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PARIS HAS ALL

FUN WHILE IT

P

ARIS is preparing to

say it with cham-

IBY HENRY

pagne and flowers of wealthy gangster "Angel" Faced with, new Salecetti the other day-this was taxes, a rocketing cost of like something from a film.

As the "Angel" was being living, and, of course, the

driven home by his wife carly threat of

realistic war,

In the morning, a black saloon Parisians have decided to roared out from a side street in make the most of what the outskirts of Paris, and they feel might be the last sprayed his car with machine-

gun bullets, peacetime end-of-the-year festival.

Already, they point out, cost of living has jumped 17.5 percent within the last four months. Stenk is up 45 percent to 8 shillings a pound, butter up 20 percent of over 7 shillings and clothing has increased by half-a-crown in the £

So champagne is being sold by the magnum, nylons by the box, and all the big stores are reporting record gift business as Parisians buy to have fun while they can still afford it.

Export Scottish tweeds (from £10-£12 a man's suit length) and Scotch whisky (£2, 10s. a bottle) are finding plenty of buyers,

The "Angel" returned the fire in a seventy-mile-an-hour gun battle, then died with his head

on his wife's shoulder.

"I knew they would get him eventually," she said. Fifteen men died in the attempts to kill the "Angel."

Big Manhunt

THODY

-London Express Service)

THE CAN

Where ignorance

is seldom bliss

BY JAMES WHITE

fore as his,

NE of the few things work in the home is as im- which it is still easy portant for their mutual wei- to .do is to got married. It is neither neces- sary to have passed an examination nor to obtain official sanction. It is far more difficult to licence

Should a wife have a job of her own? Is it fair to tho children? The answer to this depends naturally On the cir The general an cumstances, get a

swer given was "Yes, if it cam to build a house pay economically. And if suit- than to got a Hcence able arrangements can be made to build ahome... It for the children."

is simple to get married What shall WE do about but often far more difficult mother-in-law?

to remain married, EB- "Mothers-in-law are a much pecially in Denmark where abused race. Aunta can be just divorce is easy.

In Copenhagen, for every

There are now two of these schools in the Danish

100 about 40 аге capital and others in pro

couples. Half of the rest are vincial towns. One of the married, the remainder con- former, run by Mr Koltoft templating marriage though Nielsen, secretary-general not actually engaged.

as bad. There must be give- and-tako, It is best to leave young couples alone. Tho two marriages celebrated family should be welcome but must not be allowed to one marriage ends in domineer." separation or divorce. In September 1949, in an effort to remedy this sad state of affairs Com- Altogether about 800 havo now attended courses at the mittee for Guidance to Copenhagen marriage schools. Young Homes was set up. They come from all walks of A month later the first Co- life: factory and shop workers, women, penhagen Marriage School university students, school tea-

professional men and opened its doors.

oliers, clerks und

and housewives. Most of them are in their 20's though quite s

low are

bc- tween 30 and 45.

Out of every engaged

are

of the Danish YMCA, Among the married couples Known as "natve painting," it charges 38. for a course of who have taken a course is the swing of the pendulum. five evening classes; the a chief clerk and attended the Mr and Mrs E. Borch. He is Garden spades again look like other, conducted by Pastor classes last Every other Thursday, for the garden spades, instead of piano C. E. Dam-Henriksen, he got married. This year his year, just before sum of 30 francs, you can playing abjects with human

wife has attended the school. descend

of cycs. tho sewers

charges 10s. for a course. She has heard talks on such These charges are made to subjects ns: "Father, Mother cover the hire of a room or, and the Children" hall, its heating and light Relations" (by a doctor), "The aro scouring

Legal Aspect of Marriage," Though the schools "Domestic Conflicts," "Enter- second-handling. markets the have official support they talning," "Domestic Economy."

for paintings are not subaldised. The

Paris.

