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Two pillows and a hard mattress.
Dreams of a bedroom refrigerator.
By Amanda Marshall
CHMANDUD
Thinks out his cartoons in bod.
the colour
He likes a hard mattress and is "marital concept of a bed pillowhates feathers, which is no wider than three-foot-six, give him nightmares about fall with a variety of design and ing over cliffs, and likes
in bedclothes (but Do type of bed with double spring sulmon-pink).
the kind that practically throw you out. It's harder to His big Regent's Park living- Joe pencils in them too they room is full of travellers' tro- phies, and contains a bed covered don't go through into the hair.
with a Topolski-designed patch- From 1.30 in the morning he work made of "odd skins of
оп the w does two hours' work
exotic wild creatures."
VER since wide-awake of course you and I, would look manufacturers began decotalive and infectly at home marketing
surrounded by sprigged organdie super-pilkows
GIH peppermint-ket- mattresses, Foam- striped sheets. rubber pillows, candy-striper
Bui what about a husband with a slight hangover? rose-sprigged sheets,
Wit
Per Üstüməy thoughtfully authoress this year, said instantly olegėric blankets, and sheets feel relaxed in a sort
67 Tehnicoloured herbaecus remembered having step in that she likes "oversize bexis" and with squared-off corners border?
cupboard It Langres, and doesn't like sleeping alone. She I've been bothered about. Curivas 1u find out what assured me that it was the cus- prefer boeladie becks.
As often
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no patterns or important probleme of con he claustrophobically opened his flowers. Her pet domestic dream, otters and all the dally papers, Hot-water bottles he dislikes- Linporary sleep, I telephoned cupboard door, the owner of the she said, a little wistfully, was while still in bod, but doesn't "One has one's own resources.”
small bedroom refrigerator and care for breakfast (effee and an He claims a teu kettle, so that instead of egg-and-brandy) until after the sybarite in his nature, says "The wasting tum lying awolte from bath.
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window is open sadly even in thọ fog. And I can sleep wherever amon cate tables in Chinu..
No de
If one must keep up with stx-foot-five house stuurt him in again. the times, should one risk
photographer, and discovered sheets and blankets in five that he has given up the search or six daring colours? Does for a king-enough tred and sleeps a round bed
"with my feet und need round
Mr Ustinov, who has the true thy blankets? And is no modern He has a fondness for coloured his grind a blank and set off mark of genius--he can make
Ronald Scarle "gets better Feliks Topolski han decided family complete without one sheets
and
blankets, bul is of those devilish machines @gainst stripes and roses. promptly to sleep claims he ideas in bed," which is where he opinions on bods,
A sleeps best with his head high docs all his cartoon thinking down is one's proper function shape of swans or long-handled supremely English sleeper,
four- bought that cook you tea and toast insists on no drawn curtains, no mattress, and remarked without quite likes bluc ones) ho feels poster
be on two pillows, prefers hard With head under the sheets the and has just
- paint-brushes to doodle on the "for some counted ceiling. But I discovered the and wake you up with
central heating in the bedroomy i glimmer of pride that he was for drawing pad and pencil and guest-of
" He feels a bed prettiest answer to what Go merry tune?
and a happy, healthy blowing through from open win- uged to sleep really well on
one of the few pouple who man- scribbles pin-men and captions should be "a thing within one's with a handkerchief instead of in the dark. Then In the most favourite room, not in a squalidly pushing it under the down. No special electric gad paltasse during the war.
morning. with pencils digging bedroom, so that if I'm all or pillow: Nina Leclerg, who runs gets for ten-making-ever since
int, his back and the sheets tired or It's Sunday I can see a boutique, has a scarlet heart-
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suspot that America, aula, <+ĺ imaginative started this craze for brighter sleeping. If, after several hours' hard work with Hittle pills, hoi drinks, special relaxing exercises, elementary Yoga and suitable
thing reading-matter, you still can't sleep, it may be nure re- assuring to lie awake counting the roses on your pillow than thinking about your income tax returns.
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one seems to hanker after "since lying black silk sheels, or beds in the
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a friend was woken at hourly Mrs Val Guest etherwise modishly striped with black my tricndis, reach out for a shaped handkerchief pocket intervals during one whole night Yolande Donlan, the strawberry panell, he struggles to read the book, or look round at things I sewn on to her blue bed-head. with a jet of steam in his ear.
blonde, who bocame
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MR JESSEL LOVES TO TALK,
MOSTLY ABOUT MR JESSEL
EORGE JESSEL is
not a modest
man.
