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"DESIRE ME"

MAJESTIC "TARZAN & THE MERMAID"

-MINISTRY

"Just because we're doing away with your pretty colours, there's no need to swear like a bargec."

I VISIT MONTY'S NEW 'SHOW'

FONTAINEBLEAU.

THALFWAY up

the Rue

is

General Charles de Gaulle, on the

edge of the little of Fon- French garrison town tainebleau, a black signboard nailed to a poplar tree.

"UNILION," it says in large white letters. An arrow under- neath it waves Unilion-hunters Imperiously on.

I followed the

kure

arrow. And, enough after about four minutes of driving, there it was-- the Unilion's lair itself: an arched gateway of red brick, behind it a porter's lodge, a gravel drive, and a large suburban mansion got up romantically with gabled towers and a fancy fretwork of yo-olde- curiosity-shoppe beams.

"Chateau de Fougeres," explain- ed one notice. And others added: "Unilion," "Headquarters of Paris. Echelon," "Military Police," "Way. în."

uk

No guard challenged me the gate. It was not until I had · entered the chateau itself that a red-cap sergeant, sitting at a desk in the front hall, asked me to account for myself.

All of which I found pleasing-

ly peaceful, and a contrast to' the barbed-wire barriers, police clogs. and check-points I had

Into hush-hush

For-this Unilion,-dear-madam;

SEFTON DELMER'S

NEWSMAP

put an embargo on the supply of arms to Holland.

Now each of the countries concerned

wants to make sure that if it agrees to take arms tions. (The chiefs of staff in supplies from a central source, turn

the it will not aro responsible to

be exposed to a Western Union Defence Minis- similar blackmail. ters). Military committees and delegations of econorale, finan cial, and supply experts from In the various countries nimost permanent session, de- villing for the chiefs of stall, resolving. recommending, in- forming, agreeing, and agreeing

to differ.

are

Montgomery himself shuttlen back and forth between London and Paris,

Since Fontainebleau was set up in November He has not spent more than 10 days there. And never more than three in n row, The French Govern- ment wants him to have chateau 20 miles from Fontaine- bleau as his personal residence.

Most important problem all, however, remains the atlf- tude of America.

The French planners and the Government insist not French only (1) that America shall be firmly committed to the military defence of Western Europe with American troops; but (2) that sufficient troops shall be sent to assure that not. the Rhine the Elbe will be the main line of defence.

but

I'M NO ANGEL, SAYS HE

H

By Froderick Cook

tion by Henry Sherek of "Dell-

NEW YORK, TJOW does one got to bo lah."

Broadway "angel," To back their judgment of the man who puts a modest "Delilah" 6,000 of the Cullman sum into a show and for his dollars (£2,000) have already money has the stars calling Cullmans themselves will follow been posted to London and the him "darling" and never to attend the West End pre- gets the brush-off from miere, stage door-keeper when ho Mr and calla on a chorus girl? Pd often wondered. It seemed A pleasant sort of life..

I put the ques- tion

to tho 0 1 them all. Mr

archangel

Howard S. (for Silx)

Cullman, Lobacco multi- millionaire, member of the Stock Exchange, boss of Guardia and

Idlewild

ports, sprawling

nir-

the

part

New York and every one of its vast maze of bridges, tunnels, ferries, with more than 40,000,000 cars n year running

through or ever them

Mrs Cullman have been backing shows now for 11 did they lose more money then years. Only one

they put in.

CULLMAN

"Please," said "I do not look angelical", Mr Culiman,

year--1046-

"What was your most profit- ablo bet?"

asked Mr Cull- man. "Life With Father, by ail odds," he said at once. "We put £1,250 into that and so far have got back £50,- 000.

""On Arsenic and Old

Lace we won at 30-1 -£7 10s, back for every 5s,, in vested. Voice

Turtle' lected

ہیں

nt

the

we co-

30-1

too. On 'Klas

and Tell 20-1 or

a bit better."

"You lont money, too, af

"en me a theatrical investor if course?" I asked. "Plenty," said you like, but not an angel.

"I do not look like an angel. I certainly do not behave like angel. Anyway the term has connotations I do not like.

an

"Besides Mrs Cullman is in it

United

Mr Cullman.

My biggest Mop? The very first we ever went into some- thing we called “Dance Night" in 1938.

1

"We put £6,250 into that and it ran four performances. That was three too many."

Altogether the Cullmans have backed 115 shows.

