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·DON IDDON'S DIARY

MOLOTOV MASTER?

He queued at a New York cinema, but may get first place in Russia, say U.S. experts

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New York, Tuesday, Radio City Music Hall, the EVERAL Americans bugo New York cinema, to see the Rockettes, who dance there. in and out of He sold it hadn't occurred to him Government

con- to get seats from the Russian tinue to predict that oficials or Consulate. the next master of Russia

And almost every time. ht will be Molotov, although, of visits New York he calls on course, everything from distant relations who <have blood-baths and palace coups settled in the Bronx.

to complete track-up inside Strangest theory among the Soviets is being forecast, Americans since the downfall of Derin is that Berla has been in

But Admiral William Standley, the employ of the US. Secret once United States Ambassador Service all along, an Amerkan to the U.S.S.R., and other Ameri- super-agent. What weird and can experts are putting their wonderful nonsense! money on Molotov to emerge as the supreme Soviet leader.

•

know

about his

and

MR MOLOTOV, Relations in the Bronx.

Concluding "The Queen's Players"

Best Actress Of Them All

By KENNETH TYNAN.........

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· afterwards:

ITH lark-song In later, was id petroleum, enginder her throat, I give who work kept him abroad.

for long stretchep... you Edith Evans, When set of the mariago DBE. within her leaked out, Miss Evana declined range the best actress in the oven to elvo her. husband's

ho was, English-speaking, world. She name out, a small, retiring took over this title from man with horror or publicity. Ellen Terry, with whom she "I can't tell you much about toured England in 1918; six him, Miss Evans informed the years later, when London Press, "because I don't know a had seen her Millamant, in real deal myself. There were.

no children. The Way of the World, she ascended to the position which she has held for

She has breasted changes in! three decades against all theatrical fashion with tha comers.

... churning assertivenesa of a Soon, aged 65, she will be luxury liner, Offstage, she has climbing into costume again: lives in expensive but unobtenta

small interest in luxury, and

ag HOONI, that Is,

Eloquent sniff

A tous Albany: but onstage she

Christopher Fry has finished makes a point of dressing to kili. his new tragicomedy, which. When she and Sybil Thorndike han a period (1848); a set had completed a year's run of ting (a chateau on the Waters of the Moon, the man- ager, '"*Binkle” *: Beaumont, told Austro-Hungarinn border) Her that he intended to bespeak and

title (The Dark Light Enough); but, as yet, no third act..

London-born, she salled into the theatre through an unusual channel. Her family had no theatrical connec- tions, she began her wage-carning life as a milliner: and It was in the amateur movement

that she first at tracted attention, fdot which the amateur movement has allowed nobody to forget:

Cohn and Sching, the peram- Elizabethane-

eyes, le con- bulating privale templating departure, Schine has not denied that he might leave

soon.

McCarthy is no longer having everything his own peculiar McCarthy way. He is still keep ing an cor on the Voice of America, as are many other people.

Leonard Erickson, a big advertising agency man, is now in charge of the Voice. He has been accustomed

selling commodities — cigars, . beer, cosmetics, cake mixes, car polishes, etc.-over the air.

When Britain's Lord Salisbury Ørst arrived he was almost

Now he is selling democracy Mr Mololoy a completely unknown I have met

to people

and the let-pullers are sug dozen times-in San Francisco, here. Several acquaintances of

gesting certain slogans: "Pick a first, where the United Nations mine confused him with the was born, in New York, at Marquess of Queensberry

chairman of the Lancashire and way of life that is not a detour to death; There's no second-best Flushing Meadow, at Lake suggested that he must be a good Marseyside, Industrial Develop for freedom; You can't go wrong Success, at private parties, and sport as his ancestors have done ment Association

and several with the right

compass; How at public dinners in Manhattan, a lot for boxing.

other organisations, called at my are you fixed for aid?

Make office the other day. He rarely unbends and his

your's liberty: Block that trick; Now Lord Salisbury has been

America Sir Alfred said: "I thought

wants eyes gleam frostly even when extensively

nothing but profiled and the lict in a good humour, which magazine and newspaper readers you'd like to know that I have, friends." Mr Erickson has not as is not often.

nickname met with the utmost co-operation yet responded to the suggestions. At one Press conference I "Bobbety," his family estates from American offelals, Ameri-

worth $15,000,000, and his dis- can business men-everyone has SOPHIE TUCKER attended he got into a fury: tinguished forebears, the Cecils. been very helpful. Through a translator he had answered or dodged questions on International affairs for about half an hour. Then Earl Wilson of the New York Post got up and said earnestly: "Mr Molotov, what people want to know here LORD Salisbury is getting an excellent Press, but I wish tho is whether you pronounce vodka papers would not keep referring with a U as in victory or with to him as the British Foreign

Was in wonderful."

