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T
MEET
HE man on the telephone was persistent
in asking for an interview
on some
unspecified business which could only
be discussed in person. At last Edward Commander Leake Commander Whaney Billyard Leake, RN, retired--decided to see what he wanted.
In Commander Leake's house in Lowndes Square the man, who was named Moffat, lost no time in coming to the point. À suggestion had been made that Commander Leake should be represented in the Honours List and Moffat had come to see if he was interested..
No doubt Commander, Leake was interest- ed. He was certainly surprised. Where had this suggestion come from?.
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For answer. Moffat showed him a paper called the Whitehall Gazette, printed in large type on thick paper. There were eminent names among the contributors, but it was one name in particular that Moffat pointed out: "J. Maundy Gregory."
Commander Lease admitted he had never heard
that
Maundy Gregory.
of
"You must meet him," Moffat said. "He is the man who is going to do this thing for you." Maundy Gregory received Commander Leake in the offices of the Whitehall Gazette, which he
plump, edited. He was
bland, beaming man with an air of good living. His office w695
full of signed royal portraits.
Delicacy
HERE were
TH
telephones.
whole
ΤΟΥ of
them, and indi-
cators
that
buzzed or flashed with
coloured
lights. There was a special exit door, bolted and padded. From
this office, Maundy
Gregory
often explained to friends. (while
gold
offered -them
a
he
cigaretie from
case inscribed to him by the King of Greece) he conducted a world-wide campaign against Bolshevism.
1
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1955.
MR. MR. GREGORY
-he has
titles in
his pocket'
MAUNDY GREGORY
"Detained at the Palace,"
... but did he really hold the key that would (for £12,000) open the door to inclusion in the Honours List 2 ... and what caused the death of Edith Rosse. who died worth £20,000 and was burled in a shallow grave 2 ..these were mysteries left unsolved by J. Maundy Gregory..
THE GREAT
GAMBLERS
force bebind this
mystery was a 'woman Edith Marion Rosse, Rosse had been at wardian musical comedy under the name of Vivienne Pierpont. She
beautiful and ambitious.
was
I
William Hickey
WENT
DUSK WITH THE AGA KHAN AMID THE CAMELLIAS
to see Aga Khan in evening. It was
as we swept up the
13
Nice, France in carriages drawn by haters." "For example,"
went on, "you have just been the smart horses.
And then be, the product of selling me about your years the dusk Privilege and of that Victorian prisoner in Germany. But you and realise it is necessary to get ort Age, suddenly changed drive miket, of the modern Welfare with the Germans. You see, you
States.
of his Villa Yakymour on
"There is one country where " the hills above Cannes. The
where there is no poverty, bushes of red camellias everyone has work, where
were all in flower.
a
everyone is looked after.
as
said,
are all bad, haters.".""
Over Canasta
The Ags went on talking. Be I thought he Was going to was in an extraordinary mood... The glass door of the house was opened and I pay us a compliment. But it He ranged the world.
wasn't for us. That courstry He talked of Prince Phi found myself. in hall is Sweden, he said. He saw whom he entertained furnished with deep settees me look up with certain Yakymour for dinner and lunch
amount of surprise and added, the other day. and a painting of the Aga "But then, they were not in
"Well you see," said the Aga Khan done by an artist either of the two wars.
"It was almost a refuge for him. of called Donger.
And then from war he began here. When he dined at the naved
and will it was quite fantastic. We It shows the leader of the to discuss the atom bomb Edith
He spoke Ismaili sect, now 77, as he was international
O were almost barricaded in with Ed-
"Indian S ∙10, or 20, or maybe 80 years of
palice to avoid where cannot
the photo- star
ago-the wise, face, the big course," are
be a real
To be graphers." glasses, and a flowing turban.
The Aga explained that to I was shown through another neutral at this time is to be
on help make the evening for there was the the side of Russia and Chins." glass door, and
He talked of Nehru, describ- Prince Philip he had had a few guests in and arranged bridge She occupied the top part of Aga Khan, sitting in a big arm-
"one of the great chair
ing him He was covered, with a
and Canasta parties for after 'of Maundy Gregory's
this century. house in green rug His sticks were by characters
from a Moslem leader the meal. Hyde Park Terrace, and acted his side. He looks well-indeed Which as hostess at the dinner parties he told me that he feels very about a Hinds leader was quite he gave for Royalist exiles and
a remarkable judgment. well. But his toess of the Government officials, It was she who suggested that Maundy winter has left its mark
There was a parrot chattering Gregory should use a coat of
him. To one arms with the motto "Vigilate." and that he should use -a
camellias. There were pedestals of their bejewelled magal have met royalty. I think he is private taxi Instead of a car.
and ornaments, but the room ficence. "The trouble was, that doing a great work in bringing because a taxi passed unnoticed.
gave you an impression of sim- they had lost confidence in their these more or less middle-class The aura of mystery in whichplicity-rich simplicity.
own capacity to rule. For 30 people into contact with the wall The whole of the outside Gregory account to keep the Maundy
cnveloped.
years or more they bad relied Royal Family" Beyond was a of glass.
on the British. When the British himself ("I have been detained was
terrace with more flowers and on Buckingham Palace
left they no longer had the urgent "business" he would say carefully trimmed hedges; a lef
capacity to rule" arriving when
late for fountain; and then the surBut," I asked the Aga, a The parrot banged again in
It luncheon) was largely af
little upset, "I think the British his cage almost my as if it rule devising.
in India was a great was a prince of birds who did think it not hike all this middle-cipes Do you experience.
