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CELEBRITY PAGE

LENA HORNE MAY PLAY

SHEBA IN

FIRST MUSICAL

GRAVES' FIRST

OBERT

GRAVES, poet, novelist,

Rbiographer, classicist and religious

inquirer, is starting a new career at 63-writing musicals,

learn that he is already working on

a Biblical theme. The show will probably be called "Solomon and Sheba." And it should be a musical of all the talents.

Tyrone Guthrie will singe-direct It. Ameri- pre ria Alexander Coben will produce. nd will most likely go to Lena Huruc.

the

The target. n Broadway production in ast 1. man. And, of course, à West End presentation

Jaten

Grave, has been talking about the musical with Tytom Guthrie in Israel. He has been there with his wife and six-year-old son at the invitation of the Government.

Several months

writing

Bedric was producing the "Merchant of Vener" at the National Theatre in Hobima.

They have mulled over plans in long sessions. nd Ted Avay. Now Graves is returning to Majorca, veliko ne har lived for many years, He plans to goed sevend montin hard writing on the script.

lie is 1 a formidably handsome man des pate a breken hose und grizzled hair. In prudle la loons like the head of a Roman from fume okl enin used by one of his characters

"I Chudius."

Pr the mt-ical he will 1.5 - -

his studies of the Old Testa- mez. Jewish legends. the

Kotun. and Ethiopian erip-

ture...

11: wit keen eluse to his

material but, he sopren

SHY: finns.

"I will be light and And it will be different

In

A DELICATE SITUATION

from THE

the aim which was interrupted

Belo: Lena Horne

good sailor, has ventured aboard

William

Hickey

summer holiday at Balmoral in early August.

Britannin will be left at Hall- fax, Nova Scotia, nt the con- clusion of Prince Philip's Far Eastern tour. There she will

shall have a fortnight's holiday

at Cannes, we hope in the sun," Chance for

Commander. Noble,

who

resigned as Minister of State at

the Foreign Office, is also resi crime to pay

ing his Chelsea sent years,

afler

14

if

"I'm 50, he said. "And

who delight in the DONS you're going to change your way. 1 baris and bite of pistol sluts of life, 50 in about the latest you can earn thenuselves (1 prat car. leave it."

£1,000 from He intends 10 go Inta publisher.

business.

HARRY ROY

be refited and prepared for the ROBBED

Aliante voyage.

RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS

Roy

lender Harry BAND

telephoned me and said: "Hey, Hickey, I've been robbed, "I went for a haircut and

was out of the house for Just over an hour. I decided to walk CHEILA SIM and Richard back. Instead of taking a taxi. I found the place well and truly Attenborough celebrated their broken into-door and windows fourteenth wedding anniversary sinashed. the place turned up-

last week and anounced that they are expecting a third baby in June,

Shellp

said:

"We are absolutely thrilled at the dea of a third little Attenborough 1 don't mind whether it's a boy or a girl, as we have one of each already.

"Of course, it will mean tot

I will be out of the theatre for

side down.

"What chi they take? Well not as much as I thought. The

so my

wift mink is all right,

Sonya is plensed,

my

from

"But they have pinched rollid gold cigarette case which was a wedding Elizabeth.

Elizabeth

present

the

former

at least a year, but I shall be quite glad of the rest as I have "Princess Pearl" Elizabeth been rather for some time Brooke, daughter of Sir Charles operation for Vyner Brooke, the former white

rajah of Sarawak.

after on

appendicitis,"

for happy marriage? Shelly and Dickie

Their recipe

Londen t A crime-novel com- petition has been announced re- stricted to professore, readers, British lecturers, and fellows universities and university col- legg Heward for the winning manuscript: £500 plus £300 as

advance a non-returnable the book's camings.

Already British universities-- dreaming spires as well as red brick-have produced a fair crop of detective writers.

recall Honald Knox. I C. Masterman, G. D. H. Cole, Atlehnel Innes, Glynn and Elizabeth Ferrars,

Dantel,

One of the competition judges will be Cecil Day Lewis, former

Uxforl. Professor of Poetry: at

"Dons should be le old me: able to write this sort of netion. After all, they are exceptionally intelligent, have the time uns mental ingenuity, and generally have large families, so they need the money.

