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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1955.

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MORNING, HARRY-PAID YOUR UNION SUBS LATELY?"

LADY MDONS A SWIMSUIT

FILES

-(London Express Service)

THE YOUNG HOSTESS

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London,

ADY EDEN, who is 35 this month, is. the. youngest Prime Minister's wife Britain has seen century. She is also the least conventional,

NUMBER TEN

By AMANDA MARSHALL

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She had her portrait painted--not by Fashionable big name, but by a

young artist, John Ward, with a

at the

Then she moved to Weidenfeld and Nicolson, sensitive and truthful line. She this Oxford, where she studied where she joined the edi- even danced recently

philosophy under the volu- torial staff of the magazine Royal College of Art ball ble, brilliant Isaiah Berlin, a Contact. She still managed. And at the beginning of this New College don. who was to make her words overlap. year she was looking for "an one of Churchill's advisers

old-fashioned paricar-maid" to

For has any other Prime Minister's wife worked for

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during the war, an authority She lived in a sixth- do her husband's valeting a fashion magazine? Or as on music and Russian litera floor flat off Baker Street, well, their only other permanent a publicist for film Or fare as well as philosophy, with a thatched cottage staff consisting of a cook kept her jewellery in a and the only great Oxford at Broadchalke, Salisbury Her orchid-pink wedding- margarine box under the conversationalist to hold his near Beaton's country dress was made by her sink?

house. A modest, unpre- private dressmakor, not by a tentious sort of life. She big couturier and that remained .an unexpected indicative of her whole nature.. figure in journalism — a

Clarissa Spencer Church ill is the daughter of Major John Spencer Churchill, Sir Winston's only brother. He. was a soldier who served with distinction in the

own with equanimity against Lord David Cecil.·

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seems

tall, reserved, immaculate. She is young to be the wife of a Prime Minister. She is also looking girl with а taste This was not a typical, for simple lines in clothes, forces her youth and compara- a Churchill a fact which rein-

out of South African and the Great specialised, academic univer- very little jewellery, a deep, tive inexperience all

It sity education.

War. Her mother, who died liberal, self-choser,

was

drawling voice, pale, general- recognition. inde- ly unhatted, little make-up, She has a directness, a calm in 1941, was Lady Gwende- pendent, civilised, and en- and wide, slightly mystic simplicity about her that spells line Bertie, daughter of the lightening.

7th Earl of Abingdon, 2

eyes, that she used to em- strength and purpose. charming, cultivated woman, During the war she took phasise very slightly with; two faint smudges of one of the beauties of her an independent outlook into day, who loved and studied a decoding job at the light blue shadow at the the arts and counted among Foreign Office and also work. temples. her friends the unquench- ed at the Ministry of able Lady Oxford.

Information, where

The quiet of her life was she

disturbed by wrote articles for a war- never much

But twice shel Of Clarissa's

publicity. two elder time English newspaper brothers, "one studied civil produced in Russia.

did appear in the papers. Once when she lost a fur engineering at Cambridge,

After the war she took a coat to a New Year's Eve

John Churchill-WES

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and gives a new twist to Shakespeare the other a second Major

a Macbeth co the things she made artist before the war.

him do, must have had some-

"M

ACBETH is by

in maniacal state,

по

could make "A girl who

thing. You know, they had sexDEBUTANTE

said the executive producer in those days, too."

of Film Locations, Ltd., "he shoots his wife with

ém.

em-

job as features editor and party burglar; and once critic of the arts for Vogue. when decorators in her flat She went to theatres, cine- took some jewellery which mas, operas, and art they apparently believed galleries. She bridged the to have been worthless,! Miss Roman has not

gap between society and the since, in the best traditions barked upon this role without due thought. She has come to

Not content to follow the arts, which is so perilous of English eccentricity, she machine-gun thinking she is the conclusion that what Lady more usual patterns of the and difficult to spar success seemed to have been keeping Lenny. Get it? It's an Macbeth needed was a good English aristocracy, the fully-a feat accomplished it in the margarine box ironical ending."

