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IETRO Annigoni, audience at the Cafe de Paris whose picture of The with a priceles barrowed suble

coat over her shoulders, Queen was a knock-

Weat End furrler Mr

now wants

M.

to paint Prager collects it himself at the

end of each show.

out, Princess Margaret.

fie han tren her only once Bu

said: Those Jov ly Krept Cyes - 1 would sently like to paint the Prince, a If only somebody would com- Insion me,"

*

On June ¿ Ab Annigoni painting worth more than

the

Eartha infd me over Heliphunt: "I have six fur piño:s of my own--but nothing half 50 axpensive of THAT cost.

"Lould never possibly afford

buy

11. It came from Russia originally after the Revolution.

10

it isupposed to have beloriged 1, the furulan royal family,

"Lots of people have tried to

£1000 was presented to Priness buy it without success, includ- Margar

---by Annigoni

ing Marleno Dietrich and

the

The artist wo asked to pulot late Gertrude Lawrence, The Cloud Sumaritan for the "It Is regarded n3 being patramine vover at the charity layond price. It is made from presentations

T. S. Ehot's 35 Firbles.

play Family Reunion

"Maybe

sometime t

meet

Arnigom--and his painting that millionaire

with meeting of the Countess

wer there of the charity rom-

of 311 beton's home in flyde Park Garden

1. spent a week on the palating

0210

He roente? Perhaps day I will and her I would trully

il Particularly those expressive eyes "

CATHEDRAL TO PUB

EGG-LIKE WOMEN

ARE women going to look like

eggs next year? I wonder 1 -because I heard a Swedish cire: 3 <esigner, Mr Bork, say that that was the way women's fashions were going,

Michael

fashion house

Sherard

A

dhector, replied-al VIE REVEREND NORMAN Wool-promoting party"

ASHBY, 40-year-old former if quite easy to make something curate of Portsmouth Cathedral, which is starting, and find it

Toore difficult to make something pulled a half-pins and saved;" love this fe

I will be happy simple but mart." to keep a path for the rest of my He"

Me Ashby became a tenant- Heerver be the Cleveland Hill of York hire six weeks ago

Mr

Shermd, I'm confident,

will not turn women into Emps.

it the fourth in that he ROAD REPARTEE

sand his secund wife havə kopl super his list Church job—as u einaptist

His Best

URGENTEATRITIS

The war

the

Track 911

desolvei AVED

Mr Ashby std:

after

A

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hot for the workman AK

hole In

outside Str. et House in the Strand

rested on hly shovel

I sun have high regard for the moment

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Chuch-but

gring back

The driver of

il

intend

lights called oul:

+11

The pre kimet on mixing

a gi sling.

It is served with

A

bus at the "Find what

mate?" his head

wer looking for Tan navvy chuck

"No male. i couldn'l

fee tact a "Covent Gardin way anixed fruit and encumber sind, fit your birth (trtvicate »

WITHERLEGS, ETC.

BEARD that the Duke of Kent favourite greeting to debetat girl friends le "Hello,

#irlie ** This et me Inquiring yent's language of

about this

dotte

Susion Hangshire gave me the huurt glossary:-

"Sob" dels escort noted

for any dancing.

Wither legs"--

awkward,

gangling dets without pulse

"Goop"-The natie explivalent

of "Witherlegy

"An absolide

Berger on MOUL

"lbow's

heave!

Guards

offlcer usual greeting to a deb, Frultington”—Guardi milective terra

d, but n

for

"Love frem a windfall"-how

ing off with

y friend.

DRAMA, INDEED!

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1956.

THAT SPRING FEELING.

Leslie Caron in London.

ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES:

ΠΤΗΣ

a new production: --

in the largest

" shall hold a galu premiere became

oble

ble theatre

1301

most fushion- Broadway.

immaculats

L

The paragon

L

by LOGAN GOURLAY

they could not spoil

London. adulterated chasto aspect of à

ESLIE Caron girl who lowered her

has

left a Just convent. A remarkable feat,

She t the antithesis of Zra doo's eyes de- Zsa Gabordom. Not for her the muroly, pout quilted suites iz expensive angelically and said: hotels with white telephones by

the battubr. "I play my first grown-up part. Very grown-up. 1 play a....street girl."

ed

on

choked slightly

my Campari cocktail. It was rather like hearing a scandalous con- fession from a lass of the Sal- vation Army.

asked Miss Caron, who was talking about her latest Holly wood flm Gaby, it the bigoted

would censors

have any objec- tions to her role.

