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LAUGHTON
EVEN pillars has Sir Alexander Korda. Seven famous careers, which he has built from foundation-or helped to build-and around which he has built his own film- making career.
Soven names which have supported his production London Films,
company,
33
OBERON
LEIGH
RICHARDSOŃ
LEAN
THE SEVEN PILLARS
now flying its 21st anniver- thought
"dowdy." sary flag.
The names are:--
Marle Oberon
Charles Laughton Vivien Leigh
Sir Ralph Richardson
Deborah Kerr Sir Carol Reed David Lean
Switch now to longitude
the
KERR
the LIFE OF KORDA
new stor
was
He claimed that he spent » month and £7,000 doing what was necessary.
By LOGAN GOURLAY
Set him in a party and from Yet when the war came in 1039 him will flow the talk of A he owed about £2,000,000 to the When Korda heard this he witty, cultured, elviilsed man- Prudential Assurance Co., who
supplled surprisingly punctuated on oc had
come of hi said tersely:
casions by an uncivilised bar- production enpital. rock-square expletive,.
"I spent 1wo years £12,000 on Miss Oberon."
and
It was only right and fitting
Though he has never
been
that she should return to the disinterested in money-making, creator with the greater lavest- his approach to film-malting is to stardom. and essentlaily that of the creative ment-back marriage, with Korda,
artist.
Looking back on the marriage,
x years after it had ended, that day in the Queen Elizabeth she told me:
"I'll always be grateful
Big profits
,
war
ended, the Industry
rushed
BEED
Hosle T
"W
jesst *qu
I, 11. There have been thosU like Christine Norden: and Kieron Moure, who have falled to stond the strain, pabbi
And, despite the strength, of the main seven, there have been the films which as Korin, soya In the Gilbert and Sulliydy sore- word are best forgolten--Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1., Claudlus, started before the war and buyer Anished, and Anna Karenina. Charitably I will forget the u.hers.
With thic Brith Alm
What has Korda gained from into one financial crisis after the 21 years? He his say his another. But pillared Korda agrocintes, a sizable personal Survived. He allied his Lon- fortune, but he refuses to dis don Films production company close the exact extent of Ho with distributing company, has tastefully appointed Coffees British Lion, charmed £3,000,- In Pcondilly. 000 from the
State's Alm
finance corporation, and
Jaunched nti ambitious pro- The eighth
Kramme,
He could afford to look bone- volent at the party,
As the Rank empire declinext
controla tho recently ch- much
Hinted, well-equipped Shep- of its talent moved to Korda. Then retired from netive perton studios.Ho has a THE making of films was as direction himself he needed, as luxurious pent-house apartment 32 deg. latitude 50 deg.
ti hazardous well as stars, a team of necen- in a Lontion luxury hofe). And- I was half-way across
His enemies (he has a few Onancial operation for the pro-plished young directors aruncl } 1138 his celebrated Pyacht the Atlantic in the Queen
despite the charm) say that his ducer.
tum. So his sixth and seventh Elsewhere. tastes are too esoteric, that he is Elizabeth, and pillar No. 1,
out of touch with the common Refusing to panie he fell back pillars became Carol Reed and
David Lean. Merle Oberon, a fellow pas-
publle. Yet they have is admit on his eighth pillar, turned his
From Reed came The Third aenger, was talking to me Alex, of course. We're still very that throughout the 21 years of soothing charm on his creditor.
and more recently from her and Man
forcsecing a long war with R Lean Sound Barrier, both professional, with Sir Alex ever been closely associated with the publle queue to see subjects world shortage of new films he towering achievements. Korda.
Alex can over be completely which are labelled box-office secured the reissue rights of disassociated. He has such great They were married in chara." June, 1939, and divorced six Junes later. Now in Novem- ber, 1951, she was able to look back with a new per-
Champagne
poison."
