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IS THIS REALLY A MAN'S JOB?

By Amanda Marshall

London Publishing combines enable you to read the AST year_marked' a glamour with, respectability foreign book reviews and

record and staggering to a degree hitherto only nab a best-seller quickly.

And some capital. and Anna Neagle. It's not capital you can still become a a question of publish and be first class publisher. But with

fed in this country.

Without

The new publishers aro

*

dandy, spruce lot. The old, all-

With the rise of literacy damned, but publish and capital you'll be ona much among evon -the upper escort Princess Margaret to sooner, with so many friendly

hands to help you in. Iclasses personable young the ballot, like that success

men of distinction seem to ful man-of-two-worlds, and be substituting publishing publisher-about Town, Mr for all those now almost for Mark Bonham-Carter. gotten careers like Big Game Hunting and ́Looking After the Estate.

LITERARY TASTE

A

wise, God-Bke figuro with crumpled tie to match a dusty offee, is, a thing of the dim past. Much more typical of today's need is Mr Ronald Searle, and there's nothing crumpled or sweater-wearing. he is one of

Indeed, those advertise- What are today's quali- dusty about him. Casusi, cares, ments that still crop up fications for a promising the new race of what might be about "Young man, well embryo-publisher? A certain called, without offence, Sunday educated, drives own car, literary taste, one assumes publishers (the seeks interesting work, go (though an army of season with Sunday sanction being painting rather anywhere, do anything," ed and hard-headed readers rellgkus tracts). Sunday publish-

than with the

production of seem to me to have printed will always be at hand to ers have begun to decorate the invisibly between the lines: stop you making an ass of scens since the war. Their other "Would even stoop to televi- yourself); the right number occupations are art, literature, sion with good expenses, but of years being educated; a part of their

lecturing-which occupy Doma really would prefer to be- smattering of foreign takes up the rest, come first-class publisher languages picked up on without further delay." holiday abroad, which will

By SIR BEVERLEY

BAXTER, MP

THE VAGUE DREAMER

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*Richard wife. As

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the

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time; publishing

The elegant, wordly wise Mr Nicholas Bentley, who writes books and frequently draws the pictures, is such a one. So, it you like to look at it that way, is Mr T. S. Eliot, who is poet, playwright, and critic as well. publisher.

FOOTBALL MANAGERS

The New Look in publishing permits publishers to move about was one of those story of Alexander Korda would like to put him under VII" COTTIS £10,000 a your Before the abdication

the great world almost as drizzling

they mugwump is

that une

WC.C football a film. "Who wandering about the mino, cle- Duke and Duchess of York, with though comprises contract for Saturdays peculiar to comedy, Batire, greatness is Korda?" was Howard's culls of the world.

their daughters Elizabeth and managers or stockbrokers. Far

had Later on Korda

from the British

their climate and

met Winston Margaret,

lived at

spending

waking incredulity. If a only comment.

Churchill, who was not of polll- Piccadilly when

in a house adjoining hours in booklined study and winter is changing novelist had invented him Undeterred, Korda made the subject of Nelson as a posal

cal favour, and they discussed Hyde Park. It was a wonderful ditto offee, they may even run into spring. The weather the verdict would have

setting. contact with

and Korda decided to to giving theatrical parties, Jiko the fabulous ne p was not cold enough to make been: "No one would be- Ostrer brothers, who

Churchill was blo Alm.

im- acquire 1

Hamish Hamilton, or, patronlaing offices for 09 the fireside attractive, and Heve that such a man could trolled the giant Gaumont Korda a vivid picture of the in-

con-mensely interested and gave einema company.

Covent Garden, like the Conati. "I hate Wardour Street,"

hecally musical Victor Gollancz, or It was too soggy for, golf. have existed." And by all British theatre circuit and domitable one-yod Admiral who said, referring to the arça

attending almost.

every first "Let's go and Bee the canona of judgment studios. The

where the

night, like the mundane, witty, President, swept the French fleet off the London

offices of my that verdict would be justi- Isadore Ostrer, Bald

nearly all the British firm com- and sceptical Bertie van Thal, a financial a precaution we tied,

In fact Churchill talked as only panies are centred. "I want to who sounds like a character by genius, was almost as Churchill can. As a former First think and look on the Park"

Sakt, and practically is one. phoned the Leicester Square "Being a Hungarian is vague as Korda, and after Lord of the Admiralty and as a In fact, he became so €1- Cinemu where it was having not a nationality, it is

they had met ita first run,

and talked great historian, he gave Korda a amoured of his Piccadilly setting profession," Korda

-decided to buy onco Isadore said: "But where battle which Nelson had fought, Piccadilly as well.

wonderful description of every that, he considerable presaure we said. But, then, with his are your stars?" To which were allotted two seats at a soft,

"It 13 very good," sald Korda. "For

purpose?" humorous Korda replied: **[ shall I shall call the picture guinea each,

voice, he could make any make my stars."

