Roderick Mann JACOBY BRIDGE
Judy Garland beats that six-year jinx
‘VITAL' ROLE IN KRAMER FILM
JUDY GARLAND—show business's little girl
lost, who wont last summer to settle in London and, as she said, "find_roots"—has uprooted. Soveral weeks ago she flow back to America with hor family, ostensibly for a holiday. She has not returned.
And now I discover that her personal belongings have been moved out of the house she rented in Chelsea.
"She is not."
Is she, perhaps, looking for another house in London? "No," says her representative over. here. What has caused this abrupt change of heart?
The sudden lifting of the jinx which has dogged her for six years
in Hollywood. She is to make another film there!
Last autumn she said: "Hollywood doesn't trust me any more. Nobody in that town does. They remember that I bohaved badly: 20 years ago, and they still say: Look out for Judy Garland.'"
It was true. Her temperaments, depressions, tears, pill-taking, and frequent refunds to turn up at all eventually combined to make her Untouchable as far as the the capitat was concerned.
"Nobody," a film producer once told me, "will give Judy a Job in Hollywood any more. Not after A Star Is Born,"
For this, her last film, was a gigantle op. Mado in 1935 and co-starring James
"Well that's fine for me." naid Parker. "But how much whit-you pay Elvis?"
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Mason, it cost £2,000,000-twice what was D for Dietrich originally intended having been held up for months by rows, problems, and retakes. Some days, when she did not feel on top of her forn, Miss Garland did not turn up for work at all.
So dramatic
Now, overnight, one man has removed the Jinx-Stanley Kramer, the producer respon- sible for such adult pictures as Inherit the Wind and On the Beach,
He has cast her in a highly dramatle role in his new film Judgement at Nuremberg, which stars Spencer Tracy. She will play on Aryan German girl accused of violating the race laws by having an ---affair with a German Jew,
Walpole-and the high price he
paid for
power...
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE: The King's Minister. By J. H.
Plumb. Cressot Press. 30s.
POLITICS was still a dangerous game in Britain.
George
If Sir Robert Walpole had lost to the Jacobites Malcolm Thomson -his abiding, exaggerated dread-flight or the scaffold would have been his fate.
Had he lost to a cabal at
an Instinctive understanding of Court or to the envinus Tories men's weaknesses and appetites. in tho Common ruin and,
have followed.
probably. Impeachment would THEIR VOTES
Nor was there any lack of Parliament was corrup I subiccts which is foes was also more sensitivo than could tase their charges. In the House we know today. this game the rewards werd
Among the committed men and commensurate with the risirs the Birelings, there sat soild and they were not always paid country gentlemen whose votes
above the counter,
.
Sir Robert, son of a Norfolk
When I put in a telephone call to Kramer in Hollywood he sald:-
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"I am expecting a Great deal from Mius Garland. It's not a big part, of course, but it's key part. A vital part,
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"And though I don't re member her ever doing a straight. dramatic role before, even the most superficial appraisal of her. life and carcer maltes it obvious that she can do it perfectly.”.
And so a whole new chapter opens up for Miss Garland. But away from London-the place where she planned to cink her roots, For, after the fly, sho
will do a big concert tour of America. And then there is talk
of a Broadway musical.
good
I wish ber, wherever.....sho rests her talented head, fortune, And a year free from teors.
Too friendly
ONE
NE of the problems facing M.-G.-M. an the island of Tahiti-whore
they are making a
new
version of Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando and Travar Howard-is the tested General Election which fact that the Tahitians are Walpole wins.
so friondly.
Since Elizabeth'o Burleigh.
When the Bounty first arrives no Minister had ever enjoyed in Tahiti, Captain Bligh and such pre-eminence. But there his crew are supposed to be a pricu for everything. and apprehensive about the sort of Walpole paid it in growing in-
welcome they will receive. tolerando of criticism, destro Particularly when they see to hold power for its own sake, some 5,000 natives swarming out Inordinate love of flattery.
from the shore in their eanom.
could be changed by a speach THIS HERO.......
that appealed to them.
At Court, the Queen must bu
The
The natives, in their turn, have to look suspicious, But the Tahitians, a naturally friendly lot, Insisted on giving the ship'a
1770 portraft which Plumb tuge welcome
grinning broadly up at the actors--and the camera.
squire, had become enormously rich, magnificent in his way of dattered and the King 'must' be draws of his hero in tinged by Hi£c.
George I was an admiration but it does justice able man who, ns Elector of to the man's ruthlessness, his Hanover, sometimes disagreed
gross enjoyment of his own with the opinions of his first
Power and the manifest envy of Minister in London.
his enemies. It is, above all, the portrait of a growing, changing
convinced. His palace at loughton rose in splendour and was filed with the pictures and statues that dutini ambassadors sent him.
