1959-04-11 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1959,

AT 52, WHY TRY

TO BE YOUNG?

BY marrying a woman

old enough to be his wife, George Sanders has dealt a harsh blow to the youth-addicts, the elixir and tonic boys,

To be your age, when it hop- pens to be 52, is something that italy is not done If you are a A star. and Mr Sanders has let the side down rather badly. He has married a woman of 52. the widow of Reald Colman, und abandoned all plans for growing old disgracefully.

50.

To recognise that, after you have reached the point of tro return Is, lo sny the least, uncharacteristic of mule 111 uctors, who usually maintain they can continue as romantle Bloks until they are dend, if not Jumper.

Exception

Mr Sunders is the exception. It is possible, of course, that after having been married

for

five years to Za Zra Gabor old age holds no errors for him,

Elstruc When I saw him at studios recently, where hự is Tooch Baking & Alm called

tøver

of Larceny, Mir Sanders was conrelentiously, preserving what- remains al his youth, After each shot he returned to his dressing room and stretched out full length on a couch. At times he looked not merely tranquilseri but positively nnaesthetised. He spoke slowly and reluctantly at first, with an air of infinite" baredom,

"Mast

we go on with this dreary subject?" he said after the first 20 minutes.

"I'm sorry you feel that way about yourself," I said. "I shall do my best to make you sound mure Interesting than you are,“

Of the

understanding he agreed to continue, provided we did not talk about his psycho-

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

21

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END, 6061 Here is a position from actua! play; "hite to move and win.

London Express Service.

-asks George Sanders,

the reluctant actor

Limelight

by

THOMAS

WISEMAN

too

Dilyst who was getting much publicity anyway.

Hid carrent weariness was partly due to the fnet that he had just Brished

auto- blography.

It is 35,000-word sagu call- ed Retken from Desuritude: de- spelute, he explained, mennt falling into disuse. The outo- blography which Miss Gabor is currently writing would, he Bhought, he considerably longer. But, of course, she hadn't been Troubled with desuctude,

Mr Sanders raised bored eyks to the celling. "The driving force of my life," he said, "has been laziness. I can see no vir- tie in hard work. doubtedly true that not working reultų Tay inek of selpline, But what is wrong with inek of discipline? The noratists will tell you that it leads to feelings of futility and uselessness, In my avinion that is, precisely what work lends tu

After this burst of loquacity he went to the piano outside his dressing rean and played re- cuperative musle tor 10 minutes. Sultably replenished after this interlude, he was able to cope. with further questions.

my intellectual superior. Yes, I Attractive think that is a most quality--it also hus rurity value. I would say she is the met only woman I have ever who is my intellectual superior,

" am looking forward to He was lucking forward, he

pebecful old nge: age blls you sald, to an inactive sold age. "1 mil of a sudden one day when have no desire to

appear you are walking upstairs and younger than I really am. When

want to be ready fer it. Mean- old and crippled with while, t I am

ani determinedi tu mithritis I wont everyone to cherish all my ills: I am сол- know, So that they will be kind vinced that the secret of

Mr Sanders gald that the Impression we used to have of him as a fast-living, cynical, perennial bachelor was just M facade. What, I asked, had per- suaded him to drop 12

•

"I didn't,” he sold, "it just crumbled away."

am

told that Orion Wellas behaved with unusual restraint while making Ferry Ho only ro- wrote his own part. And not even the whole of that.

to me and help ine across the longevity is to have something To Hongkong.

wrong with you most of your

rond.

"I don't subscribe 10 this life. business of artificially preserv The man who suffers from ing one's youth. All this face lumbago locks after it. It is the lifting that some actors of my terribly healthy people who are age go in for Ugh! Eventually able to un-

zombic. you look like a

And the trouble is, you know, if you look young, people expect you to behave like a young man, which is very firing. You find yourself running after buses and women and pretending you hoven't got arthritis Just to krop up the Muston.

"As you will have gathered. I'm no madly excited about being an actor. As an art I'% rather like roller-skating: once you know how to do it. It isn't particularly stimulating Intel- lectually; it is not very exciting; it decuples a lot of time that might be more profitably played,

Cen-

How? Well, just not acting. Not to be an actor is, I think a most worthy ambition and what is more I have real vocation for it. I intend to re- tire soon, in a couple of years, and become a dilettante.

