1960-04-09 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1960.

Roderick Mann

TOP COLUMN OF SHOW BUSINESS

Flashy? That's the other me

KEEPING HER FINGERS CROSSED

This Is Mylene Demangeet the French actress_now in London to make The Singer, Not The Song. 'I am not really happy with any of my films so far” she says. "I hope this one changes my luck." . Sea "QUOTES."

IN

says Liberace

'I CREATED AN IMAGE AND IT PAID OFF'

‹★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆

a room in a house in a quiet square in Kensington, a man sits. Sipping a drink. His name is Liberace. Outside is his car, a conventional, large-size Cadillac. Like the man, the car has already had its share of hack-writers' hysteria. (Can they be those same hacks who describe any flat not actually in Wapping as "luxury"? They can.)

I have not gone to this quiet Kensington square to jeer at Liberace, or pillory him, or insult him. All that has already been done.

• BY • THE • WAY

by Beachcomber

N artiolo in the Stockholm towed by an old horse along

Dr Strutmus (Whom God of

defence" "moblic

should Preserve) of Utrecht, discusses make us feel secure, especially the praottenbility of draining as the glpay-like Rgure who i or Alling in, part of the English doing the steering will be a Channel, in preparation for the trained scientist tr diamulte. day when every family will The fact that these barges will have at least two cars.

be out of date before they have

A Bvensko Bassondraft, by the Uxbridge Canal, la a part

"The ideal, of course," said a been equipped for reinliailon 39 car magnate, "is three curs a an added encouragement to ex- family not because they are periment, with everything. fecessarily necessary. but be- Fun on the telephone

cause a prosperous ear industry

Informatio

is the test of a happy com- TELEPHONE

1 porvices, saye my paper, munity."

mny soon include fairy tales for Smile, please

children and Stock Exchange READ of a photographic Information for business men. 1- studio which is taking pic foresce much confusion and tures of "invisible atomic par- annoyance when the business ticles only .00000000000008 of an man is told that the magician inch across." I hear the voice of turned the woodcutter's daugh- a acientist saying, "I think this ter into an antelope, while the Wirramaroo photograph rather falters the child is told that

Julo left." Reinforced particle on the extreme

worth Even if nobody will ever mee watching. Sorry they were tho tle beast with the naked both troubled, eye, ond should not discourage

it from trying to look its best Party conversation for a photograph,

*MY hat,"

"MY

~

fa

sac sold, en't m. you know The sinister barge ·

what I mean. It frustrates-my announcement that personalit What can I do?" I have gone to have a quiet drink with the Manhattan streets and find were ming in Vienna and he T "massive retaliation" will "Take rat polson," sild-u him and talk to him as though he were A that nobody recognisel mz. sold he wished he'd thought of include the launching of nuclear smart bounder, "and thus save human being ....

Away' from the pfono I Was 1 me because I'd have been per-missiles from barges ought to the Wife of somo Innocent nonentity. I confess I found fect for the part."

deler pretty: well everybody, rodent," that hard to take.

"You've taken your share of The thought that a slow barge, insults over the past few years,""

I sald: "Last time we met was three years ago in Miami, You've lost a lot of weight since then?"

"Yes. Forty-one pounds. I've been on a planned diet worked out by the nutrition expert who looks after Robert Cummings."

"Does that involve taking lot of pills like Cummings?"

"Yes. When I first started I was taking 330 a day. Now I'm down to 50. That's 50 nutrition pilla, slx ordinary vitamin pills, and a powdered, instant-protein drink that's equivalent to eating 18 eggs,”

"So I created the flashy image with the gold jackets and stuff and In no time at all I found I was recognised. Photo- graphers used to insist I put on my flashy sults. That was what they were interested in. It got me headlines so I didn't complah.".

My little joke

said, "I'm surprised you never lost your temper?"

"I never believe in dignifying somebody's insult by getting angry," he said. "Oh, I'd oflen think of a rude answer, belleve me. But I never said it. No, 1 never said it."

QUOTES

A smile, but no shame "Can you understand why TXCERPTS from a conversa-

"Is it expensive?”

that image nauscated people?"

