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Why Stalin's Man

Is Smiling Now

PARIS, May 30, WO years ago in Mos- the cow I stood in snow among the Rus- sinn crowd outside the casino and watched the Big Four drive up. It was the opening meeting of a pence conference which everyone hoped was going to settle the 'peaceful future of Ger- many and prevent tho threatening division be tween the Eastern and Wes- tern Powera.

They hoped that it was going to succeed because the con- ference was being held in Mos- cow itself. Yesterday, for old times' sake, I did the same thing In Paris.

I stood under the trees outside the pink marble palace where the peace- makers are meeting once more. And once more I took a look at the great

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When a big star is in trouble ... Hollywood

forgets the flowers-and asks harsh questions

0

NEW YORK, May 31. HERE are no flowers today in a six-guincas-a-day room in · Boo- ton's most elegant hospital. As a nurse put it, the reason there are no flowers is that "nobody has sent any."

And yet the patient in that room was not so long ago the Hollywood girl with 100 million fans, Judy Garland.

Judy does not know that none of those millions has bothered even tą....... inquire after her, for while she is in hospital she will bo allowed no visitors and no phone calls.

That is becauso the next few days are expected to bo vital to a story which is Holly- wood at its most glamorous.

-Has

Judy

had her day?

The tests she will undergo will decide if Judy Garland

must give up a career which has carned her more than £1 million. Or If sho can be made.strong enough again to start out on the come-back

by C. V. R. THOMPSON

trail-at the ripe old ago she could not understand people

of 27..

talking about leisure.

pictures a year. And her re- cords, best sellers throughout Britain as well. R Amerlen, were bringing in thousands

more.

In 1945. just after her biggest success, "Meet Me in St Louis," Judy divorced, and married the man most responsible for hor The Gumm Sisters was the success infilms, director Vin- Hollywood, apt always to name of the act in which she cent Minelli. think in dollars, is not too much toured nearly every small town Interested in those tests, And in America, Frances Gumm is the reason it gives is that, in

Judy are too expensive luxury.

They had a daughter. Studio wortled

her real name, and her mother executives lost their these days of economy, stars like played the piano while she look, Judy seemed to ba settling

sang and her two sisters danced. down of last.

SUCCESS

DIL

name.

They say: Look at all the lime (and therefore the dol- Iors) wasted

The CHE changed her

to tions open. "It is only a the Marshall plan grant to each Barkleys of Broadway" until ▷ Judy, which she took from basis," he and soothingly. "A other to be convertible into del- they suspended her and brought the song of that name, and Gar- barls on which further proposals lars. Sir Stafford is against it. In Ginger Rogers in her place. Iand, which she took from a can be made."

Broadway celtie before she went The Americans, want the loans And then again with the film to Hollywood. Russians are as

that the lo a suspicion

be convertible so that the version of "Annie Get Your much puzzled European countries receiving Gun." Too much temperament. And that happened when sho about their new line on every them do not have to restrict | And then the final bust-up, was just 12 years old. She one else here [s. It looks as their buying. Âs

the when 'her now, to

answer to a studio walked into Hollywood's Inrgest though Vyshinsky has been countries making the Joans. bors warning was to stamp off studio and asked for a job and given

orders to put over con- They want them to be able to the set crying that the was got it. cillation in order to disarm the buy anywhere they plense- "Uhrough."" West-perhaps, even to try especially in Amerlea. split them.

to

But he has to try to do it without giving uip positions which the Kremlin has considered essential,

now

He is finding the going tough, but he is doing his best.

When the party broke up, Mr Vyshinsky had long and

Q

So they are putting pressureihe subject. on the U.S. Government to en- sure that the Marshall plan helps. United States exports.

ENERGY

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in

But nol for long. Instead, Judy became 1. She spent moro and more of her time at the doctors,

There were rurhours all over Hollywood, and soon all over America. At last it became known that Judy and her second husband were quarrelling,

Then she left him. Even in her · hospital her thoughts are still of her career.

room

The only. Hollywood' per- sonage in Boston with her is her faithful agent; Carlton Astop.

He is there in ease Judy de- eldes that she cannot take the long treatment her doctor will undoubtedly prescribe and wants to make a quick trip to London for a singing tour.

