REPORTING AMERICA
PRICE WAR STARTS IN THE KITCHEN
W There
7IVES
From James Cooper
New York. name n street Eisenhower Drive-and they had the new are delighted.
sign up by the time the Pre-
In a price war aldent arrived. breaking out in the kitchen. It means that gadget. minded American women can buy electrical appliances more cheaply than ever be
fore.
ان
The country's biggest makers cleaners, Coasters, trons, mixers, fruit presses, and all the devices considered essential to an American home, have cut prices by 30 percent.
And the biggest refrigerator prices up to Arm has reduced 15 percent within two weeks of introducing its 1950 models.
It 15 £1 Competitors say.
of wur Lunch the makers will have to
declaration other follow."
M
LAMI BEACH,
nine-mile strip
from the and
T
Florida
147
the lush, reclaimed musquito
Amerien's
richest winter playground, is off to its greuteat-ever bouIN. Northerners serking
from the cold are pouring into
hotels and moWIS. the plush
It is hard to and un empty Too:, evEN though four new hotels have been built If you Insist on an ocean view 11 will cost you $45 a day with fot
un extra
HUBBANDS
too are rubbing UNET 4 orice
For the first
time in history,
Two
mortor-cyclista given $11 speeding tickets on the noticed thal spot in California
dropped the the policeman carbon paper on the rond. They hauled num into court for altering the highway-and be
was ned $20.
How to be happy though
married argue more, Baju college preslilent DI Leonaril tiggleman DI A LAON Angeles conference. Lack of a family agrument indicates the existence of 16 canesite dietatorship in the home, he said
Tuk Scante 15 to investigole
to
Bell
Foods offer 10,000,000 shares to the public, said Senatin Fosept: O'Mahoney, Democralie chairman of the monogly sub-committee.
Ford's prospectus was amulher of certain giant U.S
exts in which the public
har no substantial control over policy. #ithough 11 frad Et majority of the voting power, he subt
NEW
YORK'S
Aansport suflinerty is considering petun 1et Jnistul
newspaper • vending Packs in all city buses
4 xiin sure of income
year-old cars are selling for half A
their price when new
LAVING is not for all shoppers.
SAY
Today small order catulo- show prices are ques for 1936
two to threy percent higher.
CIPENDING
SPE
habits Kre
I-
vealed by these catalogues
to 1,362 pages D Une runs lists everything from a Mexican mule ul $67.50 to a kissing fish at $1.
(URPRISE
for
President Elsenhower when he new into the sunshine of Key West, Florida. The
counellors
city
held on overnight telephone
meeting by and agreed tu ro
THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1956.
If French election technique crosses the Channel...
POLITICIANS
1.SQUEEZE MIDDLE CLASSES
OUT OF EXISTENCE 2. MORE LES
65%;
UNION
2 BIGGER BETTER *CRICHEL DOWNE
4.FOURTEEN MONETH
CUMMINGS HAS 4 NEW YEAR'S DELIGNE
Problem: Why is the Empire barred to the British?
VIGHTMARE
Cummings
London Express Service
WILLOWS GROW
Australia Becomes AGAIN
27
OHO
has
A Vast Soho
Sydney.
come to
Sydney with
clamour
By BERTRAM JONES
P of foreign Solo
Bayawater. Conver- Greeks, Hungarians, Latviens, waft of sation in Espresso coffee lounges Lithuanians, tongues, a4
cheap wine
N atomie *** designed ravioli, and the strains
tes wirplanes is being testest O Sole Mi"
a secret base in Idaho
Government
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KJE
SOUGHT: H
A
utelal said breeze.
simple 14
how
211
and
parlours Americans,
of splutters with Polish "Cz8"
the sea and German "uchu."