But then he has nothing to be modest about at least, not the way he tells the story. He blows his own trampet with the tireless passion of a Louis Armstrong.
by ALAN ·
BRIEN
The first: "Have a drink?" The socond: "Know girls?"
any
two Taking my
leers E answers he bounced down on the soin, smoothed back his thin well-plastered hair and turned hin black button eyes on me.
"Go ahead," he said, et me tell you how goddamn smart
im.
I asked about his various careers in show business and
2,000,000 dollars of pens in tvo weeks. One million eight hundred thou-
sand of thent turned out to be defective. Guys who used them Kot ruined sults. All I got 103 jawsults.'
I said I would hazard A gucas that he when't
in America he has mode a national reputation as a come- dian, a singer, song writer, an author, a playwright, a cabaret wood, where the waiter dropped why he changed so often from stor, an after-dinner speaker, his fray whenever he caine near
Due to the other. His answers and a producer of film musicals. her. But his romance with
soon fell into a pattern. How He has had more careers at the himself seems to have been the good Jesse! was at his best. How "You can 甘ay age of 57 than most men have only love affair which has lasted things went wrong through no that again. Be
bad suits.
also has more a lifetime.. sulla than mos! men bayc suils.
Still hot
a great admirer of television now,
fault of his own, How each sure to print this. branch of the business slumped I'd like this to when no left 1.
be read in every hamlet. What
happens
The last me Jessel appeared on the stage in London was os a 14-year-old singer at the Vic-
Sold pens toria Palace, What with Zep- Harry S. Truman called him pelin raids and his newly broken
"Why did I leave Hollywood? Toastmaster-General of voloo, it can hardly have been a
There's no reason I shouldn't for the young per- tell the truth.
I gotta a little money. Not much, but a like, So what do I care?'
"the
the United States.” Jessel is triumph
at the graveside of his famous
an indefatigable funeral orator former.
Ho returns to the Victoria
colleagues. Many of his specctres
be
has reprinted in full in Palaco with a song-and-joke act "I got fed up with being paid his volumes of autobiography in the Royal Variety Show. too highly for taking too many (George Gershwin Memorial The weeks ahead will see him orders. Speech. Carnegie Hall, 1949; appearing in cabaret at the Eulogy for Al Jolson, Israel, 1950).
Temple Savoy and in three other shows
on TV.
Bathrobe
But his eulogies of himself are too good to waste on pos terity, and he delivers them while they are still hot.
In his 87 years the
ever
don't have spon sored
television
FROM ONE GREAT GUY
ANOTHER
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Those sponsors tell you what to plates in their mouths. Why do, what to say, how to say it, should they give a damn about
Grace Kelly?" "Televisión kills conversation And I love conversation. Why 17 hours every day you can't And someone who'll say hello in New York,"
for
Do they care?
the theatre?" I asked.
Despite his general pessimisti, Jéssel is optimistic about his qwn future.
to the
And he has every reason to "So I went into television. I
be so. Three months ago lie was almost unknown success, Elovch had i greut
"What about going back to British general public. thousand dollars each for 14
Now shows from NBC.
after appearing at the Royal Performance, he will top the The theatre? It's dead. You've bill at the Palladium "Then I took Issue with the
next the way they heard of Broadway-the Great March, Theo are the highest In the flesh, George Jessel networks over
White Way give my regards to rewards that a variety star can. worked out the audience rat- of resembles his protege George Ings. They ring up a few huh all that stun? name
There isn't win in his profession In Bri George Jessel has been coupled Burner In a high state of dred mys on the telephone and one singla live actor playing tein, Obviously Mr Jossel H In print with many
famous apoplexy.
When I saw him at multiply by thousands. And on it today. One or two in the been telling the story of h beauties. Norma Talmadge he 5.30 p.m. In his hotel room, he that's how good you are. Well, ride sircets.
But not one lite to a great number of married and un-married. Но
That's what agents in a very short time. was very much in the flesh. He sten, the people who watch actually on it. made a star of Frances Gumma, was wearing only a pair of my shows done have telephones television does. to whom he whispered the magic rather lady-ko black silk listed in the book. They live th
Will the publie be equally words, "Child, forget your own slippers and a short black bath apartment blocks or hotels.
"As for the movies, Twenty impressed? I George Jessel i name. You are
something after Judy robe,
theatres close every day. the
Do only half as good as he says he fashion of an Oxford BA's gown.
now
Garland."
He took Marilyn Monroe to
"I figarté 1 setté amint éflough you think the rest of the world is, then they will be in for the jo bo my own sponsor, I bought wants Hollywood movies? Tako treat of a lifetime. He fired off two remarks, hálf-shareg in a ball-point pen, the Ubangis-wherever they har first stylish party in Holly. Both were questions,
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