European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Waltzing Carratha or Canberra Alboum a new Ait � new York times ?9 Springs inthe Outback iliii31 bbb a bbb a a bulb Chi a v new York times Fox Butterfield wives of miners golfing at Carratha Australia where life is Good but isolated. By Fox Butterfield new York times Wing in Carratha May be the Best Deal in the world $26 a week for a new fully furnished air conditioned three bedroom House plus All you can eat in the local restaurant. There s Sunshine All year round a free 18 Hole Golf course an olympic size swimming Pool sailing on the weekends and a 10 per cent rebate on income tax just for living there. These Are some of the benefits established to attract workers to Carratha. A new Iron mining town in the Iso lated Barren and until a few years ago virtually uninhabited Northwest area of Australia known As the Kilbara Region. Since the first mine was opened at mount Tom Price 10 years ago Australia has become the second largest producer of Iron Ore almost overnight with exports of 100 million tons last year. There is enough Ore there geologists say to last at least 250 years. In some respects the new Kilbara towns have turned the once forbidding Outback into something like a Southern California split level suburb Karra tha is More reminiscent of Palm Springs than of Kalgoorlie the site of the 1890s Gold Rush in Western Australia. No matter How Small the town Carratha with 5,000 people is one of the bigger ones there is a shopping Center a drive in Bank a liquor store and a movie Thea Ter and travel agencies advertising Tours of Hong Kong and London. You can buy Frozen cheesecake and Frozen pizza in the supermarket and if you need a car Avis has offices at All the tiny airstrips in the Region Complete with attendants in the familiar red uniform. Life is not All Comfort. Temperatures stay Well Over 100 degrees during the Long summer months novem Ber to april Black flies and red dust Are ubiquitous and there is the problem of being approximately in the Middle of nowhere it is 650 Miles to Perth the Only real City in Western Australia. For hundreds of Miles in All directions there is Only a vast trackless parched red and Brown Plain broken Here and there by spindly gum Trees and abrupt outcroppings of Iron Rich Rock. This is part of the great dead heart of Australia that defied generations of explorers and unlike the american experience largely confined people to a narrow fringe along the Southeast coast. So despite the benefits most workers go there Only temporarily. For the dough said John Mackin a Mechanic who is married to Carratha s Only american a Secretary from new York City. After a Bloke gets three or four grand in the Bank off he goes other Wise he d go bloody the resulting High turnover of workers As High As 100 per cent last year is a Nightmare for the mining companies. Even worse Are the constant strikes whose rate May be the worst in Australia a country with a growing record of labor trouble in Recto it years. There is a larger than life Quality about nearly every thing in Westen Australia a state that bears certain re l semblance to Texas. Like Texas it is big except that with a million Square Miles it is roughly four time bigger than Texas. It also has fierce regional Pride. In the 1930s it voted to secede and there is still a Well funded office of the so called West Ralian secession movement in Perth Testate capital. Moreover the Success of the vast cattle and wheat farms and of the newly developed Iron Ore Baux Ite Nickel and natural Gas industries has created a group of wealthy and conservative Community leaders. Sir Charles court the dignified forceful Premier of the state likes to assert in a line that draws enthusiastic applause we have no future in our own he insists that we can Supply the needs of Australia in a weekend and suggests that Western Australia should look to hungry japanese Industry and the Money markets of Hong Kong and Singapore rather than Sydney and Mel Bourne which Are almost As far away. Perhaps the state s most outspoken advocate of i Independence and one of its richest men is a former sheep Grazer and Amateur prospector Langley George Hancock a crusty Bull necked 67-year-old Man known simply As Lang. He helped find the Rich lode of Iron Ore in the Kilbara when he says the Small plane he was flying was forced i1 Low by a storm. Now with a 2.5 per cent Royalty on All the Ore from the mines at mount Tom Price and Par Burdoo his Fortune is said to exceed $200 million. Not Long ago Many Western australians reportedly put on Black armbands to mourn the disclosure that the j state s population had passed the million Mark deflating i their boast that they had a population of less than one j person per Square mile. I new York times Keyes i had the world by the by Aljean Harmetz new York times Carlett o Hara s younger sister is a strange sort of autobiography for a Prim Southern girl to have written a sexual Odyssey up and Down the decades in which Evelyn