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Empire gambles
one
Was exhaustingly humid in cell No. 9, James Fort Prison, on the Gold Coast.
Sitting there was a man of quiet, good manners, having the absorbed air of a scholar.
were
Yet his crimes
the grove ones of sedition and in- cilement. And in the riots he had inspired some 38 men had died.
But the prisoner was con- tent.
Well he might be, for to toy, four months later, The Man From Cell 9 is in Britain, the honoured quest of his Majesty's Government -- and
One of the most important men of the 70,000,000 in the Colonial Empire.
by
DON TAYLOR
Dr Malan of South
Africa
man
From mission
schools he
went to the colony's Achimots College. Then, at 20, he went
doesn't think it will come off. Neither do the while leaders of Britain's East and Central to · America,' to the Negro African Colonies.
University of Lincoln,
whote
he became a-B.A, and a friend They remember that Nkru-of Paul Robeson. He cam- mah admitted only last year palgned against "British p- that he had planned a "Union perialism."
of West African Socialist He- public." Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and the Gambir, with
the
Gold Coast - were apparently N the last year of the war to form the foundation.
Hculation,
he come to the London
School of Economics, where ho edited the West Africa Joure nal, published by the "West
•
ITAS Brilain made a miscal-. African National Secretaria},"
Or has the which operated from Grays ' brought off stroke of states- Inn Road manship that will keep the colonial 70,000,000 Inside .the British Commonwealth for all time?
Years ago, travelling through. the forest and savannah of the Gold Coast, I used to. watch the young Africans the lucky few-in village schools,
His name is Kwame Nkrum man,
41-year-old politician, Among them, I used to think, now Leader of Government there will surely be one who Business in the Gold Coast, will rise to lead his people to Leader in the Arst African greater things.. Fariloment in British territory.
Nkrumah represents a great gamble for us in the Colonial Empire. Whitehall thinks it will come off.
Nkrumah was just such a boy. He was born at the vil-
age of Nzima, his, father goldsmith, his mother a mor- ket "mammy" or trader.
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UTWARDLY the place has chang- ed very little. Back in 1939 I spent an afternoon on the RKO lot watching Victor McLaglen being filmed. They shot the same scene over and over again, with something al- - ways going wrong.
I have been back on the They RKO lot this time.
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6 The plain fact
is that one of the most vast industries here is face to face with a crisis that scares...9
TOMORROW: Mr. Cheerful has the answer
will
hideous horror is TV, or video,
I get to thinking of that sight movie men who have played as I hear them asking where the footle-gootie with Communism,
In the late autumn of 1947 Nkrumah judged he was ripe to go back to the Gold Coast. Soon, he was making a name for himself as a Nationalist. leader. He formed a party
appealing to youth.
"
Then Nkrumah was named one of those be-
hind the disus-"
trous Gold Coast
rials in 1948. He
got one serience
Of
12 months fer inciting more striles and an- other, Jater, for publishing arti- cles to Str. UP people
against
KWAME
the Government. NKRUMAI!'
Outside, his colleagues work- ed up his reputation as martyr, and when the rat General Election came to the Gold Coast early this year? he -stili a convict-swept the polis.
.
Hia promises: "Work for all, free education, free .hepith treatment.
new stories are. They are faced ("Aw, chucks, fellows, I didn't WHITEHALL was shaken. with a great dry up.
know it was loaded," seems to Nirumah when, released
Thousands waited for So, they toss out another mil- be the fashionable plea Just "an act of grace," he stepped --
now.)
lion pr so on a musical-or” turn.
out of gool. A fetish priest cut to that grand old stand-by, the I will tell a significant thing the ex-convict's feet in blood. the throat of a sheep and bathed Western. (Don't let anyone tell about the 1951 Hollywood. The crowd sang "Lead, Kindly you that Hollywood's best friend Amerien generally is a charming Light." isn't the horse.)
No
comfort
place for a reporter becausé people, even the ones right at Since then he has behayed the top, are so accessible, Holly-astutely. wood is the great exception.
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Before leaving for Britain, he There is red tape and protocol said that "the ultimate goal of the attainment here just as at a reception at the remained VES, all in all, this is a very Austro-Hungarian court in 1910, full and equal status as a na
dull.
