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As the Prince mounts the throne, the
Belgians ask: "Whom will he marry?”
BRUSSELS. Leopold's marriage to u com- 20-year-old Prince moner.
A Baudouin accedes to Now, however, Brussels
buzzes hopefully with rumours his father's throne most
of an early marriage for Bau- Belgians fervently hope douin and a successor to the that his coronation will ever-adored late Queen Astrid. mark the end of the embit- Whom will she de? tered dynastic dispute. But Gossip, indefatigably they will also be keeping their fingers crossed,
If, over one of those gur- gantuan Brussels dinnern, you wish to startle your Belgian politician guest into dropping his knife and fork, say with innocent sweetness: "How like Leopold Baudouin in becom- ing his walk, the way he his military cap. Even his hobbies, like mathematics and engineer- ing remind one of his father."
wears
This lean and studious- looking youth has been un- der his father's influence throughout his life and is conscious of the tragedy which has forced his father!
on
the
denied
One fashionable Brusseis TOS- taurant, unable to obtain fur- ther height of ostentation, ex- plalau apologetically in its wine lat: "We regret to inform our clients that the consigament of Ruslan wines from Gcorgle ordered some time apo has not yet arrived,"
Another restaurant, not con- tent with ordinary cauliflower, describes its versión as: "Caulf flower ostentation,”
After the feasting the pros- by palace spokesman, has fixed
to citizens 17-year-old
adjourn blonde perous Princess Isabelle, daughter of night-clubs, choosing boogie- the French Pretender, the Count Woogle baunts or staid brilliant- of Paris, as the most likely newly lit establishments where Queen,
Meanwhile Brusseln remains its neon-lighted, luxurious self.
iniddle-aged aristocrats dance to 1930 lunes played by a Kipsy string quartet or relire to one of the innumerable" lace-cur- tained bars.
to
Everything abounda and Meanwhile prices soar tu everything is, considerably point at which the most obviou larger than Ule size-especially economy for the visitor 1s the steaks and the menus. It is restrict himself to one meal a odvisable in Brussels never to day. Fortunately that remains. cat alone, if only because the ample, for any non-Belgian mens need four hands to hold mortal them.
'Taxi!' -and
~~(London Express Service)
BERNARD WICKSTEED
continuing
his case-histories of men who never turned up again
Into abdication. Baudouin then he vanished
is strongly attached both to his father and to his step-
Wallon
Oaks
was
Oo, I say! Government's
got autay with a foul punch To BBC's regions - but.
what's this, by Jove' BBC has opened a cut over
Governments principles with a beautiful straight kick. I think both men
are winning. Gracious! BBC seems To be put off by seeing Governments boys drinking up his bucket of water... It's awfully
hard To say..
ANOTHER FIGHT BROADCAST
HOW
was
sold and
10
Merid Copyright” By strangement wein Delta Natale
GREAT
IS
VIVIEN LEIGH?
by Kenneth TYNAN
the
VERPRAISE, in legally presumed dead in 1944.
.is the end,
most Mrs Loyd became a recluse,
kind of damaging She died In a New York hotel praise, especially if you are That's the story, except for an actress, approaching one more event which I forty, who has already come to in a moment. In the reached the height of her
consider meantime let's other possibility. Perhaps he powers. been did mean
to disappear after
mother, the beautiful Prin-|COME people have good At all events Lloyd cass De Rethy, whose war- reasons for wanting to time marriage to Leopold disappear. Frederick Broch sealed his postwar fate. wel Lloyd, 2 wealthy
The bitterness of the dispute British oil man, apparently in 1945. around Leopold has aroused had none. Yet on the after passions which will take years noon of October 22, 1936. to die out. At the first sign of he vanished in a New York pordisagreement between Baudouin
and his Ministers his father's taxi and has never enemies will be inclined to ex-seen again. claim, "See, he is just like Leopold," while his father's fol-
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had been million pounda; he
Yet a great part of this molt.
h
all.
+
At 19....
FL-
WISH
Who now remembers Rose Elphinstoune, of whom i said in 1805: "Nothing can ever have moved the passions more in Venice seldom Preserved"? And in whose head It is sufficient does the name of lovely Lucy a success, Lloyd
happily married for 32 years: PAST lives of successful men
he had committed no crime
than her Belvidera
**She scents the moments
sweetness and excels . . .”
lawn where her author had Imagined a Jungle.
