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VIVIEN LEIGH
B
EAUTY has its dis- advantages. Not least
among them is is
ability to get what it wants
--gives a lesson on
#rentest young diceovery since Moggle Albanesi, startled the West End in 1020.
Then, with its count isdalo for sudden success, Providence to it that nothing much ARW
with a minimum of effort. HOW TO STAY ped to Vivien Leigh for
This is particularly true
of the stage, where cenely young women are suddenly catapulted to public favour with neither the training nor the experience to keep them there.
The trick, then. is to cling to the heights while enlisting the aid of hard work and determination to make the foothold mory
secure,
FAMOUS
by Milton SHULMAN
the next few years,
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haring these years Miss Leth was having more luck with her film creer, When, after intent Punilety carpin, Wyld Selznick chose her to play the part of Scarlett O'Hara in her "Gone With the Wind" future was assured.
ubrequent hims like Waterton Bridge," and "Caesar perform- and Cleopatra, her
es ranged between excellent fair. But it was not until se returned to the stage in 1942 ie Doctor's Dilemma" and followed that up with Sabina In
Lady Olivier
Britain making
for
money other countries
SHORT time ago, a sombre building on historic Town Hill
in London turned out $400,000 in silver dollars
By ROGER BUNYON
bearing k 1780 date of the bygone lilles, "Queen of Tingary and Dobemle, Duchess stamp, the crest of the of Burgundy, Counters of the
imperial court of Aus- Tyrol... tria and the effigy of an empress.
Among other foreign coins the British mint mude 6,000,000 on pieces-Norwegian nickels - for Norway, franes как French West Africa, pennies Faroe Islands, silver for tanya, bronze for Cyprus, cupro- work for Jimmy Barr, nickel sixpences for Eiro and even 24 batch of 340,000 coins veteran coiner at the Royal for the Fill Isles.
This building Was counterfeiters' hideout, the for the
coius no
bogus collectors" quarters Items It was all in a days postres
Mint, which turns out over
Britain's only private mint-
| 600,000,000 coins a year. a
a colrae works at Birmingham goodly proportion of them any fashioning 12,000,000 foreign.
colns for the new state of When King Ibn Saud of Saudi Israel; Israel! economists, And Arabla decided to have new eons puzzling over the form
ordered the dies made in Br. design their money should take. tain and coins struck from them decided to take up their coin- 1st the U.S. Buat Arabs along age where they left it 2,000 the Red Sea consts sil look years ago and ordered shekels, askanee nt bis new-fangled prutoths and gerahs based on royal pieces, yet eagerly part coins first minted in 14 B.C. with blankets, camels, pearls and gun in exchange for Jim- my ner's silver dollars
WE'LL TAKE DOLLARS
THE
reason lies in an old custom, for the Arabs have always prefered large silver coin, and the hand- some Marin Theresa dollar has been the principal coin of com- merce in the Soinian, Aden, the Hejaz and nelghbouring terrl- tories since 1300. Originally,
It seems, the coins were intro- To her friends and guests seduced by the old slave tratters. iskom led thun gay, charm-
and formal. She
05
the
Old emblems Eveli cup of marino, the lamp with. eight candles, the palm tree and the bunch of grapes have been revived and inscriptions in archale Hebrew designed and modern Arabic.
Mint workers were puzzled by the year dute "5709," but This proved to be the Hebrew year.
PRUTOTHIS BY PLANE
10
urgent Was the Israeli government's
by
hence the term "trade dire need for coinage that the first
consignments. were down
With its vine-leaf and scrutinise each plane. The Arabs coln varefully, rejecting those grapes the 50-prutoth piece is
keenly aware worth roughly 25 cents,
Undoubtedly her wisest decision at this time was
crustantly delighting them with entaheits berkets of generosity, her refusal to sacrifice con-
if sometimes her tempera-that are worn. pletely her future on the
int makes her a little dificult that the Marla Theresa i now The Skin of Our Teeth" in to get along with, she would one of the few silver coins with The number of starlets stage for the generous re-
1945. that London began to hardly be so ed an actress it 83 percent pure silver,
Formerly,
silver from the thank of her seriously as an wee otherwise,
Arab territorier was inken to who have blazed to glory wards of a screen career.
