1954-08-17 — Page 4

Russian

'THE CHINA" MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1954.

Writers Feel

The Cold Wind Blowing

T

HE other day the Russlan humorous weekly, Krokodil, -

By ELIZABETH HOWORTH

Prizewinners. It

Come

wan

of

power has becoma✨ something shining and joyous," embodying the finest hopes and aspirationa and overy Soviet man turned its attention press attacked Anatoly Surov More significant, perhaps, was woman. Our people look upon

well- Pravda's criticism of Zvezda, litir people's power, with un to authors who wait to see and Nikola Virta, both

and warm Allal the way the wind blows be known playwrights, both Stalin the literary Journal, for prais- shakable trust

on Zorin's play the their ing the Panova novel; for love," fore they sit down to write, personalities, not their

work, was similar misplaced plaudits

other hand, had for its theme One of its cartoons showed that

under fire. The by the same paper in 1948 the insolence of officials uguinet

thut which brought down on

whom the victims of blatant in- n desk laden with writing Lt wary Gozelte declaced materials poised high in the Surov, author of "Sunrise over head the censure of the party's justice were unable to find pro-

and In-tection. Morcow,"

Committee was kulity of per- Central eleuds on top of a weather sistent drunkenness and hooli- nugurated the campaign for poll-

Sovjet Stalin's death the VAU, four

for its ganism. pers

In the old days a tlent control of the arist's choice the fact, appears to be that

be forgiven

for and treatment: of his subject Government, for reasons of lis pointers. At the bottom writer might

nrelated with the name addiction to the bottle-k

own, gave the writers an inch of this contraption art probably caused by persecution

Men Zhdanov.

and they took an entire book- Since Pravda Πανα recretary is telling a caller al despair. But nowadays,

its shelf and Alled it with volumes that the dramatist for whom when the party and Govern pronouncement on "Season of that were far from flattering.

writers the Year," other writers hive The hare

safe- was given a bringing up eworks is not at home: ment are

scrutiny. A play conduct pass through doubtful "When there is no wind he solicitously, creating conditions come under

Zorin, for the growth and blooming of by I

The Guests, and

previously forbidden terri- jual times not work."

our literature, it is inexcusable," which had already been per tory and told to use his eyes and

In Leningrad and

Now Moscow, and published in the report on what he saw.

his work is declared lelous" magazine Theatre,

the and "negative. subject of a special meeting of

hare, What of that

!

Expelled

WHA

formed

BOM

30

the Colleglum of the Ministry Ehrenburg

the

be in

The reason why prudent Hus- their 26 authors have foun 10 brealment may petha s be found in an a humubeint little

Virta was held up to ridicule by fable printed at Moreh

in Komsomolskya Pravda. He of Culture, It was officially concerned "

Ionel apparently bamboozled described as "a vicious work."

Even bigger fry may retain Flor why was attacked by a wolf in spite of the fat members of his local Komsomol Konstantin Simonov, an author

into building him a magnificent who originally spoke favourably the net shortly. Ilya Ehrenburg safe. receive) 11: he hi

by the Soviet pontiace pasa

The brick house surrounded by an of it, has been made to appear is the object of an advene re- Tiom til

The elegant blue fence (the subject at a meeting of Moscow play- port made

Union and published hase flows tahes s

the Writers' according to

Literary Gazette on wolf asked di tre apuauce, of another cartoon in Krokodil). wrights,

Here Virta lived the life of a pre- Literary Gazette of June 3, In wife's vests signature," said the relationary "squire." His wife, and describe it as the "hxuriant June 15, Ehrenburg, who used Bood- flower of all the "incorrect to enjoy the personal tendencies" in Zorin's carlier will of Stalin, was said to be one of those who were favour- plays.

ed by midnight telephone calls from the Kremlin. The reception, of his latest novel, "The Thaw

serious is frozen: it "contains

that

our require The Leningrad writers were drawbacks

and also called together to hear a serious

fundamental serious blow is softened writers, Imitating that young

by praise for his past Panova, “are being carried away

as a writer who way achievements

At

the Pnsww Show

writing You

above the guture too." The wolf per the doctiment lords

e attired in a riding-habit, frotted ་་་་་

Belda where old through the peasant women bent over their work. She seem, to have come

Having rond it be paid he could over

and tuch a

have

n

Taru

a cropper now.

he tom up the paper and ole than a month after these attacks.

