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The two worlds of Arthur Miller...
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HE man who married a legend-- and did not lose his identity, his or his temper sat with me in the empty auditorium of the Comedy Theatre talking about his Or, if you like, wife....and his work. about Heaven and Hell. For his wife is Marilyn Monroe and his work is writing plays.
Any port of writing is hell for the writer,
Bir Arthur Miller's plays are alo hell for the authorwe. They deal 424- Bantly with the murkjer aspects of life, Incest, mosexuality, witch-hunting, madness arul des. pair, sulode---Brooklyn,
was
What we talked about string in the
stalla darkened often sheer fantasy by contrast,
The world of Brooklyn and the world of Marilys.
by
The two worlds
THOMAS WISEMAN
Merlyn..
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1956.
and Brooklyn.
and from what I have seen of the Bim I'd say It's the best thing Marilyn has ever done,"
the
EXCUSE ME, IS THIS AMERICA?
-asked the Bogus Baron, the captured German pilot who nearly got away with a top-secret Hurricane
by Kenneth Allsop
ORE than 80 RAF particularly about British Inter-
Μ'
men winkled them selves out of Cer- man prison camps and made the long walk homo to Britain in the last war. Not one Luftwaffe man- ΠΟΥ Indeed any German
POWs →→→ escaped from
Britain.
But one got close to free- dom; a jockey-sized Mes
pilot named Werru, ahot
ut
Battle Werra
rogation methods.
This is a fascinating section of An exciting book"--the description of the wiles of the jigsaw experts who assembled from crappy details extracted prisoners into war - policy, Physical prossure was bevor used. Results were obtained by devaluing the prisoner's morale, Arst by rigid cold non-fraternal- sation, Icaving him to fester in loneliness and unhappiness, then by sdful, devious questioning ranging from gossip to remorse less grilling.
Top-secret
Von Werra almost got it glittering
away prizo the
FRANZ
VON
WERRA
AUNT
roundy dubious claima
the lead the compare and the reduciry to
Achieve a distinction unique Amang Germans whe Britain » schönern of str
Were
and
In autumn 1941 oo patrol over
jumped ball into Mexico thence home.
the North Sea he dropped to his death--occident
latest top-secret Hurricano.
In a musical comedy uniform, pretending to be a Coastal Com mand Dutch pilot, he bam- boozled persuaded an RAF statiun to bogus bar
Was there a play to be writsorschmitt ten by him, I asked, about his Franz von experiences Airce he married down near Maidstone in the Marilyn? A biting satire on the
Von of Britain. a low-life view fim-world,
high life?
was a swaggering with "No."
the said, "1 can't see mixture of bravery and "In America," suld Miler, that there's the material in that braggadoclo, a phoney little "That scene wasn't even com-
for me. I don't know much
but also-likable, cockerel by the reviewers, about the high life, 1 Live 1 sald "Your life has changed mented on
you know and Intelligent and audaciously recently. Is there not a danger Here it's part of the reason the pretty unply.
Chamberlain won't allow that's how we'll go on
resolute. that you
will becomt Put of Lord
the play to be performed in a from raw material?"
theatre. No, I wouldn't "No," he said, "I don't think public
to I will keep like
tako JE out. that will happen.
dramatically. in touch with life."
#ectasy
LE I*11 don't know come to the first night, only If I can stand at the back Marilyn will come...
Somehow
Austere
He
his long not with
irk dancing over the row of seats In front of him, the cigarette Там sports spilling down! jacket and on to the carpet. He 15 a man who authority
umassed
has others Amnes wealth: the face is austere, the smille seems to be impeded by of the jaw, the the structure
are vely. Intelligent, the eyes brow is intellectual, the hair- line is receding.
I suid: "How will you keep Holly- in touch with fie in wood? Would you call that
He?"
*We
wood," live
felt
Marilyn there she belongs in long ka
Marilyn
"Tel me about Marilyn," i said, "Do you approve of aut this adulation she gets?"
He
ace.
An 'ace'
acted
"due
to
the
a posse of detectives, pilot's carelessness." The little lly good pilot, but he did
send a car to pick him up. wheeled
through the auspicion matially
was not an
servloe to his country. He of the duty officer, and was ap- had already delivered his care- prehended at the controls of the fully documented knowledge of wad 0 line-shooter. On Hurricane about to take off. the enemy.
