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CAN YOU SPOT A PWR OF MIDDLE-EAST-DEFENCE "COMS"

AMONG DIAT LOT ?*

POLITICAL WASH-DAY IN EGYPT

World Cypright, my strensement with Dostu Herasa,

Mr. HUROK cashes in on Culture

London.

DON IDDON'S

IDDON'S DIARY

CHARLIE CHAPLIN COMES BACK IN TRIUMPH BUT GETS THE COLD SHOULDER

were

Now York. pictures (and he was right) talks Here some of the best brains in times possibly too much In this film. American business and polities during the showing of. Also, he sings in his peculiar have tried to help us to iets

rather high falsetto voice.

ouiselves. The International But these are minor ariticisms. Latex Corporation is spending has set such tens of thousands of its own

deat

HERE

Chaplain's latest and perhaps last film, "Lime- Chaplin himmet Jight,"

when it seemed high standards as a comic genlus dollars as a publle service, urging

that the slightest falling off be- prompt American that his comic genius had

comes almost damning. But he Mr Peter Thomeycroft's

appeal dimmed.

is still supreme.

for "trade, not ald," He makes the modern funny- The Latex Corporation han men such as Bob Hope, Jack embarked upon a radio and Skelton, Groucho newspaper campaign which Marx, and even the gifted clown doesn't even mention its own but Says over and over in columns of expensive "We could

The beginning of the picture is laborious and lagging, trul sud- denly, after three-quarters of an Beuny, Red hour of rather hackneyed and

forced scenes, the master shows Danny Kaye appear uninspired using space:

his craft.

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and even pedestrian. Chaplin is still King Charles,

restrictions and

People who had been squirm Ing uncomfortably in their sents

Exhibition is late well offord to increase our Im- during the film's first sequences

rigid with attention and THE British Asics Exhibition duties on imports, buy from our

ports lower tension as the film unfolded. has not opened on time here friends, nat beggar ourselves and the and appears unlikely over to them by subsidising them in leu.

open, but the Israel Exposition of trading sumclently with has rung up its curtain and them."

Women cried openly dramatic ending.

at

This isn't Chaplin's greatest picture, but it's superior to some of his films certainly, I think,

"Modern Times". and 48th Street between Fifth and "Monsieur Verdoux." It falls Sixth Avenues for

to

Rush."

It

་

Chaplin the

now ringing the cash-register. Other big, Americar firms plan

Crowds four aureost Uned to follow the Latex leod.

the grand

Tired candidates

am

short of "City Lights" and "Gold

opening of the First Israel Ex- He is unfortunate

that New Position at Rockefeller Plaza, the THE week has been full of

political drama, and I heart of New York's rich shop- beginning to wonder just how Yorkers and New York as a ping area.. During three days long the chief actors can stand whole haye given

100,000 people visited the Israel, the pace. Both General Elsen- cold shoulder. There's scarcely Exposition, which will probably hower and Governor Stevenson nline in any New York news remain open Indefinitely, doing are driving themselves recklessly paper about the two showings of permanent business. "Limelight." picture anywhere of Chaplin or we have not done and what the mental resources to the limit. his wife, Dons, arriving at the Israelis have done and are doing. theatre or leaving. There are no There are whole-page advertise

11

nol There's

What

contrast between what

I

straining their

and physical Elsenhower is running himself ragged. Look at the pictures of him today and then at the photo- photoprophs of celebrities at 'ments in the newspapers here tending the opening.

showing the queues outside the aphs of him when he returned Israel shop-front, which is decor-

from Europe. Made for London

Look at the pletures of Steven- ated with the Stars of David, and sun (soon due in New England TT'S the custom here not to the

the headline BRYS: "They could

after a hectic their eyes," print reviews of pictures until t

not belleve

swing on the Pacific coast) before the conven- after the formal premiere, but certainly could not believe mine tions and those taken during the it's not the custom to give a I had the second week in Sep- great artist the brush-off. Now tember marked down for a tour did Pavlova take it "Anything York has given Chaplin that. No of the British Aisles-30 or more dragging themselves

has booths displaying. British goods, end of the country to the other,

There is not one booth. There

talking gealloulating, are no aisles. The whole project the p

walking the platform plank, and utterly 15 foundering, although there is

exhausting themselves. sume vague talk of opening "before Christmas.

