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From R. M. McCOLL
Washington.
THE radio quiz programme with its
THE
many glittering rewards and the prize essay contest as part of advertising com- paigns, have long been. a feature of American life.
But it is a considerable surprise to find that there are carmest citizens who spend most of their spare time tackling such matters methodically.
What is more, they have formed an organisa- tion called the National Contestors Association, with more thon 1,000 members scattered through 52 local clubs, and it is now holding its annual meeting in Hellywood.
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QUEEN of the revels by common consent is Mrs Nita Parks, of Pasadena. For she recently won the £9,000 Arst prize for the "most appre ciative short essay on a new cleanser put out by a giant cap company.
It also comes as something of a shock to the amateurs to discover that such wins are usually not the result of luck but sheer slogging hard work
The Man Who Must
Be Different
addition after
Thus, when Mrs Parks struck gold, she had just completed one specialized correspondence course (price £14) and about to embark on a second.
.
was
THESE courses provide com- petitors with long lists of "sult- able" wordo to use in their essays. For describing soap the llats put up such words DS fragrant, fresh, sensitive, cool and "plny."
"Dog"
and "dots" are sug sold dreamily, ruffling through Later in 1940 he joined the
With his films he had even que on the clash of International advertising and try to use simi- gested-"Do study the sponsor's his correspondence, absent- Royal Sussex Regiment, serving greater success. He wrote the character in four-power rule of mindedly signing a letter or two throughout the war as a Private. script for Anstey's "Vice Versa, occupied lands. But the Epilogue, lar phrasing "Don't mention as he talked. "Now I should like to
have lived in America The Air Ministry borrowed him one of the best of the war films, at the end, was an embarassing anything unfavzurable about the
direct the film directing and
everything had product. before the Discovery, France in to write and
producing it in been sold.
DOWN in the mountain couns La Belle Epoque, Italy before the "School for Secrets," which told collaboration with George Brown. Renaissance, Russia before the the story of Rader in the terma Next come the triumph of His latest play, The Momenty of West Virginia they still Revolution, or England in the of the half-dozen scientists who "Private Angelo," in
tell tales of the legendary feud which he of Truth," written around the between the Hattelds, and the 18th Century.
developed it. It was a shock to went one better, playing the title theme of Marshal Petain, was not McCoys. It lasted 20-years on some of the RAF high-ranking role as well as writing the script, a success, Again it was too long, and off, and about 100 people "But England In 1952....it
to find directing and producing.
and here the lack of sincerity got killed. really isn't very inspiring, is It?" public relations offices
Now guns are blazing agali mattered, The French were in-in Little Lamar Hollow, Ustinov,
half themselves discussing the Alm
Ustinov's finir is for the
ncar Russian and half with an authorative young
furiated by it..
Bluefeld, but this time it is the Dutch by de private from
His plays and films the Army, but unusual.
Blankenships against the Homer- scent, British by the result of it all was a brilliant seethe and bubble with ideas and
One way of getting a reaction tons. It seems there is a disputo believes
ve production. The Ustinov name original, amusing dialogue. And out of Ustinov is to suggest that over an ancient right of way. very firmly 111
he has the art of etching a the poets in our theatre today exchanged, but so far only two Several hundred shots have been genius.
was already becoming known.
character in sharp relief-a by are building our new drama-people product of his gift for mimlery, Christopher Fry, for example, seriously.
and his new, young school. Apt to lead him astray is o positive obsession for Being Different.
GREAT FUTURE
A Profile of
PETER USTINOV
by Hazel May
66A
"Success
lan't just hard work," he declares, "Somerset Maug-
Ustinov,
aro wounded, onu
In these cffeto days the pesky police keep intervening.
ASKED for a ruling on how his unusual frst name, Adiat, should be pronounced, GovEITIKOK Stevenson, of Illinala, replies: "The correct form la ad-lay --- although, to put it mildly, I am called many things."
WORLD FAMOUS FOR QUALITY round a perspiring face, turning over ideas in one's mind.
