Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 6

Isn't She LUVVERLY! WITH nothing more than a slight clearing of the throat to catch your attention, let me put it to you straight. Hollywood has done right by our Eliza. With "My Fair Lady" (U), they have produced a Mtn which hos success clearly stamped on every foot of celluloid. Unless I am mistaken, a boy of 11 sitting behind me at the Press show will be taking his son to this marvellously entertaining about the end of the century. llow luvverly it would be if I woad write about this £8.000.000 film as if absolutely new I I could strip awal THE.

NEW FILMS all the brouhaha that has pursued it ever since it opened as a play on Broad- By FELIX BARKER way nine years ago. Warners do, in fact, give a cue for this by a credit title wit dimstenuously says it IS based on a play by Bernard Shams they genuinely don't SUCCESS STAMPED ON don't know. The rain in Spain has fallen so often 2 the plain since 1956 tl i sat perhaps many people EVERY FOOT OF IT have lost sight of Pygmalion." After all, who remembers to-day that Oscar Strauss wrote a antigen' called "The Chocolate Soldier based en Shaw's "Arms and the But that approach is Impossible. Nearly everyone knows and loves every bit of the show already In hts screen play Alan Jay Lerner has departed very little from the play. What has been added the Intimacy that the camera Invites: a smooth elegance that owes so much to Cecil Beaton: and a measure of by George Is.

of course. Audror bUrn. We'd Dottie eet out of the way the ousotion of how compares with Julia Andrews, whom se loved at Drury Lane I can only say that Audrey Hepburn has so much charm. io much magnetism. that she raY unstinted vote Her beauty and her desolation when she la Ile brutally after the entbaesy reception are very moving.

director, brit not 110041111 to choke you. From the moment nu Doolittle. sprawling on the ralriswept cobbles of Covent Garden, looks up with her Look where yet. gaw'n. dear we are away to three hours of a wary special sort of rapture.

is waggle, and parthit ft la lam delving in an expenses. high-powered ear that you know can't paawbey go WOO( Elms, the squashed cabbage" of the Garden who grows Irate virtual duchess. And this is Audrey as Etlee the "squashed cabbage" et Coyest Garden. And isn't he MAGNIFICENT N. wider.

la hi rift way. rips umisralb wasitair wide taw elattor if 4 wilds lids. Me lined 'MP veteran's esperteaco 4 the show hotiliess stone was sali able 4 tigki ids CV: the weld Mid et some. For Stanley Ilenboal. this year.

it seems a fir or. from the days of Peaside concert parties add cycling to wort ine a seeeendhaod hike. Rack in the news once more is Stanley at the third earner of of the happiest ever eternal iris nlges the Dustman In the film version of "My Fair Lady." And. at Ws Ilene. Barks.

home he was happy to tell nee "It imirldeby made a differeate to my career. To be asesiliged with the the century is yew teal off Matey. It's done me a lot of good. entomb I was Inundated with Cockney roles afterward. Rad von don't find Dooltttles In a horn In fart.

his film role took Stanley Attanstos The Laveador HUI Mob: witk Mee Gataneoa. roossaabor lug leggy. kid. Aad in HollYwood I was delighted to fled her se Sweets certainly luisio't dose to her bead la soy way." The ma. who crested history's mast famous mosiologoe figure Sam imalttis busy Woo days with sae film Jost sem- Skied and giscalwriems on astother to keep him occupied.

He flew to Hauaii to take Part in Otto Prendager's big Aar picture: "la Harm's Way." with Jolla Wayne. Kirk Douglas and Patricia Neal. "1 played a spy et sorts and it was a bit 'trellises's: climbing palm trees, scrambling over rocks with my face blacked and generally doing all sorts of things I didn't expect to do at my time of But it um fun. I rowed I hope to be Is Preminger's next film. "Bunny Lake Miming." wiiich he 1.4 making is London soon." STANLEY HOLLOWAY.

73 this war a tar cry tram seasithe co seen parties and a recondhond buycle. By William Hall waY Just two weeks to complete, a fraction of the time he spent on the mammoth fallir presents- It was nuite a relief." hr said. I was getting a little bored with the part on stage, which isn't aurprigin g. I suppose. I was eating and sleeping the role, and couldn't think of anything elm'.

