From Start To Finish, I Was Dumbfounded
By OLWEN LAWTON
66WANT to see a professional football match?" There was a wistful gleam in my husband's eyes as he added: "It's only a three-hour drive to
· Los Angeles.”
My heart sank. The last place I wanted to visit was "L.A.," with its hot humidity and almost permanent blanket of smog. The last thing
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I wanted to see, if it came to that, was American football.
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But I was newly married. wife, J hnd always libly Instructed other females, should share her husband's habbies.
We went to LA.
The Coliseum holds 105,000 fans, and every one of them was therein) night to see The Forty-Niners versus The Rains. Human-den sculators moved steadily upwards. Sellers of hat dogs and carlons of coffer did a brisk trade. I pressed myset? into the small spice left by the portly gentleman on my right.
admit that I sat there dumb- founded. Why did they suddenly rush into a huddle and whisper together? Why did they wear padding on every part of the body, and masks over the face? Why, every few minutes, was while fresh the game stopped players ran on to the field?
Each time a player noored a the band broke "touchdown"
Jubilation chords, girls into
balons. other girls twirled
fans. And the waved their crowd, as one mon, sprang to its foet and yelled.
Just to show there was no -fecat, I go to my feet and Below me was the Blood yelled alte feld.
During the Interval the band played A band briskly military music. A fanfare took a rest and another one ro
with about sannded. On came a troupe of placed it, together briefly skirted girls, gamely 100 more majorettes, high-kicking.
TO THE BEACH
'MAJORETTES'
They formed a triumphal arch us by one player, then the next, trilliantly spotlighted, ren
10 the
The crowd 0321 cherred.
The
field.
I seemed a long cry indeed
did
from my own country and the singing of "Mon of Harlech." Hul when, around midnight, we Gicups of ether, girls around lowly made our way to the cur
Held leaped and cavorted, park and Jack asked, "You waving ge Leather fans, enjoy it, didn't you?" I valamily Others Bung batons into the air answered, "Yes, it was a most with all the skill of drum interesting experience.
The majoret les' arc high second school girl," Jack explained.
"And" would you like to see the programme?"
- major.
"Oh, just exulain the game as It goes along."
My airy assumption was more eastly expressed than fulfilled. From start to finish I have to
QUOTE
by Lord Hemingford, school speech day in Glos:
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"Good
Because corne every week throughout the
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We motated out to Long Beach and stopped at a motel invitingly title "Sea and Sand." 11 good right on the beach. The moon sheee over a placid sea. A soft breeze blew.
Our "room" was a spotlessly clean apartment, consisting of large bedroom (with TV), bath-
(with shower), and
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I'VE ENJOYED MY LIFE!
Hollywood.
Callow, cocksure and green as grass when he invaded the land of movie giants, Errol Flynn tackled Hollywood with the confidence of a platoɔn of marines.
He
was brash, and an atrocious actor, but Flynn had years of rough-and- tumble adventure behind him from gold mining to pearl-diving. Hollywood was just another stop, a temporary one, on his zigzag course through life. His lack of dedication to the acting arts worked in his favour.
Warner Brothers' studio found him playing bit parts in England and signed him to a contract. Starring for Warners at the time was group of tough, eccentric he-men Who specialise in Kangster Alms Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Cagney, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.
Flynn Tough on they were, made 'em look like tabby cats.
A few years before his death kitchen fully equipped with Bogart growled grudging ad- electric stove and refrigerator.miration for the young Flynn of
For right dollars a night, it the mid 1930's. seemed like good value.
As 1 swam the following sca deliciously morning in a at
sunshine Stroud, warm and barked in
deliciously hot. I thought that maybe I could stand coming to JUNCTUATION is only cour-o foolbull match every fortnight, Pu
tony and consideration for after all! others put on paper.
SERVICE
His charm
"We were all working hard in those days, taking a lot of abuse from the big shots whenever 102 little got out of line or not a drunk," Bogey recalled. "Then this big Irish palooka comes along and maker screaming "There goes the devil clock.headlines with his romances and
stuff." who Half-past-six already,"
to the radio I am referring mar told the crowd to cheer a
Tamilt sight at the Luton recent-clock- heckling in: at
of every
American bedside householder. Instead of waking JECKLING Js # very you with an alarm bell, masie sufficiently pours Forth at any hour for
which it is sel.
--iron Mr
jy:
Hadison
exercised.
Macmillan.
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from Dr John Lockwood, Master of Birkbeck College and Vice-Chancellor of London University, pleading for use "simple" English-
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to the meeting of a com- U multice and what does one hear? Oflen raw klices of maundering, repetitive, ungram- matical, formless jargon.
About every eight minutes a commercial breaks in, and with such regularity that i know the time without being told.
1 know by heart the rhymes for at least six brands cigarette, where the "Golden
of
Jet will carry me, and to "Call the Culligan man"-if I want soft water service.
In this land where advertising is All, even the half-awake are not neglected!
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Meet Mr Brandyman
He's worth cultivating. Always ready to fit his mood to yours. In the company of ginger sle or sods he offers you the choice of two
stimulating and refreshing long drinks.
