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What about a new approach, boys?"

LET'S BAN THE CENSOR

Achtung! Achtung! This Is Radio Progress calling theatrical producers, authors and comedians. By order of the Lord Chamberlain, all jokes, songs or sketches which make fun of Ministers of the Government are to be closely scrutinised, discouraged, altered or banned completely.

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AKE a note of the date, be- cause it may become his- toric. The right of the Englishman to laugh at his political masters is in jeopardy.

Never again will any future 'Mr W. H. Smith have to endure the unsocial, disruptive malice of GR- bert and Sullivan's "When I was o Lad," sung by Sir Joseph Porter. Nor need Lord Jowilt on the Wool- sack have any fears that he will be laughed at in another "Iolanthe."

Lain

by Beverley Baxter, MP

Already the BBC humorists have to desiat, and now the been told

Per theatre comes under the ban. haps the Royal Commission to in- quire into the liberties of the Freas may recommend that all newspaper comment on Ministers of the Crown shall be respectful in future.

I am sorry for the Lord Chamber- more whose office has once proved that a theatrical censorship can be as stupid as it is out of date.

Lord Clarendon, who holds that might be argued that the Lord Chamberlain's action was not the unenviable post, has always tried to take an adult view of the theatre, result of direct ministerial pressure but he knows in his heart that the and I sincerely hope that this is true, only real achievement of the censor But the top dog does not need to encouragement of howl. Just a little was to keep "Damaged Goods" the British stage for years because it and the whole pack will start baying dealt seriously instead of frivolously at the moon.

with sin.

Asity when he intervenes to ND now comes-the-crowning

of

save the dignity and vanity Ministers from the lampoon of the theatrical satirist. In other words, the authors of the revue "Between Ourselves" to be produced shortly at the Playhouse, have been told to dilute or delete the political debun- kery in the script.

Why should revue authors be denied the same right of expression

We have had protests in the House of Commons from Socialist MPs who practically accused the BBC of being an underground political organisa- tion out to destroy the Government."

By Low The true story

One MP quoted the dreadful words sung by a BBC comic who wanted to emigrate because: they can get along without Chur- chill, they can blooming well do without me.'

behind the Nelson pension

POR hours recently members

FOR

of Parliament, turning their backs on urgent affairs of State, discussed the love affair of Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton.

Mr Dalton had brought in a Bill to terminate the pension of £5,000 a year paid to the Nelson family in recognition of the great sailor's services to the nation.

To justify his decision, Mr. Daiton recalled that in the last codiet to Nelson's will, written shortly before the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson had left Lady Hamilton as 'n legacy to my King and Country."

Yet Lady Hamilton, said the Chan cellor, "was allowed to die and starve In a garret in Calais." The pension to the Nelson family, he suggested, had utterly failed to carry out the wishes of Britain's greatest naval liero.

Blacksmith's child

THE Chancellor's history, like some

by CHARLES

WINTOUR ·

Emmu wrote anally, "If I was with you I would murder you' and myself

both."

Sir William marry her. She first be- Emma how determined to make

came his mistress. A few years later ahe, was his wife.

All Naples raved over her beauty. She became the friend and confidante of the Queen, carrying on conßdential business between the Queen and Sír William.

It was on Nelson's return from his triumph in the Battle of the Nile, in 1798, that Emma set out to con quer Nelson. On boarding the Van- guard, and eceing the hero, she ex- claimed, "Oh, God, is it possible?" and fainted pointedly on to Nelson's one arm.

A few days later she gave a mag-

skatchy. Emma Hamilton's last let birthday. More than 1,700 guests ters showed that she was living on attended the ball; 800 sat down to partridges, turkeys and turbat, witr supper. good Bordeaux wine to wash thera

down. But she was certainly in Putting on weight

financially straitened circunis'unces,

and she had returned to the poverly ALTHOUGH Emma

of her youth.

Who now

noticeably putting oh weight, Bora in 1701, the daughter of a Nelson noon succumbed to her charms Cheshire blacksmith, her first job and remained her devoted and fen- was nursemaid to some local children. lous lover to the end,

sho soon moved to London, Yet a pretence of purity was main- But where she lived on the streets while | tained for the beneft of Sir William stlil in her early teens. She appeared who, surprisingly enough remained Even last week Mr Herbert Mor-in a dublous exhibition, in Holborn. on terms of the closest friendship rison and Sir Stafford Cripps told the child to which she gave birth was with Nelson. The strangely assorted Opposition to be careful that in at-packed off to live with her grand- trio crossed Europe together. In 1801 tacking the Government they did not mother in North Wales.

Emma delivered a giri, Horatia, whose injure the nation itself.

father was certainly Nelson.

Have we become so numbed, 50

When the was 19 a dissolute

baronet gave her "protection" and a home in Sussex. But she was kleked

lacking in the sturdy independence out for "giddy" behaviour, Just when

Sir William died who years later, his wife supported the pillow, his

of our ancestors that we shall sub- she was about to have another child/right hand was held by Nelson.

