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THE CHINA-MAIL, TUESDAY) SEPTEMBER 18, 1951: -THE GILES FAMILY, HOLIDAY.

CAMPING

The lunch break is a world-wide Institution. It may mean a big meal ör

a sandwich; a couple of hours or a few minutes; a nap, or an opportunliy;"to" close a big deal. Today, correspon dents report from variotis countries In

SPOTLIGHT ON THE LUNCH HOUR

THE New York lunch water. Factories and many

hour is usually 40 often with no dining rooms.

big onlees. have canteens, but

T

hour-and-a-half-or It offices especially, workers just half-an-hour. It all de may collect their meat from a

counter and cat, it at pends on business.

own desks. Gavin Gordon.

Here, above all the other elties in the world, big busi- ness spends almost as much

A DIFFERENCE

their

In Austria. The first em-

time in the good restaurants THERE are two lunch hours and cocktail lounges as it braces all white-collar workers, Rhop assistants and govern- spends in its offices.

ment employees gerierally.

hour off at

Time and again you will hear They all get an people at the next table mid-day. closing four and Sve figure As all the shops in the town denis, and it always seems im- are closed for two hours from possible to find any business 12.30 to 2.30, while food shops "contact" in his afice between remain closed from 1 to 4 p.m. 1 and 2.30 p.m.-wi.h somo they can't go shopping.

On the

food other hand, either

shops are open at 7'am, sharp in the morning. and remain For the carcer girls it is open until

that p.m.-to the same story.

their Their lunch office workers can do time depends on the amount shopping. of, shopping they have to do.

"Marvellous, isn't it? Come here every year for my holidays and go back every year telling 'em I've had a wonderful time." times a half-hour

side.

-(London Express Service)

The world's highest mountain is in the news once more as

Four Attempt Again

O

To Climb Everest

THER than Everest

1

man might suc-

to become, in the eyes elitors, an authority mountaineering.

or

By H. W. TILMAN

4}$དིརདི་ ཨི་བྷ4=་ཏli3lel»“t

The Himalayan Committee of the Royal Geographical Society (England) and the Alpine Club (London) are sending put a parly of four climbers to. investigate the south-western aspect of Mount Everest. The party is led already made three nt. by Mr Eric Shipton, who has tempts to climb Everest. The three other members of the team, Mr W. H. Murray, Dr Michael Ward and Mr T. Bourdillon, are also seasoned climbers., Mr Shipton was formerly British Consul-General In Kashgar and Kunming

Nepal of the equipment, much less a Photographs ot. the

in the of the

n doctor mountain, par priest. With

in

ACCCAS,

of

side

J

It is surprising and a Hittle humillating to realise how much about Everest is still unknown. The strange behaviour now on the upper parts, why remains powdery on the north

time at what

of It is

year blown off, evaporates, or other- wise disappears, the weather of in'e September and October and high climbing is then possible, Era queations to some of which the present reconnaissance party may And an answer; besides the all-important one of whether or not the South ridge is attainable.

Odds Against

11.

an

and no

?

So after eating a substantial lunch at the local "Gasthaus,"

Aus-

the

K there is no business to or a liberal supply of home- transact, however,

nade sandwiches, eliopping to do, New Yorkers trian treats his meals with cut their lunch hour to the respect-they take harest minimum-and ofich hour's nap, have lunch sent up to vihres by messenger.

their

There is little sign of office their workers relaxing during lunch break. Only the chorus girls seem 10 sunbathe their rooftops, or on the flat above the Radio City stage

after rehearsals. Only a tow men and women seem to rest In the gardens, or in Central Park. All the others are rush ing round accomplishing some thing.

And how much does lunch cost here? In a tiptop place 28s a plate; a midium-grade restau- rant is a plate; cafeteria; 75 20; a sandwich stand, 5s for a sandwich, a bowl of soup, and a cup of coffee.

No wonder they prefer to cut their lunch hours. and have a home-made

half-

In

Those with their OWN pil- vate offices have criches, while other humbler beings doze the pubile gardens in

and wherever they summer,

the ean And a quiet spot in winter months.

