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MANNERS MAKYTH MONEY

By JOHN

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WERE was a time

THERE

CLARKE

when book! on

etiquette seemed to assume that their readers spent their spare time being entertained in yachts by archdukes or, after a tiresome day in the office, habitually shared a box at the opera with a visiting head of State.

Now Miss Ray Allister has come along' with a book on munners that has both its fert solidis plaåled on the ground-~~ caviare is mentioned only twice and: yachting week-ends not at all.

Min

Allister grabs her readers young as they go to be interviewed for their very first job. "Wear jewellery and fura only if you ere applying for acnior posts," she commands, and, "Smile, if what you say is meant to be mildly umug ing, smile readily if the cracks a joke, but don't, if you are a girl, make eyes at ] the

Some girle do.

man.

from sheer nervousness," Hard on Fools

Ily the time Miss Allister his

June with the young worker she (for the emphasis is at this stage on girls rather than Boy:) in paragon. She goes on busines irip with her born, hit

fakes her to d the employer thrare

to see the sights in

□ 37090 taen, that is nice but the mut not in her wind

ker scanner treat the time together 03 anything

more than offer life

different setting. If she does she

interviewer

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. 2, 1950.

"Same problem as Mafeking. Willy-can't make up me mind whether to join the Anny or be a farmer's boy,"

JEWELS

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IN THE SUN

NICE.

T is the height of the

+11

here

in the

South of France, a son- be

is an inerperienced little falson which promised to

and life in awfully hard on funds."

office hours the is Dutch Instructed very thoroughly in th art of having a nicely mannered Young men call to good time. take her out to restaurants (me vit should feel quite well enter – taled me ften courses") and to

the anest glittering since the But the "sparklers" war. have gone out of it.

the

For in the wake of hosts of money spenders

the have Cane

the theatre "There was an ad-diamond thieves to By ARTHUR COOK

fathioureat idea that it was transform

Kind

indpile in

BUNST.

Delor 3.

What non-coast appland.

all over with

the from to the

Cannes to Juan les Pins "), and when it is

of jitters for she should not into a scene "thank you" letter un-every visitor who has a

Bern a it has

really jewel case, big party, let it should look as though she was augling for in- The gleam of a tiara is olher invitation.

There

comprehensive as inviting to the thieves as

write

less

15

chapter on tipping, ranging from the sun is to the visitors, the art o be observed in The rich do not new fear

Turkish Baths ("Attendant gets hold-ups on the sensational

feratur h. 13 2. according for bath to that customary in Aga Khan pattern of last hospital "A couple of thestre year; they fear the

London Express Bervico

-A thriller serial fr*ccot the Riviera

footmark on a wall was the only cluc.

ht:1

about

What is she like at home?

* The gay member of the Royal Family takes an increasing interest in the serious side of life

by VIVIEN BATCHELOR

N the highlands of her she will not be in for din

native Scotland, with ner and tell them where she her mother and father, is going. the world's most written- about and fascinating teen- celebrated her nger twentieth birthday on August 21.

Only if the King and Queen feel she is not caring enough for her health, they, like any parents, might sug.

What is Princess Mar- gest she should postpone some party or engagement. garet really like?

With her good looks, high Most of the Princess'a return sense Lospitally to her friends take jspirits, keen clothes

Own of tea in her

This is the only

and obvious enjoyment of the form

fe, she is regarded as the apartments. "gay" member of the Royal from her parents.

often takes ince she

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Hamily. Many reports have More formal return Javite- tended to give the Impres- tions are dealt with by the King sion that from the chrysalis and Queen.

of childhood has emerged a bright butterfly.

This is not fair to Frin- cess Margaret, and does not give a true picture of her character.

In her position of younger

ease of the young

men

This applies especially in the who escort the Princess on roclat occasions.

Lo

MARRIAGE?

THEY are occasionally Invited only a re-

dine at Buckingham

Ꮋ mote possibility of ever be Palace. More usually they

the Throne, Ascot,

included the house party for wrek-end at Windsor, more care-free Sandingham or Dalmoral.

sister.

Whom marry?

will

the Princess

Armed guards protect private homes and safe deposits. Extra police-hundreds of them-lve daughter, with Then came the third. The bien drafted into the area. haul was £10,000 worth of

The situation is "formidable," ng called to jewels belonging to Madame ray the police. True, they have she is in a

her one position than clues-espicially the Georges d'Araujo.

a grubby Corsienn who Princess Elizabeth,

But for all her apparent

The speculations which ΤΟ called at the Villa le Roc-but not enough to malt: an arred.galety Princess Margaret is

her on if he is seen out more thin M. Vuillaume had been tipped as serious-minded as

Curican was gister. She has a shrewd. am leave the Princess un- of that the

Who the way from the villa. tipped him off? M. Vuillaume highly developed intelligence moved.

and considerable talent. is not saying.

