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The Star Splashed Islands
by DAVID LEWIN
PRETENCE IS OVER—I'M TRANQUIL
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She Mints Money
A
Out
Of
Murder
By YORKE HENDERSON
the
GATHA Christie, it ent from that of thousands papers all over the world front-
has been said, has of other comfortably off paged the story. made more money housewives. Yet her name is out of one of her own books It was just like something out of murder than a household word, and her Thousands of amateu Herculo any woman since Lucretia well-proportioned fénturea, Poirots joined the police' in the
search for Borgin. And tho chances are smiling out from the jackets
missing authores. that more, many more of her books, are instantly The Deputy Chief Constablo people throughout the recognisable to millions. of Surrey reported that an world know Miss Christie Tho erplurn ton for her anxious pub'le Haci contributed than have ever heard of the to be that she is a conrumroate cost of the search for their fav- world-wide success would rerm sọ much money towards the maligned Renaissance glam- craftsman, a polished, timeless curite nuthore that a houso could be built with t And a ques'ton was asked in the House of Commons about the Fasc
Internaltonat Christie readers breathed a sigh of relief when eventually the mirsing writer was found in a Yorkshire hotel. A reviewer once said that the esence of Christie was "crime mecmfori:" and her sieuths Fre certainly more likely 10 break off for tea and cruinpets ruther than reach feverishly for the whisky bottle,
our girl.
entertainer. She has never set herself up as a literary ginnt.
"I know what Cole meant, 11}
unlike What's more, is delicious to think now That when
wrolo I first
Private Lucretia, she fully merits Lives and played in with her reputation. For La Certic Lawrence someone in Borgia, according to latter- London said there was no play
It
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nny-
Whereas Agatha Christic is, beyond all doubt, the un-
and no one else could possibly day historians, was
anyway. But everyone thing but legend's irresis- else has acted it and il bostible charmor-cum-poisoner.
ise always been a success
For a minuto Noel Coward
to contemplate rome of hi other plays. On American assailable Queen of Crime TV he presented n 80-minute Writers. vertica of his "This Now: Breed."
"I had to cut more than one
hour out of the original play," experience and a biler for an author to find that eut- ting his own work Improves
"When I began cutting This Happy Breed every word that had to be cait lacerated me
Then I got just lacerated me.
She is more than just a murder mystery writer. She is an institution. She is part of the British way of life which, like afternoon tea, has been grafted onto so many other cultures.
In Hercule Poirot, like me log. I never mugite A this moment Noel Coward
is writing novel "Just Bendish delight in cutting Kg-hended, something light, no title yellinost a pleasure as reenes had little Belgian detective, she and planning
has given world literature a musical
Cowurd WE visit London character ሰ lasting and after next April, the beginnie# | alive as Wodehouse's Jeeves of the new financial year.
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new big
"I would like to have t produced on Broadway first. They have such great expertise there in musicals, After that, London.
to go."
As 尉 non-British resident, even if he does visit. he stil Schweik, pays no income tax. And soon he will have two plays running almost next door to each other in Shaftesbury Avenue.
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mustachioed
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Creator of Poirot
Her writing has never been her affecte
the by
vagaries of literary Testilen. Psychological rillers have come and gone as have the "ug 'em with a gun butt" kind; but stil! Mis Chris he's world crunues unchanged, with drawing-room murders being solved, not with violence peychiatry, but witis mathe- maticul legle in which Christie fan jous.
Crities have exploded over the complexlty of her plots; even wechate her of being un- fair
render-alenths. Ont
And like these others, he has something of his creator in him. He is urbane, a tickler for correctness, an indefatigable observer of getall, something of a per- fectionist.
