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TRIES WRITING OFF HIS TAX BILL
By RICHARD BERRY:
Each morning for several weeks, actors and actresses assembled for re- hearsals on the bare stage of an East London theatre and wondered what would happen next in their play...
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Malayan newsletter from Gordon Hung
GOVERNMENT PLANS
TO CONQUER ITS SECOND EMERGENCY
Kuala Lumpur, By Airmail. Now that the Emergency will come to an official
end on July 31, the Government is going ahead with plans to combat subversion in the country.
Astel from legislatura chanyes, neaded: an abelstent, so she went rural development is in the fore- with him and two other front of the Government second strangers in a, car to 950 the five-year plan which is to bo- drink 'seller, Ein next year.
But driving along the unit The Assistant Minister of road she became frightened and Rural Development has warned asked to be taken back. When that the Government must con- they thueitgned to kill her it quer its "socond Emergency" she did not keep quiet she lesped rured development-or the vic- qut of the speeding car... tory over militant Communism
She was found unconscious would be meaningless
and bleeding by nagging motorist.
"We now have to fight them on a new front-the subversive front because Communist sub- version is going on quite test, he sald.
But now she is happy. The publicity resulted in her landing a job-in of her plight has
a laboratory,
He thought the danger to the the standard of living as The Government has banned
very
poor compared with that of those in the urban areas.
When living standards were raised, he said there would be less chance of the rural areas
Everything about the produc- tion was unorthodox result play called Sam. The Highost Jumper of Them All, or The London Comedy-has been described by one critic os " the small town of Frenso, Call- marriage, for he loves children start, their farms.
fomnia, where he was a member and valuas family life more of the despised 'community of highly than anything else. Armenians.
the export and import of orangutan from Malaya In a move to stop the vast Blegal trade in these apes and prevent them from becoming extinct,
In, Paris he sold a play. The The plot was not complete. wright when his fome rests" Some of the characters were largely on stories of charming Paris Comedy or The Secret of without names! The next lines simplicity. He has poured cut Lily, to
lm producer Darry! had yet to be written, Every millions'of words from the heart Zanuck and wrote the stage thing,, In fact, depended on the about the little people of this version in 13 days. Then he whims of swarthy, middle worlddrunks, prostitutes, green wrote The Morcow Comedy, or aged man with a Groucho Marx G.I.s, shy lovers, young hope- No One in his Right Mind.
.Bat moustache who
chain- fula, old failures,
write, plays crooks and a Now he plans tu variety of walls and straya. smoking in the stails.
for Vienan, Berlin and New His sympathelle treatment of York. WUliam Saroyan, the 51-year- old American-Armenian author little people is largely the result How maily
was at work-writing his new of a childhood in which he knew cribed as "marked by improvi" | becoming fertile jaound for the words of letters
olay as rehearsals went along. Doverty. loneliness, kegribacak satory exuberance and rhapsodic i cultivation of Communism, ur sobre can
alturing, re-shaping and mould and the simple pletures of celebration of the common man. make
The King in his speech from You from The ing his story, to 11 the actors small-town life. His father was As a short story writer, come the throne at the opening of the
poet who died people consider him the greatest second session of parliament re Indonesia are to be registered in There hairy migrants from the
who were bringing his charac- an unsuccessful
when Saroyan was three. His of this century,
an opinionvealed that the on the letters to life.
Government a nationwide census, which is great probably shaped by Saroyan had drawn up -mother.
plans for group part of a new move all over the rach
prod warmth and courage kept her who has called hugsalt "a wizz settlement word. The felser
areas where land world to preserve this species of In each of
family by working as a maid,
would be allocated to the land- animal: Apurt from four years in an the Cures Hy be used
The great tragedy in his lifeless, who will be also given rub- once only. Esteli word must con
the failure of his ber seeds
indonesia is now the only all the large letter in the centre.
orphanage, Saroyan, grew up in has been
and fruit plants to
the world where country In square, and there wit be at frast one nine-letter word in the
The Government agency, the orang utons are still found in ILL. No pluris no coreign
their natural habitat, but despite NAMICL words to an proper.
