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ON THE SCREEN

LESLIE HOWARD in

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Strange

Woman

海媚妖代一

GREAT - WALL

NEXT CHANGE: "WAR OF THE WILDCATS”.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950.

Daphne du Maurier tells : Why we surprise men

The Nuvelist---

DAPHNE du MAURIER

The MIND of a

WOMAN

Tell us why you

are so rare,

madam

"WOMEN of genius are rare.” So said Pierre Curie, who, with Madame C.. discovered radium. This view takes "an unconscionable time a-dying." Why? What do today's "raritles" say about it? Reported by JAMES LEASOR. The hutorian

UST ភេទ Wedgwood means pottery, RO du Daphne

Maurier

means best-sellers.

DR. MARIE BTOPES

The specialiai.

Q. v. WEDGWOOD

HEILBRON. R.C.

The lawyer

She touches her pale Jade

takes on the 211021

really intend to live until I'm 140 or 100. How old am I now? Twenty-six." She smiles.

"I'm ahedys 20."

THUMB

LAWYER

through the Law Tistant marke Uits unme

Miss Rose Heilbron, one of Eng- land's two women KCS.

She is a keen feminist, hna publicly

women stated that have not yet been long enough in the professions for people to be used to them being success- ful.

"Look of Inw. They've only

have

take

In

Loft: David Cole and Iris Mann build

a house of cards in "The Innocents"

dim view of Misa Mann, offstage, She likes to twop "comic books" with him. In the last fortnight or no he has acquired a tattered library of some 300 faril specimens of these publica- tions. Hig tasle runs to mysteries, preferably with liberal amounts of homicide, as bents a star in the season's shiverfest melodrama.

ا

"I like mysteries, too," suld Miss Mann in a small voice, not intending to be left out. Mir Cole daintily lifted the "cumle book" lying 011 hla table. "Your", I believe," he said almly, bending it to her. With a man-to-man look, he said to me: "A romance! Mush!”

I asked Miss Mann when the had started her acting career.

sho I've

"Oh, when I was young," sak. "I think I wan two, made a lot of films. In one 7

IS

LONDON BOY BROADWAY IDOL

RITAIN'S

-By- FREDERICK COOK

NEW YORK.

biggest Broadway star of the season, Mr David Cole, yanked open the door of his dressing-room just as I was about to knock. Through it hurtled Miss Iris Mann, his now. leading lady, shrieking "Yon enough to his dressing-room.

Miss Mann, publicity-conselous beast, David! You beast!"

as a rising young actress should be, came along too. It turned

办

He came back docilely

Mr Cole directed poorly aimed kick In her direction. cut to be e joint Interview, con-

time when not

with hosta.

had to eat four plates of ive- cream and I got sick."

1 asked Me Cole if he found it hard work to learn his lines." Ite indicated that he considered it a plece of cake as compared with algebra. "I just read 'em and they seem to stiek," he said. "I suppose I have a plictogenie mind. Or do I mean photo- graphie? Probably. It's some sort of talent one either has or one hasn't."

Whopping party

of

Mr Cole is now an authentic matince Idol, and knows it. He Is not excited any more about the agreeable custom people follow

offending unsolicited

Rota hugo he recalled. perfume,*

that. And "My mother took comcone sent me 800 cigarettes. Daddy not those. But offer all I gel five a week in pocket money-in dollara. That's not too bad, is 117

Leen practising in Jaw for about 30 years. The men have She is easily the most

been practising for, oh, hun successful (financially,

dreds of years. It's the famously) woman writer, is

Women with medicine. also a mother of three, and

only been allowed to wife of General

medical degrees since 1070," Sir

Miss Frederick Browning, Comp- Leads, smooths down her fluffy

Heilbron, dark-haired, in her early thirtles, pretty

Then he pursued her three times ducted in a state of armed truce. troller of Princess Elizo- sweater

fur gloves and bootees,

around the darkened stage.

I inquired of Mr Cole how beth's liousehold.

"Drilliant women? I don't res married to a Liverpool doctor,

Mr Cole, recently of Hamp- he spent his "Why does feminine suc- any inherent reason why women (ravels regularly between Liver-

and London. 1fcr practice stem, is 13. Miss Mann, who giving audiences the creeps with should be any leas clever than

her brings In about £4,000 a appears with him in the current his secret pact cess surprise people? On-men--But their domestle lies in She has a daughter-14-William Archibald-hit The Working like stinki" he said gifts to nctorn, think it's natural for people are much stronger. The clover to be a teeny bit surprised. woman who marries the lever months old,

fer theme: "I mean, it's comparative- Jobs and to drops back slightly women have a bit more ly new, isn't it? Only in the in the mental race, last 150 years have women "And the brainy men, dons, been able to do the things professors, and so on, they're If they follow Miss Heilbron's they want and make a finding out these days that have lead they certainly will. success of them. But people ing to help with the washing- up gets in the way of their awn are getting used to it."

studies."

