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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1956,

HISTORY'S ORPHAN.

THE CONCERTINA OF EUROPE

POLAND

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COUNTRY

POLAND

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THE SHRINKING. SHAVELLING. SHRIEKING

By STEPHEN CONSTANT

W

RY and how was Pohund led to the present crisis?

"History Repeata Iself"

this most terrifying of altruisms is more true of Poland than of any ather country in the world.

Che

:

centuries Through

giant con- Poland, like certina, has contructed and expanded between the grisp- ing hands of her enemies,

Germany the

and

Russians.

JOINT GRAB

D

The second brief perlad nutional Independence

COUNTRY

AT ALL

19HAPES Of POLAND.

The commities, inter called the Lublin Committee, wis ofi- to raise a couraged by Stain

of Russian-trained Polish Army in under the U S.S.R.

the Pilsudski Government end-

ed suddenly in September 1938 In the spring of 1944 these when, at just over a fortnight's troops advtunovel intervni, the samles k Hitler with Red Army and Stalin inviddert the etantry Marshul Rokossovsky, Limb both sides.

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COUNTRY

RUSSIA

NOW

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BOUCEZE

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OVER ONLY THREE CENTURIES OF Ts LONG HISTORY

Pari-

in the country

" return

el aluselt to Stalin.

want now?

OTTO PREMINGER DEFENDS

HIS

SAINT JOAN

The idea of using this girl excites me.

maybe it will excite the public, too

W

By THOMAS WISEMAN

THEN Otto Premin- untouched_by agents, Act=rx'

дег announced Studio or Max Factor.

He a.'d that he was not look- That he Was Ing for a trained actress: 11 looking for an unknown girl might be better if she were in- to play St Joan, he was experienced, He was not neces

sarily looking for a beautiful

almost arraigned for heresy Kiri; It might be better it she

ner.

before The Grand In-

were plain. quisitors of Hollywood. Inmediately he Was inun- They felt that such be dated with applications from haviour amounted to high hundreds of girls claiming that treason against Ava Gard- not only were they plain, they were downright ugly:" not only were they not trained, they were positively illiterate. But two years lator the Com- and Muzeuw's a conomie exploita- ber Saved "I am a Marxist, but

After auditioning them 194 Mikolajczyk to tion.

It was bad enough for him nil sorts munists forced

Dy mean

of

lee to the

a flm Preminger readily concede that With the death of Valin in Ming West, reportedly in

to want to make o! the boot of a U.S. Embassy car. 1953, fallowed by the bath

And here is what another (without music) of Show's this was so, but declined their

services. his Polish henchman, Boleslav Pos, General Bor-Komorowsky, masterpiece-the only good In 1947, by means of rigged Bierut. last spring, the surge leader of the war-Lime Polish

and police terror

Wis set for elections

Underground and now living in play he ever wrote, they SHE HAD TALENT into Poland Communist-controlled

Gomulka, the one man who did n n sald: The most import said, was "My Fair Lady"-

Last week after a world-wide units led by neat was elected.

ant thing from my point of view but to go over the heads of catch that cost over £30,000, But even this was not enough.

FIRST STEP

be that the Rusalan troops

the holy casting bureaux, Preminger at last found his St for Stalin. When all the demo.

out of Poland.

where they had dozens of Joan and gave her a seven-year This army, though composed, whe elementi

What precisely do the Poles

the

is a 17-year-old Communist "Although

contract. She A few dav. luter the joint

Party is still in power, they are sensationally saintly girls on high-school Hirl called Jean er received an ometal al of patrone Poles, was used to had been liquidated he turned

From Communists them- against the

both Cummamist, now the Nationalist Communists their books, was ain stberg, from lowa-in the corn- the Fourth Partition of Pulsa Stalin to pave the way for his domination of

purged Vladislay and non-C'onumunists the answer selves, und

and not the tools of Moscow. against the Hollywood Code. belt of America-whose back again In is the same-more freedom.

is the rst step. This change

russ The local drug store. In June Polart. These forces were pur- comulta, now But dog cats

from helping power, for nationalism."

Every Here is what

eight weeks' acting had only Pole will Polish Comm

support 1941 the uneasy partnership: be- posely prevented

THE WORST SIN

experience; had never been to a forces

when tween, Hüller and Stola emine the

AL that

M.P. mument Marshal udst

Johan Hochfeld, Gomulka,

big city, and was not ugly. But Huged the when Nuz1 Troops fres

Warsaw up Rokossovsky, the most

London, toit me; bater now visiting

"He has always stood for ས to an end

Furthermore, the t

they said and she had talent. "When she spoke མྦ1 1;!h t}

from on the rising in August 1944.

