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A shake-up in Hollywood!

By Kate O'Reilly

HOLLYWOOD has had a good shake-up this

week, the news is just out that the British Studios have turned out more films than Hollywood during the year September 1959 to August 1960,

This has come as quite a shock and Hollywood la feeling a lille Indignant with their screen writers who were on strike a month or so are, but it is no use looking there for an excuse

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1960.

Roderick Mann

BEWARE! Zsa Zsa blows the Gabor gaff

-AND SISTER EVA IS SO UPSET

THERE is, however much they may try to dis guise it, a slight degree of alarm and despon.

as the films they were engaged upon were scheduled for the dency among the Gabors at the moment. filming year beginning this September,

In looking for a reason, Hollywood reporters grabbed Miss Ure, the actress wife of John Osborne, and Miss Ure had plenty to say. She gave one reason that British actors demand far smaller salaries than their American colleagues.

Misa Ure would not give her salary figure, but when the reporters quoted "Sons and Lovers" as a $2,500,000 film, Mias Ure told them not to be ally.

"Bons and Lovers" cost $650,000 to make,

It was pointed out to Miss Ure that she must have accepted a

All because of Zsa Zsal

For Zsa Zsa has written her autobiography, and none of the other Gabors has a clue as to what is in it.

Has she blown the gaff?

Must Rubirosa, Conrad Hilton, George Sanders, and

a hundred assorted husbands, producers, lovers, layabouts,

small salary to act in the film. She countered Indignantly and night-club operators take to the hills?

that American actors over-rated their worth, and asked if any were worth $1,000,000 a film.

To prove her point that British actors placed art before money, she pointed to the headline that was shaking Hollywood that day. "Laurence Olivier turns down $300,000 role of Caesar in Cleopatra," with Elizabeth Taylor playing the name rale. As a matter of fact, Laurence Olivier has turned down the part

to play "Becket" on Broadway.

So once again woman had the last word.

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Nobody knows.

It is, of course, no secret that since they fled the plains of Hungary and swarmed across the Atlantic to seize possession of the better tables at El Morocco, the Gabors have divided their time equally between making marriages and making money. With occasional time out for chores like acting.

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Why St. Paul's had no glamour for its devastating Dean

FOR

by PERCY CUDLIPP

a man who was Dean of St Paul's for 29 years, William Ralph Inge laboured under a strange handicap.

It was that St Paul's Cathedral guished scholar." Both

'Love-hate'

And for

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Georges Simenon. Hamis

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U Fifth security that I can see. And Dick Is wonderful about it. I have an apartment in the block and when we married and be moved in, he insisted on paying me rent. So I let him. I could never refuse Dick anything, you see."

"I see," I said,

And I did.

THE BAIT

SIR Laurence Olivier has not

been over-fortunate in his choice of films other than his magnificent Shakespearian ven- tures. The result is that his name, although magic at the theatre, is not magic at cinema box-offices.

What, then, are the prospects for The Entertainer—which got And, in the process of making off to a pour start when so much redubbing and recutting themselves the most family team since the Borgia! and, next to Cartiers, the most proved necessary? reliable authority on precious

It opened in London recently, stones in the Western hemis al I believe that it will do phere, many men have been splendidly. For a reason that involved

was never envisaged at the time Their heads line the route to that it was made.

the Gabors' homes, penthouses,

and jewel-boxes as trees Une The ANNOUNCEIVEst of the the Mall.

Olivier-Leigh marriage break- up, and his interest in actress

Film offers Joan Plowright, has thrown

too

How

many? No bothered to count.

Until now.

one

hay

Now, unforgivably, Zsa Zsa

enormous interest "în Miss Plowright's direction.

And though she is known to theatre audiences, she is unknown to the mass of film- goers.

The advertising on this film, IS looking back, And writing I would guess, will be angled o about herself and her family, And sister Eva is understand ably concerned.

this. For everyone will want to see the young girl who managed to turn Olivier's heart from one of the great beauties of the day.

stuck outside the

She is in London at the ◆ IN CASE OF EMERGENCY moment, so I invited her lo A huge poster of her and Sir

luncheon. She is the poppet af Laurence, Hamilton. 12s. 6d. The story the family, Eva; the one with cinema, should prove magnetic of the Bardot Alm Love Is My talent.

bait for audiences who might Profession: a lawyer obsessed

otherwise resist the lure of Olivier.

