THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, JULY, -23, 1958.
A Churchill went on
a royal black-list
LET us recall the years when Randolph Churchill was ostracised from respectable society by Royal Command. The bitter years when it was known that the heir to the Throne would never visit any house where Randolph Churchill was received as a guest.
Taite Sir Winston's great- will be frittered away. But I great-grandfather, the Marquis can't help it; I must ve." of Blandford, Regency buck, and
later arth Duke of Marlborough. On the birth of a new child he
wrote as follows.
“My wife, my dear wife, the adored mother of my beloved child, suffer this innocent babe You have never heard of any class voters at the end of the to cement ouurdon, so that it Auch royal, velo? Ah, perhapa nineteenth century, how, in n may know no end. Love the frustration, using little Georgians for the sake of you are thinking of the wrong moment of Rándulph Churchill, Perhaps Queen Victoria's writing-paper your George, of your Blandford, you are thinking of a rumbust- at Windsor Castle, he scratched, of your faithful husband.” ious, egotistic reporter on world out a letter of resignation to his events;
certain ponderous, Prime Minister; Lord Salisbury, bull-necked figure with flushed Indigrant face which blusters nerfs your television Tron me tu time.
screen
I am referring lo
different Randolph.
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To a rail, ebullient Ittle man with sprouting whiskers. To a man who was Chancellor of the Exclquer and Leader of the House of Commons at the age of 30 and a paralysed husk
at 45.
To one of the modern world's Kreat trngle
names Lord Handolph Churchill, father of Sir Winston and grandfather of the present Mr Randolph.
Winston's plan
Then there was Lord Randolph's own elder brother, George Spencer, who later treame eighth duke. George's first marriage was not happy.
The bride Albertha, ked practical Jokes. At a Dienheim dinner party she placed bits of among the cheese. When soap George opened a stately door an Ink-pot would fall on his head,
Dofonder
There was Just one impor- tant error in this Lord Bland- ford's Irtier. The lady addressed was not his
She wife at all.
Not annaturally George began was the wite of a Dorset M.P.
to look elsewhere and thus it The filth duke and other came about that George's Before he inherited brother, Lord Randolph Chur- vagarics. he took a friend for a ride in extu, got into trouble with his roomy coach. He opened a royalty. But new the background is cupboard in the enach; it con- filled in by A. L. Rowse in rned a capital luncheon THE LATER CHURCHILLS wines.
The resignation was accepted. After 10 years in the wilderness Lord Randolph was dead.
(Macmillan, 35.).
Rowse gives new facts about
Sir Winston. (If the Germana
Frittered
with
George was fond of the pretty Welsh wite of Lord Aylesford -otherwise known as Sporting Jot, polo player, chempion, pig- slicker, and friend of the Prince of Wales inter Edward VII). had invaded in 1940 Churchill He opened another cupboard Unfortunately, the Prince was
tended to broadcast the grin in the coach, It held, a desk load of her too. fog: You can always take with 50 Bank of England notes When the Prince took Sport- cre with you," aud lo
rule of £1,000 cach which the lng Jor of on a tour of India, unoccupied Bellain umler marquis had just borrowed from George moved his horses to an triumvirate composed of Bevin, the banker Levy in retum for inn not far from Sporting Joe's Д good Beaverbrook, and himself.)
a promisc of £150,000 on us home and wile for father's death,
winter's hunting,
Bul Sporting Joe, tipped off by a letter, suddenly returned from India. The
result was
w
Existing history books tell you how Land Randolph Churchill He also gives a splendidly made himself the darling and entertaining survey of some less champion of the new working-" responsible Church.
He sighed "You see how the family ̈linonse fortune of ing
'Liz Taylor Takes A Busman's Holiday
Hollywood.
ELIZABETH
TAY By Michael Ruddy
LOR-looked radiant. Deeply tanned, she wore a pink silk suit, pearl ear-rings, and a small heart of diamonds on a fine platinum chain at
her throat.
The light blazed un a magni- feest diamond solitaire on her I land (I unly 20% carats -Mike suid 30 carats would be vulgar"). Od her right hand, third Ausserr, she wore a plain, wide wedding ring
Suld Eitzntarth Tedd Taulor tas Mike's, I shall wear it always." She closed her gues and her fingers drummed on the table,
One of The inst beautiful Women in the world had just told me that she would co produce and star in a romantic comedy, "a man's Holiday."
But I was mure interested in the woman herself,
'Liz Taylor
"For the next two weeks, we are staying in Turson and In Phoenix, Arizona, and then we will stay with my brother I asked her about the house, Howard at the seaside he is a
bli Spanish style villa farine blologist with Mike Todd Had leased", for her Scripps Instie of Oceano-
the
sand her children,
**
didn't
Quietly the sand: want to sing on there, 1 have taken a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel unli I And a small house.
MARTELL
Araphy."
the
Had the found it diffeult to get through her newest film
Cat on a Hot Tin Ruot"?
