MFAIN-ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY
H
TAVE you ever lived in the lap of luxury, in the enchanted triangle of Paris strecta?
What's so special about it? Well, to the north the Avenue of the Champs Elysees, on two sides the the Avenue Marceau and Avenue Montaigne. And all around, the world of High Fashion where names Ike Balmain, Dior, Fath. Balenciaga sigh on n scent- ed wind."
runs where
And north and south the Avenue George V, the most famous Paris intele slow like tanks full of the most exotle ish in the world. High Society Hotels.... International Top Set Hotels. This is what the Americans' call them, And who am I to contradict an American?
injection
This the place where the al:
chic....where every morning is an champagne.
Ginette Spanier, the friend of Nocl Coward. Danny Kaye, Marlene Dietrich, nick the Oliviers, and sent me the cham- pagne to cosy me up.
So every moning 1 toerlet the beaut ful Pari: sky. duzzled by sunshine behind thi great spire of St Plerre de Chaillot which was Tigh opposite my window. Even the church of St Pierre de Chaillot is chic. All the rich weddings are celebrated there, as they are ol St Margaret's, Westminster.
Glotte Spanier needs some explanation. It is about time
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, -JUNE (18,~ 1967.
NANCY SPAIN—THE
THEY call her Vulgar; thay call her Unscrupulous; they have called her the worst-dressed woman in Britain....
We let her loose
in The Snootiest Mile
in Europe
you heard of her, because she is....all of us. And once when the undisputed queen of this Sir John Glelgud was sitting on part of Parls. She is the Direc- the stalks waiting to be let In trice (or Boss Lady) of Plerre and I was going up in the lif Balmain, the Krent house of with Gineite, she suddenly said couture. She looks like Nefertit, to me! Not bad for little Gulders Green, and I was introduced to her by Ginette from Noel Coward,
ch
The Master sighed deeply and vald. with great affection; That is the sort of girl she is." Noct Coward has done many nice things for me in his time, Fut I have to admit that this Introduction to Ginelts Spanier Lop of my lisl of
matter of fact,
Push over
YOU'LL love her," he said. I "She's a push-over for people, Just like l ́am,”
comes
a
THE IRREPRESSIBLE!
Suzy Volterra
lives here
Ginette Spanier's flat "Everybody" goes there)
BL Pierre de Challier where they have the fashionable weddings
proudly waves D
The High Society Hotels
'Fouquet Marlene Dietrich Javourlie
ATCOBU.
AY@nue George
Where so many of the Big Names
dress...
Champs Hymás
Avenue Montaj
design by
MICHAEL RAND
British pass to a tall, charming French out through the electric streeta Paul-Emile determined to go through all the called port on all occasions, she is the doctor
humiliation of ordering myself most Parisian Parisienne I have Seldmann.
Paul-Emile is not faintly a dress (and was it humillat- ever met,
Henriette (one of Ginette's disturbed when Marlene Dietrich ing), I must say "Thank you"
Marlene for the champagne. vendeuses at Balmain) says so, is the house guest. and from her It is a very, very instals on taking down the for him in high compliment,
doctor's messages
dork inimitable
brown volee,
Ginette first met Marlene at
When she walks to work all that the awful old caretakers, who look so like old black toads, dart from their cellars and wave and ery, "Bon jour, Ginette!"
Exclusive
And then he told me another gratitudes,
In public she is Balmain, story "We all go to her flat in And as
which she runs like a mixture The Avenae Marceau. We all although her parents do still between a very
exclusive club stay there....Vivien and Larry live in great splendour in the and very expensive girls
Marlene, Binkle Beaumont Finchley Road, und Ginetle still school. In private she is married
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This strange, but practical, Yemark WILE, of Course, unanswerable. And by this.timan, loo, the Collection was starting, Moro drama, for every day is like a first night at Babnain,
The Collection is shown twice a day, once in the morning, once at 2.45- in the afternoon, and 100 models are shown with Rames like Banane, Badminton, and Boomerang. (I don't know why everything begins with "B" this spring.)
There are teri exquisite mannequins whose business it is chow the clothica Tho mannequina dress and undrese with great rapidity in a strange little dressing-room called The Cabine.
to
Clients-mosl of whom by contrast to the mannequins seem to be dressed in heavy sweaters and football boots sit in rows on te gilt, chairs,
TN theory they pick themselves
urte or two dressng (million- airesses pick six or seven), stagger off › Into a ' Atling-room, are measured and Julled over by several sad-faced ladies in black. In fact, of course, many of the clients have just come to goggle,
But in all this
there is none more
celebrated than Ginette...
