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DIPPING TIME

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Come shopping

with

...in Moscow

me

"by ---- SHELLEY ROHDE-

HOPPING in Moscow middle of GUM, the main store. Is an adventure-a They, sland staring at the other people buying. And at tho wearing, wearying but alightest sign of a queue they worthwhile adventure. I join i

There is nothing quite so startling 4.5 tho apeod with

wont shopping as a tourist,

It was certainly an adven- which a crowd or a queue col-

ture for me:

lecta in Moscow. If throw peo ple happen to stop at the same

And from the attitudes and expressions of the Russian moment lo look at the surnet thing, within seconds the threa

women who flowed in steady,

slately procession from coun- are thirty. ter to counter, 11 alventure for them too.

an was

Window-shopping is done from the inside. For there is nothing

Moscow's icading shops are in the least inspiring, even to

the

cily.

showpieces of

They the inquisitive Russians, about are spoken of with the same the outside displays. pride as are the Bolshoi Theatre EVERYTHING ON SALE and the skycraper university.

People go to them In the But here Improvement

they might under way. Six months ngo, sight-see at the Kremlin. The am told, shop-windows were actual business of buying is of frequently bare. An odd cheese secondary importance if it or a crumpled dress might

nally be occasionally dumped there

same way

that

matters at all.

I

All day, from nine in the for the view of passersby, morning opening to eight in Now plaster models aro used the evening closing, the people for the display of clothes, and Dock to their shops and wander food is neatly stacked. there, never hurrying, always Everything is on sale in GUM. curious.

-Each department is a little They sit for hours watching shop on its own, walled off from the sparkling fountain in the the other, but with open frontage on to the immensa main marble hall.

DID IT HAPPEN? Another story to keep you guessing. The answer will be given tomorrow...

PASTEBOARD

and

An old theatre programme and two cheaply printed

bits of card . . . recalled the tragedy of Myra Pool.

She

smiled at that, and thought that Муга was being unusually indiscreet.

WAS about to leave on him, and I fixed it all up, so coming from Myra's room. the

suburban that everybody was happy. roomy house in which I had

Myra's career, which started lived since the end of tim evening, was, to a certala the First War. The time exton, meteoric. When she had It was unlike her. A chance

that-Myra plck-up 11

had had come to deal firmly bron 12 months on the stage, with papers that, in the ups she was already playing leads. come in from the garden before

with dinner,

Forde, and had her the second Fald: "This is Mr Forde, who is downs of theatrical Before I met management, had been ac time, she had been twice to staying in the hotel. We've just cach ourselves to cumulating for 30 years. I Hollywood on fabulous contracts. introduced

She lived the usual hectic life other." She would give Myra a paused in the welter of of an actress, but she was that good scolding in the morning. destruction, puzzled by a rare thing a beautiful woman, Such things were definitely theatre programme dated who could really act. 1930. It was a play I could often wondered what the not remember. Then, from Colonel thought of it all. Happily inside the cover, two he was spared the worst, cheaply printed bits of died about five years after that Sunday night show, Myra's pasteboard fell out-Myra tragedy followed a year later. Pool. In a flash it came She was found dead in bed one

her

room, back to me. That poor kid! morning in

It had been

I

in

He

a Sunday by CHARLES

night show and I had let myself be inveigled into landing the theatre and LANDSTONE

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not much public booking in advance, we promised all the artists two seats each for their friends. And I re- member little Myra, fresh from the Academy, coming up to me very seriously and saying:

"If you please, Mr Landstone, I haven't got a visiting card. What shall I do?" I replied, olso very seriously, because it omused me: "Well, we can't let anybody in without a ourd. You must get some printed."

The first card, was handed in by a very nice, pink and white, nandsome boy, of about 18, very pick, very span-gave one the impression that for this great Occasion, it was his first time in evening talls.

-Boldly

"One seat for Miss Pool," he vsked boldly, and when I men- tioned that she had been promised two, he replied that he only wanted one.

.

*HARLES LANDSTONE is

an offstage star of the theatre. A theatrical administrator since the Tewantier, ho h now general manager of the Bristol Old Vic, and chair- man of both the London Allt Theatre Committee and the Repertory Commit- toe.

Theatrical Managers' Association. He has also writturi plays and such books as Off Stage-mu his personal record of the theatre in wartime and after. Landstone Wis born in Vienna 64 years ago and educated * the Haber- dashers School, Hampstead,

"not done."

Your fault

She was found in bed one morning, dead.