Some my, the table the hure. nids, that bother to tear on the paper - fore he ate the hare.

Signs of Purge

in

were

At the beginning of May, less

Surov and Virta, along with two even lesser-known nuthors,

expelled from the Writers' Union fand hence from the practice of their profession) for "amorul

entling of a Soviet

Regretted

report on the "alarming** fnet criticism.

o Title

mud anti-social acts incompatible really...

with the writer."

In

a petit-bourgeois outlook and has done and is still doing a grent deal for our literature and the same great

once the struggle for peace," But, of witty sketches adds the report, respect for

popular schenko, the

who life of Soviet

"sharply condemned,"

pore criticism. Nor are the critics He is immune from criticism-In the

OWN

The falmikid is in a good pod-

now becoming apparent It is

80 Was great writer and social worker" tion to test the relevaney of this

not brutally handied by Zhandov, ought not to shield him fron story, for the author, Mr Wall- that these expulsions were

once more shevsky, used in with his wry isolated examples of a puritanical found his behaviour little fables about the insolence regard for morals, but the pre-

a general accused of having "concealed same report the Writers' Union of offietatdom week by week in minury skirmish in

criticise its against the Jack of his real attitude" to the Central

Hoes on the Russian press until

they wan

"ideological clarity" of

Soviet

Committee's decrees оп

Hicrn-

journal, Novy. Mir! came to

sudden slop about

There seems little doubt that ture in 1940-this in June, 1854. two years ago. He reappeared authors in general. At the end

of May Pravda turneti upon What seems to have aroused the wind is beginning to be March to explain why the Vera Panova, best known

the neck of the the party's anger in these new cold down hare distrusis the promises of Britain, perhaps, as author of a novels and plays is that their writer. A second Writers' Con- The wolf. Since then he has monumentally dull novel called

authors have by Implication gress is now being prepared for The Factory." She has now

autumn. "Soviet praised the early revolutionaries the

writers The first sign that the Com- published a novel called "Seasons an idealists but condemned their making

are

ready for their munist party might be preparing of the Year." Pravda detected

All-Union successors as men indifferent to second

Congress, "in historical rome new purge of authors in it a reprehensible nostalgia den

ideals and corrupted by power, remarks Pravda, came abnost immediately after for the past,

The mere thought that power days, permicated by the pathus Malishevsky's fable. Early in

tasks itself (and not "survivals of of the new and grandiose April the party and Ifterary

bourgeois mentality" in a parti- put forward by the Communist eidar individual)

can possibly party." At the last one, twenty corruption enrages So years ago. the doctrine of So- cause

was formulated viet Culture. In Russia, It clalist Realism was

now being refurbished Wrote on June 5, the very word end is

been sent.

»Rayer's « TONIC

BAYER

Bayers TONIC

WATER

Significant

"When the heroes of the novel are described at the beginning of their life course, coinciding with the first years of Soviet power, we meet with living traits of character. As soon modern life and the present day be-

of haviour

these herous 15 they immediately Approached repine and fade

The author seems to have set herself the task of indicating how "things are in life" without giving any evaluation of it, "She has gone the way of naturalism." Pravda's criticism is of parti- cular interest because it sets out to deal with earlier reviews of the same book in which other crities had praised . Izvestin had gushingly declared that "the very title, Seasons of the Year, seems to suggest to the reader: I shall conduct

heroes my

AMERICA COLUMN

from NEWELL ROGERS

Babies At

3 a.m.

