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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1947.
No place for riff-raff
By JOHN YEOMANS
KEEP thinking I started to learn some- thing about the English mind the week of the Bakel-Woodcock fight.
Before Mr Jóo Bakel, a forthright young Czech-American, took the liberty of breaking Mr Bruco Woodcock's jaw, I went to a Fleet Street newspaper library to find out how old Wood- cock was. Who's who gave four Woodcocks who had shouldered their way into the "dizzy glare of fame--a stockbroker, a retired judge who' grows lilles, an ex-general of the Homo Guard and the headmaster of the Ashby-de-la- Zouch Grammar School in Leicestershire. Among the unmentioned were Woodcock, the heavyweight boxing, champion of Britain-and-Joe Louis-, presumably the most successful fighter who ever lived,
This seemed to me to be a fairly ethereni valuation of who is really who. I murmured something about it to the young Cockney library clerk. He slammed me back in my place.
"Ho," he sniffed, glaring through his spec- tacles.. "You won't And no boxers in Who's Who, That book's for lords and suchlike-not riff-raff."
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I WAS still subdued the next week-end when we went to gawk at Hampton Court Palace, a vast turreted jigsaw of bricks and beautiful stone- - work.
Cardinal Wolsey rounded up a few thousand workmen to build him, the palace in 1515. He lived there with 500 aides and servants to look after him; for his guests he kept 280 rooms empty and ready.
Outside the kitchens we found
a stone-floored corridor, dark and cold, up which used to run the ser- vanta carrying the king's food. In the darkest part of the corridor we saw a door open and a figure stalk ફાર્મ,
When it reached the daylight of a deep-set window, it turned out
to be a tall, old woman of 80 with
a black velvet band round her neck.
'HERE COME THE Wo look again at the door she had
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opened and saw a dim plate beside it reading "Lady X
"Who's she?" I asked the guide,
"Er?" he said. "She's one of the ladies living 'ere in the palace, There's one thousand rooms in this palace given to old ladies to live in."
THE PRICE OF FOOD
THE COLLECTOR
OF UNCONSIDERED
FAC-ENDS
THE YOUTHFUL GENDARMES
THE QUALITY OF THE COFFEE'
THE SAME GOOD OLD
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A SKETCHBOOK IN PARIS
(Copyright in all Countries)
Paris continues to delight,
though the franc runs amuck
money.
•
liko Attractions
the RODDED
by the
The gathering included the big
Aga lavish stage shows, its superb food traditional
Folies Bergere and the Bal Tabarin fushion
Paris Chan, the Maharance of Hyderabad, and its apparent galety. houses,
de Dozens of nouveau riche black
which continue to provide the best society (of what is left. Miss Paulelle Goddard, Baron
Rothschild, and a host of French marketeers have sought safe in-
spectacles and music-hall perform- of it) has been busy in trying flm stars, some of whom pald as vestments for their fortunes in
nnces in Paris. to revive the ancient splen- much as £100 for dinner and a box. Anancing new night clubs.
the Some of
traditional Paris
Night Club dours of the prewar Paris sen
Corner: The three have, however, smartest night clubs in Paris are the son.
pleasure haunts
considerably. Monipar- changed nasse bas lost ita artists, who have Club de Champs Elysees, where a Germain British accent is as good as a mem- moved down into the St de Pres area. Famous cafes like bership card; the Drap D'or, also the Dome and the Coupole, which off the Champs Elysets, where you before the war bulged with
drink_champagne out of gold goblets Bohemia, are now semi-deserted, and the prices suggest that the and patronised only by respectable management. is insuring Itscif families, with their against possible theft; and the Mon- middle-class children and dogs.
seigneur, In 'Montmartre, with A mild night club boom, however; horde of perambulating violists,
prea. Night has restarted in the
clubs like Distinguished house hunters.-The Jiminy's just De Gaulles (General, and his wife) are fat hunting in Paris but are faced with a more than usually vard Mont dimeult
problem. A benevolent parnasse, with French Government refuses to per what must sure mit them to rent a flat sinless it niso provides accommodation for the per- manent police guard which the au- thorities insist on his having.
President Auriol entered the ball- room to the strains of the Marsell laise and was promptly offered a Beginning with the Prix de programme, which conl £2 10s. Diane, the Franch Ascot-which cooy. The President rummaged HINKING of the countless
wallet, and then con- T
was ruined by a strike of through his
that he did not have the bombed-out workmen's families stable boys-the season stalk- fessed, living with their relations in jam- packed London tenements, I muttered with magnificent disdain that are through every obstacle ed "It's hard to believe there hundreds of people hidden away weather und current discon- MEANWHILE the franc continues tents could place before it. The
finale came ""Undreds?"
last guide.triumphal said the "There's only apartments 'ere for week with revival of Atty old ladies. Widows of generals and big civil servants, they are. The Prewar charity ball, "Le
des Petits Lits Blanes." King gives them the apartments
their rent-free because
husbands did gond service, see?"
here."
"But that works out an average of 20 rooms for each widow," I said, floundering.
"That's right," sald the guide. Soms have big apartments with 30 Some have little apartments with only 12′′rooms."
rooms.
