1951-05-12 — Page 21

EVE PERRICK

GOES TO COLLEGE FOR A TWO-WAY CHECK-UP!

Oxford sends me

down.. blushing

bring to in the courtyard of Trinity College without anyone at nil to take round.

LUNCH...

AS "EXTRAS" to 10 ad- vertiged Joys, the partien WCTC. shown the restaurant whelow which was the Brst

be broken every Guy Fawkes Night. (Sold a mystifled rubbernecker 10 It Ex panion: "Can that be some sort of OXFORD.

of religious ceremony?"). Then it was lunch DI "the Fever have written a

plare where intellectuals meet," mean-minded piece with grapefruit, roast beef and about the way some un- Chistians pudding. fortunate creature gave a "little informal talk," let my victim rejoice. I'm truly

I

Horry.

For I have Just ano my first ever "We are pleased to stint. have with us tonight"

It was not a success.

A room in Christ Church

College. Oxford. was the

scene of the disaster. I been asked to

address

had

the

University Press Club there, had been told it really didn't matter what I talked about and, of course, found out that it did.

have 31 face-reddening recollection Lif

huddle

of fiercely clever look ing youth in a cholce assort- ment of fancy waistcoats and

rong-silent-type pipes;

wrom!

two

Birls in scarves and woollies-

if they wore al looking ns waiting for the booing to begin. My mudience would insist on asking the

questions. How do you write a column? (I wish I knew); are colum nfst really necessary? (depends which columnists Nou mean); do you have to do a great deal or drinking to get on in your work? ( let that one pass); how do you stay in your jobs? (1 kerp my fingers crossed).

Then came the "sapper" question. A young man with a dark, intense expression,

waistcoat,

his and scarlet Initials on his it buttons stood up.

"Do you agree that the stan- chard of journalism, in quality

generated since the early 18th century?"

by the bell. I was saved

worran

iny

remain in +

Afterwards, at the

Shelley statue. on elderly, white-haired lady, who had Yourk difficulty in keeping up (there WILS แก awful lot of walking) came into her own. The ce cons didn't know who sculpted

The visitor did and she knew when Shelly died. and. mark you where he was buried.

TEA-TIME

AT 4,45 the (fred tourists piled back into the coaches. Said Mrs Hoper, from Boston, Mass.: "I shall come back and bring my daughter."

The Anal comment will come from a Yonk who will be at Oxford later. When Bob Hope takes the tour it should

pro-

vide him with enough materini to give five of his gag-writers Long vacation. And that's one word the Americans and the undergraduates have common.

LAST WORD

in

SAID the • newspaperman (in the lm "Burn Yester- day") to the young actress: "Are you happy?" She replied:

ve got nou mink coats."

Said this newspaper wouran to the young ceress Claude Fareli: "Are you happy?" She replied: "Yes, very.

Miss Farell has four mink coals.

-London Express Service)

THE WOMAN WHO DIDN'T

THE

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, ̄ 1951.

JONALISE

NATIONALISED

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NATIONALIS THE SUDAN

NATIONALISE GIBRALTAR

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There's a little waiting list around the corner

London Express Service

How lovely to be a very

rich man's wife

By ROBERT GLENTON

N the dark coal cellars of some of the world's most palatial hotels there rest little piles of

logs.. chopped

luxury's tribute to the whim of a princess.

"It's good to be

in England again.

"I always come for May and June. The countryside is so lovely. There is

80 much beauty

uble,

then

''And there's the theatre and the opera and

For one day the lovely that it's unbeliev importance. has de KNOW ATTLEE

dark-eyed Princess Sita Miss Heles Devi will come that way TShoal's 14th Ho, Teles The college code says that no in Madison Avenue, New York, gain, and the log fires she are lined with the autographed loves must be burning in her men's college after ten o'clock.pictures of famous men and suite, the fragrance ming- Politely, but firmly, 1 was

taught to ling with the scent of the cheroot which will undoub- Eden, Herber tedly be smouldering slowly

her Waller Pidgeon-and | between

pearl-white teeth.

shown the door.

