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If you
don't like
the
play in New York, you can read the programme
HE differences between the New York and the London theatre are as complex and varied as the differences in the politics, the language and the tempo of the two countries.
No wonder the experts so often fail in trying to estimate whe- ther a success can be repeated on the other alde of the Atlantic compared with London,
The audiences in New York are cold and undemonstrative. I have attended three crash hits in realm of musical comedy
and
The theatres, after the American fashion, are no overheated that iced water is not only a joy but a neces- no sity. matter how well the dancers do their Instend of the sixpenny British job, nor how lustily a tener soars programine, revealing the obvious to B flat, there is hardly enough ap- fact that the first net takes place in plause for them to reach the wings the living-room of Sir Tolln
Field
imonium,
By Beverley Baxter, M. P.
I
the
I believe I am right in stating that sex. On the contrary, the leading no American classieni actor hns men In "Carousel," "Öklahoma" and urlsen to take the place of John "Annie Get Your Gun" have Barrymore. Prejudice may have physical qualifications to go into the omething to do with 11. for
aning against Joe Louls. ulterly illogical reason. It does not Still pursuing the differences be seem right for Hamlet to speak with tween our two theatres, I must call an American accent, whereas it is attention to the primitive attitude quite proper for him to have an towards musica?
productions. English one.
One of the critics here explained it by saying that the American voice is territorul, whereas the English is universal,
He added another observation: "Your male netts are better than ours, but your women aren't as good aş American actresses."
The male American voice carries
They believe that. if a song, has to be sung it should be given to omeone who can sing. They go fur- ther than that: they search for people who can sing well--they even raid grand opera companies to secure them,
This approach also applies to the chorus. Instead of sweet little girls, as is the custom in London, singing without appearing to bent a retreat. Hantrey's house near Bromley, and
It is a fact that l'Ainericaine does quite clearly on three or four medium There is none of that warm, emo- that the second and third acts do
get overlones which are denied here notes and then disappearing into tional abandon which turns a Sid likewise, the New Yorker is preis inclined to produce his voice on
to the masculine counterpart. who maldenly falsetto, these chorus girla Inte performance
pande-sented (free) with a 56-page maga-
in America can sing up to A fat and zine. This contains cartoons, short the hard palate and with nasal est look like a stockbroker's de
sonance without adding to it the light. | articles, advertisements, and sketches
The singing in the three There is no smoking in
mentioned 13 New of the lending artists. If you don't quality which comes from the empty musical hits I have York theatres, and therefore no like the play you
en read the spaces of the head.
excellent. coughing. So rigid is the ban un
magazine.
Ballet Idea cigarettes that even in the foyer one ΤΗ n surprising degree the New well, but lacks modulation and range. can only take a whiff in that por-York stage carries out the adage that On the radio it becomes very mono-NALLY, If performers have to
the play's the thing.
they must be dancers. There is tonous, despite the synthetic ex-
And a divergence From the moment you leave your nothing of the family atmosphere or citement which is engendered about Once again we seat in the interval sharp vojces ad-
But lot between London and New York. the feeling that the evening is on anything and everything.
There is nothing in New York monish you with
me soften that comment by stating "No smoking, | event as it is in London. please"-<ind sometimes the please is
Before turning to the virtues that I have yet to see a microphone which enjoys the popularity of the forgotten. To light a match In a of the American theatre-and
in a New York theatre nor have Sadler's Wells ballet. Five or alx New York theatre is a criminal | mitting that I have only seen
I failed to hear a single word.
weeks is the usual run for the best American ballet companies in New offence,
productions anust set down that
York. there is no American classical netor who can compare with Olivier, Giel- gud, Alee Clunes, Wolfit, or Sir Ralph Richardson.
tion nearest the street.
There are no bars--although in one theatre there is a place where 'coco-- coln can be b.tight. Attendants Įstand will truys of tiny paper cups of cold water, for which there is no charge, nlthough u tip is not re- sented.
five
Incidentally I have been asked 50 times why Richardson was given a title and not Olivier.
