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'"*1 just simply can't understand why everyone ain't busting to join the Army, can you, corporal?”

London Express Service

From hand to hand it passed for three centuries, leaving a trail of tragedy... No wonder it was called

THE

E

of

VER since the mer-

chant

adventurers

of Venice opened up the Mysterious East for exploitation and loot the story of the Idol's Curse has been a never-falling theme for story-tellers. In novels and plays, from "The Moon- stone" to. "The Grand

DIAMOND DEATH

BILL MCGOWRAN

་་་

tells another of

the World's

Cham's Diamond." the jewel Strangest Stories

of doom has figured as the sinister centre piece. Conan Doyle used the idea in more than one of his plots, so did W. W. Jacobs. But no au- thor has ever dreamed up a stranger story of vengeance inhabiting a gleaming gem the history of the than Hope Diamond.

.

sapphire.

Marie Antoinette wore it, set in a ring of dia- monds, on state occasions the guillotine..

and Marie Antoinette died

But there were still people with enough money and enough courage to risk the jdss of death by acquiring the now notorious Jewel. It passed to

& Greek jeweller, who paid for his pur- chase by laling over a precipice but not before he had resold it to Abdul Hamid, the Sultan of Turkey.

"Abdul the Damned" shot his wife, Sultana Saima Zobelda. while she was wearing the Diamond of Death and soon afterwards was deposed from throng. In 1909 the gem, was sold to a Mr Habib, who'

drowned at sea.

and

Was

Fate

struck swiftly

in

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

A

LBERT, THE ROBOT they are looking forward

M

· COLUMNIST, was dreamily to the next holiday. I in a difficult mood this is so they are even eraxior

than

thought, for they are by when we began our passing, the autumn every your work. His first fan mail which, according to my calcula from two women had gone tons, la exactly one quarter of to his head.."

their lives, When you have finished of the dying year are only a tine

For them the gentle pleasures reading your letters again, some interval until Christmas Albert, perhaps we could Day. Instead of enjoying the consider the news?,

bright, clear mornings In the park, a

walk with the doggle in But I'm terrific. One girl says the crisp afternoons, I'm wonderful. The other says hot toast by the bright fire if and the she loves XING

we have any coal), they spend Don't Lake remarks like that wooks worrying about Christ too seriously. Albert,

Perhaps I'll be famous,

mos, staring at greeting cards, In the Two fan letters.

shops, calculating the cost of won't make presents and gloating over the

you, famous, Albert,

This is only

be

E

festivo food displays

beginning. May stores.

television, on the Even the quic misty

m. on the stage. Perhaps I'll of the

be like Frankie Laine

autumn

with means nothing to

in

beauty countryside those ipfor

thousands of beautiful women crackpots hungry for a 'distant

fonst. got back to the affairs

crying on my shoulder,

Let's of the day, Albert. What have bloat, "What are you doing

So, when I hear their foolish you been reading about this Christmas?" I

for

about back: "And what are you doing: for Easter?" If they can bypass There ar

more Important the beautiful autumn I can. by- things to read about than Mari-

pass the hideous winter with lyn Monroe. There is the re the greatest pleasure, ··

armament of Germany which is

making some people happy and Gladstone's Chop

many more unhappy. There is

the dock strike which is making .........................................................-- everybody unhappy. What in THE "« correspondenco (which your opinion would make all has been going on about the men hoppy in this confusing number of biter Gladstone took

world?

Marilyn Monroe,

at a mouthful of food before he There is also the humiliating bins of the time when he

swallowed it has reminded Gub

defeat of the Arsenal football about six years old,

eem in Moscow. Do you think

w

cur little

It was because we sent a second, after Gubbins

Although Gladstone died soon rate team to play a first-rate

was born i he team or do you think that was still the hero of English football generally is on and glowering, hung on the wal home, where his portrait, grim the decline? If so, what do you beside the fly-blown,, but:

think English footballers need

to improve their play?

