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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1964.

Interesting News Stories

French Gourmets

Are Fussy

When It Comes

To Restaurants

Paris.

Ask one French gourmet which is the finest restaurant in Paris and he'll tell you. Ask two, and you have a fight on your hands.

The French show admirable sang-froid, (cold-blood) in discussing their morry- go-round governments, inflation, or the Indo-China war, but when it comes to food- the best food in Paris-vulces and tempera rise.

"Mais Volla," they slate politely, "This is a question of great interest."

Artie Shaw Is Happy

Las Vegaa

Artie Shaw, one of the

Before you know, there's Langouste" barrage of favourite French chunks delicacies Alling the air: "Cog tu Vin" (rooster cooked in thick red wine sauce) "mousse de Truito" (specially prepared chickten), "timbale de langouste" (lobster in sauce which often contains Scotch

Irish whisky.) And.

cat

Course.

with.

lobster

and

favourite

fo start uf delicate meat cooked in a cream mushroom sauce through which the real gourmet can discern the slight flavour of a fine cogoaC.

Another Laperouse is the "Rognan Janais Mieux" (kidneys in

which butler) actually lives up to its name. great Basted

browned. the kulary 44 Looked in a whne sauce, the specialty of wine stick Charles Delorme, imagina. live ezer of the kitchen, price for we 7,000 francs ($20)

Rated Da

Bor "Jes and

The I wines

of Burgundy and deaux iro mentioned: dos vins de Bourgogne" "Hordeaux prender crus".

Moat French gourmets will there are ve restaurants Paris of "premier ordres"--

Liggest band-leaders of all wheh means the foxx generally then the same scale i

time, is playing in a swankworth the price.

They are the Cafe De Parks,

hotel here, but not for the the Tour 1'Argent, Maxim's, the

as a head- Grand Vefour and Laperouse. usual fortune

11 presseri, gourmels will liner in the main dining

ehminue three of these,

:oom.

Shaw is happily tonting his clarinet in the bar of the Sulara Hotes for kicka, the explained, jetet of big money

"I'd make more with abg land, but in bappler this way."

"Instead of playing for dance crowd of 400 we play for a small crow that ustensibly comes in here to hear me

the

sight of Show and "Gramerey Five healing it out behind the bartenders has be

one of the wonders

this hustling gambling

TOO LITTLE, TOO MUCH The Cafe De Paris, tutte atmosphere.

has too

It 15 excellent, marvelous, they say. us to food and ser

"amblance" But it lacka

vice.

(atmosphere).

The Tour D'Argent, on the other hand, has foo much at- It is "touristique". mosphere.

the French min says.

*

of

"une mast

Lapernuse 19 the Granj Velour,

and of the viclent best loved Parisian restaurants. Founded in 1760, the windows of the Grand Velour look out on the green gardens of the Palais Royale, stroll and fountains play as they did two centuries ago.

where:

lovers

With 1Ls recessed mirrors, moudings and frescoes, and dha lighting, the Grand Vetour looks today much ng it must Balzac und have looked when his erary colerie Arst made it famous.

ROAST PIGEON Roast pigeon has never really been enjoyed until it is eaten at the Grund Vefour to the sc rompaniment of a rich bodied

the Prince of Monaco-is cam-

since.

from All Parts

She Brought Her Balloon Ashore

Two small girls, one carrying a balloon, disembark- ed with the Russian Embassy party recalled from Canberra after the Soviet broke off diplomatic relations with Australia from the liner New Australia at Southampton last week. This picture shows members of the party going ashore.-Reuterphoto,

Plane

World

The

A

Becomes A Voice

In The Wilderness

Toronto.

A voice in the wilderness--that's what they call a Bleck, yellow aircraft with the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests insignia stamped on it.

"I get a go stipend $3,000 "How can one really savour t a week for us five is the combo delicate sauce when confronted --and at least I'm playing what with the loveliest view in Paris, Burgundy, a Valgay 1947 or a I want and the way I wam to. the Hood-U1 Nying buttresses of

Pommard 1934. The "pigeon the The crowd here doesn't ask for! Notre Dame and siow-Prince Raynier" - named after

river Seine... im- dance music. Otherwise, I'd | flowing doing Hegin the Beguine ali possible!"

one Pletely boned, stuffed with fole well, As for Muxim's: night.

tu Maxim's to entra and then put back together "Nobody boilera sae," wilded dosat go

a wine the intellectual clarinetist, ever Chee to see the Haut Mondegain and served with

Next time you read about someone being found in the known an audience-lover. Lot Paris, the lending diplomats

charming vintage "Som-

rugged bush of Northern Ontario, it's almost certain that There's a pit between me and and le stars, the crowned and

Steward) takes unrrowned beads, the wealthy nelier" (Wine

a Government Beaver aircraft took part in the search. of the besitami capable charge visitors in $600 Parts gowns." ຕາມ.

