Did it Happen?
WHEN I came to settle in Ireland,
people told me authoritatively that despite talk of change and modernity, the set-up would sur prise me by its off-beat oddity. With equal authority, people said that was nostalgic tosh, and an insult to modern Ireland into the bargain.
felt
With these statements In mind, I equipped to deal with any situation arising. Needing o buse while I looked things over, I went to slay with my friend George Barry who, despite elvit commollen, intrusions of wars old rigours of peace still kept his grip on a castle af moderate size.
"He also," said the Monroes, mutual friends who saw me off
on the trip from Dublin to the west, "has a butler."
"Nice for him," I sold. "Ed-
wardian luxury."
fur bus
"I would be nicer friends," suid Mary Monroe darkly, if he didn't have any such thing
fox's your
public duty to persunde George to fire the mun Don't ask why.
you see for yourself.”
Personally, I considered that George, whose wife had died some years ago, was Jucky lu have any kind of buller to take cure of things,
Signing off
with hun after dinner, | il drinking a poteen which George Justifiably, treated with Like reverence due to an old brundy The butler, apparently, was out for the evening, but dinner was good wad the service neatly «ccomplished by a girl from the village.
At 930, or thereabouts, I was complimenting George on that superb poleen, and hoping the police would not catch up 100 soon with whatever secret bone- factor was disulling the stuff somewhere in the hills, when the lights went off.
*Fuse gune?" i mald.
"No, no," said George who, I now observed, had a couple of Candles standing ready on a sade taule, which he was now bąbt- UK. "It's only Al," he added.
"AI?"
"Aloysius, my butler. When he's had a drop too much stout down in the village and comes home ured, he pulls the quater- switch in his pantry to notily me, so to speak, that he's sign- ing off for the night. You don't mind candlelight, do you? It's such a nuisance trying to get the pantry key off lim once he's gone to bed."
★
Her
Talja 健
protest brought
us to the scene.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1959.
Another compler
storg
in the series that keeps
you guessing
Aloysius
passes on
by CLAUD COCKBURN
·LAUD GOONBURN was born In
C Pekin 63 years amu. Siripe then
he has lived in a mood many countries and spent several years As a foreign correspondent in Now York,
„A MIW YOU* Xso ha abandonag daly journajem for humprout and satirical, writing and for nation.
One of his novels, Beat the Pavil, written under the name of James Helvich, was fimed by John Huston with the late Humphrey Božeri în the star role.
vas In Gounty Opskburn now Cork,
I thought of what the Monroes touched" or anything
pathetic
had said, but after all even if of that kind. On the contrary
the butler were a little eccentric he was as sane as anyone i ever you couldn't expect perfection.
Matter of course
wi said that of course i duo't mind talking and ultimately Later, began to see some. going to bed by candlelight, and whul more nearly eye to eye George, looking relieved, mal with the Monroes. For a start. back sniffing and savouring the you couldn't dismiss Aloysius as poteen like A man who has "eccentric." a word suggesting Jurned 'h critical corner and is bartless and even Amiable entitled to relaxation and fine oddities of behaviour. refreshment.
quite
nut,
He was
evidently,
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He was even efficient in the rouline of the houm, except when he chose to take the day off without warning, or gu bad at nine.
ing that what he needed now more than a cigarette or a clean: shirt way the embrace of I handsome young woman, niet Mury Montue in the corridor and embraced her.
Her yells of protest
brought
us to the scene, George looking terribly agitated. After he had ordered Aloysius to go to bed, Mury sund. "1 expected you to fre him on the spit- tell him to leave the house this very night.
"No, no,"
George. "I don't want him slinking off until tamorrow."
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When the Monroes and, of course, Aloysius - Aud gone angrily to bed, George said gloomaly, "wem you to help me with a Hittle job."
Day's notice
}
Here's where London's hard-up, jazz-mad
kids are getting to...
THE walls of the jam-packed room
over
London's Wardour Street shake with stereo- phonic rock. Britain's latest answer to Presley vibrates on a tiny three-by-four stage.
By JOHN LOUDON
chant in Teheran, sent him over
The bottles rattle gaily at the bar where the customers uniformly penniless-from Lon- to brush up his book-keeping at talk champagne and drink don University, the hospitals, Tooting College of Commerce. lemonade.
lection of technical schools, lan- 'guage schools, art Bchools, secretarial colleges-even gram- mar school sixth forms.
For this is London's new- est and most successful at tempt at Night-life-on-a- Budget.
wear jeans and svit."
enjoy my-
and London's multifarious col That was when he started to MOTHER CAME
They pay a guimos a year (two guineas for their 4,000
fellow-members who Are actually Darning.)
20
Ask Peler Johnson studying
South in metallurgy at a
Lotuton technical college:
realise how appallingly dreary London evenings can be fur
than anyone with less their pocket.
When the United Students Social Association decided 10 start the Whiskey a Gogo, ho jumped at the chance.
BY DREARY NIGHTS
And for that, with no extra
can. dance charge, they
the loudest hours a night to music in London (withfuli
"It's the one place I know in the West End that I enjoy. and my mother doesn't think It is a den of vice, I brought her here two months a0 and taught her the cha- cha."
