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ANNE SHARPLEY IN BAGHDAD

I MEET A SHEIK IN THE SUBURBS

Baghdad. argal holding the white cloth of the colla down over their brows.

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Dell's stock began to rise again. They were delightful men. With endless bows and greetings 1 won Introduced round the room. It could have been a Valentino talent search for a revival-so many dark, flushing eye curling nostrils and flow- Ing robes.

SHEIK living in suburb sounds like the knell for Ethel M. Dell -OT BO I thought when a handsome lounge-suited young Arab asked me along to meet his uncle, Para mount Sheik of the 25,000 strong Tamim tribe. "He

They were all brothers, Boris, lives just on the edge of and nephews of the two sheiks Baghdad," he said, and in sitting side-by-side on the chiniz my experience a suburb is BOCDL

a suburb the world over.

"Doom for Dell," I fold my self as next day a vermillion Intu American car bore me off the beginnings of the sunset and, the hawk-faced young man with old what I had always been

and crueller cruel glittering teeth told me he was a lawyer.

were

eyes

But he WILL primarlly in- terested In EXKNI works-wel- fare and free legal wid for his Along the smooth roads tribe.

and through the suburbs of Baghdad, where only the dusty palm trees fight to establish difference between this Welwyn Garden City. rocketed.

REGULAR MEETING

Our interpreter was the plump. fruity voiced youngest wife of Shell Hassan.

Ac

THE PRELIMINARY

the

came firel

formel courtesies, the compliments, the declarations of liking for

the British. This has been the pro- liminory to every conversation I have had with an Iraqi First they must make it clear that they like us. Having got that vettled. then they feel free make the crillolems they feel we deserve.

to

The naked electric light that had burned in competition with the sunlight when I came into the room became a necessity as and we talked softly and unran- we corously on, and we drank many

cups of thick black coffee,

Then, as though it had been rehearsed for

tribes- months,

It was the time of the after-

Tribal meeting.

noon

when

man in a block cloak

a

and sheepskin burst in carrying pistol in a holster which he tribesmen commuting between offers to his chief. "We are a their business in the city and warlike tribe, you know," says the tribal ground outside call in the chief as he unloads,

their affairs with

aims the platol.

To discu

then

their chief. The nearby lanes Reminded of his youth, Sheik were solid with Cadillacs, and Hassan talks of the days when the absinthe-coloured waters of there were only tenis, camela and the Tigris flowed. pus! shining bumpers row.

the desert, "Then we were tree, but another now in the days of airplanes and hydrogen bombs you cannot feel free even In the desert any more, so why not live in Bagdad and be comfortable?" he asked.

In this house the robin had more chintz chuirs in it than Hollywood film on England, but they were all pushed against the walls, leaving in the centre with a smart le glass table

of those rown

little scale animals in a descending beloved the worl

one

over

of

STILL THE SAME Rending my thoughts, or per haps he has been reading Ethel he added: "You M. Dell too,

made much know it has not

the

difference.

same."

OFC still

In this instance, hardly sur prisingly, they were camels. Sat Leave-taking is protracted and beneath

the his

life-sized formal, and in the dark OWIL coloured photograph was Sheik white burnouses, and teeth and the Hassan Al Suhell, and beside eye catch the light from him his brother All, also 4 glimmering Tigris as they stand shelk They were in sheik bowing farewell on the steps of regolia with the shining guld the neat little villa.

MULTI-MILLION OIL PIRACY PLOT ARRESTS

A

From JAMES COOPER

:

her relatives

!

New York. California, on the grounds that named pins in dolls MULTI-MILLION be stuck

and ofler dollar oil piracy plot hypnotised their six-year-old doing may lead New York police daughter Kathleen inlo

the the same.

bo

the solution of

two-year-old murder

of MOST

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1957

NB! – WASHINGTON TREATS US VERY

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If bot you

We are not abrupily deported to the great wastes of California,

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Third-degree treatment la entirely voluntary,

And, the English are will allowed to hold" on

their Empire.