Naive Art

Into

You go down a winding fron staircase just off the Grande Boulevards into something ke Art collectors an underground station,

and antique shops, climb into a boat.

markets - fça

A sewerman in overalls steers French call them the boat down a stream which by a French maid, Seraphine teachers are volunteers. follows the course of the smart Louis, Rue Royale. An unusual touch gardener Beauchant

Д navy

Bombois,

A

or the

is that the cowers have street postman Vivin, all masters of

just like the famous "naive art." signs, thoroughfares above,

told us.

France's thousands of

*

✩

"Marital

It also happens that people

are

drifting

attend

thin

"We got plenty of good ad- vico and Lips which have proved of zcal value," Mr Borch told me, "We found the school well worth while." One of the first pupils But we looked in vain for a

Mr Koltoft Nielsen's whose marriages one of the at Lon Chaney or Charles Laughton present day artists

most successful is perhaps school was 22-year-old In on to the rocks stumbling through the sewers, Aricot, who recently gave an ger Frisch, who helps her school. "These," says Me Kol- Sho

Sowerman-guide politely

exhibition of his work in Paris. father in his shop. She took toft Nielsen, "always and that Fifty of his sixty canvases were

it helps to talk things over It finally looks as if the sur-

her flance to school with with a third person who has Meanwhile France's biggest man hunt of the century is on realist school of French art is of fish.

her. At their first class the ability to put himself in beginning to lose ground in with thousands od police favour of A realistic type of paints them, then sells them in "Marriage in Fiction and their shoes. I get the impres

for the country's

sion that merely abaring their searching

painting made famous by his successful fish restaurant at Reality" was the subject.

problema

many. helped public enemy number one, Rene Henri Rousseau.

Walking

ing Stick" Girler.

The next talk was about

hove volunteer doctors, An expert in

to Caol

the cost of setting up a lawyers and other experts breaks, Girler escaped again recently. In

home. Later they heard whom we can refer people as Although what we gool for large-scale robbery, he

about the best way to bring teach is based feigned sickness and was trans-

on Christian ferred to hospital in a French.

up children.

thought, we do not hesitate to black maria.

recommend divorce in really hopeless cases."

During the hour in the police) van, with a hidden saw, he cut a hole in the floor and dropped out to the street.

on The

gangster's wife said:

L'Aricot catches the Asb,

Sanary on the Riviera.

Window On The World

"Rene promised he would be KEEPING THE

home for Christmas."

By JOHN ASHWIN

France's real-life crime prob- "DEAD" ALIVE lem may explain the popularityHE

After the talks there were questions. These were written and handed to the speaker anonymously. After the ques- tions there was often a dis-

necessary.

has

☆

"Should a man help his wife

lon often asked. The answer to this depends on whether the

tho

wife goes out to work, words "died under forles, gun repair shops, trans-

which

school.

Scotch Popular

Among the concerns surveyed cussion in which many of those in the house," is another ques present argued Meir own Scotch is becoming an in-

are rice and saw mills, electric

points of view. creasingly popular drink with

plants, waterworks, ice fac- the French, and the French

Is it a good thing to buy fur Whisky Importers' Federation is of a Parla blood-and-thunder anaesthetic,"

rare port organisations and machine nlture by hire-purchase? No, the husband should share

say hoping for an increased quota. theatre of a type which could

say experts. Buy simple furn!- domestic work with her, already,

may become still shops.

can afford. teachers at this novel you But It is not this increase in not exist today.

The French reverses in Indo-ture

is at home Scotch drinkers that is WOITY-

Tucked away in the back more so if a new mechanical China and Communist China's Don't buy complete sulls but But if the wife ing Monsieur Mignot, streets of Montmartre, the Grand heart (an American model) open support of the North single pieces. Later, when you while her husband is at work, household chores should with the can afford something better, the secretary-general of the French Guignol, a small, old-fashioned does all that its inventors Koreans, together

League.

theatre, echoes

march on Tibet, have shown the you can use your first furniture be finished when he gets home. hope it will. · M. Mignot's enemy

for the children's room. is ordinary blood-curdling screams.

