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PARIS

IN

STILL

TOPS

GAY NIGHT LIFE

CHEAP CLUB'S

NIGHT'S MAGIC IN FESTIVAL LIVERPOOL

BR

By Hazel May

London, Aug. 30. ed itself. A gigantic sign in- RITAIN'S Festival is formed visitors at this ex-

hibition was

lond nearing its close. In the tent by a number of firms for

on private little towns they are taking the occasion, and proceeded to down the flags, dismantling give them a free ad. by listing the exhibitions. Apart from the names of the firms beneath, the ammual feast of music complete with trading addresses. One can Imagine the board and drama in Edinburgh, meeting at which this conces- this week and nax; will see son was insisted upont practically the last of the There were so many. Festival carnivals and processions in attractions, including ort, market town and olde-worlde dustry and science exhibitions, all over the town. A friendly village.

policeman on duty that night told me that all Lancashire was Hero in London we have flocking in 'to see them. Every

exhibition day the

grown rather weary of it all. We c have shown innumerable weeks

In-

bulldinga

end visitors round the foot-tiring were packed to suffocation- tarmac acres of the South Bank, enthusiasm one has not found in and ridden oh so many times London, where at least a third in the Bg Dipper at Battersea of the population has not been Comes the time for mental near any of the Festival ex- hibitions, and has no intention stocktaking, the which wing of going. did-we-enjoy-most stage.

or

In Full Swing

boats drifting down a twilight river at Hampton Court? Or Regency on show at Brighton7 Flower battles in Sussex

A full-scale drama, music carnivals in' Lancashire?

and ballet season was full In some towns, arranging A packed with Liverpool people. swing, with all the theatres Festival was all ・ too easy. A

street of beautiful Tudor build. There was not a seat to be ha Inge, steep cobbled roads on an any of the main theatres, They hid “been booked weeks precarious hill with a view of before the Festival opened. softly

-rolling

downs....these things dressed up well.

་

It Succeeded

Edin-

*

en fete a Liver-

I came upon a vast crowd All- burgh, for instance, was design- ing a small side street. Strikes? ed for just such a role, with its wondered Mass meeting? climbing: spires at sunset and Religious revival? castle, walls where a bugle call "Ee, luv, don' you know? Its echoes and re-echoes. Oxford Moira Shearer, oop for the Fes- and Cambridge were 'naturals' tival", a grandmother informed for the part.

me as she swayed perilously on a soup-box at the back of the crowd.

About two miles away I But imagine the taxic with a found another dense crowd. ARIS is as lively at New York cocktail parties In almost every German elty Certainly this is the case of the begrimed, smoke-belching, hard- Again I enquired. "Moira

midnight as at mid- that usually end at dawn.- police regulations close down bars ordinary man-in-the-street, for working

industrial city

as Shearer, of course", I was told. day. Crowds pouring RODNEY CAMPBELL. at 1 am., with patrons having an only the most expensive'night backdrop! How could a Festi Was-this where I came In? No, out from the last per-

hour of grace to finish oft drinks, clubs' remain open, and all-night val spirit survive such discour- it was the Town Hall, where Miss Shearer was to be onter- formances of the cinemas

cafes and restaurants, number agement? and theatres swarm into

At the "bitek” night

Yet one place in which it tained after the theatre. clubs, less than a dozen. It is precor suceceded was Liverpool. Tjoy

to the fun of this the cafes, demanding food

however, one may, by giving o impossible for a late theatre-goer tried so hard-and-enjoy- northem port's festival was the and drink. White-jacketed

"OPENHAGEN'S great pre-arranged signal at the door to have a reasonably cheap mealed it so much. Memory lingers firework display which set the at the waiters, moving

night life attraction is or accompanying the right after his show, much less a cup of one particular evening spent night horizon aflre. double, give it to them. the Tivoll Pleasure Gardens, person, drink until dawn, and of coffee only. Neither can be go in Liverpool

modelled originally on Lon- then repair to one of the numer to a public house for any sort of pool transformed from dank,

Night Show The famed Champs Ely don's eighteenth century, os cafes, which begin serving alcoholic drink, for the licensing dark city into a place of excite sees and the Grands Boule- night haunt,

"hangover" chicken soup at 7 am laws compel these businesses to

Unexpectedly a rocket rped ment, colour and light. the Vauxhall

From seventh-floor hotel bed- vards are gay, crowded, and Gardens.

