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MALUKUJAX, FEBKUAKI 10, 1961.
Steel can Atlantic Pact nations strengthen bases as defence drive speeds up
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NEW YORK. NITED States Steel, one America's most tremendous industrial em- pires, has made news twice.
Its profits for the last year were $215,337,650 (£76,906,303) which is the highest since 1917.
Shareholders Are getting $25,887,237 (£9,245,441) In
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Anit down around Morris- town, In Pennsylvania, a rich farming region is planting its last winter crops.
For US. Steel is taking nyer 3,800 acres which for centuries have produced broccoli, spinnch, and beans. A vast 710W steel mills will go up. It will mean jobs for 70,000 workers,
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C. B. COCHRAN-the showman
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heard
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CHARLES BLAKE COCHRAN, the boy from Sussex who became continuous blowing from parked car in the Bronx. They the world's greatest show-
McFarland shot through the
found 27-year-old Hobert man, is dead at 78, after chest. He had attempted suicide, 54 years in the business but unwillingly summoned help and nearly 130 productions. when he slumped forward on to the hurn button.
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An era dies with him--the era of glittering sophistication which he reflected with his famous top- speed London Pavilion revues between the wars.
and
who never gave in
i
by EVELYN IRONS
and business
tent and
With the 1914-18 war came the first Cochran revues at the Ambassador's Theatre, introdu eing the daring Paris actress Alice Delysia to London in "Odds and Ends," at a starting salary of £6 a week. The show ran 500 nights.
the
followed--
Cochran said:
"A Landon audience enjoys the verbally witty comedy of in A. P. Herbert, or a Noel Coward but it also likes what is known as the belly-laugh ““......
"Nover try to reprieve a play when the best of oil critics-tha box office--tells you it won't do." O" produce plays or enter- tainments bocause I like them, not because I think they are what the public wants. When. ever I have departed from this rule 1 hare invariably failed."
hirn
"Mr Cochran's hanging dinner cabaret.
round the A SERIOUS EPIDEMIC
Young Ladies," slick and lovely, caravans when travelling fairs **flu" has broken nut mong
were La decorative feature of came to the village. thousands of railwaymen In the
cade" (103) tear-jerking review between-wars London and in- Midwest. That is to say, ta
cluded Marforle Robertson, who
When he saw comedian Arthur
of 30 years of British history). results are serious on the rall He gave Londoners the thrills became Anna Neagle, and Roberts in the pantomime More successes
Cochran was busy with Way time-tables, But the of boxing, wrestling, roller- Florence Desmond.
"Sindbad the Sailor" at the old "Watch Your Step" at the Empire other things in these successful disease is not like the British skating, rodeo and circus; he
Theatre Royal in brand. The men have been try-scoured the world for talent
Brighton, with Ethel Lavey, Jon Coyne, years. He brought Challapin to Although Cochran dealt in young Cochran (paying his first and the droll French clown, the Albert Hall in 1927, paying ing for two years to negotiate brought us Houdial and Grock, big money he is unly to visit to the theatre at the age of
Grock;
play
£1,250 for Cach 40-hour week with 48-hour Guitry and Bergner, Bernhardt have left a fortune. Financially, seven),
of two "Damaged announced that pay packets. Now they have and Duse, Chaliapin and Piran- he knew steep ups and downs.
he Goods," which raised shocked evening recitals. He introduced wanted to be an actor.
eyebrows and made good box- ecupe
the captivating Spanish dancer quit work-and they say they dello, La Argentins, the Spanish There were periods during the At 21, Cochran became private office; cartoonist Bairnsfather's La Argentina. And in 1930, with have got flu.
dancer; he produced Evelyn last war when he had a lean
dull-scale use repre- phenomenal war succes "The the firs!
of a Secretary Laye, June,
Sisters, time. He and his wile lived in a sentative the Dolly
to Richard Mansdeld. Better 'Ole."
stago rovolving
in Britain, Delysia, Tilly Lesch and many little service flat in Westminster. New York's greatest actor.
and Jcaste Matthews came others and made them stars; After the war he looked like At the start of the century ke Noel Coward
"Evergreen" which he said was he sponsored Diaghilev's Russian coming back as a money-spinner. set up on his own In Chancery
the best musical comedy I ever Ballet and Reinhardt's spectacu- For the first time in his life he Lane 19 A theatrical agent. FTER the run of bad luck
put on." lar production "The Miracle," took a partner: Lord ("Tony") Among his Arst clients was which followed a severe ill- the receipts when in
But he was disappointed with he built up a new kind of enter- Vivian, not much more than half loudint, the Handcuff King. tainment, the intimate revue. his age. They put their money
ness and ended with his, dis ravived the Max Reinhardt pro- 1932 ho charge from bankruptcy in 1925; duction of "The Miracle," which into that dubious gamble British musical plays. First
Cochran ran into another pros he had first put on at Olympla came "Big Ben": it did not prosper. Then IS Arst big "Cochran stunt" which he collaborated with No! Lady Dlaus Cooper in the part perous patch-the nine years in 21 years before, this time with came "Bless the Bride." It ran was in 1900, when he was Coward in eight productions. for two years.
