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THE CHINA MAIL,

WASHINGTON

FINAL TEST OF THE SERIES

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1959.

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>Paris Newsletter from J.W.M. Thompson

Now De Gaulle is

Paris.

AMONG his other pre

occupations, General de Gaulle now finds his “government-engaged...in... a quarrel with, of all things, the Folies Ber-

Kupe.

For merly a laundred year: tow the Poles and the govers- rosat lurve got wining together etty well, the Folies pursuing their own antrammelled ways, and the governmen! enduring Hs up and downs as best it

Rent rise

involved with the Folies

Art problem

cows stamping into the Louvre Every day see the polygot

tu look at the Incomparable col- lection of pictures there,

The trouble arises from the who have surely never thought fore. Frater has just boosted nation the import quota for Scutch to etivities of one of the "Com of it in the light of a

nearly double the previous which plixed industry. missions of Economy"

However, the commission amount, anyhow. te foking coldly over all sorts

their opportunity and of public expenditure and assels Boized

demanded a whopping increase In France just now.

The commission was quietly in the rent, M. Derval rebelled, inquiring into the worth of So a legal battle is in progress.

If the Government are not various odd properties, such as

lighthouses and old satisfied with the outcome they disueed

may decide to sell the property barracks.

disused light- Then it came to light that the along with the which

houses and barracks. So twist of history, owns the Fulles Fubes bullding, to

It they do it should give scope Bertere building,

Ita MADA tourists have flocked for

in many years had, in a round-to some enterprising take-over fancies bidding national gentleman who

for something little different was probably say, from Harrods,

1 wits interested to learn them surprising to

the Folies come would be to most of the patrons how

they have fallen puf- Now

honey. For it seems and over that the governaiseni, Üroush a

present economy-conscious mood

it wants to put up the fetil.

M. Paul Derval. the director

way,

about property, tuo,

become

of the Foltes, tells me he has The discovery

expressed his wounded feelings

In practical way--by going to law about it.

as

as

of this celebrated institution, government

Headache

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The Widows Of Speed

ARE the deaths of men like Jean Behra and Ivor

Bueb worth it? Most men will say Yes. Men will say that men like Behra and Bueb belong to that special class of man who hold death of no account. They live-and die-in every generation. They build empires, win wars, break records. All the time they laugh at danger.

But women, who count little of such glories, are the ones who are left, alone, to weep. It is a forbidding list, the number of women who are now left alone, the widows of the race track.

There was Segrave (who died on a Friday the 13th in 1930); who conquered the world of speed on land and, unantisfied, turned to water--and was killed.

His wife, Lady Segrave, had been one of the prettiest blondes of the Gaiety chorus. She liked the quiet life later, but always she was sensible enough not to let her fears obtrude when her husband faced some momentous task. "A tenrful.and nervy wife might make him wretched," she said. (And much the same thing was to be said by many other wives later),

SECURITY...

But it is nut only, merely, a lust for speed that drives a man. There was burly Alberto Ascari, one of the greatest-ever, who was killed four years ago. He had a wife and two children.

He died thinking of them. Ile had just left one famous racing firm to join Lancia- beenuse it would raise his pay and, he believed, ensure more security for them. It WILA the second genera-

-by.

JEAN BEHRA-He followed Hawthorn,

Donald Gomery-

tion of Ascari women The night Museo died the ....Men like Stewart Lewise

to weep his father too had great Fangio's wife wept Evans, who died at 28 at been killed on the race with Louise.

Casablanca, leaving track.

but

ly a year ago I was with a mother, Mrs Alleen Mos. Surling's mother. Peter Col. lins had just been killed. Said Mrs Moss: "I wish he would give it up....I know Kalle (his wife) would like him to retire."

But Stirling was saying that same day: "No, I'l not give it up. One has to do what one feels one words of a must." The great man. Yet....

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A year before, after the widow and two children. death of another racing The coroner, offering sym- There was Luigi Musso, friend, Eugene Castellotti, pathy, said: "This is not dashing young Roman, Mrs Fungio had appealed to only from the court who was killed in July her husband to give it up. from all who realise that

His wife He

went on. But after the motoring industry of

The other night Katie Broad- Musso's death he heeded her Britain owes a great deal to

was comforting an- once renewed plea. Today Mrs these men who take such Moss

Fangio is a huppy woman, great risks. It is, perhaps, other widow of the truck, some comfort for years of Mrs Ivor Bueb, young,

sweet-faced Belly....

last

year. Louise, a former way actress, had wald:-

"I hate racing. I'd liko for more than anything him to stop. But he's the boat. I have to put up with it."

THE GLORY tears.

Sometimes there are no

but mothers

There were smaller men wives. in fame, but as big in heart sweethearts.

Is the glory for men in or this sport really worth the It was exact- tears it brings for women?

If you had this man's

London.

Recently I spent some time PEING one of these

a part of the gallery which the public never enters, Liike other great art collections, the Louvre is embarrassed by hav ing more pictures than it

show.

enti

3,500 In It bas at prespat reserve against 1,200 on view.

property. by the This situution has disturbed Andre Malraux, the recently It seans the land , was be- queathed to u hospital in the 16111 century. After various ovolutions, the hospital, all in existence, is now .under the control of the Ministry of Finance, and with it the Folies.

When he made his bequest, the donor said he hoped his plous charity would help to save

his soul and atone for his sins

on earth.

As the odieni who unearthed this bit of information for M remarked with wonder in voice: "Just Imagine!"

hiz

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Of all foreign tourists coming to Paris this year the Gor- mans show a bigger percent age increase than those of $18.00 any other nationality,

18.00

Germany have so far this your sent more tourists here 18.00

than any other country 25.00 except the United States,

Last year Britain ranked 7,50

next to America.,

9.00

4.50

1.00

Scotch is best

appointed Minister of Culture.

