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"BIG CITY”

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TITANS OF

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It's tempting to say that I told you so

| Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP

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TITHOUT flying off America-even it, as costainly. to Paris or to Bonn will be the case, German wagen

ars increased. I can tell you that

This scheme, running true to Paris 'is behaving very form,

beint negotiated much as predicted.

with the exclusion ot

have excluded In May this column re- British. We

ourselves. Or, rathor, our ported that Herr Ludwig Sociallet rulers have excluded Erhard, Germany's Financo u Minister to be, had devised Messte Attica and Bevin want to nationalias and socialize an ingenious scheme.

not only the hoary Industries of It was to enable Ger-

Britain but those of Germany.

They will have nothing to do

with any scheme like this one of Dr Ludwig Erbard, for it prejudices the chances of Ger

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many to get fresh Ameri- can capital for the recon- struction and expansion of her heavy industries in the man Industries ever being nu Ruhr, and by the same tionalised. -If this Franco-

industrial entente stroko to allay French German

formed without the participa- suspicions and opposition to tion of the corresponding this expansion.

One of the few positive re, it is dangerous economically na sults the recent three-Power was the

Hitler's presence of conference in Paris is that armles on the Channel mili- Erhard's scheme for Westerntarily. Germany is on the point of go- To me, the greatest tmnedy ing through.

is that an entente of this kind. are backing which included Britain as well in as France, would form the mast practical marantco agninst

The enchantment

of

Jt.

The chustrialists

the French Bro

the Gaiety Girls

Danced in pink

pyjamas

VERYBODY over the Bge of 60 cherishes the memory of 22 Gaiety Girl. Particularly those who never saw one.

Do not argue with the paradox. It is the

tradition

survive.

And

A

way endeavoura to

enthusiastically have our parents kept this tradition alive that we, born of the doubt of this brassy half-century, have developed an unhealthy be- lief that the dear girl never existed.

Rise from poverty

BUT HERE comes Mr W Macqueen-Pope, in the nick

from

She became a baroness

•

Denise Orina

of

British Interests, wo shall and

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Dr Erhard. who first pro- future German aggression. bla scheme during posed the

It would give us security long the nebulous Ruhr Washington visit this summer, alter mado a special visit to Paria thority has passed away.

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If He presmiled it there once more

had my way, far from ofter reparations the form of a memorandum abandoning In the from the German Chancellor, one, I would take reparations diamantling, pa Mr Bevin has

Dr Conrad Adenauer.

Negotiations between financial and industrial authort- concerned are, I under. stand to begin at once.

tica Fluffy French

of time, to tell us in a first-class book ("Galety-Theatre of En- chantment," W. H. Allen, 20s.), that she did often rise from liko

GERTIE MILLAR and The galety girl could poverty to the peerage, often

NELLIE FARREN,

sing and dance. But when had champagne drunk.

her

door stage The

the GABRIELLE RAY danced in dined at Romano's and Gaiety Was frequently

nobody cared alipper,

a pink pyjamas born supped

at Rule's, was

side entrance to Burke's Peer- whether her strong points were splendidly with the reign of

Gertic Millar became her acting and singing age.

(they Edward VIL, and died when

THE Countess of Dudley.. DENISE were not). her fervent admirers

ORME became Baroness Chur-

From a modern point of view slaughtered in Flanders.

stoл. IRENE RICHARDS be the Galety Girl had too much came Lady Drumlanrig.

hair, too many clothes, but the One might have been a Sul-

Sul- imaginations of our fathers were had the proposal been not unequal to the task m phrase more delicately. For, posed. when the Sultan of Zanzibar MADGE SAUNDERS. he

She was created by the wisdom and imagination of the Gaiety's greatest manager. GEORGE ED- WARDER.

were

And for her.

A well-appointed creature. W generous of form and tempera- promptly offered the manager a was ment, she was, half ethereal, upset when the offer was re- hall earthy, rumbustiousness. She reached her peak in women fused.

Gabrielle Ray

She married LESLIE HEN- HON instead, which was un- doubtedly much more fish,

RUBY MILLER, bright s'ar of The Orchid, had a prince (foreign Inevitably) drink champagne from her slipper.

She wor charmed by the mut compliment, but pointed that the practice made her shoes damp.

Edwardes caw to it that his girls got cut rates at Romano's: had special tables, in bowers of flowers, earmarked for them,

He also kept a sharp ero on the sprigs of nobility that fre- quented the bowers.

Her Italian 'count'

NOT ALL the girls and novelette romances, veut ever. Some had equally novelet

ish tragedies.

One was a star mannequin, with an Italian count for a fer- So he sent her two dozen pairs vent admirer.. Old Jupp, the in allic, satin and valvet. Did he stage-door keeper, was over- drink his way through them? whelmed with flowers, for her. Mr Macqueen-Pope does not She arrived in a £3,000 ermine

coat and glittered with jewels.

Bay.

Banned for good

One day he did not turn up at the theatre. She had run off with the Halian count who although Italian, was no count, and no gentleman either,

allure

Gaby Destys

On a first night the girls hired relays of cabs to take the flowers and fruit to a hospital.

Hope of profit

the from Germany in the form of n in specified controlling chard German key industica.

These shares, with the mana- gerial authority vastovi in them, I would sell to the interested industrial concern of Britain, France, and the US.

