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THEM
ALLH
JOHN GORDON says: Let the cynics smile-
America inspiring
FIND
Chicago.
This 13 a land where men
am
has message
I am certain beyond all doubt And the "Powder Room"
determination und the
to.
is
Americans preter freedom above all things. that if we could capture, some which they retire to do it
Freedom of the individual is a, of the ambition of Ainerléans to now renamed the "Gossip very interested in fundamental principle of their lift themselves as swiftly na they Room," Britain, very fair to life.
can to a higher standard of lifo Britain, very friendly
with
Food is very expensive,
working There are no class distinctions which they put their backs into should say that the to
Britain, but a little as we know then, A man's the job of doing it, we could girl here spends far more than, puzzled about us.
success does not depend on the pull our grand old country out the entire weekly Wage of a bed in which he is born but on of the mess it is in before many comparable British girl on ber A surprising number of the qualities that are in him years have passed,' and begin to food.
efforts he puts into taste a life that we would en- them claim that their
an- and the
joy for better than our present cestry is English, and they
one. are proud of it.
DIET-SLIMMERS
But she gets far more attrac- tive foods. There is a much He sets to work to raise him-
greater variety in cooking here self, not to depress others. Mest In the streets of American than In England. The hall porter at one men in America have a burn- town Large and small Ing ambition. to rise in the alike, the crowd reflects 더 hotel said. to
with world. me,
And they are prepared prosperity that our youth at evident rellsh: "In a way to work with every ounce of home unfortunately kas never I'm English, too. I was born Inillative and energy 10 make known. here, but my father was that possible. from England, and I have a sister in Wales." Then he added: See... that...___girl,”. pointing to a woman sitting at a desk in the hotel office. T "She comes from Iowa."*
NO BARRIERS
THE mechanic today can be
gange owner next year, the "shop assistant of to- day is the shop owner of to- an Iowa morrow. There are ao bar
riers across the road to fortune
Then I found paper, which a visitor had left. Irtook it to her and said: "You're an Would you like this?"
It may be Superficial We
Dre inclined to regard A
America
a land 1.5 prosperity.
of Trade recession
steaks, which it is. But it is for might sweep it away, and
mere a land of wonderful light Americans may be right to be a little nervous of the years just salad meals, more original and attractive than anything we ahead.
know at home.
GRIT,
COURAGE
creative ability, and the will to D nghting to
if you have the urge, the DUT is a prosperity worth
BUT
preserve, and Iowan, make the effort,
they will fight to preserve it and even increase 11 with grit and
IT'S A BOND
Every step, a man takes up wurds is reflected Immediately In a better house, a better car, acre Badgels and bixuries in his honit, more clothes, and a fuller, casier, better life fer his
SHE looked at me and wife.
sald:""lowan be blister- ed, I'm English."
Believe me, the hero like that, and spur men on,
wives their
Now that makes a bord Of course, the theorists, who between these people and now have too much power in us which is of immensa the shaping of our lives in value not only to us but to all the world, in its prèsent wobbly state.
Americans,
They sre aggressively confident, proud of being Americans. But they like their kinship with us.
They want to walk with us. Are we making the best of that invaluable cement? I doubt it.
Britain, will hold up their hands In horror, cry "How wrong It is to put so much emphasis in life on money."
AN IDEAL
QUT is it? The mere accumu- Biation of money
may not perhaps be the highest ideal in ilfe.
.
courage.
How is it reflected in tho everyday lives of the wemen?
And women here, I should
add, are just as slimming-diet
conscicus as British women.
-The American woman's home in which she spends much less lime than an English woman-has everything in it to make life easy.
1952 EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
H
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT).
London, ducted by Walter Susskind; tha
National Youth Orchestra. of
FIS Royal Highness the B.B.C. Scottish Orchestra, con- Duke of Edinburgh ducted by Ian Whyte; and the and at least 50 Am- Great Britain with Walter bassadors, Ministers and Susskind as conductor.
and
High Commissioners of the In the chamber music section nations of the world will the highlight will be 40 join in the colourful opening Festival Piano Quartet composed Joseph Siiret, William Edin Primrose, Clifford Curzon on August 17 of burgh's famous
Interna Pierre Fournier. They plan to tional Festival of Music and send several weeks in retreat in Austria rehearsing for the Festival. The Stuttgart Chamber
The
Drama.
Quintette
de
His Royal Highness will Orchestra under Kart Mun accompany the Ambassadors chinger, and High Commissioners to l'Atelier, the Amadeus String all the events arranged for Quartet, the Vegh String Quartet, Royal Philharmonie Chamber Orchestra will also con- Iribute to these programmes
-them in the course of a two- and the day visit to the city.