LONDON SEES THE FILM

SPOT A CARDINAL BANNED

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this is Tennessee Williams at his sleaziest

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DECAY

BY. LEONARD

MOSLEY,

because they are behind on the Instalments. The girl is filled with "half-understood yearnings. The husband is, middle-pged and suffering from nerves.

ABY DOLL," the "Baby Doll" will have its And what about this hard- it did for its creators

the most ato Doll" into

expertly It enough. the crusted critic-did it rulse any distinguished

Its degrading film of the year, And into this house of nerves pronlere at new and already European

London Pavilon. It is definitely moral hackles in me?

author is Tennessee Williams, is on Inspired study in human and frustration stamps in virilo film not notorious

Sicilian wreaming hatred at. entertainment for

one of America's most exciting decay, from America, children,

playwrights.

Everyone and everything in Baby Doll's husband. "Baby

Doll" starts decaying "sneak pre- was given A

This 19 tho flm which

Its producer-director is Ella from the moment the pleure ELIGIBLE bachelors view" in the West End of Cardinal Spellman has already Well, I have to confess that Kazan, who directed Williams's opens.

decided la 1957, announced by London this week.

forbidden for any

depressed And

degraded, famous

play, "A Streetcar Roman Catholic in America, rather than shocked or excited Hollywood Bachelor Girls' clube

Named Destro." included--the Duke of I was in the audience, and he has told them it will be me. I have been to sensational

John Kent,

Its star is a wickedly clever And at the end of two hours considered a sin If they try to shows in my time which have a young actor, Federal Bureau of Investiga-

boiled me up with fury Or blondo with ar angel face I felt as if someone had see it. Lion are belleved by the police Saxon, the FB.I. chief, Mr J.

The British censor has given frozen me with horror,

named Carroll Baker. been wiping my forehead it an X certificate.

(Not for I don't know quite why They combine their consider with a dirty dishcloth.

children),

"Baby Dol}" affected me as ablo

international financier Sergo

Rubinstein.

Four men arrested by the today.

Kerr

Edgar Hcover. And UNO

to be part of a vast ring that

Mr Secretary-General, stole

the Gulf Oil Corporation secret maps of Hammarskjold.

from

Dog

locations of untapped oll

of IL-250 ions

it-was deposils worth many millions

poured out of the liner Detectives who have been trying since carly 1955 to And America (20,300 tons) to reduce Rubinstein's strangler are now 40ft. waves in a 65 miles an wind in mid-Atlantic convinced his death is tied to hour

the map thefts. Just before his while five doctors performed a death Rubinstein was exploiting peritonitis operation on a crew oll reserves by Canada, Central member,

and South America.

money

with which

tran- against WARNING up W Big-time gangsters put

quillising drugs-"happy Gall Oll workers were, bribe to get pills that account for one in Soya Dr Lawrence Colb, former head of

copies of mais. When Gulf three prescriptions.

drilling the liquid gold.

Rubinstein was threatened.

COAL

And

aro

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and the author says:

"I didn't write it for

T

J

talents to make

money

CHILD BRIDE

The girl in the picture (you can hardly call her the heroine) is at that moment lying in her

The result is a sleazy, sinful mess, I doubt if there has been a- better feriale performance för a long time than that of Carroll Baker as the cherub-faced slut who doem't know what sho wants but instinctively, knows how to get it."

Karl Malden. Is. a.study in nursery. She is Baby Doll, and human swamp-life as the avid

s what is known in the but rootless husband.

a Child Bride. South Drep

a room she calls her. "Baby cot in

she

A few feet away her husband only, Baby

("husband"

in name

word

for

your

Ell. Wallach, as the Sicillan Intruder awings through this

Doll Insists) is boring holes sexual jungle like an apo with so that ho never in the wall to spy on her. She four arms, hears the rasp of his screw atops beating his breast event driver and dashes out, shout when swinging from tree, to ing:

Some parts of this, fim aro, So There's n

! believe it or not, funny, Some By ALAN BRIEN that sort of marriage parts are is raw as meat.

sort Peeping Tom!

