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The Communist in charge of rooms at the Commis- sariat of Foreign Trade had and over again pro- mised Arcadi this room or that, only to give it to

Now

over

someone

the Commissariat to honour its contract. ·

Finally, Comrade X phoned the mausger of the New Moscow Hotel The manager of the hotel wanted a quid pro quo. He had been trying to gei a Gort A ration book for

for one of his as- sistants not really entitled to it.

Through him we were brought into somewhat unwilling contact with other foreigners.

Foreman later chose to ignore the lessons he had learned in Russia. In 1943 he became the organiser in New York for the Political Action Committee.

OCCASIONALLY we went to

where one found foreigners trying to recreate the London and New York radical Bohemian atmosphere of hard drinking and easy loving.

Moscow's Bohemia was not that of struggling writers,

had the tiniest bit of gold-u ring. a bracelet, or jewel could exchange it for Torgsin tokens and secure Icod.

The only snug was that the OPGU was also on the look-out for possessors of gold, and might at any monent arrest you and force you by torture to disgoTEC and hidden wealth you had. Torgsin was an outstanding

Icw

It Comrade X would secure this journalists, poets, artists And was very high,

a

I HAD MY HAIR DYED

by David Niven

WAS playing the part about looking like this for tho of a man who aged sud- rest of my life?"

"Well, - said the assistant,

denly from 28 to 75. "I'm not in any position to make Trying to look 28 when decisions on matters of studio you are 38 was tough palley, Why don't you ask Mr enough, but 75 was definite. Goldwyn?"

"Mr Goldwyn," I replied felly, fly tricky.

"la on an island in mid-Pacifie I tried all the normal called Honolulu." ageing processes, auch ng "Well, then," said the assistant staying up all night. but make-up man hastily, if you'll that just made me shake excuse me I have to collect Miss Evelyn Keyes' eyelashes before all over and forget my lines, she goes to Mexico. Be seeing

I say you." Bo we ruled it out. "we" because, at this point,

mude a

That night at home the tale- I have to introduce a charac- phone rang; it was a certain Mr ter called Stephanoff, who is Hammacher-Schlemmer, one of Goldwyn's hend make-up the high offeinle of the studios. "David," he said. "I havo artist.

This Stephanoff, triumphantly great news for you. Mr Goldwyn deal with Sir announced one day that he had has hit upon a brilliant solution to Alexander Korda and you are off the ageing problem.

to England in three days to make The Elusive Pimpernel," " After making all the right noises about that plece of newa, I brought up the question of my hate.

stuf

so

"We'll bleach the much," he said, "that it will photograph white."

Upon inquiry, 1 learned that the stuff in question was my

hair,

"Oh," said Mr Hammacher- So, for Art (and for Goldwyn) Schlemmer, "et Korda, worry This certinente Was ke I allowed myself to be led off to about that-you are his properly criminal dossier. In it were a lollywood beauty parlour, now.

"But Korda doesn't have it on written the social origins of each stripped to the waist, and draped worker, any fines he paid, any in a sheet. I was then parked top of his head all day!" r crimes he hail committed, and on a marble slab with about 20 yelled. "It is not with him on the reasons for his dismissal women and girls, all, as far as 1 hin pillow at night, and, further-

could judge, similarly attired. from his place of employment. If he could not show good cause 'for having lost his job, he was not to be allowed to work else. where. This meant sinrvation.

relief Unemployment abolished. The unemployed were told to go wherever they were, sent and to whatever job the state decreed.

Was

Anointed

more, he doesn't get whistled nt In the streets like I do. Doesn't anybody know what to do wir E head operator soon ap- "Now, keep your hair on. peared with a Althy-smelling David," said Mr Hammacher- witches brew which she stirred Schlemmer (a tactless plece of at arm's length and, with the advice, I thought), "we'll work

something out," same disdainful gesture as wartime mess orderly doling out spoonfuls of watery

mashed potatoes, she deposited this foul concoction on our heads.

As You Were

I gloomily hung up the A receiver of horror My scalp started to froth and stretched before me. There I stir, and I began to feel uneasy was.

to.

Cruel Decrée

about. to KO home To cover up my apprehension, England, to family and old NOTHER cruel decree was plunged fully into the normal a blond-it un-

own

from

lux.

It's

were determined to force Moscow's Bohemia example of the mixed system of A punishing the worker by dis- gossip and slander of the beauty friends. Dit was that

terror and reward by which the missal if he was absent for a parlours, and even tried to raise night. Russian government seeks to single day from the factory.a few useful telephone numbers

in the morning, Mr Ham- some of the neighbouring macher-Schlemmer increase its revenues.

rang up Even if ill, he must produce a The greatest source of income certificate to show that he had a sheets.

