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·THE

LIBERACE

by

STORY

anton burney

There are two ways of approaching a new thing in the world, whatever it may be an old, cautious approach, or something new, to match the newness of the new thing that has come into the world. Look at it a moment in the light of Television.

This is a wholly new thing,

It is not million viewers; It is not cinema.

man himself? radio. It is not "live" theatre. And it is more intimate than any of then. We know that

what of the

His Church

what the cinema screen 13 We have seen him growing

showing is a recorded shadow.

Wup aguinist background

G

of We know that the radio 19

happy family life, but in the disembodied voler, face of poverty. bringing us

We have seen theatre that We know at the

him make a carcer for himself between us and the players les

the music he loves. We that impassable barrier of the

hlm succeed seen footlight. But the TV. artist have

marvellously and we have seen 50 him employ the fruits of his success wisely, temperately, and generously. But all these things

external things-back- found, circumstances, achieve- menta, So, again, the question: what of the man himself?

of

THE CHINA MAIL,... FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1957.

Why are you

wearing a

strait-jacket?

That's the question Americans keep® asking about Britain... and I'm afraid that I have to stay silent

New York.

THIS British strike is front-pago news here. It could not have come at a worse time. Just when things are going our way and when the Americans are coming round to our view of Nasser, the dictator in the desert,

My friends here guy: "What's got into the British? Just when you are recovering from Suez înd are moving ahead with co- panded trade and a stable pound

sterling you deliberately put yourselves in a strait-jacket.""

I cannot give the answer. I do know that the strike 14 IST-

weakening the country's handicapping Mr Macmillan

fluence abroad and grievously

kis all-important conference

with President Elsenhower,

If we cannot keep our own house in order we can't expect the Americans to listen to our advice on how to run theirs.

Before the strike news broke

most Americans had expected great things from the Bermuda meeting the healing of the rift and a new Anglo-American unity.

British officials herɑ say: "The Prime Minister and Mr Selwyn Lloyd intend to Lalk bluntly."

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

agoin during the war and dur- ing hia first four years A Presiderit.

John

town, saya: "Messrs, Foster Dulles end Dag Ham- marskjold must be at their wits end to discoves further ways and means to appetise Nasser, the Terpent of the Nile,

"First

they let Nasser kick Ike can snap back, and his them in the rear. Then they doctors, particularly Paul Dud- turn around und offer their ley White the heart specialist, teeth, which he converted into believe he will.

There is no conspiracy of silence concerning Eisenhower's health as there was over Frank-

In Roosevelt's.

It creaks

1

point after touchdown

"And his foot is still itching ,does bootlicking come next? does the world really need Middle East oil so badly that honour is not too high a price to pay? Or do I merely reveal my age when I prate of honour?

"Is the Suez Canal now 20

the Americans have "an almost NCE the Bermuda Conference vial that il makes tolerable the

M. Mollet has reported that

mystical confidence in the U.N."

To reality

comes into our

thousands intimately that Liberace's fans prepare their houses for him as though he were indeed a guest coming Arr For this they at the door. have been derided, mocked al; but the mockers miss the whole point.

All entertainment resis

"My son was a good boy." his on the old "willing suspension

IT is the alm of Mr Macmillan "Thank God, heard, Mr Lloyd to being the of disbeller. Nobody la ashamed mother says, of being

In a novel, or grown up to be a good man.

the He absorbed by a drama on

is not ashamed of religion, President and Mr Dulles out of this dreamland and back to the forgetful of it. He was

the world But it nor

ing tought In Catholic schools, and harsh realities of surrendering

brought up to the Catholle situation and power polities'. to the illusion that prompts Church, and

he follows Its

President Eisenhower reaches people to place a candelabra on teachings simply and faithfully. Bermuda tomorrow with his the TV set when Lee is going

I remember when he to play. It is

gesture of on t 4

cough much better and his left severe ness

ear less inflamed. Sympathy and delight. It is jo-when he was Jovable thing, not a laughable

or screen.

exactly

the same

nire.

from

WAS

He was getting alronger. And it is a measure of We were all talking of his first 060. how much this consummate outing when he was able artist has conquered the new medium and made it his own.

His Tricks

the same way, it emphasised that "mannerisms", his

In

be

before

trived

The cameras, are

deliberate.

greater tele

television artist is

The

to

to

His Press secretary, James Hagerty, is very angry at re- of the some sections ports in Icave the sickroom-Let's go

British Press describing Presi George suggested.

1 Jake,'

Ident Elsenhower as fading, think a little ride into the

visibly agod, thin, 1ailing, country, his

father said, should like to go to church, pinched, and drawn. Lee said quietly."

his

L

over Mr Eisenhower 19 expected to Feorganise Cabinet.

