THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1958.
'Signor John' always goes back
to Positano
---BUT MRS. JOHN FRENCH PREFERS
THE CAFES AND CHURCHES OF VENICE
FOR last yearnt wife Vere have been repunte
FOR the last five years fashion photographer John
holidays. He at Positano, she in Venice. Why?
Said John: "We have so much in common that to. gether we talk-talk-talk instead of mixing with strangers who might prove great fun if they ever got a word in edgewise. And we like to relax in different ways."
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Sald Vere: "Jukn works much harder than I do that he likes to wollapse on a beach. He Jag up sunshine, but I daren't parasol. G Eo ul without a
rather
browse Foun church than benne a
Buch offering."
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barnest
Vere gave another reason for nut ing Positano. "first wen: there with Joan in 1933 adored it. For 25 years I have remated 5.gnor John's wife. The local people like m much that they regularly ported on all my moven/is. whs 1 sad been swimming, talk- in vistiu a eale with n ras he disapproved."
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in 1931, when 17-year-old art "discovered" Jahu NLG.3090 Poshturo. It had no running water, deethrity or hotels.
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Then he lived on 26 b month. Out of this enme 3Ds. for aracter valla, another 30s. for homekeeper-cumi-conk
mand.
CITY
Now Positam i Hory expon sive than Venice. A val
start restaurant (it used to be
a fishermen's cafe) erots
more
VERE FRENCH.
from the sun
hiding
th the must-expensive dinner in London. "But essentially it remains the same," said John byally,
people are still warm- hearted and sincere. You shure their pleasure in simple thisgs
JOHN FRENCH... at his holiday cosel.
"And the cyclamen..." said Verc.
She patted Sheba, their black poodle, and said firmly, "Venice. Tine to talk about Venice."
Rain beat against the bow windows of their little house "I love It," said Vere, dismiss- Bear Marble Arch as John and ing Positano, "because it's the In the Vere went on swopping Positano last remaining place memories.
work that seems the same before the war."
"The prosperous restaurant owners used to be kids 1 swam with when I first went there," sald Jolin,
SUNRISE
"And we used to give pŘEKY- backs to little boy who is now the focal doctor," said Vere.
"The wonderful Hgbt..." sid John.
Those rose-coloured sunset," sant Vere. "And darling, remeni- ber the morning we climbed the intain to see the sunrise? It was the loveliest thing Pve done in my te.**
Tel: "Fishing at night for Lig stiles.
Vere: " and swordfish." "And the balconies, and the
And the churche:,"
John.
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teared
Ventee has 120 churches and so far I've seen 83 of them. 'in an insatiable sightseer. Every morning 1 wander round and look at things.
"in the afternoon I get dress- rd up and meet friends in Har ry's Bar.
HORROR
HALF WAY TO SUMMIT
LEBANESE
BUILD UY
"WHAT'S COOKING ?”
London Express Servic
The Growing Habit
THE British take great delight in
being creatures of habit; traditionalists who resent any form of change-particularly change that in the world. You run into promises to make life more com-
"It's the most glamorous bar
friends from all over the world," she sald.
"Net my bea of a holiday."
away familiar faces you tight said Julin. "Why, there are so just as well be.
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at your own drawing-room, crowed That's why I love it," Vere
that mark the seasons--the day way the little houses seem to Michele Dearing
The potato crop is ready, the hook on to each other up rising of the fruit..
The
side of the hill," said Vere.
-London Express Service).
ROBERT GLENTON ROAD-TESTS THE CITROEN DS19
It sighs.
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oh, so softly
O me, a ship is called it and not she. And, as I am certain they do not understand a word, I never waste my breath on idle chatter to horses.
1 am a man who deplores this lamentable habit of bestowing human attributes on all manner of objects.
So I came as something of a shock when the car I was testing gave an audible sigh of relief as climbed ink, Admittedly I had driven it hard, far, and fast, but there was
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no need for benta car. Nothing designed In possibly be se it to make an exhibition of brain could itself.
I was a CBroen DS10.
Contentatious
I nokend round rather sharply. The leason for its remarkable
THE CITROEN DS192... the trapeze Une,
is
the ground It bisses as it does ming powered steering that Con- 50.
vety neat and with so much comfort. the driver fecls Juul to look at the Citroen is sufficiently relaxed to cope with to be impressed. The French the Citrmen's air-conditioning
produced the system, designers have
This is efficient but It is complicated. trapeze lie of motoring. entirely different in appearance from any other car I have ever
Now for perormance: driven. And it is, I think, altractive,
GEAR SPEEDS: Top, miles an hour; third 81.5 miles Inside. the car is just an hour, second 57 miles revolutionary. The floor is flat
hour.
