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MONTMARTRE MORNING

- AND ILLUSIONS

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no Spack or Drink obligatory),

Paris There has been talk lately of Danco. Sneck or Drink obliga- tory, 350 francs, Entrance free." NIGHT o'clock in the transforming Montmartre with a

new building dev:lopment-and The real glamour in supplied morning la 'the time CVUS sky, crepere. This has by the yellow palm-and-bench to gro up to Mont-prompted local people to form Poster beside it "Holidays in the martre. At almost

any a Committee for the Safeguard Sun-Tanglers, Corsica"

(And other. the professional of Montmartre City, and say tourist atmosphere is

they are going to stop desecra

But the flu de l'Abreuvoir 18 1 on Ly getting the Ministry of thick as a scarf. But eight Beaux Arts to classify pur's of still beautfully unchanged, and o'clock on a windy, damp the district

historical the Rue St Vincent with Its morning that is going to be fine later, it is full of tor- Luring mystery; and there are witches of more styl about than you

now 800

anywhere at all in Europe.

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mentiments and comiequently railed pavement steps and thy hovel houses Preclicly what It must have beto a century ago, Marcifully these parts have not bren taken over by the

rich, and the 1920 artines that buil the Avenue Junot round the corner where the architects and ceramics entusiasta live did not reach this far.

But any skyscraper men there ste mot be hiding because tre is no clearance and scarcely nny butiding or repairs work ko¬ In feet, this is where one The witch-woman ahead of the Kreel end feccinating of me in the Rue Lepic was mysteries el Montmartre crops the one 1 remembered at up.

Downhill, across the Boule

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home in London as a hoy. One you see on the Butie, in vard, the night club district Her wig lay half way down the streets mmediately below lives on like a rackled old 18 hoofer with badly hennaed hair, her buck-a great heavy the Natre Cotur, the place red nest. As boys we used full of locked and flaking doors, still managing from sheer hard- obwebbed windows with rusty mouthed bra's to make enough to whisper that she kept bars Bijou buses. 1925 villas, out of the shared evenings her hourd in it. Gold telers, all decried. One street disbelieving. Father mistrustful coins.

I trod behind her door ha chalked on "Dead." and slightly scornful strangera.

Anuther. In the Rue Leple listening for the clink. She dis- appeared down

small street.

THE CONTRADICTIONS

OF HAROLD MACMILLAN

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Harold Macmillan

could

get together

with Harold Macmil

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As it is, the Harald Mac.

Medontested and won + millan who

Parit muntery at at Sasktere once wrote a

easily at night.

book advocating a planned

economy

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""The trouble

Please In the coaches" said the waiter at the Cafe der Omnibus un the Placo Pigalle. go into a bolle and "You

You tank there's atmosphere, sit down and order chompare, Suddenly a man you haven't noticed gives a sign and overy- body in the pince geta up and a couch party. leaves; it was You are depressed."

place. Perhaps, after all, there Well, the tinsel

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rather

are living cre-ture inside? And faded. The heart-shaped sign, Imilies to "This is the heart of Mont- mad,

slentric-haired martre", by the old Bal Tabarin Slot face Wourn end st men in st:11 cre; but the Tabarin with Parkinse ilan ma ks,

has been closed for two years and the sign doesn't light up.

Other tennis, it is clear have gom, out and simply forgolten

G

But Joo, late head man

dramas

of

case, ap hly new proposal that Europe and the Common- wealth should be inket bas 11 customs union what it with even- The

to com hick, 1k: the painter the Grand Jeu Cabaret, hearten- two

He also played a leading fually develop into a vast live outlooks cannot

of No. 31 Rue St Vincent, ed me by saying that in the be

and in the United Eurage" move- merged,

trade arcp Is it easily

alzel though whose wludow you see Dumas-like

night clubs there are still wild imaginative though ridyth, c.set, unfinished canvas, the pesill

of Minilion, all his lite, zeems to 1.11.

"Im- When, **

length, The

in that direction. have been pulled Brst by

Conservatives regained power,

It

palette and oozing paint tubes, pas lule" love between men who sharply and then by the other

culs

cart aside the world and brillant bottle of wine and hall-smoked careers and familles out of political pundits expected Britain's traditional outlook and There is no doubt thâ; when Be

eigaritla balined curtfully on passion for one of the pert, mas- nomated hat he would get one of the is bound to aroute coutgevers. Consu rvallves

the edge of the pushed-back

carned, slightly fatty and so un- young ex-icle fo the top jobs in the Cabinet. Insload.

chair. The padlock bare supectedly romantic young girls <t Governo.-General Canada, Church-proving his shrewd bring the rage of many

door

He has a who work in them. him to the Ministry clars down upon his hean neT us, a staunch w "kispetves they were

IN very ruity. he

And yet.

Its whatever

least had time to go by balsa དྷ། སྭ ༔ !, which he mat have

was In the best and crepest of Housing.

pollucal dimeulties, many proplewood raft to the Marquesas taken by sheer

Tory radilon,

In normal since the Ministry believe I makes cennomie

where pirhaps he now 7 They mus; have been shockri of Hossing is a minor post. But

DOTTO. The fact that he has, hed wor Parlament the when he wrived in

destroyed

carried the Cabinet with

The painters who have Bed, almost forthwith, declared damaged ore Brilah house

muned lock plump. bourgeols Socialists had way on Tory isn

three, and the

and robe, vandals

worn sanaged to make good only

t.pport snd fruction of

my by ferragn the damage. let

Cunts with a bad foot. In front alone trek the imincase urab-

of the Lapin Agile there ore kam left over from the prewar

vila nous unitat on tree stumps

fighting a constant though personality. losing battle with

force of

his

31 we mustet from this real

It back 1020. but won 121

in

19145.

