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EVE PERRICK

GOES TO COLLEGE FOR A TWO-WAY CHECK-UP

Oxford

sends me down. blushing

OXFORD.

Fever I have written a

being lot in the courtyard

of Trinity College without anyone at ali to take round.

LUNCH

AS "EXTRAB” to tho

vertised Joys, the parlies were shown The restaurant winklow which was the Arat 10 be broken

Guy every Fawkes Night. (Salu a mystifed rubbernecker praniowa:

"Can

to

Con-

that be some sort of religious ceremony?")

είτε it

was lunch at "he place where intellectunts meet," mean-minded piece with grapefruit, roast beef and about the way some un- Christmas

pudding. ds, at the Afterwards.

Shelley fortumte creature gave, an elderly, white-haired a "little informal talk." let any, who had forind Song my victim rejoice. I'm truly difficulty in keeplust up (there war on awful lot of walking) came into her own The es- cart didn't know who sculpted it. The visitor did — and sho knew when Shelly died, and,

you where he

sorry.

For 1 have Just done my first ever "We are pleased to have with us tonight" stini. It was not a success.

A room in Christ Church mark College. Oxford, was

10

buried.

hud the

TEA-TIME

Szene of the disaster. I been

ariced

address University Press Club there. had been told it really didn't matter what I talked about and, of course, found out that 11 did.

was

AT 4.45 he red tourists piled back to the coaches. Said Mra Harper, from Boston. Mass.: "I shall come back and bring my daughter.

1 have Tt face-reddening The final comment will come recollection of

huddie from Yank who will be at fiercely clever look Oxford later. When Bob Hope takes the tour it should pro- ing youths in a choice assort-

ment of faney waistcoats and vide him with enough material trong-silent-type pipes: two to give Ave of his gag-writers a long vacation. And that's girls in scarves and weollies-- all Isaking us

if they were one word the Americann and waiting for the booing to begin, the undergraduates bave in

My audience would insist on arking the Wrot How do you write a

I wish I knew): are colum- niels really necessary? (depends which columuirts you mean do you have to do Kreat deal of drinking to get on in your work? (1 let that one Pass); how do you stay in your job (1 keep my fingers crossed).

Then eate 0 "snupper" question. A young man with a

clark, intense expression, * his Hilt buttons

scarlet waistconf,

initials on his.

stood up.

and

"Do you agree that the stan-

dard of journalism, in quality

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common.

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SAID The newspaperman Gin the Alm "Born Yester- day to the young actress: "Are

Are you happy?" She replied: fee got two mink cents."

Said his newspaper woman to the young netress Claude Farell: "Are you happy?" She replied: "Yes, very,”

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How lovely to be a very

rich man's wife

By ROBERT GLENTON

N the dark coal cellars

"It's good to be

of some of the world's in England again. most. palatini hotels there rest little piles of logs... luxury's chopped tribute to the whim of a princess.

THE walls of Miss Helen Devi

Sioursal's 14th floor office

For one day the lovely

Princess dark-eyed

Sita will come thut way by the bell. The college code says that no

in Madison Avenue, New York, again, and the log fires she are lined with the autographed loves must be burning in her in woman may

men's college after ten o'clock.ctures of famous men and suite, the fragrance ming-

Wonten whom she

taught to ling with the scent of the speak on the radio..

There

cheroot which will undoub- art Margaret Truman,

Herbertedly be smouldering slowly Hoover,

her Walter Pidgeon and between

pearl-white Clement Atlee,

teeth. Prime The Was the

Politely. but firmly, 1 WDS

hown the door.

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But from the

illusioned discussion

behind me,

mather

dis- going on heard the voice

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of my one lone supporter.

wick,

1 think rather sweel" exactly in tone one USES to describe _dear_old_lady.

DAWN, ETC.

21

Anthony

Minister was the Innocent cause of the wors! faur pas

ever mitted by a week

cum

Jelen

£80 -

to Sloussat. boss of

CAME the dawn - and Ox-

4 Kard got up at take part in the revelries of

..

all the talks for

Eden,

one of America'a um SIOUSSAT May Morning.

This is the little traditional biggest radio nej-

works. the ceremony of the boys of Magdalen (that's the one pro-

"I always come for May and June. The countryside is so lovely. There is 50 much beauty that it's unbeliev able.

And then there's the theatre and the opera and

I.

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

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

· Gaekwar-of-Baroda,-who-December-We-go. claims to be the world's then to the South second richest man, And of France. We spend

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

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.

The princess flicked her

black chestnut long,

hair from And During his first post-war visit

the hoteliers will I love to see the

over her left ear. She wore United States, he had grow pale and wrathful if trees burst into bloom nounced Maudlin) choir-school to the

two enormous and perfect climbing to the top of the col-agreed to take part in a broad- the princess's second desire and then England.

pearls as ear-rings. lege tower to sing an ancient cust with Miss Frances Perklas, is not met .... if there are anthem. In the rain and the FDR's Labour Secretary. Miss wind, the spectating punts Sloussat (pronounced Soosah) no red roses in her rooms,

piled up under the tower, Said was to see that all went well.

one of

the

undergraduates;

"Someone always falls in the

river." Someone lid.