In the factories it is quite different. Here the workers take the shortest possible time cantéen off to gulp down a lunch, or the contents of their sandwich box, and get back to work. The less time they spend on lunch, the sooner they finish work and go home. Richle McEwen... FOR REPOSE.

can

UNCH time in France at of least two solid hours

it is a very serious affair.

Shopping? Impossible, Mon- shut. shops are sleur. The sandwich Lunch time aporta? Unbelley-

able, Monsieur.”

in the office. Rodney Campbell.

SERIOUS JOB

the

of

ceed in climbing uny great peak in the world without attract- ing much attention; haying to explain to his friends, who would not much mind, whether the peak lay in the Alps, the Atlas, the Andes, or the mountains of the moon. But the reward of having so much as set foot on Everest is to be invested, in the side

As every good Frenchman public eye, with a stature as ticularly of the final 3,000 ft. of party, too, one felt that

scem South ridge, the

possibic to providing against all

know the, lunch break is for lofty as the mountain and show that snow lies there always, contingencies human foresight WEST Cwn. The odds are

Food hearty eating, drinking, of

against it. On the known that it is good hard stuff could no further go.

TUNCH-hour is a good time and then a little, repose. Nepal side of

for instance, the

Sharply at 12, an aparitif upony, intended, for climbing.

for shopping in Belgium. mountain is more gracious and climb

of Lome 2,000

Ealing Is taken seriously. with friends at your favourite factor would not be so vl'al. An

An Livable place than bleak, dusty, from the East Rongbuk Though the business lunch bar. Then a servict: tucked

Trees Rongbuk.

shirt-front, and and to the North Col is the steepest interval is usually two hours, in the snow would windy If there were degrees to be untimely fall of

art the impose only a delay of two or flowers abound, barley grows at purt and it is now hoped to find workers use it for lunching meal begins. taken in that diMcult

foot of Nupise and yaks o route fit for laden porters not for shopping..

A plate of spleed sausage, most impressive would be "failed three days of waiting for it to the

Then a nice cut whereas on the: gruze and grunt their way up starting from about 20,000 ft. on

perhaps. M.E."; and no one would smile consolidate,

ablation valley of the the floor of the West Cwm tothis

It is not easy to lunch in a meat; fresh vegetable — spy a. is fortunate possessor as they nor h side it brings the senson the

South glacier.

of Col at 25,850ft. It

restaurant in less time, for peas-bowl

good salad, do when carnest students confer to an end and ruins the climbers' Khumbu

There is, too, a smaller, expecting a

a lot

there is no such thing ns a slice of cheese, and a plate of upon themselves the honourable hopes.

brighter, less austere replica of But mountains often behave quick 2s 0d lunch,

fruit. Not forgetting the bottle degree of "failed B.A.." for so

the austere Rongbuk monastery, structurally in surprising ways. You can get a ham roll at of red wine. Relax over coffee, smallest high is the distinction earned by

just the where friendly lamas inslet on The greatest expert in mountain the concert and poetry sessions and maybe making an attempt.upon.Everest.

their guests taking a pipe-opener structura would hesitate to at the Beaux Arts Museums, of brandies. that no one is, rude enough to

of brandy, before breakfast prodlet the s

Then why not shut your eyes otherwise if you can't afford comment upon the failure.

inma's blood" we called it, for queer slit which things in that

restaurants you go home, even for a few moments- The

is not surprising If the if it means cooking your own

businessman does not

appear just left for India

whose primary

If you want to shop in r until after three o'clock. Not naissance. Besides these there

lunch hour, the stores are al- forgetting he starts earlier and have been Ove full-blown

so and the right assistant, to most empty, but your problem inishes much later than people

In Britain. temp's all ending in failure.

