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TURNING POINT
WHAT decides the course of one's life? Life can be plotted calmly and calculatedly, with an ambitious goal firmly in mind-or it can be changed irrevocably by absolute chance. Four prominent people were asked to trace the turning point in their lives. Mme. Leon Volterra, widow of the wealthy Parisian theatre magnate and racehorse owner (but simply Suzy to the racing crowds), answers questions put to her by JOHN CRUESEMANN. And tells how her husband's death affected her life-and its pattern.
Even at 16, racing excited me
by
SUZY VOLTERRA
T
·PART III
land" "What, now?? I asked. Yes, at once." he answered an
if it were the most natural thing in the world. And within half an hour wo left,
Then again my husband had a superatiion about the colour green, This woa and for we Because, as my tilends like "to point out, I have cată eyes, so green sufla me. But such Was my husband's (celing that ho would never allow the colour, not even in the stuge, sccuěty, of his theatres.
One day when we set off for the races he spotted some' zreen feathers. in my hat; "Take It off at unce" he cried in digney Mat could bring bad luck.”
I look the hut off....but the horse lost tie zacs all, the same. Besides racing I enjoy: the easy, casual pleasures of life... 1ke fishing, for example, which gives me a feeling of peace. And salling too that I love. I hate solitude though. But I try to be alone when I want to bé, that is when I feel depressed.
Luck
Then I think you need to be on your own. It's like this for me when I have had a und speil at the races. After all, you can- not win all the time, however lucky you may be. Then when suffer disappointment 1 go home quietly and make myself my favourite drink which happens, quite truly, to be English feá - several cups, very strong,
Then 1 repose myself by watching television or, better still playing gramophone re- cords of my three great favourites. Bing Crosby, Jean Sablus, and Maurice Chevaller, 1he last two being friends ·0% mine.
"Comfort, yes... but ostentatious luxury would embarrass mo "'*
under my late husband's colours riske, no fun in fe. The great (although by then I had my thing. isto, have a gani and And maybe I look at the own) as a souvenir of him. And follow it through to the end, so photo Maurice has sent to me I hope to continue for a long time
LIKE a full life. I enjoy the challenge of the unexpected. And I love I
my business... When my husband died 12 years ago he had recorded in his will the wish that I should keep up the stable and continue with the stud farm, as he had planned to do. That wish of his gave me great en- couragement. But I had the intention to do so anyway as a tribute to him.
But the beginning way hard. I still very thin and our family After a malince we were passing knew nothing about the actual doctor advised my mother to cafe-bar near the Opera, business of racing. absolutely train me as a dancer, because much frequented by trainers, nothing. I have learned by ex- that would develop me best. Jockeys, and even sometimes by perknee. And I still have a lot So I was sent to the Theatre owners, and I remarked to learn, but 1 am not afraid of National de L'Opera, where I Leone: "I would so finding things out.
learned classical dancing at the ballet school. However, I must admit it: I was never struck. I did not have the divine spark, although managed to pass all my examinations.
I can, well remember the first time I ever went to the races. My uncle took me to Auteuil. I was 16 at the time.
There was jumping, which 1 don't like. I prefer Flat racing. But I realised even then how the imosphere of racing moved and excited me.
HealthTM
stage-
My own beginnings hat, of
deal to I owe a great . Yet course, nothing 10 do with
those years, for they gave me racing. At the age of 11 I was the superb health and case which I have ever since enjoyed. When I first met my husband he sug gested that I take a year's holi- day from dancing: but. I knew I would never go back.
to
like to
know about all this racing for it draws me somehow.
"I beileve that one day I will
own a blg stable," I was 10 at that time, and I soon forgot the remark. But when later on my Jile turned out as it did, Leone recalled that saying. It is quite truc
You see, I have premonitions and 1 follow thein, For instance in 1955, two weeks before the Derby, I received an offer to sell 1 half my interest in Phil Drake. I had a feeling the horse would win: I had a good trainer and a good jockey. And twice my husband find sold or partly sold I gave this interest in a horse that n few weeks later won the Derby.
I determined not to m third time, I raced Phil Drake
My best friend in my "early days was a girl colled Leone.
Phil Drake won;
to be protected, by my husband, or which he has writion: "For Then again just before the
Suzy, who has carried on with' Grand Prix de Paris I received His death appalled me; the success the fine enterprise another offer from an American, truth about his linges had been storted by her husband with a very good one, I tore the cable hidden from me. So great was such courage. From her friend, up. And Phil Drake won again. my love of life and for him that Maurice.' And I think: That Of course, I am superstitious, even though he had had to keep is real encouragement because but I don't allow this to dom to our flat for many months, it comes from á man I admire. nate my fe. I was born a the mere idea of his not being And after that I am ready to Parisienne. Bul my, grandfather there never occurred to me, go out again. There is a good was Rumanian and my grund- He was gay and easy, young dinner. possibly, with good malher Polish, Possibly this for his age. Despite the 23 years friends. I forget about the 16 life seemed worries. And I think of the lay blood accounts parily for gap between my zest in Ille. Certainly
It perfect.
He gave me immense next race, explains my love of Russian confidence. And he could bo-n food and music.
marvellous mixture of husband, friend, and father, for my, rezi Tather had died before I was
born.