Transferred the flimsy ground of an ances-
to Canada, von This is the first escape story Jast successfully
from "the other side." The He said: "There has always for's meaningless Swiss title he Werra
baron. E
On escaped by leaping from a mov- called himself been this sort of thing. If you fictional
authors found the only surviving of claime
combat ing train. He crossed the frozen typescript of von Werra's own show someone on the screen 30
he was classified an River St Lawrence and naked a
IL account of his experiences. times bigger than ilfe, it's bound triumphs
He lusted
ls this for publicity motorist "Excuse me, wouldn't Lelong
becnuse And
was never published Marilyn's to happen
and ussiduously
the America?"
the Germans 19
thought it Loo funtory: she
case well, she's
Warm
Ho
Il WDS. swashbuckling fighter-type.
White sheltered by pro-British. Ruritania, which
person
people, and woo loves
the German Embassy in tram ride from Brooklyn.
The authors found it too pro I think the publie senses that, kopt a pet on cub and wore a
the red jerkin
He got on magazine York, he was quarrelled over at
Werra to be dependable playing The sechea the was
"Sure, some of it
Wash- is unfor covers and was tagged "the Rea diplomatic level. When
highly coloured versions of the that moment at Pinewood
untically. tunate and
Like
seemed about to hand facts. The Devil, Terror of the British Air Ington
story Studios with
Laurence Atting people Sir
categorial. Force." Into
him back to the British, he
constructed from research and Olivier in evening cloak as ú Making me in ali situations
Interviews, a fine plece of de- Grand Duke and her in frilled behave like the intellectual, and 80
Lalled reporting of an adventure dress as a chorus girl was more
making her behave how Marilyn he
that might casily have been lost her metier,
Monroe is expected to behave.
at
Best
thing
Was there any truth, I asked shant live in Holly Miller, in the stories that there he said.
shall had been furious rows between We
Marilyn and Olivier and Con- house in In my
only he had to will necticut. Marilyn
in every 18 modhary months or so which will take ber about 12 weeka"
ma
D
whe
"And the other 15 months" "She will tx my wife. That's
full-time job."
New play
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as
inter
a very
Bored
In a backhanded sort of way
he proved to be for when eventually cacapod trou Canada he took back to Ger- mony a mint
of Information
New
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ARCHITECTS" GLASS
By KENNETH CULLEY
purposes
THE GENERAL PLANS A CASH COUP
PARIS NEWSLETTER FROM SAM WHITE
HIS month
Alfred
Supreme
Paris of
a "pep" General resembles an
what
to no
speaker at
ersiloss xories of Gruenther, salesmen's conventions.
In 1955 for example he gave Commander his standard
"off the record!! of the NATO forces in briefing complete with dazzling carti indexed joker Europe for the past three diagrams,
from Lenin years, retires from his post and for peroration anti-religious than 7,000 people cord= and goes back to the United quotationa States,
Journalists. prising visiting politician
་་ Back to what? Back American businessmen,
This 57-year-old part-Irigh Catholic perhaps to a government post that his old friend part-German Roenark
American will leave behind him President Eisenhower may many affectionate memories for offer him?
his warm
"That," says Gruenther zest bluntly, "would not be the ough
would
ari
indorynnlig sind, his .
and enthusiam. Oddly Field-marahal Mont-
purpose of the exercise" pomery, who has often sald be retire when Gruenther And the
purpose of the did, still shows no signs of doing 0.3 will continue and he exercise,
Gruenther 80 says
deputy to the Dew supstine with equal frankness, le
commander. to assure the financial well being of himself, his wife, his two army sons and his nine grandchildren,
THE
MATCHMAKING
engagement
This
"Like the night we went to The Brecht plays. see those papers suld Marilyn was bored that und
I had to
her explain to what it was
about because I understood German and Brecht, "Well," he said, "thai shows The truth she was
very in you how there strange ideas get rested and I don't speak Ger- around. Why would I act as in- mun and she'd been talking to
part of
a lot of people about Brecht in termediary? That's all
sanousced and knew placing us in categories and the New York
what it
week of two of the be was about.
