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MRS. AMBER BLANCO-WHITE
wife of the divorco commissioner and a lecturer on the art of conversation, opens a series to help the tongue-tied and the bositant talkers
"HEN people are too shy to talk to strangers, they often make the excuse: "I can never think of anything to talk about."
I naked five good, confident talkers whether they ever make a mental list of suitable subjects before they break the ice.
They all said that it de..
pended on the occasion.
If they stood at all in awe of the people they were about to meet, they did.
Now a good topic for general conversation must everyone and nobody. It
must
interest
frighten
not lead to
reconcilable
opinion.
violent and ir- differences of
·
Otherwise both sides are kely to lose their tempers, and although furious argu- ment may be amusing to watch is not good talk.
Sport, money, and нех are three themes that attruct much interest but they are topies which need. careful handling in general conver- sation.
SPORT? Cer- tainly - if you know that the people
THIS
is the way
to become a good talker
Illustrations by HOFFNUNG
you the toples are supposed to be When women discuss them, are talking to are sport just women's chatter"....mere
fans.
gossip.
But why is there such criti- MONEY? Yes and no. cism of women's gossip? In mixed company, private 'grievances about the
I amount
Malice apart, there is a lot to
of one's house be sold for it. keeping allowance or what on earth becomes of it are conversa- apt to tinge the tlon with bitterness.
PRICES are a different We all feel alike matter. here and everybody can join In happily,
Even sympathise
the shopkeeper can'
because he can talk aboul his differen- ces with the wholesale merchants,
point of viewi
Not to enjoy a good gossip is inhuman. It keeps us in touch with onc another, it helps make a community
out of drifting group.
So the most valuable con- versations at all. They can be versations may be hardly con-
brief exchanges of odds-and- ends remarks during the rest- break or in the bar.
"DM you back the winner of the 2.307*.....“That jumper you knitted looks nice wish I had the patience to knit onet myself."
Nothing is said that matters Remember, oven a joke may be feeble however, but behind it all is cheerful- that Топ ness and toleration.
--earn-monty,
women spend
it.
It is im-
portant
10
*
appreciate Those casual contacts are not
the dif nearly so superficial os they ference that seem. For they word off lone-
this
to
Before that, every good talker must keep these rulcs In mind:-
stories NEVER tell furiny about your own children un- less you are certain that you would find the stories funny f Mrs Jones told them to you about her own child.
NEVER try to start a long conversation with the grocer -- or anyone else who is busy.
NEVER talk to yourself in the middle of talking to others (No was it the end of August? Perhaps it was
the first week in September,... know it was after Uncle Fred
visited us.** Yer-t was in
August...
NEVER describe the plot of a
B
THE GUARDS? BEAU GESTE? SOFT STUFF
SAY
LEGIONNAIRES
By JACK MERRICK
London, they
EAU GESTE? Oh, how; laughed at that in the tiny living- room of a house in Southeast London.
They were still laughing about it in the early hours n fortnight ago, were Sergeant Alexander Zallwski and his four guests.
For this was a reunion of · REAL· Legionnaires--or former ones, at any rate they explained, A. time to recall desert exploits and skirmishes with Rifs such as Hollywood never dreamed of.
Take tough old Sergeant Zaliwaki for instance. It was he who called the party to celebrate Legion Day.
He was the best of all, agreed John Yeowell, at 35 now A civil servant; Benedict Bielave, 39-year-old Pole, an electrician; Geoffry Richardson, a 'pil- grimage organiser; and Michael Papettas, 23-year-old Greek, "baby" of the party, who is a dancer.
They raised their glasses of Algerian red wine the same as they always drank in Morocco-towards the sergeant, and Mr Bielave said:-
FAFETTAS
"The baby."
film or novel. It is probably there the least important thing about. the anecdote you have to tell, wood and It is also extremely dif cult to do it well.
NEVER apologise for some
ALEXANDER ZALIWSKY
BOA
The spirit of the Legion"
om
between
a knocked uncontelous
for
an-
"Believe The alference mc, Д man corporal and a sergeant in the swering back, and there's where Legion is like that between a I was kicked and my leg al- who was in clerk and a director of the most broken," the Legion in Bank of England," he explain- 1921-there's ed.
