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SCENE 4.— THE BABES IN THE FAIRY GLADE
BABES!
BOO-HOO!
WE PAY OUR LICENCES, WE NOW COMPLAIN YOUR WIRELESS PROGRAMMES STRAIN OUR BRAIN.
LIL BIRDIES; POOR MITES!
"CUT DOWN THE ADULT STUFF BRIGHT FOLK ENJOY.- GNE EM MORE FUNNY-BITS AND PLAIN BLOOMING NOISE !
Fairy Haley supported by his Board of Governors sadly goes into his dance, "The Dying Dusch"
THE CRITICS
THREE PRIVATE LIVES
F
Wish I Led
a Dog's Life!
IF I GOT THE AFFECTION
YOU POUR ON NOVER,
TO BE A LUCKY DAG,
BETTY! HOW COME I GET THE SNARLING,
DARLING?
RUP, I'M SORRY!
BUT YOUR DENTIST
15 THE ONE TO TELL YOU ABOUT A SUBJECT LIKE-LIPI
BAD BREATH!
COLGAN DENTAL CREAM CONS
A SUPER JOB OF POLISHING TEETH,
COLGATE DENIM CREAM CICANS TOUR BREATH WHILE IT CLEANS TOUR
TLETH, AND THE COLGATE WAY OF BAUSHING TEITH KIGHT AFTER LATING
SKOPY TOOTH DECAY BESTE
LATER-- Thanks to Colgate Dental Cream
THA CULGATE DENTAL CREPMA ADVICE
GOT ME TREATED PRETTY NICE!
TOO! AND HOW 100 FOR COLGATES CHAND
WAKE-UP FLAVOR!
ON A SOVIET LEVEL
Man
BBC
LOW'S CHRistmas PANTO
IRST
whose story I extract from the dossiers is the
who corporal
had
World Copyright By Arrangement with Datin Herald.
SEFTON DELMER opens up an official British document to disclose
to
readers the checked and authoritative statements made by Sovlet soldiers who have deserted to the West. He details-
The Cobbler
who says that
six out of 800 neighbours had real shoes;
The Film Girl had to bribe
to get fuel. And finally-
CONSTERNATION!
France tightens up her tax laws and causes a stir in the Mayfair of Paris
A
From SAM WHITE
Paris. evening performance i may be MINOR dispersal of recognised. I would much rather some of the major
Just slip in during a matinec."
rich living in Paris is DECORATIONS BILL foreshadowed for the New THE United Nations, which Year. The reason is that last year decided to award the French Treasury have medals for troots in Korea, has
now tolled up the bill: £180. discovered a loophole in the 700 'Mits includes 1.700,000 reciprocal tax agreements medals at 29 5d. each. 2.170,000 France has with a number ribbon bars at 24d each, and 217.350 yards of ribbon at 15. o of countries.
yard. Under thrae agreements most foreign residents in
PRIZES FOR ALL
Paris who pay taxes in THIS
HIS is the season of the year
In Paris when
FD many
their native countries are not subject to French taxa herary prizes are being award- ed almost impossible tion. But it has now been write a be ok without geling found that this sort of one of them. agreement applies only to incomes derived by foreign-of literary Royal Academy ers direct from their coun- award; the least sought-after is try of origin.
Most sought-after prize is the Prix Gencourt which is a kind
In fact many
rich foreign
PARIS NEWSLETTER
residents
here draw
717
the
Prix
Arcadius which
is wwarded by 19
£ jury of journalis's and critles for the incomes from investments least merited prizewinner.
This other countries
year the Prix Goncourt than
has run into heary weather. It their native lands. A num- has gone to an auther who had ber of wealthy Latin wamed beforehand that he Americans, for example, have the bulk of their was the first time such a thing has happened in the 50 year old fortunes invested in the
history of the award. U.S.A
would refuse to accept it. This
The author who won the prize have is a 41-year-old teacher, Louis
this Poirier, whose Ten
Treasury The French already stated to act on discovery, and great is the con- Julien Gracq. ste: nation In Pussy, the Mayfair of Paris
Scveral
fact
US
name
His prize-winning novel is concerned with a war between
Goncourt wrapper around
rich foreigners are two imaginary feudal states. with tax assessments on
The Concourt prize is worth -derived incomes Some of £3 in cash, but with Prix these assessments demand back taxes for as long as five years. The result is that anany luminary of the Paris social scene already laying plans to migrate to Italy or Spain, where taxation authorities are known to
more accommodating.
