1960-10-15 — Page 14

from Rome

SHOW BUSINESS

THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1960.

SUSAN BARNES reports on an enigma

Eva Bartok talks about life

at me.

DANCE, Deanu, dance," said Eva Bartok's secretary. Instead, Eva

Bartok's daughter stood quite still and stared solemnly Deana is now three years old. She has long brown hair and huge blue eyes and a small mouth, ·

It was 7.80 in the evening. We were in the vast drawing-room of Eva Bartok's penthouse in Rome just before she left for London. An apparently endless floor

was broken

of marble by great stretches of modern settees in bold

colours.

On

Mars shelves, eurefully arranged, stood some dolls.

"Hello.

Eva Bartok had arrived in the 2001. She stood motionless la order la give me a moment la receive the full konact.

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voluminoit with her white mandarin exit, black Hongkong trousers, and high- wedge heels, not to mention Use, durk-skinned beautiful anime: face above it all, the immaniet was considerable.

I saw why a great many men may have wanted to marry Bva Burck-and why four of them have nefully done so.

Deena's eyes were shiring and now she began to, dance,

Miss Brelok. bent dûwn and Caressed her daughter. "Sav goodnight to Mama, my darling, And you're very preity."

Deana stopped her dancing, "Please, angel,' said he mother. "You can came back

All dubt in your pyjamas.

Deana didn't move. "She's such's good little girl."" Miss Bartok explined to me, as the child's nurse onme into the room and carried Deana away, screarning. Cries of "Mama, Mama" could be heard receding into a remote part of the fat, "I went her not to feel ever unwanted." Miss Bartok went on, "Do you ever fear," I asked, "that it aga

he hard on the child not to have a father?"

"No." said Miss Bartok. "I was advised not to have my baby, because I didn't have u

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I am not falsely modest. I know I am a good actress

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husband. But I refused to take that advice. 'It is God's will? I said. is worth Erving bring a child into the world, rurn if I die while doing it."

She threw down her head so that the dark hair fell over her face, Thess. looking up, she changed the subject.

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more mystical Eastern cutta) has made me strong.

"Not all of my fins have been rubbish, of course. not falsely modest. I know I in a good actress. God gave me the gift.

I w

"But none of my Blms has yet touched the mark I want

"St, I chose the slow way I never used the short cul-you know, my private connections, That was gomelling 1 could never have done. It's not in my nature,

Alm "I am about to make a which will be different from anything that has ever been done before. I will not do rubbish any more. I have said that in the past, but my resolution him after 1942. I was only always broke down, I had 10 make money. I have to keep 14 people, you know."

I said I didn't know.

"Yes" sald Mists Harlok "Let me think, My child, my mother, the nurse, the cook, the secretary, myself. And there are six people Hungary exaggerated. It's not 14. It's culy 12,

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She laughed, and the sensual mouth-tinted a pale, kuminous orange-opened

show her beautiful white teeth.

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"You see, my Father was killed in the war. I never saw

But 1 made m buby. then. father a vow that I would never

anything do

unclean. And there's never been u spot on my vow. Except one, And I've done penance for it for two years. I shall wash off that spot, You will see."

Miss Bartok's great, dark eyes radiated, happiness. Her own eyebrows are removed, and in their place are painted black demoniacal lines.

She switched over to the sub- ject of her marriages.

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"There were not four. There were only three, Because you cantoi count the first one. was only 15, It was coercion

"People in the Church have told me that they will do every- thing to help me annul that marriage. So that leaves just the three others.

"And really, there was only

Curt Jurgens one:

I do not wish to hurt anyone, so I will not discuss the other marriages. But all these people saying four, It is ridiculous.'

Miss Burtok brooded for n moment. Then she said:

Was

don't think I have ever been married. Even when married to Curl, I wasn't ready

the marriage. for

I the blame from him,"

I have done

penance

"Do you think." I asked, "that wone day you would Uke to undertake marriage that you consider real?"

"Yes it is the will of God." "How," I asked, "have you reconciled your being a Roman Catholle with your belief in Subud?"

"I explained that to a certain somebody in the Church. My faith in Christianity has been renewed through Sübud. I have been brought back to the fallh by Subud

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and marriage

Time had passed. It was, by now, two o'clock in the morning, Miss Bartok ran to the child and cureled her tenderly to

settee enormous

the middle of the room. From the glass shelves she snatched down

qufalze teddy bear and thrust into her daughter's ars, With a silver mink stole she covered her daughter's fcal.

