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THE SLES FAMILY WILL SOON BE 240,000 MILES AWAY
THE GILES FAMILY in change search of a from its usual week-end by the sea or Easter holiday at the Zoo, has shown enter- prise this year by making a space ship under the "Do- It-Yourself" scheme.
Whether the
(240,000 moon miles away) likes it or not, it Intends to spend д holiday there; and a full report will appear in the China Mail on Monday.
The following index may help you
A-Food supplies for Vera.
-Sunday-best space helmet for Grandma.
C-Drinking waters supply. D-Supplies.
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F-George's space helmet gone for a burton.
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I-Camera to record how half the moon lives. Half because, like most people taking holiday snap, the Giles Family only gets in half of anything.
that Television to prove reception on the moon can't be uny worse than it is where they live.
K-The moon having 1 severe attack of indigestion.
--{London Samprass Service).
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Rome:
HE tourist season starts In Rome. That is why the young
though he is trying to leap over the Colosseum,
Nothing to do with spring. It's just something to -impress the American visitors-In this case, one particular American woman, 11 modern ballet fancier with the dollars to back her fancy.
But what other city could offer
·sightseers the picture of à modern young Roman whooping it up in a 2,000-year-old. setting?
What other city offers the permanent exhibition of an ex-king in a night club? (But as a tourist attraction he is no longer a terrific' draio. There are too
com. many plaints that he looks neither royal nor Egyptian).
Water, almost everywhere
And what other city can put on that tantalising display of an erratic water supply in your hotel room, while at every street corner fountains gush and, gurgle in glorious aban- don?
parade. Rome is holding its annual Thousands of pilgrimos make the required rounds of the seven churches, but behind them the less devout visitors do the town in search of fun and culture in equal pro- portions.
Just for fun you ride out to Frascati for lunch. Just för fun you enter into the spirit of the restaurateur's little game of making you eat your hors d'oeuvres in the wine cellars... So just for fun you hold on tightly to the waiter's hand and climb down the treacherous steps leading to the vaults.
And there, in the musty, damp, sour emelling atmosphere you pick at smoked ham and olives and drink a glass of wine before you are allowed up to continue your meal in cunshine on the terraco,
Just for fun you to as the Romans do and cross the river and into the slums for dinner. The two smart eating-places in Rame right now are both situated in the
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So this is what the Romans A do in Rome!
SLOW
dext
lobin
High into the air he leaps, the young Roman in the Forum, From the joy. of Spring? No. It's the tourist season-and he wants to catch the eye at a wealthy)- visiting American woman with a love of..
ballet.
poor working-clar side of the Tiber.
district on the other
So you join the queue and are reward- od by the sight of Claudette Colbers, spear ing spaghetti with a finesse and delicacy which put the natives to shume. W
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If it's culturo you are after, thero are always the unclent monuments; and: thoso und that came after. Some of the statuce, it's true, look a little strange these days, yet somehow symbolic.
、.
Whoever did the restoration work-on-l the ages-old figures was obviously Vin-Ra fluenced- either Marshall 'Aid or desthétbar hordes of Hollywoodlan types who abound in the world's second-most-faincus fim capital,
Anyway, the stony faces which should obviously boast grand Roman noses lookiy" rather self-conscious with their Trans atlantic cutie-type turn-ups,
Still Rome is the accepted centre för" sculpture. In a cafe I met a woman from Kansas City. She had come all the way to commission, on behalf of her home town, a slatuo of St. Martin on horseback.
THE SECRET LIFE OF
MARIE
CORELLI
By Montgomery Hyde, MP
D
I sald It seemed quite,2 Journey, and was shot happy with the statue? She was ecsta- Lies "Why, the "mble's just beautiful," she coved,
13 ́À touch of tone
Next to the Americans, theệ Scandinavians are, the *most seen-about tourists, Here in the Spring, whẹn Boy) ''meets involvet
and
"Yes!....modern books and Giri, the principals TRULY · remarkable
are usually a Swede "and" modern plays teach you so; in Sicilian, best-selling novelist in
them the world swerves upside The Rosselling Bergmail the late Victorian and
down, and vice looks like virtue. romance merely added
extra' Edwardian era was Miss
tone to the established tradi Marie Corelli. She produced
“But I will tell you what will tim of the worthy Siciliant
to you a strange and warming into the
and cily about 30 books; and she
Mario was brought up by the masses and
SWAY
the seem
alghting at the pensions where There is no wonderful thing! netted about £10,000 from her selfish and indigent thoughts of people" each (those were the days father to be a professional ing occurs in "Vendetta," one of object, no horrible infirmity of
A typical example of her writ- mean
loathsome the girls from Copenhagen animal; 10
Stockholm and Osto stay Rome. of low taxation too). í pianist with the idea of her carly works, the action of nature, so utterly repulsive to o *----although --- thera............is
There Was curious supporting him in his old which takes place
in Naples truc man A8 mystery about her origin age. But she was not cut during a cholera epidemic in the which she did nothing out to be a musician. during her lifetime to ex- After a few poorly sup- Romani, the hero of this mela- plain, though she liked to ported concert appearances drama, catches the disease and storm dialodges a boulder in the skin.
of the tomb, which falls bonst of alleged noble she dropped the idea and is buried in the family mauso- 100%
Ho and crushes the unfortunate Italian ancestry and was became a writer of popular leum. But he is not dead.
