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E man who fired a did not have (nor did he cove') pistol in Rawalpindi Jinnah's tremendous popularity. may have done

But he had the respect of Bata more and

America and of his than kill Pakistan's Premier people as a man of integrity and Liaquat Ali Khan and die balance. And he had kept the at the hand of the mob for machinery of the Pakistan Gov- crnm based on the Britisn his pains.

mcde-running smoothly.

He could have fired a starting- piekl few fare-up between Inda and Pakisan-just as the kile of the pro-British Persian this gr. Razmare in March year sparked cli the Abadan crr-which might never have happened had Razmera lived.

Ironically, Liaquat All Khan, ke Gandhi was assassinated by one of his own faith and follow Ing Ganda died at the hand of a Hinda extremis in New Delh. in Jucun:y 1948; the Puk.stan P.me Minister from a shot fire by a Moslem fanatic.

Before him was constantly the vision of Empire. He spoke many mos ta ph British Commcu- wath as living force in the | maltichange of peace.

His

problem

Of ine ha cries had been ac live in his own epun y-special- y over his handling of the pro-

act Kathmi: affä

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World Coppright. Du atzekgement with Dally Herpit.

The Barrymore

who hated acting

N

by MILTON SHULMAN

TO critic can do more to recast a reputation or disturb an

John

the

His grandmother, Mrs Drew, spent 72 years on

His stage.

father, Maurice illusion Barrymore, was the

mas-

romantic

brothor.

his sister, Ethel,

as authorita-

than an

His actor's own auto- idol of his day biography. Anyone who has John, and

wore greasepaint been backstage for a drink

tively knows how painfully the coronets. performance can querade the man. [T may be jus. Treule enuseidonce

But the depth of the dis- ha Bob Lesque A. Khan guise becomes even end uita's Panda Nehru had brutally transparent much the same background and an actor comes out from

wear

he

LIONEL BARRYMORE

it the name was Schultz?

princelings as

Yet Lionel

Barrymore had a "blanket aversion" to acting. "Not to any one bit of acting perpetrated by me, but to all more acting perpetrated by me,” when writes to

to remove any shred of qualification. He had to act breeding. Both were educated in

because he had to eat. It under the protection of the as fundamental as that.

the name of a well-known New Eng and--N.h A: Cambridge:: Liqua Ali Khan at Oxford. playwright's words and His real loves were painting York ticket agency called Mc- wrote and music.

Spent four Bride, Heywood Broun ideas and uses his own.

"Lay OJE Both mea were nitimbers <!

Not that Mr Lionel Barry Years studying art in Parls and of this production, the Inner T:mple and were call-

without McDuff, Lay off McBride, returned to America his more in ed to the Bar--Nehru in 1912. Barrymores,"

He was more successful · --In memoirs ("We completing a single picture. Peter Davies.

alms

They were caster. The Liaquat Ali Khan a yens later. 12s. 6d.) has taken so bold a

rehearsals, the disappointments Bu: Liaqua A Khun never course. This

und the nervous hard work of

prac.scd

Instead, be ǝk a is life long brief the cause of bro.he: Moslems and when he died he led a people of 70,000,000 and ruted a land greate France.

He

was

the

any

the stage bored him.

When hc went back lo never to

is another of those "as told to" ventures in

in which the ghost his music.

He was more successful with biography writer is important enough to

His compositions, which he blithely admits pil. Hollywood in 1925, materialise in the shape of his fering from

of return to the theatre, he snatches

Ap. comedy name on the cover.

Brahms, Mozart and Debussy, peared in a two-reel It is to Mr Cameron Shipp have been played by as

which he im- in

Wys constantly arta than that Mr Barrymore has fold

orchestra DS

on the head with a being hit pressive on

# all.

rubber hose, "Easiest work I New York Philharmonie. Liequal Ali Khan returned to We are thus one layer re-

ever did. I was content," he But acting was the only oc- the real Lionel

Guys. His friends were horri- India the year after he was call moved from ed to the Bar and joined the verbal epidermis there are stil!

Barrymore.

be- But beneath this cupation that made him money.