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Sitting beside the chlid, she spread her mandarin coat over the mall face, to shield it from the glare of the electric lights.. With one hand she bepam stroking Deana's hair, moving. the hand in circles,

Depends

"She depends on me COET- pletely." Miss

sold. Bartok

Faster and faster, harder and harder, she made the circular movement with her hand, And then she stopped; •

You must go back to bed row, my darling," she said, starting to lift the little girl from the settee.

Deana began to scream, "She always eries when she is taken from me.“ Miss Bartok explained

The nurse appeared and carried the child, struggling. hem the room. Miss Bartok closed the door behind them und turned up the gramophone. The same record was still playing.

Miss Bartok threw herself down on the settee and lay there with her arms around the huge teddy bear.

I left the penthouse and went down in the lift and emerged into the quiet night. Somewhere up above I could hear a child crying ama.”

-(London Express Service,)

"Four husbands? I don't think

I have ever been married”

HOLLYWOOD-BY TONY

THE NUN WHO TURNED MODEL

by Logan

Gourlay

IT'S not easy to belleve, when you first encounter Miss Veronica Gray, that not so long ago she was a nun, a devoted member of the teaching Order of the Sisters of Mercy.

Her Jrair Is studiously and feeling entirely. She will be groomed; her face is carefully re-enacting her own experiancos, vallod by white make-up: her I intend to ground her with I'd blood by cyes mo

mascara experlooped leading men,

Hike to have Boscha Dibel or

She looks like a model. Sho Jacques Charrier playing the

In four short Frenchman,

and shadow.

is a model.

years

shopeless

she has switched

habit

from

ta

The working title of the film is Dior- "A Nun Hos Six Loves." Misa

designed Bowns: from

Bible

Bazuar; from rosary to

to glossy pages of Harper's

Parl-

sian costume jewellery.

Complete

com-

The metamorphosis is plete. Now the next stage is being planned, From nunnery to im studios.

A fow months ago, when she broke the news of her cloistered and until then secret past, she was approached by more than one in company with offers to film her life story.

Veronica as a num

Ayse Margaret

(wino Grey

Many of them threatened to Mullins from Gelway until she develop into films with files left the convent) said.— like 1 Was a Teenage Nu." She turned them down.

But Andly, and hopefully, she has agreed to a film in which she will play herself as an and model.

The

script,

which will be partly based on a book about trer experiences, is now being prepared,

The producer will be Howard

don't like this Litle. Though it has something to do with my life but there must be another way of saying it,

I've Been the story outline. which follows the facts closely. My first love was God and the Church,

I was only 20 when I left. the convent and I'd been there since

Connell, who was associated with I was sixteen.

the film ronde recently in Eng- Took vows

land by Suzy Parker, once model but never a nun.

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Mr Connel told me: "It was

Before that I had been to a

my iden that Miss Gray should convent school and I had bee play herself. She has no acting brought up in a religious Irish experience, but as a top model home. I felt I was destined to she has the looks and she knows devote my life to God. how to move. Im sure that with the help of a first-class director she can give a credit- able performance. After all, she

won't have to create the mood

RICHARDSON

be

LOVE: It's got to

different for America!

the

Hollywood.

for

But after I took my vows I come to realise I couldn't follow that destiny honestly and with all mei heart,

Perhaps it was more difenalt for me because I was told I was beautiful. And I had a mind of my own. My faith won't blind. was thought that I FUCK proud and vain, I had to be Thumbled and I was vent for

corrective training.

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Of course I could have stayed 071 23 à nu. But I would have been a poor one-sa some are. A True vocation is urore thing. After I renounced my VOWS and left, fe was very dificult I was full of doubts and mis- givings. And I was very

there," he said cathuriasticat-worldly.

everyone con- ly. "You feel nected with it is vitally alive,

the

Her loves

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TONY Richardson-the brilliant young British director of Look Back

"I love the atmosphere OL The last four years have in Anger and The Entertainer-has just completed his first motion

Broadway, It's exciting. It puts taught me a lot. No, I'm not you on your mettle to do your embittered but I'm disillusioned. picture for the American film capital.

