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I HAVE BEEN LIVING

WITH

tinction of being the ends.

TELEVISION

The revolution

the

NEW YORK. to say that our television is as

Kate Smith Hour--[mm AM stili in New York. advanced technically, and that contrul room of a theatre of in this I have the dis- standards are higher,

nur plays and some artistic Broadway which, with others, there it has been taken over and con- verted to vision. The redoubt- only living creature "still"

able Miss Smith, whose singing in New York. I now run full-

and "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountains" signature tilt up and down stairs Hike

tune made her radto fame, is everybody else, and-like TELEVISION is not sweeping

a large, benign woman with * a everybody else cannot

It has already bank balance which vision swells swept i It has not got, like hourly. imagine why.

ours, potentialitles. It only hus still greator potentialities. It is Any resemblance between

not going to revolutionise the Great Britain and the entertainment and sporting in- United States, except that dustries. It has already done inhabitants of both Old and so. New Worlds have the same

this country

But the cat continues to jump

affection for kith, kin, and in all directions, and when it home, and the same by-and- does eventually land it will be large kindly hearts, is pure- with both paws in Technicolour;

and on theatre screens. ly coincidental.

The big chiefs of the movies following radio are not

They are away ahead of It is their money or their

For the vast days and nights 1 and have been living with television, trends, I doesn't sound too easy, and . them. isn't.

Before 1 came here I read fragrant articles written by my Dwn countrymen poutificating that British television entertain-

as that in the ment is as good US and that we have nought to fear from any competition.

enjoy Retion as much as the next man, but though it is truth

Sitting on the

The dance

19 recrut

from pubin shouls and sunn

STADS

Into The

3

Jalan Hevenus weereda views between Mi Bhoods

futive

Incestie Tuw Jaspe

1-

ber

alk Jos vetime are going to be an un exeructatingly high sal Joved

FOOD morning, Mr X. Do take a seat, will you?

Thanks, Mr Binodsucker. Look here. Mr X, som*

Fence.... by

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

י', ;[

} last few days Dug the

tell bke a boy stomath with keen rakes

For reading n bei Lady Chat-

terley's Love

11 from (7he lucky girl read wal resulle pleasure the days when

cover to ruver) and iquorice all- Rah, rah jolly old days, jolly of ad me mets

sorts come down non-stop with-

old nights at the school. out rousing me the slightest in- Convcinence,

of you cheps are giving us cheps quite spot hother.

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רניני

if she not the first to encircle lus neck with her paws.

Asung there

is something

in his tale, wives may find the and future full of difficulties curious experience.

There is the grisly prospect of other ruinca:naled doggies being even more demanding

of the

Let us consider, for instance, the imaginary case of Susan, re- Incarnation

deceased fiancee of an otherwise happily married man, Mr X.

lives

Famous film stars are leaping into airliners to appear at astro- nomical figure. in ten-minute vision "spota.”

She is on vision ave days a week, on radio six days. and has a one-hou vision show at theatre every Wednesday. Dur- ing the "Kale Smith Hour" 1 saw she sang only three songs

İCOLLIE

KNOX IN

AMERICA

and appeared in one sketch. The rest of the time she lauded pro- Lo the skies. Eleven ducts Corporation alone are reported commercials had to be fitted in-

and the crush was fearful.

229

The National roadcasting

being

expected

lose TU $1,000,000 in 1952. In 1950

I put it to a director that so their Tadlo network made

many commercials ruin the $3,500,000. Last year the net was artistic value of the programme. expected to reach an all-time He agreed, but added: "Besides

low of $500,000.

the cost of our star and guest

Both the N.B.C. and C.B.S., the artist we use for this show alone two richest and most powerful 40 people in the office, script- networks, are making fortunes writers, musicians, casting and and spending them on vision. programme directors. It costs How else can But radio is far from dead. $50,000 a week. What will not only keep it we get the money?" upright, but will resuscitate it.

I hoped to see Miss Smith is the hellfire commercialism of after the show, for she is a fine vision,

Non-stop Kate

artist and her records have long given me joy. But her manager said she had to go and see her doctor. I couldn't have been THERE are 107 vision 50105 less surprised. Doctors flourish on he tin. Children spend 27 in this elty, about which a m little man-hours a week gluer should be made called "Ulcers

There Is A Galore "

studios from

in Park Avenue, where i am staying, there are more than 128 doctors. People do not naturally stay alive in New York. They have to be kept that way.

Mr Moser speaks

to home screens. 3,000-mite vision link between the Atlantic and Pacife coasts- as far as from here to London,

New York alone has seven alternative programmes and 80 which every star of whom we have ever heard- and many of whom we never shall--are seen on 13.000,000 sets doing their

Daw and heard

URING the Kate Smith opus brilliant stuff but

ab item being inexorably,

to me

which made my cautious British maddeningly, interrupted to tet hair stand on end. One of New viewers of dynamic and faintly Jersey's leading attorneys, a Mr so funny when Susan lave the embarrassing berisons of patent Moser, prosecuting counsel in a almost too soon recent graft crime prosecution,

This Susan, jealous of Mrs X. Do you remember the jully uls may start by taking the ration books and doing all the shopping If this is not stopped in time, she

2

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ca

the Apert

there 1 meal.

which have been with manfying gulanty, 1 would uke se efter you my warm thanks for 10-

after Juning

than 30

WOL

note

NATH, but ectually haren't ons The monen.

