Today's dandies
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY
1950, 77
mainly for men
(with a lot a woman can learn, too!)
have a new address...
London.
THE other day a stuffed-shirted friend of mine tried to persuade me that we are a dandyish race no longer.
I took pleasure in pointing out to him that he, with his Brigade of Guards tie, starched collar, discreet pin-striped suit, cambric handker- chief, clove carnation, rolled-up umbrella and curly-brimmed bowler hat, was, in modern terms, wholly out of fashion.
To see a well-dressed man today it is necessary to stroll, not down Bond Street or around St James's. but along Upper Street, Islington, the Harrow Road, Greek Street, or the Lambeth Walk.
it might have been ercet starched collar, that The young gentlemen who whose
designed for the parade these neighbour- inches high, had until then been especially
her femillar adornment of the approval of
father, Lond hoods wear drainpipe trou a
Curzon, sers to show the leg, pointed Liberal Front Bench, appeared September Italian shoes to show the one afternoon in foot, multi-coloured waist. 1939 wearing a soft one. coats as plumage for the That started a new era of in- breast, short draped jackets, formal lordly fashion. But the to show the hips, with per- trend hus not gone far enough. hape a velvet collar as a finishing touch of fancy.
Expelled
It is true that, since the in- troduction of Hfe peers, the eye may be gladdened by the sight
by LORD KINROSS
of US Was
As for the members of the satin, which one
wearing. House of Commons, I saw Mr Aneurin Bevan the other day,
Cornered, ho defended himself at lunch
fashionable with a sword, almost In a
Bevering restaurant, wearing his napkin the thumb of a man who later tucked into his collar, like 0
became a Socialist Attorney- bib.
General.
It is true that he was eating Moules Marinileres at the time.
Hut still, a bit more especially of Lord Boothby, resplendent in as Socialists, I have noticed, a pink shirt with a spotted bow- tend to dress even more cor- tie, sharing on entire cross-servatively than Conservatives. bench with the equally massive but
Lord Killearn.
For more informal oc-
less colourfully dressed A casual brightness in male casions they affect tightly-
the after cut jeans, atudded belts, that I have once seen
It is true also costume appeared
in the 1914-18 war, and had come to tartan shirts and leather Chamber Lord Cholmondeley, stay by the end of the war. Jackets. They, apart from the Lord Great Chumberlain, We helped to start it in the Mr Cecil Beaton, are the wearing, in the midst of a heat-twenties at Oxford the place dandles of today.
wave, a white silken tropical
where all fashions start by suit.
always slipping into something loose. We wore baggy plus-fours und Oxford bags, some 2010. wide in the leg.
My one regret is that this fashionable style of costume hoa falled, as yet, to penetrate the House of Lords, a body whose members should surely epliomise the glass of fashion, If not the mould of form.
Discreet
But there is not a drainpiped leg, not a drape, not a shirt of many colours to be seen,
Ja
On another occasion, following
bump supper
Balliol College, I was deprived, by
1
Apart from
Ceall Beaton,
the new
dandies are
la Grzek
Street or
the Lambeth
Walk...
School.
Sometimes they, wore brown similar mob, of Rubstantial ones, which at my school we portion of my Oxford bags. I used to call Good Godsters. Mr claimed-and to my surprise Waugh is a dandy of the Old
quince obtained damages of a from the Junior Common Room, Today, gentlemen prefer, in order to show off their figures, to climb into something light and less esally removable.
Lion coat
Evelyn
They ke also to show off We also introduced the roll- their heads. I no longer own a top sweater,
of the hat
fact which. in place
deeply coller and tie. We were known shocked my
frlend as the aesthetes, and as such Waugh when I last visited him proused the wrath of the in Somerset. He met me at the Nor has the Introduction of
station in a ladies relieved this
athicles.
car, built high somnure,
On surtorial atmosphere.
one memorable election enough to enable him to wear a
top-hat if he wanted. night the athletes surged Lady Ravensdale, aristocratie through the city like some re+ Normally he wears a Lowler This epoch came to an end in profile and impeccably calft- volutionary mob in on unsuc or, as he prefers to call it, a tallor- cessful endeavour to remove the "hard hat," 19 The pre-war Crewe, made sult, so dark and discreet opera closk, lined with crimson dandies did.
From this noble place the late Lord Curzon once expelled the son of a peer, seated on steps of the Throne, for wearing
a light-coloured suit,
with the when
the
outbreak of the war, ed, wears a
the late
Lord
well-cul
LO
AN
I have known him slip up only once in a sartorial sense. That an overcoat. was when he had made from the skin of a lion acquired in Abyssinia.
The other day I..otlended, with sorrow, a memorial service to an old and valued dandylsh friend, Jack Beddington.
Afterwards, with three friends
of his, I went for a drink, as he would have liked us to do.