The prig

mit to this latest Interference with- out even one mighty, derisive roar? Are we so used to chains that an extra one does

1038. not matter 16 EMMA was not at # She then let us no longer revie

wrote to Charles Greville, whom Germans for their passive accep- she had met in Sussex "OG., that tance of National Socialism.

I was in your possession as I was In Sir H

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Greville was a cold, calculating prig who knew a beautiful woman

Emma received a large legacy from her husband; Nelson also allowed her £1,200 a year and the free use of a house. But, cut by court so- clety, she turned for amusement to gambling. She was constantly in debt.

the

After Nelson's death at Trafalgar it was said by her enemies that Lady ND now, us a dramatic critic, may

Hamilton went repeatedly to A moves a grants which will when he saw one. He set Emma up theatre in order to be seen ininting have the support of all those who in an establishment off the Edgware whenever the ballad,, "Death of Nel- care for the welfare of the theatre? road, and saw to her schooling. Em-son," was sung. During his lifetime The censorship of plays should be ma learned to sing, dance, deport Emma had certainly been as jealous abolished. Its existence is an insult herself in

to play on the harp of his behaviour as he had become to the theatrical profession and to sicord, to

the public. There is no censorship ton to reina Greville's collec of her acquaintance with the Prince

of books, and even the censorship of films is self-imposed. Then why is the theatre singled out for

this

sanitary control?

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It was at this time that she sat to Romney, who become infatuated with her beauty,

Greville found that he could not

Regent. Yet whether love ever stir- red in her breast after she had been dropped by Greville must be doubt- ful.

Let me repent that Lord Clarendon afford Emma, so he offered her to his In prison has done his best to understand the uncle, Sir William Hamilton, Ambus- difficultles and requirements of sador at Naples, Hamilton was de DES

ESPITE her repented requests, theatrical entertainment, but it is lighted. ridiculous to submit one of the ex- pressionist arts to the cold and timid scrutiny of officialdom.

Abolish the censori Proclaim the right of the people to laugh at their political rulersi

and the codicll to Nelson's will, Under the pretext of continuing the Government refused to pay her an annulty. Her financial affairs her studies Emma was packed off to Naples. Shortly after her arrival she grew worse. In 1813 she was ar- wrote to Greville that she had had rested for debt and spent a year in a conversation with Sir Willem that the King's Bene prison. An alder- has made

mad. There can be man helped her to escape to France, made me mad." no doubt that Emma was sincerely where she lived only eight months in love with Greville despite his un- does anybody care? Those sympathetic attitude. whom the gods would destroy they first make Indifferent..

Achtung! Achtung!

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According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

as a cartoonist like Low even n Twelve declarers in a duplicate | out of two in three to one chance).

Journalist like myself? Supposing I wrote a political revue for publica- tion and opened it in this way:

Scene: A bricklayer on an empty plot of ground sits holding a solitary brick in his hand, which he gazes at as if it were Yorick's skull. Quietly he recites:Alns, poor Bevan!--I knew him well; a fellow of infinite chost."

Or what about a New Year Eve! party, where,

ring is the chimes forth, the hostess gives the toast:

Let's all begin well

Like Emanuel Shinwell.

To be followed by a solo and a tap dance by the Chancellor of the Exchequer;

When my hand's in your pocket

And I've got your docket,

You may think you're amart, But there's a song in my heart. Why is there no one to rise up und protect Mr Bevan, Mr ́Shinwell and Mr Dalton?

be

The case against me would overwhelming. Under the guise of writing an "article on the Lord Chamberlain's cflce I am deliberate- ly indulging in anti-ministerial pro paganda.

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The more pertinent point, however, is that no declarer achieved the per-

•fectly normal result of taking all the tricks in the play. Whether tho contract was four or six, surely the following was the most logical line:

West opened the club klag at all tables, Dummy wins, and three rounds of diamonds must be played, to allow declarer to discard his losing club. Then, surely the heart Ancaso is the normal next step. When the queen holds the ace is cashed and a low heart ruffed with the five of spades. A club is ruffed with declarer's deuce, and the fourth heart ruffed with dummy's jack. Certainly, it is now a simple matter to ruff another club with the six- spof, (remember that the club queen has not yet shown up from West, and, therefore, no over-rust, is im- minent) and now declarer in reduced to the K-10-7 of trumps and dummy to the blank ace of trumps, one diamond, and one club.

A trump to the ace forces the lead of a diamond or a club from dummy, and at this point declarer has nothing to lose by trumping with the ten-spot. Since the queen les with East, declarer automatically finds himself with 13 tricks..

But Greville, to whom her young heart seems to have been sincerely given, did not listen to her pleas.

more.

Said Mr Wilson Harris during the Commons debate: "Lord Nelson clearly turned both blind eyes to Lady Hamilton's shortcomings,”

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