MANNERS MAKYTH MONEY
By JOHN
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WERE was a time
THERE
CLARKE
when book! on
etiquette seemed to assume that their readers spent their spare time being entertained in yachts by archdukes or, after a tiresome day in the office, habitually shared a box at the opera with a visiting head of State.
Now Miss Ray Allister has come along' with a book on munners that has both its fert solidis plaåled on the ground-~~ caviare is mentioned only twice and: yachting week-ends not at all.
Min
Allister grabs her readers young as they go to be interviewed for their very first job. "Wear jewellery and fura only if you ere applying for acnior posts," she commands, and, "Smile, if what you say is meant to be mildly umug ing, smile readily if the cracks a joke, but don't, if you are a girl, make eyes at ] the
Some girle do.
man.
from sheer nervousness," Hard on Fools
Ily the time Miss Allister his
June with the young worker she (for the emphasis is at this stage on girls rather than Boy:) in paragon. She goes on busines irip with her born, hit
fakes her to d the employer thrare
to see the sights in
□ 37090 taen, that is nice but the mut not in her wind
ker scanner treat the time together 03 anything
more than offer life
different setting. If she does she
interviewer
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. 2, 1950.
"Same problem as Mafeking. Willy-can't make up me mind whether to join the Anny or be a farmer's boy,"
JEWELS
ઓઝોનના
IN THE SUN
NICE.
T is the height of the
+11
here
in the
South of France, a son- be
is an inerperienced little falson which promised to
and life in awfully hard on funds."
office hours the is Dutch Instructed very thoroughly in th art of having a nicely mannered Young men call to good time. take her out to restaurants (me vit should feel quite well enter – taled me ften courses") and to
the anest glittering since the But the "sparklers" war. have gone out of it.
the
For in the wake of hosts of money spenders
the have Cane
the theatre "There was an ad-diamond thieves to By ARTHUR COOK
fathioureat idea that it was transform
Kind
indpile in
BUNST.
Delor 3.
What non-coast appland.
all over with
the from to the
Cannes to Juan les Pins "), and when it is
of jitters for she should not into a scene "thank you" letter un-every visitor who has a
Bern a it has
really jewel case, big party, let it should look as though she was augling for in- The gleam of a tiara is olher invitation.
There
comprehensive as inviting to the thieves as
write
less
15
chapter on tipping, ranging from the sun is to the visitors, the art o be observed in The rich do not new fear
Turkish Baths ("Attendant gets hold-ups on the sensational
feratur h. 13 2. according for bath to that customary in Aga Khan pattern of last hospital "A couple of thestre year; they fear the
London Express Bervico
-A thriller serial fr*ccot the Riviera
footmark on a wall was the only cluc.
ht:1
about
What is she like at home?
* The gay member of the Royal Family takes an increasing interest in the serious side of life
by VIVIEN BATCHELOR
N the highlands of her she will not be in for din
native Scotland, with ner and tell them where she her mother and father, is going. the world's most written- about and fascinating teen- celebrated her nger twentieth birthday on August 21.
Only if the King and Queen feel she is not caring enough for her health, they, like any parents, might sug.
What is Princess Mar- gest she should postpone some party or engagement. garet really like?
With her good looks, high Most of the Princess'a return sense Lospitally to her friends take jspirits, keen clothes
Own of tea in her
This is the only
and obvious enjoyment of the form
fe, she is regarded as the apartments. "gay" member of the Royal from her parents.
often takes ince she
מהקוון
Hamily. Many reports have More formal return Javite- tended to give the Impres- tions are dealt with by the King sion that from the chrysalis and Queen.
of childhood has emerged a bright butterfly.
This is not fair to Frin- cess Margaret, and does not give a true picture of her character.
In her position of younger
ease of the young
men
This applies especially in the who escort the Princess on roclat occasions.
Lo
MARRIAGE?
THEY are occasionally Invited only a re-
dine at Buckingham
Ꮋ mote possibility of ever be Palace. More usually they
the Throne, Ascot,
included the house party for wrek-end at Windsor, more care-free Sandingham or Dalmoral.
sister.
Whom marry?
will
the Princess
Armed guards protect private homes and safe deposits. Extra police-hundreds of them-lve daughter, with Then came the third. The bien drafted into the area. haul was £10,000 worth of
The situation is "formidable," ng called to jewels belonging to Madame ray the police. True, they have she is in a
her one position than clues-espicially the Georges d'Araujo.
a grubby Corsienn who Princess Elizabeth,
But for all her apparent
The speculations which ΤΟ called at the Villa le Roc-but not enough to malt: an arred.galety Princess Margaret is
her on if he is seen out more thin M. Vuillaume had been tipped as serious-minded as
Curican was gister. She has a shrewd. am leave the Princess un- of that the
Who the way from the villa. tipped him off? M. Vuillaume highly developed intelligence moved.
and considerable talent. is not saying.
