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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1956.
THE
CANNOT SEE HOW ANYONE CH REFUSE A TREATY OF
Slovars
London Express Service,
OF
RISIS city," some
call it. To others Berlin is the "eily of ten thousand
spies." Still others find Ber.
POLAND
Wife No. 1 Claims Film King's Fortune KORDA'S MILLIONS ARE MINE?
Paris.
By James Mayo
Californin In 1930. She now
"Once he replied, "It is to claims that divorce la invalid. have more hold on you."
For
"In 1948 my husband Hungarian
making me sumptuous WIN a superb
300 this
WOMAN stopped out of the past... and re- vealed to me her plan claim Sir
screen star who at Alexander Korda's fortune, believed to ce played Helen of Troy-has prenents. One
been living quietly in Paris. mink cost. top £2,000,000.
to
Her name: Maria Firkas, first wife of the thrice-married nim king who died recently.
"I consider 1 am his first and only love and his only true wife,” she told me. "Of course I have the right to the estate. I mean to defend my rights,"
Maria and Sir Alexander were married in Budapest in 1919, and he divorced her
COCKPIT EUROPE
Norman Lindhurst Revisits Berlin
lin the city of "haute Islanders), couture"
come
000
It is difficult to
MUSICAL
of
money
for to spend
dresses and beauty than their sisters
in
beauty-ellent
"We didored each other. I shall claim that by Hungarian law, the law of my country, our
marriage is still valid."
"Although I wouldn't know what to do with all that money, I intend to defend my righis."
Monsieur A. Menzer, her naviser, sald: "We will take the case to the courts if necessary.""
M. Menzer added: "Moreover the Hungarian law governing marriages where the partners agree to pool belongings, as tho
"There
WBA
w03
а rather domineering, authoritarian side to Sandor's character. Do- meatically. ho often behaved like an Eastern Pasha,
"After his second ind third marriages ho never ceased to locep an eye on me-behaving both wonderfully and do- mineeringly at the same time.
**Wherever I went in the world, the focal London Films distributor met me with a car and paid my hotel bilis.
Kordas did in 1919, provides Great Man
that the survivor inberita the entire estate-100 per cent."
Maria, frequently weeping at tho memory
never
"The (the
"But Sandor wes against my
"The man I plans to marry an Italian count reasod to love," sald: a few years ago. divorce
Hungarian
we were In Hollywood in 1930. 1 had made my greatest film there starting as Helen' for Warner Brothers.
between Sandor "My con knew all about -- form for but Sondor didn't want it. Alexander) and I came when "One
asked him day Peter "Why
one let her live her own don't you let mother
lite? Sandor just shrugged.
"The last me I saw him was four
years ago in London. He came to Prats last November and telephoned me several times,
was mutilated during the East German rebellion of June 17, Jealous?
1953.
West Berliners planted A glant wooden cross in front of it to
"Perhaps Sandor became a remind onlookers of the little jealous of me professional will of East Germans to be ly. free. Angrily. the Russians dismantled the tank. The cross
remained.
"At any rate I didn't notice
it because I was so busy in the studios, and when I coiñe konio
and was very kind.
"Ile
seal me a 3,000 dollar cheque and 300 dollars for my sister who
19 here with me.
"in the carly
were
was
days when we
both working in Berlin it who inspired him. In 50mo way's wos his, numr ger.
was
a grent star and I
a huge I wanted to play with my little made the studios take notice of
The other memorial, edifica near the Brandenburg 100 Peter. He wan hotn in Gate, guarded day and night | Vienna in 1921. by Russian elite troops, has been dubbed by Berliners "the "One day Sondor isked for a
divorce tomb of the unknown looter,"
from A Californian bitter iri
remembrance of court and got it. But we con- immediate postwar days
and tinued to live torother
the past. nights.
E
Tor
as lo
"In 1939 he married Merle Oberon, to whom I had in troduced him.
WHH a vítal And everywhere there are (Berlin has be- spiritual help for Berliners East Germans in shabby
of
Europe's during blockade. It was the suits, pumping their souls fashion
white intellectual sister centres)
the full of this forbidden atmo maiden nunta tak-tak over airlift
that prevented Ber- sphere of Western thinking Berlin's naughty night life. in's physical starvation in and feeling.
Just what is Berlin like 1948 and 1949.
The versatile and colour- ful atmosphere of Berlin these tension-laden days? I
Teday, the monthly broad- made this city the centre of New to the city to learn first hand, and here in the s of the Islanders have Germany's movie industry
become one of the most suc- and Berlin 1 found....
haute couture, the ressful means of spreading latter located along the Western grasp
thinking and Kurfuerstendamm, the Berlin; more difficult prob- Berlin-typo optimism inte broad, modern artery of
SYMBOL ably than to grasp New Soviet-occupied East Ger- the free Western sectors. York. London or Paris, for many.
