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THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1961.

Patricia

THERES NO LEWIS LIKE PAT LEWISE

Lewis

Actor Hamilton is

one-up on success

HE'S RICH

BUT

READY TO

COMPROMISE

THE

THE solid front door was opened by a grey. faced, skeletal gentleman's gentleman who acknowledged my presence with a barely- perceptible blink.

"Mr Hamilton?”

The head inclined a fraction forward,

"You are expected," he said gravely.

With an imperious "Follow me!" he turned about to take me to his leader,

Immaculate

The lodyah from the-ah -Press, sl he announced inte U TOG!! and retreated silently down the corridor.

George Stevens Hamilton-'I'm boset with insecurities'

I walked in. A young man, Immaculate in a cream suit

white shirt,

was und searing scated next to an arrangeinent of roses and curnations, When he stood up I saw that he was

P

very tall, rather alender and ago, turned his back on an easy

his luck in Holly life to try arrogantly good-looking.

Goerge wood,

This, then, was Stevens Hamilton. the cultivated, 21-year-old product of a wealthy Florida family who, three years

Cool customers on

the beaches of Dunkirk

by George Malcolm Thomson

THE SANDS OF DUNKIRK. By Richard Collier. Collins.

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JOWEVER you look at it, Dunkirk is not the most resplendent page in Britain's military history, although it showed that the national genius for improvisation was as fertile as ever.

The army that got away had been beaten in battle by better weapons, training and strategy.

It was not demoralised, far froin

it. But it was little shame.... the rescue operation. facext.

COOL RECEPTION

for

RICHARD COLLIER

More than military history.

Now he's finishing his eighth nim "The Light in the Plazza" with Rossano Brazz-at Elstree, after location-work in Italy, and is spoken of as one of the most exelting, Instinctive young actors to emerge in recent years.

My first impression pure pomposity

was of

Onc mustrit let

a valet intimidate one," he said, lighting my cigarette. "They can end up embarrassing you, I'm going write a book on How to Handle a Valet,' It's all a ques- Won of one-upmanship, you know....

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I sat quite still as Mr Hamil- Lon to me how he loved the and found nothing more sun sthnuinting than Д humid climate....and 'how you have

I

to compromiso in order to be a personality

clothes.

вческая.

"How was

that again?" I about com8-

asited, "That-bit promise!"

"Well, I mean people who don't compromiss will never get to be wealthy. Painter pre sometimes forced to sell things they've painted for themselves and then it's the-art dealers and collectors, the people with no creative ability, who make the money, whereas if the artist had compromlad. In the Arst place....

Taxes

"But you're rich already. How can compromise affect you?" "

"เ

"It just docs, You can't have money these days anyway - how can you. with taxes the way they are? So you have to compromise to live in the style you want. That's what's happen- ing to young actors in the movie business today. It's a marvellous time for us now with the greatest chances in the world.

"But it's going to be a long race. If you have to compromise by accepting bad parts because you need the money, you'll never last long enough to get to the really big stutt. But if you can afford to wait, if you can afford to turn down the bad parts, if you have the staying-power .... well . . ."

A slim, black-haired woman of classic beauty cama into the Mr Hamliton jumped to

TOOM. his feet.

"I'd like you to meet my he kald, "And then mother," I'm going to change into some- thing more comfortable."

along with

"Right, let's have lunch and then let's go find the sun," ho cold.

And all through the meal he gave us witty and wickedly Inipersonations of accurato

("I can do filve Southerners

aceants"), diffrent Southern Negro women who find them- elve on a Freedom bus by Italians, Germans, mistike, English debs, and Method actors,

Drinks

Later, as we sat in the an with a long-playing Sinatra on the machine and long iced sirinks at our elbows, Mr Hamilton throw aside his play boy attributes-hs drinks, rides, water-sals, and dances Latin- Amerlenn with, the best - to analyse his renellous to show- business.

you do

"I'm beat with all sorts of "There's insecurities," he said. no career I could have chosell that's more wrenching emotion- ally than this. After all, who is there to judge what really? The studio? Not in the long riri. The director? lle can be wrong. Oneselt? You can be wrong too. The pubile? te proven that just because doesn't they like something it

have to be good.

