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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER
LONDON GOES FRENCH
FOR A FORTNIGHT
By Dorothy Barkley
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London, relection of modern furniture dipped in lacquer to provem GROUP of French- and poltery, Well, we're pretty them discolouring.
wonders of this men swept into town used to the
modern age, But we still looked a few days ago, an- at the French products with nounced a "French Trade awe,
wand Fortnight", waved a and conjured up a chic little touch of Paris.
There
The Jewallery, though do- signed in Paris, is made in
The Wales.
rhinestones aro Imported from Austria, where the craftsmen have a uniqua skill in glass-cutting."
were coffee cups in metallic-finished porcelain, black with white interiors; sculptured
Londoners love a fete. Coro Explaining that they were horses, not made from anything nation, Festival, whatever It not competing with British to mundane as stone or marble, 1s, it always receives a royal products, but just wanted to but moulded from strips of wire: welcome. We enjoyed this one, hoping-haping "re-establish the prewar re- pottery jugs and plates, including but loft us putation of French guoda," reveral reproductions of Picasso that sems kind gentleman will
These hnd on plece..
patterns organise in English Fortnight they placed the recent
abstract paintinge in Paris to show that Britain, three things deur to every resembling
from the Frenchman
food which seemed to smirk at the too, has recovered
onlooker and say: "Now, which wor way up are you going to hold this met
the
and fashion.
wine,
They believed that which marks year- fiftieth anniversary of the Utente Cordiale, the fateade and neighbours IF Y between the two Captrice provides a good -riunity for 41 trade in London. So sire yourred the big managers to do things " franreise for two weeks.
1.
Watch The Label
AS
Wire Sculptures
these things were Felling even the wire.
BUT sculpture at £40 each, and the Picasso reproductions up to £90,
The Picasso pottery has sold because-well, if you can't afford a genuine Pica:80 painting, this must be the next best thing.
The wire sculptures, by artist Andre Bokst, have been bought for their originality, "The idea In exclusive to
bimm
explained one of the
men
a result bistros, com- Max Deniz, plete with striped awn- behind the Fortnight, "He ngs, suddenly appeared in thought of it a few years ago. Kensington. A French mil- He was in a Paris cafe toying
with the wire on the top of a liner installed herself in one champagne cork, Now, he doesn't of the big stores and made have to use that sort of wire mede hats while you waited any longer, and his sculptures (almost). Champagne mag- cost £20 each in France."
nates
and wine kings
French Fortnight has also there WAX even EL wino taught us that French cheeses queen --- presided at wine are purtured az carefully as tastinga here, there and vintage wincs. Their prepara-
Lion Ilves
up to their
fancy Mistinguette everywhere.
names. "Saint Nectaire cheese came over to sign copies of from Auvergne," they told me, her memoirs.
is ripened on layers of rye in damp cellars. La Tome from Savoy matured slowly in the rooldue left in wine-making."
Every store was crammed to the doors with dresses labelled "inspired by Paris." You hart to watch that label, though, While there were reme lovely fabrics and accessories around, it usually meant that our store managers were getting away with fancy notions they wouldn't have Would dared display otherwire. Mudame like an crmine shirt or perhaps Д jacket with NA enormous bois bugkled round the hem, they wanted to know.
Опо enterprising manager, who recently opened a
IT
Dior Collection
of
TT would have been impossible To survive the Fortnight without hearing the name Dior. It cropped up with tho display of his new
Jewellery collection, the second of his six-monthly exparts to London fazhion.
This collection is for those who like chunky Costume
•store
pieces, Dior's rhinestones shine
ke
Imitation diamonds; his contemporary furniture depart pearls are slightly dented to ment, paid a flying visit make thon" look like the rtal France and brought back a thing; and his glit settings are
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WANT TO SING LIKE
London, Ningenious toy which A imitates the songs of
wild birda so effectively that it sets them warbling in chorus has been de vised by Mr John Buxton, ornithologist and poet.
It is developed from the mechanicsi Call
by Italiana who capture, song birds for sale.
Tho ·wounds aro made simply by twisting a small plug of pewter in'a hollow cylinder of birch wood. By varying the pressure the device can bo made to whistle, warble, or go
Tweet-weet.
It is intended for bird watchers, But after, trying
GILES and the DYNAMOS
"Are you slipping over the border to see the Arsenal
game, chum ?"
No-not tonight."
it for a week. I can recom mend it to anyone who wants to liven up country walks.
