AG SHE 18-DARONE95 PAULINE KARTUS
Memoirs About Two Men
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY· ·5, 1960.
How she says she moulded them
-Gabby' and Gallico!
BRINGING BACK IN FRIDAY PROMINENCE
THE SPARKLING COLUMN BY..
GOUR
GOURLAY
AFTER a spell in a sick bed struggling with a variety of viruses I met the Baroness Pauline Kartus, a compatriot of the garrulous Gabors. They are a formidable race, these Hungarians, especially those who have left Hungary and associated themselves with the arts and the jungle of show business.
They always get what they want. As they may
umelette
is: "First
persuaded him to concen- coming attraction: trave his tolmis on the fairy All Right, jack,”.
The Use
tale
books
Snow
Crose,"
*We collaborated on sume* *** lin and he offered me credit, bt I never wanted it
"But not
the cat he wrote
man is searching for it. But usually in the wrong way BUKI in the wrong places. It is not to be found in outward worldly thing
יי
is here within Us aji. What we have to do is reach Inwards and with the help of meditation let the mind rise to the levels of perfect happiness -utter bliss,"
It sounded all 100 utterly simple. Maharishi asked me it I was happy. said "Not parli- cularly." He went on:-
The key is in the mantras or special words or sounds. When I initiate someone I give him a mantra which fits his person- ality and problems and creates "I'm the right vibrations.
DONE BY WORDS
"He repeats it in periods of meditation and 500 he is changed and regenerated.
"My method can change even discused minds and bodies,
om willing to prove it by Maharishl Mahesh Yes,
Timing to some of your prisons Ine squatting
and mental institutions and Myle on a deer-skin
his OR
initiating some of the inmates," healthy bed 111 his London hendquarters,
Bui Maharishi, who has come 10 Jaunch hals Move- spiritual Regeneration tent, is not one of those acro- bitle Yogi.
his belund-scenes associate, although the books were partly greeted
me. In a way 1 was the Snow theraseled a regiment), the
swash And his inspirer.
Goose, the recipe for an Hungarian buckling, sybaritie promoter and
The baroness's sharp, ice- steal produerr who captivated Beebe Hangarin eyes softened about. For a fine he imaglued to London you three ecks"; or, "If you Dave
Shaw Http allowing him
with nostalgia, as she satt: he was the cat himself." to tim Pygmalion.”
"Major Barbara," arch "Caesary attl "E was hy idea that we
I asked the baroness how the should film 'Pygmalion.' And Cleopatra."
mucringe of the Cat and this it was my tea that we shoul
Snow Googe had broken up. have a happy ending.
Hungarion for a friend you don't need an enemy.
But I have survived. There
10 Gonger of a relapse.
The baroness Jay deploy some of her national character istics in a builoess deal, but found her charming. Ing.
Some claims She has several
promineture
birthplace.
1. She
10
apart
married
trom
B.
31. I
Gabriel Unseal. She
Paul Gallico,
3
She drove, on the put: it herself,
itspired couraged th
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them
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Hard
Gallico, the ex-newspaperman win exchanged his tough type writer for a delicate quil to produce the best-selling Show Goose" and a series of other fairy tales for sentimental aduits.
A meeting
described her The barone
meeting with Pascal, It was 1925. She was 17. She ust have been very beautiful
She bumped into Pascal at Ha toor of the Parts offices of American film company who woled to give her a fhit test.
He asked if she were married,, She shook her head.
He said: "Then
you tray in won't allow you t
will
wards and upwant to dumpe
Ball: hir marriages were dissolved.
who has now The basaUKS, Taken up residenze in London, has just finished writing her memoir in which the Tell it go into nims. You might as about with her two husbands.
Pascal.
ex-Hungarian cavalry umeer be ever speci-
1
pirational
life
well become a Kurv (Bun Jaman for prostitute).
So there married a few weeks later and she
weal blo
"Shaw roared objections, but we Aimed it anyway, and when he saw it be agreed to let L stay. 1
bach' suppose if we done it they would never have hac
iden the
for 'My Fair Lady'
"It's a tragedy that Pascal led Just before My Fair Lady was set up. He had been plan zing a musen Pygmalion for years.
in
"He sent for me just before he died New York. 1 imagined he was being poisoned The baroness Tered me
hors succulent smoked salmon
talked d'oeuvre and
About husband No. 2,
to
the
"I met Paul Gallien in Queen Mary sailing York. He proposed on the last night.
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"I was mainly over another book Those Foolish Immortals. We disagreed strongly,"
In
I suggested to Maharishi that he should visit the Kremila and other European centres of Government la Initiate
the leading inmates.
