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If we are to have spon- ed their eyes sored television Lue also

and

Ani His

looked un- short intervals, old man, may happily at their hands and feet. besides, what intervals?

Jaws have been working ever since the first ball was bawled.

have sponsored columns, as you shall if you'read on.

Woman Bites

N

Doctor

She then turned her attention see to foreign navai oleora walting to embark. As most of them wore rather poor imitations of A British ofeer's naval uniform, neither of us could be sure it they were naval officers, com- Inissionaires or one of those bus speak several inspectors who languages.

OW that one doggie

But they all got a gay smile. (Alsutian Ricky) has

ones looked angry: given a blood trans- The older

the younger, unes looked wildly fusion to another doggie round for their mothers. One (Spaniel Kim) anything Indian smiled nervously, uttered may happen in hospitals a guarded "Good morning," and where one blood plasma has walked a little faster down the been occasionally confused steps. with another..

Nurse.

Yes, doctor?

Have you noticed anything' About Mrs Simmering strange since she had her blood trans- fusion?

Well, she did growl at me when 1 pave her a blanket hatli. And she bit me just now when I felt her pulse. Is that a dog barking in the ward?

No, doctor. I think it's dirs, Simmering.

Nurse, where did you get the plasma?

This dramatic little number was brought to you by courtesy of Tootho, the toothpaste that makes every smlio a clean smile. Don't forget, folks:

Never mind, old man, Have another eucumber sandwich.

No thanks, old man. What's that blazer he's wearing.

wear

HOLLYWOOD IN CLOSE-UP-No. 1

You can't get

1

stars in a slot machine..

HOLLYWOOD script writer said to me

just before I left to fly home; "You know, in this town 15- people have careers. The rest have publicity."

I knew what he meant. Actresses like Katharine Hepburn, and Bette Davis have. careers. The new stars who are announced with every picture exist in

the publicity releases.

There is a machine-made way with stars in Hollywood. You. press

a button in П

studio and a star pops out, today

it

That is the theory, anyway, But in the last Ave years does not seem to have worked as successfully, as in the past. in that time Hollywood has discovered only three personali- ties who will have the knack of catching the imagination of an oudlence.

by DAVID LEWIN

BRANDO

MONROE For her, a type.

BUBTON

For them, no types.

Isab fashionable parts of the bench

The studio machine offers high financial awards to its stary. The

The lesson, of course, is that Brando lie on that is: "Monday stars can help good is line so long as you get it and stories. But they cannot make it doesn't get you. The trouble Hollywood is that peopia. bad ones belter,

by There are three names which become trapped

today. So Brando's money is turned

Marion's Dough),

another.

Britain's (short

for

do cause excitement Marlon Brando in one. Marilyn over to a company, Marado Inc. which is run by the star's father, Monroe

who invents In a cattle ranch' Richard Burton the third,

Only one Miss Monroe - is a typical product. She does in Nebraska. the expected - but she allure.

The other "stars" go through se routines in the hope that if they are repealed often enough an Impression will be created.

Tony Curtis says how happy he is to be married to Janet tion at which. Leigh. Janet Leluh says how quired. She will say the right forced into machine-made star

has The beiaviour of this couple may seem to be odd-but neither Bu studio provides her with of them is depressed about his

arici a

newly part or fearful of his future, an acting coach

The people decorated dressing room,

who

are ihd She will appear at any fune- happiest In Hollywood are the a star is re- top-featured players who are not

wonderful it being married things at any interview. •.

13 to Fory Curtis.

Ho flies home the

Jane Powell says "Look, I'm

and singing in cabaret,"

dds she thinks she will get a divorce. Corinne Calvert wears shorts mokes fiabor,

for "still pictures and jokes about Zen Zea

Failing methods

BUT how long will she just

dom.

A git ke Gloria Grahama, for exemple, who won the Oscar this year for the best supporting. performance in "The Bad and

The machine the Beautiful."

misses Miss the only title

Despite all und the current enthusiasm, not even a professional Hollywood the socks is "astrologian" prepared

the build-up Grahame boworking actress »

answer.

Is

to the When it comes men, Brando and Burton,

She says: "I spent a day in to London recently when I was

two havelling back from a flim in

Europe.

What did I do? I went

the

is easier: as long as along to the Royal

At the star butt-up. But they care to stay in Hollywood. Dramatic Artal Academy of

LL is counted. part

how many people on a damp night in Denver or Daventry will leave their homes to queue outside a cinema to see Tony

because Curtis

of his happy

marriage?

One

to

But there is the rub. They would take me as a student, have careers which they want to protect by serious acting.

Neither, will say how long he to live the life of

is.

n

pared star, comfortablo

"My mother was an English Betress and she taught me that one had to learn and's craft,

Personality

HEARD too little of that kind as it is, 1 don't know, old man.