That first production for London Flims, The Private Life of Henry VIII, was an example, He was warned that the public were more Interested in the
+
Around him were only three of the original. pillars Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Carol Reed, and David Lean, Sir some of his earlier successes like So 21 years have passed and Ralph is the only one of the Four Feathers, which were later these are the Seven Pillars of five star pillars still under, con- to bring him handsome returns. Korda. There have been others, ices to him.
Best Mound, the main pile, supporting In 1941 he went to Hollywood like Frank Launder and Sidney future whatever crumblés......... But whatever happens in the to make Lady Hamilton with Gillat who made the anniver- he still has that eighth pillar.
spective on those years of THAT is the keyword in the Private life of a chambermaid Vivien Leigh, who by then had say lm Gilbert and Sullivan which, in the words of a’buki-
marriage.
4
lite and carreer of Hungarian- born Sir Alex Kordn, who first
but he persisted.
The film sparked a new era in "They were gay,
adven came to this country in 1931. British production, brought new
to He arrived equipped with early prestige อแส studios and turous years tempestuous experience of journalism and established young Korda, of the sometimes, but never dull. Alm-making on the Continent long, inquiring nose, as a power I enjoyed them while they and with that boundless,but in the business. lasted though I've no regrets never over-cbtrusive Hungarian It also set up the second, that they are over."
chair,
looked out over
to á alled charm. Churm. creative flair and
working sturdy, 2
all, he can
ard
well-buttressed
She leaned back in her deck knowledge of in technicalities, in the person of Charles
is the eighth Korda pillar, Laughton the Understanding Atlantic which after a night of sympathise with a disgruntled storm had turned to calm. She director, mollify said: "I used to enjoy a storm technician, soothe like last night's, but not any
mental actress. longer.
Star makar
a
truculent
a lompera-
Korda surveyed his 300-add guests with a benevolent look in
thick spectacles.
Failure, but
grown to international stardom
and the money-spirning lap- nece associate, "could charm in Gone With The Wind. His piest Days of Your Life,
money out of an empty safe," reunion with his Leigh pillar was fortunate,
THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN
Though Hollywood made, Lady Hamilton was British In essence, and it caught the atten- high places. A year later, and
tion and favour of those in
in
his arrival 11 years after Britain, Korda knelt before the
King to receive his knighthood.
that charm again.
wat lol 42da
?
WARTIME ATOM SECRET
97 Amper?
Me
...
AN AMUSING atom secret whelly fervos worked out
-
Wardcur There were Jealous Street rivals who circulated the malicious story that he had received it because he had bought the Alm rights-with no intention of using them-of a is out the precise rea- exactly how nerves work,
The dectors knew that traces by an influential
son why a wartime atom of the The charm was early visible IN 1936 Korda, planning to book written
metal sodium present But it was Lady at the champagne-drenched
bomb committee was known inside ench nerve play an essen repeat his initial success, politicien
rate Hamilton and pillar Leigh, at party in London which ended cast Laughton in the title
time still that
plain Mra by the cover name of tai part in conducting “nervous after the premiere of Gilbert of Rembrandt. It failed to bring
who helped-MAUD.
messages, But they could get and Sullivan, the 21st anniver- much money to the box-office, Laurence Olivier,
no further without measuring. When the committee was "ALEX" (sho.silli pronounced sary film of London Films, the though it strengthened Laughton most to make him Sir Alex.
the nome caressingly, company which Korda founded as an acting pillar and Korda
present. a man who knew how to he gets rid of his accent and
Said another actress: "When being set up in 1940 Danish exactly how much sodium is lingering over the X as his to make The Private Life of as
Nobel Prize winner Niels The amount is for too small erect such a thing and gain gains fuil command of the intimate friends do), "Alex first Henry VIII.
