Russian
'THE CHINA" MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1954.
Writers Feel
The Cold Wind Blowing
T
HE other day the Russlan humorous weekly, Krokodil, -
By ELIZABETH HOWORTH
Prizewinners. It
Come
wan
of
power has becoma✨ something shining and joyous," embodying the finest hopes and aspirationa and overy Soviet man turned its attention press attacked Anatoly Surov More significant, perhaps, was woman. Our people look upon
well- Pravda's criticism of Zvezda, litir people's power, with un to authors who wait to see and Nikola Virta, both
and warm Allal the way the wind blows be known playwrights, both Stalin the literary Journal, for prais- shakable trust
on Zorin's play the their ing the Panova novel; for love," fore they sit down to write, personalities, not their
work, was similar misplaced plaudits
other hand, had for its theme One of its cartoons showed that
under fire. The by the same paper in 1948 the insolence of officials uguinet
thut which brought down on
whom the victims of blatant in- n desk laden with writing Lt wary Gozelte declaced materials poised high in the Surov, author of "Sunrise over head the censure of the party's justice were unable to find pro-
and In-tection. Morcow,"
Committee was kulity of per- Central eleuds on top of a weather sistent drunkenness and hooli- nugurated the campaign for poll-
Sovjet Stalin's death the VAU, four
for its ganism. pers
In the old days a tlent control of the arist's choice the fact, appears to be that
be forgiven
for and treatment: of his subject Government, for reasons of lis pointers. At the bottom writer might
nrelated with the name addiction to the bottle-k
own, gave the writers an inch of this contraption art probably caused by persecution
Men Zhdanov.
and they took an entire book- Since Pravda Πανα recretary is telling a caller al despair. But nowadays,
its shelf and Alled it with volumes that the dramatist for whom when the party and Govern pronouncement on "Season of that were far from flattering.
writers the Year," other writers hive The hare
safe- was given a bringing up eworks is not at home: ment are
scrutiny. A play conduct pass through doubtful "When there is no wind he solicitously, creating conditions come under
Zorin, for the growth and blooming of by I
The Guests, and
previously forbidden terri- jual times not work."
our literature, it is inexcusable," which had already been per tory and told to use his eyes and
In Leningrad and
Now Moscow, and published in the report on what he saw.
his work is declared lelous" magazine Theatre,
the and "negative. subject of a special meeting of
hare, What of that
!
Expelled
WHA
formed
BOM
30
the Colleglum of the Ministry Ehrenburg
the
be in
The reason why prudent Hus- their 26 authors have foun 10 brealment may petha s be found in an a humubeint little
Virta was held up to ridicule by fable printed at Moreh
in Komsomolskya Pravda. He of Culture, It was officially concerned "
Ionel apparently bamboozled described as "a vicious work."
Even bigger fry may retain Flor why was attacked by a wolf in spite of the fat members of his local Komsomol Konstantin Simonov, an author
into building him a magnificent who originally spoke favourably the net shortly. Ilya Ehrenburg safe. receive) 11: he hi
by the Soviet pontiace pasa
The brick house surrounded by an of it, has been made to appear is the object of an advene re- Tiom til
The elegant blue fence (the subject at a meeting of Moscow play- port made
Union and published hase flows tahes s
the Writers' according to
Literary Gazette on wolf asked di tre apuauce, of another cartoon in Krokodil). wrights,
Here Virta lived the life of a pre- Literary Gazette of June 3, In wife's vests signature," said the relationary "squire." His wife, and describe it as the "hxuriant June 15, Ehrenburg, who used Bood- flower of all the "incorrect to enjoy the personal tendencies" in Zorin's carlier will of Stalin, was said to be one of those who were favour- plays.
ed by midnight telephone calls from the Kremlin. The reception, of his latest novel, "The Thaw
serious is frozen: it "contains
that
our require The Leningrad writers were drawbacks
and also called together to hear a serious
fundamental serious blow is softened writers, Imitating that young
by praise for his past Panova, “are being carried away
as a writer who way achievements
At
the Pnsww Show
writing You
above the guture too." The wolf per the doctiment lords
e attired in a riding-habit, frotted ་་་་་
Belda where old through the peasant women bent over their work. She seem, to have come
Having rond it be paid he could over
and tuch a
have
n
Taru
a cropper now.
he tom up the paper and ole than a month after these attacks.
