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STOCK JUST ARRIVED
Morning Post, South China ROOM
Sunday Post-Herald, and
York
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1953.
PRISONERS IN KOREA
GIGGLES
N the hotel
World Copyright by arrangentent with the Alanchester Quardian.
GO FOR
BIG BUSINESS
Rome.
room the
By SAM WHITE
lovely Queen Soraya occupied before
her as "nervous sudden summons home to chivalrous
....
legs" - a deals between Teheran' and
reference that she walks
by
Europe, to
Her big chance camo with the expulsion of the Anglo- iranian Oil Company.
▾
She refuses to reveal the coun- trles which are placing orders with her. "All I can tell you 19 that none of it goes behind the Iron Curtain. We take excellent Persia, a scent of Paris per- the fact
precautions to see to that and so fume lingers still.
do the Americans." badly).
Mme. Gharagozlu started with
Again the giggle. None of the Farther along the cor Interest in the Queen has been American' financial baciding the oll has been delivered to buyers ridor the smell is not of further stimulated
the National Iranian Development yet, but she claims that there is perfume but of oil. For variety of explanations given for Corporation. It was the who a steady stream of orders.
her trip. At different tines and contacted Count Della
Zenca farther along the corridor different places her entourage last year, and persuaded him to "Some blg organisations is the suite of the woman have hinted that she was hero try to import Perslan oll in the intimidated by the British, but Queen Soraya has left be. for medical treatment or beenuse tanker Rose Marie.
not all. We tell all our customers hind in Europe her lady of the uncertain political situn-
Her problem
that the political prospects are I to find
Excellent. In any case three in-waiting, Sabika Ghara- on in Teheran,
customers who can furnish the tankers She bought
clothes (eight tankers and who are prepared to through to Italy without any in-
have recently gozlu,
kat trunks full), and attended recep- risk British reprisals.
eldent and that has encouraged Is lady-in-waiting the tions which provided the perfect right title for this cle- backdrop for Mine.
To customers who place orders our dients." Chara- gant,
vivacious, platinum- gozlu's more intimate business within the next six months she
discussions, grey blonde whose husband
now back
In
is offering all at half the existing world prices.
One of her deals which fell
is Persian courtier? Or Soraya is
Teheran. But Mme. Gharagozi through was with the Flat Motor was Soraya's whole trip stays on in Rome. just a facade to
the activities of
cover
up
1 woman
whose proper title should
be Oil Saleswoman No. 1.
SALESWOMAN
arrived in Cairo alone.
Company. Flat were offered a largo Persian contract on condl- tion that they accepted payment in Persoin oil, but they turned the offer down,
•
EXHAUSTING.
are
HE want
on: "You British made silly mistakes in Persia and you are still making them. very proud The Persians are a people. It does not pay to make them feel small. As for me, I am not really interested It is a strange experience to making profits, only in selling hear an elegant and beautiful oil so that our workers can eat woman.talicing like a big and work,"______ business tycoon.
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Ja
I am the I
ORN in Berlin of Egyptian It is doubtful if Queen parents, she is vague about Soraya, whose interests her age, but looks no more than tend-to-be limited to her 26.- wardrobe and dressing-room. She left Germany In 1940 and
Mme. Gharagozlu now plans a mirror, knew that her visit she displayed her talents for sweater
There Dressed in slacks and a black long Riviera hollday.
Mme. was being used as a cover acquiring heavy financial back- seemed conscious
Gharagozlu
of
"I am tired," she said. "Thie the for big business. But she ing, and started a cosmetles and incongruity when she talked to Queen's tour was so exhausting." must have been puzzled by chemical factory which supplied me and broke frequently Into
She pointed to 0 pile of some of the preoccupations chemicals to the Allied armies, almost girlish giggles as
she cables. of her lady-in-waiting.
"Excuse me now, but She sold out in 1945 to marry called "my deals."
discussed in English what she you see I must work. Gharagozlu, a wealthy Persian
front man in this business, In the last few weeks nobleman.
"I have always been interested make the contacts." she has been the subject of Describing herself as a "sales- in business," she said. "It is a Looking at her one could not more official reports to and woman first and foremost," she kind of hobby with me. It takes Imagine a better person for the from
engaged in a variety of business my mind off clothes." Teheran than
Job-not even Queen Soraya. other figure on the stormy Persian political scene. Why? all this fuss about a lady- in-waiting? The answer is that she is the inspirer and principal negotiator in a renewed effort to sell mil- lions of tons of Persian oll to Western buyers, despite British threats of legal action.
any
DISTRACTION
SHE tried it before
largely failed. This time the royal visitor has given her an advantage.
Soraya has served as a distraction for unwanted
age.
DAVID LEWIN continues his HOLLYWOOD CLOSE-UP
YOUTH IS THE THREAT
N Hollywood near a adopted by Caesar's four writers
simply to jot down a key sen- tence and the comedian does the rest...
fabulous fairground of shops called Farm- ers' Market, where the stars come
He has played on TV such for their meat and varied characters as a house-lly..
a soda water siphon, a fish,
two veg., is a stylish white building like a pavilion of the future. from the Fes tival of Britain.
Catar will act the fly buzzing over a notice which says "Power- ful D.D.T. kills flies instantly."
It is called Television The fly looks at it solemnly and City, and it has just been says "My, there is an awful lot
of hatred in the world," built at a cost of more than £1,500,000. Film-men Or Caesar as the fish will speak of it
plead with the man who has . but avert caught him: "Throw me back. their eyes,
You have everything. You are
Television City, with its rich. All I need is a little water. modern equipment,
Throw me back.” its
many cameras, its banks of lights, represents The Threat.
