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by OSDERT LANCASTER
"Someone has blundered, Senor! It's Gregory Peck 11"
A
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1954.
THE SECRET MARRIAGE
also. endowed
MERCURY
She was PRESIDES. By Daphne Fielding, former with exuberant spirits. Iv Marchioness of Bath. What else was to be expect Eyra and. Spottiswoodo. ed? 21s.
M
Hon.
Beene
to
Sho was brought up из ово who had little opportunity RS FIELDING who, benefit from a mother's care,"
a
before becoming When she was four her mother Lady Bath, was the left her father, the Lord Vivian Daphne Vivian, of the day. Whether it was brought to the prewar sacial serious less to the child may be a matter of conjecture. "My the gifts of birth, mother married four times and looks and intelligence. No might have married a fifth had one will doubt her intel- she not found out that the man for whom she left my father ligence who reads her book, already had a wife," of reminiscences and no one will dispute her beauty who casts the most casual glance at its illustrations.
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1 Shy (6).
Wa er-fowl (9).
9 Relative (8).
never seen anything like
Walter Wanger's
"RIOT
IN CELL BLOCK 11"
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10 Arab chief (8).
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22 Continent (4).
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Dark man (5).
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4 Raised walk (7).
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24 Mineral water (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.--Across: 3 Poor. 7 Signs, a Avid, 9 Bags, 10 Cheroot, 13 Plan, 18 Upset, 18 Oder, 19 Arena, 21 Haven, 22 Bled, 23 Shoot, 20 Mend, 29 ignlied, 30 Aids, 31 Firm, 32 Rural, 33 Pose. Down; Might, 2 Intrude, Orale, 5 Rasp, Visa. 9 Bous, 11 Opens, 13 Liod, 14 Neal, 10 Talon, 17 Sham, 18 Oven, 20 Rotinue, 22 Bogs, 24 Hides, 25 Nelax, 27 Exit, 28 Damp.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET A
NEW HAT - I'M
GOING ALONG YOU NEED
ADVICE WHEN
YOU'RE CHOOSING
A HAT AS
#
"MAYBE A MORE
CONSERVATIVE
STYLE WOULD
SUIT YOU
BETTER /
"THIS IS ONE
OF OUR
ADVANCE SPRING MODELS/
Mar
WEINERS.
Cork 14 TY BIHERAL PRATURES COME. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
WHAT YOU NEED IS
A HAT WITH A
TOUCH OF DIGNITY
BUT STILL HAS
A CERTAIN MAN-ABOUT-TOWN
TOUCH TO MU
Many years
passed before
Daphno saw her mother again, she was not even allowed to see her little half-sister Sonia, off- spring of a later marriage of her mother's, although both children were living in the same house for a time.
of DAPHNE
...high
the
That was really the beginning of
the turbulent life of a girl who became -Marchioness of Bath.
with Jinke in Mayfair, cruises famous, Continental trips an bicycles, holidays in the East in Arab dress. Tho
tempo of the galety become faster, feverish.
And then
Д
This, owing to the disapproval Mediterranean cruises in luxury of both families, proved to be First a double-barrelled event. there was a recret ceremony at St Paul's, Knightsbridge, 1028, which the books of ference have overlooked: "Henry
no name
Frederick Thynne, which was quite cor- a rect; I used my second name,
Winifred." Al- though banns
Daphne grew up among a host of relatives, distinguished or Pave beautiful or eccentric. There was
instance, Aunt Doris, for reckless hunting
Indy who
riet
mar-
Douglas
Aunt Doris's Icas
Haig; and Violet,
twi
ས
robust beauty.
by
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
On Aunt Violet's pin-cushion, ot there was always a bunch false curls and her bedrooni smelt faintly of exoile perfunis, Prince Duniiri of Russia could track her from one roum lo another At Sandringham 163 sniffing the cushions where she had left
traces of Wils elegant scent.
the
grow
Lo
So beautiful Daphno
up to be so beauŭiful that her brother Tony "used to hire out my photo- graph" (at Eton) "for a shill- ing 2111 hour"
his glided school-fellows.