But from the

rather

dis- going on behind me. I heard the voice of my one lone supporter.

"Well. I think she WALA tother sweet"-exactly in lone one uses to describe

lusioned discussion

dear old lady.

DAWN, ETC.

the

women whom she speak on the radio.

There ure Anthony Margaret Truman, Hoover,

Clement Attlee.

The Prime Minister was the

Intccent cause of the worst fnux

evertuin- pas

mitted by 180. Helen a week

Sioussal, boss of

ull the talks for

GAME the dawn and Ox- ford gol up at 4 m. to take part in the revelries of

Ane of America's Mi SIDUSSAT May Morning.

This is the little traditional biggest radio net-

works. the

wind,

time, suddenly

vandled

bed.

Ι

'the concerts. couldn't miss Lon- don and the English countryside in spring.

_THE_MAHARANEE OF BARODA

In December the South of France... In April, Paris... then England's lovely countryside in May.

"After that we follow the horse racing. Paris in July and then Deauville, to lic in the sun again.

The princess flicked her black hair from over her left ear. She wore two enormous and perfect pearls as ear-rings.

"Dior and Fath have tried to make me wear the clothes they design. I always refuse. 1 don't want to. I'm hoppy as I

With

a respectful "Your Highness," ber secretary reminded her of an appoint- ment, After the

appointment

Princess Sita Devi was due to travel down to the Baroda coun- try home in Surrey,

"That's how I spend my days," she said.

get up each morning at about noon, drink

of a glass orange juice, and then I read the morning papers to sce what's happened while I've slept.

"I have a light lunch, meet some friends, have tea, then a dinner with something I like to eat--perhaps roast duck with a nice sauce and then a theatre ar a concert,

"That's what I do for three _days_a_week_wherever_1_am. I spend three days each week in the country. There I don't go to the theatre. I go for a walk in the afternoon instead. love to stand and watch the gardeners working

"I like to go to bed about one

o'clock in the morning, and when it's so still and quiet I lie and read--a blography or something."

princess traced patterns in the cheroot ash in the ash troy beside her.

"But we have trouble too, you "Bringing up know," she said.

"I'm lucky," she said. "My husband lets me do just what I like. I can go "Of course. there's the where I want to go, and do gambling, too. I'm very fond what I want to do, which is

rure for an Indian wife. He at of gambling.

"That's

my life, and I loves jewellery, too. He my

buys it as an investment quite a problem. He goes to school In Surrey. I want him and I love to wear it.

to be educated in England.

"But he must be treated the

little six-year-old son is

She peered into the log fire's Princess Sita Devi is the flames and went on: wife of the 42-year-old "My year starts in Gackwar of Baroda, who-December.. Wo-go. claims to be the world's then to the South second richest man, And of France. We spend for wealth like that urbane the winter there in hoteliers will surely see the the sun. In April log fires are burning bright. we go to our house in Paris,

chestnut long, of the boys of

I love to see the ceremony

And

will the hoteliers Magdalen (that's the one pro During his first post-war visit nounced Maudlin) choir-school to the United States, he had grow pale and wrathful if trees burst into bloom... elimbing to the top of the col- agreed to take part in a broad- the princess's second desire and then England.

tower to sing an ancien cast with Miss Frances Perkins, is not met.... if there are lege anthem. In the rain and the FDR's Labour Secretary, Miss

no red roses in her rooms. the speetarting punt Sloussnt (pronounced Soorah) piled up under the tower, Soid was to see that all went well. one of the

Frances Perkins arrived first. undergraduates:

falls "Someone alway's

10 the Behind her came three or four

it should be river. Someone did..

men, one of whom seemed par ALL was as A young nurse,

trying

to ticularly self-effacing,

when the princess ar- manipulate

punt-pole

thought," buld Miss rived at Suite 321 (quant),

obviously for the first Stoussat, "that he was a sort of Claridges in London.

over brief-case carrier. To make him the polo and Innded, head feel at home I asked him if he Lounging happily in an love it. Arst, in the mud of the river-would not like to come into the arm-chair, she said to me: control room and watch the "Oh, I am happy. I am

"I love being rich. But The feminist cause, which broadcast from there.