31. With a terrife fanfare of
of the Madonna which she had "Bless the Bride" meant trans- showmanship he launched' Lon- formation for the Cochran bank don on a new craze-wrestling the Dance" in 1925, and finished
They started with "On With performed in America.
And what he' balance. It put him back into matches. Sensation of the follow up with "Conversation Piece" greatest disappointment of my called the the money. He was knighted ing year was his contests.between Two of the eight lost money, not while the show ran. He moved Hackenschmidt, "the
life" came in · January 1937, Russian so This Year of Grace" (1920, when the play Bartle wrote Into a bigger fat.
Lion," and Mudrali, Terrible Turk."
"The with Tilly Losch making her specially for Elisabeth Beraner, Arst appearance. In England), The Boy David," had. "tà ba In 1900 he took over Olympia "Bitter Sweet (with Fears, withdrawn after just under and started London's mammoth Wood in London and Evelyn seven weeks.,
Laye in New York), and "Caval-
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Lost money.
BUT he did not do so well out roller-skating beom.
off tive Cochran - Vivian partnership's Inter ventures, There was "Tough at the Top," another musical. That ran for five months only. Ho Jost money on it.
called The
Soon afterwards they put on n straight play Ivory Tower" based on the life
of Jan Masaryk. This flopped,
and came off after a week.
MAN behind the SHOWMAN
The 'parson' in buttoned boots
by CHARLES GRAVES expecting her first baby. Some-
"Were d a superstitious man,"
he wrote afterwards, "I should say that The Boy David' put a Jix on me, for it was the first of a series of three flops in a row."
His comeback
THE times he was unable to eat and or two. were the Cochran suffered more de- bits of food were put all round revue "Home and Beauty," feats and came back more often him in his dressing-room. He with a new Hungarian singer
ber.
One of Cochran's most proft- than any heavyweight cham- scarcely slept a wink for the Gitta Alpar, and the operetta able ventures ever was his pro- plon. He never had a small first three nights of the provin- "Paganial" with Blehard Tau- motion of the Carpentier failure because he was such a cial opening of a new show. Beckett fight not long after the magnificent. Press agent.
After every success he became Cochran was nearly 70 when 1014-18 war. He collected £30,-
more nervous about the next. he came back during the war- 000-which worked out, he used a private life he was very
In 1942 with his
spectacular with an occasional afterwards, at £10,000 a courteous, say
In the late thirties when
Farjean revue based punch. The Aght lasted for three full of synthetic and romance of the fairgrounds of on the blows only.
pompous on occasions, but had somewhat precious
his Within alx years of that fight'd
youth, Big Top" at His theatrical tremendous sympathy for
producers, Cochran, with his
Majesty's, Beatrice Lille was in he was bankrupt with a total young people.
furlined coal, buttoned boots,
It. But "Big Top" was no deficiency of £94,235. He told
hat and cigar could be picked-winner-
to
the bankruptcy court then: The Whereas Andre Charlot irrl-
It was Cochran the status of the chorus girl and
a drastic
that
public have paid more than a tated his actors and actresses out by any member of any In 1948 "Big Ben," A.P. Herbert to see shows I and writers by giving them good audience anywhere in the world, musical at the Adelphi which million pounds
produce, was have promoted. I have made as advise, Cochran plasated them as the flesh and blood reality of cost £30,000 to
after 172 perfor much as £100,000 in a year and with kind pats, which is perhaps what an actor-manager-producer withdrawn
mances because of can do so again if I get the right why so nany of Charlot's should be.
drop in takings. during show. But to do that I must be original discoveries went across financed, and the money I carn the street to Cochran.
who rained year's theatre slump.
Cochran will be remembered will go first to pay off my liabili-
claret and the made oven the show girl dance not only as a great producer but ties, which I shall always con- Fond of old
countryside, he behaved even in the most intricate steps when as a courageous trier. He never sider morally binding. At present London rather like a parzon who he introduced his Young Ladies gave in. l health he was at neither my wife ner I have a dve shut the front door behind him to the public.
times alpost crippled by, pound note in the world."
arthritis-did not retire him. In fact, his wife had sold her every morning at 10 and then
went on his
• His gifts as a producer were rounds expecting jewellery: their London house
everything. to
young be exactly as it confined very largely to the eye struggling was mortgaged.
wha on his return. Like a rather than to the car. He had agent, he made a runaway mar- country parson too, he was one very little sense of verbal rlage with a 16-year-old London of the few men in Londen who humour on the stage, though in schoolgirl, Evelyn Dade. Lindy
private life he displayed a Cochran was by his side through. T-Lindfield, Sussex, where he wore boots in the daytime.
benevolent cynicism. It he all his years of dazzling success was born on September 25, From the moment, he con became angry he would go quite and occasional disaster, 1872. Cocheran learned his first colved the idea of a new show purple in the face, but never lessons In show business by he was like a young mother lost his temper.
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