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THE

Remind me in the morning to put up a notice making it clear that the 2s. 6d. trips round

the manor do not include bod and breakfast."

THE THE

The

Duke

DUKE

London Express Servies

REACHES

MATURITY OF YOUTH

Princess Elizabeth simply and contest and has proved formid-

"my naturally as

wife," and able in other athletics. seldom uses notes other than a

zenu.

a

word or two jotted down on Yet he also deals with an in- creasingly beavy rorrespond- Not so long ago he was ence, answering many letters in so the customary formal third per- little known-and his 20-year "naturalisation" so little appret but tapping them out hin

own portable type. clated--that a hostess asked self on his

whether he enjoyed being in England.

Today his succeed is emphna Ised in the shout that greeted him from a woman in Maita "Good luck, my boy! You're proper royal!"

Philip gave her the broad but bashful grin of a schoolboy ceiving speelal praise.

By HELEN CATECART

writer.

this job

Yet some of

RED-HEAD JOHN, AGED 15, IS A STAR OVERNIGHT

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BEVERLEY

BAXTER

AT THE THEATRE

LONDON. temporary drama. There is net slagte 3 CHETHAM-STRODE one falce word, nor a

sop to theatricalism. The man few

or woman who can keep dry- dramatists eyed during it has my envious

is one of the

British

who believes that a play respect, should be about something.

Ho demonstratedl

that

יד

HE JUST STARES

recently in "The Guinea is completely dominated by

Fig." as well as

nt the

carlier plays.

week This minster he gives

us

ground,"

which has

one actor, the red-headed, in his Afteen-year-old John Charles-

West-

"Back-

worth, playing his first part en the stage.

He sits between his two sisters

and

says nothing as his little for its world collapses. The elder girl delighted at the

theme the effect of divorce on

the

children of

marriage.

542

n broken callously

prospect of life on the farm for

she loves horses. The younger Nothing could be more topical, girl weeps helplessly. But the for divorce is enjoying a great boy stares straight into space boom. The modern

saying.

"Marry in hasic and repeat at until it becomes almost unbear-

ably poignant. leisure" no longer applies. The The mother and father finit

market is never remarriage

themselves making their case to in these enlightened him but his silence shames them leisurely

Into onys.

Incoherency. It was a rellef to us all when he turned

IT'S AN ART THE author takes the view

THE

on his horsey sister and cried:

Shut

up!" Up to this moment

the play

that marriage is a delicate art which consists of desiring is very near a masterpiece. But what one already possesses. Any unfortunately the author had determined the Inst act In normal male can desire what he does not

That require advance (or so I assume) possess.

the best stories no more than a primilive urge instead of allowing it to grow A inevitably out of the develop- are slow at creeping into print, plus the love of the chase. Seizing a paintbrush in Clarence bohunk or a gorilla could quali- ing situation. House, he astonished the paint-ly for that.

In "Background" we have a

he barrister who, after seven years

ers with his dexterity, "A trick I learned in the Navy," commented.

ur convenience.

ANTICLIMAX

HUS when the parents leave af war and postwar service, is the children alone and the. fighting his way back at the Bar. boy confronts his sister with a

and knife,

when we have of He treats his wife like a witness. Similarly, at a meeting

her wrong on any previously learned that he is a the Thursday Club, royal proves

rubject, and Bles into a rage crack

shot with Ε rifle, photographer was wagered that

when she falls to carry out some we old stagers know that the le could not photograph the

household task which affects his boy is either going to knife or cuckoo piping from the cuckoo comfort

thoot his mother's lover, And look--and is rumoured that

She, on the other hand, is one why not? The newspapers are Philip art off the re-crackers

of small boys et disturbed the photograph of that vast concourse of women full of stories

who are so self-centred, that they committing acts of violence. Lite outhor's is surely the er at the crucial moment!

believe the very planel's revolvr itself

Justification But the Duke's more serious around them,

Married for 10 years, she stil But Mr Chethom-Strode for- been amply demon- wants to be loved like a debu rets one unanswerable nxiom. ride has #rated also-in his anxiety to

tante, and hugs the delusion Life is seldom convincing but ret "kids out of the slums," in his naval discipline classes and that it is her marriage, not her art must always be. It is the duty

nge, which robs her of love's of the artist to take the incoher Jas evident determination to

Therefore, she encics of life and give them springtime. maintain full executive duties fueru

violently with her form. with the Navy, including quarrels

and then, like all

her type, declares to

periods at sea.

