1959-10-16 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1959.

LOOK AT THESE TWO PICTURES:

Same man with just three years and success between

The deadly appetite

of Mario Lanza

BY PETER EVANS

MARIO LANZA, the wild, talented, 38-year-old

heavy-weight of Hollywood opera-the star of "The Great Caruso"-is dead. I am not sur- prised,

hem, but the truth is he had For never has there been already killed his own career more drivingly self-destructive with his tantrums, roaring, un- star in the history of show predletable temperament, and businear as the one-time plano- enormous appetite.

Arnold MADAN

Alfredo born Vorozzo in a Philadelphila slum.

Mario Lanza usy have died the her day in a Rome nursing

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The bigger his bank balance became, the fatter he got.

Until finally he reached statering 20 stone.

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Said producer Joe Pasternak, who discovered Lanza and made world star in "The Getal Caruro":

"We begged him to lay off the food. Once he ate 30 pieces of fried chicken ont a cascade of bear.

HK$32,000,000.

starring him in any kind of to nim.

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Who cares

Let'n how

am a singer. A singor, Reluctantly, Lanza 'ngtreed diet and behave, and film

Then began the pattern of discuss that. After reducing to o mere feasting teuding, broken dates, much I ent. I love singing and stone. Lanza returned to work. walk-outs, and legal battles that I sing better when, I'm big." But as soon as the film "Be-

was to be a part of his life

Sold up cause You're Mine" was com-unti ho died. pleted, Lanza disappeared.

Atlantic trip for £18 by 'super-ship'?

New York.

N ocean trip from New York to London that

Notid ett left than HK$255 is the bold plan of

American businessman, Mr H. B. Cantor. Re-

I think that Lonza really recently he unveiled the first model of the 90,000-ton sented his fame as a film star. "super-ships" that would make such a voyagn He wanted to be a great tonor

class-he once possible. in the Caruso bonsted: "At my age Carso was nowhere. Je used to crack on a high B flat." Too sudden "Caruso" hadi

the But nobody would take of Lanza was The tragedy

und vert eriously. sure stardom, swift, and rudden.

It was the day he walked-out He fred his inwyer, business of The Student Prince" tha! manager and Prem agent. Said was the beginning of the end.

But what was the driving, his ex-Press agent sadly: "The trouble ta he doesn't trust any suicidal force behind the Lanza

legend? une now, not even his wife."

But by this time, Lanza was a very rich man. earned him around HK$400,000. Its share of record royalties (his disc "Be My Love" was the first "classical" disc to sell over a million copies), radio and con- sert appearances was estimated to have reached HK32,400,000 a year.

1 already have "I will not stop until

bida. build these ships,” he said.

Mr Cantor readily admits

submitted

roly-poly, lavish-spending extro-that his project has been Mr Cantor's "sea-going

Shipyard bids

The fare would only cover and transportation. entertainment

room

So he quit Hollywoot He discouraged by U.S. mari- coaches" would be 34-knot One night he was humping sold his home, with a 30-seat time authorities, and that ships that could make the

of stairs, a cinema, seven TV sets, dx bath-it has pianos up fighte

met with "tough trip in less than four days. happy, uncomplicated, confident room and came to Europe.

re-sledding in Washington." European He planned a young man. All he wanted to do was sing. And he knew he cital tour. In Hamburg, crowds booed mid rat-called outside his could do that.

But Hollywood took his voler hotel after he falled to appear

gave him stardom. And at a concert.

Last year he cancelled expected him to live like a star. In London last year he told me Albert Hall, concert, then called was fighting romething which is probably the off a recital in Croydon,

Lanza I was his farewell appearance. the complex ate key to

And he failed to turn up even a size it was personally.

"I for hal. About Is voice rising, he salc for imposible to even think

Eventually, Lanza came out of hiding. A heavier man. Again the long battle with M.G.M. He "But when Lanza was of a didn't like the scripts. He didn't costumes. He didn't mind to cat, the Secret Service like the itself couldn't keep the trencher- like his co-stars.

And when he man in bounds.

