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Wid Corynahi by arrangement with the Manchester Quardian

"I Never Said It,

Was Curzon Born 100 Years Late?

L

He became one of the great 'characters' of English politics. Was it because, in a strange way, he was a throwback to the 18th or early 19th century?

By Robert Blake

annually

stored vast

of

jam

and

Lady

ORD CURZON died are important factors, but it is were

to suppose that the quantities only 80 years ago. Yet a fallacy the world in which he British aristocracy has suddenly marmalade.

declined into poverty. and lived,

which his

Some of its members are still American-born widow, the

fabulously rich, end those who second Lady Curzon, 90 rub their eyes at the spectacie vividly and felicitously of Curzon owning six immense describes," scem to us in houses, and lying in four of the sedate egalitarian 1950's them, thould not forget that at least one duke does the same as remote as the world of

today, Disraeli or of Charles James Fox.

What has caused this change? The orthodox replies are: Death duties, surtax, cervant-shortage, etc., etc.....No doubt all these

• Reminiscencee, by the Marchton- es Curton of Kedleston, Hutchin- Ron (214)

says BEN HECHT

HIS NAME WAS MUD

B

me

London

IN BRITAIN

Fid HECHT

EN

that he it.

never said

was

Mr Hecht

telling earnestly about the

which phrase

was attri- buted to him back in 1946, which caused furore all but over

fi

ever

By RENE MacCOLL

on

of

The consequent bun

Olms

Britain Hechts

In

had very tengible results, it seems,

In Hollywood they screamed with terror at the thought losing the British market as a result of me and what I'd said. the world

Agure I dropped 10 per- especially in Britain-and rent of my income for four or I had to five years in a row. which has

since

start writing for magazines."

I gazed at him in astonish- "But knowing that it was all wrong, that you were the object of scorn and hatred because of what the world thought you had

ast: 1.

time facing and all the this serious loss of income, why in the world didn't you speak out sooner?"

dogged his name as a brief phrase has rarely dogged ment.

any man's name.

when

For In 1943,

British troops in Palestine were baxuan- ing the almost daily victims of terrorism,

murder included Hecht was alleged to have rald that every

me he heard that another British coldler had been killed, "he lit a Bule fame of thenksgiving In his heart."

Overnight the former news- who broke into paper reporter the big money with his co- author hip ad the disc ws- paper play fout Chicas "The Prge," and who had fol- Front lowed it with a long string of ("Crime Without biz success Fiskn." "The Scoundrel.* "Nothing Sacred," and the screen version of Coward's "Design for Living") becanva a figure

habe.

Worn Out

to

NOW he has arrived in Eng-

1918.

land-for his first visit since

As we sat together on the sofs in the suite of that little hotel off Mount Streel, Mayfair, which Hollywood has made al- moet its cwn of late, Hecht +oseri that he wa worn out beatise he had not been able to sleep for the last two nights at

sca

Why not?

-

His lips mugged into a smile. He passed a hand over his thin

sirgely hair.

"Well, you sec, I don't believe in dentals. If thing's done.

it's done and you can deny it till you're blue in the face, and I 1 often doesn't help much. Rever wohi to correct people.

"But," I asked, "you are correcting now becaus

"Because now I'm in England, I don't mind trying to correct the record.”

Too Busy

The causes of change are less superficial a revolution in atti- tude and outlook, rather than in economic circumstances.

Runner-up

It is possible to Imagine some one living today (and reason- ably young) holding Curzon's Sublimoly haughty opinions, and enunciating them with vigour from on armchair In SBY, While's Club, It is not possible to imagine such a person as run- Iner-up to the greetest offic

which English public like can

offer.

the last

Curzon Is perhaps great politieal Squre who has Laken for granie1 on order of

ociety crumbling even in his day--which had prevailed with- out substantial change since the

181k century. He could thus afford to concentrate his formid-

Long after his death Curzon encountered a slightly macabro memenio of his care- ful forethought, when she dia- covered on an empty space in one of the shelves of the vault at postcard in her Kedleston husband's handwriting: "No. served for tho second Lady Curzon."

