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CAMPS OUT.

THE MEN

BANDITS, THINK ARSENAL AND TALK TIGERS...

Frank WHO CAPTURE Owen Out here we fire at

mightlights

BOUT

were 1:1-

SINGAPORE. the jumps of night

four-thirty-fast, the myriad fireflies, wink-

when you are putting all around.

Nobody moves in the jungle the tea kettle on-the by night under hels upon business; and If he jatrol halted. They were 13 drame

myn with their young foves through that tangled gar. ollicer, gunners of the 26th den be had better take a lamp.

Therefore lamp-light

danger-

30

Field Regiment, R., turned night, and you the at il into infantry for this job, But at the huge high wall of

Since late on they had the deuce Juliage closes in been marching rather parde is mori visibility in day- those reity clambering-over dend trees lights everywhere, and you think and living bramble

they are lartp

green

נו

time you

1,000 ft. jungle hill. Their But there IS a real light mov- inckels were dark ang ten yards away. Yes, chum, it is the craiette-end of ine Arsi

entry as he comes of duty."

bak

with sweat.

"We'l sleep here," Lieutenant Stephenson 'The

jungle path went desily down Great Company

just here between two moss-, baised boulders, and the count of running water 'S/154 up file

The

with stream at n fest we apothet

NOR

TOW chow. It cut of th, but it's good. And Th The postmal (the in 21%) lay Jest aute

www.!!

With a barnettinuer posted on at the fire, the company

Ervat

Ce the German eanght Chan

Another wa

the path at either epid, the rest of the d red about the gun,da They med Gah kuke and Malay parangs (both formutande i na soba h. Our bat killed

Knaves).

Camp-making

War

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bandit. AE thought the

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Both lately

10.

he har been a

Two were arcular

about

SWIFTLY they hacked a clear Actual, and in a qu It say 12 yards square, mut come under the bm tee e

of the undergrowth. They cut 1 think he and planted stakes, lashed a uskel her.” framework then

hould have

Dist The

them Now it really catti with creeper, and cina ed Lau- concholy pay calent night? brood diets for pont and floor, mont whistling, servaminit, bark- making a fest-rate bastun.

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Do

You

How great is OLIVIER?

"The greatest theatrical figure of his time," say some Americans. In Britain they hail him as First Actor in the land, Olivier has just left London's West End. for Hollywood. And now

MILTON SHULMAN

analyses the man who looks for new worlds

three nisable

a to conquer.

HERE are at lenst dotes and constant ennasta n: The emergence of the real

clearly receg their Alteenth-century

their tiny house in Chelsen or prtist in Olivier Was no mero Laurence hom in Buckinghamshire,

country accident of age or spontaneous flowering of experiente. Hard Oliviers. There

Sir }:

But any

work has given hims tho Olivier,

acquaintance who chumelcon-like ability to appear, Laurence

actor-

staps Sir Laurence Olivier on the with manager of the St. James's back expecting

utler conviction, as the to flot Larry tragle Oedipus of Sophocles and Theatre, former director of risks a rather disconcerting ex- the ridiculous Puff of Sheridan the Old Vic, theatrical um. pertence.

in the same evening. bassador to the Antipodes. Perhaps it is only by compari- Patient practice has made hla personality in volce s mel'ow he could read a

When he appears in any of mentalising his these formal roles-be it on its fashion that Sir Laurence Yugoslavian telephone directory has managed to accomplish to a public platform, the stage much in the five years since the and still enchant an audience. for in a foreign Embassy-- war ended. For in that short When dirreling, he does not he is a masterpiece of plod he has firmly established impace his interpretation of a majestic inflection, studied right to be acclaimed as the part on an actor. He feels that reserve and unfaltering dig nity.

of

First Actor In Britain.

TOUR TRIUMPHS

he is the

n director should help good acters help themselves.

And he enjoys directing even more then acting. “It seems to be more creative," he said.

