1961-05-29 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL,

HAWKINS,

MONDAY, MAY 29; 1961:

Patricia Lewis

of decision.....

on the edge of

NEW YORK

'T WANT TO CLEAR MY NAME

·IVE NEVER EVADED TAXES'

anve anything for yourseit, 30 the only thing to do is try to provide something children"

the Calera ata thred: Nieblas, 12: Andrew, 10; and Caroline, six)+

Tues truey"- valese“ her husband, renting the glasses. "We don't have things lice pensions to look forward to in our old age.

"No, and you've really got nothing to leave, the children-- na practice, like a doctor, no shop-like Hawking and Sun There's really only you.

Atlas

Our

reputedly highest-paid | film netor was beginning to look te the Atlas of Roehamp fon, but those broad shoulders showed no signs of collapsing under their burden.

consider our children's educalion."

I wind a Bentley, in the drive; two gardeners with two glass wall opening out on the gone to send em abroad is

Howers

un-

TT was the full gracious-living scene. Two cars, a Ford living room, with its Bowered white and full-length lawnmowers pottering about two lawns; the daughter of the chestnut-shaded

terrace, The whole atmosphere of caзy, house feeding cocktail nuts to a tame Belgian hare, and pressured elegance - fresh the rest of us wistfully sipping aperitifs.

every table, cul crystal glasses, the drinks trolley sticked with bottles, cigarette boxes that

were clearly re- plenished dally-was echoed by my hosts, Mrs H in beautifully rut black and white tweed pants relieved with hand-wrought gold jewellery; Mr If in cavalry trousers, a silk scarf immaculate

to try to clear my name. I'm

"We just felt like drinks this morning," sighed Jack Hawkins "Of course it is. I'd prefer heavily, and I knew what he meant-not a person who's ever evaded there's nothing like losing a lot of my taxes-I mean dammit, even money to make you feel reckless came down to the same thing will

the year I earned £30,000 it all

with what's left,

after tax. No, i wanted to dudge taxes there are easier ways than this... like leaving

tucked into open-necked shirt.

The cultivated Hawkins voice broke through my wanderings and wonderings.

"By the way, darling," he said in a deep, warning tone, "I'm strak we'll have to re

plans for the

turned to

learn languages. Publie seliool means they've stat to stog through so much that's no use years' travelling is a wonderful to them later whereas a few

grounding.

"But it may not be possible

now.

After 40 years Red art

"Seriously, though, I wonder why the Revenue bays don't zo after some of the dodgers who RIC throats

use pinces like that and Jersey 48-year-old owner I'd be

as low-tax residences for part of

Recently, after a three-round fight the country." with the Inland Revenue, costing some

"But would you?" I asked. £2,000, three Appeal Court judges ruled "Well, I'd like to," and Mrs that the 500 in dividends paid to his Hawkins firmly. "The weather children by "company formed to ex- of us-Jack gets bad

here doesn't agree with either ploit the actor's talents" should be and I get Ahrasitis. regarded as Mr Hawking's own income perfectly happy Bving abroad as and therefore able to surtax.

lang as all the family together. I keep suggesting we ought to invest in properly somewhere But Jack's not keen."

Jack Hawkins

Dropping an ice-cube Into his glass, Mr Hawkins watched inoodly as the bubbles Azzled. "Now I don't know what to do. he said. "I've got nave to appeal to the House of Lords but heaven knows what that'll an air com: Naturally. deep down, 1 want to take the fight to the

of gracious end because, after all, a prin-

living with

d cup of tea

ciple is involved--yes, this de-

allely is a principle, not Addle."

Easier

"Anyway, darling," put in his wife. "I wonder if it's worth it, money-wise..

were

warmer.

ESTORICK, the of

the Grosvenor Gallery, has brought off an art world

the year. I can't help feeling that I might have won this it my name had been Joc Soakes xenop. a bit of

instead of Jack Hawkins, and because it ercated attention they made us a lest cuse."

Mrs Hawkins offered me Japanese cocktail biscuit of senweed,

made

"No- like it here," nodded her husband, speelacles pushed orgies-fashion up into his hair. like to be where my friends time out of the country filming." are and, as it is, I spend enough

He laughed. "You know, when this case first came a I got piles of literature from the Isle of Man describing the joys both natural and Innanefalt living there. Their income tax is absurdly low, you see. But who wants to move to the Iste of Mon?"