All' was quiet when I went drizzle during the week-end, into my garden in a slight By giving the bird-call a few twists I noon had blackbirds, thrushes, chaffinches, and a robin singing.
a
The previous night I ̧enused commotion among the thousands of atarlings roosting in Trafalgar Square,
make they
The call peems
because Bing birds imagine ftir territory is Tival being invaded by a warning to the stranger Their answering song is
to keep out,
Then they como closer out of curiosity,
the birds Fooling
had proved so popular in America that more than 1,000,000 of the bird-calls have already been sold there.
́LIVE-GERM CLOUDS.
I have had fun, with it on the railway station while
train. When I operated the call under my cont none of the bowler hatted City men took it for anything but a real bird warbling.
waiting for my moming A
now series of germ war- fare tests is to be carried
scientis out by government
the Atlantic of Baharris Islands during next few months, it was dis 'closed.
in
the the
A BIRD?
The 2,200-ton floating la Porton, near Salisbury, are boratory, Bon Lomond, has in 'chorro of the tests. Thono been rented with new secretaro a continuation of "Opera" devices for recording the - llon · Cauldron” germ warfare effects of germ weapons.
trials begun on a small cale off the Hebrides and switched to the Bahamas last March.
More
100 British,
Livo germs will be used in the tests, which are belag carried out at sea for safety.
reasons.
Bombers of the RAF will co-operate in trials aimed. at. messuring the effects of winds on germ clouds released by sprays, and by bomba ex- ploded at different heights.
Animals will be used in tests designed to try out new defences against germ attack.
A screen of naval ships will keep away unwanted "ob-
Belen tista from the
germ warfare defence station ot
servers.
U.S.
and Canadian acionista · CX«.
de- changed secrets of gorm fonce ot Porton last month.
The Americana and Cana«. dions were allowed a com- 'plete tour of the Porton re-. search station.
Large meel spheres arq being built there so that oxi periments on animals and .ba can human volunteers carried out in completo safety. Amorlean and Canadian scientists will take part in the Bahamas irläks,
A Battle of the Giants
T
for Canada's Future
Montreal, Tuesday. HE Canadians are saying: "London is becoming the contro of the world again- the place where the de cisions are being made, where the Foreign Ministers
The Paris of the New World
Awaits, its Royal Visitor
In a 100-mile drive I saw a dozen or more monasteries and convents. There were nury working in the fields and privzetj. walking in groups along the road.
All road signs and posters in Quebec are in French Brst; then English. Many of the poor cannot sprek English. Montreal itself, which has 1,500,000 people,
on the French Canadians in is supposed to bo the second-
meet, Britain is taking over exciting. There has just been a the leadership of the tremendous shake-up In the Quebec is almost cbsolute, and largest French-speaking city in
police force, and the chiet, his insistence оп Quetrec's the world.
West."
This is quite a change in opinion from people who seem Rometimes to be looking more and more to wards Washington.
There
was
time when a
The Catholic priests and
Albert Langlois, has been flied tulenemy deflan!, and fined $1,000, dincieen other high-ranking officers have been There has been an open break bishops enter vigorously into
forward-looking
dismissed and many of them between the fined.
Prime Minister and the back- politics, and usually they sup
port Duplemis. Mr Justice Francois Caran, ward-looking Premier, samo of
It is a tribute to St Laurent's after a 30-month vice inquiry, whess followers dream of a
French Canadian gifts es a statesman that his Canadians used, to tell me that has swept the Pelke Depart separato
Roman Catholle State.
"clash with Duplessis has not there hed been such a declize ment clean.
Nationally, however, there is The other day, however, St provoked any demonstrations or in Britain's fortunes that wo a more important story, Canada Laurent and Duplessis met here violence in the province,
Mr. St Laurent is a man of would perhaps never make a is gripped by a political crials, in Montreal, and the tension has come-back. I have not heard taliz
Ilko that during this visit, The bond between Britain and Canada seems cisce and warmer, and the partnership seems to be growing,
In the shop windows along Montreal's St Catharine's Street
DON IDDON'S DIARY
the
The Prime Minister, Louis St been cased slightly. As a result great simplicity and personal Laurent, now 72, wants to crown of the meeting a conference of charm. Ho dropped into his carcer by making Canadians, all the political leaders of all little grocery store in Comptat, the French ten Canadian provinces is likely, which his nephew runs, and particularly
the The question today in Canada joked with
villagers and Canadians, recognise Canada os
the nearby a world Fower in her own right, fs. "Can St Laurent persuade children
to
*from
there are portraits and photo- Mother. graphs of the Queen Canada is looking forward to her visit
The Queen Mother is well known here and well loved. In the shabby old Windsor Hotel,
a nation far bigger than Duplessis to give up some of the King's Hall School. He did not which really should be pulled
Quebec and unable any longer province's autonomy, relect all look like a man with a crisis down and replaced, there are
narrow racialism Ideas of a duul Canadian State, on his hands. several
accept the pletures of the Inte King
nrad Isolationism
Quebec, and contributo 10 П united VI. and Queeri Elizabeth George
One dazzling, ebullient, figura Province,
Canada?” taken during their State visit in
Mr St Laurent, a French 1939.
