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Paris Newsletter
Mister E
Turns Off The Acid
From SAM WHITE
Paris,
is breaking out the
Pall over even on
corpse-strewn literary, front. In Paris at the moment, 64-year-old Soviet propagan- dist and writer Ilya Ehren burg told me that the chief reason for his visit is to secure Russian translation rights for several "bour- geois" authors.
These include Ernest Heming- way, who has not been published in Russia since his hilter denun- ciations of Communist methods in his Spanish Civil War novel. For Whom the Bell Tolls. nnä French philosopher novelist Jran Paul Sartre. who until recently was being denounced as the arch-type of "cosmopolitan de- cadent."
Mr Ehrenburg a considerable cosmopolitan himself, also hopes to take back to Moscow an ex- -hibition of younger French pointers for, as he says "the only difference I can see between present-day Russian paintings and your academy IS Marshal Bulganin does not paint."
-
that
stooped, fra wispy" white hair.
Ehrenburg, a figure with
pale, thir. face and watery blue eyes, was Russia's counterpart or Goebbels during the war. He conducted a "hate the Germans" campaign in the Red Army news paper.
**DECADENCE?"
Between 1934 and 1939 he lived in Paris as correspon- .dent for Izvestia and won il Stalin prize for a novel depict- ing, in ferid colours, the "decadence" of France's rulers.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1955.
"IKE WILL GO ANYWHERE FOR PEACE..." said a headline. "So will 1," said Grandma, grabbing her favourite newspaper and making for the little shed at the bottom of the garden which is her impregnable fortress at times of crisis.
Another of the World's Strangest Stories
London Expresa Serviça
HE LOST HIS LOVE-BUT
WON
VERYONE who looks. He won £75,000 on Lecturer in at pictures has the 1868 Cesarewitch and would surely seen Frith's a dawn more if he had kept sober the night before but he "Derby Day." the was unable to read all the in his betting colourful cavalcade of queer scrawled entries characters clad in mid- bock. On Ackworth's 1864 Cam-
bridgeshire he won £50,000, Victorian rags and finery assemble on Epsom Downs. all carefully turning their backs to the racecourse,
He is that rarity among Russian Communists--a Western is a sophisticate who has somehow
So completely obsessed was lastings in his twin passions of horses and betting that it is rather surprising to find that he time for the tender also had
Yet he figured in a passion. runaway romance which had all England buzzing with gossip.
THE
By BILL MCGOWRAN
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Her note to Chaplin said she could not go through his forgiveness. with their marriage and begged
DERBY
Elizabeth was beaten at New-
Chaplin on the other hand, market in October. He pawned went from success to success. He and sold almost everything he entered Parliament, first as M.P. had
of value. His hunters, for Sleaford and afterwards for hacks and hounds all went, he Wimbledon, and became one of parted with the remainder of his the great public figures at the estate at Castle Donington, but turn of the century He was first in vain. Disaster could no President of the Board of Agri- longer be stayed off. The Ring, culture among other Cabinet which had cheered him at Ascot, offices, and in 1918 he was
him on the created a viscount. hooted and hissed
for he now
Throughout Lincolnshire Vis- next Derby Day,
Was always owed the bookies £40,000, and that sin was beyond forgiveness count Chaplin
known as The Squire, and when Then, to add to his miseries, he died in 1923 his obituary said was the last of the Old his health broke down. He spent "he the summer of 1868 cruising off Breed."
The next time you get chance to look at it take enre-
Heart-broken and humiliated ful note of the striking figure on
Chaplin sought forgetfulness in the extreme right. He is a
the excitement of racing, in Norway, but when he returned By that time the world had supercilious young blood and,
which he soon threatened to for the St Leger he could only according to popular legard, this Weysford
Nothing Henry
In the midsummer of 1864 outdc the rival who had robbed hobble on crutches. portrait of Charles Plantagenet, the last London society was looking for him of his bride. We are told was spared him. When he went managed not only to survive Marquees Hatings and the ward to a marriage that was to thet he
began to buy horses to Newmarket in October to see nostageous, reckless, tragic take place at St
his mare Athene rin he was George's,
The are some curious as-gambler the English racecourse Hanover Square, between Henry as though he were drunk and to obviously a dying man. There
back them as though he31OPE: pects concerning his visit to has ever kaown,
Chaplin and Lady Florence
mad Paris. Although an officer of
Paget. the Legion of Honour-he was decorated by de Gaulle in 1945 -he has been barred from France since 1950."
but to prosper.
Clearly delighted to be back here, he has seen in addition to several literary figures and old friends number of im- portant politicians.
These Include the grand old man of the French radical party M. Herriot.
'his visita
WARY RECEPTION
Oddly enough, have received no publicity in the French Communist press. Recently Ehrenburg has been under attack in Moscow for his latest novel. significantly
The Thaw, entitled
which gives a grim picture of Soviet life. Communist critics here gave it a wary reception.
has
Although noted for his acid tongue Ehrenburg
now learned to coo like an animated Picasso deve. France he loves But and after France, Britain. he is distressed by your lack of
calm."
"People
ปา like
English; who One pipesmokers, should not behave as hysterically as some other nations we know. You should know that. whether Russia or the U.S.A. has the more hydrogen bombs, only two or three will be sufficient to dis- pose of you."
