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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY *1956.

DISASTER doesn't worry Miss Dillon

...She has to cope with one a week

OUND the bar of the ollerrs club striden a small figure in sailing kit of blark trousers and Out heavy black sweater.

on to the moonlit terrace it marches, to survey the prim groups of tables and chairs, finally to emerge among a mass of wires, ladders and stage machinery.

Carmen De'Lon

W. Rit director I

Als, is examining her re

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by

ANNA LANDAU)

only British

She also one

of the tosi

$10 31

to help them with Leotnleal detalls, Carmen Dillon la hey own draughtsman, an extra siring to her bow in the fight

like "The turton

world

"Henry

V." "Richard

industry, with flas

Way s the Star "

1.14

Hou e,"

"Hamtt."

II" he medit

some 1ele-

wuy

Agreeing that she as utuqués

120 There

may though WINDCH art slirectors in her makes Vikon shies through the half-burn world of

bly sets to her ce

Je, a room overlooking The Beat of Picewood studios, Carmen Dibon plus her work Hire she sketches, paints, plans

1431 blueprints

budgets, Is- undlessly

CAIREANN,

discusses,

the men

ideas and supervises Who week to her retions.

A SHRUC

sn't

Carmen Dillon That's the

uf never thinks about,"

How many" shrugs thing one she says, When she does think about 1, she finds it comes to about two hundred. Carpenters. builders, modellers, painters und plasterers, everyone involved in giving the the business

of

Blusion of reality to bare boards

and canva.

With an

emphatic rod, agrees that there probleme.

are muny But this little white- haired woman with the bright blue eyes charms her way out of them with alt a Carmen's pre and authurly.

Ernest Archer, her assistant, the door. pops his head round

"Go home and look after your cold," ne is ordered, kindly, but armly.

Carmen

Dillon'

and the

approach

marries the hearty and the arty.

the tough

happily as

Helle as she combines the mannish leather-strapped watch und the smart gold bracelet on ber wrist. That

the

1173

is why she has reached

It has be top in films. long struggle since, after train.

architect,

she started ing as In the thirties to persuade the

that dim industry could be a good art director, "They've fol over that

710W," By Ms Dillon.

HARD JOB

Physically, it

П women

is a very hard Job, she explains, as she walks over to the window, jingling the roins in her trouser

sometimes she finds time to du some washing and reading.

But there has been no time to furnish at Denham. No time to buy clothes. No time to spend the money she has been earning in her key post.

Are there any unfulfilled am- bitions? Carmen Dillon looks round at the sketches she has made of de luxe hotels for the

of Als

the new Katherine Hepburn-Bob Hope comedy, "Not for Money."

"I'd ke to produce

films,"

she says. "Not direct them--1 ilke actors socially but nol

да

for position in a man's working material, so I don't think I'd be any good at it. I much prefer the organising ske.

"You

concentrate the whole lim. You are at try- me to do beautiful architecture. You often have to do things in very bad laste reproduce an air of comfortable shabbiness or ugly streets. You must koop, your eyes open all the time.

"But I'd be quite happy to stay in the art department and And Cur- die in my trucks," men Dillon lhs her brush vigorously a saucer of paints as she starts to bring yet an- other get into being.

CARMEN DILLON—a long struggle to the top.

must "And

enjoy you Otherwise it is too much of a worry." For there are disasters every week, and if something goes wrong with a set the whole Aim is held up, as happened on the first day's shooting of "Henry V when a vast back- cloth suddenly split right across and coilupsed.

The Shakespearean Aims, Ot which she worked with designer

pocket. Roger Kurse under Sir Laurence

a beag mäde, it's no quod hothering about other things."

It means getting to ul eight, not leaving ull work half past six or later, including many week-ends. It means abroad with HLOV preparation. "We finished on 11 at four on a Mon- The next morning we flew to Greece n location for "Doctor at Sea."

Olivier, are

the peaks of Car-

mer Dillon's career, "I'd sweep floorx for Sir Laurence

oor marvellous director," she says with another emphatic thrust of

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DEPT. GENERAL ELECTION

APPETITE FOR POWER

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GETTING-NAME -THE-PRESS

DEPT.

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PROVIDING SCARVES

FOR PICTONS

Cummings

WHAT MAKES AN M.P. TICK? An anatomical study by CUMMINGS

Moscow Hungry

For Forbidden Fruit....

