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The Cig Girl

Who Married An Angel

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New York. TANGING on the walls millionaire's of a Manhattan flat are collection of portraits and landscapes by a new artist.

Was

a

a

One woman's art show gives the Cin- derella story a new twist in the world where money goes in search of genius

by EVELYN IRONS

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and to the South Pacific. in zones varying from which he is sinking £1,500,000,

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Where Nigel Balchin

.....

Now he writes of 'Vanity... jealousy Ambition and a hint of scandal.

there be enough steel rod avallable to enable the medium-sized sprayer to bo delivered in three months instead of nine? Who still get the controlling shares?

sees romance

This may Sound technical and indigest- ible, but Eatchin'q casy, almost casual, writing has madg readable and appetibi

EADING through the ter, stockbroker, scientist, t

finished manuscript, to whom nothing of drama- Ing. For sheet metal and direc Nigel Balchin was tic interest happens until fers meeting are merely the backcloth against which jealousy, disgusted. He tried after they have left the vary, and ambition reveal the

to tear it up, but the thick- laboratory or the office. park they play in the gründ ness of the pages resisted. His characters

passion of money-making/ work. him. He threw the type. Whether they are doctors" "And Balchin has not neglected --hu Balchin novel ever doegull script in. the air in a frus- in "Mine Own Executioner,"

and more obviou

trated fury, and watched or biologists in "A Sort of hat other

pession. A director, is accused the pages flutter to the Traitors," their jobs demand of molesting a girl who operates

floor.

"I had tried to write a

novel about a psychiatrist

who could heal others but

not himself, and I realised

by Milton Shulman

may be

"But there is no

sentative on the works

19

'Executive

putation as a best-selling

himself on hla passport bea

After painting for only

it had not come off." said most of their time and their. an electric screw-driver on the and they are assembly line. The managing three years, the artist re-

Balchin, explaining his re- energies,

director's 18-year-old ·· daughter cently had a one-voman

sentment against his book, always conscious of having

evends a a week-end in Hasting", he has started Soon he was out, and toying California

with the young workers' -show in New York. with Journalism.

Own Executioner." the rent to pay. He had a colony for painters, writers, Mine Academically there were Anancial interest in a New York sculptors, composers, on a 150,- "I so often get good ideas Balchin himself has no Romance somelings plenty of faults to be found newspaper. In a brief spell a acre estate at Pacific Palisades and make a muck of them."

Huntington Hartford

precise idea of why other Balchin's normally. with her painting, but the reporter he covered his assign the

about 40. Fortunately, others con- chauffeur-driven

where

find authors

little and adult touch. In 80

like: His vigour and colour sense

genluses can forget their vinced him it was too good.

arms were found compelled admiration. Then he thought he would like worries and concentrate a story to be destroyed. It inspiration in perspiration. her and his body was as hurd "It may be snobbery, it a rock and her lips were to produce movies in Hollywood, on artistic production. This, he sold almost 250,000 coples, The name is Marjorie But the war caught up with him, says, is

is his

that they think crushed against her own feeth," Huntington Hartford, and He joined the navy, served

four Another

and was made into a highly work is dull, or it may be his intentions may be Freudian, of his schemes, in hers is New York's real life

successful film.

that novelista know little but the language is perilously the building of recreation Cinderella story.

Subtle task

about other people's work close to Ruby M. Ayres, Demobilised, he went into an centre in Los Angeles, with a

ing lives," he said. In 1948, blonde, slim exotic line of business. With Bill theatre seating 1,300, a basement house, colonnades of Marjorie Steele

COMING as it did after Deering, an old friend, he started movie

doubt "The a "talent agency" for Hollywood shops, offices, bars,

Small Back

DESPITE his established re- struggling young actress of glamour giria. That was as fur He is studying plans for a con- 18. To pay for her dramatic as his postwar career had-gone temporary muscum of art. And Room," It placed Balchin in that whereas you can write school lessons she worked when he set eyes on his cigarette- his model agency is still paying that select company of au- almost anything you like novelist, Nigel Balchin describes

him dividend

thors whom the critics about sex, there is some- "business executive, as a-cigarette-girl at-Ciro's,girl,,