She can probably thank tess and
415 not merely
the Miss Leigh is only too aware Vienna mzat to be con- only to plunge as swiftly this display of admirable another film star.
of her own Imitations as an
verted into coin, but Vicana into oblivion indicates that foresight for the mature
And in 1949 in the name-part this feat is not as easy as
Ming Leigh proved that she was it may sound. Miss Vivien performances she was able
to give over a decade later pwdy for parts that called for antly trying to overcome Leigh's career provides an almost classic illustration in the challenging roles of deep resoure's of imagination, Sabina in "The Skin Of Our aletligence and technical skill, of how it is done.
Then came title rol in
her Bauche in Teeth" the
the controversial "A Streetcar "Antigone," and Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Dee Desire." To some critics great performance, 2 others it was accomplished
Fame in a night
JF to May 16, 1935, those sire."
morgues
of
factual
trivia the newspaper libraries-possessed scarce-
Married at 18
ly a single clipping to note VIVIEN LEIGH was born Vivian Mary Hartley at the existence of Vivien
India, Darjeeling,
where Leigh.
she spent her early chiki-
of Jean Anculli's "Antigone," tres. She still takes lessons production stopped in 1936
was
invoich prudluction and is een-
1chnical weaknesses,
tors
Soon, however, the contrac- starl work on 1,000,000 500-prutoth pieces, cuins rank- valuable ing among the most now being inade.
"
It is over 30 years since the old-time golden sovereign was
in Bri- in general circulation tain. Recently, the royal mint Ber] SHEKELS AGAIN
struple 100.000 sovereigns preserve the inherited know- as it to ledge
craftsmanship of and Harmful critics
TODAY.
heighten this strange making gold coins." forgery, the British The sovereigns bore n George CHE thinks that critics van dollars are stamped with the V head and a 1925 date mark an acknowledged ste do considerable harm initials of the old Vienna mint and are now
oftelal
a young actress by pointing master, as well as abbreviations part of Britain's gold reserve.
but cold. But none could now cut one physical and unalter
hintale defect. deny that Vivien Leigh definitely established her right to be included among the
portant actresses of the day.
"Astonished'
!me
tong
neck
"James Acute once described me as a flip, and added that
have tun tulip tem," she raid, "It was a res mark. that had me worrying
hout the length of my
1 stul have been JUST before she left for Holly whe
my acting." But on that day the Tress hood.
wood to repeat her rote of worrying As a young girl she was
know that there Mies
She Rancho for the screen, male up for its indifference
me that she had *me mannerisms of her own Practically every newspaper educated at the Convent of Leigh told
Stered Heart in never
understood the public the must all climinate. she secret," in Flect Street blossomed the
Tut they are my Streetcar "A Dgainst
ld, and I don't intend to tell into unrestrained headlines Rochampton and travelled like "Stage Fame In A extensively through Italy, Semed Desire“
you what they are,”
111-health as plagued Vivien Leigh for
Dy years, Night" or "She Finds Iler. France, Germany and Ire self A Star In The Morning" land.
Barrister,
she
Olivier.
10
married
24
matery
"I wouldn't call it a drawing reem comedy, but I am ab
telutely astonished that anyone hold #nk it subiricus, she
..
05
favourite pastimes
"talking
wi
are
Chance Experiment Saves Boy
A
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
YOUNG woman doctor
So Dr Smith
irled her CX-
case, a
where prospecte
has saved the life of a periment with another
youth of 17, boy by A seemed hopeless. thrach the says that she is raw perfectly fit, the strenuous two-year-old
contintanus eincentration chance experiment with-a a sanded by the role of Blanche poison.
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
The boy was dying in erisly laxed her
:[ hospital
tuberculous trength.
The drug strepto- "You have to be a terribly meningitis.
Pas etont be as arter," she said, mycin which
Way. I had to have my neck in two had no effect.
