CAMPS OUT.
THE MEN
BANDITS, THINK ARSENAL AND TALK TIGERS...
Frank WHO CAPTURE Owen Out here we fire at
mightlights
BOUT
were 1:1-
SINGAPORE. the jumps of night
four-thirty-fast, the myriad fireflies, wink-
when you are putting all around.
Nobody moves in the jungle the tea kettle on-the by night under hels upon business; and If he jatrol halted. They were 13 drame
myn with their young foves through that tangled gar. ollicer, gunners of the 26th den be had better take a lamp.
Therefore lamp-light
danger-
30
Field Regiment, R., turned night, and you the at il into infantry for this job, But at the huge high wall of
Since late on they had the deuce Juliage closes in been marching rather parde is mori visibility in day- those reity clambering-over dend trees lights everywhere, and you think and living bramble
they are lartp
green
נו
time you
1,000 ft. jungle hill. Their But there IS a real light mov- inckels were dark ang ten yards away. Yes, chum, it is the craiette-end of ine Arsi
entry as he comes of duty."
bak
with sweat.
"We'l sleep here," Lieutenant Stephenson 'The
jungle path went desily down Great Company
just here between two moss-, baised boulders, and the count of running water 'S/154 up file
The
with stream at n fest we apothet
NOR
TOW chow. It cut of th, but it's good. And Th The postmal (the in 21%) lay Jest aute
www.!!
With a barnettinuer posted on at the fire, the company
Ervat
Ce the German eanght Chan
Another wa
the path at either epid, the rest of the d red about the gun,da They med Gah kuke and Malay parangs (both formutande i na soba h. Our bat killed
Knaves).
Camp-making
War
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bandit. AE thought the
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Both lately
10.
he har been a
Two were arcular
about
SWIFTLY they hacked a clear Actual, and in a qu It say 12 yards square, mut come under the bm tee e
of the undergrowth. They cut 1 think he and planted stakes, lashed a uskel her.” framework then
hould have
Dist The
them Now it really catti with creeper, and cina ed Lau- concholy pay calent night? brood diets for pont and floor, mont whistling, servaminit, bark- making a fest-rate bastun.
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Do
You
How great is OLIVIER?
"The greatest theatrical figure of his time," say some Americans. In Britain they hail him as First Actor in the land, Olivier has just left London's West End. for Hollywood. And now
MILTON SHULMAN
analyses the man who looks for new worlds
three nisable
a to conquer.
HERE are at lenst dotes and constant ennasta n: The emergence of the real
clearly receg their Alteenth-century
their tiny house in Chelsen or prtist in Olivier Was no mero Laurence hom in Buckinghamshire,
country accident of age or spontaneous flowering of experiente. Hard Oliviers. There
Sir }:
But any
work has given hims tho Olivier,
acquaintance who chumelcon-like ability to appear, Laurence
actor-
staps Sir Laurence Olivier on the with manager of the St. James's back expecting
utler conviction, as the to flot Larry tragle Oedipus of Sophocles and Theatre, former director of risks a rather disconcerting ex- the ridiculous Puff of Sheridan the Old Vic, theatrical um. pertence.
in the same evening. bassador to the Antipodes. Perhaps it is only by compari- Patient practice has made hla personality in volce s mel'ow he could read a
When he appears in any of mentalising his these formal roles-be it on its fashion that Sir Laurence Yugoslavian telephone directory has managed to accomplish to a public platform, the stage much in the five years since the and still enchant an audience. for in a foreign Embassy-- war ended. For in that short When dirreling, he does not he is a masterpiece of plod he has firmly established impace his interpretation of a majestic inflection, studied right to be acclaimed as the part on an actor. He feels that reserve and unfaltering dig nity.
of
First Actor In Britain.
TOUR TRIUMPHS
he is the
n director should help good acters help themselves.
And he enjoys directing even more then acting. “It seems to be more creative," he said.
