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A GUNMAN.
HERE HELD
A STARTING PISTOL...
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By JAMES
LEASOR
own
E man who fired a did not have (nor did he cove') pistol in Rawalpindi Jinnah's tremendous popularity. may have done
But he had the respect of Bata more and
America and of his than kill Pakistan's Premier people as a man of integrity and Liaquat Ali Khan and die balance. And he had kept the at the hand of the mob for machinery of the Pakistan Gov- crnm based on the Britisn his pains.
mcde-running smoothly.
He could have fired a starting- piekl few fare-up between Inda and Pakisan-just as the kile of the pro-British Persian this gr. Razmare in March year sparked cli the Abadan crr-which might never have happened had Razmera lived.
Ironically, Liaquat All Khan, ke Gandhi was assassinated by one of his own faith and follow Ing Ganda died at the hand of a Hinda extremis in New Delh. in Jucun:y 1948; the Puk.stan P.me Minister from a shot fire by a Moslem fanatic.
Before him was constantly the vision of Empire. He spoke many mos ta ph British Commcu- wath as living force in the | maltichange of peace.
His
problem
Of ine ha cries had been ac live in his own epun y-special- y over his handling of the pro-
act Kathmi: affä
Petal beervers of the Pakke
we saying openly Pamir wea mu red herunt hia Kashmi pelley. He Way lo. ngation when others were for action.
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A Bish feal veren by 20- turned from Pak.s an sad: "Th Khaksurs wh in the kille belonged-have been silent fo the past two years. They wit a pro-Congress minory, held to be behind fronti riets, but were met womeldeind a strieus
THIS assessmation is certain te throw Pakistan into smoulder- ing unrest for some
time Laqua: All Khan was not a
ong nan ke Jinnah, and be dauge:
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WHAT, LEAVE HIM AND MARRY YOU ? WHO'S PROPOSING? YOU OR YOUR UNCLE JOE?" STOOGE SUITOR
World Coppright. Du atzekgement with Dally Herpit.
The Barrymore
who hated acting
N
by MILTON SHULMAN
TO critic can do more to recast a reputation or disturb an
John
the
His grandmother, Mrs Drew, spent 72 years on
His stage.
father, Maurice illusion Barrymore, was the
mas-
romantic
brothor.
his sister, Ethel,
as authorita-
than an
His actor's own auto- idol of his day biography. Anyone who has John, and
wore greasepaint been backstage for a drink
tively knows how painfully the coronets. performance can querade the man. [T may be jus. Treule enuseidonce
But the depth of the dis- ha Bob Lesque A. Khan guise becomes even end uita's Panda Nehru had brutally transparent much the same background and an actor comes out from
wear
he
LIONEL BARRYMORE
it the name was Schultz?
princelings as
Yet Lionel
Barrymore had a "blanket aversion" to acting. "Not to any one bit of acting perpetrated by me, but to all more acting perpetrated by me,” when writes to
to remove any shred of qualification. He had to act breeding. Both were educated in
because he had to eat. It under the protection of the as fundamental as that.
the name of a well-known New Eng and--N.h A: Cambridge:: Liqua Ali Khan at Oxford. playwright's words and His real loves were painting York ticket agency called Mc- wrote and music.
Spent four Bride, Heywood Broun ideas and uses his own.
"Lay OJE Both mea were nitimbers <!
Not that Mr Lionel Barry Years studying art in Parls and of this production, the Inner T:mple and were call-
without McDuff, Lay off McBride, returned to America his more in ed to the Bar--Nehru in 1912. Barrymores,"
He was more successful · --In memoirs ("We completing a single picture. Peter Davies.
alms
They were caster. The Liaquat Ali Khan a yens later. 12s. 6d.) has taken so bold a
rehearsals, the disappointments Bu: Liaqua A Khun never course. This
und the nervous hard work of
prac.scd
Instead, be ǝk a is life long brief the cause of bro.he: Moslems and when he died he led a people of 70,000,000 and ruted a land greate France.
He
was
the
any
the stage bored him.
When hc went back lo never to
is another of those "as told to" ventures in
in which the ghost his music.
He was more successful with biography writer is important enough to
His compositions, which he blithely admits pil. Hollywood in 1925, materialise in the shape of his fering from
of return to the theatre, he snatches
Ap. comedy name on the cover.
