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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 14-1940.

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Carol Left A Throne 8 out of 10 Women want CUTEX

But Took Lupescu...

EMRYS JONES

WHAT is Lupescu going in some other kings in this respect:

he is only less discreet about his love

to do? She has left problerna.

Rumania with King Carol. They began in 1018 when the Reporters all over Europe, Rumunion Court, frightened away by from Berlin to Rome, from quarters to the provincial town of the German Invasion, shifted their Paris to Warsaw, get flashes Jassy There he met girl called from their home editors: Zizi Lambring, and fell in love with "Watch for Lupescu."

her Queen Marie, Runnin's other Irudia woman and the mother of Carol, tried to destiny the romaner, s Carol married her,

The cocktail bar of the Athene Palace Hotel, gossip centre of THEN the courts Anled the tawdry, charming, sinful Buc- marriage Caral, furious, reputinced harest, is excited too, yet if in rights, but in a couple of years Magda Lupescu walked into thee was tired of Zizi, and the whole uffair Inded out, though a non was

bar the chances are that few born na a reminder of 11. of the perfumed dandles there would recognise her.

Queen Marie, the other importaní WOMAD Carol's late, told him to take a world tour and forget Zizi,

fell

King Carol's favourite, the the marriage, and everything else. most notorious woman in He got as far as Switzerland, met

of Helene daugliter the Rumania, is known by sight to PrincesA

in very few. Among the best King of Greece,

love, and So back home known of the

married her la 1921. most

went the couple to settle down, famous dozen women, Magda

However, they didn't live happily Lupescu knows how to be dis- ever after, for two years after the creet,

world's

marriage Carol met Lupescu,

With his clique of playboys he The emotional life of King Carol was hunting and gambling in the is never dull, though he la no worse summer capital of Sinnin.

Then he

Full-lipped and

Titian-haired

but she has passed beyond the stage where mere beauty makes news.

Likes gardening and keeping chickens.

Picture taken when Lupescu was on holiday with Carol in Surrey In 1928.

A GIRL

MEN

one.

TAKES

OVER A BUS

By A Woman Reporter

EN bus conductors are heroes. WOMEN 'bus con- ductors are miracles. I know, I've just tried being

It seems that to be any good at this job you need the agility

of an acrobat, the brain of a bookmaker's clerk, and oceans of patience.

Before I could ring my bus of at

Swonley Caruge,

Kent, there was a

waybill to R in.

kel

my

All the top tie- numbers

In

rack had to

be noted and the time had to be filled in-12.25 p.m.

At five points on the route— between taking money, punching tickets, pressing

bells, running up and down steps and noting uur whereabouts-the new top numbers in my ticket rack had to be jotted down.

W fier. Tit-

Conalder her and her activities. She was the best-dressed woman in Bucharest; and who wouldn't be. say the pretty women cocktalling in the Athene Palace bar, on the £12,- 900 a year Carol gave her?

However, Magda የቤቱ no poor, be- haired, full-lipped fairy-story-like gir suddenly pretty gured coming rich

Refore she went into

Magda Lupescu exle with Carol she came into o won Carol's love fortune that gives her over £3,000 almost al Aust

sight.

a year Plenty for a woman whose

true tastes run 10 gardening and But Magda al- ready had a hus- keeping chickens.

band, serving 118 Magda knows about money, and na uffleer in the

army.

As Carol's with an income of £15,000 a year Ardour grew she and jewels insured for £30,000 she divorced him as needs to.

discreetly rts she jewels

does everything

else

course, mout of the though

came from Carol, the story that they are part of the

NOW the Tale crown Jewels is put about by her began to be talk- enemies to discredit her It's not Á about, whnt a chance t

and true.

guye the ruling AMONG her great friends aro cilque of politic- bankers, Industrialists and financiers, inns who dkin' and they will tell you that Magda

like Carol ny-

way!

knows enough about money and in- They packed vestments 10 make her opinions him off to London worth listening to These friends as Rumania's re-inke powerful friends and allies for presentative Queen

Alexan- Carol.

funeral, the

dra's funeral After

до

Then the army. She took the Curat packe his bag for Milan, trouble to Waiting there for him was Lupescu,

learn something about together they were going to Veure milliary strategy and organisation. for a holiday.

This pleased the officers, and many of the high ones were her personal friends and therefore Carol's friends.