The specciometer was 4.1 with no wells. That is because miles an hour inst at 00 miles it has front-wheel drive, and an hour. no need for a shaft running the length of the ear,
Not oidy was the car sighing sinking exhibition is that it has Juxuriously like a man who has a form of
Independent neu brator bull by a short hedge, natie suspension on each wheel, and always but it was slowly and visibly which keeps it
lking towards the ground,
the same distance from
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I was right
In
On the floor there are three pedals, as an orthodox car. this revolutionary Citroen they seemed tou straightforward to be true. I approached them with Caution. And I was right.
fortable for them.
This is as true of shopping as of licensing hours, coal fires, cooking and the English Sunday.
Of Helping Yourself
Yet, paradoxically, a dramatte and exciting change has taken place in our shoppling habits, and the average housewife, far from complaining, Is becoming progressively more enthusiastic about it, Thia revolution" is the gradun! disappearance of the "orthodox" grocery shop, and Its replacement by the self-service store,
Self-service seems to have slowly crept up on us, and is now an accepted methost of shopping, yet it did not come to Britain from America unul 1943—and then only as an experiment in one department of one branch of one firm.
By 1947 there were about 10 self-service stores in Britain, but by and large. they were neither popular nor practical.
Housewives, accustomed to
cause
by CYRIL KERSH
There are also the miniature Supermarkets "Supermarts"— belonging to Charles Phillips
and Co., whose chairman and managing director is 38-year- old American, Samuel Charles Weker.
Mr Weiner came to England in 1948, bought a grocery shop in Westbourne Grove, converted It to self-service-and admits that it was a resounding nop.
ar
BCross to the family business Finally and very important he took his Amertean methods -because of their larger turn- with him. ever, most self-service stores
And this, it would seem, is
most of them stock still only the beginning of the much larger variety of goods story, for 30 shops
"It was too new,” “të “YE," month are than the average grocer, and a "People were not ready for it. busily converting to, self-service housewife can buy virtually all I transferred back 10
apart from new shops bunit her purchases under one root ordinary grocer's, and everyone speelocally for the serve-your- being "wnited upon," were sus-
was happy-except me!" kelf grocery. trade.
Also, the fear of embarrass- picious of them, while rolloning
MWelner is married to Why has self-service been ment by asking for
something Charles meant that speedy self-service surress? What has Transformed she cannot
Phillips' afford is avoided: daughter, and when he moved grand- led to bottlenecks at the cash the desks when coupons had to be traditionally
shopping hubits of the goods are clearly priced.
chonge-resisting clipped from ralion books.
British housewife? With the end of rationing. boomed, however, self-service and today an estimated 4,300 self-rervice
stores
flownsh There are inny answers. are frequenlly cheaper than throughout Britain.
For the housewife has come This figure repfesents about to realise that self-service is a three per cent of all "grocity more relaxing form of shopping outlets"-but since each self Instead of queueing at a coun- servler is reckoned to have at ter, conscious of the people be- least a 30 per cent higher turn- hind limpalent to be served, she uver Than the ordinary griner's can "browse" along the shelves It means that some 10 per cent at her leisure. of all the grocery trade is now Yet self-service sturer handled by self-service stores. usually a great lime saver, be-
DO YOU KNOW.
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• Housewives fall for anything than they intended fo-var- wrapped in red, yellow or blue leularly in the exollo foods -and find transparent packs Hine? irresistible?
con
atford to take a smaller profit margin, and their goods
those bought elsewhere.
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Among the pioneers of telf- "Lowest-ever prleet," his service ware Sainsbury's,
announce, who posters opened their first self-servleo Weiner adds: “No other grocery branch at West Croydon in 1959 organisation can undercut us,** after their chairman, Mr Alon How, then, does he rutaln Sainsbury (grandson of the quality without guing bank- founder) had made a trip to rupl? Says Mr Wefner; "By America to see how the system kera laying in large quantities, worked over there.
and by alming for big, quick of turnovars with small profits." Sainsbury's now have 20
Distinct from the "quieter" exclusively
ol Arma Ilka self-service, and are converting salesmanship "ordinary" shops, and opening Sainsbury's, Mr Weiner's win- the dows resemble a food hoarder's new self-service stores at
Pantry, while every week his rate of five a year.
shops display u "special"—an item of food that is sold at cost
their 250 branches
prlee to attract customers Inta The shops to buy other things.
