1938-12-15 — Page 14

"Perhaps I'm hard to please

When I was younger

I didn't much care what I ate or drank or

smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas- ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you

would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second- best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.

THE CHINATMAIL, DE

RICHEST WIFE SPENDS

HER DREAMS

Honolulu, Hawaii, December 1.

By pushing a which is actuat the basement, or disappears.

This same de high diving pla

ming pool, which

15ft. deep.

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Doris Duke Cromwell, who is reputed to be the world's richest woman, having inherited an Amer-rise to a certain ican tobacco fortune, will occupy on January 1 the Honolulu estate on which she is estimated to have spent about £400,000.

Now nearing completion, the estate, which neither in its grounds nor buildings is large, cover ing about four acres, will include costly materials, furnishings, and decorations gathered by Mrs. Cromwell and her husband, James H. R. Cromwell, from many parts of the world.

In it they have tried to combine, who possessed a fortune built from He left an several styles of architecture-with utilities and tobacco. the predominant note Persian-that estate estimated at his death at £20,- would harmonise with the colourful, | 000 000, his daughter inheriting a peaceful Hawaiian landscape. In large part of it.

Mr. Cromwell is 41, and a stepson this they and their architects feel

of E. T. Stotesbury, senior partner they have succeeded.

The house has no guest rooms. of J. P. Morgan and Co., of New Neither is any part of it air-York, and head of the great. Drexel conditioned, except for the wine-banking house in Philadelphia.

Mr. Cromwell, besides engaging cellar, one kitchen storeroom, and a

phonograph, in advertising. writes assiduously, room for a master which will be connected with loud-one of his best-known books having the been "In Defence of Capitalism." speakers in several parts of I

building. Records will be stored They were married in New York on

February 13, 1935. here too..

Entrance to the new home will be

You see what I mean about whisky.

While I can obtain a whisky as soft

and smooth as a fine liqueur, why on earth'should I be put off with anything less than White Horse?

admit that perhaps I am hard to please -- but take it from me, it pays."

WHITE HORSE

WHISKY

You can tell it blindfold!

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The estate is situated about five through an entresalle some 18ft. by miles from the city's business sec- 35ft. that looks down through tion-at the lower slope to the east Moroccan screen into the huge patio, of Diamond Head, the extinct vol- which is the centre of the house canic crater which is a familiar land- { prover. mark to Pacific travellers arriving and departing from Honolulu. lies at the water's edge, the grounds being about 40ft. above sea level, with a volcanic stone retaining wall along the shore.

on three

The patio is 30ft. by 30ft. square; It its walls are lined with tree fern bark from which grow sprays of or- chids; its covered walk sides is paved with Chinese granite blocks, relics of the days when sail- ing ships brought in the blocks as balast and dumped them for the richer stores of commerce.

MOROCCAN CEILING

In front of the estate, for about half a mile into the ocean, is a coral reef.

Travellers aboard passing liners will see it from beyond this reef, which lies just inside the ship channel. Its low, rambling archi- In the centre section to one side! tecture nestles against the hill be- of the entresalle is the suite of Miss hind

50ft. Christine Cromwell, a daughter of it, which rises about higher; its white wa'ls sharpen the Mr. Cromwell by his former mar- blue and green of the occean, land-riage to Delphine Dodge, a member| scape and sky; and its rich brown of the auto manufacturing family, retaining wall is in restfui harmony whose name was recently linked with that of Jack Doy'e, the British Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell do their boxer. travelling between the islands and

with the sea.

+

Between the patio and the sea wall, their New York home entirely by and fronting on the terrace to the air, and expect to travel more fre- west is the living-room, which in the rest quently now that the Hawaiian es- quiet richness may excel tate is nearly completed.

of the house. Its floor is of oak, The Pan-American Airways cut în transverse squares, and came "clippers" bring Honolulu within from a French chateau. The ceiling 17 to 20 hours of San Francisco, |îs of carved and decorated woodwork which is 18 hours from New from Morocco.. York.

An interesting mechanical fea- Mrs. Cromwell is a tall, rather ture of the living-room is its door. handsome blonde, with eyes almost This, a single sheet of glass 20ft. a'mond-shaped. She is 25, the wide and 12ft. high, with bronze daughter of the late James B. Duke, frame, is recessed into the floor.

platform and pu the platform car it reaches the halts, the diver

the platfo

und ground of its o which fitted with elab water in it co

The swimming

is 20ft.

chinery which

hours.

The living ro some 30ft. by 2 on two sides, t and that on the is the outdoor the wall betwee

and the aquariu windows four

fitted with curve Coloured trop

them through aquarium side o the glass is inv to persons in th the fish are sus 65-FT. MO Extending fro

breakwaters of They provide a the Cromwells' which will ferr from the Kaila motor yacht wh outside.

None of the house has been corations are in ficent. Many or marble grilly and a glass dod into the wall. the house are P ble from India, marble inlaid v

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10 h.p.

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compare general provide an adeo Vauxhall - model

economy.

Bringing Up Father

I'M SICK AND TIRED OF YOU ALWAYS ARGUING WITH ME

YOU AREN'T ACTIN' AS IF YOU WUZ SICK OR TIRED--

SHUT UP.ORI WILL LOSE MY TEMPER-

IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA IF YOU DID LOSE IT-

THE GUESTS WILL ARRIVE FOR DINNER SOON-MUM-

HEAVENS-1 FORGOT ALL ABOUT IT-

By

-AND WHA WE GONN FOR DIS THERE I CUP LEF HOUS

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