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PARIS

with

R. M. MacCOLL

as your news-guide

T

PARIS.

THE TOMB of Oscar Wilde out in tho historic Pere Lachaise cemetery of Paris is in the news.

The other day the wife of an Ameri- can Embassy official who completed her education at London University received A Jetter from English friends who had been atļ the university with her.

Wide

The letter said they had heard that Wilde's tomb was in

andi

bad repair, would sho please investi- gate.

ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER TELEGRAFH THE HONGKONG

1950,

A Whitehall Dream of the drive for græs workers

arms

SILES

Out she went to the cemetery. thing. If I submit to a blindfeld With luck I can tell you Sure enough the inveription on test. the tomb is illegible here and what is not my own wine."

I lunched with Mr and there.

Mra

The American woman asked Pol Roger at their home in the cemetery authorities if the Epernay the other day. Not sure might pay to have the lettering prisingly, we washed down the touched up in gold. Answer: murhrom rotto and Nut

of beef with Pol Roger 1928. IT-

execulor: unless the Wilde's estate gave their

mission first.

roast

Mrs Pe Roger before her

I went out there myself. The marriage was a member of the temetery an extraordinary Ferrier and douet clan.

place wallet city of the dead perfect

dren.

Te

claninpatie Alliance,"

with long roadways lined with the sager. They have seven chil- thousands of elaborate mauzo- tours.

A native

1

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in English said: "Visitors to the cemetery

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are

requested to be decently dress- ed. No shorts tolerated.

Many famous people li there But Wilde drows the greatest number of visitors, out- Walewskn. noring

Countess

Napoleon's mistress, in popular- ty. An average of 20 to 30 people ask for the Wilde tomb every day, and more of them he American than British.

Pere La- Incidentally, the chaise who gave his name to the cemetery was the father fersur of Klug Louis XIV. "and that job," as a cemetery attendant remarked thoughtful ly, "ean have been 110

Con

stre

PARIS cuteness

Afinit

MRS BLOSSOJI MEDART, of St Louis, Missouri, of 10- mother

Mimi, year-old

whose blue eyes caught

to

the ap

whole

silents.

CONTEST

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what became

of....

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for

看着

while I mop

my brow. I have now read 2,316 letters

from

BERNARD WICKSTEED

continues his

London Express Service

research into those stories without end which readers want to hear more about

FOR EXAMPLE,... these four heres

PICCARD

artoonist

SNITE

In tron lung

03

KEMP

Cinderella

FLORA

A disappointment.

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happier than the average

They're a gullible lot... these New Yorkers

by EVE PERRICK

NEW YORK.

HE New Yorker is a gullible person. Living as he circus-come-to-town at- does in the permanent

mosphere of the world's greatest spending city (31: percent of America's retail sales are rung up thero every year), he has never lost his faith in the words of the barker outside the show tents.

And all his life he has been subjected to a torrent of words. Slogans, stunts, and speeches are hurled at him pight and day. The meat rissole and roll he bolts down during his lunch half-hour is offered to him as "the hamburger with college education." An ordinary common or garden dish of spaghell on the menu at another restaurant is lushly described

so feast in Venlee with gondoliers."

No good American caterer would ever' Insult his customers' appelites by merely inscribing a breakfast item as "wo egg- 65 cents." You translate that Into Two While Leghorn Hen's Eggs." and it's worth an extra five cents on the portion.

ot courre, the

women don't foll

for this kid

stuff.

With the Indies ac- tions have always poken louder than words. In place where one's sensc

(or lack) of values has to be readjusted each time the new writing appears Ott the advertising wall, the woman of taste in New York has remained true to one standard of judgment; the price ticket.

It's a simple ereed) -if it's expensive it must be good — and the smart frader has cashed in hand- somely.

