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Length: 41"

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TRADE MARK

·THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 20, · 1968.

SAMAWHITE'S PARIS, NEWS OFFER

Sharp-eyed Mme. Grueber spots the phoneys

Henri Thread, and it is dedicated to is one of the leaders, which

her one-year-old daughter.

Paris. playwright, the Jato is now 10 years since Bernstein.

Sho

bears

the curlous christian name of George as testimony to her inther's dis- appointment at getting 0 daughter instead of a son.

Ipainter Francis Grueber died at the age of 36 and at the peak of his reputation, In the intervening years, diligent copy ista have sought to multiply his out- put at least five-fold.

Tracing these fake Grue

purt- bers has become the time voluntary occupation of his widow.

Mme Grueber attributes her strong sense of purpose, which she shows in many fields, to

psychological The

elect DZ bearing a male christian name. Grueber had been painting for several years before she married him, and the Anancial value of his work rocketed Recently she returned like that of so mDN13" other from a Sothoby sale in painters during the war

when paintings London at which a Grue- Occupation, ber

was put up for sale, seemed the best investment in

an iosecure world, only to be withdrawn at the

Inst moment when Mme. Instructive

Grueber denounced it as a fake.

MITIC. Grueber derives n pleasure from this melancholy takes her to urt tuak, which sales all over the world.

She attends the sales solely

hope of acquiring gemuno Grueber to add to her own superb collection.

in the

and

"No." Is it autobiographical? she told me. “But it will mention some ot the striking

events which have marited my life in the past two years,"

"Such as?" I asked. pf course, my becoming mother," she replied.

Golden Boy

secured his election.

Choban-Deimos is the alter of French politics whose Boy amazing good looks almost give him the status of a fim star among women voters,

"Well,

I

Ile is, apart seɑm that, a mán with a remarkable scholästig re- cord and a Resistance record which made him a brigadier-

Reneral at 23.

of

E Man of the Week is 42- year-old Jacques Chaban- Deimos, who has capped the Bordeaux at

An MP at 31, Mayor

32, and Cabinet most brillant career in post- Minister at 35, he seems to be war French politics by becoming successful in everything he Parliament.

QUOTES

Actor Robert Lamoureux: "Love? It's the effort.

one man makes to live with one woman."

A parliamentary commentator: "You can tell the now MPs in the House by the fact that they apoldy

the Speaker of the French touches. He is also a first-rate gise when they brush against an ulier,"

tennis and rugby player.

vain. ambitious,

but

He defeated France's WHT" time Premier, Paul Reynard, for He is the post, and thereby frustrated likeable. de Gaulie's wish to reword the

He was Minister of Defence han who launched him on his With his stark, sad nudes, political career.

at the time of the May 13 revolt Gnieber WDE the direct Of

the delicate past at the time. But. precursor of Bernard Buffet triumphant rew de Gaullist he walked the tightrope with Ind 110 doubt a similar party, of which Chaban-Delmas superb aplomb. popularily among copyists await Buffet after his death.

12

Mme. Grueber, a woman of considerable wealth,

daughter of a famous

Mme. Grucher's expericnices

Grunbers imeing fake

instructive one.

is,

The artist's painting life the covered only 18 years and she has recorded an estimated 200 of his canvases, He never kept a record of his work.

French

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21. Boat. (0)

22. Young airman.

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On one occasion he tore up a prize-winning painting just before it was to be collected for exhibition as the winner of the 1047 French Notional Art Prize.

Fake Gruebera vary from direct copies to vulgarisations of his subjects to make them more salcabie.

Thus u lanmous oude of his, watch became known as

"The Venus of Buchenwald," was in one instance transformed into a fully-clothed woman enjoying a game of patience,

The first time Mme. Grueber found

Grueber Take was five years ago during a visit to New York

New Venture

the

A friend invlled her to see his collection of her husband's work and

seven among

guine Gruebers she saw one recognised as fake, an opinion which was later condamned br the lact that the dale on it coincided with

i period when Grueber was too ill to paint

Later a Paris

gallery un- wittingly achieved the distinc- Grueber Son of putting on show which cluded 17 fakes.

Mme. Grueber belleves that the Industry in Lake Gruchers la stimulated by a Paris art dealer who handles many of the falves. Eva Bartok, Aiming in the South

taken of France, hay time off to start writing a novel.

