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DANNY IN WONDERLAND

By Charles Graves

LONDON, Mär. 15.

BY the end of this week nearly a quarter of a million people will have paid to see Danny Kaye in the flush.

This is made up by 14 week-day performances for six weeks at the Palladium, where the capacity house- including standing room-ls 2,000, and a Sunday concert also at the Palladium, totalling 221,000. There were also threo Sunday concerts at leading cinemas in Kilburn Tooth and Hammersmith.

"The Golden Boy of Vaudeville" has broken over record in theatrical history during the past six weeks. overy Quite apart from the takings at the Sunday, concerts he has drawn more than £77,000 to the Palladium.

Yet not one of his performances has been exactly. the, same as its predecessor. Both, running time and material are dependent on Danny's mood and its effect on each individual audience.

AST week, having arrived rather late at the theatre, he suddenly felt in need of a cup of tea. Ho promptly asked for one from the stage. It was not a real request. It was an impromptu gog, But when, to his surprise, the cup of tea was brought, he proceeded to do a briitiani piece of pantomime while he drank it, "Say, there was nothing else I could do, was thero?" he commented to me afterwards,

Indeed, with the exception of three songs neither he nor his accompanist, nor the orchestra have any fixed idea of what he is going to do usually

Soviet tourists' start

hotting-up in Finland

HELSINKI, March 15.

bers of the delegation were AM beginning to feel a bit. non-Communist Finns.

like a doctor going his time they have a Communist in This rounds during an epidemic. the team. It is difficult to be Eight times during the past 12 skilful when all your plans are months I have visited countries known in advance. which the Soviet Union has thought to bring under its away. either with an alliance or by a Communist coup from within. Eight times, that is, without counting such cases as France, Italy, and Austria.

Score: 5-3

SEFTON DELMER'S NEWSMAP

comes today from Helsinki, where, says Delmer, "there is a chance-Just an outside chance-that Finland may make the Soviet scorecard read 5-4 in the nine matches I have seen in play in The Iron Curtain Game."

reinforce the Communist shock ring being held for them by UNO among the Finns themselves. brigades now being formed here and the Western Powers.

The Finns are tired of their David

Goliath act, which

never

The Finnish authorities cannot stop and these Karclions from coming, and comes off, and they don't intend to nobody knows how many have got play it again. here already,

port.

next, and even then he alters their sequence.

At some performances, if out of breath, he will sit on the stage and talk to the people in the front row. He has proved to be the ad lib king.

on

As his manager says, he

the

he could sit

stage and Improvise all even-

ing if he felt like it.

The longest Josted

of his performances minutes, On that occasion

71 the

King and Queen broke all prece- dents by sitting in the stalls.

Danny's shortest performance at the Palladium was 30 minutes, when he had a

a sore throat at one matinee and, was afraid of losing his voice that evening.

cheated those people.

It's not right," he told his manager in real distress, he came off the stage.

זיי

POR the first time in this country

there has been a black market

0. has been offered by a recognised in theatre tickets. As much as 20, ticket agency to the holders of senis to persuade them to sell There So far, there is no sign of anything are stories of £10 being offered in For under the existing treaty the but verbal sympathy from Britain Isolated Instances for single tickets. Finns have no right to stop, ques- and America. In fact, the United And hundreds of 138. od. Lickelo ALL the same I am not giving tion, or search anyone crossing the States Government's first reaction have changed hands at C2 23 to

up Finland not quite, border in possession of a Soviet pass- when the Stalin proposal of a pact £3 3s. apiece.

was announced was to put an em- Particularly qs, with one excep-

This week he has bargo on steel shipments to Finland.

been offered tion, all the important Finns I Some of these shock troops have The Fians took that as a sign that Swedish Impresario-for one-week-in-

20,000 American dollars by already been-seen-in-action together the Americans and written them off Stockholm, but he have spoken to financiera,~ And now, at the end of a long trade union chiefs, politicians, making the rounds of Helsinki's to Finland as a present to the Soviet. British and American

with the Finns.

has turned it 5.20, flight from a warm' and sunny diplomats, and businessmen- newspapers

They have been and regarded any further shipments down in order to entertain the. protesting London, I have stepped out into

against

troops in articles criticising the Finnish-Soviet are refusing to give up. p.m. the Biting wind and freezing

There may, of course, be a change

Germany. 'pact.

The story that he They have paid a practice American polley. A communised

had boon slush of cold, grey, ice-bound Out of the eight matches I visit or two to the Diet to Intimidate Soviet Finland is a long-term threat offered a similar sum for a single Helsinki, to call on Patient have seen played in the lon deputies. They have broken up anti- to Scandinavia, in whose safety and

the North Number Nine.

Curtain Game. the Communists

pact rallies.

was not accurate but, In cantly, discovered a major political Already at the airfield they and Russians have won five No Support?

and strategical interest.

out of every dollar he makes (about gave me the latest,news. The (Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary,

is. Gd. in the £). He pays a salary date for the departure of the Rumanin, and Czechoslovakia). THE huge anti-Communist and Americans are more likely to leave his accompanist. Sam Prenger.

