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PETER INSIDE EVANS BUSINESS The girl with an early taste for the grandiose
She added: "It only"my alms ware half as fascinating as my private life I'm sure I wouldn't have this trouble."
SANDRA DEE, who looks like a sugared Shirley Temple with 10x oppeal, says she is anxious to bring back the old-time star glamour to Hollywood.
When I met her recently in Italy, where she has been mak- Ing "Romanoff and Juliet with Peter Ustinov, she told me "Movie stars have to live in a world apart."
I puggested they filmed her life story and she said fine, but there would almost certainly be · obstacles. Some insurmount→ able. Such as the censor.
Well, was Darwin right?
Her Peter Clegg is to play 'the title role in "Mi Burke M.P." in the next
In-
IPTORMER Royal Ballat dan-
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production at the Mermeld Theatre. Which terosting-For Me Burko in a monkey.
The play, a comedy by Gerald Frow is based on the assump- tion that you can sell people almost anything. Even, it seems a monkey M.P.
Comments playwright Frow! why not? After all, monkeys were the first to gather and chatler without taking any
Mr.
Wayne
In California she lives in a action at the end," white house with whip ourtains white walls, white rugs, white furnishings, white sheets on the queensize bed, White dogs roam the house.
And, oh yes, a white Thunder- bird stands by the white marble swimming pool.
"You soe," she said, flashing a white smile, "1 want people to know that a movie star Lives there and not have them dis- appointed. You can't be a star
and be normal."
We said goodbye--and Miss Sandra Dee, the girl in a world apart, went away to have the curlers taken out of her hair.
otherwise I cannot give any The problem of being Bartok...
EXCLUSIVE
"I suppose it is. I think they time "I am afraid I may be a little realised what a difficult
"said rather 1 had had making the sort of a performance. dangerous," she
died in the sadly. "You see, I get casily Tyrone Power
and distracted when I am driving. middie, of it, remember,
we had to start all over again, If I pass a newspaper stand, I tend to start reading the head. It was not a happy pleture. At nes on the newspapers instead the end I finted it so match and of concentrating on the
road
was so sure that it would be a ahend. This sometimes worries
ncople.
"Then again I um abt too good a telling my right from my left. As a matter of fact, when I took my driving test and I was asked to turn left I inanertiately turned right"
"And you mean to say you passed?"
"Yes," she said. "With a little help from the Torontu papers.
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Here's something you mustn't miss!
AFTER 50 years out of print a great novel-the first great novel of this century-reappears now: "John Christopher," by Romain Rolland (Heine- mann, 16s.).
The name is not well known here: no matter, we have all posterity in which to get to know it.
In these days, when one tends water
which proves unexpect-
to think of a Nobel Prize as edly deep, und gives a wonder-
Jul sense of di something
Dr invented for
Schweitzer, it is even a shock gradually unfolding.
Wus Prize for Litera-
to realise that Rolland awarded the
ture in 1915 on account of this book.
"John Christopher" is one of fletion's few
truly convincing
portrufts of a genius, as against an vecentric. Based in part on
the life of Beethoven,
of a small German boy Itving In one of those pantonime prin elpalities of the Rhineland early Ins! century.
great destiny
Three mure self-contained volumes of "John Christopher" are to follow later
this year.
and I find it hard to walt.
More about
growing up
Growing up is also the theme of another, though very differ-
re novel re-issued ent, great Christopher's grandfather has cently "gons and Lovers" (Ace, been master of the local prince's 28. did.) by D. H. Lawrence.
music. His father is a brutal drunkard. At four, Christopher Even now, 30 years after his. discovers how sound may mean death, Lawrence remains one of melody, learns the plane, plays the most controversial writers before the prince, becomes of the day. Ironically, his fame little celebrity,
Subtlety
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Is widest because of one of his
least impressive. books, "Lady Chatterley's Lover," which stil
THE MOST
EXCITING SENSE OF WATCHING A GREAT DESTINY UNFOLDING
by
Peter
Forster
cannot be published in full here. makes you almost able to smell
this Not that
nonsensical the collier's clothes drying in situation would have amused front of the fire, and the dank- of cabbage floating Lawrence. The raised eyebrows aroma of Irony were no part of lls through from the klichen.
Grandfather dies, shouting the name of his own mother, whom he has never before been known to mention, and to the boy it is make-up. (Photographs B10w as if a force of nature has been the intense, bearded face of a withdrawn from the world. neurotie sage.) Tho carnestness
The same
"Is that alm they were re- time and they writing all the
hop that i sold my percentage gave me my lines only the night frterest in it back to United before we were to shoot the
scene. It was hopeless," Artists.
"Why did you accept the role?"
"It was a crazy thing to do, The film didn't get good notices, but it has made a fortune at the box-office. Had I kept my interest I would probably have made about a million dollars,"
"What about the gim you made hauediately after that-
*
The secret
a
fear of
child...
LUST
of per-
up: In an atmosphere
of Sa- petual penny-pluching,
after hin TOWS turday-night father's return from the pub, of happy moments snatched amid hardship and grime.
