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THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1935, -

"PERFECTLY WILLING TO GO YOUR WAY— IF YOU GO MINE"

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THIS IS MILAN AFTER MIDNIGHT Leica

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By BERNARD RONALD

Milan. a. fat, baby-faced sigqor whom I asked her, in between ILAN when the night they must obey unquestioningly dance or two, whether she liked Ughts blazo I unfike until 3 a.m. After this the final working in "1. Coccodrillo." any Industrial town I taicings are rajeed In and cus- "No," she said. "But it pays so have ever seen. Sud- tomers are shown the way out. much better than office work, denly the factories give place to As for the "takings" they usually take home at least £30 & World of right-clubs and must be quite something with a a week, which is more than four non-flashing hich

restaurants & bottle of champagne copting

times what I could earn as u world in

alluring Eve £4 159.

typist.

The dancing. chocolates at £2 sighs for

by Markova No sooner are you seated than O

but was anything box and turua are shoulders a sensuous signorina with bulg- standards,

baro

Middle-aged men to the common-or-garden apple. ing curves and an even bigger classic. But then here in Milan's night thirst invites herself to your mouths slightly open, with their shufed round, eyes cloard, spots, Eve often takes the form table.

locked Latin lossles

of a club hostessi

All tastes

for. DFITS.

are catered I stopped into this other There is Scotch at 7 shillings a world the other night when 1 glass, brandy at a shillings. And catablish- hostesses-blondes, brunettes of descended into the

alli or ment known as "Il Coccodrilo "chemi" redheads. (The Crocodile).

buxom, "Lolla There are

hair-dos Or от without tew tears crocodile or other horse-tails, with wise-in this mosale-piece of wasp walsts,

The girls get a percentage or colourful Milan, however.

purchases Instead

companion's which is why they have never flows freely.

enten and are simply dring for chicken sandwiches at sever shillings a ume.

it is champagne Uial their

Bebop basement

The blue-eyed blonde who took a financial interest in my own menu was beautiful and 23. Her name was Marianna Maurone. She came from Naples, Sofla Loren's home town.

44L Coccodrillo" is ene of the 20 or so jewelled "joints di Jazz," or "bebop basements" in which

Milanese maldens show elderly business men just how

For a girl with a small waist, much can be spent on so few.

Some 16 hostesses are em- she had a tremendous appetite ployed in the

and a chicken-sandwich line of "Coccodrillo." They are all under contract to thought.

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By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

on a

could

in their

Four musicians in fruit-galad shirts kept switching from tangos to mambos, while some- body else képt switching on the wall-lamps, There were wine. coloured velvet curtains, orange- hagd

Jow divans, a'murble dance floor and arm chairs, long

temperature if not al-conditioners that kept the

the bill- downl.

Body swerve

As for the floor-show (such as it was), this didn't start until 13.45 am. when those hostesses not consuming chicken' wand- wiches and over. A sum brunette brandish- champagne took ing Arab vails performed a proudo Oriental dance.

Then a blonde wearing a top caine

hat, G big smile and a dow inches of Frilly black silk. Finally, the piece-de-resistance, A platinum blonde with 4. horse's tail hair-do did a Hun- garian Czarda, She had a body swerve like Ferenc Puskas and put so much zip into her num- ber that she quite dispersed ali the cigar smoke

that floated

over the dance floori

The fun was fast and furious and quite harmless apart

from the Snancial damage. The girls sang a few songs' ba they danced But It was entertain- ment all the way

the

dly began to take a house to house in Blouge," and the "Porta

the

lowed £16,

and