1958-11-29 — Page 17

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THE CHINA -MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1958.

gracious "welcome to your guests

GENSRALT WRITING ROOM

"I say, you don't suppose this bounder had our B.Q. taped the day we took those two A.T.S. popeles back for a quickie?”

Just Fancy That!

AN

Essex doctor who prescribed a bottle of

gin for a patient is to be told by Essex Executive Health Council that he must pay for it himself,

USHMONGER

F

William

Davies drove his van full speed for nearly a mile recently with the driving seat ablaze. His destination: the local fire station at Mil- ford Haven, Pembrokeshire. After the blaze was put out he carried on with his fish round.

AN all-horror progrankme

"Curse of the Face- less Man" and "The Terror from Beyond Space"-ended at a London cinema recently. And an usherette screamed. From a cardboard box left by a customer in the centre stalls popped a head and two beady black eyes. The Terror from Beneath the Scat turned out to be a 20- In-long alligator. An officer from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was caring for it last week.

A

*

RTIST

* ★

Salvador Dali

took an elephant to the

Eiffel Tower recently -

though nobody knows quite

why.

The Brilliant Boussac

How a

'small

bright

A RARE EVENT: BOUSSAC POSES FOR THE CAMERA AT THE DESK FROM WHICH HE DIRECTS HIS EMPIRE

flower' blossomed

OUR years before the

his

from Sydney Smith PARIS. port.

chartered

accountant's

That is as far as I got in the clary of Boussac and the little Empire desk of mahogany. Not collection presented to nic. 1 novier this £8,000,000-a-ycar an inch of it was wasted or empty; letters, notes, filcs, memos were all neatly fald out for studying.

"A few days later I looked at St. Laurent's sketcher for the next collection."

the

Oh, yes there was also the chouffeur of the Rolls outside.

told which dresses wetc House of Dior. For it was nine Dior's and which St. Laurent's. o'clock at night. The Boussac "I ordered an investigation building was empty except for into the sales of this collection. the Hifi man, the porter,

Laurent's boss, and I. St. From time to

he looked at time as

of the Dior talked, his well-manicured but terior decoration vital and restless hands would shop which Dior had made him move to square-off a document do." slightly out line or place, I have obtained, I quote

He is a small men with a pale, silvery, clipped moustacho the very lowest- £70,000,000.

face creased with lines Christian Dior's sud- He is the last tycoon of on a

Marcel Boussac paused and Tower officials refused to

old-fashioned style. He created by astuteness and bene- allow it upstairs to a first- den death from a heart Europe, old feste deputy. He valence, not more of one than said: "I chose St. Laurent. I the masterman of all bls the other. He could easily pass dhi so only on Dior's and my own opinion which confirmed floor cocktail party given by attack last year, Marcel is

as Andy Hardy's father. employees. There is

Christian Dior had told to launch a powerful Boussac, owner of the 25,000

that be can do

Then, as he told me the ex- what perfume known as "Gun-Dior fashion house, told cannot do himself.

traordinary story" have me." shot."

never told it to anyone before" him: "Start looking for

-I noticed this; through all this The elephant-reeking of the new scent--arrived in a successor in case you

story goes the caution and mid-afternoon, ridden by a fall ill or die."

Dali

Horses just a hobby

to

The first collection

nothing they

The 60-odd spinning, bleach- ing. weaving, printing, dyeing and napping plants of the Bous

serve that maka a multi- sac organisation belong

millionaire. -Warmth und Boussac only. The insurance, Dutch beauty queen in

Dior was then a vigorous 48 construction, repair and main humanity there is indeed - but

Advice? "Well," said Boussac, black and red tights. She

Army with creative tenance

that keep them sales-charts and results are part years, brimming

He of the double-check,

"As a matter of fact there are carried A giant plastic vitality and health, and this was running are all Bussac's.

Marcel Boussac says: "Nearly always too many people ready even controls a bank. model of a cross-section of a remote and difficult request.

30 years ago, to keep in touch to advise you. But I am known before Yel Just 18 months the

with the evolution of fashion, I to be rather cold on such mat- present Pope's ear.

death Dlor told his trogle. which, also for unexplained Boussac

bought a small fashion house 1 ters so no one dared to advise think

have

Paris. Twelve years ago 1 reasons, Dull considers # found him." And he named

needed a now designer, Chris me. One person did say: 'But he is only just 21. I replied significant new theme for Yves St. Laurent, then 19.

tian Dior came to peo me.

