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N films about the un- and her salen overilwed
attractive Cinderella. admirers.
I
with
girl, the heroine often Queen Elizabetli I, white-
personal
By Amanda Marshall
鬆
Knife-edge
energy
sllowed full scope,
These are enre Very little for Uis accopted the individualists, the ones that idea of what a female don don't give a hoot what anyone chould look like, and la inclined thinks, or if they think at ali. to wear vivid colours, brilliant blue slacks, and bright little High in this list I'd place that berets which alt on the top of Gothic, aristerat her intelligent head like im- Dame Edith Suwell, pale and pertinent mushrooma. blanched as milk but with the academic dress sho looks like a vivid kick of a powerful cock witty urchin just about thil.
escape from Sunday school,
wears aquamarines
wears glasses for faced, sharp - fentured, seld- them, the slight, bird-like Betsy through sheer magnetle
of Blair, who in "Marty" created and power convinces or nine-tenths of the picture tongued received proporats
impression of rådlant and audience that here is beauty on magnificent. marriage unt a very advanced an and never geta anywhere; in age and held the devotion of heart-breaking prettiness by the the grand operatic scale. the lust reel she takes them Essex for reason that are com- expression of her eyes and n envelops off and is rewarded with monly believed to have been not sort of warmth that entirely matters of
her to greater effect than Cary Grant. or Gregory ambition.
heel-to-too-mutation mink. Peck. I find the really in- teresting girls are those who, figuratively speaking, wear their glasses all the time and get away with magnificently.
it
Unimportant
And
Charlotte
who
French women are experts at this sort of magic, and persuado through beautiful grooming and knife-edge chic.
06 em-
She big
cggs to as pigeons' phasise the pallid beauty of her extravagantly, long fingers, and wraps herself in the flowing robes and mounting headdresses of a medieval priestess of some miraculous order.
Admirers
In
The magnificent obsession of Mr. Hoffmann
THE most difficult thing to destroy in the world, sir, is faith." So says Mr Calvin Hoffmann, and he says It with enormous relish. For this to | 46-year-old drama eritio from New York he has just returned to the USA has a mission. When he makes his fifth trip to Britain ("It's almost as good as Americh") he will have an exhumation order that will, he hopes, start a revolution.
Dame Sybil Thorndike, as a girl might have been called impressively powerful but hardly glomerous, has emerged in later
And her glowing drawing- Bronte, fe as a kind of grandmother-
butterfly.
is constantly crammed Shakespeare, One particularly manages to
room pink and silver and
with adoring admirers, there for unofficial patron devastating, as much so when fascinate without even benefit of she wears a sloppy
couture-Edith Pist the tile
her Irish wit and buccaneer cardigan and
Wit in conversation, penetra individuality as much as for her cording to Mr old skirt on stage as when she sparrow, rauecus-voiced and no lunches out in a frivolous hat longer young, exerts a pull like ing intelligence, a proud regard. impressive scholarship in French was:
an express engine, with no for great things, and more than literature.
dash of eccentricily, have with a little vell emphasising external, alds
to glamour. A
and an impressive sparkle of wit and mischief white face, big black eyes, a made her In the eyes.
Ggure. recognisable plain, rusty Hittle black dress instantly.
ker. And one that charms. Anna Magnani gets away with und Plax singing means
appeal entirely irresistible.
Enid Starkle, the Oxford don Some women get away with it and specialist on Beaudelaire, if they will forgive an over- nas much the same fascination. A tiny figure with grey hair and and brand of eccentric genius bright blue eyes, she appears to
some sort of
mousy girl with a bun and hair as straight as the path of duty, lived an inner life that was as # probably all starts in jery us her exterior Wor un- the nursery, where the inspiringly uncompromising. pretty baby gets all the at-
Freckles and short legs, over- tention and admiration, and emplate teeth and a too-wide The skinny, plain sister waist-there is develops sharp, observing magic that will not only conceal
and make Mem unimportant, heavy, Italian-peasant features, eyes and sharp intelligent ut obscure them absolutely, il-proportioned and over.cm- thoughts to match.
