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THE (CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 1960.
Sir Alec says 'No' to £500,000
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William
WAY
Will he turn⚫BY THE up in the bullring?
by Beachcomber
WHEN the new 43-letter alphabet" for schoolchildren YATHER knows nothing shout | comes into use, orf I arsk iz thatt It. Nor does mother. But it shot bee yewsd phor the gau all his friends say - Land” spellyng.
Hickey Washby Eresby, son and
WAS talking to Sir Alec Guinness recently about television and, quite by accident, one of his best-kept secrets slipped out. He was offered £500,000 to introduce 39 shows on American TV sponsored by a beer firm. And he turned it down
This vast sum would have enabled Sir Alec-who said earlier this year that he had £900 in the bank-to retire for life. "But I would have despised myself for doing 'it," he said...
Why should Sir Alex hate TV advertising so much?" "When for an advertising agency as I was a young man. I worked
copy writer, much against my will,
"I always wanted to leave
and become an actor-and now
I shall never go back.
"I would rather die in the gutter of poverty.
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"It was great deal of money. I would have been able to retire. Perhaps in two or three years time I will re- gret my decision, but I think happiness comes first,
"I am happy man I have a nice home in Petersfield, A very happy marriage and I have my dogs. What more could I want?”
I
Delighted
I asked him what his wife
000. "She is highly delighted,"
thought at his refusing £500,-
Not long ago he was offered
500,000 dollars to play Christ in a film. "I said I wouldn't do it Yesterday he recorded, his first radio broadcast for 12
for a million dollars," he said.
years. For "Desert islard Disca,"
His feet Thirty guineas. "I think that's quite good, don't you?" he said."
STATELY DOGS
THE WIDOW
WON'T SELL
TO THE QUEEN MOTHER
heir, of the Earl of Antaery" is going to become a bullfighter.
The rumour is rife the Bath Club, one of his favourite
haunts, and in the Chelsea well known.
coffee bare, where he is pretty
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It is certainly true that Lord Willoughby left his London house recently and caught plane to Spain.
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Before he went he told his friends that he would be joining Vincent Hitchcock, the English bullfighter, there,
And it is certainly true that at a party a couple of weeks ago he was gally 'demonstrating a cedenza, or an entrechat, or a pircuette, or whatever It is the fighter does when he skips out of the way.
But since he arrived in. Sorin there has been no word.
"I haven't heard from himi
and I know nothh about this bullfighting business," says his father.
Adventure
Whatever he is doing will, I am sure, be interesting. For Lord Willoughby always has a worthwhile adventure when he goes abroad.
I remember some time ago he was in the South of France.
"living native." as he saki
He was staying at a little
THE QUEEN MOTHER is extending her in- terests in Caithness, where she has her place, the Castle of Mey. She has just bought the 70-acre farm next door which will give her completely boarding house on the island of private access to the nearest beach to her castle. Ste. Marguerite. One night The property has been bought lock, stock, and there was a Sen et Lumiere pro- barrel.
Even the poultry and, the Lady Halsbury tells me: "He standing crops are included 10% always watches the cowboy and the deal.
Indian shows with the children, They are his favourites.
The Queen Mother also wants another farm which adjoins her estate. It, too, 'overlock," "the sea. The owner there is
welcome. Terma can be change. N Englishman's home is his Ms Margaret Munro, a
arranged,
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But Mrs Munro is refusing friend is his dog. And when an Englishman in this case to sell,
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Lord Rotherwick, 47-year-old The Queen Mother's agent son of the millionaire shipowner upproached her a few -lives in a stately home, what ago with a good offer for her
property. is more natural than to build a 68-acre
She told him she had been there 30- replica of it for his dogs?
Lady Rotherwick says she years and did not want to and her husband are very proud move,
duction. a 'combination of lighting effects and a narrated story on the island
Lord Willoughby had dressed for bed, then decided to --RO cut
on to his balcony to smoke a last olgarette..
A kombinnayshun, ov the to wood knot ownly fassilletate lemying two rede phor.chool- dren, "but 'wood bee a konstumt jai two grommappes hoo lernt bi the paid methuck,
I am told that the three Per- sian meesawstem are very in- terested, in-both schemes. Nothing to do with me
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samme,
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ties to assure us that" a best trombone made of the
orted into this country, is bauxite, from Gulana, and In- purely ornamental, and does not come into the category of musi-
The cal instruments, presumably, will apply to the church organs made of spaghetti which come to us by courtesy of Bolognese Philbermanie Catering Institute.
How to look (TOMORROW:
your best in 1 sausage factory.)
the
Good news for redskins
has am told, received a THE mania for turning brown
impetus from the cosmetics, or whatever they tee, which tan the skin without exposure to the sun, and at top speed. You can now lie in bed painlessly. booking as brown as a berry and thus avoiding the prolongeri and expensive agony of a holi- day on the Riviera. What a boon for those who, for all their
efforts, can only manage to turn red after days of roasting. No bid for the gum
TT is difficult, I hope, for any-
body but a philatelist to
understand why a man should pay £2,000, at a stamp sale, for half a Sardinian stamp Issued in 1861." What would it cost to became the proud owner of three- fifths of a Swedish stamp issued in 18897 Many people today are collecting stamp perforations in the expectation that one day they will be very valuable, but the man who tried to sell the gum scraped off the back of å Suddenly about eight flood-1909 sixpenny English stump was lights were turned on - all turned away from a sale with
contumely. focused on his balcony.
Printers frolic
"I don't like them myself. I only watch when the news is He was wearing only his on"
Her daughters, Lady Caroline pants. and Lady Clare Giffard, tell me they and their father.like com- mercial television's "Wagon Train" best of all.
It
Lord Halsbury, when I spoke
was, as he said, "an to him, was rather alarmed that unnerving moment.” This secret was out.
Well, we shall see what "But
I'm bound
happens in Spatn to say thoroughly enjoy it," he said.
I
In my recollection, he is the
of their pets' new home, which There is a lot of speculation first governor to admit it.
was built by their workers in the in the district over the Queen grounds of Bletchington Park House, in Oxfordshire.
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"And the dogs seem to love it. That's the important thing, isn't it?" she says.
Mother's activities. Оле thought is that she intends tỏ make a home in Caithness for Princess Margaret and Mr Tony Armstrong-Jones.
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