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SEE what happens when the Clles children.get

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The secret of Mrs Valentino the Second

by ANDREW. HOPE

WHAT happens to

woman who

1.

Bright, slick booming

AND

- NOW, QUITE SUDDENLY, THE ARAB CITY OF CASABLANCA IS

bloodthirsty

by SYDNEY SMITH

Paris.

ORGET about Humphrey Bogart when you read the

name Casablanca-ospecially today.

To get in the mood for understanding why and how the wild Berber mobs from the old walled fortress city, the Arab Medina, have.burst out, along the tree-lined neon-lit boulevards of France's richest colonial city to cut the throats of French citizens, you must scrap the celluloid Casablanca. Bogart has never been there anyway..

Today it is the "Casa" on the map that counts a sprawling, listening "Cement City," bright, silck, and booming-booming with American dollars and the mineral and oranges-and-lemons wealth that is turning it into the richest and greatest port of North Africa.

Down along the malu street-the Rue de la Gare, where they can repeat any gilttering offer of the Rue de la Paix, only cheaper

the shoe-shine Arab boys speak good Ameri-

WHEN YOU PROBABLY LAST HEARD OF THE PLACE

can

And if you do not want a shoe-shine the next gambit is "D'you wanna go some place, Joe?"

old Moorish Quaint bulidinga? Yes-the City Hall, less than 25 years

Glamour? Yes, In 'the chromium cinemas.

She was born simple Winifred

old. marries Shaugnessy, in Salt Lake City. She took the name of Natacha Rambova when she became a ballet dancer. And she married Rudolf Valentino,

one of the most famous men show business has ever seen, and crentes the legend that has kept his name alive long after his death?

If the man is Rudolf Valenting, the answer is devastatingly simple. The Lady Vanishes.

She divorced him in January 1020. He died in August of that same year.

Natacha vanished for first time, to

to reappear Winifred Hudnut.

the

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE was Casablanca Year. In mid-January Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt met to talk strategy and tho "unconditional surrender policy.

In mid-January that year the spy melodrama. called "Casa- blanca" was first seen in London cinemas, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman starred in it.

three the French in Morocco have a

Wealth? Absolutely- bursting out everywhere in great 15-storey super- modern concrete apart-

houses; in ment miles of wharves that wil` sadder and even graver, basic double themselves in the next renson-one that stretches all three years; in

in 1,000 million the way back to Washington and American dollars going into Ave the United Nations in Why Hudnut? Her mother,

New in York. marrying a second time,

great alom-bomb bases; and bo camo the wife of Richard standing American force My friend Pierre, driving mo she has reappeared. Hudnut,

than

the French Army around Casa a few weeks age, greater who

told me the story. And today some

and pollee together. of her made millions out of cosmetics.

And now the red flame of

"When the Americans came Her daughter took her step- Inther's name for a

to build their bases," he Communist-exploited

here Then in 1934 just eight years

ism is licking through after Valentino's death

boulevards of Little-Paris-in- married a

Africa. Why and how? a Sparilard, Don Alçar Urvarz. And then she vanished again from the public gaze.

Yes, she vanished--but

now

story can be told.

It was his second wife who really helped to spin the web. of legend that has never de parted

from the silent-screen star who glamorised sheiks and enthralled half the world.

WHO PAYS THEM TO STUDY?

By George Hutchinson

Lord Beaverbrook, Chancellor

this

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an

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time.

she

The other day, she was news

ΣΠΟΤΟ

this time inside the covers

crs of a book called simply "Valentino" (author: Alan Arnold; publishers: Hut chinson; price: 12s. 6d.),

Her story of life with Valen-. tino. is told by Mr Arnold, But

what of her since?

Was Not Sure

Someone said she

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She

Now

with

the

vald, "they expected one Arab to do the work of one American. They paid accordingly. Wheo the French authorities made an official protest they told us "That's just colonial franicy:

work

The Bercest dame is coming from the Old Medina, Thirty years ago it was all there was of Casablanca a little Arab port Bre with a 12.000, population.

Today 60,000 live

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on

principles and wo to pay fairly.

says Pierre, the there, and alscovered that seven

the modern city, port, and In- Arabs, do ́ ́the work of, and

dustrial area pouring its factory American and the cost of their smoke back in long plumes over gir. bates was

consequently the desert hold 650,000 people. phenomenally above their bud- There is a New Medina now get. With equal realism they and on the outskirts there are slashed Arab wages.

