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VIVIEN LEIGH

B

EAUTY has its dis- advantages. Not least

among them is is

ability to get what it wants

--gives a lesson on

#rentest young diceovery since Moggle Albanesi, startled the West End in 1020.

Then, with its count isdalo for sudden success, Providence to it that nothing much ARW

with a minimum of effort. HOW TO STAY ped to Vivien Leigh for

This is particularly true

of the stage, where cenely young women are suddenly catapulted to public favour with neither the training nor the experience to keep them there.

The trick, then. is to cling to the heights while enlisting the aid of hard work and determination to make the foothold mory

secure,

FAMOUS

by Milton SHULMAN

the next few years,

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haring these years Miss Leth was having more luck with her film creer, When, after intent Punilety carpin, Wyld Selznick chose her to play the part of Scarlett O'Hara in her "Gone With the Wind" future was assured.

ubrequent hims like Waterton Bridge," and "Caesar perform- and Cleopatra, her

es ranged between excellent fair. But it was not until se returned to the stage in 1942 ie Doctor's Dilemma" and followed that up with Sabina In

Lady Olivier

Britain making

for

money other countries

SHORT time ago, a sombre building on historic Town Hill

in London turned out $400,000 in silver dollars

By ROGER BUNYON

bearing k 1780 date of the bygone lilles, "Queen of Tingary and Dobemle, Duchess stamp, the crest of the of Burgundy, Counters of the

imperial court of Aus- Tyrol... tria and the effigy of an empress.

Among other foreign coins the British mint mude 6,000,000 on pieces-Norwegian nickels - for Norway, franes как French West Africa, pennies Faroe Islands, silver for tanya, bronze for Cyprus, cupro- work for Jimmy Barr, nickel sixpences for Eiro and even 24 batch of 340,000 coins veteran coiner at the Royal for the Fill Isles.

This building Was counterfeiters' hideout, the for the

coius no

bogus collectors" quarters Items It was all in a days postres

Mint, which turns out over

Britain's only private mint-

| 600,000,000 coins a year. a

a colrae works at Birmingham goodly proportion of them any fashioning 12,000,000 foreign.

colns for the new state of When King Ibn Saud of Saudi Israel; Israel! economists, And Arabla decided to have new eons puzzling over the form

ordered the dies made in Br. design their money should take. tain and coins struck from them decided to take up their coin- 1st the U.S. Buat Arabs along age where they left it 2,000 the Red Sea consts sil look years ago and ordered shekels, askanee nt bis new-fangled prutoths and gerahs based on royal pieces, yet eagerly part coins first minted in 14 B.C. with blankets, camels, pearls and gun in exchange for Jim- my ner's silver dollars

WE'LL TAKE DOLLARS

THE

reason lies in an old custom, for the Arabs have always prefered large silver coin, and the hand- some Marin Theresa dollar has been the principal coin of com- merce in the Soinian, Aden, the Hejaz and nelghbouring terrl- tories since 1300. Originally,

It seems, the coins were intro- To her friends and guests seduced by the old slave tratters. iskom led thun gay, charm-

and formal. She

05

the

Old emblems Eveli cup of marino, the lamp with. eight candles, the palm tree and the bunch of grapes have been revived and inscriptions in archale Hebrew designed and modern Arabic.

Mint workers were puzzled by the year dute "5709," but This proved to be the Hebrew year.

PRUTOTHIS BY PLANE

10

urgent Was the Israeli government's

by

hence the term "trade dire need for coinage that the first

consignments. were down

With its vine-leaf and scrutinise each plane. The Arabs coln varefully, rejecting those grapes the 50-prutoth piece is

keenly aware worth roughly 25 cents,

Undoubtedly her wisest decision at this time was

crustantly delighting them with entaheits berkets of generosity, her refusal to sacrifice con-

if sometimes her tempera-that are worn. pletely her future on the

int makes her a little dificult that the Marla Theresa i now The Skin of Our Teeth" in to get along with, she would one of the few silver coins with The number of starlets stage for the generous re-

1945. that London began to hardly be so ed an actress it 83 percent pure silver,

Formerly,

silver from the thank of her seriously as an wee otherwise,

Arab territorier was inken to who have blazed to glory wards of a screen career.

