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GEORGI MALENKOV
H
AS Stalin chosen his
heir? This question is prompted by the fact that the Policy
World Copyrtplit. By arrangement with Daily Herald.
But, DAHLING, I loathe acting
JOHN BARBER surveys Tallulah's self-portrait .
"I've had many momentary love affairs. A lot of these im promptu romances have been elimaxed in G fashion not generally condone,
"I go into them impulsively. I rcorn any notion of their permanence. 1 always feel lost without a male escort, whatever revels in London during the errand. I hope you won't think Sir Nigel Playfair, and down in Cocktail Age-the roaring me impudent when I say I havo
I HAVE milked a mammoth. "divines" whooped up the
7 have been up in a balloon with
a submarine with Gary Cooper.
have christened an electric rabbit with a Jeroboam of Lan- 2011- 1012. I have
clarked be- hind
4 counter with Матров Asquith and sung
ducts with Margaret Truman, My votes has been likened to the mating call of the caribou. I've had tea with Lloyd George, tiffin with Ramsay MacDonald, and I've aced Greta Garbo on Clifton Webb's court,
(Tallujah's one marriage was
girl who has lived up to her no dificulty in anding one." determination to be the dissolved. Her later has been most outrageous woman of married seven times.) the century.
The convent-educated daugh- toy of 411 American elder
I hate to po to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. famous").
S
begins "Tallulah," life story of the fabulous Misa Bank- head, the American actress whose "dahlings" and
Has Stalin Chosen His Heir?
By ARNOLD YORK
to
father, it is believed, way Cossack subaltern,
have hoped never more than they knew of could
Secretariai until Stalin in the early days of achieve the his association with Lenin. sores of older men had been
cleared Bway, It was impos cakes. He The image of Malenkov, the sible to remain passive; either legend, has yet to be created. ene helped to purge or was
himself. Nalenkow Bat we may expect to see purged
helped. It was a pretty fair shortly the beginning of a. Indication of what he was: un great build-up of Malenkov scrupulous, conscienceless, ruth- in Communist publications. less and highly skilful in riding
mut political winds.
and speeches.
New Star
docs
not
drink
1922
Champagne.
staterman, Tallulah was crowd- DINK: "You've heard, I'm zure, about Teliulah the ing 16 when she came up from
Tallulah the tosspot! Alabama to electrify the New toper! York stage with her sultry Tallulah, the gal who gets tight and as a tick! Let's face it, my beauty, voice, scorching pranks ("I was consumed by a dears, I have been tight as a mink! sum fever to be famous, even in tick! Fried as a
es a goat! But I'm no toper. No nen losspot, I. In all my years in hungry,
broke. often her plays a flop-she borrowed the theatre I've never missed a 1.000 dollars to accept a C. B. performance because of alcoho Cochran Invitation to London in lie wounds.
FIRST NIGHTS: "Unfailingly When this fell through she would drop on, my knees Just cabied Cochran: I'm coming before curtain-riso and pray: anyway, put up at the Ritz, Dear God, don't let me make a jobless, and in two days ousted fool of myself, Then I would another actress from a Gerald open a split of champagne and du Maurier play a hit.
my maid and I would drink to When folly paid off so well, our good fortune," Tallulah never tried to be wise.
During
GONE WITH THE WIND: " the long run of the play,
down at one sitting. friends Invatled he gulped
Immediately. I was inflamed dressing-room, drove her off to dinner in her make-up (sho did
with the desire to play Scarlett. not appear in Act II), and got I.felt I had qualifications beyond
the hundreds her back in time for her Act III triumph...
candidates. I had the looks, Southern background and breeding, the proper accent."
Producer David Selznick con- ducted the most expensive girl- hunt in history to find Scarlett
j
A waterfall ALLERY ginis adored her, mobbed her, quoted nights
any
of
of
the
for her. "How do I account for Tested, Tallulah was cited for their fervour? In most of my months na leading the field. She roles I scorned convention. I lost out to Vivien Leigh. was rebellious, as often as not promiscuous.
"I twirled men about
my
1
finger. I'd as soon snub a duke
0.5
cockney. My hoarse laugh,
And a hit
ALLULAH's career 'hung firs
for years, then erupted in my American accent, the de- Broadway succeab, and after fant tosses
of my mane, the hideous mike-tright in the oddity of my Christian
пате
Show,"
because it
one
The standard privacy sur- rounds Malenkov's personal Hte. If he
all these may have contributed smash-hit of her radio "Big She brought it to London- 14 to my worship." well; heavily he obviously cats
Alma, and THAT NAME: "I was named plays, eight # favourite snack is French
than when she paternal my smokes an expen for
grand- husband older She, in turn, mother.
was left. She seemed out of date. rive brand of Russian cigarettes,
for Tallulah Falls, Her show was not much liked. fresh air, although that
Northern Palmyras. He likes named
Georgia, one of the scenic won- does
She rounds off her atory: "I ders
of the South."
