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THE GHIŅA
It WASN'T Fun Finding Out
This is what I Was looking like 13,000 milos
away from Britain.. A few days lator I was talking with the man in tho
flat next
to
ours in Hamp-
stead
THIS DIARY
OF MINE IS
GOODNESS OF
AN ATTEMPT
PRIME LEAN
VRIL
BEEF
that's
BOVRIL!
AP.D
COURVOISIER
THE
COGNAC
BRANDY OF
NAPOLEON
Sole Agents
HERE'S
IN
IN
LONDON.
that arbitrary point of the time cycle hope- fully referred to as the New Year, critics are fond of looking Over their reminisce, shoulders assess, adjudicate and sum -up.-
to
TO BRIDGE THOSE TWO WORLDS
BERNARD WICKSTEED
LONDON, Jan. 8. AST night the Keens dropped in. They live In the next flat to mine in Hampstead, the and Alan, who was in Desert in the last war, said: "What is going on in Korea? How can the capital to the heart city of a nation fall with hardly a Chinese in sight colleagues who'd been langulah- and scarcely a shot being ing in their bedrolls for two fred?"
days with flu or some kind of Well, I told him and I can tell fever. you that so far as the fall of Seoul is concerned there's no mystery at all. Everything went according to plan.
arrives back from KOREA-and he is writing straight
Luckily the Chinese allowed Christmas dinner in us our peace, and the two sick men
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trench and shot through the back of the head as they knelt in it.
The firing party returned to the truck, where the remaining prisonera were kneeling on the ground.
They marched off a further eight which Brown told me included two young women aged betweem 20 and 25 and twa boys.
Ho swore that one of the boys was no more than eight years old and the other only 13. Young Lieutenant Gordon who used to be a
It's not so bad if you can stay McEwan, in your sleeping-bag all night. newspaper reportor at Worthing, If you've nothing else to do but told me the same thing. look after yourself you can keep pretty snug even in a hole in the ground.
The cries of the women and the two children were so pitiful as they were led off to a new our lady started But you are in no state to leap trench that
the to black- I it. hadn't been for the cen- had time to recover and get on up and fight at 3 o'clock in the threatening
morning, and that's the time coated magistrate with a brief- I could have cabled you with reporting the war. sorship
Koreans caso who was supervising the these Chinese an
executions. couple of wecks ago from Don't know how right wo choose for their alincks. Seoul itself saying exactly what would happen. I could have were, illed in every detail except the
odd
а
CX-
It was quite an perience to alt by my own fire with the Christmas cards still on the mantel and read all about it.
Here's a note in my diary that
The big attack is er says: pected tonight. If it comes, bong goce our turkey dinner, for we'll all be on the move again and there won't be an Allied soldier in Seoul 48 hours from now,"
that entry
The date of Christmas Eve.
Is
but wo reckoned the Not fair, is it? But it's their interference, and while he was
Chinese didn't attack us at Christmas because
the answer to air
bad all the
weather wasn't cold enough. 'good one loo. The weather len't
Used
me in Korea, thank goodness.
You may get a week on end when it isn't much worse than at home. Then, without any warning, the wind comes whist lng down from Siberia and everything freezes solid.
power, and a
to it
TOW do they do it without freezing to death themselves, HOW
we can't? It must be because they are used to it. It's their kind of country and climate. in it all their
Temperatures drop to 30 and They've lived 40 below freezing point in the lives and learned how to get on latitude of Seoul, and very much with it. We haven't lower further north. When it is There was one night when a as cold as that, you give most British guardpost was overrun of your attention to the problem by guerillas in the small hours
of the morning.
They recovered... of keeping alive.
ANOTHER worry
NOTHER worry at that parti-
dition of two British newspaper
sentries
Out
He protested in Korean at the
talking the prisoners were shot.
One of the children raised his head as he kuclt in the trench and a uniformed policeman bent down and slapped his face. After he'd been shot ho raised one arım and
la cried out something Korean that
our lads couldn' understand.
