1950-10-21 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1950.

The shy Shah says 'No' to the T

cover

W

girls

by KENNETH MACAULAY

TEHERAN.

7HISPERS came months ago from the high- walled marble palace of the Shah of Perala that he was tired of looking for a wife in the restricted circles of eligible Moslem princesses. He was ready, it was sald, to marry

a commoser.

Since then the girls of Teheran have been throwing themselves at the head of this 30-year- old king of kings.

Week by week the capital's magazines have been printing large pictures on the back cover- everything in Persian or Arabic is rend back to

This front of Miss Glamour Girl That, in an attempt to help the Shah make up his mind.

or

The favourite, perfumes of the candidates for the royal palace were listed among a catalogue of their virtues and wit.

In vala. The Shahi'o An- nouncement the other day that

he is to marry ปี commouer

that makes it clear

PRINCESS

STAR

member

4 of

one d Persia's wealthy *300 Familles," has been chosen a second wile for

the Shah of Persia. Why

princess? Her father is a chicl-and her name, Soraya, means stær. When the Shah first met Soraya she was 17. In Teheran it is pointei

out that the Shah would not content to her engagement before 18.

his bride her name means "ator"al o

na an income of £80,000 n year

will be no Teheran shoe-shop reception at the Persian Em- tax free, and all royal expenses

model bassy in Paris last year. They paid, of course. girl, or photographer's specialising in Arabian dancing danced together once. Dis the ski

Cossack's son

HIS

IS bride-to-be, Soraya Isian- alari, is the 10-year-old daughter of a nobleman and a member of Persia's "Three Ifun- dred Families." These power

ful tribal chiefs and landowners form the ruling class of the kingdom,

The Shah, indeed, bus no nose at a cause to turn up his

Is himself the commoner. He son of a Cossack army captain, The young Shoh met Soraya-

Ez-Queen Faucia-and the Shah

And no more was heard of her until she But with all his possessions | caught the plane to Teheran and palaces, the young Shah re- recently become engaged,

mained a lonely man, His Best marriage 10 Princess Fawzit, Her

escort was the Shot's sister of King Farouk of Egypt

Cham, was not a Success, And was eldest sister, Princess

Ind sent to dissolved two years ago. whom the Shah bring Soraya to Persia. They had one daughter, travelled with l'aris mqdels.

trunk-loads of

Court circles say that it is a

love match, and a

couple they will make.

His sister... THE

handsome THE Shah

They

"Ilow nice not to have to dress up.”

HOT

Cummings

SNOB

CLASS

on: How to look as though you're not accustomed · to 'this sort of thing'.

“Oh, dora ons have to queue ?”

"What funto serve oneself."

•-1 must say I always enjoy

"Washing up? How jolly!"'

a sporting court.",

Surprising view you get up here," London Express Servic

They can't help their taste

By JOHN POMFRET

EIGH

NIGHT or nine thousand little lasto- buds lie in the mouth, mostly towards the tip of the human tongue,

Some people can undoubtedly taste more than others. Four people of every ten, for instance, are unable to taste one remarkable chemical at all.

It is called thiourea. Dr Fox, of tho du Pont company In the U.S., accidentally released some in his laboratory.

Some of his colleagues complained that it left a bitter taste in their mouths. Others couldn't taste anything.

Thiourea was tried out extensively here. It tasted bitter to six out of ten people, but not to the other four.

Three scientists, including Dr Julian Huxley, tested it on 27 chimpanzees and found that the proportion of non-tasters was approximately the samb.

The faculty of tasting is hereditary and there are only four basic tastes: Acidity, saltness, sweetness, and bitterness.

In the library of his home he said to me: 'Am I deserting satire for good? I hope not'

WAUGH TAKES THE PATH

TO THE SAINTS

E

Watch

VELYN ARTHUR ST. JOHN WAUGH, the

is a quiet, even man with the barb in Soraya shy, man, and the feriness his hond, stands aside from with her black hair, dark eyes of his father scerns to have and clear complexion, the Shah descended to his twin, Princess satire today to serve up a with the good looks and classic Ashraf

pungent parable, his best profile of his race.

It is the who has constantly novel yet: Helena, a com- reminded the Shah of the neces-passionate life of that saint- sily of securing the throne withly saint. Rn heir, for the succession

was

Soraya, whose mother German, was educated in Swit-

zerland.

ta

stances yet unknown prossed to ask him. Ho was into mered emblems; heard answer,

ready to the chatter of huggling in ton- "I was tired of the accepted ques yet unspoken.

type of saints who follow what I "She saw the treasuries of the call the Aldous Huxley pattern Church Alled with forgeries and of communion with God. I impostures. She saw Christians wanted to write about a quiet, and stealing to get ordinary saint who did her task Arthting possession of trash.

In life and then faded out"

He pulled on a long, torpedo like cigar.

by JAMES LEASOR

"Am I deserting salire good? I hope not. will And something

for

I trust you

The division then was The Wall, today it is Iron Curtain.

