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SINGS

A STRANGE SONG

fron

The Mildile and night clubs, is trying to climb back into popularity.

palite prise which the the--Wstern Hemisphere and only [ders to its cabarets, duner-halis, Beaverbrook Press is pumpling into 25 per cent, the Marshall Plan discussiob--re- East. pet with thanks new offers of In fashions the New Look hus dollar id, etc.-B. a strange s ug demonstrated that it is here to American ears,

to

Sharp of its old-world courtesy, has an unfortunate resemblance to the current hi tune: "I don't want her, you can have her, she's tou fat for me,"

Taxpayers here would te very DUNKLEY. To Gwen, wife of much to know how many British Coplain W. IL. M. Dunkley,at | De ple are humming this ditty. Queen Mary 15 sputat, on They would be interested to dis Monday, February 18, 1948, cover how string is the body of ason (Micklejohn).

Bretosh opinton pposed to acerpt ang mere American sunney.

PUT AWAY FOR

SAFETY

There is nothing particularly | new about the recent story of the man who for safety's sake secret

Hoarding. It Up

If the number of non-borrower, is large, then the disposition to fell out more infliions is naturally

going to be qualined,

the European Ree very Plan

The propelling power behind

cd one hundred a notes in hisnally the harsh mpcessities of

Europe, the stark need for aid.

But with some big British hews. But then! poopers expressing thankful rejec; toons, what is the voter and the pushitician fire to think? Cerlain fy the opponents of Marshall Plan are hurting for uNC later declaration

ROY if

dollar

stay, and there is hardly a short. skirted girl 101 in New York.

The highlight of my own week was the arrival of Daily Mail editor Frank Owen, here to ite- Hare and took things over.

New York says the deeper we Into peace the pore war-like fonks,

In the 's and 30's part of peting the town included a trip t Harlem, but this custom dwindled in the 40's. Today Harlem busi hasmen have gel together 113 siphon off trade "from Dr.Away. The colour bar is less trouble. some In New York than in nost American cities. Negr.es are res fused accosiumodation

most hotels in Atonhaltan and denied food and drink in the majority of restaurants, but it kali ne with an air of decorum and accepted habit.

-

Britain ennnot keep out of the American news, but whether y wit ngre with the reports on jing Trom Laindon about yourselves

Isubtful

The great Negro artist Paul Says the magazine Newsccer: Robeson continues to crusache "London is both drearles and against this segregation. He says perkier tuan B was

two years he will abandon the theatre and

neert singe to talk down and nation sugulust hatred and prejudice."

wife's rag-bag which on the tuk- lowing day was given, ali unwit tingh, to a ragwan. the is nothing particularly new about love, or death, at the other hoops that human be 225 have to

go through there is a verain unstersalitshare. about the man's experience to say nothing of his wife's which makes it possible, inderd almust obligatory, to sead into his ad In New York and Jus suthe sell ut icon to us costern seaboard shortage at h me agu alt.

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Incidentally, two members the American cast of "Anna Lucasta" are

Chiengo for 50,000 dollars beettise they were refusett a run there,

hole

Kiing

A Rye Simile

The latest American reaction to our 75 per cent, duty on U.S. films is the charge that a shnilar situa tion would exist if Congress im pased a 75 per cent, duty on all Se teh whisky coming here.

Hollywood points out thn! Scotch whisky from the United

American rye, b urbon, gin.

9-29

"When do they start throwing away the taxpayers*

money?"

The Man On The White Charger

By Noel Monks

[is affecting enthusiasm for ship-activity, though still minuscular/Kingdom is competing against ef Tunis, Britain's most rif-ellacing Ja British tank,

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The Diary's all continues

CRAS

moment

Field-Marshal Viscount Alexander and was captured in the process by

Ar that general, has an old his story of Rommel probably began to

realise It is good to see that American the Morag campaign be command that he had lost what was la prove resentment against the tax is noted from El Alsmein' to Tunis the decisive batle of the war,

He sells it a kis atst comrades int affecting audience enthusing fur our lus and plays.

the Western Desert with expect

This is Alexander's verdict:

Alamein had been

stand-up The D'Oyly Carte Opera Com-Hearly, modestly, objectively.

fight lasting eleven days, has kilful pany goes on to greater triumphs As the man whose orders Mone-fighting soldiers and simmer won the

adership and the tenary of Dunate pomery followed across 2,009 miles day, and with it the first great vic-

very

all time.