Suddenly my head become again. high

temperature. Heavy Anes

"It's okay, David, rel of the Torgsin shops were Jews were imposed for being a few atmos! unbearably prickly, and all fixed, the beauty parlour will with relatives in foreign coun- minutes late for work, and I had a terrible feeling that I dye it back your own colour, and tries who would send them

worker leaving his job or was was going to faint. dollars a month to save dismissed immediately lost his

"How long does this go on no one will know the difference." So, back. I went to the them from starvation. The

and his family's brend I asked the Head Witch. percentage of Jewish

people raiion.

"Brother, you're here for the witches; back under the sheet, the rum and, yes, back to standing in the Torgsin queues

day," she said.

bottle.. The workers had long since I began to feel panicky, and "It's a funny thing," said the for him, he would let us have students. It consisted of the

lost the right to strike. Stop-slightly sick. My sleknces in Head Witch, "it's been so long room at the hotel. But fortunate, the

Anti-Semitism, though official plant work was equivalent doctrinaire and

to creased when I happened to Comrade X only had a limited hard-boiled foreign Communists, ly condemned, took a new lease trenson. number of Gort A books to give and those foreigners of various on life when

The trade unions were catch sight of myself in a mirror, since I did it that I can't re- Russians saw deprived of even the nominal and there, peering forlornly at member what colour your hair away, and he wanted them for kinds

working in Moscow Jewish neighbours cooking good right to negotiate wages, already me, was a white-faced indivi- was before."

"Well,

I can." I sald frostily, his own cronies, Getting a room

were failures at food which they never had a lower in terms of purchasing dual, draped in a shroud, and on wit

was a beautiful, glowing for h non-Party man wag o

enjoyed who

A few years power than they had been under top ilke a dirty yachting cap, a

chestnut with several strands of return for the Gort A

bank of

of pearl-grey scum. small book. since_n non-Parly man which their own merils could later. in the great purge, count- the Tsa

familles suffered

Even In 1936, the best year

After three hours of pur- spun gold that reflected the sun- had no patronage with which to never-have-secured for them.____less Jewish

for their past enjoyment of

since the twenties, the price at gatory, which Thad only light, and, furthermore, Instead pay for a room to live in.

They dined and wined on the little food bought with money bread was 15 times higher than managed to endure by bribing of being straight and apparently produce bought at Insnab, while received from abroad.

in 1914, and the price of meat one of the under-witches to slip stone dead the way it is now, it was naturally and beautifully most Russians were slarving.

about 12 times higher. The cost in bottle of rum under my sheet,

wavy," of clothing had risen even more I was washed off and shown the

41

Moving About

becauso

home,

they

favours chance to buy.

An English newspaperman, Jews Arrested

editor of the Moscow

ARCADI went our News.

who

was

Dully

11 now

debauched, fat little man, led DY 1936, it was held to be a the singing k songs, sometimes

crime to have relatives out- The Torgsin just nasty. side of Russia. known to be

funny

but usually was

steeply. Yet Soviet statistics result. It was dreadful. showed that the average had risen only fourfold.

wage

"All the penalties and terror

Back Home

"Yes, I remember now," she replied, "and there was also a certain amount of grey over the cars.

could not prevent starving, men FULL horror of my predica-

ment did not strike me till 1 we from leaving thele jobs.

The

"Anyway," she continued, "ns forgot to take a sample.

Rabinovitch, ex-chairman of Arcos in London, now high up the Soviet ladder of success. Rabinovitch phoned Comrade X

a shops had been closed down, and Soviet press was filled with reached home and my faithful before we bleached you, we'll and told him to come up and

Finally we were homosexual, and was later ex-many Jews were arrested and complaints about "grant vio-bull terrier (a good watch-degr just have to make you Number talk to him. saved, Reluctantly, Comrade X pelled from the Soviet Union sent to concentration camps for lation of labour discipline."

the "crime" of having corres- for corrupting young men. agreed to give the precious Cort A book to the Intourist manager's assistant In return for it rubin for our humble selves.

J

Eventually We secured temporary use of two rooms on Ostejenka Street in the flat of Gavrilov, an old Party member

Miserable Winter

"100

and

ponded with foreiga relatives. Dut from 1932 to 1935. the Sovict state was

10 anxious secure valuta-foreign CX-

10

produce a large

cnable

secret police to spy upon them.

in Russian currency,

But, although our living con-

.year or

Half & Half

bit me in the leg.

