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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1955.
ABDUCTED by fame
☆ With a wealth of inexperience behind her MARY URE met success overnight; she is still trying to get her breath back.
London. 21. They both flooded the professional play before she was HEN 21-year-old stage with rare physical given the lead in "Timo Remem.. Vivien Leigh made beauty. And neither had "Simon and Laura" in which she bored." It was in the comedy her first appearance done anything before to pre- spoke only two words, "You'll in the West End in pars critics or public for the do.” "The Mask of Virtue" it Impact they were about to needed only two acts to send make. Sir Alexander Korda racing round to her dressing-room with a £50,000 contract.
Other young actresses have had a much deeper climb to stardom. Claire Bloom worked mightly
Indeed, Miss Uro's career gives an awful beating to all those homilies about the virtues of patience and hard work. Fanie did not merely nod in her diree- practically abducted tlen; it her.
Sir Alexander was not as on her vowel sounde in many quick on his feet when Mary minor classical roles before She had studled for three years Üre set the Lyric Theatre in Chaplin's "Limelight" brought at the Central School of Drama-
Hammer-
smith glowing with her pre-
sence in Anouilh's
Another report in a survey of new personalities in the theatre
by MILTON SHULMAN
"Time Remembered." It was her face to millions.
tie Art when she was spotted by
M. the
A talent cout of H. Tennent's, theatrical pro- Dorothy ducers. After a few auditions
a few days before he finally Tutin had a solid record of hard she was given a year's contract
£10 a week. got her name at the bottom work in repertory and the Old »t
Vic before she achieved success of a film contract.
Sho went straight into "Simon Diane and Laura" and her two-word in "I Am A Camera." But it was not only Sir Cilento had had a few important part. Three months Inter she Alexander's speedy acumen parts in the West End before was offered the lead in "Time that Miss Leigh and Miss she was entrusted with inter- Remembered." She is still try
They preting Helen of Troy in "Tiger ing to catch her breath about Ure had in common. were both catapulted out of at the Gates."
Mary Ure, however, had had obscurity to recognition in a single night. They were both only a Uny walk-on part in one
BEMS and
BABES*
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That's how the: literary types talk when they take a trip Into Space..........says NANCY SPAIN
FOR THE FALL SEASON fan (they
it all.
"My auccess story is too fast," she admitted ruefully to me.
"It's terrible. There's no heartbreak. I guess the heart break's to come.”
can
A
MARY URE: An air of being startled and plaased with life.
followed
trunk, died when she was 12, taught membered"
few late nights, living out of The only
histrionic months after.
being stared at in restaurants. history.
trace in her
She is even sure that if she had When Miss Ure was told she to she could mix marriage and streak she family are a number of uncles
Ao vet thì treb and grend-uncles who are bar was to be given the lead in this her career, ris'crs.
End production, jem hasn't arisen. "My brother who is a major West solicitor is a much better actor she was not in the least per-
turbed than I am," she said.
by tho prospects of Salling and reading are two failure. "I
I supposo should
of Miss Ure's favourite delights, have thought of it as a great She is mast interested in history, responsibility" she said, pen- particularly the end of the 19th sively, "but I didn't.”
century. And she loves to cook: After her tumultuous first "Scottish
food and I'm very night reception she basked in good at porridge," the warmth of back-stage co gratulations, went out to din-. Under her ono film a year con- ner and was asleep a littlo tract she has already finished after midnight. She was not "None But the Brave," a remake particularly anxious about of the adventure story "Four what the crities might have to say about her.
Her Arst contact with the theatre was seeing "The Pirates of Penzance" at the age of five. She cried so vigorously, through It that she had to be taken out before it was over.
There was a speil, while she wos at A girls public school, when she wanted to paint. But this yielded to a desire to teach acting.
No interest
Off-stage, Miss Ure possesses the
same kind of radiant assurance that she gave to the little milliner in "Time Remem- bered" who had charm B
only wanted 10 teach handsome prince into forgetting because I thought I could earn the memory of his past, dead
a living at it," she said, reveal- love.
ing an unsuspected COTE of practicality. "I never decided to become an actress at all."
ציי
Less time
Feathers." "I'm the girl who gives the feathers," she said.
