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By Dick Turner

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"Would you page my husband, H. P. Adams? And you'll find that he answers quicker if you just scream the whole naine-Hiram Percy Adams!"

The Man Behind

The Glass #1

Mr.

By E. V. MATTHEWMAN

Once more Colonel Chinstrap,

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A STAR TELLS HER SUCCESS STORY

Gertrude Lawrence has writ- twist of your shoulders and two ton her life story; it renda like or, three lincs, you make me feel bent-selling novelette-as that I understand exactly how argo na life and twice as hand-the wheels go round at the back

of a girl'e mind.""

nome.

It is the story of every litle But this was when she was girl who ever dreamed oft playing in Charlot's Revue in "glamour" and of sailing out, New York and had the whole of stage doors surrounded by town at her feat. distinguished-looking orchids

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and rare, dukes. It is the story Gertrude Lawrence tells us of of Cinderella. But though there! "Private Lives," aid how ever are two husbands in it there is, since she played in it people of course, no mention of a fairy have been confusing hor with godmother.

the heroine of Noel Coward's The woman la congenitally play "They think I must be chic. It makes no difference brittle, irresponsible, and have whether she is telling you of the emotional stability of a the feather-brained twenties shuttle-cock."

and thirties"I didn't just buy She is neither a cynic nor a a Bentley car. I had one built!" entimentalist "Everything

and her drawing room decorat- that has value," she says, "has ed entirely with mirrors and its price. Nothing worth hav- ailver sequin curtains, or of the ing is ever handed to you gratis. more sordid

side of her im- A career in the theatre is no poverished childhood near Ken-exception to this hard and fast nington Oval when the family { rule,» indulged in a series of moonlight

fts without paying the rent.

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The story is as alive as she

"Mother always dressed up to the nines for the vecnsion. She would lower her largest bird- ed hat atop her puffs, twine a marabou loa_elegantly about her neck, and draw on a pair of long, worn, but carefully mend- ed gloves. Catching up her skirt with one hand and carry-

Are Dogs

Intelligent?

By

ing the tea-kettle in the other, CHAPMAN PINCHER-

the

she would sweep down stairs with a dignity calculated to overpower any lurking land jord.

con-

people would any yes-emphati- Are dogs intelligent? Most

"In Dad, jauntincas cose over sidering the results of imper-

cally. Scientists, coldly dignity. He would cock his senal experiments, say no, bowler at an angle, and, thumbs

the story of four in the armholes of his waist-tests deliberately designed to be cont, he would chaff the grocer's as mechanical

as possible bey, making him a partner in eliminate misinterpretation.

the adventure.

This is

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The position in Korea today shows the idiocy of zoning just as clearly as Austria or Germany. In Korea, however, there are only two occupying Powers: the Soviet Union in the coal-producing zone north of the 38th parallel and the U.S.A. in the southern, far more imdustrially developed area. For some months there was little, if any, Haison between the two mili- tary governments and two di ferent policies were adopted. The Russians encouraged political de- velopment, land reform and pub- lic control of financial and indus- trial organisations, whilst the i Americans, using the excuse that the Koreans were insufficiently. trained, kept Japanese officials in{ key positions. Last December, after the Moscow. Conference, a joint Soviet-American comunission · was set up to prepare, with the aid of the Korean democratic parties, proposals for a Provisional Government, which were to be } submitted for the approval of the Chinese, British, Russian and American Governments. This joint commission, which met in Seoul, capital of the American

Handley Zone, in March, collapsed a

was saying: not entirely erase from his voice I don't think you're the burr

of Devon, where he month ago because the two OC-

going to last out."

was born. cupying Powers could find

"Large stout, sir? "I don't that Mr. Hore-Beliahn saw Mr. It was at Devonport in 1928 basis of agreement." The Ameri-

"At & signal from Dad the sans proposed the unification of mind if I do."

Train at a smoking concert, and boy would push off with his Korea; the Russians argued that

introduction to

1 Dogs were placed in boxes of Itma, alias Mr. Jack Train gave him an

cart, Dad would gallantly offer from which they could escape this was outside the terms of re- beating the fuddling, envelopevue-producer Archie de Bear Mother his arm, and they would by pulling strings-lifting lat ference and in any case was a mat-

ing mists-had responded to his Mr. Train tool the rond-its follow. I would bring up the chea or

sliding doors. They hard one leading 11 years later rear of the little procession. So never ter for the Korenas to

decide. cuc,

seemed to size up the to the original "Funf." But what groups of Kurcans

is the

we moved In radio it is the voice that gilent streets, pioneers setting puzzle.

solve the then through Clapham's situation and could be regarded by both Fowlineal descendant of Funf, first matters. Without

Always they found ers as competent to take decisions, of Mr. Train's many-voiced which shimmer in the largest forth into the unknown to start their way out by accident. If is not clear. The Americans re-

characters who have gone out lights, beauty, beyond the dreams new home in a new and un-put back in the box they went

the tried land. Adventure tingled through

whole trial and fused from the beginning to co-

into the homes, the busts, the of Hellywood, may well be jet-in my toes, and where the moon error process again. Only after operate with the Korean libera- tenshops, and the pubs of Eng-tisoned as useless

or a street lamp splashed the many trials did they omit any* tion committees which catne into land and passed into the English Lucky Mr. Train

to have so pavement with light, my feet uselces movements. The samo the open soon

after Hiroshin, language.

many voices! He takes

test was carried out with mon- used Japanese police to suppress

The Colonel is a clue to Itma's models from e. He found would begin to dance..

