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MISTER EUROPE? & HIS MIRACLE
By PETER KIRK
64R Europe" has gone,
"M The mat who for
nearly five years has do- minated': the European. diplomatic scene Robert Schuman, Foreign Minister of France has been drop- ped from the new French Government formed by M. Rene Mayer,
a sense, Schuman's dis misal was inevitable. He has betime the vletim of his own policy.
The man who, two years ago, he was irreproachable because WOR niceceding Jay getung France to live at pence with the Germing is no reproached for Just that reason, And M Mayer has had to come to the ronclusion that the ratification of the European Defence Com. insunlly has little chance pects-unders Schuman is out of the way.
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So, in a sense, ten, we can say that Seniman's great mission Ens ended in failure. But really that is not so. is home will al- remembered 2 489- ways be bodying the splet of eg- operation In Europe. The Schu- man Plan--perhaps the
1st apdlucions example of diplomatic Jullative ever seen in Europe is his memorial, and be would urk for no more then that,
Ever a philosopher, he knows orly too well that there is little gratitude in polities. But he knows too that his work can never be undone and that he las changed the face of Europa.
New Friendship
la rodinu. he has perfumed what many people swore Was quite impossible bag made U lion of Germany lie down
with the lamb of France.
new
He has brought Europe's two hereditary encinies together in friendship and comrade- hip, so they are now. working together pencefully Schuman Plan for the welfare of both their countries.
the
This is no mean achievement.
1 is doubtful whether any other man but Schuman could have accomplished i
But Schumati had an ad-
which
other tow vantage Frenchmen possessed-he was both German and French. Ile was born in the border country of Lorraine, and for the first 33 years of his life was a German. After the Treaty of Versailles, Lorraine and fo, Schuman became French, but he still "retained on affection-for-the German people, if not for their,
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1953.
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BEYERLEY BAXTER on Broadway
Too much talent
tied up!
Loday is like a man who is feeling fine but losing weight every day and cannot arrest the
cess.
ount. In fact, he was a flop. although we enjoyed his com- panionship on the Express.
But listen to what old man Nathan has to say about the New York theatre in 1952:-
New York. to share his glory with the HE New York theatre English-born Lynn Fontanne.
"Flays of genuino quality have I have already referred to the longevity of the musicuts, dicak, and the scene has been beegap rare as hospital becz Take "South Pacific,"
for loaded either with: out- example. For three years right dramatic rubbish or, at
Majestic
best.
of some exhibits
super- Theatre st box office prices fielul smoothness
relative novelty that call only for cusual appraisal, for the most part easily within the competence of a cul reporter with a daric sult.
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The trade unions have made the cost of production so heavy that if a new play receives bad notices taken off at once.
It is
In the meantime the ex- panding giant of commercial television, backed by limit less funds, has taken rulers
over Schuman's appointment as several of the theatres for Foreign Minister in 1948 coined-studio purposes. edmart exactly with the birth
cecupic:1
the
has
Trom £2 to 25". per seat.
Night after night the cast goes through the same routine, the same songs, the saine jokes, They could do it standing un their heads or trying to think cut the winners of the next day's racing.
caring? And who will the
or
"The drama crille kas thus become the forgotten man, and his place has been taken by the the reviewing reporter or by Where is new talent to get a cratwhile
crifle
despairingly hanging on to his professional do trapeze with his teeth and secli- ing to show that, while it revolts his naturz-and to some extent his readers-lt at least privileges If you add "Pal Joey" and him the continued opportunity "The King and I" and the very, to cat and buy shoza for the list, you will see how heavily to that tough "Guys and Dolls" to the baby."
are barred to new the dears
List of "South Pacific' when they have finally served their sentence?
of the West Gesman Republic When you add under Konrad Adenauer. The deficit the fact that the suc- Two men had great deal 172 common: They were both devout cessful "musicals" play for Itoman Catholics-und both came two and three years, you from the border lands between will realise the shrinking France und Germany. Both tuncelved themselves as having opportunities for the Ameri. FEW GOOD ONES Shorn of its gusto, there is sub-
a mission to bring to an end the nge-old feud between the two 'countries.
Grand Design
It was Schuman who conceived- the plan that bears his name, and it was Adenauer who made it possible.
Despite intense opposition in their
own countries. they brought the grand design to fruition In Luxembourg last year. And, since then, both of them have been working with af their might to bring about the olher half of the Schuman Plan- the European Defence Com- Ramily,
can dramatist American actor.
and the
talent.
