THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1952,
PEOPLE IN LOVE PART SEVEN
DEVOTED COUPLES WHO QUARREL
T s #strange fact that some couples who at heart are profound- ly levoted to one an other frequently quarrel and make life anything but "one glad, sweet song."
In some cases it may be a farmi of childish jealousy or in others a selfish and stupid way of work- int off the mundane menolong ar domesticity from which I imagine all husbands and wives
censionally suffer.
One particular couple I have i rend at the moment were quite unconsciously, I am sure— most amusing in the "'ent and nog interludes with which they frequently spoiled the harmony which should have existed be tween them,
By
Ruby M. Ayres
ad "chin-wag" with me she mitted that she was bored stift and that the days seemed end- les.
I turned the wireiesa on in the hope of cheering her up, and by some comical freak of fate u man was singing the famous Gilbert song:
"Oh, don't the days seem
lank and long
"When all goes right and
nothing pors wrong-
“And imit your life extremely
Stat
they did their utmost to „dias sunde the youth from indulging in itch a risk.
finally got well and truly en- tongled with £ so-called "glamour girl," whose interest in him was measured by the amcu of money he spent on her,
The result was that he began to look old and worn and die. Elpated. To such a degree, that Unfortunately he also poses when he chanced to meet his ged A very strong-minded strong-minded mother she was mother. She' stood firmly by horrified and implored him the old Victorian ideas, and had (with tears) to be a good boy probably never heard Mr Gil- and come home. This
bluntly refused to do, telling her melodramatically that she She may very well pass for had spoilt his life and that he
forty-three,
no longer cared what happened to him.
bert's cheery declaration:
In the dusk with a light be-
hind her.
(She would only have pooh-
"With nothing whatever to poohed it, anyway!)
grumble at?"
And when I remarked, “How T: funny part of it was that they would both relate their true that is of some of us!" she was said quickly, "Meaning me, I grievances to anyone who willing to listen while the storm suppose." was at its height.
still
henceforth to be a good girl!
Mother deliberoicly aes about
trying to end the love affair be- tween her son and "the middle aged woman," as she unkindly described her prospective daughter-in-law,
now," she
A WEAK character? Perhaps
s-but disappointment af- fed, us all very differently, and whereas some of us have the courage to overcome it, others go down under the shock and and it hard to rise again.
an
One night the young man --- having drunk a great deal was arrested for assaulting admirer of his "glamour girl." and was heavily fined for the effence by an unsyinpathetic magistrate.
It made quite a headline th
newspapers, and in de
WHAT'S GOING ON
CONSORT OR
KING?
A new theory
THAT rank and title King George, may be expected
Will THE QUEEN to retire? bestow
upon her He has been preparing fo." husband?
retirement for sene time, and Privy Councillors whose MICHAEL ADEANE, his assis 41 year old MAJOR SIR views would certainly be tant for the last 14 years, will sought aro already saying as succeed him." an accepted fact that he will be made Prince Con- popular at sort..
;
Queen Victoria walted 17 years before she bestowed that rank and title upon Prince Albert..
Her delay was wise he- cause wide national accept- and approval of the foreign Prince, who seemed
ance
Gental, shrewd, and very the Palace, Sir Michael at present deals with
foreign, Service,
and home affairs.
His knowledge will be In- "nlunble to the Queer in her early years of responsibility,
He is a grandson of LORD outstanding royal private secre- STAMFORDHAM, one of the faries, who served three mon-
archs.
at first so strange to British people, was slow in coming. Sir
Only when he made the grade, and by tact and leadership won himself a secure - place in British hearts, clici the reward
come.
With the
DUKE OF EDIN.
nocd
for
such delay. He already widely popular.
IT is now fairly common knowledge that there were hefore
F
Alen Lascelles, known cenerally in his circle as "Tom- my dealt chiefly with Cabine Papers and Stato affairs. Most of the personal attendants of the Queen und her husband will move with them to the Palace.