But it isn't generally a matter phatic, and a hair style that of cosmetics and remedial exer looks as though a blunt razor crude expression-by their own
It is a a reflection of spirit, had ciscsty
done its damnedesi, and sheer self- generosity
And
alightly persuasion. crooked gaze can be the fascinating thing in the world
Norma Shearer, witness
Mar-
'Wit and charm
Lacking looks, many remark- able women have been compen suted a thousand times by developing wit, ambition, charm, et Leighton, Margaret John- Intellect to make up for a badly slon, and the pagessor of
of Scots,
what
shaped nose or Insignificant must have been the pretties! .cyes. They are the ones who squint in history--Mary Queen make the focal point at parties, who have friends in all age groups, who develop wisdom in their youth.
faces, create a
Some really extraordinary born with Plain June women,
magic illusion of beauty and overwhelming feminino
this appeat; how alchemy is effected is their own sceret but it must be enchanted combination of charm
some
Plain Tanes of the world, don't unite at any cost. All the pretty girls can crowd together, and there won't be a pin to choose between them. Your strength is in being different. Ant in believing in yourself.
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Were the little Princes murdered?
Mystery In The
Tower
England's saint, ac- Hoffmann,
by RICHARD FINDLATER
a SPY, an ATHEIST, and, what is more, an M.A. (CANTAB).
Nobody else can claim the credit for the discovery. "Slr, I am the father, the progenitor of the entire theory," says Mr Holt- mann. thumping the table. Many Umes I'va wanted to give it up, I've begged and prayed for it to be disproved. But Mrs Hoffmann has paid: 'You've got to do it, Calvin. It's ycaur duty to the world. "
The author of the Works-la the tales of Hoffmann--was born not in Stratford, but in Canter-
Dyer One of the World's Strangest Stories, told by MAURICE WILLIAMS bury. And he wrote most of his
The greatest Illusion of beauty I have ever seen was created by Dame Edith Evans in Daphne Laureolu, She wore Coloured satin, but fn rags the
of sheer impression
beauty would have been as strong,
Lovely voice
and belief in themselves and Her features are Irregular and primarily In wanting to please. not strongly defined-but by the most The pretty girl takes admira- cultivation of one of the
flexible and lovely voices in the tion for granted, never makes S
world, and by, some personal
狼 whole crowded
an effort to win it. The plain one studies and tearns how lo charm. A more difficult subject than differentiul cuteulus.
Cleopatra
w
"The tyrannous and bloody act
is done,
The most arch deed of piteous
massacre
That ever yet this land
guilty of...
was
dark
leader, Sir James Tyrell, tho sooner that mission was accom- plished the better.
hung
plays hidden in a country house near Chislehurst. His name, in fact, was Christopher Marlowe.
AT STAKE
in
ex
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
THEFRAUD
OF AVON ....or su Mr. Hofmann
believes.
That is why he has followed a false che to Elsinore, in search of the real Shakespeare.
That is why he went treasuro-
Of the many atrocities com- accounts of a state visit to the to mitted in his name, it was this town in 1484 lists rewards cold-blooded act which rallied the minstrels of the Duke of In his saddlebag was a war- popular
the York, Us, 8,“ opinion against rant giving him sole charge of
There was no other Duke of King. Within two years Henry, the Tower for the night.
Duke of Richmond, landed from Yoric, Richard's only son John exile with a
The annals also small force soon having died..
Marlowe, Mr Hoffmann T was already
The Constable, Sir
in John swollen by a host of volunteers. record that the Duke of York plains, did NOT die 1393. had been Richard's friends Brackenbury, who
the back, was travelling in state with his His life, was at stake when the three riders forewarned by a messenger of his troops fought half-heartedly uncle eight months after his Elizabethan witch-hunt because swept into London: the King's Intention, surren faith that projects as strongly the staccato bent of horses' dered the keys and passwords A cliance hooves rose to an urgent of the fortress and retired to crescendo as they clattered his quarters with a heavy heart.
Two of his through the narrow streets Henry VI and
prisoners, the alling the Duke of of the city and reined their Clarence, were already dend. panting horses under the murdered,
WAS it
dald, Richard's behest. shadow of the Tower.