Mon in Poland, was pu In "I want to No a two-party different kind of regime

his was the worst sin of all Show's

sold Pre- speeches," Het Anny, tweeping it out of

charge of the umny, and souteni

the that which Russia sion.! for." system in Poland-like in

sounded as - nis im wouldn't make We

any minger, "she bottels Eastern Poland

United States of in Bustants Poland's

with

The BlectifVITIJ

the

udded: The general

Shaw's language was her own Kiemi,

want freedom of the Press anth Polish people regard is as the money.

Undeterred. From that moment, until the democracy in all walks of like " first step, and now look forward

language.' Preminger went

Without seeking anybody views to the second step with hopes of juhoud with his plan to And a St events

in Polandi. The When asked if these

her else's opinion, he offered Joan

who Country lived under police terror agreed with his being a Marxist real liberation."

of under 20

the role. "Tho

chose an unkown," said Preminger, "was because the idea of using any fof the established actresses tulled to excite me. I muý have made a mistake. Of course, 1 am mall feet and somewhat taking a risk, but nothing is so mally leg?

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the whole esmuntry,

dog

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The ping was merellessly the Gerinužis, (cav- crushed by

Every ng 200,000 Polith dead. Poke

Uut Naya

Rokossovsky could has is holpe-and did not

In the wake of the Red Army Lublin Muscow-backed the

Boleslav

Led by General Sikorski they

Aler munities. "ketaldished the Polish Govern.

Biorni, atrived in Warsaw and then, wat in exile based in London

Bs ain and

Provisional the clatined to st Llie - 4 - 4 -

turing the Helped by period between the Fast and Uutis! States, this Gavernment Polish Government,

rganized

underground Second Win W

movement in Polan!

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escapi

Under pressure by Churchill and President Roosevelt, Stalin Anouter sinadler

of ordered this Government to ad- Poles

mit Western-minded Polish pea- alt-w.ng

Stalin' There under

sutat lcuder Stanislav Miko- Musrow.

up a rival lujczyk. direction, they set

Government Communist - jed deksmination of Poles to pre prve they national called the Committee of National

Lustration.

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THE MASTER HATES OLD AGE, ABHORS DEATH... By SAM WHITE

Cannes CAME here to SEC Pablo Picasso on his -75th birthday bearing gift from a former mis- tress of his. She is Dora Maar, who lived with him during the thirties.

Pleusso himself is an astonishe bend, gly dashing

with #gure persant's riade health and

tality.

I

Picasso is a strangely uncum- plex character, He 19 superati- See him as I saw him dressed Üleus and sentimental, hates oid Up to receive a civie welcome age and has a horror of death.

the Towel counc!! of

Part of the reason why his Vallauris and he looks like an home is so cluttered up is that Andalusien rancher (he is, of he loathes to part with anything,

PICASSO, 75, GETS A

SURPRISE PRESENT

Roman

Mile. Maar is u Catholic and the present she sent this girled old atheist was a devotional book by a Dominican priest.

I had a moment of appre- hension on delivering it, fearing that Picasso might receive it with a touch of facetiousness some jok. ing reference to her efforts at converting him. Not a bit of it. His eyes positively gleamed with pleasure as he handled this paper-backed book.

The next moment there Picasso uproar

Was

an

with

unlived-in look.

the

seemed to be in half a dozen combined different rooms at once as garden, gives he shouted for his pre-

scnt companion, Jacqueline Roque, "Come at once, where are you? I have just had a present from Dora."

CHAOS

I looked round the room during his absence. Chaos.

course, an Andalusien)

away

reason

1

father

She

risky as playing safe. If the iden of using this girl excites me, there lau chance it will also

excite the nubi

public. That's the

one can

only basis on which make pictures,"

When Prominger is not being un- attacked for choosing an known girl for St Joan, he is

sneered at being

for casting Widmark 019 the

Richard Dauphin.

The only place Widmark could be king of, say these critics, is the underworld. It was adding unnecessarily to an already Am- probable story to suppose that Joan could ever get his crown- led on Rheims. This would, in-

deed be witchcraft.

REMAINS UNRUFFLED

With his gangster's slouch, his uletto grin he machine-gun diction and his would surely look more at home in an electric chair than on a throne.

dressed no matter how slight, which has in his swaggering Sunday best. a sentimental or symbolic value

He was wearing a beautifully, for him. cut. almost skin-tight, pair of A friend summed

This Lip black trousers, a delicately knit aspect his character to me: black malador's jacket which "Picasso does not throw

Preminger remains unruffled shone ke silk, and a string tie. things or people that

by such suggestions, "I origin- have ally offered the part to Afee become part of him."

His relations with the women turned it down.

Guinness," he said, "but he I am now very e part in his glad he did. The idea of having Widmark excites me much more.

"From Widmark Similarly, both his art dealer,

I will get Daniel Kahnweller, and Bnancial adviser are people

of the ordinary. his, something out

lie is a very Ane actor. Being a has known for nearly 50 years.uffer from the mistaken notion theatre director myself, I don't

All that was missing were the high-heeled boots

That was only one of the day's functions, for in the evening he was received by the pottery workers al Vallauri where he blew out

birthday gusts.

the 76 candles on his cake in three lusty

He was still going strong late into the night, when everyone else was waiting In the over- crowded, over-healed room.

an

who have played life is one of close friendship.