Mrs Mike Todd, as she pre- fers to be known, answered:
Very Fine воднас
MARTELL
.CORDON BLE. u
ato THREE STAR VBOP and EXTRA
Obtainable Everywhare
Sale Agents:-DODWELL & CO., LTD.
"Well, I got through it, 1 ti face clouded and added.
didn't 5/10
Yes, 11 was tough, but I'm told a very good picture. They sneak-previewed it cently find the audienCE sponse was wonderful,"
She Sings
re-
Fe-
that, strongly backed by the Prince, he threatened proceed- ings which would incriminole George Spericer.
What
Randolph could Lonl Churchill do? As อ rising he knew, that royal politician, favour was important.
Sequel
defended his panounced
He
Take
heed all
you men
This
From "The Dueling at the Kaserivan Mata” sumilihan to Nam Tich an Random Hvera
is not for laughs!
[IT'S HAPPENING NOW THE EVIDENCE IS IMPRESSIVE] ·
by ANNE EDWARDS
LISTEN. I am talking to that self-sufficient, self-satisfied character, the British Male. All those ideas you are just cottoning on to about the sexes being equal are as out of date as bloomers and bombasine. The new threat, boys, is not the equality of women - but the superiority of
women.
Already in the States, where women have had a head start on British women for years, a squeal has gone up from the men.
Serious and scholarly professors are writing serious and scholarly books with titles to make even a Brilish att upper lip quiver; titles like "The Natural Superiority of Women" and "The Decline of the America Molo."
These are serious treatises proving beyond doubt, with research and statistle behind_them, "that woman is a very superior creature indeed. Once having given woman on equal chance Ameri
can men are finding that she now aurpasses them -- In intelligence, in stamina, in ability, and in
power,
"The American woman." conclude the authorities, 24 whining the battle of the sexes,
"Scientist, who mudy human behaviour fear that the Ameri-
DOMINANT ANNE-
Walt Disney. "They are the
do better in Intelligence tests, the power of the purse to his anes who drag men along. If
have better business ininds, are
better car drivers, better at wile. Jearning Janguages, and know-
the
women Ike -the Leck with the men."
Women
on cart: of our car
decide how to love: "Men are absolule
All well, but says the "Eighty per cent flops at loving."
British Male with a superior sales are influenced by women" The three men who wrote ill-American women have said a spokesman for the Rootes Uut boldly. Lord · Randolph can male is now dominated by "The Decline of the American plways been allowed the upper Group. "It is not enough to have
brother.
In Britain Male" point out that women In hond. the American female.
we keep pleasant colours, you must have that if proceedings
We are the U.S.A. also hold the power a woman in her place,
pretty names for them too." were taken
he would publish drifting towards a social struc. In politics.
By the next elretion in 1900 We British stand by the The old myth about bad the leliers (passed on to him by
which the anturousture made up of he-women and there will be 3,250,000 more theory that a woman is only a women drivers is exploded. Only woman but a good cigar is two per cent fewer women fall stoke, Our women know that in the advanced · Drivers! testa, their place is in the home. The More women' than inen, pass the For of thing that's happening ordinary test at the first attempt, In America can't happen in Bri- Women own almost half tak. But listen, gentlemen, to the orall Diivately owned facts in this country.
written to Sporting
the lady')
Prince had
Joe's wife.
she-men."
I
The sequel: the Prince let it Le known that he would not set
In
The author of one
of the foot in any house that received books, Professor Ashley Mon- For over four years Lord tagu, who wrote "The Natural Randolph and his own lovely | Superiority of Women," American wife, mother of Sir Lendon this week.
"Most of id things which Winston, were ostracised from society.
have been said about women to their disadvantage," he says, "are false,"
And George's own marriage? He and Albertha parted, came together again. But then she played her final practieni joke. One morning George lifted his Had she completed, her co-silver dish cover at breakfast. act with M.G.M.?
Instead of tacon and eggs 'he "Yes, I have, but I have found a small pink baby doll. commitment for one picture for He left Albertha for good. She thom during the next
to know that Lady year." "she replied,
Aylesford had just quietly given birth to a son in Paris,
three
"But now, my sweet stepson (Mike Todd J.) and I will co-produce this comedy about abusdriver who takes off one spring moming from New York with his bus, and winds up in Hollywood, Florida..
Lip
"I piny a benity queen con- testant he meets and picks in Atlantic Cily. And I sing in this picture for the fint time in my career.
"I sing the theme song
and
a ballad. I'll probably record them in the bath tub."
Elizabeth-who will also direst, and co-star and distri- bute the Alm-added:
Close Friends
"I learned so mudi abou? production during Around the World in Eighty Days' fron Mike that I think I can apply the knowlodge."
Elizabeth said that while the Ohms, Liza, 10 months, and her Sons, Christopher, 3,
and
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Michael, 3, will stay in Holly- wood with their nurse and housekeeper,
for
"My brother, Haword, will lake them to the beach Weekends," the suld, Hand Debble and Eddie Fistier will see them--they Do my closest triends,"
'From now on, Elizabeth will be busy, "They had a million ideas about things they wanted to do," says the Todds' Japan- est Secretary, Midori Tsuji, "and they would have done thein
Never Forgot
During the 414 days (Febru ary 2, 1057, to March 22, 1050 when Milke died in a tragic air crash that they were married, they were apart only three times overnight.
