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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1957.

UNDER THE PLASTIC PALMS

The

No exotic netting this—but a shot from one of Pinewood's artificial fangies. The palme are made of plastic. star: Natasha Party, making a sceun for "Windom's Way.” a new Rank production,

Where

they

make 450 new faces a day

by JOHN LAMBERT

moment

850

was

EVE

VERY weekday the

even the Natasha Parry. Her face, big temperaments like Mer- morning at seven creation of 150 faces for gentle with velvet eyes, in cour's, Rod Stelger, with his o'clock a big kettle is to a time deadline.

the cameras must be done very beautiful.

volaille "Method" acting style, was there recently for "Across steaming in the make-up

the Bridge." So

Lout Some of the faces are Parry seemed certain of

A few years ago Natasha Jourdan for "Dangerous Exile." department of Pinewood

famous. Others an yet un startom. Then illness crack name, Barry Fitzgerald, is hero Studios. The kettle, with known

A more gentle Hollywood But wherever you ed her career. For three now for an Irish comedy called a teapot beside it, is a go in the studio there is a years she has fought the "Rooney." comforting start to a girl with a make-up kit frailness of her body. Now complex day.

standing by,

For within 90 minutes the nine assistants working with make-up artists George Blackler and Billy Partleton have to supervise

Less Familiar

she is starting again.

"

She is doing so by dying

Muddy

in a paddy field built on the the set of "Curve Her

But

Name Will Pride" there is

VEN the famous faces "Windom's Way" set. It is

have a less-familiar cold, arduous job, look today, with nine films Natasha Parry says: nationally known from Pino-

-ranging from und

the make-up of 450 stare. supporting actors, crowd players.

costume

a girl with the face that Heely to become the most inter-

wood. She is Virginia McKenna, delicate blonde with steel-

RO "Everybody has been

understanding a drama to

sophisticated kind and

with me. I feel wonderful strong talent, comedy-being made.

being back at work, and I'm And with a £5,000,000 On the set of "Tale of Two sure I'm going to be all Bin production schedule Cities" Dirk Bogarde has right now," going on in the studios at the face of a nineteenth-

The girl from Brighton

won a Prince

CHE was the girl from Brighton who became the mistress of the Emperor of France. Who was she? Well, to tell the truth, no one has ever been quite sure, In France they called her Miss Howard. But no one has krown much about her, until now.

After 100 years comes light on the mystery of the Emperor's Lady

G

Elizabeth swept back to Paris. There shi found her home in chaos. There had

On the same set there is a century dandy. Bogarde is

girl who has defiantly kept her the King of Pinewood. Ho

face away from the cameras for is the star who has first two years now. She is Mary choice of any story the Ure. She has a cool, sculptured studio buys. He is the star face. She also has a cool, deter whose name is a certain guarantee at the box-office.

mined will.

Selected

He has an overworked, harassed look on his still

NAYS shr: "This is the first boyish face. But he is do

bm role that I hove termined to go on overwork-secopted street signed a com ing.

traci with the Rank Organisa- tion, because it is the Brst role that I have liked. I can only rakes that 1 think Te worth doing,"

Scared

#1

For now, after diligent research, Simone Andre been a police search. Her loveAYS he: "For some reason "Windom's Way" is one of

Maurois wife of the eminent French bookman - hus written MISS HOWARD AND THE EMPEROR

(Collins, 188.).

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She tells us that there was never really a Milas Howard at al. Instead we must turn fo Hule Elizabeth Haryett, the child of Brighton shormitker. George Providing shoes for | IV's Court, Papa Margell grew

rich. He

Nurfolk. retired to There his plous wife ran village workroom where neigh- bours came to sew for the poor, To lovely young Elizabeth fell the task of reading aloud while the needles cllcked. She renti Bible. from the

Ske read Shakespeare,

Even

Shake- expurgated,

Elizabeth speare was enough. cought a passion for the stage. Her parents neturally were horrified.

rich But when a frkend fruin Brighton came came

visiting. opportunity.

oking as well.

A failure

The rich friend took the giri off to Loudon to make her an actress (stage nome: Elizabeth Howard). And he made her his mistress too.

As an actress Elizabeth failed. is a misreas she never looked

back.

Trees Pill

the sad and nbaurd Hunian exile who plays the kle role in autumn's most outlanding novel-Palu, by Vladimir Nabokov (kelne mann, 13.60). Author Nabokov in niso responsible for the notorious, depraved Lotifa (published only in Parit), which was denounced in the Sunday Express. But | Prin now Braves

wiso

1

letters were gone for ever, Heartbroken she retired to her that I cannot fathom the country. paloce. Round the

She let the shadows crowd in.

estate she built a great wall public has accepted me as star. But it is only now, There, at the age of 41, after 10 years at it that I'm Elizabeth Harpeit-now calling boginning to enjoy that herself Comtesse de Beauregard position. Idled. Her foster song had I been taken from her. Her own 1531, ashamed of her, was absent.

I

"I'm scared stiff playing Sidney Carton, the hero of

As her role as a doctor's wife the plum women's parts of the year it looks as if Mary Ure will go on getting her own way.

Her face is splashed with mud at the moment. She la playing a French Resistance heroine. But her face was also

Allee." unglamorous for "A Town Lilon

And, despite the drab as, her performance has been highly praised in America.

But she won't go to Holly-

wood. Says she: "I would lo

to make one film there, but I think my future is right here."

