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TRIPS AROUND THE FEASIAN DEFENCES

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1954.

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Shadow Behind Olivier

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By JOHN BRUCE

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London. No other actor has attempted

ambitious Unvier anything

Olivier Mmed "Henry V" and ❤ today seen a formidable "Tromlot" rival emerging: Michael

Today Redgrave's star is high. Redgrave.

H the one-time He is an ambitious man, schoolteacher and ordinary critical success at Stratford and in Buch West End plays as "Winter's Journey" 18 Locked by solid commercial BUCCESSES in filma. Today he is simultaneously two Oliver's Just film, Jeggar's Opero," була someTM thing of a hop), artistically und commercially. The Batt gen

selman.

Olivier is ending the run of "The Sleeping Prince" though till draws the public. A film comes next. Then he follows Redgrave to Stratford enne serous noting.

for

None too Folie has mi enhanced Olivier's Fremantlon, except na

devoted husid. Meanwhile Redgrave I him. has been gaining On inugine that his earnings almost as high now as Oilvler's, For three weeks' work in Sea Shal Not Have Them” 110 being paid £7,500, he told

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What is the score to date? 1count Redgrave's "Hamie!” At the Old Vie perfor Olivier's Alm "Hamlet."

worthi

Muny, too. The

Redgrave's "Antony"

the

Mic ugures of his normal earnings: in England £23,000 a picture plus a percentage of takinge: in Hollywood 125,000 dollars (£42,000) a film.

Now Redgrave challenges Olivier on his own ground. He will ster in a film of "Antony and Cleopatra.** He will also Lho be the associate producer,

points over Olivier's.

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What is, then. that keeps Redgrave's progress in check?

Olivier is Livvtrical royalty, Redgrave does not capture the us Olivier public's imagination docs. He wiles soulously 2104 art in highbrow review. п brek pa ecting, publishes writes pla***, d ́ertrages over- demonstrative admirers and has the introspective demeanour a man who can't stan playing

suspicious

Intellectital (netor, which is what Redgrave

has been labelled,

director and the script willer. Hamlet. The public

Beverley Baxter writing..

THE PRIME DOODLER AND

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THEN 1 read in the newspapers that Me Attle

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Migovanihan

ranged the uterada feat whe the rommer of dias victorious dede-

strunced Mr Attlee

Party Bender, would make his atual address.

WW

A few days later Atuce „ Oppaslan Bencive, Rove a statesainbike but quai- They want to Churchill's plot

berming Germany A adways Attlee was refusing t intridge party politics into matter of national security,

In fact it now only re mains Fr

Me. Senator Carthy and Secretary Stevens to sing "Dear Od

wrestabel Le

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American tele would he begin” U1)

He was in the

much fo vision and a thousand years poelen ot A man sentenced to

Nevan. With << has to cogintate Napoles is of amity will be ushered deaths who

cod lofty anger chment. The Jury 197

akulom he stormed to the de- was one thing certain

in.

their

The

That in

It

of the

He is unoyed by this label. "I know." he says,

my

obituaries will describe me ns a man who neted with his mind. That is all nonsense i have got where I am just

through

using braine them I muni bo very clever indeed and unique | among actors.

"I am a star. And though there aze many good Intel- leeluni actors, I can't think of any star performers

who have done it by thinking it all out, I can't be done that way, I am an actor who enn net at Just

the drop of bad. You

its have to ask

ful wife who adores him, and is Attler was badly wounded always in the gallery when he is typical of Allies makes a full length pen. Butobiography he defends Chur-

She must

Have bec

attacks the out-of-

vely ell and creature when he married her. date generals who bungled the Bow then does our here deal (ullipoli venture. with the courtship in his back?

He tells us that in 1921 he went on a European tour with

When The war Was over Stepney chore Attlee, its friend and benefactor, to represent the

friend tamed Mittar who, Be unexpectedly, brought his sister along with him. Mr Attlee cons fesses that on the holiday he undoubtedly spent more ume

with Miss Miliar than with her brother. So we come to the pulsating moment of decision,

I'tandering g the new Alpe. Not even the Prame flanelley of patch ex eri Besocketed him came the ground was too hard

wer!

Bevan XAS. ay mal back to October 1952 when ! went to the Lancashire scasicu resort of Morecambe to have look at the annual

that party Conference just

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Great Britain codd. verdict of the delegaries

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"A week or two after our re- turn," wriks Attice, "I asked football Miss Millar to go to a match with me. When the day

and we lender. With for football wur.is 25.med Richmond Park instead. During enuntenance he declared that he the afternoon 1 proposed and could not and would za be a had the good fortune to be parks ta resurmurg Germany, accepted." Pertul villain.

