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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1961.
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reporters: Gerard Garrett Maureen Cleave
THE PRENTISS GIRL
Campus fresh
and
-waiting
to go!
JOE
YUTTY, TUTTY TUM, OH BOY!
mad. On the screen, hers It's diffieut to match her for decided could not be
i; the blank deadpan, pri- vate madness of the Jady Holl- day variety
Shr even had a campos ru-
mance
I'M SCARED
"We've been married since last Thursday, whenever that was, she volunteered in that strange sepulchral voice of hers, Axing her large goofy attentive eyes un her young jamin.
husband Dick Ben-
"Dick is a tremendous help to me. I'm running up and down the walls and dripping over the furniture—my Lord, oh my-and he just puts me together again. She moved about vaguely - jangling some green beads.
"It's wild alt this star business and 1 scares me to death. I feel nay eyelids batting and it's
"When 1 turned up for
just dumb and simple.
おり
my
audition with Pasternak, I was
I was
PASTERNAK fungi. wanted a dark lanky college girl for his film Where The Boys Are. In charnpagne soaked to k the 22-year-old Paula Pren- ar. So sunt few lines from
Richard II t ain myself. tiss, that's exactly what
"He said I'd have he got.
Miss Prentiss something f
thought. If that's has turned out to be the liveliest Hollywood New
Girl for years.
hur m
1Cr take Oh, boy,
what you're
on, I'll send you right through that window.
"But he only wanted to see the size of my big duck-sprayed feet.
"We'll use yeb, he said. Sho is over here to help OK. I said. 'But thai name launch
Bachelor in Ragusa won't sell anything. Paradise with Bob Hope. In it We'll have
to change it to she wears a blonde wig which
Prentiss, he said. "O.K.,' I said." Mr Hope says makes her look Ike George Washington. Miss Prentiss thinks it's wild.
After four Alms, she is still campus fresh. She is healthy. intelligent, inquiring, naively
BIG SHOES
size "Some of those. Hollywood heres are real sinali, and they're the ones to be careful of, yulty, tully tum, an buy.
"You should see my next film, The Horizontal Lieutenant. I'm an army nurse and wear big Orthopaedic shoes like gu
Deals. and they're SO heavy. I can't cross my legs. And you should see the padding here," she beat her chest. "i's really wild.
She leapt to her feet.
"Now if you'll excuse rao," she and said politely, "I'll just go wash my teeth. I washed them twice already but I have a thing about my teeth today."
She accepted a brand of clgar- ette new to her and darted from the room,
"Paula," seid her husband drify, "will try anything once in the hope that she will be rome addicted to It."
She would like to make western, which, oh boy, yutty, futty tum, would be the wildest thing yet.
Brook
takes on
the Army
has PETER BROOK
arrived in England with crates of film and a fantastic tale of how
а
made.
The film is The Lord of the Flies--the disturbing story of how batch of British school- boys wrecked on a desert island slowly revert to savagery.
Sam Spiegel, the man making Lawrence of Arabia, abandoned the project having spent £50,000 on pre-production costs after his
experts told him the film could not be made for less than £400,000.
Brook told me how he made the film for £80,000 on an island off the Puerto Rican coast with an all-schoolboy cast and became entangled with the army invad- ing Cubs in the process.
Out of bounds
"This island seamed ideal. It was wild but sate. No poisonous knakes to bite the children, sand Mr Brook. "When we got back to begin production we found the place swarming with U.S. Marines and the gathering Cuban invasion force.
"All the best filming spots were out of bounds. The major a bit. in charge didn't like He bluntly told us we could not fim."
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London Express Service
PICTURE BY MICHAEL WARD. PAULA PRENTISS—“It's wild all this ster business."
QUICK TAKES
With money, and the school holidays, runding out, Peter Brook decided that battle tactics were the only solution. Buzzed by helicopters and harassed by
Diana Dors back to play proprietor of beauty patrols, the
filmed in unit
parlour in film Mrs Gibben's Boys. She says: guerilla style.
"Physically speaking I shall be the same as usual" Betsy Blair, last fibo All Night Long, Brook shot the film almost off is to become a director. She says: "I feel sure that a woman can the cuff with 35 boisterous boys do anything provided she has the self-confidence" Valerie and an airy army to contend Gearon, the girl in the Gandhi film, plays an Indian Sir John with he had to.
Gielgud will direct The School for Scandal, Theatre Royal,next year As a result he has enough. The Salome of King of Kings, Brigld Bazlea (aged 17) has just aim to make a picture ten days arrived Peter Ford, 17-year-old son of Glenn, appears with
father in Focketful of Miracles months in Paris cutting it down
Which is about the extent of he has just finished long. He will spend the next six
picture which Hollywood to around two hours.
enthusiastic, exclamatory, im- Hollywood's effect On Miss mensely
ikeable and rather Prentiss.
TITONI
Airmaster
always' at your servic
me-keeping.
