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“So under This Spanish-Amarigan military

agreement The U.S. cant move in the Spanish boars without the consent of Franco- that makes it Franco who will give the word 'Go for the Defence of Democracy.

WORRIED ULÄRUNG.

SPANISH BASE

-THE ^, CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1954.

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NOW THE IT GIRL' PACES AWAY THOSE

SLEEPLESS

HOURS

By Donald Ludlow

New York.

Sho tried one type of have

told

of

wore slopping over.

Hollywood's PLUMP fading wo- cure after another, every gratiest days, whim the Glm men of 47 paces her thing from knitting

(as millions room in a Hollywood "vocational therapy") private sanatorium, drend psycho-analysis. ing the coming darkness that brings sleeplessness,

Only her thick, bright auburn hair reminds her doctors and nurses that Clárn Bow was the "It Girl" of the roaring 'twenties, the screen's personification of flaming youth-at 85,000 a weak in an era before taxes.

Ever since the star faded with the coming of the tulkles, in 1981, she has suffered from ill-health. Hor once famous vitality was drained away by A

of succession

nervous breakdowns that have led to chronic insomnia.

Islam Fights For Life

In Soviet

CROWD jostles through the rabbit warren

bazaars

Bokhara. Astrakan Others pad along

of

Russia

By JAMES WICKENDEN

mass-produced articles are sont to all large towns.

the

to

And it would have told of the impact made ch the frenzied een, just after the first world A year ago more con- war, by a hoydenish Brooklyn tinuous treatment was ad- schoolgirl of 17 who had won a vised, and she went into this nursing home high in the hills.

From her window she can see the outlines of the studios and the twinkling

Remember? This was "kt."

lights of the city where she ชยแส onco a lending star.

beauty competition.

She leaped from near poverty to the millionaire class, with 10,000 fan letters a week.

This was the nge of The Flapper, and the log-Ainging, hip-shaking Charleston. And Clar Bow became The Flappor, who could shake her hips and kick her legs better than any- body on the screen.

But it remained for elderly, romantic novelist Elinor Glyn, who coined the word, "it" for her the sex appeal, to award

title that really modo hor a worki name="The It Girl."

Dizzy Life

From then on, Clara Bow's life trocame as dizzy as the

escapades in her fime. There Wer romances with Glibert Roland, the young Gary Cooper, and Broadway singer Harry Richman.

There

wus

a red limousine, with a monkey that always not her beside her. There was a court the action against a woman secre- tary who was later gooled for

thell.

Suddenly came the talkles, a voice that somehow did not t →→→ and eclipse, Clara Bow, married now to Rex Bejl, res tired to their ranch.

But just now thoughts are not in past but in the future with her husband, Rex Bell, one-time cowboy star, and their sons, George, 15, and Tont, 18.

When the strain is not doctors too intense, her encourage her to go out and visit old friends. "Two collective farms amalga- mote and a oslebration is hold.

Jack Dempsey At the races an old horse, Kart of them.

He said: "Fortunately, Clara The first prize one of her

Wise leading has no financial worries. slavish and exploitationary Kyuren, wins.

will is not won by young thoroughmen, with whom she

once friendly made her take out a character is, and always be 0 reactionary Ideology breds trained by the young, but the by an old herse. This does not

was linked in a headlined trust fund long before she could

give all her money away, zoom true... it reeks of olden romance, is another. But times."

most of the time she re- "In my eyes, anyway, the

Even lo stories about collective farms are microscople- Workers whu should be muss meetings and in the new- Some

thr wear toiling at

papers. collective fann

Their eples and folk-lly examined and criticised by huts, lore are represECT, And their Party writers with a ponderous shaggy hats, are asleep in their mud

gravity only possible In the history is rewritten. gratefully taking advantage of a io

mysterious muddle. They were enlled to sheur 3,000 sleep, but were given shears. only twelve The other 58 had nothing to do for days.

felt boots. Slouching Tar- tors, squat Kurds and wild Kazuichs looking Tajiks. and Kirghizi

bar- argue, gain or pass on their ways.