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Aistall, New Zealand, Noơn.

Paktippipes, 1 p.m. Harry Roy married Princess The marrings:

looked round the panelled walls Peori

in 1035

of their beautiful home, Old was dissolved in 1947.

He married Sonya Stacpoole Fr:05 un the Green, Rich-

mond, and Sheila said: "Well, in July 1948. living in our lovely house must have a lot to do with it.

"But we have never believed

in philosophicing about marriage. "We just get on rather well, my old man and I. and that's

about all there is to it."

the yacht on such potentially NOBLE GOING

stormy waters,

Even though the Britannia

has been fed with stabilisers INTO BUSINESS

OMMANDER

✩

✩ ✩

Port Day Lewia (one son, one daughter) should know. Among lus activities is the writing of detective stores successful under the preudonyin DI

COCIETY artist Don Cam Nicholas Blake."

mell, who has been a stalwart of Chelsen society DR. EDITH

for as many years as I can

remember, is moving house. TO BECOME A To Hampstead.

singer Maria Andipa, gave

Why? His wife, Greek GRANDMOTHER

me the reason: "I don't like

it is DR ET SUMMERSKILI, ALLAN Chelsea. I think

that severe and striding NOBLE, who resigned from phones," she said, "There M.P. with the hat on top, is ta

R

she still rolls enough to worry poor sailors-in fael, she is such bad

been Vist

bad an uncomfortable ship in arranged. In return for weather that the bas been much help given to the prem nicknamed by the Household

grundfrother next A staff the "Altmark." the Japanese

are very few people left become damp,

month. It is for the first time. here who are genuine.

father Katsumi bassador, Mr

The Otino. But the trans-Atlanile voyage

expectant Ind

an Invitation to

"My wife and I are off to the

"Far more genuine artists Michael Summerskil. Dr Edith's accepted

is the Queen's own idea. She the Oxford Playhouse to

Hemmerlet! Com plans to board the yachs at South of France," said 600 the production of the Japanere Queher and sall all the way to mender Neble from nia elegant live in Hampstead these 30-year-old son. love story "Prince Genjl." Aberdeen to begin her normal home in Chelsea Square. We days."

by the death of Tyrne Power duction, fast year.

Scenes will alternate

be-

in

tw the courts of Solomon and Sheba ("Sheba's was

Ethiopia," says Graves himly).

with

And then producer Mr Frank Ent.even on Broadway there are some Imitations. So 12 Hauser came face to face bematies will substitute for the plaque. Selomon's 300 wives and 700 concubines.

1968. BLACK MASS

of

ON FILM

She will be the heroine

It is set above the door from the foyer to the stalls. And it 1eads "This stone is set here an incmory of Eric George Dance, Capinin in the Gunners, April 1043, a who died. 301

prisoner of wor In JapancOS hands. He was the founder and benetelor.of the Oxford Play- house, which he opened on October 20th, 1938."

the

THE REGISTER OF

HEAR from Cambridge SHARES of the Corporation that Girlen undergraduate is to take part will be closed from Friday, Judith Lanes

inn "Black Max" ceremony --

Mr Houser told me: "This is the 27th day of February to

en tim.

absolutely frightful. I'd 100- Friday, The 13th day of

about forgotten of a pletly March. 1959, thoth days in picture to be made by Old plaque. clusive during which period | Etman Jonathan Riley-Smith,

"Fitt afraid brewing

Anglo-Japanese no transfer of shares can be member of a famous

family. who

up at relations are ying to be a bit registered,

Trinity.

stnined if the renteṭsador sers The plot in based on the . We'll have to do something By Order of the Board, legendary activities

about 11-someone will have to throw dain if he is about to MICHAEL W. TURNER

lock up."

Chief Manager.

is 110W

11

of Oxford Hell Fire Club" which

1820's. met in the

The coin- mentary to the Him will be

Hongkong, 9th January, 1969. spoken by the Devil, dressed in SAILING HOME

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THE Queen is planning to sail have Sayley-Stallh: "I

the Atlantic in the royal always been Interested in yacht Britannia after her visit demonclogy We shall not, of to Canada this summer to open course, so through the whole of the St Lawrence Seaway. It will be the Arst time that the the Black Mos. The film has a good moral ending.”

