THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY JULY
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
AT HOME:
THIS week I found a house
where the cult of Victoriana was rampant. It was the home of Roy Boulting-producer of many successful films, including Pri- vate's Progress, Brothers In Law, and I'm All Right, Jack-and_his wife Skattie, better known as Enid Boulting, the model.
The Boultings penchant for Vic- toriana knows no inhibitions. In their house at the S.W.3 end of King's Road, Chelsea, there is no chichi decor "reminiscent of the Victorian era. It is the real article, as the living-room proves with its chaises longues, fringed poufs and winged chairs. No fewer than eight oc- formidable casional tables support a collection of statuettes, paperweights, spotted cats and Toby juga..
With six Boulting children and a
poodle also in residence, the glass domes and the wax fruit live a perilous existence and only utter dedication would cohabita- attempt such a tion.
Mr Boulting dislikes modern architecture and thinks it is "a complete negation of all that stands for human individuality." This goes for interiors, too. which he described as "cold and characterless."
IT'S COSY [IS wife adheres to his Hviews, although
GLIMPSE INTO THE HOMES
OF PEOPLE WITH A FLAIR FOR INTERIOR DECORATION
TODAY: THE ROY BOULTINGS
Strictly Victoriana
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for the Boultings
BY BARBARA ANNE TAYLOR
to the 1800's and all that in her water colour studies of Victorian objets d'art.
A trance-like portrait of concerned, Mr Boulting surrounded by a sky full of wildly flapping hawks stares hypnotically over the living-room.
He seems to have one re- modern houses aren't cosy, 1 adore Victoriana. My ideal servation where modernity room wouldn't be quite as in design is
Sarah Bern- which is painting. crowded as hardi's, but almost.”
He has many fine pictures I suggested that some in his collection including fine examples of modern works by Epstein, Pasmore, interior design were to be and Bratby. "I think that with a seen in many American climate like ours one wants films. "Horrible," snapped to be cosy," she said, "and Mr Boulting.
her arguments against modern design were rather less dramatic.
THE LUXURY
BATHROOM SCHOOL
by MEL
Mrs Boulting also paints and is tenaciously faithful
Battle 100
in
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Underneath sits a bird whose Happing days are over, and who wide-eyed through his glass box at. this small museum in the now, stuffed and groomed, peers King's Road.
Boult
Ings in thele
living room
a formid able collec-
tuettes,
spotted cats
jugs.
Teddy's Ambition
-He Wants To Ride On & Putterfly's
By MAX TRELL- NARÊ was surprised to End 1k that his friend Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, who waɛ-usually": big and rhand and fat, was st this moment no larger than small-sized peanut, aber kan
“Hr Matin, the Magnificent Magician, made me small,” e plained Teddy, "I've got a wonderful idea!"
"For being "anali?"" | Knarf asked.
"Yes, I'm going to catch Butterfly and ride on her back,” sud Teddy
hard
"Butterfies ard
catch,” said Knart, whi
“So are Lions, sald Teddy. But I'd rather catch, a Butter fy. I don't think I'd like to ride on a Lion's back."
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"Where are you going to catch" this Butterfly?". Kharf, asked.
In the park. Do you want to come along?" Teddy inquired.
Teddy patched by the
· Butterfly's broken wing,
.a
Teddy stayed on the path. When he reached the black Went alone
rock he turned in the right and Mr Boulting, who does not brought back from America.
Knarf said he didn't feel like there, standing quietly on the take snuff or wear pince-nez, Mrs Boulting's modelling often going out with Teatly to watch daisy, was the Butterly.
She had yellow wings and put a record on the gramophone takes her abroad where she hun by to catch a Butterfly,
A few beautiful big eyes. She wore which ashamed of itself for not continues her untiring quest for Teddy went out alone.
period pieces.
minutes later he was in the park, ren slippers, She carried being a phonograph--is discreet-
pushing his way through the small shopping basicet ülled ly hidden behind a curtain.
She has an incredible colles-inlades of grass that rose up all with honey cakes. tion of Victorian paraffin lampe around him like giant trees, "Design these days
metal is with curlicued sterile and stereotyped," he painted 'china bowls, sata, and quite without, plested malin' shades. originality." He wife nodded conceded that agreement, brit "it would be nice to have one modern room with tong low tables.
and skins and that sort of thing."
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POSTER CULT
When you're as small as a pea put, everything looks higher than it ever looked before..
Teddy met two or three Ants. Since Mr. Boulting had ex-They looked as big as Cats. They
pressed such strong views On modern design I asked him what kind of house he would build himself if he decided to do so.
"Of course I would build modern, what else could one do?" he replied.
