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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY:27,) 1961.

SHOW BUSINESS

YVONNE MITCHELL~AT THE PEAK OF HER CAREER-FINDS THE ANSWER TO THE BIG QUESTION EVERY STAR MUST FACE.........

When is the

time to

VVONNE MITCHELL is giving up acting. To-

day she is house-hunting in the South of France

looking for an isolated villa where she can get right away from the world of the stage and cinema. Her plan: To write books.

Miss Mitchell has made this decision at a time when she is at the peak of her acting career.

She won top honours at the Berlin festival and has just turned down offers of a Broadway play and a Hollywood film.

Her rensana? "I no longer need to stand on a stage and chout. I have decided thai thore are other things in the world than sitting in a fashionable dat earning a lot of money,

"I

an enormous decision.

But now it's made 1 don't feel un if I am sinking. I feel as it I am foaling on air."

Stardom

What makes on actress of 35, on the verge of International to stardom, middenly decide chance her future to this?

Miss Mitchell explained it like this: "I would feel terrible if I were going at a time when I was miserable and out of a job, That would seem like a defeat This is the time to go-an. when I feel happy, reasonably successful.

"Why no

Well, my at all?

husband and I have wondered if

much

more.

by JAMES THOMAS

Monsey) is a writer too, and we can work anywhere, but we shall be awfully lucky to turn our talents into a fortune.

"But I am happy to gomble this way. I shall be warm and content with my family."

Presidents trouble...

TR JACK L. WARN-

MR.

ER, President of

is

on

of

it's worth while spending so Warner Brothers,

money to earn a tle planning to cash in the publicity value another President, Mr John F. Kennedy, of the United States.

A fortune

The flat (just off Knights-

bridge) costs a fortune,. We need a secretary. If we go round the corner for Sunday lunch It's : Aver. There are the temptations of the theatre, a good dinner in a restaurant, the shop win- dows.

"But I cannot zee, any more, the point in working under enormous strain to earn enough money to pay for all the neces- sities which go with earning it. Although I really right part came along I would be tempted to take it."

Miss Mitchell sald: "The move is going to mean a big cut in our standard of living. My husband (author-critic Darek

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WAS

Prealdent Warner announces that a mammoth fim is to be made about the war-Ume ex- plalts of President Kennedy. It will be called "PT Boat 109" which was the crafi Lieutenant John F. Kennedy commanded in World War II.

be

He has not decided yet whether Amerien will scoured for an unknown actor to play the role.

Whatever the decision." said President Warner, "the player who is awarded the part cer- tainly will win one of the greatest motion picture roles of all time."

He can say that again.

HITLER INTO THE

THE ORIGINS OF THE by

SECOND WORLD WAR.

By A. J. P. Taylor. Hamish Hamilton, 25s.

hun. dreds, perhaps thou-

ALTHOUGH

concerned with its causes.

MILTON SHULMAN

+

quit?

Judy plays

it 'heavy' This is

JUDY GARLAND is back working again in

Hollywood-for the first time in six years.

pure

She is back in a dramatic part of a girl from a Thurber

It is very different

Nazi concentration camp. from anything she has ever done before. Just how different, see above.

ал

The im is "Judgment ut attempt to Naremberg." put over the story of the end of the Nuzl war criminals.

Judy Garland is a giri sent to a concentration camp on a false charge that she had an affair with a Jew.

Oxford. He will get his audition before the end of the month.

"Hands off"

For her, the days of the alm to Joan

usical-in Hollywood, at any Tale-ure over, I'm attracted by the solid dramatic:part.now," she sayemight consider a musical to be done in England,

much tinie."

which of the tf, be living for LIVING PLAN

in

She came to London last sum- mer and rented a house King's-rond, Chelsea. Now in Hollywood, she thinks back to England and says: "I'll probably

buy a house near London and take an apartment In New York. That is my plan of living now.

find I am temperamentally more suited to the climate in England.

In the few days I have been in Hollywood I've discovered that the climate here makes me lethargic."

DAVID DIMBLEBY, 22. year-old son of broadcaster Richard, has applied for a B.B.C. audition. He wants to be an interviewer.

David is reading for his finals in politics, philo- sophy, and economics at

PUSHED WAR?

slid

then did Britain go to war in

Time after time, Taylor con- tends Hitler had no concrete fen of where his diplomatic demands would take him.

His threats of wor were merely the bluffing of an astute politician.

"But this is where Taylor's

A LUN

OWEN, 33- year-old author of

slum

JAMES THURBER,

the

American humourist, is waiting in ► quiet hotal near St James's Palace, un- cortain whother, his Broad- way hit play "The Thurbor Carnival" li avor going to reach the West End,

He has been waiting since mid-Junuary when he, his wife Helen, and top American, pro- ducur Burgess Meredith flow in the Theatre Workshop hours of fruitless auditioning for Since then there have been 10 Liverpool

play a cast nothing else. And Thur

ber told me: Our play has got "Progress to the Park, off to a dead start.' which comes to the West has End next month, ordered producer Joan Littlewood: "Hands off."

He says:

"With her Ideas about actors Improvising their lines, she kills an Guthor's words."

The play will be directed by william Kotcheff, the Canadian. whose direction of Owen's tele- vision plays won them both TV

Occars.

