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DON IDDON'S DIARY
America is finding it hard to
get Britain in focus just now
It
TUESDAY
rison should make a peace at- tempt in Korea-he did so the other day."
A most encouraging letter, Mrs Baillie, but think of all the times I've been wrong.
Would you be shocked by a TV wedding?
NEW YORK.
TM was whey yo what to see a and
IME was when you had to dress appropriately and go- old stuff for New Yorkers. Nowadaya they just switch on the TV set or stroll around the corner to the nearest bar.
Television
has taken by FREDERICK COOK marriage out of the
private, cr family-affair dience picked up off the classification, and made it street. Not one smiles un- everybody's business. Wed- til apparently some unseen. dings now are solemnised studio official signals them if that is the word to to do so. They break into a the gurgle of other people's united grin.. beer not the popping corks
The clergyman by now is of one's own champagne. hitting his stride with the Marriages are performed wedding service (it is not over a New York TV sta- the one I remember, from. tion at 8.15 p.m. every the Book of Common Tuesday and Thursday. I Prayer). He does not have attended one at the know, of course, that the corner"local."
man on the next stool to
of
►
It began with the intro- me is muttering "That guy duction of an aged couple shoulda been an actor, not who that day were cele a reverend" or that two brating their golden wed- stools farther on they are ding. A master
comments cere making ribald monies introduced them, about the bride and the asked their recipe for a state of the bridegroom's half-century. of wedded tie. bliss, listened to the appro- The ceremony is over, printe cliches, presented The reverend bends nearer. them with A wristwatch In a whisper heard in ten (maker's name carefully thousand homes and in mentioned in clear tones), countless restaurants
and shook their hands and corner bars, he says stern- ushered them out.
ly, "Go ahead KISS HER!"
True story
The startled bridegroom
A SUAVE young man in compiles. Bizave
Now the
A formal
Buit
now
young formal Buit
There are also moving remakes his appearance. He man in the quests for the drug cortisone begins to regale us with takes us on a quick tour
bow before him.
Changed opinion
or
much
from arthritis sufferers. I re- gret that without a doctor's pre-
the "True Life Story of of the wedding gifts. He passes over some nice-look- scription this is impossible. Today's Couple."
a clock In entertainment it is. Mr The young man in the ing luggage,
an electric clothes Rudolf Bing who's making the formal suit is a singer, too. two, rafters ring. The Metropolitan
bursts forth with dryer, a sewing machine, Opera, the crilles, and the public He
mentioning who "Love Sends a Little Gift without
made them, where they of Roses." checked by Immigration and
Somewhere a gramo were bought, how Emigration, but practically
I put forward this plan with- grateful that I met them. Ignored by the Senate Crime
out charge. For one thing, was a pleasure, and a pity they DRITAIN'S George Sanders has phone plays (yes, the Wed- they cost. Committee and the F.B.I.
royalty has never been so popu- weren't here long enough for
D taken his Oscar award with-ding March), and we to show them the "town
out fuss. After calling women ushered into the TV ver- loaded down with lar here as at the current time. me
After all the ally rumours and more,
"beasts" for years, he now de sion of a chapel.
DIT now he pauses. B Mitchell writes ask- Leslie
cicios
are "almost human." they
The nervous bride is be- D this? A huge box of paper other reports, the Duke and Duchess certificates and
to steer television Sanders urges a 25 percent
his bureaucratic impediments that of Windsor are the combined ing, me
arid atar Terry-Thomas
extra Lax on actresses to pre-ing jockeyed into position handkerchiefs, sufcient to take when I board the Queen Mary toast of the town.
wife around. The Terry vent them from coming more in front of a canvas screen care of every cold the couple
likely to catch. the Cunard people will probably The Duchess has completely Thamases are doing very well than their husbands.
We learn who makes charge me excess baggage fees. recovered from her operations,, on their own-a
great hit at I had no idea that the United and the Duke, back from Palm, the Waldorf Astoria,
ft and happy. States would be so reluctant to Beach, looks
Mr Kenneth Luckman, of in Jet me depart.
ing the Colony and Pavilion res-
I am so
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Mixed feelings
latest volume of the Duke's
MY American friends regard memoirs, "A King's Story?
are
at
Blasphemy?