"Mrs Cullman reads all the seripts, tells me what she thinks, and the rest is up to me," sald Cullman,

with me-we are a partnership, I back her judgment of the artistic end, and simply invest in good management just as if

investing in were States Steel."

At the moment the Cullmans backing 15 shows. Some are are big moneymakers, some "Oh, yes, there have been they'd just a boon forget.

times when we haven't agreed, I Among the hits of which they didn't like "The Skin of "have

instance, I stayed ♫ piece"

"Mr Teeth," for are Roberts," "A Street Car Nomed out. She was sure and went on Desire,

"Light Up The Sky," in herself. Did well, too, darn "Allegro," "Private Lives," "Life.

Father," "Red Gloves," With "Kiss Me Kate," "Death of

On the way are fat Invest ments in "Miss Liberty, the forthcoming Irving Berlin- Robert Sherwood musical, and the Lunts in "Speak To Me Of Love."

There is no question that the collaboration between Washing ton, London, Fontainebleau, and Frankfort is of the closest. But Sniesman." I am extremely doubtful of whether

will the Americans "Old Boy" Basís

the to increase the ever consent number of their peacetime con- "ONTGOMERY has very tingent in Germany. Without the offer that increase the line of the Elbe down. He does not want to be will need a lot of fortification encumbered with the apparatus if the French are to be satisfied. of cooks, batmen and clerks a commander-in-chief's residence implies. Instead he has served at his own expense suite

IT-

at Fontainebleau's Park Hotel.

When he is not in London or Paris Montgomery is in Brus-

"

Qur

If you have ambitions to be an "ungel" here are some tipăr from Mr Cullman.

"Don't go to rehearsals, don't Insist on changes in the script that drives authors nuts and they know best, anyway,

'Don't try to dictate the cast. don't bother the people with the

work to do.

Put The Cullmans have 50 percent

up and shut up is the London Express Service of the coming West End produc- golden rule for angels.

IS THIS BOY A GENIUS OR-

his doctrine, temburg, WHEREVER 1 80 some

spreading his doctrine, trying to

Iran out international problems about Pierino Gamba, the By RALPH HILL

on the "old boy" basis.

to

torial

In

Here

18.

day.

I said that he possesses an ex¬ cellent memory.

It is more than excellent; it is phenomenal.

To date he has about 40 works committed to memory in every detail,

one asks me questions

Italian boy-conductor. "Is he to pass in order to penetrate In the operations section,

In The Hague, for instance, he really headquarters Fontainebleau has divided up its has been preaching that if Hol Toscanini?... How does he the audience go into ecstasics?

great 48

chestra behind a screen, would like this during the war. organisation on American lines. land is to play her full part in

Every morning he sits at the make an orchestra · of

I am sure they wouldn't. piano and reads from full score...... In came a British soldier-the-Western-Europe scheme, sha is none other than Field- elerk with soine tabulated plans must have a Territorial training grown-up men obey him? There would be grateful ap- new works, or rather works new Marshal Lord

the plause for ....Is he a wizard or Montgomery, for "stage one" that, he

a good, straight to him. had scheme like Britain's. chairman of the Western Europe been typing out.

performance-which, The British

forward And in order to have a Terri-/Victim of a publicity stunt?" incidentally, is rare enough to-

But behind him stands Romeo- Commanders-in-Chief Commit- oficer asked the Dutchman

about are the facts tee And

the

Ardvini, who used to training scheme

conduct Chateau

de check the paper over. The

But the exquisite, hypersensi at the Rome Opera House, Fougeres, for all its

architec- Dutch officer got down to it at Holland she must bring back Master 11-year-old Gamba.

He began learning musle two- tural fantasy, is the place where at

some of her trained officers and

live phrasing of a Bercham or analysing, prompting, incl pupil. Mr aner. Every now and again he NC.D.s from Indonesia, so that and-a-half years ago. In the Barbirolli, the very real plans are being looked up and

or the relentless, teaching his young consulted his they may form the nucleus of following year he conducted the elemental rhythmic force of a Ardvini is the Alm; Master made for the defense of Western British and Belgian colleagues efficiency in Holland's Western Rome Symphony Orchestra, and Europe.

Toscanini, would be absent, Gamba the projector. on some doubtful point-not as

the audience yelled: "Viva.

Surely then, you may well Maestro!"

Master Gamba's brain absorba representatives of Britain and Europe army.

ask, Master Gamba must be Belgium, but as brother experts

* everything easily and accurate- fraud? Certainly not. working on the same problem.

15.

