1952-01-19 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1952.

RUBY M. AYRES

Britain's most popular romantic novelist begins today a new China Mail special series:

PEOPLE IN LOVE

WONDER how many pay.

There prople

are- ever have been--in this strange world of

ours who could admit with per- fret truth and sincerity that they have never been

in love

in my chequered career I have met so inang friendly, ikeable bachelors and S many not very young but still quite attractive spin sters who if I venture tu make so bold as to ask why they are unmarried will just laugh it off and tell me it is due to the fact that Mr Right - or Miss Right never chanced to rome their way

Somehow I find such an explanation hard to believe

most cases and consider

1 far more probable that something unforeseen hap- pened to upset the apple- cart-wither on one side or the other

Quite rently

was talkk

woman comewhere in b late thudies I magined net zu be who was very alunt and scorn- ful about the number of roman-

eluded, tilado I hovels ruppose') which still and what the culled "amazing popularity

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"Dasked her. 16

only

the

amrongly

talk as

kand

wort wh

which replied

if there

of luut

mast kn

Varieties d

Awiets in

these are as marty there used for pe an shops

hi that

whideve: brand

Zelect you will soon get sok to

enth

of it and wab you hai hosen

something different Letter still thing at a

Be

And when I suggested that if w..e night mhn judgment pebags thos whir lasted to (pw simples Betor making a final Jhace

'ལ' ༣ wise, she Sinugget her shout k and qanted the well known saying: "Love is the wine of hip- BY-

age the morning after."

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For which the ppters have only themselves 4 blame. insisted. "Nobody with common sense would expect to live ele: - nally on cocktails and chain? - pagne, losing sight of the fact that before long they will have to be satished with a cup of tea or half of bitte, F

15

And quite frankly I think that

very often the cause of some which began

38 an

A perfect love affair

that although all Lovers differen (ot are supposed to bc') all husbands come out of the sam drawer looking duil and uninteresting sherruboT retorted that they did it was chiefly the fault their wives for not doing their duy, and ring that their une-me heroes wire property shaven and wear-

clean collar.

what io YOU

"You say

"And, anyway. know about husbands? could not resist asking he you've never had me To which she reed that onlookers always

of the mast

game, and promptly took her departure

1. My idea of

the ideal marriage

Of course.

no woman In her senses would expect to marry a

ho

!!

iny

tor

I

kind of a

without

d

coming down to tolerant boredom, spark Jelt of the origina! romance. because husband and wife expeat 100 much from one another.

My own idea of the ideal mar riage although it may be quite mistaken-is one which begins with real friendship and under- standing, without either party expecting sugar-candy sentiment- ality to last to the end of time because it most certainly will not.

Who wants to live for a whole

lifetime on strawberries and ice

Silik

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became to

re-

and They quickly

without troubling engaged And out much about each other's tastes and interests in life, and it was only when the holiday and fire days of rhapsody ended

But this Romeo steady that they came down from the success," she added. "However,

If you love this man I suppose fused to turn his back on the the ridiculous and sublime to

trees and lanes so determinedly realised how very far apart they that is all that matters."

It wasn't, of course, for what that Juliet quickly decided were in the everyday things of

Juitet paid her first visit to her that his love for her was mere- life which most mattered.

future mother-in-law, and the ly secondary and not the al- The girl was some eight years house which was four miles from mighty and everlasting passion younger than the man, and she anywhere in glorious woodland of which she had dreamed. Per- occurred 10 her had always lived in the heart of country the quickly realised how haps it neve: London with parents who had impossible it would be for her to that the same description applied

their settle happily in such perhaps unwisely. -made

Holated

equally to her own so-called love business to see that she led a suroundings.

for him for at any rate neither bad gay life.

many friends

of them was prepared to sumiflce And so the story ended. her or his own wish and desire.

riw

a

ย

pursue

is

Romeo's mother was

"D

the

With the same lastes as her own. friendly, very ordinary woman a nice, Dances, theatres, parties-all the fun of the fare so naturally

who generally wore an overall and

of her time spent most hr teel made

little dubious

looking after the chickens and when she discovered that her

other occupants of the farm or future husband was a profound

In picting the fruit which she eruntry-ion with consider-

ID you really love him delighted in making into jam or nole private rome whiott made

asked her. This was some Jill.... Elthough she could have # possbie

him to Jun

well florded to pay someone to months after their engagemen chch was his chief du both jabs for her When, she small fa

had ended, and she was living Holby

her old, gay life in London, but asket Juliet interestedly:

"Can she f's 12

musements. wwicka

withou auswcred vou voolt?” and was toll: "Oh— were vreket and golf

no 111 sev teach you." she and I still do--no one

slightest hesitation, "Yes, I did, will ever unrised

take his

heart. but place Cookwhen Jaiat's idea of I could peve have lived with

that lonely

⚫ place and complete boredom in waste of him in time had always been anything can see now that he could

do with household affstrs She never have lives with me didn't enjoy the silence of the

Whatever London

we had country either, or the quacking agreed to do, one of us would of the ducks on the small pond have been utterly miserable.” n the fame the moang f he cows-or the greal import ance her figure mother-in-law

man who will cternally play the part of a Romes once the court- big and honeymoon

Gays #7 Over

the wife who does expe sach ammare to asking

the ouble she will undoubt

I was only towards the end of ediy ge

ge: Jus!

the husband

lets that he admitted thed for life no imagines he

that hafi Lowion, and his exquisite Juber will prob

eten a complete baredan. experie

sanek a nasty

and mixing when he fails her standing at getting inta tanks

scally

in an everal with what he called dressed-up ne had the Charms Caching up the dishes res" in whom

as 10 lay meet us have to

Li of booking ber do st

glamou gel hared

Boga as you meun to go on. a besterate pompe for lasting Tappass and unly recently

Poes the following quota which met dequently

what

mean "True foodship may turn to passion but passion friendship" or to put it more humorous in the words of W 5. Gilbert

"On fire that glows with heat

kirti

intense,

Į

KFAST,

ex-

rely turns to frue

turu the huse of common

purs-el small

And gut

expence,"

גייד

is the

you'd think In one

Phan of them when we meet in Leon for she 11 hini, for their balans ha a been run on simple unpretentious ines- but he only replied that he aughed and

takt in tants have known. :f

been that

of she had frivolity, as she wouldn'l have

tracted but in the least

For

Another snag which arose be tween these two was the flat that Mr Romen lived with his mother who was also a country

tached to the regular hours for feeding the livestock

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In

Not

You

Gal jove n alay

say for

either side real love

would never allow selfith desire to

what come first, and kill might have been an ideal marri-

age. Perhaps so-but we are all made so differently and as the famous old maxim puts it: "The world is full of pots calling the kettles bluck"-so why condemn anybody?

(11 car,

DOMEO possessed a A which he insisted upon driv- ng his Juliet all round the lanes and byways--pointing out with

And yet, although it is many great pride the village green

years since this

partioular whe:r the local cricket tearn Romeo and Jubet made a formal played, and various other spots announcement that their marri-

world which meant the entire

age would not take place, they are bobb still living in single

they can really call it that!

lover, and he calmly took it for to him.

granted that Miss Julle wotaksi "You'll grow to love it, too." blessedness--but I wonder

if course wish her to say put

"You mean we shall all three live together on a farmi?" Julet asked lankly, and when she re-

he told her happily, "Much more than noisy, grimy old London." And akhough as he drew her into his arms and kissed her for a moment she believed he must be right as long as they were together the chill feeling of dis- illusionment and dread of life in the country quickly and in- creasingly returned, making her confident that under such con- ditions they would never Rnd Jasting happiness.

ceived thr :eply "Or course and you'l anore the place as much as I do" he felt as if a OFTEN wonder what

val hand suddenly touched her story behind when I se an hesert, especially when Mr Romce added that the abode was four annouecht in the newspapers that "the manage arranged be MLCS from the carest town in tween M and Miss So-and-So giuriuus woodland country will not

inke place"- «an f whether

later, either However, being very much in

But if he really loves me he pady bitter!s egrets the quarrel love, she took it all very quietly that she whateve it was

feeling sure that ended at that.

will give up this Wife and live as I want to," she tried to assure steament

cou:1 persuade him to eller his nt happiness. Sometints a

way of living, though when her herself, and the time came when very light

hasty

she found the cou.age to tell agreement will quickly assume pe cnts heard of the

of the country him just how the few, and that < དཱ「;"」「。

Kigali

proon, Lions that it gagement and

mother

who like abode her

-much as she cared for him may--qquite wrongly svom

could to love, renible woman in many ways the

never face bite Fife # certain death blow

that she would amongst trees

and fields On 2 whereas a litle quiet reflection warned Juliet

circumstances farm four miles from anywhere! wad bit of common sense would find life in such

she was guro. wet as

and so very different from what she And that

if he an unfalling tone

had been accustomed to that it really loved her. he would say restore order and happiness.

