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BUSINESS

CAN YOU PUT A NAME TO THE FACE?

SUE has auburn hair and green eyes. You have seen her often, both on

television and on the screen at your local cinema. She starred in Third Man On The Mountain; she co-stars with John Mills and Dorothy McGuire In Walt Disney's Swiss Family Robinson, to be premiered in London Inter this month. Yes, it's Janet Munro,

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1960.

Roderick Mann

I'M JUST A BIG FLOP

FA

IN A LOUNGE SUIT

—says Mr. (Ben-Hur) Heston

Madrid.

AR below us, the wintry, deserted avenues were cold and cheerless. But in Charlton Heston's tenth-floor flat the fire was burning. It was warm and luxurious.

Heston, the actor of rugged repute who, with two films, The Tea Commandments and Ben-Hur, will be seen by more people than any actor in history, was fixing the drinks. With care and preparation-the way he acts

Six foot two inches of bone and muscle, his jaw apparent- ly wired into a permanent pioneering amile by some, obliging

dentist, he towered above the table.

It seemed Impossible that once he had been so thin that critics had said: "Every family has a skeleton in its cupboard-but the festons have les theirs out and he wants to be an actor.

"Heaton IS tough," William Wyler, who directed Ben-Hur, says, "Just. to get through that part took tremendous physical strength. On top of that he turned in a performance of the highest order."

"keep it with exercise," Heston said, prouder over the drinks for a moment. "And I loathe every minute of it. live musty on steak and salad and take plenty. of stoom baths,

"It's a bore but for my kind of pictures you have to be fit, Driving that chariot in Ben- Hur was damn hard work. I had no double for most of the reenes. That man with the frighten ed expression on his face was me."

He gave me my drink.

'You might get hurt'

"Of course, it taart always way to keep fit when making s picture. The studio docm's mind dropping you, over the side of a ship into amaclalrom below as long as the camera is on you--but try to do anything energetic yourself and there's a panic.

"In Ben-Hur I spent nine months working six days a week careering around in that chariot and jumping from a burning galley with flam ing timbers falling about me but when I cake if I could go horseback riding at the weekend they went mod. You might get hurt, they saki." "I should have thought that after Ben-Hur you would have had enough of epica," I said. "You said you were tired of them at the time, But now you're making another big one here- El Cid,"

Ismay's story-but the man

who dominates is Churchill

THE MEMOIRS OF LORD

ISMAY. Heinemann.

THE hard-riding off-

cers

of the 21st

By TOM POCOCK

.diaries have been published verbatim," adding. In

to "reference

Churchill's nocturnal habits;

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Prince Albert Victor's that a young officer private Own Cavalry (Daly's found time for books. Horse) Frontier Force, With polo, golf, l-at-arms

"Perhaps if I had kept fresh from skirmishing competitions,

On Jex-sloting in Kashmir and diary, the entries

unproductive nights would have been queruleus and critical.

cemeeunigs,

on the Khyber, must "poodle-faking" in Simla, there have been surprised were plenty of rullabie manis

xxcupation.

The best buy month of the

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those

And how sorry I would have felt when I read them next

But, as the young officer now, day!" writes:

bugan to rend veraclously, my favourites being.

Bibbon's Decline and Fall of On: Monty

the Roman Emple, Henderson's Stonewall Jackson, Kipling of all kinds, and Winston THE DE- Churchill's River War." CLINE AND FALI.

IBBON'S

OF THE ROMAN EM On Churchill

PIRE abridged in one

volume by D. M. Low

A gentlemanly narrative.

LORD ISMAY

when

And, moro bluntly, of Mon- gomery: "One could wish that'

Churchill the victor of Alamein had occasions acknowledged. Uut his ime noticed the extent of Ismay's diate predecessor in command physical exhaustion he said, of the Eighth Army (Auchin using Ismay'3' universal nick- leck) had

name: "Pug, you should have

Those books helped for not his triumph...ed the way for been in your basket ages ago." (Chatto and Windus, 38s.): only the character of Lord A loving portrait of Churchill It is Churchill and not Ismay

On the night of June 27. Ismay but also his career. 1787, in a house over-

It now seems almost inevil-

looking the Lake of able that he and his hero would Goņevu:—

eventually come together. What happened when they did is the subject of this book that is more

"After laying down my pen, I took several turne in a berceau,

or covered walk of acacias,

study of Churchill than an

autoblography of Ismay.

emerges. His returned and on one of the few

affection was

who

(London Express Kernice). dominates this boo

BOOKSHELF

BRIEFS

A Churchill's eldet aldo - LETTERB

which commands a prospect of

FROM A Allen and Unwin, 321, India the country, the lake, and, the Chief of Staff to the Minister of SOLDIER. Walter Hobson, pensable for art historians, mountains. The air was iem- Defence was his appointment--| Faber, 16% After sirviving Vasaris biographies of the perate, the sky was serene, the throughout the war, Imay's re- the African and Italian cam- palsbars, sculptors nad archi- allver erb of the moon reflected ations with his master were no palgas. Lanco-Corporal Rob- toets of the Italian Renaissance from the waters, and all nature more Borwelllan than his bluff, son, sirekher bearer, died of --many of whom were his near- was silent.

TB in Groton, › These are the contemporaries are invaluable "I will not disamble the first gentlemanly narrative,

fine and moving letters he wrote for art lovers. A handsomely

an

selection

· QUARRELLING

emotions of joy on the recovery Ismony was in fact, ná exten to his wife, whom he married produced and akilfully, it at of my freedom, and perhaps the son of Churchill's own person- less than two months before ho times too ruthlessly. edited establishment of my fame. But allty. Both had been cavalrymen was sent abroad. my pride was soon humbled with a boyish, romantic love for mi a sober relancholy, was

pread over my mind by the the dash and panoply of old-⚫ A NIGHT IN COLDHAR. • TÊ

John Watney.' Expo. fashion ware. Both were BOUR, Margaret Kennedy. LOOM. Idea that I had taken leave of Edwardians at heart with so semilian, 160. Lilo and 10. Somewhat blurred vlaw.

old and agreeable com-makeable veneration for God, crust times or

14:0 pour and of life in the expense-accoumit panion."

King and Country. Both could I down-trodden In the West: brackets of advertising, with 'A

•Thus Edward Gibbon ou com-weep unashamedly. Both had Country of 1913, with latter- rafler welatul weak... hera chy,lhidignation | reservedJ for buffeted by wife, mistress, boen pleting the most famous his massive ability and resilience, torical work ever written in Lon lamby's book, Infatnes child Labour, Carefully well and boote. Very occasionally novel for anyone who the vision clears, and proves English, the charting of Rome's no 'eld controversies and he ten

neo-Didikenalan that Me, Wathey still has a gift decay and Christianity's rise by rebukey those who have.

|for willy-dilogue and accurate the lord of Irony" (as Byron Lord Aldnbrooke he writes: called him) "sapping a sofern "It's a thoumid plies that VASARI'S LIVES OF THE social dotali,penden

copious creed with solemn sneer."

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