Charles Phillips have trans-
• In Britain, 38 per cent of Whit
• The anmal sales of
pre-
But 58-year-old Mr Sainsbury ferred eight of their 51 shops to packed goods (Fruit and self-service stores are in London
that his self-service at a cast of about vecelables) has waared from and Home Counties, 25 per cent emphatically denies
shops
are in any way a copy £5,000 each. They, too, are 100,000th. in 1954 to over 200 in the North of England. one of the American stores,
"We continuing to
convert, and to million last year?
per cent in Ireland?
have adapted their methods," open new self-service store in Over 50 per cent of pre-
he said, to suit British con- the Greater London area. packs are potatoes - 5,500 ton • Farmers sometimes have to
reject as much as 20 per cent ditions.*
Whe'ber you prefe: the ACCELERATION: 0-30 miles marketed weekly the year
Apart from of their crops to meet the high stores, Britain
self-servies
hustle enterprising
Mr compared with 2,000 last year?
of nlo has 125 Welner's type
the of shop, on self-service The help-yourself principle tahirds set
Supermarkets. By of self-servico has resulted In
definition spacious dignity of Mr Solne- stores?
they must have à sales area bury's, the chances are that if no more slap-lifting than in the • "Pick-up" Hines nylons, of 2,000 square feet, and must you old-style stores?
tolled articles, stationeryell sell all types of food, including shopper,
are not yet a self-service you will be fairly Shoppers always take a shop- like hot cakes, especially if they, Iresh
fruit, vegetables and soon. ping-llat and always buy more appeal to the housewifet
fresh meat.
[London Express Service),
abour, 6.sec., 0-50 miles an hour, 14.4ser.
FUEL CONSUMPTION: Driven quite hard, between 23- 25 miles per gallon.
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FOR THE TECHANICAL: Engine, four-cylinder overhead Valves; capacity 1.011 bruke horre power, 80 at 1,500 r.p.m. Suspension, independent, self-trimming back, and front,
There is a throttle pedal, then In the middle a 1tle thing ice n dipper switch, which moves up and down only an inch or 50. This is the brake. Once one has learned to treat & ne gently as soft bolled
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CAR. R Eg WILL extremely effective.
it
The third pedal? I know sounds silly, but it is the hand- brake. Press it down, lock it jand the car is parked.
The DS10 hns an automatic gear-change. It in pleasant, apart from a long, lingering delay between changes which spoiled the acceleration, and, in my Citroen, a short screech lite an owl at the dential's every time a gear was engaged, faleness, I think this was o por- sonal peculiarity of this car.
Relaxed....
PRICE: £1,150 Total (including tax) £1,720 75.
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Would you
THINK BR off-beat name is. A splendid
IT FIT YOUR GARAGE? Length. 15ft, pin,christening present for any width. . SfL. 10. helght, baby. I have never ceased 4. 10.
to maryel that my parents had the temerity to choose such a peculiar ono for me. They were wise enough also 10 give me Q conventional second string. But I'm
Just not built to be called "June,"
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The Citroen is good to drive. [Its top speed is in the eighties, So magnificent is its stabilty that the speedometer needle coti be held in this position for milo after me on the most unlikely ronds.
With such silence, and a coma- ploto absence of body drum-
materials.
The Nontest
Actor Nicholas Parsons And
by
name a daughter Zuleika?
Bizarre names are fun, says ROMANY JUNE BAIN
broke the news to her,
his wife, Denise Bryer, have if he wants to
church?"
Yvonne Mitchell's daughter is Cordelia Kate "from King Lear and The Shrew in my last Stratford season," she explained, "if she plays good we'll go on calling her Cordella, but if she's naughty we shall call her Kate,”
Fascinating
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I couldn't resist ringing the mother of that splendidly "What Barker. "I'ra eure I'd have felt christened young man now up go into the much worse if I'd just been at Oxford. "We called taken the plunge this week by
Mary." (Her offspring oro Kent Tarquin because it was much a announcing that they will call
and Maxine).
fascinating The problem seemed
and my their first-born Zutelka Suzło. answerable till we added Bram- "Everyone wants to be an husband was studying Macbeth
"She can be called Suzie if she well
as well.
The Reverend Individual and I think names are at the time" Sir Laurence's first finds Zuleiks too awitward," T. Bramwell Bain has a sober terribly important," says Jon wife, Jill Eamoni, told me. anys Deniso. But she will be Methodist ring to it,
Manchip White, novelist and foolish to change 1. If she can
So parente, be bold. Your If one of the parents has a screen writer. survive a few cracks between 10
children will bless you for it in bizarre name, they are mofa and 10, she will find it well ikely to convince the other that
His daughters are Bronwen the end. That is, of course, when worth the struggle.
with Rosemary they have got used to boing introduced twice overy time, and constantly
George William is not going to and Rhiannon, Parents must have the courage give the little mito much of a and, Ramplind thrown in for of their convictions to hold out kick-off in life.
luck, Think of the plight of spelling it out, agðlast horrified relatives,
the Dutch," he said. "They have being called something quite
different, to choose all their names from a sel Hat at the town, hamil,"
Daughters have been disin- herited for announcing that they
were going to call their son and heir Benedict,
Consolation
I am referred to often as, a
"I was such a plain child and Theatrical mothers are in- famous brand of cheese biscuit, found my name a great source of clined to call their children Bui F'd rather be called a "But you can't call him Toby," comfort and consolation,” sold after the last famous parts they biscuit than June, 'walled "my mother when we TV research ediler Anthea played when they were' slim..
**(London Express Nervios),