What's
are
how soft they are, how
a happy and indispensable to married life. And last of all we learn, officially, that it was the kindly products
them,
cheap
who
Mary Martin will go to Lon-painted to resemble anal- don to star in "South Pacific tar. The bridegroom stands The pair are inseparable, groc Lancaster Gate, who wrote Tê Ame autumn, after a South awaiting his turn. An Impressive cruise and holiday.
elergy taurants and talking about the Cently that I deserved a sound "Oliver Twist" will open in Newman now comes into view, makers of these paragons among
thrushing, 210W writes: "I York after months of contro-
Eagle Lion clears his throat, adjusts paper
footed the bill for the whole wish to apologise for what was yeray and protest. # most ungentlemanly and is suing James Mason, alleging his cassock and smiles A this trip with mixed feel- The last paragraph reads: "So grossly, insulting letter." For he showed the print in privato the camera.
The all-seeing eye swings ings. The doormen, ftmen, far as I was concernell, love had get it, and good luck, Mr Luck in his Hollywood home.
Leslie Towne Hope, born in soda-jerks, garage-hands, bar- triumphed over politics. Though man. ber,-and-barmen, conditioned by it has proved-my-fate to merl Mrs Irone Baillie, of Glasgow, Eltham-Bob Hope to you-de- a moment to reveal recurrent reports of calamity, fice my cherished heritage along writes: "On January 3-the-serves every-tribute-London can wedding guests," not one decent"
to suggest it borders on say: "What about food? Will with all the years in its service, you get enough to eat in Eng- I today draw comfort from the way sald Preston North End give him. He has played more of whom apparently knows as
would-be promoted-today-charity-performances than most either-bride or groom. blasphemy.
Chewing land? Short of everything over knowledge that time has long they're certain of promotion. Hollywood stars put together.
Such people, it is evident, looking gum, there, aren't they?".
since sanctifed a true and faith- On February 21 the Dinry sald
Footnote: visit the
The Now World bored or just plain tired, don't recognise progress when Mr Churchill must
they seo it. a funeral while ful union."
United States to speak now worries about
(World Copyright Reserved-London he's going there. On March 14 Old England stages & Festival they seem to be a normal
run-of-the-mill studio au- Express Service.) the Diary said Mr Herbert Mor- See you at the festivities,
Spring is here
The newspapermen, poli clans,' actors and seasoned travellers say: 'T'd like to take in the Festival myself."
There have rarely been such ESS exalled people also feel the New York divided American opinions about romance in present-day Britain. We are at air. During the past few days ance impoverished and pros- we've had magnificent spring perous, demoralised and chip- weather. per, bent upon appeasement and thoroughly belligerent.
At least we seem to be
of
and Bertrand
Russell's answer caused by man-made stomas.
Poverty Stalked
By Antony Terry
can get readmitted?"
hel
Yet, despite these blessings, there's talk of appointing a weather. We have not two cents to put Federal boss of the
Congress is con- together one day and are mak- I'm serious.
BERLIN. his present existence, even ing millions out of the China sidering a Bill to regulate man-
AST Germany's Com- the barbed-wire of Camp trade the next. We. are enjoy-
Emunist leaders whose 184 seems like paradise, made weather. ing our vintage year and have
The crusaders in Congress also reached our lowest point..
huge pictures decorate "Can you tell me how I Well, I shall soon be able to see want a federal board, supreme for myself..
over the States, which will en-every wall and hoarding of Soviet zone should In force cloud-seeding regulations, the good voice. Some our control rain-making and rain have had a talk with 43. asked me as we stopped by spokesmen are speaking up, halting and pay for damages year-old Werner Blohme, Leipzig's station to get our
who stood in biting
a to the charges of appeasement It sounds tantoalle, but then
wind on the corner of and his putting plainly on the we are going through a some- record British achievements in what dazed and dizzy period Leipzig's main station dur- selence the atom bomb and here.
ing the week of the city's radar-have been effective.
worst aberrations con-trade fair. He would have Now it is someone's turn to cern the atom
The been able to tell them a al eccentrics have moved in, sell-thing or two. answer the anti-American legations being mado in most ing shelters that would to de- journals here." Is General Mac-molished by a high wind and Arthur such an ogre in British, distributing eyes? Are we gibing at the pamphlets containing generous Republic much of the instructions. timo? It will be interesting 10 find out.
