1953 EDINBURGH FESTIVAL WILL BE BRILLIANT
London.
If there remain doubts about the place the Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama holds in the world, they will be dispelled by a glance at this year's programme.
Three world-famous violinists-Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern and Gioconda de Vito-will, for instance, be taking part. And that three' artists of such calibre have agreed to appear together is unique in Itself,
The occasion will be a itself in the world of music. It historic one, for they will be takes its name from its four instruments-two violins, a viola celebrating "Four Centuries and
21 cello-al! made by of the Violin." In the special Stradivarius, which were onco concerts they are to give, cwned by Paganini, Now an ger public will again clamour the Vienna Philharmonic
for tickets to hear this world- Orchestra will support them, famous Quartet, with Bruno Walter And Wilhelm Furtwangler con- ducting.
Another important musical ovent that will attract thousands of music-lovers is the first per- formance in Britain of Stravin- sky's opera, "The Rake's Pro- Eress." "It will be presented by the now famous Glyndebourne Opers
Company conducted by Alfred Wallenstein, music diree- tor of the Los Angeler Pailbar- monte Orchestra.
Chicago-born Wallenstein, tirs native Americon to be appointed permanent conductor of a mejor symphony orchestra in the U.S. will be making his first ap Dearance with the Glynde
bourne,
STRING QUARTET
The same company will pres gent Rossini's "La Cenerentola" and Mozart's "Idomeneo," ace companied by the Royal Phil- harmonie Orchestra,
For bailet lover, there will be performances by three cele-
brated companies—the American
Spanish Ballet, and the Sadlers Wella Theatre Ballet, Details of the programme are not yet avaliable, but it is known that the Sadlers Wells group will dance in a ballet specially creat ed for the Festival with choreo-
raphy by Walter Gore.
National Ballet, Pilar Lopez
PLAY BY ELIOT
With
In the field of drama, visitors will see the world preiniere of T. S. Eliot's new play, "The Confidential Clerk." Margaret Leighton and Denholm Eliot in the leading roles, the productia promise to be a brilliant event,
The
announcement that Madame Edwige Feuillere, an outstanding contemporary French actress," will appear at the Festival has delighted her admirers,
Madame Feuillere Then there is the Paganini
will pre- SITIOR Quartet, which sent her own' company in eight In French of has already firmly established, performances
"La Dame aux Camellos," by the younger Alexandre Dumas She will play
Marguerite, the role made famous by Sarah Bernhardt.
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In addition to the presenta- lions of music and drama, there will be film festival,
And
Edinburgh will alko have other attractions to offer those who have taken their of the Festival's arts.
MILITARY TATTOO
Last year, one of the most popular events was the spec- tacular Military Tattoo pre- sented under floodlight on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. There will be a new Tattoo this year. when the skirt of the pipes and the beating of the drums
ogain will
be once heard.
Copics of photographs To crown the season, there
aro
on
ORDERS BOOKED
will
this Coronation
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1953.;
"Your outbreak of peace seems to have caused a few spots, Earthman.”
(The Moonmen later attributed the larger spats to Wallstreet and areas containingcomedians who; faced with a future world without a Russian Aunt Sally, will now have to fall back on jokés about Ancurin Bevan.)
London Express Service
So I Plan My
First Escape
ON after the full of Dunkirk which left
wounded. me,
in German bands-there began the long, bitter, march
They Have
back to Germany, for my Their Exits
self and a host of other prisoners of war.
we
CHAPTER TWO
By Airey Neave,
D.S.O.. O.B.E., M.C.
from their camp to the fcri to do maintenonce jobs.