They are Mosteins, part of the millions who people It region nearly two-thirds of the size of China, Once they were [- dependent, now they are Soviet subjects t Russia's Centrul

Asian colonies.

At another station, ten out of cleven new electric shears were broken. The remaining one was idle for want of an opera. tor.

work

a

Such muddles also the advantage of local Russian ufficiale. As a connective farm recently, the management were Some いま these men have worried about the accounts. It tramped from the sllent wastes seems that Chairman Dahoorn- of the Karu Kum desert. There baev was paid 4,078 roubles the smooth white sand dunes,

more than the lawful amount, treped in weird shapes by the and the manager of the sheep Gold northeast wind, stretch farin, Toukenev, 3,460 roubles. without u blade of

Many of the local farmers uver two-thirds of Turkestan to the colved not a penny. edge of the Aral Sea,

Pass

Others remember the coloured Ulles

blue and

minarets #f Samarkand, the puplar groves,

epics about doe-eyed

Saw No Point

rc-

the maize fields and the melons. IN the face of such inefficiency, the farmers were glad ALL reculi, I vaguely, old they hud not planted their

maidens quota

of potatoes and sugar and feree warriors and out in beet, They saw no point in the wastelands, stand black working for problematical pay ruins to remind them of a

and, in any case, their Russian glorious past.

masters did not see it to pay a reasonable price for these crops.

Their forebears built the Anest square in the world, the Ulugh Beg in Sumaricand. They also bred the invaders of Persia, and the conquerors of India and

Turkey.

When the figures had been laboriously gathered, Khrusbev was able to complain that none of the targets had

been

met. Cotton output was behind, the livestock situation was grave,

Minarets Crumble there were not enough intned

No

TOW the minarela crumblo A through neglect, and the walls

operatives, the building of winter shelters for animais was not up to schedule.

And there is oven corruption

week's football match. There wife of the milk farm manager

The

Most nowspaper urticle: follow the ame pattern:

"Religion, by

reason

irreconcilable with that of fighter for Communism,

of its

This argument is beyond their understanding. But they realize Moscow's intentions in this:

"Religion is incompatible with it justifies the science

feudal atitude towards women In the bame of Allah however the time will not be fur distant when no trace will

be left of all survivals of the past, INCLUDNG RELIGION."

Russian steppos:

Constant Threat

Her nervous breakdowns be- came more fréquent. Her hus-

ranch band gave up the

and became a sport goods dealer in is one Las Vagas, Nevada. Gilbert Roland,

old

ceives no visitors.

In searching for

bet,

years haven't changed though of course her king ill- neskis have and their effoot. Ways But when she is feeling bright to pass the time she has and has been able to sleep the discovered a new talent and is sull as much the It Girl a new hobby.

THE olden times, of course, is just what the Turkestants want. They regret the day that Bri- tain refused to take

The talent is painting in over the rulo of one of their states oils. offered by the

The hobby is writ- ruling prince ing to the new stars of when the Bolsheviks first television,

she which marched in. And they look upon watches for hours. The The Turkestant Moslems re Pakistan, the new free islamic gard this as blasphemy. They state, with envy.

star who once topped all cannot understund how anyone These twenty million BIOS-fan-mall lists has become a can put forth such views. They lems Bre slowly being fan herself.

do not know that, in caso local humiliated and crushed. But editors lose the thread of the until the process is complete Intest Communist line, there is they

Once she began to write her constitute 2 constant life story, but put it aside after a dictation speed telephone ser- threat to the cohesion of Soviet a few chapters. It might have vice from Moscow, over which Russia,

been a best seller, for it would

SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER

THE CULTURAL ATTACHE

DEFINES HER NEW JOB

brilliant Paris, covered her

henna-tertainment quarter has emerg- On a finger she ed. word a with a half-inch square sapphire.

