The Seaforth News, 1962-10-11, Page 6Princess With A
Mind Of Her Own
Orc of she must popular :reel
determined moult:wa of mu'
Royal Funnilythat as Pitn:e .s
Marina, faorsnerl,y Dindwes of
Kent.
Through the years the thinness
has endeared tact self to the B it-
ish public by her persotiallty, and
charm. DM even a.s ai^ child in
her stmt Greece she had the
sate endearing qualities, as well
as being one of the loveliest of
children with her gold -brown
eyes and hair.
In those far-off, tar away days
she learned her beautiful I1ng-
lish from her Governess, erne a Miss
Fest, and cvi'n t t.itsten-on saying
her goodnight pi'ayer•s lit English,
When her grandmother, Queen
Olga asked why =hi. wutlkln't
pray iu Greek elle replied:
"I y e :i rcutred it w•itll God. i
told hien 1 liked to talk to }lire
m English best, :aim He said:
'Please yothiself, Marine. All
tan, iumei are the same to hie.'" •
Otiu cve.tiug she was told to go
to beet at six o'clock and say her
prayers like any other good littler
girl. -
"Lots -of other little girls are
going to bed now." she argued.
"God must he terribly busy lis-
lennig to all their prayer,.
"I: I go to bed later on, the
rush will be over and Gad will
nano more limo to listen to me.„
Iter father, Prince Nicholas,
once lectured her for some mis-
deed, telling het she ought to tell
God . he wac sorry for being
naughty.
Locking him straight in the
rye, site aastvcr,•d: "What would
be the use? If God knows every-
thing He :oust know I'm sorry
without beim; told. 1 don't want
to waste His- time,"
She didn't like music lessons,
so her father sat down at the
piano and began picking out
nursery rhymes with one finger
while she solemnly watched.
"Colne along," • he said. "you
see Papa trying, don't you?"
"Yes," she replied with a quick,
Mischievous smile, "that's why
I don't." Papa retired. defeated.
Her French governess, Mlle.
Perrin, said of her at the age of
six: "I remember how delighted
she was when I had a headache,
"She would come into my room
pretending -to be the doctor and
put cold compresses on my fore-
head, In doing en she saturated
my hede1othes!' These stories are
recounted in an admirable. bio-
graphy H,R.II. Princess Marina,
Duchess of Kent by J. Went-
worth Day.
As a young girl Marina was re-
solved to marry only for love.
Once she overheard the family
solemnly discussing the upheaval
caused when her elder sister
Olga suddenly broke off her en-
gagement to the Crown Prince
Frederick of Denmark.
, "Why on earth," she broke
"should Olga marry him if she
doesn't love him? I wouldn't..."
Smiling, her mother comment-
ed: Out of the mouths of
babes. , ."
A game she loved to play with
her two sisters and friends was
"keeping house" up in a fig tree
en en island where the Prin-
cesses spent their summer. Baro-
ness Helena von der Hoven, a
family friend recorded:
"Each member of the party
had her own branch which rep-
resented tier 'room' and all the
figs cn thi: branch were entire-
ly hut property. -
"0ne could visit the other and
exchange fruit which was care-
fully passed over on fresh green
leaves.
"It needed a 1e11 of agility out
to diem any and if su i a mis-
fernme happened .t was greeted
with c ;.:it ',f merry laughter and
-Thoegli
one :.,t the youngest.
i rinees:?.farina was always the
:sing -leerier :and kept the company
to i1;; of i:uahter by mimicking
ISSUE 39 — 1962
hes geveraess."
More than mire during her
girlhooet war and revolution
dreve the f:un,ly into exile.
1u. _n Genie, bee,une 0 re
put,'ic under Vemizeles in 1922
sono k ii g Cunstaatine, her uncle,
hitt his etuntry for ever, Print'e.
-Nicholas nccontpami'd hint to
1'a111ela, 511110,
lie alr,'ri cabled hi;- wile and
two elder daughter,. hi Pari.,, and
Marina. who had Been seal to
England. to join hien. And there
the family -remitted.
Once snore, says Wentworth
Day, their runts had been torn
• up,- Their old hoose had gone,
Their fortune was confis£ated,
For the second time they were
wanderers on the fare of .the
earth
Marina, then a tall, slender
sixteen, looked. at her parents
and said, with that tesueh of miss
chief which sometimes lit her
face. "We really needn't. have
unpacked our trunks."
