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TOY THEMELOR

Cromwell Finch?

DETER FINCH, who while

kicking his 'hecis wolt- ing for production of the nim "Cleopatra" begin

again, har had another offer and a very tempting one, Forty-year-old Finch is booked to play Caesar in "Cleopatra" when the

Elizabeth wenlker, Miss Taylor, and an insurance claim permit.

But now Warwick Füm want him for the title role of a colour spectacular based on the life of Oliver Cromwell.

Finch has seen the scripl and likes it. Around him would be the highly ap- plauded team which made

"The Trials or Oscar Wilde" with him.

And the uncertainty about the Tuture of

Cleopatra" drags on.

So, subject to seeing a Anal ECTĺpt Finch has Dccepted.

Mr Irving Allen, of Warwick Flims,, said last

night: "We are hoping he will be able to play both parts."

with

a hit on the head..."

Thai knock on

the head

She told me: "In a way it was †T has taken a long time

due to being coshed. Somehow it to prise Ann Todd's was like paying off an account secret from her-the with fale. secret of the new vital seemed to straighten my think- ity, the new

For years I had worried beauty ing

and Blckered, and people had which has put the slim felt sorry for me. blonde actress back into the glamour ranks after a story of disaster.

Fur

Behind her stretch the years of it luck-a fearsome crash, two serious 111630s, three wrecked marriages, and a brutal coshing by two youths of Brighton front.

Coshed

Today, as the nears the age of 51, Ann Todd's new lease of life is wondered at by many in show business. And when I met her as she came off the set of her new film, "Taste of Fear,"

why they are knew at once puzzled.

Success

"Then after this attack, this catastrophic, I suddenly realised that I had been falling back too much on the legend of my bad luck,

"Perhaps one hurts so many prople, and in turn one gels hurt oneself, and the score ali

seems even

"I have stopped being a bluo stocking. 1 am very gay and I go out a lot.

"For the answer is that to be

content you must acquire a love of life. In my case I stopped myself worrying so bitterly over what people said about me.

ANN TODD . No longer. blue. No longor the blue- stocking girl of old.

BY. THE. WAY .

by Beachcomber

"It is not that I don't care whether they think my work 15 good or bad--but it has ccased

connection whith my to be the most important thing. "At last I have taught myselt

astounding Christmas treat, of which I promised details that being an actress is a job,

to get hysterical today, if you really wart not a thing to

ding with your favourite film about."

star, write to her and invite her, but don't bother me about it.

Gay

1

years

the

So Ann Todd is really be ginning life again-15 after her great success in film The Seventh Vell."

Though her troubles she has remained well known,

Wefthouse v Henchman

Snapdriver: Mrs Welthouse, why did you throw your rub- blah Into Mra Henchman's

"I got tired of having people long to commiserato with me.

"I studied Indian thinking, I got myself a teacher in philo sophy, I read a very great deal. But as she said: "I was dead

"I realised that it is not only and now I am alive again. I om yard? theatre people, with divorces glad people are starting to and breakdowns and tempera- notice it." ments, who have worries,

London Express Service).

4

Mira W. It was her rubbish. She threw it.. I threw it back.

THE WEEK'S NEW BOOKS BY GEORGE MILLAR

Remembering that the second book is

always the toughest to write

THE

THE most persistent attack upon the American way of life continues to come not from America's dwindling number of enemies abroad but from her writers at home.

Sometimes it is planned attack. One such was "The

· Ugly American," by Lederer and Burdick, which quite savagely takes the American foreign service to pieces.

It is significant that "The Ugly American," published in England as Jong ago as February 9, 10au, has in America remained high

in the Brst 10 of the best-seller

Ilst. One of the major successes takes

of last year, It shows no sign of Locustville dying in its own country,

novelist

CYNIC BIRMINGHAM

THESE

TWO

PULL

IT OFF!

MIXER NORMAN

ineed sun of a costeronger, but without the latter's streak locks, burglar alarms, telescopi: Frank Norman, who had been of fantasy or his knack for ladders, doping house' dogs, and

Insurance. four times "inside" before he deadpan prose. was 24. Ils first book "Bong to Rights" about prison was a sensation. Its second, published recently is just es good.

So Barbara Greer bravely (7)

up her marriage in again, giving a moral-twist ending" that seems Other attacks on American more umoral than the rest, life sometimes Just happen be- CAUSO the American

Many readers here will like doesn't like to leave anything her. Many others will lay this Barbara, and feel sympathy for out. Alto many Hollywood con- tracts seem to be granted to ful book down thinking, "Sodom blown

excellent and genuine and skil novela that criticiso most anth stringently the American way, America, where are we

Gomorrah! IE

Stephen Birmingham, in his ing?"

well-mado novel, But some American literatura DARDARA GREER (Collins, piso shows that Americans are 168,), attacks American morals, in process of readjustment to

Barbara lives, disgruntled, in their country's responsibilities shape of her boat (bout world leader, as hideous, Locustville, all gadgets and gossip, bonhomic with adjusting ourselves to business booze, When her husband goes and trade rather than invested

London on business the wealth,

second

to

leaves her children with ̈ an ex-

A volce: Fifteen all Cocklecarrot: Then it appears

That any baby cel could have crept under either of you, had you been serpents,

Gooseboote: It is the pof call- ing the kettle block.

