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Argylls do battle for film

glory

THE Battle of Sheriff-

TH

muir fought by. Walt Disney near Aberfoyle In Perthshire turned out very differently from the ancient conflict between the Earl of Mar and Archie Campbell 238 years ago.

Then each alde Jost 500 men. The mit baltie was a more leady affair, but there were altic Just the same-sword cut, bruses, powder burno, and the odd combatant chipped by the bayonet.

The battle was fought by the men of the 1st Battalion, the Angy and Sutherland High- landers, as a scene in the flim "Rob Roy."

Two hundred Jacobites, with murderous-looking claymoren, and dirks only waited the word of command from director Harold French to change the musicets of the Royalt

wore

oui.

The clammen nurnbored nearly two to one, but their enemy, In scarle! and blue Technicolour array had been told: "In this particular battle you are pushed back.

"Put on a good show. Get stuck Into them, but please retreat at the end."

So the reseats retroated, but ext without a fight, Clansmen

CASUALTY-Private J. Haggart, out with toisted ankle,

could be heard above the roar of

you're deld,"

cannon shouting. Hi Geordie,

And "Aw for goodness bake

retroad."

'Rocknats detalled to be casual ties lay down and dutifully died. A few seemed to be dying of Laughing.

Private Jim Fluing, of Blatre hail, Fife, was harking away with a huge claymore.

He gasped as the battle ended: "I had seven of them on to me at once there, but I told them they were deld, so they fell down."""

SPRING

SPRING IS, HER BILO'S

PIMPLE

WHAT

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1953.

YOUNG HAN NEEDS

by Giles

georgie loves margot font

"How do you spell her socond namo?"

London Express Service

Queen Mary and the reporter

SHE GAVE HIM A SCOOP ON

HER ENGAGEMENT-BUT THEN

THE EMBASSY STOPPED IT

to the days of her girlhood. Mary warned the King that some for her first born-Edward. The When it came to her anxiety as day a guest would trip and Abdication was doubly a blow to to whether or not her picture break his neck. But even this her for it broke the code of would be published she laughed did not daunt the determination Royalty and it separated her delightedly.

of the King to live within his from the wilful, charming son incorag.

she loved so dearly, "I like newspapers," she said, when the story was over. "Some

Atlantic last of them are dreadful but every believer not only in the institu of Windsor and afterwards we I dined with the Duke

Queen Mary was a profound Dece the

By Beverley Baxter, MPP day I have my companion rend tion of Royalty but in the code talked for nearly two hours., He

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to me about what's going on, of conduct that it imposed. Nor was frank in his comments- especially in the theatre."

ia that a matter of surprise. though never bitter-on the HEN R. D. Blumen- American Embassy and in turn The Ambassador had disap-

personalities feld.

of the day, and From early girlhood she was certainly he has afterwards on Blumenfeld.

He had the peared and then came back with groomed to share the throne of exile to blunt the swift processca not allowed Editor of the Daily scoop of a lifetime but was not Lord Macmillan in tow.

allowed to publish it.

England, and it is a matter of

of his mind. Express, was the London

Obviously my time was up,

history that when I have recalled that story but on such occasions one must fance (the Duke

her first correspondent of

of Clarence) But when he American

spoke of his because it illustrates a quality walt newspaper, he

to be dismissed.

she afterwards It te died

became mother there was real tenderness, in Queen Mary which never left possible to be sincere and also engaged to heard a rumour that Prin- her. She had a special tingle courtier so I told her that the. George.

his brother Prince and understanding. It must have been a deep consolation to cess. May of Teck had of life. She had a great sense people looked on her not only

But she was also a woman and her in the last days of her life King's Road, North Point become engaged to the of fun.

Duke of Clarence, the eldest son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.,

as a Queen and the mother of could not hide her special love when he hurried to her side.

I saw her first when, as the Kings, but as a sort of relative. Duchess of York she visited "I hope that is true," she suid, Toronto not long after the "for that is how I feel towards. turn of the century.

Boyhoo.f

o you all-as if you are my other of memories have a habit of keep family."

ing their freshness and I can enterprise Blumenfeld hired still recall her pleasant smila.

Being

young man

Whereupon I withdrew and

A horse and cab and drove just as I can still recall the Lord Macmillan took on the

was

to the White Lodge in rather sad eyes of the Duke, and dialogue. Richmond Park, where the thesi grandeur of the two Princess lived a quiet life aldes who rode with them. with her family. She delighted to meet what she described as “a real live re- porter" and at once con- firmed that she was en gaged although it was still

a secret.