WANTED A VISA
จ
be
novel it means a fortune to both author and publisher.
M. Poirier announced his
of detestation literary prizes only a few days before his book was chosen. He then referred to them as inducing a "stomacha literature. this being reference to the gastronomic FRENCH novelist Andre delights which Paris literary Malraux, now one of General juries engage in before making all the time, to the chiefs of the de Gaulle's closest associates, their choice.
formerly a colonel in the Inter-
However, Polrfer has received party and of the secret police.
the so much publiclty over his Said the lieutenant: "While national Brigade during
the Spanish Civil War, applied re refusal of the prize that he can was home in Polovainka
Spanish visa to visit well do without the Prix Gon- shot cently fo: police chief of my town
Madrid. while he the Goya exhibition
court wrapper. Paris booksellers two workers flead
The Spanish Embassy in Paris report à record demand for his was drunk in a restaurant was sentenced to five years. or one of the many other regions
"In fact, that sentence would where Stalin considers the na-
For the inmates mean death. tive population unreliable.
Then
there are the inmates of the labour camps are a law
forced Labour of the Many
unto themselves, and no police the vincial can survive among them officers from
The party and the Govern- do nothing
The Convict
schooled as a plasterer and sent to work in Moscow,
In three months there nearly served as a cobbler "acting all his classmates deserted
The corporal decided to ful- unpaid in the Red Army.
corps
4
He
So he knew all about boots low their example, but he was and shoes, And he stared caught and sent to guol When Soviet occupation army in Ger-
he came out Be Red Amy many, for instance, whe
who talked ment authorities says the official British summed him once more, and of the superiority of German about this rule of vodka, Prob- interrogation report with he was sent to Germany industrial methods. And there ably they think that alcohol is have the best way of preventing any thousands who are the been released from these camps trouble here."
incredulous delight at a pair
of civilian shoes given him by the British.
"Never, never did I expect to have such wonderful shoes for myself." he rejoiced. "O such a splendid suit of clothes."
Fic fingered lovingly the not- very-first-class German materia
of bis 90s, reach-me-down
"No une had a sul as good as the at home, not even the direc-
have escaped from them.
2. The Film Girl
O
All
¡ALENTINA was
Headache?
replied: "If you come to Spain work. une of two things may happen
or
to you: either you will be arrested you may be invited to lunch
Malraux, by General Franco.
at grim earnestness, decided to skip the alde
visit.
a
man
QUESTIONS THEY ASK
WELCOME Bureau
greets
✩
PROGRESS NOTE: A Futher Christmas in one of the Paris stores had an interpreter by his
who could speak languages.
staffed by ???? ?
six attractive hostesses now Cross-Channel travellers arriving at the Gare du Nord. of these people, said the
Among questions these girls are asked-and have answered--are: have undoubtedly a secretary lieutenant.
LIE may well be right. Already "Has Mass ever been said in the become demoralised by their HE Ek nographer with a Soviel
living
bands of excaped Paris sewers?" "Ls there а Appulling flim unit making
experiences. a rosy docu-
conditions in this industrial area roundary of life under Stalin in "liberated East Germany."
do the real. "Before I was sent
Cer- to many on location," she said. lived in
in Leningrad."
"
18
There is little food, housing primitive and overcrowded. In hovels and barracks, men, women, and children are dying
Hear what she has to say tor of the tractor station, he about the struggle to get a little off daily in thousands without said. "And shoes! There were fuel for the stove in her 12. wy oties being taken. only six out of 800 in our vill
1211. room. ¡As it great age who had leather ones. others all wore bust shoes made herself. The other four
privilege she had this room to rooms
The by
in the flat, sharing the same
Vodka is the main factor in life There is no other amuse- ment. Everyone drinks heavily, from the miners in the coal
of straw and puttees. I know, in the because I helped my uncle make kitchen, are occupied by four mine, where there are accidents
the leather ones
Ten days before this the cor-
large-size families.)
to be
First a permit had poral had reserted from Stalin's obtained for the fuel. The best Army, made his way across the way to get it was to bribe an
The permit would official.
be
frontter.
