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PARAGUA
ARGENTI
AMERICAN COLUMN
Red tints
the little Oscars
From NEWELL ROGERS NEW YORK.
HOLLYWOOD is almost
rendy for its biggest show of the year. Sents, with dinner thrown in, coat 4gns. each. Fred Astaire is the Master of ceremonies.
At this annual banquet the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the award of the Uttle golden statuettes rolled Oscars will be announced,
They
film go to the best director, best nefrem, best actor of the year, and are worth a fortune in free publielty.
The votes of 1,850 Academy members elect the winners
But reports in Variety, the show businesa weekly, say: "For the first time politient influence may be a factor in the polling."
The trouble in that eight days before the banquet Washington begins an investigation of Com- munist influence in Hollywood.
Already there are whispering campaigns against some leading contenders for the statuettes. dencunce GUS- Right-wingers
There is pected Left-wingers.
golden a Red
tanish on the
Oscars.
BEER males shoot up in bars, Crowds are pouring in to' pour It down as they watch gambler Custella before the Senate crime
committee investigation
the taverner TV,
over
THE LAST CHANCE saloon in Anchorage, Alaska, one of
the last chances for a drink this side of the North Pole, has this sign over its bar: "Why be so dimcult when with a little effort you can be impossible?"
THE HIGHEST court in the land will examine the legal power of New Jersey to require the reading of five Old Testa- meni versus In State schools, and permit the recitation of the Lord's Prayer. The displeased
to the appealed Anxpayers Supreme Court.
PEACE can save lives on the rands, if safely expert Sidney Williams is right. He reports
that fear of death in war causes road deaths. Suys he: "There is a feeling of 'Eat, drink, and be merry at 70 miles on hour, for tomorrow Korea.".
may we
HOPE grows for the building of the St Lawrence waterway to open the continent's Industrial heart to petan shipping. lis backers argue that the impend- of Minnesota's ing exhaustion iron mines makes cheaper trans- part from Labrador's newly found deposita a "must.".
Baker
The BRITISH force "Spring- time for Henry" has been played 1,500 times by Edward Everett Horton since 1933, but always He has now In the provinces. finally made his Broadway de- but in it.
NO BREAD
MILK
THE BULL
2,000 MILES OF MEAT-7,000 MILES AWAY
100%
EXPORT OF ARGENTINE'S MEAT A MAZE
go
to
+
URUGUAY
THE RICH GRASS AREA
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
(BRIT)
FALKLAND §.
Part Stanley:
CON SAME SCALE:
COMMERCIAL PORTS SZE
Inside the dotted line is the Rich Grass country of the Argentine-
For comparison: the m there the best of their beef comes from.
of Britain drawn to the same scale
K.O. for Plato
PATRICIA MORISON TAKES
OXFORD'S MIND OFF BOOKS.
LONDON, March 9. UTSIDE the New Theatre, Oxford, in remarkably. undergraduates coloured corduroys and duffle coats wait for hours in long patient lines. Many have brought bundles of books, but their minds are not wholly on those Today is their last Platonic texts.
chance to see Patricia Mori- son in the try-out of the precision-hit musical "Kiss Me, Kate," which moves to London next week.
from dramatic school al Neighbourhood Playhouse
a very small part in a play called "Growing Pains."
ing
WOMAN
the was
of the WEEK
by Evelyn
IRONS
see no reason to fib about iny age. Some women do. It's silly."
Maybe Miss Morison will change this viewpoint later, but
From then up to her frst the spectacular success in 17-months run of "Kiss Me, Kate" in New York, progress was gradual.
"Actors," she believes, "should be able to play any pait." From
a nice litic singing role in the Victorian
operetta
Two Bouquats" she transferred
to
Hollywood early in 1939
Butcher
GET
YOUR
MILK
HERE
-London Express Service)
PERON PUTS THE
FLAGS OUT FOR ME
Frowns are changed
to smiles-
but alas, his Majesty's Mr. Joint is still far from the dotted line
T
morc For
we
by R. M..