"Well, a bottle of 1,000 pills costs about £30. But I think it's worth 16. Bob

"I suppose 60. But I am not Cummings is 60 and looks about half that, ashamed of hint. I wanted to doesn't he? This nutrition man his name be noticed and I was. I played is Irvin Johnson-came to me after a show it to the hilt and I was very one day and said:

You should have more successful." bounce to the ounce. He persuaded me to

try this course and I'm glad I did,"

"Did the knocka of the

"Of course. But remember,

are

some Tion

with French actor Mylene Demongeol:— "Your fim Insurance inedicala are much more sepere than ours. In France the doctor merely says: 'Do you feel good today?' and 'Are you having a babu?' 1 the answers 'Yes' and 'No'-in that order. then you

get your certiß- cata...." "French men hate bright, wise- cracking women. They much refer Elizabeth Taylor, say, 10 Doris Day. So we French women have to get rid of all our jokes before we see our men. Then, gagless, we seek only to please. ..........”

"In what other ways have you changed?" critics upset you?" "Well, I suppose I'm two people today.

skin The one-the real me-looks upon the other you can develop a tough

you are bolstered by with a smile, but no shame. I set out to when

had build on image, and I succeeded. I knew what success. If those knocks

driven me out of the business I was doing.

"Years ago, before anyone heard of mu, I'd have despised the flashy suits I used to play before cafe society at the and candelabra and stuff. But The publie kept Waldorf and hotels like that, and then-with they didn't.

That was when the applause still in my ears walk out inly coming back.

C

The sinister story of the woman behind Trotsky's murder.....

THE MIND OF AN ASSASSIN. By Isaac Don Levine,

Woldenfold and Nicolson. 21s.

ONE

NE day in August this year, Ramnon-Mercader, a Spaniard 46 years old, will unless some mishap befall step out of a Mexican jail into freedom.

Freedom? Perhaps not free- dam from anxiety..

Twenty years ago, Mercader committed

of the most patiently planned and ardently desired of political crimes, the murder of Trotsky.

ono

by George

Malcolm Thomson

When Ramon comes out of

*

TROTSKY: He was so possİVA.

Her by this time in jail along with Watt's steam engine, became a Hero of the Soviet the Wright Brothers" flying ma- Bell's telephone and Union for what the Kremlin chine,

every other scientific discovery called his "valorous act,"

List is the

200 years, But there they are, side by side, jail, he will find many things His subject, gaining weight

His mother 13 20 have changed.

Hving in Paris (she could not and speed like a snowball, can- Stand Moscov), She still has not fail to excite. And apart has lost from certain passareo of fam- Herr Gartmani her son's medal but

boyant fancy,

artist lover and, eventually to become an active Communist.

Spanish During the

Civil Caridad won

come re War, pulation as a crack shot and the executioner of Trulskyis's and similar counter. revolutionaries.

The Ice-pick with which Mer- eader smashed the skull of the

By this time she had acquired arch revolutionary

the WIN

n Russian lover, a general in ultimate instrument of the

the NKVD (Division of Special NKVD's long-range power, of Tasks). Colonel Serebriansky's skill as an organiser of "special tasks," and of Stalin's

vougeance.

Along Chrind

with her lover, directed kplacable

Operation Her son,

Iamon, his beautiful

In the summer of 1940, it was really necessary for Stalin get rid of Trotsky.

Trolsky. doting on

Communist mother,

tho role

to assigned.

xecutioner.

Ramon sot with aplomb.

He had already disposed of Trotsky's con Sedov (by potion- ing in Paris). He had stolen Trotsky's archives. He had failed

In one attempt at assassination. Now he had to try again, and

succeed.

