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THEY NEVER SLEEP IN GLITTER GULCH

Las Vegas, Nevada.

Njeans and sandals, ★ In the Monte Carlo of the

with huge straw hat there is always some excitement protecting her head

from the burning sun, Rita Hayworth facing a threat of death Hayworth strolls in the war bride on trial for murder grounds of the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, with two shirt- sleeved policenie.

The police are there because two anonymous letters havé threatened her with deathr

hectic jumble of hotels, noon West advertisements, hot dog stands Rita cach with a swimming pool,

a

or

and seven palatial resorts hotels,

bars, night club and casino.

At The Sands, where Ritn Hayworth la staying, Dick

may be just an atom bomb exploding, Haymes recently had a singing

from Evelyn Irons

falling glass. That was only an There are special left-handed atom bomb exploding in the slot machines for what Ameri- With her at the hotel are her desert, 65 miles away at the cans call "southpaws" (left daughters, Rebecca and Yasmin, Frenchman's Flat proving handers). flown there from Hollywood, with a great parade of secrecy, since they were threatened too.

grounds.

Quickle, divorces

And the group is completed by business in Las Vegas, the Argentinian crooner, Dick requires only #x Hayes, the man with passport residential qualification. trouble who has now married her.

In the Las Vegas court room the British war bride, Alice White is being tried for murder- ing Sergeant Andrew White, the husband she is alleged to have thot through the head while he slept at their quarters at the nearby Nellis Airbase.

At five o'clock on a summut

ara

engagement for £4,000 a week. That is not out of the way for Las Vegas, This lown is now ruled as America's biggeəl buyev of night club talent. The Strip Frank Sinako, res

Betty Hutton and other top rankers regardless of cost.

To guard visitors' wealth and. juwels and keep hoodlums and A benevolent municipality thugo at bay, hotel ani big provides a playground with a

havo several which pool where children are looked gambling halls weeks after while mother tries her hundred full-time policemen of

their own. luck.

A ittle newspaper shop has n outside its

There is a phenomenal trade

in quickie weddings, too. The "Hitching Post" wedding chapel averages Ave ceremonies daily. The oflee of the justice of the peace is open 24 hours a day for five-dollar Licences. Couples com call a 'minister and get married at any time of the day or night.

But the main industry of Las Vogns ส gambling, and the gambling pronts this year have rocketedi.

Is

Strange things happen all the

Last yenr seven million Ume in this glittering gambling visitors lost 15 million pounds in resort that has mushroomed in

the slot machines and gaming little more than a decade in the

rooms

Vegas, whose of Las midst of the stark Nevada

population

unly desert.

normal 30,000,

This yeur reports from the marning just two months ago dollar-happy

owners of these the windows of the gaming room devices indicate that the of a super-tuxury hotel, named will be higher, The Last Frontier, were sud- denly shattered.

Gamblers playing at the tables were startled by the tinkle of

CANAL

ZONE TALKS

By PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P.

some dispute-Egypt.

About a week

be

Mr

total

drug

Even the grocery and stores have gambling machines for women to take chances with the housekeeping money. A petrol station has four so that customers can waste dollars but not time while the tank is being filed.

for

gambling machine door to attract customers.

From dusk to dawn Las Vegas

Each big hotel has twenty to (which means

the mendowa) thirty of them, armed with ro- throbs with blazing neon lights. volvera. Today there is a move "Day sleepers welcome, ad- to bring all these private police vertises one rooming house. forces directly under the sheriff.

At a more

Las Vegas has a mighty con- olent hostelry, where one of the ameniiles is a sumption of alcohol-more than

wedding chapel with

services 200 percent above the average available night and day, on for the rest of the U.S.A. But attraction offered to visitors in because of the colossal influx of blackout curtains-not a visiters, which makes all th

the possible war but for clients who, town's utiles burst at sleep in the daytime and gamble

beams, the water is giving out through the night.

Uniess the people voto to spend around three million pounds on a now pipeline the supply may Lail any time.

They call Las Vegas The The most garish street in this Monte Carlo of the West, maybe rdfish boom town rivals New

because the miicide rate is 26.8 York's "Greet White Way" with

pa

fhousand - America's its frantie night-time animation. highest. But to realise how far It is nicknamed Glitter Gulch.

you are from the Edwardian Bul the most

spectacular peace of the old principality, quarter is The Strip, a six-lane just pop into a bar on Glliter motorway that runs four miles Gulf, clatter a few silver dollars outside the elty en route to Los into the line of slots, and order Angeles (Holloywood is six a highball from a bar-girl hours' drive from Las Vegas). dressed in very short shorts, And you must go to Hollywood very low shirt and fancy cow- to find anything like It, with its boy boots.