Lawrence is exhausting herself to taking curtain calls in "Tonight

fass-«The

Rudy Vallee, has turned down fortunate in

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stary why

rory for the Allies,

frok

recriminations in

American were

that their first major

the

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"I proved to be the tuning-point of the war. The world kraese the Axis had suffered a major disaster, and there is no doubt that this know

aspisting General Eisenhower's mis sion in North Africa."

The Revelation

and then seek to vater for this hit zero and stayed there.

Queue Tip-Off predilection by encouraging i

week after week. Mr. Cubgressmen say the U.S. Navy

Wolfit will soon be welcomed back of desert to victory tells his their private possessions & sort of now has only enough oil for two There is is brillant descrip-again with his Shukespeareon you passive anarchy.

frel you weks of war, which seems, irretion of a queue: "A neuter cater troupe. In

Jast uthier Muld

Rommet Hever had a chance Tevant, but makes, headlines. they

pallur-no mind, no soul, just everything

Arthur Rank's "Holiday Camp" the day Alexander took over, The pinch In petrol is ying about, firmly

being slow persuaded felt and drastic cutiservation or years of experience to crawl in lav urably by the critics; Gertrude iade the dreds of his men live luredge was of vital importance

saving, body trained by hus just been received

Alexander

cewirected British that under any other system their ders

arms from the valley of despair stut have been issued. Many the right direction," belongings would to all intents jeinemas, theatres, night clubs, astil

ATTRAUS vanish. While bowling alleys expect to be shitte voluming us. The main toples at 8.30"; and British actors, if the tale, nut even at the dangerous

There are ather men find it not only posd wn. For unce the US, has been sen again spirited replies to alieg-anything, are more popular than failure of the Americans as Kasserine ible but actually convenient

eatght short, and in a slight panic fed anti-American feeling in Bel- the natives. keep, say, their mail-scissors in a

it hox sloshed its exports of fun!tuln and requests for advice from drawer, diese would despair u

ont and gasolme by 18.5 per cent, couples and families who want in ever finding them if the quest.

emigrate to the U.Ș, but cannot did not involve displacing several

Not To Taste Imake up their minds, stata of irrelevant objects-two serd catalogues,

The Isolationiste are proclały- insuranceing that this is a taste of wat puties, batting glove, a map of the Marshall Plan will mean and Suffolk, a pack of patience cards, waminow why the 16 part. a small fossii, six unexpended epacting Hurupean nations get 76 Christmas cards, and a dentist

per cent of their petroleum from b. A miscellany of this kind not merels the best repusitur;; jij is the only repository for a part Lot nail-scissors: that is the con viction of these men, and it is

cally surprising how often they! find what they are looking for.

At the opposite pule are the ultramethodical, the

men with minds like filing cabinets and desks like deserts. A strict al-j phabetical order marshals the au- thors on their shelves and even their-bedroom slippers seem to be perpetually at attention.

100 Years Ago

From the files of the "China-Mai!"'j-

Balloons are to be employed)

Their drawers, opening with by the expeditions in search of none of that hesitancy which can Jost

Arctic explorers for the

so easily by an old purpose of conveying notices to

Jeluct

them in cuse the wind should becoming lead the balloons in their diree-

Roaring Forties

Broadway is in the

doldrums. The Arctic weather is

keeping audiences away from everything out the hit shows.

euemy commander."

Not

in

get the measure of the two

and Romnet,

in

an extravagant offer to tour Bri-hale had been against sich ex-watts well beyond Tripoli, Alexander Fuchs later, with the Ger tain because of the criticism of perienced troops and so datang anensed one of his signals like this: Mickey Rooney.

