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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MARCH 31, ⠀1951.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
"Wonderful'
TALLULAH THE
WOMAN of the WEEK
INCREDIBLE
By FREDERICK COOK
NEW YORK. none 100 flattering way. THO sald "Me? I'm "Water" she said in her most formal tones, "please go Into
W
9.9 pure as the the kitchen, procure two U- driven slush?" cera of cream-make-it-sour: WHO stopped Dr Kinsey cream-and place them before dead in his tracks by agree. those two aged cats over there." ing to answer all his ques- tions if he would answer hers?
WHO staggered fashionable Park Avenus dinner party by retorting loudly when 'someone said how habit-forming cocaine
The waller looked despair- Ingly for help to the hoad walter and go! no help from that quarter, He carried out,
the order. The dowagers in a hu.
"It's real'
was: "Nonsenso!" I've been THIS cort living on it for years."
WHO after loving
lett
of incldem lenda Tich flavour to the, almos- phere of wild derision and utter a confusion in which Tallulah
good punchy cocktail all her ("The girl with the sleeping-
life "went on the wagon" car
the day of Pearl Harbour
name") comes to full
bloom. She likes nothing bet-
ter than to be called,' as she
TALLULAH
and refused to touch a drop has been, the only volcano in under her pillow, and went oft until Hitler and Tojo were the world dressed by Main to sleep. licked and kept her word? bocher."
Frank . . ribald
Ti
"Lordy, Lordy, Mam," sald in Tallulah is, to put it mildly, the horrified Negro porter
the morning. "You'se been a- overpowering. Howard Dietz
sleepin' all night on the end of once said of her with an ex- the lightning conductor." they haunted sigh, "A day Broadway, would have no difficulty in from her identifying her. It's the woman the country-so restful, and yet they wrote the song about, so boring."
A LONG
away
is like a month in
"You call everybody darling," The most improbable thing the giri who out-Hollywooded about her is her name, and the Hollywood mon than 20 years fact that it is her real one. ago and turned her back on it, the
"I love it myself, daaarling," she says,
"for nobody knows what it is all about. It would
and only hoersely опе croaking. outrageously frank, Borld and unpredictable Tal be perfect for a barbecue sauce. lulah Bankhead, "better known. It sounds like a muzzzin's cali danarling, if you don't mind, to prayer. But it's real, danar- as The Wham Trum Alabam', mg, it's real!" study in perpetual motion."
Chain-smoker
her TALLULAH is
#
Today Tallulah, et undis- closed thounds a week, is un-* challenged mistress of the American airwaves. Always ribald,
chain- often risque,
smoker, chain drinker, triumph has surprised mrsty
chain-talker. But under the who thought she would prove too strong meat for the unseen hyperbolic wit and rapier re- audience. This suggestion she parte lurk takes with mock Indignation.
woman Great.
on
The rest of Tallulah's party were not in the least surprised. "Even forked lightning," they said, "knows better than tangle with Tallulah."
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DOUBLE
Who Leads CROSSBONES
The Malayan Scouts
IEUT-COL. James
Michael Calvert, who
became a legendary
By Peter Lovegrove
unorthodox
1
furious affections
Calvent, always in high spirits i and Instant loyalties that make her-lo a select few-a depend-
and quite indefatigable, used to no able, At 49, Tallular has lost
unshakable Friend
ride a white horse through the with the scrap of her scorpion wit. Cer- whose word life toelt
surrounding villages could
figure as one of He had already
cheering 缨 Aba tainly there is some justification safely be staked.
fighting. Wingate's brigade comman of overseas service and gun to keep plenty of strength out- object of
side the perimeter. Further Burmese, and once coolly walked for her
claim.
"I've own
She regards Roosevelt as the ders in the World War II had proved himself a master of more Calvent was connected into the railway station of the created more gossip than any
tactics with a deep with the enemy telephone lines nearest small town and bought since
the greatest American who Catherine
lived, rates
ever Burma campaigns and now knowledge of military history. and received the dally Japanese a ticket for Rangoon Truman not far behind. At a 1948 rally (when
leads the Malayan Scouts, He had been in Hongkong in situation reports.
