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DOCTOR DEGENER WANTS A PHONE

From WILLIAM HAMSHER

CAIRO,

TTERR Doktor Albert

H Degener អ៊ឹម

com-

in Д offices

fortably installed brand-new suite of near the Egyptian National Bank. But he has no phone.

The Egyptians have promised to link him up "in a day or two," and Dr. De- gener is fortunate because in Egypt not even gruft can get you £ phone without long waiting.

A phone is very important, say:

CALCULATORS the Herr Doktur. Not until he

INSURMOUNTABLE

IN

QUALITY, DESIGN &

has one can he spearhead the big German trade push in the Middle East.

Dr Degener is general secretary of the new German- Egyptian Chamber of Commerce.

There seems to be an impres

sion abmad that we arc subsidised by the Adenauer he told me.

Government,"

"This is not so.

Trade between Germany and Egypt is sufficient to finance our petivities-we aim at increasing business between. the two countries."

Bavarian smile And to decrease British acil- vilter?

"Well,” said· Dr Degener, with a blend Bavarian smile, "if it is true that

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the Germans harder than the British, and if this means we can bellmore

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KNUCKLE DUSTERS, IRON CROSSES SPURS

IN BASEMENT

OFFICERS SS LEADERS FITTINGS

Have you

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Cafe Wiseman lately?

"Curporals' uniforms first floor, Mein Herr

London Express Service-

HOW MUCH DO THE QUEENS MAKE?

ICE

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RITAIN'S Jeannetta Altwegg. supreme #mong skuters, has turned down all offers to become a profes- sional.'

In the last nine months Ger-

In one year Jeannette mans have walked away with could muke £100,000. But it three big contracts for public wworks: The Sohag bridge, 600 is tough at the top for ice miles up the Nile from Calro; queens who surender their the remaking of the Zitta hydro-crowns to the box-office.. electric dain near Alexandria; and an extension to Cairo's north power station.

Compeition?

In one case the Egyptians found that made in Germany was not the cheapest available, But the job still went to the Germans

And with Gerinan industry not geared, as the Brilish is, to de- fence production, it looks as though the Germans are about to score again!.

By SIDNEY RODIN

over America in the "Holly wood Ice Revue," making £250,000 a year.

Sonja is now so rich that this month she rejected un offer to skate in London for £60,000, Her. gea ming

- akates are

|---The-life- is exacting-- and -bringing her the competition intense, £8,000 a day. though the rewards are the They have richest the entertainment made world can offer.

Why has the shy, grace ful Jeannette refused to make a profit out of her matchless skill? Does she

Egyptian money feel she lacks the aggres

Egypt

must eut expenditure, siveness to hold her own in former Premier Aly Maher told this battle of steel-shod his Cabinet. But he promised | feet? "- that money would be found for

big Irrigation schemes. Priority Or will she change her goes to the Assouan dam electric project-a £15,000,000 onder at mind as so many other ice leas!. German firms have sent queens have done and in tenders..

eventually become a profes- Bankers sent their own financesional? expert Lo Cairo, Dr Alber! Buchler. with a blueprint for

German-Egyptian Bank.

A

About this project no-phone Dr Degener said that while Egypt would provide the capital Ger- man banks and firms would be asked to invest,

And thia month Premier a mission Adenauer is sending

Sonja Henie, who has cut figures of exquisite beauty on ice from the age of 14, turned professional in 1935, when she was 22.

moment Until that

the

one

her o f America's richest women at 38. Cecilia colledge, daughter of

#1

London

40

surgeon, was seven when she Sonja win the world title. "I want

to do that, mother," she said."

And so she did-ten years later in

1937.

never

And she has done it although

finishing more than an also-ran at the Olympic contests.

Belita was trained. for the ballet by Anton Dolin,

after Oslo Jeannette Altwegg in winning the Olympic Figure Skating Title for Britain in the 1952 Winter

Olympics.

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is such a hard, cruel world, pred the thought of making plans and haggling for money maker' my head spin."