Wus

smething

an

now view.

This This was mutiny in full The Prime Doodler put away,his pencil art called a party meel- Ing for next morning.

acten of

Far Too Shy

That was nobce, that was! At any rate it proves that true love can exist even " rold climate or perhaps especially in a cold climate,

It

of the Socialist Perly of Cirent Britain,

the custom It is

hold its

And with before Parlin-

After that after the long long lapse

tane put on Summer Recess. And invariably

record that lus opening selence they choose a seaalde resurt su

www live on an stand that

advance upon with

sputatior they can

nf

The meeting was fifty

in secret, but within an hour after a was Westminster with ozone in their millons and almost no natural hungs and hope in their hearts, resources except coal and agri- over we all had a prolly good

culture"

what

What had happened.

of his time at Oxford Altice

the had delivered

University? " attended At Morecambe the conference ibres

it wa. antyfulleent Maric proceeded along normat

ultimatum to Bovan-loyalty oe Union Debates." he writes, "but until the final cluy when Antoinette's "Give them cake"

The Shadow I was far too shy to take part expulsion from math In was

compared to rumours were flying about

Cabinet and the Parliamentary in them," directions. It was said in Attlee's magi font disregard Front Bench. Bevan rejected Over and over again there is the streets and

in the market for the elamorous victory of the the ultimatum and walked out that recurring moti! "I was too

did he it i with all his supporters.

shy. Yet in his hour: place that at the secret election Bevanstes. Nor

the entire speech make any mention behind closed doors

was a sincerity that drove him whatsoever of Bevan or any of Bevanites hud mude - clean

the prizes of public life. on although he wanted none of his followers pweep of the vacancies for the National Executive excepi for

1 went back to my hotel und Jim Grimhs, the faithful, sent a hurried impression of It Was the only pro - Attlee all To the

Evening candidate to make the grade. Standard. Perhaps you will bear with me if I make a brief quota- tion from 11:

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What A Scene!

The ncxi morning crowds

stu rounded the vast music hall where the final session was 10 be

public. held in

With the good nulure of British politier, my Socialist opponents let me

in and gave me a good seat.

The Socialist Party had hod iy night of the long knives, Obviously tho Bevanites had won the decisive battle. Every- one felt that Alliee could not possibly continue to lead the perly, but would either have to resign or

u to the House of Lords, as Stanley Baldwin did when he gave up the Premier- ship and the Leadership of the Conservative Party.

What a scene met our eyes In sido the theatre. Bevun sat next to Attice, because they were already members of the Execu- live. The Chairman then read the names of the winners, together with the total of their voles.

"Mr Alle is on the spot.

Called

destroy hus nemies and he failed to come tu teismas

with them. It in last desperate attempt to save himself be now shaloes handis

with

Beven it would drceive no one,

"As 1 walked to my hotel after the mesting the tide was out...far, fur out. Half dozen stiling boats were lying helplessly on their sldos" for there was no water on which fat. And I thought of the Socialist Lender mercenad on the beach waiting for the

to

tide that will never return.” The article was header:

ONLY ONE PLACE FOR ATTLEC NOW- THE LONDS,

Astonishing

Now let us come to 1954.

blossom and the red-breasted

"That afternoon Mr Altice r Lumed his place in Parliament unmarked, worried, and firm is decision that he would ot infreduce party politics into matters of high strategy.

His Leadership

His

there

Bad In Parhainent, but it was not unlii 1922 that he con- Eker- tested the Parliamentary tion on behalt of the Limehouse Division of Stepney. The mild Hitle Attleed erine-ridden Limehouse! Perhaps jt

Bevan bes enderstandable why never been able to frighten him,

And Korea

The rest of the story you know.

But lest we forget, we muat sul down that as the Solalist Prime Minister, leading

nit seini-pacifist party, e unly tork up the challenge of Korea but introduced peacetime cunscription. He made mistakes but they were mistakes of judg- neni, and not from any weak- neys of character,

When he became Primas 2inister the London wils had e night out. "An emply car was driven to No. 10 Downing Street and out of it stepped Clement "Alice is & inodest Attlee. man-but then he has so much to be modest about!" "Altice is not weak. He has a whin of Stor." Yes-the wits were in turm.

