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Concluding JOBS FOR

T

drama

Sitting on the Fence

N

by

Nathaniel Gubbins

had just slopped a hot one with his stomach. The fast bowler was Joo Stalin, smoking‘a pipe, the wicket keeper ex-King Farouk, who had two black eyes from a couple of bumpers, and the square leg umpire was a bear in Russian uniform.

Despite his age, Stalin took a run of four miles before he This meant delivered the balli

response to a reader's holiday-makers In hotela by request for a half pointing out that the fine sum running round the boundary several times, and made on; over last about an hour.

yearly prophecy from mer of 1952 reminds them of the fine summers and harvests of Old Moore Gubbins, the 1914 and 1939 both of which Imbecile sage offers the fol- ended in world wars. lowing:

Further misery will be caused by warnings of impending AUGUST: As the full moon national bankruptcy made by falls in the Eleventh House and politicians on the eve of their many people on holiday will

the at

As he approached 'the wicket from the nursery end, tshu-tahu- ishuing like a train and pung clouds of smoke from his pipe, a pleas of paper 34 foot long blew across the pitch.

"Somebody's had a good feed of sandwiches,” observed a witty. radio commentator.

be failing out of the public house, expensive holidays abroad. there will be Incrossed polico “SEPTEMBER: 'Autumn activity

beginning manoeuvres in Eastern Germany of the month.

will give military experts ព chance to tell us once more how many divisions we need to stop the Russians. They will then

The Red Dean picked up the frighten everybody by pointing piece of paper, out that we shall never have enough divisions to stop. them, the excited dean.

"It's a Chinese acroll," shouted except on paper.

Eggs will be in short supply, particularly in seaside guest Houses, where egg allocations, if any, will be caten by the proprietors and their relatives.

Middle-aged pessimists will cause great depression among

WOMEN IN AMERICA

STEPPING LIVELY'S NO FUN TO HER

New York.

HE chorus of

Rodgers-Hart show, "Pal Joey," besides figuring

the critics' choice of "the best musical play of the year,"

also the busiest girls in town.

They dance some 77,850 steps during the 80 minutes they are on stage.

aro

They have so little time between costume changes that instead of the normal dressing room upstairs, the management has fixed up a changing, room in the base- ment, where each girl's cos- tumes hang in rows, ready to drop over her head.

Anyone caught on the narrow winding staircase

the avalanche thunders down can only shut his eyes and pray.

*

By KAY MURRAY

This member of a much- maligned profession speaks fluent French, loves ballet, and in her spare time-guess what?-goes to the theatre.

Like every member of a chorus line she hopes to land big part, and confesses she would love to act in London.

CAMERADERIE

Its expansion, while not in the class of its £32,000,000 American neighbour, opens a new world to Job-hunters.

Costumes frequently turn up from the renting agency com- pletely different from what was ordered a Roman toga in place of a Greek robe, for instance.

Sometimes they don't turn up at all.

"Get back to your crease, you

Eggs will still be in short clot." yelled the bishop. supply, and bronzed and At politicians, full of foreign eggs,

"They're not grease spots," tho will return from their holidays deon shouted back. "They're abroad to predict national bank- Chinese characters," ruptcy If we don't work harder. When Stalin arrived at the OCTOBER: Politicians will wicket, ho collided with the still be telling people to work dean and knocked him dat on harder, but as people will know his face without delivering the harder work means more income ball. tax, with one egg a week, they "How's lat?" asked a Chinese grocer, who was fielding at first

won't.

NOVEMBER: Ruin still just slip. round the corner. Fogs for all. "Out," said the umpire.. Influenza for most, Eggs *for "I'm not out," roared the nobody.

bishop.

"No, but the dean is," said tho umpire.

DECEMBER: Ruin, and us, just about to meet at the corner, Happiest Christmas will be en- Joyed by turkeys. who won't bishop. have to face the New Year.

In situations like this the P.A Dream encounter

leaps

.to her ever-ready

telephone, wheedling or badger- They might, for instance, enjoying her way out of the impasse.

NIGHTMARE

25-year-old Betsey Fitzgerald's job as one of Columbia Broad-

casting System's corps of Pro-TALF-A-DOZEN unions con- gramme Assistants.

Hspire to make life in a TV

"That's not cricket." said the

. "Don't argue with the umpire," sald the bear.

*.

At that moment

an aircraft,

THE cricket match between flew overhead. The Red Dean'

England and The Rest was made a speech about germ war- being played at Helsinki.

fare. Farouk shouted: "Down The Red Dean was batting at bishop

with England," and hit the on the head with a one end, the Bishop of Narking stump. Stalin started his run Or, again, it might drive them

Creek at the other.

round the boundary to deliver swiftly into the nearest lunatle studio rather a nightmare.

Dr Mossadeg, folding at silly the next ball, Mossadeg handed asylum.

Betsey works from 10 a.m. to mid-off, was crying because he in his resignation to the umpire Possibly some Scottish tenacity a p.m. five days a week.

and fainted.

