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'FRIDAY," ́AUGUST`30,′ 1957.
AT RUSSIA
PEEPS AT
THERE
are times when something that seems unimportant will throw a light on dark spaces. Such was the case a short time ago when I anw an announcement that a Theatrical Company from Moscow was to play in London for a period of six weeks. The nature of the performance would be what, back In Canada, we call vaudeville and what, in Britain, we describe us musie hall.
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From Streatham
Surprisingly the announcement informed us that the opening week would be in the vast suburban music hall of Streatham, and that the season would consist of similar appearances in other suburbs. In other words they were to play in the out- skirts of London and would not penetrate the theatre-land of the West End. Thus the noble army of London's drumutle critics had to travel on the opening night into terra incognita. However, with a nice sense of occasion they left their dinner jackets at home and turned up in day dress like the rest of us. Incidentally there was not a vacant seat in the house for Russia is an enigma that all of us want to understand,
nor
bowed to
11
cac-
was
Ave
It was fun
The young women on the bas heen cut off from the world picture he palated of Russia is that of a people who literally stage were lovely to for more than forty years,
"My st coreeri," bo #rik. look upon, modest and we in Morcow where
have been cut off from the out- afde world from the outbreak of graceful with nothing tory had taken convert hall for war in 1914. They have made
The place more revealing than an its workers.
50 centaut with people in any western counti y save the few ankle peeping from be- packed and really they were a
wonderful audience, AL the foreigners who have been abln neath a long skirt. wo
end the crchestia en i the to visit Russin. Hence the old There were no female
glood じゅ
vaudeville and fashioned audience
jer baritones blaring about nort
himac for
full appinuded
formance at Streatham, love way down South minutes. They seemed so grocz- the mad impulse of Nhin in
shrieking about ful and so pleased.
tuking the bots. As for free. dom of the press it is beat ex- someone being their rehearsing them because they
pressed by the Ironie story of man, The jugglers spoke to English and I spoke na
Russian but
We got along the Russian who said: "Pravda like famously." US
is the best newspaper in the diplomats and then did Then he told me about his world 1 always use it for rolling my elgarettes because it is so tricks which were out visit to Leningrad which was
Slim" of date twenty-five once St. Pelzesburg the home of is curicus," he years ago. As for the the Tsars. "I
sald, but they have kept the dancing it was
like Royal Palace in all its glo.y. Dolly Varden waltzing with the crown jewels and al with the squire's son. the trappings of Tsardom. In- the stead of trying to bury the past We were back to
1890's
they have kept it alive at when young
any rate in memory." Bloods used to drink
"What about the women in champagne from the Moscow?" I asked, for the de- slipper of an actress in bonair Sir Malcolm has always the smart restaurants been profoundly intrested in the other sex. R2 raised his of London in good King hands as if to demand a fordis. Edward's glorious days simo from the strings. "They ---although it must have are dressed," he said, "like been rather unpleasant women mill workers in Lan- for the actress who had cashire during the depression. to put her foot in the They seem to have no sense of clothes else there is nothing slipper after the core they can buy." mony was over.
When the
From Bumbledom
of Russian athletes were con-
Russian dan- cera, comedians or jugglers came-on-for-their-act-they-Then we recalled-the-stupid... bowed low to us. In fact incident last year when a team the whole performance crea- ted such a nostalgia that not have been we would surprised if a horse and cab were waiting outside to take
us home.
From Bulganin
Now let us move is the high
political level. The other day
Lo
LONDON LETTER
Take a few impassionate looks at Russia and what do you see today? It's a view that is so old fashioned it could make Grandmama nostalgic. But in 1957 it is dynamite just the same.
by Sir Beverley Baxter M.P.
Russian Comes To London..
A
and other Westem powers do not show concern for a settlement of the pro- blems confronting the world there remains little hape.
by PHILIP OAKES
he is Nikolai Sadkovitch, a Soviet film-maker. His aim? To convince the British public that the tractor is no longer a Soviet star.
