The animation of film actress Shelley Winters is in contrast to the nonchalance of her husband, Italian as they attend a premiere in actor Vittorio Gassman, Hollywood.
Miss Winters, 25, and 30-year-old Gassman whom she called 'the Laurence Olivier of Italy' were
Reuterphoto. married in Mexico last April
On the day before he started work on his picture "Master of Ballantrae,“ Errol Flynn took time off to go house-hunting in Hampstead,KEN with an excursion on the side to Northampton, where he started acting 10 years ago In repertory.
Local
We met in his hotel suite, In a corner was an ice-bucket containing four bottles - three of champagne, one of milk.
Flynn was phoning his bookmaker. "What
is pour candid opinion, old boy, of the possibil- ties of something called Spaghetti?"
Pause. Then: "Well, if that's the way you fect, put a hundred on Shepherd Market.
W
stead
set off to look over the house at Hamp- he wants to rent while he is filming here. A housekeeper showed us round the family was out.
SMITH Show Talking
Ballet
Lessons For Gene Tierney
LONDON.
ENE TIERNEY poured U me
and
ณ
whisky Flynn examined the rooms. "Very strategi- groaned, "Gee, I'm stiff!"
he said. "Near enough to
the
cally placed," studio
for me to stay in bed until seven in the she sighed. "I'm taking bal enough from the West End to let lessons for a sequence in morning. For make me stay at home at night. But not too Never Let Me Go with for to make the journey impossible should my Clark Gable, and, boy, is it good intentions fall." He wrote a note to the family: "Could I adopt you all so I can move in right away?" BWAY?"
He bounded to his Rotis. "A pause for iden-
strenuous!"
Auburn-haired Gene is here
tells me that the director, · im~ pressed by the appearance of a focal, engaged him for a crowd
scene.
The wardrobe master dressed him in 0 colourful Moorish costume for his role the last the company saw of him he was walking off the set, dressed in
his exotic costume, with his own clothes under his arm!
TIBLY GOES RACING
tification is indicated," he said. It is a phrase Tina and her mother, She was! AT a party to celebrate screen he uses to describe a halt for light refreshment. We went to a public bar.
with three-year-old daughter not only sore but bothered. She
no home, and
no nanny for Tina, and no chauffeur,
But by the same night a home (in Hertfordshire) and a French comedians nanny had been booked.
still no chauffeur.
Someone there mentioned Burma. Flynn grinned. I asked him: "What's it like to be a music-hall joke?"
He sald; "At first I resented earning their living at my expense. Now I just shrug it off. The good ones, like Jack Bonny mean no malice. The others couldn't prove a word in court."
Graham Greene Starts
A Search For Miss
I
By HAROLD CONWAY
gentlemen that for some time. fon con- a sports nected with a local firm hos. become aware of the fact that instead of taking part in sport as a nure private member of an established club cameras mounted on tall towers, distinguished players who,
associo- for an this meant that there was some the good of the game, come and ton, t, would prove to be far thing going on continuously on lent a hand when some
a proposition more more attractive
to associale sports with his cm- one of the two greens or ices.
mercenary brethren mentioned ployment and thus participate
the Graham Greene han wait-, love outside fees ranging up to £100.
sanction of Even
cannot pick
ἐπ
with FO, you
sport
his fellow-ed until the age of 47 to
marriage. This your players, and here we were
public-spirited half-workers
This, you will gather, is the write his first play. He has new style Graham Greene. lucky. In a' half-hour period, dozen included the Open Cham-
He kindly extended to 55 minutes, plon, Max Faulkner, with Dal As a result, various business been, content to win world is leaving his Third Man and we saw Daly, the leader and ul-Rees, Peter Thomsen (Au- | house sports associations renown as novelist and film Brighton Rock mood behind him. timate winner, pass through, tralla), R. Dailey, a brother of have been formed catering and then Locke, who was only Allan, now in South Africa, A. to different forms of
script-writer before tackling sport. These associations have
can the theatre. tributed to mutual understand- ing, good fellowship and team- work between European and Chinese staff members.
been a Hines (USA).
chance namely, bali
sex-
a stroke behind, and obliged Cerda (Argentine), and Jimmy with what must have 1,000-to-one the Great Man losing his
As to the commentating at Oppen- In a gorce bush, playing from Wentworth, Raymond a bunker, hitting a heart-warm-helmer and your humble ing 24-handicap shot at thevant invite the indulgence due short hole, taking three pults to those who have not yet pass and standing over his ball toed the driving test. The prin- see whether it would fall in - elpal object seems to be to re- for all of which we were sym-frain from describing in ple-
turesque detail what you pathetically grateful.
see and the viewer can't; The Professional Golfers As- to maintain, in Sydney Smith's sociation are members of the words on Macaulay, a succes organisation formeki, reasonably | slon of "brillant flashes enough, to protect copyright in silence."
