THE CHINA MAIL,. MONDAY, MAY 11, 1953.
THE IDLE RICH IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA
7HILE religious and racial persecution increases, and the lot
of the common man
Ja grinding poverty, the
Soviet aristocracy"
and
By DAVID TUTAEV
Wack marketeers lead a life Opera House or on the simplest
social occasion.
of luxury....
Her dress will still have the Let us drop in on the "New Look about it, for a Soviet lady who put this in- triguing advertisement in Evening Moscow this win ter: "Wanted. Nannie with References:
Phone V, 8-36-11."
of the cloud of
ur
though the Kremlin frowned on such bourgeois excesses they just cannot compete against feminine wiles, Not for two or three years will she be aware of the The change in world fachlons. new modes will trickle under the Iron Cred
brought in maguzine
by re- Zourceful foreign DearTINI, or more directly by the wives of returning diplomats.
Black-heeled nylons (the best
unc
다
How many are there who share the "cake" of the Soviet stato capitalism's prodis -- it hardly matters whether they dividends or pald
rough figuro "wages? A would be around 800,000 to a million people.
Bro
.09
or a
a glass, it when poured into "bubbles, foarns, and frolles." Our particular lady (remem- She could have avoided the bering that we have widowni jostling crowds, which regularly her) will receive a pansion of
flat rate of anything from 25,000 go window-gazing or buy microscopic 100 grammes of roubles to 50,000 roubles (£1- meat sausage or butter to sup
200 to £4,500). To receive the husband her plement an otherwise dull diet higher figure
must have been an important largely consisting of bread and carcals. For although rationing
Soviet Acade- general carug have bo
midan. been abolishod, the
in average citizen is still-ationed. But the State is generous, by price. But our particular these ex gratia payments to the Soviet aristocracy. Her eldest lady probably telephoned her
receive about 700 order from her flat or house,
month from the and she is by no means rationed roubles a
Slate, and, if there are another by price.
two children, they will receiva something like £500 per annum No wonder these together. women con afford a nanule
is glit-edged. with references. Their security
LUXURIES
ER order is delivered at a fashionable house for "res
three or four ponsible workers"--which means that she has room apartment complete with The radio and refrigerator. price of luxury goods went down recently, thus helping to
Soviet rich mve make the
She will probably be sliting 49_is__ mid-afternoon-un a high chair at the fashionable Cocktail Bar on Gorky Street (Moscow's Regent Street) else at the Red Poppy Cafe just
Hare Imported from Eastern Ger- behind the Grand Opera House.
We will recognize her because many or Czechoslovakia)
"Breath
open heel or open toe shoes will perfume of Stalin," which she exudes, be worn, and she favours large, or the more popular "Kremlin oversize handbags, and lavishly Chimes." She will have spent decorated, felt or straw hats, two hour at the Metropole - Hotel hairdresser having her
born in halt rinsed to a vibrant yellow, David Tuley
the year previous to the Russian and her nails painted ruby red.
He was educated But she is interesting, not so Revolution. much for her
an England and is now a na- richer! appearance, 22
for turalised British subject. He has fur
advartisements the
travelled widely and has written "doberman pinchers numles or and coliti with
pedigreus" for many of the British national Evening dally newspapers and is etlil A which appear
capital's freelance Journalist. In 1945/40 Mosesw, the only evening paper. These ad- he was the Moscow correspon
dent of the Dally Express, vertisements
are the fret to
Att
Soviot
cars, may come
admit the taste, as well as the Rich. privileges, of the Soviet
the Sovict *arisTM Usually, tocracy hide discreetly in their
ZIS chauffer-driven borrowed from their husbands working in an important mints- try, for a shopping expedition or a get-together with a friend of similar standing.
COCKTAILS.