When the time came for not to leave the show, I was quite relieved." Now did he find waiting with Audrey Hepburn Instead of Julie Andrews? I got oo wonderfully with both of them." he said. They're delightful to wort -witli. And I'd met Audrey years before. I'd made two films with her sbe was very small fry: 'Owe Wild with Runny Hare and And then. instead of that legendary musket.

there may be more bouquets for the one-time Sam Small to pick ''FATIIIIII 1111.111" OWL 40. 1111. 1 00.0.00, LIS THE LIOOLY SET Om: Me 0100 0.0 WlNlNgarl: 3 13 7.1. HIPPODROME LIVERPOOL ANFIELD 64 10 FROM TO-MORROW Ram Amish Perhaps her Cockney 11 not Quite elemental but she makes ra amends with her oate tag tries of Awwhw "ENKA!" and flaawah Purists may be affronted because site does not sing her songs, but you will need an expert ear to spot the dubbing. Camera close-ups allow lies Harrison to iuxuriatit as Professor Higgins.

The smooth underplaying. the perfect never has to be exaggerated as it sometimes was to the theatre. Re no looter croaks. Its sings Every shade of gebtlety is woven Into his Echoes and Gossip of the Day Seat I "MI way wtfe wattle for her Walla is sot to be romiatied of It" To-day's Quotation Judge not the play before 3 ,4 41 I sir John Danes Leas Shoes Some the bizarre shoo of years -Victors. Marti world of fashion.

B' none I reacned 'he' extreme, 1 5th century th woolttutcitizens xore long piked shoes, with toes so long that they often had to br to the knee iumeurnes wyth Bells as lin the old Banbury Croak nursery rhyme. They Ad, 'their own way of keeping sates; fashions (Jo, in those a law which forbade anyone wits an income of below C4O per annum is handsome sum ink those days) to wear piked shoes at all. The particular fashion reached such a point' that there was even a Papal Bull issued against anyone owering pikes over 11 inches in length. As some shoes had toes which reached the unbelievable length of two and a 'half feet, the restriction seemed reasonable enough although it was nearly, another 20 years before the' fashion died out altogether. F.

DaUse Notes a The Chief Constable of Wallasey has joined In the appeals for the public to co-operate in the prevention ea detection of crime. He should be supported. The more people who help the police in this drive against the criminals the better. In Wallasey, there MUM to be especially promising ground for co-operation between public sad police Mr Marshall. the Chief Constable, points out a large proportion of the enme there is larceny --stealing from unattended cars, and from automatic machines particularly.

Cycle thefts are also a trouble. By means of lock and key, and not leaving goods exposed in cars, It is net difficult to take precautions against thefts like these. And it is very easy for any member of the public who sees someone acting auspiciously to telephone the police. But prompt action Is essential. Merseyside, anxious to improve Image, has a One chance to do so as the area that is showing bow to beet grime.

It is good news that the stretch of the 6 connecting the Lancaster and Preston by-papa le to be opened next Friday throe months ahead of schedule. This means that MI will run for 110 miler, down from Carnforth to a point south of Stafford, the longest stretch of motorway in the country The need for this road is great Throughout the year, and especially in summer, it carries a heavy load of traffic to and from the Lake District and Scotland. Hold-ups, in the busier periods, have bees frequent in the past. These should now cease. The motorway's capacity for carrying a vast amount of owiftly moving traffic will be an enormous asset.

It at certain that any rialiebe suggestions on wa ys to beat telephone wreckers will be welcomed by representatives of Liverpool City Council and the G.P.O. who are shortly to discuss this ietolerable mischief on Merseyside. There was an indication of its seriousness the other night when a city police officer who spotted a warehosse on fire found every public telephone in the vicinity to be out of order. In so many circumstances the telephone can be a lifehne, the difference between a mishap and a tragedy. Vet 50 kiosks have already been removed on Merseyside owing to repeated damage and another 20 may go because the cost of constant replacements is beyond reason.

Much more could be dooe than is at present the case by the general public keeping a sharp eye on call boxes and reporting to the police at once any incident which arouses their suspicion or any person entering a kiosk whose bons fides appear to be in doubt Now Ti. Low A bore is one who toes on talking after he has finished what he has to sir A little girl was watching father golf. At lost she sald: lay y. why amistal the ball to into the little hole?" Of Walter get my best tips from the poorer customers. They don't want anyone to 'know they are poor tr "it's free country," says Sam Costa.

