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Tovoravich

Adapted From The

Warner Bros. Film

Chapter V

"Good evening, Your Highness-Excellency!"

Imperial

The head walter, in purple and Hold Ince, bowed low as Taliana and Mikail entered the colourful meeting place of the White Russian refugees Balalaikas blared-the walters were resplendent in Cossack costumes-an entertainer

dancing with dagger between his teeth--and the guests sang, drank their vodka, and shattered their glasses with wild gusto,

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Georges Dupont and his pretty alster Helene Congratulated them- selves on having found the right night-club and hurried toward Tatiana and Milcall who were sur- rounded by retainers and old friends. "Aren't you surprised to And มะ here?" Helene called happened to hear-accidentally-

you were coming here Georges Anished her we've got a table for four

that

ace and sentence,

ניי

"And

In splic of interruptions Tatiana found time to dance with Georges who made puppy love to her, by saying, in the Russian he had learned from a book, "Ia was loublou

BU posed to mean I love you.

Tatiens told him that the way

way he said it, $1 meant little sick dog, and cut Bim to the quick by laughing outrage- ously. Helene's efforts to make love to Mikall were equally deplorable. The excitement of the evening came when Mikall recognized and denounced a who tried to lure him to Gorotchenko-under the pre- tence that a dying friend had rent

him. As Mikail's words lashed out at the offender, Helene listened

for

with growing contality.

"Go back to who sent you!"

the

Gorotchenko

u!" shouted Mikal! s man cowered before him-Tell him that you found us in good health and happy, and not over-enthusiastic about taking a trip to an unknown destination! He may seize me... may get my right hand... but not

signature!

my

"Not a

a billion... not a million "Tatiana not a thousand chimed In "Not

sou!" Mikail finished, "And now repeat it!" The spy did so as if the knout was even then on his back. Then he departed in haste, The balalaikas cried out- the dancers danced-the glasses at the drinkers, were shattered--and Helene and Georges left determined to keep from their parents their escapade, but to come again,

The next day both of the young Duponts continued their pursuit of the astonishing servants. Helene was helping Mikall set the table- Georges at the heels of Tatiana us she made the beds. "I

only am inppy, Tatiana, when I tiptoe down the stairs at night, and when you sing and deal the cards with those exquisite fitle hands!" Things were in quite a disturbing state when Pape Dupont arrived, reprimanded his son for rudeness and sent him to his room after which he all but declared his own feelings for Tatiana.

They were having eight impres alve guests for dinner that night ond Madame Dupont was. giving Mikail and Tatiana their orders.

the

"Mikail you are. 10 serve cocktails, if you will-and Tina, my dear, you serve the Sakovska. I've engaged an extra servant to be at the door and do the announcing... .” "Yes, madame," said Tatiana. "Very good, mudame," said Mikail. Mudame Dupont went to her hus- band's side; he asked softly,

"Have you spoken to them

"about our guest of honour?" She called to Taliana and Mikail, who were about to leave the room. They stopped. "I was about to speak about our guest. ." he stammered Madamy and appreciate the fact that your sym- pathies are with the cause of White Russia !" "Yes, sir..." ons- wered Milcail, wondering,

hon

er

"Naturally we h derstand your devotion to your form- cr employers-the Prince Princess

and

dinner

"May they be blessed and pre- served)" murmured Tatiana devoutly. "But there are times when political differences are apt to be embarrass- ing.. at the

er to-night there will be a num ber of important people people. international oil people French English Dutch

oil

and my own For goodness' zake, Charles, come to the point," Madame Dupont inter- rupted impatiently. “Our guest of honour to-night is to be the Soviet

Commissar-Commissar Gorotchen-

HP you

him

doubtless have

heard

of

.?" Mikail said he had, "I've never met the man," continued Madame, fondling Fin

"I ima-

gine he is pretty much of a boor, but we must do all we can to put him

at his caso..

man

"He is a most cultivated madame," said Mikall calmly, "with Д very ilvely wit. It was he who composed that Immortal sentence which was engraved on the door of the Loublanka Prison: Four walls Har punishment are three too

