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Crazy Gang of the 17th century

T

LONDON. HERE are times when

the personality of a playwright is more in- teresting than his plays, Sir John Vanbrugh was un-

loubtedly such a writer.

Good humoured explanation... MARCELLA SALZER

and the 18th centuries, while Joy Parker was charmingly Vic- torian.

There is little wit in either the writing

or the production but it and gay. Wo should

is vigoro to Alce Clunes for

be

letting us see this curio.

author rel

At the New Lindsey n young out in "Murder- er's Child" to prove that Ibsen was wrong in "Ghosts." Mr Ed- ward Rutherford's message is that heredity does not count, and that each man is manter of his fate and captain of his soul.

Mrs Ells lived apart from her husband, which made her very And because she wanted children. So in 1931 she went to the Con- tinent for a holiday and there she met a man.

As I watched a spirlied revival at the Arts Theatre of his "Pro- voked Wite" I found my mind straying from the story to the author and wondering why a mon 6 many gifts and such frace of personality should con stitute himself the spirit of the 17th century Crazy Gang.

There

In none of the wit nor the occasional poetry of his friend Congreve. There is iono of the elegance of Sheridan, nor the characterisation which Far- quhar brought to his comedies.

As for delicacy, "Provoked Wife" has as much and no more' than "The Wedding Breakfast" the great Duke of Marlborough bye but when the returned to at Victoria Palace, in which to creet Blenhem House for London she realised that sho Knox is the bride and Nervo the which Queen Anne supplied the was going to have a baby,

Mra Ellis was not ashamed. money from her private purse. groom.

when she picked up a background one But With such Vanbrugh wha the con of n Cheshire sugar-baker, not in it imagines that Sir John would evening paper and saw that her man of lover had been arrested in Eng self a complete passport to have written like a London, cociety. But when he quality and taken pride in land for a particularly fout-sex

5 murder, she swooned demonstrating his erudition returned from being educated In Franes his good looks, wit and well as his familiarity with the geniality made him an Imme treat and the rich. diate favourite in the Metro- pulia,

LUSTY DISREGARD

NOR

YOR were his qualities merely those of person and manner. As an architect he was in such demand that he built some of the most famous edifices in England, and was finally commissioned by

CZAR OF THE SAAR RULES 900,000

SAARBRÜCKEN. AKE a note of the of Colonel Gilbert Grandval, Ile

name

is one of whom you will hear more.

He is the virtual ruler of 900,000 Saarlanders. Their fate is now linked with that of France as a result of the recent Franco-Saar agree- ments.

The colonel is a 46-year- By old Frenchman who lives in vice-regal splendour in a metliaeval castle ing Saarbrucken.

overlook-

FOR CUSTOMS COMMON

SAMSUNG

SAAR

SAARBRÜCKEN

R

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Miles

course,

than

the an island of plenty in a seat mines of German misery.

utmost

Moonlight, starlight, the soft air; and even setter musle did their work. They said good-

an

The story leaps to 1949 when the son conics home from school. Instead he diaplayed the preparatory to going up to Cam-

and reverence

lold bridge. Mrs Ellis has no demestie about him with a lusty disregard hep and tells the employment of the niceties and the pro- agencies that she will take any- prietles that must have shocked thing the can get. the town.

Whereupon that

seductive In "The Relapse" his vulgarity blonde actress, Marcella Salzer, was so unrestrained that when turns up in the role of cook- it was recently performed in general. London the Department of Cus-

toms and Excise, through the WORTH WATCHING Arts Council, ruled that it was exiucational and exempted it from Entertainment Tax.

N° let Miss Salzer within a

TO mother in Ixt senses would "Provoked Wife" is contrived mile of a susceptible boy, but already rather then designed. The pairs then Mrs Ellis had

are architecturally balanced and proved that she was a woman in the end Sir John Brute, who who believed in taking a chance. hates being married, duly So on

made a

her day off Marcella by a pair of was found murdered in a wood, ay Fanciful, and everything pointed to tho Callants, who believes that her charms son as the murderer. are Irresistible, is hilariously de- bunked.

NO GHOSTS

Overcome with horror and the weight of impending tragedy, the mother tells the boy whose con he is.

The boy did not give a tinker's THERE is also a confidential cuss. "I am myself," he bravely French maid. In fact it is declares. Then the real murder- er is d'ecovered and the son goes that kind of a play.

off to Paris to paint.

Yet there are two scenes

of

good their claim to ownership of the at the peace conference.

As the Saarlanders sur-

This is a tense little play with the evening worth while. The gripping third net. Mr Ruther- The French view is that veyed their food-crammed boisterous comedy which make the Saar should be treated shope they could reflect on first is when Sir John, dressed up ford is himself an actor and be as his own wife, is buuled before knows how to write dialogue, but economically 215 part of their good fortune to France.

"the only Germans who the magistrate for disorderly like most netor-authors he does behaviour. The recond is when not go deep enough into human Yet he is well worth won the war."

he gets drunk and is challenged nature.

watching. Under the administration to a duel. The Germans have, of

Ray Jackson was excellent as Chan- protested.

of Colonel Grandval there

This is rich, racy, fun with- cellor Adenauer has called has been no attempt to out subtlety or artifice, and Mr the boys most sensitive per- the conventions "a clear make Frenchmen out of the Russell Waters did it admirably, formance; Ruth Dunning as the nother was as good as the part breach of Potsdam." Social Sanrlanders beyond equip-

I am afraid, though, that the allowed; and Marcella Salzer the most good effrontery why SAM WHITE Democrat luar Di Seve ping the Saarbrucken police ladies of the cact could not agree explained with macher has spoken in even with French uniforms, as to what period they were in. humoured

prefer blonder stranger terms his French traffic policemen's Adele Dixon was no earlier than gentlemen

Noel (World Copyright Reserved- "This is batons and whistles. The the day before yesterday. Grandval has culture and political rival: intelligence. He is hand- the first big political suc- Saar traffic police wear both Dynon hovered between the 14th London Express Service.) Home; his manner military. cess of Soviet Russia, and the batons and whistles,

of the nationalists in Ger- but never use them. Grandval is a name he

In 1939 he was a manager many."

