THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1956.
A POLE'S AMAZING ESCAPE TREK
'My Story Is True But I Have
T
No Proof...
By PETER DACRE
HE author of "The raka are exceeded only by
Walk" Long
The Sir Winston Churchill's
book almul # 4,000. "History of the English mile trek from a Siberian peaking Peoples." prison camp to India -- suith: "I have no proof of any sort of my story. I wish I had."
In the Inik Slavomir Raviz. 1 10-year-old Pole who now works at at Not Buchen store, tells how he
helther exeaped from
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hardships, Four and
Bet nobody has been able vepfirm any part of "The Ing Walk."
None of the other survi- with Rawicz has been
:
* 12. And nobody has forward to substan- de even the arrival of the
ty in Tulia.
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POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Believe it or not, in the bud old days before Sir Robert Peel this used to be one of the mon dangerous districts in London "
43, is erfared Howarz sald; Pople can end me a Bar. Bul The story is 120 There uro me people who af they cannot cker on Dinh ven du mit helleve
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(2) Born Army treards - Brainz say the silvivurs werd packed ham foy
Indian nit comanatded by a Briton:
CO Intelligence officers with Grucial Anders's Pulish Army,
Last week, the London Sun- day Express correspondent an Calcutta investigated. He re- ported; no trace.
I put thes questions 10 Rawicz.
Q: Why have the other three survivors not been *aced?
A: They may be dead, bellove the American has been traced, but he may have been « secret agent or have some other good rousEL for not coming forward.
Q.: What happened to the gift which the American at ef the people in the hospitɗi gav. you?
A. My
possessions vrs!! stolen on the journey to Britnis,
Bre you able to How Q.
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your describe afterwards, such details as ib dress and homes of people, jo net, yet be vague about piac and Tunes?
A.: have a peor memory for | places and names (he rovl not remember clearly his own
or those of his enildien iul I have a very Kori visu. memory.
Q. Why did you go the hard
laught wvity
th Himalayas when you could have reached Indi along
comparatively simple trade route?
A. We were warned not to to nor people because of Com- munist infiltration. We would THOVE walkeri another 1,000 miles to keep mur freedom.
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Rawicz adilect: "I am happy wow that the story is out of my chest. It's not the money 1 will, I would never bave written 1 if a journalist nut com
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THE THIRD 'MR MARILYN' Arthur Miller (on right) with children Bobby and Jane, and friend Lee J. Cobb, Broadway star of Millor's "Death Of A Salesman." Miller and Marilyn were married June 29,
How
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Those Books Got On Marilyn's
Shelf
-OR HOW DOSTOIEVSKY PLAYED CUPID
ILLER, Arthur, can never look as empty as
playwright, born New York City 1915. That's what say reference books about Arthur Miller.
the
does to a boy whose bike should La on it and isn't.
reality. With this incldvot I was introduced * the depression
"In that emptiness lay the new
age.
He remembers, too, how after Other facta about him
months of watching men coming are that he is a lean 6 ft. home from a fruitless search for
the 2 in..
"with
slump of weighing just over work
in their shoulders 12 st. His dark, wavy hair bumiliation
and when you ripped your is thinning a little and is shirt it
minor tragerly, speckled with grey. He his
grondfather put down his glasses and looks paper ind
wit something like Abraham
wears
Lincoln.
ja auro, of sourse, new husband of Marilyn Monrov
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sold: "You know
you ought
ought
to do? You to
golo Russia That was the start of the roud
CHAPTER TWO
IN "THE IMPROBABLE MARRIAGE"
Marilyn Monroe's fist "heavy" he cared some money, he wrote reading in ber search for culture, for Hollywood and carned some
Miller's Interest in literature mere. But he liked neither. grew. He decided he wanted to By 1040 in bds beloved be a journalist and he decided Brooklyn he had settled down. he wanted to go to university. He had earned enough money Michigan University he to marry Mary Grace Slattery,
way by feeding a build- Ho wrote and wrote. full of mice which were
His fret
reach Broad- play to being used for research. That way was "The Man Who Had
All The Luck month.
It lasted six That paid for his room, books, performances and cost its backers laundry and cinema.
"For my
$55.0 I washed dishes in the On the opening night Miller, co-op cafeteria. My glasses were convinced he had writen a stop, health service left for Brooklyn before the play supplied by the
carned him 15 dollars
AL
by CHRISTOPHER DOBSON
paid Ing
fris
I
It was somewhere around this
meals
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1 married. the one
*1
Winner
and my teeth wers foxed for the finished. He then turned out a cost of the materials, The girls novel about anti-Semitism call- puid for themselves, including ed "Focus"--lie 19 extremely Ife is very gyud actor and that has led Arthur Miller to the
*
Langitive on this subject. sings is a passable bartlone. Hele of America's leading intel stage in his life that Miller began The students debatxi, argued, did not care much for it.
Politics were tver prezent. It was a success, but Miller lectual playwright, and to dal w take on intercat in literature, appearance recently before the His mother is a voracious reader, unions
and watched the growth of trade Activities
and Un-American
Com she left her boks
Roosevelt's New around the Doal. But above mittec because of his political
house, Miller with not much started to write, beliefs.
money to spend began to stay He despite the depression, home and read them.
twice But
awards, and Miller still loves his Brooklyn-
became good solid dollars, New York's East End. He writes with fluency and emotion of his arly life there.
But the most important thing
about 10 rememlxa
Arthur Miller Is that he is a child of the depression. The whole of his thinking, his writing, his polit- cal development is cultured by the field of the depressan, KA his native Brooklyn
HE
Emptiness
There is feeble-minded Danny who knew everybody by their telephone numbers, "Ulster 8-8109 13
married to Navarre 8-0081.
