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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE A, 1958,

IN RUSSIA NOW: NEW-LOOK TRIALS

The Story Of The Kopekless Bride

From

SYDNEY SMITH

Moscow.

MOSCOW grandmother, Citizeneas Valentini Tikhomtreva, fell before firing squad laat week for staging the "suicide" of her young daughter-in-law.

And the story of her trial-e story of bickering and intrigue, of attempted murder by pow- dered glass, of young love fucing -law was given prominence

the

Moscow Press. One paper called it "The Story of The Kopekless Bride."

in

The story of the kopekless bride in as sigineant as any-

thing that happening in New Look Rua

the

It means thal "social rentism” ja now reaching beyond the bounda of idyllic landscapey and front-page splashes about tractor production. It now ap- pears in the humanities to point a meral to the Russian people.

Now for the Case of the Kopekless Brido-as told by the police, the prosecution, and Z8 wilnesses £ the Moscow cily criminal court.

FELL IN LOVE Margarita

Lapina WILS Н pretty young orphan, a 17-year- old student midwife who fell in love with her boyhood friend, art student Georgi Tikhomirev, alsa 17.

B

Georgi's mother Valentina, possessive horridan, told him, according to witnesses: "You're crazy to take an orphan with- out a brass kopik to her name into our family"

Sa Georg and Margarita married secretly. And the first words of Valentian to her new daughter-in-law were; "So you 201

him, you anaise in gria well, you've still got it coming from me."

the

After two months of trying to share the In-Laws flat, the young couple moved out to live in Margaritas own tiny room

next door.

"OK., MacElroy-let's not get too many, jumps ahead with this co-existence."

London Express Bervice

THEIRS IS AN ASTONISHING STORY-LIKE AN ARABIAN NIGHTS TALE

hurled after

:

THE DOCKERS ARE NOW DRY-DOCKED

grorg Then for 18 months was away on inilitary servicť. After he was demobilised contracted tuberculosis.

London. IR Bernard Docker sacked! That was the headline that the London newspapers at us on the morning the Trooping the Colour and the publication of the Honours List,

Ten directors of the Birmingham Small Arms your laber, Georg Junior Company, Limited, had met

like four

ine Committee of Public Safety in the French Revolution and passed son- tence on their Chairman and Managing Director,

was

born But

after

bc

months there WAS *** tragic

Decident."

Was

alle Georgi, kft alone, found suffocated with his rub- ber dummy down his throat, The

"AL the court notes: funeral his grandmother, Valen- tina, looked on with absolute in- difference and nibbled an ice- cream leaning against the coffin."

tiny

and

were

"Princo

By Sir Beverley Baxter M.P.

tion in imitation of a British the British Empire, which is a Grenadier on parade.

very high Order Indeed. Faucigny-Lucinge," But mixed with his business she said. "I asked you to come acumen is a strong strosk of and

talk

Teada romanticism which to me,"

hum The Prince, without rising, into strange adventuren. It was answered: "I do not wish to probably this romanticism which

to you. talk to

in 1933 to Picamo go away led to his marriage from my table

Jeanne Stuart, a pretty, Huble table." Her Ladyship

was shocked, actress on the London stage. He and was angry but her answer was 35 years of age and was intended

to remind the bride was 22, Prince that there was still such a thing as noblesse oblige.

"Prince

Faucigny-Lucinge" she said, "you have been a guest on board our yacht end.

I regret to record that before she could say anything more the Princo turned

to Sir

Three indictments made by the directors: (1) that shareholders had made

involving complaints Bernard, (2) that expenses incurred by Lady Docker THE PLOTTERS Valentina. Saya the court amounting to some £7,000 report, began to understand for clothes for publicity for that intrigues, privations misfortune could Iveyer

break Daimler cars had first been tha Iorve of Georgi for charged to the Birmingham Mayorita "Only one way Smail Arms Company, Ltd., was lets the most terrible

(8) that Sir Bernard al" cald the prosecutor.

Valentina enlisted the aid of cealed from his co-directors her weak-willed husband. figures showing progress. Nikolai, and a woman friend,

It would be improper to Rybakova-whom. sho

comments on met at a friend's house "over make any

these charges, because they may become the subject of

a bottle of vodka”.

of

For E454in Russian money.

con-

5,000 roubles--Vera agreed to litigation. But they supply

join

the plot. It Was

whispered amon

bours:

crazy

She

among the neigh- gone

Izde "Margarita

talks of killing tercolf she has already been stopped once with the noose around her neck,"

Valentina, husband Nikolai and friend enticed her into

their flat

Ver

night JUN strangled her with a rope.

a fitting prologue to one of the most astonishing stories since the publication of the Arabian Nights. Therefore,

short

months.