"There

They are all detected by the papillie, or taste-buds, which are little flattened projec tions, thickly clustered to- gether at the tip of the tongue. In ill-health they sometimes look like the points of a strawberry,

Gulps of beer

Saya Constantius:

Many animals have more seems to be a natural division in than we have. A Hereford the human race just where the bull, for instance, has some present wall rubs; beyond it they're incurable barbarians."

Another character, Lacantius,

30,000.

Sweetness, In general, is unhappy in his soul, says: a tutor, apparently successful ye detected at the tip of the only I were a little braver, it 1 had dared to stay

nearer the have been a great writer." centre of things I might

Compassion

meat in 'Heļena." Iet mute. In this book Evelyn

change

It's Just

of style that's all.. I'd "She saw all this, considered like to go on and do a book on It and said: It's a stiff price; the Arthurian legends, and one The marriage is regarded in cannot come down through the For 20 years the idea has and then: 'Show me the Cross on the Crusades, too. Persia as politically important female line in Persia,

Ife shows her some pleces of bothered his nimble brain.

"It's not a conscious change. I girl's father because the

from wood, recovered

a well. So Somy-looking atte

a lever and powerfully aliled with the like Ingrid Bergman-meets her This spring he started They have miraculous properties; mean, I don't pull

change my Bakhtiari tribe, who were badly fance's Court and

they beat the sick. It is enough say I'm going to the upper work. He sat down at his reeva is content to meet her style now. It just happened that treated by the old Shah. They crust of Persian society.

way." live in the strategically impor

One thing is almost certain, desk in the sea-green library God. innt od lands of southwest the Shah's choice will have to of his 18th century Glouces-

This Is more than a story of of the scrutiny

sister tershire manor

No levers house and

a quiet, ordinary saint. The book pass Ashraf, the twin princess, other-

is it cunningly woven allegory of wrote.

inter-day life. In Helena's day, wise he will hear about it.

is now, the world wanted a sign from heaven, something to be. lleve in; an anodyne for anguish.

Then, too, the worlds of

Persia.

The Shah is rich. From his father, ferce. autocratic Heza Shah, he inherited the family fortune of £20,000,000, as well

-(London Express Service)

Frau BOHM PUTS

RUM IN HER TEA

(It's the cheapest way of keeping warm)

VIENNA.

N this fabulous city... not quite behind the Iron Curtain... the shops are stuffed with nylons, Paris scents, elegant gloves and handbags, fine china and glasa, glittering jewellery,

Only sugar is rationed. and the allowance is double

the Brith ration. From caviar to kidneys there is no food that you cannot buy abundantly.

In dined,

+3873321|2328411352169339 | ££6281) 525+362083"

from EVELYN IRONS

which slapped 440, an to the

Helena is a daughter of Britain's old king Coel. An emissory from Rome, tough, ambitious Constantlus, mar- ries her. They leave for Italy

and the fretful

life of discontent that ur- gent ambition knows.

Constantius (he achieved treatness only by being father [of Constantine the Great) Icaves Helena, and she drags

two on an income of less than nut a lonely one-dimensional £2 155, a week. From that Italian exile until her son Con- must come a winter coat for any stenting, 100, grows up

and daughter that will cost £14.” leaves her.

At the nearby vegetable mar- All she has are her memories, ke we scrutinised all the high- her religion, and add spurting piled produce skills before Frau sparks of nostalgia for Britain Bohm pounced on a huge caull- and tongy autumn days with the

stuffed it into her wind and the rain in her halr, lower and shopping bag.

"Threepence halfpenny stie sald." "All the other were four-

pence."

Then she added one

pound of cleanly-washed carrots (22), a quarter of a pound of cream cheese (7d.), one pound of damsons at Gd. and one pound of margarine for is. 3d

Into a collar

Her

AS

decision

her life ebbs away, she de- cides to do an immense and worthwhile thing: discover and preserve the remains of the Cross on which Christ was crucifled. She belleves it would help millions yet unborn to belleve in the Christian mysteries of God

price of a Vienna tramcar ride Frau Bolum protesses a terror and Christ. the restaurant where I Frau Behm has refused to travel of the Russians but sho

mind getting a hora d'oeuvre

in tramcars.. She thinks 34d not meant

smoked

ccamp and asparagus. If you like it thus white.

Bread

does

Says Pope Sylvester, slightly bargain amused at her intention: "You'll Jelled trout, slices of goose ant the present price of a one-way from them. So we walked halt tell me, won't you, if you're goose liver, egg mayonnaise, ticket to any part of the city, mile in the sunshine past the successful?"

colossal Soviet Victory Memorial salmon, York ham, is too much.

with its green-uniformed Aus- ****ll tell the world," said Mother and daughter allow trian policeman on constant Helena. is snowy themselves meat enly once a guard and joined

a quetio of week-on this w the day. shabby men and women saak- One day a week they eat fish. Ing into a cellar, Otherwise they eat only veget "Down here"

Frau Bohm

two ables, cheese and cereals with whispered. Within

min- an occasional egg.

utes a woman asked me to sign

"Peace" Petition. the

Princo's widow

But although Vienna contains a street med Himmelstrasse, which means Heaven Street, it

is a long way fro

froid Heaven for the Viennese. I went shop ping with one of them.

of joints which outdid

The

She started her pilgrimage in the early autumn of the year 320, In a dream induced by fasting, the Wandering Jew appears to her. He knows where the Cross was hidden

What is your price? she asks.