Queen, who is by no means

. BY THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

brain

A

long-

AN agitated letter from Prod- radios: along the other side, an

with nove ask me to contradict electronic malicious rumours which con playing: records, a Dictaphone, a nect him with a certatu im iclightne, a fcg-hern, & amp. putent purveyor of gratuitous ing macalne udvice to Church and State.

Though Prodnose Is always a bore, he is never presumptuous or ill-mered.

| Contretemps

I know a very nervous man,

and a rack for Under the luggage.

cocktail callni: there is a set of tools and above the for carpentry, refrigerator a minuture billiard table. Affixed 10 the mink allows there is a cedar cabinet

Who thought of a peculiar plan containing playing cards, pipe- To counter the embarrassment cleaners, casseroles, string, a

When he bid-cage, gardening tools,"

Of bursting braces,

wvent

wore

TROTC.

One fatal evening ŝu Mayfair Elis braces burst. The second pair Ife had mislaid, the silly clown, Both pairs of trousers tumbled

down, The Strabismus

bed

✡

a

the

the Government last month, is wasting no time bronchitie London.

בן 3

THE TERRIFIC TALENT

OF OSBERT LANCASTER

Praised now by Graham Sutherland

ODAY seca the publication of a new Lan- caster booh.. It contains two of bla Previous successes, "Pitlar to Past" and "Homes Sweet Homes," and much new material from Els American trip.

Osbert Lancaster is the creator of Pocket cartoon, published regularly in the China Mall Who could review such a book? Obviously, required another rentus. And here is the considered verdict of the chosen genius, Graham Sutherland-

!!

"Oxberi Lancaster is a great soolal com- mentator. In his cartoons, with what appears equip- to be at first sight moderate technical ment, there never a llae which does not fix with the utmost economy the precise flavour of the frailty, from day to day, of human idiosyn- crasy. And so with architecture,

con-

"No nuance relating to the shape or tenis of our human hutches has escaped his murdant, witty analysis.

"This morning, when I saw his new book, I Telt that even "great" Architecture had not unscathed. That something, Just emerged short of affection, that-dare I say 129-whlaper of the ridiculous about those striped 'Norman' pillars (as opposed to 'Romanesque') that occasionally and vaguely one has felt is now surely crystallised in the illustration or is it just that the drawing itself is no hilariously funny?"

HERE OF ALL PLACES, by Osbert Lancaster. John Murray, 21ɛ.

AMONG THE DRAWINGS SUTHERLAND PRAISES.

is

Miss Florence Elliots, daughter of a newspaper editor, in 1951.

Is there joy and seclamation in the Sunimerskill household? is Dr Elith, author of "Babies Without Tears," bubbling over with randmaternal pride and telling folk about the expected baby?

Vivien Leigh, after all, was prourtly smiling when shc

became

grandmother last yen. And Marlene Dietrich has been a "glamorous grandmal' for longer thon I her pub Reity gent care to remember. Dr Edith renets differently.

I called hor-flail of the box- ing-ring, feminist supreme-at hei Highgate here. She said sevently

"I know it is the habit of mars 19 announce their babies when they are only a We month or so pregnant

We doctors are more reticent. regard it as rather vulgar to announes babies before they are born."

☆

QUOTE from French actress Simone Signoret, who is in London for the premiere of "Room at the Top": "I love York- shire, I love Bradford. I love that horrible mess that goes before roast beef Yorkshire pud- ding."

London Express Service.

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STAR & METROPOLE: Michací

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Gray and Weather Report;

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CAPTTOL: *The

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Flora Robson. GRAND: "East of Eden," Julle Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey.

7. Time Signal. Nowa; 7.10, Commentary: 7.15, Man Trap: 730, Music On The Upbeat; e. So I'll Tell You No: "Two Of A Kind 836, Around the World in 8.50, Information Muato-Brazil: Doak; 59, Weather Report: 9. Time Bignal. News & Home News from Britain; 0.is, DBC Concert all- 10.15

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cameru, a felse beard, a meat- To dine with friends, he always chopper, glue, golf-vallo,

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