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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1957; -TANC

Monte Carlo

in

True Love and Tragedy-

the tale

OULD he, would ho not marry her? All Monegasques had a vested interest in their Prince's matrimonial plana. A 1918 Treaty with France ensured that If one day find itself Monaco should without a Grimaldi Prince, the Principality would re- vert to the Republie once and for all. A Rainier un- married and without heirs meant eventually income tax, conscription, French politics, possibly even milk-drinking campaign. It

a thought which true-born Monegasque could face without trembling. One of them once sald, "Reverting to France" in three months we should be nothing more than a third-

French rate

provincial

was

town......

110

нема

of Gisele Pascal

for a moment and replied, "She a very lovely, isn't she? I be

I would you know .. if I wasn's already in love with someone else.

Driving back to Monte Carlo the an hour later in his ear, reporter was passed by a flash- ing red sports ear. Inside were his two friends from the moun- tain top waving at him gally.

More than onice, however, Rainier's attachment for Gisele turned out to be embarrassing. A Monte Carlo shopkeeper who

showed

official usually photograph of Rainier in his window once joined to it picture of Gisele Pascal, With- a in three hours,, a palce official shop and asked ureived at the for the picture to be taken out,

A reporter once asked Ruinler point-blank what his plans

The mariogo were.

Prince

for

looked him straight in the eye and

I replied, "I have no intention of marrying anyone right now." Another time, the Riviera corre- newspaper spondent of a Paris was tipped that the Prince and Ghelp would be spending the day hifcing in the Alps, thirty miles from Monte Carlo. He followed them in his car, found their own red sports coupe stopped by small wayside re- staurant and, being told they had gone for a walk,

up all his courage summoned and followed them on foot.

In

against discovered a plot

hia strell which, in the form of authority. Princess Antoinette, Father Francis Tucker, now ex- now separated from her tennis ploded upon Monte Carlo, player and left with three their long history, the Monegas- ques had known many an odd religious figuro, but neven quite like the man they came to call le Pere Tookaire,

one

when he was urgently reproved about this he got up in the marriage pulpit and said:

understand some people na worried about the klod of clothes I wear, I tried very hard to wear a casseck to please my congregation If you want to

children, was apparently anxious to have her children adopted by the Prince and placed in the line of succession to the Throne, Her friends acted on her behalf All their priests had always a little unwisely and when the worn the usual round black hats manoeuvre whe

discovered, and long cassocks of the Monaco's strong loyalty to the European dergy. Tucker, Prince became uppermost.

small wise energotle man wore Monaco wanted Rainier on the a simple clerical suit Throne but it also wanted a Princess by his side. By the autumn 1954, the question became the number- One topic of conversation every where' Ins the Principality. Strangely enough, it was at this time that the man who was, in

They met by chance. He sat on a public bench to watch the shooting of a film sequence. She, the star, came and sat beside him and said how dull Monte Carlo was. They talked about "the old fogey in the Castle“. At the Opera that night she found that she had been talking to the Prince.

They be- Their friendship blossomed.

the only love of his life.

came inseparalle. She was Now read on- the tale of Monte Carlo by

about saying "It would not be seemly for the name of the Sovereign Prince to be linked with that of any particular lady.

that

he

An hour later, he came across

a young couple resting on

Д

dozens of pictures of all

In

RENE LECLER

Palace

French

bare hilltop, both were in shorts young ladies he had ever known speak a mixture of Italian and choirboye on swimming

and both wore sunglasses, The

reporter sank down beside them, gasping. "I don't cure If I never do see th Prince of Mondeo and his girl friend... Then, as he nursed his swollen city feet he asked the young man, “If you were he would you marry Gkole?" The young man thought

Pascal'

childhood

from ranging friends to follywood film stars. This time the laugh was on Ilis Serene Highnes, and for hours crowds of locals

und

dourists

that it should

was

On

COCKLESHELL VENTURERS

SAIL AGAIN

M

ORE and more people' are crossing the Atlantic the hard way, uting boats, dinghies and cafts that would make even Columbus's Alttio Santa Maria setm luxurious.

Latest to join the adventure- voysguri are Mr. and Mrs. Elverson and their 16-month-old son, who reached Barbados a few days ogo-en route for Panama and Tahiti.

Newsmap shows the voyages of some of the cockleshell" adventurers, and how long each

took after leaving the last island stepping stones behind.

☆

1 and 2. Alicard first crossed the Atlantic alone in 1949. and Stan Smith made his trip the same month,

3. Barton and O'Riordan, sail- ing from Lymington, were over 50. when they made their trip!

4. In 1951 Stan Smith made his second crossing, starting from London.

from

5. Salling

Falmouth, Ellam and Mudie completed

a fast crossing in February, 1992.