AS an American that's my AS dream," she told me. "I enables her to bear the trial of think British theatre is the best television with fortitude, since

- "That's marvellous for televi-

in the world. If a young actress her paternal grandmother was slott" where” you 'often work goin

a chance there, she is Mrs Jeannie Grant, of Inverness, weekends and at night too," she given such wonderful training" "If you can't take the litters saya. and encouragement.

'that go on pretty permanently," From 10 o'clock sho' races "She really learns to act. Here Betsey told me in C.B.S.'s round, checking props, costumes It's the saccharine quality that Mansfield Theatre, where a re- and scenery, seeing that scripts. hearsal of the "Garry Moore

have come down from the studio, counts,"

Eleanor also admires the Show was causing a mild case telephoning half a dozen "I've never been so tired in my cameraderie that exists between of dementia, "then television different departments. life," I was told by dark-haired stars and cast in British com- isn't for you." Eleanor Boleyn. *All the girls are absolutely exhausted." TEN YEARS

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"I was at Sardi's after Edith Evans opened on Broadway in 'Dophine Laureala," she told me.

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must During rehearsal she check any script alterations and deal with last-minute. emer- Concles-rustling up costumes or PETSEY, like everyone else in seeing that red wigs are "Miss Evans came in straight this young Industry, has substituted for brown. TT'S the "bumps" and grinds" from the theatre and went right ambitions to direct or produce After the show, production

4 show.

meetings are attended by the needs no interpretation for in over and sat at a big table with

the other members of the cast- "Being a P. A. is a good way director, scenic dealgner, costume fioles into burlesque of which bit players, chorus, everyone. -- in," the tall (5ft. Din.)-girl with designer, props buyer, writers "Pal Joey" might be termed a An

American stor would the alight New England drawi and P.A.s to thrash out next burlesque.

have been whisked

off in a told me. "We act as liaison be- day's show. "You're holding your body in darkened car to some biz tween practically all the deport- For these many activities, Miss a way contrary to everything champagne

Fitzgerald receives the standard you've ever been taught," said

Eleanor buys her

in this industry of split-second and rather meagre-salary of Eleanor.

"That's why it's so clothes at a big, low-priced store timing ulcers are an occupational £20 a week, but mannges to get tiring."

ол unfashionable 14th Street. dlacaso and temperament aby,

Girls with an eye on an up- perfectly, normal trait.

Betsey agrees that television is and-coming market would do Terrible things can happen," crazy. "But I love it," she de-, she went on. "but they can clares, "and wouldn't be in ́any- usually be remedied."

thing else for worlds.”

A

It was difficult to identify the girl in the white, high-necked, long-sleeved blouse with the hip wiggling, gum-chewing chorine she plays on the stage.

She wore a minimum of moke-up, but her lipstick exactly matched her nails.

Eleanor, who is 20, came to Now York ten years ago from Cleveland, Ohio, equipped with a dance training, an extremely high IQ and Insane love of the theatre.

She has landed work pretty continuously ever since, and has,

a few lines to say in "Pal Joey,”

well to keep a watch on British television.

ments and mert

everyone."

POCKET CARTOON

| by QSBERT' LANCASTER

"They tell me

at the Foreign Office · that the new Government is full of outstanding personalities."

THE NEW ITALIAN SOLDIER

IMPRESSED

Udine, Northern Italy, dispirited

EISENHOWER

That means a bit more TF Russia were to attack their kit in parcels wrapped in the corner for a shave.

I'

leave 'of the Italian forces

"Tea Interval," said tha umpire,

It's not tea time yet, you stupid bear," said the bishop.

"Any time is tea time," said the bear, who was fond of bins.

Glorious Twelfth

KEEN disappointment will b KZelt

among their mani friends at the news that Lord ard. Lady, Gubbins will not be in Scotland for grouse shooting on what is known as The Glorious Twelfth of August.

As the winged Insect season reaches its peak at about the same time, this popular pair will be enjoying a Glorious Twelfth of their, own, shooting down wasps and moths with insecticide guns, while Lottie the Devil Cat plays, the dual role of beater and retriever.

their

Lord and Lady Gubbins will not wear anything special for the occasion, though Lord Gub- bins may wear his famous tweed jacket, Moth's Relish, if the weather is not too hot. Nor will they open piente hampers full of cold chicken, duck, ham and caviare, which appears to be the and normal fare

the Scottish moors,

on

a local restaurant,"

Last year Lord Gubbins, who is one of the finest shots in the

country with a spray gun,

soldiery carrying look in at the barber's around the peasant's resistance

And resilienco.