COWARD AND GINETYŁ SPANIRA
The squad of fitters are always dressed in rusty black. There is a sort of woman sergeant (the hend vendeuse), there is a cor- poral (she ac tually knows secrets like the hip measurement of the Duchess of Windsor, but Ith no use, she won't tell you) and then there is The Other Rank. This, in case you didn't know, In The Cllent,
After much humiliation (But madame has ab- colutely no bust #normous
we must green Rolls-Royce bust at all, oh well, {the Begum's) stopping the moke an arrangement for that) Way.
the ellent is allowed a few more This time it was Mrs Generol kings. The 450 seamstresses Norstadt In the hat-shop, and go to work stitching. She then asks the price. She then pays Ingrid Bergman on the stairs.
the bill.
Collection
NOI walked up the Avenue the shop (e. Pierre Balmain): George V to the prettiest "The vendeuses (saleswomen) flower chop in the whole of come to me in great hysteria Parla and said: 'Please come, Miss There was a whacking great Dietrich is in the fitting-room bouquet of simple tile Howers ilke forget-me-nots and primulas trying on minik.'
FFER "I didn't believe them, But I and primroses all done up in And I saw this extra- a big ribbon bow of the Old ordinary vision (legs and all) Roedean colou So I said, in looking at herself in the my somewhat Rooden French, looking-glass, wearing our mink "How much is that bouquet in And the man cape, This weighed about a ten, the window?" was lined with mauve, and cald "£5". embroidered through the lining
So I a: "Monsieur is an "Marlene looked up at me and artist, just like me, to suppose said, 'I find this rather poor, So
something rather
Which he
with vialets.
I sold: Yes, yes, of course, he does fetch the mink "stole,"
So then we put anohter ton maller for £2," of mink on top of the cape and äld. Marlene said the three words that shattered me. She said: '' take it,'"
Bargaining
Top price is about £1,200 for a highly embroidered evening dress. Bottom price about Bergman, Anita £30 for a simple little number Ekberg and Murtha Hyer, from
with a the boutique, Ekberg and Hyer were having medium priced dress at £300.
Someone orked Ginette who 4tings for the clothes for Bob Hope's film "Paris Holiday
It la Miss Hyer who has had can afford to pay £1,000 for a "Very tow," her face changed by Louise dress nowadays,
Ginette, with great Long of Hollywood and has the Bald extraordinary collection of candour, French paintings (a Renoir, a "And who can afford to pay Dufy, a Matisse, a Van Gogh, £5007" "But everybody," sald and when someone asked her dinette, with a sweet smile. could she afford them sha sald,
So there you are. That's Paris "They were presents").
for you or at least, that part of And then of course, Anton Paris which exists entirely on Dolin arrived, fresh from a Le Luxe. Paris within the three way to a triumph in Dusseldorf,
And that was how It happened triumph in Copenhagen, on his sides of the enchanted, triangle.
colours.
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that I walked up the staircase to order a great black cloak for And if by some chance you at Balmain carrying a bouquet "Giselle,"
are one of those girls who thinic wrapped in my old school He danced happily to the (as I do) that clothes are really window for his measurements only to keep out the sun and THESE simple words, I may
It was Very different to be taken, saying as he went; bed when you think that all it say, are not often said in entrance from that I once made "I want the whole thing, lined. you link £300 is rather a lot. Chez Bulmalo, where only very Chez Dior in u fisherman's in purple. It will be stasa- to pay for a dress; you just great stars like Eartha Kiit who jersey and jeans.
tional.
remember the great hysterical have come up the hard way The staircase, at Balmain is "Why don't you have it lined happy family that goes to make walk out loaded with £10,000 very lush. *It is made of with mink?" said John Gilpin, up the House of Balmain. Not mink coats without batting an wrought Iron, and it is all over the dancer, who was with him, bad when you think that all it eyelid,
dove-grey carpet with a very deep plle. And there is a very "Because mink doesn't show eternal vanity of "Everybody."
really depends upon is the
Tomorrow I shall tell you all about what happened when I
went to lunch with Madame
-The remainder of the clientele Geem to spend their entire time snoots lady i the high fashion
like mlak on the stage, askin- for "a very special price of 1910 sneering at the world up for a very Ïille "lady.”
from a gold frame,
dear," said Dolin, "Huh," Ginette shorts con- "Who is that a portrait of?" templuously, "anyone would said Anton Dolin when be first think the House of Balmain saw her. "I don't know," I People who have been at does nothing but dress dwarfs, said. "But she is very chic." Bulmain for 10 years seem to Leon Volterra, whom everyone I don't notice them coming up She Is.
get a mink coat or a gold medal the staircase, I must say.”
