THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1958.
-PARIS-IN THE SUMMER NEWSLETTER FROM RAMSDEN GREIG
So you think London barbers sting you?
I gave a French one £4
and he gave me 4s. change
Paris.
I say no, I did not, I had it eu
THEY told me that her units and is case mo the
one
added.
ser's
he
distracted from this new worry by my hairdresser thrusting my hend into a bubbly, perfumad basin which turns out to be the hampoo I have Been trying to avoid,
POMADED
being singed and
Now
I have cried "non" pomaded. eight times. Either my French is impossible or my barber 13 dent.
Sceptre Spells BOOM
For Snobtown
THE capital of high society, the home of the nobs and the nabobs, is alive again. At least, that's what everyone is telling me. A Chamber of Commerce official said: "What a comeback. A miracle. And who to thank for all this?"
course.
DON IDDON'S
DIARY
have suddenly become available, My guide told me: "Things are looking up.
Of course, I don't expect anyone to spend $300,000 entertaining for just one season as Mrs Pembroke Jones usexi 10. Bat it's a nice come-back, if you get what I mean." I said I got: what he meant.
As I went around the town I
Baffled by his conversa- tional style, I said: “Well, best part of a pound sterling.
"AB."
who?" And the man, splen- "Monsieur- anyone who is any-
must beware of these cheap Parla
did in blue blazer and cream that arbers." goes to
Barber came out like chi
STREET SCENE No. 2: One store you can sit down and have flannels, said: "Why, the hair- chi little
a dirty word.
of Pierre Balmain's model girls a drink on the premees.
America's Cup match, of So he cuts my hair and the
The fact that after an early
The New York up from
was being photographed on the dresser just
two els hack away at my Well, it is all over and Place de la Concorde, Reaction; morning swim you can have
Club, the the Rond Point, on the angers trying to find out where having a therapeutic drink in a Every man under eighty crowded breakfast and a drink
Royal by the Yacht
So this was the swank sub found most of the residents ex- le pince that is far from belog
Yacht Squadron. the British capital. I had taken the oppor- pecting boom times in August Champs Elysees. All the cuticles are
Site I am too worried won- chi thi. I can afford only a round the mudel, a Cliven piled rule of the pool.
dinner vad a bonanza When I don't like about Paris challenger, Sceptre. This is unity of pucking a
by September, really big-time City dering if I have enough money vill roce because four shillings is into a Renault, and a charabane
of Sir Thomas to get oul of the pinee wilhoit all go back from Teasey mounted the pavement,
is the price 1 have to pay for like the old days. If only Sir Jacket, Actually I didn't need In the days
tle, let alone i black the gents go there, they
Lipton there were special trains these druks. Ten shillings for Thomas Lipton were here."
When I mentioned this to my running from Chicago for the a gin and tonle is apt to detract
I said: "Well, at least friends from the tower of con- race and free trip blimps in the from the pleasure.
his tea is." One of New munication services, Western aly. The Western world watched
they the race "with bated York's high-pressure ad- Union and Cominercial,
breath," Newport the Chamber of Commerce tell touch, more democralie." vertising agencies, seeing a Sasd: "It is fat opportunity in the first The business men of ihts
Don't Care America's Cup race for 21 bustling little town are natur years, is linking what is atly cathusiastic about the rage, AS I have gone around the described M the world's is making their cash regis- A town, I have tried to explain
ters ring. foremost sailing event"
Property Or with tea generally, and brokers insist that Newport is England to discover the Impact Lipton's tea specifically. beating time and ebatge -- a currently the most famous New Phrase they have lifted from Flowing In
The Wall Street Journal. Any interested, and the repction way, here is a boom in buildings
"All politiclana and the old guard are horrified
is
What they did not tell me was that any woman who any woman goes there, lou.
Anyway, here i am reporting
DEAR DRINKS
that "British artist Ilector HAT I LIKE ABOUT
etor W PARIS Whistler has arrived
a krwyer, 1 junure my hairdres- Weasey from four pounds,
prattle about shampoos, Triction treatment, singen ami. The Parts edition of the to the large elobrity Bulletin is reported Bees and listen company director who is havin his bald head worked over by
Jooks like
power wan
10 Throgmorton Street (and a polisher.
Mr C. A. Jorgenson who wrote.
This gentleman jooks to the Evening Standard tu suy 15:1 Londan barbers prices What barbers call were exorbitant") from the Informed city source.
0114 mun
The most popular dish on the metus of the smari Parin Continental with Mrs Whistler." The whis,
want fo of CAUSE,
The fact that after a firing restaurants is not escargot, but know if this is his wife or ha forenom shopping in a multiple Hamburger steak-with chips. hke mother.
third chair un the right as you de Gaulle a kind look let stone prin.
avole in September.
I am silling between two ladies who are having a blu ———-My-jockey-has been re- Movs and i am alt dolled up la a total suck.
cure
DIRTY WORD
A well- Memo to Cousin E nry: Yes, Here is do please come to Paris and who will not gvee sank up the culture" as you say. haye been hoking through -official ist of enter tutamente ani, out of 20 adverts m page three, 18 boast a rude show.
EXTRA TAX
• I was more than
statistics of a laterested when I read that the certain vital
showgirl
REACTIONS...
were
ROUND-UP
THE STRAY HOP
THER Arms, out to make a fast dollar, have realised
A Ant't
real
estate
Inc,
that I had really come to New
of the ease of Sherman Adsins,
Englander. No one seemed very
usually was:
re more or less alike, It's Just
a matter at degron,"
But few people up here have t110
"It is becoming impossible to
The commercial possibilities or by the aggressively modern hiza
is school directly across from Before I know where to put live la France," Bays this repre my hands they are grablad by sentative of the Champs Elyser
Howing into the city of the ench, provincial mansion of much trae for John Fox RECAUSE an untidy hop pielter threw the litter in his basket the big rare, and money
Mrs Jolin Payson Aunmy the bustling Bostonian Who Two charming girls whu any belt
"We are asked to pay Montmaricé
tevelled new extraordinary haking at my fort with aunt 50.000 lllion frames la keep the 106-65-95 I realised that :uto a farmheuse garden more than 18 years ago there wille monde.