Yet Hollywood is all trying Burton

of talk durinit may tour. Wha to is gind says he of the lesser schools, I suppose.

pictures but produce new stars by falling make

would I did hear from the Hollywood Lesser schools a right.

methods. There user to be a prefer not to have a binding machine was that Gloria Perhaps he just likes the

time

when every producer could contract and he insists on dying Grahame did not conform to a colours.

equate a guaranteed SUM of back to London for. A few pattern. t was sold with regret,

on year to act

but I. felt like cheering... I happen to like the colours of money at the box office against months every

But I wouldn't a star's name. It was so easy sloge.

For Gloria Grahame has the Etas, old man.

Brando, who has then. them because I wata't

surprised personality and the ability to brought up at Eton.

performances last. So has Barlon Brando, So I suppose If Clark Gable was in a film many by his fine

bring In 2,000,000 · 09 · Mark Antony in "Jullus has Richard Burton. he'll be wearing an England cap he would

dollars at least. The sum could Caesar," says frankly: "I came Audiences will remember. next.

be worked out for Fred Astafie to Hollywood for the loot. The them vividly when they are still and Ginger Rogers.

money is very attractive. But trying to puzzle out which of Franchot Tone and Melvin the best places to act and have the blonde girls in the film was Douglas together in a comedy a career are away from Holly Jane Powell or whether the boy would be sure to earn a fore- wood."

with the bare chest was really, Rock Hudson. castable amount at the cinemas. No producer works on that mathematical theory today. Certainly

He wouldn't dare, old man.

An outsider who will bring his entire family to eat all the Bruk with Tootho twice a strawberries and cream in a

day.

cricket pavilion would do any

And smile awhile the cleaner thing, old man,

way.

Gentlemen In Retirement

From the usual cupboard. TELL, it's nice to have a day

Wot from

housework, old Did you notice if the battle man, and see a bit of cricket,

doctor.

was labelled "Rover"?

"Rover," doctor?

with tea in the pavilion.

Last week we had a little I think we both deserve it, experiment with a dog called old man, I suppose you left ap "Rover." I was just thinking cold tunch for the wife? that perhaps we have made à Of course, old man. It doesn't mistake with Mrs Simmering, do them any harm to big it for Is her nose hot or cold?

ance. You can fuss over them What about some airawberries and cream?

Don't be funny, old man." You shall have to muzzle her. Mean- know who's caten the lot,

I'm frightened to touch it, too much. doctor.

Yes, of course.

Perhaps we

Nobody could eat the lot, old

while. give her nothing but

Bow-man,

waler and dog blacuits, Wows are the best

digestible, I believe.

and most

believe they are, doctor, When she's muzzled nose. If it's hot rend for

For you, doctor?

No. For the vet.

You can do pretty well if you bring your wife, daughters, sons. in-law and grandchildren and her get your knees under the table

minutes before the Ave

interval.

And this delightful little peep into the English way of life was

brought to you by courtesy of Peppo the scientifically pro- pared stomach powder that puts pep into tired stomachs. Don't forget, folka!

—A-little-Peppo every night

Gives you a better appetit. Peppo, working as you dream,

Works on strawberries AND the cream.

All so odd?

is

Too much energy, is spent on telling film youngsters how to not with the new

two men avoid the do the tricks, without first in- group of so-called stars. The TH imachine. The studio ma isting they learn their job all charts

of guaranteed returns chino likes stars to have im- the way

through. have been torn up.

Hollywood which reflect

tho posing houDES

biggest How can they be relied upon their standing. Brando

entertainment machine in the when Joge Ferrer, whose with friends in New York, and world. It will stay that way name had never appeared on Burton puts up at hotels which if it cemembers that talent is any popularity poll-stars-in-do not have the highest rating more enduring than tricks................. "Moulin Rouge," and the ple- The studio machine licen ist ture is well on Its way to stara to be seen in the right

earning 6,000,000 Arnerica alone?

SCHOLAR

London,

IR OLIVER FRANKS. former professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University, former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, former Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, former British Am- in Washington,

Les mad thought he WES BO about cricket that he wouldn't bassador miss a minute of it.

ber

Was

This dramatic Hitc пит-

*brought

to you the

the courtesy of facturers of Bow-Wow

by

He's a lot madder aboutt manu strawberries and cream,

old

adds two jobs in two weekя

the

distin- to

numerous

Dog man. Look at him now with guished posts that he has Disculta. Don't forgel folks: his moustache almost in the last held since the war.

Feed your dog the Bow-Wow

way,

And every dog will have his

day.

Cold War Gets Hot

THE moment your Uncle Nat's

Life Partner, tho Plucky Little Woman, arrived at Porta- mouth for the Spithead Review to be the guest of Captain Basli Jones, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., on board the

minesweeping that

Romola, she made up her gay English smile from her to all men in foreign uniforms would case International ten- nions, though I warned her that her motives might be mistaken.

Her gay English amile was Arst wasted on some nolemn- faced Russian soilors who were catching up on their brass- polishing in a launch from the cruiser Sverdlov.

Only

to the

one of them looked up as sho waved to them from King's Stairs, but at a snarl from the offeer in charge he bent

his back again polishing.

