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no Spack or Drink obligatory),
Paris There has been talk lately of Danco. Sneck or Drink obliga- tory, 350 francs, Entrance free." NIGHT o'clock in the transforming Montmartre with a
new building dev:lopment-and The real glamour in supplied morning la 'the time CVUS sky, crepere. This has by the yellow palm-and-bench to gro up to Mont-prompted local people to form Poster beside it "Holidays in the martre. At almost
any a Committee for the Safeguard Sun-Tanglers, Corsica"
(And other. the professional of Montmartre City, and say tourist atmosphere is
they are going to stop desecra
But the flu de l'Abreuvoir 18 1 on Ly getting the Ministry of thick as a scarf. But eight Beaux Arts to classify pur's of still beautfully unchanged, and o'clock on a windy, damp the district
historical the Rue St Vincent with Its morning that is going to be fine later, it is full of tor- Luring mystery; and there are witches of more styl about than you
now 800
anywhere at all in Europe.
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mentiments and comiequently railed pavement steps and thy hovel houses Preclicly what It must have beto a century ago, Marcifully these parts have not bren taken over by the
rich, and the 1920 artines that buil the Avenue Junot round the corner where the architects and ceramics entusiasta live did not reach this far.
But any skyscraper men there ste mot be hiding because tre is no clearance and scarcely nny butiding or repairs work ko¬ In feet, this is where one The witch-woman ahead of the Kreel end feccinating of me in the Rue Lepic was mysteries el Montmartre crops the one 1 remembered at up.
Downhill, across the Boule
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home in London as a hoy. One you see on the Butie, in vard, the night club district Her wig lay half way down the streets mmediately below lives on like a rackled old 18 hoofer with badly hennaed hair, her buck-a great heavy the Natre Cotur, the place red nest. As boys we used full of locked and flaking doors, still managing from sheer hard- obwebbed windows with rusty mouthed bra's to make enough to whisper that she kept bars Bijou buses. 1925 villas, out of the shared evenings her hourd in it. Gold telers, all decried. One street disbelieving. Father mistrustful coins.
I trod behind her door ha chalked on "Dead." and slightly scornful strangera.
Anuther. In the Rue Leple listening for the clink. She dis- appeared down
small street.
THE CONTRADICTIONS
OF HAROLD MACMILLAN
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Loadin
Harold Macmillan
could
get together
with Harold Macmil
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As it is, the Harald Mac.
Medontested and won + millan who
Parit muntery at at Sasktere once wrote a
easily at night.
book advocating a planned
economy
appears
to be
Frazer
the
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has become of
The owner H,
And there is an
By Stephen Coulter
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you know, why The not sent diks Jalding -uniters to occupy The vill.. why there are none the raun elpal requisition tuties you er pinned to douts bviously abandoned
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""The trouble
Please In the coaches" said the waiter at the Cafe der Omnibus un the Placo Pigalle. go into a bolle and "You
You tank there's atmosphere, sit down and order chompare, Suddenly a man you haven't noticed gives a sign and overy- body in the pince geta up and a couch party. leaves; it was You are depressed."
place. Perhaps, after all, there Well, the tinsel
#1
rather
are living cre-ture inside? And faded. The heart-shaped sign, Imilies to "This is the heart of Mont- mad,
slentric-haired martre", by the old Bal Tabarin Slot face Wourn end st men in st:11 cre; but the Tabarin with Parkinse ilan ma ks,
has been closed for two years and the sign doesn't light up.
Other tennis, it is clear have gom, out and simply forgolten
G
But Joo, late head man
dramas
of
case, ap hly new proposal that Europe and the Common- wealth should be inket bas 11 customs union what it with even- The
to com hick, 1k: the painter the Grand Jeu Cabaret, hearten- two
He also played a leading fually develop into a vast live outlooks cannot
of No. 31 Rue St Vincent, ed me by saying that in the be
and in the United Eurage" move- merged,
trade arcp Is it easily
alzel though whose wludow you see Dumas-like
night clubs there are still wild imaginative though ridyth, c.set, unfinished canvas, the pesill
of Minilion, all his lite, zeems to 1.11.