Her
amazingly, . confidence, never flags. Once or twice in the evening the lines call for a sort of palatial sweetness; and she scents these moments and excels in them.
Yet
over one feeling rode these in my mind, the feeling Mr Bennet in Pride and Prejudice was experiencing when he dis- suaded his doughter from further planoforte recital by murmuring that she had delighted us long enough
Though at times, transported by Shakespeare, she becomes Miss almost wild there is in Leigh's Cleopatra an. arresting streak of Jane Austen... She with the at the part
pickness of a debutante called
upon 10 dismember a slag: and her manners are first-rate. "Sho plays it," as someone said, "with
our eyes her little finger crooked," This and forgave Miss. Cleopatra is almost always civil. Leigh. This "Miss Leigh's piercing, candid blankness is superbly pretty, and e'ar am-
in America аго prosperous country. retains that anyone knows of; his af- questioned. almost Victorian adulation for fairs were in good order; and just to be
So no one bothered Mead, who, in 1889, "seemed 10 cribed by the critics as a shallow the monarchy. It was this, and there seemed to be no "other was
with shocker," we shut much about his youth. If they attain a fuller greatness not political factors, which was woman.
ench new performance, now tightly largely responsible for the In England he owned Wal- had they might have found a)
clue.
strike a chord? feeling against 'ton Oaks with 300 acres cinse
One man who did knou Club by Walton Heath Golf
With these ladles in mind, It in Surrey. He'
ser comething of his carly days kept 20 vants and spent his summers was Lloyd's chauffeur in Eng may be time for a sober con- land, Mr W. E. Watts. The sideration of Vivien Leigh, for
whom similarly vivid
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Classic pattern
IN America, to which he re-
Turned every autumn, he lived in a suite at the Savoy Plaza. His life had followed
0:1
two often had long talks their
and together,
claims
drives Lloyd told him once that he have been made. This summer was taken to America froni she celebrates probably 18c England as n baby and begun climax of her career, a climax to work at the age of nine.
At 14, he told his chauffeur, owards which she has climbed, he ran away from
home and with
unfturried
the classic American pattern, went to work in the oldflelds many seasons past. for he was a poor boy who of Texas. At 19 he got mar- had made good.
On the day he vanished he
Jegal-r
ried.
had lunched with his firm's The oil frm he was work- -ndviser-at-the-New-York-ing-for-at-the-time lent him Afterwards £100 to set up house, and he
Lawyers' Club.
n the Arm's offices.
לום
the end of Lloyd the man?
His wife, who had been ex- pecting him back for an ear- ly tea, thought he must have lost his memory, but there was no trace of him in hospital.
The
York New- thought he might have murdered and robbed.
any
Caught?
years,
Industry for
'A WAXWORK'
TOICALLY she has absorbed
her
have
OLIVIER
••• zarlama abivalry
word in the
consumes us.
and
bus
The
from
Нега
is the
Ail
boldened, she for several years to come is will.
to refrain invited not be easy highest wishfully equating her prettiness
of with greatness, n d judgment venturing
magnificent effrontery of attractive child, endlessly in-
by
од
dulged at its first party.
both Shaw's and Shake-
speare's Cleop tras.
severs)
And
ness.
of
CLIMB-DOWN
to Frede- calm has been complete, and we ceps a firm grip on the narrow her. Blunting his iron MSNEA
the level which she can be authority, he meets
and spankable, and all
to
been Or did he try to get back scrutinise her dispassionately. They his early days?
011
away his towering her half- She way. Antony climbs down; and
play Cleopatra the appeal- ing minx must expand and thorities gain texture; and she puts on a have reached low mournful little voice (her out for the first wrinkle) to suggest scedi- ultimate..
