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THE CHINA MÁIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1953.
AN OSBERT LANCASTER COLLECTION DON IDDON'S DIARY
“I'm sure (i's very artistic, dear, but personally I should prefer something just a shade less conspicuous.”
"May I take this opportunity of reminding Comrades thas television is among thote Inventions which were quite erroneously attributed to the Russian genius?”
THE
the
OF
"And to think of the fura we make when a British armaments klug conte account for fifty pounds' worth of foreign currency {"
uy, isn't it wounderful
to think there'll be no more chances for Munmý to go round looking martyred, telling people: Of cours WE always give OUR ration to the children *;**
"Never let wa forget, Phosgene, that in the long run this experiment will bring inestimable benefits to humanity—if, of courte, there is a long run."
was just saying to myself Now relax, General, I promire you. you won't feel a thing'!”
"THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS,"
CHAPTER 10
"Shawcross is quite right -provided his party has done its utmost to increase litigation ng lawyer need be ashamed of being in
politics,"
"Why should presentation at Court still be limited to the privileged few!! Are we or are we not living in the century of the Cominon
PEACE PALACE IS
FULL
OF SMILES
New York, Tuesday. We are fortunate to have him HEN I walked into here.
sur-
the delegates lounge the UN. say that President.
Incidentally, the experts in at United Nations Eisenhower's famous disarma- headquarters thore was a ment programme is almost iden- tical with the programme urged group of reporters
by President Truman in October rounding Mr Andrei Vishin- 1950. However, Mr Elsen- sky. My colleague Richard hower't timing seems to have Greenough signalled to me been belter. and I joined the group.
Even Wall Street, the thi and the tremulous, has been
fortified by the President's Mr Vishinsky beamed and
speech. Mr Eisenhower ງ່າຍຕ bowed. The gold fillings in largely demoilshed the stock- his teeth glittered under the brokers Rød Investors' fears electric lights. uffability and charm, de I only hope the Eisenhower lighted with the world, Administration will follow the happy to talk to the Press, brave words with bold actions. brimming with bouhomie, ·
He was all depression.
that peace meana recession for
The Russian, who has on occasion charged connibalisan and germ warfare, against the
Our prestige
West, nude little jokes about the WHAT has happened to the soft and easy life of U.N. cor-- Tride. Not Ald polity? respondents, declared Mr Elsen- The turning down of the low' hewer's foreign policy speech Lid by English Electric, Ltd., fur interesing, but not completely generators and transformers for securate," furned down sugges- a big new American dam is na tions that he join us for a drlak, isinal disagiatment. Many then strolled off with a friendly Americans of goodwill are in- wave and a grin that somehow dignant, and the State Depart no longer looked fiendish,
ment is not at all happy.
Secretory of State John Foster
I said: "How long has this Dulles does not seem to be able new Vishinsky been spreading to get his way in many things. sweetness and light?"
A South American correspon dent said: "He perfected this act weeks ago. You'd think he was running in a popularity, contest."
Changes
transformation
PERILOUS PLOTER
"DR
CALOMEL"
By AIREY NEAVE, D.S.O., O.B.E.,
[x
Preceding chapters: The Ga unsuccessful author, after attempt to escape, disguised as a German N.C.O.. from, Colditz,
Camp." "Dad Boys' Felected to take part in a more elaborate ab.empt through a forgotten parrake from the canip theatre, where a panlo. mime is a rehearsal, to the guard block.
S
Part of the finale scene of "The Mystery of Wombat Col- lege." Neave, indicated by "A," played "Dr Calomel." Luteyn, "B," was in the orchestra.
shoulders.
M.C.
of
In fact, Mr Dulles is believed to be gradually on his way out of office.
Anyway, you will be delight- ed to know that British- prea- ige just now is oce-high. Why? Because of the bold, "buck-up Budget,
We
.pre
We arr admired, envied. Almost everyone con- cedes that an American "Rab”! Mr Buller would be very welcome
Our business men are also de-. monstrating boldness and op-
Vishinsky is not the only here. change in United Nations head-
timism,
I had dinner the other night'
The big glass bulkling that was beginning to resemble a tomb with Sir Eric Bowater, tho: afler Trygve Lie's resignation, paper magnate. Sir Eric 19 the firings, and the purgings, is putting millions into a. Bowater a hopeful. if not completely project in Tennessee and looks happy place these days. The ke making millions for..... Bri- morale of the Secretariat and tain, the delegates has jumped. There booster for is more bustle and purpose in aggressive the peace palace.
UN. has recovered fla The
There was a sharp order of dismissal and, mingling with the dispersing prisoners, Pat Reid, "Hank" Wardle, Luteyn and nerve and has ever had hurried quickly into the senior boldness to tell is critics that it officers' quarters. In the dark-s very nces of the theatre we felt out wey
cure
trap,
He
ם
tremendous
the Brilish,.............an... debunker of the "Britain is broke” rubbishapo?