"If you can afford it." it tr tz 041 Navies Insurance companies over the years have met with varying success in their efforts to find titles which either the right amount of 'prestige and confidence or 'are descriptive of their 'wtivities, as a jtlance at a list of some no longer doing business shows. The Advantageous and Generous and the Perpetual Insurers on Lives both had brief careers la the lath Century. The Philanthropic Life. the Active Life, the Home for Life and the Universal Emigration Life all failed in the following century to live up to their founders' hopes The Self Help of 19011- 10 carried an echo of Samuel Smiles. The Cycle, Motor Vehicle and Accident sounded like a potted description of a road accident.

Unfortunately for the lovers of alliteration the Medway Master Mariners is no longer with us. Collectors of the curious, too. may regret the demise of Katz Patent Doe Collar and Assurance. James Street. Slow Molise A child can start going to bed at the right time and arrive there two hours later THE FINISHING TOUCH Club member ife doesn't repeat gossip.

Size improves on it. Smart Gil A clever girl makes a man feel she Is taking dinner him and not from him. January sale: When woman ruins one coat buying another. Curly Wee as for Gwendollne the Hon! Now, see her dart at school. It ought to other pupils.

I text and notebooks fur. But oh, it's stuffed with snagssines. Just have a i.ok at You." "She." "Her." "It." and "Fashion for the Junior Titled Miss" Gussie Gooso 1 9 111 9452 Your parents are not Titled Folk," she tells her schoolmates all, "You'll get no Invitation to a Royal Person's Ball. But you can on the pavement stand upon that special night, And watch me in my gown so grand from limousine alight Weather Box Jemmy Indld. Jemmy wild.

This often follows. Generally speaking, Britain has In January and February either a Continental-type wintar. Mid and mainly dry, with south-easterly or easterly winds Predsnasating, or a westerly air stream with little frost but substantial amounts of rain and usually high winds as depressions roll in from the Atlantic. The highest seas around Britain in living memory Occurred in the last weekend of January, 1953, when large areas of the East coast were inundated and many people died; and the Maces' Victoria, British Railways Stranraer Lune ferry foundered in the North Channel with heavy loss life. Mersey weather Jesuitry 211-211, INS: lee Goes appeared in the Mersey on the 22nd and the lowest temperature of the long, arctic spell to be recorded at Liverpool Airport was read on the morning of the 24thminus 10.7 (12.7?), slightly higher than the minimum temperature on January 17.

1941, the coldest day on Merseyside since 1895. Slight and temporary thaw on the 26th. January 1945, IN4: Thick fog and alight frost en the morning of the Est. Sunny periods and only small amount. of High Water, Liverpool JAM.

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NY Jtj M' dl, redirISMINKI. MINIS THE LIVERPOOL ECHO AND EVENING EXPRESS, SATURDAY. JANUARY 23, 1965 AUDREY HEPIURN so much charm, so much indefinable magnetism gets my unstinted vote. portrait of the pedant who rides rough-shod over his protegee. When he first looks the vulgar flower girl up and down and says: She's so deliciously low!" his tnflection a perfect.

This is the estimate of a connoiseur Be has no idea that Ito la cruel. His is a middleaged bachelor's complete Ignorance of fern a the beii Ide rsaint summed up In the song 'which Harrison does superblyi, "Why can't woman be lip us 7 If Cecil Beaton mads himself unpopular in the studio by ho fastidious supervision of every detail of dress and decor, unpopularity sever served more superb ends. One cant so on endlessly stout tact Ascot scene. but I can't let it pass without reentering my enjoyment of the very subtle colours now worked into the merail black and white-- detleate Ife pale peen of the gram, the red hair of the society beauties, the rOAR of earmlned cupid-bows In white artstocratie fares. 3eaton nodded only Re allowed the handsome Freddie Jeremy Brett i when he appeared "on the street where you live" to commit the unpardonable solecism of having the bottom button of his waistcoat done up Hardly a major crlticum But.

really, I can tlnd few Perhaps Stanley Holloway's farewell Get Me to the Church On a little broad. Perhaps. as I have mill, sentimentality is gives a lamer min Mr a mass cinema public 'Not Bad At All' Perhaps se could do with a little more though the old man la treated with peat respect. But otherwise there have been fru films that 1 Save so much wanted to drown in superiatwes instead. I 'ball L.A.

lead from Professor Miens His understated appraisal of Lisa as she looks before Om Embassy reception shall be mine on 'My Pair Lodi." "Mot slowly, bad." k. said not b.d at aU." 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 A NAP HAND FOR MR. NIVEN YEARS AGO I'm sure David Niven would hove been a Cavalier or Regency buck. All frills and graces, and a favoured son at Court. But this being 1965 there ore limited opportunities in that direction, so he's settled instead for the comporable status of international screen star.

