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"... And, of course, not a word about the other demands until Mr. Gaitskell is firmly in the saddle.”

HE LIKED FIGHTS, HE LIKED FUN. HE LOOKED AT DEATH WITH A LAUGH, THE HARD-BOILED

STAR WHO AT

HEART WAS A 'SOFT TOUCH"

Bogart Played It Tough To

H

UMPHREY

New York. BOGART

The

Last Act...

BY DON IDDON

TV 1 S wisecracking almost to the end.

That was one of the few re- fine and I'm in no danger of The day just before he ferences Bogart, 50 last Christ- dying."

mode to the disease went into

which as Day, comu

which was to kill him. ended in his death from cancer, he growled to his wife Lauren Bucali: "I

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Lost weight Hoperated

Lauren, whom

he

married in

is

ת!

Lauren Bacall with daughter Leslie, named after Leslie Howard, who got Bogart to Hollywood.

She Was his great strength and solace during the terrible iliness and before.

I first met Humphrey Bogart 1945, his fourth In tho "Twenty-one", Res- wife who

known as "Baby" taurant in New York 15 years

t was lunchẳng with to everyone ago. nover should have switched

Wesley Ruggles "E was operated un fast March

Hollywood, and Bogart

the operating

came up to our table, from Scotch to Martinis.”

table for eight hours. Since then One of the last meetings he Bogart, tough on and off the his weight had dropped sleadily had was with student actors

double-Scotch down to a mere Bst 13ib.

the drawing- who assembled "I look like a wraith," drinker all his adult life except his comment.

£00,000 of his lavish room for a few weeks before he died another 35lb. that I've dropped he

"All I need is house in Beverly Hills. There

served himself Then he suddenly

switched

the and I'll be OK" to very dry Martinis on

Scotch and held forth: Rocks-gin and

He joked with very Bille "possibly we could start some- vermouth on ice cubes.

thing like 'n weight bank for

screen.

was

was

the

Press

double

"Do I believe in the Olivier school of acting? Ah, nuts. I'm I'm an actor.. I do just what

comes naturally."

He

Bogart's previous wives were Helen Menken, Mary Phillips, and the late Mayo Methol.

Behind the flares of temper and the vinegar tongue was a teen, restless mind.

"I hope you don't think this Bogart, and, believe me, Is a sissy drink," he said, "but not particular from which por- it seems to othe

my throat more than whisky,"

Ulon of your anatomy it comes."

Bogart always referred, with His greatest slage success was Bogart loved play- a good-natured wink, to news- as the killer Duko Mantee ing the role of the

"The Petrified Forest" papermen as "ghouls."

It was this role as the bad man, after hard-boiled cynical, would, in fact, have made

He wrote 16 years of tennis Broadway guy and good newspaperman

rocket with gangster: but he was vigour and acid,

carrying parts, that made him to famous and catapulted him into not really a hord

In a recent Open Letter

Press he wrote: "I've been the Hollywood version of "The the man, except in ham- mering out his own greatly disturbed lately by the Petrified Forest with the late contracts.

and baseless Leslie Howard. He gave many unchecked

of rumours regarding the state of away hundreds thousands of dollars, my health, It may even be necessary for me to send out a During the past truth team to follow you all few months, when around,

With his son Stephen. Although wed four times, Bogart had es children by his previous marriages.

he was undergoing "I've read that both my lungs

sessions long

of have been removed, that my radiation treatment

heart has been removed and re- at Los Angeles Hos placed by an old gasoline pump pital, he was in re-

I've been on the way to quent pain. Yet he rarely complained. "I'm going to win this one, he always said.

practically every cemetery, in- luding several where I'm cer- tain they only accept dogs.”

A lot more followed. All good

In a life full of fight and satire. But Bogy probably knew Rusto and cappet with brilliant he was dying when he wrote success, one of his last pleasures the letter, and even before, was to watch the Sugar Ray

fight on television.

