his death. jealous of is reputation and lon quick to reply to Insulu er dedicated

al the deMille modest man, would have liked version of the Ten The lunch criticism.

He always said: "My tastes Paramount this tribute, although tributes ments in 1923, Ahe in the table Mr dMille resented

story conferences, were being paid to him all his He was among the fast to use are simple. My greatest luxury charge that his films were often realaurant,

He was and frequent transcontinental adult life.

effect lighting, he pioneered the is the ability to dress in clean historically inaccurate.

and transworld calls.

Despilo his preoccupation camera boom, and he was clothes complete from the ski incensed by this rhyme:

He did not win many cullural with Biblical themes, deMille did among the first to use colour in out evey, day,

always said: "I not neglect sex-appeal. win my Ostars at the box-poe. fie put more women into bath- Every time I make a picture the tubs before cameras critics' estimate of the public other producer-director. drops another ion per knit.” bath in the film Cleopatra was

He could reel off statistles the biggest ever screened by DeMille was born in Ashfield, 70 pictures showing in 44 dr Mille or prchably anyone else. Massachusetts, and his father countries making

more than The National Association of wna Henry Churchill delic, $750,000,000, And although the Plumber said gratefully that who collaborated on plays with Samson bronzo tatuettes cluded him, doMille had given their industry the late David Belasco.

DeMille ho had a baserpent full of professional status in the eyes

was proud father's second name and seme- trophica, eerolls, eftations and of the world.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with u bid of three diamonds. What do you do now?

Answer on Monday

It is a fact that Miss Loren

DeMille's favourite was The with Khag of Kings.

"This was my greatest effort," actresses were frightened In his he and le ray, ripping his red

win extremly nervous deMlle. Many of his actors and

Is this film too tough

REPORT a complete stalemate between

the British film censor

and the company re-

for Britain?

leasing the controversial refused to pass it in its taking a firm stand. We cannot

new Susan Hayward present form,

film I Want To Live.

for

San Quentin's gas-

chamber is one of the is easier that way."

tu

I put in a call to Hollywood to talk to the film's producer, Mr Walter Wanger.

"I m shocked to hear that

I Want To Live has run Into trouble with the British cenzor," he said.

an In

Allow detalls of executions to be chown whether by gig ur "I only hope it wasn't just Susan Hayward's DCL-

any other method. Otherwise dumped into his lap without formance, as she is half-carried

we crente a precedent, and the some explanation as to the to the gas-chambar 10 writhe next thing we know there will incerity behind it. The film in This picture-a true to her death amid the cyanide be a cumera going into Wand- about capital punishment -- account

Isus important of party-girl tamer, is shattering erlough sworth to show a chap being and that"

stun the most cynient cinema- swung"

1u:uT

iri Britain na It is Barbara Graham's trial goer.

America. The death scene iz murder

and

But United Artists, who are the very part of the fin that "When you hear the pellets releasing the film, are equally moves people so much. subsequent execution in drop," ays the guard, strapping firm. As the film is being her into the death-chair, tuke

"What do they want us to do a deep breath and count ten shown uncut In America, Italy.

anil France where It has huve a happy ending with a tremendous acclain-they feet pong and dance? Two years' ce- it should not be cut in Britain. earch went into this picture-

und unless it is shown as it is. Says Mir Montague Morion, it should not be shown at all." managing director of the orm- greatest pany: This is the

So I Want To Live, a shatter- to win plea

sipped the abolkton of ing ricture

the best- capitat

ever netreed Hayward punishment made, and must be shown in actress Oscar award, goes back Ils entirety,

on the shelf. "We have advised the censor Originally. It was supposed to It is not our Interstion to boogt open in London last month. It as a senational film, although It is bound to wet me at cer Now It may be months before a

decision in tankly rested,

--Larkton non furoton),

most damning indiet-

ments of capital punish-

ment ever made.

'Terrible. Impact"

as the

Hoplica Hayward,

"Iow mounts:

bortor

But, because every detail you know?"

of the actual execution is It shocked the censor. shown-40 harrowing

Says John Trevelyan,

would

secre.

minutes climaxed by the tory of, the Bridal Board of dropping of the cyanide Fam Consors: pellets while a group of wilgahes peer In at the ribis impact upon me, and, fonte

The deals scenes had a ter- windows-the censor has while it is a una fim, wa aro theme,"

for

because of

awards and

than any The

a feature.

Command-

An actor

My favourito bot-

pastime is sitting on the tom of the ocean.”

An ow the man who made The Ten Commandments, The King of Kings, Sign of the Cross, Cleopatra, The Crusades, The Plaluanian, Union Pacific, and Delltals, Tha Greatest Show Ok Earth, of his and scores et eller pictures 13

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