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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950.

Little Things which tend to upset the Entente Cordiale... by CUMMINGS

11 SIGARE 1 CHELSEA

Our exacting sense of hygiene.

Our barbarous lack of culture.

DARION~)

FOLUES OF

Our exaggerated respect for

Lase and Order.

Our rigorous prudery.

Our fanatical passion for fresh air.

Our heavy steaks and ponderous joints of beef.

London Express Servico

London's Live

ACK Hylton. one-time band leader, began his career as a Lancashire clog dancer. Today he has 500 people on his payroll, dancing through £200,000 worth of stage shows.

Littler his teens, Emile

In

for acrobats

booked

#

Lawdry garrison

theatre.

Right now he has bought

Fires Burning."

At the

Are

THE

WHITE

Seretse Khama becomes the central figure in a dispute which arises because he took a white girl home to Africa as his wifo. Pago 4 today prints the views of two well- known coloured Londonors who reject the implied foar of mixed morrlagos

BRIDE RIDDLE

by McDONALD BAILEY

British sprint champlon and Olympic runner

AM deeply interested.

But here surely is a blow at

will.

in the case of Seretse man's most sacred freedom-the Khama. This is not right to choose the wife of his just a personal interest. It It may be that there are other this case that have affects coloured people factors in everywhere and especially not been divulged. If so, let un know them coun. Secrccy can the 20,000 in Britain.

only wet a good cause: it can make a bad one worse.

I am not writing this in my We are often told that there

political mood.... As-4-js-no-eolour-bar-la-Britam,– Nor- M******W

I have sportsman,

often been is there-offelally. But there is advised to keep out of politics, uncleially, Ask any coloured and it is good advice. But the person. He will tell you of the good sportsman is drinogratie, little niggling things, the asides. He likes fair play, honest, above- bound dealing.

'It's been lot'

Mr Gordon-Walker's attitude CALECS us tremendous surprise and disappointment. We colour-

ed man. Arrange the detalis ed people pinned our faith in the to book a flat ng a colour- British Socialist Government over the phone, then a round to We fit that these people, who inspet the place. I guarantee over the years preached and ex- you wil be fed it has been lel. pounded the brotherhood of man,

Is this attitude lo sprend, to would glye a fair, square deni mow, to potion the Empire to their coloured brothers.

relations? God forbid. We seem to have been mis- Haken,

We are happy

We coloured folk in the Em- pire have fought for the Em- pite. Many have died for it. Some will never recover from wounds. Is this to be forgolten?

This should be a time of HAVE been married to a

greatness. Britain needs the full, white Enghh girl for four Under support of all the Com- years. We have two children, monwealth, and not least of all Thus the a boy. We are very the coloured people.

can action of the Government only cantes distrust and suspicion,

girl and happy.

So is Seretse happy. Or could be, were it not for the Govern- ment's attitude. We are taught 3 children and grow up believ ing that Britain is a free country, of the free British the apex Commonwealth.

Shows

Lively

By HAROLD A. ALBERT

Eyu

In Calypso.

117 West Indians have a pithy

form

McDONALD BAILEY WR daughter Christine;

wife is an cr-Waяf.

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+

But only to be told he must

nudicate.

freedom

J

this

democracy.

J'd'

rather stick fypocrisy.

and.

to the old

You say that might is not

right, But the world should hear of

tlus terrible plight." The English preacher John Denar, who nobly preached the of mall, essential brotherhood

is on. "No man once

wrote:

of expressing our island, but a part of the main- Therefore never send

opinion in the Calypso. Here is one I heard:--

"We hear talk of democracy, But what is the position of

Seretse?

land.

to know for whom the bell tolls:- it tolls for thee."

Today, coloured people must: be asking if this is the knell for

He pinned his faith In a their freedom. Have we heard

Socialist State-

the last word on Serelse?

by ALMA LaBADIE Voluntoor West Indian welfaro campaignor

Today, all indications are that of at least 60 London's choice live shows is still expanding. A

It is wrong that we have ED Young actor and actress bought

AM the daughter of a mixed a derelict theatre in the frowsy

marriage. Nobody gives a handled our own Emplee affairs Canden Town district, chiefly on second thought to that as a so- that Americans feel bound to fly borrowed money, and have beguncil problems in the West Indies, over to Birtain to help an Afri- a series of productions that re- where I come from.

ularly draw elite West End critics. Calling themselves The

at

men

Anel

women

We Judge can. there

Do by

not misunderstand my tears and show. They spring But in my tiny from the loyalty to Britain, from West

London the Christion way of life, which Bat the news-

I was taught In Jamaica, paper headlines

Players, a set of enthusiastic character, not colour. youngsters built a theatre under- neath the railway arches Charing Cross, and have dis played House Full signs ever since the opening night.

он Seretse Kharna shatter- ed the Deep faith

that

אבל

I am hoping...?

I have

HAVE met much kindness: from white people. sustained me in nursed them in our hospitals. I my

day

ripe age of 50. his 24th a few, "Oklahoma" is ill giving opening work, it has now been more-the-merrier mood, In reall- j

The entertainment feast ranges surrealist scenery and costumes the British right of those from Covent Garden opera to the designed by Salvador Dali,

Again, there is the astonishing two top New York musicals, Folies Bergere, from Sadler's Wells ballet to chorine-adorned "South Pacific" and

Sull more striking is the Unity "Miss burlesque at the non-stop Wind-opular saga of "Worm's

View" a play scribbled in a Liberty." and his theatre mill. There's Michael Redgrave's notebook on park benches and Theatre, built by working class

seven-year have been nursed by them. assets are rated at £1,160,- "arlet" and Vivien Leigh in ur sents while its RAF mutant, folk in a converted mission hall,

Desire"

for admittedly leftist drama.

