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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER *1956.

Here and There in the US, with James Cooper

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Electronic Matchmaker Picks Ideal Mates

New York. flon and building a population nes in the hues but it was hope to support another show .business revolu- NEW naino for can never

without an empire. The British tion. Cupid Univae, It Empire of yesteryear no longer When to troubles have been in the electronic brain exista

rmoothed out it may be possible Up rome fall, white-haired or home viewers to buy a tape that solves complex business

amash hit that the problems and has now pick. Sir Robert. He shouted; "You of

Bar! The senator corner drugstore, play ed "ideal mates."

leapt over the lable and swung through their 1sts and start a

pilvute TV Gibrary just п at Sir Robert

gramophone re people collect cords.

More than 2,500 people answered an advertisement asking anyone over 21 who to wanted to be married complete questionnaire

race, giving their height, weight, and

tica.

age,

poli-

such ques- They answered tions a Do you prefer twin 1;cds? Are you on only chlid? How Should

work" a wife

do you

want? many children

amolding or

object to

the best-

Club chairman Davic Bohan- nen humped between them and naid: "Gentlemen, gentlemen, behave like grown men"

The senator apologised to Sir

Sir Robert. But

Robert rc- fused to shake hands. DIGGEST tomb in the U.S. Dhas been built at Riebland, State, for midio- Washington

ta neve équipement too "hot"

1 buried in the be repaired umiał way.

It is a soft, song tunnej indu Do you

which

Balears will railway drinking?

The

When full BBWETA were fed carry the materia)a.

called and another 21 will be Out ne Undivne. matched combinationBarbara tunnel bulit, Smith. 23-year-old receptionist, and John Caran, aged advertising manager,

PARS In Brooklyn's new D $11,000,000 11-storey gol are painted in pastel shares- 10 nake the prioners "feel better."

CEARS are slipping today at the start of the inuch- beraided race of U.S. car makers to catch up on this year's sales slump by Introducing greatly changed 1937 models.

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coachwork does not 28. LVIS

PRESLEY, who will exactly it, panels are not "he make al Knal boll of

$1,000,000 right size”...or new dier have his preliminary Angeles. They were in this year, gets

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"Brlog

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troduced.

Says John:

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exactly

the Bort of gin 2 have been hunting for. We are right

for enth ther

Says Barbarn: "Be: the loan for my."

They will be married shot 'ly

Result: the big parade is one of Ats istid starts with one maker aller another delaying The gula unveiling of models or having to make do with fewer curs,

Proposed output of $10,000

mockis thai

this month has

210 reused is Mas Bobo Hocke

feller.. she divorced milijon- Hire Winthrop Rockefiler, won

$5,000,000 element

new

FORMER middle-weight boxer fer eight-year-old son may be already been reduced to 400,000.

Lidnapped that she ha Senator George Maline, of

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Nevada, leuped over a table

Ban Francisco hole!

almed a heavy blow at British Robert

Su

Fitted every room

with hidden

in her

Taylor fron

woman sold in

("TRESS Elizabeth

to retire recording would like machines and TV cameras, ixed fims. "I'd rather be a

people than secret cameras to shap

af star," she walking by the gutes. She Hollywood checks the "nups for "surplešovs So "Raintree County" MAY characters,"

be her lust film, She will marry young TV experiment Michael Todd, dynamic leturs recorded producer of "Around the World tape, instead of Eighty Days," as soon as she Alm, was not liant succes. can get a divorte from Michací

there was Alcker and

Consul-General Hadow. Sir Robert ducked.

It happened at a huncheon of the exclusive Commonwealth Club. Members were smoking FIRST publ cigars und listening to guest speaker Malone.

The senator which Fenton is lving on a 300-year-olt reputa-

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"HE'S HIDING IN MY TREE'

* By DAVID LEWIN

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жая

WORK ON MARILYN'S NEW FILM GETS DAILY MORE TENSE

one

MONROE & OLIVIER No distractions from sirangers to upent the perfect results,

many on Stage A who say that har going will ease the strain.. For Mrs Strasberg la the wife of Lee Strasberg, who ruris the famous Actors Studio in New York, where Marilyn MonrooTM studied for a year before coming- to London,

"No Marilyn Monroe is about the HE day the beads fell⚫ MARILY N which states bleakly:

who Under most complicated actress Visitors Allowed.... off Marilyn Monroe's

has ever worked in British MONROE did not re- Any Circumstances." Sir dress

studio, pling

pling port for filming on Laurence Olivier has had

The other day, for example, she Sir The Sleeping he believes that he cannot all.

that notice put up because did not report to the studio at pling. is a day Laurence Olivier

She was not feeling well will

Prince" last Tuesday. make the film Any other enough to act and that too probably prefer to forget.

could be traced to nerves. For un that day too there Official reason: she is way.

reaction after her song the day

The Actors. Studio method puta is

on tremendous emphasis electric 4127

light indisposed. This It is an unusual procedure before,

HOW and WEIX, an actor acts, failure and "The Sleeping

With all her years in Holly. And this in tum puts en even Prince" film set was plunged part of the strain of at a studio to bar absolutely

ali visitors. But Olivier wood it is still a major effort greater strain on the nerves of being Miss Monroe... says: once had visitora for her to drag herself from her Miss Monroe. There was also a hold-up just how that strain on the set when I was film-

They did ing.

courage to force herself into the confirming acclaim from the had to be fixed once and affects work on the ing Houry V.

not interfere—but somehow the make-up chair, And then critics-Marilyn Monroe is sti then fixed all over again film is explained for I was worried by their pre- the final supreme effort of will- unsure of herself, because she did not like it: the first time below... sence and the day's work and everything

into darkness.

while Miss Monroe's hair

late WILS anyway because the girl had the

arrived after time at

studio in the morning.

