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CAN YOU SPOT A PWR OF MIDDLE-EAST-DEFENCE "COMS"
AMONG DIAT LOT ?*
POLITICAL WASH-DAY IN EGYPT
World Cypright, my strensement with Dostu Herasa,
Mr. HUROK cashes in on Culture
London.
DON IDDON'S
IDDON'S DIARY
CHARLIE CHAPLIN COMES BACK IN TRIUMPH BUT GETS THE COLD SHOULDER
were
Now York. pictures (and he was right) talks Here some of the best brains in times possibly too much In this film. American business and polities during the showing of. Also, he sings in his peculiar have tried to help us to iets
rather high falsetto voice.
ouiselves. The International But these are minor ariticisms. Latex Corporation is spending has set such tens of thousands of its own
deat
HERE
Chaplain's latest and perhaps last film, "Lime- Chaplin himmet Jight,"
when it seemed high standards as a comic genlus dollars as a publle service, urging
that the slightest falling off be- prompt American that his comic genius had
comes almost damning. But he Mr Peter Thomeycroft's
appeal dimmed.
is still supreme.
for "trade, not ald," He makes the modern funny- The Latex Corporation han men such as Bob Hope, Jack embarked upon a radio and Skelton, Groucho newspaper campaign which Marx, and even the gifted clown doesn't even mention its own but Says over and over in columns of expensive "We could
The beginning of the picture is laborious and lagging, trul sud- denly, after three-quarters of an Beuny, Red hour of rather hackneyed and
forced scenes, the master shows Danny Kaye appear uninspired using space:
his craft.
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and even pedestrian. Chaplin is still King Charles,
restrictions and
People who had been squirm Ing uncomfortably in their sents
Exhibition is late well offord to increase our Im- during the film's first sequences
rigid with attention and THE British Asics Exhibition duties on imports, buy from our
ports lower tension as the film unfolded. has not opened on time here friends, nat beggar ourselves and the and appears unlikely over to them by subsidising them in leu.
open, but the Israel Exposition of trading sumclently with has rung up its curtain and them."
Women cried openly dramatic ending.
at
This isn't Chaplin's greatest picture, but it's superior to some of his films certainly, I think,
"Modern Times". and 48th Street between Fifth and "Monsieur Verdoux." It falls Sixth Avenues for
to
Rush."
It
་
Chaplin the
now ringing the cash-register. Other big, Americar firms plan
Crowds four aureost Uned to follow the Latex leod.
the grand
Tired candidates
am
short of "City Lights" and "Gold
opening of the First Israel Ex- He is unfortunate
that New Position at Rockefeller Plaza, the THE week has been full of
political drama, and I heart of New York's rich shop- beginning to wonder just how Yorkers and New York as a ping area.. During three days long the chief actors can stand whole haye given
100,000 people visited the Israel, the pace. Both General Elsen- cold shoulder. There's scarcely Exposition, which will probably hower and Governor Stevenson nline in any New York news remain open Indefinitely, doing are driving themselves recklessly paper about the two showings of permanent business. "Limelight." picture anywhere of Chaplin or we have not done and what the mental resources to the limit. his wife, Dons, arriving at the Israelis have done and are doing. theatre or leaving. There are no There are whole-page advertise
11
nol There's
What
contrast between what
I
straining their
and physical Elsenhower is running himself ragged. Look at the pictures of him today and then at the photo- photoprophs of celebrities at 'ments in the newspapers here tending the opening.
showing the queues outside the aphs of him when he returned Israel shop-front, which is decor-
from Europe. Made for London
Look at the pletures of Steven- ated with the Stars of David, and sun (soon due in New England TT'S the custom here not to the
the headline BRYS: "They could
after a hectic their eyes," print reviews of pictures until t
not belleve
swing on the Pacific coast) before the conven- after the formal premiere, but certainly could not believe mine tions and those taken during the it's not the custom to give a I had the second week in Sep- great artist the brush-off. Now tember marked down for a tour did Pavlova take it "Anything York has given Chaplin that. No of the British Aisles-30 or more dragging themselves
has booths displaying. British goods, end of the country to the other,
There is not one booth. There
talking gealloulating, are no aisles. The whole project the p
walking the platform plank, and utterly 15 foundering, although there is
exhausting themselves. sume vague talk of opening "before Christmas.
