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SÎR WINSTON CHURCHILL is going in flcity for his Easter höllsday, reported resterday: (hat, he will, slag 'at Nyrseuse, and, mas alio, vicit. Taormina, 00 miles herther slong the coast, But, In any case; At fa·sts) Melly 1 Khi pat Di ankson. What will it be ho Well, YOLANDE DONLAN-the' afaze "and serona star with the champagne nazam of comady-ħas tried Sleily-before-tha- The went with husband Val. Guest (the dlm director}" adil Tony Reckwith, their partner. And she tells about it in this 'Gatordar Special articia,

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say: "Right grey.

where is Mount Etna, tomorrow

ETTING to Taor passengers had been turned Rome, one from Marseilles would point and

mina is no mean back.

and the other from Roch- ever zere--between ze trick in the first So the family doctor was dale, and anyone landing cloud and ze black cloud, zat is place. There is, ap- hurriedly sought out from a from those two places had to you will see." parently, no direct airline family pichie and the three have certificates. It was from London to Sicily. You of us lined up bared arms, obviously the words Mar- On the morning of the third have to fly to Rome, take were scratched, dabbed with seilles and Rochdale not day a fittel sun broke through. an air taxi to Naples, take cotton-wool, plastered, and being in Italian that had mad rush to the windows to We were nearly trampled in the an air taxi to Palermo, take we just caught our plane to thrown him. This brought look for Mount Etna. But no. an air taxi to Catania, tako

a train to Taormina...

And then you take: a land taxi everywhere because Taormina is ali mountain and everything you want is up it.

Tony Beckwith, our part- ner, was to play interpreter on this trip. He had spent part of the war years in italy, and was confident of his role.

On the morning of the

There's an awful lot of MOONSHINE about

your SUNSHINE isle

(WHEN, LIKE ME, YOU TRY IT OUT-OF-SUMMER)

Sunday we were due to leave Rome, complete with three on a slight loss of con- "Before the sun disappears London (in March 1952) he crisp new vaccination certi- fidence in our interpreter. let's have a quick look at this bought an Italian news- ficates.

However, we gained heart wonderful quiet little square But when paper and promptly inform

we reached again when he started call- they all talk about," said hus- ed us we must all be vac-- Romo the officials not only ing all the porches in Italy band Val cinated immediately or they didn't want to know about "belvederes."

Now before you can get to wouldn't let us land in our certificates, but hadn't

heard of the epidemic. It hop-skip-and-jump airways to through.

We made straight for the the square you have to go Rome:

rough-and-tumble seems that Tony had left out sunny Sicily.

with every shopkeeper in Taor- According to the Italian a few of the essential words

These

air taxis dre un inina's ose main street. They papers. according to Tony, in his translation.

trimmed, unsiewarded, unfed.

there was

A smallpox There had been two cases unpresarised, epidemic and hundreds of of smallpox coming into

Gentlemen, Start Thinking!

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JILL CRAIGIE hands out a few hints to the men who invent the household gadgets

BELIEVE in

gad seems obstinate. Sometimes

gets-clothes-washers, he makes a hopeless botch. dish washers, waste-

grinders, food-mixers, the So it is up to us to tell whole gamut of new kitchen him what we need. Like utensils. They can do so other males, he must be much to liberate woman gaily wooed or frankly in- from the kitchen sink; far structed."

more than philosophers and politicians.

Here is my short list of. inventions I would like him

Yes, the inventor is to look at from the feminine woman's best friend. Al point of view. honour to him. But, poor

man, how can he know for what women really want? Sometimes he guesses Sometimes he just

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THEW

and uncomfort pull you into their shops, cut- able planes.. Up we wen: ting their prices and their 12: Roare. Down- WO came opposition's throats with every in Naples. Up in Naples, tug-2,000 Lire 1,000 Hre. down in Palermo. Up in "Well, then, say 540 lire?" Palermo, down in Catania, and finally we took our earaches Ten thousand lire later you aboard the slow express to come out with aa armful of Taormina.

ley breezes

authentic Sicilian relies thought-

fully stamped by the ancient

No Etna Greeks with aid-world slogans

like. "Come to Toarmina.”

45 we chugged through. the The "quiet little square," we .."'Isle of the found, was being rejuvenated Sun" the clouds by a pneumatic drill and a descended,

Sicilian cement mixer.

breezed, ex

Etna hid itself in a black rain cloud, and We finished the Chianti Never mind, we told ourselves, soon we should be in Paradise.

