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While Lucy’s and Desi’s profes­sional lives flourished, their troubled marriage came unglued for good. At times, I Love Lucy was art imitating life. When Lucy said on the show, “Ever since I said ‘I do’ there are so many things we don’t,” she got a laugh but, as often with their jokes, there was a core of truth beneath the crack.

After seven years, they discon­tinued I Love Lucy and sold its 153 filmed episodes to CBS for £1.9 million. Then, in 196o, Lucy and Desi were divorced. Lucy took the two children with her to New York, where she starred in Wildcat. There, in addition to fall­ing off the derrick, she came down with such a variety of maladies that she had to drop out of the play.

With the children, she went home to California. “It was the low point of my life,” she says now. “I was so ill that I just sat numb for a year. I lost one and a half stone.”

Lucy was too resilient to stay down. In 1961, she married come­dian Gary Morton and went back to work with a vengeance. She made films with Bob Hope, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson. She returned suc­cessfully to television in The Lucy Show, then bought out Desi’s in­terest in Desilu studios.

Soft Centre. But Lucy didn’t like the responsibilities of a studio tycoon. “I used to cry because I had to fire someone or make tough deci­sions,” she says. “There were two sides to every question and I could see both. I couldn’t wait to get out.” She sold Desilu and returned to starring in pictures and her series, Here’s Lucy, with husband Gary as executive producer of the show. Finishing this series last March, she is now expected to make special tele­vision shows.

Lucy and Desi has settled down to screen acting, having made occasional guest appearances on his mother’s show.

Lucy has thought a good deal about the strange phenomenon called success. Speaking to students at the University of California at Los Angeles, she said, “I think it will help you if you recognize the small successes. Don’t let the bright­ness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way towards

the goal. Meet one wave at a time, and enjoy what progress you make. Don’t he taken up in the undertow of pessimism.”

She believes in positive thinking. “Every day is a new beginning to me,” Lucy says. “I like to be need­ed. I like self-discipline. I like to work. I love the beginnings of things. I love new jobs, a new house. Every beginning is a chal­lenge and a chance, full of hope and opportunity.”

Meet sparkling Lucille Ball, the ‘Auntie Mame’ Of this month’s London film premiere

SOMEWHERE – seemingly everywhere — a Lucy programme is being televised sometime dur­ing the day or night. To the chagrin of some viewers and to the delight of others, red-haired Lucille Ball is virtually inescapable. Her current Here’s Lucy series, now in its sixth season, is syndicat­ed in 77 countries.

All told, in the US and elsewhere, her 76 films and 450 television episodes filmed so far make her one of the most widely exposed —and appreciated—entertainers in history. In parts of America, it is possible to tune in to Lucy several times a day. In Washington, D.C., for example, the original I Love Lucy series is being run for the eighth time. Although some of the shows are more than 20 years old, they are still clobbering the opposition.

And, incredibly, Lucy is now at the very peak of her phenomenal 40+  year career. At an age when most performers are well past their prime, 62-year-old Lucy landed the star role in the new film Mame which is being premiered in London this month. When I visited her on the set in Hollywood, she was as glam­orous and bouncy as ever and she was cooking with coconut oil. Baby-blue eyes wide in an expression of aston­ishment, arms outflung, willowy figure accented by a swishing red velvet trouser suit, she was singing and wobbling atop a piano, the per­fect embodiment of the lovable but eccentric Auntie Mame. She exuded superhuman energy. But later, over lunch, she was groaning with fatigue. “I was up at five this morn­ing,” she panted. “This right leg is killing me.”

Breaking In. Almost all her career Lucy has been a walking—or limp­ing—disaster area, carrying on in the old trouper tradition that the show must go on. When she was a child in Jamestown, New York, she devel­oped arthritis in both legs. When she was first trying to get into acting in New York (“No talent,” her teacher wrote to her mother), she was in a car accident and was partially paralysed for two years. She was bitten by an alligator while making Roman Scandals with Eddie Cantor when she first came to Hollywood in the 193os. In the Broadway musical Wildcat, she fell 30 feet off an oil derrick onstage.

