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MONTE

CARLO

·MÉCANIQUE" AUTOS

VOITURAGE GRASSAG

POLIA

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1958.

ESSENCE HOILE

| BLANCHISSADRy

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"Mon potit Anglais! Wo remember you well when here you was in the war! You must stay to dîner."

The Transformation in PRINCESS MARGARET

By A COURT REPORTER

But now the during young background, lest her obviously girl has left the public opinion more trapeze.

When she went out with young men she used to choose wealthy lordings, young pluto- erts, and the occasional smart

London. Gerald Lascelles, she wore the RINCESS, MAR. same dress).

She WAS the Princess who GARET," asked danced the whole night through. the newly - She couldn't bear to leave Bohemian, such as Orson Welles. Now, when she is seen it all, rived American party..

summer there was she is more often with men like (But last undergraduate. "What has the dance for

Lady Caroline Lord Plunkett and Lord Althorp, happened to her?"

Villiers at the Spanish Embassy, suber young equerries and the He had been watching The party finally ended at 7am. like.

her Princess Margaret danced Uttle,

by 2

The Princess follow

mother out of a Cambridge left by

Turn up the file marked

· antique shop one day—and "Dancing" under + Princess next day, saw printed in Margaret in a

Sunday paper's

The causes?

flamboyant personality eclipse the Queen's.

Others tell you that her old set have all got married.

The

The new faces on the social scene, they say, object to the both ways. Princess's having it They complain that she makes wisecracks at their expense, and protects herself in royal dignity when they crack back. Princess, they claim, could become quite Jonely young And woman in consequence. yet. In fact, of the original dozen

· or sa young men in her close set,· only three-Blandford, Ogilvy,

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most of the newspapers the library, and look at the cullings RATHER thom restaurin!-night- and Dalkeith-have married.

picture you see here.

for the last three months of the

He expected a Fairy Prin-2-172 column inches. cons, He saw a girl in seasonable rubber boots, practical sort of coat, an English hat.

Not at all what he had heard. Not at all what he had seen pictured In glossy American magazines....

1950 70 column Inches, These figures sum up a change in attitude which has snatched the Princess from the fred of controversy. For in 1950 she was a breakfast-table topic for days at a stretch.

Her new tastes

by

And a clue

most likely theory-that

there has been a change in

The Bright Lights Life son loses its bite. The dull become blose. The more intelligent And wider Interests.

club rendezvous, she' seems now to prefer cosy little dinner parties

"young given marrieds, ex Lady John Hope, Mrs Denys Rhodes, Mrs David Butter. Lady Margaret Tennant. She likes to talk rather than to dance,

She has given up the large, the Princess's inner character.

much publicised houNÉ partics at the country homes of her young men..

she stays in the Now, when

And one cluc: Princess country, she favours quiet, in formal gatherings, again at the Margaret has always shown the houses of young married friends. conventional piety of a young brought up in the traditions Her tastes have 'shifted, More madrigals less Fats of the Church of England.

Now, however, people who should know her well say that

force- 11 religion has become

force in her even a dominant

She talks freely about religion from her by State secrets she "What an example for the policy

→→→→ subject that embarrasses may not share and by a burden Sea Rangers, of which she is Eminences in the shadows of the

commodore," render wrote. Court. She must be kept in the many girls of her age.

The year since the Queen's accession has seen a profound change In the personality

sented to the public.

Princess Margaret as it is pre- THE controversy culminated in that Can-Can she danced Some change was to be ex- at the American Embassy. It pected, naturally.

Hared up again when a photo--Waller. The Elder Sister, an equal and grapher snatched

girl

an off-guard Mozart displaces Danny Kaye, Such is the change. But what an intimate, a confidante and a pleture at a Faris nightclub in target for her nimble wit, the early hours of one morning are the causes?

Some say that it is a deliberate life. became the Sovereign, separated in November 1951.

Grey devised by the

of responsibility,

But the change goes deeper

than that.

Vivid creature

Ar the time of the Queen's

accession, the mind's eye saw

The Casino boss plans

a tiny, vivid creature in the candlelight. Imperious, quick .....surrounded by tall, young mon; seeking out nixiable to hold her own with the prettiest girls In her sort of society.... .pink champagne, lipstick, eye-paint, a Socrates

TITAS

to switch his

millionaire Greek

shipowner,

startling amount of creamy "bought" shoulder rising

dress.

out of a Dior casino?

Onassis

Aristotle

really

Monte Carlo

The answer is he has not, but

PARIS

NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

to

Consider now. She WAS

the Princess who he has secured effective control.

стелят this registration of it. knew about clothes. During

For the past year, 47-year-old 1,000,000 ons? short

visit to Parla in the

Already Onassis summer of 1940, Parisians noted Onassis has been buying shares

has made of Seabathing with, approvalso an American in the Society

unofficial overtures to the French. magazine reparted-that on her which controls the Casino and He holds out the bait that in the nine public appearances she were most of Monaco.

war most of his fleet owns 300,000 event of nine different costumes.