"Also it's a terribly feminino an actor. It must, job being necessarily, bring out the most feminine side of a man, and if a man is à real man this can just kill you as a person,”

Silence

He swilled his gin and tonic for long in allence

minutes.

you know, the most important

has just been divorced from her Anne Stevens Spaulding-she fourth husband has tire sons: Bill, 29, from her first thing for a person to do today world in some then marriage,

and is to help the George David, who is 20 from her way. And there are two things

second,

a young man should endeavour to do: one is in the field of atole research, and the other Is In diplomatic relations. want to be a diplomat--and I will"

I asked her how she felt about her son's movie career. She smiled. "All of us in the family to do what he's have wanted doing-but he's the only one ability to follow who had the through. Actually, my eldest son HARRIET LEE, Hollywood's is the best-looking but he doesn't top vocal coach-she work-

of George and ed an have the drive

48-year-old Eleonor

accent,

.

he has a tremendous Southern Powell's sensational cabaret comeback after a 15-your She broke off as George re retirement turned in an open-neck shirt, voice can be improved -

says: "Any sweater and moccasins. He seemed to have changed his but not necessarily cured.”

At the 38th

try,

Miss Lindfors finds

SAW-no, I experienced

Using a familiar technique, he fastens on one or two persons invelved in the huge calamity of recently.

Dunkirk-a soldier who insisted bringing his young French ห

so on,

a

a poem of a picture

a film

to fit

the at

while I was waiting around a woman walked past who seem- cd exactly right.

"1 didn't recognise her, so I asked hor

She

Bold, I told her what I was trying to do, She sald become enthusiastic and she'd take the job.

name. "Viveen Lindfors."

"She's always been a top actress, you know, but I think Venice Flim it was the file extra realis

in this thing that brought out the greatness in her."

Say's Viveca: "It was whth I started

working with "Strasberg and his Actors' Studio that I suddenly found I was really acting agak

It is called "Weddings

and to England, wite

tadly Bables" and, as

John with wounded soldier who was left Cassavetes Shadows, it cap- behind, bargo skipper, and tures the raw, candid, stumb- iing, selfish, untidy reality of From hundreds of separate life which the ostrich-einensu It become almost an obsession recollections, Collier has patched usually prefers to ignore. with Admiral Sir Bertram

most Filmed -in natural light awards Ramsay, raval officer in charge up an unpretentious bui

vivid narrative. of “Dynamo," gode-name

Around New York's Little Italy, Festival. Most

the drama Lakan

♬ shoe-string budget by place among the lower ranks,

But I doubt if you will have director- producer – cameraman For days he begged that the the lost men, the broken units.

and one-time magazine photo-a chance to see this modestly French shoul be given a There are,, of course, glimpses

plece Di fim- grapher Morris Engel, "Wed- magnißcut same chance us the British to of the top.bruss:

dings and Babies" won two making because apart from make a get-away. "It's vital," Alexander, arker; "How does

three-day showing at the Ne le argued, "they should be one capitulate?" answers grimly,

tional Film Theatre (July 18 to brought off if we're ever to "I have never

had to capitu-

20), British distributors have have any relationship with the tale."

beca French again." But he did not win his case until the morning

Montgomery, watching the of May 31,

attack of diyc-bombers from destroyer's bridge, keeps up running commentary.

"Ah, acolher lot coming ly now. wouldn't come in all at once if One at a time, countries. There was also the It seems from Cutler's narra- I was them.

that Hitler's main reason they'd have a frat-class chanco sacrificial night put up by the tive rearguard, which included Gen- for not rounding up the British of hitting us."

Mony of its soldiers returned to England expecting a cool re ception. Instead, they were-very properly-given cups of tea and called heroes.

