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Princess Elizabeth, as profiled by a friend recently turned journalist, looked more than ever like a pretty, highly eligible London girl of 20. She likes dancing, housework (especially washing-up), Errol Flynn, pink, the historical novels of Daphne du Maurier, medium-high heels, jazz (on a constantly playing bedroom radio), ginger beer (better than wine or liquor), hats. She is good at ballroom chatter; hasn't a car, but sometimes borrows father's; hands down dresses to sister Margaret Rose; takes it for granted that she will some day marry and have children. And she can cook...
...thought this a slight mistake in description. If you will turn to the text, Chapter I, you will find Trilby's feet referred to in George Du Maurier's own words: "The shape of those lovely slender feet (that were neither large nor small...
...Havre and Paris for the entertainment of the G.I.s. This is very true, but we also had stations in Marseilles, Nice, Dijon, Nancy, Reims, Biarritz, and Munich, Berlin, Bremen, Kassel and Frankfurt in Germany. These -Svengali, the villain-hypnotist; by Trilby's author and illustrator, George Du Maurier. fixed or permanent stations were also augmented by mobile stations with the ist, 7th, gth and isth Field Armies. We would have had one with General Patton's 3rd Army had it not been for the fact that the late General moved too fast...
However frustrating life may be in U.S. suburbia, life is harder still on such "toasts of Paris." Du Maurier's Trilby died miserably, drugged to the last by Svengali's evil eye. Last week, flabby and 45, her cheeks pasty white and sagging, Kiki shuffled out of the door of La Roquette Prison. Picked up a month ago near the old Dome for peddling narcotics, Kiki was out on bail so that doctors could treat her drug-shattered nerves...
...Daphne du Maurier's The King's General: 1,000,000 copies...