F
Keep It Clean
NOW for another surprise. In five No
evenings in the theatre I have. not heard one dirty joke, witnessed any suggestive action, nor seen any netor who was not completely of one
What we must do to make
air travel safer
By
SIR VICTOR TAIT, K.B.E., C.B. Technical Director of B.O.A.C., in an interview with Squadron Leader W. SIMPSON, D.F.C.
HEAR the question asked why there are so many air accidents these days, and if action is being taken to make air travel safer. At the moment civil air-line operations are affected by lack of comprehensive radio communications and radar systems.
These are necessary to ensure speed and regularity of services. And at times services have to be cancelled to ensure safety.
Moost of the radar and indio systems evolved to guide bombers to their targets and safely back
to base cannot be used directly to ensure the safety of elvil air, lives.
These systems vere worked out for specific nesla over relatively small areas, whereas air liners need an international system suitable, tor _standardisation all over the world.
SCIENTISTS LEFT
A vast system of communications was set up for the use of the Rt.A.F. during the war, involving many radio and radar ground stations und installations, special land lines, п mess of complex equipment, and a strong force of men and women to operate it.
who
The net result is that communica- tions for civil aviation, in many parts of the world, are-oddly enough-- not yet up to pre-war standards.
MANY SYSTEMS
There is great need for an inter- national standardised system of air navigation and control of aircraft.
This is the direct concern of the Provisional International Civil Avia- tion Organisation.
It faces a difficult task, for there are now many almost equally good systems embodying every aspect of radin and radar, produced by different nations and manufacturers, and each nation and manufacturer is naturally pressing separate claims. Many of these differing systems are in operation in different parts. of the world. But air liners cannot possibly carry the air
components
of all of them, because to do BO would add hundreds of pounds of weight.
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dance
On the other hand, they started a which is custom in "Oklahoma," being
copied, in its successors, whereby a trillet is introduced not as a diversion but as a continuation of the story.
The Americane are very proud of this innovation, and one must ad- mit that their dancers are attractive and skiiful. Thus they offer their nudiences real singing, real acting nd real dancing. I should add hat they also offer a real story, but shall deal with that later.
In other cases we will seek por-
The curious omission is the come- mission to instal our equipment and dinn. In the three leading musical run it ourselves.
auccesses there is no big part for a Radar and radio aircraft alda are comedian. While we luxuriate in a still in the early development stage golden age of clowns, the Americans That is not surprising. It took have either lost them, given them time for tracked vehleles to evolve
from the tank, and it will also take time before the full benefits of radar can be used to safeguard aircraft.
up or are unable to find them. team work, with everyone contribu- The producers put their trust in
ting to the humour when it arises. The greatest needs at present are After all, there is no reason why for perfect alr-to-ground tele- only one man should have funny communication, collision warning de-things to say, even if we prefer it vices, and foolproof methods of con-
that way. trolling and landing aircraft in fect. Scientists are at work on these. The problems, however, are great, and, as with all forms of transporta- tion, some element of risk, although small, will remain in flying.
MORE TRAFFIC
If we had waited until there was
no risk at all, the expansion of civil aviation-or, for that matter, any form of transportatlon-would never
take place.
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Germans' Fund Of Hatred
By Richard Kasischko
The Germans, all cold and hungry In this second postwar winter, pro developing a permanent grudge on antional scale and "accumulating a fund of lntred" toward the occupy. ing powers and society in general which could make them easy prey for demagogues.
These are the conclusions of a ko elal aurvey made by the British Military Government and published in the omcial "British Zone Review."
Living concilionis In the over-
crowded, heavily damaged Brilinh zone have been more difficult than anywhere else in Germany, because of chronic food and fuel shortages. DEEP GLOOM The ometal sampling found that the average German was
in deep gloom and "though papers and radio tell him plans which are being made for his future betterment...he will believe, in them only when he sees results."