Some my, the table the hure. nids, that bother to tear on the paper - fore he ate the hare.
Signs of Purge
in
were
At the beginning of May, less
Surov and Virta, along with two even lesser-known nuthors,
expelled from the Writers' Union fand hence from the practice of their profession) for "amorul
entling of a Soviet
Regretted
report on the "alarming** fnet criticism.
o Title
mud anti-social acts incompatible really...
with the writer."
In
a petit-bourgeois outlook and has done and is still doing a grent deal for our literature and the same great
once the struggle for peace," But, of witty sketches adds the report, respect for
popular schenko, the
who life of Soviet
"sharply condemned,"
pore criticism. Nor are the critics He is immune from criticism-In the
OWN
The falmikid is in a good pod-
now becoming apparent It is
80 Was great writer and social worker" tion to test the relevaney of this
not brutally handied by Zhandov, ought not to shield him fron story, for the author, Mr Wall- that these expulsions were
once more shevsky, used in with his wry isolated examples of a puritanical found his behaviour little fables about the insolence regard for morals, but the pre-
a general accused of having "concealed same report the Writers' Union of offietatdom week by week in minury skirmish in
criticise its against the Jack of his real attitude" to the Central
Hoes on the Russian press until
they wan
"ideological clarity" of
Soviet
Committee's decrees оп
Hicrn-
journal, Novy. Mir! came to
sudden slop about
There seems little doubt that ture in 1940-this in June, 1854. two years ago. He reappeared authors in general. At the end
of May Pravda turneti upon What seems to have aroused the wind is beginning to be March to explain why the Vera Panova, best known
the neck of the the party's anger in these new cold down hare distrusis the promises of Britain, perhaps, as author of a novels and plays is that their writer. A second Writers' Con- The wolf. Since then he has monumentally dull novel called
authors have by Implication gress is now being prepared for The Factory." She has now
autumn. "Soviet praised the early revolutionaries the
writers The first sign that the Com- published a novel called "Seasons an idealists but condemned their making
are
ready for their munist party might be preparing of the Year." Pravda detected
All-Union successors as men indifferent to second
Congress, "in historical rome new purge of authors in it a reprehensible nostalgia den
ideals and corrupted by power, remarks Pravda, came abnost immediately after for the past,
The mere thought that power days, permicated by the pathus Malishevsky's fable. Early in
tasks itself (and not "survivals of of the new and grandiose April the party and Ifterary
bourgeois mentality" in a parti- put forward by the Communist eidar individual)
can possibly party." At the last one, twenty corruption enrages So years ago. the doctrine of So- cause
was formulated viet Culture. In Russia, It clalist Realism was
now being refurbished Wrote on June 5, the very word end is
been sent.
»Rayer's « TONIC
BAYER
Bayers TONIC
WATER
Significant
"When the heroes of the novel are described at the beginning of their life course, coinciding with the first years of Soviet power, we meet with living traits of character. As soon modern life and the present day be-
of haviour
these herous 15 they immediately Approached repine and fade
The author seems to have set herself the task of indicating how "things are in life" without giving any evaluation of it, "She has gone the way of naturalism." Pravda's criticism is of parti- cular interest because it sets out to deal with earlier reviews of the same book in which other crities had praised . Izvestin had gushingly declared that "the very title, Seasons of the Year, seems to suggest to the reader: I shall conduct
heroes my
AMERICA COLUMN
from NEWELL ROGERS
Babies At
3 a.m.
