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JEWISH BOYCOTT
The adoption by British Jowry.
By PETER FORD
of a resolution declaring a boycott THE now divorce crop is a bum- to`overy department of my pro-
IT IS RUMOURED.
BY ED. KELLY, SCANDALMONGER
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of German goods and services is T per one and will produco ductions chlofly. Important, as a public the usual bumper crop of sweep Although I had the training of.. gesture. It may lead to some in- ing generalisations about mar. an actor and stage nanager ba tensification of the campaign, but ringe. A friend of mine figures in fore I took to the business afde of STRONG rumours have been current to the effect. the damage to Germany's trade the undefonded list. She dined the theatre and actually produced can hardly be made more severe with me the other night-a pret-a play under my own management that Mr. J. S. Landolt won than has already been accomplish- ty blonde, a year off thirty. und stage direction over thirty-five about $280,000 in the China
"The mistake I made," she con- years ago, I do not generally re- National State ed by the unofficial boycott carried on by the Jews since the anti-fessed, was to marry too young, hearse the actors. Semitic nature of Nazl' policy re- vealed itself as more than a pass ing phase. Without publicity of any kind, the Jews in England have quietly and methodically caused millions of pounds worth of Gorman orders to bo cancelled and an effective organisation has been ..HK$3,400 in existence for aome considerable time past. Parallel organisations 3,600 have been established in most
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work in the United States to see that every possible handicap is placed upon trade with Germany. Sunday's conference in London merely brought the activities of British Jewry into the
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1983, FORGETTING TO
REMEMBER
"I was seventeen!
Somebody ought to have stopped In my view the word "pro-These rumours. have been me. But father was delighted and duction" applies to more than that denied.
Strong rumours have also mother thought Jack such a nice conduct: of rehearsals to which young man, and, of course, I had the phrase is often applied, to the been current that Mr. Ed- a crush on him-one of those calf-oxelublon of the promotion and co-
ordination of all the other activi- Ward Kelly will pay his love crushest
tics which result in giving the Hotel chit account before public a new theatrical entertain- the end of the year. Inter- viewed yesterday. Mr. Kelly emphatically denied the slander
"Now, I'm not the same person, All my ideas have changed. didn't stop growing when I mar- ried. But. Jack was twenty-five,
I ment.
GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT. With musical plays and revues it
countries on, the Continent" and and I supposed ho had finished his is soldont a case of an author or rumours, which he charac-
RACIAL PRIDE
E
heavens there are no children!"
And she lit a cigarette pret. ty blonde, a year off thirty, and married for twelve years. I look ed at her and thought that if she
play or score for my consideration, spread by unthinking people who Having conceived the idea of the were trying to besmirch his For some time past rumoure entertainent I want to build up, 1 name. or auttiors and the composer or look round and select the author
these Although rumours have not been officially The title and subject are chosen denied, the Committee has de- and the development worked out cided to charge the usual prices. Strong rumours were current usually as the result of conferon- ces, stage by stage. As the play in the Colony yesterday that a is written the music lo composed typhoon was hovering around. and submitted for my approval.
open. had waited another six or seven composers who, I feel, can give the/ have been current that the price years, she would not now be taking what I want. The same method of admission to St. Andrew's up the time of the Divorce Court applies in commissioning an adap-Ball will be reduced by fifty cents
Marriage has not been reduced tatlon from a foreign language or this year.
to an exact science. Probably It never will be, but the divorce lists from a book. would not be anything like so heavy as they are if men and wo- men paid more serious attention to the age factor. And by age factor I do not necessarily mean ago in terms of the calendar,
Some women are settled at twenty-fivo.. Others are
alim, adventurous, and ready for anything at forty. And it's the same with men, if not more so.
FITTING PIECES TOGETHER.
move
A TEXT FOR TO-DAY
King David himself folkwed the Blers Sam. 3.31.
Go thou and do likewlae.
