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HIGHLIGHTS

THE serenity of the season tragedy. Mr Home thought that I in upon us, save for "noises Injured his play by emphasising the off" at Westminster, and we that was the reason for its decline. homo-sexual motif, but 1 doubt if who are the contemporary his- The truth is that the public looked torians of the London theatre on it as a documentary rather than can pause to consider our in- entertainment. The public were terim verdict on the first half wrong, but there is no appeal against

their verdict. of 1947.

Unless something startling happens people will hardly speak of this as a vintage year. Tho arctic blight of last winter seemed to chill dramatic inven- tion and to linger in Shaftes bury-avenue long after the ice age had departed. We had no magnificent failures, no author going down with all his guns firing. Some of them sank all the critics right, but it was who did the firing.

Yet the record is not all bleak, Miss Eileen Herlie cross- ed the great Divide from Ham- mersmith to the West End and was heralded the actress of the year as the romantic, widowed queen in the Cocteau-Duncan mysticism, "The Eagle Has Two Heads." I thought she lacked the fragility necessary to the rcle, but being acclaimed by Press and public, she is now quite definitely n commercial proposition.

0

was

Fusilier Mulligan, the oldest serving private

in the Army

by. CHARLES GRAVES

TEVE" to his friends: Fusilier Mulligan to the War Office; "Mr." Mul- ligan to the young soldiers of bis régiment, the Royal Irish Fusillers-the oldest private on nctive service in the British Army, took part recently in an historic ceremony at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.

Napoleonic

trophies were handed over to picked represen Intives of the regiment which captured them in the Peninsular War.

Fusilier Mulligan's short leave, from his battalion now stationed in Tel-Aviv coinciding with the ceremony, he was not unnaturally chosen us one of the Colour Party.

If you believe his A.B.64, Stove was born in 1896. Per sonally I have my doubts.

No. 7040603

But there is no doubt that his Army number is 7040603, nor that his height is 6ft. 10ins.. and that his chest measurement waistcoat is 44ins., over his

while his waist measurement

to

15

Fusiller Mulligan.

Ol ex-

"Wal-'y ither which means good-day;" Then there's 'mungaree which means food, and 'ques qua teer, which means that's all thight","

Seve has picked up the patata, "ay he calle it, of half a dozen dif- ferent countries in the éourse of his service,

Alter, four years in France during World War I. he wont to Mesopotamia and Persin In 10211: Egypt, in 1922, back to Egypt in 1027 then on to Indin six years, when moved to the Sudan.

for

he

After two years In the United Kingdom he was back in Palestine in 1937, and then out in Frands in 1939, back in Egypt In 1045 and now, I repeat, he is on short leave from Pales- tinc.

"What do you think of the modern

a young goirt's heart." plains this to the Corporal. Ho cez Army, Sieve?" "Cancel the ment. Order *wo pounds of sausages'."

1 mel Steve again before the Chelsea Ceremony. His moustaches were as fine, his wink as ferocious, and his carriage us erect as ever,

"What about Palestine today?"

asked.

there's

2 great bit o' 19:19 the toline Oi

The young Arabs

young

Wal, difference from there forst in 1920,

gallant Porthos of the

"The Arabs have picked up THAT

whonderful lot o' British ways and theatre, Ileary Sherck-Idealist, over his waistcoat is 35ins.

He bas 32 years service to his civilian Ideen, even since I was realist, soldier and optimist-actually

credit.

there last in 1937. Ye hear more dared to present new plays by mo- dern authors with varying results

Araby flyin' throug which never put him in the higher Yes, Steve is a the Ogure of a English than income-tax bracket. 1 sorry man with a waxed moustache which your cars. when his activities at the Westming goes back to the days when he was ster Theatre were brought to an end told by old soldiers in the regiment by the Oxford Group players mov- that clean-shaven youngsters -de- tailed for overseas service were Sherck's revival of The Sleeping either

back sent ing in.

Krow Clergyman" is wide awake at the moustache or instructed to have one the time they reached their Criterion, but I doubt if "My Wives by

the chill blast destination. and 1" will survive

Strand. But of the critics, at the with so many resurrection men in He has two full rows of (eight) the thentre let us praise brave ribbons, beginning with the 1014-15 Sherek for creating rather than dis-Star and proceeding by way of the purple and green ribbon denoting interring.

It is good news that Basil Dean, his presence in Mesopotamia, Iraq, Alm the 1939-45 ribbon, and finally, the in conjunction with the Thane of and North-West Persin, including Korda,

is going to produce

and Good Conduct actors in new plays. Mr Dean has Long Service immense experience and great artis-ribbon.

of the the integrity. This move cinema to play a part in the living

theatre might well prove important Story of a steak

of

"Ach, 11'a Q grand life. It's casier learnin' in the Army today.