Marilyn Monroe.

am talking of training, Albert

So am

genial, features

When the

of John Bright?

little

bins tried to gobble his dinger

ho: was

the remed up sharply. Wit

that the great 40 · bites" at took

of the grilled

Mr Glads ful

Albert, I have spoken to you

before abut innuendoes.

every

What's Innuendo about a dia. chop he had every day for his ner dance for footballers with lunch at the House of Commons.

was this habit of It Marilyn Monroe before match thoughtful mastication It would give them a klek most

apparently kept him

sept him at

of them haven't got

slow

BAY

which

nt qu

really meant stomach "ge and maintained his

in a calm and

I doubt if you that. But let it pass. To change condition to make long Birgi the subject, the Chancellor of in Parliament

Exchequer .be

and hay ch $129 deubled the sessional up-and-a-downer with foreign travel allowance, which

Queen Victoria, never a popular. means that you and I had a

111 our family. The im hollday, we could spend quite piication

was that if greedy long time abroad. What country le boys bolted their food like would you choose and who pigs with their noses In the would you like to meet?

Fluto. they would never be great men like Mr Gladstone

"NO,"

6, "Albert. Please, don't men- tion that woman's name again. "Don't talk⋅ like that about Marilyn,

Albert, it's not an insult to call a woman a woman.

It's the way you anid it. Albert, are you in love with Marilyn Monroe?....Speak up

You think she's what? Smashing.

But little Gubbins, a born. porter, refused to "accept

the story without investigation. He wanted to know all the details. He wanted to know what Glød» one had for breakfast and how many bites he took at a plate of porridge.

Timing himself by the dining-

little clock,

Gubbins

TOOM

Mr Wcently, still' owns the love. No wonder you can't work ch: wed 10 times on odo mouth-

savagely at the next 'owner, by Edward Besle McLean, on

American newspaper millionaire, "That is May Yohe, sald my whose family owned the It was also worn

mother. She wore the dread- by Marie Washington Post. He bought it ful Hope Diamend, poor girl," " Antoinette's friend, the Princess in 1911 for £50,000 (some re-

Lambelle, who was torn to perts put the price as high

dealer, Harry Winston, for pieces by the mob during the

£75,000) and gave it to his £250,000. French Revolution. Another wife

wife.

who arrived Very shortly afterwards victim who had borrowed the

Mrs McLean saw their young. London

He has no was Fouquet, a famous son killed by a car in New York Hope Diamond. Minister of Louis XVI's. Hy

She afterwards divorced her superstitions.. was disgraced and died in pri- husband, who died in a mental Hollywood is contemplating a on.

home, his fortune ‘gone.

ülm based on its lurid history,

If that fim is ever made thōre should

be plenty of meaty parts for the character actors the

Monarch

catching the

stone

น

After the Revolution many of the Crown Jewels reached

}

Teapot Dome

Grand

My poor Albert. You are in

today. But you'll soon got over

No, I won't Perhaps she'll write to you one day,

it.

Do you think she will? You never know. Then you can write back. What shall you say?....Don't be shy. Whisper if you like.

Peir supx sixE PEKI'ZENS. Albert, how dare you? Heh, heh, heh, heb, beh, That coarse

laugh

ful of food and discovered that It took two minutes. He then worked out a sum (although be was always bad at arithmetic) which

proved that if stone chowed 40 times on

of a chop, Thureo

Sul and a pudding, his

would last four hours. also timed. Gladstone's break- fast at three hours, his ten, (with buns, trifie and chocolate bis

two hours, for and his grand

again, eults)

at

suppps, ·

I first became interested this malevolent stone In when I was a

very small boy. Mother collected stage photographs as modern girls hoard film stars' autographs. One day in a volume called Footlight Favourites, ahe Amsterdam, where an ancestor showed me a picture of a of the present Duke of New-

In 1914 Mrs McLean wore the cismonds blue · geams in alim dark-eyed charmer castle was a banker, and in 1830

Abdul wearing a curious plantation the stone peered into the posses Hope Diamond at the wedding sunshine of; Versailles,

Pamned of their only daughter, who the

in his raging costume-wide straw-hat, son of the Hope family whose died later from an overdose of harem,

the n

passionate Russian name it şiill bears.

The family prince aiming his pistol. from blouse, and long striped

sleeping. Lablets. and was involved in the Teapot his box in the Folles Bergere. The odd thing It was set as a 'brooch trousers.. was that one trouser-leg was was in the possession of the Dome scandal and was tricked But the star part, for me, would striped turned up to the knee while Hope family for nearly a cen- of-221,000 ih intervening in bed dark-eyed girl in

rolled to tury.

the The late Duke of New- the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, trousers, one log

Silly Question the other reached her calf. castic,

the horrible little Gubbins then who died in 1941,

When Mrs McLean died in knee, dancing round the stage

wanted to know how Gladstone. "That is May Yohe," said my ways scoffed at the story of the 1948 the diamond, weighing 4414, of the old Galety, in a George

time to

make long "In mother. "She married the curse: my family there carats, was officially valued for R. Sims burlesque and singing WHAT

Easter?

speeches unless he was chewing Duke of Newcastle, and has never been any tradition of probate at £44,230. Her whole Linger Longer Lucy."

