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AREWE DUCKING|

A PERIL-SPOT?

Oo

the Soviet-Persian border SEFTON DELMER

finds A situation 'more alarming than anything I've seen since China'

SALA

TURKEY

AZERBAIJAN

PERSIA

LAAQ

SANI AZARIA

Communist

peace pro-

in Persia for both the

TEHERAN. Persian high-ups they the 7HEN Dr Mohamed will, as likely as not, start paganda.

Mosadegh went to by pooh-poohing the Tudeh But the greatest tactical asset his study window and their affiliated Azerbai- and gazed out on the street jan "Democrat" separatists. Soviet and their Tudeh servants beneath, his shrewd old They dismiss their follow- is the anti-British nationalisa- eyes focused on a sight ing as confined to teenage ton movement stanted by the which filled him both with students and a few dis- vanerable, well-meaning, pleasure and misgiving, gruntled tribesmen. Scrawled on the wall op-

posite

was the one word "Nationalisation."

have

Afraid...

The Persian

ara

the

in the

as a nationalised enterprise, themselves, they followed It to a point where the driver dump- ed a valise and drove of.............

No know-how

ONLY a few hours before,

muddle-minded Mosadegh.

but

Uttlo

Dr

'The doctor is preparing for the Soviet a priceless op- portunity of exerting political,

Persian Govern-

The

man picked up the valise. They Bill.

CHAMPAGNE SERIAL

COCHRAN

STORY S

by LEONARD MOSLEY

£800 short and a

T was to be the biggest

revue. of

Cochran's

career, and the start of

a year which dogged him

£30,000

Huge models were made and cojected, And eventually the olumay great lou was dis Densed with altogether. A characteristically Cochran gesture

CHISIS

It nearly broke his heart

postponed:

DERGNER

B

Was

worried about her film career, and there Were

rumours that

she was departing for Hollywood. Instead, she weni. · înlo hospital for an operation. The production had to be

more money When "The Boy David" at alr Cochran's * last came

Iis hopes

destroyed. were fallure nearly broke Cochran's heart. It severely hit his bank

WIE

lost

with accident, illness, and show was balance, 100.

disaster.

FOLLOW THE SUN was its name. The star was Claire Luce, a bionde from America, who could sing and act with attractive power. One of the big sensations was the stage appearance of a new kind of dance band- a troupe of rumba players.

The comedian was a new- comer called Vic Oliver.

But rehearsals had been long, heated, and costly. On the day of the try-out, open- ing in Manchester £25,000 had been sunk in the show and bill collectors were at the stage door demanding another £800,

"If we don't get it, no dresses," they said, which meant that the show couldn't go on.

Cochran phoned his backers for the money. Not a perny more could he get

The showman, racked by arthritis and in severe pain, was in tears and in despair.

CRISIS

But the bill was paid

W and

WHILE his stars his chorus huddled in groups Bround the theatre, wondering whether they still had a job, he went back to the holel to see if his publicity

in

danger

.

SA

Ha. was eld. His arthritis was painful. Thero were пен conditions' in the theatre, and mounting costs, too. But showmen is a showman-and a showman must go,on,

—Nanasse

LA JANA ... danced for Cochran

a

As the rich har vest years of the Nineteen Thirties rolled on into the black

winter of War Cochran could look

cast At the lists of any play in London

or

New

York and ste Ja Mights the narnes

stara ho had created.

Even Berlin had

LA

a Cochran star- » lovely dancer Jana

who triumphed in one

his shows and then 'became favourite of the Nazis, and friend of Hitler.

But after the

wor the theatrical world wondered: Con he mako comeback?

Cochran tried. Ho put on

BIG BEN, by A. P. Herbert and Vivian Ellis, and, by, the same team, BLESS THE BRIDE.

but

Ben"

WBS

world-shaker, they are still singing the Bride's haunting song, This is My Love- ly Day,"

"Bless the Brido" was a smash hit, creat Cochran

show, but it had its typical, ironical Cochran twist to it.