Olivier has already shown

There is Laurence Olivier, the actor, absorbed with almost WHETHER or not travagant energy in the creation heat actor will be vigorously that he does not intend to win part-tirelessly shaping disputed by those who support easy laurels at the St James's moulding, chipping, pollshing John Gield's until the roan is submerged in accolade. But nobody

to this He meme to encourage can deny wrights as well as actors. that his recent achievements Despite the contribution ho

the character.

einim

play-

Of

And then there is Larry, bon have been a foremost factor in vivant and genial hest, miable raising the prestige of the British has made to Almshe is

to make nt homo and gain to Hollywood and ninhibited as he and his theatre, both

"Sister Corrie-the slufte re- beautiful wife, Vivien Leigh, abroad.

mains Olivier's Brest love. At the hold court for their friends in whirling atmosphere of

As an actor, his sardontcally 54 James's his polley will be to Food ance- evil Richard III has been re- present both modern and classi- talk, better wines, spley

cognized as one

to have either of the major cat plays, and performances of the English tumself or his wife, Vivien stage. As a cultural envoy, he hne Leigh, nei in mast of them. jakin the Old Vie in triumphant tours to Paris, New York, Aus- tralia and New Zealand.

Estimate

What a Woman's Worth?

CHORUS girl who sustained a fractured 11. howling! uproar

elbow when hit by a pongiabour ever nightmared.

pantomime Why not? They are all here heavy piece of

It starts with scenery was awarded £2,400

traditi..

On-

✩

By EVELYN VAUGHAN

בוס

which

was

As a film-maker, his Heury V and flamlet not only made the world conscious of British ptc-

“EXHAUSTING'

LIVIEN rends

V

four or five

new plays a week and finds

tures, but proved that the it on exhausting business. "I

As nn actor- manager, he has

cinema could be more than just have practically given up look- ** noisy background for the ing for a plot," he said, "I have (chewing of part.

Become satisfied with content

alone.

think. nuclences ого prepared to see good acting oven in a bad play."

tween both parties had been not only display- agreed at £25. "It looks like ed his shrewd- the sale of a wife." he com- nos ns n judge. mented and it seems clear that of he thought it a bargain.

1

have

but

as

1936 FLASHBACK.—Olivier as Orlando in the Elsiree produc

adultery with a woman zeribed as

"good and pro- easily and con- tion of As You Like It, vident housekeeper as well as vincingly. an efficient companion."

plays, Whale this houring drive was

his productiona going on, a couple pine went

of "Born Yester- to the water. Like the he

day," "Daphne down

The biggest divorce damages Laureolo," and others, their tongues were bang the grasshoppers suilling, anduranges. A pretty girl who On the other hand, when engine, her husband ing out, and they brun them in the cicadas, then the dive-bomb was sealed when her hair the husband of แ 6lm awarded £5,000 for the loss granted to a husband in recent Venus Observ

years

been £7,550 ed" were highly that crystal stream. They in equitoes come in with a

machinery actress clainted damages of his wife's services while though in one case in which successful at the senoped a pool in the thining zing, the frogs croak, and there's caught in some

# movie the woman herself-an ex- all the paries were wealthy box-office mists, all nicht, was awarded £7,500.

against a British that strts, and under the sunlit ferns atut bird stuck their bes

was announced that the figure well. "chik-chuk-chik-chik," an

director for adultery with nurse-grained £20,000,

had been settled at £12,000 out Now the camp was matle, and other that demands "wok whoo"

These

the assessed two recent his wife, he tre

of court. At Cambridge, even

Although for pack.

in the parked

Tents and answers himself "wok wok,"

Obviously these

(0 are legal bricklayer recently had from Karrulous, the British law sum at £10,000....and then (with your proposal kit of cage, Then there is the montcy cases in

damages Angio pay £2,000 ns

for Sir Laurence a changed his mind. The claim riddles jersey, towel, ne s tim, etc., you wailing

an ox bellowing courts-cases and

thuit pose

American viewpoints differ

de Olivier niks carry your whack of the tabule, and the little beast who whines fascinating problem. What's was abandoned.

Another Manchester wontan your rifle, 50 rounds of ammo-ke a circular saw. Somewhere

BORHAN Worth? If her

was once quietly playing cards about 10th. load). Weapons Dre elephants, tiger, bears,

with her husband whea a run- were parked neater still,

Snake, squirrels, crowning glory is set at

the forry crashed into away £7,500 if the underwriters

she de- room. Subsequently of Lloyd's of London agree N San Francisco recently, veloped an incurable aversion to

and could a dress designer claimed her husband,

not to insure a dancer's bust at £12,500—as

firm did that her baly had been dis- bear the sight of him. Compen per 100 figured by a plastic surfe was asserned at £1,000,

sation for her wrecked married TAKE poortromine changes, but recently at 5s. i they threw dowa their packs, but it is never dull. It was not worth, in the case of Evelyn geon's operation. Seeking Chicago woman once brought a neck very similar action after injury they stool or merely squatted to now,

