'Captain Talent' Finds Beauty Comes Last
C
EVELYN IRONS
and what
NEW YORK. The neeno was a big recrea- APTAIN JOHN AN. tonal hall with a red tiled floor
were surely DERSON,
small, world's worst acoustics. Ieun young looking
the
man of 10, has a job in New most of them in their twenties, Thirty or 60 men and girls, York shared by no other nat on benches along one wall. Briton Io is the talent Only 12 were being auditioned; spotter for one of the Big the rest had come to watch and Two nation-wide television learn from their mistakes, networks, the National
WILL
bare iable and 2 Broadcasting Company.
couple of hard wooden chairs as "props" a black-haired girl in In his fles are the photo- an drange jumper was
taking graphs, particulars and rat- Grace Kelly's part in "The Captain Ander- ings of 9,000 actors of Country Girl."
son, sliting poker-faced it varying talents and experi- desk facing her, scribbed a nole, ence. Every day he sees It became painfully evident dozens of people looking for that Orange Jumper
was no Jobs in live television plays point was that she did not over-
Grace Kelly. The only with this network in New run, her time. which was 15 York. As there are only a minutes, as many, others did.
dozen to fifteen
roles in an
average week
- sometimes incre,
Some-
tim less-ti competition Berce.. Particu- when an
arly
unknown per former can get 153 11s. fer speaking half a duzen lines in half-huur
11
show.
Y:
would
think that only a Marilyn Mon-
rou with ច stunning gure
and a duzzłing smile,
10
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youth as hand- nome as James Dean, would have a chance.
Not so.
JOHN ANDERSON treat them
gentiv
"Beautiful people are two n
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Food
A chubby blonde (as Blanche, whom you will re- member Vivien Leigh),
aute
13 slim
(as sister Stella) went through n violent dialogue Trom "A Street- extr Named Desire." An- other dark in- tense looking
brunette
tirt put ко much Into piece from "The Rainmaker" which
she
played opposite
morose and
Я
exceptionally Fally
that
The was crying
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When the archaeologists of 2,000 years from now begin to rescue the remains of the Twentieth Century, there is little doubt that one of their biggest prizes will be Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History.”. A few months ago, Toynbee finished the last four volumes of the 3,500,000-word analysis of man- kind's story. But, while his work is known from New York to Novgorod, Toynbee himself has remained obscure. Here is one of the fow close-up pictures of the man behind the study........ thing of world-shaking im facts down on a vast sheet portance..
of white paper and infer the The discussion surges concepts. forth--about God and man,
They "emerged" of their and, whether Universe.. and
Mr Kruschev, religion and din- own free will.
real tears when
the scene ended.
the
Afterwards Captain Anderson
says Anderson, a Scot gave them a little talk.
front Edinburgh
who was An He couldn't lay down any
he prescription for success.
Indian Army officer before
emigrated to Canada with £20 taker a long time to become un
in his pocket. "What I look for act." But he would see each
the
Is something much tarer-the one privately in his office and unusual type, the personality, tell them what was wrong and young man or woman who what they could do to improve. has something to contribute to apart beyond a voluptuous shape or a handsome profile.**
Every morning Captain An- derson is "at home" in his office jn a Central Manhattan sky- scraper To any aspirant who Ifkes to conic along for in- spection
Out of the 12 there was just ene with immediate chances of a jeb-- swarty sardonic young man who performed a scene from Clifford Odet's play "The Big Knife" with such conviction that although he was alone with ૧ group of chairs we could almost visualise the other chur- acters on the stage.
" treat them gently," said he, "I remember only too well the and actresses who apply for jobs Out of some 1,300 new actors clays when I went hungry in
talent New York myself, and walked in a year at NBC-TV's miles to apply for jobs because department just occasionally a
I didn't have the subway fare." SALT
stur is discovered. Such an ex- cuption was Eva Marie
Saint. who won an Oscar is the best
Brando Alm "On the Water-
ner table conversation In The method, of course, is Americn.
quite "empirical."
not
TOYNBEE THE HISTORIAN
By
LES ARMOUR
Either way. Toynbee doesn't much care, His answer to the critics is simple: "We have to deal with the fools of history we conclude that it is all an idlov's tale or
ATC message of inspiration, wo making generalised conclusions.
"Mine
a
are the best I have been able to find. Apply them it you want."
He thinks it's his duty to lot the world in on his secrets. the Boyand that, it's up to recipients.
Meanwhile, he his work to do. |
A small scule which broke out in Western Clyflisation in 1014 interrupted a booit he was trying to write on the ancient Greeks, He is going to finish it now. And he's working on an other one about the social and economic consequences of the
Romo
und
He thinks they're rather like our little cold wir and he'd like to And out.
He has
many more tales to tell-and, if the world is wise, it will probably listen.
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London. Each new point is offered Neither is it the method of wars between DVANCE descrip- tentatively--as though it the religious 'mystic. It is Carthage.
tions of the man had just now crossed Toyn- somewhere in between-and are terrifying: he bee's mind. The tone of perhaps it is a method much dreams in Latin, voice implies that he would more appropriate to the odd supporting actress in the Marlon doodles in Greek while he be awfully grateful if you workings of the human After six years of picking front"-her Arst move. Sho talks on the telephone, oc- would tell him whether it mind. television talent, he says he enn passed through the NBC casting casionally catapults himself was any good or not, quickly weed out the in office na an unknown.
thousand literally a .possibles.
