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Queen Victoria Wanted
All The Details...
—AND NOW HER PAPERS THROW NEW
LIGHT ON A CROWN PRINCE'S SUICIDE
By ROGER FULFORD
THE ROAD TO MAYERLING, By Richard Borkeloy.
Macmillan. 25.
NLY the dullest English tourist could visit without
remains of the proud House of Habsburg.
however
•
distressing
I
THE CHINA'' MAIL,
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1968.
NANCY SPAIN
Hey, there! I'm excited
ALL THE BOOKS 'I BRING YOU TODAY ARE GOOD
PUT in a telephone call to Surdinip because I'd always wanted to know what it is like to be married to the Diplomatic Service.
Great excitement. Mad galety whimsy, And the result is could see the hot, windy, sunny and wine drinking. I thought I deeply touching little book.......
It contains, as well as all this. place quite clearly while I was good sentiment, two marvellous shouting my questions.
snapshot -pictures of other "Oh yes," she shouted back. famous Americans: John Bien-
where. My situation, in the wanted Spanish callers by
MR. HOLLOWAY IS AMAZED!
I Used To Pick Up A. Couple Of Bob From My Old Monologue Records Now They Have My Face On Those Flashy Long-Players
RECORD ROUND by RAMSDEN GREIG
The visitors may ramble gather, round the colline of these they may be,"
For at its sombre digajd personages; there are 12 apparent strength the Austro- emperors, 15 empresses, 113 Hungarian Empire, by the end Imperial highnesses and one of the 10th century was reating voices and knee breeches.
I don't mean the old pre-war stuff: all hushed "Of course that idind of black, beek bursting from his hired TANLEY AUGUSTUS HOLLOWAY was in foundations. Any
marketing still goes on every villa in Spain to see oft un- philosophical form, "Don't," he said from governess resting beneath a va broken
frir-minded historion would confusion of crowns and have to give credit to the Crown
I mean real down-to- Soon the is bribing dress book, is dreadfully true to life. screaming, in English, Buttered behind the tobacco smoke that hid him and most skulls.
Prince for realising this; he was atomic-earth nowadays makers with whisky, tea, supor, But, my characters are really least!...Burl Ives rustling of his drawing-room from view, "don't ever try when we never know which all ordered on her husband's imaginary. For example, Milly at midnight among delicatessen to trick life. Muck abaht with life and a is
little bit of Europe is going ning lato donger going out of a minule though, I am in the pickled herrings, sausage and multitude of troubles will descend upon you. Take to blow up next...
bounds to buy illelt smoked book....I'm Clarissa the little Boston cream pies, and leaving life as it comes. If you are destined to become a almon....soon she is build girl who ECCS through
her his litter behind him so that in
the morning, says Kantor: "It success, you will. It is merely a matter of looks as if Henry VIII has been waiting."
All comerK
pause for minute's silent prayer be fore the collin of the still- loved Francis Joseph, with his murdered wife on his left and his son, the subject of this blography, on his right.
Good sense
a liberal in a world of renetion, in fact he once step to perdi tion was the first step to perdi- tion.
"Iron discipline
Like his contemporary, the VISITORS (Collins, 188.); Crown Prince in Germany and to by Mary McMinnies, that some extent like the Prince of gives the whole dangerous, sympathy with the prevailing Blightly soiled atmosphere ideas of his Court and govern- to perfection. meal.
Walen In England, he was out of
Nuan chit....soon she is run certainly
isn't me....Walt a paper bags, eating potato salad,
entertaining the Yeomen of the Guard in one small kitchen.**
I had just been reading a ing up much a false picture of mother...." really first-class novel, THE herself, poor darling, that she and imagining a nice American is queening it at embassy parties Enchanting journalist is in love with her, Do you remember a ghastly
book called
But unforgettable really is the "Andersonville" And her which won a Pulitzer Prize for picture Kantor. In spite of him
its author MacKinlay Kantor? self. gives of Kantor; a warin- thousand splintered pieces the It was all about a vicious con- hearted idiot who like so the age of 67. loaded Nan orders are pointed cans built for one another in the to a dog to tear.
centration camp that
many) willingly gave his heart out by his chiet,
A
He isn't, of course. cream world breaks into
day that her husband's over-
The tragedy of Mayerling The nuther gives his readers Mrs McMinnies's husband shooting box hear some idea of the iron discipline is actually in the Foreign Vienna where the Crown the Austrian court when he Service, and is stationed remlads them that, although, the Prince carried out a suicide Emperor was broken with grief right now in Cyprus, holi- pact with a 19-year-old girl alter Mayerling, he went to pay daying in Sardinia.
the body, -hus attracted a number his last repeets to of very bad books. All the more welcome therefore are the restraint and good ненне with which Mr Barkeley has approached his subject.