Her career has been charac-keys. They found the answor them and allowed Japanese quis- success. He fulfils a condition many of them on Plymouth terised by a ruthless determina. very quickly-and remembered British laughter-it Argyle's character-full shilling tien to succeed-and lings to remain in uffice. They of true

nothing it.

A dog does not get out of a then stimulated the landowners must be tinged with compassion terraces.

The Colonel was found in a apparently has stopped her. and free from malice.

puzzle box any more quickly and big business party (the Colonel Chinstrap is the low- London pub. Soon after the war

Gertrude Lawrence's early after watching the performance. Korean Democratic Party) and able soak, never quite drunk,started Mr. Train was having dancing was done to

enunciating each syllable with

barrel of another dog which knows the a drink with a B.B.C. official Chinstrap voice intrud-

organs and her first song was way out. Nor, say the scientists, Kim Koo and Synhman Rhee, care, anxious to give no offence when

"Oh, it ain't all boney, and It is it helped by being put through who regarded the liberation com- where certainly none ja meant. ed on their conversation:-

ain't all jum,

the movements. miitees with about "as much ap- He cadges with dignity, and "Dammit, sir, I've just done

"Walking round the 'ouses recarries hia shabby gentility with a very good deal with the gas

with a three-wheel pram." proval as Chiang Kai-shek

company. I've bought a water.

She has called her autobio- 2. The power to comprehend a the Yenan regime. In composure.

His measured utterances are heater on a ten-year instalment graphy A Star Danced" (W. simple principle seems to be be- short, Korea today is the counter the perfect foil to the fire-plan, and they don't know I'm 11. Allen, 108, 6d.) because on youd dogs. Five monkeys and part of the European situation, cracker gags of Handley, which drinking myself to death."

her first visit to Brighton Pier sixteen doga were each given with the Russians encouraging a caused Bob Hope, himself no The voice was filed by Mr. as a little girl, she got a pink a series of trials in a room with Left-wing resistance movement idler, to say, "I don't get it. Train and forgotten until one paper fortune from a penny

day it came

to life again in in-the-slot machine,-which-read: and the Americans refusing, in It's too fast

Itma the sacred name of private enter-

At the microphone Chinstrap prise, to recognise the popular de-

angs at the knees, droops at the mand for economic and political

The colonel's creator is short, shoulders, and his lips take a change.

of disillusion. dark and deceptive. There is unward turn that about him which says, "IThis is not Mr. Train playing hate work. It's a boro." But to the studio audience. This is it does not entirely fool you. Mr. Train helping himself to There is a hint of fashionable perfect his vocal caricature. indifference to popularity which ho tells you dissolves when about the 14 R.A.F. sergeants in Germany.

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four exit doors.

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cept one. This was never the All the doors were locked_ex- A star danced.

door that had been unlocked In And you were born,

---Shakespeare.

the previous trial. The object She told no one of her was to see whether the animals "fqrtune," but

determined to could grasp the principle that it become famous.

was no good trying the door from which they had escaped last time. They all falled.

Again But there were years of ox. The result of the General Elec-

the monkeys got out hausting struggle before her. more quickly than the dogs, be- tion in Czechoslovakia is unlikely

She tells of a kind pawn-cause they always tried all four to lead to any radical change of

broker and of a theatrical man- doors. The dogs showed the policy. All parties were cam

Outstanding leason of Itma is agor who decamped with the lowest type of reaction-push- mitted before the poll to the con-

The sergeants formed a Chin- the importance of highgrade actors" wagea and

left bering repeatedly at one door or tinuance of Coalition Government strap Club in their mess. They supports for the star. Liston-stranded, of how she worked as persistently neglecting others. Due to the cancellation of the Government participation in

and to implementing the Kosice had themselves photographed, era await their arrival, regret a barmaid in Shrewsbury while thaso undertakings the under

antionalisation, tankards in hand, sent him a their departure, and deplore playing the part of a nun in the 3 Dogs have a poor memory. elgued much regret that the

land reform, and epuration. The print, and asked him to be presi- their absence if the script finds local theatre, Hey, when ahe Soveral dogs were placed, one no room. They are the got her first London engage-at a time, in a box from which present charge for electricity Entry forms are not yet consequence of the marked success dent. They put his photograph them

they ex-backbone of the show.

ment, she was so hard up that they could sco three eléctric must be increased by 80 por available, but this preliminary of the Communist Party in over the bar. But, cont. as from 16th June 19-16 notice is issued to enable those. Bohemia and Moravia, where plained, on gala nights they Not even Mr. Handley, with six Tommies clubbad together to light bulbs. One of these was switched on for a few seconds. and will apply to all motor interented to begin preparing they polled about 40 per cent. of pinned it to the underside of a all his zest, can handle all this pay her fare from Yarmouth.

