THE KEY THAT
OPENS A DOOR
ON OLD GAIETY
'ON
New York.
a side street in Manhattan there is an old
brownstone house
outside the entrance.
door costs about £35. to Yesterday.
marked only by a gaslight A key to the heavy wooden But the key opens the door
ns
For this is New York's famous Gaslight Club-one of a rapidly
Probably the best reason for of key clubs the Gaslight Club's success, Prewing number
throughout the Sprutsug 2697
be found in the however, in United States, The new
beautiful girls who serve are all entled after the original. I waitresses there.
Abag with membership in the Cadet Chib comes the key which
only mean the club's highly entrance to romantic version of the "pod old dus"
The clab's decorative motif is erally that of the "Gay Nacties" at its popular third- floor re-creates the special "for- bidden Fruit" naughtiness of the "Hearing Twenties."
Attraction
and supervised by vivacious Jean Browne, wife of the Bander, the girls generally have a show busine back-
also hind mount. We've
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1961,
SATURDAY MAGAZINE
JAK
my dang ky shades DV
JAK, who is a tradi-
. tionalist, and also broke, has decided
to
open
up Mortgage Manor, his semi-detach- ed at Wimbledon, to the British public.
To date, the exhibits are comprised of an exact reproduc tion of The Stag a Boy. two brass candie sticks from the Portobello-road, and a plece of the gallows from which 2003 earlier Jak is said to have been hanged on the loent Common.
nd- Not much of a show,
but here.mittedly,
greater unter- couple of British gris Another of our girls married prises inve been started on loss, when Sandro canella, hipping as Jak and i liner vezed
we went down in get a few tips minate," the sald.
nt on this Stately lanes lark Woburn Abbey.
A former musical comedy star herself, Jean Browne selects her girls us rarefully and pampers them as tenderly as any harem Arablan Nights
ke
wil
the
Did you know that the Duke of Bedford would never be whucking it up at Woburn but Johnny Russell for a certain belting down ta the seashore on a dirty night at Weymouth? of the A TRAVELLER
saidi
The extraordinary success of
"We chose our girls for such the Gaslight Club has surprised almost
everyone metoda, things as the quality
skin, their educational level aut perhaps. Durton Browne, the advertising
who their manner of speech," executive
Mrs Browne. founded the first Gunlight Club #Ko. in Chicage seven years But Browne's clubs are all bur on a cold psychological founda- tion-that even the most sold businessman has a yearning to "live dangerously" --- without Buffering any quences.
The Consu
CHESS
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London Keprem Service.
"We also select them for their vngage In 'team abilty
work.
Tension
It's a little like working in a submarlucit's fun, but there
were
Johnny, it secrus, was a com- mercial Traveller. They called merchant adventurers in the 10th cen- his day back in tury, but they spun pretty much the sam, kindur sales-talk ne the detergent-deodorant bushers of 1981,
But Jolumny had a gimmick, He alone of the South see, Coast representatives could pu
ut
- a lot of tension and nervos-over his patter in Spanish.
so the girls have to he able to get along well together."
Airs Brozen also kra the girls to be from five to ten pounds ortocight. "They look
better and it's THOT accurate Li torically,"
their ensties,
Di-playing a rare combination of taste, intelligence and show manshh. Mrs Browne had cos Lannes designed for the girls that resemble beautiful turn-of-the- century ball gowns "with the tuttugis cut off."
Th
That would be burlesquing the period."
EDEL
in
So, when young Phil, pon King Philip II of Spain, got shipwrecked at Weymouth his way to see Henry Vit
the enly local who London, could tell him where to dry off was Jan Russell's boy, Johnny.
A real smart operator. In no thne at all, Johnny had packed his samples dod was doing his Spanish act at Court, where, in the fullness of the yours, he be- Minister of State, first Earl of Belford, and the owne
the of Weburn Abbey under
und testament of inst will
came
nry Vit.
1:0
C
abbat
and GEORGE
We get a
go sight-seeing at Woburn
શાળાને પા
...I said, take your 'at off!'
The John,
fourth Duke,
ordered 24 of
On Canalettos and so was chle
tip or two on this Stately Homes lark
get the wholesale.
AN EMU....?
