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Russia Through Japanese Eyes
MALENKOV REGIME MORE POPULAR
HE lenders of Russia
have always claim- ed that Communism
is the one and only
By DR
SHIGEYOSHI
way of life for the peoples MATSUMAE,
of the world. The main aim of the Malenkov regime's policy is to prove that con- tention by equalling or, possible, surpassing standard of living of Western Democracies,
if the the
member of a Japanese Parliamentary mitaion which recently visited Russia and China.
Russia is little more than of that of the Until this attempt fails 50 percent
and that there is, in my view, little United States risk of
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still
ROYALTY'S WORTH
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TO FILM MEN
By MILTON SHULMAN...
T
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the Duchess of Kent,
occasion.
of
VERYONE hus seen Now it is not only to the film the pictures. The industry that the patronage of the Royal Family has consider- Queen smiling bene- able monetary value. The volently at some film actress theatre too is very conscious of trying to balance gracefully the worth of a visit from the in an unaccustomed curtsey. Queen or Princess Margaret or
At this time of the year such photographs are the Whenever a theatre manager learns that royally a expected, outward sign of the Royal there is no false modesty about Family's official interest in keeping the Information out the world of entertainment. the papers. The lobby soon has In the first fortnight of its quota of photographers and the November the Queen will reporters ready to record
does. attend both the Royal Film The theatre, of course,
in advance Performance and the Royal not always know
who is likely to turn up. Blx Variety Show.
or eight scata may merely have of been booked in the name Buckingham Palace or Clarence House. A Bond Street theatrical agency keeps seats available for just such a request.
who 13 If It is the Queen going to attend, managers aro likely to receive some prior Usually the criticism has notice because of the security been directed at the choice of arrangements involved. the aim the Queen has to see. And, looking back over past Relections, the Queen deserves overy sympathy for the burden she has had to bear.
since
Unfortunately,
its in ception after the war, hardly a year has gone by without the Royal Film Performance Anding itself wallowing in the centre of some loud and undignified controversy.
Squabbling
WITH the exception of "Scott
of
But visits by Princess Mar- garet or the Queen Mother may have been booked in the name of a personal friend. Then the manager is left to guess as to who will arrive. Hints over the telephone a very Important will in the party"--
be usually is clue enough.
The Queen's attendance at
startling
person
theatre can have a
C
The
а
for
of the Antarctle." royal Alms effect un box-office receipts. have achieved remarkable When she went to seq standard of worthy mediocrity, Young Elizabeth"-a good play- Sometimes-as in the case
that was doing far from house- Mario Lanta in "Becaus: You're full businessIt provided Mine" the choice could only be justifled by a psychiatrist,
On November 10 the Queen will be shown "Beau Brummell" this year's selection and it seems hardly likely to do much to brighton a dismal record,
Now the competition to
Dim producers of presenting
The truth is that scientists and three days for the air currents technicians have been In the to bring it from Siberia past,
indird
ae, Japan, Now, did you explode a hampered by the limitations put hydrogen bomb on April 97 upon them by the polišicians
experiment
10
with
fald
at
en-
for the the royal
among chenen
Bim
aomewhat resembles the squab.
flip that kept it running many extra months.
Even the most casual visits tho by Princess Margaret or
Kent can Bend Duchess of takings up by £200 a week.
A
Stimulated
PLAY like "Angels in Love"
-which
coolly re-
wis
bling of hungry lions over the fattest Christian. and to h
The Uree scholars looked new methods for fear of the cach other in utter confusion. Undoubtedly they are all after ceived by the crilics-finds its stimulated an box-office returns the decided honour such
taken consequences of failure.
After a long silence, one of thera
someone has their film. It because gives hesitantly: "The
accolade Soviet We were not permitted to see people do not conduct such crud
would be nice to think that Princess Margaret to see it. the Moscow University Research
was the sole cause of the keen rivalry. Institute, but I had a few words experiments which might
danger the lives of innocent
anouter But there is, alas, with Professor Sokolov, the chief people." It was an entirely un-
be that cannot consideration physiclat, who admitted
left out of account. It has been estimated that a royal-fim can put an extra. £50,000 into the pockets of its producers.
that
were studying the basic convincing performance, principles of atomic power.
said to him "You realise that if a third world war is waged with alomic power It will mean of mankind?
ist considerably What is your opinion of this, us
a scientist?"
He looked about to say some
<lireet aggression technical skill in the latter the extermination by Russia. So long as their country plans for economic improve- greater. ment
the forward, go
In the factories which I thing, but finally mumbled that country's rulers will con- visited, noted that while it was a very delicate question tinue to believe that the
60 percent of the ma- upon which he could not state world can ultimately be won to their ideological beliefs chinery and 65 percent of an opinion just then." by force of example rather the machine tools were of than by force of arms.
Soviet manufacture, and 25 percent from Czecho
the remaining
the
tools
or
and testing
Hydrogen Bomb
I
Many Chinese
DO not think that Malenkov's campaign to improve the standard of living means
any
curtailment of the Soviet Armed Forces. The military are evidence everywhere, and I and my colleagues were particularly atruck by the number of Chinese Army officers and
whom cadets Moscow.
we
Saw
in
Still peddled
HIS means,
of course, that
Thundreds of thourites of
For again the public demon→ atrates as little discrimination- where royalty is concerned- about the theatre as it does about Alms. If Princess Mar- garet has been to see it that is good enough for it.
