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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, TOKU.
W.J.BROWN picks men who kept traditions alive Diamond Rush THESE ARE MY BIG 4 In The 'Vaal
have been certain years in which tho out
standing personali- ties have picked them- selves. Nobody doubted in 1940, for instance, that Mr Churchill was "The Man of the year." Eo towered over men and events.
But there are "lean years" na well as "years of plenty"— years In which no particular steps forth in obvious, outstanding pre-eminence. This has been such a year.
marz
names
In pleking my Big Four of 1950, therefore, I shall choose Icas remarkable for actual achievement than for the significance of their actions or their work.
Gracious spirit
OF 1950
Oliver Stanley: "Last of the great analetars.
Cripps: "Refused to take the cany way.”"
McElroy: "Chose
the high and
Lonely way.
and
views of truth, and price of excessive hours upon his prepared to sacrifice his job overstrain wo should remem- and his livelihood in defence of ber and praise him. them, mentally take off my hat to him.
A BRITISH SOLDIER IN KOREA: These are our · finest. ambassadors.”
arc
ever
to
By GEOFFREY JENKINS
WOMEN from all parts spring up every day, "Look at
W
·Ten
of the Empire, includ- the spot where you see a ing Britain, have written to grazing, and you'll find diam. there," saya. Mrs Martha Van der a Transvaal diamond digger Westhuizen, one of 13 women offering to bọ his wife. Ho who have just taken in part in had £4,800 worth of dia- two now rushes near sites on monds taken from his farm the Vaal River, which 20 years:
ago made diggers fortunes, in September, and in a
All 12 women
In the fortnight in August moro
great diamond rushes of the than £1,300 worth came to part, Mrs Van der Westhuizen, as- the surface.
a alim school-giri, But they all followed the digger tradition when the platoi munded, sending streaming across the bare veldt They hitched up their skirts and ran to peg their eînima,
to
one
hundreds of men and women
I found Mrs Van der Westhul- zen sitting on a heap of gravel, puffing after her run.
It is reported that he is throwing open his farm to other diggers, but mean- while he will not talk about the marriage offers, or say what he will do about them. We have a great Ambassador in the United States in Slr According
diggor Oliver Franks. We have a great luck. It has been proved over
"talking about finds brings bad I hy did you peg this claim?”
"I looked round to see where- Finally, as my fourth "Man spokesman at Lake Success in and over again. That is why to- there was a donkey" she said IN the field of politics first
of the Year," I select ANY one Sir IN
Gladwyn Jebb. But the day there is less glamour about "That's what my husband told choice is Oliver Stanley,.
Such a man la James McElroy, of our soldierà in Korca. First
your claim wherm- whose death the other day Plymouth Brother, of Coventry, and main brunt of the fighting finest ambassadors we possess a new diamond rush. We don't mo-Feg
celebrate as we did in the old there's a donkey, for there will the Jada who from robbed Parliament of one of who, rather than remain a fell on our Amerkan frerida,
town, days."
be diamonds beneath it' Its most gracious spirits. I member of a union
I do against and
not doubt that in village and farm have gone to choose him not for his achieve his religious convictions, chose America and Koren there were the other ends of the earth to A real diamond rush has, ments-though indeed be at the "high, austere, and lonely many private curses about the assert the principle that if war Arica, and there a man, than however, hit this part of South tained to high office in the way!"
dilatoriness of the so-and-so
A little village #1 tin. chanties, "Limeys." But State and proved a worthy and
whatever
aggression are the and
superstition behind the he talk" typical of the early South cease on the earth, then free rule. Too much talic means too Krican among rushes, has successful Minister-but be-
American view of our dilatori- Bael to politics again, T
must peoples cause he stood for something choose
accept Slr
the many diggers. The claims are sprung up in the Vani River Stafford Cripps. ness, there is only one Ameri-
crowded together and this means in public life of great impor- Here is another man
with a can attitude about the magnif- challenge of aggression. and increasing rarity- noble conception of duty-dis- Lance
cent bearing of the British
that one man may intrude on After the first day's digging With Oliver Stanley in his mother's ground when the sense of duty.
a good one man found a six-carat dia- in these last dificult quiet agree with his politics as much troops
grave, with Sir Stafford "strike" is made,
mond, which led to feverish Cripps In his Swiss sonatorium, of as you like. It took a full-sized and desperate days.
activity in general. Just before with James McElroy whereve man to stand for years for the
the rush the names of diggers conception
he is, with the 20,000 British
were called out by police, but troops in the cold winter of
one name The diamonds He only four to He knew how to hit hard, but garn.our bread. before we ate
there wa 12.
shall our thoughts be he knew also that humour was
Korea,
feet beneath the surface, and reply; the man had been killed at this time. They exemplify the diggers do everything to In more effective than invective,
an accident the previous It required an immense T is one of and
unqualified the ancient virtues, the eternal prevent their neighbours know- day. Two men fainted with his sharpest thrusts were courage to refuse to take admiration for their stead values.
their They teach us the old ing what is happening. Veteran excitement just before disarming the cary, popular path on wages fastness, a smile. He was the embodiment matters. Cripps spent and was their skill. General MacArthur's a livelihood.
their courage, and traith that a life is more than diggers say that this is the most names were called.