There is nothing really new likely to follow upon the passing of the boycott resolution. COUNTING THE COST
The weapon employed is one that few can have any real sympathy with, although it is the only one available to the Jewish leaders.
Various suggestions are made to These rumours have since boon Soveral persona were One of the organisere has made
me with regard to the casting; but denied. young, it plain that the boycott is not directed against the German po
usually start with a pretty clear under the mistaken impression ple, many of whom are suffering
idea of the principals I want, and that the hoisting of a typhoon all the actors and chorus have to signal meant that a typhoon might as severely as the Jews themselves
Referring to the rumours cur- under the Hitler regime, but
Theories about divorce are in- be personally seen and approved accur. against Nazi Intolerance. Those teresting; but the facts seem not by me, finally. acquainted with the Jews need no to change. The marriages which The visual side of entertainment rent in Hongkong that a well- telling of their communal spirit, most frequently hit the rocks are has a strong appeal to me, and I known Scotsman found a ten cont when interviewed this morning! which means that the Jewish boy those contracted when the parties take great care in my selection of ploco inst week Rebort Whirter cott of Germany will probably be are really too young to know their designers for the scenes and cos-wanted to know who he was. more complete than any other own minds. The divorce satistics tumca. I suggest to them what I people in the world could possibly testify that the dangerous period require and they go away, to re- make it. Financial considerations of married life comes between the turn later with their detailed de- If a good memory is at are not allowed to count as a factor | eighth and the tenth year. They velopment of these general ideas. perennial joy, the ability to when the rights and privileges of also show that about one divorce
A further stage is reached when forget nonessentiala is an equal the race are challenged. Germany in every eight occurs after twenty blessing. It is altogether too will be far more concerned in yeats of married life.
Twenty years! It sounds a long a start is made at putting all these counting the coat.
time. But if a man marries at pieces together. Often with a big easy to abuse a good memory by
twenty, he is only forty; and at musteal show there are several re different allowing trivial and unimportant
forty a man can be astonishingly hearenle going on in matters become too deeply em-
from one to the other, making bedded in one's recollections.
young. So can a woman-but not places simultaneously. I
notes and comments on all points Habits of memory can be direct-
every woman.
On the occasion of his gulden that occur to me, and co-ordinating ed to a considerable extent by training oneself to dwell upon rather a joke and with such wedding the other day Sir Alfred the work of the different stage de worth-while items in daily living mockery as scientific men permit James Rice-Oxley, the celebrated partments-the masten) director, Handsome Book Mark for Roaders and constantly to drop the holes invite the Nazi leaders physician, pronounced himself the ballet-mistress, the wardrobe, ordinary and the inharmonious. to define an Aryan, Political strong believer in catly marriage. and so on, as they work towards
William Morris Hughes married the completed production.
Often I suggest cuts or additions | Some persons can call the roll of leaders, treating of the realities, when he was twenty-two and every day's menu, in their late do not concern themselves with scraping a living as n Welsh im- or the rewriting of parts of the vacations; sonie can remember a the fundamental weakness, but migrant of two years' standing in script or score which appear to score or two of obsolete tele look askance at the attempt to Australia. He rose to become me necessary before or during the In producing a now straight play phone numbers; others can re- puff up the pride of the German Prime Minister of Australia and rehearsals,
for the first time I make up my peat dimensions of old bridges to people and check Hitler's foreign a world-famous personality. An the last inch; and others yet policy at all points in self-defence. early marriage helped him.