She came in looking as a by a young slut who reimburses tractive as a

weekend on the him for legal services in her own form of legal tender. Riviera-especially as she had Tough but sumpathique in the put on a little weight since lart we met. Around 24 carats, at a well-judged. Simenon manner.

guess, mostly on her left hand "When I heard about the

that if she had said wicked

THE KINGDOMS OF

And, if I know the film busi- ness, it will be.

-London Express Service).

GURIST, Peter Bamm Thames book," she said, "I told Zsa Zs A has just broken off her YOUNG Hollywood starlet there to continue writing for them & Hudson. 428. The story of the spread: of Christianity

her wealthy got on his nerves. So, even and at Cambridge he won a every week indefinitely."

sho Bance. But was in the Evening throughout the world, straight things about me I would sua engagement to more, did the Cathedral services, glittering line of scholarships

forwardly told and beautifully her. Do you know what Standard that he later began illustrated by nearly 400 repro- sald? Do, darling. It will make "I saw him in a swim-suit Prime Minister Asquith, offer and distinctions.

weekly articles which

such wonderful publicity." Sa one day," she reports, “and he ductions

archaeological of ing him the Deanery, urged "the But he was shy, nervous, sub- the

you see, there is nothing I can looked so diferent without his evidence. In the interests ulmost importance" of maintain ject to spells of depression. Even brought him the widest fame.

do. lay-out, convenience has UA-

wallet." ing the services at their "stan in manhood he disliked looking

by fortunately been sacrificed "Already Zsa Zsa's book has dard of sober beauty" But into mirrors because, at the age Dean Inge, after his first day of three or four, he had seen a

placing the captions at the end. been sold to a magazine for a

fortune. And there have ber In the job, wrote in his diary: distorted reflection of himself.

As a schoolmaster he could There has been nothing in SHAKESPEARE AND COM-film offers. But I don't think "have never before had

the FANY. Sylvia Beach, Faber,. 25 be film people will allow Za to match work which wounded my con- not keep order. At Hertford journalism since

of Zsa to play berself on combination of The Parisian 1terary scene science, but these services seem College, Oxford, where he lee astonishing

the the 1920s, with is expatriate screen, and she will not allow to me a criminal waste of time, tured for 16 years, he was often talents and foibles which I have held different views af despondent, partly because of Dean displayed in those articles: American and English authors, the book to be bought unles different times about the char- deafness, and wrote: "People wit and pessimism, wisdom and comes to life acter and nature of the Creator doon't seem to want me"; and recklessness, humanity and out-light-hearted memoirs of the of the Universe; but never at at 38, though his reputation 25 rageous class prejudice the woman who

time have I thought it a theologist was swiftly rising, whole paradoxical mixture made Joyce's Ulysses. possible that he is the kind of he confided to his diary that be irresistibly readable

being wished he were dead, person who enjoys serenaded!"

Any

Dean Inge's diaries, covering

more than 60 of his 93 years, provide the foundations of an excellent biography by Canon

Love

again in these she can,

Arst published

So insecure

the

mother's

by his

SUBTERRANEANS.

• THE original mind and brilliant pen. Jack Kerouac. Deutsch, 10s. 6d. "Actually I don't see why she Often he pricked his readers Kerouac has adopted a style like shouldn't play herself, but my Lo fury. There was an article

Jamis Joyce and become husband says they never let which attacked State education from the viewpoint of profes-virtually unreadable in his study stars play themselves,

among "He keeps telling me that the miseries Inge, his biographer surmises, slonal people who sead their of an affair conducted

and squalors of they wouldn't agree to Schno- beatnik lite in San Francisco, zle Durante playing himself- Adam Fox (DEAN INGE, pub- was "almost unaware of young sons to public schools.—

"The Government are educat-

though how he can compare my lished by John Murray, 286.), women until he was past 30." He died

sister with Schnozzle Durante I revered At 36 he became engaged to a ing the children of the working Better wait for the film. in 1954,

expense, in order] THE PERFECT WIFE. Doris don't know. by Churchmen as an exponent Young woman who rejected him man, at our

Disraeli's few months later, then kept that they may take the bread Leslie, Hodder, 185. of Christian mysticism, by

Mary. Anne was shrewd, com- "What about your scholars for his immense learn him on a string with a series of out of our children's mouths."

mon, and M chatterbox-but part?" ing and magnificent prose style; letters and meetings for another

This brought a public rebuke surely not quite so irritating as ***Zsa Zsa says her part must and known to a far wider public five years,

He did not marry until he from the Archbishop of Canter- this tinsel embrodery

go to a very, very beautiful as a "character" on the grand

lorian history makes her out actress

who doesn't object to scale, a withering critic of what was 45 and had become vicar of bury. he deemed the follies of civilisa- a London church. Diary entries

write her Own tion: the "Gloomy Dean." over a period of months show the Evening Standard--which

Za that the decision was tortuously caused someone to call him "ament, in fact, is to serve Dizy

wonse than Gladstone ever did was going to

book, you know, but Zsa pillar of the Church and two approached.