ET us take a closer look at
the lady:
LE
In her right hand she will hold a cocktail made from the famous "Abray-Dyurso" cham- long pagne; in the other, a
the execu "Kasbek" cigarette, tive's cigarette with fine Mace- donian leaf and silk cut paper, with cardboard holder pinched to central the burning.
of
was
A
pillars
surtax
Printing of Distinction
Bon
will
The State provides on $21- tomalle insurance fund for ita upper classca, But at tho other end of the scale, 300 roubles is the maximum old age or widow's pension payable to those outside the Kremlin's
The munificence the average Soviet
peasantry worker. even excluded from this al- lowance.
PRIVILEGED
Gre
WHAT about the children? Stolin's younger son Vassily la
Tolstoy.
of
of the writer,
or
gorgeous pori-
that his
~Cummings
Goodness: Here comes that old joke about a plump gentleman in a field with a bull...
London Express Bervice
A BOOK TO TALK ABOUT
The Very Duchess...
S
of
That summer-It was 1894 she received five proposals marriage in Faris and three in London.
Now what was there About
with
the
delicate,
to
Candid
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS
OCEAN WAR OF 1953
A
-New-York. DESPERATE ocean freight rate war is 'un- der way. It threatens to spread to British seaports and the British merchant. -Real-
It is a fight for cargoes from
and German, Belgion,
Dutch
to
ports to America,
Rates have already dropped to far that this amazing sitio- tion prevails: It is cheaper send a British enrgo to Roiter- dam, Hamburg. -öri (Antwerp, and then tranship it. to Amer!- ea than to send it direct from a United Kingdom port..
Here are sample rates, caused by cut-throat competition) sinte shipowners disagreed on rates Jual January: Tin down from 22 dollars (£7 175. 8d.) o toi to 14 dollars (£5 05, 407): fibre from 22 dollarsvia staple about 13 dollars (£4.138.2). AN atomic energy techialetan,
Petheramor Miss Marjorie
Chicago, is among ten women who have won 3,100-dolar (£1,107), all-expenses-paid trip
By Milton Shulman to the Coronation. Thei
10
a
with
*bath-
nati-
wrote letters telling
why
They
like best a certain brand of coffee
19
Each has the right to take one person with her Allen 20 have reserved seats for the pro- cession at Hyde Park Cornet
Five are housewives and take along their husbands. The alher είναι Including. 'Miss Pelheram, are trying to tecide whom to invite.
* DONE PANA
BRITAIN has sold already dollars an estimated 3,000,000 (£1,000,000) worth of Corona-
in America, would cost 5,200,- 000 dollars (£1,857,000) Instead of the 2,200,000-Hollora £785,000) each Pan American is reported to be paying for British Comets."
Barton's reason lower "" Btf- fish inbour costs, some fac
been
Money is no object with her, provides her husband continues to bring back twelve thousand £600) rouble (approximately or so a month, and they enjoy n flat and cheap rent-controlled
rates as perquisites electricity
The the job. which with
on 12,000 payable
12,090 roubles a month is never higher A private dressmaker makes than 13 percent. Nor is the a Lleutenant-General In the Air
HE made her debut at a It takes they
on effort of the not one really Ivable room and or perhaps her clothes,
percentage higher on a million Force. Trade Minister Mikoyan's
o! that a serious deficiency realise white hall given by barely 50 years
Imagination from
theotrieal
an income stn is a Guards Colonel Jet roubles
a month;
ᏣᎳ
separates us rooms. workshop. She will cochew the which only a popular plat. Of the offspring
the Duc de Gramont from these sumptuous and Iel- "Red of Models" having writers and artists can earn.
Count" - the
The staff consisted of a bút- House
in Paris. She wore a white surely times.
ler, two electricians, a groom Konstantine Simonov, for Alexi
now dead heard it criticized for lis lack of
Dimitri is an aspirant" at the tulle dress. designed by
of the chambers, valci, A threat example, has an "open" ac- chic.
under-butler four mold, on Bank. Ho Leningrad Conservatory and his Worth, with a full skirt, ARŠ BALSAN'S pages, some footmen, A few steps away from the count at the State
2 housekeeper. Bix Cocktail Bar, she will find the
can draw as much as he likes daughter Maritanna is a can- touching the ground, and a times naively but always housemaida, five laundresses, a (foul number one Gastronom
at any time. It saves computing didate" of chemical studies.
