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NGERED by

Korea

and

FAREWELL TO MISS GARLAND

By Milton Shulman

Surther

In the

of

LONDON, May 8. right arm raised USPICION of Mac triumphant gesture

exultant evangelist, resentment Eetween these harmless about an American admiral in the Atlantic, and concern over raw materials are the current illustrations in uso to prove the British anti- American.

Refutation lies in our nearest variety. house, There the flash of Yankee teeth and the twang of an American nostrii call forth a consistent respon of sympathy and admiration that makes nonsense of political and economic dif- ferences,

Anyone who still Buys we are anti-American after watchi- ing an English audience being hypnotised Into hysterin by such magicians as Danny Kaye, Betty Hulton, Bob Hope and Dinah Shore must have been frightened by George II when u child.

I cherish Intse demonstra- tions of transatlantic solidarity. But nin I disrupting Allied unity when I suggest that 2 meusure of restraint would de

Anglo-American relations nu harm and might do our enter- tainment standards some good?

Horts Miss Garland is in turns coy, gauche and domestie, "My feet hurt," she explains kick- irig her shoes upstage. "Oh,

JUDY CARLAND

...cus for delirium.

this looks too awful," she ex- plains one song later, fumbling to get her shoes on again. "Ex- Fot TOR the past three weeks the cuse me while I scratch iny has witnessed back,” she says doing just that. everything but a ticket-tape A cach Indication of Miss Back in London at the end of reception for the nightly ap Garland's

mortality her 1947, she found an outlet for her pearances of a buxom young audience squeals with energy with the WVS, driving a lass named Judy Garland, I spun delight. And when she van to take hot meals to old doubt

Sarahi Bernhardt, sang "Easter Bonnet" while people In Stepney and the Isle Jenny Lind or Vesta Tilley wiggling her stockinged toes of Dogs.

would ever have asked for delirium engulfed us all.

'Even this peaceful calling was not without incident. "A can- tankerous old lady threw her dinner at me because it was not to her taste: 1 wiped it off my

more from their admirers.

But she survived these other crises and stayed in Italy until 1946. In off-duty hours Polish airmen taught her to fly, "1 have, no licence, but I can fly any seroplane and do anything news When she felt that Belgium in the sky," she says with face, brought her a fresit plate-

backward are 110 Was

lining up Sarge paare. in

and there was no more somewhere the against the Nazis, she wrote to King Leopold reproving him for it. "Anil I wrote

Stafford

Cripps a slinker when he said during the wear that British girls were inzy."

*

ful, trouble."

home-

is

But perhaps it is unfair to look for exceptional talent in Yet it is difficult to analyse this kind of entertainment. the objective basis upon which Gratitude for past pleasures If any other young lady were all this adulation is founded probably the real explanation.

For doing exactly what Miss Gor lithe, vital youngster who used

we all remember the

land dors she would be sited to Gash out at us from the between the seals sereen not so long ago. And no und the acrobats on the one could have escaped the Falladium agenda,

barrage of Hollywood сол- Now in her cream-walled

Miss Garland sings familiar muniques and the fanfare of sitting room bristling with mil songs in a familiar way. The diet sheets that announced her -tary portraits and snapshots, she

mournful ditties are sung coming this country.

with gentle fondling ripping up and down The mic over

therefore dc- The

numbers are ac-

to love her-fat companied by pendulum-like

or thin. Next to animals, sailors she urges in ever-more strident love movements below the waist 4 and roses the British probably troupers best. At least tones that her heartstrings stop they command our steadfast and that we forget our troubles loyalty. and come-on-get-happy.

But

mistake we must not These invocations reach their affection for art, To expend our climax

in # crescendo of enthusiasm on mediocrity leaves

that there comforts for 20,000 Britons fight ing in Korea, fiery 35.

