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ROME NEWSLETTER........ BY SAM WHITE

Mrs Ambassadress leaves a question mark

Ro

DOMAN society is poised on a razor-edge of in- decision. Its problem: to de- elde whether it is smarter to admire Mrs Clare Boothe Luce, the US. Ambassador in Rome, or to write her off as a "failure."

THE

QUEEN'S PLAYERS

Rome. Rome. ife has established his Awn officer towag from the Embury and from the Home offices of his publishing house,

At home Mrs Luco works until well after most nights hours steep a night. When she midnight, She averages ove

RTHUR JOHN wakes at 8 am, she works for

·GIELGUD, of Lon-' an hour in bed before dressing.

den, who will bo fifty

She in

years old next year, niwaya perfectly groomed, but she visits her hair- left Westminster School In dresser only once every ten 1820, and a year later made dnya for half an hour.

hia professional debut, play-

Her name dominates dinner- party conversations, adds zest In cocktail parties, spices politi- cul discussions, anil generally enlivens Roman gossip.

It is a tantallang conversa-

tional Tug-of-war in which neither side can be said to be pulling full welgit as yet.

Meanwhile the object of alt this discussion has temporarity - withdrawn from sekil life—a withdrawal “duë morë" To the digestive consequences of TE surfeit of official banquets than

to the storm provoked by her Arst political speceh on ftallout 2011.

In that speech, made on the eve of the Ítallan elections, Miz Luce warned that American

uld would not be available to "totalitarians of Left or Right." Left and Right promptly cried "United States interference." and the disappointingly smail majority sectired by The Chris. tion Demverul leader De

Gaspert is now being partiz attributed in some quarters 15 Mrs Luce's "indperetion."

FORTHRIGHT

Mrs Luce is a forthright woman, a fervent Catholle con- veri, And

on Instinctive

optimist.

Sho believed Be Gasperi would win comfortably, and that the Communist vote would fell. She also believed that her speech would help De Gasperi,

her

020-

Among high U.S. omelats to whom she put these views be fore the election, there were many who did not agree with But such is the formity preduced in the U.3. Foreign Service by Senator McCarthy't witch-hunt. that they did not tell her so.

Away from the Embassy "Mes Ambassadrews," OM

the Italians call her, srutcher what lelsure she can in the 17th century Villa Taverna, the of- cial residence of U.S. umbus. wadors.

Her husband, publisher Henry Luce, joins her when he is in

M

MADAME DONER

iter clothes ture American-

Who are the Queen's Players of this socand Elizabethan sgo? Are there actors or playwrights today 'who will be remembered in the future as Shakespeare, Marlowe and Burbage are remembered from the time of Elizabeth 1? The Evening Standard Theatre Critic has nominated, as

of the con- personalities top candidatos, fivo

temporary theatre. Today ho introduces the first.

GIELGUD

-the high priest

who drops bricks

style with full skirt, simple topsing the Herald in "Henry V" mid three-quarter sleeves. Sho at the Old Vic. So much is always wears a red rose. For ascertainable; and it would pears; he does nol "make an this she has designed water-be equally true to Bay that entrance," but tooks like Carrying clip which fresh.

keeps it

SUNDAY MASS

Every Sunday she goes to church every wook. Mass, visiting a different Rome

Itefore dressing each morning und Before retiring for the night i

he

devotes Len minute to listening to Italian recordings, to improve her Italian accent.

Dne

By KENNETH_TYNAN

fish, at a certain stage of who has an appointment with

a portrait painter. development, want to swim and birds to fly: equally His face is a teacher's face.

noblest in rebuke, which has rival, The charm is something stops, dead. It's like neling in true. and equally super- never known the thud of the he cannot erase, and he thinks a graveyard.”

quarterstaff, but only the sting it accounts for the bad reception About Shaftesbury Avenue

fluous,

For Gielgud is not so much an actor as the actor; 1119 uatqueness lies in the fact that he is far greater than the sum of his parle.

of the cane.

His voice thrills like an arrow, shot skywards; it rarely touches the gruff phrases of earth. Now,

of his Shylock in 1938: "It was a failure, largely because I find it practically impossible to be dis liked on stage."

und Its inmates he is disarmingly dropped, in outspoken, having his time, bricks enough to rebulid the Globe Theatre. His tactless-

as we listen, it flies higher still, Between 1040, when he played nesa is legendary, and its air of until it hits a resonant, alte Disraeli in "The Prime Minister," authority is reinforced by a high The house abounds in valu-

He is a theatrical possession, a headnole. This is its climax. a dignified flop, and 1932, he forehead, which time has dilated ble modern paintings, which figurehead and a touchstone; and he has brought over from the he bears the same relationship to it has not yet struck us below disregarded films altogether. It's Into a dome.

the bell, where mundane excite very flattering to be perpetuated Of modern directors, he most USA.. but the place of honour the everyday traffe of acting that ment is; and probably it never in tins of celluloid," fie told me, is reserved for a. Churchill helmsman bears to a galley, WIÐ. painting of a Moroccan scene.

