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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1958, #
Interesting News Stories Fron AH Parts
The World
LONDON'S NEWEST BRANCH OF SHOW BUSINESS
The Tired Businessmen's 'Club'
IT'S NOW SEX
IN THE AFTERNOON
STRIP-T
By GEORGE MONTGOMERY
London.
RIP-TEASE "theatre clubs," supplying sex in the afternoon to tired businessmen, are London's newest and most profitable branch of show business.
These chibs have been pack-i continuous
10-minute
ing in out-of-town and oversens i formances until the evening! customers for about a year and grospects for the future appear bright.
Technically, these "theatres" are private clubs,
This means they are not sub- ject to the censorship which in regular
theatres mallows the "urtislle" shedding of einthos tinder a luw Raying stugo nudes nual not move.
The "club theatres" are ex- franely democratic about their membership.
London's centuries-old, ultra exclusive gentlemen's clubs may employ the binckball with great regularity but it is nt but un- heard of in the world of the blue spotlight und the cunningly manipulated zipper.
Annual Fee
Theatre-club members pay a small annual fee, usually about 10 shillings and an average of 10 chillinga per ticket. Only a nember can purchase a Ucket but he ran bring a friend.
per.
Allendance is likely to be lower at night when the midille-- aged, buskiessman "out seeing
to adjourns
his prospects" favourite club before the train ride home,
Glamour Rovuo
Show people recall the "craze” begun slightly over a year ago when a 100-seat theatre club switched to "glamour revue" after years of presenting ex- perimental plays and satirical skirts.
Its membership reportedly anored from 3,000 to giore than 40,000 as a result.,
Others followed suit. How- | over, there are still musy club
theatres presenting only play often "during" ones that could not be put on in public thealtes.
One newspapermian recently compared strip and non-strip clubs:
"The orly-crafty theatre clubs The club theatres resemble | may turture their characters with Britain's drinking clubs, also abnormal desires, but the revue doing booming business. The clubs sing, rallier too insistently, country's "public houses"-bars of doing what comes naturally." where anyone over 18 can drink In addßlon to the big theatre are not permitted to stay open; clubs stripteasers work in smal
classify them-
he long or as late as the clubs, bars that also
However the law does re-selves us clubs,"
gulate the drinking clubs to some Some of these ore called extent and the sume holds true "walkie-talkie" bar
of the club theatres.
Any strip out that went too far would run Ilo trouble with
Britain's anti-obscenity laws,
Their
girls are not the mute, motionless nudes of the public theatres.
One typical walkie-talkie" bor in the heart of London begins
The striptoose theatres usual-its strip acts at 5 p.m. to catch
üfter lunch and stage the home-going businessman.
Jy open
English Meat Takes Second Place To Foreign
London, INGLISH meat is to take
Like many others, the bar of this club is lined with pretty giris who do their best to see fant he does not go home.
The customers pack them-~ kelves into a smail room not more than four yards square and Jostle each other for bar space until the show begins.
A Few Sequins
Finally a postage-stamp arca in the middle of the Roor is. cleared and the "artiste" of the evening performs her routine— usually a standard striptease of the type known in the United States for many years but still|
Econd place to foreign States for
MC Bl in Hertfordshire schools, it was reported last week.
It ends with the girl clad in a in some cases, few sequins or rothing at all.
The proprietor of this club-a All butchers who supply dapper young Londoner with schools have received the follow-kinky hair and
a penchant for ing announcement:
black shirts claims the disting For your Information the tlan of initiating the "business county education ofeer hes in hours" strip bare, structed schools that they should He got into the venture after
English not purchase
meat experimenting (except perk) and English oftal," variant of the same theme
PROTESTED
"photographic salon."
Local farmers claimed in pro- test that the county authority for The fist time has made this an Instruction instead of a recom- mendation,
with
another
These places, now less numer- Gus as a result of police interest, feature shapely girls removing their clothing before an audience with negligible photographic
A county official explained interests. that 'budget diciated the choice of foreign rather than domestic beef.
Customers are provided with cameras-if they want them.
Many of the girls new working
ful".
THE HIGH-PRODUCTIVITY DUCKS OF DOWNING STREET
Number Ten Has A Happy
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THERE has been
sudden-though.pré- dictable-increase the duck population at No. 10, Downing Street. It was nine weeks ago that a pair of grey mallards (top left) flew into the Prime Minister's garden from nearby St James's. Park.
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GEORGE MONTGOMERY
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(STREET OF
SINNERS
Released thre United Artists
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The Prime Minister | SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINEE AT REDUCED ADMISSION
was very proud of his visitors.
When British Rail- ways officials and union chiefs met at No. 10 in an attempt to avert the' threatened rail strike recently, Mr Macmillan took them into the garden to see the mallards' nest.
Now he has even more cause for `pride.
His guests have pro duced a fine, brood of 11 ducklings.
