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Elizabeth Bowen
COMES BACK TO STUDY
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
RED MILLIONAIRE
NEW YORK.
HERE, the judge wanted to know, do Communists find bail of the order of twenty or thirty thousand dollars apiece?
Ho had just learned that four of the
11 members of the American Politburo, whom he had sentenced to gnol had failed to show up-sacrificing a little matter of 80,000 dollars.
came
The man who might know where it from was Frederick Vanderbilt Field, secretary of the Civil Rights Con-
America's gress, which Attorney-General has listed which subversive and hud put up the money. If not Field knew, he was saying.
AN
Judge Sylvester
Ryan's cold blue eye met
FIELD
His middle name ist Vanderbilt and he uses
his wealth to tear downs the system that made it
Field's cold grey eyes. Then by FREDERICK COOK the judge snapped, "Con- tempt
ninety of court- days in gaol."
name
n term at the feel of Harold Laski.
"I don't welte easily,"
ho
ay, have to polish repolish over and over again."
and
never
What is the burden of his message to the converted? Get the American troops out of poor down-trodden Japan. And Itands of Korea.
Field has
admilted that he is a Communist. But he has never denied that he is Pro-Communist nor taken steps to end the frequent de rcription of bin In the American Press as a Cominu- nisl.
Certainly he is a backer of organications. most peoplo could not tell from Commu- nist if you offered them Thu Star of Lenin. Last October Field formally registered as a foreign agent for financial in- terests in Red China. He list- ed himself, 100, 08.a. director.
Russia of Soviet
Today, slick magazine featuring one Moujic types beaming their simple way through the olden life in the Soviet paradise.
*
A lew weeks earlier he htt been elled in the Senate
He came back a convinced for contempt for refusing
th
Is Socialist, and soon after maray whether he is a Commu-
he
Notice of appeal, retorted Mr Field. Now the man with
. magic middle the giving every sign that it must go behind bars he will, but what he will
da not
himself reveal whether WGS the "Angel" which would surprise practically no
who body or if he was not was.
HARVARD MAN
from nist or not,
D
rled Elizabelir Brown
with whom Minnesota, toured Russia,
looking into Sucialism at first hand.
After their divorce he mar ried wealthy Edith Hunter, California socialite who 135 always strongly denied ever was a Communist.
That marriage Jasted
Four monu after years.
she
11
1940
its 300REDERICK Vanderbilt Field
divorced in is a tallish pallid man of 45 they were
0 he married the present Mrs in Field. formerly Mrs Anita
the wrote a book about it. She is the first woman to have in- herited the house and cores: she spends four months of the year there, has just re- turned from a three-week visii ("I try to be a good landlord.")
with Harold Lloyd glasses, millionaire holding shures
mcons picbelun.
You
Field lives In a tastefully furahihed four-floor house in Greenwich Village, amonę the sidewalk art exhibitions of this city's grubby imitation of the Left Bank. His Income indicates invested capital of not less than a couple of mil- lion..
F
HIS CLUB
doubtable
F this he never cared
penny. It came from the re- old Commodore Vanderbilt, the tugboat skipper
Cornellius
hardbilten
86 of America's biggest Indus. Cohen Boyer, whose first hus- trial enterprises, mostly oils band, Dr Raymond Boyer,
convicted and railroads. He differs from rich scientist, was
who flung a girdle of rall- "Fairly ordinary Anglo-Irish
most millionaires in that ne in the Canadian spy trials.
rich stream diverts the
of Field's New York home to. nnds around America's waist country gentry," she calls her mos
in the early days of indus- family in that book, and herstit
dividends into the destruction day is the place where
and was Frederick that
the top trialism makes rub shoulders with system when young she describes in the
of thé
Robeson Field's words of her mother (who died them possihic.
great-great- grand- Left Wingers. Paul
father. when her only daughter was 13).
Why, with all his advantages, drops in often.
Field is still The drinks and food are by the most Tory
a member of. 10 Keep "She explained to me, with a
of all New Field hopeful lock. that I did Fleid decide belyingly
Left? Nobody knows for sure. no
his York's Tory clubs the plush- would never be prey, but that
But in his day Harvard, was himself often puts aside
please, Tommy
chaired Harvard Club, next to.""" the emotional picentre of the Martini very dry,
Lipton's the olive before
favourlie Vunzalti Sacco and
uproar and EMBERS of the Royal Commission on Capital she hoped I would grew up to Punishment, under chairman Sir Ernest Gowers, have a nice character.”
