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Through Her Books
HEN Daphne dłu Maurier returned from her Italian holi- day recently there were two important appointments in her diary.
son
But
By
JOHN PREBBLE
Tho
The only real hitch was dur- Ing the war when "Frenchman's Creek" was held up by measles among the children (there are three: Tessa 16, Flayla 12, and Christien).
She does not know how she would get on if she had to
are born If you The first was to despatch daughter of a famous aetor, the in
In any case, she does not livo stond in queuca "In the coun- tho suburbs to discover try we just get on the phone, her
Christian (just daughter of a famous
whether such emotions are pos-
there. great able
The Brownings nine) to his first boarding artist and novellat, the
of
Im Inhabit a 11
charming old manor school. Near to tears, abe Krunddaughter
fulfilled this Sparton duty Poverished French emigre, and house near Howey, Cornwall, a
of the upper middle-classes with fortitude.
White-faced, but brave, she says. Christian also kept a stiff upper lip.
The second appointment, far happier, was to nch with her publisher, "dear Victor" Gollancz.
Highly profitable
THE
CONVERSATION nt that lunch was undoubtedly of he latest novel, "The Para Rites."-108,000 copies subscrib- ed before publication.
Her thirteenth
the gegal-great-granddaughter overybody who reads the gossip had not of a royal Duke's mistress, then columns now knows.
It is most probable Put you with have romantic attitude
H
ward life.
12.
fu
A reminder
SOMETHING OF Mis Maurier's close interest in her family's romantle past was re- cently demonstrated.
When
the returnexi
from Italy, she stayed for some days at her husband's bachelor In King's-road, Chelsea.
There,
fat
She was plenzaully reminded
legend
Appearance and Croraplete with ghost and a walled-up body} It cloed nothin to spoil the ro- mace of the du Mauriers
Hard knock
UNTIL LATE Inst week. Kha reviews or rend the "The Parasites,” but "I believe they're awful, aren't they?"
They are Dol
although
that They
bad. have
beautiful Critics, qualifying their praise |
It Is called Menabilly (why, nobody seems to koow) and was the oririnal for the fabulous Mandericy of "Rebrcea,"
rals and
ΠΟΥ
takte o
THIS ASTONISHING NEW YORK-
The salesman did the washing-up
even
NEW YORK. one's privacy. But there are still
GVCZY
E havo a new act of the malls.
Every day my letter-box le copper-bottomed pota crammed with offers to send me and pans at our a choice book every month, a house. It cost £12 10s. But d'fferent kind of cheese It is not the pots or their month, a fruit of the month.
Tovico
week there aro coin- price that la interesting, ogues from food parcel firms * What interested-or. rather, reminding me that it will be appalled-me, was the way this year unless
lenn Christmas in Britain again
pay up. they were acquired.
Remote-control salesmen keep Though "acquired" is much on cending me coupons that too pale a word to describe what entitle me to a free Un of soup, happened. Something suggesting or free soop flakes.
jet propulsion would be better.
For I am a victim of American salesmanship at its fuest-or worst. worst.
And this is a warning of what wit. happen behind any unsub- pecting British husband's back if and when do what we are told, and learn that fine art as a way out of our diffleuttics.
Needless to say, it all happen ed whle I was of the office,
According to my wife's story.
DEST offer yet: a chance to mLlion-dollar prize win a that a fridge firm is giving away for the right sort of tribute to their latest model
a polite, good-looking young Suppose you were able to seal man knocked at the door. He yourself off from this Invasion in asited my wife if she would like person or by letter and teo lunch
to have some friends in for phone, you still could not escape
American salesmanship. While the friends were coming over,
the young man un.
nocked these
pans,
a Bct of and
pota
He set them
up on
Then
the ho
stove. brought
In
three different
by C.V. R. THOMPSON
kinds of vegetables, some ment,
over
For, as likely as not a blimp will come sa'ling your house and a
blue perfect
sky bo ruined by
smoka letters a mile wide advertising soda soup.
On the trains, leather-threat-
and one of those add-a-cup-of- ed salesmen walk through sell- water pudding mixes.
While the girls were talking, he cooked lunch and served it.
"It was swell," said my wife. "and he even washed up after- warda And he took so much
NA
ing magazines or sweets, or a book giving the simple rues to the new rummy game Canasta.
