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"Well-how did your Farmers' Meeting on the Drink-More-Milk campaign go?"
How Could Anyone Be So Dull About Kipling?
'If only Mr. Carrington would let himself go, how
-T. is
much better his book would have been.'
by ROBERT BLAKE
to never easy write the life of an eminent man whose relatives still survive...... especially when one of them owns the copyright in the personal papers upon which before the battle will agck the understood. the author must depend.
information in Ring Henry V or West
"East is East and West," "The lesser
in Barrack Room Ballads, for it broeda without the law," "The have is to be found almost nowhere White Man's Burden," cise in our English classic"," been given almost precisely the to that ip... These flashes are all too rare, opposite meaning It ought to be impossible to tended by Kipling. write a dull book about some- one like Kipling.
A co in point is the cheqUET- ed history of the biography of aince Rudyard Kipling. And, Mr Carrington, the author that long-awaited work, makes surprisingly enough no r ference to this History in his preface, I hasten to repair the omission.
Several Bembridge, Kipling's daughter, to it. gave Lord Birkenhead ACTERS her father's papers with vlew to
to
his
years
Ago
Mrs
He has been thus regarded as a sort of jingo public-school Mr Carrington has not quite military imperialist--which is a done this, but during long totally false picture. Despite and a certain brassi- he comes very near vulgarity passages
neas, Kipling remains one of the most
readable of supremety poets and writers. Long after
Caused delay
01
In writing her father's
this respect Mrs Bam- the India and the Empire, which life. It was not the first occa bridge's attitude has caused an be loved and knew, have crum sion upon which this perilous unfortunate delay.
of bled away, his works will con- Mary
invitation had been accepted, those who might have given tinue to be read and enjoyed.
but
but Lord Birkenhead made valuable evidence about Kip- better progress than any pre- ling's early He were
dead decessor and, after four years before
Carrington began
other
work, finished the book.
He
was then told by Mrs Bom his task.
Mr
A
Whether for this co bridge that publication would causes, the book lacka the bo forbidden-for reasons vivacity which 60 vital which to this day nemain subject demands. obature. Whatever cise they Yet what an extraordinary life were, it seems very improbable Kipling had. He began
that dullness or blographical incompetence was among them. Need for contract
been
watertight
I had fallen into. has con- tributed so many comments.›.
at the age of 17, working at career as an obscure Journalist
Lahore on the staff of the Civil and Military Gazette.
His
Yet even before
SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER
VER2000
MLLE BODIN'S
BODIN'S FRECKLES
F
MADE HER FORTUNE
to returned, red-faced, to explain that the photographers refused
was
carne but
The land of Jordan,' ruled by 能 (014 Harrovian, Hussein, borders on the Bilddie Eave two deadly rtvslo-Egypt and Israel, Jordan la: Kleo "KIL alty of Britaja, To, yes - how this: ally, renola lo tho, war: favor. across ber ¦ frontiers, JOHN REDFERN flow to the capital, Amman, and sent-this report.
A
L
LOT of poople in Jordan would like to cook up something
Israelis.
hot for the
But here is a pie in which we have a fist rather than a finger.
There's Glubb. Ay, there's the rub for the bellicos8 boyos who breathe fire in the direction of the frontier when they reluctantly dis- engage from their glass- bowled hubble-bubble pipes,
John Bagot Glubb, better known as Clubb Pasha, la corn- reputed mander of the highly Arab Legion, · crackerjack formation including 50 to 00 British officers and other ranks.
This 1s virtually Jordan's Regular army and you and pay for it about £8,000,000 a year. That is nearly twice as much na Jordan's total revenuð,
I
FASCINATION
Arithmetically speaking, the Jordanians realise that aggres- slor into that £9,000,000 will not go much as they might like to have a belt at Ismel.
But this realisation does not slop Jordan from walchipg Egypt with fascination.
have been trailing around the spice-scented, clamorous atfoots of Amman. I have boen watching the shoeblacks with their elaborate footstands, more brass-bright than a coffin, the mojjey-changers with the notga
of many countries in their, glass showenses, the boys with ́ trays of sweetmeats, the black-veilęd women in blouses, : coats, and skiria.
have been listening too This is the kind of thing hear a profesional, man taik- ing
*Egypt is our great hope. Wo are waiting for the battle to sturl. If a big battle does open between Israel, and Egypt, our people will Infiltrato iato Israel
Linen
and light on commando
"Arms? It is
-fa-iget
small arms from 'Syria "
When I give you this play- back of what people are saying, remember that nearly three of Jordan's
one
पण
estimated
of (1,500,000 Arab
who
pushed out in the trouble
With the wells sevch years ago.
On the frontier. theso Artis པས་
that
can now see, in Israeli hands, the good
formerly them a living and a home. RAVE Thore, facross no-man's land,. Is standing provacation. ́Here in Year-old apper who is Young Jordan is Clubb Parba, the 58- King Hussein Chier of aéderal Staff
Of course, before embarking By the time he was 25 he wal on this tax, Lord Birkenhead famous as the author of Plain
Paris, requisite rustle associations ought to have fortified himself Tales from the Hills-ponibly OR the past three go with the freckles, wiin
all his most to co-operate, ZA He put her in contract the most enduring of all his
months telephone calle girlish clothes, and the
This was nonstrine, said M. drawn up by a leading Chan- successes,
to the fashion house of an instant success. QC, but he had-under-
Pinay, surely they and now Round the barriers Givenchy asking to speak to sandably, in view of the rela-
She married shortly after reef mafit could be persuaded to tions which normally prevail
aćeno. Orice again the French journalist, but the mar shoot thei personality must have its top model, Bettina, have ringe was dissolved two years police official went publię plead between copyright owner
and been very remarkable. Journa- been answered with the ago. They had no children. She with the author in such matters omitted its cut little ico in Anglo- words: "Mile. Bettina is not lives in a small house outside again met with a runisal. to take this precaution.
