THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1956.
Fairyland Of Sun And Flowers Awaits Its Hollywood
O
MISS KELLY'S KINGDOM
NLY
long,
By JEFFREY BLYTH
Monte Carlo. cock
feathers
fluttering ginning to see its way out of
the red.
one
three miles from their operatie hate. less than
Such is the scene,
have mile wide. and that might
been slightly smaller than dreamed up in Miss Kelly's London's Hyde Park-that Hollywood. But this is not will be Miss Kelly's King- a lath-and-plaster film sel. dom when she marries. It may seem like Ruritania.
1 n
are
It les A
thou-
but behind Lilliputian, and years of history, the picture-posteard Principa
The royal family into lity of Monaco the 20,000 inhabitants
already which the millionaire build planning the welcome for er's daughter from Phil- the 26-year-old film-star adelphia is marrying is one "their handsome of the oldest dynasties in bride of young ruler, Prince Rainier Europe. II.
THERE
Feasting
will be feasting and Breworks. The flags and the hands will be out. There will be dancing ૨૨) the boulevards. It promises to be a fairy like festa. For Moneo, as film star Grace Kelly will discover, is the nearest approach to fairy-
jund.
Here there is no incomin tax and no military servieu. The Principality has its own fing, postage stumps, dipl.- matic corps, atul gnudily uniformed gendarmerie.
the
For ten months of yeur the sun shines every day, there is no unemploy- ment, even its gnol is
the
most comfortable in Europe, with central heating and a shower in every cell.
This carefree corner caf Europe even loukя like
her
She will share with Prince 24 other titles when
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"All I met wur, is makes nice change from Aly
Khan
fairyland. Among the red in May she becomes
Krow
What, then, will life be like Her here for Princess Grace? home will be a private suite of roatis 15 the royal palace, furnished grundly in the old- fushioned style of Louis XV.
The
rest of the palace, with its portrait galleries, library of raje boks, and sweeping, horse- staircase, shoe-shaped marble has been thrown open to vlaltors
any 10-12, 2-5, price of ad-
sim 50 Tranes).
The royal sulle may have to
be enlarged, for of the moment
it come nts of only one reception. roon, a silning-room, and a bed- room with a four-poster bed.
Hey household will consist of 12 servants, three chauffeurn, the gardeners. parape Thrie are nine curs, and in the harbonir two occan-going
F
Great sportsman
PATE Prince is a great sports- The plays tennis, golf, 13617, boxes, likes fast curs, end al intest sport i underwater fshong.
On exprsilikon to French wild animals Cena be traps
A birds for the local 200. which he started
Business, he insists, is con- It is fined to the afternoons. then, in his palace office, that be mrels his three Ministers of State and 18 elected councillors.
but the English - educated Prince he went to school at SumunerBelda, Dear Hanko,
and Stow-rules with absolute power,
Her this
Social fe for Princess Grace will be strictly formal-State visits to the opera and baljet in the white rucuco theatre where Prince has his own
box in dozen bottles of champagne rucks of the 1,000ft-high Most Serene Highness are
are always on ice for him), mountains which ring Gracia Patricia de Monaco, presenting prizes probably at the Monte Carlo Rally and the dark pines, Monaco
The Prince's family-the tennis tournaments, representing trees, and lush palm
have ruled her husband on numerous social tropical plants and flowers. Grimaklis
committees Monaco since 968, Except
She for a short period after the
wil be expected to be French Revolution Monaco hostess to distinguished visitors
Windsors undi the like has survived as one of few remaining independent States in Europe.
Old family
THE very air is scented with mimosa and eyela- men and the thousands of flowers which are changed in the public every week parks and squares.
From the blue ranean
Times have not always Ieen blissful in Monaco. The flaher people were poor once. Until one day in 1869 there arrived an astute financier, Francois
Mediter- and the little har- young expensive Blanc.
bour filled with
yachts the blue, pink, and white villas eling, it seems precariously, to the moun- tainside.
THESE ELEK
Flourishing
son of a French income-
inspector, this ex Dominating the £1,000,000 shwasher and waiter who had bathing beach, the velvel- made a fortune as a gambler smooth tenuis courts, and secured-in return for a per- of the pronis- the the cliffside golf course, enlage with its fleet of ex-R.A.F. Monte Carlo gambling rights. motor launches waiting to retrieve balis driven into the scu, stands the casino a giant, white-iced --like wedding cake.