There is a strong friendship between the Queen and LADY FAMELA MOUNTBATTEN, her temporary Lady-in-Waiting for the Australian four,
They were both exceedingly
"You may think it's all right warned him, "but nice people, the kinet one wus
after a few years you'll realise genuinely pleased to meet when
what A mistake you mad ND. then she daughed; and Women always age coner tha all was pence between them, und although I have not seen them that same evening she sent a for several years I
wire to her husband asking him, and though I admit that
BURGH there is no can
today today Susan doesn't look too chuckle when I recall the way to leave the trout nud
come bad,
she is the type who will they sung, one another during buck, and she would promise rapidly put on weight and go a quarrel and eulogised one
grey-hatred, while you will still another us coon as it was over.
look young enough to be her sit his mother went out of her understandable doubts
way to discover Susan's where his engagement was first an- 50s, Indeed, you do now!"
abouts In South Africa, then nounced among these whose her a pathetic sirmali letler advice the Patare sought-as 10
ising for the trouble she whether had caused, relating her son's background might, raise pre- downfall and begging Susan to boy under her wing again. return home to take the
Did she respond? Yes, of course she did-being one of The he has proved himself, and the CONALD (who found the King nicest und mest forgiving of Queun is expected to bestow the fired in bed) and RICHARD women. She flew
home, al-
status and title upon kim ROWLETT, the Superintendent though she had always declared almost immediately..
of herself terrified flying.
The husband had been mar- led before-liscarding his first wile for the sake of the second without whom he declared ho would never know a moment's happiness.
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HOWEVER, although the Arst Hwife
didn't
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I believe she was, for a time anyway, and then one day she burst in upon me, obviously c the verge of tears. She told me that the previous night her hus- band had been talking in his sleep-a thing she had never known hun da before-and whensible that in spite of the six SHE refused to believe it pos- 1 asked what crime he had un years' difference in the age of consciously been admitting, she there two they hall everything told me he had been speaking
-in-common, and were the very of his drst wife.
best of comrades, quite apart from any deeper feeling. She could hardly have raised stranger abjection had it been sixteen years' difference,
Incidentally
apparently to she Igst sight of the fact that, al- her.. though she herself lnd married a man many years her senior, the only happiness the marriage
finally departed this site, leav- Ing her very comfortably pru
"Perhaps it was just a night <bject 10 his desertion, mare," I suggested, In the hope Jifè for hirn with the of comforting her, but she re- evcond 'didn't turn out to be the fused to agree. She told me that Porndire he had confidently be- this time, although they had pre- they viously had many small quarrels loved, for shortly after were married I met his beloved which had quickly been made con tearing along the street with up, she had reached the end of
a grim, uemniling: fece, and when hir endurance.
I asked, her-confident: pf'-thữ: wwave Breed to part den had giventer, was when he
happy reply I expceteci-"How's
life?
All cunshine, I suppose?" nitely," she said. "And
Johu
she looked as black as a thunder- (that leri't his name) is going to vided for, cloud us she answered grimly.
"Sunshine? Is there such a thing in this awful world?"
Australia."
was
an
his foreign, title and
She may become one of the Curen's permanent companions. Howlett, the tailor FOR the moment the future of
the late King's personal ser vants is in doubt,
Judice against him.
Those naughty
doubts have been swept away.
There are the valets THOMAS Like Victoria's Prince Consort JERRAM and JAMES MAC.
Needless to say, the "glamour girl" had already turned down her victim-because he refused
•
'King in name'
of the King's Wardrobe.
A qualified tailor, Howlett aiready sed the King for 25 years, same. He had in his care more than
even 500,sults and uniforms.
spend any more money on BUT suggestions are
being
with made. powerful backing, that jotier status should be given
NO the "middle-aged woman,
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ONCE an admiral, about to The argument advanced La have an audience, split his that kingship should be con- incket. Howlett fitted him with sidored, even it of a limited one of the King's tunics in two kind. That, while the Queen minutes. would be the ruling monarch,
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as his mother had at one time At any rate she deliberately unkindly described Susan, Echer Consort should be King in Ephraim Hardcastle 1 Duddell Stroct "Without you?" I asked. She made things so unpichsant for
crously Ignoring the great told me
with great bitterness het son und Susgn that Susun change she must have zeen in name if not with full consti- that she wouldn't go with
him who
him, quietly renewed their last extremely nice why, what's wrong?" 1 pu- if he asked her on his bended woman, and disliked the thought friendship.
before long-
Warm quired in aztenishment. "And knees, and that she would be of coming between the young with his mother's
up- where's the Better Half?for only too thankful when he had man and his parent-told him proval--they became husband he had recently retired from taken his departure.
their friendship must end. bustness and they were invari- ably en together.