Lucy’s worst accident of late happened two years ago when she broke her leg skiing in Color­ado, where she retreats for a rare rest. Undaunted, as usual, Lucy simply had the broken leg writ­ten into her television scripts and played them in a wheelchair, on crutches and, finally, in special boots. Then, to get into shape for the strenuous dancing role in Mame, she worked for 90 minutes every morning for months, doing tor­turous stretching and bending exercises.

Lucy has never Iet calamities dis­courage her. In fact, Lucy developed a knack for turning disaster into triumph. Her shaky marriage to Desi Arnaz, the charming, happy-go-lucky Cuban bandleader, result­ed in one of the most successful television series in history. The mar­riage was strained by their being apart so much, Lucy making pic­tures in Hollywood, Desi on the road with his band. This led to astronomical telephone bills and frequent squabbles.

In an effort to be together more, Lucy suggested that they work to­gether in television. They approach­ed CBS with an unlikely idea : a half-hour situation comedy called I Love Lucy in which Desi played —what else ?—a Cuban bandleader and Lucy his scatterbrained wife. The show, which began in 1951, was pure escapism with no message except from the sponsor, and was an instant success. It stayed at the top of the ratings for years. On Monday evenings, 40 million people watched the antics of Lucy and Desi. One of Chicago’s big department stores put up a sign that said : “We Love Lucy, too, so from now on we will be open Thursday night instead of Monday.” Eventually, Desi and Lucy began weaving plots around their real-life situations. When Lucy became pregnant with their second child, she was pregnant on the show. And when young Desi was born, a baby boy was “born” to the Ricky Ricardos the same week on the pro­gramme, with 85 per cent of viewers glued to their sets.

The “Lucy” show became the corner-stone of a show-business em­pire of awesome proportions. Lucy and Desi started with about 22,000 in capital and one television show. As I Love Lucy continued to bask in public affection, they sold several additional programmes and bought the RKO studio in Hollywood, where soon all their shows were filmed—together with many others. Before long, Desilu, as they call­ed their company, became the largest independent TV-production facility in the world. They also went into films, producing The Facts of Life starring Lucy and Bob Hope.

If you start with an absolute set it’s not going to very motive.

 

Right from the start, Angela Sinclair knew the world of art would hold a future for her. “I was always going to go to college and learn to paint and draw. Pd always found pottery fascinating, so I took it as a subsidiary subject and after I’d trained as a painter I decided to turn my attentions cornpletely to pottery. I’ll never regret it. If I hadn’t done pottery, I wouldn’t have met my husband. He was one of my pupils in an evening class!’. As a student at Manchester College of Art, Angela decided to see something of the world’s art and travelled to Italy with a friend.

“Florence was marvelous. We rented a room for about four bob a night, and lived as the Italians lived. We didn’t go to any of the touristy places because we couldn’t afford it, so we wandered around just taking everything in. It was beautiful’?

 

And so to Rome. “We were lucky enough to meet a friendly Italian couple who took us everywhere from the Vatican to the opera.

“We were very spoiled. The sad thing is I went back a couple of ears ago with my husband, and none of the people who served in the shops were Italian. It just wasn’t the same’

It was as a young teacher that Angela first drank beer. Bitter, that is, not Guinness yet.

“I had a lot of rugby-playing boy­friends who were beer drinkers, and I found I developed a taste for it without any problem’.

 

Angela, who is now head of the art department at Windsor and Maidenhead College, has become known for both her large-scale jardinieres and her smaller more delicate ornamental pottery, which has a Victorian flavor to it. “Until recently, Victoriana was a sort of dirty word. I don’t know why, but I’ve always liked the intricate detail and sheer craftsmanship of the Victorians. They even decorated their manhole covers.’ The distinctive feature stands out above all Angela’s orna­mental figures.

