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DOESN'T
CARE ABOUT DOLLARS
London.
N the white, scarlet and gilt sitting-room of his hired Park Lane pent- house, I found Richard Adler relaxing on machine. skimmed milk in readiness
for the London opening of his Pajama Game.
When
his
I speak of "Pajama Game" I am being rough and ready. Actually the musical numbers in this show, as also of a sister suc- "Damn cess on Broadway, Yankees," are Siamese-twin jobs. In all cases the music
ns well as the words were
MONEY? What's the
good of it, says one half of the Pajama Game team who sweated out a fortune
in hit tunes
By CHARLES REID
written by Adler (82) in ried, had one chill, double harness with Ross (20).
in
an office eight feet by ten.
an aunt.
story.
Separated
money
US
THE MAN WHO CAUGHT BULLETS
T
pre
a
rival
By HAROLD M. HARRIS
olso? By several comcono
instance, who wanted to learn his secrets?
Or might he not have planned and curried through the most spectacular suicide in history?
a vain In
attempt to rescue the memory from Robinson's
his
HERE
ways of doing the magician, for bullet trick, and most of them are fatal. The pro cedure itsqlf does not vary much. A gun is fired at the
conjurer who, with a quick- Rob
sensational legends about ness · of the hand that death which peralst to this day, deceives the eye, picks the Mr Will Dexter has written a bullets out of the air. Some plous book about the conjurer's times he catches them with life. He will not succeed be- cause the truth is so much less his teeth.
romantic than the legend, On at least ten recorded
The facts were nude clear at Occasions something has the Inquest by Mr Robert gone fatally wrong. In 1818 Churchill, the gun expert, who Kia Khan Khruse, an Indian examined the fatal weapon.
was an old-fashioned muzzle juggler, fell dead on the
loader. Under the barrel was stage in Dublin when the a tube in which the ramrod was marksman, recruited from kept.
the audience, substituted A steel plug
his own pistol for the one
provided by the manage- ment.
Ho suspected
(rightly)
that been
the original weapon
tampered with.
elan called De
The breech
11
was scaled off from the barrel by a steel plug, a channel had been cut but
the ramrod tube. through to hnd
charge The audience saw the Sometimes it is the bullet
and bullet rammed home in the
that is faked.
They did not A Polishi
harmless barrel. magd-
blank know that there was Linsky trained
ἐπι charge the ramrod Lube his nasistants to bite the bullets
when the which before load-
exploxied out of the cases ing AL R command ber- trigger was pulled. The bullets formance before Prince von which the maglelan "caught" Schwartzburg-Sonderhausen in in
in
the china plate had been 1820, he gave an extru twist te palmed in his hand all
Ume the act by allowing six of the Prince's bodyguard to fire Victr ins at the target, which hop pened to be Madame De Linsky
་་
False teeth
Perhaps one of the guardsmen failed to understand his instruc- tions, perhaps he had false teeth, perhaps he was just con- trary. Modame De Linsky fell to the ground crying, "Dear husband I am shot."
down
the
Mr Churchill discovered that, and tear OVET owing to wear steel plug had worn loose, and the years, screw threads in the
the harmless barrel was harm- Iesa no longer. On the tatal night, one of Chung Ling Soo's assistants pulled the trigger and noticed that the recoll stronger than usual,
Was
The gorgeously robed magi- clan crumpled and fell, mortally wounded, before the eyes of a If the name of Chung Ling wartime Saturday night music- been Soo is remembered today, it is hall audience. He had not because of the excellence shot through the lung and dled nad variety of his conjuring re- a few hours later.
The coroner recorded the pertoire, but because he, too, wus looking
the barrel only possible verdict. William
died wrong E. Robinson
mis- from when something went with the bullet trick,
adventure, It happened at the Woor Green Empire on March 23, 1918. The
Chinese magicion was the idol of the halla. He had been shot at twice nightly since 1904. His gimmick was to catch the bullets on a china plate,
Disclosures
When bigger the hunk that Uncle Sam things out of us."
alices off. not pacing like 4 puma
truth, Adler would pull out the "Tell you the sofa-cum-three-quarter - bod, isn't really important to either Why, we've turned down take off his shoes and curl of us. up with scribble pad to hand every movie offer mude to
yet. One come only the other on a coffee table. Ross pre- week: 200,000 dollars £70,000 fers to
for the lyrics and tunes of one work at the up-
We said 'musical.'
No. We right piano bequeathed by an't
the like the
smell of Yes, there are more im- portant things in life than Their daily work sessions money. specially with capital- Always were ten to six, with coffee gains taxed and hamstrung as Jerry scheming how to earn un and sandwiches sent in. In they are in the States."
extru buck, how to keep one squeezing and hammering dollar ahead of the poor- out the lyrics and the music Nailed to a nursing-home house, ferry, too, had a wife that went along — “a bit of
in and kid. They lived in a both from each of us" (post-operational) New York, partner Ross is poky flat
at 42 dollars they sometimes differed and bled first--"Ader and Ross 19 much better on the car than unable to get here for the mouth practically a tene- writhed a bit. "But we've Coliseum opening night. ment on American standards never had a stand-up fight oss and Adler, as my partner
was the first to point out" Partner Adler is glum about In those days we couldn't
yet. If one of us gets an Adler insists that in all other "We this. About most other afford an office. Wrote on iden the other doesn't like ways they arc equals.
have equal
shares of fees, royal- things ke
of the kitchen and can't get round is bright and the corner
to tics.