He is also a theatrical "ange)"; Hollywood's plushiest night

one of his investments, a big respect and the public buy thing distinctly vulgar.This Is because he still holds

In his latest

about money." book,

his prewar job with a large. chocolate Arm as an adviser on current success in New York, is "The Seven Year Itch," a play "Sundry Creditora" (Col- "Sundry Creditors" such matters as marketing DN about

husband who dabbles in lins, 108. 6d.), Balchin sets isolates an old-established duction methods, and

and personnel. with millions of Now, nearing his 42nd birth- only to discover that he is not himself the subtle task of engineering firm in the "Although most of my time. is he said, dolfurs and a of unco- day, Hartford's enthusiasms

humanising business. This Midlands, and probes about "t still

now spent on writing,"

think it important, tó ordinated ideas-George Hunt- are channelled into a whole net- the dallying sort.

What with Marjorie's painting in itself gives it the distinc its boardroom, press shop, keep my interest in business, Hartford. Because he did work of artistic enterprises. ington

and her film career, the pent-tion of novelty, for not smoke he waved the cigar-

"When I went to see him in house is as busy a workshop as

assembly line and canteen, since it brings me into contact ette girl away. Then he looked

River House.

English writers prefer their at her, called her back and his penthouse in

meet." The Hertfords have a daughter characters to float about in finding intrigues and scan with people I wouldn't normally bought all the makes she had, overlooking the United Nations you will find in all New York.

dals,

Eecause Balchin's father a world of unearned or un- including the cigars. The follow building and the sweeping East blonde, two-year-old Cathy-

a nel trademan, his only, River, 23-year-old Marjorie

Can the firm get rid of chance of remaining at Cam ing year they were married.

It was, of course, a wondertil was rushing out to see her agent to add to their other occupations. [ explained income.

Next month they hope for an

But Balchin has never its fabricating contracts and bridge was through scholarships. described as heir to the family millions.

up (she could

been content to create types confine itself to its own This decided him to she does not World Copyright Reserved-London urbitrarily labelled barris patented products? Will Natural Science, where the com

peltien twar not as The English department,

club.

To Ciro's one September night

caine a man

Active Life

thing for Marjorie, the struggling plucked racoon"

In a coat sho Hollywood actress, to marry a

to afford sables, but to be whirled

for

romantic even own a mink),

OR-stage, Mediterranean honeymoon, and play the lead in a flim financed engaged by her husband. But it did the business

nillionaire a lot of good too. distance telephone to Hollywood.

her husband, was in an Interminable talk on the long-

The living-room suggested a fury of activity-books over-

Familiar Lines dowing from their shelves on to

tables and chairs, long-playing records piled on the Boor, odd

to then Hartford's story run canvases piled against the wall,

boy lines.

Service.)

most

I LIKE MRS FILM

says EVE PERRICK-

HIS

Specialised

.pro

[IS subsequent · employmerst conveniently! reveals where he Required the specialised knowledge he has, used in most of his novels.

Five years at the NotiÖNÁL Institute of Industrial | Psycho- U or familiar post-little-rich-a desk Bttered with papers and HE question

suffer

alogy. was very long lasting happy didn't really

Bave photog: osha, radio and TV sets. delicately phrased. I marriages there."

him what terrible loss when I gave up for "Mine He was one of the heirs to Millionaire Hartford

strode in

and asked Mrs Sam Goldwyn

the stage. I regret to have a work at the Ministry of the world's largest grocery chain stiil - in dressing-gown stores, the Atlantic and Pacific pyjamas, bubbling over with his her formula for growing up girlish slender grandmother, clamour, to get me back.

Mrs Goldwyn, a school- to say there was no great Food and a deputy scientis

the Tea Co., known as A und P in schemes as if he were a boy in in Hollywood. more than 3,000 American towns, his twenties instead of a middle-

is a relaxed, easy-to-talk-to

The business originated nearly aged man whose hair was show- "It's all right," said she. woman. 100 years ago, when his grand- ing streaks of grey.

"You can say 'growing old'

goods shop in New York.

a dozen short stories which he

adviser

to

during

the

Coundli

"But I've still got the letter with the h

the studio sent me after

I

for the

03 Q

Sam Small Back Room" and "A Sort

of Trailors.". His experience us

ovident

ent on every, PARS, DI director end Industrial consultant "Sundry Creditors.""