SOL HUROK

all from three roubles.

ALOMON ("Səl”) HUROK paces his suite at the Savoy waiting for calls and cables from Milan, Copenhagen, Paris, Brussels. In all these cities, as well as in London, he is booking or planning American tours for hand-picked singers, dancers, fiddlers, are not strictly etiquette. How pianists, complete opera companies, entire büllet troupes.

He has been doing this sort for of thing with some profit 40 years. Since the late twen ties his gross box office tak ings have risen, he says, from

£720,000 to £1,200,000 a year.

He has three or four- hun-

dred artists on contract either as individuals or in groups. Hin Lour Lopliners alone- Marian Anderson, the coloured contralto, Artur Rubinstein, the pianist. Jan Peerce, tenor, and Patrice Munsel, soprano - be tween them bring in nearly £200,000 à season.

Black patches

in

by CHARLES REID

Wagner, Richard Strauss and Massenet have meant to him.

Hurok plays the accordion

badly. As a child he went for lessons first on the violin, then, as a last-ditch measure, on the rumpet. He was so useless at

and balalaika and plays them

both that the teacher refused to take his money,

has white

or magazine newspaper published a single story about

or his film.

I did was OK to Pavlova"

Hurok will be 60 in April. He in glossily! bald,

It Chaplin is hurt by all this, patches over the eats, does he gives no sign. The important his two grandchildren, Cays he does not feel

opening, in his opinion, is the over 28.

dis-

premiere in London. He made His first marriage was

whom this picture for London and the solved. Emma Runich,

sense it is his salute world. In he married in 1930, graduated

a'day

Seppato terribly tired men are

Which Christmas?-19027 Mr T. H. Chamberlain, who conceived the idea of the British

at the St. Petersburg, musical to the English Music Hall, from Aisles, says he could not get the

rc-

from one

It is all so unnecessary in this day of the nation-wide radio net- work, the television chain, and the newsreel screen. Pageant of America

In Tzarist days which he sprang. conservatory and fed Russia when the

space, or the steel, or the co- He plays the part of Calvero, operation, but meanwhile he is New York "I am on Ameri- can" Day has just been obe volution came.

fading

ading British comedian who has still try.

trying.

served. One hundred thousand to drink. Calvero, the de- In those years Hurok Was taken

Isacl.got the space, the steel, Americans including 22.000 newly the goods, the co-operation, and naturalized citizens, flocked into something of a radical. He rancayed clown, rescues the young concerts for strike and trade ballet dancer Terry, played by now is getting the money. Central Park carrying the Stars

Claire Bloom, from suicide, and Claire union political; funds. Today he

Apparently we are relying on and Stripes and their heads high, defines himself as an indepen- helps her to success.

"high-level trade and financial Some had posters, "I am proud dent voter without party,

discussions with the new United to be an American." fer- vently anti-Communist, not #

States Administration early in Radical but

It was a pageant as well as an a Progressive. "I

1953."

observance. Five concert singers, believe," he says, "in the right

I hope we are not coming to 18 crooners, two orchestres, ten of the common man to a good

try to arrange another loan, comedians, a dozen actors and share in all the good things of

credit, or straight gift. There actresses, and the police and fre a week He."

humiliation department glee clubs participat- Jearn

ed in the programme.

"But," saya Hurok Sna his distinctive English, "I have an ear. I will know always when there is a false note played. If 1 would have learned to play nn Instrument I should be in the position today of working

WHYOK

EN Hurok landed in New

in the pit of an orchestra some- ជន a 13-year-old from the Ukraine with his where at 70 dollars

An impresario, mustn't goosefeather pillow under his what is bad for him. But once arm, he had three roubles

In a while back-stage, if I see his pocket. The money-

good violin I touch it." changer gave him dollar and

"And try to play 11?" Lorium, Sixth Avenue,

"No, it is enough to touch. Ten-years-later-he-was offer--

-It-feels good." Tetrazzini, Ysaye

and Schumann-Heink

a

The commissars ANOTHER thing he believed soon after the war was S. Hurok's ability to

among other OK with Pavlova wrangled and

popular

1

he

y

wheedle-Soviet-dancers out-of Russia for Western tours. He pleaded with collectives un- commissars and til all were blue in the face, Looking back, he says; would not want to bring Rus sian dancers over now even it I had the chance. Russian art