Elephants again joined his Tallulah might,
The garrison had she she worked like a cyclone for the Special Air Service unit 1930, and was a member of the
changed from war establishment, and he had won fame in a Truman at chosen, have
time *
when
British time to time, but South Staffs a highly-organised elephant train most of recently raised for jungle force defending the quite different field - as the his friends had written bin off) fighting against the Com- Settlement in the Shanghai Li- and Lanenshire Fuses, Gia to bring in stores which were
eldent of the following year. American she wept openly when intro- Lady Astor of the
has and Burma riflemen, Nigen dropped by mistake in the hills Congress.
dused to him. Still sobbing, she munist terrorists, was near-
lans and Chinese all served there. cast of the strongpiont. bobbed in a mear curtsy, seizedly rejected by the medical Back in England at the out- The latter, who
had been in Her father was an MP and his hand impulsively and cover board when he joined the join (as a guardsman) a special Hongkong in 1936, were intensely break of war, he was allowed to Calvert's Sapper Company In
"White City" was nover taken, Speaker of the Lower House.
ed it with kisses. Mr Truman Army in 1982 because of force raised for a
and ite dalence bas beon particular loyal, and had made their way described us the finest fent of Her uncle was the
famous
slightly deformed feet. Yet, operation which never materia- across China to India after the arms of the Burma campaign that Senator Bankhead, who died in
in three
lised. He rose to the rank of fall of Hongkong in 1942. campaigns in Lance-sergeant before fallieg ill.
year. It earned for Calvert a 1948.
The Japanese, although they bar to his DSO, and wpa Burma, the man whom the He reported to his depot when threw in ever stronger
forces,
abandoned in May 1944, when Chindits called "Mad Mike," he came out of hospital. but only once succeeded in penetrat the brigade was sent to support the American Deep South since TRAVELLING by train last probably marched further, finding that his unit had been ing the perimeter, and were the US General Stilwell's opera the Civil War than tho one she. I autumn between California carrying an enormous pack disbanded he awarded "L/Sgt. speedily ejected. But Calvert, tions against Myitkyina.
Washington. from planted firmly in lights on Broadway and spread across page one of every scandal sheet iablold in America.
No name has stood higher in
rescued
To meet Tallulah, one needs
an
ul one's mental armour and them to be prepared for barbs that will speed unerring ly to whatever chinks may be.
blushed scarlet.
Storm-proof
and New York. Tallulah could not sleep one night for some- thing- rattling against ht. win-
heavy dow-paneTA thunderstorm around the mountains.
WAR
desert
than anyone in the Army,
Calvert, Scots Guards" three weeks' leave, siming the leave pass "Capt. Calvert, RE."
The youngest of four-brothers, all of whom crashing
are regular RE officers, Mike Calvert was only 30 years old when he flew with She opened the window and his glider-borne 77 Brigade In
After serving in the ill-fated against the glass. She could not built in a day with spades found an iron object banging to "Broadway", a landing strip Norway
campaign, he and at it loose: it seemed to be bare hands out of a jungle clear- engaged in the training of the first Commandos in Britain, and a New York night club attached by a string. She pulling far behind the Japanese also instructed Commonwealth Tallulah ance heard two ed the string as far as it would Unes, to spearhead Wingate's troops in Commando tactics in dowagers discussing her in a come, tucked the iron object March 1944 expedition.
in
Was
·Australia and Now Zealand. By the end of 1941 he was in charge of the Jungle Warfare School in Burma and led o
@motley collec- tion of troops from various odd employments in the groat 1942 radio committees, it is biamod retreat. An accomplished swim-
mer-ho for neglecting the wishes of mer he represented Cambridge
in Soviet Union's Listeners, Univeralty and the Army who are vitally interested, says Far East, and once won the rate harbour-he the journal Culture and Life, across Hongkong
HERE'S THE LATEST GEN FROM MOSCOW
THE
MOSCOW.
the
in of planning, swam the
the
"Diplomatic Dictionary" By Cyril Rayong sund the nanome arrived on Chiriwin River and
is now on sale, aumming
up in its two volumes, as
system, acceleration of the Imphal clad only in a pair of turnover of working capital, shorts. nationalisation of production,
mochanisation, labour produc- A year later, he was back in
the Literary Gazette appro- peace, ideas of friendship and output."
tivity and reducing costs of Burma, commanding one of the
plu
never one to sit and walt, was not content merely to defend, He launched ferocious sxrties which, with punishing air strikes, took steady toll of the at- tackers.