N staid, sleepy Boston, Vincent
1*29-year-old
Through what is most natural, Guinta was arrested while
IS PRECIOUS through what inevitably happens
USE IT
WISELY
to us all, through the course of pushing a pram through the the seasons, through spring, summer,
and
jer allfarbe
and nuttim
DESIGNS
Consult
and brought up to dumonds of
"Socialist Realism
of
the writer a just and histori- cally concrete reflection
its revolutionary reality development. Such ↑ depiction
should reality be organically bound up with the tasks of educating the working people in the spirit of socialism."
of
Writers may thus expect to be buckled still more Armly to their tasks, not less. The motto.
of the second congress may
prove to be:
Zhdanov is dead;
long Ilve Zhdanovism.
Cummings
FRANC
APPEASER
EDEN
'H' BOMB
'À BOMB
NEUTRAL NEHRU
INCARINY
"IF ONLY I COULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT
OF SWITZERLAND INSTEAD..."
London Express, Service
SWEDISH
EW melodies of recent
mil.
room has
Born on a Saturday that's why
They Call Him Kwame
THE
By LOUISE
REID
London, daughter aces no. hardship in
former Peggy getting up at five in the morn- Cripps, wife of Joseph ing.
Appiah from Kumasi, Out in Kumasi she will have on the Gold Coast, brought her husband's sisters-alx of their coffee-coloured baby them-to counsel her in emer- boy, 11 weeks old, out on to gney. She is not worried either about bringing up Kwame in the sun-splashed lawn to the vastly different climate of the Gold Coast. "After all, ho is hall African and therefore shn half acclimatised already." points out.
the
| have his picture taken.
In the background rese mellow front of Frith Hill, Cots wolds home of Lady Cripps and the late Se Stafford.
But once there he will not be allowed to forget that he is half- Appiah. Jon to hia wife, English, teo. His will be bilin-. brushed the baby's hair up on gual from the stort, learnmg both aidce in the hope of making Twi, the Ashanti language, from 1 curl. Perry fiddled the baby's his father, and English from tota, and we all three clucked both
He will play
parents,
in the hope of making him with carved wooden toys (es-
Both hopes wer smile. appointed.
baby Tavishing all the same.
The
WORRIED? NO
dia- pecially a rocking horse) made Joaked by local craftsmen and English
cuddly loys made by his mother. He will wear
English shorts and shirts at school, and, tho African kempi cioth (like the one his father was married in) on ceremonial occasions.
la Octuber the Applabs are
First the stato Education? going out to the Gold Coast to Eet up house. The baby will ther. Junior school. "Then," saya Joe, "we should like him to go to be christened in the Methodist
my
old school, Mfanisipim. Church at Kumasi, wearing otherwise known as Richmond Lady Cripps's christening robe College. This is a public boarding and a gold ring with heart after school on the lines of Eton and the Athanti custom.
HE LAUGHED
Harrow. We hope he will win a scholarship, but if he doesn't we He is to have a formidable shall pay fees. My great-unclo Biring of names, all from his left money especially for this father's side-Kwame Anthony
purpose. Jon Kusi. Alroma - Ampim elaborated: "Kwame, because he was born on Saturday; Anthony, after my great-uncle, who war head of tho family; Altroma- Ampim straight over all obstacles, after
who ancestor Ashanti general; Kusi, after my
We call him Kwame." father.
an
the crow meaning crow Niez
Was
an
"After
wilt
Mantsipim ho most likely go to the Gold Coast University. Then, perhaps another
It will university, depend what he wants to do. At 11 weeks Kwamo weighs It's early to talk. I should say 13b, and gains nine to 11oz. Cambridge for science, or Dur- week. Much too much recording ham for theology, or Harvard
to the
baby books, but his
mother isn't worried, because it for philosophy, and, I suppose," is all arm fresh, not an ounce of he added with a laugh, "St. Cyr flabby fat. She bought baby for military science. But, if he books before he was born. but
since.
has not opened them
is my son he can't get out of Instead she locks to her family polides." for advice.
SLEEPS THROUGH
Her sister, Lady Ricketts, Cotswold
and neighbour
frequent visitor,
A
Д
A
And then Peggy laughed and protested: "Do give him
Joo chance. darling?" And laughed
Even littlo again. Kwame emilod at last.
