1961-06-30 — Page 1

Thomas

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1961.

Wiseman's

The tough core at the heart of sweet Miss Nuyen

ISS FRANCE NUYEN said that she hardly

MISS

Miss Nuyen can be very vehe.

ment when she tries, and she

ever ate anything, which was why it was so was being very vehement. important to eat in a congenial atmosphere.

She surveyed the drear of the restaurant und dreided it would

do. She would just have

ely chopped vegetables. Nu-

thing else.

was the it when't?

On second thoughts, caviare very aty! She'd have some of that, then with the chopped vegetables.

It was

The

proders

ste

worked with who were dimenit; at them weren't in fact, som

belogs, and ana even amon thing is always upisted on in 1 producere had to he

in wing.

Mirs Nuyen, you may recall, And some freali orange juięc. But freshly squeezed there and was the girl who did not appear

Suzie Wong When she did not what to drink The World of

weeks of shooting old orange jure that has been after some

she was reported to have been ryneezed til an hour ago.

And with the caviare, only the token and was subuently chopped white of eg, not the replaced by Miss Nancy Kwat And what was the steek she chill appear in South Pacile, prull sartare like? She'd have pone and she is now here to appear of that, too. And strawberrier to in a new fim, The Devil Never Sleeps, opposite William Hok- fallows,

en, who, she feels, is deßnitely

human being.

And, oh yes, did they have this marvellous wine? She'd written the name of it down because it was the best wine, and she only drank the best wine.

Not difficult

tie

While

Rentleman from 2015 Century-Fox, who was Taking us to lunch, pre bts or dur. Miss Nuyed mured that there was no mth whatso- ever in the rumour that she was u difficult girl to get along with

Quite the contray.

Miss Nayen is a formidable as well s a beautiful young women who at the age of 21 is now in the position of making her come back in pictorrs,

"After all that trouble with Suck Wolig," she said. "I wn

lonk out of work for quite a time, Peuple thought I was some kind at a monster and thes did not want to employ m

mis-

"But I am not a muster. I just happen to have enormous integrity and I make the take of thinking that everybody else is ke u, too. They are aut."

Arrested-the man who

introduced me to nulfudge malted milk

By JOHN

MONKS

ON de card he handed me at San Francisco

Her enemies

"Those people," she said, dh- dainfully jumping

together ali bint

refusing 10 her enemica irieniify them, "those people can unly be dealt with if you trem them the stupid and ignorant people that they are. People who

R rope in han always carry people they hang themselves Tuch wond."

Miss Nayem is a young wONIAN whe sweetness of detreantAr is sometimes belled by what on night call the sophistication of

her utteraners.

1 pointed Dis out Wher

was her, she retorted that she more naive than she sometimes seemed. But she had learned lot in the last couple of years: in fact, she felt that she had

about lumia fearned so much nature that she felt 4,000 years said.

this Miss Nuyen offered me insight into her character.

"Other 11 actresses," she said, "live the sort of lives that will interest the public. 1 live the sort of life that will interest me. I do NOT live my life to make a career."

Olivia and that Oscar

story

PAID a call the other day on Miss Olivia de

who Hovilland

i> moking The Light in

now

the

пог

LIMELIGHT

·FRANCE NUYEN

Pletura by MICHAEL WARD

'People thought i was some kind of monster and did not want to employ me'

"Joan sat that one out, she change didn't apologise, and I didn't Maybe talk to her. But when that good." marriage ended there seemed no reason why I should sun talk to her.

nat

"One could hardly go on be- ing offended on behalf of a

Piazza at Elstroo Studios: husband one had divorced." Miss do Havilland is merely a

most attractiva woman and an accomplish- ed actress, sho is also

a

I asked her what she thought

port was printed, "Irvin C. Scarbeck-Uparson of considerablo wit. State Department," but the smiling American of a recently published story in which her sister, Joan Fontaine, as saying that the with the soft Bronx accent said: "Just call me was quoted

reason for their estrangement 'Doc'

was because they had both been up for an Osear the same year and Miss Fontaine had got it. Miss de Havilland assured me that the Oscar had not come between them.