N staid, sleepy Boston, Vincent

1*29-year-old

Through what is most natural, Guinta was arrested while

IS PRECIOUS through what inevitably happens

USE IT

WISELY

to us all, through the course of pushing a pram through the the seasons, through spring, summer,

and

jer allfarbe

and nuttim

DESIGNS

Consult

and brought up to dumonds of

"Socialist Realism

of

the writer a just and histori- cally concrete reflection

its revolutionary reality development. Such ↑ depiction

should reality be organically bound up with the tasks of educating the working people in the spirit of socialism."

of

Writers may thus expect to be buckled still more Armly to their tasks, not less. The motto.

of the second congress may

prove to be:

Zhdanov is dead;

long Ilve Zhdanovism.

Cummings

FRANC

APPEASER

EDEN

'H' BOMB

'À BOMB

NEUTRAL NEHRU

INCARINY

"IF ONLY I COULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT

OF SWITZERLAND INSTEAD..."

London Express, Service

SWEDISH

EW melodies of recent

mil.

room has

Born on a Saturday that's why

They Call Him Kwame

THE

By LOUISE

REID

London, daughter aces no. hardship in

former Peggy getting up at five in the morn- Cripps, wife of Joseph ing.

Appiah from Kumasi, Out in Kumasi she will have on the Gold Coast, brought her husband's sisters-alx of their coffee-coloured baby them-to counsel her in emer- boy, 11 weeks old, out on to gney. She is not worried either about bringing up Kwame in the sun-splashed lawn to the vastly different climate of the Gold Coast. "After all, ho is hall African and therefore shn half acclimatised already." points out.

the

| have his picture taken.

In the background rese mellow front of Frith Hill, Cots wolds home of Lady Cripps and the late Se Stafford.

But once there he will not be allowed to forget that he is half- Appiah. Jon to hia wife, English, teo. His will be bilin-. brushed the baby's hair up on gual from the stort, learnmg both aidce in the hope of making Twi, the Ashanti language, from 1 curl. Perry fiddled the baby's his father, and English from tota, and we all three clucked both

He will play

parents,

in the hope of making him with carved wooden toys (es-

Both hopes wer smile. appointed.

baby Tavishing all the same.

The

WORRIED? NO

dia- pecially a rocking horse) made Joaked by local craftsmen and English

cuddly loys made by his mother. He will wear

English shorts and shirts at school, and, tho African kempi cioth (like the one his father was married in) on ceremonial occasions.

la Octuber the Applabs are

First the stato Education? going out to the Gold Coast to Eet up house. The baby will ther. Junior school. "Then," saya Joe, "we should like him to go to be christened in the Methodist

my

old school, Mfanisipim. Church at Kumasi, wearing otherwise known as Richmond Lady Cripps's christening robe College. This is a public boarding and a gold ring with heart after school on the lines of Eton and the Athanti custom.

HE LAUGHED

Harrow. We hope he will win a scholarship, but if he doesn't we He is to have a formidable shall pay fees. My great-unclo Biring of names, all from his left money especially for this father's side-Kwame Anthony

purpose. Jon Kusi. Alroma - Ampim elaborated: "Kwame, because he was born on Saturday; Anthony, after my great-uncle, who war head of tho family; Altroma- Ampim straight over all obstacles, after

who ancestor Ashanti general; Kusi, after my

We call him Kwame." father.

an

the crow meaning crow Niez

Was

an

"After

wilt

Mantsipim ho most likely go to the Gold Coast University. Then, perhaps another

It will university, depend what he wants to do. At 11 weeks Kwamo weighs It's early to talk. I should say 13b, and gains nine to 11oz. Cambridge for science, or Dur- week. Much too much recording ham for theology, or Harvard

to the

baby books, but his

mother isn't worried, because it for philosophy, and, I suppose," is all arm fresh, not an ounce of he added with a laugh, "St. Cyr flabby fat. She bought baby for military science. But, if he books before he was born. but

since.

has not opened them

is my son he can't get out of Instead she locks to her family polides." for advice.

SLEEPS THROUGH

Her sister, Lady Ricketts, Cotswold

and neighbour

frequent visitor,

A

Д

A

And then Peggy laughed and protested: "Do give him

Joo chance. darling?" And laughed

Even littlo again. Kwame emilod at last.

