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DREAM CAMP WILL BE BOUGHT BY A MYSTERY AMERICAN

T is the proud boast, of holiday camp king Billy Butlin that there is "nowhere quite like Butlin's." Certainly there is nothing quite like the story of Billy Butlin's camp in the Bahamas.

The Butlin West Indies saga ended when the Governor of the Bahamas, General Sir Robert Neville, announced that he had agreed to the sale of the Vacation Village which was to have earned millions of dollars for Britain.

After four years of hopes and fears out goes Mr Butlin, And in his place us the new boss comes a little-known Chicago whisky millionaire, Mr William Dunn.

Dutin planned his camp to accommodate 2,000 middle-clasi American tourists. And Dunn? He proposes to cater for 1 "luxury clientele," with accom- modation for 1,000 only.

Butlin had minor gambling concessions to amuse his guests -slot machines, pinball tables horse and dog racing.

And Dunn? Does he seek more ambitious gambling faci- lities? It could be.

Perked up

THEN Butlin's holiday para- dise run short of cash

for the third time late in 1050 New York gambling syndicates perked up interest in it.

There came an offer from a financial group to buy the of camp, in which £2,000,000 "English"mony had been sunk," for £1,450,000. Its spokesman was a. Mr Lionel Marks, who described himself as a "retired New York business man.”

And Mr Marky went on re- cord that "in most Caribbean resorts the Governments have scent to legalise gambling as fith attraction to tourists....It' is felt that the new resort Grand Bahama should not subject to any greater restrie- tions than

imposed are now elsewhere."

Billy

Butlin's Punctured Paradise

by

BERNARD HARRIS

GRAND SAKINA

ATLANTIC OCEAN

NASSAU

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The Idea of roulette or bac- carat was apparently repugnani to the Bahamas Government at That time. For, in April last, the talks with the Marks group cullupsed.

New offer

that

THEN, when it seemed

the shareholders who had backed Butlin would lose every penny a new offer was reported.

It was for £800,000 only. most of which was to be used in paying off the camp's debts. It came from Mr William Dunt.

This 52-year-old head of a, distillery, who mado a fortune In 12 months at the age of 33 when prohibition was repealed, has always shunned publicity.

Now he la more reticent than ever because people are asking questions "just to queer some business deal I have on."

that

Grand Bahama ..60 milles from Florida.

the Caribbean,

which

would

Mr Builin enjoys water ski-ing in the Bahamas,

The prospectus made no proft This £30,000 will be handed estimate. But it spoke glow over in the form of 600,000 is. ingly of the "excellent sondy "B" Ordinary shares, in, a new beaches

the

fish and company Mr Dunn is forming. be found in the creeks * turtle to

the deep and shoal water sea game fishing on the edge of the Gulf Stream."

It means, in effect, that cach 1 Preference shore of Butlin's (Bahamas), for which investors pald. 218. and which are. now

of whom Sir quoted on the London Block The directors,

Exchange at "nothing to 2s... will Bede Clifford, former govern be represented by a is share of or of the Baharnas, was chair- highly problematical value in the man, estimated that £1,000,000 Dunn company,za gh would meet The cost of the camp.

812-

At the meeting ef, his Engash company et Pytell But they had underestimated cently, Mr Butlin, when ques the cost of reclaiming a site on

tioned about the Caribbean carn for Britain 6,000,000 dol- this scrub-covered island, 60 Пacco, said: "Harold Christle (a lars a year from the pockels of miles from the coast of Florida, Bahamas real estate expert) and American tourists, las finally They underestimated the cos! General Critchley picked. the inded.

of shipping materials. They site. My responsibility was to underestimated the slowness of run the camp after it had been the local workers.

built."

It all started on an unlucky day April 13, 1948. Brigadier- General Critchley, the grey- hound racing pioneer, had been out to the Bahamas. On his return, he discussed with But- in the idea of starting. a holl- day comp on the near-desert Island of Grand Bahama.

Cash ran out

Cold comfort, that, for the small investors who backed the. glamour of the Bullin name with their few pounds.

Mr Butlin, who has lost his TWICE the cash ran out. More £200,000, was shown in the

money was lent by the Bahamas prospectus to

hold Drayton group. And the

500,000 1s, shares of his English "I flew out to the place," English Butlin company

put company. says Butlin, and immediately £100,000 into Ordinary shares realised its possibilities.

That Both at par in December 1040. Only Critchley and I were fired with 18 months later it was in write substantial number for the benefit off that 100,000 investment as of his dependants, old employees, of no value.

and certain charities."

Then come

enthusiasm."