The man sald he knew of al Few people realise that make up her mind in her own 1ime and provided the King she is at approves of her choice It is ob
the young man she loves,
The choice of her escorts is ber. II. alter
But within hours the news at lets WIK stale, The was by then swoop No. 4- this time along the coast at the Villa Casa Mara al Meu-
tome.
jewels.
of Corsicun
in
Tu:loa
Often when
ence with any particular young
The truth is that she WID
Mme. Tardieu, widow of gang British [Curiously, the
He was certain that questa were protected from French Prime Minister who had a mysterious parcel of the is a brilliant pianist. great loss by the regla Tardieu, was at dinner, when had been stolen from the villa, home in the evening--which ous she will eventually marry
they were being passed is far more often than is rapidly from one to another popular belief she enteret entirely to of jewels from her home. tions which limit the jeel somebody took £1,000 worth lory taken abroad.]
DIMMING.
keep them hidden.
n particular We all spent a very pleasant lains her mother and father two or three times as his quest
im threes: finds with an coast al after dinner evening along the
young man does not intrest he, he will gently drop The Toulon. Did we find a Corsican promptu recital.
acquaintance.
Kang?
The sun
came early this year-and since the sun is a
Forty-eight hours later maquet for the wealthy, the glittering parties began came strike No. 2. Mme. early.
Louis-Louis Dreyfus, widow Almost every big glitter of French wheat magnate, NIGHTLY the glitter in
with her dinner
the bars glows less, as Knests in her Cannes villa. the sun-lanned and beauti- terrifle. since April has been attend. was at
The lights went out. When fully gowned women grow we ed by the "enemy,”
they went on again £20,000 more and more scared even instalment. worth of jewels had gone. A to wear their jewels.
'NO CLUES'
grets for a shunt which the who silently and stealthily UE police are attacked
has wished to
incica").
men
are aften
break into their villas when it they are out basking or | dinner.
Meeting Royalty
day after day in head- ings which read: "No clues found again," "No arrests and "Are the expected," police askrep ?"
M. Louis Vuillaume, chief] of the French Flying Squad for this region, and M.
dark tanned To Having set one to right on the diverse good manners desirable
figurest
the who pack in arranging a marriage, in
meding beaches under gaudy para and in moitering
Allister wisely sols, while-coated! waiters Royalty, Miss
1< "Goodfaring furns her attention
cooling drinks Home," which, 05 Manners ni
punctuate the talk on
the Pluchere. his deputy the says, some people consider to
car latest development in the Cannes, have been provel be "a place where
most able in the past-that; what we call ourselves-vent-jewel raids.
of tug on a groep people, chose
is why they have been pro- good opinion
moted to "top" jubs on the Riviera.
- **/*
we think we fredat 100"); for, irritabi artfishness, frustrations they we dare not show to outsidera."
IN OUR NEXT
"The wife who doesn't bother THE under-crunt of the
Riviera, wise friends Any more because, after all, he's her husband now and must take are neither past nor pofen- her as he finds her is both rudeial victims of the light- and stupid," Miss Allister says wisely. "One of these days he fingered ones, find the topic
as his wife. is no less worth discussing. will see her, not but
in sailed IS a lattern dressing-town and hair curlers. who has, incredibly got herself into his house."
A Charmer
Art
And, after all that---endu! Not a clue.
Did we find the jewel? We did not.
The
Who tipped off the thieves? OUTDOORS, TOO
Who?
...
for the
suspense s
next
How does a young men esk to be hu
xuest?
But like good reader, HER music is extremely Pucess Margaret
verantile. Chopin is a favourite. Then suddenly
must walt
-(London Express Service]
SATURDAY, AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE
The woman
The
and
the baritone
Answer,
that
be
would
Usually, before she will switch to boogie- even try to ask her, he has met. her enough times to know her woogle.
private telephone number. Ja been to the most cases he has probably
She was
If she has theatre to see a musical known her sco
come home child.
it and play numbers from by enr.
show she can
She has a fine collection
In that case he simply ag her In the same way a
not young men ring up girl they would like to asi i D
If the young
man does not
of gramophone records. party. If the party is formal
She often sings to her he writes his invllation. own accompaniment after informal dinner parties at know her very well he asks u Buckingham Palace, Wind- friend who a more closely ac- quainted to ask her if she wil sor or Balmoral.
consent to join his purly. Although many have
The King and Queen do not to associate her have to approve of the invita- mainly with the social life in Arst. much of London she enjoys out- GENET SER SANTRELJEFISKENIRA better story it Lucinda had door pastimes.
mcalls more to me than money. me explain.