SOL HUROK
all from three roubles.
ALOMON ("Səl”) HUROK paces his suite at the Savoy waiting for calls and cables from Milan, Copenhagen, Paris, Brussels. In all these cities, as well as in London, he is booking or planning American tours for hand-picked singers, dancers, fiddlers, are not strictly etiquette. How pianists, complete opera companies, entire büllet troupes.
He has been doing this sort for of thing with some profit 40 years. Since the late twen ties his gross box office tak ings have risen, he says, from
£720,000 to £1,200,000 a year.
He has three or four- hun-
dred artists on contract either as individuals or in groups. Hin Lour Lopliners alone- Marian Anderson, the coloured contralto, Artur Rubinstein, the pianist. Jan Peerce, tenor, and Patrice Munsel, soprano - be tween them bring in nearly £200,000 à season.
Black patches
in
by CHARLES REID
Wagner, Richard Strauss and Massenet have meant to him.
Hurok plays the accordion
badly. As a child he went for lessons first on the violin, then, as a last-ditch measure, on the rumpet. He was so useless at
and balalaika and plays them
both that the teacher refused to take his money,
has white
or magazine newspaper published a single story about
or his film.
I did was OK to Pavlova"
Hurok will be 60 in April. He in glossily! bald,
It Chaplin is hurt by all this, patches over the eats, does he gives no sign. The important his two grandchildren, Cays he does not feel
opening, in his opinion, is the over 28.
dis-
premiere in London. He made His first marriage was
whom this picture for London and the solved. Emma Runich,
sense it is his salute world. In he married in 1930, graduated
a'day
Seppato terribly tired men are
Which Christmas?-19027 Mr T. H. Chamberlain, who conceived the idea of the British
at the St. Petersburg, musical to the English Music Hall, from Aisles, says he could not get the
rc-
from one
It is all so unnecessary in this day of the nation-wide radio net- work, the television chain, and the newsreel screen. Pageant of America
In Tzarist days which he sprang. conservatory and fed Russia when the
space, or the steel, or the co- He plays the part of Calvero, operation, but meanwhile he is New York "I am on Ameri- can" Day has just been obe volution came.
fading
ading British comedian who has still try.
trying.
served. One hundred thousand to drink. Calvero, the de- In those years Hurok Was taken
Isacl.got the space, the steel, Americans including 22.000 newly the goods, the co-operation, and naturalized citizens, flocked into something of a radical. He rancayed clown, rescues the young concerts for strike and trade ballet dancer Terry, played by now is getting the money. Central Park carrying the Stars
Claire Bloom, from suicide, and Claire union political; funds. Today he
Apparently we are relying on and Stripes and their heads high, defines himself as an indepen- helps her to success.
"high-level trade and financial Some had posters, "I am proud dent voter without party,
discussions with the new United to be an American." fer- vently anti-Communist, not #
States Administration early in Radical but
It was a pageant as well as an a Progressive. "I
1953."
observance. Five concert singers, believe," he says, "in the right
I hope we are not coming to 18 crooners, two orchestres, ten of the common man to a good
try to arrange another loan, comedians, a dozen actors and share in all the good things of
credit, or straight gift. There actresses, and the police and fre a week He."
humiliation department glee clubs participat- Jearn
ed in the programme.
"But," saya Hurok Sna his distinctive English, "I have an ear. I will know always when there is a false note played. If 1 would have learned to play nn Instrument I should be in the position today of working
WHYOK
EN Hurok landed in New
in the pit of an orchestra some- ជន a 13-year-old from the Ukraine with his where at 70 dollars
An impresario, mustn't goosefeather pillow under his what is bad for him. But once arm, he had three roubles
In a while back-stage, if I see his pocket. The money-
good violin I touch it." changer gave him dollar and
"And try to play 11?" Lorium, Sixth Avenue,
"No, it is enough to touch. Ten-years-later-he-was offer--
-It-feels good." Tetrazzini, Ysaye
and Schumann-Heink
a
The commissars ANOTHER thing he believed soon after the war was S. Hurok's ability to
among other OK with Pavlova wrangled and
popular
1
he
y
wheedle-Soviet-dancers out-of Russia for Western tours. He pleaded with collectives un- commissars and til all were blue in the face, Looking back, he says; would not want to bring Rus sian dancers over now even it I had the chance. Russian art
Isolated. Russian
artists haven't travelled anywhere. In Moscow they try to run ballet as it was run 50 years ago. Give me Fonteyn. Give me We can get along without the Soviets very well." My. bet, all the same, is that if an East-West entente. announced tonight S. Hurok would arrange to import Soviet ballerinas before tomorrow's dawn. After all, S. Hurok cannot help being S. Hurok.
