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* DON IDDON'S DIARY

THE CHINA_MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1955.

No American Will Ask Krusch To Drop In

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New York, Tuesday The pressure groups who have

You'll like it,' I am thoroughly HE world's most been insisting that the President enjoying my stay here. It's my I must and will run again have first trip to Hollywood and 1 been sbanred jesto temporary want to come again. If I and I

can't leave here i wouldn't be- ore lo S come a U.8. citizen, though. I Some are urging that wouldn't do that. the President wait as late

The Republicaus muddle.

discussed inao the United States, sience. with the exception of President Eisenhower. I now undoubtedly Nikita Kruschev.

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"They

have been utterly June or July before announcing charming and generous to

political plans, although here. I have this bungalow this could wreck their chunces the hotel grounds (£20 a day) Americans are in the in the election. And others, and I have enjoyed the work.""

Guinness is probably our big- peculiar state of being re- such as Senator William Know- polled by

the boisterous land, want a Presidential deel gest name in the United States sion by the end of January. at the present time, Guinness is Rusalan, the smiling Stalin, I flew back from Los Angeles good for Hollywood. but they are also fascinated, to New York

a little over Art a Kruschov hos become the six hours in a DC-7 and a strong leading cover-man, perpetually fallwind. Workmen were putting Love," and I said: "Forgive me (211 the front

with up dozens of silvered Christmas for sayings, but this was not "Kruschevisma,” and analysed trees along Wilshire Boulevard the great Guinness as we know every other day on the editorial I left Hollywood-- --

-my second you.' pages.

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visit withlu a fortnight-and

He talked about one of his "To Parla With recent ilms,

"I should never have done it.

replied.

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The Kruschey-Bulgonin tour thought they looked rather in- It was a great mistake," Gum-

And and Burma in sudly congruous against the pain trees ness acknowledged here as £13 out-utad

hit with the Axumn sinuding and a major

the clothes, Tel-back Anglo-Americans and the West.

"I saw it na with Christinas shoppers sensitive story and Alm about

summer sports the relationship between

On the defensive

dressed

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father and son, but it didn't come off."

The Aim elly has just decided

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" £3,000,000 renovation drive it plans coloured pave

vn the boulevarils und there will be bronze ploques of nim stars in the concrete squares, the coloured searchlights for cross- and whit searchlights sier toads,

attached to street lunips

F Sir Anthony Eden und ailing President canoot something spectacular soon, then

OUT

side will be consideral

be on the defensive,

One of the last people I saw in Hollywod was Alec Gulzmess

never st him before

I

Familiar look

Despite the slange mesaneristni of Kruschov, there is no kell- hood of his being asked to li US. and nothing would pleas the Americens

Fiore Britain

that krisanced

The

WAS willing m the bar and the scheduled vill of Bulganin and Kruschev to Tamil fund been

Beverly Hills Hotel when a Cheeled

youngish. bulding an who Many people here would like looked very familiar even in the to see Sir Anthony Eden move dim light ordered in Gibson in up the date of his visit to Prasi- bone-dis Martin with any mis dent Eisenhower. Six weeks in 11 instead of an ollve ar lemons Jong, long time.

The country is now in a stule of bewilderment since the doctors

that the President

announcement

Glowing_memory

HE took the criticism well and then switched from the Gibson to buttle of beer.

We talked about money ph

Guloness all "Im no business man and shalt prsbably end up in the gutter

We said our goodbyes and then he left, a small, shy man walking in scuffed suede shoes towards his bungalow.

Ethel Merman, who has been The len Town doing a TV show, is still glowing about the Royal Variety Performance in

she met Landon when

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret.

She says: "The Royal Family light up like aw of Christ- un the mas free.

So many

dinimond taras you'd think they'd come out of crackerjack Inoxes.

"How beautiful the Royal Family are. Much more so than their photographs. I talked with vach. Princess Margaret has all my 'Anniu Get Your Gun records, the Queen loves the lyges of "There's No Business Like Show Business,

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ordered a Scutch rocks, which is Scotch whisky an cubes of ver. After a bit the mun said that he wanted to get a title of Cutty Sark for

his

has shown “signs of fatigue."

For weeks now there have been innumerable photographs of the bangalos and was having dim.. smiling.

ft-looking President, culty

on his farm at Gettysburg, walk-

Guinness seemed rather gly

ing in the woods, waying from and possibly a ittle lonely. He his cur, peering at his cattle, e completing "The Swon," with and i køked as it Mr Eisen- Grace Kelly ax his co-star, hower had not only decided to He told

run again but was already run- wood a tot

ning.

