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An stonishingly high . for three months' ward work with a romantic pen? Possibly. But to Daphne du Maurier, a slim. youth fi and good-looking 44, it means--in hard cash-pre- cisely nothing.
Cat - great grandmother Alars Anne Clarke, whose etched Brauty
Jung is on 1hr
room
of momeupdece, was that Duke York's mistress who sold rom- missions in the Duke's regiment Peninst her old age. Her witty answers Ju the subsequent inystry tonİK the Lou- public doners' minds off the Duke's misdemeanours.
Then there was grandfather 1. She munte.! the money, George du Maurier. artist of less, taxes, for herself, she would Punch, and author of "Trilby. have receved
of the who incidentally. also put the
1.300
& 4,000 which Americans pald proceds of his novel inte a trust fund--in his case for his for Bim as smal rights of he intest
"My novel.
Cowen granddaughters, this Daphne and Rachel."
Angela, her sister. From this they received £61100 each when they came of age
She knew that while she was writing "My Cousin, Barne?" she would receive prarfrally nothing to the work, because of Luxes
And so as she wrote
the Bio Figgals tt'''
ber 19-year-old
and the secand Tessit
1
in the shadow of the brilliant sluge success of her father, Sir she muut Gelald, Daphine grew up, as she 128,000) says a paradoxical shy girl, who onughter liked to withdraw into herself.
rights
She grew, without any con serous striving, from the girl of to bury herself 21 who liked upstairs writing short stories into world-winner with her fourth
2000 to Bus 14-year old younger daughter Flavia. 1 be held bust for thern.
THEIR FUTURE IS SECURE
N
NOT a penny The 1 her her- Mass Mauser has
she
the isolation of knowing that is one of the few people today who has made the dure strue for her children
For her children, but not for herself! Her only capital is in her head. There 15 never stored vhough against the day when her type- writer
longer may no money-spinner.
ncome
be и
"And that," she will tell you. How "might happen any day.
say when this :11-and it studied the is a gift, I never
can
business[ producing best-
sellers will leave me When in
I hope my daughters (with their trust funds) won't disown me like King
Lear's"
Yet to this paradoxical and world-famous author, money in everyday life means little.
To her neighbours and to the villagers in the remote Corner of Cornwall where she lives the she is a mystery year round wuman.
A HERMIT-LIKE EXISTENCE
THEY know
1LR
" always dif resent and resist any sort of in- trusions that cut into the time I liked 10 spend alone," she told
nie.
In that sol- tuce she likes to escape to the vivialy- imagine i manufactured world of her romance.
Daphne du Maurier
ما
No, I didn't.
It's calling people Wogs all and Wops that causes this trouble. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Daphne du Maurier
Yes, you did.
I say I didn't.
In Aeries an amazed psy- chiatrist has just discovered You've no right to call me something known to ordinary hog before I've even mentioned the food cuts. What are we go- ing to do about the dollar Rap? Export more and Import less until it shrinks. Who stinks?
I said elrinks. What's more. I don't expect that sort of language from a gentleman. Where were you
educated?
Exon
was my old school. won't be called an old fool, either.
ז
folk for centuries. that ch!)- Iren prefer stories about bad peuple to stories about good people
Therefore, it seems that muny well-meaning, industrious girls are wasting their time in Bloomrbury attics writing cosy Isles for tiny tots.
Most of these stories begin:—
"Come to tea, children," cried Nanny, poking the nursery fire said old school, SCHOOL. into a cheerful blaze.
SCHOOL
"Ooh, lovely," cried the chil- Fool. fool yourself. First you dren as they sat down to a well- call me a bog, then you say laden table. stink Now I'm an old fool. What do you think I'm paying you for?
I don't know. I'm sunk. Of course you're drunk. And the sooner you get out of here the better.
out
Double
one
asked
"Can I have jam on my cake as it's my birthday?" Little Johnny.
"Certainly,"
smiled Nanny, spreading jam thickly on a slice. of cake.
If the Bloomsbury girls want bigger sales their stories should
A wite who frequently stayed
midnight stated in a divorce court that they were
"Come both interested
to tea. children." mainly in daris.
croaked the witch in Nanny's clothing as
hid an she
with another man tintil after begin
film folk, having fun with her MY love she may be short beneath her apron.
in fact trend, Gertrude Lawrence.
a "natural" as a story-teller. a woman whose love of solitude or "escapism,” as she agrees il might be called, turns tu gold.
She never works. a plan, Her ideas come unhurriedly as walks about her woods broading about a house she has seen or an 10n. She never torres the pace to bring out a navel more quickly than once every two or three years, nor writes to commission.
she
unti
flat
Or tall She may be dark or fair My love may wear a
cloth
kitchen
To bind her brassy hair
I care not if she's fat or thin Her figure wide or narrow For, oh my love, my darling
love She Pirmos a pretty arrout.
