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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1954.
CONFERENCE OUTSIDE THE CONFERENCE
Chu Erlax
T
Eve Perrick On Cafe Society A BRIEF GUIDE ON
WHERE TO
TO GO
essential.
London. £3 a bottle. Dinner about 30s. that stare come out to be seen
head. Evening THE basic rules of How a
dress in at a discount. When Douglas Fairbanks took a party of 30 to Play the Cafe
Among others Mr Robert mon and women of distinction. Society Game have Taylor has been
turned away including the Duchess of Kent,
not varied much over the because he Was wearing the Mr Kaye, Sir Laurence and years. The old maxima wrong sult. (Don't worry about indy, and the rest, he had his fourfold ano-"act_amart,"
him, though, He was warmly bill reduced by £15. welcomed by the other estab- The most colourful restaura- "keep_it_gay," "be in the lishment run by the same people teur in town
Rica Dajou, know," "have a line"-still holds good.
the Embassy-where the same whose progress round the West prices bring you cabaret and a End can be spotted by the num- ber of places that till have The main trouble is that more democratic atmosphere.)
A word of advice about the ruched erlinson satin decor this though the rules remain owners of the place. The "400" hallmark), constant the playgrounds being one of the old-school Dojo at the moment runs a spots, it is the done thing to supper club called the Casanova, know the maitre d'hotel, M. at which he provides the only Rossi, and not the proprietor entertalcument.
change so often.
Fashions in restaurants
are aa unpredictable as (which is correct only in the His opening line is always tho
Warid Copystolii de arrangement with the Manchester Duardian
pend
on memory
First, then, the "400" - soft lights (50 soft
soft you have to de-
rother
eyesight
THE CROCODILE MAN TAKES A SIESTA
...in London, W2
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to hear of anyone being attacked by a hippo- potamus in the Bayswater Road.
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But I was hardly less sur-
week a man who is often attacked by hippos, who tries to carn A living by shooting crocodiles nt six feet and who yet looks us though he had never faced anything more dangerous than a London bus.
from
Mr Paul Fotous came his siesta at five o'clock in the evening-"I'm so sorry, I picked fhis habit up in Afclea"--into a pleasant unpretentious room,
He has a full-lipped, urdinary
moustache und above it durkish hair. The only thing about him that Hollywood might have noticed was the tan which came from no English April sun.
"At night fall, I take out my Dont," he said. "I switch on my headlight. In the glare of it, at 300 yards you can sec il croco- dite's eyes just above the face, but that's not
sur.
much ust.
The part to hit is egg-sized bralo just above its eyes. Even
I have
PAUL POTOUS cim above the syas.
● He was gentle, belpful. The only thing Hollywood might have noticed was the tan... yet this was the man who spent six months of the year standing on a flat- bottomed boat, killing crocodiles six feet away.
gands
by se
J.P.W.MALLALIEU, MP
to hippo.
unmon help after a few the When help came
thank goodness, had
if you manage to hit that at 300 able to yards, the croc has sunk before hours. you can get there. shoot it at about six feet, gaffe decided that wo weren't going it with a long, spiked pole and to interfere with him any more. lash it to a marker buoy, it It We went on our way." to be any use to me."
The risk
All this seemed all right, if one were doing it unce for fim, with stand-ins.
a
But Mr Potous, who ir 43, had been doing it for five years, six Six fect seemed dangerously months in every year, in part short distance to me.
for money. In those six months "Yes, they give a convulsive he almed to bag some 50' croca heave which con upset your a month. He sking them, cleans beat, even though mine is made the skins and ships them to New of African hardword and weighs York, wh
where they fetch some 700lb. That's a risk you must £10 a skin and are made into take. I've often
risks taktro
hand-bags, chocs, belt, sul which I oughin't to have taken.
"Once I was standing on some years or more), wrist straps and cases (which will last for a 100 tocks by the lake shore and
扣
croc suddenly swished with his
tall and knocked me down.
supplies of the highly competi- tive alligator skin.
He evuld not do it unless he had soug private means. One the other men, attracted from Lublic service by the Idea of profit, came up to the lake to vas ruined, not by croes, not by hippos, not even by changing fashions, but by the changing level of the lake, due to the shortage of ruin. He hit a rock-and his sunken, uninsured bont had! coul him £2,000.
shool croos. Ele
Tusks didn't pay
Why, then, do people try to living by shooting
carn
crocodiles?
at
This is what he said, ..When I loft school Wellington, I had a small in- come but couldn't settle down. I spent some years in Finland. Than 1 went to South Africa and tried Big Game hunting. Bluger Game hunting como with the war-1 had six years
the Army--and after the war, though I was born in Lon-
I just could not England.
