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Through Her Books

HEN Daphne dłu Maurier returned from her Italian holi- day recently there were two important appointments in her diary.

son

But

By

JOHN PREBBLE

Tho

The only real hitch was dur- Ing the war when "Frenchman's Creek" was held up by measles among the children (there are three: Tessa 16, Flayla 12, and Christien).

She does not know how she would get on if she had to

are born If you The first was to despatch daughter of a famous aetor, the in

In any case, she does not livo stond in queuca "In the coun- tho suburbs to discover try we just get on the phone, her

Christian (just daughter of a famous

whether such emotions are pos-

there. great able

The Brownings nine) to his first boarding artist and novellat, the

of

Im Inhabit a 11

charming old manor school. Near to tears, abe Krunddaughter

fulfilled this Sparton duty Poverished French emigre, and house near Howey, Cornwall, a

of the upper middle-classes with fortitude.

White-faced, but brave, she says. Christian also kept a stiff upper lip.

The second appointment, far happier, was to nch with her publisher, "dear Victor" Gollancz.

Highly profitable

THE

CONVERSATION nt that lunch was undoubtedly of he latest novel, "The Para Rites."-108,000 copies subscrib- ed before publication.

Her thirteenth

the gegal-great-granddaughter overybody who reads the gossip had not of a royal Duke's mistress, then columns now knows.

It is most probable Put you with have romantic attitude

H

ward life.

12.

fu

A reminder

SOMETHING OF Mis Maurier's close interest in her family's romantle past was re- cently demonstrated.

When

the returnexi

from Italy, she stayed for some days at her husband's bachelor In King's-road, Chelsea.

There,

fat

She was plenzaully reminded

legend

Appearance and Croraplete with ghost and a walled-up body} It cloed nothin to spoil the ro- mace of the du Mauriers

Hard knock

UNTIL LATE Inst week. Kha reviews or rend the "The Parasites,” but "I believe they're awful, aren't they?"

They are Dol

although

that They

bad. have

beautiful Critics, qualifying their praise |

It Is called Menabilly (why, nobody seems to koow) and was the oririnal for the fabulous Mandericy of "Rebrcea,"

rals and

ΠΟΥ

takte o

THIS ASTONISHING NEW YORK-

The salesman did the washing-up

even

NEW YORK. one's privacy. But there are still

GVCZY

E havo a new act of the malls.

Every day my letter-box le copper-bottomed pota crammed with offers to send me and pans at our a choice book every month, a house. It cost £12 10s. But d'fferent kind of cheese It is not the pots or their month, a fruit of the month.

Tovico

week there aro coin- price that la interesting, ogues from food parcel firms * What interested-or. rather, reminding me that it will be appalled-me, was the way this year unless

lenn Christmas in Britain again

pay up. they were acquired.

Remote-control salesmen keep Though "acquired" is much on cending me coupons that too pale a word to describe what entitle me to a free Un of soup, happened. Something suggesting or free soop flakes.

jet propulsion would be better.

For I am a victim of American salesmanship at its fuest-or worst. worst.

And this is a warning of what wit. happen behind any unsub- pecting British husband's back if and when do what we are told, and learn that fine art as a way out of our diffleuttics.

Needless to say, it all happen ed whle I was of the office,

According to my wife's story.

DEST offer yet: a chance to mLlion-dollar prize win a that a fridge firm is giving away for the right sort of tribute to their latest model

a polite, good-looking young Suppose you were able to seal man knocked at the door. He yourself off from this Invasion in asited my wife if she would like person or by letter and teo lunch

to have some friends in for phone, you still could not escape

American salesmanship. While the friends were coming over,

the young man un.

nocked these

pans,

a Bct of and

pota

He set them

up on

Then

the ho

stove. brought

In

three different

by C.V. R. THOMPSON

kinds of vegetables, some ment,

over

For, as likely as not a blimp will come sa'ling your house and a

blue perfect

sky bo ruined by

smoka letters a mile wide advertising soda soup.

On the trains, leather-threat-

and one of those add-a-cup-of- ed salesmen walk through sell- water pudding mixes.

While the girls were talking, he cooked lunch and served it.

"It was swell," said my wife. "and he even washed up after- warda And he took so much

NA

ing magazines or sweets, or a book giving the simple rues to the new rummy game Canasta.