Berlin women have
Brandenburger Jess
"I tried several times to get Berlin is not a beautiful
(Brandenburg Gate), built in Sardor to say why he had full of historical
1791, has long been regarded divorced me without explana- city or
In West Germany. But they as the symbol of Berlin. Now tion monuments. Nor is Berlin
manage to look as beautiful as situated on the border-line one of those noble European
any Parision or New Yorker. between West Berlin and the centres bestowed with
time Berlin AT the same
Keeping their femininity, they
a peculiar has an extremely active have gained long and glorious history for, when London and Paris musical life, and some of dependence, having learned to were already centres of the most outstanding and often without a husband, for European culture and civili- progressive symphony or there are 115 women to each sation back in the 12th and chestras and ballet ensem- 100 men in Berlin. 13th centuries, Berlin was bles in the world. So much still in obscurity somewhere so that workers wives and separated by various economie of the past than before the last in the Brandenburg woods schoolchildren often
queue and political barriers from war. and swamps, more a fishing for a day for tickets for a their 2.5 million neighbours A village than a city.
Yehudi the Western part of the city.
Red Bertin is littered Berlin Soviet memorials of all kinds and sizes, and even
Weat West, West Berliners have Berlin
TALKED Sovlet done received
to the most + remaluable jb of Typical of Berlin, too, are memorials shortly after tho reconstruction.
remarkable woman in the art studios and smoky war.
The Commentst enette, Britain gay, attractive Mrs Judy Rudman, the wife who did not know she was baby until two having a hours before it was born.
Neither is Berlin A glamorous "city of lights" where your cares disappear. What, then, is Berlin? As one Berliner puts it: "Our city is a way of life, a funny mixture of dry, realistic alertness, Bohemian light- ness, hard work and com- All of these, plus a dash of quick-very quick-wit. It's like on extremely dry cocktail."
mon sense.
TENSIONS
As our plane approaches Berlin and begins to lose
performance of Menuhin
the Philharmonic Orchestra.
or
Nghi hard
him. He
was
He was then only a small assistant producer.
"Sandor
a genius. He had the powerful mind
of a truly great man. Did you know that he was Doctor of Philosophy of Budapest University?
"Ah." Maria sighed, "some day I will write my life story. It will tell of a great love,
"You know, great loves are like
mystery trimes great there is rways something left in the shadow,
the
" is very rarely that whole story comes out."
Soviet sector, is huge pillars A BABY AT 2 HOURS' NOTICE
Soviat
in crowned by A red
banner, have become a symbol
for their living, of the split between East and
West.
East Berlin is home to million Berliners who
two
Today, the city's physiognomy determined even less by palaces and glorious remnants!
one
are
19
In 1948, whole districts were reduced to
rubble. ashes and with But by hard work and valuable financial aid from the
student hangouts, with be marble block topped by a T-34 Soviet-zone government,
One of them, R square though it Is the sent of the
bop and fiery discussions on tank,
which sorne Soviet shows most of the scars God, the world and freedom. artist covered whh silver paint, war.
atul
of
ONLY CATERWAULERS ARE
CATERED FOR HERE
chain of lakes and vast
中
is the sound
cate.
Looking out of the plane,
JEC
Not surprisingly tensions
By J. WILKIE
INTEREST
on
IT WAS A SHOCK
FOR JUDY
By PETER BLOXHAM
"I had never felt so di in my Hic. And I never had a sleep- less night."
Then Mrs Rudman outlines the strenuous programme that week - just sho tackled during Christmas before Ittlo Vanessa's birth.
In her arms, as we chatted "It would have knocked out nt her home in Hove, Mrs 3 horse," she laughed. BLO Rudman fondled the baby that doctors would have LEZA EP- overy mother in Britain will be galed." talking about today: Vanessa Dierdre, the baby no one was expecting.
On Boxing Night, less than a week before the birth, her hus band took her to a dinner Never guessing the signi- dance In Brighton. For Avo ficance of the extra inches she hours, Judy Rudna mambued found herself putting on around and sambaed, never missing;: 0 waist and hips, che put herself dance.
on
D
rigid diet-and-exerciso routine that reduced her weight by B stone In Ava
Bargain Sale
She broke all the rules they Every morning, she was :up would have told hre to follow at at 6.45 to propare her family's the pre-natal clinic had she breakfast. From slne" to six, ever attended it.
she was stooping and bending over last-minute dress orders in
A perfectly contented 8 lb. 10 baby to join the other Rudman daughters - Viviewe (18) and Valerie (11),
Took Exercises
"The day it happened? was chopping till one, and went to bed at midnight.
But perhaps all the gruesome noises
we can hardly day-food kept in refrigerators which rend the silence blame them. A lot of them have (bequeathed by generous speed and height, some
voluntary supporter) - open where between the glittering of the midnight air and plenty to contend with.