They had ridden hord all through that August day in 1483 on the urgent mission King Richard III and for their
either fo
audience or
to
acquaintance sitting next to her, bellef in her staggering beauty is created and maintained.
in profile had a поке that could generously be called prominent, George Sand, Unqueatining and absolute, I lady who charmed, among would put her among the sİX others, Chopin and the port most fascinating women altve Alfred dde Musact Was 1 and be hard put to it to name dominating figure of somewhat the other five to be her equals. masculine appearance and a face Actresses have this particulur that approached the homely gift highly developed Among
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of religious and sexual devia hunting over the grounds of and he was defeated and slain supposed death, at Bosworth on August 22, 1485. 1485, a tailor is authorised
in a warrent dated March 9, tions, and his patron and in- Beadbury Manor two years ago, to timate friend, Francis Walsing- with a US. Army mina detector Good reasons
supply various items of clothing ham Mr W. H. of the Sonnets (and Mrs Hoffmann.) to "the lord bastarde." Prince-muggled him
That is why he wants to open Edward was both a lord, and Channel. Within six years the new
the Walsingham tomb at Chisle- king, Henry VII, had compellcgitimate,
according Richard's proclamation.
The man killed in Deptford burst. So far he has been frus ing reasons for proving that the
But in the opinion of a core under Marlowe's name was a
trated by the Home Office after princes had met their end as temporary French
a two-year welt, But a little chronicler stooge, probably a caller." The obstacle like the British Minis- everyone believed. In 1491 a Philippe de Commines, "Richard Inquest was rigged. A bubble
And after
dbesn't bother'a man who youth named Perkin Warbeck
eck ist mourir ses deux nepheux et touring the Continent (where
try landed at Cork with a small
se fist roy apelle Richard III" Pencofully asleep in the Royal
His clalm to be the (Richard killed his two nephews.
he wrote The Two Gentlemen challenges the universe.
Verona) Marlowe waa apartments at the Tower lay
"I am · Rying back as soon asi the rightful heir to the throne, Young Richard who had escaped and called himself King Richard smuggled back to
Scadbury I get a cable." from the Tower and
fied.to
.to III). 12-year-old Edward V, and his Flanders brought
Manor, Walsingham's estate at. many sup-
the Chlslehurs younger brother Richard, longed porters
since the proclamation element declaring
Here ho lived in complete them illegitimate, Scotland where he was greeted Also, Domintel Mancini, which had paved Richard's way with open arms by James IV. Italian priest who was living in masterpieces. Hamlet, King Lear secrecy until his death, writing
Mr Holtmann
is not to the succession.
who even
contracted him in England at the time,
declared and
that I, in common with the While
taken by the rest were they lived Richard marriage to a kinswoman. But in his reminiscences (first pub-
majority of the thow his power was little more Warbeck's attempts to establish lished in England in 1930) that couriers to a rendezvous in credulous
where n
deceived deplorable human race, am still than a bubble,
London, liable to be himself in England were abox- the princes were put to death at pricked at the first popular uptive, in spite of local risings on Thomas More, writing 25 years Mr Findlater"--picked them uy time, he suggests we will see the man from Stratford-ho was by "the Fraud of Avon," as he Richard's instigation. Sir incapable of writing those plays, calls William Shakespeare. In rising. Already murmurings of his behalf. discontent could be heard above
later, also belleved Richard to and passed them off as his own light and make the pilgrimage the tumult heralding his cor- onation, sald to have been the costliest and most magni- ficent in living memory.
among the Yorkist there. He moved to
Richard to blame
He was captured and paraded be responsible, as did Stow and
mock triumph before being laber historians, including work. Langed at Tyburn in November,
Bacon In Shakespearo's day 1490, having first made an open the Garden Tower, scene of the confession of his Imposture, crime, had come to be known as Soon after midnight the three men reached the Gate back affair were not lost
The Implications of the War- the Bloody Tower. house at the .entronee
Henry, who had meanwhile loyal
apartments. directed the
other two-John ordered a search for the re Dighton, a "flesh-bred murder- mains of the dead princes. er" and Miles Forrest, his own
to the Tyrell
OTI
REVELATION
Hoffmann's moment velation came in 1930, when
IN TIME
to Chislehurst (he holds brief for Canterbury).
upset
па
But two things, it seems, maki this gentle-mannered crusader.
of re- hopping mad. One is Stratford, Further prof. of Richard's guilt appeared
in a confession
cataclysmic ruin--when he took a working holiday In whose Tyrell made before being exccu- ted for treason.