Hamilton.

Kordo it a cigar, being almost That astonishing fellow, thing sound like an epigram.

Later on, wham Churchill was as fond of cigars as was Chur- Sir Alexander Korda, had When the First World Like a good Hungarian, Korda out of office and everyone knew chill, We shall make first class

that he had no future in politics, films and we shall have made the pleture with Sir War ended, Budapest was formed his own producing cum-

first whe not the dead capital of a dead Fums" Languidly he explained: we record that they were of any class puffs for our pictures. Be literary scene from that be and named 'It "Lendon actually did come script class Achting

144 for our ot No. Laurence Olivier,

writing for Korda, but there is publicity boys to turn out first woman who once surveyed the "Every film now will open with great account,

sides, we shall have the best riboned crudla dispatch, 'twas a

of the arts,

and after

weary,

pany

"No y

picture of that killed Big Ben as it

hour.

he

Incidentally,

Lady his cos

141

Why have so few women so

far managed to cel into this pleasant world of intelligent astrod tunches and celebratory Book

Society Choice parties?

There are one or two, as VX- ceptional for their scarcity as they must be for their talents and tenacity, Sonia Orwell 13

one,

a positive, fully three-D

Horizon.

Antonia Pakenham, peach-fed,

view of all the

But something was

processions."smile"

"Oh yes! I must have

yacht.

a English - rose - type girl of

promise, works decoratively 23 a publisher's publicist,

Kordo married There is nothing to do on much better Marle Oberon, who had played yacht but think and talk. I do

your husband, strikes the but 'twas thy m That is heavenly face then

WOOS

castrian

anything the role of Lady Hamilton in not like these t

Howhe

not

to the throne he married for the third time, luxury have elegance."

from

SENSE OF TIMING'

tact,

and that set the Americans the film. He had been previous desks. Get me a

He also me on" ever thought ly married in Hungary just after

decided to play Richard of."

the Fast World War, and a son bridge, "I do not enjoy bridge," was born

must he said. The marriage

"But like sitting up of Gloucester (Sir Lou have broken

undill four in the morning. That but the reasons up,

Ellie Miller, the dark-eyed, rence Olivier, with a false are lost in the mists, His is the time when ideas come into

calm-spirited daughter of the noso),

the Lady marriage to Merle Oberon took the mind."

man who created the Phaidon Anna (Claire place in 1939, but it did

Stal

playing Lorenzo the

Press, manages to keep an eye and was very

dissolved. Magnificent, he took Bloom), tragic young

a pent-on art books and two children at great man was boue suite in Claridge's, which the same time, And the Moynl widow of the Lan- by there marital is the most expensive hotel in han collective portrait of the heir failures. A couple of years ago London "The mind must have Penguin Book directors includes ho sald. "The mind the figure of one woman, Emice of England, as The lady of his choice was a must

Frost young women

Canada Then In an part of his

he would say,

expansive mood

started in Surely this is a career in which ruthless scheme Tamed Alexandria Boycum.

"OTICO upon e time I knew Budapest knowing nothing. typical female characteristics- only directed it, but played country. The victors at to seize the crown for him everything about filma," said Later on I learned everything, not to say virtues might profit- the lead. But would the Versailles decided that the sulf. Scone from the picture Korda, “Then I knew nothing. And now I know nothing. But sbiy fourish? Taste, cinema addicts really go to ramshackle Austro-Hungari- "Richard

TEL." produced But now I know

everything there is always room for a great shrawdness, a sense of timing, a see a picture with Shake- an Empire should be carved jointly by

late Sir the

touch of inspired recklessness again. Marriage is also like idea in an empty mind."

and a little more than a touch speare as the script-writer? up into independent states. Alexander Karda and Sir In the Second World War

of self-preserving caution all We soon had the answer to Just how the states were

Laurence Olivier.