Finally the studio that made with the studio, he simply him, MGM, could take no himself to such

Ριξτε sued Langer. They

it

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by SAM WHITE

Paris.

PARIS fashion house

Are the herb Marie, the model,

is object of an

extremely chic form of

take-over bid.

The house is that of 70-year-

le Mille

"Coru" Chanel, now

in the full food of

its second

resurgence is the most

pros-

perous fashion, house in Paris,

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Surrean,

a-they

to know.

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will

basic reason for its

incidentelly,

that stable" that is, the Chanel man- Chanel' clothes are not stared nequins.

She has replaced the former mrely recogn

nim actress, Suzy ired by those in the position Model and

Parker in Chanel's affections.

Her salary is HK$900 a week. Site lives in a hotel room and to the great annoyance of eligible not try to escorts, she does

spectacular con~ calate the icy quests of, say, Betuna.

For the past three years Mile. Chanel has employed as a chief perisant a Garious Paris model, 26 year old Marle Helene Arnold. Mlle Armond is a woman of exceptional beauty and

She comes from A reserve. social stratum in France which

pro- has always regarded the fession of a model as possibly the second greatest disgrace bat ern overcame a family.

Dutiful

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Pretender, The French Now her father has moved in Count of Paris: "My whole

of the a general manager

family history shows that Connel clothes and perfume business. Mile. Arnoud has the a Government cannot suc reputation of being dutiful ceed without popular sup-

port."

dauphur.

Her reserve is said to spring class pre- profession

from her innate

Judlee against the

she has chosen.

She appears to have no private

outside her

work

for

to

life Chuic Chatel is devoted her and thinks she locks exactly on she herself looked when she

was a young woman.

in

Harsh

NE of the many facets of

take

over

Chanel

D pro-de Gaulle turn.

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He ac- "War is a law of species.

It is of no importance. corded him exactly 13 minutes. regime?

At the same time it has be- Only great men count."

known that # ecme publicly

D'asiler quotes a lecture visitor to the Elysee general gave him. "Only great regular

ami ambitions Goulle's enterprises Palace ever since.d return to

power s

the

and

and in-

would be "extras,"

Meala foreign However, histerests are very enthusias- venture, he tic" over the

Saya.

Shipyards in the Nether- lands, Japan and Italy

Gezira: a acres of

To the Sudanese, El

Gezira means The

He estimates the cost of the "super-ships" at about HK$160 million each.

-(London Express Servicgy,

million

life in

In other words. Gezira vas o SUCCESS. One of the chief rea- for this was that crops, #gricultural methods

sens

and

It used to be an ironic the deser they were brought to the

Island.

title, for less than 40 years ago, this was the most uncompromising land in the world.

by MARK CHRISTIE

did

or.

Kanisation were fully tested be- fore

scheme proper, and for this, the Sudian Plantations Syndiente must take a lorge share of the credit.

When the concession periód of the two British companies - second, the Kassala Cotton Company, had been added--was coming to an end in July, 1950, the Sudan Government decided

Gezira Scheme should bo

It had nothing one normally No water. mrvctates with palm trees. No rock pools. No Collage. Only sand, blown speck by speck across from the neighbouring Sahara desert,

What made Gezira an island,

Gezira. But the Deen count in our history. Will you in fact, was Its boundaries, the and thin arms of the White opportunity France's leading fellow-traveller tell me what

an they drew to- and Stalin Peace Prize winner French have had to show their Blue Niles

gether to embrace at Khartum. Faron Emmanuel D'astier de lit greatness since Napoleon?" Vigerte.

rainfall of

snall company called the Suden their country

in Garstin's Experimental Plantations Syn- that the management of the not provide, and schiere he saw the nucleus of dleate was launched to develop ontrusted to a national body that plan.

Easy access

the

Then ally: "The old ideals have crashed. Communism

The Catholic impossible. Church nas lost its bid for

A Its 05 greatness, political and social

ist

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A symbol

Having visited the scene of Carsun's dream for himself, he turnod to one of his brilliant aldes In Egypt, Sir Murdoch MacDonald.

Hunt's work with on

eye to experiments the Sudan Gezira Board, created under public ordinance as an falled!

