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"AND I SUPPOSE YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP OPEN FOR EVER AND EVER, TOO'

Isherwood ... Auden.

World Copyright. By arrangement with Daily Ifervid,

Spender

THREE

STRANGE MEN

by

PETER DACRE

ET me introduce three sian dims showing "the imagea

LET me

been in the news a lot just lately: Mr Christo pher Isherwood, Mr Wystan Hugh Auden, and Mr Stephen Spender.

They have all been publicly Inked with the missing diplo- mats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.

Then, in 1939, Isherwood and They Auden went to Amerien.

and

sampled New York's intellectual society, found it wanting. retreated to a slum district.

Later Isherwood went to Hollywood and became R With Aldous screen writer, Huxley and John Van Druten, he lived for a time in a Hin du temple, studying Yoga and sitting cross-legged in medita-

Luke

Their friendships have been probed for clues which might tion. help to solve the mystery.

Who are these men? They were friends graduate days; now they are scattered across the globe, link- ed only by their past.

Auden,

in their under- he declared,

The heavenly twins

when war came.

that he would

-not-relurn

.to

Britain, and in Parliament member urged that they should

ISHERWOOD, in the 1930's, be summoned built his repulatica มิส อ novelist.

In collaboration with Auden they were called the "heaven- ly twins" he was also a play- wright.

Now, at 46, he is an Ameri- can citizen, living in a Califor- nian camp founded by a chain- store millionaire to give artists, writers, and musicions a chance to develop their talents.

fie last mot Burgess in 1947, when they "drank quite ū bit and talked of the old days." "

"Was Burgess a Communist?" aska Isherwood. "Well, like the rest of us, he was very much

back and called up.

Across the sca Italy, in sunny Auden, now 44, lives in a white- painted house on the island of Ischla. He went to school with Maclean,

Surrounded by purple bougain

vilica and geraniums, he sald of Burgess recently:

Isherwood (left) and Auden leaving for China together, in

1938.

The Oil Is Gushing In Len's Boom Town

IF

By PATRICK NICHOLSON

·ALBERTA.

Overnight Len and his neigh- bours found their hamlet jam- med-In the Great Oil Rush,

F Britain loses her Per

alan oll supply she will turn to Canada, where Cockney Len Walker sides over the richest

In two years soven wells have field in the British Em- been drilled by the rich

perial Oil Company on Len pire.

Walker's 320-acre farm.

"When this boom struck Rod- water, what we needed most pre was everything." Len told me.

oil-

Im-

BC-

Brows

tween them, be atill Silhouetted against the the wheat which makes Bri- prairie sky reddened by tain's while bread. The com- the eternal flares on

his pany offered him a down pay- ment of £2,800 and £480 μ oil-rich farm, he threw his year rental for the 14 deres mind back 60 years and where the wells werò drilled. 6,000 miles to the Old Country..

As a kid, Len never missed Lord Mayor's Show

but, for him, the mes sage of Bow Bells was: "Go West. Len Walker, Lord. Mayor of Boom Town."

So he refused to follow in his father's footsteps as ticket clerk at the Mansion House Underground sta- tion. Instead, he worked his

way westward half around the world. When he reached civilisation's fron- tier hero, ho settled down to back a farm out. of the virgin prairie.

Today the Bow Bella prophecy is fulfilled. This ex-lumberjack ex-teamster, informally shirt-sleeved and wearing a broad-brimmed, light-grey, five-gallon hat on his balding head, is His Honour Mayor Walker. Around him are bronzed roughnecks, stripped their oil-blackened waists as their skilled 30 shillings an-hour hands control the flow of black gold.

Imperial also pays royalty of one barrel in every eight to the Government, which owns the mineral rights in the land.

land- Last year Redwater's owners, nearly all · immigrant farmers from the Ukraine, de- cided they should have 1 Mayor.

"I had no idea about the office until a few days before the election; then I decided to try to make it," Len told me. "I wanted to see what I could make out of the old place,"

his the

Ever since he look up free homestead land in been adored by the Muzykas, ploneer days of 1012, Len has

Yakimaes, Zinluits, Manchuks, Melenkas, Chabas and his other Ukrainian neighbours.

