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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1958.

Kenneth Tynan ...

THE QUEEN'S

PLAYERS

writes on the five

top personalities of today's theatre. His second nomination is

The woman

who makes sex

intelligent

66

1

The

Inat

made

| FOCKET CARTOPH

by OSDERT LANCASTER

·REWALTS

- What sort of news-coverage is this 7 Here's the Anal night, extra, with stil? nə -mention of the prizewianino

exhibitors at the Delphin

Show"

SHE TALKED -SO CAME THE THREATS

KENNETH MACAULAY brings to life the Iron Curtain background of tension

EXPECT to hear any day the U.B. (Urzad

Expect to hear it admitted

Polish

and

that the Soviet that

the Bezpieczenstwa, acene-shifters are continuing secret police) has, like its their work behind the Iron counterpart In Hungary, beon

the peoplo Curtain, re-dressing the oppressing stage and giving a new look creating a degree of unnecessary to Poland, strategically the most important of the satel Iltes.

When Churchill Retires

terzion

That is the key word-tension.

Some weeks ngo 1 reporting the amateur boxing championships in Warsaw. But it must not be thought that my movements were of any the less interest to the secret police.

By PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P. A man in the gallery

OU'RE female. ains several chopters of when it opened. Shortly after personality the curtain rose A stink-bomb Why fight it" frustration.

is it illustrated

which, exploded in the audience, and a snid

Holly- with minor modifications, Peggy shower of pamphlets descended wood

producer Ashcroft transfers to the singe from above, demanding "British She made her debut in 1926 actors for British plays"-an to a young actress, implying

Repertory irrelevance anyway. for the that the most quickly re- at the Birmingham

Theatre, and her first Success

was German. munerative route to stardom with Matheson Lang in "Jew

Jew ma was by way of a sexual as Suss when she was 21. Story a speech. and Miss Ashcroft sault on the box-office. And aherwards she met Komisar answered him from the stage. ertainly the history of en jevsky, in five of whose pro- "We are all proud," she said, "of the privilege.and happiness tertainment is full of fatal

of playing with this great artist." wamen, sleek with triumph,

The headlines next day an- nounced that she had saved the evening.

ductions she was to appear;

The Impact of this buld, ob streperous Russian director on the English theatre in the

replete and fulfilled. Peggy late twenties and early Ashcroft stands apart from thirties tends nowadays to he overlooked; he shook our drama the main stream.

Her forte is unfulfilment, like a dog worrying new Julco which, though it pays off out of an old bone, and his pru- ductions of Chekhov and Share- less opulently, lasts longer: speare were received, with at 45, an age at which most healthy mixture of temptresses stop tempting, alarmantic, he she is still at the height of her career.

One recalls her most vividly in cheated, Incomplete, un

TA anit

awe

declared his

Other causes

She has espoused many other causes since: when her husband stood as a Socialist candidate in the 1945 General Election, she went so for as to canvass for scorn for Those upper-class votes at 10. Downing Street, English audiences to whom the where Winston Churchill was theatre was merely "a form of then in residence. hospitality."

satisfied roles such us' Irina

Getting the spirit, Miss Ash- in "Three Sisters, Evelyn Holt croft appeared at a theatre club in "Edward, My Son," Catherine in his adaptation of Schnitzler's Sloper in "The Heiress,"

and Fraulein Elsa"; but though she Hester Collyer In The Deep

performed with characteristic Blue Seu."

discretion the famous scene in which the heroine undresses in o public lounge, the censor re- fused to license the play public performance.",

Against grain

B

i play When she tries thriving, unrepentant sensualist, it goes rather against the grain. Her Stratford Cleopatra kepi reminding me of a Rodgers- musical, The Hammerstein

King and I" which is about a Arm-willed English

Oriental court,

She

The result was frustration, and nowadays her idealism is chiefly domestic, centring on her two children, Eliza, aged 11, and She made it Nicolas, aged

six.

quite clear, when she left the cast of "Edward, My Son' at the pesk of its success in 1948, that

It was a few days beforo 1 roticed a woman on the fourth floor of the building opposite of my Examining the windows hotel through' field glasses,

Then there was the Ume I came back to

my room after lunch to find two matchsticks In an otherwise perfectly clean ashtray.. Which was odd. London. nature to let him flag in this because 1 never use anything crueller still but a lighter for my pipe or ORE than doctors' or "nterprise; and

ht

in colleagues the cigarette, ders will be needed if youre should become aware of Sir Winston Churchill & failing in health to which ho is to resign this autumn. would hardly even assent him- Yet that is what Lady self.

