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"I think it's time we admitted Ching to her rightful seat in the United Nations-il we're going to stop him having it all his own way."

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1960,

Roderick Mann

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Mr. Quinn talks about the day he

COUPLE of days before he flew back to New

York recently, the telephone rang in Mr

Anthony Quinn's London hotel suite,

And Sir Laurence Olivier said: "If you can find the time, what about a rehearsal tomorrow? I'm nervous about this whole thing."

"You're nervous?" Mr Quinn exploded down the 'phone. "You're nervous! How do you think I feel-getting ready to appear on Broadway with the greatest actor in the world? I feel sick, I tell you. Sick."

"Then that'e settled," Olivier said. "We'll rehearse tomorrow."

became a monster

*TROUBLE IS I'M OBSESSED-BEFORE I KNOW IT, I AM LIVING THE PART-I'M PLAYING '

And he aald: "You know, something extraordinary hap- pened to me while I was rehearsing with Olivier, He plays Becket, you know, and

WAS King

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"Suddenly the robe slips off, and there I am on the stage....

"When I played Gauguin in red robes, bewalling the death Lust for Life, 'DECAME of my friend. Gauguin. I went to Arios to steep myself in the colours and scones. I had to. I was drawn to the place. And eventually 1 NAKED": knew how he felt exactly how I he felt. And I know I could play

walters, ate Greck WAS this Greek partisan.

"Suddenly the last scene is shot and overnight I becomo King Henry II. "I'm obsessed.

over. One could go mad this thought: My God. It's happen- way..." ing again."

Extraordinary play King Henry 11. Suddenly These people have taken, me

The next day the nervous Sie Laurence and the nervous Mr Quinn got together to discuss their forthcoming appearance on Broadway together In Jean Anouilh's play Becket,

A professional teaming, 1 prophesy, which will Ignite the stage with Its explostvo chemistry.

"We just want to give the lie to all that talk about us British being bad losers."

Landun grass Særvice,

with Mr Quinn.

between his hands.

He sunk his

great head

"Do you realise I only stopped being a Creek partisan yester day? For five months I've been a Greek guerrilla Oghter in The Guns of Nevaronc.

Steeped

"Could there be some Methed in your madness?"

"No, no," said Mr Quinn, "I uso no tricks. I'm no Method octor. No. This is something extraordinary that happens to Greek me whenever I take on a new picture role. I go to sleep--and next

Greek morning I'm IT.

tཎཱ read everything I could get hold of about the Later that evening, I, dined people from Plato to

books. I talked with

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him because I WAS him." (Quinn, incidentally, won DA Oscar for this memorable per- formanca.)

He articulated the word again slowly in two parts "NA-KED Imagino."

"I'm imagining,” I said,

Flattering

"But the most terrifying change of all took place when I played Quasimodo in The

"Something, huh?" Mr Quinn Hunchback of Notre Dame," said, with a chuckle. "I'll be continued Quinn. "1 became the great. And, oh, that Olivier, monster. On the ship taking me We'll get on splendidly. He will to France to make the film I take from me and I will take went to sleep one night think- from him.. ing about the role. In the morning I was a monster.

I had lumps all over me, my eyes were sliis, my HDs were I landed in swollen. When France I had to wear a scarf over my face, with slits for eyes. I stayed la for four weeks, lurk- ing about in a roof-top room in my Poris hotel. And, I tell you, daddy, I WAS Quasimodo.

Mar

ANTRÓNY QUINN `-

When I talked with the direc lor, Mr. John Huston, he told me that the script of the film (which is by playwright Arthur Miller, Miss Monroe's husband) arrived by post one day with a note which read, "If it's no "good, please seid te back."

"When I was offered the role

Mis Monroe is now insisting said I'd only do it if Olivier that this was not the case.

agreed to be in the play. Olivier now tells me he, mado the sama "My husband does not selk Is pretty movle scripts," she says. "Ho stipulation, which fettering. I know we'll be good wrote The Misfits, simply for his Just thinking about own satisfaction. Someone elso friends, acting with him makes me feel must have sent it to Mr Huston. like a king. Hey-here I go. The Arst we knew about, it was again."

when Mr. Huston rang up and said he'd like to do 15 Before we knew whore we were wa found ourselves committed."