Nobody's got it. ectualiy But chops who haven't gather have to bo;row it from chops like bank managers or ship go- ng out with cheps, or stud sama- thing to sent the The as to rase the wind.

But utter cheps here!

יין. 2

years, thic eusy hila of taking

afternoon tea,

w money to buy anything to the count from chops, eren i chrys lead anything to svil

tl

The nel custom perulier ilea adopted 11 A revient s. amethaug which

onercciatel

enviet

Thet is rather A surg

But annet ectually it a chẹp can't due the

נ' אילן !

that

wind. cheps like us hav, lagh usig ve rather beastly to cheps Belong period.

to any good clubs?

One or two.

Sp did Perhaps we can work

that some expenses

play Rugger?

Rather.

Blue?

Nu.

Pity. Cricket?

Sort of.

(12)

Blue?

Yea. Ectually.

Eve

ON, good snow. Perheps you rould manage a bit of lox on account"

sammunt

and

will then chase Mis X out of

When, in laws. Ermyntrude tolt the kitchen and cook the supper Mrs X may find this amusing at first, but she won't think

a fole that was rude And stud with hr far to the

wall"

We drin't lean much that would

maki a girl corky.

Our knowledge of maths

a little bit rocky. But we knew about sex and we

knew about hockey

Rah

by

la v epdie k H To ih teruste

Indeed, it is dificult to find words to express my joyful sur- PSE when, after only 4 hours

new life log: the our

you felt in the mood to send down hot buttered buns. tcast and jam. even enjoyed the gritty grocer's cake made with un- washed currants.

in that moment I felt that our relationship, strained for so long by a railous disregard for my. comfort, wES entering upon al new era of co-operation and

One could sort of have a mutual understanding so sadly

needed in the world today. stub at it.

Then don't worry, ali chep. Well, theuks, old chup. Forget it. old chep.

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" have been falling in love

for years....I

1952 and beyond? 19 adways a misery. because men I J: We don't love me."-Girl writ IN tu a columnist.

I loved the way he looked at me,

The funny way he spoke,

I laughed at everything he said,

A every little joke

I thought he'd love a jolly girl,

As jolly as could be,

But if he loved a jolly girl

He didn't love me,

Another boy I loved so much,

So serious, so kind,

hought I'd be a clever girl

And analyse his mind,

But after my analysis

'Twas plain enough to see

Whatever else his mind was on

It wasn't on me.

I fell in love, I fell in love,

I fell in love again

As timid as a mouse he was,

So little and so plain.

"He wants a girl to mother him,"

I thought that 1, could see,

But if he wanted mothering

The girl ain't me.

I've tried to be the jolly type,

The houghtful and the grave, The domineering mother type,

The doormat and the slave, The sophist and the ingenue, The true love and the free Whatever type the fellers want

They don't want me.

I am already looking forward

to het cross buns at Easter.

I remain, Sir, faithfully

Your Stomach,

MEMO TO TUM:-Don't count

Easter's N. Gubbins.

long way off.--

rah, jolly old days and jolly good fuck to yin alt.

Eternal triangle

*

medicine and

and

sid in an interview that crimé in the United States was slarm- Not only is vision racing on Slowly and deliberately he

cased he

the morning.

supper for bertelf and Mr X in the dining-room, puts Mis X's after breakfast foods.

puts was supper on the kitchen flour and lands growling ove: her while

non-stop from 10.30 a.m. to mid- she does the washing up.

pollicians and this Nor will she be amused when night but after January the was a coast-to-coast hook-up-- the finds that Susen and Mr XN.B.C. has decided to risk thou in Atlantic City of refusing to have gone

the pictures; or sands of dollars (peanuts—just set up a crime committee because that Susan and Mr X are oc peanuts) to start each day's they had too much to fear from cupying the reside armchairs transmission at seven o'clock in graft exposures. in the parlour, listening to the radio, or that Mr X is doing bl

“You really think your house THE story of an Alsatiate bitch, football pools while Susan darns

wives will feel like watching who is believed to be the

Forks. At first, she may think it easy television at that ghastly hour?" remcarnation of a married man's

to urder Susan out of the chair. I inquired of a big chief. "Don't dead sweetheart, has caused

but the moment will come when know," he replied. "That's what great gasp of "Oh, how sweet. Susan, conscious of her power we want to find out." 15 ring through the dog-loving and determined to have Mr X world.

alone for an evening, wil leap into the at Mrs X. worry her gerten and lock her out till bed time.

THE

According to the story, the re- incarnated sweetheart insists on being kissed by her owner be- fure he greets his wife, and sulks

h15

-(.ondon Express Service)

Problem Of

HA

Jolly old girls men,

BERLIN.

They try everything here. They buy anything once.