£6 A WEEK year-old Miss Idina Probyn has mobilisel eleven other

FIRST and last pald job Miss rattles off her letters like a coolngly women to run a leave centre A perfervid Tory, she intends the 19 months that followed minutes she dashes to the tele-

Probyn ever had was for machine guns. Every few gestures in Tokyo and three canteen to stand for Parliament. But She became awelfare officer phone. vins at the Korean front. not, she says, with the intention with the Control Commission in None of Miss Probyn's team of being as doelle as the women Germany, Her verdlet -- con-

There isn't much time for is over 35. Youngest is 23. members who are there already, temptuous. They paid me £6

£7 4 week

relaxation. all found

Even her current for year-old Miss Betty Hall, of "I'm going to

bedside book keeps her mind on be the first swanning all over the country. St John's Wood, who was a woman

she A fantastic waste of money-For Tokyo. Prime Minister,"

the jobIt's title-Straight On prisoner of the Japs for 2 states categorically. "Then My one paid job was the only one in which I was not required speaks we'll get things DONE."

to work.")

years Chinese.

sund

who

All are wives, sisters oľ sweethearts of men report-

SO PSYCHIC

NE of a family of five, she ed missing. Leader Probyn's was born in Londonderry, only brother, 24-year-old where her father, Lieut-Colonci Lieutenant Dighton Probyn, P. J. Probyn (he died in 1040) of the 8th Hussars was was stationed.

posted missing on January Later they moved to the 8:--not until-last month-did rambling house in Hampstead

a prisoner.

"We are just waiting for the word of the War Office and off we go," Miss Probyn said

landmine demolished it early in

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were

Warmined

top notes with Miss Garland's us nothing left for real genius.-

FRANK OWEN WRITES

FROM THE

THE PAMPAS

BUENOS AIRES. Minister of Economic,

Surely we can be polite with- out

being sycophantic OL hysterical.

American entertainers will continue to 411 our variety halls. Some will be good, some bad. If this two-way exchange of talent is to have any mean- ing, we must be prepared to differentiate between

artists deserve gratitude ond those who merit” rapture, We have long and

tender

from will be glue..or..glands or suit-ho

cases or fertiliser, LI night, rncing the bringing home the beat when

his mother hear that he was which was their home until a Amon drove west it was £100 a fon. One reason

Six thousand workers, men memories. To those who have the war. "I lanew that landmine across the pampas the plain out for £118 to £148 a lon is

and women, carn their living made us laugh we can guarantee here. In this mighty plant they an was coming-I'm terribly psy- that stretches from the At- that an extraordinary and ex-

annulty of continued chic," says Miss Probyn.

ceptional period long drought make lantic to the Andes.

their Own light and loyalty. We hore which ended in 1930-cut the power, stamp and shape their debt-in

repaid our measure--to ample cattle population probably The morning wind swept

by own cans and barrels and load Miss Judy Garland. the land in a typhoon

5,000,000.

their own ships and sulf them But should she ever .come away to the ends of the earth. back to us again I These

trust she plant is worth has something more to offer. To me there are limits to the demands Anglo-American

Mrs Probyn is half trish, half across in her top floor Scottish and a Roman Catholic, fat overlooking Kensington the giris went as day boarders and smashed against the piled-

beasts have now got They say the High Street. Her time limit to St. Mary's Convent, Hamp-up bank of clouds from the to be replaced in the camps, at £8,000,000, for departure-May 31. And stead. Young Idina, with her southwest, releasing the blessed prices trebled and quadrupled, if the Korean war

light blue-grey eyes and mane rain. ends?gh

Yes, this is the City of the unity. of black, "We switch to Malaya," home bad reports in most sub- wiry hair, brought

passed over us, whistling

Cow all right, says she.

jects except maths, and a com-through the tall maize crop- plete set of sports colours whee-no! whee-oot" tennis, cricket, netball, hockey.

INDIVIDUALIST

Kick!