Churchills.
the
In a place as small as Monaco it will be impossible for her to relax, play tennis, swlin-or
drop into the even
swagger Htutel de Parls for a drink. For the Monagasques are stickies for protocol.
Only escape
TER only escape will be to HER
slip away as the Prince often does to the cinema or theatre in Nice the books his seat in the name of Monsieur Grimal) or to the Prince's private villa ten lies down the coast at St Jean-Cap-Ferrat,
Whether
ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY
Who Knows Best, You
Or Your Doctor?
S your doctor grumpy, impatient, when you make certain remarks
Some
about your illness? times, though you may dis- agree, the doctor is justified,
Many people when they visit the doctor don't com- plain of their symptoms but state instead their Own home-made diagnosis. A common remark is:
were
some
mornings. These times associated with vomiting.
Each attack was preceded by what doctors call an "aura," a subjective feeling that acts as a signal for the headache to come.
He told me all about it, con- visely and intelligently. Indeed,
from most sufferers
migraine tend to be intelligent people. Usually they are very efficient at their work, tidy, and almost "I've obsessional in their concern for
detalis.
a touch of the liver, doctor," when, more often than not, the liver has nothing to do with their illness.
"Do you keep your desk at work very tidy, more than the
do?" [ others
asked,
Indeed, the vast majority of examined his retina. such patients don't even
"As a matter of fact one where the liver is. They think two chaps at the office
know
or
have
of it being vaguely on the left, commented on that," the young when in fuel it lies on the right man repiled. "Why?" below the lungs.
Others don't even bother
D')
STRANGE....
arrive at a home-made diagnosis bus come into the surgery and demand a prescription for IT'S strange how some for- drug they've read about intunate people never suffer headaches throughout advertisements OFT have been with
their lives, while others arc Told about by well-meaning "headache prone."
friends and relatives.
A remark like the following is not rare: "The doctor gave my cousin Herbert a course of
Headaches may be due to a variety of cause "hangover," bigh blood sinus infections, pressure, brain neoplasms. But may. sufferers from headaches
Hor "salary" will be £30,000 n year just under half of what The population of just under the Prince receives.
to give up her 6,000 shermen und peasants she will have grew into a comfortable and American citizenship still has to contented
of 20,000 be decided. For dual citizenship community
is against the Constitution. flourishing
the ол
gambling fever
which attracts 2,000,000
But there is a big compensa- visitors to Monte Carlo every tian. In return she gota Across the harbour the year. Monaco has had its ups diamond-studded crown of pla- cortisone Injections and it did be having minor migrainous
Although it tinum seven-centuries old royal and downs since.
and gold and a fairy-him the world of good" (The attacks, though headaches may palace stands atop a pre- remained neutral in 1930, the tale kingdom to call her own.
implication being that what is not be associated with vomiting. aftermath of the war upset the cipitous and almost
im-ttle kingdom's economy.
good enough for Herbert la good enough for anybody.) pregnable rock, fortified by 16 bronze
and
The days of the big gamblers, guarded by A musical the grand dukes, the English carls, and millionaire Americans
cannon
MONDAY:
comedy band of soldiers were over. Only now, more Enter the Princess--oxit the with red, white, and blue than ten years later, is it be "shadow" over Monte Carlo.
· acede at Monta
TIDY PEOPLE
I said to the young man as I returned to my desk: "Strain of the eyes can be a factor in migraine...."
"I know all about thai," ho sald dryly. "I had my specs
So when a very self-assured checked only a month ago."
young man came into my "Another factor" I continued, consulting room and said: "Doc, "Is over-fatigue, physical or could you write me a prescrip- nervous.”
tion for ergotamine tartrate, "I'm aware of that too," my 2mg, tablets, please," I leaned patient replied. back, slightly irritated
"Why?"
"For my migrainė, doctor,”
"How do you know migraine?" I asked.
All in all he seemed to know
a great deal. As I wrote out the prescription for ergotamine tartrate 2mg. I was tempted to ask him to tell me where his It's Ilver was situated. But I had the feeling he would know
"I've had attacks for years,"
I didn't want to be looked at he said caustically, looking at as if I were some poor idiot mo as if I were an idiot,
again.
Nevertheless, I made him relate his history and symptoms during his attacks. And big description was almost classical in its nocüraRCY,
Horufende from réQUITÉRÍ hondaches-dubitially,
the
In any case, I felt much more kindly to the next patient-a dear old lady who didn't know what was wrong with her and had heard of no medicine at all apart from castor oila
Cedric Carne
Princess
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