For Milly lures her husband his job, and (ironically) the American his job too, Mitly and her husband are briskly removed Jaking his sabre and gloves, Wani | M.rs McMinnies moves from further temptation, he noi blding fivewell to a dead around with him from place brother-officer?
to place. So she really knows
The Crown Prince came to England several times and was friendly with both
Queru Victoria and King Edward VII. In private letter he jokingly complained that
Was it real?
Ameri-
Favourites
America.
Tho
To Stanley Holloway the I am down for another before
I 20 back to sweet smell of success comes to his patient nostrils at money apart, Aims give me the
opportunity of speaking new Unes for a clunge.
REDISCOVERED
DOING
recording
those
gulk
"It is simply" aald Mr Hol- loway, "that Mr Harrison and I have absolutely nothing in common."
Forty-odd years ago he "And, of course, I've been Civil War. Well, I remember
was being paid a pittance rediscovered to entertain in seaside con- garden is quite rosy."
artist. Yes, everything in tho it all right, with shudders.
And here La new book by the
cert parties. He travelled same man, LOBO (W. H. Alten), Finally, THE JAZZ MAKERS.
"Apart." I said, "Trom Rex which is one of the most en- by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. to his work on a second-
Harrison?" chanting dog books I've ever (Peter Davies, 25s.)
I greatly hand bicycle. rend. It will probably be a enjoyed this collection of essays
ROYALTIES little classic.
about my favourite musicians: Today, when "the chore particularly the one about the of appearing in My Fair "If you are referring," Stan- Watched
what she is writing about.
Lobo, a big, heavy nondescript immortal Thomas
"Fols" Lady" is over, he drives a ley Holloway cald, "lo As well as Cyprus, since the poles have to stay on, scrabbling Montemar Worrier,
But of course the aristocratic thing described by Kantor as a Waller, who began
fe as a Sunbeam Rapier to Fenn in us that there is a serious was picked parson's his lifetime In
the Prince, war she has been in Greece, a living faith their smashed up by his distinguished master Bach on the organ, but actually Bucks where the mansion tell you that they are
Ron, longed to play
rift between Rex and me I can who was only 30.when he died the Lebanon, and Poland. country. Milly and her husband in Andalusia, Spain. When he learned to play the plane the he calls home is built on without foundation. 10 1880, WAS scrupulously
and the American were only was actually writing "Anderson- way we love accompanying the three acres of lawns and watched by the Austria Her story, which is most "vicelora."
ville."
silent screen. police: his letters were read brilliantly handled, with just
woodland. and every movement was re-enough romantic comedy to This is the explanation of the Each day Kantor and Lobo Fals drank a pint of gin ported buck to his father. But make it. bearable, Is fairly title of this really exceptional would set out together in the known as "My liquid ham and even to be regularly contri- obviously set in Poland, Milly, book. However stupidly Milly cor, Kantor with his typewriter, eggs" at the beginning of a the Queenbuted anonymous but vigorous a frivolous, empty-headed Mme, may have behaved she still has Lobo breathing heavily and en- recording, a quart half-way, and Thero was a time when ho
I changed the subject to one fondled him when Investing him
pollucal articles to the Tagblatt,Bovary of a wife, arrives in (1 a chance of retaining her bat couraging his master with bared a reserve with the Gurter "Axing" her-
quart was always could not afford to smoke. To that is closer to Mr Holloway's which were found by Mr suppose) Warsaw to take up a ance,...Not so the wretched feeth. elf." (He presumably
under the piano for after,. In day when there is not a clear heart than Mr Harrison. Wo~ Berkeley in the Vienna archives. new appointment. She has two dispossessed,
this way he wrote "Honeysuckle in his mouth the band, as in Victorian tates
"there
talked about the money that No doubt the Prince inherited, children, one of whom, Clarissa,
Ruse," thought correct for
"My Falc in Your cigarette, claraped in a It was fo
silver now goes into his bank account, through his mother, a strain of sees through her mum like a
Hands," and "Ain't Misbehavin"" [tipped hölder. the Queen to Ax the Garter).
mental instabilty, but reaction-pane of glass,
So Indispensable did the dog's in two hours 45 minutes. His
Stanley Holloway sald: "I am personality become to him that favourite tune? "Abido Mr Barkeley's book gains in aries are always eager to brand
He Almost
can talk of film, stage sold to be pulling in £500 Milly Mr Interest through lis having seen their opponents as "mad."