When they balloted for Mayor, the Bohunks from the Steppes voted for Cockney Len in proference to their kinsmen..

own

Today, his personal oil bonan-

The

zn is mostly lying in the bank, He bought himself agilitering now car. And maybe, when he lays aside the cares of Boom Town Mayor, he will buy two steamship tickets to

Old to Country, to show his American wife the Mansion House where to look up his sister, Mrs John another Lord Mayor lives, and Brown, whose husband runs a large motor business in Banger.

Meanwhile, he has

a job "making something" of Red- water, alrendy yielding than half of all the oft produced in Canada. Right here in the Province of Alberta, there is more oll safe under the Union Jack than in all the other oil- elds in the world added iD- gether.

Two harvests ago Redwater was three towering red grain elevators beside an overgrown rollway line to which Len and the other 32 local farmers haul- ed their crops.

Just when the huge harvest Ing combines spewed out their last bushels of wheat, a pipe driven one and a half miles Into the ground beneath Hilton Cook's-dusty stubbleland spew- nd out Redwater's first fountain

of heavy black oil.

more

That's why, if Britain losas her Persian oil supply Len Walker will be the most im portant "Lord Mayor" In all the Commonwealthi

So spare no more tears for

Westminster Warriors

the

WEEP

WE

LONDON.

By

EVE PERRICK

because is deep carpet and walls do give an im- no more for pastel

pression of a kúper-cinema (and those tired West-

the pretty pink" lighting casis a minster Warriors who stay becoming rosy, plow

over the up late at night conducting faces of the sleepers). the, nation's business.

Women members don't do so well in this men's world. There

"That," ho said, "is a short, story.

"CHAPTER I Twenty-nine years ago I was born on an Stephen Spender, a Areman during the war, chatted

Indian Reservation in Iown. My with the Queen when she visited the Churchill Club

mother is a Cherokee Indian→→ in 1044.

her name is Fem Humming Bird: my grandfather was Chief "He said it described exactly

A personal investigation of the is an understanding that they White Cloud Running Snake. the development of his own

gold backstage story of the House of will take their cat-napps in the attitude to Communism,"

"CHAPTER II: I put a couple Speler. "The book is strong-Commons on an all-night jun- privacy of the Lady Members

ket reveals one thing. For the Retiring Room, which has only of my father's family names, ly anti-Communist.'

spectator at least-It's foolish but two couches, or in another room together, became Paul Gregory, it's fun.

at the top of the building which and worked my way through has two more. There are 21. college, women M.P.8.

"While he was at the Embos-

in favour of a United Front sy in Washington he was still and Red Spain and so forth. pro-Communist."

"Naturally, when we were on At Oxford Auden was some- the side of the Spanish Govern- thing of a legend, ment it meant, don't you that we were pretty favourable

Pleasure first

BOC,

He hated the daylight. He

Fantastic fads

ALWAYS he had "fantas- tie fads."

K

A red tie

myself

*

★

Four chapters

the

original two films I got. were "School for Scandal" and "The Women,

Surprise No. 1. The number of Oxford, AT

Spender's MPs who take part in, or even

"CHAPTER II left college, So the girls keep up their disappointed listen to, the debate which is towards Russie. How could It would, sit in a curtained room, fchow students

by keeping them under house arrest spirits in the way women always aged 21, and became on im

do. They change their clothes. the studios, and showed them on presario, I rented old films from be otherwise? It went without a table lamp at his elbow, a him, "I took my revenge

opis small. Most of the marry men Baying."

green eye shade over his weak becoming self-consciousty

sit it out on the floodlit terrace,

Barbara Castle one night the reservations... ly pigmented eyes which, says poste," he says.

