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The Man Who Invented The Bathing Beauty
From Leonard Mosley
Cannes, May 7, On the terrace, for instance, either. They supplied their own party that the girls who get all these long, third dimension. The girls we was a
low whistles from the eritled 'see in Olms nowadays are round acbined to be making when they appear in Italian films and healthy and beautiful-but everyone happy except were giving yet another per- I can't help feeling that coin- Mack Sennett, the man who formance of the net they do pared with my bathing beauties invented bathing beauties best-sitting still in the minimun they all look rather flat."
Mack Sennett doesn't like and slapstick films. He ar- amount of clothing while other
people look at them.
modern film comedians ellher, rived here from Hollywood
Hollywood is soon to make hin In the library, Gloria de Haven ile story as a picture."I hope this week.
was listening avidly 10 the
they can fit in plenty of the old conversation which a The setting was Prince Aly literary
used to make. slapstick films 1 handsome young Spanish actor' Khan's magnificent Riviera villa
want to see shots of
Ford (which looks rather like an off-waring into her ears. In Sterling, Chester Conklin, Lary the Itunge, Yvonne de Carlo was Semen, Chaplin and great comics white wedding cake) on the alternating audience with bull like that. It wouldn't be the shores of the bay of Canries. fighter Mario Cabre (who did not game if they tried to reconstruct
recepilon for seem to be thinking of Ava The occasion was the cielegates to the International Cardner), end Aly Khan (who The modern comic isn't funny
World Coppfiskt. Hy strangement with Daily tereik.
sun was had turned a pleture Film Festival. The
face down Hayworth shining for the first time for two days, and the place was bebbing piano.) with the brown shoulders of
hundred half a
stors and starlets.
|| DON IDDON'S DIARY
COMET PROVES FINE
ENVOY FOR BRITAIN
New York, Tuesday. MERICAN aviation ap- plauds de Havillands and congratulates the Comet.
the
the gags of those old comedians,
of Rith enough. He is nothing but a on the ventriloquist'a dummy speaking what his scrip writers any - for him.
why.
1 doubt if there las
William Holden was having a gay time with a sultry Greek comedian left in films who can, star named Irene Papa antil his fall flat on his face. No comic wife came over and drily sug- I know dare try. It--because he gested he should detach him-
self and come back to Mama. Kuy Walsh (Whose performance in "Encore" is the hit of the Festival) was trying to prevent her eyes from popping out as she was introduced to a French Alm producer who had dyed his hair blue.
He Looked Sad
NLY Mack Sennett looked
ONL
Rad, He glanced across at
young
Michal
Hollywood actress Farmer playing the beach with her dog,
girl," ho
"A nice pretty
be- pamphlets have been distributed said. "But then they are all pico prominehee he says it won't be long
up neress the country. A doctored pretty girls. The place is lousy morn newspaper
service catches here,
have fore the 'but We cannot
with the G.P.O. We hope so. photograph showing him beam with them. Look at that ene ing over the shoulder of the over there." He painted to a everything.
physical edince invidious Russian General Zhukov is be-phenomenal been There have
the ing circulated. ·
known to Italian film-goers ns cleanliness of streets in Eurɔ-
It lea New I was in the Wings Now for the Atlantic comparisons, too, between
dirty and vicious Gina Lollabrigada: pean elties and those in
travellers campaign; it is despleable and "Have you ever seen such a
The Master Today. -Club-in-the. Biltmore Hotel the other evening and there AM glad that BOAC-have-York. Returning
achieve- have bombarded Mayor Impel dangerous, and cannot be over-figure? -But would I have given
the looked.
her a job as one of my bathing is atraid he will not get a laugh, interi proclaimed
with complaints, and
In Pegler,
the old days? was a group of Canadians
IL is the oldest BagIn the columnist Westbrook
In entertainment the big de-beauties any- and Americans there talk.
colur
ine bate
London's Certainly not, when I had giris than
who usually cannot see ing about little else
to attempt it now- cowardly York's like Bebe Daniels to choose from business, hut everyone. Is. too tring in Europe, writes:
with something instend-girls
They
the The Staf New York are Palladium and
showmen
know that adays. BOAC's flight to Johannes-
comic's I have ever Palace.
Jongest moment in a burg.
The sooner we can have the the dirtiest that
few want to know how and why the clse besides curves to give to the ad
become
ilfe is when he has to get up the public." scen anywhere, except n Transatlantic Jet on the
They are a dis- Palladium in Chiengo.
again after he has fallen flat Mack Sennett the better.
thinks the while Brace to the nation which has world's leading showplace in
his face and not sending the Palace lesser vaudeville
trouble with the glamour type the audience, into hysterics. the gall to lecture the
of film star these days is that We got back bathing.. breeds."
she no longer knows how to beauties again project herself..