Within & short Long Island to write a verse his theory is proved-he conten- play. Inspiration ran dry, so he plates with grim mtisfaction. Ha time Dighton, too, was hanged.
all over again. When he started but he has no
of the original conspirator Before he died he, too, adımlüteri | began to read the Elizabethans has never actually been thera horsekeeper, a stocky, square alive; both claimed justifiably his share in the murder,
Tyrell and Dighton were still
jowed rogue-la the TOOMS where the princes lay. instructions were clear; smother the children pillows and to leave no blood.
for traces
Gri
of
and
desire to go, on Marlowe, his life was "knowing what a gigantic shin Their that they were not present when described where the bodies were
the bodies were reintered, The hidden before their removal by changed,
It all is," to wil nearby graveyard of St Peter's the priest,
"I was a was combined
great devotive
Stratford Corporation, invited Shakespeare-that is, the plays him down, apparently without ascribed to Shakespeare," says ulterior motivo, but Me Hoffe Mr Hoffmann, hurriedly making mann could not make it, Two hundred years after, workmen building a new stair amenda "I loved every word of that man. And as I read the Royal chapel Marlowe, case into
I apprehended the to this day found under the old stone steps
In a few minutes they ra turned and signalled to Tyrell, who entered the chamber by a private staircase.
of
Having
No one knew
search went on Inside the The remains church without any success,
Many crimes
Hence historians
Richard
the
4
MISPLACED
1
satisfied himself everything had been done as directed he order have thrown doubt on Richard's of the Tower keep, the bones of blood relationship, the absolute
consanguinity. ed a priest to remove the part in the double murder. Some two boys:
The other thing that ralecu Mis which corresponded in maintain bodies. Dighton
both princes Were
Hoffmann's blood pressure'ls the and Forrest
every detail to those of the L helped dig the hole near the wall alive when Richard died
"One night I had insomnia. misplaced zeal of his rival anti- on fated princes, and wore, in
ane Stratfordians, who believe that the Wakefield Tower Bosworth Field
As recently as 1083 the skele As I rolled about in bed fact,
murdered in one of the tons were exhumed and sub-question kept on hammering in only a ster of the realm-Bacon, where the bodies were thrown, many purgee carried out by jected to mimte analysis by my mind." He pauses dramall-
Rutland, or Orford covered deep with earth and King Henry VII.
teooups by Professor Wright and Lawrence cally, and makco
have written tha worts. stones. Tyrell then rode on post'
Tanner, working independently rattle with his fits. "Was (Marlowe
was a shoemaker's haste to inform the King.
They point out that after whoes findings established be Marlowe murdered as alleged?" son, and Hoffmans is not really Bosworth Henry accused
yond all doubt that the boner
nehamel of it.) of many crimes, but
and That set Hoffman off on were those of the princes not until 1480 was he publicly they were already dead months trail which has led him across "I have seen an otherwise But Richard, although
charged
murder of his before Henry Vit seized the the world, back into Elizabethan intelligent man, Sir, reduced to lieved at the liquidation of the nephews.
throne.
London, and forwards into the the level of a moron by thi limelight of the Press, with a Booniats theory," he says, princes, showed scruple enough to order that the bodies be
After the discovery of the list of more than 1,000 parallels rust But there is nothing "In some more decent is said to have indignantly re- bodies they were transferred to and ats unshakabig faith that tedly. burted
mortnie about Me Hothamma's place." The priest obeyed, but fused Richard's order to kill his the Royal sepulchre in West- he is the only man in step,
magnificent obodon. It is the he laid young charges still enjoyed the minster Abbey, by order of the where
must convincing alternative to them, for he died soon after. King's favour and died fighting reigning monarch, Charles II,
where they now ile in the great the plays alone ("Read
Ho can prove his theory from Shakespearo 1. have ever heard. the And I am sure ho velli contestam Rumours of the assassination on his aide at Bosworth.
chapel built by Henry VII, their spread quickly through the More evidence that one of relles a memorial to one of the works of Marlows, Sir, with A to strutad louch and cleary
in the princes was alive after bloodiest epochs in the history und 1483 18 found in Cooper's of England. ex- ""Annals of Cambridge," in which an item in the treasurer's
no
one know
land, shocking people even an ago where treachery murder. were familiar pedients in the art of kingship.
JOHNNY HAZARD
with
Moreover, Brackenbury, who
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