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HE man on the telephone was persistent

in asking for an interview

on some

unspecified business which could only

be discussed in person. At last Edward Commander Leake Commander Whaney Billyard Leake, RN, retired--decided to see what he wanted.

In Commander Leake's house in Lowndes Square the man, who was named Moffat, lost no time in coming to the point. À suggestion had been made that Commander Leake should be represented in the Honours List and Moffat had come to see if he was interested..

No doubt Commander, Leake was interest- ed. He was certainly surprised. Where had this suggestion come from?.

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For answer. Moffat showed him a paper called the Whitehall Gazette, printed in large type on thick paper. There were eminent names among the contributors, but it was one name in particular that Moffat pointed out: "J. Maundy Gregory."

Commander Lease admitted he had never heard

that

Maundy Gregory.

of

"You must meet him," Moffat said. "He is the man who is going to do this thing for you." Maundy Gregory received Commander Leake in the offices of the Whitehall Gazette, which he

plump, edited. He was

bland, beaming man with an air of good living. His office w695

full of signed royal portraits.

Delicacy

HERE were

TH

telephones.

whole

ΤΟΥ of

them, and indi-

cators

that

buzzed or flashed with

coloured

lights. There was a special exit door, bolted and padded. From

this office, Maundy

Gregory

often explained to friends. (while

gold

offered -them

a

he

cigaretie from

case inscribed to him by the King of Greece) he conducted a world-wide campaign against Bolshevism.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1955.

MR. MR. GREGORY

-he has

titles in

his pocket'

MAUNDY GREGORY

"Detained at the Palace,"

... but did he really hold the key that would (for £12,000) open the door to inclusion in the Honours List 2 ... and what caused the death of Edith Rosse. who died worth £20,000 and was burled in a shallow grave 2 ..these were mysteries left unsolved by J. Maundy Gregory..

THE GREAT

GAMBLERS

force bebind this

mystery was a 'woman Edith Marion Rosse, Rosse had been at wardian musical comedy under the name of Vivienne Pierpont. She

beautiful and ambitious.

was

I

William Hickey

WENT

DUSK WITH THE AGA KHAN AMID THE CAMELLIAS

to see Aga Khan in evening. It was

as we swept up the

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Nice, France in carriages drawn by haters." "For example,"

went on, "you have just been the smart horses.

And then be, the product of selling me about your years the dusk Privilege and of that Victorian prisoner in Germany. But you and realise it is necessary to get ort Age, suddenly changed drive miket, of the modern Welfare with the Germans. You see, you

States.

of his Villa Yakymour on

"There is one country where " the hills above Cannes. The

where there is no poverty, bushes of red camellias everyone has work, where

were all in flower.

a

everyone is looked after.

as

said,

are all bad, haters.".""

Over Canasta

The Ags went on talking. Be I thought he Was going to was in an extraordinary mood... The glass door of the house was opened and I pay us a compliment. But it He ranged the world.

wasn't for us. That courstry He talked of Prince Phi found myself. in hall is Sweden, he said. He saw whom he entertained furnished with deep settees me look up with certain Yakymour for dinner and lunch

amount of surprise and added, the other day. and a painting of the Aga "But then, they were not in

"Well you see," said the Aga Khan done by an artist either of the two wars.

"It was almost a refuge for him. of called Donger.

And then from war he began here. When he dined at the naved

and will it was quite fantastic. We It shows the leader of the to discuss the atom bomb Edith

He spoke Ismaili sect, now 77, as he was international

O were almost barricaded in with Ed-

"Indian S ∙10, or 20, or maybe 80 years of

palice to avoid where cannot

the photo- star

ago-the wise, face, the big course," are

be a real

To be graphers." glasses, and a flowing turban.

The Aga explained that to I was shown through another neutral at this time is to be

on help make the evening for there was the the side of Russia and Chins." glass door, and

He talked of Nehru, describ- Prince Philip he had had a few guests in and arranged bridge She occupied the top part of Aga Khan, sitting in a big arm-

"one of the great chair

ing him He was covered, with a

and Canasta parties for after 'of Maundy Gregory's

this century. house in green rug His sticks were by characters

from a Moslem leader the meal. Hyde Park Terrace, and acted his side. He looks well-indeed Which as hostess at the dinner parties he told me that he feels very about a Hinds leader was quite he gave for Royalist exiles and

a remarkable judgment. well. But his toess of the Government officials, It was she who suggested that Maundy winter has left its mark

There was a parrot chattering Gregory should use a coat of

him. To one arms with the motto "Vigilate." and that he should use -a

camellias. There were pedestals of their bejewelled magal have met royalty. I think he is private taxi Instead of a car.

and ornaments, but the room ficence. "The trouble was, that doing a great work in bringing because a taxi passed unnoticed.

gave you an impression of sim- they had lost confidence in their these more or less middle-class The aura of mystery in whichplicity-rich simplicity.

own capacity to rule. For 30 people into contact with the wall The whole of the outside Gregory account to keep the Maundy

cnveloped.

years or more they bad relied Royal Family" Beyond was a of glass.

on the British. When the British himself ("I have been detained was

terrace with more flowers and on Buckingham Palace

left they no longer had the urgent "business" he would say carefully trimmed hedges; a lef

capacity to rule" arriving when

late for fountain; and then the surBut," I asked the Aga, a The parrot banged again in

It luncheon) was largely af

little upset, "I think the British his cage almost my as if it rule devising.

in India was a great was a prince of birds who did think it not hike all this middle-cipes Do you experience.