The man sald he knew of al Few people realise that make up her mind in her own 1ime and provided the King she is at approves of her choice It is ob

the young man she loves,

The choice of her escorts is ber. II. alter

But within hours the news at lets WIK stale, The was by then swoop No. 4- this time along the coast at the Villa Casa Mara al Meu-

tome.

jewels.

of Corsicun

in

Tu:loa

Often when

ence with any particular young

The truth is that she WID

Mme. Tardieu, widow of gang British [Curiously, the

He was certain that questa were protected from French Prime Minister who had a mysterious parcel of the is a brilliant pianist. great loss by the regla Tardieu, was at dinner, when had been stolen from the villa, home in the evening--which ous she will eventually marry

they were being passed is far more often than is rapidly from one to another popular belief she enteret entirely to of jewels from her home. tions which limit the jeel somebody took £1,000 worth lory taken abroad.]

DIMMING.

keep them hidden.

n particular We all spent a very pleasant lains her mother and father two or three times as his quest

im threes: finds with an coast al after dinner evening along the

young man does not intrest he, he will gently drop The Toulon. Did we find a Corsican promptu recital.

acquaintance.

Kang?

The sun

came early this year-and since the sun is a

Forty-eight hours later maquet for the wealthy, the glittering parties began came strike No. 2. Mme. early.

Louis-Louis Dreyfus, widow Almost every big glitter of French wheat magnate, NIGHTLY the glitter in

with her dinner

the bars glows less, as Knests in her Cannes villa. the sun-lanned and beauti- terrifle. since April has been attend. was at

The lights went out. When fully gowned women grow we ed by the "enemy,”

they went on again £20,000 more and more scared even instalment. worth of jewels had gone. A to wear their jewels.

'NO CLUES'

grets for a shunt which the who silently and stealthily UE police are attacked

has wished to

incica").

men

are aften

break into their villas when it they are out basking or | dinner.

Meeting Royalty

day after day in head- ings which read: "No clues found again," "No arrests and "Are the expected," police askrep ?"

M. Louis Vuillaume, chief] of the French Flying Squad for this region, and M.

dark tanned To Having set one to right on the diverse good manners desirable

figurest

the who pack in arranging a marriage, in

meding beaches under gaudy para and in moitering

Allister wisely sols, while-coated! waiters Royalty, Miss

1< "Goodfaring furns her attention

cooling drinks Home," which, 05 Manners ni

punctuate the talk on

the Pluchere. his deputy the says, some people consider to

car latest development in the Cannes, have been provel be "a place where

most able in the past-that; what we call ourselves-vent-jewel raids.

of tug on a groep people, chose

is why they have been pro- good opinion

moted to "top" jubs on the Riviera.

- **/*

we think we fredat 100"); for, irritabi artfishness, frustrations they we dare not show to outsidera."

IN OUR NEXT

"The wife who doesn't bother THE under-crunt of the

Riviera, wise friends Any more because, after all, he's her husband now and must take are neither past nor pofen- her as he finds her is both rudeial victims of the light- and stupid," Miss Allister says wisely. "One of these days he fingered ones, find the topic

as his wife. is no less worth discussing. will see her, not but

in sailed IS a lattern dressing-town and hair curlers. who has, incredibly got herself into his house."

A Charmer

Art

And, after all that---endu! Not a clue.

Did we find the jewel? We did not.

The

Who tipped off the thieves? OUTDOORS, TOO

Who?

...

for the

suspense s

next

How does a young men esk to be hu

xuest?

But like good reader, HER music is extremely Pucess Margaret

verantile. Chopin is a favourite. Then suddenly

must walt

-(London Express Service]

SATURDAY, AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE

The woman

The

and

the baritone

Answer,

that

be

would

Usually, before she will switch to boogie- even try to ask her, he has met. her enough times to know her woogle.

private telephone number. Ja been to the most cases he has probably

She was

If she has theatre to see a musical known her sco

come home child.

it and play numbers from by enr.

show she can

She has a fine collection

In that case he simply ag her In the same way a

not young men ring up girl they would like to asi i D

If the young

man does not

of gramophone records. party. If the party is formal

She often sings to her he writes his invllation. own accompaniment after informal dinner parties at know her very well he asks u Buckingham Palace, Wind- friend who a more closely ac- quainted to ask her if she wil sor or Balmoral.

consent to join his purly. Although many have

The King and Queen do not to associate her have to approve of the invita- mainly with the social life in Arst. much of London she enjoys out- GENET SER SANTRELJEFISKENIRA better story it Lucinda had door pastimes.

mcalls more to me than money. me explain.