T

~By HUGH LUNGHI

had

day. The most

popular

the

im-

10me

IE exhibition of and Pravda reported that

more French art from the several thousands 15th to the 20th cen- first

visited it by the end of the tury, which opened at the exhibits were impressive Pushkin Museum pressionista. of Fine Arts last November,

During the Revolution was one of the most signi- very fine collections of their

were fleant art occasions in the works

expropriated Bolsheviks. For history of Moscow

as the the

years the Soviet people, and Soviet capital. The exhibi- indeed the whole world, have tion took up as many as 14 of the spacfous galleries, but what made it particularly memorable

by

many

been denied access to them by the Communist Party bon

on

western art. ail except classical and "reallat"

Priceless modern

was that some works of art were kept stored of the finest examples in away in museums, and it is the world

since of the

Western visitors French only nineteenth century.

have been pressing to see them that they have been allowed to emerge from their obscurity,

VOICES RAISED

Impressionist painters formed the most important section There жете paintings by Manet, Degas, Renoir, Gauguin and Cezanne, and more modern French works, Including Pleas- so's. There were also sculptures by Rodin, who has in the past been criticised AA

Im- pressionist by the Soviet pun- clits

on

Two thousand people attended opening of "the exhibition,

the

Guns bark where Jesus taught 'Love thy neighbour'

FEAR SEA

B

sun,

ON

THE

REIGNS OF GALILEE

By ROBERT PITMAN

at his

Y the Sea of Galilee everything was peaceful. Fresh green waters sparkled in the morning

Curi-hormed sheep The shepherd lapped grazed on the eastern shore, men gun. "Very necessary,"

Bul, as my car jolted its way he muttered. along the shore road, the sheep huddled and the shepherd got to his feel. from his shoulder was a sten Kun.

a

brought the future to the Holy Land. Pylons strido across the hills. Everywhere factories are surging upwards.

This exhibition was collected

afield from

far

as the Leningrad Hermitage and Ere- van jo

Klev, Armenia, from Sorator and from museums Sa near Moscow. Before the war, there was museum of Western

bu art in Moscow, closed in 1941 and has not been reopened since. So the DD

was

pularity of the exhibition can partly be attributed to the at- traction of forbidden fruit.

But there is also a genuine partiality among Soviet artists, especially young ones, for "non- realist" art, the natural reaction to "Socialist realism,” and thir centres around the French - pressionists.

I remember only a few years ago In the Soviet Union being bold by a group of art students from the Caucasus how they had unofficially established amongst themselves a little school of painting which looked

on the

French Impressionists 05 ita masters. Recently voices have been raised in Soviet publica- tlons, admittedly only the most rerious enes with a limited cir- culation, for the recognition of the Impressionist

school on the Jerusalem road, in Soviet art. the valley where Samson wooed Strangely enough, the appeal Delilah,

great concrete- came not from the painters, but

from From all making industry has risen in actor and producer, and fram Alexei Dikly, a famous

Einger

Too much to lose? Was born in 1937. over Europe, from persecution, from prosperous comfort, Jews came to work there.

It has history too.

When the

few months.

And in military strength--in planes, in automatic weapons and above all, in trefning and skill-Israel is paramount. Yet does that mean that Israel now may take the chance to launch war herself?

of it.

حلا

an old and not so well-knowin cuthor called Paustovsky.

A CONCESSION

to

Moanwhile, tar away in the

halla glittering

of UNO. Hanging loosely different discussion was begin desolate,

In 1937 the place was Now it has its own ning. Stem resolu ions were

workshops, Its own small being prepared. Was Israel in harbour, its own cannery. Why such

Should a weapon in the the wrong?

she be fields by Galilee? In explana- rebuked for her sharp, punitive

There is no question

it is hardly surprising that lon he pointed upwards to the jab that Sunday into the foot- Arab States marched on lei There

are Jews who sty: "We Soviet painters were loth

A smali towering red-brown hills be- hills beyond Galliee-when 70 hind us. They were the hills Syrions

memory of to were killed

or cap fortress. And where, 1,900 years

Alexandria in a fortnight."ession before, a tured?

their fallen the men of Eingev But they too are hotly opposed

made by the authorities at the herd of pigs belonging to

concrele to the notion of a preventive beginning of 1984, when a few

Wendern modern

works had been exhibited in Moscow. But this exhibition was insignificant and badly shown.

