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BRUARY 15, 1949.

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C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE

THE GIRLS BREAK IN

NEW YORK,

WOMEN have breached America's last citadel

of masculinity,

West Point, which is to the, U.S. Army what Sandhurst Is to Britain, went co-ed.

A No Women tradition 147 years old was broken by the arrival of 15 recruits from the U.S. equivalent of the W.R.A.C.—all of them young, most of them pretty.

Another 40 will reinforce them, in a day or two. The girls will not be kept apart from the men cadets.

"We believe in, co-education, not segrega- tion," said Captain Edythe Robertson, a veteran of D Day who will command them

And far from resenting that statement, the boys cheered it.

West Point's first women cadets will be. trained as medical technicians. That job, sald West Point's male superintendent, is one that no man can do as well as a woman.

William Hickey

From the notebook of wildered West-End tions

be-

Man - about - the - with some ques-

on his mind

WHY

LONDON.

does nobody see the irony in the present duties of the MISSES ANN GEORGE and BERYL LUND? They were both suspended from their Government jobs for suspected Communist sympathies. They have now both been given new jobs In the Ministry of ̃ ̈'Edu- callon

WHY did SIR CEDRIC

One of Mr Justice Lynskey's on- cestors

was a Virginian farmer -selected-to-try-offenders because he wan 'n man of good judgment and Impartiality." But his name passed into the American language as the

originator of that old Southern habit-lynching or string up Ne- Kroes frain lonely trees.

Mr Justice Lynskey cannot claim

this

barney between the lessees month-hap had its last production. "Broach_of_Marriage,” archly-de- scribed as "the artificial insemina- tion play transferred this week to the West End.

Among the ideologists there were mysteries to be solved...

to be more impartial than another WHO int his ancestors Judge

Lynch,

and

Warden of Galway. He tried found his own son guilty of murder.

WHY

film

bungled that show the other night at the Soviet Embassy..

women

PUT in East St. Louis, Illinois, B some new arrivals at the junior

high school got a less friendly welcome. Thirteen Negroes, unublo to enter any other college in town, went there to start work. Nearly 100 white studants immediately walked out on strike.

WASHINGTON reports that Pre- aldent Truman is refusing to commit himself on whether he will run for re-election in 1952.

NO MANY AMERICANS are

For centuries the ceremonial of Dining in Hall at Magdalen has been one of Oxfurd's most glorious tradi= tlons, Old Magdalen men -- OSCAR WILDE among them-have written living longer that old people pro- about it in awed and bated words.mise to become a problem. Warned Ewan Clague, of Washington's De- No more. By decision of the partment of Labour: "Industry is Senior Common Room the tradition not geared to hire many old people. And it is time older people consider- of Dining In-Hall to ended. The undergraduates now dine-Cafeteria, ed second working life. a second career of lesser Importance and at smaller pay than their first one." Among the men and

FOR ALL the big January sales, Now York afores report that their receipts were four percent. down on fast year. And they, say, that the only goods customers are buying are those marked down, ACCORDING to officials of Indiana THE famous harpist SIDO-Cal State prison, television at a NIE GOOSENS, was looking wryly they installed sot, fewer sedatives at the cut on her own finger when have been needed by the prison's 352. she heard that HARRIET CONEN, mental pallents than ever before. one of the world's greatest pianists, is threatened with the possibility of again never playing professionally owing to damaging her hand on a broken aherry glass.

It was intended as a big propa- whose fame has come from the la there such a boorn anda party in the cause of Anglo- skill of their limbs (and their Russian friendship-n programme of voices) there was the grim re-

In these "little theatres" which have burst up like mushrooms in the Bayswater-Kensington belt since the

war?

They manage, incidentally, to get more publicity for themselves in the national Press than any of the blg theatres outside London.

Anyone can start home 10

HARDWICKE ever trouble to look all its up again in England after those wartime years in Hollywood? He sails back to America (and ell those fut Alm parts) after a season with Old Vic. He goes away

the a disappointed man, with critical salt rubbed in his wounds. For the long voyage England-which Sir Cedric hoped would be a professional triumph- produced nothing but sighs and groans.

Among the reviewers phrases: "flat" "unenthusiastic." "Dull,"

kinder Among the "Cedric Hardwicke (in "The Cherry Orchard" played Coey with the dignity that was never shabby or faded-which

what is not quite Chekhov meant."