Rarely Ashore

husband women of

that she hates scenes.

THREE CHILDREN

When in London he used to work a seven-hour day in the

Therefore when the boy, after cffices of the National Playing

missing for three days being Fields Association, of which he

turns up and shoots the odd in President, putting in proc-

man (fortunately only in the tically a stail Job, unpaid und

arm) it is an anticlimax. But ingatnilo, Usundly he would

back, weak NOTHING, of course, could be if he had come

and hunger, and retake a short cut to

through the grounds of Bucks THE Duke could so easily have further from the truth. To from exposure

would have woman scenes refused to speak it ingham Palace one of the few

become the world's most the self-centred

publicised are as essential as tranquillity to wrung our hearts and soared to office workers in London who

photographed and

great tragedy. As it Is it creates is able to do so.

virtue sensible one. young man merely by

In the process of time they sympathy for the lover which of his husbandhood. Instead, it

comment that he have acquired three children the author never intended.

PAUL PRYS Typically, Philip enjoys these is worthy of

is rarely seen ashore at Malta girl of 15, a boy of 13 and a lle jokes on his Royal status.

girl of 11. They are fond of except during his wife's visits.

fine play, HEN the Duke of In Malta itself, and on his Changing into mufti and walk,

their children when they have VET this is

beautifully wrilten. БСП- Mall Edinburgh takes up naval duties as First Lieutenant in unoticed down the

He enjoys spending an off-time to think about it. Chequers gave him, I of the destroyer

by Norman Then there is the husband's sitively produced his first naval com- Philip normally

suspect, much the day evening in his 7 ft. by 911, receives no

bachelor who is Marshall, and acted with dis- serne relish as a truant school. cabin, curled up with a book. best felend, a mand as skipper of the publicity, When Princess Eliza bor beth

lie takes life with a deep in-full of sympathy for the sweet tinction. visits him she is swept

little

who is being

Andre Valerie While and frigate, HMS Magpic, there

ward sense of fun.

The bullied by her husband,

Morell are so convincing that will be no fuss. The Duke with an wual lack of formality into a social round with the

Norily trying out the engine

Can he sull keep that sense poor boob can see nothing but they annihilate the fourth wall celebrates his twenty-ninth sine other officers' wives, Philip this sports car in the Palace of fun, and zea: of good fellow-gentleness in her and even tales and make us Paul Prys and

but any a perhaps conspicuourly off quadrangle. he Was greatly

Lilly Kann la birthday today,

rhip, as duties and responsibili- her to the cinema in the after eavesdroppers. Baivons at Malta will official duty on these occasions, and yet amused when a member of the

sent ties increase? As he grows old-noons so that she can forget the most moving as the Austrian he was drafted back to The Royal Household nearly

life. Finally, he woman of all work, but the star cr, can he maintain that vital cruelties of ly only be gunnery practice Navy chiefly because of h's

In the country aut reprimand.

democratic touch which seems buys a farm

of the evening is the boy. merely coincidental, insistence, while in London, on

where she can

As his Whether it is his red hair, or his special gift?

wife when she says the word.

his youth, or his ruggestion of Yet for the Duke this must maintaluing a full and discip-

lined career of his own.

So the barrister and his wife unuttered thoughts, I do not be

occasion of very (LT)

they know, But he made the sorrows special significance.

