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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
William Hickey
· CARTER. Both want the new job of
EEL within the deputy-chairman, Eath thinks it will
-opening week of the New Year the cynical student of affairs can now relax, assured that 1949 will be no less incon- -Requential, eccentric, and unpre-
dictable than 1948.
The carilest
omen and
't now world record--came Tute very Heart of Empire.
too
as well as
be a disaster if the other gets it
There is personality politics behind the fight.
Lady Violet opposes Lady Megan because she thinks sho icans
fur to the
3312 Left. she opposen her far. more clearly alrontly because she is the doughter of LLOYD GEORGE, When he, was alive, the Welsh Wizard bad a run- ning foud with his co-Liberal, the Lady Violet EARL OF OXFORD. has never forgotten it. She is the Earl of Oxford's daughter,
from
It was the first time in history flint a plumber has recited Kents from the top of the Eros alatue In Piccadilly Circus to a lunchtime audience of thousands on a damp Monday in January.
SINCE then....
ACTRESS
FLORENCE DESMOND, who has left again for her third American trip in four months, has a headache, Our best- One hundred and fifty selentists known public party-giver is crens- have met in Whitehall to discuss in her brow over the sort of prob- THE SAUSAGE, Its history, its em that besets the succcostul structure. its bursting point-and hostess-namely, the guest 1st need it deficiencies.
.revising.
Dr. H. P. 'BLUNT-the nost kelf- Tarty (whether it has been hekt on To Dessie's- famous Hollywood consciously witty in an assembly the West End or provincial stage or fully conscious' of its wit-said, "The
new York night-club) the same sausage is the epitome of life be- chuse you don't know what's in it People have now been coming for 15 .until you've been through it." years. (Loud laughter.)
And ten minutes later he an nounced that Oxford
Bausnges appeared in the 17th century "some lengths ahend of
Cam- bridge." (Still louder laughter.)
Mr.
BEVERLEY NICHOLS has just seen out his new insta!- ment of autobiography, "All I Could Never Be," in which the following splendid philosophy appears:-
Wherever Miss Deamond gues, BETTE DAVIS, MARLENE DIE- TRICH, CLAUDETTE COLBERT— TALLULAHI, too-string along. Miss Desmond is herself not getting tired: of their company. She fears we are.
"But what," says she sadly, "does an impersonator do when she cun find no one new to Impersonato?" Her recent Palladium reappearance-- her first one here for three year was a great success.
A loyal friend said: to see you back-and same old act, too?"
"How nice with the
"I said to myself: Perhaps, be- cause one has lived, some dog has In her Bayswater fint Dessic found a home, bird has been set froe, ticked over the list of screen, and some kitten has been stroked," It was not much, but it was better than stage names for a likely addition to the Demand collection of good- nothing at all."
tempered guyings.
A PITY
Mr Nichole missed the Royal Academy lunch where visitors who came in to see the pictures were told: "We have a four-legged Freeman of the 'Cily of London among those present."
Sass
1949.
"If they station you on one of these 'ere planets I don't suppose you'll find things much
O'
quieter than our village."
UNKNOWN MEN OF MILLIONS
by BERNARD HARRIS
He could not miss
NE of the things about
young Sir Switch from Birmingham to Bel- "When I was in Hollywood," she
which Britain
puzzle John Ellerman, who was left £10 fast. There you will find another
million explained: "I had a good look round.
by his shipowning father privately owned engineering busi- ទ Americans visiting RITA studled
HAYWORTH.
16 years ago, and is reputed to ness on which the City puts un £8 BETTY GRABLE, LANA TURNER. that our income tax authorities have doubled it by prudent manage million price label Certainly
those girls have something, but
Rot do not publicise our millionaires, ment. what
James Mackie and Sons are second they've got won't come over in a parody.