Noll field the window to ace through, or idea that Marilyn wouldn't
In the factory, it will be used for such
as drying
He cannot do this on a US children of the Count of Paris able to talk to
but Sir Laurence,
"People who don't know
Middle East,
uni- tumbler to drink from, are far
removed.
represents something of a defeat Now glass is widely yarns and paints, and it is army general's retired pay the I would. About
well. are constantly telling the world FOWA,
versity laboratory in used in the fields of science and
heat the salary which goes with for Queen Frederica of Greșća asked any
visaralised as the central On the stage, where his new I'll tell you.
how different we are. Well, on
In her role as matchmaker, research industry n India, a scientific
* variety of e- ing medium of the future for government post. play.
View From "A
and Princeka the surface
Prince Henri It might seein the actor here at this moment he's the surf
at familiar guises, while it is still hopes nectricity is conducted plains, by obtaining as so many King and Queen of Greece da he
and offices.
He can only do it, he tell you
Pakistan hutch marria of opposites, I don't station in Bridge." was being reheure, probably
Helene have been guests of the iwo mien were involved in
for something Par Brook
ur mind being described as an any of these places and popular, of course, for decorative
and utilitariom purposes in the by a metallic skin bonded into other US, generals have done, nordid tussle: the okter man other. For making him walk to tellectual though I'm not sure
the surface of a glass plate. It an executive post with a major the Mediteranean cruises they Anthony Quayle- the left Instead of played by
the right what is meant by the word and their counterparts all over home.
have organleed for European Wherever you may be, it is
This is is claimed that there is virtual- US, business firm having
and Central European Royalty other's The actor always pinioned the
Marilyn is of course not an in- the world, you are bound to
procisely what he intends to do. for the past two years. arms to his side, kissed him knows better.
tellectual. But we are similar in find equipment made by the certain that examples of modern ly no loss of heat.
glass craftsmanship are not for
Gruenther leaves Paris at a
Heart's brutally on the mouth. Directed
"And if you had some idiot many ways. We're both honest, "glass" architects.",
Despite this, Prince wway.
symbolic moment. The old aum
Princem. Mario Theres fiancee, by the brilliant
listening to that actor arguing for example....and.... and many.
tho with talented
Brook, Peter
Peter Brook,
would It
And there I as row and painful sound
a hell of a row. similarity ends. like
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ocene was a sore throat,
From DONALD EDGAR
"If you
he thinks
L
10-
think
the
Yes, the "architects" of glass.
Lof
For the days when the functions
plans were
limited to
Tangier sees a new struggle for power
趄
wore.
The
The moufacture of glassware is a skilled art, and will always
the
of the craftsman, despite four felt in some quarters of the double-edged effect of automa-
been
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сл
armies to hold the Russians dent on the hands and senses or creating massive European of Wurtemberg, was not a quest any of the cruises, nor was given up Princess Helene's flance, tbe the West has and the role allotted to the Count de lämbourg-Stirum, ya European ground forces now 19 Prince Henri la a political the much more modest one of science student at Paris Univer- acting as a "trip wire" to amity and Princess Marie Therese, who despite her name is more possible Russian advance.
French
than
German, - hád planned a carcer as a United Nations interpreter,
But it is in the delds of medicine and research that gloss has made impressive contribu- tons in recent years in the [dorm of special boot-resisting them.
The Second World Wor
NOT AFRAID brought about an enormous in- cree In the production. of The man who puite out his
plac scientific glassware, and out from cheeks to blow molten
Bymmetrical a perfectly vesset is not afraid that a ma-
the world's factories went 0 myriad of items, including radar
WELL PREPARED
tubes, penicilin disks and pre- shine is waiting to take Over SIGNIFICANTLY
品
cision bore tubing for the barrels his job. And he is fairly con- of hypodermic syringes.
Adent that, should his young Today, the industry is playing www join him beside the white ite part in the drive against hot furnaces, his future will niso poliomyelitis. The vaccine used be secure.
Fare
world.
enough, Her family is linked with the Gruenther successor is R Bonapartes and the marriage U.S. air force general, General represents in a way the union Nonstad. General Gruenther has betweens the extinct French also stayed on long enough to Royal Family of Orleans and see his cherished ambition of the Napoleonio usurper, creating a West German army
Here by the way L A in inoculation against the disceso The sales manager of anime turn into a sour disappointment alimming tip from Henri's is produced and stored in special portant glassmeiding
The West Germans have now mother, who is the mother of 10 rinse containers.