Osborne's
epics
hideous mask and long finger- nails, lives in a sewer, coming out at night to peer disconcert- ingly from behind dressing room curtains. He has a passion for the leading coloratura. For an instant he removes his mask to THOSE successful
film-reveal a fare savaged by Beld. makers Tony Richard- Not at all-nouvelle vague, son and John Osborne are you see, said Mr Lom binndly. planning a series of intel- "In the end I fall from a chan- lectual spectaculars.
deller in the Royal Opera House
"Early films made by people and I am dead. They've offered Hike Griffiths such as Intoler me a stunt man which I shall ance and Birth of a Nation accept.”
were epics with serious themes," sáid Tony Richardson.
"We are in danger of losing sight of the potentialities of the cinema. It is the only medium in- which these sort of things can be done. We would like to restore- the epic to its proper place."
NEW ROLE FOR NOEL
NOR
TOEL HARRISON, Rex Harrison's guitar- playing son, has just been offered a film part in Tiara
More and more Tahiti.
sinister.
"I haven't a' olur yet what I do," said Mr Harrison, except that I play exactly the same sort
TERBERT LOM, one of of young army officer, us I did the amoothest villains in Best of Enemies. It's a very
H
in the film industry, is now small part with just a couple of turning to things more lines no guitar or anything.... sinister.
posting that y father's name le cat help inly He is to play the pre-eyed carqur leaves me sporchicks with Chatom in summer re-make made.
MAINOSE ELantom:
THIS
IS
New York, Monday
The problems of understanding children
THE
HE trouble with American children among many other things — is that their parents do not listen to them. So says a pronouncement
from Columbia University.
訊
Its verdict is contained in
report out today on the
problems
children.
Outside the court, 49-year-old
of understanding Ferrer said: "Nothing would
make me happier than a recon-
Say the researchers: "Child- ciliation." But 33-year-old
ren on the whole аге willing than their parents to talk things over.
more Rosemary, mother of his five children, said: "I see no hope of settling our differences."
"They don't want a lecture. They want to share experience and to learn how to be an adult. But parents simply don't com- municate."
1
must say most American
QUOTE ~ by New York's Governor Rockefeller, speaking of his £1,600 million building plan to change the city's sky- Ine in 10 years:-
Peter Evans
teenagers I have met always have plenty to say for them selves and never have any trouble "communicating."
"The middle-classes furnish the city with much of its leader- ship. I have felt for long time that means must be found to provide the housing ther HOLLYWOOD'S "West Side want Inside the elly blight Story," starring NATALIE and deterioration are to be WOOD, opened on Broadway halted. 11 recently--the finest
musical
I have ever seen. "A cinema
masterpiece. "
shouts the usually restrained Bosley Crow- ther in the New York Times.
"At least five years ahead of its time.
The film that must not be missed this year, adds Herald Tribune Paul Beckley.
critte
The big trouble will be getting seats, I fear.
I AM HAPPY to report that those "funny" and cynical
·Christmas cards that have been so fashionable here In "the past few years are definitely out this year.
Manufacturers' prediat a big demand for "Christmas Troses and plum-pudding carus" this
season.
Said one card man: There will be a definite swing towards sincere peace messages and an emphasis on the old spirit of Christmaster
I MUST SAY that Pakistani camel driver Bankir Alinad, who is the guest of" Vice- President "Lyndon Johnson, has a way with a phrase. He told
woman riporter: "Each time your sinile, petals fall out." Heould be politician.
WARNING to US diplomats ex-they are far too long-winded, said a State Department official.
THE WORLD'S most pensive slab of real estate the Empire State Building- became the world's tallest status symbol today.
If only they would come to the point faster, it would save the Government millions For the first time Americans dollars in communication costs, are offered "participation units" It was pointed out.
in the 102-storey New York Chat note: US Government skyscraper. And, at £3 10s a officials overseas now exchange share, investing Americans are telegrams ∙at the rate rushing to buy a piece.
you
"It's kinda nice to say are part-owner of it, even if it's just half a brick," said one proud investor in the Empire status symbol.
50,000,000 www.year,
DANDY Luis Antonio Hernan dez, 16-year-old umbrella- carrying Puerto Rican, who stabbed to death two teenagers in a West Side playground Jast SINGER Rosemary Clooney asked
in judge Santa Summer, was saved from
electric chair. Monica, California, for 8,104 dollars (2,850) a month tem- the sentence
A New York Judge reduced to seven to 15 porary alimony.
This is pending final divorce years fall. settlement from her husband Jose Ferrer.
But she was given only 1,600 dollars (£535).
the
SIGN in Fifth-averine bookshop: For a closter New York, send your TV mots to Los Angeles.
MARXIST CHEDDI GETS £71,000,000 FROM AMERICA
TN international politics this member of the mrhada is a bad period for acts of edem on diazammato
Kexarutive faith. The U.S. Government, and more on mat however, has just performed work one. It has promised to sivé zoonomy economic atd, of the order. The er21,000,000, to Brilish Gulam, a
litožiral-self-government." "937
Cheddagang ike? 43-year-old · în still only 290 East Indian dentist, became Prime
Minister when hisPeople's
Progressive "Party: Won 20 out of
Jugan, \(propises 5
the $5 seats on the legislative planning council
Whitehall still controle Gulina's
foreign policy," but next year it is ikely to have full independence here will con Jagan has: In the usat namibed in country
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to prevent it from Clas control.
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