Secretary, Ho is the acting Foreign Secretary let us get the name, as well as get the man's position and title, right.

WENT RED

was

CO-OPERATIVE

There has been such

"American business under-

stands our desire to have Ameri- TN show business Sophie Tucker can branch factories in England is celebrating tier Golden and I have been explaining the Jubilee 50 years of energetic

I entertainment. potentialities of Lancashire. have had good listeners."

cast

William Pool the pioneer of

DAME EDITH EVANS produc-

Her voice, a heavenly borbling. tions, saw her and suggested that she might turn new costumes for her from professional he was to produce Pierre Balmain. Dame Edith, Troilus and Cressida, for which though delighted, refused to be he hed already assembed a singled out from her colleagues. provocative

including a "Sybil. said firmly, "must Miss Hermione Gingold who have a new cardigan and was down for Cressida: would Like Ashcroft, Mles Evans play Cressida? Sho Coward. she has fought fairly would and did, at the King's shy of films. "For me, she said Hall, Covent Garden, in 1912. in 1928, "the cinema is Charlie": Το those who hold that on and that was that until 20 years artist's life needs a religious Inler, when the appeared In The

philosophic or

background Queen of Spades, the first of Edith Evans's career lends stout her three films. I doubt whether support.

she will choose to make any Christian Science la the more. Her features, mobile and beacon which has guided her, and ite consolations have magnetic in long-shot, lack the quickly healed such fow wounds symmetry which the close-up viita as her adverse notices have in camera demands,

I have said.that she is, flicted on her, Secure under ita auspices, she has tried almost her. range, the first lady of our everything. from bith, tragedy theatre: what, precisely, is that to intimato vevuc.

range?

of It comprises all manner comedy

to from Congreve Tchekov, but especially In 1910 she became one of the gorgeous gorgon parts, like Lady

actress-manageresses in Wishfort or Madame Arkadina.

Into" tragedy ́ ́ ́Dame. Edith, theatrical history, sinking all her savings in Delilah and a drawnt-Irresistibly, peers.from. year later. O.H.M.S., neither of time to time; sniffs eloquently. which survived five perform- as if the room needed dusting; und then departs, looking highly Impishly bountiful, her art unimpressed.

She brings tears

few

She ran a farm

ances

01

the

knew no boundaries. In 1931 Broadway acclaimed her as

វែង 1948 Moscow actress:

Her Cleopatra, Rix years ago, acclaimed her as representative of the Society for Cultural Rela- was triumphant only in the with the Soviet Union. comic scence: the ravenous has Sir Laurence Olivier

For years she owned and ran gleam of eye and band of bland You will be glad to hear that offered to refund to Paramount 1938, aged 50 the posed in the her Antony belonged rather

а 40-acre farm in Kent; and in teeth with which shotanjalised at the moment Senator McCarthy Vivien.

to Leigh's 100,000-dollar

is suffering slightly from reverses, salary for her work in "Elephant nudd for the Russian sculptress the armoury of the aunt than to

Не

has made minor retreats. Walk," which illness forced her | Dore Death the quiver of the mistress. Tho

"reluctantly return to the London stage in de modalysed."!.

for

There have been attacks from to abandon. Paramount sold

women she play best have a hiblied che wop characteristical- President Elsenhower and fellow No-It couldn't be helped.

ly vible about her part in it. gluttonous vet life; but Senators.

aaring THERE

Shed Olivier will a silence. The hullabaloo about International

I am told Lady

enjoyed posing: "It tragedy demand a

Sho McCarthy has Russians flanking Mr Molotov, affairs this past week that in accepted" the resignation of his light part in a new Rattigan

held, for better that he can, however

*ith your cybe by the sheer including

which the flying wedge of ternational trade has been

1· Her Apublic life. armed guards, looked bewildered struggling to

Investigating chief of staff, J. B. play at the end of autumn. get a mention. Matthews, and others want to

dazzle and eventful pred ion Mr Molotov went red, took off However, a visiting Englishman

beuty fach Howard

The straw-hat summer theatre herivate it looks du Shy h's pince-nez, put them on again. telis me we are holding our own, leave him Hot Rushmore circuit is alcaling more and more marked log 192augh at: 2 sneered at Wilson, snarled some- thing unintelligible and waved Sir Alfred Shennan, a big Carthy, has left the Senator, business from Broadway, which time> handy of knew him and his question away.. business man from the north, and I hear that Mr Schine, of murmurs: "When Winter Comes." Her frisbird, who died 10 yea

The "heavy thinkere" among

the correspondents turned on

Wilson and told him to be serious or be quick. Molotov strode from the conference.

i also helped to organise a foreign Press

dinner at which

hooty was one of the guests of

honour.

