Possible Clues:

• Female pillar of support?
• Grant assistance, holding bottom of upright pillar
• Substitute column in terribly arty papers on frame of cinema
• Female figure as a pillar in Greek statuary
• Pillar in female form
• Pillar of Greek society is a support to old film star on first name terms at the papers
• It always turns up in eccentric sort of column
• Arty cad, I fancy, getting female made of stone for support
• Supporting female scientist crossing river from the south
• Grant a leader in the papers a column