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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1960.

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THIS is the Gin

What

makes Joan Collins

play truant?

~ SHE SAYS: 'I'M IN LOVE AND I'M JEALOUS'

Rome,

SUPPOSE I was fortunate to find Joan Collins in Rome. For the capri- elous Miss Collins has recently shown a curious tendency to go miss- ing at weekends-turning up a few hours later, slightly out of breath, in New York..

Indeed, she commutes across the Atlantic as casually as most people hail a cab. And recently she did it again,

Tooth ache

The film

had hardly begun when she played truant for the

first time.

FA

His name is Warren Beatly. He is an actor (the brother of

Jealous

Joan

a glazed look and curled toen.

some wine for her and the I was supposed to be going to d instead of the and Wilder look vanished.

London to make ช่องเส and was furious. Lovers, But I didn't care, 1

"You know," she said, straight wanted to be with Warren, So He stormed at her: 've ening her toes with an effort, I few from Hollywood to New spent a year getting that line

when I first went to lollywood York and

of exactly right, Do me the favour suspended of saying it correctly.'

..

mc,"

disappeared.

my studio

Stinkers

Now nobody would mind actually manacling her to her "See" she said. "My engage such extravagan! behaviour bed At the weekend, there ment ring. I wear it at the were it not for the fact that seems to be no other way of time. Even in the him.". I was bllterly unhappy, I'd had course, Miss Collins is right in the keeping her in Rome." middle of making an expen- Now who you may be won- Something that looked like a disastrous marriage to Max- the actor, and I'd

"Imagine the joy of working sive Bibileal epic called Esther, dering. exercising such a miniature bechive studded well Reed,

'ulot

with someone like that, I wish lousy pictures. wh and the King and that she magnetic pull over Miss Collins

stones sparkled

upon inade

it could happen to me." at it When I got to Hollywood I went usually omits tu tell anyone that she so willindy deserts the her hand. She looked that, she is going.

and cozy. I went to all the partés; I charm

fondly for of Rome

sigh and for the less

A moment,

She gave a small She Anished her snind and then returned of a New York

her attentions played around. And 1 went on

her walch. Suddenly at looked agreeable heal

to her salad.

making lousy pictures. Come to gazed round the restaurant

signed

of sho summer?

photographs,

shricked:

"Heavens, I'm think of it I've only ever made the

famous stars, who had been late. The director wik be Ülvid." one I liked-Hally Round the

there before. Flag, Boys,

"You're only five minutes *'ve put my te before my late I said. "Who' care? carcer 08 Jay--but maybe Last Ume you were missing that's because I've had such an for Ave days.” unrewarding career,

"I know," she said, rushing "Of course I'd like to make for the door. "But you see, good 6lma. Who wouldn't? somehow it never seems so bad But I always get stinkers when you're missing in a really where we have to start re- big way, ...." writing the script halfway through. I wish I'd had the FOOTNOTE: An hour or so lunch picted her ley MacLaine, has had.

studio, "You

were a

great help," the cide sald. She "She's just made The Art just been spotted going through ment for Billy Wilder, you Customs again...." know. In one scene sho sald

Recently she vanished once

actress Shirley MacLaine) and

"Warrin's going to be a fino when she thinks about him-

Difficult which she does most of the time actor," she said. "But when more and when her hag Miss Collins's eyes take on iwe Dre married there are going gard studio Boally tracked glazed look and

her toes curl to be no separations. No loca "Remember it was a'difcus her down among Manhaltan's slowly backwards.

tiers. Nothing. That's the way time for me, towers she blindly explained

most show-business marriages "I'd been brought up to married to him I'm going to be belive that marriage was the

that she had flown there to Magnificent Ho on the rocks. When I'm

Visit her dentist.

"He is," she said over lunch, with him. I'm Jealous und be-all and end-all of a girl's raan. possessive, and I admit it. It's existence; that ong married and

most magnificent

"I had tooth ache," she said, "and I was intending to fly to the

breaks Warren's sister, Shir- after our kind of love that ally lived happily ever after. London to have it attended to. I'm engaged to him. I'm in love the orly But when got to Rome air with him, and I miss him dread- Interests or means anything 19 Maxwell Red crumbled I was. port and saw this other plane tuily. I'll leaving for New York I took opportunity

go back at every me."

get. can

Of

"How did you first meet this me a lot of paragon?". it Instead. The passengers course, it costs

more interesting money. but what else is money

for?

looked much anyway."

