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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1955.

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STILL LIFE

A reminder of the girl who reached stardom with a hair-style

What Happened

to

Veronica Lake?

By EVELYN IRONS

New York,

HAT are the miss. ing chapters in the story of Veronicu Lake -the forgotten star who came back into the news with the announcement of hey collapse in a Detroit hotel?

to

WIEN

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Married

Veronien Latke languorous Hollywood (remember

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Witch" with the long blond locks (17 inches long they won, according 10

contemporary ceckoning) falling over one eye ve She is only 35 now and Veronica Lake and her bizucie hair-do is as legendary a gure of the punt as Dorothy Lammi and he sarong. Her last movie wasthing called "Stronghold" she male in Mexico, weil that was five years ago.

CUT OFF

What turppened then"

Lake went on the fluge

MINS She

As you

know

her

home in father

conspored

LORENTERIJERITASPORTAAICA

"Alle Blue

made

"I think I'll change the title to 'Idle`Luxury' after Butler."

THE

THIS

T

Three.

London Express Bervice

MAN BEHIND THE

EMPIRE

London.

is the story of

one man, Dumus might have invented

I

By Sir

MEMORIAL

Beverley Baxter,

the

M.P.

bration dinner in which the the Dean chief guest would be

of St. Paul's. I usked him what

we were celebrating, "Don't I tell the you?" he said. "We've got muncy."

fr bank Greenwich Valge, New York's Gown" and many other hits, Chelsea, until late January. She Veronko's new husband was das cut herself complætely of purt composer of music for

"Almumae," tom Hully wood and she doesn

which London's Hermione Cinguld live there any more.

say next. A few days after sinessful Broadway debut last Lucus, the

the Japanese attack (121 It was useless to say "No", Yes, Sir. What is worse, he Pearl Harbour the Chinese Someone said Joldingly

win even

his naval attache was among the that Sir Jocelyn had a whim of from income tax, be," Veronica sald recently. herited it. To complete the guests. Sir Jocelyn said all tron, and it is not at all

him for he would but you

would never know with collect in shillings und half they

do this it would the from certainly have become the Josh.

At any

police, the then be possible to put the con- rate i at. crowns

fremen the poolmen, thre struction of the Memorial in So we gathered once more in Fourth Muskeleer if he had tended as many of them as miners, the cotton workery, the hund. And anyway what would a private "dining room ni West- encountered the famous possible.

Boy Scouts, the chaps In the il matter where the money came minster and Lucas opened it by Services and so on. Clem Davies from?

announcing, that the full sum (the Leader of

Liberal

needed, that is £20,000, was now These affairs always

So the seduction dinner took in the hands of the Treasurer. the Party) has agreed to join With some trepidation.

opened with a speech of Commisce So bas

of Anthony place and the Moguls in Work would start right away. must break the news gently welcome by Sir Jocelyn, and Greenwood

for the Sochlist dustry and Finance proved is due to you chaps," he to those readers who brag

And we

want Alfred friendly and co-operative. The said. "You were simply wonder- none of us, including him. Purty. about the commonhood of

Bossom and

done Beverley Baxter cynic might say that Big Firms ful. I never could have

usually have a fund for support this without your support." her man that he is Sir Jocelyn self, knew what he would from the Tories."

ing worthy projects and, in the end, the only loser would be the

It takes a lot to make a po- Chancellor

Exchequer litician

something blush, but who would have that much less very like it was on the cheeks of Clem Davies. Alfred Bossom, Anthony Greenwood and myscil. If we had been oil paintings we could hardly have done less to- wards raising the money,

She has also abandoned that old Hoppy

coiffure that caused Reginald Garther to quip that Jenis in one her glasses had a eye and a boir net in the other. er hate, selaped severely off hey face, is done in a low knot at the ba, k

1021

And she recently married for Her rst two the that tim

John Dellie. ma minges. To MGM art director, and then to Andre de Toth, a film director, divorce, endel

und Jast music Juf

was on a two-week stand with August 4 that classic of French, British publisher

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his

more

did nol

third baroNE!..

think I've become like the sore of p; rson I want to baronetcy, he merely in-

Although it is four years since sinister dossier aner in a production of John

he la An

the right things for

опсе

a bad

once way of putting it.

