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MINK DREAM

IS ENDED

By NEWELL ROGERS

NEW YORK.

Nfor chorus dolls at the stage

TO free-sponding guys left to wait

door? No stage-door Johnnies with money burning their pockets because Income taxes are so high?

Showgirl Rosemary Williamson from the chorus line of the Damon Runyon musical show "Guys and Dolla" would tell you to forget it.

Didn't she buy a handsome, curly-haired guy a 6d, cup of coffee? Didn't he buy her à £2,000 powder- blue sports car, a £1,150 mink coat, and a £2,900 diamond ring before she knew what was happening?

He certainly did, and Broadway's bright lights never sparkled 60 brightly for Rosemary. Or for Sid- ney Levy, a 27-year-old free-spender.

But unlike "Guys and Dolls," the story has an unhappy ending. Levy is in gaol charged with a £14,280 nylon textile swindle.

At the district attorney's office Rosemary called her free-apen- tier a "creep," a "pest." Wanly she complained: "I never know 10 was in illegal business. 1 thought he was a gambler."

ULTIMATUM to the Senate has been delivered by its leader. Ernest McFarland: "General Eisenhower is being handicapped

"Take a letter. Dear Mr. Stalin, we will be very much obliged if you don't start anything for two years...”

London Express Service

DON IDDON'S DIARY

HE British gave a the radio and the news- NEW YORK

T

big party here this papers and magazines were week. Sixty-five out in force. floors above the

side-walks of New York, in

TUESDAY American admiral

Mr. George Britain gives a party to her

In the programme for rearming circular glass house ad- Sokolsky, the joining the Rainbow Room. He arst

Europe by inck of action here Unless the

troops-for-Europe 150 people gathered at the columnist American friends-and

In

invitation of Major C. B. Ormerod, of the British who Information, Services,

uses

and БИСССЕЗ

that

critics

cism of the appointment of an was an at- tempt "to befoul Anglo-Ameri- can relations."

This is the worst sort of rub- bish to

a come from

man known for his nonsense. Not even the most fanatical lingo or the severest critic here has de- nounced Churchill.

For

from befouling Anglo- Churchill American relations, has bettered them by proving to the US. that we still have some self-respect,

tish business men here. I think of the that with the backing Treasury they could do more.

the What is happening to

toid there conference

Americans

in arts and

COMPLAINT by rejected the pro-British and Inter- wearing my bullet-proof are

British Information to the No one here seems to be able is only 31, is being hailed as

waistcoat!

Americans, let

issue is decided soon, there will be no Easter recess.”

DOUBLE-STAR lights blaze

everything from a machine- ing to ench other" something for Sarah Churchill on Broad- way. While her name is up For' once we were on top gun to a knife to wound us hard to imagine.

This was mecek stuff from the Lover a cinema showing "Royal of the New World. The in print, came up to me.

roaring Sokolsky lion...

Here anti-British feeling Wedding." It will also be in neon Isolationists and anti-Bri- "You're the fellow I want

I think the party was a spark- dollar gap? The Eastbourne seems to have subsided. We are over the theatre where she is tish politicians and journ to shoot," he said. I told ing

lead

also doing well playing

1 show,

Is the gap "Gramercy Ghost."

alists were there, as well as him that, fortunately, I was should be more of them. If we little.

widening, letters. Geoffrey Cotterell, who in the business of giving lessening, remaining the same? suitor Samuel Reynolds, after nationalist groups. No one

the the best young British novelist us invite the to tell

and friends on the for years"certaini me,

of interna shooting three policemen who.

