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the manor do not include bod and breakfast."
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The
Duke
DUKE
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REACHES
MATURITY OF YOUTH
Princess Elizabeth simply and contest and has proved formid-
"my naturally as
wife," and able in other athletics. seldom uses notes other than a
zenu.
a
word or two jotted down on Yet he also deals with an in- creasingly beavy rorrespond- Not so long ago he was ence, answering many letters in so the customary formal third per- little known-and his 20-year "naturalisation" so little appret but tapping them out hin
own portable type. clated--that a hostess asked self on his
whether he enjoyed being in England.
Today his succeed is emphna Ised in the shout that greeted him from a woman in Maita "Good luck, my boy! You're proper royal!"
Philip gave her the broad but bashful grin of a schoolboy ceiving speelal praise.
By HELEN CATECART
writer.
this job
Yet some of
RED-HEAD JOHN, AGED 15, IS A STAR OVERNIGHT
MTM
BEVERLEY
BAXTER
AT THE THEATRE
LONDON. temporary drama. There is net slagte 3 CHETHAM-STRODE one falce word, nor a
sop to theatricalism. The man few
or woman who can keep dry- dramatists eyed during it has my envious
is one of the
British
who believes that a play respect, should be about something.
Ho demonstratedl
that
יד
HE JUST STARES
recently in "The Guinea is completely dominated by
Fig." as well as
nt the
carlier plays.
week This minster he gives
us
ground,"
which has
one actor, the red-headed, in his Afteen-year-old John Charles-
West-
"Back-
worth, playing his first part en the stage.
He sits between his two sisters
and
says nothing as his little for its world collapses. The elder girl delighted at the
theme the effect of divorce on
the
children of
marriage.
542
n broken callously
prospect of life on the farm for
she loves horses. The younger Nothing could be more topical, girl weeps helplessly. But the for divorce is enjoying a great boy stares straight into space boom. The modern
saying.
"Marry in hasic and repeat at until it becomes almost unbear-
ably poignant. leisure" no longer applies. The The mother and father finit
market is never remarriage
themselves making their case to in these enlightened him but his silence shames them leisurely
Into onys.
Incoherency. It was a rellef to us all when he turned
IT'S AN ART THE author takes the view
THE
on his horsey sister and cried:
Shut
up!" Up to this moment
the play
that marriage is a delicate art which consists of desiring is very near a masterpiece. But what one already possesses. Any unfortunately the author had determined the Inst act In normal male can desire what he does not
That require advance (or so I assume) possess.
the best stories no more than a primilive urge instead of allowing it to grow A inevitably out of the develop- are slow at creeping into print, plus the love of the chase. Seizing a paintbrush in Clarence bohunk or a gorilla could quali- ing situation. House, he astonished the paint-ly for that.
In "Background" we have a
he barrister who, after seven years
ers with his dexterity, "A trick I learned in the Navy," commented.
ur convenience.
ANTICLIMAX
HUS when the parents leave af war and postwar service, is the children alone and the. fighting his way back at the Bar. boy confronts his sister with a
and knife,
when we have of He treats his wife like a witness. Similarly, at a meeting
her wrong on any previously learned that he is a the Thursday Club, royal proves
rubject, and Bles into a rage crack
shot with Ε rifle, photographer was wagered that
when she falls to carry out some we old stagers know that the le could not photograph the
household task which affects his boy is either going to knife or cuckoo piping from the cuckoo comfort
thoot his mother's lover, And look--and is rumoured that
She, on the other hand, is one why not? The newspapers are Philip art off the re-crackers
of small boys et disturbed the photograph of that vast concourse of women full of stories
who are so self-centred, that they committing acts of violence. Lite outhor's is surely the er at the crucial moment!
believe the very planel's revolvr itself
Justification But the Duke's more serious around them,
Married for 10 years, she stil But Mr Chethom-Strode for- been amply demon- wants to be loved like a debu rets one unanswerable nxiom. ride has #rated also-in his anxiety to
tante, and hugs the delusion Life is seldom convincing but ret "kids out of the slums," in his naval discipline classes and that it is her marriage, not her art must always be. It is the duty
nge, which robs her of love's of the artist to take the incoher Jas evident determination to
Therefore, she encics of life and give them springtime. maintain full executive duties fueru
violently with her form. with the Navy, including quarrels
and then, like all
her type, declares to
periods at sea.