After each shooting the graves
and then the earth filled in. were sprayed with lominy-guns
So
normal
boys, FTY yards from the graves Up round the Chosen reservoir who'd been in the country only there was a small hut where cases of a couple of weeks, actually heard a Korean woman lived with her we there were several
whispering among two small children. Apparently actually the guerillas
themselves before tho attack, the whole thing was so normal freezing to death while on guard, but they couldn't concolve that to her that she weat on non- anybody would be about in the chalantly sweeping the snow of men on such a bitter night and her doorstep while the exccu- so they did nothing about it. tions took place.
They воед learned thei Misual. te samry was shot and the others taken prisoner before they could get out of their blankets,
WHAT I WANT
THEATRE
THE
By MILTON
peppermint level. By such de- will vious and devilish means
of our at least two-thirds theatres be kept lit.
I WISH...
remaining third, we hope, will make dignity, beauty and meaning
drama contemporary
SHULMAN
The early transatlantic cross ing of "South Pacific" and "Kiss
Me Kate."
Every
Disarming is the only word that adequately describes The Fol del. Rols at the St. Martin's.
With sand in your shoes, rain
on the root and nothing much to do this would be delightful way of sponding an evening at the seaside,
If there had been a cold snap at Christmas all the events of the last few days would have taken place two weeks ago.
'Black Friday'
Dow
OWN at my local there's a
fellow with
a brother in Korea, and this brother has been writing home saying the South Koreans are as bad as the North Koreans. He's seen them shoot- ing women and children hirm
Also close by was the magis- trate's car, in which a woman ant in full view throughout.
Our lads were so furious they wrote out a full report and the following day representatives of UNO came out and dug up the graves. But they wore too late. In the night someone had bee there before them. They found the women but the bodies of the children had gone.
I saw Brown and McEwan a few hours after they had wit- nessed these events. They
e showed
then me the graves, sho mercifully covered with snow, and demonstrated just who stood where. Short of scoing it my self I couldn't have been better informed.
In the harsher,competitive salt. A British play that tries to glare of the West End its faulis
In the hler- No one in the pub believed it
Yet, you know when I told reflect the confusion and bewil- are more obvious. derment of our times. In a world archy of light entertainment it but I had to tell him his brother the story in the pub with the
somewhere was probably right. I have an good
shouting old landlord issue is might be ranked where almost
below
like Tuppence 13
tucked up some effort to more grey than it is black or above a concert party and well entry in my diary for December Time, Gentlemen, please" and
children we are all little men. Coloured
To
my own And Oranges and "Black Friday for the Fusiliers, safely in bed I began to wonder plight in dramatic Lemons. and se his
Execution scenei,” form An
Americans
if it was true anyself. have re- treated into pessimism and the
That note was to remind me of French into despair.
repeated it in that
revues
that
says,
cryptically:
From an historical stand- point such laurel-fitting and vitriol-sprinkling may, in-
THE have some worthy deed, significance. But I doubt if add it offers much guidance to te
1951. But if we could escape those whose fortunes de- the restrictions of economics and
We pre- Wit has been abandoned for story so horrid I wouldn't Cats? Why, yes pend upon the taste, way- mediocrity what would we like and neither the problem, nor a kind of superior Ensa humour-have
to see in the London theatre in the coming year? Dropping my horoscope into a wishing well, I close my eyes and wish for....
wardness and fickleness of the theatre-going public.
The paths of prophets are littered with broken
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courting a football of glass splinters to attempt to guess what audiences will want in 1951.
Alec Guinness ad Hamlet. only by this litmus test can we compare him with Gielgud, Olivier and Redgrave.
the man exists. Either Robert The lyrics have a ponderous Hampstead pub if it hadn't been Morley or John Mills should inevitability about them which play the lead-depending upon is well suited to the music.
whether the little man is big or smali.
The last night of Eye View,"
"Worm's
PROGRAMMES
All
en- the necessary
"It has just
FERE'S a more cheerful entry Il in my diary: Occurred to me that I've never- seen a cat in Korea. Mu3g uskr if they have them."
real part of the fe our boys are living out there.