They had made their escape, thanks to the British Navy and

an extraordinary assortment of THE CALAMITY

ships big and small scratched

up from mony ports and several

a

A

era Blanchard's army of 30,000 Army was fear for his southern But, if there was humour and Frenchmen.

flank.

the chameleristic British gift This being so, it is unpleasunt Richard Collor's account of of eccentricity at Dunkirk the to read about the apparent ro- Dunkirk is, however, something over-riding impression is luctance of high British autho- more interesting and human of waste and tragedy. rity to give equal treatment to then an exercise in military Hoppy Britain, to whom the French troops in the evacuation. history.

Channel gave a second chance!

one

THURBER SERIOUS WILL STILL MAKE YOU LAUGH

LANTERNS AND LANCES James Thurber, Hamish Hamit- lon, 18. Thurber is, of course, fundamentally a serious writer- in this collection perhaps a bit more serious than usual. But he will still make you laugh more than my other half-dozen Jumorista pat together.

Madeleino

Jesslo acquluded and committed suicido Smith, McLachlan, and Dr Pritchard a year later. WETO all trix for murders ⚫ THOUGHT REFORM. committed near the mumo ond Robert J. Lition. Gollanes, 30s. of Glasgow's Bauchleball-street; An American psychiatrist spent half century later, Oscar two years in fiongkong talking Sinter was found guilty of s to men med women. Western as murder he did not commit in well as Chinese--who have been the same locality. Those co- brain-washed by the Commun- incidences are *the excum for Ists. His report answers many yet another book (a most questions about the technique of i entertaining one) about these compeiting, people to change

their fundamental beliefs.

famous CaSON.

LOCH NESS MONSTER. Tim Dirtadale, Moutledge, 20m, Monster According to the en- thusiastle Me Dinadala there are

● THE MURDER OF LORD • ŇAME AND ADDRESS. T. 8. two or three. He fired one of ERROLL Ruperi Furneaux, Matthews, Blond, J96. My lito them, the first man to do so, but ever. žža, Ga. Ona of a Crime and hand Time, try one of Henry the legend goes back to the Documentary series, this is a Luce's former editors. He spent sixth century, This book will disappointing account, both in 24 years with America's mega- autort convince the aceptic.

planning and execution, of the zing prodigy, but never really

● BQUARK MILE. OF MUR- murder in Kenya of the Earl of got used to it.. Xiere he trien DEA, JackHouse, Chambers. Erroll. After a 23-day trial, Bir to explain how 1b happened, and 1. In the space of eight years, Henry Delves Broughton was why he Anally quit,

VIVECA LINDFORS HENG|JIVE, BRAMIJERK.).

Morris

curiously backward in "Then I talked to coming forward with deals that Engel and I neiled that this might reword "Weddings and him would be something differ- Rablen" with a more general.ent, a now and stimulating public,

experiepeo - and I could usu une, for unfortunately my love Apart from its Intrinsic value for working in motion pictures as an unglassed observation of had, lately, sadly cooled off." two lovers (sho wants marriage

and children now, he wants to What of her characterisation Walt for money in the bank) of a frustrated 30-year-old? and how, unwlitingly, the prob- lem of an aged paront pushes their future further and further into the past, the Alm is remark- able for the performance of Vivoos Lindfors (as the not-so- young girl.

Longing

"She is a girl who wants only one thing to get married and

children," It is Ironic, I feel, that this have

10id Miri sensitive and beautiful Swedish Landfors "Since I have been star-who made her Hollywood married several times (four) debut in The Adventures of and have children (three); Don Juan" with "Errol Fran- used whatever longing I had for should have to walt, until her the sun and moon myself and her them into late thirties and her 38th film transplanted before finding complete fuift- longing ment as a movio actress..

I phoned Marris Engel in Now York to ask him how the essiing had come about.

Ideal

**fliere were two seterung). I

"As for the moaning of “Wed- dings and Bobler, it will be different for whoriver watches is But I think that it simply abd compassionately tolim about problems that all of us ŽAVO,”

I hope the public'hop a cliance to judge for Theff.

thought ideal for the part -- SINGER * Johnny Mathlu, is

· Maffi· Bebell and Vivecs," he "getting £1,500) per working said, "but I thought somoons of day when he starts his UR thơle stature would probably be

too expensive. So I went to the four this mouth, Actor Bludlo one day, and

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