But Inst month Sir Winston Churchill and some of his seemed to stagger as he moved closest intimates are ad- into bis place

on the front vising. They are anxious bench. That happened both on about the Prime Minister's He seemed to be fumbling. the way in and on the way out health;

Lady Churchill

that

1

The cost of living in Warsaw

is such that the scene-shifters in the Kremlin will have to take Boom. costs steps to ense more to live and breathe in Poland than in any other of the satellite countries.

ing man's

Let us have an ordinary work-

out night

with

who, we shall suppose, live in a suburb of Warsaw,

incentive

even for a moment to lose and headed Krip. He recovered for Ques-bricklayer Stanislaus and Anna

tions, and rounded with relish the movement a year ago to upon his opponents. To Mr persuade her husband to Sydney Silverman he returned deadly sally about the slacken off. At that time a wickedness of turning anij- great part of the Tory Par Semitism into a party point. ty was privately canvassing the thought that, with a narrow majority and the prospect of many late sit- tings, to say nothing of a

Iron Curtain

The

CITANISLAUS carns 800 zlotys (call them swattics) A month. This is an average wago in Poland, and is worth at the present rate of exchange (1

week. So they set out for the cinema.

she had no intention of putting | délicate balance in national SINCE then an iron curtain has swattles to the £) about £18 a

for her

most of

suddenly thrust into a barbaric 52. Within A year or so they whom, when called on to express

Arst

cannot

embodied in chinson, her present husband.

of

notable

with

Counter-attack

But

full

"That-

Оп

ol

They board a tram, and the fare is 12 swatiles (say £1 16): They get out after a two-mile ride at the enormous Palace of Culture and Science.

Stanislaus buys Anna à rod rose, which will cost him 16 wattles (289.), a bar of choco- late, 10 swatties (almost 30s.), and a packet of the cheapest cigarettes for himself, 3% swat- tion (69.).

For this they will

Two of the cheapest einema seats cost nine swatiles (180.) and afterwards they go to në all-night restaurant where the entrance charge. fa 00 swattics (£5 10s.).

a cup of coffee each and a glass of vodio between them.

afford no moro They riotous fun after this so, be- cause there will not be another tram for an hour, they take a any taxi home at £1-à mile..

the

costs

can

fallen about tho Prime career before her family.

household that វ៉ affairs demanding the surest Minister's Too much has already been written about her gift for verse- and lightest touch, Sir reminiscent of the decline Her conscience speaking, about the moonlit soft- Winston would do well to Marshal Stalin himself. Those

Bess of her voice

closest to the facts protess to A greater

to stand aside. distinction is her ability

know no more than the news- Divorced from Rupert Hart convey, on the stage, an intelli-

papers report; that in turn is Davis in 1034, she married

derived from official handouts interest in gent interes sex. This is rare governess Komisarjevsky, who

then am was

his English

grave actresses,

malady among

enough to watroat bstantial were estranged, und after in passion, behave with sort of

concern; for he has been sharply help bringing marriage

a manner not rebuked. In ended In 1037, nervous perplexity, rather as a

wholly agreeable to himself, for moral standards on stage with "Komis" went to America, where debutante might behave if she BUT Sir Winston rounded her: the events of the play may he still Rves, a recluse in his turned up

to the counter-attack. He being too energetic the minute in error at a vampire demolish them, but they are

teaching obscurely hunt in Transylvania,

shook off the seventies,

arrrows of he began to feel better at his always there to begin with, even

home But give Miss Ashcroft a role criticism shot at him over Chartwell country if she is playing low comedy near Boston.

frustration. The Shakespearean parts in involving sensual

delays in denationalising 12, as just now seems likely, In- ilko "The Merry Wives of which Peggy Ashcroft made her and she instantly sheds her cool

he cannot carry Windsor."

steel and transport, then out into 10

many who STO definitely, then steps idealism reputation secure Juliet, Portia, repose and

the succession brisk A Fane,

Viola-pre not

as blaze of noon. Rattigan in this she her; and irradiates

her such life. Her money-spinners; and though she Deep Blue Sen," offered "The settled down to a substan- concerned with

tial holiday in the summer would prefer him to hold on

Mr until from her

Eden is back. The imports

made a few films (among them

chance, and

and she responded

recess. The autumn, with

which Mr

Edch marriage war

operation Into The Wandering Jew" with

scorchingly realistic

a new Parliamentary Ses- underwent is one from which literature, in the person

pub- Conrad Veldt), her interest in portrait of a woman in love

their Rupert Hart-Davis, the

recover to sion, seemed to bring fresh man either beyond her lover's means. into ilsher;

the the cinema was never strong. her second

strength, or decline, Mr. It was She always had a

a performance which life to the old warrior. crusading Theodore

Bien is improving. His friends drama, represented by

theatrical Komisarjevsky; and

melled candle, her third

conscience, as she called to mind

The Tory Government, assert that he will be as fit a into politics and the law, as showed at the first-night of burned down but sull beautiful:

Jeremy Hut "Before Sunset in 1933. The and nobody could have given it backed by an imposing a younger man by the autumn.

against migues star of the play was Werner but Miss Ashcroft, a player of record at the by-elections, drastic reconstruction of Her private history is that Krauss, and anti-German feeling whom it might be said that her

In tur ib W08 able confidently to Government of a perfectionist, and it con- was running high in London soul is showing.

taunt the Opposition into enables the Prime Minister to gentler behaviour with the Postpong his own retirement.

Of course, in recent months, menace of an early chal- ao Mr Eder's health declined, lenge at the polls. Parlia and his accord with Egypt over ment

the Sudan became so unpopular, passed with the

the Foreign Secretary's

stock Coronation into an easier, could be observed to slump. friendlier, mood-and back- There were murmurlige among benchers observed Minis- important figures in the Party.

Some ters of the Crown starting on spoke unjustly of a "sell

to Egypt on

Canal to ponder more deeply on Zone. That is a stappe issue 5.

behind the scenes, the problems of the tim determine the succeonliving ofan Poland I met cho During my. Investigations into This sense of elbow-room

of the 600. English girls married Polish Hervicemen in in Britain'/Parliamentary

England during the war, time-tabla a sense also of resiliency and--even of lei-

I dare not give ter name, but sure which betokened care- WHILE Mr Eden's Towel was lotus say that sile comes from ful thinking about the thought to be declining the Leyton, Essex. Her husband is in a village near one room figuren Mr Butler and ored a truck driverhey live in

he Warsaw monocondent, aldburn remained his ringlesla refiqetivig

Talaald ther from Ly. self. Here, it last whatred to their TAGIU for tho stood a man of undoubted Intel- fodral brill

The whe

TAKES

KING SISAVANG THE WATERS FOR GOUT

From ERNEST ASHWICK

the Prince,

future, seemed to spell the doldrums for the. Prime Minister himself,

now,

on ipo

If

Double-first

may

In certain exccolma for indiera haberts!

Bermuda plán

the

Timer of budget.

„Mone· Easement

Woz forgarien

Living

WHAT is the score for a worldng man's night out? A mere £12:11s.

Try

it another way.

Tho

average wage in Britain is £8 a week, just half the money Stanislaus gets. Halve his bill,

therefore, and it still comes to

M

the Ever the Rod Vietminh armies Vittel, France. Buddha brought over by

Two more bows and seem so far away. "Guerilla FROM the hot rains of the

away goes

the troops have been sent out to monsoon in Luang Pra- secretary one step behind, to the wipe up the rest of them," I

same was informed. bang, capital of Laos, King King's apartments. The

Stavang seemed more con- Sisayang, who remained in procedure is done in reverse at

6 p.m.

cerned about the fortune la his bungalow-type palace

" King Sisavang, dressed in gems and jewels he has brought while war waged in his capi- perfectly cut Bond Street lounge with him from Loos and which tal's suburbs, has come to unit, his 10-stone and his gait fill three cases and are locked upon him away in the hotel's strong box. the cold winds of the Vosges weighing heavily

But here again his carer where water is as plentiful to have his photograph And he is worrying whether the

inkom

but does not like answer- 10-roomed villa he has just

spirit found new work at dine of as in Laos at the moment.

Breakfast Pofridge, and soup questions.

bought at Cap Farrat, on the

hand, He had been attentively the author tong budget that made meaty bouge pas, To Vittel, famous for its He told me that the constitu- Mediterranean,

le going to be

following the course of affaire Tory yes, Aegan to bring cos. lb.) curative springs, King Stavang Lion did not allow him to answer big enough for him. For King

be county's exbocul affairs close husband takes within the πε

Soviet Union when his cure

death to sanity, for it feel away counel Tustices of has brought his gout, his family questions, 60 Foreign Minister Stavang

fore Marshal Stalin's and a long list of Ministers, Nhouy Abhay xleptised for hin. Viitel is finished, is going to

inst

In the Moscow dafelt finance. Spers, wall mod mid" with secretaries and chauffeurs,