On the Thursday night some The best moments are some gentic dance routines that call of the Northumberland Fusiliers for neither application nor dis-moved into a new position en
I did ask. I asked an inter- crimination. In these June the outskirts of Seoul and set Powell kicks well and Lucile up their tents in a valley. They preter who said, "Oh yes, we didn't know it, but in the dark have cats. We use their skins. Graham looks well.
for fure. Some Koreans grow so fond of their chts that they actur keep them as pets. They 29 eat mice, you know."
-"
they hind pitched camp on ne of the South Korean Cyrll Wells displays a neat; execution grounds. sense of timing in his imper- A Food British musical,
sonations of a hungry Tommy Early next morning What they will get is less
they now lack are tuneful and a baleful Sir Thomas Bee-prisoners arrived in a truck for A short repertory season of metodles, imaginative choreu- difficult to predict. Sex in Shaw's plays with Peggy Ash-graphy, witty lyrics, a reason-
A comment like that, mado Im chom. Charles Stewart, too, ekes execution.
all sincerity, makes you realise home out a number of hearty laughs its simplest
most croft as St. Joan, Edith Evans and
and robust voices. out of some rather thin blooded Quartermaster Sergeant what a long way from manifestations as Candida and Brenda Bruce able story bumptious.
material. And everything is Brown, who's a decent, ordinary you are. thusiasm. will denominate the West in Pygmalion. The men should They have
Englishman, was shaving when get their chance in
very clean. another
tho first fusilade of shots rang End stage under the ap repertory season in 1952.
out. He looked out of his tent proving oye of a Lord
and saw a crowd of British soldfarg running
towards Chamberlain who considers subtlety the most dan-
carby hillock. He joined them and was in time to see eight of gerous of sex crimes.
the prisoners marched to a
BREATHLESS NUDES will do their best
to keep breathless. Fall- ing trousers will still be the most ecstatic moment in knockabout farces.
.
A play by Graham The drip-drip water torture starring Laurence Olivier. of the Middle Ages for any comic who squirts water through No charge for theatre his teeth into another comic's grammes. face.
Greene
WHIMSY
PTO THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by L. E. Cole, at the New Bol- tons suffers because it attempts The Stratford-on-Avon pro- to make woodland goblins and Ralph Richardson in a revival ductions of "Henry VII” and seasonal whimsy palatable to "King Lear" with Anthony both children and adults at the Quayle as Henry and Gielgud as same time.
of Ibsen's "Brand.".
The extermination of first- Lear. night claques. The noisy and indiscriminate applause
As elf who has been bad is and
The continued display by the punished by being turned into a huzzabing of trends of the Arts Theatre of a policy of human being for seven years.
bad
Ho naturally goes through hell. management at a
plays, play important
Imaginative merely annoys the critics, em productions, excellent acting and By allowing him to be returned to elfdom some other human be- barrassos the actors and pro- mature taste. Sentiment as thick 68 vokes the gallery into a
inexplicably ings are rather ratalia...
allowed to have a happy ending and
dressed in tory volley of catcalls and boos. glucose
even though they remain human. Tyrolean trousers will Blood pressure is thereby raised transform somewhere in and box-office receipts lowered. Shaftesbury Avenue into
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Los contrived entrances and. exits in T. S. Eliot's next play. In "The Cocktail Party" the telephone bill must have been 50 There will be, too, domestle enormous, and there were comedies full of ration books many forgotten umbrellas and and bourgeois heartiness, plays spectacles scattered about the about pregnancy and the fun of stage that I expected the pay-
diagnose amnesia T it, thrillers whose only mystery chiatrist to will be why they were ever for at least one of the charac- produced and psychiatry on the ters.
POP
惩
ぬる
of
Now you close your eyes;
DISARMING
first week of 1951 offers no promise of the fuldiment
Children may be more adept at keeping their minds on this
ones
kind of subject, and I would be the last to discourage anyone from taking their little along to "The Christmas Tree." Jessica Sponcer, Owen Holder and Brian Haines should be mentioned,
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