SHOW BUSINESS
Susannah York ..."I think a certain amount of self-mystery is essential"
each other, or Ave sit scribbling at our separate desks until midnight. It's almost like being fellow students."
Michael Wells is Susannah's husband. They were married two years ago when they were both studying drama. She was 18 and he was 20.
Surprise
"I'm terribly ignorant about Since en Susannah, with BO much and the two
I'm greedy to parts in only two films (Tunes and
The Greengage Both Mike and I are of Glory and alongside learn.
and writing Summer), has zoomed to star- interested in art and solique shops. Sometimes doin. Her husband's career has in the evening we read poetry not flourished.
Susannah's nose and mouth are the only things at odds with the schoolgirl's face
P
GIS
up in the love game!
Noise, gossip, vulgarity Such a mix -these were the things Agate needed most
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by George Malcolm Thomson
A SEVERED HEAD. By Iris
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"I hate to say I'm a certain "Like most students," Susan- nah said, "we were all rather way, because I might change.
and But right now I know that aesthetic in those days, would read poetry and drink would hate ever to be promis- black coffee,
enous. I'm on the fringe of & world where many girls are, and it leaves me agog. It's a side of life I have always shied away from. Sometimes I think that's why I go on wearing my hair in pigtails.
"And then suddenly the next stage
took me by surprise. I have a terrible conscience. You know? I'd had a very strict upbringing, and it seemed to me it was all right to feel attract- ed physically to someone only if you were planning to marry him.
tremendous Mike. So we got
"Also I had A liking for married."
Suzannah used her fingernail to incise a circle deeper and deeper into the tablecloth. "One part of me," she said, "longs for protection. The other part is against planning.
"I love male company. Who duesn't? I utton get invited out. But men
me-this is an awful confession--as £ 1 were friends with them. Maybe it's because I don't think of the other thing.
"I think there are people who are very passionate but who never express themselves phy- sically-whose friendships are purely emotional."
'Myself....
/
"I couldn't have got married If there had been Invitations and things. The only way was the way Mike did it, by saying:
Susannah got up. She was 'We're getting married on due to be filmed running away Saturday.' I didn't have a from an unsavoury neighbour- to chance to get frightened and hood where she had gone
seek her father.
back out.
"Do you mind if I push this aside? It looks super,
1 but can't concentrate when I'm eating."
Susannah set aside her plate of food and concentrated on the business of lighting another cigarette. When it seemed to be secure in its holder, she to the subject of
returned marriage.
"It's very difficult if the girl she said. is more successful,"
weaker person. She's forced into this
IF you ever learned "She should be the trigonometry, you strong position.
AGATE ANTHOLOGY. Edited by Herbert Van Thal. Hart-establishes the relations between
Davis. 21.
in Casablanca is commissioned JAMES AGATE was a bulky, battered figure with a bright and hostile eye, a little clown's nose, and an undefinably sinister air.
the sides and triangle.
Stronger
will appreciate Miss Murdoch's fifth novel.
Trigonometry, you will recall,
"In fields outside acting. So we angles of the Mike is the stronger.
fields in our And very unexpected play up these
private life. I suppose this is they can be
here triangle
seems running away; that I'm shutting simpl
enough. Comfortably in my eyes" Susannah cupped her stalled at the apex 25 Martinchin in her hands and shut: her Lynch-Gibbon, a wine importer, eyes tightly. When she opened With what feeling Agate fortyish, cultivated; at the base them again, she continued:- wrote of the great actresses are his wife Antonia (older) and "Worldly success is not bathed in fame and doomed to his mistress Georgie (younger). basically important to me. oblivion! His essay on Bern-
But turn the triangle up 50It's very difficult if you've got hardt, opens: "In front of her that Antonia is the apex, and glass, physically exhausted but we find the third corner occupied girl more successful than a man
and you mix with people and spent it on hard living. ever to mentaly alert, sits the not by Georgie, but by Antonia's whom this matters. Magnificent build-up of tension A brief, uneventful marriage, great workwoman.”
lover, Palmer, her psycho- analyst.
by unscrupulous tycoon to dis entangle daughter from diamond- set in Spain, Back- robbery grounds of Morocco, Madrid, Costa Brava, First-class story telling, sus.ained dry humour, a must.
THE TIME OF TERROR. Lionel White. Boardman. 12s. 6d.
Great stuff.
a
He was the best dramatic critic of the London of his lime, the twenties and hir
lies of this century.
lie mada money by his work
冠 wide variety
of
Sinister sister
But
10
in
"You would have to be In this Anthology, one item
sensitive if you falled to see stands out in quality, the longi
that the other person is hurt. extract from his life of Rachel.
All the troubles.of these marri- Himself something of an out-
Bges are born in the minds of cast, Agate was thrilled by the
waif who became And so to what one may call other people. Eventually it's too Jewish
the tangental relations. Not difficult to withstand." France's greatest tragic actress.
only is Martin
as out-of-work suburbanite be lending In divorce, Jeft him
in despairing mad <omes,
open 10 moment,
kidnapper,
and friendships. unscrupulous bar-room friends discover and exploit his crime. At the time Arnold Bennett met him in 1920, the novelist could note in his diary: J. E. WHEN SCHOLARS Apate a man of 40 or so,
Timothy robinven. rather
and coarse-looking
He understood, with some mild homosexual the between with her fingernail. New Authors, 165. Thought therefore rather coarce in some
the intuitive himself end Palmer; he now fully. Scotland Yard Send things. Fattish. His reputation part of himself,
"It's B daily problem, investigate for serual perversity. The genius of the young woman adopts a fillal role as well.
who could thrill the most cul- But this is still a beginning. obviously. But we try not to murder of a socialist don at man has points and refinements tivated audience in the world It is Oxford. Somewhat mannered, but he is fundamentally un- by uttering words she did not this gonometry that makes show it matters too much. plummy-voiced telling of Bintelligent.”* slightly mad tale, should go
FAIL
& Balliol man to
down well at Cambridge, un- doubtedly will at the other
T.