And the setting was exquisite. West, California's hubba- his services to have

cumpere- removed, she na lift crash, but It wan and yet time to Be Though the moun could hardly (hubba girl-what is the true wrinkles sound and smoke and yarn, pierce the canopy of the trees, and intrinsic value of those alleged that he had talked tion was Axed at only £10. Guard posts had to be cited for femaugh, shone through to make shapely bundles of flesh, her into having excess flesh the night ifferent job in the leaves look like black lace nerves and aweetness-our taken off her abdomen. The the day: sentries detailed; midlo apast the sky. touch established with head- lit, too, the towering: wall wives and sweethearts? quarters, more rewood piled of the jungle beyond our stream,

derr,

rals,

A fine log fire was blazing, hornets, arits, and midges.

and it was trattme in the jutule.

It was a sweltering eran:l for most of the sulders to drink

the brew stripped to the heft,

do it.

had been

since they

Fireflies

PUT already might was creep-

ing along the Hoor of the vast sen of the jungle-longh beyond the five si above

CHE you

Moonlight

one

Largest award

District Court of Appeals

Sot much lower

A

IN

trueper.

Its existence,

" Olivier in not

said.

This is a thenin he hap yet to prove. The fate of his produc tlong of "The Damascus

Blade," which was not enthu- siastically recelv-

ed in the

pro- vinces, and "Fad- ing Mansions," which folded after a short run, would seem to contradict hin

convinced that

ask

He carries himself with quiet, unobtrusive charm which plays about contemporary prob- can take a first-night in its stride tems are a good thing for the

He and calm the nerves of the most theatre.

claims that they of his jittery

company. He tend to be dull

or depressing. IN another instance, a Suffolk:

squire who, it was sad, took Eeldum loses his temper, laughs "All plays should have a begin- pwear like a uing, a middle and an end,” he advantage of his wealthier readily, and can

raid. "Plays about contemporary slation in life to assist in per- suading a wife away from her

Yet if this gentle exterior con- problems have no end." husband was ordered to pay ecals the abundance of energy Hila attitude towards critics £1,750.

Then there was a case with him. there is a pent-up can. unly be described as izl which the co-respondent Publicity value

Ponant look about the eyes and the arts grudgingly tolerant and coldly himself-presumably a

that reveals polite. "But you shouldn't lover?-estimated the damages of the mouth

an actor discuss critics," he fixed the sum at £28,750. INSURANCES, too have their at £2,000 and had to pay them.

some legal experts ray Not only does he act each catching the cleam of millions of

own set of values. Bette Davis Yet Onco- The question is full of Yet in England, phorescent leaves and in-

al pitfalls. Back in the year beautiful Maltese woman re. once insured her slimmess for that average values granted Inuight, manote the affairs of the direct new Inuch St James's, cast and

HIS RIVALS It mari the stim,

wife ceived £16,450 for road in- £10,000. Rita Hayworth's legs damages

rated

£30,000. lower. at

productions, study potential m

of new dozens which, the judge Should

discount

scripts, read tree tight at our fret unit like 1852, a man led his a huge hanging snake of silver, into the old market place in juries

its received plays, but

yet to on committees TT is too early young lawyer

Fay no figure for its publicity value? Aylesford, declared, left her with

National 1 the village of

de favilland

what, if any. Olivia

£1,000 damages chiefly for the for Equity, the new

lating mark When

honour and Theatre Building,

1951 Olivier will leave on the theatro This take a sock at her jaw in

stalion in life. Even an aellon Festival, and various charitable of his day. It is due as much to then one is extraordinary energy as to ever picture, she protected it to the concerning a wife who would organisations. "And

inherit £15,000 was has to get one's hair cut,"

talent that he has accom- £25,000. Most studios one day an une of

to added. with settled at £1,500, awarded

plished so much in so short their Blare even cover

Similarly, the husband. maternity policies.

period. There is no suggestion of the Somerset ilner gained £500.

theatre in any branch of But when time has drained tree. He was away much of that energy, what truth is that Olivier's family

law born in Barking, Surrey, in 1907, then? As an actor Olivier Is Mil being, jostled for exclusiva

were

this

A

are often set

About nine o'clock

fell ww About midnight earth redeep. 2001. fell gently on our faces from the Kent, with a halter around face at 'all, despite miracu- found that Ray Millard was to reflection on his could see nests above. At four the rain her neck and sold her for lous plastic surgery. glimpses of a hard, blue sky # came, and by stand-do at six half-a-crown-the last re was the largest award

at made to a woman in such

action..

which a sun shill burned.

