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Airmaster

Roderick Mann

The day that Mr. Howard conferred

Paris.

HAD planned, actually, on spending a fairly quiet

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afternoon in my hotel room-but the yells and cries and abuse coming from the next suite finally proved too much.

And the voices were familiar.

So I went in.

And there they were.

Victor Mature and Trevor

Howard--the Hulk and the Hell-

raiser--holding

summit conference.

their

annual

I found the conference going Well,

The bottle of Scotch was the personal

half empty and

with Mr. Mature

listen

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him! When en notices, you insults and abuse were building work. I can't live

Howard goes they'll bury him up nicely. Even Khrushchev 1 need money.".

"Money!" sad Mature, like one of those old would have been impressed.

"Money! Your Leel must be kings-wrapped up in his Press sore from shovelling it into the cuttings, in the garden, among

world

turn.

really

I'm one of the few people who "You must be out of your Chinese mind," said Howard can draw an elephant blind- "When you're in London you folded. Did you know that?"

He continued flicking through spend your entire time holed up in that goat's nest of yours in the script. Curzon-street."

admitted "That's why I like the Nobody else feels like going out. either.

right kind of work. And I think

I know just the thing a TV series called The Mask!

"What's that?" asked piciously,

50 good about

Howard སྐ!s-

feet up

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who

"It's all about goes around doing things in a mask," said Mature. "So I only work the first day. They show There's a page her with the me putting the mask on and Mature, words 'Good luck, Dick,' at the taking the mask OK. Some

rain top. What does that mean?"

other joker can do all the work in between. I'll be home with So awful

my feet up"

Finishing up the last of the "That scene is so awful 1 Scotch, Howard leaned forward couldn't do anything with it," and

examined something on said Mature, "So that remark Mature's wrist which looked like is addressed to my director. the nose-eme of an I.C.B.MT, He'll need a lot of luck if he's

"What the devil is that?"

Eastern

out Howard reached picked up a script which lying on the table.

"What's this?" be asked

and Was

New film

Grumbling ground out there at your home the lost. Oh for that spade con-

I

"When

going to film that particular "That's my all - purpose slice of garbage.”.

watch," sald Mature, with a "Seems to me," said Howard, faint. show of pride. "you've cut most of your Unes you're flying it tells you exactly 50 If you're out

where you are. sald "I'm a great believer in that feet under water you

Can still "I once worked read the dial." said Mature. roaned with John Ford and he

said:

less "Never open your mouth unless Hounds very useful," agreed

you've got something interesting

said "Useful nothing," said to say. So now I give all the Mature: I never fly and I to other people! That wouldn't be caught dead under on a way they look more stupid than water"

But what, you may wonder, in Barnet. All I hope is I out- cession." do these two very different live you. Because if I do I'm

His glass suddenly cracked

"That's the script of my new pressure actors have in common? I will going to buy that house of yours under the

of his Alm," said Mature. "I'm re-

a Without respects and start digging. It's gotta enormous tell

grip, Mature

writing it." you,

of

"Making It's gotta be thought he flung it carelessly

it good?" there, the loot. Howard and rates him one the greatest screen actors in the there. The spade concession into an open cupboard.

Howard In his that's all I ask.'

"Are (hle he is).

you med," croaked "You'll outlive me,"

"Making it "We can't just sit here drink- Mature. Howard

respects Mature

sighed Howard awful and rates him the last of the Howard, holding his chair in a ing whisky,"

sort of grip currently sitting there drinking whisky. high-living Hollywood curious

"There's a sens here,"

the lines 50 favoured in wrestling by the "We must press on. Oh, God, Howard, flicking through characters (which he is). they get along famously. Singapore Strangler, "I may go the thought of going back to

pages where you get When

arrived, Trevor anytime, the way I feel. Though all that English gloom and rain. horse. You've put a big question I do."

finished when I do I want to go in And those terrible faces saying: Howard had just

"that this whole film business

"You know something," said grumbling about his career, and America. That's the place to go Aren't you glad to be back mark beside it."

"I don't get on horses," said is getting stupid, Maybe we Howard with a wide smile. Victor Mature-his giant legs

Glad to be back?" His face Like a king

contorted in splendid rage. "I'm Mature. "My double does that ought to

retire."

"You're a double-headed encased in cowboy boots-was

"Retire?" boomed Mature, Chinese idiot". handing him some wise, fatherly

"Me," said Mature, "I want never glad to be back. Never. I'm a devout coward. In my last

film, Hannibal, there was a leaping out of his chair. "Are And you" said Mature, "are I'd Never." counseli

"Why, you sweet son-of- to go in England. I know

England," said scene where I was surrounded you crazy? My father would a sweet scene-stealing "Me-I love bitch!

I've been reading your get a better turn-out there,"

"If I died in England," said Mature, his hooded eyes flicker by charging elephants. And me turn in his grave if he heard of-a-bitch."

on one eye for that kind of talk. No. Now I've And with that the conference goddamn Press cotices. You walk

morosely, "they ing about the room, an arm the with a patch way with every picture. What Howard

among charging sive, the thing is to find the "All that rain. like to be wouldn't even turn out of my size of a tree-tramck holding his authenticity. How would you got this far, looking this repul- broke up.

go glass aloft.

elephants with only one goddam pub in Barnet to watch me

And the attitude"

"What attitude?"

have you got to grumble about Have you ever seen my notices?

