1960-11-12 — Page 14

NOW IT'S

ROCK HUDSON THE NEW PRODUCER!

By RONALD SINGLETON

Rome. WILL success spoil Rock Hudson? Hollywood fans once laughingly-asked the 35-year-old star. The handsome six-footer, who today scooter-raced up and down the roads in the mountains behind Rome, had come a long way, since an old Dorothy Lamour film made him vow to become a film actor.

But the autumn sun shone 'Acters tre ungeliable and un- andr 'Ciancias whirred: Gina stable.'

Lollobrigida passenger. vanished behind

"When I came out of the navy

pillion WAS his When

sun the

I drove a lorry but I always clouds thought 'How can you get into! dark he rared up and down the read the movies?? alone; the only way to talk to "It happened this way. 1 him was to borrow Footer went to the studio-with' some and ride with him-this the photos. You are not bad lonic without Gimn.

did

act."

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1960,

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

Connie Francis

who

a girl knows

what she wants

By

JAMES THOMAS

records in a year, has turned film star. And at 21, fresh from making her first Hollywood movie, she met me in London to report like this on her latest achievement:

What Bart brought back from Coward

as the

Sald

Millionaire

Wayne will miss

his Old Shoe

JOHN WAYNE

ar-

rived in London re- cently for the royal pre- miere of his Western "The Alamo."

For a rising young actress: A souring

EXOTIC bathing

scenes could be considered a 10st

experience

Mr Wayne is more then of Initiation core-

his film, mony for Young.

11

actresses

LIONEL BART, who willing to talk about

has been described but reluctant about the curlous Bettish

power behind his life-a secret making their debut most successful society known as "The Old

In Continental Alma. British song - writer Shoes"

Ho formad It In Hollywand. since Noel Coward, ar-

Among the members: Fred Mac- Anne Aubrey rived back in London Murray, Red Skelton, Johny just back from sp. from a few days holiday Weisnuller. It is dedleated to pearing in Carolija. friendship. .. and wherever and in Yugoslavia=WA% with Coward himself in old Shoe goes there will always required bathe in

of elegant be another member at the air- tub

goat's the master's

port who will help him out with indik. In the course a party, à meal, company-even of the

the turned cash. Though it is fairly cer- lamps

the CONNIE FRANCIS, the girl who sold 5,000,000 Montreux chalet.

the author of lain that none of the members milk sour and *

They needs cash.

studio worker tell ing sold a woman clerk. Cao

"Fings Ain't Wot

through The roof The aim is "Ceme September" you act, fella?

It will be lonesome, however,

(he had been try- Used TBe" and "Oliver": and it is comedy about a "Sit down, fella, what

"I expected to find a very for Mr Wayne in London. The Ing to get a better millionaire who returns to his you say?' she said.

intolerant and sophisticated only Old Shoe available will be view). Italian mansion unexpectedly to" said I could not discover in his absence Is 'Good,' she said, 'I think we esa

"Anybody who looks reason- Take this first movie I've just wit-but he was great. He out of the country. His name: inta do something for you.“. manservant has turned

ble can do the same in Holly made. I know it's dot going to knew every note of Oliver Roberto Arias, ineband of Dame

Mia Audrey, Margot Fonteyn. the girl who make the world tremble, but and volunteered to stand in

Fulham lamp- The day's timing began. Gina wood-'s not It is the first film inde by was with him. Behind ringer counts; it's the director. Plelure dan't care and won't care

for

Hghtor's daughter, character who any Tite next few movies.

returns full of good his own company and it is

"But then Cennie Francis wil! might fall sick."

"MY FAIR LADY" man Alan Continental stylo new and mature Rocky Hudson Eobby Darin and Sandra Doe maklig is very simple."

on anottier scooter.

It took Miss Francis Just 20 sit up and shout. I will kick

Sampic: miles to record her three against relying on pretty dresses

What did Mr Bart learn Jay Lemer says: "The older a quotes,

writer gels the harder it is for "Yugoslav men are minute version the twenties and cute songs and G woak from the master? "I have him to write. If you are cung so dificult to get cinssic "We's Sorry Now" plot. I shall want parts like come back with a great idea you're sure you are brilliant along with they record whach earned £12,000 in the one Janet Light had in for a show with Anthony you are an egg-head with always want to got royalties und put her into the

Psycho and I shall get them.”

two yolks Lerner 1.42.

married," Newley and Shirley Jackpot class of the golden

Bas- dises

Mise Francis has always been say—and with a fresh up. a 'determined girl. She could

proach to my work." play the accordion at four, she published her first song at 12, she won a four-year scholarship to New York University at 17 and disappointed her tutors two years later by turing, pop singer.

an hotel.

tne sees now.