I was at M.G.M.'s Elstree Studios watching hi charm his way through a scene for his latest picture "One Spy Too Many and thinking how unfairly young And well preserved he looked. Next thing you know either he or Cary Grant will be auditioning for Peter Pan How does he keep his charm and hair when all about losing theirs? Niven wasn't sure, but gave a clue later when he mentioned casually that he doesn't eat lunch as he prefers to use the break for an hour's nap in his dressing room. Not that he's lazy. Re In an actor who can not enly shoot his cuffs and two pictures at the same time, but also throws In TV production as a sideline. I had rated Perry Como as the moat relaxed man I'd Met.

However, Ntven runs elose No matter what the pante Or pressures. he has the valuable knack of remaining debonair and confident. In fact. so much like his Wmself in private life that charge of taking money false pretences must li ir examination. David Nivea can be tattled.

though. He stepped ISt of the film scene and tato his caravan to tell me lust happened during my only live' TV appearance." be said. and it also explains why I am determined never again to play a 'live show. This was an American coast-to-coast drama. a peak-hour special and I bad made up my mind to set an example to the rest of the east in unflappability.

Actually I was doh with tension. Bat I felt It was aW to use P. sty eeileagues the greatest display of British phlegm oboe Nelsom turned tin Mbar eye. "So I was all stiff upper Up and why the pante The cast were ecstatic over my calmness. Which meant.

of course the chin had to be raised one more inch." TV entrance was with bowler and briefcase and these he had left In Eventually. with we minutes to go and the openlng announcement going out. he signed that would collect lthi "Pcnns." Death and disaster. Niven's stomach turned and the British impassiveness went for ever. "I had locked my door and the key was imide.

Two firemen raced up and, taking out their axes, began to hack down the door. I was bite Jelly and their blows could be heard on the air and in the theatre. "I grabbed my thiage and raced before the cameras I A as covered in rood chips and gave remarkable imitation of a gibbering idiot" Niven retains hie nationality. This puzzles some who feel that because of the generous In Hollywood over the sego be should have egionest aides. My answer Is that." lot son oast reldlidttotallm.

Is that then are seas Antennas living is Japaa." We talked about his Four Star TV company which Mtn year will nodose the at taster, flyers worth Pains since GM. at their peak produced around 50 films a year Nino for not having the up-to-the-adnuta DOW! of Four Star but explained that 8 2 4 on two pictures at the same time Elstree one and "Lady with Sophia Loren in Paris. had kept him busy. Pour Star began 11 veers ago when Niven. Charles Boyer and Dick Powell each put up 20.000 dollars to launch a half -hour TV series.

There was to have been a fourth the company it proved difficult to find one. Ida Lupino went in for a while. then had to back out. At that time the film studios regarded TV as the enemy end actors of ksing film parts by sleeting for the opposition. It proved to be gold mine investment.

At the last valuation. and this is purely paper money. Four Star as worth 11.000.000 dollars. I said this n.fust make Nlven a dollar millionaire. and he didn't argue.

But later so he said ho didn't feel like a dollar 1111111onaire and mosey embarrassed him so small we forgot It Four Star started with lark of the three backers in turn starring without salary la a Which moans lot of work for a lot of people. We always like to buck the trend," said Nlven. 'The feeling in America IS that are out. "So we are about to or the most expensive TV Western ever made. "It will be one hour long and in colour.

The cost will be somewhere between 160.000 and 200,000 dollars. We think that Weatensa will always be popular and that audiences like shows which take them out into the trash air. Our one is called "The Big Valley." that is wrong with Westerns is that they've been making ruddy bad ones. Routine shows about stock characters instead of real people. Ours is a tough Western, not psychological like so Incidentally there is a problem about making a colour Western.

