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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1951,
BERNARD
WICKSTEED
-inspired by the disappear- ing diplomats examines the technique of past mastars. First: Lee. Bovan (right).
BUT A WOMAN
LED TO HIS BETRAYAL
the Carlton to Croydon and
ERARD LEE BEVAN Gerard Lee Bevon wracked U disappeared too. There completely, He borrowed £150 was a story for you. It had from a relative, took a taxi from everything great names, accompanied by ↑ French millions of missing pounds, woman boarded an airliner tales of lavish parties, called the Paris Express (top Is beautiful Frenchwoman. speed 90 miles an hour).
panic-stricken flight, and a chase round Europe that went on for months.
Gerard Lee Bevan was an aristorral of the City. He was a financier by hereditary right, for all his relations bankers, and financiers.
He went to the City via Eton and Oxford. He didn't drink, and he had the religious zeal of an evangelist, You couldn't Imagine anyone more, respect- able..
Everyone said he'd go far in the City with all that integrity and all those family connec tlons. He did. He became a millionare,
During the 1941-10 war he was made Tobacco Controller though he himself never smoked. When the war ended he was the director of dozens concerns of leading financial and chairman of the great City Equitable Fire Insurance Coni- [pany.
Then something went wrong In the mind of Gerard Lee Bevan, The pendulum swung. The zealot became a rake, des-. perate to make up for lost time.
At the age of 50, he collected mistresses with the abandoned vigour of a libertine in the early twenties:
He drank. He lost that former sense of responsibility completely that he faked
The flight made history be- cause it was the first time any-
one had fed from his respon- siblilies by air.
Who Was this woman he Was travelling with? There was no secret about her identity, Her name was Mlle Pertuisot. The inancler was an old friend of hers and he was to see still more of her in the future,
The couple
In Ports parted but not before શ dramatic scene outside an hotel that Bevan formerly owned.
The fugitive, discredited and fallen, could not face the re- the staff proachful looks of that had once fawned on him.
Mademoiselle went in alone and left the financier huddled in the tax with his miserably
Inside she thoughta.
mo!, evidently by. arrangement, two friends still loyal.
NT
PERSIA
DANGER
OF
WORLD
•SHORTAGE!
*Some people's husbands buy their wivos nico new cars that don't use any oil."
London Express Service
The rich hotel nomad
makes one more halt
7OOLWORTH heiress
W
Barbara Hutton is
not the richest wo-
Together they telephoned a K.C. in London to ask what the sentence would be if Bevan re- turned and faced the law.
"Five years," sold the KC. man in the world (she has The news was taken out to the only about ten million
"I can't take it," salu Bevan and drove off alone into pounds, and the fortune of tobacco heiress Doris Duke
the unknown.
WOMAN
of the WEEK
You can imagine the sensa-is estimated at five times by EVELYN IRONS
cover
Vion when the news broke in that). But she has divorced London. The hunt was on, The fox had broken
and more husbands (three to
Duke's
and two), everyone had his theories about Miss
although both are the same which way he'd run,
But the tally ho was in balance sheets and committed Italy. The fox was sighted inge, 38, Miss Hutton has into the news Naples and then went to earth got herself
five times more frequently. -
So
olher business crimes.
The shares of the Equitable again. slumped 90 loa that you couldn't give them away, On Wednesday, February 8, 1922,
ENCOMPASSES THE ORIENT
were rumours
That
There he'd returned to England, that he was holding wild parties on the Riviera, that he'd been seen in Greece,
Now, arriving in London in the midst of divorcing her fourth husband, she makes headlines again.
Princess Igor Troubetz- And all the time Gerard Lec Bevan was in Vienna. He call-koy, as she still is, left a ed himself Leon Vernler, He sick bed to fly from Paris
specially
to
and
ing. it was sald, from drastie
She read Maeterlinck, slimming treatment.
thought wistfully that ahe too After that the girl with all Was looking for Blue Bird, the money could never buy She had the power to put most health, She nearly died when things in a cage, but happiness, her son Lance Haugwilz-Re- peace and content eluded her, ventlow, now 15 and at a board- ing school in the United Stator, was born at her house in Hyde Park Gardens.
