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THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1961.

You're not going to Lady Turner's

wiikemaan klasie?

“I see they've got = couple of new players in the Team!"

DRINKA PINT BLOODA DAY

"You need a holiday, the shange of oil will do you

good."

"I wish to report a missing budgie."

“Actually 's still on thr Preret Ust.**

"Take a good took at it -- I made it from lumps you

'rocked' off my ceiling.”.

Diana Dors

on the virtues

of hard work

THOMAS WISEMAN'S

Limelight

A CHASTENED Diana Dors, if that is not a contradiction in terms, was back in London recently after a year in Hollywood, during which time, with uncharacteristic reticence, she refrained from falling into anybody's swimming-pool-or from making any other kind of splash.

Indeed, the most sensational

absence was to

cut short her

MISS GEARON HAS SUCH A

LIKING FOR THE EXOTIC

THE NEW ACTORS who have recently enlivened the theatrical scene have all had one thing in common in addition to talent: a lack of exoticism,

it was pleasant to discover, therefore, that Miss Valerie Gearon, who has been acclaimed by the critics for her performance in The Tenth Man at the Comedy, is a girl of less oustere tastes.

★

Whereas most of our new discoveries have an aura of fish and chips about them, Miss Gearon unashamedly admits to a taste for caviar and the highly spiced things of life.

ENGLAND. IN THIS OTHEL- LO 15 A NEGRO BAND- LEADER AND DESDEMONA

thing she has done during her She ha made a ihn with In this business it's very IS A JAZZ SINGER (CALLED

and established easy to be famous and broke, DES), Danny Kaye,

egselt es a cabaret entertainer and I'd perhaps have to make a joke about it and say i didn't know where my next Cadillac

hair-cately enough to justify any further instalments of the confessions of Diana Dors.

at Las Vegas.

"My first trip to Hollywood" was coming from. But I have said Miss Dors, "just fizzled out been very broke, and that's why like a glass of champagne that I had this desire to amass han Kom lat. This ting I

give myself sune ny. to didn't do anything spectacular security. to draw attention to myself: we lived very quietly and I just wurkett.

FORBES PROGRESS

PARIS N

LETTER

MWHITE

NOW THE VERY VERSATILE COUNT TURNS TO FILMS

AN

Paris.

by Count

N interesting piece of film-making is being undertaken

de Beaumont, a man of such varied and polished accomplishments that one tends to almost overlook the fact that he is one of the three richest men in France.

The Alm will be based on a novel writen by de Beaumont himself and published recently. The novel's theme is the hope- less love of a rich Frenchman for a flim star.

French actress, Genevieve Page, a close friend of de Beau- mont's for many years, is likely to have a part in the alm.

Agar, from his Paris properly. plantations de Beaumont owne

in Kenya, an estate in Carsita. and a pus preserve in Alsace.

TOO MUCH POR MAURIAC

FRANCOIS

FIRA the

MAURIAC, aged. French Just under six feet in height, sim to the point of looking Catholic writer, who has. slightly emaciated, with extra fought for Algeria's free- ordinarily delicate features and dom with all the passion hands, de Beaumont, 57, and brilliance that Zola de- remains one of France's great voted to the Dreyfus affair,

in the hos finally broken with the athletes, the best shot country and

Mendes-France on, of Its most Loft-Wing noted gentleman jockeys.

To these physical talents he has added menfal accomplish ments which make him at the same time a man of letters, a political figure, a great admin- istrator and

of France's one most noted house that used to helong to a

financiers and millionaire, and stands in 12 bankers. Deres of its own grounds.

Best script

some

All this is the result of doing a weekend re-write job years ago on na Alan Ladd (m called The Black Knight. Today major Hollywood producers compete for his services; and he can more or less name his own

on actor, Bryan price.

quito

Tiger skin... A Forbes

never

I found her occupying a small and-by Dors standard--bare fat in Mayfair without swim- ming pool or special minora or gold plated door-knobs. She has become

not just prettier and stinence, but slan- ningly discreet. When 1 nsked her how much money she had

modo the grade. When ho made in Holly weed

this trip. " may mound odd coming Ms Dors, who not long ngo from re, but there really is "Some of those stories about was up for the Donald Sin- the fabulous way I lived were den part in The Cruet See, happily told "n" In a Sunday substitute for hard work."

demurred. Some "People forget that Fra bern

really funny. People would Ealing Studios told him ho personal, were

in this business

for 15 write about me sprawling out 1572 1103

was "not officer material." years, and you don't

my fabulous tiger-skin ruş survive that long just on publicly well it was a tatty old thing I tori. I've Always quietly bought for £3 10s. at some

Newsper, Lining Insisted.

So modest

During her

she

first Hollywood sejourn--with her late husband Dennis Hutton--she was hardly

at the head ever att

thought at myself as an actress and tel everyune else thinks what they Bke of me."

pawnshop."

Miss Bors made a

a

When he was testing for role apposite Janette Scott, he was told that being a divorced further man

made him an unsuitable

admission, though not sig To my suggestion that selling that is worth £38,000: I For confessions

rather very gullible," she

WAN

kind

"boy friend" for Miss Scott her Brat romantle film.

in

"[

"That's worth anyone else who could be hurt somebody around me always to writer.

Buc-

But despite his present CC55. Forbes all suffers the humillations that are the lot of of scriptwriters, however highly pald.

