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London Express Service

THE STRANGEST 'FINISHING SCHOOL' OF ALL WELCOMES THE SHY YOUNG GIRL FROM LONDON

THE CHINA ́MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, ⠀· 1958,

Next Six Months

For The

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Princess

SYDNEY SMITH reports from Paris

SAY BROTHER, WE CAN SPARE THIS LINE

.LONDON..

GREAT deal of the "modern American lan- guage is wonderful stuff, full of vivid imagery.. Some of it finds its way over here, and I use it quite a bit myself.

But

are certain Americanisms which make me wince like a salted anall, and I would like to start a movement to have them scropped.

there

My pet hites, in this order

of precedence, are: Way of

Life, Know-how, At This

| Time, and "Boya (meaning

men).

It strikes me as prepos- terous

to

talk THE AMERICANS HAVE A

about "the British

way of life," as

certain Cxated WORD FOR IT...SO HAS

men in

public

affairs sometimes RENÉ MacCOLL

do.

(a) It is quite beauti- ful, designed by Komisarjev. sky and recently decorated 2 famous West End

And since the last war I regret to

that cur generals have slipped into the imitative habit of by talking about "our boys" firm.. when what they mean is our troops.

For "know-how" we have 'perfectly good word in "kill"; and what's wrong with "nom" instead of the pompously cumbersome "at this time"?

1 can only hope that "girls" does not become as widely misused on this side of the Atlantic as "boys." Keeping a straight face was for me a major operation in America whenever I heard

(b) There is ot present replica of the Festival Gardens clock which is attracting ‘en- crmous crowds...

Not so. With a deft nick of his fingers an official removed eight of my pounds. Now I am in the middle of a stately cor- respondence with the authorities about it.

I refer Lo my. "cized". pounds. They speak, very Konteelly, of "your pounds that"; were taken up.”

If they decide to hang on to them, I gather that my sight smackers will go to something called "Appropriations In Ald.”

In aid of what? Why, of the Customs and Excise. Yes, MacColl may yet find himself paying Kor a new pair · of trousers for one of those jolly chaps, who wield' the chalk,

How's that

• "clean up?

•

St is nearly six months since General Sir Daril Watson reported on behalf of the Railway Executive about the re- sult of his study of the dirty stato of the rallways, I thought I'd give B., a call and see how things are coming along.

Well, they are still unhappy about their 0,000 conches, which aru 30 or 40 years old (“You can't make a 40-year-old couch look really clean"), 5d the shortage of carriage-cleaners ("Down as least 500 in rength compared with pre-war").",

I said I was still getting, complaints about the Nithy state of earringes. This brought an carnes plen from B.R.: (c) There' is a grand piano Tho public can help by saying which trains they and unralis- und artist to entertain thoso

factory.

arriving and departing.

(d) When "e" is not happen- ing, three concealed loudspeak ers quietly flood the foyer with light and good.music from ng-playing gramophone re- cords.

(0) Frequently there are ex- photo- Interesting there is n a con-

"Give us all the details you can-date, placo and we'll do our best to remedy matters,"

Lastly: The new vanity

OVERHEARD in the modur a portly, sixtyish matron hibitions of paintings,

Motor boat section of the or other 'gally addressing her con- graphs,

Show, where one Arm not only puts up a card saying its boats temporaries with: "Now, displays, Just now

have been sold, but proudly how about another drink, small stage on which

names the buyer: "Oh, look jurer performs tricks of magic. dear if you buy one of those girls 7"

boats they will put your name. up! Do buy one!"

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With all that going on in the

a wonder MacColl, ever penetrates the auditorium-where, I am sured, ice-cream is sold only under cover of darkness.

Come to the show, he says loyer it will be HAVING spent so

much THE Royal Family of brought up his family as princes 3. Prince Paul and Princess HA

time in Majorca and Europe is having and princesses-schoolgirls and Olga of Yugoslavia. Prince

Minoren this autumn, It family

boys a united family that ecutd Paul, a leading society figure in gathering in

and the count's best seems appropriate that Paris to welcome and Indoe- well be the envy of any ordinary Paris.

friend, was once criticised for his Granada should be next on relations with the Nazis during the list. day-by the war, Through the Duchess next six his nicce by marriage.

Princess of Kent, Princess Alexandra, is

trinate into the manners of its grand and gracious fold a simple and pretty young English girl of 16-named Alexandra.

middle-class home.

What kind of Alexandra see in the

life will day. Inmily months?

.

This Granada, however, is And she has read in French in Tooting, S.W., and its newspapers how her mother, the general manager; Kenneth Well, nine of the children are Duchess of Kent, and King Paul Brierley, D.F.C., takes me The Duchess of Kent has left a ordinary day scholars at _her_daughter_ Alexandru_in_Paris French schools in Paris, travel- und e-Alexandra- of Yugo gently to task for my for a six months' grooming- ling, satchels en shoulders, by stavki went to a cinema within grumbles about the modern Ankhing her education 03 bus and tram every day. futuda dand-in for Princess Margaret's official duties.