Curzon personalty engaged all servants down to the

very humblest, and his requirements were exacting, “fa—a fil domes- tis for employment in the house of a nobleman?" he is reputed to have inquired, and Lady Curzon describes iho searching inspection to which he sub- jected potential footmen.

Hid his trousers

Alas, all this trouble was semetimes ill-requited.

There was the sad care of one of Curzon's volets who, on being dismissed for dancing drunk with the guests on a gela night &t the Betu Rivage Hotel in by hiding Lausanne riposted

all Curzon's trousers.

One of Lady Curzon's maids was so callous as to contract an jilness on board ship, necessitat-

of intelligence from the human eble intellectual powers exclu- ing a serious operation, the cost beings of the world and its in-alvely upon impertal and foreign undation by politics."

of which to Curzon's damag

affairs (cat which even Sir proved not to be covered by any

Winston Churchill, despite every effort, could not entirely rival."

To the past

He feels strongly about TV. "I've done scripts for about 10 TV shows and 1 loathe the modium! You're writing for something which is unreal and present meaningless (but

Indeed, in many ways Curzon all-conquering) when you write appears as a throwback to the late 18th or early 19th century. "The

written word is being

KOMP strange menner ho crushed and rendered extinct.

seems to have bypassed the late Book publishers who receive Victorian era of the sift upper novels these days shudder from, public school relicence, so- head to foot, Nobody novels any more.

for TV.

things

"Only thing they'll books What,

to other W passed

Why had he never left life United States even once the 1014 war ended?

**Too

since

now

I've

busy. But done so at last I shall probably stay away for a year or so."

Hecht a pessimist about "nothing except politics and politicians. I love everything clse that men do.”

reada elal conscience, and propriety of

demeanour.

read is

about How

to Love When Curzon was frustrated How

to East Nothing he wept like a child. When he How to Get Up in the Morning, was triumphant, he frankly How to Learn to Laugh.

gloated. All his life he spoke in

"We're back with the tom-the orotund style of Chatham

toms again. In America huge or Burke, but he never lost a quantiles of people do nothing marked provincial accent, except ait staring at TV screens for hours and hours.

"Just look and listen, that's the motto. But never read. His next book will concern No, never read. It's too much self with "the disappearance trouble to read."

It's 20 years since Alfred married her... and they have never had an argument

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Mrs. Hitchcock

bans suspense

"H

by ANNE

SHARPLEY

ITCH, have we ever bowl stealing over a bowling of one another, the 13th and 14th August That makes us had an argument?" green.

"well, now, how do you really both Leo subjects." Hitch trundled

manage it?" I asked Mrs Hitch-

"I got so excited-thought I slowly into view and stood cock, the only wife of Mr Alfred They were married in 1920 at was young again, I guess.”

She was a Brompton Oratory. in the doorway, vast and Hitchcock. I might add, in But to the big question: "Why immovable as a Buddha in a

mar- Nottingham-born Alma Reville, Hollywood-world where rloge habits

he amount to poly

д London fish-merchant's whatever they

might son, and already a famous direc

tor. happen to get

Now the good companions on," she said simply. "We have

have two small houses, one

Northern

the sume interests, Blms, of Hollywood and the other

in

in

IL Mr Hecht? Doniche. "No," he said, lugu- gamy did you say you expect us to forgive you?"

Hecht turned to me gravely. briously, his pendulous lower call it.

lip dropping another inch. awe just "And it's been 29 years 28

the crow fllca."

course. But the secret is his

California - seven His wife

Ho temperament, chuckled, or per- wonderful hapo it was really a giggle..

has never changed over the bours' swift driving at 70 m.p.h. "We never argue because 1 years. Ho is

chauffeured by Mrs Hitchcock, wonderfully always give in," he said, or- placid. I am pineld, too." I "It's the equivalent of from I do it suming

wondering when Mr London to Glasgow, but Hitchcock's contribution

every week-end," she says,

They have no swimming pool. "Neither of us swita" and life is sinco very quiet.

His manter is charming. his voice low, almost difdent.

I actually Bald was this: "There are certain Jews, of whom I am one, who feel a

of excitement Kengo

and triumph whenever we read of Jewish victories in Palestine or when British forts and posts are 1oppled. That's what I said."

