INTO THE WORLD AND WHIRL OF CAFE SOCIETY STEPS EVE PERRICK, ACUTEST OF COM. MENTATORS ON WHAT LIES BEHIND THE SOCIAL SCENERY. IN THIS SECOND INSTALMENT OF A FASCINATING series she anSWERS THE QUERY:
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1954.
Who Goes Where?
O
By
EVE
PERRICK
NE of the main dif- But however hard he works ferences between So at his chesch hobby of escort
the newest pretty ciety
girl AR (High)
around the town on the night Society (Cafe)—and 1 sup- of her arrival. he puts in pose we had better get thin regular ofice hours at his City cleared up right away is investment company as well. that the old earriage trade Of the rate society derring-do 43- consisted almost exclusively Perry, Lord Warwick, the
year-old seventh earl, to a true of those who arr; the Cafe- careorists of those who do, The leading question about a new datrant is never thou
but Be?
11671
clues "what
arided
reprezentative. Tall, dark, and handsome in the fr scenic netuntly style,
ver is shortist
Career under Screen the name of Michael Brooke, lo the distinction of having married the beauty of the day
(the Hose Brigham
day
ho
was
in 1933- they called it a day for as the marriage was con- cerned in 1938).
give n
Cafe soclabile are busy, busy bees who somehow manage to become butterfiles at night The lunded gentry nee in, but they work ore the gentlemen their lands
The night-clubling dukes, for warm welcome to any new face
becomes Tamuliar, instance-Marlborough,
who
The old crowd will
Devon that
which
shire, Rutland Indust lots, means that the TV personalities
fair
dashing dukes they, who have are now joining. earried their commerical into the Stately Homes 2%. 4d.-
a-time buNUZDA, S
oľ
Traditions
it
IN actress
No dought they not the CULBERT
Harding does the and unds. proportions postage-stamp
And the tall and air-conditioning the night słabely Lady Barnett han beess seen in a night-club dancing in spots doubly welcome after the
the most dignified manner with vast open spaces of their own chilly a ble hn.is.
her manager Maurice Winnick, thr Churchilla, journalist Randolph aral Sarah (When she is in England) Among who are in the swim. the "debs" Debrett's is no bur, but a girl who gets her name Into
todet
theatrical tasting directory reaches the
up falde more quickly.
Oh yes.
while listing society's own Who's Who, there Spanich always Ambassador.
The Duchess of Kent elrelo are workers, all of 'em. Douglas Fairbanks,
who often makes an early exit hom the party with be the excuse that he has to at the uthus at 6 a.m.; con-
Ma.ezim ductor
Sargent. S.r
for Secretary Parliamentary Civil Aviation John Profumo, and King-of-the-Cʻantle, round-gentus Noel Coward.
Margaret's Set
14
ur
the
catr
I don't know why, but when The Corps Diplomatique with drew Into its redecorated embossies a year or two after the war, Duke Miguel Primo de Rivers stayed put in the clubs.
THE Margaret Set - Billy Wallace, Lard Porchester, John Hambledon, Lomi Lord
Manners. Mark Bonham-Carter, Hugh Fraser, MP respectively din with" ulr "something to
work. book- transport, estafe stalls. industry. publishing. lust night.
Parliament
on
Now his is always the fourth hame you hear mentioned when anyone is telling who was there
Above all. though, cafe
but strongly And the serioustions and in- society couns lensiy These contemporary family traditions. Bright Young Things put into. their amateur dianalies tin and
almost includes
business
of chuaily!
them in the
"show
pection of enfe society. To make
It even more
nore profession
have now added Elsa Maxwell,
first "pair cafe socialite, to the
The
professional"
Cust
of
their current lay. She has offered $1,500 to thyr charity for the
Jarvilege
Ports-four-year-olat
Charles
Sweeny came here from America
a generation ago and married Margaret Whighan,
then
The Marquesa do Casa Maury, as Mrs Frieda Dudley- Ward, was a regular member of the Prince of Wales's set- which meant slie was on the topmost rung
Her daughter Penelope. 154 wife of the film- Lady Reed, producing Carul, holidays Sir
yacht Alexander Korda's with the Oliviers. Cecil Beaton. Margot Fonteyn, Rossellini and his Ingrid, which means she now on the topmost rung.
