THE CHINA ' MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1961.
The scar I'll never try to hide
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FOR THE FIRST TIME
ELIZABETH TAYLOR TALKS ABOUT MY BADGE OF LIFE'
Framed in the arm of director Mankiewicz...'a girl of primitive talent'
TLIZABETH
by DAVID LEWIN
her
Today, Miss Taylor is back at TAY with a safety belt to stop
work, fi and even more beauti- falling out her And so Cleopatra," the Him ful. But with a scar nearly 2in. long near her wind-pipe which and written off before the she refuses to hide.
is at last in production,
LOR made triumphal entry into which £2,000,000 was spent Rome on October 17 as cameras finally started to turn. There are few women in the Cleopatra.
281.-high
She rude sph.x drawn oy 300 slaves mi estorted by a precession of 2,000 assorted soldiers, 210 daneers,
Near death
world and even fewer film stars would take such a bold
decision. I talked to her about
"In a sense I am living now
on borrowed, time .. time that would have been denied me but for that operation,
"I cannot say that enjoy lite more fully now because I
always lived life to the full. But
now I and deeper tones and shades in living. I appreciate
things like just seeing and hear-
und momentarily her hand ing-and yes, breathing too-far went up to touch her throat. more.
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The scar on the neck of Cleopatra,.. Elizabeth Taylor's symbol of survival
wartspettated on donkeys Nine months aga Elizabeth
"The experience I had was Then she said: "Why should painful. Bu: beautiful too. Can painted
six white. Taylor lay cruelly elong to death as zebras,
scar is my exen marching in step, ami in and nursing home while I hide it? This
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understand you
Lhat wear it with beauty? It as was cut in her throat to budge of life. I tempel importert elephants.
hap sed whe insert a tube which enabled her pride because it reminds me of childbirth: painful but so beau- tached comtert. She
the time we have been in hotels. The Soluns
the time my life was saved. puss Mi Taylor at was fitted to continue breathing
Boven bedroomed villa near the It is home for the She turned towards her hus- band Eddie Fisher and smiled. He said: "We couldn't care less If the car shows or not. I like Greek chef, a French butler,
she didn't
choose
to tell the time
-until she had a Rolex
Perpetually drugged.
With the headiness of hoge huthouse orchida
And dazzled wiib diamonia,
Hier rules for living were
The ringing of the teleptane,
The thus of glit-oncrusted Invitations
through the lotter bar,
And gorgeous MON,
Who called, trauliko, la take her to the
right place, at the right hoor... She never chose to know the time....
But one day there come a special man, Who understood hor.
He brought hor diamanda,
allttering cound a Rolex watch-
And suddenly, she knew he knew
Bhe'd want to know the time this way.
The Rolex was so beautifus
She had to wear it ail the day,
And so it was precision perfect
· Inovitably-sheknew the time.
I looked to right upon her wrist,
It looked so wonderful with mink,
She knew this man had understood hor
and her life
And so
The loved...her Rolex..
Rolex
RH.
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tiful."
next six
uf
old Appian Way with six batn- months--if you can call a rented rooms, a swimming pool (natur- house a home."
ally) and a staff consisting
11."
success. Rex Harrison is here simply,
an English valet (for Everything that 20th Century Fisher).
a governess Fox's money can buy has now three children, and Ave been assembled io make vants. "Cleopatra" (official film code cumber-production 3.03)
Mr
Primitive
for her ser-
"It
£5,"
of primitive talent who is in brought all three stars together
on set for the first time. dead earnest about Cleopatra,
"Usually she is a bit off-hand Richard Burton looked at about the paris she has to play the Forum full of 6,000 Not now. She has a
to Elixa- maturity after her operation and extros and turned the sees this film as a challenge. beth Taylor. He said: "After
Harrison "With Rex
and all this you'll never be able
new
In her attitude to her work, Richard Burton around, she is to make an entranca in a Miss Taylor is utterly serious. faced with an acting Wimbledon
Director said Miss Taylor
Manklewicz,
who in which every scene is a final film through a door. How do "the only home Edile made her most sensitively The procession which started you top 300 slaves and a
we dramatic Alm, "Suddenly Last that day will have gone on be- sphinx?" to play Caesar. Richard Burton and I have lived in, since
girl ing filmed the next week. I als
-(London Express Service). were married. All the rest of Sumner," said: "She is o is on hand to act Antony.
The Egyptian city of Alexan- drla has been built near Anzio and the Forum of Rome has been put up on such a scale that Richard Burlon says "It l bigger than the whole of my village in Wales."