But, in private, the Princess and has some fairly blunt critical opinions about plays she has seen. And some manage- ments would be less enthusins. tic about advertising the fact that she had seen their plays if
they could hear what she really thought of them.
people go to see a film merely
A public following like sheep because the Queen has seen it. Their decision has nothing to do the visits of royalty can do tho with the Queen's choice or the theatre no good. Plays should Queen's taste.
be judged on their merits and of audience Queen rarely not by the rank Although the
about in the stalls. in comments
public the alms she has been shown,
of who knows what torments ennul she may have suffered before the merciful fade-out?
sho Yet bored or baffled as
have been by some
these ims
дго
Over-eager
The presence of those Chinese The "cold war," Moscow. slovakia,
request to visit the Moscow anti-colonialist 10-15 percent of vital pre- MY Academy of Sciences was, soldiers in Moscow was still in sponsored,
granted however
and I was my mind as we arrived in Red rebellions and
carefully cision
of TT is, indeed, heartening that guided industrial agitation apparatus, without which surprised by the great size and China, flying for a whole hour
may In at least 250 miles across the
the could factory
not efficiency of this Institute.
atili them, around Hankow, Western
BO many members bearing
Pro genuinely throughout the
the Royal Family operate, were stamped the middle of a discussion with flooded area world are, of course, com-
a geologist, B metallurgist and where the much-vaunted flood peddled about
when interested in the films and the works with the name-plates of
(begun too laurel wreath of royalty a physicist who was engaged in protection
they merit only, the commercial stage. But over-eager publicity plementary to this policy in
late in the season to be effec- American the study of cosmic rays I
to under- German
men can do much crest of Wardour Street. five) have all been swept away. as much as they hinder or
Arms.
muddenly sald bluntly:
Since the Queen has nothing mine the undoubted value royal retard economic develop-
to do with the choice of films patronage can have on the arts, ment in the countries of the
that
Perhaps this warning is par are going to be exploited her name,
of ticularly topical at this time, for rival bloc.
the best available soon there will be another royal' honouring
where they taste for which Shaftesbury films-no matter come from -- is particularly Avenue will have to cater. heavy on the selectors. So far When and where will Prince sco his first panto- they have singularly failed to Charles
mime? carry out this obligation,
Coincidence
"The radioactive ashes which Last year when I visited this the people were still fell on Japan this year were of country, two kinds. One was white In rejoicing at the end of foreign colour, contained calcium of domination and boasting their the I have recently had
lime as its main constituent and now-found autonomy, Patriotic opportunity of looking at
which and public building. PUSSIAN engineer with whom had a very high Geiger count of slogans plastered every village
up to 20,000; the other, developments in the couni spoke assured me that this fell on the western Japanese tries of Western Europe, in
This year there was a differ- was purely
province of Niigata, was black- the U.S.S.R. and Red China that Soviet factories were per- ish in colour, had a Geiger count ence. Everywhere were slogans with an engineer's eyes and fectly capable of turning out of only 140 and contained glorifying Russia. I feel that it
But entirely different elernents. apparatus. have tried to arrive at some such
detracted definite conclusions as to from the value of these asser- This fell
delicate
a coincidence and
their embarrassment
the strength and potential tions.
of the East as compared with the West.
Life Easier
it
would be rash
In the extreme to bank on any upsurgo of the on April 12 and Titoism in Red China in would take approximately foreseeable future.
In
the onus
TRULY FORMIDABLE TRIAL "One Lump-or Two?"
more FOR
THERE is no doubt that the present regime is more The popular than Stalin's. raising of workers"
wnges
and the overall lowering of commodity prices has done much to ease Ilfo for the òr-1 dinary Soviet citizen.
DETERMINED GENTS
By LES ARMOUR
thus;
AST week 280 deter- M. Tissot states their case After downing 34 wines and Deveral brandies, it may fairly who know how to be doubled as to whether any-
who
in a Brussels hotel to fight noisseurs 25.00
Other minor concessions the latest round in the battle appreciate their food and wine
are dying out. We are become 25.00 have been received with an to put a stop to "the de- ing gourmands gluttons
the cadence of the culinary cat for the sake of eating," 35.00 enthusiasm which is 10.50 best possible proof of the arts."
And ho Insist that his 10.50 discontent which formerly
occasional displays of marathon eating are "absolutely neces- sary to stem the lide.
one is really in a condition to appreclate anything.
Nor is it probable that eight massive courses can be con- sumed by anyone with genuine enjoyment.
SIMPLER FARE:
lurked beneath the surface. Led by a gourmet of mis- 5.00 But the standard of living sionary fervour and limit
cannot yet even be compared less moral conviction called 4.00 & 5.00 with Western Europe, es- Joseph Tissot, they launch-
∙1.00:
ed into a truly formidable pecially with Sweden. 4.50
trial without fluching.. the cave. 10.00 Soviet construction -ma-
Every man of them downed, chinery is excellent and
eight courses and tossed down 24.00 their metallurgical industry 84 kinds of wine and reveral human body gifted with a true lish low, followed by a stout 15.00 has reached a very high sorts of brandy s
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