THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY ·3, 1981.`..
THE GILES GUIDE TO GOOD EATING
...or why
English husbands
are such a
virile crowd...
ĮANG goes unother legend. Like most
BAN
Englishmen I have been brought up to believe that among the many things the English can't do na well as the rest of the world is cook, but recently caine nowa which suggested that the gourmet who spread that story was badly misinformed.
First there was friend Hickey telling us that 65 per cent of the food served at Maxim's, the famous French restaurant, was English.
Next came a quotation from the famous Scat, John Wilson (1786-1854)—"I mat con- Tess that i like the Englishers, if they wadna be Haepernickety slut what they cat."
Then Joy! Here we have Barbara Cart- land, authoress-mother of Lady Lewisham say- ing: "It is a wise wife who remembers that if she wants a young, vigorous, exciting husband, she must see that he gais neat and two veg. vach day."
HAPPY BREED
ASSUME that the lady, like myself, occa- slonally dines at one of the many average Englishman's canteens and down Britain where une can observe the happy breed getting "n jolly good helping of meat and two vege- tables, which would give him vitality and new enthusiasm for his afternoon's work." night's work, as the case alght be.
For those of
who only
you
Or
dine at the more expensive restaurants or get your lunch this exciting meat and two veg. 0. ENERGETIC husband cul of a paper bag, the accom- | thinking that if he hadn't had panying Indexed
Illustration so much dann meat and two may help to prove that Ladyver, there would not be so many Lewisham's muvver quite hungry little mouths to feed. #ight:
7. ANOTHER exciting meal
1. VIGOROUS, exclting bus
band taking his indigestion and two ver. coming up. .pilis.
2. EXCITING.
producing VEK.
vigour
3. VIGOROUS husband eagerly drinking tea to
thinking 8. WAITRESS "Boy, am I glad my old man's
a vegetarian.'
9. VIGOROUS, exclting hus- band saying "Pardon."
take 10. FUTURE vigorous, exclt-
away the taste of exciting menting husband starting off on the and two veg.
4. VIRILE husband who has right foot.
Excuse me while I slip out for ANOTHER vigorous hus- grouse, and what-have-you."
caten nothing else all his life saying: "Here we go again."
band sleeping off the effects of
A light snack of escargots,
-{London Express Bervice),
Nkrumah chokes
the voice that dared
to roar
by JOHN REDFERN
THE
THE Ashanti Pioneer's pioneering days are over. No longer will the Pioneer stride_forward blazing the trail to lost freedoms. Today the Pioneer crawls.
Perhaps you never heard of He telephoned John Taiboe, the newspaper. Its elreulallon the
religious quiet, deeply
is only a few thousands. It is managing director, and threat- printed on a flatbed inachine in ened him, and his jolly wile an old building in the heart of Nancy. "I'll close you down!" he Kumasi, capital of Ashanti, yelled. Ghana's cocoaland,
for courage and the
speak courageously,
The
Talbocs reported
the But for year after year it stood threats to the police, bul
right to nothing happened, of course.
The paper carried on in the
court children's
magistrale, worked hard as national tree- surer of the United (Opposition) Party.
It opposed Dr Nkrumah, usual way. Nancy Tsiboc, President of the Republie of Ghana.
NO CRITICS
NOW, hat in hand, R an
nounces that it is going to support him and his Conven- tion People's Party "in the task of national reconstruction."
President Nkrumah is entitled to feel pleased. For now there Is no argan of criticism for him
to bother about.
The other newspapers play it sale.
If in doubt about the recep- tion of a news story. they con- cult the President's office.
W it be all right Thank you, sir... Of course, Your Excellency.
the
For years, by contrast, Ploneer look its own ling,
When the lorries trundled its ill-printed,
old-fashioned-look-
I
During this period a school building she put up in Kumasi was bulldozed down quite illegally, as the courts decided.
The Tsibocs or their editorial staff
threatened from timo to me with physics) violence.
were
not
ing out, full of fight, and
But the Ploneer kept on com-
ashamed of anything.
