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LOGAN GOURLAY FROM SUZY PARKER TO HER HUSBAND:
the tersest bulletin a father ever had on a baby
SUZY
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY AUGUST: IN 1940
MISS MONROE GOES TO RENO
IT
was a Happy Birthday party for Mrs. Clark Gable and director John Huston and I was glad I was asked. Marilyn Monroe and her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, were there, and Gable,. and Montgomery Clift, and Thelma Ritter, and Eli Wallach all the cast of a significant new picture, The Misfits is Arthur Miller's first film script and Marilyn Monroe's. most ambitious and exact-
role.
UZY PARKER is a film star partly by accident
and an iconoclast by conviction and applica-į tion. Her marriage to Frenchman Pierre de la Salle is being dissolved, and she has reacted characing teristically to the problem of how to keep him pro- vided with regular information about their child a Georgia.
whom
Apparently unwilling to write had a Rugby celebrity as Christ to M de la Solle,
she and a collection of comics and refers to in polar lones as "that actors as Disciples, the models a series for the muses will not be un-. man" she has ordered
of specially-printed postcards known. from a London Arm.
The
"I'd like to have Vivien Leigh as the muse of drama, of course, postcards require the Adrienne Corri as the muse of
Mis the
dance.. Terpsichore isn't minimum of effort by Parker but they will fulfil their it? I want them all to be purpose. They are set out
as beautiful, exciting, and interest follows:--
ing women."
Miss Georgia de la Salle is
WELL
+ FAIR
POORLY
ILL
All that Miss Parker has
didn't tell him, but he might have trouble casting Erato, whe is described in the classical dicilonaries as the "mise ol the lyre and erotic poetry."
Mr Vicuri, who is Welsh born to of Italian parents and who is
grandiose ideas.
do is sick off the appropriate all of 28, has nothing but
item and send the postcard.
I am told from Paris that M. de la Salle, who has been told about the
is
not
to
"An artist should nourish the Picasso is an interior soul. decorator of the soul. forward
"I've been through my Cubist appreciate and Abstract periods. Now I'm
a romantic realist. "I'm convinced Miss Parker, now making
postcards,
exactly looking receiving
them. I
his feelings.
В
of my
We gathered in the Fable Room at the Mapes Hotel, Reno, after
day's shooting in the hot sun
of the desert, 40 miles away. Miss Monroe her hair
it was almost platinum that white, her party dress light ts
sheath was subdued.
She is worried sometimes tor- tured by the responsibility el first starring in her husband's picture alternating between self-doubt and self-confidence.
"I must be worthy of this, I must. I know I can not. Arthur tells me and so does John."
The challenge
MONROE
MILLER
GABLE
And in the desert - between scenes-her
husband talks to me about the significant
revolution on both sides of the big screen
DON IDDON in HOLLYWOOD
The item which angered her can society) has cost her sleep, want the lovers to suffer but I 'I'am an American" and have said: "If it is true that Marilyn blotched her usually fair con- do not." Monroe flew into Beverly Hills plexion, and driven her to tran- to spend Sunday it will add quiltisers and pints of coffee. more flame to the fire about her alleged romance with Yves Mon- tand."
The freedom
HUSTON
The film is being shot in direct continuity starting at the beginning and ending at the end-which is unusual and costly. But Miller and Huston want it that way.
There has been shooting along the gaudy streets of Rene, out- side the casinos end the saloons and night clubs.
The factory
Miller says: "We chose Reno because it is the divorce capital of the world' and the most poignant factory of disenchant- noent and
separation in existence."
Gable--"The King of Holly- wood"-has no time for intro-
it is in fact a handsome spection. At 59, 35lbs. (by diet.
the local ing) lighter, he says quietly that
booming town and people accord you the status of people don't bother much with 3 God.
the gambling that goes on day he has no thoughts of abdicating and, anyway, consider the chal-
This new and fast-growng "Now people are admitting and night, with the bars which lenge this new film prosents.
freedom of the movies, this new things are wrong... it's re- never close and with the hun I also considered Gable's re
adult spectable to criticise again" dreds of beautiful women, all I sat with Arthur Miller and and sometimes abused wards.
Some of the talk is over the carbon coples of Marilyn Mon- watched Huston For this one flm he gets top
coaxing her hood, was one of the reasons
and perhaps roe. through a scene. Muller-an that brought me to Hollywood. company's head,
The cast billing a flat sum of £250,000,
up over Marilyn's, although she is
doesn't bother astonishing
supremely The other was summed man, plus 10 pe. of the pleure's gross,
and articu- either. Miller, Huston, Clift and own plus all expenses
honest with himself and others for me by Arthur Miller him- sharply Intelligent for the big
blonde head Wallach are serious men and --will never forget the scars self--the Ertellectunt leader of ale. The bright, Tented outside
this. I suspect, to be a serious about house he has artist Reno, plus £15,000 a week if It is true that Marilyn Mon- McCarthyism indicted upon him. this strange group in the Reno has brains.
