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AGREEMEN

Argentine Best Fight

'WHAT DOES THIS FELLER THINK I AM ?")

By arrangement with Evening Standard.

So this is what they call—

BUENOS AIRES.

T is a queer and restless business living in a nation that maintains and nourishes itself almost wholly on illusions. There

is first of all the national insistence that the Argentine is a noble and mighty Power victimised by a jealous United States and a vindictive Britain:

That is probably a simple reaction in a proud people in a deep political and economic mess and no clear idea of how to get out of

it.

Then there is the other, the euriaus world-wide illusion that Buenos Aires is £ city of gaiety, sophistication, and romance.

It is a matter of pas- sionate civic pride that Buenos Aires should wish to seem exotic, even slight-

ly wicked-the Paris of the

it.

"... tormented chronicles of frustration

and misery...."

The

SAUCY

CITY.

JAMES

by

CAMERON

more than that. The intelligent citizen of Buenos Aires has not.

grent deal to be merry about today.

country

He knows that his never has had a good Govern-

ment: Rever having tasted de- mocracy he mistrusts it, too.

Not much wonder then that he has become แก in trospective, dubious citizen with a belief in only one thing: money; whose idea of an even- ing jest is to drop his false teeth in one's beer and watch

ane flinch.

William Hickey

TARGET for the trippers, tourists, and other

transients was Piccadilly Circus after 7 p.m. "Seeing the lights" became once again the main free show offered by the hub of the Empire.

But the efforts of 20 men on double time for a week. clambering up ladders, playing peek-a-boo in and out of the office window behind the second "N" in Guinness, did not all at once give Plecadilly its prowar sparkle.

There id one new sl. White

and

gold lamps spell out the word "Odeon," in-

and 211 AITOW

dicates the way in

soft bright - sott sequence Tasting eight seconds.

SID FIELD, a West End war time star, who has never had his name in lights, has a near miss here. He and his co-star of "Cardboard Cavalier," MAR- CARET LOCKWOOD, are not actually in lights, but they will bask in the reflections from

round their poster.

Six

just round the corner. years ago she made famous the song "I'm Going to Get Lit Up" which her husband HUBERT GREGG wrote for her.

They are not married now,

£3,000 of electrical equipment BORN in California, USA, the great (multiplied by 13) The trend in Illumination,

granddauthter of King Charles which, in 1930,

II, and Nell Gwynne. Her im- Was moving rapidly from individual

mediate bulbs

ancestors- proud. to static (and cheaper to

parents CHARLES CHAFLIN Fall) and wife OONA O'NEILL neon, threatens to take the twinkle out of the lights.

There is just one fancy plece. Bovril - Schweppes re-present their prewar 1,300-lamp work- ing

model of lettering, and & racket throwing off stars in three colour combinations.

The complete show, from the name of the beef extracl going through the motions in white, white-red, red-white, red, red-

green, ote, before it switches. "You mintake us." sald a

itself off and allows its tonic- government official. "You water label to repent the per-

For this news of blue blood thank Ashford in his lineage Mr Chaplin must

(Kent) EDWARD PERCY SMITH,

MP

In establishing his pedigreo back to famous historical love- story. Mr Smith found that in young lady who was the direct the mid-eighteenth century a descendant of the Duke of Sl Albans, one of Charles's two sons by Nell, married a named Chaplin.

man

The male issue of that marringe eventually produced

daughters became a Smith, and

commercials, always seek false Anglo-Saxons, being shrewdformance, takes three minutes. the comedian. One · of the

motives among such people 415 For above it an insurance forebear of the playwright MP. we. Let us prove our good company flashes the message:

Will," she with a broad ges-"For your peace and security." JUST ture of gleaming cuffs.

came to light also TOMMY TRINDER, passing is the story of Captalo HARKX "Buenos Aires is, not

the by and

noticing the

REE. He prepara-

was a secret agent, Argentine." (This once again. although so many of the Argen-tions, said: "I'm the unluckiest parachuted Into France. There he fell into a Gestapo trap from tinos live there).

of people. As soon as I got star

which he escaped only after be billing in the West End they ing wounded and after biting a "Permit the Government,"urned the lights out. Now the Gestapo man on the nose.. said the functionary, "to show

lights are going on again I'm you the land, the country's some political impulse that de- beating heart. The airplane not working here."

will be rendy such and such a time....