Now 44, Nigel Balchinho three daughters, a cottage in the country, and a comfortable at "You know, I'd like to be The role that Mr Goldwyn in London, a passion for exotic able to say that the stand- likes best is being a grand rugs, and a healthy, gability'at

of feminine beauty mother, "It's lovely all the cricket on the decline out fun and no responsibility,

in a fix if I decided to start a film career now!".

father opened a garish new dry. He had bought the rights in Hollywood. I don't mind Hollywood? It is perhaps asked me to drop the five-year

But the company, with the

can take up again, any time proposed to make into aims. He at all. I've lived there for the most exciting place in contract they offered. It says £1,000 million a year turnover, had an arrangement to release 28 years. I'm proud of my the world from where to want to. Wouldn't they be meant tile to him. Even his six of his films through RKO: age-but please don't print watch the crowd. father,

who died in one brace, Edward, 1922, left the sordid transac- «Face To af stories, tlons

of grocery to his two starring in a Wild West episode, Well, whether the brothers, George's uncles, and was already playing in New Interested himself in odd little York. inventions and gadgets, one of

which a shock absorber, made

hlm another fortune.

"Onc

Hartford ought to be a gentle-

man," Edward used to say.

called

with his wife it.".

Writing Novel

one-

ard time

actress Broadway Frances Howard has grown was up or grown old in Holly, thero. But I'm forced to "You feed, the baby too much wood, she first came there, admit that each year's crop caka-Mama has to deal with

and

tennis..

Significant

now sell in the fans as she said, 28 years ago as of newcomers looks even the after-effects, but she met BUT the fact that

I never know whose fault it was,

thousands is low importan George was only 11 when his TTE

If baby doem't squeal."

him than atisfying hils father died. In his Arst year at Haughed wryly when I sug- the bride of the legendary better than the last.

gested that he could disregard Mr Goldwyn, who was then frankly don't like 'It' a bit. Harvard his mother had to call the box office.

Grannie's gimmick is taking bition to make his novels more merely a film producer.

her own coffee maker with her gnificant, I«RAUGY in the aid of a “rensible woman”

wherever she goes, In America "Anything over 200,000 dollars They had met in New York.

not no worrier dobi ger- a year is income-taxed at 02 per-i

she travels' with Dan' elecizie ting technically, better - lle fald, percolator, but in Europe, bo "but about geiting" the content

bad, critita cheeta

to get him out of the clutches of

a New York adventures.

At 20 he married a dentist's cent," he said. "I must at least "I had just got a film

aless

from Virginia,

break even.” daughter

Mary

contract and I thought it "There's one gratifying cause of differences In the cure better." He always had enough Elizabeth Epling, who is now

being Mrs rent, she uses a small samovar trif He is three-quarters of the way Douglas Fairbanks.

arrangement.

deperes fim The through writing a novel.. Ho ho might be a good idea to thing about

"Sundry Creditores ta ended in divorce eight published an angry tittle book have a beau in Hollywood, Hollywood. All the Miss years inter, with Hartford paying called "Has God Been Insulted where I didn't know a single Hollywoods soon realise you In spite of all this. Frances ever wiling

he descrita natural dialogus-ti out a million and a half dollars in, Here?" in which he lambasts the chick. The next things are not in competition with Goldwyn cannot

as a "character * Sho's a per- Uncation of business them, and you get to know son. And she Inalets she in't Meanwhile, graduating from Dostwar › school, of American know wo were married.”

fietlon, Picarse and modern

them as people.”, -

married to adieraster ofther, its emotional and to pr

Evelt, la mogil Harvard In 1994, when he was music, all of which he regards sa They have been married

Linot al 23. Hartford made the motions of subversively directed against ever since. "Not such a Any regrets about giving Mr Goldwyn' was fairly well story-telling, wilgo

known when I met him. Now Batchin fans a GIVE THAT THEY MAY LIVE entering the family business with wealth and privilege.

strange thing you know up her career? "Well, the I'm told he's a legend, but ho But it medisapmok Na7,500 stores ad 100,000 Ho is proud of being' employees.

Balchin Mascenes of the arts. Back in there are many other great American public seems the same to me,"

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