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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1951.
HITLER'S TOP BRASS GANGS UP OVER A 1s. 6d. LUNCH
CLOSE on,Dr. Adenauer's warning—that he will jump on near-Nazi parties in the West zone of Germany-comes this report of a strange meeting of Hitler's ex-officers. They have a different line... a line that gives Dr. Adenauer a new enemy within-
!
-And 500
take on a Stalin job
by WILLIAM HAMSHER“
Veerasen.
ad-
nailonal
Out stepped "For peace, unity,
of character, and culture." eight
It warns that politlelaris have Hitlera a habit of deserting the German generals, two people, and saNG:- of his
"Comrades-known the world mirals over as champion fighters-must "numerous 71
avoid this and take their place stuff officors, in the ranks to that the German "more thun people and Fatherland caunul be twenty zacristess to foreign interests." Knight's CrOB3 hol- ders.
After the soup came the roll Call
It all adds up to exactly the kind of defentist talk-so long as it takes place in the West of Germany-ihant la heartily ap proved in East Germany.
Morc than A
•Look out!
T Bonn Chancellor Adenauer announced he is going to
400 ex-officers jump on near-Nazi - parties that were named are preaching Hitler's 25-point by Colonel programme.
He should also study the flow Hein, and each man as of military ideas pcross the Western Germany. his name was mentioned zonal boundaries and get his
the rose EVE landlord of
and stated his rank, border patrols to watch out for flow of Red gold froin the German Onk came "And you'd be surprised how running to my
cur many, from generals down. Eastern ring of ex-Wehrmacht .men to the comrades who are Ι stoppeci for to majors, claimed to have ready to play the Red game In elevenses, Then suddenly belonged to the Waffen S.S." the West. he halted.
(Hitler's last-stand army).
Then the assembly hall doors clunged shut and the generals discussed arny
when
He said: "I thought you were the Colonel come back."
"The Colond?" I asked. "Yes," said the landlord (when we really got talk ing). of
matters.
After two hours they formed a leadership ring of ex-soldiers, The word they used for leadership in.Foch-
"Colonel Gerd Hein
You recognise the] Schleswig Holstein, rung. formerly Hitler's inspector word linked with Fuehrer, And they for Military Training Camps meaning Hitler. for Nazi Youth."
accepted the formation of a ring in the usual Wehrmacht The Colonel, it seems, manner by banging beer
drove into Veerssen anying mugs.
I had heard about the fine assembly room at the Ger- man Onk. Could it be hired for a meeting? Of course,
said the landlord.
"Right," said the Colonel, a week from now have 500 lunches ready."
They agreed on the menu. Unusual in present-day Ger- many, it was frugal-what the Nazis. cull a one-pot
ment.
his
The Colonel paid up advance. pulling from pocket five crisp new 100 mark notes (say about 1s. Cd. a hend).
Roll call
'Struggle".
-London Express Service)
THE Rt. Hon. ELECTION OYSTER
THE MAN WHO
WEEPS THE
SECRET TO
.. HIMSELF.
THE ONE MAN
Who
KNOWS
1000
THE SHROUDS THE
DATE
IN
THE SECRET
MYSTERY
→LOCKED IN
HIE BOSOM
Big names, yes-
but I'd 'five-star'
HERE is a sad moment on every successful first night. The nu- dience has clupped and clap- ped. The actors have taken 14-15-16 calls. The theatre half-empties. But an ob- stiunte gaggle of hothearls stemi round, slow-clapping.
