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"ANGELS ONE FIVE"
The story of some of the "Few"
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A beauty queen... and she proposed!
667
NJOY life. It's
Inter than you
think." Zsa Zsa Gabor lays great stock by this motto, which
in is inscribed Chinese on à solid gold charm trinket bracelet she often wears on her shapely arm. To know why, is to know about Zou Zea and Budapest, when that ancient city heard her first cry.
Those were the days when folk were either very rich or very poor in Budapest. They either dined off a scrap of stolen salami-which is a peculiarly Hungarian, sau- sage or feasted and drank Tokay by the river, in fairy land cafes to the sighing violins of Hungarian Tzigane band.
Budapest was then the centre of ustern · EuropeaİY and Oriental intrigue. If you lived in Budapest, you didn't like the Turks be- cause your ancestors spent most of their time keeping the scimitars away from their time keeping the scimitars away from their heads, "un" their wives out of ze Turkish slave market," says Zsa Zsa.
You didn't like the Aus- trians then much either- because you'd done too much fighting for them. And Zan Zan's father was one of those who had done a ot lof that fighting..
DISAPPOINTED He wanted a son HE considered himself a
Zsa Zsa in the lap of luxury. For the fan-males, a quis- xical look above a fan. This is how you will be seeing her in the new film, "Lut"
The
2
Zsa Zsa archly,
ZSA ZSA GABOR, THE
FRANKEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, CONFESSES, AND MICHAEL RUDDY AND PETER EARLE
WRITE IT DOWN
Anishing the job, or permitting The choreographer, he cursed, dates, parties, eyebrow plucking, but Richard insisted. And Poppa, glamorising the school uniform he get good and mad."
and cosmeties. Comments Zsa
Zsa Zsa had not been on tho Zsa: "Ve agree I should leave."
stage before. Tauber didn't ́eare By this time Colonel Gabor whether she could act, sing or wes waiting up at nights for fly on a trapeze. That Swiss. Zsa Zsa with a riding crop. convent had given Zan Zsa a Tauber was But something in mother's eye amique accent. kept that martinet from inter- probably the first man to realise fering with her girl's rapid and that Zsa Zsa had something. spectacular development.
With that instinctive tactical
It was 1036, Za Za was grasp of any situation she has about ready to expixie with since shown so many times Zra zest for life and high spirits. Za did the obvious thing. She Mother Jolie 1lt the fuse, for kept comparatively quiet on the Budapest was bolding a "Miss Hungary beauty competition, Jolte entered Zsa Zsa, who rush ed at her first fence to fame.
"In my sister's best evening dress, and mamma's high-heeled shoes, I made A vonderful entrance on the stage." A
stage and just presented as much of perself to the audience, as costume and lighting permittedi The show was a great success.
But all good things came to an end. When Poppa Gabor arrived in Vienna he found that his little Zsa Zsa had become a very big
radiant, electrifying figure with gint very fast. "I had developed a technique of putting sleeping a mass of tumbling, red-gold pills in my chaperone's night-cap hair. The judges gasped, and so I could enjoy fe nicetle the audience shricked.. For, as more," smiles Zsa Zsa.
Zsa Zsa confesses: "I could not manage mamma's slippers - I slipped-and sat down sudden- ly."
The contest dissolved in up- roar,. "Ze crowd yelled zat I had von hands down-though bands down vas not ze expres asion they used."
MARRIAGE Her proposal
DOPPA demanded her return to
Budapest in his best parade, ground volce. Zsa Zsa wesn't having any. She made her first unaided move on the ladder of
e.
She was just 16. She rang up the Turkish diplomat, Burham Belge, whom she had known all her lite and who was one of her father's closest friends. He was then 30.
POCKET.CARTOON|
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Listen, if, by any chance you're one of the feiu prople who are in a position to hazard a very shrewd guess as to the exact sig, nificance of recent moves in the Kremlin I'm going straight back to my tabig!"
NEVER INVITED TOGETHER
From NEWELL ROGERS
New York. OCIAL diplomacy at the Carl of the century
dictated that Winston Churchill and Lady Aster, should never be invited to dinner together...
The rule is disclosed in the latest instalment of the memoirs of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, former Duchess of Marlborough, "The Glitter and the Gold."*
She writes In Ladies Homo Journal: "Nancy Astor
wee one of the few American women married to Englishmen who remained definitely Her, spirits, her strise
of humour, her self- assurance, her courage, hør Independence are all American and also her beauty.
