1959-01-24 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL- SATURDAY, - JANUARY 24, 1959.7

Gourlay

AROUND THE CHAMPAGNE CITIES IN JANUARY.......

ROME, Friday

where I find a tribe of

titles... and a princess who

can't stand a scandal

FOUNTAINS, of course, spouting soft water from unlikely places. Beautifully proportioned figures, sculpted in bronze-and flesh, Bluish skies, even in this leaden month of January.

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Streets narrow as a string of spaghetti. Smells that are a piquant combination of garlic, French scent, and black tobacco. Motor-scooters spluttering noisily like argumentative Latins.

And princes,

All this is Rome. Plus monks in black and brown cassocks. Hordes of princes and princesses, minor princelinga, marquises, counts. A tribe of titles,

I always get the impression after a few days in Rome that practically everyono hag a title except the American tourists who are hoping to carry one.

la Practically everyone member of the black aristocracy which can sometimes be 1

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pointer to their morals but is in fact a reference to their Valiens origin,

little royal figures of Goya, said in perfect unaccented English: "We have all the Old Masters down here on this floor. We live only two floors left of the family paluzzo. The rented off."

rest

daughter Gemella.

Princcas Maris It was a ball of the reason and any other season.

Invitations were strictly whose to aristocrats Is Imited

black escutcheonts were stain- I ssly white. Anyone involved in divorce, dope, striptease, or any other kind of scandal was definitely out.

She considered the present state of the Roman aristocracy, its size and its scandals. "Maybe as you say, we have too many leg and not enough moral

I went to meet this sea- son's accepted leader of the scruples, tribe, the most respected mem- ber of the Roman aristocracy. the Princess Elvira She is Palavincini,

Standards

A butler wearing the Tegula tion insult and a pair of silver (silver I think) buckled shoes, phowed me through a succession of salons hung with Old Masters, before we came to the inner Kalon.

There the princess walled and more Old Masters-Botticellis Titians, a Valasquez.

The princess herself, who looked like one of the charming

Invitations

"I do not like to be called the leader of soclely or anything But I try to keep like that.

up the standards and set an exemple,

The troubly is that when one single member of the aristocracy does

soraething scandalous we

are all branded as depraved, dissolute, and debauched. I om do not forgive the ofrald. offenders easily."

The unforgiving princesa recently gave a coming-out ball for her beautiful 18-year-old

Several princes who knew they would be out found it con- venient to leave Rome hurriedly cn business,

The non-invited Included the Prince Orsini who, last year, it was alleged, tried to cut his blue-veined wrists for love of Belinda Lee, the Rank Organisa- tion's English rose now plucked from Pinewood and trans- planted in Europe,

nbout

depicting a muscular, bearded nude gentleman being enticed to Elysian pastures by a bevy ef nymphs.

Feudal

"Ah," she went on, "all I con

do is carry on trying to main-

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tain the right standards so that we get respect from the less privileged people."

suggested that perhaps her attitude

little old- Was fashioned and feudal,

I am fully "No, not at all. aware of my responsibilities to the people in our estates and villages. But I want to raise their standard of living, not lower it. It is the only onswer to Communism."

The princess said journalism

successful marriage.

QALDI

GOURLAY

side Rome, is hoping anxiously for bigger parts and bigger salaries, His. estranged wife is rich. He is not.

was a difficult profession for Incidentally, in the film Belinda plays Lucretia Borgia, which must be the biggest miscasting

Her mark

I said I was married to a non- Journalist and had never been near a divorce court except as an impartial observer.

"You must come again. And bring your wife 10 dinner when you come back to Rome."

"I

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Princess Palavincini said;

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Prince Jin very Orsini; he was a very good friend of mine. Belongs to one He was of the best families, charming. Handsome. Intelli- gent too. But he behaved very stupidly. Most unfortunate for his wife and chlidren."

The princess looked sadly, and obviously, at an Old Master

Little police force

is keeping

crime at bay

RIME figures are showing an upward trend all over Britain, but one of the country's smallest police forces the City of London police has reduced some types of crime in the square mile which they patrol.

deal. It would the greatest reduction helps a great

And

is in a type of crime which not be so easy in an area like 10s always been one of the the Metropolitan Police cover." City's biggest problems; thefts

from offices.

