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The amiable grumbler

London.

E nipped across the

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vor

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road for what Tre-

Howard calls Chinese Worthington, but we'd hardly got the glasses to our lips than he was sent for.

He yelled as if he'd been bitten, but went. He is a very amirble man.

Back on the set of "Mament Danger" he said: "What on earth am I going to do when i ean' come to the studio?”

The Alm is ending and Mr Howard will be thrown back upon his own resources. I don' think he trusts tain own TC-

Pourers.

"I get restless, awfully rest- lets. So I ro abroad. Some. how when you re sliting at home. you feel you're wast- ing time: when you're abroad you don't:

I have seen descriptions of Mr Howard's face-milly involv ing the word "sandulasted”—but to me it

First-World-War

face, The sort of thes the port Hupert Brooke might have de- veloped if he ilved enough.

Something?

long

I cald to Mr Howard thpt he Founded like a man who was Looking For Something.

"You're a frustrated adven- turer," said the indy publicist, odustringly.

"Oh, I dunno," said Mr Howard, "I wouldn't have minded being an explorer, but there's no money In I. "I nearly got a Job at Harrods once wrote an essay on how I'd reorganise the children's

partment. Perhaps sett me out to

TREVOR HOWARD "He yelled, but want."

By ROBERT ROBINSON

Don't need a drink there," said My Howard, fasgaing, "every- thing's so mysterious. Here you

delak to make have to have a things mysterious...

I sah: "Do you like drink?"

Drink

He said: "Everybody likes dzik. But don't make sound drunk. 1 only drink when I'm elated, I can't drink when I'm murose. It they'd everyone a Buenas eluding me. I make a noise when I drink, but it calms me. It's like pills to the Americans."

have Aires to sell umbrellas,"

He looked the surt of games. musler who harris up 11 the older-fashioned school story- looked up to by the boys for his sporting manner and his military peal.

went to America twice the last 14 month," he

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brooded, "west round Europe

-didn't take long. Went to

Australia, Didn't take long vither.

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Full

makes

better person, in-

He was called by the director, and went to get his scene.

much about him m his absence, I feared she might go on fire. He came back.

THE CHINA MAIL,

· FRIDAY, JULY, ⋅ 10, - 1959, ·

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"Which d'you suppose ho's going to like most-telling him we've set fire to his field or asking him for some water to put it out?"

Sam

White's Paris

Newsletter

De Gaulle's claret stumps the experts

The lady publicist enthused TIGHLY controversial gift as far as wine drink

ing is concerned had been taken by General de Gaulle on his State visit to Italy last month.

The gift, intended for the President of the Italian Republic, Signor Gronchi, consisted of two bottles of Mouton Rothschild 1869 presented to de Gaulle by Baron Phillipe de Rothschild.

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"Most of my lims baven't

think I'll go to Tunisia., heen box-office," said Mr of mystery-marvellous. Howard cheerfully. The Indy publicist trembled like a leaf.

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"Because I have played sa many failures. People don't ike to go to the pictures to see people who are failures.

"Also," ald Mr Howard. absently, "they won't go to see films with snow in them. You can't sell snow.

Generally, a first-class claret Phillipe must have sampled it from an exceptionally good year before sending the bottles to can be drunk up to 50 years, and General de Gaully.

That age Berious wine drinkers would consider it un- drinkable.

over

uble wine.

much 'Exceptionally rare'

more optimistle on the subject, open a restaurant for mon sald: "I have never had the only: "Good idea, but it pleasure or honour of tasting n

not work hore, 100-year-old wine but if this would wine came Gut of Baron Frenchmen would just loso

their appetites.” ' rhillipe's remarieable cellar, it must be very good.

"A wine which has never Tallest travelled, which has been looked

after by generations of devoted employees, and which has always been kept at the same tempera- lure, can nge very well," New corks

M. Pommier explained that f

Singer Edith Plut has returned

long stay in lo Parks after New York, where she suffered seriousness, to confront psychologists with an Interesting problem.

Wilh. years she is now 44--

grow

"Usually boliles of wine of such age are more of a souvenir than a gift of good wine. Such The question that is agitating very old wines are usually either one hopes to preserve wines to and with liness this urchin-like

a small fortune here is whether worth connoisseurs

or such a great age they should be gure seems to become more and The bouquet of such decunted Into new

bottles more diminutive but as she Goneral de Gaulle inadvertently nothing. had taken to Italy an undrink wines is likely to be exceedingly every 30 years and a new cork almost visibly shrinks in size so

friends men -the must important factor her light."

alaturg, On the question of whether put in the bottles.

