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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
I am always looking
for
a pretty girl to marry
MY VALENTINES
by LIBERACE
·
London.
Liberace said from the witness-box in the High Court last week: "I am always looking around for a pretty girl to marry. I have 12 proposals month, and on Valentine's Day 1 got 27,000 Valentines."
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He owed a great debt to his "Mom" but it was untrue that he had said: "She is the only sweetheart for me."
Liberace was giving evidence in support of his case against the Daily Mirror and its columnist William
- Connor (Cassandra).
Street, Hongkong and Salsbury He alleges that they libelled
Itood. Kowloon.
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him in two "vicious and violent." articles which appeared in the
autumn
of 1956, on September 26
and October 18.
The defendants plead that the statements of fact in the articles were true and that the expressions of opinion were fale
comment.
They were not, says Liberace. The Mirror and Cassandra, he claims, were actunted by express maller,
His counsel, Mr Gilbert Bay fus QC described Cassandra as a literary assassin who dips his pin in vitriol rather than ink, and is hired by this sensa- tional
newspaper 10
reputations,"
murder
Chubby, pale
Liberace, chubby and palo faced, falled to smile for the Srst time when his counsel, Mr Gilbert Beyfus, QC, turned to
sexual?"
By
LOUIS KIRBY
offends convention and I offends society." Earlier, how he became a success,
Liberace explained "I hit on the gimmick of
on my plane top, he said, and wearing glamorous clothes,
candelabra
The candelabra iden eume from a illm of Chopin's life. And since then I have been called "The Chopin of TV and 'Mr Showmanship,
"My television shows were for timlly consumption. And ly developed the Intimate style of talking to my audience. I dis- cussed my curly life, my family, and my philosophics,
Two women
"This and the fancy dress,
Ak hom: "Are you a homo- appeared to please the public.
FOCUS ON THE PIANIST
WLADZIU Valentino Liberace.
He stood 21 the small oak
ate a chicken and chame witness-box, left hand covering pagne lunch in a dents private the shilling-size ring, u planu in room at the Law Courts.
unyx and danonds, on his Then he returned Queen's right title finger. Occasionally Bench Court IV and lite story he touched his blue silk tie or Wavy dark of his early life, when he said, is immaculate, his family lived on State rellef, hair.
Quietly dressed in a mid- night-blue tropical-weight sult, with narrow lapels and three buttons in the Italian style, he talked in a soft drawl.
He turned when Mr Justice Salmon usked a question, and addressed him as "Your Lord." After 2hr. 14min. in the witness- box, he culled for a glass of water.
With every answer to his counsel, Mr Gilbert Beyfus, Q.C., he gave a dashing smile. Hls replies came quickly and confidently "I am considered Italian Immigrant. and
Liberace's
father
WES an his
to have fast answers," he said mother is of Polish descent. and nodded his appreciation as
He was horn in a Milwaukee the Two middle-aged women and suburb in May 1919, but some- les men of the jury laughed at times gave the date as 1020, "1or his jokes.
publicly reasons," he explained.
FOCUS ON THE COLUMNIST
ON the front bench of the
court,
03 л
He served as a Royal Armour- from cd Corps trooper, then separated Liberace by tour lawyers, sal gunner. Later he helped to run Union Cassandra, 50-year-old William the soldiers' newspapër Neli Connor,
Juck.
A Londoner, Connor entered After demobilisation he re- journalism with his Arst started his column with these Cassandra column in the Dally words: "As I was saying when I Mirror
August 9, 1935, way so rudely interrupted. ...' Earlier he had vold drought-
on
excluders. usbestos shooting, Dressed yesterday In char- gramophone records and copper coal grey suit, he sat with arms rivets, and worked five years for folded as he watched Liberace advertising agencies.
in the witness-box. He is florid, jut-jawed, balding, barn- His pungent column has ap- peared almost 6,000 times, and shouldered, bespectacled, and is was interrupted only by his famed for his love of cats. Joining the Army in 1942 after He lives in a Berkshire village
series of criticisms of Walte and travels to Marylebone by hall.
rall.
I GET 12 MARRIAGE PROPOSALS EVERY MONTH' T
designed by Christian
But if I may say so, sir, many further I know she is extremely gold lame dinner jacket had He gripped the ledze of the performers began to imitate my proud of her children, perhaps been witness-box and replied firmly: way of dress,"
**1 am not tir.”
Mr Beyfus: "11 drove you
Mr Gerald Gardiner,
QC, to higher and higher fights of for Cassandra and the Daily fancy?" Mirror, Interrupled further
by questioning
paying that nothing of the kind” bod Ever Leen suggested,
But Mr Beyfus persisted. "Have you ever Indulged in homosexual practices?" he asked. Liberace: "No, sir, never in my Hte."
What are your feelings to- wards homosexuality?"
Repiled
a bit more proud of me,"
Mr Beyfus: "Did you try to keep it from her?"
It was "I was unsuccessful. brought to her attention by someone. She immediately be came very fil and was attended by a phystelan,"
Liberace: "That's right. My gold lame Jacket was copied by a young man who was coming up at the When he began working for time, named Elvis Presley." TV in 1051 he was told; "Don't Be sold he was deeply think of the TV camera as be shocked" by the Best Daily In the means to put you over Mirror article
to thousands and perhaps
but think of it as one separaté Individual whom you are speaic-
and trying to entertain with your music.
by Cassandra,
But his main concern was for eventually millions of people,
his mother.
"My feelings are the same "I felt this so strongly he- 41 anyone else, sir. I am cause my rather has a hyper-
azainst this practice because it sensitive heart condition, and
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Said Liberace; "I believe this so strongly that many times when I bumped Into the 'camera I said, 'Excuse me.'"
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It was because he found that audieters enjoyed seeing him in glamorous clothes Mist he developed this iūra.
He had a black toil-sult with diamond-studded buttons valted $10.000. His wardrobe Included 60 suits and 80 pairs -of-shoes. But he denied that his
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anything sexy about your performances at all?"
In reply to Mr Gardiner Libersco said he received about 12 marriage proposals a month.
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