Haunted by and re- woman to death. recovers consciousness in the habit of describing fiction. Her favourite theme turns home in disguise to find remorse, the Count thereupon After
Clever Idea, all those steps,
too many pantallava herself as Contessa Corelü.
was the wickedness and his wife in the arms of her lover. rushes off to South America, Įdominated meals, a clinkup folly of the upper classes
where he wanders for years and and down may not do such... and this went down
for your walstilne, but it works. years in the rain-soaked jungle wonders for your conscience. derfully with an circle of readura.
Her real name
won- enormous
last
faithless romance in the air, works,, otur art all around you, and a bandaru. wife.....!"
wagon to climb on, Roma rewrit young Count At this moment a thunder-mains the best of all cities to
Thero Is the sun to belt un
Thunderstorm
He later kills the lover in a begging God to forgive him for duel and lures his frail wife to his crimes.
It has been left to Marie Corelli's latest biographer, Mrs Eileen Bigland to put Many of the scenes, in the mausoleum, where he tells
were laid in her that her lover's body the matter beyond doubt or her novels
Royal reader
It was her third novel.
Fined £50
After 1814 she wrote little and,
Her.
lots of steps and balus
[trades toʻnd on."
★ Roman notes! *
DIOR'S Chinese model, Alla, around the town in beaver coat, headscarf, and pulling a poodle.
as nearly beyond doubt as foreign countries which she festering in the chamber above. it is ever likely to be. It had never visited, but this He continues his story.
"I nung her from me with a neither gesture of contempt and loath except at the time of her death
THE STUDENT it up T appears that Marie Corelli's did not matter as
at night by the fairy renl name
was Minnie had the bulk of her public. ing. This time my words had ten years later, only caught the
struck home. Sho cowered headings once. That was when lights ho had strung, round his Mackay and that she was
before me in horror-her sabled she was prosecuted for hoarding hat. the illegitimate daughter of
were loosened and scarcely pro- sugar during the war and. It
that the building workers? an indifferently successful
tected her,
the richness of her seems not altogether justly, fined NEAT pillbox caps? make out of folded newspaper. Shortly before she died, I saw and the style sense of those? journalist and song-writer, "Thelma" which appeared in 1887 ball costume was fully displayed, 260 and costs. Charles Mackay, who was when she was 32, that made her and her diamonds on her boogen for a time editor of the famous though her best-known heaved restlessly up and down her at a performance of one of artisans who use the sports work, is probably The Sorrows as she panted with excitement; Shakespeare's plays at the Strat-papers for that purpose because
ford Memorial Theatre. She was they Illustrated London News. of Satan" (1895). She became a rage and feat.
allting
BILLTISIE COUNCIL'SÁV besida
oqually cele Baker of desteğin brated author, George Bernard
home-from-home touch. Minnie or Marié, as the cen
share upon you
dress circle, and holding a
Jumble sale preferred to call herself,
admirer. The that thus you outinge your sex! Shaw, in the
creature with with kettle-holders-in com
a comes was born in Bayswater and acknowledged
Prince of Wales asked her to Leam for once what men think looked a
preposterous drinking country the only Italian thing about dinner at Homburg..
of unfaithful wives for maybe dyes faded
clothes
After AND FINALLY BINSTEINEN Mr Gladstone took time off you are ignorant? her was a gondola which
llest girls Nevertheless, as I was imported from Venice from Downing Street on soniere the nondolier) her of her house in Earl's Court, juxurious idle hours have per- wards told, she had done much golden-skinned, cropped
little social and she was moat kind hearted: tafloned and used on the river when facidentally leaving his wife haps told you that infidelity is good in her fe with her writings damsels
waiting for two hours in the no sin-mirely a in later life she lived at carriage outside, to compilment error easily condoned, or set right And, after all, are not kind hearts sweaters, dangle earrings, Stratford-on-Avon.
her on her "great power to move by the Divorce Court.
Hon.
DR NO
Victoria was a self- cried, foto worse) I
rend in your
JOHNNY HAZARD
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