DRIEFLY the Erhard plan is Dthis The Americans make n Kubstantial dollar loan to

do not use

these

Fear of future

British, French, French industry. The French,ATER, the

an] U.S. shareholders however,

would set abeul securing fresh dollars in France. They use credits for the German concern them to buy a substantial in- in such terest for the French potentially dangerous Ruhr en- terprises na- the Vereinigte steel

concern.

This will give France a volco in the direction and manage- ment of those concerns and en- sure that they carry out a polley Lin conformity with French in

terests. The Germans on their side will use the dollars to ex- pand and modernise their plant.

For the Americans the dollars spend on this scheme are an excellent investment:---

be

on an ordinary businear basis The Germans, too, would given an opportunity to

US. concema.

buy

shares in British, French, and

I would then quickly move to restore full povereignty 10 the German Government.

I would give them control of their own foreign policy. We might as well do it now before the Germons extract it from us as they have extracted the end of dismantling by a campaign of violence, calumny and Ulegality,

would seek with speed to

1 THROUGH their French replace our some of occupa

tion in Germany by a new Ger-

associates the Americans gain an induential foothold in man force limited in size to that of the German army established European industry.

2

with and wor

in the Eastern zono By the the Russians. It would end For THEY make money.

dangerous competition between these Gormasi industries- the Western Powers and the out-of-date Russians for German Food will. even today

worn I see little likelihood of any- equipment

'hing like this being dono.. The machinery are proving highly competitive. Thanks largely to High Commissioners have been

skill and hrd work Sometimes the bouquets con- the

of Alven their joint directives in Lained rings and bracelets. The the German workere, and their Paris, and have passed them on

live on wages to the Germans jewellery was kept or returned, willingness to

As before, I fear we stull oce depanding on from whom it lower than those paid in other

Industrial countries.

#pusiltanimous policy of

by Once German plants are re slow and go-safe followed equipped with modern headlong flight into extravagant machinery they will earn big concessions. profita Dividends will go to

London Express Servico)

came.

Most of the Galety Girls had their heads screwed on so tightly by Edwardes that it was impossible for anybody to torn them.

But such a creature could not survive World War I, any more than the gaslight, the hansom, those suppers at Rule's and the rich noblemen.

The stage-door Johnnies who had been so well-diacplined by Old Jupp went off to another sort of discipline where there were no flowers but poppies.

End of an era

go-

The strange power

of

'black' magic

ORMER London typlat Ruth days."

O

of Bechuanaland's Barongwato

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great

by

Arrested by a European of ficial, an African witch doctor.

He had fallen foul of Willams. "While Queen" the local medicine men.

His master had him medical- tribe, was ill in bed the other ly examined and assured him day and the tribesmen said he had no illness. Nevertheless on

the seventh THE PASSING of the Gale- she was bewitched.

She ty Girl, if it did end a fan-

has recovered, and day the African died. He had

What about this story told tastic era, did not end the old Seretco Khama, her husband, apparently no will to live.

acclaimed

"Itic Elspeth Huxley in Galety Theatre. That lasted, on is the corner of Aldwych, until the magician.

Sorcerer's Apprentice"? evening of August 31, 1938, Odd? Childish? But Acress Africa faith in the casting of when it closed down.

But the lost the departing spells still holds.

dusk of the District officers in the re- warned:

"That is your-power over me. GABY DESLY8, porcelain

audience in the

will tell you the blue eyes and fluffy French

theatre was able to see was the moter paris Galety Girl.

belief in magic is the greatest I have a greater power. If you do not release me I will call. allure, had a regiment of ad-

She was embroidered on the bar to the spread of progress. mirors. One of them, with more

In Swaziland three headmen out six lions to torment you.”. She got the experience, he got stage curtain, holding aloft a

Within 40 hours enthusiasm the discretion, got the furs and jewels.

the official Sacred Lamp.

have just been sentenced to himself banned from the Galety

But, as Mr Macqueen-Pope death for killing a woman to awoke in the night to find six He shot lions round his tent for good.

Edwardes, made furious by says, there is no need to write get flesh for "medicine."

In the Finis to the story of the Galety

Africa, magic and the four. the girl's desertion, none

part of A few days after that he was lase gave her a job again.

Theatre.

casting of spells are Rexbrated,

of native life attacked by six lions in a dry masonry the whole warp

river bed and again shot four.. cleaned, its auditorium refur-and thinking.

Ho had never Doen ones lion' had a native A European bished, the Galety will open its

cheerful and before at close quarters and he doors again next year under the "boy," normally management of Lupino Lane. vigorous who began visibly to never did agala.

lose his spirits and energy. Ho

One evening in the stalls he could not subduo his love any longer, but leaped to his feet, throwing his money, watch and chain, gold cigarette case to- wards Guby.

He was froz-marched from the theatre, 'stul de- claring his robust love. He got his property back, bui went insane.

the

Relays of cabs

THE GIFTS the girle re- ceived were as fabulous as storias told about them. Gabrielle Ray, once received a complete grape vine that had Laken eight years to grow.

JOHN PREBBLE asked him what was wrong.

-(London Express Service)'

"Master," sald the "boy," sadly" must die

in, seven

Don Taylor

London Express Service)

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