ALWAYS LOYAL

he

His loyalty to friends remaina untouched, even by meannesa or silliness on their part.

that only stage actors can get." 1. Preminger is also under fre for casting Anton Walbrook Be Couchon, the Bishop. NEEDS CHARM

This boundless good health of

With his inbred Old Vienna Picasso's is no accident, He

As to his membership of the charm, his boulevardler's dash takes great care of himself. He Communist Party, that, too, is and evident relish for the good neglected cats 1

sparingly end simply, now encased house

In the hard shell things of life, he is not the most un drinks nothing apart from

of his loyalty.

obvious choice for the Bishop. Occasional glass of champagne, or white wing.

To which the Imperturbable There remains the question of Preminger replies: "Who is more his fortune, which technically in need of charm than the am- He appears to smoke heavily ought to be Immerse. about 30 black tobacco elgoreites

bitions Bishop?" a day-but in fact he does not

for

Picas60 appearances, not see the ugliness of the house, He likes to tense triends to comment on it by saying: "Ah, good taste, what A dreadful thing. Taste is the enemy of creativeness,"

Cares nothing

and simply does

inhale. He aleeps late. rarely rising before 12, and goes to bed

well after midnight.

FEARS DEATH

Не

A Picasso sketch is worth about £700 and recently a small painting from his "Blue" period

was sold for £20,000.

There are still a dozen or more parts to be cast and I suspect there will be more shocks

come.

to

Prominger Is a director of brilliance dnd a man of tagie,

His own tastes are simple, and all the women who have figured ite brings excitement to the in his life have been

similarly business of making flims and, indifferent to money or develop from time to time, also to the ed extravagant tastes.

business of seeing films.

Apart from Mile Roque and

His cating habite remsin A birthday chaos super. Pleasso only two other people Spanish-late afternoon lunches imposed the normal

on

live in it, on elderly couple, the und near-midnight dinners, chaos. There were mounds woman doing the cooking, and is much shorter than his head- Picasso's money is disposed of. and and shoulder photographs sug- and that is an old friend, a of paper from unwrapped her husband the odd jobs

gest. He is, In fact, a amil retired parcels everywhere, piles of the butlery,

boned little man with delicate Pellequer. telegrams and letters.

Paulo, Picasso's son by his marriage, chauffeurs his The room was uncarpeted, only barely furnished. There were father in a large American car Hitters of newspapers, magazines, which has replaced the now do- books, and canvases everywhere. cieplt Hispano, which he used

before the war.

There was a similar chaos about the birthday preparations, No Invitations had been sent out, "I expect those of my friends: who can make it to just drop As a result in," said Picasso. about half a dozen people, were already camped in the villa.

The house itself is a three-

storoyed wedding-cake affair.

VITALITY

I shall endeavour to receive Only one man knows how all further news from the St

Joan camp with sticism, co

Even if Preminger should east French banker,. Max his good friend Frank Sinatra

as the Inquisitor. ⠀

WHY FAT MEN DRINK MORE

MOS

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

OST fat people drink than five. percent ́of the thin pital patients and criminals sup

moro, liquor than thin men, The : stocky," muscular port, his findings.

men hack on. ones, get more pleasure out intake between average. liquor- Mlle.. Roque is a strikingly of it, and give more plea tremes...

handsome womårt, approaching

the two

The way a person' rendts alcohol is also. Inborn; } beeduso this too depends on his build, fiddle-age, bosomy, short, with sure to their drinking com... ·

Fat men tend to have. a beautifully cut pronle, which is panions, Dr Richard Parnell, special taste for alcohol because International Journal on "Al- A. Dr Parnell suggests in the. Pd, claims after a of the sensor alcohibe auto and Alcoolism. scientific Inquiry.

built by a Victorian champagna latest work

millionaire.

men are much more likely to become total Abstainers, Dr Parnell believes, SERTA

This means that many heavy drinkers and tectotallers pro born rather than-made.

The fat magtendaita bicaine. more relaxed, gayar," and anoro

sociables The thin man becomes drawn The muralla Ho tends to become ›loud,” rogant," and aggrossiy

Compár

She, le à mollye of Vallauris,

Dr Parnell has analysed and was formerly the wife of Picasso bought it recently, for minorence Colonial omcial: the drinking habits of 205 nearby pottery town of Vallauris, She is a woman of superb polse, men students and measured in which he bed lived since the coupled with a very attractive their physique. He found war. In the paymcision of a drepinces of manner that the fat mon drank former mistress, Francoise Gilot,

·Insurändë dresses almost dowdily, in substantially more alcoholle in whose name it had been boughts attain ther

We French provincial fashion, and liquor than the thin

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As the average age of the stu- dents was only Dr Pameli

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