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HOW CALMLY WE
SAIL THROUGH SUEZ!
* From the liner Orcades PETER DUFFIELD
sends a report on the Suez Canal
still
triumphantly, tranquilly open for business. '
W
news-
Aboard RMS Or, ades.
HATEVER
Falle din General Erskine issues front his head- parts on the west bank
The Suez Canal today.--- enat us one thing standing
unsistently clear.
1
The Surz Canal itself.
833 cmurahl 157,000,000 waterway which a Jet Age has failed to reduce us the Maicon passenger-and-eangro
between Britain an
half her Com- more Fitn nwealth es wie fran- quill
triumphantly
and
1.
This tenerend-
PSL Middle East-
fact is al-
mond obscured by becament Egypt-
apitisored
Fi
Giage.
131
if you trd any Doddrets matumat junal
Puppen to jour
of
lying be-
en the Medi-
We bung expectantly over the Shope
we glided mio sight of town.
A bambout rowed out to meet
FIN
The three dusky Egyptians marang the small craft stared
pour bage all-white bre
mple yellow funnel.
"Hullo, Mes Mcherson, Jetteri un Egyptian how
For The ship
We wer Fusely market.
. Hers' but a
Shutters drawn
S we virament moodily of Dusky elepants Touthy made of plastic and sold as ivory, of love potions in powder form
men, mostly paratroopers, gave is excited waves or the wolf- whistle to our prettier blondes
Collie Knox, in Hollywood
Meets Its Greatest Star
Mr Chaplin Offered
Me a Part!
WAS chatting to Bing Crosby at Paramount Studios when he took my arm and said- "Who is that fellow coming towards us? I know his face."
"That," 1 replied, "is James Mason" and went towards him.
He
regarded me quizz.rai'y
lant blue ey
$5
out of his "Ever been offend pictures" Fr asked might not photoft.aph ton body 1!1 give yo Two im scene in fine uf: Bangun Tanat in Lewester Squnte I v Jn the mon, of course What about it
Wa
::
A. this <^e? scheduled for two weeks I had. Bing rulous though proud, to re- Mason, Ject my first, and last, chanJA of served amortality the first
"I've never met Crosby."
zlin
for
of
the Sam
in
accoutred shooting "Botany Ray
in which he co-stars with Alan Laddl
Do introduce me."
autarrat
Beputed to be as his own udio,
W keep the delalis of his pictures a deep
moreover, secret, and,
YES, THIS IS CHAPLIN
That is how I shoot all my pic- tuies.
He told me he is delighted Clare w his leading lady. not to
Bleom. "She has a very rare "I think she quality." he paid
Do go will be a great success. and see ber Give London my love
Renumber the last time was there and the traffle was held up
But in Piccadilly?
be mad about newspaper mea he serg Chaplin stopped a Somewhat bewildered. I rehearsal to talk to me. did SO. "How-arr-yer,"
drawled Crosby. "Seen you
in pictures, of course."
"Delighted," replied
Masen.
T
"Both relapsed Mile en- lamaya
lenes ike a cue of scoollays And I depard to fortify my getter- ed nerves wil drink
Christmas in Hollywood thil not feel like Christmas Maybe the deckson is ton real for such
But an outpost of unreality. had my scasonable stocking an that within three hours I talke with Charlie Chaplin at his own duas fu 20 minutes watched him direct the first
him what between scene ever and his gond looking, srx-foot-
ari two, 24-year-old son Svd, was offered by Chaplin a part
"Limc
light."
· Poor bikes" commented in this self-same tin.. are Aur‘palan passenger re- lugging from bus Festival 11 Priede all their wires whisked away from the 121. **
Just routine
WITH the faintest swish through the sluggish waters of the Canal, the Orcades glided on into the Red Sea
Ships officers describe the journey as completely routine for this period
The harbour health and polier services of the Main Feyptians are as normal
of someont's sister being affered difference with past nips is
marriage, and of lack of Egyptian labour.
provisionud
the financial col- Tige that Duri awall the elly puture" industry
Dust the famous waterfront of the port town. Simon
Arzt, the Tour15.6
star
The only special anti-sabotage precaution taken. the closing of lower porth les No bineking out, no frearms issued.
