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LIMELIGHT

THE NEW WICKED LADY

PRESENT today the junior'

Wicked Lady --

18-year-

old Toom Lockwood-follow-

ing in Mum's 'footstops.

Margaret Lockwood made

her namo in a succession of

bosomy roles. Now that she has virtually retired from the screen, daughter Toots is taking over where Mum left

off.

In the film Please Turn

Over she has har first stor-

ring role as a precocious tennoge novelist who writes a sexy best-seller.

My_picture_shows_hor imagining herself as one of

the characters in her novel.

Fabulous Lena

AS a singer Lena Horne has turned sex into an

Instead, he will go home by more conventional methods at art; she has the knack of turning every man week-ends and live the rest of in her audience into an armchair philanderer. She the time in his studio dressing- room. I understand the studio is quite fabulous-one of the very few women to is not going to charge him for whom I would unhesitatingly apply that extrava- bed and breakfast.

~/London Express Service),

gant term.

In her sulle after her high- voltage cabaret performance at the Savoy, I found her tranquil, composed and lady-Hike.

"What I'm thinking about while I'm singing is all those women looking at my husband, and I just hope they don't got any ideas about him, he's so "People aro usually disap handsome. I'm real jealous." Smarting, Kelso meets the polates meeting me after they

Mr third, Amelle. He insults her, hove

Lennie Higton, soon mo perform," she

Miss hito her, then marries

who accom her said. "I don't know what they Hor's husband, Driving down to Cannes for an expect. A man-eater or some, panica. her on the plane during imhappy honeymoon-how they thing. A tigress. Yes, I am her act, smiled wisely and hate cách our Keo swops very tranquil, I'm a professional.

remotely. his Cadillac for an old wagon I have a sense of humour about with two mules, and drives "his myself. wife into the Alpes-Maritimes.

"Sometimes

feel

I suggested

that Mr. Hayton

might feel a litle jealous àlm- self. In view of the rapturous

Kelso isn't above putting his would be rather nice to real- elicited from the male members it response that Miss Horne had book to Amelie. She bribes woodcutters

to' beat him up. ly be like that girl who of the audience, The waron. Erounded by stands out there and sings

superb seaman, a careful writer, her socret, Lady I.. discloses her

no photographer. He plans life story. To the P.L's disgust Press cars, finally hurches into all those wild songs about "I don't see any reason for "Oh no," said Miss Horne. his books as well as he does his it begins on the streets of Paris, Cannes, and only then do the men-boy, she must have a him to be jealous.”

voyages. This one will sell for the next quarter century.

ONE TO

TRY

Rue de Lappe, Place Pigalle.

furious pair fall in love,

She describes her subsequent The narrator of this

to be

Out-

a folr with the anarchist drawing-room comedy is a fat, Armand Denis. Groomed and life loving Parisian. trained by Armand she learned ageously amusing. obviously lady with entree to the Alnable, It comes off from start great houses her lover wishest to finish, an outrageous success. to rob or incendiarise.

The dollar billionaire is not Catto is from quite real; bui However, she desired more Lancashire, and it doesn't really than love, and she despised matter. BY I. COMPTON - Tied the old Duke of Glen- anarchistle vaporising. So she BURNETT

dale, who knew she would care TOUGH

A HERITAGE AND ITS HISTORY

GOLLANCZ, 155.

SIMON, a nephew, is just mad

marries

ousts

for his pletures, his vast properties,

SINCERITY

MEETING WITH JAPAN BY FOSCO MARAINI TRANSLATED BY ERIC MOSBACHER

HUTCHINSON, 50S.

to inherit old Sir Edwin's When Glendale died, Lord L house and estate. The old man won her hand, But Armand Rhoda, with whom the anarchist had fathered all

prosperoits *English off Simon has a brief affair. She her bears his son, who is angrily spring. He and his pathetic accepted by Sir Edwin, and he gang came to steal diamonds at a ball in her Vanbrugh palace. Simen from the In- heritance. It doesn't stop there

When they marries

botched it she because Simon then

took Armand to the summer QIGNOR MARAINI, interned Rhoda's sister Fanny.

pavilion, made him happy, then at Nagoya, Japan, after the locked him Compton-Burnett plots are

into the Madras Badoglio armistice of Suplem- sirong-box, where all these ber 1943, heard Kasuya, the guard years she has kept his remains commander, declare all Italians better. Try this majestically life since the end

of Stalin's dialogue, is

-intact with her own reputa- to be Bars and traltors. between to halfway regime. He draws

telling # parallel

Thackeray and a crossword. It today's

Seizing G klichen chopper, Russians and yesterday's Vic you can read it you will love it, torians-class-conscious, expand-"

Own!

one,

Helmut Grottrup under Hitler had had his team at Peenemunde where, writes Frau Grottrup in nauseating passage, "We were like one big family...great ameliorations in Russian good bait her writing all watching

slowly, silvery rockets climbing...."

