1957-09-28 — Page 14

Nancy Spain

How to be

poor on 72

millions

THE SKELETON

IN the Skeleton Crossword the

black squares And

ciuc numbers have to be lifted in as well as the words. Your black guntes and four elur numbers Have been Inserted to give you # Misri. The black #quares

ACROSS

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into the

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buck

half

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the dance

floor.

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stwo,words)

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carry

the coul

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15. He sees a lot with his eyes

skut!

2. Taps can be evolutionary

aboard ship.

23. Constructed like a muter. s

in thing three words,

24. To be expected when you

sleep soundly?

25. Gets up in a tree. the tool 1 25. Such actions repin ingat ou

paper,

DOWN

2. Getting almost to Nice should

back you up..

3. In a portion to collect the

prize.

4. He's a fool to wear that

pointed hat.

5. Question of who's to be the

Model 7

5. Can it be a caper ? Yes,

B. Of course, he's penetrating

bat no one's Interested.

11. Oe of those rather dubious

explosments,

12. Mule

ast.

torm a symmetrical pattern; the top half matches the beltom half and the two sides estre spond. So you can fill in 12 mare squares; at once to correspond with those given,

14. Cry of the weasel to la

Jarent ?

1. Exit this way, please,

17. No arm twisting for him!

18. Followed by a man on the

council.

19. Underground traveliers 1.

20. In a cap, he doesn't look

worth touch.

21. Mar arrive for dinner in a

boat.

2. A crown piece puts you in an

advantageois position.

FRIDAY'S SOLUTION

STAFF

P

OMEGA

EATHE

THEOREM

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, .. 1957.

NTIL. I rend THE

VANDERBILT FEUD (Hutchinson, 218.) by Cornellus Vanderbilt jun. aël I know about this American family was that they were stinking rich and had a railroad or two.

Stinking rich. Yes, Indeed. When Cornellus Vanderbilt I} died in 1889 he left $72,000,000,

But because his elder son Nelly married a beautiful young woman called Grace Wilson she, too, was well off and had

been gadding about Europe with the fast Prince of Wales's sel, and so made the elder Vanderblits jealous of her-old Paph Vanderblit practically cut poor Nelly out of his will."

He only left him a million, That's all, yes alr. So brother Alfred helped out with six of his milions..

"We're the poor relations," Grace Wilson Vanderbilt used to say with her laugh lite little tinkling golden bells, roughing Il on her seven and a holi millions.

Those were the days when party favours (gold cigaretle cases and so on) wed to be distributed in the eclion to set the host back $10,000.

And those were the nights when Grace Wilson Vanderb131 Flummed it in my toro, my emerald collar, my pearls with emerald piece Belle gave me, my diamond fringe acro the front of my gown are my other emerald piece."

SHE SAID

*

WHEN A BOY CAN MAKE £10,000 IN SPARE TIME

CYRIL STAPLETON'S COLUMN

IT'S TYPICAL OF THIS CRAZY WORLD OF MINE

$ the hunter displays his trophies, so the recording A star proudly props his golden records on the muntel- shelf.

These "gongs"-mementoes of a million sale of any one disc-have become the symbol of success in discdom. Bing Crosby has enough to prop the door open-20. Crown prince is Perry Como, who has acquired 14.

Elvis Presley his collected 13 during the past two years, and surprisingly, Frank Sinatra, golden boy of show busine, has only one "gong."

All of this Hamillion credible. GREETED BY FAME

makes the Russ story almost in-

RUSS is a Redcost at Butlin's

Clacton comp

HIT BOY HAMILTON

fe call-boy who became lar. If they had booked him they would have had to call it "The Dickie Valentine Story."

You cannot keep the riffiers intrigued to see that a new out- Dut of the nown. I was

it had come into the Hats with a Negro spiritual, "Toli The Bell Easy. They call themselves Iks Hobenux, a title which may cause many a worried frown in record shops.

Leader of the group has rachell the grand old nge ol

days 10. In the

when they busked under the arches of Charing Cross station, the skifters were known 25 Les Bennett and his Hobos.