THE SLUMP

IN SHAW

By Robert Black

THE of as a Socialist,

THE death of an original Fabian Society and his opinions Today, admittedly, Socialism

is not much fun. Having, so to After all why was 'Shaw a speak, risen in the world, it has

against

once

London. proposal would compromise the Those arguments did not always followed by a sort of Socialist? Not through any acquired pomposity, hardened IR Winston Churchill's whole basts of the negotiations. together convince the audience twilight period, which be deep, or logically thought out, arteries, apoplectic demeanour. review of Government As to the Brst, it was sald. that that had given spirited support ging a few years later and convictions. He, who advocated and many other attributes of

if negotiations are 'proceeding at policy last week omit- all they assume the good faith of to the critic mouthpiece.

lasts sometimes. for ton, complete equality of incomes for success. The sparkle and glitter

everyone, died

a very rich man, which Bernard Shaw

gave to his ted one, subject on which the other side. And, as a result Julian Amery, M.P. for Preston sometimes twenty, years.

pratesling to the and, with a Fabian of British who is not by any means a lone

It is a period of shadowy vigour worthy of Sir Waldron described

pamphlets-he there is deep feeling and of the proximity

Journalism as the power in Libya, Jordan and figure.

eclipse in which the great man's Smithers,

the depre highest form of literature-are Iraq. it was submitted

that

name grows dim, his memory, dallons of surlax and death sadly

lacking in the dismal the Egyptian carlier

good faith, can

Because of that, some hoped fades, and the new generation, duties.

effusions which nowadays creep that Sir Winston would return with the incorrigible brassiness Prime Minister had been ap- accepted.

to the subject and say something

forth from Transport House. proached by a small group of

Or rather, that it is worth more categorical. leading Conservatives who ex-

lest recent while for the British Common- pressed their worry press reports about negotiations wealth to accept it. For the over the Canal Zone were even suggestion is made that the only broadly correct.

Justification for the whole The tenor of those reports palaver is Britain's desire, be- cause of pressing commitments End been this:

PROBLEM

WORRIED

But he did not do so.

was one

of

tho

of youth, dismiss him, not as a To claim that Shaw heretic or a revolutionary-but of the great Fathers as a bore.

Socialist Church is surely a triflo Bernard Shaw lived to

such absurd, and in any case, not his immensa old age that this rat claim to fame. twilight period began almost before his death. When he did dle, it come down with all tho rapidity of a tropical Hence perhaps the total failure of the recent appeal to raise

And that they counselled trim

gainst it,

the grounds, on perhaps, that any further state- ments might jeopardise the negotiations.

night.

Socialism was fun

The late

il

Bernard Shaw was a Socialist

Bernard Shaw was never dull, never obscure. He wrote much that is perverse and infuriating, but as a wit, a playwright and writer of good English he well deserves the title given to him because in the 1880s it was, let in his lifetime by Sir Winston us admit, great fun to be

Churchill who was in general no Socialist.

admirer of him, “the greatest Socialism was a creed which living master of letters in the carried with it a whole string English-speaking world." of "advanced" beliefs, about. marriage, property, war,

See the plays

sex,

religion,

A

Thus, it is assumed that he Since Gen. Sir Brian Robert-sewhere, to be free of a duly had cousted with Mr Eden and son had returned to London for costing £50,000,000 a year and with Lord Salisbury as do the terther-instructions, the British drain on the manpower pool wisdom of a further reference, fund in his memory. and Egyptian viewpoints have of some 70,000 troops. come closer together; the pre- sent "informal-discussions are

It was a part of the general

Little of this appears or can about the "lime and manner of a

Dr C. E. M. Joad's

struggle to open the windows appear in an anthology, It is Britisa evacuation

the the

anthology, (Show and Society, and let in the bright all upon not clear what audience Dr Joud Canal Zone, as also about safe-

edited by C. E. M. Joad, for the that stuffy drawing room full of catered for. The case is that, looking at the Maybe, also, there

Those who aro and arrangements for a Bible

has e Fabian Society, Odham's Press, heavy furniture and dust sheets, familiar with Show need no such return:

difficulties, Canal Zone as part of the Com- some buste. Parliament has now

16/-) with contribution from with which Dr Joad, In his help. Those who are not should Egyption SOURCES, however, acem to have arisen monwealth security problem, it destined.

though they have been quicker and others, will not do much to Vicio

Mr Kingaley Marlin, Mr Dalton, preface. compares the Jale plunge into the Prefaces, or about the conditions under is not so overwhelmingly Im- of late, still exude optimism. | which the enormous base is to portant as critics maintain Lord Even British sources, white hasten the dawn. This is not Victorian age. And how enjoy belier still go to one be kept ready for re-occupation. Salisbury, for instance, begged cautious, were three weeks because of any fault of

of his

crities not to look at the problem ago expressing the hope, if no who, it is safe to say. wen ole it must have been to attack plays. They are still acted, and

be

Some Conservative MP..