It does not let up in the sano- hary of the office. Shoe-shine

parade of col- trouble, and was so nice, that I boys drop in to win you as a Just had to order a set. Mar customer, and a caret Herrick took one, too. oured messengers from the near- They're wonderful pots, and by lunch counters asks for the they' be cheaper in

the end privilege of bringing you your office sandwich, or your eleven- because they save electricity."

sea nik piping hot in a vacuum flask.

now that America

Vacuum

The

Men,

For tourists

They don't come out and grab you from the pavement like the conductors of New York's tight- seeing buses do, but they have learned about window-dressing.

THIS Bakcsmanship business is catching. In Rockefeller

New

largest York's with the sentence "Not as goodVES, that is what can happen Centre,

but us "Rebecca,'

has re- group of office building, mast al Think sho is well-turned to what the economists the European tourist offices have reem to

established to

call a "buyer's market." The their headquarters, .. - - enough few knocks.

poor consumer по Jonger But none of the knocks has chooses when he will go shop- to boen as hard ns that of Agate's ping. The shopping comes comment

him. on "Rebecca": "It in But, he But, says Miso du Maurier, 11 atrociously written."

Every day one or two sales- Is not really ns grand, "rather a said, he went on reading be- men drop by my home, and usu from the sixth-floor dilapidated place in fact, with cause it was a thundering goodly while I am away.

For instance, the French have window, she looked down

on plenty of

boys, even women, have tried to na central novel," the square of the Duke of heating But she has loved 10

Miss du Mourler would like tell us ties, ny.ons, underwear, a window fled with a glamor from ous view of Montmartre. A Swe- the critics' esteen, but likes a fountain pens, delicatles ince she was a child. York's Barracks

dish airline serves what it calls cleaners, California, reader's praive much more.

"flying storgasbord" in in Like that from the ex-P.o.W.

British material "smuggled of the fact that her ancestressi,

who wrote to say that but for from Canada," cut-rate subscrip panes, and it has filled its win- work lu

17 Mrs Mary Anne Clarke (no

and Creek he visits to "Frenchman's

tions to magazines, soil for my daw with a table spread with novela, two beitr than she should have plays), nothing in the book will bec, Miss du Maurier admile), Mckabilly

confined to his fellow-Po.W.s, would have garden, Life insurance, and fresh delicacies on wings. halt thousands of readers in a was the misines of that Duke week-endis,

vegetables. can get Kone crazy.

As a fugitive from American Clarenco House That from

book was a first-rate

Last week-end along come a BWDY headlong rush

her after whom thame

the barracks

romantic bokum But Mine du Maurier, who has plece of

the heavily scented esenplet world. nanted.

new tinned dog salesmanship, I. always get some salesman for a

staring into comfort from

"Their a detestation of all cities with

which Miss du Maurier xeris, food, Ho offered me a £20 in-

British Raliways offices. A highly profitab's world,

to Lake a

Rurance poley on my dog's life feature in a the possible exception of Paris, eminently suited

good old "British though

for MIRS du

stay is quite happy

man's mind off the barbed wire. free would switch to his Railways poster inviting me to Maurier and dear Victor.

Menabilly, wearing old slacks,

brund.

"beautiful Bournemouth.” From "Rebecca her st

old jerseyu, walking, boating, success, through "Hungry Hi," "Jamalea Inn," and "French- man's Creek” to "The Para- Kites," there has rua • thread ef gold weaving her riple fortune in book, play, and fi righta

years (elovan

to

The extent of it is shrouded with

discretion. commendable But there are indications,

Earlier this year the US. Treasury refunded her £4,650 on income tax.

And Sir Alexander Korda is said to have paid the arre figure on

With such s woman be. zan the impossible story of

the dh

Haumiera.

Clarke's daughter, Ellen, married A Drawber-like French emgire cailed Louis Mathurin Busson

Maurier.

đu

Their son, George, became Punch artist, autor of "Peter Ibbetson" and "Truby."

Quite happy

SIR FREDERICK'S

an

when he

at

on

Sense of humour

ip

There she writes costly and

SHE HAS o gnerous sense of quickly.

was Parasites”

humour, too, and few things began in February this year, amure her more than the stories completed by May, right

that are told about her.

It is said that she invented time in Mr Gollaruz's schedule.

the Airborne snack ("My No early riser, she starts work husband may

have Ills sun was the great actor. at 10.45, works until lunch, eats certainly didn't") Sir Gerald du Maurier, And and walks until 3, starts agalo That

in daughter was Daphine.

and works unti 6.

speak to

royal blood ("It's true 1 once bobbed.

curley to the Princess").