But for the outrageous, in- Share of -Judged
dictionary of the two of them got in a taxi, spent it all on the honeymoon. malice "Vivien is a galvanised
of Egypt one found her ordinate Queen and cf appraisal, gibed on old
must return, every few seconds, ond the lawyer was dropped Who Was this girl? It waxwork,'
"great." been the couldn't have
bitter friend and how cunning Mrs
She remains sweet. In all her
to the published version. been to In her detractors As he got out he heard his Lloyd who died a recluse
Miss Leigh's limitations have the flower Kentle motions, there is no hint driver: New York, companion say to the
At the time of point out that
wider repercussions than those north
face is belied of that attack and upheaval, that "Go
Broadway."
most actresses. Sir Laurence. the disappearance she said they freshness of her
that And that was the end of Lloyd had been married 32
her sturdy, businesslike inner uproar which we, mutely
with
curious chivalry admiring, call greatness; no the oil magnote. But was it which would mean that Lloyd wrists and anklest One cynic, breath of the tumultuous obses- which, some time or other,
was 31 when they married, biting his nails furiously
blights the progress of every against our will, described her as being as "cal- sion which,
great actor, gives me the im- culating as a slot-machine."
he subdues his In Caesar and Cleopatra she blow-lamp ebullience to match
pression that In the face of all this her THAT happened
ledge whiett
which is Indisputably hers; levelling rick B. Lloyd between must admire her for it. those two marringes? Dia Now, with Miss Leigh draw- pert sly, and police something catch up on him?
Ing the town, it is time to out a small personality.
does, to
to the letter. what Shaw Cleopatra pats him on the head. A cat, in fact, can do more than asks of his queen, and not a A
at a Içok Fondly, we recall her recent
king: circulated 20,000 copies of his
semi-colon more. And how pletuce and description, but
doctor peak; when. In 1945, tour obsequiously Sir Laurence seems hypnotise him. the only clue they got was a had told him to go carefully, together the shaky structure of
her, never
IN RHYME once bowing story that a man who looked Did he suddenly crack on that Thornton Wilder's play, The, to play along with
to the command like Lloyd called at
Broad-Skin taxi ride "North on
She used house
Our Teeth.
which most great actors hear, Ringwood, In
New Jersey,
determine to way" and
gher soul in this display; and was three weeks after
and
the command to enlarge on the WHENEVER I see Miss Leign, the disap- back to a former
more sweet.
fat symbols of the texi.
an inexplicably frivolous pearance and asked for food. carefree life? America is a About this time Laurence Antony and Cleopatrn is littic Rodgers - Hammerstein
vast country. It would he
Olivier became ar
actor-
round my easier to vanish like that over
another world. This is a leap- lyric starts to trol there than it would be here. manager; and almost at once
ing giant of n play, which as- felt forebodings that the lady sumes "greatness" What was the event I've
of its per- "My doll is as dainty as a spar- THE FBI tools an interest
row; much, and formers, and sleeps under any- because they thought he 104 Afty
missed out in the story? I might protest too
than her thing less.
Her figure is something keys were stolen cost her net wider might have been kidnapped, from the office of a New York special talents would permit, "You were a boggler ever,"
applaud; ran inwyer.
They
belonged
narrow she's 10
says Antony at one point to his Where she's trunks, deed boxes, and safe
idle doxy, and one can feel Miss narrow as an arrow; One of the wilder theories deposits containing documents
Leigh's imagination boggling at
And she's broad where Woo that Lloyd hod born about the Lloyd estate.
broad should be broad.“ spirited away by the Nazis. The following day an
un-SIR. Laurence cast Migs Leigh the thought of playing Cleopatra, deep breath and He was said to have sold Hit- Identified man called up
It is a delightful song, and it as Blanche in A Streetcar Taking the Named
She accepted winkle charm, she launches an-
resolutely focusing her peri gives me great pleasure. But it Desire. ter a secret process for re- lawyer and said the keys were
has nothing to do with the robes covering aviation patrol. from back in his once. And they
the responsibility; worked with
other of her careful readings; of queens: with gravity; or with ell waste and it was suggest- were. Could that man have
Trojan intensity; and failed.
ably and passionlessly she picks greatness. ed that he had been taken to
been Frederick B. Lloyd7
After the Germany to make the system
initial shock at her way among its great chal- (World Comright Reserved.--- work.
hearing Williams's play des- lenges, presenting a glibly mown
(London Brprets Service,)
THE
No ransom
but no one demanded a 60m.
JOHNNY HAZARD
·HERE HOPING- SHE'LL HOP IN
“TIMBŹ.
slek mon when He was
His ke disappeared.
-{London Express Service)
STILL SWEET
By Frank Robbins
PNEW! THAT I WAG CLOSE!
head. It goes:
she
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