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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1958.
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Patricia Lewis
THE GIRL WHO MEETS THE PEOPLE-AND SEES THE SIDE WHICH THE OTHERS SO OFTEN MISS
Round-the-Clock Riviera...4am to 4am!
"CANNES," say the French, "is a country on its own.' It has festivals and fishing; two casinos and à castle. It has yachts in the port and sports on the plage. It has bowling on the waterfront and roulette It has high life and low life, and on the Palm Beach. it all goos on for 24 hours a day. As follows:-
Track Is Not Fast Enough For The New 121-m.p.h. M.G.
I
The new M.G.......... a million-dollar' car,
By ROBERT WALLING The model looks no diferent TRACK-TESTED at 100 from the ordinary, sippy, MGA m.pl the now million two-center, except for it aliver dollar" MG sports model, on dise wheels which were de- nounced today by the Nuffield veloped on race tracks. Organisation, and found the A win-overhead enmahalft tracks was not fast enough for engine' of 1880, c.o. hue, the high club is jumping with girls look- are pointedly stacking the chairs.
The sky is whitening and the the 121 m.p.h. top-speed avail- compression of almost ten to ing like Brigitte Bardot and men
one, which puriches the speod dressed like James Doan.
palm treca are taking on some, abic.
'In a vico'
from standstill to 110 m.p.h. Between sips of Scotch they colour against the grey wash of
The track was the two-miic, in 38 seconds. Jive wildly to the Charleston or the Mediterranean,
The speedometer neodlo preas close together.
The casino is closed and the high-speed circuit of the Minks* In a little box above the floor crouples are joining the night-try of Supply's fighting vehicle leaped to 62 in second gear and an assistant watches the mood olubbers in the trek towards brd.research unit at Chertsey. It 88 in third.
changes the
at the harbour the was built to test vehicle dura- records. Down
speed, not as a accordingly not too many slow fishing boats come in and neroes bility at high numbers though, or the at the market haggling begins race circult.
Even so onc of the many customers will get too dreamy over the price of melons. to drink
For scene it is endig for curves' was taken at well over some it is beginning another 60 mph with no
alde. "A pity too--but, then, the and the waiters at the "Gogo" day in the life of Connes. IL 1 12 noon in Cannes money is in different hands alt and the speedboats are roaring over the world." away from the Jetties with water-skiers riding high in their wakes.
It is 4 a.m. in Cannes "Rome-then maybe America," English and this is the rush hour, she says.
The traffic is two-way: people leaving home to go to work, people going home to go to bed.
"And" anywhere else monocle.
1 con sell papers.”
Down at the harbour the fishing fleet is back with the Down on the Martinez beach night's culch. Un at the casino fair-headed muscle-man Rene the gamblers are leaving with a Schoebel is teaching a beginner catch of a different solo how to stay upright when the. maybe this time, they were boat likes off at 40 miles 'caught themselves.
hour,
an
**milord' with
hig
$ pami, En Cannes and while their wives trickio mto hairdressing salous for re- pairs to wind-blown hairdos the menfolks repair their waistlines with.a hard set of ternis.
In charge of the Carilerin six courts is English-born Tommy Burke, a spry 60-year-old whose lather was ternis coach here before him.
"Business, is patchy now," ho
As they treop off for a sub-up "My beal pupils are women," nightcap en the quayside, they he says. "Men think they must but pazs restaurateurs en route to use force to water-aki, market ad Ushermen landing women have eo muscles ca they the Ingredients of tonight's just let the boat pull them and says, “in the good old days pre- bouillabaisse.
that is the right way. Many war we had a terrifle winter people are secred because they season-but now everybody goes go so far away from the chore, to the ski resorts,
"How was the fishing?" they ask. Marius, the boutman, will sbrug and draw en his black cigarette.
Beach boss
"Pas ral, a few loups, some ardines
and mackerel. But there was too much wind for
nything really good."