It

It is the oldest Cabinet of any major Western Power, creaks with age and its arteries are hardening.

I do not think Mr Dullos can last much longer.

proved

EASTERN SEEKERS FOR A STABLE SOCIAL ORDER:

"IS IT ESSENTIAL TO HAVE THE.. FREEDOM TO DEBAUCH FREEDOM?'

DEMOCRACY

THE KEY QUESTION

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

British cars get

a beauty treatment

---that stainless stool look is more then skin-deep

taste of boot-polish to the U.N. BRIGHT is the future for

and the U.S.?"

Taking a rest

STANLEY

the manufacturers of stainless steel for British

cars.

Today is being us01 more LEY HOLLOWAY leaves than ever in the manufacture of the "bright" parts of сов. soon for England for a rest, My Fair Lady, in which Stanley

While there is nothing, new about its usc for bumpers, gives a flawless performance,

window

frames, hubcaps and him for sheer drawing power sur- have Events

our time. radiator grilles, the big cer are now laking wrong: he gambled or Nasser's passes anything in

and Nasser virtuousness

has Seven hundred thousand people manufacturers

have seen it and have paid out an increasing interest in stain- There is no

less steel. over $3,500,000 in its first year. spat in his face. confidence any longer among Americans in Mr Dulies's ability the country's foreign policy or anything else,

to run

Distaff view

THE women particularly are

THE

urging him to step down. scalpers,

of

The British Motor Corporation Thousands of people have user it for most Mortis hubcaps paid £10 a ticket above the and many other parts, Fords for printed

prico, so actually the the Zephyr front and Rootes for musical's

The new audiences have paid some window frames. out well over $8,000,000, but a Vauxhall Victor (super model)

it for lot of this has found its way into | usÇS

windscrech and the pockets

the ticket window surrounds,

Many motorists prefer the I can understand Hagerty's Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt Boys: Groucho Marx, in a speech to warmer look of stainless steel acute annoyance.

Writers' Guild into the cold glitter of chromhum than of Isradi? I think we had Hollywood, said: "Don't listen plate. better make up our minds that to the calamity howlers, the pic-

have to be as tough as after we are all gone. That is, somewhere along the line we ture business will be here long may

and show it in the if we get out of here by mid Egypt United Nations."

night."

must

old-fashioned, "I guess I'm Lee's "tricks" Lee will say, "but it's simple

overdo this Do not let us Even music, which

President dan con- enough.

picture of 乌 No gives so

so much, carnej give

the now peace I find at the allar. The perously close to another serious a leader whose wonder to me la that in a world illness and performing. Lee knows that

power and prestige have de- the T.V. performer must be so full of evil, people sull

clined 60 drastically. er stubbornly reject the good they larger

than life. His per might so easily find with formance is a perpetual close- up, even when the cameras pan Mother Church." away: for the "close-up" is not

Perhaps this unquestioning measured by distance but by faith lies behind Lee's generous emotional temperature. It is so with any great artist. Liberace response to the malice of his

critics--this

faith

and

Ü

No

knows that the exaggerated bubbling sense of humour, gesture finds its true perspective artist of our time has met with

It les across the unbounded af air to come into a million u

million such avage criticism, and it homes. His genius is not easy to see why.

0

genius

genlus

His technique

live minutes

for music only, but a is revolutionary, and the critics of a man born exactly are reactionary. They boil with

he Arst rate if He is the first

Plays in personality Df T.V. some great composition which another artist cannot perform in

for his time.

great

because he

he has no

not had to make les than cight-"Jazzing-up

extensive adjustments

technique, and

an actor

the cinema has lo do this.

from

Beethoven, they call it, "Killing the Classics."

and

Killing

He them? when he has made was young enough to years to millions love them that never

come to T.V. almost unspoiled listened to "real" music in their

"Are we more afraid of Egypt the Screen

Mr Eisenhower has tremen- And Miss Inez Robb, in pungent commentary that dous powers of resilience, as ha demonstrated

over being quoted all around

over

and

具

Footnote: Now

the double is standard of the U.N. looks sus- the pleiously like the double cross,

Sales doubled

CRE

The demands of tho industry from Sheffield, home of stainless steel, has both, stendilly increasing. The largest Arm in producing stainless steel Britain has doubled ita mio

Colony That Fought To Be Free

Is Crumbling Into Chaos

DJAKARTA.