They keep alive, hush-hush diamond field in the One of the big-shot diggers- spent in what he conceived to tribute to them is not a formal in a world given over to selish country's history.
employed a a team of 200 natives: be his duty to the nation, and stilted thing. It is a heartfelt materialism, the traditions New superstitions and fantas- to pek his claims, which he
that he is paying the tribute by a soldier to soldiers, which made us what we are.
theories about diamonds staked after using a metal
divining rod. No theories about. grazing donkeys for him.
Stanley
money.
hnd no need He was too modest to for its own sake, seek power
delivered with
of the sense of duty.
Public service
families are dying THE olan duties and high taxation break up the big estates. But let us recognise the old families contrl- that buted to public life, century after century, something of enormous value disinterested, unselfish public service,
One son would go into poli- ties, another into the Army, a third into the Civil Service, a
now
that we must first
Honest tribute
BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP, PICKS HIS—
PLAY
tic
OF THE
THE YEAR
SI shall not be writing *******
on the London Theatre for the
'My most enjoyable next few weeks, this is perhaps
a first night: Ring fourth into Church. That convenient moment to look tradition was a noble one, and back upon the year 1950 Round The
....................................
Stanley
of it in
was the
embodiment
our day. Politics, like and balance its significance sport, becomes more and more with its insignificance. professionalised. Stanley WD3 the last of the great amateurs.
I choose Mr James McElroy, of Coventry. It is one lessons of history that the op- pressed of one day can become the oppressors of the morrow.
tions.
CLUBS
Moon'
designed and directed with a
none of our established play-of In the field of trade unionism wrights enhanced their reputa of this was due to the skill of the precocious Peter Brook, who Noel Coward's ACE OF looks like a schoolboy but makes
survived of the
the cold adults bend to his will must douche of the crities and settled also be remembered that Jean down to a long run, but it lack- Anouilh, who wrote the play, is a master of his craft. Without any hesitation I put Ring Round the Moon as the most enjoyable first night of my year in the theatre."
TRA
Noble work
TRADE unionism began as a
combination of poor
men
ed the audacity and the satire of the author's early works,
tion. Quite obviously there is a age and perhaps our minds have large and growing public for the grown insensitive to gentleness unusual, the intelligent and the and the appeal of goodness, experimental. That is the most encouraging feature of the Lon-
don theatre in 1950.
how the
fared
Rough Stuff
DETECTIVE
its
Acting? Bravo!
area,
"I don't need to race,” he told mo. "This rod tells me where to go
Old-timers feel that Som thing of the romance has gone out of diamond rushes. Today shacks have corrugated iron
made out replaced the hovels
to cans of the old days
were only big
which
enough to allow a man to sleep with his head and chest covered from the freezing cold.
Now the camp is called grandiloquently "the residential
they regrot area," absence of dance halls and the Hively old-time bars.
arxl
☆
that
it+
Now let us American invasion
What is to be said about the CAROUSEL gave us a thrilling acting in this year of grace? On Arst night at Drury Lane and First it must he admitted that remorseless thoroughness. Much proved once more that in must the whole it must be rated very what we have seen-Olivier's cals we lag far behind. On the high. Think for a moment of
The owner of this plece of other hand, American plays wero not having it all their own way, brooding aristocrat in Venus
Observed. Paul Scofield's twin land dug up £1,700 worth of
diamonds before throwing Round brothers in Ring
the
open as a pubile "diggings." Moon, Peggy Ashcroft's Viola,
This diamond rush is spread- Walter Fitzgerald's Captaining from South to East Africa; is reported the STORY faded Shotover, John Mills's Tycoon from Nairobl
in Top of the Ladder, Yvonne grant of licences to prospect Emlyn Willlains gave us ✡
out after a brief Hfs of a few Mitchell in Six Characters in from the Mines Department. dirty play he will forgive
days, and MISTER ROBERTS Search of an Author. Ralph For several months new pros the frankness which just got by on the acting plus a bril- Another poet who stormed the Was given a rough handling by Richardson in Home at Seven, pectors have been investigating
Valk in John the and Frederick
inhabited wild, sparsely liandy written
of the critics on blackmailing
some ramparts was T. 8. Eliot, whose
Gabriel Borkman.
and many game-alled plains, scene. Nevertheless, ACCO- COCKTAIL PARTY severed premiere at the Coliseum.