Morcover, old newspapers, would be sure since the Italian soldier could

he is interested money,

she told me, in the at- Europe, one of the east prised at the sight of Italy's now not spare the cash for a bar in the life. The stiff Italian Income tax being what it is, tractive, grey-walled apartment est ways to penetrate the divisions.

spare ten in downtown

Manhattan hung

ber, morning. parade at omeer of former days is mostly Lady Gubbins will Mussolini's troops looked wearing a civilian hat. He has minutes out of an exciting day with the paintings of her brother Western defences would be

Not without reason did General a turn-out of mountain beca replaced by young officers to bring in fish and chips from Saul, with whom she shares it, through the famous Elsenhower remark, when taking brigands

who have seen service life as (In his spare time Saul 18 Ljubljana gap. costume designer for Sarah The Russian armour, rolling guarding the Ljubljana ម្តងៗ, The now khaki uniform is practised in other countries, and who give attention and con Churchill's TV show).

across the Yugoslav plains, that their progress was nothing of good quality cloth, tailored sideration to the men, in the where ili-equipped Yugoslav short of a miracle,

on the pattern of the American

ranks. battledress. forces have been smashed twice. during the last two uns, would THE Equity minimum is 80 and little obstacle before reach-

The quality and quantity of the dollars (£28) a week, 100 ing the wide gap between

the

army rations He added that if the rate of

An Education Corps teaches soldier. tho dollars (£35) If you're on the strongly fortified Alps and the progress

by continued, In two or meso consist of eight ounces rate

preciated

soldiers to read and road, she said. "After two Adriatic. Once Gorizia and three years Italy would be able of meat, one pound of spaghetti, write, and helps to improve the weeks in the show. I held out Cividale had talien, the road to repel any invasion. for 100 dollars and frankly I would be open Muan-and

18 ounces of bread, and a status of other servicemen. wouldn't have stayed if they to

France

The Italian army has at pre- pint of wine per day. Cooked hadn't given it to me."

NOT OGRES

THE

No wonder, therefore,

*

AIC

ap-

that sent twelve divisions, but unlike in modern kitchens, the food is Ithanded, as most

are,

brought down a record bag of 18 wasps during the morning's shoot. Later in the day he bagged seven large moths,, which he laughingly called "four engine, jobs."!

soldiers are Lady Gubbins, though not of the old Fascist forces these are served in an appetising manner. delighted to handle the new quito so successful with the gun, However, managements are not during past weeks offletra

and Ogres, most of the chords get

weapons, and they are quick to wrought havoc with a fish slice NATO headquarter parti- real, well-equipped aghting

master the complexities of the in the about £30.

garden and cipated in almost continuous ex formations. For the Arst time

while modern war machine.

up at the sink. At tea No lipsticked glasses or blaring ercises Miong Italy'e north in the country's history, the

Some of the ellie troops the

abé

WDA able The majority of the solar bersaglieri, equivalent of com- proudly to a plie of victims distinguish the

to point Boleyn castern frontier.

average Italian national service- man finds himself better oft coming from poor peasant

the mandos, The landlady asked twice the

when serving with the colours familles, hardly see moot

moun which included two butterflies more

alpin!, tough 'usual number of references when

than at home.

than once a week (on Sundays) talo troops, and the San Marco which had been laying their eggs she heard what our jobs were,":

when they are at home. Most battalions, Italy's marines are on the curly kale, High commanders have visited said Eleanor, laughing,

His barracks are fine and have readily agreed that army specialised, well-knit units, at as she this critical zone, plotting wx-

spacious, and were rebuilt and life, although strCTIONS. and for any duty. These are hand- Although handed me a cup of tea. "She crecises which were designed to redecorated according to the ad- often, monotonous, was not too picked soldier,

enthusiastle and;, receiving a agile, Lottie's chief- fault as a zald-If only you kept regular show how the Ljubljana

gap vice of British welfare experts, bad," and that "the food was particular training, and some of retriever is that she is inclined. hours."

We'ra tho quietest could be offcolively closed. tenants in the house," she added, an

And while, the officers taking facilities, and the sergeant-major

He has a canteen, good washing just fine."

their achievements are truly to cat the game instead of bring- spectacular.

Ing it back to the butts "They keep us

us awake

ipart in those exercises cama

Food, of course, is the gedat Eleanor wakes about noon, has from all the twelve NATO sees to it that he is shaved for morale builder, Every

But it to the simple infantry- Damy

She caused consternation the morning 'parado.

the "brunch," hops for, the house powers, the soldier whose task

marches on Ita stomach, and a man, the peasant boy from hold. An early dinner at 0.30 it would primarily be to

That's something we learned satisfied army usunily is a pretty backward Italian villages, who one occasion when it was thought

she had

swallowed a

Warp, But precedes the show "and no tain an invasion from the East during the war-at any rate, we sate bet. During recent will be the backbone of Italy's

the anack either," she added with a was the much-maligned Kalian who were captured by the Bri- exercises carried under defence. He has not bad rouch as she came to no harm, it

"We have hard work to infantryman.

tish," an Italian NCO told me.. simulated battle conditions, the time to learn, but in the little believed that the buzzing-In her stomach, heard by an anxious. war very low now Italian soldier has given a time at his disposal he has dodd Lord Gubbins, must have been Those who remember the Before the After the show she may meet turn-out of Musolini's army of Italians shaved en at home splendid account of himself. He remarkably well.

the last convulsions of a dying friends for a couple of hours, or | "Wight - million · Bayonets," la: They would Iat their beard is usually short and thin, but

Fred Manor bluebottle. host of slovenly, unshaven and grow, and twice a week would his framp is strong, and he has

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