1
-Anyway, the debate_or_argu=_
The
bomb,
booklets
Bewildered
bearinga. Sadly, he heard that there are no German 'POWs left in Britain, and that all the camps arc closed.
"Perhaps the other camp I was in No. 29 at Royston, Hertford- shire, is still going?" he urged, He wondered if it Werner is a driver, but hopefully. antic he can get no work in East might be worth while trying to stowaway in a ship to Britain. Germany's Communist-run
In the city's super showpiece "Wait till the. paradise.
for the visitor, the "Antifa Five-Year-Plan gets going,"
House" (hort for "anti-fascist"). fmotionaries, and -senior officers of the People's ment over. MacArthur cannot THE bewildered public hasho la told at the labour where party
exchange.
Police" dance and dine, one of bomore feverish, la Britain. I been advised by Bene che
the waiters leaned over end than it is here, The General latans to shave dogs and cats
So he draws, his £1 2 whispered confidentially "Nico dominates the news and the to prevent redio-metylty, get rid
British visitors here. I opinion
columns. He's Mac- of money and Jewellery to avoid week dole and, with a piece to pes Arthur the magnificent-a god contamination, spread vaseline of dry bread wrapped in a was a prisoner of war in Britain have many pleasant like figure to millions and an over atomic burns, and drink a grubby scrap, of newspaper and
anamories. It doesn't pay sovereignty arragant separate,.,,
special tonic,
brassieres, in his ancient leather bag, mention the fact han nowadays," to others.
pyjamas, lead-foll corsets, and heud bags havo ho waits by the station for he added, eyeing a major of the also been advocated.
British visitors.
Long-wrangle EXPECT this wrangle to go on for a long time. Perhaps one solution to the entire in-.
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"Poople's Police who was sitting with his wife as the next table. Government authorities aro
"You have to have been a POW Werner watches for cars in Russia to get a good
job now.clamping down before the insanity spreads, simt god with "GB" number plates nowadays.".
Fortunately, the atomic influ- because he has a plan. He
The menu at the Antifas for the American Republic to I always thought hair styles to
of the items are chosen wits an become a kingdoni."
resemble an atomic bomb ex they know how he can get written in German, but many Mr TruTEMELJÄ wozd Carry pibeion in atrocious taste, and back into a prisoner of eye to the political situation. ou on chief political exocu-hair-dressoru pay women hink war camp, No. 184, near Bortsch (Russian coup), vodka, Crimoan, Humanion and tive, Prime Minister, and hood the same ever m at his p
?Party,, but (would-be re- Uninstead, the otroen ta on vím, 1 Glasgow, (where he spent Hungarian wines top the list.... loved of al ceremonial duties, plicity, Lace is popular. There three years during and State functions and bazaar- ard: lace raincoats, lace shoes, after the war. upaningwea, saria Jace fans and gloves, and lace
Outside to the cold, child bog- -gara husidio" and wait for the
For the role of United States, swimming costumes are being For Worner! remembern foreigners. They recogniwe them Kidw and amerions Engros considered. If you want soleep those three years with by funir ours: Thay soic fren for General&MS-Arthur
Tumweck's; posiber has been
chológ. The
a matitade and wistful
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the
business of looking entertaining in on a modern marriage.
There are, of course, people who don't think much of this. I've heard it all called "in- Some even.go_se_for
Leipzig Fair
travel voucher which can only be worth only nine East Marics
three had for foreign.currency (in the equivalent of about cluding roubles) and rates much shillings and sixpence.
Propaganda plays a bigger part higher than German money.
Leipzig's Trade Fair foreign in the Fair than last year. One visitors dris year are infuriated leather firm mixes politics and rate business in the slogan, "We make the official exchange offered them by the Communist Briefcases-not coapsacks for government. A pound sterling is GI's."
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