Olivier has already shown
There is Laurence Olivier, the actor, absorbed with almost WHETHER or not travagant energy in the creation heat actor will be vigorously that he does not intend to win part-tirelessly shaping disputed by those who support easy laurels at the St James's moulding, chipping, pollshing John Gield's until the roan is submerged in accolade. But nobody
to this He meme to encourage can deny wrights as well as actors. that his recent achievements Despite the contribution ho
the character.
einim
play-
Of
And then there is Larry, bon have been a foremost factor in vivant and genial hest, miable raising the prestige of the British has made to Almshe is
to make nt homo and gain to Hollywood and ninhibited as he and his theatre, both
"Sister Corrie-the slufte re- beautiful wife, Vivien Leigh, abroad.
mains Olivier's Brest love. At the hold court for their friends in whirling atmosphere of
As an actor, his sardontcally 54 James's his polley will be to Food ance- evil Richard III has been re- present both modern and classi- talk, better wines, spley
cognized as one
to have either of the major cat plays, and performances of the English tumself or his wife, Vivien stage. As a cultural envoy, he hne Leigh, nei in mast of them. jakin the Old Vie in triumphant tours to Paris, New York, Aus- tralia and New Zealand.
Estimate
What a Woman's Worth?
CHORUS girl who sustained a fractured 11. howling! uproar
elbow when hit by a pongiabour ever nightmared.
pantomime Why not? They are all here heavy piece of
It starts with scenery was awarded £2,400
traditi..
On-
✩
By EVELYN VAUGHAN
בוס
which
was
As a film-maker, his Heury V and flamlet not only made the world conscious of British ptc-
“EXHAUSTING'
LIVIEN rends
V
four or five
new plays a week and finds
tures, but proved that the it on exhausting business. "I
As nn actor- manager, he has
cinema could be more than just have practically given up look- ** noisy background for the ing for a plot," he said, "I have (chewing of part.
Become satisfied with content
alone.
think. nuclences ого prepared to see good acting oven in a bad play."
tween both parties had been not only display- agreed at £25. "It looks like ed his shrewd- the sale of a wife." he com- nos ns n judge. mented and it seems clear that of he thought it a bargain.
1
have
but
as
1936 FLASHBACK.—Olivier as Orlando in the Elsiree produc
adultery with a woman zeribed as
"good and pro- easily and con- tion of As You Like It, vident housekeeper as well as vincingly. an efficient companion."
plays, Whale this houring drive was
his productiona going on, a couple pine went
of "Born Yester- to the water. Like the he
day," "Daphne down
The biggest divorce damages Laureolo," and others, their tongues were bang the grasshoppers suilling, anduranges. A pretty girl who On the other hand, when engine, her husband ing out, and they brun them in the cicadas, then the dive-bomb was sealed when her hair the husband of แ 6lm awarded £5,000 for the loss granted to a husband in recent Venus Observ
years
been £7,550 ed" were highly that crystal stream. They in equitoes come in with a
machinery actress clainted damages of his wife's services while though in one case in which successful at the senoped a pool in the thining zing, the frogs croak, and there's caught in some
# movie the woman herself-an ex- all the paries were wealthy box-office mists, all nicht, was awarded £7,500.
against a British that strts, and under the sunlit ferns atut bird stuck their bes
was announced that the figure well. "chik-chuk-chik-chik," an
director for adultery with nurse-grained £20,000,
had been settled at £12,000 out Now the camp was matle, and other that demands "wok whoo"
These
the assessed two recent his wife, he tre
of court. At Cambridge, even
Although for pack.
in the parked
Tents and answers himself "wok wok,"
Obviously these
(0 are legal bricklayer recently had from Karrulous, the British law sum at £10,000....and then (with your proposal kit of cage, Then there is the montcy cases in
damages Angio pay £2,000 ns
for Sir Laurence a changed his mind. The claim riddles jersey, towel, ne s tim, etc., you wailing
an ox bellowing courts-cases and
thuit pose
American viewpoints differ
de Olivier niks carry your whack of the tabule, and the little beast who whines fascinating problem. What's was abandoned.
