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|HE rich walk barefoot among the bowls of long- stemmed roses in the Carlton Hotel in Carines. In shorts and swimsuits they match a gossipy champagne cocktail before changing for dinner, Later, in elbow-crushing rows, neat as sardines, they sit on the terrace and watch the beautiful girls, looking like long-stemmed roses themselves. Wearing the shortest of shorts, they parade along, brown as kippers. The notene Rolls-Royces and the flamboyant Cadillacs prowl past, the Mercedes jostle the Jaguars.
few
Crammed Into A square yards of terrace are the wealthy and famous from three-quarters of the world. The American mil. lionaires, the French indus- trialists, the fairy-tale rich Greeks, the titled English are all there.
The palm trees flutter flirta- tlously In the evening breeze like boy girls, The wrinkled sea whispers like an old man. A round of drinks costs £10. Some of the people on the ter- face will love thousands of pounds gambling before day- break. But never mind. to- merrow the BIEN wiil caress them.
A white poodle
you
OU know
you are among the very rich when a closed car mops and a chauffeur takes white poodle for a welk along the promenade, The old couple In the car do not get out. They sli unmoving, unspeaking.
coming the
place again.
man's
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,-1054.
.....the most luxurious parties aboard the most fabulous yachts
in the Mediterranean playground of the very, very rich
SPENDERS
THE WOMAN who wears an admiral's hat and a £10,000 ankle bracelet
THE MAN who has a fountain playing on the deck of his yacht
THE WOMAN of immense wealth who says "But money isn't everything'
THE MAN who takes his friends for a flip -from Texas to Cannes
carved
against the Cannes skyline sali decurated with plak satin and Aristotle to me: "When you oce such rare
coloured tropical ships you forget you are poor." woods like rosewood and violet
But even
wood. the richest have their odd economics. When the
And in
Her pride
priccicess
Socrates Homer
Onassis,
I have spent some time observing Onassis whose oyes twinkle constantly behind his horn-rimmed spectacles dark side pieces,
with
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It would be unthinkable not
to have a swimming-pool. you have one bullt,
So
•
seem
Your yacht is nearly finished.
But the decks now. ale bare. Obviously what is needed is a fountain playing on deck. You install one so it can play while your guests sit around having drinks,
But the yacht is not solely for fun. A compileated radio- telephone system is installed so Onassis can talk to any of his ships anywhere. In the world."
This is the yacht in which cruise to the Greek islands with some of his friends,
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draws his vision of "some enchanted evening" by the Mediterranean shore.... A cham- pagne suppor............... A beautiful woman. ... A docile Saluki by the' window). In the background' the faint murmur of music... Beyond the swimming pool a big yacht lles at anchor. reflected in the waters of the harbour the garish Ughts of the waterfront sparkle and shimmer. “
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recreation ground is enjoying a prosperity thut it has not known since the last Grand Duke placed his last
the bedroom Is her chip on the casino table, Al reflections of the blue hotel Jowel safe. No one knows how along the coast, past the rocky signs stop striping the water in much jewellery she has or how promenturies
hair-hidden the harbour and dawn yawng a much it is worth.
And I am still not sure if I inlets-with ames beloved
um in Cloud Cuckoo Land, of few minutes
middle- Dway, A novelists like Cop d'Antibes, aged Frenchwoman wearing an
can only repeat some aspects of Cup Martin, Eden Roc-it is the admiral's hat can often be seen
his life to you. He lives in the same. And Mente Carto. prim coming ashore in the harbour.
Chateau de In Croe, an
Сар dowager of the tesoris, in be-
d'Antibes, which
once was fashionable
if you saw her you would
URING luncheon on the owned by the Duke of Windsor, Du never believe the is one of the richest women
yacht it is not unusual for He pays £100 a week rent for In the
world.
rid. her to get She is known to her friends as and change her jewels,
up between
courses that La Meme Moineau-the Sparrow will
She But his real extravagance is change her --and she was angɑ a dancer in
practically his yacht Christina.
You Eth bluc sapphires for
see it, with st Madame Lucienne Denider
secluded harbour Rejach, the wife of
also clip rare bracelets of topaz in the square, a South American millionaire,
round her women guests' wrisis of Monto Cario. It takes while they ent
quilo, a lot of, the harbour. What is she doing
It ni Ир
Her latest pride, a gift from "Arigate called Stormont, down? Whenever she can she a.m. There she happily haggles £10,000. When she goes ashore. Hamburg shipyard where many. gets to the local market by her husband, is a diamond and bought the 1,600-ton ship and
gold ankle bracelet worth had it reconstructed In with the peasant women.