So Dr Honor Smith fought
physical
cures one
twirled by a masseuse every would try her experiment.
the
It was even considered that all treatment might be stopped his to let him dis in peace.
However, she went to work, injecting him with tuberculin.
fortnight he began And now he ap
Within a
to improve.
to be utl
and league. LA
Smith her col.
Dr It
now trying
Vollum, are
the se injec.
tlons
with
more
patients.
They Kot first
to recount the appearance ller formal dramatic edu- of a 19-year-old girl in a cation consisted of a year It is not mere affectation that new play called "The Mask at the Comedie Francaise bas egeri Mis. Leigh it is of her of Virtue."
at a short time at the "erendipity"
in her The fact that she was Royal Acaulemy of Drama- atrical Who's Who.
"Serendipity" she defines actually twenty-one at the tie Art.
broadly-s Her introduction to the pro- rotier time may add verisimilitudu to the event, but it in nofcasional stage was, however. lazily and happily with your
postponed while she took time feet up and not knowing what week." way dims the lustre of her cut at the age of 18 to marry subject will come up next." Mit Leigh does not like to Not because she hoped it would Pears
boy, but the
making a to get dazzling and unique triumph. Air Leigh Holman, London For Miss Leigh simply bubbles make long-term plans about her benefit
might, But some day knowledge
in recovery. and
Which have
with words.
Dr Once they start to future plays.
have they
been 1 would like to do Shakespeare's me, help others, The mandage was effervesce The photographs that ac daughter.
mud Imogen in She injected into the boy companied these exuberant dissolved in 1940 and later that own, at times, to tumble out Cleopatra
of purifled cmall her
quantities Laurence of
mouth somewhat in Cymbeline," she paid. reports revealed a face with year
advance of her thoughts.
which is a poin tuberculin, With Sir Laurence Olivier in the hone-structure of Bot.
But because she speaks quick-
at
James' free by TB germs, The St. control
The She looked young
results astonished ticelli goddess and the de
ly it would be wrong to assume Theatre, it might not be too rush
'Truc.
Smith and
everybody else in that she lacks sagacity. licate radiance of a Renou
to predict that one day this may tie Radelite Infirmary In demoiselle.
MISS LEIGH has the kind of the hus occisorally or public well come to patient infuse Oxford.
face age has a dificult time than discrent in her urence's direction
For this pitifully emaciated Although utterances, but that is probably it warmth and sympathy with contracts keeping up Three film
weight rapidly: while working THREE NOW awaited her signature the he was already a mother, she the result of having too many
Der nudience that in still lacking child gained
condition of paralysis, looked young enough to be cast ideas rather than not enough of
from some of Lady Olivier's per-from a day following her debut, es a schoolgirl in her first film them.
formances, then i would indeed he began to play will toys. Sir Alexander Korda had part. It was a 1934 picture
be difficult to deny her great- Within a month the boy who to explain why some patients moved even quicker than valled "Things Are Looking Up."
had been blind could see again, do not respond to streptomycin. ness,
He started to talk.
But in the Lancet they that. Two acts of "Tho This was followed by tiny
IT is, however, in her grey- Perhaps the remark that best
warn that much more work Mask of Virlue" were parts in three other films, and
AND A SECOND
must be done before the treat- green eyes rather than in reveals the true actress and truc enough to send him racing then came her first professional
delicate facin fentures female in Vivien Leigh was the
Ge she dropped almost as an Today he is a chubby fellow ment can be properly deserved. to Miss Leigh's dressing stage appearance In The Green ber
that Miss Leigh's character. Is Sash" at the smail Q Theatre.
quickly making up best revealed. For as they afterthought. "I like part full of three,
And there is no evidence that He chatters room, where he offered her
It seems difficult to believe flicker and sparkle they disclose of comedy, tragedy and not too for his lost year." n £50,000 contract to appear to months later, in "The something of the determination, long," she said. in ten pictures in five years. Maak of Virtuc," London crilles perseverance and vitality that She signed it 24 hours later, would be acclaiming her as the motivates Vivien Leight.
NANCY
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Still learning
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