Fur

Romunel's general inteutions Sir Laurence Olivier's film ver- that Alexander upholds what Revelations sii., 12" ("The devil is sion of "Hamlet" is expreled to became the Rommel legend--the come down unto you, having great

a dashing leader on p "Henry V., which has gross. legend of

weath, because he knoweth he hath ed 2,000,000 dollars here. Rank white charger. He was a tactician but a short time"). himself will decide how it is to be doubt whether he fully understoren. Alexanter

ful the greatest ability, but in strategy You sold and distributed to

th the importance of a sound adminis American market.

these passages: Loretta Young is very hurt and exploit immediate

trosive plan, Ile was able to over Ruminel, when receiving his balan upset by

the British reaction to suficient thought for she future.”

within Berlin: Weld the gateway to Egypt. You can rely on us holding her inpression of theatres

Landen. The

fast to what we have got." actress either exaggerated or bud her words distorted, but we need

Alexander, on the eve of the Bat tle uf not lose our tempers.

Alamein: "With all prepara- Loretta came back from Britain

fideice, but nevertheless with a saber tions made, I felt I could regard the conflict with certain con- Anglophile

oppucciation of the importance of the event."

The publie is complaining, too, about the cramped, old-fashioned,

od sometimes dirty which line the Forties in the Tunes-square area.

It is strange but true that some of London's entertainment houses fare more modern and palatial than

New York's. This applies pecially to cinemas.

Cy-

Sec-

the most forvent

have ever met,

Oliver Hardy, back from Europe, says there is plenty of money and opportunity there for

Harlem, the great Negro tion, which used to attract Courists gawkers, and free spen-¡Continued at foot of next Column)

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

The Turning-Point `

Alexander also makes it clear tha

it was Rummel's stubbornness that Ied to the capture of General

Thoma. This is how it happened:

Alamein had been fought and wou and in telling his story of the battle Alexander dignies the legend that hin); the pursuit was about to be Remmel bas plapsed trap fur sim New Zealanders, with-the--41dence Light Armoured Brigade, were sent in a wide mee

weep to the south

wilk orders to press it.

German

Of Montgomery, on whom fell all well his capacities as an in- the limelight, Alexander says: "1 piring leader and an outstanding and aifgction of the men of of men. He suon_en_ihe.com the Eighth Army,

"fle rapilly made himself familiar

with the situation in, the desert, and rearguard spotted this by his frequent visits in the from he great mass of motorised and armen

traught tu all ranks the inspiration of the

e trumps, but Rommel refused to tr

lieve they were British, General van coalidence.", enthusiasm, and

Thema expostulated,

Renamel. "talians."

APIE

So van Thoma went forward make + personal reconnaissance--

wedged in the back of them, dis tion; about 2,000 notices can be ASK YOURSELF WHY play a symmetry so wondrous as sent by cach balloon and these to be slightly inhuman; no mat are detached singly at intervals select the suit you expect, it is your lead with the club A, led in the Realizing there might be danger When the opening leader does put of a club ruff, the declarer took the ter low recondite the object they of five minutes by means of job as declarer to ask yourself a seek they find it, whether it is a slow match Burning, to which number of

diamond A, ruffed his other diamonÍ copy of their birth certificate or they are attached,

questions, all coming un then quickly took our trump American

and a false nose, in a flash-untess, of

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Of America's General Patton; "He produced, during his period of cum

a transformation in his troops. mand, By his influence they had recovered from the natural depression caused by the early set-backs, and they add. entertainers, particu-ed the skill of the trained soldier to it to avoid leading from honours in and then the A and J. There forly in Belgium, which is selling those excellent natural qualities. course, some thoughtless intruder, favourable field for this new trying to knock an entry out of your thine. That, however, could not hears to the U.S. Government.

her suits? Was it because he was nothing left to do new but run the

uranium for many millions of doi General Patton was to score other some supererogatory tidier-up has employment, as they cannot, as bant

triumphs in Europe, but I think this moved it from its appointed we are said to, be excluded from he had length in the suit and hoped sering trick with the club J.