THE QUANDARY
Melvin Frank and Norman
tion team who have made several Danny Kaye comedies, ure now visiting London. They are preparing a dìm which may star Ingrid Bergman.
But they are in 'a quandary, A loyal members of the Hollywood Screenwriters' Guild, they are now involved in the striite over TV payments which
bring Hollywood to may Randstill.
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As producers they wont script. But as striking screen- writers they cannot go head and finish it.
she didn't stert Alming serious- ly till she came here.
Fourth, she doesn't any "I've always had a burning arobition to become a big star." But the does say, "I want to do what- ever I'm doing as well as I can, That's all."
Fifth, she might rise to star- dom. She might,
HARDLY THEM
That sober, morojlsing, often prim, sometimes brilliant week- ly The New Statesman carried
They asked: "What the hell, an unusual advertisement the
en we do?
They didn't expect answer.
CAREER WIFE
ALL
It's just another story about
another
ambitious attractive
r playing her first leading part in British dim.
other week next to an offer ut higher education by corres- pondener.
It Invited Statesman renders to one of the London striptease clubs "Non-stop pleasure. Glamour Girls, intimate revue."
On one of those cold.
First, Pat Clavin, 20, mother cold nights recently two of seven-year-old twins, wife of pavement tables' were rich business INDU Bernard up outside
Son
sat
1 small Con- Lever, doesn't need the money
restaurant in Cur- she's being paid to appear intinental "The Man Who Couldn't Walk."
Straat, ปี bottle of Second, Pnt Clavin doesn't Chianti on each. Sitting at say she's doing it beenuse life becomes boring as the wife of a rich business man
afler
one, a young man and his overcoats and' muf- the girl in children go to school. She says: flers.." "I could become stale and boring to my husband if I didn't
They
weren't eating or
do something I enjoy doing like drinking when I passed. Alming."
Third, she was born in Los. Just sitting. Holding hands. Not even love could
Angeles, the film capital, and
He does not belleve In Yoga like hend-standing exercises and muscular manipulation.
After 15 years of contempis- Panama, the Hollywood produc- lved there till she was 18, but have kept them warth. tion
The And meditation Himalay The baroness sumined up.
Maharishi hus f
and emerged with a full hend "I've no regrets, but marriage face of black hair to tell the world that he has found a z- with two highly talented men wasn't easy. They expected to ple key which allows him to off from initiate nil of HS inte the live like islands cut.
mysteries anci transcendental family responsibilities.
"Still I loved them both. I blessings of Yoga.
To quote from his pamphlet, still do.
which is titled "The Highway to World Peace" and is clo cated
"the boundless sources of inner man," all you: beve to do is "take n dive
CHINESE AUTHOR WAS
"Now
want to find a man' who is talented und unselfish,"
She looked us though she knew it would be an unfalalled want. Even for an Hungarian...
within."
to
SOLD INTO SLAVERY
A SLIM, vivacious Chinese woman who was once sold as a slave, and
later taken as a prisoner of war, arrived in the Iberia in Sydney recently.
wife
She is Mrs Errol J. Strang Maharishi, fingering a long
of Dr Strang who more BILL at a Ham- string of beads, gave me New DOUBLE
charge of detalls in his Everest-pitched medical oflicer In "The morsmith cinema.
Anglican church elinies in the Federation of Malaya. "Happiness is the Hoai Stranglers of Bombay and singsong Indian voice. "Kill Her Gently." Farth everyone. The mind of every
"We worked closely together
Alma over the years.
Lady Jebb changes sides in a big
fashion row
PARIS.
ADY JEBB, wife of the
LA
British Ambassador
Paris, will be attending
in
1
show of British- fashions to be put on here by the In- corporstad Society of British Fashion Designers.
Thereby hangs" a
story Lease diplomatie drama.
Somehow
Jebb bad created the Impression earlier
that she disapproved of the entire venture
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strongly that she intend
રાં
to be at of own
for the weekend of the
British Show in order to
SHE WILL GO TO THE
BRITISH SHOW AFTER ALL
Ser Walles Paris Newsletter
avoid embarrassment of having
to refuse her patronage to it.
Angered
cordiale, of which she is a fore- most champion
the
Lady Jebb is dressed by Paris Fashion house of Lanvin She patronised Jacques Fath
In fact she said so to one of before that house went bank-
the society's organisers Miss Ryan, and was quoted as saying FO to #121 Americ fashion
magazine.
rupt.
