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FIRST STOP ON MY WORLD TRIP..

AND FIREWORKS ALREADY

But Rome always

is a city of

MAKE no apologies for staying longer in Rome than I originally planned at the beginning of my round-the-world trip.

I love Rome. The beauty of Rome which la eternal (I hope). The smell of Rome. But which at the moment is mixture of garlic and early spring flowers.*

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But Rome is also the kind of capital where scandal and In- trigue ip eternal as well beauty.

The latest, of course, concerns British film star Belinds Lee and the Prince Orsini,

non-stop sensation!

*

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lets In the cold Roman draughts.

FWMEXICOD

HOLLYWOOD

PARIS

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It was my oWIL

It is here that you will hear red carnation, in buttonhole and the latest recular and non a habit of taking zout. I would like to report that the secular gossip about the Vatican.

takes He now elgarette belonged to a member About the love affairs of

his About tbe drug surreptitiously because he has of the black aristocracy, but I nobility. addicts. must be truthful.

discovered that some of his aristocratic customers suspected It is here that you will hear ho was sniffing something more

Anna mom the volatile

Magna potent and narcotic.

the

Safer

of

saying exactly what she thinks I RAN into Orson Welles, about Roberto Roswelling. And 'who is now visiting. Roma It she is in the mood, singing

Cho accompaniment with his Madonas-like to

Alfredo,

the

table-hopping. wife. Said Mr guitar player. Italian

Orsini-Lee to Welles: "The

affair would make ideal

the English prince, were likely to do melo- was appearing in dramatle things.

musical, "Zuleika Dobson."

As I was saying, Miss Cilento "I wouldn't say I was terribly is more than sympathetic

ed. I know a lot of people Miss Lee. It is a pity they have here are, particularly in Vatican not been able to get together. circles. But you must remember

Romana we

throughout the centuries have become

fairly conditioned to shocks like this,"

His wife, who hnd been

listening

MIN

VINOR tragedy among

the

minor tragedies of the week: elgaretta end which was meant

about the

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I PHONED Joe Adonis, deported American geebler He has the talent of making who has been told by the

latest Italian Interior Ministry that! events and he has, of course, he must hol Reave the produced одо about Orgin hamlet of Bones and to stay.

Erpos big olišem like

material for one of these up ditiles bad Italian movies,"

My only fear is that it and Lee, will be made.

Gamesto

AWAY Rome.

It is here also that you will

I asked him if he was upení. somewhat. uniater-

meet the owner and host who is,

an Englishman abottá being banned from estedly said: "I don't know Be to be thrown out of a car win- Most popular rendezvous in surprisingly.

Vernon Jarratt. An Rome. He said: “No, not as tho linda Lee at all. I never dow landed instead on my Rome for all shades of aria- called

with moment.. 1 guem if's unter Цр her while she was here, or before overcoat shoulder and burned a tocracy is George's, a restaurant unmistakable Englishman

blond Guardaman moustache, here." that, back home.

large, unrepairable hole which near the Via Veneto..

She was found the other morning suffering from an "I was a model by profession not mix with any overdose of sleeping tablets, and and I did later, when he heard the news, actresses,”

the prince took an even bigger I got the impression that sho dose and sinshed hin wrists did not entirely approve with, I presume, a crested blade, actresses, but she went on

of to

say: "I had one or two offers by myself to go into films, particu

larly here. In Rome, but I don't want to accept until the right one comes along.

I am more than puzzled the fact that Belinda Lee is one of the principal parties.

She was until recently any way-the least sophisticated Mr Rank's Pinewood stars.

of

Now here she is associated

"Given the right opportunity,

I would certainly like to be a Alm actress.

"But I would want to bo

with a scandal which has known as Wilhelmina, which is caused even the most sophisti- my second Christian name, not cated, razor-edged Roman's Ella, And of course I would

use Borghese, not Fudge." eyebrows to rise.

I should have warned her but

You can say "Ah, of course I didn't, thai as Wilhelmina these phlegmatic non-Latin, aho would be in danger of being Nordic-looking girls are much called Minnie.

more likely to fall ingenuously under charming and Italien influence."

Agreed. But I always thought

'The worst'

husband

DIANE CILENTO'S

Miss Belinda Lee was dull in the is not a prince but he is.a

greyest traditions of Anglo- Saxon dullness.

I have obviously been wrong

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member of the distinguished aristocratic and once extremely rich Volpi family.

Jack

Buchanan

the crippling cost

Sof keeping

J

a legend alive

swallowed up. most of the £24.489 shown as his gross estate has still not been sold,

less than a fivar. And the to was always more than generous.