The crime Agure for the cent two per City was only

In the City there are 15,000 higher in 1958 than in 1937. offices with a daytime

work-

ing population of 750,000 people.

Figures for

crime in

the

City in 1956 show an increase fur below that over the whole country,

A

The City Police, pioneers in

crime prevention scheme,

zay the drop is due largely to

the work of its three crime

prevention officers.

,

Six-Year Plan

Chief Inspector A. Mac- Gregor, who is in charge of crimo prevention, says: ++Six years ago we started u Crime prevention scheme,

"An Inspector la ottached to each of our divisions and he calls at all business pre- misa arid advises office managers, and heads of fins wtint precautions to take to

revent crime.

Warning

"Te thore in an outbreak of;

a specifle type of crime, such is a trickster obtaining gouda from radio; chops with dud choques, of theerline preven- the tion officer good to all radio, shop and gives the pro TRILÓT, KD4 tai hie dostrip Lion and warma-lamm to watch

Podiminals have

A drive to bring down the number of thefts from parked cars in the City is in progress

--(London Express Servlov).

now,

Quote

-by Housing Minister Mr Henry Brooks, writing in the Hampstead Conservative:

is good to hear case after case of people who, having been obliged to move by the Rent Act, are now happy that they have done so.

All the scares about thousands of evictions, put about by So. Mialists and believed, I 团 afraid, by some Conservatives, have proved completely ground. Iess.

by Mr John Baker White, former Tory M.P. for Canter- bury:-

WE

E must not sacrifice British agriculture on the altar of the European Common Market and then wake up one morning to realise we have torn a great gap in our defences.

London Express Service.

CASTRO'S

DEMOCRACY

I was in. United, unblessed, from mere Presbyterian Glasgow but practically a mem- ber of Rome's Black but stain- Jess white aristocracy.

Sabrina visited Rome recently on her way to Australia.

She made an entry in the visitors' bonk in George's Restaurant (which is run by an Englishman with it Guards moustache and which specialises in French food).

Sabrina's mark is difficult to identify. It is merely a drawing of her face.

Enterprise

Sophia Loren, banned from Home for what the authorities call her bigamous marriage, has been offered the leading part in a new film by art enterprising producer.

The film is called: "The Bigamist."

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Here's a short

of the year.

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53,000 Every Year Through London Airport: Price £7 A Head

The big money in the flying monkeys...

RE

ECENTLY the 590 monkeys who survived the mysterious illness which killed more than 200 of their fellow-passengers, on a flight from Ethiopia, arrived at their destination in Canada.

The tragic story brought into the news a little-known traffic that now sends 53,000 monkeys a year through London Airport,

The reason why n batch of monkeys should beard an air- plane in Ethiepia and blithely scl out across the world to Canada has nothing to do with their recent Gwing into the headlines

painters and cccrpants of sockets.

st

His bound up with the lucra- Ilve business et supplying the medical research stations with raw material,

Polio vaccine

While it is not certain what happens to the monkeys at the other end it in known that the Ilving kidney tissue can be used fer cultivating the polio virus from which the

is vaccine produced.

Because of itis, large numbers

by MARK CHRISTIE

three times a week with cargoes solely of caged composed monkeys. Each airplane can hold up to 1,000, and the average for the past two years' cargoes has execeded 4,000 a month.

ments of all countries involved in the "mankey traffic." One by one these countries Recepted the rulings fald down by the sociely, and have, for a long timo abided. by them.

The animals travel in cages Ethiopia, which ha just made partly of wood, partly of joined the market, has etili to de wire mesh, with metal. feeding approached, and, after last trays. Between two and four week's disaster, this will no attendants make the average doubt be accelerated. 48-hour journey with them, feeding them and attending to the rare enses of airsickness.