The prophecy seems accurate. and Thorsten Veblen's violent guests have left and goes off place, the Yacht Club, on 44th the leisured to bed. He puts in a 10-hour Street. His membership comes to him by right; he took a have resumed their sessions in London. Secret.
was the Students' day at offees he maintains
early has distinctive good classes Bible. sessions, for at this stage the public are not admitted, A: 62 Miss Bowen is not pretty, diatribe against
It gives old Harvar- with a touch of whimsy in Harvard degree in the
'twenties. His parents were headquarters. dions the chills to think that the old Astor Soon they must make up their minds whether murderers looks with her wide, serene face.
quiet, country club people, should hang or not. They have been at it for two and reddith hair smoothed to a low
knot and curiously penetrating Frederick Field's fondness for There he devotes himself to u
Communism may have been private project for bringing who, had they. been English, would have ornamented Mel- a half years, and their report is due in December.
pale blue eyes.
She was educated at born in those Ivied greystone all Left-Wing groups "under a
walls.
single root and to writing hit ton Mowbray, In 1927 Field journeyed to regular pieces for New York's London und sat enthralled for Daily Worker.
M
the
Two women are on
Commission -
Dume Florence' Han-
WOMAN OF THE WEEK
cock, of the Transport and
General Workers Union, and by Evelyn Irons
Elizabeth Bowen, novelist,
Miss Bowen siis on the Com- mission as Mrs Alan Cameron, and this is the name inserzd des- on he: impressive black patch box with the Royal cipher (gift of the Government), which now averflows with off- eint documents on the death, penalty.
but she
a boarding school in Kent; regrets that the never took a uni- versity degree" ("I "don't suppose I could have posted the exams.")
She thought of being
an
she
marry.
no
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PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
goes
The richest man
to see
his wife
whose CBE (three years Bowen found it shecking illustrator, studled briefly at a ago). was awarded for enough. Although she is a great London art school ("I imitated "services to literature!" reader of detective stories and Beardsley but found I was no a gintion for ms, she had no draughtswoman"); had embark- realistic mental picturs of the ed on a course of journalism at execution scene. If she thought London University when
up at 24 19 of the electric chair at all, the threw it saw 11 surgical, hyglenle and Already she had published two books of short stories; hers was chromium.
one of the rare marriages that
de Jlis 45-year-old daughter, encouraged the wife's instead of cutting it shoạt.
union is now taking Doulogne where he goes for Rita, plays a part in the soclni
solitary wolks
art fe of the British Embassy In yet an- Paris. Apart from this she is She was not one of those who place in a four-storey grey gallery where he buys
'in mansion in
rarely add to the aber picture to
his sex-effacing, spent the war in neutral Elre. stone She stayed at the Regent's Park Avenue D'lena, which is already unrivalled private col- fashionable restaurants or night
clubs. raid house; from 1940 was a
known to Parisians as "the fe Joins his family for meals Rita driven her own car. a warden in Marylebone.
She is still wandering why she was picked for the job. She is no Dorothy Sayers, no Agatha Christie, has never attended murder trial.
อ
"Rare sensitiveness and in- trospection" ate the kind words cites use for her Anely short stories spun novels and
·
"But in the room was an old wooden chair-a homely chair which might have come from Wycombe," she
said. High "Somehow
it more horrible."
that made
carcer
of
Added horror was the range of 24 seats, for spectators, for in Out of that drab experience Amerles executions are public. she wrote "The Heat of
the
No .cook
into which such debates as the pros and cons of death by hanging have never intruded.
"I expect," she says with a smile, "That I am just the man in the street,"
At Sing-Sing PROBABLY the Commission's
work has benefited from Miss Bowen's Intelligence. But even as Mrs Cameron she is highly untypical of the ordinary
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She was the only woman member of the Commission to Its recent three-wecks' go on
the United States and trip to cxamine the workings of the elcetric chair. at Sing-Sing.
There was no victim in the chair at the time, but MIG
The
Larious PROFESSIONAL
3/4 P window-alli mods),
It seemed to her as if the con- Day."
had to demned man death before a studio audience.
take his
When she is not engaged on
on the deliberations
death
hours (0.30 until 0) on a novel she has just started.
he is
VERY odd family re- chreure corner of the Bois LA
or to on
lection of art treasures.