Da she did the other night to of his tankers have been built. She will return before break- have dimber in La More, The cost? Well, I don't sup- fast carrying a dozen chickens Germaine on the quay at Ville- pose for ຄ moment Onassis and sometimes a four-foot long franche, two sailors from her counted it, local sh to be cooked for that yacht go with her.
They sland day's luncheon party. If she guard over her in case anyone has managed to knock a few iries to steal her ankle bracelet. francs off the price she is de Hghted.
But you do not have to drive tar along the Riviern coast before you run into others who live like the Sparrow.
the Folles Bergere. Now she is and while diamonds. She will slumpy, sawn-off yellow funnel, Onasals left'a few days ago for Monte Carlo zna planis improve plane aboard,
IN the Club de la Vigle as the oerner of Monte Carlo boy some of the richest and best known people in Europe dive into the sea, which is as warm and transporent as a blue rinse,
But the biggest spenders are to be found in the yacht bar bours of Cannes and Monte Carlo, If you are a really rien man you will hire or own yacht,
To hire even a amullish yacht costs £700 a month without fuel and food for yourself and the crew. The big yachts, like the one which Sir Simon Marks
Her pleumure is cruising in at the moment, are often chartered at £10.000 Puzzling when for six wecka.
somewhat
you realise the splendour in which she lives aboard her yacht Moineau 4. A Frenchman looking at the Aboard it 45 toy poodles roam funnels and masta tangled the deck. Her bedroom
THIS
One of them is a smallish, 48- year-old Greek shipowner with
improbable
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Was Brice Canadian Costly crew
Onassis
carry:
arc
plone for Aipping between the after the war he owned twỏ luggage with her. The short- bay near his chateau on Cap tramp steamers. Now he has a haul Jaunts usually cost over d'Antibes and the act below his ficet of tanker comparable with £1,000. office in Monte Carlo, Along the Onassia.
What else do you do if you goustal road this journey takes,
no rich na Niarchos or He owns a yacht too. It is Onassis? You sive parties, of about an hour in a car. In the amphibian it takes alx minutes, only half as big as his brother course. Onassis generally throws in-law's ship but it is an exceed several partics a week aboard In his office, in between talk- Ingly beautiful object. It is a his yacht. They do not usually ing on the radio-telephone “to three-masted converted black cost £3,000, which was the price his ships, he looks across the schooner called Creole, but it is of the party he held in Feb- yillas heaped ch the hills round not farge enough th
aboard his newest and biggest tanker when it was ments which would make Monte
Niarchos, who is at present launched. At this party 72 Carla Casily available to the cruising in Creole, gets ovi. this magnums of champame1 ́ were British middle-income tourist.
lunch, But: who standing by in opesient radio Oddly enough Onassis, "always ketips two
million tigh with his yɛent. Aski every partic dollars handy ( in case a quick day the Dakota collects his mail, scale. The ollier deal comes up," wants to attract files over to his yacht, and drops tertained 50 people aboard his
trade. that sort of
the sea alongside in a yacht. He took them all to the He says, it into
Monte Carlo èasinio for w gala British. The British like it here "Monte Carlo was built for the sealed metal canister.
dinner. He had three tables at the dinner and his guests includ and they are liked here."
ed Mr Winthrop Aldrich, Arne)- con Ambassador to Britain, and his dinner cost £15 each
by having his privato Dakota served before the 'Onnials
The parties
wife.
wine
from that
and the pro-
AN the after-deck of his yacht is his yellow Italian am- phibian plane which carries two przsengers. If any guest feels a little bored and would like to pop ashore for a few hours to
His blonde 24-year-old, wite Some of the faney nttings ho have
4 drinkk or do a little Tina, who is one of the most crdered for it were not cheap.
TIARCHOS is naver without shopping, the plane is lowered beautiful women on the Riviera, Put yourself in his place. The on to its Boats from a derrick on gays; "Money isn't everything two ago, in his forties, he took up grammes were 22. That means
his private plane. A year or without primary idea if you own a yacht
deck.
We want to make Monte Carlo Jiko that Ja to bre able 10
€1,003 sort of the
place where the skiing. He dew to St. Moritz. the evening cost him So entertain people aboard it.
The plane takes off and the
people can
these He and his wife had only a before he bought anyone a drink. poorer
go
Niarchos also throwe w most you build 15 guest staterooms yacht steams
modest When on.
days,"
When わざ party. Palace Hotom sulte at the and with private baths
But another five luxurious air- guests wish to return they take off and And their way back to conditioning.