4. Needless to say, thei Soviet Government sees the difficulties that lie in} the way of achieving TROM agreement both on inter-
he said,
and
ย red-curtained Over the party line. "I am national problems and on Palace Gardens a smiling makes friends.
room in Kensington created in art,"
"Art crossCF frontiers
I being a number of questions Russian in a smart blue suit over here. Especially, lika directly concerning is planning the new Soviet Edinburgh. Good whisky British Soviet relations. But Russia believe, that.
offensive.
there."
A TRICKY JOB
the Russian Ambassador London delivered 10 Prime Minister Macmillan a very long and very weighly letter from Marshal Dalganin which could have rolled quite a number of charettes if it had been used for thuit purpose. In the open- in paragraph it contained the tensible statement that the serieus differences between Rus- sia and Britain on a number of questions should not prevent us from taicing mcusures to es- ublish a better relationship be tween our countries and from
If in combining Nina's batsmaker, turned bureaucrat.""" tion to the easing of the inter- Marshal Bulganin's letter I trying to make a joint contribue with Sir Malcom's visit and MUST TO PAY national (ension.
given good will on both His nume: Nikolai Sad- sides, these difficulties kovitch, the duck-shooting Apart from his drinking could be surmounted director of Soviet films in hablis, what qualities make gradually by personal con-England.
the Russian choice
His aim to get this man facts between the states. Russian stars on to British for the tricky job of saleman men of our countries.
Then the Marshal let
enve thousand words to the effect that Britain and Russia should end the mad race In armaments both nuclear conventional, WA known,"
Soviet Government
comes
screens,
We met at 11 am, “Brandy or I Still Recall vodka?" asked Mr Sadkovitch, "Polities are of my business." he declared. "1 cm a film-
to their maximùm
The_cata
And the fact is, that to get back their production, costs - let alone make a profit-Russian flms must win their way to outside the satellite screens
cum-salesman?
lie is a stocky, cheerful man in his early fifties. ("A man Old English proverbs," is as young us he feels.
says Ma Sndkovitch.) He has published nevels, directed films and even neted in them. He is married, with a wife and n. 17-year-old son, and has two flats ono in Moscow and one in Minsk. The latter is his favourite.
"Good
hunting there," ho
of
seem to have made the mixturo This year Russian flm studios
done so de-are geared flood too thick, I have
liberately because we must pitch of production. member that if elvlisation is
Rogue of Sovexport@lm-the im- told me. "We slipot wolves, to survive the Russian people port and export agency of the bears and wild duck," He won
over some day emerge from U.S.S.R-lists
60 ms, a Stella prize for a sorics testing with the British at the
and must White City Stadium in London,
from revolutionary documentary to the rank of One of the team was a young
well their walled prison and mingle ranging ន declared, the with the outside world.
dramas to a 20-minute cartoon People's Artist of the Sovlet woman named Nine who was o
about an untidy boy, called Union. proposes I still recall what Kerensky Scrub'n Rub. discus thrower, but by no means immediate ending of atomic paid to me
"But," he insisted. "I know vaallractive to the eye. One and hydrogen weapons."
when he escaped day while strolling along Ox-
from Russlo after overthrowing
nothing of polities." ford Street she saw a lot of But then there
had the Tsar, and. In turn, From "Flash" wonda's hats displayed in one light discord in the sweet been overthrown by Lenin and
of the large stores. They were harmony of the Marshal's woo-
Trotsky. no expensive bats but, it you ing. In other words he sees no I gave Russia five months will forgive the expression, they reason why this nuclear busi- of freedom," he said, "and a went to her head. In a mud ness should be linked up with people who have known evea hupulse she grabbed half other disarmament measures. Or five months freedom will never dozen and started to walk away ecuase not! Russin has on m. rest unill they have it again, with them.
mense army and lots and lots Perhaps it is true although of traditional weapons. So why modern weapons make it im net lenye things is they are?