Recently he wrote the screen- play of The Lion for producer Jimmy Woolf who later sold the ocript and the book on whileh it was based to 20th Century Fox for 400,000 dollars,

under-

He married at 24, after a brilliant scholastic career, Paule de Rivaud, daughter of

Count de famous banker, the Rivaud.

п

On his death the Count lett his entire fortune to his son-in- law. It was a wise choles be- cause under de Beaumont the de Rivaud group at banks has grown enormously in wealth and importance.

His wife Paule, a handsome woman in her late forties, is a considerable figure in the Paris literary and theatrical world.

Two houses

The de Beaumonts lead what might be described as adjacent rather than communal lives,

arrange

their

weekly, L'Express.

He has been that journal's most distinguished regulor con- tribular ever since its founda

tion.

His weekly commentary had the gleam of a flashing sword

about it.

The next day he went to his small village near Hordeaux through which the Googlly was to pses on his tour through Sauth- West France.

The General greeted him with the words: "Yeu ennoble man- kind and odd lustre to France."

LET'S TALK ENGLISH'

the

FTOW

goes it with 1 new United States Ambassador In Paris, General James Gavin, the first non-rich American bo sent ot ambassador

to

hard, who has to live entire- ly on his salary and meagre expense allowance?

He has got off to a good start with the French, sending glow- ing reports on de Gaulle back to Washington, and badly with the local American colony.

Incidentally he has had the de are honour of hearing Gaulle's English.

When de Gaulle received him, he listened to Gavin's halling French, then said gently, "Let's talk in Engil«l."

has For two years now he been fighting a brilliantly een- ducted guerrilla war inside L'Express exposing the hollow Pess of Left-Wing attack on de Gaulle's Algerian polidy. He ilmed his resignation perfectly. He waited until de Guille's last Press conference which made I clear that Algeria could have one of two kinds of indepen- The American colony' however dence: an independence équiva- are angry because so for there lent to. that of a British have been no receptions which dominion, or an Independenen American ambassadors which involved a total rupture marly give them. with France.

•

eurto-

This is not surprising, General Gavin is a poor man.

In the event of the latter France would withdraw s nationals, stop pouring out its The spectel Senate appropriä-

hol wealth in aid to Algeria,

flon which will finance him dur- repairiate to. Algeria the 400,000 Ing his stay in Parks hos not Algerim workers here.

Frenzy.

It was, thought Forbes, the written best script he had -the glory of a little girl's love for a lions a story with strange, But during the last year of FD cheap, she replied. "Listen, for always think everybody i

Rublic and Davage

They live in Iwo separate Ines. She was promoted as £30,000 I don't

drave the mind being sweet as sugar. I am still con- Forbes has progressed from cutrenir.

This statement back-to-back houses with a high "Britain' answer to

new wall Marilyn cheap. It was my story that I tinually shocked when I find out being on acceptable

When Forbes met the young

between them. They editor of L'Express into a frenzy Monroe," she was said to have

fioracter was relling and I didn't Involve they aren'

actor to being the producer of his film i America

meetings by of spluttering incaheretics. simmext

Contract

why I must have most sought-after British script he was told: "I guess we'll be telephone. £1,000,000, she was involved in "by it.

able to salvage come of your

He wrote: "I was ashamed. 1. 1 can be taken in "I suppose. It's frue that I've protect me. the swimming-pool "brawl," and

Needless to say Cary Grant paid him £30,000 script. But what we're gonn

an repent-I was chamed. se separates from her husband, often done things for the money, by anyone. The public, hau get to Wrlic а fim comedy; his do is opens it up a bit, introduce extremely happy marriage, as Gaudie will give independenco

much a warped, stronge Image of screenplay of The Angry Silence Her life was an open news but you mustn't forget that for

this Society broad in Paris who wild as the wall which separates to Algeria but he will libernie me... fortunately an you get long time I didn't have any,

won him n Fritid Academy goes to Africa,

and them. Bee... paper.

France on the day he goes." This Ihne very little wan "There were times when 1 elder, you get less ambitious," Award and a nomination for a heard of Diana Dors' Hollywood

For fairly and had

Hollywood Oscar, and he is now

obvious reOSONA | the adventures, presumably because trunkfuls of cuttings about

directing his first firm at Pine- Dryan Forbes, In addition to have any. But fabuleus Diana Dors and I ahe omitted

I HAVE NEWS OF A Wood.

being a writer, she has in fact ha

Ho lives in modest literally didn't know where my MODERN FILM VERSION OF

the country

director, tus now become next meal was coming from, OTHELLO TO BE MADE IN considerable splendour

own produc#T.

through suild success.

wor

famous very

in

In

a

Actor

it is

yet come through and la U- ilkoly to be even debated for unother three monthış,

Į

any

Meanwhile, wensibly énóùgh, Gavin is not undertaking costly functal commitments. ********sÈUAL

QUOTE;

'Jay

· Alanı “ Lerner (author of My Fair Lady): "The French are marvellous novelists, emayists and dramatists. But they were all away on to now an internationally famous He did not reply to the article vacation on the Riviera and beauty, whom Armstrong-Jones but simply announced that he the day postry was handed

his ce

model, the would not be writing again for used as

L'ENVE

—¿London Expzen. Bersteg),

They have a daughter, who is

*

Vicorntesse de Ribes.

It was too much for Mauriac.

out."

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