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dinner appointment
come
nt. wwd
the
another
THE 'REGULARS'
been
turned
Dul-
with
RECENTLY, as my less By BILLY ROSE ranged at the Club,
Now this would be a heavy lidded readers
Blandford, may remember. I wrote
When she lurned out to be a wild-orbed look column about Now, the two men
was staying The Marquess of dogs
heir of the Duke of Marl- "Dear Mr Rose,
pixie who squealed when wenry-cyrd, AS clo thecouk add and subtract.
Mobile
"I hope you won't think Tm met her idol, or a femme fatale with the Duke and Duchess
offleer now Guards hundreds of Gardes
I'm returning vao swept him of him publi-of Beaufort and turned out rough, Mr Tom Egerton, ex- Ward, wife will tell ungrateful, but
with the Beaufort Hunt she farmer. the Hon. Peter Now, on y from one they are rushing
you, a writer who turns out as our Christmas present, Frank eksed pins.
1 sent you those
Truth is, however, that when showed excellent horseman- sccond son of the Earl of Dud- Bonham-Carter. ley, M. Maric up when robind villa to the next.
much as I do has to come
column suggestions I was after
fall of Late at the captain led her to the table ship.
of Lady Violet Bonham- with a heap of motions in any something that
Is Tennis where Eleanor, the singer and
and the Earl of Carter, Lel "The serial continues -
one year, be it calendar, fuenl
I were waiting, it was apparent favourite sport; she does helt heir to the Duke of Bur-
the names The light-fingered Jog or leap. Where, I'm often ask
t once that Mrs Lamont was a rend our next instalment to-
not pretend to be more than deurh, are
most agd during Formal, pleasant woman,
which the Princers has "Three years morrow" is the headline book makes depressing read-ed. do they all come from?
as scelated fisat het crush on the opera an average player. and chopping tip to New York, 1 friends from one of the papers here. ing for the police.
#tar was nothing to be concern- e about. AAA
Palace, her main hobbies There was the first entry hecklers, E-from darned near attended a performance at the
Metropolitan Opera House
For two years the 24-year- Never have newspaper
and are reading and stamp col.
old Marquess and the 27-year- We gabbe about this be well-mannered at home, you readers in the South of at the fabulous Villa le Roc, everywhere.
Mrxi
the baritones. Some of the yarns are whit otchoolgirlish crush on une
old Earl have been regular will be 21 absolut. charmer
the dusty Jumber reason he struck me as the most that for a spell, and about nine lecting.
our- Although Princess Eliza "escorts." The Princess has just everywhere else," she adds, and France had such a thriller. near Cannes, where
that Norman Winston was hold-ted from
hud ever my wife and i excused because
a-mouldering in the back alleys glamorous of my head, some come from seen, and ever since I've had a sclves and went off to catch a beth is now married with a left a house party in Scotland she has been the.
book It has a charm of its own
ed two hours later the futemo- family, scarcely a day goes at which
guert of the Earl of Dalkeith. "Knowing sou were in show tonal Friendship Society were by when they are both But at present there is no in- London when the two do dication that her choice will lie rich Americans and French to eat the spaghetti at Lindy's, were enjoying the soft musteme
loss the hope that I might
"I don't know how Lucinda not see each other. When with any of these men.
When Princess Margaret is a usinity, I started to send you will holding forth, Ingridate myself with you end,
the other with
quest at your help, get to meet is at making up stories," said one is in the country they
party And please don't the baritone, but she's certain speak on the telephone.
Cuccts and friends address her "Ma'am." Only members of my baritone.
her family and her most In- and very happily, to a fellow list."
Mar- misturlerstand - I'm married, ly a first-rate
timate friends car her I've known since high school. And that was the only the
"If, most of the time you can
that is the
kind of Editors are o
sure
of
man
T
For Some
philosophy that runs through the another jewel raid will erop ing a party with 30 guests.
British aristocracy and the loquacious louts who gather tremendous desire to meet him. movie. And when we retum-
I like "most of the time with up for the next day's paper
the old kind of books, with all that a "atory an far" intro- thore archdukes around, you had duction for the next instal
on your mettle all the ment is always in type
ready for use.
time.