-and-Queen-Alexandra-of-Yugo.. མ་ ་

the same 24 hours in which King cinema. The lwo eldest, Princess Peter of Yugoslavia demanded a isabelle and the 10-year-old divorce from his queen. Dauphin Henri, who has his But if Princess Alexandra is her Bachelor's degree in Political bewildered for a while In Science, are continuing their new home she will and a warm post-graduate courses under the sympathiser in Dauphin Henri, told his professor: royal instruction of the Preten- who once

"The story of my family is more complicated than history."

The chateau

LEXANDRA, who the British

Embassy insists has no more dor. than her £40 allowance. will move from a flat where she has Every evening when all 11 are. been staying with a Parls dress- back home they are gather:d maker friend of the Duchess, to together for two more hours of an ugly and austere modern teaching under the sternest yet chateau 12 miles outside Paris, the gentlest instructor they know the Pretender himself.

There she will live with a And Princesa Alexandra will be family that is in a direct line of there, descent. from King Louis Philippe, who ruled France from 1830 to 1848. Its chief is the Pralender to the throne of France, Henri of Orleans, Count of Paris,

Much in common

THERE

will be gymnastics times a weck- The comment in Parts today and that goes for the wholl is that the preity and rather shy family. Each session lasts young Princess from England is two going to the best finishing school in Europe.

. hours,

with the

Come to Tooting, begs Brierley, and see our glories. Says he

JUDGE for yourself whether our foyer reflects defeat and shabbiness:-

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+

From many people, however, hearty cheers have greeted my criticisms. Ice-cream and adver- tising

to Alms seem

arouso passionate resent- especially

meri.

Extra slacks for Customs?..

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from Malta the other day, FLYING into London Airport I caused stratospherically raised eyebrows when I told officials that I had £18 in sterling on me. Surely, I sald, coming from Arca, another part of the

I could properly bring this in with me?

Bierling

HOME, SWEET HOME IS

FAR FROM PANMUNJOM

COUR OUR

By RUSSELL SPURR

PANMUNJOM. "You have been misled by Both men were tired and pale. sweating Indian the Imperialists. You have Sweat gleamied on their faces. inclined to secried soldiers held down the only to say the word and be Nether

break off the Inquisition. Princess Alexandra, lithe and struggling Chinese soldier. welcomed back to your athletic, will almost certainly enjoy these sessions, which are "To Formosa," he screamed. home." The Communist "ex

"Send me to Formosa." plainer" smiled a chilly smile not too solemnly conducted.

as he continued.

..

An American observer began For the count's chateau-it is

to protest. A Swiss member of really not much more than a

the neutral observer tearn large manor in rather revolting

Joined in. was desi Her best friend for the next The Indiana grabbed his Anglo-Norman style, with five

**TO Formosa," the Tho prisoner had been acres of gardens and 25 rooms six months will undoubtedly be arms and legs to prevent houses a family that is the most the dark and lovely 20-year-old him reaching the Communiat prisoner yelled. The cry was grillet long enough, they main- remarkable mixture of autocracy, Princess Isabelle of Paris, the

taken up in twenty other tained. blue blood. and democracy you count's eldest daughter. She has "explaining" officer,

tents. The din sent Indian

could ever find.

The family

So

In Phila- won her Doctorala sophy, going to college by bus.

common with Princess Helene

was one.

His family tree gliters with olose and regular terms and he' Hapsbungs,

Batten- is as handsome as his father, Hanovers, bergs, Orleans - Parmas,

has to offer."

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"Comrade Mao Tse-tung reinforcements scurrying in that the "explanation"

continue. welcomes you back to the with swinging truncheons. Alexandra will have much in Fatherland. You have

"Why go to Formosa?" asked said the "I will read you a statement of Orleans, just a your alder. nothing to fenr,'

by Comrade Mao welcoming the Communist wearily. go first meet the family! The Their chief talking, tople? Music Communist officer. "To For your back to the Peopic'a: Re- will only be lost when wo stamp

Pretender, allm, dark, hand- Princess Alexandra may find mosa," screamed the public repeated the Commun- ous that homers' rest": some, and intelligent, 43 years old, herself taking some interest loo prisoner. He lunged towards Ist officer. "You will see how would indisputably be the heir to in the 10-year-old Dauphin the table. The Indians had much the People's Democracy the throne of France if there Henri. He will be the first

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The prisoner no longer

Ho SCREAMS, THUMPS anawered." sat hunched among his Indian guards head Screams and thumps rose in hands. An hour passed and

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Now for the first time since. Paris probably was a pretty homeland. And the two tont in China the "explakar said on ever held in Panmunjom. 1940 the count's whole familly of perplexing

The royal ed compounds at Panmun- for the eighth time. "There will from six-year-old family circle in which she jom shuddered under the beam for you or a factory children Prince Thibaud to 20-year-old mixed has included Princess Isabello, are united in1, Queen Frederiki, her second latest desperate attempt to as

cousin and King Paul of Greece persuade the 22,000 captured To Formosa, whispered the and it a cigarete, At the count, an exile from 2. Ex-Queen Alexander of Communist soldiers to re- prisoner. He was so hourse you meae man was helped And

had to lean forward to hear 'out of tow hut. Eo could hardly France until the United Nations Yugoslavia, who through the

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