Robinson-Fullmer championship His strength

HE told his close friend pro- Of this he said: "That's the 11 ducer Nunnally Johnson: fight I'm interested in. I've "At hast I've made plenty to ulready won mine. I'm feeling take care of Lauren.”

BEING A CORPSE BORED BEERBOHM TREE

by MILTON SHULMAN

his character

arguer and a lover; but I'm G lousy fighter."

his left eye,

Cummings

Frank Moore's

Casual Comment

THE PANIC RUSH TO CANADA

A STAUNCH churchman

committed himself to the opinion that the Church should condemn the current

"panic rush" to emigrate.

From CANADA comes a

WARNING TO IMMIGRANTS

By Fred Manor

Winnipeg Britain. Now it Is the United THE vast open spaces of States, a country both rich and Canada urgently need powerful which offers not only an immense prestige, but plonti- to be filled with new fl well-paid job,

To the

U.S.A., Canada 19

Immigrants. The Canadian government has even been losing every year the cream of luring Americans from her youth, her best intelectuals, across the border in the engineers, edientista teachers, USA to cope with the her skilled workers, even hor shortage of skilled labour Army and Air Force officers, that is retarding the The immigrant will find him country's progress, Now self in an American country which has nelther the under. there is a substantial im-

standing nor the time for old raigration of Hungarian ro- world ways. fugees.

This may lead the British im Consequently it is felt migrant in particular to another here that a 'counter-dose of pitfall, his inborn Inclination to British stock would be most rumble. The British are some. times regarded as inveterate welcome. New British im grumblors grumbling in their migrants should help to homeland against the weather, preserve the

country's at the service in shops and res democratic principles, at the government, in short at lauranis, at buses and railwayn,

strengthen the ancient everything. traditions, and shore up the Commonwealth structure.

TOVOR

Rd.

Canadians, by no means too suro of themselves, Nevertheless the news grumble. They put up with that some three hundred arrogant and often brutal polles,

with incompetent local thousand Britons plan to ministration, with filthy ros emigrate to Canada this taurants, bad service, and overs year has come as a shock. charging in shops. They never

utier a word of protest,"

Pioneers?

When all is said and done,

And they look askanco at any protesta from now im- protests imply, as they often do, migrants. They feel that much

the magnitude of this mass justified criticism of the "way on this aldo of the migration remains a stagger- of life"

and they resent it. The ing proposition; and, though

complaining immigrant has become a byword in em- to endure hardships to build ployment agencies,

of places this country, one question work, even on the stage, lies uppermost in the minds

Canada, needs me to build

of

the Canadian immigra Think Again

He stigmatised the people tion authorities: Are those now queueing

seem daily at who

Many

to be running The tic above the hard upper itp, battle-scor British Commonwealth im- away from hardships at Immigrants souvenin of World War I, and migration centres 09 ac-home of the true pioneer to his rough, rasping voice, which tunted wholly by selfish force required here?

the and

considerations.

sank to a thin whisper as the cancer closed in, gave him peculiar Bogart character personality.

When it was mentioned that while 1,200,000 persons had Bogart made so many films certainly left Britain since 1948, that Ire once said:

"I can' 1,100,000 had entered Britain

from count 'em."

abroad, he Was

Impressed.

He won an Academy Award for his role in "African Queen." "Those leaving are nearly all There are two children of his good economic types," he said. marriage to Miss Bacol Stephen, eight, and Leslie, four, cularly

"Most of those coming in, paril- the coloured, are not. Bogart lived most of the last Britain cannot justify the re- 25 years of his life with a gun ception of people who will be in his hand on the screens and come labilities at the first a Scotch in his hand off the set, breath of a depression." Ho died without either, in his own bed, in a deep drug-induced

He relished fights and fun, and once took a stuffed panda into a nightclub. Later he was thrown out and said: "I'm an sleep.

The

Fascination

Of "The Mostest'

A mild suggestion that his attitude did not reflect Christian

brought charity

the shorp retort:

"It expresses the practical Christianity of which we are in urgent need."

