Nastonishing actress
hit
London last
week -- huge-mouthed, cavern-throated Helenu Weigel from Germany. She arrived at the Palace Theatre with an equally ustonishing play, "Mother Courage," written by her husband Bertolt Brecht. It is a long (31⁄2-hour) and dreadful account of how war looks
through Ger- man eyes: as bleak and as bitter 08 her worst enemies could wish.
Sweden, Finland, Russia, America. She lived in Hollywood And made costumes for Charles Laughton.
She stared a new life in Berlin in 1948, helping her husband build up a startling new kind of acting company, She nanod It the Berliner Ensemble.
James Cooper's American Newspots
SATCHMO MAY TOUR RUSSIA
LOUIS "Satch bear, reset by strong, the trumpeter, how people all for $88.
says he may be allowed to TEACHERS tour Russia with his band.
His authority: the Soviet's cultural attache in Washing-
ton,
Sad "Satchmo": "It's in the bag. We'll play in as muay
ure afraid
ul
TEA lusing their jobs to TV, A!
a
44
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Passed conference they
"We maying: resolution unalterably opposed Lo 11:35 education by TV as a substitute for professional classroom trohniques.
was as they'll let us. A RODE DASSENGERS in New
of Russians came to hear us in
York's
steaming-hot subways will
Berlin Fost year, ani we're just have lo continue sweating looking forward 10 meeting out their Jouneys, Experimentai theer cats again."
TOLOSSAL, unforgettable, magfificent say the crilles of the Broadway work premiere of the 344-hour film "War and Juce
Praise La niso lavished Audrey Hepburu. And director King Vidur thinks he has turned out something to rank with that all-time Bucerse "Gone with the Wind."
TIE army retreated from the chalicnge of tubby Sergeant James Love to court martial trim ido him for failing to waistline. He said he had been lak then all chaagty wer being dropped,
"But," del the 16-state dover of goux faned, "it nukes de dif- ference. I am reignung to jen The air force "
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MERICAN stripleate
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Lill St Cyr Mood serum-
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soup, as two men battles tha La Vegas casino gallroom
Husband, Battlers: her 33-y-oldh actor Text Jordan, ami a handsome Soul African, The wed by Derek Gooimane
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air-conditioned .coaches are a flop, admits truffle boss Charles Palterson.
CLARGES by a Congressman
that tho United Sale Used a "hell ship" 10 relyin illegal immigrants
Mexico were vigorously denied by the Justice Department.
It said It could not reconcile his critetsm with another Con gressman's complamt that the two-day return trip was *μ delightful Caribbean entiæ,"
NEW YORK'S Arst helilooptor NEW N service for mall, cargo, and charter Dussongers upons on September 20. Regular passen- Ker survices Edit in November
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It becaune famous. So did ho-g Bertolt Brecht, author of 40 (most fainotts:
"The Threepenny Opera,′′) So did she his star.
plays
Then Brecht died, a few weeks ago. And still his wife set out for London, In deep mourning, but in full charge.
THE V-EFFEKT
ing the seventeenth con- DRECHT'S
great Idea?
Ho
tury wars. Troops go to D called it the V-Effekt-the her for bools,
"Ilstancing effect." guns,
Eri the liquor - she trades in the
theatre he wants the audience to keep their distance, He lot.
wants them to bo emo ionally moved.
The old hag loves war be- cause it profits her. She lives off it like a hyena. She curses whenever peace breaks out.
Well, war costs her the
Jives of two sons daughter.
Never
He said: "I do not want a play to be a bath of sentiment, I do not want them to cry, and then shrug and say: I was only a play.'
Me
what is wrong
put it right,"
wanted audiences to stay cool and critical, He said: "I want and a
them to unders, and and how to And still she Carries o11. The moral: nothing good can come out of evil except for the Top Brass.
THE EXILE
WHO is this extraordinary
Helene Weigel?
You could call her
which
So he
uses a curloin comes only half-way from floor
Lo ceiling; he does not want to cut you off from the actor's even acerc
But Brecht's
had Again
no
in between
V-Effekt theory
victory with ITIC
And
again I Was
emotionally moved. Especially
when Mother Courage SC05 her son is dead,
Courage ton. She is 66. She has to hide her grief. Sho
21
Viennese.
She was an actress in Ger- until the Nazis Fleeing them, she
many
came.
sorinus, It is a hideous, foredd baring of the teeth, She sits, and then her head falls back and her mouth cracks open
piercing wail.
in
But a silent wall. It makes no sound, it pierced the souna barrier and went right to my
brought up her children in exile. She went to heart.
CHINA MAIL EXCLUSIVE--RUSSELL SPURR'S SINKIANG REPORT
Urumchi-Hangover Of International Intrigue
U
the
among
havo
Joint
RUMCHI
has
the illusion of the American Wild The Communist story is that mud wall. Demolition squads cluding mechanics, blacksmithra,
Shih-tal Ilsen
then
walls leather and air of a gold rush West
became have now destroyed the
pattery workers, Even the influence of Hussla reactionary. He was impressed as part of a plon for rextesigning have formed town where has gone; the few Soviet experts perhaps by Soviet
co-operatives. defeats at the city,
Some 1,800 privato shops there's some doubt live unobstrusively in the vulgar itler's hands.