FOOTNOTE: I must warn Six "A doctor explained that it was some sort of self-hypnosis, Laurence that some months ago

1

or auto-suggestion. 1 thought Mr Quinn defined a good friend was going crazy. I thought as being "someone you can ring my career was finished. Then, up in the middle of the night after a month, my face went and say: T've got a headache. back to normal

Bring in an aspirin.***

He was silent for a moment. Then, suddenly, his face broke into a great grin.

hook, Sir Laurence, or lay in a Either take the phone off the plentiful supply of aspirin.

AM intrigued by the mystery

of Tic Misfits-the

The extent of Miss Monroe's commitment, I am told, is £250,000-plus 10 per cent of the film's gross.

TWO producers were

The refugees moanedThe play that is a picture empty ave for Becket's codin, while Mis Monroe rests in cinemas

about our Sunday-

IN 1789 the French Revolution shifted into top gear. That July a Parisian mob stormed the Bastille and, stone by stone, tore that ancient prison-fortress apart..

The "error" was not to reach its bloody climax unill 1723. But, from the day the Bastille crumbled, every French aristo-

The more enterprising learned Some to support themselves. taught French.

.dancing...

restaurants. One led French- were

man became a tailor. Another

chuss forming. Some opened

crat

his knew

days numbered. And was faced with two cholers.

of O'Neill

By RICHARD FINDLATER

THE CURSE OF THE MIS- barfly

youth led him to BEGOTTEN. By Croswelf attempted suicide, Bowen, Hart-Davis, 25s,

Long

Day's

That flerce egocentric misery burns through the dress of his his tormented life- best plays, such as the auto-

blographical time, now prosily sur Journey Into Night-whose pro- duction or publication Wis graphy, Eugene O'Neill's vetoed by O'Neill unlll 25 years

sold coke. The Comte doveyed in this new bio- Caumont learned bookbinding,

TO STAX-und likely be gull- and became an expert, lotined,

Or TO ESCAPE —and live as a poverly-sirleken-exile,

The wise onos chose the lat- Ler.

In rumbling couches, with whatever jewels and gold they could carry, some French noblemen and clergy made pell-mell for the frontiers.

after his death.

And it is that play above all,

But, to the very end of their plays heaped up glitter- exlie in Britain, many of the well-born French never learned ing prizes, including as Mr Bowen confrms, which practicality,

three Pulitzers and a bares the inner drama that Nobel,

One lady, economising by doing her own Jaundry, lost the slippery bar of soap in the folds of wet linen. And couldn't, figure out what to do next...

He was worshipped as The Great American dramatist, He enjoyed wealth, homage and happiness in marriage. Yet in the middle of success he was obsessed by a sense of failure,

Another invited guests 10 dinner. And went to do her ports marketing. She stopped at the Others scurried to Brittany and Normandy. With flower stall first, and bought up gold colns, they persuaded every blossom in sight. Which Despair Ashermen to smuggle them across the Channel to Britain.

It is the story of those who came here that Margery Weiner leils in her book, THE FRENCH EXILEA (John Murray, 259.).

It is the story of proud, un- realistic people fallen on hum- ble, hard times. Coming from people who hod narrowly escaped a gory death, the re- action of some of the French to the rigours of life in Britala re- present pelty corping of a degree not often attained,

Their hates

Among the things they didn't

would have been all right- except that, then, she had no money left for food..**

It is a tremendously enter- taining book,

~(Londen Express Service),

hauled O'Neill and helped to push him towards the summit of world theatro,

ü

Briefly, he was consumed by guilt, and, ravazed by the civil wars of a spectacularly unhappy family. His father was romantic star, ruined by his own success. His brother was an alcoholic waster, who did his best to drag Eugene into the Kutter.

Until his death in 1953--20

His mother lived on morphine, years after he had virtually and Eugene

convinced himself exiled himself from the U.S. that he was to blame. Because stage O'Neill hugged the black, I was after giving birth to him nihilistic despair that in his

that Mrs O'Neill fell ill and later took to drugs,

THIS ONE IS A GEM

thriller.

