The Archive · 1937

Land of No Beggars

Afler she has completed her wrling for the day the Rance has tifin, then at 3 pin. if any of the natives have complaints they come to the "N.C. Horal mee of Sara Astana and present their cases to the Rajah and Rance. From 430 on the Rance is free to do as she likes, She usually motors to the club, plays games or drives about in this lovely Tand where there are no beggars and no tourists, but where there are miles of tropical' jungle and where orchids grow like weeds, Since she first arrived in Sarawak the Rance has learned to speak Malay. She wears always, at home abroad, daytime, or evening, Malayan dress. On Feb, 22 when she roceived representatives of the Shang-hal press and posed for innumerable pictures she wore a blouse of white satin over a black sith skirt, tiny black and gold sandals and Malayan necklaces of filigree gold, From wrist, half way to the elbow, she wore bracelets made of jungle grasses by the head-hunters, 'The Rajah, she pointed out, has more or less stamped out the' favourite sports of the head-hunters—smoking their enemies heads. It Is still done how-fever, but on the quiet, The Rance admits that she was slightly disappointed in her first glimpse of Shanghai which she says is "anything but beautiful at first After three weeks in Hollywood she will cross the United States and sail in the s. Queen Mary in time to attend the Coronation. She will stay on and visit her children and grandchildren for several months. One daughter is married to the Earl Incheape, another to Mr. Harry Roy, the orchestra leader and Alm star, The third daughter, Valerie, in unmarried,

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