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The two worlds of Arthur Miller...

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HE man who married a legend-- and did not lose his identity, his or his temper sat with me in the empty auditorium of the Comedy Theatre talking about his Or, if you like, wife....and his work. about Heaven and Hell. For his wife is Marilyn Monroe and his work is writing plays.

Any port of writing is hell for the writer,

Bir Arthur Miller's plays are alo hell for the authorwe. They deal 424- Bantly with the murkjer aspects of life, Incest, mosexuality, witch-hunting, madness arul des. pair, sulode---Brooklyn,

was

What we talked about string in the

stalla darkened often sheer fantasy by contrast,

The world of Brooklyn and the world of Marilys.

by

The two worlds

THOMAS WISEMAN

Merlyn..

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1956.

and Brooklyn.

and from what I have seen of the Bim I'd say It's the best thing Marilyn has ever done,"

the

EXCUSE ME, IS THIS AMERICA?

-asked the Bogus Baron, the captured German pilot who nearly got away with a top-secret Hurricane

by Kenneth Allsop

ORE than 80 RAF particularly about British Inter-

Μ'

men winkled them selves out of Cer- man prison camps and made the long walk homo to Britain in the last war. Not one Luftwaffe man- ΠΟΥ Indeed any German

POWs →→→ escaped from

Britain.

But one got close to free- dom; a jockey-sized Mes

pilot named Werru, ahot

ut

Battle Werra

rogation methods.

This is a fascinating section of An exciting book"--the description of the wiles of the jigsaw experts who assembled from crappy details extracted prisoners into war - policy, Physical prossure was bevor used. Results were obtained by devaluing the prisoner's morale, Arst by rigid cold non-fraternal- sation, Icaving him to fester in loneliness and unhappiness, then by sdful, devious questioning ranging from gossip to remorse less grilling.

Top-secret

Von Werra almost got it glittering

away prizo the

FRANZ

VON

WERRA

AUNT

roundy dubious claima

the lead the compare and the reduciry to

Achieve a distinction unique Amang Germans whe Britain » schönern of str

Were

and

In autumn 1941 oo patrol over

jumped ball into Mexico thence home.

the North Sea he dropped to his death--occident

latest top-secret Hurricano.

In a musical comedy uniform, pretending to be a Coastal Com mand Dutch pilot, he bam- boozled persuaded an RAF statiun to bogus bar

Was there a play to be writsorschmitt ten by him, I asked, about his Franz von experiences Airce he married down near Maidstone in the Marilyn? A biting satire on the

Von of Britain. a low-life view fim-world,

high life?

was a swaggering with "No."

the said, "1 can't see mixture of bravery and "In America," suld Miler, that there's the material in that braggadoclo, a phoney little "That scene wasn't even com-

for me. I don't know much

but also-likable, cockerel by the reviewers, about the high life, 1 Live 1 sald "Your life has changed mented on

you know and Intelligent and audaciously recently. Is there not a danger Here it's part of the reason the pretty unply.

Chamberlain won't allow that's how we'll go on

resolute. that you

will becomt Put of Lord

the play to be performed in a from raw material?"

theatre. No, I wouldn't "No," he said, "I don't think public

to I will keep like

tako JE out. that will happen.

dramatically. in touch with life."

#ectasy

LE I*11 don't know come to the first night, only If I can stand at the back Marilyn will come...

Somehow

Austere

He

his long not with

irk dancing over the row of seats In front of him, the cigarette Там sports spilling down! jacket and on to the carpet. He 15 a man who authority

umassed

has others Amnes wealth: the face is austere, the smille seems to be impeded by of the jaw, the the structure

are vely. Intelligent, the eyes brow is intellectual, the hair- line is receding.

I suid: "How will you keep Holly- in touch with fie in wood? Would you call that

He?"

*We

wood," live

felt

Marilyn there she belongs in long ka

Marilyn

"Tel me about Marilyn," i said, "Do you approve of aut this adulation she gets?"

He

ace.

An 'ace'

acted

"due

to

the

a posse of detectives, pilot's carelessness." The little lly good pilot, but he did

send a car to pick him up. wheeled

through the auspicion matially

was not an

servloe to his country. He of the duty officer, and was ap- had already delivered his care- prehended at the controls of the fully documented knowledge of wad 0 line-shooter. On Hurricane about to take off. the enemy.

