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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1955.

The ITALIANS know how to look at a girl

T

but an ENGLISHMAN only peeps

by ANNE SHARPLEY

The

Women will go on wearing "just for clothes (Just for the office. Just for the house) for as long as they think no one will look at them.

Consolation

HERE is no doubt headquarters AS & Axture in Those bowler-hatteki young in my mind why even the smallest Halian towns, men I saw in the Tube might Italian

to look boldly 'at

But if they know they'ro girls look, and every other shop seems to learn

the sell materials and pattern luscious girl (not me) opposite going to run the gauntlet of a dress and move books.

them instead of all lifting the low stores, watch them, unap better than us, It's the And while she la

swanking papers to their faces and poop- val of itl Italian men.

let me reaSMÅTE They look at und the town in her new ing over the top,

Clentlemen, (Ludicrous dress Ohe Italian the girls. And while it's the great care not to get it creased. an Italian in Lis of laughter.)

girl takes spectacle this that would have you Looking at a girl is not going to be interpreted as an sort of look that is liable to If she rides her bicycle into

Invitation to abscond. raise two corresponding town the skirt of her dress is The curious thing is that the the mudguard of English used to have this tradi- spots of damp on an English spread over

her back wheel (a curiously blon of promenading and look- girl's skin the Italian girls medieval effect this) so that the ing at one another if Restora- seem to like it.

skirt should not be crushed. tion comedica old prints and Every evening in the olive

mudguard, needless Bay, other indications are to be dusk of Italian towns the girls as protective stringing so that believed. The last traces of it parade to be looked at. Back- a girl doesn't find herself spin are to be found at the seaside wards and forwards they go. ning round her own back wheel, when tans are cooled in the

And if she decides the streets and across a care

to sit in evening through

and, rather self the piazzas in their crisp, clow-

The still doesn't crease consciously at Easter, suppose, ing dresses, strutting a little her dress. She dexterously perhaps as they get the "You whisks the skirt away from have rooted me to the spot under her just as she is sitting look or the leng, following stare down. Takes practice this if it of the Italian young men. Is to be done with modesty and

"Fare bella gura" (making efficiency.

fine figure) and parading round the town is so establish- ed a part of Hallam life that in towns like Perugia the main street is closed to trafße in the evening while the citizens dis- play themselves.

And the way it pays off in dress sense and deportment we could certainly introduce u Hotle promenading here,

Vain ?

of

Of coumC I am some of the reasons for the 1 convention of promerading. There is no other way for girls and young men to mix. And since they are not allowed 10 speak to one another b girl No wonder the Italian girls hardly has the opportunity to walk like queens and dress impress a young man with her bwith provocative 'simplicity wit. Everything depends ga

when the looks they get maks appearance.

the trouble worthwhile.

No wrinkles they nre elsewhere. English

No wonder they

Furthermore, clothes are not the same indication of class as

girls dress according to their not dress in means. For Italians it is colours that have a bright, round enlly everything they have on extravagance to spend praoli- "ring" to them. True bright blues, reds and greens. Nothing clothes. wishy-washy off-beam, muddy One may argue that it is all or neid. In the subtle dusk light

Vain and absurdly for in the full binze of the sun strict to have young

these colours have a radiance walking about loolting ot

people that to terrific. And they com- another but forbidden to spealt.

bine them boldly.

for

One girl I saw was wearing n deep lilac sweater to a brilliant red skirt, if you can imaginy it. (Don't try this yourself unless you have the spot-on cyc colour she had). 'taboo" combination of bright pinic and bright red is frequent ly seen, but done in the only

these Way matched.

colourH Kati

the

extremely

OnC

Or slightly pointless when one

could be watching TV.

We're still intensely agious about one another even only takes the form of peering through not curtains or looking into the TV box. So why not let's get out into the open and have a really good look at one another. Perhaps even talk to one another, too,

She simply thinks happily, "I must be looking nice today." Which increases her resolution to look nico tomorrow, too.

