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A GIRL TO MAKE

YOU GASP

Tpondent

an

THE other day a corres-

for American magazine was interviewing a girl call ed Marilyn Monroe, when a box of matches in his poc- ket burst spontaneously into flames,

Fortunately I am a non- simoker, and thus carry no matches.

But I have to report that this Marilyn Monroc is in the direct line of descent

from Jean "Blonde Bomb- shell" Harlow.

JAWS AGAPE.'. WHEN she walked in to

"In my latest picture, which is called 'As Young as you Feel, 1 play a secretary-but she is not ឆ secretary at

Miss Here

Monroe heart." gave a silvery peal of laugh- ter. I smiled feebly in son.

uni

mind

shc her

"She has not got her on being 别

secretary," sald, "What has she got mind on?" I queriod, feeling Nke the straight man in an old-fashioned vaudeville routine.

A SHAME WHY, she has got her mind on ment" said Miss Mon- ros triumphantly. "Then I've made 'A WAC in His Life (1 play the WAC, but they have Just changed the title to Love Nest") and also 'Let's Make it Legal."

man--I didn't About Eve,'

-From

R. M. MacCOLL's

HOLLYWOOD DIARY

Then they rediscover- ed her all over again when she was` medelling bathing suits.

Misa

I

like grently

for two big Monroe

first, ressons!

she doesn't wear coloured varnish on her finger- nails; secondly, she goes for a jog-trot first thing every_morning.

Where? "Oh, up and down the alleyways 50

be as not to

conspl- cuous.

"But they use the

11

re-

alleyways...." I began, for putting the dust- bins out in?"

"Yes, I know,"

Miss Monroe plied

that's laughingly, "but

I do my jog- where trotting, all the same, put on blue jeans and a T-neck sweater, and even In 'All

off I go. Keeps me in where George

good condition. The Sanders brought me to that

small boys stare at me party-it may seem a

shame,

and shout "Who's chas- mind be

ing you? but I pay no but I really don't cause I think the other woman, whether she gets.

attention." a. man or well, there we are not, always has the best of

Fardon me chups, whic everything-don't you?"

I just slip into my blue I choked

delicious tuna salad and nodded hastly.

jeans and' T-neck sweater. Believe I feel Handsome men sitting at near-

like a little jog-trotting. by tables glanced over sharp-

-(London Express Service) ly to see what I was nodding at.

join me at luncheon, "You know, I never do get a something happened to the crowded, talkative huge, place. Strong, hungry men who were busily engaged in annihilating beef stew and simultaneously giving an enthralling description of their latest script, paused in mid-sentence, their jaws agape. Women's eyes nar- rowed flintily.

Miss Monroe continued on her way, her white pique

on' my

JUGGLER, TOO

sunsuit accompanying her THIS child was taught knife-

as a favour.

She

you

Marlyn Monroe...laade of fan mall

WHATSO GOING ON?!

NAGOAN

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

LONDON: visitors from overseas, are re- CHOPPING here for KING quested on the invitation card ABDULLAH OF JOR. to wear "a sprig of rosemary," DAN 18 40-year-old Thus they will be recognised MOHAMMED BEY as honcured guests and given a

special welcome. ZUBATTI.

His frst order was u £3,500 gold and diamond necklace de coration from the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company.

Zubatti Chlet Chancellor to the king, makes

frequent shopping expeditions to Britain on his behalf. "I've been with the king for 23 years," he told

me.

Also on Zubatti's shopping list is a gold and silver service for the king's table-enough for 100 guests.

WEARING their rosemary will be MRS WALTER 8. ; GIFFORD, wife of the American Ambassador. 'and

MRS whose CHARLES SPOFFORD. husband is U.S. Deputy on the North Atlantic Council.

'Come in, friend' MY remarks on the visit of the choir, of St Joseph's Catholic University, New Brunswick, found a response at Westminster This may take 18 months to Cathedral, administered by the make. What will it cost?

able MONSIGNOR CUTHBERT Zubatti wasn't sure, but he COLLINGWOOD-rising figure recalled that when he bought in

Catholic Church in similar plate for 50 last year he pald £4,000.

THE KING also wants four modern cooking stoves, and Zubatil may take buck a golden snuffbox "ay a personul present to my king."

Zubatti will not forget a few. bracelets and necklets for his wite, clothes and toys for his children.

Dream of Sybil

the

Britain.

This famous choir will sing High Mass in the cathedral.

Not only that, but the Mon- signor organised food and ac- commodation. Truly an Empire gesture.

:

Novello £200,000

IVOR WHISPERS that

NOVELLO'S fortune for exceeds the first estimate of

aro discounted £100,000

by

GUESTS thronged the great London solicitors handling the

of Longleat, home of wil.

