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MR. SMITH GOES TO MOSCOW.
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foreigners, the fun begins as night falls on Moscow. The city's decrepitude is hidden; the ballet and restaurants can be enjoyed.
I do not believe there is much creative spirit about the ballet in Moscow and Leningrad nowadays; it is a survival of discipline and technique, with rather old- fashioned scenery apt to show, wrinkles. Yet it is an exciting and spell-binding spectacle, with a passionately enthusiastic, éritical and appreciative audience to sharpen the senses.
THE BOLSHOI THEATRE .. one enchanted evening..
TO-MORROW: 'The Governote' shadowe me in Leningrad
The Bolshoi Theatre is very large, with no circles and galicries but tier upon tier of gilded boxes.
On the ceiling are painted, with Russian generosity, 10 Muses. The red curtain is embroidered with the dates of prominent revolu- tions, and over the pro- scenium arch is a portrait of Lenin and a long parch ment scroll inscribed with the music of the Inter- nationale.
The stalls
27C
Biled with foreign diplomats, delegations, prominent citizens and soldiers.
Some of the soldiers have many medals that they make a njec ko an empty railway restaurant car when the owner One officer has a green moves. comb among his medals.
Some of the
All through the performance they miss nothing. No ex- cellence of technique even oth the part of the stage effects ---- goes unapplauded: and at the ead they clap and cheer and Insist on curtain calls as if their
hearts would break,
I suppose the explanation is easy. A good ballet provides the most comprehensive form of escapism in the world, Russin ballet is the best in the world; ond
nowhere in the world is escapism more needed and
perhaps de- subconsciously sired than in Russia,
about the boards of the stage, involved for whole minutes in a vast Satanic, death,
THE EVENING DRESS POLICEWOMAN - HELPED THE HIGHT CLUB CLEAN-UP
INSPECTOR LILY MOVES ON
M
ISS LILY DAWES,
At
Today, Dealed boaldo her
But there in the two-storey
in
until recently Chief shining kitchen range reading Mr. Churchill's memoirs, Mist Inspector of Metro Dawes is the picture of placid, politan Women Police, Is grey-halted housewife. looking for a new job, 65 she wants to do welfare house Biskersteth Road, work among the children of Tooting, which the shares with she South London.
har 80-year-old mother, recalls how another of her plain What a change that will be clothes jobs was to visit the from the 1920s, the days when clo Lily Dawes wore the big boots dope-dens of Soho to cheek up and sweeping skirts of a police on the trame in cocaine and constable by day and evening hamp. Here she was not required gowns by night. Then her beat to sample the goods served to was the West End night-clubs, drug dens and brothols.. It was partly owing to polico-constable Dawes that Mrs Kate Meyrick, "Queen of the Night-clubs," was "I never smoked a reefer it brought into court, and con- my life," she says, "nithough I demned to varying "terms of had to go into many strenge imprisonment at the height of places in my time, pretending to
be a ellent in search of
hor profitable catéer.
the customers..
It was easy, she said, to dia- tinguish reafers from ordinary cigarettes, "They have a peculiar
takable."
Dressed in an evening gown #mell-indescribable but emmis considered to be the height of
During the war she was posted glamour and fashion in those to Vine Street. Many of her days, young P-c Dawes spent many of her duty hours going to cases at that time concerned the smart West End "niteries." what she calls "those young and foolish giris" who came from the this She cannot compute 10
the troops flower- pagne she poured into
for the first time-in
The corps de ballet, especial ly the men, danced with an
accomplishment thought impunited unity one day how many pints of cham- provinces to follow
Impotain of Bakh-pots at those night-club tables
In The
Bround.
chisarai there was
a Tartur between 1921 and 1932, when she vomen chief inspec dance,
danced by real Tartars was promoted from sergeant to tors of poller were appointed In with
which threatened whips, Westerners with heart failure.