The cladidly "Doc" Searbeek, the diplomat WIN FETing

charged His

|

that

Priests are box-office

first

per nuns

MR LEO McCAREY was

the probably Hollywood director to ceive that priests and could be box-office.

He cast Bing Crosby as priest In The Bells of St Mary and Going My Way, but drew the line when Bob Hope said he, too, wanted to put on ♫ cassock and dog-collar,

"Most Hollywood arturs," said Mr McCarey, 11seem

to have "But the real story behind this desire to play a priest. our quarrel was quite different. Bogart did and so did Frank Joan made a very witty remark, Sinatra, Willium Holden is go. which I have fortunately for ing to play one in my new Blm. gotten, about a man I was "Bing told me that one time married to then, and it got Into he was actually seriously think- the papers, I sold I wouldn't ing of being a priest instead of

What speak to her until she apologised, an autor.

cilation read: "For for Communist meritorious service, loyalty and Pet explained that he was devotion to duty.. Here at the airport just}

That was how Irvin C. Scar- "I didn't deserve Her dawn to give me

beek stood with his country be- ext in-down on the Ameri- fore he was arrested and hand- at wag of life,"

cuffed by G-men hi a Washing- lon street after being ordered to return from his post as seentul secretary at the US Embassy in Warsaw.

mat was on May 10, 1950 and after stepping off the reret from Honolulu, I was being given the VI.P. rush- through bugKENS check by the man from the State Department

#Have a drink?" said Doe. So atier my all-night flight, and before breaklost, he had ordered Two of the usual”--twa nut- fudge malted milks.

tane

I

have these every come to the airport," Doe tokl me, and that, he explained, was almust daily, as he welcomed foreign VIPs, students, une State Department guests,

Through San Francisco every year pass hundreds of foreigners seeing the U.S. at State Depart ment expense.

Every week dozens of students from Asia fly in to the West Coast and, during his two years in San Francisco, keen, hard- working Doe tried to meet them all. That morning in the air- port parking lot Doc Scarbeck showed me his proudest posses- slon- long, black Cadillac he had bought the night before.

"Would you like to have a drive-it's a dream," he said.

After my first nut-fudge malted milk, and my first drive of a Cadilac, Doc Scarbeck drove me round the California- style,ranch-houses that surround San Francisco and said: "This is the most beautiful city in the world. I'm from New York, but there is no other city like this," For the next four months I saw a good deal of Doe Sear- beek, visited hlm and his German-born wife Karen ot their nent comfortable homo not far from the airport, and met them at embassy parties.

The Scorbecks were tho friends of Exo Francisco's top people. Doc's whole time was Cont In arranging for foreigners to be Takün Into typical U.S. homes, entertained, driven on alghilsceing tourd.

Then, in June 1939 Doc was awarded

Department decoration.

*

Stete

And around the world many friends of America will remem- ber Dec, and their Arst mul- fudge malted milt.

---(London Express Service),

gear," she said, "ant Joan did. Actually we both thought that Barbara Stanwyck: ought to have got it.

ĮvÍCKY'S SILLY SEASON – No2

-

AN ENORMOUS SEA MONSTER, THE CUNARDER“. LONG BELIEVED TO BE EXTINCT, HAS BEEN SEEN

IN MID-ATLANTIC.

made

him

his mind? I dunno. the money

wasn't as

Rattigan- a new play

MERENCE RATTIGAN has

been telling me about a play he is writing for television. It will exploit the medium in a rather in- genious way. The story

concerns a Prime Minister with a past, and the action of the play covers the period before and during a sort of Face to Face TV interview with him.

Rattigan,

"In this way,” sald "one can exploit all the televi sion paraphernalia, and also one can end up with something that is heaven-sent to a dramintist: a 20-minute

duel between the two principal characters, which would take place in the course of the television interview."