BAW

The leader!

her enthusiasm for the cause. writes with a correct blend of

the dramatic and the deadpan. Her Russian lover

WOS atrested by Khrushchev and has from sight. disappeared

ho Ramon's father, whom detesto, lives in an old house in Barcelon.

was

of

Thinking that things may be rough for the boy when ocines out of prison, he has written to say the house

ho

!

task about his

He seduced a always at his disposal.

ther plain girl who

was o

Courier between Trotsky and In the dangerous life that be- his friends in New York. Thus gins in August, Ramon

Mer-

And for

your bookshelf

he gained access to the great coder knows who his frienda ⚫ THE FOUR. LOVES, O. 8.

man in his Mexican stronghold. are. But will ho know

19

Nothing

more extra. enemies? ordinary in this story than the credulity

and passiveness of

The imperialist powers as he Trotsky. He knew the mean- It-were going to exhaust ing of the hotlle propaganda themacivce in the war, A new in the

Mexican Communist

surge of revolutionary action Press: "This is the way people would follow. Stalin must be write who are preparing to tta leader, without rival.

chance the

for pen

In

tha

this chilling, absorbing machine-gun, and elaborate Audy, Loving His house was attacked by

and 78 bulletr shown how, the dead was executed gunmen

WETO

and sketches the leading actors. fired into his bedroom by men The narrative saga inte uncon- who obviously knew their way acionable tedium when ho kround, devotas far too much space to psychologisia investigation of

The killer's mind. As à mind, it

la not worth it.

A far more promising feki far

of

A 'Hero'

ON FROM

SPUTNIK I

SCIENCE AS HISTORY.

his Lewis, Alles, 128, 6d. The kernels

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of four loves-affection, friend ship, Eros

charity- and

leisurely, in examined rambling style as they might be round tea tables in north Oxford. In this book, says tha publisher's blurb, "Dr Lewis is By partisan." The punch and gu

того a mag-maker than a Heinz Gartmann, Hodder gency of partisanship become and Stoughton, 25s. him better than cartography. As recentist as October 4, ● KALAHARI Jens Bjerre. 1957, Russia frott Sputnik 1. Michael Joseph, 50%. Highly the technological marvels Inside all enthusiastes en account out But we move so fast today that recommended for away-from-it- months spent in the a satellite are taken for grant- several

ed, dismissed in one nowspaper Kaishar! desert. in BW. Africa, paragraph long before they are where the 'Bushman' are so pri- appreciated or even dully under mitive they cannot count higher

than threo,

Yet It never occurred to him stood.

WHO. 18. the investigator la Ramon Mers that he had a tenitor, in bis

At some point, mon must sit ⚫THE MAN cader's formidable

VRANDE. Brigadier Bisaler mother, camp, Caridad; one

And so, the road was opened back and take stock. Here Clark, Harps 154. A hero file most frightening fanatics thrown up to the "other method crude, Carimana has done just that.

worshipping blography of de It a frightening to čaulle `bruðul but effective—an ice, rich by the Revolution.

which relates, tho bury Caridad was marcled, to a

produced muldenly from the read the story of the Sputniks, frota of his dramatic career Vanguards, oven Lamiks, as without, ever bringing tio Barcelona business man, whom eller's pocket. she left

Caridad got the Order of already a part of history, om general to 110v. four (along with

**--[London Express Service), children) to take up with an Lenin from Stalin's own hands, bedded in memory cobwebe

I coined my little Joke: I cried all the way to the bank."

"But you've toned down the syrup a little now?"

DEX

QUICK EXIT

HARRISON

and hls

"Yes, I have. I'm trying to Lappest to wider Budlence

today. But i haven't destroyed former wife Lilil Palmer the Liberace image. That would nearly collided at a Hollywood be foolish. It's my livelihood, party. She left hurriedly by a

bock door. But now I find people go to see me perform, not just to gape at me as a curiosity."

So disappointed

Later she explained; "We are still friends, but whenever for- merly married people moet in Hollywood it's like a tenols match with everyone's head turning. Noel Coward can write such scenes for the stage but much harder In real it's

"What about ambition? You used to say you wanted to make a Aim of the life of Liszt, Were you disappointed to and it has life...." now been made?"

"Yes, I W15. Especially as they got a non-plano-playing person to do it, and not a well- known name at that (Dirk Bogarde plays Liszt in that new Alm Song Without End), I talked to the director when they

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