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The Helpmann Hamlet

Too old at 407 For a dancer it may be 'yes.' So Britain's top male ballot star salutes middle age by starting a new career.

Helpmann alters

course

he said, "Longer and I'm lloble to get fat."

THE HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTEST

ON THE BALL

A year in Europe transforms the world's best-known party-giver into a living lesson on how to be very, very diplomatic indeed

T

by ANNE EDWARDS

HE world's gayest par-

QUESTION—Are you ty giver is a changed interested in giving parties?

atlil

Perlo- woman. Mrs

The only kind I'm interest- Mesta, once the most talk-

ed in are the ones

I give for ative hostess in America, is the G.1.5. No matter where I now an expert in the Diplo am in the world you'll always matic Art of "Saying and me back on the first of every monkh to moet my Nothing.

G.I.."

QUESTION—Do you give

Mra Mesta is an oil and steel heiress. She has. play-

ed the social stock market them French food?

all her life, and played it

well: Last year. President I

"At the American Embassy give them American food Ham, baked beans, apple, ple

Truman made her U. S. ice cream, milk, and cham-

Minister to Luxemburg-pagne."

the reward, it was said, of

QUESTION-What do you

80 years of political (and think of the play written about

publicised) party giving. vou in New York?

As a hostess Mrs Mesta

"If I could be as good a was never slow to tell about diplomat as Ethol. Mernian is her parties.

an actress-I'd be happy."

QUESTION What ia, your, recipe for a successful hostess?

"It costs about £4,000 to put on a buffet," she once explained.

That duet

"No rules. I guess I just like people. I invite the ones who get on ond the ones who don't and just put 'em all together."

QUESTION.-Do you find Luxemburg off the beaten track?

And everyone heard the of her story of how one guests, leading Senator Tom Connally, once sang "My

"Not at all. We're only four Old Kentucky Home" in

of course, my old friends make Helpmann admits that a man close harmony duet with hours from Paris by car. And,

Secretary Louis the detour.

It's

a beautiful who has spent his life dancing Defence

country. The people are may face a very bleak future Johnson.

The legation 14 when middle-age.. forces him to But, 88 r one-year-old marvellous.

onc of the loveliest on and Shylock. "Unfortunately, I'm a retire. "He can teach, but there

"But I are few openings," he said. diplomat, Mrs Mesta is not continent. You must come and type," Helpmann said. long to do a good modern frightened me and that's why I telling any more--especially visit me sometime." chance meeting with comedy."

not about her parties. Margaret Rawlings in 1932 Helpmann's future is already resulted in two lines in The stuffed with plans. He is to play OPERA NEXT? In London recently, "for Barretts of Wimpole Street, and Octavius Cæsar and Appollo-

week's holiday and to see old

she was, a an opportunity to come to Eng- dorus in Sir Laurence Olivier's TN developing his voice, Help-friends," land. The Sadler's Wells Com- productions of the Shaw and manu has discovered that ho of the old professional hostess

only

just formed, was Shakespeare versions of what can sing. He takes regular sing-and desperately short of boy dancers. Cleopatra did to Rome on the ing lessons, and when I asked maile diplomat.

Into Bustling

comedies, pantomimes straight plays.

pany,

Helpmann was taken on as a Nile. pupil, and was paid £3 a week,

for lessons.

He is following up his efforts

decided to act."

him if he planned to go into

no.

16.

Maybe

the

Loves London

London? yes, she loved Lan. mixture den, too.

have under- She is estimated Mrs Mesta,

able woman, a noted charmer even at 68, and shrewd know when her enough to technique needs tailoring.

