1948-08-23 — Page 4

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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

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JOHN HOWARD DAVIES

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Is there a middle way in Love?

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OUR NEXT ATTRACTION: “MINE OWN EXECUTIONER"

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Violence...love...sudden death in the high

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COLUMBIA PICTURES presents

ROBERT YOUNG

Sefton Delmer's NEW SMA P presents his diary "behind that Curtain

MONDAY

WE DO WITH

GRAS

London Express Service

BUSINESS

TITO

started

the

-August 2, 1940-

I wish I could have a word with ably have their orders. They know ERE I am now in a Soviet them. I hear they are on their we are very short ourselves."

Dakota about to land in way from the Moscow Synod of the

Certainly the Yugoslavs are short Belgrade. I am just a Orthodox Church, where the Krem of petrol, Ever since the Com

lin is reported to have been putting inform trouble For I little nervous about it.

the pressure on satellite Slav Rumanions and Albanions hove am trying to gatecrash my way churchmen to become as obedient in without a visa-normally a servants of the Communist Party been applying oll sanctions to the

heretle Tlio. surviving priests in not very healthy undertaking, as the few However, the most they can do Russia itself already are. to me, I fancy, is to arrest and expel me.

In this Soviet aircraft there

monsense

TUESDAY

they

cofter

For Westerners are no hearted than the Kremlin. Help for Tito strictly on a one-good- basis And turn-deserves-another It is Tlio who has to do his good turn first.

Present favours from the West deci- are rewards for Tito's sound slon to top Yugoslav aid to Greek

"Technical difficulties." allege, have made it impossible for guerilla leader Markos. either, of them to supply Yugoslavia with oil.

WEDNESDAY

Tite has had to put several of his internal air routes out of commis-

gone for a diplomatie.

Gummer

is none of your bourgeois re-less. The Yugoslav authorities ston, cut down the training of the HAVE not seen Tito. He has Yugoslav Air Force, and make other holiday outside Belgrade, so as not fuel economies.

to run into Moscow's Mr Vishinsky, here for the Danube conference.

YOUR fears for me were ground-

actionary

about were not at all Iron-Curtain fastening seat bells and extin-minded. They have granted me a guishing cigarettes when pre- most polite apologies for having kept 24-hour emergency visa with the paring to land. Two priests of

me waiting on the airport. the Serb Orthodox Church are making the boat rock

as wo come down.

The younger one a moment ngo poked hie hend into the pilot's cabin and asked if we were about to arrive.

Not that I minded waiting there. Had I not done so I would have missed the little business of petrol for the Soviet aircraft,

When we landed yesterday the Soviet pilot gally slapped a Serb airport official on the back.

"Da, da, da,' nods the pilot, comrade," he said. quite cheerfully though.

So now the priests are rushing up and down the aiale, dragging their luggage to the back 50 that they can get out more quickly,

The Serbs looked black.

Now Tito is turning to the Wes- Tera Powera for petrol-as I learned when I had made my way into Belgrade.

And here is a secret for you: he in getting it. We are letting him have 10.000 tons just to tide him

from over, 10,000 of it

Anglo- Iranian.

But I doubt whether we shall let "We want some petrol please, him have any more after that. Not unless he is ready to negotiate a trade agreement with Britain, in- cluding satisfactory compenzation for British concerns whose property in Yugoslavia has been Ised.

"Why do they want to tank up here?" one of the Serbs on the airport said to me later. "I believe they do it on purpose. They prob-

national-

C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. scene

NEW YORK. PROFILE of the U.S. on a summer's day shows that anyone who believes that American people

the

Crop reports were so good in the Middle West that farmers busied themselves buying yet another grey market car.

CX-

FRIDAY

LEARN that, thanks to Moscow's break with Tito, the Balkan_war between the Bulgars and the Serbs has broken out once more, and once more over the age-old quarrel about Macedonia.

