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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1964.
Interesting News Stories
French Gourmets
Are Fussy
When It Comes
To Restaurants
Paris.
Ask one French gourmet which is the finest restaurant in Paris and he'll tell you. Ask two, and you have a fight on your hands.
The French show admirable sang-froid, (cold-blood) in discussing their morry- go-round governments, inflation, or the Indo-China war, but when it comes to food- the best food in Paris-vulces and tempera rise.
"Mais Volla," they slate politely, "This is a question of great interest."
Artie Shaw Is Happy
Las Vegaa
Artie Shaw, one of the
Before you know, there's Langouste" barrage of favourite French chunks delicacies Alling the air: "Cog tu Vin" (rooster cooked in thick red wine sauce) "mousse de Truito" (specially prepared chickten), "timbale de langouste" (lobster in sauce which often contains Scotch
Irish whisky.) And.
cat
Course.
with.
lobster
and
favourite
fo start uf delicate meat cooked in a cream mushroom sauce through which the real gourmet can discern the slight flavour of a fine cogoaC.
Another Laperouse is the "Rognan Janais Mieux" (kidneys in
which butler) actually lives up to its name. great Basted
browned. the kulary 44 Looked in a whne sauce, the specialty of wine stick Charles Delorme, imagina. live ezer of the kitchen, price for we 7,000 francs ($20)
Rated Da
Bor "Jes and
The I wines
of Burgundy and deaux iro mentioned: dos vins de Bourgogne" "Hordeaux prender crus".
Moat French gourmets will there are ve restaurants Paris of "premier ordres"--
Liggest band-leaders of all wheh means the foxx generally then the same scale i
time, is playing in a swankworth the price.
They are the Cafe De Parks,
hotel here, but not for the the Tour 1'Argent, Maxim's, the
as a head- Grand Vefour and Laperouse. usual fortune
11 presseri, gourmels will liner in the main dining
ehminue three of these,
:oom.
Shaw is happily tonting his clarinet in the bar of the Sulara Hotes for kicka, the explained, jetet of big money
"I'd make more with abg land, but in bappler this way."
"Instead of playing for dance crowd of 400 we play for a small crow that ustensibly comes in here to hear me
the
sight of Show and "Gramerey Five healing it out behind the bartenders has be
one of the wonders
this hustling gambling
TOO LITTLE, TOO MUCH The Cafe De Paris, tutte atmosphere.
has too
It 15 excellent, marvelous, they say. us to food and ser
"amblance" But it lacka
vice.
(atmosphere).
The Tour D'Argent, on the other hand, has foo much at- It is "touristique". mosphere.
the French min says.
*
of
"une mast
Lapernuse 19 the Granj Velour,
and of the viclent best loved Parisian restaurants. Founded in 1760, the windows of the Grand Velour look out on the green gardens of the Palais Royale, stroll and fountains play as they did two centuries ago.
where:
lovers
With 1Ls recessed mirrors, moudings and frescoes, and dha lighting, the Grand Vetour looks today much ng it must Balzac und have looked when his erary colerie Arst made it famous.
ROAST PIGEON Roast pigeon has never really been enjoyed until it is eaten at the Grund Vefour to the sc rompaniment of a rich bodied
the Prince of Monaco-is cam-
since.
from All Parts
She Brought Her Balloon Ashore
Two small girls, one carrying a balloon, disembark- ed with the Russian Embassy party recalled from Canberra after the Soviet broke off diplomatic relations with Australia from the liner New Australia at Southampton last week. This picture shows members of the party going ashore.-Reuterphoto,
Plane
World
The
A
Becomes A Voice
In The Wilderness
Toronto.
A voice in the wilderness--that's what they call a Bleck, yellow aircraft with the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests insignia stamped on it.
"I get a go stipend $3,000 "How can one really savour t a week for us five is the combo delicate sauce when confronted --and at least I'm playing what with the loveliest view in Paris, Burgundy, a Valgay 1947 or a I want and the way I wam to. the Hood-U1 Nying buttresses of
Pommard 1934. The "pigeon the The crowd here doesn't ask for! Notre Dame and siow-Prince Raynier" - named after
river Seine... im- dance music. Otherwise, I'd | flowing doing Hegin the Beguine ali possible!"
one Pletely boned, stuffed with fole well, As for Muxim's: night.
tu Maxim's to entra and then put back together "Nobody boilera sae," wilded dosat go
a wine the intellectual clarinetist, ever Chee to see the Haut Mondegain and served with
Next time you read about someone being found in the known an audience-lover. Lot Paris, the lending diplomats
charming vintage "Som-
rugged bush of Northern Ontario, it's almost certain that There's a pit between me and and le stars, the crowned and
Steward) takes unrrowned beads, the wealthy nelier" (Wine
a Government Beaver aircraft took part in the search. of the besitami capable charge visitors in $600 Parts gowns." ຕາມ.
