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• THE STORY SO FAR. Certrude Lawrence-worshipped by the theatre worlds of New York and London, escorted by Noel Coward. Douglas Fairbanks, a marquis e and an as-is bankrupt. She earned 46000 a year, spent £10,000 and now owed £24,000. The law turned her out of her fat, ollowed her 210 a week to live an... and still her name blazed in fights,
HEN Gertrude Lawrence was mnde bankrupt, Bill O'Bryen and
Linnit, her managers, found her a temporary home, rent free.
Bill
Linnil
went to stay with O'Bryen and Gertie moved into Bill Linnit's flat in Albany Chambers, Piccadilly.
But she was hardly ever there. To fulfil the terms of her agreement with the bankruptcy authorities, she was to pay £50 a week until they declared her discharged. She was allowed £10 a week to live on. But she rose superbly to the occasion. "1 will work harder," she said. She began by Alming Rembrandt with Charles Laughton. This meant catching the workman's train to Denham at 6 am and no more glamorous nonsenso
113 CBPS.
She appeared in cabaret at the Cafe de Paris. This is a midnight show. Gertic was lucky if she got three houra' sleep a night. and shre
continued
to play at the theatre.
In a New York café.
In Tonight at 8.30
, a brilliant Coward show
Mr. COWARD TO
many him Garlle knew quile would have to leave Yet e temalued at the penki well she
ד
od he form And Gerlie con-her theatre, her beloved publk. tinual
pay ber mother's With Douglas Fairbanks, a child Jhwater, settle her father of the flim studios, there was no fatloring bills.
such conflict.
A1 tha
Noel 1036 end Coward came once more to the
When he grandmother died, Gertia unhesitatingly
poks fo
THE RESCUE
Fourth Article .
EX2015411421290312204467|||||ALOLJETTLASA 131GENDESANDAZIDJANAKALYEST
by NANCY SPAIN
with Charles Laughton,
England
The Hon. Ivor Guest, MP for Brecon, Lord Wimborne's heir, was there to meet her at the end of the gangway in Southampton.
Guost Ivor
was about the most eligible bachelor in Eng- land. He was an intellectual, He was an athlete. He won stoeplechases. He was the best ballroom dancer in Europe. Hie wrote books with itles like "The Ballet of the Second Em- pire" and "Napoleon ISI ST England." He was staggeringly rich, he was chairman of petrol company. He had oUICO given £1,850 for a pedigree
buli.
A
Hits...and hits
fabulous gay chelor was mur
rounded by re- portera eager to And out if he was going to marry Gertle Law- rence. AB he packed the luggage in boot of his car they both sald
But "No, no, no," Gertle must have wondered.
her
Might she marry Ivor Guest?
All that sunlit Coronation year he wha most attentive and help- ful, particularly about Pam's future. Gedle did not want her daughter to be an actress. Bo why shouldn't she be a novelist, sudden depres- unly friend")
pointer? Why shouldn't she go highes authority she could find suffered from
Essentailly here was #Philip was small comfort. He back to school? So eventually to ask that Sir Patrick Hastings slons.
married
was decided that Pam should 10 Madeleine should be made Great Britain's melancholia resulting from a low was Ambassador to the US.A... blood count, Gertle's 15 R Carroll. But he promised to tell go to Brillemont, a swank finish-
system
that needed endless Pamela that her grandmother ing school in Switzerland where,
curiously enough, Gertle left London in 1938 to rossetting. New York embraced was dead.
Maria Riva, have vivid memories f herself a share in "Tonight at
Mariene Pamela, now aged 18, earning facing up to
Dietrich's daughter, was Gerbe in this year, i was at 8.30," Coward's brilliant little play in "Tonight at 8.30" in New her with its exhilarating air, its
And York. She left some false friends juxury, And tnstantly Gertie her own Roedean with Pam,
living custom-raisers. 04:00 00 her daughter. We became fast her case for discharge from and malicious gossip, Pani came to stay with bankruptcy was about to come was talking me in the holidays after Gertie
the funeral. It cost her £60|rescut, Oddly enough, the Bun Al I have the receipt in that was needed to lift Gerlie front of me as I write. Pour back to prosperity was the same Gertie must have paid in cash, that hurt plunged her into Carey for she was forbidden by her Sheet. £3,000. Film star Robert bank to write a cheque.
Muntgomery lent her the money With she bought she needed.
school at
friends
WIZA
declared bankrupt.
Mobbed!
Line
ERTIE'S
Roedcan
wore
*
of the
that
Gertie weeps
to
as an actress,
exactly the same problems na
emotional
too, when she went America.
