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The Moneyed Family

Mill's

FOUR TOP TALENTS—AND THEY ADD UP TO £110,000 A YEAR

by JAMES THOMAS

Hollywood.

[AYLEY MILLS, at 14 the new golden girl of

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on her new' pony the cinema, cantered off

of her father Beauty round, the 100-acre farm John Mills-carefree in the knowledge that £75,000 is guaranteed to her from films she will make in the next five years,

In the study was her Intext fret time is the £110,000-a-year Contract from my restalle Walt family-father, mother, and two hnrassed Disney in Hollywood-at least daughters whose

necoutant doles out posket £15,000 for a picture a year.

tuoney to all “ur them averaging the post was a contract less thun 130 a week each. from the Mills family's old

friend Hichord Attenborough, Pocket money

who will star Hayley in the fini version of her mother's novel, Whistle Down the Wind," next year.

But in spite of her huge Ineome Hayley has a sense of perspective about money-her father and mother have made Sure of tha!.

most British

Take

the look at 13 rought-after family in show business today:-

Father

JOHN MILLS. Average £39,000 a film-two a year has three pictures due for release: "Tunes ot Glory," Rebinsen. and

On the Mills estate, they take "Swiss Family success calmly. Success is not "The Singer. Not the Song."

a new word. For here for the HIS pocket money: £10 a week,

Mother MARY HAYLEY- BELL has a string of successful povets and plays behind her For (most successful; "Duet "Two Hands"), and another play, "Bucco Rest" coming up, Her pocket money: £8 a week. Daughter JULIET (18) play- ed 27 months in London and New York in "Five Finger Exercise," and is going into "Peter Pan" as Wendy this year. Pocket money-what the earns (around £100 n week).

Daughter HAYLEY shot to such fame in Pollyanna" thot producers

anywhere will guarantee her tap maney--and she can addi considerably to Disney's £15.000 with at least one other m ycar. Her pocket money: 355, a week,

Problems

Jullet Mits

£5,000 a year

Hayley Mills

£35,000 a year.

"John and I struggled hard We have been around in our carly days he started in have seen

John Mills

Mary Hayley-Bell

£60,000 a year`

And we

child stars whose No

£10,000 a year

SHOW BUSINESS

Total:

£110,000 a year

'Clan'-and that's official

With this kind of fame and this kind of income, the £110, |000-a-yenr family is crowded, a chorus at £4 a week and we mothers and fathers have

with problems.

tore ourselves up by our finger lovely house end a Cadillac..

one nasty morning the FRANK SINATRA, annoyed by fortunate to have many friends The Tax Man is pretty high nails. We want our children to until

the list. But John and Mary reailse this,

We don't think it child turns round and asks: references to "The Clan"-that's and circles of friends but there

Hollywood's nickname for nis are no membership cards, Mills have put the problem at would do their values any good 'Where's my money?"

exclusive elrcle of friends-has "Naturally people in Holly- the Inland Revenue well below, if they had too much money.

Jurmal statement woor socialise as they do in any And Hayley, the current pride issued the worry of keeping the famil,”

would denying "The Clan's" existence community, but we do not together, of striving to keep u "What would you do with the of the family, says she

There is no such entity as gather

in together

chlidish sense of values in their children, kind of money Hayley earns if not know what to do with all the.

Mary, the one behind

Sometimes The Clan and there never has fraternities." the she were your daughter? We money she earns

(London Express Service). family organisation, told me: put the lot into a trust fund. I can hardly belleve it's there." been," declares Sinatra. "I am

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A brilliant slice of love and war

The

by WALTER ALLEN

unpredictable of writers THE SNIPER IN THE HEART. By Monica

goes to a remote land Gollancz, and a forgotten era for

her theme.

Daghestan was once a fee

if savage country in the moun

lains of the Caucasus above the

Creion Sea. A century ago,

the Tsar lost half a million

people under his heel.

The

warrior chief Shamy):

fall of Hongkong

by TIM CAREW. BLOND, found with an empty revolver

215,

Stirling-ONE lesson of the fall

THIS is the best novel of love, death and action

of Hongkong learned instantly

elght dead

in cach hand and Japanese in front of him.

The elderly businessman who was fought all night in a power station and all next day in the else streets.