All Russian chlidren want to tightly laced bodice.
delightfully, re-create this world stillroom maid, a French chef, Its in Moscow. shop)
his royalties, and it also pre- pro
of Barouches,
and four assistant cooks, two quadrilles, bullerinas, generols, vents him from being too grandeur, revolutionary
x-be and tiles and elaborate decorn-
cmperors oblivious of the ad- nies, and a corps of odd-men travagant with
State academicians, and the
a writer, E.
Socialism, to carry coal and wash the vancing shadows of Sirogova,
the lamented In
internal windows, which they boasted tion will appeal to her, for her cashier looking on! taste in most things has be-.
Literary Gazette (December 11,
income tax, and the combustion engine, INHERITANCE
they cleaned only once a year, 1932) that too few of the child.
Consuelo's marriage
tion goods to América the since It took them 12 months rome increasingly reactionary, favourling heavy
Victorian TF the lady's husband dies, the ren of privileged parents will entertain the idea of doing any
this gawky, 17-year-old Amer ninth duke reads like a chap- to to the round. most she will have be "dirty work." She describes
ter out of Duida. She was in Dinner furnishings und göegaws,"
can girl,
alone
Mari-
COMPLANT, from James The ugly advertisement in in inheritance tax" will a
"high
accountant whom borough meant sitting in silence Barton, chief cost planted love with an American officers and falaily Javanese face informs her stato registration fee and about picture Evening Moscow
civilians
with
she only refers to as Mr X, or watching him push his plate for the Bacing company, which nori falmost precariously on a long
her Rosenkavaller. 10 percent of the estate's value, that she can buy the best cham-
and cutlery away with reception neck, that sent so many dia
con-is bbilding a Jet liner; to, rival To prevent their seeing each sidered A clover lawyer can save even folios" sitting in a
which the Comet: the Comet, IIT built pagne-the pride of the Soviet
Number Ono on these taxes by declaring room waiting to complain to the inguished menso precipitous other her mother not only kept he wo6estures, after
meditate. endlessly She' will certainly be swathed vineyards"-ul
a Moscow Univers simple and
ly to their knees? The answer. The advertisement
her a prisoner but threatened twirling the ring on his little that certain properties are not director of the Gastronom. in
unromantle furs, regardless
she sily. One sad-looking
to shoot Me X should she run finger. After about a parent part of the estate. This,
quarie: weather, for she is very proud promises her "exquisite aroma, constant taste and
may get her
announced summer house annou
505 "was money. fox pelts, excellent
For she was Miss
away with him. Exhausted by of on hour, he would return to Consuelo these emotional appeals, of her three silver
inheritance compelled to work like a com- Vanderbill, whose great-grand- of
Con- his food, usually in her which are her immediate pasa- strengt
champagne, (datcha) free
complaining mon fitter!"
พอม marry that it
cold. Cornelius Too port to social prestige in the and helpfully Informs her that tax.
father,
Vanderbilt, suelo finally agreed to many of these "mother's had
Marlborough. accumulated £20,000,000
But week-ends often entailed danings
are shielded from
was set The wedding of railway speculation
for looking after 30 guests, and manual
Lout
by labour, says the
6, 1895, in November time he died in 1877.
New fretting over questions of pro- the writer, adding that most Soviet
Her York, unl! Marlborough. re- cedence when they included at
membered that it would not be assortment like youths and girls prefer to work grandfather doubled It.
the German Much of the energies of suc suitable for him to be married Emperor, the Prince of Wales, in offices and too many parents eeeding Vanderbilt generations nurture these sentiments. They were
on the day Guy Fawkes tried and four carls. devoted to trying to think that they can "advance spend the family fortune. Con- to blow up the Lords. It was
Favourite to Communism without needing suelo's parents did their bit by changed. saws, hammers or planes."
building fabulous mansions, by
Fall the brilliant and witty sailing-their-luxurious yachts.
visitors to Blenheim, the NEPOTISM across the Atlantic, by travel were so swollen with tears they duchess was particularly fond of the vital company of Marl- THE children of the privileged ng through Indir in a private required coplous sponging.
