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IT'S THAT GIRL AGAIN

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1961.

LEONARD MOSLEY ★★★★★★★★

-she's a

this girl

girl-

There's no mistaking that urchin look, that "thatch" hair- style's Mlsa Shirley MacLalue, Hollywood's Personality Pius girl. Shirley has popped up again in the film All In A Night's Work, the story of what can happen when an office giri takes a holiday in Palm Beach. Improbable as the plot is. Shirley brings every unlikely situation compellingly to

life.

It is MacLaine at her delicious best.

THERE is a dead man

in the bed with smile on his face, and a girl wearing nothing but a bath-towel tearing out of his bedroom.

The place in a luxury hotel ins Miami Beach, The time is 2 am. The girl is young and pretty, if rathor· dishevelled. The dead man is old, but also a millionaire.

What is a conscientious house detective to think except the wort?

This is the base situation of a comedy called ALL IN A NIGHT'S WORK and the pros- pect of having to sit through 94 minutes of furtive jokes about old men and young giris, death and sex, made me feel positively limp. I had forgotten about the genius of Shirley MacLaine,

The best

great

comic

genius!

Danny Kaye. and Cantidas It is a situation which could included."

be cleared up by one straighi to one straight query, She takes the abyanal bad answer

but Shirley MacLaine and Dean taste of this Alm and corries it on her

Martin, as the heir assigned to shapely shoulders to comte heights, sometimes with and out her intentions, bat it o table- an unerringly brilliant touch, back and forth

ball and it has the like of which we have not tennis

bounce. and effer. scen on the screen since spring.

vescence OVOTY

moment of the way.

Chaplin.

She wears hair which looks I now no longer have any as if it had been cut with doubts about this delectable a pair of garden shears. Her young woman, She is definiicly and Indubitably the most super- appearance is a cross between a clothes-peg and A bleached latively sensitive, sparkling and golliwog. Her voice sounds like inteligent comedian in the

un ampilfed mouse-squeak. world today, on stage or screen.

I do not mean the best woman comedian ether. mean the best of either sex. She tops them all, Peter Sellers, SALTANATAL BRENDNET

Roderick Manni

QUIET MR TRACY FINDS NO

H&

Berlin.

[E doesn't often talk, but now he was talking, sitting in one corner of the hotel room, his leonine head down and to the side, like a wary old prize-fighter. The gifted Mr Spencer Tracy.

Tracy's is a magnificent face; a furrowed, used face. A man's Jave should be a map of all his life's journeys; the fruitful ons, The unhappy ones. And the dead ends too. Tracy's is such

face.

He was sitting, high up in his Berlin hotel, drinking coffee. He was wearing a blue shirt, a too-tight blue cardigan, grey slacks

block

shoes. He was here for the final scenes et Stanley Kramer's new film Judgment at Nurembero. And he was in relaxed, contempla tive mood.

"I don't often talk about my- self" he said. "During all the 21 years I was at Metro 1 don't think I ever gave en laterview.

He smiled

I

and

"After I'd left the eludio met some newspaper men We got to talking.

"One

thun of

"We heard you were a real son-of-a- bitch," 'Oh,' I said. "That's

said:

only about 98 per cent true',".

He watched my face carefully us he said this, and emiled

1 smiled.

as

"This is a fine Alm," he con- tinued. "And there are a lot of good peuple in it; Dietrich, Garland, Lancaster, Widmark, Montgomery Clin

Many play- fug small parts, because parts are good.

the

"Clift wanted to do his parl so much he worked for nothing. Just expenses. Though by the time they were through paying his expenses I think they wisited he'd been on salary inglead.

"Larry Olivier was geing to be in too, but he changed bla mind. I've always wanted to act with Larry; éach time I've been unlucky,

"Three years ago when he

and Vivien (Leigh) were about

HAPPINESS

IN MEMORIES

ary They chuckled to himself.

said, inclining his head toward! a paper, "Was he really actor. they say, or just a per- sonality?"

been

"I never watch my old movies Inder the Wind should have on TV," he said. "Or any old

a bigger success," he movies,

to CCIDE

that, Too "What a bore those argu- said. "I thought it was a fine many of my friends are dead, ments have become. I thought Alm. And Fredric March 15 ⇓ I don't want to be reminded.

Though the son- Cooper was great. 1 Hardly real actor.

knew hn, but I always admired of-a-bitch was always cracking bim. What could he have done nuts or belching during my best better

a fim ilke High lines. in Noon? Played it with a broken arm or on accent?

"Cooper

Tired

used

Tasty

who does not admire her, or a

I still do not imow a womanı|

man who does not think she Tavishingly attractive. She left a delightful taste on my palate long afle; this film

was over.

Consider her achievement. She plays the part of a giri research worker in a magazine empire in New York, who goes to Miami for a holiday. One night a drunken tycoon tries to muke:

pass al her and falls into a swimming pool Instead,

Shirley rescues him and carries his unconscious body up to his room. While sho is taking a shower the tycoon re- covers, and an amorous chase around the bedposts, begins

towel Shirley clad only In a which seems very small for such a big hotel.

over in the

To escape the wolf's clutches "How can I watch an old she anally climbs a balustrade Humphrey Bogart Alm. Bogie into the next bedroom, knock- was a friend of mine: I saw a ing a few lamps Jot of him before

he died; I darkness. "Sul-a happy anile can't watch him now. I switch

his face the set off. splintered across pulled a few tricks on him too.”