"I like my job-it's construc- tive," she said.

a new very, very diplo

large room an set with chairs for 60 people

was not in the least dis of which El had to be returned to interpret bellei in cinematte opera he gave a non-committali

to find there were concerted terms begun in The Red Shoes shrug which was more yes than she

She shook hands all writing, directing and

"If you are in the theatre you only By 1934 he had been promoted by CAN do something

iri The Sleeping to principal dancer, and his steps appearing

Margot Fonteyn is to may as well have a shot at them round briskly, with the air with that face," said in Job, Giselle, The Haunted

all he said. Having danced woman dismissing a thousand

"Thanks-it-was-wanderful Ninette de Valois Ballroom, Le Lac de Cymes

Hamlet and acted, Hamlet, whol

She settled herself in the but And in September Heipmunknows but some day we may corner of a Claridge's sciter, when she first saw Robert were strewn with the lavish and

adjectives Helpmann at an audition complimentary

of is to make a guest appearance and Robert Helpmann singing dung one arm gracefully across means a lot of notes to Foreign

dancing again at the Sadler's Hamlet as well. for the Vic-Wells school, ballet critics.

"T

That was in 1993.

SALARY GRAPH

Tonight, as O'Reilly in. The WITH Markova, Margot Fon- Prospect Before Us, Helpmann W teyn, Moira

Beauty.

star.

Wells.

This means an hour's every day.

physical exercise

(World Copyright Reserved Three days off and I'm stiff," London Kaptey Stoice)

of

"I get up at 8 am and work the same as any other diplomat, twice as hard. Working for the State Department

the back, crossed grey-nyloned Ministers and things like that.

threw us a chora- "In any case, it never was a legs, and

Mrs job," said light-hearted ing and vital smile.

Mesto, pulling down her skirt. "What the world needs now is parties but Courage and I say so in all my

completes his first guest appear- Shearer and other leading g.................................¶¶

ance since his resignation from_lerinas he has, danced himself the Sadler's Wells Ballet lost and the Sadler's Wells Ballet to November. The 18 years since the highest reputation in the that Initial Interview have Western_World. amply vindicated Dame Ninette's" confidence.

His salary provides an excel-

lent graph of how the popularity For today Helpmann's face is of ballet has risen since the war. 23 familiar to balletomanes In 1939 he was paid £10 a week. In 1950 his contract was for

£100 a week.

as Compton's is, to cricket fans and Chaplin's to cinema addicts. Any of those glossy highlighted

But Helpmann was too rest- photographs used to irecze less, creative and ambitious to be ballet into inactivity will show content alone with the convent you what de Valols had in like atmosphere of the isolated mind.

ballet world.

in

HOW TO HAVE FLU

IN TREMENDOUS

STYLE

by JAMES COOPER

TORONTO. send aspirins, sweets, anything at seems to speed-up convalescence.

IT is fun having influenza

Canadian

doctor

calis

gets her own television in the T is fun having influenza five minute notice. It will even The other is that until Canada

send drugs.

autumn there is only one TV pro- He burst his artistic scams in a

from Buffalo. across It is sensitive, fragile, pro-

The

gramme, vocative face, sad in repose and number of directions. He turned fun that I almost want to too intense to be gay. It was choreographer, giving us Comus,

Now, if only I had caught the so. True, he will charge from £1 the say thanks to Britain for every day, seems pleased to do the border. made for Hamlet's "tomorrow- The Birds, Miracle

germ in New York, I to 35e. a visit, but that is not so British

have the choice of 11 and-tomorrow"-ing.

high in a country where a work would tragic without trying.

Our belated outbreak is man earns an average of £15 a programmes.

(London Expren Service) He danced in a said to be of the same type week and, if married, does not West End revue as the British one, and it pay tax on the first 214 of it. and dia neat imi-

But it is, above all, compelling. Despite the height of the leap, the entrechats, the perfection of the

Zero and a sending us her epidemic. It can be Gorbals, Adam

macabre, but brilliant, Hamlet,

by Milton

SHULMAN

What is more, in a land where

tations of well has spread west from the known personal ports and airport where local telephone calls are free and techaique, tles. And as early as 1985 he British immigrants landed.

Helpmann's features are never was determined, to act. "When But there is no similarity lost in the whirl of movement. the other dancers were asking in the ways of having the That is because he is essentially Lilian Baylis of the Old Vic for

a rise, I asked her instead for a fill. part," he said,

No trouble.

an actor.