We leave a Cenel where the vital bank is safe in British hands, and serene for the ship- ping of all nations. Where long de
Inc
lines of Nissen huts and the in- (where I
***** dividual pyramids of British watched an Au:
tents tay quietly in the winter tralian holiday-
sun: where the Egyptian Army make: spend £i-
Angie lies impotently half on one side
of the Canal, half on the other. Saturday morning)
And slightly shamefacedly we bad gren thu ties
British leave the groups of drawn ara lightly over its window. So soldiers shouting as most soldiers had the majority shout:
"Yul luckh
fal on the of shops esplanade. The your buck—civilians." We are aboard The Egyptian boatmen start palm trees droop-
te Partn
the Red Sea.
The Can! 15
HUN.
Jor bust-
And thal
Turines is ship-
Jung
te Grevale. Sae
28,000 ins
a buyers' market.
The Hus, thap today using the
000
111
ed Jower than
''
The days of Port Said, the Caneb. and she is bound for duty free, "Welcome Stranger," Austraia from Tilbury with me-hither tuwa, were surely 1.487 passengers--320 or more of numbered.
ווו
Barilish migrants-plus
6:2 British crew.
available wis
Royal
And so to No. 1 oiling berth, Just inside the canal itself, She us NI f. t taken us where because NO Egyptian 1ugh a rolling, tocking Bay labour
Biscay. il pre-Christmas emai-Lursi in Galiraltar, win Navy men came to help unload 13 Ceristmas
795 bags of Service mail, and Naples and a In Alediterranean
police. polite and So generally Egyptian
it
y* U.thy! thal Groucho's gag docile, to escort our one passen- writer would probably write of ger disembarking in Egypt.
it. The old gray mare nostrum ain't what she used to
she
be."
"Doing" Port Said
TESS than six months ago there
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THEN, the 100-mile trip through the Canal itself.
High on Orcades's foremast we flow the Egyptian flag, three
it, in French.
our
the way.
All day long small but signifi-
periple,
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
TRAVEL
Very Very homesick
THOUGH he's white-haut, T chose remarkable blue eyes,
in remem-
you are too yung ber" ber. the figure, and air of nervous Before uld tell him I did intensity give the be to his 62 and wasn't hed van hed years He was dresse for his into his portable dressing-room. role of a broken-down music- ball Belur
Bloom.
was eager to see Clare for when she was un- known I had praised her per- He spoke in 2 soft. very
formance 117 aladin play. She English voice as he told me he
the part of a young had taken two years to write plays this film and that, apart from halienina whorn Chaplin love-in acting in it and directing it, he van and saves from suizid:
strolled with her into the had composed all the music, sunshine She is young, appeal- scored it and written the lyrics.
ing, and bewildered by her
ngagement for a film "When I stand on this set of sudden
her 4 world the old Criterion bar-wonder- that may make
"A 1iend told me in fl, isn't it?-- grow very homie- star.
London." she said, "that Mr sick for England. I would like nothing better thun to have the Cheplin was interested in
in London and to 10 play posite him in Llme- and that I should see come
Tell uver for it.
me lubit.
his agent thought it was # about London.
priniere
me
I told him. Eagerly he plies joke, and did nothing about it
for #1PԸ weeks. nie with questions. Then sprang
up and said: "Must go through thought makes this scene again."
I watched bim rehearse the
scene seven times. His passion
for detail is incredible. As the
an
cold."
The mere me go hot and
Hollywood's way
old busker, he gues round the WELL. that is the way In bar holding out his buat for W Hollywood. Today you are money He reaches a bench on not tomorrow you are. The which
are skiting
elderly day alter perhaps you are not music hall manager, played by Egain. Every director Nigel Bruce, rand а young whom I have spoken has Kri- soldier in khaki, played by his led me to do all I can to stop
son.
Paris
"I expect you it think the absurdly ticutistic, but I do suddenly feet most fright fully keen to identify muse!! personally with the wonder. Jul work
done being UING F
BEST DRESSED
POLITICIAN?
IT'S A PLOT
SAYS DAVID ECCLES
BRITAIN'S best-dressed owned.
Pits
how mony cuits her husband
But she was able to say that Eccles, 47-year-old Minister he didn't own many. The sulls of Works. And the Cabinet he did own were of the Sunday is the best-dressed Britain best or Downing Street variety, and a numbe: are really too old, even for the country."
has had for many a year. which suits,
So says Cloth and Clothes. tailors' trade journal.
Said Mrs Eccles: "He's very neat really. But if he doesn't put his trousera in the press no one else does."
He usually remembers to use a clubes brush. He is easy on
thous
to the Eet socks. His repairers in plenty of time.
