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By NEWELL ROGERS WITH
Hollywood stil in dumps, the stars are trooping into New Yoric in quest of glittering new gold mine-television, And they are hitting "pay dirt" partly because of a new gadget to
their televised carry
acting into homes over the telephone.
A year ago the stars were glad to appear before telecameras for nothing, to get experience, Today, with 41 stations bidding for rights to display them to 020,600 owners of seta, they ask and get £1,500 an appearance.
Rex Harrison, one of the eager television candidates, says: "Holly- wood in done with. It and I have no futuro in common, and I don't know if Hollywood has any future st all.
"Hollywood's little world geared to the studio salary lists, and unless your friends are in your bracket you cannot afford to know
them.!
in,
OUR BELOVED KING A family man: A man of high ideals A man who
believes in BritainM
FN the midst, of joy nt the
birth of n. prince has distressing
come the nows that our King is affilcted by the most acrious illness in his life...
Five doctors report acute obstruc- tion of the circulation through the arteries of the legs, and the defective blood supply of the right leg in caus- ing anxiety.
There must be prolonged treat- ment, rest at lost to repair the havoc of 12 years of atrain.
Britain and the Empire are sad- dened It is the sadness felt at the liness of a dear friend.
Honest, sincere
Why la our emotion so deep? What Is the secret of our strong affection for the King and Queen?
It le because we have found them honest, sincere, devout, and with a passionate desire to be of service to the people of the Empire.
We regard the King and Queen and their two daughters as the per- feet example of happy family life. from which must stem the strength of a nation.
By their own good deeds the Royal Family have put the inonarchy on its surest foundation.
of
It is 11 years since the shyest and least robust of the four sons George V. was unexpectedly called to the Throne.
We hardly knew him or his wife, be and what we knew seemed to colourless in contrast to the vivid of his brother, King personality Edward VIII. -
·
by SIDNEY RODIN
The King and Queen'
picture taken at Windsor.
punctuality, planners whose plans gu wrong; people; who offer, inaccurate explanations, or, Intruders, who in- vade his privacy at week-ends-will not quickly forget their shortcomings, What does he think of post-war problems?
At Cup Final **
One glimpse of his mind today is provided by Mr George Allison In his book, "Allison Calling."
Talking of the 1945 Cup Final, Mr Allison: writes:rusting thei
of con.. I am not guilty of a fidence, I tell you that I mentioned to the King ́n form of popular diversion [football pools] which caused and still causes much dis-. cussion.
"Believe me,' he said to me, 'wo have for greater problems to solve before we can give consideration to that particular subject.""
The King who today loves meeting people and is a brilliant raconteur. with a sharp sense of humour was once a mortally shy lad who dread- ed having to talk to strangers bo cause of a muscular contraction in his throat which sometimes deprived
Hero was a family who delighted him of speech..
own private. in escaping to their
Although a specialist attended and him, and after his marriage the apartments, where husband wife could often be found standing Queen was there with untiring com-
with their children.
could never have been so completely with their arms round each other, fort and encouragement, the defect Subordinato always to his high cured if the King had not been conception of service, the King has capable of a concentrated effort of remained above all things a family will sustained over many years.
of Probably 110 monarch man,
.
modern times has devoted so much His biggest test
time to his home, wife and children.
When living at Royal Lodge, Windsor, his normal week-end
ha
sent
Undoubtedly his most searching Words of wisdom
of Canterbury always been the same as that of ordeal his first big public test as a King-was at the opening of Parlin. The Archblahop had to introduce him to the nation. any country squire. All Indles and ment in 1937.
Yet before the massed solemnity Dr. Lang broadcast: "In manner gentlemen in waiting were
State, bishops, am- and speech he is more quiet and re- away, the King put on his tweeds, of Ministers of
haa weeded the garden, went for walks, judges, peerage, and foreign served than his brother. He
bassadors he doclaimed his message high ideals of life and duty, and he or did some shooting.
with slow but manly clarity. will pursue them with a quiet stead- fastness of will."
It was not long before we learned
Whatever salary brackets they are Ingrid Bergman, Dorothy MacGuire, Marlene Dietrich, Van the wisdom of those words. Heflin, Van Johnson, Paul Muni,
As he grew to kingly, stature the Edward G. Robinson,
Katharine simple virtues of George VL became Margaret
very triumph over Hepburn,
Sullivan, evident. His Pauletto Goddard,
Irene Dunn, handicaps such as that of a speech Walter Huston, and Joan Fontaine impediment disclosed a strength of have appeared,, or will appear, in character hitherto unperceived. teledrama this season.