Clift listens absorbed when film. He took three years to write desert. the film has not been completed roe slipped off to Beverly Hills,
Miller alts, and Huston, ad Consider his words.
For it will be the first produce but only to see her doctor. She this fam, having refused to by October.
"I have to and some balans mean talker himself, goes silent. tion of the Rethink Age in "I am not particularly money is tremendously highly strung, tackle a film script in the past.
America's "I can say ing weight on the side of sur Gable, a less complicated man America and since **Now," he says, minded," says Gable. "I have easily upset, temperamental and
A world- in love with Arthur things in a film with as much vival," be said. "For the first on first-name terms with every movies have proved KNOW It' difficult to managers and agents for that." deeply
In time in wears 1 feel some mall one, is not a great debater. The wide and potent propaganda am sured on Yet, for all the power of his Miller who, I suspect, dominates freedom is on Broadway. are devotees of Charles Addams believe, but 1
authority that top billing it is Monroe who her and is equally angry and my picture two people fall in optimism about the way things part could match his Rhett force it could spur more Holly- world-the Butler in Gone With the Wind, wood talents and do not mis- and have a highly contemporary the
had upset at the gossip grinders. love. They have an affair but are going in the acene, I the 5,000,000. dominates the
The strain sense of humour, that the post- the producer of
of making this they do not get married. But fight against segregation in the and there is a good deal of talk take the brilliance of the top cards should have additional dollar epic "The King of Kings"] beers out to watch the company
has issued a statement to the at work earlier, and I had seen picture (in which she plays they do not suffer any retribu- South, the self-examination and about Academy Award winning, men in Hollywoodbowards a a long way from new and significantly more in- Items like
telligent kind of cinema. Georgia de la Salle has effect that he wishes to keep the Miss Monroe fing down a local Reno divorcee in a stary heavy tion for this. The Motion Pic self-reproach among Americans. but we are
paper with disgust,
with subtle criticism of Ameri- ture Seal Approval people would. It isn't enough now to say that yel plot a secret.
A in London titled "Circle of genius. I'm not arrogant Deception," says "I think it's it. Jual convinced. An
a sensible arrangement. I have has to be.". nothing else lo say to the baby's
father."
She is amused by the sugges- tion of some of her friends, who I
been
LOST
FOUND
KIDNAPPED
RESCUED
DKC
I'm glad he is convinced.
highest
You name it
he
can afford it
dealer
Parker, I suggest that Miss A doubt devoted who is
Jack Bloom, antique mother in her unconventional way, should add another line and owner of The Galleon Club,
about Georgia, who is now seven months old
Her first words were.......... They might be precociously startling.
►
It's absurd
-
.but
sale.
is offering the famed Hastings silver dinner service for Price: £15,000.
Recently he had an
inquiry from a dealer who said he had
an interested client.
Could I be sent down to client's country house over
it could weekend⚫ so
it's typical examined at leisure?
sure your client
won't use
the
the
bel
Said Mr Bloom: Yes, if I'm news to impress his guests at a dinner recently party and send it back on Mon- Bir-conditioning day. an
The directors of a #gency in Fleet-street installed
plant,
can afford it."
They immediately received a The dinner service was sent
JAK and GEORGE... VISIT THE LAND OF SONG
So this choirmaster loses his
dentures, and Mitzi takes her clothes off, and Bwrw dy Fara wins the crown, and Jak and I finish up with a South American hoa - constrictor named Frankie.
And if these remarks seem even less coherent than usual, I can only suggest that you, too, would be halfway round the bend if, like my partner and
If I'm sure your client me, you had been embroiled for the best part of a week in the Paul Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Fren-
hinol Cymru at Caerdydd.
letter from the owners of the The client's name office building, a well-known Getty.
insurance company, saying:
"It must. be dismantled as
soon
as possible. It detracts
from the external appearance of
the building."
No reference
to the internal
atmosphere of the building.
was
No matter. Mr. Detwiler's
difficulty
Another example of that I met Mr Edgar Detwiler in
We escaped, and we now feel free to tell all our follow Eriglishmen just what is going on King, scribble music, literature and oratory.
down in Cardiff in the notbe camos of
and
spept-meaning
attitude to anything that may Portugal before he shot into How it began
bring comfort but is considered the news as the remarkable "new-fangled." An attitude American francier with â that's absurd, archaic-but si, £700 million contract to develop I'm afraid, currently British.
the Belgian Congo,
He said then: "Tve no racial
A difficult bit
of casting.