One of the three wore a top- hat. Another, John Betjeman, mildewed brown saft hat, which had been sat on and trampled on and punctured with moth holes.
wore
The third, Osbert. Lancaster, a dandy in his way, wore a black
GOURLAY
A countess * moves into the
world of celluloid
IT
(and already she's learning fast!)
WHO KNOWS AND TELLS IN HIS UNMISTAKABLE WAY
WAS the kind of room shown in those glossy magazines as a setting for the Top People, Mirrored fittings ar wallpaper with a bamboo motif transformed what the Victorians built probably as a maid's hide- away into an elegant sitting-room for leisured Elizabethans.
- A room to relax infor
people
exhausted by the effort of not; working.
But of course, though We are basically no more egalitarian than the old- time Elizabethans, every- body works at something, nowadays.
With a few exceptions, like Lady Docker, there's hardly a titled lady or gent who hasn't taken a job of one kind or other.
Some do it for financial reasons, Others, like the Countess Jellicoe, who was entertaining me in her Bel- gravia, home, do it to com. bat boredom.
Upturned
EARL JELLICOR NO FILM
"It's fun. It's amazing
you can do with glass."
what
Behind her a wall, mostly of
glass, looked out on a fashion abla tiny garden yard, where flowers grew only in a box.
The wall and; in fact, all the Interior decoration of the room were designed by the creative
First film
nnything.
"No_1_deni_know. about the him business. But
trying to learn. I don't want to be just a figurehend.
"We want to make nima about real emotions, About 'real people who love and matry, who are kuppy and unhappy.
Not here
The countess, who was born and educated In Shanghal, considered her own 15-year-old marriage. Six months ago she sued her husband for restitution of conjugal rights. He is the son of Admiral Earl Jellicoe and
godson of the late King Georgą
V.
With a wave that embraced the whole house, she said: "The- fact is my husband is not living here any more.
►
can
columnists, is suing Cary Grant, one of Hollywood's older leading men.
soft Anthony Eden hat, though with a much narrower brim than the one that that political matinee idol of the thirties used to wear.
Stylists
Onl, I was in fashion, since I wore no hat at all,
Hair styles have taken the place of hats, and indeed some of the hair styles of the ladies are indistinguishable from head geor.
Today tho fashion no longer patronise the gentlemen of barbers of St James's but the hair stylists of Sobe, slipping round the corner conveniently to buy their clothes in the Choring Cross Road.
Alas! I cannot follow them. For I no longer have hair--or a
gure.
-{London Express Service).
JUST FANCY
THAT
Miss John is, of course, a loyal of tires Socialist too.
She came back from Russia, where she represented Equity in the trade union delegation, with an unusual ambition-even for
nighte
In a row fires mysteriously broke out In wooden sheds outside the house in Trento, Haly, of the beautiful Gluliana Morandini,
For three nighta Giuliana and her family cama 'running out ́as alarm sirens blared.
And each time fireman Luigi
Hyams wrote a series of re- tealing articles about Grant for the New York Herald-Tribune based on several interviews.
Grunt then lasued a statement Socialist. alleging that the articles werd "That's the place I want to Dellaciamo was first on the spot, inaccurate and that he had retire to. Lite begins tor a quickly and smartly subduing never even met Hyams,
actress when she's over 60. I Now Hyams has started an met one who's still appearing reach the house.
the flames. before they action slander claiming
But the continuing in damages.
"They don't really respect and cidence raised suspicions.
bas confessed Film stars often sue columnists accept you until you've been now Lulet
(raising the fires. but this is the only case I can acting for years...and years,
He had recall of a columnist reversing The situation
for
700,000 dollars (about £250,000) regularly at the age of 93I.
could
coln-
And
to
Воед courting was considered a slip of a Giullannot will the occas wanted to it's man biter der It's new girl-You know, on a couple of the wished-and
Occasions 1 oven got weir impress-her-with-Mis kk!!-Wed whistles when I was walking | bravery. along the stroot.
ROSAMUND JOHN 7.
SHE GOT WHISTLES
"Imagine, at my age."
Miss John is in her early
forties. But, I'd say, still whistles
able fortles, even to a 1100- Russlan whistler.
Depending naturally on the age of the whistler himself,
ONLY ONE
༄-
SKED
about .a question Mount Logan in the TV
Your This Is programme Chance," actress Maria Landi answered:The only Logan I know Is Logan Gourlay, famous
columnist," ·
"But I don't want to make
I am indebted to Mim Tandi, any comment about separation COME-BACK
who is a promising actress. She or anything like that. Lol's talk
is also a higlily successful model about something cise.
Lake OSAMUND JOHN takes up under the name Maria Scarads. nima?
I ber
another name her acting career, again She has Supported by a mound of
Obviously the countess is not after "rosting" for over three married, samo-Mra Sportoletti multi-coloured cushions, she sat
planning make a film about, the years. She has a loading part in Baduel. in one of those modernistic countess.
ilfe of Earl. Jellicoe.........
deserves, One good turn a.new whodunit which opens in chairs which resemble an up-
I asked, her li she had in London shoriyanta pema
another. Bo, I, slate unkestating- turned fish basket.