It also represents the push of youth. It is the young men who have signed up with TV both in Hollywood end New York. Most of the established film directors have each had at least a quarter of a century of
ice in Beir business.
Ford, who has collected Diers
in his time, in his late sixties, Cecil B. DeMille is 71, Raoul Waisit is 01. The average age of the television directors is still below 20.
No
I
Such skill
ID CAESAR is the young man
of TV the public knows. Behind the stars are the young directors who put their pro- grammes on,
dramatic show which The Are There," directed by Sidney Impressed me most was “You
Lumet, a 28-year-old former child actor. Lumet is tense, active, energetic, and enthusias tic. He is married to film actress Rita Gam. Now film men wast her husband too.
At one time TV thought of tempting the veterans over. success, The money wasn't hig I can see why. His programma enough nor the scale of produc is directed with artistic skill Hon broad enough for men reared He achieves dramatic results in the eple manner.
with his three cameras and lights So the young men who had no which make some films fook tradition came in and did not slow idea of "You Are There" mind the extra strain of working
for television.
He's tops
BACK In
New
The
simple and could so easily have been done over here. It takes
events in history-the
assassination of Julius Caesar, the death of Socrates, or tho trial of Gallico and presents York-not them as though they were being Hollywood-I met two of covered by modern radio. Result these young men. Hellywood is is brisk History-entertaining... watching them though, waiting but necurate.
for the time when the pace of TV will wear them down and they will be prepared to move to "the Coast."
The answer
One night a week 20,000,000 viewers tune in to see a tall, sada is the new styles of artists looking character called
like comedian Sid Caesar' Caesar. He is the tops in and director Sidney Lumet American TV today. A sort of which have made the older men uf Hollywood watch with after- tion.
U.S. Sid Flold.
Caesar is 30 years old, has large brown eyes with all the sympathy of a spaniel, and a wandering chin.
He rehearses nine hours a day for his weekly 90 minutes' show, relaxes in
In the evening watching
TV shows to find out what his competitors are up to.
Compensation for this toll is around £5,000 a week for him- self and his team-which is quite
an inducement.
Fly-or a fish
who come into
CMDIANS a, like Red
Skelton, or from variety, like Milton Borje, roty do a full, de- talled scripti The tethod
SCRABBLE SPELLS MONEY W
FOR TWO IN 8 LETTERS
From NEWELL ROGERS
A
New York. roulette tables of Las Vegas dream of inventing something The kids are deserting in the Nevada desert,
and getting rich after a struggle Hopalong, the cowboy who thing for a
But it would be just the dogged by years of scrabbling couple of tired through non-tuccess and mis- the and rides
TV Range. croupiers to relax over, and at fortune but sticking at it Mothers-in-law are at a loss the same
time have a small An architect named Alfred "Gutter." for words. Husbands don't
Butts invented a rudimentary set simply consists of game years ago, but his friends, read at breakfast any more. Д cardboard
playing board James and Helen Brunot, first THAT is what a £1,500 it wellia o Wooden biecit, co saw the commercial possibilities It weighs only matter of and copyrighted a" developed page advertisement in ounces. curiosity and as a hint that the New York Times says acroplane and train journeys,
Tired businessmen take it on game.
Mr. and Mrs Brunot were It Mme. Gharagozlu's efforts And it is almost true. For
Government sociol workers is the rage with the countrym without are now under royal patrona department store is ad club set, and in' Sun Valley. They started turning out sets in business experience. vertising a new game at the lush mountain resort for a back room working part time. $2.98 a set it's the new the Hollywood crowd in Idaho.
By 1946 Actress Shirley Boot, singer
they decided to She claims that orders recreational rage, a game Dinah Shore, musical comedy gamble all their time on it, and for Persian oil amounting called Scrabble.
man Oscar Hammerstein II ero Connecticut schoolhouse to make rented an abandoned one-room to 3,000,000 tons have now
Amerien had.mahjong in the addiets. been placed with her, most 'twenties.
sets by hand. Monopoly In the of them in recent weeks. 'thiriles. Canasta in the
It was two years before they 'forties. It jooks like Scrabble
sold one. By December 1951 While theso negotiations for the post-Korean fifties.
seta. An Englishman, corrupted by toy had managed to sell 5,000 mixturd have been going on
Scrabble is a fiendish the sot on a long holiday voyage In one afternoon, 31,000 orders. Queen
an American friend, took his of the crossword puzzle
Then, lost autumn, my wordt Soraya has been photo-anogram: Crossword and at through the Mediterranean. Two hundred thousand sold; graphed and feted in three agram fends are pushovers for The Scrabble board books a 81,000 unfilled orders.
little like a four-colour draughts For months you tuid to be on languid, green-eyed beauty, nendishness consists in the fact players have to build up words
special board with 225 square Thea waiting-list. half Persian, half German. that two or four can play it on the
Finally, they sub-contracted board. (Italians, who are scholars Just as they can
one of the biggest toy play bridge. Some squares **have
extew manufacturers in the country, in these matters make two They can have teams.
They can even gamble on it the skilful can build up quite a sets a week.
values, when "covered," so that and are selling 18,000 to 20,000 criticisms of her: she lacks
at so much per point,
load in polista." personality and sho. has
How did it get its name? The I hardly expect to hoar of Behind Scrabble is a typical Hazed Brunots can't remember what one critic describes hdrawing players from the American success story, the exactly..
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Television, the world of the young man, is not worrying much at the moment where it is going. But Hollywood,the- world of the veteran, thinks it
may
already have the answer. Hollywood will buy the best talent from TV. And then in
the words of the song from "Guys and Dolls" It could:- "Marry the man today, handle
him meek and gently, Marry the man today--and train him sub... aequently" It may not be a stylish carriage, but it will do.
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