My plan was to escape from the dentist's
and
conceal quarters myself in the main camp whero the men were lodged and in due to escape from one
time
of the groups
working
prisoners
the open,
reception in the
of
I therefore bagan to organize any main camp by sending notes my friends in the working party as they marched evening.
by
Through Belgium plodded from опе foul transit camp to another until we came to the nuth of the Scheldt. A hug barge awaited us and in its hold, moved with others to a new black with coal dust, we lay camp in the village in the for three days and nights as woods below the castle. Here Then we chugged towards the the winter months of 1940 Rhine. It was a voyage of passed in discomfort, with lost souls crossing into the little food but without great suffering unless it be of the
unknown:
coch away
began
the
transfer of my colice- tion of food for the escape; tin by tin, and packet by packet. By April 1941, the working One hot evening we passed soul.
party had smuggled from the fort of con- a considerable quantity under the Nijmegen bridge.
chceola'o and we dersed In February 1941, A girl waved to us from the
sardines, The light breeze were parapet.
moved by train to senior warrant officer, a Com-
They took them to the
"Please call at this address if you get back,” he said, "and-e tell her I love her."
PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
"Malenkov tourists' see the night spots
ARIS this week-end. has
PARIS
seen "a little Malenkov miracle"-Sovict tourists at the show-places. Sixteen anilors from a Russian cargo vessel anchored at Le Havre have been given shore leave to visit the capital.
This is unprecedented, Invariably Soviet seamen arriving in France have not heen allowed to leave the vort.
•
The 16 seamen, wearing. cloth caps and raincoats, have spent the week-end visiting classic Lourist sights
the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe and the city's museums and public gardens.
Escorted by a Russian Em- bassy official, they toured some of Montmartre's night club. Summed up their 38-year-old skipper Anatoly Janchelevitsh: "A most wonderful city, I shall always remember it."
A Russian Embossy spokes- man, asked why such shore leave parties had not been organised batore, said: "The reason is that we have never thought about it."
KIKI: 'A rece:?- Diči
... and in the 1970
either point in the last year. For this phenomenon Dalf hasta ready explanation.
"My moustaches are for ine my receiving aerial which draws and inspiration: impressions" from the outside world. If they grow, it shows that my creative intensity has increased"
KIKI-THE GHOST Do you remember Kiki-Kiki of Montpamasse? You will If you knew. Paris in the '20s and '30s, when a night out cost 100 franics instead of 10,000, and Dali received me dressed only Montparnasse on the left bank' in his bathrobe In lie Parts was the most ebulilently gay mansion of Chlican millionaire quarter in "Gay Parec."
Arturo Lopez, whose quest lie is.
Kiki was the life and soul of Despite the fact that he had just emerged from his bath, bia the party that was Montpar moustaches were already waxed nasse in the inter-war years.
to two glistening needle-points. She was the living symbol of its. Bohemian reputation. KIRI The secret: they are over bas just died at the age of 51, washed, but treated within surviving by only a few years special cleansing cream before the disappearance of the Mont- being waxed into the chops, of parnasse, she had known, and a bull's horns.
helped to make fainous.
Today this quarter has lapsed
QUIET, PLEASE
Into almost suburban semmo- PARIS City council,
lence.
L'Hermine, has started sil
to discourage polico
Kiki-real name Alice Prin- campal was Montparnasso's' Jeading from blowing their, was silesto artist's model, its leading night call back pedestrian ma guilty of trade club entertainer, and its most Irrepressible Bohemian.
STORMED THE CITY
A Burgundian peasant girl, she came to Paris at the age of 12 to work in a factory, and by the tinie she was 10. she had taken the city by storm.
Her pert, dark good looks and her Rubenesque figure made her the- favourite model of dozen
2
caught her skirt. There was Poland, to the vast encamp- pany Sergeant-Mejor, who hid stood gazing out of the window painters, then unknown,
slab-like since world famous.
a
awaited.
in his hut where I was with expressionless,
face.
Outside two guards lounged
towards
the rear These clothes in
but
She made money and spent-It- not so much on herself as on
merely a
motorists
offences,
"It is Says M. L'Hermine: undignified for "ellizens to 60 summoned as though they were dog. In any case, once you have turned your back on a police- man how are you supposed to know he is whistling at you?"