The Owen-Kotcheff partner- ship is also being extended into making feature" alma. Owen: "We get on because we

Say are not friends. We shout and rave at each other-it is a strict business relationship.

"Kotcheff protects my lines from the actors. If they change a word, he yells: So we are all writers now I like that."

Complained

He complained: am the only member of the Broadway company to come over here the others wanted too much money. Now they say it just can't be cast in London.

Car- "We thought of Ian michael, but the idea seems to have dwindled

Tony away. Hancock turned us down-saya he's too busy."

Thurber is anxious about get- impatient to let the West End ting "Camival" on in London see

his new-found enthusiasm for acting. Why, at 00, should he venture into the uneasy world of acting? He said: "They told me not to do it. Begged me not to do it. They said I would get caught up before I

This girl was bound

to be a rebel

ARE YOU HUNGRY, ARE papa actually realize he has

YOU COLD? By Ludwig Bemelmans. Deutsch. 15%.

enduren.

Not only that, they must be disciplined with mart-

inet vigour,

falis to bring them to heel the

THIS is the anatomy of They are beaten, subjected to an unhappy child-riding lessons, and when all this sands, of books have British and French politicians.

Alternatively, he gest analysis falls short. No histerian hood: a common enough, little girl, the narrator of the been written about the Hitler d want a war, he can explain The actions of a

would subject for novelists. But story, is sent to a succession of

convents, only to, rebel again.. last war, very few have not expect cne until 1943. Why madman; a psychiatrist

Bemelmans do it much better. Throughout Ludwig like Vanzin the boot there is the inmilcu brings to it, beneath the themselves 1930 over a catise

in which they did not belleve? on that if things had been done

have wit and petit-point ele With persuasive logic, Taylor differently there might A.J.P. Taylor, in his fascinat-

traves Hitler's rise to power been no war. ing and controversial book 10

If the French had resisted in gance of style, the gift of prove that Hitler never

the Rhineland, if Russia had understanding. shrewdly analyses this literary wanted anything more than the phenomcon.

destruction of the Verzallies been brought In over Czecho-

So he evokes the Germany Treaty and the emergence of slovakin, if the British had not

Germany

dominant delayed so long in their negotia-continuous Dympathy:

achievement. tions over Poland in 1939. European power.

After the last war. had ceased to be a great Power. Russia had taken her place.

"Mon wanted to know about the mistakes that had been made in dealing with Goylet Russia during the war," writes Taylor, "not about those made in deal ing with Germany before it started."

GUILTY, WEAK

DA

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The British, claima Taylor, always felt guilty about Ver- sailles and were only too eager to Grant German claims, and the French were po weak to act.

Thús Hiller's diplomatic vic- torles take on a new interpreta- tion, Schuschnigg provoked the Austrian crisis, not Hitler; the British created the Czech crisia; Munich was a British triumph.

the WA itself might

A NEUROTIC

But would a set-back in any of These places have finished Hitler? Probably not, He was 100 slippery and neurotic a customer for easy defeats and there were too many people in

1

reader's

Forc.

Ogre A Papa is a remote French colonel who divides his time between the parade-ground, ¦ playing with live soldiers, and an underground room where he re-enacts the battle of Waterloo with tin troops.

book. She leads a spectacular This is Ure pattern of the crusade against authority set-

the dismissal of a priest by pro- voking him from her window, mide.

fire to the convent, securing

A PROMOTION

When she returns to her family authority in despair, papa has been promoted to General In charge of a garrison in occupied Germany.

He is still remote. She is still recalcitrant. Childhood be-

terms, Sho emerges a tough- minded, independent girl from this unpromising chrysalis, and much is Mr Bemelman's bri- Hance on Individual to admire as much as the novel itself.

Europe who wanted people in REMOTE FIGURE comes adolescence on the same

power.

Shuffling his facta with the speed and dexterity of a pre-Even

Supping on tiny victories in- fcasional card player, it is never have been fought if Hitler creased his appetite ant Taylor Taylor's object to make good had suggested a meeting with a does not explain why Hitter this arid. gap in historical Polish plenipotenilary 24 hours attacked Russia in June, 1041, when root of his ambitions. — being a great European power and a smashed Vermilles Tresty had more than been achived.

London Express Service). "

research.

carlier.

Hitler, According to Taylor, But the novelty and ingenuity never really wanted a major of those arguncivis neglecia one war and was only pushed Into it - essential fact-the character of by to guilt and feurs of itler kimocif.

even

Mama is a shadowy, more remote Agute. Neither bothers with their offspring, á kmall boy and a girl.

They spend their time, most- ly, picking up a rich vocabulary from Papa's soldiers -until-ġ trifling misdemeanour malcos

JACK WATERMAN

-(London Express Service),"

knew it, that I'd lose my wife and stop writing and all that

Dangerous

"But a man who stops work very often dies. When I found myself lying down in the after- noons, going to bed early, get- ting up late, 1 told myself enep out of it. It is a dangerouz thing to sleep loo much it can easily take on permanency.

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"So I learned my lines and pushed myself on to Broadway, and the new stimulation came. At 80 you need now stimulation. And whatever they said, It is a fact that since I started to act 1 have been writing more than over."

Today he is working on three books and two plays, "still writ ing with peneli and paper in his blind world."

London Express Service.

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