'Anatole'

IDWAY on

the

M most fashionable

stretch of East 571b-

preciative glance

that he can't years, 50 If anything had He had a party at Mtam! the of Kin: Farouk

only trouble

1]ur whole world other day to mark his 14th year in the lung, and he said: "I've in Drouville last incinth, is wor-

readers asking whatever be raise the money to make them. happened

He told aut reporter who would have known." the reaction ried by

While eame of so-and-so or such-

clve

we're

animals, had a gout life, und I'm prob- down: cople The

zan him

10 that ably Lamis society

happened and-such, and I'm feeling a

to hospitals, what plenty of money

called thion.

Tup- person." but no one seems interested in awful echiorse

Paget Finally, you ask about a girl street is the mil- Mr Melart used to act oppo-little dizzy.

Miss Dorothy pence? Even my son of ten, who bathyscaphes." Site cowboy star Buck Jones in

paid 6,000 guineas for him in Moyra Kemp, the nursemaid linery establishment who diedlented to the hard-hittingt Westery

1931, and he lost 33 races out from Cuilen, Banffshire, ter husband has an income, of is the most inquisitive child

19th in thu Lecame a Cinderella in real life. creations of 35. He was

For

one clurious week last John, Incorporated. early £150,000 a year, derived in the world, has

time she was Christmas

the from selling steel equipment for asked me

It is a palure of rl whom everyone envied. children's playgrounds.

You't hugh when you hear The Daily Express brought her white marble, much

crystal took her to balls, glit,

chan- the answer. He was sold to the to London,

her to Alm

blue stars, dellera, have introduced must They Russians!

kind of Lought her wonderful clothes white' china thought he was some secret weapon.

PARIS sprightliness.. "Just think," says

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M

never

quite 80 many questions at once.

First lot me satisfy about 100 readers at one go with the latest news of Professor Pecard and

21 Medar, "Ms little Mimi as MAURICE

It Kerns modern Cleopatra. CHEVALIER,

hardly possible, somehow, They chipper as ever at 51, is opening are still in constant comruntea-his bathyscaphie.

tion, you know."

Do you remember him?

First

Bluffer

Now for animal lovers, What by the year Hyperion won-

ever happened to Flin, the tlephant who was going to have

baby?

1033..

21

Now back to people, and brave Fred Snite, the

1252111

an in the iron lung.

of Mr

and

cupids

and drove her round in a couch swinging around the alcoves, and a cou- with white horses.

ple of ebony pages Back to work

mies),

In

ՏԱՈՐԻՆ

it Me Jolin, in the singu- makes hats for

“WORLD

WISE with "FLIRT VEIL"

I ask

you!

She was to have it la a ship that was taking her from Sian In 11 new two- Of the kingly plumpness, Mrs he went 10% miles up into the America, and everyone got don't like having nour. une-inan

The days is photographs tratosphere in a balloon, and worked up because they d chow.

take him cut to be muen latter then he set out to go two and a elephants

They need not have worried. The ordeal of Frederick B. Tamous et man he really is

And, linnest, half inlles below the surface of babies at sea.

the tea in n steel ball. hal. which

when you ask in his personali- All the world walted for his Nothing happened on board, and Suite thrilled the world 14 years

stic

backt went ago. He got infantile paralysis HEN she reached hus trade-mark, will still be on you forget

his all about

reports

of unknown sen mon- when

Scotland and her job as in China, and travelled back to to Made view, but it will be

waistline. Such a kindly chapters, but something went wrong her owner made her an imita-

America in an iron lung.

nursemald. he lion jungle to

ព small, He shrieks with chic plastic, which is lighter ou

Mother and daughter are go-with

apparatus and

remember

Did the experience may

change brow for a one-man show.

