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CHINA -MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1959.

Lauren Bacall on Safari

JOHN

LAMBERT

BIG-NAME

HUNTING IN

INDIA

WHY

DOES THIS

BAND JHAWKEY

This is the restless ever moving world of Lauren Bacall; the world of films and high society. ...the tinsel, starlit, often insincere world where 10 woman seeks the real, the secure, against exotic back- grounds. This is the latest report on this uneasy state by man-on- the-spot JOHN- LAMBERT

THE ORACLE TELLS BACALL: YOU'LL

MARRY SOON

JAIPUR, India.

17 ENNETH MORE met the mystic because A most of the fortune-tellers here have got into the habit of following Lauren Bacall. They need no crystal ball to know their palms will be crossed with crisp notes by doing so,

MASSAGE FROM THE SET DOCTOR FOR A TIRED STAR

Kenny More seemed to slip into a key trance.

She is somewhat contrary She cruated: "And lots of Huck about her consultations to tar" le that.

She bag bren fuld that a roa with these soothsayers.

with the initial "W" will be

"Hist! ! master," exclaim- "Listen, they don't fool me oking on hir

"You have the favour wilh

cd the mystic, any," she says. "I know she answered, wryly: "Well, 1 Gargoyles on your countennaze!? that most women only go to rap only think of Warner "EN" What Heavens, is it

dangerous?" a fortune-teller at the end Brothers of an unhappy love affair, when they are lonely, when some man keeps them guessing about his tions."

inten-

Nevertheless, she never anys "No", to a palmist with a provocative line of palter.

of thing "This surt been happening to me since I was 18," she says,

has

"I was having tea in the Gipsy Tea Rooms in Brouk lyn at the same time and sure enough the gipay lady herself came over and rend my ten leaves,

"Shr

The truth

tole me all Things that came true,

at

surts

[How I

was going to get a modelling job. which certainly didn't know hotel. How I was going to go to Californiɛ. which couldn't have been further, from my mind at the tiv. Even how I was going to get married,

"Needless to say she is one Kipsy

I have been trying

And again ever stare, Without

In Connection with that and Mr Jack Warner is a happily married grandfather!"

The Great Allom touk special cars to nuke his convert Mr More feel at

"Hav wished to tell you many most wonderful things." he purred,

pase.

Gargoyles

"You

win, master," he said. have egg sign 'M' in palm. This means you have Money, Luxury, and Love in life, All time you like these things."

"Well, now 1 suppose he's got a couple of points there," con- ceded the customer. "Of course I'm well off, and glad of it. But what some folks don't reallso about flm stars is that we get big money but no collateral,

"Luxury? I don't love "that, The only home my wife and 1 have is our fint in London.' Äh, yes, I do have a Rolls-Royce car and do enjoy having that. Jut the point is that's a symbol of cehlevement for me, some- thing that stunds for where I've got to from having nothing. ut I don't want yachts or thing like that.

Love?

"Love? Yes. That

very much.

I want

But not the sort of wildly emotionat kind."

The mysle sensed he had struck a lucky streak "AIL rod things start, master, with present Missus. Make complete change in luck and life,"

FOR KENNETH MORE. SOME NOTES FROM

AN AUDIENCE AND AN INDIAN ORACLE

"Heavens, that's what I'm thant his hoping, agreed Kenny More. My neig cerint moals last seven years. expelly anniher After that I want to become director,"

divided into sections. Then he "You know, he's absolutely

Kenny #essed, correctly, right" exclaimed More, "Everything changed for customer was 44 years old, me when I married "Bill"

He added, in velvet tones: It gave me the Most changed 100.

fortunate news which umotional security netded..master has been waiting for will And the common-sense back- come within six weeks, in con-

rection with profession,

ground an actor needs."

some

Also

20

Lauren Bocall was slightly

details of the session.

The Great Allam produced you will cross sens to America ritated when she heard the

Indian dler.

w year," "Pleuse throw, master," he Instructed, Then he tut-tutted,

"Muster lucky in life, but not lucky gambler," he pronounced.

out of "Must never

move

resent profesajan,"

"Worry not," soothed the seer. "With to tell you Gargoyles most Lomantic sign. Means subject is most sought after by ladies. Purification of subject'a heart makes ladles happy."