Jour
.now,
Because she is short-sighted she had to be guided down the Her reactions to her success stairs on the set by long white Her piquant Nordle feature: give her an air of being both
were typically level-headed. "It lines of sticking plaster. "Beyona feet everything is a mag- startled and pleased by lite. It was her realisation at was very nice, but all a bit too Words tumble easily out of her dramatic school that she hadn't much," she said in an engaging macent blur," she explained. and are punctuated by bursts of the temperament for teaching piece of understatement,
And
with all this boisterous laughter "that pro- that switched her to neting. Ai
inexperience behind her, Mary claim her irability to take her the
three-year end of her
The must noticeable change Ure
scheduled to play course she made the
usual that acclaim has brought to her Ophelia to Paul Scouela's "Hom- efforts to get Into a repertory, te is that she almost
nonchalant "I sent my photographs to 14 time to herself. "I feel much with
now has less let." She views the prospect approach to her work may be companies but
her accustomed none of thes
grave confidence, But she has no 11- the same except that I have to due to the fact that Mary Ure seemed particularly interested," never expected to be an actress she said,
keep meeting so many people," Jusions about what she is up nt all.
against. "Nothing that is well done is easy,' she said, which But her potentialities did no! She was born in Glasgow, escape the shrewd eye of Miss But she is still young enough is a useful bit of philosophy for and her father was a civil en- Daphne Rye, the casting direc- to bo enchanted by the busi- young girls like Mary Ure to gineer and her mother,
"Time wno tor of Tonnent's.
Re- ness of being an actress-the live by.
This
HIS seems to be a Muscum Reading Room) and an
timely moment to in- accredited intellectual. vestigate the litera- "The best S.F., as represented SPECIAL GRAND SALE ture of (space, Science Fic- by Ray Bradbury, shows a high self too seriously.
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(3,500) So on Mr Angus Wilson's The largest number
I reach where say-so
Fahrenhett live in Manchester, they publish club magazines 451, by Ray Bradbury, current of their own, TUTI conven- choice of the Science Fiction
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that the thoughts
shall Davies, 59. all think tomorrow.
Big Agures in literary space circles are Miss Clemence Dane, Mr Angus Wilson, and Mr Edmund Crispin.
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"Fahrenheit 451" is the ten- perature at which book paper catches alight and burns, hero is a nice chap, employed in & book- the new world "as burning freman. All books are forbidden in the brave new world,
Edmund this? (real namno Bruce
For you see, everyone in that Miss Danc describes S.F. world is having a rotten herself as An Enthusiast, time too. Large, handsome, an ex-actress,
Why best- Crispin successful playwright, selling novelist, and Sunday Montgomery, under which name painter, Miss Dane entered S.F. he wrote the,rrasic for "Doctor flelds in the "thirties.
in the House"), author of quite under a few detective novels, agrees, She wrote About S.F.
title "American Fairy
"There can be no doubt that Tales." But she doesn't consider selence fiction is much engrossed
tale today. No, with doom," says he. S.F. a fairy
fort "S.F. is a satire she told me. "It stems directly from 'Gulliver's Travels.'"*
the
sir.
"Science fiction is satire?”
I
Bird Men
says
she explained,
HOW THOSE RUSSIANS KNOCK IT BACK...!
A sober assessment
by RENE MacCOLL
TODKA-or ao I was heads down on the table- collective farm down in Kazakh-
out of the news.
one
came'
going to write-is in cloth.
stan and I tried to drink mo another under the camovar ons the news again. But
We hit each other nowadays, since Russia In the streets of the afternoon.
as hard as we could on
the substituted the grin for the capital
upon shoulder after each of the growl as an instrument of drunks lying asleep at the toasts, such apparently being an diplomacy, vodka is rarely side of the pavement in old Kazakh custom.
broad daylight.
Next day not only did my mouth taste like the inside of a said. For all the books I had TIGHT of the 14 stories gather-
We could distantly hear It is a
commonplace to lorry driver's glove but I could read had shown ladies in high-ed by Crispin. Into the bril-
being poured while glance about the restaurant hardly move my shoulder. hected space sulle with plunge lant anthology, Best S.F. (Faberit necklines cowering in the grip and Faber, 15.) are violently West German Chancellor dining-room at breakfast
And I have attended formal of amorous Martiane,
pessimistic. Why?