EAST GERMANY'S FOOD

mobilise the

whole

The

CRISIS

wagon pads of 1 boards

shindour of her voice of voel hangs in the nitringating

a moment longer than my other

stalle

actress can Down

it, dumping

in e lind, the melting awa

weep, it is for the pass- of perfect sound. 10 Bolse simtires is a kind of heavenly burgling, ash dhe jead Holst 150 tak nƐa

Berlin. East Germany. The rya crop, Promises of no victimimiion Eveniny Albegin has wont sig nip too much neetur.

Mor her pist In Eastern Europe for have been made. MERGENCY plans to bread

modulat ons in Waters of the bread, is also poor.

Many farmers fled to

All Anderints

1 my other honoured

and carestign Root crops, especially rape. West before sowing time. By trouble: still go on f

enfrans the Ruoats the British, American

a great which supplies Germans with the time collective farms had Germany. Housewives

of and French Foreign Secretaries countryside in all spoke in conciliatory terms, labour effort have been their cooking fats, should have been reorganised to take over modsated In Leipzig

the deserted land, it was too Dresden against food shortage thents. like the arrive of

And from induirial, towns file Dallia „£ in

In Main's De Loạ made jokes, and made the best made by the East German been in by now.

Until the June plote, local late to sow. of a purely social occasion. Government to save the

come news of inore, sadowy party officials were telling East Others fled after sowing strike because ration costis: oko Molotov spoke last (the dinner harvest.

Berlin Headquarters: There is was finished, leaving no-one to not being honoured.

you murmured and German Communists had pre- a small shortage of farmwork- attend to the growing crops. was at the Starlight Roof at the

shuddering With coloratura Waldorf-Astoria Hotel), and he viously backed Molotov's flat

Asa artificial fertilisers pro-

ecstasy Dame Edith would be. gushod abuse.

would He called his refusal of President Eisenhowers but nothing serious."

mised by the Russians after -

upan you, the scene. fellow guests and. his hosts llars er's offer of food worth $15,- *

last year's harvest, have falled Travellers my that East Ber-winrt to glow. pad assassins and blood-thirsty 000,000. "We have no need of

lin is better stocked than the Imperialists.

food.

Keen sailor But now comes the panic, to appear, We have plenty of our..

Meanwhile, the food situa- Zone, but even here butter is East Germany's "trado unions own," they told their people.

EO almost unobtainable except. In that factory tion in the Soviet Zone is But a special meeting of the have "agreed"! Council of Ministers was sum workers shall be diverted to serious that the Reds broadcast state-owned shops. These, mast- She used to be a keen sallor,

special announcement Delds, School-children, a

of ly in the gaudy Stalinallee, and said, on one occasion, that SOME Amertens got up from moned afterwards when reports the

They told

told have shopwindows full of but if she had her life over again their tables and left, but flooded la from Rostock, Fran- housewives, civil servants and additional supplies.

their people: "Our comrades, ter off the ration. However, its there would be much more Molotov (went on ka full rait of furt-on-Oder, Halle, Potsdam,

Communist party

swells like a wave;yaho, doos the Russians. Haepošte for lands of Mecklenburg, and Fo- olleis

oficials have been ordered to rescue. Alrendy extra food has 18s, a pound.

arrived at the German border: Some of the food for East not so much take the stage as about an hour, and it was all those warned; "Crops" ",

artideial form harvest brigades in their

lindatot like, on town of Frankfort-on-Oder. Bo' Germany supplied by Poland is with themselves

waterfall.martyr "self" for 2,000 wagonloads of food being seized on Russian order. She is a martyr to

Tal move in itself has started criticism. I remember; her de Even at receptions or in the in danger of rolling in the brigadiers in command

di Thousands

of farm- Transport is being requial- have arrived Lounge of the United Nations he ground

ng her greatest fault: once

HUMAN SIDE

| angor, blasting. everyone except | Mogdeburg and the rich, farm-ce; workers aro to be "call the Itusians, have come to the price, as I saw for muscit, is sea in it.". In the theatre, she

venem,

Ar

1

oppears a man in whom haired At best there to the West tonet Appeals are being made. And then they detailed them up vigorous protestay in the Sring

barvest can only over the radio to refugees to From Russia: 1221 wagonloads Foilsh border towns of Kustrin she got a beautiful word finde

burns,

in tertiary

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