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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1956.
Death of a High Talent
THE RISE AND FALL OF DEREK CURTIS-BENNETT
HAT is it that proved to be poison for these
drives a brilliant men?
For Derek Curtis-Bennett It man to drink, to was almoet certainly needless ruin, and to envy. He
opened the
23 digging with guilty fingers Into someone else's grave,
The grave of his Rather, the great Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett,
The grave of the man he and loved, admired and striven to lved--but emulate while he ended by hating and envying. after his death.
K.C. once death, just at the moment speech for the prosecution in a in his career when destiny murder case by saying of the "He went into seems to have polished all accused man;
his garden, on a ghostly moonill hia stars, and his faropath through the universe seems bright and clear?
It
that
WVELY drink hastened the end of Derek Curtis-Bennett, Q.C. Plus something else besides.
11
drink that killed Dylan Thomas, the poet, Plus It was Something else besides, drink that killed Robert New-
BY
LEONARD MOSLEY
ton, the great character actor, dug."
besides Plus something cise
Plus
spent
。
AND CURTIS. BENNETT ACTRESS WIFE JANET
, RUBK. BHE KILLED HER-
SELF 12 WEEKS AGO.
"I learned all there was to learn at his knees," he said,
be
WHERE BIG DRAMAS WERE
YOU FOUND HIS NAME!
FUCAS Curtis-Bennatt was in the case
EMMETT:QUNNE Curtis Beanett
was in the case
CHRISTIE Curtis Bennett
was in the case
TOMORROW: CHAPTER 2 OF HIS LIFE STORY. TELLING WHAT COULDN'T BE TOLD UNTIL NOW
witness in mud of
Darek Curtis-Bennett was man who spent a lifetime living in the shadow of a greater, and He was more famous father. proud of it to begin with.
He know his father as the man who had appeared in much sensational, front-page murder
adoring son into a man of his dangerous trials
those of Vaquier
making, in getting own gigantic stature in the his own Patrick Mahon, Ronald True,
world of sensational from a hostile witness just tho Edith Thompson and Donet
glamour Trials.
advantageous Information, and more, for which he was "If, by the fervour of your no and into the grove he Frederick Bywaters. night.
And every moment that he proudly, the first time he argued advocacy and the marshalling probing.
He was ruthless. with his against his father in court
can save With those words
in the courts he might
"Do not of your facts, you
the from
He could shatter his орн It was drink that killed Harry have been
This famous parent, as speaking
an espiring And added, roguishly:
the art lured by
poor devit and some
He could verbally Parr-Dayles, the comporer and
opitaph
spent For he
law-student and later as
he once said to his penents. DWD
attractiveness by which, out of guilows,
and Iddney. son. "you. will have justified rabbit-punch song-writer
something most of his own boyhood, most barrister in his own right, he
experience, he can of his brilliant postwar carcer worshipped the skill of Sir his sage
the training else besides.
I have given you punch their pet evidence. and have won the reputation I
He defended Lord How-Haw. But what Was The extra at the
Bar, and most of his Henry's brain, the magic of his present such applications."
Sir
have in mind for you.
with wonderful tactics. pation added to the mixture shabby,
Henry, in his turn, wus und sodden reasoning, the fluency of his sordidi,
bulld this determined
It was a father-and-son world and of genus
alcohol which downfall to his death on July tongue
mutul of
admiration and encouragement which worked. Until Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett died, in 1937; and Derek Curtis- Bennett was out in the legal world, for the first time in his life on his own.
For a
a time, it seemed as if
and final the ghost of his father was al- cross-examinations
which are still the ways there beside him to egg, speeches urge, and presa him on.
talk of the legal world, he lost
those famous cases, the
all
LORD PALMERSTON
OBJECTED TO SUEZ
economy
SIR HENRY ¿'AVIGDOR GOLDSMID, MP
HEN we made the decision to base our national on the oil of the Middle East we also made the mistake of removing the Farrison whose presence in the Canal Zone guaranteed us free
navigation of its waters. In effect we placed Suez as a noose round our necks and invited Nasser to kick the chair away from under our feet whenever he so desired.
Today as we dongle from the celling, threshing our legs calling on Russia, France and the U.S.A. to support us, one sandes s'urdy figure from the may be heard to murmur "I told For Lord Paimersion, you so." Prime Minister of Britain for so many years while the canal was projected and under con- struction, was at ts most in- veterate opponent,
Reappraisal
uf
It would
the
more
human
up.
the
dlistoriness
He
was,
Is
His
per- and had
aura of
Certainly, fame surrounding
the Curtis- Bennett name was there to help
SOURNESS
He defended Fuchs, atom spy. He defended Christie.
He defended Emmett-Dunne.
DUT
HE LOST note that though be
them pleaded for
and fought for them with, zest and keenest
akill with soaring
doubt if any great barrister, alive or dead, could have won them Not oven Sir Henry,
And so, to drown his growing
www
to set, and it was thanics to him. вррец that the seeking the bride und Alling
It got him gases which, in himself.
But the fact that Derek statue of de Lesseps, the builder their time with surveys for the them that he triumphed.
Sir
Winston other circumstances, might not the canal in Suez, is in canal.