HIS FLAIR
SK me any ques- ham and a lot of other mistaken
tions you like," people have spread this ridicu PETWEEN 1941 and 1945 five lous idea that to write well one Ustinov plays were produced. said Peter must work regular hours sitting His first play, a tragi-comedy call- Mozart, Ustinov
If the conversation is on Ustinov, wearily down to
will maintain an eight-hour day,
ed "House of Regrets," had been that he
declaims doesn't compare with "NEW?" lowering his gigantic bulk tackling it exactly as if it was written in his dressing-room Cimarosa. Beethoven? Nonsense
"Have we taken all this into a protesting armchair. a bit of gardening.
between performances in his Rep not a patch on Cherubini, he time since Shakespeare to learn He wore
He wrote it wil an open-necked "What
So you like to express ourselves forcibly, in nonsensel One can company days. shirt, linen trousers, Sa- only work when the spirit moves merely as a pastime, Jent it to Tchehov?-all right, just try the real idlom of our age, with Miss Lilian Richards is appoint- a friend to read, and thought Gorki. And you're a Shakespeare all the interplay of charactered Director of the Social Ber dals. His hair hung untidily onc The rest of the time one no more about it.
addict? Just wait till you dis- and personality on our stages,vices Division of the city's Do- should spend eating, sleeping and
Just to lose it all again in the partment of Hospitals. Sainry: limiting boundary of verse?" "One day," he says, "I noticed cover Lope de Vega!
£1,000 a year, Miss Richards is focused about an But when that
a paragraph in James Agate's moment of column headed PA New
Ustinov the navelist is as yet a Negrés. eighth of his attention on inspiration comes-then don't Dramatist, and thought what a
unknown. But he has two books pleasant feeling it would be to the interview. Beside him a drop it for a second!
have such a writer hail you in that way..
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gramophone played endless- "I wrote most of "The.Love.of... ly a meaningless concerto Four Colonels' In a night and
by some forgotten composer day's continuous welling, and of
the
past-Ustinov's then slept for three weeks."
latest enthusiasm in his eternal pursuit of Some- thing Different. Outside his window stretched a Whis- tier panorama of London barges
the Chelsea reach.
QIL
EMPHATIC IDEAS
one
TALKING Ustinov,
tu gathers little of his pheno- minal rise to success. He does not dwell on his achievements.
will declare.
HIS FAULT
"This young man is abviously lack all, attack him for
IN New York 51-year-old
'HERE in
Washington Ray-
in the hands of publishers at the mond Van Dam is a very an
SENATOR
him
is
A critle-once-- remarked that moment. They will undoubtedly gry man. When his car stopped Ustinov was not noticeably arouse storms when they appear. for a truffle light two men wear- "I read on and discovered it
ing hard straw boaters and gay interested in sincerity, adding
Ustinov is already well known blazers nipped in beside was about my play."
that it was a quality which he to us as a writer of articles. He and took his wallet, containing "The Banbury Nose" was an to the contemptible bourgeoisle. thought is too complicated, his vnam is that it happened
obviously regarded as belonging is not outstanding as such.
Hig❘ £5. other Immediate success.
The thing that really riles And
sentences too long. And sur- of discipline in his writing, prisingly, the articles are often one block from police headquar Ho is swept along on
the tide
ters, one of the white hopes of the his English theatre," wrote one of of the story he is weaving. And
his own. eloquence, and the fun quite dull. the critics after the first night, sometimes he spoils the show by playwright, the producer, has a candidate, reports that he
ESTES. KEFAU- But Ustinov the actor, the VER, unsuccessful presidential making it just an act too, long great future. He is the strongest, about £10,000 in the red" as From success to success. "The He can't let his charactors lie the most refreshingly new He left Westminster School at Tragedy of Good Intentions" was down-he has to explain them fluence in a tired British theatre. Around his wildly dis-
in the result of his strenuous cam- first produced in Liverpool, later away. ordered flat books were 16, with few qualifications apart in Oslo, and
paign. Even America watches, green- was followed by piled--on the floor, on from, emphatic ideas about the "The Indifferent Shepherd" with
COMMUNIST Hy Gardner "The Love of Four Colonels," eyed, for his latest productions. shelves, huddled on a theatre and the growing realisa- Gladys Cooper, and "Frenzy," one of the most successful plays
says: "Ex-King Farouk saved And remember, he is young. enough for a non-reigny day to. mantlepiece also boasting tion that he could make people which Ustinov adapted from the in London in the last two years, At 31 the years of achievement live in the style to which the tea-cups, cigarette ends, laugh. Mimicry came easily to Swedish screen play and played has this fault. It is a brilliant lie ahead-If he is not too bored Egyptians don't, lllte him to bo
plece of satire, a joyous buries with tomorrow. tumblers, jars
the boy with on india-rubber in opposite Joan Greenwood. paste, theatre notices,
face. newspaper cuttings and old photo- He went straight to the graphs.
London Theatre Studio, where he studied stagecraft for two years under Michel St Denis- experience which could hardly! have been bettered.
of
TOO TIRED
HE looked exceedingly tir-
of a German opera singer, the
Love of Four Colonels."