It does not let up in the sano- hary of the office. Shoe-shine
parade of col- trouble, and was so nice, that I boys drop in to win you as a Just had to order a set. Mar customer, and a caret Herrick took one, too. oured messengers from the near- They're wonderful pots, and by lunch counters asks for the they' be cheaper in
the end privilege of bringing you your office sandwich, or your eleven- because they save electricity."
sea nik piping hot in a vacuum flask.
now that America
Vacuum
The
Men,
For tourists
They don't come out and grab you from the pavement like the conductors of New York's tight- seeing buses do, but they have learned about window-dressing.
THIS Bakcsmanship business is catching. In Rockefeller
New
largest York's with the sentence "Not as goodVES, that is what can happen Centre,
but us "Rebecca,'
has re- group of office building, mast al Think sho is well-turned to what the economists the European tourist offices have reem to
established to
call a "buyer's market." The their headquarters, .. - - enough few knocks.
poor consumer по Jonger But none of the knocks has chooses when he will go shop- to boen as hard ns that of Agate's ping. The shopping comes comment
him. on "Rebecca": "It in But, he But, says Miso du Maurier, 11 atrociously written."
Every day one or two sales- Is not really ns grand, "rather a said, he went on reading be- men drop by my home, and usu from the sixth-floor dilapidated place in fact, with cause it was a thundering goodly while I am away.
For instance, the French have window, she looked down
on plenty of
boys, even women, have tried to na central novel," the square of the Duke of heating But she has loved 10
Miss du Mourler would like tell us ties, ny.ons, underwear, a window fled with a glamor from ous view of Montmartre. A Swe- the critics' esteen, but likes a fountain pens, delicatles ince she was a child. York's Barracks
dish airline serves what it calls cleaners, California, reader's praive much more.
"flying storgasbord" in in Like that from the ex-P.o.W.
British material "smuggled of the fact that her ancestressi,
who wrote to say that but for from Canada," cut-rate subscrip panes, and it has filled its win- work lu
17 Mrs Mary Anne Clarke (no
and Creek he visits to "Frenchman's
tions to magazines, soil for my daw with a table spread with novela, two beitr than she should have plays), nothing in the book will bec, Miss du Maurier admile), Mckabilly
confined to his fellow-Po.W.s, would have garden, Life insurance, and fresh delicacies on wings. halt thousands of readers in a was the misines of that Duke week-endis,
vegetables. can get Kone crazy.
As a fugitive from American Clarenco House That from
book was a first-rate
Last week-end along come a BWDY headlong rush
her after whom thame
the barracks
romantic bokum But Mine du Maurier, who has plece of
the heavily scented esenplet world. nanted.
new tinned dog salesmanship, I. always get some salesman for a
staring into comfort from
"Their a detestation of all cities with
which Miss du Maurier xeris, food, Ho offered me a £20 in-
British Raliways offices. A highly profitab's world,
to Lake a
Rurance poley on my dog's life feature in a the possible exception of Paris, eminently suited
good old "British though
for MIRS du
stay is quite happy
man's mind off the barbed wire. free would switch to his Railways poster inviting me to Maurier and dear Victor.
Menabilly, wearing old slacks,
brund.
"beautiful Bournemouth.” From "Rebecca her st
old jerseyu, walking, boating, success, through "Hungry Hi," "Jamalea Inn," and "French- man's Creek” to "The Para- Kites," there has rua • thread ef gold weaving her riple fortune in book, play, and fi righta
years (elovan
to
The extent of it is shrouded with
discretion. commendable But there are indications,
Earlier this year the US. Treasury refunded her £4,650 on income tax.
And Sir Alexander Korda is said to have paid the arre figure on
With such s woman be. zan the impossible story of
the dh
Haumiera.
Clarke's daughter, Ellen, married A Drawber-like French emgire cailed Louis Mathurin Busson
Maurier.
đu
Their son, George, became Punch artist, autor of "Peter Ibbetson" and "Truby."
Quite happy
SIR FREDERICK'S
an
when he
at
on
Sense of humour
ip
There she writes costly and
SHE HAS o gnerous sense of quickly.
was Parasites”
humour, too, and few things began in February this year, amure her more than the stories completed by May, right
that are told about her.
It is said that she invented time in Mr Gollaruz's schedule.
the Airborne snack ("My No early riser, she starts work husband may
have Ills sun was the great actor. at 10.45, works until lunch, eats certainly didn't") Sir Gerald du Maurier, And and walks until 3, starts agalo That
in daughter was Daphine.
and works unti 6.
speak to
royal blood ("It's true 1 once bobbed.
curley to the Princess").