(Last summer, on three major shares (including 30,000 sold to would be at France's disposal. dressing-up occasions, at Ascot, him by Monaco's ruler, Prince

at the Royal Garden Party, and

fleet

such a lavish scale that Lady Ismay decided to save the tax- payers' money and is.now doing the job herself. Result: a saving of at least one-third.

On Lord Ismay's suggestion, orders for the furnishings have been spread over most of the 14 NATO nations.

Belgium will provide the dessert service; the dining-room furniture will be French; a carpot will come from Portugal; thu dinner service will be Dardah, glasses and lamps are on order Holland; the lounge will be furnished from London: the linen The French Government do is from Northern Ireland; dessert Rainier out of a total of not feel like showing any favours knives and forks are from Nor- to Prince. Rainier. Relations way and bedspreads are from the

Onassis

now

at the wedding of her cousin, 1,000,000 shares.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

-11∙ have told the village, Melisande, that if they

should lapse into bárbarlem and apply for permission

to sogar an ow, my principle

in

The Society's shares are dis between France and Rainier have United States. tributed among widely-scattered been strained for somo Ume. FORWARD TO SPRING holders of small amounts. Most They almost reached breaking-

of them never attend .company point when Rainier, after secret meetings.

negotiations with Onassis, Therefore Onassis's 300 000 suddenly vetoed an offer by three FASHION NOTE: This year's Spring Collections will retain shares make him the dominating French banks to provide ad the present skirt length. Walst- influence in the company-rid 'ditional capital for the casino. Ilnes will be normal. Paris Belgy the power behind Prince Now Rainier is heavily. des. (to rival Britain's new Porridge

Rainier's throng,

What does Onassis intend to do with this power?

ba will

the mast pendent on Onassis. And the Belge)

colour. Араса, French Government are pointing fashionable

cottona out to him, how much maro de tweeds and patterned

be the mast fashionable pendent his throne, and the will His first aim is to transfer the existence of the principality, is materials. headquarters of his 1,000,000-ton on French good will..

shipping feet from Montevideo and Panama where most of it-is- registered, tó Moraro,

This move offers three ndvan.

Lages:

AFTER

NATO VILLA

QUOTES

ART critic Jean Domergue: A elght months search, portrait does not necessarily

Mcnaco is a tax-free paradiso, France's top-priority house have to look like a motorcar It. Is on the Mediterranean, hunters the North Atlantic accident.

Treaty Organisation's Secretary:

and most of Onassis's ships ply General, General Lord Ismay, French MP Maroel in Mediterranean water; «

nasach.

His staff problems would be and Lady Ismay, have found in a campaign speech; To remedy essed, for he finds it difficult to

the failing population of your rotala

house is the three village, I am ready to place at employees stailoned in South American republics. storeyod eight-roomed Villa Said, 'your disposal nil my experience.

But here Onassis faced a. In the Avenue Foch, It has been difficulty Monaco Festcement bought for Lord Tamay and future Author Henri Jeanson: A with the "Protec!lag Power," Secretaries General by the woman will occasionally pardon France, limite the shipping which NATO Council.

a man who sees his opportunity.

will compel me to withdraw : can be registered in Montice in Paris decorator was hired to and imits it, but she will Dever

spyoffer of fred cowslip wine

**fariste bleret sind

er

40,000 to Win the French furglah and redecorate the forgive man who does not agree to Onassis's plans to in- hotwe, Mat his plane were on evels try to pen to decide t

London Express Service

THIS PICTURE "HIGHLIGHTS · SOME- THING PEOPLE `ARE TALKING ABOUT

when not

GIA Is In

Line For Baronetcy

YOUNG GIrving 'with a U.S. regiment of Mountain Engineers comes into line as a possible heir to the baronetcy of Dunbar. Ninety-one-year- old Sir James George Hawker Roland Dunbar, tenth baronet died, last week.

With the title goes u 300-acre Scottish estate.

Sir James died at the home of his sister. Mary, with whom he had stayed for 20 years, at Bognor Regis.

:

Until recently they had a smell bungalow in the town's Wydale Road. They moved to a four- bedroom villa in Highfeld Road, to be nearer their dally help.

Brother and sister. Ilved very frugally. The daily was their only servant.

Str James, tall, imposing, always in ancient tweeds, did his own shopping and cooking until: a few years ago.

He seldom talked to neigh- bours.

The Highfield Road house i furnished only with bare necessities. There is no carpet on the floor. Said u friend: 11: was rather upsetting when friends called and they were shown lato the bare house."

Heir to the title, according to Debrett, Richard Sutherland Dunbar, who would now be 80. But he has not been heard of for many years.

Next in succesalon is M: Adrian Ivor Dunbar, of Upar Fairmount, Somerset Count Maryland. He was born in 1393 and became 11 naturalised American in 1937.

He served from 1914 to 1919 with the Australian in Franc Army. ls son is an engineer sergeant.

Sho goes to church. conventional demands do Brictly require it,

Whatever its causes, no one can.dobt that there has been Mr Adrian Dunbar, to establish "a change. The Princess can feel his title to the baronetey, would assured that public interest in have to prove the death of his It springs less from curiosity vanished cousin. The baronetcy than from the warm affection we dates from 1804. have for her.

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