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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1955,

THE ACTRESS WHO

WH

CANNOT GROW UP

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At 33, Muriel Paylow is the undisputed

Grand Old Lady of sensitive adolescents .

WHEN you look at Miss Muriel Pavlow it is an awesome thought that she has just about completed 21 years the West End stage.

On

by

C. NICHOLAS PHIPPS

fresh open-alr, absurdly young forgotten to note, two- In a favourable light she does

in gymkhana or not look 21 herself. You can thirds the way down their copy, perfect for

ber envisage

belig sharply talented for able, or since, Silverstone.

or even masterly; performance asked for her passport when he

by Muriel Pavlow as a sensitive walks into a castrio, ng the land- Jord pointing to his under 18" nothee when she asks for a drink In a pub.

This might seem an enemble

In fact, i quality in an actress,

In the chief reason why her pro- fessional career, after getting off to a spanking start, has dragged, less Lajeni while thery with have forged shead,

A veteran

lescent. But obstinately, like smoky bonfire in a Lakeland fellside, she has eve burst inlu the flames of stardom.

and his mother "What!" George Bernard Shaw.

That's not one of your Socialists. That it gentleman, Iz the mon's same way Miss Pavlow's trouble Is that she doesn't look like un actress, certainly not a movie actres

she

Sweet disorder

The eyes, marvellous deep

bul I there Is no guile. The blue (or is it violet?) which clothes, trini, suitable, un ostentatious Summing up; any Junior officer of the Fleet Air Arm could take her to meet the admiral's wife with confidence.

And yet this charming (cm)- nine, middle-class young lady is

woman of over 33 who ha been married for more that sight years.

called

after.

hall's ellentele keeps her awake at nights by Its habit of holding informal pavement discussion. groups after dances.

Her living room is decidedly a "lounge" rather than a "draw-

Ita room.' Ing

furniture

GAMO

durable, very comfortable, and to my taste hideous. There is clock in one of those shiny wooden euses, square

with A wireless and rounded edges. gramophone from the general family. No books lying about, no old newspapers, letters which should have been posted yesterday, no silly post- cards from abroad, of any kind at all.

по

no squaloe

Oddly enough

MURIEL

PAVLOW

no

-go sensitive...

... but it's the Marilyns who catch

the public eye.

Oddly

enough there 19 television set, though Miss Pay- low has been appearing fairly

负

She married on actor Derek Farr in 1947 and

they regularly on TV since 1938 (or have lived happily ever

was 377). She is marriage she retired guilty. On her

aboul this, from the stage for five years.

explains given to Miss Pavlow by her

there agent, Derek Glynne, vaguely that she thinks would be too much interference "I'm

not one of those

who

She was already a compura - tive veteran when she first hit

She hasn't lots of bubble curls, the publie consciousness, in 1938,

doesn't ring her eyes with Sho was 10; she played a child

she doesn't make her of nine in Dear Octopus. People soot,

#stlcky р said it was monstrous to keep mouth up into n toddler like that up so

She does not give the appear- marry between the malinee and late They

same thing ance of being half starved, nor evening performances and have the splayed the dream affect the sweet disorder in the the following Sunday for their when

That was dress" of the Tutin school. child in Dear Brutus.

honeymoon, she клуб

firmly Neither has she, on the other "1 wanted to make a 1941.

Of

stoge she WILS

hand, the languishing affecta home. Very right and proper. grown-up young lady of 10.

a somewhat

older too. Kreat tions Д A year later came excitement: her first grown-up generation She's terribly whole- part.

She

played a adolescent. She has ever since. At 33 she is now indisputably the Grand Old Lady of sensitive ndolescenta,

sensitive

Unfortunately for her It is the Morilyn Monroes and nol the S.A. who catch the public eye. She has appeared in a number of films, good and bad, with the greatest credit. The critics have

some.

of

One can imagine the left hand of a Tycoon groping subcon- seiously for her telephone num ber, as he reads a script about

hospital nuTRE,

proper

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN WHY I JOINED THE NLM

By John Watney:

The throb of natives' drums beating faster and faster seemed to take possession of my body. The hairs on the nape of my neck were standing up like bristles and the light tropical" jacket across my shoulders felt like a mantle of lead.

