BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
HARPIST who got her swollen thunni stück be- tween the wires can count her- solf lucky that it was not her
nose.
I knew a long-nosed, short- Fizhted harpist who, peering too closely at the gilded wires, got cought like "a mouse in a trap.
One of the orchestra pushed the gove back with his clarinet, but he pushed, too hard, and sho tell over backwards.
The conductor raised ber gent-
ly and resented her, but so far from the harp that she couldn't rench d
That will keep her out of mischlef for a while," he mur-
mured.
The audience, thinking it was all part of the performance, #D- plauded with Embarrassing energy.
An amazing discovery
DR STRABISMUS (Whom God
Preserve) of Utrecht har discovered a new alloy for use In atomic power statione.
Its foundation in the base metal (so base that one hesitates to mention R in mixed company)
ngs.
It is mixed with galgene, zanxite, and murdle valpose In unequal parts, It is highly porous, and shrinks when ex- posed to the nir.
When Atted to a Denzil draft tube il reduces the velocity of The quidé vanes to approximately N., and steadies the Ramsden wheel buckets on the periphery of the fall-ofT coupling-lutch. This should revolutionise the whole theory of double-nozzle shaftend permutators,
Keep calm
THE CHINA MAILU SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1961,
JACKY'S DIARYS
THIS WEEK IN SCHOOL WE
Learnt all About A man CALLED Paul REVECR.
NOT REAL buta Sta- CHEWI
OH.
BOY.
Wow, Gos
TACN AE LECPED ON his TRUSTY STEEd WHO TURNED OUT TO BE A HORSE, & WENT TO WARM THE PEEPLES
the RED SKINS ARE coming.
officers have discovered, scrawled on a rocket war-head, the tell-tale words: Georgo Loves Gertie.
" is to be hoped," sald Minister, in answer to a question
THE frogman who scratched in the House, "that this harmless
his initials on the Polaris depui shio Brems to have started & fashion. Security
romanticism will not be made
an excuse for riational hysteria."
~(London Express Service).
Infect Coffer Instanth
Chase & Sanborn
INSTANT COFFEE
Chase and Sanborn
ckshULLY
he WAS REALLY SILVER Smith, ONLY THE NAME
HAVE Been CHANGED To
S
PROTECK THE INNERCENT!
Look
out, HELEN!
Paris.
"PARIS," the late
Ernest Heming-
way was fond of saying, "doesn't interest me any more. It's not the Paris I wrote about."
Maybe not, but surprisingly like it.
SAM WHITE
OLIVER SUMIEN •DAY LE FOUNGGUP
BRITISH SOLVERS WERE COMING Start A War on the AMERICAN
AB
SHOUL
ACCORDIAN TO I WERE COMING BY LAnd BY SCAT
©1961, King Fextures Syndicate, Inc. World rightą prezryed...
DE SALLUPED OVER Helen
DALE Shout
ING & WAR- ning to THE
PeepLE.
So That's HOW THE BRITISH SOLJERS got Bent THE AMERICANS WON FREEDOM FOR THEIR-... SelfS & THEIR ANCESTERS,
ouch
7-2
aLLA that Yelling WENT & Woke Up The Minit MEN.
[YOU MED
GOES ON A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
Hemingway's haunts have changed-but they're still fun.
Propelled by garlle funies, I that Jimmy's had closed three splendid night club, The Samba, sauntered gently UCTOSA the years ago. Two great land- with the best Negro band In It is still road to the Dome for colles. marks of the twenties were still Paris.
in evidence College Inn, which The place seemed full of Is now a flashy night chib, and a prelude to my young Hemingways and aged The Jockeys, that remarkable Let us as
ccrclerges. guide to annual
Paris Paris
five-yard Journey to the Coupole, nothing curio which still survives on a by White, you will-take changed here. Terrace crowded of mums and dads down from clientele composed exclusively locit AL what happened to food looked nourishing, a pleus
the farm for a mild splurge in the Hemingway country cn ant sprinkling of friends.
Paris. the slopes of Montparnasse.
After getting the news of his death I paid a sentimental pil grinusge tu seme of his old haunts.
