1961-09-16 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1961.

Roderick Mann

This then is Cardinale

PARIS.

WHO is the girl most likely to inherit the title of Love Goddess- now that the imminent retirement of Brigitte Bar- dot leaves the post vacant?

After exhaustive, inquiries

I am in the happy position of

being able to tell you.

-the girl who succeeds Bardot

Her name is Cloudla Car- balloons, or wearing wet shirts. dinale. She Is 22, And Italian.

To get started in films today And if she fails to walk in you need considerably more beauty, like the night, it is than a well-upholstered figure only beenise ал "attendant and the address of a stable of Ferraris, Maseratis, dentist-and she knows it.

good and Facel Vega renders this

So instead, she is relying on virtually impossible.

her gradually awakening talent stated that when she packs it which makes it possible for her Bardot heracle has graciously and a curious chameleon quality in she confidently expects Miss to seem natural in almost any Cardinale to succeed her.

I am certain that she will-type1of-role.

Eminence

Particularly as a British pro- ducer I know once slated flatly that she hadn't a chance. This WIS iwo years ago when Miss Cardinale came to Britain to appear in a film called Upstairs and Downstairs.

of

(The same producer, you see, Bald almost the identical thing about Brigitte Bardot when she came here six years ago make Doctor at Sea with Dirk Bogarde, I ought to name him

but I won't).

Today Claudia Cardinale finds herself the most sought-after actress on the Continent. She is snaking him after film. Her face adoins the covers dozen magazines a week.

ot

#

She has been interviewed by the distinguished Hallan novel- ist Alberto Muravin (which is equivalent, I suppose, 10 Ear! Russell getting of the pavement for while

A

and talking to Susannah York).

She has reached this emin- ence, happily, without having to resort to any of the more nauseating pubilekty stunts. There have been no photographs of her in the hay, playing with

As well as all this, however, she possesses a figure shapely enough to make any man cut his best friend's throat (37-23- 37, if you insist) and an accent which produces the same effect as having warm honey poured down one's back.

was wear- white

When she turned up to meet she me in Paris ing до over-large sweater, blue-and-white striped Capri pants, and white tennis ahoog. And she had a white hung in a chestnut-brown fail in band tied round her hair, which

front of her.

Climbing

She looked delicious. I under- stoot Immediately what one French critic had meant when he sighed: "What a lovely face, what carnal splendour, what a future.

attractive or sexy. I have a moit strange face,

"Indeed, until recently I was ashamed at it. My ears, you gee; slick oul. They flap in the breeze, as the saying goes,

in the first im I ever made

never get anywhere with such they had to suck them back with glue. I decided I could

cars, I even thought of having an operation."

for

never wanted to be an actress, I planned to be a teacher. Then 1 entered a competition The Most Beautiful Italian in Tunis.

Fan mail

to

"The prize was a trip Venice-and I wanted to see Venice. Well, I won. "Did you ever sec Goble's "The Venice Film Festival care? Or Crosby's?" I asked. was on und everybody made a "Yes, a sld. And that great fuss of me. They offered me contracts, But 1 Bald, No. me. Now, I no longer care about these cars. back to Tunis. Then, after six I was not interested, went Not even the fact that they go months, 1 red when I get exclted,"

gave in "Have you any other com- plezes?"

encouraged

a

"Oh, yes. The fact that I have a young girl's head on mature woman's body.

"You cannot see it, of course, but I bave

a very grown-up body.

"I have some good points, however. I am not ashamed of everything. My legs, for in-

stance, are good-or grandmother says."

"I expert?

"Now I want to succeed very much. But I do not want to be anoitier Bardot, I' am Cardinale. I do not want the kind of domestic pubilelly which Brigiile gets.

"You mean you want your private fe kept private?"

"Yes. Though in truth I have little private "life now.

I HITA too busy. I have four Alms

much, to my waiting. It is too

think.

an

your grandmother "No. Bul she says that for legs to be really beautiful they must be shaped so that there are three gaps between them; one between the calf and the This, then, was C.C., suc foot; one between the calf and essor to B.B. The girl London the knee, one between the knee audiences

will be able to and the thigh. See"-she stuck RC4 soon playing и smail out her legs-"I have role in, the prize-winning three." Italian m Rocco and his Your grandmother knows a Brothers. The girl on the sec thing or two," I said, "Can you saw of success. Going up. tell me anything cle?"

"Well," she said, "I was born in Tunis. I have an Italian father and a French mother. I

"I cannot yet grasp what has happened to me," she said. It is not as though I am

all

I

"Do you get much fan mail?" "get extraordinary mail. From people In Jail from lunatics, from a

crazy wailer in Italy."

"What does the crazy walter want?"

CLAUDIA CARDINALE the girl on the sco-row of Succoss. Going up.

"What would you say is the most difficult thing about being & successful, young actress?”

"Making friends," she said, "I find it almost impossible to make friends with other actresses. Especially ones older than me. I try hard. but it never works. It 19 most strange. I cannot understand

"He wants mẹ, 1 think. in fact, he claims he has me. He took out all the documents for a marriage; he even published the banns and sent me a veil. Now he says we are married."

"Well, if things cuér tough," I said, "at least you'll it. Can you?"

get have a restaurant.”