The reader in language of Miss Chris- tie's books will recognise
"Perhaps in the new show I would include + ite music from my show 'Pacifle 1800 ft would be rather amusing If the
Ons. "South Sen Bubbic," is Dieets from the old score were mall, he reports, playing Just not recognised and st were about 12 capacity. although praised this time because when Vivien Leigh had to leave the Pacific 1060 was first produced cast, The other play stars Sir in the West End the muste ard Jotú Gligud. "Dear John, everything else were criticised am so proud-ho was once my
seems that everything I understudy in The Vortex." do is eritlelerden; Ast Th
THE FRIENDS olher day congratulated Cole
NOEL COWARD I Porter
score he has fortably in bright red stacks on the
Righ written for the
Alm Cole mid he was so and red canvas shoes in a room the same traits in the con- Society,"
places and happy
photo-struction. I had liked it because with two
There is nothing really only thu morning he had been graphs of his friends seading in
Smuts, Marlene "authorish" about Agatha America
was Dietrich, the Duke of Windsor Christie. No Tohemianism. Society the Churchill, music in
'High
Porter standard. and the Duchess of Kent. Colo said to ine: "What Is He seemed so much at ease. No crusading. No attention
"Yes," standard Porter? I don't know
he said. The life is catching tricks. myself. Looking back, when I good. You see, I no longer have wrole Night and Day' and a carter, 1 can just press on." "Begin the Benuine they were
TOMORROW: criticised too for not being standard Porter either."
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Winston
to
the true
oi tinguished reviewer WIS NO rattled by a Christie crime plot that he gave away the solution in nevurec.
Missing
Nettled Christie fans rounded any on him with the charge that he was no better than a man who could
shoot a
fox while The hounds were rull running,
Just
what an
Insulation is Miss Christie was evidenced by the fact that « London news- mer devoted a leader columa to he morally of reviewers disclosing the Iolutions to murder mysteries.
There was the
time too,
when strain and overwork (two She leads a life of middle- books a year is the average) class comfort much caused oss of memory and she
Her abandoned car
drawn on for the settings of ride home.
disappeared from her Thames- I her mysteries no differ- was found in a wood. Newa-
PARISIANS BELIEVE THE COLD WAR IS HOTTING UP AGAIN
FRENCH HOUSEWIVES ARE
A BUYING STAMPEDE
Paris.
WILD buying stam- pede is on In France. Today I saw a woman drive up to a grocer's in a small car. "Give me fifty pounds of sugar-quickly, please." she said. The grocer looked out of the door at her car. "You have enough in there already," he said. The was full of packeted car sugar.
By Stephen Coulter
ON
And Aunth Christie's whole background is one et middle. rass comfort. There never, for instance, was any parental op- position to be overcome before the started writing. It fact, hor mother encouraged her, technient guidance another of Britain'.
uthors, Eden Philpolis,
And
came from favourite
Her first
AL the outset
of the First World War she married a young Army officer named Archibald Christie (her maiden naine was Miler).
became a military
Sho
nurse in France and inciden- lally, a qualified dispenser,
Her marriage to Christie was dissolved in 1928, and two years laler she married Max L. Mal- lowan, the archaeologist,
But by then she was welt established a writer of mur- der stories. Her first novel,
The
Mysterious Affair Styica." (the house from which she was Joler to disappear mysteriously was called Styles)
was rejected by several
publishers before it was even- fully released to the public in 1920.
Typically, it was not an over- night bestseller; the result was encouraging
any- rather than thing else. For the next few years the turned out several murder stories, oxperimenting all the while.
Then in 1820 The made her mark with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," This was classic Christie, She had kept every reader absolutely baffed unili the last pugc. The mould was set.
Agatha Christic has con- sistently stuck to writing about the fort of people and places the knows well. Fresh RUIT- roundings have seldom falled to provide her with a setting_for her next book or play. Her mind is like a sensliked photo- graphic plate,
never
Prejudices
She has, of course, her pre- judices. She has, for instance, disguised her dislike of radlo, And it is very likely that she will not listen to any of the "Agatha Chrisite Festl messages lu Mostow cum-
val" currently being broaden t memorating the anniversary of
by the BBC's Drama Depart the Busslan revuluiion, the ment. French Communist party was The remainder
Britain
the only one which congratulated wilt For Agatha Christie is as the Kremlin killers on their popular 1050 as she was 30 action in Hungary.
years ago when she revolution- Ised murder myrtlery writing with "The Murder of Roger
ohlemmati: people whete normal sale in Paris which is a Com- interests are for away from mumist attempt to demonstrate rolitles became furlously angry. their ascendancy over French Quiet, good-natured housewives intellectuals. announced
that runong these present at the sale turned into spitfires.
woud be thriller-writer Georges Simenon. After the big anti- Communist rlot in Paris, it was A STL
Announced that M. Simenon was unwell an "excused him- self from attending.