GROWN UP

8

He knows his audience 1:20 now changed from a predomill-, antly teenage class to a bigger, wider, grown-up one.

began with just about every handicap a paren who wants to be an acier could start

"It is quite a good catch for my first production," he sald later, munching cake and sip ping brandy in the chill autumn air,

He spoke of them as

a pro- ducer would. "I want more and more serious roles now. I have made my own film. I dream of Broadway, i dream of the Lon- don stage."

This is what success has with. I was toa tall, too skinny, brought to Hock Hudson--t and my posture WIS bad, I didn't seem to have spoiled him walked around

a lured, at all. WIN my voice was a dull monotone, I did to know how to read line right."

4

He roared past Gina, who was Tow in her Rolls-Royce widing for the sun to reappear.

"Remember that old im Hurricane Jon Hall dived off

LATEST IDEA for the

Crosby Hope-Bing Bob "road" pictures is to film the next, "Road to Hong

with Dorothy for." Kong,"

the one time

a ship's crew's nest and swan to Lamour

No illusions

for

LATEST NEWS from the And did'the master learn any. "Misfits," set in Arizona, thing from Mr Bart? Mr Bart is that by way of a change said: "I read the first set of a new show he is doing, gave him Marilyn Monroe is per same comment (it would be un- fectly fit and ready to film is shot ethical to say about what) and but production

Now Miss Francis has come to alms, a tiny, tough, wide-eyed girl with a line of blunt dirzel- ness. She said "Ail right. I

That demure lock is purely he absolutely agreed with me. down because director made a movis called Where the

to her ambitions. He said he found the weekend John Huston is ill. Boys Are. It is na Ben-Hur, calzedonial and I am no dedicated actress.

She said: "Frankly, I found very inspiring." making my Art Aim a bore. 1 "I reckoned "I would get by, only enjoyed & because I had I knew there would be à direê- other wings to do--like record-

rg 47 songs between takes. If Miss Francls is on the way

"No. industry gives 0 girl illusions about how to get there, more chance to earn maze money

without worrying. "Do everything that appeals "You have lop-class techni- hairdressers, wardrobe to the marets, get established clans, and then you can do what you experts.

"Everything is fald on. II "I've decided the same thing you don't come out well in films, should go for my An career, you have to be pretty bad."

Dorothy Lampur. I was young. regular as a "guest star" up, it is clear that she has no

I was a good swimmer. When

I saw that, something cbeked. i was only 10."

He put-putted to pace. "You'd have

but Gina Lollobrigida as co-star. Film will be made

ព slower in Britain-the first "road" hight I to be shot outside Holly. would at least have jailed a wood. -high school drama society

didn't. My father used to

say

want...

111

་

Picture by Michael Ward.

*

P

CH

VULCAIN

The high standards of VULCAIN Craftsmanship and ultra smart styling have made these watches the choice of discriminating people all over the world.

3185,002

305015

BORIN!” SAKK ́ OF WATERFROOF CRICKET. 2101002) LENTENARY*14K Ur monodate AUTOMATIC

WATERPROOF incabloc GOLDEN DIAL

AVAILABLE OF ALL LEADING DEALERS

SOLÉ ABÈNTS: CASEY COMPANY LTD. 801 TAKSHING HOUSE, H.K.

Republican or democrat

VULCAIN

the President of the United States weREER

Prix

ince 1858

THE

ART PLUNDERERS

OF THE WORLD

ART PLUNDER. By Wilhelm Treue. Methuen, 255.

THE recent history of art plunder should make strong reading. But Mr Wilhelm Treue's ac- count of it, first published for German readers and 'now issued in Britain would have you believe

THE S MAN. By Mark

6d.

THE S MAN Caino. Hutchinson, 12s KNOWS THE

WAY TO

THE TOP

THE

HE S Man is the Success Man, and this is a book on how to be a success.

that the Nazi share in it was comparatively mild. By Stephen Potter tough

Eithe Mr Treue or his translator seems almost reluctant to use the word Nazi, for in .17 saccharine pages devoted to the Nazis' systematic rape Europe, the word only creeps in

ance.

Self-pity

Most of the chapter is given over to a self-pitying descrip- ton of how in the chill down of, Kultur for the Herrenvois, Ger- many, contrived to destory their own artistic heritage of recent yours by burning, smashing, or selling off cheap. those works which wert regarded "depraved.

Artists in this

D9

4th Bronte?

by George Malcolm Thomson

"

THE INFERNAL WORLD OF BRANWELL BRONTE, BY

Daphne du Maurier. Gollancs. 21.

-

DROP a tear on the grave of poor: Branwell Bronte? Most certainly. But don't let us spend too much time there. The young man (age category 31, when gin and laudanum finally got him down) was unfortunate in one resounding respect: he was a waster and a failure who had three brilliant sisters..

Included Cezanne, Gaugula, Van

Gogh, Nolde, Kandinsky and

Kokoschka

Such a nauseating and sense- less act of self-mutilation was a far taste at what was in store So instead of being decently, who wanted to run off with the. for Europe.

forgotten in Haworth Church- young man, Or did she?