After leaving school she entered on the nor- mal routine of debutante ille
London In
and
various houses country
the where still maintained seme of its ancient state,
There Wbs, for Mudiresteid, home of Lord Beauchamp, who wore the blue
aristocracy
instance,
DAS
had been read three times, no- boxty noticed,
Tho
impetuo Bity
of youth pineated, Henry went to a dudo ranch in Texas, where he put himself into stalet ruining the marathon of matrimony": Daphne slayed at home, "my wedding ring, which I wore un
chain round my neck. strengthened me with invisible armour."
F
for
Thus protected, she could face a second, publie marriage ceremony on October 27, 1927, In St Martin - in - the - Fjelds, attended by heavy formations of and by Rosa the aristocracy Lewis,
the famous proprietress of the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn Street, wearing what she called her "sables of sin" and saying reptarasy, "You've got to make a boy, dear."
Daphne made three.
on
which the first Lord Hothermere was
tellow-passenger.
זיי
amazed to find these two press lords
personal friends, calling
other Max and
were
each
yachts.
Fonalen travel Wit Accom- panled by
for passion bizarre costume: "Poppy and I grotesquely overdid our experi- ments with Arab make-up, out- tining our eyes wih kohl and hennaing the palmus hands
ind fect."
of Dur the soles of our
Henry, whose hair and turned
Parade
IS THERE A "Mr Szigo
hus
G-
G-STRING? broken the violin. He wilt be with you in
a few minutes.”
So sad 42221
During да HAM
announcement made to a London concert au- dience fugeling in their seas.
The concert Was ten ENU.ES lote. Fly more minutes poss- ed. And then came the aa-
nouncement:
"Mr Sziget's spare G-string jas Liso snapped is there any- one in the audience who has 4
G-string with him?”
There unis bu 4 man--21- year-old music student James Gosling. He was sing higa m the gallery of All Souls Chures, Langium Plate, whore Salgell, one of the world's greatest V.
inists, was due to give a cital.
rc-
bur Gosling, a student at the
Trinity College of Music, hart
Contco.
straight
dome to the from practice.
So up the cast and into ind vesary he went with his violin.
BADALETIed And there Szigo.i a brany yellow in the sims, was
his úlsappointed to And
Mr Gosling's G-string to u mojo
the commo prosale ́explanation:
own ins-rumentanu somzuno
cert begun. had put peroxido In his hair- wash
BEST FRIEND
On his return to London the House of Commons stared at a champion of Empire Free Trude who seemed to have dyed bis hair.
Feverish note
generous
India
There are glimpses of the typical figures of the time: the great, like Lord Bruverbrook, and puckish purveyor lice of pleasures; the talented Bobert Byron, historian of the Byzantine Empire, crying, "I want Lord Beaverbrook lo my fure as for which Lord Beaverbrook does, to Daphne's surprise; the de corative; the witd: the merely frivolous.
There
vistas of great houses like Longleat, family reat of the Baths, Animals play an Important role: "My pekincse Potiphar, a
terrier called Jenny Wren, and a green Amazon parrot of great char- acter, Jew Suss. We used to put the parrot on the floor and
cover
pre
to-
of
I was amazed.....
After marriage, a wider world ribbon of the Garter at the opened up, bringing ไป the dinner table and referred to his young couple the friendship, children by their titles ("my among others, of Lord Beaver- daughter, the Lady Lettice"}, brook, with whom they made a Twice a day. Lord Beauchamp West Indim cruise
it with a bowler hat, read prayers in the chapel.
People who were drinking got a "On either side the altur
nasly shock when they saw the were life-sized portraits of him-
bowler slowly advancing and self
Lady Benuchamp,
wards them." The death kneeling in prayer and wearing
Potiphar, drowned while chas- peer's and perrest's robes, The Albert." (Lord Rothermere's ing a duck over an insufficient-
over ono page.
And so the years slide until a time comes when galety has taken on a feverish note-and suddenly tember, 1939, and time to put life the toys away.
