EVELYN WEBBER in New York interrupts the fabulous star as she packs for a come-back trip to London, and-
TALLULAH BANKHEAD SAYS...
BEDFORD VILLAGE, New York.
here at Tallulah's house-36 miles from Manhat tan as her Bentley les-there is pandemonium. For Tallulah is packing for London-packing everything, it would seem, except her five dogs, an un- enged mynah bird, and one lovebird.
If you have two lavtbirds, dahling, the things just sit and
drcc2zh other" says Tallulah....
One thing she will be thankful for when she reaches Britnla for the B.B.C, broadcast of her Big Shaw is that the ericket teason wat huve ended.
F: Tallulah does not like crick" batted me fren: pages when I was there in the 90s."
of the
"I have played everywhere bu: under water," she joked of her eaming visit. "And now It is London, where it always rains. anyway."
whole new
Thea, more seriously, "Just think, there's a Rencratun that doesn't even know me yet. They are probably rayan Tallulah-what's that?' I suppe sue or two other sola have cropped up over there since I leti,
"Some of my admirers migh; even have forgotten me. "Bu:," purrs Tallulah, lowering her sultry lid, "...cr... recapture them, dahling"
Tw: rudias are tuned in to a baseball game now in pre- a Domobrat, Ries Everybody is arguing at once, Tallulah always arguing with her Republican gardener, a combustible, emperamental fan of The Giants baseball team. Sylvester, th butler. adimires The Dodgers and says 50.
Whi: Tallulah gally picks she joins in, contracts out, an- swers the telephone, pereams at tas basbail scores, walizes the
und
the ram, and carries on a five-way manalogue. It is mainly bout Tallulah and Londin and Tallulah and....
I have not appeared in Louden since 1930. For eight years
I had a risteus me there, and Engiend has missed my half as
much as I missed it. I don't see how they could have borne
"S. I've survived...
"My gallery girls" who led up for 30 hours to re her Bul then "ght ray I'm a 'le the worse for wear now. thar's nothing. I expect the people I knew in the '20s here to be in wheelchairs-or on eruich;s at least."
The phone
upain. I won't mis
all these people In
America who
ringing my tell
keep
say: "Tallulah, 1 used
to to vehcol with you.
They did.
I don't bellera Like old Napoleon brandy there just couldn't be any more,
"When Sylvision anncuneta ona
new,
I just say Wheel her
121.
My fans?
I'll..er.. recapture
"But, dabing, don't think I'm old. I still expect to be lavirt Lu 1 have, bought come new evening f
Kowns to take th mece for very kind of clima e, since
is Englandi. "Yes, 1'11 around,
The
get
last
time hired a taxi to
driv in front of my
car
way
gaitze
to show me the
because
of
my
alrezion
was porr. It is better"
now. So, this me
1. Om going to ride
in the taxi.
them all!
QA
1930 and 1951.... With so few years between
ef'
"And I used to give £5 mater, you know, thinking they were cigaretle coupins. Don't cil anyone that though, because now I know the differ- SHE.
"These adorable taxi drivers will be to disappointed."
A: 49. Talulah s31 has some of the great beauty that ange dazzled London. She is magnetic with her vivid gestures and vibrant volet, an oc.ave
husky, lower than any man's.
her
矗
When a male calumaist arked
ferlings, but I don't like tea, un-
era there is something in
Bu dahling, thote pakjua cruings #!
"ARB it makes
mad DA ES that France and Italy have no rationing and you do still. I am taking food for friends, I expret
starve ic
myself, For along with my
girlish enthusiasm 1 want recapture the figure to
maish....
Of working in Britain, Tallulah says: "The Enly me I was on the B.B.C. before, you
know,
I fainted dead away. But I'm not soared of them any more. audiences, They'
if she was ever mis aken for Ha! Ha! Those announcers! I man oa the telephone,
riposted: "No, are you?"
she love British
are loyal and not at all cold
Tallulah is short but she and unemotional.
Eeems tall and she almost never
elops talking.
พกร
*
(Perhaps 11 is
falher
"Dahl'ng, they mobbed me. because her late
of the House
mere? in Need I ray
I'd never Speaker Washington, a position hot un have cft. But I bought so many things when I was in England associated with taciturnity.)
I had to go to Hollywood to make. You can try to ask Tallulah a
But if you do, sho some films.tɔ pay for them. question.
Yes,
the dahling, shuts her dark blue
ryes and
just as keeps on going away. The torrent rercen begen te taik I inter- cf words halls only for necessary rupted. I have climbed the social Lock at the oxygen, accompanied by a thea reale since then. trical glance heavenward or per- company I keep. haps a tug at her lawny hair.
have been put on a list of (She lights an English brand the world's worst-dressed wo- cigarette almost every ather, men, togther with
Princess minute-and slubs out a few Elizabeth and Margaret Truman. puffs later.)
I have also been named as the
"I
He accent, she quipped, is a best-dressed, of course. "ow about pot of tea
old boy accent.".
"But that costs money. I had
to buy a mink coat to hide, my locks (my favourits costume, dehling) a crder to keep the
"Ah. ica," said Tallulah,, "ea with the teffs in London again, I do not want to hurt Britain's title."
NANCY
Working An Angle
"I'VE GOT.
TO MAKE
SLUGGO: JEALOUS
HELLO, NANCY-- WHAT'S NEW 3.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,
SATURDAY-ON-THE-BEACH REPORT from the GILES
"Tea's ready, Don Juan !"
