THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1960.
Patricia Lewis
WHY SHIRLEY BASSEY KEEPS HER WIG ON
(Though she took it off for me)
THAT gorgeous copper-coloured wig worn by Shirley Bassey during her five-week cabaret season at the Pigalle is no mere artist's aid to glamour. The truth is Shirley has been wearing wigs both on and offstage for the past year-ever since, she says, her own hair suffered badly after being straightened.
I visited Shirley as she lay in bed recovering from a relaxed throat...
and wig-less, "See?” she said, twisting a strand in her fingers. "It's getting back to normal. Remember how long it used to h?"
She giggled: "Actually I've GER. "I mean how would you had more fun with those wigs! consider the as a brusbertive
1 just lifted une off when I went husband? Would you say I WILA to the hairdresser's the other handsone virile, amusing, kind day and you should have spen the mouths drop all along the row of dryers
"Another thine took it off in ..a restaurant when my escort wasn't looking and dumped It on his plate. Luckily he didn't have a weak heart?"
and write a headline un- nouncing that JEAN SIMMONS must have boun off her rocker? Or would you say I was white- haired
aggressiya boorish . and that Juan Simmons was clearly not out of her head?"
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Shirley has two wigs (one ta
I blushingly murmured some- wash and one to wear?) both thing about it taking time
a reddish dyed
and know these things, and us colour dressed to the fashion hält.
Mr t Was COMPETIC) Granger at a slivery 47- hud never beon' more altractive.
The colour she'd like
GĪTS ridientious," she chuckled,
און
But he was starefly listening, "I've been quoted us carrying a torch," he went on. "I am. But not for Jean, it's for Tracey.
Bewigged Shirley Bassey
"I've had more fun with them . . ."
There's no doubt that Mr through the Panama Canal, and Bitter over until I shake out the rugs, hang Granger is biller. Tracey, bitter over selling the up the pictures and and a home he for all the silly nostalgic things Arizona ranch into which poured not only money but must one accumulates with time, who of his energy and dreams ("yet the wrench of that Is nothing to the rest")
bitter at the waste just piniz of it all.
and
tò me
11 scents queen
a pertinent fact that MR PATRICK GUIN- NESS has just bought land there at 10s. a metre from some- one who acquired it only a year ago for Bd. a metre.
You now know what to do with any left-over lire.
1 usked nightclub BRICKTOF 'how. this could be, "Because everybody's trying to recoup after the Games," she zald "After all the publicity about inflated prices, the four ists came prepared to camp out and eat in hostels,"
"But surely not the Cadillac crowd?"
knows what will happen?"
There was a silence which I
"Brick" sipped hér brundy tactlessly tried to break,
before Siner
answering. you're selling the delicately 'Lazy Y-Lazy Z 1 suppose Jenn "They camped out in their has gone back to Hollywood to Cadillacs,”
live
That, I believe, is why he now "I send my hair to our four-year-old daughter. We shampooed in a hat-box. were very close-i suppose I was clogs so closely to Jamie, the son of his first marriage, that "You see, wigs take a lot of a dating father and it's hard keeping
up-they have to be to suddenly wake up and d he plans to live in Geneva, a cleaned twice a week ΗΠΑ you no longer own your child, few minutes' drive from Jamie's any reason.
say?" regularly washed and set.
but et 3G her on occasions school.
no Why, also he finds solace in London where live the friends of his earlier days.
"Rinses? Yes, thul too. I when It's convenient. So chose the colour because that's wonder 'n not rushing around what I'd have Ized to have screaming with. laughter! I'd been born with also it looks be on ass if I did, wouldn't I?" great on the stage.
No. expensive
weren't they
terribly
one was 45 ans. und the other 50 gns., and that Included special pieces in frunt
to soften the hairline."
The rift
the drift
How much longer w Shir.
ley be wed to her wigs?
was thum I realised that the r
Grangers divorce was
not
"I don't know," she sighed. "But I'm just longing to go will ny sudden as it had appeared: again in my own hair. ... that the rift had been widening Meanwhile the affair is in the for some time and the Inevitable Jaw split only postponed on account hands of Miss Bassey's yors.
of their young first child.
Mr. Granger made me blush
WOULD you marry me?"