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I began

to feel as millions married to one of the leaders of tribal warriors must have of the liberation movement. felt as they heard the drums of village

Wor

They were celebrating the beating through the election to Parliament after a local by-election of Mr B. 'F. Kusi, an independent, who sup- ports the movement,

In front of me, 5,000 yelling and singing Ashantis, members of Africa's most proud and war-

MADE MEMBER

As soon as the dance warmed

and

like tribe, stamped and swayed up I was dragged from my seat in a vast gyrating mass.

Laken, by enthusiastic young Ashantis Anto CORNETA, the bar,, and the car park, any- where where we might hear our- Around the ENT the tribal selves speak to receive courses chiefs and their wives headed of politicul Instruction, high by the Asuntahene, the King of pressure salesmntiship for the Ashunt, and Queen Mother, his movement, elures on Ashanti sister. Among them were the culture and history. political lenders National Liberation

of

the new Movement

of the Gold Coast,

All of which was washed down

and with glasses

pints of whisky and beer. For it any On the lapel of my jacket race can drink more than they had pinned a yellow, white, another it's the Ashanti, black and groen cloth badge in the new member paldi the shape of a wheel with N.L.M. in the middlex

1 had just been made the newest member of the movement

SAME QUESTION

And

Every instructor, salesman,

that threatens to overthrow the and lecturer that evening asked

me the same question, And she seems to have come Gold Coust. to realise that for an actress the My party membership had Ideal of womanhood (cost mo is. Before the night

Periclean

from the other flats in the block. (She calls him her manager: (not to be talked of for good was out it was to cost me much

its more. has He's or evil among men") "He's a marvellous man.

after me.

Very quiet...

The only objects with any much individuality in the roon (even me; he really looks

to dangers. more than an agent the flowers look a little waxen) And besides, It sounds nicer.") in curiously corrugated carpet sort of greenish felt some stuff, and a china toad about a foot long.

321

After she had been

married

.

the

in the lm she is making ut Ave years her agent/manager the moment, Reach for gently pushed her into work Skies, she plays the wife Her virtues

#gain.

Douglas Buder, The carpet, sho explains, was

Aghter pilot, Their flat reflects her virtues part of the economy drive. At last, slowly, she seems to and failings to

almost "Only it wanders all over the be reaching the position to "Isn't it 4 very quiet part, ludicrous degree, 11 ka what room, and veta into those which her ability entities her, playing a hero's wife — it the house agents vaguely call "off mountainous ridges, and hasn't

hero's wife is still alive Jt must be a nice change to mean?" I asked her. the Marble Arch," on the right even worn very well." side of the Edgware Road.

play a frankly wanton adoles- "Well, I think it could have The toad. handsome green cent, and her Cressida at Strat-been, if I had not been careful." overlooks the Seymour and black, is also a money box. ford last year

# well (WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED She complains that the It sits by the freplace. It was deserved success.

London Express Service.

It's ni there. The hair. not Dors blondle but a decent corn colour, simply cut, neither fall-

the Ing over

shoulders nor It slashed with a razor. The skin, Hall

ONE BABY-WITHOUT

GRAVY

"ONE

sieven baby, one minced baby, and one baby without gravy." AC- companied by shrill shrieks and a clatter of spoons I heard these horrifle orders flashed to the waiting cook.

In a hotel that IS fit for chlidren

to live in this is the sort of thing you hear

leave

by

ROMANY

FINDLATER

BAIN

must

But it is in the dining-room

must sticky

what

WAS

CELEBRATING

"What doce England think about us?" And always I was stumped for

a reply-for what does England know of the Gold Coast, The Colony that may con act a pattern for the whole of Africa, The Colony that is about to have self rule.