"Anything you have to do for money is a bare: the trouble is you are obliged to do it well. That is all right for the fanaties who play to posterity, but I am nt a serious man. in not

interested in world affairs or serious Issures. I am prepared to leave those alers in bands less competent than adne.“

FOUR D. JONES

FOUR CASES OF

BEANS THAT JUST

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Determined

drop dead. Look at Tyrone Power, in the full flower of his manhood. He was always in such perfect physical condition, he didn't take CATE of himself.

"He would go out drinking and stay up all night. He died in better health than most of 115 ever know. 1 no longer have any wish to ve heclically: I was married for Ave years to Miss Gabor and

enough." "The advantage of marrying

a woman of your own age us I have done is that you have communication. With

wha A who is mych younger then yourself you have no com-. munication, the marriage has to hold together purely on the basis of attraction.

"Of course, one can be mar- ried to a woman with whom it is an advantage not to have any communication--there are all sorts of marriages. There are marriages that are merely 11 child-producing arrangement. Only the most elementary kind of communication is necessary In such CASUS, But * want companionship.

"My wife is a very wonder- ful woman; the is undoubiędły

HARD LUCK WILBUR VMY BOY, BUT DONT WORRY

LAD, WE'LLGET THIS JACK

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I'VE FOUND

BED JONES WE'LL TAKE THAT 100.

OH WHAT YOU SAID.

WELL, I'VE NOVER

** BEEN SOANEDITED

IN ALL MY INDIAN,

LIFE... GOODBYE!

GATINHAT VER

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_DOZIME GONNA PLENÍ. THEGE MINKS Szy nigh THATS WHAT I'M GONNA

BO,JED MATE,

Now

Mike Todà, Jun.

enough

Success...

Robert. Morrill, the man who wrote the music of New Girl in Town, based on Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christle and is now work- ing on the score of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage has not always operated such a lofly plane.

Return Of Mike Wilding

by SARAH

ROTHSCHILD

FICHAEL WILDING,

Mhose screen

career

was slipping and presumed finished just six months ago, has made a remarkablé return to Britain.

As he called in with his

blonde, cockalite wite Kusab.

hin agent was standing by with three big offers from flim_pro- ducers. And Wilding can think 12 minutes in small part given to him, by an old friend for salvaging his career,

Once one of the biggest draws In British Alma, he now geta his name up with the star billing again but on the lowest rung... In

the current prison comp thriller "Danger Within,"

True, ho Is Hated na "guest Mar," but most people presumed that

old Ilme's was just for sukt,

His fans

Yet those 12 minutes have started an upsurge of interest in Wilding. Fan mail is flowing Into the studios for him. And on a social level the Wildings are pulling on the Mayfair style.

When they were In Britain alx months ago it was supposed 10 bo

Mrs a farewell visit. Wilding the former Susan Nell -sold she was selling her

£35,000 house in Belgravia.

Now the news is that they will move into a new flat In Grosvenor Square. And they are planning ON

to stay at Jensi six months,

Producer Colin Leslie, who gave Wilding is come-back Within," chance "Danger loid us:

He Arst achieved success as author of a thing called How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?

the

is

-the sweet 'smellie'

MIKE TODD, Jun., in London prepar- Ing the first "imallie," Scent of Danger, fold me: "It is unfortunate that the word smell has a distasteful connotation in the English language. All smells are not bad smells. In our film we shall only use pleasant odours-like the odour of floweri, perfumo, the occan,”

It looks as though Mr Todd's film is going to small the world through rose- filtered nostrils.

by MADDOCKS

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"I am working now on a new sercenplay for Mike. I am sure that his old star quality is still there.

simple "He slipped for the Teeson that he was savagely It's wonderful to see him rising miscast in Hollywood pletures. again."

Sacrifice

He

Other friends give a more blunt reason for Wilding's career crack-up. They say sacrificed his acreen stardom for Elizabeth Taylor.

He had to

to kollow her America when

they married, And for five years, while her fume flared brighter, he

watched his floundering.

own

career

He was so littery when he returned to London two years ago, after the divorce, that he needed hypnosla before he felt able to play lix Noel Coward's "Nudo with Violin." Yet he never once blamed anyone · fur the blight on his career.

His comeback? Count the jufluence of his third wife, Susan. A close friend explained; "Mike has always had fatent, even during the difficult times. But he needs the sort of wife who can give him confidence, and he has found her."

----London Express. Service.

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