And then the light on the
look foolish.
hotheads
London Express Service
A TEST OF GREATNESS No. 1 in a new Saturday series AMONG present-day writers, among men of science, among the painters and -the film-makers, is there a measure for
great achievement ?
by JOHN BARBER
one only-a woman
Clivier is a fine artist, even if
A Breat performance. But greatness mcons multitude. Authors Shakespeare and Div- ena, actors Irving and Bern- hardt, created not just que
WHAT is this leadership stain switches off. It is over.
ring? Yet another mili-The tarist Rightist elique of "Wonderful," they sigh defen-
Once it was there. When the self-torture of the Intellec sively. What an actor?” generals ready to draw up
David Garrick played "Lear" Good. yes. Wonderful. She and he knelt on
tual was absent.. the stage 10 plans of attack and defence? was good, too.
curae his daughter, the whole Not a bit of it. At least, But were they great? What of the pit stood up, row by row 011 first nights which terrify not according to the Colonel.is the test of stake great essays from the front to the back, in him-he plunges through poetry character: they peopled a world, there a great actor living today? cowering silence, unwilling to like a bull-terrier trapped, in a
I do not think so. I think
Gielgud has been great, but A tattered and creased
miss one withering word.
hayrick. But he must play mi only in one or two parts. Sybli She is performing in Londen.
Cind copy of his manifesto, which there may be a great actress.
actor toured: a I found later at Veerasen, But no great actor
mental of action. (lemlet i moto man Thorndike was a great Saint Hospitato tudy the insane old of action.)
i Joan. Perry Ashcroft has is a strange compound of
Before undertalcing_n-
itor repeated the unbearable mad army slogans and some Nazi
man rble the great Edmund Michael Redgrave way the palhos of her, Jullet. Elisabeth Bergner's wall-mother Party sloguns. But the
Kean. "Seeing him," says Cole* most beautiful of Hamlets... (Escape. Me Never") was a sentiments are exact copies MY text to the shock. I suffer,
tall, golden-haired, aristocratie, of what you can read daily you just don't believe it.
If you see the Grand Canyon
And reinole, All the banter fell You contributed to the pages can't keep on saying, "Impos- TEAM-WORK flat. He might have béon acting Sering Unburnt Lady.
behled o sheet of slurs. (Ham-
SHOCK
en
ridge,was reading Shake
•
Care by flashes of lightning."
of the East German Com-{sible." A fact is a fact. You munist Press by ex-officers have to enlarge your ideas to I SEE this us an age of One let is not an iclele).
who have come down on the other side of the fence.
Veerssen, two hours north of the Hanover motor road,
is
WOS
a
·
iary triumph, Pamela Brown he still to match her smoul
NOMINATED-
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claim a dozen such per formances. When the appears,
the last village before sound of frontlers fall You - Emlyn--Willams...they-never-Man Hamlet chased by Harry chord, Just to hear it makes
O the appointed day up
drove a fleet of polished you get to the Soviet zone border. It is a recognised and painted motor-conches. Thoy came from the Danish highway to the West. border, from the far end of Germany in the other diree- tion, from the Swiss border and Bavaria.
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average quality not tower- A great actor is like that. ing peaks.
Robert Helpmann Let's praise the
reedy pop-eyed jittery Dane When in the theatre you shout standard of West End acting --- curious noises and clap your its good taste, suave team-work. a production as lurla ag
I came it's us wrappings fell off my hands, the dir you make is the See Erie Portman-his artistry nightmare in a circus.
Your is faultless, Diana
Wynyard, out terrified. This was a Third res und cors. Her voice is a rich Lime. (Hamlet is not a sither), me as happy and excited as-the audiences in the music-hall, or John Gielgud is another mat in the old theatres. tur. No one else can claim all the three Golden Gifts. Check that is unten he wants you to She has no sex appeal Not them over (and compare you think zo. She has no beauty.
favourite actor). First,
Then
the Yet she is a Cleopatra a man
put a foot wrong.
I suffer no sĨtock.
have seen the Grand Canyon.
I know what it feels like from what
But great? happens in music-hall. Eud Flanagan singing" "Hey, Neigh- Any more than I do from chle bour," with his bright, doggy entertainers you associate with glass of bubbly and 21 toppin' eyes and benevolent mug. The
The colonels, the generals, and the admirals could nip over the fronter any night and be back in time for lunch bringing deflant mill-girl homelintas of show, .Pat Morison singing,
high intelligence.
their manifesto with them. and Our Gracle. The frightening Noel Coward flipping a quip power to impersonate a complex would give an empire to possess.
than "Hamlet." Let's £20.
vastly
its wording suggests that this precision of Danny Kaye, n-high- The great actor, after all, must character. Third
physique is, in what happened.
grade mesmerising mechina be one who is great in the what actors call the Rearmament of "torn. worked by a child. Their highest reaches of his ort.