:
A
London Frprets Service.
another Candelabra, cherubs on the these chandeller, console tables, a to gun-carriage for the wine, nifty nudes supporting the French clock, a marble fireplace, ред Brownes have been
Henry, it appears, had plenty
enek china, tapestry screens, a qually fastidious about their of cubeys to spare at the time,
dozen red leather chairs. "We have tried to avoid and Weburn had been reckon-
Savennerle carpel in old rose. moking the cra look ridiculous,"
more than
will and Ascp's Fables in das relief Feeding arrangements Mrs Browne pointed out.
"For cd
the doors you
will when the village scive thanseives. If your guests above do not derelict dump after the example, our walters
had been hanged on on cak doesn't have to wait for ship- come in one of the lesser break- for instance,
of truffles and naturally take in your stride, handeBar wear
moustaches.
for wrecked sailors at Weymouth. fust rooms.
doctor wants to borrow a man- grow tired Benind him, tree outside the front door
William Lord darin duck, when a film em sausage-and-mash, you can al- No problems here.
But the curtains in scarlet one of ways siep cutside and get your silk brocade can be rather try- speaking disrespectfully of Anne His line is selling history to the
British and teaching it to the Russell was consoling his weep- pany wishes to tether
parking sell an emu or a wallaby Americans.
Ing family before being behead your prize cows to a Boleyn-in English.
ing. The drapes in the Woburn More than 2,000,000 of the ed on recount of talking of meter In London, and when the the estate.
been to But you will need about dining-room haven't peasantry have wandered round turn in 1683. A historic picture, Russian Government offers
for £10,000-worth of silverware tnore than a hundred years, and acres of Woburn's really for William of Orange swap a European bison bull
replacing. some of your Pere David deer. for the 12-legged, 181, table in already they the 3,000
so tar ja you The fowest tender his
gold. When Major Hargreaves also offered white and stately pleasance since 1986-al rubbed Bill's canviction tidied up the leaf-a-crown a time, house extra. years later and promoted
the kind want the mustart, dan't just £5,000. With parachutists
Earl to Arst valuable advice on Jumping Dad from fifth also about all over the place and with Duke.
of dining-room you should run grab-ask Enert, the buller or
However, there is wear, and named John, may or may The present incumbent,
If your dining- Ene of the liveried Italian fool tear in every trade. All you use to not portable radio receivers picking Not much
Bill of to--especially
one men to pop down and get it.
have the painting lends room happens to overlook
to do in the face of speak Spanish, but he certainly to recorded commentaries on the ecurse, bui
Reaching recklessly across the Stately Home depreciation is Becumulated treasures, they are an
background to of your 24 lakes.
Probably For Hargreaves.
start,
is not only to flog a Canaletto, need -topped table You hoping for at 1:ast 10,000 alght- Major:
build a seeing serfs,
stops him falking out of turn,
£1,000,000-worth of pictures of bad manners but also a positive new wing on the Chinese Dairy, Venetian water-works by
the a danger to men of the or put up the price of Pela' who have Corner, painter
called Besic rdshire Militia, and decorator
The Browncs have conducted intensive searches to
collect HIS LINE
genuine antiques, paintings, and
Five parts and 13 dukes later, chandeliers of the ега. The result is a nostalgle recreation of they've put Johnny's picture m ather time that permits New the passage (chap called Holbein
few painted it) and
abbey no end.
Yorkers to forget, for ú hour, the 20th century that
on the other side of the heavy Wooden door.
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The Duke had nipped out to too. San Francisco when we called, Busy man, but not too busy but a detribalised Comptroller to give Jak a tip or two on the Canaletto. "Blimey-all done by been standing in storling silver from New Zealand, Major Edgar Stately Homes business. We 'and," said a well-known visitor next to the ducal sall-cellars Hargreaves, made us most wel- now know exactly what to du, recently.
London.
You cannot chop your
mother up in Massa- chusetts, as the song runs, and for your fur- ther information neither can you hock a tiger | skin in Newington Butts. This is a very fair Uger skin I have. It is longer than Prince Philip's, measuring 108, · from the ip of its plastic tongue to the end of its alightly moulting 、. Init.
I could not interest n single pawnbroker In it. } tried New Oxford- Leather-lane,
irect, Chelsea, and Newing ton Butts at the Elephant and Castle.
Memories
*Thwack!" went the door of the pledge office in the Butts. I hadn't heard that characteristic sound since I pawned my type, writer for her, whoever the was in Aberdeen in 1951,
since 1702.
necd
up
GEORGE WHITING
-{London Express Service),
PETER CHAMBERS
EFFERVESCENT AND AS FRESH AS THE WEEK-END
Pawnbrokers
pay out on tiger skins
10 feet long!
never
phone, bird-in-a-cage, briefcase, crash helmet....