Inside the meat market do- cellar had a portrait of Stalin zens of stalls were hung from on the wall and a huge poster None, says Waugh's lonely, celling to floor with a display carrying a streamlined scarlet Apeless Jew. His price will be even train with the slogan "Onward Pald later when pilgrims and the Frau Bohm is a thin, stooping, Parls. There were haunches of to Communism," Otherwise the plous want relles. "There won't drab-coloured woman. Her mai veal, monster sides of beef and cellar was like an underground be enough genuine stuff to meet That will be my name appears in the Almanach Venison, and everywhere pork vilinge shop with children's the demand. de Golha, which records that in all shapes and sizes from shirts, women's shoes, tooth-turn. I shall get paid.

Helena listened, and

w zho is 50, Austrian-born and hugo hams to delicate rolls of paste and groceries Jumbled the fanctamries of Christendom the widow of a Polish Prince, saw smoked bacon, Geese and behind

counters where become n fair ground, stalls hung" However, she came back home chickens and pheasants

and assistants smoked cigarettes with beada temptingly years ago, as hares were

and medals, sub- out while serving the customers. apread, The only thing that would remlud a British house- Frau Bohm's daughter Anny, wire of home was a

slab of 25-year-old secretary

executive, Iceland cod at the fishmonger,

to Vienna joven

she prefers frau to princess.

Austrian business

to

an

two

Police banned

Frau Bohm was, surprisingly,

here against 6x, dd, elsewhere"

draws £12 10s, a month, which but even there you could also after rum. “It's Is, Gd, a litro mens just under £11 after tax buy live carp from a tank.

has been deducted. This is Bedde these mountains of she said. The police can pre- rather more than the average food slood tall metal barrels of vent the underculling of agreed business girl's wage here. On cooking fat marked "Marshall prices in other shops but here this she and her mother live1 Ald." The Stars and Stripes to Austrian pollee may enter,

£1'à month-

a alegle room in a broad re- label on aach barrel read "For and the prices are cut to show sidential street in the British European Recovery supplied how well the Soviets live." socior of the city. They pay by USA"

Why did frugal Frou Bohun their landlady

want rum? "To add to my ten .which includes gas and Right To me, translating into Eng in winter" she said, "Fuel is Naturally the landlady anda lish 'at the official rate of 72 so dear that I cannot light, the this bad bargain and grudges Austrian schlilings to the stove until the evening, and having to kt the ex-Princess sterling, prices seemed so low num keeps out the chills." cook one meal a day in her as to make nonsense of Frail Who besides foreign tourists Kitchen. But like hundreds of Bohm's economics.

with favoured bxchanges anjoy other landindios she cannot get The average

the plenty In. Vienaat Into price for moat rid of lodgers who were com- was 2s. 4d, & pound, Geese and whose kitchens go the loads of pulsorily billoted

under chicken were double that price meat and butter sold daily? scheme for housing

The city of the Third Man Put pound Eggs piled every

hus. a bombed-out which ended two where were 4d. coch..

name for these lucky JURE, ago.

But au Bohm, mooping people. The name is Schlurf When Frau Bohm and I went from stall to stall, searching for Spiv to us,

Q

the

· shopping ⠀ mo walked ulice, the cheapest kidneys, snorted World Copyright Razsroad--Zamuden Since the now rise in

faros" "Remember. I'm, shopping for

Express Servłow).

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· Eendon Express Kerstme,r!..

[A/EIT did ̈Waugh of the well- honed tongus choose this odd subject for his novel?

I travelled down to his mottled

old moner house at Stinchcombe East and West were separated.

¿

tongue; bitterness at tho sides and back.

Thus, wine-tastera alp their vintages with lip movements, while beer-drinkers gup to get the full effect as the beer goes down. It tastes better that way.

Waugh дос bravely

the nearer centre of things than

Children ha has

can actually taste with the inside of their cheeks. ever been before.

Toffees and chocolates must For Waugh, at 47 the ageing seem even sweeter to them, enfant terrible, the man who although the desire for sweets casually turned down a 150,000 diminishes. with middle age, and dollar (£53,600) film offer for is usually. replaced by a desire he could not have "Molotov veto mint or curry. "Brideshead Noyksited" because for strong flavours like pepper-

rights" on the script, this is o We have learned to associate departure. Here is not the dis- raspberry with a red colour, tilled entire

Bodles, "Decline and Fall," "The Loved yellow, and so on.

of "Vile

lime with green, lemon with

One" and the rest. Instead, It has been shown that the "Helena" shows a rare mellow effect of the "wrong" tasiu with

the right appearance in a test. sweet can have a cabutrophic effect on the stomach.

ness, a compassion new to him.

It's a compassion that only the great can give! 1

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Tiredness

Palpitations

Symptoms

Favar

Indigestem

Night sweets

1

~Loss of

A saugh without

apperoni ressan

and weight

If you notice any of these symptoms,

· sou your doctor at oncei

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