There was a settled horror on the face of silent crowds buses and metro reading about the death-pangs of Budapest.
Parisiana spoke to each other about it with tears in their voleės. Somehow the subject seemed to crop up business conversations. All
even
11
In another big Paris store I was told "Sorry, Monsieur -no soap left. A customer has just been in and bought 65,000 francs' worth (£65)." und my district, children have A few doors away, a sales- girl shook her head: "I sold 16,000 francs' worth (£16) of rice to one woman this morning and a suit case full of tinned sardines to another."
been sticking bits of paper en car windscreens "Les Hongrois sont les braves." And local schools are piled with parcels of clothes sent spontaneously by parents for forwarding to Hungarian refugees.
EVE
TAVEN philosopher-playwright
Jean-Paul Sartre, father of
Reason for the panic buy- ing was given by one house- wife: "Well, we don't know what's going to happen, do we?" She meant that she, stentialism" who has been like everybody else in Paris, in the arms of the Communists is at least expecting a sud- for the past several years, hus den flare in prices as a re- broken with the Russians ba- sult of Suez and the re-
cause of the Hungarian tragedy. launching of the Cold War. In a statement, Sartre why have supported the vilest Communist (For Parisians, the Cold charges against the West, War has been started up cluding. If 1
If I recall, tho опо about our having dropped "germ again with a vengenico).
A surprising number of bombe" on China, now speaks Paris petrol pumps have Moscow's "abject lies in claiming that Hungarian suddenly run dry. I tried workers fought side: by: Biđu four today before I could with Soviet troops" He con- got two gallons. The police in Hungary and says the Hun- demns the "criminal massacro", are rather andously won-gurians have been hold under dering how many Paris "twelve years of terror."- collars are now stocked with patrol. One motorist is reported to have taken hom 110 gallons in jerricans.
I find it regrettable that an entire people must be martyred nowadays to open the eyes of modem: philosopher,
HAVE rarely sooni Paria in tho /e the honvily pro÷Commm Trip of such einótion er 12 hum) National Welcome Rhoton, been over Hungery, Ordinarily gunitere Di - og innnual
May
10 their everlasting shame
be remembered
who parties
*
CHOICE
numismatist's Ackroyd." Item como under the hammer last week at the Paris sale room Hotel Drouot. It was
box of medals with
a
the
The late Queen Mary was a regular Christio render,
Probably the most significant tribute ever paid to her, cama
double emy of Prince Rainier from a prison officer at Dart- of Monaco and French Aim star vicis sent too much time read- moor. He complained that con-. Gisele Pascale. The medalsing Instead of working."
And
that of all the foreign Com- struck when Rainier was court- Agatha Christic was their munist
sent Ing Gisele-were never issued.
"great favourite."
It's Your Birthday
Venus
VENUS OBSERV'D: OR HOW MISS GINGOLD LOOKS IN THE GERTIE MILLAR STYLE
THE FICTURE-POSTCARD béauty 'comes back, ''And ■ 'new girl tabavé)-joins the Indien whose likenessrs, 'In séplay or Jhand-tinted, found a rendy sale before the First World War. Who is this lovely who now: takes her place alongside Galety Girl: Gerila, Millar (trikhty, Edwardian / besuty Lily Langtry; and chocolate-box-cover: gift Gladys Cooper (left). None other than ởi that fascinating witch Hermione, Gingold, In
Amerion, she is making herverdim:titllet pin-up! indoney's by posing for funny cha-hav birthday. marda based on famous paintings. The Cingeld hat, so far, impersonated Venues Lucresia. Borgia. Schaberasaan and Eve. They are willing by the KROMANILA, MALÉ she get a Toyally on sach and