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ROUND-UP FROM RAGS TO RICHES:

Imminent

New York.

MERICAN doctors are on the veroot two sensational discoveries that could provide vaccines against cancer tuberculosis,"

The "Auccessful vaccine" against TD. may developed

within a few months,"

nald

Dr Justin Andiewa, an official of the United States Public Health Service.

He·ndded: "Is sponsors are very enthusiastic about it and are very rellable praple."

The

told a vaccine, he

WCE Congressional Committee, made from an extreet obtained when T. germs were bathed In wood alcohol. It has yet to be tried on humans, but onimal tests.

havo yielded promising" rtulis.

**mot

Dr John R. Heller, director of the National Cancer Institute, sald one of the "mojor break

produce a throughs" might vaccine against cancer.

He sold: The year which has passed since I last appeared before this committee has been productive and rewarding. Progress is being mode on so of us many fronts that many

Wese

THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1988-

FORTY TIMES

A MILLIONAIRE

by John Cottrell

A SHORT, tubby, vital woman of 76, with the face wor

diamonds, and emeralds

of a peasant sita in her New York penthouse looking worth hundreds of thousands of pounds," "Helena liked to take

at her latest acquisition, a rare and valuable painting. them out from time to time; to

She has a villa in the South of France, flats in Paris look at them, and Rio. The picture-gallery in her New York home alone houses over a million dollars worth of art..

Her name in Helena Rubin- nid, to help them keep their stein, and she owns all these youthful locks. treasure-houses because she has sold to women everywhere the precious secrets of eve:lastig

youth,

Helena still belleves in the'. scientifle approach to beauty, and spends all the time she can in her New York laboratories,

She dresses her products in pldiner packs than those of her

Her life is dedicated to deel we may be nearing a beauty With the millions she number of major break-through makes selling, transitory beauty rivals.

of In our knowledge

In the shippeof diseasen né call cancer.

"The search for the relation-tics, she buys permanent beauty ship between viruses and cancer in the form of pictures. Under- has all the elements of a good standably the buying and the selling give her equal antiptae. detective story,"

tion.

005/TD- "I attach more Importance 10- what goes inside," says Helena Within four years of those pohmiedly.

in her one-room Arst days Melbourne laboratory.. Helena Rubinstein was installed in her own beauty salon in London's Then sho opened a Mayfair,

Paris, and in 1915 branch in she invaded New York.

About the same time es was selling beauty Helena cream in Melbourne, Elizabeth Arden, her great rival, was founding her cosmetle empire in the U.S.A. Although both wonten have made a fortune out of beauty produels they have never met and if they did so, it is unlikely they would speak 1o one another.

a.

He was particularly, optimistic

Miss Rubinstein's vast come. in telling of one experiment on animals in which for the first de empire is believed to have time malignant growths have Belted her more than £40,000 been produced by a substance 000. Her cautious upbringing is probably responsible for the having virus-like qualities,

"I we were able to achieve fact that most of it is invested similar results with materials in property, works of art and extracted from human tumours) jewels. For these, as she says, and it this material should are things you can see and prove to be a virus-he will in-handle-not just figures in deed have made a major break-bank statement:

The Rubinstein fortune was, through." he said.

ww it should be thus founded on a Jar of face-erbam established that certain forms of lar she took with her to she was sent human cancer are viral in Australia when origin, it might then be pocsible there, at the age of 18, from to immunise man against the her home in Cracow, Poland. disease."

Helena had had on unhappy love affair one she refuses to talk about, even to this day Arden divorced her husband, and her father sent her to stay with her Uncle Saberfeld, farmer in Queensland. But life

Agitator

Alson.

For when the Arden and Rubinstein organisations were struggling for power, Elizabeth

Thomas J. Lewin, who was also a her star salesman. Lewis went to work for Helena Rubinstein

DR Salazar's most vocal but

unseen eriile, wito nimed in the Australian outback was Instead, and Elizabeth Arden his "defomalary attacks" on the too boring for the Polish girl, has never, forgiven elther of Portuguese Government through She missed the company of her them, prison bare, was sentenced this Beven younger sisters" and the week to another sixteen years in busile of a big town. So off she Krol.

Much-tried Henrique Galvao,went to liveller Brisbane, to be

a children's governēm. G2, novelist, playwright, pamphleteer and political .

prisoner, is the former

Army

captain, deputy and colonial

Helena married twice. By she her at husband, whom divorced in 1937, she had her *two sons,, one of whom followed cosmetic

his other into the Cinderella of the household

administrator, who was convict- In the 1890's a governess was ed of treason by a military courtly moré in March, 1953.

Hla sentence then for "plotting a revolutionary moye ment against the organisation of the State" was three years hard Inbour and fifteen years suspension of civil rights. Galvao corried DA opposition to the Salazar Government from behind prison bars.

industry. It is said that on her death the Rubinstein_musiness. will go to him.

a

Prosperous

Helena's second husband won than an unpaid.

Russian arlutocrat,, Prince Cinderella of the drudge, - a husehold, and young Ileleni Afichl Gourlelli Tehkounia, and found that she had no money was with his help that she

founded

sub- to spend on pretty dresses. aldiary-business-Tentatively

All the same, she was noticed: everywhere she went because of they marketed a few skin tonics and lotions for malo use. To her ine skin.

men clamoured Among the dry, sun-scorched their surprise,

then, and by the timo complexions of the women of fo

Prince

Brisbane, Mies Rubinstein's

She was not afraid of thieves, "Burglar comes, tinda the corsets and doesn't look further," she explained.