E suffered too, for his father,
Dodore, who had been well-to-do clothing manufac And there is Miller's baker's turer, crashed with the rest. The round: "I delivered rolls and way Miller tells it now, he frat bread every morning for the realised the depression had bokery before I went to school
Mand
arrived when he saw a crowd
The cold cats wuuki forming curtside the local bank. follow me nikiwing and pleading It had closed.
for warmth and lved, and the "This in itself did not bother unrk sky of winter was merciless me particularly, because while I over my head."
ET
had been a depositor to the tune With his high school days of 12 dollars, I hed withdrawn ended, he took a clerk's job in a the entire amount the very day motor-err spare parts wart- before to pay for a bicycle.
house.
"What did bother me was that He was lucky to get it, It the day after the bank clored I paid him 15 dollars a week. He got hungry, left the bike in front meds some more money for a of our house, went inskle for few months creoning for a small some bad and jun, and came Brooklyn radio station, But not cut to find no bike, and a block much,
Dostoievsky quickly his favourite author-it is signi-
all
Müller
won Hopwood HE his first real
the prizes
wero
He left Michigan in the spring tient his works were of 1938. He wrote radio scripts,
The influence of Miller on Monroe,
har books.
.Marilyn with
THERE IS SUCH A SURPRISE
AND THE NAME IS PICASSO
London
NE of the most repre-
Osentative exhibitions of
By JOHN BERGER
18
admiring the model beside him,
previous
JE had to wait until 1947 for success. It
WD6
a grim play about a war
Proteer called "All My Sons." With the profits Miller bought n trouse and 20 acres
res in Con- necticut. It was there he wrote "Death ot a Salesman" in siz weeks flat and it is there that ho will have with Marilyn Monroe.
It won
him a Pulitzer Prize,
was made into a film, and ended his money worries. But with his fame came troubles, for he was outspoken about his political bo- Uicts.
fact
WENGE
Ali this culminated in the State
Department refusing to grant him a passport and in his appearance before tho Un- American Activities Committee.
He told the committee that in he had contributed to Com- munist front organisations be Cause મુ suited the mood In at
at the time...In those times lato nineteen-forties) I supported some things I wouldn't support now. I would not, now support C cause or movement that was dominated by Com-
Well, that is his politiani. life What of the man himself? talks fuently' and endlessly and is apt while talking to wrap his leng legs round the nearest pleca of surpitero..
munists,"
Intense
He
D
He shows us the stiff, sculptured His a good ferinis "player, head beside the moving living such an intense man he is
and, atrangely enough, for head. Ho improvises like a Picasso to be held in London
There are the first Cubist Picasso's intensely Jellice mitic-hall comedian with pars
skilled carpenter, stonemason, Buffon's very difficult to animal ilustrations to is now open at the head- works,
age from Rembrandt or Goys and plumber, What a calch for Bestiary will surprise thoed or even his own
any girl. quarters of the Arts Coun- decipher, in which he tried who, like Sir Alfred Munnings, worke
Ho can also falso a car engine ell, in St. James's Square. to draw a figure or a still- think of Picasso only
to pieces and put it together life from several different mischievous charlatan,
Picasso
great artist again. because He ta a great com Picasso is 74 years viewpoints simultaneously.
The avant-garde
Miller's own description of extremiste
mentator on life, but ho "hất |himself is that of "an inadver= old and during the last 50.
may be surprised by dho show Thero Bre goddesses and years he has produced, apart gods,
an a whole, for a large number never taken himself entirely tent, chameleon," because his drawn with a fine un-
seriously as an' artist.
features are characteristic of of tho works are surprisingly from his paintings and broken ime, from his so-called traditional and a few even
several of the nationalities that THE IRONY
live in New York. remind one
of the sculpture, numerous otch- Clesale period, reminiscent of
pre the figures on ancient Greek Raphaelites, Rossetti and Burne-
"As one Italian to another" ings, lithographs and aqua vases,
The irony is that the rest of he says, I have been heated Jones, tints more than 1,000
the world has taken him with with tales, of Irish perfidy, Those who are experts in the deadly such graphic works.
seriousness. When Strictly between us Jews I have technique of etching and ho- mughed in this exhibition heads been made the confidential There are the ferocious, tragte graphy, will surely be surprised turned round as though I had canes of the latest way story.
by Picasso's amazing technical laughed in church.
"As one American to another Guernica and the Spanish Civil virtuosity.
I have been told why Lordigra
Nearly 850 of these from all periods of his life and in all his many different styles are included in this show
THE TRAGIC
of the drawings
The angry think, hờ...is a Wana head of a woman crying. But the most surprising and which feraty looks like the revealing thing of all about this scourge and menace. The not the way they do
admirars write millions) debris of the bombed village show, in the theme that recurs
of Well, now, he adds one more the mour
again, and again; the theme of heavy words to justify him, rolo to his? chamalcon varen And then there are his guy, Picasso - laughing,
bitterly
The rich pay more than £1,000 ty He has become.... Me For recont **
Mthographs of humorously, at himself, as an dor a small ink sketch by him. Marilyn Monroe-III
LA COOPYRIGHT) radions and fows playing artist.
He probably enjoys all"; this pipes,
* Ha, showì? ut thỏ sculptor, folly, but I am certain that, he Nearly every visitor will be oberana by his carving when he tie not for one moment deceived surprised
"something, could be s ́much ''bappler: by it,.
There are carly works from his famous Rose Period many of them sad, dollente pictures of clowns and 'nord- bats,
TOMOKROWEWILL THE MARRIAGE LAST?;