"Stories Ilke hers hit the "Maybe it's something about headlines and make success in years or so back in time. All this is not just sham. the way they pull up a chair televiston sound easy." Captain
way
Toynbee as become the and sit down," he said. Anderson sald, "But although
He dares to encompass world's top historian precise "Awkwardness in a simple thing the four major American TV the whole of human history ly because he is a man who that tells a lot, however networks offer an average of from the prehistoric slimes listens, watches, reads and pretty a girl may be."
about 250 parts a week both The "possibles" among the here and in Hollywood, acting
to the hydrogen bomb. The waits. applicants get the chance of an is still 90 percent looking for Greeks, the Romans, the nudition. I went along to one a job and 10 percent working" Aztecs, the Incas, and the to see what happens.
Ancient Sumarians are wall known to him as are the French to Sir Anthony Eden.
like
A KING
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BANNED
USE OF COAL
By J. W. TAYLOR
COAL precious "black
There was A good deal of
Elizabethen
tion that
#9
Dr
METHOD
The psychologists would agree with him -- anybody, could do it. Of course, not everybody has the Toynbee brain and would come up with conclu-1
not everybody
sions of the same significan-
ce.
Toynbee thinks that to make sense of history it is
Waits is a word he likes. necessary to regard the Meditates is more like what world as a sort of training really goes on. His method ground for immortal souls So it is with trepida- is simple. You gather all the and see the rise and fall of you walk into relevant facts you can lay civilisations as continuing Chatham House and tell
your hands on. the doorman that you have let them seep in.
Then you attempts to grasp the true Later nature of man and his rela- an appointment with
maybe years later-the pat- tionship to God. Toynbee,
tern behind the facts will
And he thinks that this is a emerge..
a conclusion to which any- The pattern sometimes one in any department of The his- merges in strange ways. life would come. Now and then Toynbee finds torian's view is "just one himself back with the angle."
in the He ushers you into gold" that has long prejudice against coat been the life's blood of the from the Queen, who
era, particularly vast, Victorian sitting room
barred world's industries, is again the use of coal during the
empty and unnervingly in the news with the deve sitting of Parliament for fear it silent. But it is not there lopment of atomic research should affect the health of MP's that you aro for peaceful purposes.
accustomed to breathing business, country air.
It has never been out of the In 1578, Westminster brewers nows since the year 087 when refrained
the monks of the British becaus
from burning coal Queen Elizabeth
monastery at Glastonbury "Andoth herscalfe greatly
to transact
PILGRIMAGE
Romans fighting against Carthage or with the Con-
quistadors in Mexico.
PHENOMENON
Once or twice ho bas "Besides. the historian's view,"
`unearthed "a quantity of black-
ck- proved and amoyed by the A guide appears and you found himself "at one" with he says in the last volume, of
SMOG COMPLAINTS
ECA-
soldier's, the
clonne." Contemptuously, the taste and smoke of the go on a long pilgrimage up the whole of human history, 'A Study of History, there is Prior threw It on 10 the log cocks." Amin: "The nice winding stairs, through fire, All were amazed to see Dames of London would
the astronomer's; the physicist'a, not labyrinth of corridors lined He insists that there is the mathematician's, the poet's... burn and feel it give off come into any house or room comforting heat, 1
where coals were being burned, with documents and finally nothing mysterious about all and there is the nor willingly eat of the meat into a rather shabby room this. "It could happen to any sailor's, the fisherman's...tho that was even rotated at A lined with books. cool-Bro",
one. Probably does happen cancer's.". Gardually,
increasing AS
You are in for a shock. to most scholars. Pity they populations and less fuel from disappearing 66 and his pictures have
wore getting lese Arnold Joseph Toynbee is don't talk about it." forests, coal came into mare general use.
prepared you for a man who looks It. In real life ho
By the year 851 it was in 192 in stverr
Britain.
areas
in
The Abbot of Peterborough let & plot of land in return for 12 Joads of coal per year,
In
ATOMIC POWER ·
Revolution,
So great was its use that by the Middle Ages LondonerS wore complaining of amog. 1300 Edward I
The Industrial proclaimed against the use of coal in the discovery of coat gue and furnrke
air causo, by burning goal",
Offenders against tho' King's, ticmacy,
looks like a man of 35 who has inexplicably grown shock of white hair..
籍
INSPIRATIONS
Each properly developed, he is convinced, would lead to the same conclusion.
Is not Certainly, all this universally accepted. Thero àra many historians who assert that' But it is at these moments Toyabeg is trying the imposible that the great inspirations and falling badly. They point which have driven "A Study toʻtgctual discrepancies in his
an infinity of facts.
and ordered n
n return the advent of the railway's to wood-burning, for the gentry opened up hundreds of Briürh A smile, a quick hand. of History" forward over accounts and the impossibility of and nobility had complained of conifields and finally cattailshed shake and a chair. Toynbee thirty years have material gotting "a final pattern" from the "neismo smell and Thick Britain's Victorian commercial-
Although t pulls up a chuir opposite. faed.
In the United States Tomboo. that within 10 years He objects to desks between order. Bavaro hoivily, finod or atomic
.will power
begin hin
He didfi't think up the is revered as a horo.” His name and hin inter- had their businessos confiscated gradually to
koy concepts civilisation, is a household wird like Ford of suporseco coal viewers. indood one man was reported supplies, Brilish phia are likely
higher religion, the inter-arilyn Monroe or the infort Būta · tuve been exocuted for a tabo native for, gesaallong.
bronch of it.
He leans forward expec actions between things and-run king from the World yot, although there or expirietantly and looks as though Ideas in advance and then
· It was not until the time of Henry VIII that who say that Britain he is convinced that you are set out to apply them to the university students were allow enough cosa only to thai. [editò havo coal fires,
srother 200 YORING
about to communicate some. facts. Neither did ha set the
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