Another Manchester wontan your rifle, 50 rounds of ammo-ke a circular saw. Somewhere
BORHAN Worth? If her
was once quietly playing cards about 10th. load). Weapons Dre elephants, tiger, bears,
with her husband whea a run- were parked neater still,
Snake, squirrels, crowning glory is set at
the forry crashed into away £7,500 if the underwriters
she de- room. Subsequently of Lloyd's of London agree N San Francisco recently, veloped an incurable aversion to
and could a dress designer claimed her husband,
not to insure a dancer's bust at £12,500—as
firm did that her baly had been dis- bear the sight of him. Compen per 100 figured by a plastic surfe was asserned at £1,000,
sation for her wrecked married TAKE poortromine changes, but recently at 5s. i they threw dowa their packs, but it is never dull. It was not worth, in the case of Evelyn geon's operation. Seeking Chicago woman once brought a neck very similar action after injury they stool or merely squatted to now,
And the setting was exquisite. West, California's hubba- his services to have
cumpere- removed, she na lift crash, but It wan and yet time to Be Though the moun could hardly (hubba girl-what is the true wrinkles sound and smoke and yarn, pierce the canopy of the trees, and intrinsic value of those alleged that he had talked tion was Axed at only £10. Guard posts had to be cited for femaugh, shone through to make shapely bundles of flesh, her into having excess flesh the night ifferent job in the leaves look like black lace nerves and aweetness-our taken off her abdomen. The the day: sentries detailed; midlo apast the sky. touch established with head- lit, too, the towering: wall wives and sweethearts? quarters, more rewood piled of the jungle beyond our stream,
derr,
rals,
A fine log fire was blazing, hornets, arits, and midges.
and it was trattme in the jutule.
It was a sweltering eran:l for most of the sulders to drink
the brew stripped to the heft,
do it.
had been
since they
Fireflies
PUT already might was creep-
ing along the Hoor of the vast sen of the jungle-longh beyond the five si above
CHE you
Moonlight
one
Largest award
District Court of Appeals
Sot much lower
A
IN
trueper.
Its existence,
" Olivier in not
said.
This is a thenin he hap yet to prove. The fate of his produc tlong of "The Damascus
Blade," which was not enthu- siastically recelv-
ed in the
pro- vinces, and "Fad- ing Mansions," which folded after a short run, would seem to contradict hin
convinced that
ask
He carries himself with quiet, unobtrusive charm which plays about contemporary prob- can take a first-night in its stride tems are a good thing for the
He and calm the nerves of the most theatre.
claims that they of his jittery
company. He tend to be dull
or depressing. IN another instance, a Suffolk:
squire who, it was sad, took Eeldum loses his temper, laughs "All plays should have a begin- pwear like a uing, a middle and an end,” he advantage of his wealthier readily, and can
raid. "Plays about contemporary slation in life to assist in per- suading a wife away from her
Yet if this gentle exterior con- problems have no end." husband was ordered to pay ecals the abundance of energy Hila attitude towards critics £1,750.
Then there was a case with him. there is a pent-up can. unly be described as izl which the co-respondent Publicity value
Ponant look about the eyes and the arts grudgingly tolerant and coldly himself-presumably a
that reveals polite. "But you shouldn't lover?-estimated the damages of the mouth
an actor discuss critics," he fixed the sum at £28,750. INSURANCES, too have their at £2,000 and had to pay them.
some legal experts ray Not only does he act each catching the cleam of millions of
own set of values. Bette Davis Yet Onco- The question is full of Yet in England, phorescent leaves and in-
al pitfalls. Back in the year beautiful Maltese woman re. once insured her slimmess for that average values granted Inuight, manote the affairs of the direct new Inuch St James's, cast and
HIS RIVALS It mari the stim,
wife ceived £16,450 for road in- £10,000. Rita Hayworth's legs damages
rated
£30,000. lower. at
productions, study potential m
of new dozens which, the judge Should
discount
scripts, read tree tight at our fret unit like 1852, a man led his a huge hanging snake of silver, into the old market place in juries
its received plays, but
yet to on committees TT is too early young lawyer
Fay no figure for its publicity value? Aylesford, declared, left her with
National 1 the village of
de favilland
what, if any. Olivia
£1,000 damages chiefly for the for Equity, the new
lating mark When
honour and Theatre Building,
1951 Olivier will leave on the theatro This take a sock at her jaw in
stalion in life. Even an aellon Festival, and various charitable of his day. It is due as much to then one is extraordinary energy as to ever picture, she protected it to the concerning a wife who would organisations. "And
inherit £15,000 was has to get one's hair cut,"
talent that he has accom- £25,000. Most studios one day an une of
to added. with settled at £1,500, awarded
plished so much in so short their Blare even cover
Similarly, the husband. maternity policies.
period. There is no suggestion of the Somerset ilner gained £500.
theatre in any branch of But when time has drained tree. He was away much of that energy, what truth is that Olivier's family
law born in Barking, Surrey, in 1907, then? As an actor Olivier Is Mil being, jostled for exclusiva
were
this
A
are often set
About nine o'clock
fell ww About midnight earth redeep. 2001. fell gently on our faces from the Kent, with a halter around face at 'all, despite miracu- found that Ray Millard was to reflection on his could see nests above. At four the rain her neck and sold her for lous plastic surgery. glimpses of a hard, blue sky # came, and by stand-do at six half-a-crown-the last re was the largest award
at made to a woman in such
action..
which a sun shill burned.