· QUOTES *** NOVELIST Colette: A woman considers herself old when nobody any longer says anything bad about her...
bu!
and
their
almost sublimo
FOOTNOTES
taken by the South China
homesick ment of Stalag XXa. This wate be a Highland Games
Bound. of Morning Post, South China meeting in Edinburgh on'
laughter ав the barge
mensure was described as a
MP Edgar Faure, on French Sunday
and August 22. Post-Horald,
crawled on Into the
I bought a rough workman's against the wall joking with a reprisal for the alleged ill- China Mail Staff Photo-
Last year, $8,185 people visit- night. And yet I lived to treatment of German officers coat and a pair of painter's tail British sergeant. From time other people. The svar ended her political crises: "It len't so much the sergeant glanced career and after the war she the number of crises that is dis- graphors
view ined the Festival-14,403 of them
trousers, poor and ragged, from to time cross the Nijmegen bridge in Canada. In an old Polish a British officer who decided to nervously
complete ghost from a turbing the oor was Success is the Morning Post Building, from overseas. Its
that no longer existed. futility as a victor just four years now Armly "established and
She died in poverty with not absurdity. dentist's of the that number is expected to be afterwards and saw the dead fort, surrounded by a moat, abandon escaping to road for a gated iron roof of the lavatory Paris
at Thorn on the banks of the degree in Law.
to the main
camp
surgery. Across
the supports enough money to buy a plot in travelled surpassed in
Germans on the sidewalks as Vistula, hundreds of officers bundled in the battledress of beneath the root he had placed Montparnasse Cemetery. year.
She was the toast made all speed for lived in damp, cold, vault- the
of Puris; we
sergeant in change of the several pieces of wood for us to
she had only three meurnem at Arnhem.
like rooms.
working party. I procured a few collect and take into the camp.
These were crumpled Reichsmarks In
our props for theher funeral." 52 凯
with A
first scene in the play. Here we lived a life of cigarette transaction
to The stage was set and the Tis August 1940. High terrible futility from which Polish glazier who came
mend some of the dort windows, curtain was due to rise. above the town of I determined to escape
John Mansell of the Queen's Spangenburg, near Kassel, though it seemed hope- stands the castle which is less from this grim fort. was a skilful draughtsman who patiently forged papers for Suddenly I scopers throughout a long cáp- now the pri-
MAN. WHO saw my op- tivity at Thom The pass he soner-of-war THE
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emp known WENT WITH ME portunity and made for me described me as a
ns
Oflag
IXA/H. We
sle in the
et nal two-
tiered beds with pal- linssea and rough blan-
kets. Each of
us
has his
sad posses-
sions picked
away.
Red
Cross
cho-
and
carefully
colate
hoarded de. licacics
aro
guarded like a school-
3
"
A
Polish carpenter from Bromberg. took it.
For many weeks I made my single wooden
plans unaided but under the building was direction of the senior British my inspira- oficer, Brigadier the Hon. N. F. tion. It was Somerset, D.S.O., M.C., and
asked him to find me a com-
the hut in panion for the attempt-come-
which a cap one who could
tured British German.
dentist work-
ed.
mait
瓿
speak good
Tomorrow: We watch a manhunt--- for us!
4.10
DALI TALKS
hour
note: Maurico THEATRE,
Chevalier has signed up for a series of 55 consecutive recitats at the Theatre des Champs- Elysees for a fee of £1,000 a
night.
I HAD the privilege of a half Interview with
Literary note: Designer painter Salvador Dall'e mous Schiaparelli has gone into retire- taches. I found that they had ment until September to finish grown at least a half an inch at her aulablography.,
"
NOW-RUSSIANS ARE GIVEN
K
THE RIGHT TO FEEL SAFE
From JANE McILVAINE
O
9. oyst
Most fascinatin?"; my
It stood
Moscow, April 6. what one Muscovite salā "gives which was shown in New York within the VENTUALLY I was intro-
THERE is an obvious the right to every person to feel last year. perimeter of duced to Norman Forbes, a
new feeling among the
safe," the main flying-officer in the Royal Air
There were some who said "it tour of the Stalin auto plant was Ger- people of Moscow as a re-
Is good that at last it has been watching women, who form 50 camp for Force, who spoke fuent
He was shot down in 1940 Bult of the dramatic affair found oul","
percent of the employees, work- N.C.O.5 and over the French coast while of the nine doctors arrested Tonight I was present at the Ing as hard as men and on equal soldiers, some aying a Hurricane a tall, and accused of murdering Finnish Legation
with: them in the furnace ftir miles slender aan with fair hair,
Molotov, the Foreign Minister, and Mr. Mikoyan, Minister of
The plant makes Zim and Zia Commerce, toasted the fifth anni❤ passenger cars in addition to versary of the Russo-Finnish trucks, bicycles, and reftigota- mmatuai ald pact in plentiful tors.. Russian champagne.