#

the MARQUIS AND MAR- It has even been published CHIONESS OF BATH, at

that there would be as much grand Bal Fleurl till the early

as £360,000 left after all death hours.

dutles have been paid, which would mean on estate of about a million pounds,

But the marchioness was wor- ried. LADY SYBIL PIOPPS, Bister of the DUKE OF BUC. CLEUCH, had dreamed a few nights before that there would be murder at Longleat.

Alas, it isn't true.

A PARTNER tells me that when all claims have been

The occasion? A grund ball." met the entire estate, here and The victim? A lovely blonde guest.

"And Lady Sybil is so terribly clairvoyante," Lady Bath told

mc.

abroad, will amount to "about

•£200,000,"

Persian perfume

NO ormed guards were WHEN I asked the recently

But relieved that

provided for blondes. Lady Bath was Lady Sybil did not live up to the reputation of her namesake of mythology,

?

to

Anne's cabinet PRIVILEGED visitors

Clarence House are some- times. shown "PRINCESS ANNE'S own cabinet.".

This, I hear, is filling up with presents of miniature gold, silver and china pleces.

One is a silver Queen Anne reproduction fea service, com- plete with tray. There is also a spoon with a harvest mouse modelled on the handle. The Princess is one year old оп August 15,

For remembrance- ARE

we looking after our overseas visitors?

At the Festival of Sussex garden party at Glyndebourne

Whiskey at 8/4-but "prestige' sends the bills up

HOW

HARD UP ARE

LONDON'S DIPLOMATS?

where FOREIGN diplomats in ceiving £5,000 a year plus ex-

Marilyn, who 09. д

throwing and Indian club jug- She shook hands, sat down gling by an old British variety deftly, beamed, and lifted a actor, got matrimony out of Jumbo glass of fruit juice to the way at a fast clip. flawless lips. (You may recall was married when she was 15 this Miss Monroe in "The and divorced one year later. Asphalt Jungle," where the Will she try again? played Louis Cathern's Bittle "Oh, I have other things on friend). There was

mind--my a long my

work,. gasp in the London cinema know," she says, rhythmically where I saw it, when Miss M. dilating her charming nostrils.

All these drinks and cigarettes was first discovered keeping a

She lives alone in an hotel- sofa company. The gasp found apartment house

London are facing a penses--are not suffering any must be imporled and if they a Transatlantic echo in that housekeeps for herself ("You

and unexpected serious effects from the rise in come from a dollar source must restaurant. For when Miss ought to try one of my salads, new

But this is be paid from a dollar account. the cost of living. perfect").

live how to Monroe walks in it is an oc- my dressing Is

lower ranks. This is what they pay of Live not true Drink? "Just a little wine-within their budget without who in the case of the Scandi-

af course

Diplomatic Normal instance) women sacrificing diplomatic pres- navian nations for Any

Price Price receive Just under £100

8/4 Irish Whiskey

38/- offtige. three, all real friends? "Just MISS MONROE (her

month.

37/- Geneva Bol Gin 7/8 them very much older than I name is Norma Baker)

But

Champagne

19/2 They are highly paid.

27/- was born in Los Angeles 25 am." Fan mall? "Loads of it,

"We are not clerks who can Cognac Brandy and quite a lot from England, items that would be an oc- years ago and was brought up

day's work do their casional luxury for the ordinars desk and return home to their Cherry Brandy

(3 Star) in the local orphanage. (That It's mostly from men, makes her the Grat orphan how."

man are for them an every-day slippers in the evening,"

one Rum {"must."

member of a Scandinavian Em- Sherry Latin-American countries are bassy told me,

most generous to their allow Service. They

casion,

MISS

SHE'S 23

who has ever created her own storm).

She, has

small,

never

soine

EMERSON

dilemma:

•

table NHE placed upon the hair, The Coilected Essays of the ash-blonde with a wonderful hair line,

the Foreign which Ralph Emerson" huge, lively blue eyes, neat cars, a very well-formed had with her. Sternly resist some of their Ambassadors in over. £12,000 a face (good check bones) lips ing the temptation to pick It London well that talk and sip excellently, a up and start browsing through year plus entertainment allow

eyes fixed ances that no celf it. I kept my set of teeth

Officers of the lowest respecting dentist would dream bravely on Miss M.

mus set about 2250 a month of improving on, and a general "I go to the University of inclusive of expenses. layout south of the border California at Los Angeles one

United States Embassy officers that causes little if

"The fruit juice," "ny, pain, night a week to take a class

I said, in English Literature," she also receive substantial salaries ***why?"

