Don Iddon's Diap
TRIUMPH FOR DAME MARGOT
The Broadway Butchers put away their knives and strewed Mowers in her path. "I have never known anything like it," she said.
THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1960," ́"
I'm waiting
for the
hurricane
THESE THREE DANGER MEN are as
NASSER
'that is going to hit
us this week
DID President Eisen-
hower consult Mr
in-
Macmillan before
partment to impose the
structing the State De-
Dateline: NEW YORK
drastic curb on Mr the Soviet pelata at Oyster Bay, say the organisation faces
Khrushchev's
ments here?
move Long Island, and making a trip biggest crisis.
The White House spokesmen don't seem to know.
My belief is that the Pres-
dent acted on his own.
on
10 Washington, the capital,
the
of
"Security" is given as reason for this containment and curfew, but that is only part the story,
its.
Tass
Even before the
KADAR
CASTRO"
much
a worry to New
York's
police
as old
Nik himself I
have never known anything for with The World of Carl quite uke this, It has been quite sandtorg for several weeks, but Breathtaking and so terribly touring with a play even 期 Renerous,"
distinguished as this one is very different 110nt
A Broadway pening.
The company is not sure what
I thought Miss Davis tense.
i will do " Mr Khrushchev, a ballet enthusinst, wants to visit backstage. IL will probably She is enthusiastic about the hurricane receive him.
play And Mr Sandburg is entbustustle about Miss Davis,
She said: "Mr Sandburg (she Work of Carl toesn't refer, to lilm as Carl) is
hit Long Island it had done danlage estimated at $2,000,000,- The other big opening on 000, killed more than 100 people Broadway last week was Bette in Puerto Rico, and ap Davis in The proximately a dozen in Florida Sandburg, I went along to the optimistic about the theatre and and the Carolinas.
Hemy Miller's Theatre to watch sa dm 3. We have been lucky in,
rehearsal. Leif Ericson co the arrangement of the play by Now York's five boroughs stars with Miss Davis, but she Norman Corwin" Richmond, Queens, Brooklyn, outshines him. She in as electric
Bronx, and,
-most
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Important, and exciting as when she play- Ericson lounged in a chair Manhattan have been batler- ed in The Petrified Forest with and said be was taking a back ed by the wind and the down- Lieslic Howard and Humphrey yest in all this. pour. Schools have been.closed, Bozart.
basements flooded,
and the
police have been on emergency duty.
The wicked weather has been Khrushchev's plans have not
a blow to Broadway, but Fon- been announced; but the
teyn and the Royal Ballet have and Pravda correspondents here crowded the Metropolitan Opera expect him to see Margot Fon House and the well-known teya in the Royal Ballet
on Butchers of Broadway" put Broadway. take a bont trip away their knives and strewed around Manhattan Istund, and flowers in the great dancer's request time on the Columbia path. Broadcasting System and the. National Broadcasting Corpora- The 'action by the State De- tion TV networks. He will hold full-dress Press from at least two puriment on instruction It the White House is a calculated conferences.
The Russian leader, after his arrival in New York Harbour Monday. Is caged like t criminal. By official pronounce- ment he is treated like a leper or pariah,
To me this
in folly.
NASTY
A
HAPPY
66 TRIUMPH, superb, guarantees trouble and makes slap in the face for Khrushchev, There is an inept campaign
magnificont, certain serits of
super- explosive and inevitably, the Russian
here, even among usually in fativo, there's nothing like lanirums by Khrushchev in people themselves.
telligent editors and columnists, and out of the United Nations, There is bound to be mean to ignore the Khrushchey visit. a Dome Margot Fonteyn." I expect Khrushchev io defy and nasty business this week. Give him no coverage at all.
Margol was in tears of de- visiting Officials of the United Nations Don't report him no stories, no light as she told me: "I really Insist on
pictures, nothing."
the ban and
IN PROSPEROUS BRITAIN..
I have seen new hope in
the valley that should have died
Merthyr Tydfil. "THIS," I said to my-
self, "is the valley that should have died." I was standing on the alopes of Morlais Hill, looking down over the Merthyr Valley.