ON
Another Link
+
N the circuit a Guinness girl has always been good fur gossip. There was Tanis Guinness, who once became the talk of the town when she broke off her enagement to the Earl of Carnarvon (father of Lord Porchester) to marty M.-G.-M. song-writing adver- tising executive Howard Dietz. Now there are the Gulness grand-daughters, Lady Caroline marrying painter Blackwoxxi Lucien Freud Iri
most bohemion manner. arki her sister, Lady Perdita, recently working na A waitress-not in one of the smart places either. David Metcalfe, son of Major Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, one- Time ADC
the Duke Windsor, another link be- old order and the tween the
new.
Now the newest order can be spotted, just coming up over the
urizon.
The young Duke of Kent, on leave from the Army, took
a party of friends to might club the other week.
It was not
one of the clubs
his mother patronised by cousins, but a rather leas plushy palace, which he chose, he said, because he liked the rumba band there,
ot
U
ot
His uncle, when he Arst started the night-club habit, also chose a place where he liked the band, and where he could play the drums,
Is this where we came in?
TOMORROW: How to
fiecome a member
Laugh, Comrades,
Laugh
By LES ARMOUR
London, are some kind of human
Deh of the Year, in 1933. As|66TT is high time," reports beings that never eat, play,
the clan's long stayer he prob- ably has not had a mest home since the marriage dissolved seven years LED.
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"that we stopped the impression
Harry Pollit, dream, or make love."
creating With that, straight-faced that...we and serious, he leaned back on the rostrum of the Bri- tish Communist Party Na- tional Congress, and wait- ed for the cheers.
When
Comrade Pollitt have fun, he means Bays have fun, and по balf- hearted nioping around the fun-fairs, either.
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And when he says cat. he will plainly brook no meagre munching on half a ham aandwich.
for
As
sleeping and dreaming well, the world will take kindly enough to that. A sleeping Commun- ist is conceivably the best kind of Communist.
Communist love may
leave The world trembling slightly. The combination is distinctly larining, But one can test as- sured that a good Cominunis will sel to it with a will and make certain that the capitalist beasts in Hollywood ато thoroughly put to shame.
New Line
Nonetheless one is Inclined to
"One man's meat.. as the saying goes, gentlemen."
-(London Express Service)
Nathaniel Gubbins
R
ALPH IZZARD, on grabbed partners
the
of track
the Abominable Snow-
man,
to appears think that the Snowman is As We nut ao abominable have been led to believe.
After following large footsteps over a distance of eight miles. he wrote:
a fascinating "In doing this picture unfolded itself shy, timid creature which uses with the inanmade paths
most caution, which studiously avolta contacts with human above such beings.
and is not anties down a mow slope."
of
a
from other "For wondering at foolishness
almost tu girls, trumpled them
and putting terongs to right. death £71<i half strangled "I toss and turn upon my bed frall young man who tried to
and think the world's in- sane,'
escape.
Sold Sugarpusa "The spring again."
to Sourpuan,
jus come
10 Sugarpuss,
After thut the doors of fashionable London were closed to her and she went to Swil- zerland),
Said Sourpuss where she found her She loved true environment. snow and ice so much that it was difficult to get her Indoors. It was unly after she slid down the Cresto Hun on her
rump that the doors of fashionablo Switzerland were closed to her.
"The spring again is here." "And soon I'll wear my hiking
boots and walk
It was her weary, desperate father who said: "if she likes
Блок
send her to 50 much
ermere.
Wind-
"To see the aun upon the grass,
the buttercups in bloom," Said Sugarpuss to Sourpuss,
"I hear the crack of door." Said Sugarjjlesz Sourpuss,
"How happy I shall be
to
as sliding on its run Tibet, where there's plenty of "With Thermos flask and sand
Identify to As i was able the
long Tang - toothed,
of Maluya moustached woman
Mrs of u as the descendant Stenchwater,
who deserted the for Captain Earl of Gravy Stenchwater at the turn of the
century,
and
wont Apally native, I hope you will believe ine when I reveal the leality the so-called of the Yet), or Abominable Snowman.