Acht against "A Streetcar Named

Jack Ronald Delderfield, was off duty. Today the Unity group runs five

I am hoping that the Ivor Novello won 000.

There's

Harvey

obscure

race prejudice. which began with tears may not youthful fame when

lively "Annie Get First produced at an Buchanan,

"I cried theatre, eling companies and has over repertory

over be so full of despair. I have In provincial he wrote "Keep the Home Your Gun" and Wendy Tiller backed by a nut and boll manu 40 amateur counterparts.

the

breakfast found thuit the newspapers are "The Heiress," just to mention

for not shirking to report the In Though the metropolis is in facturer who lost £200 in the

the ban 01

on justice-or the consequencca-of Drury Lane its longest run in

to me is personal the Seretoe ban. We did not have for successful theatrical pro- three centuries, and has so far sten by over 1,000,000, has taken ty this is merely a sliver of a Seretse

affront. It will feel like that to to

go to

to a Negro Press for that duction is spinning £4,000 poured £1,000,000 into the Lon- 450,000 at the box-office and characteristic English zest

inillions of coloured people help and sympathy. don box-office. Meanwhile, there is elbowie "Chu Chin Chow" play-going already spread na- ton-wide. Crowded little Bul- profit a week.

Though this all started over a are niso a few dozen soild British in long run records.

tain maintains over 100 profes-throughout the Empire.

mixed

marriage-remember that I never dreamed that Britain that is a phrose used here. Wo shows, several destined to maka

sunal repertory theatres plus 130 flest grade shows on the road. would ever lake advantage of asce ourselves all as citizens, and

#mall tribe, 1 have None of these showmen New York newe in 1950 just a

always to us for greater things than one Emlyn Williams, Terence Tatti-

believed that the poor treatment happy marriage are in donger. is exceptional. London is

Kno, Rex Harrison, veteran A. E. celebrating the mid-century Matthews and many others did

--London Express Service. with an unquenchable zest in 1949.

for live entertainment....

and impresarios, producers, Haleyon Season playwrights and other show

Today's Crop

"BONA

murder

«PONAVENTURE", 1 con- mystery, wat similarly dreamed up by i suburban housewife in her spare time from domestic jobs. Even less orthodox,

Road Shows

ALMA

table

of coloured folk within the Em- pire comes from ignorance-not prejudice,

E larger road-show houses

When I have listened to the serve no try-out theatres for Sir Charles Cochran's troubles, of Negroes in Britain the two authors of The Iver Novello's ambitious Lon- and of my own in the folk are netting fortunes HALLENGING the supremacy large and small in the big- Co Not Coward art sucht Late Edwina Black", a crowd don produtions, and ultimately west files In People wi gest peacetime theatrical new boom ever known.

Choice of 60

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So little voice

took jobs

as jumping-off grounds for Em-bitterness with this truth. play drawing shocker, and successful

Many of the 'reps. How can I sustain my falthy apartment pire tours wrights as William Douglas- as janitors th

Among the coloured people of co building with a frea apariment however, reckon on takings of Home, tho exuberant

£600 weekly from the Empire, tempted by Com- cialite whose

The Chillern order to have somewhere £500 to

munist assurances that under the Hund.eds" proved his fourth 10 write at all. So much for the keen and loyal local audiences.

These stock companies run Soviet flag there is no colour bar, blithe glance of Dame Fortune

to Britain bas smash hit. There's also the re- at just a few of today's of one play for anything from the

Fry, an markable Christopher

usually Londoner ex-school teacher who writes playwrights, Actors, producers week to a month; performances suffered terrible strain.

under-rehearsed in formidable verse and yet singers and dancers, have equally are plays luxuriates in n choice of recently scored a triumphant hats staked glittering claims in the and yet repertory is the bur- square miles geoning bough of the Briush some 60 live shows nightly, trick with three produced simal four downtown

three different known to London as theatreland. theatre. Et

now, and nothing will and overseas visitors usual- faneously

From Norwich to Hereford, THE damage has been done In- There's hardly space to cite windsor to Darlington, it is here move the new feeling of ly catch their breath at dis- theatres.

the Individual sngas.

that the young dramatist gets security. covering that this triple-

We have so little voice. Unlike It says much for the texture young Peter Coles, one of three his chance and somorrow's fore- score bill does not include

entertainment-minded brothers most actors learn their jobs the the American Negroes we have the thriving vaudeville' of of this halcyon peion that one

of these plays shre Sir Laurence Sinking his sayings into a 174- hard way. Sir Ralph Richardson, no strong Negro Press. In the a dozen traditional music- Olivier, another was staged by seater theatre built in a private Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Robert United States it is active in its halls nor amateur produc- John delgud while a third was house, he produced "Pick-Up Donat, Diana Wynyard, Maurice protests against racial injustice. I felt shame, too, when I rend Evans are among the repertory Peter Girl", tions, ice shows or a score produced by 24-year-old

a much-discussed play

representative of players who have climbed to that n of flourishing repertory and Brook. This enfant terrible in

turn recently half-shocked, half- which Queen Mary praised, and lardom. Thele very names prove 15,000,000 Afro-Americans was road-show theatres in the delighted Londoners when he now is launching a new nation that the theatre is one of Bri- one of the first to call on Sereise

tain's prominent export trades, in London with offers of help. outer suburbs,

singed a fantastic "Salome" with wide repertory.

NANCY

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