She can probably thank tess and

415 not merely

the Miss Leigh is only too aware Vienna mzat to be con- only to plunge as swiftly this display of admirable another film star.

of her own Imitations as an

verted into coin, but Vicana into oblivion indicates that foresight for the mature

And in 1949 in the name-part this feat is not as easy as

Ming Leigh proved that she was it may sound. Miss Vivien performances she was able

to give over a decade later pwdy for parts that called for antly trying to overcome Leigh's career provides an almost classic illustration in the challenging roles of deep resoure's of imagination, Sabina in "The Skin Of Our aletligence and technical skill, of how it is done.

Then came title rol in

her Bauche in Teeth" the

the controversial "A Streetcar "Antigone," and Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Dee Desire." To some critics great performance, 2 others it was accomplished

Fame in a night

JF to May 16, 1935, those sire."

morgues

of

factual

trivia the newspaper libraries-possessed scarce-

Married at 18

ly a single clipping to note VIVIEN LEIGH was born Vivian Mary Hartley at the existence of Vivien

India, Darjeeling,

where Leigh.

she spent her early chiki-

of Jean Anculli's "Antigone," tres. She still takes lessons production stopped in 1936

was

invoich prudluction and is een-

1chnical weaknesses,

tors

Soon, however, the contrac- starl work on 1,000,000 500-prutoth pieces, cuins rank- valuable ing among the most now being inade.

"

It is over 30 years since the old-time golden sovereign was

in Bri- in general circulation tain. Recently, the royal mint Ber] SHEKELS AGAIN

struple 100.000 sovereigns preserve the inherited know- as it to ledge

craftsmanship of and Harmful critics

TODAY.

heighten this strange making gold coins." forgery, the British The sovereigns bore n George CHE thinks that critics van dollars are stamped with the V head and a 1925 date mark an acknowledged ste do considerable harm initials of the old Vienna mint and are now

oftelal

a young actress by pointing master, as well as abbreviations part of Britain's gold reserve.

but cold. But none could now cut one physical and unalter

hintale defect. deny that Vivien Leigh definitely established her right to be included among the

portant actresses of the day.

"Astonished'

!me

tong

neck

"James Acute once described me as a flip, and added that

have tun tulip tem," she raid, "It was a res mark. that had me worrying

hout the length of my

1 stul have been JUST before she left for Holly whe

my acting." But on that day the Tress hood.

wood to repeat her rote of worrying As a young girl she was

know that there Mies

She Rancho for the screen, male up for its indifference

me that she had *me mannerisms of her own Practically every newspaper educated at the Convent of Leigh told

Stered Heart in never

understood the public the must all climinate. she secret," in Flect Street blossomed the

Tut they are my Streetcar "A Dgainst

ld, and I don't intend to tell into unrestrained headlines Rochampton and travelled like "Stage Fame In A extensively through Italy, Semed Desire“

you what they are,”

111-health as plagued Vivien Leigh for

Dy years, Night" or "She Finds Iler. France, Germany and Ire self A Star In The Morning" land.

Barrister,

she

Olivier.

10

married

24

matery

"I wouldn't call it a drawing reem comedy, but I am ab

telutely astonished that anyone hold #nk it subiricus, she

..

05

favourite pastimes

"talking

wi

are

Chance Experiment Saves Boy

A

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

YOUNG woman doctor

So Dr Smith

irled her CX-

case, a

where prospecte

has saved the life of a periment with another

youth of 17, boy by A seemed hopeless. thrach the says that she is raw perfectly fit, the strenuous two-year-old

contintanus eincentration chance experiment with-a a sanded by the role of Blanche poison.

"A Streetcar Named Desire"

The boy was dying in erisly laxed her

:[ hospital

tuberculous trength.

The drug strepto- "You have to be a terribly meningitis.

Pas etont be as arter," she said, mycin which

Way. I had to have my neck in two had no effect.