MacCOLL
Buenos Aires.
(pictured here)
M.P.
our
Mr John
chief
double-falk
shed my a sort of Joint enterprise of In the Customs
"It belter HE fifty of us who Foreign Office friend-his first the Johns--thus combining the
aptitudes of Jorge--said: name W 19 had just flown in
would
be a pleasure to drive Edwards, from Miami were you into town, if I may. Just negotiator in the present talks,
But sitting in a circle in tell me mything you want. I and Mr John Joint
Mr Joint, à twinkling- the handsome Buenos Aires am here to help you. I was on
holiday, but I have returned to eyed, energetic chap with
nice sense of humour, presum- airport
feeling be of service to you." building
a ably felt that he had been the
much criticism In the nearly quarter of than a trifle foolish.
of po that I have knocked target ateel century all had
the Argentine men that thermometers stuck in our about the world as a reporter, from
number of stayed off-stage. one band the of
all the Behind mouths by a majestic nurse, can count on the fingertips he would be more useful if he
Office representatives in accordance with the Ar Foreign gentine's medical regula who have seen it to give me and insistence on the cordiality un official greeling in a new of the atmosphero, just what is
the position? tions.
country.
Well, the Argentines would When Sir John Balfour, the
left like Suddenly, a volce rang out
to be paid off for their Ambassador, "Senor British
steel and In coal, oil, over the loudspeaker,
Aires not long ago at meat
the fact, MacColll" Hastily putting aside Buenos
and the end of his term there was machinery-l my thermometer, I rose
that everyone is short a single Argentine official things walked into the immigration not office, trailed by the envious to see him off.
Britain's diplomatic fellow-travellers. of my Why, they doubtlers wondered, sentative is ignored by their had I been called first of the Foreign Onice, which now wel- lot?
comes me. What is going on? The answer is interesting. And it may have a bearing on that deft meat England has been waiting this for.
gazo
me
A bronzed young man with a black moustache greeted
the represent genially, Argentine Foreign Office," he explained. "I hope that you have a most enjoyable trip and
A change
repre
that your stay here will be of QUDDENLY, about a fortnight the most pleasant,"
P
of.
Like Britain
far the talks have pro- duced nothing except a little shadow-boxing. Perhaps week the cordial atmos- phere may lead to the hatch- ing of some sort of economic nobody seems egg-although awfully optimistic.
this
Meanwhile, you catch endless D
sharp nostalgie glimpses of the old- ngo, there was He flipped his fingers at the
the political atmos time British influence in change in Immigration officials. "Are the
phere as far as the British hustling city of 4,000,000 men
Smiles and wonen. formalities complete?" Bowing, here
were concerned.
there Here, they passed me through in 20
appeared where before
alook seconds flat
were only
PATRICIA MORISON
where summer is just frowns, ending and Panama hats and sults are the order of the
Gestures_of_friendliness were utile The red pillar-boxes ...are |
made.
"Jay,
And that may well mean that very like home. the Argentine is as anxious as
And
big
the drive in from the we are to see the present talks airport along the broad arterial
by Banked result in an agreement that will highway, put the meat back on English modern factories, reminded me plates. And, believe me, there of a sub-tropical Great West is plenty of it waiting to comel Road. The little Union Jacks in
You pretty well have to run the haberdashers
steaks in mean hlde from
that the shirts and
proudly "Engleesh," this town. I have had beef in are all its forms urged upon me at people still like to shop at the
meal except breakfast, local Harrods.
every
the
It all culminated at dinner to-
windows on cale
and
And they just could not get night with a "Baby Beef" through the local - Soccer - rels- English without which would have sated three son
about 20 were out here this austerity Britons.
though they year to keep the peace,
entire
It looked as
were
ад serving up
steer, having paused just long Yes, I go
enough to clip off its cars for
Coal, please
car
Ame
+
the sake of thiness. The cost? TELLO, there goes my tele- Half a crown. Lots of good red I phone... Well, it was my wine to wash it down, too. friend Jorge, from the Foreign Omce. He tells me that be is British sports M.G. racing his
"North some against ND what of Mr Joint, his "I work
on a track near ericanos" where she found herself typed home in Hollywood.