across the sky--a splendid, fire- close at about 11; o'clock. And

looked across trailed, star-scattering room window I

affair The legal night life begins to if he could, there would then be to a wide skyline of factory brightly It by fluorescent lighting at twelve o'clock. Most bars and restaur. die in Frenkfust, as in most other every possibility that he would chimneys and Victorian towers that shed its golden stars over the city. All transport was The heading for the ants, with mušic, dancino German elties, at midnight, when not get home again that night, set against a sunset Banded there too.. I found the

river, so

I' head. Thousands of Parisians and floor shows, stay open of the evening and cinemas closs, stop as about 12.30 0.m. Although the distant view of countless

street cars start their final runs for most train and bus services countless f flags and banners,

cleared for make their living catering until 1 or 2 a.m. In the

Invested the

city

Navy's small for the night life require capital there are several

there are a few all-night services neon lights,

an exciting pantomime- craft speeding up and down. Practically the only legal eating from the city, these coyer only a wor ments of visitors (and other night clubs open from 11 place open after midnight is the very limited area.

world world atmosphere. All the Beats worked from both ends laden with a cargo of Parisians). Montmar- p.m. to 5 am. The subscrip- restaurant at the main railway

could stand buildings which However, for these people that floslighting glowed like bear of the harbour to meet in the tre, dead by daytime, starts tion of the smartest is 5s a station.

can afford it, London has a varied cans in the sky.

middle, synchronising their dis- to come to life at dusk, and month, and both drinks and

and extravagant night life. The I listened to the sound I have charges of

of golden rain. Great thinks about closing the food are moderately priced, On special occasions; - da for smart, expensive night clubs stay heard only once before on the fountains of light erupted, tip- shutters at dawn.

and believe it or not example, the engagement of King open until the early hours of the Clyde, where it inspired one ped sparkling stars into the dark

Fameus cabaret stars man to write a symphony-the waters of the

murky dancer, morning. favourite

river. It generally cheaper than at Farouk's

perform, and drink is served up eternal clank-clank-clank of was night show par excellence. In many other parts of

When I left to catch a

late the city the rule of cafes restaurants of similar atand. Dawlath Sellaman, -clubs--mad to a late hour. If the pleasure hundreds of anvils on hundreds ̈ ̈

! request temporary whiving of the seckers do not have cars of their of hulls, mixed with the ghost train, I had lo - edge my way and restaurants is: Close ing.

closing regulation. own, private hire cars are readily by echo of scores of ship's sirens past teeming crowds of young At 5. a.m.. the "morning NORMAN LINDHURST.

available to take them home. when the last customer has ́ ́:

people,

through wandering gone.

bars" open to early workers

their city arm-in-arm, laughing, chatting. From a loudspeaker and the late revellers. These LITTLE TO OFFER

In the centre of the town drift- After the night clubs serve coffee, and rolls in

Great yellow arrows pointed ed the strains of

Musetta's close about four-there addition to beer and gin.

alte. A beflagred gruous in the smoke-laden air; always the markets Most offer dancing to plano VISITORS to London frequently selves will erase of coures, but in the way to Liverpool's Festival Waltz. It didn't sound Incon-

addition shops will no longer be Exhibition where the revellers' favour accompaniment →→ JAMES complain that the city has allowed to light their windows and be-bannered road led to it. it was In keeping with the eclat ite dish is onion soup. If they WHITE.

#tile to offer in the way of enter after closing time bleak pros- Once there, the northern sense of the Liverpool spirita real.

af business-as-usual had assert- Festival spirit. wish, of course, they can

talament after 11 o'clock at night. pect Indeed!-PAT HENEY. still pop open another bottle" of champagne. HENRY THODY,

aro

*NITERIES'

HARDLY HECTIC

You could hardly call night life in Stockholm hectic. A visit to the theatre or opera, closing around

ANNIVERSARY NEW YORK'S nightspots 10.30 9.m., Or the second

Gifts

'WITH EFFECT FROM SEPTEMBER 10th 1951, PURCHASES AMOUNTING TO $5 AND OVER WILL RECEIVE GIFT COUPONS.