All the same. The 100 small bonis that 10 out ci Canner each dusk brought in £4,000-
but there is no danger-I am a lifeguard too."
Bartender
With about 25 people a day "In summer, you see, it is too paying in lesson, Mr Schoebel hot to play during the day. We wied floodlighting the has acquired a small hotel over even
garage in town and a large courts at night but villa on the hills out of town, work people would rather go
dancing or gambling and,
Can'
He is a Re Access story due, may I blame them."
lie says, to his reputation for
didn't
getting you ski-ing a mile a I in 8 p.m. in Cannes the first lesson -- "Even if I and to Carlton terrace is
worth of 41sh this month have to haul you along myself." crowded with bare-shouldered 20,000lb. of slippery sitver crchandise you next sec
costing £1 n time ca the
It is
14od speciality menus,
Cannes a.m. lu
Buffet maker
It Is 2
In p.m.
Cannes
and the bench boys cre refing and except for Mr Schoebel, who
women and crew-cut men drink- ing their aperitifs:
Walking behind the tables in
the white flanels and a blue blazer bar manager, Jules
for
The sonde in front of the luxury has to keep his stemnach empty Mosohiniic. He, too, sigho hotels. When it is mooth and for life-saving, the main though his pre-war cilentele, "It wns|
clean on face powder they set out
is food,
the Duke of Windsor who made
the chair and paras. is in neat, At Le Vollier en the beach this bur so popular that was straight res ice seuts for a the well-oiled bathers get more
cpheeri-158. a day for the front row, 10. G. a day for the back
row.
On the Carlien beach Heuri Selfoil is directing his staff of five as they fabel the cabins and chairs reserved for the hotel's guests.
back in 1933 when the Duchess
oiled on vla rose and the was still Mrs Simpson. We had dazzling cold bullet concocted by Madame Jeanne Martin.
The whole counter is indeu down with artichokes, aspara
no beach bar then but we did five times more business than we do now with two. -
"Since the war 1047 has been i
tuc
gus, lcbsters, meal, fish, rull, cur most prosperous year
and cheeses. But in all the past ten years we have taken
Henri has been doing this hundreds of Jundits served, Jess money each season." every summer morning tor 20 Madame Martin provides not a
But Mr Moschietto still finds She did once, but years and he still finds the morsel hot,
serving around English baffling
the Custerners ca the Carlton plenty to do
a day mostly beuch next door complained 3,000 drinks.
vodka, champagne, and fresh about the cooking smells..
rasberry juice.
Harbour master
For
hot luncheon the "In winter I ke to visit
rendezvous is Chez Felix over Lzedon." he says.
stay with the Val Parnell, and Tommy Trinder Croisette.
narrow Cadillac-crawling inkes me te his lf club, But
though 1 see many people who In 38 years the proprietor. Mr
slop me on the back in Cannes, Court, has seen the whole 1a Engllod they are very pattern of spending charge on
different to me.'
I asked Henri, why his clientele
iha Cote d'Azur.
Mime
It in 10 p.m. In Cannes are stuffed
and the restaurants with diners stuming. Most
popular spot is
narrow street in above the port
steep,
Up the old town De Boutiau's..
is exclusively Engilsh-speaklag "A few years ago when I ran Here the walls are covered
and his nutshell face cracks into
a grlo, The French don't like
to pay those prices," he says and
goes off to shift Belle Darvi's
mattress lo face the run,
the Blue Bar I made a fortune with lipsticked signatures
on drinks," he says. "But
and
the The celling is hung with herba:
bar business has gone down very
much the past five years-the and garlics.
days of easy money are over, There is no menu. Instead.