Stimulating
LTOGETHER it has been
Etimulating week socially
much a paying guett, spending twice its cost in the States and bringing beneath the stage, then United carefully prised
loose millions of dollars in up the
cash to and professionally, New York floorboards, Pat Reid lifted the New York City alone."
saw Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, is full of bounce and is taking rope
the chief American delegate, un come bizarre overtones. during a tour of the building.
When I returned from Canada is as handsome as a film star, I strolled into Toots Shors's restaurant. There was a chim- elegantly
in the obviously happy
bar sipping
I knew I glass of champagne. There was a cluster of women Dance at the around him, suspended-on-hls was bock-In New-York.
the mattress-cover was let down through the hele in the ceiling and cautiously we climbed down, holding the boxes of uniform, to the floor of the passage.
·
1
Не
turned out,
Band
Job.
Cx-
to start algning
a
I sold 10 the bartender: PAT Reid, shining his lighter words, and any minute.
pected him
"Who's the new customer? on the lock, swiftly picked the lock of the gate bridge door. It autoga, Sir Ciadwyn Jebb. The bartender sold: "It's J. opened without a sound, for he
man,
Our had alled, the hinges earlier In was nearby, hard at work over Fred Muggs you know, the such a hit on 10/4 pile of papers (Jebb Is an monkey that's the week. We walked acros the door that led to the guard indefatigable worker), and we television some pubilelty stunt
shook hands and chatted briefly, or something."
Sir Gladwyn is one of the most I watched J. Fred Muggs, sip The German uniform over-respected and gifted of all the
house.
papens OS foreign
and I were
the
television, with appreciation, and then his head and the chimpanzee was taken out. Quite a prosperous and when even the monkeys drink champagne!
The correspondence from the..
OME of my friends were disheartened by the failure of our escape attempts. But-·|· learned at Colditz that the escaper must have absolute confidence in his success. He must never be dis- couraged by the gloom of his companions or he is lost. It acemed to me that if two men in German officers made from thick linoleum cut Identity uniforms were to descend from the floor of the bathroom, workers.
coats were unpacked in silence On the morning of January and we put them over our work delegates who gather here. He his champagne delicately and, the attic painted silver and sewn to the the stairs fromi
5, 1942,
clothes, leaving ours masterly on and
men's emerge
the from
I had decided to promote my ready to escape. We to
diplomat. was no sound except gral-
I asked him the reason Once guardhouse door their ap- self to the rank of Oberleutnant. t immediately we decided, battledress in the boxes. There talented deboter, and a polished owner put a cloth cap on Fred's
would
Ing of Fat Iteid's wire searching for his being so telegenic, and not be and to take on the identity of o'clock appet that evening. pearance
an Infantry officer named
A few minutes before ning I in the lock. A minute pasard, questioned by the sentry Sewwartz. Small gold stars to
went down
suddenly came fear and he said: "Before I came here I'd to the courtyard, and
I just outside.
denote that ok were fashion- when the snow was falling exasperation. We stood motion-never been on television. During preparations for ed grom wood with a penknife, lightly. In the Dutch contingent less, with pounding hearts. Pat don't think of the cameras and clients is interesting. Mr. Clay
was cut Luteyn A dark I the guardhouse escape
was ready to join me. Reid spoke in a hoarse whisper: from green balze material. The I had an overpowering sense "I'm afraid I can't get it was able to write and pro- buttons
were of lead from that this was my last evening open!"
into in piping poured duce for the pantomime a lavatory
the castle. The certainty three-act. sketch entitled moulds. My belt and holster
with every minute, of cardboard
painted grew
making me composed and deter "The Mystery of Wombat were College,' The principal made a
mined. remarkable dis- character in this episode covery
concerning my
own. un service dress uniform cap which was Dr Calomel, an
been sent to me by my pleasant headmaster with Ind
parents in a parcel. I stripped brows heavy black
of khaki material and dis- sembling Groucho Marx-u covered to my natonishment part I decided to play my that, underneath, It had a bright
black shiny peok. self.
5
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ro-
WHEN the rehearsals began at
the end of November the dis
I
brown.
it
Paddon,
green collar
the whole
Tomorrow:
Ton
Terrible Minutes
ton Ilution, inventor, author: writes frum and journalist,
In Hiverdale, just outside New me: "Please try to help
I dined with Sir Gladwyn re- carry on normally." cently at his magnificent house
York. He was host, keeping everyone of the 10 or so guests in the picture.
meticulous
DE MILLE FOR PROPAGANDA
Дв
from DONALD LUDLOW
INDLY vote on what times you would like your trains to run..
Hutton, an Englishman. with flae record in peace and war, has been trying to get a visa to the United States for over a year and it still has not been The reason? None granted. given
the
From
Justice,
have
Department of Immigration, and Naturalisation Service I have received an allen's - registrations card to fill up. This is abquíj
tenth card or document I tho
had to sign in-the-past few years. No fingerprints are required this time. We ars making progres).