€

his

to

in

In a large circulation magazine under the

he wrote an article heading "It's My Money."

the His argument was that

mcâtioned newspapers only liim when he and his wife were In fact, she became the most enjoying recreation. "Rarely," paragraphed, woman cafe he wrote, "do I une equal spiċe aristocracy. At a charity ball for devoted to Bernard Docker the variety, artista. she auctioned businessman whose work is not to an eight-hour shift dalla, a large Panda, boxes of limited

and when it was but who alexps just below the cigars, ote,

within zoom

reach overho told the assembled board guests that they were the mean; wherever he is, night and day fit crowd she had ever met

which curely tota many Nobody would do anything" phookends as wels of a she told the, gossip columnists, hours pass without presenting industry "The bidding was nearly all the problems of from my husband or myself or employing thousands.

Field

Candid Outburst

bele.

Jeanne Stuart was a popular favourite off-stage, lovely

"Such la lle or euch are the Vagaries of newo values. I sup- pleasant, com- look at and

for poso I must not complain, pandon but not endowed with

in the past few months people much talent on an actreza. I am sorry to report that the INCIDENT followed incident, have read about another Bern- campaigner marriage had only а

very

At the Cafe de Paris she and Docker-the

Government against wasteful fact, run in Sir Bernard

six stormed out during the singing of expenditure." Therefore we can Marlene Dietrich because the

is quite true. With cour- bow Misa StunTĖ out

That of this Socialist MP Mrs Braddock, age and logie he has denounced narrative by stating that aflor

who wan introducing Dietrich, the wastefulness of-Government lapse of time she married Baron wore a plain worsted two piece spending. But can Lorenzo the

Rothschild to his Eugene

at the on the dance floor level.

Magnificent be the mouthplocu baron's estate in Locust Valley, When the reporters asked her of austerity? Can Docloer

Long Island, why she had kicked up

& TOW spender preach the necessity of and has lived she answered that day clothes

saving? happily ever were acceptable in the gallery,

Since the Kelly-Rainier wed- since,

but the striot rule on the dance ding where, as I stated carlier, For 18 years floor was evening dress. I was the Dockers were much Sir Bemard very annoyed," she said, "ard I headlines, they seemed to have lived the life left."

getired from pubile view. Sho

Docker and asked him to take his wife away. By that time the Prince was on his feet and Sir Bernard grasped his atma and urged him to apologise wife.

SIR BERNARD AND WIFE NORAHI

At that moment dve men

modom Mest,"

the

in the

Cinderella Theme

I suggest that we turn back paid officials of the casino, ad- Birmingham out of this in the Dockers hit the headlines AHE only time I have talked to

the calendar to the year of grace 1952.

•

and

Ap

She Was Angry

the war attacked, she appealed

16 her father-in-law: "Father,

dear.

let me go, I promise CUR Bernard Docker's yacht not to fell"

Volentina pulled the D0060

light.

Now here is the reason

the telling of this tale.

warm

a

have

to

British

the

déclaration

of a bachelor A little later she wrote an has not insulled a gossip writer with all the article for a London newspaper for nearly a month nor bars, she and entitled "How I Make Ends herself hit the tendiines. But She stated that her en- „something tells me that she will which that mual drem bill was £3,000, that mot go to ground. state holds her new swimming pool cost. What is she really like? for mm. Then 240,000 and that their yacht he married swallowed up £18,000 a year.

Hardly had London recovered again, and the in real saga of the Dockers began from this chaid outburst when white evening jackets, who were Wo cannot keep

amine by going down a

to the her was during the cathedral coal face. More photographs!:

***** atmosphere, of a cricloet match vanced upon Sir Bernard, forced because Lady Docker was a him army back from behind and pretty and vivacious

More controversy! dauthter

at Lords. Her voice was soft, told him to be calm. Whereupon of that industrial city who carn-

But they were not-anished she seemed rather shy and the e waiter with a stern wenige

The miners, whom conversation could not of ed her living as

typist- with Coal

they had visited, were invited been poore conventional if it had duly came up with the Dockers secretary until she married bill for the evening, which was

of substance, Mr to come aboard her yacht and

taken place Just under £100.

in the Callingham. Unfortum- have a real bang-up party. The Musoum When Inter on Sir Bernard ately tre died in 1945, leaving was good food, good spirits and

Perhaps the answer was in the harbour of Monte and his wife wanted to play in nearly £180,000. There was a general high-jinks. The miners Carlo and he and his wife had the gambling salon,: three at- son of the marriage who is now sang choruses and Lady Dockor idle is that she has a cerase of mission. Where other women gone to the Casino. It was tendatle stood arose the door at Horrow, which was the same did a polo dance.