And the line of his reasoning is this:

of

lo prospectivo do would

well think

If again.

they ore willing to face o com would do well to think again, It is feared that many im- if they are willing to face a com- pleto change in their pattern of migrants will face strong Ufe for themselves and their disappointments. This is a children, If they are ready to country of rugged Indivi- take the rough with the smooth dualism-with all its good and also to take serious risks and bad facets-and those then they may to chance of success. who are accustomed solicitous authorities shep-

Otherwise, they may soon find herding them from the tremselves clamouring for help. cradle to the grave may to get back home. find out it is beyond their capabilities.

have

every

One last word to those who have decided on the adventure: Remain mobile at all costs. Disillusioned will niso be Canada is a vast country, and those who expect to find the to find the round hole filing a ellies of Canada paved with particular ped will requira gold. Canada is nowhere near moving about.

Statca the United

where

Anything standard of living is concerned.

impedea Whereas the cost of living la mobility could easily contribute the shattering of an im- about as high, wager and salaries to are at least a third, and often og migrant's dreams. much as fifty por cent., below Lhose of the U.S.A.

Those who got ahead in the Oki World will get ahead here. "Although emigrant applica-perhaps more easily. Those who tions have jumped since Suez to just joggled along" will do no six thousand a week-six times the normal - few scared."

Are war-

more than "Joggle along here. and they may find the joggling“ harder.

Above all, migrants who leet

should discard that idea.

THE DRIVE that makes men want to do things faster, longer, better than they have been done before, can produce some strange results. Reasons, he said, were almost In the bookshops now is an extraordinary wholly economie. The applicants that this is another Britain

were sick of "excessive taxa- catalogue of the world's superlatives-"The tion," and of the "levelling" Guinness Book of Records" (Guinness Superlatives, rewards for superior skill and which denied them adequate 9s. 6d.). Just how wide a net is cast in search of effort. what happen at the moment to be man's greatest achievements statistically can be judged from these extracts from the book:-

•

THE MOST expensive cigarettes you can smoke come by courtesy of Nasser-from Port Said. They are called "Royal Dragoons," sell at 8s. 6d. for 10. Provided that anyone feels like selling them.

THE MOST prolife bigamist was Mrs Theresa Vaughan of Shemeld, who in 1922 confessed to achieving 61 bigamous marri- agen in five years. The bridesmaids' names are not recorded.

● THE MOST lucrative robbery was carried out by a combine of American military personnel and German elyllians In 1945. Seven hundred and thirty gold bars worth £3,628,090, plus six socks of bank notes and 25 boxes of platinum bars and precious stones disappeared. So did the thieves,

The Beacon

In Canada

two generations There is a lot of fine talk have now grown up conditioned about equality," one emigrant by United States' text books at had told him disgustedly, but school, by U.S. news magazines, what it really means is those comics, and films There are who shiris wili have

most powerful moulders of much as those who work."

and has been added TV-with programmes which, to a large degree, originate in the United States.

IN REVOLT?

He quoted official interviewors

of and habits,

to

The beacon, the ideal, the as admitting that large numbers goal of ambition is no longer of applicants sought immediate- ly for themselves, and sub- sequently for their children,, "a chance to work their way out of the ruck."

BEERBOHM TREE. By Tree's reputation as an aclor from which ho was to drink

Hesketh Pearson.

was rather erratle. It depended was screwed to the table. He Methuen, 25s, 250 pages. be seen. His acting was purely at a trough.

on what night he happened to had to sup 1 up like a horse

Once as a

a corpse under To the uninitiated, there are instinctive and impulsive, and

fow things more boring than tended to vary from performance Tree disconcerted

Interpretations Union Jack in a play by Kipling the rest of backstage storler. So much of their flavour depends upon an

to performance,

the cast by repeatedly blowing intimato knowledge of the

up the flag from his face walle personalities involved. Unices

the Last Post was being

played. ⚫ THE MOST expensive broken heart was that of Miss Daley His reputation who destic, Noel,

as a wit was Markham who was awarded a £50,000 settlement in a broach-real independence for manual you

described

bed of promise suit against the Marquis of Northampton In 1913. John and Larry are,

not undeserved Ho you are

fou know

lost.

actors.

