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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14,

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS The Top Team

for 1960... BUT THEY GET ONLY

by David Lewin

#10WARD MARRIE

1RQAY WELD

THREE OUT OF TEN FROM ME

THE film showmen of America the men who run the cinemas and see just how well each film does at the box-office-have voted their list of the NEW stars of 1960.

Their poll presents 10 names and the running order is like this: (1) Sandra Dee; (2) Ricky Nelson; (3) James! Garner; (4) Curt Jurgens; (5) Lee Remick; (6) John Saxon; (7) Sidney Poitier; (8) Ernie Kovacs; (9) Kathryn Grant; (10) Carolyn Jones.

Now let's take

closer look at that list. In the top two

places are the American boy and girl next-door types (SANDRA DEE and RICKY NELSON).

Saxon

Miss Dae was in "The Re- luctant Debutanto" with Kay for the young handsome man Kendall

Mr Nelson and in "Cry Tough" and appeared in a Western "Rio shows signs that he could act. Bravo."

Whatever the American CX- hibitors say I don't rate their chances of im fame next year as high as all that. I say they nre too average to have that ex- tra quality that makes for real stmas,

JAMES GARNER (No. 3) is a Maverick" TV product from

and stirely what you can see for nothing you don't pay money for. So his star chances in my view are light.

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CURT JURGENS (No. 41. A slat now. Is worry is main- faining his position.

LEE REMICK. No arguments ability to project about her subtle sex and her acting in "Anatomy of a Murder" makes her the top contender for the 1000 star list.

JOHN SAXON (No. 6) is a possible.

There is always reem

Death joins in the search for a beetle...

by RICHARD LISTER

A TWIST OF SAND. By Gooffrey Jenkins. Collins, 15s.

WITH a loud blowing of trumpets, his publishers

announce in Mr Jenkins a

new adventure

writer of high class. Well, one swallow does not make a summer. But it may herald one, so we look closely, and find Mr Jenkins to be a promising enough bird.

He flies In rather clumsily at For Stein is determined that

in

BIDNEY POITIER is the only Negro on the list, and his most important film "Porgy and

be seen has yet 19 less"

If he doesn't become a Britain. real star I'd say he will cer- talaly continue, as a top tea- lured player.

ERNIE KOVACE, a specialist in controlled comedy, has just made his first British film with Alec Guinness, "Our Man in Havana," I'd say he'll be the surprise star of 1900,

KATHRYN GRANT also known as Mrs Bing Crosby- I say will stay at home and look after Bing.

in Last Gun H" showed is original and Inter- ligent actress. But I'd silil list her as only a probable star and not a certain one.

CAROLYN JONES Train from she

So there are the American showmen's selection of the Stars of Tomorrow. From my calcu-

P

SHIRLEY

ANN

FIELD

IN HER

NEW

FILM

Intions the number is not 10 but ...THREE with a couple of possibles,

The yours.

final verdict will be

Now my

nap hand

Now I stick my own neck out and give you my nap hand

for 1080.

RICHARD HARRIS, Young, tough, aggressive style of acting. Watch what he does in "The

the Short and Long and Tall

the

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FLOWRIGHT, JOAN name her not only because she can act. Not only because she stars with Olivier in "The En- tertainer." But also because she bag # most shapely pair of legs.

• GARY RAYMOND, Syrupa- thetic.

Appealing. He played Richard Burton's friend in "Look Back in Anger." Sco what he can do on his own,

SHIRLEY ANN FIELD. She started as a joke. The girl who turned down 1 dale with Sinatra.

But she has deler-

And sex, And mination. contract waiting.

1

Here is one the American showmen overlooked, TUESDAY WELD-Danny Kaye's daughter in "The Five Pennies." With a name like Tuesday how can you go wrong?

—(London. Kapress Service).

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ADVENTUROUS? THIS IS FOR YOU

CANADA-LAND OF OP. PORTUNITY. By Edward Westropp. Óldbourne Press. 15s. 6d.

1959.

Briefs

NATASHA PARRY is

to star with Rex Harrison and act the part of his wife in his new Broadway play, "The Fighting Cock."

Miss Tarry replaces the French actress Odle Vernals, who had been rehearsing the part for a week. The play. by Jean Anouilh, is a comedy with Harrison

retired French general.

Originally it was deckled his wife should be acted by French girl. Now a change has been made and Natasha PRITY

gets the biggest opportunity of her parceT. For, afier New York, "The Fighting Cock" will come to London,

It will also be the first time she will be directed by her husband, Peter Brook.

IN Marilyn Monroo's new film "Billionaire" she will sing that old standard numTY – ber "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." In the non-singing line she will have, formidabla support in the picture. Frank Sinatra and Jack Banny have

minor agreed to appear in roles.

THOSE ancient Roman battle scenes in the Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons Kirk Douglas, tim "Spartacus" are being shot in Spain with units of the Spanish Army.

WONDER what Brigilte Bardol will say when she reads her producer's opinion of her Latest, Alm "Babetic Goes to London War," which opens this month. Producer Iazul Levy declares: "Now we'll sec if Brigitte Bardot is really star-this picture is the test. His reason: "Babatte" in her

to first fim

get a complete world-wide release in English.

BELAFONTE lets HARRY off the following blast at the Negro musical "Porgy and was writton Bess," which and

white produced by people! "When the loading lady is a prostituto, a leading male character is a peddler of narcotics, and another is a man of lust and sex and they wouldn't even let the hero stand on his own foot then I've had it up to here."