Felt Sorry

“DUT bow in the world

did

the stalement get BO

twisted?" I demanded.

"Because I was in hospital

the

grieved, beast-of- was

at the time I made it. I was doing some 'copy' for a 3,000- word advertisement for Irgun Zval Leum!" (the Jewish terrorist group). "I swear that no such phrase was in the 'copy' wrote, but-well; wa had some rebrands in our organisation and they must have

put it

burden air, moving across the Hecht sighed. His blue eyes threshold at last and giving mo looked weary. Ho crossed his a quick look.

looked soutfod..

was

going to be mentioned.)

Mutuat placidity. Is the formula, it scerns. No, more?

Certainly.

NO SURPRISE

daughter P

Each

Hitch returns

for a hooked meal (he

on a perpetual diet which his "We aways vicualise things wife shares: the results show exactly the same. When I seo boller in her figure than his), his alms they are no surprise Then he talks about the day's to me because we always inter- Alming-just to got it off his pret things the same way."

This is not simply because she has got to know his methods

chest."

SHARP BRAIN.

of working so well, sho plained, and to prove her point A pleasant, simpllied life, not the sort of thing one would added:

from a master uf expect I was a screen "You know writer when I met Hitch? Well,

suspense.

legs. His brown suede shoes Mrs. Hitchcock gurgled again. I wrote scripts for other direc But what a master of suspenso "It's my generosity of nature, tora beaddow him, and he was noeds most, it seems,. la a re-

the only one who "Interpreted as background, g continued He went on: "I've always felt my weet nature" sorry that the other side in Hitch, relying the wash of his the film in the way I visualised Alma Hitchcock combines a aur final struggle for indepen-white-spotics blue drossing it Now, when he is talking. Pekiness charm, sharp brain,

about a a film sidvy, I know. dence had to be the British. gown, that gave his corner of

automatically vinukliking what he le falding about in the

to and a determination never ruffe her lord a

{four-feet: "11" Inches Why; her even make him look tall what more could a fan makt lietot

"ght Incl Hitchyou be round back into

You were the first and only the room the look o of blizzard am high-alowe wnwong have ever at night the point in arguing, same way Lought

got excited at "It's not constructive, My, ada joga-Anything elsesk that time over the that that a vice, i don't waste your mergywell don't know whether IRC bunch of Jews had decided to on inconsequentiais, sive is for really balavay m Trek up off their konek dyme in the more perioda Palerting and fiatto di for maid rolling out of the road that are we both the

The gilttering rewards of honours and tilles gave him unconcealed pleasure."

"I send you a lot of news. paper cuttings about my sup- posed elevation to a Dukedom," he writes to Lady Curzon. "But I do not suppose there is any more truth in it than on pre-

vious occasions, After what does it matter?"

all,

But, as Lady Curzon observes later, he did not mean what he sald. "Everything mattered to George,"

ment.

Careful check

His attention to detail

cor- tainly bears out this judg

He invariably kept the most meticulous check On housekeeping accounts. Ho re-

of his insurance polices,

of

Lady Curzon ibrowa relatively little light upon her husband's political life, although some his letters printed toward tba value for anyone who wishes to end of the book will have their

chronicle the story of Baldwin's first Government in 1923,

of

Sho

She is more illuminating ONL their social life, which resembled that of Royalty rather than any private individual. makes a

a revealing remark when she describes how she

looked forward to the Lord Mayor's Banquet-one of the rare occa- sions in their busy lives when she and her husband actually sat next to each other at dinner.

Legendary man

But the real fascination of Lady Curzon's book lies in the Personally of Curzon.

However maddening, arrogant and tiresome he may have been at times, Curzon must go down to posterity as one of the great "characters" of English history.

Like the Duko Like

of Wellington, Sir Winston Churchill personalities whom he resembled in no other respect--he was one or those legendary figures about whom an endless number of stories have been, and will be told, some true, many apocryp- hal, but nearly all good.

With such a theme Lady Cur- zon could not be dull, and in fact she his written a fascinat-

guarly inspected the cupboards Ing, lively had most enjoyable

in which at his insistence there book.

"Cornflakes

taste so much better with brown sugar on, Mummy"

It makes all

the difference

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