Good mimic

Three months to write a book leaves her a good part of the "He fallow," playing literature with ideas that may remain in Miss du har head for a year or two be-

.11eve fore she puts them on paper.

Her writing is a sincere and

WITH SUCH un alternating year w

talent i record for the film legacy of rights of The King's General," and the theatre. 1,250,000 copies of which wero Maurier 'has corne to sold within four months of that abQlty will skip a genern- LAmerican publication.

tion in inheritance.

She is thereforo keeping

done, 1

to

she is 1oo proud

anyone below

That she goes everywhere 10 a while Rolls-Royce ("We have Ford and a 1937 an old 1933 M.G, only, I'm afraid.")

Next best thing highly personal thing. Nobody,

an not even her husband, bes the

**1

Hollywood paid £ 10 000 for the film righ ́s of "Rebroca" in eye on Christmas to see if he book until it is finished. 1038, and £30,000 for "Frença- has

of his any

Krandioher's couldn't bear to read out parts man's Creek" during the war. theatrical genius.

of it like some nuthors do." Income tax on these sums has, of course, been heavy.

Quite deceptive

of such

"Already," she says cautiously "he is a very good mimic."

du p'ngs of Miss

n

Perhaps

shotgun would frighten of such invaders of

-(London Express Service)

Britain's Story

Goes On Show

· raw

The Industry Pavilion will

from the story NEW details of the South Bank

Britain take 1051 Festival of Exhibition were issued recently materials to finished products. will deal with by the Council of Industrial De- Sub-sections

sign, who stress that the Exhibi- power, Illumination, industrial tion will tell a continuous story, research and design, and man- IT IS perhaps unfortunate with each pavilion providing a agement.

of chapter.

The Hall of Production will The

theme is that British that, being the descendant a family so rich in romance and theatrical

achievements in se ence, tech show six main groups of indus- Miss extravagance,

working. wood du Maurier should come

tomology and Industrial design try metal maturity in a world of austerity, have resulted from the initiative working, rubber and plastics, much gloom, and much lack of of the British people in develop pottery and glass, textiles and

ing the resources of their land. food. pontaneous passion.

The exhibition site, which is divided by the Hungerford rail-

However, she has done the next best thing. By her type-writer she has created an entirely practicable but highly en. tertaining world of her O'WII.

un-

No queues ALTHOUGH SHE lives a lito Nor do the romantic trap very remote from that of the

The Downstream Sequence Maurier's MISS. DU MAURIER'S ap

housewiver who are now put. pearance is quite deceptive in genealogy end with such ante ting down their names on the

way bridge, will have Upstream will have an underlying theme of the aptitude of the British For she is married library lists for "The Farasiten,

Tho face

achievements, cedents,

and Downstream sequences. The people for living and working in knows what Aged 41, fragile forehead, a portion of British Military she intuitively

Upstream sequence will tell the groups and yet retaining their history Lieut-General Sr

they want greying hair, jutting chin,

story of the land of Britain, and individuality. Froderick Browning, Airborne avenues of escapo pleasing and modest laugh, a

now opened below them Commander

the Downstream sequence will who slight lisp.. A woman

It will deplet their character be concerned with the people. Princess of Comptroller in formal Elizabeth's household.

It houses "phrases, that are looks uncomfortable

The

exhibits will and tradition, their homes and Upstream as much worn as a William IV.

And by it earned far more

deal, clothes, and probably feels it."

among other things with gardens, the newest -- pchools, penny" (according, to the late than

the unfortunate

wild

life of Britain, agris health, sport, and the sessida: in James Agate), her readers at

Clarke got by wheedling com- Joast regard them as good, 'un-

missions out of the Duke of culture and rural life-all in the nine paviliona.

Sports played by Britons will devalued currency.

York and selling them to am- great Dome of Discovery.

There will be demonstrations be demonstrated by experts. bitions Army officcis.

of coal-cutting machinery and other equipment.

===(London 'Express Service)

If she had been born the daughter of a efvų servant, and brought up as civil ber-* vants' daughters are, it is unlikely that she could have written as she does.

NANCY

BR-R-R-R--- 'IT'S AWFUL COLD TODAY.

at Arnhem,

Beautiful ghost

IS IT LIKELY that with much background 巋 Woman could write only of frustrated love in the suburbs?

Going to For

IT'S EVEN

COLD INDOORS

Sho combines, her life as housewife and novelist with fair, esso..

VARING

· NANCY-- YOU'RE LATE FOR YOUR|

PIANO PRACTICE

GOODNESS-

THAT'S TERRIBLE

Are the

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