It was raining hard-and even if the rain was solt, and Alling the reservoirs for Carditi.
I was very wet.
In fet, the landscape looked
so bleak so scarred, so squalid
BY
DONALD
EDGAR -
Here men of lion fought flerer helped by the ingenuity baltics. Here was drunkeness s..dly tried people. and devout prayer. Here from: At its worst inere
that you tell perhaps it would the slopes of the hills you look- tween 14,900 and 15,000
ed down, on a classical ind- om unemployed scape of the Industrial Revolu. Tschil. That
ich.
have been better if it had died. But then sweeping the ruta out of my eyes. I remembered all the courage, the fortitude, ite wickedness and the saintess of this valley
that hus niade Merthyr Tydini a symbol suffering and recovery.
take stock—to So I began take stack vf a valley that is living history of the greed, the enterprise End the genus of men-And that is also the his- tory of the dreeney and Inith of the ordinary woman.
maa
Depression
and
It should have
a pure untuik stream leaping Crystal clear among the rocks. But I suppose it Do use
.getting sealimental I was a of the "dark Satanic mill," that me the prosperity and The industrial and political power of Britain.
Giants
This is about as likely to happen as for the newspapers, radio, and television noi to report the coming of the Devil Kimself.
The preliminaries to the Khrushchev arrival ore Very disquieting. **Khrushchev is bringing a cul-throat boatload." "Cost of villains due here on Monday. Red Invasion nears."
The visit of Nasser is worry- New York Police ling the Department almost as much as that of Khrushchev. There are 2,500,000 Jews in New York City and they all hate Nasser.
As he is head of the United Arab
119ket Republic and a neutral, there will be по travels
In the United States.
LUCKY
They were giants, these curly restraint upon Nasser's men. John Josloh Guest was d very far-seeing man anda binost kind by the standards of those
buil days. He
schools and looked for technicians amung also the bright buys. Aud he
The Egyptian Consul General tried every naw invention- a here says: "I won't be soon as he herd of i
prised it
sur-
President Nasser
The Crawshays were a differ- decided to visit San. Francisco ent lot. They still talk with and perhaps Hollywood." awe in the villages or **the
Hollywood, where the
Alm
Crawshay"- fercy, demone business is almost entirely run
inan who drove hunsel watch everybody around him.
by Jewish people!
We face two weeks of turbu- lence, and big trouble.
Hungary's Janos Kadar will be lucky if only bottles and not bullets greet him. Fidel Castro, who is also here, will at least have his beard singed.
They sa there wea 710 of woman safe from him. And wae betide the husband or were be- father who told him to keep long his hands of their women, in Merthyr There was no
more work for Was out of 0 them ut Cufarthe.
At the UN there will be 300 pullin ol 70,000. Now He built 盘 big mcck
guards on duty this week, In- died this there are around 00,000 people, castle and laid out extensive sited of the usual 200. valley because it was no longer But there are only about 1.000 grounds. Now these
the The delegates" lounge at UN the sm. Unemployad—and many of those town gardan and the house has profitable to work
hendquarters has beun jammed coal-mines art it was
almost cheaper ure
unemployable, become i grammar school. for the post
only week, and to import Spanish ore than to See they have been injured.
In those "boom; days of the the. Americans and a few Cuna- use what roinnined in the hills in the mines.
10th century Morihyr Tydal was dians think that the United the do- In fact, even before
The Mayor, Counolitor C. E one great mining camp-with gietes was right in caging and
examiner lready Webb, an
himself, all the drunkenness harlotry eurbing Khrushchev, who will vonfidence-telling and gambling that you get in rattle the bars and perhaps
housing such towns,
break through them. planaian padan, Thoy ang there were 27 pubs
hurricane We have had one
pression there was migratic out of the area.
was full. of I suppose the "valley should me about the neto
calates, the now be like one of those descri
It should have died because spirit 'wan abrand in the nation.
