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neighbours at No. INO. 11, Britam future is going to be any- tung but dull.
Lord Cherwell's appoint- ment as Paymaster-Genera. in the new Cabinet means return to the responsibi lities he carried in the war- wing Government --- ̈per- sonal scientia. Huviser to The Proue Munster."
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you can ask, "To whom did Lords with feats of mental arch-
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HE word "only" has a way of gesting our of place in a nence. It should be as cicse a possible immediately before or immediately after-the subject
But if you only
It is natural for you to say.
mean say: "Specula- words."
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The words you say wht be only Prime Minis- Iter." you will be putting your foot in it. Why? Be- cause "whom will be" won't work. It sounds wrong. It is wrong.
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would be no risk of misunder- In ordinary conversation ther sanding. If you said, "I only
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enfreet you. sat down to write to some
When writing the word "only" you should watch whom he thought There is a great difference br- 1.s posuzon.
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But there will be 23 wa: mer stelul glow about now. Chur- rnil! will have
more um? enjoy his compan.onship.
Will
→ Will HE have to end his Hollywood career? SHE be able to prevent a "quickie" divorce?
Those
are the questions they are asking in the tangled case of
IVEN the USA, where 48
ways of getting married and divorced, hus seldom seen a tangle as fantastic as the one that now enmeshes the Clark Gables. And all their money is only getting them deeper into it.
GABLE
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FOURTH HUSBAND FOURTH WIFE
Clark
Mrs. Gabia
Gable*, on the other hand,
Hollywood divorce lawyer, who is ang for Mrs Gabit,
Glasier sata grimly: "I am determined to make this case a guinea-pig. I will go to the Supreme Court if necessary to prevent these so- called quickie divorces."
Gable's case is likely to com up Arst. The Nevada Cour.s usually ignore such infunctions as the ane Mrs Gable obtained the other day, "restraining" the husband from seeking a divorce e.sewhere.
Afterwards, the Jawyers say, Gable will be in
contempt of
Five days before Ch:stmas 1990, when the 48-your-0:0, tas.- grey.ng out sil handsome "King the Movies coped with the 10 mor Lady Asney, was 8t ing to be "This time for keeps." They both said so. But now they thinks he should get it in Nevada, count the California ecurt, hat want to ca 1. qui5. And where the courts are much less if he sets foo: California. they are learning in the hard afflcult in the matter of ailmony. And if he remarries he will, in way how ricky that can be In pursule of this aim, and to California's eyes, be a bigamist in country where some bates make himself really a Nevadan, and subject to arrest at his form-
store what is happening in toe Gable has gone to more trouble or wife's request.
buch
The tall, bald, distinguished- looking scientist has been de sembed as "quiet to the point opener 47. melancholy." Bus Churchill knows briter. In the "Prof" he hes found a semillating con- versationist.
than most.
The usual thing is to pass a
They will, of ecurse, get their pleasant six weeks at the gaming divorce in the end, but when tables, then pick up your decree. Hollywood for the one-time "cil- Does all this mean no more and where is another story. And But Gable has taken up residence fleld labourer who, at 50, is still How is an even greater coin a big way. He has put up for among the top ten, with a con-
sale the ranch near Hollywood tract for £2,000 a week?
Though a scientist by protes-plexity. San Cherwell is an engineer. philosopher, economist, and in- venter by Inclination.
could mean just that. It the
where he and his fourth wife for a few months, and
the worst caine, Gable would 3,000-acre place in hardly be facing ruin. He is one Nevada instead.
of the richest men in Hollywood.
There is a
very good chance bought a He once caused an envious scedom Gable will have to stay
that
even when he gets this in the Lords by carrying, during away from Hollywood and alt licence, paid the Nevada voting an interest in his fleet of cars, He has bought a Nevada car for years he has shown as great a heat wave, home-made port of California-cr be regarded, x, closed his accounts in the his log shack in Oregon, guns able electric fan operated by a flash-lamp battery.
Stimulated
once he steps over the Nevada Hollywoad bandos and opened new and dogs and ranches boundary, as a criminal liable to ones in Reno and Carbon City, new plature.
as in a I immediate arrest and gaol.
both safely in Nevado. He has even switched his mascnic mem- his private life even more than Gable is the outdoor type in bership to a Nevada lodge.
When this news reached Jerry said, is happier in the
on the screen. His wife, it is Giesler, the multi-millionaire round.
sccial And this, according to friends, is what brought their marriage to disaster.
What is it all about? It all HURCHILL, himself a cham-develops because Mrs Gable-the
picn in the
at of using' former wife of Lord Ashley. words, is enjoyably stimulated by Douglas Fairbanks and Lord Cherwell's sarcastic invective. Stanley of Alderley-thinks ehe
Once, when Lord Cherwel was should have her divorce in Cali-, dramatic
*Previous totes: Josephine Dillon, criticising some particular legis-Kornia.
coach;" Rhea Langhamn Texas widow; Carole Lombard.
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