belleve they will make their LADE found its public. Un- companionship and spread con-
Admittedly we have had to go fortunes there. doubtedly there is in the British troversy in all directions. It had
DEATH OF A SALESMAN to the little theatres to pick up
Many of the men who want conquered Broadway falled to reproduce its New York some of these collector's pieces, breast a profound sociological already
to make claims say they are or suburban interest in the le- and moved against London with
reason but I regard that band of brave convinced success for the simple
that they can put Mr complete confidence. sex life.
important their hands on large deposits of But all institutions can be regularities of
that the British are not in love guerillas Williams was equally unconvin- They
with come corrupt with time.
pozaimism. We cannot feature in the upward climb of
diamonds immediately permis- the British theatre. purposes cing as Jekyll or Hyde, but he come to serve
sion for prospecting is granted," may
afford it. has a manner which always
suid a Mines with, unconnected
and even
Department Despite the indomitable np. that his acting makes one feel hostile
Therefore the American aliud peal of sexual irregularity, de ometal. 10, the purposes for
Strict rules and regulations which they began. In our day must be better than it seems.
This is a play which permits tion can be summed up in these spite the substitution of nudity
mines, which no noutrals. You are either for words. Despite the continued for have seen the
wit in so many musicals, govern diamond despite the fallure to realise must be completely fenced off it or against it. As for myself. vogue of Ivor Novello, the charm that beauty, pity, tenderness and and must at all times be under I felt that it was written by a concussed for the concussed. One of DEAR MISS PHOEBE and goodness are the very stuff 01 the personal supervision of an I object to that principle. Terence Rattigan followed of my friends whose intellectual the lusty vigour of Stephen great drama, this has been Tade unionism loses half its with another dirty play-if he development stopped with Kip, Mitchell's GOLDEN Crry, the encouraging year in the London value when, instead of being will also forgive me and was ling's if has been to see it three Americans dominate the musical theatre. voluntary combination of free duly scolded by the critics armes.
feld. But in the realm of the
London Express Service).
to secure collectively the rights individually they were which powerless to win. It has done necessary and noble
much work.
we
growth of the closed shop principle in
trade union affairs.
Under Fire
Draws The Cash
to R
Photo-
in
men, It becomes a coercive in- falling below his form. But the Mr Disraeil once remarked drama the British are wearying stitution, compelling men to questing public, after a week or that in the Commons the most of American realism. violate their religious or other so of doubt, felt that sexual convictions by threatening them irregularity deserved its patron- efective rotort was a majority graphy can never be art, and with
the loss of their Hvell-age. Had there been more wit the most effective retort
in the division lobby. Certainly
the theatre issuli an art hood.
the theme of the play would dramatic critic is the box-office. modium, not have mattered, but sin on that basia Mr Ellot and Mr Some modern trade unions without satire or tragedy is a Sherak have won the day.
Looking at my scrapbook I insist that men shall pay them poor thing.
find that in Aprli I wrote these a levy before they are allowed
Another play of importance words for the Evening Standard to start earning the living! A If we number Christopher was Tyrone Guthrie'n TOP OF "The London theatre is phy- hundred years ago men were Fry among our established THE LADDER at St James's. I sically and intellectually deported from Britain for the dramatists we must admit that never thought that it would sur- crime of joining a union. Now he scored an enormous success vive the ridiculous
but not spiritually. good health, length of the
at the 1st of plays in they are driven out of their with his adaptation of RING first set and the repetitiveness
London today. Beauty, tender joby for the crime of not join-ROUND THE MOON, but raised the last act, but Mr Guthrie took neas and klealism are hurd to
no moral the
criticisms to heart, and And," If we examine the list of VENUS OBSER- slau
slaughtered his own lines like a offences VED, which was till his own theatrical Herod. Fortunately for plays today that stricture still,
holds good on balance, work. It i dangerous for a him John Mills had given a dramatist to defy the conven superb performance, and un- An exception was HIS EX- tions of the stage until he has doubtedly, carried the play dur- Arst mastered them,
ing a shaky opening week. I am delighted that the play On the other hand Ring Round survived. WHEN I see a simple man the Mosa, which gave the im- W whether I agree with his pression of unordered nonsense views or not-taking his stand and fanciful spontaneity
Ling
the two self-con Wows of doubt with the cur
I sco a union, difference between things. Both are against the liberty of men.
Hats off to
Therefore let us pauso for a was moment of general congratula-
POP
GOOD
W
HEAVEN'S
ITS HIGH TIME
I DID
SOMETHING
ABOUT FOONG MYSELF UP
WITH A NEW-
Eric
CELLENCY, in which Portman bravely returned to a homely Yorkshire role. But on the whole beauty and tenderness found little place in the theatre this year, We live in a atrident
Sad reflection
MIRROR
DS
an
an authorised miner. Official
⚫
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be appointed to assess the royalty payable for diamonds mined in the colony.
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