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THE CHINA MAIL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956.
Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN.
by Walter
THE BRIDEGROOM WENT
STRAWBERRY FAIR. By Osbert Dyndham Howatt. Murray, 186, 279 pages.
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HE leading Liberal hostess, the most gorgeous political mid. butterfly of Victorian England, was the fair, tall, graceful daughter of a famous Jewish tenor, and the granddaughter of a Manchester dancing mass-
ter.
She began 114 Braham.
ΤΟ PRISON
WHERE HIS WIFE GAVE A DINNER PARTY
The first of her four marriages took place at a time when her father, John Braham, had run into fianctal difficulties.
But reformn camo too Ible.
Lord Waldegrave died in 1840 of cirrhosis of the liver, consoling Frances (widowed once more at 23) with the Waldegrave estates. Her Income was now £22,000 a
By some editorial mistakes his death was reported In the newX- papers. The obituaries, though year. Fanny kind, were disconcerting. They
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A year later, she married a Apoke of him as a "veteran" singer. Taking this hint, Bra- tubby, pompous widower of 02,
Granville har became an impresario, bullt George
Harcourt. the St. James's Theatre, and be- whose father, the Archbishop of
York, gan to lose money inst.
"sumptuous prelate," Leaping to the rescue, pretty did not come to the wedding. Fantly married young Waldegrave
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John The bride continued to be known the good-looking, as France, Lady Waldegrave.
legitimate brother of Lord Waldegrave. After a rowdy year
She attracted scores of eligible
of married life (hide-and-seek young men for whom she found
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11 Got ready (8).
12 Old (4)
13 Denude (5).
10 Rises into the air (5).
19 Before long (4).
22 Analyses (8).
24 Tenda (8).
25 Communication (8).
20 Hides (8).
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2 Precipitous (5)
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5 Land measure (4).
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10 Pigment (5).
14 Red-breast (5)
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10 Madman (6).
17 Bird (8).
20 Sharp (0).
THE
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John Wuldegravo
died of delirium
frements, leaving
everything to his
widow
pretty brides.
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23 Dispose of (4).
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The law said
she could not marry her deceased subtle than husband's brother; the Prayer Beld!" Book agreed with the law.
At one or another of her four great houses she entertained- with what, lavishness - the exiled French royal family, the British royal family (excluding only the more dublous frienda of the Prince of Wales), diplomatic set, and the states- men. It wUB hard, hard life and in 1879, Frances died of it,
the
Howell's blography is none too wall written and certainly much too long. But the story it tells, and the portrait it paints, have na Indestructible fascination.
She was called "the last of the great ladies." She was also one of the most glamorous and successful of the great adven-
turesses.
YOUR ENGLAND. By Sir
Robert Bruce Lockhart. } Putnam. 16s. 291 pagos.
It was a charm- IR ROBERT BRUCE LOCK- HART set fool on English ing game, especi- ully as the young soil bearing a double load of En continued to prejudice. Born in Scotland, he prefer her. She had lived in France and Ger-
flirted
anch
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
in "ON ILKLA Commenting
Nobody into chains like 2. Answer promptly. hls column in tiles to be kept waiting. If you siring. MOOR"
Yorkshire are delayed, apologise and ex-
plain,
The Post on the Yorkshireman's song On Ilkla Moor, Northerner II states that "a printed account of the anthem's history was pre- pared for Mr C. W. Clough of ikky over 35 years ago. This claimed that the song had been
Riding people for 40 or 50 years before the First Weld War.
3. Be easy to trace, So that if an office-to- anyone calls you,
4. Don't push a caller around. office manhunt is not needed. if you have to transfer het
person.
wildly many. He missed the brilliant with Lord Chel- uniforms of Berlin, the solemn rea, having been Industry of his young Prussian treasured possession of West he is connected with warned that he friends,
dismayod his was "the serpent father by saying, "I am not in who is, more terested in rugby football. I of the have learnt to work in Ger- many. I should like to see the National Gallery,"
the beasts Mr Hurcourt was blind to the danger.
Chelsea
were
But John had been a brother Frances was "determined that outside the law; he had never it he would force her to be with consummated the marriage; men notoriously fascinated with there was nothing in the Bible her, he should learn his lesson."
her dominated -ut least, nothing that Frunces Lord
the circle; her other slaves, to their could find-which forbade
05 known
the Kortings. And, in any case, the fury,
Chelsea Pensioners." Whether law did not apply in Scotland.
Mr Harcourt learned his lesson Frances married Lord Walde- or not, it seems that he became grave in Edinburgh. Everything more cantankerous with the went off well with two excep- years. Thons. The best man was tipsy;
Waldegrave hud and Lord return to England to face charge of assaulting a police- man.