́Although there is a long-term plan to expand the Louvre ex- hibition space that many of there boarded pictures can be thewn, he is impatient for results.

He has just come up with the unexpected idea of exhibiting the cream

this vast TERVE in a massive new building here normally devoted to industrial exhibitions.

Reserves

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people with an enor- mous potential for doing nothing -money's the only obstacle - I fail to understand why people who can afford to do nothing don't.

This puzzlement has been forced on me by Huntingdon Hartford, the handsome

millionaire grocery umpteentimes, under whoso soft smile and Bofter

money would

you still work?

HUNTINGDON HARTFORD

BY Patricia Lewis

Florida

Michael

"The Gulf Stream makes "Yes, we had a lot of trouble," ing to custom, selected a hus- it much warmer

than admitted Mr Hartford shaking bund for her. But those thres his head dolefully. "But this years of Western life had made ... there's wonder- time I hope to get deck Hawkins their mark.' cashmeres there throbs ful skin-diving which my or Paul Scofield or driving dynamo.

wife Marjorie loves.... Rennie for the lead, so things and then there's the no-tax situation. Also it'll give us something to do in the win- tera,"

The other night he asked me round for drinks at his newly built Mayfair mews

One of the idiosyncracles of house. this building is that 11 us hardly any daylight, Paris, uccisiomed to seeing its art In

rather

feries, will undoubtedly find it

more sumptuous bizarre to view masterpieces in such a reiting.

However, when I went to see

AN ISLAND

should be easier."

Yoku felt it was impossible to muity a man she had never seen, so the proceeded to spend the money Bent by her "honourable A THOUGHT

father" for

more

and

fore home.

the

I

"Wasn't he furious?" asked her when she told me the story over lunch,

"Evidently," she replied with a giggle.

"But I got work' dancing in

I wished Huntingdon Hartford The switch from Palm Joy and prepared to leave. But Bench to

Paradise Beach I could hold back the question

no longer. will coat Mr Hartford on investment about 14,000,- you

"Why do you do work when

don't need any The business of the mo 000 dollars (HK$84,000,- money?" ment was Hurtford versus 000).

He took off his glasses night clubs and then someone French gave me a part in the "Holiday play-

grinned shyly,

version of Teahouse of the the reserves huge ranks of ple- Florida. fures wrapped up in dusters-it grounds are

Fascinated, I asked ilual to either

"Wall, I guess I've just got August Moon. That led to an very list some of his activilles became plain that it was duir-

that sort of mind," he said. "I'm invitation to the Carmes Film able to de something to put cheap like Miami Beach or

"Well, I'm chairman of two an Arles, you know," them on view,

It's very suburban like Palm boards-one's the Oll Shele Cor- Does anybody know a Capri- Taking the unframed works Beach," he told me. "So poration which in a whole new cornian millionaire? It would be from their shelves like books

idea of getting oil from rock... such an encouragement from a library shelf, I looked I've bought up most of Hog and the other's the Speed Park other Capricorns-like me, at pictures by Rembrandt, Van Island just off Nassau for Corporation, . ‚we're building

many others.

Dyck, Rupons, Poussin, and development under the now the world's first fully-automatic

wur.

TIAMO

parking garage just off Broad- way. Then there's my art gal-

EAST IS WEST

What London tie

Festival In 1055 and AVDS there I met my husband."

"The man from Japan?" - "No-a French actor called Roland ·Lesaffre. We amarried two months later."

"What did your father sayi” "He was very angry, but tro has now net Roland and all is

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An odd turn of fashion: The

of Paradise Island. 1.50

Many of those pletures have smartest drink in Paris today in 1.50 Scotch whisky. It costs about never been seen since before the There'll be a private club-lery.

Parls only does to forgiven. £2 10s, (HK$40) a bottle, near Iuried treasure in the heart of year a yacht basin, an play Jane Eyre the

It is a stringe cuse of membership 100 dollars n ́"""Currently I'm putting on my people

Take that enchanting Yoko is lucky. Her younger 4.50 ly twice 53 much BS good

Japanese actress Yoko ester his just bean married. Paris.

when I can get casting Tank After years of convention. It was all arranged for her. hotel, and an auditorium straight.""" 35.00 brandy.

'Smart young people do not For a long time her French that can take anything from

al up-bringing in Tokyo-flower The last tima I hod

Most Paradoxical Thing seam to mind. One of them fans have referred to Brigitte drama to ico-shows. Even- Huntingdon Hartford he was and all the other refinements in My Wook: On my Invi

seen arrangements, the tea ceremony, even assured me: "The wonder Bardot as BB. Since her marri ful thing about whisky is that age to producer Jacques Charrier tually I'd like to have n casting the same play for lis every young Japancao, giri tation to the Press Show of however much I drink I never new tag ta catching on. They post-graduate school

production His should we went to Walt Disney's "Sleeping choice of Errol Fly for Me France to study at the Staboo Beauty" was printed: "No

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got a hangover-not a bit like Champagne."

I never know the influence of fashion was quite so strong be-

are calling her BBC.

I don'tberal arts too."

know whether Mr. Carleton Greene knows about this,

---(London: Express Service), " Why Nasonu?

of

Broadway

Rochester was unfortunato, Eric

Fortman took over the part, for

After three years her family Children: Admitted.”

ita eventual two-thonéh rum,

sent for her. They had, accord-

-(London Hayrete. Service),