Yugoslavs
Ten thousand Americans. by far the biggest group Itelian-nearly 100,000.
and
But
every Saturday morning to send
drafts hone
ot the rate of £10,000,000 a year so that Papa or Mama can save up enough to come here toc-Australians are not clearing the Empire road for those 50,000 waiting Britons
VIS Yes, in this land, which used to pride itself that 08 percent
134 prople from Alk.
can imog- me yourself on
shores the the Mediter- Furan
Olive-skinned men, plump f makes you wonder why you stand prosperous, with flash- not think of it yourself."
smiles ing
End cloquent Britisa phrase hands, stand behind
the you replace Lobbysoxers US
counters of fruit shops. teen-agers have discarded the
Shops have names like for 12 ankle socks so popular
or Milano or favor of knee-length Casamento turs in Contanta. type stockings Napoli over their windows.
The milk-bar wally bright red
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Sydney's King's Cross Workers now take home worries | at night mangle people of us Rinnanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, instead of uching backs.
Imany races as you will find in Yugoslav, Hungarian, Lebanese, German, French, Greek, Portu- |guese.
Not a word of Engish.
At Phot mament a ship casting off from Messina bring- ng hundreds more Italians.
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And the
wats
being
House of
wid that
Wus
Commona 50,000 Britons awaiting assisted pas-
sages
cannot
come because
nobody Australin has spon-
sured them.
itself
No sponsor means nowhere to live until they find homes of their own. Nowhere to Jive nigans that Austral- Brit.sh country out to populate faster thari any land hus ever done is beginning to fall short for its inmigration target of one
Briton to every non-Briton.
If numbers only were impor- tant
Australlons would count 01:19 vasi Immigration pro- gramme as reassuringly success- tul. But they sue nothing bul Empire folly in allowing Britain 1. be outstripped in the race to All their empty land.
Fich can- They look to the fields of Northern Queensland And they
Italian colonies bodies -- "foreign embedded In the fleshi,”
expanding
sec
Governor-General Sir
Slim called them.
William
sixnsors once--and they will that never forget the quarrels
to bolled over through trying share u kitchen with another
T
ON
THE GINZA
By RICHARD HUGHES
Tokyo tion of changing rainbow colours which out-glitter Times Square willows аго
and Broadway in variety, if not flourishing again on in size. the Ginza, Tokyo's To the gaijin, these signs are main thoroughfare, where a fairy glow of delight, because Why? You may wonder. | East meets West on street he cannot understand the Jap
ancso advertising Because
of them level.
characters, 50 many
which to him are merely a be opened their homes and became
But the pavement stalks jewelled backdrop to a polyglot are all gone, and you can Oriental street scene which no
Aslan ather
city, Including no longer play midget bill Hongkong, can match. liards on
miniature street in the shadow of massive tables under the moon, steel-and-marble department while the traffic thunders stores, whose gleaming windows television acts, refri- enshrine by, and the censeless tor- gerators, mink
coats, and rent of humanity, enjoying fabulous art treasures, are small Ginbura (a stroll along the stand-bars, where you can drink local whisky, which in Occupa- Ginza), flows past.
tion. days was culled "White Walking-Suck Brand" (s “while bottle").
woman.
The old ex-admiral, who 1940 sold the Seven Solces
Asin in carved wooden con-
of walking
SPAGHETTI (P
O SOLE MHO
They turn to the great Then why doesn't Australla Australian ports-and they sco officially cut down on Europeans shipload after shipload of non- and make room in its Immigra- British arrivals awarm ashore. tion hostels for those 50,000 Uneasily they note the national Britons, communities there to meet their countrymen with embraces and exelted song.
to welcome them ir to their homes and to put up
the money to start them
businesses
their own,
in of
They switch
on their radios and hear voice enunciate carefully: "English for new Austro-
IR. after me.
...
answer
is The Government that Australia cannot be sure of a regular flow of skilled work- ers from Britain alone. As they vital to her development, slie has made agreements with
аге
<ther countries.