But then towards the end

of the day when the bends had been stitched on und

the lights were up and the hair WILS right, Marilyn Monroe sat down and sang

a snatch of song for the film.

Why visitors are barred

AND everyone

gathered

around agreed that the result was Astoundingly good.

STRASBERG

He was Marilyn's acting school "'hoadmaster"

was ruined.

Why she is

So nervous

home to the studio in the morn-

Then another heave at her With all her talent-and now

power over nerves she goes to to act. She has been sleeping badly in England-and she craves sloop. She goes to bed at home as early as o'clock in the evening in

eight

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effort to get a full night's rest

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Why she is magnificent

to get up fresh by 8.30 in the the end of the first few A weeks' shooting on "The "HAD to reshoot every morning, But at midnight she Steeping Prince she saw some ot

thing.

I have never in awake again, and sleeps her work on the screen. For the

had a visitor since.... and fitfully the rest of the night. text three days sho couldn't act

this time the rule is not only

disorder,

Olivier knows this and works at all. She withdrew into her for me but for Marilyn. to protect her from any intru- shell, did not mix with anyone, I want to give her every alon when she is working, is stayed at home with a stomach

there anything wrong in that? opportunity to work well."

Monroe has a simple sečné to So now that she is working Olivier wants to keep intruders Sir Laurence Olivier is in do: just a question of saying

and trouble

turning towards out. Is there andthing wrong because of this "Yes,"

Olivier.

ki that? action in London as well

And she is working magni- as in America. People say Monroe

with her ponders

fcently. I have theword coach, Mrs Strasberg that he is acting like a die- drama

the of the one "outsider" who has corner, In (who elts in a tator.

studio), Just how that word en a rough, assembly of the "Yes" should be sold, what emphasis should be put on it, Josh Logan, who directed what look to give on the turn. Monree in "Bus. Simp, has seen It is an unnecessary worry all that there is of The Bleep- Olivier can tell her ing Princess so for, He says: exactly what is needed.

"Sho is better than sho Now Mrs Strasberg has gone ever been before. And it is due

Larry his coñcen- „ home to America-and there are to Olivier.

trated everything on her oven to the extent of kooping;t

Kinesthe camera on his back so it c show her face..........

That is rubbish.

I sympathise with him and I support his ban on

And in five takes, surpris- Miss Monroe's voice was ingly short for a film song, rich and clear, and English the scene was shot. in sound. "Like an That is what is going on visitors because I know because English Deanna Durbin," at Stage A at Pinewood what is going on at Stage A said a technician.

Studios, behind the notice at Pinewood.

HOW TO WRIGGLE

OF A

OUT

TIGHT CORNER

By AMANDA MARSHALL

Alm so far.

Why--iz's worth waiting for

TEVER once in all the baka

Nating hun Olivier rullalk HE first and last old- Authorities on marmers and Joyed the dance and how to 1954 with many a folly, indul voice when Marilyn has, fuczyci THE

fashioned thing about behaviour - including Polonius pronounce Mr Willem Douglas gent laugh In 30 years' time; a line. He has always nha

when they react its quaint old- "Lady Behave," a guide to and Lord Chesterfield--are often time's namo properly,

fashioned advice on how their patience, patience, patience! modern manners by Annie ponderous, dictatorial, smug and

The combined effect of such mother should behave in Just plain boring. The Misses sections as Staying in a Grand heavily restricted, protocol-ing Lakes, are worth it.

And the results, sfies wORTY Edwards and Drusilla Bey- Edwards and Beyfus, on the Household, Foreign Words, ridden, wholly "conventional fus, is the first word of the other hand, are witty, catty Cook-Hostess, Dinner Party and society. That is, of course, if the That is why the title. In today's supposedly Indies (they brought the word Good Manners with the Royal next generation of Angry Young "Now Visitors: Allowed. olassless society, with peers up in the first placo), ironic and Family is to provide n de Women doesn't repudiate ils lax. Under Any Circumstances,”- And of the realm chained agreeably disillusioned, a pair of vastatingly clear picture of the responsible mammas complate Olivier 11

at contem- utter social confusion. In which ly and reinstate the tumorseless right, to Insist on I mercilessly to the sink like reallels who Tools

rules that dominated, the be- haviour of Oscar Wikie's reputa all the rest of us, you can porary life with a clear, cool eye we cheerfully struggle along

and have long since given up ·

The be described us a dame, & expecting the Imposible.

trouble with the social tion-contelous heroinasjo revolution is that while destroy- doll, a deb or a duchess, but They waste no time lamenting ing all the old rules. It im- "Lady Behave" makes enter breath!! (down) his neck:

If sometimes)mfarezing,

"

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practically never as a lady past social, plendours or wring mediately imposes now. ones, loss

word used to implying their hands over present strictly defined and therefore:: redd

brisic, cazier to trip over practical, overtones of faded gentility miseries, but offer

worldly-wise advice on of and refinement or in the work little problems, euch as Nothing dates au profily as a refreshfinder matringen plural followed by Under how to eat spaghett, how to book on social mannors and the whole contemporar woar or Cloakrooma

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