Then they were offered a job in the cafe where Tammy Bleele once Bang for his sumper. and this led to various night-club He is also a part-line singer

engagements. and song-weller whom And of course Grace Wilson has grected

fame missed date. At a rough com-

'They docked a little more somewhat Im-putation, Vanderblit

his #taltien

called for was suld things.

record upper-crust "A patiently. For while Russ fedy," she said, "always wore been logging it at Butlin's, his part for his singing, part for chic, but still down-to-earth, has should bring him about £10,000 something Parisian, something slik stockings und gloves and recording of "Rainbow" never, never turned her hand "We Will Make Love" has made both songs.

and his song-writing. He composed Les Hobeaux was their choice. to mental tasks."

him a star both here and in the United States,

THE PENSIONERS

Her husband said things too. "A gentleman," he said, "ean do anything.

shine his own boots, provided he does it well."

even

the

His latest contender for Hit Parade is ft Song called The first side has reached "Wedding Ring." Again Russ number seven on the American la the composer, He tells mo Hit Parade, the best ever by he has 30 other songs in mind. And this all came in handy any British male artist. The At this rate, and so long as the the night when the German second side was the one that fashion does not change, he Ambassador came to dine Inregistered most here. It stayed should have his own hollday 1917 and the servants went on In our best svilers' lists for 15 camp by the time he is thirty. strike. "Amid much hilarity," | wecks,

NEW PANTO BOY

L

the gentlemen were able walt Brilliantly at table.

Yes, Grace Wilson Vanderbilt always came out on top. St Wha u leader of society. the Duke of Windsor cut uper

HEAR that a retiring age is to be fixed for recording stars. Someone suggeste they should be pensioned at the ripe old age of 24. The poor dears begin so early.

At the top of the Hit Parade this week is Paul Anka, a 10- year-old Canadian stripling who also writes songs. Gels them by major artists too. ONNIE DONEGAN, rock of recorded

the skime walk whichever But then we have to remember way you look al , has

that in this business, the majors been

Buss, a Liverpudlian with an air, is the must unaffected Babbergasted part-time star in the business. He has just been American asked to appear on TV. Fee: about as

much for booked to play Wishy-Washy in are often minors. Confusing. earn in two years at his present pantomime season.

meat for her when her eyesight that one appearance as he could "Aladin" In the approaching THE UNKNOWN

How tradition accommodates

world is getting pretty quick on the uptake 100,

Lonnie is being considered for Sydney Box film in which he might play a Glaswegian call- boy who makes good.

who has been described France's most precious export.

falled, she never gossiped, she could not keep a secret, she occupation. went to tea nt Buckingham Palace, she was a great friend And he had to turn it down, of Queen Mary.

Itc is due 10 appear In the She never owned a mini B.D.C. "0.5 Special" that day, coat. She had white fox But as a consolation, Russ will neck-pleces. Slic unly went go to the States to be seen in once to a night club. She "The Patil Page Show" next never granted un interview, month. Fee: a mere £1,000,

"She saw herself," said plus expenses. Theodore Roosevell,

Meanwhile he is

too that, somewhere along the line, Paris" remained a big hil perpetual fairy tale,"

worried about

odd somïone... overlooked the real-_seven years.. the

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

BOY? REMEMBER THOSE

DINNERS THERE

WAS EATS

AS WAS

IT WASN'T

ANYTHING

HE SAID, BUT

I'M SURE HE

DUKE OR

EATS!"

WAS A GRAND

SOMETHING,

TRAVELLING.

INCOGNITO!

ሲ

not

But so far as we are concerned, Jacqueline is the siar without recor: none of her work has been fasued in Britain,

British orchestra leader Ronale Goodwin, whose composition and recording of "Swinging Sweethearts" has been such a tre- mendous succces in America, has been booked to appear on an American television show called "Big Record" on October 2,

He will be appearing with Juls-Londen, Paul Whiteman, and Johnny Mathis. Ronnie will be the first British band leader to bo down to America for such an occasion...

ANGEL THE TOP TEN

] "DIANA."

Paul Columbia. (1),

2

"LOVE

LETTERS

Anka "WITH

HEART." Pye-Nixo. (6)

IN

THE SAND." Pat Boone, London, (3) (4

"LAST TRAIN TO SAN FERNANDO." Johnny

(0)

Duncan, Columbia. (2)

CLARINETARY Q

.

ALL MX Petula Clark.

"ALL SHOOK UP" Elvis

Presley, H.M.V; (7)

"WANDERING EYES." Charlle Gracje, London.