Later, e r, in Paris, Prince Niehn'las
took a studio at Auteuil, painted
all day, and sold his pictures at
;nod prices to augment the
meagre family funds. He and
Manua often went out sketching.
One day a little girl with her
mother stopped and stared at the
couple, Busy with their paint
boxes.
"Are those musicians, Mum-
my." she asked. "Do we have
to rive them a sort?"
After Constantine's abdication
her uncle. Prince Christopher,
reseeed hoe rattler's money and
>e'ealitles and her mother's jew-
ellery in a daring easeape from
Athens at a time when five min-
isters and a general were shot by.
Venieelos's orders and her other
uncle, Prince Andrew — Prince
Philip's father—narrowly escap-
ed the same fate. •
Helped by his lawyer ane old
tutor Prince "Christo" stowed the
jewellery in an old wooden box
with its bottom almost falling
out. put on his oldest clothes. and
drove clown to the quay.
There the three boarded a
small rowing boat, fearing every
minute that the harbour officials
would recognize and detain then.
They'd brought with them a
.large white Persian eat 10 a
basket. Marina's mother's dear-
est pet, It drew attention to
them by yowling,
Next a suitcase burst open.
Storks, share certificates, money
spilled out and were hastily
stuffed back.
When they reached their ob-
jective, an Italian steamer, an
armed Greek sentry with orders
to examine every passport bar-
red the gangway.
Venizelos was staking sure
that nce member of the royal
family would get away on that
ship.
"Christo" ran up the gangway,
gave the sentry a tremendous
blew in the stomach which dou-
bled him up, and rushed to his
cabin, where the sentry had no
power to arrest him.
The tutor got past, too, with
all the luggage, jewels, money,
and securities.
Despite all her family's mis-
fortunes Marina. eventually found
happiness in her marriage to
Prince George, Duke of Kent,
who said of her:
"She's the one women with
whom I could be happy to spend
the test of my life,"
But tragedy. dogged her again
when he died in an air crash in
Scotland during the Second
World War.
Wentworth Day gives a reveal-
ing account of her life and per-
sonality, and the dramatic events
that beset her family, in this
first authentic biography.
Today the Princess is an ele-
gant and much respected public
figure who shows little of the
many, and sometimes harrowing,
vicissitudes she has had to en-
dure. -This timely biography can
only further enhance the wide
r. -teem in which she is held.
Obey the traffic signs — they
are placed thele for YOUR
SAFETY.
Gwendoline P Clarke
For more than a decade readers of this, and many other
Canadian weeklies, have followed with interest the happen-
ings described in the column entitled "Chronicles of Ginger
Farm".
There was little of the sensational or headline -making
in those happenings. Week after week, season after season
and year after year the column chronicled the life of the
Clarke family living — and working — on a Southern On-
tario farm. Yet the charm, and above all the sincerity of the
writing were such that countless readers came to look upon
the family as personal friends.
So it was with real regret that readers of the "Chronicles"
learned a week or so ago that Mrs. Clarke has decided to
bring the columna to an end; and on their behalf we extend
to her congratulations for a job well done and best wishes
for the future.
The Editor
Kidnapped 013
Her Honeymoon!
The beautiful young bride had
always dreamed of a luxurious
honeymoon on the French Rivie-
ra. But she and her sailor -hus-
band had had such a whirlwind
courtship they only had enough
money far their hotel expenses.
That was why Joachim Pros
chnow and his twenty-one-year-
old bride, Helga, were hitch -hik-
ing down to the coast.
"We'll have a honeymoon
you'll never forget!" vowed
Joachim, after the wedding at
Cuxhaven, Germany, He didn't
know how right he was -but it
was not in the way he imagin-
ed...
An attractive girl doesn't. have
to wait long on the highway if
she wants a lift—even though
she is not alone.
The first car that stopped took
them to Hamburg. Next day they
had reached Basle, in Switzer-
land. It was already dark es they
tried to thumb a lift on the third
stage of their trek.
A big, fast car stopped, "Where
do you want to go to, friends?"
asked the swarthy young elan at
the wheel. "Anywhere to the
South? Yes, that's the only sen -
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of Portland Mason (left) 13, at a separate maintenance suit conference of Santa Monica,
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suit for divorce.
