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'The twopence you save
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London Express Bervico
HOW ILL IS
SIR STAFFORD?
T
He
FRANK OWEN flies out to Zurich to get the facts of a strange cure
came
:
who is a
Careful watch
Some of these say (in view of the coming Budget): "We used to think you
were Old
THEATRE CRITIC BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP.- REPORTS ON THE WOMAN WHO RATÉS 'No, 1
ON NEW YORK'S HIT PARADE
Ethel phones
the President
A
S usual, the New York
stage is in an interest ing condition. No one
Naturally we then move across the seas to the Duchy,
They intend to have their fun with the Marshall Plan, but first
+
the
targot
is quite sure what is hap- they are going to show you a pening, but that is a state Uttle European country where of mind that afflicts Ameri- there la charm, beauty and oven,
an idealistic Prime Minister. ca_generally just now..
I am sorry to labour this point I have never seen this but obviously the idealiam country more lively or more which has actuated American worried. But it must al- polley since 1945 is going more
and more to supply ways be remembered that for the Broadway satirists. The Gotham-on-the-Hudson ia American hates to be a a sucker, not the capital of the and he believes that the nations U.S.A. Unlike. Paris and of Europe have taken Uncle Sam for a ride. It is interesting to London the politicians are note that the average American not part of its life. To some does not distinguish between extent it might be said that, Britain and the other nations: New York holds power without responsibility Falling in love which, as the late Earl TN the process of Miss Merman
the mendicant queue.
fts,
In love with the Baldwin
falling опсе remarked, has been the prerogative of Prime Minister, and her secre
tury falling in love with the the successful courtesan Grand Duke's daughter there through the ages.
are several, telephone calls to Thus Broadway becomes the Her Excellency from President great satirist and sentimentalist Truman. of the American scene without
"Hollo Harrow," is her jubi- really being part of it. The lant greeting each time. Once towering city of skyscrapers she asks him what is really has almost nothing in common going on in America and listens withr Chicago, Boston, Min- in completo silence for over a neapolls or St. Louis. It sucks the minute, and then says: "But, talent from the Hinterland, Harree, I didn't know they had
makes or breaks it and then con- a music critic in that part of tinues in its own vast self-obses- America," sion
Except ones, when the Prest- Therefore it is understandable dent calls up to tell her to offer that the new roaring musical hit Lichenberg 200 millions if they of the moment is "Call Me would not take 100, the conver- Madam." The music is by Irvinus always about Miss Truman, tion (unheard by the audience)
the singer. the
Berlin, whose "Annle Get Your is Gun" made such a fortune, and the star is Ethel Merman, who was the original Annie.
Again this is excellent for Broadway demands that there shall be no goda. Ita instinct to Her cheekiness
to destroy the Temple and erect MISS MERMAN is to New the Skyscraper. The Arst item York what Mistinguette in creed is: "I do not Be- and Maria Lloyd were to Faris leve." and London,
From the purely entertain-
*ZURICH. Leader of the House of Com- doctor will come into play. Austerlly. Today you begin to
Dr Roller has devised a look like Father Christmas!" HIS place is as mons, and member of the War For
way whereby the patient may warm, brightly lit, Cabinet,
"He would not have missed turnover to and full of food and
Lady Cripps thinks that the make, that vital
sun of his entire body. one," said Lady Cripps, though comfort as at any world need not go mad a third the
she could I imagine
have
I doubt if her talents, con- ment side "Call Me Madam," is time since 1914. A very, time-if enough people keep Meantime, Sir Stafford is sleep-
spared a few for she answers very well-to-do town. On their heads and their faith in ing better and getting atter.
the lot in her own handwriting.siderable as they are, could be not to be compared in quality sucessfully transplanted to with "Oklahoma," "Carousel" or my first day here, a grey, the forces working for peace.