We asked him if he had con- Dean of St. Paul's,

of the

GUARANTEES

to

case

our

be BUT their generosity should

However, each of us had had Dnot be dismissed so cynically.

opportunity It is an admirable thing that the consciences by making speeches world of industry and finance in which we attributed

12

she mad her first stage appear-M.A. (Tory of course), who but endel with the reniark van Druten's "The Voice of the won the M.C. in the Arst able sentence: "In view of sulted the

the dastardly altack on and Josh assured us ihat Turtle" in one of the Southern world war and was twice

We asked him why Pearl Harbour we are parti- hod. States, Miss Lake has not

yel wounded in the Blitz on cularly glad today to have would be St. Paul's and not the made Broadway

London

0 volunteer

as one of our most welcome Abbey and he replied that there auxiliary fireman.

and honoured guests the was already an Empire Memorial

in the Abbey. Finally be breeds Japanese naval attache." her peekaboo hair-du and mant-Sealyhams of such aris-

TWO EYES

But when she appeared, minus

festly able to see out 01

both

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every-

should recognise iLa respon- thing to the crazy loon who had sibility to the spiritual

and brought realm. dreamed a drearn In the case of this Empire War 1 to reality. As for the guaran- tees of the business Moguls, not one

Was called penny

from The idea had come to him on Memorial their guarantees made

had only them, knot mad Saturday night in the certainty of what Bitz when, as a volunteer fire- been a dream. mun, be watched the James When the dinner had ended roar of laughter move nearer and nearer to St. and it was time for our guests made it rather difficult Paul's. Office buildings

were to depart Sir Jocelyn rose to his

INVITATION

eyes, in a television play oppo-tocratic lineage that they ERROR site Burgess Meredith, the New are full of charm and hardly York Times rite hailed her as know what day it is. I "A spirited actress st real diversity, warmth

dimen know this to be true because THE und sion, an actress whose career when my belligerent Aber- very obviously lies ahead of her deer. Terror "Max" (named had made a slight error in whole sky was an angry red. In to the victims, "It was good of

for us to tell him that he crashing into ruins and the feet and expressed our motitude THE Dean of St. Paul's was in good form and expressed the after Beaverbrook) died

gratitude of the hierarchy of the For from a fight with a bulldog, race if not in colour.

He even invited us But I to come some day and climb the Miss Lake, in spite of that Cyclo-Sir Jocelyn gave πιε опе Another joyful incident had become an inferno, but as

was at a similar function if some mystic unseen hand had will tell you here and now that steps to the dome, but even Sir

been raised against them the we will not call on you for a Jocelyn showed when he said at the end of names hat failed to reach the single penny of your guarantees for that ordeal. his speech

We are going to finance this out nf welcome: Cathedral,

of the shilling and half crowns "Now I have told you about

of the people."

not behind."

Perhaps he was right,

always been of his sealyhams which pean hair-do, has

rfectly clear-eyed about Hollywood build-up and her named "Disraeli." own part in 4.

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She had been born Constance CAPTURED Ockelman daughter of German-Danish seaman,

a

"I had been called Constance) Keane. she sald

"That was not my real name so it was easy

to get used to having a nume

we

fact the City of with the Guildhall as its centre we enjoyed having you

London you to come," said Josh, "and Cathedral

all the famous and impor SEDUCTION cap- tant people WAS WHEN Lucas

tured by the Ger- guests today. mans in the first war

who are

But I must

our

inform you that we Also he wrote to his friends have the Prime Minister of

asking them Canada."

that wasn't min and had alin Britain better sound

to stand for what was classic in

when you looked at them."

HER 20 FILMS

in each

of them

опе

were

that 80

his

One last anecdote and we shall move

on. Italy had

no enthusinem

Instead we fell to discussing which were the ugly buildings rising from the ruin, adjoining the creat Cathedral. As D famous architect. Sir Alfred Bossom was particularly scath- the ugly hand of

The Moguls smiled indulgent- ly. It was not the first time they E'LL get the money," sald had beard that old sweet son ing about Win It will be just and I must say that we who

the ordinary blokes who'll give were

A sudden light came into Sir Jocelyn's eye, "Don't you think we ought to set up a committee to look into this?"

Str Jocelyn's friends felt materialism. It to us." He further informed us that we were listening to some- that the Committee would meet thing pretty close to a fals from time to time to study the prospectus. progress report and to pool ideas. Meantime with our permission When the guests had gone he had Clement Dovies, like a good

But (whatever that meant)

tho. and or Liberal

we were saved by Non-Conformist,

words tho In other secured the services of two

Kong.

to Fing would give have been a pretty costly affair and we had to go up and yote. and I would hardly be proper Nor did we return to the private to charge it to the

dining room. We knew it wasn't safe.

litical work who

their services free.

