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HE people of the
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I WISH I AM A MAN, SAYS MISS MARTINE!
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London.
ARTINE CAROL who is the most shapely, the least masculine, the most dimpled import to reach these shores recently (including Liberace), looked at me and said:-
"I wish I am a man."
She expected me to look shocked, I think, and i did, I think.
"You don't,” I said. "You mustn't." "But to. Always I wish 1 am a man.
why."
I tell you
"Tell me, please." "Because the man has so much more freedom. can do what he likes--almost."
"It Jo not
good for •
women from Europe to
marry ал
American
Man."
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OF
By W. K. BLISS
!
"i mean he can have many lady friends and he is not called a bad man.
"But if we do it we lose the reputation. We are calleci
we are called
what is it in English?" (Like many bilingual and fascinating Frenchwomen her English sometimes fails her conveniently.)
I gave her a selection of appropriate words, which incidentally describe many of the charac- fers she has played in French films.
She said: "Ah, English, it is A beautiful
language."
The eyes twinkle
I was beginning to expect the unexpected from her but hardly this.
It is the language of love. It is better then French for love."
“Nonsense,"
It is true. I tell you. I know."
I decided not to argue with a recognised Buthority, though I detected a twinkle in her eyes which are like large, green, shiny grapes (from the best vineyards.)
She returned briefly to her desire for a sex chunge
"Oh, if I were a man I would I would One of those eloquent Gallie gestures ompleted the sentence.
I assured her I was very happy about the
fact that she was not a mou.
Furt
1 felt sure I was speaking on behalf of Jeast
Englistumen, 60,000,000 Frenchmen, Americans even Algerians, and men of all the 20 countries she visited on a recent world tour.
INSPIRED FORMALITY
over the years of their car. ecupied a stall instead of a strain, und young, strong
and
young Queen's reign take pride in one who was called on unexpectedly to оссиру a difficult position. and who has made a great success of it.
andl box at the theatre, or gone to resilient as Elizabeth II is, she see her doctor when he was is not unaffected by them.
R
On patient in hospital?
These vecasions she has to be closely watched for algns of
Has any other shown such a
delightful impromptu touch as to Windsur turn from a canter in Great Park to rec her slater ver the Aseul course-te the Arend joy of the surprised work-
strain.
Her brief cruise in the Medi- terranean was prescribed by her doctors as necessary pick-me-
the arduoILS up after
tour in Nigeria.
W makes tours and other
She came to the Throne a wife and mother, hut yet a men' girl to most of her subjects because of her spirited Palace officials are unanimous Royal duties harder than before youthfulness, Now, after that the greatest single factor in her development as Head of the four years, they have seen State
WDS the Commonwealth her acquire poise and cer- tour that ended triumphantly tainty, a maturity that has two years ago not dulled her youthful
galety.
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her gave sense of confidence
is that the Queen is always in th
glare of a publicity merciless that grows ever more fierce.
Living In Public
TIME
that, and Elizabeth II has had to live her public life before half the nation and sometimes before the world as well.
Publicity also affects the up- She bringing of her children. slestres them to be brought up neither in cotton wool nor in film
star atmosphere.
It is her own idea that Prince Charles is taken out occasionally for bus rides in London or trips on the Tube. He enjoys these the more because he is incognito or nearly always so. In due course, Princess Anne will also sample these simple delights.
is
The Duke of Edinburgh firmly with the Queen in these ideas. Naturally he has much mort freedom in private life
than she has
ted
by LOGAN GOURLAY
("The Japanese are very polite and very passionate, they say,.") also remarked that al- though she was a woman, a target for
had calumay, stic in having fairly Life, including 10 n gagements and two marriages,
The iris
trio in the
Mayfair club where we were dining played "Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing" not at Miss Carol's request while shi talkert about her first marriage to a wealthy American spekbroker. Stephen Crane,
Love song
"It lasted for three years. Bul then I have to get iny freedom.
No
take nothing. No alimony. money.
like Not
thove Hollywood wives, Not like Lana Turner." (Misi Turner was married twice to Mr Crane and twice divorced.)
"I make Stephen very pirksed."
"And pleased."
Bur-
was very churning. But
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the money I make” (Now about
€40,000—a film).
"Do you like being directed by your husband in Älms?”
"Yes and no Sometimes ho is more tough with me than with another actress.
"And if act bad one day in the studios 1 om still hearing about it when we go home,"
"What does he think about the famous bath scenes of yours? And the nude scence?"
“Sometimes be 19 attle jealous. But he does not mind if he is deceting.**
"Didn't you
time say last you were in London that there would be
more bath scenes?"
"Yes. 1 mean "
"So there won't
this 'Im you'
here?"
Paue.
be any in going to make
"Only two. You 200-everyone write to say you must not stop. It is dificult, But also in the Aim I have a chance to act.”
Invitation
The Alm ig called "Action of a woman The Tiger"s being produced marty 071
Kenneth Harper and directed by Terence Young.
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it is not good for from Europe American man.
"He is too young.
# Like Her husband is not astociated. "He wants the mother.
but he trusts MCSSTS. Нагрет and Young
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As she floated on size three shoes out of the club she gave meu parting invitation.