Altogether it was sheer fairy
tale, full of the fairy tale ex- EL
tremes of beauty and ugliness, good and evil.
women are ex-
pensively dressed. They wear much black velvet and occasion- cily jawellery, but have little
chic.
ort
Bursting Point
of boxes THE six rows
crowded to bursting point. People are sitting and standing wn leaning over each other's shoulders till they look like a contemporary cut of the Globe at Southwärk. Many of them have queued 10 hours for their Aicicet.
As the lights
cuperness
01
the
or the curtain rise.
The result is an emotional explosion — the most impressive thing to be witnessed in Russin, a fusion of audience and actors unknown in the less uninhibited, more sophisticated and dare I say, in
this sole particular, decadent West.
Audience formance
apart, the per. would stut be magical. The stage is enormous, the dancing of a quality I had not imagined.
the When I was in Moscow
famous dancers, of most had not
returned from spending their Stalin Frizes at their villas on the Black Sen.
all
Anti-climax
Inspector.
"I dared not
drink more than a glass
OR
two on duty," she said, with a twinkle in her CST new experiences in life blue eyes. Murn cut much as one had "But to avoid anticipated. But a few take one rousing sus- by surprise, grip one by the throat picion tha from the eyes drinks had to and tear scales like a Pauline conversion. After disappear as if days of Soviet dreariness the I were enjoy-
asing tham ballet in Moscow becomes
much as the one of those.
Έξυπ
it is this
anti- other custom- climax to emerge into the streetsers. So it was
an
a
and see the luminous red stars usually the flower-pots that got glowing above Moscow on the mine." high splics of the Kremlin; to Mrs Meyrick's charge for have dinner in a restaurant
bettuc
of champagne was around with a speech-Inhiburg brass £2-considered wildly extrava- band from which most of
gant in these bad old days.
pro- one's fellow-diners are finally None of the night-club
and out; to go, before prictors spotted the handsome to "Cocktail Hall" (that is serious-looking girl 18
London, Mias Dawes was one of thom With headquarters at Southwark police station, she was in change of 90 policewomen operating acuth of the river.
In their smart peaked caps and black nylons, these girls look very different from the plongers
DAWI -ON
THE
| DAY}
惠利關
JOINED
of Miss Dawra's first days in the Streatham polize 32 years back, whose clumsy helmets and heavy equipment became a muile-hall joke.
"But they haven't changed much," she says. "Recrults are better educated nowadays, and their chances are better. There's not the ridicule that there was."
Gin joining the police now will not have quite the fun that Lily Dawes had when she went dancing in the night-clubs in the 1920s. The clubs have been pretty well cleaned up now," says the chlof-inspector (rotd.).
Why is she not content to rest easy on her police pension- two-thirds of her £520 solary?
"P3 hate to stop working," she says. "I have just had six weeks' holiday, and It's more than enough."
Evan Steele
TROUBLE IN TUNISIA
BY PETER KIRK
armoured TANKS and
cars are rumbling once again through the streets of Sousse, Sfax and Enfidaville as they rumbled in that an heady summer nine years
go down, the Yet the chief parts were danced truthfully
jis untranslated † "observation officer." But as the ago, when Montgomery's
little
were
audience with superb skill, can be felt. Their whisperings The Jester was a short, solid
and Impossibly capitalist name), ranis of her visits ("always with and silences impar, an ex-
and man full of snap traordinary feeling of expecta. boundless vigour, the Evil
an escort in evening dress," she Eighth Army chased Rom- The only place where one cani tion. Опе knows Instinctively Genius as evil as a fairy tale — find anything so exciting es.a
explaina), many of the doubtful mel's Panzers to the sea. hundred and have
establishments which, flourished f.um them the exact moment and when the Prince pulled his p
Only this time it is. French when the overture will
killed him
of u he gramnics begin wing off and
liqueur made after the first world war
arincur, and the enemy is not ads] cleaned up, rolled and kicked and thrashed om coal.
the cream of the German Army, but the local population who have risen against the rule of the French and caused the worst disturbances in French North Africa zince the days of Abd el Krim and the Rifts in the early 1920's.