The studio restaurant I crowded. But how many facca in that crowd will stand, out io stordem? I can see three that look likely.

Talent

ONE Is Anne Heywood, a brunette ex-beauty queeri who has suddenly landed big "Violent Playground," parta in "Dangerous Exile" and Some people nt Pinewood are sur prised at her slicerss, I'm not

This girl has come up a long, the Gentleman" there is a face hard WBY through beauty that marks a new trend in Pine- parades, provincial music-halls, wood. It is the bad, blazing

talent and beauty. But most of

On the set of "The Glpsy and

face of Melia Mercourl. She had publicity Junkets. She has Is a Greek actress who earned (Honous

pruise for her per- all she has determination, It is a story which makes "Tale of Two Cities." It's formance in "Stella."

Another is Michael Craig, the scented-soap opera of most completely unlike all the

Hollywood wanted Mercourt year after playing bit parts for He is making four pictures this historical fletion suund like 'Doctor pictures and men But she did not want Hully- something from a White-paper. in raincoats that the public wood.

four years. She came to Pinewood looking, and he knows when to

Craig is toug

to This instead

play

the wanton

BRIEFLY part has to have style and clpsy in this Regency vestirme get tough about parts now, too.

drama.

has accepted me in.

elegance. It is a challenge- and that's what I want now.

"There are three other Liberal leader, Gollancz, 30/-) films lined up for me CHE is

Viscount Samuel, by John Bowle. A detailed Ife-story, of the PODIewhat awestruck,

Cassino-Portrait of a Battle, soon as I finish this.

18

One

Passion

Patrick

9

Ha

McGoohan the other contender. has a mobile face matched with solid talent. "High Tide at Noon" and "Hell Drivers" show that, All he needs is more ex«

perlence.

At six o'clock every weekday evening the kettle goes back on

a flery actress who doesn't mind where her by Fred Majdalany. The moving of them is Lawrence of

spurs fall. Sayu she: "I do the fight for tragedy of the

Arabia. That is another not want to be a stupid fully Rome in 1944. Not road to hot.

and that's wood glamour JUSS. Such the boil in the Pinewood make- complimentary to the American challenge

i want up department. For 450 Inces General Mark Clark, Long- what makes overworking women ar sidiculous.

to play passionale, vivid charae- have to be wiped clear of make- HG, 21/-)

worth while."

lets. I came to Britain be- UP. cause there

fow On the set of "Windom's actresses here who could play

the Obscenity laws are. Were not for them, Nabokov might have gone on wasting his genius an tedious depravity Instead of producing this tragi-comic masterpiece.

lock after the toys along with

her own natural son.

From the rich friend, she. Two radiant years sped by. went (12) to someone

even At last, in 1840, revolution richer, She Was now 13. broke over Europe. Prince ¿ Enthusid one admirer: "The Louis Napoleon hurried back head of an antique caniro upon to France. lizabeth went too.

a superb body..." Her New The prince Was elected to protectar rained wealth on her. the Assembly, But he was not He gave her a great house in content to remain an M.P. When St Jubn's Wood. He gave her the eastly election campaign He also gave her a for a new President began. pozition in broad minde: Elizabeth drew on her fortune aristerratic society,

without stint. The prince was And one evening in that elected. pfely the moment of destiny As President, the prince

lelzel,

shone. And Elizabeth shone Elizabeth row the man who with hlm. But the Assembly would put her in the history, refused to allow him a second backs. A man with sad, big term.

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eyes, an

and imposing body,

What could be done? Agein very short

Elizabeth Elizabeth's cash elinked. The eurised low. It was Prince police vere bribed. The army Louis Napoleon, nephew of the was kept loyal. On a December

great Bonaparte.

morning members of tho The year was 1840. The Assembly were arrested in their prince, having attempted two beds. Elizabeth's hero.not only madcap revolutions, was, on stayed President, Within exile. He was also very poor. year he had proclaimed himself

Bul Elizabeth, after mary Emperor Napoleon III. shrewd properly Investments, Elizabeth had helped to make was very rich indeed. Soon thé an emperor. But she had lost exiled prince was lodging with a lover, her at her town house.

Confessions

發

The emperor needed an heir. For an heir, be needed an empress. After much, thought- To her now lover Elizabeth though his letters had hinted confessed all her sins. Then that he would marry her-the

too the prince

had a

that Eliza- con- emperor deelded fession. During imprisonment in beth's past life and her filegiti- France ho had taken an mate con disqualified her. Interest in the welfare of his Then one day Elizabeth was warder's daughter. He had honoured by being sent on a offered the giri lessons in hand- eccret State mission to England. writing and grammar. The On reaching the coast she result of the lessons? Two learned that the emperors had Jittle Napoleons.

announced his coming marriage Gladly Elizabeth agreed to to Eugenia di Montijo.

Death Won't Wasli, by

Norman Longmate,

The

Why did

search for the answer

***?

породица

takes us to a theatre club and that was once familiar is milksops.

her tatly

spots, challenging her own Chelsea

fortune.

But the big challenge to lovely foon die in her bath" Way" a girl with a face ruch a part. They are inostly Pinewood, with the biggest

production boom in its his«.

whether Pinewood Is getting used to tory going on, is

talents with you remember its faces.

Cassell, 12/G.)

Juill

Her

mis.

name

in

big International.

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