Beltic in
"I tried Big Game again. But there was not enough money from tusks. So 1
tumed Lo crocs,
The freedom
"It's hard living in the bush. I'm out at sundown shooting-
at night the crocs seem to lose their fear of man--and 1 get back around 5 a.m. At 7 am. I'm helping with the cleaning of the skins. I ket a sicsta
from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.-you see where I caught the habit, Then out shooting again.
"But I love the feeling of Arredom. For alx months I'm on my own, fishing for my own food or shooting it and never talking to a white man. end of the six months : go to At the
fishing or, when Capetown for the deep
can afford it, I come to London-for the West
I Am married? Good woman would stand
the Hke.
At £10 a skin, 50 skins a month, End.
un African boy had not grabbed for six months in the year, he Lord, no me, I should have been in.
should net £3,000 for each alx- my life," What would have happened month works, which, despite the, then? The croc would have danger, is not bad going. But drowned me and stored me in he does not get that. same hole until Was putrid. then caten me, Crocs' teeth can- not chew fresh meat,
"Yes, they've teeth all right. They've Bot special
birds
Hit a rock
plovers we call them-who fly Before he starts from Cope- into their open jaws to pick town ho needs a good car with their teeth for them. The troublé strong springs. In that car ho is that these birds let out a travels more than 2,000 miles, terrific squawk when they see paying something like 65. anything coming. That's why gallon for petrol. He must have I shoot at night."
Paddle fast!
a tent, a boat, an outboard motor -one swish of a croc's tail con smash the motor, priced £76.
He must pay boys to puddio and boys to gaffe. He must have What was the worst danger a 375 high-calibre rifle and soft about shooting croes by day or nose ammunition capable of by night?
blowing a croc's head off. He The hippos. I know they're must pay for the 491. of salt vegetarians; but they don't like needed to clean each skin, and being disturbed. When you pay £1 a head for cleaning. know they are coming for you,
you put down your outboard He must traheport the cleaned river boat, rell and motor or tell your boys to pad. skins by dle fast, and get. Once, when steamer to Beira whence they we did not get fast enough, I are shipped to New York. He saw one of my boys snapped loses touch with them at Beitra in half.
where he is paid in full-any
*FOR LIFETIME PROTECTION AGAINST TOOTH DECAY right underneath us. Lucidly we a foot for a 10ft, crocodile ekin,
"Another time, the hippo got thing from 18. 6d. down to ds.
were near the bank. He pitched depending
fashion, on
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us into the reede, : Decause the whether someone is rigging the high-pitched "African volom can market, or on whether trojbine carry, for several miles we were in ··Indonesia › may
sea
But Mr Poteus can stand it, And at the end of May he is going back to kill crocs,
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
RUSSIA
“You and your, kunchus), What on earth are wil going, pa gay if - tkm, shiral from the left „dosen't turn,
(no crooners or other
than
Get a
cut
his
more than
а
fashions in anything else, postwar clubs).
sama: "You should have been One minute you just have
In fact, once upon a time, the in last night. Everyone WES
Queen to be seen in a certain place keen-eyed
(when she here. I had. ..." There follows -the next, you wouldn't be was Princess Elizabeth) said to a list of names, all pronounced her sister Princess Margaret: "I
wrongly. of the most exaltext Been dead there.
wonder who that little man who among
highly social So I present this brief guide sits all by himself every night members. to some of the top cafes of cafe is. I feel 60 вогту for him." But his biggest moment came society with this warning. The lone table-sitter IN
night when a Mr one These facts, ligures, and faces Al Barnett, one of the partner merrymaker was being rather are current and correct as of
noticeably drink in full view this date.
Tomorrow who proprietors who also own a car-
cleaning service and a couple of everyone present. With great knows anything can happen, of delicatessen shops.
presence of mind Dajou grabbed and probably will,
the hat of an innocent girl supping at another table
and' proceeded to do an impromptu enbaret net to divert attention. to recognise your DEST Up for a good start into You may think that such dancing partner), sweet music the clrcle--a table ut the performance Is worth any capers), Cafe de Paris on the night of price. Even 50, I assure you, bg. June 21, when Marlene Dietrich, that when you get one of introducedt by Nocl Coward, Dajou's bills You'll still ba entrance makes her cubaret bow over staggered, foe has recently been abolishd, here.