But there he is today, dood- ing away with his feet on the table, oblivious of the Big Bod family

Bevan, and taking on Churchill were Round, middle-class people

the Champion with no holds who wore comfortably off. The tendency barred. After all, he is only 71 of the various branches of the years of age and sees no reason Attlee breed were for the boys why he should make way for n to become

and the younger man. girls to become missionaries, Undoubtedly there was a stroni puritanical background and a deep desire to help the poor and the unprivileged.

solicitors

After Oxford,

Attlee

went

clubs for

Somewhere in his unexciting torso there beats a brave heart. Somewhere in his spirit there is a modesty that keeps him close to the ordinary man. Somo where in the mystic land of the

1ock of character.

And not for the first time in the 18 years that I have sat with him in Parliament I found my- self thinking: This is a very considerable political Agure into the Eont End of London and soul there is an indestructible This is a man who breaks all helped to organise the rules of greninces and has boys. He was uneasy even with zone of its trappings. Think of them, but at least he won the strain of leading a polilleat learning to speak without being party for twenty-three years, a

overcome by shyness. în grotl- turbulent party Uke the So- tude he was eventually elected cialists

which had only held the youngest mayor in its his- office with a clear majority in cory for the poverty-stricken Elx of the twenty-three years! Borough of Stepncy, Ex The Socialists have never sub- mitted to the strong discipline of

have the Tory Perty. "They always had breakaway sections

as well as a few, who lean to-

wards Communism. Yet no one

Tribute

In a few days I am Joining a luncheon gathering where some of the greatest men in Britain will pay public tribute to him on the publication of his auto- hiography. There will be brillant speeches where com- Unged with Incidentally, he was in the pliments will be

famous wit and irony.

War's Challenge.

but Bevan has risen to challengo East End when the

the leadership of Attlee, the Sidney Street siege took place. colourless man of anti-cilmax." A young chap in a top hat named When Attles rises to make his Winston Churchill watched the reply he will sound like a prim But, is this A complote batile in the capacity of Home little Elder of the Church portrait? Can leadership of Secretary. A few yards away acknowledging the special col- uhy kind be sustained morely on was the almost unknown wel- lection in aid of the organ fund, tentus for undramatisation? fare warkar named Clem Attice. And almost certainly he will

Evon history's prophetic pen · say: "The critica are

quite JA Spring. The trees are in While we Tories were ponder might have hasliated before right when they describo

my At each result there was wild robins are busy nesting. For split, and trying to imagine the fellows would

ing on the latest Attlee-Bevan predicting that these young book as not well written. But I cheering, although

Bevan was some

eventually be am not a writer. I just gave time there, had been an shape of the future, Mr Attlee's Prime Minister and wise enough not even to emile, uneasy

Deputy the facts and nothing but the Iruco between Attlee autoblography was published. Prime Minister in the battle to facts, which you will agree is As a man of destiny, he had t Bevan In thet waited for this hour. As a man Churchill opened the

when, it was modestly called,

"AS

something new of destiny he would wrap him Atomie Debote, Bevan cot beside to read it with the feeling that

fums Happened", and I settled down save civilation.* self in silent dignity.

But first there came the graphy." Atlee on the Socialist Front at that the enigms would, ex- challenge of the 1014 war. Then ho will go back to tha And what of the other man Bonch as if to prove (1) that plain itself and the Sphins res, Churchill was First Lord of the House of Commons, put his feel who had been king? What of they were brothers and (2) to voal its potret.

Admiralty. Attice was reject little Clem Attlee as he heard establish the mocessorship to

Belleve me, this bonic is an once, but worried the recruiting Head, or will I be the cockatoo ed for the Army more than on the table, and begin to

doodle, Partitpea niggora: the restling of the tumbril on the the Socialist

Juke any autobiography ever drgeant until they took him halide of Welsh Napolet copble-stone# outside? What wan he doing?"

admirable Toboxing written or pyar kaly to be Alice Histered to written. For sheer understat1⁄2 Once more the threads of wondering how much longer this bitte was doodling as always, Churchill's reply and the munic, mont tamadáte murnost: En fate are joined, in the disaster little man will keep chint: from Nigger, heads org: a favourite. · back and pebounded v ta doodle), galus vide Atties has a borullat of Churchill's....... Callipoli, Man,tate Socialist: Tirone

After

speech

+

in autobla-

or cry.

"Of course,"

U:Ki 1 run laugh

be says.

And

'

An 1n-

an intellectual. actor. But I'm not tellectual actor."

So now you know.

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