Christmas took g to Cairo

merry-looking Vien- for home. 1 back to Brussels

crazier than a year marded his old sweetheart and her? No, it didn't. She is still

nese, whose That was more Just

cries finished How romantic!" Chevalier has

repair.

at Cullen, still

ercallons Inspired Donny Kaye's nursemald Tomme" "Mu Jin,

he is sull in Brussels go and it appears that a forge had a daughter. Well, he is Medart, Santa Claun

Well,

sun married, and

lights the car number of elephant lovers have still alive,

fires, dusts thement of the mad hatter, "Anu- (sinng, roughly translatable buks of the Nile."

dreaming, ke a strip'

now has three daughters,

and weare a white ole of Paris." nursery The been in suspense ever since. My Mur"). Playing opposite

toonist, of new conquests.

uniform in working hours, him is a tady who gained con-

another

derable Patatehou."

Lame

ac

the

"Lady

British 1

No member of the Prerag, she runs a Montmartre ught mat, so notorious for its Butceratie rule that any mun visilor who refuses to jam the choruses of the song

neckle Marily

off.

has snipped

Lily Patatchou calculates that several hundred Danes worth of silk ties, ruthlessly cut from their wearers' thioals, hong from the walls.

PARIS lushness

+

OLAND PETIT, whose Car-

for

Mrs the

-onum Rzyman

Strikel

the

Good-Time Turnabout

B

13 men ballet has been

By C. V. R. Thompson

NEW YORK.

USINESS men are com

plaining that Britain is 111 again! beating them foreign trade.

Exporters

for

Lo

Board of Education announced It will hold classes int parents to teach them how feath their children.

BUSINESS:

phrase The "nothing down and 35 months' to pay" has vanished from al- trooping vertisements. are

Big down-pay- asking ments and shorter pay-off

smash hit on both sides of the off to Washington

largest

tax history has The

California

she'd feel

up

Our man in Hollywood rans! the fellow who bought her. "Oh, her" he sold will con-

templ.

mention that

You

Courage

GARANTINEO

be

The fumed, for fun.

Lo

lar,

A

and for a fortune..

He is

She received four proposals

f marriage--all from unknown tions Englishmen and turned them women all down,

commercial urea- Ils more

have inspired sinart Mrs Winthrop "Don't

like He gut feel up TTE is still in his lung. feventure to me.

Rockefeller to pay £00 for o her ta 3 11 as a light apparatus in

I thought "People waiting, and sold

would small untrimmed velvet cap. on the phone, Havelling chreus. She ate 400lbs, which he can move around for alter," she said For has day, and went found a few hours at a time, but he at certainly was grand while The cheapest hats there. with a permanent erin pa ser always has to go back. And be it lasted, but I am happy as I simple felts and velours which

always will, the doctors say. a. You see, I like being a we would call sports face, the great bluffer.

He may "No elephant has been born

be the son of a Stater in the United

for 17 millionaire, but what courage!

So Uncle

M

Bursemnict."

-London Express Service)

Charlie

squared his debt

Y Uncle Charlie is a

man like this: Do him a favour and

Atlantic, has got advance book-the Government to do some periods will be required on all "never-never" purchases. Pur- ings ten weeks ahead for his thing about it.

pose: To halt inflation. novelty ballet. "The Gobbler of

We TAXES: The This is their story: Here Diamonds."

Revere being cut down in goods to payment in U.S. Petit himself ernat

the Treasury. to leading Jeannaire, his pallid

because of wat orders, Cone

was made out for ballerina, who shocked Boston export

and there is Britain delivering chane

44 you've got or are stuck dollars 444,377,880

and with her

faster and

and with a friend for life. in creater

(£158,700,301 Englishnan, goods

cents

12.). The all sing as volume than ever.

hyer: General For instance.. Motors,

when Forty years ago, Their chief worry is Latin

Aunt Give Britain

Dr Richard Hoff- Charlie married my warned Amerleans Frieda and moved into of the three greatest killers of flat on Allen Street,

Carmenerque caper-

ings, and also on

Cordon Hamilton,

well as dance.

The story is about a frail lady

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HEALTH:

of Les Halles, the great Parla America. markets, which are a blend of other three months, they warn, man has Smithfield, Covent Garden, and and most of Latin America

Billingsgate. Petit himself grew will be buying British, up there. His father still runs restaurant in the

π popular

heart of the market.