Affairs of State have at least always allowed him to have break- fast in the company of his family.
It must
All witnessed the devotion of his wife, the coufdence her pretenca gave him, enthroned by his side.
King's religion has The
always Man of the people
been a deeply personal matter. He indeed have been with never talks about it, but it guldes all York took over the burden of special services, which he heavy heart that Albert Duke of his actions. Fublic worship and kingship. Throughout his days he are no mere
no laste for the pomp him. had shown and circumstance constraining the monarchy.
attends formal
ceremonies to He is an active participant, and afterwards, in conversation with the clergy, he discusses details, mention- ing parts of the service which im pressed him.
I
Endless duties:
A person close to him sald at the Coronation:
"It seems a stupid When householders can get stars
thing for a man to say, but I love of this stature simply by putting in
that man. And the love given to
He was deslined by nature, per a 10s. phone call to the studio, the Industry expects
to sell 30 million him and his young wife grew as the
haps, to be a man of the people. nation took their measure,
Overshadowed by his brother sets.
Television et owners from Bos. The laughter of the two little Edward, awed even more than the ton to Baltimore, 426 miles
warmed apart, Princesses
Buckingham other sons by the Victorian severity on November 30 watched the arat Palace from the first day that the of the father, Prince Albert shranit telecast of New York's Metropolitan King and Queen, took up residence. from the royal limelight.
who
When a gardener at Windsor kept A coloratura soprano Opera
It could hardly be otherwise, for
10 "Your Royal had hoped to sing in the opera there was a family man happily
Highness," the young Prince
We need no reminder of his end- watched it from a box.. Margaret married to a loyal life, with two dressing him Truman carinot sing professionally loving daughters of sunny disposi forted: "You can call me that once less tour of duty at home and am sick of abroad in wartime. How often a day and no more. because her father won an election. Ition.
have we read of his attending to He was found smoking a pipe State business while lying in bed
at with gastric Infuenza. while wearing cap and gown Cambridge.
8 Faces Grinning in the Jungle
by SYDNEY SMITH
it."
rem
The King's self-dedication to pub- lic work has been shown in a thou- sand ways.
He has rarely enjoyed first-class- His mentor complained that the health. As a naval cadet recurrent gravity of the offence was aggravat-abdominal-trouble culminated in an ed by his being a member of the operation for duodenal ulcer before
"27" Royal Family. "We're not a family," he was 22.- said the Prince bitterly, we're a arm."
And when he married he chose no Continental princess of the blood royal, but a Scols girl of noble an- cestry, who, like him, rejected the
... SINGAPORE, who were fanatical and militant,smart set of the twenties and sought
men.
naturalness
of
home life and long-known friends.
The King has a boyish grin for a person he likes.
Those who annoy him-und
His present malady, is serious. It must certainly lessen his vigour, and may even shorten his life unless successful, and there treatment
can be no quick cure
Such Immobility must chafe at his family, and has been tireless in a man who has loved to romp with going among his people.
It is our good fortune that he has on the a splendid family to carry duties he will now find beyond his tin- power.
he
.
.
BRITAIN AND THE
A FEW feating glimpses of had made a general increase, both happinezen on
of its members and its extremists.
from
armed jungle-green figures Apart
its main the melting into
shadowed forces it includes two known com tracery of stunted palms, glant mando squade the Lin Tong Tal ferns, and twisted creeper are and the Tuck Moo-totalling 1,000 is particularly annoyed by all that most of our troops in Every unit-down to a platoon- Malaya over see of their enemy has its own political instructor, who in action...the Communist gives a daily one-hour lectutro dur
attention." bandits of the so-called Malayan ing which, to say the orders, "all
..ranks must stand People's Anti-British Army.
"criticism They may relax for hour typical Communist Euro pean pastime during which other ranks aro encouraged to criticize their officers and N.C.O.s. and then themselves.
the
COLONIES
By Peter Ditton
have
The outstanding new fact about the Jungle Red Army is that its hard coro of armed fanatics was formed during the Japanese occupation.