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FIND THE GIRL
Who will be the priest? One actor now reading the part in New York is Claude Rains-who left Britain 20 years ago for Hollywood and Broadway and has been seen here only on the
FLYNN'S LATEST ---
writer
Clarke's T. E. B. O.B.E., director Frank Launder described him as "the only man ever honoured for Inventing a Bank of Eng- way to rob the
his (for But Jund"
script. The Lavender Hill Mob).
2
Tibby" is working ca horse-racing story.He always attends Ascot, complete with
ENCORES
We went
to Northampton, ERROL FLYNN'S presence in top-hat, fails and spats, Britain for the Alming of where the local repertory com. pany prevailed upon Flynn 10 Warners
Master of Ballantrae prompted to screen his latest make 0 speech. He saki: "Since leaving here I have met planned.
film. Mara Maru, cardior lot of people. Most of them Lawyers, Does
anyone know what won the 2.307"
than How
As a result, colleague Paul Sales
Dehn was not able to review it.
NOEL'S STYLE
It was found to be Shepherd How lucky he was! Market, at 3 to 1. Spaghetti had not run..
Flynn was so happy he al-WHY do people pay 23 39. to most forgot to suggest a further
Not for Alec
words,
TOW to get your names in
lights: Comedian Freddie-----
appearing in Happy Landings at Blackpool, has booked himself a week's adver- tising on on electric news sign on the scafront,
How do you like your Marlo get supper plus Coward's Lonza? In the Student Prince pause for "purposes of identif- cabaret at the Cafe de Paris? he has 20 songs leaving exactly. cation."
Says Noel, "Meticulous pre-30 minutes for the story, sentation and correct
James Roberson Justice, 47- with nothing left to chance. It's
return to 'style' in a slipshod year-old bearded Scot, lands the
role of Henry VIII in
Walt world."
Disney's The Sword and the Noel's a two-job-a-day man Rose, starring Glynis Johns and that these days. At night, cabaret,
be made in
WHO STANDS IN for
Alec Guinness when he says: "No. I can't take part"
I have made
the a list of offers he had to reject in the past two weeks because of his play, "Under the Sycamore Tree."
new
Again horo
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now comes in
by day, directing rehearsals of Richard Todd, o his
Tomantic
comedy, August is in welcome This patience
Quadrille.
Crack of the Week-from contrast to the practice of many
HE'S NO SLAVE
Jack Benny; "There are young writers-who; to judge by
OSE (pronounced Hesay bus many TV aeriais in Los Angeles, JOSE results, dash off plays at first
his friends call him Joe) the the fog These business house sports thought and set about learning
1 Cassius in "Julius Caesar" in
Hollywood. John Gielgud | Ferrer, 40-year-old Puerto Rican sliredded." associations have not only the craft after their audiences screen since then.
goes instead.
with the bulbous nose, the thick served to sports organisations, have suffered.
Gable but as social welfare
For the girl'a
flm lips and the receding hairline, part neither 2 A part in the institu
Now Mr Greene is ready to author nor
here. tions as well.
producer Glenville,
Richard Haydn, a
grinned at me and sold, "Acting make
has his mark in the West. yet
4 clue. She must fish-mimic on the West
the alage is slavery! I' End un
I prefer End-a heavy mark with ex-be really young, so no establish-stage before the war,
takes I never do it full time.
to mix the theatre with films— clamation notes. For his played star is available; the role is over.
any- you get a bigger name The Living Room, which Peter one of the most
emotionally 3 The lead in a new "Tibby" Glenville is to -produce in the exacting written for a young Clarke-scripted film, "Tit- way."
Thunderbolt."
Jose is here to star in Moulin autumn, is likely to provoke the actress in recent times-so some- Neld
Relph has the chance.