Rarely Ashore
husband women of
that she hates scenes.
THREE CHILDREN
When in London he used to work a seven-hour day in the
Therefore when the boy, after cffices of the National Playing
missing for three days being Fields Association, of which he
turns up and shoots the odd in President, putting in proc-
man (fortunately only in the tically a stail Job, unpaid und
arm) it is an anticlimax. But ingatnilo, Usundly he would
back, weak NOTHING, of course, could be if he had come
and hunger, and retake a short cut to
through the grounds of Bucks THE Duke could so easily have further from the truth. To from exposure
would have woman scenes refused to speak it ingham Palace one of the few
become the world's most the self-centred
publicised are as essential as tranquillity to wrung our hearts and soared to office workers in London who
photographed and
great tragedy. As it Is it creates is able to do so.
virtue sensible one. young man merely by
In the process of time they sympathy for the lover which of his husbandhood. Instead, it
comment that he have acquired three children the author never intended.
PAUL PRYS Typically, Philip enjoys these is worthy of
is rarely seen ashore at Malta girl of 15, a boy of 13 and a lle jokes on his Royal status.
girl of 11. They are fond of except during his wife's visits.
fine play, HEN the Duke of In Malta itself, and on his Changing into mufti and walk,
their children when they have VET this is
beautifully wrilten. БСП- Mall Edinburgh takes up naval duties as First Lieutenant in unoticed down the
He enjoys spending an off-time to think about it. Chequers gave him, I of the destroyer
by Norman Then there is the husband's sitively produced his first naval com- Philip normally
suspect, much the day evening in his 7 ft. by 911, receives no
bachelor who is Marshall, and acted with dis- serne relish as a truant school. cabin, curled up with a book. best felend, a mand as skipper of the publicity, When Princess Eliza bor beth
lie takes life with a deep in-full of sympathy for the sweet tinction. visits him she is swept
little
who is being
Andre Valerie While and frigate, HMS Magpic, there
ward sense of fun.
The bullied by her husband,
Morell are so convincing that will be no fuss. The Duke with an wual lack of formality into a social round with the
Norily trying out the engine
Can he sull keep that sense poor boob can see nothing but they annihilate the fourth wall celebrates his twenty-ninth sine other officers' wives, Philip this sports car in the Palace of fun, and zea: of good fellow-gentleness in her and even tales and make us Paul Prys and
but any a perhaps conspicuourly off quadrangle. he Was greatly
Lilly Kann la birthday today,
rhip, as duties and responsibili- her to the cinema in the after eavesdroppers. Baivons at Malta will official duty on these occasions, and yet amused when a member of the
sent ties increase? As he grows old-noons so that she can forget the most moving as the Austrian he was drafted back to The Royal Household nearly
life. Finally, he woman of all work, but the star cr, can he maintain that vital cruelties of ly only be gunnery practice Navy chiefly because of h's
In the country aut reprimand.
democratic touch which seems buys a farm
of the evening is the boy. merely coincidental, insistence, while in London, on
where she can
As his Whether it is his red hair, or his special gift?
wife when she says the word.
his youth, or his ruggestion of Yet for the Duke this must maintaluing a full and discip-
lined career of his own.
So the barrister and his wife unuttered thoughts, I do not be
occasion of very (LT)
they know, But he made the sorrows special significance.