IT happened with ARNOLD

BENNETT. When that famouK novelist died, in 1931, his wil was estimated at £100,000. Hs was the highest paid writer of his day. But he actually left only £24,000. Bennett, who *

wrote as well of the simple life, Iman. The silver-voleed in the info ilmoit

preferred the style of yachting

BICHARD

TT happened with tenor who earned £1,500 a week Jack Buchanan loved the sun- in bir heyday left only £2,472 shine too. One..of his biggest when he died a 1048. Said money outlays was on property Percy Kahn, his accompanist in the Bahamas. But becau for 15 years: "He liked living unike Noel Coward-he dia well, had permanent suites in not take all his money there the the best hotels, and was very Bahamas home : wae, not a tax generous."

refuge for him. Just a liability. apeat the other day searching into the high living

To-

Again the comparison with I Buchanan. Ho earned 24,000 a week at the top of his legend of Jack Buchanan. And at se to star of a string of I heard the Indulgent, chitokios,

kit musicals and films.

the defiant laughter that mich i Jack was fond of his yucarly man leaves behind. : trips to America. Ho always To the · small; -- crowded-

wife, in a luxury liner.

the Garrick Theatre. Old plays the blis

the He made 54 trips across

were on cost Memories were everywhere.

But in a plato, practical volos. Buchanan's manager, Me 00- bert Brown, "mid:" "Don't let

travelled first class with his theatrical offices he had above

one

·ACK BUCHANAN lived the sort of life that Jack can only be an envied legend to most people. His chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. His £22,000 Mayfair apartment. His yearly holiday trips to I have been talking to He is a slight, dark, intelligent the sunshine of Bermuda or the skyline of New aristocratic contemporaries and young man who said to me over unaristocratic visitors in Rome dinner! This is the

Worlds York, about the current *candal

Yet a cryptic, nine-line bulletin the other day on the Adantle. And pach worst city for scandalous gossip, and other things, First the Prince Borthern who mot three "Of course, most of it is true. last will of Jack Buchanan showed the crippling cost of 2800 each person,

ago

the long-stemmed Especially about black keeping up a legend. English bloom named Kila aristocracy."

Buchanan, the man who por- thriller-writer. But he was also. T happened with DEREK anybody, tell you that Jack did Fudge.

Mr Volpi himself le not

A prolife spender. His idea of IOURTES-BENNEXT. He was not earn much money during his member of the black aristocracy. sonided high living during There were no previous en- He explained that the "binck 30-year star career, left loss economy was to give ups May a brilliant Queen's Counsel who last 10 years.

He did. Big money. But he tanglements. They loved un-`was derived troback than £1,500 in hard cash-far fair mansion and rent an ea commanded top money for he spent and Ivath that way too,

work at the Bar. But Curtis. suicidally, married undramatic» cassocks of the Church

less than the average £1,000-a- tire floor of an hotel instead.

are hard As a result, when he died at Bennett also had a taste for these will figures nily, and so far have lived. Miss Cilento, who han just year career man leaves; ·

the unrefined facts. All that is not so hard in happily in a pink villk along returned alone from her zauve That may shock the people the peak of his productive refined luxuries,

ho left £140,000-in cost of West End Elving. When in the memory of friends." the, Appian Way, t

To the Buchanan fiat fo Australia where she gave birth who envied Buchanan hide taloof to Volpi harem (the seven bonair way of life. It did shock debts. There is an odd parallel ho died in 1956 he left £4,419.

He left no will.. But every. Mount Street. A polished The prince, 29. bendom wook-old Glovanna) said the the people around London's there with the last economy of

door bell, A, trim "mala, to dark-haired, and who donios the

Up until his Jack Buchanan.

penny that he left was swallow- fashion of other Roman princos was very upset by the tragedy West End who saw, and en-

Buchanan's lovely American by having a profession (arch of the black aristocrat Erince vied, his devil-may-caro way of death he was planning to move od up in paying up the debts of ser it. But Susan, make,

wife, was not there. tecture) as well as at title, wald tree to Belinom Loe, a graps-spending money, is that all he from his all-roomed fat in, his high lift.

thered that all Maytale's Mount Street In that sort of role, in partie she has gone to work tu an me: "I don't understand Lee.

à pontheime fat in lixo as well as to the public, all-too-familiar

bought the She had driven out to son hillar 17But it this buring about Prince Orsini, who is a friend of mios, at the nursing home where sading to the lives of so many Gromaner Square Ruskond. But there was nobody to equal Jack advertising agency. Boon She was under treatmentbart of this bigerpenders. The cost 3nd price of the dream bot" Buchanan. From his pearl-grey will say goodbye to the and Belinda Lee

had been unable to see hory, or keeping up a legend so often was £22.509. It is one of the triby to his hand-made shoos that haunted by the

a Cilento mid she had sizo leaves more debts Than disting most lavishly luxiftious show he at off the discreet expens cost of koopdog up a legend

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