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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950.
Little Things which tend to upset the Entente Cordiale... by CUMMINGS
11 SIGARE 1 CHELSEA
Our exacting sense of hygiene.
Our barbarous lack of culture.
DARION~)
FOLUES OF
Our exaggerated respect for
Lase and Order.
Our rigorous prudery.
Our fanatical passion for fresh air.
Our heavy steaks and ponderous joints of beef.
London Express Servico
London's Live
ACK Hylton. one-time band leader, began his career as a Lancashire clog dancer. Today he has 500 people on his payroll, dancing through £200,000 worth of stage shows.
Littler his teens, Emile
In
for acrobats
booked
#
Lawdry garrison
theatre.
Right now he has bought
Fires Burning."
At the
Are
THE
WHITE
Seretse Khama becomes the central figure in a dispute which arises because he took a white girl home to Africa as his wifo. Pago 4 today prints the views of two well- known coloured Londonors who reject the implied foar of mixed morrlagos
BRIDE RIDDLE
by McDONALD BAILEY
British sprint champlon and Olympic runner
AM deeply interested.
But here surely is a blow at
will.
in the case of Seretse man's most sacred freedom-the Khama. This is not right to choose the wife of his just a personal interest. It It may be that there are other this case that have affects coloured people factors in everywhere and especially not been divulged. If so, let un know them coun. Secrccy can the 20,000 in Britain.
only wet a good cause: it can make a bad one worse.
I am not writing this in my We are often told that there
political mood.... As-4-js-no-eolour-bar-la-Britam,– Nor- M******W
I have sportsman,
often been is there-offelally. But there is advised to keep out of politics, uncleially, Ask any coloured and it is good advice. But the person. He will tell you of the good sportsman is drinogratie, little niggling things, the asides. He likes fair play, honest, above- bound dealing.
'It's been lot'
Mr Gordon-Walker's attitude CALECS us tremendous surprise and disappointment. We colour-
ed man. Arrange the detalis ed people pinned our faith in the to book a flat ng a colour- British Socialist Government over the phone, then a round to We fit that these people, who inspet the place. I guarantee over the years preached and ex- you wil be fed it has been lel. pounded the brotherhood of man,
Is this attitude lo sprend, to would glye a fair, square deni mow, to potion the Empire to their coloured brothers.
relations? God forbid. We seem to have been mis- Haken,
We are happy
We coloured folk in the Em- pire have fought for the Em- pite. Many have died for it. Some will never recover from wounds. Is this to be forgolten?
This should be a time of HAVE been married to a
greatness. Britain needs the full, white Enghh girl for four Under support of all the Com- years. We have two children, monwealth, and not least of all Thus the a boy. We are very the coloured people.
can action of the Government only cantes distrust and suspicion,
girl and happy.
So is Seretse happy. Or could be, were it not for the Govern- ment's attitude. We are taught 3 children and grow up believ ing that Britain is a free country, of the free British the apex Commonwealth.
Shows
Lively
By HAROLD A. ALBERT
Eyu
In Calypso.
117 West Indians have a pithy
form
McDONALD BAILEY WR daughter Christine;
wife is an cr-Waяf.
ht
+
But only to be told he must
nudicate.
freedom
J
this
democracy.
J'd'
rather stick fypocrisy.
and.
to the old
You say that might is not
right, But the world should hear of
tlus terrible plight." The English preacher John Denar, who nobly preached the of mall, essential brotherhood
is on. "No man once
wrote:
of expressing our island, but a part of the main- Therefore never send
opinion in the Calypso. Here is one I heard:--
"We hear talk of democracy, But what is the position of
Seretse?
land.
to know for whom the bell tolls:- it tolls for thee."
Today, coloured people must: be asking if this is the knell for
He pinned his faith In a their freedom. Have we heard
Socialist State-
the last word on Serelse?
by ALMA LaBADIE Voluntoor West Indian welfaro campaignor
Today, all indications are that of at least 60 London's choice live shows is still expanding. A
It is wrong that we have ED Young actor and actress bought
AM the daughter of a mixed a derelict theatre in the frowsy
marriage. Nobody gives a handled our own Emplee affairs Canden Town district, chiefly on second thought to that as a so- that Americans feel bound to fly borrowed money, and have beguncil problems in the West Indies, over to Birtain to help an Afri- a series of productions that re- where I come from.
ularly draw elite West End critics. Calling themselves The
at
men
Anel
women
We Judge can. there
Do by
not misunderstand my tears and show. They spring But in my tiny from the loyalty to Britain, from West
London the Christion way of life, which Bat the news-
I was taught In Jamaica, paper headlines
Players, a set of enthusiastic character, not colour. youngsters built a theatre under- neath the railway arches Charing Cross, and have dis played House Full signs ever since the opening night.
он Seretse Kharna shatter- ed the Deep faith
that
אבל
I am hoping...?
I have
HAVE met much kindness: from white people. sustained me in nursed them in our hospitals. I my
day
ripe age of 50. his 24th a few, "Oklahoma" is ill giving opening work, it has now been more-the-merrier mood, In reall- j
The entertainment feast ranges surrealist scenery and costumes the British right of those from Covent Garden opera to the designed by Salvador Dali,
Again, there is the astonishing two top New York musicals, Folies Bergere, from Sadler's Wells ballet to chorine-adorned "South Pacific" and
Sull more striking is the Unity "Miss burlesque at the non-stop Wind-opular saga of "Worm's
View" a play scribbled in a Liberty." and his theatre mill. There's Michael Redgrave's notebook on park benches and Theatre, built by working class
seven-year have been nursed by them. assets are rated at £1,160,- "arlet" and Vivien Leigh in ur sents while its RAF mutant, folk in a converted mission hall,
Desire"
for admittedly leftist drama.