Bohr sent a cable from to be measured by any chemical support from it.
the Baw me in the Elstree Studios
English language he'll be
So Keynes and Lewis canteen when I was hoping to
knight in the German-occupied Copien means.
hit on the ingenious Idea l'of get a part in a quickie,
Later, when Laughton settleet most charming his twinkling eyes magnifled by in Hollywood he sakl; "It wasn't untry." It was a wounding, hagen to one of the British putting a piece of animal nerve
scientists concerned.
inside a big atom??" furnace ‘At easy to leave the magrelle Korda bigoted remark--but there was
It told how a certain Maud Harwell and leaving it there to Ray had been taken into cook along with a piece of
sodi washing
(sodium custody by the Germans. bonate). The scientist interpreted After 'a while the podium in the name as an ingenious the nerve and the washing soda became radioactive,*,, glvilg'on amagram for radium, and rays which could be measured. the cable as
The doctors news that
krwictly Bohr's supply of radium had how much sodium there was in been confiscated. He decid- the washing wuda. So by com- paring the number fofurtiys †ed to use MAUD as a cover given off per second by the name for the secret com- nerve with the number coming off from the sodaj:they could mittee.
calculate how, much,sødturn was Years later Bohr explain in the nerve, Tuay, 16 ed that there really was a Maud
TRY.OUT! Salóg Ray,
he whom thought the British scientist FIRST Bible of the
"Before that I had been work- ing in all kinds of jobs, even as a dance hostess in a West End club at £2 103, Alex changed all that.
Now nearly 60, he is greyish
and a week, haired, Ican,
usually slightly stooped ng though he were leaning forward to pay a compliment or receive oné.
"In 1933 he gave me the part of Anne Boleyn in The Private
Life of Henry VIII, and I found He replied graciously to his
he had made me a star,"
gucats* compliments in his low voice, still slightly accented - Two years later, however, he soft and appetising as Hungarian allowed his product the girl he goulash. had transformed from Queenie Thompson, dance hostess,
charm."
role
wha
read: more
Stars
move
But Korda establishing his third, decorative, plilar-Vivien Leigh, TA 1835 he had given her a five- year contract and a year later he presented her in her frst I those early days of the war Korda was helping to build In Fire Over another plllor-the Afth-Scols- starring England.
Deborah born, reddish-haired Кетт Around this time, and in the next few years, pillar No. 4, Hellywood finally transported
she Films for Korda are the most. Ralph Richardson, was leading her, but not before
subject of com- support in films like Things To made two films, The Life and not Feathers, and The Lion Has Perfect Strangers, which brought his friend and film associate background-his reading
confined to books of the film: Wings.
to London Films, and Darryl Zanuck.
his picture-gazing has been done
showed Korda again as a skliful Когда well as
und Mr Zanuck was not impressed in art galleries as
London Filma selector of material for pillar- by his friend's handiwork. He clhemas.
appeared to be firmly founded building.
to
had
Merle Oberon, starto go to fascinating
versation. But he has a wide Come, Divorce of Lady X, Four Death of Colonel Wimp and
Hollywood-for experience
under
EGYPT'S MAN OF IRON
'CAIRO.
S I sat in the modest
From THOMAS CLAYTON
AT HOME
a huge glittering chandelier pro- vided a furry, homely Victorian louch
knew.
new US:perlim Täkalist Civil Service historians poliomyelitis (infile Bridly- sis), will almost certifly ba have since had fun trying made in Glasgow this summer. to decipher some hidden American "bendfactory) hutne meaning in the letters offered to present the Glasgow public health department with 'MAUD.
armall supply of the adrum, The most fancied solution which can give protectioni according to Sir George against the complaint for up to
five weeks,~~~ Thomson, who reveals the
LET HIM SWIM is "Military Appli- cation of Uranium Detona-
PEOPLE Usabled by pollo tion."
story
OH THOSE TESTSI.
commodation and
.