Keyes pauses Only occasionally to mention a movie she has just started or just finished. I was t writing a Book about the movies says the 5&-year-old Keyes. I was writing about she is wearing Blue jeans and a Blue plaid shirt. Her Short straight hair seems defiantly Boyish reminiscent of Jackie Coogan s haircut in the kid. Sprie forever Are the Golden curls the Falls the piles of artificial hair with which Columbia draped her smooth pretty face in nearly 20 movies during the 1940s, including Here comes or. Jordan ladies in retirement a thousand and one Louis Nizer by Nan Robertson new York times e it paper cardboard Canvas Wood velvet Petit Point scrim or table Linen if it s Blank Louis Nizer has to fill it up. He has been doing so with words and pictures for most of his Long illustrious life. Four justices of the supreme court of the United states and hundreds of his luncheon and dinner guests Are immortalized on napkins. Nizer now 75, is one of the most celebrated trial lawyers in the United states a Best Selling author and a gifted artist. During a career spanning More than a half Cen Tury he has filled thousands tens of thousands of pages with his script sketches cartoons doodles and caricatures capturing the drama and the Absurdity of the passing scene both in and out of the courtroom. He uses a pen or a soft easy writing Pencil that Down t tire you. I write anything of any consequence at All by hand. Legal briefs books essays articles important letters. They should never be dictated to a a Nizer has eight books behind him including the immensely popular my life in court and the jury returns. A ninth reflections without mirrors an autobiography of the mind is going to press. He is also a sunday Painter Good enough for one Man shows at the Boston museum and the Hammer galleries in new York. Two presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon b. Johnson owned picture by him. A positively obsessive sketcher he has done Cari trial lawyer author Art captures of judges witnesses juries and other Law yers while arguing a Host of sensational divorce libel and proxy suits Many involving actors actresses and writers. "1 am Able to concentrate on what s being said while drawing Nizer confided during an interview in his sumptuous new York Law offices which com Mand a spectacular View of Central Park. Nizer also is a writer of songs that have been published and recorded and is a member of asap the american society of composers authors and pub Lishers. He has even copied pictures by Gauguin Matisse and de Chirico on scrim to be executed in Petit Point by his wife the former Mildred mantel. They no adorn the Walls of the Niezers dining room. I have a theory that whatever Talent person has if he will try it in other directions be will find it will expand himself Nizer said. If i have some Talent As a lawyer or a writer new York times Charles Higgins Nizer a separate sardonic humor. There is no reason Why it can t be expressed in a painting or a Nizer said he mainly uses acrylics. You can take them with you everywhere and All you need to add is some for fun i do cartoons. A cartoon is a Sepa i rate sardonic kind of humor. Mine Are More than just cartoons they provide revelation and insight into people s characters and idiosyncrasies that you would t dare to express his cartoons on a Napkin Nizer said Are also a Way to compliment people when they re shy or Intro Vertex. It s an easy Way to flatter them without embarrassing them to make them laugh while i comment on things they have said or might have said in a humorous has done As Many As 150 cartoons in a Day. He decorated that number of place cards for an office party at his Law firm of Phillips Nizer Benja min Krim and Ballon. Evelyn Keyes Starlet o Marathe Jolson Story and the mating of Millie. In 1947 a Survey of theater owners placed her first on a list of the 10 most promising Box office personalities. Elizabeth Taylor was in fifth place. Keyes shrugs. I had the world by the Tail. I could have been an important actress. But i Dinh pay my she says that the Columbia studio chief Harry Conn withdrew his support for her career when she refused to be intimate with him and she spent much of her time in bed with other people looking for the Price charming who was part and parcel of the Money Fame and riches she greedily expected from made More men than movies said a recent review of her Book. That is something of an exaggeration. She made 44 movies. The Book mentions Only 20 lovers and four of them became her husbands. Her first husband was a handsome Young alcoholic who blew his brains out when she left him. Her second was the hungarian movie director Charles Vidor. She was the third of the director John Huston s six wives and the last of the bandleader Artie Shaw s eight wives. Actually none of them were marriages she says they were legalized love then she reconsiders. No i was married once. With Artie it was really a she married Shaw in 1957, a year after her Lover Mike Todd her relationship