Chindit columns in General vingly observes, "the re- brotherhood of peoples, respect
And what does the Radio In- Wingate's first expedition, and .pulsive hypocrisy, mon- for Man and his creative work” strous lack of principle, the and the American, where chi them? "It transmite for prefer- | led by the enemy on the formation Committee do for curried the DSO, When crossing dren are reared and trained as ence potty news hams. near bank with most of his forces
the Irrawaddy River, he was self-interest and venality are murderers and
attacked and pieces, and peculiar to the imperialist deners."
superficial] items of information." Not one over the river, He až once powers" and "the colossal Seven or eight years ago lecture on the political economy engaged them with mortare and moral and political au- Soviet teacher' Anught their of socialism!
a. sandbank machine-guns from a. for thority won by the Soviet children burning hatred
The gramophons Industry half way across, and drove the the German fascist monsters."
rs also, like the radio, "falls to Japanese off, but lost more than Union."
Now, the teacher devotes, par- satiety the rich variety of hat his animals including an This in general; in particular, tlcular attention to exposing the Ideological and artistic interests elephant which he had enrolled the readers' aftration is direc aggressive, expansionist polley of the Soviet people" nod for some weeks earlier. He carried lod to sho many articles
on of imperialist countries, es- this both the Radio Information on his mission with 30 mules American diplomacy, where it pecially the USA and Great Committes; and the. Ministry of instead of the regulation 10, and Can be
learned, among other Britain at all stages."
Trade are blameda
at the end of the campaign, matters, how Russia prevented.
None of the promised record wrole a report claiming 30 s British and French intervention At the 1050 spring examina- ings of Glinka's "Ruslan and the ideal number. in the American Civil War to the pupile intelligently Ludmilla" or of "Prince Igoe and where it gan also be learn- and concretely replied to the has appeared; none of the ed that General Marshall, then question as to why respon- Rachanankaoy renderings President Truman's representa
in China,
personally engaged in organising the mur des of many prominent Chinese democrats,"
Dommenta
·
of
lles not only CTPpin records only abxx are?
for unleashing afbility
the Beethoven and others. Of 18 Second World War les
This had been à more recon=” Germany but also with fascist
and these in limited naisance in force; in the 1944 with the
reactionary circles of numbers. But two
millica expedition, he and his men USA, Britain and France.
Entertainment"! посота Were to spend Ave, fighting The schoolchildren realised, as we own 200
as were published in the first three months harassing the enemy, at showed, Professor their answers
why months alone of 1950-more a vital point. After establishing circles hit records of one music hall song, "Broadway" Calvert marched tha
*Books have thair destiny" Bralasimsky, the.. reviewer, thesc
"and this destiny in determined dered of the second, "Lostochim #Kienbochika." thx | his men wostwards throjêh the...
by the rule they are called upon front in every way and why, of all the opera records put mysteriods fortate beyond in the to play, in the etrugale of pro- immediately after the end of together. gressive foroos against the the Second World War, they we forops of reaction.”
SCHOOLDAYS
ambariced on preparations for NO COMMENT
a new war against the USAN and the people's democracies."
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in the labors Glovici Fodern rus Radio Information Com-1718 drawa o enviting' contrast be tween the Soviet, school, where vinition of the Council of ome, Mukerens
childrens" are { bawight ishonmas, Ministers of Sun Uddit hàn been founded uncia: 1830 adresscod and noble desnor coming uncles are on two inco comamundem, of the lates for tinte Along with she local and
plenty of
"MAD" MIKE
The brigade stormed the town of Mogunng after, savage fighing, and the troops were then con- exterably surprised to bear their feat attributed in a radio broad- cadt to Stilwell's Chinese forces. Calvert
Vinegar
taken taking
promptly signalled
Hear you have
My Brigade b Rumour bad
it that puzzled Intelligence officers spent some time poring over maps trying to and "Um brage.
Returning once more to the UK late in 1944, Calvent com- manded the SAS Brigade in the final phases of the Northwest Europe campaign, but, ho :claimed, was much more comfortable in Burma-after all, the mud was warm Qut there." He has since served In India, Trieste and Hongkong.
He has been a useful boxer, and represented Cambridge and the Army in the ring. In 1939, he entered for an Ammy com- petition as a heavyweight with- out previous senior officer who reprimanded him after his defeat after s
training.
To a
close and Bloody battle. ho ropiled: "Sir, I'do this for my amusement, not yours."
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