"In isolation." Mr Eden promised more, that a solutions could feared they might find them that any accord reached would reached within a month or so. selves faced by an agreement be devised in the best interests which they could not support of the Commonwealth as a That is just what the critics one reached walte Parliament whole, Was not sitting and

when therefore, Party feeling

could

not be expressed in open de

bate.

Both Mr Eden and Lord Salisbury tried to

culm

the eritles by teiling the Party Conference at Margate there was no agreement yet; that they should not believe what they read in the press; that they should trust their leaders.

ANXIOUS

are worrying about.

any

both Mr Glodalone, and Lord will go on being acted long after Salisbury, and to laugh aside Shaw's Fabien pamphlets, how- have disliked

anthology. And

especially this one, which the notion that one had any over brilliant, have mouldered put in their away, covered by the dust of concentrates upon the least im- thing serious to

antiquity. portant facet of his many sided, place, ite-his connection with tho

An Island Finds The Light

UN

you

BY JOHN LATHAM

a year or so ago, and Kone from-vogue over their cocky home. Todcy, thoir clothes half-a-dentury;

that loyally has at long last been could have emi- were nevertheless patched and rewarded. grated to an Island com- guarded as zealously na an A lobster canning lactory at. munity of 250 people that heirloom of medieval Brussels knew no taxes, paid no rates lace so rarely did even a new mg the mock dobetes that abound or rent, had no government scarf or shawl arrive.

This last had been said before, and recognised no statutory It was pleaded when anxious laws. backbenchers were nsked to

Children might-at

endorse the British Agreement first-have loved the move.

The place was the sixteen- with Egypt over the Sudan For the place had neither last February, providing for schoolmistress nor school. Cunha, Isolated in the blustery square-mile Island of Tristan Da Sudanisation" of the Sudanese But neither had it a doctor, South Atlantic, and Gver elvit service in a few years,

of

Capetown has just begum catch-

off the island's coast. And this Cats revolutionised Tristan Da Cunia's entire life. A doctor, a runge and a schoolteacher have fained the local population.

Woes

The company's motor fishing nor electric light, nor even afteen hundred sea miles from vessel, dhe Trisienia,—also serves Now, the critics were tearing oll lamps. It was devoid of the nearest mainland port 'cupply ship, bringing in that Britain was negotiating the a single shop.

Capetown. Battered by ferocious

cious stones of a kind that the island departure of all British armed

grles each winter, the islands never before kaowa. Modem forces from the Canal Zone on

ceased to be a port of call when clothes, ample firewood, varied terms that would neither guan- To obtain the very fuel for the old selling whalers vanish food, household utensils, 2000 and anteo their right to return nor their fires, the islanders iad to ed from this part of the ocean aimilar goods can be bought at

of miles in tiny afty or more years ago. Since the newly-opened shop. their ability readily to do so. all scores For a smooth return would we dinghies to comb neighbouring then, the islanders have been paks to the menfolk by the can quire adequate maintenance of island beaches for driftwood, living in a world almost their ring company furnish ibu cast. the base meantime. That would When

It is hard for the inhabitants require the presence of a British married, she was expected to

Only the turn need to be protected to en-husband; or she might provide a unil recently consisted mainly regular sailings of the Tristanla sure its proper functioning. slob of home-made soup, com-

pounded from caustic soda and of potatoes, fish and occasional assures them that it is all not It had been argued that there cheep fat.

sen-birds" eggs. Candle stubs ! some dream. and matches were hoarded with were only two ways in which

miserly care. the remaining technicians could

a bride

of even· 1951 Own.

stall, And that staff would in bring a driftwood dowry to her lava blocks, and their diet their good fortune.

Their houses were built of of Tristan Da Cunba to bellove

be safeguarded.

As yet the island has no electricity. But already

the

Noi community could have lived. Tristania, is bringing regular

On the one hand, the Workaday clothes were made a mora sarkly Sparton existence, supplies of oil which lights the drive Egyptian could, guarantee pro- from akina and canvas, Sunday yet despite perlodie offers from cottages, and later may tection: On the other, uniformed best was a curious mixture of "do" to resellio the de a the farm machinery needed to Brush forced could do this, Yet, jall varieties of dross and encre ferpitable place, the island- transform the filand's agricul-

suggested, the second fashions that had come intó- era romained stavanebly, koyal to turo,

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