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BY THOMAS

LIMELIGHT WISEMAN

There's no such

person as Peter Sellers!

IN a narrow street just off Leicester Square is situated the

Peter Selfers theatrical agency. It is an up-to-the-minute establishment, equipped with electric typewriters and dicta- phones.

In one of the offices sits the former chief accountant of an insurance company-now devoting himself to the higher arithmetic of show-business. If this should become too complex, he has a comptometer to help him.

Clently the Peter Sellers Theatclea) mency is a thriyhug though it has only one artiste on Its books, Peter Sellers.

"On the 10 per cent that I would have to pay to an Sellers, "I run this whole organisation."

concern even

agent," says

Mr Sellers, the brilliant social suboteur, has undoubtedly arrived. And in de luxe style,

From the linek of his Holis-Rogge (shortly to be repineed by a custom-built Continental Bentley' of "tanshicent red with white leather upholstery") he is able to conduct his negotiations by radio telephone.

I'm very gadget-minded'

telephone

You can reach hhn on his travels by ritizing a answering service (REG 2552) and asking them to contest "Blue 21." Of course you may have to hang un if he is busy on the other line.

"As soon my they have television for curs, PA be the Arst to get one put lo,” says Mr Sellers. "I am very gadget-minded. I an fold that gold is coming luck for bath taps--I must admit that has a secret append for nw."

You may consider such instal- Intions a trifle pretentious and unsuited to the personality of a Gaun. But Mr Sellers, hoving so effectively destroyed svery- body else's pretentions, is now In a position to Indulge Els own,

Possibly

witty he is so mocking the rest of us bremse he has been practising to long

himself. There is evidence of this when one hears him falk.

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thing Cerro Lavis had dug up. I can't anove; I can't talk; I'm a very odd bod,

Mr

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1959.

TICHELINE PRESLE is a French star who does not

stiere

says: "Never again. Ono can live with somebody for years and be perfectly happy. But thon ona gets married and it's not the same. Sometimes one wants to be alone. When you are married that is impossible, The only reason to marry is for money. Then, at least, you have a good reason to stay married. Love -that doesn't last.”

prietor. I pretended to be the Earl of Beaconsfield. I went to a hotel In Norwich and signed the register as hit Lordship,

NOW YOU'LL SEE OUR JUNGLE

SCHOOLS

-By

THOMAS WISEMAN

HOLLYWOOD in The Blackboard Jungle gave

+ us a view of the guerilla warfare that passes for education in certain American schools.

Now British Alm-makers the consor is a little too diffi- |Joseph Janni and Jack Lee are

proposing to provide us with cult for amoteurs, the inside story of similar schools in Britain.

1 report a change of atmos phere for starlet Yvonne The picture will

Furneaux, who has been acting be based in the flammer horror fim. on the real-life experienceS of The Mummy. She coloured tenocher ER. Braith-

is of 10 Rome to waite, whose boole

appear in dening Federico Fellini's with

The Sweel his tenching experi- Life, which deals with the ences in an East End school bitter side of high society.

Just been published iss FurnCAUX has already under the title To Sir, With appeared in two Italian Alme.

has

Love.

She tells tha

story

of what Mr Janni intends to bring happened during one of them. over coloured actor

The Sidney

producer and the Politer who appeared as a per- director had a Oght on the set. Beularly

nasty pupil in The The cameraman cleared a space Blackboard Jungle to play the for them and acted as reteres. part of the teacher.

The producer won when the Mr Braithwaite,

former director retired with a bleed- fighter pilot who is now a wel- ing nose,"

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fare officer, has a frightening This must have made # story to tell. His pupils know 655sion in one of the Hammer more and at first hand-about horror Alms almost a relaxing crime

and promiscuity than experience. about geography. He has to

fight them and their parents-

judice,

Miss Presla is in London making a film called

and also overcome colour pre- Producer Val Guest had Blind Date. It is about lova; but NOT about marriago.

to inforview dozens of toan- "It is a tremendous story and age singers before ho picked It wasn't exactly the normal we don't propose to make any Cliff Richards to appear in

alterations for the training an actor gels but these major early non-theatrical impersona-screen," said Mr Janni.

Expresso Bongo, which takes tions developed and sharpened Jean Simmons will be offered his talent far more effectively the part of a leather at the the mickey out of the whole than RADA could have done.

same school who falls in love business. But it was not a The only trouble is thal-in with the coloured master.

waste of time. "It gave us the process of these claborate

lots of additional incidents marquerades-his own person-

Brothers for the flim-funny ones," "I suppose it's significant," he

to use some real says Mr Guest. says, "that I still couldn't piny

love scene straight. There's nudists in a sequence of their

"In the evening there were two detectives waiting for me. only exist as the

LE various They said, 'We have reason They are believe that you aren't the Eart characters I erente, more

than ne. Sometimes I of Beaconsfield at alt. That you find myself seting in character are really Aircraftsman Secondly got lost among the masks. The Boulting

Class Sellers.

planned

'It's significant something about love scenes latest film I'm All Right, In the family

putting on a different person- allty to suit die oerariori. 19's a sort of self-defence, Fon: " was always like this. Never had much Jolth in my

"Isak, 'How did you find own personality.

my youth when 1 was out and they sald. The porter taking out girls, I always put on, thought it a bit shy that the

omne other

Earl of Beaconsfield should live personally. thought I was so uninteresting. In East Finchley and have I "Once I was courting the stock of Woodbines in his daughter of a fairground pro- luggage."