"No, I don't think 60. The tim is not nasly. I'm just cummon walker of the streets. I'm a girl who goes wrong when she thinks her lover has been kilted. I'm not all bad.”

CROCKFORD WON

flm

it.

I said I was relieved to hear

When she

came to London

the slipped into the quietest

and Least Mayfair's hotels

Not for HOT the smartest mink-filled Mayfair restaurants Where people go to be seen. We met for Junch In a small restaurant nepr Leteaster

pretendous of

Square where paopis go to eat. Miss Caron rub in a corner 19 though hiding even from the walters.

THE ARTIST -- career is first

NOT

11

JOT for her the publicity spotlight focussed on her off- retsen performances,

She har, however, conformed

to the Hollywood pattern by

and marrying (1951)

being divorced (1034) on the groun

Miss Caron has come to Lon- don to appear in the title role of the British production Gigi, which brought celebrity to Audrey Hepburn on Broadway,

There 19, I suppose, n glight of mentel cruelty. (Her ristinity 10 Gaby, the girl husband Was Dn American,

for George

IT the Hollywood film;

in Hollywood

IS THERE SUCH A THING? WELL,

TAKE THE CASE OF MISS CARON

In serious acting."

" want to divide my time I'm much more interested now between the stage and time

"M.G.M., who have my alm in her garlic-nccented English, contact. dan' object if I'm which she started to learn by borrowed for age work. Of memortising the whole of course, in the case of Gigi it's Shaleespeare's Hamlet, she in their interist. I'm going back turned to the subject of her dn the flm verakon for favourite clty. It's Ports, of them."

RETIRED

from ballet

LIT

elgarette for her. which the smoked to a gold

course. where she was born,

"I couldn't live all the time

In Hollywood or Los Angeles.

No al atmosphäre.

"'T like New York-fi'a stimulatinų. And Loudon is Cut Pin K. Bul Paris is.... Part, I love R."

Hormel, playboy and holder-a Biim, sophisticated Cole Porter, 1 thought, could heir .0 a seven-million-dollar holder but it looked wrong in probably sel har words to fortune

Olgi is an apprentice temptress,

a Student

encotte in the Parii But the similarity 13

ment.)

of 1900.

clight.

SHE LOOKS 16

but she's, 24

mode from canned her mouth-ns a baby's com- music.

I

met

Zsa

Between purts Miss Сагод went on: "My contract with M.G.M. still has three years to but I'm trying to get

Tun

forter would In Z Last time

ber in Gabor's Ports she said. "I never talk 50 1 about my private life." dika't raise the subject agains Anyway, she made it dicir, as she told hor husband when they were being divorced that

on carcer. ''I want "j devote

an Intenze of myself to her favours to the life." highest bidder.

GIGI

NIGI refuses to embrace profesion end insis martying for love Instead selling

reased. I want to free-lance the de VRS inarried to her and plan my own career,”

£

artistic

Whether or not Alming in in sweet, girlish, and Gigi

Hollywood comes wi hìn

this te prim.

debatable paint. category is Gigi is more like Miss Leslie But at around £10,000 film Caron herself, why at 24 can provides francial indepen- still look like a grove, studious dengs. And the has no inten- schoolgirl of 16, who has emerged tion of spending all her time. after starring in half a dozen Dui there umeng the palm Hollywood films with the Lin- tries and the cameras.

REALLY SHY?

-yes, but....

REMINDED her that she had

once told me she could close her eyes and tell what time it was just by listening to the flest ount of Paris. prominence

of course.

Ballet dancing which

her brought

10 (Gene Kelly GOW her with "I can still do it. Not very Reinet Petit's

and accurately. company picked her

for An American know In Paris) has no part irr her example, future plans.

11'

But I eurly evening, for when the starlines And I can tell it's pround the lunch-hour when "I've definitely retired from the waffe, and everything, gets the ballel, You can't combine quitter.

it with any hing else. It needs seriously." all your attention and energy.

ᎪᎢ . £100,000

ONE

SITTING IN HIS PALATIAL CLUB

and

becom

Lord

once

Paris takes lunch

Her producer reminded her that it was 2.45 p.m. in London, the lunch-hour waa over, and she was due for afternoon rehearsals.

Back she went to the theatre looking like a wide-ged little p.cretary who would rather bo going 10 the pleturen than returning to her typewriter, who would probably awoon if she met a real-ilfe star of stage and screCTI.

I was left wondering if Mka Caron was genuinely so retleent, unspoiled, ununselied and shy.

But she has really no right to be.

