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400 HARD-UP MEN
TELL
WHY
for all the rest.
TN públic houses, in amusement dogs and prefer betting to drinking: type, who gamble places, in trains and buses, the unhappy and over countless cups of ten desperately and mostly foot the bill in back-street cafes, a professor. has been finding out what people do with their time and money at the end of a day's work.
Professor F. Zweig, a Polish economist, in his book "Labour,
THAT one in every three adult
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werkers go in for football pools regularly; average stamble 38. a werk. "No one in the family likely go short by reason of ..I do not thinks it would be pools, fair or possible to deprive working men of their interest and pleasure
Life and Poverty" (Gollancz In pools. They are extremely fond 7/8), says that among the of them." things he discovered were I----
THAT two out of three of the
workers he interviewed allow ben selves 30s, pocket money out of a
Out average £5 a week wage. this they spend 35 to 4s, on faces,
on foxxl cul, 10 10 to 125, cigarettes, the rest on clothes and
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THAT they are not politically minded. They say: "Politics are a tricky business and a dirty
no sense in discussing url there them." They prefer to read about pool and racing forecasts all results,
amusements, including beer, Regu THAT money counts very little.
lur drinkers or racegoers, among the -When asked about their income,
100 he questioned, spel 50 per they give the amount of their cent of their wages on themselves, wages-much higher than before the "But it THAT poverly among those in full woe-tavariably cling:
of beer, employment is caused by drinking. means the same amount
smelen and food.... betting, and smoking.
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THẬT regular riser Haru F week, or 40 per cent. of incorne; semi-regulars, 165. to 253; week. enders, 10s, to £1. He gives this Warning to Teetotallers: "I came who, across a man
after being a teetotaller for 25 years, became a regular with ten pints at midday and 15 pints at night after joining a club in which they used to drink
ccasionally."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1948.
Trousers to be narrower
T is no easy thing to find a dozen suitable meri willing
to do a mannequin march across a ballroom floor while a commentator describes in detail
-in
three three acts
the finer points of the clothes Grosvenor House ballroom for the the clothes. they are wearing.
The National Federation of Merchant Tailors in Britain found a way out. They spon- sored a playwithout stars but with FEATURED SUITS.
preview.
The show went on... There were
But the play, had la moments... sartorially speaking.
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TWELVE NAMED ACTORS doing the honours, but the play's real The man-played by Sir heroes were the three ANONYMOUS Dryden-who went to the Manches- Qre bandstand- ter races in the afternoon (Scene I.) DRESSERS behind (serving as a stage), who rushed turned up the sam Evening for len of them into 20 costume changes
dressed in dinner (Scene brightest-ever HUNTING - PINK TAILS. His host and another guest Three rown of V.I.P. (the Mayor in half an hour.
at the same Informal Sussex house- meal word HIGHLAND party EVENING DRESS (ancient and modern).
of Westminster wearing his badge There were no intricacies of plot of offee with his impeccably tailored or brightness of dialogue to distract morning talla), and 500, menswear the attention of the audience from makers, buyers, and sellers, sut
STAGE SHOPWINDOW: Two Double-beasted Dinner Suits are talking, wille Claudo Tails (back, centre) looks across st:Highland (naw-style) Evening Dress and anclent dllto-a few of the 28 changes of dres
Wines Talk, Says Expert
1. Wine should not be agitated, TF some of your favourite vintage
French wine should talk back because it needs to rest and gather THAT most workers believe in to you as the middle of the night, strength. God, but scarcely any go to church, don't be upset. It's alive.
in personal! Many proy intensely
They dislike preachlug, rives. moralising and edification,
That's straight from the shoulder nt Henri Couvreur, 22-year-old Parisian who should know all about such things. M. Couvreur is a wine What does all the add up to? taster. and plans to make it his life
work. Professor Zweig says:---
and disillusion- The restlessnces ment of man in the postwar work the ind expression In the ditions in all exclting which, instead of giving and to his restlessness. cigarette buyers smoke mements of self-forgetfulness, but around 20 a day, whatever their leave a vok.
THAT
of
the
2.
Wine bottles should be turn- ed on their sides so that the wine touches the cork Wine "breathes" through the cork.
3.
Wine must never be heated, but must be kept cool and quiet
4. The oldest wine is not always
5. The quality of wine is also based on the length of time it is vats before allowed to remain in you it is bottled.
us be "It
The true skill of any wine taster,
added, comes In deter Couvreur mining whether wine is ready for bottling.
There was another young 2015121 who caine oa in a tail-sult, look one drink, then went offstage to reappear in a few moments wearing a black,SMOKING JACKET with magenta lapels.
There WIN no manly-tweedy here or top-laited villain-probably the tallors decided that good clothes need a sterling character-but one player was described as "a guest who does not Bt in." That was not at all surprising. In the middle of Scene II, he fell into a fountain and rulaed hla Glensheek Saxony tutterflychasing outfii.
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Not an overcont was donned without a dialogue build-up to the event something like this:---
HE (ensually glancing. i the ginger tweed raglan draping the chnir): "I don't think I'll wear my cont. I'm not cold."
SHE (turning him so that his back thus is to the audience, who will get an all-round view): "Of course you must. Why have a good coat and not use it?"
The action (7) of the play took the Garden place in England (in Room) in November. But one of the hardler males came down to breakfast in white flannels and blue jacket, and the french windows were kept open the whole time... ( fear the New Yoric audiences the play Roes there for a week-will get an odd idea of our stately homes.)
On a four of the United States,
dark-hairel, smooth-featured the best, boom con- Frenchunan gave out a few startling recreation, points about wines, Including satisfuction, fact that wines "breathe."
They give
living thing, "Wine Is 11
Couvreur observed know,"
glass of Bordeaux. must be treated as if it were alive." That attitude, he explained, is one Tenson the French people have won International acclaim for the delicate THAT one
Ive In every
flavour they get into their beverages interviewed
dog-racing attend meetings the whole year round.
Although Couvreur has only been They are the professionals,
at his work four years, his family
French make a living if they have "inalle
wines makes this has produced Finally, the author Information." the semi-profession-
So, even though he is fasters go down to the vats in the from er confession: "Personally, I un con-generations. bowkers, als-small shopkeepers, vendors who "ry to make extra vinced that in their circumstances a beginner, Henri feels qualified to
should behave in a similar way." lay down a few points money for their businesses," usually
never average wine-drinker without success: the sporing type,
-Gordon Sewell (dered: who average twice a week at the
income. Why don't more people The need for excitement ortses sipped a make their own cigarettes? Because from a spirituni vok. There is no this is regarded 13 # **sign
overruling purpose in life, no 'ereed, poverty."
o order of values.
But, warns the professor, recre-
of are the last refuge
the and freedom of modern man, Cost who therefore should be kept free from
regimentation.
men
then are:
for
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The SARTORIAL FOOTNOTE:
"yeers season's trend in menswear towards pre-1014-with the entirely modern drape, jackets will be longer and have a skirted effect. Trousers will be narrower and a direct con- But it's really very simple. trast to the prewar Oxford bags. In you need is a co-operative wine-some instances there is a, return to the cuffed sleeves and japelled one that will answer you, he ex- plained.
waistcoats in vogue 30 years ago."-
find Jul "Every*
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not
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the
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"They taste "trend" from the stage collar," Couvreur said, that the the wine in every vat. Then, they visible to the naked eye.
pon- ask the wine, 'How old are you?
Are you ready to be bottled?b
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