Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1947)

Day Will Dawn, and he had a role in Leslie Howard's film, The First of the Few. In a way he did meet her. What happened was this: young Bartley had spent the morning stunting and looping and rolling in a Spitfire, and was having a quick one with the boys in the bar, when the Day Will Dawn unit broke for lunch, and a pretty girl in Norwegian peasant dress passed through. "That's a nice ype; I like her," observed the Squadron Leader, lowering his Scotch. "That's Deborah Kerr," said Leslie Howard's publicity man, "not on our unit, but quite a coming young actress, so I'm told." "Goad work, good work," said the Squadron Leader, and went on with his drink. If you ask Deborah Kerr where she and her husband first met, she'll tell you that it was "frightfully casually, in Brussels." Nearly four years had passed since the one-sided encounter in the Denham bar. Deborah was appearing in an ENSA production of Gaslight, with Stewart Granger. Tony Bartley was engaged in dropping troops across the Rhine. One evening the Public Relations Officer attached to the 21st Army Group, a crisp little brunette who had been a school friend of Deborah's, persuaded her to come along to a "pub" where the War Correspondents used to meet. The P.R.O. was interested in one particular war correspondent, whom she subsequently married — Paul Holt, of the London Daily Express. Deborah wasn't interested in anyone in particular — until three Air Force boys from the neighboring squadron turned up. gold-tiled bathroom, yet! . . . "After that" she says, "we used to meet a lot. The Squadron had an amazing house in Brussels that belonged to a rich collaborator — he had marched out when the British came in. It was a typical German house, with a gold-tiled bathroom and every luxury you can think of. The boys used to throw all sorts of parties, and we had a wonderful time. The old collaborator had left a big collection of phonograph records behind. But the record Tony and I liked best was a French one, Jean Sablon's 'Je Tire Ma Reverence.' I don't think I shall ever be able to hear that again without feeling choky." The Bartley-Kerr wedding was one of the first slap-up, full-dress affairs in London after six years of war, and it drew a big gallery. Aside from the bride's cinema fame and her elk-skin gown, the bridegroom's reputation and his father's title, the attractions included at least five Battle of Britain fighter aces. Although he is a civilian now, Tony Bartley is still a professional flyer. He works as a test pilot for Vickers, and the current trip with his wife to America is only in the nature of a leave. All her life, Deborah Kerr has been surrounded by modestly comfortable and gracious things, and that's the way she hopes to go on living. The thought that she may be introduced to America as a Cinderella-girl, a rags-to-riches heroine, strikes her almost cold with horror. She feels it would be dishonest to herself, to her family, and to her audience. She was born and brought up ia a solid, middleclass British home, and she went to a solid, middle-class British school. As a little girl she was protected and happy, and she isn't claiming any allowances. At 15, she left school to become some sort of an actress; she learned elocution and ballet dancing; and at 18, just when war was beginning to hover over Europe, she set off to London to make a name for herself on the stage. But it didn't work out that way. There are two versions of the way it did work out. According to one story, she was lunching sparsely one day in a tea-shop STUBBORN FILM ROBS YOUR SKIN OF half its Beauty! You can't see or feel this stubborn film . . . and ordinary cleansing fails to remove it. BUT Once you try this treatment you will instantly see and feel the difference! 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