possible for the people to rebel Nevertheless this is a serious with sticks and stones as did and Important letter even if it the French when they attack
oss on and to an interminable ed the Bastille, longth. After much burning of
Such is the paradox of his- these items which midnight oil I have extracted tory, that this hideous thing
are worth known as the hydrogen bom consideration and an occasional may have rendered Russia
Unfortunately the store dette tive saw her,
she was arrested
New let us Icave Juku:bia and come with me to the Carlton Club where Sir Malcolm Sergent, England's most popular orchestras conductor, has come to lunch with your London currespondent. Sur Malcolm, se Dorian Gray, grows no alter and in due course came up be- with the years, In his sixties, fore the magistrate at the police court where she was fined and his hair is black, his figure slim and his zest for life is that wile history of Bumbledon duly cautioned. Seldom in the of a young man with everything has there before him. Incidentally during stupid.
ben anything so the blitz when theatics concert halls were closed In
If we had a Minister of Psy- the evenings he took his creheatru colors he would have de- clared that Nina could keep the round the country and
gove concerts to the accompaniment hats and the whole world would of noises of supplied by Herr Hitler.
בנדם
have paid tribute to British chivalry.
And what an advertisement for our hats!
Sir Malcolm was coming to lunch to tell me about his visit to Russia which had just been concluded, He had been invite i
the Soviet to conduct by
0 series of concerts with Russion Orchestra In Mcscow and churge. Leningrad, Perhaps he would be able to throw some light on that unknown country which
This may seem trivial but let us reverse the coin and Imagine how furious ዓር would have been a female British discus thrower at the Moscow Games had been arrested on a similar
But let us ko back to Sir Malcolm for a moment before we turn to the politicians. The
I'm the Shrik of
Araby, your love
belongs to me...
smile:
tu
ring.
"We realise, of course," said Mr Sadkovitel, that not all of our films would appeal to British audiences." I recalled earthy epics about collective farms in the Ukraine, and agreed. The tractor," added Mr Sadkovitch,
is no longer a Soviet star
ABOUT LOVE.
THEY LOVE DICKENS
Part of his ob in England is to buy British films which will bring the roubles into Russian box-offices, "So far, he told me, I have bought Pickwick Papers-all Russians ve Dkkens: Lady Hamilton-all Ruszans love Vivien Leigh; and I would like to purchase Hamict and Richard III. But. they cost so much money,"
Art apart, Mr Sadkovitch is the man who proposes to tako Diane Dors behind the Iron Curtain. "I liked n Kid for Two Farthings very much," ha zald "Wolf Mankowitz 13 very fine writer.
And row. I asked. would Moscow react to Miss Dors?
Mr Sadkovitch smoothed his silk tie against his nylon shirt Tractora, 1 re- and miled. called, were no longer the stors of Russian films. And Miss Dors was made to Yoasure for
Recently a first-rate Russian Version of Othello took over the Festival Hall. And plans are Impotent as a conquering milli-
being laid for the screening cr tary power, Therefore Brian 1. All Russia wants in is right in sending her actors
The 41st, an international prize- winner, about love between a orchestrul conductors the Middle East is that and
White woman sniper and a peace
and
Moscow, for the tranquillity Russia are warmed by the same
people of Russian officer. Advance repor should prevail.
have it that in this film sex has sun and chilled by the samunally altered
through the 2. If there were
winter as ourselves. When u Soviet celluloid curtain, no child is born in Russla trade restrictions the mother dreams of
I asked Mr Sadkovitch future that whether his appointment was a Soviet Union could in the will bring happiness, and peace political
Shaking his the new kind of eple. Xxxte. next five years increase and Eberty in its train.
head, ho stepped delicately its annual purchases from Minister is also right to com- The British Prime Britain to £800-£1,000 bine firmness with good will millions.
when dealing with political 3. If the Government without
leaders who rule their people'
having secured of the United Kingdont mandate from the people..
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