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JEANNE CRAIN
LINDA DARNELL
ANN SOTHERN
in
"A LETTER TO THREE WIVES"
SHOWING
TODAY
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MAJESTIC 7.20 & 9.30
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Philip N. Krasno presents
THE CISCO KID
thVALIANT HOMBRE
alarding
Duncan Renaldo
as C300
Leo Carrillo
as Pancho
Directed by Wallace Fux •ftalessed two Uniffad Artists ',
P.M.
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1949.
"Staff-considering that we have just saved the country from financial ruin,
do you think Clem, would mind if we stayed in an hotel tonight?”.
London Express Servico
WHAT'S ALL THIS
CRAZE FOR SPEED ?
16
men plan the new night life
REVOLUTION
is go-
ing on after dark in,
London's West End. It
has been
the
caused by Government decision to be sold
allow drinka to until 2.30 a.m. That decision has killed the bottle party.
by MARK QUIN
Colony;, and party.
This month
the move
Man with no plana Iz comedian AL BURNETT,, aged
37.
He started the Nuthouse, sinco clord, now rung the Stork. H says. "London's Night Life has had it. The the Astor boitio naw order means closing mid- night Saturday and nil day Sunday, while the 5s, meat limit Act the and the Catering Wages But the men who run the Nightingale's old premises and combine to kill new business." night resorts of the West run it there until the Govern Sixteen men are together End are getting ready to ment order kills it. Meantime spending
over £150,000 to compete for the after-dark carpenters are busy making a change the face of London night.
way between the Colony and life.
money.
are not very
they plan to Astor to
the new Astor premises. This
Who ure these men? There will allow two bands to switch Where is the money coming many of them playing between the two pre- from? Mostly it comes out of the less than 20, They have made misca. Later, the whole wall
profits they have made in the large sums since 1945, and they may be knocked down and re- post-war pleasure boom. But look, forward to making more. laurent and club will become some of it comes from their
Heading the list is the West the largest End's wine order boss, tough, place in Mayfair.
late-night eating men and women telende.
Eustace Hoey, is rich. Ho
impassive, implacable EUSTACE
HOEY. Hocy started his Soho
wino order business in 1938. gives generously to charity,
War came and he put uniform as a RAF AC2. ́ Job of running his wine stores fell to
Next on the list are brothers KARRY and BERTIE
FRIENDS
How will they get it back? On the surface, the OWNRTE divide into four groups, but sweet merchants in Bayswater terests are much more closely "It's a good business and wo
ex-wife Kay, who sky-rocketed MEADOWS. In 1938 they were beneath the surface their in-
sales in three years,
In 1943 Hocy got his release still have it" cays Harry. tied.
on medical Krounds, returned to Soho and found himself a ricil man. Fined *£60 for selling Hquor on unlicensed premises, he fought a test con
Now
EXPENSIVE
he
owns
an
Bob Barnett may have sold Stocco the Embassy, but he still holds Church's Meadows and Louis Scolt have interest. Harry und the heat lease of the La but Harry told me, "we're close bottle party, Dions wine stores no apparent interests together, through the courts and won. After the war he
Rue Club. Brother Berlic shares friends and you never know." teamed up
the Chesterteld Club with RICO
| with HARRY MORRIS, ex
greengrocer. ("I've still gol my shop in Putney.")
MOVING
Interests in Club,
་
the
told
name
PAJOU. Dajou started and left One other
Bagatelle and Soclete res Included-38-year-old
must be tauranın In turn.
SIEGIE. SESSLER, from Poland, Is the "I like night clubs," Harry best-dressed man
me under chuded night life. In November 1948 In Mayfair's "I shall he opened La
Rug. with Louis this month Scott, later slayed on lunch and dinner Scott
when sold out to Harry about three. Meadown.
Meadows Morris owns the Gloucester lights in Churchill's, Wine stores. He and Ilocy have close Churchill's
the Ward Room and make it a the Nightingale bottle club, membership party, the Studio Club; the guineas a year. This means tear- Landsdowne Restaurant, now Ing drapes off the walls and com- "Where did 1 learn the club being converted at a cost wear plying with all the LCC regula- business?
says Sespler. "Why. £15,000 and renamed
Blous
when I first came "It will cost £10,000, but I London I had a great friend to live in don't mind, I shall keep ten to from whom I learnt how net to fifteen thousand of my present run a club."