1

Mrs W.: Mlud, Is it in order for counsel to call me a pot?

Mrs B.; Or me a kettle?

Cocklecarrot: It's better than

another

being called a serpent, and it is

but yet speech.

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Summer- sports

simmer

оп

THERE is talk of ski-ing next

at Wembley. Imported snow. This will be moso realistic than the plastic snow used for floodlit summer aki-ing outaida

Basingstoke, even allowing for the painted background representing Swiss mountains of sunset. Dealers in second-hand, rather dirty; English snow are said to be Donald Mackenzie, aged fifty- | preparing to smuggie foreign To collect his backgrounds one, is a Canadian who, to snow into Cornish coves On Mr Intes has made journeys to quate his publishers, "for mounless nights, the wildest parts of Arabia, twenty-five years lived by crima. Canada, as well as many a telp Norway, Morocco, and northern in many countries," in small boats.

It depicts the life of a lay about who scoffs ten in fly

coyis, gets his face this is slashed, chews benzedrine If Me Innes has, a distinct head inhalers, smokes marijuana. weakness it is a tendency to Averse to work, he is quick to over-write. Most of this book za up a pretty girl, a right is Interesting, all of it compe bird, by the gleam of her, tent, come of it graphle; none minces (mince ples; eyes), the of it inspired. But most readers race: will admire him enormously for face), the fall of her baret his virility and independence. (Barnet Fair; hair),

we are

pensive baby-sitter, and repairs And another...

alone to the pleasant “farm"

where she had grown up.

Pleasant on the surface, but Mr Birmingham digs deeper, Barbara's rich father is a lush (two bottles of 'gla a day), her mother", is' miserable, her sister monex mad,

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STAND ON ME BY FRANK NORMAN (SECKER & WARBURG. 165.). Cond to non-Sohoites used to

Mr Norman appears to like The odd jobs..

DANGEROUS SILENCE

his Ally Soho, and be knows how to relax in print. Prodigal with his facts, effective with his coster charm, he may become considerable wrlier. Has he the stamjua, the ambition? Tima BY DONALD MACKENZIE will show,

(COLLINS. TOS. 60.)

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AndBarney, the, sister's mean a squashed-in bit of BY HAMMOND INNES

husband, lycrazy about Dar- bara,, who is curious about him,

London where they paid for so-

80 Continental meals and where folo gras, olives, salami, zauOr+

J

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THE TOFF AND THE

KIDNAPPED CHILD' BY JOHN CREASEY (HODDER & STOUGHTON,

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on his visiting cards, a top. hat, a monoclo, a cigarette in a holder, and a bow tie."

"Another beach

THE WAYWARD WIFE”

· AND OTHER STORIES BY ALBERTO MORAVIA CHOSEN AND TRANSLATED BY ANGUS DAVIDSON. (SECKER & WARBURG..

155.

THE. Hon, Richard Hollinson, loves the gorgeous Tady on Right, Her husband has disop- peared. Her daughter is Rid- per Rollinson, allas The Toff, takes on and beats the droad, dapper Leoni brothers,

Killers

·IGHT, „stories without mách FRASER, former burglar white slavers and

who has done time, is going Guilt pre-established, dovection la shape--but with the body -straight, has a pleasant wife, nil, but the story Irundies on as anch dry excellanco:: of and is actually, sellind burglary smoothly till the last third, as vintage port Moravia's tech- Insurance, But a former, asso- The Tot in his Bentley Con- nique is superb, his fogling for clato, Wackgoails him into doing. Unmtal. There is a dated air, a women and atmosphèro un- one more job, stealing a wo Jack Buchanan air, about Hole canny. man's fabulous jewels from a linson, so tall, rich, brave, hand-

tale.

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One

„The last two stories, both Then Nancy comes on a visit, keruut, and, truffles were on sale,AMMOND INNES has won fall house in Park Street, "Mag- somo.

wrfiten-in' 1948, are particularly kan 'n - döken.or so too many Now more is heard of 115

his réputation'and his big

4. Tov.mora, bogie, characters gong, expecially that of the drinks and gives Barney details criminal and fringe underworld. Public by packing his novels, Tho burglary, almost-uni- exist, even in detective flettori, råmerican, Negro epidlar, who which "progressively: improve, bearably exciting, provides a thari dhia aristocrat who has accosta mi young couple '«un« Nobody could describo this with authente detall somewhat lesson in welling. Thils., author "lounge," "hall" in his - "Mayfair bathing on a lonely beach. /Tom batter, that the_witractive mear- in the manger of: Neyli Bhuto, ponly knows everything about; flair? and an insignia, angroved falian youth runs away.

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