Her sister Eugenie, who la rooms were neaded for the crew brought the yacht Creele to the the ship by radio.
married to the other fabulous of his Dakota, If he is using Thames to watch the Qur'
vite "raturn in May he ofered his Then there must be sume-
hia wife and Greek Shipowner, 45-year-old the Dakota where to dance when you give
When the yachty is sitting in Stavros
Spiros Niarchos, Is Eugenie wants to pop over to guesta 80 cases of champigno parties. So you take up the harbour, not. ustig any fuel equally distinguished.
London or Paris from her Riviera and 50lb, of caviar. ballroom Пoor from the old and only costing £1,000 a week
villa to buy a few clothes. ho The winter casino in Monte Carlo or so for upkeep, including the During the war Niarchos was charters a plane for her. and put it down in the wages of his German crew of 40, a fest lieutenant in a Greek pland is generally, dairly full us. Christina.
Onassis uses the amphibian carvette based on Liverpool. Just she sometimes takes a ton of
tho
WHY DO PLANES CRASH?
TRAIGHTEN out a paper
By W. A. WATERTON
up
Most BOAC and BEA planes, incidentally, are no more than alx years old, Bo they have no
old-age problems yet.. Is that what happened Is Something may have sel
abnormal stresses which fatigued the'otal quicker than the de alghers had allowed for.
All this it leaves un- answered that original question: Why do aeroplanos crash?
Champagne
[ND│If you think the two A fabulous Greeks are the only people who behave like that then you have not met Charles Wrightsman. He does not own a yacht but he has, a new Grün-. nyán (Mallord--which can slight
on sea or land-standing byzon Nice airport. He gave the Dine of Windsor "a life in 1 from Biarritz the other day,
clip, bend it until it breaks and you have one
Sixty-year-old Weightsman fa answer to the question I
one of the legendary Texan all. am most often asked: "Why this latest crash-of the
Dutch airliner?:
men. Ho has offices in Houston, do aeroplanes crash?"
but he lives 1,500 miles away J Palm Beach, Florida. If he gets See for yourself. Notice Maybe. At this stage cer-
But I am pretty sure of one
Grant that some crashes occur bored he picks up & group of how the clip gets hot where tainly it is impossible to be ming-metal fatigue is not the
and friends in Texas or Florida and you bend it and the silver- sure and perhaps we will most common cause of crasher, through metal fatigue
with them structural faulls but I think 'no flies
to Cannes. though it seems to be the fashion more than five in a hundred. Everything is paid for while they coloured plating gets a "tor never know,
with
him even tured" look just before it
For metal fatigue Is still to think it is.
gambling debla, almost as much a mystery. breaks.
When ho was leaving to go That is metal fatigue to the experts as it seems to planes, eventually wear out much metal grown tired through: be to most laymen. stress and strain. Imagine that happening to the metal
of an aeroplane and you get. the idea exactly.
-
Neither has the fact that'
are y
to do with although, of Grant that some types of back to America by, : plans course, planes do wear out, planes crash because they are recently he put 10 cases of quite apart from metal fatigue. hand to handle and make the champagne aboard Just in case Crow's job needlessly difficult any of his friends felt thirsty on You can put the average life and there I would put the figure the ow does he afford 112 quite There is evidence, for of an airliner at 10 years (25,000 much higher.
How instance, that it has np flying hours), although in that
easily. His oil holding, which For I believe that 85 percent include parts of some of Texan's The constant engine Peared in some planes after time it will probably need major vibration, the buffeting in only 8,500 flying hours (say replacements, including several of all crashes occur specifically greatest oil fields, are valued at In plants which tax the crew 100 million donary. His gross to- unfairly in abnormal conditions, come is nearly £1,000,000 – VERF. bad weather, and the bumps 18 months of normal flying).
Probably at least half, the
Bo hà has plenty left after he on landing all 'contribute to Why? No one knows.
world's planes are older than
Well, these factors account has flown a dezenfriends to But most of them for say, '50' of every 100 Europe and paid all their bills.*. metal strain and final That may have happened to 10 years.
thể Comets, (there have," been have had – so may "replace- crashes. The other 50? I think But this sort of gesture in fatigue. And that can mean three major Comet crashes all ments that only a part of the you can account for those in typical among the Big Spenders disaster.
unaccountable),
original piano is left.
three words: the human element, today.
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