Transferred the flimsy ground of an ances-

to Canada, von This is the first escape story Jast successfully

from "the other side." The He said: "There has always for's meaningless Swiss title he Werra

baron. E

On escaped by leaping from a mov- called himself been this sort of thing. If you fictional

authors found the only surviving of claime

combat ing train. He crossed the frozen typescript of von Werra's own show someone on the screen 30

he was classified an River St Lawrence and naked a

IL account of his experiences. times bigger than ilfe, it's bound triumphs

He lusted

ls this for publicity motorist "Excuse me, wouldn't Lelong

becnuse And

was never published Marilyn's to happen

and ussiduously

the America?"

the Germans 19

thought it Loo funtory: she

case well, she's

Warm

Ho

Il WDS. swashbuckling fighter-type.

White sheltered by pro-British. Ruritania, which

person

people, and woo loves

the German Embassy in tram ride from Brooklyn.

The authors found it too pro I think the publie senses that, kopt a pet on cub and wore a

the red jerkin

He got on magazine York, he was quarrelled over at

Werra to be dependable playing The sechea the was

"Sure, some of it

Wash- is unfor covers and was tagged "the Rea diplomatic level. When

highly coloured versions of the that moment at Pinewood

untically. tunate and

Like

seemed about to hand facts. The Devil, Terror of the British Air Ington

story Studios with

Laurence Atting people Sir

categorial. Force." Into

him back to the British, he

constructed from research and Olivier in evening cloak as ú Making me in ali situations

Interviews, a fine plece of de- Grand Duke and her in frilled behave like the intellectual, and 80

Lalled reporting of an adventure dress as a chorus girl was more

making her behave how Marilyn he

that might casily have been lost her metier,

Monroe is expected to behave.

at

Best

thing

Was there any truth, I asked shant live in Holly Miller, in the stories that there he said.

shall had been furious rows between We

Marilyn and Olivier and Con- house in In my

only he had to will necticut. Marilyn

in every 18 modhary months or so which will take ber about 12 weeka"

ma

D

whe

"And the other 15 months" "She will tx my wife. That's

full-time job."

New play

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as

inter

a very

Bored

In a backhanded sort of way

he proved to be for when eventually cacapod trou Canada he took back to Ger- mony a mint

of Information

New

• THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY, Bu Kendal Burt and James LEUEUT Colline with Michael Joseph, 10, 253 pages.

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In the rubble of war,

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ARCHITECTS" GLASS

By KENNETH CULLEY

purposes

THE GENERAL PLANS A CASH COUP

PARIS NEWSLETTER FROM SAM WHITE

HIS month

Alfred

Supreme

Paris of

a "pep" General resembles an

what

to no

speaker at

ersiloss xories of Gruenther, salesmen's conventions.

In 1955 for example he gave Commander his standard

"off the record!! of the NATO forces in briefing complete with dazzling carti indexed joker Europe for the past three diagrams,

from Lenin years, retires from his post and for peroration anti-religious than 7,000 people cord= and goes back to the United quotationa States,

Journalists. prising visiting politician

་་ Back to what? Back American businessmen,

This 57-year-old part-Irigh Catholic perhaps to a government post that his old friend part-German Roenark

American will leave behind him President Eisenhower may many affectionate memories for offer him?

his warm

"That," says Gruenther zest bluntly, "would not be the ough

would

ari

indorynnlig sind, his .

and enthusiam. Oddly Field-marahal Mont-

purpose of the exercise" pomery, who has often sald be retire when Gruenther And the

purpose of the did, still shows no signs of doing 0.3 will continue and he exercise,

Gruenther 80 says

deputy to the Dew supstine with equal frankness, le

commander. to assure the financial well being of himself, his wife, his two army sons and his nine grandchildren,

THE

MATCHMAKING

engagement

This

"Like the night we went to The Brecht plays. see those papers suld Marilyn was bored that und

I had to

her explain to what it was

about because I understood German and Brecht, "Well," he said, "thai shows The truth she was

very in you how there strange ideas get rested and I don't speak Ger- around. Why would I act as in- mun and she'd been talking to

part of

a lot of people about Brecht in termediary? That's all

sanousced and knew placing us in categories and the New York

what it

week of two of the be was about.