I witnessed one of the daily hour television shows - the

He said that six policemen who were trying to further the cause of Justice had been arrested and were to be put on trial at the instigation of criminals.

Mr Moser is a brave man. I prayed he would be careful going home.

Here is a vivid example of how television in America is being used-and rightly—to stir the civic conscience.

(MORE TOMORROWĮ

Germany's Homeless

-By- ANTONY TERRY

redress something quickly to

Even Dr Adenauer has to some of the refugees' grievances. make frequent publie references But the Government officials to the "reoccupation of areas hamstrung by which have been taken from us" themselves are the refusal of the prosperous in an effort to gain the support provinces of the U.S. and French of the refugees Zones to absorb more

these remarks, and, while wish-TJALF-A-MILLION home- ing you the compliments of the less refugees from East season, may I express the hope Germany and Poland are that this unexpected rapproche- ment may continue throughout planning one of the biggest

than a Democratic Party his Christian protest marches in history

tiny proportion of refugees. The danger is that the re- to the to call attention

The area which has done most fugees will one day demand the failure of the Bonn Govern- marchers who ask them for to help resettle them is the fullment of these promises ment to find them work and help.

heavily indua driafised and much- and that same extremist political

which already parties may

take this as the homes in the West.

signs bombed Ruhr, Already there are

has its own troubles. The lush signal for a demand that Ger Starting from the Schles- that the "hungry, homeless southern states have, so far, many should "take back” her your buns before they're bakad.wig area of Northern Ger- half million," living in stuck their heels in and adopted lost territory.

a "couldn't care less" attitude, many, where most of them thousands of squalid, leaky

The more reasonable refugee are living, the refugees, huts built by Hitler for his which is strongly condemned by leaders they have their own British and American officials powerful political organisation women and children, slave workers, are rapidly and the Bonn Government.

called

"League of Homeless and will try to cover on foot the becoming a

prey to Nazi

Dispossessed" - hope that this "taking back will be possible "Miss Q sends her best wishes 700 miles to the "promised and Communist propaganda, for the New Year to Old Girls who lands" in the south and because they see

by peaceful means. Others no im-

This problem of Germany's press in more open language were at School.

Personal column. southwest where they hope mediate chance of a change homeless is more important than their hopes that a new war will

in their condition.

It sounds. There are no fewer be fought by the Western nu than nine million refugees from tons against Russie, to help Do you remember the jolly old to find work and homes.

days

Most of them live in parts of

the areas of the Soviet zone and them to regain their the British Zone, where neo-

former who have had further East

to homesteads. British and German Nazism, of the brand developed be absorbed into Dr Adenauer's The tragedy of these millions

"Fuehrer," Major. the by security officials are worried

Federal

Republic,

of homeless, unhappy people is of them are hard-work being explofted in ́s cynical and And the jolly old nights when that the march, which is political force.

we switched on the lights due to start, in the spring, Promises by the West German, ing honest people who have had shameless fashion by the Com- Reading Adler and Freud in will turn into a shambles, authorities that they would and to leave their homes because munias, who are to a large des

the dorm?

like the terrible forced homes and jobs for 300,000 of they belleved that anything was gree responsible for their res marches of refugees, slave two years have not been kept. many's Communist

aletatorship. these refugees during the past better than life under East Ger- sent plight,

Industry workers and prisoners at Fewer than 11,000 have been Many have by their

Already found resettled. the end of the war.

When Peggy was top of the

form?

General Remer, is a powerful Most

When we analysed Kitty and

analysed Glad

And found we were vicious

and half of us' mad (Though most of us blamed it

on mother and dad), Rak, rah, Jolly old days, jolty old nights in the dorm,

and enterprise;

for themselves in

sort of a home

The blame for the whole, re-

of Britain and America by: thê

loba and come we Germany, fugce problem is fald at the door But there are also maier Communists, and the neo OZUB

who

For there is little hopo that the refugees will find conditions much better for Bonn's Wrong man, Minister of are ripe for a new them in the "promised Interior De Lehr, has said that and who would accept Him If he who claire that

he will take drastic steps" to promised to regain the

nothing to help them

territories

lave "Cona

talk rin

Stomach writes: Do you remember the jolly old lands" and a definite risk stop the marchers, If they try to in the Best from which they This is any, it is time.

Whch hockey and games were of southern Germany, who But the "protest trek." have been expats sa Corn wountry like t

My dear Mr Gubbins,

days

the rule? In reply to your undated We were healthy by day, shout leiter, I have to Inform you that, "Hip hip, hooray

I am feeling wonderfully he since

And "Go It" and "Play up the

its doubtful whether pub-muhi He opinion in Germany, which

the Allien forced the well-to-de

that the well-fed burghers

All West German political South Germans in their luxity Unhas a guilty conscience about the parties are falling over back- Goe care their big hotels and have been largely touched by the tragic after oficial failure to do more for wards to capture the millions of this fur coata to do

Would

rukee! votes - mostly with LTE effects of war, will angelly Alle refieret

YALI TO BE AG their doors in the faces Monciale, have urgHAM HUs promises about "redövafink

we thing.

You made your, noble resoluälon.

Hour German" territories further ren

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