In
Quebec Pro surprisingly is not being dis- There Bro also :dozens C Canadian
himself, has entered vince is more French than France. cussed much in the present con- troversy. He is the famous photographs in the corridors of Into open battlo with Maurice drove from Montreal to the
-Canadian Camillen the Windsor of the present Duplessis, leader of Quebec'sttle village of Compta, where French- Queen and the Duke of Edin- Union Nationale and Premier of St Laurent, was spending the House, the Mayor of Montreal
woek-end,
for multiple terms of offer, the burgh touring Montreal in 1951, the province. It is a battle be- Thanksgiving
and bulbous, wisecracking politician In many ways this is a royal tween Titans.
along the good, modern
concreto
who once played Cyrano de Duplesals, master of his, pro- highway city-conrider its name.
I EDV
marbla the At the moment it is also vince for decades, is as proud as shrines to the Virgin Mary, the Bergerac without the need for one of the Now World's most a prince of the blood; his hold figures of Christ on the Cross.
|I
"Why not, chum ? "..
some ways
LITTLE FRANCOISE TELL
A VERY ADULT TALE
AN HENRY H UNGERFORD
By
make-up.
Mayor - Houde, 64, and ¦ colourful he is rainbow-hund, no longer wants to be mayor.
Once, in 1940, he want to gool, politely called a deterion camp. for refusing, conscription, though when he came out he was carried shoulder high and given a hero's welcome by tens of thousands. of people.
During the visit of King” George VI, and Queen Elizabeth he sat next to the Queen and
seems a long time since the tousled hair and light black with anyone, more than three amused her with epigrams, anyone under 20 pulled pants which are student fashion months. Then I get bored."
the world over. off a major intellectual
"How do you know such
a lot achievement. The teens are about life?"" I asked her, "Are the age of fulfilment for TV the Ceelle and Anno and Ray- stars and tennis players. amond the book people you
know?" But I have just been to Paris
Tristane
(Hulo,
to come from a young pen.
When our present Queen toured asked her what she had Montreal in 1951 and the crowd done or plans to do with the roared with applause Mr Houde fortune sho has made,
said to the ther Princess: "Woll," she said, "I bought "Some of the cheers are for you,
Justar, 2 Bit Fve had
your Highness, the others are for
A
accident already." She giggled me."
(This was Wie second sign the gave of being young),
Out of politics
to co Francoise Sagan, who, at "No. Raymond, perhaps, is 18, has writion novel which like a number of men I have
"Do you plan to travel?” is one of the biggest literary met (Raymond so completely venations since Daisy Ashford cal and amoral character), asked,
"but I invented wrote The Young Visitera,
Colle
MORNE "I've just come back from OR 18 years the famous You soc. I have read a let Italy, where I went to one Camillion has been mayor, Bonjour Sorrow) is an extraordinary book and looked around. I read a ploce for a French magazine,
great deal when I was III soma But I didn't enjoy it. I didn't and for over a quarter of a It is the story of a middle-aged years ago. I had to spend four, know what to do in the oven- century he has been an explosive
ings and I got so tired of hotel force in politics. Now ho love affair which is broken up years in the mountains,
"What did you read? What bedroom Dooslussa red by the scheming of the man's 17-year-old daughter, Cecile. The subers do you admire
Jike tho writing is rock-hard, and dis-
classics bes Musioned. All the characters are Strmihil, Flaubert and detestable, all their motives and Aldous Huxley, And
Rusetans. But modern writers HAVE mean. The sepe is the Taunch of William Faulkner 21 libpe not, becaus Riviera, but the real background. "And how long did it
desolating cumud take about her wORCH
her. Ina le cold and
'Bécauis. I'm a sentry, Comrade.”
the French, besetting sinc
the
mado her, sound
decisive
MORE "One" month? Lwrate it of illness and
you
end
on to the typewriter made her look at ado no corrections at ali, '? Ako
publisher Isont it tis: But
He mado di faw corke
~Fremmar."
mellowed
And perhaps fired: stven up his foud" with "Duplessis in 1. rotund and urbane, and giving up active palities
expect to retain my hold on --popularity. personal
He
years mens salary of $12,000
have
ngs and the Canadia