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dinner appointment

come

nt. wwd

the

another

THE 'REGULARS'

been

turned

Dul-

with

RECENTLY, as my less By BILLY ROSE ranged at the Club,

Now this would be a heavy lidded readers

Blandford, may remember. I wrote

When she lurned out to be a wild-orbed look column about Now, the two men

was staying The Marquess of dogs

heir of the Duke of Marl- "Dear Mr Rose,

pixie who squealed when wenry-cyrd, AS clo thecouk add and subtract.

Mobile

"I hope you won't think Tm met her idol, or a femme fatale with the Duke and Duchess

offleer now Guards hundreds of Gardes

I'm returning vao swept him of him publi-of Beaufort and turned out rough, Mr Tom Egerton, ex- Ward, wife will tell ungrateful, but

with the Beaufort Hunt she farmer. the Hon. Peter Now, on y from one they are rushing

you, a writer who turns out as our Christmas present, Frank eksed pins.

1 sent you those

Truth is, however, that when showed excellent horseman- sccond son of the Earl of Dud- Bonham-Carter. ley, M. Maric up when robind villa to the next.

much as I do has to come

column suggestions I was after

fall of Late at the captain led her to the table ship.

of Lady Violet Bonham- with a heap of motions in any something that

Is Tennis where Eleanor, the singer and

and the Earl of Carter, Lel "The serial continues -

one year, be it calendar, fuenl

I were waiting, it was apparent favourite sport; she does helt heir to the Duke of Bur-

the names The light-fingered Jog or leap. Where, I'm often ask

t once that Mrs Lamont was a rend our next instalment to-

not pretend to be more than deurh, are

most agd during Formal, pleasant woman,

which the Princers has "Three years morrow" is the headline book makes depressing read-ed. do they all come from?

as scelated fisat het crush on the opera an average player. and chopping tip to New York, 1 friends from one of the papers here. ing for the police.

#tar was nothing to be concern- e about. AAA

Palace, her main hobbies There was the first entry hecklers, E-from darned near attended a performance at the

Metropolitan Opera House

For two years the 24-year- Never have newspaper

and are reading and stamp col.

old Marquess and the 27-year- We gabbe about this be well-mannered at home, you readers in the South of at the fabulous Villa le Roc, everywhere.

Mrxi

the baritones. Some of the yarns are whit otchoolgirlish crush on une

old Earl have been regular will be 21 absolut. charmer

the dusty Jumber reason he struck me as the most that for a spell, and about nine lecting.

our- Although Princess Eliza "escorts." The Princess has just everywhere else," she adds, and France had such a thriller. near Cannes, where

that Norman Winston was hold-ted from

hud ever my wife and i excused because

a-mouldering in the back alleys glamorous of my head, some come from seen, and ever since I've had a sclves and went off to catch a beth is now married with a left a house party in Scotland she has been the.

book It has a charm of its own

ed two hours later the futemo- family, scarcely a day goes at which

guert of the Earl of Dalkeith. "Knowing sou were in show tonal Friendship Society were by when they are both But at present there is no in- London when the two do dication that her choice will lie rich Americans and French to eat the spaghetti at Lindy's, were enjoying the soft musteme

loss the hope that I might

"I don't know how Lucinda not see each other. When with any of these men.

When Princess Margaret is a usinity, I started to send you will holding forth, Ingridate myself with you end,

the other with

quest at your help, get to meet is at making up stories," said one is in the country they

party And please don't the baritone, but she's certain speak on the telephone.

Cuccts and friends address her "Ma'am." Only members of my baritone.

her family and her most In- and very happily, to a fellow list."

Mar- misturlerstand - I'm married, ly a first-rate

timate friends car her I've known since high school. And that was the only the

"If, most of the time you can

that is the

kind of Editors are o

sure

of

man

T

For Some

philosophy that runs through the another jewel raid will erop ing a party with 30 guests.

British aristocracy and the loquacious louts who gather tremendous desire to meet him. movie. And when we retum-

I like "most of the time with up for the next day's paper

the old kind of books, with all that a "atory an far" intro- thore archdukes around, you had duction for the next instal

on your mettle all the ment is always in type

ready for use.

time.