The answer's under
W
your bonnet
by BASIL CARDEW THO benefits most from a car race?
wooden type, Thay were The DRIVERS scrapped for metal, wire, and who revel in the exhilara disc wheels.
tion of a 100-miles-an-hour And within a few years dash? The SPECTATORS— wooden wheels had disappeared who crane over the rails to from the world's ronds. watch tiny bullets roaring In a pre-war Grand Prix the by in competition?
the
Italian ace Nuvolari and German Brauchitsch, driving escaped Both have their thrills and Auto-Union cars, both
when their plenty of them. But aşk your with their lives motor dealer or garago-man petrol tanks caught are. who benefits most, and he will say: "You do the answer's un- der your
bonnet, under your chassis, and in your wheels."
In a hard motor race, a car lives five years In as many
Alted
front
modern car;
or
PITS
tho
SHOCK ̈ ́ADSORDERS and known on the pioneer cars were
20,500 members.
I shall also
Sessler's mother
and faller
ncar Krakow,
keep the night club atmosphere and the shaded. lights.. I shall owned a farth Install sliding roofs for lunch trade in hot weather."
More Meadows money-about £16,000 is being .spent con- vering the Chesterfield Club into the new 21. This is duc to open soon as the most ex- clusive, and expensive lunch club in Mayfair.
NO MOVES
1s
Owner 'whose activities aru almost unaltered is oft, JOUN MILLS, who owns a cigarette factory in Brussels, the Milroy bottle party, Les Ambassadeure Club and the Bon Viveur Club, which he has just purchased jointly for £25,000. Milla away in Cannes, but host Erwin Schleyen at the Milroy says, "We're making no moves until the licence position is clear." Other reports алу Mills will move the Milroy to the promises of Les Ambassadeurs and com- bine them.
Mills has an associate named
"Ah, that was the best meat we've had since 1939 -pity we've got to sum- mons
we'ra you. enforcement officera!”
London Keroan Sorcion,
food
| FRANK-MORRIS,- proprietor of "Now-my-ambition-is to have-#-
a poultry business.
country club."
Other personalities in the fine- PONTE, brother-in-law,
first tried on racing cars. Motor aro CAPTAIN
Milis's
They were using "saddle" and mechanical brakes on the type tanks, gravity-fed,
REDESIGNING of steering,
He has done a big job with racing has changed the, make-up in front on the dashboard. The petrol, bursting from the tank, which is now geared high
up of tyres from the fabric base John
La Rue-most popular Mayfair splashed over the
iltles and drivers' low to suit the vehicle. knees.
cover, with a malleage of 477, to now spending £20,000 on his haunt for Royalty, IMPROVEMENT In spring the cord cover which carried Garter Club; ABE AROHNSON, stars alike. Early this year he From this near disaster came ing. In the old days they re- John Cobb over the Bonneville who has Californian interests; went to America and took 5,000 more than 400 cigar merchant BOB BARNETT, visiting cards. Now La Rue is hours--and gives away as many a change in every car blueprint: sembled the springs of a cart or Salt Flats at pram. Now there are many miles an hour.
and HARRY SADO, owner of a visling American's Brst port secrets. The door that rattics within a few years all
types of independent springing and
40 pubs and also who run the of call. on each wheel.
—(London' Express Service)
"400" closed after two or three years' use; petrol tanks disappeared,
for redecoration in their place came the the badly placed petrol pipe at the back of the car.
that do- that snaps; tre leak
A third example: in the velops in the water pump; the bonnet that won't shut tight; the Italian Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles) race this year the win- springs that give way, or the
ning Bealey car had all-British fan belf that works loose,. components. Previously some foreign-made spare parts had been used on this type of sports
All these stresses and weak- nesses that develop in the normal motorist's span with his car are pricipitated in the brief, intense moments of racing.