"He's
سے ایم عالی
my
Mr Granger Smlied without "What did you
" said I suppose your ex-wite Jean has one back to Holly-
wend
"Who?" said Mr Granger, "MIKE WILDING?" he
warmly. peated
Which, I guess, is one way to oldest friend--we were extras conjure up a Phoenix-and I'm together. You know, when you not referring to the one he left get to a certain age you don't behind in Arizona. make bosom pals any more *** it's something to do with having aver the experiences shared years. I only had two real
In America friends both died,"
und they
After the Cadillacs
And now? Mr Granger WITH some trepidation I laughed hollowly, "I hayz
dew to Rome for a couplu surped never to say anythig of cinys. Prices 1-felt sure. And thai Jean-like most definite about my life. A year would be in telephone numbers wonnen was content to let go I thought I could be definite after the Olympics. I WOB
and lock things drift until something or
what happened. wrong. My hotel for three someone (in this case director What you women do to men! nights with breakfast cost £5 RICHARD BROOKS) came "Right now my roots are and I ate to the polat of no re-
113 anto along to pressure her into legal huddled
packing turn at u focal trattorla cases on a Japanese bout coming about six shillings.
sald STEWART GRAN- petion.
The real Tom
THE
endearing
most American author of
them all makes a personal
reappearance
this wook
with THE AUTOBIO- GRAPHY
OF
MARK
TWAIN, edited by Charles Neider
Sawyer
He grew up by the Mississippi,
and (Chatto
Eventually Clemens
took up and longed to be a riverboat lecturing, and now the legend- pilot (Their calls as they took ary humorist started to emerge. depth soundings were to give always him his pen-name.) He was He liked to tell of the time should fascinated by the visiting when he tried to enter the hall
Windus, 30s.).
Controversy has
urisen over what
of reminiscence. left
the great humorist,
most
be printed out of the mass entertainments, was amused by with the audience.
explaining
that he
don't!" said the "Three of you have
by the visiting hypnotist, for whose to the ticket-conector benefit he invented strange was the lecturer, visions;
at laughed
the of it dictated in the early travelling minstrel
"No you show. with of years
this century Mr Bones swopping insults and reflector. when he was an old man. anecdotes with Mr Banjo; and not in up to now, but the next he puzzled the phrenologist who lecturer who goes in here to- Much here Is published for came to Interpret the first me.
Not every- thing le striet fact-but rs he said of his own Huckleberry
the Jumps and bumps on credulous rural craniums,
Finn. There was things which The soldier.
he stretched, but mbinly he told the truth.”
It is all very like his own
night ways!"
Mark Twain
for
Any lire
One way to get a taxi
ESPITE the threat of lavish,
Dnew developments Sardinia Is still picturesquely primitive except for luxuries in the most unlikely places.
I ordered a taxi late one night to lake me from Alghero to the
BEHIND THIS SMILE OF
DAN
DAILEY'S
HE
by Sally Vincent
TE is a sort of marriages failed, : leaving. Mr Dailey to view ure realistically twentieth - century ond, alone at his Califomirn Pagliacci. There he is, ranch.
night after night, twirl--
"I'll never get married now.
I'm too old. I'm 45. By the
50 what's the point?"
ing his little cane, leap time I meet a girl and dute her ing about, doing amus- and get to know her I'll be 50. ing things with top hats -entertaining the ladies and gentlemen.
Happy, laughing Dan Dolley from California. Professional hoofer. The man who was a top Hollywood musical comedy star in the forties,
His wives
names as
He danced across the screen with such inmous Betty Grable, Alloe Faye, and June Haver, and bus now fal lowed Sammy Davis and Shirley Bassey as the high spot at London night spot,
But I have just met Dailey-depressive.
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None of the gliter of Holly- wood, it seems, has rubbed off on Mr Dailey. He is, he will tell you without a sign of emijarrassment, a seeker after truth. He even writes unpub- lished essays on the subjeci.,
"What's life Bil about?" he asked me. "It's full of false faces and handshakes and gossiping, and insults and slaps on the back and big smites. I'm prelly sick of smiling.'
"I work like a bank clerk. I have hours, and when it's knocking-off me I'm through,
Some- "Ike to Hve aloric. times it gets a little lonely. I have to eat with the television Dan set for company. But I guess
that's better then eating and living with an American woman -they only give you ulcers."
