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THIS IS THE RANGE OF SOME OF THE BOOKS THAT I'VE READ THIS WEEK
by NANCY SPAIN
adinit I presume) I must found it a really desperate bure. Take-off
Dynosly, who thinks lino Muchoir, "typical product
Hollywood is so of post-war France."
I FOR BEGINNERS (Max fred
Parrish, 12. d.), gathering everyone together such terrifyingly true healthy." to-life characters as Morlanının Amplitude, the Itaninn film star who says: "Lolle only had one;
NOVEMBER London nights: misty moons, wet pave. So it is with real, but wicked, but I, I shall have twins".
where street lamps shine like atars, the pro- mise of more wind and rain to come.
November is a time of the year when I always seem to take stock.
This week I could not help remembering other November evenings when the London skies were striped with searchlights, when the clang of fire engines com- peted with the purring of Nazi bombers caught overhead like dragonflies against a more dangerous moon.
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When he was eight Le saw a young men called Sohm sliding about on skis, got the locul sled maker to make him a pair of skis, laabed them to his feet with and Руда off, cheese deves whizzing downhill.
Favourite
Madeline, of course, has been in a film of Cocteau's (colled "Ler Tantca Atrocca") and sho is crazy about bleycling: her She gives plcycles to all There are 20 of these superb friends and is shortly coming
but easily
my to Birmingham to buy "A
joy that 1 turned to Sandy Rudolph Clamber and his wife Wilson's effervescent superior Belinds, the explorers who have take-off of the Ceell Benton the Umpupu tribe "caling out of creatures, kind of book, WHO'S WHO their hauds"; and Dame Win! Zavourite
I see
TAR
Ales.
Is the awful Made- douzaine" or s0,
montage
bas
That is
TAKE a look at my desk Yet they are all popular. And there is a book out, this
diary. 10.30 Star. The "Gunfight at O.K. Corral" that most
had a fortnight's run. week
perfectly
He was born in Mermaid. 11.30 King's, see a true story, and now Holly- crystallises
mood: THE has ever seen. BLITZ (Ailan Wingate, 258.), 1080, in a tiny village, son of Jean Eagles'. 4 pm Re- wood research is doing a lot of
cheese maker. by Constantine Fitzgibbon.
public shorts, and MGM hunting through old newspaper- It is a history book, of coutse,
And I can assure you but what history. For it tells
The Seventh Sin.*
That is just one day, not that there will be a spate of true blow by blow,, anecdote by anecdote, how London survived
every day. I admit, but by no stuff. Because truth is stranger
thun fiction. the glorious, savage, fascinating
means unusual.
What happens when you see days of autumn and winter 1940, How Londen laughed then,
so many fllins?
Well, He had no idea how to turn
what happens when how huddled together, Bang and wept and ate, how or stop, could only sit down, you have too much of anything? open, fought For two years he walked uphill You get sick of it unless you kept restaurants
do something about it. fires, degutted mines and bombe, and slid downhill.
What happens is this. I get What a story,
or a Freut
a call. "Hello!" cily with its back to the wall.
That "Oh, Hello!
Mr la And how exciting to read of Londoners, Londoners who when
the fored with great matters of
to. destiny and life and death made Jokes or talked pure poetry.
Magnificent
Though
how
Then he learned a few turns, He found them all too slow.
the #stem-christle," Invented grew up to be easily the fastest Fuller?"
"Oh, wo
are showing man in the world on skis.
Such was the dynamic impact film 'Outrage ut XZ Ranch' of his personality that Switzer-morrow at 11" land and Austrla had virtually Or, "We are showing, The no winter tourist trade until Moniler from Space.' this extraordinary man his ski school at St Anton.
In 1939 he went to America, formed a ski school there, cut down trees to make proper ski
grass grew special runs,
crust n throë-inch ensure
opened
to
of
Well obviously, after seeing everything that can be done on a ranch, or having seen every kind of monster there can be, I am not thrilled.
So 1 stagger out into the day- and wontier what to say. light, There I have to be careful.
Now people who write about received an awful flims have
What blast from happens is
the trade.
that willers of
PARADE OF
NIGHTMARE MONSTERS!
papery with world-wide drev- accommodate tastes to suit all And. I have read
lation get tired of alms,
They get fed up, and start writing for their own pleasure, They forget all about the film and start writing about the age of the star, or of his matrimonial difficulties,
For instance, the finest writer on films in my opinion is the nim crille working for a States is sold on the journal that
streets of every large town in the world. He can do more with a comuna than most people can do with a paragraph. But often he forgets all about the picture and takes a dive after the stars,
I saw his write-up on Affair to Remember."
trage and terrible, in what makalfirent tanguage u
What really happens in my Londoner described the bomb-
mind is, I see one film com- ing of the Cale de Paris:-
His son posed of every film I have "They lay quite still in their snow for the sport.
Herbert is still there, running BOCT. A kind of montage in beautiful dresses, beautiful
Hannes died, of heart which a parade of nightmare colours, covered in rawdust....
ottack, in 1955, in spite of the monsters strut across the screen this dust Have them onl and
To mind and refuse that he never mastered of my fact
in their correct Um. unrent sheen, they looked living in Amerlenn traffic. Ho parade
dolls that had been
race Bits of beautiful
troan the monster broken and the sawdust come trented it like u stalom
4
You
on.
out, and I went home feeling I' Wound in and out of oncoming Venus get mixed up with that had some kind of dream. When- motor cars us if they were flags, glant beetle the Stor put ever I go down Coventry Street And to the day of his death her so on. now I remember that dream, could not tell a red traffic light and those bright dead dolls with from a green one,
em" aust on them.
