DO YOU
TAN
OVERNIGHT? by
URIOUS how many
people are coming back from Britain's shi- very, rain-sodden beaches tanned a warm Mediter- ranean brown.
Curicus how many English roses have suddenly blossomed into tawny tiger les
Curious, in fact, how a small bottle on the chemist's counter has managed to beat this sum- mer's barometer-blues.
For the colourless liquids- the formula, like most of the money-spinners, criginated Anxrica which give you a tan in a matter of hours (put it on when you go to bed and wake up Lanned) have been the biggest both-sexes beauty fashion since the patches and powdered wigs of the eighteenth
century.
And by the end of the summer their sales are expect ed to boost the £61,000,000 a year beauty business to yet un- precedented heights.
The original American pre- parations Man Tan and its feminin equivalent the creamy basel Poslin are selling at the rale of 1,404.000 bottles per fortnight. Over 15,000 bottles of il French challenger, Eau Solajte, were sold in the first 48 hours of its introduction to the British markel, (In fact, the response was 90 rapid and overwhelming that its makers had to install an automatic message recorder to cope with the flood of orders).
A SYMBOL
And the manufacturers of the
most expensive of them all, the 253.-a-bottle Night Tan, expect to have sold around 2,000,000 bottles by the end of the
summer
JILL BUTTERFIELD
THE CHINA – MAJE, FRIDAY, AUGUST
1960.
For another there is, accord. aging specifically geared to ap- ing to Dr William Becker, a peal lo a man curious sort o status symbol
-associated with the sun-tanned
And you'd probably think it
skin. One connects it with long was only the poor rain. exotic cruises, with leisurely benighted British who werd sybaritic 'sand-days, with winter buying them. But orders have sports, with fast cars, with been received from Singapore
(July expensive yachts,
temperature usually around 90 degrees) and Malta (with a July temperature which reaches 95 degrees).
COMPLAINT
Most new products are dogged by complaints, misuse, and con-
No, it's no surprise that the lotions are selling, what amazes ma is the people they are sell-siderable growing pains, but the ing to.
4
For you'd probably think the main customers were vain, shiy, snobby women, but not a bit of it. Sales taken over the whole group of products are approxi- inately 60 per cent to women and 40 per cent to men, althougis
Gnly disappointed customer I've been able to trace so far is the
west African gentleman who protested laone manufacturer inval application; their product that, despite three days con- had not managed to turn HIM honey brown.
10
they tend to even up to the I hope, he claims on his 50-50 mark in those makes with money-back guarantee.
a fype of advertising and pack-
-London Express Service).
LOGAN
GOURLAY
Helen,
“Want to know something, Augusta?****
WH 1 KNOWS AND TELLS IN HIS UNMISTAKAHLE WAY
London Express Bervice.
PARIS NEWSLETTER from DONALD EDGAR
It's the same old problem
Ellen & Mellon for the first
...ALL ONE GIRL: AND SHE SEES THEY'RE ALL HAPPY!
It's not hard to understand HELEN WINSTON, with mathematical candour, admits that there are
why the sales of
synthetic sun-tan products are rocketing round our island.
For one thing these last six weeks have been over twice as wet as the same period was last year. It's been impossible to spatch a natural sun-tan be- tween the showers,
Sc
JUST FANCY THAT
"We're trying to them that she's not."
convince
"In all probability Mr Gour- lay's old man is a dusman. He obviously, gets his rubbish from She also explained (through somewhere." her Press agent) why she is
at least three Helen Winstons. "There's the basic Helen, the career woman; Ellen, as I call her, the gay, feminine extrovert; and Mellon, a name I invented, the bitch." Personally, I think she's underestimating planning to marry “Dandy," herself a mistake that she seldom commits.
But three is enough to be going on with or as many as I can cope with for the moment. I met most of them, if not all, in Knokke-le-Zoute, the resort which the Belgians, with blind chauvinism, compare to Monte Carlo.
I had gone
there to relax a few months ago, Unknown for a few days after the rigours and unsponsored, of my 20,000-mile travels.
The Misses Winston had gone there to relax after the rigours of producing her fret feature dlm "Hand In Hand."
But Helen the business woman was determined to make a fim. All she had was a short story about the unswerving friendship of a Catholic boy and a Jewish girl, a parable about religious intolerance.
"She loves hits. "It's as simple as that." Vive l'amour.
RED HAS A LOSING, RUN
POLICE escort walted out So she returned to her ovn A side La Reserve Hotel self-created three roles. Since where Mins Skinner and ber then she has played them: in the Pree agent were slaying. following categories Alm pub- licity, distribution, and TV pro- duction, in which she has won three Emmies-one for each Winston, presumably.