Captain Ansari, the Indian

I have read since The Quiet American, and, where. In Singapore, as like Graham Greene's book, it depends for much it too was falling to the Nationalist, who chose behend-

Italian

Miss Stirling's heroine, Vittoria, an Imam of Deghestan during years news-photographer, turns up in a tatty South

belray the British.

Here and there Mr Carew's

of its effect on the rendering of what will be for Japanese, working par- ing after forture rather than

ties exhausted them troeps in bringing ila Mosiem most readers an essentially exotic scene.

selves trying to smash love of adinctives slows the pace, every bottle of alcohol When, may, is a bombardment not "merciless," "murderous" in the city.

and "deadly?" [

In Hongkong this had not Another fault is that the been done with the result that publishers provide na map or to the conquerors predilection plan of the complicated battle for bayoneting and beheading fought aerors a jigsaw terrain, prisoners was addet repe.

40 bitte fighting defled the Tsar's

vlcerors. He bore the American capital to shoot the revolution everyone tcars of 18 wounds and went newhere without his executioner is waiting for.

verve

Lesity Blanch managen her enormous canvas with skill and The beat of hoofs can be heard

every page. G.M.T.

(London Express Servica).

There she meets Manolo, the in an adult way, was then in Italian Resistance hero, whom love with her grandmother.

Manolo has, become a soldier The outcome of the battle was But in is a stirring, ofien, ahe adored as a child 20 years

never in doubt.

heart-breaking book and ene before and whom she realises, as of fortune, a gun-runner in this now she falls in love with him instance gun-running. for the

narty Vittorie's paper supports. We were, as was customary in can only agree with the author. who, although he himself fought unprepared; Their love Is briet, tender and 1941, scandalously violent. The high point of the there were no bombs for the the Japanese, writes that when of Hong- novel is the description of the mortars, no, torpedoes fee the he hears the story

kong "my own. coyly. modest drive to a remole altfield wherej torpedo-bombers and a gential war ceminiscences die In my

BOOKSHELF

BRIEFS

But Manolo is himself killed

Manolo and his colleagues shoo: with ult ex- and capture the revolutionary SA TOURIST IN AFRICA, agdovements,

Terence leader as he arrives, presumably Clipman and planatory notes by Evelyn Waugh,

by from the United States. HUL 104. A more or less Davla nnd an introduction amlable ar Waugh polishes tip Sir John Summerson. One for ||bis diary. of a four of Kenya, the enthusiast.

COMETH Tanganyika ath. Rhodesla, THE NIGHT

Sidgwick O'Donnell. made to escape the rigours of Eugeno

Searchlight a British winter. He preferred and Jackson, 18. stilos

to airplanes, found on South Africa again, this rocialiim dosty.

0 Urbane, time in a fervent story by

mikily wäertaining.

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by a sniper on his return to the Capital.

Subtle

estelly of military hardware.

Street fight

But, even had this not been

thrcal."

TARGET

so, Hongkong would inevitably have been overwhelmed and the atory Mr Tim Carew tells here

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The action of the novel fa con-is one of a lust stand and Catholic priest which points tinuous, and brilliantly described, terrible aftermath,

To the way to self-destruction for But more important is the e-

Mr Carew-himself a former

Shew, black and while alike. Rough count of the sudden eruption of Gurklis officer, of distinction-in sharp adult love and passion in which a rarabustions story-teller and edges on the prove, but 悲痛长。 Reasonably

Vittoria's whole past life as on the excllement of his narrative

entertaining comments on some observation.

of

• THE GOUFFE CASE. observer of violence, but as a never flags. Ife has interviewed arbitrarily ected murders in

survivors from this country from 1900 to 1950, Jaschim Maxss Barrie and child and as an ace photographer, dozens

21x. Rochlitt

Mit der in in somsnow recapitulated.

Hongkong and this, "combined misleadingly described dr

Monica Stirling's novel, which with his own knowledge of the dictionary. Entries, ore dipha- vestigation in Paris of the '90s, betical,but no attempt to make resulting in acquittal of the in as subtle as a short, willily Far East war, gives a vivid

raving spéci unul a finalo re-treates a South American sol | authentielty, them compnoterm{ve.

Many extraordinary things THE, ARGILIBOTURE OF fed adventure in America. ing. More than this, it reveals Hvily whenuated styld and her knowledge of the human JOHN, NASIL Studio Book, shoot weight of the book roinxes beat! female, emancipated, but were done at Hongkong that Christmas. The Canadian cost- comprehensive and Heedily Labelfiation,

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