Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton run fun loving emir nto NJ E EW W YORK at the entrance i to the main reception chamber of the palace of emir abdullah of trans jordania Is a coney island mirror A visitor salaaming sala aming to royalty perhaps with constraint and self consciousness sees his person wildly and ridiculously distorted the rhe emir smiles and puts his bis guest at ease case he explains that this is merely his way of breaking stilted routine and getting on a basis of friendly understanding rollicking old gomez late dictator of venezuela used to play jokes on important visitors but lie he was just mischievous while the emir is philosophical ruler of the nearest pure arab state to palestine the emir approves britaina Brit ains tripartite tri partite division with the he arab section added to his arrans jordania from his palace window he looks out across the desert to the mountains of moab where roses moses surveyed the promised land its a long view back into the centuries and it seems to induce in the emir both disillusionment and patience his attitude is important in the political backwash of the british cabinets sudden decision and it seems quite probable that they sounded him out before announcing it since the death of his brothers feisal and all he has been a unifying power in the three arab states of trans jordania hegaz and iraq comprising many millions of arabs he also is a powerful leader of the pan islamic movement started by old sultan abdul hamid il II fifty two years ago lie he Is the abdullah of lawrences laurences Lawren ces revolt in the desert c campaigning brilliantly against the turks and then finding winston churchill and sir herbert samuel long on promises and short on fulfillment ful fillie nt historic which caused lawrence bitterly to reject royal favor and hide himself away as aircraftsman shaw the emir too was embittered but he is a realist he knows the power of england and scrupulously maintains the synthetic postwar post war status quo england of course has a tremendous political stake in islam as a buffer to india but there are even more tangible factors which the emir weighs and appraises and cannily uses those three arab states have cotton rubber tobacco mineral and oil lands and developments which have supplied the emir with an ace card in dealing with european nations he has been deliberately hostile and resistant to mussolini and italis radio blast across 1000 0 miles of desert 1 I wish I 1 could be the first arab to enlist to defend ethiopia he said when it II duce started his african adventure england pulls the strings for all three arab states and none has complete autonomy the T e emir is is reconciled he says wise men compromise until they can command he is of medium stature with a neat goatee restless searching black eyes and strong white teeth a man of culture and charm he wears a gold embroidered silk robe with a gold sheathed dagger hung from his waist sometimes he wears the kuff Tuf ich fich or white veil and sometimes the traditional sheiks head dress next to the picture of his father the hard fight I 1 ing old king hussein hangs a picture of a particularly ferocious bengal tiger 1 I like to keep them together he says they look so much alike victorian vicari Vic tri idol T THE turn of the century mrs AT A patrick campbell was described by interviewers as haughty and world weary at seventy two still playing she is disclosed as genial humorous and friendly lyric legends of the theater crowd in as she rehearses for a revival of IT the he thirteenth chair at milford conn the late victorian idol of two continents sharing olympus with duse and bernhardt she has been on the stage for more than fifty years she was beatrice stella tanner lanner the daughter of a london merchant she played shaw pinero barrie wilde ibsen and facter linck and some of these dramatists wrote plays for her broadway remembers her best as eliza in shaws pygmalion her first husband major george cornwallis west died in the boer war an and d her son allan in the world war she was in the films from 1931 1934 to 1936 departing with the remark that no longer would she ie be a 81 jackanapes in hollywood censor of burlesque sam A scribner new yorks new seventy eight year old censor odbur of burlesque once dramatically resisted censorship when he was a lad at carnies cas seminary seminary in clarion pa his music teacher rapped his knuckles for playing chopsticks chop sticks instead stead of scales lie ho floored the teacher with a roundhouse round house swing and walked out and got himself a job in a blacksmith shop then he joined a small circus and later bought a small pittsburgh booking office cs nw creatures ro rea tures tur 0 10 l 0 anu service |