"Im- When, **
length, The
in that direction. have been pulled Brst by
Conservatives regained power,
It
palette and oozing paint tubes, pas lule" love between men who sharply and then by the other
culs
cart aside the world and brillant bottle of wine and hall-smoked careers and familles out of political pundits expected Britain's traditional outlook and There is no doubt thâ; when Be
eigaritla balined curtfully on passion for one of the pert, mas- nomated hat he would get one of the is bound to aroute coutgevers. Consu rvallves
the edge of the pushed-back
carned, slightly fatty and so un- young ex-icle fo the top jobs in the Cabinet. Insload.
chair. The padlock bare supectedly romantic young girls <t Governo.-General Canada, Church-proving his shrewd bring the rage of many
door
He has a who work in them. him to the Ministry clars down upon his hean neT us, a staunch w "kispetves they were
IN very ruity. he
And yet.
Its whatever
least had time to go by balsa དྷ། སྭ ༔ !, which he mat have
was In the best and crepest of Housing.
pollucal dimeulties, many proplewood raft to the Marquesas taken by sheer
Tory radilon,
In normal since the Ministry believe I makes cennomie
where pirhaps he now 7 They mus; have been shockri of Hossing is a minor post. But
DOTTO. The fact that he has, hed wor Parlament the when he wrived in
destroyed
carried the Cabinet with
The painters who have Bed, almost forthwith, declared damaged ore Brilah house
muned lock plump. bourgeols Socialists had way on Tory isn
three, and the
and robe, vandals
worn sanaged to make good only
t.pport snd fruction of
my by ferragn the damage. let
Cunts with a bad foot. In front alone trek the imincase urab-
of the Lapin Agile there ore kam left over from the prewar
vila nous unitat on tree stumps
fighting a constant though personality. losing battle with
force of
his
31 we mustet from this real
It back 1020. but won 121
in
19145.
In
The who Adam Smith
Harold Macmillan thinks that
wrote the last word
political economies.
mu between
thu
And
Haruki Marmillon The whose grandfather started lito as a pour Scollish peasant fights a no less vigorous battle with Who Harold Mnemilian who went to Eton und Bilol College. Oxford, served in the Grenadier Guards and married a daughter of the Duke of Devonshire.
Even
obvious R battle
Mzerlan il c who with his walrus 1.844- tache, his jewelled tiepts, and his Edwardian Trousers d lights
dandyism, in
and the serious, scholarly, deply sensi- live Macmillan who won n firat at Oxford and win on to Highl a one-man battle against tre londership of the Conservative Party in the early 1930 s.
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enn tell
mon wit...
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an ore 14 to Manillan will
It is a range, in tord, that the
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DANDY... OR REBEL?
the Sjefallsta in
conving d that
years.
1
or In
this for chows.
fr fulminate 1 nguinest hi UW11 front bench, #ccused the Gourmancnt of sitting bark
A Cerva ive conference a ale ting the depres in a lockpi thouse The party it by sterin.
He believed that haters by paselig a resolution Caseful
cconomic lannigerlling on the Government to regulation of imports and ex-
build 300,000 houses a year. ports was one of the things he cemanded-cout from out
ups and downs of the economic system.
Wis
He also believed that England
to rich enough provide everyone with a decent s andard of living at d he could see no
many
who
were There Though; that the party leaders should put the rank and fi place. Miemillion believed that oly Calluse to live up to the 1020fullon would be political
excuse for the paverly zufeldr hunger, and human degradation he saw around him.
And he did bully the houses Now he
busy slopping
not all his old
been lost
at ley', Are can have
him Faur
If Macmillan the Gravner could forgċi Macmill 11:0 dandy and Macmillan would-be aristocrat, he might yet regain the pelige he lng! as Macmilun the rebel.
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CHILL WIND AT House of Lords"
THE CINEMAS
By JOHN SEWELL
people builing houses, buying THE shutters are going about, and sheckingly bad Alms.
motor cars, and generally waxing at
The change is remarkable- ard has been remarked upon.
Tup on
They have more and more mot of the time.
Hved On The entertainment cinemas. In Britain
a hurger of neople in small towns month ago,
the Rank Or- and
with villeges.
· remcle the nothing better to hepe for.
The obvious explanation gan'sation announced
ан rather looks
He was also cutely aware- long before any but a handful of his colleagues of the menace of Farm and Nazism.