Indian society in the 1890's,
Poris with Mr Carrington has where the caste stem of the working for the time being ter; her father died recently.
her mother sis-
und
was retluced to Perhaps
more prudent. At all conquered
photograperto have She is out of Paris and has
and brains Mlle. photographer, promising each in seemed to events he seems to have nego imprinted itself deeply upon left instructions that she is Bettina as fought her way to turn the "exclusive privilege
By charm tiated with diplomacy. "Mrs Bambrigde,"
the mode of life of the not to be disturbed." be wri.cs,
the top of Parisian society. She of folding pictures of the tab "has
is now an accepied Parts social statesmen. These appeals, to advice, corrected so many errors terary fame Kipling had During that time she has guro, a queen among the other wens unheeded
given me so much good querors.
bynassed the stiff barriers of offstaldom and
been seen frequently with members of her profession. She chagrin of M Pipay. had become a
can afford to go into a long welcome guest at the court of Aly Khan. She is at present
retirement as she is doing now, that urbane and civilised in the South of France with for she is probably the highest
him. Now, to underline the pild model in Paris. His personal fe was not-
A conservative estimate of entirely happy. He married the belief of mutual friends that
her earnings is R10,000'a year. sister of an American Polisher they plan to marry, Aly has And she will has freckles. and journalist, Wolcott Bales-taken legal steps to make his tier, for whom he had the Reno divorce from Rita
affection and
With dignity whose over him can be Hayworth valid in France by measured by the fact that he November 23, Thirty-one- persuaded Kipling to publish a year-old Bettina is a young ABOUT the only people who Youse special edition of The Light woman who has gone far have emerged with any Only six release S$60, That Failed, with happy
dignity
Pinay results of this co-opera ending for the benefit of the Laval, Brittany, in 1944 to ment's welcome to its old sider
since she left her home in comedy of the French Govern sign bengiso le
dia, not che between Mrs Bambridge American public.
government #takemontay eneniy, Sultan Ben Youssef of specific try hor luck in Paris.
enough on the point this
instant success
group
In addition to providing me
descripivo Lord Dufferin with several long
passages,. that her name should
properly appear with mine.
on the title page.”
Not happy
· Lesti : however, any craftence.
might fall upon Mrs Bambridge,
he hastens to add: "I must take
the blame for any errors which eliminated."
Mr. Bambridge
not
and Mr Carrington, have not been entirely happy. Mr ringion is a catalous
would
Car
Domineering, wife
When Balestier died Kipling
career te
from the humiliating
Gangster force
THE Stan's triumphant res
toration atter two years of exile makes recent, evocata, în Morocco seem like some sinister
CENTRAL FACT
His Arub Legion i/ numbers abour 19,000 with armoured Ace and Cuka) But-oogdan
intentions, orgressly
has
wad to Am biasador, Charles Dungar
khild bottledress, "those 1 Legionaries War, the
Offs Fia Whable aghaich-coppering)
to show Ben Tyd, with whilfes picture in pub round,
recured
#
the
Bome
the
temple. Handandana pay is merely a British ariny.
explained
to
.an Morocco Is anonymous that, in no circumstances would "If the king wente 1,000 men
men
ето
scholar
of Fress photographers. aridhia : facts of which there
rough Ben Yousrel be allowed to re- / to, form a coremonial guard for W war broken-hearted. ·
a dlatinguished viitor, why, he turn to Morocco. Barge number are
can order them. doubt qurrect. But they and
He married Bling Carrio BRIOS CHE was then plaki Mile: A Man the police as they
At that time, too, French
"But...
100 Arab (if he wantÓ described fly flat, pedestrian ter soon, afterwards. She was
-one Bodin, the daughter of Foreign" "Minister, M. Pinay,.ar. settlers, backend by such power=| Logu up to no good, he CRES+)
lined up to photograph the efficient
men to shoot on soCOM like a catalogue, sharp,
domineering, a railway worker and a village riving to make his salaams and very careful over money
to ful - figures (so" Mambal: Jul; InCells Yet it only M Carrington and
schoolteacher. Her suburn bar, the newly restored Sultan,
were threatening, civil, wae 'If not dive the order totalPENAS himself go a 16 She fostered Kipling's hatred of blue eyes and slim gure made
The central, fset of " today's and made him more her consider A
As a result, when the two Ben Youssef returned, a
situation is that a the Now there an indecent, Jordan. Treaty of 1948 died, mero
zaphed after signing a trosty rush to make peace with the Jordan our ally of a friend tipi photographers Sultan, and foremost in it in his defence, not segm De designer Jacques Fath, refused to take their pictured aid memy, Glaoul, the Many Tarsal throat sift in the took one look at her and rough handling.
largely
Instrumental in do- | bubble: Reasona Seaded that it was freckide he justle seemed into ble to M.
that at 23, and bouring in mina the longay
| mors ofión, hów, much better .SUDURA of in reclutam, Ona ok mannequin, ph, denne men wore ready to bo photo. E PRENDENKONZUM REEL
bis book would have been?"
more
For example he writes with chFd; their only sod, was killed however. Her freckles,
She had one disadvantage,
profound Roodi Ballecit:
ilm, who wishes to know how
Stoneh about · Barricki w 111B Sushion .... has won then beginning his post-war in` piròlmat"/agalist÷their earlier ·
-1914-18-wak.
another, how they tal
how lines raised tim
•high on the cu
eht into the trough, but he line
solid reading, pobile, from
plunged him
Pasha of Marrakeph› Who - Was
posing