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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-11-24, Page 7Selfish Duke is Moro Than Shto xxlcrn • Those people who dismiss John Robert Russell, lith .Duke of Bedford, as just a showman, couldn't be more wrong. lie is a man of taste, culture acid (lir'.- I:ernment, and an extremely shrewd businessman. It's true that at his home, Woburn Abbey, the Duke puts on one of the greatest shows on earth. It grosses more than £100,000 annually and is grows trig all the time, Last year there were 402,000 satisfied customers; this year he hopes to top the half -million mark. But the Duke is not ashamed of capitalizing on his aerostats. It's the only way he can keep Woburn running and in good order. H 1 s forbears weren't above marrying for money arid ,Tohn, the 13th Duke, is quite ;realistic about using every le- gitimate device to keep the 23,- 000 -acre Woburn estate intact. "They did what they had to do," says the Duke in a quiet but forthright fashion. "And I do what I've got to do. This is the age of the ordinary man. Everybody's got a car or motor- bike and he wants to use it to go somewhere and see some- thing. He wants entertainment and I give it to him -- with a little instruction thrown in -- 1st half a crown a time, and a shilling for children. Call it escapism if you like. 1 call it show business." The Duke, tall, elegant in wells out dark -grey worsted, moves smoothly about his library as be speaks. It's built on the same heroic scale as the rest of the house. You can pack a fair-sized block of modern flats in the apace it occupies. His Grace waves a well -tended Rand in the air in a gesture em - ;bracing the walls, furniture and drapings. "This is show business. No doubt about it. Being a Duke today means you're in show biz up to the' neck, otherwise you elmply can't exist, let alone live In the manner in which the pub - fie thinks you should live." The old masters framed above the leather -lined books look down from the walls. Could it be with approval? There's some- thing approaching half a million pounds' worth of paintings in this roots alone. A Rembrandt self-portrait, a Hogarth self- portrait, a Hals, a Cuyp. And a dozen other selected master-. pieces. "It was the fourth or filth Duke who was responsible for most of those," says the 13th Duke casually. "He thought the walls looked a bit bare, so he sent his steward to buy some paintings. Fortunately he came back with mostly Dutch pic- tures." He nods towards the Rembrandt: "That self portrait there, for example, cost L' 16. it's probably worth anything up to .1:100,000 today. Makes yelp think, doesn't it?" These astronomic sums mean very little to a man who, when he inherited Woburn and the Dukedom, also found himself saddled with a -15,000,000 hill for death duties. That was six years ago, since when he has paid off all but a million and a half, which he confidently ex- pects to settle within three es four years. When he took eve: Woburn. the Abbey was iu an appalling condition. It hadn't been decor- ated for close on a hundred years. Half of it had been knock- ed down by his father, the 12th Duke, who was interested oniy in birds, animals and fish. What was left was Jam-packed with furniture. china and pictures piled higgledy-piggledly all over the place. Within six months, working eighteen hours a day most of the time the 13th Duke HE MADE THE SAVE - His eyes glued on the ball, Spanish goalkeeper Rcsmoletto heads far the turf at a London, England, soccer practice. lead everything ready for visit- ors. Queen Elizabeth didn't sleep here, But Charles I did, several times. So dict Queen Victoria. And the magnificent State Bed- room with its fabulous tapestries (newly restored by a secret pro- cess) is one of the most popular sights in the entire Abbey. His forbears had the knack of adroit fence -squatting. They fought on both sides during the civil war, as Roundheads and Cavaliers. Hence they managed to preserve the Abbey intact --- until the 12th Duke's bulldozers got to work on it. The. Great Park -- 3,000 beau - UM green acres of it -- is alive with rare birds, bison and herds of deer. That, and the house, should have been sufficient to draw the world to Woburn. But the 13th Duke decided it wasn't enough. He installed a children's zoo, a maze, swings, roundabouts and all the fun of the 'fair. At odd times he has staged parachute ,jumps, traction en - g i n e rallies (this drew 20,000 visitors), horse shows, a nudist convention (a washout owing to rain), scooter rallies and politi- cal rallies (Selwyn Lloyd drew a 37,000 Conservative attend- ance). "Anybody can hold a rail y here," says this most democratic of Dukes. "Even the Communist party. Provided they behave themselves, pay the bills and clear up the mess." In the planning -stage are razz festivals, bowling alleys, fish- ing and boating lakes, swimming pools and tennis courts. Any thing, in fact, in the entertain- ment line that will tickle the mid -20th Century palate, writes Sidney Vauncey in "Tit -Bits." These ventures need consider - al -be staff. Apart from the Duke's administrative personnel. he em- ploys 250 people. There are six night watchmen. And fourteen Mrs. Mopps come to clean up the Abbey every day. Not excessive, really when one considers that the 11th- Duke never had fewer than fifty indoor servants alone. • All this is tremendously exact- ing work, but the Duke has come up the hard way. He, used to having it rough. At sixteen. talon Lord Howland. he was pitch- - forked into London to fend for . himself on a pittance of , L98 : per annum. Then he aecame a - reporter ' 00 0 national dully and tante when he inherited some money, he started a fruit farm in South Is fries. These. day: the 'Duke regards himself primarily as a show- man. He is always around et Woburn on visiting days, sign- ing autographs and keeping 4 very sharp eye on things. He is propelled by a tircles6 NO GUNS ALLOWED — Jaime Cruz, 23, is jammed to the pave- ment by a police officer Another policeman took from him xl .25 caliber automatic carried by Cruz at Sen. John Kennedy's torchlight parade in Chicago. Cruz denied he intended violence, claimed,in fact, he was voting for Kennedy, MERRY MENAGERIE "Junior! You ere not old enough to smoke— -much lase M bed!" determination to keep Woburn on the map. This will take him lecturing to Women's Clubs in America during October and November: in 1961 he goes to Vancouver 055 another lecture tour, and the year after he is booked for Australia, In between times, both here and in America, he will appear frequently on T.V. But, basic- ally, this is not for self -adver- tisement. He does it because his name has become. synonymous with Woburn Abbey. The more people talk about hint, the more they'll come to see his stately home. After work, the Duke occa- sionally drives up to town, Lon- don is less than fifty miles away and his huge American car tone of three In his stable) eats up the distance comfortably in about forty minutes. He bought it second-hand for about £3,000. Originally it cost £8,500 and was a present from the owner to jockey Lester Piggott when he rode Sir Victor Sassoon's first Derby winner. The Duke drives very fast. He cruises down the M,1 motorway so smoothly that one seems to be floating on air. When you. ask him what speed he's travel- ling, it turns out he's touching ninety-seven miles an hour. The Duke is a happy man, He accounts for his current content- ed outlook on life thus: "Making people hrppy is the greatest happiness in the world." he says, "An artist creates hap- piness with_ his talent, I strive to do it through the medium of icy wonderful inheritance and thereby to preserve ii for my .ton and the ,1Onei'at5(515' :hot will. fr.11ow." The Bedford motto is Che Sara, Sara , "What will he, I will be," John Robert Russell, the 13th Duke, is making sure that whatever else won't., Wo- burn Abbey always will be. Lester Ditches That Bow Tie! Does a jaunty bow tie repel the voters? In the ease of Michi- gan's Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy) Williams, most famous bow -tis man in LIS. politics, the answer is apparently no, But the backs room boys of Canada's Liberal Party have decided differently, So Liberal leader Lester B. Pear- son, at their request, no longer wears the ties that were his trademark in his days as Ex ternal Affairs Minister, "It makes the people think of bow -tie diplomacy," said one of his colleagues, who went on to explain how -tie diplomacy: An informal, free -and -easy ap- proach to problems of interna- , tional relations, characterized by friendly, first - name contacts, short -cutting red tape and proto- col. "It's a term of ridicule," he added, "like striped pants, or iv or y tower, ar egghead. 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