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INTRODUCE YOU TO

A GIRL WITH A

MEMORABLE NEW FACE:

REFERENCES BY BOGARDE

Capucine!

HERE she is with Dirk Bogarde, a girl called Capucine. Just that. One of the most original names of -1960-it-means.nasturtium - I pre- dict she will soon become one of the best-known faces.

A former French model, her first film per- formance as Bogarde's mistress in "Song With- "out-End" hus-frankly surprised Hollywood with

its cool authority.

Born 28 years ago Germaine. Lefebre ("In France it is as common as Gladys so I changed it"), Capucine went to America four years ago. Agent Charles Feldman saw her, signed her, groomed her. In fact, for three years Capucine. was groomed and groomed and groomed, And kept under wraps,

Yet when she was cast in "Song Without End" Bogarde, who plays Liszt, was a worried man. Said he from Spain where he is

THE DAINTY BABY

JUNE HAVOC said: "I

don't regret a thing. I starved a lot and I cried a lot. But that was my schooling. This is the woman who began her career, aged two, billed as Dainty Baby June.

This is the woman who, when most children of her age were

Nell

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1960.

now filming with Mylene Demongeot: "There was a lot of trouble finding a girl. They tried and tested dozens.

"They wanted a staggering beauty, But there aren't many of them left Today, they're either very cute or very sexy, but seldom very beauti bul and subtly sexy,

"Finally the picture was about.to begin and I was told this girl Capucine was going to get the part. Well, I'd never heard of her. Natur ally I was worried."

SO ENCHANTING -

But Bogarde now admits his fears were foolish. Sald he: "She is the most enchanting person in all the world-except Judy Garland.” (Mr Bogarde is very fond of Miss Garland)

Now that the grooming is over, the only wraps for Capucine, one-time cate commcre on the Left Bank (where Bardot danced and Greco sang) will be strictly in the mink class.

HAS NO REGRETS

and

cus, insteady bears in their she was alone and broke cots, was standing in the wings dancing for her food, in `mara- watching Jelson and Cantor and thon contests. Sophie Tucker and. dreaming of the day she would be a star.

Blonde and still very beauti- ful, Miss Havoc said: "I had no réal schooling. The stage hands were my teachers.

Now Dainty Boby June is 44 and has written a book called "Early Havor" about those "Today I'm ignorant of many years. Particularly the year things. History is news to me. and quit Walters and taxi-drivers know Baby June grew up

sister-now more about things than I do,

by their but I'm learning all the time. "And I have no regrets. I' At 10 days past 13,

learned June only just

to enjoy Havoc married. A year later, life."

the act with her Gipsy Rose Lee-run ambitious mother.

P

PETEN EVANS

WHAT HANCOCK HAS DONE TO EAST CHEAM...

The real one, that is!

THE reference books were positively glowing

with information:-

CHEAM, Surrey. Eleven miles South-West of London and five miles West of Croydon. Long, 0° 13′ West: Lat. 51° 21′ North. Early closing, Wednesday, Population: 79,210. Baths (swimming), covered, 2. Cemeteries, 2. Refuse destructor, 1. Council houses, 1,246. "Sewage disposal planta, 2 An allowance of £1,000 per annum is made to the mayor.

about But nothing at all Cheam's most curious claim to fame-23, Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, the residence of Mr Hancock, Anthony Aloysius gentleman actor.

(It is also a favourite hunting ground for other residents wish- Ing to acquire mattresses, bed- steads, and broken mangles).

Sylvia...

I

The other day I drove to the In Cheam, Eastern sector, spot, 11 miles South-West of called to a gentleman of about London and five miles. West of 34 who was cycling by: "Do Croydon in search of Rallway you know Railway Cuttings." Cuttings which according to He stopped rather suddenly scripwriters Alan Simpson and beside the kerb and said: "You Bay Galton, is a street of don't mean 'Ancock's place on Victorian terraced houses built the telly? He don't really live during the depression of 1864. here. They just say that."

And condemned during the Maybe I looked hurt. He said, depression of 1885).

helpfully: "Sylvia Peters, she Said Galton "No. 23 is by lives here. I can tell you far the most pleasant house in actly where she lives. I cyclé the Cuttings. Semi-detached past her place every day, prac- (thanks to a German bomb In tically, And Harry Secombe. 1941) sand the gap between. 19 He's another one lives local, and 23 favourite dumping-But Ancock,–na.".! ground for residents, who wish As he rode away, he said: to rid themselves of mattresses, "But I reckon if he did live bedsteads, and broken mangles." here he'd Ive in Station Road.

It's Railway Cultings to a T.".

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Gwynn insulted her

son-and Charles

made him an earl

Having

a wide tolerance in

"Come

here,"

CHARLES JI, HIS LIFE AND

you little LIKENESS. Hesketheligious matters, Charles had no bastard" she called to her son.. doubt that the Almighty would When the king reproached her. Pearson, Heinemann. 21s. look with a corresponding for such vulgarity, Nell retorted, "God."I have no better name to call charity on his frailties.

PLODDING along the he said confidently, would not him by."

pleasure.

dusty highways of damn a man for a little irregular The led was promptly made history,Hesketh Pear- Pleasure? The women? That Charles treated his wife with

son stumbles on the remarkable

•

Earl of Burford.

