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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1958.

ALLANGOLLEN INTERNATIONAL EISTEDDFOD.

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The committer appreciates that skiffle has a place in an international festival, but we will cat tolerate your referring to the rest of us as · ́ ́ squares.'

And suddenly...up

THE

Galway steamer ploughed steadily through the famous bay. The sun shone down on the calm, blue sen and on the desolate land around. The only sound was the chugging of the engine. We were on our way to the Aran Islands,

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Even the gulls, flying low enough

to admire their reflections in the water,

were strangely quiet.

“Afler" ndurly "three hours of pleasant, contemplative !ravel in this way, I suspected that the captain had doelded to under- take

Transadantle journey. There was stil no sign of the

is Ands;

No one seemed worried. A man leaning over O rall started to sing.

Then, out of the haze of sun and heat and spray, the islande of Aran loomed up. They looked- Ilke the backs of floating bipoo- potami that had struyed to the Atlantic.

As we monoeuvred against 'be little jetty of Kilronan, the main village of the lands, the whole population seemed to have issembled to welcome up.

BIG WELCOME

Women in dark shawls, and men in heavy blue swtāters, and wearing heeliese shoes 310 of hido (called pampooies) jostled to get a look at us.

There

HOME Excited comment, which was not sur- prising as We came from parts of the world which

by BRIAN

are still na rirange to the 2,000 Aran Islanders as the moon is to

From the jetty I took a jaunt. ing car to a guest house. These

popped a

"It's a grunt day," said Tors, "It is," I said, We did not seem to be going anywhere in

cars are a kind of trop on which purticular, but nobody In his you sit aldewnya. Theore ically right mind would have objected, de takes four passengers, but it The soft breeze from the sea, may carry anything up to eight. nearly always in view, acted as The horses are famous for their a refeshing fon. strength and looks,

"You may be surprised Te With many a gentle "chuk- hear it, but we seldom see mow chuk" from Tom the driver, we or true here," said Tom. were off.

BARBARIC

paradise

GARDNER

smaller lands there

Dre no wheeled vehicles at all-the only wheels are spinning wheels.

"There's no banks, and television here," sold Tom "And only one tractor, and that won't bo here long. Papers? They come twice a week, I believe, but I seldom see them,"

Con

Martin

is

I spent some time with this old womari. Her name Maggie Dirrance, and she was the star in the film masterpiece Afan of Aran, made 25 years

#go.

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DUELIN EIRE LIMERICK WATERFORD

✩ While the holiday crowds throng the great resorts, ÖND man heads the other way...to the Aran Islands, in Galway Bay-where they have no banks, no cars and no TV.

and a ballroom to make his holiday complete,

The plumbing is primitive. Water abmes from the well, except in Klirenan where there is some running water. There is no mains electricity,

The guest houses are the sort where you sit and drink tes in the kitchen with the proprietor end his wife. Women liko Mrs Conneely and Mrs Concannon treat their guests like personal friends The bedrooms are neat ond spotlessly clean, the food plentiful and wholesome, the lobsters glant-sized and delicious, and the company witty and intelligent.

And you can sit up half the Alcker of night talking to the

candle as well as you can to bulb. the glare of an electric There is no large-scale hotel. Full board at a guest house is around £1 a day.

The wife of an Aran fisher-

Later the day we all met in It man, she won fame, but not the main bar of the island. fortune. Now nearly blind, she is a bare room with a bench lives in a tiny cottaget selling the round the walls, looking more brightly patterned bells, known like a prison cell than the main as crois, pecular to the Arons,

pkee of entertainment on Inish-

ALONE

During the day we wero joined by various people we met

"Now I am alone," she said, our travels including Charlle the lighthouse-keeper in a fresh, lively voice with a and a doctor resting from a busy wonderful brogue. "I have twn daughters in America, and a son over there, not far away." She I asked the doctor how he pointed to the grey, conical spent his days an Aran.

mountains of Connemara dimly accp across the

We hurtled up the steep streets of the village, passing the miniature post bilee, two

We came to a place

called practice. provision shops, and thatched cottages muTonded by flowery Dun Aengus. This is a

pre- the most gardens there are about 400 historie fort, and diffe ent types of flowers and famous sight on Aria. heather nestling among The rocks of the Arans.

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People gathered as the even- ing wore on and beautiful songs, of which I could not understand a word, were sung in Gaelic, Eoys' and girls whirled round in gay reels, their shoes clattering on the stone Cagg.

