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"I Never Said It,
Was Curzon Born 100 Years Late?
L
He became one of the great 'characters' of English politics. Was it because, in a strange way, he was a throwback to the 18th or early 19th century?
By Robert Blake
annually
stored vast
of
jam
and
Lady
ORD CURZON died are important factors, but it is were
to suppose that the quantities only 80 years ago. Yet a fallacy the world in which he British aristocracy has suddenly marmalade.
declined into poverty. and lived,
which his
Some of its members are still American-born widow, the
fabulously rich, end those who second Lady Curzon, 90 rub their eyes at the spectacie vividly and felicitously of Curzon owning six immense describes," scem to us in houses, and lying in four of the sedate egalitarian 1950's them, thould not forget that at least one duke does the same as remote as the world of
today, Disraeli or of Charles James Fox.
What has caused this change? The orthodox replies are: Death duties, surtax, cervant-shortage, etc., etc.....No doubt all these
• Reminiscencee, by the Marchton- es Curton of Kedleston, Hutchin- Ron (214)
says BEN HECHT
HIS NAME WAS MUD
B
me
London
IN BRITAIN
Fid HECHT
EN
that he it.
never said
was
Mr Hecht
telling earnestly about the
which phrase
was attri- buted to him back in 1946, which caused furore all but over
fi
ever
By RENE MacCOLL
on
of
The consequent bun
Olms
Britain Hechts
In
had very tengible results, it seems,
In Hollywood they screamed with terror at the thought losing the British market as a result of me and what I'd said. the world
Agure I dropped 10 per- especially in Britain-and rent of my income for four or I had to five years in a row. which has
since
start writing for magazines."
I gazed at him in astonish- "But knowing that it was all wrong, that you were the object of scorn and hatred because of what the world thought you had
ast: 1.
time facing and all the this serious loss of income, why in the world didn't you speak out sooner?"
dogged his name as a brief phrase has rarely dogged ment.
any man's name.
when
For In 1943,
British troops in Palestine were baxuan- ing the almost daily victims of terrorism,
murder included Hecht was alleged to have rald that every
me he heard that another British coldler had been killed, "he lit a Bule fame of thenksgiving In his heart."
Overnight the former news- who broke into paper reporter the big money with his co- author hip ad the disc ws- paper play fout Chicas "The Prge," and who had fol- Front lowed it with a long string of ("Crime Without biz success Fiskn." "The Scoundrel.* "Nothing Sacred," and the screen version of Coward's "Design for Living") becanva a figure
habe.
Worn Out
to
NOW he has arrived in Eng-
1918.
land-for his first visit since
As we sat together on the sofs in the suite of that little hotel off Mount Streel, Mayfair, which Hollywood has made al- moet its cwn of late, Hecht +oseri that he wa worn out beatise he had not been able to sleep for the last two nights at
sca
Why not?
-
His lips mugged into a smile. He passed a hand over his thin
sirgely hair.
"Well, you sec, I don't believe in dentals. If thing's done.
it's done and you can deny it till you're blue in the face, and I 1 often doesn't help much. Rever wohi to correct people.
"But," I asked, "you are correcting now becaus
"Because now I'm in England, I don't mind trying to correct the record.”
Too Busy
The causes of change are less superficial a revolution in atti- tude and outlook, rather than in economic circumstances.
Runner-up
It is possible to Imagine some one living today (and reason- ably young) holding Curzon's Sublimoly haughty opinions, and enunciating them with vigour from on armchair In SBY, While's Club, It is not possible to imagine such a person as run- Iner-up to the greetest offic
which English public like can
offer.
the last
Curzon Is perhaps great politieal Squre who has Laken for granie1 on order of
ociety crumbling even in his day--which had prevailed with- out substantial change since the
181k century. He could thus afford to concentrate his formid-
Long after his death Curzon encountered a slightly macabro memenio of his care- ful forethought, when she dia- covered on an empty space in one of the shelves of the vault at postcard in her Kedleston husband's handwriting: "No. served for tho second Lady Curzon."
Curzon personalty engaged all servants down to the
very humblest, and his requirements were exacting, “fa—a fil domes- tis for employment in the house of a nobleman?" he is reputed to have inquired, and Lady Curzon describes iho searching inspection to which he sub- jected potential footmen.
