Chapter 290 – An Exchange of Instrumentalists
This national problem of the United States, Allen Wilson would not be able to talk to Joan Crawford because she was an American, and there was no need for Americans to know about the matter of class conflict.
And the class conflict in America is not very serious, at least not now. If it were a country like China or India, it could be said that class conflict would always outweigh other conflicts, for no other reason than that the population is too large.
Once the class conflict brought about by the population crosses the line, of course, it will affect the national strength of the country, and in the external manifestation is that it starts to lose battles. India is a typical example, and if there is a standard for the involution, the extreme is the caste system in India.
The caste system, in the agricultural era, caused India to fight almost no one but the same Hindu influence. People in other countries know that India can only realize the potential it should have if it eliminates Hinduism, but the problem is that India can’t eliminate it.
Like the United States, this problem Indians also do not need to know, can produce a Nehru has been considered India’s Brahma manifestation, although it did not succeed, but people at least tried.
In order to British India hundreds of millions of people toiling assistant commissioner, recently became a family woman, he is now the most important work is to cook, because more than three mouths, the consumption of the apartment has become much larger.
Nothing to take three actresses all right kebab is what experience, this Allen Wilson is not much to recognize, but thus brought about things that he remembered vividly, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis drunk, because of a tiny can not be more tiny thing, the two upper women quarreled, very unpleasant.
This made Hedy Lamarr, who was still sober, frown, and although the things said were the same old things, there is still a big difference between hearing something and hearing it with your own ears, and looking to curse.
“Miss Hildy, I’ll take you home first.” Allen Wilson, who was picking his teeth with a stick, was deeply convinced that today’s choice of jerking off had been a mistake, eating noodles would have been fine, eating noodles was rarely a bottle of wine, which would have brought about a simple choice of whether to drink wine or soup?
“Them?” Looking at both Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, who were sneering face to face, Hedy Lamarr was a little hesitant to speak up and moderate the situation.
“I’ll send you back one by one.” Allen Wilson looked back at the two slightly shaking his head, it turns out that the actress will also drink to the head ah.
The journey is not far, Allen Wilson said that Hedy Lamarr’s patent application is absolutely no problem, as for the problem of acting career, he can’t provide help, just said, “Ms. Hedy can’t always take some vase roles, the more complex the character is, the more it can work out the acting skills, if you can’t improve on the acting skills, you can only think of other ways. ”
“What else can be done?” Hedy Lamarr said with some puzzlement, “I know that you’re not as poor a person as Joan and Betty think you are. But you may not be able to help much with things in America.”
“Indeed. In fact, you might consider going back to Europe for a while, come up with a couple of awards in Europe, anything French or Italian, and gild the lily a little bit and maybe when you come back to Hollywood again the waters will rise.” Alan Wilson thought for a moment and said, “If you don’t care, if you can’t act, start with the genre, Europe’s literary film success rate still exceeds that of the United States, at least for now.”
A few minutes to send Hedy Lamarr to the apartment, watching the other side to close the door, Allen Wilson before going and returning, back to the lawn in front of his own apartment ready to clean up the mess, out of the blue, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis is still arguing with the bottle.
That didn’t stop him from cleaning up the trash; he was sure the two would get tired of arguing at some point.
“Getting dumped and trying to stick it to Derek to become a big shot, you’ve never had a better eye than me in your life. When I just came to Warner, you still want to target me, you don’t see how big you are.”
In the face of Joan Crawford’s taunt, Bette Davis likewise sneers back, “You think I’m you, and your legs are wider than the Pacific Ocean when it comes to that.”
“So what, it’s better than being dumped.” Joan Crawford laughed out loud, just in time to see Alan Wilson packing up, “Men this young are enamored of me, are you? No one likes you.”
“She’s drunk!” Allen Wilson, who was nearly out of breath, took a steady pace and pulled Joan Crawford aside, who kept struggling, her mouth not idle as she picked at Bette Davis with all sorts of slurs at her fingertips.
Straining her face to keep an eye on her surroundings, she hoped that even if there were any British expatriates, they wouldn’t understand American English, and thankfully there weren’t any.
Shoving the two streams into his apartment, he folded back and cleaned up the last bit of trash.
Returning to his own apartment Allen Wilson unlocked the door and stripped right off, “I’ve decided to give you two worldly enemies, the same status as my wife.”
The American actresses who came to New Delhi were the first to be reunited before Derek finally faced the treatment of a flaming Washington.
After Alan Wilson left for work the next day, the number of people up for breakfast became two.
