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*

The Gertrude

Story LawrenEE

by NANCY SPAIN

NEW YORK

YORK FALLS

TO GERTIE

week to New Worst to do Candle Light for Suthers Miller, Quill inarring Best Taylor ???.

1927 : The divorce was through ... she soiled again for Americo,

W

HEN

And this is what she wrote on the back of the snapshot

Was 1

the "This is the moment at which Aquitania docked one should die." in New York in Charlot agreed.

Never Gertrude moment of perfection. 1923,

lifetime of show business Lawrence and Beatrice Lillie in a

was he to crown it. And Gertle? sat together on their lug on. Gerile just cried, gage, sang carols and wept. New York was so big and so small. And nobody seemed to want interview them.

they

were

to

was

the

Afterwards, of course, she had time to laugh.

ond

astel

"the

When she read heT notices and found that Bea Lillle Wis

the

bee's knees" and "the cat's angles," and Jack was “the

bust elephant's

bodice," Bobby the Barmaid

that Gertic herself was the only member of

he caterpillers camisole," when she Charlot Company who really read headlines Ulkes ENGLISH interested American re- GIRLS CONQUER NEW YORK porters. The perfect type -BRITISH BEAUTY STUNS

"Happlest of English beauty was sup- Since

Band of Britisher Batile of Bunkers Bl posed to be engaged to & then Gertle giggled with the millionaire with five cars best of them. Her success and three yachts. Beatrice herself and Paincia, her baby. meant Onancial security for Lillie and Jack Buchanan now aged six. and Gertrude Lawrence.... What notices they were. They the stars....were shoved should have been set to music, aside as

the barmaid from Never in thea.rient history and reacted like this. Rules restaurant possed for New York

"Unshopworn galety," they said, pictures and gave interview and, "The English girls look as after interview. Gertie be- if they had mothers even when came more and more their legs are barest." And what frightened. Worse was

a personal triumph for Bea and Gertie:

come.

to

Archie Selwyn, the American backer. Charlot's partner, WAS full of gloom. English jokes would never rucceed. He could not see the point of many of

the numbers.

Lillie and Lawrence

Lawrence and Lillie

If you haven't seen them

On

long

SECOND ARTICLE IN THIS SPECIAL SATURDAY SERIES

more of a catch jn his own happy she didn't need to spend country than Philip Asticy In money. England,

Philip really was an excellent Charlot's Revue opened In influence on Gortie. He actually Boston. Gertle had a cold in inade her save. He helped her the head and felt terrible. With to open a trust fund to pay for

a temperature of 104 she sang, her daughter Pam's education

QUOTE

Lillie and Lawrance Laurence aid: LICITA If you hovedʻt voor them Yades perfectly uiffe.

„muNew Yịch' papër

(RECHT)

Joe Liffie... Ampere

(LEFT) Cutie.

MER

OVERY way love

danced and went tragie until (the first shares they bought was. And oh how nice she reached Toronto. There she were 23,000 worth of Barcelona But whatever Gertie decided collapsed. She had

pneumonia Light Traction Power Company). to do she must first get a divarco and pleurisy, topped the danger No doubi Gortle was longing from Frank Hawley. of America? Johnny Green had list at Wellesley Hospital.

it would Gertie returned to London in to marry him. But written song for

The news flashed round the have

meant 崩 life of semi- her new show, "Oh, Kay." She Body and Soul:

world. Flowers, telegrams, fruit, retirement for her

no more didn't go out so no mors

ofled with spectacular offerings from

Flo footlights, no more glamour, no Case Maury was now her usual Phillip Astley. The Marquis of Ziegfeld of the Follies alled her more violent success, по moro room. Little Jessie Matthews theatre, no more

her

"You know I'm yours

called

For just the taking” and had given her one-third of the royalties. George and fra Gershwin were already writing the score lyries of a new show,

"Oh, Kay

Hud such

He success turned her head? Above all DID she think of him at all when, in September, 1924. she set out with the

to company lour Beton, Chicago, the Mississippi and Canada?

Rumour

her

American escort And how the tongues Could any actress stand cluttered.

How

rich!

Pam was scht

10 Roedcan School Brighton, where tho fees and the education arc long way removed from Gertle's old school, the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Clapham.