Sense of fun

Her memory

I was not, however, until 1939 that I had the honour of being presented to her. Joseph Kennedy gave a large dinner party at the American Embossy and explained, after dinner, that

Yet if it be true that the people held her warmly in their hearts and it could not be denied-there was an erroneous

that Impression

she war domineering, especially towards her husband.

The budget

the Queen would receive cach There was in fact a flippant of the male guests in turn, bus play on words which described Private Joha Gallacher, of

there would not be time for the her and her husband as "King Dumbarton, got cut

ladica brave decision with a

but George the Fifth and Queen Blumenfeld, who was a man of

Immutable. bayonet, while Private Richard much charm, said that he would

Mary the four-fiths," No doubt Maclean of Hamilton, had his be discreet and only publish !!

it originated in Amerien but it The Queen sat on a sofa and gained currency. check, scorched by musket blank In America. She agreed that each shot,

this would be quite all right and invited by her to sit down and At one

then, in response to his request, have time there

G chat, while was she gave Blumenfeld queue of men-mony had been;

portrait. campaigning in Koren-waiting to be bandaged or patched up with sticking plaster.

Three times the battlu scene was shot, with Archie Campbell's descendant, the present Duke of Argyll, watching through neid glasses.

SHE

of us in rotation

was

Nothing could be further from the the truth. Her husband was o

a signed Ambassador stood at a discreet domineering Agure who lald distance watching for the signal 'down the law to his sons and

"Will you publish it in your newspaper?" she asked. "If you do, please send me a copy, it will be most exclling."

to

Blumenfeld dirova back Fleet Street as fast as his horse

bring on the next guest. to rescue Her Majesty and did not hesitate to curb his

wife's

spending. Queen Mary had a special love of carpets and As it happened I asked her if rugs, as well as perfeet taste in she remembered the story of her them, but King George was de- divulged to termined that the family budget engagement Blumenfeld.

was not to be exceeded.

could pull him, but alos! Official- Sho asked me to recall it to In fact, the story was told that dom had heard of his visit, her, memory and the years fell at Windsor

the dining-room

LE. 5. pressure was brought on the away from her as she went back carpet was so ragged that Queen

MURDERED HER

Paris.

A

WOMAN condemned to

death for the murder

From SYDNEY SMITH

of her father and attempt But today, because of her young man. The young

ed murder of her mother almost saintly repentance, deress became like a nun. 19 years ago will ask a her claim for recognition of

mur-

FATHER

waiting to marry her. In the years that followed, Violette moved herself as a devoted wife and mother of four children.

Then her husband was injured In a car smash and became a President Lebrun saved cripple. Violette cold up the French court for her her civil rights-her official Violette from the guillotine by home to pay doctors' bills. She own official "resurrection." existence is being backed commuting her sentence to life found work to save her family. Pleading beside her will be by all the warm generosity imprisonment. the mother ahe almost of French public feeling.

Her husband is still gravely Eight years later Violette, ill. Now, if he dies, the four killed.

who, in her starched white bon children, belonging technically' In 1984 pretty, pale-faced net and apron and rough blue to no one because their mother Violette Nozieres horrified Violette was #1 senior gown, had become a legend of does not legally exist, may Franco by her calculated mathematics student. But saintliness

devotion in taken away by the Stalo. cold-blooded crime against she spent more time in the prison, had her sentence reduced

CIVIL RIGHTS bars of the Latin Quarter than in college.

i

har parents.

She poisoned them with

veronal and then staged

their suicide in a gas oven.

NEEDED MONEY.

and

by Marshal Petala to 12 years..

bo

In 1943 Jean Dably died: If she gots “civil rehabilita fighting for France.

tion," it will mest the right to work and be officially recognised

In 1944 Violette, by then a to keep herself, her crippled She was madly in love trusty who was allowed out of husband and her children. But the mother, recovered with 19-year-old law student Res prisort uncocorted for to tell the true story.

Jean Dabin. She needed civil work, fell in love with the of her gaoler, Francols

Frenchmen sang, songs money to keep him-all the Coquelet.

¿ about the black-haired, 19. money her parents had.

For never in the series of pardons that mivel her from death and prison was there any legal change which gave her Lata in 1945 Violetto was able back the rights" of her legal year-old girl Sho became Murder was her only solution, to return to her mother's: Paris oxistence, Fran the moment she amusic-hall horror. They But Violette was arrested, tried, home -oven put her in waxworks and condemned to death.

and museums,

In the year of trial and wait- Within three 1 weeks': Lai • cha Siro, cored; "for by -a gaoler's zon Francois,

the

was condemned to death-what- over 'clas bappened afterwardłaniu olette Nosleres was legally was dead,

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