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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1980!

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HER HUSBAND'S DEATH SHE BUT WITHOUT THE SPEAKS OF THE FUTURE: 'WORK, YES ...

MORE TROUBLE OF POSHING MYSELF UP ANY

HE recording studio was in a mewa

off Oxford Street.

I wondered how the central character would be standing up to the atrain of putting two programmes "in the can" every day,

The red light was already on....

A middle-aged woman, in a black silk blouse with long sleeves, no jewellery, and a black skirt, got up from a seat in the corner, and walked towards the mike.

Billy Ternent and his band were playing "Kingdom Come."

She moistened her lips, and cleared her throat. There were two deep lines on either side of her mouth, but her hair stood up from her forehead, in the old triumphant way. She peered

at her seript, through horn- rimmed glasses, as her que

came.

"All set to go, Gracie?"

She went. First into une of that stories those Lanenshire

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and

she was codding with her voice, in the old cart-wheeling style.

Then suddenly the surprise came. "Now I will sing for you

Father: Beloved 1717!

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I tok myself it was be cause 1 hadn't heard this lovely thing sung in English before. But it wasn't that. She sang the final words, "Father. I in pray....Father, I pray

don't expect t way that you even from a great artist, in a broadcasting studio.

The Philosophy

of

•

"I'm going back to Capri. I'm going to have the holiday I have never had fime to have before.

"Oh, I know what you are thinking. How can I live amoni all those ghosts? What people don't realise la that I live in Capri long before I met Mario. And I love Capri before I loved him, too.

"Why, it was my own dad who put the windows into our home my home. Mario built him- celf a modern flat. We were going to move in on our return from Canada this summer.

12

She got up from the sofa push- Ing her hand with a

shati lend the

sudden

24 TODAY.

New Princess Elizabeth

Nobody Knows

By

HELEN CATHCART

WENTY-four. has been that not long ago she made

called the maturity of demure, amused Inspection of 31-year-old Tom Egerton's youth and the youth bachelor dat just above. Prinen

movement through her hale. of maturity. Many psycho- Philip, of course, introduced his flat to his logists assert that it is the wife to a wider circle of friends.

and helped relations and my friends. Itage at which an average and won't be wasted.".." she said. person is no longer moulded the intense shyness ever apt to

"And your valee? That won't by upbringing or circum- newcomers from be wasted, either?"

her to overcomo

overwhelin her when meeting overwac**

outside the

All these circumstances have

stances but finds #fruo Court circle. pattern of personality.... and Princess 24 today.

Elizabeth is helped to mould a happier and

2055

I hty wanted to make sure

tnut self-conscious and of that, so it was a relief when

Princess than the little teen-ager she said quietly that she would

the Over-Inpping

familiar who once cried, "But why do like to go on singing sometiines.

visit from France, "Like I did today in the studio. Portrait of wife, young mother we have to be royal?" During

future Queen, n new their Stale

paid 44 call on That's peaceful. I don't have to Princess is emerging, a radiant the Aurlois trouble about poshing myself up and beautiful Princess at the Princess Elizabeth, and no doubt

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amount of And I needn't worry about my crown of womanhood. Of late expected a certain

formality, Instead the Princess hair. Marlo always liked me 10 floodlight penetrating

of

showed them around Clarenco turned en look as young as I could manage, candour has been but I like my hair best as the the Princess's early years. Yet House with all the delight of a

Lord meant it

to be cur new Princess Elizabeth of house-proud young bride, and it Natural...

sold that the visit ended with today Jn surprisingly

the Prezident of France, known. Whereupon she smil- ed, looking for a moment almost as young ns I could remember her. I thought: Altogether, you are about the most truly natural person I have ever met. But I didn't tell her so. I went away and wrote it all down, Instead,

Gracie Fields

by GODFREY WINN

Then she explined why it was tough gong, but we felt like klis on a 25. d. tour. I was she was restless.

song, and he cracked Jokes. I

It was the telephone. "You see," she said, "It always told him he was an awful ham