What was now needed was an Independent concern.

As the Sudan was approaching net of faith, and London supplied independence in the 1950's and It. The experiments were alter-

MacDonald was the engineered to the production of differ- other government departments

ent strains of Egyptian cotton, were being handed to Sudanes ing brain of the British Minis-

the syndicate reorganised under administrators, the Gezira Board To speak of El Gezira today try of Works in Egypt, and to

of the Sudan decided to follow the same lines Kitchener entrusted the It him Ais no longer to be ironic.

of Sutanising all its adminis- is a symbol of intelligent in- task of examining the technical Plantations Syndicate.

Irative staff. ponsibilities, and of designing a dependence, of creative

dam for the Nile. A gincoring.

The baren u an old friend of renewal the general's from his war-time Tew day's in London and he occupied mystique is needed."

the Minister of

A word about D'astier. ༣ post of

of France's most Interior in de Gaulle's provi- descendant

played a famous familles, he sional Government.

D'astier has easy access to de great role in the resistance and Gaulle.

He can even afford has refused since the wat such ambassador- to be Ave minutes late for an high posts as the appointinent without it being ship to Washington. cancelled.

General de Gaulle's COTEL- plex character is his harshness towards his most devoted porters and his geniality towards his political enemies,

Recently, two events have Chanel's will is nude out

brought this

the aspect of Mlie. Arnoud's favour. All the general's character into sharp

are Arst tried focus. Chanel models

On an official visit to Lilie he on her and the entire collection Is in effect built around her.

received for the first time since In

Arnoud the revolution of May 17 Leon addition Mic. does a great deal of administra- Delbecque, the man who did to ensure tive wark and manages what is more than anybody colloquially known 25 "the that the Algerian uprising took

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This was carried out and now, apart from 2 tew technical Faith was justified. Yields experts the whole of the staff of proved encouraging, the serenge the Gezire Scheme is Sudanese. of experimental farming were The board of directors, which is and the syndicate, entirely Sudanese has been extended,

for marketing the functioning ever since. re:Consible

The first Sudanese managing crop, felt confident enough to take cherge of the proposed director. Sayod Mekki Abbas, Gezira plot,

after a successful term of office

Now Sir Murdoch MacDonald with the Gezira Scheme, has reported back with plans for the been appointed by the United dam and irrigation canals, and Nations as the Executive Secre- site was chosen at an outcrop tory for the Economic Commis- of rock about 60 miles south of sion of Afries. the town of Senar for the conte ruction of the lay to the whole project.

His present successor is Sayed Meccawi Suleiman Akrat who

While Sir Murdoch went to

drawing

Lord But it is no longer an island. the

board, El Gezira today has been trans- Kitchener tackled the adminis- tralive problems thrown up by formed into a sea of cotton.

It was in 1984 that a Brilish the ambitious plan. There were, official of the Public Works briefly, two stumbling blocks.

The first was where to find Ministry In. Egypt, Sir William Garstin, first saw Gezira na the monetal backing for the Ther once the

land of promise. Gorslin, who adventure, which had no pruce- The last word? together, the doors are shut, no

dicd in 1925, was one of the dent and in which failure would Interruptions are permitted and I was at a loss how to end band

colonialists, be measured great of

of in millions Gaulle unburdens

himself.

India, pounds. equally by my Onassis serial based on the honoured

The second was how lo esta with frankness and fullness.

book entitled de xssibility of a divorce between Egypt, the Sudan and France. Now in

In a report he published on mself and Tina Onassis when

blish a workmanlike agreement and the do Gaullets, Gaulle

me the basin an intriguing flash reached

of the Upper Nile, between the Sudan government which is thortly to be published, from Florence. It announced this far-sighted administrator and those who would grow and D'astier gives some fascinating that M. Onassis had bought for suggested that if only a dam or

market the proposed cotton crop be thrown

of the new Gezira. glimpses of de Gaulle's mind.