HOLIDAY
London Express Service
How Stalin answered
T
Prague:
HIS "lesson" was given by a Com- munist teacher at an infants' school in
"Now, children," he said. "say a prayer to God for Comething nice to eat."
The children prayed, the door was opened, and, of course,
nching happened.
"Now let's see what can do," urged the teacher.
The children repeated appeal to the Soviet dictator,
Stollh
their
When the door wag opened
a second time a trolley of tood was whceted into the classroom.
The teacher keamed and God sald: "You see, children,
did not assider pour prayer. But Stalin.gives you what you want, Three cheers fur Stalin."
For children up to the
ardi
Одо
of 16 or 16 there is now only
have any
a child's prayer
EMMELYNE STUART-SNELL
who was ordered out of Prague,
03
D
"dangerous
even with friends. For one in discreet word may bring de- nunciation. And that often means imprisonment trial or banishment to one of brigade working hours to his the dreaded labour camps, of credit.
arc which the most notorious the rantum mines at Jacný- mov.
At the labour exchanges nu one can qualify for a job un- ters the rehand shows that he without has a certain
number nt
Innocht people have dis- appeared in this way because of false accusations lodged by a spiteful neighbour.
I know of ong, woman-im- prisoned on afake
charge merely becau?e 22 envius Communist wanted her flat.
One of the most Insidious Communiat impositions of the regime was the Introduction of the Questionnaire which probes in incredible detall the private life of every individual applying for work.
FORCED LABOUR.
Open de werk is another Intimidating racket mas. querading er a voluntary geg- ture of loyalty.
In
This schema operates every town and village in turn. Every citizen is "invited". to open up his home rendy for surprise visits by the local ac- tion committee.
SNOOPERS
The dears of all rooms, cup- boards, Inrders. end wardrobes
must, be left ajar.
If the encopers consider that a citizen has more clothes, fcol, or other articles than he inmediately requires the sur- conflicated
"an plus is
DS needy comrades offering
I know why they are fleeing.
It demands answers to the Czecho- one type of school in Czecho- For, as a teacher in
relatives, State slovakia, I had a close-up view most intimate queries concern- And lovakia. After that the
any of the Communist regime from cry,
friends particularly decides which pupils shall go
abroad possessions, religion, ta-werk-or- become eligible for its inception in 1948 until
-1 was and business, social, and pall- dici...... higher schools and universities, chort while ago, when
expelled
ical background. Parents no longer
foreigner," cay in there matters.
In peaceful Britain it seems fantastic thut 15,000,000 people, once as free as "aurscives, 'can be transformed within a year Into म. nation of desperate slaves. Yet that is the fate of the country 1 have just left.
Its How does a nation lase
happens freedom? And what when it does?
"UNRELIABLE"
Л
I know the daughter of Frage business man who had set her heart on becoming teacher.
Her application was rejected because the records described her father as a capitalist and unreliable citizen."
This highly intelligent girl was put to work in a canning
factory.
A Prague family I know have a son who has been study- ing medicine. In Britain three years.
for
was
This inquisitionists only good Communists get the jobs and provides a convenient "unreliable": cil- check on zens,
are Forced labour brigades now a commonplace feature of life under the Reds. They are a non-penal device for meeting the labour shortages.
In Czechoslovakia it gradual process rather than violent revolution. The postwar
old and the
Men and women. Left was #
con- swing to
years young, are liable to be natural reaction to the
work at short scripted for of Nazi occupation.
INFILTRATION
class As part of the bitter war, the Communist regime is maliciously penalising the children of professional parents by filling the universities with an overwhelming number of Eulents from the artisan t can
the most Intelligent of a doctor or an architect hos being practically no hope of
father's allowed. to follow in footsteps.
JUST SUFFER
a
1T
West Contact with the now the greatest crime a Czech can commit. noilce.
had Because his relatives
Prague A member of the locol Con- fled to Belgium,
was denounced, munist Action Committee may wholesaler
and call at a block of flats, a fac-stripped of his property,
uranium to the tory, a school, or an office on packed off
He his list.
cimply says: mines,
Many OF Is there any hope? There will be a brigade
that with and
answered Sunday
everyone here have
culelde. Others risk their lives must repart for day" their
the heavily gate-crash breaking to The tasis may be stones, clearing rubble, repair guarded Iron Curtain.
But the millions digging sugar ing a rond or And for months after the beet. Only the sick and aged left just suffer and pray Reds seized power in the 1019 (or the privileged). can putsch life continued in much cope.
But, in 1940, the Communists, officials Because Communist the have denounced
youth's under Gottwald, were. Just one. of four political parties in the "disloyalty" in going to a
The people capitalist country, the parents Czech Parliament.
cow nothing sinister in had to disown him.
motives then.
to
They have not written him for 18 months for fear of reprisals.
the same way as before.
The child who innocently disclosed that. his family listened-in to the BBC was re- The unsuspecting people dis- moved from the "treacherous covered too late that the Com- Influence" of his parents. munists were secretly busy In
filtrating their members into
The parents were sent to a key positions in every sphere. labour camp for corrective training.
night
A kadovry, or cadre leader, was planted in every factory,
Five hundred refugees from office, and school as the official the East are slipping into the party epy. Western · zone · ·overy · through the chink in the Iron Curtain at Berlin.
BOBBY JORDON DROPPED OVER
TO SEE ME
TODAY
In Czechoslovakia today has become unsafe to
It
talk
By Ernie Bushmiller
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