A young nurse, trying to punt-pole manipulate (quant), obviously for the first time, suddenly vaulted over

landed, the pole and

head

Frances Perkins arrived first."

*

"Dior and Fath have tried to make me wear the clothes they

refuse. design. I always don't want to. I'm happy as 1

am."

With a respectful "Your Highness," her 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 days," she said,

I

·

spend my

"I get up each morning at about

noon, drink a glass of orange juice, and then I read the

to morning papers what's happened while I've slept.

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"I have a light lunch, meet some friends, have tea, then a dinner with something I like to cal-perhops roast duck with a nice sauce and then a theatre or a concert.

"That's what I do for three days a week wherever_i_am. I spend three days each week in the country. There I don't go to the theatre. I go for a walk instead. I in the afternoon

the love to stand and watch 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 reada biography or something."

TUE

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

"Bringing up

son is

"After that we follow the horse racing. Paris in July

"I'm lucky," sho said. and then Deauville, to lie

do "My husband lets me in the sun again.

just what I like. I can go Behind her came three or four ALL was as it should be.

"Of course. there's the where I want to go, and do men, one of whom seemed par ticularly self-effacing.

when the princess ar gambling, too. I'm very fond what I want to do, which is "But we have trouble too, you "I thought," Bald

321 at Suite Miss rived

rare for an Indian wife. He know," she said. at of gambling. Sioussat, "that he was a sort of Claridges in London.

He my little six-year-old too. brief-case carrier, To make him

"That's my life, and I loves jewellery,

buys It as an investment quite a problem. He goes to

school In Surrey. feel at home asked him if he Lounging happily in an love it. first, in the mud of the river- would not like to come into the arm-chair, she said to me:

and I love to wear it.

to be educated in England. control room and watch the "Oh, bed.

"I love being rich.

But

"But he must be treated the which broadcast from there.

mako alone won't

same as an ordinary boy. I try of large, to be very strict with him. I don't let him have all he wants. "He gels only a pound a week pocket money, and he has to of, that, buy everything out But I'm afraid his father spolls him.

The feminis cause,

"Look," she said, pointing

I am happy. I am Thank had taken a body blow by my you so much, he said. It's happy and I am lucky. This money

I know many to the six ropes was very kind of you. But I hardly is a wonderful life and there you happy. effort the night before, strengthened. While the young think can. I shall be broad- is no time to be sad."

rich people who are very wonderfully matched pearls

round her neck. miserable.

men milled round,

NOON

laughing casting.

sca

you

sen. My name

is

I want him

their heads of.. pretty, cur-wo years later he camel

She was even prepared to ly haired undergraduette punt-

"Money really makes no An almost inch-square 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 and pulled her out.

dreadful moment. He said in the moment the tall vases 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 Jockey, He's first time I'd been taken for a Looking at the white money at all.

mond bracelet.

Tommy Burns, gave him. brief-ease currier."

crazy about it." It's the very lilac and the high straight THE MUCH publicized Un- Helen. Spussy, holds us or tulips-she-said:1-would-

35, dark-

"If something_makes me "Now an

Englishwoman first he has had." dergrad Tours

take (0

the top jobs in U.S. radio, She havo preferred roses, but sad, there are a lot of other would look over-dressed with As nve said-goodbye-the-prin

Jewellery like this, but it goes cess, with her glittering humming picks between you right into the

600 and 900 life of Elonians and

things to make me happy. so well with a sari. I always jewellery and her fireplace with Oxford

one can't have everything." speakers a year, reads thefr

If you can be happy with wear saris-they are beautiful. Its crackling logs as symbols of men") finally got under way.

She tapped the ash of the your husband and To be sure the two coaches scripts, schools them in the arts

your And they suit everyone." of broadcasting. from London

nilon nerived an hour late, and official cords, pretty casters then women.

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

She reflected for a moment, a four-inch long holder with mer's day, then you don't then added thoughtfully. "But giri

FREDERICK COOK a knitting-needle-thick atem. reed money.”

not Englishwomen, out-numbered the cash tomers two to one.

Still, among the 23 35,-a- head

genuine tourists there was the Amerkan Ambassa-

guides and Journalist,

CUB-

dor's secretary, Margaret Her- rick, and her mother,

16א1

First chore for the organis- ing undergraduates

the auctioning-off of Chcorts.

Christopher Johnoon, wield- ing a megaphono ("I bet that's the one that the American cor used when the Oxford boat sank, whispered one meanie),

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und Interests of his colleagues, erling each oration with: "And how, would anyone like to jodes his le : party?" Unfortunately, the balanced odda romutted coupleyot collegiate

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her husband's wealth, smiled once more and said: wouldn't change places with any women in the world."

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