It is not intended that he shali Both the

hús thren bo an only child. children. Her brother John and Appiahs

belleve in fair-sized

his wife have six children. families, and Peggy believes in When in doubt Peggy

Kwamo... is 2

rings looking after her children her-

them up. She has few doubts aclf. She has no nurse. We hope because

model to have four children, God baby. "He sleeps right through willing," they both say from tea at night until five in the

Sir Stafford's morning."

RHAPSODY

By Gerard Bourke

expanso

been decorated for

το stem

to

What of the colour bar?

Says Joe: "There is no colour bar on the Gold Coast. The only thing

that counts with our

in

WO

people is character," Saya Peggy: "There is a colour bar as we all know, but have never come up cuminst it, although many of our friends have. People who don't

approve of our marriage "Orpheus and his attendente Joo is accepted everywhere. He keep out of our way. Otherwise,

the fine

group

his atniucs,

graces the foreground of the Stockholm concert

the

doos

THE ANGELS

streets at 3 am. and shout- Pravda'a retort is ing: "Come and get your are not cereals, and so to conduct babies." The "babies" were them through spring, summer, bottles of wine which Vin-

years have remained

hall Like gets on wonderfully with shop- autumn, winter explains cent, feeling happy, wanted so popular for so long nothing of itself."

to share with anyone he Ins "Swedish Rhapsody", because it captured the country, "I wanted to sing the his Finnish counterpart, Waine keepers, In London as a mere under housewife, I used to feel tright- could wake.

still played everywhere to excitement of the festive praise of the Swedish charac- Aaltonen, he has also

ter." he. wrote, "and the taken the Herculean task of fuky jealous of his success in

"a the delight of lovers of jazz night

the shops." on which bonfires

beauty of Swedish nature at sculpture in granite, typifying EWIS HARMON and his wife or the deepest classics. along the island shores burn Midsummer, writing hymn of country whose foundations rest

Charlotte, operators of a

against the reddened mid- joy in the Idealising. language on granite. Connecticut summer theatre,

In a flash it became inter- night dusk. For in Sweden's of music. I set to work as in a Meanwhile Stockholm have fled charges with the national, carrying along the

dream."

not forget its historicnī. past. Actors Equity Association against

And the annual festival week 22-year-old John

The Appiahs favourile story Barrymore whirl and gaiety of Swed- northern-most parts, the sun

In Stockholm during the sum- never sets for several days

visitors showa

A carefully concerns one of Joe's shopping Jun., accusing him of "conduct ish folk-dancing on

constant at midsummer; it remains to mer months, there is

guarded theatrical tradition of unbecoming an actor."

summer night. They said he was late for

slant its rays on the revel. Parade of launches and yachts which any country might be expeditions. He was walling in of every size and kind, going proud. Much of it dates from queue in Finchley Road with rehearsal, refused to take stage And the gaily dressed lers as they dance to nc- either

to the stawards directions, confused other actors

reign of King Gustav III, African friend when a little eat their

"Theatre King, who of and said: "Oh, Mummy, do

English

girl came up to them by changing his lines, and parties arriving in yachts cordion and violin among the varied scenery of the

birch archipelago, Inland to

or

look glittering

the ganised elaborate masques and at these two beautiful angels. Insulted Mrs Harmon,

or launches to dance by alender

of Lake Malarin, ballots at Drottningholm Palace Mummy, do calm the lakeside,

studded with granite islands on on

tako or on plat trees.

Lake Malarin, but fell a

the angels CTRESS Sarah Churchill got forms erected among the

which slender ar trees miracul- victim to an assassin's bullet at home to tea." And Mummy was a ducking at Grand Lake, rushes, are a reminder of Inside the dwellings, every

ously

thrive. Most families a masked ball in the Royal quite willing, but the angels, to a light sailing Colorado, when

вото

Thatro in 1793. Even ma their regret, couldn't spare the boat overturned- and It was the 83-year-old

composer midsummer night with sprave treat among the islands, how death has its place in theatrical time. her own fault. "Silly of me," who so perfectly captured from the silver birch, an ever small, and there they history, since Verdi used the

good 30-year-old Sarah apologised to the summer fragrance of ancient custom to bring dance the hours away. For in tragedy as the basis of bis opera her dripping crow.

fortune. the Swedish

the short northern summer only "A Masked Ball." light dictates the time; winter side.