So when I opened this place 1 Mr Jean Boutiau mimes the
TE I 8 2.1. In Cannes decided to concentrate co
food. dishes
swimming round the
and the harbour master. M. The French will always find the table for fish, fluttering over it; Jean-Noël Yven, is in his olles tranes for a good meal.” above the port. He checks the
yacht mourings eo a wall chart
facing his desk.
are
Portrait
And if they can't buy it they
for pigeon-anxi writes the order in strange symbols on a corner of the tablecloth,
an
"We have 700 big yachts here
It is small and hot and noisy, now," he says. "But it will be will take it. The other night a There is music a guitar and busier in August. The Bri- thief broke into Felly's and was accordion pounding out the two nish? They
still
the so besotted with a troyful of most frequent
requests, keenest yachtsmen-two-thirds strawberry tarts he was still Italian song, "Nel blue dipinto of the boats in Cannes are eating when the cleanors di blue" and "Colonel Bogey", English-owned. Lady Docker's arrived next morning.
and there is always someone, Shemara "I expect it will be
'Poor boy, ho in prisory from Martine Carol to Donald back one day."
now" uniles Felix andly, "1 Campbell, to look at.
It is
Sunburned
shall
send him SOITIC m020
strawberry tarts with fresh
eream." And, beaming, ..he.
Croupier
10 am. In Cannes rushes forward to find a table It is 12 midnight in Cannes and a gun-burned 24-year-old for Jack Hylton and Italian and the Palm Beach casino la blonde is tramping the beaches stor Rosalina Neri.
caking in the chips from roulette
young
selling Americoh newspapers. It JA 4 p.m. in Cannes, End chemin de for, The tourists think she is French, and an Algerian selling sugar But her name is Linda Robbyns candles is" calling "Clia, cha, The secretary-general,
comes from Hammer- cha," along the pavement cafea dark Pierre Esperandieu, smith, "I got fed up with dress where the tea ritual in mal supervising his 500 staff-one lo mack," "she fells me, " I swing.
every two customers,
and she
"Yes, the Americans are the
went to Paris and got a job In his cool green-and-while selling papers. I lived there for studio Joe Stara, one of France's biggest gamblers today," he telle 10 months, then went to Brussels most formous photographers, te, "But wo don't have many for the Ifir. I didn't like it propares to fake his slitings, there so I came down here for In his wide-brimmed straw huge wins any more except hat and gaudy Hawaiian shirt, perhaps when movie millionaires
the season.
"It's a teremth, isn't 1f7 All Mr Stara locis more like a post ke Darryl Zanuck are here." that phoney smart set with their card seller than a cheriuman, Standing in the crowd of omply - conversation! Give me but all · round his studio are dinner jackets is good-looking, the sailors downs at the Bar partrakte of ex-idinys and stocky Gnatum Bellful who has
Nauliquo every time.”.
queens. Over
there
1
'been calling “Ition ne va "plus"
Linda proves it is possible to
ex-King live cheaply on the Riviers. Faroule, here is shy ox-King over the tables for 12 years. She carne around, £10 a week Poter of Yugoslavia tid, most - For the five months of mim«| 15 and the rent for her tiny room prominently, ex«Queen Soraya mer be, is lucky to get "four i Dear the barbour takes halt of of Porals. "She is the most hour sloep a night as the
bat,
photogenie woman I have ever gamblers start playing at three To exist alle cooks her own tour. says Mr Stara. "There, in the eftárnoon. meals on * tiny spirit stove is something about berbone How does he eland the para? fries and bolta; beauti- structure that, is #pocially.......ng | tave just enough stamina "Bully"!) and makes her own revealed by studio lighting. th, to keep it up till October)"
clothes ("I never travel with-
But thewo days my best gas and when you live by Curiemer: "are the newly-rich tourlim, you have no choice” But she loves being her own business people from the MIDD boss and having the freedom to Eart--the royals are nearly all gravel anywhere. Next stop? finished, sad, so it accm,. Is the and the Whisky
out my sewing machine"), A.
5.
be
2-in a Cannes.
a Clogo nights
n lx 48.m. ID Cannes
fondeney to
Dise brators enught the model In a vice when I used the brake pedal at 00 m.ph/
The open model costs £1265 and the coupe £1357, puretinse tax paid.
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