In 1930. Anthony When. Eden, then Foreign Secretary. pioposed Lo withdraw the
ms too nulve to accepi, But closing of 79 of its 660 They deserve to go down h eto omie sancions which had
though picture houses, Now for the first onslaught of tele- placed on the genial Try rou.. By 1945, en
Mussolini. Maction has Integrity.
another concern--ABC, the vision. If there are fewer bed inparlant Macmillan not only stood up to WAN
Hu has seen wha! the
of TV Eared to
the v
House and Cenoureed him
Rank Organisation's biggest ams mude as a result CRW long
competiion, it will be all to the ngo FLTc "3"i Natt
but also formally
of shutting g it Bromley and,
rival talks dissociated cconemists
Britain ran afford по more ilcrbart Meril on as the one to
Conservative 1 la he was out of Parlia himself from the he country from the
25 to 30 Luxuries. The time has come down another me for les that ix months Parly.
If the standards of comfort in to cut back. Somehow, sizable cinemas out of its own 400. dolums should find himself on
too,
left are Laler, In the war years, he carved as of opin 4. Στην
war wil the
A cold wind whistles through the claumas that are
relsed, who could complain? If Trade Union Cengices in 1956.
converted from the production the cinema box efflers every- the aims themselves improve mary Seretury to the revel: against the Government's clions of industry have to be
of Supply, Under- 7. L.
polley - appeasement even ranger that the Minktry
the home where, There is more money in of luxury goods fur of 5'0' for the
better stories, sharper direction. Macmillan who spent much of S
Mucmillan was ne of
the production of the pockets of the cinema more new ideas and less rellance arch, the trible thirties nighing
Colonies an
ultimately.
who had made it easier for him market to
anything that will sell overseas going
before, North Minister
gaing public than ever un. mi.t.ng baitle for solution Heat
by leading the way.
and pay for the country's im-and there are bigger potential on squandering money for tow-
results we film fans When unemployment problem. Af les
wor inally
rudlerces, ports.
frit perple are
rejoice. should Tow
he accused of
appointed Was
Macmillan was rent 10 the
There is no deep plot. That just not going to the pletures. This compelllion between Housing, a job delicera e1y ploting a "yool of Miter ef
Minlatry of Supply As
much is obvious enough.
Everybody knows
It is cinema
and TV is a healthy un mplay 3d.
which he brought tremendous Parliamentary Secretary.
thing. It can result in getting rid Nor
there Any ensy energy and in which he W3B
for the fact that veerssful beyond his explanation
party's one of
ro.cue
to the
Macmillan,
be
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In 1931,
the few wildts: dreams.
to
Eden,
wis
Lo
bul those
caine.
Conserva Ives of the prewar Then, in 1954, he became Even thep his political
years who had a deep sympathy Minister of Defence, fer Soc:11, principis, should
most haled by the Oppost.lon in
1950.
The man himself is a study
in cladictions.
Was
in co
that
the least,
tu
it
were all, Macmillan might the challenge of lofton.
WAS,
sections of the com-
refused eyes to hear him,
hi found in me
the cinema
devaled
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not be popular but he would, "The magle window" in the of a good deal of rubblish. And at ienst, he respected by the living room has obvious advant- I believe that the cinema whole community DS, for ages even over gorgeous Techni- survive and proper through "it
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Cripps colcur when the cinema lies at all. He had rebelliousness was not anched.
| the end of a tiresome journey in ho He was involved in a plan to be the member of the Cabinet barely settled down which
wra trenzferred to the Foreign bring Lloyd
What has to be explained is inclement weather after a fatigu-| George Into the Office. He was just cotching War Cabinet plan which the fact that he is not respected ing day.
Personally, I am alii a film his broath last December when Churchill did not appreciate in by large
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wax rich at the still believe that there is enough between his back at the jealousies erented by the those who
vitality in the flm industry to the war, he won a first at
and that of his fact that the Americane had experes of the community, Oxford
then wont to Caroda as an aide to the Duke there must have been times theatre of wax.
cristocratic classmates. But taken command of a major But he expresses neither his fight back and hold its own. But rympathy nor his detestation it will have to do better, in of pavonihire, , then) Geyernor,
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Mas nem ostimes...... when... hào Gofort of his party ago sign sounds condescending, as though competition of television, than
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