Then mcn began to pull on

we lay in pools-cursing.

-(London Expien Service)

their jerseys, As daylight died

corded case of Auction in Britain.

wife

HE COLLECTED BEARS

THERE'S

144:11EESIALE

Perhaps the

ถ

the

he his

a

Lips, eyes, limbs, loveli

But what is the value of ness, every part of a woman

chastity? Thuurh has long since been assessed woman's

Lloyd's have apparently never every woman's worth is a

to herself...and the world has the son of a clergyman. in the exacting yet equitable been called

A upon to sure

res At 17 he enrolled at the porsession of the summit by como High 1,100,000,000 women. The of the law. woman'n cold commerce

good name,

action the cord

was sloged by Central School of Dramalle Art, formidable contenders. face judges must

Princess Youssoupoff, who was and two years later he joined talking about it all the time. An unmarried woman's left Court

As a theatrical producer ho awarded £225,000, it libel

Repertory the Birmingham thought it would Tin said he

been successful and im- clalin against Metro-Goldwyn- do her more good thin all the leg has been valued in law poser.

Company under Sir Barry Jack-s £700, theat

her right at what with

Back in Grandmama's

Mayer over the Rasputin mon, Although he made no great pressive without being original full-skirted day,

In this field it London when he or signiteant. room rent and food, they just £750. The value of a mar- dressed,

In contraal, o husband who saw impression on

been to the art of the couln't afford to buy one, Aried woman's left leg, how young man trifled with a girl's his wife escape from his home made his first important appear has that afternoon who'd month ago he walked out of the

was once set at only affections at great risk. entered one to be sent to that house, and

damages Harold," managements and cri- brought something fresh and ever since teddy ever,

These figures seem Years ago an actress appearing in her night-dress on a motor-lance there in 1928 in Tennyson's cinema alone that he has so far

show

called "The bears had been arriving at the £300.

accepted £25, preferring, ties took note of this handsome, Important. £5,461 Eye" brought low against the

of breach 11 rate of two or three a day.

a beggar in New York with a new sales approach: "Can you please, mister, spare the price of a teddy bear for person my sick little daughter?"

11

By BILLY ROSE

152242

It so happens that this address, pan-handler hasn't got "IL smelled like 41 Lood sick little daughter, but that human interest yaru, and so 1- doesn't mean you have to bad her wrap up the loy turn him down if you meet set out to deliver it myself.

and

1

...edicine, but

was a flat In a walk-up tene- With all those toys,' I said up with him. His story is ment in the 50's near Tenth to the woman, *your daughter hearts-and-flowers stuff, and Avenue, and the door was may be a happy little girl

"They're too late to do any I'll tell it to you as it was opened by a woman who looked

said. Peggy died told to me the other night. us if she could use a little sleep, good, she

two days before her father left, "What you get there.' sho

her I couldn't sal my friend, "I was standing said, "another teddy bear?'

"When I told

เวก why a mati in front of a toy shop on Fifth

"How'd you know?' I asked, underlanıl

bear for Avenue when

mooching teddy

"A few days before Easter,"

" 'f'vc a scely-looking

explained he wanted it for-19

still probably

over-

Many

Grad

bile auked for £100 but

awarded by a judge to a presse action against a British as the judge said, "hard cash to aggressive actor,

sume high-sounding award he

;1

girl who lost her leg after beer and was awarded the ce will never get,"

of -road-conch knocked her cord sum of £50,000. Slighting down.

But other factors a young woman by breach

promise is less costly in had to be finely weighed in England nowadays, nd £250 the scales of justice.

Loss of services "NEVERagain to play first. class tennis, to wear a brief swimsuit, to sun-bathe,

represents a typical claim. Yet the answer to our question 15

Not furnituro

awards.

No blondo

Jo

THE

now

conquer. He can think

I thus remains to be seen whether or not his intellectual ROMANTIC AGE capacity can sustain the momen-

tom of his youthful energy.

