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THE CHINA MAIL," TUESDAY, APRIE" "2, 1957.
"We prefer week-end guests who like gardening'
says GERALDʻLASCELLES
by DAVID WYNNE-MORGAN
SAW the new Fort Belvedere the
I other day. I was shown round by
the owners. Mr Gerald Lascelles, a cousin
of the Queen, and his wife, former actress Angelea Dowding. They moved in only last April. The transforma tion from the old, almost derelict rambling fort-from where the Duke of Windsor made his abdication speech
to an elegant and manageable home is amazing.
The Laserlies have had to be ruthless. Nearly half the house had to be knocked down.
Yet the elegance of the past has been preserved to be sUCCESS- fully Herbed with the 21stern.
A cubby hole off the inner half has been made into a cocktail bar, another off the library now houses Mr Lapcelles 2,000 jazZ
In the 35 neref of grounds the change is even more startling.
A year ago all the paths had become cornpletely grown over. The lawns were like wild fields.
Tulay there are beautiful gardens. And it has all been done by the zeile-with only on gardener.
"Luckily, we both like it, Mr Lelles told me. it has not been cultured work, We have rad to do most of it behind A tracto
The have been helped by their choice of week-end guests, "The most popular ones are those who help in the garden. Mosh of them du,” he told me.
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"I have been engaged three times. Thank God I was n e V e r married." How often has Liberace said that, when marriage- and especially his marriage
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has been the subject of discussion. What does he mean when he says this?
LTE is too honest a man for that, caring for a husband she loves, rent. If she had children, they not only to his music, but to his
then she
Such a man Is nol and too devout. For him,
in would be much in the care of voice, his words, truly love. Some women never love nurses, teachers, and often could do great harm, if he heart marriage is a sacrament not to
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make That Liberace will marry is without marriage. Don't mistake wife's first duty is to her hus rhetoric, for in our own time we would have seen it happen, did we certain. That he will be happy me. I'm not saying I want to be band....and when married is morally certain bass. I don't. I genuinely think wish her by his side as he tour- shall see it again. But no tram He will choose wisely he was marriage is a fifty-fifty partner- ed the world. Now York, Paris, Liberaco. anreful not to choose the lady deaded spheres
But I am saying there ore, Vienna, London....n. He of
Not from Liberace, or his who appeared
of influence in bright glamour, but not a life of outside his house
ouse Mem
philosophy is both gente and the quiet case. down in the day and sat
loving. the marriage, the man's and
He would not reject and refused
and anytihng that to depart woman's
either word. To him they have he had married her! Lee Interferes with the proper work- Leo has met them all-Lone a value they have somehoy lost
ing of either is an impediment confesses with a grin that he ing
Henjie, Judy a fatal impediment to Gerland, Joanne
in the sorry world. got out the back way and climb- perhaps
Dru, Dorothy દર્દી
success in the relationship. And Malone, and hundreds more.... over the fence into the next where I can concerned, obviously some of them perhaps he has believes there is
Hla philosophy is: tove Ho door garden, and 50 silently
no hop of departed until the lady's hus the men's sphere is music.
loved a little, as some of them salvation for mankind unles the
return to bond (for she already had one) marriage hurts my music, it can have loved him. But so for he nations
love, the He not be a true or a Jasting had come to take her away.
has met no woman-those une simple uncomplicated log of tells the
story against himself, marriage."
lucky early loves apart-whom the gospela: "Love God and with a laugh. But I've often
he would ask to share his life, love thy neighbour.” What would marriage to because he knows a very stead- seen his eyes saddened by such Liberace bring the fortunate fast love
"What I can't. undersind,' incidents as these. The woman
must grow between before he can risk the he says over and over, "why was, of course, an object of pity: girl? Great wealth, the constant them
anything FO obvious |aa of personal publicity, happiness of two human hearts.
a wall flung up from the troubled blaze
ya
adopted long ago. The folkwho like killing are -in-a- terlic
minority, Yet we have wars.
seas of love. It is Lee's intention world travel, the life of airliners, Marriage with Lee must be not excellent should not have been never to place himself in danger Pullman trains, luxury steam a lottery, but a vocation... of so sordid a fate as hers, the ships, great hotels. The best of poor woman who knew love only clothes, jewels, perfumes....
This man has
a philosophy, Once get the common peop to as torment and despair.