It is interesting to note that the French have no inhibitions concerning Paris fashion shows in London. Soon the French are
The British show will coincide taking a collection there. with the opening of the Paris The wife of the French
This docility of his lowards his military superiors explains his durability. on the Algerian serne.
Salar Just as General
did in the past so can General Challe now rely on him to act as
a political stalking horse.
Massu is notoriously slow witte, which also recommends him to his military bosses. ilm political 1 is considerably be- low that of the most eminent of British Field Marshals.
Jashion shows and it is this Ambassador in Londen will not GENERAL DE GAULLE:
ning which has angered many only be atending it, bui thu tople here.
entire show Is sponsored by the "No one plots against French Embassy.
Lady Jebb was further quoted ne saying that bringing British fashions to Paris at this line was "like bringing coals to Newcastle,"
..Now Itali Turns out to have misunder. been a grotesque
standing.
did
Gaulle."
Not so tough
O
General Massu is in
trouble again. Here is
allegedly fiery paratroop
TALKING
POINTS
It appears dunt Lady Jebb a brief run down on this
not know until recently that tite show www being
organised by the Society of general.
British Fashion Designers, of le is not us tough as he which む 1000 friend, Lady sounds. He' is in fact a cautions Pamela Berry, Ja principal man who never acts without fist!
securing the approval
animator.
do
CAUTION -Be Bure
of his your brain is engaged, be-
This make it an entirely immediate military superiors.
different matter and Lady Jebb
will how not only be attending the shows but will even give à
hunch in honour of the Britiah designers.
Flattered
He jumped on the band.
Lady Jebb's earlier disapproval wagon in the May 13 revolt of the British show was, of with the prior approval of his course, fully shared by the superior, the Then C-in-C. French fashion industry. A General Balan. spokesman for the described it
* "en odd example of the Bu! on May 14 both wern of the possible con- Lamous Engilsh sense of fate to scared uloy."
séquences that Massu publicly
fore putting your mouth in gear,
-US, AIR FORCE NOTICE,
Morale is faith in the man at the top.
-ALBERT S. JOHNSTONE.
When your work speaks
The other British am- almost gruvelled to Paris for for itself, don't interrupt.
bassadress
(If I may use the forgiveness. term), Miss Nancy Milford, the gathered
novelist and famous authority reached them that General de
of
Dr Strang has come to Sydney to do a 12-month post-graduate course, 社 Diploma of Public Health, at Sydney University.
Under her maiden name of Janel Lim Chiu Mei, Mrs Strang
wrote her autobiography, a book called "Sold for Silver," which ንድ published in September, 1998, is in its sixth edition, and has been Foyles Book Club el,oice,
"It has been translated into German, Norwegian, Spanish, Icelandic, Dutch and Swedish- or. yes, and there is an Ameri- can edition too."
With thou-
sands of others Janet was OVA- cuated, hoping to reach India. Bat the akin WAN bombed, and for two days
and a nighi she elung to stable In the fey water walting to be rescued.
came passing
Help from E ship D Jop anese ship.
So once more she was a slave, this thmo in a Japanese p.o/w. camp.
cused of spying,
When she was eight years of She was - age Janet Lim Chiu Mei was sold as a slave in China, and brought by her master to Sinza- pore to work in his home as an unpaid servant,
Three years. Råter a law was passes requiring alt stoves to be registered, and she was sent
to en orphanage.
taken out of hur cell to be shot, but **something wont WrONE," and she was condemned
10
apent
solitary confinement instead.
1 year studying and Eventually she was released, working at the Royal Liverpool With the 700 dollars her regained her normal health, and Children's Hospital in England. master had to pay na a fine, was sent to work in a Japanese Janet was
sent to school for clinic.
On her return to Singapore
1944 In
the
five and a half years until she At the end of the way she became a nursing sister, and was over 16, and therefore, by she went back to Singapore matron of St Andrew's Mission was appointed local law, unable to continue her and finished her nursing education.
training.
Hospital,
So Janet went to a mission hospital and trained as a nurse until war struck Singapore,
In .1951 Janet won British Consul Fellowship,
In 1957 she met Dr Strong, and in May last your and married him.
He
and
Salan J.
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口味 courage
newa
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Was rendy to heed
Among a people general-
Hin photos fintter him; in the
*
blow
She consider it in bad taste flesh he looks panty-facad, and
to the teste bailly in need of frøska Air
y corrupt, liberty cannot long exist,
-PURICE
"Out of the window goes Brigitte Bardol and in comos Francolee Sagan."
London Express Bervies
on upper-claps manners, romaine Garlic adamantly hostile to the pro- thoir call.
Ject,
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