Wall Street Journal forecast refused to let him into the birth-lost his temper or flung a

Sokolsky, who considers carpers and critics and Anglo-

the New tional fame," says phobes as well us the fulsome gloomily that our tride faces a York Times. His book "Strait day party of his ex-sweetheart glass.

us Socialist slackers and friends and Anglophiles.

new crisis, that the economic

Narrow" is a very he could kill her and

great so that

Our fiercest critics hung effete pan-handlers, assured

barometer is heading down- and himself: "A man can't even kill on most of the words of Sir me that we are down and publicity drive has taken on new be asking more financial aid. I

Altogether our information and wards, and that

soon we shall success. himself in

Cecil Beaton has enjoyed new. TAXATION bill for 1950 paid Gladwyn Jebb, Mr Gore done and out, and said it momentum recently-perhaps hope not.

successes as designer and photo- by mighty General Motors Cor-Booth, our Information was something I wrote the due to proddings, Since Mrs

grapher here, and his farewell paration-more than £548 mil-Chief, Mr H. A. Hobson, other week which moved Press Department, our officials financial eggs are in the British the official British get-together

Joy Wright arrived to direct the

party the other night rivalled· Hon-would have been enough our new to meet all expenditure of the

Consul-General, him to want to murder me. have been gaivanised into action. Festival basket and we are rely- as an Anglo-American contribu United States Government in and even listened to the

ing heavily on the American tion. Nool Coward's latest book, British correspondents. any year up to 1917,

tourist trade.

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Hollywood big-shot. gambler Mickey Cohen.

we

Never underestimate the power However, within five minutes of a women!

were chatting like friends

Gunning for me (Doar old pals, foily old pais) Now that at last we are spend-

men

women

and the most ferocious remark ing our few dollars effectively, THE

and

Sokolsky was capable of when 1 how is our campaign to carn who influence Ameri- going so Isolationist

left was: "I tell you. America is them going? Not very well.

that soon

I don't hear much about Bri- can public opinion through Americans won't even be talk- tish business or much from Bri-

One daringly spectacular

dance-then

vast THE

hall of Olympia had been transformed that night into a great cathe-- dral, and in front of the altar the abbess and her nuns were praying.

But one at them, the most beautiful of them, was rest- less. There were sounds of gay singing from outaide the cathedral door, and when it swung open you could acc women madly

men

dancing.

and

on to

then on

The

COCHRAN STORY

Delysia

Apparently

many

of

aur

Sure-fire way WELL, one sure-fre way of not turing visitors and not garnering dollars is the meat shortage. Will the American

and

In fashions the trend in men's clothes is to British styles-no padding in the shoulders, nar- narrow-brimined

row trousers,

hats, the air of casual elegance. As for women, they are wear-

Our film folk

sightseers, pleasure-seekers, and ing nylon stockings for hat- castic-gazers be able to buy ham veils. It sounds far-fetched, but

it's fetching. eggs, bacon and eggs, steaks,

it is again chops, pork, lamb, and sirloin In entertainment beef? It sounds a harsh ques- .

Charlie Chaplin who is in the would-be vialtor. Warned, young girl to

nows. His advertisement: tion, but the

play wants to know.

leading lady to comedian gener- Will he be able to order ally recognised as the world's Scotch, bourbon, rye, and

greatest" has produced a shoal of ice-cubes? The ice of applications. King Charles Up-stage

translucent Plenty

cubes are very important. No the Modest. screen,lighted from the back, ice--no dice. stretched from wing to wing and as the band began to play: Of course, the best possible at- thegilhouette of a female traction that Britain could pro- figure could be seen behind the vide for the American Festival screen.

folk would be a new Govern- ment. If Messrs. Attlee, Bevin,

"Three Up went the opera glasses. Morrison, Bevan, Galtskell, and other American film, But you only needed your company wish to

make a real Weird Tales," by John Coller. naked eyes to see that the giri contribution

Festival's It would be filmed in London to the

under American John Huston's behind the screen was wearing success, let them stand down.

but a Grecian nothing

direction. This gesture would be appre- ***

in his James Mason will sing in perched on her shoulder.

clated by almost everyone here, next picture, A Lady Posses Seven other girls fol- and we would probably make so sed." Well, something had to be slowly Bling many dollars that we could pay done about his come-back. The lowed,

Across the stage and back the American loan.

latest British film to open here, their entire dress also

The recent antics of Labour "The Magnet," featuring young consisted either of us, Ministers have dumbfounded a William Fox, got three and a vases or Lyres.

long-suffering public here. Par- half stars from the critics, The stage lights dimmed, and ticularly

Footnote: A sick country needs Emanuel Shinwell's when they went up again, there charge that Mr Churchill's criti- t and healthy leaders,

before was Delysla, standing

A CHAMPAGNE SERIAL

still OF OUR AGE.......by LEONARD. MOSLEY The young nun fretted upon her knees until her col-,

ho is scen later only a thin once," he called it), but Then she she leagues fled away.

was certainly the first man in Jose, turned her back on the strip of material covers her... Cross, stretched out ber arms

Britain to exploit the sodyzlast's ert.❤ In the

It took Cochran show feet and moved her

manship to suggest it in tentative steps of a dance,

religious play.