There is always something with a beo on it. Ginette and knows as Suzy, The House of Balmal is in extraordinary going on at the charming man called Pierre-
rather hear all about the Rue Francols Premier, iwo Balmain. The last time I was Louls who runs the boutique seconde wolk from my hotel, there it was Brigitte Bardot in have just got their mink conts. Simon and her Loby
But Arst, I thought, on this one fitting-room and the Begum "But I have the mink inside magic spring morning as I set Aga Khan in another and an mine," said Pierre-Louis.
W
Emerald?
All in a doctor's day by CEDRIC CARNE
Or would you
WHY LET IT HURT IF YOU
LOSE YOUR TEMPER?
Simone
Playing
And I advised symptoms, among them colic fairly recently doctors believed time, Jim?" and jaundice.
that the physique of a person him-- had some relationship to ston09. Because of your dyspepsia and the possibility of future "Think of gall stones," the colle I think it well worth
"Or symptoms," I continued, "such as you speak of."
husband had a "chill on the comfort after meals.
Particularly noticed these dark, tall and wity as a middle
X-ray first
old doctors used to say, "when while for you to undergo an Mr Tumbull had told me THEN Mrs
Turnbull how over many years he had you mes a woman who is fair, operation,"
fat, and 40." In my experience dis- rang me up to say her fulness, indigestion and
He had many a man who has been as liver," I didn't think much symptoms after eating fatly aged cowboy has had gall stone of her diagnosis. The lay- or splood foods, And because trouble. Generally though, man attributes all kinds of they had grown worse in the there has been some old story first to confirm my diagnosis. upsets, like loss of appetite, his wife to ring me,
Inat day or two he had asked Indigestion, or even headache to the liver when, Many
'believe that such weak in fact, that organ is com- symptoms are dua to a pletely healthy. All the stomach or to an ulter when
ell the time it is the samo, this time Mrs Turnbill bladder that is at fault. wasn't for wrong.
After spbaking to Mr Tumbuli himsel I suspected
Gall stones
gall
.
of colic.
Of course, X-rays and other investigations were necessary
If such testa proved the gull bladder was chronically Inflamed "I suppose when I look back and gall stones were present I at it, there have been times felt that the inconvenience of some colicky having an operation was prefer.
Tumbull
when I've had palns. I always associated it able to pulling up will i
with nerves,” confessed.
Mr
the
resulta of
health for years.
"But are But his association of colle surgery good?" Mr Tumbull
Daked with emotional tenalon wasn't
*Excellent," I told him. been far fetched. One in three who about suffer from gall stones blamed and
colle worried when the trouble 'all along has down so after an emotional out- "Really" bo mid, "I've never been gallstones, There is burst such as a storm of temper, in the whole of surgery, After been; Juungleed, though,”
that the source of his frouble Again, the heart as lay in his gall bladder,
many a person who once was 'anxious about his heart before But no can have gall stones he had his gall bladder without ever being jaundiced, removed.
A gall bladder operation can be one of the most satisfactory
tha convalescence
patiens usually feel better than he has I once had a very rich patient done for years. who was also a fanatical: My friend, Jim
the gambler.
gambler." I said, "agreed Bnally to have the operation.”
t
10 hea a stone in his gall have gall bladder dyspepala.” He hated to lose. Every now... Of course, - Bár (Turnbull (was
· Indred' almost"one", aduli An "Yes," I said, "I believe you
bladder wollhout ever having (pala 203 ANTENNA KA
and, then, he called me in interested in hearing the result
any symptome at vil as a Not that he tooked the classi- because of an acuta attack of 4HO can lose a thousand remalt of it. On the other hand cal textbook kind of individual collo.” "Well", I used to my, now," I said, "without feeling Hit may give rise to a variety of who had gall poes, Uniji "how much did you love, the ba
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