Ifor latest man friend whom Apparently Baron Phillipe's 1830 was a good year for claret or not, a vital point in estimat cellars at Mouton Rothschlid are she brought back with her from the various ing its chunces of survival, M. regarded as the best in France the United States is a 20-year- Bulletins from

and it any miracles can be per- old painter, Douglas Davis, He banquets at which these two de Fonroe-Mercier was unable bottles

were to throw any light because re- formed in the matter of aging ie Bit. 7in, and Mlle. Piaf, who Lasted

thunt is only 5ft., lin. barely reaches cords of good and bad years to wines gently, it is there anxiously

for scanned

far us 1884.

they are most likely to octux. indication of the 100-year-wine's back unly

A ralely recent Rothschild guest was Sir Winston Churchill, £40 a bottle

Who was served an 1870 Mouton Rothschild,

"Too many inhibitions, that's our trouble. And too MENY

laws dama

anet too hypocrisy. I teck old Dorothy Dandruft"—his pet name for his co-stor, Miss Dorothy Dandridge to the airport and

couldn't

drink. Ridiculous Fortunately, I ob tained a bottle of brandy, wid

quality. distribute it in WAS able to

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Meanwhile, the highest winc in France, M. de Very authority

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of the Bordeaux Wine Academy, has handed me down

A grumbler, but

alable, As lee a man as

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Sir Winston wrote in the guest Some 50-year-old Bordeaux can still be found in some rare book afterwards: "1870 was the Paris restaurants and they fetch year disastrous for your arms £40 or more a boltle. For older but glorious for your wines," balles no prices are given.

A leading Paris wine wailer. who is a highly

a cautious interim verdict.

Ile said: "I must be quite exceptionally rare to rd A 100-year-old wine in a drinkable M. Pommier, state, but of course,

Restauratour Claudo Tor-

Baron regarded authority, was much rail (on a ruggestion that he

Canadians

plan a gyroplane

TWO-SEATER "gyroplane" which, it is claimed, will be able to take off and land vertically, cruise at 160 m.p.h., and be as easy and safe to handle as a family car, is planned by a new Toronto company to sell for about £1,800.

The company, Avlan Indus- sale to the public as the answer tries, has been formed by 11 to big city commuting problems. skilled aircraft engineers, head-

ed by Englishman Mr Peter The "gyroplane" differs from

rotor Payne, who lost their jobs when hélicopters in that it has

compressed the AV. Roe plant at Malton, blades powered by near Toronto, closed down re- air jets for landing and take off cently.

but uses a rear-mounted pro- peller for forward flight, when the rotor blades servo as wings.

who was tha

In Mr Payne, flying charge of developing a similar by September, and the Cana- type of plane for A. V. Rou

'Commuting. Antwer

to have It is hoped "gyreplane" prototype

dian Government IB asked to order the models to help with ment ecals.

being claims that the "gyroplane" wil can first few do everything a helicopter develop- do except hover, but is very much cheaper to build und operate and is much easier and Then, if the plane is sue safer to y cessful, it will be put into mass production and offered for

-(London Express Nerųlen)..

hla elbow,

finally the Davis

London Express Berviço.

LET

giant-size Douglas architectural gem is by now well over £1,000,000. This will pro- vide the Niarchos family with their one permanent homo in Europe apart from smail country house in the Savoy.

seem 49

It would almost though as Mulc. Plat's chrch for security grows, so R becomes more and more identified with extremely tall men.

on

Poet Jean Cocteau (on being asked to lecture poetry): "It's impossible for me to discuss the subject because a poot who talks about poetry is as ridiculous as a plant reading a treatise on horticulture,"

£1m home

After his latest romance a chart can now be drawn of Mile. A small 18th century chateau Pini's romantic tre ever since in the centre of Paris, which she began to be famous.

the Greek lanker-owner Stavros It began with a boxer, the Niarchos bought for his wife three years ago le now nearing late Marcel Cerdan, who was a

in the elaborate modest 5ft 8in, switched after completion his death to Eddie Constantine, restoration planned for it by its who is 5ft 10in.. then Jacques present owners, Pills (5ft.

her 11.), then gultarist Moustaki (ort.), Yves Montand (Oft. 1.) and

I should say the total amount now Niarchos is spending

on

this

Most of the priceless Niarchos art treasures, especially some splendid post-Impressionist paintings bought from film star Edward G. Robinson, have been moved from the Niarchos yucht into the house.

of

The curtains alone for this hours have cost over £300,000, Specially-woven lace for the boudoir, which is a replica the lace used In restoring the private apartments of Marie Antoinette in Versailles has been bought at a cost of £18 a yard.

The showpiece of the house in the exquisitely panelled door of the long gallery.

General de Gaullo: "IF

the country does not follow my advice, no human force, evon my own, will ba able to put things right.”

not

-London Express Berolce),

Tak ! tsk! Shocking the way these British behave in public, isn't

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