**
OVER A SWEET
SWEET
:
accustomed."
LEMON TEA
SHEIKS
HE CONVINCED THE
Baghdad.
DR R K. G. Fenelon,
By THOMAS CLAYTON
Kurds
the
went out from
a
1ea,
that
His first stage appearance was! ed. Much too tired, in at the Barn Theatre, Shere, in
At his office Just off Al- fact, for a young man of 81. 1939 and a year later he made
Rashid Street, Baghdad's main Writing most of the day, his London debut in a series of merry, rotund statis and the ballooning ankle-tight get the Arabs to tell you
theroughfare which runs-paral televising and broadcasting sketches at the Players Theatre tician from London's Ken- trousers, the
lel with the Tigrlu, for" four migh truth. For they, will suspect miles, their answers, are being in every spare moment, pro- Club, written by himself and in-sington district, has begun have stepped out of the Ara- that answering your questions tabulated and indexed on cards. The aim of this new Gally Exiters Conkers Book has been to deales ducing, directing and acting cluding humorous interpretations a tour by jeep, mule and blan nights.
will mean more taxes."
So punching machines; In his own play on in Lon- "Bishop of Limpopoland" and a
At night the doctce from the doctor camel of Kurdistan,
that Kensington will
For the doctor plans collato the Baghdad Arst to see the shelks before his return to Kensington don at the moment all Russian professor the lifted the craggy almost rondless ter- figures collected during the
of the South. Over glasses of he wild leave several figures this takes its toll of health latter for an interlude in "The ritory of Iraq on the bor day to the sound of Kurdish hamuth awcet, lemon-
for and energy.
ders of Turkey, in search of singing with its fierce, drawn- flavoured he convinced that have been mysteries
out retrain and its high, sob- the shells, in their farming figures. For he is bing end-note. Then he wt white and black roben, of the ple answerable at a push of splendid centuries-how many pistachio trees grow in Iraq, for exam¬ compiling Д veritable return to Baghdad to add this importance of his work, Domesday Book.
Kurdistan census to those ho The sheiks told the has completed in the districts farmers, many of them their
Mogul and of Khendermain,
tenants on un almost fcudal SAMMTA.
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The interview unexpected lines.
proceeded on Everything that had been written about Ustinov by other people was con- tradicted by Ustinov himaclt.
WAS A SHOCK
HIS first job was
with the
Murmuring something of this, Aylesbury Repertory Com I was told:
pany at £2.10. a week. Early in the war he appeared in a West
For 20 days the doctor will question tha Kurd farmera through his Chal "Oh yes, perhaps it is a direct End revue and begon to study more data for the project on dean interpreter to obtain contradiction of what I've said
before. But I, hate to give them-making in 1840. His talent which he has worked for on Dr Fencion's vensus And
was noticed at once, and he was 14
for
months
economic
same interview twice. The artist appointed dialogue director agricultural census of any ful, might enable Iraq NG Kept a secret,"
a button.
Arab
granted
At his omce, Dr Fercion set an iced drink on the proofs. to Iraq. Your answers will be of his new book on Britain's food supply and told me before And the farmers, nearly all he set out: "By the time I have
her agriculture are to be bared Iraq's plans for Improving
tho first these plans are for in me rebels at repetition, Bo British National Pictures. With
development which, if always try to think up a new line. Erie Ambler he wrote "The Way Middle East country. for you journalists. It doesn't Ahead," also appearing in the
Egypt's position na leader of really matter If I don't believe it film. Before this he had ap- The doctor-formerly Direc the Arab world. The money literate, have 50 far co- finished every farm in Iraq will peared as the unfortunate dim-tor of Statistics at Britain's for the schemo wil be derived operated, answering the ques have been checked. It is vital wit, Van der Lubbe, in the Ministry of Foodwill live from the Kirkuk oil field's so- tions worked out by Dr Fene- work, I Iraq's plans for a rapid
in "Mein among perhaps the most gully venue,
lon. These questions, asked by exploitation of ker great at times, bored with the present, teichstage Trial
and as a Dutch priest dressed and picturesque of all When the doctor érrived, here Iraqis trained by the doctor, natural resources are to have a Yes, chance. I am hoping for 90 or "There were such interesting in "One of Our Aircraft is Middle East peoples. In their from Kensington the old requlay only the answer
fringed turbans, vivid blousca handa', said: „"You will - Inver. No, or a simpia. Aguru,
even 95 percent accuracy. times one could have lyed
Missing” be
myself, does it?"
Bored with success, Ustinov is,
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