Inside each is the milling.

jostling crowd. One group may be just looking at the counters and showcases. Another Is ordering goods. The next is queueing at a cash deck to pay for their chosen articles. And more still are trying to get back to the counters to pick up their purchases,

The heat in summer is stiling

so one might think of going along to the store's champagne bar for a cool, restful' drink. But no. Here 100 Аго tho crowds, not just Muscovites but tourists from every part of

Russia, come to Toolt at the big

cily

A glass of leed champagno works out at about 158. A byttle would be 60s; But ono in a restaurant is at least £4. NO SMOKING

There is no smoking allowed in CUM-or in any other shop, store, cinema, or theatre.

Prices vary widely. I saw a

pair

of heavy, crepe-soled shoes

in a window at £12 10s., and next to them a pair of light, canvas sandals weil-made,

at £3.

Fur, so popular in Russia, is expensive 100. One of the oh- so-Russian, black-bear winter- hats costs anything from £6

10 £10.

A woman's fur coat in any-

from £700 to £800.

thing

When I say £700 I mean

about 7,000. roubles-calculating

the exchange at the tourist rate of 11.2.

the gist of the Aouble. They get 40 roubles

Then the voices were raised a little, and she heard someone a ruined my

Llay: "It's all your fault: You enough actress to carry off the would not swear to the voice, but

Life

she corroborated Maggie's story And Myra lle.

But the British Embassy us to the actual words. answered: "You always imagine

officials in Moscow have a' sub- things you shouldn't have gone With her parents dead, there

And that, In a way, cleared | sidised, rate of exchange which way that time."

This seemed were no other relatives left who

him: because

the genuine value of that

Maggie per- could say anything about Myra's overheard conversation showed the so absurd

at the time of the murderer to have been a to the £ suaded herself that that she was associations either dreaming, or had had Forde's previous visit to England. former lover, and there was not At that rate the 7,000 rouble 100 much to drink. So she

to prove fur coat would by noi̟. £700, but turned over and weat soundly and, without proving previous a shred of evidence off to sleep.

acquaintanceship, nothing could that Myra had ever met Forde £157,

before that day.

In Moscow I was frequently be fastered on Forde,

asked what I thought of However, that scrap of con-

The jury nequitted him, and shopping conditions there in versation had been hond by At the Academy, they could

about the Myra Pool case was shelved comparison with our own. And little On the other remember very

omongst the mysteries of Scot- the reception of my

tentative side of the corridor slept, or Myra as a person. Her career and Yard, Jullan Forde dis- remarks about "not quite such rather furred because the noise had been a surprise to they appeared. I don't think he ever good window displays,”. of the party would not let her they had never thought very sleep, # Mies Alness, & very highly of her talents, and Myru returned to South Africa. Quite little imagination

some years clothes," was heartening.. determined lady of 55, a Unlyer had never associated very much by chance I heard

later that he had been killed at sity lecturer.

with hor fellow students.

Dunkirk.

fashionable hotel at a Midiend

spa.

Her head had been bashed In by a heavy candlestick. There had been a supper party, until A quarter of an hour later, the early hours, in the restaur however, up marched to the box- ant followed by drinks in her cffice window, a tall, eoldierly- looking man who, handing

in the vivate sitting-room. consisted of second card, demanded two

friend.

sents for Miss Peol. 1 explained, corodia Magale Lincoln,

someone

elsc.

her She 'made

statement Independently, in the morning, ond, at the inquest, she swore to exactly the same words as had been heard by Maggie

•

Fictitious

I sat amongst my papers and thought of the tragedy of Myra Pool Idly I turned the cards Over

that

Ww.s there Forde, on his side, was able to her and noticed, for the first It was But voices are tricky things. ferret out and produce his for- pencilling on the back. In a test made between the two who remembered him quite well, read: "Please give two seats to landlady in Kensington, Myra's handwriting. The one noither ot the two

the othe Tan:

100ms,

women

was

mer

and spoke of him as a quiet, Colonel Pool," enough of sure

No one "Please give one Force's, to be able to pick it reserved youngster.

out among others. Finger marks could prove anything, but the Jullan Forde."

and were no more convincing. There ccroner was not satisfied, were dozens of them on the recorded candlestick Myra's. Maggie's, Duggie's, Forde's, the porter's, the chambermaid's.

bren

verdlet of wilful # murder against Jullan Forde.