So why not start using your

Just

the watch eyes-and spenery impoval

Consolation footnote: Italian girls are wonderful, but Italian men, in my view, are another matter. The first atractive man I saw in Italy was the tall, blond English pilot of the air- plane that brought me back, He just gave me the olde Englishe sideways took. Heigh-hol

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THE MURDER OF THE

CAFE SOCIETY

SOCIETY ROMEO REMAINS A MYSTERY

New York.

By RICHARD KILIAN

his ourly, black-haired

fread.

lif

But he always won.

And slowly his private came into the open through the childhood fawsuits.

OR eight months New York police have been desperately trying to Rubinstein's death-like most Starting with his solve the baffling murder of of his flamboyant I was fight from the Bolsheviks The police are not ignoring spuid terrorising St Petersburg, his the tangled love life of the Hilla international financier and more than most writers

hope to create, Picture that one underwear padded with roubles map with the big Napoleon cafe society Romeo, Serge ocene of the typically British and a huge sapphire strung complex. He favoured unknown butter, William Morter of Nor- around his neck, Rubinstal's models, aspiring actresses, night wich, carrying the usual break- life had been centred on mak- club hat-check girls, waitresses, And now a $25,000 re- fast tray through the ornate ing lots of money-and spend- sales girls, Any girl, in fach ward has been offered by door of the third-floor suite ng ii.

who had good looks, youth and was taller than he was. the 46-year-old Cambridge Rubinstein used in the treasure- graduate's mother,

Stella, strewn Fifth Avenue mansion.

Rubinstein.

But oh, for just a little of if The self-awareness that makes women look their loveliest. The terested fascination of a people so in for information leading to

in one another their favourite pastime is look-the arrest of the killer. ing at people, The competition

that

An Italian girl knows that ir standing crowd and still not to

resort to a mink biltini she is to get "the look" she

must show extreme care about the fit of a dress,

As miss production with its has not hit them

mass errors

Ludicrous

the disarray.

His eyes notice Then he sees the ghastly sight of his pudgy master lying face

ware on January 27, the day is yet to come. Rubinstein died.

saga which

PRETTY GIRLS

The New York police have found it almost impossible to separate the follon trom the startling fact as they have dug in their search for a clue. be to be outstanding in an out- One thing is certain; the down on the thick wall-to-wall

no closer to carpot. That was the climax of in Europe

His shady business life, feat and then in tho police are

the Rubinstein finding the murderer- or stretched acres many

The police have been ques- de- United States, has been contin

OF his motive-now than they ents and many people. The end scribed as "one of swindles and ioning, an endless strenin

pretty girls who at one timno treacheries," It is here the icnow Rubinstein.

He lavished police are searching the hard drinkos ned gifts in phish cate society hangouts on thong girls, The police are still assuming

Paris Rubinstein's gift for and usually ended up By band- the murderer was one of the

where money ing them a laich kry bo of people did not exist arst

the countless thousands

showed up. Fifth Avenue mansion. Rubinstein seemed to delight in The precocious youth of 23, who bruising or crushing completely

Anywhere up to 10 girls Cambridge

might have had keys bo in his cut-throat march towards had graduated at

the with high hampurs, was man” wealth and power. Robbery has ager of a bank which

Lock. Then one day handled Seme been ruled out because

Rubinstein would change the the Chinese affairs. murderer Joft 4 fortune in

dock and recruit a new beam. priceless paintings and silver.

After his release from

the Federal prison, where he served a two-year sentence for evading military service, Rubinstein showed up at a White Russian New Year's Eve ball in Now York with no less than seven

CEREMONITORULUISrem

GHASTLY SIGHT

KOUKUTTEREDUCEUTICO

What about it you shy, sanious yet most of their clothes

are or superior young Englishmen? home-made, The resulle are You don't do

for our enough usually simple and extremely egos. Take a little more interest woll - Alting. No wrinkles, and in no time at all you'll find dropped hems and baggy waiste.

us scrapping those chim print The suwing-machine shop frocks with the

apologetic ft- ranks alongside the post office, tin We might even learn

ting.