Hid his trousers
Alas, all this trouble was semetimes ill-requited.
There was the sad care of one of Curzon's volets who, on being dismissed for dancing drunk with the guests on a gela night &t the Betu Rivage Hotel in by hiding Lausanne riposted
all Curzon's trousers.
One of Lady Curzon's maids was so callous as to contract an jilness on board ship, necessitat-
of intelligence from the human eble intellectual powers exclu- ing a serious operation, the cost beings of the world and its in-alvely upon impertal and foreign undation by politics."
of which to Curzon's damag
affairs (cat which even Sir proved not to be covered by any
Winston Churchill, despite every effort, could not entirely rival."
To the past
He feels strongly about TV. "I've done scripts for about 10 TV shows and 1 loathe the modium! You're writing for something which is unreal and present meaningless (but
Indeed, in many ways Curzon all-conquering) when you write appears as a throwback to the late 18th or early 19th century. "The
written word is being
KOMP strange menner ho crushed and rendered extinct.
seems to have bypassed the late Book publishers who receive Victorian era of the sift upper novels these days shudder from, public school relicence, so- head to foot, Nobody novels any more.
for TV.
things
"Only thing they'll books What,
to other W passed
Why had he never left life United States even once the 1014 war ended?
**Too
since
now
I've
busy. But done so at last I shall probably stay away for a year or so."
Hecht a pessimist about "nothing except politics and politicians. I love everything clse that men do.”
reada elal conscience, and propriety of
demeanour.
read is
about How
to Love When Curzon was frustrated How
to East Nothing he wept like a child. When he How to Get Up in the Morning, was triumphant, he frankly How to Learn to Laugh.
gloated. All his life he spoke in
"We're back with the tom-the orotund style of Chatham
toms again. In America huge or Burke, but he never lost a quantiles of people do nothing marked provincial accent, except ait staring at TV screens for hours and hours.
"Just look and listen, that's the motto. But never read. His next book will concern No, never read. It's too much self with "the disappearance trouble to read."
It's 20 years since Alfred married her... and they have never had an argument
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Mrs. Hitchcock
bans suspense
"H
by ANNE
SHARPLEY
ITCH, have we ever bowl stealing over a bowling of one another, the 13th and 14th August That makes us had an argument?" green.
"well, now, how do you really both Leo subjects." Hitch trundled
manage it?" I asked Mrs Hitch-
"I got so excited-thought I slowly into view and stood cock, the only wife of Mr Alfred They were married in 1920 at was young again, I guess.”
She was a Brompton Oratory. in the doorway, vast and Hitchcock. I might add, in But to the big question: "Why immovable as a Buddha in a
mar- Nottingham-born Alma Reville, Hollywood-world where rloge habits
he amount to poly
д London fish-merchant's whatever they
might son, and already a famous direc
tor. happen to get
Now the good companions on," she said simply. "We have
have two small houses, one
Northern
the sume interests, Blms, of Hollywood and the other
in
in
IL Mr Hecht? Doniche. "No," he said, lugu- gamy did you say you expect us to forgive you?"
Hecht turned to me gravely. briously, his pendulous lower call it.
lip dropping another inch. awe just "And it's been 29 years 28
the crow fllca."
course. But the secret is his
California - seven His wife
Ho temperament, chuckled, or per- wonderful hapo it was really a giggle..
has never changed over the bours' swift driving at 70 m.p.h. "We never argue because 1 years. Ho is
chauffeured by Mrs Hitchcock, wonderfully always give in," he said, or- placid. I am pineld, too." I "It's the equivalent of from I do it suming
wondering when Mr London to Glasgow, but Hitchcock's contribution
every week-end," she says,
They have no swimming pool. "Neither of us swita" and life is sinco very quiet.
His manter is charming. his voice low, almost difdent.
I actually Bald was this: "There are certain Jews, of whom I am one, who feel a
of excitement Kengo
and triumph whenever we read of Jewish victories in Palestine or when British forts and posts are 1oppled. That's what I said."
