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"This is not the most lively plain-clothes fob I've had, Sergeant Pul- bright."
London Express Baretco.
Joe Adonis takes an
she
S
*
Screenland's No. 1 Romance:
JEAN SIMMONS AND STEWART GRANGER
He earned £3 a
week,
turned down film offers
TEWART GRANGER
WAS A
spotty-faced fourth-form boy at Epsom College on the cold January day in 1929 when Jean Simmons first gave a lusty yell in the world that was later to ac claim them both as stara and see them married.
In those days Granger wanted to be a doctor. wasn't
interested even
-BY JAN REID-
eyes at her, according to the of Dancing in
hour to say enough in acting to join the couple of years ago,
nothing
N.W.1.1.
star,
it camo to the vale examination she took in the year But he wasn't satisfied.
adored
From
that.
wone
He moved to Birmingham 25 the leading mam He was re- leased from his contract to play in the 1998 and 1937 Malvern Festivals.
The cleaners at the Hull thicstre said that he was too tidy. ever to make an actor. But they were wrong, and, as time pro- all lie in the Finchley-road, "J. Simmons"
gressed, Granger's dressing- cloakroom at the school headmaster.
room, camo to look like any top-raniding RE i For, even for two At first Jean went Already he was something of
they
actor'a There Jean found time to slip portcards, memcartoes, make-up, a Indy charmer at the age of 17. lessons a week, but later was
But he failed to make his fulltime pupil. learning ballet into dancing lessons now and and old scripts everywhere.
never got Before he left Hull he had mark as a pup. If his name is and tap dancing. interspersed again, though she
the remembered at Epsom it will with geography and history.
beyond
elementary teacher's
graduated to the leading parts. He only be as that of the film star
When
wanted to play in a London following her first film. who, paying a return vist to the
In 1943 Jean was back in the theatre. school, signed 100 autograph Jean proved the most popular
to play Sally in "Mr books, broke a boy's fountain pen girl in the shelter tested studio He
and replaced it with a gold one, off the prize. She did her lessons Emmanuel
loved games, well,
moment her With him on that visit, dancing, and WAS fond of
saw less and less of was Jean making up charades, but she her. Jean was up bofore dawn
mother school dramatic society. Simmons, whose gymnastics in-
was no angel.
broke and back at Cricklewood And, certainly, he hadn't structar father could afford no
Once she screamed, "There's for a late supper before tumbl- developed his good looks, public school for her.
Born at Crouch End the a mouse." The teacher shouted, ing into bod. His old headmaster, Canon fourth child of the family, the the children cried, and the class
with the ★ DAWN DRIVE From SYDNEY SMITH |A. Powell, living in semi- grew up at Cricklewood
was. in an uproar, teacher balanced on the desk, retirement in Chichester, semi-detached house, with WASHINGTON,
front door and
afraid to put her feet to the CHE scrambled out of bed in
there ground. Only
the morning, swallowed the no posinge-stamp garden.
that her mother
Edna Best was in the show, in Jean's breakfast mouse except TT was like any vintage remembers him as a "pimp varnished I film of Humphrey Bogly-faced hobbledshoy
imagination.
Insisted she should eat, and fell but she meant little to Granger. Jean into the car which was sent to He was in love with down to the husky voice, adolescent" and didn't re-
mother
Elspeth Mackenzia Under the the drawl, the nonchalant cognise Granger when
Still half asleep, she would name of Elspeth March, she had stream of cigarette smoke him in a film trailer re- house. As a youngster she went doubts that Jean had more than take her to the studio,
cently.
to the Orange-hill Girls' School a little to from nostrils.
at Edgware and at home she soap and odd bristles from the snuggle under a rug on the back shared the Birmingham stage
Their From other masters at the played charades, fed
wood
was done over before her neighbours comes the information gerigars, practised the cigarette schoot
awako, were plane, way into ballet shoes.
coffee and that Granger took "overmuch
On one occasion, a policeman, cafe near the theatre. While Jean was on holiday in care with his appearance" and and, when her mother wasn't
looking. dressed up in
gay parties at night any the West Country, Mrs Foster seeing a woman's form on the were no was rather too fond of scented clothes she could find.