The Department of Lands and to eat, the French gourmets tourist and has the tare khack or making each guest feel that able to con

Foresis has 35 of the pontoon- he's the only person of import-equipped, six-pussenger centrate on one's food"

utance in the room. And that can be done

Price: About 0,500 francs spotted strategically Quroughout and

Grand the

the province, and now Lapervise

the cus- Veluur, according to

While the French gourmet partment has given tomary experts.

reluctantly agrets that the a voice, with Laperouse,

its dark

choice of "st" in Paris lics

Twenty facade

of the 35 aircraft: wood

between the Grand Vefour and

have been wrought iron

equipped with with the Tour ron the Laperouse,

"ground halle" sysian, It is a 'ty 1**། །⪜C's on the left bank D'Argent, Cate De Paris

public address system rigged to of

the Muxim's on third, fourth the Seler, overlooking

singf tall without the underside they will picturesque the De La Cite, theth. island in the Seine which holds hesitation that tho best with

restaurant of all France is "L Notre Dame cathedral,

The dining room, painted in Pyranides at Vicane, South of tal the bands

antique "trianon" relaxed plays

green 13 Lyons. and situated one flight up from the Happler! now. apparently

fou scur

Bevelle retirement;

self- which he wrote a Booty scal book about has music and ven mairages.

Some nights asiness

15 so bansk you need

it

10 to get into the bar.

reserva-

He jelas long after the inain brown-stained

PLAYS UNTIL 5,30 A.M.

show with Rap Bolgens

closes

and

beautiful

1.

the dus zoum, Uften until

1 tet

fashioned

Who remembers. Shaw's big band of the 30's. 1 let -

་ ། Chirped

hin

Betatech Bamberg Shaw talk- ed rapidly about his theory that i but bunds are dend.

don't see anything PRIOLERI abom.. be shrugged.

People like

things. We

new

($18.80).

and

If the other restaurants rate and three stars in the the guide thick

bible. rugs create un atmo- Michelin, the Gourmet's

"Les Pyrumides sphere of luxury and ease. The

one wit sud

And its setting like the food, is perfect should get Ave stars

chot, owner

baggy-skinnel FITS THE BOLE

Ferdinand Point, a Marshal's buton.

delicious But that's another sicry.- United Press.

Even the wine steward is the role. Clad in the traditional blue. apron, his ready black eyes peer at the customer over a red

used to play happy, extrovert; | MU

veined nose and a small black

וניי

anw Ha moody. My misdę uzva to be limited to dancera. I hatest if people want dance muste have Guy Lombardo, He's adequate. One type of music appeals to the head, the other

the feet.

"Hitler"" mustache.

To

the

he

connoisseur elaborates a loving detail the

cellar- wealth of the Laperouse cell one of the finest in all of France.

There

"less-than- excellent" dish served

no

nt

"Big bands are gone. Glenn Laperouse, which has held o Miller wouldn't be big any more three-star rating ever since

But if pressed, If he were alive. All this fame system started. for Miller

"he sold, and the hond waller will commend the "Gratin shook his head.-United Press.

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

V

"Mont and Badi get ready to buy me a new format... Eddie can borrow his uncle's chicken truck for the promi

the

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Djakarta's Latest Road Hazards

Djakarta.

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the De the Beaver

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Mrs Moss's Technique

The champion

New Weapon For International Understanding

Ottawa.

A new weapon for international understanding

is being forged in the schools of Ottawa,

The weapon takes the form of exhibits which graphically show how boys and girls in other lands live, play, work, learn, cat and so on.

It was the brain child of a far sighted group of adults, banded together for constructive action under the name of the Ottawa Citizen's Committee on Children. These men and women first got together about seven years ago with an idea they could do things for children that schools and other organisations were not doing.

Everything they've started has been greeked with enthusinam. I

First they conducted muldror artį oinssca for children. Then they staged plays in hospitals.

One project led to another from the committee

until

evolved an offshoot. It was

eiled the Children of Other Landa Section and Ly res pansibia for travelling exhibits of school- shown to thousands children in the intermediate grixies.

The section at present is heud- ed by Mrs D. M. Cooltean, who, like her colleagues, Impresses ono as a person dedicated to vision, and the vision?

"Well” Mra Coolieen told the United Press, "we believe that not nearly enough information is given to Canadian children about the children of other lands bofore their minds become cluttered and distorted with the blas and preconceived pre- Judlees of so many of the adults with whom they come contact."

Tamed Sting-Ray

Sydney.

A ten-foot sting-ray, the largest in captivity, has become so tame in a Taronga Zoo pool that it will cat from the hand of ils keeper.

The 500-pound monster spends most of its day sleeping in 4. secluded corner of the pool, but glides to the surface of the water when a salmon or mullet is held out--- United Press,

A

From Bullets To Lipstick

Nagoya.

hero

ita

to make

How's the scheme working out? Never have children

factory munitions shown P

much genuine which formerly made machine- enthusiasm for a classroom sub-

has converted Ject. Not only that, Mrs Coo-un bullets licom cald, the exhibits also once-lethal machines

completely the lipstick and toothpaste tubes, "have changed children's attitude towards im- migrants" and the boys and girls in foreign nations.