And when the Old Vic audience, the end of one play, burst into cheers, Sir Cedric stepped forward and thanked the audience. Cried the crowd: "We want ALEC GUIN- NESS,"

at

WHY

comments.

has it taken thirty years for the truth to be told about Passchendaele? For thirty years soldiers have thought of this 1017 campaign as the worst horror-and the most wasteful in lives and pur- pose of the first world wor.

And now-from the War Office's own official historian, BRIG,- GENERAL SIR JAMES E. ED- MONDS. comes a most astonishing re-assessment of the battle and the man who planned it-FIELD MAR- BHAL HAIG."

Mud.... Casualties .... Waste.

the historian with thirty years' re- search behind him tackles all three questions

1. MUD.-General Edmonds do-

clares that mud

.

was only en-

countered in the last month of

liitle theatre. money from

You borrow some your friends, get to work with lath and plywood, Ding in 50-odd chairs, register as a club, and open a bar In the back-and, bingol you're all act.

It is the new way out for the of hawking stage-struck. Instead talents around the agents, they start n theatre of their ow?.

Moscow's latest nim documentaries.

It turned out to be a Marxian mix minder of the minor accident up which had far more to do with that can cut short a career... the Brothers than with Karl.

(a) The Russians had invited more people than there were seats for. Half the programime was inter rupted. by scuffies as people scram- bled for chairs. MR D. N. PEITT. K.C. was one who found himself without a sent

(b) The Alms kept breaking down or showed two half-images ont the screen at once. And the sound- track changed speed in mid-scene, so that a peasant woman sang in bass as deep as Challopin's and a

a

commissar Bereanied In a high-

pitched falsetto.

(e) On the front row a Russian girl-translator wrestled with the

coming peculiar noises

Off the screen. But her microphone worked only intermittently, cutting her off in mid-sentence.

Miss Goosens had been decorating her country cottage in Surrey and a splinter got into her finger. Another half-inch," she said, "and there could easily have been no more harp for me for quite a time.""

Some of these places are a use- ful adjunct to the West End theatre. The 100-seat Mercury, run by ASHLEY DURES. in a disused church in Ladbroke-road, W., gives. first

performances to the plays of T. S. ELIOT, and specialises in pro- ductions which otherwise would have no chance of getting beyond At Oxford the mystery was of why planist MOURA LYMPANY (to

another kind

the MS state.

The New Lindsey, In a school-

The cut or bruise that ordinary people never notice can cost a lop- flight soloist thousands of pounds. It is the

reason why YEHUDI MENULIIN always lounges around with his hands in his pockels, and

keep those golden fingers out of harm's way) always wears gloves,

room, has discovered players like WHO introduced the Cent rather than accidents. Tenor FARRY

DIRK BOGARDE and MARY KER- RIDGE,

has u

STARTING - MARCH 1, AND

'totevision will be used to calm shoppers. A chain of 25 New Yorkc grocery shops announce that they üre installing four sets in each shop. few weeks ago, Rick INTII. a

Brown, Д 21-year-old Negro, shined shoes In Chicago Then a customer became fascinated with the chani he used while working, and hired him to chant outside the night club he owned.

Then Lionel Hampton, that night club's band leader, heard the chant. and asked Rick to come inside and make a gramophone record.. The recording company is rushing out the record. In the belief that it has discovered the greatest swing singer In years.

For singers the hazards are colds LATEST tury of the Common Men (or more JONES has an immense coughdrop Knightsbridge-where there was

And the 94-seat-torch-in-exactly, the Common -- Eater), to consumption. He gargles four times-

冠 Magdelen?

every night

The 'Grand

Hotel'

DOLLAR - EARNING export from Britain to show up in the New York shops is the kipper. And in the wrapper in which it arrives are foolproof directions how to cook it.

Nanking

has only 6 guests left... By Sydney Smith

!

Nanking. In the past 29 years, thirty vle where the marines on guard are the prawns, braised duck and oyster a three-and-a-half month battle, TN the Inst resort a

man's torious armies have marched up and smartest Chinese servicemen. They sauce, fried rice and hot wine. and then only

From here our road plunges south ere launched in bed mattress and his kettle down the Chung Shan-road, inter- frequently salute their officers, 200- Many attacks were launched in

preting conquest in their own rude The Food Ministry and the Mints Into three miles of shuttered, empty dust storms, lie says.

are his most precious chattels, fashions.

try of Communications, another half shops, and shops where by some according to our own trafic

mile on, have their main gates lock- mysterious bush telegraph prices census on the Chung Shan-road,

ed these days. Inside, skeleton staffs uniformly jump haur by Nanking. And the Chung Shan- road IS Nanking.