На
a
when. Mrs and machine sho
It was a gala event, exceed · ingly friendly, and it went on
phon.
LAST DAY!
I was introduced to from the patience of unneces
quick Intelligence and an im- two Soviet leaders and then Norman Forbes, tall fort. The hut, As an escaper he showed great
detall. released three days ago. slender R.A.F. flying officer consisting of determination and shrewdness,
Even someone like my of self, with less than a week boy's tuck box. Precious a surgery and waiting-room.. Ama 16 with the inner
I woke on the morning.
con In Moscow, can see the letters full of love and hope, and behind it a lavatory, viction that this day meant change.. or bitter betrayal, are hidden with corrugated iron roof, freedom. I joined the officers
It was, a readily invoked tople for hours. It was attended by Also in this crowded Jast day. in some cheap suitcase or stood close to the red brick who required dental treatment, of, conversation this morning us
assembled under a dark arch- kitbag. In those letters is Kommandantur of Stalag way from which there emerged we went through: the gigantle members of the diplomatic corps, in Moscow we were taken on
many of whom remained to visit to tie Pravda newspaper our dream world.
XXI.
the pale figure of a fellow-Stalin auto plant, this afternoon dinner after the
reception.
plant Earlier in the evening the Here again women, formed 50 For me the days passed Fortung favoured me--with prisoner in a tattered overcoat, as we toured the offices of the
newspaper Pravda, and tonight Moscow Press corps entertained percent of the staff A10 as we attended two of Moscow's us in the House of Journalists, llnotypo machines were operates wearily and I have no wish severely Inflamed gums requiring i pod into my - hand
regular treatment. Officers wereGood luck to to re-live them. There were permitted
of your plushiet parties for • --many
the fret Lima in the history of by women, and they work very to visit the - dentist
the Soviet, regime they have competent. bunch of very hired strict codes of behaviour, every Thursday, under escort.
he said quietly, "Picass call at months. Chis hüdrene if you get buck
thrown such a party with Ameri
We were a OBVIOUS HAPPINESS
cans as guests of honour. designed for us by our senior For several weeks I marched tell her I love her,"
people tonight, and beginning to officers, and social cliques, 'each" Thursday : aldng the tree- "I will," I said with pride. Even mo
more than the actual
Office and other Minis to Berlin, starling Com appeared from the very first lined road, and on the way
One has mixed emotiona our rough vites have been enormously im- tries were present and all vied
Impressions after twò, from my own: battery - who dress without
or marks statements that the decision to There were no format my articles were rapidly dis- had survived the defence of of rank.
Home from them
bas shown Soviet. Everyone gathered around a huge the chief of them is what seems missed as unsuitable. Calais launch friends ready to Towards half-poit ten wa Cillzons they can rely on the table loaded with many delicacies a changed dook on the Loches of After in eternity rakisolitary confinement for came to the derdi's door. In government for protection and dumberless brands of wine, many of these people, as result
Qui helping van bfflour to escape the "waiting-rooka
People wills whom I lked They showed my Roman of the dramatic news of the past despair and boredom, I 'wad Every day, this party marched guarded to ona
expressed obvious Happiness over colour alm. "The Great Concert,” few days.
antimoled bit of both
and
?
day. I attempted to write invariably met 'a working party-guides and I marched to--| freeing of the doctors, Musco-; &presentatives of the Soviet look forward to a long, O.
beneath
for the camp magazine but 9t Eritish soldiers, including overconfs we were array battle prémed by the officially inspired in making us feel at homeosts. wind. visit to Moscow. For m
-