Marlborough, who had never borough's cousin. Winston. He train, and by accumulating the travelled before, was arrogant had actually been born in can extend classes
their nest racing stable in France. "golden youth" to 23-24 years of
ly contemptuous of all things room in Blenheim which, she age by university and higher in- The 'prize'
American, and announced he says, in her time was haunted stitute courses. At the other end HERE was no lack of suitors try.
would never revisit the coun- by the ghost of the private of the scale, one million youths
chaplain of the first duke, I 'willing to share the young
In former Secretary General between the ages of 14-19 are
Disillusioned had to be kept firmly shut.
Trygve 134tay UNOster PRÓ- called up annually for industrial girl's inherited task of dissipa
When Consuelo first met the ped back and out respectfully millions. HORTLY after the marriage Dowager Duchess of Vanderbilt 1917 being the training (girls since
Marl-when Mr Lle entered aw iween 15-18), And tuition fees But Consuelo's mother was de Consuelo was stripped of
borough, she was told:
"Your The lift shot straight uns to were introduced for students termined to find her daughter any further Illusions she might first duly is to have a child. his palatial 30th-floor sulle rou a-husband whose Old World have had about the duke's af and it must be a son, because, seventh
Lie's successor,buDag Nepotism goes hand in hand background would make a Al- fections. He told her he had
It. would be intolerable to have Hammarskjoeld, dravide Bis social stratification in the ung complement to their New given up the girl he loved be that little upstart Winston be-underlings in will aime with
World wealth. Soviet Union. One enterprising
cause he needed the Vander-
lift slops at every floord director of
Avtozavodsk
Her acquisitive eye roon fixed bilt money for the upkeep of come duke."
Consuelo obliged by having
160 201 left Winston Dining Room Trust, in the town ontering prize. She made the family traditions ut Blen- two second
up
mind to marry her heim.
WHAT a crowd of American. of Gorki, found employment in
Churchill with whatever daughter to the 24-year-old In "laking this decision, the Als organisation for all 70 of his
solation he might get out of golfers for the British Amateur 45 ninth Duke of relatives!
Marlborouh Among Them were
ninth duke was merely follow being Prime Minister of his ja Hoylaket Seven from New were In her memoirs, "The Gilt- ing in the footsteps of the his wife, two brothers, cousins, ter and the Gold" (Heinemann, eighth duke, whose second mar-
country.
York alone, and at least nieces, and father-in-law.
Bul 11 years of an American Du
incom- others. 165.), the ex-duchess, now 76- rlage, to's wealthy "Seated on the branching and year-old Mrs Consuelo Vander- widow, had equipped Blenheim
patible marriage, in which luxuriant tree of public cater-bilt Batsan, wafts us back with with centrai ficating and elec- Marlborough was constantly de- Ing, they dwell peacefully and a genue and stately pen to the tric light.
tached
and Indifferent, led to a tranquilly,
divorce. separation and n and do not wash days of her marriage to Marl-
noi The now duchess was
Marlborough their dirty linen in public," borough, their life at Blenheim Impressed with her
subsc- palace, When wrote Pravdo, (November 16, Palace, and their subsequent which overawed her with its quently became a Catholle and 1952).-
ogain, ....pomp, and in which she found wanted to marry
asked an ecclcelasticat court for an annulment of his former mareloge. On the ground that Consuelo had been married against her will, this was granted, letting loose a blast of Projectant wrath in the Press.