His horse
He is the saddest man I have ever met. He has one of those
crunched-up. Irish faces and the sort of expression thai makes one wonder whether he has been crossed by a lepre- chaun.
But to prove he was 1 con tented man, Mr Dailey talked of He sits around, his tace something he loves. hanging in gloomy folds like t S. Bernard dog. while he pro- tests that he is not as sad as he looks.
"I'm not 2
wonderful company. Most of all "I love to ride. A horse is to spare
I be to hunt foxes. It's the world's best sport because thers "CARDINIA," said my travel-
depressive," he are no winners and no losers. led girl friend, "s 1 El Fare hotel. It arrived at said. "I'm A realist. I'm No one sufers-not even
the Nevada with ocean."
hour later. "Sorry to get you sensitive sort, but I do try to fox. We let him go." She was kidding me noi and out at this hour," I said. The look on the bright side. I live even if this harsh, hot-blooded driver shrugged, "No matter. and let live."
As this was a happy thought, Island is
still subject to daily I had to over your way to
1 left Mr Dailey. He was care- raids by the "bandid." i bears collect murderer for
*
the One of the realities Mr Dalley fully putting on a anlie as I every promise: of becoming the prison."
has observed so fur is
his went. new place in the sun.
---{London Express, Service). personal faBures. Both his
--London Express Beroles),
F
Roderick Mann
Brando
Howard (his co-star) to
sail the
Bounty
A FEW unmistakable, deep-throated roars around the West End of London herald the return from
Hollywood of Trevor Howard,
But not the tortured, sun-loving Mr Howard of some weeks back- prostrate with gloom at the thought of spending the sodden British winter at his home in the wilds of Barnet, where his clothes were hardly dry from spending the sodden British summer.
Oh, no. I have nover Keen
Howard "The aim opened with Bligh Mr Howard In more splendid having a dead man flogged, moment. form. And with reason. For That's not in our script-but he is to winter in Tahiti-play for all that, the new Bligh
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"It's more
that
I'm
was silent for A "It's all right for me to be Then he said:~~~ zuen smoking in the street mogŁO Lady no longer than 10 months Olivier," she explaine
iiny part ja
days' Song and Lovers, Ten
Negro actor Sidney Polßler- work, Last Christmas. Since who has appeared in such fine did same then I've been offered nothing firms as Blackboard. Jungle and
but rubbish.
The Defiant One is now in Paris making a new picture.
ing the part of Captain Bligh even more villainous than be since I did that in the remake of that film fore. classic Mutiny on the Bounty.
Bligh is the role that set the seal on Charles Laughton's car eer 25 years ago..
"Brando and costume tests before I left. And it's odd-I'd always remembered Laughton as being rather fat in the film. But when M.-G.-M.'s give me costume department
Exciting cinema his old uniform to try on, it fit-
nuch
ted perfectly.
man
Ignored
boy
Her view
tio
actors, Good --paria for Negroes were so rape it was in-
me to go on...
architects,
never
Ho mys: "Fillem years ago when I was going to Beting school with Harry Belafonte, got desperate--but I
our teacher; wald....... we were wouldn't compromise. Now, out battering our beads egninsta of the blue, comes this. Critics then called il "a cour
#rick Wall trying to be drama- "Brando in his uniform looked Caco Read i have to thank. de force ansurpassed in the history of the screen." I believe exactly like Napoleon. What it will do a
for Mr
on extraordinary
**When help.
was in the "Army Howard for the Alm, direct He doesn't have to speak,
One can't stop looking at him. sent him my identity cont plo- The years of fame were
ed by Sir ahead, of travel with his be
He ture and he gave me a tiny part Carol Reed, is to
"He
was right. We have and cost
a match in The Way Ahead. Then did Negro Judges, loved invalid wife and the terms with Joy Adamson
stands there, chewing more than £3,000,000, And family, of himself playing Yan- her lion that was born twee.