CHAPTER TWO OF A STORY THAT WAS
1
DISCUSSED ALL OVER THE WORLD
"Taming' Of The Jungle Girl
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM,
(Holland).
E little Mother Superior with the apple-wrinkled face rat a finger to her lips and opened a door on the first floor of the convent of St Francla in the Dutch mar- krt
town Zoom.
By Robert
Glentom
So far, in the fighting, scores of people have lost their lives, and all over Tunisia, the Arabs are ambushing French troops, seizing towns and arsenals, and Now she has finished general king any French soldier in education and is learning pro- uniform unwise enough to Cessional dressmaking. She is allow himself to be separated skilled with her fingers,
from his column,
This is no sudden uprising
1038, Since
Tunisia has been under mariter law, and the grievances of that people against the French have grown daily stronger. And now, everything. has bubbled over in one pent- the Malays.
up outburst of nationalist feel ing, that appears to be affecting That sho might be kidnapped everyone from the Bey of Tunis
thought downwards.
Bertha sul likes playing with ten-year-olds at "mothers and fathers." She can be little tyrant at times.
pay- age," to which Mr and Mrs the
Hertogh wanted an answer.
Bergen-op-Zoom and chiatrists shook their heads. A girl with such a back- ground would find it im- possible to settle in peaceful, of Bergen-op civilised Holland.
One who offered six to four
One day the answers came w like this.
Bertha sleeps in the same bod as her sisters, Wiesje, aged 17, und Corry, 10.
She told me: "I love my mother. I will never go back to
*
The cause of this uprising is an apparent breach of faith by When Bertha first arrived she the late French Government of
There in the front row of
against successful rehabilitation And at night she would tell and taken back is a a class of 40 girls a child of Eartha Hertogh was Mayo them about life in Malaya: "I always in the minds of the was sewing a seam in her Wingate, the psychologist who never really lived the life of a police. father's pyjama jacket.
pointed out the hostility of a girl married-women," che said, -tom from the arms of her just got married and then was She looked about ten,. Yet foster mother to the parents taken back to Arriinab's house." little more than a year ago
So began Bertha's réhabilita- the world's headlines were the fact that she was a married Lion. calling her a jungle bride woman who had once more to and pictures of her, sultry become a little girl,
in a sarong, with hair about her shoulders, were in every"`. newspaper.
she had not seen for ten years
troubles. language
NO MORE WORRIES
This is
1.ast March on her birthday her parents gave her a piece ot .patterned frâric and some skeins
of tay embroidery silk.
Pertha was to happy.
had an escort. Then it was M: Pleven, in turning down the taken away. Now there is a Tunisian demand for immediate plain clothes man.
LEGACY OF EAST
Telf-government.
For some time now, the Police had reports of Oriental Tunisians have been demanding full self-government for their strangers. In the town.. Med
the country;
most that the She have been questioned. But that French have been prepared to clutched the sills, and kissed her is something Bertha knows offer them is local self-govern a progress report on mother. But still she Ignored nothing about. You remember her? Ber-
the way Mrs Adeline Hertogh her father.
ment, with Paris retaining con- tha Maria Hertogh
WAR faced her problem daughter; married when sho Was
and defence. thirteen to a twenty-three-
I talked to
One month later Police Chier Mr's Hertogh in Van T. Het was in the house year-old Malay school There are no more worries Berthu came in.
the kitchen of her home. talking to Mr Hertogh when teacher. She had been hand- about. Bertha," she said. "She's
ed over as a child to the care` a good girl and we are all happy of a Malay nurse, Che together. But I will say that it Aminah, in 1942 when her has been very hard work,” Dutch parents were fiecing When Bertha arrived at Ber
gen she would speak to no one from the Japanese,
SEVENTEEN DIED.
SKILLED FINGERS
She dung her crms around her father, idased him and ran out of the room.
Chenik, and one of his Mini- ters journeyed to Paris to put his case before the Assembly
But the Assembly, rofused to hear them. The French backed up by the British and the Ameri- cans (who are worried about the future of their large alr bases in North Africa), per- suaded the Assembly that as Tunisia was not a covereign state she had no stalus before the Assembly.