When the cathedral door opened again, and the sunshine flooded In she moved towards it as if drawn against her will,

Spielmann,

the tempting emissary from the Devil, caught sight of her and started back in amazement at her beauty.... then, in a sudden frenzy of passion dragged her out into

the gay throng,

“SHOCKING'

-The Flesh and the Devil

fessor Germany

With his help she is tearing duction. at her nun's hábit, and

*

*

when 2,000,

NATAVKA THOURÁNÒWA durobed för" The Miracle.

A came

Π

was the high point of the first night

of Charles Cochran's

THE MIRACLE at Olympia, and daring knocked nation rigid.

י

its

the

Max Reinhardt and the great designer pro- Stern bad come from

to organise the pro- There was a

cast of

'SHOCKING" The girl with the urn

urn

a mirror in a boudoir. For the next ten minutes without saying a word to the poniment of

French gay tune she began to disrobe. When the final blackout came, she Was roguishly facing the COCHRAN belleved audience clad waly in a petticoat, that the female There were other scenes in form should be seen "Odds

In which and Ends" and appreciated in Delysia sang, but there was no the theatre. After THE

doubt which of her appearances MIRACLE he expert had

the most effect upon mented with dancers audience. They were cheering who disrobed while her at the end. And a crowd their steps but of admirers waited for her at

through

tho day

to

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a pack of dogs, horses going with painted spots on their did not organise it into a the stage door. backs and knights in armour major feature of his shows Delysia was launched

he found the right girl the riding them.

until

rond to stardom. church-going England to do it.

who halled That was through the sleet and

not until he dh papers to be shocked by this covered Alico

Delyma, after a bright new light of the Lon- Blush

don theatre -- and forecast allegory of God, the Flesh, and the outbreak of war.

B He had stumbled across her carried

brilliant future for her-also the

why does Cochran, produce in Paris, a refugee from tragedies in rallway stations? German push across Belgium CZAR'S CONFIDENCE IN Why does he present a mystery and Northern France, and was in a circus ring?" indignantly struck by her intense vitality asked the Daily Express,

and impish appeal. But

She the crowds came and

seemed to Cochran singed to marvel at the high typity everything an Engilah-

thought emotional

of when he passion of Natacha man Trouhanows, the Russian visualised a Partalan gamino- dancer who had been brought and he brought her to London,

Ho Nun

A HOW from Moscow to play the

was preparing It was.

the first

(and revue called ODDS AND ENDS.. greatest) of Cochran's specia- and cles Not until he revivice at Delysia seemed just the he could around whom with Lady

Diana. Cooper, In pivot one of his most daring. 1937, did he ever achieve such scenes, grandeur again.

one of his dance- dire,the Life was gay and relaxed in octors, George Shurley, he wont lonaries, her fame and fortune

{s-F{h Britain, In spite of the bell into conference to plan some had begun to spread · serom gerent rumblings from Ger thing that would shock a the world, and she was off to many.. And, though women's feverish, wartime London. It play in New York at a salary hata were bearly a foot high wasn't eary, but be did it. of £400 a week. and

That their skiria, down to the

Sho first night of “Odds

nover forgot that floor,

of them were and Ends," in 1916 at the Am Cochran gave her

Arst showing a saizzy ankle as they bassadors, the curtain came chance. When he was ia alkfed through e new dance-down on a setch- and when

ber fortune and she Cochran would never have singo: was in darkness would, “always threw up any

the term strip-tezza

other

some

have bolter luck than the Russian monarch. abe

ber

paid 200 a month for

the time the

BY

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his family were dying in a cellar. from of the révolu

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