W

and

ing

Again, at a start party, lie eleefully insisted on borrowing and photographing

camera

He chafes at inactivity. An the photographers. Twenty-nine has been called early riser, an all-round sports. the "unturity of youth", and it man, he is the executive officer Skimming through the papers, is just 21 years since the engng responsible for

stores, he sometimes seans the Whe Prince Philip first went to nariness, welfare of the crew of his own nellvities, England

if I were for his schooling,

in and running of the ship. To en- about myself as charged to the care of his uncle, sure that 'Chequers maintains its strange animal," he said Lord Louis Mountbatten. Ten array of sporting trophiles, he other day, with engaging can-

he yes have passed, too, since recently won a javelin-throwing dour.

entered the Navy by special en-

try and thus began tracing the definite pattern of his career.

show &

"Philip's best is outstanding, H ean, if he tries, genius for leadership." So wrote his Gordonstoun school- master in a letter of recommen- dation, and this promise has been brilliantly realised.

New

Stature

INDEED, everyone

about the

Duke has noticed the new

A GRAND DOUBLE PROGRAMME! stature that has come to him in

TERRIFIED...

increased confidence

dignity.

by the man THE DEVIL MOUNTAIN! village

she loved! ||Spine-tingling

·SCETS U. HUMAN PROPELTIKA

PRESTON

FOSTER

BELITA

PASSI DEZAM - KAMI BERAT - RALLIES DICKS

thrills on the

edge of the

world!

war

and quici

When he made his first public specel at the unveiling of a threa memorial years ugo, his nervousness was

Now

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he acknowledged to be one of the in the best public, speakers Commonwealth.

He smiles as he talks, reveals

refers considerable wit,

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OH, BOY --- A

BOW AND ARROW

LET'S PLAY WILLIAM TELL

JUST A MINUTE

woman

come

There are the problems that loom today for the fair, smiling agree to a divorce and 20-year-old young man whom summon the three children in of Americans call

deputy order to tell them. This is one things. Our

of the finest episodes in con-

King.

THE GEEK

By

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tawdry

the adults zeem

-London Express Servic®)

MOVES

C.V.R. THOMPSON

HOLLYWOOD. TILL in a romantic mood on the San Francisco wedding of Egypt's Princess Fathia, I stopped off today on the way to New York to what is happen. find out ing to Hollywood's "royal wives.

romance."

IN

more, composer Cole Porter, Charles Chaplin and his wife, Ray Milland, Joan Fontame and Rosalind Russell,

Now she getting to know BEFORE taking on new re- Sean, her future husband's son

sponsibilities Mr Flynn is by his first wife Lill Damita. yments to one of his former people in Hollywood these trying to scale down his alimony

VOU DON'T just meet

m

But Princess Ghilica-or The days. in fact, with 15 of its 40 Geck as Mr Flynn affectionately pictures being made in Europe, to the calls her will not spend her lilm stars are scarce, romance between Princess Irene weeks waiting in lonely purdah. So I found that the customer

I refer. of course,

Ghika and Errol Flynn,

Bud

Instead of whispering sweet

to go out and

THEY THINK so much of her

nothings by telephone only to the attracting all the attention in In only two respects could man she loves, she is living in Hollywood's best restaurant is a

tennis player, with Mr similarity between his pry

hilltop home

and mother

Mira these two princesses-commoner Flynn's

She is Nancy Chaffee, just 21, of his former and she is expected to be the langles.

Eddington, one

sensation of Wimbledon this Unwilling 10 accept Im- mothers-in-law.

from migrants

Rumania, the "I'm having such a wonderful year. U.S. authorities are looking into lime," the princess nid, "that 1 the Princess Ghika's entry into don't want even this country from Jamaten.

see Hollywood," And just as Mrs Gall had to wait a long time before she PUT the princess is going out

"I'm not a glamour girl," she swopped her princess title for to see Hollywood. It is part,

told me, "I want to become the title of Mrs., Princess Ghika of the training of movie stars. also faces a wait. But the Already she has got to know famous in England for my tennis:

the best people-Ethel Barry and not my looks.* reasons are quite different,

By Ernie Bushmiller

tennis that sportsmen ond the pubile made a collection to pay her fare to London.

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