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RUSSIA'S 350-ROOM PALACE IN BERLIN
surrounding ruins.
By KENNETH AMES
י
Rooms".
IN Berlin's Unter Den shattered homes and offices, to be fitted with famillar Linden, Russia's newly Marble, rare hardwoods, Instruments of persuasion, completed £2,000,000 em- panelling, rare tapestries The walls of these cells are bassy glistons and sparkles and gallons of glit paint over one yard thick. On above the greyness of the have been brought from the blueprint plans they are Eastern Europe and Asiatic marked na "Treasury Strong For stubby little Gregori countries to make the build-
ing fit for a. Communist If the visitor is interest- Maximov Pushkin, Soviet ambassador.
ed he may approach the 100 Ambassador to Eastern
yards ombassy frontage, Germany, has ordered no
Deciding to combine com wheel in through the high expense to be spared in fix fort and convenience and wrought iron gates and up ing up his new headquarters, centralise their installations, the stops to the heavy main the planners, workmen say door, a mass of ebony and Seven hundred workers have included the NKWD gilt paint. have been employed for detention prison in the base- over two years constructing ment of the embassy build. the 860-room palace which ing. Their minute windows towers up, a mountain of heavily barred, they are re gold and white stone, above ported to measure approxi the surrounding morass of mately 6 feet by 8 feet and
THE PRINCESS
INSTALMENT No. 2
MARGARET ENCYCLOPÆDIA
in Page Four's "poc- ket encyclopaedia." prepared to mark the birthday of the Prin- cess, who is 21 today
F
for
Fasklon
and all its problems
"ONE like Aunt
DAY I shall dress
Marina," said
schoolgirl Prin cess, far
too
young to Bee
what stond in the way.
Now she knows a Prin- cess can rarely dress just to please herself; that royal clothes traditions
must be observed; and that
·B-frock-fit-for-a-Princess- means, in practice, a frock fit for the crowds.
The Princess, because she is one, must be easy to see in a crowd. (No black; pastel shades always; and a hat that is a con- fection),
the
THE 4 BASIC STYLES
SIFTING THROUGя the pictures taken of the Princess in publie this year, Robb selects four basia' outts to show the kind of clothes she wear most. .. THE FROCK; a filmy chion dress with a foil skirt, a high neckline, and a little cap-sleeved bolero, She wears this summer dress. with long white gloves, and a picture hat....THE COAT: plain tailored dayoont, with two lage
There is still a long way to go, but little by little she is making I plain that she prefers the styles of the woman known sa The Smart Aunt.
Also for Funds
drawn for you by ROBB
The shoulders centre buttons, and broad revers. are set in, the sleeves wide, and she wears farge turn-back culis. THE SUIT a trima cost and skirt in light-weight woollen. The Jackes fastens like an outer's taulo; there are pockets either side. The skirt is full and box-picated in the royal clothes tradition.... THE EVENING DRESS: a shimmering, sweeping affair in ipile and reacts.
every year, when he cannot find does like wearing rather bright- women civil suede shoes," explained a friend, the money to ony servants equal pay for equal "but by any standards, he talks work.
I am not discussing the brilliantly. merits of it, I am showing the
point of view of the ordinary "You notice it particularly in woman."--Mr W. W. Hamilton, our sot, where anyone who keeps off racing and the South of Socialist M. P. for W. Fife,
France is considered a Noel Coward."
She must always dress a little THEY could not agree in Par-
She feels a cut couldn't harm:
have over-decorously to prevent Sun- llament how much a Princess is "I
greatest admiration
He accepts his social status day school sniping. (No pretty worth. The debate on her coming for. Princess Margaret, first be-
overwhelming case, deep cut day-dress necklines; of-age salary battled in for cause she is a wee Scottish lassic, with an flared skirts but never tube a couple of days, and sounded and secondly because she takes Whenover, say, there is a ball at next way family a great Interest in the affairs of Buckingham Palace the straight ones; evening dresses strangely like the
evening, he casually inquires of but 1 am sure rows about money often do, the country worn with shoulder straps.)
reduction wouldn't entail any friends: "Shall I see you to hardship on her."Mrs Alice morrow night?"
