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He said we tumed a solemn dedication into a medieval spree; said we should look| forward,not back; said we are an up-and- coming Commonwealth, not a feudal kingdom, and it might have been a glorious Commonwealth occasion, if ordinary people from home and overseas had been represented in the ceremonial."

PRISONER IN THE TOWER

"Gad! Trebson! He should be made to walk the length of Park Lane barefoot over broken champagne

botilas.

Henpecked, Heroic: Both Ways Meant Fame In

Filmland

By R. M. MacCOLL

V

UST as we are plung. many big ways to run, through

ing off into Epoch III.

Jing

Most of his roles were in

movies with 3-D, which cowboy flims. He sprang to

sleclous. by way of a over in the U.S.A. is refilling fame

brawl in "Ten Nights in a Bar- the recently doldrum-ridden

room." He played Sydney Car cinema theatres-two out- ton in "The Only Way," and in from 1918 a London newspaper critic standing figuros Epoch (William Faraum) wrote: "Small boys worship: Mr Fernum, who plays the hero in and Epoch II (London-born Flourl of. A Lian, for his Roland Young) have died. strength and virility. Their sisters, mothers, and Lanta Farnum - was 76 and worship him equally for the Young 65, and both actors, tenderness he show, in this love vastly different from each scenes," other in style and person- ality, were typical of their Health gave way respective epochs,

agers of today could tell World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian.

THE SLANDERED

HO is the most

W

she is the Princess

de

PRINCESS

As for the story that her father was n wartime collabora

..

200

men ju not-like tho films. His health gave way,

Farnum-how many teen. BUT life was you who he was?-was n Then, in 1933, he became fine and fabulous figure of bankrupt. The man a frenzied time. He made gave parties coating thousands and lost fortunes with a cars in threes and fours, gave. flourish.

who onco

of dollars, and who ordered new

his assets as £100 and his debla £9,088.

2264 He was of the top men in those really early days in Alms ed born to wear a bowler hat. Against all that, Young seem-

when everyone's eyebrows

He was the diffident Little. Man

worked overtime to make up to whom the oddest things:hap-

for the sllence.

pen but who rarely originates

His telegraphic address could any action himself. well have been Flamboyance.

He WOS of the William S. Hart Bara.

Typical of this sort of role of vintage

and Theda Was H. G. Wells's "The Man Who Could Work Miracles," In which he found himself in possession of miraculous, payers quito by accident and” Cop- siderably against his will. T

Flailing arms

tor, the truth is that he spent DOLAND YOUNG was CS-

*in France.

Brussels. Politicians attack her. She is a slunderede? woman stranger in her own land. But the war years in voluntary extile R sentintly an actor out any question the Princess who brought gaiety to a palace of gloom remains, above all, a brilliant by SAM WHITE mother

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France, stepmother's spell. Just before In the shops of Brussels ing

her marriage to Prince Jean of they still hang pictures of Switzerland and Austria. Luxembourg her feverish chang

ing of clothes

for her step Leopold's first wife, Queen:

It was not until the year mother's approval or criticum not only chronicle their con- 1988 that she met Leopold became a palace joke. tinuing love of that fine and for the first time. He was tragic woman.. They also visiting Western Flanders. is shown chronicle their continuing Her father was the Govern While he deeply resents. the at- hate of the commoner they or of that province. feel usurped Queen Astrid's place.

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Dislike of Princess de Rethy abounds. It is not -whispered;-it-is- shouted. aloud that she inveigled Leopold into their wartime That she is a marriage.

who influenced pro-Nazi Leopold's wartime policy. That she is the daughter of a collaborator who made a fortune out of German de- fence contracts.

THEY SNIPE

All these things are said about Princess de Rethy and said by millions. No defence of her has been made. No defence of her would be countenanced in Belgium.

She was 19 and ravishing- ly lovely. He was 38 and till' carried the sadness he had worn since that day three years previously when disaster, sharp-and-sudden, had left him a widower with three young children.

THE ROMANCE

evidence either way, But since stories about her are false, la him,

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many of the other

A 2

In the thirlies wo all laughed of the at "Ruggles of Red Gap,in talkies. And where Farnum got which Charles Laughton played his effects with flailing arms and an Engilah butler and Young a For the main accusation sweeping gestures, Young, be mousey millionaire. that she was a pro-Nazi, who ing Brilish, scored by under-

Then edme the "Topper" influenced Leopold-there is no statement and dry under-acting,

series, in which Young was an You could never imagine uproarious ghost, A LLUR.