Actors agreements stipulate that be so i Negro actors must Since there weren't any Negroes in the Wild West It is difficult to find suitable roles. Which is why Negro cowboys are always stood at the back in crowd Week No. 4 they did the round of their pals and found someone Ilke Ginger Rogers to fill the gap With the profits they bought the rights to some Somerset Maugham stories rout those into producwith Henry Fonda as came the Zane Another Star series is to star Davis. "Who knows which shows will click and which will make a profit asked Niven. Our world-wide success 'The Roves' is a property.

The snag la it so expensive to make that we may not be able to afford to produce it much longer." Within seconds he was back before the 1 1 cameras playing one awn scene Though not before arranging a 6 a.m journey to Paris for the other picture. There siovplu Ms to he something In Mot heneMirne snooze theory. and tion boat. Next Gray shows. After wiuch the thing last ballooned.

This year, for instance, they will Produce 40 one-hour episodes each of Burks's Law" and "The Rogues." Then they've got two daytime series and six more shows oxing offered for next autumn's scheduW. Saturday Crossword No. 1 1 Where the fair sex la concerned. It leads a hand to mouth mistime 5 In which to read dose boxing monde? (8-4) 11 Some timber Ls like a di limit problem (6) 21 Ai roprliontod by ua dtvtdod and MAtattled (6. 6) Poasibly Herb la pale and Dams to waste away 110) 14 To create more the cricket line? (8) 15 A wanderer in a flutter, shall we say? (5-4) 17 To take in the seaman's sphere? 6) 80 Taken into folds and Aar- vested (SI 22 The place for a song In Kent 101 26 Charming bride whose sisters were not so 1101 27 Ores sold subject to alteration.

and gave comfort 8 22 ft Ina once the object of reform (61 20 Arrangement of a soft angle underfoot 6 33 Some matter of small significance? lib 26 Name certain actions Where possessions are recorded (5-5) 37 As applied to the back of the calf, perhaps' 184) SS I'm at heart not very robust (6 39 To change over in the current way? (9 40 A break in the goods traffic? (5, 3) DOWN I Ten-nil for the songster' 6 2 Where the gardener takes his rue' (7, 4i 3 Would playboys be the most helpful assistants here' $7) ACROSS DOWN 1 Thing 1 Futile found out 2 Methods 9) Period (3) 9 Torment i3t 10 imitated 3 Type of window i 5) 4 11 Of high standing 13' 14 Family diagram (41 15 Part of rock (4) 5 Urge on (1) 6 Vestment (5) 7 Smoke 14) (5) 16 I Snake 5) 10 'Trembling (51 12 Gin '4) silently (5 18 Lost colour 1 5 20 Protuber- 13 Eyot f3O 16 Pronoun anc (4 21 Port (51 43r 17 Air 44, 23 (31 24 Excellency 25 Sort of 18 Trimmer (3) 19 Eager 4, 21 Brave 27 Felt con- cern (5' 28 Voice of fellow (4) 22 Influence donkey (4) 30 Voice of singer (5) 31 Silly bird) unfairly (41 24 Fruit (51 25 Vow (7) 26 Organ of diMt (3 27 Money (5i 26 Advantage Freezing (5) 4 1101 (4. 33 iiiiiwii fel 38 Units of work (4) so Faults (3, 130 Colour (5) 31 Moan (do 33 Heart (41 34 Splendid 4) 36 Cock (3) 37 Little one (3) Se Anecdotes 40 Diocese (3) 41 gent (9) 4't may describe the mail comfort that can be got from a loaf (5i 6 Regard as dear' He's rich enough for it (7) 7 Soccer union? (11). 8 A learner in these hats would be fishy (7) 9 Roves round in cricket' .5 10 it might give a Iht. flashy performance 16 The call of the moue presumably 15) 18 An exploratory fellow. not tinthout his poetical element 16) 19 Airman turned princess 161 21 The act of becoming less dense 11l XI Well, the siert of in the skin, perhaps (5).

34 We may most it from those that pass in the night (4-7). 26 They can certainly make a difference to Ada's port (6) 29 Concentrated in time (7). 30 More than eight on board (7) 31 Subjected to a surfeit of stuffing? (7). SOLUTION ON MONDAY 32 That fgures! (4. 2).

34 It isn't the last of it for the jester (5). 36 He apparently has ills minter to sing (5) (Solabors to last Saturday's Crossword No. I on Par Eight). Crossword No. 2 Yesterday I Swivel.

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