Whether travelling от at home, Mike Todd never forgot his weekly Saturday night pre- sent for Ko
beautiful young
wife.
Says Midori
think Mes Todd knows the had a com, I pleto lifetime in 14 months.
Now she will bring up
har children, make movies and emiss Mr Todd very, very much."
Will work be Elizabeth Todd's panacen? Only time will tell....
FOOTNOTE: Lizo, who has hitherto Tehuped interviews
on
her personal and private Ufc, scotchol one rumour. "I am not, repeat NOT, writing my life story," she said,
was not
(Express_Service).
Stronger
'
women voters than men,
The spenders
the
lock in the country, and in a
And if you watch the pages
of women's magazines you will see that today people who want recent survey it was discovered Over 7,000,000 women In this to sell men's Bocks-appeal to that 75 per cent of the women country have jobs, and nearly wonen. I they want to sell owning stock knew what the 'halt that number Annual Report was about, and are married, only half the men did.
(3.770,000) beer-they appeal to women, I they want to sell men's bulis- they appeal to women,
+
'Women control 60 per cent of
- volets than men,
At the last census there were nearly 2,000,000 more women
The standard
al consumer purchases, and Ho then goes on to prove manage the funds in, 71 per cent that not only acc women constitutionally
of all American homes, stronger than
And
men, more able to resist disease, in nearly half of those the hus- braver, more energetic, no more hysterical, much less inclined to band has completely surrendered go of their nuls, but they also,
Ay Romb
will be
Avopped wiston, To [not si
Inmedy
Cummings
**Comrade Ambassador! Listen to THIS eze—'! am a sacurity guard on the "ambanaу staff_and_l_shall_got an alamio "hand-gronado in the breakisat cavier. Siguos "M*1**
And Britain
She's Q formidable power- of success in G.C.E., according the new woman JA เง to the Ministry of Education, is Professor Ashley Montagu,
country. But in the eyes of the alightly higher for girls.
British woman "still under- privileged compared with the American woman."
HE
Her control of the purse strings in fantastic and growing. It is sizengih
She is "not fully aware of her reckoned that women buy 80 per weakness."
relation to man's cent of all
She is "ubject to consumer goods. Nearly £6,000,000 a
man-made myths about her week's inferiority." She is "nearer to spent on advertising to them, as the Australian aboriginal than ngainst £1,000,000 ia men.
And their economic power is
spreading.
Women
Las
any
any women I have met,"
Maybe we are. But Just you house agent will tell you wait, you British Male, Just you decide on the house. Women
decide on TV and films: "They wait, Henry Higgins, Just are the masters of the TV set You. and the threatre-goers," ARYA
Wait.
ROUND-UP
HOME FOR IMMORTAL "FEW"
FIGHTEEN years after the Battle of Britain, tie R.A.F.'s. Im- mortal "Few" havo found a permanent home. From V.E. Day onwards, Battle of Britain aircrews have kept in touch by annual reunions on September 16-the day which marked the climax of the battle. In March this year the Battle of Britain Fighter A130- clation came into being, with the object of looking after the welfare of members and thoir depandanls and preserving the memory of alrmen who died in the battle, Next step was to find a permanent home, and this problem has been salved by the R.A.F. Reservca Club In Mayfair, London, who have offered the Association use of. the club, with the choice of becoming full or associate members. ROMAN STATUE FIND BY STUDENTS
A BROKEN statue similar to the famous Corstopitum lion has been found by a party of Durham University students who are carrying out excavations at Corstopitum Camp, near Corbridge- Northumberland. The frat lion was found at the beginning of this century. It is regarded as one of the treasures of the Roman Wall and is preserved in the Coratopltum Museum. The significance of the lion has been a puzzle to archaeologists who have had dimenity In explaining is symbolism. The second, llon may help to solve the mystery. It will be repaired and restored and then it may be handed over by the Ministry of Works to another Museum of Roman remains.
RATINGS QUEUE FOR TOT OF MILK
Rut, once the traditional drink of sailors, is a thing of the past at the Royal Nával barracks, Chatham, Light ale, which ousted rum, is now fighting losing battle against-milk. A.. "mechanical cow" has been installed in the barracks canteen, and Bailors queue for ice-cold millic at Od, a carton. "More than 420 half- pint ecrions are bought overy day by the sallora," said an officer.".
SAVING A LAST WINDMILL.
ONCE there were 30 or 40 Kent windmills on the Banham Downs,
between Canterbury and Dover. Now they have all gone! except the Black M. Its tenant is Mr John Kirby, 00, who has completed, 50 years of service at the mill, Mr Edward Manperio 70, the owner, is trying with the support of Kent County to keep his mill in perfect working order,