M. P. for Cullen, Socialist Gorbals, Glasgow,
But the royalists won the He couldn't see what the fuss battle, and the Princess her pay. wi about: This is a very Next month tho small bill." Princess Margaret comes of age and the annuity of £8,000, will become payable."--The Prime Minister.
The Princess must conform to All the old differing voices that the clothes custom of her class, always crop up when money is
cropped up and never, never look unlady-
once like. (A few real jewels, never a mass of artificial ones, how- ever chic.)
But dress bill by dress bill the Princess has whittled away the view that royalty must have
a style all its own.
mentioned again....
She beat the ban on the little
He was all fog making it a bli black dress by ordering two from Norman Hartnell.
She com- more: "I must remark that this promised on one by wearing it £6,000 a year provided by Par- In publle under a bright sapphire. liament in 1937 is now worth, I blug coat. So far she has lost think, only £4,500 or even less." on the other. The Princess only -Me Winston Churchill, wears it around the Palace.
He could not forget the past: She had a new idea or two "Has the Prime Minister for- on her traditional Jewellery; she gotten that in 1937 the Labour shortened irer twin siring of Party opposed this £6,000?" real pearls, and wore them 2. Mr Emrys Hughes, Socialist they did in Paris, with the clasp M. P. for S. Aurshire. high up in front,
gut,
She Won the battle to wear a low- *strapless avening dress the first week. in May. But privilege was hoslily with
drawn,
On the
23
como
·and
May straps back, there was a docorous strip of chiffon
·where...' there
had been none picture.)
He was all for a sense of pro- portion: "I think that in there days the sum of £0,000 a year, a larger sum than is paid to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and¦¦ larger than is paid
to the Foreign Secretars', and 'larger than je pold to the Leader of the 'House, should be examined very
carefully before we
Also Mr
Mr. Emrys Hughes.
....
G
· for the Guards-where-so many
of her friends belong
ONE OF the Princess's most devoted escorts is Mark Bonham Carler, Ex-Guardsman.
TO agirl who lives in Palace he brings Laint suggestion
world Ho
tho
for a
living, shares
器 home with
Hfor
for Hats
ROBB DRAWS here
the conventional Princess picture hat in rough straw, with a sweeping, curved brim and lavish trim- mings. When the Princess wears It, and this is the point,
tho crowd can see her perfectly, whichever way she turns.
a mother who Her personal choice is often
actually cares
and
very different, and a long way
from the hats royalty are sup about polities, and he reads Dosed to wear. For example, Bonham Carter. the highbrow she loved a little crisp white wocklies.
headhugger, rather. American in Mark, "Bonny Prince Carter style but i was the kind of to those who know him best, is in the crowd.
thing a dozen girls were wearing the 28-year-old son of Lady He In stare ... -a; malleg
Carter, Violet Bonham would do: "I do not think there grandson of the grpat Liberal, would be any serious deprivation Lord Oxford and Asquith. ("He of the wood things of life for sems, an awfully quotable chap Princess Margaret it, we did not that grandfather of Mark's," sald tako this £0,000 out of the Con- someone who must have heard it a gondola." before,(See Carmichael, Socialist M. P
solidated und dis Mr Mefanies enco too often.)
The famous
$700K......
-also for Holidays
selves down comfortably, and the Princess sat primly upright with a pair of folded gloves on her knee.
"The Princess splashed about in the Blue Lagoon on Capri."
BUT IN FACT:
At the moment a solitary black-uniformed Communist policeman guards the en- trafice. But after the official opening, on the October Re- volution Day, he will prob ably be replaced by a brace of Soviet Army sentries with "burp" guns.
In the main entrance hall, you gaze up into the 70-foot high dome. Above that stretches A white stone tower surmounted by a 6. foot Soviet star which is to be lighted at night.
Like a cave
"AREFUL-how you tread, for
She was accompanied by the ly polished walnut and oak. Queen's private secretary and Straight ahead, up the wide her lady-in-waiting And just marble steps, is the "plece de how she splashed, what she wore, resistance" of the whole build- and why she liked it were faith-ing the Great Banqueting Hall. 70 feet long
fully noted by the newspaper people, out of nearby bushes.
aight, behind vast chomber
that echoes like a cave. The walls, not unlike those of the old Reichs Chancellery which once stood round the corner, a garish mixture of veneer, mahogany and
marble heavy tapestries. Most Impressive. In
Wagnerian sort of way.