JAMES MASON, "who once: played Hitler's General Rommel in a film, has re jected the part of Hitler in a new American TV series, His reason: "It will take a long time for the public to His account of a great and couver; nar ern I get as worked view Itler with sympathy

con- | again." swiftly growing nation is brisk, up about Toronto us he

That's an under. We are in tolal statement. readable, and crammed with trives to do. impressive facis and figures. He agreement, however, about the

-(London Express Service). is a trifle of an evangelist; his Marlumes, and about Quebec. eyes have been opened, and he

wants everyone to share the He sees the economic poten-

aware of the political and

THAT lynx of Lombard vision which he has beheld. tiailles of Canada; I am more THA

Street, Mr Edward Having pussed that way intellectual contribution which Westropp, the City myself I entirely sympathise. her prople are making-and this Editor of the Sunday interest with zeal and skill. Into of the British Empire and Com- Mr Westropp commutacates hus Is only a beginning to the fe Express, bubbles over under 170 pages he packs a monwealth. with excitement about great deal of history, economics

and sociology. the opportunities that Canada offers to the . adventurous and enter- prising.

'PROMISING'

ND NAME IN THE STREET. By Gillian Tindali. Cassoll. 155.

Agreement

Any sensible man Mr Westropp is a; very sensible man-has his faith restored in

continuity. if he

our. civilisation's strength,

I have a feeling that, though stability and he is perfectly pollte about goes to Canada. them, he does not share' all my affection for Calgary and Van-

JOHN CONNELL. -(London Express Service).

A 50-year diary that's

just like Mrs. Dale's

the beginning and dives about Peake ball put him ashore on MISS TINDALL, her rather awkwardly forwards and the Skeleton Coast, and doesn't publisher tells us, is ALL THE DAY LONG. By Howard Spring, Collins. 18s. backwards in time. But once leritate 10 ure blackmall to, 21 and just down from

in fell fight, he certainly akims force him. calong fast and pretilly to bls

conclusión.

Forbidden...

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He has discovered sil, or

over-

Oxford. She presents MR HOWARD SPRING'S many admirers will almost all, about Peake's past, the story of a 19-year-old find their taste for a novel packed to which looks pretty murky on girl, half French on the flowing with vicarious living amply satisfied in his Peakce, guarding a high can- fringes of the Left Bank new book. fidential Naval Intelligence world. in Paris. Becret with this broken reputa-

the surface. And Captain

His story is set on the coast tien, has to submit. of South West Africr, on a stretch called the Skeicion So the expedition sets out Coast, uncharted and forbidden. into the interior at the point of

Stein's Luger, Stein, his body guurd, Peake and 'the girl.

and

Uncharted because the climate of these desofts mountains has defeated anyone who

forbidden attempted it: because it is suspected of being rich in diamonds and the Diamond Control Act exists to keep prices up elsewhere.

Improbable

Even those who find this As a girl. Maria watches elder kind of family chronicle sister Louisa runaway from She is rescued from the too novel old-fashioned will have home, marry a miser millionaire, ardent clutch of a rich, young to respect the invention and and leave him for a country American by an older and more the sheer energy that have squiro. She stays to look after civilised French journalist with gone to organising this vast brilliant brother Roger, doomed whom she falls very much in compendium of middle-class to die young, and dumpy slater love. He, the same as it seems. Uving during five decades. Bella, destined for a clergyman's "wife. A spell as companion intro- But when she introduces to The story is told by Maria duces Edwardian-highlife. him a young male protege of her | Legasrick, daughter of a Comish family's, the boy, supplants her parson, and bom to be a mother- Bells dies and there, are her Up the dried-up river into in her lover's affections substitute. Wherever, in the children to be cared for, and the waterless hills where the

gamifications of a large family, Marlá picks up a waif of, her ahonstrous' Cape Lonis ·BLEIT. Miss Tindall has in certain there are motherless children to own, What is, its interest then 10 prow-supposedly In search of technical- competence, Het be Inought up, "Maria, arrives' ·Love affairs, marriages,

births the sinister, tough German, this beetle.. And sure though novel is not exactly bad. Iti providentially und takes them lit and deaths proliferate as thickly Stein! Beetles, he says, and they find it, and Stein's inter moves, even 31 too slowly it hand. It is just like life: ond as on the front page of The that is why ho is accompanied est in it becomes plain. Ilgis achieves its climax, it after to the pleasure is much the same as Times, to carry us on to another by a pretty young Woman the Onymaccia, the famous oli jong a time,cotta

we get from following breathe, war and more deaths, more scientist who knows all about beetle, Where you find it, you los va

Meffensky, Mrs Dale's Diary, borrow, more enduring theso crenturos.

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of man to be interested in that the scientist, in apibe of treatment whitch American bectics for their own sakos. being a pretty woman should publishers apply through tough can identify ourselves with the sad and happy but all; fender Tala is the headache of Geoffrey have overlooked this conace- editor. Pouko, our horo, a co hlepect ton but she pays for her care. ez-submarine” „commander who lease with her life and catr mune the finest, od, fastest boat. Jenkins keeps the 'Soerst cleverly-

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12 BETULKALEY CAlant? We never them all

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Be no one else does,

----(London Kapitus Zervlet).

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