"Oh, no! You have the "How right he is," sighed Mr More. "I'm the world's worst wrong subjeci, Mr Allam," pro-

P I always lose Then he gumbler. tested Kenny More. turned to me. "Oh, the must pocket whenever I try to suve up for a rainy day by promoting ladles, you nican my leading

things." know. Kalle Kendall, Vivien "Leigh, Jayne Mansfeld, Lauren.

The mystic moved in closer. polas, muster," he said.

nt study your countenance 13. not afraid it murmur...

mas tines I see things that ruch amaze me.”

"Oh, yes, I usually get on very well with them.""

The mystic took hold of his hand, "You are most lucky

Logan

WHO KNOWS

fuck I've certainly met plenty BACK in London after meeting the Shahinshah, King of Kings, Emperor of Persia, I encoun-

of others, though!

people who have moments offered another Middle East monarch, the King of

Mine But mostly Jordan.

was a brief encounter.

mystical for sight,

I think it is just luck. Wonen Maureen Swanson's was not so brief.

bave certain basle situations Heilver Most fortune.

Lome of them."

Miss

The mystle squatted in the middle of the Tom, with his back to Kenny More, He asked him to write down any numbers he chose to on a plece of paper

Change

"Well, I'm blowed!" allowed Mr More "Negotiations are going on now for me to star with Doris Day in the Alm version of Roar Like Dove. I'd love to do it, and I should know whether it will work out in about six weeks' time,"

The seer peered again at the palm before him see big change in earcer ne In seven years time, but still remain in rame profession," he divulged.

MAN'S MORBID, MACABRE MIND MAKE MONEY?

THE mild-mannered young American in the

grey flannel suit and button collar shirt. blinked his eyes sadly at my question. "Depraved?" he echoed. "Oh, some of my songs are sick-but only three or four are depraved."

He gave a small, college boy mile. "Of course, I'm not really depraved myself, you know," he went on. "I'm only in it for the noney. And, uh-hum, there's lots of money these days in being sick, sick, sick!"

.

Mr Tem Lehrer, the young He has also discovered that Iran who Was the mesl In the morbid schicol of show tcnsied Arrival

London business new material is not yesterday, has found thet next 83ity. "I haven't written a there is big money- the new red skoce 1931, he ad- chance to make a biz social mitted. "It's onder to find new splash - to be antide ircen

entiles than acw songs."" having morbid mind these days. So have a lot of others.

His rise

rise. to Consider the rapid inches-cushioned notoriety of this apple-cheeked mathematics tuler. Alrest in a breestick, you might sky.

Not so long ago he was mathematics low at Harvard, the heme of wheles me Ameri-

can manhood in the making.

A

But between formalan Mr Lehrer was writing, and singing, "Hendish parodies of all things

sweet and sortimentul. 1

"Why, that two-timer, in turban! sho exploded. crossed his palm with 30 rupees. I gave him reference too. And he didn't tell me half of rauch ns he fold you, I must Nat go and and him again, that I'm fooled by any of it; of

course.

"But still!"

MONDAY: Jewels-and the itch to buy

-(London Express Service),

Gourlay

AND TELLS (IN HIS OWN UNMISTAKABLE WAY!)

about 11 times tu all."

1 seen them and met 'them workmen had taken off for a

moment.

It averages 7t. in length and 150lb, in weight, and it produces about one-eighth of its weight In caylor.

of Arianske book "Flying

A sturdy symbol of democracy

SECRETS OF

Mr Desmond Leslie, en-author Saucers Have Landed," "Inter- rupted to say: "We met our A STURGEON

when I saw George oft un a

ain at Paddington."

knew he wan one the moment i

sellers are likely to louclan She was the late night dancing companion of King Ranch look over t Hussein on his lust night in London during the week. The King spent the early part of the evening with Princess Alexandra and the Duchess of Kent seeing "The Pleasure of His Company" at the Haymarket Theatre.

next

None of which stops her from at least sizing up the myte who happens along.

Not that there is much hope

of steering clear of the seers in Indan. They swarm in every bazaar, they settle like locusts on tourists. They have a sliding scale of charges depending on the curiosity of the customer,

Fortune-Teller

By midnight he was giving the pleasure of his royal company to Miss Swanson in the Milroy, that discrectly lit club in Hamilton Place where Princess Margaret some- times goes.