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

"Well I don't care for 3-dimensional films!"

slave.

Gielgud is a high priest in a The majority of the parts he profession mostly made up of has played can be divided into

short-sighted herelles. He is two types-contorted princes and elegant swaggerers. It is as Terry of the stock that pro-

duced Ellen patron, not merely as participant, aunt, and Cordon Craig, her son; that he hus dignißed his pro- and he

fession,

Teacher's face

*

11

Terry, his great-

entinot forget his an- HA

"but it isn't esential to me. It's a superfluous risk."

with

A

He nowadays refuses to Malvolto in "Twelfth Night because he feels the character

be should

presented vulgarien; tad, as he says:

in quite unable to act without suggesting good breeding."

His inile,

In jockey hats

admires

Peter Brook, with whom he hes worked in "Measure for Measure," "The Winter's Tale" and "Venice . Preserv'd"; and of living players, he reserves highest praise for Edith Evans. "Edith's

got

fantastic, atagecraft,

scre ví Then last year he went to earthy

he says, "She bas a badger's Meliywood to slay Cassius ins

of "Julius way of knifing out what's best MGM's production Caesar: and retumed dancing and most actable in a part."

Like While in Call-

Coward, Gielgud be- delight, fornia, he took to wearing add, came a star during what, in un

have bren It's imprudent little jockey hats, and earlier epoch of theatre history frequently clapped his hands at would

"Kirk prenticeship. a stor. the sight of Douglas!" he would exult, "Why it's a fairyland!"

ap-

Famous too early

lle endorses people tirelessly: Just autumn, outside

Broad- way theatre, there was displayed

as he says such leggy picture a vast,

of the

wince. coloured singer Eartha Kitt, things, is a benevolent

which deepens the vertical below which, neatly printed on u

furrows between his eyebrows. said card, were the word: "Just my He holds himself erect, like the "Nobody stands still, but nobody carly," he says. "We had no cup of tea-Joli Gielgud.”

cynosure he is. "Egotism in an waits.

In

"Hollywood's an anthill," he

when he came

back,

"Noel and i were famous too

There were no elder You drive everywhere, oracles. No doubt Mas Kiti was grate- Imbecile," said Sarah Bernhardt, 20 miles to a party, 50 yards to statesmen of the theatre around

to bring us up ful for this official recognition. "is a vice;

an intelligent spirit, lunch. In Beverly Hills the

slowly. Older and the whole of the theatre virtue"--the words leapt from police pick you up for vagrancy men, you notice, tend to die was grateful when, on June 2, the page of the first book if you walk across the road." nol during wars, but a year or royal recognition was bestowed picked

Most of the on Gielgud himself.

home.

up in his Westminster

50 afterwards,

Gielgud in the studios wor like a man trying to extricate pillars of the Edwardian theatre When Olivier enters a stage, He is endlessly communicative his soul from a piece of heavy died off in the twenties."

In the absence of alternative il's "One minute talking with a machinery: lions pounce into the ring and about himself,

began, during the theatre becomes an arena, cogency, speed and charm which like Waterloo Station in the oracles, Gielgud

Then

the thirties, to take the reins Gielgud, on the other hand, ap- few sports commentators could rush-hour.

of the classical theatre himself. H hold on them is stili unchallenged. Like Wordsworth's

THE

INFLUENCE BEHIND

KOREA'S RHEE

the country"'~~more

She runs

By Stephen Barber

!

everything

Divinity at Princeton Univerally

his two homes-in showing away his generals and Sho become д Methodist- so since he has in- Scout and near Pusan-firmly Ministars like # scolding Rhee graduated as Doctor of duced such frenzied and well. Anyone who was governost, irritation among his to meet the President on busi- powerful out- ness had better get on the right Landish ailles.

side of her. But

don't they think of

hta

Bay

General Douglas - MacArthur

Madame, who was 53 on June during his long exlie and used 15, was born in Vienna to a the Methodist ministry upon family of comfortably-off whole, occasion as "cover" for his sale ironmongers.

campaign

against Japanese masters,

She Was a blue - stocking, specialising in geopolitics and

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hausfrau Madame, was an American of whom she with From way highly approved-like him, she economica. She won a diplomu hair, piercing eyes is cool towards Bettons.