Lord Baden-Powell was fifty-five mind who is the most suitablo recall the cost of every item of The Jews declare a boycott. In clothing acquired during the last Germany, a new problems raises when he married. His wife is director to handle this particular With my organisation, it is pos- two years, statisties as to the ita head with the creation of a thirty years younger than. "B.P." play
ie nelther Yet that is one of the most ideally community which
alblo to produce a number of plays same time. The pre-war salaries of government Aryan" nor Jew, Germans with successful marriages. I know. officials, and the ages. of distin-a Jewish ancestor at some time or
Guitry, the great French actor, at almost the guished strangers almost with other since the days of Napoleon. so shrewd and so worldly wise, chief requisites of the producing choose the right out end. The Newgate calendar They number seven or eight mil- told me not long ago that the manager are imagination, courage, lists nothing of this sort as an lions. In some respects, their astute man marries a girl at least and ability to offence against
the public plight is worse than that of the ten years younger than himself. lieutenants to whom he can de- welfare, and the mental pigeon-Jews themselves. A wise intinct lle considers thirty a good nge for legate a mass of detail, to keep holing of such devitalized in-compels them to organige, and if a man to go forth on life's greatest track of what they are all doing, formation passes for harmless Hitler makes examples of their adventure. Not.earlier than that, and to help them with encourage-
leaders, they will still be there, diversion in many most respect-ever a problem, strong enough to HOW I PRODUCE able circles. Since remembering be a perpetual nuleance if nothing and forgetting are but reverse more. It looks
as though sides of the same mental mirror, i Nazi Chancellor has hitten off
The Nazi glorification of the "Aryan race" is in all respects the most hurtful of its doctrines. Ethnological axperts treat it as
it is only necessary to. turn the more than he can chew,
glass around to expose the
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memory to impressions of THE BLUDGEON -
real value and to free it
the
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A PLAY
rk
By CHARLES B. COCHRAN.
AM often asked how I find it possible to produce so many
from encumbrances. The cul- Germany's chief trouble to-plays and yot maintain that close tivation of what one's Aunt day is that where her instincts are personal supervision which I give Victoria used to call "a good
sound enough, her methods, in the forgattery" is an art deserving practically everything that Herr eyes of world opinion, are wrong. more consideration by those Hitler and his lieutenants have ecoking fuller living. This can said about Germany's place in the best be done by putting first sun would be readily endorsed by things first. It means. giving atatesmen elsewhere. British, the right of way to recollections French, American or Polish, or of of beauty, stimulating interests most every other nationality. But and kindness in the living card they jib at the bludgeon. index of the human heart; throwing aside the picture of NATIONAL DEFENCE low-tido mudflats for the, re-
In Italy, Signor Mussolini wields collection of the plunging surf greater power and oven more ruth- at high water; discarding the lessly in certain respects than memory of real or fancied Horr Hitler, but his methods are Blights in favour of helpful cour different and he escapes internal tesies and friendly acts; seeking trouble and external criticism. I to understand fundamentals The fact that the resignation of ahead of details; studying the General Balbo, recent hero of an trends of history before reaching historie mass Bight, could even broad conclusions built oned at the will of Il Duca without isolated events; and recalling the causing some internal rumbling noble harmonica of a great sym- and grumbling, is algalficant. In phony in preference to the one fact, the move Signor Mussolini falso note from the wood winds contemplates, the combination of In the midst of the tender the War Office, Air Ministry and andante that marred, an other-Navy Office in one ministry, will wise perfect afternoon. The be applauded. A similar step In unusual makes news and its im- Britain, would be regarded as pact upon the memory creates distinct progress, if we could be far-reaching Impressions; but in sure of a Mussolini Secundus atm this swiftly changing er many the head. It is almost absurd the facts lose their importance in a way we go on now, with the Army week. Fortunately the art of and Navy chiefs fighting for their own to the last ditch-anthey judicious forgetting improves have been trained to do with the with practice, and, remarkable vary Junior Air Force sadly to say, the reward is a better neglected. A Ministry of Nation memory for the things that al Defence, combining all three count most in this amazingly I would rapidly sort them fato Interesting world.
Proper places.
be rumoured as likely to be tender...
ment and advice,
A difficulty with which I am 'one's hands on the right stage director or the right cast just when I want them for a particular pro-A duction.
A majority of stoge directors are found to be particularly good with one type of play and not with no- other. Reinhardt, who is equally (Continued on Page 5.)
sometimes faced is that of laying
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