So much so, that a few days
And she asks mg to remind another country. She is the un- "Brigadoon," but it has a num- gusty morning. I climb the Here is a woman
abashed, indomitable office ber called "It's a Lovely Day 500ft.
cheekiness steep hill
above loaie-even for those who don't ago the doctors decided to dis-
friends that the postage wor
Today" which is simply irreals continue the injections of the kind
worker whose need a doctor.
tible. Zurich.
courage in another form, and (Itself. 1,000ft.
drug streptomycin, which pre- from Britain to Switzerland' is
whose irreverence for conven-
So tough above the sea) to see the
viously he had been regularly id
tion reaches a sublime bins- man I flew here to find out
receiving,
DIVALLING "Call Me Madam" RIVA Worst offenders, she adds, phemy. about. He is Sir Stafford
Her singing voice is straight is a musical called "Guys Sir Stafford and
Lady are Ministers, M.P.s, and mein- from the sawall, and her and Dolls" based on a short story Cripps.
CHE tells me, while we eat a Cripps · heard .with keen bers of her own family.
vitality could charge the bat by Damon Runyon. It is so time the most
terica excellent vegetarian interest fhy news, of the recent
In an electric generator. tough that after a lunch and drink apple juice-
There are three houses boShe has New York at her feet critical faculty becomes numb of Sir Stafford's recovery from Cabinet changes and
sides the main building in this especially now, when Americans and surrenders unconditionally. The scene where A a racketeer the early days of his utter ex- "Coalition" chatter..
are trying to recover their self- houstion (apart from
assurance which has been lost forces his crap-shooting friends Salvation Army special Illness, which is tuber-
somewhere east of Pearl Har to, attend a
meeting and confess their sins cular infection of the spine).
And what do you think is
the
In order
to give the Army theme of this smash hit? Belleve much needed boost-is riotously Il or not--it is the Marshall Plan, funny and in qulip appalling Broadway must satirise or die, taste.
Nor
Is the producer. content to I' prefer the house called and what better medium can George, Kaufman, Alice, though from Sir Stafford's there be than the sucker money have chorus boys made up to
paid out to Europe?
look tough. These fellows are room there is a view of the sun Where is it? the real thing.
The music and the singing are IR Stafford heard with equal dancing SIR
THE play opens with Mas in December This is the Bircher-Ben- One did
pleasure that the post had in tray of gems and of the greateriadne front of the nothing much, the dancing is pleurisy, They caught it' Privatidinic, founded time, and checked it. While it fact, gone to Aneurin Bevan, white wall of the majestic 50 years ago by the uncle Insted
here. three months ago, this strange, stern man (or so he seem ed, perhaps wrongly, to his fellow countrymen) who until then had been almost the Economic Dictator of Britain..
Now he rests in a bed he never leaves up here on the hillside in a famous nursing home.
ner
She praises the doctors and the nurses for their "efficiency and wonderful personal care." rt meant watching their patient literally by the minute, lest
complication. any develop.
should
the patient suffered
also of
clinic.
4
Lady Cripps asked me first about Jim Grimths, the Colonial One is named Alice, another and the third, in Secretary, whom they thought Wilhelmina, might have been named as the which Sir Stafford es is still new Minister of Labour.
unchristened.
More to pay
his old colleague of
on the lake as
prewar mountains beyond.
Agreeable
on a
bour,
ing about scx. The Americans curtain, thanking A group of very good, but there is no smirk- congressmen for the honour they take their sex straight, and I have done her in making her ambassador to
the Duchy of must say there is something to Lichenberg. have always
ays been be said for it
"and
a close student; of affairs in Gielgud's hit
Lichenberg," she says,
has
my
of its present chief acute and continual pain. The "Popular Front" days (and of from the Socialist physician, Dr Dagmar lost traces will vanish when expulsion
He thought that this Liechti, an attractive young Sir Stafford can receive the full Party!).
rebuild his might be Aneurin Bevan's real woman with fine features henefit of sun to
general health.
chance-and
John Gielgud and Pamela would that he and three fine young daugh-
ND at night, when from his aim will be to preserve and in-You will be glad to know that Brown in "The Lady's Not For At
between present he is still lying boldly seize it.
bedside window he seas crease the close friendship that
always existed ters, Alice, Rosemary, and
flat upon his back, which la Barbara. Sir Stafford is
Sir Stafford reads but little ablaze the lights of this lush, America and Lichenberg. By Burning" tre an enormous suc- encased in a plaster shell,
New York Critica said to me: godfather of one-year-old
Himself, but he loves being prosperous city, perhaps the the way where the hell is cess on Broadway. As one of the
Lichenberg?"