It could not have been different had this been an all- British group of officers_work- lug in London's

Ofice except that there would have been more tea.

Lion And Cubs NILION himself in away just now. He is enjoying a ski-ing holiday in Switzerland (which does not stop him from getting on the telephone every night to And out how things are going).

been

War

back

★

No fraud could make an

OT-

They would be too bored and too resentful No troud could rehearse an orchestra with the Gamba understanding Master undoubtedly displays,

And now he is just beginning. musically to think and feet in- dependently. Complete inde- pendence will not come until ho reaches manhood, when his qualities mature.

The Dutch, however, argue He went to Paris and con- that they have n more im-founded his audiences. Then Belgium. mediate war with Communism followed concerts in on their hands in Java, and that Portugal, Spain, Sweden and chestra of hard-boiled musicians this takes priority over long-nnally London.

give even 顾 good, straight- of .forward performance for preparations `

tha term

Audiences went into esclasies classical works that they know defence of Europe.

after witnessing this little boy

Inside out. So, although they have in black velveteen, with luce But I found his cubs hard of

But do not imagine that be courteously expressed full frills and white socks, on the work. And what a nestful they

Cause these planners here In agreement with the feld- rostrum. ore-British, Dutch. French. Fontainebleau are working

The seeds are obviously there, to marshal's views, they have not Belgian, and Luxemburg

so smoothly all dether offeers, soldiers, sailors, and technical, financial, and political ing

the yet done anything about bring-

but the flowering is in the hands In short, there is no question of the gods-and Mr Ardvini. the specialists. airmen, all working together as problems involved in the de Indonesia has also shown up the

about the fact that Master In addition to Master Gamba's. an integrated team.

But witnessing is the opera- fence of Western Europe are difficulties standing in the way tive word! Did these audiences Gamba's musical achievement is innate musical gifts, he secins at

of integration of armaments hear something different, some-

remarkable, outstanding. But born leader of men, This Fontainebleau party has solved.

probably do let us see it in its true the most important qualification: In fact today as before the and supplies. functioning only since

thing finer and more inspiring,

a conductor can possess.. November of last year here at only defence of Western Europe

than the Beethoven or Schubert perspective. of British, the handful the Chateau de Fougeres and in

they had heard before

Someone will now under,

Recently at a rehearsal he bay that the old cavalry barracks of the American, French, Dutch, and

Toscanini, Barbiroll, Master Gamba conducts without slopped the orchestra and said:: after Fontainebleau Palace where the Belgian troops occupying Ger-

the war Beecham. Furtwangler, or Wal- n score-Isn't that proof of genius. "Please, I want a crescendo in main staffs of the commanders- many.

rather than talent? Not at all. that passage for the trumpets... agreed to equip their forces ter? The task is in-chief have their

tackled being headquar-

with British weapons and trans- Of course not. In music too It proves that he possesses an Sald

of the trumpet. ters.

in Fontainebleau, but port, and model their army on often the eye exaggerates to the excellent memory.

players: "There isn't one mark- British lines, In order that the car,

Toscanini conducts without a ed in my part." My Impression is that, as far muinly in London.

"But as the integration and

"I want one."

replied smooth Here

Dutch and British forces could State that it is impossible for score because his eyesight Montgomery

Master Gamba. "Why not give co-operation among themselves second headquarters at Dover be easily integrated in the event a boy-conductor to come within bad; Beecham conducts with or of this planning stuff goes, these House in Whitehall. Here, too, of necessity,

measurable distance, in the real without, according to his mood; him one. if that's what he five Powers under the chair- alt his masters; the committee But in July 1047, when the ly vital matters of interpreta- Barbirolli has a score, even if wants, Bill," Interposed one of

¡the hard-bitten

trombone- manship of Montgomery have of Western Union Chiefs of Dutch started their police action tion, of the mature gehtus of a he doesn't always need It.

Then what is the real truth players, 'terrorists in' Java, great conducior. already got as far as the British Staff, to whom Montgomery and against the

Gamba? I will and Americans under the com- his commanders-in-chief com- the British Government broke its Supposing Master Gamba in- about Master

And that was the genera tell you.

spirit of the orchestral mand of Eisenhower.

mittee make their recommenda- agreement with the Dutch. We cognito was to conduct an

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ONE OF 'EM

IS SWEET CIDER AND THE OTHER

IS VINEGAR

partly

has

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HERE COMES

WE'LL

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NOSEY

KNOW

ROSIE

WHICH

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WHICH

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