But its time for bravery was running out. Last August, ar- ticles dealing with labour un- rest and demonstrations were taken as an excuse to start the strangulation process on the paper.
COMPROMISE
CENSOR who hardly know the difference between nowspaper office and a steam. the laundry was
ing coples down the 200-mile road to Acer, the capital, thero were always top people th Nkrumah set-up eager to what they had to say.
REMEMBERED
THE
installed in the ace effterlåt rpom. A few days later thi fellow, actually a trade union official, was reinforced by
10-
a presidential decree putting the Pioneer under special censor- ship. paper was thrown
This altock was made when gether. Its news coverage the Talboes were on leave was sketchy.
England. Some days the paper But every day, either in the came out without any editorial leading article or in a column comment. Some days it did not altributed to "Brother Culture,” come put at siki
In
Today spec.
CASH Roust & 2 VEG. only
Thomas Wiseman's LIMELIGHT
THERE are two plays now running on Broadway which depict American political life as vicioius and ruthless, and a Presidential election as a kind of prizo-fight without a referee, a fight in which no punch is considered below the belt pro- vided it lands, and no end is thought sufficiently dubious not to justify even worse means.
New Yorkers, scarcely out of the voting booths, are flocking to these two plays, Advise and Consent and The Best Man, obviously enjoying their democratic right to see democracy Inmbasted.
Benevolent
It is an endearing characteristic of the American people that while they will fight to the last mutation in defence of their way of life, they enjoy nothing so much as a play or a film which. exposes the tawdriness their most cherisheil stitutions.
it had something to say about At this Ume, I saw. John the things that matter in any Taibon. Mizerably, he whispered State the rights of the ellizens, something about "compromiso." the behaviour of Ministers, the The word nearly choked him. conduct of Government.
Today President Nkrumah has: Me Krobo Edunel, Minister of succeeded in finally choking the Transport and Minister of State
newspaper.
Now when the lorries trundle
for Ceremouter, was reporter.
and debt collector on the Into Acera in the early › morn= | Pioneer in the forties,
When ho enjoyed mauive
ing nobody will care.
They will be carrying
power for three months as corpse of a ømper that once was he brave and fold, a true pioneer.
Minister of the Interior, remembered his old paper.
disgustod by of Roosevelt was
Advise and Consent and came in- lout of it saying; “If this were wartime. I think one would cry
It is true that Mrs Eleanor treason at this play."
2
+4
the
N the other hand, the President-elect, Mr Jack Konnedy, visited The Best
•Man not long ago, laughod at jokos about the electorate trusting a millionaire be- couse he would not be inclin- ed to steal their money, and congratulated the author, Mr Goro Vidal, and the cast on their accurata re-creation of a political convention.
The benevolent attitude of the President-elect is remarkable
what when you consider
the play is aboul. It is set at a poll- Heal convention. The two prin- cipal characters are seeking no- mination as their party's Presi- dential candidate.
To secure the nomination, one
of the aspirants
to the Presi- dency, Cantwell, steals a mediesi report which enn be twisteri
fo
suggest that his rival. Russell, is mentally un
stable.
The third prin- cipal character. on x-President whose endorse ment is Bought by both would- candidates,
bo
approves of this
as sound politics.
He encourages
Russell to Teta-
THE TRUTH.
ABOUT
LULU
SALLY DOUGLAB, a 10-
year-old former cocrat- ary, has been in the Bim business for almost one year and has made eleven films. At HK$300 a day, she can alders it a congontal way of making. Uving until whe geta married,
In the course of her short career Mies Douglas har real name is Kezzolson and she is a doctor's daughter from Richmond has been a harem girl, a night club dancer, hat-check giri, an Arab hand-malden, a boat- Hawallan cutie, a nik, beauty queen, oto,; she han worn diaphanous trouSETS, bathing costumes, liky robes, 0 gym slip, tights, black stockings, etc.
"I tuppose we're just usad to lead audiences ka expect more than they're going to get," she conceded philoso- phically. "For instance, thin Alm I've just done, Week- in the end with Lulu.