Noll field the window to ace through, or idea that Marilyn wouldn't

In the factory, it will be used for such

as drying

He cannot do this on a US children of the Count of Paris able to talk to

but Sir Laurence,

"People who don't know

Middle East,

uni- tumbler to drink from, are far

removed.

represents something of a defeat Now glass is widely yarns and paints, and it is army general's retired pay the I would. About

well. are constantly telling the world FOWA,

versity laboratory in used in the fields of science and

heat the salary which goes with for Queen Frederica of Greșća asked any

visaralised as the central On the stage, where his new I'll tell you.

how different we are. Well, on

In her role as matchmaker, research industry n India, a scientific

* variety of e- ing medium of the future for government post. play.

View From "A

and Princeka the surface

Prince Henri It might seein the actor here at this moment he's the surf

at familiar guises, while it is still hopes nectricity is conducted plains, by obtaining as so many King and Queen of Greece da he

and offices.

He can only do it, he tell you

Pakistan hutch marria of opposites, I don't station in Bridge." was being reheure, probably

Helene have been guests of the iwo mien were involved in

for something Par Brook

ur mind being described as an any of these places and popular, of course, for decorative

and utilitariom purposes in the by a metallic skin bonded into other US, generals have done, nordid tussle: the okter man other. For making him walk to tellectual though I'm not sure

the surface of a glass plate. It an executive post with a major the Mediteranean cruises they Anthony Quayle- the left Instead of played by

the right what is meant by the word and their counterparts all over home.

have organleed for European Wherever you may be, it is

This is is claimed that there is virtual- US, business firm having

and Central European Royalty other's The actor always pinioned the

Marilyn is of course not an in- the world, you are bound to

procisely what he intends to do. for the past two years. arms to his side, kissed him knows better.

tellectual. But we are similar in find equipment made by the certain that examples of modern ly no loss of heat.

glass craftsmanship are not for

Gruenther leaves Paris at a

Heart's brutally on the mouth. Directed

"And if you had some idiot many ways. We're both honest, "glass" architects.",

Despite this, Prince wway.

symbolic moment. The old aum

Princem. Mario Theres fiancee, by the brilliant

listening to that actor arguing for example....and.... and many.

tho with talented

Brook, Peter

Peter Brook,

would It

And there I as row and painful sound

a hell of a row. similarity ends. like

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ocene was a sore throat,

From DONALD EDGAR

"If you

he thinks

L

10-

think

the

Yes, the "architects" of glass.

Lof

For the days when the functions

plans were

limited to

Tangier sees a new struggle for power

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wore.

The

The moufacture of glassware is a skilled art, and will always

the

of the craftsman, despite four felt in some quarters of the double-edged effect of automa-

been

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armies to hold the Russians dent on the hands and senses or creating massive European of Wurtemberg, was not a quest any of the cruises, nor was given up Princess Helene's flance, tbe the West has and the role allotted to the Count de lämbourg-Stirum, ya European ground forces now 19 Prince Henri la a political the much more modest one of science student at Paris Univer- acting as a "trip wire" to amity and Princess Marie Therese, who despite her name is more possible Russian advance.

French

than

German, - hád planned a carcer as a United Nations interpreter,

But it is in the delds of medicine and research that gloss has made impressive contribu- tons in recent years in the [dorm of special boot-resisting them.

The Second World Wor

NOT AFRAID brought about an enormous in- cree In the production. of The man who puite out his

plac scientific glassware, and out from cheeks to blow molten

Bymmetrical a perfectly vesset is not afraid that a ma-

the world's factories went 0 myriad of items, including radar

WELL PREPARED

tubes, penicilin disks and pre- shine is waiting to take Over SIGNIFICANTLY

品

cision bore tubing for the barrels his job. And he is fairly con- of hypodermic syringes.

Adent that, should his young Today, the industry is playing www join him beside the white ite part in the drive against hot furnaces, his future will niso poliomyelitis. The vaccine used be secure.

Fare

world.

enough, Her family is linked with the Gruenther successor is R Bonapartes and the marriage U.S. air force general, General represents in a way the union Nonstad. General Gruenther has betweens the extinct French also stayed on long enough to Royal Family of Orleans and see his cherished ambition of the Napoleonio usurper, creating a West German army

Here by the way L A in inoculation against the disceso The sales manager of anime turn into a sour disappointment alimming tip from Henri's is produced and stored in special portant glassmeiding

The West Germans have now mother, who is the mother of 10 rinse containers.