Well, Charles Chaplin
forms to sign here. His decision never to re- have no more turn made Broadway and Holly wood buzz with talk.
Charles Chaplin Jun. will stab)
Johnson's view: "We've been Waldenburg, Arkansas, is Miss New York. Brlan Squadron Leader
D.S.O., D.F.C.. that
The wind swept up a nail and ECIL B. DE MILLE, pending millions and getting Bud Adams.
nothing for them." most ingenious mind among
stabbed her. who at 71 is still firmly bent the brim and escapers,
Hollywood's DEPRESENTATIVE Jim Bur sides of the 'cap so that it stood enthroned covery of the way to the guard- high above the peak, and cover-king of the spectacular, is top, of Arkansas ("Arkan
with Dutch
"joining" the State Depart- ow") expected trouble when he house had just been made.
suggested a tax on bachelors took no part in the lock-picking uniform material. The principal
but not from spinsters,
The girls are or the carpentry involved, as 1 badge he cut from linoleum,ment.
showering him
This poll is being put to New York's was busy with the production The familiar eagle's wings and
passengers by design, also in lino- One afternoon swastika
with protesting letters at the of my sketch,
Margaret Truman has relycs sesun above.
"Wigan Fler" the long banks in "The Jackle Coogan Story rate of 100 a day. He white I was rehearsing a leum, were
And have formed the A.P.A.- rt, long defected Long Island this masterpiece by
trains navertantly turned down a London Dr Calomel finished in whichh
West End cabaret offer to appear, U.W.Association for Railroad, whose sewing white piping the
S.B.B.H.AU. on the tearfully
during the expelling
Coronation. Benson younger son of a duke I heard edge of the brim.
She may sing in London Interő
Acene
WDB
muffled thuds beneath the stage. The figure of Fat Held and his
to
In
America's new International- Information chief, Robert L Johnson, has asked him to study the production of propaganda Bims
He wants De Mille to suggest the Prevention of Alarming and run to time. new men to make the films, and Stampeding-Bachelors Beyond the Hopes of Arkansas now ways of "putting
Women. Unmerrind American story across in
the
THE Automobile Club of New York has asked 2,269 mem- new safely dovices they want, bars what kind of cars and what And the overwhelming vole is for streamlined sports cars with with ratety belis.
Sure-fired
Brsistant, "Hank" Wardle, "ONI Luteyn, my Dutch com peared from below covered
panion, was in the camp or movies." dust and plaster. They had good chestra. Since we were both DC-
De Mille has accepted, but in THE Duchess of Windsor, the Marchioness of Queensberry, nows of the escape route..
cupied in the theatre we were Washington wits are sharpening The final plan was for two able to transfer our disguises in
Knowing De und some of the wealthiest and their tongues. parties of bogus German officer Red Cross boxes underneath the Mille's predication for massive most beautiful women in New
acenes in Roman arenas, they York society appear as adver more powerful engines-fitted kid and the' new". escope at an interval of twenty-four hours. The
Brst stage,
I had hoped to combine my are asking: Who is going to be tising modris in a special supple- ment of the New York Herald- would consist of Lieutenant Torl Luteyn and myself. The escape with my appearance in thrown to the ilone?
Certainly heads are going to Tribune to ralco funds for New TOBACCO heiress Doris Duke
is being mentioned York Infirmary. second would consist of John the part of Dr Calomel, Luteyn
his job After only weeks in Hyde-Thomson and Lieutenant and I crawling under the stage roll,
The Duchess, in a half-page columnists before the finale, then under
11p- (Call Me Donkers,
a advertisement, displays a T had no difficulty in dis- cover of deatening mula above Johnson Is embarking on
thorough clean-up. Information sick; the urchin-cropped 86 American Minister" could descending to the passageway. covering officers who
This ambitious, if sensational, officers froth U.S. embassies all year-old marchioness a bottle of burg.
Doris is not without diploma-wife. convert a Dutch officer's green
the experience. Her last cost I had obtained into a very plan proved impossible. When over the world are being brought scent. passable German officer's over the curtain was due to rise our back for conference, Experts
were not like De Mille will survey overy CITRANGEST casualty case in bend was Dominican diplomat Parker's "Ledica
at Porfirio Rubiroen, a. woek-end", tornado coal, The epaulettes, normally, German ` uniformE. of woven silver braid, were complete, nor wore our forged field of information work.
TIDDIE FISHER, the Coca-Colu
secsation here, tells moj, I'm all right at the New York: Para by about appearing at, the Pall
mount, but I've got stage-frigit Perle dium. Do you think I'll-click?! to succred
Mesta Eddle, you can't mind bi Madam)
Basil Rathbone.i will plaji to Luxem
Sherlock Hohnés" eti2 Brodway In a new "show written by yħl
Edna Best will star in Das
ridos" here,
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