Fatherland," divided
says audiences have seen greatness. Well, you can't teach higher fortunate shape of the man." the appeal, would mean war. So have I.
His hawk face signs itself on Then come, Nazi phrases-al- In the playhouse, I rarely feel Laurence Olivier gave him the the air with a flourish. His most untranslatable-about the so exelled. It may be my fault, grace and vitality of a leopard, movements are princely. He great struggle that is going on Or it may be that greatness is No one ever cheeked Polonius has the finest valce of the age. "for our people's right to live." I missing..
with such animal spirits. But His tragic power is immense,
THEY'RE DOING THE RED DUSTER PROUD
NEW YORK.
Of, the ships of all classes, RITISH mariners and Britain is building 583 or 44.9
per cent of the total,
Burton shipbuilders are
In comedy, she shimmers; in tragedy she shaflera Her Welsh servant-girl made me feel I'd lived in her village all my life. As a decayed fortune-teller, she wok a leathsome night-math
TRUE GREATNESS
DEHEARSING alone.
K
grinds her teeth, and cries bitter tears. She is fighting to get herself inside the life of a stranger. What we see is her and the actor's Inst victory
riumph, a fascinating, complete human being.
Already 10 have applied. And football players among them recall that Notre Dame and West Point are famous rivals. Her name is Elth Evans. THE NURSE called for a ledge of life. That is grantness, She always enlargos your know- thermometer. Then No one else has created such a and Avallery, of lovable, hateful, bo
Ievable people. Here is one of
OVER the Pacific 000 miles new a Superfort with an Iron lung.
Wrapped in watertight cover doing the Red Duster proud. LESS HAPPY NEWS from Ings and buoyed by itojackets, America handsomely the export front. A UNO It was dropped beside the troop-
survey reports acknowledged it.
West Germany ship Alken Victory for Corneral second Acknowledgment No. 1: The Britain's European
is making heavy inmids into James Williams, taken il on his third. Three-doctora part of New York has its busiest metal products and chemicals.
markets in way home from fighting in the nurses took more rendings;
Far East,
All the thermometers said 54-my favourites? ngante passenger traffle period of the year.
GRAMOPHONE 'record sales
ALL BRITISH CONSULATES year-old Bernard Selden's tem 109. He should Derature was are booming, despite TV. radlo, are accepting gifts for Jamalen's the films, and the industry's own hurricane homeless, in addition or 108. It stayed at 100 for half have died when it reached 10? battle over long-playing versus to the American Red Cross and old-style
an hour. Seventeen hours later Care and Food Parcel help. It was roport that
was normal. MI ANONYMOUS is going to
Across gangways of 48 in- bound and outbound linors will swarm 23,000 passengers. And by for the largest singlo share of them carried by ships of any nation are in British liners
sales (more than 3,000,000) are
The doctors do not know what 7,071.
15 per cent higher than they have to lay out at least £10,000 soused it. But they have de Acknowledgment No. 2 The have ever been, with 1951 pro- a year. The wealthy benefactor cided Bernard does not need Shipbuilders' Council of mising to be the best year ever. offered to pay all expenses at the operation for which he en- America' says that of 525 oil "But if this keeps up," says Notre Dame University of cadets tered hospital. tunkers now building mund the one maker, "we are going to run expelled from West Point mill-
Newell Rogers world 203 are in British yards. but of music."
JOHNNY HAZARD
IS SHARK! SAUR COMME
NOW I SEE WHY DAY [JONES PACKED HIS LOCKER [DOWN HERE / ALL THATIC. LNUSSING IS A MERMAID
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