Then
Then the hazardous crossing to the Select opposite. The most charming waiters in Paris---I know a man who kept alive for three months on their subsidies and the most uncharming customers. The inevitable
I dined at La Pallete on the sprinkling of rich young Ameri- Boulevard Montparnasse, 0 charming brasserie, greally cons playing at being poor. The favoured by legal tradespeople, place is as rowdy and as self- which borsts the best Boulla- conscious as ever. baisse in Paris. 1 checked the A stroll around various sidl- claim and found it true,
streets to realise, with a pang.
Negro band
BANG
THE END
Summer Guide to Paris
bring your trade union card about going to a place where with you,
you both eat and dance. Then back to base in St Ger-
A hectic bar opposite called main-des-Prus, a quiet fashion the Nunge, has taken sorne
There is excellent La Cabana of in the Latin Quarter where the
different able residential area in Herning the strain off Le Village across food
but the way's day, now the playground in dollelous snobbery--a club guests so pretty they are almost the road, and is the latest thing clientele is amusing and women for successful bohemians, unlike for Left Wing Intellectuals. Go edible. Montparnasse which is largely there the food is good and SU reserved for the struggling ones, is the bar-and announce your- There is the Opheon in St self as an English member of German-des-Pres where the food Here astonishing things have that exclusive fraternity. Don't is said to be Mexican. There is ixen happening. A once quiet mention my name. I am barred, also Nancy Holloway's favoured side street culled the Ruc
by Negro musicians and Le Club Bernard-Fallssy, has suddenly
tes Peintres in Montmartre become the quarter's nerve cen-
which in run by the husband of tre.
the famous strip-teaser Rita Cadillac.
J
Amusing
Jestling these are the smarter grocer's shop entrance, and we lazes the Eppi with its green-
Elephant Blane. A stroll down There are four or five ren- If anything has happened In the Due de Ronnes, bitherto a taurants, including the late- Paris in recent years--people ne-man's-land between Mont- night cupper place Les Peilis are getting less solemn about parnasse and St Germain-des- Paves, which has a 10 per cent food. The result is, that you Prex but now brightened by a discount for Intellectuals so need have no feeling of shame
VINO ITALIA
"Davidson sends down a Chineman~Subba Row plays ir to silly mid-off, through the covers to the boundary for four,
but the umpire has signalled 'No' ball, etc, etc.
The Aquivat, a Scandinavian restaurant in the neart of St German-des-Pres has a night club underneath and a proprie- tor.. Jean-Cigud Marie, who is the most talented comedian lu Paris.
The bars
We now get down to the serious problem of bars, · There · are the classics lite the flitz and Crillon And Homingway's cid favourite Harry's Now Bar which for some reason - Sartre and Simone da Eteauvoir, liave taken to re- quenting.
York
Here are some speclared bars; for motorisia, the splendid. ly appointed Autó Club on the Avenue d'ionns; for jazz fana' the Cameleon on the Rue St Andre des Arts; for golfers, Tarteis on the Bue Lord Byron.
For racing meo, The Forum en the Boulevard Malsherben Did Fouquets on the Champa Elysees; for late night/drinkers, The l'Etable near the Odcòn (n kind of St Tropez in Paris) and the Calvados, of the Champs Elysees (a kind of Cannes),
Now here comes tip for which hopo Parla, will forgive me. I give you 11 first-clas bistros which will be open in Paris In August when everything eleo is shut Aur Ducs de Dour- Kugne, Place · Danvers, L'Enclos de Ninon, 21 Boulevard Beaumarchala Chez Lea Anger Boulevard de la Tour- Maubourg: 82 Longchamp of that address; O'Cabanon,- 30 Pinco do Ta Marche, Saint Honore; La Grand. Cixingole, 4 Rue Plate-Lescot - Ifalies, the best bistro in Paris: Ches Pierro, 16 Rife das Petits Champs: La Paysan, 27 Ruo de Tournon: Le Bangiler Bleu, 102 Boulevard de Clichy: Chex Fraticolae at the | Air Terminal in Paris. La Mere Catherine. 8 Rue da Norving on the top of Montmartre, has a
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