Amazement
were not
fully understand.
her
Rachel's viciousness, longing for the gutter, her loves, her avarice, her a made a profound appeal to the man, and poet, in Agate. The result is a study that Hazlitt could not have bettered.
Witty.
conscious of a
world go round. Martin is confronted next with an in- cestuous relationship between Palmer and his scenewhat simi- ster stepsister, Honor Klein, who splits napkins in a with s Samurai sword.
Then
Susannah drew inore circles
Critical
а
place.
"I try terribly hard to lessen TARGET FOR TERROR.
the tension. It is an unattractive picture
And he is C. R. Jacobs. Hale, 10s. 6d.
wholly perceptivé.
tremendously understanak, pe. Newspaperman, Paris based, and noi
Martin's brother, son. There's no jealousy on his with
Agate's weaknesses French tangles
recret
Alexander, enters the picture part. He's sincerely critical. Eervice, Communists, ex-wife,
in the sphere of intelligence.
He is having an affair with international
In his notes on the passing crooks in France Yet it is fair to say
"If I get stuck on how to and Tunisia. Rumbustious, im- Agate would probably
that show, in the diaries, above all Martin's wife and his mistress. have in the remarkable Ego scrap Martin himself (who tells the play a part. I go to him and ask probable, undemanding, just the preferred that extract to the book, he revealed an ear for story) ends up with Honor. his advice. He can get me over thing for a quiet holiday read. terser mention of him in Ben- anecdote, a capacity for listen-
bad bits whenever I have a In this witty, original, eccen NIGHT ON PENWITH, nett's published diary: "A man ing, and the good journalist's tric novel, Miss Murdoch applies block. He's extremely good like Frances B, Clark, Hammond. 12. named Agate joined us." Bd. Costume-piece, skulduggery
habit of putting down on paper her irreverent but inquiring this.
mind to, some highly unorthdox And I have a great respect among landed gentry Corn-
research into the complexities for his acting ability. I think It is easy to say that Agate's what he had heard. wall at turn of the century, career ran to waste on third-
of love. She also thrown_ corpses in china-clay pits, Tate work. That if he had not
it's a matter of time and his handful of bones to the serious waiting and trying." smugglers, black sheep in the been so coplous, so digent, so
minded critics to pick.
I changed the subject to the family, skeletons in cupboard. greedy for money and so spend
What is being symbolised? The obituary Agate wrote of Quite a chintzy charm, however, thrift when he got it, his real,
which she is alm of Freud which, What is the significance of the underlying, over-worked, abused himself a document.
In it, she currently making.
● UNCERTAIN JUDGE strain of talent
would have naturally, hides more than Samurai sword? What does It plays the part of a key patient MENT, Gilroy Mitcham. Dobson. flourished.
tells-ends thus: "The subject all mean?
In Freud's
In psycho- 13s. 6d. English private eye, in-
Is inexhaustible, like the man! Every reader will answer the analysis, inks vestigating deaths from which
The judgment is absurd.
himself. His death eclipses last question in his own way, "In real life," said, Susannah, he and his wife will benefit
the gaiety of newspapers. His especially all those Moscow analyse myself tremendously, Bnancially becomes a murder needed noise, gossip and a touch
Agate was not quietist. Ho enemies will miss him.' students who, one learns with but I'm not one of these people!
stupefaction, are busily prepar- who has the guts to know every- suspect, and gets nasty domestic of vulgarity. Something prutal, It was a witty last flourish, us theses on the works of Miss thing about themselves. shocks Unpretentious, easy to something meretricious in the and untrus rend, effective.
1. They will simply haili, na kamanu quality of his surroundings was
think a certain amount of **THE SHORT REACTION. essential to stimulate his mind of reasons by his friends. ment of the moral bankrupter. John Gale. Long. 12. Od. It is more to the point, to
Waben of the the bourgeois capitalist thinking person in order to Murders in a private hospital, stand in amazement, wondering wrote, a most divertink see And I have a horrible, lurking go on if you know everything From the 30-add books Agate world. Starvernd Survive. How can you bear to mayhem In Thames-side clubs that, amid huch disorderly Lon is on offer here. It would fear that they may be right. about yourself?" and St. Mawes by traffickers in and foolish life, so much fra
super tranquilliser Fast class work was done! It was probably not be hard to glean
Moving, written
Murdoch.
He was missed, for all sorts a wored Hend as an indict golf-Elystery is essential to B
as much more or equal merit
exciting, excellently done because Agate had one from the writings of this In-
hhiding passion in life for the genious end busy mani. JOHN CLARKE. theatre and its people.
[London Express. Herolde).
Susannah arranged her cut lery in new pattern, Harold Harrisnother cigarette, replaced it in its holder when orain 21 -{London Express Karelor), | out, and con:liped,
"I play the part of a girl Freud is meant to cure.
"She's
about 20 She's talented, 1 suppose. But she's a tremendously neurotic char- acter hysterical, intelligent, guilt-ridden, full of wish-fan- tasies.
"I can't describe ker objec- tively because I feel she's part of me at the moment. I feel I'm describing myself.
"Which isn't so, of course. The schoolgirl grin returned She shook to Susannah's face. hands politely, and with her little beribboned pigtails bobbing" in the air she pranced across the room and was gone.
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