THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1951.
WINDOW ON
THE
THE
WORLD
By JOHN ASHWIN
tuke notlee of Corn-
THERE is a prospect of might
a bigger ment ration in macchio with its 15,000 people.- 98 per cent of them unemploy- Britain if a new Danish con- ed. The authorities might give centrate perfected by Den- work to the people and help mark's Agricultural Re- them reclalin their marshlands search Laboratory achieves and build new houses. all that its discoveries claim for it.
The concentrate, given in the form of feeding stuffs, is said to increase the weight of cattle by over Ave pounds a day. Judge ing by tests which took place recently ณ. "Denmark's State Research Farm on the Bratting- borg estate, the new concentrate does exactly that.
But the authorities in
Rome must have turned a deaf ear to the bells of Commacchio. The bell-ringing was 12 days ago, no help has arrived. and still Commacchio Is still nothing more than a miniature Venice of unemployment and poverty- and 13 bells.
THRE
tired of THREE Triestines,
polities and of the unsettled Twelve cows were used for conditions in their native cily, experiments, and for 33 days are now sailing round the world Franco six of them were given a daily in a 33 ft. cutter, the
3 percent ration of the new food. When the tests began the cows all weighed approximately the same. At the end of the test the "concentrate" cows had gained an average of 185 Ibg each and the cows fed on normal food only 50 lbs.
creased weight that matters.
508.
Different; from most round- the world travellers, the three Triestines have apparently no wish for publiclty. They slip- ped from the harbour and set out on their voyage when the the rest of Trieste was watching the launching of the 25,000-ton luxury liner Augustus.
Builder of the Franco 598 is a 35-year-oki sailor, Franco Cressini, who has spent five years and £200 perfecting his cutter with its high mast, its two horsepower auxiliary motor and three-bunk cabin,
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FROM 160 'FRENCH-SCHOOL PAINTINGS SIR GERALD KELLY
CHOOSES THE ONE HE'D LIKE TO PRINT'
As for the exhibiton teself-
IT IS AS THOUGH
ONE man's
vision of the jungle. Henri Roussean painted this picture at the be ginning of the century. Its way of seeing thing, Londoners will notice, has found fresh expression, some 40 years later, in the pictures seen now around London Transport centre.
Invited to select a picture from the exhibition for publication Bir Gerald Kelly, President of the Academy, chere the above because it was the forerunner of much to follow-and because "there's a lot of fun in it." Picture to insured for £20,000.
BROOKLYN DODGERS HAD INVADED LORD'S
the Iron Curtain, Picasso's with- drawal on ideological grounds leaves a gap which no one else can All.
After slaughtering, it was found that much of the in- creased weight Was merely stomach contexts, although the cows fed on the concentrate pro- duced 41⁄2 lbs more liver and 42 lbs more meat than the others.
dazzled and appalled is now even Maybe Sir Gerald Kelly hoped Technically, explains James
By OSBERT LANCASTER
occasionally mimicked, with મ that the students, who are the White, the effect of the 'concen-
His fellow adventurers are s
enger to reach, LONDON, And in place of Sir Alfred's notable lack of success, by the public he is trale is a reduction of metabo- 28-year-old driver and a
horseflesh are the more during Academiclans thein- would be inspired by seeing the from theo most of the Royal gleaming lism
increased year-old ex-private resulting in
T
streamlined The
mechanical.
nudes selves. Academy's regular by Leger.
But it is not easy to estimate actual works of the great men whom they have hitherto wor- weight. To the layman and the French Foreign Legion.
the suddon ap-
To the rest of the world, how the real value of any school of shipped from afar. Or, as seems housewife it is merely the in- three of them plan to sail the
Franco 598
vis patrons from Trieste VIB Catanin to Gibraltar, then past pearance at Burlington ever, the shock is likely to be painting at second-hand. It was not altogether improbable, he the Cape Verde Islands, across House of the paintings of less. In the 20 years which have rely to overcome this difficulty anticipated a sharp disillusion- the Atlantic to Brazil. Other
horrifled our parents, their in- add five rooms of French Mod- to be disappointed, ports of call, writes Fred Manor, the modern French school horrid since these works first that Sir Gerald Kelly decided to mont. In either case he is likely will be San Pauto, ports down will doubtless prove as fluence has been profound. Not erns to the already extraordin-
arily mixed bag of pictures Off Their Game of Army offers the south American coast, shocking as would the un- just in the realm of painting but which have gone to make up the
For with the exception and police gunmen were through the Straits of Magellan heralded invasion of Lord's in everyday life.