6. Dr. Bombard, in a rubber

dinghy, tried to show that a man could live on natural food of the sea

☆

the

from

7. After starting

Plymouth, Mrs. Davison in January, 1953, became the first woman to perform the crossing alone.

#. The next lone conqueror was Fox, in July, 1953. 9. Three

scientists drifted without sail, towing a taft behind from which they observed marine life.

10. Nicolson made his crossing

Weymouth in 1954.

to

11. Aboard the raft L'Egare II. three French Canadians Falmouth in reached August last year.

3

12. The mos! northerly ot crossings was made late last summer.

J

13. Dr. Hannes Lindeman crossed in a kayak, only 17 feet long! A year before he had covered the same route in a sailing boat. 14. Two Irishmen

reached

Miami in December, løst year,

15. A Briton and two Cermart. girls reached Trinidad in their twin-hulled catamara this month

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16. Finally, the Elversons have

reached Barbados.

NEW YORK

SOUTH

AMERICA

PUERTO RICO

BARBADOS

--BIEMLICA

NEWFOUNDLAND

SAILING SORTE MO OTHERS

(PARIS, OHJENY, KAYAK)

to an ph

CLIZAT SECAR

CAPE VERDE (+

A SENATE INVESTIGATION HIS DISCOVERED THAT THE SCHOOL FOR SWINDLE IS AR

AMERICAN INSTITUTION.

ALL THE TRICKS OF PSYCHOLOG? ARE USED TO TRAIN SHADY SALESMEN THAT . . .

The customer is

always

New York. ALESMANSHIP is one

of the great American arts. It is taught in colleges all over the United States, so it is not perhaps recent surprising that a Senate investigation dis closed a strange, sinister chain of underground training schools which teach stiling not for profit but for fraud. They have all the usual courses in psychology and commerce, their graduates look like any other commercial travellers confident, glib, presentable.

But these schools, the senators were shocked to discover. are And run by crooks for crooks. they turn out the 'new white- collar bandits by the hundred.

PAID ADVISERS

wrong

by ALAN BRIEN

the

futuro, to exert the strongest get rid of mo, all you have to influence on the Prince entered do is to force me to wear one. the Monte Carlo scene.

I shall surely broak my neck. A tradition held that the Two days later the shopkeep-

All this spoken in a French er revealed an entirely different vicar of the city's St Charles rich

accents in transatlantic be the Church should and novel window display,

soon had the younger Mone- large informal Chaplain and for two years the gasques in dia of laughter and the centre stood picturo of the Prince with his post had been vacant." ench right on the aide of the Father.

looking

at interest naturally desired to see But it was not ail that Monaco chin in his hand

a French priest nominated the

for had to learn about its American St. Marry Monegasques who priest, Father Tucker took his

expedit- French belleved

tions and Joined them

on the be an Italian

beach wearing a goy flowered mighty interesting fish out thereo Rainier himself Anally settled bathing suit he was the first I told the Prince I'd get him

Run by crooks for crooks, fishing special

tackle the argument by asking the priest ever to show his anatomy some

Over from the States....

is machine led past the window.

Confidence trickery today

hirers and market house repair recket. Sometimes Pope in a private letter to ap under those sunny skies. Wheri Rairit's personal popularity point an American priest. But people visited him at the vicar- Rainier and Father Tucker organised big business. It makes gardeners,

he pretends that his victim has closest of friends.

All of them are inter-related been chosen for his prominence full use of all modern gadgets was saved by an entirely for the Prince could not have ex- ago, ho offered them a whisky became the jullous coincideree:

Twice o Iris table

week the priest lunched from the television set

descended from 40-the and

two in the community to have his Triend pected the sort of human bomb- and soda anch [

at the Palace and

Williamsons often took tape recorder, and the artful original

who house repointed at a bargain always well laden. "Why should

starve just because 1.

from Glasgow to rato, and as an extra balt he along some interesting visitors dodgers of 1957 who graduate emigrated priest?" he asked. He drove his he wanted the Prince to meet from its chromium

will receive 50 dollars for every. and glass America in 1890. 10

his side, Rainier own battered car, rofused

often thieves'

kitchens are specially They leave behind them in new customer he recommends. strolled down to the St. Charles trained perpetuate the privileges of the

to reap a fat reward their ammual jocust tour of the held

vicarage for a chat and richer families who had

glass

of collapsing from the get-rich-quick. ambi- Mid-West a trail

The householder signs an of Father Tucker's bourbon. He for special pews in the church

tions of the average citizen. houses, useless gadgets, jammed expensive contract which

local centuries and was seen several never took an important decision

machines and blackened lawns, salesman subcontracts to his Chaplain. ilmes drinking orange julee and without consulting

And the warning bulletins that firm whom he instructs to spray He had need of help

because Coca-Cola in the bars near the

with the the bureau cables to each city the building lightly harbour.