"I hope things

"Oh. Yes," I said, "I under- never get stand it perfectly," that tough," she said.

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OH, Casanova! What

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To think that this smarmy libertine, spy, farger, thief, con- fidence irlexster, and all-round Jogue on a scale notable even for the eighteenth century, has become merely an ludulgent household name for anyone who fanetes himself us a bit of a lad with the girisi

Legend

EVIL AFTER ALL

but poor, he took holy orders. However, his ecclesiasticat career ended early when, after an excessively convivial dinner. he went to preach a sermon and passed out in the pulpit,

his

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Casanova

A Hiography

by J. Rivas Chibis

Court,

Godden's

From his memoirs he

novel has nothing to do natural elemest, which was the Childs insists, Casanova was a sensations,

Then Casenova found

seems Casanova merely represents the with China or the smug hypocrite, yet as Mr gross feeder in the trough of but then Miss swirling world of international man of many parts lie intrigue, the crumbling, corrupt made welcome by Voltaire, who him out a man of delicate son- as in An Episode of Spar- Mr Childs attempts to make titles tend to be enigmatic, European society soon to exploded by the French Revolt when in low spirits turned to wrote in his memories: "I have Summer.

be did not suffer fools gladly, and abilitles, but Casanova himself rows, and The Greengage tion. He fought duels, was translating Homer's Illad. Glacomo Girolama 'Casanova Imprisoned and escaped, wrote

not always been very delicate in would fnd the immurtality scurrilous poems ugaltist his Moreover, he was not such a

the choice of means to gratify

China Court is the Cornish gratifying, for he was immense enemies, forgel, gambled,

on tar 29 he has often been my passions."

family home of the Quin family, ly vain; but he would also have promoted schemes to fleece cre- thought. The

were memuirs regarded it as yet more evidence dulous ladies Interested in block writien late in his life and con- debauchery calls

whose story Miss Godden telis. of the gullibility of human magic and the occult for lain a wealth of detailed

They have the most complex beings, on which he traded all never were some more credulous justification about events long out. Casanova, buzzing round family tree since Whiteoaks, his life.

than in what is known as the before, such as even a last-war Europe like a pollen-drunk bee, and Mins Godden does not make Age of Reason,

general might envy; but Mr

showed no sign of possessing things easier by employing the Childs bon followed up Can any roul, let alone a strong one, historic present tenso. nava's facts like a sleuth, and His end was sad enough to

Thus there is old Mrs Quin, establishes that his recollections satisfy the sternest moralist and she is dead; that is, of time and place were mostly 13 yeare an librarian to a minor is dead at the beginning of the princeling living on a pittance, story, but alive for most of the The trouble is that Mr ageing, diseased, mocked by the rest, because, as the poet says, Childs is better at checking de- servants,

time present and time past are Lails then at interpreting Casa- nova's character.

both perhaps present in time future.

Intrigues

of

accurate.

self-

On his death-bed, at the age

Nonetheless, he is a fascinat- ing figure, with far more to him than legend suggests, as can be gathered from Casanova by J. Rives Childs (Faber, 32s.)," and the famous Casanova Memoirs Fantastically, he managed to (recently published by Elek in Bix handsome

thrive by organising lotteries volumes, 30%. and financial ach) which

loons as special are much than just a lecher's log-book.

moro representative of the French Government, and during his Borcly a third is concerned heyday around 1700 he was a with his love affairs, and at their counted a millionaire. frankest these are described In Not the least striking terms infinitely less outspoken Casanova's abilities was the way than are used in many a modern he could veer from the lowest novel.

The rest can stand comparison company to the highest. with Boswell's Journals as

One day he would be carousTM extremely lively, panoramic ing with tarts in a tavern, next picture of life two centurias ago. he was being received by Born in Venice in 1723, the Frederick the Great of Prussia. Bon of an actor and a shoo- anaker's

daughter, Casanova held

Ho charmed the Pope, and grow into a handsome six-footer, sharpers. He pursued with re- his own among cardi- with a broken nose and large, morseless success Alquid, Ralian eyes.

any age, station or nation.

From alvising Catharing the Don Juan's feftonal progress ›'.. languages, Great of Russia on the reform so demnation is really a

It will not do. for one thing, of 73, Cazanovi said: "I have to try to justify Casanova by

lived as a philosopher and dio pleading that sexual licence was

as a Christian." commonly regarded as normal Self-indulgence on his behaviour in the eighteenth cen- Was bound to end in tury.

decepilon.

att

He was educated in sorcery. chemistry, music,

and womet

wonten

I

Delicate

The distinctive point about Casanova's immorality is surely that he was a trivini sinner on a vast scale. He and Don' Juan are the two symbols of malo. of altitudo towards women but they

are utterly unalike,

wearch, with

Oodles

sho

There are also madcap, lovely Lauty Patrick and dark, dresdfit senio Jarod in one generation, and stil- there are bravo Borowia and sturdy John Henry to another; and now there is Tracy, and sha involved with Bandromo young Poter St.. Omar, and old Mr Quin is pulling a great surprise on them even though the is dead.

and oodles

of charm

by

Essentially, I suspect that this is just a long sentimental romance.

nearly

But Mias Godden makes it seem more bechurp she. has podiel anul`oodies and bodies of charm.

In fact, omhand, I can think

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