Beginning
hili.
oneself
Are
which
to
ANGRY
cd towns you can seg in the veloping the centro of the town, to the road beading up to the last week but its violence and west of America, in Colorado the help, that will come to Dowels. Works. Living candl-fury will be nothing compared and Nevada mining towns So Merihye when two/ble trunk tions were terriblu, but every to the one that will hit New rich in their day that they hail reads have been bulk.
day there were migrants from York this week. great hotels and Opera Houses, Like the Phoca Murthyr ail over the country, clamouring Why is, this the
valley that but now with the ending of the Tydfil has risen fışam, the Bras. for work at the doors. should have died? should giver deposits the dust-storms of destruction, yozing retreshed But at the same thot,, there have died not only because of. have engulfed the towns and and cager. But za stood in waving up that Thrribly the world depression between all their tawdry glory.
the rain on Morlade Hill Istrict Nonconformism This is the way
Donna the Hurricane, the the wars that reduced Merthyr
Merthyr bught of the hotele times and brought religion and faith
destructive storm on to a town of soup klicles and sliculd have died. But the the herole men and women, who many of those who worked in most
record, has driven me from my silent poverty.
pople were resiliou and
the bowels of the earth. now created wealth or ugliness.
hide-out on Westhamptons The rain had Just about |
Bench. Long Island, and how 'stopped. sa I came its reason for existence as ap forcing governments. ta tako
down. the Industrial aren had disappe:red. anthos tu, kraleet communities
I support inevitably one long the sand castle will stand Here below me was the site overcoms by natural, dimauTORM. It was not, in,' fact, Welebman, naks
was all this is anybody's guess.
got out taking a portable of the greates Ironworks of the And no, the. new light he who started the coal-mining and activity, was all this wealth typewriter, a portable television world in fle time. It was one dustries aided by tho Govern- Iron-making. on a big scale, and power was all this misery net, and some clothes, but leav of the showplaces of the ment, have come to bring new Principally, sponsible was and suffering worthwhile?ing the beach fumlure behind. country, attracting visitors from life, new skills and prosperity John Guest, në Shropshire man, An academic question because The weather was angry then all over the world who saw the to the valley,
who founded. the Dowlais it happened,
anti now happle and the dune road own. There Iron might of Britain pouring đại 20k come up from the Works, and, there was Craw days have come to the valley were no storm patrole; but our from the furnaces, while 8000. const your pane there clann. thay, The. Korkshiremen, who. Even the hits of sleg are slow-car drive. was a nightmare
modern, wel-designed, factories, had his worion over at Cylartha, ly being covered with geghs and trough torrential rain 16 was In this vallor that the names are familiar ons: The had busted down all uses that at times you c7 Booded highwaya', and, over Trevithock, Cornisman, Hoovec, Kayser Honder and the Umber in Sussex, so they scarcely tell whether the ile blocked beichiontek me was, the first, to put a locomotive Lines Brothers, who make toga, come, to the ferthyr Valley, and are arifleri or natural weed not planned a board on ralts. * was here that Thoy and many
Who knows? Perhaps With An the house at Westhampton others have proceeded to despoli It.. Xt: 1, nomumor experimented: with made the valley. cory and very hard now to imagine how wisdom, U. man he medalo, fog until rald-October, but the rains reaking steet: Ti was here, that prosperou
beauticule the valley waste aferthyr and many wiber Inde: came and the big wind blew and Tranel the railway, gozlus, made Thila; was, a deliberate plan. The hills covered with treek; trial) nemajo te combine both | there) was no choice but to
retreat before Donnal ruuis to the part of CardiETE,
based on nations resources, and the valley, cultivated; the Taff, baanly- and foodwaters.
mon tolled at the task.
BETTE DAYIS
As lactic as aves
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Carl Sandbury, who has been
Hollywood occupying ab thormous office in the Twentieth Century-Fox studio, is here for the opening and the publiefty. He doesn't take himself seriously,
1
too
He said: The World of Curl Sandburg has done very well on Tour with Miss Davis and wo hope New York will like us."
In ell this flurry about Khrushchev'a arrival and Broadway's new season, the presidential candidates, Richard Nixon for the Republicans, and Jack Kennedy for the Des
nocrats, have got rather lost.
Miss Davis naturally looks older-she has been quite In recent years and has had to
They look rather like undergo surgery, but she lights babes in the wood up the stage. She has been on pared with the ogre Mr K,
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