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HARKEY

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1960.

LOGAN

GOURLAY Debut of a BIG operator

YOU CAN SEE

FROM MY PICTURE THAT HE'S GOT THE

MARK OF DISTINCTION

I

WHO KNOWS AND TELLS IN HIS UNMISTAKABLE WAY

London Express Bervice.

SYDNEY BRETT ANGEL WITH A WHITE ROLLS

London. DON'T quite know how he's escaped so far. But Sydney Brett, man of property and newly canonised theatrical angel, "has" never before appeared in the columns of a newspaper. Until now, though he's done newsworthy things, he has been a print virgin.

This is his debut and I'll try to make it reasonably auspicious. "It's not," he told me, "heause I'm a shy, retiring man. see that at first glance for myself,) trying to be alone.

"Still, at the same time I've

TRIL to look fever duties publicity. I've been the bigay.

"If you're going to write but we ami ne affaires d rather you put the huis en shes I'm barking."

Dutifully report that it is the reste Louk Wha's Here" at London'. Fortune Theatre

He went on: "I'm not ratly interested in what you say about I don't care yen if %

111 milial kerings.

fact, I' amused if it were.

EXTROVERT

I claim a certain

skill

bu

amel

experience in writing unflatter- Ing portraits. But not even can do it in the case of Sydney Brett.

He's an immediately likeable extrovert with it Falsinilan poundage and a glowing rom- plexioni n few shades lighter than a good healthy port.

11.

looks honest, and I imagine he is as honest as a property tyc can bc.

He started his career as architect, but

profession

1

gave up the concentrate

expanding the samol

business Inunded by his father.

(I could "I haven't been hiding away and

hls

to editors

correct spelling), a word text.

The longest word was television. It was the only one he spelled correctly.

ICE BATTLE

I have a story about another

mun of property.. Mr Charles Clore, who is no print virgin.

#1

The other night he visited London night club with a party of friends. During the cabaret provided by રી..

singer called Helso Motta, Mr Clore co- tinued talking to his friends, aftenelive who included a few

Leaton,

At a nearby table set a party of South Amerlets, all fans of Mr Motta, who is also South

One of thein, American.

Venezuela young man from

ked Mr Clore to keep quiet.

club.

The

again with

in 11 lightiy

Mr

the Jeft Mr Clore did not. The Vene zuelan asked again. Me Clere cabaret started

Motio sinding ignored him again.

higher pitch.

The Venezuelan took some tre cubes from his glass and threw Them at Mr Clore. He stood

p.

arming himself

enbes.

with ice

I think it's relevant to men- on that the club is called The Black Sheep.

A

each SIGHTS of LONDON: They glared teily at ather and advanced to battle young man in a West End The Venezuelan jumped up on hotel bar wearing a dinner. the banquette to gain a com manding strategie position.

at close Clore jumpel in tou. range they hurfed more lee and Food alcohol at each other.

Mr

suit and a pair of spotless white gloves. One begloved held a cellophane- hand wrapped bouquet for the Just below them sat a young lady he awaited. The other haturi holding! comple. Much held his drink. I overheard

Ice attach tonance-dampenlag

him say that he thought alcohol descended on them.

white gloves should always

worn with he

evening dress. He seemed otherwise sane and Bormal.

When the Venezuelan squared fst up for us to

Agh Me Clore decided to withdraw. A dignited decision.

I want to see

Hongkong!

SIMMONS is born, and

FOR the first time in five years JEAN back in Britain... in London, where she was pray where she lived for 21 years. But now she is an American Stewart Granger and lives with her husband

Has America changed the girl Arizona. on a farm in

Here, in a talk with what to whom it gave world stardom?

intimate opinion... JOHN CRUESEMANN, she gives an

Now he has a vast bricks-and- citizen

empire in London and

The Southern Counties,

to

"I don't krav exactly all my interests are woriti.

ke being don't

called A millionaire. But I'm certainly a rich man art if you want cheek is phone my banker.” With his wife am to daughters he lives in a £25,000 mansion at Addington, with two swimming 1ods af a

fourt, and a golf cou

lean.:

(110

I feel I've grown up. When I left England I CAN say what I think now.

in 1950 to go to Hollywood and to be married to Stewart Granger I was At that age most girls are already mature, married, and often mothers too.

a very young twenty-one.

From the age of 14 I had worked in a film studio, and that is not the owned by lint) at the tom place for learning about life. You are insulated from the world outside. Talk is almost exclusively about pietures. People are mirroring them- office in a porcelain-white Ralls-selves both on and off the set.

of the garden.

He commutes in bis

London

which

Royer

has all the Including amentues, stocked portable bar,

A

THE BACKER

1 was

well.

another Rolls-Royce that first brought Mr Brett into show business recently. He went to buy one offered for sale by Peter Sellers. He left with the Rolls and a share in the current i Sellers Am Battle Sexes."

<if The

Of course life was marvellous, and the money was lovely. But let's be quite clear about this. Film-making is a pretence, and you don't grow up when you are pretending.