He turned to his assistant: "What was that you took, Jor, the other day?"
Baroness Stoeckel, tireless "Oh, yes, the electria kettle," chronicler of the life and hard sold Joe. "A woman brought in times of Russia's expatriate an electric kettle and after she nobility was reminiscing to ma left I found was full of about Sulton's
Can you beat "I remember cooked macaroni. the Grand Dunchess Marie of macaroni." Russia pawning her necklace Not by any means does ong there. It was done in a private pawnbroker give you as good i room, of course,
deal as any other,
Ofer for to
my suit varied For an one's Jewellery became between £3 and £8.
for electric razor which cost me 28 CA social event
dollars (10) In New York, the
"But meeting at Sulton's
pawn
quite
Jussians."
Mr A. Clabbom, of Atten- best offer was £3 10s.
One tough old bled shook his borough, recalled la early days as a pawnbroker in Ken- allvery locks and said the razor ↑ penny over give you three quid for your the 1900 Act. allows
pawn- nington, South London: That'e wasn't worth
to £1 3s, to him. brokers to dispose of unredeem- when the apprentices used
I saw exactly the same razor What did be think I was ed goods ofler six monti, sleep under the counter, and a
second-hand at £s 10s.
sult."
was the night of the OL dance, remember, darling? And after all the money I spent on hoing to do--take off my sult instead of 12 months, which cuts working man's wife might come in his window afterwards, priced you, you went off with a red and walk out of the shop like their siorige overheads. haired Scottish schoolmaster in a Mau-Mau in the tiger skin?
lls car.)
"I've brought this tiger skin,"
1 anid to the dear old "uncle" The dear behind the counter.
Troubles
Pawnbrokers, until
recently,
in three days in a row to pown things.
"Monday it would be his best boots, Tuesday his Sunday suit Wednesday the blankets. Friday night she'd back and redeem thy lol."
Brighter
I talked to
Lord Mesion, en
¿
No change
Then como
Timing
On the other hand, come fellows manage to put 1_over the
pawnbroker. Mr Bryco
McNab,
with
a film-writer, told me some relish how ho managed to zoekt a broken watch temporary need of
That figure is now down pawnbrokers, But the fact is them the partitioned privacy is one minute you rapped It
The waich ran exactly for Tai, tals, it's shocking hard" sald McNab, the whole thing won a question of timing."
old uncle, like all pawnbrokers were going out of business at barrister and author of an out- affects silvery hair. He ignored the rate of one a week. In pros- of-the-way litle volume called me. From another customer lo. took in a blanket and an alarm Pero Britain they never had it "The Law of Moneylenders," who steered the Pawnbrokers to bad.
don't for a Indy offices clock.
Pawnbrokera' Five thousand pop-shops Art through the Lords, ige skin," I "About this
flourished in Britain at the He sail: "Perhaps thing change a bit. The paint is still the cash.
and in most of little for cocos-brown, of the First World have brightened a "Ten bob on the clock," aald beginning
pound on uncle.
the Wor
to around 800.
they are not liable to do well upheld. Djankut."
The decline has been stemmed in on era of full employment," to be seen docking Pawnbrokers in Britalo are in
Lord Meston confessed he hauch One uncle, unusually deplining byalco. But to some extent by the Pann
No such success attended my Act 1900, which nevar pawned anything in his municative, read me a amplo nothing in so marked as the way brokers.
clrsrgo fe. But, of course, some payn- list from his register of pledger own tour of the pawphops. they duoline to take any interest allowed pawnbrokem to
For about one thing all the a higher rate of interest (25 por brokers count the aristocracy "Electric Aro, cricket bat, tape- in ger skitin,
rowerding recorder, cuckoo-clock. type old "uncles" greed. They cont per annum) on the afore among their most
customers. A high-chin pawn writer, bed-jacket, wedding ring, refused to we left holding that expensive pledges.
A £10 leah brings in 48, 22. broker. specialising in the are barrister's wid.20 hoxes of tiger!
---(Bondon Exprese Ketvica), · query boards, micromalar, zaXO- month More Important, trade, 16 Button's of Victoria.
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My hopes gowa in one pawa- shop when the man stared for emme seconde apybrently at the qw, and then" ismarked: "1'
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