In

Paris,

centre of St

are defaced by postera of next among the Russian offcials. The ANYONE searching for a wore ring

musical comedy succes-

This is the Palais-Royale dis- Leich neat the Comedie- seems to be no post and no Eschenko, and the wives of the 8or to "Call Me Madam"

the I tesked to her about her Francaise, future, unless it be Communism. brigadiers in charge of fodder should take a look at

It la on the right production, do not

like

collec-Embassy of the Dominican Embassy job and she gave me a bank, just across from the post- Communists have tive farm work, complamed

new dellnition of culture. "Being war night club Repubic in Paris. neliloved much in their efforts la Communist paper. There women

cultural altache," she explained, Germain des Pree, which is now crush nomadic Ufo, local patrio pretended they were , but Consider its cast. First, there

ans to the right people. competition.

simply introducing the languishing as the result of this tism and alam, ΤΟ that this loaded carts to the

top with is that grent Latin lover, Porfirio I have to help him because I region will produce for Mossow, fruit and sold it in the bazaar Rubirosa, recently publicly fred know

everybody

The Palais-Royale quarter now Already the now colonies ranit for their own profit.

from his post as Minister in the Sometimes I say to him, No, boasts some six night clubs and third

work growers of

Embassy by his former father- To the locals' delight #

must not ask so-and-so these are affecting night club

far afield bocause he is a secret Lion, surpassed only by the

Com trade as

as Mont- Indian rub- Russian dentist was found out. In-daw. President Trujillo, and you

promptly reinstated after his

and the: munist,' for

Champs continent,

Nearly two million in the Tashkent district, Com-

example. Or You ParnasED marriage to heiress

Barbara must askso-and-so."

Then I Elyses. more acres have boen irrigated; rado Voloshin used to tell his

Hutton.

help him, too, with the menus manufacture of feruliser patients: "There teeth will have has been established on a large to be extracted," and on seeing Then there is the new Madame and the wine."

COLD WEATHR SHOCKS scale; and natural rubbor, súgur a patient's Laco drop, would Rubirosa as "the hostess with

Was her post an honorary beet, toa, copper and uranium assure him: "I will give you the mostest on the ball." Finally, one? Indeed not. "I get well have been developed.

two now ones in their place." a former cabaret singer, how paid for it," she told me.

married to 11 millionaira Dominican contractor,

the

and the

XG-

The now-master of thla moto and valuablo region is Khushov,nocently promoted Number Two to Melenkov In

has the

THE brutal cold has dealt Parisians some brutal shocks; Rubiross, they have discovered Of her old friend

that in

Always Attacked re-te role as the Embassy's she said: "He is a nice boy. He this elty there are thousands of

"You had beitar

"cultural attache."

AFFECTIONATE TITLE

knows how to wear his clothes. humble people who are so badly Bho has several fiata and housed that their only protec- the Party leadership. Under THEN his voice would become

houses in Paris, but prefers to tion from the cold is to move Communism's fifth ive year seductive:

themselves and their children to lly in a Hotel

underground railway stations. plan, he appears ready to make come to my homo; I can make She is Madamo Lucienne dó

Next week, she will go to B concessioris to local feelings 80 them more quickly, and cheaply Benitez Roxach, bottor known Moritz, then on to the Riviera More than 30 people have that production will be increased. there." This gave the dentist to Parisians

La Mome pocket fea due Moineau ("the little sparrow") where she owns a villa.

where her yacht is anchored and died in the present cold wave, the chance

carring them 12 children. An This

affectionnio title

How me wondered, does the elderly woman was found dead bestowed on har before the wary Dominican”- Ambassador manage on all their own way. Although But tho Turkestanis do

„Lie“ Boulevard · Sebastopol, not when she entertained night club during het long, observed with, and in her hand was a notion the Communists hava'a'grangles necept theso inoldanla hold on their subjects the free evidence of Russian Inuity, patrons with her lusty singing out her cultural guidance

-kén, from her lodging, of resistaped still bures.

They know top well the relent Madame flashch Thoes melons and onions, for lom harthnow underlying the plump

For the Allen Ruusion con to the State.. querors bro not having things

woman with a ruddy. instance, welling for such good policies of their master, even complexion When in maw her

against their paraörını pesce in the bazaary Were illicitlTE

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