Anal

|

Gratitude

about her never having had a

Harry Alan Towers, the young radio impresarlo, whispered at

be working format. We were talking "She chose all the used to ring the moment I got comedian, but how we laughed! DUT there's one thing I nearly my side: songs herself at Christmas. 1 back from anywhere, Suppesing it was so good to urged her to change anything he was in Hollywood and I was together.... she liked, 1 happened, but she wouldn't. She sald she'd have to change them fall, because of the words, or be

cause they were the special ener he liked her to sing."

meon after if singing in a Miami night-club. "But once the war was over. singing lessun la her life, and she

Smile for all

i;

Princess Elizabeth

little

11

Six hundred chucking, on his knees in the

guests ad- nursery.

mired the Malta Trips brilliant polso Again, It is certain that the 11 Duke of Edinburgh's anxiety to Thanksgiving return to sea was actively wel Fund speech

at the London na

comed within the Royal Family

roon as the escapist possibilities of

Guildhall and romantic

scarcely Princess's air trips to Malta be- noticed

her

and the

Critics havo it strange that the be Princess should

separated

He came apparent.

Peru found

vous-

ness, so

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ex from her husband. The weeks DTC more than com- Few

perily camou-led in the carefree holidays

ale are

mern.

peopl her when the young novel wife flies aware of her to her husband's side. regular

Here. In turn, formality and It

In calls

on the ties of duty are kept to a was Muric who wouldn't let me.

"I've got this advantage over Queen Mary at

all ico Marlborough minimum. It is now began to think of retiring. He prsanded me to sign, at

royal a

advisers that some singers. I really believe in House, or the way she quietly clear to

the crowds to Elizabeth's heavy responsibilities Christmas, for the big coast-to-

at Buckingham as queen-to-be can be over- roast Canadian tour I'm going the words. More now than ever, sips through He You see I'm very lucky to be family lunch

Palace, sometimes giving her stressed. In the normal course to do after the broadcasts." WHS always saying to

Elizabeth me alive myself, and to have a gift police guard, Inspector Usher, a of events,

may be face, if you don't work you'll that can make other folk hippy few anxious moments,

nearing her sixties before she I keep an remembering, and it Though the King sometimes ascends to the Throne. Step by takes movie shots, no camera- step the viewpoint has been week-end fun stressed to her that discipline men watch her

too hard a with her toddler in the grounds need not be made

little laskmaster. There is plenty of of Royal Lodge, Windsor.

usually time.... of knot

sightseers

dic'."

The moment I got back from the show, the bell would ring, and they'd say: 'You're wanted on long distance. It was uncanny, the way he'd time my arrivals everywhere. And if I wasn't there when I should have been cikln't I hear about !!!

telephone bills. I "And the used to say they took half our

But it was' Gracie who had salary. But it was nice, too, I TNSTEAD, they were changing didn't mind the tours any more. died, and I said: "When the

the recording dise. Then the I'd Bift the receiver and he'd be

tour in over, what will you do red light went on again, and right in the room. Now when then?" the star salled into her in the telephone rings I don't want medley,

"Ditt to phower it any more. Marly "Charmaine," Heaven," and "When I grow too did all my business for me. 1' old to dream, I'll have you to liked it that way, to be managed. remember.

He was a man."

When I congratulated her, For a moment,.she doistened old wide. her lips and cleared her throat, Gracie smiled her

brimming smile. "I'll tell you as I'd seen her do in front of I've had the the mike, just before her cue the secret, luv.

Puccini put down a tone. Gives came.

me more of a chance. Don't have

to do any screeching My, but

I want a cup of tea. Coming?"

"Now, when I look back on

I

the 12 years we knew each other, the ten we were married,

giving us that

She tied a black senrf round thank God for

her hair, and we came out much time to be happy, when women through On the cobble- so many other into the mews.

shoes no fault of theirs, have so little stones, her low-heeled made a sound almost like clogs. share in uny man, let alone what

1 did.

Without any effort, she smiled

arins.

in her

All

at

once

There were

at everyone we possed, as though they were neighbours jown home town.

in cloth three old workinen,

and tattoo marks on their «TULATS why I can't bear it | Cape,

They shouted ULA

for anyone to get mand- heavy something after her, and she

pity lin. or

ITIL, I don't turned back. "Eh, lads?" So

fuss. want

Why they repeated their greetings, keep on telling myself to think "Pleasant dreams."

of the Truculent wilows, make myself remember, 100, all the other women who have to go through the whole of life never having the good fortune to be loved by any man. And

Stronger

HE

ON.

today

any

I had ten whole years. So what have I to complain about?"

