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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1956.

GUESS WHO BUNGLED THESE SNAPS

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DOUGLAS

JAY, MP

took this plc- ture, It was ineant to be of his two sons waiting in the tlinghy, Result; Mrs. Jay looms large intend

QU'D

pretty

think that as Ind as the rest of us when

Some people who are used he gets behind a camera

tum 31 Taky a good picture. heing

in the But 201 of them are camera's eye would ne know a thing or two alarst pictures. You'd think that

To get an aletal verdiet [

the

10 pictures showed

Mr

celebrity, photographed John Walker, director of one of Landon largest photographie

Mr pressing Brm. Iwa 30-strong

staff

แ

dozens of times a

year,

would learn a

about the

trick or business.

But

you'd be wrong.

Walker's have been Fortseing up to 32,000 holiday

For a man

who Maps day has to return an Interminable out-of-focus anand procession

Muns th Dads, absconding 7249814

headless wond

Kirl intend to the chemist shop of ከ ቴ” discovered

15 singularly photographed Cebray is just the corner.

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well-known propie Ar vechiletren

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Is a very fine artist-but a poor holiday snopper. However, in this une the camera was at

lault, too..

Jovial character

LARRY ADLÉR

snapt his three children in Paris. He noted his bungling In the family album. Peter. with head hidden by horse.. Carole, with averted face Wandy, with blurred right

arry.

ROY BOULTING

film producer, prides himself on being " good photo- grapher.

But

of this family shot he says: "Shocking composition. Mr. B's chin appears to ret on fan Car- michael's head. And that dog'a tell. And where did that loot (extreme right) come from?"

DESPITE HIS RISE, HIS IS NOT THE S HEAD THAT MAKES DECISIONS,:STATES LES ARMOUR

Shepilov was censured by the Central Committee of the Party; but it appears. that the Commitice had its own doubts obout who was right and who was wrong For Shepilov dur- vived and, indeed,

was elected to the Supreme Soviet a year later.

Even Stalin, I seems, was un- able to deal with

this young

man, who so sincerely belleved Marx and Lenin that, 10

in

HOW LONG CAN SHEPILOV STAY

WHY, THEY'RE BY PEOPLE WHO D

OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER

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Wilh The brisk detachment was

camily doctor who knows dinghy in that human frailty is here to were

*Juk Taken by

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the Coronation Review enumerated Thats of the pictures

rejebrities

Fuzzy

by

MOYNIHAN

Weariness

The faintest suspicion of weariness came into his volec us we stood over a picture being coy-looking girl printed and come into being in the solution. She wi! standing under the

"Lots of stuff we get seems handly worth printing," said Mr Walker, as he showed me round his by West End basement, "We just have to tell ourselves that everything—even a feature Jess stretch ot sand-means' fcature the blame for

"areworks"mething to somebody." the which his two sons ("probably a pin-hole in the watching the Spithead bellows," says Mr Walker).

"The notoriously Impatient MOBB went une Film producer ROY BOULT. STIRLING

better than tho common ING gets bid marks for BAD

DOUBLE EXPOSURE and If POSITIONING.

jon achieved uctor

TREBLE expozure. Carmichael had been sitting the with

film-prices us they are, other side of Mrs Boulting and says Mr Walker, forgetting to her three sons, and the poodle wind the spool is not so com- had been facing the other way, mon tuult as it used to he.

would have earned this strap Her fuzzy Eiffel Tower and Doyless

friend are typical of high marks from Mr Walker, The most common failing. "Yet

LARRY ADLER As foulied you'd b surprised," said Mr

A fraction Walker, al the people who send back a blurred of a second might have made print and accuse to of moving the difference to his Parts

A during development.""

snap of his family-with-horse. of the faults, BERYL GREY was guilty of This Is jurt one BAÐ FOCUSSING in a shot of too, of the effort by Royal Academy "Man of the Year" SPEAR. But the DOUGLAS JAY, MP, has the RUSKIN

In his smap which camera, not Some fault

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AT THE TOP?

IMITRI SHEPILOV #quidate him, would have been stepped abrutly into like spitting on Lenin's tomb.

In 1953, he moved up to the his Central Committee himself and the pages of

became editor of Pravda,

one day in 1947--a

Pravda, with its circulation of

character straight from the more than 5,000,000, is self a

pages of George Orwell.

power

in the land. Its editor ls, In fact, the official spokesman One day, no one-except of the Party. his relatives, a few close friends, and a man Alexandrov could have toldi

40

Pravdo's appearance did not called change under te editor. It

carried

very little real “neu But 113 honesty did appear

There were more facia improve. well-known you who he was.

articles-les The next day he was running in the long, dull Agitprop.

the

Department of blatant propaganda.

Shoplov the puriten had sp- Agitation and Propaganda

He had been, apparently, in parently not changed at all

for some time. Agit- Agitprop

not long ofier- prop was run by Alexandrov, a and Shepilov was on the way up professional philosopher with a again. mind like a scorchlight,

"Cines I've never been to The Riviera but i know it like the back of my hand," said Mr Walker.