As his "personal protest the Toulouise-
It was clear that Mr Boulting's Aagainst Lautrec
cult." poster
Mr views on modern living were as Boulting has joined the 19th eclectic as his home. century poster cult, and bas a
which collection large
-London Express' Service).
he
marched along one behind the other, carrying huge, seeds on their backs. The seeds looked nis big as watermelons."
Softly, very softly, Teddy crept toward her.
"It's going to be easy to catch her he said to himself.
Then Teddy pounced!
It wasn't any trouble catch-- ing her at all He had her! She didn't even try to fly sway!
She couldn't fly away. Teddy discovered why the next second. any Broken wing
"Have you fellow's seen Butterflies around?" Toddy ask- cd the Ants,
answer
One of her wings was broken. Teddy shook his head.
But they were too busy to Here at all ready to him. They marched take a dying trip on a Butter- fly's back and the Butterfly's straight on.
wing was broken.
Huge grasshopper Then Teddy met a Grasshop. per who looked as big as Horse.
So instead of taking a ride on the Butterfly's back. Teddy gave the Butterfly a ride on his ""There's a Butterfly standing back. He brought her home. on the second daisy to the right Then he and Knarf fixed her after you come to the black broken wing with a bit of paper rock," answered the Grasshop- and a speck of glue.
per after Teddy had asked him ""Thank you," said the Butter-. If he had seen one. "Just stay By, and went filtering off the
on this path. You can't miss window sill, back toward the her."
park.
Teddy hadn't noticed before "And there goes my ride on that he was on a path. But a Butterfly's back," said Teddy. now he saw that the Grasshop But he really wasn't sorry per was right. The path that about what had happened, went winding in and out among im't every day in the week' that the grass blades was about as mybody-even a plused Teddy wide as a thread.
Bear-gets a chance to ex a "Good luck,” said the Grass- Butterfly's banken wing so she hopper, and he hopped off.
can fly again!
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America The Continent
This graph shows the percentage of rotại ules of toilet preparations bought
MEN, YOU'RE BOUND TO BE
BEATEN BY SWEET-SCENTERS
THE last bastion of Eng. London fide; much tends to „lish male prejudice to hang around a man at the end of his day's work far from be stormed in the bath enticing.
room.
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by man.
our strong, so the leader,
in sales is an American invader,
Old Spice, which is estimated to have 27 per cent of the market,
"I wouldn't want men to use Yardley, who entered the anything sickly or over-scented men's toiletries feld with bear's But there are distinct but there are plenty of mildly, grease for the hair in 1770, have signs of cracking in the perfumed lotions on the market." Just changed their packaging to
formidable carbolic-pun-
gent barrier of virile
'Essential
dramatic tan; black-and-white containers, but Lentheric Bick to their traditional bottles. They Paula have a useful and compact said: “I men don't plastic travel case containing and bother to put on after-shave after-shave, briliantine More than 2500,000 a month when going out with me, why Tanbark.cologne, is now being spent in England should I make an effort to ap on men's tallet preparations and pear attractive for them?" they are still a long way behind She has very decided views America and the Continent. about deodorants. "Absolutely
essential," she said firmly.
opinion which insists that Dark-haired model, "all one has to do is wash." Noble,
The totni last. Jose spent on after-shave, cologne,
tale,
Apart from the smell, after-
Perhaps the most significant pointer to the maress story of men's preparations in the fact that Simpsons, the West End store, have just brought out their own men's toilet range
Called West One It has four
deodorant, etc., was £6,500,000. shave has a genuine functional Items-after-shave, cologne, hair purpose. It rets all the Bomp out tonic and electrie pre-shave,
Big seller of your face, tones up the skin packed in black miniature
and acts as a mild antiseptic to whisky bottles.
Optimism is high in the trade, nicks and rezar sores.
One manufacturer says he ex- Pre-electric shave lotion, on
Defroster
pects it to be 215 million by the other hand, prepares your ADGET of the week in this 1002 and another scorned this 65 pessimism, The biggest seller is face for shaving by dissolving
grease on the skin, and making
weather is an ingenious
after-shave but there is a signi- the bristies stand up to be device for defrosting your frant rise 30 deodorant sales moins and to be timerator.
Dr. Zyginamit a Polish LX- involver
150 per cent up on last year,
A prime reason for the success airman with a degree in blo of the sweet anall for men la chemistry whose Ambassador women. At Caristmas and other preparations have made a size gift ocenalons they buy after able impact on the top-price- shaye and other preparations for range market.
about ther men-folk and start a habit He is very inslabent
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A portrait of Mr. Boulting surrounded by a sky full of wildly flapping hawks stores hypnotically from over the fireplace.
Rupert leans forward, and picki up what he has seen. N scklace he whapers...** What
beautiful thing I And there are
a couple of gings. Beppo, you the 14% mazal. You must have been the theff. And this in your hidey." the
hole for all the things you have?
Fabrics to Delight. every woman!
CEPEA Grafton
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