Mimicry

● THE MOST noticeable litter basket was put in Times Square, New York, in January last year. It is 20rt. high. How you put the litter in is not stated.

of

Because

"enforced and restrictive trade uniordam" they could see no hope in Britain of

workers. Many of the unions, they complained, had passed from protection to repression, Persecution, and tyranny.

"In short," said the critic, most want to play only for their own hands, evading their share of the piling burden of the social services, indifferent to the Paling injunction: 'Bear yo one another's burdens and so fulfil

Ho had a genius for mimlery Israel Zangwill's appearance to It is this Imulated atmosphere and make-up which brought a friend his face shining liko that makes the biographies of him acclaim as the bizarre Moon, his tooth like the Ten most actors such dull reading Svengall, the evil Fagin and the Commandments, all broken." for anyone but fans and other ventures into Shakespeare were spent most of their married life

But uncouth Beethoven,

his

His actress wife Maud,

who

● THE MOST generous surniaano in Britain was owned by Hesketh Pearson's account of less happy.

being outraged by and forgiving Major L. S. D, O. F.

Tollemache de Orellana Plan- the Nie of Beerbohm Tree avolds Ils Hamlet was described by Tree's infidelkies, could almost tagent Tollemache

Killed in action in 1917. monotony because acting, while W. S. Gilbert as "funny with match him in verbal sallies. dominating, did not monopolise out being vulgar." And his Fal- "Idte is very disappointing," whe Tree's interests. One of the staff in Henry IV convinced a once said. great actor-managers of the lover of the play that it should except buttonging comes off boon offered to Shelids Zaid bin Sultan of Abu Dhabi by a Saudi the law of charlst British

aloge,

brought avo billet "Herbert 1." Iaughter and a sense of the rill- a profession that often culous to a takes itself too seriously,

+

?

● THE MOST tempting bribe was £80,000,000, alleged to have

Aroblan official in August 1956. It concerned'oll concessions at His rule as an actor-manager Buraimi on the Perelan. Gulf, Tree scarcely ever know his at tha Haymarket and is lines at the beginning of a run, Majesty's Theatre from 1887 40

● THE MOST compensation paid for wrongful imprisonment in and by the time he had become 1910 was always stimulating Britain was the £0,000 to Oscar Blater, who had been' arraigned Tree became stago-struck at word-perfect he would lose and unpredictable. Plays by for a Glasgow murder is 1909-the cash was paid in 1929,

Interest in the role,

Shakespeare, Ibsen, Wilde and warnings and objections of his

sandwiched bo

TO THE MOST advanced caso of insomnia la Ugo Dell'aringá, an father," a successful corn mer- ing long run Tree could not tween the ood. chant dampened his determina resist enlivening the evenings forgotten, names a Altroc C. “tion to become an actor, He with boyish pranke, Playing Camour, C Sture Ogilvie and injury in 1917. -

hald brother, Max Boabolan, opposite Henry: Alaley, who Clyde Vich. “A splenza, rudi- took to the less demanding, was Taust to his Mephistopheles ant,

themonality," conquering aspect of

the age of 17 and none of the wo koop blenself amused dur- Show were works of such Hallan, bank clerk, who has hod one hour's deep since a war

-THE- OLDEST man in Britain-according to the recorda the theatre and in a pay by: Stephen Pallica, said: a contemporary mosa dala was Charlos Aroki, a journalist, who died in Liverpool in 1941,

· Brød: 112,

Gifted young people now tend to rotuso posts of greater responsibility because the addi- tonal rewards ANO largely kimmed off by supertax, Many intend

Icavo

Britain.

A far the rights and

a fouloum regard for the dignity of the individual are not ignoble. And it is idle to deny a tende ency to override thoes rights and autodiscountenance that dignity.

No darling

that

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