Bible thing to do in this terrible
wet summer. You're lucky, I'm
going through to Marseilles,"
As the radio played soft music,
the driver asked questions. When
he discovered they were just
married - and were on their
honeymoon, he exclaimed: "What
a pity! I am always too late,"
A few hours later the Algerian
stopped outside a roadside inn.
"I've run out of cigarettes," he
said, turning to Joachim, "Will
you get me three packets?"
Joachim felt slightly uneasy,
but he went into the inn to buy
the cigarettes. Two minutes
later, as he came out, he saw the
tail -lights of the ear disappearing
along the road!
h1 the car Helga screamed in
tereor. Stop. elle shouted, "or
I'll Jump out;" The Algerian
laughed, "To jump out of a car
at 90 m.p.h. is suicide!"
Meanwhile Joachim was in a
frenzy, He knew that unless the
Algerian was shopped something
terrible would happen to Helga.
The innkeeper was helpful, IIe
phoned the police and found a
motorbike w hich Joachim could
]tire,
Leaping an the machine, ,Joac-
him roared away in pursuit, In
half an hour he was only a few
yards behind the Algerian. Thun-
dering along beside the Rhone -
Rhine canal they reached a dan-
gerotas bend. Neither slackened
speed. •
"Look out!" .screamed Belga.
}jut it wes too late—the ear
crashed through the barrier and
plunged below the surface of the
nano:.
Ti.-1i•ing off his jacket. Joie:tore
dived -in. flut be could neer no-
thing in the) murky water. 'flies
•suddenly tw'o heed:: bobbed to
the surlaec, Joachim swam over
to Helga and tried to calm her
as cite struggled in the water.
'I'11on he peeped with relief as
the police cars roared up to the
acro,
of the c•altai and played
their :carehlightr on the water.
The three were soon fished out.
Amar.ingly, nuns of then) ova,,.
hurt. - The Algerian is new in
Madhouse jail, awaiting his trial,
1tetr a and Joachim ea-MI/mod
-tlic:ir honegmoon. But they won't
- der env more hitch -hiking,.
tVhen the average husband
looks around and sees the kind
ef men most women marry, he
can't help thinking that Itis wife
has clone mighty well,
Two Masterpieces
For Price Of One
It looked at first like a routine
job. The palating just neecleci
cle:aning . • nineteenth -century
varnish had turned the lady's
clucks a bide yellow ---and the
canvt.s backing, which was dis-
integrating from old rage; needed
rcplacing. In Kansas City, some
wcel,rt sago, jatncs troth, an ex-
pert art cnitser'"•ator, quietly be-
gan restoring C_cz:uene's "t"he
Ar'tist's Si<trtn."
The ptt!altig, owned by the
5t, Louis City Art 1'Vluseum, was
one of eight Cesanues that -had
.been. stolen a yeas' ago while
on loan to an exhibit in Aix. en-
'Provence. France, the utist's
bii'tltplac '. The stolen paintings
were all found in an abandoned
automobile in Marseille last
April:- f'or'tunately the thieves
had treated "The Ar'tist's Sister"
gently, and it had suffered' al-
most no damage: The thieves had
only removed its frame. Once it
was lammed.. the St. Louis 1itu-
scum decided to have it cleaned
and ielined,
In his lab, Rohl started on the
backing after Ile I'mished the
cleaning jab. First he carefully
cut the old liner .away -in strips
with a razor blade. Then be at-
tacked the unusually thick layer
of glue tmdernenth, With wet
packs of warns water -soaked
gauze, he reduced it to a jelly-
like consistency and began deli-
cately picking the particles away
with miniature spatulas. What
'emerged to Roth's surprise, was
not the blank brown canvas he
had expected to find but a heavy
application of dark green paint.
During three days of digging out
glue, Roth watched as another
Cezanne---a portrait of a peasant
—gradually appeared.