A gut once knew fell very might not prove to be the right goodbye to the ducks and the other livestock and make a home much in love with a man she setting for tasting happiness.

"And living with a relation for her in "grimy, noisy London,"

met while on a holiday abroad

en-

a

He fell in love with her. too- as you will have to is seldom a as he called it.

CONCENTRATE, AND THEN

YOU'LL KEEP YOUR

CONCENTRATE,

GRIP

wrote Biggest Thief in Town" at three building. Rose Gold, her hus

Sir James Barrie. Con- days' notice. c:com? And if forced to, how centrate though your coat- thankful the victims would feel if they were suddenly presented tails be on fire.

with meagre ration of cheese and biscuitsi

band, and a partner tumble and jump from trapezes. In this time he had to learn a

Then Rose leaps, as it seems, script B pages long, edit and to the ground. She watches B record two radio shows, besides rope. It breaks. She plunges rehearsing "The Biggest Thief." on and on, and is within feet of the orchestra when another One Sunday he rehearsed at

rope saves her. How does she not aflame-bricked up A Broadcasting Hause all morn- window in the study of his ing; was at the Fortune Thestre keep her mind on the subject

www.

Somerset Maugham though his coat-tails were

Back to the

Nhighly exotic NOT long ago I was watching | Riviera home because it from 2 till 5.30.

(no looked out over the sea and B.B.C. in the evening to record

Alm

names, to pack-drill) In which he found himself gazing at

most of their

time clinging

the hero and heroine spent the ships instead of con- to ono another as if it was centrating on the book

their only hope and ambition hand.

life

bands clasped

“

in lips pressed together so passion- ately that I began to wonder it they would ever be able to break apart,

There was a naval officer sit- ting next to me, and when the final fade-out of the picture came be looked at me with an frontcal grin as he sold "Wonder how long that sort of minsense will last And how

BOOT

they

scratching each other's eyes out

in

To concentrate, says the Ox-

By JAMES LEASOR

ford Dictionary is to bring to from 7 till 9.

Then to the or towards a commoh centre or theatre for the dress rehearsal focus." Concentration: "The from 9,30 on. act of concentration, the state of being concentrated.”

But-how?

SUMS IT UP

in hand?

"One good reason. I've go1 to. I can't afford the butterfly When we're mind up there.

we all three *upstaire'

of va leave everything else down here. We may quarrel here. But we forget it all to fly-and take it up again when we come down.

SOME WHO MUST

"Maybe we have a headache, He memorised a page of his or feel ill before we go on. But ccript at a time, visualising the we haven't one up there"she actual typed sheet in his mind. jerks a thumb in the direction "Then if I dry up on a line of the lonely trapeze. "We can switch on and see the whole think about the job so much it The man who mends your page in focus.

just goes. It comes back when shoes or repairs «your watch, come down to earth with an

working in a shop window under Bradon can shut out noise we have our feet on the ground almighty. crashy nad

start the goldfish gaze of pedestrians, when he wants to concentrate by again, though.

reading and rereading his lines ગુ used a met when I was sums it all up.

"At first you can't work with until the noise dies in his cars, starting to do trapeze work. people staring at you, hoping But he cannot control his eyes Then I found I was relying on I am an unbeliever you hit your thumb with the as easily as his cars..

I knowing that a fall would be hammer.

You start to stare I have any writing to do soft. So I did without the mat One of

the

back-and your work suffers. world's

I can only settle down to and forced my mind not to think aus writers declared th "Malay

Then the old hands step in it in a tiny room without a view about the fact that there

there wasn castle is

tell you what to do. Ignore and without any pictures on the mat therefde ARMEN and on would much prefer a them, they say. Look at your wall Just à fable, a chair, and

fl was the same with a skróty more modest and permanent work so closely that your even a single electric bulb.

net. Bor ten years we liave done

art without one w Husband Andre briefly-suma

I must say I entirely agreed. with him. Nevertheless, please don't

in Love quite the contrary.

Fing

fam-

then I

abode (hot prestali of course) just won't focu on anything. When the ove has wandered a our which is built on ja seild founda further away,

interest it settles, to work and under-When you are really makin few times and sound nothing of

Lion of

ainting has mated within aport to concentrate, then,

Hiab most

the cold muut, net 19 dangerou

Menure and only then, can you set on dust rin ay love comantrate, įmon

with your Job?

Next Saturday:

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