The old, and atory is carokilly retold by Mr Bowen. It is an important story, because O'Neill continually put his life into theatru. But Mr Bowen does

he put into life. not analysO how much theatre

⚫ THE NEW SONIA WAY- un impleasant private life is WARD, Michael Ianez. Gollancz, murdered during rehearsal of a 12s. 6d. How rare an item this TV play. Enough red herrings is. A polished, urbane and to stock a Moscow fishmonger. Mystery written slogy of a charming people, and knows how to tell funny

Wonderfully but Miss Gray knows sitge Like:--

confused retired RAMC colonel, a story. Our climate, One Buffering who tries to pretend, for finan- refugee discovered, 10 her cial reasons, that his dead wife.

her paintings a best-selling novelist, is horror, "that would not dry unless slie kept a alive, and finds every eircum- Assistant Commissioner Mirs in Honduras. How he abandon- fire burning in her studio, and alance pointing to him us his Pym, Scotland Yard's answer to ed his second wife to go off to she had constantly to run home wife's murdered. On no account Margaret Rutherford, is in Europe with an actress (the for from partics to see that they to be missed. did not get scorched.”

He describes how Eugane mysteriously abandoned tils first

● 80 QUIET A DEATH. Nixel wife, after a few weeks of Morland. Cassell,

12s.

5d. marriage, to go looking for gold

splendid form in this book by

Mr Morland, who has been

midable Carlotta Monterey).

⚫ FALSE SOENT. Ngalo recording her cases now for 25 How appallingly he treated Our meat. The Comte de Marsh. Crime Club, 128. Bd. years. A thoroughly enjoyable, his children. How one son toolc Montlosier commented that Extremely competent and en- lightly told story of kidnapping to drugs and another killed though it "looked better and

uhimpelt. more succulent than elsewhere, Joyable story of murder in high with an amusing slant and it was in reality deficient in heatrical) society. iss Marsh regrettable dust jacket.

brings even her dead characters

Piling on the agrador of this juice."

more alive than ara many • VIOLENT BROTHERS, Erio | O'Neills,

Вошель finds and heroines of much Bruton. Boardman 120. d. evidence of a "curse" on neverei Workmanlike, I not particularly branches of the damily tree. distinguished, story of the adven-The ex-husband of the, dramas English sir was "lacking in A WELL-KNOWN FACE. Lures of a dully decent youngtist's third wife shot himmelt, Josephine Bell. Hodder and man who becomes involved in The step-father of his daughter- gloomy, Sloughton. 12. Gd. Expertly the affairs of a spfish twin with in-law murdered Txo

story of a criminal bent. May appeal it And so on. aland-still Sundays depressed wrought, tightly taut

italicised Italian the French beyond words. The murders among medicos In # you enjoy custom that Indies were expect country town practice.

Our air. Again, the Comte do heroes Montlosier

The crime action. pronounceя,

substance."

Our

WAJE.

ber mother.

A good paranes Ulico Buona sera, or, Del As a guide to O'Neill's life 20 Bowen la fatally superficial ed to withdraw after dinner, deal of highly unprofessional vino rosso, Papa? leaving the gentlersen to drink conduct in a vivid and excellent A TOUCH OF DRAMA. Guy fantasy, allowing O'Neill's sur

unable to aparata · fact tromi brandy and gossip, depressed story.

Cullingford. Hammond, lis. Sil viving con

Shane whoso

`them even more.

Lost soup: Our pavements. Those, the French had never, soon. And they didn't like them. Disdain fully, they shunned them and walled in the muddy streets.

• MURDER BY REQUEST. Brash and successful playwright "assistance”, is acknowleged on Beverley. Nichols. Hutchinson, returns to his home town after the title-page to hog far too 15. Murder in a, Inshforiable a row with his wife and becomes much of the space. And as a health-cure establishment. Card- a murder suspect. Mr Culling-guide to ONeil's plays be i

characters in a too ford carries, his story along et a aboundly inadequate, board deviously, contrived situation. e rate, makes few demands on They tend to have a disdainful his readery and provides a fine sttitude to "whodunite-made book for halides rodding me wonder whose they had read, under

Not all complaints were petty, Many of the emigrew.genuinely EPITAPH FOR'A DEAD

suffered. For some, starvation: was never far away.

AUTORA, Dulsie Gray," Barker, 184. 04. A theatrical idol with

John Clarke

But The Curse of the Mis begotten "dões contain, a maks of Coscinating Information about a writer rhone wonderful, intrnoté able plays are stilt chiclcan heartedly ignored in general.ky

"But that's old stuff. It's

discussing a well- Becket that excites mo now.

known actress.. "She's box- What a play. Fantastic. Do

new office poison," said one. you know how it opens? The Marilyn Monroe film which is Her last film turned 16 curtain rises on an empty stage temporarily held up in Reno

lying before some tall columns. hospital with "acuto exhaus alleya 1 walk on, the King, in flowing tlon,"

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