Jy: that she is one of the most vested any money'in 'ber inimage Looking like a lady of infalte She has just ventured into company. She stood up looking. She told me: "I was involved attractive women I know, And Coleure she talked about her a new business which is at least as slim as, but more shapely in a bad car accident and I had she is "the only Sportoletti now working life which started partly creative. She has be- than, the bamboo poles on the to stop working. When I got Baduel I know. about a year ago when she was come co-director of a small in- wallpaper.
A better I decided to be the dutiful ..dependent Aur company. Their She said: "No, I haven't. And wife for a bit "When the children were still first fim, "Serious Charge," had I don't plan to put my own at home I was fully escuplod. Its promlere recently.
money into any of the sims. have, four you know-iwo boys She told me: "One of my
Obviously the counters, has and two girls. The youngest la co-directors is the widow of already learned the first lesson six- now and the oldest 14.
General Popski-you remember on how to be a real live im "After, they went off to school Fopaki's private army?
prodtider. Not Just anything, though, make a fim of his life. HE'S SUING.
40.
T had to find something to do. "We formed the company to
Bomething fairly creative,
wonderful story but it has to be.
That's why I took this job done on a fairly large scale. Bo
"But I had to start again SIGHTS of London: The before I got, too, frustrated and Japanese womais before I froyo my husband mad. Albemarle Street wearing And I saw so much, acting her full native costume of good acting on my recent kimono with broad obl and trip to Hamsia: I couldn't stay: wooden-soled sandakı “id but La away from it,chuch, tonnée -iron her hond, a black; bust-
Harthibandaya ika, som man a bowler halty A son of Lord BUKIRA DOCK PATRZEGA one of the dive? Bodille tandkirs for fetching un ensemula an -Younger" and better Amari- Nottingham.
I've seen in many aqrosk,
with a glass firm, advising them we decided to make nocne-mpal- JOE NYAME
on design and decoration.
lor Almas Arst, .
M Secretary to the Transport R John Hey, Parliamentary
Ministry, arguing ngeinst back- ward-facing seats for airliners In the Commons aid ateliners often turn round during crash, "in which case the back- ward-facing seats adopt the position cf forward-faclog sects."
-(London Express Service),
POCKET CARTOON |
| by OSBERT LANCASTER
|
MERCY
KILLING:
I know what it's like to be asked the fearful question
By DR. HENRY ERICKSEN
THE controversy over mercy killing reminds me of an incident when I was a young doctor in the wards of a famous London hospital.
One of my patients, an ping rapidly from re, 10 elderly schoolmaster, said to lengthen the set of dying, me: "I want you to promise To stive officiously to keep me something.
alive" by running the gamut of transfusions. Injections, or
any
"I know, whatever you may remedy that could conceivably any, that I've got cancer. I'm be used, is a path no doctor likes
to follow. not afraid of death, but of
the pain getting
worso,
When it gets unbearable, I Impossible want you to help me on my way.
A promise
I gave him that promise readily, all the moro so na I knew it was one I should not have to fulfil. He was already, dying and receiving those very drugs he Was anxious should not be with- held from him.
For the majority of us, it
But the deliberate shortening ⚫ of life is another matter.
should not like to accede to any request to do so,
Certainly not in the case of a child or a young man or woman. They can recover against seem- ingly impossible odds.
Nor, necessarily, in the case of
· person suffering from an incurable diocaso,
There are many people today, who have incurable blood dis-? eases or inoperable cancer, Life is still precious to them.
is a fact that when death Reluctant
Is very near, our Renees will be so dimmed by bodily failure and, perhape, by. They have much they want to tressing symptoms that, as leave it soon. drugs given to ease dis. do. The savour of life can be all the #weeter when you have to Lord Horder said, the end of life will be a dream state rather than a true aware
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What is a doctor to do when he is asked by a patient or a relative to put someone out their misery by an overdose of lethat drug?
His duty
of
In practice, he will be guided
may
Unhappily, every doctor has patients who suffer such intenso
pain that, in order to relieve it, he has to prescribe large doses of pain-killing drugs that must inevitably hasten death.
A doctor's vocation teaches a be allowed to suffer pain. But him that a dying man should not the declalon, when that point has been reached, is his alone.
After all, such decisions are an inescapable
of the part doctor's calling. He is trained to make them.
by two principles, though his Interpretation of them
What he is reluctant to do is differ from that of his colleagues. to be the agent through whorn to take upon himself the right
Rightly so, because the doctor life is taken away. knows his patient, and his assessment of the eituation is the material his conscience has to work on.
The first principle is that it is the doctor's duty to prolong life.
As the great Lord Lister mid in the middle of the last century "It is our privilege to care for the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit,"
Today it is a privilege doctors
The second is that it is not his are still humbly eware of. duty, when the patient is slip-
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