the dummy? Was it because done, and he had to give East the London's Henry Sherck writes not the lenst of his achievements."

to say that seven London manage Alexander story you catch glimpses

you turn the the Interior; 2.000 tracts by this to give his partner a ruff? Was it

pages of the South should have read the clothinents are bidding for Terrible, then, is the distress conveyance sent off in the SW for himself? The answer to these and West failed to open his partner's dia. Desire," but nobody has clinched plans for battle after battle all that of these methodical people. No Monsoon would have a most ex-similar questions can prove the key mands. It was, jeally

singleton or doubleton to get a ruff lead as a probable singleton

of the great eye for detail the Coin- when standing play "Streetcar Named C. had, and you read of the only is the whole pattern of their tended inland distribution--or to your playing plan.

poorly it yet. Someone should, loving stowage flawed, but their when any law obnoxious to the

long, dreary struggle scross the de Krand stam

slam, Itaymond since it could have been to informa ytors one of the most popular envy it all seemed,

Gram Swing, for sert, you canose help thinking -hów, tive to the declarer,, though perhaps br.adcasterD

in all right

America and #gaint

small slam abroad, has been relinquished by South, however, failed to read from his network. Swing is bitter at the danger to his club uiz, Hadadio's Inadequacy in the world he seen it, he could have protected himself byretting up a long hers crisis,

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Tomorrow's Problems

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the out-

-Way of-a Star-

The Genius.

It would have been on time-hu............. der without Alexander's gulding genius,

Here-anil-there-

"references to the "inadequate" armament of our John Garfield, who gets 200,000 Weapons. (holly challenged at times dollars a picture, is accepting only ference of "gratefulness to President In the Commons), and there's a re- 100 dollars a week while starring Roosevelt for personally ordering in "Skipper Next to God," the shipment of 300 Sherman tanks wonderful new play presented by to our Forces in the Middle East. the Experimental Theatre, because

the company cannot afford any .

more,

***

"At last we had for the first time tank which was equal in armour, Armament, and performance to the Michael Clayton Hutton, -25-best tank in the

Corps." By year-old British playwright, has Alexander, written two new plays, "Mean

In the final analysis Alexander Street" and "Three Days," in less anys: "The credit (of Tunis) than a week.

D to the soldiers of all three nations

muset

be in the wrong place, a terra in- Private balloons could cognita which they are

bu

Pass B, 7 6 fitted marked in the same manner as neither by habit nor tempera- the flags of their

North might be eritiered for. bid- owners, ment to explore. Still, it. takes capital slow match

Ading hearts again on his second in C. A 917 would be instead of clubs, also for putting the all sorts to make a world. Un- found in the long spiral pieces weight on his side's luck and his tidiness is anti-social, and on the of joss-stick; indeed, they seem partner's skill by going all the way whole it is better to put things as if made for the purpose. to grand slam after learning by away than to leave them lying

Bouth's answer to the Blackwood that about: though the experience of Bungalow, of 4 or 5 Rooms, caused his partner to make ti con-able),

WANTED. —A House, or the side had all of the sces. Fit his failure to bid clubs should have this precept with too much in and 2 Both-Rooms, with the re genuity suggests that there are usual Our-Houses. Apply, stats, as it resulted in West kad- exceptions to this

as to other ing terms of rage and Rent, to aid Sooth how to play the bad, but might gala from bidding 1-Heart New Look still get the old backed me up in every possible? Ing the club 3. That should havc What are the various ways South Footnote: Hollywood says the sons and for the task in hund, Haw S.G. at the office of this Paper, üldn't.

rules.

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Wook's film is Treasure, of Brain, America, Funct. And in Sierra Madre,--with--Humphrey, a very large degrée 4 tds. General Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Eisenhower, who, by word and on (Dealers West. East-West vulper Hollywood has made for years we were the happiest, and I

Holt. This is the best picture ampis inspired those cloris.

relation with General Eisen- masterpiece,

valued them both for personal ren.

"over, Baile, opening t-Diamond ?. whistle,

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