And apart from having only enough
13 hostels for room selected tradesmen, the Com- monwealth has to consider the bill. It costs £120 in fare alono FIRST LESSON
to bring one assisted immigrant This is Paul. Say from Britain, but only about
£35 for most Europeans.
contribution
They wonder how long it will Le before imported customs and foreign ideals enter The broad stream of Australian life.
Britain's
to
assisted passage funds is limited whereas £180,000 a year. or 1,000,000 new arrivals since
the others get more help. mass immigration began eight
But while Greeks years ago, lust over 473,000 were
The question remains: British. The others were Italians, Germans and Italians. (especi- much is it worth to Britain to Potes,
Dutch, Czechs, Germans, ally Italians) crowd the banks keep Australia British?
DIXIELAND
and
JAZZ
WEST BERLIN BY
Berlin
W
'HEN Louis (Satch- mo) Armstrong
wanne,"
By NORMAN LINDHURST
How
stick
And cat
with every
baked cel
tainers, has gone, So has the ex-general, who sold dolls and holled octopus, the luscious but fans at another stall, and know deadly blow-fish, (fatal if not cleared), grilled anake although he could not
afford sushi (raw fish and rice,
and to go there himself the address which many discerning drinkers of the only Ginza bar which
sale.
concession to Tokyo's
Drunken Students
still had real Scotch whisky for claim la an Infallible preventive
for hangovers),
The stalls, which were once as much part of the Ginza the willows, have been moved. in the face of angry pubile
There are horrible "Western to the Ginzakan opposition,
style" cates legacy of the market, where the galjin
them- Occupation-which call (foreigner) souvenir hunters now selves "Florida" or "New York" converge. Their eviction was a or "Well-come-Inn," and which reluctant
plastic display
statuettes of tremendous, ever-growing traffle eggs-and-bacon and grim, stag- problem.
nant sundaes on the counters.
There are the "exclusive" shops with the celebrnied names which are able to sell shoes, clothing, cameros, woodblock At these stalls, you could cut, prints and watches at double drink and gossip, or buy literal- ron-Ginza prices
because they lyit modestly - everything are wrapped in Ginza-embossed needed to set up and to keep paper, which gives the buyer house, from paint to fumiture great "face" when carried home and from saucepans to books, in train, tram or bus.
Instead of the stalls, there are now the neon lights, a corusca-
Fairy Glow
TAKES STORM
we are quieter, but we are just as intenso," apologised Helder.
The Badewanne's clientele is visited the "Bade- The four most popular are the
of young "Originally, Jazz gained a composed mainly the wide following in Germany until people, who crowd Into (Bathtub),
the Berlin "Badewanne" West a
(Eggshell), Studio It was banned. During the Naz! Club's small room, drink mostly night club, he flashed his "Eierschale"
era heavy fines were imposed soft drinks and listen quietly to on those listening to or playing the raging music. and marvelled: 22 and the Boogie club. wide grin
American jazz. This, of course, "I could have sworn i was
1950, Since opening in
gave jazz a great vogue, parti- in Germany
featured such cularly an hour ago, Badewanne has
traditionally in- but I guess I'm wrong. This jazz royalty as Armstrong, Dizzy dividualistic Berlin.
Sarah Vaughn, Cab couldn't happen anywhere Gillespie,
Calloway, Gene Krupa and but in the United States."
Sidney Bechet. Couldn't it?
the
the
a
Ber-
There are the vast, crowded beerhalla, in which dirty, loutish students--who, it is believed. must never remove their univer- alty caps even in bed-become abominably drunken
two bottles. In company with the most delicate, urbanc, Bower- like girls in the Orient.
on
Ginza manns literally "Silver Place." In the Edo period, be fore the West burst Japanese isolation wide open. there was a silver mint on the street. Now Ginza has become
a common noun, meaning the busiest sec- tion of any Japanese town, city or village.
