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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1951.
MINK DREAM
IS ENDED
By NEWELL ROGERS
NEW YORK.
Nfor chorus dolls at the stage
TO free-sponding guys left to wait
door? No stage-door Johnnies with money burning their pockets because Income taxes are so high?
Showgirl Rosemary Williamson from the chorus line of the Damon Runyon musical show "Guys and Dolla" would tell you to forget it.
Didn't she buy a handsome, curly-haired guy a 6d, cup of coffee? Didn't he buy her à £2,000 powder- blue sports car, a £1,150 mink coat, and a £2,900 diamond ring before she knew what was happening?
He certainly did, and Broadway's bright lights never sparkled 60 brightly for Rosemary. Or for Sid- ney Levy, a 27-year-old free-spender.
But unlike "Guys and Dolls," the story has an unhappy ending. Levy is in gaol charged with a £14,280 nylon textile swindle.
At the district attorney's office Rosemary called her free-apen- tier a "creep," a "pest." Wanly she complained: "I never know 10 was in illegal business. 1 thought he was a gambler."
ULTIMATUM to the Senate has been delivered by its leader. Ernest McFarland: "General Eisenhower is being handicapped
"Take a letter. Dear Mr. Stalin, we will be very much obliged if you don't start anything for two years...”
London Express Service
DON IDDON'S DIARY
HE British gave a the radio and the news- NEW YORK
T
big party here this papers and magazines were week. Sixty-five out in force. floors above the
side-walks of New York, in
TUESDAY American admiral
Mr. George Britain gives a party to her
In the programme for rearming circular glass house ad- Sokolsky, the joining the Rainbow Room. He arst
Europe by inck of action here Unless the
troops-for-Europe 150 people gathered at the columnist American friends-and
In
invitation of Major C. B. Ormerod, of the British who Information, Services,
uses
and БИСССЕЗ
that
critics
cism of the appointment of an was an at- tempt "to befoul Anglo-Ameri- can relations."
This is the worst sort of rub- bish to
a come from
man known for his nonsense. Not even the most fanatical lingo or the severest critic here has de- nounced Churchill.
For
from befouling Anglo- Churchill American relations, has bettered them by proving to the US. that we still have some self-respect,
tish business men here. I think of the that with the backing Treasury they could do more.
the What is happening to
toid there conference
Americans
in arts and
COMPLAINT by rejected the pro-British and Inter- wearing my bullet-proof are
British Information to the No one here seems to be able is only 31, is being hailed as
waistcoat!
Americans, let
issue is decided soon, there will be no Easter recess.”
DOUBLE-STAR lights blaze
everything from a machine- ing to ench other" something for Sarah Churchill on Broad- way. While her name is up For' once we were on top gun to a knife to wound us hard to imagine.
This was mecek stuff from the Lover a cinema showing "Royal of the New World. The in print, came up to me.
roaring Sokolsky lion...
Here anti-British feeling Wedding." It will also be in neon Isolationists and anti-Bri- "You're the fellow I want
I think the party was a spark- dollar gap? The Eastbourne seems to have subsided. We are over the theatre where she is tish politicians and journ to shoot," he said. I told ing
lead
also doing well playing
1 show,
Is the gap "Gramercy Ghost."
alists were there, as well as him that, fortunately, I was should be more of them. If we little.
widening, letters. Geoffrey Cotterell, who in the business of giving lessening, remaining the same? suitor Samuel Reynolds, after nationalist groups. No one
the the best young British novelist us invite the to tell
and friends on the for years"certaini me,
of interna shooting three policemen who.
Wall Street Journal forecast refused to let him into the birth-lost his temper or flung a
Sokolsky, who considers carpers and critics and Anglo-
the New tional fame," says phobes as well us the fulsome gloomily that our tride faces a York Times. His book "Strait day party of his ex-sweetheart glass.
us Socialist slackers and friends and Anglophiles.
new crisis, that the economic
Narrow" is a very he could kill her and
great so that
Our fiercest critics hung effete pan-handlers, assured
barometer is heading down- and himself: "A man can't even kill on most of the words of Sir me that we are down and publicity drive has taken on new be asking more financial aid. I
Altogether our information and wards, and that
soon we shall success. himself in
Cecil Beaton has enjoyed new. TAXATION bill for 1950 paid Gladwyn Jebb, Mr Gore done and out, and said it momentum recently-perhaps hope not.