musical eminences, to Sunday night crowds
violin, Hurok the TENIED the immense Hippodrome audi-
plays instead, with" "con- torium, Sixth Avenue,
siderable mastery, on the in Since then there have been struments of publicity,. He does
so prankishly at times. two black patches, In 1921 and 1920, when he toured Russian In the middle 'twenties and Italian operu companies put out a story, widoly taken in adverse circumstances, thou- up by the American papers, sands enthusiastically stayed that Pavlova had been secret- Bway. On these two ventures ly married for 17 years. When
dollars. I challenge him about this e- Shearer. he dropped 350,000 "But I didn't worry. I went t'on, Hurek agrees that Pavlo
"But va was good box-office. being happy and jolly.
well believe. always you want something new This I can Hurok has an exceptioanl talent in the publicity line. We help Lar tranquility. His pink, seno- thought the story would torial profile is as smooth as a business. And it did. We pub- touched-up
no licity hounds, you know, we do photograph: wrinkle of care.
certain things sometimes that Quickly recovering from a brier bout of insolvency, he re- established himself
The
on
The
Man Who Makes Culture Pay. Hurok pauses Occasionally and bites off a bit of Culture for himself. He tends to do this absent-mindedly.
When
the dancers of Sadler's Wells ballet come back from their last American tour Canother is now in negotiation For 1953) they cooed with abandon about the marvellous, but marvellous, old paintings
they had seen in the Hurok apartment, Central Park West.
pbout his collection.
were
When Calvero is down and out, unwanted, and not able even to get a minor job at a few pounds a week she tries to soothe his wounded pride, stop him drink- jing, and restore his confidence.
has been enough Simple story
THE story could hardly, be THE
simpler. There are no twists in the plot and no surprises. But it's Chaplin's special gift to portray the basic human emotions of love and
fear, cupidity and compassion. He succeeds in this as he always has done.
Only a very
great comedian audience on the can have his thin balance between laughter and tears. "Limelight" proves that
Chaplin still possesses this gift in abundance.
09
along those lines.
PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
THE COMRADES RAP THEIR
OLD FIGHTER
Paris.
organised kooliganism of
rols TOVELIST Ernest May's anti-Ridgway
subsequent
last
in
N Hemingway should be Paliating fahure of the party's
Claire Bloom is perhaps the most successful of Chaplin's lead- ing ladies, and I include Pauletto Goddard. Her part is long and strenuous.
There
times when Chaplin so dominates the
forget Miss in Parla now to write what general strike appeal. that you screen
Three things are clear from Bloom, but these are infrequent. may be the last chapter in
the present crisis. It wouldn't be too much to say the political life of a man 1.The French Party
she shines almost that
and on whom he conferred an international Communism aro brightly da he.
policy unenviable Immortality in preparing for a major The man who once said be would 'never need to talk in his one of his best known switch. The old Popular Front policy will be resurrected and novels.
energeticall purailed when The men-86-year-old, dour- Thores returns shordy from Jowled. Andre Marty, whose his two-yeaf "convalescence" in Bavage bigotry os a political Russia with the latest infallible commissar in the Spanish Civil instructions. war is described with repor- -Comrades
and Marty torial exactness Heming Tillon stand on the edge of ex-
from
the party. sald
perspicacious
OILTANK TOWN WILL
GROW IN
Kon refinery.
THE BUSH
From JOHN REDFERN
Nairobi, made up its mind. But two Sikh artisans. More Africans will be brought in to bulld roads, staff
guest houses, house, conteens, and clubs,
Cement made from corul will be their material.
the
ENYA is to have a new things had to be fixed; plenty
It will of water; no land profiteering.