4t."
wiches for just the wife and
"To climb the hilla
be, except in the pavilion. For example, if the striker is like- ly to make a century he is out
of his person.
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS
Woman's Deal In Millions
New York. NUNICE LADY OAKES, widow of Sir Harry indus- Oakes, the mining triallat murdered in 1943, has sold a village, Price: said to be 5,500,000 dollars (£1,960,000).
It Is Lake Park, Florida, a few miles north of fashionable Palm Beach; it has a golf club, shopping arcu, residential dis- trict, and small farms.
The buyer, Ralph Stolkin, a Chicago business man, plans to develop the village for elderly people who retire to sunny Florida un pensions.
Lady Ookes,
д blue-eyed Australian (her son Sir Sydney is named after her home city) with fair, greying
19 hair, accustomed to big deala,
husband taught her to be
ли
RICT
a business woman, put her un the boards of his companies,
Joft
made her sole executrix of his vast
estate, เร
her €3,670,000
tree hall fur herself, half in trust for the five children.
tax
even if a wide strikes any partON UNO's removal
the On the other hand, striker is on the umpire's side. fie wit not be given out 1.b.w. even if he stands in front of straight ball certain to hit his wicket and stops it with his pads. If the umpire is an uncle of the striker he will be given
his out only if the ball hits middle stump.
CAUGHT
of a ban In council agains! smoking halls, the World Telegram says: "Nuw tobacco is being used there in almost every form ex- cept a pipe of peace.
DICH POCKETS of uranium I have been found 35 miles
Broadway, River Valley
the resemble
north of
Hudson
which
Downs of Sussex.
Old Law: The striker is out from 4 "caught" if the ball,
or of stroke of the bat,
the A hand holding the bat, but not
man
and
the Ways where Britons ran."
tread ancient
the wrist, be held by a fields-
the It touches before ground, although it be hugged to the body of the catcher or his be accidentally lodged in Said Sourpusa to
feldsman The
must Sugarpurs, dress. "Be happy while you can."
Sourpuss to Sugarpuss, within the playing arcu
instant the watch is completed. "Be jully if you must.
This last Note: all the lovely world you know may 1001
So she went to Tibet and became known as The Abomin- able Yeti because they couldn's pronounce Letty. What happen- ed in that land of mystery no- But she wasn't
Sald body knows. called abominable for nothing und soon the doors of fashion- "Though able Tibet were closed to her.
Letly then look to the
blown to dust.
mountains and her footpr.nts Instrod
have puzzled the world ever First Jet me say that
since. When they meet I hope Snowman Is Snowwoman, Ralph Izzard will be kind
A and her name is not Yell Letty.
Lelly
the
brut
to her because she must be quite an old giuntess by now.
Bursting. The Hon
and only daughter of Lord Lady Bursting, was Always a problem child, one of the chief problems of her parents being her rapid growth.
ย!
Sugarpuss And
Sourpuss
TIL, weighing "THE never-ending
of
At 15 she was 6ft. tail, and
10 nearly
sbout the horrors about 18st. As she grew older
another wor,
despite the fact even bigger The greut
that most leading statesmen at Bursting Towers,
appear to think it unlikely, is where they lived, amall for her, and there was having a disastrous effect on
they considered
health of
and
rooms
a time when reconstructing
became 100
the home before she cracked her head through the veilings.
the
the
the
country anxiety sometimes a contributory cause of duodenal ulcer"
... Anony- doctor writing
A
have both his feet entirely
be that Leidsman
of going to Winder- mere you're going to King- dona Come,"
But Sugarpies
go.
lie didn't
And Mrs Sugar didn't go. Though Sourpuss he nearly went, an ulcer in his tum.
How's That?
two with
AS
for
outside the catch a ball.
New Law:
the
Jaw means
thay not go
go
Lo
to
striker
boundary
in
the hills,
South
In all 34 claims, totalling 1,360 aeres, had been fled,
STRONOMERS in the US. have just seen an explosion on the sun hydrogen cloud miles.