I'm playing," said Churchills, like the Cecils, by such prodigous wire- under the sink,

walkers as Lucian Freud nan, "was probably a seem to insist that art-and- second rate singer went education should keep break. and Miss Churchill's

who

friend, Cecil Beaton. Machine-gun Macbeth is the from one man to another until ing in.. 1955 version: of the Scottish she landed the Top Man. I tyrant. the New York, underworld in a poor

Shakespeare never thought of

that.

But executive producer

Mike Frankovich did

Miss

st,

Roman,

He is the kingpin of should think she came from a In the uneasy, ominously UNEXPECTED

home

wanted and she

film called "Joe Macbeth" now power so she could hurt those halcyon days of 1938, Miss

being made in England

people who had hurt her.

Clarissa Churchill began to social-and- figure in the

close

EVICTORY

In her more recent Hie of big dinners receptions diplomatic and international occasions, she has impressed by her memory Her life in high-toned, for names, her social ense, and You may be disappointed to hear (or again you may

not)

"See, I know a bit about fashion magazines as one of expensive Bohemia took her her evident victory over what that machine-gun Macbeth and bis came have not been booked psychology. You have to in my the year's most interesting into Korda's film kingdom. many people felt might, be a for St Sir Laurence.

Stratford-on-Avon to altern profession to

what debutantes. She was intelli- She worked as a publicist major difficulty for her-her ness. Her world has expanded ate with

Olivier makes people tick. I played agent and good-looking. At for "The Fallen Idol" and natural and very genuine shy- and his Lady, who will be depressive amnesiac case in

elegant American a London fat to Number 10 the more usual version at TV show not long ago. I got to this time, her photographs "Anna Karenina," together gigantically from a cottage and the Memorial Theatre there.. understand about such things." show a serious, unsmiling with an

Miss Penelope and Chequers. She fulfilled her I said: "Lady Macbeth is such blonde giri, still a little girl and

public duties gracefully-at

doing

I am sorry. Ruth

Roman's Lily Macbeth, sleep walking in a nylon negligee, might have given Stratford

un-Shakespearean most

tople say in her favour, of discussion:

a

know

Miss Roman,

"Is that necessarily

in

in her

an ogre that I can't say I would plump and without the lobk Lloyd-Thomas, Lady Diana conferences, horticultural shows find her very appealing even a bikini. What can you find to of fine-drawn elegance she Cooper's personal secretary and ship launchings, as well as has now, but already grace. The three elegant young at embassy gals occasions. Now

were she has ́éven bigger commit "She was woman," said ful and poised and given to publicity women

simple, classically draped known in the film world as ments,

As the wife of the Foreign evening dresses (it is some- the The Three Graces. Miss Roman is a Hollywood favour?" star who is more elaquent in a * and she loved Macbeth how impossible to imagine

Legend says that she once Secretary, some of the pattern swimsuit than a colloquy. In and I'

I have got a sympathetic her ever in frills and white infuriated Orson Welles by of her old life still remained. arrived at Nettle face on the screen and now you fact, when I fold stidios, she was about to really must excuse me while. I tulle); change into one.

Miss

Homan's

go and change into my.... swim-

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calmly reading a newspaper. She still managed to get to the on the sidelines of the set theatre. She used her early 'g husky voice suit."

asked executive producer But here she began to de- Churchill, was said to have the advised

She liked golf and tennis, during a difficult scene Miss mowledge in a practical way bad was even buskler; she

os and, watched caught cold playing scenes in Frankovich whether he had any her nightdress But..

But she

was ideas for bringing other Shake-viate interestingly from the been genuinely astonished over the decoration of Lancas not complainingy.

to daferri traditional debutante rou- by his reaction, The world ster House and the workmen sepsis Spartan plays up Tmore of thes

of those actresses,* « "Oh, yes, he said we're tine. She took drawing of film publicity was prob remarked that she knew what the said who believe that you thinking about doing in classes at the Blade three ably never exactly right for he wanted and never raised have to

some of your own Lear. And Julius Caesar persoriality to every part you make a wonderful. gangster days a week. She followed

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in fact sums her up as well as lish and Frened literatureThen came a spell of pub myShe continued to garden.

lishing with the form of She took to under-water swim -THOMAS WISEMAN at London University.

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