Monkeys usually stand up well to transportation, and nor

ally the fatalities amount

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of monkeys are seeing the world through the windows of airliners only one or two per cent of the today, travelling over continents total cargo. and almost niwaya passing ihrough London Airport. Unfor timately, their tours are always to one direction.

The

53,000 monkeys

that

Safeguards

BOAC is in the business in a big way. The animats it carries are held in cogoa 39 inches.lodg 20 inches wide and 19 inchés high, in which frem six to nine monkeys are carried, depending

un their size. Airplanes carry whole loads that it to say, the entire airplane is taken over.

Two trained attendants go with each dight, which takes about 30 hours to London from. The conditions under which India. On board the animals passed through London's airport monkeys are moved

from are fed about three times on a last year, on their way to con- country to country today is a special diet prescribed by the tribute to research acress the triumph for the RSPCA Mr Indian Government and consist- Atlantic, camo from the tree- Fred Salmon, manager of the ing of a type of grain. An air- tops of India and Pakistan.

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They included Ithesus and all animals in transit,

monkeys. cyncmologus Java types from the Philippines, and the little vervet monkeys from West and East Africa,

PRINCE MASSIMO, awaiting settlement of the court action separating him from film star Dawn Addams, says: "It i essential that i have custody of our son. He must be brought up as a Massime." Miss Addams has rented a gat

in Rome to lead her separated Thailand and Singapore, and society's alport animal centre, planeload of monkeys consists is at present drawing up a of 150 cages, containing about life with, she hopes, her four-the Philippines.

manual for the packing of 1,400 animals. year-old son. It's in the Massimo Palazzo. Only a wall soparates it from the prince's apartment- blck wall. MARQUIS GHERINI, member of one of the oldest families, now owner of Rome's most

night club, fashionable Pipistrello. It means the Bal The marquis, who is 28, told "I inherited a fortune from my father, but I lost most of it in Italian, Alms. I had to get some of it back in the night-club business. Bome of it,"

me:

'Price war'

Since 1952, more than 473,000 through monkeys have come Lendon, Between April, 1950, and January, 1057. India alone exported for research purposes 150,000 monkeys, of which 120,000 went to the U.S., 18,000 to Canada, and 8,000 to Britain. DE PRINCE PUPPATO

The monkeys brought India n SEREGNANO, frequent cus-. tomer of the Pipistrelio, part-total of £600,000, or just over £4 a head. Siner that period, time resident of Capri and friend of Gracie Fields, sald; however, there has been a "price trappers end "I only know how to spend war between money. I do not know how to make it. Luckily, I don't have to. I have enough.

"I have been married three times, once to an American. All we Italian princes have to marry an American.

Once

officials.

Annihilation

an

Recently the price for Indian monkey went up to £7 a head, and even £8 was being Ometals RUSPOLI,asked and felched. former dance of the screen's complained. Trappers said th

had driven the Mara Lane, sald; "I am stay-monsoons Ing out of the limelight and colonies into the hills where it

was more difcult to works. studying my books.

PRINCE DADO Debrett

on Roman

He studies astrology.

At any rate, there has been no

happenings LADY JANE VANE-TEMPEST-drop in trede.

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OFFER up-to-date calendar of activities of other aris- tocrats in Rome.

FRINCE ORSINI, now liming as a swordsman extra withi Belinda Lee on location out-

(pt Nkrumah's

DEMOCRACY

STEWART, imported aristo. crut who has spent nine months in Rome (mostly in the the company of untitled but rich aluseppe Bores, known by the nickname of Baby), İs

sill in hospital with jaundice. She said on the bedside tele- phone: "I don't want to see anyone.

I look terrible." -[London Express Service).

When a scientist claimed that

Rhesus monkey was being annihilated as a typo bạ- cause of ita user in research. the statement did not cause any appreciable thitler of con- cern in the "monkey market"

Tralle has become so heavy that icday there are freighter: services travelling as often as

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At London Airport the animals of the first to beneût are takes to the RSPCA centre done by Mr where they are cared for until from the research Salmon was the air travelling they are reloaded on a chartered monkey.

trans-Atlantic freighter Represtatullons were made to carplete their journey. India House

the govern-

-(London Express Service).

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