Misa Wedgwood, pretty rallies who have In her case, they certain-

who prefers their dreams and their ambi- ly are. 1er novela sell and, blue-stocking

n house in St tions nylons, shares

ilke burning torches multiply after the manner John's Wood with a friend, kes across the lifteps of the years. of their brilliant kind: cooking, gardening. She takes They are all over 30, all have "Rebecca," "The King's long walks ол the sites of their faith. General," "Hungry, Hill," ancient battles, buys "Jamaica Inn," "The Para- with historie naines like Alfred, Oliver Cromwell. sites." She types them out

"One more thing. I'rp saddled herself, has no secretary, with the initials C.V. In front spends spare time "cutting of my name as a writer be- down trees, walking, chop- cause, when I started writing ping wood" in the grounds historien books

household

Or

Innocents" (lousely "Just lat the Herry James's The Turn of the And over his shoulder he ex-

time Screw) is nine.

plained to Miss Mann; ut the men's job. Tine. That's

́Englis expression. On stage they give an eerie, they')! all they want. Then

ulmost unbelievably polished things are pretty tough." show them."

perfomance as children in league with the powers of darkness

they are anything but a pair of Innocents,

based on

brielly.

**Il's 201 Menna

they are-the borne

20

there

daffodils

And, as George Meredith re- King marked: "The principal part of

faith is patience."

might

were

in 1935 my of her lovely Cornwall publisher thought they

curry more weight, If I home.

'sexless,' 50 speak!"

SPECIALIST

"Women authors? Well, they aren't rare. I think that must be because

In a blue building in Whitfield-street, writing's easier to do than THREE doors up the other professions. No W., Dr Marie Carmichael Stopes birth-control long apprenticeship like you runs her famous

room marked have to serve in art, or the clinic from a

Museum, Grey-haired, kindly, terrific learning you need in she wears her hat in her room, law."

shrugs in her fur-trimmed, black costume.

"My success? Oh, that. That's just by the by..

HISTORIAN

+

successful women?

Japun, ch,

a woman,

1 was

-London Express Service,

'Like stink'

To me he confided: "I'm a chronic sufferer from historyitis and algebritis, Simply frightful, I just mannged to scramble through history, I thluk. But I'm quite sure I flunked algebra." When a panting stage hand They are pupils at the same had finally recaptured the lead- establishment, a school run for ing man and explained to him stage people's children. that a reporter wished to inter-

It is clear that on Miss Mann's view hin, Mr Cole smoothed his mop of blond hair-they have hurt there is a certain unspoken bleached it for this part and but devoted attachment to Mr this is not re- West Enders who saw him with Cole, and that Alex Guinness in "The Human riprocated. Mr Cole gives every Touch" would hardly know him intication of taking a thoroughly

For his part In "Tho Innocents" Mr Cole drawa $200 (about £60) a week.

W

Не дося to work by bus, is hoping to buy car soon, as beats his station

in fe. He applies his own Gaves all the tele- make-up, grama well-wishers send him, and never whistles back

stage. He chuckles when he remembers that it all began because he won a intent

contest at Kingston. "There were some 9,000 other chaps in it," he says proudly,

-(London Express Service)

The twinkle is an act

MAURICE CHEVALIER'S A 'NOT-SO-GAY LOVAÍR 3 NITA RAYA --- The begin-

by ANNE EDWARDS

DARKNESS moves in on sister. Milton, blind and help bled at the lids and she went

went on

'You won't last"

told You

FAMOUS comedian hm "You're no good. haven't any talent. You won't Just long."

| MISTINGUETT-The beam- ning. "She had a beautiful, expressive face, a supple figure, and immense chle. We had both come from plain people, and we got along very well from the start."

not like

10 Maurice Chevalier, more upstage cafes.

He played round the tough the jaunty French-

carefree Provincial music halls and ran man, the

off the stage in tears, lover, the man who has been

He played to audiences whe greeted his jokes in ley pilence. week for and

paid £4,000 EL Many women write,

ile

for auditions in with some reward. But none "Why are people surprised n Binging naughty songs with

Marseilles, when the dockers approach the success of brilliant,

They, a twinkle in his eye-is not and nnvvies came to the show Ignorance, that's why, Lady B. She smiles her

just don't know the history of jaunty or carefree at all. for the joy of slaughtering the A slow, lazy smile. soft the human race. When I way is love affairs have always beginner.

He heard celebrated producers wind blows in from the sen. In

way back,

gone wrong; the twinkle is baw him out in front of the

company: purely professional.