They cannot understand why aires he would spot Harry Fergu- Harland and Wolff shipbuilding en
Among the self-made million- only in Belfast to the £18 million "And on the more serious side. the same secrecy is maintained con, 02-year-old Ulsterman, who terprise.
about the affairs of the ranks among the world's leading
with tractor as
manufacturers, ond the It has been with the Mackies for £100,000-a-year man
Moores brothers, whose fortune is generations. Present head of the the £5-a-week clerk.
derived from the weekly 1-2-X family, Tom Mackle, is in his seven- of the football pool punters.
ties, and is said to be taking things casily after a life-time at the Belfast foundry. But there are still plenty of Mackles to carry on the family tradition. Seven of them are on. the board. In Belfast they say they are all working directors.
It turned out lo be BLACK Academy Award winners are no KNIGHT, pet sleeve-dog of LADY use to me--I need personalities with MUNNINGS, wife of SI ALFRED recognisable mannerisms and tricks MUNNINGS, the Royal Academy of voice." President, Someone's coy sense of humour made him a freeman at the Guildhall in 1047.
Black Knight was the only silent critic of the Chantrey pictures, He simply hung from his mistress's arm, and looked glum.
A
And take the British bunch
There have been occasions How does one "do" MARGARET LOCKWOOD'S Axed film-star grin? when an American has strolled' Among the BUSAN SHAWS and into Somerset House, head-
дпу FAT ROCS is there
quailly
quarters of the Inland Revenge, be picked up and that could
50 that amplified
music-hall and asked to see the "million- nudience would recognise the im- atres' list." personation?
And when the inquirers have Miss
sighed. "Well," been told that there is no such the happlest sign of all-the gill she said: "I added BETTY HUTTON list, they have been frankly
the Hist of a child's set of plastic blocks to
recently... and America there's always incredulous. containing the 20 letters of the for alphabet. Printed on the outside of HILDEGARDE," the box it says: "SPELLS - HUN- DREDS OF WORDS."
BUT
NOW
from
America
comes
Desmond
LONDON
For if you want to know any of the top Incomes in the U.S. you can get the Information pretty
Income Town herself engly from the
tax ad- Is having her face-lifted. None too ministration-in-Washington,
to blow дуду
the soon-for it is a sad thing to see froth-one man's four-star recipe
a lovely woman (or a lovely city) for spotting the
lelling her looks slide. unsulted person for high position. There is a cluc
speaker:-
From Kensington to Kensington, there, see if you con spot the from the rich frontiers of Mayfair
to the Mile End-road, the scaffolds with
Courts Often he remarked that he could are out. The Law get 1,000, wien ta do detailed work, but too many" were useless in re-
newest on the list.
Pavements are niso sprucer.
No one knows
55
is the people in Britain have an income
sponsible posts because they left to And a wire fence is going up be-
lain the necessity of making every tween Piccadilly and Green Park decision.
which should make the gross look the right colour in spring instead "He had nothing but scorn for of shabby any man who attempted to do does now. everything himself-he believed
contents Somerest House
itself telling the work that
more. But nu ond of £100,000 or inside that gloomy building
knows the names
London's Strand
of all the 55.
The statistical division
In
dealing
The name is Owen
But, scottered round Britain, are a number of people who can rival any of these for wealth, and yet Factory machinery is the Maeldes" are hardly known outside their big line. It is unlikely that Mackies will be made a public company, for Immediate circle,
the family is said to have so many Outside
the "black country" the other interests in Ulster that death Owen may not mean a great duties are no problem. deal. But In Birmingham it s synonymous with great wealth.
Recently they sold their shares in Ulster Spinning, one of their smaller At the beginning of 1930, 21- Interests, for a modest £172,000. year-old_Cambridge undergradunto' Alfred Owen cut short his_university.
name
career
to take control of a big engineering business.
Business brothers
His father had died suddenly Scarcely one of the 1,000,000 after seeing a little £1,000 work housewives who go cach week to a shop with a staff of 29 grow into Sainsbury shop
a firm with five big departments, knows that the
for their rations
brains behind the
42-year-old Robert.
a turnover of £200,000 a year, and business are two brothers, 40-year- a payroll of 1,800 workers to old Alan and name? Rubery Owen.