That leat the Arab the Arab with two feelings: (1)

was in into dents to

not

The Arst spark that has

carried the

肄

carried the flame of fanatical Yes, this is indeed a sad story nationalism

alism through the Medinas among allies. But it is as my

me. སམ

waiting to move in a chip on his shoulder, which is Juan-les-Pins, in the south of They are living meantime in a

great weight to an Arab France. Yes, she had been place called Bidonville literally labourer, and (2) the sense of a there, but left for New York. translated "tip town" becouse it material and powerful ally,

Someone said she was in New

has been hammered

out of against the French," York. Yes, she was there ----

American petrel cans. in her mother's apartment. London. riches in the steel works of

Mrs Hudnub WAS BOUT 8,000 students Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. of the University, of New sure, just for the moment,

her Brunswick, has outstanding 70 what from overseas are in

daughter's present

and Bidonville has come from friend Pierre, a typical average Carnegie endowed several scholarships for Canadians

Hao Was.

It She remembered residence at the uni-

the murder of the Tunisian trade Moroccan Frenchman, told it to was, "something Spanish, Her

unionist leader Ferhat Hached. daughter versities of Britain this funds before he died in year.

chose to remember term. Half of them come 1919, among them the

are for Canadian nothing. The woman who put gorendesert telegraph --Hus. It is a story with more than from countries of the Em- Carnegie Trust for Univer scholars who are sent to Britain headlines has chosen to retire colonialist secret militia "The of the United Nations debate on

Eighteen

the He that Hached was one side, no doubt.. But it ex- - Valentino into the world's

murdered by the French plains why the French are out Bitics of Scotland. The for one and a half or two years' pire.

Scottish

North Africa, trustees have post-graduate study at London to the virtual anonymity of Red Hand."

Tunisian and Moroccan na- It is a clue to the intolerant Who pays the high cost of granted this year two University. Fifty-two of the 70 being just Winifred Hudnut

have five-year scholarships_

is pursuing this course tionalists had already met in attitude of the French towards travel, tuition and main fellowships worth £800 each, the own province,

the same determination London last October at the what they consider an « un- that led her lo tenance? Many students and 60. scholarships. Six are Brunswick.

create the International Congress of Peo- realistic sentimentality towards › Valentino legend. are sustained by public senior scholarships worth

ples, presided over by Mr Fen politically immature North Afri❤ The London awards are worth valentino

danced

tho tango with

ner Brockway. The tinder to “cans. funds.. Others hold scholar- £850 each plus £100 ex-

Hollywood pass the flame was well laid and It is a clue, too, to the reason £638 a year, and Lord Beaver. Val ships given by men who penses; 44 are worth £300. brook pays travelling expenses party. Then, one night,

the dry.

behind the knives: and tho of around £200 apiece nourish learning with their

hand through a show- held his

That is the immediate reason · bombs, the harsh reality behind The profits of American

ing of his film "The own fortunes.

Four for the Moroccan flare-up. But the tinsel of Casablanca, They Compared with industry support another

private Horsemen,"

were mar- Scholarships come from fund which deserves the apt to be rigid. But the Ameri

scholarships, State patronage is ried in 1922.

He furnished his home so sho the dead

after would blend with the Sttings: and the living. gratitude of Britons: the can, scheme, named

velvet who pro-black

carpets and There are renowned funds Commonwealth Fund, found- Senator Fubright, which serve incidentally as

ed 84 years ago by Mra moted it, is administered with couches, a dining room in black

red, suppleness and imagination. memorials to great indus- Stephen V. Harkness

and

One Christmas Natacha gave trial or political careers. enlarged by her son, the

The Fulbright Interchange of her husband a platinum slave between the bracelet and ho wore It 81- Two were created by Bri- railway magnate Edward dolars applies

of ways. tons

who made thelt for. B. Harkness. tunes abroad: Cecil Rhodes. and Andrew Carnegie,

THE PARSON'S SON WON WEALTH

USA. and about a other countries, ·

allows

The Harkness money 35 yearly fellowships at US. universities. for citizens of Britain and the Empire. They are worth 4,000 dollars each with free travel.

score

BURDEN ON THE TAXPAYER

.

this

"She

at

That typified his attitude to her. She said his shiny black

hair should be ruffled. He had

curled for hor.

Came The Clash

Kellogg Foundation Fellowships, allowance is roughly £400cisions. And

the W. K. is free

HONEST JOE

JOE IS

ON THE RUN

From Henry Lowrie

Washington. a week to be allowed to run u

BOOKMAKERS over. "horse, parlour with a

here are often so close- phone:

are

of

rec

The top man is now Thomas

ly linked with the under- SOME of the bookmakers" world that even small sordid background waa-filled In -At Brilish universities

She told him what parts to operators

pictured for the New York State Crime term are more than 160 Ful-take, what money to ask for.

Commission at a stormy Other notable. Americans are bright scholars, and there are

sion,.. On the screen he was the all- always as villains. commemorated by the Guggen- three in the Colonies.

