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THE MAN WHO MADE THE STARS SHINE

Thrilled by what he said about mo

GIANA DORS

THE MAN WHO MADE THE STARS SHINE

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JACK HAWKING

· 1956.

THE MAN WHO MADE THE STARS' SHINE

HOW I HIRED

Such a clear

ploture of Korda KARGARET LEIGHTON

VIVIEN-AND CHURCHILL!

every

THIR MENIKS HAS BEEN EDITED BYROLL DAVID LEWIN

THE MAN WHO MADE THE STARS SHINE

Kaleidoscopia picture of crowded life.. BIA MICHAEL BALCON"

The Life & Opinions of Sir Alexander Korda

CHAPTER THREK

door "Sho came to sev me first anxiously to Korda: "I think him when she was unknown, 1 kept we have a case of leprosy in the her waiting an hour, I think, camp, sir. The production de- Later 1 signed her and didn't partment

the Local phonext waste

Lecond then." Bald medical officer of health with Korda

"I put her in a few the news. "Wait a while," mld films. She was hardly known, the health officer, "I tell you

what to do,”

LONG the mile-long Thero. was Miriam Hopkina in corridors of Denham her carpet slippers who wanted to be so close to Denham, that Studios in the reign of Alexander Korda she rented a house on the edge of the golf course. And Sabu trotted the stars. There the Elephant Boy saying that was Richard Tauber and his his birth-date was known only "But films were considered Foreign Offée.... "not quile At Table Five in the restaurant, It was unheard of in those days body guard

Gigli prac arajah's

mah something rather lowly-more suitable at the moment." Law sat a young girl with dark hair to have a camp of Africans in because on that day the

elephant had a call, lowly than newspapers. Cigara rence of Arabia come to visit and a striking face. Her name: the English countryalde." tising a snatch of song.

That was registered; he was were large and cheap at the Kenda BOCTOLLY because he Vivien Leigtu Marlene Dietrich with her

time. We 'smoked cigars to show wanted no one to see him. "T

One day an extra reported chauffeur who carried i

we were important and to make bad to bring him in a side revolver

and Leslie

up for our jong of position," KORDA & CIGARS

at my hotel and smuggle into the It," said Korda. Howard lapping along in

Flm men have gone on smok- the

pink flannel faded

ing cigars ever since. WATCHING aver dressing-gown he always thing was Alexander Korda Before the wor there

himself, working 10 hours at a other big names stretch, able to do every job, with Korda, In the studio restaurant and energetically smoking 20

"HURCHILL and Korda come In a pub at Elstree Winston down the stops at Denham adid she had top flim cigars a day. He cut out cigar there were more

smoking in the past year, but Churchill signed an agreement cr day and Church!i spotted Hollywood to names than anywhere else he explained to me why film on the bar counter to write and Paderewski, the planist, in the world at the time, magnates adopted the elgur as advise on film scripts. Churchill darted over to embrace him.

o symbol of their status.

"Revolt

the In Conrad Veidt, wearing a

Desert," the Lawrence of Arabia monocle even off-duty, "You see, I was a journalist story which was to star Desile

As a reporter 1 Howard. shared a table with an un- In Hungary.

earned £10 a month. Then 1 known Ann Todd, Ralph

into films went

and I earned The film was never made, Richardson, and Clive Brook, £60 a month.

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The Soviets are making the most of this "voluntary withdrawal from the last Russian base on foreign soil."

A propaganda campaign from the Kremlin urges Britain and America

WHERE A

N

worked

on

to follow Moscow's example and got out of their overseas bases,

On his mission of investigation far to the north of Porkkala — a mission to the Arctic circlo—Rono MacColl has come across two im-

were associated

KORDA & PADEREWSKI

portant discoveries—which toll a different Soviet story.

D

"One day she came to me and

been invited to A few minutes later he phoned test for 'Gone the Korda oleo again. "It is With the Wind. We had all all right," and

he said. "Don't known about 'Gone With

the worry. Leprosy isn't a certi- Wind," It was to bo a great fiable disease in this district."