So when cars .streak round
car.
tank
Donald Icaley drove last Miglin and year in the Milic decided that the foreign com ponents were the weakness. So
the circuit at 100 miles an hour, they were scrapped. And this making a lot of noise, stripping year a British car won.
rubber off their tyres and rt-
viving their engines till they nearly blow up, they are work- ing for the man with a horse-power saloon.
Examples
ten-
TOW for 50 years, develop
Nment of motoring for the
public has followed the pro- gress made in motor racing.
Take these typical examples of the way the family car has been improved as the result of Grand Prix rac-
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Ing:-
Developments
racing rules of motor THE
been have repeatedly amended to ensure that useful rather than spectacular results could be achieved.
Limitations in weight and en- gine size have produced the blueprints of the private cars of today-light, healthy in miles to the gallon, and economical.
Experience in races has been the direct cause of the develop- ment of streamlining in cars. It has also produced
In four Grand Prix races on the Continent in the early 1920s, 20 cars crashed or had to re fre with broken wheels, Tho bicycle-lype brakes of the first wheels wero of the "artillery" cars to the effortless hydraulic
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TV Clapham Junction' is going up in the Alps
From MARK JOHNS, Milan
ATV "Clapham Junction now being built 11,000 ft. up int
and conversion to a day club at
Cost
STOCCO, former
01
La Rue and the Empress.Club
Their success is
of *£14,000; FAUSTI are the first of the New Look
director of night spots. Ciro's, who reputedly
unchallenged. £40,000 in an Irish Sweep. Stocco has now bought the
Won
W the custom warrant com..
numbers now.
Embassy, with Harry Sado, for petition between a final line-up of 16 dinner clubs and late £15,000 and is spending 220,-
restaurants? night
Experts DOD on it.
reckon that the 10,000 or so Then there are the REUBEN customers who did the rounds ́BROTHERS, Sid and Stan. They in 1038 are sadly depleted 1a.
own Ciro's Club, and Ciro'k Aviation, textile companies and underwear shops as well. They are spending over £10,000 on the redecoration ot Ciro's, which they reopen next month,
whose
not plans arc Man announced is car hire owner the MAX BETTY,
who owns the owned by Orchid Room.
the Alps will bring television to much of Europe in about two years. This will be a TV relay station similar to those Inking London and Birmingham,
The station on the Jungfrau Th's project was disclosed re- will
others at cently at the International Tele- connect with
vlston Convention by Dr W. Berne and Lugano, bridging
Gerber, chief engineer of miles of the Alps.
Swiss Post Omec.
Zurich
Beurael
SWITZERLAND
alausanne“
Ston
Domodossola
marks the TV spot.
the Gerry Marco.
of
OPTIMISTIC
Restaurateur
runs the
who
Ronay, fashionable Society, Dr Gero. in Jermyn
managed by Street, is optimistic about his
Eection
of the
NO PLANS
"Wo shall
To build and maintain
keep our ho says,. Jungfrau slat'on n network tunnels will be bored in solid
"because we aim at a specialised trade. Under the new law wo rock and through a glacier,
on even terms will begin Newcomer to These tunnels
the London shall compele where the world's highest rail-night life scene is West End pro with dinner clubs, lunch clubs. way ends. They will go another,perty buyer
SCOTT, hotels, and what have you, I half-mile up inside the moun-who set up La Rue and sold it think everything will be very
to Harry Meadows early this good for us." The entire TV equipment will year in a £100,000 dent.
Other restaurants are not so
talu.
LOUIS
Ilis
be inside the tunnels, protected main Interest is the Empress optimistic. They see themselver from the snow and ice, Parn- Club, which he bought lest sandwiched between the big bolle actials will be visible in November. Nine weeks ago ho hotels and the heavy spending
· 100ft,-square gaps which will opened the club's new Persian clubs with expensive new form "windows" in the moun- Room. tain side.
-(London Express Service)
By Ernie Bushmiliar
which under Leslle cabarots and other attractions.. Romain's direction, IN ΠΟΥ rivalling La Rue, in popularity,
SOAP THAT SPELLS
BEAUTY
---{London Express Service)
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