1959-07-31 — Page 4

Weekend Selection

by Friell

Cousing GOOD

SOCIALIST

Marriss Congratulat

"I, too, would like to send a wire to Mr. Cousins-tell

me, what is the opposite of a Greetings Telegram?"

ANIMAL

LOVERS

WELFARE

and

PROTECTION

ASSOCIATION

A FINL

RUSSIA FORLE

ANDA

"Mr. Briginshaw, you must keep the national news- papers going-our members are all writing a tremendous number of letters to editors!"

Craze for hypnotism worries the doctors

New York.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1959,

HOW BARDOT

HAPPENED-2 The Picture and

this man Vadim

ONE LED TO

THE OTHER AND LAUNCHED THIS PHENOMENON NOW CALLED SIMPLY 'B.B.”

THE EFFECT of Brigitte Bardot on the world has been therapeutic; a time- ly tonic just when it was needed. Proving the point, her public has in only a few years become universal. Her films have been mostly French, but her message was international. In Paris recently a famous reporter talked to Brigitte Bardot's mother, who told for the first time how her The begin- daughter was started on a career nobody could have foretold. ning came when the picture on the left above was published in a French magazine, and led to the man who launched her film career and became her husband-Roger Vadim. Now Brigitte Bardot's mother tells the ex- tent of Vadim's influence over her daughter..

BY JOAN HARRISON

I. admire

"MY ex-son-in-law Vadim is an odd fellow in many ways, but I have never been

jealous of his influence over Brigitte. I'm still very friendly with him. his intelligence, but that has never stopped me from saying what I thought about him, or he about me, for that matter.' So says Mme. Bardot.

"A lot of nonsence has been written about Vadim acting as

A SPREADING epidemic of "quick and easy" moulding her

courses in hypnotism has the U.S. medical profession worried. The American Medical Associa- tion is leading a drive to warn both practitioners and patients alike that they are "playing with dynamite."

Per

PRIS) AURANIA

(UNJA"LIDING DESI

Numbers of Americuas are

દર્દી being

Lo believe that typantiem will help them solve almost any problem from smoking caling too

OF

mush to playing a better game

of golf or increasing one's sex appest.

The danger

As reports of extraordinary hypnotic

latest

Successes are

the practitioners

for demand

result is that

mercases.

to Brigitte two years Inter on December 20 and moulding her into a com- 1952. pletely different being. That's Mme. Bardot's distrust of the At the time be Aln world nearly put an end to no true at all.

right met Brigitte he was anxious to Brigitte's film career inunch his own career, 35

the start. in He saw young people are. Brigitte & means of doing 50.

"They were in love, and for him it was both a personal and

Loves life

Vadim is the source for this

Sophie. And the way she spoke almost it seemed in whole phrases from my book."

Brigitte's first film test wom'i really successful, but by then she and Vadim were in love.

Vadim maintains he did not create her personality. He says: "I didn't even really develop it It was there all the time."

And what really is that per- a professional relationship. Like information. Her mother's dis- a tandem bicycle, you know.

trust had so influenced Brigitte sonality? Her mother explains to Vadim it this way: "She loves lite for confessed "He made her give

And I thank up her that she

he had Arst i it bringe her, dancing lessons and leave school fater that when

the family's Passy heaven sometimes for the good sense that has always saved her before the had got her Barhet.

The French equivalent of the apartment when her muther was

away, she had kept him de- at the last minute from making school leaving certificate.} wanted her to go on with her liberately in the hall-in case appalling blundera."" dancing and get her Bachot he made off with the silver.

But Vadim, then assistant to Mare Allegret, director film couldn't get the girl out of his nind.

I

come

10

circu-

KRY

The

after all a diploman is always a diploma. But Brigitte was in

every love and wanted to do

Brigitto became engaged

"She was the Ilving Image of first novel, to the heroine of my

"quickte" the

Lunch.. $5.00 EXUESIN-Some of them requiring thing he wanted."

Eat To Your

Hart's Content

COLD TABLE BUFFET

With Coffee $3.00

only three days' study-pre et- tracting eager students.

"The greatest danger of these short-cut courses in hypnolism." sale! Dr Harold Rosen, paychiatrist and

professor

ft

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John Hopkins University "is that they do not Include instruction In paychedynamics

Pychodynamics is the selence

of the motivation of human be-

Music by "MARTY"haviour, and without it, hypnosis

At the Hammond Organ

CLOSED

TO-NIGHT

Reserved for

is potentially dangerous."

In spite of is dangers, these

are soane of the "minor miracles"

bring claimed for hypnotism:

the mercurial White Russian written when I was a boy," he "I called it "The Wise when she was 18. They married says.

Just Fancy That!

Toronto. that they are much better delvers and pedestrians than their menfolk. In Ontario, says Ethel McLellan, the first woman to be employed by mitsister the Rev. J. Douglas the Ontario Transport Department to survey and advise on

CANADIAN Women acein to be trying to prove

A Fundamentalist southern

Gibson, hypnotises his parah-

make

God."

Joner "by the hundreds-lo them feel closer to Many of them are also allegedly cured of nail-biting in the process

A

Florida woman motorist

SWISS NATIONAL DAY "hypnotist

Private Dinner Dance

COCKTAIL LOUNGE

open as usual

Featuring

"MARTY!!

At the Hammond Organ

For Your

Drinising Pleasure

OPEN TILL 2 ARL.

TEL. 2440G

who kep! falling her driving sis was ut is a "medium- deep trance state" by u man who described himself as a nnd consulting psychologist." She passed her next test.

-(London Express Service).