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They discussed £2,000 on the

prices of pot boiling?" honours and. Maundy Gregory

things Leake thought

things for some time.

A

at

over

:

to

sald he bad again and went to the police. arranged these On February 7, 1933, James of Maundy Gregory, editor, Hyde Park Terrace, was charged obtain a to attempting further with

inducement luncheon was ar. bribe as

the grant or a knight- ranged, and to procure dispel any dis hood. trust Leake might foci Maundy Gregory

said that he need not pay all the money now. A deposit would do.

He also apparently played a part in settling the Honours List. He said that some of the necessary to open certain closed

"authorities in highest

the doors. Money would be needed; £10,000 might do it. but country were anxious that Leake

Leake thought things over, knighthood. £12,000 would make it easier. should accept- 2

List

rang up Maundy Gregory and Year Honours The New

Lenke promised to think it said that he had decided to turn. was full, but next June could

A couple of days later he down the offer. Maundy over. lunched with Maundy Gregory Gregory said that this was very at the Carlton Hotel, and asked

The whole thing- regrettable. hast for some proof that his could do what he claimed, Some was almost settled... It seemed well-known names were men a pity to let it go."

Commander Leake tioned in a familiar way.

easily be managed.

Leake

was puzzled

Could

this be an aftermath of his war

services? he wondered.

Maundy Gregory agreed. Then he broached de licate matter. It would be

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Hushed up

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He talked about the Prince's part is British life...

"If you study the Court. Circulars care fully," he said, you will and that you go to a lot of societies. inits cage beting of red zaid, as it reading my thoughts the old days, you would not

dinners, and so on, where, side was a great

her

fell away down to Cannes. is a most spectacular view.

was

'Bad haters

The Indian princes?". he

The light fades

The lights go on Their relationship

all a mistake? 1 have a stuff. And as the 'Aga' talked the was

The room was so dark by now obscure but she called him

Uncle Jim and he was plainly lights went on in the bay and, feeling that we did a lot of

that I could scarcely make out as well as all the other things," devoted to her. When she died in turned the whole scene into September 1932- the death mass of golden points of light

over his chest. "It few feet away. He staldenly remarkable era.'" And looked very tired. I made

a

certificate showed the causes to that glittered like jewels in the his ha yes," the replied, folding the features of the Aga Khan a then he thought for a minute 20m glad to have seen him.

а

be cerebral haemorrhage and treasure house of an Indian was

had her prince. Bright's disease-he

In his soft, charming voice he and came out with what was buried where she wished, in the

past that was to me obviously long-considered Maybe the sunset through the little Berkshire cemetery of talked of

"You English glass doors was not up to bis

standards. Bisham, by the Thames. Her almost an affair of the history judgment

But certainly the books... Queen Victoria, and are bad baters."

memorable was will was simple.

He savoured the phrase and Aga Khan. her generation driving about

Elve bad sight. nothing very

down. here in the South of repeated it, dramatic about

THERE

"Everything I have, if any thing happens to me, to be left the evidence in to Mr J. Maudy Gregory, to be the Honours

disposed of as he thinks best." You Her fortune amounted to some

£20,000.

Case, as it was called

might almost

thak say was bushed up.

Certainly Could not there was a seandal

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Suddenly an order was made Maundy for the exhumation of her body Gregory changed his plea from because there was reasonable "Not Guilty" to "Guilty” and ground to suspect that Edith was sentenced to a fine of £50 Marion Rosse had died

and two months' imprisonment, unnatural death."

The police mentioned a number

of other complaints against him,

but Ma

evidence was

about them.

KIVER

three years. This state-

Problems

an

some

a was

HE MADE HIS FORTUNE

TH

FROM WOMEN'S CURLS

י'

By J. W. TAYLOR

а

HIS

year is the golden locks were to discover should opened "special salong,"

they be rash enough to turn In America, the Nessler genius of the jubilee

per their backs on this young adept transformed a luxury trade of manent wave treatment at the secret ship. He soon less than 3,000 salons in the first NIR Bernard

without which most women realised that to find the secret of decade of this century Into the To a question in Parliament

Spilsbury asking whether these other cases

feel they are not well the permanent wave he would present billion dollars a year and Dr Roche

have to do more than merely in and beauty parlours, some Industry, with 127,000 hairdress- were being investigated a sooth-

This process, Lynch conducted groomed.

gaze at flaxen tresses. ing reply was given. It seemed

100 the

more end On his savings, Charles went employing investiga which developed into a £250 that the evidence Was in-