They were uneasy times, and and the cutest of the trio. It nobody knew it more
was at one of the swank society
American. than Mrs Jolle Gaber-a dutiful wife, gatherings Jolie held, that
diplomat a very wise mother as you'll see. cortain high Turkish
Inclined to The judges were bouncing, met
gay eyed, fortunate man in those Jolie Gabor didn't
child. like the pretty red-headed
"Ho agree except that rival mam- far off days. He was a full look of the future in Hungary, promised to marry me ven. I mas were talking darkly about
it the judges being blased." blown cavalry colonel, She had three beautiful daugh- grew-and forgot all about
until I grew up," murmurs Nobody-not even Zsa Zsa blessed with a rich and well. ters. Zsa Zsa, Evo, aret Magda.
quite knows what happened, bred family. But the day he So Jolle Gabor made up her
Suffice to say she was declared Zsa Zsa had brains, but picked up Zsa Zsa for the mind the girls would be placed
the winner An zey found I e and school she never exceedingly well in
troubled first time he cursed his luck marriage and to that end alone
vas not 16, so zay disqualified them. She had a flair for me," she says. --because she wasn't a boy. Jolle worked.
languages and managed to
German, This was a time, says Zsa
English And Colonel Gabor agreed with his learn Zsa, when Budapest was wife on these malters, but he French without having to there being "vork too hard." Discipline and having a suicide wave-and couldn't gel over
no-ora w follow him into the conventions of any kind sho you couldn't hear yourself Army. Sull, a tom-boy is better
talk for pistol shots, or go thun no boy at all, and he tried found irksome and still does. for a swin in the not-so-blue to make Zsa Zsa just that.
Use
at
to
Teachers of well-bred little
FIRST SHOW
A great success
Tremind heem that ven I was leetle, he tease me, like men do children and said he vould marry me ven I'grow up. So I enli zat man on zë telephone and say: Vell, how about it?***
What Mr Belge thought you ❝ don't know vich von of us to ten with Zsa Zsa, and to this will never know. But he cante vas ze maddest mamma or day she always expresses amaz-
"I.
See how it runs Danube, without bumping He bought her boys toys. Ho ladies-took rather a dim-view me. Anyhow, mamma thought it ment in teking the story Va
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"Her vivid personality made her many friends, but thera were those whose dislike wan equally marked. Ste and Winston Churchill are actualød
by a strong antipathy one for the other, so much so that one never invites them together, dreading the inevitable plosion."
And this is what sie describ- ed when her son was host at Blenheim Palace to Lady Astor and Winston "chose to appear."" A heated argument on trivial matter ended with these hot words:
Lady Astor: "If I were your I'd put poison in your
..
the family saw what you know? It took me a whole into someone who had given taught her to ride a horse,
of Zsa Zsa's advanced interest vas time 80
to offer. Vienna half-hour to convince zat man to up the ghost.
that at five years old she had in parties, grown-up books and Vienna had
clothes. pretty
Two schools was still Vienna in those days, marry mel" a good
seat." Today Zsa Zs asked Zsa Zsa to leave-an to with vine, vomen and song--but "At the time I was begin. comments: "I have still got theenk I never looked at a man mostly vine and vomen. There. Poppa Gabor, hoarse by now,
simmered. Jolle ning to distinguish between good seat but not quite ze som till I was fourteen," gasps Zsa was also plenty of European merely
as pappa had in mind at ze time.
wife skirts and trousers, courting
nobles, who still had money, delighted. Zsa Zsa was about to
coffee," rich British and American enter politics and be "Inter- couples in Budapest ver Life was fun for the Gaber
nationalised," and to learn the chlidren, Mamma saw to that. Expulsion sulted Mother Jollo tourists-and excitement,
meaning of that classic motto:
Winston: "And If I were your getting into trouble because The emphasis was on develop anyway. Switzerland was the
"At
bre
husband I would drink it.” a girl's best of the city's 'purity" vave." Ing their natural beauty and place, she thought, where Zsa Richard Taut. He had a new friend.”
our first party, we met "Plamonds says Zsa Zsa. "Couples charm. Jolie taught them to Zsa should be educated,
Mrs Balsan's pen portraits of: show-but no leading lady.
TOMORROW:
Churchill—“He to the
Zsa Zsa
representedl couldn't sit on ze park seats show themselves
the democratic spirit so foreign at night unless they were the best society.
advantage. They mixed only in
"Mumma_introduced us. She conquers" a Turkish Presi sanne convent which under- talked to Richard and just dent; is gooled by a love-
to my environment Even then, married-and they even had
Hercu- looked at him.
In his Tauber begged
early twenties, he was tremendously self-centred · and revealed lean task of "finishing" Zsa Zsa, Mamma to let me take the part. crazy police chief: the quickest just couldn'i see its Way
to The rest of the cast didn't like it. marries a multi-millionaire, had dynamic energy. He told me he learned very little at Harrow and wanted to do a course; in theclassics. 'How, seemingly without, effort, he could recite pageS he had. scanned!