1

**All over the world people use the came old backgrounds, The Statue of Liberly, the Nelson Column, Notre Dene, St Peter's."

know

Alexandrov, in fact, was ni- He under- together too bright.

who stood or those

claim-the workings Irim

Bociety and the Communist philosophy of dialectic But the amalcur photo-ialism the way mathematicians understood the multiplication celebrity or not, re- grapher. mains remarkablý unnbashed table. by his lack of skill, judgment, patience and imagination.

I Warn You-Look Out

For

A

The New Magnani

Compared with her Brando is like a normal all-American college boy

#

By THOMAS

The magnificent Magnani,

"The

ARROGANCE

Stalin died

He had long been in favour of an ideological purge, and he

was not happy about the

mater pointment

of Malenkov

Malenko, Stalin's successor. Shoplov felt,

was not bright. enough and was not interested 0 enough to make really basic actually changce.

And to him, It was all rather glorious joke,

When he wasn't directing agitation

and

It was Shepilov, as editor of Pro Pravda, who swung into Malen- devoted

kov's consumer goods policy. massive Malenkov, he believed, was tak- orgies in his magnificent country ing the easy way villa outside Moscow.

paganda, he allegedly himself

etaging

to

to personal the power-promising

people more bread and circuses at the of iho country'a im- expense Shepilov intrigued himm mensely. Shepilov was not only economic progress and its world brilliantho also believed In responsibilities.

That was the beginning of the what he was doing.

end

When Bul- for Malenkov. Shepilov really thought that

the gabin and Krushchev took over, Communism would bring millenium the great day of the Shepilov was immediately taken of rehl the thy circle brotherhood of man. He believed Into

being power,

is, of course, a sharp con- slowed by Stalin's deviations from the instructions of Marx trast to the 480 cart-wheeling, earthy, sharpshooters at the top. His obvious sincerity contraste

that the proctos

and

WDS

Lenin: but

tit even that not shake his faith.

He

Shepilov was just the man for sharply with Krushchev'e glee- the agitation and

ful cunning But he was just the propagandin busincethe thoroughly.

in man for the job one rung below doctrinated zealot who was up- the top of the ladder.

off When the bosses hustled parently oblivious to the rea! Eusiness of his masters,

to Peking to sell the new line, Alexandrov

of they took him with them-and Molotov, the Foreign Minister, behind.

her fure.

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of

I

i

The strange

thing

prop's new line

sounded sincere,

05

be-

into...

nonsense about World War II about Agit- and admitted forthrightly "in

that was

it the years of hard wartime trials Stalin must the

the gallant British warriors have lost some sleep at some of sailors, and airmen fought to- bis now henchman's efforts. But gether with the Soviet army there was no way in which against the common dog, the

Fascist enemy." Shepilov could be attacked.

Meanwhic,

WISEMAN

"When she has respect NNA MAGNANI burst

A famous, but none the less

spoke highly Magnani price him. the funereal for somebody,

Then, of course, the in- lett upon

said Palla- disconcerting,

during the maiding of a film bs.

evitablo day came. The stories Venice festival vicini, "she will do what he " do not feel to work today." about Alexandrov's orgles looking like guerilla says. The trouble is she

Moletov gradually faded I was told by Pallavicini that came too public for the Party's

wished to good, an

and he was exiled to the background, and Shepilov leader at * fancy dress does not have respect for for a time nobody

mako a film with hor. There is Pskov as a Professer of Litera- spent most of his time planning party-or, alternatively, like many people."

always a quarrel between

ture. Shepilov was named

his foreign affairs and little at the On the eve of Pravda office an animated hand-grenade

Magnani arrived with her and her director. She will have successor.

become

Agitprop hummed from which the pin has

never Tito's visit to Moscow, Molotov a director herself. friend Gabriel to young

before but in a different hey. It is the only solution.

to shuttled away

decent *was just been removed.

Tint, a 22-year-old actor

that obscurity_ and Shepilov took For three years she had to sit Already there were signs

great changes would have

to over as Foreign Minister. who is said to be the James back and wrich all the other

come with Stalin's death, and He moved fast to clear up little notresses like Lollobrigida s

of old muddles an Oscar winner with her Dean of Italy.

Agitprop-quite innocently,

In Soviet policy. first Hollywood film,

After the showing of her and Loren go up and up while

course was busy plugging the He stopped all the propaganda oki Marxist and Leninist linca. Rose Tattoo," got a bigger film "Sister Letizia" she she had to wait and waft.

dinner with Tinti, reception than Lollobrigida had

She went Pallavicini and his wife and from the fans. through them like a tank. James Mason and his wife, scowling furiously.

but that junior eccentric,

sho think "What does

Lores?" and amazed Portland Mason, was not Lollobrigida Everybody was

asked. "It is better not to tell

At international conferences that she had come, including there. Magnani herself, Junketing In the middle of the din- you," he said. He added: "You should not misunderstand. Sho

people began to and on all public occasions, ho ordered Soviet diplomats to dis- a typical is very reasonable with poopla wakt Who is this Shoplov? play politeness and to be, at all in the sand is not her ner there was

the trusts. The trouble is that, Where did he como from?

costs, reasonable, speciality. She signs auto- Magnani incident,

No one

He saw no point in making graphs with as much relish She began to upbraid her she does not trust anybody. Sho Where had he been for the first

He always thinks they all want to 42 years of his life?

choat her." as if they were death war young friend Tinti.

seemed to know. Shepiloy did enemies needlessly. He divined, did for instance, that, there was no any longer for Russia to need any rants. She could get claus comes from Bologna and his

I askood: "Is she arrogant?" not talk. na purely "Yes,"

There have been rumours and he sald, "she is a trophobia in the middle of accent is not

She has

counter-rumours, But the truth oppose the West's disarmament

Now plans.