Max

"I have 30 personality, such. of my own," he says. "Max Byяraves Bygraves. But who am 1 I don't exist. With me as myseit - might be some third-rute

TEL

told

I

American actress Susan Kehner-in Britain for The Imitation

that's rather ridiculous to me:

Jack. After Interviewing I suppose I'm afraid that some- body will inugh, so I make them several local nudists they laugh by making 1 funny,"

Peter Sellers is a very like, engaged actors and actrossos the opening of able man, a very brillant man instead. It seems that to act and a very successful man. naturally and still hold dis-

The question is: Who is he?

creet poses acceptable London Express Services,

to

of Life that Equity, the actors trade union, was anxious to do away with the agents who take 10 per cent of their salaries.

Mills Perkins-who may wali tum out to be the dis- covery of the year-gets the full gala treatment for her film, The Diary of Anne Frank, when ik opena ly London in June. There will be once nightly perfor mances and the boat seats will cost £1 each,

Miille, oust as the teen ge heroine who has now become * legend, will fly to London for the premiers. the wES

unknown completely

and picked for the part from 10,000 giria, who applied for auditions

-(London Express Service).

Miss Kohner was shocked: The first im ha directed, a "I don't think that's a good idon short called The Bespuks Over- at all,

How would actors get coat, won a Hollywood Oscar. work if they abolish agents?” His second film, com at the Miss Kohner's father Is a Top, has won three Htiah very prominent American actors Academy Awards and goes ta

Cannes. agent.

I do not think any director can match the remarkable suc- cess story of Jack Clayton.

Good writing starts

with Quink

ARKE

And yet it was 10 years be- fore Clayton was Riven his chance to dirvet

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Signed on: Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

BY PETER EVANS

The dwindling

musicals

SLAPSTICK COMICS The Three Stooges are making big comeback in Hollywood after re-issue of their old films on American television. Comeback soute: Top Budget film "Have Rockat; Will Travel,"

DEBBIE REYNOLDS will send a wedding, present to Eddie Fisher and: Bizabeth:Taylor. VA

filver dinner service." Inscription? Says Debbie: “Probably Ili nieży, sy, To When It

may contera,***

AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT ONE

OF THE FEW HEALTHY SURVIVALS WHEN the film musical "Porgy and Bess" opens in Britain this sum- mer, cinemagoers may be seeing one of the last of the great Ameri can musicals. For after nearly 30 years as Hollywood's favourite money- maker the musical is being squeezed out of fashion and almost out of existence by the changing pattern of film economics.

The reason is simple, In the salad days of musicala

the number one Americans loved

America was market-and musicals, to the

box-office.

-Now Europe

No wonder

tune of by she's her

dominates the

elneme market, Flop

Europe and

financial

fold.

the chances

hown best friend...

ten- success tumble

And the Continent

does not

Hike American musicals. For one

good reason; you Cannol MYLE

TYLENE DEMONGEOT re-

successfully subtlile the aly

fuses to take herselt zuri- sophistication of lyrics in ously-which is rather novel for Gershwin or Porter or Rodgers a nim tetress. But her unin

bumour numbers, That is why the Bank hibited

puzzling Organisation suddenly pulled Pinewood film men, out of making the £500,000 For this beautiful Bardot Gene Kelly musical.

him he was much too fat. That made him laugh. But, of course, I meant IL I don't think he would have laughed so much if he had known thai

Co-

48he Im't at all sexy,

ANNE HEYWOOD, her stor in the new comedy "Up- stairg und Downstairs

Xel. Tut

I in true she undressER. she is really the sweet giri men Not at all tha want to marry, kind they would want an affair with,3

LAURENCE HARVEY, who, she maintains, does not attract her:-

The only Expression he seems to hayo is when he raises his eyebrows. Although he does bodied actron is often found that rather well I must admit,9 roaming the long executive suite Mylene Demongeot may not corridors imitating the "Singing have many show business And last night a top executive Dogs". Which she does rather friends. But she certainly of 20th Century-Fox--which well, actually.

MAYBE

mado *South

speaks her mind."

"Oklahoma!" and Mile. Demongeot is also apt to Pacific" — admitled admire herell will unguarded mom frankly: "We have Can admiration in mirrors, shop win- CARRY ON NURSE, British Can on our schedule, Maybe dows, and other refective our- we will make it one day. May- faces.

shoestring, comedy hit, has

be wo won't. My jucas is we Occasionally she has been broken "every record for any won't."

heard to murmur, such ecstatic picture, British or American, But producer Samuel endearments to herself as: "You Goldwrn is taking no chances are so lovely. I love you. You're on the ABC circuit." Saye with his £2,500,000 Porgy irresistible.”

ABC boss D. J. Goodlatter and Besa” He has signed THE OTHERS *"It proves there is a bigger

some of the finest talent,**

Sidney: Failler, brillian, Negro She does not feel the same public than ever for films of atar, plays the crippled beggar about some of the people she popular appeal.”

comie ★ AMERICAN Porgy. Dorothy Dandridge, of knows. For instance: "Carmen" Jones" plays. Bess, отто PREMINGEE, the King turned down a bis, Singing star Baarimy Davis director for whom she made part in the Rod Biolger Alm Jurk," plays Eportia' · Life, and "Bonjour Tristeswe*um.

BAL Capona. "Bak King ---Ponti Hailey: -plays a dramatio *GELO, Korak somming hà mìn, de “How could if plakiteo.sule? and almost non-anging role sa 1 fola, bim ly was no good bus, Heck, the ash was my best natria, that ownie. of the care anumu ihn bender hon pelled the Island. $70 grew up together on: Caifah Row."

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THE PARKER PEN COMPANY

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