CERTAIN COMPASS, silenced her. 'I am much more February: "If Kitty Spooner columns in the Evening Stan-A

than you, she told I rather dard"-spanned 30 years, but Lettice Cooper. Gollancz, 15. famous were rather older, or

there was a curious element of Film producer's wife cannot mother, 'You must lay off jor Inge's objection to the "saber younger, I should try my luck love-hale In its earlier stages. believe that her husband killed a while."

June: "I like Kitty immensely, The scholar in him was quarrell-himself and travels to Italy int beauty" which Asquith cherish- but I am not in love."

search of 3 murderer, The ed in the St. Paul's services was September: "Am I, or can I ing with the journalist.

He could write in his diary: people she meets and the that "the noise interferes with be, properly in love with her?" consecutive thought."

Boredom...

OF VIC-

The Dean's relationship with to be. Miss Leslie's · achieve- a very, very minor role. Mother

Eva was suddenly plunged in gloom, as though the spectre of all the Gabora in Cinemascope

"I am sure Zsa Zsa will be kind to me." she said after aj while. "We have always been against the "extreme boredom" Inge spent only two years at "I have decided to give up

for the Evening Despite his crowded daily gro-close and good to each other. of George V's Coronation in his London vicarage. Hankering writing Westminster Abbey.

for the academic life, he ac- Standard, which is rather a low gramme of engagements. he used Of course, she likes to tease me.

public transport and would not All sisters do, buy a motor car until, when The habit of intensive study cepted a Cambridge professor- peper."

#When I married my wonder- was instilled in early childhood ship and held it for four years

he was 66, a cousin left him £2,000, In 1931 he recorded ful husband, Dick Brown, that he had saved £20,000 la Zsa met and danced with Els four years.

father. They got on very well, Over the years, warm friend- and afterwards Zsa Zsa kupt ship grew between the Inges warning me: "Careful, darii, and Beaverbrook. It was while

Next day: "I am beginning "I have abundant evidence that unexpected conclusion add up had proved too much for bet.

I am exercising more influence to a ment, domestle thriller. So he began the practice of to love the dear girl." reading books in his stall-p The marriage was a tremend- in this way than ever before" remedy which he found effective ous success.

-and, only five months later,

by his mother, an archdeacon's until Asquith called him to St. daughter of whom it was said

Paul's.

That was in 1911, but it was

His savings

that you felt that if you laughed not until 1919 that the scholar, Twice he stopped writing the at anything in her presence

the philosopher, the profound articles, for which he was paid would have been better not to preacher became a vivid pubile first £20, then, at Lord Beaver have done it.

When Ralph was between.six figure. For at 59 Dean Inge was brook's instruction, £40.

discovered as a superb journalist.

and seven his mother began teaching him French; a year

later, Latin written exercise His fame

before

breakfast,

afterwards.

construing

After his second withdrawal they were staying his fat at you may have me for a mother- (noted by a diary entry "I don't Arlington House that Mrs Inge

in-law. want people to say I am too died of a heart attack. fond of money") silence fell "I have now nothing to live the for" the Dean, wrote in his between the Deanery and

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“Zsa Zsa is like me, you see. He had published a volume Evening Standard for five years. diary that night, "and I am We are both insecure When On his ninth birthday he be called "Outspoken, Essays; some Then Dean Inge retired to the afraid I am not so near my we landed in America we didn't have the price of a hamburger, zan the Greek alphabet. There theological, some political. It country and Lord, Beaverbrook, end as I could wish." was an equally well planned was the extraordinary pungency sensing his opportunity, issued But he lived for five years We have sought security ever curriculum of religious instruc of the latter that inspired an an invitation for resumption of more not actually happy, but since." 1o.

Immediate offer from the Sunday the articles, which was cordially content" He lectured in West hit you have it in wur Term-end reports from Eton Express "which" wrote the accepted:

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"Yea, But I still hang on to and power for a boy," and eight short cameries on things from his articles and books he standard, at 92,

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