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THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, MARCH 26,- 1960.

CONCLUDING THE NEW ELITE' TODAY THE PACE-SETTER

Astonishing-his way of making

a glum girl glitter...

By JOHN BARBER

raw

were For half an hour,

Ile hit on the idea of having blue-stockings them lean over a huge world material.

big globe in the Palace?

la fandango of his own..

THE pace-setter of the New Elite is the man whose high professionalism in a beard, had held up a isti globe. But suppose there warn': Tony rehearsed them in a fover-

Tony Arin- and nothing else took him to the gates of the Palace strong-Jones himself.

The story no one has told is how superlatively the man did his job. Yet no one would have heard of Armstrong-Jones today if he had not shown a saint's devotion to photography ever since the day at Eton when he made his first enlarger out of an old biscuit box.

As

theatre critic I worked in close collabora- tion with Armstrong-Jones for two years. Wo shared stalls at Tommy Steele's stormy London debut.

He

Together, Wo were thrown out of Judy Gar- lund's dressing-room. burned up film at such learn speed, he made how to reload his camerus for him.

Nothing

WOG

me

I CAN TELL YOU

HOW HE GOT THE

ROYAL CHILDREN ROUND THE GLOBE

glum girl glitter, or setting He got on his subject's more an ageing actress afre side of the lens, and then astonishing

his with vitality. He could put injected shot after shot of than technique for making a swank into a dish-mop. his own electricity.

BY. THE · WAY

by Beachcomber

MANY English people," says can have your jumper and cat "Ma culinary expert,

be it" became the "slogan of the come self-ronselous when eating mayzongs of hote koolewer. 4ght."

A considerate conductor

conducting once

I have seen him take a quiet girl on to a tenement roof and pump charm into her. She simpered, and he darled forward with his tiny camera, entreating “More-more---more!" (Click) "You look lovely!" he would cry (click), tweaking her collar straight.

She giggled (Click) As he removed her earrings.

Yes, indeed. The reßned 66 SKILFUL conductor can Pater carefully winds it round A always make the most Suddenly the, sun shone. The his fork, watching his neigh familiar and hackneyed music girl shivered as (click) ber hours out of the corner of bis sound fresh and rejuvenated," radiant face looked up. Antiel- eye, and hums a bit of Rossini, writes a music crilie, Richter pating every move, rently for partly to show he is at his case, was

that each shy glance, whispering and and partly to give himself local Rachmaninoff Prelude in Cjoking and giggling with her, colour. The end cuts the stuff sharp minor when his com-The mesmerist's hanels were into tle pieces with kulte and passion led him to turn to the never still on his tangle box. fork, saybig, with Bervous audience and shout: "Stop me laugh, 's

this way."

Bul if you've heard this." Give me the hearty fellow who nobody was rude enough to jalasit as though he were accept the generous offer, except sparing sh, and shovels it all e mik-looking lady who cried, over his face. He is quite un- Could we have On the Road ushamed of being called an to Mandaluy*?"

Tallon."

casker

Life is like that

Near fiasco

The shot of the sun in girl's eyes has gone round world.

the

the

I drove with him to Oxford

and aid: Old King Cole and this is niy merry old sole." But then Tany worked non- stop for six hours, pictures from the stalls and from the wings of the stage.

Tony spent three days xan- sucking the antique shops. When took he drove his Morris estate Car to the Palace, he had his globe safe in the back,

He got into the orchestra-pit and shut from the conductor a desk. He went to the dressing- rooms. He hid on slage behind scenery. s golden rule as D photographer was "Get in close."

With three concras and no assistant, The shut.close on B00 pictures before Bud and Eddie Gray insisted on packag the exhausted boy off to bed.

The result: five superb, rensa- tional pietures out of 800. This was just a routine photo-call.

He worked his brains over time as well as his legs. Invited le photograph the Royal chil- dren, he brooded for hours the problem-how to pose them nalurally together?

on

'Make it fun”

Tony hnd another rule; If it's not fun, make it fun. Once, at the Edinburgh Festival, he tramped for miles looking something that would make real pletüre.

for.

0

By the time he was ready to shoot, the astonished company were leaping into the drat and last expression of communal joy they would ever know,

The picture, enlarged and framed outside, flied the thestre for weeks with false promise of the galety within. Tony flew back to London, muttering "Never again, never again.”

Sometimes his work was fou unconventional to please. Juck Hylton refused to pay for Tony's show pictures of the Negro Simply Heavenly.

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The ballet, for once, bored him. Back-stage at the opera,

and only unwieldy Nor did his successes or he could

and unphotogenie photographer bring wealth, for Wotans

every penny was ploughed back Brunnbtides.

Into the business.

Old Vic He thought the ghastly, and the Scott Memorial a fright. At length, in a cellar,

undergraduates re he found hearsing a revue.

It was tame, it was tetty, It But was terrible,

those poor

No frightened man

could tell this joke

By DOUGLAS CLARK

TALIN was dying. That night four rivals for STAL

the succession-Beria, Malenkov, Bulganin, and Khrushchev-hurried to his side.

They sat in on one of the most macabre ironical death-bed scenes in history.

After they had waited three

Into his room.

The money went, Irresistibly. Ол on exciting new apparatus. the nest quality new films and papers and lighting gear. Or the ated telephone would ring,

Come round now,” he would insist, "I'm enlarging pletures 12ft. high for my exhibition," Hundreds of pounds would go into such experiments.

Sensational

During his short career, his work refined and matured. Hu lost Interest

the Orst in saccharine portraita of society folk, anklinckled the more dimcult world of high fashion.

He went into advertising, but soon came out. The theatre keld

him longest: his pictures of ballet, and of stars like Lau-

rence Olivier, were sensational.

Lastly, he began experiment- anding with movie-cameras. Per

haps he would have gone into films.....

What he achieved was a per- remote from the

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days the old tyrant his tongue, Now, says Harriman, experi-sonal style an arm and a leg paralysedence hos tought them that the work of his two favourite came out of his.com.p terior decorator. Envying his Cambrigdonshire

Stalin technique of terror is not rivals the stark realism aplomb. somcone says, Hig

"We went

A necessary. In talks with Khrush-Cortier-Bresson, the sumptuous grandmother must have been an THE plan to merge Hunting

a spoon. He irled to joke with their attitude to defeated rivals affair with darkness. For some in Iast year, Harriman found under the name of Cambrigdon- to photograph the Crazy Gang's nurse was feeding him tea with chev and Mikoyan in the Krem-gloss of Richard Avedon.

us, smiling feebly and waving with his good ar to a picture surprisingly urbane,

Malenkov, Khrushchev over his bed of a lamb being fed with a spoon by a girl.

him, was a loyal worker so long and make the girl strike a "Now, he indicated by ges- as he was a subordinate. "When matchi

he took command hu was no Lures he was just as helpless as

baby lamb." Mr Khrushchev good at all,” wept.

donshire in Cambridgeshire,

latest show. Tony had never The theatre was jammed full, but the wheedled and bulled himself spece to set tripod In the stalls turned a £150 leus Flanagan.

and

shire, raises In hideous "form KNEW an English lady In the Cabmen Question. If the seen them.

List Bologna who knitted spaghetti famous

is expanded, it Jumbers not, of course, in will be

necessary to make a restaurants. "Nobody will ever distinction between свинст wear them," they said to her. from one of the old counties and And there they were wrong. those from the other. As Reeves An eccentric fishion-clown, ex- P. L, has said: "No Hunting- hibited them at a dress-show, donshire cabman will submit to and before you could say ferret being called a Cumbrigdonshire dozens of stily girls were raving,, cabman," about the new material. "You

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