Good mimic
Three months to write a book leaves her a good part of the "He fallow," playing literature with ideas that may remain in Miss du har head for a year or two be-
.11eve fore she puts them on paper.
Her writing is a sincere and
WITH SUCH un alternating year w
talent i record for the film legacy of rights of The King's General," and the theatre. 1,250,000 copies of which wero Maurier 'has corne to sold within four months of that abQlty will skip a genern- LAmerican publication.
tion in inheritance.
She is thereforo keeping
done, 1
to
she is 1oo proud
anyone below
That she goes everywhere 10 a while Rolls-Royce ("We have Ford and a 1937 an old 1933 M.G, only, I'm afraid.")
Next best thing highly personal thing. Nobody,
an not even her husband, bes the
**1
Hollywood paid £ 10 000 for the film righ ́s of "Rebroca" in eye on Christmas to see if he book until it is finished. 1038, and £30,000 for "Frença- has
of his any
Krandioher's couldn't bear to read out parts man's Creek" during the war. theatrical genius.
of it like some nuthors do." Income tax on these sums has, of course, been heavy.
Quite deceptive
of such
"Already," she says cautiously "he is a very good mimic."
du p'ngs of Miss
n
Perhaps
shotgun would frighten of such invaders of
-(London Express Service)
Britain's Story
Goes On Show
· raw
The Industry Pavilion will
from the story NEW details of the South Bank
Britain take 1051 Festival of Exhibition were issued recently materials to finished products. will deal with by the Council of Industrial De- Sub-sections
sign, who stress that the Exhibi- power, Illumination, industrial tion will tell a continuous story, research and design, and man- IT IS perhaps unfortunate with each pavilion providing a agement.
of chapter.
The Hall of Production will The
theme is that British that, being the descendant a family so rich in romance and theatrical
achievements in se ence, tech show six main groups of indus- Miss extravagance,
working. wood du Maurier should come
tomology and Industrial design try metal maturity in a world of austerity, have resulted from the initiative working, rubber and plastics, much gloom, and much lack of of the British people in develop pottery and glass, textiles and
ing the resources of their land. food. pontaneous passion.
The exhibition site, which is divided by the Hungerford rail-
However, she has done the next best thing. By her type-writer she has created an entirely practicable but highly en. tertaining world of her O'WII.
un-
No queues ALTHOUGH SHE lives a lito Nor do the romantic trap very remote from that of the
The Downstream Sequence Maurier's MISS. DU MAURIER'S ap
housewiver who are now put. pearance is quite deceptive in genealogy end with such ante ting down their names on the
way bridge, will have Upstream will have an underlying theme of the aptitude of the British For she is married library lists for "The Farasiten,
Tho face
achievements, cedents,
and Downstream sequences. The people for living and working in knows what Aged 41, fragile forehead, a portion of British Military she intuitively
Upstream sequence will tell the groups and yet retaining their history Lieut-General Sr
they want greying hair, jutting chin,
story of the land of Britain, and individuality. Froderick Browning, Airborne avenues of escapo pleasing and modest laugh, a
now opened below them Commander
the Downstream sequence will who slight lisp.. A woman
It will deplet their character be concerned with the people. Princess of Comptroller in formal Elizabeth's household.
It houses "phrases, that are looks uncomfortable
The
exhibits will and tradition, their homes and Upstream as much worn as a William IV.
And by it earned far more
deal, clothes, and probably feels it."
among other things with gardens, the newest -- pchools, penny" (according, to the late than
the unfortunate
wild
life of Britain, agris health, sport, and the sessida: in James Agate), her readers at
Clarke got by wheedling com- Joast regard them as good, 'un-
missions out of the Duke of culture and rural life-all in the nine paviliona.
Sports played by Britons will devalued currency.
York and selling them to am- great Dome of Discovery.
There will be demonstrations be demonstrated by experts. bitions Army officcis.
of coal-cutting machinery and other equipment.
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If she had been born the daughter of a efvų servant, and brought up as civil ber-* vants' daughters are, it is unlikely that she could have written as she does.
NANCY
BR-R-R-R--- 'IT'S AWFUL COLD TODAY.
at Arnhem,
Beautiful ghost
IS IT LIKELY that with much background 巋 Woman could write only of frustrated love in the suburbs?
Going to For
IT'S EVEN
COLD INDOORS
Sho combines, her life as housewife and novelist with fair, esso..
VARING
· NANCY-- YOU'RE LATE FOR YOUR|
PIANO PRACTICE
GOODNESS-
THAT'S TERRIBLE
Are the
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By Ernie Bushmiller
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