One group of Ambassadors and their wives will fly by special plane from London to Edinburgh on the morning of Sunday, August 11, the day the Festival opens. Others will arrive in eccond plane.
The drama alde is notable for the introduction of two new plays
Tho
by Charles
@novel
The old Scottish plial of by English playwrights. Edinburgh has seen much history first one to be performed will be through the years, but this is the "The River Line" first time that the ambassadors Morgan wkrose introspective of all the nations have been "The Fountain" about prisoners invited to take part in a Scottish of war in the First World War ceremony. It is expected that is well remembered. "The River certain ambassadors will be Invit- Line" has a prisoner of war theme. ed to speak in reply to the The second play will be "The address of welcome given by Lord Player King" Christopher
by Provost Jamca Miller.
FAUNA, Dased on historical fr."
involving the celebrated Perkin Warbeck. The third
play, by Shakespeare, will be
ba
presented by the Old Vic Com pany. Another theatrical Five Edinburgh Festivals have
will presentation
Emlyn this annual event Williams as Charles Dickens established
world of music giving the first performance of It is an avent his adaptation of "Bleak House."
solidly in the and the Arta.
which draws the discerning music This novel first appeared 100
of the
years ago.
lover as well as the patron drama, the ballet and the
Although there is no great in- ternational orchestra WCAS such as the Philharmonic last yea, and al- ballad opera Introducing many no orchestra, ald Scots folk songs, written by though there is
opera. One of the most Interesting ·
sides of the Festival, theatrically moy will be "The Highland Fair", a W York
chair, or singers from La Scala Joseph Mitchell, adapted, by Opera House, Milan, to delight Robert Kemp, and directed by
Opera
48
as in 1950, there is instead the Tyrone Guthrie. The music has intriguing
of the been arranged by Cedric Thorpe apocance
Guthrie, Komp and
Hamburg State Opera company. Davia collaborated in
for the first
one of the
most successful
They are singing time since the war outside Ger- presenting "The Three Estates, many.
The setting for this year's theatrical presentations at the Festival will be more elaborate Festival. than ever. The opening ceremony historic on the takes placa
cach Castle Esplanade, and as ambassador or representative
Ballet performances over the arrives the flag of his country will bo broken from one of the three weeks will be given by standards surrounding the parade the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, the New York City. Ballet, 'and ground.
100,000 spectators will the Gra & Ballet du Marquis de
The Sadler's congregate largely in the famed Cuevas. Princes Street Gardens, below company which completed tour. the Castle Rock. There the of the United States and Canada speeches will be relayed and a some months ago, will give the
given of the Arst
commentary
ceremony.
The ambassadors are expected
they
Public
performance
new
was
Wells
of a
John Cranko, ballet whose up by
"Pineapple Poll" also to be in the city for at least three recently performed. It will
also will attend as be seen in Edinburgh. Two nys, and they days.
performances as can be ballets which will receive their many arranged. On Sunday night they first British performances by the will be invited to listen to Sir New York City dancers are... Thomas Beecham and the Royal "Bayou" and "The Pied Piper?? Philharmonic Orchestra, at the The Grand Ballet du Marquis de
oncert. opening concert.
Afterwards Cuevas are offering "Prisoner in. wil
go back to the Castle the Caucasus" for the first time Esplanade for the opening per- in Britain. formance of the Military Tattoo, The Art Exhibition this which will be presented under will be the works of Degas,
as year floodlighting. On Monday night
A number of performance it is planned that they will visit have been completely sold out. the opening performance of the This should not deter potential: opera "Fidelio.".
visitors, for there is a wide range entertainments provided by the unofficial companies of artists who take over the minor, concert. halls and church halls. Many the This year the
Edinburgh me plays by young and pioneer- Festival has been nominated as ing spirits have contributed to
candidates for the the general. Fastival scor one of the
Edinburgh
in the past. This Nobel Peace Prize.
wear will be from
exception, and the Royal Philhar The domestic help problem is, monic Orchestra, there are five half a dozen companies, from
APRIT of course, even more difficult major orchestras contributing
London and the English pro to
provinces and poetry here than in England, "but the the musical side of the Festival. will put, on plays.
three weeks modernisation. of the homes
Concertgebouw They include the
readings during the thre
the makes it of less concern.
Netherlands,
Festival.
A notably with of
will be the Eduard van Beinum and Rafael occasion
open-air.. Kubelik as conductors; Sir John presentation of "Twelfth Nigh Barbiroll with the Halle Or by the Oxford University. Players chestra from Manchester; the at Bradburn Valley. This. Scottish National Orchestra con natural open-air theatre.