"You have to give it to the British-they are' way uhend. Curious, with all their troubles and muddling they have managed to pull it off."
I was in the Little Cot- tage, a hang-out for flyers in 51st Street, the evening afterwards, and the pilots were concentrating more on the Comet than on their beer.
41
This spectacular commer- cink jet fight has done a lot more for British prestige Lion
dazen politicians' the best speeches. It is
from Britain for news months. And no one is try- ing to take even half the credit from us.
My barber, who should be familiar to you by now, says: "I've always told you the British were wonderful engineers." (He never told me anything of the sort).
least,
ment in spectacular advertise- ments here and hope our In- formation
people will exploit the success to the utmosi.
WIRI
Thousands of Americans are beating a path to Britain this month. The ships are sail- ing out with every cabin and berth occupied and the Bner's are taking off with every sent filled.
ers
The harassed mayor has de- air-clared a spring-cleaning week,
or rather two weeks.
Bro
"ક્:
Mother's week
is between
New
American
has
the
the
languishes..
Perhaps it is because American headliners like audience, the theatre, London, and the money.
supposed to say "would sign up
Mack
N
"slim.
when a girl in a black swimsuit came "NOW. "Talking films have ruined the up to be introduced.
there is the thed glamour girl She spend so glamour star.
for On the legitimate stage some much time trying to remember I have seen today who has the
said: thing called "Hook 'n Ladder" what she is
Sennett travel bureaux Dur
opened at the Royal and closed that she forgets to 'give' to her
bathing The critics public. My waking overtime, and cur psat-
beauties when she had gone. It was a hitting exactly
same night.
18- was Ulla Jacobsson, the tight note. It we don't make is also Mothers' Week here. the
I Mother
Day is big busi walked out. A disaster about didn't need to talk. They gave shady judgment on her for it
strike us all we wanted without open- was
whose nude fire-engines that didn't
ing their mouths from inside year-old Swede, the tiniest spark.
love seene in the Swedish plc- ness.
themselves.
ture One Summer of Haps According to 1 nailonol
the
piness" is observance spring committee on
she has display the Mothers' Day, 50.1 per- New York,
while buoyancy and optimism in the air, but it seems to me we are doing well on
more dollars, this year out of the tourist trade than ever be- fore, I will give up forecasting.
It could just be the weather in
all sectors
the American front.
Never so many
HERE have
of
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receive cent of all American mothers presents costing be-
dollars tween five and ten
£2 to 24 approximately.
But little ado
1.
Better Covered
TAKE
•
Gloria
is who
now
put made
Swanson,
Festival-andation of ing
ed great acting talent wearing clothes too.
It was starting to get daric Michal at Aly Khan's villa, and people the were drifting back from
When her into one
of terrace into the library. Yvonne
66UCI Ado About Nothing"
UC
town with also came to Claire Luce, but aroused tile Farmer's mother, in enthusiasm. Most people Millions of dollars are
down as Shakespeare's Day has this
my bathing beauties and put her e Carlo was in there Isten- volved, and Mothers'
into a bathing costume for the Ing to the same words that become second only to Christ- least-inspired play.
Alan Mortlock tells me that first time, she was more com- earlier on were whispered into mas as time for gift-buying.
the car of Gloria de Haven. never been
Jose Ferrer brake off his play pletely covered than most women Irving
executive Edwards,
pię many, British motorcars
The other night are nowadays when they go for Aly Khan had turned the The Shrike"
audience on a walk in winter. But was ture of Rita Hayworth
on the plano, American roads as now. There director of the National Com-
mittee on the Observance of and lectured the are hundreds of Austins, Hill-
its poor behaviour. After that glamour and personality sparking g'de up again Day, says; "Every
to William and was talking from every pore of her body. mens, Sunbeam-Talbots, Rileys, Mothers'
Marshall and "Hollywood's year this event grows bigger they did behave.
"Wo didn't
need three and MG.s about, and quite a
newest French star, Michaline Bentleys, and and bigger, and all retailers
films when Gloria Presie. few Jaguars,
on the avenues will reap the benets of this best way to knock the chip off dimensional Rolls-Royces
in a man's shoulder la to pat him was on the screen, nor with surging national sentiment and highways of New York.
Increased sales,"
on the back.
Mabel Normand or Pola Negri (Continued on Page 7, Col. 5) years I have motorcuts big and
For
uscd because Other officials of you-know- The Americans Uke winners American
fast and what suggest these cards on! and they love speed, so there they are is a fine Anglo-Amerlean glow racimy and available. But this gifts: "There's nobody like your hereabouts, at
among week i went along to a show- Mom," and "Remember Mother, aviation men.
room, turned in my American she never forgets.” juggernaut, and departed in the flight
I feel 1 think
which British made history and begins the ushamed to tell you that jet age
travel livery of passenger
was immediato. LIVE might have been given a waiting list, no restrictions, and earn two-thirds of the nation's
nothing to sign but, the cheque, money.