HIS PICTURES
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one of the richest of all English
his
sold to Catherine the Great,
In winning the respect and affection of the royal couple, and ageing man. I
Walpole brought
"
I understand that it took the director, Sir Carol Reed, several days to get the idea across that
fore Nerce. they are natives. And there-
FOOTNOTE: Ono further
I 'the We leave him ninong his ad difcuity was the fact that
army
M'S
BÆISS - MARLENE DIET VL RICH, a lady for whom I have the highest regard, is just completing work on her first book..
....
In
Called Mariëne Dietrich's ABC, it will be published America some time this sum mer.
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Of what does the ABC con- ist? Under osch-letter of the alphabet, Miss Dietrich lists the things she finds most fascinat- ing.
supreme coup of his career, mleing nelahbours round the many Tahitians nowadays spoITÍ The Prime Minister soon had The meek bishops, the hun- lavish table at Houghton, His crew cuts. Wige had to be flown
tough face la red within from, Hollywood for them.. private art collections which By Scottish nobles, the City square.
which could not forgive Walpole drink and hunting. His cont profligate grandson, alas, for making a fortune out of e sparkles with jewels and orders.
Tho pay-off! South Sea Bubble, he war
Oulskie the couriers zide in Houghton rung with the partyboys" na Walpole call
with the Intest laughter of Sir Robert's hard-
ed them, who dreamed of glory from London
Already the rod do MR ELVIS PRESLEY, now score of other papers.
MR drinking cronies who, between these and
up in the
re-established In bumpers of the finest claret, elements made up the intricate patch boxca pilo crewed over the discomature of structure of power which Wol- study. In due time he will Hollywood after his the Tories, bollowed at conie polo managed and wilch Dr deal with them.
servico and enjoying fresh broad story of their host's, or Plumb describes with so much
But meanwhile, down, go the popularity, is a very high- argued out new and subtler knowledge, and so much vervo bumpers, out rings the great twists in foreign polley.
If Walpole's task was com confident laugh. For England is priced artist indoed. Men and power, They wera plcx, his policy was simple: to at pence, King George Ingrats- much, the same in the 18th keep Britain out. of war witful for a handsome incream in producer telephoned
that taxes might be the Civil list, And Walpole century when Walpole mani- Europe pulated, Magn as in the 20th, kept down, to the gratisation reigns at Number Ten. Men pursue power, Power daz, of the country gentlemen.
As for the future, ho does not 1910 Rood vahume of Dr gloo, aptivates, coarsons and
look so far. Nor does Munhy, in Plumb's biography tella the cprrodes mer..
mory of 12 year of porce. Yet this brilliantly managed und Walpole was a supreme prace triala follown crisis, rival after citing volume. And we, who know fint shadows ile ahead- the Premie tor of the 'art of mannging rivaâ challenges
ennall-Ministor and is-teft how nur War, sickness and political, der feat must wait for another tha rowly-defected;
climax
bool and another day, The esence of the art wad is reached in a furiously, con-
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court, Parlament, tuontics and colleagues,
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Presley'
The other
British manager, Colonel Parker, and aald the would Ako to bợckt” the singer for a one-night concurt in London th
"How much would you be willing to pay?", queried Farker:
dacer condently. "I think we could pay you 26,000, Piua ax~ pensos, of coup)."
JUDY GARLAND
"I know she "can, do it.”
Under "S" for instance, she discusses: "Sex," "Sinatra," and "Sugar."
Now he knows
"Idered who made up
HAVE always "won-
that great phrase "The Show Must Go On,” ob
Who gets blame for
nice bids?
was sent to moby an'aŊONYMOUS Toad- er who cold. "Please assess the fault on this disaster hand.”
TODAY'S hand
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I am going to blame North a little for ht opening two bid with only 19 high curd points, but the two bid is not what caused his downfall.. I am not going to criticise South at all. His partner had. opened with a two bid and South had no reas, son to suspect the danger.
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Then, who was at fault?
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What do you do?'
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• BY. THE WAY.
by Beachcomber
serves Dean Martin in the CAPTAIN FOULENOUGH paid give him his favourite food magazine Variety.
a call at an auction room fried plates, and then left him. "I've finally found out. yesterday, bringing with him, a
(News item.) The bosses.”.......
Weeping Cavaller" by Franz Hals. He was told; "it is an
ACCORDING to Mr D. B. Interesting pleture, but we can
Ale not take the risk of putting it Wyndham Lewis in
"Browning: the Man," a similar · up for auction as a genuine Franz Hals. "You're josing Occurrence inspired the famous your nerve," said Foulenough to poem which contains the line: the official.
"Nover the time and the placo and the loved one alt together.”
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