Andrew Vicarl, that unshrink-
prejudices whatsoever but 1 must say it's difficult to do big business with non-Europeans."
But not impossible.
WAB waiting In the QUEUE
ing artist who painted a modern outside the Tate Gallery to sch
The natives, mark you, keep pretty close about the origins of this Elateddfod iaric, but it seems that one
of their top lacks, character called
Owain ap Maxen Wiedig, had himself a ball when they threw the Romans out in the fourth century, and the Welsh have been making a song about it ever since.
Down the dark and misty ages, the bands and the other boyos have got version of "The Last Supper," the Plommo exhibition. Along the whole shindig very highly or
the fervent has been telling me about his came a man seiling copies ofganised, antii Kobay bew venture.
glossy booklet called "Naughty jollifications in Cardiff's Sophin Gar- dens look rather like an agricultural "It will be a huge canvas Parisian Nudes."
show with the lid off-only they don't depicting the Nine Muses.
have any bullocks and they don't have any beer
in "The Last Supper."
As
He sold three.
which
-London Express Service).
and
The fut was going fást furious when Jak and I arrived." Flywei Evans had lost his lower dentures in the excitement after leading the Ammanford Choral Society to their third successive win.
Skewen had Anished
flaird
lodged complaint, and neid
they were seriously considering.
not singing at any more national Eisteddfods.
The patriots
Some English upstarts from
What
an eyeful
BLOCK
BOCHOPITAN
for the Eisteddfod!
Huddersfield had an away with gowned for the best Weih ode over the distance at Pulihell seem to cotton on. Anyway, a mountain
the children's instrumental
Bear
Melbourne,
extension of licensing hours in a local Inn, we might well have missed one of the most revealing forms of Art on view in the whole of Cardiff.
"Knock twice and ask Mitzi," said Alf.
for
So we did. And there, in ja derelict chapel down near Tiger Bay, we found the Seven Arts Theatre Club. We also found Mitzi, a red-head, who said, she used to be D Sunday School teacher at Hampstead, and she used to be a ballet student; in Manchester.
altant The show must go on. Gallant
never pays to arouse angry And if you think I am kidding, Hitle Wales, true to the memory of not more than 300 Welsh five years ago... prizes for viola and woodwind. Unes in free Welsh areire on the Well, to cut a long chwedt paasions when the bards go ask Jak.
of good old Owain ap Maxen And the principal bards)
information marching in, so we did not press
Wiedig, opened up her drst Krip subject of "Solitude." In short, our stable headed by a band and done up welsh
Chitching our dolls, we or lease club recently to coincide was bang on...Burw.dy Fare, the point..
velled at the Welsh arts and with and celebrate the Eistedd otherwise Cast Thy Bread, Instead, we went and had a crafte, applauded wildly as the fod Genedlaethol Frenhiriol otherwise Elerydd, otherwise
regardless in robes of greën, blue and white, had got them-
selves mixed up with the trafic Bang on
on their processional way to
Cardiff Castle, va
Goe spectator, who told us he
the Riv William Gruffydd, chat with a soprand named Watan children's percussion band Cymru. came home in a canter with a rie Jones, who said she was put it across Peer Gynt, dallied Like Deia said, as the chun Each poet har to submit his joyous le tyre about what is known as the Welsh Lizuet and awhile at the Welsh drama, and to the climax of her ma had dropped in from, Milwaukee, ander de plume, going to happen to the world bow would we like to buy one considered we had well and dance with f described the scete se a helluva and the pianortone decision is when sets fald were by of her genuine. Welsh dolls truly Wrapped up the National constrictor k
dressed in guaranteed native Eisteddfod for the day, costume? anniefn, which I understand. Just kaut
'means organised chat,
guarded docIN
But it was all sorted out by. be Vine le mot to Paplan, where 8000 portziola avere Wombled, in Aala and Busty, Space on amber a Vegetod rom good
dosely Strontiura 10,4
side of the
Jak and I wanted to thank
etbe the difflor perionally after We hedged a little, but we The first
and I they'd drowned him in sliver paid eventually especially when
or two and serior and rutied him in, Forrie, told us he had married Which only goes to show how to-four, purple and white and led blin in on Australian, but felt herself easily the poor, gullible English
procession down the ramp and drawn backs her beloved Welsh can be deceived.
valleys when he saw a vision of
But the Arch₫
the a way bap wide. / she was Had it not been for a friendly Swedberg" the thres: "Vary" idiota Jamba Beberdess of native name of All, shom we
this we Palomans dit not quits : unang is some kangaroos on mies olebating
festival for it's girl can't
an Air on a G-string?:
George
Whiting
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