Said Richardson; “It's a hard school; the Grenadier Guards
and
a man that He led his men against the are a pussy-foot outfit com really lived." rebel Rits of Abdel Krim in pared with the Legion Said Marocco a tough little guerli- that's no kidding.. Richardson: la war-they attack you in
front, from behind, from sides....."
"He's the spirit of the
old Legion.
Mr Yeowcli, Of Seymour- all,
place, W., joined the Legion when he was 20: Mr Richard-
Today, the sergeant is, a lift son, of King Henry' drive, Ad- Attendant at a fashionable West dington, Surrey, wan in from Ho was a End hotel...
1930 to 1945. Bergeant
long before Holly.
ever 'heard of Beau Geste."...."
Tough then
Mr Bielave, of Sydenhamshill, Crystal Palace, ran away to escape the harsh discipline of a farm in 1933........and ' was in His Croix du Guerre (Moroe the Legion eight years, Polish born Sergeant co) and Quissam Alolujte (the thing that you are really proud Zaliwski, who says he's 54 onour) are tucked away in a the dancer, was a cavalry, mon Sultan of Morocco's Legion of And young Michael Papeltas, of....("I don't know any (some whisper he's 64) was drawer. But his eyes sull light from 1949 to 1931
or poetry, about art, music,
a captain in the White Rus up at a mention of the Legion. BUT.
They all were as Above all, never forget that sian Army before he joined it was tough in my day; it's as Bergeant Zaliwski it is far more, of a sträin most human beings to
pouncing deseriers. listen
the Legion as a private at cotier now, he mused. than to do the talking,
Sidi-bel-Abbes, the Algerian The handsome young Greek" "They are the only ones who on and on.....
Once you do start, don't go headquarters, in 1921.
jumped to his feet, There's speak badly of the Legion," shid nothing soft about the dis- Mr Richardson. cpline," he exclaim, pointing
NEXT SATURDAY How to break the Ico
for
Five months later he became a corporal at 13.50 francs month and after two years sergeant at 360 francs.
it;";
to a scar on his nose, i
vehement zic-
And they ruisod: their glasses
Q
3
ed in the face by an officer and La Legión Etrangere.
"That's where I was purich-
of red wine for the last time at the party for a protid: toast:
of wol
MEET THE COUNTESS
WHO
Buenos Aires.
HATES
MONEY
makes ness. they give the mind # 66YX7HAT is money com- By R. M. MacCOLL
one's rest from work and worry. "WHAT
SEXT Every healthy-minded person should discuss sex, but really it is not a suitable tople except among other groups who know each well.
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am divorced-bul Very happy, belleve" me;Anil what's more, I intend to get married three more times so there! Love,
Servants? "I have"about" 20" (Brief argument withi yon Winterhalter who seemed, "to want to scale down the number). Her sons? The Countess 'grew
pared to friendship? Shy people often keep be willing to quiet because they think that What is money compared laughs constantly and thrilly. side. On the other sat sleek and marriage-aha, that is life
Sho han protuberant, resiless handsome Baron Alfredo' on with love?" conversation must depend
But good
eyes, fluffed out frizzy chestnut Huakvino, von Winterhalter's intellect and wit.
Anita Thyssen, conversation is not confined to
only. hair and a full, florid face. business associate. famous people.
daughter of the late Fritz She wore an emerald green
At intervals von Winterhier multi- blouse beneath a brown tailor- or the Baron would smilingly. In- The one rule for good talk is Thya's en, widely that you must be able to con-millionaire steel tycoon of made ensemble. At her throat tervene with some suggestion or where and those lines often terest others. That means first herited between £10,000,000 the angles of her jaw.
in some tribute something that will in- the Ruhr, who has just in- was a brief length of pearls, and eunendation, only to be brushed
marquesite earrings twinkled at aside by the radjent 'Countess. in most unexpected taking an interest in other
Standards differ too Everyone draws u
turn up
places.