Is
Ktor took him
It week from My Fair Lady, I can back to Me."
and recording contracts as successfully shows plunged into the world of the The private paper at Windsor Barkeley
they grew on the tree in his tell you that half of that zum about the Prince. The Queen's that the Crown Prince was not dispossessed aristocracy, who are
My telephone call discovered America, where he died, alas, of
mark." contriving (without hope, Mrs McMinnies in a crowded called heartworms.
semi-tropleal sickness THE TROUBLE WITH THE own private wood. For Stanley would be nearer the rather morbl curiosity about the erotic playboy imagined by
IRISH, Leonard or future)
Wibberley, Holloway they do. to live cafe In Sanin Teresa de Gallura,
However, add the film com- such things s
He said: Muller, 168-Entertaining, here the his enemies but a man of Intel money,
course I can't pontes contributions for outrageously on their wits and Sardinia,, where (she said) tho But not before he had con- and there genuinely witty history accept the telegram which
stage offers at the work and royalties from gramo their chic.
entire town had turned out for quered all hearts-even mine. hook that takes us right througti moment. Milly is bewildered, fascinated, their nest international tele-...For Kantor writes hall in love with them.
of his Irial history from A to Z. Crom- "Film offers I still accept. I've phone records and you will phone call for weeks.
And that Stanley pooch without sentimentality or well, the Black and Tans, the lot, Jalready made one this year and Holloway is not exactly crying Augustus
Into his champagne in adject poverty. -
incans
есть と許し
by sent
la ligence and ideals, who was the Ambassador in Vienna driven to frenzy by frustrallon
"Pray give all details you can
-London Express Service),
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
E-EE⋅E-K!!!!
nt chce
Well, 1 was longing to find out exnetly how much of this story, which reads so truly and con- vincingly, was real.
some
How To Tell
No whimsy
with
By Harry Weinert
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM?**
SEA SERPENTS ?
THE OCEAN
IS FULL
OF THEM —
ASK ANY GIRL-
ON LAND
THEY'RE CALLED
WOLVES.
YOU'LL KNOW IT'S INDEPENDENCE,
DAY
BY THE CALENDAR.
"NO FIRECRACKERS,
Is 4
HEARTY
filen
Those record royalties, apari Trom being a welcome source of Income aro also R source of Įnoma, amazement to Mr Hollo-
way.
He said: "I have always been able to pick up a couple of bob frem my oki 78 r.p.m. mopo- logie records. But now, be... cause of the success of My Fair Lady they have me performing оп expensive long-players-- with my faço on the dashy, coloured coVETB.
"Theyto even selliner 'in America where before My Fair Lady anyone was entitled 40 ask Oo the 'eil Is 'Olloway anyway?***
Hear him on 'Ero's 'Olloway (Philips 33). Not for Stanley Holloway! of course, the big
guitar and tiny voice. His renderings on this
one
hearty, and are delivered in 3 volce as fruity as Dundee cake. Fifteen tracks include Let's All do Down the Strand, My Old Dutch; Any Old Iron, Who's Your Lady Friend,, All good nostalgic stuff.
YOU CAN TELL IT'S A DIVE
BY THE SPLASH —AND THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER BY THE SQUEAL.
BIG ED
STOP
AND THE PLACE SURROUNDED BY HOT RODS IS WHERE YOU'LL FIND THE LOUDEST JUKE BOX
OOH, 194 MY GINTIAL PRATURES
CORS, THE WORLD & Wms kemena 6-29
SPECIAL PIZZA AND
YANKEE FUT ROAST
CAH MISS MAH BABY AN CHITTLIN£*
GRAVY...
YOU CAN TELL A SINGER BY HIS GUITAR—
AND IT'S TIME
TO CALL IT
A DAY WHEN THE GIRL FRIEND
DOESN'T
EVEN BOTHER
TO STIFLE- JA YAWA,
TUE publicly blurb Liat
companies a duct by Marion Ryan and Gary Miller called A Couple of Crazy Kids (Nixa 78) 'reports that "although Miss Ryan pays up to 326 guinens for her stage KOWIE, Ther undasily cost her only 24/11." I can tell you that the record is gay and bottney and is a good biy. However, I am still uninforined us to the price of Mr Miller's underwear.
PREPARING to leave Britain
fa: another tour of Iralia:
Aug-
Winifred, Atwell, saidi
to have made. £4,000 a week on her last visit. She leaves bohind Lazy Train (Decca 20). Leirurely but preciso Plano work.
YOU WILL KNOW THE
FISA ARE
BITING WHEN THE LOCAL BOYS DISAPPEAR
CLOSED FOR AWHILE
the
KIFFLE is scuttled by
pride of the coffee Bara Nancy Whisky, In Hillside in Scotland (Oriale 78).There is not 'a washboard to be heard. A plendent ballad this one......
--[London Exprem Service).
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