But at Vienna's "Handels Akadamie" and her affecta her favourite was General James soon after the first world war.

drab national Van Fleet, who, when command- of the ARIA FRANCESCA tion.

Nations costume, as "mother." She may Kores, got along famously with

ing United

troops in DONER is the

be admirable, but she can't even other -person of speak Korean properly.

Her and was a constant guest at the presidential table. power in South Korea.

of As wife

President Between her and Rhee con-

It was Van Fleet who de- American Com- Syngman Rhee she occupies a position of great in fluence,

veloped the

mand's habit

Korea's

in thus changing her religion she broke with the Catholic family, and so far as is known has had no contact since with any of the Boner clan. Doners still alive are understood to be living in the Soviet zone

of Austria.

Any

Happy Warrier, his grace is pecullar, and his influence constant.

AMERICA COLUMN

from NEWELL ROGERS

The Apple Tree's Secret

New York. JALT DISNEY, on his

Highlands to make his Rob Roy film, carried with him the Secret of the Apple Tree.

was a "hermit kingdom." It is a Madame. At most they respect (Ho la Poppe to her; the of overseas Korean Nationalist arrived. Korea "überated," they cameras trained on the tree. His

When her parents' income was cut she took a job as a typist.

The trea is in the U.S. The She Arst met her husband versation is in a curiously ae-

in the years that followed the searat is cented but fluent English, and

where zmong the in these peculiar times English, terms of "The Rhees" instead of the League

of thinking in when she was a secretary at

lived a lonely 2,077,128 square miles that com- childless couple head- of Nations it is true, must be conceded a

on the quarters in Geneva.

exile life, campaigning away for prise the US. their causo, hatching plots which Around the tree there is n useful tongue to master but it just Rhee somewhat This is

lines of "the Chiang Kai-sheks," strange, because is foreign none the less.

Ho was there, living In never achieved much and willing scaffold. On the scaffold every Koreans traditionally-and not

in Hawall and day, month after month, u The strongest card in Madame's penury in cheap lodgings, sup manifestoes without ronson distrust all

Inaltirnlist, walis.. Few Koreans like their hand is her "poppa's health. ported by piirut contributions Washington.

At different levels he has foreigners. For centuries theirs

in 1946 the big moment Then cause of his to plead the

13 And in due course job to make 4 complete It was returned. country's independence.

husband was motion ploture of an apple from the tune

Menchurian Francesca's of tho affair the first big nail. In the outh Korea by General Douglas blossom to the finished fruit. It installed as the President of the opening bud through the

In strict privacy they call her five years older than his off-

As the President is probably League's coffla

MacArthur, the White Mikado of show all the dangers that threaten, an apple-worms, birds, "Madame Cat,"

cial age and frail, aho nurses One can readily imagine the defeated Japan.

It must have meant a big stores,

This is the naturalist's second. him strictly. She is oven sald spinsterish young Austrian being by those who to taste his food before he eats entranced by a sense of destiny change in her life. husband never goes out in public should know whether Rhee Lakes and cooke much of it herself. BO manifest in the already never showed it, and took her year on the scaffold. Last year elderly Oriental with pucked, now status in her stride. Prob-months of work were ruined in good Korcan wives stay at home. from his wife or that she offers She has been known to break crab-apple face. Two years ably she never doubled that minutes by a wind storm.

Anti-Communist Koreans, to any. Her .? Smoke

wielded into late night Cabinet sessions later she followed him to New "Poppa" would win out in tho

and with her along to help. day regard Rhee as "father of rather indirectly.

to order the old man to bod, York, where they murrlexi

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Francesca is foreign. Sho Is white-an Austrian. Yet, her It is doubted

without her at his side, whereas any advice on affairs

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JUSTICE William - 0. Douglas,"

the Supreme'?" Court judge who gave atom spões Julius and Ethel Rosenberg a

ond-day ro priove, : pays high-tribula to the courago and calmness of the British juda in Malaya....

In ista now travel book, "North From Malaya," ho says they, work on as if they had not been "marked for assasination by Communist guerillos.

TN 1902 a man took a train, from Kansas to Missouri without a ticket.

Now ho ha seni $5.00 (23) to the Triaco 'Railway, saying: "Thanks for the Devour and that he whin short of money at the time.