All factories and big firms leave her

for own counter yours. Office workers do their have canteens, usually run at a and shopping in their own neigh loss. Food is first-class bourhood, where

little plentiful. French workers take They shops stay open late in the their enting seriously.

leisurely and expect to cat evening.

well. And they do, Henty Rush lunchers bring

sand Thody. wiches and eat them in a çafo over a glass of beer or mineral LONDON LUNCH

is the third alm is recon-

More Sun

40 artic

ព

it

HM the

་

flavoured with arak

the

discharges. from HE South ridge, moreover, THE small party which has

10 was WDS

between Its enclosing walls a lic appears

3. a cloves.

broken cataract of ice barely a reasonable

and

On this brief excursion quaricr-mile wide. that there might broad

be fortnight's marching each way Mallery, having looked down # choice of

only six days at the foot this West Cwm Icefall from route along is easterly edge and find my sal we had no time the head of the Hongbuk slacier, an-all-rock route further is the to penetrate the West Cwm and wrote: "It was, not a very likely Five times is a lot. All have wds. Since the strata de north could not see up it. Something chance that the followed the sam: straight wat

Cap between there rocks should be was learnt, but wards

Lhotie principal Everest and forward roule from the North Colasier to climb and more prolife value of the trip seems to have reached from the west,

could be From (c.23,000 11.) up the North ridge, ja tent platforms than thoss an been as an example or read to what we have seen I do not a route devold at difficulty

much fancy. i woukt be pas- far as 28,000 ft.

Climbers on the north side After an acquaintance extend-rible, eves could one get up the eviden'ly Devold

would enjoy more sun (on the ing over thirty years, admittedly glacier." known route Camp VI remains with limited opportunities · of

until 9 a.m.) and in shadow would be pro ected from the north-west wind. Thus the south side of the mountain offers some solid advantages, always

03

the north.

where It becomes

stceper. of difficulty, however only when conditions are per- fect no snow on the rocks and no wind. Such conditions are rare and ceimg.

Fierce Wind

TVARLY in the season, say, be-

wo

provided a route comparable in case and safety to the present

cne can be found,

Hitherto Exploration

EARLY 16 say ben confined to the Tibetan

the

s.de because Nepal was even more dificult of access than north-west Tibet.

rocks will undoubtedly be clear, wind is

at

* fierce

The first scratch in the

others.

-(Time & Tide)

beef steak.

the

DISAPPOINTMENT OVER

FESTIVAL PRIZE PLAY

now

From RONALD ROPER

I

:

MOST London workers have

full hour for

lunch break and many considerably longer than either with or without employers' knowledge.

their

toice

this,

their

Eating out in the city he- tween 12.30 p.m. and p.m. is quite a problem. easy enough to get a

London, Sept. 10. disappointment was deepened by biloys than, eliber of ita din ill blowing, while 500-mile long Nepal Himalaya

we the knowledge that both Fry and appointing after the first was made as recently

predecessors but дву

time week of June the warm monsson when the writer

Usitnov were "discovered" as certainly lora rewarding. Jcha took a small should be hearing who party to the Langtang Himal, 100 is the winner of the Arta play panel.

playwrights by the Arts Theatre Barber's reaction is worth quat 65.

current may be expected to drape

the rocks, in a mantle of snow.

heavily on May 6 and continued

to tail intermittently until the monsoon proper

show

ret in. Much ....

05-1943 ANY

Two Women

to

2:30

first-

It ty

class meal at a good restaurant if you have the time and the money to spare, but it is not easy to eat well for less than Also the queues and crowds at the more reasonable.

cat

much satisfaction to sble for her having done much marks, such ar We are up-

her usual preaching the point of deviation home, and thereby saving sa

4110

.p.m..

are packed with businessmen

miles west of the Everest group. Theatre Club's £700 prize The crl'ics evidenily trist did not understand word restaurants make it practically. In theory, therefore, there is a Novertheless both the original

quickly and three-week period in which con- Everest reconnaissanen of 1921 for the best Festival of Bri- be kind to Miss Bagnold. One of the plot-about an old :ecture impossible to

sald no worse of "Poor Judas" who keeps saying: Once I was in comfort. ditions are favourable, but in and the second

more and of 1995 made tain play.