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They discussed £2,000 on the
prices of pot boiling?" honours and. Maundy Gregory
things Leake thought
things for some time.
A
at
over
:
to
sald he bad again and went to the police. arranged these On February 7, 1933, James of Maundy Gregory, editor, Hyde Park Terrace, was charged obtain a to attempting further with
inducement luncheon was ar. bribe as
the grant or a knight- ranged, and to procure dispel any dis hood. trust Leake might foci Maundy Gregory
said that he need not pay all the money now. A deposit would do.
He also apparently played a part in settling the Honours List. He said that some of the necessary to open certain closed
"authorities in highest
the doors. Money would be needed; £10,000 might do it. but country were anxious that Leake
Leake thought things over, knighthood. £12,000 would make it easier. should accept- 2
List
rang up Maundy Gregory and Year Honours The New
Lenke promised to think it said that he had decided to turn. was full, but next June could
A couple of days later he down the offer. Maundy over. lunched with Maundy Gregory Gregory said that this was very at the Carlton Hotel, and asked
The whole thing- regrettable. hast for some proof that his could do what he claimed, Some was almost settled... It seemed well-known names were men a pity to let it go."
Commander Leake tioned in a familiar way.
easily be managed.
Leake
was puzzled
Could
this be an aftermath of his war
services? he wondered.
Maundy Gregory agreed. Then he broached de licate matter. It would be
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Hushed up
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He talked about the Prince's part is British life...
"If you study the Court. Circulars care fully," he said, you will and that you go to a lot of societies. inits cage beting of red zaid, as it reading my thoughts the old days, you would not
dinners, and so on, where, side was a great
her
fell away down to Cannes. is a most spectacular view.
was
'Bad haters
The Indian princes?". he
The light fades
The lights go on Their relationship
all a mistake? 1 have a stuff. And as the 'Aga' talked the was
The room was so dark by now obscure but she called him
Uncle Jim and he was plainly lights went on in the bay and, feeling that we did a lot of
that I could scarcely make out as well as all the other things," devoted to her. When she died in turned the whole scene into September 1932- the death mass of golden points of light
over his chest. "It few feet away. He staldenly remarkable era.'" And looked very tired. I made
a
certificate showed the causes to that glittered like jewels in the his ha yes," the replied, folding the features of the Aga Khan a then he thought for a minute 20m glad to have seen him.
а
be cerebral haemorrhage and treasure house of an Indian was
had her prince. Bright's disease-he
In his soft, charming voice he and came out with what was buried where she wished, in the
past that was to me obviously long-considered Maybe the sunset through the little Berkshire cemetery of talked of
"You English glass doors was not up to bis
standards. Bisham, by the Thames. Her almost an affair of the history judgment
But certainly the books... Queen Victoria, and are bad baters."
memorable was will was simple.
He savoured the phrase and Aga Khan. her generation driving about
Elve bad sight. nothing very
down. here in the South of repeated it, dramatic about
THERE
"Everything I have, if any thing happens to me, to be left the evidence in to Mr J. Maudy Gregory, to be the Honours
disposed of as he thinks best." You Her fortune amounted to some
£20,000.
Case, as it was called
might almost
thak say was bushed up.
Certainly Could not there was a seandal
manage
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Suddenly an order was made Maundy for the exhumation of her body Gregory changed his plea from because there was reasonable "Not Guilty" to "Guilty” and ground to suspect that Edith was sentenced to a fine of £50 Marion Rosse had died
and two months' imprisonment, unnatural death."
The police mentioned a number
of other complaints against him,
but Ma
evidence was
about them.
KIVER
three years. This state-
Problems
an
some
a was
HE MADE HIS FORTUNE
TH
FROM WOMEN'S CURLS
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By J. W. TAYLOR
а
HIS
year is the golden locks were to discover should opened "special salong,"
they be rash enough to turn In America, the Nessler genius of the jubilee
per their backs on this young adept transformed a luxury trade of manent wave treatment at the secret ship. He soon less than 3,000 salons in the first NIR Bernard
without which most women realised that to find the secret of decade of this century Into the To a question in Parliament
Spilsbury asking whether these other cases
feel they are not well the permanent wave he would present billion dollars a year and Dr Roche
have to do more than merely in and beauty parlours, some Industry, with 127,000 hairdress- were being investigated a sooth-
This process, Lynch conducted groomed.