The commander of his Soviet unit had been over to see him for three cubic feet of wood, ap. the entire ration for the bitterly
cold Leningrad winter.
LIJ
British hands
and had pealed to him to come back.
But the corporal had firmly turned the Soviet commander down.
ali
the fuel depot but NOT in. "Next I would have to go to
office hours,
sir
??
WOMAN OF
Loday prisoners pillaging wherever they please. you tell me of a cheap Parls They have fought pitched bat-night club?" tles with crack troops of Stalin's special police.
roam the countryside Japanese garden in Paris?" "Can THE YEAR
CARBO SAYS SORRY RETA GARBO, who is stay- Uing in Paris, was invited by
THEN
W search
memories
the headlinera their news to choose the
If anyone were lo turn this chaotic anarchy into organised
the manager of Paris's famous Woman of the Year, they resistance against the regime it might provide the Kremlin theatre, the Comedie Francaise, do not always pick from the
attend one greater to
of its evening headlines of 1951. with a headache even than the desertions from the performances. Red Army in Germany.
-(London Express Service)
In a round-up, so often
She replied: "I am sorry that cannot accept, as if I attend an there came pat the reply
INSIDE INFORMATION
London, ENERAL Eisenhower will tell the North At-
By MERCURY
British oinen returning from the Middle East. say the Persian stocks are dangerously low, and that work at Abadan has almost stopped.,
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put most briefly by-
CAROL REED
MY WIFE, because she has stuck it for another year. SIR ALAN HERBERT MY WIFE. Because ali wives have such a difficult job now and she does it so very well.
PETER BAKER, M.P. offer from PRINCESS ELIZABETH, be- Italy to send 20,000 miners cause she managed to com- here. The offer may be ac-bine the essential qualities of cepted if miners leaders and the daughter and wife at home areas agree to placings for the with the burdens of Britain's ambassadress abroad during her father's illness.
The National Coal Board Is considering a new
The Coal Board believe this
"As often as not my journey Flood of words
would be fruitless. The depot
clcsed
or no fuel lantic powers at Lisbon in Narvel at
TOW he was free....free to would be
would be in stock.
February that his mission the
Customs officers are preparing men. good "Next the trampo- problem. to Europe is complete. The dossier
2 clothes
quality things in the way of
poor would club with friends and cooking pots, furniture, lighting, hire a van-but we had to fol-
General will then return to foreign glass imported here, re- food, housing, which life holds low the
Columbia University, where stamped and then exported as wood cn its way for people outside the Soviet w
Through the sircets to make he will be free to declare British. Some of this glassware new labour force could step up Union.
the has arrived in the West Indies, Oulput sure
one stole auy himself eligible for
Output this year is likely And even when it was in my Presidential election cam-
Plans for an internal civil air to top 220,000,000 tons. room I could not be sure it was
line for West Germany will be sate even under my bed paign.
Dr explained by
Adenauer
British shipyards, working to when he entertains Mr Chur- capacity, have orders totalling chill in Germany next year. 170,000,000 for overseas.
Above all he was free to speak.
The corporal talked and talked and talked. 'There was no stopping him.
READER'S DIGEST* Reported The Same Research Which Proves of psychological liberation.
That Brushing Teeth Right After Eating with
COLGATE DENTAL CREAM
It is a normal stage, his in- terrogators knew, in the process
reports Again and again, in prepared by the British author ties have read that refugees have arrived, tired and evasive;
still feared
for the spy they
that
nu
"People are so short of every- thing there are no morals about
stealing even from friends."
3.-The Convict
HE LIEUTENANT,
THE
who
STOPS TOOTH DECAY BEST Stalin was lurking behind every បញ្ចូ ex-convict, is number
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Sardar K M Pannikar, Indian envoy to Peking, now in Paris, will be
e
are
replaced in the Current schedules there new year. Nehru has been dis-operated by B.E.A., Air France,
and Pan-American. appointed over his handling of affairs in Tibet.