"I don't know, and 1 don't cure?" in as her bitter reply..
*We've quarrelled and put an en to everything and I hope I shall never see him again!"
She wouldn't even smalle when
I jokingly reminded her, with a final hope of bringing about res- titution, of the famous words:
In spile of his frantic protests, she packed up and departed for a trip to South Africa.
and wife.
And Susan hadn't put on when I last saw her. weight though her hair had turned a most becoming grey. But there was not the slightest fear that If, ubconsciously, she had anyone would
looked young enough
the
tutional power.
So Acvolutionary a proposal, powerfully though it may bo would inevitably supported, wor raise problems and issues on which unity of decision might be more dificult to secure.
THOSE
who
ΣΠΟΥ Quten best say that no pressure will ever sway from her cwn wisdom.
She has great strength character, and a deep conscious- ness of personal responsiblity.
Palace changes
her
"I church you mumble a few hoped that in their case absence husband now consider her beyond the judgment she forms
words and you are married; might make the heart grow to be her sen-If he ever had "In sleep you mumble a few tonder she was mistaken, for he But under her loving influence was 10 emblitered by her deser he quickly became a completely and you are divorced?"
and so furious with the un- sober and happy man.
Put when I asked in amaze- ment what was the trouble, she socnied unable to give any reasonable
explanation, Just shrugging her shoulders, and de- claring firmly that she had made
O that was that! And the next up her mind to leave him, that
that she realised what a fool she had thing I heard was been to marry him, and that the John had booked his passage could well understand why his and was railing in a few days first wife had been so obliging time; and that he was remain- and willing to give him his free- ing at home, devoutly thank-
ful to be alone! clora.
However In spite ct their So that was that. But the con- stupidity and misunderstandings cer I felt for their short-lived they found (temporarily al happiness was entirely unneces- lens) the happy ending, for a mary seeing that the very next day or two before he was due day I met them walking arm in to all John called at the house arm. 1gughing and joking to he had left with a final slam of the deer to find it in an up- gether.
our and his wife determinedly packing up her clothes and her most cherished belongings,
After a few pleant words, in which the wife made no allusion whatever to her yesterday's fury, I left them, mystifled.
Kuence his mother had
used, that he walked out of his home and started leading a foolishly gay life,
Mixing with all the wrong people, drinking too much, he
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And his mother? Well, she now makes it her business to tell people what wonderful daughter-in-law alie has, and what excellent friends they are (More Next Saturday)
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NEW monarch means,
clean swcop at course, a the Palace.
SIR ALAN LASCELLES, 04- to year-old Private Secrciary
WHITEHALL MEN SEE
A NEW SPY
FILM
By LEONARD MOSLEY
up to the
London. him as Ellas, but soon to be Ainnkiewicz-stand He asked, blankly: What TOUR MEN from
the known to the Nazi Government ceul story? is the meaning of Foreign
Office ort 'earth.
as Cleero have
For dramatic effect it this Chis?" She burst into tears and answered: "I realise now what been to a private view of a Every night Elias awaited the several of the fauls, but none of
from his dhe vital ones. Ellas (or Cleero) fool I've
been, and if you new American film which return of Sir Hughe leave me I know I shall never has just arrived in London. his master was asleep, he open with a taste dor.whisky but no diplomatic duties, Then, when was an Albanian aged about 50 be happy again, I'm coming They went on business. ed his safe, extracted top British Interest in women. (OWEVER, it was a turn with you,"
photographed Not next.
long
I have seen the film, too, war secrets and after What did he reply? Well, he
to face laughed ruefully and admitted and understand why they words face with him posting even that he had just cancelled h blacker and more furious
passage us he too had realised are concerned about public than she had done. When I ven- what a fool he had been, and reaction when it is shown tured (out of pure curiosity) to that without
HOWE
Tumo
her his
wouldn't be worth a dam
life on British screens.
them.
