Remarque out of Germany before the
war, he drove but in a car which he
then stored in Switzerland before mov
ing to the United States. He still owns
it, and he and Paulette shop together
in it. They live with one maid, an
Egyptian cat, and rooms full of Egyp
tian mummy masks. Paulette does all
her own cooking, while Remarque
is busy writing.
For the writers, of course, the prob
lem is easier. Writers can work any
where, and they dp not regard solitude -as
a mortal enemy, the way actors do.
A. J. Cronin, in Lucerne, lives almost
the life of a hermit, and is rarely seen
by anyone. Georges Simenon's colossal
output of detective stories continues
in Lausanne. Peter Viertel lived the
life of a happy bachelor at Klosters
until he married Deborah Kerr, where
upon she moved in and began to tidy
up the chalet.
On the other -hand, there is the
diverting spectacle of the stars who.
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In his Swiss abode near MontreuxJ Noel
Coward deserts the gay theatrical whirl
momentarily for a ling at the keyboard.
do not like to be alone and are either
seldom in Switzerland or are there
and going crazy.
Jack Palance, perhaps, can be ex
cused because his wife left him while
he was at the Villa la Jacquiere, and
he roamed around Europe trying to
effect a reconciliation. The villa at
Epalinges is big, with six bathrooms,
and to fight off loneliness Palance
sometimes surrounds himself with a
hard-drinking bunch of tough Ameri
can intellectuals who regard his prob
lems without sympathy.
"He is always in my room," one of
them complained. "He recites poetry
which he has written or sings a song
he has composed. But the last line of
the lyric never seems to work out,
somehow. Or he discusses the stories
he would like to write and never will."
A problem that faces all the Holly
wood stars now, or will soon, is
that of education. William Holden's
children go to Swiss schools. Deborah
Kerr's children by her first marriage
go to school in England. The Ustinovs
and the Burtons are putting off the
day when they will have to decide.
As one of them said to me, "You
think of Swiss schools as being very
cosmopolitan, but they are not. The
children learn bad French because most
of the other children are foreigners
like themselves. They have to waste
a year learning the geography of their
canton. Not even the geography of
Switzerland, mind you, useless though
even tliat is, but the geography of their
local canton!"
- Van Johnson is the only star so far
to take the plunge into Switzerland
and climb out again. He has abandoned
his home there, and he told me why.
"At first it was marvelous," he said.
"I looked from my bedroom window
with a glorious view over a Swiss
mountain. Next morning it seemed
even lovelier. Then, after some time,
a strange thing, happened. I noticed
the mountain seemed to be coming
closer. Every morning I checked, and
it was true. One morning I awoke and
found it in my garden. I screamed,
'Aaarrrggghhh !' and fled. If I hadn't
gotten out of the country, it would
have killed me."
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