In my new crisply creased light fawn tropical sult, the only The National Liberation Move- Ewropean among 5,000 black ment

In say that the party the bodies draped in vivid cloths, I power, the Convention Propies

of

felt the oddest of all odd men Party, are corrupt and set on legless out.

rullog by dictatorship as econ But the worst treatment I as the British have gone. And received that night was the con- they have some pretty con- centrated warmth of 5,000 smiles vinding proof of it too, Iand several hundred clammy But this почу

movement handshakes,

which has sprung

up almost I was one among the guests overnight in the Ashontl' terri- of honour at a celebration dance tory, say that no one is going to the Prempeh Hall, Kumasi, push the proud Ashunt around. the capital town of Ashanti. As one of the leaders put it My hostess and hostess to all to me: "We have never been those 5,000, was Mrs Peggy afraid of any man, while or Appiah, daughter of the late Sir black, and we are not going to Stafford Cripps who is now be dictated to by politicians In

Accra,"

LOOK, LIGHTNING!

to

Radio Hongkong

H.X.T.

Music from Northern Ireland

and his

WANT QUEEN

The N.L.M. say that they are not yet ready for complete

(But don't worry, it's safer than walking upstairs) THERE was a sudden nash of 200 times more fatal than light-

lightning, a πολλ of thun- ning, and so tou is domestic gas, 115 pm. News, Weather Report and independence, and they dont der, and the woman I was Electric current is 10 times Special Announcements: 1.30, Music want to drive the while man speaking to disappeared.

more dangerous, and even stings

Lar you; 2.30. Come into the Parlour away. They want his help for I caught up with her hiding from insects kill twice as many (ECTS) 3, Vienna Phisamente many years to come and ment in a shamefacedly;

She said, some women as a lightning-flash kills.

plays Streuss Melodies while want the

country med "I'm so Why, any woman ought to be VII to Jazyland; Thirty on a Federal system with local

Minute Theatre "How music cu autonomy sorry-lightning scares me." more scared of being frozen to Boaring Gap" A. Play by Charles

while they get some Well, she is no different rom death than sruck by lightning. Chinton. Based on a Story by Sam practice at ruling themselves.

Davis (BBCTS); 4.30. Cowboy thousands of other women when The official figures would justify cestos: B. Fata Lemos

The C.P.P., who now rule "What funny Yorkshire," piped the little girl at the next storms

are about. They draw such fear,

want a Onch, Music from Bio Janeiro: under the Governor, lable. "It looks like a biscuit." their curtains, tuen nirrors to But women suffer during 2.30, Rhythm Ramble 6. Tune republle,

Bignal and Programme SummaTY; the wall,

put their

household storms because they do not 603, Children's Half Hour presented The National Liberation "Why does that little boy cat cullery out of sight, and hide think logically. They ali by Elizabeth Studio); 6.30, Austra- | Moventent want self government,

Trade Catalogue. The Fort the scrambled egg with his themselves in cupboards or un- primitive at the first sign of a

they nightly Review of Australian eventually, but

want Angers, Mummy?" Mummy der bedclothes,

thunder-cloud.

dustry 6.10. Mmeters of Melody. Queen Elizabeth II, to be their the rest of the meal spends

from fear springs

Sidney Torch and his Congers Orch. | Guteen. When they hide in the cup-

Music of Ivor Novello (BBCTS); 1,15, explaining. I needn't add that superstition, not from common board they are acting no dif-

And that is why I, an English- "Box 200 Bert Gillett at the Organ dinner at night passes in bliss- they were logical, women falia prostralo when the sun or presented by Ruth Campbell Smith N.L.M.

ferently from the savage who (Recorded); 730, Announcer's Choice Man, became a member of the ful silence.

If would be much more scared moon goes into eclipse.

Common sense-backed there are always every time they walked upstairs

a

Their

sense,

go

by

Of course, a few minor disasters in or put a kettle on the gas. For official figures shows that their hotel of this kind, but only the Registrar-General's official feor is groundless. about two a season,

The weargures over the past 10 years Are you frightened of and tear is terrifice. The laun- show that household stairs are ning, madam? dry bill for sheets and table cloths is very heavy.