"Some day this fellow Chris busiest and richest left on the Barbara.
adventure next
will read to by his wife! *
This Is Broadway at its best." begin when the time comes for
continent of Europe, the man in that one phrase, "Where the topher Fry will learn how to to move up to Leysin, Next on her book-list is the who stood at the helm of hell is Lichenberg the whole write a play--and our dramatists developed, the knowledge that health resort 4,000ft, up in the copy of "I Believed," the Com-Britain's battle for recovery in Idealistic polley of the Admini won't know what hit them." mental fatigue plus ordinary Southern 'Alps. This journey munist exposure by Douglas her postwar crisis may some station is held up to Joyour food can be a perfect partner ship for fostering real illness.
Here they discovered,
His
or him
k now under review, but it.
Hyde which I took out with times ponder how agreeable it will not be made while any
would be to be just the Chan- risk remains of a setback due me
cellor of the Exchequer of found a to stress of travel.
Zurich.
Meahtime, one of the joys the former Ігод Chan-
They have also method of curing it that com- bines the care of both the body and the mind. "We treat the of Leysin the genius of another cellor" of Britain are: letters.
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Hopeful
CALLED upon Sir Stafford's wife, Lady Cripps, who until lately has hardly left his side since he came here in No vembor. She is cheerful, happy und hopeful..
Cheerful, periences
because the
of life have laught her true values. Happy, bo cause her husband is "winning his way back to health, Hope- {ful oven about the rest of tas,
officers,
Up in the blue, sunny akcies of
-{London Express Service)
Paddy and Robbie and Bob
fry to make rain
with contraptions
like this
From JOHN REDFERN: Kongwa,
aro maddening dry gaps critical operational times.
at
Mr George Raby, fall general manager of the whole works, was an Army expert on pro jectiles during the war. He sat down and. figured a low ideas hiniself, *** Including *Raby's Special" 1 simple charcoal burner that looks Uko a drain- pipe with an aircraft rudder attached.
This is for rain precipitation by using Africa's strong vertical "currents to "good" high clouds with silver lodide from char....
Two world wars has Lobel Cripps seen her family through, (She has three daughters and
THE Overseas Food Cor Englahman, and Bob The Soot conl burners. With a battery of burners using about eB anon, John.) In No.1 War poration, which failed They "work with wondrous worth of silver lodida dach her husband was a volunteer Red with groundnuts, has start. Heath Robinson contraptions treatment, Special Projects pins Cross lorry driver in the "Olded trying to produce rain, made from throw-out stuit. to control the rainfall provid Contemptibles of 1914, foining with chemicals released by bush with a generator made of 200 square miles.
They make hydrogen in the ing there are clouds in an aros his three brothers, who werd already strvinit da cavalry burners on the ground or from the back and of a truck.
· The squad 'usa... children's balloons exploded, at great with old vacuum brake cylin- balloons (is. por, thomand) He was recalled in 1915 for heights, the corporation is ders from lorrion for the go for their own wind tests and advice from African special work in the explosives trying to tip over the clouds Rala distribution has been get
major problem, trom the observers in the Government's department of the Ministry of where they will do most start although the old gang weather service, Munitions. There it was that good.
denied this" strenuously swimm They have done more than the ?? Intestinal, trouble; he had
completely hushi- I muggested it here more than 20 experiments, now and KKY Arst contracted during his "Rod Cross service tangled with uah in planning law being, two yeKTE RED,
2
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