successes as designer and photo- by mighty General Motors Cor-Booth, our Information was something I wrote the due to proddings, Since Mrs
grapher here, and his farewell paration-more than £548 mil-Chief, Mr H. A. Hobson, other week which moved Press Department, our officials financial eggs are in the British the official British get-together
Joy Wright arrived to direct the
party the other night rivalled· Hon-would have been enough our new to meet all expenditure of the
Consul-General, him to want to murder me. have been gaivanised into action. Festival basket and we are rely- as an Anglo-American contribu United States Government in and even listened to the
ing heavily on the American tion. Nool Coward's latest book, British correspondents. any year up to 1917,
tourist trade.
"Star Quality," proves his own SPOTTED
strailing into
shining qualities, cinema to see "The Enforcer," which stars Humphrey Bogart 65 a district attorney tracking down underworld big-shots:
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pesce any more."
Hollywood big-shot. gambler Mickey Cohen.
we
Never underestimate the power However, within five minutes of a women!
were chatting like friends
Gunning for me (Doar old pals, foily old pais) Now that at last we are spend-
men
women
and the most ferocious remark ing our few dollars effectively, THE
and
Sokolsky was capable of when 1 how is our campaign to carn who influence Ameri- going so Isolationist
left was: "I tell you. America is them going? Not very well.
that soon
I don't hear much about Bri- can public opinion through Americans won't even be talk- tish business or much from Bri-
One daringly spectacular
dance-then
vast THE
hall of Olympia had been transformed that night into a great cathe-- dral, and in front of the altar the abbess and her nuns were praying.
But one at them, the most beautiful of them, was rest- less. There were sounds of gay singing from outaide the cathedral door, and when it swung open you could acc women madly
men
dancing.
and
on to
then on
The
COCHRAN STORY
Delysia
Apparently
many
of
aur
Sure-fire way WELL, one sure-fre way of not turing visitors and not garnering dollars is the meat shortage. Will the American
and
In fashions the trend in men's clothes is to British styles-no padding in the shoulders, nar- narrow-brimined
row trousers,
hats, the air of casual elegance. As for women, they are wear-
Our film folk
sightseers, pleasure-seekers, and ing nylon stockings for hat- castic-gazers be able to buy ham veils. It sounds far-fetched, but
it's fetching. eggs, bacon and eggs, steaks,
it is again chops, pork, lamb, and sirloin In entertainment beef? It sounds a harsh ques- .
Charlie Chaplin who is in the would-be vialtor. Warned, young girl to
nows. His advertisement: tion, but the
play wants to know.
leading lady to comedian gener- Will he be able to order ally recognised as the world's Scotch, bourbon, rye, and
greatest" has produced a shoal of ice-cubes? The ice of applications. King Charles Up-stage
translucent Plenty
cubes are very important. No the Modest. screen,lighted from the back, ice--no dice. stretched from wing to wing and as the band began to play: Of course, the best possible at- thegilhouette of a female traction that Britain could pro- figure could be seen behind the vide for the American Festival screen.
folk would be a new Govern- ment. If Messrs. Attlee, Bevin,
"Three Up went the opera glasses. Morrison, Bevan, Galtskell, and other American film, But you only needed your company wish to
make a real Weird Tales," by John Coller. naked eyes to see that the giri contribution
Festival's It would be filmed in London to the
under American John Huston's behind the screen was wearing success, let them stand down.
but a Grecian nothing
direction. This gesture would be appre- ***
in his James Mason will sing in perched on her shoulder.
clated by almost everyone here, next picture, A Lady Posses Seven other girls fol- and we would probably make so sed." Well, something had to be slowly Bling many dollars that we could pay done about his come-back. The lowed,
Across the stage and back the American loan.
latest British film to open here, their entire dress also
The recent antics of Labour "The Magnet," featuring young consisted either of us, Ministers have dumbfounded a William Fox, got three and a vases or Lyres.
long-suffering public here. Par- half stars from the critics, The stage lights dimmed, and ticularly
Footnote: A sick country needs Emanuel Shinwell's when they went up again, there charge that Mr Churchill's criti- t and healthy leaders,
before was Delysla, standing
A CHAMPAGNE SERIAL
still OF OUR AGE.......by LEONARD. MOSLEY The young nun fretted upon her knees until her col-,
ho is scen later only a thin once," he called it), but Then she she leagues fled away.
was certainly the first man in Jose, turned her back on the strip of material covers her... Cross, stretched out ber arms
Britain to exploit the sodyzlast's ert.❤ In the
It took Cochran show feet and moved her
manship to suggest it in tentative steps of a dance,
religious play.