And what would it demand of never doubt it; and his immense renounce war, there wil be her? It would demand something following maloes him potentially no wars ever again. Love isthe "My engagements didn't work of the sacrifico demanded of a one of the world's leaders. Face natural instinct, hate the out," he says, "but it was no queen....There could be no pri- this, for it is true. Tho smiling natural one. When will pepig foult of the three charming vacy, no sustained home life, player from Milwaukee speaks understand?" Ladles. They none of them cared no quiet. This wife would not every week to forty million
dar to share me with another, and cook, knit, socks....She they honour him and love him. MORE TOMORROW it must be admitted that in my would never scheme to pay the and listen to him. They listen
life then and now the first
love is music. Music is my career, and my life. One of these ladles loved me very much when
I get off on a concert tour, and loved somebody else by the time I returned. He was a plumber, and he never went more than a mile or so from home; and he never worked after half-past
five at night. He made an ideal
husband, I believe.
The next in
girl I was engaged to was show business, and I learned after a time
and
'Sugar Daddy's Paradise
Bonn.
are
are illegal," she says.
for
By
LERGYMEN that she resented
de bordellos, despite the fact they NORMAN LINDHURS my good fortune In managing to manding Parliamentary achieve international celebrity.
to halt a shocking certain city heads release muni
"It is simply incredible that She wanted to be the Bentor action
"Orders" for German brid with the biggest fan- "slave mart" traffic in this cipal funds
buying and partner,
are being placed with agenci mail, and it didn't work out that nation's three million "sur- maintaining buildings for this
How
⚫nithy trade,' petty such feelings plus women". way.
stormed Frau in Germany from arqund th
world, are! but we all have our
Lucders, frailties and I expect my own
Parliament was advised that Most of the women Crank The clergymen complain belier. so I must be are no
one of Germany's most elegant sock "companionship dutelde. are bordellos that German women there's no
Ananced with charitable. Anyway,
marriage, although some harm in
funds.
City I had a lucky being "bought and sold" vin dty
Hanover saying
preas the plaintive hapo fe kiss, newspaper advertising and official red-facedly confirmed companionship leading cscape. Imagine every every kind word, depending on "marriage bureaus" in this charge, but pleaded they marriage Young girls adver what was in the morning maill
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was time for "beaux" to take them to needed to alleviate the city's carnival balls, and men adver As for the other girl, she was manner reminiscent of an were advised the money simply possessive and Jealous. "African wife auction".
housing shortage.
tise for weekend partners." My success in my job depends
West Germany, according to
WHITE SLAVES
For example two "charming on my meeting people and being friendly to them. And I am church leaders, is a "sugar
"women"" 25 and 32, advertised in which friendly by nature--it isn't any daddy's paradise
So many German girls are in the Frankfurt paper: "We are bobo hardship to smile to my fans. I "female companionship" can be vanishing into the Middle East alone and would like
according 14o, white slave trade that an literally hun- obtained-and
or happy at carnival time, "Who know hundreds, dreds of girls and women, and sertion of a newspaper advez- Fight White Slavery has been
hen, My specificatione-by the mere in ganisation the "Committee to will grant us our wish?" - fiancee didn't trust
formed. This group demand- A "pretty, widely travelled thought every smile meant antement. affair. And there can be no
ing that the issue of passports Stuttgart, secretary
21 be discon her advertisement "What cul- to girls under love, without trust; and for re
*tinued
tured, independent gentleman ifteen" thousand girls à year 50 to 60 would like to bave mo Marle-Elizabeth Lueders, There
M.P. are involved in this "export of as his partner for his one time was love without Tree Democratic Party
and vocations?” marriage once," Moun remarks, told Parliament that German blondes" Parliament was told. with her eyes a-twinkle. "Her morality has skiddod
no marriage without love."
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old for Her. Ho was rising She changed Chancellor eleven!"
Konrad Adenauer with "looking the other way while Govern *ul cusas I'm old-fashioned," ment agencies released, and even Loe edits. But boil, le tonally hard, bunga wife's, primary obligation is to bordellow. her, husband. It her career is
Obviously more
"The Governkont Important than the supremely eight career of raising) igift prepared so také štromiota chlidren, which is every women's measurto a minit thown state and. right and hope and Uity, enridi^ad) tobak ́authori
tolerate
An, inventor is making a fortune out of West Germany's surplus women-three million of them. He is Ofto Griepenprog, of Luebeck, His "friendship machines display cards which for one mark (1s. 8d.) enable anyone to pick a girl or man companion for carnival, dance, show, etc. On the reverse side, which you only son after the card comes tumbling out, la the address of your blind date,
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