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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1961.

Patricia Lewis

THERE'S NO LEWIS LIKE PAT LEWIS!

Newley dissects

the dangers

of success

WITH a nod to Han-

WITH

cock and a wave to Jonathan Miller, I make obeisance to An thony Newley as the freshest, brightest, most agile and inventive brain in the business.

Now "the young master" faces a triple challenge as star- director-and-part-writer (with Lealle Bricuje) of "Stop the World I Want to Get Off," 1 musical show based "very loose- Jy" on the seven ages of man.

opened in Manchester recently to enthusiastic reviews,

Between rehearsals I lunched with Newley. He was in a dork tunnel of a mood, walled in with self doubts.

AND COMES

UP WITH AN ANGLE:

'PLAY IT LIKE A WOMAN.......

"You

know, 'Slade" nearly

NEWLEY ... TESTING FOR REACTION

"It would be nice if Bricusse and I can make some sori of peculiarly British entertainment in the way that 'Oliver is 11 fresh look at a musical. If I can make this work, and make living at the same time, I'll be the happiest man in the world.

Slowly and quietly — almost made it. But it needed more time,' painfully Anthony Newley more care. It was written and seemed to be thinking out loud, Almed in six weeks. You must never do anything publicly with- out long and careful thought. "Success is a cow - xon," he Leslie and I got the iden for said. "What does it mean any- "Stop the World' last winter way? That you've created an while we were writing a film. Interest? It's hollow. And what's We felt it would be nice to do more, It's dangerous.” He winred something with

and

•Bongs at the thought.

dances. So we went to New York-yes, it was a bit odd, but "No, the clever man will Leslie had to go for the Bea

Lillie show and we shut our solves up in an apartment and worked day and night, for munth.

court success and then be like a

woman-go away, play hard to get and wait for success to come to him again.”

A

"But it's no good just being terribly special, no good. Just enjoying - you've got to

make money at it too.

sort of people where everything they're thinking and feeling shows in their faces. I can relax and open up with them. But I don't think a primitive is my ideal woman--I'm still looking for that one."

(Tony has from his wife, several years.)

Ann Lynn, for

Retire

"Oh, yes I'm frustrated all right," he said, with a Beeting mile. "There's a song In the show called "Why Can't I Fall In Love? There's a big chunke of 'Tone,' a big chunk of tha -boy-o tliers...

There's also a rare and pre- clous stream coursing through the rott.

MOCKING QUOTE from Tom Courtenay the 24-› year-old discovery from Hull who Look over from Albert Finney In "Billy Liar": I'm realy an aristocrat. I've only cultivated this working- class thing after being at R.A.D.A."

It is now certain that Courtenay will star in the film of Alan ("Saturday Night and Sunday

ALLEN

In the queue to

J

play James Bond

'unknown' Allen

THE THIN Ups of actor Fatrick Allen miny shortly oreas into a smile. For produser Harry Saltzman, who has jual completed * half-million-dollar deal with Ian Fleming for the film rights to the James Bond books, is planning to test him for the lead.

“It's the seting plum of the decade,” says Saltzman. "Everyone's been after it.. 111lohcock wanted it for Cary Grant and Jimmy Woolf tried to buy it for Larry Harvey. But I guess my Uming just hap- pened to be right.

"I'm also thinking about ́ Michael - Craig

Morning") Sillitoe's short roller for everone to hear that'

of can mess up my own flim at story "The Loneliness

Igat." the Long Distance Runner," for Woodfall in November.

He is also tipped to play the lead in the film of "Billy Liar" next spring.

TOP MAN

Goes it alone

At present Finch and his co- producer, John von Kotze, are working on the first treatment, then in August they'll make a short "recce" for the locations. before moving down to Italy in October.

"It's the story of an escaped British P.o.W., Finch told me, "and what happens to him 115

advance."