1960-06-18 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY JUNE 18, 1960.

Roderick Mann*

Love? I'm just not the type says Tina Louise

Miss Tina Louise.... tall, torrid and 25

THE BOOK PAGE

Howard-the charmer who hated

his job...

by RICHARD LISTER

BEFOR

Rome.

EFORE I set out to meet Miss Tina Louise I thought it wise to arm myself with some relevant information about the lady. So I called up an Italian who had occasionally escorted her about town and he said—

"She's wonderful. The only trouble is that every time you turn your back or nip in for a haircut, you don't feel safe unless you've manacled her to the railings."

"Is there more to her than meets the eye?"

"Haven't you noticed?" he Tina said. Everything about meets the eye."

There was a pause, and then he added: "By the way, it you're going to see her at home take five lire." And he hung "Well, that sounded interest- Ing enough I'd never had to pay a toll before. So, with Ave fire in my hand, I set out for the old quarter of Rome, where Miss Louise is currently living while she makes a new film Sappho Venus of Lesbos.

The reason

'I SHUT MYSELF AWAY WITH

MY BOOKS AND MY DREAMS'

And quickly. Now I am very

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

A CHASER, TOO? "My wife used to keep on at he says.

AN ACTOR now living in good at 14 At first I used to me to lose weight," hang a sort of mental label on "Then, when we were in Aus- Rome-renowned for his intake told of alcohol-donated some of my sweater saying: 'Couldn't tralia last year, a doctor

But it her: If you want an angry his blood to a hospital some. we just be friends didn't work. So I learned talk husband starve him. But if you want him happy- leave about different things."

him be.""

"Despite what you say," said, "I presume you are not a complete recluse? You occasionally dine out?"

"I

17.-ust

never go on ordinary dates," she said. "What's the point-all that hand-kissing and stuff: I've been through It too often. I go out only with Hers is a top-door flat in a people I know I can trust; wide, attractive street, and it people who enjoy talking to

But quite often I was there that I discovered the myself away here for days. I reason for the five lire. Unless call it my No People Phase," you put one of these coins in the meter fixed to the lift It doesn't work and you have to - walk up.

Finally, on the top floor, I came face to face with Miss Louise. Tall, torrid, and 25 The girl called "The World's Most Beautiful Redhead."

me.

Too difficult

shut

dream.

I'm

"Then what do you do?"

And "Oh, I read. I'm A great dreamer. always dreaming about famous people. Lire magazine wanted to so a layout on my dreams,. (To date, I might add, I have but iney iound it would be 100- vau met all the girls called "The alcun to photograph. World's Most Beautiful Red- see, 1 dream about people like Eisenhower, head." From Rita Hayworth Ingrid Bergman, down. They number five, and I and Adlai Stevenson.".

-what hapens am inclined to suspect that Miss Louise has the strongest claim dreams?" yet to the title.)

She was barefoot, wearing slacks which looked as if they had been put on with a spray- gun and a top-plece which was Just the right size too small,

Freckles, too

in

these

"Ingrid Bergman is giving me an award. She's tall and she's got big feet like me,, so I say: ingrta you and I ought to make a film together. And she agrees."

When you dream about Eisenhower, what

are.

you doing? Caddying?".

"No, we're out dancing to- And gether. He's wonderful.

ne never makes a pass, or any

She had blue-green eyes, a

of freckles, same-coloured thing." hair, and she stood

lot

about

A QUITE REMARKABLE the difficulties he created for mother. Or father, either, come

FATHER, By Leslie Ruth himself.

Howard. Longman. 21s.

THIS faintly nauseat- ing book as it seems

Enormously admired by other women, as he became successful

"And Stevenson?”.

"We're in a car together, and We get drinking champagne, along terribly well."

"I

5ft 8in on the launching-pad.

She didn't look the kind of gri you would take home, to

She looked crestfallen. would have made

a great to think of it.

picture spread, wouldn't if?"

·· ́`(In case you didn't see her in she said. "But it would have arrange, Ike he managed to hold them at bay, fims like God's Little Acre and been difficult to

being President and every except for one episode which his Day of the Outlaw, and are daughter whisks over as quickly wondering Who the blazes is thing."

Innished my beer and got up to me--will all the same boy's roving eye for a Vulgarty we are about to start talking to go. At the door she gave

me five fire for the f probably find an enor- pretty piece.

and you will find out.)

"Once," she said, "I used to. mous public among Howard hed a Hungarian for a She produced an iced beer try so hard to impress people

I wasn't dumb. Now middle aged readers father. He took the plunge into from the place where she kept that

the professional theatre rather the seed beer and looked at me don't bother. I know I'm not from Tunbridge Wells to then rette to dull bank as quizzically for a momentas and that's what matters, isn't Hongkong.

when he came back from the though I were something she it?" war, shell-shocked, in 1917. had just purchased and wasn't

too sure about.

as she can; but he had a school-Tina Louise? have patience.

