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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, -1958.
I'M NO FEMME FATALE,
M
ISS MAUREEN SWANSON said
I
sho was no shrink- ing violet (with which ngreed) but she had been keeping quiet on a certain matter for fear of causing embarrassment. Now, she sho
thought, it was
time
stopped saying "no com- ment" and spoke up for herself.
Her friendship with Viscount Ednam had been the subject of so much gossip that obe now It W09 fell obliget to talk. only fair to herself.
Upset
She sat very straight on a gllt chair under a picture by Con- Elable in her brand new house in Belgravia. She wore a grey Balmain dress.
"I am accused," she said, "of being mercenary, a title-hunter, La snob. There are continuaf Enide references to how much my house cost, how many furs I have and what my jewellery is worth. I have to myscit, don't I?"
defend
I shifted three heavy volumes of of tho Encyclopaedia Antiques and опе mink coat from the settee and sat down to listen (under a painting by P. Nasmyth. 1818).
says Miss Swanson
LIMELIGHT by Thomas Wiseman
hint of tears to come: they times I think I will and the could, one felt sure, melt hearts whole thing and give him up. as if they were just so many But I love him madly, I adore him and that has nothing to do pats of butter,
with him being a viscount and wealthy, it really hasn'1"
"I am terribly upset," sald Mlea Swanson and in her distress got up and walked to the Adam fireplace above which hung a glit fromed mirror in which slio
herself a gave cursory examination.
saw
Satialed with what she (and why not?) Miss Swanson turned to me, and sakt: "I am not a femme fatait. I am not a husband matcher. I am terribly burt that my friendship Lord Ednam has been to
with
wickedly misinterpreted. I feel very strongly about him, very deeply. I hope one day it will be possible for us to marry. love him." (Pause while lumps In throats are cleared all round.)
1
"People think," said Miss Swanson in a volee which the Victorian novelists would have described as tremulous, "people think that I broke up Billy's That is not true." I marriage, and, have been so hurt by what the people say about me that some-
Miss Swanson's large, beauti-
wide were eyes ingenuous and contained
ful
Miss Swanson picked up Bubbles, the minute Japanese chin dog, who looks Just like Eartha Kitt and was given to her by Lord Ednam; she held him plott and then planted an affectionate kiss on his nose.
said, "and so do I."
"Billy needs affection," she
Bubbles bubbled with delight.
"People make jokes about me," said Miss Swanson, "they don't take me seriously. When I go to Pinewood they call out to me, 'Sorry, we've got no lords today. Well, that sort of thing is very upsoiting to a girl. suggests onc only interested in lords because they are lords, which is an awful thing to say."
At this stage her mold, Ingrid, came in with the poached eggs which Miss Swanson eats before her nightly performance in The Happiest Millionaire.
THE
"I am a career girl," said Misa Swanson, "I am very shy, but I want to I'm also an egolist. be an absolutely fabulous per- sonality. People say 1 dream of coronets and ermine, but what I really dream about is curtain call to
taking
The
this
plause." thunderous, ear-shattering op-
possibility of particular dream materialising is not as remote as most people might think.
Miss Swanson is n fascinating girl with more then a modicum of talent she fa also, I am sure, I think she quite a handful. would be wasted us a viscount- ска. But she is the stuff that star, for better or worse, are usually made of.
PRIVATES' (DEMOB)
HAVING
PROGRESS
managedy mast profitably, to infuriate the Army with their flm Private's Progress, the Boulting Brothers are now planning a sequel to it. Entitled I'm All Right, Jack.... it will probably succeed in infuriating the TUC and Big Business.
The story deals with the mis- adventures of two demobbed soldiers who deelde to set up in business. The most profitable enterprises they can find to go into aro Big Business and the trade unions.
COMMON
MAUREEN SWANSON
"I want to be an absolutely fabulous person.”