Memorial

to send parcels of peas, The Veronica was supposed which they did. He kept ny features and the Lake was the peas until they to suggest the coudness you got hard and then pierced a hole come into the war against after which DA and we were rather sur The awallowed a vast number prised to see an Italian Ang three people outside of the po- pointed out that the dimer must Division Belis started

in a prominent position at They also raised her Stt, 2in. breathing was like the roar the next reception for over-

Beas officers. height by means of lifts" until

of a hurricane. she achieved the right, propor- tons for a screen siren.

The prison doctors were "You are probably Like this she did pretty well | considering she was only 17 at 50 fascinated that they sent puzzled," said Sir Jocelyn to the tline, and she went on to for specialists from Berlin the assembled guests. "Cer- make some 18 or 20 films, into study the phenomenon. tainly it is an Italian flag rluding "I Married Witch," Unhappily they which was direcb.d

Cintr

by Rene

I forgot which one of us sald; Fund. "Let's hope we raise the money before there's a third world war But 11 ex-

commemorate." pressed our secret doubts.

The months rolled on. Every

us to moned

CELEBRATION

66% JERY well," said Sir Jocelyn, "let's toss for it." However,

for once we over-ruled him and we all shared the cost. Then wo and

delayed but it in Garibaldi's flag. now and then Sir Jocelyn sum- meeting and, and won immense pree- their arrival and by that And you will all remember with his voluntary treasurer by

time the processes of nature his famous utterance God his side, would report: "Here's a went out on the Terrace

for two pounds four cooled off in the light of a full She became such a household had shirled the perforated damn England!" However, cheque

shillings from the Beamsville moon.

loughs from ↑ Veronica Lake

"We received two what Polke Station

pounds potato bread

like the ride of the Val Garibaldi really said

teen shillings today from eyed potatoes.

home for disabled ex-service- Recently she said: "I lost my keries but a mere Mozart "God aave England!"

"And they stren," said Lucas, personal identity and wanted to minuet.

said that they would get up get it back,"

word that radio audienes got peas from his chest. No wo whispered in his ear and h

Fine Brigade. The, Upington his breathing he explained that made of one longer was

...

That was why you don't ace It was not until 1989 that =PROJECT

her on the films any more. Why he entered Parllument and-

Lake, stage actress,

has bent u two was: pounds six shillings. And here's three shillings from an ex- serviceman with no legs."

more."

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its

No one could have failed to whist drive and send us some be touched by this story of lite people moved by a great spirit; she became, at 36, Veronica hardly had he taken his sent NOW we

No one spoke. The only sound come down to when wo thought of the thou- when the next war broka more modern times when clude the project it acaned to way to the sea.

sands of pounds needed to con- was the river murmuring out. He tried to, enlist again a couple of years ago Sir our mundane minds, that we but was over age. Then he Jocelyn gathered a fow of us would have to go to more su time to me the Committee met

The months went by and from he had an Iden. In fact together in a private room dinner in the Commons when we

hear Sir Jocelyn's progress Jocelyn Lutas always has an in the House of Commons would Invite the chairmen of report. Two or three people idea.

and asked us to join him in managing directors

induricial companies? great project.

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of the big outside the realm of politics were helping him in his task. The story was the same each were to give hospitality to allied "This is my plan," he said. "We don't want their money," me. The little people officers arriving in London. I want to raise money to erect said Sir Jocelyn. It must come giving their shillings and half- and from the ordinary chops in crowne, giving generously. St.

Cathedral a driblets." Paul's

even taking up collections So he got in touch with the 12 Overseas League and ar- Memorial to the Empire fighting

us, but obviously the guarantors ranged that at regular in- den who lost their lives in the But finally we wore him down would have to cough up. tervals there would be recep- Hiller war. We won't ask for and persuaded him to hold the

Then one day we received an tions in London. I think he ang sama from anyone. In fact dinner on the condition that the

from the City should Intimation

Elir. Jocelon www won't taica a kange sums from B Bog's pit put me on the committee any man or oemper. We shall only be asked for gateandom. It that there would be a

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Ernesto's NOT a penniless fce-creamer! He comes of à very ancient Horsan. family and owns half the Exprésson.

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