Not be Curtis-Bennett lost them be at- danger of being destroyed and Obstacles, en the other hand, Churchill once advised us all to have come his way.
fld not have the tributed not to the fact that the there must also be strong
ho but
was defending were apparently overwhelming, be, grim and gay; in addition cause he
his criminals because of was determined, brave,ability. possibility of the cans!' under Egypt was a vassal of Turkey he
father's reputation.
were guilty, but that he was not ent eventual- and governed by
Turkish pertinacious and charming.
as good as his father. gyption agement even
was He Mved simply, Nevertheless
the waywardness viceroy, so 10 ly being silted
disinterested which and graft of the oriental court, sonally erdenvour
ND then-just after the end sense of frustration, of this un- and A crea created the canal is made of hardly different from the days the gifts of diplomacy
years early
of the war, when his greatest manly mo imperishable stuff, and of the Arabian nights, fell to be friendship,
hotriumphs
on the were still ahead of increased his and were spent in Egypt where him his adoration of his dead bottle. biography of de naded Beatty's Mr Lesseps
15
usetul - ineficiency of the 19th-century cured the lifelong friendship it to scansion
of Sold Pasha. In Lisbon minder of those special bureaucracy.
his cousin, the faith in his ability to measure this self-induced degradation qualities which give dignity and The Sultan saw no advantage frequented
to the reputation of Sir this deliberato 'slow-poisoning himself in the Comtesse de Montijo, and her up
body, virtue to the human race and to Turkey or which will live in history when construction
canal. daughter the future Empress Henry.
Eugenic. These
Before, he had never had any esteem. fateful were
doubts that he would be 1 Be still looked and sounded: encounters of which he made dou the most, and they changed the credit to the family name. Now, like a brilliant Q.C. in court. he buttonholed his colleagues
tues He wrote bordly letters to The history of the world,
and almost begged them to
on political and legal
the day. criticise
He made flied
В
of the
Today, as this narrow ribbon of water across the desert becomes Crisis Spot, No. 1, threatening the Empire's lifeline, a voice from the past may be heard
"I told
to
murmur
80." you
WRS
for
musical most ори калд
The disaster
of
the
skill
So did his
casc
his
And
and undilal envy, he
demands He spent lavishly. Not that it showed, at first,
of
mind, und
6011-
his.
Times
He was toples of his tactics. with doubts about his wonderful speeches. He coined He was suddenly afraid epigrams: "Death is the end," Were this story made into a that he could never follow his he said, shortly after the collapse of his first marriage, "Marriage comedy it would end father. appropriately with the He had always liked a drink. is the beginning of the end.”
The word began to consistently
opera, Now he began to
spread the name of Nasser hos passed Britain
premlere
through the legal offices that he into merciful oblivion.
posed to it and British influence "Aida" in Cairo in 1869. One doubts, and loosen his
tongue, In his cups he more frequently than his law was consulting the brandy bottle would see the Empress Eugenio with alcohol. How, in fact, did the canal at Constantinople Was VETY come to get built?
strong. France
supported the visiting Egypt to celebrate the could be ruthlessly critical of books, and on one case, a trial
of the canal standing himself, and, in the opinion of From the
of canal, but Louis Napoleon's ad- opening standpoint
for murder, he drank hii way engineering it was not a major venturous European policy de- beaide de Lesseps, now acclaim- his friends, quite unjustly.
from adjournment to resumptica ambassadors of all "They only call me in because
and never problem and Its construction pended on his ensuring at least ed by the
once dept... or kept. had been canvassed for many the friendly new rality
the name," he would say, of nations and surrounded by the of
sober. He appreciated the jap
crowd that ravagely. "I on making money the most cosmopolitan years by an 18th-century philo Britain; his support
'NO. USE' shortened sea sophical
had seen since the on my cases-loads of it, the world portance of the
group called the St canal was therstore never more
fall of Rome.
who is carning it? Not me, but is speech for the defendant, route to Asia; he foresaw the Simonians. They believed in the half-hearted.
11 noma
the the lers, was per to Britain of having a free love
From this high climacteric old Sir Henry. and much of their
"And the trouble is I can't greatest of his hostile Power alhwart the short
exreer and one. taken up with the Financial Institutions as a both principals, however, quick- cut, and he did not envisage endeavour (in which their whole did not favour the canal ly fell. Eugenie sailed back in really keep up with dear old for the annals of his profession.
wap a batter man the possibility of our being able leader Prosper Enfantin most because its construction
It did not please him, though. im her splendid yacht to the out- Dad. He Indennitely to keep a British nobly played his part) of find- perilled
"It's no use," he said, after the. the stability of the break
of the Franco-Prussian than I shall be,"
In fact, that was not really verdict went against him.
"TH garrison there.
ing the right bridge with whom Suez-Alexandria railway, and war and her eventual death in
unwilling to exile,
mar be De
involved true. Lesseps
Denck Free passage of the canal has Enfantin could consummate a ship-owners were unw
Curtis-Bennett was for
the shallower-draught himit in the disaster of the been
basic mystic marriage and so pro- provide years
the
that the now water- Panama
Not, perhaps, in · Canal and died dis-brilliant too, vessels
And yet he could have been. assumption of our Eastern and create the deity.
the same way as his father, Sometimes he was. Just how Middle Eastern strategy, and Europe having proved sterile course required at the cost of graced 25 years later.
fecta their
But he was appallingly effec- much he measured up to his existing
being Mr Beatty's book is a very now that we are faced with the in this respect they fetched up
1833, still rendered prematurely obsolete. useful guide to all who would live in squashing the Nor in the beloved but also hated father Alexandria, in necessity of
drowning painful
I'll tell you tomorrow. |witness-box, ¡iñ the Against
political and like to
троге know
of the praisat we have ruciully to
financial considerations so details of this great business acknowledge how right that
could Barrayed against him.de Lesseps and its publication now cynical and sage old man has
had only his personal qualities not be more timely. proved to be.
time
Wig
reap at
FERDINAND DE LESSEPS.
Charles Beatty. Eyre and Spottis woode. 308.
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