When the cathedral door opened again, and the sunshine flooded In she moved towards it as if drawn against her will,
Spielmann,
the tempting emissary from the Devil, caught sight of her and started back in amazement at her beauty.... then, in a sudden frenzy of passion dragged her out into
the gay throng,
“SHOCKING'
-The Flesh and the Devil
fessor Germany
With his help she is tearing duction. at her nun's hábit, and
*
*
when 2,000,
NATAVKA THOURÁNÒWA durobed för" The Miracle.
A came
Π
was the high point of the first night
of Charles Cochran's
THE MIRACLE at Olympia, and daring knocked nation rigid.
י
its
the
Max Reinhardt and the great designer pro- Stern bad come from
to organise the pro- There was a
cast of
'SHOCKING" The girl with the urn
urn
a mirror in a boudoir. For the next ten minutes without saying a word to the poniment of
French gay tune she began to disrobe. When the final blackout came, she Was roguishly facing the COCHRAN belleved audience clad waly in a petticoat, that the female There were other scenes in form should be seen "Odds
In which and Ends" and appreciated in Delysia sang, but there was no the theatre. After THE
doubt which of her appearances MIRACLE he expert had
the most effect upon mented with dancers audience. They were cheering who disrobed while her at the end. And a crowd their steps but of admirers waited for her at
through
tho day
to
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DELYSIA
WIS
to
a pack of dogs, horses going with painted spots on their did not organise it into a the stage door. backs and knights in armour major feature of his shows Delysia was launched
he found the right girl the riding them.
until
rond to stardom. church-going England to do it.
who halled That was through the sleet and
not until he dh papers to be shocked by this covered Alico
Delyma, after a bright new light of the Lon- Blush
don theatre -- and forecast allegory of God, the Flesh, and the outbreak of war.
B He had stumbled across her carried
brilliant future for her-also the
why does Cochran, produce in Paris, a refugee from tragedies in rallway stations? German push across Belgium CZAR'S CONFIDENCE IN Why does he present a mystery and Northern France, and was in a circus ring?" indignantly struck by her intense vitality asked the Daily Express,
and impish appeal. But
She the crowds came and
seemed to Cochran singed to marvel at the high typity everything an Engilah-
thought emotional
of when he passion of Natacha man Trouhanows, the Russian visualised a Partalan gamino- dancer who had been brought and he brought her to London,
Ho Nun
A HOW from Moscow to play the
was preparing It was.
the first
(and revue called ODDS AND ENDS.. greatest) of Cochran's specia- and cles Not until he revivice at Delysia seemed just the he could around whom with Lady
Diana. Cooper, In pivot one of his most daring. 1937, did he ever achieve such scenes, grandeur again.
one of his dance- dire,the Life was gay and relaxed in octors, George Shurley, he wont lonaries, her fame and fortune
{s-F{h Britain, In spite of the bell into conference to plan some had begun to spread · serom gerent rumblings from Ger thing that would shock a the world, and she was off to many.. And, though women's feverish, wartime London. It play in New York at a salary hata were bearly a foot high wasn't eary, but be did it. of £400 a week. and
That their skiria, down to the
Sho first night of “Odds
nover forgot that floor,
of them were and Ends," in 1916 at the Am Cochran gave her
Arst showing a saizzy ankle as they bassadors, the curtain came chance. When he was ia alkfed through e new dance-down on a setch- and when
ber fortune and she Cochran would never have singo: was in darkness would, “always threw up any
the term strip-tezza
other
some
have bolter luck than the Russian monarch. abe
ber
paid 200 a month for
the time the
BY
arid
drst appearance
his family were dying in a cellar. from of the révolu
bullet
called the tango dang. It roso again" the front of the males trouble, she offerod
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