A vanished age Is conjured up from its dust
pane Freiding's pages,
children appeared as winged name was, however, Harold,) ly" frozen pond, costs a glooin
Asa natural
cherubs flying round the wails,"
The
cherubs, donning
development, winged
themselves Henry took to polities, his policy brighter plumage, became notable Agures in "Empire Free Trade as advo- cated by Max Benverbrook." did Ufo
But, on the whole, politics did up in its fullest galety not intrude too grimly on
went merrily ́on, with her marriage
to Henry, which then Viscount Weymouth, later high links in Mayfair, bicycling
the Continent become Marquess of Bath. trips
For
London society.
Daphne,
open until
Lo
The New Hat
YOU CAN'T KEEP UP WITH LADIES THEY'RE ALWAYS
AWAY AHEAD OF YOU
not
(1)
and
BY HARRY
WEINERT
"DOES THIS INCLUDE
ENJOY YOURSELF
THE RABBIT 7*
IT DOESN'T COST ANYTHING TO TRY 'EM ON.
"NO!"
"I'VE COME TO THE CONCLUSION IT ISN'T THE HAT ITS
THE FACE
frien
4109
Je
that
for
Man's the chog Winona eating DUMI is the word,
The
incdal PRIVADORCO COOKIES goes to Veru, year-old Alsatian bitch trom fabrice, Bohemia.
When her
Cathone owner, priest
priest Father Antonin Pavneck made a break through the trun
left he Curtain,
Vera-t- advisedly it was luter proved. For lcd police used Vera u bloodhound to track him gown,
45 44
Vera WIL Benighted, evelk when she was handed over to Hussion patrols at the Austrian border to carry on the ma hunt. Wagging her tail, she led the Russians to a
baru in vie frontier town of timuend where Father Pavlicek was hiding.
Vera, in Czech, means "caitlı-
ful."
•
•
spheres of the NEW Other
anunal world, however, BOY
are not snout on esiet- prisc. Carlo Marin, poultry farmer in a village near Gorizı, Italy, discovered that last werk.
On an curly collecting roun
moting
he poutco¿ strunge cock doing his bust to crow impressively. There wild Burnelling oddly familiar about the bird,
A second look' made Carto's past
the eyes pop.
He knew the cock wright. The day before it had been a it is Sep-
huu.
check A quick e transtormation proved complete.
Aika wituly
in eggt
not even
T
valcictory
•
PUBLICITY Enterprising is the
word
Dr VALUE
buc.ordo AJELZLU List of Reine, who is opened "centre for 108 cu.c or of senility."
13
prising because Dr Lisi is the rupes physician, and the cure he vif.rs we puolie is the one given to the Puge himself Just winter and again a couple of months ago.
It was tumovered by a Swiss medical
man, Dr Paul Nicnubs, and Dr. Last
hus Anaca vuru ne.hods of his own invention.
The Niehung cure Cuina Ut injuring - under
the paqua skin living telts from the ofguns of young animais. It has douIgg
to go with hormones.
WITHOUT
A TICKET
Ho
Many Icel # certain bumira- Hull Jor Av steur Andre Borne of karsellies. He was caught waveinng on ne railway winout a ticket Но was summoned to appear before the court & Tarbes. While no was on his way intre by LEGO, an inspector found that he was ...travelling without a Leksak. Borne explained in court mat ho
really hadn't Bay
Jegul existence at ali becauso he'd boen officially rezistered us having dio a prisoner of war in Germany in 1944.
The magia.rate was so baffled by the whole thing that ho ata- missed Home and SCIL him hone without a ucket In the polica van..
CRAMPED Secondary school SCHOOLS. teachers in Franco are up in arms about the crying need to 00 |something_for
the
nation's education. Overcrowding is such that at Lens classes are being held in the school cellar; at Thouars in a dormitory..
At the Modern Girls' School of Limoges some pupils must take their lessons in the
canicen, others in the cloakroom. At another Limoges school three students have to squeezo into desks built for „two- andäre forced to wrlie with their exercise books balanced on their knees.
At a Bayonne school, classes are held in a corridor and at Nouen on the stairs.
༄‛༼" !་
TOO MUCH. In Alexandria, NOISE
pollon declared WATAZOH the rroster, Crowing cocks have. disturbed so many people's Carly morning" aluumbors, the law announced that they all must be killed at oncour they would be bodflested,A SELATAN *Hundreds of Alexandrian then, ste, “rogi au vin?. Son didis,
nar.
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