On "April, 13, 1943, the new, was formed. · camp company

opening day, Butlin put £200,000 of his own January 20, 1950.

The samp money into its Ordinary shares.. was still uncompleted, and some directors urged thas Critchley put in £100,000, and of the

of opening should be postponed the Herold Drayton group City trusts another £100,000.

advice was not taken.

I

Got his way

the

It has been suggested. this 5ft 10ins, fair-haired dis- tiller wants a gambling con- ccasion for the camp. Certainly He is no stranger to business THEN came a slight disagree-

ment,

Butlin wanted rizica,

company to be When he got control of the English Butlin

givch £100,000 of Ordinary Merchants Distilling Corpor shares free in return for assist tion, of Terre Haute, Indians, in 1933 it had 27 customers. In ance and advice. a year he built it up to nation- wide distribution.

was

after setting

Big_outlay

until all was ready. But their Bibe Englian company had been

comp

Sitting On The Fence

By.... NATHANIEL GUBBINS

FLOWEREDET.

According to Census returne there are 1,701.000 vore wonten than men in Great Dilläin today, According to observation of photographa - jonx before the Olympic Games inost of them appear to be marching, running. hopping, skipping and jumping, banging drums, blowing trumpata, yelling at warenj recruits on parado grounds and hurling men over their shoulders in wrestling bouti

TE are the

surplus

know

female We don't what to do;- So we bang our drum,

ra-ra-tum-tum And we blow our trumpets,

- too."

ta-

We blow till our cheeks are

wards, and any refugee. baby mico must have been killed instantly. Tovarich has now &c= come Stalin's secret weapon No. 1 in the difficult task of maintaining a nation-wide belief In his divinity,

As it is always hard to believe in a live god who marries, be- comes a father, and smokeri a pipe, there were times when even the simplest Russian soldier, peasant, or worker had his doubts.

..

But when Stalin had a Golger counter made in the shape of a pipe which ticked, crockled, and threw off marks when it touched Tovarich, doubting mouliks

purple, We bang till our ears are deaf: were shumed into awed silence, On parade we shout till our eyes and even knowing comirades

within the sacred circle

were impressed.

pop out "Lef, right, lel', right, lef."

on Toyarich was hitted We are the surplus females, with concealed strip lighting, the We don't know what to de, pipe was fitted with an electric We skip and hop till we fall battery, and unbelievers were

down down lop:

on their knees, bang We jump like a kangaroo. ing their foolish heads on the Till our fungs and heart are stones of the Red Square, when

bursting

saw the first Filuminated moustache, in the world."

As Toverich

once burst

Into flames owing to a fuse, Are ex- tinguishers are now kept handy

We run, run, run, run, run. On parade we yell "Wake up

that gel"

It's all such Jolly good fun.

We are the surplus femates, We don't care we're wed. If we can't marry we'll raise

Old Harry

And bang our drums instead. In judo and Jiu-Jitsu

We give the chaps what for, Over they go with an expert

throw

Bang, bang, bang on the floor.

Blow, blow, blow went the

trumpet,

Bang, bang, bang went the

drum,

Jiu-jitsu, and the same to you,

Rum-tiddy-tum-ium-tum;

You

can Helink!

on Stalin's table at all banquets. Juju for all

Now that Bouth Africa's witch doctors are obiged to quality at

new college at Johannesburg because leading medicine me

complained that there were too many quacks in the profession; we can only wall hooef liv for the day when their cervlees are free under National Health Bervice.

When that day comes, the witch doctor'a conuline prom will be full of people demanding tren spells cast

undesirable TCIATIVES.

can I do for you today; Miss?

chase us round AND what

As we run, run, run, run, run, For we are the surplus girls with

a purpose-- We're all such jolly, good fun..

Moustache in

flames

I tant my aunt turned into a wart hog.

Only last week I turned your uncle into a wart hog.

Yes, but auntie's lonely. All right. I'll east the spell this evening

And, doctor. You remember you, turned

my pretty cousin, Info an ugly witek?

I do.

Well, she's lost her, broom- stick.

You want a prescription for a new broomstick?

THE report that the moustache belonging to Dr Warren K. Bindair, physicist at a London' hospital, became radioactive after research work, will once more focus attention on Tovarich awful without it. (Comrade to you) the famous have some newte, eyes to furn ingrowing moustache belonging to Joe Stalin.

Yes, please, doctor. She feels And cont

my stepmother into a tozd?

News eve

toads. You mean mothers unies don't turn stop- frogs' livers.

I read somewhere that newis eyes are better.