(my foster mother," Jean nick- back seat, stopped the car and clubs for Granger in those days. ail.
сх He frequently halt
named her) heard that Gains- asked the driver who, he had In September he played Lord the
bending cane, perienced
borough Studios
wanted a girl there. "She might be dead," Ivor Green in "Serena over
chair which he chair-a
dish," play the part of Heidi in remarked the policeman
"Might be," assented recognised on his visit to the
"Give Us The Moon."
driver, college 20 years Inter."
Particularly smoke.
the
In a crowded Senate commit- tee room today at 49-year-old Joe Adonis, gambling boss and star witness in an official probe into the big-time rackets.
For an hour grey-haired Adonis, swarthy and sleek, was pelted with ruthless questions. He answered them dead-pan Hig calm Wat elaborately studied,
Senate Commillee counsel
Rudolph Halley asked him how
much of his income came from "bookmaking, dope peddling, organised prostitution, or the numbers racket."
Adonis reached for a cigarette.
He took quite a time to select
he
He was a frightened little ten- year-old boy named James Lablache Stewart — when 10 travelled from London for his first term at Epsom in Septem- ber 1023.
CEVENTEEN
to
In
a
П
As a toddler she went to a
school
that 30
her was free to clean the
nursery
And
nobody at the
Was
school
do with the bits of
It was down in the West Coun try that he played such parts as Warwick in "St. Joan' but it wasn't until 1038 that he achieved his ambition and played Captain Hamilton in "The Sun Never Sets," at the Drury Lane Theatre,
the bud nail-brushes which found their seat to be driven from Crickle- with Grangeing nuts in a little
✰ HAD A ROW DUT before she was old enough to go to school Granger had left Epsom to start a medical training, with
to
to
Thore
Blan
with Vivien Leigh as his the leading ty, in London
THEY WED
19 salary was higher, but such contracts as that one
She sent a telegram to Somer
The policeman was about to set, and back came Jean, over- the idea of be- awed and very nervous about investigate when Jean turned studio for an back the corner of the rug which By
was covering her face, and coming a nerve specialist.
going to film the time Jean was at school interview. Granger had had a row, walked The date was "Friday the winked a large hazel eye at the out of the medical world, and thirteenth," but,
he then loved. The war clouds without so policeman, who coughed and meant separation from the girl test, she was moved on without a word.
were gathering at Munich and By
realised that School of Acting
Jean given the part. More than 150
the future seemed unsettled enrolled in the Webber Douglas much as a screen
her k was to be He had started training for other girls were disappointed. screen
Granger decided to go the career which was to bring
play
in before them together in 1942. But Jean A NEW WORLD ang comic songs at club din- he went north, the register at St
Mary Bol Brompton, London, recorded hers, Jean was a success fram he
knew nothing of him in those days.
career. The granddaughter of Aberdeen to a Crouch End decorator who with Dulcie Grey. But,
the moment she set foot inside a studio.
Д
to
Bolton's Church at West
CHANGED NAME years later he changed his nume Slewart Granger to avoid con- fusion with the American James Stewart, who had already made
ewar
She shared the back bedroom JEAN entered a new world. For a few glorious weeks she his mark in the film world.
Edna, the was playing in
"Give Us The
By now she had met Granger, that James Lablache Stewart had married Jean Elspeth Granger left school in 1930 of her home with one, and a longer time to light without having gained abnormal younger of her two elder sisters. Moon," and felt as if the moon who was also climbing to star-
Mackenzie there on September popularity. No one in his wildere But, being a tomboy, she shared really had been given to her.
dom. He had been through it.
her games with her brother When she grew tired of watch school of acting, but there were 10, 1938. dreams
would ever have
Harold, ten years her senior. dais the
Ing other
people on the sets, no enormous fees for him at the On their panelled
When war came Jean, aged she Senators
amused herself by trying start. Adonis magined that one day worner Har waited. Joe
at was overjoyed Look
long pull from his were going to be injured in a
which
in the electricians' wires in knols, mobbed ten, surging crowd
thought of starting a new life
Die but nobody seemed to cigarette. Then he leaned back him at Barking.
mind. WERE WRONG "So This is London.” country. Her father, an Everybody loved her. in the in his chair, Then he
He was no genius, but he was
at the Regent Street It leisurely cloud of smoke.
clever enough to do the mini- instructor
London, was
studio when fiming
to the Hull Repertory Com- over. She went home to pany at £3 a week. His lodgings out of serious trouble.