Then mcn began to pull on
we lay in pools-cursing.
-(London Expien Service)
their jerseys, As daylight died
corded case of Auction in Britain.
wife
HE COLLECTED BEARS
THERE'S
144:11EESIALE
Perhaps the
ถ
the
he his
a
Lips, eyes, limbs, loveli
But what is the value of ness, every part of a woman
chastity? Thuurh has long since been assessed woman's
Lloyd's have apparently never every woman's worth is a
to herself...and the world has the son of a clergyman. in the exacting yet equitable been called
A upon to sure
res At 17 he enrolled at the porsession of the summit by como High 1,100,000,000 women. The of the law. woman'n cold commerce
good name,
action the cord
was sloged by Central School of Dramalle Art, formidable contenders. face judges must
Princess Youssoupoff, who was and two years later he joined talking about it all the time. An unmarried woman's left Court
As a theatrical producer ho awarded £225,000, it libel
Repertory the Birmingham thought it would Tin said he
been successful and im- clalin against Metro-Goldwyn- do her more good thin all the leg has been valued in law poser.
Company under Sir Barry Jack-s £700, theat
her right at what with
Back in Grandmama's
Mayer over the Rasputin mon, Although he made no great pressive without being original full-skirted day,
In this field it London when he or signiteant. room rent and food, they just £750. The value of a mar- dressed,
In contraal, o husband who saw impression on
been to the art of the couln't afford to buy one, Aried woman's left leg, how young man trifled with a girl's his wife escape from his home made his first important appear has that afternoon who'd month ago he walked out of the
was once set at only affections at great risk. entered one to be sent to that house, and
damages Harold," managements and cri- brought something fresh and ever since teddy ever,
These figures seem Years ago an actress appearing in her night-dress on a motor-lance there in 1928 in Tennyson's cinema alone that he has so far
show
called "The bears had been arriving at the £300.
accepted £25, preferring, ties took note of this handsome, Important. £5,461 Eye" brought low against the
of breach 11 rate of two or three a day.
a beggar in New York with a new sales approach: "Can you please, mister, spare the price of a teddy bear for person my sick little daughter?"
11
By BILLY ROSE
152242
It so happens that this address, pan-handler hasn't got "IL smelled like 41 Lood sick little daughter, but that human interest yaru, and so 1- doesn't mean you have to bad her wrap up the loy turn him down if you meet set out to deliver it myself.
and
1
...edicine, but
was a flat In a walk-up tene- With all those toys,' I said up with him. His story is ment in the 50's near Tenth to the woman, *your daughter hearts-and-flowers stuff, and Avenue, and the door was may be a happy little girl
"They're too late to do any I'll tell it to you as it was opened by a woman who looked
said. Peggy died told to me the other night. us if she could use a little sleep, good, she
two days before her father left, "What you get there.' sho
her I couldn't sal my friend, "I was standing said, "another teddy bear?'
"When I told
เวก why a mati in front of a toy shop on Fifth
"How'd you know?' I asked, underlanıl
bear for Avenue when
mooching teddy
"A few days before Easter,"
" 'f'vc a scely-looking
explained he wanted it for-19
still probably
over-
Many
Grad
bile auked for £100 but
awarded by a judge to a presse action against a British as the judge said, "hard cash to aggressive actor,
sume high-sounding award he
;1
girl who lost her leg after beer and was awarded the ce will never get,"
of -road-conch knocked her cord sum of £50,000. Slighting down.
But other factors a young woman by breach
promise is less costly in had to be finely weighed in England nowadays, nd £250 the scales of justice.
Loss of services "NEVERagain to play first. class tennis, to wear a brief swimsuit, to sun-bathe,
represents a typical claim. Yet the answer to our question 15
Not furnituro
awards.
No blondo
Jo
THE
now
conquer. He can think
I thus remains to be seen whether or not his intellectual ROMANTIC AGE capacity can sustain the momen-
tom of his youthful energy.