D'astier considers

65 million lire a large Venellan a barrage could that de

acres the Blue Nile somewhere a public

Sennar. enough water Caulle is now more human thun bed at

could be trapped to nourish

and exciting In his London daya but adds Florence.

most ambitious has also grown more

this vast, barren land and that he solitary and developed a sharp,

Ano-Irrigation would chanze its Difficulties nearly shipwreck- venture in Africa the bring- Sudnnose Playwright Jean

life of the In ing to strings cynicism. Be hos also

to that of a fertile ed the plan from the start, plain.

1904, on American, Mr Leigh derort. acquired rat political wisdom, uilh: "The famous English character

Then came the 1814-18 war, lic continues to greet visitors, sense of honour is simply Lord Kitchener, whose force. Huni, had been grunted a lease

of the The plans were put away until even intimates like D'astier, with

a business device.”

ful character dominated the of land on the bonics a "well-timed" silence. Then

Writer

of the Sudars Marc Gilbert history

at this Nile at Zeldab, about 180 miles 1918, when the building of the

Sennar dom began, comes a bantering tone with a

time, took a personal interest in nceth of Khartum, "One should Sauvajon: reference to your Communists.

the idea,

It was a huge undertaking, What Kitchener Hore experiments in mixed Russia he considers to be still only marry on one's wanted was a plan for giving farming, with

e small ava Seventeen million cuble yards of Gezira Schemo has had some of essentially the Russia of Peter_deathbed.”

Sudanese the

population

were put earth had to be dug out of the the highest crop yields in Its devoted to cotton, the Greal. D'astier quotes him;

stability which

under way, and in London,

In 1952 an additional área of

in auction

-(London Express Service).

KOWLOON

"Don't anybody leave "ime-I lost my 'pants*

the

д

meagre

O

Failure

"I thought you were Birting so I was playing hard to get"

was the first Assistant Sudan England once again came for- Agent in London and eventually word with an offer to finance the Permanent Under-Secretary the huge contruction, and every for the Interior in the Sudan

the thing socmed poised for

Doubled

While the credit of starting the Gezira Scheme and the suc- cess of il gues to those who

initiated it, it is worth noting that the same efficiency, despite the various expansions, is being maintained. Since 1950,

a arid desert, A. reservoir capable histor

of holding 140 million gallons of water to feed the thirsty land had to be constructed.

A success

24.791

the

acres, known as Tho north-west extension, Was put under cultivation, bringing tha Gezira Scheme to nearly one million neres.

One of the greatest develop- The dam itself, a mountain. of ments taking place in the cotton concrete, had to rise 85 feet production of the Sudan is tha above the river bed, stretch for Managil extension. Eventually two miles, with enough room this scheme will develop an area along the top for a railway line. nearly equal to the main Gezira To achieve this mammoth goheme. It is divided into stages task, In which Briton and of approximately 200,000 acres. Sudanese worked side by side The aim was to complete this for a common purpose, one mil- extension by 1984 but as the accounts. for Hon tong of concrete wero Gezira, Schere thrown into the fight to hold at curly half of the nation's bay the waters of the Blue Nile. income I was decided to reduce the schedule from seven years It took nearly eight years, azad

alne million pounds, but oven- to four years.

tually, the dam was ready, and

The firal stage of nearly 200,-

on January 21, 1926, the key to 000 neres was under cultivation

a dream of a cotton empiro "to

canal,

inst season and the second has

under 'cultivation + this season: Developments for the

rival that of the American Deep been South was a reality..

Other work also began to third phase are under way,

If this development rate: con- materiallac. The main which was to carry the water inttes it will undoubtedly be a outwards from the dam, and great achievement to have sided which cut through the land for by 1901 en area of equal size and Cindeed an equal area of cotton 60 miles like some great ship cultivation to the main Gezis canal was Anished.

Schermo, A great spiderweb of minor

Large as it was; the Gezi channels leading off from the scheme is still developing Hasil main artery was completed. A into a bigger concem, not'only *** The opening of the dem made for the development of. Budan pomible a cotton-growing area economics but also for providing of about 100,000 seros, and ex- a better livelihood for" millions pansion war rapid. Today, with of people in this part of this additional canale, it stagida at country. shout a million acres.

~~(London Express Bervica),