September way with their arms folded. But swogger school that Sir Bernard rafeed his nose and its eye extravaganes, as a form of self- for beautiful

spend money lavishly, and 'Blush Society, or what is left of it to find it fame, she looks on night, and with a party of Lady Docker ducked under their attended.

The dowager duchesses expression and a The 28 witness all admitted friends Sir Bernard and Lady arms,

played roulette and But our heroine was never brows, they knew of Valentina's hatred Docker wanted to see the Dior emerged triumphantly (in prin- intended for a lonely widow- drank their tes and thanked for her daughter-in-law. They fashion show in the casino be ciple) having lout £40 in the hood. Therefore in the course of whatever gods there be that they of human rights..

time she married another in- Wone not as Lady Docker. As torned on the Cinderela cheme

In fact her life story is pat all admitted they did nothing challenging fate the process

it

dustrialist, Sir William Collins, for this party for manern except that instead of marrying tables.

and

and thus became her ladyship, matter

WWW NEW CHAPTER --

Yot she was bereaved again. sweet antide, but they did not

Sir William deported this Itlo This is the comment from the subduo her ladyship's critical

Many Incidents leaving £1,000,000 (less heavy morning actise. To her mind and she

Thiey must METOW and. for to death duties) does know about dres

Weary of the cafe aristocracy the LADY Docker's comment to a viva-goosip columnist was. "Weal- ant the foul with the gossip our Aurrative let it be put clotis blondo had roacted indignantly, -

second time, the pretty meny

daughter dull affai would have been, Instead of 20 words and was

ways keep a strong watch. on wrićem. They count grow. wéning the sombre the after-deck to pepel boarders of seeing their names in girini, wincssen,

20 active aghters altogether,

itigation on either side and, in Birmingham wore

and into-crashers. In this way although my cannot against

eprs, then th woll-like

addicted to reti- fact, the Dockers not only re- clothes of grief. ethics of Not being

Two years passed by and we keep clear of the debris of heady, wind, cence she expressed her opinions sumed their affiliation Valentina and Nikolai..

This drive must be carried in sudible tones which roused Monte Carlo but were prominent the theme cu sunce. Dobrett &" The point boing that see them forsaking the town mont thai Air Bernard Docker, Destruit is the official volume and retiring to the country. Whe daily and hourly without considerable irritation among the guests at the marriage of Grace the man of affairs, was to misy of titled poople and landed it mot Oscar Wilde who walk that Cappe or rest, against the drunken asembled Dior worshippers. Kelly

the widowed Lady Colline. Not gentry, !

the country was a bendiiy iznervol at all pleased hoodlum In the stroot, the Nor was she

At this point you may be only was it a romance but #t But the Dockers VIETO

not

But what about Westmiddimstari ska mongathy neighbour in discover that there were to bo

why I should be was a Birmingham epic, The

the money-grabbing

cabaret, wondering freworks instead of

was a writing about two of the idio boul of them had big Interests context, with a yacht. They Nancy Astor Hit: for Yocks in the a mpecially. Hounds of Commoni, made at fellow employes at work and Her guests agreed that it

of British In Howlamed Dalenier, motor rick hond, Let me assure you to that capital

tin almost thangformed and Hin in shama

dustrialiam

which was of such magnificence into a garden party, in VI walter abe ordered it although they are rich they

List 16 mile the hendidiosint. Thereford it would not gure, Blonde Boadicea command very great him to take a message to Prince or anything but idle. In fact,

the Motor Show 15 #136-da (moti TM Lady Docker, should

Co

· to tum people,indo force to this end, far superior Jean de Faucigny Lucinge (the there hardly wook that the

Socialt, providing to the Millika and, the ProCHEZ, uen President of the Boelot London proes.done: not osary Aurano Joniser was: Binding» tita" Zamorted tho suburban

paragraph · Or, Even #

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contain the soivities or Barnard's comment was tha ham to community

witted to seo him." The waiter Sir Bernard' in its overy 'mengo / Valaslina ins pald Nikoint did as he was told but came

Hla, ap- upon Londogs, Mike a blonde Boße, chances to prove that: polatiýents have included Chairs dicen determined to conquer, She could beat the world wir and Vern will go on, paying in back with the reply that he a man of sabiendo

Bialoghệm 6mall was tjah, tho was Hvary, and alio, came to a fucury, motor for the next 20 Prince ays he is occupied/"

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