A NUISANCE
ARIS'S energetic police chief, M. Andre Dubois, has decided to take action against 1 major Paris nui- sance the taxi drivers whe discover an urgent need to go home when they don't like a particular destination. From now on taxi drivers who refuse a client can be suspended from driving.
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
"Are · REALLY. in
you terested in sixth century B.C. Grick poiteryor. are you just hoping to get a glimpse of Prince
Charles 1
He was a spoiled darling of to the proudest fortune, heir blood in the kingdom. In addi- tion to the marquessate he in-
And it was on the racecourse, three years later, that Chaplin and over- gained his terrible whelming revenge. He had a horse entered for the 1867
Its name was Hermit. Derby.
and it was well-fancied during the winter.
It seemed im every way an ideal match. Young Chaplin (he
was was only 23)
wealthy, herited the baronies of Botreaux.
Grey handsome and well-bred. True, Hastings, Hungerford and Grey de Ruthyn. His stats were Den- he had no title, but he had in-
herited large estates in Lincoln ngton Hull, in Leicestershire, shire, including Blankney Hall, and Loudoun Castle in Ayrshire, and, moreover, he was a close He cloped with the reigning friend of the Prince of Wales. beauty of the
But Hastings, partly through day on the eve
His bride-to-be, only daughter of her marriage to another man, of the Marquess of Anglesey, pique and partly through his He won fortunes on the Turf
exuberant confidence in his own
laid inst lust everything in the end.
judgment,
presistently against Hermit, until shortly be fore the Epsom meeting he stood to lose more than £100,000 £1
He was left on orphan at the age of two and succeeded to the title at the age of nine on the death of his elder brother.
His
career 38
was the reigning beauty of her day, so small and so lovely that she was called The Pocket Venus."
H
"A few days before the wedding Chaplin's horse should win.
for the Henry Chaplin left country to prepare his ancestral
bride. home for his
Lady Florence had her own prepara- tions to make in London, and these seemed to have been com- pleted when, one morning, she
ha-dress put on her
admire it. But she said she had still a few purchases to
an under- graduate at Oxford was brief but long enough for him to meet an evil genius, the first of many in the person of Henry Padwick, that ber father who sold him a racehorse called Kangaroo for £13,500, the high est price ever paid for a horse at it time. Kangarge was a com- plete failure on the course and finished his days between the
shafts of a hansom-cab.
50,
Going 10 make her room to take off her bridal 'gown the scribbled a
hurried note to Henry Chaplin and left the house, driving in her father's brougham to a famous West End store (according to Thormanby, the Victorian racing journalist, It was Swan and Edgar's).
Then Hastings really went in for racing. During his career Ja an owner he rarely had fewer than 50 horses in training. He The carriage waited outside in showed surprisingly "a shrewd yain for Lady Florence did not streak as a backer of other come out again. She slipped out people's harves and was soon of the back entrance where Hast- boasting that he was making ings was waiting for her in
£30,000 year out of betting. hansom and they sped off to
The Young Blood
As Frith-painted him
great
But Fate still seemed to be on the side of the runaway bride- groom, for a week before the race Hermit. broke a blood vessel in his final gallop. His chance. seemed hopeless and Chaplin wanted to scratch him, but his trainer, Captain Machell, per- suaded him to hang on.
Even so, they thought so little of Door Hermit's chances, that his Custance, they released jockey, to take another mount.
Hermit's condition became worse and when Derby Day arrived he looked sick and de jerted, a very sorry nag indeed. To make matters worse for him it began to snow just be fore the race and Hermit's price went out to 100 to 1. It was with the utmost difficulty that a jockey was found to ride him.
Then the impossible hap- pened. Hermit won' by a neck in a sensational race known to this day as the Snowstorm. Derby." Hastings found himself facing ruin. Henry Chaplin was indred revenged.
But, whatever his failing. Hastings was a true-blue sports- man. He was the first to pat Hermil's neck 35 the winner was led in. Says the ubiquitous Thormanby. "No one who saw
him drive off the course in a barouche and four with a party of friends, to dine at Richmond. would have guessed from his demeanour that he was not a winner for he was the gayest of the company."
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Disappointed Bridegroom Henry Chaplin: he sought forgetfulness on the Toge- course-and found revenge there,
Stolen Bride
Lady Florence Paget: they called her the Pocket Venus.
Wayward Marquess
lost
he Lord Hastings: £100,000 on the Snowstorm
Derby,
once-magnificent plunger couță now afford only a £25 bet, ont the bookmaker who took it said
He met his enormous losses by roughly: Ner mind, I'm to be selling his fine Scottish estate paid this time."
of Loudoun for 2300,000 On
settling day at Tattersall's ho That was his last outing to paid out £103,000. When he the races. On November 11, appeared at Ascot a few weeks 1868, be died...paly 28 years later he was cheered to the old, broken and burned out. echo the Rings tribute to al good loser and a prompt payer. His tragic widow swallowed her pride and again sought the But sogn his troubles began to friendship of Henry Chaplin. He fall thick and heavy. His hucie was kind to her and helped her bad changed and Hermit seemed out of her financial dificulties, to have started the landslide. but she could never win him EL 19st" £59,900 when his lip back as a lover,
forgotten rain, amiable, reckless Harry. Hastings who, on hia deathbed 65 years before. had whispered to. a friend: "Hermit fairly broke my heart. But
did -17"* didn't show
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