Marlon Brando
Third Man, Outcast of the engineers, sind clentists--but will be or something, and you watch. I carry my, Geiger-counter | his co-star.
jalands, and The Key for him, kee at the courts of Europe.
for years movies have shown Negrin ka'offything, but These later stages are rather up-country and across-country
because, what with all the I believe' too that in Brando
"Mutiny on the Bounty will the Mr Howard will finally meet n
Hm train portes and dibah-diggers and tedious, recital of deaths and of Huckleberry
be my fill picture with There are, too, come splendid Marles hitherto
photo- Tom Sawyer with the
his own explosive unpublished
And you know something? Now, however, I believe we are added prejudices which grows garrul- uranium and pitchbiende, graphs of him looking very element that there is Home Gus rather than discursive. But place is clearly far more radio-match for
Bilgh is such a wonderful part becoming idle bors explistic." consciously the most popular thing rather touching about the the early part of the books is give than the B.B.C. Some neting brilliance. And that the
day I must go to East Africa. two of them, glowering across the "He showed
his new 1 think I'd have done it for
"Thanika do Actors of Mr enchanting.
screen, will Meantime here is a cracking dously exciting clacma,
generate trumen- Western. One Eyed Jacks, and nothing."
for days afterwards Carol Reed about Devid good adventure Seago.
Fortunately M.-G-MC rated airline pilot, who gow
Mr Howard and I had a quiet to take me out and make Involved with a syndicate look dimer (or as quiet as any din me drink those awful fumbo Mr Howard's services highly.
uranium and pitch-ner, with Mr Heward can ever and ask: What's Brando got? he is getung £100,000,
sized chocolate-maltede the Joves ing for
For the part of Captain Elgh blende, Alp with Elizabeth, be)..and he talked about it. What is it?' We never did work who, is a stunner, by Jove. Not
it out. to mention Sandra, who la
"Carol Reed showed the old married. 10 Fumsden a pretty Mutiny on the Bounty while, I rum type.
was out in Hollywood,ho saki.
was extraordinary to son how well it slook up. I
"Not really. He doesn't talk 1 splendidly-made at all in the morning. Erbe, really was
Just ignore you. But when
author his country has ever pro. idea of the beset and bereaved
duced round face framed with celebrity at the end of its life Perhaps, as Goethe once said: fuzzy, white, golbwog hair, cres recapturing that halcyon child- Beginnings
are bestole hard as a general's, hook-nose hood. pointing Imperiously, and heavy, droop-dry mousiache.
The name
the Southern side, rentening Adventure
should stop on the threshold."
-hot
As a young man, Clemena joined up in the Civil War on
shortly afterwards
with the explanation that he was "in- capacitated with fatigue ---
Its story begins delightfully, through persident retreating."
Born Samuel Langhorne
Clemons, Bon of a storekeeper. The legend
in 1935, "in the almost in-
vielblo villoge
Florida,
The anags are provided by o THE SYNDICATE, by Denys rival concern, run by bald and Rhodes (Longmana, 15.): masty G Fleming who also What with so many books set lures girls to wicked parties, the Monroe County, Missouri. The Then he went as a news there, I am gotung to know swine. village contained hundred pripermen to the West, which East Africa very well Indeed. Don't, mind that I have not people and I increased the was still very Wild. Duelling
taken it too seriously, The population by one per cent. It wo commonplace and his I am wary of the Mosul, sym-point of this kind of story in is more than many of the best editor in Nevada once invited pathetic towards the Serongell, that the author should mén a history, have done for an enemy outside and "modi- am careful how I bargales with Denys Rhodes does,
fied him with 'a'ktillet."
a on purring Do Kikuyu. town."
•(Landon Express Barotor),
film
And that, according to› mỹ information, is 10 times what "Did you talk much with ughton gol for the original Brando?
role.
Progress ...
Pay off?
Quote-from: Mr Daly Wilder. the Mwabbe
I do not believe anyone does a good work when he goes to live abroad, I do not be father, for instance, that Noel Coward Įsile goods sister as he would have been. If he'd stayed, house; We or shat Waolden; un as "1 had forgotten how hand we were doing our lemts to
good an soter as he was before Miss Vivien Leigh how went to Switzerland Being some Clark Gable was in those Kether he cams - up threw dayn days tho played the original running and wild You'll love touring in Dunt of Angel in ise ke per something to Brando part of Fletcher Christ there in. Tahitir Love" (h. United Stateslik pridentation armeneth turqvendin kamena gat
and how much of a sadist Better than "*" vorte ever while walking down the street tradEARE
dreamed zak |Laughlon/ihode Sligh
wills Arlend
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