"The Princear caught her first glimpse of Rome"-and glimps- ing it beside her; the director of the British School of Archaeology the Belilah Ambassador to Rome and his wife, and half a dozen other people inevitably there to smooth her path.
I
for Incognite
On either side are exquisitely furnished salons and alcoves, eich of them furnished in a different period and silent with heavy carpets brought from Samarkand and Turkestan....
Extensive winter THE PRINCESS wanted to go with tropical plants, elaborate gardens along with the other young fountains, kitchens, dining halls, on Turkish baths and three bars
headquarters
people to see the sights Brighton Pler. "Come on, no (ch. yey, and Low oMees one will notice you," her friends above),, go to
complete the said. But she knew different-opulent
from ly, having tried it once before. which Trippering incognito is a poor archGregory Pushkin will Russian activities in this idea when your face is fixed in part of the world. Convenient- each mind's eye.
J
for the
Jewellery she chooses
about being a princess
ONE of the pleasanter things Iz. the diamonds you get without having to pay for them.
already
ly, he will, be situated only a stone's throw from the British Sector, just beyond the Branden-- burg Gale.
"Fraulein-Room
T
the top of the four-storey building is a row of self- contained dats, varying in size from one to five rooms, "cach with its own bathroom and a Princess Margaret
"Fraulein- curiously labelled. owns a nolable collection.
Room." A beautifully equipped children's nursery T'ereche' is But nevertheless these are days probably the correct title) sug- of recent, splendour. For the Bests that diplomalle visitors Princess was brought up like are going to arrive with their most tle British girls with complote familles, fortune awaiting them, on a much plainer diet.
Now that the Imperial Palace At two she was photographed and Hitler's old Reichs Chan- in her first necklace, a circle of cellery are being demolished to pink, roughly graded corals.
more room for KLASS
make
At seven she was given two demonstrations,; the new Soviet alrings of small real pearls.
Embassy becomes Berlin's most At 15 she wore her first lavish centre of social entertain- diamond shape, casily lo
clip, a small thistlement.
lost on A tweed lapel.
Moreover, it will be carrying At 19 sho acquired a three-on a great tradition. strand her babyhood necklace.
string of pearls match For it was at the earlier But, at, the bold age of 20 the Royal Air
to
Russian Embassy, destroyed by Force fire bomba Princess dipped more deeply inta the royal treasures. She has Berlin's most
during a gigantic party, that been photographed during thematic receptions were given. gift:ering diple- day wearing a choice of Ave
+
diamond flower sprays, and for Lavish spectacles which made evening wear this year she has alistle" efforts seem like subur any of the "capkalist Imperi slipped on a diamond necklace, diamond
bracelet, sparkling line in tiarne.
KO
and
the
King-and a story
THE PRINCESS's party at the "400" nightclub had Boda tro mendous hm, lots of champagne, Just a few very close friends, und all the tunes she had specially asked for,
"...
A girl friend of the friendliest fort was talking away to the Princess about her family. "The Princete sailed away in MOh, by the way, how's your
father?" she asked, ontually,,
The phrase has a promise of Princess Margaret Jooked, the Somehow Bonham Carter has fairy-tale. Tomance, BUT IN way 20-year-olds rarely can so - At Ascot ihla your she swapped,, está known in i worthier cnunor (despite.//filmindustrious back- 207
Bridgeton, Glasgow mannged do stay socially chatt, FAUT plate at night when the party' la
ground Princess Margaret is crowd of cameramen,, con T
one of the. Queen's allver foxes-
you moan H
for an excessively grown-up Heals morning I received a goat, often seat by his side, and the trolled by a pouple of Bootland: Majesty that she?) the Tepila. - skoky mártation, mink wrap card which was quite unsolicited. Foling, Falasda cront rate him, Yard ofcera angled for the beat 24The panty folded up slimy fina And one day she drove around ing intend to quote it. True Ble, hele realdera kataloniale car gun shot of the day when fall thoj didn't bother to May Topika A ČERTÍNGG 15th n-mall, kumple
ban tea parties in comparison.,