I became affected, wore a in the cafeteria, bars, started the session a dinner- "It Spender, were set closely to

was the first time gether, to that he gave the im- red de, cultivated friends out restaurants and smoking-rooms. dress of blue lame, finished up Indians had ever seen moving

the college, was [17]- FROM Repton, Isherwood pression of watchfully squint side

Their spouses perform the up-bright and beautiful in the early pictures- remember that the and declared went to Cambridge, with an ing."

to-the-minute version of that morning in crisp cotion. £80-a-year history scholarship.

old wifely duty of helping to owa "I aped my

exhibi- There ho neglected every-

tonism,

effeminacy, rootless cheer the, inds on. If the red containing the handkerchilet thing except pleasure, novel writing, and a friend with whom

| bread-md-cheese no longer ap- ness, and lack of discipline. He found it impossible to over-peare, at least the women turn he lived in an "absorbing pri- vate world."

for all meals, and a cosy - I THOUGHT I knew every they wore watching the show.... come his shyness, "even to the extent of going alone ints a

variation of- the-rugs-to- domestic chat.

tiches story, but from Mr Paul :; - "CIIAPTER IVISI\met, a pub."

Young The house-party atmosphere Gregory, the

mon in young American singer, got hunt Largely through Isherwood's

of that four-star" to travel around the reservations- Auden became the wonder influence, Spender left Oxford is rudely shattered from time to charge

He went time by the bells. "Division, Shavian. circus, I've. heard with me and give a live show poots. If to "write and live,"

to yell the policemen above the now one.

for a change. And when Dennis to Germany, then returned mix with the exotic blooms ringing. "Excuse me, dear,"

storean finally get a movie con- murmur the husbands, "won't, be because he had a message for me California

I went to see Mr Gregory tract, he asked roe, 10 go to af Bloomsbury. He joined

- with Him ama his the Communist a moment","

from Charles Boyer. Boyer mangger. And that's how T-be- Party, but it was at

came a Hollywood agent." honeymoon, and he soon faith.

50 that's: 1-Indian, com to Bernard Shaw in eight years.

When his doctor told him to When he sat for his tripes, he walk as little as possible, he answered all the questions with promptly went for 30-mile nonsensical limericks and blank hikes. verse and so achloved his alm

of getting himself sent down.

A little later Isherwood went to Berlin, where he lived in a alum tenement,

Lived poorly

boy of the prewar

He visited Auden at Oxford, you saw the film "Night Mail whero Stephen Spender met

you may remember his rhymed them both.

commentary which started:-

This is the night mall cross-

ing the border Bringing the cheque and the

⚫ postal order. HIS IN

autobiography,

During the Spanish war ho Isherwood drove an Spender uved there "very poorly, scaron with Isherwood, he

ambulance. Later, went to ly spending more than eight- pence on a meal, He ate horse- China and had tea with

: Chiang Kai-sheks... Ho desh and lung soup."

Intriguing

untary

lost

1

"I didn't charge an admission price, but Indians love pop-corn, and "I sold 'em the stuff, while

Two Scenes

From all parts of the House wanted to make it quite the members canter, on to the that he had never said the was lobbles and put themselves under too old (at 150) to be the Great starter's orders, (How do they Lover a meant bard know which way to vobe It they What he had said was that ha haven't been in the Chambert was now: old enough to blay THESE are the men who kindly gentleman known as any part and his next role is knew

Burgess and Whip tells them.),

Don Juan,

starting invi for do their Maclean, How

"NIÚIITSPOT 1 sÇeno: | Lady tho lives reflect those of the miss- Six minutes later they're back Manoborter.

Olivier doing the bouncleat ing diplomats?

to take up the threads of their With that ⠀ teliky. matter of samdas with Orson Welles. JAMËS J. KING ad peculiarity and joined the US Army atong the same line? And did

become an American. citizen Did Burgens think politically Interrupted conversations.

adjusted for the “hchefit of the. Biresi' poena A poster outside being attractively disgusted wi

-Later on there' la' a move away Boyer loyalipin, I asked, › Me-n pulp mill on the Great West In a lake-side village in he go forward where the amiably bitter," recalls Spen-

told.

request for: wuste paper-swith: der. He hated middle-class life, Northern Italy Spender

He and Spender became In- the other day how. Burgess hari, others. struck back? 179 from the terrace aid "bars to- Gregory how "cóme''hà was Read ending · the 7, JneszágO==

“This law. Private, EnterprisO That is arre of today's most terested in politica when telephoned to him in London Intriguing questions. friend joined the Communist to congratulato him on his bow Party, Together they saw-Ruz-¡ book,"

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