A famous pártrait of Helena Rubinstein by Graham Suther- land shows her wearing over-a Balenciaga dress several rows of

Her fortune

was founded

on one jar of cream.

Lady Penelope, eldest daughter of the Earl of Bonewit, was among the last of the Debs to be prosented

Despite the bitter wind she wore har latest sleeveless, backless, daringest design from Paris.

Courtelli afed In 1955, huge baroque pearls. On her. the small offshoot company wrists are bracelets of jade, on fresh smooth skin stood out like had become a nourishing con- ber knotted hands are enormour a flower in the desert.

amethyst - "-rings, . Diamonds "How do you manage 17 Cern in its own right,

twinkle at her cars asked her employer,

"With a cream I got from my doctor at home," said the Pole modestly.

That cream

Undiminished zest

Was

Because of t-health, he did not appear at any of the six secret hearings of the trial that -----ended

But under

The, cosmetic queen, is said to this weekt. Portuguese law the verdict had

own 20 pearl necklaces, and in Success has not made Helena her typleally flamboyant way, to be delivered in public.

Do Abet Neves, one' of

was the starting Rubinstein sit back and take she would thinke nothing" of Galvao's

She still works. three assvelates charged with distributing his point of a new career for the things casily.

and it still with the same zest che did when wearing them all at once. She owns one string of perfectly was given young guverness,

Ber subversive willings,

young girl, ex matched, black pearls. Sgures, lie a lucky talisman, she three years' imprisonment.

-favourite brooch consists of B In the vast list of Helene Perimenting in Australla, Rubinstein cosmeties today. She

She was one of the plonters single white pearl, almost. the herself carries a jar of it with

of hormone creams which, ahe size of a pigeon's egg, forming her wherever she goes,

claims, make middle-aged the body of ari: elephant, the "I would rather be without women look young by ckminat trunk and legs of which" are 1 new ruce of "North American food then

made of diamonds, mny own special ing lines and wrinides. . Gottles-soft in the muscles and cream" she says. soft in the head".

Asked

her

In the Australian

1950's, atier many by Professor C. H. McCloy, lead- friends for some of her cream, years of research, she launched great conversationalist and her

best-selling wrote home the young Helena

New Softies

Ollows.

EL

TELEVISION is producing

Ing United States physica! educationist, tad Ottawa TE- porters these television softies to Cracow

new

Helena Rubinstein Is. not. a.

cosmetic emotions are not "betrayed by for more supplies, line powder and, lipsticks verbal outbursts or even by the a special base of flicker of a, facial muscle-but- The fame of the cream grew, made from

by the increasing intensity of were in auch dreadful physical

her stare, which can 'Blrike shape that they were capable of and before long the girl from powdered dik taking, exercises. only in Bed, Poland had small-import

Women flock to her salons the terror in the hearts of these who world Over Professor McCloy, one of the business on her hands.

for alimming, work for her.. treatment, But. top planners of the physical

rejuvenali the 15-year-old head of the

Like all successful people she business confesses she does not is a perfectionist, and she expects her employees to be the obey all the beauty rules she

Brame. makes for her customers,

She admits she is too plump

set of bourne

niness programme of the United Scientific approach States armed forces, reported that his University of Iowa In 1802, she moved to Mei- office was preparing a

where she rented o personal wake up exercises" room for 303♫ month, calling it for the "chronically television her "laboratory". tired" that could be done in' bed. Those were the days when Head of the Iowa State make-up was considered sinful. University Physical Education Dut young. Helena Rubinstein you work you must eat.". Faculty, Professor McCoy said was not just selling coeetles.

for her.height. 4 ft. 10 ing

"I work," she says, "and when What the millionairess most

televisión has done more to She was applying science to likes to eat is, surprisingly, tripe damage hearts, livers, kidneys making women more beautiful, and onione. und stomachs thon

any hard. work ever did..

Television is dangerous to

She looks surprisingly young for her 75 yenks.

"No Woman need ever look. old, if she learns to look after her skin properly, and keeps a, sparkle in her eye," she says, Miss Rubinstein's collection At one time her father had of fabulous jewellery is the sub

Looking after her own com hoped she would become a doctor, but when she fainted at ject of comment wherever she plexion all those years ago in the physical and mental ntness the sight of blood, the idea was

she is usually Australia, has certainly paid goes,, because

Helena Rubinstein. of the race," he said.

abandoned. Now her early wearing many thousands North Americans under Its medical training stood her in pounds worth at a me. etultifying Influence had gone good stood. Because the d She once admitted to a friend to pol not only physically but vertised her products with the that she kept a fine collection of

montally."

ald of scientific data, women unset jewels under her bed, in He added: "A great many flocked to buy them. They felt an old Gladiatone bag.. senior business men have retired that at last someone was taking In the bag was a pair of Vice fargest business to be founded, intellectually in their leisure their problems perlously, and forfan slays, and inside them, owned and managed by one

me under television's spell." that science was coming to their attached to the tapes, huge un-woman.

ZANIES

of

Sho sits in her New York apartment today, surrounded by oil the evidence at her vast wealth, happy. In the thought that she heads the world's

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