A
"Try the Kennedy cut the successful short
Mr. Bardot
Paris.
THE most amusing thing that has happened in
Paris recently has been the matrimonial troubles of Roger Vadim, the brilliant film pro- ducer who was once married to Brigitte Bardot,
her
WITHIN: half an hour of the news of Senator
He is only 32 and is now family bricked up in a palace in Kennedy's nomination at
married to argiri,called Angeśta Russian mo ng arean unde Naklada the American Democratio Stroyberg, who in fact looks Convention, an' enterpris-[very much like his first love
She told me that' she doubted: if it was true. ing Tattenham Court Road "B.B."
*mears the Lady in question. barber had stuck this sign
There is one man who seems she told me, "and as I remember, in his window:-
of: the. Petersburg: to have destroyed nearly all like most his remange,
she brought His name is aristocracy Sacha Distel who is one at the jewellery to Moscow and lodged. most popular singers in France. it with a bank for safety."
It was not so much the par- He was engaged to Brigitte tilar story of the jewels that Bardot before Vadim discovered interested me. It was the story her and made her the symbol of how, as young married · of modern sex in France "La woman, she had Anally escaped Femme-Entant" the half-child to Constantinople in 1918 with The Beachcomber, the May Lolita which has fascinated the her whole entourage of children
and maída. Fair Hotel's
Western world. new Polynesian
back restaurant, offers what it calls a An American publisher has
He visited, the casino and. was beverage menu with a startling
without
showing list: commissioned a book about her admitted: career, or careers. Probably it credentials or signing, a farm-
**Tropical Tonga Ruby. will be made into a film with a the flost anonymour visitor in
paralyser... not. for sales." The Misses Winston. born in
title something like "The Three, the history of the casino... But the Wardour
Waikiki Brond, "A hellish Street Faces of Winston" which, as far
I am delighted to report he and educated in Canada,
of wizards didn't agree, though as I've seen, are all unquestion- lost his francs-like any ditioned and trained in the Ellen the charmer was also ably attractive.
combination brandy." United States, carne 10. Britain for the first time no more than working on them. They thought
The rains came down inces-
CHOOLBOYS debagged santly; the winds blew off the their head master, Mr North Sea piercingly; and the R..E. Jones, and tossed him Misses Winston talked regularly. into their new swimming It may not re been relax- pool when it was opened ating but it was certainly intrigu- definitely was Gloucestershire, ing. And n Sharpness, the
day. Pupils more pleasant than the Belgian cheered as he pulled him- Congo, self out, wrung his shirt......... and grinned. "This must be every schoolboy's dream," he
sald.
other
MEET MR CLOGGHEAD*
*CLOG; ANYTHING THAT HINDERS MOTION
OR RENDERS DIFFICULT.
SLOW
DONT take risks: when in doubt don't.
DON'T overtake unless you can see that the road ahead
is clear.
DON'T accelerate when you are being overtaken.
་
con
"I felt it had to be made and Britain was the place to make
"
Irresistible
it was "Loo controversial.”
Now, at 20, she can claim to be one of the few female film producers and certainly one the youngest.
of
But it was waiting for a Soviet official. The manager cut." said: "We don't know this name or position. He checked la on A COWARDLY a diplomatic passport and he didn't sign the register. All we know is that he is a high- ranking member of the Soviet Government."
visitor.
"I've had my handwriting road while I've been here. The LETTER FROM AN man said I had great originality OUTRAGED FAN' and strength of character.
other
my desk from a
BRANDY..........
So strange
•
No doubt some day an American psychologist will dia. cover just why the Western Curacao, world has been fascinated by the sex symbol of the girl who is just becoming a woman.
Certainly, it has been a probe lem for Vadim: His new wife, Annette, is very much
1. drank & cowardly, straight brandy,
Finally, Jing Wallis, bass of Associated British. decided to back the film. Mr Wallis de-
DACK in Loudon I found a VASCO LAZZOLO, the Brigitte Bardot type. "He also sald I was aftec-letter on SUTVIOS congratulations for a courageous decision, despite the tionate and passionate in love. Mis Diddams of Birmingham artist, is now doing a fact that the Misses Winston (This was obviously the volce she must be a fan of Lennie portrait of Ian Lyle, the represent an almost irresistible of Ellen-with fouch of ooy- Donegan and she is enraged sugar, king. Mr Lazzolo
over my remark in last week's "When I come up against
Ionce.
ness.)