• was committed to
Bench prison for Queen's
There he lived u
months
the right
5. Don't bark "Who are you?"
may be the boss.
6. People are proud. Most of us like to hear our own names, So use names often.
The
•
star
beads
on
of
Molly. Russia's language
present discovery --- confirmed by Harvard and Washington Universities--opens research in up new felds of cancer and heredity.
MOSCOW "Moscow MOLLY
English cold war broadcasters, is send- ing hot siren songs over the to Canadian chilly North Pole and American builders of DEW
DEW is the £100 million roder warning system being bulli 3,000 miles across Canada's Arctic shores from Alaska to Greenland. The letters stand for "Distant Early Warning"
"It added that many different neighbourhoods had laid clabn to the words." Northerner agrees and adds "Balldon people sing St Robert has long since Balldon Moor baht 'at." So
Has this technique worked this youthful pris- did Oiley people out-grown
many years with Mr Power? His friends say dates but, as this new book
ago, Otley being unwilling to his success is due to his tele- disclosed, has never wholly lost
concode that any good thing
phone manner, his belief that the English are could come out of its neighbour.
ind frivolous
And returning DEW workers 1 Ukley. Incutably
Who is he? Provident
Moscow delent.
America'n
General Tele- say Molly and fellow big
broadcasters show an uncannily Halifax has a version, "On phone Corporation. Ovenden Flat;"
accurate knowledge of What Barnsley pre- fers "On Emley Moor:" and
goes on along DEW.
DEW's purpose--to prevent Huddersfield sings "On Lindley Moor."
I would be a mistake, how- ever, to expect from him any
novel generalisation about Eng- Jani and her people. His real is, not the nation IIS quarry
mere notable a muss, but s individuals, Equipped
However, when he died after 15 years of mørrlage, he left his fortune to the three-fold widow,
with a keen eye and
than prettier "younger
has and retentive diary, ho hud the entry into the caning - ever" at 40. And Frances, after her the waiting 12 months us was
rooms of the great and famous. Chichester le has the married six custom
eye for the signi- Samuel Parkinson Fortescue, a
irlile. Thus he ficant
recalls (and adoring) Irish
not only that Tim Healy WAS became Lard
the last of 10 great Irish orators. but also that he was
ex -
celkat stylę, with a numerous worthy retinue, and there he was loģis politician who ed by his lovely young wife. Cartingford. They RAVE
dinner delightful parties and, on release, showeT- edi Bibles on their kindly goolers, in
At
a command performance from the Dublin, a voice gallery asked "Would your indy-
Lost the Scottish marriage ship be informing us which of should not be valld, they ac your four husbands do ye like quired Prussian nationality in the best?" Her reply assured the cunton of Neuchatel
and her of ally: "The fish- married there all over again.
man. of
Lord Waldegrave returned to Frances was now at the height brilliance, delighting England and gave up the com- of social puny of wild friends like Lord Disraeli, who thought she would Waterford, who had acquired a make an excellent Prime Minis
Gladstone, And disliking bad reputation (and the name "Spring-heeled Jack") by leap- who was strangely blind to her husband's qualities as a states- ing out on defenceless
in lonely London roads.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
ter,
Women
man.
FOR SOME OF THEM SEEING THE SIGHTS MEANS SHOPPING AND TELEGRAPHING
HOME FOR MORE MONEY —
ON A CLEAR
SOME OF THEM
LIKE THE ROUGH STUFF -SUCH AS
A HOCKEY GAME
OR A WRESTLING MATCH
---WHERE THEY CAN HEAR THE
BONES CRACK.
DAY YOU
CAN SEE
SEVEN
COUNTIES
BE LOYAL TO THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND TAKE THEM TO THE TOP OF THE
TALLEST BUILDING IN TOWN
Wandg
*MOTHER
WANTS
YOU TO
SHOW
HER ALL
THE
CULTURAL SPOTS /
IT TAKES A BRAVE MAM TO ADMIT THAT HE
DOESN'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE. -
others
any
Lancashire, not content to use
place Yorkshire
name: "On Mottram Moor" makes it for "On Oddam (Oldham) Edge." Northerner concludes that al- though this is evidence of strong
fact the local patriotism mains that it is the words
On Likia Moor" that have gone
round the world.
uf
are An
Soviet atomic blitz.
Molly is a disc jockey.
the favourite of
Sha
her
you YOUNGEST I
radio amateur HAM
and enthusiast pick up the call KNGMTQ, then has become it may
to Interest you stay DEW workers. They hear tuned in for a while for you more clearly than Canadian
bo listening
one of stations, world's
And they say the Russians "ham" youngest (amateur radio) operators. Her must have excellent contacts in name is Elizabeth Deck of San the land of Eskimos and polar
bears. Bruno, California.
