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MISS LAMARR DOES A GARBO

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BUT PERMITS ONE PICTURE

Venice.

EDY LAMARR was doing a Garbo. She

By Thomas Wiseman

had chosen the right ed notepaper), whereas, of Film Festival just at the her better protection. So I time and place for it. The course, that is just in time when she chose to visit found myself sitting in a Venice Film Festival is one cidental, the excuse for a Venice.

of the few occasions when festival of anatomical art.

a star can safely say: I

want ta be left alone," knowing there. is not the faintest danger of anyone heeding her request.

deckchair next to Miss Lamarr outside hut number

She found it all quite 118. Miss Lamarr WAR once appalling. It was shocking

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"I can do without that flattery," said Miss Lamarr. She waited with her head towel until I under the gave the all clear signal that it was safe for her to

quite an example of anato. the brazen way in which The fifth Mr Lamarr, oil micul art herself. (in her movie stars exposed them- millionaire Lee Howard. surface. early film Extuse she wore selves to and for publicity. from Houston, Toxas, sat Then she re-emerged.

the Italian Really! Had they no sense little way apart from Not heeding her request, even less than I rang through to Miss starlets here) but she was of dignity? Lamarr's suite and was in not competing this time think formed, "Yes" --- it

at the Palazzo del Island. was either Miss Lamarr speaking in Cinema or on the beaches.

person but unfortunately

she was incognito. I said I

So shocking,

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Anyone would reading the financial page of this Was Coney the Herald Tribune.

!

No poses

I told Miss Lamarr that I appreciated she didn't want

I said: "People tell me you are sometimes difficult, to get on with

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She said; "Nonsense, what is difficult about me? A photographer came over I am most easy to get on publicity and that this was and began focusing

his with. Of course, if I am not, Coney Island but I con- The Lido Venice during sidered her the most beauti- camera. Miss Lamarr pulled given stupid directors who the Film Festival is not ful woman at the Festival a towel over her head. do not know their jobs, 1 Being incognito seemed everybody's idea of a cosy and I particularly

have to tell them what they are doing wrong."

was sorry to hear it und could I do anything to help?

a sad thing to be in Venice when everybody else is Cadillacs or mink bikinis or gondolas.

rotreat, so I suggested to in Miss Lamarr that if she wanted privacy this was an unusual place to come And it.

But Miss Lamurr said

to

what she wanted was pri- Miss Lamarr straighten- vacy and anonymity. She ed me out on that nt once, still seemed to be under the

impression that this in It seemed that those

a festival of cinematographic Italians had been most in-

to meet her.

wanted

Miss Lamarr giggled and said: "Come to my beach hut in 20 minutes-number 118-but you must promise to protect me from those awful photographers.".

"Disgraceful," I agreed, "What's that you say, baby," said Mr Lamarr,

In due course the photo- rapher accepted dolent and dispersed,

Mies. Lamory came out into the open again. Mr. Lamarr from Houston, Texas, did not even look up hi

"in my Jatest film 1 play Helen of Troy saidh Miss Lamarr, "but those Italian pro- ducers! Now they, say they have mislaid the soundtrack.”

So charming

see

In the distance I could another photographer approach- ing. He was wearing jeahs, an old shirt and moccasin shoes, Ho carried a newsreel camera,

Trouble, I thought.

"I do not pose for photo- graphers," she said. "Garbo didn't. It is disgraceful the A happy smile way they persecute mo. I know it is a plot. They have been sent by the people who made my last film. Just to scrutinising the Stock Exchange veyed her with open admiration. plague me."

I said: "They are being

I assured her that Hum- most flattering, showing 50 art (as it says on the head- considerate, putting on a phrey Bogart could not give much interest in you."

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

IF anybody still cherished

hy illusions about the practicability of 鼈 world

By LES ARMOUR

The air force is relying on split second élming.

It is also relying on its air-

The oil millionaire husband

Houston, from

Texas, was

prices, a happy smile of content- ment on his tanned face.

Lamarr, "that I whit only make "I have decided," said Miss

films now with directory Uke Elia Kazan, Carol feed or Cecil B. de Mille, Otherwise I do not make nims,"

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He approached, bowed, kissed Miss Lamarr's hand. and sur-

"You permit me?" he asked, alming the camera.