Yet a

few months later she made her Broadway debut for £2,000 a week and formed her own management board of two lawyers, a banker, and a busi ness executive to guard. her

mounting fortune.

Her demands

ABY-FACED Barbara could

B probably have carried of a

Hollywood contract but asked ico big a figure. Today she has replaced Sonja Henie in the "Hollywood Ice Revue" at £2,500 a week, She is only 25.

Daphne Walker, whose father kept a public house in Smithfield, London, was a. podgy brunette of 20 when in 1947 she took the British title and was runner-up to the world champion,

Daphne at once went pro- fessional for £200 a week, then moved to America to acquire "oomph."

When she returned this win-

der to star in "Robinson Crusoe on Ice" for £400 a week, Lon- don found ther glamourised into 症 magnificently proportioned honey, blonde radiating show- manship.

Twenty-five-year-old Daphne told me I have studied acting, dancing, and I take three sing- Ing. lessons a week. 1 have bought a small apartment house fa Detroit and other property.

In 1946 she turned pro- and at first skated for exer- fessional. London's biggest cise. But ballet didn't pay, JAMES J. KING trade should

to discuss the Egyptian plea that most she ever earned was a theatre at once paid, her so the blonde from Nether go on sating na least.

Bow between the, bouquet.

Wallop skated between ice two countries without restric-

£300 a week. By the end of hockey matches in America

netting for £20 a minute.

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tions.

German sales to Egypt are still behind Britain's. But the 1951 figures are expected to show jump of almost 150 per cent.

And Dr Degener has not even made a phone call yet.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

£10,000.

But when she went to 1948 America to skate for profit they pald her £7,000 for three performances.

she was

Then her father died and left her £65,000. At 31 she

deserted stardom. But it

Why? Because to her sweet smile and shapely legs was allied warmth of wasn't just the legacy that personality. She was like made her quit: fire on ice. Showmanship came naturally.

Film wealth

mean to at

long as Sonja,"

'The prettiost'

A film producer was classical struck by her beauty as she glitted across MORE and more as the popu

larity of ice spectacle Soon she was spreads, aspirants for stardom skating in pictures at £240 ore coming from outside the

the arena.

is a film and

championship rinks,

Gerald Palmer, Tom Arnold's

a week.

Now, she From Lake Placid, New stage star making many ice show producer, says: "Today a world skating' champlon is not York, she sent this mes- thousands of pounds a automatically a show star, To picture how many she last she must be a fine actress refused to tell me.

as well as a superb skater."

Diana Grafton, of Brighton,

Rage:--

Q

skotes Еть

£150 a

Yet she now earns

"A top skater can still But 25-year-old Belita, Britain's leading ice comedienne, earn £10,000 a year, but the although you might think has never, worn DARRYL ZANUCK saw strain of remaining at the she is secure at the top, competition,

her. Here was some top is tremendous. You are still practises six hours A thing new for Hollywood.

a target. There are 80 day at skating and ballet week in London, and in May, in So he signed her on to skate many young skaters to re- between engagements. And a Chicago ice cabaret, will get in a film for £10,000. place you. A star rarely her husband says:

Another

lasts after 30." two films brought her £16,000 each, the next £25,000 and so the figures soared. In 1938 Sonja earned £175,000.

"She, £200 a week.

is one of the hardest And there is 24 - year – old working girls in show busi- Shella Hamilton of Hove, called

· Cecilia Colledge never de-

the "prettiest skater in Britain," ness."

-who-put-on- sitates as a school- veloped the audience ap-

Jeannette should study girl merely to improve her peal of Sonja Henie. But asylph-like blonde -named Barbara Ann Scott, the pole and grow stronger,

Already the cams £150 a But films are not her Belita Gladys Jepson- potite girl from Canada who week as principal girl in Ace biggest money spinners. Turner from Nether Wallop, was world champion in pantomime. Sho hn's whirled and Hampshire, has almost out- 1948, pirouetted for 16 years glittered the sugar, plum before huge audiences all fairy from Norway.

At first Barbara said: "I won't

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