Kenya oficials speeded I ask Hurok tell me more cost £50,000,000 and produce planning of a 150-miles pipeline
to
from Mzima Springs, a hippo Well, he says, some of the 6,000,000 tons a year.
to Mombasa. point, Itallan, ings are
To some
house the storage drinking some Russian. 'No, he tanks. and workers,
town and port. This has reach a new ed the stage of advertising for can't remember the painters town will be built where tenders. nomes.
they
them today there are palm trees,' At the same time, secrecy classies.
scrub, swamps, coral, fisher- descended on the tank town Crossing the Atlantic
last men's huts, and a few solid talks The purpose. was to slop June for the 18rd time in seven houses put up for holiday site values from jumping, years, he settled down for a
lower deck makers. long read In his
But one thing is sure
fre Bil
*
Mr HL Adams, secretary for commerce and industry, told me: This is the biggest thing that has happened to us in- dustrially,
Apart from the essential
way's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
ANDRE MARTY ·
Die goin' out.
B
Marty has
is member of the central" com- now been ro- mitee, "is how Titoism moved from gina. In any case Thorez the four-man him, dating back to his leader- committee tions on his wartime record. which
3.This is the beginning of the
purgo inside the
party. resistance Communist Tillon is a popular Party after hero; Marty has a lifetime of being accused revolutionary service behind of "crimes him,' dating back to his leader- which, had he ship of a French naval mutiny been a Rus in 1010. Both men have fol- nan Commu- lowers in the lower echelon of ubert, would the party. undoubtedly
have
o arned him 'n traitor's trial and
A
POODLES FOR EXPORT
NEW and expanding French safeguarding of all supplies, large amount of the investment
export industry:* French will come back to us in Kenya.
aring squad.
poodles, Costing about £80 in There will be a
now demand
His most serious offence, ac USA and South America
France, they can be sold in the for
and increased our products, berth aboard a BOAC Monarch. This site is on the mainland
cording to a party communique, three times as much.
for Detective novels he spurns, al-south of the Likoni ferry to the
Quietly, arrangements mere.
local spending"
The
is to have conspired against though he believes they are good Island of MombDBA,
Kenya Government' fa made for the Kenya Govern- anxious to balance the Colony's
party leadership with things for making you Ricep. Kenya was surprised by the His normal choice, ho
ment to secure the necessary agricultural development
another demoted' cumrado, 05- says, announcement of the now
A French with year-old
winu reland-about 3 square miles an industrial counterweight. Up leader, Charles Tillon Tillen, like a day without sunshine" producer's wartime resistance
alogan, "A day without wine is ranges from economies through finery. The surprise was er- politics to "classies in Rus- ranged for in preparations for under its Land Acquisition Acts, to now the largest industrial in his turn, is accused of make was amended at the Paris anti-
for which prevent anyone holding unit slan, French and English. Again the new town.
out for exaggerated prices,
has been
works 4. Boda
ing reflections on the difference alcoholic the classics are unspecided.
Six months
congress, with the ago, when the and values nice now "frozen"
employing 1,800 Africans.
between
those Communista fidded words: "But beware of big oil companies were looking
Mombasa has been a lot. For who took part in the wartime round for new refinery sites, and a collector will be appoint- centuries Arab dhows took
aunstroke." and those roadstance ed to control payments.
like tho more one company chose Aden.
claves through its port. Now party leader, Maurice Thores,
KITCHEN FRONT "Why don't some of you come
Publication of the land oll brings new and welcome who spent the war in safe exile A NEW kitchen gadget called precise. When I mention
to East Africa?"
in the said Mr acquisitions
official traffic to hearten the people, in both men are se- in Paris: Looking like R Rubinstein's playing
the of
the "artiicopo la on ele Petroushka
or Arthur Hope-Jones,
secret-and who for months have been pre- In charge Gazette broke the
Politically transcriptions
*** Incent: that the project was occupied with. Inwlessness
and cried Chakapin's singh of Boris of Kenge's commerce and
_of"; "left-wingsreis- mausotrap,” and equipped... ... with agitation. his face lights up as though I dustry.
rianin-meaning, in effect, an fra: red. "cye." it enables Soon after that Shell sent a, The building of the tank town FOOTNOTE:* Mzima, have toucheti a switch He
the that they are heing
held housewives to see if an tella me, or tries to tell me, of man to explore sites. On his will employ about 300 Europeans name of the water scheme, responsible for the difcredit "more" than thres all that Mozart, Vardi, Puščini, i advice, the dll, Gothpany aimees, and 3,000. Africans, na well as the Swahili ward für "hadiibar?
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