Lamarr purred.

I held my breath. Miss She permitted. Perhaps because the camera- man was so charming. Perhaps because it was Prince Vittorio Massimo,

The frustrated photographer had now found reinforcements, I decided to risk a slump on He and about 20 of his col- the Stock Exchange by inter- leagues descended upon us, rupting Mr Lomarr's financial brandishing cameras,

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Miss Lamarr said: "I leave." "How do you feel about your wife's career?" I asked him. He "What's that you say, baby?" replied in a soft southern accent The Valiant is An anti-aircraft shell craft to do the incredible:

the asked Mr Lamars, without war, reports from Farn- the Victor.

"I just want her to do what The travels at something like more cratie the course of the taking his eyes off the financial gives her pleasure. Don't want borough Air Show should already in service, have shattered them.'

Victor will be soon.

A plane as it nears its target, the news, 1,800 miles an hour.

her to do anything she doesn't. contemporary guided missile trackers to get a line on it.

harder it will be for the They are all about the travels at 3,000.

Mise Lamarr beat a tactical If she likes a subject, I guess I Curiously, it didn't really

retreat behind her beach hut. would set it up for her finan look as thought there was same size: all between 99

In other words, however good She shouted to me, "You clally. Money is no bother. anything very startling at feet and 114 feet from wing Modern radar equipment contemporary defence may be promised to keep them away Anything to make her happy!!

can just tip to wing tip, all powered is efficient enough to plot contemporary offence

A

formidable battery of about match it-maybe a little with four giant jets with almost anything

photographic -and the

more. But there was a man fly between 9,000 and 10,000 modern guided missile

nimed at, Miss Lamarr, who ing a jet bomber there →→→→ pounds thrust each. All literally trucks its targets

It is unlikely that there will stood peeping troth' behind a docs. I guess she is Interested | Trade Mark rolling it, looping it, rocket three will fly at 50,000 feet like a dog after a bird, ever again be the kind at air of curvas which she held in " ing upwards faster than the at speeds close to the speed

battle which characterised World cross her face: like a yashmak eye could travel, spiralling of sound

War 11. There will be no great・・ "Disgraceful," said Miss 600 (just over

How does the RAF ex- formations of bombers flying Lomare hour at that pect to

got its planes through anti-aircraft barrages through?

and tracked by squadrons of fighters.

Farnborough.

down like a sky-rocket gone miles

mad.

height).

It was a big jet bombor, And they will all do

fighters..

The modern jet bomber for small sufficiently

manoeuvrable course erratic

& Delta wing, four-engined manoeuvres which, until re- dies high and fast. It is aircraft that looked like cently, would have been something out of a science hair-raising fiction novel. the Vulcan. Of course, the Vulcan had been seen before. But no ono had ever flown it like that.

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Different job

The bomber of today No one really believed butside the designing offices bears about as much re and the Air Ministry--that semblance to the bomber of it could be flown like that. World War II us a big sports

was taken dar

The announcer unawares. The technicians

stood up on their seats.

does to p

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One at a time ·

to fly IL

Istead, sleek, fast jet bom- enough to make. plotting bers one at a time will fight a difficult. It is just about desperate battle of wits against good enough to give the men on the ground armed with guided missile a run for its radio-controlled rockets, radar

networks thousands of miles money,

long and a handful of rocket- armed jet fighters.

It unlikely that any dị. fendey will ever sed his aflæck- ing enemy.

Since they would fly singly, it is less likely that they would be picked up,

lorry.

Evon suppose the bomber The conventional anti-aircraft Today's bomber has a is picked up. If it takes sun is a tung of the part: in a modern let bomber world do The Vulcan is in produc- very different job. It is in the machinery 30 seconds the time it would take to, mim,

disappent tion. The Royal Air Force tended to carry a hydrogen to plot its course exactly a mod will have it in numbers be- bomb or an atom bomb or if it takes the man ve

One plane with one bomb! manning the machinery, 80 eadar controlled fore, the year is out will do all the work that Beconds to take all the have to be co

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