He is in the position read on

"In between jobs," she says, Some time after it had been the examination.

the convenience of success. The the votes, will be that the execu- members interpreting the ob of the brilliant centre-forward "I lived at the Cate' Home in switched off the dogs wer re 1946.

syllabus can be seen at the

relying on his insides, bis wing- London so that I could make the leased, Education Department, Fire tion of the Kosice programmejects of the club tos literally. For the seven years before

theatrical man- half-backs. Mr. round of the

If they went to the bulb that easily on Mr.ere, and his

agera offices,

had been lit they got a 'reward the War the average cost of Brigade Building, during work will be speeded up. The small

ing hours.

proportion-barely 15 per cent. Train's shoulders, and stops Train is the centre-half.

Apart from Mr. Handley, This was votes secured by the there. He is pleased about it.

tall, gaunt house of food. They succeeded only coal was about $10 a ton, To

of the day conl is over $100 a ton,

Social-Democrats suggests that, in but not aggressively so. It has scriptman Ted Kavanagh and in Charlotte Street which entled when they kept their eyes on Girls' the bulb during the interval the Czech. lands, working-class brought him from Devonport producer Francia Worsley, Mr. itself the Theatrical electors were determined that dockyard,, the stereotyping de-Train is the sole survivor of Boarding House. Here, for 10s.after it had been switched off. a week, you could luxuriate in If they moved their heads or there should be no compromise Partment of the Western Morn- the original Itma team.

Onc of ing News and small stage and

Itma's zealously & cubicle by yourself. For 68.were turned round they could with capitalist interests in the film parts to his suite in Mount watched success-secrets to the a week you shared a room with not pick out the correct bulb.

Arch. It has principle of giving the customer another girl. For half a crown carrying out of the reconstruc- Royal, Marble tion of Czechoslovakia on So-satisfied his liking for a May not quite enough to make sure you could have a cot in a dormi-

Dogs cannot recognise tory. I never reached the 10s photographe. cialist lines, and that they con- fair telephone number, and given that he is ready for more

Their whole sidered that the Communist Party, his wifọ à mink coat,

A good character or a good private cubicle stage.

perception of shape and form, several of whose Ministers did And it has set him up as an phrase is rested at the peak of

according to the scientists, in: And this was the Gertrude poorly developed. Thus, while particularly well in the last ad-owner at White City, where borita popularity. It is done naht-

Alexander chickens learned to distinguish ministration, offered the best as has seen his dog. The Colonel, so that you, the listener, are Lawrence of whom

lator win six times. He

of the trick Woolcott was anya that barely conscious

to pay: a striped from a plain card after "With no more than a pout, a about 300 lessons, dogs falled to surance of Socialist policy being one day he'll buy a bitch and that has been played on you. vigorously executed. In Slovakia, call her The Colonel's Lady.

do it aftor 1,000 trials, pithough where Catholicism' is a stronger The racing and the amall

Biggest Draw

the stripes were made six times. influence, the Left did less-well, fluttere are, for him, only in-. Not until about an hour be|remains radio variety's biggest | wider, knowing the and the Conservative "Democrata" cidental to social evenings, foro tomorrow's Itma will Jack draw. To those whose job it How do dogs recognise people whereabouts of or possessing secured 60 per cent. of the votes. where he makes all kinds of new Train, or anybody else, know may eventually be to produce n then? Perhaps by smell or some information about JOHN MURRAY WALKER, said to Thus, in the Assembly, the two friends. Ife is have been a sergeant-major in Left parties will only have a bare meeting new people. the Artny in Hongkong, please majority of the seats, though this communicate with the Secry should be enough to ensure that tariat, 0.5,0. Building, Lower the still uncompleted programuze Albert "Road."

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NOTICE

Will anyone

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very fond of for sure. what will come out on successor I commend the words overall simple plature they asso

the air. But If the Colonel of, Dr. Ernest Whitfeld, newly clate with recurrent kindness or, doca say, "I don't mind if I do," appointed. B.B.C. governor "I crucity. It certainly neems that Models From Lifé It will be only the second time believe that to get the best of their mental images are nothing

in four months that he has done anything you must pay i

the filko, ours. His walk has not lost all the 80. Had you noticed 7:

highest prices with That's what pelentists think roll of the boy in the Navy of Itman with a listening aviti. ⠀ “Rye" and ico, alr I don' about a dog's intelligence. Are World War Land London can- once of thirty millions a week, mind if I do."

they right?