loathe acting. Unless the sheriff not save him from the Kremlin
THAT VOICE: "In six years barges in to drag out my plano pallor that marks all these men who work impossible hours and I crowded whooping cough, I'll never act on a stage 'again.
detest acting set their clocks by Stalin's. He measles, pneumonia, the mumps, 1
crysipelaa,
tonsillius, sheer drudgery." duck Kors
hunting
smallpox. All these This is nonsense, Exhibitionist marshes outside Moscow, He even
focused on my throat and chest." Tallulah could not exist without has a suburban. villa on the
MORALS: "At parties, the stage. Behind all her noise Mozhaisk Road, a bullet-proof
and caterwauling she Bimousine and an armoured-car boasted I was pure as the driven and fury
slush.
emerges üs hard-working "There have only been two hoyden rather than raffish_walf.
She stokes up her legend — men in my life with whom I was deeply in love. One of naive pretence to sin because them was Napier-Lord Aling- it pays off in redeemed pawn- ton. The name of the other I tickets, soothed landlords, and
the withhold in interests of pelf. She writes as vividly as
she has lived.
escort
In
the
observors were .Malenkov has been married
1941 at n.
report -the programme Malenkov's position re- speech which lays down the minds one of Stalin's in the law for the Communist
late twenties, when the world has been presented latter
was gathering all So in 1839, to the All-Union Congress power into his hands while aware of a new stor. Malen twice, His first wife was one of the Russian Communist his senior colleagues C member
kev appeared as a newly-elected
*** of Molotov's secretaries. He of the Communist Party by a much younger cupied. the
stage. The Party's Central Committee and divorced her and married Elena and Khrushchev, Д handsome ac- man than Stalin, 50-year-oki analogy is not quite exact. at once, took his sent on the tress. The present Mrs Malenkov Georgi Maximilianovich Stalin himself built up the two years later he burst into becoming a Director of Moscow Secretarial and on the Orgbure turned from stage to the schools, Mulenkov.
Communist Party machine fame with his sensational Univerally, Knowing nothing of the which brought him power. speech in February
He was General Secretary Communist Party conference in
Malenkov is thick-sel, paun- r:al balance of forces with-
which, with strength which
chy, swarthy and heavy of came from certainty that he in the Soviet hierarchy, the of the Party, as he still is. which
jowl, with dark hair brushed But Malenkov, as Secretary had a powerful backing, he across a outside world is left to draw for Personnel, is the next rounded ruthlessly on some of But the general impression
broad, low forehead. what conclusions it can from best thing to that. The Mcked the
his colleagues. Bitterly he at-
"chair-borne civit sharp and stuck-up
heaviness is contradicted by a a few outward signa. And
nose and real analogy between master
teled to servants "who these signs seem to be given and disciple is that both everything with papers."
black, arching eyebrows. He and has cultivated a swagger by the hierarchy itself with have put their trust in the talked of "windbags" and the blackest of scowls, But his an almost ritualistic care. party machille, and never "ignoramuses,"
smile, when he does smile, has a look of spontaneous joviality that is much disconcerting.
Malenkov bas
the
a successor to Stalin
Since
death of for one moment have let it Zhdanov, speculation about ride without them.
has bcen continuous. Now Malenkov has been placexi ostentatiously
tov and Berin.
NORTHWEST
above his
Swift Rise
but
even
swift. It could not have rehabilitation been achieved without the
reorganised personat backing of Stalin. what is
as
do
Hc
of fast 1943
One Friend
DI
from
taste..
croup,
RICHEST MAN ON EARTH:
I loo
By J. L. HAYS
Salam
el Shelk Abdullah Subah is the name and nobody
much to
Naturally,
spend
as
on so little.
•
•
in
TT looks as though the "KOC" with America's Gulf Oll
in the Corporation. A tresh sign of his growing
So much for where the money world is going to get an in- comes. Now-what to do with it. power came after Hitler invad-
Lucky Abdullah is, he admits, ed Russia. He was appointed
crease-a few more thou- deliberately one of the only five members created the impression of a man sands of pounds on top of finding it quite a job to spend It is a case of so of the Supreme War Cabinet who prefers to remain anony-
the $1 million odd he his money. war he wrestled mous and leave During the
the stage to already draws each week.
MIL absolute with
jobs, one iivo colossal
Charged frat Puppets, a trick caught after the other.