Ill-luck about the stone" he collection of jewels, which also 1) And if Hollywood needs a This sounds like a ally ques- one of his chops at the wore the dreadful Hope once said: "We never Had any included the fornous 100-carat snappy title for this super-tion to ask in December, and so time, if he was

was still, munching diamond called Star of the production I suggest "The Gem it is until you understand that and picking his teeth when he Diamond, poor girl."

, reason to believe in

curso.

East, was sold to a New York with a Jinot."

it is 'n defcace against another had n gradients with But It seems

siy question, "What are you Queen

and was that the doing for Chrismas that the curse-

asked reason why she couldn't bear over and over again..by half the sight of him?

people

about the

hys middle optember until terical family abandoned the December 23.

At once my

childish curiosity was fired. How could adla- mondbe dreadful? How could the pretty girl with the strange. : sur-;- name and the funny trou- sers be a "poor thing" when she had married

Duke? I re-

al-

If curse there bé '--la llebio to-be Just as dangor- ous to those who merely wear the

2. gentis 10", the

actual owner. The late Duke married May Yohein 1894

when he WAK Lord

Francia

CHARLES ASKS FOR A BIKE

AND CHOOSES IT

By Elizabeth Few

RINCE CHARLES quickly over the carpeted floor. Hope, and shr PRINCE

The very

on

Uracs bo.ford to Father Christmas in the that he put his hand

the saddle, *Toys in the they were Palace of

vidavereed: in: 1902).

It was even wald Knightsbridge store where Said Father Christmas that she wore it Royalty does ita festive see I will have to maki

note of this.“ special on the stage, but shopping, shook him

Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. ing 14 chewing hours in-

fivo, hours, ro Following up his advan

Dro you, doing for found

the his

argument and lot Gubbin And if you ask, "Why half gobble his way to dyspepsia and crazy?" I will tell you.

*

Such people are suffering

obsession or anxiety

neurosis, which, as mlilians. of

comparativo obscurity.

Another story of that period

WAS

amateur paychiatrists know, is the little Gubbins never believed a mild form of

of lunacy.

tho one about... 'ferislo Some have on

an anxiety pourosts royalty having their faces paint- Many women are still scared of morning to make them look t about burglars, others about Ares, ed with pink dnamel kevery imaginary men under beds, and and fresh many mon

are sill scared of their health to

the

drine, the operation bore, and make enamel, go

the half doctor

who knowE

the

when Gubb

real women anywhere. The Again be wanted

know "most common obsesion is the the facts; who put the enamel anxioty, neurosis about health on and how did they ship it on the hypochon- at night with on hammer and which products solved there ·

what happened when the and then to Last owner but one--Mr E. this was denied. solemnly by the hand, and Then Princo Charles, walked

ing but his-and did the learn the MoLean Disaster befell May Yohe ran asked: "Do sleighs really fly the Palice of Toys ming the cure for everything but his

away from ber

ting with othur: boys and girls own; maduoen, story of the herbsband, son and daughter, husband to life through the air? And if who had arrived in the early Although these obsessions

ob crack when

сал aguin the family Hope Diamond and I have of desperate unhappiness Bhd they do, how?"

to miss the shopping no doubt be traced to their the tireless Invest

origins zest, doctors, what been reading it chapter by lost her friends, saw her hotel The red-robed figure with chapter ever sinces

burned to the ground

with

Zhy do the centuries, since -it. Early in Shia-

when ing nylon beard he la cuddly wastolen front by sources putation of the diamond commissiomaire gave a suines day he w was stolen from the eye of an the Duke zold it, this sidster we really Melhuloh, the sayBurma (He) temple, the alarmingly as the "curve", "peditty "Diamand of Death". Has passed-began to swing into action. He from hand to hand, leaving sold 15 toll New York JeweWG trail of death and misfortum in whoan frim promptly

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