Who indeed? I thought, look- ing round the long, pale grey

Seaweed

B

"Acting really is the most unfortunate profession," she

said, popping some seaweed Into the whiskery mouth of Popski, their griffon.

The life of a star is pretty short-lived-after all, what can you do once the hair and teeth go?—and even if you earn great sums of money, you can't

Now for the first time in over 40 years, I will be possible to buy a wide selection of the works of Soviet artists in Lon- don,

To get together the exhibition -althographs by 27 Lenin- grad artists-Estorick travelled 20,000 miles and spent a lot of roubles.

1 never set out to do It because, when, I first went to Russla, last spring, I didn't run agullery," said Estorlek lighting up a small cigar.

After negotiations with the Soviet cultural authorities, he has accumulated 1,500 prints, -London Express Service).

FOCKET CARTOON BY FRIELL

LALGIERS

- Wasn't there something

week just

about 30170 (avaiters who expected the population to rise in their support

MOOPING

ON

BLUSMAN TV

"We must shot the blighters that behind the pageantry we have absɑ- lutely the latest modern. military resources-lap in' a supply of anti-fatting-

plits "

--{London Exprate Service).

NEWSLETTER The Shah plays

a dangerous game

Harlem — what a time!

Here in a world, what

NEW YORKERS

are

chrate, bikini-like costumes, for the police look not lightly on

FROM JEAN. CAMPBELL well used to breath- ing each other's exhaust. sures to recompense their hard- Our Empires may rise or fall, carned dollars when they walk Cuba may go Communist, Laos out by night.

Boom! It is all giddy plea- fail to be neutral. Alan

sure at Harlem's best night club, Shepard

his mall can make

the Baby Grand at 128 Street swoop into Space while

and Seventh Avenue near the Washington cheers advisedly immortal Hotel Theresa where but New York steetily rerning Castro slayed during his last Itself, the sophisticated capital visit to New

the

open display in Harlem.

Amateur dancers with awitt and subtle soft soles trip sixut the stage and young singers fresh from the delinquent gongs that haunt the shadowy black alleys sway to the fantastic rhythms of our age.

York, the seedy, of the United States of America. platinum-coated Hotel Theresa,

Nowhere is this more trie than in Harlern. Way down where cockroaches meander over

Little heeded grim green eetings and town in Greenwich Village the first great play about the heart of the African Negro has just

It was written by M. Genet and is stilarly called The Blacks,

Opened.

and very ordered deal with the

Jeans

where to the roar of Negro crowds Khrushchev kissed Cos- tro, implanting a never

to be forgotten or forgiven moge in impressionable American

the

mind.

The Blacks is Pirandelloish in Now the Theresa is quiet but form and tumultuous in content, music blares out until four in To the tune of a very French the Baby Grand. The club has minuet, it scarlet walls and luminous fish ritual of the

on the ceiling. Here and there are bowls of faded paper flowers. The audience is almost entirely Negroes.

ears arc

THE Shah of Persia,

that shrewd and AND

saturnine monarch, is now treading a perilous

IT LOOKS AS THOUGH HE IS

path. He is trying to DOING TOO LITTLE MUCH TOO LATE

BY PAUL JOHNSON.

stave off revolution by con- of the making political the words comedian in the pepper and salt cessions. jacket m the orange trousers. He used them like a chorus to a Every precept of history and song each time nobody laughed.commonsensu indicates that they "Oh, what a world, oh, what will be too little and too late.

Since the Shah was restored all very reminiscent of the last to power in 1953 — an operation days of Tsarist Russia - even a time!"

Persia has a record of mis- for which the US Central Intel- down to the astrologists who rule and government

Corrup ligence Agency taken the main haunt court circles. tlon unique even in the Middlo credit he has made some at- East. For more than three de tempts to introduce popular re-

the dis- forms. cades-except during Senator Barry Coldwater, that astrous years of Dr Mossadeg's Filver

haired, 60 - year - old Senator from the Cactus Senduarrel with Anglo-Iranian-the state has received massive Dil Lands of Arizona, is growing royalties, currently running at in sex appeal from week to

around £100 million a year. week.

Six-Feet tall and sqirare-

Plus a dimple

Grandiose kreat

A comedian in a sporting, chinned, ho bas the pepper-and-nalt tweed jacket American polliteal fortune-ho and brilliant orange trousers tells possesses a dimple. his jokes to the crowd but he is Bite heeded, the muale means inore. What he has to say the crowd knows as they know the price of butter and the stench of the subway stair,

Goldwater Arts and dances his very successful way between the Conservative Right and the oli-out Right.