*ManĘTA for Mocterns' be ap

20. Gu.

Allister RLGnuou Punstedtronaj Even "crimes pas

sionelica" have faded

(World Copyright decreed-Landon the background.

Express Service).

into

are

inspired by my quent the coffee-houses of the from a band on the terrace enerous kinsmen who still fre- when the bandits struck. East Side, and

I some,

am even come £30,000 worth in one haul-pleased to relate, and all from the rooms of from my ever-lovin' and ever- the guests. Not a clue left writin' readers-long may their

feuntain, pens flourish,

and none found since.

Crime Quiz

by Leonard Gribble Sketcher by A. E. Morley

The Foreign Buyer

Reported in Probes A man wha claimed to be Martis Day, a foreign Buyer for a group of wholesalere in Rio, called on » London firm of silver umitha." He asked terms on which some of the ilem's weres could be sent te his hoist for epactors

C. DIAZ

RIO DE JANBIRO

Any dear thostin

I am quite recitats

help your spot dowe and of

you personally un

Yours most cerely

Carlos Roz

the He presented a latter from head of South American firm, and explained that I was in English, ndi Spanish, so that he could offer the priginal instead of a hyped translation He said it was bacajaw of his personat contact with the hand of the «flem that he had to be extra careful in selecting good.

(Kolutions. Paza

The salesmen en syrpico and telephoned the police from another office. i was abed for the buyer's description and told to detain him for another 15, minutes. When the buyer Isfe 750 wás.xtopped by a detective. A five-cautions proved he was an Impostor has had given him away?

ECt the "However, I can't anger out of my head and even though I've now it's crazy, I meet won't be content uni! I him and spend an evening with a blin.

For instance, up in Toronto There's a yomg housewife with the unlikely name of Lucinda tamont who occasionally malls in a suggestion for a column. The stuff the submits, as rule, is short on construction and climax, but every now and then contains an interesting character or situation.

COUPLE of weeks before Christmas I checked back my und found that three of

hud columns during the year

fur- nounced off springboards rished by Mrs Lamont,

it was only fitlin' and propa-

conversationa-

that the during the evening tudy from Toronto blushed.

At home in Buckingham cenalstently

remantically.

INDEPENDENT

in

IN the last two years a close observer will have noticed how Princess Mar- taken an In- garet has

caret.

NO

SECRETARY

no

TN spite of her increasing part creasing interest in the publie lite, she jus

secretary. Her correspundence is dealt with by her lody-in- "So if you want to give me ITALF an hour later the party serious matter of life.

star From her carliest days waiting, Miss Jennifer Devon. something to dream about the broke up the opera

She has only rest of my life, please see it going off to his wife in Great her actions have been mark-

one personat you can't get me a dale with Neck and our visitor to

Canida, ed by an independence of servant, a Indy's mald.

As the King's daughter she him. I can fly to New York any house and hubby evening you say.

As we were chauffeuring Mis spirit.

catch Lamont to the airport to the midnight acroplane she turns-

"Or am I making myself ridi- culous?"

the

A postscript contohed name of the gent with the dul- cri tonsils..

her

Today she accepts

own

bor become a leader of fashion.

She is fond of clother and taken

#

cat interest in them. But

jast

wears

"d to me, wanged her eyelashes public engagement, because

sle normally makes her clothes ecstatically and sighed.

long time and them often, "Mr Rose," she said, "this has she wishes to. No pressure

Being pellte she whely wears been the most wonderful even is brought by her parents.

She manages her ing, in my life. 1'11 never, never

lille Jewellery, Usually peart is a family forget it. Thank you so much." affairs entirely, always re necklace, which

"Are you going to send any

once piti, and a brooch are all sho more column material?" I ask ferring her decisions l,

they are made to her mother wears. She never wears I doubt it," she said. "That and father in the same way In the family circle the la and 1a, unless I happen to get stuck as any daughter in a normal known for her lively wit and for her gift of mimiery, with fent the little lady a negotiable read him the letter. He turned on another baritone.

And that, dear readers, & the courteous household.

If she wishes to go to a which she often illustrates some

anecdote, nokogay.

out to be a very understanding

after some yarn behind three of my yams,

theatre she A few days later, my cheque young man, and

Your, counting this one..

party between came back with the following fast correspondence

will merely tell her parents (World Copyright Helpsd-London

| Krprise "Service}," (Landon Express Service) letter of explanation:

Sixth Avenue and Toronto

the situation tickled me and so I get in book and touch with the baritone

anda, I thought, to make some NATURALLY,

ccature of appreciation, so vut pen to cheque

or

ring..

cat-

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