Dr Johnsor If Defoe or Shakespeure had written those words they would be halled as great writing. But as a matter
Or
fael they were sold by Anthony Jacobs, a radio actor who as a private in the in- in blitzed Cantry
Jenve on London.
On skis
Adulatory
someone
Sankey
"An
wine-
If a grades of wine. toster could adjust his palate to fine grades of champagne only, he would soon be out of a job,
Or if he judged say,
a tawno port by the standard of a vintage wine, he would be useless.
So the film critic must adjust his mind to the type of film he is going to see. Cowboy? Then he must be a western fan, and forget all about "Rebecca" and films of that kind. A drawing- room drama, then don't expect action or trick shooting.
He must not be Jeckyl and Hyde, but Tom and Algernon, Stalin and Lord Hallax Caesar and William Penn, and
60 on,
but I like it
a London critle called R
#
the same blurb a thousand times.
"Hongkong, that wicked city of intrigue and violence... reads the blurt.
"Where?" I ask, on my peace-
ful way home,
"Never in the cavalcade of "goes on the blurb, expose..
has the cinema dared to un- cover the actions of Never, I agree, at least not for the past seven days.
The thing is to keep your und fresh. Look at last week. I
sat in
have
a front scat at
Covent Garden looking at a per- feet ballet performance,
have driven recklessly around the back Innes of Eng- land. I have winessed an out- break of Typholl on Apllchau Island. I saw a fair at Munich. I have climbed the Swiss Alps. I saw the true story of an In- dion fighter, I have seen
parade of young stars who are going to set the moving picture world on fire.
a
Yet I don't look at it Uka that. Someone' who goes to the Alins once in the blue moon
He set the pace by tearing The next job is writing it up. strips-off its sentimental plot. Well, everyone has different Then every critic followed his ideng on that. But if there is lead until I was able to watch nothing to say, I feel it is silly right across the Atlantic where trying to find something.
The first question I ask is, "Your handkerchiefs film."
"Is this film any different from the time the film Ely
got any other of its type?" When was ke A here,
comot it is not, then comes the temp And to him the whole Illusion trail of cynical tation to appear with all the becomes wonderful reality. He dragging a critelem behind it.
wisecracks
might say, "I was quite taken
might decide to go along that night,
What would he like to see?
For instance, a States critio out of myself." wrote of "Funny Face" it had And so il goes on, something new, something ok, Well now I have
"Why?"
asic. Because there in nothing new in the plot, All that happens is that the monster is changed..
Westerns are the same. Plots haven't changed since Zane Grey, Anything new is received by me with pitiful gratitude. ECIL BEATON has out a
240-page volume called
As for instance in the western
with THE FACE OF THE WORLD at opened
hynn, (Weldenfeld and Nicholson, 42s.), singing the
in blue-yellow, pink-"There were ninety and nine," bound
That was a different touch. white, and ordinary art paper.
It alternates between "really Clark Gable tried by string- You know what I said about rather lovely little essays on ing along with four women it. And the reasons I gave for rather doing the trick shooting, but he its anticipated success, and so "really chums and
it has proved, all over the world, something blue; you know the am going to have a look at lovely" portraits of chuma. In didn't get away with 11.
"Shane" was different in that What I am getting at is this thing you say about weddings. FURTHER away from home, between, so hidden under thla
that you can put sincerity and craftsman- It is not what the critic thinks guir
It was clever, it was ingenious, during the Christmas holidays. but stut
magnificent adulatory A
It is a riot of colour, more human story with all the ex- curedly find them, ere some ship into the film, but there were personally about a film. He is it made excellent reading, and
Immediately a crop of lesser supposed to be judge, not by him I bet it raised a few smiles, In wonderful than tho Arablan hilaration of the sun and wind, good pictures,
"Shanes."
own written law, bat of public fact it had everything a clever Nights. It holds in foo the and some of the discomfort of
At the end of the preview I taste. Not what the low-brows critic could write
eminently. excopt it whole East, It is crisp snow rubbed smartly on
am asked, "Well, what do you or the high-brows think, but contained no criticism of the egregiously, pre-eminently sur- the face, comes Gerard (Bulldog
what the mass cinema-goers im
passing, prominently and super- Drummond) Fairlie's biography
link?"
I struggle for something to want,
"Never in the history of our intirely, anything of its kind of Hannes Schneider, FLIGHT
suy, but there is nothing to say. Nevertheless, I dlot of times... WITHOUT WINGS (Hodder and
But in spite of the fact that Westerns have torn out every celluloid is hard going. Stoughton, 169).
to bo The critic must be like the it is Intriguingly dedicated to crumb of plot there is G.G. (his friend Greta Garbo,had.
wine taster, His palate must
Schneider was probably the greatest ski instructor the world.
No doubt this book will le around on the little tables of the fashionable few and the would-be fashionable many, the super luxury booksy Christmas present for 1957.
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