Now that he is 40 he has decided to transfer to the leas He was given voice production" graceful, but more competitive, lessons, and in 1937 appeared as OR instance: there is no irony arena of the theatre the talents Oberon in A. Midsummer Night's Ji

here in the doctor's advion.

time.

from

most people have bedside exten- sons at 10s, a month extra, the doctor will phone. later in the day to ask how I am doing.

And in a city where everyone seems to be on the telephone I can keep in touch with my job and my friends at no extra cost. Music, music

that have made him one of the Dream. His speaking of the verse "Go to bed and keep warm"

BEDSIDE radio (£6 and no greatest dramatic dancers of our drow ecstatic gurgies from the The show is piled outside, the A

purchase tax) will get me critics. "I must have caught the windows are frosted, but indoors rhythm

my mother's the temperature is the same 72 eight, different programimte, so A DECISION reading to me when

I was degs. It has been since the ther that there is sure to be one to young," he explained.

mostat was set at that gure in match my mood from 7 a.m. to midnight. Recorded music I can October.

have 24 hours a day, if I want Then with only three major

IT

The same drug store boy wilt bring me paper back thrillers or That means that there is none near-classic reprints that can be

a decision, incidentally, that he made almost 10 years

With automatic heat from an it ago. "I felt that as a classical parts to his credit, Helpmann dancer one's pene is past at 40," had the courage or audacity or electric oil-burning unit there is he told me. "Of course, I could self-confidence or rashness not even the need to stoke the continue as a character dancer, choose your own word-to at- furnace. but in the small ballet world that tempt the most exacting role on

of the meas of lighting a fire in thrown away afterwards, or I means an inevitable drop in the English stage, Hamlet. prestige."

The experiment in 1946 at the the bedroom (If there is coal to cats, for the first time, try to read

waking

paper. under the bedclothes, no wal This tenacity of purpose is New was poised precariously spare), no need to lie huddled all 68 pages of the evening news. The long-playing gramophone characterisilo of Helpmann's between muccess and influence in the early hours to find that

In was praised for his intelligence the fire in out and the room cold will give me an hour's music at career. -Ho WIS bord

bring on coughing.

Mt. Gambia, Australia, and it and dramatic senso; damned for enough to me for that hot- stretch an arm to change

...There is no

water bottle

a time without my having to

so tepla after the record.

no muling for

no. It is fun for my wife, too, calves-foot Chickens, turkeys,

recall,” said one vanema & folly, all the

titbits for convales-

was natural that in that rugged his inadequate voice, his lack of

a wool princely bearing and passion. atmosphere his father, expert, should bitterly oppose his I can still

ined to son's inexplicable passion to critic, shuddering, "an exis

to scurry down become a dancer. " wanted to become a dancer even before I which he tripped out with him

left arm in the air kissing the passage in a wooden saw one," Helpmann sald.

Inside curve of his elbow? In down to an ice-cold His mother, an amateur actress 1948 he tried Hamlet again at who used to read him Shake Stratford. This was much better. speare by the hour, was on his/ side. When Pavlova came to Melbourne, father capitulated. Young Robert, at 18, studied for

4

year with the great Russian tişilerins, ename

cence are a telephone call away, (Canadians do not know what and delivered ready-to-servo if a stressing-gown is They call she cares. here lightweight, sillon affairs With all our rooms on the "bathrobes, use them for same floor, as so many: Canadian homes ero, she has no glabra, to modesty, not for warmth.)

For my parched throat there a climb. ALMOST, all of Helpmann's cold orange juice from the

roles to date hava boon in refrigerator, where, it has bee

A TYPE

But there were no ballet Elizabethan), off Jacobsens com "hawings after, being delivered teachers after Pavlova left, and tume dimine, And thas and face "fresh from from the proce Cor

next seven years has gulted well the malevoland Helpmann had to be content parta he has takenmil

tho

touring Austraila in musical Zina White Day 8 Kav viola,

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