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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, MARCH, 29, 1951.

tempted

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, MP

CUPERFICIALLY, THE CAR-

-DINAL-by-Henry-Morton Robinson, is the story of a Boo- ton tram driver's son, Stephen Fermoyle, from the time he was ordained priest, in 1918, until in 1039 he was appointed "cardinal.

But in fact it is a picture of the Roman Catholic Church, Robinson himself a Catholic, neither attacks nor defends. Ho simply describes; and the Incl. dents, characters, conflicts and detall which go into his descrip- tlon make both a whole picture and an absorbing story,

Every detall, whether it la o description of the confessional or of the election of a Pope, can- tributes to the story; and every incident, character and confilet contributes.

Conflict? For a normal man Uke Stephen there was inevit- able conflict between his Vow of celibacy and his love for the beautiful Glijalana.

There was conflict between his bellef that to kill an unborn baby was murder and his desire to save the life of his sister. Perhaps the solution of these confilets is not all convincing.

B

"Anyway, Chuter Ede, it was a blessing we brought in a Free Health Service"

London Express Service

Sir William Goes To Washington

AMERICAN service chiefs in Washing.

ton's Pentagon building will soon be getting to know a-tall; elim, fair-haired Sr taman.

If on first acquaintance they look at... his classical features and slender, sonal- tive hands, and mistake him for scholar or an artist they can be excused.

For Air Marshal Sir William Elliot.. who next month succeeds Lord Tedder as chairman of the British Joint Services Mission in the United States, is something of both.

But it will not take the United States army, navy and air force chiefs long to discover that "Bill" Elliot is one of Bri- tain's greatest experts on defence.

He has just made a flying return visit to Washington to "get things or- ganised" before taking over from Lord Tedder. Elliot has return-

DON IDDON'S DIARY

RITISH big business bombards me, Sir William Rootes, the motor magnate, writes: "I am more certain than ever that if we do not keep up our dollar push Britain will

But his characters are. The philandering sca-caplain, Orselli, who died at last with a Musso- lint bullet in his back; Stephen's father,

her, Din Fermoyle, who shout- ed everyone down in theological argument, terrifled his company Into keeping his ancient tram in service, kept his conductor

from stealing the company's nickels, and sang as he drove: William Monaghan, Steve's first reclor, who bullled his congregation not be able to rearm on her into putting notes in the collec-own. Dollars mean defence." tion by explaining that green was

pleasing to the Lord.

Best of them all, I think, is the Cardinal of Boston. He warned two jealous rectors that If they did not co-operate in raising funds for a new school

they would hear the rustling of transfer papers.

In the Cardinal there is all the warmth and exactness of Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith, with nothing, thank goodness, of his Elmer Gantry.

And Henry Morton Robinson

-that, desplie appearances, man

British Big Business

Makes Itself Heard

NEW YORK TUESDAY

ed to London and is having a short spell of leave before going to Washington again.

Lord Tedder, now 60, went to Washington after having been Chief of the Air Staff. Малу high ranking RAF

believe that

Elliot hours, consumed huge quanti-officers ties of drink, and personally who is 54, is in the running to bored me to death.

become CAS in the future.

Transferred

out of

Some paraders carried ban- ners "England - get Ireland" down Fifth Avenue, Few families- provoking cheers among the boast of producing two know-nothings and bird-brains, tant secretaries to the Imperial

any-can

assis-

Perhaps these investigation | Defence Committee. But Elliot extravaganzas and

elaborate was one from 1937-41, and so struttings are merely escapism --one way for people to forget their troubles. For they have

was his father-in-law, Sir John Chancellor, back in 1904,

Sir William has been in the Air Forco aince early in 1918 aged 21, he transferred The fancy talk about holding when,

from the Army to the Royal the line on prices and clamping Flying Corps.

Cyril Lord, Lancashire few pounds a day, then one big plenty. millowner and textile ex- fault is there.

than

Mr Frederick Monkhouse, chairman and managing- director of Monkhouse and Glasscock, Ltd., strides into

pert, bounces photographs Dollars melt faster my office and says: "Dollars of himself and documents on ice-cubes here and any the lid on costs has exploded are all-important, yet the my desk and says: "If we around $30-a day is inadequate Salle's face.

allowance of less than £10 In Price Controller Mike Di Mr Di Salle, ex- allotted the Treasury

are to get the vital dollars, for visiting British sales repre- Mayor of Toledo, in charge of grocery productivity team I we will have to forgot about sentatives.

deflating inflation, is not keep head only $12 to $16 per accurity and concentrate on

ing prices down. If anything. day while we are here.

they have jumped more opportunity."

vously since he took over,

"We came over cabin-class

has even more to say than Lewisit will be two to a state- has in him fundamental good, room going back-and we that this good, a reflection of are now sharing rooms at God, will someilme bring unity.our hotels. He says it well

"The Cardinal" is serious fiction. It deserves also to be popular.