LATEST EXHIBIT The latest exhibit to make the rounds of the schools happener to be about Pakistan. Its high- display

of 25 dolls, ught was a

in Pakistan made by children

and then dressed in the varied traditional and modern garb of the country. The clothes, too. were made by Pakistani children. When the exhibit made its in- troductory

at appearance school, it was accompanied by a High member of the Pakistan Commissioner's staff here. His

Sydney.

charity

Job

of the aircraft button-seller of Sydney re-

Mrs Sault

д microphone attached commends a "crazy hat" as next to the pilot's bucket at the best "come on" for

During the past two summers | street sales.

In the hunters who were lost vicinity of Kapuskasing,

Alice Moss Pathas

cold Sta. Marle, Parry Sound and popples and "tin hats" for the Kenora all were rescued by use Returned Servicemen's League,

collected

Cross, for the Red of the "ground haller."

sold buttons for Legacy fund Department pilot flew for war orphans, and is rated a overhand and in some cases champion by them all. directed them to an open spot where they could be seen from the air while in other cases they were told how to get out of the bush and back to civilisation.

A

can't sell buttons by "You just standing there with a tray your necks," hanging round Jolly five-foot Mrs Moss saya.

Was

to give a short talk, then answer the inevitable bar- the of

from questions Tuge curious Canadian children.

The exhibit was shown at the intermediate public schools, the intermediate separate schools and the French Canadian

separate schools, Like other ex- hibits, It was an integral part of the social studies curriculum of each class and served as the springboard from which a detail- led study of the relevant country

launched. was

the

Mrs Coolican and her hard

with working colleagues, blessing of parents, teachers and She starts off by adding a big school boards, also used enter sowy feather to her hat.

от JOSE,

a

nodding talenten Ottawa children, to

to

but instructive playlets

that

NEVER FOUND Beaver aircraft took part in the search for national hockey

Then she watches passers-by bring them the message iengue player Bill Bariko two tor famillar

greeting "foreigners" are not so different faces,

after all. years ago after he was reported celebrities and others by name missing on

a fishing trip with

If possbile, Dr Henry Hudson. They wore

never

found, but it wasn't "Have you bought a button,

I always ask with through any lack of effort on sir?" the part of the Department.

D

The playlets, with children east in the principal roles, answer

In easily-remembered fashion

the questions a child from one bright smile, and if I know country would be most apt to their names it works wonders," ask a boy or a girl from another.

-United Press, A milestone in public It had been reported that Mrs Moss 43ye. transportation was passed Hudson's aircraft came down in

"If I can add, How are you. in Djakarta recently when the bush in the vicinity of

(tri- James Bay, and for a month the Mr......? Please help the gas-powered betjake

Department diligently searched dies whose caddies didn't come

cycles) made their ap- the monotonously similar ter-back they are well and truly

the

pearance on the streets. To the sentimental meant the passing of an era, to tho modern-minded

and

we

LATEST IRON CURTAIN JOKE

rait for trace of the couple. sunk and I collect handsomely."

London. Mrs Moss anys' aha' can tell finally gave up the When search," Chief Pilot Charlie La by people's mouths Whether A new joke behind the Iron the rounds. anly be they are likely to buy a poppy Curtain is making progress, Fouvre said, "It was

It goes like this: but to most residents of this cause we knew it was hopeless for button. She ainda visitors are always good prospects, perhaps

First Russian: "What do you crowded just another traffic to continue."

Since the Barilike incident the giad of the cheery grooting she think of Malenkov?" hazard to be endured.

gives them. Men are as easy to roam Department has tried to per sell

Second Russian: "Follow me of beljaks Thousands

Women.

and I'll tell you." He leads the to stay south suade sportsmen

*Don't think because I'm not Djakarta streets by day

It is a man into a room and locks the night. Sweating men and boys of Hudson Hay to do their hunt-

young and glamorous pedal determinexily, pushing in ing and fishing. They pointed handicap. I've often gone out door, then into another front of then on a wide seat out that in most cases the fish with lovely models, and they locising the door behind, then down into a collar loads ranging from five persons ing is just as good farther south stand around and sell only a

into a vault, locking it behind. and the chances of being found few, while I go up to people to huge of ice.

always

.com alive it lost are much better and sell my buttons like hot Finally he whispers: "I lik

caken."--United Press.

him."-United Press. plained

gally-decorated United Press. the tricycles were hard to dodge. Now a few of them are hardor. Their

owners resourceful tached smal gna motors turned them into motor bikes.

residents think

Most

д

and

The authentic

BO

the good thing about these machines is that there are

only

few of them.

But in the transportation scooter the motor Acid, it's

that is fast running away with the race.

More and more of the squat

scooters show up each

day.

driven

dyeles Intier

There are more power

blcycles and motor

than scooters, but the are: by for the most

popular..

bavo to wait six to nine months to buy one because of the shortage. But you can get one immediately if you pay the black market price, United

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