One young housewife knuwa coke fres
every room months, curdle the blood
of the the measure of how they can during the wintertime and at- stretches of dark pine wooda wakeful, I think the worst be neglected by human beings, tention to variety in the diet.
It is a good hotel. beings Berlin.
of fighting She is a Mrs Gladys Davies, of
Shefeld, in Great Britain,
And like any good hoteller, For rix mornings a work Me Westion is wholly devoted Mra Davier lives among the in- to his job. Holidays to him are . Every morning, for half an her studio. it seems incredible that Cats by day may be de- habitants of Nos 112-114 Gell unheard of ("I could have one, hour, she did violent tummy- most of these lakes and lightful creatures to those Street, Shefeld, a hotel for lost but I don't want 1), and he pummelling exercises.
On the Thursday before New is at work from 0.16 am. until
Year's Eve, she, staggered home woods are closed to Ber-who like them. But I cannot cats.
The result? Ono of the with a heavy box of green- liners-West Berliners that imagine the most ardent Six mornings a week she dis- 10pm. seven days a week.
easiest births the nursing-home groceries that could not be de tributes milk and meat, and
So it has been for the past staff had ever seen. is, for beyond that white lover of the feline species stokes the fires, every move 10 stars,
livered. Next day, sho jostled for bargain purchases in a shop « when ment watched by dozens of pairs buoy, that slim pine, that being able to smile
ale. left side of the innocent his or her sleep is broken of green eyes from behind wire park lles taboo country. by the cacophonous strains not enges.
of their warfare.
No place for arrogance here! Fortune's cat sleeps next to
"It's a job that grows Poverty's. And everyone, whe- you," Mr Westron told me. "I abound in this divided city. To me, the nocturnal ther he condescends
lo show was brought No situation, however, finds arguments of these cater- a contented face or not, is in the My father and I used to look up with animals.
"Half an hour later I awoken with start from a Vivid the Berliner's wit unpro-waulers typify the, attitude lap of luxury,
after browery horses.
dream. I had a strange unreal pared. Thus he lovingly of the breed. Everybody is There is always someone to "But of all the jobe I've done, the rules
all fooling and a pain as if t ("My doctor would was being cut in half. called the planes of the air-asleep-so now is the time attend to their requirements, this is the best of the lot."
|bavo had, a fit,” she laughed). Ifor cats to prove who is the When Mrs Davis has finished,
It lift, "raisin-bombers."
le a strange place, this two- Sbe: Mrs Amy Cooper steps in for houses-in-one-the property of
"I thought it was Indigestion, champion amongʻ them.
the afternoon, and, when
she one of Sheffield's most benavon Like no other, Berlin is
Never drank milk, but took but, the phins persisted. signs off, Mr Thomas Westrom, Tent inhabitants, Miss Jane Jorte of slimming: lemon drinies: “When my husband called, the essentially, a political city,
ARROGANT
who spends the day driving the Bark, who does not live at and sucked teman allees be doctor, he miti: Your wife is So much so, in fact, that
hostel's "ambulance, takes up 112-11 Gell Street but takes a tween hor salad-and-black- going to have a baby. You duty until 10 o'clocks every hardly a facet of life is free
night, keen
could have floored us both; Cats here are not all strays, er interest in what goes on coffee meals; of a political undertone. Legs stiff, tail verticaly At holiday times the arista-
Supped and fell awkwardly Isla The kitchen could be used for
"It seemed There is, for example, the back arched and mee-ow- crapp" moves in, in a big way any residential
imposibleTe Calablishment several times, during the half- think I told the doctor. I didn't i "political cabinet" in which ow-where we win nourished members of families talk, the sink full of feeding
hour exercises she did every belove him, and they had to actors, writers and students may the best cat win!
bundle me ..Into the Word the same gir who have boarded them
amp girdle she had balance." Join in commenting on all Cats have many hours of day-
So in the summer months Geil resiler parrot casting anim allowed (and forbidden)ghs from which to select Street's Cat Shelter becomes a pinha, eye on every vialtor-theso And he found that her It' wam" 12,45; when a mir subjecte:
time to settle their differences, hollday camp, and bookings feature make it quite a home. figuré (35-23-25), altered hærde, prised; @ reluctant. Mh Hudinan One of these cabaret Mixno, #03 be car books sacent Feral Cats of weeks before that
but now the peace of Human have to be made early, celeb And, of course, there is the ly at all. In fact at Christmas, reached the mur aroups, symbolically christ are aposent, and inconsiderata are made too, hity supple of you like who is really the born, the whey actually? Taking timeline ened Dle. Insulaner" (The tronlucan, those Audince, jokapy kemah milanolight, 13, 16 pine a permanent master of the hopes Hghter dat în Alinus, here
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