GATAY of hussies respect, rejecting with horror

figure of Britain's pro- whom (like his spaniels) Charles the notion that, since she had no fondled in public to the horror children by him, he should

divorce her.

digal king, to whom of puritanical subjects. everything or almost

everything, is forgiven. So simple

Charles II is a monarch

much to Mr Pearson's liging and

Grasping hussies Ice Castle- hussies ke maine: political

the portrait he draws of him is Portsmouth; and, above all, that

When an instalment of her dowry arrived in the form of dried fruit, Charles, with great good nature asked for fewerd currents and more cash,

kindly, vivid and unprising Jolly English or Welsh?rom proably, not a happy man. He

An amiable in a willy Nell Gwynn king, polite the anxious that everybody should be happy******

She was the least designing of them and the payert, She it was

If this com be accomplished who invented the perfect nick

with no exertion on his part.....

name for the Imported French That is Charles. How typical mistress, Louise de Keroualle

to his meeting with Williaen. "The Weeping Willow"""" Penn, the treat Quaker to whom Charlea gave.Pennsylvania.......-

Tolerant

Peno kept his hat on at the encounter Cherkes therefore removed his "Friend Charles mid the Quaker, why dost thou not keep on thy the custom of this

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person Felslid be covered et time.

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When

Louis went into mourning for a French prince, Nell wore black for the recently defunct Cham of Tartary,

When someone astred what relation she was of the Cham the rose od Drury Lane replies

He is as near a relative of mine as the French prince Keroualle 7

and was only nettled in

skrig

something for her son when”“” Kha

The Merry Monarch was, had his share of the family melancholy look at his face. There is something about him which prevents one from going beyond feeling that one likes the man.

Was be a good "king? The newer although this is a matter that Fearson barely touches on is probably that he eulted his people and his time""

Looking down the British Kings the eye lights on Charles with a recognition! The good bad taken together.he

who

bow dukedoms were George Malcolm

showered upon the children of her rivesh "Hét: #pproach”. Pal

Thomson

CHARLES II

Not a happy man.

I found Station Rood, crouch- ed in the shadow of British Railways, Southern Region, The dominant architectural feature seemed to be an early brickwork bridge, headroom 13ft. 8in.

One, strange

I knocked at No. 23. Nobody answered, I walked down the road towards the bridge and the iran roar of the trains racing to Victoria in 25 minutes-If you really believe the time-table.

At No. 49, Mrs Louise Farrani talked to me about life in Station Road. Said she: "It's just like Rallway Cuttings, honest. People always laugh when we say where we live. 'Remember me to Hancock,1 they say.

"The neighbours? Oh, very there's nice people. Although one old boy down the road. Very strange. He's always put- ting out bread for the birds. Well, that's very nice, but I don't like the way his cats keep getting the birds. About five cats he's got. I suppose he means well, though."

Fussy dog

Next door, Mrs Albert Augustus Poulton, a corsetiere, called off her barking hound and told me: "Daniel wouldn't have let you in if you weren't dress- led respectfully. He won't let the dustman near the house. He's very fussy."

Mrs Albert Augustus Poulton then told me about the curious things to be found in the gardens of Station Road, Not, I hasten to add, mattresses, bed- steads, and broken mangles.

"We found an old sink once,” she said. "We were going to send it to the British Museum but we couldn't lift it."

I said that was a pity. "Oh, but it didn't matter, really. We took a picture of it instead and sent that. We had a nice letter back saying it was probably a band-hewn piscina of a church, dating back to the fourteenth century. We're grow- ing bulbs in it until we can And someone who really wants It."

So proud

Finally, the mayor, Coun- cillor F. W. Thompson, J.P. C.C. considered Hancock and Cheam

He said: "We don't really need the publicity which Mr Hancock has brought to Cheam. We have a long and. proud history known the world over. Frince Philip went to Cheam School, Although, of course, it wasn't in Cheam then."

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Boems to be an ungallant- way of describing the 75 mem»». If it is being driven along a bers of the Fat Girls' Club whose road like a lorry and suddenly object is to "avold aliraming decides to take off and fly like dista." One day, for a burst of a helicopter, the police will be high spirits, these women will Justifled in saying: "Look bere, kidnap a diet-quack and, at the So we say farewell to Station make up your mind. You must point of the knife and fork, fors Road Cheam Surrey, 11 miles either fly or stick to the road. him in calisty, his hunger with South-West of London, etc... And it is not everyone who will one of the bizarre meals he has Only I wish somebody

had welcome the lorry that lands on recommended so warmly to his answered my knock at No. 23.

his rood, or suddenly alights to credulous clienta, take its place in a traffic-jam. ELSA MARTINELLI, who The ideal lorry would be able. The oriflamme of once told me she got more to dive like a submarine, land like a seaplane in mid-ocean, out of life by staying up and plough its way across late at night, has been cast country like a tank, ana_girl (suspected of Rowdy, bridge vampire tendencies in WHILE reading of the incidents "Blood

at the World Brige Actually what she said Olympic I could not help re

gretting the absence of Captain was: “Unless I get to bed Foulenough and Dr Smart late. I'm dead in the Allick. An official, in answer to a question, said: "Both those morning."

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as very lucky players rather of civilisation will be shamed than as skilful players, and to erecting one of those aham therefore they are not up to serials. The bounders! international standard." It is Sayings of the week

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