In

The who Adam Smith

Harold Macmillan thinks that

wrote the last word

political economies.

mu between

thu

And

Haruki Marmillon The whose grandfather started lito as a pour Scollish peasant fights a no less vigorous battle with Who Harold Mnemilian who went to Eton und Bilol College. Oxford, served in the Grenadier Guards and married a daughter of the Duke of Devonshire.

Even

obvious R battle

Mzerlan il c who with his walrus 1.844- tache, his jewelled tiepts, and his Edwardian Trousers d lights

dandyism, in

and the serious, scholarly, deply sensi- live Macmillan who won n firat at Oxford and win on to Highl a one-man battle against tre londership of the Conservative Party in the early 1930 s.

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Tas difficuly 1, that no ease

enn tell

mon wit...

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an ore 14 to Manillan will

It is a range, in tord, that the

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DANDY... OR REBEL?

the Sjefallsta in

conving d that

years.

1

or In

this for chows.

fr fulminate 1 nguinest hi UW11 front bench, #ccused the Gourmancnt of sitting bark

A Cerva ive conference a ale ting the depres in a lockpi thouse The party it by sterin.

He believed that haters by paselig a resolution Caseful

cconomic lannigerlling on the Government to regulation of imports and ex-

build 300,000 houses a year. ports was one of the things he cemanded-cout from out

ups and downs of the economic system.

Wis

He also believed that England

to rich enough provide everyone with a decent s andard of living at d he could see no

many

who

were There Though; that the party leaders should put the rank and fi place. Miemillion believed that oly Calluse to live up to the 1020fullon would be political

excuse for the paverly zufeldr hunger, and human degradation he saw around him.

And he did bully the houses Now he

busy slopping

not all his old

been lost

at ley', Are can have

him Faur

If Macmillan the Gravner could forgċi Macmill 11:0 dandy and Macmillan would-be aristocrat, he might yet regain the pelige he lng! as Macmilun the rebel.

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CHILL WIND AT House of Lords"

THE CINEMAS

By JOHN SEWELL

people builing houses, buying THE shutters are going about, and sheckingly bad Alms.

motor cars, and generally waxing at

The change is remarkable- ard has been remarked upon.

Tup on

They have more and more mot of the time.

Hved On The entertainment cinemas. In Britain

a hurger of neople in small towns month ago,

the Rank Or- and

with villeges.

· remcle the nothing better to hepe for.

The obvious explanation gan'sation announced

ан rather looks

He was also cutely aware- long before any but a handful of his colleagues of the menace of Farm and Nazism.

In 1930. Anthony When. Eden, then Foreign Secretary. pioposed Lo withdraw the

ms too nulve to accepi, But closing of 79 of its 660 They deserve to go down h eto omie sancions which had

though picture houses, Now for the first onslaught of tele- placed on the genial Try rou.. By 1945, en

Mussolini. Maction has Integrity.

another concern--ABC, the vision. If there are fewer bed inparlant Macmillan not only stood up to WAN

Hu has seen wha! the

of TV Eared to

the v

House and Cenoureed him

Rank Organisation's biggest ams mude as a result CRW long

competiion, it will be all to the ngo FLTc "3"i Natt

but also formally

of shutting g it Bromley and,

rival talks dissociated cconemists

Britain ran afford по more ilcrbart Meril on as the one to

Conservative 1 la he was out of Parlia himself from the he country from the

25 to 30 Luxuries. The time has come down another me for les that ix months Parly.

If the standards of comfort in to cut back. Somehow, sizable cinemas out of its own 400. dolums should find himself on

too,

left are Laler, In the war years, he carved as of opin 4. Στην

war wil the

A cold wind whistles through the claumas that are

relsed, who could complain? If Trade Union Cengices in 1956.

converted from the production the cinema box efflers every- the aims themselves improve mary Seretury to the revel: against the Government's clions of industry have to be

of Supply, Under- 7. L.

polley - appeasement even ranger that the Minktry

the home where, There is more money in of luxury goods fur of 5'0' for the

better stories, sharper direction. Macmillan who spent much of S

Mucmillan was ne of

the production of the pockets of the cinema more new ideas and less rellance arch, the trible thirties nighing

Colonies an

ultimately.

who had made it easier for him market to

anything that will sell overseas going

before, North Minister

gaing public than ever un. mi.t.ng baitle for solution Heat

by leading the way.

and pay for the country's im-and there are bigger potential on squandering money for tow-

results we film fans When unemployment problem. Af les

wor inally

rudlerces, ports.

frit perple are

rejoice. should Tow

he accused of

appointed Was

Macmillan was rent 10 the

There is no deep plot. That just not going to the pletures. This compelllion between Housing, a job delicera e1y ploting a "yool of Miter ef

Minlatry of Supply As

much is obvious enough.

Everybody knows

It is cinema

and TV is a healthy un mplay 3d.

which he brought tremendous Parliamentary Secretary.

thing. It can result in getting rid Nor

there Any ensy energy and in which he W3B

for the fact that veerssful beyond his explanation

party's one of

ro.cue

to the

Macmillan,

be

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In 1931,

the few wildts: dreams.

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bul those

caine.

Conserva Ives of the prewar Then, in 1954, he became Even thep his political

years who had a deep sympathy Minister of Defence, fer Soc:11, principis, should

most haled by the Oppost.lon in

1950.

The man himself is a study

in cladictions.

Was

in co

that

the least,

tu

it

were all, Macmillan might the challenge of lofton.

WAS,

sections of the com-

refused eyes to hear him,

hi found in me

the cinema

devaled

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