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Learning Infant Welfare
Under a new Colonial Office scheme, winners of Rocial
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By BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.
NEW YORK CRITICS ARE TIPSTERS
New York.
TR JOHN GIELGUD and his company have arrived to give New York "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Love for Love."
Mr Donald Wolfit, with the snowy triumph of Canada on his hat, will open his season bere about the same time with "Ham- let," "Lear," "Mnebeth and that bawdy old masterpiece, Vol-
pone."
It is sad to think that Edith Evans will not show New York her incomparable rendition of Lady Bracknel in Wilde's comedy.
and
one
There are a number of young theatre people. mostly out of the Services well-known and with only name in the cast, who have produced a revue based on the changeover from Service life to Civvy-street, a revue which has pace, taste, charm, humour, wit and sincerity. I am certain that if it were transported to London without a single alteration York it would reproduce its New
success.
on
ARMY MAGIC
ex-
men
A crippled Germany
means a
crippled Europe
THE Foreign Ministers are
THE
meeting to discuss the
future of Germany.
Compared with this issue all
battle on which
the Enet til the manoeuvre
can deploy and their conflicting ideologies,
'The arguments against west imposing a
the subjects they have wrangled Carthaginian paace
over in recent months are in- significant.
151
One hundred and thirty two years ago another, group of Allied states- men were meeting to discuss the future of France.
on Germany
are overwhelming' says DAVID FARRER
Yet only if we banish those
Today feny of Germany is will the preoccupation of all nailons, at least in Europe, who
acntiment
from our approach to the German her, problem cun we hope to come near
to its successful solution.
Joined together to vanquish There would have been equal, excuse if the same emotion had dominated the discussions of those who met For in truth the argments applest together after the battle of Waterloo, imposing an Germany a Carthaginian For France had been just as great pence are many and overwhelming. metice to the rest of Europe in Napoleonic days as was Germany during the decade of Hitler. All Continental Europe had been under French, domination or dictation.
The attempt would impose t British manpower and resources an intolerable strain. Do
we con-
policy
Do we seriously advocato, jot, permanently depremming! 1/ Getr-‚' many's proWAT stawind of living? That is what the Potsdam" decisions on de-industrialisation mean,
There is case for turning our backs on Europe altogether. But If we wish to remain un melivo, partner in European aftales there can surely bo no ense for holpinet to render the heart and centre of the Continent discontented and diseased,
I
need
No Secrecy
will be said that everything
mist
be subordinzied to the to prevent a recurrence of
Yet, largely under British leader ship, the statesmen of 1813 banished fear from their deliberations. France was given the chance to Then the prospect of increased leaders were well aware, what was
nscover.
She never again became n menace to European peace.
But, a nation cannot tearm in secret, The British and French
Hiller carric to power, At kny
template committing large numbers German aggression. of our young men for year to come to occupying a quarter of Germany?
production flies out of the window.
Do we think the British pubile wilt long give their support to such a policy? Within three years of the end of World War I, it was clamour- PON a similar victory over fearing for the withdrawal of our troope
today depends the prospect of a from the Rhine. return to prosperity and power,
For
War Seeds
happening in Germany even before
moment up to 1938 they could have stopped rearmament by preventive soldier had long since been with action, though every оссируе drawn
One man alone In Britain cried. out in those days for, auch netion. Now that same man-Winston Chur-
a crippled Germany means a crippled
Is the continued joint occupation chill-proclaims another danger, the Europe. A resentful Germany will become the breeding ground of war. of Germany likely to promote friend- menace not of a Germany mitant, The memories of German atrock- ly relations between the wartime but of 'a Germany impoverished and tics are fresh with us, and have
Allies? The events of the past year without hope, bitten very deep. The temptation to do, and
doing, to the provide a devastating answer. Ger- Germans, part at least of what they many bida fair already under such have done to others, must be strong, conditions to become the field of
and
go on
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
to
of less ел-
the glass of
muttered Carlyle.
09
wine
at the
sounding there
No one could accuse Britain's war- time leader of pro-German Den- tenis. All the more should wo listen when he counnels the nood
for to give the Germans hope future in which they will play their full part in a European family of nations.
a
Fear of Germany-thrice an ag- #ressor in a hundred years--clouds ail our judgments. The slogan . "Never agaln", rings in our ears. But we need not worry. We can banish our apprehensions,
For the power
to menace. pence of Europe has passed from exhausted Germany even as it passed from exhausted France after the battle of Waterloo, The balance has shifted.
the
In тан
Why? It is 3.5 American s Broadway or the Stars and Stripes, and therefore would it survive transplanting? I
would, SUGGEST that the photo- Into thinic It because the sentiment and
the graphers who manufacture lecturer's side. "In Vino Veritas," human are based satiro
the pictures of rich women Perlence common to us all.
the What they are not We see five former GI's in civvies should be called in standing outside door marked: National Gallery to deal with "Truck drivers wanted."
Two of the old masters already ruined the GI's are coloured, and the five
The hard facts of manpower and by scrubbing.