Not the wife."
She Ls now married 15 Christian Jacques,
IA who French, who is
amature 50, and who was married three tunes before,
"It is good that he is older than I am. In every sense,
"My own age? Ah, you can say that I am 32. It is not my exact age. But i sullable, n'est-ce pas?”
A cue
Even an American would have taken the
hantry. I said
Hal-
Cue for that 20 would
be just as suitable.
"No, no. Thirty-two is right. My husband agrics,"
She daintily forked a piece of pepper steak into her beau- Uful mouth, ruminated for A moment and talked about the Influence of her husband, who is also her film director.
"Before I met him I know what mixed up.
do not want, I am
"You know, once when I am VITY
the sad 1 walk into Seine." (She was rescued by- fore she got very wet)
tem-
"You see I am a Basque. And the Basque
people are peramental. Up or down.
"But Christian help me have better balance,
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"And he teach me many things. About
ntler looking the money for example,
"When I'was writing tha cheque I used to always forget to fill the other bit... tho...
"Counterfoil."
fill the counterfoil how much I have
so I know spent from
A tremendous ahe could
He can attend informal events
"Counterfoil. It is • beau- not otherwise have altained in so raÌME was, not so
ago, (particularly youth club lunc-tiful language. He make long
me Two other points are
short a time. She fully realises when the monarch was seen tons seldom reported); he can noted. She is now so photo- this. Gone were the occasional only by the immediate assembly, mix more frcely, talk more genic-so dignified and touches of shyness apparen: on most of whom had a more or openly, and is thus in an ex- graceful in pageantry, so her earlier Canadian visit.
less distant view.
cellent position to apprise the Queen of the ways of her world charming and unaffected on But such tours, pleasant as less formal occasions. And they are,
which she appears to understand so thoroughly. she has developed her sense of clothes,
She is responsive to com- pliments about her clothes
(what young woman would not be?) and is well aware
that her people like to see
her well-dressed.
In her first Christmas
broadcast as Queen she pro-
mised to dediente herself
Now, the
cinema, the press impose a very great camera and TV have altered all
FROM WELFARE STATE TO
“WINDFALL” STATE?
By A Special Correspondent
If so, Britain is compromising
to service, and these self No place on earth could Lottery with its Premium Bond
be less like Las Vegas, investment plin. Other claim with fon 011 enormous scale, years have seen a full im mecca of gambling in the that there would be nothing to and with an enthusiasm
a lottery scheme being shows no sigm of 'abating. plementation of that pro- | USA, than the pleasant operated unofficially to provide
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an in- a English township of Here. the Hereford coffers with "gifts." Alternatively, is it dedication to duty as strong ford. Yet the honest citi-
herent and not necessarlly "gin- her father's and her zons of that West of Eng- ever happens to the idea, it is
Whoover is right, and what ful" quailty of human nature
to be fascinated by Chance? grandfather's.
land town are arguing the certainly of some significance merits of a municipal that, hard on the Introduction gambling organisation. of new betting legislation in Britain and Exchequer blessing The proposal is for a lottery of the lottery principle, some
ono should start thinking of
More Freedom
T the same time there (or perhaps a football poll) putting local government inte
has been more freedom sponsored by the City Council the game as well.
AT for herself and for others, and yielding profits that would
It would be going too far to be used to reduce the local rate,
say she has altered the pat-
This stands now at a high
OLD ARGUMENTS
If it is, would not the gam- bling urge be, better harnessed to publie welfare, since it would continue to be exercised any- way?
These are old arguments, but that is no reason why a people abould despair of the question ever, being settled. Recent events in the United Kingdom
stimulato Britons in
tern of Court life, but she figure, and the more sanguine has inspired
Perhaps Britain is witnessing abould gradual enthusiasts believe that a lot the first signs of that one their efforts to be honest with changes and a relaxing of ters Behemo would produce political wit has called the thomstives. formality without any onough money perhaps. ay, birth of the Windfall Ette" in abrupt break with tradition, bring the
much as £50,000 a year to the Welfare State.
and she has made some ad- siderably. justments to have more time with her children.
rato down cont
Or is
For my part-and I am one of the minority who find gam- Britain beginning bling a bore I should much clumsily and diffidently, prefer the courtship of Lady Some say the Council has no straighten out its thinking on Luck to be directed towards chanco of mulating Me
tho ratos and laxoS mumbline?
have to done her Christmas shopping in a tho Exchequer, who has pro
now hotplata and the ike, crowded London store? Has any posed what many, pooplo, con- Is it a man-made evil that inload,of feathering the squilla other Taken”: the wheel of her aider to be almost a National cani and ought to be costlierisci nest of ta bændur,
Hajany 、olher British-Queen | Macmillan, the Chancellor of the whole difficult; queation of redil Da De to putling úpl
"Before we go work in your studios
we
to Spain. You
go
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location
must come to Spain. You must come to visit me."
Where will you be staying? "At a hotel called the Sexi. It is true. You and me at the Sext. Can you belleve it?"
I said I'd try.
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