4 "ISLAND IN THE SUN."9 "PARALYSED."

llatry Belafonic. RCA.

(5)

WATER"/ 5 "WATER

"HANDFUL OF HONGS," Tommy Steele, Decca. (4).

Petain thought

that Hitler

was bound to win

Presley, H.M.V. (9)

10 TAMMY"

Elvis

Debbie! Reynolds. Vogue-Coral.]

MARSHAL`PETAIN He lived too long..

By A. J. P. TAYLOR PĖTAIN. By Glorney Balton. Allen and Unwin. 18s.

itself to the timest The Bhm COMING to Britola to star in

a new TV series is the riMARSHAL PETAIN always looked on the black side things. He expected bad luck and often got it. She is Mademoiselle de Paris His worst stroke of luck was to live too long. If he had herself, Jacqueline Francois. died at the age of 82, he would be remembered as one of She was the first French singer the heroes of the 1914-18 war.

A shadowy, distant All very nice for Lonnie, of to sell 1,000,000 records. Her figure, conducting old-style strategy in an old-style uni-, course, but I have the feeling version of "Mademoiselle de form. But still the defender of Verdun. The man who

proudly declared: "They shall not pass.".

Vacation Recollections

"HE SAID THE SWEETEST THINGS /

EVEN WHEN THE SUNBURN WAS PEELING ON MY NOSE HE SAID

IT WAS THE OMLY ONE HE EVER LOVED / S

WELL, THIS MAN WAS ALL THE TIME TELLING RISQUE STORIES

OF COURSE I PRETENDED

NOT TO HEAR -

BUT I HAVE SOME GOOD ONES ·FOR,

THE SEWING CIRCLE THIS

FALL?"

'I KNEW RIGHT AWAY

I COULD SWIM CIRCLES

„AROUND HIM— BUT

I LET HIM GIVE ME LESSONS ANYWAY.

522

"WHAT'S

WRONG ?!

THEY'RE

VERY GOOD

Z/

OF YOU!

COPE IS

GENERAL FEATURES

TWQALU FIGHTS RESERVED.

COL, FAW

FANAT

for

By Harry Weinert

WAS IT MY FAULT IF THE CUSTOM'S OFFICER DIDN'T TAKE MY WORD -AS ANY GENTLEMAN WOULD-WHEN I SAID

I HAD NOTHING DUTIABLE ?"

"GOSH! WE FORGOT

TO USE THE STATIONERY WE GOT FROM THAT ́SWANKY HOTEL WHERE TEL: STOPPED FOR A: SANDWICH A*

"OH. NOT

д

As things turned out, Petain destroyed, in The war the reputation le had won in the 1914-16 wur.

He become the symbol of surrender instead of resistance. Re was "collaborator" the terni Was invchted for him, if indeed he did not Invent it himself. The must charlinble explanation would be to say that he was senile and did not know what. he was doing. Petain War Indignant at this. excuse and Insisted that ho was in perfect command of his faculties.

CONDEMNED TO DEATH

After the war Pelain was veled, condemned to death, and had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. He died, still La prisoner, In his late nineties, Many people who had done extremely well out of the German occupation were glad 10 unload their guilt on ta Petain, Nevertheless: there was A case against him, and

a strong one. How could you condemn tho system collaboration with the Germania during the war without con- demning Petain himself?

of

to

Mr Bolton does his best and an answer. His book la written in that simple "old-to- the ohlidren" style which often serves to cover up a doubtful

case.

But what of the military. advleg which Petain "Cavo between the wars? Mr Bolton implies that he gavo none. On the contrary, Petaln was the avowed leader of the military " school in France which taught that the defensive would always. succeed. The generals, no the politicians, gave the French a false gense of security...of these generals, Petain was the chief.

It is how universally belloved" that France was Ill-equipped for the war." "This is a legend, totally false. The French army was superior to the Geryționa In every point except one. And, that point was the 'generals, They were no good.

No good, that is, at Oghting Excellent at political. intrigue. Excellent in, chuliding up m pletura of their simple moldlarly virtues. In reality they were. as smart the politicians, though much worse-át. their trade*,

03

Potain, was tot în surrender from the moment that seriosis. nghung started. Ho thought that Hitler was sure, bouwing and be wanted to get on to the

winning, alda aheng-of the