Isolated. Russian

artists haven't travelled anywhere. In Moscow they try to run ballet as it was run 50 years ago. Give me Fonteyn. Give me We can get along without the Soviets very well." My. bet, all the same, is that if an East-West entente. announced tonight S. Hurok would arrange to import Soviet ballerinas before tomorrow's dawn. After all, S. Hurok cannot help being S. Hurok.

musical eminences, to Sunday night crowds

violin, Hurok the TENIED the immense Hippodrome audi-

plays instead, with" "con- torium, Sixth Avenue,

siderable mastery, on the in Since then there have been struments of publicity,. He does

so prankishly at times. two black patches, In 1921 and 1920, when he toured Russian In the middle 'twenties and Italian operu companies put out a story, widoly taken in adverse circumstances, thou- up by the American papers, sands enthusiastically stayed that Pavlova had been secret- Bway. On these two ventures ly married for 17 years. When

dollars. I challenge him about this e- Shearer. he dropped 350,000 "But I didn't worry. I went t'on, Hurek agrees that Pavlo

"But va was good box-office. being happy and jolly.

well believe. always you want something new This I can Hurok has an exceptioanl talent in the publicity line. We help Lar tranquility. His pink, seno- thought the story would torial profile is as smooth as a business. And it did. We pub- touched-up

no licity hounds, you know, we do photograph: wrinkle of care.

certain things sometimes that Quickly recovering from a brier bout of insolvency, he re- established himself

The

on

The

Man Who Makes Culture Pay. Hurok pauses Occasionally and bites off a bit of Culture for himself. He tends to do this absent-mindedly.

When

the dancers of Sadler's Wells ballet come back from their last American tour Canother is now in negotiation For 1953) they cooed with abandon about the marvellous, but marvellous, old paintings

they had seen in the Hurok apartment, Central Park West.

pbout his collection.

were

When Calvero is down and out, unwanted, and not able even to get a minor job at a few pounds a week she tries to soothe his wounded pride, stop him drink- jing, and restore his confidence.

has been enough Simple story

THE story could hardly, be THE

simpler. There are no twists in the plot and no surprises. But it's Chaplin's special gift to portray the basic human emotions of love and

fear, cupidity and compassion. He succeeds in this as he always has done.

Only a very

great comedian audience on the can have his thin balance between laughter and tears. "Limelight" proves that

Chaplin still possesses this gift in abundance.

09

along those lines.

PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

THE COMRADES RAP THEIR

OLD FIGHTER

Paris.

organised kooliganism of

rols TOVELIST Ernest May's anti-Ridgway

subsequent

last

in

N Hemingway should be Paliating fahure of the party's

Claire Bloom is perhaps the most successful of Chaplin's lead- ing ladies, and I include Pauletto Goddard. Her part is long and strenuous.

There

times when Chaplin so dominates the

forget Miss in Parla now to write what general strike appeal. that you screen

Three things are clear from Bloom, but these are infrequent. may be the last chapter in

the present crisis. It wouldn't be too much to say the political life of a man 1.The French Party

she shines almost that

and on whom he conferred an international Communism aro brightly da he.

policy unenviable Immortality in preparing for a major The man who once said be would 'never need to talk in his one of his best known switch. The old Popular Front policy will be resurrected and novels.

energeticall purailed when The men-86-year-old, dour- Thores returns shordy from Jowled. Andre Marty, whose his two-yeaf "convalescence" in Bavage bigotry os a political Russia with the latest infallible commissar in the Spanish Civil instructions. war is described with repor- -Comrades

and Marty torial exactness Heming Tillon stand on the edge of ex-

from

the party. sald

perspicacious

OILTANK TOWN WILL

GROW IN

Kon refinery.

THE BUSH

From JOHN REDFERN

Nairobi, made up its mind. But two Sikh artisans. More Africans will be brought in to bulld roads, staff

guest houses, house, conteens, and clubs,

Cement made from corul will be their material.

the

ENYA is to have a new things had to be fixed; plenty

It will of water; no land profiteering.