Mu
love long
|
We
she never talks of
When we walk out at nights of wood and metal talk darts
And darts with
flights
feathered
We talk of battles
Jost With gle and
plenty"
and
uxe
"O-o-o-a-b l-lovely," quaver- ed the frightened children as they sat down to an empty tuble.
c-caite
"C-can I h-have 3-jam on my little ..?" began poor
Before he could mention his birthday the witch had swung her axe and chopped his head off.
"That'll teach you to be, a greedy little beast," cackled Namy "Anybody else want jam on their cake?"
-(London Express Service)
She lives in the London only when attending some rare and imperative function with her husband or for the rehearsals of her plays.
But she never feels happy until she.
Johnny. back in the Mena- billy woods again being as I found, the complete paradox, talking and looking like Soelety woman for all her cor- duroys and jumper, and for all she insists upon withdrawing from Society. THREE MONTHS
She
have would, she says, TO WRITE
lived this kind of life even if CHE sets the ideas mature for a her
novels hadn't been SO tong time and then takes only successful. three months, at six hours a And she is, at this moment, day and no early rising) to put enjoying her solitude and her the 109,000 words an to paper. romantic escape-world and She writes "us it comes," spells ready to set the whole mad. Then, in her own right as the "lamentably," and never re- house of taxation by the ears guccessful and uncommonly at- writes.
again. tractive woman novelist, or as Bul when the three months The slim, youthful-looking
novel are finished, "I and attractive blonde is, as the wife of the famous first ail- and the burne general, nury Comptroller need about a year to recover. It's write, sitting in her hut in the of the Household Elizabeth, she might have taken
to Princess like having a baby. The mine woods enjoying her writing and to be cleared of all the rot allowing the thought to in- to the Society treadmill. characters and background and trude that when her manuscript But Mrs Mary Anne Clarke's much that never gets into the is finished a whole army of pub- great-great-granddaughter pre- story.
lishing and magazine account- She takes my heart by storm fers the corduroy slacks and After a longjabat Mena- ants, film costing and producing My love with cloth about her seclusion of Meuabilly, and is bly, she will Tive herself a experts, income tax consultants content for company to have her mental shake-up with a strictly and inland revenue officials will A pudding may resemble. husband at week-ends and the limited three weeks of New start a fresh battle over her But oh, my love our game has children during holidays.
York, meeting publishers and dream-filled head.
won
Dovel.
has
Suppose you suddenly
your tax man was a
Hpayers feel if you sud- ably grafters.
how
a.
"sighs
The night I missed the double
tro
And she the double twenty,
My love, my love, my darling
love
INSIDE Information
A
N
By MERCURY
invitation
to Mr Chur- Marshal Stalin when the British Prime Minister returns from
My love when she's in form With steady eye and cunning is
hand
head
found out found crook
chill from
likely
Washington. Stalin, who is i and conserving his strength, will esk Mr Churchill to Russia, and not travel to meet him,
General Eisenhower,
in his conference with President Tru- man, obtained
high priority for arms for Europe second only to the Korean war, Home defence of the U.S. will have to welt.
US. Congressmen have urged the President to send the new atomic, artillery to Europe. This weapon,
first reported in February 1950, is
210 W
more
•
•
The claim that Russian steel
thet
ID:
NEW YORK. of corruption in place of public who may themselves be dis-
off- What are some of the tricks highly developed than is would you
tax- trust, that all officials are prob- honest,
or avaricious, easily of the crooks? It is a long.cially admitted, * swayed. The opportunity-and long list, ranging from "shaking Hardly a day goes by with- thus the temptation--is ever- down" rich, but
easily in- British sales of gold reserves denly found that your out another sordid chapter present;
timidated, immigrant business this year, have exceeded those income tax collector was a in this shameful story cropping
men to "selling insurance" to of any other country. Mexico up in the headlines. The other The Truman Administration delinquent taxpayers who have and Uruguay are next biggest crook?
day we read: “Truman removes
The "insur sellers. repeatedly refused to make been caught out. Well, that's
Americans tax chief of the Justice Depart- 65 of the key collectors' posts ance" is simply a cover-up for ber
the feel today as man after man in ment." "heartbroken" Theron Civil Service jobs. They remain hush-money.