Would she ever
left the repertory company in sort of emotional Folkestone to cope
with her Pamela,
Garlie had ол She grandmother's
<death. arrived at Lydon Road in tine problem,
take the second call from back to America. She could hear her marry again? [ER mother saw her
find **sonicone mother weeping, 3,000 miles off at Southamp- away. "Shut up." shouted Pam, would she face a lonely old age,
Mrs Law-
"this call is costing you quarrelsome,
fortune." in- critica). furiating; a Jeast
H
ton,
rence.
adoring,
Everyone felt better. fart that Fairbanks was young Douglas now seen everywhere with Mar- 13kil
briefed Selene Dietrich. O'Bryen
In America she Patrick Hastings to plead for his had been attacked by columnists client. In his wig and gown, w!
who claimed she never returned Hastings awem from the High hospitality. Nevertheless, it was
Neve in Amerlea
1937 from Come to Carey Street. visits to load he pleaded in such honeyad Gertie Lawrence decided to live In term words. Never had he worked no Why" Because in New York.
infre hard upon a hard-hearted judge, she felt really well. quent, but spectacular. "My client has nothing now but Demurely dressed in her earning capacity," he said
inspired At the end of his navy blue, wearing a scarf with while spots, oration Gertrude Lawrence was Gertie could not have alcharged from bankruptcy, but behaved
better,
She agreed to a Judgment against the best vt
her for £3,000. formances as a "mother" that have ever seen. We stood on chairs to watch her and some people even mobbed her with autograph albums. It must have been a great relief for her to to put Brighton pennies in the slot machines on the Palace Pier with Leslie Henson and Douglas Furbanks, Jun
Have one
escape
10
year
per-
when
No wonder that years later, In World War I. Gertrude wrote passionate letters to the
Should sho
to nudge?
Or
with her her love affair
For every was over? public
her knows lody Leading When "Tonight at 8.30" closed popularity cannot last for ever,
Once
Gertie knew that her Gertie searched around her for In London for the next three
10
ber μαγ enough Gertie's health hag never been
mother loved her. And money
As years, whlie Gertle starred in hit good. She had lumbago (1919),
after hit on Broadway, we be- three weeks later her passage buck to England.
usual she was flat broke. But
Perhaps we followed by recurrent backaches, mother was dead.
American producer John Golden to forget IKT,
*** were jealous. eventually leading to a complete
Geric She hat
penniless,
planned to put Gertie into a play WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED, hysterectomy (1922).
all about the Oxford Group in pleurisy
But she put through (1923), wonsilitis usual,
transatlantic calls (1933) und least two
the autumn. He was prepared (1931), mastoiditis
to finance her holiday in Eng- pneumonia that required a blood one to 14, Lydın Road, Clapham, transfusion (1930). Always she the other to Philip Astley ("My land.
wus
as ཐ་
Next Saturday: Gortie In Love Again
OUSTING A DICTATOR-IN EASY STAGES
F
This was the Gertie's friendship will "Young Doug" attracted so much atten- tion Faintly moustached, more publicised
than the exits.
He
(almost)
m 1928, had just been divorced, lost.
hourly.
Douglas gave Gertie a motor cruiser, which Gertie launched, She was photographed launch- ing it, champagne flying in all directions.
They acted together.
and
EW dictators have been able to stage repeat performances of their Egypt's President
and
puldiers
an
By
JON KIMCHE
would
hustled off the set like a super- fluous extra.
What has happened
to
the
triumph that he was sure shortly before the attempted he would only have to walt, to
one to grect Salem and to hall him; hello.
of л
11
The
it
!
Naguib. lie was the popular
He smoked his pipe With him out of the way, the collating sphinx-like rival of He had been Officers
follow Colonel Nasser? hero-not Nasser.
Prophet, and waited for the final Free
Nagulb. A poll of the officers certain that, like the Nagulb also know it. He con- Prince of Wales, young Doug. Naguib has managed two.
the wheel had been making £200 a week Now has come the final act. tinued his public relations, with
would come to him. affectionate
Nasser showed have patience and smile,
assarsination of
would turn his way. had at the age of 13, in Hollywood. Naguib has gambled and pipe and
But in the end there is that twice as many voles from his Presidential home, He
They had all come to him, the had married Joan Crawford
no public made
appearances,
no room for Nasser and been cast for Neguib than had
the rell- extreme nationalists, IL hag Laken his younger he refused
that step every
been for Nasser. Naguib
It ---and
is
the Left, He was expocted to announce his
tho ол the Coulici
Lite of might look
The attacker and the attack glous brethren, endorge. atmost colleagues to Gertie
who departs. mistres Naguib engagement
For five crucial Right, the Parliamentarians, the Ali the Revolution Just 30 weeks ment of the regime-and
minutes after the shots had discontented—and he had the idol the while politicians, preachers, to destroy their one-line
fourtht for trump card: Nasser needed his bees fired Nasser and students came to Messiah in this reputedly pro- and leader.