The evidence is far from cer- Somehow. Mr Treue's account yard; he goes down to history of it skates over the full mean- covered with pity and ignominy tain. Mrs Robinson denied it. action n libel and bathed sardonically in the later, and ing of what was done, and the light of his elsters fame... agobist Mrs. Gaskell over it: incredible extent of it.

Was the affair, perhaps, simply another of those romances that Branwell dreamed up out of his sacking the very places that they Branwell let the Bronte side wide gram of the fanciful?

Real or flotitious, is the only were fighting to presérYE, That down. There was Charlotte. used to be an integral part of right at the top of the York- sentimental note in the whole the spoils of war.

shire batting averages; Emily, wan story...

That Branwell had some with Wuthering Heights, that

$ เ

A rabble of drunken mer-

cenaries may set waste to a city,

Excuses

How to win jobs and get the better of people, - How to be swhen seeming to be lender. How!, (ẹs”....... thê famous author -sald of the famous executiva) -- to be a man with (one smile and iwe dose eyes.

- ' YR':

Personally, I am always | Interested-in: Books On, even when they profess to show the short cut to charm or, as in this case, to a charming incomia. « There are even' one of two sug- gestiona which": (donst, mention this) seem lmost worth trying oneself.

But this is not quite that sort

of boolt. At first the advice

seems würdightforward enough.

The rond to success is open to everybody... Et, you can't see it from where you are, step aside from behind that pillar.

How true, I thought. And how deliberately how self-abasingly, how mesochistically my talented friend c. insists on keeping the pillar in front of him.

BOASTFUL.

The S-for-Success, men may tave, failed School Cert, but aimest that admission sounde boastful on the lips of a man driving his own Bentley at 24. vikenda la oldiramda

Just at this malet wo bezla to realise that the book is

tire. Suddenly we are all in

is something quite apart impetuous, amforgettable in talent is undeniable. He could from the calculated criminaitynings, even Anne, without her of vast Nazart thefist carries sisters' dre was, a useful bat, ba

for a bit of stogging. paint.

out with such ruthlessness that

-

|

"The quocessful, smauuder:, has always i brought -- his goods, itūross

tho

border: before ho staris une

Imagination Compared with these consider

| willingly opening higpluggage,"

there is scarely a collection or Branwell, out for a duck, Plenty He had enough imaginationOnly the S-mán sppreciates

museum/ka - what was occupied of excuses in the pavilion bar Europe that does not bear the oftecards, menty of assurances to take part in those intermine that the best budinces is being #ears, today. D

from cronics that he had it in ble games in which the Bronte done when business in hot being ་་་་་

the history, dona." Byrnunion we are made him to do better, But out for family created

Reog polifi and polley of an to feel that Lord Elgin's often a dunk all the same.

invented world.) Angria,

The book is an attack on misconstrued efforts on behalf of Arad, rather than a - tragie The trouble wes that Branwell modern MidWes hang our Linclemt, Alfienian: marblers buar figure, odse, whom "Daphno, du never found any answer but heads. Talánoétif ve ymwel kallt burne Mallier lun laboured with the, Angria to the satisfactory

Gowring'zi morolaifirning,,emicked, moikiwealdsworthy, industry and nature of life, and never brought. But reading on, we, and wa With commandested; treasures, entitahan gautêre ore" afl', the 'his talent"into" relationship with were wrong I undi, Whatovor áll a desired 7" for -hla; private Tects dudt, Branwell that matter, the real world."ME NOR the author's intentiöhas the fact collection; flag den andre great imply moet besides. Thus today Branwell is soc emerge,the, ljus book, la Here, fara at countless" stueres, remembered only because of only parentesickly, a sormon Not that wavy nation can throwal, in for good measure Charlotte, Emily and Annely against worldliness)RK DIDEN Léxti:klý," réel/troud of itself: 'on

7ība - truth) ie:Sthan perleinỉ độ Though Daphne du Maurier Phanga this "moore, +

knowledge, about this lil-starred labour, never so hard, though - In essence 1: 13%, most ́emzis. The hatory of Europe can be young man is remarkably sensity the speculato never do Elgentinidy percoolly "cobuint of a traese diversi the history of the job he hid and bet the do ourly, she cannot, oecunde),us Trout Brodhead-bright- art plunder? But you have to nights with the Freemiuis, that that the asset for vendir worth eye, Cores mamactively moLLOWI bottipao" "swiftlystaking fls, toll allther kronibile 24@And, with bli am ori the hours ofİKİNOP SAKSA choose, your historian.

of Bythe de levred member of her practised, skill, hör: blo- not the hotjort of mankind, Haworth Temperance Society, grapho has a blown-up took.. but, by no" mantule, the most LUFBA

love, salute with a hire Robinyoung bear first flig

Richard Walter the single-ai sects-eriors Over Branwell Bronte, one look nor the least wiertnining

and stim