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MR. KERE OF THE QUEEN MARY RETIRES
FROM THE MOST CELEBRITY-STUDDED RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD
The Verandah Grill
HERE is hardly a well-known person in the world who has not met. Ohiricht He knows them all- Korh the great. the glamorous, the notorious, the rich.
Because before he retired soft-spoken Czech-born Old- rich Kerb was manager of the verandah grill in the Queen Mary where the famous meet and cat.
Before
the hr took Over verandah grill on the maiden Voyage of the Queen Mary, he was for 10 years
the old Aquitania, And more headine names have sat at his celebrity-
in studder tables than other restaurant on earth,
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ny
watched Mr Kerb fed them,
about and made notes them. them. And here from a few pages of his notebook, are some of the stories of the people he
met crossing the Atlantic.
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SIR
WINSTON CHURCHILL, for in- to stance, seldom goes bed before 2 a.m. and is
inordinately fond of chicken broth.
alone in
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EVERYBODY WHO IS ANYBODY HAS EATEN
LISTEN TO THESE THERE -- JUST STORIES HE HAS TO TELL
OLDRÍCH KERD
The rich, the notorious-he remembers them all,
married
Russians were among tline they spend In their cabin,
the
most
irritating passengers.
Wherever they went in the ship a man walked in front of them and two behind. All throo
On
the Duke,
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by John Deane Potter
shook hands with the cooks- very few passengers thoughtful as that.
are as
FORD HENKY
AMONG THE QUESTS MA, KEAD IS TALKING ABOUT
OMURCHILL. WORD. VEHINEKY
THI QARDO
BUKE or
HUTYOK WINDSON
10
Just before dawn he climbed ship the the bows of
hard four crammed his bowler hat
over his ears and jumped. Ho Why De
She always travelled alone, consisted of the parents, and to avold people gaping at children, and six ponies.
A special stable had to her she ate as soon as the grill opened-mostly lean beef with built on the forward deck for salad and a Swedish dressing the ponies. And the family were she mixed herself.
most upset because the ponies werg not allowed take a dip
to take in the Arst-class swimming-pool.
On one trip she explained to me why she was on her way to England. A London-born farmer called Edgar Dunae, an admirer of hers who had never seen her, left her £5,000, mostly in Bar-
ar
fun, clays Bank, London.
walked into the Verandan one day and
Grill said- "I will always like this place because I met my wife here."
after-dinner IL mr_at an dance in the grili that he was introduced to Miss Anne Mc- Connell,
stock- New York broker's daughter, who is now Mrs Henry Ford.
GLORIA
VANDER-
BILT. the millionairess, and her husband, con- ductor Leopold Stokow-
at
seen from the bridge, but they could not stop him in time. The glant liner swung round and circled the area for hours. They did not find him. All they found was his sodden bowler they had come from Cail- bobbing desolately among the
with cold, grey wavca Tornin in a special train
asked their pontes, and when the reason for the trip, replied: "The pontes looked a little off colour. to
we thought we'd
give them a change by taking them to Scotland for a few weeks,"
Total cost of the trip from California to Scotland and back
– £35,000.
to
om going to England collect it and distribute it the people in the East End and Coventry who have been bomb- ed out,' she said. And she her asked me not to mention
mission to anyone.
She was smuggled ashore, as usual down the crew gangway, dressed in a stewardess's top coat to avoid reporters.
• CLARK GABLE DO
there is a man who be haves exactly as he does in his hums! When I saw in his latest film he WUS who exactly the same person
grill- has sat so often in my
him
room.
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So
Then there was the American
millionaire who wound up a party by having the swimming- bath filled with champagno at £2 10. n quart. His guests were able to bath in champagno before they went to bed.
CARD-SHARPERS often travelled in big liners. There were always four of them together.
Now they have disappeared from the Atlantic.
the trip
⚫ THE DUKE OF skl, in spite of the difference WINDSOR and the in their ages he is 07, she is
behave Duchess Al midnight a tureen of it in
like 30 are the most devoted couple other happily I have ever seen. any always ready in his state-room
When he came aboard Uter- Occasionally,
He is the most attentive
Mr Kerb believes the cost of, couple. pantry. And his valet serves
ally hundreds of girls always giving has hit them. The mini- hin several cups during the
like any other husband, the husband who ever salled in the
came to gaze of him. All of next hour or two As he sits Duke kes to have an extra Queen Mary. The only time he
ever becomes annoyed is when them said: "Fancy him travel-mum first-class Tare is £130 playing brandy after dinner. But the cabin
for the four of them. With a patience. A candle always burns Duchess always leans across and the walter pulls out his wifes ling right across the ocean all angle. That is more than £600 by himself. It does seem stay in France and their faro in the cabin so he can light his
Kays: "Oh, no, dear, you've had chair, opens a door for her, or
shame."
back, the t
·would cost - them pours out her wine. Because cigar if it goes out.
one already."
Occasionally he would cat about £1,200. do that The Duke likes to take a stroll Stokowski likes to
with Irlends. Once he travelled
You have to be a very lucky
• MOLOTOV, VYSHINSKY,
with Two other flum stars, and other top-ranking in the morning to watch the himselt.
BARBARA HUTTON Spenter bell boys drill. But most of the
Tracy and Charles card-sharper to cover those sort before the war was oue Boyet. He accepted several in expences nowadays. So now they stay in New York, where of the most cheerful and vitations to dinner and drinks. their overheads are lower. sometimes playing_canasta.
ey and Boyer hoard When Tracy chatty people who ever one voyage there was
In the past they always got When she of this they immediately ordered on at Cherbourg. They never who disliked travelled with us. and demanded his travelled with her husband
dinner in their rooms or sat at landed in England. They were rich man aboard table. He was given the table that time, Count Reventlow, she their table slotte, No them had their hands in their on to the Duke. That did not used to order her dinner talk no women, no gaiety at all
all too afraid of Scotland Yard.
They were always Americans, pockets as they walked, anger satisfy him,
ing voinbly to me in her cabin the unbreakable rule of these and looked like soberly-dressed ing their
While revolvers.
When the Duke come in to and twisting her hair round an
two men who mako Woch
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bústiesa exécutives. --Cord- from swoon
Hollywood Vyshinsky and his
lunch, the passenger called mo electric curler.
sharpers never board a ship on chanco. pretty girl in her tw
"She was on 'o"diet" and "" was Hongkong.
They aro always fol- the grill his three bodyguards over and said: "I thought I
and ways, have line table, particularly anxious that sho But not all film stora were lowing rich und reckless you waited outside in the corridor. did not think, the Duly had should have no salt. She in- like that.
It was pitiful to see such card, but he suddenly sold:
that she had unsalted Bistel a British ship," behaviour
"Well, you won't have it this butter with her meals, "It made time." comments
Eighteen months later, after There was no trouble from she and Reventlow had parted, everyone sick,"
Molotov, did not use the grill that passenger for the rest of shit was à different or sity of the public rooms. He the voyage.
all seemed to ate in a private dining-room
inforest in life, hardly spoke to LORD BEAVER BOOK anyone, hardly ate anything with his secretaries and
was one of my most Karb regular panebgers. And pages marked nim inside the door.
Dre of the few who comes to the entry- One day
the charge suddenly wondered I never took the food and service everything w
was all right with for granted. Once I discovered the service. He hurried along he had been served with a the corridor and dashed into plece of tough beef. I spoke to the private roomasto find the chef and apologised to
in
in
Kerb.
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visers. His bodyguard lounged
head walter in
revolver, bild,by, a modim-fabed and N AN ATTEM
Russian, slicking into hi
When he explained who he is quite all
the chef,
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