"Did you fall in love with him straightaway?" I asked.

I

makes me grateful”

"Yes, I do see, Don't you?

-London Express Service)

What Holy Year Means

To Catholics

By NICOLA CARDINAL CANALI

(Editor's Note: The following statement on the imipor- Catholic lance and significance of the 1950 RomÆ72 Church Holy Your was written by Nocola Cardinal Canali, fra Dearon Cardinal and Penitent Major of the church, Cardinal Canali thok a leading part in the ceremontes opening: Holy Year). **

VATICAN CITY-I am happy to address myself to the Cathalies of different nations and express a thought on the signideance and the importance of the Holy Year in relation to the duties of the Cardinal Penitentiary Mujor.

of

To understand the significance and the importance of Holy Year, there should be sumelent in the expressions the Holy Father in the introduction of the bull of indiction for the Great X Jubilee, that "it is proposed to recall all and to tho Christians not only to explation of their sins correction of their life but also to tend toward virtue an Bonellty"

To such an end, the Church has opened her spiritual treasures and has conerded in the most solemn form, to all the Christian work, the jubilee indulgence-that is, the total remission of temporal punishment due to sins com.

be mitted and dutifully absolved-to obtained under determined conditions throughout the Holy Year in Rome,

faithful of the where the Holy Father Invites the

world "to gather in great numbers with a spirit of compunction

and of prayer,

The great Jubilee of the Church is, therefore, an event exquisitely spiritual and is regulated by solemn pontifcal And this documents, which establish the discipline of it. spiritual organisation is entrusted, for his office, to the Cardinal Penitentiary Major, whose dulles are symbolised in the consignment respectively of the hammer and trowel characteristic which he makes to the Holy Father in the and mystie ceremony of the opening and closing of the Holy Door of the Vatican Basilica.

TER shoulders slumped for

moment then, but she walked "After my operation," the suddenly said, "they told me not to work for wo

years but I

"No, neither of us did. We tarted after two months. They told me I'd be sorry, but I never often used to laugh about it, And I'm feeling afterwards. He came down to have been. stronger today than I ever did." see me at Peacehaven one week-

end. He

to direct ty wanted

I wanted a new lier voice sald strongly: "Su new film, and I don't feel sorry for me, because film director, but all the same, if didn't glamourise myself, I've started to work once again, I

But she down there, for my mother and within two months." could not make herself say it out- dad, I wasn't going to for Monty right. She turned her head to- Banks.

"I

"So I looked an awful sight, wards the shop windows.

blouses," she no had

and make-up,

hair mny some black

wanted doing. And I thought went on "but no proper black

anyway. outfit. Mario, hated me wear he talked too much Ing black. This okirt

was But once I saw him on the set, scarlet. Mario liked me to wear was different et once.

to reach Rome during the jubilee, there has been suspended It all the time in Capri. It was really knew about films.

other everywhere, with the exception of a very few, two in his the first thing I put my hand wanted to put myself

indulgences in their application to the living, although they on. I had t dyed."

hands then. I suddenly trusted

remain in vigour in regard to the applicability to the dead; 30 also are suspended outside of Rome all the extraordinary We had reached Harley-street. him. And the rest just happened. It is here that Gracie alwaya

powers of the confessors. therefore,

fore, and only in Rome, centre Irt Rome

the glorious tomb of the Christianity, on

Prince of Apostles, under the paternal regard of the Vicar of Christ, hearts," can and must take place that "renewal of the which is the aim of the Holy Year,

stays in London now, with her

great friends, Mr and Mrs Happiest time

Davey. There was a cup of tea ready in no time, but Gracie would not cat anything.

