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Ras Harian
GRAPEFRUIT
EORGE JESSEL
Is
short, dapper, a top Hollywood musical producer, a former song and dance man, and the author of "The Jazz Singer." Apart from all that he has a line unusual in show business,
With little prompting but with a stack of invitations he will stand up and make the bost after-dinner speeches of any Hollywood personality.
WILL
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
WE'LL PUT THEM IN THEY'LL BE THIS SACK AND
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TAKE THEM TO THE MY PILLOW
CHIEF, FIRST THING
IN THE MORNING.|
GEORGE JESSEL
holds forth
SET HIM TALKING
Even Vic Oliver, the master of the ancient jest, appeared to
wince' at that one.
Ah, Kenneth
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There is enough high-pressured action, involved intrigue and turbulent technicolour melodrama in "Lydia Bailey" to pack a schoolgirl's annual with non-stop thrills How safe it is to predict the sue- from cover to cover. and
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A LIGHT-WEIGHT for British Alm "Brandy the Parson is praised in New The title "Toast Master York this week and American
art-cinema audiences will Gonoral of America" was member a little-known bestowed on him by Presi- KENNETH MORE.
He has a nonchalant, ellort dent Truman,
George Jessel, 54 years old less style of playing
in which keeps him in. Alm a little, was and greying London last week resting from stage work 52 playing wecks a Aims and speeches. I went to year.
In the West End he is in the dinner with him and he said:
1802, and Napoleon Bonaparte But William Marshall as the "Such a change to see half a TERENCE BATTIGAN play
Blue Sen." In
is stretching his tentacles to the Haltan tyrant, "King Dick" of grapefruit and not automatical
flim shooting ho is Lyrics and ay 'Ladles
ance French possession of Hall the elght wives and six-foot five friend CLARK GABLE'S Gentlemen, this is an evening
In the Caribbean, But the inches is the person to watch. Moscow. to remember → a memory to
Kenacth More in his mid-Haltans remember slavery; they of deep sonorous voice, his film conjure with."
all about French rule, personality equals his size. thirties shares a bachelor mews know house in Kensington with Freedom at any price, with the Francis has one of those parts several
of bogs golf-clubs weird beat of jungle druma difficult because what she says is (handicap 18). He is so busy telling of every stronger and his small compared what she he has little chance to play.
engineer, doings.
must convey. Perfectly she fills school ended when he WAS leafore, once an
his comedy
the demands of understatement. nine years old. Then he went Windmill as the straight man
Suspicion is thick on the air into show business and found to comedian GUS CHEVALIER, of tense alertness in Haiti. Into
The jungle and the voodoo time to read-and remember- "That taught me timing," ho background
this
dances give their own peculiar Shakespeare and Homer while
debonair atmosphere which is countored on tour.
straight actor and COCHLANspecting hero, a let me into a musical. Timing but, dogged American lawyer, with the utter incongruity of a u comedy line helped all the Alblon Hamlin (Dale Robertson) miniature French court set up on way."
has come to get the signature of Haiti with Bonaparte's sister, one Lydia Bailey (Anne Franels) Pauline, presiding. Dignity and
decadenco, on some vital documents.
He nearly always uses that word "conjure," "It sounds to
my
educance as if I had
But
his ning
months
'Two patches'
дл
at
Jessel was a dancer in Lon- don during World War I (his ancestors were British-in- cluding a Sir George Jessel, a Master of the Rolls).
says.
at
the
"Then I became
I ECO Mr Moro as a star.
.and Rex
מי
REX HARRISON and his wife LILLI PALMER
The Germans bombed. the in London after their annual
Crazy
walics
Our
to
Ande
Our heroine sits, aloof and To the story, you know the lovely, on the plantation of the ending. Verdict: Enjoyable in handsome widower Gabriel spite of itself. theatres in which he played holiday-at-home at their Porto-d'Autrement (Charles Korvin) to and he said: "I finally went fino villa in Italy.
