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THE 'CHINA" MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1951.–
STIFFENING AGRINST CHINA
REBIRTH
JAPAN
and
EXPANSION
IGERMANY
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WAR →→ KOREA
RUSSIA
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ABOUT THE ARRANGEMENTS, CHAMP ?* "OK-BUT I DON'T WANT TO HEAR TOD MUCH
ABOUT YOUR AMERICAN RULES.”
WORK-OUT BY THE CHAMP
World Copyright. By arrangement with Dally Herald
MILTON
THE STONE AGE WOMAN LOOKS SHULMAN
AT
I
HOLLYWOOD
groups and seek comfort' in Censorship codes.
If prosillutes are called danc ing girls, if the word "adultery" is forbidden, If bad Mexicans are changed to bad gypsies because gypsies have no country that can register a protest, if sin is punished in the last five minutes no matter how attractive it, b the preceding 90
guarded oven If art has been de-
T
IN SWEDEN
A man can't sell—without his wife's consent
by: JOSEPH GARRITY
HERE were female Gone are the days when smiles in Sweden re- some wives had to chase cently at the remark wayward husbands on of London Judge Earengey Saturday night to salvage that "fair shares for wives, what remained of tho of their husbanda' wages" week's wages. Today under was a principle difficult to the pooling system it is enforce in law.
common sight to see a hus- band and wife opening each From "the land of happy other's pay packets.. wives,” Swedish women. have written pointing out that economic equality in Women are so well · pro- marriage is a right they tected by law that husbands have enjoyed for 80 years. cannot even object if wives
pay
How does it work? Under 80 and collect the
packets themselves. the Swedish Marriage Act
The problem of the spiteful of 1921 husbands and wives will does not exist in Sweden.
are legally bound to pool For on a husband's death, their incomes and
half the esale, goes How much money to the widow and
divide thom equally.
the remainder 30
should a husband the children. This
This obligation pay his wife?
of equal shares
appiles also to property and to debts.
Indeed, the Swedish hus- band has lost so much ground, since the days of the Viking buccaneers that he cannot buy or sell a thing with- out the consent of his wife.
Fair shares is a
rule applies in re- verse en the death of a wife....
What do Swedish men think 'ct it all? Many say that the -equality • campaign aps 'swung the balance. tes far and that the law has made the woman the boss.
Because of the equat pay for - equal work delve, Women's wages in many jobs have increased, and in Bomo trades, such as textiles, men'are now demanding
Any husband principle dificult to who secretly enforce in law says
JUDGE BARENGEY. equal Day with sells his watch
women! for, ready cash might find Women are wearing the trou- himself in the
now that same tera. so thoroughly
are learning dilemma as the spouse of many husbands Mrs Olle Olson, who recent cooking and baby care at even- y sued her husband for ing classes. Some men run the Dawning his typewriter.
-T was inevitable, I sup-
The producers lesser gods, of the seript or the casting. "A pose, that an anthro but colossalare, too, accords good director." It has been said ing to Dr Powdermaker, insecure "Is one who reads the script pologist would discover and frightened. They achieve before he begins. thooting." Hollywood. Sociologists, their jobs by flattery, marriage Actors, apparently, are the portrayed in historians, economists, sialority and by.gambling with worst of a depressing lot. The minutes, profils have been safe for the machine, with his ocpular with Swedish, wives.
LEGEND
10
find
PROFITS
Mr Olson, who had paid
own money, smuggled it out, of the house one day to raise enough cash to back his fancy in a horse race.
home while wives are out bread- winning, or away on holiday.
"Bachelor" holidays are now
The women of Sweden, are now so "free" that: they suffer ille, if any, social stigma by choosing to have a child out of wedlock, Eight out of every 100 do.