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"Because I wanted people to know that at last I was able to work in Hollywood. You must that I had signed remember
contract with exclusive Howard Hughes 10 years before when I was a complete unknown. During all that time 10 nover paid me a penny, and never
single sent me E script, but
because he had me under this exclusive contract no other Hollywood studio would touch me. So I had to make my film career in Europe.
*I was tied to this Hughes contract until last year, when he finally agreed to waive any future claims on me if we paid him a lump sum for Never So Few."
"Was it the fact that you are golap to work a lot in Holly- wood from now DR that prompted your move to Cana". da?"
"No, I went there simply to get nationality for my hus bond. Milko Skofic. He's been Stateless for 17 years, Holy although, he lived in all that time.
CRITICISED
at
or
"When due io an official mistake. my baby Miiko was
listed abo
as Staleless birth, I decided something had to be done. My baby was my husband's documents, you see, so I couldn't even travel with him. The situation was quite Impossible. That's why we decided to move."
"Were
3
you criticised in Italy for goingTM"
of
me for
to
mc.
"Oh, yes, I am always being criticised. Some Italian news- papers are always trying make a scandal out
forgive They cannot FOR INNOCENCE. being happily married to the Diagne Doubtfire. Peter same man for 10 years. Davior. 151.
are always saying They
about me. The something WHAT adult can divine every latest is that I have an illegiti
improbable, quicksilver mate daughter of 13.
of an eight- thought process
"One paper said the father year-old child? Mrs Doubtfire
officer; an- makes a remarkable, convincing was an American
other that he WAB D British tilt at this impossible object.
A le girl is Indirectly officer." responsible for her loathsome
She laughed. "She's a very
daugh-
large,
Slowly, like a flower growing an a slag-heap, a new conscious- ness is awakened in Paul by books and paintings. His older mother's death under a tube International-sounding brother dies of pneumonia, and rain. The only witness is a manter Poul has to go to the pli-head who pursues her, offers her gifts!
Sho gazed with her to tell his father. The old man and takes her for car rides after
luminous brown eyes out of For a while school. does not cry,
the window, at the lights nothing is sald, and Paut hardly
He threatens that if she tells the yachts riding down in thơ, natices how his father is "can- ing against the truck as if he anyone about him, he will reveal harbour and the cars seulting what he saw on the Under along the coast road towards were red."
ground a little girl apparently Portofino, There, surely, is the touch of pushing her mother on to the
track. Who will then believe it| your novellst of genius! -
was an accident?
swolten
of
Summer WAN dying. *The wind was goting up. She shivered.
Paul grows to manhood, Le comes an artist, falls in love, Mrs Doublßre brilliantly once frustratingly, once con sketches the logical,
"I am glad we chose Cana- sumingly, and goes out into the fears of the child, torn between da," she said muidonly. "I like world.
her secret and affection for her the Canadians and Hika and often it topples over
Toronto. It is peaceful. There Later Christopher falls in love into absurdity-as witness hila Paul Moral is a mindr's son.
So did Lawrence, for they are father whom she cannot tell.
don't oom to be as much with a girl whose beauty hides low-to characters who use a His father is strong physically, one and the same, a spirit caught This first novel has grown-up panle and unrest as everywhere (an all but he can sco) the sort of pseudo-rustic dialect as weak in character. His mother between Puritan clouds of cone charactors that lack subtlely by Buburban soul of a German speaking with their mouths is the exact opposite, and she science and the warming pagan comparison, and more
elve, than commits full of mangel-wurzels. busfrau. Its father
brings up the family.
moment she wan hint of melodrams, but it has a sun of the senses.
welcome.compariness of plot and ent The familiar enough situation But the power and passion of
An for that lack of irony ----
"Imagine," sho seld,oon A | Britiski sub- I will be hia descriptive gift is unique. is conveyed with marvellous and well, all too many writes have its pulse besta strongly from first In "Sons and Lovers," writing moving power-for she
Joot I can stand when they was at on the fence so long the to last.: about the Derbyshire mining Lawrence's own mother, and Iron han entered into their fawns he knew so well, be this was how he himself graw souls.
-(London Exprem Service),
Buicide; selfish to the end, At
3B, Christopher is head of the family,
The writing abounds in simple yet subtle touches, like clear
For
John Waterman play The Queen."
I
stakes his all
TOHN WAYNE is flying to London to be at the royal premioro of his latest film "The Alamo." Now Mr Wayne is not a star to bo lured easily to premiores. "I hate them," ho onco said, "They make mo nor-
vous.”
But there is a rather special reason why he has overcome his nervous distaste for premleres to give "The Alamo" a special send-off
And It isn't only because The truth is, Wayne has sunk Paincess Margaret will be there,
his fortune reputed to be £4,000,000-into the making of
this Western,
HAVE been talking to Eva Bartok about the problems of being Bartok. There are, as you may
As he has sald: "Everything Imagine, quite a few.
I've got is in this picture." And For instance: "One trouble is, that includes hi wife, two people are for more interested daughters. iwo Bons and 巍 in my private affairs than in son-in-law.
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