MUSIC, TALK

Husing only

for refresh- have ment, the atcordionist played merrily away. Between songs and reels thero was much

"Well, in the moming I go

swim, ard's "Sometimes players Come edge of a clin 3001, bigh. We difficult to say how the day goes from Dublin to see me. I Mr Concannon's rumb«: looked downL

the

really."

had a fortunato life." welcomed Atlantic breakers exploding fat ling cottage I was as a friend, with the traditional below, **Thousand Welcomes" of Ireland, and à delectable lobiler calad.

NO STRANGERS

It is, the gulde "book

says, "the most magnificent barbarie monument now extant. In - Europe."

A TEMPTATION

I told her I had made the long talk, and the stories were so climb to Dun Aengus and was long that many of them were glad of a rest when I got to the never anlahed,

"Wd close on the dot here," I was proudly told "Not like "Sure, I am ashamed of

have those other places you you, sir," she said. “Ashamed. "heard about in Ireland"

Не was obviously enjoying top. himself. He is one of the many who come back year after year, Tom and I continued to The bathing is famous; the Explore the islandi. We ipok gandy bencher and the 'blue Afterwards, Tom took me our time, On the Arans time waters of Galway Bay.bre a O BOLT Jouging across the does not matter,

contact templation. island of Inishmore (Great

I used to walk the ste mller

to Kiroman every day. You Nevertheless, no one seemed must be losing the use of your in much hurty, Aegs entirely."

LOGAN

GOURLAY

Reporting this week from Paris

Baby and

the

perpetual

seven-year-itch

TE was in the perfumed, He

laughed

loudly and

tional for hats to be worn by women to church and I recom- mend hats as a right and_pub- per sort of women's dresu,”

What the Popptil not

Vatican and tho

know was that one of the men represented the bat industry of America, and the other was a high-powered American publicly agent called Guido Orlando, who collected a tee of 10,000 dollars,

Italian-born Mr Orlando '18 being pillorted in the Paris Pless. But he is still wearing a small red Vatican decoration in his incloet lapel

H tapestry-and-chromium added: "I think I'll stay single recently

bar of the George V Hotel

He was accompanied by

A I recently quoted Aly now."

Pakistan's He cocked an ear to one of UNO in Paris where rich tourists his blonde companions who was

representative ying that meet other rich tourists.

ahte Ilked the saying: "I'm always on beaulics of the countryside call. I have to sleep with "the flowers, the birtis the my pants on.... Like a fire-

man." Now BUCA enter prising Paris tailor advers tises: "I" make the crease« resisting pants that Aly Khan sleeps in,”

two perfumed, attractive trees are wonderful, n'est blondes.

The right setting and the right company for Fran-

pas?"

Les femmes

Co

said Roby

eisco "Baby" Pignatarl, who "Not for me," has emerged as the year's "I'm only interested In the gayest international play- beauty of les femmes."

The cabaret performer in boy.

The femme" who interests an Etoile night club was doing A him most at the mument la series of Impressions of famous Barbara Callier, Jup inodel in men before an audience about the house of Balmain.

60 por event French, "She's tbo most attractive

Churchill brought loud girl I've met in Paris,

plause. So did King Saud of "And she's not interested In Saudi Arabia, But Generat de Gaulle got hardly a hand-clap. marriage."

I asked Baby, who was givmi I am not suggesting that this the nickname by. An English has any political significance. I governess and who doesn't am merely reporting what

He has not rivalled that other Latin American, the young General Trujillo, as a donor of furs and jewellery to grateful ladlos, But "Baby" has been busy,

can

J

up-

Mainly, 15 everyone answer to anything else, if he happened before an audience knows, with Linda Chris- planned to dedicate the rest of about 00 per cent French. tian, whom he whisked his life to the pursuit of beauty. "No, I intend to enjoy myself round the world. But he has while K admiring the SO HE TRIED also found time to enter beauties of the world. But I'l

the end of tain-and be entertained by be back home at

the year. -Zsa Zsa Gabor among

"I'm building a new house in many other socialites.

Sao Patile. It will

two swimming pools, bowling alleys, tennis courts, and a Dine-hole golf course, in the grounds:"- "I won't say how much will enst."

I worked

He seemed to

have

Hotel in the

told the peg-log beggar to try millionairess Barbara Hution, who was

emerging from the Ritz Place Vendome,

Henk "These million stress give it all to big charl- ties. I'd starve if 1 depended

"Will you say how rich, you on them." te content to

are?"

let the world judge him by his actions and he avoided tolk- ing about his actions.

But here in the perfumed Paris bhr he decided for the first time to Lalk about himself

"I don't mind being called a millionaire playboy. But people should know that I worked hard for my money.