gaze at flaxen tresses. ing reply was given. It seemed
100 the
more end On his savings, Charles went employing investiga which developed into a £250 that the evidence Was in-
Arst as a barber's assistants, coping with over 187 They million industry in Britain, to London, tion sufficient, and in any case the
found
million customers annually. The
in Britain is similar. complaints covered a period of thing extraordinary. The body was invented by Charles lather boy, then owner of only
This.. to fame and the "great tidal wave, hot or making false eyelashes. ment was disproved by a letter had been buried in a shadow Nessler, a barber's lather small salon where he took tonally the man who released
ground lev
Level This Shave
was curls. endure. It made fortune, for soon over 10,000 cold, became a millionaire: The ir. 1928, produced in a law very
centre river
become the "perm for him a fortune in the pairs of eyes a month were seen frequently
overflowed.
of piece of a ritual in every salon Auttering above the consequence the body had been world's beauty industry, designing" Edwardian ladies large or small, in city, town and women sub- "The strike has butted in and immersed in water since it was which he eventually all but wearing Charles's long eye village, in which caused the entire side-track of buried. The
pathologists could
mitted to anything from face our collection of names, which find no trace of poison, but they lost in his unceasing quest lashes.
massages, manicures, pedicures were otherwise fully approved added that in the conditions to for new methods to keep the
and eyebrow designing to "body- of," he wroże.
which the body had been sub female younger and more
contouring and complicated poisons might beautiful. Jected certain
He became the owner of
"Tarials" But this letter was passed have decomposed.
When he died three years ago alone In Britain
two prosperous Mayfair salon, where They were able to state one serving his sentence Maundy thing positively, Edith Marion million women make their he continued his quest into the at his luxury New Jersey home, major mystery. Finally ha Charles's fortune had seriously. Gregory went abroad.
It was Rosse, had not died of cerebral customary visit to the hair soaked some hair in an alkali dwindled because of his never understood that friends were haemorrhage or Bright's dis dressers
vise.
-over in well-bred silence. Alter
a Dew
next
an
the
.......
which
DO
was ants
BIRTH PANGS
fans
had
were
ANOTHER BOOM
This booming industry was #hame
I or Charles's solution and heated it in a curler ending quest for methods and contributing to his support ease. It was also stated Several law suits against his evidence that at the time of "perm, hot or cold." They and let it stay for a month or gadgets to keep the female form for return of nioney veru Mrs Rosse's death. Maundy have made it one of the two. The hair remained curled and face young and beautiful.
and thus, on a summer's day in Many of his ventures Society
been devout Gregory had
in acuze abandoned.
country's richest industries, 1904, the "permanent wave costly failures. ly
that
With hoped
it had financial difficulties: beard the last of Maundy poison found in the body, how with some 300,000 assist arrived
There were, of course, a few working in 4,800 open verdict Gregory. Within weeks on, bis ever, departure abroad, however, his nevitable.
salons handling an annual birth pangs. Brave souls who Maundy
died Gregory pame was involved in
turnover of
about £250 Suzered the early treatment ex- once threatened... six years ago
when a new-fangled perienced several hours of dis- and darker scandal
France during the war, leaving
for "cutting, comfort; it was costly; it re perm, backed by a gigantic ad- two problems unsolved. Did he million
vertising campaign, flooded the in fact procure bonours, or did washing, setting and trim- quired much work, skill and
Nessier himself had ne merely take the money and ming the feminine tresses. patience, and it was not always markets.
so permanent, as Charles had patented one in his London then fall to deliver the gooday
hoped.
Edwardian days, but had re Edith Marion Roese And was
RAW MATERIAL really poisoned?
It was, however, better that frained from marketing ded the If so,
Marcel's temporary Monsieur
Eventually, however, paisón method by which the.
When at mealtimes in his waving. Moreover, it brought to the boost to the "perm
trade in a'
of a
mother
Ambitious
ITTLE
was
of escaped detection is one of the I known moet ingenious
Greg criminal history.
Maundy
Oxy's
back-
Some
bis
'said" that he was the son others that vicar,
lived in an. alms- house and that his name was derived from her receipt. of Maundy money?
What his friends knew for certain was that the driving
in
recent
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home in a Black Forest village women the world over the most
in Germany his mother told him: "coveted beauty aid on the ing "Eat on
relief from the of those crusts or your market and
hik
hair
for the millions who had made
hair won't curl," young Charles heated tongs in the fire or above a mess of their own efforts. did not believe her, for he had
a parafin stove.
Then the trade confidently starte on Nessler improved long developed a curiosity which
as provided ed "cold" perma, became an obsession-how did system, took out patents, and the by the home kits, and caused
fame of his treatment spread another boomsp the hair curl?
These millions of beauty
Continual examination of the around the world. Millions of raw material was necessary for women left the privacy of their salons, large and small, are a Charles to be able to solve the bedrooms and boudoirs to take fitting monument to the former village on beauty culture and hair barber's boy who never lost his problem, as those maidens with the long, curling waving treatment In the newly enthusiasm to please women.
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