It is not intended that he shali Both the
hús thren bo an only child. children. Her brother John and Appiahs
belleve in fair-sized
his wife have six children. families, and Peggy believes in When in doubt Peggy
Kwamo... is 2
rings looking after her children her-
them up. She has few doubts aclf. She has no nurse. We hope because
model to have four children, God baby. "He sleeps right through willing," they both say from tea at night until five in the
Sir Stafford's morning."
RHAPSODY
By Gerard Bourke
expanso
been decorated for
το stem
to
What of the colour bar?
Says Joe: "There is no colour bar on the Gold Coast. The only thing
that counts with our
in
WO
people is character," Saya Peggy: "There is a colour bar as we all know, but have never come up cuminst it, although many of our friends have. People who don't
approve of our marriage "Orpheus and his attendente Joo is accepted everywhere. He keep out of our way. Otherwise,
the fine
group
his atniucs,
graces the foreground of the Stockholm concert
the
doos
THE ANGELS
streets at 3 am. and shout- Pravda'a retort is ing: "Come and get your are not cereals, and so to conduct babies." The "babies" were them through spring, summer, bottles of wine which Vin-
years have remained
hall Like gets on wonderfully with shop- autumn, winter explains cent, feeling happy, wanted so popular for so long nothing of itself."
to share with anyone he Ins "Swedish Rhapsody", because it captured the country, "I wanted to sing the his Finnish counterpart, Waine keepers, In London as a mere under housewife, I used to feel tright- could wake.
still played everywhere to excitement of the festive praise of the Swedish charac- Aaltonen, he has also
ter." he. wrote, "and the taken the Herculean task of fuky jealous of his success in
"a the delight of lovers of jazz night
the shops." on which bonfires
beauty of Swedish nature at sculpture in granite, typifying EWIS HARMON and his wife or the deepest classics. along the island shores burn Midsummer, writing hymn of country whose foundations rest
Charlotte, operators of a
against the reddened mid- joy in the Idealising. language on granite. Connecticut summer theatre,
In a flash it became inter- night dusk. For in Sweden's of music. I set to work as in a Meanwhile Stockholm have fled charges with the national, carrying along the
dream."
not forget its historicnī. past. Actors Equity Association against
And the annual festival week 22-year-old John
The Appiahs favourile story Barrymore whirl and gaiety of Swed- northern-most parts, the sun
In Stockholm during the sum- never sets for several days
visitors showa
A carefully concerns one of Joe's shopping Jun., accusing him of "conduct ish folk-dancing on
constant at midsummer; it remains to mer months, there is
guarded theatrical tradition of unbecoming an actor."
summer night. They said he was late for
slant its rays on the revel. Parade of launches and yachts which any country might be expeditions. He was walling in of every size and kind, going proud. Much of it dates from queue in Finchley Road with rehearsal, refused to take stage And the gaily dressed lers as they dance to nc- either
to the stawards directions, confused other actors
reign of King Gustav III, African friend when a little eat their
"Theatre King, who of and said: "Oh, Mummy, do
English
girl came up to them by changing his lines, and parties arriving in yachts cordion and violin among the varied scenery of the
birch archipelago, Inland to
or
look glittering
the ganised elaborate masques and at these two beautiful angels. Insulted Mrs Harmon,
or launches to dance by alender
of Lake Malarin, ballots at Drottningholm Palace Mummy, do calm the lakeside,
studded with granite islands on on
tako or on plat trees.