There in alto the danger that TUE early thirties' might well
be described Olivier's la picient Olympian perch nay best found in the damages of Ito set disse
TT is intriguing for a moment romantic period. His good looks Insulate him from the contacta estimates of and charm made him excellent every artist must maintain if he British divorce, actions. The be- womanhood against other court matinee idol material, and he is to remain in touch with the winged and leaned judges are
tho beavlest was kept steadily employed in needs and demands of hin publle,
like "Paris Bound,"
And it may be some evidence damages ever granted, a British playe
Royal" "Queen of
of an Increasing reluctance to seldom flummoxed.
had Theatre frm of banknote printers been getting twee dead child, the women said she
Banks Scots" and "Private Lives"
experiment that Olivier to pay £331,851 to the and guy tapped me on the arn
three every afternoon for lig
of Portugal-and there wasn't In 1937, he decided that he had, finds it difficult to discover new asked if could spare the price last month, she said. "Where'd was afraid Tim bad crucited up,
English worlds a blonde in sight. It is on resto master the classical of a teddy bear. When I ipl, you run into Tim?
He was never one to accept those losses to a girl of 25, him to quit his kidding. 110
really anyhow, and her matrimonial prospects NDEED, the law which obliges cord, too, that a girl who sold plays, particularly Shakespeare, of no particular role he is keenly
sorely diminished....' In
judges to value a faithless she was secretly engaged at 15"Shakespeare is the big stuff to anxious to play.
"I have done everything Wagner words spouse in L.S.D. in reminiscent to a youth of 19 was awarded on English actor," he explained, to a German the judge's Own
Othello, and I have no burning of the bargaining nicelles to be one farthing breach of promise "Like
tenor and Verdi to an Italian."
and considerations
destre to go into blackface had
encountered In address on a place of paper and with them for quite some time the teddy bears?'
the marringe damages. these their value.
marts of tropical Africa.
For two reasons to turned have the slage stolen from mo I could have it delivered.
Let us turn back to the wife-down Aims and West End parts by some young and brilliant and when his unemployment insurance ran
Should one
This is language out last March
records of more than compare Said Mr Justice Swift on one auction
a week in a lago," he said. to earn about £20 The going got real tough. Then, Estlen to know the doctors at
with the £35,000 occasion: "A wife is not a piece 100 years ago. The highest price self-imposed apprenticeship at every actor can understand. to make things still worse, their the clinle pretty well, and when
to of furniture. You can't value ever mentioned is £15. The as-Old Vic.
But is just the kind of three-year-old daughter, Peggy, her husband disappeared they awarded in New York
a job at the a negro who lost un arm her like a piece of furniture at tunt worth in cash might repro-
At 33, being too old to be challenge his admirers would had taken cick and the doctors had found her
so much a leg." Nevertheless, at sent £150 today, Personally, aub- Derby
divorce court not long I value my wife at rather moro Larained as a pilot in the RAF, want him to accept. For it would at the clinie eoludn't seem to do espial os cleaning woman.
There are a lot of kids in and a leg under a
£1,500, mere than he took private flying lessons have to be a most extraordinary n Ove much for her.
the charity ward where I work, way train? In the case of ago Judge R. A. Wills bluntly than
£180.000. and accumulated some 200 hours' logo who could make dhem she said, 'and they get a biga Manchester woman who set the value of "a respectable, £15,000, more than
£1,500,000? flying time. This enabled him to forget Laurence Ollyler. attractive and efficient wife" at Did you mention the slip to the giti who walled come about this way: Shortly tick out of those teddy bears lost both legs after being £500. In another cass the same Well, now, have you the money join the Fleet Air Arm as a plot (World Copyright Reserved-London on me lic gave me a funny after
Express Service), the third asked for a teddy bear and kept (World Copyright Hearrved-Londers knocked down by a railway judge found that damages be- on you?
"Tim, it tumed out, was her condition Blck little girl. and that if husband
he had and
been thought the kid was alive. for Several weeks. didn't think he was on the up- missing
**Well, then, I said, 'what and-up he'd write his name and Things hadn't been going well
have you been doing with all "The woman told she had
with the "Well, Alled Easter spirit, I walked into the shop and picked out dollar bear, but when I handed "The teddy bear angle
look and said I was
Peggy became
ill,
hind
she
Express Service).
them
Tearly in 1941.
but
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