For Farnum being henpecked.

the herole role in the

Tongue in cheek of America's eternal sunshine south-west. Young seemed to be always henpecked, and he once Is style was always slyly of per tongue-in-cheek. He gave the said: "One gols tired petual blue skies. 3 should to impression of being the assistant to live in England in the ran: bank manager down the road br and potter about in the gard the secretary of the local golf

club to whom friends When Farnum was of his really ought to have gone on

suppose

aro

it not reasonable to that this one is false too?

Today, with two children of her own, Princess de Rothy and Leopold lead a life of seclusion in Lacken Palace. To prevent writicism that he is attcripting to rule through his son, foreiga devotion diplomats and politicians A similarly strong

by King Baudouin, never invited to the palace. business in daily two-hour visits tack on his father's wartime

the Baudouin transacts his official

offices in palare main- conduct, the attacks on his step- to hls Brussels and non-residential leave him palo

tained there. mother trembling with anger.

The social life of Leopold and his wife? It is restricted to a all "take home pay." few close friends. Their public life is nil.

HE WENT OUT

Must this be always so? Must

know the not me: "I do A close friend of the family

people of Belgium nurse told

for ever a hatred that springs how thai boy can carry on. On one occasion he read a particu- mainly from spite and rumour?

attack on larly slanderous Princess de Rethy In a Belgian Opposition paper.

ot

was

-

first war, life in America almost non-existent. uncomplicated and income tax

So his huge salary-£3,500

years week at times and for running into six figures annual

studios was ly from the Fox

Farnum took

Jt home

the stage."

Where Farnum was all Art Young

socmed completely artless,

Yes, these two, each stood for their own era., Who will

bo, tho exponent of Epoch 1117. I sup poso we shall soon find ou3, all Meanwhile the consumption of

right, but somehow it did not popcorn in American movies has tastes recently moved to an all-time

high-a most encouraging-o slay there long. His matched his acting style,”

on the prospects of 3-D fon He lyed in the tradition of American movie ratz, at der the 10th century legitimate

Popcorn? Ho.1'11.- sotila day have theatre (he run his own theatre Or will they one He dropped compassion for the most slan- on Broadway before he turned for the bar-room brawl, the the paper and left the room, dered woman in Europa- and to films), and when there was tinkding piano and Roland

he returned few give her a chance to live? ble money he could think of Young. Their romance did not When

minutes later his anger was start then. For another under control but he felt year she led a. heavily could not go on with his day's,

cancelled

chaperoned finishing school oficial duties and

them all."

life.

with

ካድ

By 1989, when her nome was linked Leopold's for the first time, woman? Is it conceivable that

Is this the picture of an evil

Leopold's children would be so no more than six months of attached to her if she were her adult life had been spent anything other than a good

and fine woman? in Belgium.

It will be argued, of course,

Yet mark this. While all marriage to Leopold Belglum Princess de Rethy with the

gossips

about 1941,

nvidity of suburban spin-

A

In

Then came the war and that she has been so close to the event which started in the children that she has been earnest the campaign of able to dazzle them with her her personality. Such an argument calumny against her

is demonstrable nonsense.

to fool It might be possible children over a short period. But not over 12 years. And let it be remembered that these children would be predisposed against her since she was taking the place of their own beloved mother,

When-Lilian Baels mar- stera sniping at "the girl ried Leopold she entered next door," there are fewer Royal household steeped in than 200 of her fellow citi- gloom.

zeng

her.

who have ever met

Laeken Palace, where the

Nathanjel Gubbins

has "Sadie, Majm thi is lure Gea, but this swell."

"Miss Honey Hansen been mothering 40 middle-aged, Middle West American matrons In a naughty 2.

Parla fight club;

round the world on a lightning £2,500-a-head tour in search

of culture and history. Plump nger, and complete with and cager,

movie cameras and

they

rode on

Sieptacles,

in

India, paddied in the Dead Sea, peeked at the Acropolls, and got going with real gusto

A Paris night club." Report from the news.

ORTY plump anu

round the world,

sinko semi-pizie "Sadle

what that singer singin'? Must be sump'n rude. "Sadle, you too French at High

School; Sadio, tell tes mure. Gorstag, garsons, nous

operhits chedre

Social note SCMAX

"Lord and Lady-y— Look-. Ingroped and Well Jares back in London from their -pra-Coronation holiday. Apman's magazine. *

to

“Although tha cash khocked Lord Gibbi

or six, to had to effect

Ah Lady Gubbins, whotchap betite for Corish cream and Cornish pastics astonished and delighted those who aw Her happily munching) pasties on the quayade imjn Hlately dfter al breakfast

which included parringe

Gardening

NOW is the time to prick out yout, lettuces fgiving them trare room to grow

Each lttle letftico- Small Bo separated from tip other t 'rown & holes vidde with a

each ront firmly the holes!