with Todd lasted longer than some of her marriages left her for Elizabeth Taylor. They Are still married although they have not lived together for the last eight or nine years. Well get divorced Only if Artie finds someone else to marry. I Don t intend to get married again. Not Ever. My father died when i was 2, and i spent most of my life looking for a new daddy. I m grown up now. There comes a time when you have to Stop repeating your mistakes. I m perfectly capable of taking care of myself and i intend to do that for the rest of my used to mock her for being a reserved Southern lady Overly concerned with what the neighbors would and she could never understand How Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier could live openly shame Lessly together when Vivien was Scarlett o Hara in gone with the wind and she Evelyn Keyes was Suellen scar Lett s younger sister. But her autobiography published by Lyle Stuart not Only gives the names of her lovers Keyes As a Star actress in the 1940s. Including Anthony Quinn Kirk Douglas and David Niven but also the physical Quality of their relationships including her own Early frigidity. The Days Are gone when people could write Sweet Little Ladylike books she says. Evelyn Keyes is going to write her autobiography of yeah who s she who cares you can t go Back and make a movie like they made in 1940. They blew the Jolson Story up to 70 Millimetres and tried to bring it out again. It did t work. You can t write yester Day s Book either. Look at people Magazine. This whole country is one big gossip column. I suppose i was most influenced by Erica Jong although the Book was also partly written out of my psychoanalysis. I thought what do i have to offer that would be of interest i m an american product the Ameri can dream of a few million people the 17-year-old girl who came to Hollywood and starred in movies and wanted to marry a instead of a Prince Keyes found in Hollywood men who were not interested in any particular body. It was simply that a female was the product the Fuller Brush the shiny new car they were Selling that year. They were obsessed by cleavage How to show it How to hide it. If you were going to be in their picture they wanted you to be a sexual object. I played the girl who gets the boy. Producers have to find you sexually attractive or they feel their picture is going to go out the she herself was protected first by Cecil b. De Mille who signed her to a personal contract and dropped her a year later then by Charles Vidor who made sure the predatory males who lunched daily in Harry Conn s private dining room understood that Evelyn Keyes was private property. As her career started to climb she was More Able to protect herself. As you got More successful you got More untouchable. But you also became More desirable. To get a Star in the Hay was something bigger to brag about " if the actress could go Back to 1936 and that 17-year-old Atlanta girl Evelyn Keyes she would t have come to Hollywood at All. It was a dumb thing to do. The trouble is that All the real decisions in our lives Are made before we know what to she would she says quite seriously have become a writer. Keyes published her first novel / am a billboard in 1971 and is now at work on a second. The new novel will be handled by the agent Irving Lazar Well known for his ability to get half million Dollar con tracts for his clients who include the former president Richard m. Nixon. So she expects she May end up with riches after the moment Keyes is she invested in Mike Todd s around the world in 80 Days and after a certain amount of unpleasantness Todd s estate grudgingly gave her her profits. And she owns an excellent pre columbian Art collection which she acquired from John Huston after their divorce. He refused to split the collection with her and insisted on tossing a Coin All or nothing and she is now living in a furnished apartment in Westwood All plastic Flowers provided by the management. Her possessions Are in storage in the East. She brought with her to California Only a dictionary her portable typewriter and an exercise bicycle on which she pedals five Miles a Day while watching the game shows on television Keyes expects to Settle More or less permanently in Cali fornia having just sold the Connecticut House in which she lived for the last decade although it hardly matters her marriages and love affairs and the spaces in be tween have carried her to key West fla., new York Connecticut Paris and Spain. The Only yearning for a place she has Ever Felt is for the House she and Artie Shaw built and lived in for five years in Spain before he became restless and insisted they leave. God knows i be never been homesick one Day since i left Atlanta. I have no roots. I deliberately set out to destroy them and i did. If there s any such thing As a Hometown for me it s Hollywood. I was formed Here As an her Book seems to have a bitter tone but Keyes denies that she intended one. 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