I long for

Things were done for me.

People were flattering.

I was always the baby of the stroup,

by

JEAN SIMMONS

Ing wives has gone on

longer I've only lived in Arizona and

California. and goes deeper over there

1 kot spelled,

be

I never had to cope. So

im

a way I never spread my wings,

Trustingly, he allowed me to the drive the new Ralls from

I was never able to God out West End to a riverside club what the reality of being D Now in England most women just imagine.

of the With only the ticking

want to stay at home, waiting clock to compete with his voice,Young womna was like. he sald:-

in because

inckle "I think I'm ready to bigger

I've surt thing. served my apprenticeship.

difficult 10

Travel

True, American women

wants

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ap

SEC

ECC

JEAN

SIMMONS. .IN

LONDON,

would be, that it was there we made our money, it seemed the

best and indeed the proper thing to do. We felt we wanted to inke our part in and vole es citizens of the land we were in.

But this does not diminish our love for the country of our were birth. Mind you, there

cracks, The English colony in Los Angeles resented it.

And there was another, more compelling season our child

of the was born American. Tracy we call her after one Americans we love and admire the most, Spencer Tracy.

The future

1

Cummings

for Wärm hearted ness

MENIL

Soup à la Socialism Nationalisation Cutlet

Planning

pudding

Blew Nobel

AH! WE MAY NOT BE MAD ABOUT THE MENU, BUT HOW WE LOVE THE CHEF! London Express Bervice.

THE

MAN WHO

THINKS

HE'S

by

GOD

ANTHONY LEJEUNE

WHEN I flew to Ghana a few weeks ago I was frankly doubtful whether the situation there could really be as black as it seemed from London. Now I've seen for myself and I have to report that in some ways it's even worse. "People here are afraid to talk," I said to one of the British civil servants who remain in Ghana like unhappy, stranded white fish.

THIS IS

OUR GREAT MESSIAH

--Frant page of "Nkrumah's own the bradiining newspaper: "Black Masalah in the hour of transfiguration.”

"Seek ye Arst the political king- dom and all else shall be added unto you."

This is said by his disciples to be the key doctrine of "Nkru- molsm." It is typical of the un- healthy brew which Nkrumalı's party is boiling up: & mixture of Western demagogy and phoney mysticism plus a dash of old- fashioned African ju-ju worship.

Certainly Ghana is making rapid malerial progress, but much of it was initiated before the British left, and much

would have hand Chunde, sony perity is precarious.

Government. Ghana's pros-

Nkrumah is squandering vost triumphal arches and

suns on stadiums and huge ministries.

pends.

He cannot afford any failure in the cocoa

which crop, un

economy de- Chana's entire

Nkrumah stil thinks of him- "Yes," he admitted reluctantly, in sple of Government denials self as a light for all Africa, the

it is certainly being used as the

"but not very,"

#Not very"—yet. That about CFP's strong-arm squad. When prophet destined

continent into

who meuns trouble.

to lead the new

Dark star

Ghana will soon be small beer

age. But sums it up: sums up the e- these boys arrive in their green this dream is already fading.

It barrassed atillude

these trucks at a political meeting, ot Englishmen, like parents know their children are misbe- Sometimes the police arrest a having but don't want other few of them: the courts hardly people to say so: and sums up ever convict Nkrumah's dictatorship, which is The C.P.P. It stands for compared not only with newly not yet a complete dictatorship, Convention Peoples Party independent Nigeria but with but is tast heading that way. everywhere. Increasingly if you the rapidly growing community of ex-French States which com- want a job you have to be a C.P.P. member. This makes for plately surround her. Nkrumah has alienated the sympathy of A taxi driver in Accra pu; it massive corruption and incont

other African leaders. brutally: "One mistake here," petence,

They look with dislavour on The colonial system of District his imperial ambitions. But they he said, "ond you finish.”

'Nice way

I fully admit that British-style Commissioners,

which

was

parliamentary democracy is not abolished on Independence, is are not afraid. Their hands are

a muitable form of government now to be restored to provide much stronger than his. for illiterate, three-quarter nice jobs for aspiring CPP. Pazon African States.

But

gauleiters.

Ju-ju

Eut for the troubled continent

Well, they have a right to say I want to travel about much what they like, but, after all, The great difference seems to

-especially morris more,

lu faraway they too are living the fine life that American

long in America. women literally get out of their places like Spalt-and

Why the other week X homes to meet other people kong.

paid my first-ever vhit to Paris, because they want to.

And I only stayed a few hours It is

Sy what for their husbands at night just Ume for a sandwich and exactly I miss about England, time with the dinner ready. ttings at Dior.

Bila- You

fronically Krowing up in a "Shortly after I invested

making gives you the

oppor- the film I met the producer of country has an intangible effect

tunity to travel sornetimes, but The feel of England, on you. Hoss, and

of Africa as a whole Ghana la the sevuc, Charlie

denies you the chance to yes its very smeli, atays.