DUT Cochran had thought he something better. It was TOUGH AT THE TOP.

which

ended

comparative

after Ave

a show

AS a

failure

months.

That is where this

He could see in the in- HOWEVER, the real truth to military, and diplomalle pres-

man, Major Leadlay, put on his CORONATION scription an ego-titillating

the Persians

REVUE. But there were troubles could help.

After two and half years of with that too, tribute to his effectiveness afraid of provoking their great sure on the

playing to packod Houser Leadlay had already invested neighbour. I know for ment and the Persian people. as a demagogue. For it Soviet

o fact that

Gitta Alpar, a new star from Cochran decided to take it off the Teheran police That is why Tudch painting able to produce more.

£3,416 in the show and wasn't

was taken ili. The when it still looked like a was he who, as leader of

discovered that

But he Hungary, Equade are going around at

morning the National Front Party, Tudeh's clandestine news sheet.

after the first night record-runser. ⠀ nights daubing

had a persuasive manner and a "Nationalian-

Cochran wearily announced that is printed

AND LASTLY long list of Manchester friends. had Ipunched the universally Mardum,

tion" slogans, not only on the

he would never produce a revue vast extra-territorial. com- doctor's wall, but on walls popular campaign demand-

He sat Cochran down in a again. Too much money for

The stars remember ing that Persia should de- pounds of the Soviet Embassy.

everywhere; why the Tudch

bottle of cham- too little support," he said. corner with a trained are Bending

crowd clare the concession of the

to Dolice cleverly operators

National Frontpagne, and reached for his hat.

In any case, he was involved "Walt for me there," he said. British-owned Anglo-Iranian managed to follow

a motor-

meetings to work on the mobs

in promoting a star of the Oil Company null and void, car

zee that the maximum) which left the Sovies and

Two hours later he came back straight, theatre, Elisabeth Berg- £800. ner. In the professional sense of and transfer its installa- Embassy one night not so long amount of anti-Westem venom and handed his boss

loved word, though he Without

Cochran stumbled to his feet and the tions to the

being noticed is pumped into them. Persian State ugo.

fondly in his Gertrude Lawrence and Delysia the clasped Leadlay Communists hope

he had Beatrice Lille, arms. The dresses were paid for and whipped-up emotions of the populace and the inuminence and that night-the-show-went-given his heart to Bergner.

But the of the elections will force on.

He had a play which seemed Cochran story ends,

Ceskran story goes The police waited until a through

Everything now looked good form-fitted to that Nationalisation

this slight little greater for the London opening. Then girl who, though like a scared on. Go to Paris and you wil came another blow. Persian Premier Ali Raz arrested him and opened

rabbit in appearance, had enor- see the name of Sacha Guitry, It was January 1936. Bookings mous depths of shrewdness and one of his stars. In New York,

creations of is, like mara had

the latest issue of Mardum.

for "Follow the Sun" at the acting ability.

Desmond, Beatrice the concession could not be

And It was THE BOY DAVID, by Guetary, and cancelled because Persia

But they did· nothing about THEN, if the British refuse to Adelphi were going well.

comply with the nationalisa-then King George V. died. Can- Sir James Barrie, and Cochran Lawrence still shine, does not possess the money it, and Mardum is still appear- tion order the Soviet will claim cellations rolled in. Theatres gave more to its production- In Londen, Anna Neagle, Fat more of bla heart, more of his Kirkwood, Bergner, Vic Oilver, or the "know-how" to run ing regularly once a week with that the British, by defying Per-closed. Shows were cancelled.

