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Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 8

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Evening Standardi
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London, Greater London, England
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8
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VT fjuiMT VBpniom PAGE 8-VWINa STANDARD says Dirk Bogarde them all We're going to deal only with the period when he other stars who appeal to her more changeable instincts A man with such sure-fire qualifications is obviously an asset to Hollywood whose stars interest in the film Serious Charge Asked whether she thought English actresses could play love scenes Miss Brousse said: "I know I've never seen an iy in British films All the British films in Paris are about Scotland Frank Sinatra once offered to ponck me on the nose His pngilistie reputation mast have spread When be arrived in Miami recently a local photographer met him dressed in a heavily padded baseball outfit and mask Britain's turn TTAVING made a highly XX If distaste ful about Japanese war atrocities The Camp on Blood Island producer Michael Carreras Is now going to prove Actually I do play a bit which lh- should help I can't worry about how the critics will fed They took their usual swipe at me over The Wind Cannot Read but the ticket buyers loved It the darlings If 1 ha made myself Into a popular star do you think Anatole de Grunwald would have wanted me for The Doctor's Dilemma That's the most distinguished film some people might say the only distinguished film I've made "But It was things like the Richard Gordon Doctor films that made me popular The critics don't pay your salary you know you can't work to please them" Mr Bogarde was not worried that modern teenagers who make up a large part of his following might think of Liszt as a bit of a square He was Uie unsquarest one of Yes 'ii i i i Ft lij i t1 1 I I' 0 hi I' 1 i' i I I 1 i'ilj 5 'L 1 ti the perfect Cinderella byElfcEEft fASGROEl think that every- body will love said Dirk Bogarde the possible exception of He was talking about his first Hollywood film In which he will play Franz Liszt an admirable subject lor the movies since his musicianship was exceeded only by his promiscuity A dashing fellow who would knock out a transcendental study between amorous assignations Mr Liszt has so far been quite Inexplicably neglected by the Hollywood epic-makers On his terms He appeared briefly In the Chopin story and again In the Wagner story but this will be the first time he has been given A film all to himself Mr Bogarde was very excited about the idea of playing Liszt He has been waiting for eight years to get such an offer from Hollywood During this time he resisted their most- honeyed overtures their most rhapsodic invitations and financial offers that were sheer tone poems 'I was determined" said Mr Bogarde "to go to Hollywood on my terms not theirs I going to sign a long-term contract because then I would have been obliged to do any old thing they chose to give me "And I wanted my first Hollywood film to be a real bravura role Something with attack This is It I'm on every page of script Of course in a way IPs rather frightening" Mr Bogarde is Britain's foremost romantic star he appeals he to the maternal instincts of woman which may be why he has lasted longer than BBC 2 Th Woodentops )U Children 6 NEWS headlines sport WMlhi weather regional news 620CARDENNC CLUB eJA TONIGHT: Topical magazine 9 fj NEWS summary 7 lft-PERRV COMO SHOW with Marge and Gower Chai bl lampion Conway Twltty MACIC: David Nixon introduces music mystery HALL OF FAME: Jos Beckett and mys ft OUR MUTUAL FRIEND: Episode 6 of Dickens story ft Jlft FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT MONT 1: lamein 00-ntw The battle of COES HOMET James Callaghan and Raymond Gower questioned by their constituents lO PHIL SILVERS SHOW: American army comedy 1110-" summary ITV Last programme on art (repeated 323) Small Time Let's Get Together Popcye NEWS weather 2 SCHOOLS: nrrnm rnp on LIFE WITH THE LYONS: Lyons family comedy 6 4ft REPORT: Guinea and Ghana 7 THE MAN CALLED Xl 'A Secret Service thriller 7 lft EMERGENCY WARD 1017 id Hospital serial TAKE YOUR PICKl Quiz 8lft-THE ARMY GAME: Army mw comedy f) THE heat op the EVENING! Play starring Jane GriOitha and David Courlneyr his impartiality by making a film about British atrocities It will be called Yesterday's Enemy It will show a British unit shooting two innocent Burmese in order to get vital information The moral seems to be that atrocities whoever commits are box office Big bangs TWO film companies are competing to sec wlio can atomize the earth earth first Stanley Kramer is oil to Australia soon to make his film of an H-bomb annihilation based on Neville Shute's book On The Beach Bryna Productions are off to Mexico soon to make And The Rock Cried Out based on a story by Ray Bradbury with a similar theme Both hope to get their film out first Also they may want to get finished before a real H-bomb goes off and makes both pictures out of date outer corner to make the eyes look larger Last a pretty rose-coloured Last a pretty rose-cotourea lipstick applied with a lipbrush which makes the lipstick stay on longer Rita loves dancing and her birthday falls on January 1 plans a party so we went huiiu1B for a special party dress For her first short dance dress we picked one of tiered njltm organza trimmed with blue mi embroidery blue shoulder strap-and ribbons Its own sffenea petticoats gave the skirt a dancing swirling effect To complete her Cinderella outfit we chose white satin slippers with pointed toes and medium heels Adding up our purchases we discovered we had overspent oui £20 budget by 3s 5d Here is how we did it: Nylon organza parly dress in while and blue I White satin slippers 2 19 Make-up lesson New hairstyle £20 3 was at the height of his fame and irresistible to women That's not being square is it 7 The time when he became an Abbe not going to touch That's