Adenauer was chancing his time in whatever Russian
Moscow Government recep- isarm over there in Moscow, town one may be and notice tions.... "Ah...." said Miss Dane. "Because science fiction "You have been reading those sceptical about Man,"
that breakfast for the Rus- No sooner had the official sians round about often in- Crispin. terrible space operas, There is a
"It cannot trust him than to colonise other planets with communiques come clatter- cludes a carafe of either higher standard much that now in science fiction
I out vandalism and brutality." who in other wordt. Crispin thinks ing over the wires every vodka or cognac. think the young people write these books are genuinely S.F. has discovered original sin. evening than it was ban- queting and toasting time critical of the world they live
NOTHING NEW than run into Which would be enough to again. so rather
Krushchev lices his vodka trouble with authority they set put me off S.F. for fc, it
another hadn't just read a anishing
but on that occasion he com But this is nothing new. mitted a tactical error in mixing novel called Scream From world...."
Outer Space, by John Robert Vodka it was Soviet chum- The more I read about the it generously with Yugoslavian
and the Russia of the old days the plum brandy." Haynes (Rich and Cowan, 8pagne, cognac, Gd.)
winex of the Georgian more I realise that the Rus-'· Socialist Soviet Republic. slan character stays remark water, but there to no further Vodka has the appearance of ably constant whether tho resemblanco, It is, in fact, a boss in the Kremlin is A form of brandy disdlied from Czar or a Communist com- rye, and the Russians usually eat some kind of hors d'oeuvres after each glass is downed.
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OCEAN-DRINKERS
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All the world knows by now that Krushchev was showing
the greatest rigns of
good humour on the last evening of the official Russian visit to Belgrado last spring.
In this book lovely gold!! MISS DANE ៤ general finger-mailed Rachel Crawford
editor of a series called goes to the planet Venus bo "Novels of Tomorrow." I sent cause of the terrible scream. out for one called The Year Of Ing in her head. (The scream-
What is the truth about missar. The Comet, by John Christopher ing is coming from Venus, sont
strange Russians and liquor? Are (Michael Joseph, 128 d.) It on high frequency by
they, as the Chinese quaint, which I have, written in
A guide book to Russia. is a well-written, highly teen race of bird men.) nical novel about a future: ruled
My Interest, I'm sorry to say, ly put it, "ocean-drinkers"? 1898, ruefully observes that. entirely by Big Buainces.
centres almost entirely in Rachel Have they the most gigantic "there would appear to be It is the toasts which usually some trait in the Slavic lead to casualties, bonuso the The big turning-point of the and her clothes and which of thirsts in all the world?
tonsta at any Rimston-got- plot comes when the here is the boys she is going to get off
At the end of the It happened that my first character which renders the together multiply excordingly. confronted by `a 2 young lady with next,
book she lamely marries Bull, visit to the Soviet Union Muscovites prone to ex- I can tell you this: dressed up in plastics and dainty who cervicod her atom-car. took
lo look uxactly like his
place just before cessive, alcoholic indulgence pale fairly cally the Russian make-up girl friend. Indeed, the only Which is a highly frivolous Easter. Whatever the fea conceivably due to the beer is not awfully good; the champagne as unconvincing why he knows it isn't attitude, I know. TERBON
But that is tival may mean nowadays to rigours of the climate."
all non-French cham- his girl friend is because she is the sort of thing that giris the ordinary citizen of the But it is only fair to add that pagnes; and the winese so much more friendly to him, always do. Which is why I feel U.S.S.R., one thing is cor- the Russians are an exceedingly Georgia are honey swoot, Everytter elme,
(as is usual in B.F.) that I am never really going to taint is a time to drink. hospitable people and will so so that not the least of the
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H-BOMB PROJECT HELD UP
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CHAPMAN PINCHER
PRODUCTION of Britain's
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To end the hold-up, Sir William Penney, the atomia weapons research chief, is BOTTOLD trying to scientists from the Civil
now
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The Civil Service chiefs have opreed that any mathematical physicists or chemical engineers in the
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Minia Department iry,
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Some of the scientists are needed for work at Foul- neas Laland, Essex, where high explaive detonating devices for atomic wea -pons are tested.
Atomic energy · solli not solve Britain's Juel probe tem for probably 40 years, states scientist Lord Cherwell.
Lord Cherwell, Sir Winston Churchill"'") scienii» fio adviser during the war was speaking to fuel ens. gineers at Oxford.
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