shyw: "The production of eden announc

only other chilthen, and yet manages In stole radioactive isotopes

tifle

opperatus la

is not the kind announced that

they are Introduce 12

to retain an excellent · figure, mantha prepared to Jused in industry and medicine of work in which automation

despatched all over the

at military service instead of the Is For lunch silics of cheese, a roll can play a major part.

without butter, and half a glome common in Western

Europea MORE USES

numbers of certain of the items decision which has made the of watervals for we unke are shipped out of the West

Germans, formerly the

MISSING CLINT... Glues is being increwing of research and control, but in replace the French

factory be used in the field

field darlings of the military planners,

MERICAN hostess Mrs.... ns the bad used in industry, und plants such

A James : Langdon Othmere: I the class.

really don't like diamonds - bot and chemical production units in specialities of which the demand the where the money comes from or /several countries are using glass must of necessity be small, onda tersafer of the bulk of the

Made in pipelines.

various which call for individual crafts- French army to Algeria and the

* ́ ́NATIONAL' TASTE --- size bores, according to its use, manship.'

shages in Soviet tactics, have NOVELIST Francobre Sagan: It is the clearing-house for

the piping in easier to keep in

gless all combined to make NATO The manufacture of

In America they liko the denis in grams and drugs, on un arst-class order than equipment goes back through the een-appear something of cold war people who have made (ny war Spain occupied these trades Tangler has grown made of alternative materials.

furios

Today, the modem rekle.

In France it. In Just " rich.

The experts in gines techno-glass-blowers are carrying

these circumstances the bypotte nations running this free section of the now Morocco. Tangier, then murrounded by

If Morocco gains more power logy carry out incessant re International port.

Another phase of the struggle what was Spanish Morocco, hore that life of liberty, or search to increase the range of cam to have inherited their planner, has felt keenly the TELE

an ancient tradition. Many can Gruenther, brilliant military..

DEFINITION: that Morocco is independent for world power is about

Paris newspaper to invited Germany back. But she licence some might call it, may uses, and one of the current ex- akill through generations of frustrations of his job. He has Monde on rock and roll: the nations agreed to hold a begin, with the American hand was excluded again in 1945.

end. For the new independent

periments is to produce a their families.

devoted a great deal of his time is a meat grinder of rhythm. conference

Morocco neods money. back lying heavily on the land as it

radiant heating panel,"

to a role rather; admålar to that ls in Egypt, on the other side of

(COPYRIGHT) power to the Sultan. The North Africa,

treaty Tangier away their

as infuriating for an Englishman as it is

back in return.

Here there is no income taxas dairy installations, breweries many cases we are producing boy of tors combinca with without them I feel so drabu

по

questions are

asked

rights and America, and Russin were parties Jews who make up nearly half TN Tangler it is nearly took like getting precious little to a settlement of 50 years ago, the population of Tangler.

Russia never took part in the und of the talks is rule of Tangier-but had The purpose

what part the right to. at the other end of North to determine

eight nations will continue' bo

After the fist wor Africa, in Egypt.

play in the affairs of the 225-

tho

excluded: Britain is one of eight square-mile area,

richest waS.

second

Now

giving

But it was bave been a negotiated settlement and it

where it goes to.

點 Germany

During

The Enigma

McKi

What is at stake is not just Since then France's North WDS hoped Britain and the the colourful freedom of almost African empire, has crumbled, ItsThere has been an upsurge of other countries would retain tax-free Tangler, ** with certain privilege, in return for refuges money and its refugee Arab nationalism, favoured by

It is people.

the rise of the Egypt-and-Saudi-Arabia, building up Tangler.

the of courwa, by the Americans. › But Sultan Mohammed ben Arab world, backed by

North Africa, fa dotted with Younet, in 'n edremonial open-. Unked States.

Tangier became a pawn in mighty American atomlesár ing of the conference at Fedals,

of the bases. Beor Casablanca, made no men- the power politic Blóm of negotiation.

Western world is the curve-up

Little Return

of Africa tihe beginning of the century,MATI

why France was then trukking up

tool

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demned It"thežul to con

of the Gloy- "A"

and talked

'and 'the Gal Cover Tamil

nan;

America's policy is the enigma. On one hand she wanČI V DO strengthen Thorocco' as part of ber anti-coloniallat" policy. On the cher," "abe has milione in vested here.",

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN:

IT HAPPENED WHEN

HA PUSHED ME

ON THE FLOOR.

YES, THERE

DAMAGE

IS SOME

LEO INJURED-

WES POESN'T

AND THAT

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