At one time, it was believed that Tovarich, described as in growing because of its concave .construction, was wired as a small

People like you are the curio store for food in case of famine. of our profession. You think

is so

gosted here that, as Stalin --you're half a witch doctor.

you're going to be rude I fond of animals, it was used as a shail go to somebody who' home for orphaned baby mice.

more obliging. It can now be revealed that

have it Oh,

your own way. Tovarich beenme radioactive Here's a prescription for 100 after the first Russian atomic newts eyes, I they turn your explosion.

stepmother into a rogue elephant Although any food stored there don't blame me. became unentable soon after-

London Express Barúlen)

THE LOBSTER WAS

TOO, TOO ALIVE

From Joan Harrison

Paris, July 27. "Whtroupon," continued M. PARIS restaurant Magniou, "he slapped the basket

hold the

A keeper was ordered by in the table fobstersund wayed

a Paris court, yesterday to it under my nose, shouting "Not a £8 fine and £100 from. My lobsters, not Treshi pay damages to a diner who had Here, smell t.*** a piéce of his nose pinched off by a too-alive lobster.

The lobster, 'retaliating The characters in the drama behalf of the petron, seized the appeared before three judges of end of M. Magnieu's nose in its

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a correctional chamber of the pincers. M. Magnieu continued Central Paria Courts of Justice. his sad story: They were the restaurant Hits lawyer, Maitre

"It was impossible, for me to Charles Marcepoll, and the free my nose, I must admit, that diner, with a bandaged nose, M. the restaurant keeper did all le Martini

could to try to remove.. the lobster's pincers." But the noce gave way before the fobster, which retired with, a small pieca în of flesh.

The lobster, which had been secizgi kof not being "fresh enough", was,, alas, no morg,

The restaurant keeper inter-

M. Magales explained to the rupted M, Magnieu's recital to Judges how a few weeks ago he the judges, to comment: "It had a great hunger, and a great really was not my fault. The man put his nose, în my lobster desire for a fresh lobster. He

went to a restaurant spec basket like a policeman, Lobster

-sta', fonda, “The

a

basket with

do not like that,”

“And in any case,” strüelt in

his peak "shareholding in

3,641,000 shares. By the time the Bahamas company was floated, When the

closed

In August, with the kitly empty, more than 3,000,000 shares, It 17,000 tourists had visited it. And seemed; had passed out of his

same. now the writs slaried to come in.

How much did Mr Butlin A petition to wind up there on shoro sales?-- Mr company wat sulyed when, the Butlin alone knows the preciso Lionel Marks bid came along, gure. But the English Butlin The Vacation Village was put shares had touched 246. 1jad; in into mothballs while the offer. 1947, and in the City was

brought

up. was discussed.

thought that he might have made several squirming lobsters in it M. Morcepoll the defending for the guest to take his choice, lawyer "Monzlete -Magaleu can close on £2,000,000. A He got his way. That addi- tional £100,000 gave him-vot-

(19 is the custom at the better always get high revenge by Among the other companies ing control

Certainly 1947, swas (n) yðar 'ot Bah restaurants in France for making his stomach a tomb for of the board. of which he is chairman is the Though there

heavy,carh outlay for him. the diners to choose their fish any quantity of lobsters,ona and his associates spent: about Ajax Corporation, which makes managing director, Bullin was

every night if he wishes--mast before it is cooked) air-conditioning

£1,250,000 on the luxury Fort was much taken aback

agreeable revenge!} } units. And the boss.

Now the Americans are to get Montagu Beach Hotel), its aérall,

The judges. wore

not amused, Lionel Marks, who made the

the lobsters' very strong odour." this unhappy £2,000,000 ven- and the Princess Hotel, in first offer for ille Bahama's In tho following November ture at less than half price. Of Bermuda

M, Magnieu told the judges. “I and awarded. £100. Gamages, Camp, was described at the Butlin's (Bahamas) made A the £805,000 which Williams & Se

aalffod,nt, them, but all I said to This is the price charged to Paris time as prealdent of Ajax. public issue of 600,000 Five Dunn is offering only £30,000. | And Mr Butlin :; still, had

the patron was "I don't think, by, plastic surgeons, who With Dum

the

remodel the too-longnoos for dew Percent

Preference shares, will be left after debts have been. £200,000 in cash to invest 'maxt

tobaters ato very tregh.” owner, Butin's dream of a of which: half, were" taken up paid for the shareholders in year in the pinic, sandy beached

The restaurant › keeper) was dim : stare into the thief. (Up- sun-drenched boliday camp in by the Drayton groups, Butlin's (Bahamas),,

ulted variety. of the Grand Bahame.

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