In

1927 Gertie applied for her divorce. Frank Howicy did not defend the case, and she obtained decree nisi. Six months afterwards she was free to marry.

had her chance and moved on-beaux. with the

company, knocking !!" them cold in "Limehouse Blues," Ben Lille hated leaving best

friend behind. She wired Philip Astley. "GEHTIE DES- PERATELY ILL KEEPS CALLING FOR YOU STOP THINK IF HUMANLY WHILE everyone

gasped and POSSIBLE YOU SHOULD

wondered,

Gertle remained COME."

silent. In any case she was not Philip did not hesitate, Gertie free. Sho was married to Frank opened her eyes to And him Howley, there among the flowers and Italian sunshine had restored She sailed again for America, telegrams.

her health and she was able to this time in her first attempt Together they went back to rejoin the triumphant Charlot as a straight actress with the New York Together

London re- Inte Lesile Howard in a romantic they Company for the IN Detcult they went over the holidayed Italy, in Sicily, opening

enough, "costume play called Candle- Ford works and Gertic scored They hired a cur in Palermo, Jessie Matthews was now back Ught. And she wrote on the

and then. driving a tremendous personal hit with

the through in

chorusi) Then the back of a photograph taken just the mechanics. "If the gear Girgente, a minute village com- Charlot Company went off to before her ship left Southamp-

they Now York again... boxes are

put in upside down pletely off the beaten track, they

York friend this year," said

Bert Taylor. Eddie Captor, were spotted by "we all know whose fault It

of once again Brigade

Philip Astley It's Gertie's." Bul rumour Gunt Stewart Forster. The mained behind. said she left behind her a new

secret was a secret no longer. They played New York, beau: Bertram L. Taylor, Junior,

Now every friend that Philly They played Hollywood. And "Tinker Taylor to Gertie and met asked him, if he was going

Bert Taylor

overywhere grin- with Gertie. Tail, dark, slightly his friends; a handsonic Ameri- to marry Gertie Philip

millionaire in his thirues, ned, sald nothing." "She was plump, he was nevertheless the s of the president of the New the most perfect companion," he epitome of the desirable Ameri- York Stock Exchange and even Bays. "And when sho was can malo, And oh! how rich he

can

WHY DO

in

in

a

the

BEHIND

THE reasona why a

writer adopts a nom- de-plume are almost

of

and

(strangely

whe

to Now ton:

And

"Back to New York 你好

to 'Condielight' for Glibert Miller and marry Bort Taylor???"

WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED.

*

Next Saturday: Gertle is Bankrupt

AUTHORS HIDE

PEN-NAMES?

By Peter Northend

10.

In the

early verses under the name of

Edward Eastaway, whom

body knew, rather than reveal their authorship as his own. as many and varied as the easionally becomes Blake, much not have found the novelist's Children's author David Severn choice of pen-names under to the joy of the many Bloke success under that name as the happens to be the son of Sir

has done as Elizabeth Kyle.

Stanley

藉 Unwin, which so many authors have fans.

leading Similarly the none of N.S. Commander H. Taprell Dori- English publisher, and rather You're perfectly silly, they become well-known.

Norway is highly respected ing noatly twisted one of his than steaf his father's thunder sang.

Perhaps the commonest is the one

aircraft names into the nautical nom- he first wrole under that nom- world of Telegrams poured in from alt over the world. So did letters knowledge that the public likes engineering, but the same person de plume of Taffrail, and be is do-plume, and has since become of many Service writers one of Britain's leading juvenilo He invited them to dinner from estate

to give a man credit for success uses his Arst two names and be- one agents, offering

ting to time have writers, that night, Speeches were made fabulous apartments

in one sphere only, denying him comes Nevil Shute when he who from

found it prudent to use names becomes too writes best-selling novels. (each one more insulting than lease, "So it looks as if they

Sometimes 1 writer is dis other than their own when the last), assuring Gertle, Bea know we're in for a long run,"

satisfied with hlg notal name writing books and stories. and Jack that they hadn't commented Bea.

Dodgson, and quiet Oxford don in the 1880's, more euphonious.

and writes

under something Thus Cedric this only ico well, and Stokes prefers to call himself when he set down on paper George Beardmore; Dr.O. H. Inn Hay was really Major- "Alice's Adventures in Wonder-

Mavor became world-famous as General Str land

he was

John Hay Belth; careful to

playwright James Bridie; Cap- Bartimeus was .born L.A. himself Lewis Carroll, and it is tain AA. Wills decided he Ritchie, and

Sapper h Major H.C. McNeile.

Hope.

Finally, trembling with indignation, they were allowed to reply. Wonderful Bea Lillio rose to her feet and empiled a of champagne over her left glass shoulder. "Oh

she said.

And

and

Jealous?

to

its favours versatile.

Charles

knew

if he

Lutwidge

One Or More

that was all.

VENTUALLY she and Gertie by that name that he became an

would get along better Apparently this brought took one of there apart-immortal. The crudite mathe- writer if he were known Archie Selwyn to his senses, ments On West 54th Street, matician already had a

con- Anthony Armstrong, and Emile The company travelled on to They gave parties there all the siderable reputation under hls Herzog decided to write under Atlantic City without more in- time. People like Alexandertal name, and wisely chose not

the (amous name of Andre sults. But when they arrived Woolcott, Oscar Hammerstein II, to confure the two.