"I started at 18 in the metal business and I worked 10 or 12 hours a day for 23 years. About six months ago I decided to stop and have a little fun. think I'd earned it."

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He is now 41, tall, bronzed, good-looking and showing little signs of 23 years of toll. He has two marriages behind him.

"Each marringe lasted seven time I ret the years. Each seven year Itch."

ROUND

UP

RESCUE OF

ENTOMBED DOG

A

het

TWO-YEAR-OLD terrier, for three Judy, entombed days after following a fox Inte ils lair has been rescued from quarry... tip nt Wood Nook, Meltham, in the Lake District. Judy was out fox-hunting with owner, when she chased the fox, which went to earth in the quarry. After shifting about 40 tons of rubble. the rescuers came across a huge block of stono which required the use of special tackle for its removal. It was after the huge block' had been moved that the dog was released.

belts on the dusty. Inne, and we in the West of Ireland, the R. N. "LISTENING

Outside the open door the Maggio Dirrane laid out ber twilight lingorod "op, as it does.

knelt down,,

Logother sound of musle and voices from with chose' one for me. She showed within, drifting out to the fields They

popular anyone who is seeking *me the native way of tying it on, and the sea beyond. pescetul corner of the world

and

which the twentieth century FLICKERING

het so far passed by.

The doctor was showing mo I left her standing

there in

SHIP"

Island).. This is the largest of Everywhere I saw the stone

faland The Arans are popular with the three islande; abou; nine corices with which the

ambassadors, .surgeons, -- And miles long. It is the most prae- is criss-crossed. I seldom saw o Ural for a holiday. The others gate. When they take a cow exhausted business men, are Inishmaan (Middle Island) from a field on the Aran they and Inishear (East Island). remove some stones from the wall and then fill in the gap

Finally, Tom and I tore away Down barrow lanes, past behind them.

down the lane, in the moon. Body bractive and gaunt

We saw.men struggling with Now and again, we

light. The old grey mare Was DESCRIBED "surplus to we went

requiremens" the. Ad- going hell for leather. Its mane miralty is selling en aluminium pa:sed another fear," and we the soll, which is collected and

streaking out behind it.

decked ship named "Decibel." stpped and passed the time of husbanded between the rocks n

"She's had

a tuto of the A decibel is a unit of sound and If it were gold dust! Arid; near the walls of an eighth-century the brilliant sunshine, with her the shore, we stopped to watch church the falante are memories of the days when she stout," said Tom. "Just a taste, the 334-ion vessel

was entirely everyonn the shormon in their curruchs, almost

Roman was the talk of the great clues mind you.!!.. On the Ainot,

named because she was design- We' hailed a man sliting oned to "listen"" to sounda in re- knows everyano elec. There is Thom are simple, crat, similar Catholic when we were holled beyond the mountains

a wall, puding at hiạ pipo in search with underwater acous- reputed to be only ono koy bu to those which the Romans saw by on old woman teaning over

She was dreised By now I knew that the Arane the cool sight air,

tle submarine-finding devices. the Islands, and 14:14 found when they ; came to Britain. a s'e wall.

Ja long black dress down to, were the perfodt holiday płaca. “It's been a grafd day," said Built at Poole, Dorsol, five years convenient for that te bo left

We passed no `motor-cars, on her ankles, and so apron,

Her for some 'But ''they are flden, ko

ngo.she, was finærd at the Navy's in the door all the time.

the way. I. learned there is only "fiod was 'dark' brown und doňnitely not for anyone who Ho and his "mara were not underwater trials depot at Port- Tho, gun, was thiaing down on one car on the lelande and that weather-beaten, but her brow requires a comfortable; multo firal. On the Aran Islands Alte Jand but has not hom used for

On the two was ass clear an n young girl's, with private balby a propenade, firsli is a Mad of holiday. two years

day together,

in the ambulanco.

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But he approached million-

Ho is about alress Hutton.

got 100 franes (approximately is. 84},

"Well, my income two million dollars year.

"But the funny thing 1 1 don't like millionaires, prefer simple people-without money." simple I think I were a girl I wouldn't find it difficult 10 like blg. Baby.

Not at all difficult.

THE MAN stopped and stared at a poster of Ingrid Paris Bergman outside a cinema. He hurried on- without joining the queue. He was Roberto Rossellini.

HATTER'S TALE

talking-and gesti- Paris is

amazing culating-about story of two visitors to tho Vatican.

They had an audience with the Pope, who then issued statement saying: "t la trodi

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