After whose small son she is governess
thought: The pro- home to escape from my bud Miss Palmer. "I have all
"Nicer than an hotel," sald
gramme includes a "short" worth ing. That read: 'Jessel and
my and step-mother-to-be,
seoing for itself alone. It is of Edwards-two patches from a books there and I need to swot Gabriel la one of Napoleon's Rafael's frescues in the Sistine
Quilt Patc
up for stories to tell on my agents, and really has a very Chapel in Rome, and glimpses of Back in America he married New York TV
show." Her
successful television poor "deal" es he loses first his Michel Angelo's sculpture-and- the second of his three wives, NORMA TALMADGE, the sim technique is telling anecdotes mother, then his dancec, then painting. Beautifully presented.
-Sue Dawson. starred on Broadway:
classics, his son and finally his life. or reading from the worked with EDDIE UANTOR "Useful, too," said her
hus- and AL JOLSON; and went to band. Lült loves telling stories Hollywood-first as a come- and TV gives her the chance of dian, then as a producer. And gotting them off her chest
with he started speaking after din- without coming to mo
them.
ner.
have filmed
Invitations now pour in from The Harrisons the navy, the ΣΠΟΥ, the "The Four-Poster," a story with
"Fine, marines, the Democratic Party only two characters. and the owner of a hot dog suld Rex. "We're always in stand on Sunset Boulevard. He camera-there's no one else to has spoken for all of them
cut 'to."
On the cuff
Was
*'Indies They
I asked him why he such a success. He said: "Most other after-dinner speakers can hardly get beyond the and gentlemen stage. have no reading or they need a retinue of gag-writers. I make up gugs as I go along. But I write everything down Not even the coughs are of the
first.
When he returna to Now
(London Expre_Service.) *Nero's "arbiter of taste.".
I
119 Years Young
TALKED recently with two ex-matinee
York this time im producer idols whose combined ages Jesscl (his pictures include total-119 years. They both many BETTY GRABLE musi- | said the same thing: "My cals) will appear on TV --- NO A
career is only just begin-
kind of after-dinner
speaker,
of course. His opening remarkning. (already planned) will be
the sickle."
Sixty-one-year-old Jack
think this medium is ripe for Buchanan, who as a musical comedy star of the twenties He will also make films away had a fan mali undreamed of from his old boss DARRYL by any stage star today, had ZANUCK. "I was the Petro- just returned from America nlus at his court," says Jes- and "my first holiday for sel.
three years."!
I asked him: "How long In October, he goes back
Lm Fred Astaire have you been a producer for films with Zanuck?
Dand-waggon-bis Arct flim "Ten years,” said Jessel. for 13 years "Why are you leaving now?". "Ten years," said Jazzel.
screwed his monocle,
Fifty-eight-year-old Cari Brisson, Danish ex-boxer and
Ant gentleman George un-singing star of the twenties, in reidindling memories of early successes in
ärst-ever his Oh, Valoric
cabaret
nt appearance
the VALERIE HOBSON, con- Cafe de Paris,
aldered elegant and intel- "I feel like 10. I am an ligent, was the representative actor more than a singer. I of films in VIO OLIVER'S TV uct for them, thay's my. show "This Is Show Business,"
secret.
hami't My career Megant? Hardly. Miss Hob- started yet, TV, that's my
future son giggled coyly as she talk- ed about nim clothes (not har
Intelligent
Hardly,
To co-ordinate the salivities of voluntary wolfare organisations, and
premate ha knowledge and
And the man who can mill practice of social welfare work. own
mava an audience to laughter Information on shy Social Welfare.
Mies or tears had, this to pay about matter and particularsins. "ARBOC] Sta Hobson produced a pleca Membership wit be sindly supplied material, placed it on e
of fans: The people who follow
slaging bare ed me when I began by the Secretary.
shoulder and asked Oliver: to were not Leon-agers. guess what it was. Then she were called flappers, and they strap."
then."--Ken Smith,
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Beauty, talent and mutual liking create a bond: between this lovely: actress, Andree Debar, and the while Persian kitten, Saha. They both have important parts in the episode "Envy" from the continental Dim
The Seven Sins,"
"Envy," starring Andree Debar and Orfen Tam- burl and directed by Roberto Rossellini, is adapted from the novel "The Cat" by Colette. The story is about a beautiful young French girl whose marriage to a middle-aged Italian painter is disrupted by her jealousy of the husband's much-loved pot kitten-Reuterphoto.
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