That is an important part of Billy Chehryin's policy—to get the parents
of club members on his side.
The night club where the feen-age Cinderellas can live it up four nights a week at a total expenditure of £1 la. a year (so long as they re member to drain their last pineapple juice promptly sereophonic amplifiers). They And now, after 18 months of at ten minutes to midnight, have cabaret. They can play never-look-back success, they and catch the last bus back riotous "Beat the Clock" games plan to start
Gogos in for champagne bottle prizes, to the suburbs).
Burly students one a black Benighted centres of Leeds and belt judo expert-man the door There is a fully licensed bar Edinburgh.
to make sure that none of their ---whisky, gin, 'vodka, cognac,
nasiler Boho neighbours get in youngsters to spoll things. So far-no
PENNILESS
леж Whiskey A the even Dre
But more than 85 per cent of the sales are soft drinks.
What brings flocking in?
Ask
Mourcen Sampson,
trouble at all.
10-year-old student dress de scal pot It
This is the Whiskey Gogo Club - open just 18 months. At last count had 12,000 members, almost all under 25.
cloakroom
"We make slightly more profit receipts," says manager Billy Chabrvin.
on
parl
of
the
"But it's an essential the atmosphere.
Chahrvin, still in his twenties, himself three a student students
Det years ago his father,
They are still joining at the rate of 300 a week,
About
8,000 bizarrely dreased, jazz-mad and
Wes are
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Lautern in hand he led through a tangle of yards and to outbuildings to the padlocked duor of an abandoned stable. He opened it and the electric beam of the lantern iluminated what even I immediately recog- nised as a finely equipped still, bubbling beautifully.
The first time I caught stealing two of my shirts, 1 thought him a mere thief. He "explained" coolly that he was only taking them for his tem- porary use-his own were at the laundry.
"Only Al knows I have, this," George said. "Ten minutel after he understands he's finally fired, he'll be down in the village to fetch the Guards. The Ser- geant's "a pal of his and holes ne because he thinks I'm a relic
It'
Such was his habit. He was not greedy, He simply took anything he wanted when he wanted it. If be ran out uf cigarettes, he would take any of George's or mine that were lying of England's brutal rule. about, and if there were none. have to go."
he would take George's car and "We couldn't move It?” go oT to the village to buy him- self a supply.
"Where to? They'd search The the whole place."
"All this and much more would do with a blend imperti- nengradi demeanour. which. somehow knocked one off one's balance, left une speechless until It seemed too late to protest.
Losing friends
Two or three times when there was a dinner party he would show up drunk. I dare-
"No more poteen," I sighed.
You don't cald George, "think Mary might understand If, after all, 1 didn't fire..".".
"No," I said, "she wouldn't.”
"Ah, well," said George and with heavy hearts we took blunt Instruments and started batter- ing that sill out of existence,
any lots of buliers do that, but DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
Aloysius, instead of trying to conceal his condition, would lurch about for a bit and then simply announce that he had "taken a drop" and roll off to ile down.
Once, when we had a houseful of guests, he was found occupy ing the bed of one of them- explaining that the roof in his. own room vind sprung a leak. Ho suggested that two of the male guests could easily "double :: up" in one room.
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. -- Across: 3 Reproach, Murder, Compris, 11 Reversus, 12 Sere, 18 Pivot, 18 To 19 Owns, 21 Peppered, 24 Corporal, 25 fevral, 21 Resolves. Down i Smrt, 2 Grave, 9 Recruit, 4 Kros, 5 Rips, 6 Alildes, 7 Herded, 10 Melon, 14 Voter, 10 Temples, 16 Conour, 17 Share), 20 Green, 21 Adult,-22 Pool, 23 Pare
It seemed to me, at length, that Aloysius's goings-on were beginning to cause friends and neighbours actually to shun the
YES
NO
Put a tick against your choice In the space above.
(Answer on, Page 19) ·
JUST FANCY
THAT!
LONDON lamp-post, 120
house, and I thought it only A years old, shrapnel-scarred,
kind to my as much to George, and weighing 31⁄2 cwk, Dew the
Roned to bother him for
It
moment, but then he rolled
Atlantis recently in We hold of
-
Bosc Heltannia, on · Ita
glass of the,poteen round his way to New York and a new tongue and after a brief pause home in the garden of the Dri- shrugged complacently. He said, Ush Book Cenite! there,
na 1 had gald earlier, that you
|couldn't have' everything... »
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igner, from Wimbledon:
And as 1 felt, I saw the final to its respectability (and popularity)—a 15-year-old schoolboy, in school blazer, brought along by his mother to
enrol.
"You wouldn't need to ask, if you'd ever woon Wimbis- don after Boven o'clock, Totally dead, lost to the telly,
And being reluctantly told hẹ And the elimax in social was three years too young for activity is the Young Con- the champagne dircuit-even on servative Ball. Met I'd raiber the cheap.
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In exquisite styling.
Precise timing
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