Brahms, Mozart and Debussy, peared in a two-reel It is to Mr Cameron Shipp have been played by as
which he im- in
Wys constantly arta than that Mr Barrymore has fold
orchestra DS
on the head with a being hit pressive on
# all.
rubber hose, "Easiest work I New York Philharmonie. Liequal Ali Khan returned to We are thus one layer re-
ever did. I was content," he But acting was the only oc- the real Lionel
Guys. His friends were horri- India the year after he was call moved from ed to the Bar and joined the verbal epidermis there are stil!
Barrymore.
be- But beneath this cupation that made him money.
He approached it with fied at this undignifled
"We Moslem League.
the loathing p
haviour of a Barrymore. = tropeze sufficient traces of Mr Barry-
Barrymores survive anything He never braded "movimen's" i more visible to confound those artist who is afraid of heights that pays," was his reply.
His grandmother pushed him against the Brush Ruj: he never who insist on attributing the on the
when ho singe was inside a concentration cump art of acting either wholly to in Sheridan's "The Rivals." 11 was a disastrous debut. "I am
It is not surprising then that the only actor who has ever Mr Barrymore has little pro- been formally canned from
found to say about acting-u The Barrymores are to
about anything elac either. was con'en to stay
what the he proudly reports.
There is nothing in this string Jinnah's shadow. He became American theatre
Forbes-Robertsons, the Terrys
his The rest of secretary of the Mostem League or the Hawtreys are to
of petly anecdotage that Tises the career seems to have been an above the level of
backs In 1936 when Jinnah reorganised English theatre. Birth automa- unpredictable mixture of acci- gossip before curtain time. The
t, and thereafter the two were tically
unrelieved wa imposes a responsibility dental success and
world wurs Arc only close and
campismentary Jinnals to the stage.
failure. Two of his most suc- chronological milestones as fil- the quick-thinking mercurial
The Barrymores can man: Liaquat Ali Khan the more actors in the family as far back Stelian
trace cessful
cidental as a Alm shot of fall- characterisations,
organ-grinder and ing leaves to indicate the pass→ saber fellow, the plodder with as 1752. Inevitably they were Colone! Ibbetson in "Peter Ib- Ing of time:
heredity or wholly to environ- for his beliefs. Balanes and cau- tion were we of his main char.ment. acteristics.
in
vision for ever before him never-called the Royal Family theless
Broadway.
of
We Barrymores, IRD. Gd.
Liaquat Ali Khan became the first Indian Finance Minister and became Prime Minister Pakistan in 1947.
H
His work
E gravelled widely-America, Canada, Britain. He met his Christian-born wife-the Begum -when che was selling tickeb for a Bar flood relief dramatic Sho performance.
became a Moslem and they married in 1993.
What did he achieve, this man of peace who died by a weapon of war?
He helped form a Triw Do. minion, and brought some cler out of chaos. More, he brought. the English virtues of toleration, patience, and moderation to a land which has long lacked them
JOHNNY HAZARD
THE CARAVAN COMES! MASTER,
HURRY!
own
wbs
15
the play by his grandmother,"
theatrical
A
of betson," were achieved by It therefore comes as some- simply mimicking the actions what of a shock that, after of other actors doing similar some 250 light-hearted and ag- roles.
gressively self-effacing pages, should reveal Mr Barrymore on his final page that he has a political and moral philoso phy after all.
Peter Davies.
His Macbeth, he admits, was a debacle at Dunsinane, Using
TALK, TALK,
"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts,"
-Tallyrand.
1
He hear no tone
Of the maiden he loves 50
well! No telephone
Communicates with his cell. -W. S. Glibert, 1878.
•
"Someone invented the tele-
phone,
And interrupted a nation's
slumbers,
Ringing wrong but similar
numbers."
--Ogden Nash,
TALK
In heaven when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
-Somerset Maugham.
1
The fact is that the tele- phone is the greatest weapon over placed in the hands of the bores of this world ginco the development of human speech.
-“Mr Harper".
欧
Allence is one great art of conversation,
-William Hazlitt.
MAST...
The obstacle to civilisation's progress, it seems, Is "strangu- luting taxes." Mr Barrymore assures us that it we
study our history books you studied in
"the ones the eighth grade" his view would be vindicated.
It is
rother
re- on
disconcerting that Mr Lionel Barrymore has felt impelled to
put his miniscences and reflections life into hard print. Most of US would have prefered to
re member him as the traccible, growling but genily wise Fold man. propelling his wheel-chair through films about Dr Kildare. But now that we have read his book we cannot but won- der what would have happen ed to Lionel Barrymore hád he been born Lionel Schultz.
By Frank Robbins
THEN
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