.
monwealth."
com-
""The Las Vegas Story," Now what's wrong? Plenty. movie attendances with Victor-Mature and But three main horrors halved." What is Honor No. 3? Trightened place just now. You have to do everything|tion within the Britis Jane Russell (incidentally, haunt the drama of the boys on It is the story famine. Hollywood
Beverly Hills.
seems to have done to the story. There do not seem to be any "through channels" or else. Jane Russell in a skin-tight
writer what a bad farmer dogs gleams of comfort anywhere.
It all seems ossifed and white dress looks more lika
You probably do not need to to his land-played it out and And you cannot fail to notice the
He will talk about that with loss of self-confidence, the middle-aged. The old rapture has the Secretary of State for the Jane Russell than you can be told that the first and most loft it dead and sterlle,
strangely sensitive, defensive long since gone, leaving behind a Calonles. as it is called here. (Seeing a As I now into Movieland the ftude of most people here, genile set of habits. TV set in a friend's home, a other day. I looked down from They sil seem terrified-and
His grasp
of affairs well-known producer growled 20,000 on a satanie wilderness.
Is there anything encouraging mands respect. So far, White- to report? Yes. Tomorrow I will hall is pleased.. "Video's delight.")
For hour after hour in Western The great days have gone. The tell you of 巍 remarkable. Colorado, Nevada and Southern splintering heroles of the John dynamic young man who is out
But not so Nkrumah's white The whole TV situation is so California, there was nothing but Barrymores and John Gliberts to show the old guard some now critics throughout Africa. They tangled and makes for such an harsh, dead desert.
have no parallel today.
tricks tricks which may just think Britain has let the Gold enormous consumption of aspirin
The canyons cracked the The wonderful scandals of the prevent those curtains coming Coast go much too far, much in these purlious that I think i will leave it for a later report. moon-like surface of the land old days find a feeble counter- down on the industry that bloom- too fast, though Nkrumah says
he is a "non-Communist," I will just say that all the like wrinkles on the face of an part in the appearances before ed so fast in the sunshine. executives, who have never done immensely old woman. any acting in their lives, are right now giving superb per- formances of Hamlet as they contemplate the video threat.
Well, I watched them do one stane six times, and they were rather jadedly trying it for the seventh when I walked out.
Shadows on Victor's profile, or strange noises on the recording be the apparatus, seemed to trouble. And after each botched shot they look time out to powder Victor's face, mop manly brow or change his ch- 30-snappy silk shirt (Miss Rus- sell did nothing. Just stood there, I was enough),
his
There they all stand Onger in mouth, the picture of pallid in-
No, Hollywood-outwardly decision. hasn't changed much. Where
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VIC UNDER NEW DIRECTION
London, June 16. IFFERENCES which
Ded to recent resigna-
buse in the world will you sees Attendance droptions at the Old Vic only
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By RONALD
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Its
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produced in Carl Orff the com- revival has proved so successful, poser of Stalin's dreams?
they were ever dropped. It was the first public per formance in London of Orit's Historically the answer appears "Carmina
Burano, in efect a to be that the plays were
casualty of the Reformation. It people's democratie Rite Spring, written before the Nazis is known that in the 1870s the HORROR No. 2 is housed in
the box office. Attendances theatre is an organism
Elizabethan came to the zenith of power.
archbishop Sandys at America's cinemas have plum- which
popular appeal was heighten called in copies of the plays for meted catastrophically. As Darryl withers-under Individual
ed by the contribution of a large "correction. In fact they were (Ies Bear) Zanuck gloomily re- direction.
choir, with orchestral accom- never returned and they may "The drop in atten-
paniment.
who performed while have been destroyed as "here-
Heal."
Fortunately, as usually dance in the last two years in our own theatres alone (those that ingredient will be provided an opera for which the students danced on the stage,
It now looks as if this essen- performance of two plays, and the action was mimed and a
happens in such circumstances, controlled by Twentieth Cen-by Tyrone Guthrie, with pro- designed and made most of the
Except for the text, which at least one complete text of the tury-Fox) has amounted to 50,- ducer Hugh Hunt keeping an eye scenery and costumes,
smacks of medieval licence, whole series escaped the arch- 000,000 admissions.