Mr Rattigan, whose Left wing views receive scant pubiicity, ance promised to write a seath- ing play about a Tory politician. This play may well be it.

-(London Express Service),

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SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF MAN'S CRUELTY TO MAN

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110 11°

UPROAR AT A MEETING OF THE SPMCM AS A DELEGATE DECLARES THAT

DR.BEECHING ASKS FOR A SALARY RISE TO MEET MAN LOVES BEING HUNTED.

HIS INCREASED TRAVELLING COSTĂ.

London Extrast BACTIES,

SHE

The price of having a stranger in the family

HE was 17, and French, and frightened. She came off the train at Victoria with a suitcase full of home-sewn clothes and a letter full of promises, and stood around, waiting for a wel

come.

This was an au pair girl, one of the thousands now coming into Britain in the summer rush, all with their necessary letters of invitation from British families, their au pair "passports." An au pair girl-not a domestic servant.

The French gid held ber letter opened for people in see, Brid searched faces. A man and WOARH came irritably along, red-faced with too much drink

or too much anger.

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girl who speaks hardly any English to live with them in u tiny house, then get przzzled when tensions arise." novelty goes. Home with

The tensions come when the

stranger is home of a different scrt, All

house sbout the

foreign eyes waleh, foreign cars listen,

outing the girl must go tes; with her irritating English. When she gets moody, as she is bound to sometimes, the upset may be huge because the farmily blames

And jealousies may arise the girl is attractive to husbands, or thinks she is,

When the family goes for an

By MERRICK itself, rengly.

the deliberately

The woman looked はし letter and said, spikily, "What one-third are

are you hanging about here for? We've been waiting down

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overworked

not treated

well as they should be."

What goes wrong?

and

The

1

Sometimes there are less ob- vious Jealousies, going deeper.

Another doctor, who has a Swiss au pair girl, told me: "I've been surprised to find my wife getting jealous because she is getting too uch of the children's affection. surprising the

there." The girl didn't answer, trouble often starts in the rat feels the pr she couldn't speak English. Bu moment of delighted inspiration

she looked frightened.

Exploited

The man

"Let's

"Even more

when the British family, ted up with

humping Its own coal air gets Jealous if I praise my wife's cooking more than hers, buckets, says:

il Let

or if I buy something for my foreign girl."

daughters and not her." This family may be kindly and

Licia Landi, 19. lived in misery considerate. But it may be un- whh a family for five months. gaid to me. for aware of the ou pair code which she sometne to talk to: "She's the although unofficial is approved actually working, from 7.45 am Wis "en call," it not ninth we've had this year. It's by the Ilome

Ofee und In ill & pm. cost the 50 quid in agents' fees, effect sayYN:—

She told me: "They were nice None of them is any good."

The au pair girl is a daughter people and I wanted to please They went off, with the girl of the house, not a mald

them. But gradually they asked behind, heeled over by her servant, or even a baby-sitter. me to do more and more heavy suitcase,

Innocent When guests co:ne, she joins I really felt I was a servant." abroad already feeling guilty. them; she does not wall at

She will miserable.

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think, be

very table.

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But she won't be alone, if the treatment of nu pair girls Britain is as unsatisfactory the National Council of Women 9ay it

com-

0.5

The council hus bern plaining that some girls exploited, cheaply treated servants, and now it plons with other women's organisailons to protest

to the Ministry of Labour.

A Swiss welfare

London told me:-

agency

in

"Fewer Swiss girls are

001-

ing to Britain this year. They've been scared off by reports in the Swiss papers about the way the girls are treated."

MIN

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She must not work for more

than four to five hours a day, then light work only. She must not be asked to do anything "you would not like your own daughter to be asked to do a strange family.

When this is understood, system works.

Money

unti

And Ike Ackermann, 19, who by goes back to Stuttgart soon, tald me: "One fondly I went to ex- the pected me to work from seven

in the morning until seven at be night and eat my meals in a cate when Rosi next door."