Make friends with
MARTELL
BRANDY
Sole Agents: „DODWELL &
"The studio brass would give all of us heavies hell for works, but Flynn would charm his wiry in Ave out of the dog hore minutes."
Flynn always admitted he was a great something less than
actor, but from his very first. loading role the magnetism or stardom came across,
This is the second in a three-part series. on the life and times of Errol Flynn.
By VERNON SCOTT=
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and barroom brawls were his secini tion among Hollywood's He held a posi- cinematic strong points, perhaps wartime elite.
tion somewhat similar 10 his only points is a performer,
Frank Sinatra's current pinnacle These Imited talents were High Lema the High
of enough to earn him $80 million Ilvars. and world-wide fame.
When
he appeared in dull movies, the public forgave him-his private like more than making for the chuds.
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In 1942 he played his big rest off-screen role during lurid court batile in which he was accused of statutory rape by Perry Larue Satterlee, 18, and Betty Hansen, 17.
it was a front pago carnival and the autumn throughout winter of that year. He won his popularity
The case soared.
and
Brawls
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He bought a huge white ranch house stop Mulholland Drive, overlooking both the Pacific Ocean and Los Angeles on alte, and the San Fernando Valley on the other. He enter tained lovishly. lustily sick, according to his critics, tasel- viously.
High life
Wast
But Flynn
no: crude roughneck. His home was Laste- Tully furnished and superb art works from every corner of the work crowded the rooms.
A glass in his hand, a pretty woman by his side — that was Flynn! He is seen here with Patricia Wymore, his last wife.
Asked about the house shortly than let anyone suspect the Etrol Flynn was one of the Attorneys' fees for aghts and before his death, he said it had sentiment he felt.
busiest and most successful stars rape charges, alimony and child Lled the Flynn As his career zoomed from in Hollywood, and he spent the support also Then there were his fiants. gone for taxes, adding, "one of
He "Charge of the Light Brigade" money as fast as it rolled in treasury. Flynna former amateur boxer my wives nationalised it."
of Robin on fast cars, fast women and of an uncrowned was deeply fond of the home, to "the Adventures was sort
"Gentleman Jim," slow yachts. bistro-weights. but he would rather make jokes Hood" of the champ After playing a corpse in his Nightclub outings frequently re- first picture, "The Case of the sulted in brawls. Among Flynn's Canadian Curious Bride," he was assigned opponents were a miniscule role
Duncan McMartin. in a turkey millionaire
titled "Don't Bet On Blondes" Den Topping, Jimmy Fidier and It was enough for Flynn's en- doctor John Huston.
gaging, gulicless grin to catch
the eye of the Brothers Warner,
An impeccable dresser
In his third movie he starred screen,
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the dashing playboy in the title role of "Captain Tarely appeared in films other He cut a Blood" Like they say in Holly- than costume eples. wood, he became a star over mighty figure in tights, faring
capts and boots. night.
Love scenes and fights-duels, Ast fights, wrestling
At the height of his mreer, in matches the early 40's, Flynn became
A new middle class
A
has own ways
of spending
Cambridge Bay.
NEW type of wealthy middle-class has sprung up in Canada. It is made up of the techni- cians and craftsmen manning the Distant Early Warning radar line high above the Arctic Circle. Their average pay is HK$4,800 a month.
With their new wealth have Mexico, repied a luxurious come surprising tales of how hacienda with a swimming pool, they spend it
and lived like millionaires for One *man ari electronics two weeks before going back to engineer, spent 10 months at one the Arctle. Now they're plan- of the jaolated radar posts work- ning next year's holiday -- in ing out an unbeatable system Paris with a small roulette wheel.
Another man, who driven tractor train hauling supplies to
Two-week fling the posts, went to Montreal and
He was certain he had the gave every chlid-he met on the answer. On his first leave flew street a dollar bill at Christmas, to Reno, Nevada, and fort all Only a few men keep their hir suvings in two days. Now money in the banko But on Two's "back" ognini, trying to de thing they all have in common cover, where the system - went the lure of earning big-mories. GARANTANA day too strong to rest and they! Bi2 others took a seara pay" all go backe maniaMERDEKAA stake,
flew to Acapulcoin (London Express Kersleri,
PEACE
to
MCK's
Commuller of GENERAL ASSEMBLY
...
" IT'S HAD MARVELLOUS, ADVANCE PUBLICITY, DARLING"
PERFORMANCE NERVES
Woite Ceby arrangement at the Manchester aussc
Undaunted, the rakish scTECT idal continued to spend money un trips, women and parties.
"People expect me to live like a playboy, and I'm not going to let them down," he said. "Be- aldes, you only live once, and who's to say how a man should apend his life."
In his later years the merry madcap was asked if he woult have played his cards differently Wono tho hand to
dealt kgain.
"No," he answered. "I have no complaints. I've paid for my wicked ways. And apart from the financial payments, I've enjoyed every moment of my life."
Flynn felt the same way when we was among the top 10 box office draws in the movies. But then came the end of World War 11, the advent of television, and, the most crushing blow of all public demand for top-flight, sophisticated acting.
It was the beginning for Errol Flynn's phage .from the pinnacle.-U. P. International,
TOMORROW: Flynn's Disillusionment
TALKING
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