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FRIDAY, OCTOBER
"LOT σ' WOOLLY-MINDED OLE HAS BEENS
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COME TODAY INSIDE A COMMUNIST COURT IN EAST GERMANY TURNS HER OPEN EYES TO THE LEFT ~WHERE JUSTICE
I
SHE'S GUILTY, SO WHY TAKE A PLEA?
Berlin.
SEFTON DELMER CONTINUES HIS REPORT ON RED GERMANY
judge, a blue-eyed, angelic- The prisoner sobbed. West Berlin, where her hus- T was in a court-room looking creature in her late None of the workers in her hand, who had fled from East whom I could well factory had been organised, handed him the camera to sell Germany. WOB waiting. Sho corridor on the very thirties first morning of my imagine as an ideal kinder- she said. The place was too and make a good profit. Then trip around Com- garten governess. She had small.
she returned to East Berlin, it munist-run East Germany nothing to do with the law "Humph, we shall look was
bought three pairs and WES that I heard the two till 1949. Then she did n into that," said the woman of binoculars there.
about to return across the sectar ominous sentences which two-year course in a "school judge.
border when she was caught by were to keep echoing in my for judges," proved herself
the People's Frontier Police. mind for the rest of the in an examination to be well
The woman judge was in- visit: "The accused was up in Marxist-Leninist clearly and unmistakably Stalinist judgemanship. And guilty. Therefore there there she was.
The second' woman was no point in having counsel in court to defend one of the two "Jurors." bidden?" her."
She is a clerk and attended
was
came
I started to take notes. A policeman
and clutched at my shoulder.
***What are you writing there, colleague?" he said. "Don't you know it is for-
to doubt whether the possibly have saved:000 morks out of her net salary of 300 marks a month.
She suggested that the woman. must have been financed by "No wenn de Englisch someone in West Berlin who The tubby little public a "school for jurors" to vastehst, dann kiek mal used stooges, prosecutor, tieless to show learn how to uphold the her," I said in my broadest his proletarian sympathies, regime. apoke them.
No notes
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+
THE
mengers,
The attack
LOOK HOW the SHOWGIRLS
have
CHANGED
By MILTON SHULMAN
Once she got Howers and chocolates and diamondseyan orchids with five-pound notes around each stem. But today."
MISS
"and"
ISS RUBY, MILLER; `above all, were graceful'.
one-time, Galety Girl longuld."
Diana Monks: "We have to in the Edwardian era, has be more than just gorgeous. We constituted herself' a one have to train and train before woman campaign for the re- we got anywhere, and talent storation of the position of doesn't depend on looks And what fun is there looking at the showgirl.
semcee, just standing sli
Sho feels it has deteriora- ted sadly, since the days when she appeared in musi- cals like "The Orchid" and ' "Our Miss Gibba."
"We used to have the whole of Debrett and the Almanach de Gotha plying us with gifts," she guid, "but the poor little girla nowadays are grateful if they are given a gin and
On gifts
*Ruby Millert "There was nover an end to the flowers and chocolates and diamonds. But we could not accept money. Once I received a huge bouquet of orchids with a five-pound note around each stom. I sent it. My admirer, humiliated, sent back with an Indignant. Tofter, me a brooch of emeralds, In stead. That was, of course,
· བ "! 、 u Reminiscing about her youth, quito acceptable." Miss Miller conjures up a heady. Dland Monke: "A tired to Lehar dandalion with a pound note world waitzing gally and chuppagne. Ivor Novello around
more the kind på could hardly have done it boller. thing we're likely to get.
tonic.".
Actresses
then
were the aristocracy of their sex. Trained
to te elegant and graceful, their stage career was usually but n preparation for their eventual clevation to the peerage.
On: men
Ruby Miller: "Wo captured
"Mr George Edwardes, or men by charm and by being manager, always told us to thoroughly feminine. We knew behave as if we were going to how to be soft and Ruffy and be peeresses," Misa Miller sold, impressed. Men never "I was engaged to a couple of us on viscounts and an earl myself, but I gave them up because the coll of the stage was too great."
The models
the back and shoute "What about another gin, old girll There was no nonsens about sex equality, becauso Wo knew we were superior." ·
Diana Moaks: **Soft and clinging women annoy me. It's usually just an not. I think men Miss Miller feels that actresses like women who do things. I'm have now lost this pre-eminence oll for the equallly of the sexes, the marriage market to I don't see what harm It's mannequins.
have the done." "Models Individuality and taste in clothes MUS we used to have," said Miller, And peers, it seems, like their women to look different,
Utterly unruffled by this state of affairs in Miss Diana Monks Ruby Miller; "After a Grand She dances and sings with con- Duke of Russia drank cham siderable vivacity and charm in pagne out of my slipper, I com the revue, "Cockles and Champlained that it had left my shoe pagne now playing in Hantellghtly damp. Next morning he mersmith after a West End run, sent me dozens of slippers of
what every colour and shape She does approximately
On champagne
故
Ruby Miller used to do before compensation. I'm not sure that Miss Miller became a star.
the custam does the champagno OF the slipper much good, but it's the gesture that's the Im portant, thing
a'
Diana Monks: "Frankly, don't know any Grand Duker,”
On each other.