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Women's voles - out- numbered men's by 1,750,000 at
The salesman, who wanted the last Presidential election.
vertible because his commission outnumber the was than 2,000,000. would have been bigger, quite frank. He said: "If you want finish and workmanship and real performance, then it's this British-
men by more
L
Dunvan Jones says that the
STAFF NOT
·
H.Q. MAY
OF COMINFORM H.Q. LEAVE THEIR COMPOUND
From SEBASTIAN PRATT
Belgrade., up of Moscow's "peace offen- The bosses are two Rupsions
costs jo disrupt or
glow "young Cominform headquar- down the Anglo-American drive
inen"
to sell me an American con- At the next election they will A RAPID expansion at all Fort Sam is determined -Mihail Sualov, one of Stalm's HandJoint ters, Stalin's international to bulld West Europe's economle secretary of the Soviet Central Committee, and Suslov's deputy No wonder the politicians are organisation for controlling and 'milltary resources.
on the spot, Pavel Judin. to offend the Communist Parties both
Soviet propaganda through in a panic not femmes, and are stumbling all sides of the Iron Curtain, the Cominform in Bucharest is When Suslov Is over themselves to kiss babies has been carried out in re- now working high pressure Bucharest, Judin runs the clibw so, and holst small try on their The traffic. problem is
cent months.. acute here. that many New shoulders. Yorkers believe the city would
be better off if it followed Bri- tain's example and manufac- tured mall cars.
reporter of a local tabloid quiz- here,
zed pedestrians and motorists
dictated
tion Department which
not
relays
along two main lines
from the end of two private by the Kremlin:
wires, one direct to the Kecinlin My own view is that the
According to reliable in- 1. Tó delay and, if possible, and the other to the nearby vote ahould help formation, the former palace in thwart tha integration of Western Soviet Embassy, women's Eisenhower and handleap Taft, the once-swanky. Voleri Germany into the Western The United States can hardly Braniste district of Bucharest security system (this appears to Judia is head of the Informa- The other day the inquiring wait to have the General back which was taken over when the have first priorily).
Cominform moved from Bel- grade in 1948, now houses n 2 To put over Moscow's cur- the Kremlin's directives to Com staff of more than 1,200. Soviet rent line stressing the possibl-munist Parties in the Weal and foreign Communiata titles of "pozcoful- co-existence. There are four other main, almost double the number last of the Western democracies and permen's, all of them headed by Soviet Russians and in the main the Communist Eastern bloc."
staffed by Russian Communists.
The Military Departmen whose chief is Konstantin They also seek to reduce the Rokorovaky, the Soviet mor
on the subject. Five out of
six came out 'strongly for
as
smaller. Brish-type cars the only seluilon of the traffe problem.
Slower by mail
THERE
ان
Smearing Ike
year. IT. is unfortunate that some fanatics who oppose the
The palace, now prosaically General' are spreading a smear known as No. 50, and its ad-. watched campaign against him. The jaccht buildings are Democrats are not doing it, nor day aud night by Russian
are the Republicans who du not M.V.D. (secret poll.co) and damaging effects of the Western shal whom Stalin sent into is n move here also favour Elsenhower responsible, plainclothed agents. Only top embargo on imports of strategle land to become Defence
model
Soviet officials are allowed
to
the United 10
materials to Soviet-dominated has recently been broken up Slates postal service on
A little group of venomous go outside the compound,
口
The areas by dangling tempting offers into five sections 1052 mi) in men with big money pre pour-remainder of the staff live com- of trade before Wastem Govame British The
polson against the plotely isolated lives in two big ments and businessmen,
Most improvemm: is l'a to America has been found to be ing out
formation centro palace 'slower than the Pony Express. General.
blocks evacuated for, Ostensibly the Cominform is cerns itself with the In fact, it is so bad that It.
on the bus Is hardly worth writing letters
cinemas for the ex run by a council be 18 nominat- of reporta any moro. By the time they
themselves and ed. by its member parties in military strengia tha
Rusela and hor six Exatelliten, The Election of agents flat. are delivered they are mean
together with Franco and Italy, work is enrried out by Ingless:
Reasons for the expansion are This council. is, however, in fact Personnel Bureau on wh a hireling of the New Dealers believed here to be the hotting powenical.
Hurdans sit and and hundreds of thousands. of
A new New York postmaster has just been appointed,
He is being called successive-their use, with schools, clinics, ly a nick man, a Jaw, a Roman stores and Catholic, a warmonger, a Negro-clusive use of
thole familles baiter and a coddler of the col- oured, a tool of Wall Street and