The result of that refusal was the insurrection which has now broken out throughout the country.
In his first major speech before the National Assembly as French Prime Minister, Faure has made it clear that the French will riot think of negotiation on the future status of Tunisia until the present rising has died down; and Count de Hauteclocque, the Resident the General, has appealed to Bey to use his influence to stop the fighting.
But the Boy is in a very embarrassing pollier. Ho. was put on the throne by tho. French In 1944 in the
place of deposed cousin. Monoet w
who was considered too nationalist. As a result, he was treated as a traitor by the Tunisians the first four years of his reign, aud, regated with contumely and Insults whenever he; op- peared in pubile.
far.
When Moncef died in 1948, the Bey, Sidi el Amin, embraced tho nationalist cause "whole- heartedly, and became wildly popular overnight, Anxlous not to lose his new-found favour, he dare not back out in any way, even if he wanted to.
So prospects for peace in Tunisia are small indeed.” It may be asked what has all this got to do with us? The French say that it has a great.
She is making a good job or/trol over finance, foreign affairs, deal to do with Us—in fact, it is
being a typical little Dutch giri.
note
*
alf our fault.
I watched her take off theCast summer, there appeared... white starched apron and set to be some modlacation of the French point of view, but in a off frem school for home. Sho
If tho British Government to the Tunisians early in Wore A freen jumper, tartan December, M. Pleven medo it had not peralsted in its policy. akdirt, with the medaillon of the clear that, he would agree of giving self-government
to Virgin Mary. round her neck.
nothing more for the moment. politically Immature
as Nigeria and the Gold Coast, Over it all she put a thick than the extremely modified. coat and off the went, laughing, self-government which the to say nothing ef neighbouring
Tunisians now enjoy.
τ.
Is she really Just like any. There is a Tunisian Govern- other Dutch girl? Sometimes
+10
nations
Libya and the Sudan, the Tunisians would never have got the desire for Immediate golf-government and complete into their heads,
but her mother.
She glared at her brothers and
Tho astonished man could sisters. She ignored her father.
She complained about the scarcely speaks for emotion, and wonder," said her, father. She ment, formed by the Bey of Tunis, but its powers are, in food, potatoes, meat, bread, the portly Van T. Hof-smiled and can be very Oriental "A short little more, than those.of Sho Was baptised
wishes to."
¤ British County Council, and
*In: addiflón, Tunisia, la vitat sausages, and cheese her family left the house, Catholic, but was brought live en, demanding tice with Now Bertha ves coming back
the French Resident General for the North Atlantie defence up in a jungle village as a every meal. Mrs Herioth gave into the family. Sha "knew no
word of the Occasionally her brown eyes maimains a tight, hold over all ret-up, and the Americans have Seventeen people in Moslem.
all .and language but a nun came daily darken
expression the actions of the Bey and his already bullt a large number
It is Ministers.
of air bases there that died in the Singapore riots Then Bertha started talking to teach her Dutch and the other vanishes from her face..
So the French reason when the court decided she to her slyly behind her hand, subjects a child should know, a legacy of the East...
Infuriated by thei
Cour refusal of quile and always in Malay, which Mrs Thereafter everyone thought
for the revolt-we should return to her parents Kertogh understands. But the Berdin had better go to school. in Holland.
grabbed her considered to be legiilmato have the most compelling Tea never disclosed her innermost She went into the sixth form worries... he thoughts.
Set with ellis of her own age. Her daughter, swung her round, and demands, the Tunlalads decided sons for seeing that the out- Bertha camo, back to her here were many questions, lest roport ahows good very said: "Just look how much to appen to the United Nations, break is subdued as soon as
and weight the bas put oh."yo
Ahe Prime Ministeri, ponible. ?? parenta council house: In particularly, about £52"; "marti- ; good?' in avery, subjeşti
But Mrs. Hertogh has no such the French to grant what they reapprabiloni horol