Cricklewood, back to the un- pot him 309., and life was not Dislike of mud and dirt on
satisfying life of a schoolgirl. what the son of a well-to-do Her mother bought her o army major was accustomed to. black and white puppy. Jean
a
blew a
the
the
In that Bogart voice. mum of work necessary to keep evacuated to Somerset, and the left is a very sad Jean who TN the summer of 1935 he went
of
And
the twisted accent with Brooklyn, he said: "I decline to answer on the grounds that his clothes prevented him from
might incriminate me."
was
This same answer drawled at an average of more were those than once a minute throughout the hearing.
ger.
Polytechnic, family followed.
WBS
christened it Heidi and secretly
Was ever
wondered
whether that
SHE RODE being a good games player at first. Then, realising that the most popular boy in the school JEAN learned to ride, grew fond
of animals and demanded to sho who were good at
the only part she would wanted to be games, he forgot about mud and be given a monkey as a pet. It
have. Her mother was put his back into playing Rug- asked what she
up, she would none too keen on the idea of a when she grew
film career for her daughter. About all Adonis would admit It way as a member of the col- have replied: "A kennel maid."
While she was in Somerset Contract after contract was was that he had been arrested lege XV., which went through a under many names-he could term unbeaten, that he frat had allfor his photograph published in a not
kidnapping, assault, robbery,
society magazine in 1830, Little extortion and liquor smuggling. did he know that that was to be the first of many to appear not only in magazines and news papers but on bills and hoardings.
He could have
been a good cricket player, but the long periods in the outfield bored him. He preferred to book.
remember them
But on the £300 million a year gambling ring which the committee is investigating, he would not talk.
The investigators gave up. They said they will cite Joe Adonis for contempt.
In
the ho
ful
After marriage they both kept on working. Granger, before long, got his first film chance in.
[World Copyright] NEXT SATURDAY Success, A Divorce --Another Marriage
Jam Session
many
with do,
Jules Glaenzer, the New York who jewellery merchant,
she had her first dancing lessons dangled in front of the littleHIS story begins, as so
class run by girl, whose tiny part in "Give at the dancing
T show business Us The Moon" had attracted her sister, Edna.
Jean had inherited a grace- the attention of the film scouts, stories
agility from her father,
★ TOOK RISK who won third prize for gym- 1912 Olympic nastics in the
for music MRS FOSTER took a risk has a big crush on theatre
MRS Games, and an car
and advised Jean's mother people and who, for the and a sense of rhythm from her mother, who modestly admits to to turn them down. The offers past quarter of a century, "n little concert singing."
not good enough. Jean has been the most lavish Gradually the childish ambi- would do, better to wait a year,
time har party-pitcher on that pic- thought and tion to be a kennel maid was she
eyed pike called Broadway. replaced by a desire to teach proved her right
There's Q pair of grand During that year Jean smiled dancing.
his -one-flight-up family moved from beneath woolly caps and planos
Lexington many's the wee
the When
were
in
WAS BORED Then Joe Adonis, the smiling centre of a little group of broad-E was bored too,
school ch-pel-until strolled shouldered friends, leisurely down the long marble caught the eye of a girl staying back to London, Mrs Sim- above model shoes she posed apartment
beadmaster. with the
realising Then, mons,
her for commercial photographers. Avenue, and corridors of the Senate.
across the heads of the younger youngest child had talent, sent She continued her dancing, and morning that their Ivories, have (boys, he would make "gooey" her to the Aida Foster School a pair of ballet shoes marked felt the nervous fingers of
-{London Express Service)
that
BRITISH COLONIES BATTLE FOR THE HOLIDAY DOLLAR
Island offers its pirate gold
RITAIN'S
palm - clad
sod
islands, dotted about the western side of the Atlan-
tic, are engaged in an all- out battle among themselves
for
as tourist bait
From FREDERICK COOK: New York,
a mine
the American holiday- makes it possible for holiday- en drew 61,208 US visitors, doctor to see if they can find maker's dollar.
makers to go ever, farther afield. against Bermuda's 61,808.