Capital
My capital is in my horses, t were to have several bad
rcing seasons in succession 1 an not sure if I could carry on. I leave just enough for me to live in reasonable comfort but not in estentatious luxury, which would only embarrass me,
In fact, if I were as
is sometimes reported hate it. There would
Sadness
I hold that a "wife should follow her husband in all things, I remember, Zor, instance, one afternoon when my mother, to whom I owe a lot, had come for rich as tea in our Paris apartment my I would. husband suddenly arrived and no announced: "We are off to Scot-
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New York.
new sunshine
girl has, unlike that sad little song, no teardrops in her eyes. She is blonde, beautiful and bright. What's more, she is British.
Susan is her name and she is married to Michael Wilding, who is starring on Broadway in the comedy Mary, Mary.
When I went to visit Susan she was dressed in scarlet and gold and on her head she wore a scarlet scarf. "I have just been to a funeral," she ex- plained. And never have I seen a more sensible post- funeral outfit.
un embodied the spirit of that age-old cry "The King is Dead Long Live the King!"
So does Susan,
Wilding
Mrs Wilding's past
-she
coins a
new word for it
I came back to New York after A three-week holiday in
SUSAN WILDING
-First swim- ming lessons, now acting
classes.
President Kennedy few to his bedside and the nation has been given minute-to-minute reports and load my best friend Bedford, George Weldentold, the BACHELOR GAY a stone lighter temper intact. Duchess of Buccleuch, on his progress.
She explained that her dict was Cedric Hardwicke and new, fun and thorough:
Henry Cubitt.
A
Sam Rayburn is tough, the old rough, burly man of her fourth husband but she has America. He makes you feel, that loved them, all, Like so many barefoot be elimbed over rocks
It's called The
Peppermint
intelligent and financially ince- and jumped ravines to get to Lounge. All you do to get thin CHEERFUL
quickly is to haunt the Pepper- mint Lounge and dance the
Directions for the Twist and
Sir
Mr
seen
pendicis women I have talked to school. Intely, she does not really be- lleve in marriage or in divorce, Bam held the Speakorship of Twist, and dismisses her past as "hop- the House of Representailves penstance, happenstance."
longer than any other man fo
HAVE just history. The job is known dimple-stand la one place and BUSINESSWOMAN the second most powerful in the make
Khrishna Menon, who the kind of movements is here as the chief of the Susan 'la on asiute business- United States.
you would ordinarily make if woman. In London, she is welt
trying to dry your Indian delegation to the known for the Bats and houses
with a face towel after United Nations. Christmas dip in the Ser
He is no Liberal, coming from you were she buys, renovates and decor the South, and he wept publicly back ales for renting purposes. But when Lyndon Johnson, his great a
He was uperatod, on recently lost the nomination to pentine. she cannot continue this businers friend,
for a blood clot, but today here unless she takes up citizen- Jack Kennedy.
The Peppermint Lounge is his diamond-sharp mind 18.0 ship papers which would mean
"Mr Som" was long known small and dark. clearing her English nasela.
It is aliunted clear as ever, in spite of thred as Washington's most cligible deep on the West Side. It looks large holan that were bored in bachelor, although he married a bit like the back room of a hin head during the operation, in his youth for a period of just bar in a Western movie. But. Ambanindor Menon chione a is favourits instead of the poker game and Jewish hospital in the Bronx for saving used to echo through the the Can-Can girls, a non-stop his operation, It Is famed for halls and committee rooms of band plays for too many people the work of its brain specialists. the capital. It was brief: "If in too litle space.
want to go along - get
under o year,
But Susan to bulay. She has been taught to swim since she arrived in New York some six weeks ago and now she plans to attend seling classes. She does I not intend to become an actress, (ị gave that up when I was a
You Rirl some 20 years ago when along." my directòr triod to kiss me," she said with a laugh.
'MR SAM'
THE TWIST
JOURNEYING to London
next week is a most remarkable young man known hereabouts as "The Dormouse" because he is a mixer of sicop.
His name is Norman Hickmion and, at 31, he is known as one of the must successful Indepen- dent Wall Street brokers.
"The Dormouse" is coming to London for the wedding of his word. Caroline Knott, to Prince Veri Windischgraetz.
The last time I saw "The Dormknuse" in Lundon he was at a wedding-he was usher at Plors Dixon's marriage to Duncan Bendya's daughter. 11ke that girl we have all heard But "The Dormousó" is rather
about "always a bridesmaid and never a bride."-
He is the most popular young Menon is full of cheer and a bachelor in New York society, for Most of the young girls and room la filled with flowers. He he entertains lavishly in the boys dress. In tight trouem and talked to me about his journey European fashion, No cakes and
Fredericton ellier dance together, or muco to
19 recolve hamburgers on the rumpus room often, alone,
n honorary degree as fluor for Mr Hickman. Doctor
Low from the... Ke kos a vast apartment ovore The visiting English love the University of New Brunswicka
looking the East River with THIS is a sad, week for THEY any here that there place and join in the Twist with. “
three realdent servants and a THE
the Democrata, for are two kinds of digte, fini wonderful abandon our Ho covels, degrees with the drawing-room of white and gold. The chairs are covered in tlgar their beloved Mister Sam" those that make you lono people show once they have same avkitty that some mon kits and the walls are a soft
crossed a sca. English visitors covet richen. This is the first lies gravely ill in a Dallas weight and those that make in the last few days have bean he has received on the Western as sin. Burning home.
you lose your tempor.
the Duke and Ducher of side of the' Atlantic.
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