Maurois, they there

found they were Richard Rodgers, Dorothy The story goes that Queen quartered in the Ritz no Parker George Gershwin, Irv Victoria, enchanted on her first one could afford to pay the bill. ing Berlin crowded them. reading of "Alice in Wonder-

Vincent Youmans composed "Tea land", asked for more

of the for Two" at their piano. Their author's books, and was a lule flat might have been on the chagrined when presented with list of famous places to bo some

learned treatises on visited in New York "if you can mathematics and the calouhis! pet in."

Jack BuchonDA had BO re-

an volutionary

that effect was bright young men would stop another on Fifth Avenue The one

BY

Curtain up

DY the time they come back to Times Square for the open-

Gertrudo Lawrence

was +

Secrets Out

EVAL

口

Sinbad

Not all Service pen-namės

When he started writing those touching short stories about the men of the RAF, published as "The Greatest People in the World" and "The Beauty of the Dead," H.E. Bates, then serving in the Air Force himself, wrote Ofleer X. But under Flying such secrets soon leak out,

Yet the use of pseudonyma can scarcely be put down to the good pseudonym for Captain AE Dingle, who also

modesty of authors. Even called himself Captain Dingle Ish dramatle critic,

USD James Agate, the famous Eng--

whom no rund Brian Cotterell when

one could call modest, found it nautical yarns, while useful to be known on occasion wrfing Army

Mercer Caplain C, W.

as Richard Prentis, while the achieved colossal sales

as youthful Bernard Shaw selected It sometimes happens that a

Dornford Yates.

the shocking pen-name of Rod- writer may use onc or more

Barn Wash, un anugram on his Per-names carly in his career are so straightforward, however, later, when he wrote

name, for a brief spell, and and achieve such success with One of the best known is

music one of them that he just has to Luk-Ole, behind which

Old critiction for a newspaper the continue using it. Thus R. Ray- the

hidea

"Star and World” called him. distinguished neme of self the now famous Corno di mond means nothing to the mil- Aspiring Poet

lions who

read James

Hadley General Sir Ernest Swinton, and Bassetto, thus combining the love of foreign- Chaso, so Mr Raymond dare not Etienne is none other than well- Engilsionan's wide

use any other name now; and known broadcaster and politi- sounding names where muste in books. Richard D.V.

Llewellyn Lloyd clan Commander Stephen King- concerned, and a typical bit of

Hall.

Sharian humour. --- curtain rolled up. The first half and say: "You're looking very Canon J.O. Hannay, the quiet is Richard Llewellyn, the nove

Another good reason for the of the show went slowly. Bui Buchanan this morning." And ster-born clergyman, was also list. for life.

George A. Birmingham, writer the moment that Gertie what about Gertic?

This last pseudonym shows adoption of a pseudonym is to of popular thrillers, though the the way in which some writers be found in the modesty of the sant.. bounting Limehouse "Every man in New York two reputations rarely clashed. adapt

their real Blues" the audience demanded way, or is, in love with her,"

or modify

concerned, It

Another famOLLE but rarely encore upon encuro.

When Cedi Day Lewis, as en

of casionally happens that they suspected pen-name is that of the purposes they said. Ben Lille stood on her hand.

Ernest Thompson want to experiment with now Jacques Anatole : Thibault, who aspiring poet, gave up school authorship. Jack just stuck there "un the What did Philip Astley think, mastering early in life, it was Seton was really Ernest Seton- kinds of work and as establish took the name of his

he had chorus helped him to get the back home in England, reading because

found Thompson, and the improve ed writers prefer, it to be country" (jand/ called himself chewing gum off his bools." such reports, eagerly copied by lucrative living Fa writer of mentis obvious. Anthony Judged at any rate, at first Anatole France,

Mummy

said Charlot's 13- the Engllali Press? Was ho clever detective stories ая Норо Hawking

competimas sucessfully on its own merita, year-old son, Phillip, sliting la jealous of his love, now an Nicholas Blake. Now an estab. dropped his surname, and Agnes

First World War poet, multiple affairs, The Into Hilary best known the stage box, with Mrs Charlot, Inspiration to the young merished poet, Lowie

MR. Dunlop would assuredly Edward Thomas, published his St George Saunders,

as the official author of "The Battle of Britain,"

used write thrillers with a friend, John Palmer, so they called themselves David Pilgrim or Francis Beeding; while Cate the author of political pum phlets, was in reality o trinity, Frank Owen, Michael Foot and

· Peter Howardin

ing fainting where she stood with excitement and terror,

from

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