"I want to settle down in
a
column "If he's one of oE2
'msa's a dusiman.”
No I can't rest until I've made Britain, marry, and have chi best-dressed, men, then my old
it a Yes." (This was the voice dren.
of Helen, I think.)
"But I've got work to do "Challenges bring out the first." (Helen was taking best in me or the most deter over.) "I usually lose interest mined. I've always believed after I've met the challenge, but that there's nothing, you can't I'm terribly enthusiastic about do if you make up your mind alm-making I'm gping firmly. to do it."
܂
Lo
make two more-a comedy and
The career of the Misses and a drams: have to do at Winston to date is testimony to least three, of course, this Christias-cracker maxim.
Demanding
“I don't want to be regarded just as an ex-actress who flut- ters her eyelashes and plays at fllm production. I'm deter, mined to be taken seriously."
I assured her that I. took her
2
...
Seriously,
Seriously.
At 18 Helen was a successfuzi radio actress in Canada, but she seriously, decided she must become a šlap In Hollywood.
She took a job as a waitress”. in a cafe frequented by pro ducers and agents-"I knew $8 would be a good way to meet. the right, influential people?
MISS SKINNER GETS 'A PRESS. AGENT.
It was a slow process. Ta | NOTHER visitor to Knokke-. apped it up she found jobs for her other selves three per day, le-Zoute was Mina Barah From 10 to 12 an assistant in a Skinner. She osm from Parl radio station; from 1 to 3 a pub where she had been, visiting her Mat for the Screen Writers: future husband “Dandy, Kim” Guild; from 5 to 7 a lelephone Waterfield in full,, - operator in an actors' agency. With her came her Press no time at all she know agent. I was curious to know enough of the right people, and why Miss Skinner, who is noi enough about them, to demand an actress, or won a starlet, a part in a flimah 2
required a Press agent; «« In all she appeared in ever-· Increasing acts in: 35 Bins: biał She explained (through her she decorated. Eveprimings Pier agent coul7:21h that acting was losing its ap- French newspers have bear peal-'I found I couldn't really quite beastly. Therine- malcing | believe in the parts,"
It's only fair that I should give Miss Dkidams her say.
anys (and we should, for give him for saying it): "It is the beginning of my cubist period."
--(London Express Service).
I-
Talking to her, I, was again in the world of Tdiator", in the world of Anna Karenina, of the great balls, the great Immense privileges, and the sadness of the Russian aristo cracy before the Revolution.
These White Russians are Inevitably dying out now, a
It is a pity that no one is there to take down the foil. chapters of the life of one of the most romantle aristocracles, fam world' has`øver sem.
A surprise But the same man who, wez engaged to Brigite is now often seen with Annette. Vadim has THERE has been quilts, a. mar- now accused Distot of being a prise here this month think.
Jean-Paul Bartre, the tuom breaker of homes.
distivanished Frenek phill It is so strange, and Paris is pher since the war, lise kaTA wondering why, that a man like series of articles, printed; shett Vadim, who is handsome, clever, Cuba in France-Soir, which his perhaps even something of the largest. eirenladlen, af, sný gentus, should be so overtaken in newspaper in France. 'his love affairs by Distel who is quite frankly, a man of great charm but few brains.
Dying, out
He is of the Lett, of course." But normally he would pdi... concern himself with anything
much based
BS
news as interviews with Fldeł. Castro.
Vadim said: "Young stars are Sartre has become to Frapõe. monsters. They give the impress "cur man in Havana" and hig sion that they are nice and taken a strong pro-Castro a simple, they play the part of tude. His articles will have good friends. But really, inside, big effect here.
they are like spiders waiting for
their prey."
He enjoys great prestige"
an intellectual, and the dinila
liwasy - talking to a French lica will give him, the widein philosopher who wishes to re- possible readership. main unnamed, and he told me that he felt the cult of Brigitte Bardot and Lolita had some en couraging signs about It.
It was a feeling among men
of middle age in Europe, who
Torn dress
RSS designer Miguel SRESS'
know they have not long to live, ras, husband of that youth has still something, Lady, Oranmore and Important, to give to the world has appeared in from, this area.
bearing of E. complaini Personally I think he may be by siripicass right. But on the other hand Georgina Prunier it could be dismissed, as just the vice of a decadent civilisa fulls and blow
She made, accusations Hon
It's a rather confused starz
INT to see «. Bumian prin- about a motor accident in who lives out in Aufenil, centre of Paris in February
marw, Tout #GEEN The one thing that is bar: are other apparently, is that, Clag
Commented the judes: woon, story, about ably a profess
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.