"I'm on a diet," said Marilyn explained, "It has inspired me varying from £1,500 a year for to read. It's wonderful. I've Third Secretarios and Vice Con- He's suls to about 25,500 for Minis snapping the eyes on and off. just discovered Tolstoy,

ters and very much more for "My breakfast is one vitamin wonderful. pill, this my lunch, and

the Ambassador: for Tho dinner tonight a small,

steak and sliced tomatoes,

"I want to lose around

or seven pounds."

lean "Mr Zanuck tells me

wants me to be very,

he

very

six patient, because he has

the

i.

most wonderful plans for mo.

"My perfect weight is 118lb. timo round

SPAIN LEADS

In

at their

Port

17/-

44/-

10/- 31/-

7/m 35/4 7/0 20/- 7/-- 10/-

17/0

aspssinated Persion Pre- mier ALI RAZMABA in

Teheran last year whether ho feared assassination,

replied: "Never,"

Razmara

..

recently

When I asked the married BUAH OF PERSIA to tell me his matrimonial plans, the Shah replied: "I am not contemplating remarriage,

+

And when I asked the Shah to speak on the Anglo-Iranian Oll Company, the Shah said: "I the existence of believe that British Interests in. Persia is advantageous to my country."

Back to Moses

SMALL-TOWN professor of American history proudly fold Professor ALBERT EINSTEIN the other day: "One of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence."

Replied

of Einstein "One mine signed the Ten Command- ments."

-(London Express Service)

Two officials of the German Consulate-Ceneral in London haya but Jeft thal Jobs because of high living costs. How do the rest of London's diplomatic colony live? Special Correspondent adds up

• the bills that are causing a furry behind Embassy tran doors.

St James's, but have to pay full fees) Laundry

3

5

Sundries

10

£183

This budget leaves cut drinks, elgarettes and sults (40 to 60

guineas each).

Married diplomais have the added problems of wife's clothes and children's schooling.

PETROL: 1/8

CIGARETTES TAX FREE

(per 100)

For all thek personal pure One of our main duties is to Average _Virginia_4/2

chases in Londen (apart from this raises two

drinks and cigareties), diplo- for It is difficult now catertain and problems-either you have a

them for British home in which you can entertain diplomat to spend less than £5 mata pay full tax. This tax is

ahead for an evening's outing, returned to with dignity or you have to some bills in the more luxurious cars which they buy here, but

in a hotel er TC3- entertain

being posted elsewhere. A laurant. If you entertain in your night clubs come to over £100' which they take abroad on their and you must; have servants. Here is a monthly budget of home: It must be well appointed for half a dozen people, You can't have your wife rush-

unmarried Junior Middle Ing to the kitchen between Eastern diplomat. courses and excusing herself for the washing-up.

You

་་་

£183 A MONTH

If you entertain in a hotel or restaurant you have to choose Rent, including light and

heating the European countries one of the best in town,,

(Heads of Mimlens pay I found my eye caught by n I want to have a try, at the Spain, Portugal and Italy are have to uphold the prestige of generous to their your country and this wouldn't little mele. Not the kind that stage and go to London." the most

high If you invited your Meals in restaurants

s much as £100) burrows in the garden, either. This is Miss M.'s second diplomats

London The be

Entertaining Twentieth Scandinavian countries lag for guests to a threepenny cafe. (Est. Gib), but I would like Century-Fox. She had a con- behind with France and the

mada

clothes push it down to about 1181b.: tract before and

rome compensating advantages, It does not bother me a bit nim called "Scudde H Benelux countries somewhere Entertaining at home has Care and maintenance.

diplomats can use their own Transport dieling When you're busy Scudda Hay!" But she wound

Hends of diplomatic missions drinks and cigarettes brought at Theatres, concerts, ele, you do not need much food, up as the face, on the cutting- don't you find that?”

room floor, and unaccountably in London and the highest diplomatic prices free of tax and Clubs fees (Diplomats ob

tain hon, membership of officers under them--those "-re÷", customs- duly, "No," I said, "I mean Yes,” they let her go.

to

one

between.

10

Diplomats pay full price for patrol at garages but ask for receipts. The British Govern- ment refunds them the tax of' 1 10; for every gallon. This brings petrol down for them to la. Bd. per gallon. They pay no licence dutles for their care,

Members of the diplomatic colony here with experience of 60. many of the world's ' ‚capitais, 40 say emphatically that, next to Washington and Moscow, Lon« don has become, the most-ex- 10 pensive diplomatic expital la 10 the world.

(World Consight: Reserved.in London Naprata Korpicos.