Soviet

to

the

ruas.

In committee, borders Grdarenes stampeded sen. Now they are the hills being debated, incidents where Israel's border

being added up. Villages Just above us on the But whot of the ridge

already

Syrian whose territory.

were

CONTROVERSY OVER

MACKENZIE KING

By JAMES COOPER

homes

borders?

aro

in 1948, Eingey held out like a could push the Egyptians back at the ball rolling.

had trulced boen

1 havo bullt

in

great hall by

the water's hall where Menuhin

were concent were edge-~~-

has played.

people

on

the

In

Broom To Rifle

WENT along the cost to

Why, then, should the Jews

of Israel put all these things

Jeopardy

a by

violent

trouble in more stir up ancient hills for the people of Eingev?

the

Wi

An Arms Deal

was

artists probably ́ ́re- zarded the event as just another gesture in the new Soviet policy not of conocssions to the West. After ill, they could hardly forget the uncompromisla attacles

action? Why should they once WHAT, then, explains the rald

on Syria, If it caused by an excess of bouncing confidence?

Something quite differant,

Israeli officials have claimed

Einger, a settlement whose that the Syrian Army had been unheard of in Israel

firing on

19 fishing vessels. low, white buildings cluster on the shore

that sufficient reason for such flowering among

a large-scale raid? shrubs and eucalyptus irees

Entirely suficient, the fisher- settlement,

of another Thore I met Ilana, a girl of men

floors 20, scrubbing

the Gennelsar, told me. settlement's schoolhouse. She

was on national service. After training with the army sho

a rifle ot a strong

Strange Contrasts

Bince fear In

made

on Western art and especially on the French Impressionists. For 1946. was caused

by exa

example, the latest issue of the

Soviet Large

Encyclopaedia 1948 Larcel, only a few cations

states that categorically hours old as a State, took on pressionis:n" 19 "undoubtedly all the Arab countries together hostile Do the principles of and beat the lot. The atmo Socialist realism," and calls on of that triumph has "Soviet society and the society ingered ever since.

of democratic countries" to con Now Nasser's arms deal with duct "a decisive struggle against On September 4, 1914, King Toronto

Russia has swept this warm

af mm. ONTROVERSY has then a prominent figure in the had chosen to work at Eingey.

atmosphere awty.

Surrounded the recidivist tendency

pressionism in art." although Canadian Liberal Party,

the broken out in political not

How does the army training IN

Biblo Gennelsar is by 50,000,000 enemies Israel—— M.P.. wrote

However, the recent exhibi Intter to help? In on emergency, she called Gennasarct A little only 1,600,000 strong herself tion in Moscow teems to mark circles in Canada following Willem Jemmings Bryan, US. quits mops and brooms, and way along the shore fa a feld sees them

become well-armed slight relaxation of the a remarkable revelation in Secretary of State in President takes up 011

where the Disciples once fod enemies too..

official antipathy towards Wes point. a book published in Toronto Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet,

the multitude with loaves and That is why they reacted so

tern art. It is algnificant that nahes. And a little way above sharply when "The Age of Mackenzie Bryan was the leading Ex-

Nasser, recently I mot Dorit, a little giri In juts the stony knoll where the brought Syris into the defence halov, Minister of Culture, and it was opened by Nikolai Mik- King."

ponent of strict American blue jeans, aged five.

She Sermon on neutrality in the war which had took me to the children's house preached,

tho Mount was pact. That is why Israel, the

a righ-ranking member of the troken out between the British where she plays and sleepa,

where men Arst most up-and-coming state in Central Committee of the Com- Empire and Germany.

heard that we should love our the Middle East, is now for any munist Party. The verandah was brightly enemies and do good to those great power in the West in ally

But with toys.

despitefully use uà. who to thousands of pounds, and not so that she can be near herud sensallcoat light an the crucial importance to Ban reach it we stepped over

In Genncisar I spoke to two The Jews of Eingey 'asked merely it Bair for colour and work. On her occasional week- uitude of Mackenzie King that the US should favour her trench.

of men. In Europe one had been me: "What use have Egypt and "For defence, form, Whereas many other end off duty she stays with her the outbreak of the 1914-18 cmuse. Mackunzie King wrote to

A talior, the other a lawyer, the Arab States been to you? course," explained Jacob, her Now they designers employ draughtsmen sister In Kensington. And

strongthen Bryan's will to father.