Zsa Zsa carly
to produce their marriage lines to ze nosey policemen," herself as being
ho
more
con-
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BOAC Plan Polar
A
and
Air Services
To Far East And Canada
IR travellers may be
flying over the roof
of the world from
London to Canada and the
That is
Far East within four years. present
and
By Brett Oliver
ย
our. Intention, at cluding three-hour stop at anyway,"
cor- Montréal. The flying
distance me. over this route is about 8,000
miles,
* told
reported to be investigating polar routes.
BOAC, which will be the first airline to get Brittania plones, specially keen, to use the is short polar routes. The cor poration expects to get..the first of its 25 Brittanins, now on order, late in 1054.
"As proof of his memory I quate letter from Lady Katherine Lambton received while writing these memoirs. She says: "Sir Laurence Olivier and his wife expresse see their Wish The British Overseas Air- poration spokesman
that Churchill should seej ways Corporation is already "We think It can be done."
Richard III. During the whole investigating routes
he recited the words, play "Over-the-top" services would Regular operation within the
almost confidently expects to begin halve flying
the actore putting time to Canada polar region is reckoned to bo'
afterwords polar flying after 1955. and the Far East. The
pre quite feasible, provided high likely to sea the new airliner to the Oliviers Im
immense sur BOAC flying airliners are used and before then, however. There prise he knew the wholo Use of the polar reglons by
Henry V and Henry VI by commercial aviation has been fights via Europe, the Middle there are adequate bases avail- are to be two prototypes. The made possible by the new Bris East and India, for instance, able round the fringe of the ice first low for the first time only heart. When Olivier consulted
him about how to say a cer tain speech, Churchill gave bis rendering, Olivier, thinking, it better than his own, adopted it!
sent London-Tokyo
ground.
tol Brittania turboprop airliner take 82% hours, including cap.
a. 104-scal 370-mile-an stop-overs on the hour plane with an operational Actual dying time" is 44 hours range of almost 6,000 miles. It 25 minutes.
is estimated to be the most
economical airliner of
mind:
London to
the
Folar conditions at the cruis- ing height of the Brittania, re- ported to be round 30,000 feet, Invariably smooth. And stratospheric temperatures 'over, the Polo are much the same as anywhere else in the world.
are
Some parts of the world are out.
recently and the second should be in the air in six months. BOAC will probably be using one for trial Bights within a year.
future, and ideal for Inter- continental tourist fare opera-
The corporation is expected tion,
Taking the polar route, flying
to follow is Comet policy in bringing Brittanins into service: BOAC, without promising time would be less than 20 anything, has two services In hours. Passengers would reach Airfield construction is being The early work with a Comet on Tokyo probably within 24 hours pushed ahead in the far north, loan from the British Air Minis- try considerably speaded up tho in in Greenland and the Aleutians Introduction of the first regular of leaving London. This Tokyo directly cludes time spent refuelling in for example, though
this is over the North Pole, with a the Aleutians, Present airliner mainly for military purposes at ould happen in the case of the Jolliner service. The samo refuelling stop in the Aleutians. distance to Tokyo from London present. But it could it into Brittanins.
London to Western Canada, 10,500 miles compared with the framework of over-the-Pole
́about 8,100 miles over the Pole, travel.
Cometa and Brittaning will nun-stop Beroas the
form the backbone of "BOAC's Circle, either to the oil town. Vancouver IB about 4,000 The whole question of open- fleet for at loust 10 years to of Edmonton, in
Alberte, miles from London in a direct ing up the north polar region come. With Comets, the cor- Canada, or further still, to
line ccross the Arclic Circle, to passenger flying is being poration can give a fast, luxury« Vancouver, on
the Pacific Flying Ume in the Brittania studied closely by two other class service. This will be coast.
would be about 13 hours where birlines besides BOAC. The strongly backed after 1965 by are well within the... as it now takes at least 20 Scandinavian Airlines System, the superlong distance flights. Both
hours capabilities of the Brittania,
to reach Vancouver, it- and Alaska Airlines aro both offered by the Brittanios,
Arctic
At
"A great statesman, a master historian, a good painter, who knows, perhaps also a master actor had the fatës so drcreed."
Queen Victoria="I confess to a feeling of discomfort; her appearance was so severe and
cobre. It seemed to me it was her deliberate Intention to emphasise the dignity of her person and rank. Any warmth she might have possessed, must have boun burled with the | Prince Consort,”
Edward VII Always pecessible; and, friendly motio know how to' discard cEREMONY without loss of dignity, He liked to discurs the haws wind, hom the latest scandal'