The compactly-built king Miss Swanson home to Belgrav). danced on the crowded floor He had a final drink and left. with the pelite Miss Swan-

But Kenneth More's mystle son, was rather special. He is the hein! fortune-teller to the Rembagh Palace in Jaipur..

11 name is the Great Allam.

He a large, loquacious man

lavish brochure of

seen him. From Venus he was.

I left without shaking hands, THE FLYING

The types

Further fascinating informa-

three DEFORE I left Persia 1 met ren; there are

of imperial of sturgcon: the oscietre, the cavior, the Shar of the bolu, and the sevgan form sturgeon.

the very best caviar, which is which ocensionally grey and

for that used to be reserved

runnet Stalin, it should be an a cietro sturgeon.

Read on, even if you are No, nothing about his appear- arabe Just like you and me, unluck enough not to have But I can tell right away from griglia enviar. You may get There's a the tasty. Anyway, I have a

Of course, it must be a lády the handshake. speelal secret handshake," few surprising facts to impart surgeon-as the song suys, a the Shal, virgin sturgeon-since caviar, as 5 conveyed by Mohammed All Hamjani.

you should know, is simply the He told me first of all the

sturgeon's, eggs, which have to he

Government chief he removed before. It delivers Wus end that caviar ins now them for tellsing by the male. national'ced industry

I am desolated to report that I realise that this is a fact the Shab let me go without Not on bloated presenting, a sample: MET the Duke of Primo de capitalets to choke оп their punce. Not one tiny cig.

Final fact, which didn't Rivera ng he was leaving B next mouthful of caviar, but

End club the other there it is, Caviur, like Deltish really surprise me. When I Wist

На was with Mrs Italways, nationalised,

asked the Shah about his per night.

The Shahi sald: "Tha Govern- sonal consumption of caviar, he Greville Bell. Her husband was grunted a separation order ment took it over about seven said: "I do not like the stuff." He walked alone and un- recently. The duke was named, years ago, when the concession guarded up Hamilton Place

Unguarded

VISIT 2

I

Ex-star

At the door he dismissed his

car and the private detective who had been waiting for him.

She is 25, an ex-ballet dancer Tutk ex-star of the

which

may

calise

towards the Dorchester, a few duty said: "I'm not offelally Russians for 25 years ran out.

As they walled for a taxl the which we had given to the NOT FOR ME Endred yards distant.

.

PERSIA'S

Π

who always looks as if he has Sust parked his magic carpet and also uround the corner. His board is Rank film organization. Of late

Prime Minister, allkily black. His 'eyes are ringed she has been busier socially

in London. I don't even know

-The best

Dr Eghbal, who looks like with kohl, his plump handy are

than she has been histrionically, rich with rubies.

The king was enc-und-a-half- the name of this club,"

lighter-skinned version of He currice

I told him it was the Stork "Most people in the West are "Hutch," gave me this advice at тестелес She owns a £12,000 house in hours late for his plane, which

Ife added: "I under was due to leave the same Club, London. she has

that a party; the impression Among them Belgravia where

haven't zeen Mrs Greville Bell eaviar in Russian: They are "Don't smoke-I suck mints. Commis- Iligh

entertained the king to tea- morning at 10 am

for a long time." Stewart, and

wrong. The largest supplies and Don't drink alcohol--I take drives 2 blue sports

He then drove off in a taxl the best ccine from Persia. You Coke, Work hard-I start at Debra Paget, Borbara Cart- and

with Mrs Greville Bell,

can't, of course, have caviar six in the morning and usually without the sturgeon, and the carry on t eight at night."

are

frem celebrities.

several

sioners, James

lend, the novelist

and mother Mercedes (registration number THE FLYING

of Lady Lewisham, was a more MS190). shrewd reference writer than

At about 3 a.m. the king and

most. She scribbled her thanks Miss Swanson made their exit.

on her own publicity brochure.

sonal bodyguard betund with

VISIT-1

The king, who left his per- MET Mr George Adamski, Kenny More was formerly a

the authority on flying Arm believer in not seeing

blonde lady friend, said: "I saucers and visliers from other fortune-tellers. He was coaxed have had a wonderful evening. Hands. to see the Great Allam only Sorry I didn't get a chance to

An after hearing the intriguing play the maracas tonight." insight the mystic had given

..