She made big, romantic de- mands of life and of people, But life and people obdurately refused to go the way she Since her third schemed for them. In one divorce in 1945 sense, she was always stone (ofter
three cold sober-she never drank. It of years
this was
just those big ideas that went to her head.
marriage she
complained that Cary Grant "didn't like her friends") her
life has been a perles
of
nesses. In three
years sho
Troubled story'
Ex-
and
HEN she came to London for the first time at 18-young,
wealthy, and had fabulously four operations, tremely beautiful-she gave the one of them for clue to her troubled story. "I suspected kláncy am a restless individual who trouble. From likes to be continually seeing doctor to doctor, new lands and enjoying now from clinic to experiences,” she said, THE GOOD COMPANIONS
clinic, she hunt- grow a beard and said he was
A few months ago, after an artist from Paris,
Baron Von Cramm escorts Barbara Hulfan at Wimbledon ed for health in see
Switzerland, In nearly 20 years of wandering But Leon Vernler, the artist Gottfried von Cramm play
Paris, in London, from country to country from Paris. couldn't live
Barbara Hutton needs all Now she is a shadow of the from husband to husband, she alene. He
at Wimbledon for the first found a woman
the kindness and sympathy plumpish, gay, party-loving companion, and she talked. He time since the war.
exclaimed disgustedly, speaking of was arrested in Innsbruck,
she can get. She is a very Barbora Hutton of the carefree "The hunt" was over and the When the 41-year-old sick woman, and in spite of days. She weighs only about chase had lost its thrill.
immense wealth, a 7at. Brought back to England to Baron, his elegantly her face his trial, Gerard Lee tailored navy blue suit, and sorry one, too.
People who saw her at Wim- Bevan was no longer a fox. He the frail, pale Princess, in was merely a dog that had been her fur jacket and plainly to
The illness which caused her bledon were shocked to find how collapse at Wimbledon fired and fil she looked. Many
From childhood-that of caught stealing,
The sentence? Seven years'
cut black dress, appeared and take to her bed in her suite London friends telephone to her only child longing vainly for a arm-in-arm at the tourna virus infection picked up when But she does not encourage poured forth her frustrations
at Claridge's is due to u penal servitude.
raro at her hotel to commiserate, normal horae background-sho His wife divorced him and ment, they switched the she was in Mexico. It happen- them to call. She feels too sick and other reactions in verse. "I
his release he returned to
limelight right away from ed at Cuernavaca, near Mexico France-and Mlle. Pertulsot,
Dn
in
of her quarrel with Prince Igor, can never do anything right. 7 have always tried to give the other follow the benefit of the doubt. It has taken me 38 years to learn better. I guess I am. still a child."
an
she said during her second honeymoon in Paris.
Yes they married but whether the furbelows of the women City, where she went early this to see any but such old intimates shall live a life of happy poems,"
Could they lived happily I can't say, playera.
this be year to start a divorce action as von Crammi.
against Prince Igor, whom she married four years ago, for his alleged "cruel and inhuman treatment!!
Gerard Lee Bevan died in 1930, Barbara's fifth romance? aged 60, a strange man who
might have been great,
(London Express Service.)
She wept
EFINITELY
friends her Back in 1940,
D
|POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Miss Bulstrode }}"
Her gifts
Dropping the sult, she entered PEACE of mind would be the hospital in New York with only basis of a real cure. But that, for all her wealth, Barbara Hutton has never possessed, except brielly.
not, iemperature of 104; was so weak
she flew to Parls early when Bay.
this month to arrange an out of when
court settlement of her broken she had divorced Bristol- marriage that she wept at the bern Olm star Cary Grant, airport. but had not yet allied her-
self to the Lithuanian Prince Igor, von Cramm
Clinic to clinic
A
accl-
But the verses she wrote were not often happy, and neither was their author. Loneliness. That is the recurrent theme,
And now?
WHAT next? Her plans are
The only house she owns is
She has given
yague, uncertain. When she away many feels better she may move on to thousands of pounds of her the USA. She has no home in money. Apart from settlements on ex-husbands her first, polo- London now (she handed over playing Prince Alexis Mdivant, built for £150,000 and furnished Winfield House, Regent's Park, who later died a motar was obliged to deny persis- CHE is a convalescing-at-
dent, got
2 year when for £250,000, to the American tent reports that she would
companied by her grey-haired he was after seven
Embassy). secretary, Miss Latimer. No months of marriage, and Count become Baroness von doctors are attending her, It is Haugwitz Reventlow, now Cramm. They have been a question of walling until the married and an American com- that romantic Moroccan palase friends for years, that is all. infection works Itself out, mener, was said to have got the in Tangier which she bought
Income from a But after a few days in bed fundshe has distributed gener "because I always wanted to live 2375,000 trust between her last two marriages With the reservation that this time ehe was well enough ous sums in charities and to anything is possible in the to go dancing.
like an Arab." already surpriseful history Seventeen years ogo, when publicity. of Miss Hutton, it seems she was in London with her that the relationship is one second husband, Danish Count But these acts have evidently one, is a sad character. Isn't it of pure
kindness and Kurt.
Haugwitz - Reventlow, falled to bring the soul-satisfac zo, Princess? shortly after their marriage the tion that is said to be the reward sympathy,
went to nursing home suffer of goodness.
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