"Look," she said, pointing same as an ordinary boy, I try alone won't make had taken a body blow by my you so much,' he said. It's happy and I'am lucky. This money

of large, to be very strict with him. I was very

kind of you. But I hardly is a wonderful life and there you happy. I know many to the six ropes strengthened. While the young think I can. I shall be broad-is no time to be sad.” rich people who are very wonderfully matched pearls don't let him have all he wants, "He gets only a pound a week laughing

round her neck. men milled round,

miserable.

pocket money, and he has to their hands of, n pretty, curating, you see. My name

She was even prepared to TWO Two years later he came

"Money really makes no An almost inch-square buy everything out of that. But I'm afraid his father spolls ed up to the girl in the water over again and remembered that overlook the fact that for

difference you are a happy blue-white diamond ring on him. and pulled her out.

the tall vases dreadful moment. He sald—In] the moment And all this because it was the sweetest way-Please don't held no roses.

person or you are not. I her finger glittered as she

"At present his greatest joy is May,

worry! You know it was not the

would be happy with no pointed. So did her dia- a bicycle my husband's fockey, Arst time I'd been

taken for a Looking

He's at the white money at all.

mond bracelet.

Tommy Burns, gave him, brief-case

crazy about it. It's the very Helen

35, dark-lilac and the high straight

"Now "If something makes me.

an Englishwoman first he has had." "I would dergred Tours ("10 take haired and pretty, holds one of tulips she said:

As we said goodbye the prin- you right into the humming

with ie top jobs in U.S. radio. She have preferred roses, but sad, there are a lot of other would look over-dressed with life of Elonlans" and Oxford Picks between 000 and 000

one can't-have everything." things to make me happy. Jewellery like this, but it goes vess,

I always jewellery and her fireplace with speakers a year, reads men") finally got under way. scripts, schools them in the arts

If you can be happy with 50 well with a bari,

wear saris-they-are-beautiful. Its crackling logs as symbols of To be sure

two coaches the

She tapped the ash of the your

her husband's wealth, smiled husband and your. And they suit everyone.” of broadensting.

onco more and

"I said: from London arrived an hour late, and official escorts, pretty casters than women.

She thinks men beller broad- cheroot she was smoking in family and a lovely sum-

She reflected for a moment, wouldn't change places with any a four-inch long holder with mer's day, then you don't then added thoughtfully, "But woman in the world." girl guides and journalists,

FREDERICK COOK' out-numbered the cash

ja knitting-needle-thick stem, reed money."

not Englishwomen,

-{London Express Service)

tomers two do one.

Still, among the £3 33,-- touristy. there genuine was the American Ambassa dor's secretury, Margaret Her»

mother. her

for the organis-

effort the night before,

ly haired undergraduetic punt-

NOON

THE MUCH publicised Un-

head

rick, and First

ingreter

was

auctopher of cecorts.

cus-

the

Johnson, wield- ing a megaphone ("I bet that's the one that the American cox: used when the Oxford boat whispered one (meënte), sank, described in turn the charma, and Interests of his colleagues, ending each orulton with: "And now, would androme like to

Join 'bis: tdo tha

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NANCY

Thank

is

their

50-50; Chance

SOME MEN LIKE THE ATHLETIC TYPE

OF GIRL

CHARM

BOOK

---WHILE OTHERS · LIKE THE DAINTY, 'FEMININE' TYPE

CHARM

BOOK

.

I'M NOT SURE

WHICH TYPE

SLUGGO LIKES

By Ernie Bushmiller

her

glittering