In an atmosphere of intense national fervour, of withdrawing from the outside world, of tense Chauvinism and exclusivity, he something very alien,

rives from countries far away.

else-

Опе

in

to

In fact, though, only one

her name hos stage star He knows that General Peron has had his prototypes

waited for many days, lights. And you will have where, he knows that lip ser- but it was always manana, to-go down the Strand to SCC

That aeroplane never vice Socialism bound up with morrow. dictutorial powers leads. forward but

He was awarded the OBE (Civil Division). Whitehall's reason: His action had not been performed in the face of the enemy."

Southern Hemisphere. It is, actually, one of

sort delects the jacket was singing with a gloomiest cities in the of tragic desperation through a thundering emplifier. There world.

are many such singers in B.A., and, they all sing the same way, I have never been in any with 0 Berce exaggerated town where fewer people despair. are seen to smile: Climate

TO THE military mind Their songs, too, are all the to do with same: has something

not came. One is still waiting ond MARY JERROLD (aged 70), long. tormented

of VISCOUNT ·ALANBROOKE back, he knows wondering....

The "Going to Get Lit Up" it is a matter for

dismay that Buenos Aires is the chronicles of sorrow, frustration that the only evident alterna-

1943-ZDE GAIL-was there are ten different organi- only city I know where it is and misery.

tive to this sorry condition is a Foolishly, because, like every-girl of

Piccadilly sations catering for bird- possible to have a perpetual

"As I crouch alone in the de- junta from the Argentine Army, thing else here, facts are irifles: not far away from

the illusion is everything.

watchers. incurable hangover with serted streets,

abandoned and German-trained

thinking.

To make his point about the -(Lontion Express Seretce) forlorn, shunned on account of

benefits out having hand a drink.

of centralisation-he my poverty; the lips that spoke

Was speaking at the Jubilee The arrival of the new your name now slightly stated

Exhibition of the Royal Society with the blood that reveals my

for the Protection of Birds-the Constitution got a great suffering and disease, 1 recall

feldmarshal sald: "If it had not amount of organised de- how your last words, my

been for co-operation between light from the Peronistas loved, were of scori and con-

the three Services during the last war we should not have got and the puppet Press but tempt..

very

far.

inken

it does not Reem to have made anyone much happier to look at. -

Life uncertain

without the doubts and strains

1ts traffic is frenzied,

unvon-

Sombre joys

bc-

AFTER 15 minutes the singer,

overcome

liis

of

and

Nazi-

when the lights went up. She was rehearsing for a new revue

Prisoner for 55 years

IN the little cemetery By TOM TULLETT

outside Broadmoor

Criminal Lunatic Asylum a every month he was allowed

cross will be visitors.

were

Inmates

face

Every day was the same. I he was not working in the gar For Frank Smith entered dens, he was sent to the fallor's Broadmoor in 1894 after shop or the shoemakers. attempting to murder his uncle. Then he was a clerk in Tottenham, aged 25.

replaced

And 50 the brown paint Publication of results vanished, to be

by from the voting bird-lovers cream and bright pastel shades. placed the blackbird, the willow spotted fly- It became a privilege to have a warbler, and the single room. with an easy chair catcher in the first three.

The

wood- great spotted and a dressing table.

pecker, alas, is at the bottom with only one devotee.

had Could It possibly have anything to do with that song?

Smith was given a room. He was then 54. He was allowed to pick flowers and hang pic- tures on the wall.

died or

and

STREET Scene: In the

sudden, unseasonal cold-young

nepr

--(London Express Service)

☆ by PHELIX

The Argentinos are not

morbid small stone by emotion, gives way to another. the first people in

placed. the

There was no recreation for dispiriting feature of Buenos world to lose their civil Aires night life, the Reciter-

There will be no rame-Smith and his fellows. When

they Anished work they liberties in the name of guunt man

boots and just a number. In the

sent to bed. social improvement, but studded belt of a gaucho.