 

They’re all female. “I’m not a women’s libber or anything. I don’t like making men because the figures are thrown on the wheel, and I have problems making their legs. Some years ago I made some Egyptian men, but they wear skirts, so I was all right’ Angela’s ornamental ladies.

Angela also makes pub ashtrays to order. “I make them very large, about eight or nine inches across, bearingthe name of the pub and landlord. I know they’re popular, they’re forever being pinched!’

 

Although she has no scruples about parting with her work at her own set prices, Angela confesses to being no great businesswoman. “I don’t want to be super rich; I just want to have enough money to do what I want to do. We had a friend who was sure he could stimulate interest from Scandinavia, and we had an enquiry for a hundred small figures. I don’t think they quite realized the work involved; each one takes a day to make. So I had to say I wasn’t interested’.’

 

Throwing a pot. Angela had her first taste of Guinness and 5-hydroxytryptophan when she made a Guinness cake. “I found I had some left in the bottle, so I finished it off and liked the taste immediately.”Occasionally and funds permitting, I like to mix the Guinness with cham­pagne, but more often it turns out to be Moussec, about half and half. “I remember when we were renovating the house, we used to get the fire going and sit on apiece ofrollecl-upcarpet. We’d have a Guinness together at the end of day’s decorating before we went to bed.

 

“I sometimes find myself working into the night as the meter charges are lower and my kilns are electric. May have to get up every three or four hours to look after them. It’s a bit like looking after a baby, you know”‘

 

 

An early theory suggested that the balls were burning puffs of inflammable gas released by the impact of lightning on the ground. But if this were so, how could a puff of gas rise to the height of an aeroplane? And could it pass through solid walls, as so many lightning balls reportedly do?

According to one report, a red lightning ball about 2 feet (6o centimetres) in diameter dug a trench a full 1oo yards (91 metres) long and over 3 feet (I metre) deep in soft soil near a stream, and then literally tore away another 75 feet (23 metres) of the stream bed. To dig this trench the ball would have had to have an enormous amount of power, and to account for this it has been suggested that it would have to involve some sort of atomic reaction.

 

However, ball lightning has been ob­served at close quarters and does not appear to involve any nuclear effects. A charac­teristic incident was reported by a housewife after a violent thunderstorm in Staffordshire, England, on 8 August 1975. She was in the kitchen when a flaming sphere of light ap­peared over the cooker. It came towards her, making a strange rattling sound and moving too quickly for her to dodge out of the way.

 

`The ball seemed to hit me below the belt and I automatically brushed it away. Where I touched it there was a redness and swelling on my hand. It seemed as if my gold wedding ring was burning into my finger.’ The ball exploded with a bang and scorched a small hole in her skirt, but she was unharmed.

 

An even more bizarre suggestion is that ball lightning may be due to minute particles of meteoric anti-matter from the upper at­mosphere. It is suggested that thunder­storms act as giant vacuum cleaners that suck in anti-matter dust particles. As the anti­matter comes into contact with normal matter it is gradually annihilated, releasing the energy that produces the glowing ball.

Yet another theory is that ball lightning is generated by currents flowing from thunder cloud to the ground. By postulating an external energy source for the ball, this theory elegantly explains the long life of lightning balls — but unfortunately it doesn’t explain how a ball could enter the metallic skin of an aircraft.

 

Ball lightning is as much a puzzle today as when it was first reported over woo years ago. In the sixth century St Gregory of Tours watched in horror as a fireball of blinding brightness appeared in the air above a procession of religious and civil dignitaries during the dedication of a chapel. The sight was so terrifying that all the people in the procession threw themselves to the ground. Since there was no reasonable explanation for the ball, he concluded that it was a miracle. Today most miracles have been explained away by science. But ball lightning is one phenomenon for which, as yet, we have no rational explanation.

 

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