"Ourth” ABE

to Lord Gubbits during the lost pointed flick in VAZI

"American women are wearing the latest Coronation Cap at a smart angle with cherries round their cars." Another report The fact that she has been from the news. Royal family lived, la cale, despite all the propaganda sombre, ugly Victorian against her, to win and retain What, then, is the truth edifice. It seems to reflect the abiding love and affection of

cager matrons, racing PEOPLE who have bem won

deling what has happened about this lovely woman the series of tragedies which her three step-children is proof whose life has been ruined by gossip which in its own Royal House.

have befallen the Belgian irrefutable of her tremendous

qualities,

The case against her Cameras gleaming, glasses month may be intercafes, to as a woman is demolished. For way-has-been-rlmost-as-

flashing, greying tresses know that he is also back from a-pre-Coronation holiday, spent. If those who

best know her

curled, ruthless and as devastating

defend her, what right' have

with Lady Gubbins at Fowey, in those who know nothing at all Coronation caps at angles, Cornwall. about her to raise a voice against Cherries round our cars...

the society her?

"Everybody got her passport?

Forward

march, my dears." Forward march to France and

Paris,

forward march to Romo. Caesar's legions never wandered

half so far from home.

as the car smash which

ended her predecessor's? Is

she on ovil, malign influenco

NEW 'MOTHER'

Leopold had three children

on her husband and on her the present King Bau- country? Or is she the douin, Prince Albert und most misunderstood woman Princess Josephine Char-

in Europe?

IN A CONVENT

SECLUSION

What about the other charges

Gardeners with lumbago will

from the standing. fund this task difficult done ling position with the body bent from the hips.

Gardeners with gout, fibrositis, Peek-A-Boo,

lumbago: re

sclation and water, on pest, writes:

knee are advised to abandon "Looking bronzed but rather the project altoge Ler and co chill caught straight to bed but those who unfit because of. on the English Riviera, Lord have achieved the krinoling Gubbins tells me that he had position should make cer

was only. 13 at the time of against the Princess? Most of Alexander might have wearled, a most, enjoyable, time, except that they are a

lotte. Baudouin, the oldest,

his father's re-marriage. fantasy.

the minor ones are based on

Hannibal felt stale,

Dut not the plump and eager

ence

for

for a cold spell, which began

this purpose- n.rake or as soon as he stepped out of

broom handle may be used. On the train. matrons on the Culture Trail

attempting to rise, place The children had been under For example, the sugacation Happy, plump und eager.

This is not a new experie rake or broom handla firmly Her name was Lilian the care of governesses and sub-edulously spread that bo-

said Lord matrons, going home to rest,

for me, Baels. Her Flemish father ject to Leopold's strict discipline, fore the war he was a pight Telling stories full of wonder to Gubbins, laughing. Where both hands and climb, tap

that club quem with morals

the Middle West,

ever I go I'am followed by a using the sounder" log was rich and distinguished Almost immediately, Princess were no and she enjoyed all the ad- de Rothy becarae the centre of have no better than they need Tales of ancient deeds of daring private cloud and a houting leverage, 01 A

wind, which will find me in soon shall fado and palo

In you neglect this precaution, the children's livor. She intro-

deeds of forty any part of the world. vantages that come to

duced a novel galoty Into the It is meerod that her brother Before: the

while climbing, you Ure likely girl who has

The moment I arrived in or if the handle failedown matrons on the Culture Trall, palace. The children adored her was a deserter from the Belgian

Miaqui, Florida, In 1935, the to roll over on your back, whois. father.

and within a month were calling army. In fact, his offence was Riding elephants in Delhi In

the technical one comanied our Paris-clothes,

temperature dropped ten de- you might lie for hours until her "Mother #

orces. by thousands of other Belgian Elephants are rather, amelly

When I visited the rescued; waving yourturmavala with

French Riviera, there was a legm feipfiusly kay this hidric lined in " They have continued to adore of failing to register-

blizzard at Conner, and esveral June, buzz on the garden path a convent school in London her. Princess Josiphing Char, the Belgian comnil in neutral Dipping tone in Dead Sea Water-

palm trees were uprooted." and at fashionable finish lotte, especially, in under her Lisbon

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She was brought up in

Bodle, hold your nose."

"Sadie, ain't you well?