"Follow The Sun" did well, unwearying good humour, more Bloate the industry.

violent attacks on the Govern. sian sovereignty, are gullly

but not well enough. Cochran of 1

and Courtneldge, igres: qualities as a soother ley, "Close Hermione Badde the aggression against Persin. meat and the Shah plus

took a full-page advertisement of artistic temperament-than scores of others still remember But, alas, the doctor usual abuse of tho British From that they can follow in the Daily Express and "with ever before or afterwards,

this man, Inspiration of with all manner

24 hours took enough to of demands in

might who

have died a could see something else on and Americans and UNO.

consulted for days with millionaire--if he had thought He in depending and proposals,

on cover the cost and £900 tirat wall as well--a worry-

Barrie himself, and wrestled

how to more of money than he did of The

the problem of with ing something else.

I even found copies of Mar- the International situation, and bookings besides,""

what they can get away with..

By mid-April he had turned

the giant Goliath on writing on the wall was dum being circulated in tiny

twice present it into London's first

the stage. They No, I don't blame the little not the writing of his own North Persian

nightly revue.

WBB The death of a king followers. It

the had been sent out through the dootor for being worried about

followed by the crowning of al writing of the Communist-ordinary past in envelopes ad- that writing on the wall

Iking and to celebrate It Cochran underground, The doctor dressed by hand and giving has every right to be dis- ts senders the names of Teheran turbed.

the

announced that it was packed light with More demands...

WES

For the Communists- the Tudoh Party is the name they go under hero— though officially dead since 1949, when they were ban ned, are very much alive today.

DOWEL

police officials. It must bel good fua being ♫ Tudeh agent

Hiding-spots

que Soviet Hospital, the Soviet

fuges

Institute of Culture, and Entellite missions ero all rew where the Tudeh can and hold meetings in safety And the priority opera- Elde from the police if they tion they are engaged on at are being hunted." this moment Is

stealing

-(London Express Service)

of

READ IT

What is a Honeymoon ? ... A new dictionary says first things first....... by EVE PERRICK

one afternoon

SPENT

Sample entry was the word accepting a challenge. It was "accredit." Main, definition in the Issued on the jacket of a dic American was "give (a person) tionary, just reached here from

credit (for something),"

the doctor's nationalisation The Soviet-Ironian transport America, which claims to be

the about the biggest event in lexico servicos, which cover horse from under him.

whole

of North Persia from Braphy. alace old Noah Webster

not <led: T for a sacrosanct Service. courier

Kaman

their Beat

The Oxford offered; "Gain belief or influence for (adviair

A clear win, I think, for USA. Example 2--Consider the word "honeymoon."

In fact, from what I have Teheran, Been and learned here in wants to get out of the country

• advice)." The American habit of adding - Teheran........ and...on a trip there is the Soviet-Iranian new words to the language has through North Persia's for- Fisheries and

of obviously mado Mr Webster's bidden Azerbaijan area to Soviet steamers all immune mammoth work out of date.

from Interference by the fright- Russia's border I formed

Enod Persian authorities. the opinion they were do ing pretty well in lots of ways.

So here comes thủ new word-

wonder-a brightly packagod job Both give the common uERTS, The four that the Soving, may in the American manner, with a tenning, of honeymoon be the rulers of tomorrow

shiny rod-and-yellow dust jacket holiday spent together by TELO- making individual. Persian and a photograph of the editor, ly married couple. But the first Odd part

offlctada turn a blind are to Mr Clarence L. Barnhart, com listed definition found in the Communiat activities, Des plete with pipe, rimless specs, parent Oxford Dictionary is and a booky background on the the first month after marriage." WHAT is more, I am con-

Toda now penetrates the flap.. vinced that the Commun whole of the Pergian coonomic

And there you have the whole machine. Ho challengon - "Ilond this theory of this now_aysuoach to lats and their Soviet mas- und tors have a better chance. It even actoradio to" Porelan sample entry and compare it with dictionary-making. To most peo.

"""honeymoon' moškria employoos of the Anglo-Iranian the definition of the same wood ple of success here, than in any on Compway and the guards in your old dictionary, or in any "holiday"rai the #drst month country. I have soon since supposed in protect, the reanery other diellousry,” my visits to China and and wells from sabotago,

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