If you prefer a quieter place 90 you could go in and Just If you can make it, count on on the plushy level, a little order water to drink between spending about £4 a head for muggery known as Siegl's how food and wine-unless you are a sophisticated pianist and the tables close enough together for cavesdropping without strain.
It was there that, as I enco reported, I overheard the Alm producer saying to the pretty girl: "Honey, I can get you into, more pictures than there aro hairs on your hend." High prices do bring you certain privileges, as well they ought. Get seen
and snob volue for £5
year subscription.
The one-time £1
dances.
However, embarrassment,
avoid any already establishd as a V.IP,
would or bring a celebrity with you. muggoet something stronger. The Cafe de Paris obeys the Champagne or whisky is about unwritten law of cafe society,
Welfare State Hits
The Flea
Circuses
By J. W. TAYLOR
COMING
round 10 the no- membership or cover- charge-nonsense restaurants, the Caprice remains where it always was right at the top.
The West End's most-farmed WHAT with
coting-out improved treadmill with its feet and two theatricni
·spot can others draw
sugar-cube-sized offer for about 30s, a head at living conditions in
real lunch, £2 at dinner-shoulder- chariots in a race. The
W
Britain, the vanishing ab- stars are the rupier nighters, rubbing proximity with the ject poverty of the old days paying and thrusting at each stars of stage and screen and general slum clearance other with pin swords, and the
and
But to make your way from tables on the wrong side of the round
throughout the country, life Rossamer tightrope walker who one of the round-the-corner
presents peculiar problems carries a parasol. to Billy Rayner, owner and
to a back-bench But always there is the prob-room ringmaster of one of the Iem of finding fresh talent end the centre court can take years to circus pitch, for of constant and costly applica- two remaining flea circuses training
the life of performing fleas is tion. It is robbing at moet in Britain.
a brief one of about Newest comer
clientele as
the
smart-
his pocket-sized show of three months, despite the special spot list is the Mirabelle. Same many star trick cyclists, food and their luxury billets, comprising a small red box with jugglers and acrobats.
acute cotton wool-lined com- partments with everything ud
And there is nothing that the usual theatrical or em- ployment agencies can do to help, for they never get such performers applying for jobs.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Mr Rayner is glad that chang- ing
times and better conditions
numerous 24 years ago,
the Caprice plus, occasionally, Princo Bernhard of Netherlands, Prince Berili of Sweden, Anna Neagle, and Sir Robert Boothby.
Prices just a little higher.
But then the Windsors dined there when they were in Lon- don last,
Get fun
од
Fleas used to be plentiful in generally are gradually clearing the days before slum clearance. away Britain's slums, but when The "best types" came from they were at their worst and WELL, there's the primer this source, says Billy. And most
How. Who, and Where. I many of them fine
specimens, those definitely were the days suppose the question now Is: Is able to pull or push objects for the Aca circus propriotor, the cafe society game worth tho thousands ot times their own and Mr Rayner in particular. candle? weight.
I honestly think so. It's fun. He has been in the businese It's moderately good value for 30 years and never came across money (when you remember a fica who didn't show some that it costs 10 guineas for a
for any human ringalde view of a prize-night).
RING SURFACE
Because of this, special at affection tention has to be paid to the acquaintance. ring surface before each per formance. Even the smallest obstructing apock of grit would have the same effect on the miniature carriages tho fleas push around and ride in as a boulder would on trafic in o main street.
an
Not every
fioa le a suitable circus performer, and few are potential stars. Like bumans,
go through they have to audition. Selection is made by
the bottling
insects, Those which persistently try to jump out of the cage are rejected, and only the quiet and docile ones are put into circus train-
This raises a problem, for diet in important. Once they were fed by being allowed to ronm Bil over the owner, nowadays they are ziven specially prepared food based on a secret formula,
DELICATE TOUCH
a
The customeru, of course, have to bd protectedt, which necessitates all the selected performers being harnessed, This in delicate operation takes yours of patient practice, calling for the most delicate touch."Failure at this important initial task is one of the reasons, каут BHIY
why
which
there are so few doa martere in proferrion. If the harness-
the
capes.
The
of a
they
ing wire is pulled too tight the Ara dles; too slack and it co
operation
Zion entails the winding
microscopically small silver or gold wire halter
the insect's around.
Once they are har are, tethered to some nature or lořtiny: mobile nájdete kan zynen hours of patient training before isey will ** perform the "mithy težaks that clelight the públick
In the Harper Chrous one Bás sides a cycle by rowing a cont
And it can even be profitable.
"One Lump-or Two?
TAIKOO
make sure it's
TAIKOO
Half Cubes
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