True enough, it is only a cold war for the moment. But for the Krem- in anxious to keep peace in South- east Europe, it must a bad hend- ache all the same,

The facts are that in January's Bulgar-Yugoslav Pact for a South Slav federation--now "temporarily postponed" owing to Tilo's expulsion from the Cominform-both agreed to constitute a bigger and balter Mace- donia consisting of Yugoslav Mace- donis and Bulgarian Macedonis, the so-called Pirin region.

Macedonion language teachers. were sent from Yugoslavia into the the

popul to help Macedonianise

population thore. Now the Bulgars have thrown out the teachers, who, they claim, were nothing but Tilo But friends who have seen him .agents trying to annex the country say he is full of life, full of con- to Yugoslavia, Adence, and enjoying thoroughly playing West against East.

Never since the war, they tell me, has he had such a wide following in the country.

As I drove back to the airport Just now I passed once more "volunteer brigades" of men and women, girls and boys, madly shovelling sand from

into

flooded Tail trucks Danube swamp, building the "new Belgrade."

They were shovelling so fast that were it a newsreel I was watching and not real life, I would say the projectionist was racing the film,

THURSDAY

is 11 p.m. I have just put my bags into a blue sleeping-car at Sona station. The car bears on its side the sign: "Simplon Orient Ex-

Press. Paris-Istanbul" are talking

is

or even expecting it, war, gravely mistaken,

a start, whisky sales Just for slumped and there was a big in- crease in the demand for lemons.

benches Chicago's lakeside Un

many bathers that Bfeguards started wearing shocking pink trunks to distinguish them from the others.

AT 2.30, 5.20, there were su

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

Color by

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RELENTLESS

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with

AKTIA

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Shirley TEMPLE

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in

TO-DAY

ONLY

Franchot TONE "HONEYMOON"

Cathay

TO-MORROW •

Wanchai Road, Wanchal

At 2.30, 5.30,

In Houston, Texas, a new grocery store enabled customers to sit in Armchairs and pick their purchases

them.

Those Americans who are reading anything but the comic strips are going for two British books-Graham Greene's "The Heart of the Matter" and Evelyn Waugh's "The Loved One."

There is so much wheat and four now that the Government is asking people to eni more bread.

Open-air drive-in elnemas are booming, especially among the younger set who call them "passion pits."

from a moving belt passing before THE ONLY scare news comes from Texas, California, and North Carolinn,

where

Infantile paralysis epidemic is getting out of control.

LOS ANGELES mothers pell- ilored the city counell for an ordinance putting a 9 p.m. curfew on ico-cream wagons' bells to help them get their children to sleep.

an

Wisecrack of the day: France is iku

a country run by the Marx Brothers.

A big Detroit strike against the Ford company was settled the way all strikes are settled nowadays rixpence an hour more for the men, £20 more on the price of the cut.

hower for President cong....Holly

a Olm wood is planning

o Jack Dempsey's life now that his witc Estelle Taylor has given permission... .Danny Kaye, back in Ifollywood, is Britain's best Press gent. The Johnston office has turned down "Blood and Guts" as title for a film on General "Blood

Priton

Non-smokers and Guts" arc bombarding Hollywood stars with letters asking them not to be photographed smoking.

the

One sleeper, that is all there is, of the express. It attached to sleeper are a string of dirty-looking, wooden-seated carriages,

crowded with soldiers and peasants. They are travelling to villages up the lino, at each of which this aristocrat of European expresses now

DUSINESS: While British car ex-humbly stops,

ports are increasing all the time, America's are dropping fast. During this year's Brat dive months 13,000 fewer cars went abroad than in the same period Inst year-a drop of 12 per cent.

of the

dollar It is all because

will shortage, says Detrol, and it probably get worse. South Africa and Venezuela are the only foreign countries still importing American cars in unlimited quantities.

ARMING: An American former has started using radar. It will cast Lester Phister, of El Paso, Illinois, £1,000 a year. but he estimates it will be worth it. For he uses it to plot rainstorms which started community. singing at lunch- might domaga hay or other crops time and in Oklahoma City Square on his 5,000 neres. dances are being held nightly in the streets.