In publicity I'm shown
· scanty costume, and they make out that I'm Lulú, Actually Lulu is a caravan," PICTURE DY MICHAEL WARD
JUST FANCY
THAT
THERE arcellar of the Old
THERE are snakes hanging
Hall Tavern in Chingford, Essex-and the landlord's stock is safer than it's over bean. NGONO Johnnie and Tlu, both six- foot-long pythons, hang from a boom, and no one has accepted 40-year-old Mr Leonard Underwood's challenge to try to grab a boftio.
He says: "They are really very tamo and only wrap themselves round you as a sign of friendship-but they'd soon squeeze the breath out of you."
M
VERS JEREMIAH P. CRONIN, 。 New York cop, arrested a mon Jeremiah P. Cronin. Sha booked him on an assault charge. The victim? Her- self. Cop Cronin says husband Jeremiah assault-. ed 'hor. He was remanded .. on bail,
-(London 'Kazress - Berolce),
A Broadway hit- additional dialogue
by John F. Kennedy
Hate with a totally false accusa 19he was himself an unsuc tion of homo-sexuality against cessful Congressional candidate Cantwell.
in the recent election.
When Russell has misgivings about uslog such dirty mothods, the ex-President will no lunger
Admirer
"I think he is the best possible tions of success. but he admits man we could have. I think it that there are gaps in his life, is going to make a tremendour "I don't have much private difference to America."
life at the moment. I'm divorced What will his relationship from my wife and I and the with Kennedy be now?
That'U be Interesting
pursuit of girls altogether too support him, saying, that a man
to exhausting in America. They who is so illy-livered, so divided TTIS father was a member see," said Vidal. "I obviously expect 18 dinners and week- won't see so much of him, and ends in Palm Springs before you President.
by conscience, isn't it to be Hof Roosevelt's Cabinet, who's
Not only dia the President and his grandfather, T. P. elect enjoy the play, he actually Gore, was for 30 years in the contributed some of its most Senate and was at one time cynical lines.
leader of the Democratic Gore Vidal, the author, has been a friend of the President- Party. elect sinco childhood and he showed him a draft copy of the play before it was put on.
Suggestions
Vidal, now 35, vacillates be- tween the words of politics, show-biz and literature. He is terary critic, the author of eight novels, A politicion, A playwright and a film script-
ENNEDY considered it writer.
Kuthentic in mood and
to address him as Mr President got weekends?
"But Jack lo
man of
"Besides, I'm beginning to find candour and 'un- remarkable affectedness and I don't think that reading a book is a more that, basically, being Proxident sausfying way of sponding an evening than making love to a is going to change him much."
girt. When you've read a book you're left with something the. next day,"
Elated
on
THEODORE · BIKEL.
Love from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway
He wrote a good deal of Ben show The Sound of Music, in feeling and suggested, a few Hur and also did the screenplay which he stars with Mary
| additional lines of dialogue. of Suddenly Last Summer which Martin, came to see me the ends with a scene of eannibal-
One suggestion made by the fsm. President-elect: "When a delo- "I guess that flim cost me the gate is about to give you the vegetarian vote," says Vidol, knife, he always says, 'Now look He is not only a close friend if there's anything I can do for but also an ardent admirer på you, you just let me know.**
Kennedy.
other day to givo ma the ́statistics „af ̃his remarkable success
His annual Income has reaches edithe 200,000-doller level.
fo said: "I make about 80,000.
TALKING
POINTS
freedom to obey Where Justice. reigns, ----JAMES MONTGOMERY,
Ambition is the last ra
Vidai" gratefully accepted such "What my play says is that a Year In The Sound of Music. expert help, though he is him- bur political system prevents us Concerts bring me in another fuge of the fallure. | self-well-versed in the mathods from having the best man as 40,000; recordy. 34,000; and tho.
of American politica
President and it also prevents Wit I tako: from TV. appear- An author with a high repu- us having the worst. I think ances
MARLOSCAR WILDE. Love is so very –– timid
Lation is America he wrote This is generally true. But Ken-Me- Bikei ♬ naturally eisted | when" "Ule new, An {his first besteeiler at the age of nedsla' the exoegtion.
about these isngible manifesta-