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WHY I LIKE BEING MY AGE ... (15)

SOMEONE whose poise and elegance must be envied by thousands explains here her PHILOSOPHY FOR OVER-40's

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HESE are the best years of "my-life;"-says-Claudette-Col-- bert. "These" means the forties, and for Chuudette, with her girlish figure as noticeable as her womanly charm, why shouldn't they be?

All

Miss Colbert is approaching 4G. right got that over.

Now let's start to analyse why every- one's favourite film star should find what

was once upon a time re-

garded as the middle years

such a happy time.

By EVE

"Why shouldn't they be?" bel of the importing Amerizza says Miss Colbert..

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woman

More.

"In France they believe. To complete the Outli- that

is worth Dior-designed hat which was looking at unless she's over bought in Los Angeles and 2 35. Now America is com- beave? coat in place of the x ing to see things that way, pected mink. too."

The suit, moreover, was the Her domèstic We bears out a one that the 20-year-old wispy

mannequins theory I've always held that wanted

had the best male fur

It Atte Claudette career modelica women whose job may appear without on alteration. And that, to outdazzle that of her husband ledies, is in achievement at any is a doctor.

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age,

"Quite right," said Claudette. How does she keep that trim "We've had time enough - eight one, and shiny-skin look 16 years to find out that medi- of a teenager? Diel? Faelals? cine and movies are a good Expensive cuillures: Exercise mixture. We pool our interests, À regular routine for work; and although, to be fair, I'm inclined play? to be a keener medical student than my husband is a film Juri, Still we get along fime,

"Oh, no, No---that's not me at all," says Miss Colbert, true to her own fashion of saying "No" "That's the result of having in that individual, breathy way served your apprenticeship in which only Florence Desmond Hifc. By now your big mistakes con imitate,

if you were ever going to make any--should be behind "You see, I can't diet. In fact, unless I eat every three or four you.

hours, I feel faint. I've some cort of sugar dellelency, which is not altogether a bad thing to

fact

"You've learned

and tolerance and how to be happy, You can pick your parties and hove.. not feel you're missing any- thing by rofusing invitations If you're not in the mood,"

the

'Doctor'

PERRICK

"You know, this isn't going

to make me any too populur with the beauty-expert gals. But

there it is. I've been treating my face, the tough WRY for years, and it still seems to be there-In spite of all the awful warnings,"

This practical Frenchwoman does not patronise the hair- dresser's salon very much either, Having found a style that suits her, she sets it herself.

The Colbert 'coiffure goes up in curiers every night.

Her hobbies:

FINALLY; the talented Miss

Colbert can also paint. Her spare-time Job.

she is wiille here will be doing portrait from a photograph of Deborah Kerr's three-year-old Melanie ("She and the Kayes' Dena ore the cutest kids in Hollywood").

can also

She

cook, But there's a prepared (and some- what cecentric) plan behind Claudelte in the kitchen.

"I guess I have inherited in-

"[ Cook for my husband about four times a year. That's terest in food-all the French

to keep my hand in and to have--and

I've

a Kot

show him what he's missing. wonderful excuse for eating." Mostly we cat plain roasts-

beck

and chicken are my Tu prove her point Miss favourites but when I'm at Culvert produced ย tin of the stove things are more biscuits, which together with ambitious. I put on a super- her script and her reading colossal production which can't

fail to impress the customer. glasse, to long with her every working day.

As Er fazial

Mis

On

"My mother gave me a won- derful French recipe for Lob- Joel ster, Americaine-a most spec- Premon hd all the scorn tacular affair-flaming brandy of a doctor's wife for such fancy

and all that." tuff.

"My husband doesn't believe in face-ereums. Neither do 1. I like to scrub my face with soap

and water.

My party piece

by CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Well, there's the formula for the best years of your life-a Job, a home, a hobby, a satisfed

charm, husband, plus attractiveness,

and flaming brandy four times a year.

TAKE & lobster, cut into sections. scuson with salt and cayenne pepper (Fut aside the creamy parts and colla) Fry in butter and óll," with chopped milion Add chopped shallot at the last moment. Pour brandy over and set adame

fleat in white wine and fish stock Add some chopped tomatoes. Cook 20 minutes. Pound and mix with while of 3 egg and cream and pour inte a mould

Reduce the cooking sauce and blend it together with the creamy parts and chopped colls.. together with a piece of butter Strain and coat the pieces

THE GERMAN GENERALS

WERE SO DELIGHTED

From CHARLES WIGHTON

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FIRST STOP

THE

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WHITE HOUSE

other

Concord, N.H., Mar. 11, have seen more posters at a by- THE town of Concord election in a tiny English town. reminds me very much Everything Is being deno of Dewsbury, York very quietly The shire,

or Preston, Lanca- night Taft walked into the lobby ahire, except that Dewsbury lone policeman, lle blinked in of the Eagle Hotel guarded by and Preston are gayer, the strong light, tried a smile- naughtier, and more sophis- rather ineffective compared with ticated.

the Eisenhower grin-und then walked uncertainly 10 New Hampshire Is the dining-room. No one clapped, "Granite State," Concord is no one cheered. Concord is not a granite town, and the demonstrative. people are as solid and de- A little while later Taft ad- pendable as granite. They dressed a meeting and I went

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do not go in much for plea- there to watch and listen. The Senator said British farmers sure or fripperies.

were suffering from Socialiem, Even this signifiennt primary schoolboy

when suddenly a shell Englis

voice

The election this Aght between Senator Is ceroneous in his General Eisenhower and Sena statement.".

top Robert Taft-has not excited them.