To church and Communist Party walk attractively if we thought Ore detective, who asked for you were really looking and his name not to be mentioned, not just shooting sideways said: The poor guys on that glances with

goodness-1-case are still working their way The police are convinced 話 hope she doesn't think through a list of possible was 'n revenge murder. But it I'm looking at her" ner-suspects. They must only have may have been done by a paid

labout ten thousand left."

killer. They are probably right,

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By RALPH HEWINS

money

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MILLION DOLLARS

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Discovering that a series old defaulted bonds should have

xd

Even the harshly pretty girls, names filf three thick

been repaid at that time, Rubin we in Rubinstein's, study,

| sfein, bought

up one milkom dollora' worth for $25,000. The have not been able to clear away'

when the Chinese Government the mystery. forwarded to the bank a million Mrs Stelin Rubinstein, Serge's dollars to pay the Interest on 72-year-old mother, who still a totally different serico of lives at 814 Firth Avenue said:

Rubinstein promptly I still don't know how paid himself the whole ampunt outsider managed to get into the for the worthless stock,

house. But the police ure doing It was for dealings 1e thin the best they can."

Llabon, countants, lawyers, and off com- And tax gatherers of each colossal fortune, panies have not yet found out country are staking their claims he gained himself the dublous THEstimated at tens of really worth.

within millions what he was.

14

millions of pounds, left by

So much Mr Five Porcent-oil king fortune was somewhat less than Calouste Gulbenkian, who £300 million. died in Portugal last July- may be whittled down to a very "ordinary" fortune.

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TOTAL MYSTERY -

Nor is it known what charit-reputation "the boy wizard of able organisations Gulbenkian international finance" known his Intended to endow. Sa far law- In 1936 Pierre Lavač's govern- yers have only outlined statutes ment asked Rubinstein to leave for the foundation. And there because of shady financial peac- Is no certainty that the draft is ticus. But Serge, alwyn boast-

The five-storey house,

with workable.

hd, always smilling in face of eight main bedrooms, ten se trouble, said Level had him vants' rooms, eight baths hand Furthermore, it is not yet deported for advances to two lifts, plus the keys given known whether the family will Marquise whom Lavel himself to the girls, offered many means accept the will.

favoured.

of entrance.

And 'ho made every possible provision to avoid death duties, notably by leaving the bulk his money to a now international That was the fear after charitable foundation in Por the first meeting of his tugal where mich bequests are trustees in Lisbon.

not taxed.

Lawyers' fees, taxation, and family disputes may eat

up

this greatest private fortune of all time.

And

Much more is not known

Rubinstein arrived in the It stipulates that anybody dis- United States in 1938 on puting the will forfeits any in- Portuguese passport lie

Nowy there are no more time mongo parties for 500, persona,

chook-full of celebrities, in the

minston

The costumes of Napoleon and the paintings and statueS may still Serge's ornate beds

heritance and will also have to bought for $2,000 in Shanghal, return any money received in and with a pocketful of cash the past from Mr Five Percent. taken out of a British firm Whether such a clause is valid which owned gold mines in in international law is doubtful. Konda.

room. But it is silent. there- As It la not agreed whether he although English courts have Taking over 17 United States silent de his life was noday and In just a way that Mr. Five was domiciled in Portugal where uphelt much" provisions.

corporations quickly, ha con colourful And it seems in char Percent sought to avoid at he lived his last 14 years, or Sa Mr Five Percent's four tinued makli z enemies as he sober that Rubinstein's death be the and of his 86 years. England where he was a nearest relatives may still fight strede roughshod through Wall shrouded in total mystery

naturalised British citizen, or in the will. They had a meeting Street. His name became known was most of his life. Two months' work by the Turkey," whore he was born and about it in Lisbon recently but all over the world As-Zawsult world's leading bankers, ae- his property.

after lawsuit come down on meda no decision.

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