[DAYER)

Parasitic skin disease, aching czema etc

*Mitigal

CIL A CÍMEN

•

»Bayer « LEVERKUSEN

GERMANY,

women's driving, 25 per cent of the Iloensed drivers are women, but only nine per cent of acetilents are caused by them,

And in British Columbla, the BC. Automobile Association says in a survey ihat seven out of every 10 pedestrians küiled in street accidents were men.

Mrs McLellan explains it all in a pamphlet for MEN drivers:

"By their nature women are more despite the fact that this annoys the meu.

Very shrewd

When they were married-Vadim and Brigitte. They say he was her Svengall. Says Vadim: "ller personality was there all the time.

didn't develop R”

"St. in her heart, she loves being a celebrity and she loves naking Alms. She plunges foto ench one with great enthusiasm. But she depends a lot on diree-

on good director makes good actress out of her."

Vadim maintains that Brigitte likes to excite men. "She likes to feel A sentimental, and sensuous tension around her, he said.

According to him she has gone a long way from her up- bringing and environment.

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Mme Bardot holly denies this. "Briglite was born under the sign of Balance (In the English

charts Balance horoscope Libra, September 22 to October the 213, and she takes after She sign. She is a balanced person." "She's not so sure of herself." tays Vadim, "although she's un exhibitionist by nature."

Some of the things she says

appear stupid. make her len's at all. She is shrewd little girl.

very

But not, perhaps, as shrewd

TLS all that. For although

God "And

Created Woman" made over 4.000.000

I think Brigitte the girl 15 dollars probably all of the things that

In the United States, and both her mother and Vadim sec her film Une Parislenne in her.

£250,000 in France alone, until recently Bardot Was only getting £15,000 à Am.

"She's the Incarnation of sen- suality" in Vadim's opinion.

"She's not really tempera- mental," says Mama, "that's all taise, and only on the curface. At heart she's still the little bourgeoise she always was."

'The phenomenon of Bardot the stor A probably best described by Yadim: "She Is a photographic phenomenon," he says, "Most of her success is due to the fact that sho 100 per cent photogenic."

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In the Inst five years Brigitte has made 20 different lms. None of thom has really had a good Press in France and some To illustrate her point Mme of them have been frankly bad, Bardot recounts that recently when her daughter arrived She was launched as stor in St. Tropez where Mme Bardot material at the 1953 Cannes Film also has a house, Brigitte's Arst Festival, not by the festival's words of greeting were organiser, but by the photo

nphera of all nationalities.

"Practically every she makes la photogenic," peats Vadim. :"

cautious on the roads, "Mummy, have you got the pink

sheela from the laundry yet?”.

"Women look before they move when driving. This sense of precaution stems from the hazardous conditions under which they have to drive.

Most men travel, the same route at the same time to and "from"work and when there are few-children-on-the-streets. Most women drive in the suburbs when the sirests are crowded with children and they have to be more careful."

chance, women are

But given the particularly on Canada's super highwaya,

"I said: "Ieally, Brigitte, haven't you got anything else on your mind but sheets?

"She always has some funny story to tell us and nets it out until she has us oil in stitches,

"Vadim has a tortured per sonality. He was brought up like that. There Wes always that difference between them. Brigitte tried very hard to turn

I

herself into what he wanted, love and anxious to picase. because she was in

"The real Brigitte is a laugh- ing. happy girl full of practical Jokes and enthusiasm."

THE END

THIS FUNNY

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LADIES SHOES

KED. DAHÅN

"It's a trick mirror

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makes their feet look smaller!"

re-

movement

Jolly bomb

I know my daughter," says Mme Bardot. "We have always been Q united "family arict Brigitte's "first marriage and carcer has not mennt that I picture much faster drivers, have scen

of her qulie Woman" became the contrary."

London,

TOM seientists at Harwell have discovered a new way to A sterilise medical equipment. They are, using rays from "rpent" uranium fuel rols, while the rods "cool off" - after... die charge from reactors.

The technique has led to the invention of a revolutionary, ebeap hypodermic syringe-with a needle made of plastic. For the Faye k off bacteria without using heat.

Hundreds of pairs of rubber gloves from hospitals-which would melt if bolle-are being sterilised in this way. Experi- ments have started to treat entile food in the same way,

Little

Mama's girl

It was not

"And

until Vadim's God Created pensationat coess in the United States that French cinemagoers began to wake up to Brigitte, the film star, as against Brigitte as a newspaper story,

Facts help to check Mo And it was about this time, Bardot's maternal sentiments, too, that her marriage began tó For Brigitte's Paris. apartmcat break-up.

away is just a stone's throw

Vadim was the very first from her mother's home-about

saya Mme a briak three minules walk, man in her life,"

alto WAS And until last summer all her Bardot. "After all, holidays at St Tropez were spent engaged at 10 and warried at In her mother's villa.

The "spen!" reds are tunk in water-the clearest in the world. Previously, they would have been scaled off and left for three or four months before they were safe to handle. scientists are making use of every minute of this "waste" radio-what gives activity,

Now

Articles to be sterilised are sunk near the roda in metal cana After a few days they are pulled out-bacteria 'treo,

-(London Express Service).

10.

Then, however, Briglito "She was really too young t bought a villa of her own, La realise what she wanted. I don't Madrague. "And had to barri- think there would ever have 1. he cade herself in most of the been a divorce though, time," said Mme Bardot "That's hadn't tried to make her into a

her altacks of kind of myth, nervous depression, not being able to live a normal life...

"It's absolutely impossible for nowerqwd, collects around her immediately.

her

"My daughter is like a good- tempored bomb. You should see her when she visits us. She klases everybody, including the maids and the dogs.

"How is it that who don't even know how to drive-have to keep telling you what to do?”

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