'B secrét army, up as
been included in. ordinary Was bullt
N Intensive campaign is now in parallel to the official underground
Discipline is strict, and field
progressS in Britain. to make cinergia' programmes. So far only four of these films have been.anade army.
punishments include being led up the Malayan People's Anti- Japanese Army.it Party.
created from and exposed to the sun, and beat- the people "Colony conscious".
n strokes with
Recently a Government survey of but they have been received with Communit Malayan
a representative cross-section of the great interest. A fifth will shortly
that half
the he released. These films are sub- It is considered that, due to community showed British 130 Force Unison officers, ammunition shortage, The average people in Britain were unable to sequently made avaliable, to schools,
either by hire or direct purchase. Colony.
Three-quar- bandit recruit today does not Oro name a single equipped and supplied by B.A.F. drops, were thinking ahead
between a Calony and a Dominion. passing on Britial supplies to this more than ten to 12 rounds during ters of them could not discriminate
his training.
while three out of every hundred secret Communist force.
sald America was part of the British
The Chinese M.PAJA., while
CommissE
of the ings of up to 30 with bamboo pole..
and
When the war ended and 0,000 Communists of the M.P.A.J.A. canxy
TIP-AND-RUN
to the surface and handed over only NE clue to the fighting policy of Empire.
this bandit army is a general It was as a result of this survey a total of 6,500 weapons, the secret.
translated that the Colonint. Offee decided to force kept all the British arms it order, which, literally had stocked and the Japanese arms from the Chinese, instructs com launch the campaign to tell people It had stolen, and stayed anonymanders to fight only swift-ending in Britain all about the Empire.
balties"
motis,
D-
In the meantime plans are going forward with material in hand. Although the survey allowed up the amazing ignorance of the general public
lic in matters relating to the Colonies, there is nevertheless a great demand for knowledge. This schools to apply for films will have. is shown by the fact that the latest to walt six months before their or der can be carried-out.
means well-planned This means
The first step was made public at The MP.AJA. chiots who knew about it-all Chinese went to Lon bushes, swift aorties against isolated a press conference in London late Films and books will play a major part in this educational campaign, don and marched in the Victory and weak targets, speedy with last month when Mr. K. W. Black-
drawals-never standing fight, burne, Colonial Office Director of but that is not the whole of the Parade. Their
grini gold-toothy
But they have lost Round 1..
Information, announced that a
Onice 15 beneath their three-starred, peaked
Communist plan to isolate catalogue entitled "Britain and the scheme. The Colonial
hoping to arrange for officials homo jungle caps, photographed by the Tho newspapers in London, are today parts of the country and set up Colonies" had been produced...
conditions abroad. They will not pasted on 10,000-dollar(£1,166) their own military government, and This catalogue gives a list of finis, on leave to give first-hand talks on Malaya's economy, lins books, etc. dealing with Colonial to in the nature of pep talks, but reward notices in every police been smachetl. Now begins a long life, which are avaliable to schools will be genuine accounter of Ife in station of Malaya.
nure trial
of man-to-man Jungle cadur-and Two
out of the ton of them are cancelled by red crosses over their Malayn's 51,000 square miles i photographs. The
are eight who
strike at
social" organisations. The the Colonies with emphasis on the catalogue
'many, cokea reveals that in
In- there
are. Forious
gaps in the needs of the Colonial peuples..
'first
see that
It
geta
of material avaliable, but stops are bo The idea is in its infancy, Tue still alivo, and wanted, are now the eludes 30,000 square milea
have ing taken to fill these gaps. In this Colonial Offico her great hopes for political and military commissara of jungle. To sweep this we the Jungle Red Army, oficially: es 13,500 men of the Guards Brigade, respect mention also made of its scheme. Britain needs educating, Umated to number between 3,000 now fully trained and beginning items which are in the course of and the Colonial Office is going to
Fattempt It is
what it needs.” It is n- and 5,000 men, center pakethele. first independent jungle BeJON, PAUGUCTURAL Pallet i atcount of really genuing attempt to full te
Maths in the next low, weeks.
to PANGA FANATICAL Thoro are another 2560 highting material available. TWO months after the emergency, troops, of the seaforth, Inniskillen Already in the commercial fold in I came away from the con
bogan in June, British bbserversings, King's Own Yorkhite-Light attempt has been made to show the ference, however, one thought kept reported that the 12,200-strong Infantry, the Devors, and field Colonies to the British public This cropping up in my mins. Malayan Communist Party, known regiment of the Royal Artillery, has been done by a series of Alma der Just, how much people, in the
which Colonies really krów, about Britain 499%%%(Dentinaod on Face, 14) Bu entitled "This, Modern, Age", s to included: 4,880 - memberi