THE BIG political news was that Henry Wallace's crypto- Socialists, gathering for their con- vention in Philadelphia, were meet- ing in a local hotel's "Pink Room," In New York's Central Park they

And the Vegetarian Party's candidate, Dr John Maxwell, au 83-year-old ex-Scotsioon, will start his campaign when meat prices are expected to reach their highest.

MEAT PRICES are already so high Mthat a Spokane butcher put up

!la sign: "Cholec meats-the management will accept cash, first mortgages, bonds, and good

7.30 & 9,30 p.m.jewellery."

A BOY BETRAYED BY LOVE DEFIES THE WORLD!

• ROBERT and RAYMOND HANIM VE

HENRY FONDA BARBARA BEL GEDDES VINCENT PRICE - ANN DVORAK

SERGEY

THE LONG NIGHT

A ANATOLE LITVAK Production

Barbara STANWYCK * Van HEFLIN in "THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS”

NANCY

WHAT

ARE 'YA

CRYIN' ABOUT?

a

In Boston they are still arguing OPINION: IL. L Mencken, Ameri-

GOYS whether or not

ca'e Bernard Shaw, to censor Shake- ton of "Hamlet." speare in Laurence Olivier's produc- woman politiclan is like a British tramp steamer all dressed up for the King's birthdny." And the Boston Globe calls the Olymple Games success "because they have carried n lighted torch through the Balkans without starting another war."

HOW: Composer Irving Berlin wrote one song this year whilch will not be published-on Elsen-

Pipe Dream Come True

I LOST A QUARTER

+ WELL, CRYIN'

WON'T BRING YOU ANOTHER

QUARTER

VICOSIAMÁT

GREECE

Kirs

BULGARIA

KDONIA

his

Dimitrov has also arrested Chief of Military Intelligence, ono Vranchev, who, he says, was conspir- ing with Tite for the annexation of the Pirin.

The trouble for Bulgaria's Com- munist Government is that Tits is unquestionably making headway with the Macedonians, drawing many Bulgar, Macedonians into sympathy with him.

Therefore, I suggest you and I follow with the closest attention the Interesting developments in this situation, which I have a hunch may prove the key element in Europe's new political turmoil as it has in turmoils of the past

WE one-time

SATURDAY

WE "luxury travellers" havo crammed ourselves Into # motorbus-together with postbaga from Europe for most of the Near East. The trouble is that General This train is the most fitting cad Marko's Greek paribana have blown to my short stay in Sofia. My chief the bridge on our rall route through Greece and generally made the impressions:

passage unsafe. Girls from a French school So we now take a roundabout trip covered in grimo wearily overland through Adrianople to the digging a ditch by the side Turkish railhead at Uzunkpro. I of one of Sofia's main highways,

am on my way to Istanbul smothered in dust by every passing By my side a Yugoalny

salesman-"I used to be an employer car or lorry,

myself, but now I am employed by the Ministry of Foreign Trado"-is talking to me in a most friendly and pacific fashion of the new possiblll- Les for Yugoslavia of trade with the West, particularly Britain,

I was told the French school had been given this particularly un- cuviable job as the punishment of parents for sending their daughters to a foreign clerical school. Well, the girls' troubles will soon be over. The Governments

closing down the school,

now.

The queues outalde the food shops in this capital of food- producing Bulgaria.

The admirable Hotel Bul- staria, the best State-owned hotel in Eastern Europe,

The ruthless banishment of the "unproductive" middle- class elements of Soda so as to make room for the more produc- Live

reiloblo and more politically proletarians,

By Ernie Bushmiller

timber

He has been gazing at the country. side for some time now.

Suddenly he says: "You know, if we Yugo

Of slave had this country instead

these inzy, backward Turks, we'd make ten times more of it."

Well, perhaps the Turkish author!- ties are not so wrong after all in conscotmg, our passports until wo reach Istanbul. They want to make sure neither I nor any other traveller strays and takes a look at the military defences they have bean f bullding here to protect their "back- ward land"

Yes, it's the same old Balkana, and no mistaks.

As Sm-a-o-o-oth

as black Velvet!

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