Siamese that the position On

The Danish Schools of Mar- French white wine at 3d. a

Its playa aro not for timid The heart, no bigger than a

hold no their country's northern frontier Next there

exams, talk on rlage was a

give- glass, not Scotch at 6s. a nip. theatre-goers. Murders

of are small size radio, is complete

certificates Meet." neither 19 likely to prove perfous at any "Making Both Ends

рто- Alcoholism is costing France realistic affairs with blood with plastic tubes, steel lungs, a moment. If this should happen Should a husband give his wife ficiency

guarantees of over 6,000,000 lost working days gushing from the victim's primed and sterilised pump, and the Siamese are determined not pocket money, the home econo- happy marriage. But they do

tragic toll in wounds. a year, as well as

better chance distributor head. Equipped to be caught unprepared.. wrecked homes and health, M. Mignot told me.

nightly with

Record-breaker

The French working man is used to having a glass of wino

A record-breaker

a

doctors (American doctors) be COLLAPSES lieve that they will be able

with this Frankenstein machine, JAPANESE BRIDGE

were As proof of this they offer the Ishikawa

that,

пот

mist was asked. Certainly, was offer students a the answer; she is entitled to of happiness than they might It as much as he is. Even otherwise have in a partner-

Whiteness

at the end of the week, her bliss. on his way to work in the morn- murder in a women's

was about open new fields in chest and HOW safe is a bridge? The she is he pay packet ship where ignorance is seldom

lunatle heart surgery and even bring question arose in Japan re- ing, another during the British asylum. When two old ladies patients back from the "dead" cently when two engineers in worker's traditional tea-break, press a young girl's face on to

charged with and half

a bottle with his lunch. a red-hot stove the theatre is fact that the mechanical heart conspiring to weaken a large Statistics show every man, filled with the noise and smoke kept a "dead" dog alive for one on

bridge woman and child in France of

flesh.

hour, 11 minutes. After that it would tilt and collapse. The traffic passed over it, drink 200 bottles of wine a year.

the dog's own heart, revitalised it olientele

by the rest, took over again. engineers maintained that Now doctors at the Hahnemann fact that the bridge tilted did Medical College have the £5,- not mean that it was unsafe. 000 mechanical heart in attend- Its collapse killing two people But after three hours there ance at all major operations. Sa and injuring eight others was Social Problem It is not surprising that part of far, however, it hasn't

the audience staggers Into the needed.

If one leaves out the children arena regular, faithful

fill its well and non-drinking women, it worn plush soal the Grand makes the average Frenchman Guignol is popular with British

visitors.

a bottle-a-day man

M. Mignot envies British lighter atmosphere of noigh- MOBILISATION licensing hours and Scotland's bouring night clubs. Sunday closing. But he doubts. They go to Lady Patachou's, IN THAILAND

been

the

merely a colacidence. The en glucers also denied a charge that they had conspired with a local builder to destroy the bridge in order to get an addi- Allied tonal budget

works.

off your troops in Korea continue, prefectural ninsorization for

are When the judges silli main-

if the French worker would where this well-known enter- S the reversed of stand for them.

tainer impishly outs Another current social problem nock-tie with a pair of scissors, more and more countries in France is the crime wave. Or to a new club where the pro-awakening to the Communist tained that the accused had Although most Britons,

es prieter sulps your bracts while menace. The latest to realise destroyed the bridge, the en- pecially regular cinema-goers, you

you dance.

the fuil implication of the gineers offered to tilt the court- 31111 regard America FLUT the In both clube new ties and Red threat is Thailand, where room to test its stability and home of gangsters and gummen, braces are presented to the all industry has been mobilised prove that a tilted courtroom Frence today loads the Western customers before they retaliate and put on a war footing by the like Wilted bridge, was as enfe world in violent crime.

on club furnishinga.

Ministry of the Interfor.

as anything on an even keel. Every day the newspapers are

Another popular attraction To ensure

the greatest off- Remembering the fate of the alled with gory details of fresh with foreign tourists a trip ciency in armaments produc- bridge, the court rejected the murders, robberies and gun-play, down the city's sewers, made tion, a survey has been made of offer and adjourried for other

A typical case was the death famous by a score of fims. 14 different types of factories, expert opinion.

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