"We don't want to impose on American hospitality, but what can we do? Couldn't

* Published today by Macdon- the Treasury have helped

old, 12s. 6d.

more?"

How to make a lot of money quickly

from FREDERICK COOK

NEW YORK. home with her when she Bew

AMERICA has a new Gold back to California.

are

here was

Try the Treasury

M

R H. J. BOSTOCK, chair- man of the Lotus Shae Company, who has called on me, said the same thing.

Mc

The one sure way of not get ting the dollars is to arrive cap in hand, and with linings pro-

truding from pockets. To-op- pear shabby and impoverished is to invite shabby treatment.

I am sure our only partial success in the dollar drive is due mainly to strong and sus- tained American suspicions of Britain's Socialist Government.

ner-

The forecast shortages haven't materialised. Instead, there has been a gigantic outpouring of goods from mator cars to iron- ing mats. Stores report brister Banter business than ever be- fore.

There are letters from

The entertainment postbag is almost as heavy as the business Barnshaw, director of the

Leo Genn Stockport Distributing Com-

A Conservative Government man's department. pany; from A. H. Munroe, of in Britain would be a boon and writes to say he is enjoying a blessing to our business men." himself in "The Seventh Vell" Halex, Ltd; and one from

and hopes we will get together Phoebe Keesey, wife of the So, naturally, the nows that in England. Most certainly...

tho managing-director of the British Mr Churchill in running

Socialists ragged and Mr Robert of Redditch Boothby's speech: Needle Company

"We shall (when managing directors harry the life out of them; we wives start writing it is time to shall keep them up day and 'get busy).

night," are sweet music to American cars,

There are also messages from British saler-managers and salesmen..

give dollars.

Bigger, Bolder Billy Rose

More film items DICHARD GREENE, writing

from Nassau, is upset by my recent item that his split with Patricia Medina is costing him plenty. I was merely re porting that verything here is costing

domestic more-VCTI

In the years when Hitler and the Goering were building up German Air Force, Elliot was assistant secretary (air) to the

Defence Imperial

Committee. And when the Luftwaffe's attack was launched he held tha the BATTIC job with the Wor

Cabinet.

As the German air, attack, beaten in daylight, mounted in Intensity at night, "B" Elliot pleaded to be given an opera- ilonal Job. He was given com- mand of a Fighter Command Sector with an accent on night fighter defence, Shortly after- Commodore, wards, as un, Air

went to Fighter Comm nd to again he hoadquarters, specialise in beating the enemy at night.

Run Down

Later he commanded the Balkans Air Force and planned the combined air and beaborne October assault on Greece in 1944.

In October 1947, Elliot be- came Air Officer Commanding- in-Chief Fighter Command. He

Great Unwanted ET the great unwanted out by May and the Festival will wife are friends. of mine, and had a difficult trigle-building up

than

cultured

troubles, Both Richard and

really flourish. The Americans want them to stay that way.

Hollywood tells me Robert the efficiency of Fighter Com- mand at D throo when the by the will welcome a more

RAF show Taylor salle soon for England whole

WAS suffering from subdued and

sensation to star in "Ivanhoe." I thought acutely

the after-war spiced circus now playing be Michael Wilding was lined up "run down."

or fore the Senate Crime Investi- for that part.

duty Elliot reads the gating Committee, and several Edward Everett Horton is classics. Chelchov is one of his million television gazers. again enlivening Broadway in favourite authors. Or else he

the English fare "Springtime studies paintings. far Henry." Mare to my taste Sir Willinan is going to is the revival of "The Green Washington alone, but Lody Pastures," the magnificent folk-Elliot and their two children. play.

Louise, who 14, and Simon, FOOTNOTE: There is nothing aged 10, are following later. the matter with Britain's dollar - James Stuart drive that a new Government won't solve.

What has all this to do with me? Why am under 'sleget ---- Because I wrote recently: "I do not hear much about British

the current Eastward this Molra Shearer's cheque for business or from British bus time, towards the television the one dance she did on TV nessmen here. I think that with more than £1,000, the backing of the Treasury studios of Broadway. Big- Lauritz Melchior drew £1,200 they could do more." name actors and actresses for a single song. When Angela Now I am hearing too mucht

finding that on TV Lansbury flew over from London for one TV engagement they paid

Being neither a business man

The Hurid melodrama, a per- ailence is really golden. They her £1,250 and all her expenses. nor a Treasury official, I cannot sistent peep-show into the un- are being paid thousands of But the back-room boys of the

expert advice or allot derworld, complete with gam at these pounds just for a brief ap- now entertainment smile

blers, gamsters, trigger inen, figures. They

are

but 1 traction

· and inink-clad, molls, will soon pearance without having to of the huge amount of cash being

wear thin. say a word. The price of a poured into TV.