Scrapped
At the moment only a com- pleted script is lacking sure all previous versions have been scrapped by the director Joe Mankiewicz, who is writing the new version himself.
"I'm just about a week ahead of the actors," he said. "But at least I know where I'm going to end. With Cleopatra dead In her tomb and Antony dying in her arms after being carried there by her hand-maidens.
That's not Hollywood corn, but historicnt fact."
Mr Markiewicz's method with this film became apparent dur- ing the rehearsal of that big procession: The 100 slover came on tugging away at the' Sphinx | and being lashed as they went by slave drivers with long whips. Mankiewicz yelled through" a microphone: Fire those slave
CASINO CAUGHT FOR
£600,000-BY
BOUNCING CHEQUES
Paris.
drivers. Get them. of the set. THE Monte Cario
I don't want
uny of
cliches in my film."
these
ro
that some people were calling to the police and others were threatening to lynch him. He had to be Instily hurried away. His experience related to tho different reactions between British and French audiences to animal exhistioalsm: In Bri- tain women and children hustled away until finally onl the hard-facod zoo alterdamlı are left landing before the cages.. in France, however, Aspinall notes the crowdiare **entar before these cages): sud be children are propelled to Laven a better view.
REMEMBER.
revolution-or rather a counter He will keep an eye on things revolution-in is administration, two evenings a week.
To find a new Maltro de Joux This summer's losses are con- the casing has been forced to At thin moment when so many
voleran also stones casino (which pkdered to be attributable to the recall another
are being thrown at inexperience of some of the equipped with an X-ray finan- France from so many ginsa heaven preserve) has personnel and lacis OL a einl cy,
houres and Algerian Moslem to become a who have been acting tough in suffered an unusual-searching knowledge of some of He la M. Terrence Cairascht, riots threaten
rich who are flooding who also left Monte Carlo, cosing nightly occurrence in Parls two years ago owing to dis- three points are worth bearing
ment.
The astonished Reman extras
every
Hollywood-Reman epic
from "Que Vodls" to "Ben-ly tough financial into Monte Carlo.. Hur," dropped their lashes in sturned pride. "After all," they blow this season.
said, "that's what we are paid On top of the losses suffered for. We are experienced slave as a result of many highly sUC- drivers."
APPLAUSE
The result is that Monte Carlo agreements with the manage in mind, casino has new recalled to duty its veteran directeur, Maitre de Jeux, 72-year-old Henri Pon- cessful gambling coups the tier, who retired two years ago, "Not here," said Mr Mankle-casino has had to take unprece- wier, and they caught the first dented losery in the matter
bounced cheques. tram back to town.
The losses are, of course. legally irretrievable. The Rum involved owing to dud chequer
Pleasure
of
Classic
M. Pontier has a classic enatsto
ls, I understand, in the region memory and a minutn knowledig and British behaviour at 2003,
of the casino's international
1 Despite its Bize in the hideously overcrowded Parla aren-it numbers about 160,000 -and despite its reckless terror- Jsm, the Moslem population has That famous zoologist John Bover been a victim of civilian Aspinall paid a viatt to Vince mob violence,
union 2-Nut n single trade nes Zoo, near Paris, this week has ever objected to according and noted some intoreating
full trade union rights to Masa: divergencies between French
Jerri emigrants.
3No political party line ever
AL
Vincetines Me Aspinall asked for a restriction in Al- night Miss Taylor goes No casino in France has ever clientele, especially the Italians: At
began by feeding 100 franc eliver gerian Moslem Immigration Inlo back to Roine in one of her twoffered anything like such losses and Latin Americans.
It used to be paid that planes to the ostrichen an act France, car: Cadiline for studio bust incurred in such a way.
The reason is that the casinos millionaire was not a millionaire which won him great applouse. ness and a Rolls for private pleasure.
ually take the greatest pains unill he had been cleared by
acquiring a full knowledge of M. Pontier,
Owing to his 346 M. Pontior As belts the only real star their important clients before left in the world today, and advancing chom large sianA of feels pissit unable to under the only woman over to be paklimoney.
take to former post but he has 1,000,000 dollars to acl A Olm What has happened to Monte agreed to help the casino In party, she lives in cerisin de-Carlo casing has now produced supervisory role.
of £000,000,
Incidenial Intelligence. Dlamay mounted, however, Notice in a Paris restaurantı when hu bogan stuffing 1,090, franc notes and then 5,000-frane "We cannot accept responsi- notes Into the birds. When the bility for articles which ars started on 10.000 frame. note, lost or deteriorate here: tensjon, mounted to mich a point'
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