In that case ho ia only one his paintings,

"The 90 minutes we talked-year older than I was when I Today Yves St. Laurent Offciala

In fact, in the processes from analyses of the fashions of the hegan my business." circus presented two of his own collec- which lent the elephant ledons in the name of Dior and the raw cotton, which he is able previous 10 years were ab-

fascinating. His cri- And behind that first collec- Boussac has confirmed this 22-

to judge himself with a twist colutely her away with the excuse year-old boy is the absolute of his wiry little fingers, to the ticisms, his knowledge, his ap- tion of Yves St Laurent, only of taste were all last January, was Boussac him- a fashion that she might get a "chill creative master of

400 miles of Anished materials preciations in the trunk."

selt. "I went eight to ten times business for which he has he sells every day-there no perfect. rejected u casti offer of middle-man. Bousac takes all "The next day I decided he to watch it being prepared, 10,000,000 dollars (£3,570,000). It has been like that for just was too great a man for my Baked questions, watched, judg

Boussac's quiet, mystle on 30 years. Tho plain little fashion house. He was ed, valued. RATEPAYER at Port preselence which four years ago Boussac turnover today la like a tree which had to ba

£80-100 million (pop. 2,160), began to assure the survival of around

It newly planted and not grafted. certainty, Young St Laurent Just outside Toronto, com- the House of Dior by supplying year. He does not include in and breeding plains that the water sup-

A Credit

of the

the

ply is so foul "it even pol- Jutes good whisky to point where it is undrink- able."

The town council

has promised to sip a few samples.

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"My conviction became

I

was very moved on the eve of 1 told

unce more completely justified interests the biggest in the Finding an heir the first presentation.

The last

tycoon...

world,

He tells me: "I Inslet on a "I created the House of Dior complete separation of the two, with an initial investment of Horses are my recreation."

1,500,000 dollars.

He

Lim 'Don't have the slightest fear. You will be bound to be a success. He was"

Did the personally of St

hide the fact does not that in recent years the hand-out four years ago I re- Laurent Influence his decision?

Dior that all big fashion

on forcim textilo

"It had nothing to do with

rome profits of his stables have houoce of the past 50 years had it he told me quite coldly. In Last week-end Marcel Hous- allowed him to spend about

never really survived their in starling and

fact, I have the impression that dounders. Yet here was Bac told me how and why be £1,500,000

the created Dlor and is now sinking dollara

Flouse of Dlor becoming too big ho does not even know Yven St. to stretch yot much more than 10,000,000 machinery

a thing to go to less with his Laurent, But what does weigh, dollars ("that was only a seller's further the gap between him death or sickness. I told him apart from his artialry,

verdict on the young man pass- full and his textile rivala, price") on a sty boy of 22.

"In only five out of the 40 to begin loolding for a SUOCEREDT. ed on by the Boussac organisa- | "In the years between ho ton; "He has enormous' power

me, have my

But to get the full value from the story you should know just years," he tells

who in Morcel stables failed to pay for them- tried about 10 young designers and authority. He imposes his

Not ono was, what he wanted. selves or to make a profit.”.

what anti

Boussac,

The fact that he owne four pelvate planes and files on all Journeys longer than 80 miles, that he has five British-mado

Meeting Dior

"Eighteen months before his own will and his own deel- sions. He has faith in himself— death he told me he had found and a pamionato energy,” 'his successor - a boy, of, about 10. Bix months later I asked if

He puts the Dlor story in its he was still sure. He and The last home

Dior Yes,

Headaches (BAYER

Toothaches Colds

are quickly overcome by

CAFASPIN

A

H.K. S. P. C.

Needs financial support for the sake of poor children

Protection

limousines and the most exten- proper perspective.

Dior suddenly dis sive wine cellar (mostly cham- aftales,"

"When pays, "probably

Please addrese bo

that

communica the So does the fact pagne) in France... all these take up one-fileth of my appeared of coured I was are really enly measures of his business line."

awamped with an avalanche of second collection of St. Lauroni tions: Secretary, Hongkong tan increased the Collar sales hia He describes Dior es "the candidates for place, 1 own restraint and modesty, for

of Dlor by 20 per cent over the Society for the his strange instinct for being small bright flower" Milning know Dior's opinion, but I did fast, collection of Christian Dior of Children. PO. Box 2502 nhond of events has done these among all his mulüple concerns. not know. St. Laurent'a

Hongkong. things for him..

However, I find it is a bright ? *I know that he had created

In case I did not bellovo it-] Prenes send us your unwanted toys, flower which line a tamnover of jabout one-quarter of Dior's

Collection centro at rediffusion. last.colletion. I almost never of this endinant of great diff- Marvel Housese talked to me went to the Dior House, But ovily in faxilo sales Marcel péross a magalioent 101t, Wiras now I went and had the whole Boumno tossed across tile desic

A do, he is the richest man Sri France, perhaps

dr all about 20,000,000 ́¤ ̧ year.

Europe. Of all the careful patimates of his personal for

himself.

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