Haut Monde itseif, or at least former Muriel Vanderbilt. menageable bere ane is measured in cent!-bably be enough home-grown hops for British beer this year.
Richard Dwyer says: "Belle charges ugeinst the Assistant fur at Brenchley, Kent," a most famous representatives, 1 bad truys.
not even buigel within
The picker was working at a mentioned the word manicure. defiril this year. So corpolations metres.
Brewers' Society official explains. "le tipped out the Hiter and the Vanderbils and Asturs, tin vue Avenue will succumb to President.
Fox has been so wild in New- are hit with another two pur
from it a hop look rout. The farmer whose name was Fuggles, Cabots and the Lodges, are not sub-dividers-it's inevitable."
Some sprawiłng easties which port's opinion, that he might cent tax on their 1957 profits, "
later noticed how well the plant flourished in a bad summer and
ye in residence, but I am as- "Because 1 have two binisen
wanted in brewing sured they will be. After all, cost 2,000,000 dollars to build even save Adaina's neck. And I am scheduled for a 10 per cent TREEY SCENE No. 1: Bread-how vich it was in the aromatic substances
are going for as Sittle as 20,000 ns i say, Newport, New Eng- He cultivated the plant and sold sels to other growers. beer.
The race
is not or match
dollar. Quite a loss, but whe land cannot sloke up say great tax on this sigh of richun, knife in hand on
through Fuggles Hops as they became known, spread over the hop row-
And the servants these passions or anger about the of Texsey Weasey Raymond Yachts will be laxed 100,000 ched another
wiceing districts. This year more than three-quarters of the hops be-start unth September 20,
But plenty is happosing now. Ca
Adams affait. streets of Montmartre.
They are all descender ing grown in Britain are Fuggles Hops,"
The all-Amerlean 12-metre days, the hostesses watt. thuets his frilly cuts on he sur franes.
Actually, through the lure of Footnote: Newport, queen of hoping that stentes," eries! the man with the from the stray hop thrown out of the picnic basket." I am fervently with nothing
yachts, which with the 18-year- veys Jay brend
America's Cup, butlers, the
* watering plaers, old Vim are candidates to de- the short of horror. Monsieur must they have not put a lux on bair breaknife. "I will kill you!"
*h་ renetion at the cafe had his last haircut in cute when I see a notice pro-
fend the cup which Britain cooks, malds, footmen, gardeners washed up. -have
Some far flung outpost in French claiming a
hag never won, have all under- Equatorial Atrien.
charge un
gone tests during the past few
A young man who is the spit
CHURCH
BAZAAR
CAKES
"It's so
refined"
man
15 per cent service crowds, and the gondarines, was
all hills. But I am mild amusement.
*
HIS STREET LAMPS
the
Trials will take place during the next few weeks and New York Yacht Club, the holders of the cup, have issued detailed sailing instructions,
TWENTY-FIVE London street lamps of a collection made by a days.
nun-Me Potor Varon-before he emigrated to South Africa are being sent out to him to put up in his South African garden. They are now at the home of his brother in Hampstead who has disposed of some of them. The remaining 25 are being, crated up for South Africa. "It will cost £200 to send them," he says.
WEATHER CASUALTIES
TN the Derbyshire Peak district sportsmen are facing the poorest The moors have grouss shooting prospect for many years. been drenched in heavy rain and hundreds of young birds have dled from cold and exposure. Mr Thomas Lord, head gamekeeper on the Duke of Devonshire's 5,000 acres of moorland in Derby- shire, estimates that one bird in four has failed to survive.
PROVES HER WORDS
-
MS Mary Briggs, 55, grandmother, of Nelson, Lancashire, who weighs 4 stone, has won the Queen's Silver Medal for gleing 20 pints of her blood to hospitals. To prove this is done her no harm-and, at the same time to win a 105, bet-Mrs Briggs swom a mulle and a half in the Leeds and Liverpool canal. I took her an hour and a half. Afterwards she went back to her work at o local textile mill.
RED CARNATIONS
RS Kay Knoll, 37, G.I. bride back home in Ayr from Washing-
red carnations on the town war memorial. Her brother, Henry Butcher, who died in a sunken submarine is 1isterl among the dead,
Min State, U., fits 15 years, then wreath of laurels and
The best American yacht rout of the four now undergoing trinis will sail against the Bri Aish challenger Sceptre.
to its
Newport, always an attractive town to me, hus risen best during the past sun- drenched days. Most
of
the
mansions, known in reverse snobbery as "cottages," along Bellevue Avenue are shuttered, but there is a lot of painting and primping going on.
Sinking
THE last time I was here
four years ago, when I came to see Sir Anthony Eden, who was recovering front R operation, Newport was sink- ing into the sands of defeat.
Today, and perhaps it is thanks to the Royal Yacht Squadron, the town is lively.
At my hotel, which I won't nume to spare se manager's feelings, I was slightly put out to see uests in the dining- sitting in their shirt sicever, some with their shirt
rcom
tail outside their trousers. Some women wore shorts,
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BROWN & POLSUN PATENT CORNFLOUR
Happy-Hols
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"This'll be a change from listening to her blaring wireless-here comes her husband.”