Rural and Industrial Develop-
the strict control, imposed by the TODAY TARGET: 21 WENT.
ment Authority, would, cm- good to words, very good 31
Indonesian Government, they As a boy he was determin-
phasise the establishment of Botation3 words, excellent. tomorrow.
ed to show people what a “dirty Scroyan wde 35 when he cottage and small industries and are being smuggled out in large American" could do and after merried a 17-year-old
especially 1o, Singa- actress,also finance Tural trade
and numbers,
pore and the Federation. selling newspapers
the Carol Marcus; Seven years industry, he said. street he would spend all his later they were divorced:
The census will help Work would also continue on authorities keep a check on the the spare time reading famous years later they remarried; one the improvement of the yield of orang utan population
they were divorced paddy, thus bringing the, country should suddenly there be an in- authori -- especially Dickens year lator ara
and Shaw (whom he has call again. There are two children nearer to self-sufficiency, in its crease through filegal means, the cá the father of the modern by this marriage--a boy of 10 steple, food, he said.
authorities will be able to det. American theatre). When he and a girl of 14.
Aut countering Communism discovered that Dickens used
t is 20 years since a work of was not the only reason for the to make notes in shorthand, Saloyan made a great impact on rural drive. he started to learn shorthand the literary world and I may be it was also because of a Log.
that his talents have suffered "national awakening and an in- finally Sarovan
achieved through losing touch with small-crease of national pride in the success at the age .20 with a town life.
hearts and minds of our people," book of short stories called The Saroyan once divided people he said. During Young Man on the Fly- Into two races--the child race, Ing -Trapeze, Books, plays and "fresh, eager. Interested, inno- aims followed and he became cent, imaginative. healthy and one of the world's most popular full of faith," and the adult race, authors of the thirties.
"more often, thun not, state, spiritually debauched, unlma- ginative, unhealthy and without Laith."
"
chaotic, rambling, unimaginative equivalent or some childish war- lour game daramed up by a revive a desporate hostess to dying party."
have Fourteen other critics been baffled by Siroyan's play, but the author remains undis maye: In..a letter to the critics he writes: "There fifteen of you and only one of me. I say Sam is a good play, I am sorry you say it imm't. One mistaken.
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He wrote short Ftories like
Now, at 51. It is hardly Bur- My Name Aram, plays like prising that he la moving further My Henri's in the Highlands, away from the child rase. But novels like The Human Comedy, his message remains the same. His play. The Time of Your even if his way of saying it hos Life, won him the Pulitzer Prize. altered. Fer Saroyan remains at Since 1034, Saroyan's incere heart a great sentimentalist. - has never fallen below £7,000 Central Press.
a year and if has averaged over £20,000. Yet today the big- hearted Armenian American owes the U.S. Department of Internal Revenue mare than
£20,000.
"Money offends me," he says. " had encrmous sums and I spent well over a millon bucks. I gave it away. I gambled it and lost it, I was a lunatic when I was a big success."
The novelist-playwright got behind with his lax payments 15 years ago when he was in the Army. A minor stun was involved but it rapidly grew and
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"A year ago I owed $10,000," says Saroyan. "I paid off £8,000 but now I find I owe £20,000. They charge such a high rule of interest that, ce in arrears. you can never catch up.'
Now the American tax col- lecter has driven idm overseas. In an effort to pay off the arrears, he is travelling through Europe writing comedies 'for every capital.
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MONDAY, MAY 2
By Air
Kidnapping is a lucrative way of making easy money but in the latest snatch the fourth this
year- something went
wrong.
Gee
The victim. Mr Lee Chong, 49, Singapore's "Biscuit King was abduesed from his car on Wednesday evening. Later
□ ransom, noic was received by the family.
But four days later the body of the Biscuit King was found with his head battered in.:
His father said: "1. never knew men could be so græcl.
*
A trusting 15-year-old gir]
needed a job badly so badly that she was tricked into taking a near fatal.. drive with some stran gers.
and
The principals of 700 Singa-`
pore schools have been advised to keep corporal punishment "down to the absolute. minimum."
The Ministry of Education has asked them to observe four cardinal rules whenever corporal punishment is necessary.
They are:
Ensure that the pupil does. not have my sore orliwound where the strokes are to bo applied:
Have a witness, at the caning:
Record, the number of
atrokes And
-ministered, and
Inform
where od-
parents of the
punishment.
Under the law, no corporal punishowent is allowed to be ad- ministered to ghris, ;
A Singapore woman who hai get her husband's permission all to neighbors has been granted a divorce.
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Pretty Long Chay-poon al choal killed herself when hy Jesped from a speeding car along an unlit Singapore TORK - O favourite rendezvous for lovers ending her journey to see a .... We are 'writing this time our "prespective employer."
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