He approached it with fied at this undignifled

"We Moslem League.

the loathing p

haviour of a Barrymore. = tropeze sufficient traces of Mr Barry-

Barrymores survive anything He never braded "movimen's" i more visible to confound those artist who is afraid of heights that pays," was his reply.

His grandmother pushed him against the Brush Ruj: he never who insist on attributing the on the

when ho singe was inside a concentration cump art of acting either wholly to in Sheridan's "The Rivals." 11 was a disastrous debut. "I am

It is not surprising then that the only actor who has ever Mr Barrymore has little pro- been formally canned from

found to say about acting-u The Barrymores are to

about anything elac either. was con'en to stay

what the he proudly reports.

There is nothing in this string Jinnah's shadow. He became American theatre

Forbes-Robertsons, the Terrys

his The rest of secretary of the Mostem League or the Hawtreys are to

of petly anecdotage that Tises the career seems to have been an above the level of

backs In 1936 when Jinnah reorganised English theatre. Birth automa- unpredictable mixture of acci- gossip before curtain time. The

t, and thereafter the two were tically

unrelieved wa imposes a responsibility dental success and

world wurs Arc only close and

campismentary Jinnals to the stage.

failure. Two of his most suc- chronological milestones as fil- the quick-thinking mercurial

The Barrymores can man: Liaquat Ali Khan the more actors in the family as far back Stelian

trace cessful

cidental as a Alm shot of fall- characterisations,

organ-grinder and ing leaves to indicate the pass→ saber fellow, the plodder with as 1752. Inevitably they were Colone! Ibbetson in "Peter Ib- Ing of time:

heredity or wholly to environ- for his beliefs. Balanes and cau- tion were we of his main char.ment. acteristics.

in

vision for ever before him never-called the Royal Family theless

Broadway.

of

We Barrymores, IRD. Gd.

Liaquat Ali Khan became the first Indian Finance Minister and became Prime Minister Pakistan in 1947.

H

His work

E gravelled widely-America, Canada, Britain. He met his Christian-born wife-the Begum -when che was selling tickeb for a Bar flood relief dramatic Sho performance.

became a Moslem and they married in 1993.

What did he achieve, this man of peace who died by a weapon of war?

He helped form a Triw Do. minion, and brought some cler out of chaos. More, he brought. the English virtues of toleration, patience, and moderation to a land which has long lacked them

JOHNNY HAZARD

THE CARAVAN COMES! MASTER,

HURRY!

own

wbs

15

the play by his grandmother,"

theatrical

A

of betson," were achieved by It therefore comes as some- simply mimicking the actions what of a shock that, after of other actors doing similar some 250 light-hearted and ag- roles.

gressively self-effacing pages, should reveal Mr Barrymore on his final page that he has a political and moral philoso phy after all.

Peter Davies.

His Macbeth, he admits, was a debacle at Dunsinane, Using

TALK, TALK,

"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts,"

-Tallyrand.

1

He hear no tone

Of the maiden he loves 50

well! No telephone

Communicates with his cell. -W. S. Glibert, 1878.

•

"Someone invented the tele-

phone,

And interrupted a nation's

slumbers,

Ringing wrong but similar

numbers."

--Ogden Nash,

TALK

In heaven when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

-Somerset Maugham.

1

The fact is that the tele- phone is the greatest weapon over placed in the hands of the bores of this world ginco the development of human speech.

-“Mr Harper".

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Allence is one great art of conversation,

-William Hazlitt.

MAST...

The obstacle to civilisation's progress, it seems, Is "strangu- luting taxes." Mr Barrymore assures us that it we

study our history books you studied in

"the ones the eighth grade" his view would be vindicated.

It is

rother

re- on

disconcerting that Mr Lionel Barrymore has felt impelled to

put his miniscences and reflections life into hard print. Most of US would have prefered to

re member him as the traccible, growling but genily wise Fold man. propelling his wheel-chair through films about Dr Kildare. But now that we have read his book we cannot but won- der what would have happen ed to Lionel Barrymore hád he been born Lionel Schultz.

By Frank Robbins

THEN

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