RESIDENT SUKARNO Ptill exercises before a

full-length mirror. Ho

by confileling techniques of lives before? The critics cannot postures in his photogenic other medin, but old enough to sill understand that for such a be already magnificent medium as T.V. a new manner uniform, rehearsing the musiclan and artist.

of performing must be born; little tricks of public speak- A magalicent urils!....well, and that it has been born undering that once sent Indonesia. that's clear every week to forty the hand of Liberace,

|POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT 'LANCASTER

?Do “you remember my asking' you the Portuguese

Zamiju?2: Will, forget it!”

His Fans

But if I be

true that the

into ecstasies.

The gestures are as pro- fessional as ever. But the The old magic has gone. face at 66 has lost its force. A beaming vanity is all that remains.

to

RUSSELL SPURR spotlights the siesta land cind of give-'em-hell speeches

where bribery is a way of life

that maintained his old hold over the mob,

But the mob is no longer mostly declared "It was only to help spellbound. Applause

comes these days from a hand- pay election expenses.”

ful of Communiston and President Sukamo is chiefly rationalists who still hope to to blame. He has been incapable cash in on an aging man's of giving the right men their conkelt. head. Eighteen Cabinets have nominally ruled Indonesia sinen 1046. But always the only real power has been Sukarno.

ment.

· whenever

bas

A military police truck fit roared past my hotel. It has tommy-gunners on the back and feightened men locked away: inside.

trame polleeman

no

azd

He has persistently appointed "highbrow" critics have agreed

and manipulated his puppets and helpless as the driver in cordemning Liberace, it is

is favour of better mea-then ignores his signals and ploughs also true that his T.V. show is

After that Indonesia sleeps, sacked them"

their through the tangle of shabby broadcast in America

cars and rickshaws. The army by almost

No matter how grave the erials, rule became impopular, two hundred stations (the exact

makes it So much has gone wrong since

the afternoon

owny kaw siesta paralynem

All very convenient for the in Agure?-197).

Indonesia. a million

It rules the -Over

the little ex-engineer

the country. who records of Liberace have been hated

President. He has been able to rebellious islands of Sumatra, the gold

West strode In under three years. Ho triumphantly into the Dutch

Corruption is widespread. It low power without respons! Borneo and Colebes in defiance has nearly two hundred fan- Governor-General's palace in .com hardly be anything ele bilty. But fatal to any hope of of the Central Government. clubs up and down the United Djakarta tight years ago. The while civi

establishing - o:atrong governe servants receive States (the exact figure194) freedom for which he fought so of a Ministry gets only £20

In Java itself officers' and microscopic salariés. · The heach It has been estimated in that frantically be turned sour.

What Indonesia needs today is military policemen arrest country where auch figures are

month. And overcrowded handen work, more investment interrogafa at will, cagerly sought, that in one year Indonesia today is one of the Dakarta key money on a small an honest administration. Lib

The army does everything in i nearly one million, three most unstable and

holiso can run to £600.

stead it has been on an eight

the crumbling hundred thousand jokes were countries in the world. ·

year

diet of political hill fact bus govern

republic-and this latest crisis made about him on the - radio

Under-counter bribery is part shallying, bombastic talking and may only be a pause before it (the exact

Aguro?-1,200,000).

The Gratton

of the staggering cost of living depressing decline. diuto of arrival in the post office the clerk This is more jokes than aro are warning enough with att keeps the small changé after

The President has lived per made yearly about mothers-in-witted Customs clerice brandia stamping your letter if he has to fighting the hall-forgotten armor and with politicians we petually in the post, fighting and Sukarno"" de angry, with the law! What all this adds up to ing sheaves of meaningle in terms of personal, following forma Baggtge Inspection takes let you up to the head of the battles with the Dutch. He has spun his plans. nobody can compute, but it is an houry, then outside there, is a

diverted national energies into a absolutely safe to say that no scramble for the rare taxi driver.

sterile compaign for possession, The electricity man den of Dutch New Guinee musician in the history of musle who will condescend to tram- reads your meter for a fee. has made so wide and to certain port you for 30%, a mile. Burcou-

It is all, takon so much for ure, supposed to be in

- APPLAUSE

Inefficient

queue.

an appeal. Liberace can afford their officed by 7 am Few, granted, that 'when Abdul Garij,

to malls at his celties." Anti that f exactly what he does, N

turn up-before 6.30. They are the latest Portigo Minister," "won". He tokios darkly More On Monday, being around one amper punow his friends pubiłały, pono

supposed to Terve at 5 pm. The cllarged with pocketing Governe, and

selzcu power, Da

Never in hip, political career has bo been so širwerted. He wits mullenly, in his splendid : palsce rebuing to we reason, adver He posca, instead into the full length", mirrog"where" thé man

by JOHN PONDER

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you would indeed And it as good as when it was new after several years,

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car morafacturers In the last would five years.

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nro

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As a rate material this super steel costs £11,200 a ton, It is the

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