China Emporium

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With the end of the Festival of Britain, London will be-

come: gloomler. than ever. The Festival illuminations them-

with

•

up and down the Mersey,

Northern Sense

eers, and the

·

AMERICANS FILL REYKJAVIK TEASHOPS

REYKJAVIK:

THE American soldiers

T

By A. THORDARSON,

heaths by children. and 'en- thusiastic adulis; so maybe lik seventy to 100 years Iceland

Dolely on its

will not have to Import limber,

a month as a bank clerk, so ho own resources, thus saving a

But what of those who are

lot, of foreign currency, j

Then there is the tourist sea

are called 'niteries'. They show of a cinema, closing are again lingering in Hollywood dreams can thrive per month for his three-room, are in the main tiny, closed around 11, and on to the streets of Reykjavik as on fish and chips and margarine. apartment. He is earning £10 but will depend in, box-like affairs with restaurant which shuts its they did during the occupa- Yes, "friendliness" does not is rather hard up. mediocre tingel shows, im doors at midnight... that tion. Arriving in buses from always pay back possible dance floors, and a is about the sum total of Keflavik,, forty miles, away, Meanwhile in Reykjavik's - permanent fog of cigarette go-to-bed-early Stockholm. they have a day off...

woman's associations zeveral worse off than he? Even quite son. The boat which piles be smoke that is too thick even. for the air conditioning sys→ · Occasionally you may run The tea and candy shops are resolutions have already been well-to-do people can't afford to tween Glasgow and, Roykjavik tem.

across a night club housed full of them, and they fake passed calling upon the daugh- have as big flate as they used has been packed all through the

Intimate in some dreary and uncon Boapshots of each other, with ers of the capital to avold too to do. So they are latting out summer. Even Lourista from

contact with ..

which are now Now Zefland are visiting, this In addition, they bring in fortable cellar, with fawsome local scenery in the back-, soldiers, but the teenagers single rooms,

fairly easy to get.

country, and talking strent in- their train bills that start drinks to be had and thoso

giggle at such warnings

terest in how the hot water is the and tell you the boys are quite

Now we are in midst of the being utilised harmless and not nearly as ex herring season which usually

for heating perienced as those who were lasts until early September, and houses

ground-or a statue of a na

at £10 and climb swiftly to usually brought by guests that hero who fought

themselves. Night-club lifeaner.

the two hundreds.

But, on the other hand, is not suitable to the Soon they have made contact here before. New York is a round-the. Swedish drinking tempera- with the fair sex and have had acme. experience of Iceland's nicknamed Black clock city, and the cinemas ment,

brandy Death.

some of home-

the saying "It depends on the

herring

will the

sounds like a theme variations all through conversation. you:

People follow the latest fishing

This may turn out to be

those

are often open until 4 a.m. For the simpler people price is a seat. The parks there

was rumoured, here Just reports in the dalies ar Scots oractical lesson for the Now are open, too, if you're pro-, tents, are desce establor-sick and will tell you that they after follow the

don't think the local population being discussed at Raesong that. And really herring is a big have lots of hot springs like pared to take the risk of a keeper scrutinises all cutrondly, Others may ask you the soldiers would be leaving

in Iceland, hold-up.

trants to make sure they are why it never gets dark as it if on agreement could he reach gamble; it may fall completely Buses run all night. The not even very slightly under does in Virginia, and complain, ed in the Far East. But these as it has done for the past few But of course the golden

Anancial results.. So far the London phrase: "all-night the influence of liquor. And of sleeplessness because of the rumours seem to be unfounded, years, or it may secure great herring in the tourist that

Yet many people are hope herring fleet has shed more the American with his trunk filled with greep-Jackets. The cafe" applies to overy New If you laughed as you ar-light nights.

ful for such an agreement as than it did in the whole herring only trouble is that you can York cafe. Only a handful rived at the door, that might

the cost of living has risen season last year, ao people hardly catch him; he sees every

thing worth seeing In a rapidly

In Iceland since the are fairly optimistic,

Ina, single " day and is then on again, Korean War and, the “reditna“.

of the better places close be enough to keep you out. before 8 a.m., and tens of side-CYRIL MARSHALL. thousands are open 24 Hours

a day, with food and tea and coffee at regular prices,

In New York you can get a drink up to 4; 4.3

Ltd. atorde, if you would

open.well

STODGY

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ad

But the summer is short la Iceland, and soon the mean

A man was standing on a ment, programme of the West-

This is especially a street corner arguing, "What do em Allies! you want?" he asked. Two of felt in all materials for house

This summer has been rather lights will bo sparkling in the Germany, where it is my daughters were married building, which tins almost, been

to deal unde away to your wild west and brought to a standstill. mild, and the Icelanders are shop window displaying all the

now I must look atter my last pats to lat pre

29 fast growing-trees to make this newest books, c. Fewer yield. table blad

hied to pand look as inviting as it did fower Icelandic books are bein

when it could tempt the vikings published because **10 setile, downl