Had big ideas
Young Alfred had been given D
Sainsbury.
Between them they hold n con- trolling interest in the £2,070,095. capital and rank high on the income lists at Somerset House.
and downtrodden as it with surtax is divided into sections.
Someone niny, know ot two good training by his father. Both ho Still chairman is their 77-year-old the initial letter "A" and his younger brother, Ernest, had father, John Benjamin Sainsbury, are In the
£100,000-u-year spent most of their vacations at the who took over a flourishing business which his own father, had started in family works near Birmingham.
They were young men with big a little Drury-lane shop back in 1860 ideas. They set about expanding the with his £100 savings, business at a rate which would have staggered even their energetic father,
that the man who worked himself WHISTLER would not find much people with to batters on minor details had no to paint on Chelsea Embankment who ability to handle the more vital now, Yet the quiet beauty of his class, but he does not know of any whose name starts with a different issues....
day could so easily be restored. To "Another type he disliked was the begin with, a few paacs of glass In letter.
the Embankment pedestal lamps confused firmness and strength with with, of course, some bulbs in them, adding two "An," one "B"
The figure of 55 is arrived at by three truculent personality-the man who too
"C's," and so on, without disclosing bad manders and deliberate dis-
to the compiler of courtesy.
their identity the total,
Alas, the lovely houses in Carlton House-terrace are still in a wretched Who was? General GEORGE state. Their stucco hás peeled; their MARSHALL—and the portrait la by hurred windows pees brokenly on General EISENHOWER in his book to the Mall, the same Mall where "Crusade In Europe,"
exactly 200 years ago WILLIAM- MICKEY ONE (illustrious eponym of this columnist) was born.
Elayed in
Obvious names
A family secret
Today, at their main Birmingham works, glant presses stamp out ony-
The value of the business today la thing from motorcar chassis and a family secret. My guess? Any- wheels to baths, kitchen sinks, and thing from £5 million to £10
million.
olice Aling cabinets.
More than 20 subsidiary and asso-
One of the Sainsbury rules is that scattered over By a study over a period of cinted companies are
shares may be held only by direct cara- Britain,
descendants of the founder or their. THE Liberals. have appar-
years of bequests, company He wrote "The Memoirs of Wil-ings statements, and shareholders' City experts valuo the Rubery husbands or wives. One day death ently decided to do battle among Ilam Hickey-frank, Dean Swiftish registers, it would be possible for Owen empire at around £8 millions, duties may alter that--but not yet. themacives. That way, someone is
the diligent research to Identify But when I asked Mr Afred Owen if accounts of his travels, his adven-
Then there is A Y. Bridgland, bound to win something.
tures, his loves-in the early 19th probably half our millionaires.
he was thinking of selling, he said: sturdy, forthright, Australian-born But they Chief protagonists are the two century.
"Ho would
obvious "It's going to stay in the family.". hit on the
properly expert, who began his aftor the 1814-18 leading wornen in tho
He, brother Ernest, and their business carver party manuscript form.
names, like Nuffield, Leverhulme. LADY MEGAN LLOYD GEÖRGE it was feared that the book Colman, and the Rootes brothers; mother, who is one of the directors, war.
Britain's the must today rank among audience of Victorian days would the Wills, of tobacco fame;
milliona ого based wealthiest families. * not approve
full-blooded Coats, whose auch descriptions. *It was Black Knight who found 'And himself on the front page by being Hickey remained smuggled into last November's Lord 1013. Mayor's banquet,
and
LADY
VIOLET BONHAM-
NANCY
LOOK --- MY DOG CAN PLAY DEAD
the
He had no money in those days, on coiton thread; the great liquior But their Joint Income, after tax but now he helps to run a dozen pro- original Williamn families such as Dawar. Gretton, has taken its toll, goes back for the perty-owning companies, and this unpublished until and Guinness; and Lord Hambleden, most part into the business which wealth is reckoned at about £14
of W.H. Smith-and Son, 'i
started with £1,000.
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