hotel ac-
ta
ura beln reaccess swimming-Britain be-
A suburban villa of The eldest, Salad ed Din, to do as they are told," he ex-
The door to the other sitting Britain-baiter General is 14. He was named Farouk, plained.,
room was closed. It is reserved Then he showed me his home, fo: Naguib's wife, Naguib, a Naguib, I could see little to but got his new name when
devout, practising Moslern, does Digyda new master has a six- remind me that I was in the his father kicked out King romed villa just like any other is permit his wife to appear home of the Middle East's Farouk. Next comes Aly, suburban residence owned by
betero
After months Girangers. most powerful Prime Minis aged 12.
of Nagus rule no diplomat in All peptic ulcer patients caure of an uny doctor, college professor or
Cakro can say more than that she He has refused to move into is the daughter of an Egyptian The youngest, Youssef, more lavish quarters, such as one Army officer, The stocky, smiling aged 10, playfully swung of Farouk's maller palaces.
The sitting room by now aneit general, after finishing his his school satchel at his
strongly of the crumbled alar Security, precautions are a customary breakfast
cherools which Neguil smokes in father. He, at least, does minimum. A barbed wire bar- his old briar pipe.
ter..
of
middle-class business man.
yoghourt, brown bread and not take his king-deposing price regulating the flow ricade, a sentry box and
butter, atrodo out on to the father too seriously. bourgninvilles-shaded porch.
His
·
Definite Ideas
as I should like of them these
Sabre-rattling
works
to
the villa ora hịs only ****** protection..
seemed Whole three sturdy song
They do not prevent the neigh- tumbled about him like pup-
bours of the all-pormestid Nagulb separate dels chunky, 5. 04. from dropping in for a friendly soldier relaxing in his own fron pies.
"I am thrice blessed with chat when he is at home--which General
room
stern-faced from the
sabre-rattling whose "Come on, you'll be late such cons, I don't see as, much is not often these days.
speeches have thundered round We were served coffee by the world. for school and set a bad days," mid proud father Nogulb
Then a black merusine once example, which will never to me as they clambered into Nagub's only servant, a white-
Egyptian. Nagu robed
pays owned by Farouk Naguib's ille him out of this £2,000 a year on, a German-bull! Opel, is kept do," he said to them. And the car taking them to school. then, in his starched khaki The general has ordered that salary as a general. He has in the garage-drew up to take
gn him to us office. drill uniform, he made a at school they must receive no rafines to trant himself
in pay.
It was cocorted by amed out- 'privileged treatment. And, ha
FOOD, One of two in the villa. It by a Jeep with an armed squad. boys' shoes wero shined and up children.
wo fled with the type of ful- As he entered the nourino ho that they were dressed cor-
"I think it is best to treat ture found in mary middle-cines ilmy rolurned salutes, and rectly as the sons of á them as pels but standing, na mgyptian home. An inexpensive become once more Egypt's man general should be.
nonovnero, mark you. They have but ornate gilt dramed mirror and of iron,
soldierly check to see if the has deindle ideas on bringing I looked round the sitting rider motor-cyclists and preceded
to oths
who have
been subjected they can pasi on the
the complaint to the unpleasant "gruel test meal in hospital will applaud
Hunt,
that
which
this hes happened. is enough to
The number of cases in
Infantia Por32 Fellow.
the ambillon of Dr Jack Naylor worry
ship chief is dedicated 10 getting Poilo rid of this routine ordeal on during the fir
Ho
is Infectious
an
the ground that' It gives the neute attack. But once al patient doctors lille reliable informa in nt enough to be out of bed ho Hon.
To prove his point to doubt is no longer a soures of infection, по matter what permațient Ing doctors, Hunt has bullt an disability he has suffered, al
."glass ingenious which simulates the action of the human In his Guy's Hospital tury,
stomach.
preciso
stomach, Inbora-
Dro
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MONKEY AUZZLEŘÍ
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Cole and-P..-Gites have—ils.
doffing their.
MEIHEITAHWAS
by mortar-Boards "to young Dr getting them lopen a puzzle D. Keynes and Dr P box. Some persistently used the Lewis, of Cambridge University, right hand opera
werd jert-handed,
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duodenal ulcera.
--(London Express Service)