We

I

(WHAT was the happiest memory of all the time wos panting, we were together? I think it was I noliced she rather, from the stairs, and I the last year of the war.

else. noticed something

She were giving concerts, in places seemed to find it difficult to like Borneo, for the Australians settle down at once on the cofa, and the Americans. We just

went where they sent us. though she needed to sit

Drifting Off

NANCY

DON'T BE 50 LAZY -ann YOU PROMISED TO SHOVEL THE SNOW OUT OF MY YARD

It

And so that the faithful foc the

the

clusters at the gates of Clarenco House. On Nannie Lightbody's afternoon off, I often think how

on

Storn Fact

The stern fact remains that

no

surprised they would be to see Princess Elizabeth's high SCHED permits her to Princess Elizabeth herself of duty never

When in the other fake the easy way. pushing a prant

London she is invariably at her side of the high garden wall.

desk at an early hour-that de- First Time

lightful photo-cluttered desk For the first time, in fact, dealing with the morning mail. Princess Elizabeth

the letters she received is evading Years go ti much of the limelight and from other children first made leading a quiet and contented her 'conselous of her importance Today she private life of her own. Last to the Empire.

leiter. that every wear there year

were signs that her insists progranine of engagements had inatter how trivial, shall be became overcrowded, and com- treated with the seriousness of

the u ments

made

state paper. thai

Not long ago, for instance, a Princess looked real and often

diminutivel Nottinghamshire seemed over-trained.

And whe wonder? Two schoolboy wrote imploring her

could major tours in a fortnight, 10 or help in finding a job in a racing

"I know

like many stable. 12 engagements in as

feel hours, all-night travel, rarely a borses," he wrote, "and that you full 24 hours off-duty....this will understand how I was her appolated round. Her about them and why I want to Royal Highness had made her be with them." With her own to delight in a racing Blable-sho to del declaration of dedication Jaco

win has gained a tremendous thell Public service and was laxi frem owning racehorses jointly Princess

were

you

her strength with self-discipline. Sometimes her secretary would with the Queen-the arrive in the morning to find found this appeal Irresistible.

so after midnight, making notes

of

Within

lad

that she had put in on hour or Helping Others

40 hours, the In answer to correspondence. received a letter from Captain

dangers Fortunately the

the King's Boyd flochfort, strain were apparent and her trainer at Newmarket, offering advisers gradually entouraged to take him on. her to take things easy, The

It was the same when feree floodlight of publicity was Lincolnshire housewife, beside rently relaxed. Recently the herself with worry, wrote telling Princess has even visited two the Princess of her fears that her six-month-old baby might

disense.

our

of

rarc

HRH

or three plays with her mother her strictly incognito, and theatre dic publicists have been asked to dispense with the flashlights and e a few urgent inquiries, and the baby was rushed to a fore- news fanfares that commonly most London hospital where a accompany royal theatre-going, highly specialised operation

Once A Weck might save his life.

Such letters bave made Once a week, too, she usually Princess Elizabeth all too The Cardinal Penitentiary Major, in fact, is entrusted accompanies Princess Margaret conselous of the good that a and a few chosen friends to a tactful word here and gentle to provide in large numbers for the nomination of

show al movie special

Sir directive there can achieve in penitentiaries of the holy jubilee; to him falls the duty of

yet apostolle

highly organised Alexander Korda's private film keeping vigil that all develops according to the

theatro at 140 Piccadilly. In muddled world. Recently friends constitution.

developed this way, III keeps abreast of say that she has more greatly moved

dim news and

Anancial often previews thoughtful sense of the latest pictures even before propriety and is keenly aware of

shown they are

to the pro- criticisms of royal extravagance. fessional critles.

Her refusal to renew her lease "I like to make up my mind of Windlesham Moor or to take about a flm and then compara on another country home was my opinion with theirs," she evidence of her desire to prune

unnecessary

expenditure. once commented. And friends all the

say that her opinion is as good Princess Elizabeth and the Duke us the professional best.

of Edinburgh are now entitled to Socially the Princess has also a civil allowance of £50,000 a led a more normal life in the year but do not draw the whole past few months. Without the of this sum. Few people will rtare of embarrassing publicity, be surprised it, one of these sho sometimes drops in to da at days, # special *Princess her friend Mury Fitzalan Elizabeth's Fund' comes into Howard's malsonette in Green existence to help many a lamo -[Street, Mayfair, and I bellevo dog over a sille.

of

May it be that the Christians of all the world make it so that the foly Year "brings in The greatest possible amount the frulls of peace and sanctity" in a manner so the Great Return and that this may be truly the year "ot the Great Pardon."

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