Well; Garatchenko is representing blt interests

“He was not always in oil," said" Mikail, "When he was chief of the Investigating sinff of the Tcheka, ry" former master, Prince Ouratien, þad some dealings with him. Yes, Bir **** Mikali velled his bitterness well," "During the interview Gorat- chenko catured 'n lighted cigarette to be placed between the fingers of my imaster men al castest 7amnis Grand Duchens Tauan Patron từ ba

· brought from her- prísón bellis for torture 799001 bellavý, Monaleur And bindime are not, interested fr

Athletes of the New Russia-forty thousand of them- parade in the Red Square, Moscow, at a physical finess demonstration. -

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NOVELS

AYBE there is no tool ike an old fool, but J. L. Hodson has writ- ten a rattling good yarn about one in Mr. Ark- wright's Marriage (Gollancz, 7s, od.).

I was interested in Mr. Ark- wright from the start. A widower and Lancashire to his watch- chain, he had a hundred thousand pounds "safely tucked away." Yet he lived like a retired bank-clerk, pottering round the house, playing violin duets with his old friend, Joe, and surveying the world with a knowledgeable alr.

Then he went on a erulse and met the young, red-haired, green-eyed and dashing Kitty Donovan, He fell in love with her and; in due course, as I could have warned him, she took Mr. Arkwright for a ride.

A slight story, it entertalued me to the end. Hearing the neighboura gossip "There's more gets wed than dors weel.

I'm sayin' nowt, but he'll do wi' watchin.), nodding to them as they walked in and out, I fancied I was up at Blackpool for the dlay,

N

ro tonic wind blows through The Chute, by Albert Halper (Cassell, 83. 8d.), though the pace is killing and the talk is loud.

For, this time, we are on the floor of a monster mail-order cancer in Chicago, dodging the Borters and packers as they race up and down like madmen feeding the chute.

"Suddenly Paul stood rooled. Towering eighteen feet above him. the opening was immense, the biggest mouth on earth! Merchandise was pouring from it like Java, rushing into troughs.

"Mounted high on a wooden-plat- form, a crew of ten separators war working desperately, diverting the flowing mass with wooden prongs. The packages, falling of their own weight from the chute-mouth, zoomed along the inclines at breakneck speed. A landslide was falling, a landslide of goods,"

That's how the Middle Western farmers get their shirts and their overalls, their curduruys and their woollen stockings And the Golden Rule Mali-Order Company "zces that they get them on time. even if it has to employ boys on roller-skates to whizz the mail-sacks along....

Mr. Halper, who was always worth watching. arrives with The Chute, a novel of industrial ruthlessness from that Land of Liberty where they spell ruthlessness with the largent of large Rs. It made me dizzy to look up from the pages. It'll get you, too.

I

Fyou spent your working days acting in melodramas, would -you come to talk like a heroine or a villain-in your off-stage hours?

Some of the characters in Loule Lynch d'Alton's novel, Rags and

says Mr

·Peppercorn :

WHAT does a

miser have

at the back of his mud when he starts to scrape and save?

I've seen it, sald

#that is the power

that money gives

that urges him

on, but that gets him nowhere, na

ho daren't awo it.

If the idea is to have a good time for the last few years of his life, that gets him nowhere either, na he mustn't start too soon and. so never starts at all.

It can't be that he wants other folk to envy him his wealth as be never lots on, and, the only thing you can be sure about is that whai happens when he dies and others scoop, the pool · lìn't what ho intended.

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HONGR

TUESDAY MARCH

1938

Which Way MADIAN PACIFIC

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for Russia?

Review by Professor George Catlin

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Д broken-down

IR WALTER CITRINE is like the man · Lenin who said that the Boviota from Dundee. He wants to know had inherited why. We have here a new edition country. with important additions, at a

Citrine clearly and rightly price surprisingly cheap, of the record of his

points out that, in judging Russia, tour in Russia (I Search for Truth in Russia. one must always declde! whather'

one is comparing what has been Routledge, 88. Bd.),

made by the Soviets, of this "broken-down country" with the outside. Social Democratia. world,. or even capitalist world — or whether one is comparing Soviet Russia with the Tsardom that Henry Nevinson describes in Dawn in Russia.

