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A_holicoptor's view of two rows of houses in the Son Fermando Valley district, California, showing a swimming poo! In almost every back garden.
The Swiss Ambassador in India, Dr Jacques Albert Cuttat and his wife hold a farewell party at their Now Dolhi rosidonco for a party of 16 Tibotan children who are leaving for Zurich, where they will be met by 16 Swits families who have pledged them-- solves to bring up the Tibetan rofugees,
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CRITICS
Mr Colvyn Hays is criticised by your correspondent for put- ting on John Osborne's "Look Back In Anger" in fuls Colony. But why shouldn't he? A producer who always expects his audiences to agroo with the dramatized Ideas in the plays he puts on Is A pretty poor producer, And, for that matter, in putting un a play, the producer does not have 10 agree with the Author's point of view. "Never trust the artist; trust" iho fale," A play is not a tract; and Osborne's play conveys more than Porter's outbursts, dramatic validity
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The play
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Cocktails may
soon be illegal in Denmark
Copenhagen
From the Files
25
years AGO
August 1936
There teas much excitement in the charge room of the Ban View police station on Thure- day night, shortly after 8.30, when a snake, abo
about four feet Danish customs officials have started a drive to long.
was found under the enforce regulations which can ban cocktails deal of the interpreter. Mr Mu
Sai-ing. Mr Ma was from bars, hotels and even big diplomatic at his desk when he suddenly nitting felt something near his feet, and on looking down, found, to his consternation, the nuke lying there,
receptions. According to the letter of the on all drinks produced, there is law, the cocktail is "Out," a fact a restaurant tax of 25 per cent which flashed into prominence of the asie price. recently when customs offelala in practice. restaurants thus 15 the North Jutland tow pay tax on the cream, lemon of Hjoerring informed the juice.
or other non-alcoholic owners of bars that the sale of ingredients as well as on the "Blesk," a traditional Locally-quor in a cocktail. aude bitter, must stop.
On a gin and me costing six In a circular to hotels and bars,kroner, for example, the restau- the officials emphasised that rant pays tax on the all-in price. bjesk, being a mixed drink, was if the customer buys u gloss of against regulations.
straight gin and a glass of lime, and then mixes them himself, tax is pald only on the gin.
The cocktail is in similar status. But ofhelats doubted whether any drive would ever
The unwelcome visitor, which had apparently found its way into the hillside nearby, was caught by Toom from the
Constable Yau On, who sold it ito a store
Wanchai for. $1.50..
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N September 4 at about
07.50 um two shop boys
of the Fumiya Drygoods This, and many other com-Store, which rents the be made against this standby oflications, result in restaurants ground floor of the Ohashi diplomats. "To be legal n cockt being fined for breaking regula- Building at Motomachi. 6-
kull must be mixed in the pre-flors which are extremely dill- chome, next door to
sence of the consumer," an official explained.
Ignored
cult to obey to the lefter.
Blesk, which is made by is hotel owner. has A varying quality to suit local taste, and this adds to the difficulty of cal- culoting taxes.
"In the past we have not bothered much about the sole The "Vende) bo" drink is in of bjesk in North Jutland. but fuct almost the same as the many asked hotel owners two years bitters drinks produced else- agg to stop producing It," where under licence, but has the When this request was ignored, advantage of individuality which officials decided to measure unfortunately is hard com- existing stocks and told barbine with taxation paragraphs. owners to produce no more after the present stocks were ex hausted.
The residents of Hloerring, known throughout the country for being as independent for intractable) as a Scots trawler skipper. were expected to cx- plixte.
Instead, these "Vendet poere," descendants of the Vandals who shattered the Roman Empire in the fifth century, said nothing. But the supply of blesk seemed endless.
One hotel owner questioned shrugged his shoulders plilla
The monks found bjesk "good for man and beast" and hotel owners today find that it is good for business, too. Each bar pr duces its own according to individual recipe.
Wormwood
going to seed.
the Mitsukoshi Department Store, Kobe, were making preparations for opening the shop for the day, when they heard the sound of dripping water.
Soon, a part of the ceiling fell down, and water came down in torrents, flooding the shop. The room just above the damaged ceiling. which is rented by the Kobe Kei Club, was the cause of the flood, but as
the door was locked, it could not be opened.
Members of the Club were summoned and on their The base of the drink is
or qua arrival an hour later things Danish "braendevin" vitae. In a bottle of this the were set right. It seems that bjusk-builder puts a large fresh the Club members met the sprig of wormwood which is previous evening, and some one left the tap in the rocin turned on probably after
get any failing to because of the rationing.
Water began to flow at Expert bjesk brewers say that 7 am according to schedule, factory-made bitters use dred.
The wormwood is left to draw for about a day, the exact time
sophically, and declared that depending on taste, and then "the fuss will no doubt be diluted, agalo to taste. with over in a few weeks, and sales i Danish snaps. of bicsk have never been better, thank you."
Of the multitude of local drinks, which once formed R separate chapter of Danish his- tory, only bjesk (means "bitter" in Jutland dialect) remains to- day. Barely 。 year ago, [ similar drink, popular on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, disappeared after Customs off cials prohibited sales.
Medicinos
These drinks were developed mainly as medicines by monks In the Danish monasteries in the Middle Ages. but remained popular into the present century as drinks.
water
herbs instead of fresh herbs and after fling a bucket taken straight from the plants, which hac been placed This is the first link in a chuin below, overflowed onto the of differences which makes fee-floor. The room became {tory-made bitters a "horrible flooded and soon the ceiling
misunderstanding."
Juniper blesk is made similar of the room below wus ly, a suitable quantity of juniper affected with the disastrous berries being left in bruendevin effects already mentioned. for about two days.
Another variety, the sweet
gale or bog myrtle bjesk. has
Shanghai welcomed the
lost favour lately, and is said to inauguration of an important be "100 stimulating for man or public institution this week an beast." Yet another variety 15 made from the leaves and flowers the new Civic Centre Library of St John's Wort.
of the Municipality of Greater
Thi
Bjesk-making is not difficult, Shanghai was throum open to and a pleasant occupation, acthe public. cording to hotel owners, any
preat project has pro reader should try, and like it agressed to its present alate of much as the Danes do, here is completion under the sponsor. a favourite Jutiand cure for the ship of Mayor Wu Te-chen. It "morning after,"
is housed in a modern building One raw egg-yolk is put in a tumbler, and a
done
of measure
Before the Reformation, the herbs needed for blesk grew in the monastery herb garden by right. Today, with a tough laxation poilcy and a multitude of manufactured drinks, most of
in the Chinese renais the herbs have to be gathered in Danish snaps poured over it.sance ntyle of architecture and
forcat,
Add a good dash of Worcester- | stands as part of the extensive A contributing Inetor is the shire sauce and generous Civic Centre programme of complicated und expensive sprinkling of salt and pepper. which number of ather Danish 10x system on liquours, Mix and In addition to a definite charge Special,
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