By H. E. BLYTH decided the was

named Running Rein.

his

horre

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1790

AREGISTERED","TRADE" HARK)

This was the greatest scandal SANDEMAN

cry

SCOTCH WHISKY

<f

The King of Whiskies

success of many in his teens. He challenged a Crockford may not have 1 was the most tobulous build- the corner and watchful of Propped up in bed at men who have risen butcher af King Street in a succeeded in making bookmaking ing of his generation, and the every

varying

fortune in the home in Carlton House Terrace, from the gutter

but he established meeting place of many to maraken game of cribbage at respectable,

of the play. My Lords Sefton, Lich- a dying man, he waited for the influential field, Chesterfeld, Thanet and a pund & point. "This cxtra s reliability. The young peer most exclusive and achieve wealth and power ordinary contest lasted for near now know that he could

news from Epsom which would bet persons of the land. For he lent Granville were among the most tell him that his greatest wish thas almost always been ly 48 hours, and Crockford won with Crockford and be certain a veneer of such splendour to Brent gamblers, and it is en had been realised. But when deptonte ends a letter break-dependent on two things nearly two thouared pounds of drawing his winnings, no gambling that it became wholly record that Lord Thanet and came it killed him, fer Ratan,

matter how vart they might be respectable.

Granville their own indomitable ambi. The butcher was ruined.

lost a chadow of his normal self,! £100,000 to Crockford at a had run nowhere and the race tion and the fact that they From then on Crockford geklom

What was he like, this tycoon Membership of Crockford's single sitting (and in those hund bren won by a were born into the right poked back. ite ecquired first of the Turf, who could contem-

was limited to about 1,200 days the pound was worth ilve era for their particular gifts, one gambling hell end this on- plate a loss of a hundred thou-

persons of rank and fashion times what it is today!) MERICAN playwright Irwin

other, each of which he ran sand with equanimity? He was "exclusive of ambastadors and Shaw has no reason to like It was thus with William with just enough honesty to revolting, coarse, sensual

Ben- foreigners of distinction,” theatre audiences. They have Crockford, who was brought make them popular.

in the history of the Turf, ftr Hi innate crude, although he did have the jamin Disraeli, who was a fre- been churlish

the so-called Running Rein was about many of into this world by a

visitor, thus described rin- shrewdness led to n policy which good sense, when wealth came quent

in fact a four-year-old named his plays in New York,

was to pay him handsome divi- to him, to avoid aping the the principal chamber: "A vast I heard about his plans for sodden mid-wife in one of dends all his life, fer he always aristocracy and to adopt a cer- and golden saloon, that in Its

As Crockford grew

old he Maccabeus, who was not eligible the foulest slums of London, provided excelicat

decorations free meals tain modesty in dress.

for the mec, but cf all the out- bave would

tool a

less active part in the

that this caused and the and a millionaire and od drinks for his clients.

Its In splendour would not management of the club but one

great ambilion have disgraced Versailles in

still remained endless tigation which followed died in a magnificent man.

Creckford also turned his at-

of daya Ision in Carlton Houso Ter- tenilen to racing-ared to Now-

the grand monarch," with him. He had made an Crockford knew nothing, for he Everyone will bo there.

he immense fortune and

few bears And of a Iesser:

brcuma died within a chamber "The curtain will rise slowly, ruce. For Crockford was market. Ho both backed horICÍ A contemporary account do

tres, the friend, if never the in- hearing the result, revealing a stage bare

except a gambler and he had the and made u book. He went to wribes him thus: "His choke writt: "The gleaming lustres.

poured a flood of soft yet imate, of many who were the for one tall, handsome man in good fortune to be

born any lengths to obtain secret in appeared whitened and flabby heilliant light over a plateau highest in the land. Now ho evening dress,

formation, bribing table lads through constant night work, glittering with gold plate and longed, above all else, to crewn seated behind a machine gun. into a gambling era the and Jockeys, and

even the His hands were entirely without fragrant with exotics embedded his amazing career by winning "lie will am carefully for wildest and most profligate starter, and arranging for urgent kmickles, soft as raw veal, and in vases of rare porcelain,"

the Derby at Epsom. the centre stalls, and then open that Britain has ever news to be brought post haste as white as paper, whilst bis known, when wealthy aris to him from the training centres. large flexible mouth was stuffed