Those were the days when the "I didn't believe Vivien could elite nimed for Korda. Denham

So little was

known as "Tho Eton of But she made up her British Films."

KORDA & WALLACE

Said Korda "The two men, flim. briefly associated at the moment with films, had last met after the Versailles Petco

been invited, Treaty have which Paderewski signed as the known. President of Poland."

mind to get that part. And she did. She worked to perfect that "Do not Imagine it was all accent of the American South eesy or all success," said Korda jevery day.

to me one day. "Anyone can make a success in the show busines.

The problem is how to survive your success, how to build on it. The man who writes one clim

volume is weldom a 66CCHE has driving passion,

great writer. Vivlen. She will outlive any criticism that is made of her and "So in Alms one success is she is a most co-operative girl. not enough. You need to have No temperament. None of my the courage to fail. People shouldi stars had temperament. A little not be afraid of failure. They difficult c times, yes. But should have the courage to temperament, never. The good nurse a success and then forget artists are never temperamental it and move

on to

Borsething -only the not so good.”

else. Never think of what's dono -think of what's to do.

It is the story of a giant air base and of a railway which has not been used yet.

WHISTLE

MIGHT MEAN

By RENE MacCOLL

Rovaniemi, Finland. not very for from the Fin-

O trains run QI anish border, of what seems

stretch of railway line which extends from Kemijavi,

Finland's In Arelic zone, custward to her frontier with Russia.

Under the terms of their peace treaty with the Rus sians after World War II the Finns were ordered to build this line.

They completed

it

onc

to be one of the biggest and best-guarded heavy bomber buses in the world.

Salle, This base lies in of the border regions forcibly annexed by Russia after the last war.

the heaviest concentrations of redor, ack-ack, and jet fighters in western Russia.

Around It are some

of

The Jow fells surrounding it are ideal for defensive high- in angle guns.

And they are ideal too for the 1954. Now the line is un- siting of rockets, of which there batteries at or used because it goes to no are powerful town and, in peacetime, near place called Kaitetuntur,

a bit further north. serves no useful purpose.

Slave labour

So But just across the viet frontier there is an- other railhead. It is the end of a railway pointing westward and built by Rus- sian slave labour.

And if the brief gap be- tween the two lines

were

to be filled (which would take military engineers only half an hour or two) the Russian railway and the Finnish railway would come one and the same.

be.

BLAST WAR

FINLAN

FINLAND

The Salla base constitutes Д dual threat. From it bombers could attack the United King- North Pole, to paste Detroit. dom or take off along the "roof Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Wash- of the world" route over

the ington.

Korca believed vigorously in the Empire. He bought the Edgar Wallace story and made "Sanders of the River."

"We oven brought Africans

KORDA & FAIRBANKS

to England and put them in "MADE Henry VIII, and it

startect

As for the giant rockets, there camps not far from the studio, what happened after that?

overything. But

is not much doubt as to what

their role would include.

Just to the north, where the Kold Peninsula has its shore on the Arctic Ocean, Hes Pelsamo,

with its very

valuable nickel mines.

The defence

That, too, WRA taken from Finland by Russia after the war.

The Russians are sensitive the notion of a naval bombard- ment of the arca by NATO ships and the rockels are there to prevent it.

to

So while the cheers go up around Porkkala on its restora- tion to the Finns, and 10,000 of them prepare to move back to their homes and forms in the abandoned base, it might be as well to remember what is going on up here in the far, irozen north.

Taking the air at ten shillings' a time: COAL-BLACK FLYERS

GO GREY

By DUDLEY HAWKINS

}

Nairobi. to think twice. But the jeers Africans all frantically waving

are and seedling of their friends 10 shitling notes,

explain how mail everything jung Landing is worth hearing. They across

jungle. As Africana

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What then? From bases FLYING tribesmen sited in former Finnish ter the latest addition to behind drove them into the The day will come soon in ritory now annexed by the the East Africa's list of Pen door, to seats behind and East Africa, say charter arms,

next to the grinning pilot.

when

flying will be common First Soviets, Russia would be airborne oddities.