The kitchens are modern and beautiful, with refrigerators, freeze boxes, washing and iron- Young and old, they are for ing machines, which take better dressed than British drudgery out of house work and women. There are two reasons leave the housewife time to and for that: dresses are cheaper here, and they can be bought more joy in life. off the peg in a range of models and sizes far beyond anything obtainable in Britain.
A cotton freck that can be bough ntre for £3 would. 'I am told, cost £8 in London. And the style here is far, far better.
With clothes so cheap, the working girl of America' accu- mulates a wardrobe for larger than her slaters in Britain ever dream of having.
A living-in mald expects about £30 a month, with food.
AND MANNERS
THERE is far less drinking ́in THE
America than in Britain.
As one girl, with a knowledge. Only twice have I heard wine
of both countries, described it crdered in a restaurant, and the "In England you can number of men who drink milk But isn't the establish to me: ment of your family
On poparate girls into classes by the with their meals is astonishing
have. to a British visitor. amount of clothes they higher standard of life an ideal But in America all women have
of come value? Isn't a worth- rmous wardrobes, and their Manners, too, are strikingly
while thing to work for?
I think we
could sell
clothes are much more original different.
colour tells me that when he was in a Britain much better to the Isn't it better to use your brains and daring in cut and
clothes of British crowded suburban traini and Americans than wo
do. and energy to lift yourself to than the
greater comfort and the hap girls." They know too little about piness that goes with it than us. Therefore, the differ to be content to stick ences between uu are inclined: the sludge, taking orders from COST OF BEAUTY partment
an all-powerful
in
bureaucracy,
to be magnified unduly, and which is the life that is held our common interests taken up to us as Ideal?
Do you -remember, the
old
for granted. We could do the better job of public re- cong Jations.
WHAT PUZZLES?
WHAT puzzles them about us?
from
the
of
year
no
scene" in
BOSH!—A doctor
debunks 'poor, sick crooks'
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
Lon-
A Bellich, reporter PSYCHIATRISTS who He believes it is equally claim that most crimin- absurd to suppose that a man als are mentally sick and who is hopelessly inefficient at offered his seat to an elderly need medical treatment his job is necessailly sick. Yet Government departments woman, the people in the com- rather than prison punish in
seemed astonished. ment got a thorough de- where le is extremely diment
to ·Cock`slackETS, BOOTER The woman increased his con- bunking recently.
people are being referred | to fusion by saying: “How nice it
And the man who does it is paychiatrials "for disposal" meet a real/English Na scale far beyond the is to
a leading psychiatrist himself
Dr Curran, who trap + béen British girl, the American Eentleman."
Dr. Dumond' Curran, of
famous many girl
St. accessories. - Sha buys
don's famed
Georgo's consulted in Another British visitor tells
murder – trials, * disclosos. thết Hospital. "Silver and gold, silver and ends, too far more on me that when he sat down at a
metics and beauty treatments
Dr Curran' his hard at the the new "brain wave!! fost is pold,
renerally, and looks
table in an hotel top room, and, Infinitely
coolst the Lazy, barman, lift- woolly thinkers of the World far from infallible.
Organisation. But who
He revende that a careful Bliver and gold...
from Health ed a few empty glassco "But if you're alone tolien It costs the American typist the table to the bar as he could solemnly claim that the person autopay was carried out an
you are old,
Just under £3 to have her hair normally have done in England, who is not in a state of physical, one murderer, who was hanged "You'll never find comfort in cut, shampooed, and not, but, the barman eald with surprise mental and social well-being after a jury rejected a defines
be healthy. silver and gold,"
as her salary runs fron
hdsdeinition a paychiatrists plea that his brain. upwards, it isn't a very heavy first time that has happened to burden on her.. ' .
dfs brain must be discused, just beings they must-ne sick," - *** Dr. Curren writes in a plea for The surgeons •found no more sense in psychiatry. "When culdence of any abnormality I seg boats I call it bosi."
*(Lankoja Express; RYCHICH)
.
"Encryone's searching for the better for it.
£20 "In 20 years bere, this 15-the lacking social well? Bayes were so abnormal ·· that
Well for one thing they con- not understand why we fell for Do you believe that it is bet Sbelalimi,, Or: thot stories,ano ter to be old and poor than old). hears, too often now, all over, and. comfortably cushioned?; I rarely see women here ro- The Americana ko' us, the world that the British have Americans don't, and neither um pair their make-up in public, as curtainly think we are an odd
will to work. •
Tacy do so often in Britain lot in some ways.
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