BIG MISTAKE
In the film ho is played by James Mason, who falls in love
with an Austrian "counte85,
Sir HugheKnatchbull-
War (hid For "Five Fingers", which THESE secrets he sold to the Hugersen
Germans. Ile was pald is)
bright, alert, shrewd ask Wyliere che was, he retorted,
But later on he booked an-stars James Mason and Danielle £20,000 in genuine currency man who longed for the cp- just at the he done, that he
Then, he portunity to get an early night neither knew, nor cared, and other passage a double cabin Darrieux, is Hollywood's version for the frst films. that he was going away for this time and away they went of a bizarro, wartime spy cause the Nazis thought he was-in bed. He never succeeded, wodle's fihing in order to escape together, all smiles and happi-thriller. Britain's diplomats and
A British agent "planting" falte security services do not emerge information on them, they paid from her incessant nagging and ness,
Did it last, you may wandert very happily, from the story. fault-finding thing I could do Well,
1
or
I never heard, whether That would not matter much
There was
in the hope of putting either of them attempted to in fletion.. But this film in based matters right, but it all seemed throw
the real in counterfeit money.
They particularly didn't be
the other averboard on a true story. So true that leve it when Elias sold them
There were always offela! functions to attend,«)
CONTRASTS
so foolish to a mora.onlooker, an during the voyage, but some it has already caused a stir in the secrets of our D day in the film the British Ambas they had everything id make time after they arrived at the the House of Commons, when vasion plan. It was a big mis-sader, is called Siri Frederic Foreign Scerqtary Ernest Bevin take on their part. For all the and is a gentle, elderly man who tacks of beyond I receivext a them
completely happy:
good home-na ex-, postcard signed by them both admitted the facts. pensive dar-freedom and on which read with brier cloquence;
CENTRAL FIGURE: believedreal devotion to "Everything in the gurden is another. And yet these villy lovely And being an incurable
though they certainly believe it sull' isi
quarrels
FENTRAL
order to get some sleep.
secrets were gonuluc.
has to take sleeping, tablets in Like the Foreign Office men, I had special interest in seeing in real life the German at Ogure in the true Hollywood's version of this face Meyrisch who bought E Sirughe fantastic
incident in", "Five ›Cigeto's information was a hard- Knatchbuli-klugessen, Britain's Fingersund I did not go to honded Nazi, diplomat. In the wartime Ambassador to Tur the special showing as a critic, aim he is the comle roller: key. After reading: Mr Bevin's
proated,lways being.. re-optimist sincerely hope, and story
ore than a
seldom Ipated for morenstain
day or two, thbagh once again
wann an skieshed probably [been" blacker than usual the husband
land
ho said: "I must it went breause I, too, was at But basically. "Five Fingers"" have time to think about it. I No British Emuassy 10 Araraunceynfantebly pecuro -without her toy at SET was some years, salder til, not know, tile, question was on death, ocasiona vodiyaning Horses, when ever, tu 200 65
int in Scots than he. So, the being
say ambassadors valet was of this spy marynar wlscheres, who no doubt re-thing. T
lus master's safe and selling u
at to the Cormais.
No wonder The Farelim, Omeg hda hako mora, special report Iłow does this oxalting thriller. Sir Hugha Kautcabull-HDigorany.
Ashing
The arrival of Five Fingers" Thank goddnose, as she told membered) - Mr. Shakespeare's .. me, but I know she found life advice about fotting the woman inny seem to Sir Hughs the dreary desert without, fum and take an older man than herself, moment für bresiding his silence. several times when she called in declared it was bound to be a this embasy in Ankara in for what the described as a mistaken marriage. Therefore 1944 he had a valet imown to of "All About Evo," Joseph L. to have an early" louky ut it ----
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