Last month, the St. Louis Mu-
seum put its double Cezanne on
view, suitably mounted so that
the faces on both sides were vis-
ible. Since the newly found one
is upside down in relation to
"The Artist's Sister," a guard
obligingly swivels it vertically in
its- special frame for the benefit
Of visitors. Museum director
Charles Nagel has estimated that
the find raises the value of the
work to $225,000, $75,000 more
than the current value of the
original painting, which the mu-
seum bought for only $7,500 in
193De4,
lighted with his double
painting, Nagel commented last
month in St, Louis: "It's a nice
little dividend. A fantastic turn
of events — to have a painting
stolen, get it back, and then find
out you have two instead of one
"It's a fully realized sketch
with the full authority of Cezan-
ne's talent," Nagel said. "It was
probably done when he was in
his early 20s, a few years before
he did his sister in 1888 or '09,
It's an obvious choice, if you had
to cover one face or the other,
which one you would choose, but
it is stili a sketch of museum
quality."
Great Catastrophe
Almost Forgotten.
The most generally forgotten
grand catastrophe in recent his-
tory, except by those who were
close to it, is probably the Jap-
anese earthquake of 1923. Yet
among all the natural disasters
of which convincing records are
available, this was the greatest
in all history. In Tokyo alone,
it resulted in a lire covering
nearly twice the area of the fa-
mous London, Chicago, and San
Francisco fires combined. Some
60 per cent of the city, including
300,000 private houses, was de-
stroyed. In Yokohama things
were worse -80 per cent of the
city reduced to rubble and ashes.
The total loss of life was around
140,000 inane or the atom -bends
or incendiary firer in japan dur-
ing World War 11 was store de-
structive plan the 1923 Tokyo
blaze or approached it in .u•ea).
One reason why the horror leas
been so widely forgotten is the
Japenese stoic genius for suffer-
ing colossal damage and then get-
ting en quietly with the repairs.
Liftitig this curtain of silence,
Noel 1. Busch has written a
vivid, terrible, titin in many ways
inspiring book entitled "Two
Minutes Te Noon." The effect is
811 the stronger bectaise Sus+zh,
an experienced journalist and
writer 00 Oriental su.Ibjeets, now
with Reader'sDigest, has e forte.
al clarity of expoeit inn +sting
would ceiteinly appeal 1) -`elle
eltssic Japanese taste.
The• start of all the vt1 51ot ^,s-
atiol • was the e15111oei ghic
:harks which began lar hOlore
noon on Sept. 1, c•entr t in
Sagrno :Bay some 17 h-
wesr of Tokyo. Hi, pidly, the
quakes slttttered the e iod :•mt
paper J 1 pancse hmtrc. , it 1rIto
buildings were mostly left t. 1111
tug); a myriad of fin 1:, ..c etlt;
they were often fed by o11 111111
the bursting tanks cr <r1!I,i
!coin industay;-tical staves 1,:.001 -
ed over - the shores, :Ind es the
appalling heat inland I .11<1. d
vast updrafts, air lenient ie and
formed whirlwincla and 1 ur::
which left fantastic c.,Y.1 One
great twister, for exampleo'-
ed through the open -pee.. bit
Tokyo's Army Clolein, Depot,
where 40.000 people i ati eia : sett
to escape the fit until beet. t +nd
when it had passed on;y .1 1011
hundred were 1:1t a',vi:.•
ty
nightfall, the fiery city =:reed as
a reacting lamp for peep: 10
miles away. -
Among the many sut;nner he
interviewed, Busch is spe:ielle
attentive to Dr, Eikic`tiu lkegu-
chi, who lost hie wile and three
children in the regime nm; furnace
and was violently scoreleed him-
self, Iie spent the following her.
rendous hours convirued that his
own death was near, but p- <inn-
ately determined to have the
bodies of his near and cleat re-
covered and properly but'ied.
Upon his pasting with Dr Ike-
guchi, Busch makes the comment:
"The Japanse, as is well known,
have a custom of bowing when •
they say good -by. I was glad to
conform with this on taking leave
of Dr. Ikeguchi."
Anyone who isn't in debt these
days is probably underprivileged.
JUST KIDS --- Gay Bishop's
two little buddies are just
babies, yet they enjoy a
friendly get-together, espec-
ciolly when it's dinner. Peter
the bunny, nibbles a hickory
nut, -while Willy, the squirrel,
sips milk from a doll's bottle.
EVERYTHING SHAKES ---• it's a wiggly world as Maurice
Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield give their oll in a twisting
session during a scene for the comedy film "Panic Dutton,'
bung filmed in Rome. Costarring with them are Eleanor
Porker and Mike Connors.