heartaches, headaches and bland. And has every rea- table, anywhere."
liking, it goes into the gar- grey hairs. Yes, I know my son to be.
bage can by common agree- licnd looks jet black two yards girl called Suee Seen,
away. But there's plenty of ment."
grey on close scruting." Pouring himself an- Often there's a melancholy
skimmed nole other beaker of
in Adler's tallt. A little milk; Adler
up on over a year ago he was legally separated from his wife. Sinco then
boon "nomadically,
bed
Three paces
success:
Bums
The tax
Although his name is always
Je
Chung Ling "Soo's sensational death was followed by remark- able disclosures. He was not a Chinese at all. The famous maglein impassive, inserut- able, the essence of a stago Oriental, who had on occasion given interviews to the news- an interpreter papers through
was really William E. Robin- son, of Lonsdale Road, BartiCS. The chief assistant In his troupe, a diminutive Chinese who
cradled the dying conjureer's
the stage, head in her lap on gave evidence at the inquest. She said her naine was
Olive Robinson. They had been mar- ried, for 25 years.
Half a dozen numbers, mostly from "Pajama
Then the "Pajuma Game" Game" and "Damn Yankees"
This embold- have sold seven and a half commission. million gramophone records hed them to hire a cell in
It was disappointing that his living origins, as
revealed at the in less than two years, he an office-flats block on West reckons. Biggest hit of the Fiftieth Street, eight feet by
the most hotels and sublets" and yon, In
inquest, ruled out When in
about his colourful rumour New lot is a bit of angel-cake ten. Big enough to permit
sees his two little death. It had been York he
suggested called "Hey, there!"
Adler three, paces forward, This.
boys dally, although they are
that he was the victim of a my technically in his wife's custody. number is now under every three paces back when hunt-
Chinese Yet stimulating partner and I have made a lot He is still friendly with Marlon of money. But what's the good Hart Adler, takes her to all his
But could he body's feet, in everybody's ing ideas. hair. To use the sort of ly small.
not have been, murdered by of that? On the strength of our Arst nights. But when he looks Rags to Riches hit, everybody in at Jerry Row's serene marriage Freudian language in which
"Jerry and I when work- the business started calling
us and his snug
family house in the Adler sometimes dabbles, it
to be 'boiled in the Rags to Riches Kids, But country, he feels a stab of wist- has entered the Unconscious ing like
the tax set-up in the States is fulness, Royalties on seven and That little room the same as here, in some ways a half million records Stream of
Universal together. Conscious.
the
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words and the harmonies to individual taste. The other day Adler heard a version which tried to make other rhyme not with brother buti with sistor.
"In the last two yeorg
are no
on West Fiftieth compresses worse. The more you earn the shield against stabs of that kind.
Tong kliling, by a
secret society.
The Riddle of Chung Ling Soo, by Will Dexter. Arco, 158.
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
*I DO wish the P.M, wouin make up his mind about the Cabinet reshufe the stra of not knowing whom to drop and them to take up is almost killing me!"
RUSSIANS ARE MOVING IN Something more
ON THE YEMEN
USSIA is stepping up
"I used to tear my hair Rher dramatic diplomatic
out at such contortions," he drive in the Middle East. snys. He adds indulgently:
"In two years I have gotten She is to renew hor 1927
twenty
treaty of trade und friendship with the Yemen and exchange diplomats.
By Derek Marks
KEYPT
1610
LÁRNÍ KRÁDLI
Iraq
For Syria lles between and Turkey, which are joined for defence with Britain, Pakis- tan, and Persla in the Baghdad Pact.
The aim of Western diplomacy has been to got as many as possible of the Arab · countries to join this pact-but particular importance was set oni,eccuring Syria's membership.
Intelligence reports, reaching London make it clear that Russia is offering both technical .and financial ald on a very large scale to, the, Arab countries, In her drive to cut out the Western Powers.
years older and wiser.
Why should, I get upset about Buch things? They are like the traffic This was agreed at talks In down in Park Lane there-Cairo between a Yemenite dole- quité outside my control: If gation and the Soviet Ambasan I could control Park Lane dor to Egypt, Mr Daniel Solod, traffic it would keep mo Soviet Syrian trade talks awake o' rights, fray my opened in Damascus between nerves. As it is, I sleep the Soviet Minister, Mr S. S, Nemchina, and tho Byrlari through it like a baby.
Minister of National Economy, major coup for THE YEMEN dripping faucet, on the other Mr Riskalls Antald.
borders the British Colony of hand, would drive me mad."
Aden, with its important har These moves are regarded with
tho utmost concern in Ruesla's Mr Bolod is fost be bour and fine now oil refinery. Western capitals. Ho and Jerry Ross began coming the most important
and diplomat in the Middle East. In recent years the Yemen writing vaudeville
Britain has decided, to send a Government
claimed Cabinet Minister to attend the television material as part- Ho was the chief figure in the sovereignty over Aden. There first meeting of the Baghdad ners in 1950. At first they arms deal between Egypt, and have been repeated raids on the Pact Council next month.
! will Colony by Yemeni tribesmen. were poor and hopeful in Czechoslovakia which
bring. Communist technicians to
dons are able to Macmillan, or Mr Selwyn Lloyd The Foreign Minister, Mr equal parts.
the Buez- Canal àres.
If the Rumelons move technicians, and advisers the Minister of Defence, "will" period I was already mar Solod is pulling on another ther achilevensent.
During tho struggla. Now it looks as though Me, into BYRIA, UE will be a fur- attend.
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