2. CASUALTIES---main point of LLOYD GEORGE'S subsequent attack on Hal. These have al- ways been believed to be 400,000. General Edmonds says they were little more than half that gure. 3. WASTE one of the most serious charges has always been that the attack was continued after the weather had broken. But now we learn that whenever Halg threatened to pause in the battle Petain begged him to carry on as the battle was vital for French 'morale.

But

1

hour,

Thought Hollywood'

Today, mile across the mud brown Yangtse from where the road begins, another victorious army, well try to keep out angry mobs of dis- averaging about 450 percent increase equipped with captured Americans missed civil servants claiming more weekly.

discharge pay. mads 4in. field guns and ammunt-

There are 20 theatres along here, It begins at a ferryboat quay a tion, Is preparing a triumphant Nanking's biggest hotel, the 70- all currently staging Chiness operas mile outside the city's North Gate march.

Five Chinese and Toomed Metropolitan, has six guests to full houses. and drags drearily on for six and

at present, no heating because there three American films are, showing in It will have to take the Chung is no fuel, no hot water, and no the eight cinemas.

The American a half miles to the city's South Gate.

It passes bamboo and grass mat Shan-road to town, and that is the telephones. In the bar they sell you Alms have only Chinese titles. The ting propped over ditches, where road i took today to see Nankings Coen-Cola for 2 d. a bottle or only English translation I can get families live in ankle-deep stagnant reactions stretched out along the six whisky for £5.

of one of them is "The IntesÜne- breaking mud; it becomes a little proud and and a half miles of potholes, dust, almost clean as it passes a few army and uproar.

On up the road the Shansi must have had another name for it. The

general cargo of taxin and Circle, a Russian restaurent presided perhaps the firmest support barracks and Government Minis-

tricycle rickshaws which 'set

Twice a day the paper boys cry off over by a grey-haired ancient sitting quoted for Haig's new pedestal is

southwards includes furniture, bed beside A the view of the enemy. With their

dripping paraffin stove the news of the departing Govern- ding, cooking pota, pigs, wicker cages she is "Babushka" to everyone-and ment, the advancing enemy, the pro- army gravely weakened, with thou-

of ducks and chickens, and fariiles. It is a of vodka, cabbage soup, clamations of Ministers without sanda, of pessimistic letters going

Ministries and

without *back

generals Fatherland lo the summed up thus: "Halg remained

But, sales are small and Strango characters in fur-collared armies, master of the Acid,"

scum-covered ponds, and back gar

Those who trek hopefully north den walls give way to a

to a three-mile on

the

Chung Shan-road is that the Britain and America, glower over their bedding and kettles are jumble of shabby shops and offices. heaviest vehicle has Une right of way. glasses of vodka, and accuse each the last of a minorlly of a tow Finally, with no salute nor any This is where begin litle islands of other of being Communist agents, hundred thousand able to afford to gesture of dignity at hoving cleaved wrecked and abandoned vehicles, This is the gayest place in Nanking. caru The real "locals have seen its way through the capital of Chino, and the rickshaw passenger must bo On the otter side of the Circle thirty Nankings and one republic the Chung Shan-road potholes y prepared to leap for his life. Is the Chineso Kuo Min, where for toller in the last thousand years of ... Military Operations; France travellers from the South Gate on Half a mile Inside the gates is 103., in a restaurant with a bare the Chung Shan-road, Nanking, and Belghon, 1917, Vol. II,

to a desolate plain.

tho Krcen brick Navy Ministry, board door, you can have creamed China.

trien.

For balf a mile or so it even seems to promise that it is leading to something like a real city.

The with elderly and often dying rela- and. theyusion crumbles as wayside wars- tives occasionally carrying their own rouls proclaim in the thick accents interest Idly apathetic.

houses and factories, wooden shacks, co only well-observed trafic rule of Middle-Europe their loyalty to

WHY LYNSKEY? The word

is an anglicisation of the Gyèlle cog- nomen LOISCIGH and it might cosily have been Lynch,

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