PARIS homeliness.......

long black

Marlene

their civilisation: elock, the telephone,

the alarm

by

THE

(Marlene Dietrich

classics

is sporting one called "Woman On Pier 13" at the. mament)-cost about

£20,

ren when he pula down The needle for the typewriter, This is how America's movi expensive milliner describes *MET. hl hat of the week: Jahn, Internationally cummed socicky hat fashion designer, forecasts fall fashions- of elegant simplicity. A soarine black raven wlor, adds touch of pure sophistication to this plo leopard bill. box. World Wise. Mr. John's new Fliri Velf addı''n worldly touch."

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But things are not what they I Miss were nt

Brogan's, was shown an innocent looking. frack the cotton cheapest thing in the place,

The saleslady mere £3 10s. flicked it contemptuously. "This

(anc! is our new 'commercial how low that word sounded) line."

No mit except the sky ins ever been placed on the dearest, checked although currently a little hel- with met completely covered rhinestones, und entitled "Din- monts Are A Girl's Best Friend" (after a song hit), at £80. s regarded as one of the expensive lines,

more

She turned up the skirt to THE next evening us the ol

For those women who aspire reveal its machine-stitched hem, nan was closing the store, towards something bearing the See, a muchined hem -- never Charlie asked le borrow Mr John, Inc., label, but who before in our history has Miss keys. "Maybe with the cellar

John cannot afford key," he said, "I could get into prices, he has recently launch

ed a fast-selling gift line. display Dunkelmeyer's basement?"

BILLY ROSE

hermetically sealed

baker's

shop

wha

the Mr

Brogan's ever sold anything with a machined hem. But I belter people don't know any nowadays, what can one do?" window outlined with

That night happened to be

It is simply an ordinary sew-

dress This despised

would tubing.

made of 22-carat Shortly after ho opened, the Saturday and Delancey Street-

ing needle, and Viennese begins

costing £2 10s. have cost about £ial an or spread it the Champs Elysees of the Easti

most popular," dinary store. Yet Miss Brogan around that his competitor used Side-was a-hop with window-gold, A

"It has been

buy is telling a lot of them. and around unsuntary methods

10 says Mr John. "Women the

and that shoppers,

10 give their Soon the crowd began to mob Dunkel-them mainly

The reason-lt is considered And small friends, I think." as meyer's window.

gift the thing to give Bragart vouchers as children's birthday presents, and so many mothers, faced with one of these tokens Lood for only about £5. have become tired of always having to exchange it for two pairs of children's cotton underpants — heretofore the only thing you could get there for that money.

'Know how'

and the couple would have gone the times and wings.

ald But Washington will not help. calendar. "In 40 years of prac-hungry many a night had deserted as a nightclub at noon. wonder-iwe mice were nibbling at the groom on top of a seven- tice," he said, "I have seen it not been for a kindly The officint Government an- them ruin the lives of talented

is that America's foreign men and draj: good citizens in baker on Delancey Street

calls for increased Bri- to a life of crime." policy

swer

OC- named Schultz, who usked casionally slipped them Jebb bag of stale bread. Gladwyn about becoming

1

LOVELY Grand-jtish trade overseas.

STARDOM: Someone

Dietrich វ៉ ៧ ទ And

the unofficial nside Is: Britain's Sir

Later, when my uncle got found time. in Well, you had just as good a how he felt between

du no good, Atting time as they are having from the idol of TV audiences which

have been watching UNO. Ha job and began bringing new 1039 und Pearl Harbour, JOMC

reply: "No one from the For-home a fairish buck, he Schultz. "Even my private re them the dresses and making a

Office is supposed to be kept up his friendship with lalians are buying from Dunkel- nests.".

oft

Alm,

BOYCOTT: Jack Townshend, eign

RELIGION: The

to

i woman

**Won't

the Dutchmun

kissed him

on

High-falutin

keyer wedding enke. needing to

ROUND the corner from Mr "HAT YOU'Te

When the gogglers were 10 A John's is Miss Brogan's stop this

Jakie-Come deep Charlle elbowed his way Lately my Uncle Charlie told to the window. Is on account lon. Miss L. (for Lillian) his friend one day, is public Dunkelmeyer has bis

mixing Brogan in the Dlor, of the chil- he dren's made-to-measure fashion * machines in the ecliar," relutions."