They say the
rose 1,000,000
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Attorney-
Brownell
General Herbert announceN 21 Government in- to decide whether the Detroit motor-car industry is a
quiry
monopoly or
engages in secret
price fixing, or other
car el practices.
unlawful
He says the Government in-
slats on competition industries.
in basic
If the is on the umpire's side the striker
not out "caught" even if every body on the held (^UIDRAPHONES (walkie-
or heard his but strike has seen o
talities) are being worn by the ball and the ball has been visitors to five halls of New cleanly caught before striking York's Museum of Natural the ground by any fieldsman or History. While they look at the the wicket-keeper.
animui exhibits the portable radios give them talks through
On the other hand, if the
striker is not on the umpire's earphones on what they are side he may be out "caught" seeing.
ur
LL too often parents fall to teach children to be good
citizens, J. Exigar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of the investigation (the Scotland
Yard of the U.S.), sold.
A
to
any-
Не was commenting on tho fact that last year 257,000 young people-mostly under 21-were arrested,
"For them home becomes A place in which to sleep, cat a few bites and change clothes," went on Mr Hoover,
whether he hits the ball or not T the risk of being called a talk
A end
still with his bat, hand, wrist, by those who
of his person, part ang believe that cricket is a gentle-
pro- always that somebody man's game played by 22 vided
catches the ball, even if It gentlemen
strictly impartial gentlemen acting
accidentally
is lodges umpires, here are two official umpire's pants. laws of cricket natural
rewritten
If ho is likely to make the next Test match ancestral pessimists, or "sourpusses," of
between century close-in fleldsmen may England and the West Indies. use nets. If he is likely
make double century LEG BEFORE WICKET body can catch him out beyond the boundary, even a horny- Old Law: The striker is out handed aunt in the grandstand.
As leg before wicket with
there is no old kaw part of his person except his about bottle
ottle throwing the new
Harvard psychologist Donald hand, which Is in a straight one remains in force. That is of line
between wicket and to Koy anybody can throw Sears also has views on bring- wicket
be
ing up children. He says:— Intercepts botties at players not on the
"Father
should ball which has not first touched umpire's side. In desperate cir-
spank his bat or hand and which, in cumstances an umpire
daughter and mother should can
Girls suffer throw the opinion of the umpire
a bottle at a bowler not spank son. would have hit the wicket.
if mother spanks the risk of having back by a cricketer accustomed to throwing things accurately. (WORLD COPYRIGHT)
As Letty was always shy and limid Lord and Lady Bursting threw her into London social whirl us a non- swimmer is thrown into the
The results deep end.
were startling.
In
in
mous
no
magazine.
Said Sourpuss
hate "I EOTTOW,
to SugarpuSA, this world
at
"I wouldn't care if all the earth were blown to bita 10-
morrow."
At Brst the lonely glantess Bat
splendid isolation dances, staring miserably at Said Sugarpuss 10 Sourpuss, her folded hands, with her "Stop nattering this minute, enormous feet turned inwards. "The only troubles in the world Then somebody
gave her
are sourpusses in it." Sald Sourpuss to Sugarpuss, couple of snorting cocktails and Letty lumbered io her
"I never sleep at night,
R
Icet,
any
New Law: If the striker is not on the umpire's side he
out if the bali strikes any part of his person wherever he may
мото
on his side if he cares to take mentally if father sponks
It thrown
them.
them.
Spankings
round scars."
the other way leave lasting emotional
AFTER DIEN BIEN PHU-WHAT NOW?
CIENCE fiction has a
S
parable for the Indo- China war.
But
By James Wickenden
Thai mountains into the plateaux of west Cambodia and the dry zono of north Siam,
below
The facts expose one of the In a current best-seller years, while building Viet- ridges only a great modern army following neutrallst Nehru huge problems in creating an
allow Communism can hope for mastery.
to expand effective
SEATO
the Aslan suspect that the new party line Doctor
"The Kraken Wakes" only namese take-over forces.
The Communista at Dien Bien Phu, the
realised before 'aligning themselves with equivalent of NATO. Alastair will prove a dismal failure.