Perhaps it was why Russian Her set is her own (given diplomats forcibly kept Ottawa her by her grandfather) and she remen out of their second received her novice licence floor coderoom during a from the Federal Communica night earlier this winter tions Commission last July.
will be είνα
FC- of
to
get
to the top. stort by brush-
a
As
cold
and
to
the last of his acquaintances TELEPHONE if you want who wore clostle-dded boots.
Talking about
and MANNERS
for her claim to fame-Elizabeth fet the Embassy burn down. himself, Sir Robert
is just eight years old. provides ing up your telephone manners.
When the officer comunanding entertain- So saya engaging. icfourely
Mr Donald Clinton
an RCAF weather station ment all through his 24 Power.
And he should know.
transferred, Resolute Bay was chapters. If he feaches no
MOLECULE In For he is one of the big bosses
the Russiand went greetings Amite conclusion, he has shared in America. He has just been CHAINS
his successor on the day of the with his readers the pleasures vriting about
the
successful
changeover. reminiscence and the com- telophone technique in a busi- panionship of a busy social life.
tress magazine, Отьс statement he makes wil
Here are some of the tips he be furiously disputed: England gives:
lower percentage
tolk 1. When
the cranks than Scotland. This will telephone, remember it is your be Indignantly denied in both company talking. Sound cheer- ecuntries.
ful. Bo Interested.
of
has
Showing Visitors The Sights
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COPE, 1954 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP, IM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
WHEN YOU GET SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING. ALL ABOUT QUARTER-INCH GUPPIES, TAKE 'EM TO THE AQUARIUM AND SHOW EM FISH AS IS FISH.
of
you
on
BY HARRY
Dпe
discovery which they pre- dict
may Man to actually day enable
nt create life, scientists York University's College Blochemistry have created
after listening to the shortwave test tube, programmes:
Russian "The molecule chains in The discovery involves ond of broadcasters are no slouches. It the basic processes for life the is obvious they are being kept
of molecules Joting
together informed on what goes on in the
North Country."
Says Mr RAJ. Phillips, cxe- New cutive officer of the
Canadian of Northern Affairs Department,
WEINERT
CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN IN SELECTING A SHOW FOR CERTAIN VISITORS — ESPECIALLY AN ALINT WHO HAS ‘A MIND OF HER OWN”.
DROP INTO
THE
ART
GALLERIES –
"THEY'RE
ALWAYS
COMFORTABLY
·HEATED.
-----THAT'S NOTHING — YOU
·SHOULD SEE THE
ONE AT HOME —— ITË TWICE AS",·ETC.-
DON'T SHOW SOME OF THEM ANYTHING ITS HOPELESS.
•
CRISP A "world record" is EATER being
claimed for Huddersfield man who ate 28 bags of potato crisps in 107 minutes. He is 22-year- old technical college student, Malcolm Lee, one of seven en- trants for a competition, singed as a feature of tho College's charity "rag" week.
Tables were laid in Market Pisco and, at a pistol shot the. contestants tore into their bags of crisps amid the cheers of the crowd. The early paco was about one packet avery two minutes
a "no-drinking" rule gradually took its toll
but
of
the competitors.
The winner maintained a rough average of a big every four minutes and, after empty- Ing his 28th (thereby beating the Loods University record by one bag) he received his prize a glass of barley wine and a packet of crisps.
to
THREAT TO The **white death" is REINDEER
wreaking havce among Lopland's reindeer herds, conditioned though they are snow and ice, In the severest winter since the Rod Army in- vaded Finland's frozen north da 1938, the deer are now, starv-
They cannot reach the moss deep under the snow,
is the bark of Their food the stunted" Arctic birch trees in the
burled
only
valleys and along the lower
And
slopes of the bare ridges. this bark has little nourishment.
After the early autumn rain
sudden- winter came with the
of a thunderclap. The rein- dote inoes--the door's customary food-was calced in ice before the snows came:
So even if the reindeer dig through the record thickness of snow, their pasture is still frozen fast,
The Lapps are desperate, be- |cause their redinieer berds are their 'main source. of livelihood. They milk the animals, eat the ment, make tools of the bones and horns and wear tho skins |for clothing--and their tents are (made of reindeer skin.
DOG Visitors discovered DOCTOR ME Charles Harri- son, self-confesseti "dog paychologist" at the New York Dog Show - last week, [stopped. looked, rań -* hurriedly dway. Few of them paused” for To word with the man.
dogs
He does psychoanalyšo but, mostly, he works on the [psychology of people. “It's what the owner, docs or fallm to do [that causes - bad, behaviour in a
dog", ha explained, et Held of which in simply " con= "firma that it's the mon, not, the
dog that leads the dog's life!