•
·
President Truman has re- list. I call him three on my wall.
called his top financial advisers when ho Then the dem, would suddenly ex-convict because
drom
to help him OverBBAS be lifted, and thoughts and ob- was still a private he served an
assess the 1952 defence b. dget, servations pent up in years of 11-month guol term for over- repression would come burst staying his leave by seven hours. to be announced next month.
He
Russian out in
a fanatical a non-stop flood.
A Hungarian general and 35 Stailn Like the corporal all the tugi- patriot, and broke with
officers suspected tives have one constant refrain: and deserted because he became senior army
anti-Communist activities "At homic no one knows it is conviriced that the Russian of
have been arrested, and their like this outside. They think people are boling rusted by men the way they live is the way who care nothing for the Russian Wives sent to detention camps. the whole world lives."
people.
"They are only concerned with
spreading Communism UR. corporal was born on over the world," and they August 20, 1028, in Kuk doing it at our expense." BOYD, a small mud-track village said. Ho was born and brought when the
without
OUR
Deserter
Bro
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Sir Androw Duncan is being mentioned as the new Minister of Defence, to take over Mr Churchill's reponsibilities there Prime Minister re-
of one-roomed wooden houses up in the new Industrial are in turns from the U.S. Mr Lyttelton remalt at the Colonial Office Ile rains, water, or light. ke, Urals, which he revisited will
1ce that of the recently on, leave.
Inhabitants there · said, are vast majority of Boviet.chlidren,
The Cabinet will announce began at the age of sight, and for the most part deportens.
Men uprooted from their Homes the ages on the board of the ended when he was
the Baltic pro- | Anglo-Irandus 1916, ater boing his base in the Un, the Crimes, shortly.
Company military Araining, he was virices,
4
The NATO. Deputies' Coun. ell is likely tu be abolished in the New Year.
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tons.
NEWS EDITOR, DAILY EXPRESS
in 1952 by 6,000,000 | MRS BRADDOCK. Because the has reached new extremes of notoriety in 1951.
*
Special of
ROBERT BOOTHBY, M.P. MOIRA SHEARER because she's my cousin, and because she is married and such a lovely
ja dancer.
SIR MAURICE BOWRA Vice-Chancellor of Oxford
Scotland Yard, the Investigation Department
of the author and broad- H.M. Customs, and the Danish MRS JOHN BETJEMAN, wife police are trying to solve how caster, for having a most original three tons; of Marla Theresa personality Ellver dollars worth £50,000 JOHN MACADAM.. The Foreign Secretary, Mr have been smuggled from
FLORENCE CHADWICK, for Eden. believes all European Britain to Denmark.
being the youngest woman Army problems will be settled
ever to swim the English Chan- at the Lisbon meeting of the North Atlantle Powers.
RAF. newest
go
US. Republicans are urging net. President Truman
to remove chief,
Snyder, Treasury. fighters will Mr into operational service from office. on at home and oversens.
"
AS BARON
The photographer!
LUDMILLATCHERINA, be- cause, although she lost her Britain will buy more cotton husband three months ago, she Donmurk will increase the from Pakistan next year to off has entried on magnifoently, and army conscription parlod from set the cut in supplies from still looks and dances wonder- 12 to 18 months shortly.
Egypt.
fully. She is also; In my opinion, one of the three most beautiful Mr Churchill is being press
Top US. Industrialists will women in the world.
EVE PERRICK * · broadcast a arrive in UK soon to prona British ed by MPs, to fireside chat to miners in the firms to take space at the 1868 CELIA JOHNSON as Woman Now Year. MPs and miners' New York Fair leaders wrying closer co-opera- on between the Government the broadcast and mavers MAY would help clear misunde standing
Of The Year. for being the only person with an orlainal America will develop too b suggestion for Man Of The Yont. Britials, parachute whielt fea tures, helleopfar rotor arms
lewtead of the usual, canopy.
(Hey choles: The Abominable Snowman, "because it is lovely to have him back again,~)
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