"I like Holly- "When I got home I wanted

Two of my friends to hush my diamonds down the said: 'You'll hale I' Others sald: drain after looking at theirs."

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WHAT IS THE MAGIC

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OF. ORSON WELLES?

By LES ARMOUR

actually reads the His friends report that they change from time to time,

too.

The point is that Welles uses his magic for a purpose.

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RSON Welles lists weighty, volumes of philosophy ordered bis newspapers acro recreate Herman Melville's

himself in

America Who's into the best hotels.

Dever to mention "Moby Dick" on the stage-and Who

Welics again. 25. among Welles

he planned to do this with only

set which one stage

Included other things, a pre- books.

Welles has always been at but a few ropes and a small stidigitator. Prestidigitator

war with the acquisitive society platform. His second great film. "The means sleight-of-hand artist,

He did it. A startled audience Magileent Ambersons," was a found itself eringing in its seats gentle, but deeply a magician. And that neatly

penetrating as Welles did battle with the describes Orson Welles.

satire on The rise of industrial deadly whale. His flm "Citizen Kane" was capitalism and the destruction of ininules the theatre seemed al- Orson Welles can make

probably the hardest hitting and the American aristocracy.

most to disappear, and the roar- you believe anything. In most bitter social Commentary

Ing sea closed in. 1938 he had Americans ever screened. If depicted

Welles saw Ahab's long, bit- tex do with fer search panicking in the streets. He man whose blind acquisitiveness ness hus nothing

and his final battle slowly ate away his soul, dy politics, Ho seen mens as" nomé- 4 the death with the killer made a radio version of

though he had been dipped into thing bigger than a statiŝlle. He Whale as man's search for and HG. Wells' The War of a slow-acting acid.

sees him as a creature capable bottle against the principle of the Worlds" just a little too real.

Seven years before that, when he was 18, he turned up ot Dublin's Gale Theatre and an- nounced that he was ij actor

of long experience, An ex- professional sword-swallower, and a genius.

They believed him, Or, nt lenst, they gave him a big part.

One Memory

고

TN the end he was almost re- duced to a shuffling robot who could not even take any plea aure in his possessions. Almost, but not quite, Kane lill had one vivid memory-the memory of the day when, As a small boy, he had been playing in the snow outside his mother's battered boarding house.

Welles' war with acquisitive-

creating his

the universe

and he erupts every attempt down to earth.

own universe- evil in the universo. Melville's of imagination-- mad, angry sea captain almost volennically at became a saint under Welles'

to bring man spell.

Welles' magie is just his ability to bring the world of im- agination to life. his ability to turn the Imaginary into the real and to make the humdrum world most of us take to be the "real world" look like sham,

His Element

PUT it was perhaps an unneces

sarity dimeult way to make the point, And there were mo- ments when the magic evapor- ated, and the audience was left in the lo, Kane never comes looking at a small wooden plat- to life. The story, told with form and a few ropes-and see- Beshbacks of his life is the story ing that they

newsreel and ropes. to crack Now Welles

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That was the day the man

ond a magazine come from Chicago to tell him editor who la trying

millionaire.

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were just wood

has taken to

the

redeeming

There are those who think that Welles' magle is little more than old fashioned sleight-of- hand. But there is more to than that. For one thing. Welles his mother's abandoned nine the secret which animated Kane, television, is too clever at ordinary sleight-

was rich with gold-and to take All he can and is a robot-and critics think that Oreon Welles

and many of of-hand (give him a deck of him away to learn to be

the reason is simple. The only is almost the only cards and he can do anything

life in him la hla one with it short of turning it into

lost spot in Britain's new commor- Kane was

dream; and never allowed

that spark 4 pumpkin) to be taken in by

clal TV. the hand that is quicker than play in the snow again, and be small that it cludes the searcher. died vainly trying to recapture

It is often the creative the memory.

im agination itself which completely Furthermore, that doesn't ex- There were those who sald absorbs Welles, to the dismay of

the discomfort thousands that Kane was the late William his audiences. This summer he Sometimes lof bell-boys have suffered Randolph Hearst. Hearst ap- arrived in London with on In- with the over-plump carrying Welles' hundreda of perently thought so himself. He credible project: he planned to Mister Welles.

his eye.

plain

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The Good Ancestor Never

is so

Dies

-He's Simply Taxed Away

BY WALTER SCHWARZ

HAT makes a good obscure Unitarian potter called three generations), of Mr E. M.