113
scen
house with a tree growing in the
tapestry-laden dining- 1936 Austin, entertains friends out of its roof." For oil room where two white-gloved in what she calls "my slum flat," a butler waft at a three-roomed apartment with Gul- focimen and millionaire Calouste
the table. The printed menu as bathroom, which she uses to benkian--who is said to be card is rarely changed. There, scope from the splendours of
in the richest man the are roghourt, fruit, jam world is back home on two-month visit to his wife and daughter.
resi
пате
and the Gulbenkian house. She buys a oriental swetts for Gulbenkian, her clothes from a local seam- poached eggs and voal for the frers. Once, to prove her inde-
she worked of the family,
pendence, He lovits a patriarchal toll or cook.
Her
15 obedience
husband's and penalty, Miss Bowen works office AT home, Miss Bowen is no
cook, but enjoys polishing Normally he lives, in a hotel unquestioned her choice old furniture; takes suite in Lisbon. This is his first respect from his damily. Know Kevork Essayan. He is an Ar- ing his passion for privacy they menian and is an executive in a tit at those who smeer at visit to them in three years
How is he spending his time rarely discuss him with stran- one of her dather's companies. Husband Alan Cameron (they women who spend their time do-
Briefly, in
variety of manner gers. He insists ca a A
THE WORKING CLASS married in 1023) works office ing the flowers" (I would like here?
Mrs Gulbenkian (her Chris-
CULTURAL news from hours at the gramophone record to spend a morning doing that which fits to perfection the part minor domestic economies.
tion name is Mevarle; it means UNESCO: The educa-, and Bowen's Court I often ct poor litle rich man. company wher:
Argentine do.") lional adviser.
"New Rose" in Armenian) is a HIS RUSSIAN VALET
stout, jovial weman who looks has not paid her annual sub- His wife sits welling in her She relaxes by doing elaborate
has periplan for two years. Barred CULBENKIAN la 82-short, like Sophie Tucker and
this, the house overlooking Regent's brow version of pasting
Madero, dramatically He rarely leaves his old. She married Gulbenkian in Hotor Park: the room, Lice the rest of scraps. Any minute now she will eyes and bristling grey maus joying herself. She is 70 years Argentine Ambassador in Paris, the house, is all light and air, buy
cheque for IGO a set of pastels following tache.
dollars. (His country
Lowas with wide curiainless sach win the trend towards amateur arf house, sees only his servants and Lenilen 60 years ago when she wrote cut a
17. War
UNESCO 310,000 dollars.) dows down to the bare parquet ("I have to cut musses of sheer members of his family.
She likes parties, enjoys cook- description from my writing, and
He occupies a small wing in
Solemnly the delegates decld- floor.
I'desi 1 must record it in some the vast 30-roomed house. It is ing Armenian delicacies for her ed that in view of the amb
u family, and adores her grandson dor's municent gesture the Ar- WAY.")
a palace of a house with marble hallway, famous art Michael who is 21 and who gentire should be allowed to But her dominating hobby is treasures and roof garden for went to Oxford. meeting people. No ivory tower which an entire top floor filed RITA, THE HEIRESS
first-fizer study in their Regency "montages for screens higher tubby, with gentle brown much the same capacity for en- from voting because of
The gentry
IN
London she lives economie- olly, kes one Breton man- servant, and no car
for Miss Bowen, who cthers talk.
enjoys with earth provides the sub-
valo.
A newly-appointed UNESCO was naturalised, she was dissatisfied with her nothing better than hearing soll. In the wing where he is ARMENIAN BORN Guiben secretary from England told me
living Gulbenkian is attended La kian by his Ukrainian valet-masseur. Britian in 1902. His fortune, job, "I just cannot make do on Most days Gulbenklan spends mainly from all, is estimated at my salary" she complained. Her the roof garden-running 300 milion. He was discharge salary is £10 a week (tax free). When I suggested sho: might himself, sitting in the shado ed from his honorary post as
another. Job she said, Jandscape commercial .adache: to the Per- try for reading books, about
alan Embassy in Paris last. "That would be difficult. You gardening.
Occasionally · his Rolis month on the ground that he de I can't type or do short-
hand." Royce drives him
an owns Anglo-Iranian shares.
Which perhaps explains why "I keep Bowen's Court with they were no so crazy when my, writing," she says,
they asked her to speak for the Bowen's court, big, bare man in the street on that matter houte 'In County Cork built of He and deaths nearly 200 years ago by an an cestor, is familiar to her readers:
JOHNNY HAZARD ́
M'GIỀU HAZARD!
TAKÉ HOLE?...
QUEEK
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