PREPARATION ADRIAN, AGED 3. IF YOU
TO RETARD HAIR FALLING
men
Bonn,
Progress in slowing down the excessive hair fall which leads to baldness in and women was re- portad to the Society for Aesthetic Medicine at recent congrass here by an American physicien,
its
Irwin 1. Lubaws of New York sald in a paper which became available re- cently that he had success. Tully treated scores of caBOO over a period of years with a hormone-amini gold pre paration which had pro- duced "in many cases umell areas of now hair growth." Dr Lubowe sald that the preparation had cleared up about 80 per cent of mirör scalp dieorders while it was achieving "the progressive lemaning of the excessive hair FAS"
The physician sald his findings were part of the "Intense scientific research" now being undertaken by the medical profession into the increase in scalp dia. orders and hair losses the last decada......U.P.I. ̧·
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London
A policemen who caught two
"We have to make dure the in the strip spots are stage hope-boys, aged 13 and 11, smoking child gets the best avaliable for
the price," he said.-
Some mako
£10
in a Norwich street sent one of
FLIES LIKE
3,
THE BIRDIES'
FOR
London.
OR just a few blissful seconds last week three-year-old Adrian -Bates flew "just like the birdies do." He took off from his parents' bedroom window-sill and touched down, unhurt,
on the lawn 15 ft. below.
Birds in the garden under his bedroem in Ovingdean Road, Ovingdean, Brighton, had given him the urge to fly.
And, like the birds, he was .. up curly.
Before he made his Jump he toddled off to see his parents, Ronald Bates, a Brighton town councillor, and his wife, Joan, Mrs Bates, put on Adrian's dressing-gown and seat him back to his room.'
But soon Adrian was back with his parents who were fast Asleep. And the birds........they were singing and gliding grace- fully past the bedroom window, 'Nothing wrong'
"Adrian watched fascinated,
"Could I fly like them....Could Could I? he wandered. Yes ho could, and up he
to £15 them with 14d, to buy another stepped on to the window-sill
cost the same as imported the and evening capers before the a woman shopkeeper wow fined "It was then that I heard him
He added that if English meat weekly through their afternoon cigarete. The boy got it. And and jumped.
schools would buy English-- | intent and appreciative business- | 106, for selling elgarettes to a U.P.I.
men.--China kati. Specja), | person under 18.
She Bought The Only One.
Then Four
More Turned Up!
Last
→ Milan, Socialite Mrs Katharina. Williama, najā
week she will not present President Eben-
•hower with a gift of a painting which she And believed to be a famous Correggio. Mr Williams, who paja 150,000,000 Elro (USERBS,000) for the Correggio palating called ' Glorns" (the day) said to be the only one in existence, animisineed a munti ago she had bought it as a peregoal wiri for Elsenbawer just because she greally admired him. And that she knew be Uked Correzioła work.”......
· Buk news of the wifi annbuzooment brought to - light in Italy within a matice of days throu
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other Correggio-paintings, called Giorno," all four, also known sa the Madonna of Baint Jerome,
A furry amour Ballan' art experts was BUIL going · on te ity · and preva which of the
four paintings was the authenile Coerezato.
Bo far, favourite of the. Correctio, fourVOMB
appdata to be one in the Farnese Palaes at. the town of Parma, south of Milan. Mrs Williams aid the double of the authen- tiolly of her Comoggio make it impossiblo -- ter harta und ti to Fresident Elsenhower, She said she has told him the reason in SzJogramı nho mostem.PIA
We parents woke with a start.
bawl," sold his mother,
Which the hospital doctor examined him they sold: "Nothing wrong. He's hud o miraculous escape."
And the last word from { Adrian: "T not fail, "↑ fy like
the birdies do,"
ADRIAN BATES
Sparrow Smoked In Bed
Birmingham: serious damage was caused
A sparrow-that empotted in pet | Seeking - thu cause later, the caused a fire in a pouse here. tiremen found the charred nest and the remains of the The bird had apparently brought
cigarette en
n lighted cigaretto end to its nest in the bathroom ciring 1.The cupboard of the house of Mr
Jack Sours.
Then the nest caught alight and the fire spread to liner in the cupboard.
The Deo brigade was called and put out the. blaze before
sparrow recovero-but last night Mr Spara se hls daughter Glenda into a local wood to reledso the bird,
He felt its tab) of smoking in bod might "do" "lets, hatm there, Chalka »Mall Sprolat-
WANT TO ROB A TILL...
Ask A Policeman
London.
was boven o'clock fn the morning when the smartly dressed man with the cultured voice walked Into the police station.
"Good morning," he 'sald to the officer behind the inquiry desk, "I'm the new canteen manager.".
He was so calm, so full of canadence.
"Can you let me have the keys ld the place?" he weat on. "I have to open up straight away.” The polleeman reached for a bunch of keys hanging on hoard. "Do you know where it is?" he asked.
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"I'm not certain," said the stronger. "Perhaps you
can direct me."
Fingerprints
Hy was shown the way down the corridors to the basement, and culled out “See you later,” But the men'in blue at Earia Count-road, S.W. did NOT sco Pida later.
When the canteen stafy arrived to start work they found drawers open, the till sjor, and £20 and several packets of cigarettes missing.
So the police were called from upstairs and the C.L.D. BORY; fingerprint men, “
A description was issued af the "canteen manager," with whom they would liko. to have a little talk,
He is about 45 and of medhim height. And ho's, oh, so very. plausible.
London.
A football coupon posted by Walsall_fouinewife Mira Ida Tay- for in November has just been. roburned to her from Canada. The coupon fell into a max-card envelope in the post- box and went to Ontario instead at Lysrpool, And it had a win- ning Ünow-it, would 'baya woo
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