The Review continued:
"It is commonplace that the pres- tige of Britain and of the Democra cles is
is cubing fast and that a fund of hatred is being accumulated. Thai being so, he relatively low level of sabotage and subversion is surprising
may be that anyone likely to net as a leader of resistance can see himself hat the time is not ripe and is deliberately refraining from premature action. But...he im. pression given In Germany to-day is extraordinarily negative. The Bri- tish may be disliked, even hated, but it is not because anyone! else 18 loved....
"The Germans are rapidly develop- ing on a national scale imo those underfed, ill-clothed individuals, of uncertain parentage, who have a per- manent grudge against society and who devo.e so much of their energy to raging
of against unfairness heaven that they have little lett to ore give to the elaboration of postive-re-
forms."Associated Pres$.
In Now York the author or the composer is regarded as of primary importance. With the simplicity of the Now World, producers believe that a play has to be written before
limita-
can be presented, and since it is America they think it would be a good idea for the play to be about Air accidents make front-page America. Perhaps the New York news in the papers. It is natural stage is fortunate in its own that they should, but I doubt very tions. Lacking the actors for classi- much whether in fact air travel is cal reviváts. it turns to the Ameri- now any more dangerous than travel can scene which is all to the good. by road or rail.
Art should be intensely nationalis- compromise.
It should be remembered that vic-or #t becomes a bastardised although there has been an unhappy record of nir accidents recently One of the reasons
why British there has also been a very great films are being serlously talked about Increase in air traffic.
here Is because they are really British at last, and not a trans- atlantic straddle.
It is now some 20 times greater than it was before the war.
According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)
The Blackwood Convention is an however unwillingly. The perfect- The end of the war brought a natural change.
excellent slam device when It is likely to be some considerable
usedly normal 4-2 break of spades dash- First the scientists,
time before the national delegates of competently, but too often it gets ed their last hope, and down they had
reach worked together,
went! Their the sort of abuse that South gave it agreement. were dispersed. PICAO
In to-day's deal. They returned to their laboratories negotiations are as complented as
North, dealer. and universities to continue their those of UNO, normal peacetime work.
Although research and
develop
A quick decision could be made only if some new system is invented which obviously superior to all
then become the automatic choice. The best thing to do meantime is to organise air-to-ground communi❤ cations and safety aids for aircraft the widest possible regionul
on
ment of radar and radio goes on, existing ones. Such a system would It does not now command, in the general scheme of national recon- struction, the high priority which was given to it in our war effort.
Then the network of communi- cations bullt up by R.A.F. Transport basis. Command-crossing France and the
This work has already been begun Mediterranean anel running into by the three British national air Africa and India-was whittled corporations-Overseas Airways, down 15 demobilisation took its toll European Airways,
and South the Service operators.
American Airways.
dertain cases this system is
It will be carried further by for the use of civil
alr International Acradio on behalf of
sulabic
liners, but it is dificult to find the corporations.
trained civilian operators to man it. The most suitable systems' will be
The
position is particularly installed along the air routes, white dimcult in countries which vere the development of new idens goes decupled by, the Germans.
Their reconstruction probles
GROUND EQUIPMENT have been even more complex than our own.
on.
There will, of course, have to be agreement with foreign countries over which our air liners fly,
They have had to stort, practically trom scratch, to train operators to take over ground installations that In some cases these countries will were set up by the Services in. their be asked to Inalat the ground territory, and are now needed to equipment themselves, and keep it meer civil air-line requirements. running with their own personnel.
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two aces, or a five- spade contract which would be at the mercy of a good suit break, since I obviously had no spade support." This analysis, of course, was flaw- less, and it was too bad that South did not make it before he brought the Blackwood into play. the eventun! trump suit is
Js going to be the lowest in the deck, clubs; particular care must be exercised in employing this four-no-trump con- Both South and North tried to vention. The danger, of course, is get out of trouble (once they had exactly what happened in this case discovered that they lacked two that a one-ace response will force a nees), by playing the hand short of contract that is no longer to be con- a alam. South had to bid five spades sidered. South would have been to overcall the Ave, diamonds, and far wiser to bid tour clubs over two North find to accept that contract, hearts-and then left it up to North.
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