A crisis

Sume of the crown lants have been distributed to smiling Within the last few months a Peasants in elaborately pubil- crisis has been brewing. The cised ceremonies. He has laid a recent elections were universal good many foundation stones ly regarded as farelcal, even by (though there is no guarantee, Persian standards. Uncontrolled in Persia, that the building will initation has slashed the incomes ever be finished). Lutterly, he of the elvil service, which 19 has even held Press conferences. large and mutinous.

Food pro- Meanwhile, covernment has duction is falling and foreign bren carried on in traditional exchange shurt. These are pre- fashion. An endless succession clsely the symptoris, which led to the violent overthrow of the drawn their pick of the spolis Menderes regine' in Turkey, and

of Syngman Rhée In Korea.

of ministers have taken offide,

But the olf-wealth has sunk back into the earth from which I came. A few grandiose hos pitals, schools and bridges have He has very strong Rightish been built. The rest has been views for to the right of the Altered into a thousand govern- and departed. For in the Baby Grand you Nixon camp of the Republican ment pockets and emerged again There have been elections, Now prodded by the new nucdonly find yourself in the Party. For instance, unabashed in fashy American cars, alt- openly admitted to be fraudu- American Administration, the

the most knoy-all

students and Shah has acted in desperate Now, atrangely enough, up lit

corner of the most know-all city by President Kennedy's rained-conditioned blacks of flats and lent. Ocensionally

out excursion In Castroland, Swiss bank accounts. Perhaps radien politicans are shot. attempt to avert catastrophe. He in the world, Harteni, applause for this work

Goldwater insists that Cuba

10,000 families have made for-

out his goverment More often, they are inpri- has fung Is not heard. The people of

It is sald of Horiem that it 13 must be blockaded pronomically lunes, while nine-tenths of the soned, or confined to remote and dissolved both houses of upper New York-Negroes one frenetic, blending music with the heart of New York and it or invaded again.

country areas from which the parliament: As premier he has millon strong-like their plea- comedy Strip-teasers tease with has no heart. But echoing In my

It is selected Dr All Amini, a wealthy foreign Press is banned.

Eightly murder of a white wo-

man by a black man.

Cimmerings

Mare

SHAH

The entertainment is fast and

centre of

-London Express Service),

population live on incomes aver- nging £30 a year.

CUBA

KING FAISAL'S

IRAQ

CHIANG CHINA

"Maybe, Harold, we should have an agonising reappraisal' on the kind of horses-son buck?”*

#1

bourg ols of views.

mildly berat'

It is widely believed in Teher- an that the US Embassy made plain that Amful--one of the few Persian politicians who has never been accused of corrup Hon-is the only man acceptable to them: His appointment was made the condition of an omer- gency US loan; which is nowi Bring negotiated.

Amini's first move has been! received with delight by tho Teheran mob. He has stopper: the passports of some 160 poli- ticians and high officials against. whom charges of corruption ore. being drawn up.

At the top

But It will take more thui Amini to appease the mob for long. Any investigation of cor roption in Pèrsid ̈must begini ot the top.

For years some members the royal faintly have taken cuts jon uit major business trans- government actions Involving departments.

Equally, with the best will in the world Amini cannot solve Persia's economic crisis. A big US loan, pumped without zafd- guards into the economy, woul merely increase the pressure of inflation.

What Persia mbeds is a haft to the drift fròin the fanữ; viror- ous measures against soil erosion, como central mechanism, to' con- trol prices, and effective lawṛ to slap the flight of capital. All these will take time.

But ilme, above all, is what Amini lacks. The cheers of Teheran will turn tu anger quickly enough, unless he can produce tangible results in à matter of weeks. And if the reformist cxperiment of Dr Amini falls, then Persia will be faced with the bioak alternative of police-rule or revolution.

Freedom

But at this Ild stage, I doubt If the Shah would neceed in re- Inpbeing rule' bý; furce. He has given the mab tantalising taste of freedom. History ha way of antiching the contrði af events from the hands of abrolyte monarchs who make the fit, fatal cohermiin.

Just in case, the Shah ha përtnärent sulfo' reserved at 11:0 Excolator in Rome. But I he takes to his Aravels again, the | ggrisnejšienoòn for the • Whet will | bè 19 no vingne so comfortable,"

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