W
and
ing
Again, at a start party, lie eleefully insisted on borrowing and photographing
camera
He chafes at inactivity. An the photographers. Twenty-nine has been called early riser, an all-round sports. the "unturity of youth", and it man, he is the executive officer Skimming through the papers, is just 21 years since the engng responsible for
stores, he sometimes seans the Whe Prince Philip first went to nariness, welfare of the crew of his own nellvities, England
if I were for his schooling,
in and running of the ship. To en- about myself as charged to the care of his uncle, sure that 'Chequers maintains its strange animal," he said Lord Louis Mountbatten. Ten array of sporting trophiles, he other day, with engaging can-
he yes have passed, too, since recently won a javelin-throwing dour.
entered the Navy by special en-
try and thus began tracing the definite pattern of his career.
show &
"Philip's best is outstanding, H ean, if he tries, genius for leadership." So wrote his Gordonstoun school- master in a letter of recommen- dation, and this promise has been brilliantly realised.
New
Stature
INDEED, everyone
about the
Duke has noticed the new
A GRAND DOUBLE PROGRAMME! stature that has come to him in
TERRIFIED...
increased confidence
dignity.
by the man THE DEVIL MOUNTAIN! village
she loved! ||Spine-tingling
·SCETS U. HUMAN PROPELTIKA
PRESTON
FOSTER
BELITA
PASSI DEZAM - KAMI BERAT - RALLIES DICKS
thrills on the
edge of the
world!
war
and quici
When he made his first public specel at the unveiling of a threa memorial years ugo, his nervousness was
Now
โส ill-concealed.
he acknowledged to be one of the in the best public, speakers Commonwealth.
He smiles as he talks, reveals
refers considerable wit,
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OH, BOY --- A
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LET'S PLAY WILLIAM TELL
JUST A MINUTE
woman
come
There are the problems that loom today for the fair, smiling agree to a divorce and 20-year-old young man whom summon the three children in of Americans call
deputy order to tell them. This is one things. Our
of the finest episodes in con-
King.
THE GEEK
By
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the adults zeem
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MOVES
C.V.R. THOMPSON
HOLLYWOOD. TILL in a romantic mood on the San Francisco wedding of Egypt's Princess Fathia, I stopped off today on the way to New York to what is happen. find out ing to Hollywood's "royal wives.
romance."
IN
more, composer Cole Porter, Charles Chaplin and his wife, Ray Milland, Joan Fontame and Rosalind Russell,
Now she getting to know BEFORE taking on new re- Sean, her future husband's son
sponsibilities Mr Flynn is by his first wife Lill Damita. yments to one of his former people in Hollywood these trying to scale down his alimony
VOU DON'T just meet
m
But Princess Ghilica-or The days. in fact, with 15 of its 40 Geck as Mr Flynn affectionately pictures being made in Europe, to the calls her will not spend her lilm stars are scarce, romance between Princess Irene weeks waiting in lonely purdah. So I found that the customer
I refer. of course,
Ghika and Errol Flynn,
Bud
Instead of whispering sweet
to go out and
THEY THINK so much of her
nothings by telephone only to the attracting all the attention in In only two respects could man she loves, she is living in Hollywood's best restaurant is a
tennis player, with Mr similarity between his pry
hilltop home
and mother
Mira these two princesses-commoner Flynn's
She is Nancy Chaffee, just 21, of his former and she is expected to be the langles.
Eddington, one
sensation of Wimbledon this Unwilling 10 accept Im- mothers-in-law.
from migrants
Rumania, the "I'm having such a wonderful year. U.S. authorities are looking into lime," the princess nid, "that 1 the Princess Ghika's entry into don't want even this country from Jamaten.
see Hollywood," And just as Mrs Gall had to wait a long time before she PUT the princess is going out
"I'm not a glamour girl," she swopped her princess title for to see Hollywood. It is part,
told me, "I want to become the title of Mrs., Princess Ghika of the training of movie stars. also faces a wait. But the Already she has got to know famous in England for my tennis:
the best people-Ethel Barry and not my looks.* reasons are quite different,
By Ernie Bushmiller
tennis that sportsmen ond the pubile made a collection to pay her fare to London.
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