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THIS IS WHAT

MAKES

TREVOR

HOWARD

RUN.

WHAT makes Trevor

Howard run? His answer: "But what else is there to do, old boy? I work about two months in the year. And I get restless the rest of the

work

more not

Why

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE.

PETER EVANS Mr. Innes

presents

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

Virginia McKenna puts motherhood before

movie-making

and the search for inspiration

Pare

THE BOOK PAGE

By Richard Findlater

chical fact fuels his imagination, a Government survey but I And he has found a convenient was in his first two exhilarating way of tanking up In remote days, among the oil-boom town" comers of the globe--by writing that a Canadian," "crasrimed the travel pieces for an enterprising new Canada down my throat in U.S. magazine, -

one wild rush and gave me the guts of a novel about the oil. boom.”**

FASCINATING

These are collected in Harvest But u

But usually inspiration seems of Journeys. And the result-fir slow to catch fire. Although Mr from being a mere plece of Imes is an ardent sullor, it was HARVEST OF JOURNEYS-making-is a notably good not until his 10-ton ocean racer

volume of travel-reportage was nearly run down by fanes, which provides more fascina found his way into a book about #tearner off Cherbourg that he

the sea he had wanted to write for a long time.

By Hammond Collins. 181.

MONG top-selling

A

"

glimpses of a novelist foraging for inspiration,

Here is Mr Innes "wading novelists Mr. Ralph deep in a whale's Intestines, on SERVICE HELP

the edge of the Arctic Circle And his travels around Arabia Hammond Innes is & after a chase whose excitement prime exponent of the and "sickening cruelty" he achieved surprisingly, with help of the Navy, the RAF describes in strong clear prose, do-it-yourself cult.

and the Foreign Office-have Here is Mr Inries "tout with only just been brewed into If he writes an adventure fear in a storm-tossed Anson forthcoming novel, after Indeed. the cool Misa story about building, a railway above the Aden Protectorate, as years on the boil. VIRGINIA MCKENNA, "Naturally, it's silly and im

possible to say that my wife will McKenna is so determined to across the icy wastes of Labra- 2 daredevil plot plummets him. Britain's top woman star, never make another film I de uncommitted that she has on, you may be sure that Mr down to a tiny fort under are

ended her mean, she has the kind of talent recretly

contract Innes has been on the spot may never make a film again, that will still get her work in with the Rank Organisation two freezing in the cause of fiction

If his characters plunge into 5, 10, 15 years from now if she films before it was due to expire whaling Mr Innes depend on After three years of marriage, ever wanted to retum to the Sald Travers: "You see, we it has been right in among the she has decided that motherhood screen."

are really quite unambitious people. Unless trying to live blubber too. is more important than movies.

like ordinary, decent human beings is ambitious."

Her husband, Bill Travers, told me the other day: "You know, Ginny.is happier and far more relaxed now than I think she has ever been.

"She has become a full-time mother and loves every minute of it.

Determined

But will Miss McKenna re turn to the screen ever? Somehow I doubt it.

I shall miss and always. Te- member the fragile-faced. Miss McKenna, the actress ambitious enough to put motherhood first.

Simply adores it. Our first baby, Guinness v. STRANGERS

is 18 months now. They're

quite a handful at that age"

As her husband's reputation has grown-he is now at M.G.M. filming

Brando

THIS was her with Spike Milligan in "In- TERENCE

FALL OUT

RATTIGAN has K

NOVAK and Kirk

vasion Quartet"-Miss Mc- sold the film rights of his latest Douglas were, rather less than

finest tour... Kenna has been fading play "Boss"-Alec Guinness is

Playing Lawrence of Arabia in inta the back its West End run-to the Rank

Organisation.

Now she is expecting her second baby in July. And it looks like bringing the final Iskie-cat.

McKenna-ber slowly womanhood and ground. hominity'shining through the mud and tatters made her name with acting like this to "A Town Like Alice"

often?

Surely

Said Travers: "At the moment Ginny hasn't any plans beyond the new baby, It's very likely she will retire.

Dad

"Trouble

is, you know," "

Now the race is on to get it on to the screen.va

For producer Sam (Suddenly, Last Summer) Spiegel has al ready announced that he will make the Lawrence film, starring Marlon Brando. Who will play Hank's Lawrence?

Best bet is Guinness, who has made a big encress in the play.