Arst as a barber's assistants, coping with over 187 They million industry in Britain, to London, tion sufficient, and in any case the

found

million customers annually. The

in Britain is similar. complaints covered a period of thing extraordinary. The body was invented by Charles lather boy, then owner of only

This.. to fame and the "great tidal wave, hot or making false eyelashes. ment was disproved by a letter had been buried in a shadow Nessler, a barber's lather small salon where he took tonally the man who released

ground lev

Level This Shave

was curls. endure. It made fortune, for soon over 10,000 cold, became a millionaire: The ir. 1928, produced in a law very

centre river

become the "perm for him a fortune in the pairs of eyes a month were seen frequently

overflowed.

of piece of a ritual in every salon Auttering above the consequence the body had been world's beauty industry, designing" Edwardian ladies large or small, in city, town and women sub- "The strike has butted in and immersed in water since it was which he eventually all but wearing Charles's long eye village, in which caused the entire side-track of buried. The

pathologists could

mitted to anything from face our collection of names, which find no trace of poison, but they lost in his unceasing quest lashes.

massages, manicures, pedicures were otherwise fully approved added that in the conditions to for new methods to keep the

and eyebrow designing to "body- of," he wroże.

which the body had been sub female younger and more

contouring and complicated poisons might beautiful. Jected certain

He became the owner of

"Tarials" But this letter was passed have decomposed.

When he died three years ago alone In Britain

two prosperous Mayfair salon, where They were able to state one serving his sentence Maundy thing positively, Edith Marion million women make their he continued his quest into the at his luxury New Jersey home, major mystery. Finally ha Charles's fortune had seriously. Gregory went abroad.

It was Rosse, had not died of cerebral customary visit to the hair soaked some hair in an alkali dwindled because of his never understood that friends were haemorrhage or Bright's dis dressers

vise.

-over in well-bred silence. Alter

a Dew

next

an

the

.......

which

DO

was ants

BIRTH PANGS

fans

had

were

ANOTHER BOOM

This booming industry was #hame

I or Charles's solution and heated it in a curler ending quest for methods and contributing to his support ease. It was also stated Several law suits against his evidence that at the time of "perm, hot or cold." They and let it stay for a month or gadgets to keep the female form for return of nioney veru Mrs Rosse's death. Maundy have made it one of the two. The hair remained curled and face young and beautiful.

and thus, on a summer's day in Many of his ventures Society

been devout Gregory had

in acuze abandoned.

country's richest industries, 1904, the "permanent wave costly failures. ly

that

With hoped

it had financial difficulties: beard the last of Maundy poison found in the body, how with some 300,000 assist arrived

There were, of course, a few working in 4,800 open verdict Gregory. Within weeks on, bis ever, departure abroad, however, his nevitable.

salons handling an annual birth pangs. Brave souls who Maundy

died Gregory pame was involved in

turnover of

about £250 Suzered the early treatment ex- once threatened... six years ago

when a new-fangled perienced several hours of dis- and darker scandal

France during the war, leaving

for "cutting, comfort; it was costly; it re perm, backed by a gigantic ad- two problems unsolved. Did he million

vertising campaign, flooded the in fact procure bonours, or did washing, setting and trim- quired much work, skill and

Nessier himself had ne merely take the money and ming the feminine tresses. patience, and it was not always markets.

so permanent, as Charles had patented one in his London then fall to deliver the gooday

hoped.

Edwardian days, but had re Edith Marion Roese And was

RAW MATERIAL really poisoned?

It was, however, better that frained from marketing ded the If so,

Marcel's temporary Monsieur

Eventually, however, paisón method by which the.

When at mealtimes in his waving. Moreover, it brought to the boost to the "perm

trade in a'

of a

mother

Ambitious

ITTLE

was

of escaped detection is one of the I known moet ingenious

Greg criminal history.

Maundy

Oxy's

back-

Some

bis

'said" that he was the son others that vicar,

lived in an. alms- house and that his name was derived from her receipt. of Maundy money?

What his friends knew for certain was that the driving

in

recent

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NEXT SATURDAY: The Impossible, said the telegram, had been achieved: but the name, at the end was not the one that had been expected-and so the questions began,

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home in a Black Forest village women the world over the most

in Germany his mother told him: "coveted beauty aid on the ing "Eat on

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for the millions who had made

hair won't curl," young Charles heated tongs in the fire or above a mess of their own efforts. did not believe her, for he had

a parafin stove.

Then the trade confidently starte on Nessler improved long developed a curiosity which

as provided ed "cold" perma, became an obsession-how did system, took out patents, and the by the home kits, and caused

fame of his treatment spread another boomsp the hair curl?

These millions of beauty

Continual examination of the around the world. Millions of raw material was necessary for women left the privacy of their salons, large and small, are a Charles to be able to solve the bedrooms and boudoirs to take fitting monument to the former village on beauty culture and hair barber's boy who never lost his problem, as those maidens with the long, curling waving treatment In the newly enthusiasm to please women.

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