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Hea in his element on the tiny screen. He sits and talks about his travels, about himself. about his days as a bullfighter. Sometimes ha shows. Alms. the viewer fs left face of

But the magic comes peross perfectly,

No doubt he will not long be content to use TV. at its sim- plest. Welles, the great experl- menter, will emerge again soon.

It will probably hit him hard. Aroncially, as his experimental' "Othello" did in the movies few years ago. But money has never mattered much to Orson Welles,

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sneers at "fuke box cul- insists on doing things his own way.

Nothing dismaya_him: Ho.. cannot be deflated. He invented himself, and nothing can destroy:

on. his private world of imagina

He sometimes has moments of "

Three Wives

Sir George had nine children; the brothers Julian and Aldous friend opposite of my noble | supremely confident as always

ho died in 1000.' Between then "Huxley,

Wood, was the founder of our political and cultural lives gloom. But they are moments successful one in our his modern pottery. His great are run in secret by one vast, of gloom about other people's tory was Sir George Villiers, grandson was Charles Darwin, ubiquitous, nepotistic clan, a genial, russet - haired Among his 20th-century des-

follles. "My lords..." cendants are the economist, the ville (a Villiers-descended Lord Elizabethan squire who late. Lord Keynes, the composer, President of the Council) when his wife died, married De Ralph Vaughan Williams, and it in the Upper House a century out her pretty lady-in-waiting. the historian, Miss C. V. Wedz-

og, am obliged to

to admit that From Sir George and his, wood..

I have I Relations on this side of TWO unsuccessful attempts at wiyes are descended the There is no end to the by- the House, relations ол the marriage-marriage to Vir- "ways of genealogicat prowess cross-benches, relations on the ginia Nicholson and Rita Hay- Queen, Sir Winston Chur- explored by Mr Bloomfield. For opposite alde, of the House, and worth didn't, discourage him. chill, Sir Anthony Eden example: from Dr Arnold, the I actually had the unparalleled.

he suddenly married This your (by an Illegitimate link), famous headmaster of Rugby, misfortune to have had no few Paola Mork, the beguilful

who was the poot Matthew and Bertrand Russell.

er than three in the protection- Counters

Girtaico

·ស Arnold's father, are descended, fat administration

His first two marriages Mr Bloomfield draws some parently disturbed his wives weighty conclusions from his more than they did him Rita the two Buckinghams, notorious

uncommon familles." They re- | Hayworth announced that she royal favourites of the Stuarts;» Now the Huxleyi' cousin, present,

be holds, a aupreme simply couldn't live with the older and younger Pilt and Janet Penrose Ward, is married national asset.

" genlus. Wellba private dream Fox, the rovells! Henry Field to historian George Macaulay Good breeding is not enough; world was too much for her. Ing. Marlborough-the victor of Travelyan who (with his king Inborn ability neods Careful How did Welles get like this? Blenheim the factory-reformer Lord

Shaftesbury Foreign Woman Rose Macaulay, the nurture, Every knowledgeable Probably his parents explain novelist); is descended from`racezoor will agree. In fact, It. His father was in Virginian Minister Carllereagh and Prime Zachary Macaulay, father of the each of the uncommon people aristocrat Ministers Melbourne and Bal historian and statesman, Lord in Me Bloomfield's book has en- manufacturer

turned Inventor

prosperous, four and Macaulay. The Trevelyans son Joyed the nurture of large, brilliant, and civilised

Bir George is not alone, Mr and daughter are worth watch prosperous familly

mother was a track rifle shot,.. Paul Bloomfield, in a book on frig it seems.

19 that large and prosperous turn in prison for her chuck, and soms of the others as well it has clambered over the forbid fetallic common) (przhalune, an accomplished planink who 1. There was, " for instance, an ding "family, trees of Chancellor common are being taxed away, numbered: Ravel and Stravinsky

KABR Bullar (two headmasters Apth-century, George Villar among her close friends for * Preplé, D1.- Posit of Harrow; two Governors, two would, thinkytwice, about that A. They believed rhagamata

and now his progeny, included

Uncommon People, 1.éxamines By the time - Mr. Bloomfield is what worrids Mr Bloomfield a suffragelle, who once did

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