"And Majesty's Minister in here, and would I like to go at a gangider's molt after getting rather hard," she says.
doesn't much interest charge of Commercial Affairs and watch? herself noticed in the real-life glamour
Well, at our Embassy here?
In the words of that once- In Hid- me.' film "Persons crime
Gone to the Ing."
She likes, to take long walks Joint has disappeared from famous advertisement."Where's
English tables and the Joint Jorge?" Answer: withr hier
And where's MacColl?' apricot-coloured Is out of the limelight here, races, Hollywood la stal her home.
miniature poodle, Princo Igor. too.
Answer: Gone to watch Jorge nearly became Many people thought that Viva Anglo-Argentine Her eyes and bet neat figure Painting which
is still her this
the marathon diality. latest in in por- inherits from hobby: sbo specialises
series of ment. talks would be no need to worry. Even in she is 5ft 4in, tall with a her profession,
scarlet flannel dressing 24in. waist-ebe
mother, her
traite. For reading she prefers Roscommon-born junior common room. Quiet gown and a disintegrating Selina Carson, a relative of biography, "I like to read about real people as well as to paint them," she-Bays. quadrangles are loud with make-up, she was a pretty the fiery Sir Edward
picture with her celebrated Mr Morison worked in the office In London records of the show smug- red-brown hair ("the length censorship gled from New York, is 42in-official!") cascad- during the 1914-18 war, and her
spokeswomanh chosen 19 Parties of young men meet ing down her back and her daughter recalls that she was after the theatre to drink outsize eyes fringed with protest at the Hour of Com-
fabulous lashes. She washes mons about the discharge
so far it must be acknowledged that she has
In the week she has been in Oxford Miss Morison has become the toast of the u
to Miss M'a limpid blue eyes in champagne.
Docan't. Caro
to
'My Maestro"
I found myself 'out of my
of depth, when she talked about
and grooms her hair her women from their jobs after Mexican painters, about whom self, scrubs her face with the Armistice.
soap and water, uses no fancy creams or lotions,
She has been inundated, "She's
not just lovely-stic terribly Toples
Intelligent,"
with invitations to these mbled an undergraduate ad partios. Sighed Colin Mac-mrer.
And certainly Misa
But she appears omniscient. you and I will come to the MIT- That was because she We face when she says that if she Irish and had the gift of the he
has one favourite artist it is 'gab', romarked Miss Morison.
the Spaniard El Greco, whose to oce in she intends works
the Madrid ("My first visit to Continent).
3.
The Outpost
kenzie, of Magdalen: "She Morison is a long way beyond ney, of Scottish origin, lives
"
is so very much lovelier matriculation standart, than her photographs.”
She is 85 years old, and
· cares not who known it,
the
Wella She enjoys classical music; Morison pare, bom in Walla-
her favourites among singerd with his wife in: Patricia's our ero Flagstadt and Traubel, who
taught Margaret Truman, From her publle (secondary bedroom, American colonial president's daugDer to-us) school in New York she style house in the Outpost, on
hills dominaung Los Her: own voice she owes, she won an ant scholarship which the
says, entirely to my maestro, would have taken her to Paris Angolca, for three yours. But Patricia, William
He has taught me verything" Norman Rainey that
This geny-hatred, burly Svengeh Morinon retired from business. edging tencher Richard Gazing unperturbed into then 10, told her parents
nho would not accept the as
some yours ago; now writes archer. He camo, hero with ay dressing-room mirror signment. “I want,
pinys, nod fudors email parta in name Morison, muidora Jueves which reflected back a faco nouned, to bo uz: actress and 5139 (who no, chon of an imme
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