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OVERSEAS ENQUIRIES INVITED.
after
the
the
class.
inem
divorce.-
The ceremony was 20 minutes late because the bride's
THE CHAPMAN Pincher column
A Doctor Takes The Romance Out Of A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
3
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a
COM-
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Welfare work FREE TREED of her responsibilities at Blenheim, Consuele de- voted herself to setting up homes for working women and other wolfare- work..
D$ Show, Wells, and Barrie.
THE sparkle in young All newly casked liquor con2 Deacon leads a 30-man team At Sunderland House,
bride's eyes is not neces- tains # 'minute amount of investigating the deep sea. They
Curzon Street, she not only sarily a sign of happiness
radioactive or tritium, the
sub- can forecast 12 hours in ad- continued to entertain the aria- obounding health, a doctor re- stance used in making hydro- vance the arrival of a bad tocracy but organised Hlaner ports today. It is due to the gen bombs. Tritium slowly dis
dangerous for fishing parties for tuca literary llons Ewell unromantic reason that a girl's Integrates at a steady rate. So boats. eyes-naturally water moto than by measuring how much of it The sea scientists have, Just She married 0 wealthy anybody else's,
remains scientists believo they moved to a new headquarters Frenchman, Jacques Balsan, in can judge the exact age of a sited-of all places...on a hill 1021, and lived in France un-. Dr Androw de Roelth men, bottle of wine or brandy. sured the quantity of tears con- Linually produced to keep the Leyes molst. He found that
13. Eyo
ROLLING ON
THE ATLANTIC `water American which laps the
1. THE FEMALE more watery than the male. const eventually delfia acros
in Surrey.
OVER-ACTING
"The
ti Hitler's panzer troops drove her and her husband into Por- tugal and back to America.
Sho. had lived 10 hear THE MURDERER * who
children tinging. tries, to feign insanity al Flag" under her window; to upkeep By learn that Blenheim's psychiatrist W. no longer depended on rich Liederar, Neustaiter claima in American brides but, was help
2. IN BOTH sexes tear pro- to Ireland, How long do you ways gives himself away
to cover the over-neting. duction falls rapidly with age, think it takes
Д
Red
so that by 40 our eyes water 3,000; rulles? only half as much as they did half years, sccording to calcu- gram. The criminal who is world of splendour and pri The answer in two, and "Paychological Disorder and ed by the half-crowns of thou- (Christopher Johnson, sands of sightseers; to sea her at len
9. ONE EYE usually waters laftons made by Dr. George more than the other.
Denoon,
the
4. HEALTHY, oyes never... This finding,' explains why h29. Insane - usually tries to vilego crumble into a pathetic.
fact: baby cela pawned not fer examined many murderers, lists has no moral to weary Nouslatter,
Liancap of memorical
water during sleep..
VINTAGE CHECK
who
Her rogreļa are fow, and sho from the U.S.: coast, fake two.
tho and a half years to reach Bri-, reld-bath killer. Jolin George render. But if her booke: re- lish rivers: they are too feeble sigh and James John Algoi voals that money alone cannot ★ BESTAURANT owners who to swim the distance and are who stabbed a rallway booking bring happiness, it also reminds.
'palm off new wines as old carried by the currents.
clark, as recent criminals who us, that it' is far more comfort vintages may soon have them. As chief of the National Th- tried to net their way to Broad-able being miserable withit checked by the public analyst, siltufo of Oceanography. De moor and failed,
than without it.
FLATBUSH has until now. One of Brooklyn's. humbler,
earthier districts. BUT...
The Flatbush Avenueer chants Association announces that during the three days of bargain sales the, street will be sprayed with a now, exolic, Perfume-Eau de Flatbush -No.
D.
A MORE democratie way of life arises in UNO's lifts.
But
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101000 white mice,
Into a fridge converted into a smag (root and fog) chant- ber petrol fumes wili,ba pimp- că ceaselessly way plano,
In another chamber 14,000 white mice will live in altered Jure air.
The tert may answers édes- tion: Does smog CAUSS LINE cancer?
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