as administrator or workshop,
Particularly successful was Sir "Carmina Burazo" fulls all, the blhop's zeal, It eventually British Museum "No one could possibly have wardrobe and design. Together John Vanbrugh's "A Journey to compostia of a good Soviet reached, the
In fact, musicians through a Leeds antiquary, they are working out the future London,"
Maureen in which foreseen such a radical decline. play programme for the theatre Quinney and Prunelis Beales behind the Iron Curtain, could The spaciousness of York And it must be remembered that and for the Young Vic.
learn much from Orff In the art Minster-It can seat 2,000 com= WHERE else will you see, 03
shone as youthful sta
atura.
of putting over the party line fortably-has been making it As for the future of the I
fashionable We operate only 000 theatres oul ni
Both Llewellyn Rees, who re- school, everything now turns on without either shallowness or appear that the musical side of Romanoff's Resturant, Darryl of a total of 15,000 in America,
the York Festival Mas failed to Zumuck,
signed the administration in the governors' eagerly awaited vulgarity, who 19 • million-
"This radical drop affected all favour of Mr Guthrie, and the policy statement, which of course
command the
Its ex- alre king-pin round here, pictures, for even the excep three producers who declined to will deal mainly with the theatre.
cellence deserved.
when an au- entertaining a party of a dozen tional and outstanding film suf carry on, have been generous in self in Waterloo Road, friends to dinner and all of fered, although to a lesser extent their attitudes in order to help
MEANWHILE Scottish and dignce of 600 or
cathedral two-thirty empty the them ing there, omaly and the exceptional film bo-the theatre into smoother waters.
English provincial musi- vista of vacant, atais inevitably came more and more an excep- It is felt that Michact St Denis,
clans and slogers continue to has a romowbat chilling effect. ilon,"
CLIGHT rifis in the administra- entertain Londoners in their now- Show Glen Byam
and George N
tive luta have also developed hall. The latest visitors are the For the true music lover, how- be directors, may at the Royal Festival Hall Scottish National Orchestra, the ever, it was more than compen cuts just taken by 130
well be seen again as producers Civil scrvants,
to hour so brilliant a appears, Glasgow Orpheus Choir and the sation Twentieth Century's "Cop men, Zanuck adds: "I do not consider next season. And Mr Ross is ans not necessarily the most City of Birmingham Orchestra recitalist as Jeanne Demessieux But go behind the scenes, start this measure drastic. Unpleasant, happy in the conviction that the suitable people to deal with of these the Glaswegians are send winged notes from the not drastle." (Brief now director will not allow the musicians and musical matters, coming south to sing their awan great orgen rolling thunderously talking to the people who run yes-but
Old Vic project to become a as the London Philharmonie, the
Bong For musical Scots it will into the vastness of the Minster this place, get the feel of things pause for a sip of ice-water.)
museum plece.
Halle in Manchester and other be a deply almotional occasion roof and, when the glory of famous units have discovered in as, with the retirement of the round had died away to contem- and what do you And? You, Now. Zanuck thinks that the
Another sign that a good spirit various ways. Hence the mana- conductor, Sir Hugh Robertson, plate the music
great, allenice. And a City of Dreadful Fright,' . lowest dob has been reached..
at gare often leading orchestras it has been decided to disband And all who have been privileged prevatia was, the success Oilers disagree with him. - Dulwich, of the Old Vic School have approached the LCC for the choic
to hear, in the ancient Merchant The plain fact of the matter
Adventurers' Hali which over, the is that one of America's biggest Take for example the brillant show by 10 teachers who are an understanding on the future
Percenturies must have known the Industries is face to face with on young producer Stanley Kramer leaving at tarm-end in sympathy running of the Hall.
unconnecti with TULE enthuilasin of visitors and whole gamut of human emotions, unprecedented crisis. Unless the (The Champion,The Men"). with the three directors. Ac- Existrely crisis la mot with great resolu- Bays, Kramer: If thor double cording to Cool Wilson, theatre these matters, after Istening the local public for the angel Lund, could not full to tako ilon, originality, and courage it - the number of TV sets in the and school officials, whose to a remarkable modern com York Mystery plays fins caused; "way the deep ferling wrought could mean curtains for Holly country next year, it might easily policies have lately clashed, join posliion there a critio fa moved the organisers and others "in" by her avkopalliatio, freeimen of wood.
mean that the present alender edgamicably in applauding the loank has Hitler's Germany terested to ask why, as their the Negro spiritual essay
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