Gallico were both

"yet you ure thinking of neutrality.

ashermen

giving

them the Negev, That about their work, they said.

was nothing

casual

ir desert which we are making an onais for the world. It was an industry.

What would the Egyptians do For five winters on end the with a lot of snd? They have both in his own paintings and

enough already, which they in his teachings.

It means having a good bust ness herd for a nudget that runs

THREE

ارم خور

her hond, For her work "Hamlet": she received an Oscar-which lives somewhere at home in a litle pink bug.

London-barn, and with never

a trace of Tralee in her voice despite her Irish parentage, Carmen his adat at Deaham,

SILENT

惠惠

Largest Morning

Ölroulation.

-

The book, drawing Its formation troen Molal and private papers, throws Q new

war.

SALESMEN

At a moment when it was of littered

to

hand Then Dorit caught my He said that strict neutrality and took me down 70-concrete was the best dovice by which steps to the children's shelter. the US. could save the cause of I asked if she had ever urod

In world offers a t Panther its own diplo

muitle ends."

Thom

for the, asking.

into

¿

"She was there last night,"

Jacob.

"The Syrians

Syrians had kept them trom the warmer waters on the east have left untouched since of Galilee.

Their lights for night fshing had been smashed by machine

Pharaoha,"

He went beyond that, cant said sought to justify the disapproval were firing from the hills,”

which the American Adislots-

tration was showing to longs

J. P. Margon

made by American bankers like

and Company

to belligerents like France,

Much To Lose

Mackenzie King went on to THEN I followed Jacob to his

own house, His shelves, that by Angue other acts which may serve books on art, on music

noted, were packed light with

discouringlag

prolong the European conflict,"

the U.S. would be advancing "the whole bools of civilisation."

"

Success,"

the

+

TO IMPRESS

Also among the Soviet om. ints at the opening was Alexan- der Gerasimov, the President of the Arts Academy, who has In the past been a strong ad-, vocate "Socialist realma"!

A few years ago he mid that there would never be an ex- hibition of Cezanne in Moscow as long as, he lived, "The only good thing about the Impres siomiste," said Gerasimov, was their use of light and colou and he did not retract his words at the opening of the ehibition.

guna Then, lost November. More Firing... The

"began using bliger Syrians guns too,

Now, after

that Sunday's WILL Israel's new yearning bed-though Eure for patrons be satised? It is being Bred on-the shooting on depends on the State Depart the lake itself has ceased. But ment, on the Foreign Office, on will that rald be repeated. tho devious choals at Lako

Of course, the Soviet intell Outside, the hills rodder elsewhere?

guntsin know well enough" Cortainly the Jews are proud

Moanwhile, on

of the borders

the main resada who ✅ the At that time France was the down at us. We drank coffee their hard-won staturo Calilso there are more

hibition was put box was to im=" and he talked about the Israeli power in the Middle Eart

moet thrusting, go-ahead coly European country borrow

dredlate worries,

pro foreign visitora. Pravila's 's It was duck when I left report of the opening make In Israel Miere

the Belda: they that clear out with xta

from the sugar berast which the Boviet Union She always displayed towarde But the boars wore only are

only one French culture,

But the Boylet

and

carpe.

This

BOW

In the "ourmet---glowered.

the

Finger. in

Berthürü was good reason "for" strange confiskwaters from the were. lighting fires to keep the familier lúð ábout:tiam terdak·Â£== '!

boots

dig money. Loons to Britain raid.

laterkeszte

King who t. But I would have preferred A few becute Lerder of the Canada things to have stayed as they modern streets of Tel-Avly, wild Liberal Party in 1919, and lived were before.

wild-eyed Jackals may hop drop fo, it becomer Primb Minisbor "He pointed to mall

pink

[scross the road in the beam med At the gales en armed Enroughout 1939-45

dress hanging by the door. your headlights. In the hills near this case for On Sunday

Falleg blicy of children: wood night the. Nasareth I saw a boy with his metry: waved us on! And two | Indeed the whol

were

going to have a goatherd who was piping on a hours after we left little Doris only 10035 mm which would have party, dak Batangrooden flute, fed by a mochan-and the other children were Soviet-Goverme gravely damaged. Britain's cause instead we had mortar, ical prayer shone among the already trooping down id: their compelles,

The Art of Machangia King" thell, from the Arabszywe crops Pins Pippad

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