But, on the whole, I believe the of 500 dollars a week, all found, to Finnish delegation for Moscow, They have lost three (Turkey: will, I think, abstain from voting on I give the Finns an outside chance, been receiving-on paper- £6,000

anti-pact majority in the Diet Finland to its fate. If you ask me, has been stated that Danny Kaye has (It where they are to negotiate the Persia, and Greece),

the pact altogether rather than reject but I put alliance proposed by Stalin, has There is just an outside it. If they cannot count at least on the tourists."

my money сп "the week from the Palladium, but this been fixed for next Saturday, chance that Finland will make

is denied. Danny is

rellcent about his earnings as he is about the many occasions when he has mel members ot the Royal Family during the past six weeks,)

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For one thing there is 2

The Cabinet has been meeting the Communists' scorecard read almost permanently for the 6-4. last three days at President Paasikivi's-palace.---The Socini. Democral and Agrarian Minis Chance that the Finnish Diet ters, supported by the President, may feel confident enough in support from the West to refuse are trying to whittle down the ratification of the pact if it in- powers of the delegation, which cludes disagreeable Items. is led by fellow-travelling Pre- mier Pekkala and his Com munist Minister of the Interior, Leino.

sistance.

If so, I do not believe Stalin will try to settle the issue by overt force.

democracy the Americans have re-gance In

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

of

any event, he keeps only 13 cents

The most astonishing-feature-of- his performance is that he has not told a single joke, much Iess # Stock Exchange story, in any of his 00 performances.

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THE House of Commons hus faces in the air and kicking. We adjourned. One of the have never before saw such wonders, such an occasion was made by a have replied silliest remarks ever made on and they was man who lived in a remote vil sian

rude to us, but we THE re-issue of his six-year-old mony, wicked Per- Alm, "Up in Arms," is catimated woard what they was not to bring in an additional £200,000, lage in the Cheviot foothills. In Finland there is, to put it

conderstonding. ho yes, berneath owing to his personal appearances He said, "What will it be like our breathing hay course for per ticipate personally in this windfall, over here. But he does not par. mildly, no pro-Russian feeling without them?" One answer might liteness.. O Sir, thank you from hus and, unfortunately for us, neither of us there was in Czechoslovakia. have been. "What is it like with three for oneerluding in your good-his last There is no fear of a German them?"

bye document manure, but you spell Life of Walter

two alms-The Secraf revival and consequent desire Tonierrow, "Is This

для Whenhover

Mitty," wrong ckchulah.

"A New Comet see that woard for the futcher we

We Song is Born," can be shown in this for protection by Russin, as Eatable?" by a Student of Affairs.) think how you, ho yes. Hour. love country until the 75 percent ban is.. there was in Czechoslovakia.

to Hofroginiera, ekchulab,

removed. The Filthistan Trio, sir. Professor Shy's electric

red herring

come

Yes, it Rounds familiar are Social Democrat, anti-Com-actually. I hope that, when we the new philosophles for "boosting"

Familiar Sound THE anti-Communists in the Cabinet do not want the de- legation to negotiate military clauses. They are afraid that If they do they will give the The trade unions, which in Mr. Velvette's decision Russians the right to establish Czechoslovakia and all the other

EAR SIRS, defence bases in Finland.

Iron Curtain countries were

After

consultation with Mr. And with the Russians in the under Communist control and Pemmico, I have reluctantly country there would be no re- the main weapon of the Com-Ito the conclusion that your see-saw TN suggesting that I have other and munist coup, hère in Finland turn, while admirable in itself, is

definitely not suited to serious ballet, baser reasons than devotion to enough. And from what I have munist and anti-Soviet."

bring into our. "If the Communists try to one or two lighter works, "It may be

repertory later on (as he vulgarly puts it) Mrs. Palmer, Egeria of Presuppositionism be the been able to discover since, it

Professor Shy relates an absurd story certainly looks as though the seize power illegally," a trade possible to offer you a part in one of Prof

about Gertie Leibnitz calling her the anti-Communists are losing the union leader said to me, "they them. I regret this decision, but went off toy of Cambridge blola- fight in the Cabinet. Military will find themselves faced with am sure we can part in friendship.

Kista." leave Mr. Palmer to deal led by experts,

67-year-old a general strike."

with this, contenting myself with remarking that it was Miss Leibnitz German-trained General Erik

who was found in Dr. Sigillico Heinrichs, are accompanying

wardrobe at the Presuntositionist WHE the delegation. That means that BUT the Communists are pre-10. VELVETTE,

rally at Chalfont St. Peter military clauses will be nego- paring for this situation, and being a lot far more happler on intes she had found in an old cont We think. we three, we was August. She pretended to have gat Into the wardrobe to eat a box of tiated.

they are proparing thoroughly. the good old days which we was filed Nor do I believe.the tradj- "Tourists," organised on the preforming in vostibules of Juxuriant belonging to the London School of tional stalling tactics and skilful basis of the Nazi Fifth Column hostels, ho yes, What does not Econvinies. Perhaps Professor Shy's stubbornness of the Finns can and recruited from the Finnish-gree with hus was all them crowd apologist, Dr. Rose. would care to help them much on this visit to speaking Soviet Karelians, are leaping up and twoddling above their philosophy, using the word, in its of dauncers onterfering about us, tell us what all this has to do with Moscow. In 1989 all the mem- daily crossing the border to toes like mad things, and making vilest sense.

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