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friends during the filming of Strangers When We Meet" in Hollywood,

Now the picture is over and Miss Novak talks about work and Mr Douglas like this:-

Kirk is a man with a strong personality, and lots of opinions.

"I took it as a personal insult when he told me how to play my part. So I finally told him. Ti play my part and you play yours." "

Kirk remains silent

Fear-old son Ingvar when the

because producers London's dead. "It's a bore now. That tu-tu Royal Ballet would be only too

it's don't want you,"

"Oh, I'm wanted old boy, I'm wanted all right. For a lot of old rubbish, I'm offered monė old rubbish than the dustman, And I'm expected to make some thing out of it,

He looked around the res- Elaurant where the caviar and chi-chi is served in equal proper tions, where the waiters are os discreet as Venetian blinds.

Then slowly, as he were rolling the words in his mouth like fine old wine, he said:----

"A this traveling moving ground, on the go. I mean, it's

not that I'm running away from anything. It's not that at all. In fact, I suppose you might say I'm running into life."

This seemed to please him mormously. He said it again: "Yes, that's it. Ten running hard into lie. I'm unstoppable,”

SO-BORING

This year alone the talented

time. Sitting at home 44-year-old unstoppable Da

isn't for me.

...

"You feel it's such a wicked waste of time and life and everything. You feel, I don't

vished New York, París, Switzer- land (where he broke his leg). Spain, and North Africa.

Now, After a briet visit

know, like the world is rushing home, he leaves again. Destina- by and leaving you behind. So, tion Cannes where his latest

I jump on, hang on, and have film. "Sons and Lovers," is the a-bit, of sport."

I

official British entry at the

I asked: "Why don't you festival.

BY THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

RETURN willy and/or if not nilly to the question of the sensitivity of felt "hots,

who comes here with a celluloid scythe, wired to a pyramid of brass nails standing in a bowi of glue, pay duty on seythe The Felt Research branch of wire, nails, bowl, and glue? the Hat Investigation Authority Even if it is called "Renuncia- hes conducted a successful tion" or "Fatherhood"? The experiment in the underground danger is that somebody will laboratories at Mildenhall A arrive at the port with a heap volunteer wore a felt hat tested of serap metal, and will claim by the new substance gauge for that it is a work of art, What 134 hours, even sleeping in it, ever the ruling, Customs cannot Neither man nor hat showed stale the infinite variety of con- any sign of undue sensitivity, If temporary Art, one any discount a

certain

Inssitude in the man, due,"

according to experts, to bare- Marginal note

dom, Residual stress caused

dints in the hat, particularly

MAN with more than forty

when the man had slept in it. A years in the legal profession

But the weight of the hat

remained.

constant. Local says that after reading two stretches of the brim sagged sections of the new Finance Hilll six or seven times he began to

slightly owing to a wetting

when the man washed his face get a faint idea of their mean-

of a morning,IMAGES

Something to declare!.

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Cus

which the receive a trali

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ing. It is not generally under- stood that if such Bills, and, in come tax forma, were written in straightforward intelligible English for fewer people would be paying m then they need. through nability to understand the chim they are pe

make. Nor would they need

The only way to enjoy London now is to drink. The thri has gone for me, I suppose,

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I suddenly felt very sad for the man who has lost the thrill driving him around the world at London, Aloes that is looking for new thrills in new places,"

He said: "I'd rather be travel ling and having fun, than earn ing a few extra bob making alms I don't want to make.

"I could make tour, five films a year. But I wouldn't be happy. And I'm happy now, old boy, I'm happy now.”

:

We said goodbye and I watched him hobble down, the street on his broken. leg. unstoppable man rushing hard into life,

The secret of

An

girl keeps

travelling

...happy to have her back as

prima ballerina?

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Ballerina Beryl - Grey bas been away a great deal since. 1957, when she quit the Royal Ballet and hung out the sign "Have tu-tu's. Will Travel.. Now she is in London again. but only just.

Seld Miss Grey: It is too easy to be lulled into bad habits. felt I had to break new ound. And my work seems to Improve with the challenge vi

another country dancing in with new partners and new

" techniques.

Then this rather sad post- script to a successful

career.

"I miss my family very much. But one always gains something I'm 33 how and while I can This month she leaves again still dance. I feel I must." with periner Bryan Ashridge

for a seven-week tour of New 1 LEAVE you with this Zealand, Australia, and Lebanon. thought: Who is Sammy spend so much time away from Davis sen.? home, her

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