"O gets eight shillins a day and another sixpence a day overseas- twolce

as much as even a young officer got in 1918, and Oil have a pension of two pun' a week when Ot no."

"And when will that be, Sleve?" "Another 'two years, Oi hope. Afther all, Ol signed for the emer- and that's not over. and gency, there should be at least one year to come afther that,

Best of privileges

"Dut, as Ol was sayin,' the young fellos have the best of privileges it they don't abhuse them. There's a lat to accupy

after their moinds dhuty-sphorts

and games of oli travel thoreign

too,"

"Mind yez, some of the Arabs are a bit nosy like. But It's athrange to see

no cripplement in descriptions, and

None The Jhewish populatiońí, them dishabled, ye might say.

"Yes, there's a hot to be said for but the the Jhews,

Arab has

Of the future Army Steve said: "Any chap who's quick at-all has

grand chance of promotion long as he's willin' to learn, Не can never know too much.

definitely come on wonderful,

"At the end of Rarnadan, not long

"And the young officers, too," he kvere the Araba and Jhews ngo,

went on. "they go much more wid havin' a go in Tel-Aviv.

the folmes, Today they have as much to handle as a commandin' "It put me in moind of '30-37-oleer, more rheatonsibilities and the two of 'em bbashin' into one bhigger risks. nnhother again was one of the foinest soights as ever I seen when "But Of had a son," Steve went The first time I met Steve was at the Arabs ran into the Jhews and an, "Oi'd definitely put him in the Fontaine in France on the Franco- got their own bhack by hittin' them rigimeht. Me father was in it, and DUT, of

the principal fenture has been the American Belgian frontier in December 1839.

"What do you think of this war with bhottle or sthones, p'raps, and his father befhore him."" Invasion. "Oklahoma" hit the town

Inquired.

"But you've never married, "Chen the Jhows go! into the Steve." violently.

"Ach, It's a much better war than Arab quarters and did the same

course,

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Ivor Novello has proved a taln he understands the British that theatre publie better than any other producer. cumposer or playwright. Ilis "Perchance to Dream" Huts on and on, and his very light comedy, "We Proudly Present." is still float ing at the Duke of York's.

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shortly afterwards and the last. This toime in the last wor

TY what steaks can do for we wore up to our necks in mhud. Peran

ke Irving Berlin. "Bom

"Do you remember much of your "I happened to be orderly to the colonel and so I was on the spot. Yesterday" was a mixture of sex, French from last time?"

toughness belbery,

aml high-

O course, we are not allowed to mindedness which clicked at once.

""Oľný picking-up-French galore,

take soides. We're strictly nooiral. Аппу опе who has Life with Father did not quite Sorr

the Gaelic can get his tongue round the "Well. after that The Jhews stand transporting but it goes on.

the Roots and the words and put a bit o' shpft into it. started burun down houses, So "Deep are three-character The Voice of the Oi'm becomin' quolte an interpreter. the Arabs put bonts in theirs,

"It puts me in moind of Corporal Turtle" arrived about the same time

"So the British came in as peace- and 1 suppose the Turtle will win the race, although it doesn't deserve O'Keef, who sez to me, he sez: 'Do makers with the assistance of the

More Broadway hits are on the feel loike a good feed of steak, all a troifle.

ye know what I feel loike, Mulligan? Palestine Phollee and pacifold them but let us

that the record way

What can ye do about it? Look at Cochran-Herbert "Bless the Bride"

this lovely coat toire.' Robert Helpmann tried bravely to still holds its own against the in- being the movement and imagina- vaders.

One word for the small neigh- tiveness of the ballet to the more

"The bourhood theatres. Here is where precise art of the drama

the new writer and the new actor White Devil" and "He Who Gets

get their chance. These places are The Devil found enough Stapped." disciples for a medium run, but the like a fringe of destroyers about the slapped clown was knocked out of battleship of the commercial theatre. "Corporal O'Keel, he sez. Axe the ring almost before he took his Without their protection the battle-he noid woman if it's tinder. Ol bow, The British, being what they are, prefer their drama straight. A legory and mystielsm are beggars in Shaftesbury-avenue, but I hope Mr Helpmann will persist in his experi- ment of movement and colour, per-

ship might not survive.

"Not yet, sorr. But Ol stand a chance wid two or three. Faith, I don't know which wan to take...."