Acht against "A Streetcar Named
Jack Ronald Delderfield, was off duty. Today the Unity group runs five
I am hoping that the Ivor Novello won 000.
There's
Harvey
obscure
race prejudice. which began with tears may not youthful fame when
lively "Annie Get First produced at an Buchanan,
"I cried theatre, eling companies and has over repertory
over be so full of despair. I have In provincial he wrote "Keep the Home Your Gun" and Wendy Tiller backed by a nut and boll manu 40 amateur counterparts.
the
breakfast found thuit the newspapers are "The Heiress," just to mention
for not shirking to report the In Though the metropolis is in facturer who lost £200 in the
the ban 01
on justice-or the consequencca-of Drury Lane its longest run in
to me is personal the Seretoe ban. We did not have for successful theatrical pro- three centuries, and has so far sten by over 1,000,000, has taken ty this is merely a sliver of a Seretse
affront. It will feel like that to to
go to
to a Negro Press for that duction is spinning £4,000 poured £1,000,000 into the Lon- 450,000 at the box-office and characteristic English zest
inillions of coloured people help and sympathy. don box-office. Meanwhile, there is elbowie "Chu Chin Chow" play-going already spread na- ton-wide. Crowded little Bul- profit a week.
Though this all started over a are niso a few dozen soild British in long run records.
tain maintains over 100 profes-throughout the Empire.
mixed
marriage-remember that I never dreamed that Britain that is a phrose used here. Wo shows, several destined to maka
sunal repertory theatres plus 130 flest grade shows on the road. would ever lake advantage of asce ourselves all as citizens, and
#mall tribe, 1 have None of these showmen New York newe in 1950 just a
always to us for greater things than one Emlyn Williams, Terence Tatti-
believed that the poor treatment happy marriage are in donger. is exceptional. London is
Kno, Rex Harrison, veteran A. E. celebrating the mid-century Matthews and many others did
--London Express Service. with an unquenchable zest in 1949.
for live entertainment....
and impresarios, producers, Haleyon Season playwrights and other show
Today's Crop
"BONA
murder
«PONAVENTURE", 1 con- mystery, wat similarly dreamed up by i suburban housewife in her spare time from domestic jobs. Even less orthodox,
Road Shows
ALMA
table
of coloured folk within the Em- pire comes from ignorance-not prejudice,
E larger road-show houses
When I have listened to the serve no try-out theatres for Sir Charles Cochran's troubles, of Negroes in Britain the two authors of The Iver Novello's ambitious Lon- and of my own in the folk are netting fortunes HALLENGING the supremacy large and small in the big- Co Not Coward art sucht Late Edwina Black", a crowd don produtions, and ultimately west files In People wi gest peacetime theatrical new boom ever known.
Choice of 60
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So little voice
took jobs
as jumping-off grounds for Em-bitterness with this truth. play drawing shocker, and successful
Many of the 'reps. How can I sustain my falthy apartment pire tours wrights as William Douglas- as janitors th
Among the coloured people of co building with a frea apariment however, reckon on takings of Home, tho exuberant
£600 weekly from the Empire, tempted by Com- cialite whose
The Chillern order to have somewhere £500 to
munist assurances that under the Hund.eds" proved his fourth 10 write at all. So much for the keen and loyal local audiences.
These stock companies run Soviet flag there is no colour bar, blithe glance of Dame Fortune
to Britain bas smash hit. There's also the re- at just a few of today's of one play for anything from the
Fry, an markable Christopher
usually Londoner ex-school teacher who writes playwrights, Actors, producers week to a month; performances suffered terrible strain.
under-rehearsed in formidable verse and yet singers and dancers, have equally are plays luxuriates in n choice of recently scored a triumphant hats staked glittering claims in the and yet repertory is the bur- square miles geoning bough of the Briush some 60 live shows nightly, trick with three produced simal four downtown
three different known to London as theatreland. theatre. Et
now, and nothing will and overseas visitors usual- faneously
From Norwich to Hereford, THE damage has been done In- There's hardly space to cite windsor to Darlington, it is here move the new feeling of ly catch their breath at dis- theatres.
the Individual sngas.
that the young dramatist gets security. covering that this triple-
We have so little voice. Unlike It says much for the texture young Peter Coles, one of three his chance and somorrow's fore- score bill does not include
entertainment-minded brothers most actors learn their jobs the the American Negroes we have the thriving vaudeville' of of this halcyon peion that one
of these plays shre Sir Laurence Sinking his sayings into a 174- hard way. Sir Ralph Richardson, no strong Negro Press. In the a dozen traditional music- Olivier, another was staged by seater theatre built in a private Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Robert United States it is active in its halls nor amateur produc- John delgud while a third was house, he produced "Pick-Up Donat, Diana Wynyard, Maurice protests against racial injustice. I felt shame, too, when I rend Evans are among the repertory Peter Girl", tions, ice shows or a score produced by 24-year-old
a much-discussed play
representative of players who have climbed to that n of flourishing repertory and Brook. This enfant terrible in
turn recently half-shocked, half- which Queen Mary praised, and lardom. Thele very names prove 15,000,000 Afro-Americans was road-show theatres in the delighted Londoners when he now is launching a new nation that the theatre is one of Bri- one of the first to call on Sereise
tain's prominent export trades, in London with offers of help. outer suburbs,
singed a fantastic "Salome" with wide repertory.
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