Kenya oficials speeded I ask Hurok tell me more cost £50,000,000 and produce planning of a 150-miles pipeline

to

from Mzima Springs, a hippo Well, he says, some of the 6,000,000 tons a year.

to Mombasa. point, Itallan, ings are

To some

house the storage drinking some Russian. 'No, he tanks. and workers,

town and port. This has reach a new ed the stage of advertising for can't remember the painters town will be built where tenders. nomes.

they

them today there are palm trees,' At the same time, secrecy classies.

scrub, swamps, coral, fisher- descended on the tank town Crossing the Atlantic

last men's huts, and a few solid talks The purpose. was to slop June for the 18rd time in seven houses put up for holiday site values from jumping, years, he settled down for a

lower deck makers. long read In his

But one thing is sure

fre Bil

*

Mr HL Adams, secretary for commerce and industry, told me: This is the biggest thing that has happened to us in- dustrially,

Apart from the essential

way's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

ANDRE MARTY ·

Die goin' out.

B

Marty has

is member of the central" com- now been ro- mitee, "is how Titoism moved from gina. In any case Thorez the four-man him, dating back to his leader- committee tions on his wartime record. which

3.This is the beginning of the

purgo inside the

party. resistance Communist Tillon is a popular Party after hero; Marty has a lifetime of being accused revolutionary service behind of "crimes him,' dating back to his leader- which, had he ship of a French naval mutiny been a Rus in 1010. Both men have fol- nan Commu- lowers in the lower echelon of ubert, would the party. undoubtedly

have

o arned him 'n traitor's trial and

A

POODLES FOR EXPORT

NEW and expanding French safeguarding of all supplies, large amount of the investment

export industry:* French will come back to us in Kenya.

aring squad.

poodles, Costing about £80 in There will be a

now demand

His most serious offence, ac USA and South America

France, they can be sold in the for

and increased our products, berth aboard a BOAC Monarch. This site is on the mainland

cording to a party communique, three times as much.

for Detective novels he spurns, al-south of the Likoni ferry to the

Quietly, arrangements mere.

local spending"

The

is to have conspired against though he believes they are good Island of MombDBA,

Kenya Government' fa made for the Kenya Govern- anxious to balance the Colony's

party leadership with things for making you Ricep. Kenya was surprised by the His normal choice, ho

ment to secure the necessary agricultural development

another demoted' cumrado, 05- says, announcement of the now

A French with year-old

winu reland-about 3 square miles an industrial counterweight. Up leader, Charles Tillon Tillen, like a day without sunshine" producer's wartime resistance

alogan, "A day without wine is ranges from economies through finery. The surprise was er- politics to "classies in Rus- ranged for in preparations for under its Land Acquisition Acts, to now the largest industrial in his turn, is accused of make was amended at the Paris anti-

for which prevent anyone holding unit slan, French and English. Again the new town.

out for exaggerated prices,

has been

works 4. Boda

ing reflections on the difference alcoholic the classics are unspecided.

Six months

congress, with the ago, when the and values nice now "frozen"

employing 1,800 Africans.

between

those Communista fidded words: "But beware of big oil companies were looking

Mombasa has been a lot. For who took part in the wartime round for new refinery sites, and a collector will be appoint- centuries Arab dhows took

aunstroke." and those roadstance ed to control payments.

like tho more one company chose Aden.

claves through its port. Now party leader, Maurice Thores,

KITCHEN FRONT "Why don't some of you come

Publication of the land oll brings new and welcome who spent the war in safe exile A NEW kitchen gadget called precise. When I mention

to East Africa?"

in the said Mr acquisitions

official traffic to hearten the people, in both men are se- in Paris: Looking like R Rubinstein's playing

the of

the "artiicopo la on ele Petroushka

or Arthur Hope-Jones,

secret-and who for months have been pre- In charge Gazette broke the

Politically transcriptions

*** Incent: that the project was occupied with. Inwlessness

and cried Chakapin's singh of Boris of Kenge's commerce and

_of"; "left-wingsreis- mausotrap,” and equipped... ... with agitation. his face lights up as though I dustry.

rianin-meaning, in effect, an fra: red. "cye." it enables Soon after that Shell sent a, The building of the tank town FOOTNOTE:* Mzima, have toucheti a switch He

the that they are heing

held housewives to see if an tella me, or tries to tell me, of man to explore sites. On his will employ about 300 Europeans name of the water scheme, responsible for the difcredit "more" than thres all that Mozart, Vardi, Puščini, i advice, the dll, Gothpany aimees, and 3,000. Africans, na well as the Swahili ward für "hadiibar?

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