He looked across quizzically, his head slightly to one side.

me

An "You know something? to be very

'As proud because John Barrymore American magazine wrote: once sakl of him: "He

never

Jess Tracy gets older he acts

makes a wrong move

the and less." On The truth

"Well, years ago, when I first is Cooper screen." hardly ever made any move. He began, my mentor, George M. didn't have to: he was so good. Cohun, sald, Tracy-act less."

Maybe I'm "Discussions about

getling somewhere acting Tracy bore me,"

continued ut lart, "When I was aneking Inherit the Wind there was a young actre

called Donne in the picture Andersin.

"After a few days sho said to me: "This is such an odd film, You and Fredrin March Just corne on and do it. You never discuss the parts, or anything. In my last film, On the Beach, Gregory Peck He finished his coffee and put would discuss the motivation the cup carefully down on the of the character for houra" skie table.

"I remember Garson Kanin, the playwright, once asking n what I thought was the most Important thing about acting. 'Learning the blasted lines," said.

I

"Another time someone asked me what was the first thing locked for in a script. 'Days off"

I said,

Tricks

Horror

Then she realises that there is someone in bed in the room, recumbent She peers at the

"In Ifollywood, when you're Ögure. To her horror she sees dead you're very dead. Bome- that it is her boss, the million-

aire times you're even dead before

owner of the magazine you're dead. They're always empire, ready to give you a boost on the way.

A Like that special

further peek and

She Academy

secs, to her even greater horror, Award for Gary Cooper. Until they did that that her boss is dead. nobody even knew he was lil.

Why couldn't they have left him alone?"

now; not on me.

She

the scampers out of room just as the house detective He looks at the

Hayes were on his shoes comes into it.

A tired smile bed. He looks at the girl, He washed across his face and then puts one and one together and odds them up to: a Very went, like a winter sca running scandalous twosome, back from the sand.

"Bogle,

Gable

ΠΟΥ Question: Will Shirley black- Cooper. All my contemporaries mail the heirs to the magazine orc going," be said. "Who empire by threatening to tay knows? Maybe 1 be my bare the circumstances in which the late lamented owner died?

turn to bat next,"

M. Boulle digs deep into

the mind of a coward

to make Separate Tabtes in FOR A NOBLE CAUSE. Plorre Hollywood for Hecht-Hill- Boullo. Socker and War. Lancaster, Larry asked me 10 burg, 13s. 6d.

be in the picture.

**Won't Burt Lancaster want

the part?' I alues. No, La PIERRE BOULLE, the versatile and witty,

Bald. 'He's agreed that you do

*

-by

HAROLD HARRIS

Inevitably when he becomes an who had in fact gallantly with- panions but to preserve ngeni in Occupied France, there stood all the Gestage's tortuner netion of his own courage. is a sharp, disastrous clash be- and died a brutal death. tween the world of reality and the world of his dreama

the

Only when, at the climax of If M Boulle had a heart to The his carefully contrived persecu match his intelligence, what a Gestapa only have to show him tion by Morvan's relations the superb novel he would write. As a red-hot poker for him to be truth is at last about to emerge, it is, no one who starts reading tray all his companions. 1. We had a purte to cele-novelist who wrote The

doen Cousin rise to the heights Xan Fielding's admirably taut brate, and then

Cousin escapes to England and of physical endurance and oven translation of this cruel, almost the Oliviers

Bridge on the River persuades hin organisation (and, to a kind of twisted heroism, sinister anatomy of cowardice few home.

Kwai, is a sadistic above all, himself) that the real The irony of it is that he will be able to put it aside un-

Anishod, trailer was his arsistant, Morvan does so, not to protect his com- author. For him, his characters are victims,

Boring

When they arrived call He likes to show them WOMEN'S BOOKSHELF...by Trevor Allen

was waiting from Hollywood, under stress, and excels Loncaster fnd decided Ho

KYLA Kyra Fetravskaya, to undergo mental boopital count of health, she now writes

at devising situations Jarrolds, 216. Life is Invish to treatment. She dramatises her simply, devoutly of her cloister

wanted the role. 'Either Traty does it or you can't have which push them re- Larry sald.

But Lancrater was dour morselessly over the pre- mined, Latty rang me that cipice of physical and nights 'Well, old cock, hold mental endurance. 'we've all been fired' I mald: "That'll teach you to nak fur

me',"

no women. This Garboesque dementia with Dorolevakian retreat.

actress, daughter of a fervour. λ shattering *- Leningrad neten ere (1) n pariense for the sender as well THE MINISTER'S WIFE.

role musician. (2) her teatro ne herself.

Апд Gardiner, Faber. 159,

from director, (3) a footballer, (4) HEAVEN BY THE

town to remoto HEMA. Frah Д UB. diplomat. Audacious

Highland village, she had to "Jonnas Biobardeon, Hatchloser.

15. It is not clear why thus litte-tattle, and other troubles, MY FIGHT FOR SANITY, Young Paris dancer of Russian Tala tale is a homeapun--and good Scotch Hinnaw novel is about.a. Judith Krujer, flammend. 189, snemiry found Ufe so emply, Warning - ** French willer called Couain, a After her first baby Mrs Kruger but it drove her to become eod. Women's institutes will i've just boens reading a coward who, bus day-dreams of felt de WIE "going dead" postulant in ■ Tropplatine con endorse it as sixthentic.

inside, wanted to die, and bad vent. Finally rejected on, ac- ploce about Gary Cooper," he being a hero,-

He lumbered' to his feet and went over to the coffee.pot on the sideboard mid. freshened his

reading for all who like livesMarina de Berg. Translated by copa with dour kirk ellers, local Day-dreams (and loves) with the lid off.

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