Such behaviour, of course, has long since turned her

"Warren saw some sulls of You see, Warren can't come me and likod what he saw, He'd He's making his rat ever seen me in a film-so he nim in New York with Ella

me.

director's face a fine shade of Kazan, and it would be fatal to went to see The Big Country

puce. It has also resulted in

24-hour guard being kept at hly career, if he flew here with because someone said I was in

It. After he'd soen it he was

The airport, and several deier- out permission. So 1 fly there terribly disillusioned. mined attempts being made to without permission.""

So when my marriage to quite lost. I had to change my views on Lic.

"In the end, however, Billl camo to the conclusion that my Life and

happiness

must come before my career. That's why I have So Many rows with my studio, 20th Century-Fox, Ho told

"I do what I ke-not what they like.

a friend he didn't think I was size Mix Collins' passport. A bright splash of sunlight so hot after all. Fortunately he Before I lunchert with her, a pierced the cavernous gloom of was mixing me up with Jean studio alde took me aside and the restaurant in which we were Simmons. When we finally met sold: "If you could manage lunching, and suddenly her we fell in love." Kutch her passport we'd be entire left hand appeared to be, Ciernally grateful. Short of on flie

:

and

"When I met Wartun realised we were right for each ster eyes began to take on a other, I went straight to him. glazed look. I quickly poured it so happened that at the time

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SUPER-SLEUTH meets murderer. Not so strange, is it? Almost natural, and inevitable-like Boy meets Girl. But, usually, sleuth and killer meet only after the murder. And, usually, they meet only as opponents.

The odds against them meeting-so to speak-socially must be astrono- mically high. But it can happen. At least once recently, it did happen. To Dr J. B. Firth, who for 20 years was director of the Forensic Science La- boratory at Preston. And who tells of his meeting with a murderer in A SCIENTIST TURNS TO CRIME (William Kimber 258.).

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'forties. Ayain it had been her hus- the was in Travelling by train to Soulb band wolio slymed the death port, Dr Firth and a friend certificate. sharod a compartment with DEATH NO. 3: The third Mrs thiri man.

Clements. The hale, hearty one, Well' dressed, middle-aged, But she too had suddenly taken the third man was a stranger to it. And died of "cancer of the Di Firth, But was known to stomach."

And, once more, that familiar his friend.

There followed the usual signature. introduction. "Dr Firth... Dr. Clements."

The pollos were interested, But their phone call was just too late to stop the cremation.

As the train ticked along, Dr Firth ruminated over this dos-

The record What anthrough Dr aler. Clemente's mind is not known But, in Dr,Firth's mind.

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For the last time he admlais-

loved an overdose of morphine. This time to himself.

Why, no one knows but young Dr Housion, who had perform-

eri the first post-mortem, quick- ly followed suit. And kilod

himself with cyanide.

deaths..

rapid succession, three

I wonder, could any of them have been provented? Could Dr Firth himself, possibly, have police were. But again, they prevented them?

Could he, on thai train were minutes too late,

At this point, Dr Firth acted. Journey, have got Dr Clements He searched the suspect doc- alone and salt something like "Look, old boy, cricket tor's house and found power this:

cride, I know you're a mur- ful morphine tablets.

He searched chemists' records derer. I can't prove it, but I --and found this morphine had know it. And I heartily advise. been prescribed for patients whose not to try it again, for if Delther needed nor received it.

you do

Dr Firth ordered a second post-mortem. In the portions of the body that remained the pathologists found no trace of leukemia. They did and indiew tions of a massive dose' of morphine,

Could be?

I don't think so. I'm sure

a detective's principles. such a speech would be against And besides, can' you think of a more thilkoly way for one Engilsh gentleman to speaks to another? thought

And on a train, of all places.

-={London Express Service),

the He, may also have name "Ciments? had dropped ahead. To reckon how long I like a coin in a slot. "Ah, yes," would be before Dr Clements the thought, "you're the fellow was again left a windower, For now there was fourth Mrs we're waiting for."

much evo, Clements, Very Very ft. But also rich.

The data mentally filed under "Element" rolled neross Dr Firth's mind.

On May 27, 1947, Dr Firth's wait ended. That day Mrs Cle. DEATH NO." The first Mra ments diod. Or leukemia." Cidments, Rich. Older than her

hustand. Died suddenl 6 The evidence

"heart. fallure."

Dr Clements was ordered to attend coroner's Inquest.

He never got there.

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