"You're just about and spring stirs in the found their national poet

his Maurier. telling smooth new leaves.

own the cluinsiest person I've ever time, seen on the stage. You'd do "Then there's the psycholo-life story for the first gical renson. If women love describes the almost unbearable better as a chimney sweep." Their Man, they tend to bulk poverty of his boyhood, of seeing up his career at the expense of the mother he adored work so their own. Look at Wordsworth, hard to earn a few extra soun

that her

eyes his at lace making parasite un practically a

his blind, of living for months on the city. Street lampa Tess, dictated his poems to

baked potatoes and herb tes. flare like stars; the cara daughter."

He started singing when he

critte endorsed; She shakes her head, Angers

slipshod gawk move on as the traffic lights

stage to her two ropes of pearls. Robert was 12 and got 12 franes Ds. "How did this

He fought get on the

of our first change through amber

church-d-a week for it. Blutchford smokes a

without help or music hail? Who hired thin green. For working London, warden pipe in a wall

photo-hin way up, another busy day is done. graph. The gas fire sighs sym-coaching, through all the tough, painful comedian to appear in vicious cafes in the squalid little the midst of first-class numbers?

And when he began to get But not for handsome, pathetically.

back streets of Paris Vero- "'I'm husky-voiced Cicely

really a triangle,

By 14 he was keeping his liked he had the tricks of other know. My three sides are mother, and when he was offered actors to deal with. He fought nica Wedgwood. She stays

annine franes a day-75. 11⁄2dhe them all because he says being 2 YVONNE VALLEE — The scientific research" (she is on in her Bloomsbury office. nuthority on coal, fossils) "then thought it was the millennium. nn entertainer Was the only brunette, who was really ravish beinning: "A pretty little She has a lot to do. A my work hero"--she waved an At his first appearance the thing he ever wanted to do.

The real-life love affaire don't Ing. She

and seemed modest dissolved in Jeering brilliant historian, she is arm

round the blue room-audience

Dr

up to the Chevalier quiet, and I often saw her soberly Stopes laughter. He was to hear plenty measure deputy editor of Time and "and my poetry."

knitting in the cornge of the published several books of more of that before his name legend either. For the man whe Tide, a trustee of London

sang love songs to suggest Paris. ninge." went on the playbills. poems.

never

The end: "No matter how fond Museum, James Tait

labour and mimosa, and spring "People who don't apprecinte Song that the

you are of a person you need a hooted off and any lasting love luck, not thought funny were Black Memorial Book Prize- a clever woman are just

certain amount of freedom-→→ Everything always started off winner. And she sits on the mentally old enough to do so, the stage when he progressed to,

but I hardly dared speak to other Most people are not mentally selection committee of the adult, anyway. I don't

*THE MAN IN THE STRAW HAT, so hopefully and ended so dis think

women. I could not go on being My story, by Maurice Chevalier, mally.

watched every minute." Book Society,

you grow up till you're 70,

three- (Published by Othami, 128, dad.)

a

NANCY

Mess Call

I CANT STAND MY DOLL HOUSE BEING SO

UPSET

區

has

JOEA

you

I

I'LL GIVE IT A GOOD CLEANING IF I CAN

JUST FIND MY

LITTLE TOY BROOM

ко

A famous

lic

Mentions

Only

By Ernie Bushmiller

I FINALLY FOUND. IT

AT THE BOTTOM

OF THAT CLOSET

The end:

"I did

playing the role of servant cour- tier to Mistinguett. Mist always considered me just as

foll for

her talent-she never thought of me as an equal on the stage."

.

No freedom

ning: "She was very beauti- ful, and I found her as modest and intelligent as she was beauti- fal. Sho WAN SO young there hadn't been lime for the stage to wilt her charming freshness,'

The end: "Nita had changed great deal. She lost her natural charm and childlike galoty, she thought of nothing but clothes and parties and becoming a great star

At the height of his success between the two wars Maurice Chevalier came to London to star with Elsie Janis: "The blank expression of the people puzzled me. Here and there I spotted a but on the ravishing blonde, whole the English men were handsomer than

those

of Paris and the women less attrac-, tive"

In Hollywood

TE acted before royally, "Kings

H

cannot clap their lends and stamp-they Clin only look amused and clap with the tips of their but not

Angers. It is flattering warming,

Chevalier went to Hollywood. The American publicity frighten- ed him, "I had to put my arms round

Yvonne

looking

Jaunty and loving at the same time. It was a nightmare."

Practically tho

cally the only aspect of the Chevalier legend which re- mains at the end of Chevaller's own story is that ho la completely and typically French.

WDS

In

The "gay lovair" reality a hard-headed egoist with Immense drive and talent and experience. Otherwise how could he stay at the top diffusing chorin and galely and Jauntiness at the nge of 027

-London Express Service,

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