be marriage question was

The well-drilled confidence on their Toute react lice cheapest painé available. Then coming acute. At 32, he was still

man no longer uses force. He announcements of a shrestoned the

to flake paint begins single and he had known the holds up his victim at the point hurricano,

month later and the sucker beautiful Gisele for over five of a fountain pen, and blud Favourite hunting ground of finds that he had bought the years. Would he, or wouldn't he, goons him with crooked com the fake salesman from the most expensive bargain, of his marry her? All of a sudden the

tract. He is enormously helped crime syndicates school is the life, with no legni redress, problem was resolved for hlin by the credulity of the small he couldn't. People discovered town

who has seen sucker

other the fact that Gisele Pascal was

made

from the most fortunes unable to have children. Like unlikely schemes, anal, there wildire the news spread across the Principality; in the eyes of most fantastic bait. By far his readily bites hard at. the most Monégasques, the actress

⚫ opponent toughest could not bave committed worse crime had she robbed the Business bureaux,

National Association of Better Bank, Rainier was in a desperato dilemens Gisele was the only The first Better girl he had ever loved and in bureaua was formed in Boston at ease and free. He wanted to her company he felt completely 47 years ago, and it now has

branches

Each in. 107, cilles. marry her. He also know that bureau is directed by a .com- his duty to his people was to mittee of local businessmen with produce an heir,

a staff of paid investigators One day in September 1934, and advisers. Their main task he took Father Tucker to lunch

is to reise commercial stan at the Villa Iberia: they were driving back to Monte advertisemente, discouraging the Later, a dando by eliminating misleading Carlo, he eyed the Chaplain out sale of shoddy goods, publicising of the comer of his eye, half afraid of him. The priest mid sharp practices, nothing. Finally Rainier caked: "Well, what do you think of Tucker's brow puckered, Mlle. Pascal,, Father?" Father

“¿he could not havề

mitted

worto grime had

He very soon became a sort of local oracle and very naturally people consulted him about all kinds of problems. When he was asked what he thought of the possibilities of Rainier's marriage, his Father Tuckor

in Ivas element.

beatific, He looked cressed his hands over his rotund middle and said, "You know, love Lova matches are made in heaven but safety matches are

A local busy made by men ht body ouco asked him why he did not give his parisbleiers the right example of a militant faith by going to preach in the halls of the Casino; the Father replied, blic tho "Would you have hand that feeds

to

You

Such a personality was bound make some Impression on Price Rainier and everyone walted for mutual reactions. For months, the priest went to the Palace every Sunday morning to say Moss without once being invited to slay for a talk.

ho Finally, one Sunday morning did not appear at all. The Prince -summoned him and asked him why he had not showed up to say Mhes.

in

"A really charming gif" ho replied. "Quite a personality. To tell you the truth, Your

redress planta

the

and securing for consumers' com"

In Chicago several shifty car dealers used, to advertise for tastic bargaine and then. Boll buyers that the care were

Tucker looked Rainier sirnight the eye and sald, "Your Highness, if all you want

ready: sold The bureau got wouldn't mind | advance proofs of the announce- Chaplain for is to say Mass here

her myself

mente from tho, newspapers and so you don't have to go to church

"Marry her? What are you sent shoppers along to queue like other people you can find talking about?" Rainier blurted outside the shop before yourself another Chaplain.out. "You can't marry her, you opened.''

had

friend hoping to be your aro á pries.....

Rainfer smiled.

And I wanted to be yours,"

"

“Well, you are a Prince, Your

Highness and you can't marry

it

HOPE OF:: GAIN he add. "But I did not know her either. You know that." "We ̈try_to_telt people that who should make the first move A week later, Gisele Pascal | stinéthing for nothing is – al-

Let's go for a ride in my left the Villa Iberia end Rainier ways worth just that,' said an boat, Side by side, the Princeshut himself up for a time in investigator to' meg. “But they and the priest walked down to his Palace. A Palace servant ro- hate being choated out of their the harbour and set out for the ported that the Prince spont hope of a fortune? LENARTI open good in Rainly a fost craft. hours with his famous collection When they rehimed, Phin hour of toy soldiers, many of which One notorious tang ** that this Inter, half the 'gowalps in Monte | Hod Goers gifin from the French bureau siad been. Oghting for 30 Cario were waiting on the quay actress. Then he took to spend Wilson This is a workers Ja ichówny as "The Terribli side and they pounced on Tathering entire days at the Villa, now

Ingoma of 200 firmitids who What did you talk about out empty and allent.

will drive through 10 states In there, Fulber?" If The Epefest

Prince is hounded

expensive, ungeid-for: cars pro pointed out for now arch malda,

bending to bw jobbing builders Hou” know, there isoma kọky umarriageable: woztar

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