1942 ht The design la to bring the agreed to come under about the strike, It will new government hostel. What launched a reign of terror. Mao diverse races of this melting pot State management. The peasantry
Untons Tse-tung's
brother, rogion together. younger
The Chinesa who form percent of come, sure enough, as soon ever designs the Soviet
may have had on Sinklang have sent to establish contact
with Communist Party has made as the railway has
population, have been organised crept long
the Yenan headquarters of the large promises of equality and inte en pigeonholert. across
lesers from Embarrassment
into Chinese Communist
and into five co-operatives. Their Creeps
movement, cricolages.
to the various production has been stepped up Northwest China. But that my conversation when the "pro- was brutally murdered Revolt racial
In Sindang (l's
claimed)
by 52 percent. won't be until the begin- brought it up with sunt, hearty tribesmen in the north.
Russian period 14 mentioned:
I broke out in 1944
the it is trying hard to live up to Success is attributed not only to It was thom. The tribesmen, who had the new working conditions, but ning of 1958. Until then, Mayor Abdul Sayed, the 33- stro
also to strongly Communist
extra fertilisers and there's nothing to be done year-old boss of the municipal- By the time
Communiste o say in the city government a
before 1948, now B11 just under improved implements, but plan and prepare, and ity.
He's a
a typent Communist were ready to march in
half the seats on the Municipal Mayor Sayed summed up: first tentative exschoolteacher.
for this vital post. An years later, the warlorda the
rule Commitico. take
rest are Alled "We are still a poor and back- like so many was over. He fled to Formosa by Chinese. Special educational ward
city. We have hardly steps towards reconstruc- of his fellow revolutionaries. and died there. The commander facilities have been offered to begun the work of reconstruc tion and Socialism,
gholed for opposition to the of the KMT forces surrendered stamp out the BO percent Bion. But all of us believe. Kuomintang, he escaped after a lits 60,000 troops peacefully to literacy, Every effort is made Urunchi has a glorious future." Some of the most staty
year to join the rebellion that the Communists. Units of the to COLLX members of the
(COPYIGHT) Meps have already been taken.
had broken put in the thres People's Liberation Army enter- minorities into Industrial Hospitals and schools have been northern districts of Sinking. ed Urumchi on Sept. 27, 1949. ployment. expanded, training collegea founded, and u few new fac- torics
crected. A textile mill has been carried in
1,224-om Reign of terror
Much to do
con-
tha
five
The
em-
The Mayor was more reticent about Russia's role in Sinklang before World War II. Ha T IMITED denied there had over been any
Cost of living
Lifting the lid development
.
The
reconstruction has plexes by aring trucks all the MAYOR Sayed was glad to recl off the statistics in his shabby Dask
already expanded Urumchi's way
from
China.
A hoa office. He talked endlessly of Soviet intentions to annex the industrial proletariat from 477 in new truck repair works
"""Then" and "Now." Everyone territory. But Waco 1 and 1949 to well over 20,000. been set up as the nucleus of a
was city population has shot up from future manufactory. The wretch does in China eager to impress him that Outer Mongolia
of China visitors
he 80,000 to 220,000. wcak
Sixty por- with the improvement no longer part edly
municipal power of conditions since the revolt replied: "That is a matter ot
cont are
immigrant Chinese, plant has been replaced. Buses
national policy."
with many more Fight have been introduced and routes tion, Invariably they are rig
expected once large-scale established with other towns in years of war and civil
the railway flict brought the nation's life to Sinklang.
a fearful level. But not all the
worry now la
le the cost of suffering was the fault of the PERHAPS it's this old hang living. It's almost double the Kuomintang.
over from international in- levels of Eastern China. Wages trigue that gives Urumchi a faint are higher, but not high enough. UT so much rimains to be Bideoa. The few florid dew ly need for conditions in been closed to foreigners. Even granted be
Chiang Kai-shek could scarce- ly furtive air. For years it has The new wage reform, recently government, bufkings, the mile or 60 of Sinklang. He had scarcely ever now there is more supervision
Sinklang workor a 20 allows paved roada, tho co-operatives
street lighting do not die held sway there since his advent of movement and photographs, percent increase, compared
to power Government possed It contracts surprisingly with an average of 14 per cent in the guise the fact that Urumchi in early into the hands of an the wide now freedoms offered eastern provinces, Vogotablew still a frontier town. A huddle
rest fruit and many consumer goods of indifferent one-storey shops ambitious garrison commander, visiting fournellets in the
Haen
who joined a of Now China.
ore, porticularly doar, simply houses in an encroaching en Shlin-tai,
and The outburst of revolutionary because the city is nowhere near of desert and sundried soparatist rovolt in 1929
goized power four years later, reconstruction, at least lis self-supporting. There are few His slogans wero at first "pro- first successes, may have per
around the poorly- The atmosphere isn't
even
gressive. He openly professed sunded the authorliica
to lift kurbs: · Light india-| Chinogo. Tho sturdy friendship for the Soviet Union, the lid, The groundwork for trics are not plentiful or pro- moustachlood tribesmen striding He almost handed the whole later duvelopment
cortainly duelive enough to supply urban in Jackboola down the muddý province · over to the Russians impressive to see. Urumchi used demand. streets are more akin to Holly before World War II. For a to be called the "Three Citica" The frit tentative steps. have wood. It only needs a saloon time it became wonded off to because adjacent- Chiricwn, - Mass been taken towards Soubilam in and a couple of bowlegged cow-, everyone', but adlected Soviet chu and tribal, sections were agriculture
CORETCH.
nad
and
wasio
Fili
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with
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Tomorrow: The Master Plan For Sinklang
POCKET CARTOON |
by OSDERT LANCASTER
"Well, well, so now,we can all_eflax" and, reserve our strength for those few well- chosen words, from- Mr.
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