Alexandria goodwill if not his formal signa Quietly and persistently him and to talk to him.
the control of the British stronghold of the Iwo Nasser know what was going Sudan, Tribesmen trekked
for crowd. He succeeded. The rest ture, if he wanted to ratify the Premier Nasser
Treaty. Apparently Intimate colleagues. Command- an-but he knew
new also that he many miles in their thousanuls could be left to the tried and Sucz
the Cairo could not go wrƊNEL. tested methods of und Major could do nothing about it; They er-in-Chief Amer
Salem, have burrowed and false step and Nasser and his his tour through the Sudan as- played truant together, going undermined Naguil's position colleagues would be out.
con- The assassin-designate sumed the proportions the roundabouta at Knutsford
hold the balance and whizzing down the helter-in public esteem, In the Sudan Sudan
of triumphal procession. And when veniently carried a portrait of
Next he But fellow-Arab power, and the Sudan was for Salem had finished, one of the Naguib in his pocket.
history also has her skelter on the same mat. They rulers. among his
Naguib.
props that had held Naguib in confessed and implicated others accidents. The plumber Latif kissed one another at railway
Of course, Naguib has also
position had been kicked away. who confessed in turn. And so aimed badly in the excitement stations and shouted "Goodbye,
on hla own
on down the line.
of the moment, and he brought darling" so that everyone could been burrowing
this Nasser also knew that
Next, Masser began a whis- AL every stage known oppon- donan the wrong man. overhear them. And they strenu-account to undermine the dicta-
Haking
third not pering campaign
the ents of Nasser wero implicated they were porial rule of the young officers. uneasy relationship could
So Naguib makes his sly denied ously
that
He, 100, started 30 weeks ago- continue
two t indefinitely: thero name of President Nagulb with by the confessions. But
exit, the son of the father who "that way" about each other.
Gordon at Diso They were as irresponsible to the young offers
a Sunday morning when would have to be a show-down. the "reactionary" opposition to stood out: President Nagu and had fought with
In Council Wity Salem he began to
But he the pre- the officers in Egypt.
Supreme Gule of the Khartum, the brilliant gradu- gether as a couple of children, stripped him of his office
whispe did not have to
for Brotherhood, el Hodelby.
ate, the self-taught philosopher. Had it not been for him, they premier and of is real author-
When
the negotiations Once more Salem was des- long.
the Baldwin-like diplomat who sald, Gertie might well have be-
left him Hy and
their come
the second Gertie
cleur that he was to capture it not from final phase it was
Now the Brotherhood can be manoeuvred the British out
Sexan, the modest retiring became a Countess of Dudley. empty shell of the Presidential patchet to the Sudan; this time with the British reached
tanding line discredited and, with it, Nogult but from Naguib. Naguib the British,
For Nasser For at this time when she
has worked poldier who began to believe Salom left without the usual sariliar to that of the Brother- niso, not seen with Douglas, she
publicity, He went right down hocd and Wardist opponents of well In these 30 weeks. The that he was irresistible, that he They accused him then of into the deepest Bouth which the proposed treaty with Bri- Sudan has not stirred; the Arab Was co popular that he could do Eric Dudley was lots of fun,
:been reputedly Holld
rulers have not protested; and anything who turned into Jain she had been able to seeking a personal dictatorship, hod
ino
the kind of Moslem Oxford Grouper but if
Egypilan pubile and BO of indulging in undue personal against any Egyptian connec- The President has made
ume and, like Danton, began to focus this with pro-Naguib officers stands that ho publicity, and of consorting tien. Just what Salem did or secret
all the opposition to the volutionary regime on himself. with the old party loaders. But what he told the tribesmen is Egypt's "Suez rebele; but, un- understand the importance
In the end, Nasser had no to they were careful
no not clean, but members of the like their Westminster counter- go farther; they loft him fo
these have not restricted Naguib has been dismissed neutral, Sudan Commission re- part,
· con- Unuo as head of the Slate.
adequate choles, ported incredible happenings themselves to parliamentary, from his office with
but without
It is the fateful climax of tho for precaution oniping: from They know
recent when Salem arrived.
they arranged
To Egyptian Revolution that it has Hittlo experience that the Sudan and ·This 'man, who was treated romething
more real, mony, The father of the comic Premier Nasser as an almost
bo volution, the hero of 20 months room left only for either. Nandb was a large part of Egypt's publie so often
af Egypt's history, hos been or Nasser-but not for both. opinion
a assassinated. behind, figure, was received like
to
she was
honour.
Was
on with the Earl of Dudley.
Calety Girl Cartie Millar married the second Earl of Dudley.
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