*ManĘTA for Mocterns' be ap
20. Gu.
Allister RLGnuou Punstedtronaj Even "crimes pas
sionelica" have faded
(World Copyright decreed-Landon the background.
Express Service).
into
are
inspired by my quent the coffee-houses of the from a band on the terrace enerous kinsmen who still fre- when the bandits struck. East Side, and
I some,
am even come £30,000 worth in one haul-pleased to relate, and all from the rooms of from my ever-lovin' and ever- the guests. Not a clue left writin' readers-long may their
feuntain, pens flourish,
and none found since.
Crime Quiz
by Leonard Gribble Sketcher by A. E. Morley
The Foreign Buyer
Reported in Probes A man wha claimed to be Martis Day, a foreign Buyer for a group of wholesalere in Rio, called on » London firm of silver umitha." He asked terms on which some of the ilem's weres could be sent te his hoist for epactors
C. DIAZ
RIO DE JANBIRO
Any dear thostin
I am quite recitats
help your spot dowe and of
you personally un
Yours most cerely
Carlos Roz
the He presented a latter from head of South American firm, and explained that I was in English, ndi Spanish, so that he could offer the priginal instead of a hyped translation He said it was bacajaw of his personat contact with the hand of the «flem that he had to be extra careful in selecting good.
(Kolutions. Paza
The salesmen en syrpico and telephoned the police from another office. i was abed for the buyer's description and told to detain him for another 15, minutes. When the buyer Isfe 750 wás.xtopped by a detective. A five-cautions proved he was an Impostor has had given him away?
ECt the "However, I can't anger out of my head and even though I've now it's crazy, I meet won't be content uni! I him and spend an evening with a blin.
For instance, up in Toronto There's a yomg housewife with the unlikely name of Lucinda tamont who occasionally malls in a suggestion for a column. The stuff the submits, as rule, is short on construction and climax, but every now and then contains an interesting character or situation.
COUPLE of weeks before Christmas I checked back my und found that three of
hud columns during the year
fur- nounced off springboards rished by Mrs Lamont,
it was only fitlin' and propa-
conversationa-
that the during the evening tudy from Toronto blushed.
At home in Buckingham cenalstently
remantically.
INDEPENDENT
in
IN the last two years a close observer will have noticed how Princess Mar- taken an In- garet has
caret.
NO
SECRETARY
no
TN spite of her increasing part creasing interest in the publie lite, she jus
secretary. Her correspundence is dealt with by her lody-in- "So if you want to give me ITALF an hour later the party serious matter of life.
star From her carliest days waiting, Miss Jennifer Devon. something to dream about the broke up the opera
She has only rest of my life, please see it going off to his wife in Great her actions have been mark-
one personat you can't get me a dale with Neck and our visitor to
Canida, ed by an independence of servant, a Indy's mald.
As the King's daughter she him. I can fly to New York any house and hubby evening you say.
As we were chauffeuring Mis spirit.
catch Lamont to the airport to the midnight acroplane she turns-
"Or am I making myself ridi- culous?"
the
A postscript contohed name of the gent with the dul- cri tonsils..
her
Today she accepts
own
bor become a leader of fashion.
She is fond of clother and taken
#
cat interest in them. But
jast
wears
"d to me, wanged her eyelashes public engagement, because
sle normally makes her clothes ecstatically and sighed.
long time and them often, "Mr Rose," she said, "this has she wishes to. No pressure
Being pellte she whely wears been the most wonderful even is brought by her parents.
She manages her ing, in my life. 1'11 never, never
lille Jewellery, Usually peart is a family forget it. Thank you so much." affairs entirely, always re necklace, which
"Are you going to send any
once piti, and a brooch are all sho more column material?" I ask ferring her decisions l,
they are made to her mother wears. She never wears I doubt it," she said. "That and father in the same way In the family circle the la and 1a, unless I happen to get stuck as any daughter in a normal known for her lively wit and for her gift of mimiery, with fent the little lady a negotiable read him the letter. He turned on another baritone.
And that, dear readers, & the courteous household.
If she wishes to go to a which she often illustrates some
anecdote, nokogay.
out to be a very understanding
after some yarn behind three of my yams,
theatre she A few days later, my cheque young man, and
Your, counting this one..
party between came back with the following fast correspondence
will merely tell her parents (World Copyright Helpsd-London
| Krprise "Service}," (Landon Express Service) letter of explanation:
Sixth Avenue and Toronto
the situation tickled me and so I get in book and touch with the baritone
anda, I thought, to make some NATURALLY,
ccature of appreciation, so vut pen to cheque
or
ring..
cat-
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