H

live at Cap Ferrat until October.

fast spring.

foreshadowing moster, too, at a second budgid binck bread neared with lord. Minister Tino Hia Prime

announcements constant recurring attacks of

If he is logo hour to called a Rout have

more successful

Nhouy Abhay said the King Souvanno Phouma will join him his demise, and

factory willen works canteen than the powerful Red forces would never have left hats until there this month, Aune-man. movements over the week-end that levied no

of March 21, Sir Winston dis He incloed was populanty for her an uplate of for In foreing bim

alck 123d. O to leave his he was certain that the danger regency will look after affairs of palece and his people.

of in Red occupations of his coun- state from Ventiane, the seat of cerned a theine.

the Ife its

the On

beautiful try had parsed.

government and, outside flowered terrace of Vittel's "Washington advised him to immediate danger zone for the Grand Hotel, with the Queen, leave long before the French noment, his two young and beautiful Government suggested when daughters, Prince

Savang, the Vietminti forces wore athletic and aesthetic heir to the approaching the espital. A

The king told me through his throne who spends his time in Buddhist priest told the king and

volunteers and a guerilla force the shortest of shorts, and his the people that the Red armies. Foreign Minister that 12,000 Minister for Foreign Affairs, would be defeated before they

entered the capllal, as long as the Mens (ents) tribes, whose estimated at 30,000 drawn from Nhouy Abhoy.

the king nemained in his palace wits the mighty golden. Buddha, main occupation is growing : un

and great chan upperts him crbis Buddha is four feet high oplum poopitare cuming from his own Republican Party, eagerly and effectively. It will King Sisaving, one leg prop- and weighs over a ton);

The the remains of

the Prime Minister must first be a matter of particular con- divisions which attempted to

meet ped up on cushion Wale weer take the capital. W

him at Bermuda. He can which way the Influences them deiak dry martinis, while mained and the Red samles were

I only saw that wornan once. would also need to arrive with af Lord Woolton, as Chalaman of Luang he sips with evident distaste routed. Everybody was happy, Buddha

panoply of Britain's the Party and Mr Malcoln again, and she told me then Vittel's curative water.

Now King Sisavang can treat his Prabang no harm can ever come

greatest battleship. announcing MoCorquoriale, as potential aue what happened when she had This is the daily routine since gout, and the Buddha will cons to the country. I was told

left me after our talks. She was So

In addition the early resump- cessor, will be tippes King Sisavang, whose -ho arrived here,

secret, polices It is just as tious to watch over his people

tion

Biz David is refaclans to show overtaken by a from the strict

of independent A-bomb. regular 69 the dally; arrival as alotu RESTA

hunger

tests at Australia's Woomers his hand. Private zpproaches | man. exactly D a.m., of Prince Savang, King

watching the diet he has been ordered are now

trave elicited no entluihin. 3 uk - Progra followed closely by a secretary, others drink their gins, seemed added to the twinges of pain Range.

that is a quelly he saidton Just a minute," homid. at the hotel's reception office, quite unconcerned about his from his gout, takes life smooth.

was the work pro expresses in any event North You know you have been Two low bows, a key is handed paber, the grounds of which ly. His only amusement in to go

liminary to a great but cone dom, there is a fide towing in his speaking to a newspapertaini over, and Prince Savang, still are now flooded by the mone to the cinema every night Adential meeting with some favour, which dothis the capaci What did bo nk you? What upon which tes of the Butter as too recient, did you my?: You had better followers by the secretary, goes moon, be about 324,000,000 4100 yards walk from the Russian leader,

the Prime Minister had now and Mr Eden, es too, uncertai talk if you want your husbandi to the strong box where he people who live in a country botel where the Aims change

get his heart. It was, cruel of to his phemical staying power to keep his job.” removes the miniature golden about half the slaw of Francedaily,

remaina

While the

coutraty.

A third courie, other than the Prime Minister's Indefinite reten- riso being quietly ponderet. IS thought found expression tion of office,

when, on May 11, he pro-

Bir David Maxwell Fyte, as posed that the beads of

Home Secretary, has long hedd Government meet in privacy. the Party machine in the grip of Not long afterwards

hand, Lady Fyte, herrell clear that, to spare

came

4

It be

one

President Elsenhower berault Party of parable ability

Suchi

Supper. This ds then the comes Maneat. fp.m. 4 Itaden- sists of a dish called plataki made from potatoes end flour (potatoes, 1s. Id. b.),

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Sunday they have meat the week. It is usually beef, ftp the first and only timo costing 128. ib. prz

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