1ts provisional title is

The

course, it was

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

(No. 5533)

Flume 15 new problem by J. E M. Crampton (Bury St Edmunds). White to play and mate in three moves.

London Stpress Service

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The role of the Speaker of the House is an infinitely more Important post In France that in Britain.

(London Express Service?"

JACOBY BRIDGE

on

THE unlucky expert staggered trumps and East won with the toward the window. For n kl. He returned the queen moment I thought he was going of clubs. 1 won in dummy and to jump, but it turned out that led a diamond to my ace and non chalantly returned the nine all he needed was some fresh air to give him breath to tell spot. West went into a short his latest sad story.

trance and eventually produced the king. I ruffed in dummy; discarded my losing spade on the second high club; came back

He said, "I know I bid too much, but look at the defence

If anything happened to de Gaulle during his presidency Chaban-Delmas would be in they gave me. direct line of succession.

West opened the Ave of

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0 generate half cumbent egg?"

Kippinge horse-power an hour,

and the photographer, Mr Dac The account of this machine dy, agreed that Mr Kippinge whets my appetite for the fly had himself been recumbent. Ing-wheelbarrow, which will be To avoid being out of focus, he suspended under a fireballoon had inin full-lengths on the floor, inflated with hydrogen gas, on so that his face was level with the model of the one in which the egg "A most extraordinary

commented Pilatre de Rozler made his proceeding," aserat over Paris in 1789. The admiral. wheelbarrow

a Financial note brazier in which hay will be As a prophet, he has been burned to keep the balloon in very rapidly proved wrong. The nir, just as sarp bubbles can be made air-borne by keep- lng them warn Need I

say more

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have

Mr Kippinge's explanation

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(Morning paper.) "Smalt prophets and quick returns," as the whale said on getting rid of Jonah. Disappointment for

THERE

millions are despondent faces this morning. It has been

that the armounced

B

with the ace, of to my hand spades; led the jack of diamonds ard discorded from dummy. Hij sa

"East won with the queen and led a club. I ruffed, but West was also out of clubs and over- ruffed with the ten to set me,” short-

As usual, the unlucky expert scientist's had been the victim of inspired of eggs, he had acte instine- playing record of a

the "hella" to

moon, and the play. tively and without forethought.

Without a trump opening Admiral Sir

Tealtic bouncing back of the word he would have been able to ruff Horace sald: "I suppose you realise that "hello" was only an echo. It was out all his three losing diamonds ndt someone in the moon reply- and wind up losing three trump by choosing the front row you completely blocked three eggs

ing to the greeting. "Call this tricks only. Without the king the space age!" whined a dis- of diamonds play on the second second row, which are

diamond lead he could have let missing from the photographic gruntled youth. record." Miss

East take his queen before he Froppstead, re- presenting the Graders' Union,

would have a chance to give his asked. "Where on earth was Mr

partner the club overruff.

in the

HOLIDAY SPECIALS

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of conveyor-belt motorways with a long line of traffic, one car behind on- other, as in the bumping-races

Nevertheless, the unlucky ex-" pert had bid too much and really on the Isis, why not have very, wae lucky to find a dummy that

very

wide motorways, with the would give him any sort of play cars in line abreast, advancing for his contract.

with all the discipline and pre-

cision of a 100-mile-on-hour÷CARD Sensek♦

ballet, and sweeping all before

them?

Printer's frolic

Dently he took Вет face between his hate.

From a serial. Wensleydale con-

...Garth gratulated himself on his fore- stylt in wearing two hats for his dinner with Maris, He had suspected that they would come in handy an buttresses for her rather heavy face....Placing the bowler on the left side of her head, and his trilby on tha right side, he held her face, as

Q--The bidding has been: East Soulti West

14 Double 2

Pass

?

You, South, hold:

North

24

SKJÓT VA QBE OK 195 % 40

What do you do?

A--Bid three diamonds, Ton only have 13 high card points, hat your distribution is excellent and your high cards should be. well placed. Also, your partner does not havo to bli again,

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner docs bid agairi

do you do now?

it were, in a vice. She winced | and his bid is three spades. What

as the lining scratched her car.........."Mavisi” la sobbed..

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