THE STURDY SYMBOL

I told him 'politely I didn't want to be a Prime Minister, INTELLECT

slurgeon is a fish which profers cur end of the Caspian Sea."

Last year the country pro- duced 142 tons of caylar. Thirty tens were exported to Europe, DRIVING through The Mall about 35 tons to America, ond

on my first day in London I the reat to Ituzain, Amerlean of Polish saw the workmen erecting the The export price is roughly ancestry, he makes his odd decorations for the Bhah of £5 per pound, so you can work He had played the 'marneas claims with on air of modest Persian Bite visit next wack, out what you are paying in She has been told that she one evening last week when he conviction, Hix English is 0 Before being hoisted to the próft when you buy that tiny Literature at Teheran Univer- will marry again before the end was there without Miss Bwan- tile alipahod, but then be mar top of Augpoto, one of the portion.

be confused by space codes huge-crowns lay on the ground, In my ignorance I have al- He did not quota of this year. She enirmatically to that,

which he says he uses. I 'anked. A gilitering wýmijol of monarchy, ways thought that the sturgeon Within 15 minutes the kirg Alm if he had met many

was- UTRounted by a was a small fish, but the Shah was back in the club after seeing visitors, .7

checked cap which one of the gave me, lis vital statisticm,

into Lauren Bacall's futuro,

nodderen.J

She has been told that sho will have three more children,

MET an intellectual-looking geallanan at an emboray re- eepilon." Ho told me that he had studied in England and that he was a post and Professor of

zily:

Khayyam et me ce, discuss T. S. No Eliot. He asked me how the Arsent were getting ongry!

His feverish Imagination saw the bes. things in life as broken frauds in a savage mirror..

But the "Sick, Sick Stek!" craze keeps spreading. 1 started with Charles Addams, cartocals with a technique of pulling Neanderthal roasters and wary witches in the draw- ing room.

Now the current top attrac- Hon in the crowded night out ccllars of New York is a lossy, lugubricua young man with face called Mori Sahl. He is tho leador of the death and destruc- tion league, with n particular perebant for. nice, a jokes about nuclear explosions.

As he stands in the spotlight Sahi purrs: PC's noky here. Fait-cut, probably,"

His cash Why should being morbid make so much money? Mr Lehrer allowed himself a shell,

A seemingly tender ballad, "I Hold Your Hand In Mine,

turned Dear,"

cut to be a brutally comic piece

ubout Đ murderer holding a chopped-off lightly sinister chuckle. "Be-

can people souvenir. The cld feiks al hone

themselves – in such And a were dopo 'peddlers.

answered. cheerful Irish jig had ca ̃noge in every cadenza.

cause

recognise stuff," he

41 (nd that people aro not offended by the sort of congs i

All of which has finished up making Д fortune fcT Me sing. In fact, they're proud to

Lehrer. In two weeks' ine, at a bid charity ball In. London, Tom will take a big-social leap from his morbid tritanas.

His fan

say that they're sick too. They come up and give me the 'sick handshake."

I would like to think that the satanteal' style of Lehrer's honour will not be welecmed here. But already you can, hear He will mret cne of his many people telling "Cruellies." Lehrer A admiring fans: Princess the scr of ickes that

money- Margaret. The Princess, with a and the other marble satirical sense of humour that makers are selling.

Lehrer, häuselt, is, weary of has cite privately poked at protocol, was co keen

on being woeful. Lehrer's manic style. of laughter "I'm mune now to all the that the coked tor an aga lng," he said. "I'm

re bored with them, too, autographed long-playing

"in two years' lime I want to to something Mr Lehrer was polite, but not settle dawa Eurprised ol such a social rensible ke being a mathe- honour for his Lando vit. " alles teccher." came to London," he murmured, He gave a mall, bleak smile "because I understand it is the and added: depraved centre of your country, all stili cround here then, of

"And I hear that people here course."

*cora.

ort

a lot more broadminded

then they are in America."

"That's if we are

J. L.

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