Tiny British possessions, They have competition now ignored for centuries, are hav- from South Africa and Aus ing their faces lifted, their tropic tralia-both going after the beaches photographed, their climateo and scenic beauties ex- American holiday-maker in a
big way. tolicdas never before.
War scares In' other parts of Bermuda has already lost her, the world have brought an un- commanding lead in the laland expected boom to the West In- popularity takes among Ameri- dies. But they are up against a
factor, as the aeroplano now is Jamaica. In 1950 Jamal-
new
Por
made
on
Gershwing and Cole Porters as they sat up at Glacnzer's open Ing-night shindigs, waiting for tho reviews of their new
musicals.
By BILLY ROSE
"It really isn't a party," said the Glaenzer, always the perfect host, "but you're welcome to come up and listen."
The kids followed him up the stairs and seated them- selves quietly
wolle Dick, and Judy, hardly noticing, went
their game right on Memember this one?”
"Do
you
of
Glaenzer
A couple of years ago, And It wasn't until It has some of the world's Richard Rodgers, the composer minutes later, as Judy went plays Sullivan to Oscar Into My Heart Stood Still, that wonderful who best sport, Oshing.
Hammerstein's Güibort
a got one of the girls recognised her bathing, and a new thrill for
'phone call from Jules.
and went splotchy around the the jaded holiday-maker-hunt- "Judy Garland is
is in town for gills. Ing for buried irensure sup- the opening of her now pic-
"Geel" she whispered. posedly left by pirates.
ture," said the diamond nabob, "That's why, that's Judy Gar- "and she's dining with me to land!" Tourists
and 1 lmow sho'd be delighted whispered back, and the chap may hire
She's night
a big fan of yours
"Quite
right" .metal in the sandy beaches. you could join us."
.at the plane
is Richard Kod- The British Government have Several have already
Well,
it took no great urging gors, who wrote the songs worth of minor hauls of silver and gold to get Dick over to Lexington you've been listening to." released £3,000,000
Avenue, and after dinner he
Then, figuring the teen-agers blocked U.S. funds in London coins,
and Judy adjourned to one of needed it, he went out and mixed them а plicher of build a new "tourist city" near millionaires' resort, is now out
Garland, larynx and memory Martinis. Kingston, Jamaica,
for the middle-income group.
a-twitch, began to sing some 'The ́ ́ttle-known Jamaican A newcomer in the tourist of his old songs, and it turned of the Cayman market is Kenya, East Africa, out she knew not only the Hit dependency
Paraders he had written with For the next hour the kids but virtually sat and listened, stift and waxy- as a new holiday paradize. New York,
every one of he had collaborated on with the Tussaud's And twenty tunes talented Larry Hart-Manhat- later, when they finally stood tan, Blue Room, You Took up to go, they were still as pate Advantage of Me, etc.
as a ghost who has just seen a ghost.
"Anything else you'd like to hear?" asked Rodgers,
to enable private enterprice to Nassau, Bahamas, long the plonos.
can sun-sockers. Top favourite Islands is also being promoted only 31 hours, dying time from Hammer the tricky ditties eyed as the exhibits at Madame
ITB RAINING AND MA'S GONE OUT
WITHOUT HER
UMBRÍELLA!
DON'T WORRY. SUELL SHELTER. IN A SHOP!
THAT'S JUST
WHAT IM
AFRAID OF!
• Hot trick!
Shortly after this nostalgie
"Name
Jam session started, the door- sald Judy.
bell rang,
it and I'll ting it,"
we've butted "said one
said-Glacazer a
"Thanks, but and when Glacriter went downstairs be found two in long enough,"
couples on his stoop pleasant the girlo,
"I
mannered kids who looked as
KUCSB,
of
If they had just sneaked off the he showed the quartet to the Ohio State University campus fell your friends about."
"We heard the
and
Bomobody
one of the youngsters
door, "you'll have something to
going we'll tell
gold
om, all right," said one of the boys, "but who,
embarrassed grin.. "I know this the hecle is going to belleve
In awfully fresh, but if you're us?"
having a party-wall, could we all (World) Copyright Retirped-- |-invita ourselves in?" 1
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