Why is this Saar conl. so

The Battle adopted when he was in the

of his family's one French Resistance. His real of

After a important? To the French

FIRACULOUSLY enough, name, Ollendors, links him chemical concerns. to

wealthy. Alsatian year with the French Air it is important because if

despite this neglect of Force during the war he en- the output of the Star M family.

move- mines is combined with that tered the resistance Grandval,

the two add up to two ed essential, to controlling Catholic convert, lives in ment and became resistance of the French mines, then two uppurtenances consider- thirds of the production of French trafic, the traffle the castle with his attruc- chief for Eastern France. tivé wife ind 17-year-old

He early riser. He West Germany; but if the of Saarbrucken rolls on lle is an early six and at a production is added to smoothly, effortlessly, with 7.30 is off to his Saarbruc- that of West Germany then a minimum of noise ken office in his Mercedes their production would be gesticulation. enr. He insists on his staff more than twice that of being on duty at 8 am.

who Is a

500.

In Resistance

to

France.

Food-crammed

Nevertheless,

or

is

C. V. R. Thompson Look while you listen

·

at speakers' corner

with 11.

columnist Henry McLemore: "I NEW YORK.

by lutellectuals only American city is rum Twitpeakers corner foreheads averaging t

the heartstrings of Saarlanders what, he likes on the city's without inter- Saar Industrialists are begin-common

border ference. look across the ning to

In

PROTESTS re

anything like Hyde Park's programme is a lecture by Sir is Boston, Until now Boston William Thripthrop on the tariff

of popular funeral dirges." despite the has always been proud that rates in Tanganyika, or an hour Saar's prosperity, Germany a soapbox orator can sny

pouring in once again beginning to tug at HE speaks German, but he

from American unions that contract talks only French in

time for 11,000 lie s been known the Saar and all his official

workers from the British West Boston has been Indics on U.S. farms to be sent speeches are made in that leave Saarbrucken in the

Which But lately

most of the home. According to others, it is language. The castle stands afternoon, drive all the way

portant because they con- their views. They ask:

offers the more profitable tie-worried because

speakers are expounding Com- the British West Indian unions in a vast deer park, and the to Paris, attend conferences To the Germans it is im- lo Germans and to wave to there, and return to Saar sider the Saar coal vital to up-France or Germany?

al or

least, "un- which should be protesting. munist,

This is what a Puerto Rican colonel has altered it

for work

the West German economy,

Similarly, the 000,000 Soar- American" doctrines. it make

more brucken ready even

to cut down official, Fernando Berdecin, sald Still unwilling They bought back the Saar

landers gaze across the border, luxurious than it was in the next morning.

not at a once devastated Ger-freedom of specch-except when about their working conditions: em- mines from France for Grandval's

play offendis an easily "They get only seven dollars former, occu- Colonel days of its

reven-day week 105.) for (£2

As hours day.

a pire demands hard work. gigantic sum in 1935; and many, but at a land making

council pondered the problem. of KOWLOON SUB-DISTRICT past, a millionaire German

industrialist.

Its coal mines, the largest now they are ready to see remarkable industrial recovery. offended Boston censor-the city

Francis foreigners, they are subject to Then Councillor Like all border, peoples, TO: KOWLOON RESIDENTS

deportation virtually at an em- дге opportunists. Tracey had an idea. in Western Europe outside the Saar administered by A awimming pool has

the "Let us set up a television ployer's pleasure. This makes WANTED

been built. The walls of

the Ruhr, produce 12,000,- some kind of international Sanrlanders

They do not In 1935, 90 percent of

union with screen

beside the speakers them no better off than bonded have been

of coa! 000 tons

a year, authority. Books, Periodicals & Moga-several rooms

Hitler's Germany. In 1947 over corner," he said, "and show all serfa." 00 percent voted for the puppet the baseball games this summer. incs for distribution to Service knocked down to make a The French have, in effect, see why the French should people voted for.

"Thus wc would eliminate X7HAT Camps in the New Territories

banqueting hall.

leased these mines from the gain exclusive control.

this condition Colonel Grandval has

It is not without reason that The French throughout pro-French Government. built a chapel in the castle Saar Republic for the next 50 years under a series of conventions signed in Paris have been careful to dis- the cynics say: "Weigh a Sanr and attractive American way." expert Maude Behrman: "They grounds.

play to the Saarlanders the lander and you weigh

which they change of heart." six weeks ago.

The Spurlanders advantages 24-hour special guard pro- The conventions recognise would gain from union with weighed very often in the next of the baseball season.

A battle for their After the war they few years. Saar territory; the flooded the Saar with con- coul is beginning.

-London Express Service) Saarlanders have to make sumer goods until it became

Please communicato with

RA. EDWARDS,

c/o Kowloon Hospital

WE WILL ARRANGE

TO COLLECT

Liveried servants and

f

Note. If Donors wish to hand vided by the, Saar Govern booles in personally they can dement add dignity to the re- the provisional nature of France.

Bidence of France's officlul the so at the following placca 1. Despatch Office, Kowloos representative.

Railway Station

2. Kowloon Tong Club.

3. Kowloon Hospital, General

Omer.

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