Girls must be over 15, almost Miegi, 20, returns soon to her home in the Black Forest after all are over 17. They et pocket n year with

money, average 30s, a week. a doctor's family They can stay in Britain a year, at Stanmore, Middlesex.

There will, for instance, sadness all round

Jealousy

longer renewed.

il they get

permits

How do you get an au pair girl? You can go to an agency where you may be told as I was told: "We've 80 families waiting and only 20 girls." The demand Is great.

Elizabeth Goddard, Rosi told me: "Every au pair secretary of the International girl is miserable for the Arst Catholic Girls Society, who month. But for 11 months I

But the more Important ques- knows as much about the prob have been happy."

tion is: how do you keep an "No- lom as anyone, told me

And the doctor said: "I'm au pair girl once you have her? body knows even how many surprised the au pair system First you have to tell yourselt au pair girls come every year, works as well as it does.

that the charges Estimates

exploitation vary between 20,000 "Ask the average British made against Brita abroad are and 40,000.

family to put up their best very much exaggerated. "And I'd any from my friend for a year and they'd experience that 10 per cent are think you mad. Yet they invite

CULTURE?

Then you have to prove it.

-London Express Burvice).

DAME MARGOT PREFERS BATHING

Leningrad.

THE stage lighting By Noel

went wrong at the rehearsal causing Fre- derick Ashton, the ballet choreographer, some worrying moments.

Young ballet dancers from Dritain's Royal Ballet button- holed me for news of the Test match (they have been without newspapers since they arrived two weeks ago).

Margot Fonteyn was trying to beat the humidity by organising a swimming party: "Can't wo cut the culture and dive into tho Gulf of Finland?" she said.

Arul that a what life is lice at the start of the dancers" Russian tour their first.

The choice

They are staying in the city's biggest hotel alid Anding that it is difficult to pass the time aller the offeint sight. seeing tour and the rehearsals are over.

the

band

We dance a sedate foxtrot on the dance floor - actually a

narrow corridor between tabics....The six-piece plays in a polite 1930-ish style; I am fumble-footed but Dame Margot covers on my mistakes gracefully.

"It's just like the ten dances f no adored when I was 12 years old in Shanghai," she says.

“But I'm glad there is a res hearsal to help pass this evening. What else does ane do?"

What indeed? For the con- pany it 13 chotee batween exploring the city, lit by tho summer "white nights when

•

Goodwin

ruch a

ing on where we are going. But there are no maps,

Пussians I have talked to sur- gest that the Royal Ballet will prove a ble'nuccess at the open- ing tomorrow night. After seei ing the rehearsal of "Onding" today they found the musle strange but interesting." thứ it never gets really dark.

or dancing Impresalve, and the drinking vodka Brid Russian

soene design very beautiful. beer at pricus their allowance "It [9 good to see cannot stand.

Saya dancer

poting company," said one, and David Date: I've never

admired another

particularly walked so much the way "all the music is used before. If only we could get a Un In the choreography" w map to know what we are see-

never meaning that it was merely background music.

Dame Ninette de Valols her- self puts Fonteyn und the other

· principal girls through a praos fice class in the rehearsal room at the

theatre, top of

1ts eloping floor exactly matching the rake of the stage.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

Sthorpe, something selle

ma that youčer reičio ene

"How I wish we had a studio like this at Covent Garden," says the Royal Ballet's alroctor. "It would make the rehearsal problem much easier."

Dousing

One afternoon excursion taicos the dancers to a park wherio

trick

fountains drench the

unsuspecting stroller.

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spurt from innocent looking Hugstores or from behind a park seat.

All good clean fun, Ruston style.

Many of the dancers take a dousing. And Fonteyn, in # the Dior summer suit, shouts scene with a cine-camera,

Dufanis one girl dances: "We would have ihich prek ferred to cut the fountains erud get in the chance of a swim.”

-London, "Zaprzez Service),