Lake Malarin, but fell a
the angels CTRESS Sarah Churchill got forms erected among the
which slender ar trees miracul- victim to an assassin's bullet at home to tea." And Mummy was a ducking at Grand Lake, rushes, are a reminder of Inside the dwellings, every
ously
thrive. Most families a masked ball in the Royal quite willing, but the angels, to a light sailing Colorado, when
вото
Thatro in 1793. Even ma their regret, couldn't spare the boat overturned- and It was the 83-year-old
composer midsummer night with sprave treat among the islands, how death has its place in theatrical time. her own fault. "Silly of me," who so perfectly captured from the silver birch, an ever small, and there they history, since Verdi used the
good 30-year-old Sarah apologised to the summer fragrance of ancient custom to bring dance the hours away. For in tragedy as the basis of bis opera her dripping crow.
fortune. the Swedish
the short northern summer only "A Masked Ball." light dictates the time; winter side.
During the
afternoon, soon
returns and its almost PATROLMAN
familles gather early to hurry constant darkness gives ample with a reputation of giving Until recently, the name through the meadows to the time for sleep.
ΠΟΤΟ traffle summonses
perhaps to the other polleeman in of Hugo Alfven was little lakeside-or than any
barn. from known outside Sweden. But village
For as Hugo Chicago was
Alfven romarks:
barn Thic duty" after he arrested Superior at home he was unquestion- might, indeed, have been built lives so that they can enjoy their Furioso", in the unique 18th referred to in public.
Finns, the Swedes plan their Handel's opera, Ceunt Judags Samuel Epstein and ably their senior composer for summer night dancing: the his wife for wrongful parking,
wonderful lake vistas. They are century baroque theatre at- Muller alleges that the judge having written five sym- door is even, and pleasantly the more fortunate; they have teched to Drottningholm Palace. Since his great uncle's rocénti held his arms while Mrs Epstein phonies, as well as choral and cool air is wafted in through not known war for many years. Original sets and stage machin- death, Joe has been hand of the bit him with her handbag. The instrumental music.
upen doors. For those
inperfoot order family. His first job, back in Judgo in turn alleges, that Muller
the ardent leaps of folk dancing plans to improve living stand oryboth have ured, the hay loft
with imagination ill-were used, and the music Kumar, will be to clear up his ards, bullding
Jans were dressed in correct family busiricon affairs, and Strangely enough the provides a pleasant haven".
'to practical celled,
rococo costumes. It proved that appoint somebody to, aduthlater TUIE Hoover Commission, iry-work which has brought him.
Handel operas, often considered the ostuto. He will then be from Stockholm, fine modern ing to cut down the burden auch fame-and large royal.
buildings often rise dramatically too static for modern audiences, to go ned deep into policis from granite peaks to pear out may yet be staged tinder such what any country geodal most,
have one chance in 678,000 of under the spell of the In-pent the nimmer
Often in his youth, Alfven from behind the firs Blocks of ideal conditions, dat
ve shall try to make a far- flats, similar in design, will each numeratild... Islands around
evening face a slightly different direc- Whether at sophisticated festi- over: being referred to again.
playing. the violin
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aft his wife first.
THE
Jack Muller,
"excused
country.
..
of Governmerit form-filing in ties-was composed over Industry, has discovered that fifty years ago. He wrote it many form, once completed,
HA A DISNEY'S
WALT
adventure,
fim,
Vanghing. Fradrio,"
whom
Own
Like
their neighbours the
"I think that's; a wonderful mory" mys Peggy. "Obviously the illis l'had seen a mid- sionary book with pictures of African
You know tha
sort of 2018
This summer, I saw
a most
"And that," saya Joe, "Is the accomplished performance of
"Orlando only imo my colour has been
bility to much, and every two
for wit, come back to
for such tion, or be coloured in some Yal performances or tearsmes den like Cotawold garder Stockholm, to which he folk dancing, for he had the matching tort. Individuality is midsummer dancing, the sweder the Pasty WDHON
Hong Irivariably show toire of their first too precious to be lost. true-life always hurried to escape the
pid rombine onal @airy' at: his command, exten
(Just as Hugo Alfver has music, with Ahrough miniskirted Swedia folk munte und natural Buy only now
#displayed it: abroad; so the seed comb
The bustle of the city.
banned in New York State un- Senar Every truths oul. Witwo-minute
"Midsummer
PINCELEMELOW CHOWING wie birer or called this, the second of hi
Swedish