Eisenhower to win

HE

Modest pusters along the drab main street suy: "Let's pave the way. Get out and vote. The audience turned uncasily in thel: chairs, However, it was nation is watching us." Actually, merely un English schoolboy the world is watching the folk exorcising his democratic right, here; but they do, not show they Two miles from here is the are aware of the scrutiny. They exclusive preparatory school of are not in any way nervous or St. Paul's, and under an ex- self-conscious.

change system there are a hand- ful of English schoolboys there.

With suspicion they are being watched, they

are certainly doing plenty of

reporters, the

watching themselves watching the visiting cameramen, the newsreel crews, and the professional politicians from Boston and New York and from as far away as California. They regard the visitors with some suspleton, although if you are English you get speciul treat menț.

They have enjoyed the elce- tion as much as anyone, and around like a debating team, ying to stir up a rumpus, Con cord accepts them uncomplain- ingly.

Concord, the State capital, has a population of about 35,000, and it lives

urance, publishing

by farming, in- and tlig manufacture of belting, lumber products, electrical appliances, and harness.

I made my reservation of the IL is a simple down, liking Eagle Hotel, bang opposite the simple, thrifty people.

May- Georgian State House, rather be that is why it has taken to late, but when I arrived the Taft, even though it is unlikely

porter, who is also the Hitmon, to give him the victory.

waller, doorman........

official greeter,

I

and mobile in- formation bureau, said:

English, eh? too, in Way, At my wife is she comed Wiltshire.

om

least,

from

Most

of the folks

around here are

J

of British stock;

that's why wo

DON

IDDON'S

DIARY

The other can..

of

didates have not made much

impression. Swashbuckling Harold Stassen; from the Middle West, who has been trying to be elected Pre- sident

almost

since he was in knee breeches,

Ja the

running In Republican

call ourselves New Englanders." racs, but no one gives him 1

is

There not much that is new chance.

about the Eagle Hotel. My room They say here: "That young

100 ripe antique with faded feller's brown flowered wallpaper and questions no one

busy no bathroom.

and him." It is dingy ancient. It is as hot as an aven

answering Ever asked

name

entered and

General MacArthur's and as inflamed as a furnace.. has been

with- Usually at this time of the drawn and entered again, but, year the weather in New Hamp- anyway, MacArthur is not in- shire is near zero; the past few terested. days have been mild-around 40 Then there is the Democratic dences and no one seems able primary, in which Prealdent in turn down or off the blistering. Truman and Senator Estes central heating in the buildings, Kefauver are entered. The Pre- sident could not find time or in- clination to come here, but Senator Kefauver, the coon-skin

from But capped crusader

the

we sweat and suffer.

been around for

Not as planned

Sot es mitch as the politi- South, has clans--they are really in travail, weeks,

All in all, my guess is Elson- The election is not turning out 'exactly as planned.

hower to win his department, The managers and backers of but not overwhelmingly, and General Elsenhower are worried. President Trumon to win his Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the convincingly.

handsome

organiser of the What are the people saying? Eisenhower campaign, and Gov Precious Htle. There are no ernor Sherman Adanis expected purbs here

and no wagging

Only diversions

a cakewalk. They thought the tonguos. magic of Eisenhower's name and the deep buritene volce of Governor Adams, plus an im ported comedian or two and a

ONCORD is barren of tavern, dance band, would do the trick.

burs, or cocktail lounges, al- 14 delegates for Eisen- hower, they said. Top of the though you can get a drink with your meals in the hotel restau- popularity pell for Eisenhower, rant. they sang. But then along came

Robert

I carnest, bespectacled

thought that perhaps on Toft, ploughing

Saturday night there might be diligently through the snow, tramping

bonie from

the galely, but

only (wa or three

une tiny meeling to another, and diversions are meeting the peop

people.

cinemes, and they seem to show

New Hampshire veters like nothing but cowboy films. The this. They will probably give manufacturing city of Manches Eisenhower a majority of the bustie and gusto,

away, has more delegates; they will probably

18 miles

otect him handsomely in the It is rather ilke Lancashire's popularity or

Manchester, but nothing beauty contest own

There are about bly. (Taft is handicapped in, this like us respect), but Taft has made 80,000 people in New Homp- shire's Manchester, and most of himself felt.

them are in the textile and shos trader. Many of them are from Canada and speak French, The biggest poster in Man-

of

No stunts

COMETIMES, though, when the wife of the throat specialist emerges from behind Glm star, things can get beetle, Miss Colbert Ands it hard to resist prescribing for the sick. Once an electrician on the set where she was filming start- ed to cough. "What you need" gald Mrs Pressmon, "is some. camphor and codeine," and rang

Goettingen, Mar. 6. The British officers had chosen year-old General Kurt Bernard. THE General has been missed chester advertises a new ear, up the pharmacy for a supply.