So we ambled off to find what the guide book described as "the two most beautiful beaches in the world-Isola Bella and Mazarro." Here the water is

can old you

swim around in gold Byzantine colns

they say,

We trotted down the ročky

When we finally got off the train in Taormina, Taormina wasn't there. It was up that mountain somewhere. And how high the mountain was we had cliff, across the railroad tracks, no method of telling, since the on to a rocky beach, through

clouds rain

were at Ceiling 10 breast-strokes of sea to an- Zero.

other rock bigger than the rest... We got into the hotel taxi, This was IT, Isola Bella, "the which we just discerned through most beautiful beach

1

in the

the driving rain, and we started world"-all rocks and railroad the long and pellous climb-up tracks and not a gold Byzantine the centuries-old streets, which coin in sight.. were full of milling tourists...

soaking, gasping, sneezing, and 1 mostly talking "American."

Every other ancient, frescoed villa was either an hotel or a painted wood, even iron

and pensione--which is Italian for leather Yet TV-sets are en Keep-to-the-Menu Everything- cased only in shiny vencer, the Else-is-Extra. one material unlikely to blend with most people's furniture,

A fortune awaits the enter prising male who will make these sets to suit all tastes.

This has all, been done to Only a man could think light tions. It is made of light oak, please me, Perhaps I ought without shadow is a good idea dark oak, mahogany, rosewood, to be satisfied. But I am merely because it is practical, maple wood, synthetic wood, still hankering after my As though it is not far more ideal typewriter, one that important for artificial Bghting enables me to change the to be beautiful, even romantic, ribbon without making my

Oddly enough, the hands filthy. I am sure the kitchen sink is almost beauti inventor is clever enough to ul. Its taps and handles are a make it for me,

joy to the eye, its proportions perfect. All that it needs are one or two finishing touches to make it more practical. No woman can dean behind those without bruising her I am unhappy about tape

knockles. And, in the absence fluorescent lighting. I ad- or a waste-grinder, the boic in mit there may. be # the sink should be made case for it, if it reduces that it cannot get stopped up. road accidents at night. But,

Those Lights

So

00

Like bees

WE picked our way along the

"railroad tracks to the

Mazzard most-beautiful- beach Number, 2. Well, it was

than

beach

Our choice for the stay was a certainly better luxury hotel. Guests with over Number 1. coats Bung over their sunsults

There were fewer rocka, more... were huddled together in the torners of the three palatial feas, and several assorted boat lounges, sipping hot drinks, men entangled in nets, pots, counting their lire, playing rods, reels, paints, and boats. Canasta.

But within five seconds of our setting foot on Mazzaro they We had been told that had dropped the lot and wherever you looked in Sicily swarmed round us like bees. word Finally, a

about air you could always see Mount travel. Its comfort is greatly Etna, towering beautifully in

Apparently the thing to do over-rated, at least for a woman the background.

once you get on to Mazzaro is

Dangling Legs

under 5ft 8in. She is stuck in

masy

to get offit ne quickly ag

We were saved by the arrival

her seat hour after hour. True, Well, we were in Slely for 10. possible and get yourself rowed it can be levered back into a days, and we flew over Sicily, round to the local grotto.

trained round Sicily, reclining position, but it cannot and we it makes me look like The Inventors of vacuum-

be levered up and down, and we bussed up and down something out of Dante's cleaners seemed to have stop Women lire me find their legs Sicily, and to this day I have

ped trying. The thing that was a miracle in the twentiesling in an excruciating} never seen Mount Etna.· is a monster in the Afties

Inferno.

"

Boar

A

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Mad rush

of an Italian family of eight,

fully prepared to risk their lives for a trip to the grotto, pro-

vided the price was right

Mama and the six bambinos SOMETIMES I climbed in and out of the boat wonder if all dive times before papa came to those people in terms on the how muchners. the hotel that And while they drifted hap- -year were in the pily into the approaching storii,

1- they are natural New, in the larger Perhaps we should ask demon becomes an endurance test. It

squatters, the journey stores. I must also choose straters to carry them up and is time an ingenious male pro- a new dress in fluorescent down stairs. They would soon duced a thoroughly adjustable lighting. It eliminates discover they had no breath for

seat. shadow and disforts, colour, their sales talk Why are

vacuum cleaners still so He will, of course. Indeed, My lipstick turns to a grue- hey?

all these requests will ber some mauve, my complexion

The designers of TV

sets and granted. When have men ever same position. Every now and we climbed back up the moun- batte me. Our failed to give us anything within then, when they stopped to retain vowing that tomorrow we goes faintly green. So how radiograms

stores are stocked with a their power, whether it is minks shuffle their cards, they would would pack our bargains and can I tell if the dress be- variety of furniture, contem- or sinks? All we have to do is look hopefully out of the large try our luck at the most highly boatlike windows, and a walker recommended İste of ell. Capri,

comes me?

JOHNNY HAZARD

porary antiques and reproduc- ask.

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