And there began Hollywood's We cannot afford that sort of greatest success story. The truth is that American thing these days, says Holly- "Broadway Melody, exporters are finding an ia wood, pointing out that it will "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry creasing need to sell their pro-cost £250,000 to remake the "Love Finds Andy llardy," "The ducts abrond in order to keep partly finished "Annie" with Wizard of Oz," "Babes in their factories going at full blast Betty Hutton in Judy's place.

Armg,"

"Strike up the Band," And so Hollywood and to avold having to lay off

"Ziegfeld Girl,"

оп "Babes employees.

polite tut-tut and then changes Broadway," "For Me and My Girl," "Presenting Lily Mars,"

Cheer, Thousands

Girl "Meet Crazy.

St Louis-those famous titles tell FORGOTTEN are her 13 years part of her success story. They are having consi- Hollywood and her 30 But only part. In what spare derable success with this ims. Forgotten most of all are time she had Judy worked just pressure. What is more, the years 1940, 1941 and 1943, as hard as at the studio. Tennis there are signs that they when they acclaimed Judy Gar- and swimming by day, a good will have more success in land the nibney-maker of the time at night. the future despite on-year..

And then she married. Her position from Mr Hoi- Those were the years when husband was David Rose, a Bevin, man and the other Marshall plan Judy Garland looked 21. Flam- promising composer and bond

record administrators.

ing youth at its flamingest, they leader. They made a

Her together "One Love,"

Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP

from Paris-

they got out of their cars and private talk with Mr

Then he joined Acheson and Some of the faces have Schuman over a bottle of cham-

used to say of her. DIGGING IN changed since those last meet pagne. No one has ever seen

Work all day and piny half friends hoped Judy would calm ings of March and April 1047. him so chummy and cordlə]. A LREADY today under the the night-her energy seemed down. But husband Rose went Dapper, immaculate Mr Ache-

to buy more and more goods in

plan Europe is being forced endless. enters now instead

America which elsewhere.

ADD

If smiles and geniality were of the whole of it we should have Mr Marshall, tall, bald, austere agreement. Schuman in place of littlo Bidault, and Vyshinsky is here without Molotov.

Judy thought that, too. It could buy trouper since she was But just try looking at the America are trying to restrict Some of the big industries in world from thie Kremlin point the export of machinery to Europe which might make Europe Independent of their products. Thus oll companies seek to restrict the export to Europ G "of oll-refining there is Mr Bevin't machinery.

of view, and then you can find But otherwise it was very reasons which might lead a Rus much the old crowd and the sian optimist to bellevó that same tired experts with the they can put over conciliation some brief-cases. And to judge without themselves making any from the proceedings so far, real sacrifices. with much the same old brief inside them.

OUI ! NON !

vast Soviet Zla limousine up. "What is news in these days?

says

'Non'."

Chief

БАУБ

First,

anxiety to help his friends Senator Bland has put up a

of the German Socialist Party Bill under which 50 percent of into power. In

securing

the unity of Germany.

_U.S. AIM

off to war.

A

Judy was getting £37,500 a three, pleture now and making three

VERDICT

HER doctor, George Thome, will not give his verdict until the end of this week. Upon his decision rests Judy's future in Hollywood and her contract to make nine more films.

Upon his decision, too, may rest Judy's private life.

For the decrees that #ho must stay under his treatment her husband is planning a sur prise reconciliation. He will fy to her with their three-year-old daughter for her birthday a week tomorrow-Hollywood and is the-show-must-go-on tradi- tion permitting.

(London Express Service)

NEW DEAL FOR INVENTORS

BY J.W. TAYLOR

today: although

the

A

In

tho.

One section of the Bill applica: to inventions made by em- ployees in cases where neither

The new bill given power to

Departments Westerns Ger- all goods bought with Marshall IT is just 500 years since. He had dimculty too, in Fet many the German Socialists are dollars must be shipped in Henry VI granted the ing his radio valve adopted, Government

Fleming license anyone to operate THAT certainly was the view outnumbered. The conservative American vessels, even if these first patent for an inven- valve is in, use in every radlo patent, and even to zevoke-

of a cynical, sharp-tongued Christian Democratic Union has one European port to another.

goods are being carried from

tion to John Wyman for set. Under the new Bilt the patents, where their use is not. Frenchwoman in a tiny gallery the majority vote. of bystanders round me.