Grottrup's team was taken in near Moscow. 1947 to quarters Their families followed. Later they were installed on an island- in Lake Seliger, near the Volga's

source.

rocket than, among the German upper classes."

between

Ing prosperity, love of heavy

furnishings, and pompous build. PAVILION

After seven years' work, the last of the Croftris team were ings.

sent back to East Germany.

23

An

extremely nice, raiber SECRET They

Frau Grottrup emerges The German were

one type of cityfled German superficial book. Small beer Collective. They lived in woman, greedy, selish, energetic, after German-seeming village. Light- Was generated by a tractar, vain, pleasure-seeking.

:,

om

thot nasty

Grottrup.

Newts popped from the water' In Moscow - she exclaims: taps The women built a tennis We must go on a round of the HERE'S A court. The men, frustrated by bars for the good of our souls, Moscow departmentalism, the ones in Gorky Street and the dreamed rockets.

Metropole and the whole series SELLER They seem

had at the Hotel Moskwa. I to have irifluence in developing the new ready for anything." man ranks began to be thinned, form, is patently honest,

Her book, written in diary polite Russians taking their work of an exhibitionist who is places,

pretty shrewd, I found

cone-shaped R.14. But the Ger-

Now Frau Grottrup is no fool: fascinating.

She liked some Russians very

well--one of her Moscow men DE-LUXE friends is delightful-but, not,

Rumians us a whole. It's the

mors intercating that be ro EYE-VIEW ports her husband as, having a high opinion of Rusilan rocket scientists,

Ho apenka, of the "putsland».

ing rocket technique of the

Russians i in!", the "war,” ..... und

„BACK TO BOKHARA

the

BY FITZROY MACLEAN JONATHAN CAPE, 185,

admires the "wider and more - MISTRUST all - Books menultimi jotedert

It

„members 4 of Periinment Russian inteligentsla for "the They may write truth about

Irmgard

VOYAGING UNDER SAIL

BY ERIC HISCOCK OXFORD, -355.

LADY L.

BY ROMAIN GARY

MICHAEL JOSEPH. 155.

own

A really good novel in the Maraini severed the little finger classic French tradition. Beautf- of his own left hand and throw ful in parts, and with serious it to Kasuya, spattering the undercurrents, Romain Gary, white uniform with blood. who flow out from France In .1940 and for a while fought in

"Italians are not llars," he the RA.F., must be congratu- shouted. Shedding one's lated on his use of that forge blood In Japan is a demonstra

tion ous language--Eriglish,

of sincerity, and Foaco Maraini knows and loves Japan.. He proves, it in this exquisite, sensitive, yet unsloppy book. A long book that seems, short, a book that is as good as a visit,

LOVE AND

AFTER a huge success In MONEY..

America this novel, written

in good English by a good Frenchman of Georgien- an- cestry, is pullisted in London. Not yet in Paris.

THE MELODY OF SEX BY MAX CATTO.. HEINEMANN, 155.*

HARRY

KELSO,

*W DYLAN-

GENTLE WHOLUNIT

Lady L at her Blenheim palace of a country house a hater worth nearly a billion

THE LISTENING WALLS BY MARGARET MILLAR having her 80th birthday. Her

dollure, particularly hates

fancy women" because bila GOLLANCZ. 129. 6D). covered duagon grandmother CONSUELA, the strong chaps. was one such.....

a Mexican

PRIC HISCOCK and his wife, son, a duke, is misbehaving in Susah are off again in their Persia; but gathered round the Reventon cutter Wanderer, III beastly" birthday cake cups Their last major voyage took of bos in their hands, are grand them round the world... This children, one a Cabinet Minis

He brutally closes an immoral is puzzled by two: American time, British Chulana

ter one & director of the Bank night club in some Montmartre Women on holiday in Room 404, Hiscock's earlier "Cruising blation, so

of England, one soon to be a property: he owns, but hearing and wonders what she can steal Under Ball has been one

It means ruin for the three from them. One of them Sets this century's

proprietresser he pays each of killed. Or was it an accident? in The game is bored by a than 10,000 dollars. Indemnity. This com-sand shifry, because: kaf"SUNTOLERA

Margaret Millar (no relation) achting, Herature.

on volume deals with the pavlion into the demolished by Returning later to Paris be is astonishingly good. Here, as. problema of becan voyages in county council order. Candy Anda: all: tree': 'have invested in her, "Beast in View" and small craft.

Well Eloise Turning the dog. The Boft: Talkers to the i gate *sespectable/con", khớp, benda bin on, then bitterly her effecia with a smooth; Al heat, strong, myoöldt man fident,

Port---Laurente," wounde-hla male vanter. Wenny economical writing, with white hair, Hiscock in s towards the pavilón that holde, now a singer, docs Lionyrises

!==(Londón' Kupovan service).

lot of fun that gal.

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