I feel like laking poison whon by. Nobody care!"

I read them. ・ ・ "

"Will you listen to him," cried

so that the legs sank

"You double-headed Chinese Mature, leaning forward in his Howard. idiot," roared Howard. "What's chair the good of notices?

shouted eye?"

"The attitude toward I never slowly into the deep pile. "Will rain," said Mature.

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Life is made much too easy for this improbable pair..

THE BRIAR PATCH. By Charity Blackstock, Hodder and

Staughton, 15t

a

MISS BLACKSTOCK, who is already known as

writer of 'lecs, has a charming idea for her first straight novel. It is set in a suburb 45 minutes from Paris. There, on opposite sides of the Place du Triangle, are two very different kinds of establishment.

On one side Miss Pelham, a neat, prim English- woman, has set up her finishing school for English girls: on the other side M. Wolff, a refugee Jew, keeps a hostel for boys saved from the Nazi slave camps. So on the one side these English misses, well brought up in good sheltered homes where they have experienced only the very best of life: on the other these ravenous, life-battered boys who have already experienced the worst of life at the hands of their merciless captors.

her

Inevitably one of the boys bath delights and maddens him; meets one of the girls. And, his sudden dives into the depths unfortunately, the boy la the of loveless despair bewilder her.

handsome

They get mixed up together in 10-year-old very Max, whom deprivation has the death of the nasty old man

Ends turned into a near delinquent, of the district who yet everyone is attracted by waiting for Max on the him, even Inspector Granier, bank one night. who has the deepest profession ai suspicion of him, yet takes him into his own honit: "

river

She, to her horror, is directly responsible. He is inevitably suspected. He with his experi ence gets them out of that trouble. She with her incapacity to cope with such horrors 18 relieved to be rescued when the affair

comes as it was bound to of the gris: Deirdre way the

do, to the ears of authority. dreamiest and most protected of Miss Blackstock is a romantic. them all

She makes life a little too easy She had never had anything for her improbable pair (how-

So touching And the girl is the least likely

to fear in life wore that an ever hard it seems on the sur- Irish hunt ball.

face) and she cannot restet wicked. But her novel has great hinting that love reforms the

in Ils etmost total misunder

Their brief affair is touching standing. Nothing in the experl- ence either be prepared them for the experience of the other,

Her ally goosey trustfulness

charm.

Richard Lister

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"I wouldn't mind," said the Howard, suddenly pensive. "1 get along well with elephants,

You're a century out, Mr. Schuller

FORGERS, DEALERS, EXPERTS. By Sepp Schuller.

Barker, 30s. THIS book deals with the seamier side of the art racket. Everyone loves to read how spme rich art-snob buys a Rembrandt on the say-so of a learned old booby, only to discover, with the help of X-rays, that it has been painted on top of a portrait of Mussolini.

Unfortunately

Lakes an absurd than that of the great which he had

in Berlins, was by

expert to debunk the experts, Dr Bode, who insisted that a and whatever Mr Seppy Schuller bust of Flora, may be, his knowledge of art bought for the Kaiser-Freiderich

no greater than Museum history seems that of any studious young lady Leonardo da Vinct even when doing an art course ot, finishing it turned out to be stuffed with school. Miss Blowjones, will 19th century English news-

explain to Mr, papers. you please

Tedious

Schuller that Simone Martini was not a 15th catury sculptor but the greatest 14th entury pain after Gibb?

Mr Schuller has marvellous wealth of amusing detail. material to work on. There are few stories more pathetically mentally tedious is its utter lack

And for

your bookshelf

This and other **wilight adventures" he relates with a What makes his book, funda-

of focus. Somewhere beneath the welter of gossip and plati- ludes there lurks a sensible massage, namely that takes however accomplished never possess the imaginative force of genuine works of art. But Mr Schuller never analyses the difference between a forgery and the real thing in a way which would make the difference seem vitally important to the lay reader.

If only, for instance, he had reproduced the fake Botticelli

• PAOLO

UCOELLO, Old-portrait bought for the National bourne Press, 5 ms. The repro-Gallery of Scotland some 30

ductions, including 47 full

years ago side by side with its colour plates, ranks among the original in the Louvre! Then learned contemporary printing. most handsome examples of everyone might have

This for himself how two pictures splendid volume affords consi- which at first glance appear to the ba identical con differ utterly

in spirit.

derabile Insight into imaginative detail in the works

ot

of the 15th century master of

But. Mr. Schuller prefers to the newly discovered art

reproduce, much irrelevancies as perspective.

THE FACTS ABOUT Abona-fide copy of a Rembrandt by one of his pupfia, e Virgin NIXON,

Costello, WILLIAM

and Child stated quite wrongly

candid in the same way that a Tyrolean wonder, at work in his to be in the style of Durer, and Hulsbinson 25s; - Subtitle: Candia Biography. This one is Beppt Riemer, te south prosecuting counsel is candido, at St. Ulrich. If you back. Jeck, here is the ormation for shooting down

David Carritt

Nixon.

"I reckon," said Howard Wide smile

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