Korda's situation became very

feniafe aftributes seem to me to that. A queue of hundreds to survive was a problem

difficult. The rights of the films Thus maminated the strange sum up the Perfect Publisher was waiting outside.

that did not unduly depress

ex-soldier land Ho collected sine executives, he had made were taken by the likable

Ex-pretty nicely. Prudential mighty

Insurance journalist, who had been arrest Seldom have I had such those architects of disaster took them out to supper and

Company against the heavy ed as a revolutionary in Buda Can publishing be Man's Last an experience in the cinema Woodrow Wilson, Clemen- sunded them to join his com amount loaned to him, But pert, then a walter in Paris, a Stronghold, cosiee than the

рапу on the basis that or the theatre as on that ceau, Llyod George and salaries would be paid for the had set, but his philosophy and Buckingham Palace, a poet, a Parson's Pleasure,

somehow he survived. His star film

magnate knighted at Athenaeum. warmer than Saturday afternoon. Shake Masaryk.

first year. But he found that he his ingenuity were intact.

than the speare would have rovelled

House of philosopher, a dreamer, and an lucrative could not make films merely by The Prudential had closed adventure, who understood the Lords? In it. As for Olivier, I do Young Alexander Korda not paying stares, Whereupon down on him. His studios had British better than they under

took a rich Italian to supper been taken not believe that there is an had been a sort of journalist and induced him to put up some

war for

stood themselves. other actor in the world who who became a sort of soldier my;

purposes. Korda had a name but

He had many fallunos much as much else. could bring such relish to

se. Then, true "Bonnie Prince Chatile," and be He had also the role of the hunchback in the war.

one or two films of no particular

achieved. the impossible by dabbled in films.

the war But his account. And then one night

ended there making a Alm on the lives of Richard, who murdered

would bo world shortage of Gilbert real hobby was to make strange thing happened. his way to the throne and

Alms. What about

utterly commonplace. which that his crimes provoked.

DCT-

over

With cash in hand he made to ST had an idea

was killed in the civil war ironie comments on life in for supper he heard the driver and pledged to the Pru- tired. I am finished. I will mako While travelling to the Savoy the rights of the pictures back Hita and Sulliven which was

"I am

year ago he said: a soft, persuasive voice, singing to himself a bawdy song dentini? Somehow he borrowed Any student of human about Henry VIII and his wives.

no more picture." Then he an nature would have realised Itt a candle in Korda's mind company gave him back his ple- aim of Shakespeare's "Richara £75,000, and the innance need his decision to make a that he would spend his life

11" with Sir Laurence Ollyler in the lead and with Sir John Gielgud and Sir

T

ture rights.

Korda and Olivier! What n combination'...

as a cafe commentator with

Henry VII What a theme! Leas than a week later, a mordant wit

History, debauchery, pagomtry there were even bigger Somehow he made his and wiyes galore! What about

non in support, to on and the supp Ralph Richard- crowds in Trafalgar Square, way to Paris, and later on that stronge fellow Charles Off went "Heory vir and And that brings to an end outside the church of St. he somehow, made his way mont's? instead of imitating with all his other pictures. The of dreams, this romantic who

Laughton, whom he had

"Lady Hamilton" in company story of this relentiem dreamer Martin's in the Field. The to London. Forgive the Hollywood, with its glamorous starved cinemas of the world

MOTO realistic than sad-faced, handsome Olivier repetition of the word, but male shark, why not this scottish welcomed them with open arms, realistic, this financier who could walked up the steps to the of all the vague men I ever actor with the heavy jowl and In fact, he grossed nearly raise minions but could not read

volce? pulpit and, with perfect, met he was the most.vague but a picture must be done Once more he was Korda the the wrecked remains of Austria' £2,000,000 with his reisques, & balance sheet, this poet, from language and diction, pald' and the most amusing. on a lavish scale" Korda said. Magnificent/ tribute to the dead Kordu. Nature had cast him in the "For the first time I shall make Ho had been knighted

pss mabackéo empinas in,

more than he Loved The incredible Hungarian mould of the melancholy a Alm in my own manner and and there no reason to doubt money or women PAS had passed from life to Jestor. As for a balance with my own money. The fact that it was the generou-hearted hope his spirit was looking legend.

sheet, it meant less to him that the money come from the Churchill who had recommended down on the great cong Italian Backpe was neither here the honoure. Now that the war was tion of famous people at It is customary when a' than Greek mythology,

or there

Remover and Korda had" recovered Martin's in the Field "when" bir famous man dien to dwell ́ Yet on reaching "Britain. The fly was an immenso his tornatal position by sending Laurence Olivier paid that · Last

who loved

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