As the crew of the Spanish lurich looked even more minar- able than the Russians sho offered them her gayest smile, but after staring incredulously at her for a moment they avert-

plateful. I only hope it knocks

This week his appointment

his stomach for six, that's all. has been announced as a mem- You shouldn't joke about aber of the Government's Steel man a weak stomach. With Holding and Realisation Agency,

with his complaint he has to feed it Last week he was made depuly at short intervals.

chairman of Lloyds Bank on the ho Will underctanding that succeed as chairman when the present holder, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, retires.

That doesn't mean he has to have the best of everything at

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

YAU

“You know, darling, I believe I should appreciate it even MORE if they left the lights on in the auditorium j**

The past fourteen years have

scen

dollars

lodges

In restaurants. Brandó and Bur-

ton prefer to disappear to the

INTO

Four times in eight years Sir Oliver Franks, tho former Oxford Don, has changed jobs. This week steel and banking bring him in £6,000 a year.

by ROBERT BLAKE

come will be at least £10,000. And there may be other proat able directorships, besides,

Sie Oliver Franks's political

like his

personality,

Con in the career of have never been much in the

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bebind walls

DIPLOMAT

his days at the Ministry of a steely pliability and a stocly Supply: This may well be true, strength." There is a vein of informative Frugal, urbane, conscientious, earnestness In Sir Oliver able and ambitious, Sir Oliver Franks's temperament, connect Franks might be the very proto-

with his Non-

of the administrative class ed perhaps conformist background Chl% which governs the world today. father is a Congregational t is characteristle of this class minister, his wife a Quaker), that they do not particularly and this quality was no doubt mind what they are administer- an asset in Washington.

ad- as long as they are.

with which doubtful whether he made any impression at all.

the they move from post to post upon

of Hence the fact that Sir Oliver American public. It can,

Ing

Hence the

On the other hand it is very ministering something.

course, be argued that this is Franks's name is invariably not an

ambassador's job. But mentioned when even the most If so why depart from the

diverse posts become vacant ordinary rule of appointing pro- General of the BBC, Secretary Editor of The Times, Director- fessional diplomats?

of NATO,

more

The justification for doing so. Although his appointment to is when, as in the case of Lord the Government's Steel Agency Lothian, something

is is not especially surprising, his needed than the orthodox im- move into the City dọcs repro- peccability of a civil servant sent a new and somewhati uTI- transmitting with conscientious expected venture. Sir Oliver accuracy the instructions of his has had no experience of high government.

finance (unless it is considered that his experience at Washing- ton counts for this purpose, for the Embassy spends, approxi

pounds an- mately one million

A PROTOTYPE.

remarkable opinions, 24

pubiis eye. But his friends say and his career suggests that his sympathies lie with the moderate Left. In 1048 It was

It may well be agreed that nually). Nor do the directors. Ernest Bevin who tempted him

temptation were needed some such extra quality was of "Big Five". Banks usually from his academie reclusion to needed in the British Ambas elect as their chairman persons that most glittering-and most sador during these critical years whose sympathies tend, however profitable of all the prizes in of 1040-52 in Anglo-American slightly, to the Left,

comeone who was once a rela- tively unknown Oxford philo rophy tutor. For although Sir Oliver Franks's personality still remains largely unknown to the general pubile, he has occupied positions of great power, Import lance and responsibility.

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Moreover, the cbunge has been accompanied by a sub- stantial alteration in his mate-

the

Diplomalle Service, the relations. But Sir Olive: Franks, Wachington Embassy with its despite his great talents, was not salary of £4,500 a year rind on the man to supply it. expense allowance of £38,050.

In the last resort, such achievement would

ONE CERTAINTY

Perhaps Sir Oliver is moving

It is scarcely conceivable that not only on ability, but on per- to the Right. Or is Lloyds Bank rial circumstances-although no such an offer would have beca sonality. And what after all is reinsuring against 症 tutury one who knows Sir Oliver's made to someone outside the Sir Oliver Franks's personality? Becialist victory by appointing ready responsiveness to the call professional diplomatic world, One is tempted to apply the someone who has been on mich of duty would suggest that unless his political views worn words if Lytton Birachey in his good terms with the financial motives have influenced known to be broatily in accord famous description of that grent Socialist Government? him. A professor even today with those at the British Gov-

Was Sir Oliver a

Administrator, Baring.

foret

Sir Time alone will tell but one

thing is safe

no more than 21,000 a ernment or at any rate with Exp

to Predict, Sir year. But from his Stect those of His Foreign Secretary.

"In all he did he was cautious, Oliver has changed his job' fou Agency job along Franks will get £1,000 a year. And as de-

success measured, unimpeachably. cor- times in eight years. He is, stil given, rect. His temperament, all in under 10. Neither his member puty chairman of Lloyds, Sir. Differing answers are Oliver Franks will receive about His friends maintain that he monochrome, touched in with ship of the Steel Agency nor

Hot an

with the cold blues and indecisive greys, chairmanship of Lloyds Bank. Is excellently £3,000 a yeat..:

When and if he becomes Democratic administrative chiefs, was eminently unromantic. He likely to be the last or the most chairman of the bank, his in many of whom he had met in had a steely colourlessness and important post that he will hold