1961-02-11 — Page 21

FOR

Rodrick Mann

Margaret Leigh-

ton it had been an unhappy time. In A small room in the Law Courts her three-year marriage to actor Lau- rence Harvey came to an official end.

And she found herself her 39th birthday barely a month away- alone.

Tw Hollywood uplumns, whenever she *hanced upon

verzi, Invariably contained

TH*WO

of Mr Harvey. For bus is now one of the most sought- after young actors in the pro- fession.

He was doing this; he was doing that. 1 al dgned for this Blin; that play. He had been given a negnificent Rolls- Royce by his current good friend, wealthy widow Joan Culin

And, in return, he had given an opulent diamond and pearl bracelet.

her

Mr Harvey'a friends pooh- pooh the apparent lovishness of These gifin To get the Rolls, they point out, Mrs Colin traded in Harvey's white Thunderbird and an old cor of her own. The difference she paid was almost exactly what farvey paid fur the bracelet he bought her.)

Returning

Perhaps most embarrasslog new of all, Mr Harvey would be returning from Hollywood to appear in a play in London in April-only a week after Miss Leighton's own West End opening in Ibsen's The Lady From The Sea,

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Their paths would inevitably

Cross.

"It's all terribly sad," Miss Leighton said, when we lunch- od at a restaurant just a few yard: away from her house off Berkeley-square,

**My

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1961.

Life without Larry-by Miss Leighton

ofessional

you have to go to them? I've really reached ck bottom.

regrets? "That's the end, isn't it, when is having. It's what we botli worked and hoped for for to lang. Even though I'm not there to share it all with him, i'm happy for hins.** NO COMMENT

thise www Tennence Well. Williams's play. Sweet Bird of Youth. Even now I can hardly talk about it without crying.

"I wanked to do it On Broadway in 1958-and turn- ed it down because I'd only for a been married to Larry

to be Year and didn't woul separated from him.

The reason

"It was a wonderful play, but I remember sitting down to read it and deliberately deciding not to like it.

"I didn't want to jeave Larry, you see. Now I read some-

where that he may be doing it over here. Isn't that ironic?

"1 was always prepared to keeps my career second to my marriage, you understand. was prepared to give up any-

hing a woman has to be. Our marriage didn't break up be Pause Larry was an actor and I was an actress.

"11 wasn't so bad when I could ring up people and say: This is Birs Laurence Harvey, But now I'm alone, and when 1 urk for things to be tione people treat me as if I were an Irtint.

had lunch "Not long ago! with a producer who told me I looked! absolutely awful. I'd had a heavy night, I think, and I was looking. a little pale, You must go to my Indian doctor, he said. 'He's SHAT- vellous.'

"Well, I had to wait months to see this man apparently I's terribly in demand-and when I did get to see him he took me off all the things that have kept me alive for 30 years. "Come back and see me in Jour days, he said,

Delighted

* told him that was no good to me. { wanted something straight away. I was in a play five per- formances by the time I sw hir ogain. need something

"That should be fairly obvious and I'd have done by now."

And now?

She finished her lunch and laughed suddenly, dubbing her

news eyes.

"The only thing I can do is try to behave with a le dignity and come out of it all Bs well as I can. If other pre ple want to say

things, they can. But I won'L."

She ordered her usuari Junchen-It dish of smoker Bulmon followed by cheese and coffee-and talked about the past. And the future.

"Of course, I have regrets. Private ones and professional ones. Though I don't intend talking about the private ones.

i'll make` The jeet lovely when I walk on stage, even if I don't look lovely. I nutd.

"He gave me nothing, so I "I'm afraid I'm gelling the took one of my own tiny pills reputation for bring one of and told him about it next time those old, hysterical women 1 saw him. You know what he who live alone. I've launched did?

a one-woman crusade to get my mew's cleaned up, you ace.

Kicked He sacker me. me out. Imagine being sacked by your doctor?"

THEY

have tried everything to bolster box-office," the comedian Jerry Lewis.

says

He

"They built up the screens, made pictures wider and tonger. Then one day somebody came up with a revolutionary idea 'Let's make them better. was fired immediately. In this business there is no room for a trouble-maker." FLOURISHING

I

HAVE news of yet another actress who got divorced: Miss Marilyn Manroc.

Miss Leighton... 'I'm so happy for him'

Her renewed friendship with Mr Joe her former husband. DiMaggio, continues to flourish, They are now seeing a great derf of each other in New York shows eating and going together and Miss Monroe even look Mr DiMaggio to the special showing of her last fit. rush into anything like remer-

which Misfita.

Arthur riage just now, but I wouldn't

hazard

guess about Miller also attended.

DiMaggio. It is rumoured, in future." still in love with Miss Monroe, And it may well be that Miss Monroe-weary after four years spent vainly trying to match Mr Miller's Intellectual stan- dards-is happy to be back in the more easy-going company

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