The 50-very-English Leslie

It is the biography of a THE ACTING

popular Alm star, the late

Then she said: "How about

a massage?"

"A what?"

"A massage. I do a

great

Leslie Howard, written by his He had a low small perts in "daughter, and it depicts him.us London, but it was in America

Just the sort of person his son- that he gradually established massage. You'll love it. You'll pler female admirers would like himself as an actor with an never want to get up." him to have been.

egreeable comic touch and a "I believe you,” I said. it. he had been a serious vein of warm sincerity.

·ortist devoted to his craft, his His attitude towards acling is "I like being massaged my- would have had a really summed up in the little self, see," said Miss Louise, story of how, after his success, "So I know how to do it to

story Imited appeal.

But however skilful and pro- an American impresario wanted others. You're quite sure?" fessional he may have been in to give him a New York sezon "Positive."

bis own performances, towards with leading parts in five plays. She walked out through the --the-theatre-us-a "whole he had an He was horrified at the idea. wide windows on to the terrace. attitude of disinterest that Five pars? It was bad enough All around us the roof-tops of bordered on contempt, and he having to act one. But fivel old Rome glowed golden in the took out of it a great deal more Unthinkable!

early evening. From the street than he put in.

The flins, now that they had below the muted sounds of the begun to taik, were an obvious city flowed up.. a motor magnet for an actor with a per-scooter. a snatch of music sonality to sell, and Leslie

a child's cry. Howard, blessed with cherm. appeal to women and the ability

THE MAN

But it is probably not the actor that his fans will want to read abbat (with his string of forget.

table roles in forgettable lms project it, was soon among.

and plays) so much as the man,

the highest paid of the stars.

of

Not typical

said, "I'm not a typical

And here he belonged to that divided between a variety

Henceforward his life was "I like living alone here," she clase always beloved by English Hollywood villas with bathing American girl, you see. Most women, the boy who never new pools in their gardens, and an American girls feel the need

Listen

English country house with a for security. For a husband to, Miss Howard's account of him with his little string of polo ponies.

and a home. I don't He would have preferred not 300 Winkle and his wife Ruth:

when

Of course there were days to have had to work at so dis- the recalcitrant Winkle agreeable a pursuit to make it all would be brought before him tossible.

for punishment which was very

dificult, Leslie in his heart in THE ALIBI

for

"What do you feel the need

“Stimulation,” she said softly. "Mental-stimulation. Bodles need minds. No one should let his mind vegetate."

"The last thing men want to

variably agreed with his son, I can't help feeling that Leslie of men would have wanted to "I should have thought lote but, prodded by Ruth would

Howard was a more interesting talk to you?? weakly try to be severe.

The two men would look at character than Miss Howard each other, and in order to pre- makes him out. He successfully do with me is talk," said Miss serve their conventions, they imposed on the world an image Louise darkly.. "There must be would play the parts as written of himself which delighted his something wrong with my by their wife and mother until fading shamelessly on his chemistry. I attract everyone the left the

Event dogs.

But very few Then frightful subterranean forgetfulness his shyness and people attract me." whispers and wicked rigates his myopia, he twinkled elusive-

"What sort of things do you would be heard. Ruth despaired. ly through the role of spectacle like to talk about?” 3*

hypnosis; How could one bring up a small ed, hypochondriac, tweedy boy- bow with another small boy for man, successful only by some

some painting:

I admire. sort of accident.! People like Huxley. I like

the room.

father?

HUSBAND

But wam't the whole show out writers with lye mindz - A on as a sort of "allhi to prevent man like Betrand Russell nu- him having to accept Walt henoys me. He's far too dog really" spa?,

and bigoted "

dogpatc As a husband Howard is pre... sented as utterly and hopelessly If Mis Howard has any such We went back Into the room dependent on his womenfolk, suspicioam she" - doem't raise and she turned on the record

-content whom he used unscrupulously them

10 player

misle. Very soft but charmingly to rosnaze his perpetuate the legend. And you see," she said. had Hfe for him or get him out of fans wil thank her for the lead to learn to changu” the“ suisject.

SO HAPPY NOW

PETER USTINOV has started filming Romanoff and Jullet in Rome.

He Is producing directing, and starring. But he has ulcer. He is a very fat, very happy man,

no

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weeks ago.

"I wouldn't like to be the patient who gets it," said a wag on the Via Veneto. "Not un- chaser Mrs Ustinov, at the moment, less they're giving a Is leaving him be.

immediately afterwards."

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