Corisequently, rest turile.' of a

And a young than that the nervousness practice what are Imown in fruitlers efforts to find a way meteorological eltelt as "West over the Nepal side in order to not give

Unfortunately, the result can compeiing was perhaps respon woman who makes sudden re-mare workers are taking their own, sandwich lunches from ern Disturbances" take a hand. examine what is known as the anyone except the winner: It is less than justice to

considerable amount of money. In 1938, for example, snow fell Wes! Cwm.

nct in the nolure of cities to sex.

cach week. This also enables agree, but they have been as As the coffin of "Poor Judas"

them to do their shopping in zar unanimily as they're ever was lowered beneath the wright 6 did not undereland, the lunch-hour. In fact, for likely to be in expressing dis- cf. criticat disapproval, a gym- vidient shootings, a village much of the working popula- the same happened in 1936.

appointment at the three plays pathiser deeped a few petals in fire and the hanging of the Hon. this is the only time o The rash layman might well

which the judges-Alec Clunes,

by three lunatic day when shopping is possible, marvel at hardy mountaineers THIS

THIS range cleft is a sart of Peter Ustinov and Christopher the firm of the opinion that principals

incoherency the play. soldiers.

for generally, shops are opeti by duding

"And finally I did not un-from 0. a.m. Blacier Hord lying deep beey-selected for performarns dealing with the urge of a wHE being disconcerted

11, 6,50 at 27,000

scarca acul to wille a moru- derstand why the audience when most people are at work. or 20,000th and tween the mighty West ridge of in order to decide the winner. might ask us whether we expect the mountain and along an

lunch- There were over 900 ealcies, mental work on political wicked- which includta Tyrone Guthrie The result that ot to find flowers. But the point even higher ridge running, from As soon as it became known that DealMiss Dagatki etire the and Christopher Fry-were so time in London, the big stores.

The Lhotse (the South. Prak 27,800 one experienced le that at these heights on

paywright mind,”

pallent with it a

Readers will have glooned north side snow remains powdery ft.) to Nuptse (the West Peak Miss Enid Bagnold (Lady Jones,

and women, hurriedly making (otherwise it would not disappear c. 25,000 ft.). At the head of wife of Sir

स certain obscure

their purchases. wrest- It does later in the year) and the fjord an airy ridgo, having former head of ag

Ing

destiny or fate Even more energolle ore the The WOS by refusing to consolidate renders as is lowest point, a decidedly and two other authors who THEN came. Webber's

ntly the underlying young girls who play netball *Impossible,

aley col of 23,850 It, links Lhotes had had plave

performed Pigh. Side Up." This In- then inspiring til therd plays. In their Junch-liour In Lin- Webber and Joha tradused a weird young man Maybe the judges, feeling that coln's Inn Fields. This vented both the 1038 and 1038 Jeland of

in the run",

end gun-running, of a disikusened, and

city workers gather to Inquiring parties from coming to close

tamented that the judges were dexts his manhood In, asavetation #30 shoped that perform-

the entries

watch. grips with the mountain. and South ridgo above the bajaset of, png, mores of amateur, writers' to En add background of this element" was characteristic quite ari attraction, end crowds

equal Boho

acting of marks and

Not all

Londoners are when members of the later bad to be climbable and it is equally evidenly not giving new talent win proved the impossibility of cop apparent that the cast side of the break, though that was under this compellive play provoked mice would settle the Iratze of such a rush however, On ing with powder snow at over col is not climbable. Everything icod to be ene object of the in one critte onky apathy, for priority perhaps with the pld pleasant summer day the city's

competition,

parks...aro" Full the cast and the conviction that of midlence-reaction."

of people 27,000 fl

"It has a Aghting chance for in Tour only conclude that stretched but asleep in dock ask; the

chaion among The three.j Tibolan authorities for a three- Kurroons. Hear,

Beams to have been entirely, a their faces ; or, leisurely, naling year lense were in the have read of two redoubt US reling the grown with plays of wolfval en wou entertainment of the public class with, nawronpers over hope that the three consecutive abla woman who bays taken the consistently unfavour John Whiting's "Baints' Day," recondary consideration. But these mundwiches by the side seasons one might be favourable, part in Himalayan adventure, but ablé noticea

rochastions third of the photo-Obish entries, is the, mudlemen, which, for some of a lake,: occasionáity: throw-

ing crumbs to ling, duske. However the war and I.""after" fiiberia 1 has not regerded

plays..., bayo has kit coins. 10, the stages It la sinfathomable math but paid to that proj#91;==

the diros" described as possibly; mors, line patient withs; se ait

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The three thousand odd

appear

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The protulion for turns, therefore, on whattier this

cam, be reached from the neur. Darjeeling

Roderick Reuters).

Jones,

gangsterdam

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and.