Memories

Steve's memories of Egypt in 1921; We

had riots wid the college hoys. We done a rather thricky

concealed

IR

thing. We got into the express. The waggons were sealed down and the zippos thought was the mall. Out cornes the millthary, The gippos thought 'twas the ould "Mind yoz, if the itary leave, days of Kitchener comin' back. the Jhews won't have it all their felve minutes ya couldn't see one of "Ol was in a good mood, so Ol own way. Even now, we have to cm in the station." went with him to the butchers. Oi be careful of them if we speaks

Mesopotamia: "The best friend to madame and asks for with a little attachy case. come steak. She starts

Ol found there was Abholtje to cut it. Two pounds of it,

Arab wather."

Iraq Campaign: "The Arabys "Have you learned much Arabic, slot very well and were remarkable

folne horsemen. They'd give She sez is as tinder Steve?" x33 her.

partin' shot at yez acroost the tail of their horses."*

see wan

Y tell ye, sorr, the ould want take it lyin' down."

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

my!

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Indla: "Ol dodged me own chab- lain in the rigiment for two years, hans in a modern sutire written by AFTER cutting nine widgeon Trailing clouds of material would the Lord Provost have said used to call him sorr instead of

If each sausage had contained a

Father, so he thought Ol was C. of Ronald Duncan with musical

into ninety-nine pieces on a com-

READ that the Parls Couturiers Danish actress? But it is the little, until one of the bhoys gave me mentary by Benjamin Britten. black cloth covered with golden have issued a decree that skirts sausages that should get priority for away-aceldental Ol expect. But it Turning over the pages of my numerals. Mme. Zaphroma are to be very long again. "To make trips by air. Just because they are Ord found out, Oi'd have knocited rap book since returning from clacked her teeth with the a mystery of the leg."

"It is high small incy have to go by train. his block off. America in February, I recall with sound of the closing of the time a mystery were mado of it.

"Ach, I got the surproise of me pleasure Mr Anthony Quayle's

loife when the chaplain said, ΟΙ didn't see you on Sunday, Mulligan.' O'll be there on Sunday, father,'

*imless, p'raps, turn Moslem

If O don't see you in n there, Ol' Moslem you, Mulligan,' Mitro lounge, he said. So Ol decided "was best

keen

hls Innocence and protesting, his

Mr Quayle been since?

from

by sons

.CON-

Govedared undesirable:

the

wrote an articlo writer the other day, "but that

tho

in

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the

Inge at the Ficcadilly. Here was no great door of St. Sermin at since too many women think that a The river girl

thing like a ballard, parboiled by courtier, no subtle

of Toulouse. poisoner

sun to a lobster colour, will make "Who knows," words, but n blunt scoundrel, jealous She then an: "The way out is

men turn their heads. How re- of his social superiors, lusting for an Order in Council rising the pay Creating it would be to hear a volco we may live to aco a girl stroke the Ol replied, Othello's place in the counell chain- of the unemployed Members, ber and the bed chamber, whining scription of the entire nation for a saying, "By Jove, what a dainty Oxford crew Not no fast, air. moight

Aankle With langer skirts women She might possibly stroke one rather nicanthime."" Ригрове O purposes unknown, a purity, of motive. But where he drive to export what nobody will buy, quiel-voiced, well-mannered. I doubt smoothing his cheek with her little to go...."

once again modest, unwary member of the crew night become

of corner and the withholding of ration cards it.

hand.

When I was at Oxford a certain

Belghim: "The "foirst toime in, this then uprinkled the aphroma Nothing to do with me

with ground THE most moving, play

college eight which shall bo nameless was drink-token, was on a bottle a. docent perlod' was "Now Barabbas, oleander juice, rubbed, one heel

delightful girl in vin rouge, Ol drunk Two giant sausages were flown stowed away a which deserved a far longer run, it against another. set her thumb to from. Copenhagen to Renfrow.

the bows of their boat, and if the dhrop of it and it thook me rather with tho la true that the British do not coher

fingers

(News

little dolt had not shouted to a don quick. But Of was off duty at the пове

item.) 'an all-male or all-female cast, nor

outanread. and returned to the

on the bank, nho might never have cime, to Of got into a corner and SUEY 'won a gift from the Mayor been discovered. An a matter of slept it off and was never caught do they enjoy the spectacle of suffer-stirring of her nottle-broth. Ing. Yet this play of prison life (Tomorrow! Compulsory Eutha-

the Lord fact that was how I frat mot Misoul.. 'No more of that for of Copenhagen to achieved the exoitation of great nasia for Properly-Owners.) Provost of Glasgow. And

| Mulligani, sez Ol to meself." what 'tinguolt.

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