Miss Monks, married to dancer, never expected the stage to provide a path to a title. "Most of the girls marry in the business," she said. "My friends who have married out of the and cheekiest Berlin cockney.
business are bored slift."
But it is not only on marrl. ("If you can read English,
cgc
and that Ruby Miller I had been listening, in
old boy, take a look at it." He did not press the point.
Not so the prosecutor.
Diana Monks differ. The forty The woman judge inter-
Ruby Miller: "I feel so sorry We heard it all, from a years that separates them has the East Berlin People's THE third woman was the
re. for the modern showgirl, All German brought about an almost Court, to the trial of a fair-
a mother of vened at her most angelic denunciation of West prisoner,
a and gracious.
volutionary change in the life they have is hard, sold hoofing "I think in militarisation directed against
—like a soldier driling. 'No 'fun haired, middle-aged woman three who worked in
the
of the showgirl. Eastern camp of peace, privately accused of economic sabot- small,
owned this special case," she said,
Has the theatre--both actors at all. They're not even allowed and audience alike-lost some a gentle faint that was such a age.
workshop at Weissenfels, "we will permit notes. But the iniquities of American-war- the treason of worker-
thing through the. change? good idea." I congratulate the colleague traitors like the accused woman The absence of counsel to in Saxony.
Here are the contrasting views put her side of the
on his watchful who let themselves be seduced саве "What organisations do constable
of showgirl past. and showgirl by capitalist hyenas to deprive
present. before the court had baffled you belong to?" was one of jess."
You can decide for me, so at the adjournment I the first questions the judge As the little public pro- the East of its most valuable
yourself. commodities, and,' finally, export secutor explained to me the riced to vote for the naked the prosecutor why, asked.
"But who decided she was
"None? A trade union? later, no one in the public ernment in the elections of
Well, guilty?" I persisted. "Who No? Well,
well. gallery is allowed to make October
blonde voto against the
and her sort, and a vote for
peace. the verdict of a court like
they might get things down: I am sorry to say, he even
on attack Secondly-ahém-- Included wrong. this 7"
espionagel
ongelle little woman Judge for "Why, my office, does, the
much womanly showing too indulgence to the accurd, said the friendly little man, in our soclety by your
Yes, it was quite me intro- smiling and bobbing. · colleagues without sub-
this session in court, THE case against the woman duction, "And that doesn't offend scribing to any of the bodies THE
was that she had spent her for a trip around the people's your German sense of that obtained these benefits family savings of 820 marks on paradise of Eastern Germany.
for you?"
camera. She travelled to Justice?".
not.
is empowered to anticipate Didn't it ever occur to you notes on court cases. First, be a v 17 because that would On their work
that you should. be or 'ganised?
"Why should you accept
State Attorney's office," the benefits obtained for you Càmera sale
"But no, of course
It was a clear case. Boyond all dispute the woman was gulity. It would have been a waste of time for anyone to defend her.”
He looked, behind his thick-lensed spectacles, mild and kindly.
And, as far as he was concerned, the case Was Bettled.
Unfreedom
2
the
(London Express Sérpica).
THE TROUBLE WITH
BEING
FTER 208 days
roe had had enough.
A marriage Marilyn Mon-
MARILYN
By DAVID LEWIN
of Marilyn stayed at home in the we talk over everything, I take
evenings with Jos.
her advice-usually." de But she also invited Natasha Next case: Humphrey Bogart Lytes along to continue her dud Lauren (Betty) Bacall-- drning studies. Mr DiMaggio, nine years merried. Theirs is a The only ́ ́people who ware did not like the hlea. After A simple
with
shocked by the suddenness of month or so he becams; almost recip
POR the rest of my trip
his amazing formula, who, in line with the current Natasha Lyteas out of the house, disregarding the most Hollywood trend with other His wife, he felt should learn elementary principles of stars, have been, at some pains drams in studio hours.
Intaly to present Little Miss justice, kept coming up at Monroe as a home-loving house. the back of my mind, for wife, who, liked nothing botter Whether I was visiting a than to settle by the firesido
Betty except when she is in the beauty parlour. It doesn't matter about both of us working we can have fun when bocaliss
By Betty Becall: "Maybs it is g because he is an older man
the 1# 83-gho is 80) that he is me, understanding.
beautiful new hospital wing at night end read a good book. That was probably what began for workers and their The compaign, began, a year, “ihe incompatibility grenilin families attached to an ago and really got under way from the conflicting demand. electrical, machinery works in January.
when the married Joesny boy of their careers stated to be
a cause of their divorce. "Cot and built out of the profits
of the works, or sliding in of the powert
It was nocessary because some ficting demands of careers!
en's clubs: &/urua excuse for the break- felt over-shoes aci the of America
of marriages in Hollywood, palatial parquet zö 'of the ; text-about extravagantly ala
ate new
should they?
Diana Monks "The old days sound artificial and phoney to me. I wouldn't change places with them for anything."
Well, there you have the Edwardian and the Elizabethan approach to the showgirl, Fer- sonally nelther quite
my Ruby Miller: "Mr Edwardes own concept of what a giri would see over 600 giris before, bohind the footlights should be. he chose one, We were chosen Perhaps, Ruby Müller: off-stage for our figures and poise. We and Diana Monks on. But, then, pranced about in very beautiful rie man has a right to be a por- gowns, sald a few lines ent,fectionist.
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