Her qualifications include an ducer who spent a fortuné despite the clicho-that there are..gance and huge Puntasy roolinartner without the consent almanac is that 660 out of every
people-men,
"Their Ignorance gives one a IT is these second-rate people,
ong has an
has been only unenthusiastically
Stars are exhibitionists, snabs based in the process. journalists, psychiatrists, the bera and not asking for their
winnings.
and egoats. Looks, sexiness, dramatists and novelists
Although their main function sleeping with the right person, sometimes, have long since, and many administrative, producers like publicity, Jack and, times, made, this explora- to influence the creative side of ability are the ways to become a
DUT if a film is not true how But the pro- star. tory trek, and with a shud- picture-making.
cer is recognised in Hollywood They are looked down upon Hollywood cares
can it be momi? No one in ducer
to ask or der reported their findings.
But, unwittingly, he en as the lowest form of intellectual as a kind of sub-human species." Now comes Dr Hortense lite.
reports Dr Powdermaker. "No answer.
countered the 1921 marriage of the 343 children born every How then has Hollywood one respects them. It is difficult Powdermaker ("Hollywood,
ansone who has a good managed to survive so luxuri- law. This stipulates that day in Sweden, 29 are illegiti The Dream Factory," Sec-
word to say for them,"
ously for so long?, Dr Powder- the contents of the home' mate, but they enjoy normal ker and Warburg, 188.)
The author admits, however, maker would answer that the are the joint possessions of passport and inheritance rights. that much of this altitude is need for filma has been great
every couple. dragging along a portman- THE malopropisms of producers are the stuff of Holly- teau of scientific jargon and wood legend. The producer who setors are much like anyone else inefficiency, staggering extrava
caused by envy.
Basically enough to support monumental
Not even the kitchen Another significant fact re- anthropological analogies, tried to hire Chaucer, the pro-
poker is negotiable by one vealed by the Swedish official While three kinds of the
ing that most of her secusations of the other..
1,000 first children are born in investigation of the Stone reshooting a scene in which
word 'din
was spoken, because women and actors.
ara Gound, the view remains Age culture of the "the publle will not understand
pos the first six months of marriage. The legal accent on INSECURE
that the indictment has been too din" recall Renan's Melanesians on a primitive the word
one-sided and that the defence sessions is a feature of Are Swedish women satisßed? French toalety: Pacific island and a cultural remark about
"No," says Mrs Svea Svenson. every betrothal. It is cus- study of a town in Missis- rough sense of the Infinite."
riding on a merry-go-round represented..
tomary for a Swedish bride "We get ho alcohol railon from There must be a mere plausible sippi.
to prepare an inventory of the State monopoly until we are Dr Powdermpker's driven by the motive power of Although Her chief contribution to examples are more prosale than sex and money, that have pro- explanation for executives like
directors like John her possessions to ensure, 25, and it. we marry, cur ration Huston and Indigestible these, her producers emerge as duced the myth and the reality Zanuck,
Billy the
Wilder, already lumps of literature about a convincingly incompetent lot. of this dream clory,
actors like Bette Davis, Chapin, the event of divorce, her, is put at pur husbands' disposal. The
films Hollywood 'condemned to an writers,
the uncertainties, writers like Joseph w/le to any property she
Garbo and the Marx
"Sex prejudice still remains in Hollywood, is a refreshing assembly-line system of creative duces reflect
brings into the marriage." Sweden, During wartime tobaced- the petliness, And for the fact that Holly- frustrated, dis the antagonisms, series of references. Where activity
No bridegroom is shock rationing, women were allotted' sa:ified and resigned. Easy the thallowness, the opportunism nepotism in Tammany Hall
.1hr anxieties of their wood has been since the days ed to find his bride tour less smokes than men.
of D. W. Griffith, and is still to- might satisfy a journalist money is the lure and the com- and
pensation. Certain that what- makers. trying to explain the im ever they write will be changed Since they are unlimaginative day, turning out the best film their home after the honey: "otherwise we think women's
in the world. They may happen moon labelling the furni- and inartistic they rely on the in spite of Hollywood, but they ture as a safeguard against with our sisters elsewhere similar portance of kinship in film or distorted, they dissolve into
safe picture, the one that has could never have happened future disputes. studios, Dr Powdermaker hacks and gib craftsmen.