DEVIEWING the London In foot, I can imagine few theatre in 1952 I gave it as my opinion that very few good more hazardous jobs than that
plays are being written in Eng- of an American actor today. It Jand. is true that television may toss him a succulent Bone now and then, but when it has been
York
Looking at the New tags, I can assume only that very fow Americon plays of gnawed to the end he is back any kind are, being written in the market where the de- just now,
mand is so much less than the supply.
PARADOX
Maurice Evans has forsaken the classics to star in "Dial M
That is, of course, extreme, but Nathan has blasted 50 many shows in his time that no one will listen unless ke shouts,
rtance in what he says.
In New York and London J have listened to dialogue on the stage which I would not through in private life for any consideration,
sit
My Impression is that Ue. straight play, as differentiated from musicals, is definitely on the decline in America, Yet the New York theatre cannot live on musicals alone,
for Murder," Imported From LOOK TO LONDON
London.
Beatrice. Ule, alded and abetted by Reginald Gardiner, INTIL, therefore, some new
packing out with comle NOR con meiles of Holly, stuff that she gave us, 20 years American scene, the New York
'dramatists appear on the
theatre will look more and more là Londan.
he turn eyes to
wood. The lush days of flo- ago. making are over, Television Is.
Margaret Sullavan is drawing · keeping people at home, except when an outstanding fum comes tears with tattlgan's The In fact, they will begin to re- Deep Blue Sea,” And for me gard London as a tryout centre that harmless trifle, for New York. They might
W to town.
Now Schuman has gone, but his will not go with him. For policy France, although showing the utmost political instability. in that she has had 1 Cabincis since the end of the war, has shown herself consistent one thing- her Foreign Ministers, In all those 17 Cabinets, there liave only been two Foreign Ministers, Schuman, in all that he did, has been building on the foundations laid for him by his brilliant Georges predecessor, young Bidault, Foreign Minister from 10-14 to 1040; when he in his turn was sacked for being too pro- German, And now it is Bidault who returns to the Foreign Minister's luxurious fat on the Qual d'Orsay.
Not Idle
During the Intervening ve years, Bicult has not been idle. Ho has served one term (1850-1) nú Prime Minister, and one after that an Minister of Defence, And as such, he has given full support to the E.D.C.
Still only. 53, he, can be relied on to fight strongly for ilio In- tegration of Europe's defenses Ino one rmy, and 'indeed · ho will be baking further to. tha day when the whole' of Europe comès, under, one government,
reason
And there is also the threat. "The Four Poster." which even produce their plays first in: of the new three-dimensional creaked for a short tinie at London because it would be the Ambassadors in London, cheaper than doing it at home.
has been halled
na a triumph. There is no harm in this. On the contrary it will add strength to the London theatre and give | dollars to Mr Butler.
fim, which promises to be as big revolution as when the talkies added sound to sight. by the New Yorkers.
There are, of course, Koma A paradox which is utterly illogical, but 16 not less American plays, but even so, hurtful for that, faces the they include revivala, And if But not all drama is confined American actor today. There is you think that my view of the to the theatre. On Christmas theatre is distorted Eve I went into the entrance et no reason why Hamlet, Prince American of Denmark, should speak with by prejudice, let me summon St Bartholomew's Church, In an Engilsh accent, except that to my old tha enntankerous Park Avenue, I had inrdly el- veteria of American dranutie tered the portals when Bedouins, critics, Georgo Jean Nathan,
shepherds, angels, and Wise Men come hurrying out from crowded church and Into- adjoining room reserved
tradition has willed it 50.
Yet New York audience simply will nagi have a Hamlet who speaks American, Nor do they want an American Romeo, Richard 111, or Mare Antony.
That is why Mr Maurice Evans, of London, who was in
TOUGH WORDS
WHEN I was Editor of the Daily Express in the
the original cast of "Journey's 1920's, we brought Nathan to
them.
tha the for
The stage mariager stood bzalde Just mo' and waved them on; then came the young woman who had acted the Virgin. With real
manager, said: "You did a swell job, girlip
End." is still the most popular London as a guest critic, but he reverence in his voice, the alaga nule classic actor here, in New could not get his bearings York, where he has lived for so many years.
Ils famod audacity and his
I don't know why there are Alfred Lunt ovens the score, ruthless disregard for anyone's not more good Americas playa, by being the undisputedt star of feelings became nothing more something happens. intelligent comedy, but he has them the "tuttu of a maden-minute in New York
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