THE very

boom

In prices, She learned riding and rifle Aires bar: "The pampas is just-and

A man told me in a Buenas created by the Korean war! ahooling. In the holidays.

the stockpiling of the like a sea-except it is soll. It nations, which last year served SHE has persuaded Colonel

starts here at the city gates and to rescue the economy of the J. Phillips, of the 8th Hus- and for three years travelled rolls to the cliff of the Andes, Argentine from its

Govern- sars, recently home

The only ment's L Inflationary Lollies, from Europe by way of finishing" near 500 miles off.

islands you'll see are clumps of kicked back like a steer,"

She left

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tournaments, in thought of becoming a profes Korea and the kit they will sional. But by 1838 war was 011 need. Already she has de- the way and she joined the LCC

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service at Hamp- stead, later moving to Kingston must be khaki, and their House, Knightsbridge underwear nylon.

กษ A

So

cheap

WDS so. The endless, un- folding sense of the pampas

Now, not only the herds but the "dust bowl land" must be nursed back to strength. What д pity Britain

cannot export some of her surplus rain!

is the green or tawny field, To get a glimpse of what the reaching to the horizon.

Argentine's four-footed brend- winners

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driver. Many are the officials who

When Dr Summerskill started have tried to deter pioneering her wartime Miss Probyn from her enter Defence for teaching girls to 4,000,000 pigs,

Women's Home 000

cattle 50,000,000 sheep, have only to go to Vestey's prise. "Sponsored private relief

and half Aboot in

a Anglo packing house, the big- or welfare organisations are not ambulance driver Probyn claim- In their varied herds.... Shorl-

case of Invasion, million horses. A splendid aight gest on earth. permitted in Koren," wrote the ed to have thought of it first. horns, black- Aberdeens, white Here every day, they stu U.K. Liaison-Unit-from-Japan. She had written one of her faced,

But Miss Idina Leslie Imelda celebrated letters about it to Holsteins. Percy Probyn belongs to that Mr Neville Chamberlain in 1930, happy breed of Individualists .who thrive Ok

Hercforts, plobald

I began to undertand why it opposition. HER MUSKETEERS takes two years in the Argentine

"I'm terribly energetic, there is nobody I am afraid to approach and I usually get my own way," she said.

drive 3,000 cattle into the huge corral,

which will hold at need-and often has 10,000.

Each animal starts on a jour- to bring a steer to its market ney which ends only when it is best and three In Britain, and in the chilling chamber as two why it can be done here at one- sides of beef, sixth of the price.

Dead

in one

ALL

LL the same shoʻorganised a A Hampstend branch of the She wrote to General Mac- Summerskilt shots. It had 104 Arthur before his removal asit members, and she called them things has risen in the Argen

It is true that the cost of killing to chilling, 30 minutes.

second; from Ing his personal sanction for her Probyn's Musketeers, following ne presence, at the battlefront. She (at some removes) the lead of four or five times over,

118 elsewhere, probably estimates that she wriles 150 her cousin, old General Sir they started off so darned cheap lettere a day demanding permits, Dighton, Probyn VC, who

blades, tooth founded Probyn's Horse in India heret brushes and other essentials during the Mutiny... for her canteen project.

money, razor

"I aim at £10,000, she says, "I have £260 so far!"

'A STINKER

But

By 1014 ambulance and ("camp" as it is called here)

is

It's wool

"ATTLE

zaves

aro killed 300 an We were going to an estancia hour, by hammer or gun, for ten hours. When there are musketeers were left behind: 9 30,000 acres, which

sheep lo kill they, siny 10,000 of them a day. But there are and she was in Italy, in charge stocked with 12,000 head of of mobile cantech of the le, half of them dairy cows, one now; their wool Catholic Women's League. For There is nothing unusual, in allys than dead..

**_them; they are worth dar, more taking her burts and teas into the size of either the camp WRITING

turally to Pales Probyn, she was called back to Rome owns them has 40 more, steer is worth. They use every the front line outalde Ravenna the herd, and the firm which You have to see Vesleys at work to understand what a Each time she feels strongly ^for a reprimand, Guerla about a public question and Trieste held her up at ride The figures sound substantial, bit of him, from his horns to that is often the soires a bor point: A mined Balley bridge and may be you wonder what his hoover including a tall, rowed typewriter and hammers blow up immediately she had it was that held up Mr John hide, Janarda, bones, and cars. out a letter.

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