Kamikaze Taxis-
one
now
But there is still only real. Ginza, although some Studio 22; home of the jazz say it should be called Kinza, "ör intellectuale, particularly "Te- "Gold Place," "Tsuchi istho, kin ritates American jazz fans, Hers sho" "One bag of soll there is Berlin's high priests of jazz git worth
bag of
of gold." in small motionless clusters
The old men say that it la not In deademic tones what it used to be as if any a particular
Arrangement in the tonalists deplore
ever were, The tradi-
the replace middle of a wild trumpet riff. The highest accolade that the ment of the stalls by neon sweating musicians can
expect lights, and of the soaking
"Jazz fourished among la's war ruins of ten years ago. Its rocking rhythm offered escape from the stark reality of the period, particularly for Ber- lin's youth. Bince then jazz has 110,"
In time with the music.
Berlin's Jazz enthusiasts call Later, Armstrong sat in the city a new "Storyville on with the band for a few the Suree." And there is numbers. This proved al- certain parallel between
02 jazz in Berlin and tha become a solid part of the city's is a sedate tapping of the footchshow coolica br. of Dixieland jazz half most catastrophic. His fans broke four tables and century ago on Storyville, the
strect numerous chairs in the ramshackle crush to get closer to the Orleans, bandstand. Traffic outside
the night club was jammed
for two blocks.
taken West Berlin by storm. It
a
muze taxis..
Cru
denounce tothing
The mustere for the "New Life
the on the gdy
who lido past the
Berliners have applied typical German, thoroughness to their passion for jazz. There are
Such Is West Berlin. East creatures three jazz study clube in the city-the Berlin Jazz Club, the Berlin broods dark and silent. occidental fashions and Japanese Hot Club and the German Jazz There Dixieland is banned. The flower arrat Collectors. The clubs have
in
New
1940, Iniodern
But
the
to the
ban was clamped on in
the
wisecracking shoeshine
sama canal bridges-even if
Club, that there are no fewer cannot match the exuberance of jazz and evaluate the perform latest Blan Kenton recording we better quainting
Lang.
at-
Alfred Helder, 28, an eminent combined membership of over but Communist authorities had Dixieland jazz, In fact, has Berlin jazz scholar, explained: 1,000 fans, who meet regularly difficulty in enforcing it. It go1 boys still squat Oriental-style at
latest jarz to the point where young East the have been in the United to listen is estimated by Hans Schneider,
records,
discuss new trends in Berliners talked more about the [they use
Western president of the Berlin Jazz States, and I know we in Berlin
than they did the latest Ave Japanese melodies still float
blacking. Thin, ance of local jazz bands. American jazz
year plan. than 300 jazz musicians working
from the people's sake bara to in 40 bonde and small còmbos...
"Jazz in the United States is ·American jazz fans tend to be
In May 1953 the exasperated mingle with the Western music -Reds cracked down. fining from the dancehall loudspeakers, The "Spree City Stompers," a a defiant sort of thing, though critical of the intellectual sizzling Dixieland band, has many of the reasons for its detude appiled by the Germans offenders against the ban on The neon lights wink apologe14 taken a number of prizes in nance have ceased to exist. It toward Jazz. The weaving, arm- Americanasup to 1,000 cally under the fun moon. International jazz competitions was born in New Orleans and flopping fan is rare among the marks. Underground resistance And the willows replante
to the ban continued, however one after the 1928 BEYANNO in Paris. Twenty night spots was, in a sense, 4 means of German
In April 1954 East Cherman, Jam and again after the 1945 dets dedicated to jazz are clustered scoffing at trouble with music.
"When we listen to jeux it is king Karl Walter Bed to West bombingsare de unchanging on and around West Berlin's the same way the blues WEEK. Broadway, the .
neon-bathed means of accepting and bearing as much an intellectual sa an: Berlin with his entire 18-piece the old Japan and sa Decal
trouble.
semotional experience, Kurfurstendamm.
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