“You’re like a whore.” Joan Crawford was still a little unable to accept the shocking reality, but she couldn’t help but sneer at the sight of Bette Davis.
“I wonder who looks more like a whore.” As if she were a fighting cock, Bette Davis once again tore into Joan Crawford.
Since the second meeting, Allen Wilson and Derek were not at swords and even had time to have afternoon tea together.
“Mr. Allen is in New Delhi, the things he faces every day are quite boring, right?” Derek spoke up, “I’m not that I’m prejudiced against this place, the subcontinent really can’t be compared to the United States.”
“It’s not boring, it’s very moist.” Alan Wilson stared at Drake’s face, his tone was very serious, “Of course this place can’t be compared to the United States, there aren’t many cities that can be compared to the United States nowadays, not many to be exact, unless the reconstruction plan of London Berlin is completed.”
“I appreciate your honesty.” Derek smiled gently then said, “Oh and by the way, I’m very close to Betty and I hear she lives in the British community as well.”
“Oh, so.” Alan Wilson’s embarrassed color flashed away and said with a tone of knowing nothing, “Is it that the relationship between the two actresses is not good, some expatriates reacted that there are two actresses who always quarrel, delaying the normal rest of the community residents. Not to talk about this matter, in fact, I still appreciate the United States very much, this is not a lie.”
Although the United States in his previous life had already had problems that were visible to the naked eye, it was still hard to say whether it would collapse.
For example, whether it is the Great Tang or the Great Ming, is the classical sense of the country, and the United States such as the modern state has a fundamental difference, the Tang Dynasty, the era of cold weapons, the people can threaten the imperial power, the modern world, there are guns can fight against the National Guard?
Chongzhen ran out of money can only oppress the people, know the king ran out of money can the Federal Reserve unlimited printing money global debt. So this kind of national situation is particularly differentiated case, can only be used as a reference point, and can not be directly applied.
Alan Wilson does not use the Qing dynasty as an example, because the essence of the Qing dynasty’s problems, equivalent to the earth people encountered an alien invasion, in how to struggle is useless.
Both men were actually waiting for a domestic response, Allen Wilson waiting for an assessment from the head of the imperial civil service in London. Derek is waiting for the board of directors of U.S. Steel to study the matter.
Essentially both men were tool men in this matter, the difference was merely that Drake thought he could dominate.
Alan Wilson, on the other hand, did not, knowing that the final outcome depended on decisions made in London and that he was merely creating the conditions.
But there were some fine points that could be dictated, such as the issue of brokerage fees, and Allen Wilson didn’t want to describe his behavior in terms of a favor fee, even if it was in fact that.
Derek said that if the amount agreed upon by both parties was within the permissible range, he could make the decision to give Allen Wilson one and a half percent of the fee as a token of appreciation.
“That’s too much, I don’t want a fee, let’s put it this way, one percent for the efforts of the British Indian civil service in this matter. Personally, I would like Mr. Derrick to give an additional one and a half percent, additional expenses not included in this fee.” Alan Wilson split what looked to be the total amount very clearly, he didn’t want to get an astronomical fee for favors from this, it was still crucial that the British Empire get the benefit of the doubt.
“I wonder how I’m going to hand over this extra expense to you if I succeed in reaching an agreement?” Derek of course knew that Alan Wilson was trying to avoid being in the middle of the whirlwind.
As long as the merger was successfully reached, this was actually not even a problem, and it was normal for the other party to be a civil servant in love with his feathers.
“Just give the money to Vivien Lei.” Alan Wilson thought for a moment and said, “No need to give it to me, I’ll let her pick it up when the time comes, this is good for both sides and easy to clean up.”
This answer really surprised Derek, then shook his head and laughed, “I didn’t think that Mr. Allen, is also a person who values his feelings, ah, this is not a small amount of money. There could be millions of dollars involved, and you’re really not moved?”
“Life is still long, plus this was supposed to be the good fortune she brought.” Alan Wilson said this and replied, “I’ll just take the one percent that belongs to the British Indian civil servants and just share it with everyone. The most important thing in being a human being is to be happy, it’s better to be happy alone than to be happy together, and there are many advantages to sharing good things, such as security.”
“Corruption doesn’t exist when everyone is corrupt.” Drake nodded approvingly, not disputing Allen Wilson’s risk-averse move, that’s how it was done over in the US. One could use means within the rules to obtain astronomical benefits, but as soon as one dared to outright embezzle, one would immediately be made an example of.
On this day, Vivien Leigh, who had completed her tour of the east coast of British India, returned to New Delhi with the acclaim of the whole of British India.