Winter Exhibition.
Braque, Matisse, and Miro, the Now Commonplaces
Unfortunately, quantity rather big men are almost all off their by the Brooklyn Dodgers members of
Today hardly a hoarding or a
than quality appears to have game. to the older
magazine would look quite the been the guiding principle of Far too many of the second, the MCC.
way It does hnd the carly selection. And it i no more and even the third, eleven have Those walls where year Cubists never existed.
true of modern painting than of been given a place in the team. The bisected gullars and frag- any oth have
other that the larger the pic- after
hung year
Many of the paintings are no по wors at St. ments of newspaper headlines ture the better, and four third- better and
than the "Spring Sunshine
which once seemed so chic and rate canvases of any one painter average at the Royal Academy, Ives" and "A Highland unexpected when encountered in do not equal one first-rate, but baseball is not quite the
now are
given the paintings of Gris and Braque There are two masterpieces by sme ng cricket and the M.C.C. Winter"
now the commonplaces of Braque and a wonderful Rous- may be forgiven if they can't over to the menacing ab- are
the commercial textile desigper. seau, Hamlet, however. is
to recognise the second-rate when stractions of Kandinsky
And the ferocious brillance of the same when the Prince of they see it. and Mondrian.
the colour contrasts that once Denmark has vanished behind
FORDONS
dismissed recently when corres- and arross the Pacifle. pondent Creil Clark, together with other correspondents 111 The cutter will subsequently to touch India and Ceylon, pass Mexico City, were invited meet Mexico's President, Miguel through the Suez Canal and re-
turn to Trieste. Aleman. Normally, precautions ensure that the President is only seen from a distance. On this vecasion, however, directly the
National Anthem had been play- disappeared ef, all formality and the President even ordered that the luncheon should not be marred by lengthy speeches.
COLO
COLOUR television has finally overcome its teething dim- cutties and
been acclaimed success in America.
Arst
Attending one of the public demonstrations, corres Forty-six Усаг
old Miguel pondent Kay Murray discovered Aleman is already a friend of that at the colours of the rain- The people. In his four years as bow are almost as true on the President he has done much to television screen ir real c. ease the various burdens of both In a 15-minute programme, a the rich and the poor. It is television hostess, In the gayest little wonder, la fact, that he of coloured dresses, held up ean dispense with his military flowers and lengths of striped bodyguard and armed police taffeta and
the even munched reddest of apples in order to provide colour contrasts.
men.
AT
T home or abroad, the burden of nationalisation is the tax- payer's burden. In Austria the
Interviewing experts,after the programme, the correspondent discovered that technical diff- culties at present prevent the
STILL THE
MILK AND
PARIS.
RANCE is still the land of milk and honey, or, more
By HENRY
LAND
London Express Service)
OF
HONEY.
THODY
eor- not forgotting his wife, entertainments a Frenchman can
have.
use of a picture larger than 12 rectly, beefsteaks and wine, takes in eating. nationalised State railways are inches square. Even at this now costing every person in the size, the reds appear a little to to the visiting Briton. country just under £2 a year. red and the greens too green.
This expense, writes Richie
McEwen, arises partly from the
fact that there are more retired railwaymen drawing State pen- sions than there are railway-
Nevertheless, colour on telem
food 15 not
of
meat butchers' shops. You can- not mistake these butchers', which are modern, spotlessly clean shops.
horse-meat.
It takes some time, too, foi] the Briton living in France te accustom himself to the French cafe or bar. Any resemblance to an English pub is purely
A large, gildered carved horse's head decorates the Consequently, a French-
front. shop
Tho Lunch hour in France man
sign be- sperds three-fifths
low it says "extra IOS- his Income on food bif." The It is not, however, the lasts two hours. In the of
French have adopt- towns laat showings of For
cheap ed "rosbif"
into their 100 cet." (steak, 6s. lb., butter, 79. from the English "roast vision appears to be as good as galaxy of food that is most
A meal such as the one But for many poor French colour in the vinem by techni-surprising. Nor the but cinemas begin at 10 p.m., 19.
cinema.
chers' shops full of finest so you don't have to hurry described costs at least 10s. Il families "rosbif" means roast The only snap as far as the unrationed cuts of veal, through supper which you he ate less he could buy now furniture, a television set, or a men running the railways! The American viewer is concerned is pork and beef. Nor the began at 7.30 p.m.
car (a new baby car is on sale reason is the chequered politi- that regular colour television bourgogne wines (4s. B I eat supper in an unpre- for £270) but he prefers to eat. cal past of the Stato.