The Department of Lands and to eat, the French gourmets tourist and has the tare khack or making each guest feel that able to con
Foresis has 35 of the pontoon- he's the only person of import-equipped, six-pussenger centrate on one's food"
utance in the room. And that can be done
Price: About 0,500 francs spotted strategically Quroughout and
Grand the
the province, and now Lapervise
the cus- Veluur, according to
While the French gourmet partment has given tomary experts.
reluctantly agrets that the a voice, with Laperouse,
its dark
choice of "st" in Paris lics
Twenty facade
of the 35 aircraft: wood
between the Grand Vefour and
have been wrought iron
equipped with with the Tour ron the Laperouse,
"ground halle" sysian, It is a 'ty 1**། །⪜C's on the left bank D'Argent, Cate De Paris
public address system rigged to of
the Muxim's on third, fourth the Seler, overlooking
singf tall without the underside they will picturesque the De La Cite, theth. island in the Seine which holds hesitation that tho best with
restaurant of all France is "L Notre Dame cathedral,
The dining room, painted in Pyranides at Vicane, South of tal the bands
antique "trianon" relaxed plays
green 13 Lyons. and situated one flight up from the Happler! now. apparently
fou scur
Bevelle retirement;
self- which he wrote a Booty scal book about has music and ven mairages.
Some nights asiness
15 so bansk you need
it
10 to get into the bar.
reserva-
He jelas long after the inain brown-stained
PLAYS UNTIL 5,30 A.M.
show with Rap Bolgens
closes
and
beautiful
1.
the dus zoum, Uften until
1 tet
fashioned
Who remembers. Shaw's big band of the 30's. 1 let -
་ ། Chirped
hin
Betatech Bamberg Shaw talk- ed rapidly about his theory that i but bunds are dend.
don't see anything PRIOLERI abom.. be shrugged.
People like
things. We
new
($18.80).
and
If the other restaurants rate and three stars in the the guide thick
bible. rugs create un atmo- Michelin, the Gourmet's
"Les Pyrumides sphere of luxury and ease. The
one wit sud
And its setting like the food, is perfect should get Ave stars
chot, owner
baggy-skinnel FITS THE BOLE
Ferdinand Point, a Marshal's buton.
delicious But that's another sicry.- United Press.
Even the wine steward is the role. Clad in the traditional blue. apron, his ready black eyes peer at the customer over a red
used to play happy, extrovert; | MU
veined nose and a small black
וניי
anw Ha moody. My misdę uzva to be limited to dancera. I hatest if people want dance muste have Guy Lombardo, He's adequate. One type of music appeals to the head, the other
the feet.
"Hitler"" mustache.
To
the
he
connoisseur elaborates a loving detail the
cellar- wealth of the Laperouse cell one of the finest in all of France.
There
"less-than- excellent" dish served
no
nt
"Big bands are gone. Glenn Laperouse, which has held o Miller wouldn't be big any more three-star rating ever since
But if pressed, If he were alive. All this fame system started. for Miller
"he sold, and the hond waller will commend the "Gratin shook his head.-United Press.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
V
"Mont and Badi get ready to buy me a new format... Eddie can borrow his uncle's chicken truck for the promi
the
10-
De
Djakarta's Latest Road Hazards
Djakarta.
craft
the De the Beaver
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Mrs Moss's Technique
The champion
New Weapon For International Understanding
Ottawa.
A new weapon for international understanding
is being forged in the schools of Ottawa,
The weapon takes the form of exhibits which graphically show how boys and girls in other lands live, play, work, learn, cat and so on.
It was the brain child of a far sighted group of adults, banded together for constructive action under the name of the Ottawa Citizen's Committee on Children. These men and women first got together about seven years ago with an idea they could do things for children that schools and other organisations were not doing.
Everything they've started has been greeked with enthusinam. I
First they conducted muldror artį oinssca for children. Then they staged plays in hospitals.
One project led to another from the committee
until
evolved an offshoot. It was
eiled the Children of Other Landa Section and Ly res pansibia for travelling exhibits of school- shown to thousands children in the intermediate grixies.
The section at present is heud- ed by Mrs D. M. Cooltean, who, like her colleagues, Impresses ono as a person dedicated to vision, and the vision?
"Well” Mra Coolieen told the United Press, "we believe that not nearly enough information is given to Canadian children about the children of other lands bofore their minds become cluttered and distorted with the blas and preconceived pre- Judlees of so many of the adults with whom they come contact."
Tamed Sting-Ray
Sydney.
A ten-foot sting-ray, the largest in captivity, has become so tame in a Taronga Zoo pool that it will cat from the hand of ils keeper.
The 500-pound monster spends most of its day sleeping in 4. secluded corner of the pool, but glides to the surface of the water when a salmon or mullet is held out--- United Press,
A
From Bullets To Lipstick
Nagoya.
hero
ita
to make
How's the scheme working out? Never have children
factory munitions shown P
much genuine which formerly made machine- enthusiasm for a classroom sub-
has converted Ject. Not only that, Mrs Coo-un bullets licom cald, the exhibits also once-lethal machines
completely the lipstick and toothpaste tubes, "have changed children's attitude towards im- migrants" and the boys and girls in foreign nations.