Stalin.
and head of an enormous acknowledged rivals, Molo IT may come about that with the total reorganisation
good alico (nobody Stalin will be proclaimed of The wartime aircraft
on earth can match his income.. an-
how much) goes into his private banking socctants Chairman of the new Pre- dustry, Malenkov raised annual
Repeat--nobody. The mass of the Russian
America against the rainy days production to 40,000 machines thus sidium,
enabling by deliberately neglecting heavy
Whichever way you look at which might come if Kuwal's people know little about
it £52 Malenkov to step into his bombers and going all out for
million year or oil ever dries up. Malenkov-not very much
the non-Communist world has shoes as General Secretary, the
£145,000 mass production
a day-cach set of sot yet plumbed the leading figures is pretty unbelievable So when Stalin goes it is nighter-bombers. Then in
What is more, just to make With the balance, he intends Malenkov who will control he became bead of rehabilita- New Bolshevik, It has, at the
in Ilberated tion In
areas,
cas, and least, un impression of him-an
matters more fantastic, every to make a better, if not bigger, ominous
Western
Kuwalt. To this end he is spend- the party machine, as Stalin created some order in parts of diplomats have been struck by pony is tax fre did after Lenin's death. the devastated regions
Tall and heavily built, nearly Ing as fast as he can get his even his grim.reserve and aloofness at I before the war ended. He not
60 years old, Abdullah not only hands on British and American Stalin may
rules over the shelkdom of technical assistants (recently he Malenkov's rise has been only took this job in his stride Kremlin dinners.
ercok a joke. Even Molotov he
the
northwestem sent an SOS to "KOC, asking issued sometimes unbends with vodka
Kuwait, at directives ho
erki of the Portlan Gulf, but he for another hundred Britons, but Malenkov: remains stiff and
all of vicare") and without casting the party cadres
also owns the place, and
repellent, talking only to his fitted out
the 0,000 more,
miles of flat, blight of uncontrolled Inflation neighbour, bali Lavrenty Berla,
square
upun his 200,000 people. wind-swept, empty desert. In 1925 when Stalin was Togliatti of Italy and Thorez of boss of the Soviet Secret Polles.
nothing France, to any
And, from 'Kuwait'a
Before the off-men came to sands, oil embarking on his struggle Eastern European leaders, "If I knew I had to be tor- is gushing at the fastest in- Kuwait, the sheikdom had four for supreme power, Malen- their postwar roles,
tured," said a former envoy to creasing rate in the world. The schools with 600 boy pupils. Now kov became his secretary.
Moscow, "And if I were picking territory, Burgan Field, is the it boasts 31 schools with 7,500 people from the Falltburn to do richest in the world, too-with pupils, including hundreds of the torturing, the last one I Two Wives
a "Proven roserve, (as the gelea, unusual state of affairs would pick would be Malenkov."oll-men say) of 15,000,000,000 in a primitive Arab state, And finally done away' ‚with.
barrels. Or just one-dxth of over 100 young Kuwallis have Malenkov's one filend on the the world total.
been sent. to universities and Thus during the whole of MALENKOV this struggle, Malenkov had common sense and freedom Politburo appears to be Beria,
teclmical-colleges abroad. It is a good choice. If Berlu with
Abdullah has also bulit prejudice. from Ideological a.ringaldo seat from which zadanov was ruled by ideola- the police, and Malenkov with⋅ 1
hospital with 400 beds and dental he watched exactly how
of the Party, stay together, they can. Now perhaps you're beginning, clinics and established a theory to gical
a point
free Stalin became supreme.
to Geo where the Big Money medical service throughout the fanaticism that Malenkov has weather any etorm.
comes in Latest news is that territory, never reached. In 1040 ho
For the non-Communist world,
und by the
Ho This quiet young man with said: "The finest people of the what might Malenkov's succos-
to prodlet on
Kuwait's all production battlemented Kuwait's
intandy to paya walled und dusty to the aling cabinets post were unable
Stalin's Leadership perts think it will run to 37 streets (already churched by big containing the party dossiers of everything for us and we who portend? Perhaps he gave a clue
his colleagues
the Marxist teaching in a
000,000 tons will be higher Revolution anniversary than Anglo-Iranian's peak in cheap domestic electricity and must have follow
American cars) and to introduce learned mare of the realities of must study the struggle of our speech. What he said orator
before the Abadna government in Russie than any own times and incorporate that ically, "does history teach us?
sewage.
And now he is to build a water The First World War....brought evacuation. one else of his generation. He into practical leadership."
And so the enise for Abdullah - cama to realise that a document
about the victory of the Great Of Malenkov's parental and October Socialist Revolution
Woolh -because his
comes refining plant which will pro- in as, deadly a weapon can be
50-50 split, before duce 1,000,000 gallons of teeth against a man as a dagger,
origin hardly anything is our country, The Second World from
concluded with the water a day from Persian Gulf. born Howos.
en Wan brought Popular Democratte taxes,
Dr Kuwait, awollen with oil, no rivers or springs of ita renamed Chkalov
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Not only did Malenkov January 8, 1902 in Orenburg, (le. Soviel) regimes in Central Kuwait Oil Company last Do- escape the purges, but ho prosince
and Southeast Europe, the victory ember. ated by them. Just as Beria honour of the famed Sovies of the great Chinese people, Canood news for Britain too. Way by barge from Barn, Le owed his promotion to the flyer who in ∙1037 hopped there be any doubt that a Third | liquidation of Yezoda and over the
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