rather tricky He was a rather gay old Abbe wasn't he 7" I do not know how music- lovers are going to feel about Mr Bogarde a provided there are enough mums itial would -be -mums or potent is mums amongst them they probably will not care if he thumps out the Warsaw Concerto with the toes of his left foot Crime only ILIANE BROUSSE a 21-year-old French glamour girl has been brought over here to provide a love Rita is my husband was killed in the war she has helped with the housework and run errands When she was 13 and I was in hospital she kept the home with her sister She has a soft spot for old people animals and tiny babies and is a real-life Cinderella" This we thought is the perfect Cinderella story A young firl with potential beauty very ittle money and a kind heart So we chose Rita a typist for our second magic £20 transformation BEST INVESTMENT A simple easy-to-keep hairstyle was our starting point We went to a salon that specialises in smart cuts for under-21s A good cut once a month and careful shaping is your best investment" Rita was advised An egg excellent for dry and fine hair-was used followed by a beer rinse to give it body After thinning and shaping it was set in curls all over the head and brushed into place when dry Next we took Rita for a 7s 6d make-up lesson A lovely Christmas present this for any girl Rita's young skin was good mi: wMm GAME! key word in the Word game is: GABBLER Can you find 33 or more words in The list will be published tomorrow Average mark 29 words Time limit 25 minutes Yesterday's word: GRISTLE Gest gilt girl gist girt gnt grist rest ntrs rise rile islet iter sire site silt slit stile stir tiles tires tier tigers tries trig lest lire lisL tend to make their appeal on a slighty more animalistic basis I am not going to Hollywood to please the critics" said Mr Bogarde "unless my departure can be said to please them I'm going there to make a 1 colossal' "This Is a film that will have everything dear old Lola ntezWi Montez Wagner Chopin Berlioz Mendelssohn- George Sand mad King Ludy or and me at the grand piano bashing away It's going to be made in Hollywood Rome and Vienna Whatever die it's going to be it'll be big "The opportunity for me Is tremendous This chap Liszt 3or- really was a colourful Not a dirty-old-macintosh role "I've been reading his biographies He had affairs with all the most beautiful women of Europe For the purpose of the film we shall probably have to concentrate on just three or four of them "But we shall definitely have dear old Lola Montez and then there's the Countess something or other and then one of those I forget what she was Princess of exactly Hot too stuffy 'Oh it'll all be fairly authentic you know But we're not going to be too stuffy about It I mean Liszt was blond and I'm dark but I think that matters I certainly shan't dye my hair oh certainly not Then there was his first girl friend who I believe was 23 years older than him in her fifties Well we shall have to make her a bit younger In the film I think anybody will mind that do you 7 "I shall have to have some additional coaching so I can thump the piano convincingly 1015 Nicholas 1045 110 1130 story NEWS ARTHUR HAYNES SHOW with Ken Morris Parsons and Alma Cogsn PARTY: Advertising -COOL FOR CATS: records MYSTERY IS MY BUSINESS: Ellery Queen HOME: 330 120ThO8e Were the 1 News Midday Prom A Golden Tri Treasury of Music and Song People Talking 30 Any Answers? Kings of the Keyboard 40 Brains Trust Pluto Children ft News 015 In the South uw East Sport Music Album 70 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 00 Inquiry 030-Thud and Blunder (7) 9 News 15 At Home and Abroad 045 Friday Recital Who Knows? Today In Parliament 110 News Summary 110 Music at Night NETWORK THREE: 464 194 ft Italian Journey (11) 645 Science Survey In Your Garden Motoring Close LIGHT: 1500 247 1 9 Turntable Mld- day MusichaiJ 10 BBC Northern Dance Orchestra Listen With Mother 20 Woman's Hour Black Dyke i Mills Band While Any At Friday A GIRL whose mother says she Is a has won our second magic £20 transformation prize offered as an extra-special Christmas gift She is Rita Larkin of Camberwell who is 19 has soft brown hair and laughing brown eyes Her mother wrote: "Since "7- 1 Southern Channel 11 As ITA except for SOUTHERN NEWS 70-1 LOVE LUCY Comedy 1045-people and places Topical magazine Questions? (Light 830) Home end Abroad (Home 915) Night is Music Night (Light 9 1 5) Rita the pgrfect Cinderella wears her speeiai party dress though inclined to be dry and a trifle high-coloured Here is the simple routine she was given on daily skin care A gi fentle soap and water cleansing the mornings and cleansing cream followed by skin freshener at night Twice a week an application of Skin food before going to bed and on other nig molsturlser LOOK NATURAL Make-up for a youthful face should be light and natural-looking Rita was shown how to apply a soft tinted foundation and work it in well with her finger-tips over face and neck A little rouge was used high up rkle to on the cheeks to give spark the eyes and then peach powder the surplus dusted off with a fine brush and a downward movement to "seal" the fine down on the face and give a matt finish Eyelids were kept bare of make up except for a touch of silver Dill blue eyeshadow A special party touch was a blue liner pencil used te draw a fine line round the eyes ending in wedge-shaped lines at eacl You Work Mrs Dlsry Music In the Modern Manner Plano 5 Roundabout The Archers 70 Radio Newsreel Sport 7 30 The Beddlrigton (7) a Laugh Any Questions Friday Night Us Music Night 10 News 1140 Olde Tyme Dancing 1130 Rendezvous Late News THIRD: 464 194 Stravinsky Concert (Part 1) Moral Philosophy of 8artre Concert Part 2 The Grass of Idleness (essays and letters) Buxtehude RADIO LUXEMBOURG: 208 4926 ft Non-stop Pops Requests Band Parade 130 Musical Monograms 00 Weekend Spin A Date With Perry Como Juke Box Parade Scottish Requests Record Hop Voice of Prophecy 1130 Bishop Johnson Programme.

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