The periodle' revelations Tullon.conquering lover and hero. At heim Fellowships,

and the maintenance homo Natacha made the de graft and sensational crime In

Valentino was vestigations

ge almost happy.

Bookies still take bets, Then

clash- come the There are also 45 American Natacha versus Hollywood. She that happens in that Outstanding example of university teachers here, and in wanted him to appear as the

'made more complicated for scholarships given during life the Empire

Fulbright Black Prince, Hamlet, Robin Rhodes's scholarships makes most

time la Lord Nulled, aut de travel and maintenance grants; Hood, in artistic pictures. Holly-They have to resort to new terrific political influence.

of his awards and the fund has paid this year wood just wanted him to havo drawn to Oxford some through organisations,

Rhodes, born 1858, was a Hertfordshire, parson's son. He went out to Natal when he was 17, and won wealth in the diamond fields pf Kimberley,

of the finest young brains

and spirits of the Empire

and the Rockefeller Foundation year. Fellowships.

'CANADIANS IN

LONDON

་

with

the return fares of 310 studying in the USA.

Brilons

naught.

them.

for All He is

New

(Thres Finger Brown) Luchese whom the Government wants to deport to his native Italy. But Luchese cannot be found. Besides ruling the gambling world, he is said to be boss of the drugs racket and to have

But the burden of State help fortune that they went off to swan reputedly paying glas about Christ's garment for

bo

avold repeak

after

to get their money and, go ou

maintime, becaure, at

-HOLLYWOOD is still, after making commercial romances

York dush of “virtue,"

tue." they ten years, tearing "for no- Ho was earning Csuch a

cannot works so flagrantly as one to play the icad In The did when big-shot Harry Robe,” a story. by Lloyd bou- and the U.S.A. Sixty-seven

however well devised, is upon Europe together to spend it: ho Or sixty eight Rhodes

the taxpayer, already over collecting armour; she ivarios.

soldiers In the end the struggle, bo policemen 1,000,000 dollars which

gambled Scholars come, here every The Nulled Foundation's 31 harassed Under

uppressive

to the Crucifixion. (about £807,000)... a. year to's 3res of one kind and mother, tween Natacha and Hollywood protect his 20,000,000-dollar IT can't Happen too soon for year. Thirty-two are Ameri Dominion Travelling

ships, worth from £770 to the wealthy, too, are willing. As about Valentino could

not (about

the harassed £7,140,000) yearly the

housewife elec the In- cana, the others Empire £800 plus fares, provide a private fortunes dimini, Kvölden

žurnover. ****,

trical men. They stay: two years year's post-graduate training in scholarship must look increase, studio ordered him to

"Engineers dro,'anying the that he

house of tomorrow "will" bo (sometimes three),.,and Britain för ellizens

BOOKIES SID scared to any dustless of seven Ingly to business for support."

It will all be done; bo soen out at night drinking, swer a telephone in case it is with what they call electrosta their scholarships are worth Commonwealth countries, An- Sole Agents: UNITED PAPER CO., LTD.

other Nuffield trust maintains £600 a year.

Some finns already give it dancing, laughing, dirting.

tapped. They change their the air cleaners which will con Natacha discord six medical awards for Empire among them, the ludson's Bay

they move weekly tinually removo even the finest They

o Company, the Brush-Abos group; contract for him and then from one hotel room to another, dust. But no hint of the cost Dept, at WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. Rhodes was a Kipling grachiales, very inne om hell. The Federation of found there was one clause sho They four the city by car plek-

It said that, esque visionary, Andrew words £050 a Tear (2860 for British Industries giver hole could not move. Carnegie, son of Scotsman whose wife is with him), chlps, and no do some of this Mrs Valentino was to have no bete lastead of using a LOVELY Scots heather, it

central office.

says in the (Sunday advertise-i at all in any pletures the But oven plus travel grant of £300, Diviessional societies,

oofdóm-ments. Ideal for tablo, decoram linen weaver, was more the

company collnd":" upon Mr

Grand Jury Investigates, corable tons. Only ʼn dollar (75,328.) type of industrial realist. HeAs well as these 37 awards This way, direct industrial Valentino, to make.

the "cop on the beal??infin sprig. -- And then this foot- Is・・ That was really the end. And (Lord› Nuffield'smaker some: '30 und professional patronago,

Enking graft. Dhe notes was an immigrant of bound hers, Incuding eight to Do likely to be the way of the the start of another legend bookle reported that he is pay, Schuland losing out on good front, California in less energy who made vasti pire farmers,

the gun of Winifred Hudnut. Ing 400 dollars: (£132 175, 26)3 dollar byporijunij, yi

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