It is popularly written. It contains new facts that we want to know. It is a startlingly ...... courageous - book

The last chapter is of especial interest, Remarkably fairly it reviews up to date, since 1935, the rise of production in Russia, the fre- quent rise of prices, the alleged conspiracy in the Army and the removal of the presidents of every one of the federated Republics, the facts that explain the present difficulty of negotiation between the Russian Trade Unions and the I.F.T.V. Citrine shows a Trade Union organiser's thoroughness. His facts have never been challenged. He asked the prices that workers had to pay for goods. I was in Russia, in 1935, for rather longer than the Webbs on their second tour.

Sticks (Heinemann, 7a. Od.), do, with gestures and everything. But then They are the harassed, hecto mem- bers of a small "At-up" company tour- ing the towns of Ireland.

I settled down comfortably in the atmosphere of this story of their loves and hates, lurid in the footlights. A night with the MacTansey Superlative Repertory Plnyera! It might be much

WOTSC.

But Mr. d'Alton must wipe some of the grease-paint of his prose. For in- stance, people don't peruse letters nowadays. They read them.

R.P.

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*** My House in Malaga, by Bir Peter Chalmers Mitchell (Faber and Faber, Ba. (d).

✶✶✶ Madame Curie, by her daughter,

Eve (Helnemiaan, 188.).

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**Tble Man Murray, by William

Corcoran (Dent, 78, ed.).

** No.... News, by Pamela Frankau

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*** Actists 15' Crime, by Ngalo

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Dis. Mic-

On looking

over my notes, I and that the figures I took down almost exactly accord with Citrine's.

Citrine inquired into the housing- but not precisely the housing pointed out by Intourist.

He had been told that housing was particularly good in Baku. He had a look at shacks accommodating, not a few, but thousands. "The whole place looked vile. I fald so."

Abstractions

"But this is what the millionaires left. Comrade Citrine."

"The millionaires are not operating the oil-fields now.... Eighteen years after the Revolution you arm at 'allowing your people to live here,

"You cannot get away from the fact that it is the Soviet's economic policy which has aggravated this situation. In your haste to develop your natural resources, you have left these wretched people to manage as best they can."

Briefly, Citrine's case is that Soviet Russia has become a Land of Abstrac- tions. behind the screen of which powerful men plot or develop a giant Stale economy.

The answer given, when Citrine asked for an explanation, was that the people must tighten their belts until the country could feel "anfo to restat the attuck of its enemies, both economic and military

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It is important to allow for the vital fact that therSoviet Union is a mull- tary Fader whose people have been brought up, day by day, to bellove in the imminence of capitalist attack,

The Russian workers Hye amid the enthusiasm and difficulties of almost war-time conditions. Above all, they feel their land is their own. It was

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We must go further. Western coun- tries may learn to their benefit from the great USSR. experiment, e.g., In social insurance provision, especially neeldent insurance, in the plans for free medical attention in the Poly- clinics (not always in practice), in communal services for women and in provision for the care of young

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Whither?

Citrine's new, final chapter beara on this issue: Whither the Soviet Union? Will Revolution devour her own chill- dren?

Even at the time of his famous in- terview, hero described, with Tomsky, at one time chairman of the All-Union Council of Trade Unions, who com- mitted suicido, Citrine was not happy about the way things were going.

A VRST country is in the building. Will

it be a free country?

Citrine provides us with the facts up to date. The Webbs have provided the blue-prints of the future "all for the workers." Citrine never for a minute forgets the existence of these plans

This is the book, of, a man who has atriven koop his balances fair and his weights just. It is yet the book of a man who loathes totalitarianism.

He fights, the battle of the human spirit against it, even when it displays -itself in a system that has other

aspirations.

Ponder This

However excused by its beller in the inevitability of war, Soviet Ruskin owes

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The rulers of Russia will do well to ponder, before pursuing thar denun-

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7 Epithet for

(la),

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A decomposed goat in burying. causes enquiry (13).

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rough (4).

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rather

16 Musical farewell to a vessel

17 H

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18 Debate (7).

21 Colour receptacle.

on

washing day (two words-4,

used

3).

23

One comes after this (4).

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25 A correction of a correction

(4).

20 The Eastern change is seripus

(7).

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30 "No sure prices" (aung.) (12).

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parts of: India?.

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