4, which is a sort of rich mouse- Inside the house, my wife just colour, and hope for the best," honted with laughter, and my Internal Passports youngest son asked me when hus

daddy was coming home,

The rest of the weck wos

So the familiar routine begun: the frothing scalp, the pins Finally, Stephanoff, who had and needles,. the nausea, hungry workers to their jobs. and the dissatisfied peasants to gloomily thaken his head after surreptitious nips from the rum

form.

The

the

Our semi-luxurious existence AMERICAN and English Com-change--at any cost and Torgia Na Inal attempt to the the misery.

munists went to Russia to served In the New Moscow Hotel came

the collective farms, Stalin re-ea

each session in the torture bottle, and, finally, the washing to an end late in April. May seek an un-restrained Bohemian revenue.

paradise while posing as revolu- Day was approaching, and we

In fact, two or three dollars sorted to an old Tsarist police chamber, delivered it as his cun- off and unvelling.

I gasped with horror, and month could ward off stur- measure in a more universal and sidered opinion that we might were told that all Russians (ex- lionaries. They quickly learned life was grim And

could

the rigorous

Internal just get away with it, but that clutched the witch's arm.

On my head was a rug of jet- cept, of course, the OGPU) must that

It was a great disappointment la carnest for erotic

revived. pleasures. vation,

to buy a little flour passport system was

black horsehair. I tried to smile him. clear out to make way for the

Romance dissolved when they recipient

Entire urban populations, as at one-tenth of the valuta-paying foreigners.

Next there followed several at myself in the mirror, and a discovered that their mistresses and fat

as the well us

peasants living near the were promptly enrolled by the prices paid for the same foods the large towns, had to secure weeks of work on the "old nian" Japanese general leered back at I forgot me. One of the sheets stirred residence permits. No one was sequences of the alm

my hair till the last sympathetically.

"Don't worry, Mr Niven," it In that winter of 1932-33, the allowed to move from the town about we had known in England. For ditions were far better than a conditions of life for workers, or village in which he ilved, scene was shot, and the company said, "it will grow out in a' year*

two before, life for peasants and employees became even for a single night, without dismissed.

Then I remembered it most or so."

I reeled away. permission from the police. the first time since we went to

Violation of the internal pass- vividly, but, as we left the cound

Six months have now passed Moscow we had two rooms in most people, In that winter of more and more terrible.

1932-33, was

I saw Stephunoff's ca more miserable

the stage. The workers could not easily port regulations. swelled modern Bat

than ever. The scanty meat and

to accept Stalin's millions of Russians condemned wing out of the studio gates. it since those desperate days, and After

'a'

months ct butter zalions, which the indus- be induced

to forced labour in concentra-was piled high, I noticed, with certain changes have undoubt- and fishing rods, edly taken place; half my hair, the half nearest my scalp, is now civilised existence on Ostelenks trial workers were supposed to brand of socialism. Street, the Gavrilovs returned, be able to buy, were usually un- peasants, they migrated from tion camps. Slave labour had sulteases

a sort of depressed belge-could and we were once more home-, obtainable. Most Russlang lived place to place in search of a jou become an essential factor in it didn't like the look of this.

this be my, glowing chestnut be- Once again we got a room on black bread, millet and buck with sufficient food and a room economy of Russia. And the Iffe of a slave labourer working

coming nationalised? The other ot the New Moscow Hotel,

for the vast organisations con- WHERE is Stephanoff 50- half, nearest the scissors, in like- The government retaliated trolled by the NKVD is Index- Wing?" I asked. "Oh, be dead bracken. There was a young American New shops now opened up in

with ever-increasing measures cribable in its inhumardly and going off on his holiday," sald named Clark Foreman living in 'one district after another-te of compulsion.

brutality. the hotel, He was in Russia Torgain shops, Here one could

First it introduced the..work studying social services for the buy better and more abundant

the obe- Jullus Rosenwald Foundation. supplies than anywhere else certificate to ensure Clark Foreman was one of the except in the Kremlovsky dis- dience of the working class to the (Copyright,

visitors to, tributors-If one had gold or all-powerful State and Party.

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To be Continued Tomorrow,)

By Ernie Bushmiller

DIET

SHAPE

Deserted

Д

I have just had letter. It his assistant, "After all, he's was from Stephanoff, He stated that he confidently expected to earned it."

"What," I asked, "does the win an Academy Award for con- Studio Intend to do about my celving the best make-up of hair, or am I supposed to ko 1948..

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