During the

afternoon, soon

returns and its almost PATROLMAN

familles gather early to hurry constant darkness gives ample with a reputation of giving Until recently, the name through the meadows to the time for sleep.

ΠΟΤΟ traffle summonses

perhaps to the other polleeman in of Hugo Alfven was little lakeside-or than any

barn. from known outside Sweden. But village

For as Hugo Chicago was

Alfven romarks:

barn Thic duty" after he arrested Superior at home he was unquestion- might, indeed, have been built lives so that they can enjoy their Furioso", in the unique 18th referred to in public.

Finns, the Swedes plan their Handel's opera, Ceunt Judags Samuel Epstein and ably their senior composer for summer night dancing: the his wife for wrongful parking,

wonderful lake vistas. They are century baroque theatre at- Muller alleges that the judge having written five sym- door is even, and pleasantly the more fortunate; they have teched to Drottningholm Palace. Since his great uncle's rocénti held his arms while Mrs Epstein phonies, as well as choral and cool air is wafted in through not known war for many years. Original sets and stage machin- death, Joe has been hand of the bit him with her handbag. The instrumental music.

upen doors. For those

inperfoot order family. His first job, back in Judgo in turn alleges, that Muller

the ardent leaps of folk dancing plans to improve living stand oryboth have ured, the hay loft

with imagination ill-were used, and the music Kumar, will be to clear up his ards, bullding

Jans were dressed in correct family busiricon affairs, and Strangely enough the provides a pleasant haven".

'to practical celled,

rococo costumes. It proved that appoint somebody to, aduthlater TUIE Hoover Commission, iry-work which has brought him.

Handel operas, often considered the ostuto. He will then be from Stockholm, fine modern ing to cut down the burden auch fame-and large royal.

buildings often rise dramatically too static for modern audiences, to go ned deep into policis from granite peaks to pear out may yet be staged tinder such what any country geodal most,

have one chance in 678,000 of under the spell of the In-pent the nimmer

Often in his youth, Alfven from behind the firs Blocks of ideal conditions, dat

ve shall try to make a far- flats, similar in design, will each numeratild... Islands around

evening face a slightly different direc- Whether at sophisticated festi- over: being referred to again.

playing. the violin

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

ART DEPARTMENT specialists in publicity

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aft his wife first.

THE

Jack Muller,

"excused

country.

..

of Governmerit form-filing in ties-was composed over Industry, has discovered that fifty years ago. He wrote it many form, once completed,

HA A DISNEY'S

WALT

adventure,

fim,

Vanghing. Fradrio,"

whom

Own

Like

their neighbours the

"I think that's; a wonderful mory" mys Peggy. "Obviously the illis l'had seen a mid- sionary book with pictures of African

You know tha

sort of 2018

This summer, I saw

a most

"And that," saya Joe, "Is the accomplished performance of

"Orlando only imo my colour has been

bility to much, and every two

for wit, come back to

for such tion, or be coloured in some Yal performances or tearsmes den like Cotawold garder Stockholm, to which he folk dancing, for he had the matching tort. Individuality is midsummer dancing, the sweder the Pasty WDHON

Hong Irivariably show toire of their first too precious to be lost. true-life always hurried to escape the

pid rombine onal @airy' at: his command, exten

(Just as Hugo Alfver has music, with Ahrough miniskirted Swedia folk munte und natural Buy only now

#displayed it: abroad; so the seed comb

The bustle of the city.

banned in New York State un- Senar Every truths oul. Witwo-minute

"Midsummer

PINCELEMELOW CHOWING wie birer or called this, the second of hi

Swedish