My own list of good topics ta open up conversation would in- clade conversation liself,
that and
the
people and the things
£12,000,000 sterling. go on about you.
following a decision of the
So many people Fow people make full use of Allied High Command in tele their senses. They do not look, Germany on the disposition vision, sensational crime, and do not listen, and, If one may of her father's fortune, signs and wonders of
various judge from the food they put greeted me with these ques kinda fram fying saucers to up with, they do not taste. the ghosts that none of un be- Jieve in.
by,
"I'm
not a materialist and,
i
even more vivacious. I have two, Frederick Augustus, aged 10, who was born in Germany,
"I have been expecting this for and Claudius, aged 11, born here two years, and so it la nowa in Argentine. They are" fine bit of an anti-climax," said the boys. Both play the accordion Countess. "But everything is very well.
4. adaptades all right-very all right. oh my have no interest In
"Pocket money?!!::Véty strict. You must realise I have no Frederick gete 200 pesos a month money," she said. "It's my fault interest in money as ruth ("She (about £5) and Claudius .50 that I don't like these things. I has 10,000 cows-head of cartile, pesos monthly,,(£)95); But just like people who like me for you call them," rumbled von Frederick has to pay his school Anila' | Thyssen.' now, The myself. When you are rich Winterhalter in a Falstaff-Ilka fares out of that." Countess Zichy, but separated ach Gottso many people come nalide) “I live the simple life out from her Hungarian husband, around you and
VOLA VIRM 1. say they like at Tigre-very, simple, that lives on a luxurious, estate at you.. them-Tigre, about an hour's drive from
They do not notice the build- ings they pass every day.
They stare at a shop window only to pick out articles they would like to buy
tions.
"..
al-
Parana
50
much wont -on- the
Joie de vivre
* The Countess
Von Winterhalter: "She has a Then there are gadgets, the selves.
to know? lolen tennis court and a superby Buenos Aires, in a region where But how is one best place to spend a summer
threw up her money, one walks, swim pool," scores of small islands scattered With great holiday, identical twins,
But the good talker is the
"I like dogs more than people hands, fairly bubbling over, with about in the delta of the River through a jungle." the folly of people who queue all ways on the look out for
form
they are
more joie de vivre. night and faint next morning that the most unlikely unexpected. He never
made-to-order The Countess had come into trustworthy," forgets
hideaways for the rich who Buenos Aires to meet me, and Countes, shifting her brown before a procession comes
people
"I shall go to Indi16 the Interview took place in the suede shoes about.
Switzerland-to everywherdib cooking, keeping children in or will have something to my seek seclusion, der, and clothes. There is a be drawn out of them.
worth hearing--If only it
"This money? Take it from office of her business manager "Give me my cocker spaniels shall travel. I shall edgerly EER strange difference of attitude
me-1 don't care," she said, and agent, a gigantic man named and my poodles how much friendship and affection, A yowards the last three toples. This ties up with the art of flashing a brilliant smile.
Wilhelm von Winterbalter.. better they are than mere per celebration party? No, no, hot When men discuss them, they getting on with peoplo.....
Von Winterhalter, braming and cons," are treated with great serious starting with the technique of The Countess Zichy is a twinkling through thick-lensed "Now, Anita," put in the
woman of enormous vivacity who spectacles, flanked her on one Baron chidingly, ·
mese.
JOHNNY HAZARD
I HAVE THEM IN MY
SIGHTS .....NOTHING CAN.
SAVE THEM NOW!
breaking the ice.
can
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By Frank Robbins
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SOMETHING!
.....this situation calls for a
San
Miguel
"Buy a yacht?,, Heavens, no- much too expensive. Filike thố simple things like horseriding. reading love to read. Now I em afford a few,, good books. Your Somerset Mongham there is a writer. But de fective, stories? Phooey
She paused and reverted to hon BOUS. "You know," she said, speaking quietly for the first Ume, "I hope they will manage to live without money,»)KT!»LAND - much of it. Money in large. amounts la hot good, fær one's howth
one's well-belos bringe happiness,"
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