A Government's Bureau of Caudle had been "engaging in ed as political appointments-re- General's wife (her husband the
Then there WAS Mrs Anne production equals is General Sir Douglus Brown- Internal Revenue (income tax outside activities," which were words for party hacks. Finally, ing), who lives a hermit-like collection) resigns under pres not specifled.
in the face of the mounting hue Serge, who is a niece of William Europe is false. The USSR produces 21,000,000 tons of steet indicted And, as I write, comes this and cry, Truman gave in on McAdoo, who was Treasury if sure, gels suspended, existence Menobilly
yearly. Secretary under President Wil- entertaining, and always Lolite by a grand jury, or even in some statement: "The resignation of this point.
cases tries suicide. A worried refusals to all bazaar openings.
At Mensbilly House, which is American public asks where It
all
to end. going of the Mander-
Jokes about British income ten a penny, but behind it all we don't actively dislike the chaps and certainly anyone would
a smaller
at
ley of
central
unly
there is no
a small tax men staff, no excretory and car.
DO
The car is lacking by choice.
are
"I wouldn't have any excuse don't think
for not going to see people or ever dream of Impugning their
for not attending things," Miss professional integrity.
du Maurier explained.
She has walled herself in with privacy. The woods and estate
Sorry Story
R. M. MacCOLL
examlans the sudden wave
of corruption charges la U.S.
Daniel
Inter-
tonight by
John
Bon.
The Prime Minister has ruled Bolich, Here are some of the salaries;
Mrs Serge, the tax auditor in
that no more requests for ans 1ong
a James Finnegan, chief collector
even for friendly high off at St. Louis, Missouri (under a New York district, thought out supplies,
Powers, can be considered until cial of the Grand Jury indictment), 9,376 a profitable scheme.
Cheques for refunds to non- February. Bureau of dollars (£3,950).
existent "taxpayers who had
The British Treasury is con- nal Re-
James Smyth, of San Fran- paid too much were mailed off
accommodation addresses sldering raising another dollar. loan from the Reconstruction Manure, was Cisco (suspended), #,778 dollars to
(£3,135).
Denia Delaney of and cashed.
New towns come under sus- Finance Corporation, now that announced, Boston (Indicted by Grand
picion as the net of corruption the 1040 dollar loan has been Jury), 0,376 dollars (£3,330). Dun-
repaid. James Olson, a supervisor of drage across the land. Com- the New York Alcohol Tax Unit Y, then, to imagine the dis
meslom or (resigned after a Congress com- Election issue Israel has offered Halfa to: she walks in every day, are un- astrous effect on public morale of Internal Revenue, without mound he was drawing
Britain and U.S. as naval baso tended, have returned atmost to as, in city, after elty, right across
comment, Mr Bolich gave DE 0,000 dollars (2,107) year THE effects of all this are, and H.Q. of the new Allled their natural and not unlovely this huge country, the mon who alth as the reason for his from a business Arm), got 8,179 state,
people's money action.
dollars (£2,920) in solary. may well turn into one of the offer has been turned down for df offending the Aráb The house and the hut where are found to be dishonest.
red-hottest issues in next year's fear "More than 25 resignations, People here were restless she works with only a typo
John Dunlap, the Bureau's Presidential election, writer, deck and oil stove for enough, anyway, at the lden of discharges, or suspensions, have
Many thoughtful people, lay- furnishings-look out on no a big boost in taxes. Now the taiten place in the internal re- head, points out that it is by far
The US military mission venue service in recent months,” the biggest single business in men as well as church leaders, "What, pay human activity save the Channel tendency is to say:
There are three banie reasons the world today. It is taking in are deeply troubled. For it seems Spain has made a secret report more just so that these birds for its unpleasant state of 91,000 million dollars (£21,765, to them that the spirit of grab to Washington that no Spanish. shipping...
con grab 117 No, thanks.
uffaits...
714,203) a year, and
dealing it-while-you-can, what-in-it-naval bases offered to the Allies This is not only Lady Brown- From New York to San Fran
Dy present-day American with 80,000,000 citizens,
for-rae? I-wanna-get-mine, are acceptable, with the excep ing's way of keeping Daphine clsco and St. Louis to Doston,
etandards the revenue: men But It has only doubled its rampant In America since the tion of Cadien du Maurier concentrated on her the sorry story unfolds.
staff since 1014, when it raked war, his brolight the nation, work. It is the way she likes Bach new revelation adds to are not too well paid; to live.
the general ring of condidends It needs no' great ingenuity in a mere 360 million dollars in this Case of the Crooked Tax
a frightening cross-leve ́lipped Auto Persia uncretly and to a cynical feeling, all too for a man in authority to (£138,714,300) from a pinting Men to
roads of moral integrity. ensy to accept in an atmosphere take advantage of taxpayers 300,000 taxpayers.
The paradox is complete when you think of the tree genora
collect our
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