There in alto the danger that TUE early thirties' might well

be described Olivier's la picient Olympian perch nay best found in the damages of Ito set disse

TT is intriguing for a moment romantic period. His good looks Insulate him from the contacta estimates of and charm made him excellent every artist must maintain if he British divorce, actions. The be- womanhood against other court matinee idol material, and he is to remain in touch with the winged and leaned judges are

tho beavlest was kept steadily employed in needs and demands of hin publle,

like "Paris Bound,"

And it may be some evidence damages ever granted, a British playe

Royal" "Queen of

of an Increasing reluctance to seldom flummoxed.

had Theatre frm of banknote printers been getting twee dead child, the women said she

Banks Scots" and "Private Lives"

experiment that Olivier to pay £331,851 to the and guy tapped me on the arn

three every afternoon for lig

of Portugal-and there wasn't In 1937, he decided that he had, finds it difficult to discover new asked if could spare the price last month, she said. "Where'd was afraid Tim bad crucited up,

English worlds a blonde in sight. It is on resto master the classical of a teddy bear. When I ipl, you run into Tim?

He was never one to accept those losses to a girl of 25, him to quit his kidding. 110

really anyhow, and her matrimonial prospects NDEED, the law which obliges cord, too, that a girl who sold plays, particularly Shakespeare, of no particular role he is keenly

sorely diminished....' In

judges to value a faithless she was secretly engaged at 15"Shakespeare is the big stuff to anxious to play.

"I have done everything Wagner words spouse in L.S.D. in reminiscent to a youth of 19 was awarded on English actor," he explained, to a German the judge's Own

Othello, and I have no burning of the bargaining nicelles to be one farthing breach of promise "Like

tenor and Verdi to an Italian."

and considerations

destre to go into blackface had

encountered In address on a place of paper and with them for quite some time the teddy bears?'

the marringe damages. these their value.

marts of tropical Africa.

For two reasons to turned have the slage stolen from mo I could have it delivered.

Let us turn back to the wife-down Aims and West End parts by some young and brilliant and when his unemployment insurance ran

Should one

This is language out last March

records of more than compare Said Mr Justice Swift on one auction

a week in a lago," he said. to earn about £20 The going got real tough. Then, Estlen to know the doctors at

with the £35,000 occasion: "A wife is not a piece 100 years ago. The highest price self-imposed apprenticeship at every actor can understand. to make things still worse, their the clinle pretty well, and when

to of furniture. You can't value ever mentioned is £15. The as-Old Vic.

But is just the kind of three-year-old daughter, Peggy, her husband disappeared they awarded in New York

a job at the a negro who lost un arm her like a piece of furniture at tunt worth in cash might repro-

At 33, being too old to be challenge his admirers would had taken cick and the doctors had found her

so much a leg." Nevertheless, at sent £150 today, Personally, aub- Derby

divorce court not long I value my wife at rather moro Larained as a pilot in the RAF, want him to accept. For it would at the clinie eoludn't seem to do espial os cleaning woman.

There are a lot of kids in and a leg under a

£1,500, mere than he took private flying lessons have to be a most extraordinary n Ove much for her.

the charity ward where I work, way train? In the case of ago Judge R. A. Wills bluntly than

£180.000. and accumulated some 200 hours' logo who could make dhem she said, 'and they get a biga Manchester woman who set the value of "a respectable, £15,000, more than

£1,500,000? flying time. This enabled him to forget Laurence Ollyler. attractive and efficient wife" at Did you mention the slip to the giti who walled come about this way: Shortly tick out of those teddy bears lost both legs after being £500. In another cass the same Well, now, have you the money join the Fleet Air Arm as a plot (World Copyright Reserved-London on me lic gave me a funny after

Express Service), the third asked for a teddy bear and kept (World Copyright Hearrved-Londers knocked down by a railway judge found that damages be- on you?

"Tim, it tumed out, was her condition Blck little girl. and that if husband

he had and

been thought the kid was alive. for Several weeks. didn't think he was on the up- missing

**Well, then, I said, 'what and-up he'd write his name and Things hadn't been going well

have you been doing with all "The woman told she had

with the "Well, Alled Easter spirit, I walked into the shop and picked out dollar bear, but when I handed "The teddy bear angle

look and said I was

Peggy became

ill,

hind

she

Express Service).

them

Tearly in 1941.

but

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