6TTERR General, as guests, officers of the German expressed his regiment's official

I

His headquarters are busy "Firedome Do Solo," "H Whereupon the pharmacist

with which,, thanks for the Royal Irish and bustling, but all they have to shouldn't be surprised it coms sherry perhaps?" said bussar regiment

141 years ago, the Royal Irish Fuzillers Invitation and wel-offer, are pamphlets

"Where of the voters want to put down reng up Dr Pressman, who was Lieut - Colonel Peregrine Fusiifc:a made a historie forced come.

Eisenhower Stands," a collec- their vote for Firedome or Mr in the middle of an operation, and asked him if it was all right Barstow of the Royal Irish march at the battle of Barrosa.

tion

of extracts from stale De Solo. to let his wife have harcotles. Fusiliers in his regimental in the Peninsular War,

In a dark cult, black shoes and speeches made long ago, and a

In Manchester, too, the people "Gince

light grey spate, he told Colonel brochure which says: "Six out in their lumber jackets, snow- confesses Dr mess at Goettingen today. then,

Five German officers, three of Barstow: "It le a great catisfac-

nine llying, wal Claudette,, "my patients get only drugicas medicines."

His guest, the Herr General Reliceregiment, formerly.

them Generals, of the 14th. tion to us Geman officers to be Governars support 'Elsenhower boots, and check shirts don't.

like to talk much to strangers. the able to meet British brother offl- Concord's citizens say: "Is Just as much as picking the dark-sulted former Major 16th. Hanoverian Hussars, AC cers in happier circumstances that so? Well, we kinda would They boy: "We will all know the" rigat husband, however, General

Hossback, cepted the invitation to drink than in recent years. Friedrick

Wednesday so what's rcanit by. have liked 1o have heard the the hurry why, guess?" suspect the secret has

some" who last met the British when cocktails with their old British

General marit snower this ining to do with her early he fought Monty's 3rd British plies.

Later the German cavalry off- fellow Taft" decision to pick the best of both Division: outside Dunkirk In

Press for Taft and their British hosis worlds. She has blended the 1010 clicked his

Whatever the result here, It Heels, He

watched men of the regiment is certain that Continental background she got hoved stifly from the waist in

if Elsenhower F the people haven't much to dance Irish reels to the music of from her French parents into the best Prussian High Com- Mellowed by the friendly re- the regimental pipes, and attend-

wants to be President he will I

the newspapers, a have to the way of life of her adoptedmand monner; and told his Bri- ception, General Hossbach con-

come back home sooner ed a football match between

always, have. A majority of country, America.

tish host: "Delighted, I'm sure, fessed to the young British of British officers and men,

or 1er-preferably sooner the Press in New Hampshire is and appear on the platform hacking Taft, although Elsen- Colonel."

cers grouped round him' at the pre-luncheon cocktail party: "N

So delighted were the German himself. People in democracies hower has considerable support. The Royal Irish Fusillers, now have a great respect for you Bri- generals to be received as guests will not vote indefinitely for" a Actually, New Hampshire voice on a gramophone record will be glad when we all pack Iron Curtain frontier, Ush soldiers. In 1940, 1 con- in a British mess for the first HERE we have the interna on the

portrait in a committee our bags and get out. It is tonal expert, on high were again making history. Oft manded a division in which the time since the war that two of fashion changing from her. Bricers of the regiment. In their 14th, Rellarregiment fought them brought their wives. The

pretty satisfied with things s prolude, they are here. The air is good, tish cushmere sweater; which dark blue mess uniforms, had against the British In Belgium, Fusillers were slightly embar-

primary, has had a low pearls added to invited. German officers to be You beat me. My division lost rassed-ladies were not expected election is utterly unlice a the

tood is plentiful--much it by a little man I know In their, guests at their regimeritat 600 men in 'n single day to lunch, So the three wifeless Presidential convention. There cheaper than in New Yorks New York, to a Balenciaga mult, day celebrations for the first. The strier German general of officers joined the regiment at have been no stunts for Circus and finde his brisk, if not made in Paris, but bearing the time zince the war,

5 the * pary, white-boarded 65 lunch. The other two went home, piilles, and, Jillo, ballyhood! I booming

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