From Bucharest came a perep, tory message telling hip to come home ut one. It also said that his favourite was not to come with him. The penalty of disobedience

throne.

Politles. Carol is now regarded on

shrewd politician. The was"

former

that he would lose his right to the playboy of European royalty in taken seriously. Put that down to Carol WAN

the intelligent woman who has been furious, He said he wouldn't come home to Queen Marie huis counsellor as well as his friend and his father Ferdinand. The fur fourteen years. politicians got m out, sald he had "alleated,"

Five years of exile began, Lupescu ever at his side,

WHY hash't be married her? He and she wouldn't. Lupescu knows that with if she did that would be the end of Rumania's Hohenzollerns, This wo- Once you lose count you are lost

Then ten years ago Ferdinand died, man loves Carol too much to injure unless you know the district.

and Michael, son of Carol and him or his house. There numbers also tell you the Helene, became king. He was then tacked in speeches and pamphlets Yet she was at- fare charges. There is al churt of only

Gregency took control. them on the bus, with the names of Queen Marie was not a member of it, sold openly in Bucharest. the stops alongside.

but her second son Nicholas was, and "It's easy" said the instructor.she was sailafled things were going "Fox and Hounds is No. 20. Hook fine. Green is 34.

So she took time off to see

the

Their lives In Rumania were quiet. Typical day: They lunch together, then go riding, afterwards tea at "Take 20 from 34, and you have Passion Play at Oberammergau, and Magda's little villa in the Alea 14. Divide that by two, and you while she was away Carol chose to Vulpache; the ten habit Magda and have seven. Your change Is 7d." hop into a 'plane in Paris, fly to the Carol learned in exile.

Well, I tried that. But by the time I had finished my arithmetic the bus was three stops on (23 now), and dozen more people hadi secreted themselves sornewhere about

bus.

went after them, calculating, Ing to remember Every time I set my pencil ta that red tickets paper we swayed round 'a' corner. are four pence, Every one of these corners seemed purple ones six- to be a hairpin bend. It seemed to pence, that "Penny me that our speed was pepped up to one, Miss" means about 80 miles un hour,

Passengers poured

1 on the bus at Three-half-penny

a terrifying rato,

that the Apart from extracting thele peace waybill needs alle pence, Ing in, that we are trying to work out their change, ut Stop 24 now, During Urkets from the rack without that two men have them, and punching holes in sneaked upstairs

the right place while lurching around while the bus is

In a faintly tipsy mansior, I had also moving

capital, push his son of the throne and take the vacant seat.

What made that possible was that the boss of the ruling politicians had try-wanted Carol back. No more than died, and the boss of the new.clique the old. bass did he want Lupescu, but she came just the sarte.

could not Hve without her.

They dined together twice a week, played cards afterwards with a few friends, or put on a film show at the palace...

Innocent enough, but the political consequences were considerable..

The plain fact was that Carol battle of the two women. Queon. In Bucharest they talk about the

Marlé stood for the British-French THE town of Jassy has some alliance, so Lupescu was supposed to significance for Carol. Zizi Lambrino favour Hitler, yet who is half-Jewi tived there, Magda Lupescu was born there.

Lupescu,, in her forties, is no Her father was a little Jewish longer beautiful. She is getting very chemist called Wolff, who changed plump, but she has passed beyond hlu name because only a certain the stage where mere beauty makes number of Jews were allowed in the news. professions. He met in Vienna a

to remember that the bus would My checks burned bright red, my Roman Catholle girl and married

For fourten years she has held the

neither stop nor start unless the bell brain buzzed, I had an urgent desire her, so Lupescu is only half Jew, front page as one of the world's im was prossed

to scream.*** And all the time

to keep Journey's end after 15 miles. I and, fact, was

was baptised a Catholic, portant women. mental count of the stops, to have had collected 10s and there was Yet she is No. 1 on the Jewish some idea of our whereabouts, now a blessed balf-hour to have a murder lat of the Fascist, Iron Whatever happens now, anything For instance our starting place, pot of tea fill in the waybill slip, and Guard. Is that because of her race, she does in the future will send the the garage, is No. 1. The Kennels change the route names on the bus. or because she was a clavor woman reporters hurrying, be Topic A, in are. No, 4 The White Hart is No. Yes, these girls earn their £2 148 with inmense influence with the the Athena. Faisce-bar.

a week..

King?

She's History.

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