Directors, for the most part, made money before. Since they without Hollywood. talks about "in groups have little authority and have are insecure they yield to the of pressure among the Maoris."
nothing to do with the writing ignorant bayings Where An economist might consider the censor- ship code as a series of pro- tective commercial regula- tions, Dr Powdermaker prefers to think of them as taboos,
UP TO DATE
BUT
Ars
The
(World Coppright Reserved-- London Express Service),
WHERE STALIN WAS BORN
new terminology hardly changes them. Descriptions mountain
By CYRIL RAY
the
Just before leaving Moscow MOSCOW, 'pulled down, and it is now
I joined UT squeezing facts into ORTY-ODD miles or 60 protected by a pillared canopy for the South
FORT
guides show long queue that stretchos, four of marble, and from Tiflis is the little you the five square yards of times a week, through the Red the town of Gori, room, with its brick floor, and Square and half around of Hollywood range from a dominated by the ruins of a its rough table, sofa, stool and Kremlin-a queue of anything the up to half-p-mile long, four cobbler and his patient wife abreast, winter and summer, state of mind to a trip 12th century fortress that bed, where in the 1980's through a sewer in a glass has known Armenians, brought up the wiry, quick sunshine and snow, to see the Soro-as small embalmed body of Lenin in bottomed boat. Dr Powder-Turks. Persians, Georgians witted little
-called in these its glass showcase under the
Kremlin wall/ maker's intense siftings and Russians as its mag-Josefs are
parts. confirm and bring these deters."
The nearby museum. illus finitions up to date.
But It Isnether, ruins nor trates the career that took Soso Her method is the objec. their history that draws visi- from a theological seminary to tivo approach of the trained tors, nowadays, to Gorl. This the Kremlin, by way of exile researcher. By understands the birthplace of the and revolution,
greatest living Georgian, and
Lenin's tomb is on arrange- sind ment of cubes in black brown marble. Bentries.cero-.| ing the frustrations, goals, the tiny house, In which Josef There is a new muscum being monially guard the casket, a new case of glass and a *bronze, backgrounds and thought Vissarionovich Djugoshviij built, storeys high; a
where the 'dead lenderler, processes of those, who make Joseph Stalin was born has hotel for tourists in under way: films, she has tried to hanked, and, fronted with gar- the canopied house are
been preserved and protected, and the gardens that surround, eyes closed, hands lying loose- being ly on the coverlet that covers explain why they make dens, and u, museum set beside extended into a statued and him to the waist, bathed in the pictures they do. This it.
faceremonial virta streichinga an unearthly rosy radianco,
mile, or so to the river bank. contribu-
The body is book provides a
clothed in a tion, but not a solution, to
two-roomed Meanwhile, Gort still has its dark party tunic, buttoned to the problem.
ribbon on the breast The front-offico executives, rough timber and brick with Soso knew Little gallerleden ve
house, typical of Georgia finces of the town that little the neck, with single medal Down here, the marble, le having achieved their paritions a wooden verandah -- and -the houses, with ' durk-eyed 'chil- through lusk or shrewd manipu Djugamlir, father, mother dron playing in their court black and grey "and" Lenin's lation; have pour business judg. And surviving son, lived in yards. ment and know little about films, one of the two rooms; if their
Instinct and landlord in the other
They rely
tiny:
formula, and Live in an atmosferre
one of
plars of suxiety and four in It was once which the comach ulcer has croyrded, chiller og each logna bevome the occupational dinerary, but figer Ja
face and hands, - sà you move round the three sides of the Stalin's Canet (krepia moving, 10
rights are nearly ruffelent, We.
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