This proposal is considered the manufacture of stained. Government itself may operate being fully exploited. It may

patents if they are

in the be called in where trade restric "Bah," she cackled as

But if the Russian zone were such a menace in Norway to the glass windows--and by the

national interest yet rejected by tlens hinder the full use of ld joined up with the West in a country's vital shipping indus-

tho private manufacturers. More patent, where a monopoly firm France freely elected parliament then try that some Norwegians are atrange coincidence Rita Hayworth the Socialists could be sure of already talking of Norway's quincentenary is being important, perhaps,.than manu suppresses its use, or where its

facturers Qui Vyshinsky

a majority. For Cen- getting out of the Marshall plan marked, by...the

shortsightedness aro widor use would beneat passage fact

important in country's exports. iral and Eastern Germany have and the Atlantic Pact.

The Soviet calculation 10 that through the present Parlia- the cases where

ventions are deliberately pur- I don't think Vyshinsky heard always been a Social Democrati

outright, and then sup- her. Without

as time goes on, and the surplus ment-of-a-Patents and Do chased stronghold. looking round, he

in world production gets bigger signs Bill to ensure that in pressed because their use would popped through the glass

Mr Bevin, therefore, in

арредг to threaten existing in- door, closely followed by

the and U.S. unemployment zooms, the Soviet view, will be ready to go these Marshall plan conficis be-ventions shall not be sup terests. In recent years there Do worker nor the employer can new Soviet

Commander-in- a long way in order to secure tween the americans ands their pressed by privata interests have been whispers of everlast in Germany, General

European allies will become and that inventors shall ing razor blades, long-life elec really claim to the whole bene.

Acial ownership of the inven more and more important. reap their fair share of the tric light bulbs, and matches tion. This section is particular

HOW TO BEGIN

benefits of ideas they have all being bought up and quietly 15 important in these days when developed. It is also to pigeon-holed by manufacturers workers are encouraged to sug gest new methods of increasing THE Americans, so the Rus-guard against valuable in- with similar interests.

production and where better education and Industrial “re- alans expect, will become ventions which might asalat American

atlations more and more America-fra! the production or defence Today, inventions appear

of recent years have and consciolis. They will be ready of the country being left le rate of about 35,000 a year innde this more likely receiving to compromise and retire Into

of them are: Many

refused. Isolation it, they are provided unused by accident.

In these cases, the Bill pre- or do patents, either because they are A good example will be pro Kremlin

with a reasonable pretext by a sign.

Thought to have been "Invent- vides that the Controller of the vided right here in Paris. For

making conciliatory

ed before or because they ap- Patent Office may apportion be Kestures.

pear to be crackpot notions tween employee and employer I think this may well be part There was the case of the Amongst the latter was the the benents of the Invention.. "I have flat yet had time to Sir Stafford Cripps and seven other Ministers from Marshall

worker who considers study the proposal," he said, aid countries will be meeting in of the thinking behind the new common zip fastener, whose regular appearance of plans to Thus a

.....but from what I have the Rothschild palace with Mr Russian attitude, puzzling as it inventor travelled all over End make special ships bullt to ob- that his technical discovery is. THE TAUMATI heard here it seems to me- Harriman, the United States, to us.

to be little suited to serve as a special representative.

Meanwhile Mr Vyshinsky, land unsuccessfully trying to viale seasickness. There was really an Invention in its own puzzling himself how to begin, persuade manufacturers to adopt too, the umbrella to be fastened right and not merely a slight on to the "hot (British), or Improvement, may have ble basis for a quadripartite agree- ment,"

There will be a fight. For Mr sings the old hymns of hate its use. Finally he succeeded in the hat designed to catch and claim heard without being in- Mr

futeresting a tobacco firm which drain away rain water in the volved in heavy costs attendant Bevin quickly but his Harriman wani the lonas but with a smile on his face. foot in the door to keep negotia- which European countries under

utflised it in pouches.

brim (German). -(London Express Service)

upon. a. court clalim.

kov. He is a squat and figure in a buff tunic and floppy extra-wide trousers of bright blue with on crimson stripe running them.

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