This supereihæred. chamber smile has never been so in- before he closed the Diamond

Horseshoe signed a contract with WANT to see British business puzzles me. It has little comec flated.

of the big networks for two

very much more in the tion with justice or the ordinary Worde American news; British adver- procedure of the low. TV is spending as much to put years at £35,700 a year

consultant," *production

Jed tisements bigger and bolder in than that, it gives a totally on a one-hour show as a whole

and

on wrong Impression of America, production used to Harris, who directs the Billy the American Press

makes the American radio; Britain's cost a few years ago. Now York Rose show on the air,

America is not rim by the 'Costellos television channels between six £700 a week out of that job dollar drive intensified and pub-

on the spot or the licised. so that even the dirt Lucky-Zalcianos from far away; and ten o'clock ол 2 recent alone;

farmers and the small county The heirs of Capone do not sheriffs know that we are on the direct policy. The United States Job with all, that we have got. fr not gangster-land. For every Costs of the big TV shows tun That was the purpose of the hoodlum and mobster there are in the neighbourhood of £13,000 criticism.

ja hundred thousand honest men for half an hour on the screen.

If the Treasury Is penny- The Irish, and the pseudo There are now TV outlets in 63 Marlene Dietrich was offered American cities and some of the pinching and allowing our bus!- Trish took over the town Inst £3,570 to "appear" on a comedy

networks are within sight of neas chiola and Transaflantie week-end, dressed it in sham- show. All she had to do was to sit blanketing the entire continental commercial, travellers. only a rock ineen, tied up trade for in the audience and take a

bow US.A. at the right moment. She turned Catch-as-catch-can competi

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Bennett and Pat O'Brien were tion inside the industry has some amusing (and paid £1,200 each. All Pat did brought was to make a little speech of the some costly) errors and over- "delighted to be fiere" order, sights. Producer/Moss Hart

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never had time for her.

For twenty-minute

How to influence

dice

the

R ROBERT H. THOULESS have enabled me to decide how

brities were on hand that they been made by his collaborator. Dis no gumbler. But in pure many times the dice and the

George S. Kaufman. Meeting Mr Kaufman few days Inter besult of scientific knowledge he spun coin gave predicted re- ances, £900 to £1,200 secs ar " It was the first Kaufman times a month.

appeared: HEON much are we get has thrown a set of dics 10,232.sults by chanòo and how many times free results were the common now. Even supporting and heard about it.

result of perchiological,' Izq players can command £175 to

£350. Helen Hayes drew £1,400 They sent of a telogram.

He has spun a coin thousanda quences.”

for an appearance in Victoria intended us a joke, demanding of times on the same quest Regina Gertrude Lawrence was £1,500. The TV producer tele-

paid £1,250

for one programme, phoned at once with an offer of Fees ranging from £700 to £1,250, which they accepted.

£1,000 for single appearances

have gone; "among others, to £4,000 BILL

Thomps Mitchell and Raymond

Dr. Thouless entered the, rê-| And his latest experiment la gult of each, throw in a book to shuffle and cut pack of and many pages were filled

with calculations. cards many hundreds of times ·

He said "I found that anxiety

Dr Thouless, reader in educn- to achieve my target made the tional paychology at Cambridge scores worse. Some of my best Massey, Judith Anderson and Sit A motor manufacturer con- University, has devoted a win throws came when I recited Cedrid Elardwicke Patricia tracted with Robert Morley to do ter vacation to doing there poetry while the experimenta Morison, Hay Middleton, Edward Edward, My Son on the air.

American were on." Everett Horton, Mary Martin, Marley few in from London, things Hand

John Gielgud, and Ethel Waters Supporting players Leuten experimenters call it paychow Fierce mental concentration None was more than a few MacGrath and fan Hun er were kinesis, or P.Eng the dice are shaken Le mot minutes on the air. So fat are sighed. Rehearsals began. Then In short Ir Thoulons not out the way, he says, do malon the pickings that stars are flying was discovered that a Holly, to discover whether the human those high” scores turn, up to In from Hollywood and London wood" studio" gwood the righs, mind can. Influence, the mill, of order. S In share in them.

and forbade a prediksion, dice, or of a spun coin. He is The value of a plynul inte But the cast were pain in full, a now atisfied that it can disitude har benny manEVESİCİ King's Building-(2nd Floor) 9 Connaught Rd., Hong Kong Veronica Laker, who spent a mum in the region of, 44,900, ad to aporter: "Care American experimentant

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