Bocker
Communists applied Just enough another Western deficiency. the West?
The further south that The spectacle of a thousand realised that to stop the
check the Navarro America' had the troops, but In the long run the problema, SEATO's front line was drawn, pressure to Communists marching through Krakens-aggressive mon- Plan. At the same time, the there was no agreement on their at Geneva and afterwards is to the longer it would have to be London bearing placarda do
use: the West has its "missiles" find a line on the map where : until the Kra IsthmuÁM sters of the deep sea- French contamed most of manding that wo "Ban the
mechanised forces but lacks the master view to alm all free Chi-minh.
countries agroo that Siam were reached.. Gloom," and suggesting "Up ordinary methods were
and artillery and prevented an them.
Communism must be stopped.. with Entuig, Cheers for. Love" inadequate.
all-out Communist attack on the
The other problem is to enlist The realleation of these That line also has to obey
the Blamese and Burmese is not
not an appealing ono,
Red River delta.
sup Western allammas was the bass realities of military geography. It seemed to the doctor that Nor would we care to attend
So Dien Bien Pha has brought of Communist strategy. man thought too much of de- stalemato-but a stalemate nt
Unfortunately geography port for SEATO. Indian support would be a key to success in an a rousing meeting at which Mr
Now behind the scenes at favours Chinese-sponsored ex- Pollitt
Asian front. livering or resisting missiles, overall gain to the Communists. Genova a master-view of the partion. will explain Why Capitalists Never Dream."
principally the atomic bomb. But the Krakens thought In
But it appears as if India Indo-China war is being sought. Indo-China is pinched in Yet it is still possible that
NO OFFICERS vaster more subtle terms.
Several crucial points are under against the mountains of China would lot Communism expand there are lots of chances for
With nuclear
discused on laughter in Communism.
energy they
of the Red River delta, much further before saying "for meiled the polar leo and flooded
enough". By that time the Una - In future the French can only There, in no man's land, com to defend would be vast, and the West, the simple the world.
remedy for the hold-up would sensibly fight for a clear-cut munications between China and
forces In the Enst the Communists have boers to step-up the battle-line round the Red Blvere the south go through a bottle toured would be as thond deployed in also have let loose an all- Navarre Plan But the Com-delta. They could try for this neck
To moet munist. ·
when the rains end in October, embracing offensive.
Even partition of Indo-China will require an anti-Communis front: to guarantes the border of the West has in hand is a crude Wost to boost the Plan. form of "mlazilo"; the Navarrw The Trench can provide no
of Chine and if the Chinese will. But once the Communists con- the new state, pa
Eventually a lasting file. anti-Communist barrier, would ment in Indo-China, will be anv This Plan was accepted at the gures show the latest casually be content with a burer wate, trolled this "throat, of Asia, a
As many perhaps partition la mío, end of last year by the areas officers are dying than France But will China be content with have to be stretched over
MA MALE unpleasant acceptance of military": new distances.
roben. Bot
realities are Powers, and had a simple object. turns out. So the Navarro Plots that? ques viationist wrecked and traitor." General Navarre was to amach could only cooling with the the new late becomes Although the main routes run far from being chichiwa, and the Indo-China's buiting strongest, probabil wi for the But that is presumably not the Vietminh and clean up the Intervention of Anverican forces Communist Jumping off polne. down what Mr Pollite have in mind: the whole eta indeschine in two In Ink China wamewahrouded how he would the Alma Matas kehat many, trails klimb over the wark to go the unkn
The comrades might well eonvalso themselves with rollick- ing gloo at the sight of the Dally Worker desparately trying to climb in off a limb and get back on the party ralla,
And they could doubtless rour for days when the Soviet En- cyclopaedia rips out the entry lating M. Beria as "a" great socialist hero of the people" and ro-entors him. A "hyene de
For the
it the West needs an equally see that it was impossible for the de facto parution.
They were cunning enough to and it might form the line for thorough master-plan, But alt
Plon,
more officers.
west
HUGE PROBLEM
If Ho Chi-minh is not a puppet
t
Europe.
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