programmes are still a dream of
bottle), or three star tentious little restaurant the future. The system mBy
While on the subject of cars. the old Hapsburg When
a shilling a just around the corner from traffle in France is terrifying to monarchy was split up, railway be almost perfect, but rival brandy at
my office. Here I see the newly-arrived visitor. workers of the Empire were companies are now Aghting to large nip. allowed to choose which of the prevent any one network mono- polising the industry with a they created countries
The big surprise is the dinary Frenchmen shop know people who have driven a car for the past 20 years who newly
assistants, barbers, Govern- admit they are frightened to serve you breakfast (coffee and wanted to settle in. Some 120,- popular early start. The result
Frenchman, 000 chose the Austrian Republic is that no one gets storied at all. interest every
ment clerks-settle down' drive in Paris. to work in, and these were fol
to their evening meal with lowed by a
further 40,000 whe.
¡aimost religious solemnity. were already drawing pensions. Unable to employ anything ke 120,000 railway workers, the itle Republic sent hundreds of them to swell the 40,000 already drawing pensions.
Then came Hitler, and thou- sands more of the workers were pensioned off as "dangerous cle- ments." After the war the same fate overtook thousands more who were dismissed for the
that itler ha simple reason kept them
railwaymen on ay and as Nazis at the outbreak of war.
Even faced with the present vast pensions bill, however, the State railways, true to State tradition, are optimistic that by 1002 there will be few pension- ers loft and the "retired list" will have been halved.
that
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
SUPPER
THE
KEY.cal it "The Town of
Bell and of unemploy- ment.
Com.. Tho town is macchio, built like a miniature Venice on 13 tiny lands in the Adriatic.
Lina Waterfeld writes altogether there are 13 bells in Comacchio and the prize of them all, the ancient Cathedral bell, can be heard miles out of sco. It was not the sailors, however, that the people of: Commacchio wanted to attract when they rang all their bells, from dawn to dusk one day this
moath
Optimistically they hoped that their bella might be heard in Romy and that the authoritie
gatharth
COFR THỔ BY HER SERVICE, ING. T. M. HELL U. 8. Par. orr.
"I'll have to marry a smart man like you, Dad-I'll never Tearn this stuff well enough to help my children with HIT
or-
1
coincidental.
The French cafe is open to
rolls, remember) before you go to the office, and is still open at midnight for you to have a good nightcap, buy a packet of cigar- ettes, a stamp or make a phone
call.
It is the law of the jungle, with everyone driving with the accelerator full down. When two motorists have a slight col- lision, say a buckled wing, the
impatiently menu, modest to policeman
waves Although alcoholic drinks are French standards al them on. They are holding up on sale all day long, a drunk is
the
traffic.
a rarer sight in France than in though it would shame many
France is full of lovely car Britain. a first class British hotel, is with torn, dented bodies, looking minutely studied and dis- like an attractive girl in shear cussed.
Advice is sought evening dress with from the walter, the land- bandage around her hand. jord, sometimes the cook
from his kitchen. Similar
SHOPPING
man
The French working soiled drinka a glass of wine as tre- quently throughout the day as his British counterpart stops for a cup of tea, and it costs him the same.
attention is given to the ADISAPPOINTMENT to the wine list. Then the French
visitor
At present the French work a 1s the Jack 40-hour week. But there is a of traditional French polite-
start to enjoy themselves. ness, The old Gallic bow strong parliamentary group sug The meal often begins with smile and "after you monsieur gesting a 44-hour week as the snails. For Frenchmen do still has been replaced by a good hard solution to increase output and cat smalls, which is another sur dig in the riba ng the French lower prices. prise for the visitor, enjoying man gets a scat in the bus before them with a relish of a holiday-
winkles at the seaside.
you
INTEREST
getting
moking Briton eating whells of This, it should be stressed, is TIENERALLY speaking, the more prevalent In Paris than in French werk from Tues- Frogs legs, however, seem to the country, where la politesse day to Saturday, and take Su be slipping from favour. Having in stil found. tried them I don't wonder. All Shopping, outside the crowded day and Monday as the week- I could taste was garlic, and I stores of Paris, is still a joy end. It is one way of tasted that all next day too. Το until you dale have been unable to face up to snails. They remind me tials, expecially clothes, are much The Interest tho average too much of the garden at home, above those in Britain. Luxury Frenchman takes in the arts is
Then comes generous portions Items are, usually cheaper,
New ort an encouraging sign. exhibitions are held every week
with
reach for your wallet. rid of that Monday-morning Prices in the shops for essen- feelings.
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