LATEST EXHIBIT The latest exhibit to make the rounds of the schools happener to be about Pakistan. Its high- display
of 25 dolls, ught was a
in Pakistan made by children
and then dressed in the varied traditional and modern garb of the country. The clothes, too. were made by Pakistani children. When the exhibit made its in- troductory
at appearance school, it was accompanied by a High member of the Pakistan Commissioner's staff here. His
Sydney.
charity
Job
of the aircraft button-seller of Sydney re-
Mrs Sault
д microphone attached commends a "crazy hat" as next to the pilot's bucket at the best "come on" for
During the past two summers | street sales.
In the hunters who were lost vicinity of Kapuskasing,
Alice Moss Pathas
cold Sta. Marle, Parry Sound and popples and "tin hats" for the Kenora all were rescued by use Returned Servicemen's League,
collected
Cross, for the Red of the "ground haller."
sold buttons for Legacy fund Department pilot flew for war orphans, and is rated a overhand and in some cases champion by them all. directed them to an open spot where they could be seen from the air while in other cases they were told how to get out of the bush and back to civilisation.
A
can't sell buttons by "You just standing there with a tray your necks," hanging round Jolly five-foot Mrs Moss saya.
Was
to give a short talk, then answer the inevitable bar- the of
from questions Tuge curious Canadian children.
The exhibit was shown at the intermediate public schools, the intermediate separate schools and the French Canadian
separate schools, Like other ex- hibits, It was an integral part of the social studies curriculum of each class and served as the springboard from which a detail- led study of the relevant country
launched. was
the
Mrs Coolican and her hard
with working colleagues, blessing of parents, teachers and She starts off by adding a big school boards, also used enter sowy feather to her hat.
от JOSE,
a
nodding talenten Ottawa children, to
to
but instructive playlets
that
NEVER FOUND Beaver aircraft took part in the search for national hockey
Then she watches passers-by bring them the message iengue player Bill Bariko two tor famillar
greeting "foreigners" are not so different faces,
after all. years ago after he was reported celebrities and others by name missing on
a fishing trip with
If possbile, Dr Henry Hudson. They wore
never
found, but it wasn't "Have you bought a button,
I always ask with through any lack of effort on sir?" the part of the Department.
D
The playlets, with children east in the principal roles, answer
In easily-remembered fashion
the questions a child from one bright smile, and if I know country would be most apt to their names it works wonders," ask a boy or a girl from another.
-United Press, A milestone in public It had been reported that Mrs Moss 43ye. transportation was passed Hudson's aircraft came down in
"If I can add, How are you. in Djakarta recently when the bush in the vicinity of
(tri- James Bay, and for a month the Mr......? Please help the gas-powered betjake
Department diligently searched dies whose caddies didn't come
cycles) made their ap- the monotonously similar ter-back they are well and truly
the
pearance on the streets. To the sentimental meant the passing of an era, to tho modern-minded
and
we
LATEST IRON CURTAIN JOKE
rait for trace of the couple. sunk and I collect handsomely."
London. Mrs Moss anys' aha' can tell finally gave up the When search," Chief Pilot Charlie La by people's mouths Whether A new joke behind the Iron the rounds. anly be they are likely to buy a poppy Curtain is making progress, Fouvre said, "It was
It goes like this: but to most residents of this cause we knew it was hopeless for button. She ainda visitors are always good prospects, perhaps
First Russian: "What do you crowded just another traffic to continue."
Since the Barilike incident the giad of the cheery grooting she think of Malenkov?" hazard to be endured.
gives them. Men are as easy to roam Department has tried to per sell
Second Russian: "Follow me of beljaks Thousands
Women.
and I'll tell you." He leads the to stay south suade sportsmen
*Don't think because I'm not Djakarta streets by day
It is a man into a room and locks the night. Sweating men and boys of Hudson Hay to do their hunt-
young and glamorous pedal determinexily, pushing in ing and fishing. They pointed handicap. I've often gone out door, then into another front of then on a wide seat out that in most cases the fish with lovely models, and they locising the door behind, then down into a collar loads ranging from five persons ing is just as good farther south stand around and sell only a
into a vault, locking it behind. and the chances of being found few, while I go up to people to huge of ice.
always
.com alive it lost are much better and sell my buttons like hot Finally he whispers: "I lik
caken."--United Press.
him."-United Press. plained
gally-decorated United Press. the tricycles were hard to dodge. Now a few of them are hardor. Their
owners resourceful tached smal gna motors turned them into motor bikes.
residents think
Most
д
and
The authentic
BO
the good thing about these machines is that there are
only
few of them.
But in the transportation scooter the motor Acid, it's
that is fast running away with the race.
More and more of the squat
scooters show up each
day.
driven
dyeles Intier
There are more power
blcycles and motor
than scooters, but the are: by for the most
popular..
bavo to wait six to nine months to buy one because of the shortage. But you can get one immediately if you pay the black market price, United
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