As a model I've travelled a lot "Here in Hollywood," he de very best. In my theatrical ex- Sanctuary, which is buse ful censorship bodies us

perience I consider there is no and there have been flye men in Dec:ney and other clored, "everyone is too expert, works league of upon two controversial

tou celent in a vest studio mono exalting experience mmy-mo life. A Frenchman, by Southern author William such groups.”

the world than has like im

a German,' ari Amerkan, where in Faulkner, is expected to be one Richardson, however, of the important films of the neatly solved

Italian, and an Englishman, th's

"In England when you make Broadway opening” particular

I thought I was In love with two dif 3

fim, you feel that everyone year and a possible, contender problem by making

Richardson, who is putting the ferent versions [ tu: love working on it is working for the Oscar awards,

Enishing touches on Sanctuary, each one. I know now I was belwoon the stars-Lee the success of that Individual Sanctuary also is expected to scree

return in London mistaken with one exception. Cxpects to

What I value most now la mo ruffle a few feathers. For the Kemick (Anatomy of a Mur production, is willing to

soon to direct Luther for

freedom-freedom is sacred story line, like much of Faulk der) and Yves Montand (Let's something new, do things

West End.

-and my independence. I'm ner's material, is heavily con- Make Love).

thankful for my career. the

soveral During

past cerned with love and passion in

As a successful model Miss the dynamic young the Doop South,

weeks

Gray corns an average of £00 director has been working

1 week. She has a spacious Sanctuary all day at the studio fat and she is awaiting delivery and chreeting the stage play of her first care white sports Taste of Homey at night at the model. The flot, I must add, ja Bilbmore Theatre in Los An-Jin South Kensington-in Rosary -

gardens.

She said: "I hope I have some future in Alms, I play don't want to go on modeling

for ever.

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little bit different to get a real- "In the version for American ly good film."

Richardson, censorship."

"Here, you feel that everyone zald "we shall only show Montand on the set feels that he La Two versions

and

another plc. kissing

fondling Lee working on just Pondering on the special Remick's face and neck. In the fure."

film version, the problems that the subject mat- European top of the him posed for him, shows him dissing and cares.dng Richardson told me: "I believe her more intimately." "No. Christ said, the kingdom that there is far more latitude

in inking stories jawed, Yorkshire-born of heaven is within us, I used in Britain

"Do you attend the Catholic Church" I asked.

"Here, producers are

The

'Vital Broadway''

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geles, its

Starring Joan Plowright and

Lansbury, a Angela up opened on Broadway recently.

London Express Service),

tousle-haired, Jean- But if Hollywood has

director drawbacks,

the 91-year-old also has other reasons for pre-director is convinced that per- ferring to direct films in Eng Brandway opening makes

for it. "I love Broadway and its

to go to church with other child-1 with this kind of background, dren, and as soon as we left the church we would kick cach petually afraid of such power- land, other. And I would look up and say: 'But God, I really wanted to be good.

good?'

Why can't I be

"Well, I looked. And I found

Subud.

a way, May 1957,

own

"What, in essence, is Subuch?"! "Ahheedli," said Miss Barwk. "It le most difficult for me to explain that. The essence different to every individual. Ezch person must let his fale be apparent to him,

"You don't have to be com- pletely passive. But let things { happen to you according to you a own nature. Of course, when a decision has to be made. you have to net, You can't leave it el to the angels.

"Subud has changed my Hie even my name."

"What is your name?" "Evo-Balna. In my next dim I will be called Eva-Mala Harlek. But soon I shall drev Eva oft. And when the time comes that Bartok can drop off too. I will be simply taina,

"But I must not be ungrate ful to Evo. If there was no Eva, There could be no laine. No, we mustn't be too hard on Eva! she's the one who makes the money.

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The gramophone scrow the drawing room was playing The Lady le a Trump. Eva-Balna had kicked off her shoes, She ren scross to marble floor, aliding the lost severni yards on her bare feet, and game to a stop with her hand down, the hair tumbled over her Doce, Sho: turned up the gramophone.

"That is a good song for me.” she sald and gave a wild laugh.

Delna, appeared in the door way. She was wearing pyjamas and try to rub the seco Out of her eyes.

abcollage bedrevina moon

of the bed as Lée Esmick

the

may

"It's well wold. But it's empty and it can soud-destroying." She said the last words with feeling and with the peaty

Her favour of Ireland, were the colour of Galway Bay when it can be seen through the

mascara of mist.

eyes

She looked like a model who

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