"Africans really enjoy it" place for Africans. Particularly war, aviation dins able to sweep along this there were flying farmers, said Captain NE. Waugh, who since the conveniently linked-up rail- then flying doctors, flying took many for brief flights at made enormous strides in these

Kistumu. The conversation on territo

territories ot vast distances way-pinching Finland in wives and flying padres

inhospitable bush and the and now primitive Africans two and emerging at

part in trade town of Kemi, on the Gulf have discovered the thrill of tooky and how green the coun- greater

hey travel more, and of Bothnia, and right on a bird's-eye view of their try it.

they

abandon their "Some of them wouldn't fect anys, busts and. blcycles and villages and the eerie sensa- the Swedish border.

tion of whizzing through the so good if I kept them up there step into a passenger aircraft at

for longer. While Europeans the nearest airport Perhaps it la a coinci-clouds.

turn green, these coal-black, landing strip. dence that Communist 1a-

The sunbaked aldports at chaps go alightly grey. fluence is strong in busy, Entebbe. In Uganda, and "But back they come for industrial Kemi perhaps Kisum in Kenya-both on the more, with 10 shillings out of shores of glant Lake Victoria the tin box buried in the banana are the Mecea of scores of plantation er borrowed from “Already they -can

thank Africans cooking a ride in the father or a friend. Some have plance for bringing them the

(birds), They knocked

an hour's noda?? an official of an airline um worked up over come for

told me in Nairobi. "Freighters the com

thatched hails, anged in To style for

not.

The threat But once In Kemi Russians could-

or

NEW LOVE

bush

Iron comes

from Dior dm; the really raw Abienne and carrying brightly-coloured

Into the

2. Advance rapidly SMALL FORTUNE quite

Quite a hero when he returns One pilot, however, is borne-

of years, from the bush, it's almost bicycles, priests,

cloth, medicines, food, poed, policemen, im. sometimes wearing litle more miracle. They have long been 1. Threaten, the

than; antelope skin loincloths awed by birds, and some tribes boz and beads to dezens mensely important and and 's string of coloured beads, consider birds as sort of gods remote markets. The arrival of valuable Swedish iron ore to step luid a modern American because of their ability to arrival of the postman

a chartered nírézafy is like, the mines at Kiruma nearby.

and bo, whiaked Now they think differently. A

man who's been in the

what disgruntled by the Afri.... to his northward using excellent

village. One man was-

Kad cans how love for flying agr bad to per "I come down for my pasen- motor roads along the three days at rutebilly primitive, I

suade him to leave his spear ger at Entebbe, and what do Torino river to take the charter pilota carned a mall behind or he may have: poked you una climb aboard? Norwegian port of Narvik fortune, at about 10 shillings a hole

fuselage In bus full-blow we wizened and smelly

(of:last war fame) and out time, from natives sampling exuberational show

flank any NATO positions the joys of the sky, 4-5

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or installations which may apron of the sun-scorched dir strip

Ha, reckoned that if every- exiat in Norway's Lar North

par little silver plane was announced that Africana, body also is his village had to two bark cold could buy rides in Le tky, The down while he hadn't, he would vid of the qumle gured at the off saint was completely marcmortal ono mowy Bhach.

E. But even more significant douther white w mềm at the plane landed but could not, talos: De toning face, and considered

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brought over Douglas Fairbanks son, to film in The Private Life of Don Juan He was at the top of his career. A. fairy-tale star. What did I do with him? I put him in

my- worst fallure. But I was already building a new bridge to success with 'Scarlet Pimpernel.'

"Making 'Dea Juan' tought me a lesson. Let me show you”

I walked with him to a corner of this office. He picked up A small framed picture, "Here 19 a souvenir I carry with me al- ways," he cald.

The picture showed a Paris street. In it is a peeling tattered poster menouncing "Charles Laughton in Tha Private Life of Henr.... The poster ig tocked to the side of a French street lavatory.

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