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"SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1961.
MARINA MAIL"
SUSAN BARNES☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆☆★
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Calling in on Miss Leslie Caron, the star who has
earned for herself the reputation of being aloof
HAUGHTY? NO! I'M JUST SHY
SAYS LESLIE
ESLIE CARON has
a reputation for be-`
ing pointedly aloof in
her manner. I could see
SHOW BUSINESS
"I'm
Look at me! It takes a certain amount of courage to do this
dis-
"When you paint your fuct, "I used to hate tea," she said, pretty. "I used to pooh-pooh down "
She wrinkled her nose in taste, and I observed that when she misuses verbal expressions sta tends-like many foreigners and children-to improve them.
why, when she walked you are saying: into the dress shop where I happened to be trying on a suit.
In
She was dressed entirely black Her now black hair was swathed in black chiffon Ber slanting eyes had been enlarged with thick strokes. of Släck puin Her elegant black um- Brelie was held unnaturally,
i were newly acquired Walking-
g-suck. She looked self- consciously aloof.
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She also looked a little tense. But the self-consciousness and The aloofness and the tenseness evaporated within the first three minutes of our conversation.
And when I went round to her London house for tea the next day, the Leslie Caror: who opened the door bure no relation whatsoever to
disdainful
one of repute.
When she had curled up one end of the drawing xofa, she giggled over her social image.
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nol That's all. It must be the features way my together,
arc
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Miss Caron is married to Peter Hell. the energeti young mali who, at 31, is the director of the Shakespeare Memoria: Theatre.
They Miss Caron is 30. two children.
have
'So difficult'
"Being director, my husband has always told praph what to do," Miss Caron continued. "And
I'm only or I need to be led ganised above my work. Other
wise I'm
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Peter takes me in hand and
tels like
what to do the more 1
Very wealthy
her husband's
We discussed background and her own differ- ent background, and what they had in common. "I was born
said in Paris." Miss Caron, "and my family was sort of upper middle-class. They were very wealthy."
Mr Hall's father was ከ stationmaster in East Anglia.
"But Peter is much better educated than I arn His parents may not have been but he is. He went to university. I left school at 14.
"My family lost their fortune I had to earn my m the war. own living
until then Up had gone to an elegant convent. I didn't like it. It was the sori of school where the form you Alled in on the first day had a place for your title.
"My mother was an American, so I was a bit of an outcast 16 start with. And then I was ballet dancer as well. This was was very not respectable. It badly inoked upon by children of upper-class ladies.
"I think that it is girls who don't work who are so snobbish about marrying into their own-- or a supposedly superior-social
Miss Leste Caron
"A girl who works has a stature of her own, a dignity of her own."
That has to compete with men. would alienate men. I would hate to do that. I much prefer then to women."
Miss Caron rearranged her- self, like a cat, in the corner of the huge velvet-covered sota. her black-stockinged legs drawn up alongside her. "I think it's wonderful." she continued,
he poor when you're young."
"I'm very moody. It's terrible. I wish I could be constant."
Miss Caron poked out her scarlet hips and looked dubious. "Is 'const the word
at- want?" she asked is her troclive French accent. “Un A the though of her Own
dea: It's so difficult to say reatures which, when cornposed, correctly. are scarcely like the classic
"What
vinced, because is that English rose, her big mouth
from hour widened into a delightful smile change
"In public." she said, "I feel minute to minute.
it's feeling completely happy shy And so in one way
be utterly crushed by rainer nice to look so forbidding. then
scmeone. It commands respect, even if I
"Peter's steady. 4bank God. don't deserve it.
And he's terribly patient with me."
These days I'm wearing a lot
of make-up, because i want
look vampish. But when
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very self-confident,
put any make-up un.
To
1'm
mean
hour. can be
and
Miss Caron got up to pour out
I don't the tea that had been brought
I on a silver tray.
P
class.
"If you don't earn your living, you depend 03 your husband for your social position as well determines as for money. He the houses you're going to visit
works has a "A girl who stature of her own, a dignity of her own.
carnis
"But just because she her own living doesn't mean she
comes a new set
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GHOST AND GHOUL. By T. C. Lethbridge, Routledge. 18s. THAT is this ghost business? Is it real, and
WH
if so, is it Holy or Unholy? These questions are as old as the human race. So far, none of the answers has been wholly convincing.
By
Richard Church
coast. These experiences have made him turn his trained and disciplined mind to an inquiry in this extra-terrestrial field.
He has brought back a new set about ghosts, of explanations their nature and origins. And his explanations scientific;
are
who can
now
that scientist says Now There seems always to be a rational way out of the protesta scepticism is not enough.
one might say, even mechanistic tions made by people who have Lethbridge is an archaeologist
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and the Victorian Myers, the
poet- Antiquarian Society
the physicists of Archae assure us that matter is a series mystic, founded The Society for University Museum Psychical Research, body ology and Ethnology.
holes temporarily which carries on today, enquir In the course of his work he operating under the persuasion
frequently ing from the angle of scepticism has
seen ghosts, of electromagnetic charges. into all such claims. And all we especially while stationed in the The old iron curtain between get in a dusty answer.
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Against this new background, Mr Lethbridge has been able to make out a convincing ment.
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I may have looked uncon - Miss Caron hastily added:--
"I don't mean it's wonderful to be hungry. And I don't mean that you have to be poor to be good. That's snobbery.
"But I think
inverted
if you're going to do anything in life, you've got to start early. Peter did. I did. "I think money in childhood puts people to sleep."
'Peacocks
We turned to the subject of Frenchmen. Miss Caron polished them off in short order.
"Frenchmen." she said, "are peacocks. I do not like their tradition of being unfaithful. If my husband went after other women, my vanity would force me to go after other men. And that would be the end of the marriage.
"I do not mean that I think all married couples who are unfaithful to each other should on principle, end their marriage. I only mean that I, personally, could never combine the things."
Portrays
two
We turned to the subject of Beatniks, one of whom Miss Caron recently portrayed in the film of Kerouac's The Subter- TATEARS, Miss Caron dismissed them in no uncertain terms,
"I don't approve of Beatniks," she said, wrinkling her nose as if she had just taken the lid oft a bin of mouldy garbage. "And most of all I don't approve of the ones who protest against the bomb by sitting down. It's a waste of time.
"You've got to go on living. get argu-Beatniks do everything to
: they don't eat, they drugs, they get drunk, they don't sleep.
and
picturesque, The more possibly debatable interest in his book is the mass of illustration and example which he brings to
[bear.
take
"And they don't produce anything. They protest without replacing their protest with something posliive"
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His speculation has led him into the past (ust we might
Miss Caron's 'expression from his expect
training); distaste turned suddenly to one especially into Celtic mythology of pleasure. She jumped off the and strange events in the sofa and started to the door be- haunted islands of Scotland. hind me. Here folklore and religious bis-
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fondly poking the front of the large-checked suit which en- closed her husband. He had just come home at the end of the day.
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Deufnd him came a couple of script-writers whom he hat brought back to discuss MissTM Caron's next film
I'declined Miss Caron's offer of a drink. The director husband was walking for:įlier, One occasionally has some sunse of priorities.**.
**London: Arpreis Service)..