Russia was to be relatively simple. the Pacific, and she gives Roman as Magnani would woman of arrogance,

an seems: 10 humility at all. For

more than even with the West about ng like it to be.

artist I think this is not a bad Shepilov was born in Ashka-mo

in press interviews

everything. including: H- thing. For a woman-well, it bad, now the capital of Turke, bombs, the old objections were frequently as, say, Burgess

Both his parents were' life difkult some-menia.

nonsonac can make

and the one-time and Maclean.

her Russians and his father was times

tho

Western plans would, in fact, For

men

inner. He went to school Yet when she came out on "You have to learn to arrogance comes out of a com-

Turkemenia and, when the res work in Russia's favour... the

When she meets some Turi terraces the apeak properly," she told plex. sun

he was deter- volution camo, very 599) body now she is always whispers were that Holly him fiercely. "You must cold, but later, If she is happy. Somehow he managed it at 15. policy of making trouble for the

mined to get to Moscow.

He abandoned, in part, the old *** wood made Magnani more learn to get rid of that ter she warms up."

There he went to university, sake of making trouble. Thus he reasonable.

rible accent if you wish to "Is she often happy?"

studied law and ran student was exceedinly reasonable at the "No, not aften, partans afty Communist organisations.

recent Suez conference--reason- bo- a star-you must pay

percent of the timo. But she

In the '30s the biggest job in ing that, for Russia to scuttle attention to what I say." lices to be happy because when

The others were a little she is hopy she knows she can hand was the collectivization of the conference, would do more agriculture, and Shepilov made harm than good to her. prestige pained by this scene, but look beautiful."

himeckí an expert on agricultural in the world. after all this was Magnani

economica. He published several Meanwhile, he is whole.”. and with her there is no

books on the theory of the sub-heartedly behind the old plan of ject, becoming a minor Party liberating colonial peoples. knowing what she will do or

Bureaucrat, and, for a time, à But he has made it plain, that, say next, To be d genius

ho does not believe anyone's end "Does she think sha la professor of economics

Years of dull hack work and will be served by thy Com When Magnani was first and a woman is a formid- beautiful women?" "No, but sho

partics whipping asked to Venice she re- able combination. Italy is thinks she has great sex appeal." deep study of Marxist ideology mun'at

pt all violence, he has urged Com- well?" med not to dull him fused outright. She said, well aware of this..

like an aristocrat, He dressed

Frestead, he has team

with with splendki.arrogance, "If Now that she is becoming "Jewellery, big huge diamonds, cultivated good conversation, and muniste to

nationalist movements and make they wish to give me the an. International star the She is a very rich woman. Sho

To sil outward appearances common calise toward finding prize they can do it without rest of the world will have he jewellery worth £100,000. od manners.

1 sald "Bhe sounds fascinat he was the Russian equivalent the easiest possible way of gel- mo being there. They gave to prepare itself for a now ing. I have always admired her of the Ideal young British civil ting the "Imperialists" foul

Ha belloves that the Cota- cause will prosper, bert

tension redus

It was said with an air of disappointment, for nobody expects or wants a great eccentric to be reasonable.

REFUSAL

AFRAID

no

SEX APPEAL

“Does

meet

the dirond

Pallas

munisworld

that

with

up

me the Oscar without my personality, who, by com- enormously, I would Palde servark.

#That being in Hollywood."

Vicini,

She impossible. Sandro Pallavicini, the look like a normal all-wick When the does not want As boss of Agitprop, he did to

involved in one or two All the

a to a moment, producer of her latest film, American college boy

to do something she becomes got pleaded with her to change I offer you this introductions: sick. If she gets a bad criticism ideological scufles mainly on given his headse

10 Magnant so that you will in the newspapers she becomes account of the purity of his But his is not the head her mind but she was ada know what to expect, for thron sick with fever and pains and Marxist-Leninist? (ng) and once makes the final decisions. And mant. The matter was years ahe has not made on everything. Also if she becomes caine close to liquidation when one day when sweet (cm referred to Tennessee fallen nimi@mi is partly bow angry show geta sickupPANER they put lebed the views of longor neves de mestrerend

COLMENADE TOT nope founds to looking at me and gave af Volky, one of Stalin's he may find himesi, to, bis Willams for arbitration worthwhile lubject and partly worried miles Nisyou are her chickens Vaccord was terme surprise out in the Ho bald she should voto

apok most of the directions when you mo, abs will have, puered dock prefering on to vince with tij Zadn the Festival so she