Felt Sorry
“DUT bow in the world
did
the stalement get BO
twisted?" I demanded.
"Because I was in hospital
the
grieved, beast-of- was
at the time I made it. I was doing some 'copy' for a 3,000- word advertisement for Irgun Zval Leum!" (the Jewish terrorist group). "I swear that no such phrase was in the 'copy' wrote, but-well; wa had some rebrands in our organisation and they must have
put it
burden air, moving across the Hecht sighed. His blue eyes threshold at last and giving mo looked weary. Ho crossed his a quick look.
looked soutfod..
was
going to be mentioned.)
Mutuat placidity. Is the formula, it scerns. No, more?
Certainly.
NO SURPRISE
daughter P
Each
Hitch returns
for a hooked meal (he
on a perpetual diet which his "We aways vicualise things wife shares: the results show exactly the same. When I seo boller in her figure than his), his alms they are no surprise Then he talks about the day's to me because we always inter- Alming-just to got it off his pret things the same way."
This is not simply because she has got to know his methods
chest."
SHARP BRAIN.
of working so well, sho plained, and to prove her point A pleasant, simpllied life, not the sort of thing one would added:
from a master uf expect I was a screen "You know writer when I met Hitch? Well,
suspense.
legs. His brown suede shoes Mrs. Hitchcock gurgled again. I wrote scripts for other direc But what a master of suspenso "It's my generosity of nature, tora beaddow him, and he was noeds most, it seems,. la a re-
the only one who "Interpreted as background, g continued He went on: "I've always felt my weet nature" sorry that the other side in Hitch, relying the wash of his the film in the way I visualised Alma Hitchcock combines a aur final struggle for indepen-white-spotics blue drossing it Now, when he is talking. Pekiness charm, sharp brain,
about a a film sidvy, I know. dence had to be the British. gown, that gave his corner of
automatically vinukliking what he le falding about in the
to and a determination never ruffe her lord a
{four-feet: "11" Inches Why; her even make him look tall what more could a fan makt lietot
"ght Incl Hitchyou be round back into
You were the first and only the room the look o of blizzard am high-alowe wnwong have ever at night the point in arguing, same way Lought
got excited at "It's not constructive, My, ada joga-Anything elsesk that time over the that that a vice, i don't waste your mergywell don't know whether IRC bunch of Jews had decided to on inconsequentiais, sive is for really balavay m Trek up off their konek dyme in the more perioda Palerting and fiatto di for maid rolling out of the road that are we both the
The gilttering rewards of honours and tilles gave him unconcealed pleasure."
"I send you a lot of news. paper cuttings about my sup- posed elevation to a Dukedom," he writes to Lady Curzon. "But I do not suppose there is any more truth in it than on pre-
vious occasions, After what does it matter?"
all,
But, as Lady Curzon observes later, he did not mean what he sald. "Everything mattered to George,"
ment.
Careful check
His attention to detail
cor- tainly bears out this judg
He invariably kept the most meticulous check On housekeeping accounts. Ho re-
of his insurance polices,
of
Lady Curzon ibrowa relatively little light upon her husband's political life, although some his letters printed toward tba value for anyone who wishes to end of the book will have their
chronicle the story of Baldwin's first Government in 1923,
of
Sho
She is more illuminating ONL their social life, which resembled that of Royalty rather than any private individual. makes a
a revealing remark when she describes how she
looked forward to the Lord Mayor's Banquet-one of the rare occa- sions in their busy lives when she and her husband actually sat next to each other at dinner.
Legendary man
But the real fascination of Lady Curzon's book lies in the Personally of Curzon.
However maddening, arrogant and tiresome he may have been at times, Curzon must go down to posterity as one of the great "characters" of English history.
Like the Duko Like
of Wellington, Sir Winston Churchill personalities whom he resembled in no other respect--he was one or those legendary figures about whom an endless number of stories have been, and will be told, some true, many apocryp- hal, but nearly all good.
With such a theme Lady Cur- zon could not be dull, and in fact she his written a fascinat-
guarly inspected the cupboards Ing, lively had most enjoyable
in which at his insistence there book.
"Cornflakes
taste so much better with brown sugar on, Mummy"
It makes all
the difference
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