So Dr Honor Smith fought

physical

cures one

twirled by a masseuse every would try her experiment.

the

It was even considered that all treatment might be stopped his to let him dis in peace.

However, she went to work, injecting him with tuberculin.

fortnight he began And now he ap

Within a

to improve.

to be utl

and league. LA

Smith her col.

Dr It

now trying

Vollum, are

the se injec.

tlons

with

more

patients.

They Kot first

to recount the appearance ller formal dramatic edu- of a 19-year-old girl in a cation consisted of a year It is not mere affectation that new play called "The Mask at the Comedie Francaise bas egeri Mis. Leigh it is of her of Virtue."

at a short time at the "erendipity"

in her The fact that she was Royal Acaulemy of Drama- atrical Who's Who.

"Serendipity" she defines actually twenty-one at the tie Art.

broadly-s Her introduction to the pro- rotier time may add verisimilitudu to the event, but it in nofcasional stage was, however. lazily and happily with your

postponed while she took time feet up and not knowing what week." way dims the lustre of her cut at the age of 18 to marry subject will come up next." Mit Leigh does not like to Not because she hoped it would Pears

boy, but the

making a to get dazzling and unique triumph. Air Leigh Holman, London For Miss Leigh simply bubbles make long-term plans about her benefit

might, But some day knowledge

in recovery. and

Which have

with words.

Dr Once they start to future plays.

have they

been 1 would like to do Shakespeare's me, help others, The mandage was effervesce The photographs that ac daughter.

mud Imogen in She injected into the boy companied these exuberant dissolved in 1940 and later that own, at times, to tumble out Cleopatra

of purifled cmall her

quantities Laurence of

mouth somewhat in Cymbeline," she paid. reports revealed a face with year

advance of her thoughts.

which is a poin tuberculin, With Sir Laurence Olivier in the hone-structure of Bot.

But because she speaks quick-

at

James' free by TB germs, The St. control

The She looked young

results astonished ticelli goddess and the de

ly it would be wrong to assume Theatre, it might not be too rush

'Truc.

Smith and

everybody else in that she lacks sagacity. licate radiance of a Renou

to predict that one day this may tie Radelite Infirmary In demoiselle.

MISS LEIGH has the kind of the hus occisorally or public well come to patient infuse Oxford.

face age has a dificult time than discrent in her urence's direction

For this pitifully emaciated Although utterances, but that is probably it warmth and sympathy with contracts keeping up Three film

weight rapidly: while working THREE NOW awaited her signature the he was already a mother, she the result of having too many

Der nudience that in still lacking child gained

condition of paralysis, looked young enough to be cast ideas rather than not enough of

from some of Lady Olivier's per-from a day following her debut, es a schoolgirl in her first film them.

formances, then i would indeed he began to play will toys. Sir Alexander Korda had part. It was a 1934 picture

be difficult to deny her great- Within a month the boy who to explain why some patients moved even quicker than valled "Things Are Looking Up."

had been blind could see again, do not respond to streptomycin. ness,

He started to talk.

But in the Lancet they that. Two acts of "Tho This was followed by tiny

IT is, however, in her grey- Perhaps the remark that best

warn that much more work Mask of Virlue" were parts in three other films, and

AND A SECOND

must be done before the treat- green eyes rather than in reveals the true actress and truc enough to send him racing then came her first professional

delicate facin fentures female in Vivien Leigh was the

Ge she dropped almost as an Today he is a chubby fellow ment can be properly deserved. to Miss Leigh's dressing stage appearance In The Green ber

that Miss Leigh's character. Is Sash" at the smail Q Theatre.

quickly making up best revealed. For as they afterthought. "I like part full of three,

And there is no evidence that He chatters room, where he offered her

It seems difficult to believe flicker and sparkle they disclose of comedy, tragedy and not too for his lost year." n £50,000 contract to appear to months later, in "The something of the determination, long," she said. in ten pictures in five years. Maak of Virtuc," London crilles perseverance and vitality that She signed it 24 hours later, would be acclaiming her as the motivates Vivien Leight.

NANCY

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Still learning

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