Only the staff know that they are not Italians, nor

the He saw the women For the space of many drinks the number conceuls

nt Chapel. But only their of Germans; they are neither be declaims in a volee cracking identity

80-year-old

heads. They lived in a separate gay nor mystic.

with bitter emotion the story of Frank Smith, who spent block. He did not know how he returned one night from the last 50 years of his life that they were dressed in blue By now his visitors haa man, rugged type with tweed his hard and underpaid work to

and white stripped colton dwindled. His friends and re-jacket and polo-necked pull- Ard his father had cut his at Broadmoor.

moved over, sitting on a bench- dresses; nor that they used the latives had 'mother's throat,

He died last month that his lovely

but

us away. eye of red-covered books

Swiss Cottage, calmly getting wife had gone off with -the IN B.A.-as almost everyone local bank manager, that

no friends or relatives had tipstick and boracic as

Yet Smith was happier. No on with his embroidery. calls Buenos Aires-even ittle innocent brother had lost

survived to go to his powder.

longer did he have to wear the funeral,

He was given drab-grey suit. of censorship and police rule, life his reason from the effect is full of nervous uncertainty, this depression and had set the

grey flannels and a sports jac- house on fire, burning up

ket for his pleasure hours.

For his room he could make trolled, and mad. 11% narrow everyone's savings....

a rug, or curtains. The women streets

half of which seem to The audience, business

He was paid on average or patients darned his socks be excavated into caverns And and wives from the suburbs of

is. Bd. a week. With that he mended his shirts, rockpiles, swarm with howling,

Buenos Aires, sat mutely with

could buy cigarettes, tobacco ur It was in 1039 that Smith first tooting, swerving curs, enen one

their glasses of vermouth of

sweels.

spoke to a woman patient. Dr dotermined on self-advance-

thick coffee, the eyes combre-

decided to run ment at all cost.

Gradually Smith grew better topwand ly on the table.

red-brick archway into the In health. In 1914 cobbled courtyard. Insite

seventeen dance.

When the women arrived They were having themselves Broadmoor was

of his friends departed, a wonderful time, in the Argen-walls

Blogmy. The of the insanity which outlawed they were fashionably dressed were painted dark- tine fashion.

browit

them. But Smith did not im- and were wearing cosmetics. For Smith the dance was Smith was given a sust

prove sufficiently to be allowed of

little late. By then he was 70 out. girls on the platform

given were slender and dark; about drab grey and a white shirt, At

years old and had been the only attractive

a pension of Bs. 6d. a week. girls one

p.m. he was locked in his

Smith now went to whist sees In B.A. are on the singe.

drives and concerts. He watch- The other evening, to

And It doesn't do offend

er cricket and played bowls. friend. whispered my cuperato from the stress of Ar them,

The last year of his life was At seven he was wakened, Dr Hopwood decided Kentine politics, I went out with "Any one of them may

that spent in the hospital. and given his breakfast. Every 'Broadmoor was not to bo -an some friends to a crowded cate, day be a president's wife,"

This inclstence on the one of hundreds of such.

more day it was the same-bread; asylum nay more, brut a On the platform, a band, was dismal side of life may be part-porridge, and lea.

hospital. His charges were, no! playing the familiar, inescapable ly the normal Laiin melancholy. He was put to work in the to be called criminal luniles, is nobody to inherit it. tangos, and, a man in a white may be significant of something kitchen gardens. Seven times in but patients,

A

This, the sixth biggest city in the world, has not single trame Bight. They tried them once, experimentally, and the

incensed at this citizens. croachment on

free- personal dom, tore them down and re- stored the familiar chaos,

en-

FC-

The

to

meh

Rome

He was taken through the

4.30 room.

cured

It was in 1925 that life took on a new meaning. That was the year that Dr Hopwood went to Broadmoor as deputy Kuperintendent. kup

A

old

In his roam he left an flyer pocket watch. But there

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