shyw: "The production of eden announc
only other chilthen, and yet manages In stole radioactive isotopes
tifle
opperatus la
is not the kind announced that
they are Introduce 12
to retain an excellent · figure, mantha prepared to Jused in industry and medicine of work in which automation
despatched all over the
at military service instead of the Is For lunch silics of cheese, a roll can play a major part.
without butter, and half a glome common in Western
Europea MORE USES
numbers of certain of the items decision which has made the of watervals for we unke are shipped out of the West
Germans, formerly the
MISSING CLINT... Glues is being increwing of research and control, but in replace the French
factory be used in the field
field darlings of the military planners,
MERICAN hostess Mrs.... ns the bad used in industry, und plants such
A James : Langdon Othmere: I the class.
really don't like diamonds - bot and chemical production units in specialities of which the demand the where the money comes from or /several countries are using glass must of necessity be small, onda tersafer of the bulk of the
Made in pipelines.
various which call for individual crafts- French army to Algeria and the
* ́ ́NATIONAL' TASTE --- size bores, according to its use, manship.'
shages in Soviet tactics, have NOVELIST Francobre Sagan: It is the clearing-house for
the piping in easier to keep in
gless all combined to make NATO The manufacture of
In America they liko the denis in grams and drugs, on un arst-class order than equipment goes back through the een-appear something of cold war people who have made (ny war Spain occupied these trades Tangler has grown made of alternative materials.
furios
Today, the modem rekle.
In France it. In Just " rich.
The experts in gines techno-glass-blowers are carrying
these circumstances the bypotte nations running this free section of the now Morocco. Tangier, then murrounded by
If Morocco gains more power logy carry out incessant re International port.
Another phase of the struggle what was Spanish Morocco, hore that life of liberty, or search to increase the range of cam to have inherited their planner, has felt keenly the TELE
an ancient tradition. Many can Gruenther, brilliant military..
DEFINITION: that Morocco is independent for world power is about
Paris newspaper to invited Germany back. But she licence some might call it, may uses, and one of the current ex- akill through generations of frustrations of his job. He has Monde on rock and roll: the nations agreed to hold a begin, with the American hand was excluded again in 1945.
end. For the new independent
periments is to produce a their families.
devoted a great deal of his time is a meat grinder of rhythm. conference
Morocco neods money. back lying heavily on the land as it
radiant heating panel,"
to a role rather; admålar to that ls in Egypt, on the other side of
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treaty Tangier away their
as infuriating for an Englishman as it is
back in return.
Here there is no income taxas dairy installations, breweries many cases we are producing boy of tors combinca with without them I feel so drabu
по
questions are
asked
rights and America, and Russin were parties Jews who make up nearly half TN Tangler it is nearly took like getting precious little to a settlement of 50 years ago, the population of Tangler.
Russia never took part in the und of the talks is rule of Tangier-but had The purpose
what part the right to. at the other end of North to determine
eight nations will continue' bo
After the fist wor Africa, in Egypt.
play in the affairs of the 225-
tho
excluded: Britain is one of eight square-mile area,
richest waS.
second
Now
giving
But it was bave been a negotiated settlement and it
where it goes to.
點 Germany
During
The Enigma
McKi
What is at stake is not just Since then France's North WDS hoped Britain and the the colourful freedom of almost African empire, has crumbled, ItsThere has been an upsurge of other countries would retain tax-free Tangler, ** with certain privilege, in return for refuges money and its refugee Arab nationalism, favoured by
It is people.
the rise of the Egypt-and-Saudi-Arabia, building up Tangler.
the of courwa, by the Americans. › But Sultan Mohammed ben Arab world, backed by
North Africa, fa dotted with Younet, in 'n edremonial open-. Unked States.
Tangier became a pawn in mighty American atomlesár ing of the conference at Fedals,
of the bases. Beor Casablanca, made no men- the power politic Blóm of negotiation.
Western world is the curve-up
Little Return
of Africa tihe beginning of the century,MATI
why France was then trukking up
tool
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demned It"thežul to con
of the Gloy- "A"
and talked
'and 'the Gal Cover Tamil
nan;
America's policy is the enigma. On one hand she wanČI V DO strengthen Thorocco' as part of ber anti-coloniallat" policy. On the cher," "abe has milione in vested here.",
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN:
IT HAPPENED WHEN
HA PUSHED ME
ON THE FLOOR.
YES, THERE
DAMAGE
IS SOME
LEO INJURED-
WES POESN'T
AND THAT
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