SPILT INK

It was not, as you might' think,

some Sunday al School treat on the Cunni- bal Islands. Nor even dis- cussing the stage directions for Titus Andronicus with Mr Peter Brook. I was sit- ting with my four-year-old

Embarrassed fathers scurry in lows the mince as soon as the son in the dinning-room of a

from the garden loaded with waitress

her, apron can untle children's hotel at Westgate-

Even napples.

tho umbrella from the door handle. ("Oh, on-Sea, and Our pretty stand bas #

A whole bottle of ink notice saying Philip, you naughty boy.")

was red-haired waitress was "Please

once spilt on the lounge car- buckets your

and all the parents got Staff are ordering the babies' dinners. and spades here."

a problem. They pet,

down on their knees to help tho be really fond of

clean it off. Most of them' felt) It has been a bumper that the children's hotel

little dears, and have that but for the grace of God it season for all these hotels be judged, For at least three prodigious memories. Personally, might have been their respon- this year, and for parents weeks before the family spree I think kids' fads and fancies sibility. with young families to find most of the mothers anticipate are treated with more respect a good one is a priceless do boon. The brochure may exposed tables, boast "every facility for store of the neighbours, children," but it is only the little Johnnie refusing mums who have been there or covering his face with who know that there is malade. nowhere to air clothes, nd "the large play room". is too small. The success of this aort of hotel depends on its proprietor.

Simon and I were lucky this year, and picked a winner.

TRAILING NETS

with dread what Junior

A

was

the

may than they deserve. The waitress bare of wallpaper up to

bedroom

stripped at meal times. Those, awful

has to remember that baby height that four grubby hands the disdainful

and Jane has all her liquids bolled could reach. 10 cat, ond all her solids sleved.

dears removed off a window sill Baby Robin only eats fish and ring. no eggs, and his three-year- likes a grown-up'a

PANDERING

mor-

The same little nil" the enamel with a gad

old ølster

A drop-side, cot was broken dinner on a baby's plate. Susan into neat firewood lengths has all her vegetables from

two more Giles-like children.

by

liko Mr tins, and cannot take milk Their mother apologised very pudding. All this alters. each sweetly. She said she was afraid Saturday as the now families they might got up to some naughty little tricks" liko they did at home,

A good proprleor, Brace, is aware of all this tur noil in a mother's breast. He is prepared to pander to every arrive. type of fuse the first few days.

Monday things begin to warm His wife smiled reminiscent-

And that

One parent was in such a sinte The weekends are compara- about her 14-month son's diet, fively quiet during the day, as And what is the secret- of that she typed out a menu for children eye each other warlly, running a children's hotel?" I each of the 28 meals of her and parents sit straining their naked the proprietor. It is quite easy to recognise acven-day visit, headed "Roger ears in the lounge at night. By this breed of establishmen from will require for breakfast on the outside in the cummer Monday, two tablespoons All up. Suddenly they all realise y. "For the first two days we

Blico months. Shrimping nets trailing porridge, one of well- they are in the same boat and try to give parents everything ecaweed lean, damply in the cooked bacon, etc., etc."

no they usk, for, however im doorway. Minute, clasle bathing the proprietor kept to it.

possible it sounds. Cot screens, suits decorate most of the win-·

- blackout material; buckete In theory of how to run dow sills, and shooling brakes

nightlights. And, the odd 'thing outnumber saloons in the car dining-room stacked with high-

that as soon as thy, find As the week goes by the ace that we really want to de chat smoothly is to servo Tho park.

children at once

áir Increases both the children's!

for them, appelite and, confidence." Thelt everything we can evidence of the patter of tiny The wait between courses is remarks in the dining-room get they suddenly stop asking, “* foot. The potted palm is re- something toddlers do not suffer louder. Cooking is criticised an (WORLD COPYNIGHT RESERVED placed by "the pot and prun. gladly; and the milk pud fol- candidly as at Claridges,

London`Express Esrotce.

Inside the hall there is more

their children are worse than anyone else's,

п

CRITICISM

out

b

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By Galbraith

“Oh, George, aren't the autumn colours the most

gorgeous

In the stores, I mean!”

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