But The house in which they live

Seven the meatiest "The company moments have; for me, the New York. in a red-bricked East Side block This whole thing was a I don't write for money, don't is falling down. Oll went to lose oil properties the U.S. mental health service:HE controversy about in the early hours of this surprise to me.

already They

An artist has even write to shock people, 1. has taken their furniture away mould of decay upon them. they found pirates

mono physically

to comment on life as he finds write, because I have to write, harmful than morphine or

the Warner Brothers morning.

and in three or four, or perhaps heroin and some cause diseases film, "Baby Doll," He was wearing pale pink It. And that's all I did."

five plays, I think I have said which I learn is "OAL FLEET: Sixty-nine and altin trouble,"

now pyjamas · under

things which havo deeply F pastel-blue

In his days of unsuccess, 42-

needed saying." more merchant ships are to

CONTINUED....says breaking out in England, light dressing-gown. And he year-old Tennessee Williams had be taken out of the US. motha Western serint. In Callior's has been raging here for was watching a Western on his held a series of night jobs as

TO BE ball fleet to carry more coal fo

large screen television set, with liftman, waller and elugma Britain and Europe because of magazine Just out. But the the past week.

the sound awilched off,

usher, and the cold, wet dark- increased demand through the hero seems destined to be left

wounded in the middle of a Following Cardinal Spoll- "

ness outside seemed to stimulate

Wo' discussed oil shortage.

gunfight for over.

man's statement that the "It's so much more amusing him to talk,

subjects from Shakespeare CIUCCESS on Broadway comes This is the last issue of the

writing thrillers" to the film Williams Brenda de Banzie, "cool as a tising revenue is not enough to Roman Catholics only a screwdriver of vodka and

from human clothes

in Italy ("The duchord and

keep it going, the owners say. "under pain of sin," Ella orange juice-Manhattan's most children's comic I don't really screenplay, lurreta, out rather sweeter, "geta most of the

badly

I thought"), but

"Speaking now shutter play,

and New Yorker, we ended up of Murder. A long run is moment about signing for a TV fused to elaborate, Carroll was referring to the pyjamas, Your subject matter is cut to eventually, like every Londoner London and: New to ille forecast.

serica. She says: "I don't want Baker, the star, is too busy to television or the cocktail. the bone. to be a serial queen and give expecting is baby toy talk

much about the film.

Sun Baby Doll! Tatán't mind. "In New York I always. Sean | America: Wines de de

MANY SUBJECTS

to another British actress. 88-year-old magazine. Adver film could be visited by this way," he said, pouring me wo stretched like a huge cat "barically he is

considerably

•

in

prales atlee the premiere of the MARLENE DIETRICH chang-A-46an, the directe lesued fashionable drink of the moment like screenwriting just because ba

a formal statement but re. I did not inquire whether ho of this censorship problem,

hor" 'mind at

MISSING from the stage up my freedom.”

on o

the just

You

to falsify your ally hav

number of

so much removing the sadism of to be wearing blinkers. There's the play. But it was too much nothing for a southerners to when I was not allowed to write about. On the other hand have the lover seduce the wife, I llon Europe,

tried to find a respectables equivalent for the serbe But No one knows me there. And who can find expectable there's no pressure on me to be. 'équivalent)for a seduction? If

OLD MEMORIES: hon 47 af Washington's 48 dareign, diplomats watched DEQUEST from

·President, ¦ Elsonhower invitch Space in Bermuda, for an Only author Tennessee The author of "Streetcar on 5,500 lights

02ft. additional defence base for a Williams,fiftting through "Toss Tattoo" and "Cat" "On Chelatinas 3; fron outside the big communications centre and a cold and windy New York Hot Tin Roof could not re White House-Hungary's Crow Fader station;

on his way from the warm me offhand what state

ment he had issued about, "Baby uth, could be caught on

for extended comAh usah made

pointed remarks," ilin asid lazily Williaṁng wa YewBing" with

100 riled are blamed for

tip the intre)

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don't think

should take.

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