›
ADVICE
I
Then we came to Port Said, Mediterranean entrance to the Can: To anyune famillar with "peacetime" (OT pre- Anglo Fyptian reisis-time) pasinges through the Suez Canal, Port white stars and a white crescent
solid green. On
Mr Eccles heard the news at Said today marks the boginning moon on
He said: of an austerity canal voyage.
bridge was a French and later his home in Andover.
to British pilot.
"It's a pict by the tailors Instructions were It is an austerity that affects signalled to us for our place in
make me buy another suit."
Не
awhile. Then thought the passengers only slightly; the the Suez convoy, as tradition has
added: Egyptians enormously.
"I know why I have been choich. It's beenuse most But it was Britain, Britain all tailors are wealthy and have
television sett.
"They have seen me in the
the News.' I Mr Eccles gave advice to the programme In Ing" Port Said. One was to cant symbols of British strength was with Michael Foot. Any struggling young politician.
would look well-dressed was: "Go to the best inflor. A walk ashore, see the sights, visit in the Canal Zono were in evi-one the cabarets, comb the water- donce, The scream of
the beside Foot. He gots in for few good sults are better than front shops. The other, to stay occasional Jet-ighter filtered rough clothes, you know, he alot of cheap ones. That goes
for everything in life." aboard and hang over the ship's through our portholes.
man stuff."
And here is whe
what 'Cloth Mr Anthony Eden has been shouting and baggling with
Clothes salát
of Mr of Egyptian boatmen As we moved from the Great regarded as a model of what
Lyttelton, Colonial Secretary: junk Jaden with Bitter Lake Into the last long the well-dressed politician A style-conscious man"; coloured pouffes, car
uffen, carved ele stretch of tile Canal, our 28,000- should look like. But how,
General Lord Ismay, Com- Ethante, fancy handbags, myriads tan ship was escorted all the says the Journal, "the stylo of
Bandals.
watches, fountain way to Suer by two, thres lackpot is definitely hit by Mir monwealth Relations Secretary:
"His sult
Boldierly shows pens, tarbushes, dirts, wallets, quarter-ton armoured oats, the Eccles."
hankering for the unostenta pursen, and pyramid-Engraved first boaring two, men,
eather-work so dear to the second three me of the Royal
Lord tourist heart and so essential to Armetured Corpe. Like an endr Mr. Eccles looked at the cor- General His enceinble Airiy Egyptian economy.
mously magnihet punt moving duroy, trousers he was wearing. streams business man? Today there is no "dolog" in Thames lock, we carried on They were old and baggy. They There was one black mark Port Suid. British passenger shouting match with them had holes. He said: supposes went to the Chancellor of the Liners no longer tis-up at the from our ship-to-shore distance all my colleagues will sugh Exchequer, bir R. A Butler He
hud, no- bewästpocket handker maint@waltfronti "Bridal page of fity: yardu Every mile-obj
geis no longer no juhibtw, 6 two grosake of British Services ham Eccles couldn's remember, chler.
Wa
the
BAGGY CORDUROYS
and Ollver
Archerwell, Paynidster-
with
Chitila actors and actresses The kiler bas to look up,
coming to Hollywood "on spec. recognise the busker, and go Rarty does it leat in anything into his dialogue, Chaplin took but direpointment, his son again and again through
But Bryan Forbes the scene with infinite patience mirable young actor who came but tireless insistence. At last out without
The ad-
any Kb to join be was satlaned and said:
his wife, Constance Smith, who "That's fine. Now we'll do it was under contract, is doing
all again, and they shoot it."
all right.
Bollywood likes to discover
After perfection people. It recrutes largely from
I'
Be New York stage. A BO
success
TT was magical how Chaplin notice in a Broadway
stepped into the skin of the and you are half-way to Holly- busker and drew it over him, wood.
Little Audrey Hepburn, who His must moving speech to the soldier ended. "Time is the is such a hit in "Gigi" has al- great author. I always writes ready got a big Paramount the
Alan Webb, aat continet. ending.
whose Perfect everyone in the studio, was near witty performance made "Nina" to tears whot Chaplin fluffed cu endurable, was flown the final word.
test to Hollywood the first Sun-
a
Up he leaped, unexpectedly day after the play opened, ond exclaimed "Oh, nurs!" and, in- back on the Monday. stead
last of reshooting the
It is usually when the thought minute of the scene. weat of acting never enters your through it agads.
head, or you are in another pro- "You are certainly a perfec- fession altogether, that you are tionist," I said to him when he offered ก part in his own rejoined me.
picture by Mr Charles Chaplin.
"I am a technician," he re- Evcn though more plied. "I always have beca. than in anger.
Whiteness
in sorrow
Purity!
Sweetness
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