Rouge, the story of the dwart What will Guinness accept at | ***
artist and
genius, Toulouse the right time? "A serious Loutres. Afterwards (as part dramatic part. I must break of the "mixing") he'd like to act
from the away
here in The Shrike his intest eccentric
Broadway success; and the play comedy label."
of
the Alm Cyrano de Bergerac. Haircut hit
He played Cyrano on the Now York stage for a year, rays, "I'm sure my nose grew longer from ★ BUSSELL
lengthy exclamation mark sheer encouragement." with glasses skull-cropped hair, and a hard-looking Adam's apple,
liveliest dramatic controversy of thing special in new talent is recent years,
LACK OF GROUNDS
limited With
funds the available, it has been extremely difficult for the general com mittees of the different business
For that prospect | needed. house sports associations to keep things going and to offer their alone the author has my thanks. It will be a change to see a play members facilities for all forms
we can argue of sport owing to the lack of in 1932 which recreation grounds ming pools.
about. and swim-
The two principal characters With a view to solving the in The Living Room-there are the General only six-are a Roman Catholic dimeulties ahead. Committees of the Dairy Farm priest living in London, and his Sports Association and Royal young niece. The theme: a con- Inter-Ocean Lincs Sports Club Alet between the priest's religious held an informal meeting to loyalties and the girl's wish to discuss mutual problems.
OPEN SINGLES RESULTS
Being convinced that much can be done in the Interest of business house sports assecla- tions in Hongkong if a reprc=' sentative council could be es-
Following are the results of i tablished) an appeal is being made to the General Commit | Open Singics Lawn Bowis tees of all business house sports matches played yesterday:
At HKFCM. Y. Adnl lost associations for their 'co-opera- tion and assistance.
to. W. Howard 7-21.
i.
·
It is intended to call a meet-At CCC-F. Marshall lost to ing of representatives to dis JM. Gutierrez, 17-21.
At KBGCAF Coates beat cuss the question in the near. future and secretaries of asso- AP. Foreira 21-11; RMV ciations in favour of, the pian Ribeiro beat J. McKittrick 29- aro, requested to contact Mr 135 A.V. Lopes bent, W.A.J. H. van Echten c/o Royal Inter. Bayne, 21-12.j Ocean Lines or. Ms J. Strachan, AÐ KCC:—F.X,M, Oliva, lose c/o Dairy Barn before July 20, to G, Bouza 0-23,
La
•.
I have for long been urging dramatists to write West End leading parts for our younger actresses, to encourage the stars of tomorrow. We badly need some fresh faces at the top. Here is one big opportunity.
THE LOST CHANCE
I salute Hollywood for invit- Ing John Gletud there to act
In a fim of Julius Cacaar. His
.cinema audiences; but he is our actor and best Shakespeareon producer.
Georgo
NYPE La
д
Plype-6 ft. 2 Ins., 28 years
THE GOONS AS Z-MEN
film about the Army, j
W include a bullying sorgent nome means little or nothing to old, unmarried-in London for and you can't go wrong. The a holiday explains his story of latest addition is Down Among the Z. Men (completed the other day), which brings the Goons Michael Benuine, Peter Sellers,
Milligan
and Harry Secombe) on the screen together for the first timel;
Another successful malo team mairing the film debut together is Bestxud Braden and wite Barbara Kelly. The picture, based. on their Bedtime with Braden show, la domestic comedy called The 'Pledge;
COSTUME FOR KEEPS
success as a romantic hero.
He says: "Originally I had wavy hair and was so scared to Why, however, have our own admit to short sight that I wore contact lenses, I earned about film studios left this project -- and this actor-to Hollywood?
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TỪ. a song on TV. Then I put on ginssos, Gielgud has not worked in a studio for 12 years; nobody has shaved my hair, went into 'Call come along with a story or a Me. Madam' on Broadway, Bc. part, which interested him. It fore my next haircut. I was up has remained for an American to £950 a week, plus a suite of studio to suggest Shakespeare, rooms for cabaret."
And the
the future: a Alm with on the grand scale.
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British producers have allow ed a'Arst-rate chance to sp past them.
—London Express-Bervice)
Betty Grablo.
All this for the man In glasses who sayı: - "I'm tho sort of follow girls dread WILL
appear on their blind dates,"
-{London Express Service)
JOAN FONTAINE, WH
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