I echo what Joc deelded to have a ting in the

important; very important. If any pince. Once you've finished iu munt

I have thought

you were a Européen living in a lot about Appiah, one of the few remain- What theatre. I like to back people,

I long for

от Sout or Kenya I want hering unexited, unjalted Opposi- The whole Clvil Service is Rhodesia not just ideas, and I think Ross California, Tand of perpetual pear to be the dominant @gures rushing around working you are

tired,

can't relax Tracy's education. You

to travel, and possibly in their own homes, but I don't tou

have lon hus a big future.

leaders, told Nkrumah: soos to be drawn into the net. Arrien and you saw what was spring, are the four seasons,

think they want to be really. Alming.

it some schooling, say, in Switzer Kwane,' I said to him, 'there Nkrumah is quite frank about huppering In Ghana, how would For the three months I love ralu, and you don't get Deep down they seem to be dis-

nice way of being this. "It is most inappropriate," It affect you? Bat wonderful feeling you do appointed that they can gel usually takes to make a picture land. And, now this may sound is a

You pompous, I want her to becvine dictator and a nusty way. Why he says, that this chief mani- I know how it would affect 趄 when

After, all any you are so inmersed in it sudden away with it.

to cope with you not be a nice dietator?” with the a woman able be cannot shake it off,

Kwame Nkrumah la not being festation of government should me. I would either head for the nearest airline and buy a one- be separuled from the party." result you go home at nights things. If you take a 14-your-

So in future all Civil Service way ticket home for me and When we are not working at thinking about the same lube old girl here and in Ameries it's a nice dictator at all.

hard the American girl who usually

and appointments

promotions my family or head for the our shot next day and it s the studios we spend all

Strong squad

will stem from him.

nearest shop ad buy a gun, de----- even to talk about it, time working up our ranch in

For instances after talking to He defends himself with the termined to fight it out to tho The non important thing Arizona. It is like a big farm And 1 is not just a

I'm classic tyrant's argument that lani. Aurely for a woman is her aim several Ghanaian lawyers, doubt that

One of the bitterest and most and object in life to be appre left with no

the since he embodied the will of I agree that courts of law are corrupt, the people,” any dictatorship valid charges which intelligent worked cluted as a woman, Jimmy and I have

a dictatorship of the Ghanaiana level ni Nkrumah i world be this out fairly well so we, are some Amorlean worsen are not Judicial office is going to mer-

that he has discredited African and lango | bers of Nkrumah's party, the people. feminine, But by

C.P.P., and There you simply meet other used to each other's silences and their freedom in growing up is

the courts blandiy The Chong Evening News notionalium..

The black star of Ghana has self-absorption.

give inconsistent judgments it prints a column in pidgin English Maybe it is different for other more vivid and vital.

consecutive stings according to which regularly refer to him become a dark star indeed. And

Big

which As for me, I work in filma, no

British folly WOR In some ways never aomellow get away from couples in the business, maybe

tho whether

prisoner A sort or Ingrown that is why come im marclages 10 a

a quite seriously as "Mac large extent X Aire in an Amerlean women have an ensier pictures.

Government or an Opposition Brudder de Right Honourable brought it into boing. gadgoi eviure exists.

crack so easily.

artificial 'atmosphere

with time, their homes aro

It may be too late now to do supporter.

Kwame Nkrumah." and I first bitnicers on. When Jimmy STORY with a frightening run mostly.

At least in England there Is

Then there in the Bullders' Big Brother, Indeed. On the anything for Ghana but it is moral for all parents: I I would may in!f the married no film colony na exclusive an all thought about becoming Ameri- took a long

Brigade. This is a uniformed, base of Nkrumah's statue which not too late to learn a few can citizens we

disciplined organisation osten- be "sufferod" to have erected lemons and to apply them else- gave my nine-year-old son, women in America work, and that.

But a word of warning- do time to consider the step. But

is where. though in Britain now miany

decided that beenuse

sibly for public construction pnd outside Parilament House called who's also

-(Landon Express Bersion), Logan note wives work than 40 years not wish to pontifcate about the we

the relier of unemployment. But carved his own golden saying: (but who has no mib Ingo even, this business of work- Armorlean way of life; after all, America was

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beautiful day in heaven.

The ranch

Maybe now

I've

become

least I've made it my business to find out about the money set-up. The finances of the film world aren't quite so bad. fhentro But the

i chues Chinese chaos. Still I'm usual- ly lucky and I might manage to

д

real dominated,

woman

be an angel who won't lose little bossier because I am a really. money. I haven't so far. Maybe mother of a girt pushing four pastime it a passion. So we are not bored, as we used to be, and making decisions for some

time I never will,"

our one vise gives me a actise of spending

Since this is the Brett debut responsibility I've not had Hollywood. in print Fá like to agree. But before, so that I feel a woman no one in that lucky. Not even in my own right.

lucky cockuty.

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