THE refusal of the War Onice to
In no men sing a haunting little number.
allow 40 trumpeters of the Royal resources tell their story. THE TIPSTERS
The door opens and the manager
They could touch up the spoiled Military School of Music to blow aforeseeable circumstances can Ger-.- THIE critics will assess the relative hecks to re three while
and Constable
the up-to-date fanfare before Mr John Strachey's many become again the dominant stroll Wolft The two negroes
off softly Rembrandt, amerits of Gielgud
udding
of Lincoln eye-brows, speech
on potato-peel European Power. but I singing the refrain of the song, they taking out wrinkles, rounding chins coupons is a political prejudice, will lie not with Germany but with The key to future European peace and fairness,
regarded in Government with accuracy
dramatic had sung as comrades. That is all. rate New York would
the circles 50 on, Working with of There is no preaching, no wailing.scrubbers, they should be able
coupons to "Polato-peel criticism well below the level
should be Soviet Russia. Her limitless man- London. With the exception of the But it hurts just the same.
turn out something more worthy of above party politics," sald a foolish power, her vast resources
80 Coming weekly New Yorker, and, to a lesser
these spokesman.
shortly materials and supplies of every kind the twentieth century than degree, the New York Times, the
pathetic attempts
after the refusal of trumpeters for dwarf and overshadow anything that critics seem to regard their occupa- PERHAPS the beat number is cunt lightened age. Every cultured per- Mr Attlee at a Fabien rally. this Germany can hope to achieve. tion as something between a valun-by-three men-dealing with the son who visited the Academy this discourtesy-is. Interpreted as a de-
and tor and a tipsler. I am told that at story of a fellow who in civil e year,
admired
liberate attempt "Sunbathers, the end of the year an honours list was a "jerk-which means no good Celestat-les-Bains," or "Girl picking against politicians. is drawn up showing how often each at all. But the mugle of army life gooseberries," must have asked him. The lonely heart critle was right or wrong In his worked upon him and when he got self why art need be fusty, sombre
ATATIONS do not plan estimate of theatrical production's back home-he was still a jerk! and rather unhyglenic-looking. AFTER watching the embryonic aggressive war without some chance of success. This, surely, is The variations of the theme get
A heart of a chicken, cut out and hope of a successful outcome. Ger- the very negation of criticism.
It funnier and funnier until at the end How Rossetti. laughed! carefully tended, for thirty-five many's Inst chance to become the places the verdict of the box office the singers lean over the footlights
years, American scientists have master race has come as the supreme arbiter of taste.
What they But if Germany 1 lot when he came back." And
proved (to their own delight
permanently and impoverished, if the attempt is made purpose, perhaps even the only ex- just as we accept this obvious sop to
satisfaction) was that they could to hold her down by force, then she cuse, for the existence of a critic is sentiment they sing "But he was
make this heart double its size every can become a fatal handicap to Euro- to let the public know whether or stili a jerk."
two days, so that if they had not, pean recovery, a standing invitation not they would be likely to enjoy
repeatedly cut bits off it, it would to quarrels and intrigues among There was also a first-rate sketch
her the piece under review. If this
statlon
have filled in the Mediterranean in fermer enemies and a baleful
time. Short no were true, then Shaw, as a dramatic of an American Air Force
of flying to the guarantee that we shall go on living. useful to the cause of true progress halfway between peace and wor.
to
It might be argued that the chief and say, "Actually he was improved | OMPLAINTS of the shortage of given up the game.
gaa-mantles remind me of an occasion when, many years Dgo, Carlyle was giving a talk on the future. During his peroration gas-mantle fell on to the chairman's head, and he at once
cried, "The Kas-montie af the prophot has
fell
discriminate
Twilight
and
or woge
gona
critic, should never have battled for during the war, where all the pilota descended on me." He then pushed moon, I can think of nothing moroas to-day, in a twilight uncertainty,
Ibsen, nor campaigned against the developed English accents and the Savile-row domination of English bar tender hung up the day's issue medals for the plots to choose. comedy, nor titted against the semi- Suddenly one airman spoke in tough religious pomposity of Irving's American. All the eyebrows are Shakespearean renditions.
raised and then one of them drawls. Hazlitt would have been robbed "Air Corpa orders. There has to be of many of his finest essuy8, nor one chap from Brooklyn in every would his bound volumes be avail- able to modern Sunday critics who, in a dull week, cannot forbear to quote him.
squadron."
an
VOTE-CATCHER A critic would have no right to ONLY at the end was there deptore too much revivallam or en- unblushing moment of senti- courage new writers, or even to mentality, but it was made effective blond suggest that importers might some by its brevity. The young
by the day look at the home product. Like GI who had been selected an auctioneer's assistant, he would Southern Congressmen as the ideal do no more than put labels
fighting mon to catch votes for them, everything.
appears on the stage and says Newspaper dramatic criticism "After all, what did we fight for? kids here is sound, undistinguished, un- should have a better life than we
So that my kids and your enterprising, and lacking in both
had." That was all. The company then breaks Into the rollicking
erudition
on
not
and wit. It was always so, but it is unlikely to re- vive until something like an Oscar chorus: "Call Mo Mlater" and the is. given the critic whose opinion show is over. was most often at variance with the box office.
This
demonstrates revue
how closely the theatre of New York is attuned to the life of the people. Again; and again
New York 1 ไอ have been impressed by the unity between authorship and audience which we in London lack so much. We have the petors, they have the
·CIVVY STREET. ·
course, there are 'occasions when both the public and the critics are right: The New York revue **Call Me 'Mister" deserves every- thing that was written about it. authors.
NANCY
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Surely a Pertinent Question
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Rupert & the New Pal—14
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