All this happened" 20 years Ago. Although all the names I fooling have used, except my own, are

Duggio had about with the eandlestick, fietlilous, many people must which had stood upon the table remember the tremendous atir

by the in the sitting room, and the caused

case. Things other three had forcibly taken looked black against Forde, but

from him,

axit black enough. There was Maggie's evidence, in which she obstinately clung to her first bolief that the voice abo, heard was Forde's. The other woman.

Annoyed

The party Мути

Forde's her bosem

story was perfectly. the straightforward. After assisting to bed, he had gone who was a caber, Puggle very politely, that he could only eval headed young women: straight to his own room, mather have one sent, as Miss Pool had Maggie's boy friend,

annoyed with himself, he added, already sent round for the Dent,

a rich

American, at the sordid way he had spent young and

African the evening. He had known young' South a Architect, Jullan Forde, whom nothing of the tragedy until he

other.

He snapped out explosively: "I'm Colonel Pool,

...

seat to

some

Mr

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YES

NO:

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JUST around

and

about

the corner... ROUND THE CORNER from the main street you And Husala's equivalent to Loh- don's Covent Garden markot. SELLING begins at 8 a.m-but only after all wares have been inspected by Carrots RIG they gleam,

a food officer. Scrubbed

until Fruit la shiny. Meat and fish are displayed under tight glass covers, THE LANES In which the stalls.

stand are brushed as spotless as the wide streets of Central Moscow.

EACH WOMAN "wears a white ́ ́apron over her course colton skirt. Bargaining gels florea

the hours

pass--and tha prices drop.

2.5

YOU FEEL warm? Try a drink of a rich, red syrup. It's sold on ico at is. d. a glass. AND on every corner: "An Ice cream wagon. The cost of a cornet 2a. Od.

THE HERRINGS JUST

JUST DIED

her father, ey, had picked up at the hotel was awakened in the morning. and ichthyologists-the Now, the, reults are just be their lives, in the open "

There must be a inistake, Who has taken the other?"

day.

and

Amsterdam, to enclose the Zulder Zee-to And it had fewer problems to

Dalt roa IOLOGISTS,

into a vast face. The herring and,” the zoologists turn a

fresh, water, Jake,

anthovice used to live most of He swore that he had never men whose business it is to ginning to show and a major farther out. They come to thủ with Duznie rolling on the door be met Myra before that day. He unravel the mysteries of equal that may every Zuider Zee mainly to spawn.

party had ended

dreamed for animal failed to adjust to life-have stand drink, was over from South Africa for I tried to describe the boy, simply couldn't

the Those that were trapped insidia environment. now

Herdly died quickly and those side strong. and he evidently recognised him although he loved drinking a holiday. He had been

od hundreds of years of the And Moggle

England one month. Questioned,

the new inke had no way to ges who Forde, from my description.

The bearings and the in The crubs and the thrimpe according to the night porter, he volunteered the information chance to conduct the kind

ut lowly but did the opposite they went out- "Ha, that young puppy!" he were practically sober, had,' with that this was his second visit of experiment which might anchovie Soi Cid: the rp side only to spawn, Bus, still,"

Datudent,

inevitably the distance of the porter, get Ho, had been 10, rx years before, settle for once and for all snorted, and rushed away from him to his room ossd, thrown him when he was 18, six years, bon the thorny questions of on and the shrimps:

they could not adapt themselves. the window. A moment later

that Myra rushed the boy, much more plic, on the bat. Here he was found introduced Forde ger.vironment, and heredity!

ho hydro, made the But for the hydrold, the biolo

gista might be mourer:an wrİNYPONS tragedy had been discovered in She had been Myra's bosoma

friend for Ave...” years, and 'had Why ↑ and Low, do animals

changed

to their great, publjana 10 actually never heard front of any really changet

har ahald teatre's some mis- the morning.

salt water, form of life they must find out Dwenty-three

to a fresh water form of life... tako," he eliminered, you've Maggie, leaving Duzzo, went such an But, under pressure given, me one of Colonel Pool's back to her own room, which she admitted that Mira did not they got gratio, comething about The hydrad, of course, Aquat have fema

nelatively simply form at all th sents... I aubpose I shall have to was next to Myra's and, half, an always tell the truth, and. If she come to the great chance? KOWLOONave” He looked minoes like lunar long, to, har papeis run bawanted to devalve Mirande anyibing angono oculd imaginedam kolama which

abu was syrood The Danuty government deckova planë, ka pointy. crying, so, of course, I took play Ahorama) the bowd Jurus voice on this poin

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,

NONGKONG

and much more white about the

Bar suprisingly animal, tho

from a

hydroid was an exception

Hugh Farrell