"But how can they afford to keep all those rooms going if they're hard- up widows of generals-?"
Bal
is runaway course. The cost of living hos increased by over a hundred percent in the past the year, and a now
introduced which Budget has been will increase it by yet another twenty percent.
By SAM WHITE off the Boule-
to
Now, everybody who is any body is going off to Deauville,
It seems unnecessary to look for ly be one of the finest Cuban bands leaving Paris empty-to use sinister pilots as an explanation for in the world, are now fashionable the quaint prewar phrase, the present wave of strikes. When enough for visiting film stars Empty, that is, except for four the price of a pocket handkerchief patronisė.
nothing of a good meal-l almost equal to half n workman's million Parisians sweltering in to say
weekly wage, it is a mystery how midsummer heat.
ordinary people have borne hardships for so long.
THE Ball of the Little White Beds was a charity affair in aid of children's hospitals. coat it was attended by about 7,000 each for guests who paid £6 admission.
The guide buttoned up his and made himself clear once and for ali.
How on earth do workers
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Book of the Month-The Pest, by Won the French the Boulevard St Germain the Albert Camus. IN
Critics' Prize without any member Alsatian famous
restaurant
having their Ling is enjoying-a-revival after a of the selection committze
civil servants earning between £14 and £20 a month manage vive In this Inflationary jungle?
The
of
C
postwar slump due to its popularity read it." and with German officers.
The book was published only Jean Pat Sartre, the founder
the prize. was awarded; but the critics voted for glezur- the new French philosophy of exis- few hours before
tentialism (lacidentally, he is giving Camus on liis reputation for a pre-
in to the Jewish terrorists nation-wide support to the Jewi
vious book, The Outsider. has moved from tho Cafe
Boulevard SL The Pest deals with an outbreak
"Addling," by every adult or near. Palestre in the
answer is by ndul member of the family being "Them rooms are rent free," he
It took place in the floodlit Opera, set to doing some kind of work to Germain, and established his head of cholera in Oran but is actually a said, "but the ludies have to pay in the presence of the
President, for their furniture and entertaining with
Re- scarlet-coated Gardes and their servants' wages and allpublicaines lining the staircase, and the rest of it. What I mean 15 with many beautiful women, beau you got to have money to live
tifully dressed. But profitable as it these apartments."
undoubtedly was, the, whole affair seemed stale and fat.
I Bnally understood.
No riff-raff.
in
to
on
bar of the Hotel, philosophical treatment of the effects or quarters In the supplement the family income; by a break-up of the family so that Pont Royal-quite one of the best of the German occupation
scattered and, most expensive bars in Parle. France.
patronage, As a result of Sartre's children and parents are
is now the'
Play of the Month-Sill:drawing the bar
fashionable
crowds in Paris is throughout France cach trying
centre for successful Left Bank in the biggest subsist independently.
"L'immacule," by. Phillpe Herrlot- tellectuals.
pretentious dramatic Montmartre is as shady, shoddy, a clumsy,
the treatment of artificial insemination. and garlah as ever except for
"Out of tune with the Umes," PARIS continues to delight tourists
seems to be the verdict on it,"
especially from Britain-by Its
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
was so
and
then
THE raising of the school simultaneously, in preparation for from a neighbouring table, "Horse- THE
The thief!" The Indy
startled leaving age, cleverly timed Trivett's double-fisted attack.
im that she dropped her reticule to coincide with a growing impact of their fists made no
pression on him, but when one of ran. The loud-volced man shortage of teachers, textbooks them hit him on the nose, he shout- told the walter that he would con- and buildings, has also coincided with
mean "to avoid waste." ed with a grumbling campaign he is vulnerable sets that sent to eat the abandoned delicacy,
knocked out two men almu- while, about the illiteracy of enormous taneously one with his left, and Getting things done sections of the population.
thought
This
one with his right. It is
A man who went into a xpent that Trivett's tactics will be to run HAVING summoned the factory
tele-
workers by a private invitation
End restaurant and had an expen to the back of his opponent at once, sive meal asked if he might sign the bill. As his table had been order and laah into the small of his back. card ("dancing and refreshments"). too the managing director of a firm in- Tremendo will probably turn ed by a secretary over the
nttack. What vited each man and woman present. phane, and the name was the Mar- slowly to meet this
will happen if Tremendo starts the to All up a form, saying whether he
or she approved or
or disapproved of uls do Tintamarre-Hachignolles, his request was granted. He then fight with his back to Trivett, and or
thus counters Stan's favourite the appointment of a new works decision. the made his thumbmark on the bill.
manager. Pending manoeuvre?
weeks glyen two. workers will be He turned out to be a certain Fred
hollday, at the end of which time, Tuddler, compulsorily educated.
a London restaurant, so smart if they signify their disapproval of Trivett v. Tremendo
appointment, the holiday that it hurts, a lady was shovel the new
into a candidate of whom they approve volco shouted has been discovered.
Scene in restaurant
T
LAST day but one of training, ling the remains of a bit of hashed will be continued Indefinitely, until
Tremendo 'requested two spar pigeon ("Poulet de Bresse") ring partners to hit him in the belly her reticule, when
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