By the spring of 1844 he was with 'dead men's bents-his

frail and weak, but his ambition tocrats risked their fortunes

then socmed teeth being all false, and visibly

on the point of socketed with his darling metal,

realisation, for his celt Flaten Hore again Crockford

fancied to win 45 was foully developed when

Jured was strongly THE Jatest novelty in long

Indulging

himself with

his patrons to the gambling the foremost classic of playing records is a light-

Thus there were pigeons Ho la remembered today by his hideous laugh...."

tables by means of the choicest 10 was then shit the Turf: hearted verse story of the

food and wines, stryced free to inevitable fato monarcha of

from in plenty to be plucked, but pleknine of the period, The England

Father of Hell and Hazard," but the Conqueror Willem

to it took a Crockford the turf remembers him as the scom

Yet amazing though it may all members. The fare became up with him, and the man who

Crockford had

the talk of London, for it was bad many

cheated, belbed Henry VI.

pluck them on the grand father of modern bookmaking noteblo succesfca with verses

the prepared by Eustache Ude, the swindled all his 11te was finally John

laid beta ladies, and his early taste ter

famous chet most

in Europe, hoist with his own petard. Wreford. Frederick Marshall, scale, depriving them not therio, gentlemen

'em- among themselves; bookmakers the sluts and layer wenches of Thirty-three walters were set merely of hundreds and

So "Crocky" passed, from the "all dressed In "legs" as they were known the slums was later diverted to ployed,

He gambled heavily on Ratan, scenes of his triumph, and there thousands, but of tens

the did exist, but

were only women of wealth and position. Here is an example:-

richest livery and amazingly but the colt went badly in the were fow to mourns him. The thousands and more.

they Of small dry, unscrupulous and

polite.**

botting and Crockford know best that can be said of hits was Avaliable everywhere #1630 per Dočtia Edward the Second is 'gentTolly him a contemporary wrote: universally despised,, End If

The climax in the carter of

well enough what that might that he was the product of his Sole Arentas DODWELL & CO., LTD. reckoned

very inferior

when lay William Creckford came

The hazard room opened at mean. His chemies were out to articlo.

"One may safely Ray, with young peer wanted

£10,000 on the Derby, he did it he built is patatini club in St. 11 in the evening, and was pre- "nebble" his chances but his and that he was sometimes Compared with his Dad, he was out exaggeration, that with a friend whose station in James's Sreet, in the heart of sided over by Crockford him- nich in the horse remained found that it paid him to be sol. hencat but only because he rather a cati.

Crockford won the whole life was the same as his own. London's fashionable West End. self, seated at a little desk in unthaken.

¿COPYRIGHT) of the ready money of the thon existing generation."

Aro,

AND ALL

The

THAT

by are

the Old Vic's conductor, them to music.

And of wisdom he hadn't

particle.

So from 1307 to 1327, the English had Httle to back about.

For by smart stratageni, tho

Scols hammered them.

And left them no weight to

chuck about.

I asked Mr Wreford whether

on the turn of a card or the throw of a dice.

to

of

of o

William Crockford was born over a shop at Temple Bar in 1775. His mother wild fish from

young Crockford was brought up Said he would, ilke to -1 [la be a fishmonger. think Queen Victoria would

lo intended bringing the series this rat-infested hovel, and the

up to date.

worth one whole side of a long "Fle revealed an early talent player. But I shall have to be for business. He was avaricious, taraful of honarcha einen warly and thieupulous, but Victoria. Too much levity thove all he was blessed with. wouki bo out of place,"

that single sari on which overy arent gambler... his, bancel" his

BORROWED SABLE,

naconaisen brilllais head dos figure.

USZCY song-temptrena Bartháir firut major flieków

DUS

· Kitt kaurálá, ok has highstky, | gambler

JOHNNY HAZARD

!

GET THOSE WHEELS FULLY DOWN, HAZARDÍ YOU'RE ALMOST TOUCHING

THE DECK!

י

"

A HISSING GOUND AS THE WHEELS HIT-

THE RUNWAYE A SPLIT SECOND BEFORE THE

FULL WEIGHT OF PLANE SETTLESS DOWN THE GEAR IS DOWN AND LOCKEDI

at Inst

caught

and

By: Frank Robbing

AND A MOMENT LATER A PEAD "RLENGE DESCENDS ON THE TENERE SCENE &

THE SKY LEXIS KIAL INICIA FROM

But at the time of his death he must have known that his

Cr

The was already ending. outery against public gambling| WDS threatening oven Crock- ford's Itzelf. Men such as Ad- miral Hous and Lord George

Bentinck were publicly OCEL demning vilisinics of such

the

as Crockfont and the new era of Victorianism was restricting

the profligate excesses of the upper clases.

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