"In business. (Her hand-embroider- sold explained to the crowd.

smocks,

fur-trimmed mico

are building ed silk

bonnets and other high-falutin. have higher-priced baby-wear

in been displayed America's York Bartenders' known, not to mention being Schultz, and to this day if meyer,

"Then advertise," said Charlie, WELL, that did it, and a few stoptiest pram parades for the to buy six dozen boss of New

for her Union, is sending orders to lux popular." candies

my aunt so much as buysam recommending Battstein, days later when my uncle jest generation and a boif). men that they must refuse Hollywood house.

un onion roll from another Hartsteln, Durstein and-pardon breezed into his friend's shop, LAWYERS were startled by a

bar-baker

To the grey-carpeted, pinkly proposal from "They give a place such nerve vodka or any other drink

ho'll shout, "In the expresalon-Osbors”

furnished showroom come, the "Four fellas for one Job?" both cheeks. rister, Miss Dorothy Frooks, of homely look," explained Grand- that earns dollars for Russin."

Rev. Earl New York, that they drop arm gratenik! You're nipping old the baker, "Who could

ollspring of America's ma unexpectedly.

and all those with "Dunkelmeyer is kaput," he familles, Devanny, a New Jersey Prese names such as "Smith, Smith, the Hand that

afford it? But I got another

is said. "It wasn't ethics, but the dollars to follow them. minister byterian

Dunkelmeyer announced Brown, Jones and Mackintosh feeding us!"

Iden. This that he would leave it to his Usually, slie sald, the owners of

At Miss Brogan's a grey flan using machines to mix his dough brought back the customers." to half the names are dead.

and maybe your wife. Frieda, "Up-to-date publle relations,"

nel 'coat for a three-year-old after-life they champagne firm, explodes a choose

Added she: "The implication

he is sprinkling

"How you drilled a hole from will cost about £60. The same Is that the remaining members A COUPLE of months ago, could talk it around that on his cald Charlle mariestly. myth. He says that those tafes would prefer.

Charlle anally got a chance rolly about experti being able to

So h sermon tople for one of the firm have inherited the

"Too big a risk,"

said my window I can understand," said

The latest game to be added classify wines the vineyard Sunday was: "What is Heaven brains of the deceased." That, to square up his long-standing flings instead of poppy seeds" the cellar up to Dunkelmeyer's sized dress, from £10 to £25. debt when a Viennese gentleman

could Schultz, "but where did you get uncle.

to The Children of Dlailnction, "Dunkelmeyer (vineyard)ike? And how to get in." the thinks, is dishonest.

opened u named Dunkelmeyer

that there is the mice in such a hurry?"

whose clothes are by Miss Bro- Next week's tople: "What are largely nonsense.

few doors way answer back

said my uncle, "I "Simple," WORKERS' EARNINGS broke bakeshop

pumper- You might be able to do it fell like?

gan, is that of Leopold Stokow- And how to

in your run down fingernalla Schultz's

net a coge-trap in your pantry ski's new son. Mrs Slokowski. ciarets

a new record In August. The from

nickel." Occasionally with

th."

average weekly wage during establishment.

of course, had all her clothes So what? sald Schultz. next to the cheese strudel" Eurgundies," says Pol Roger, an

It was quite a lay-out-newly Unwilling to that month was 60 dollars and 28 hi EDUCATION:

with "Better a fingernail than nuls (World Copyright Reserved-London there when she was litle Miss complete elegant, slender

an cents (£21 10%, 8d.), according 1xtured,

Vanderbilt. thirties, "but with champagne give schoolchildren lessona

counters chromium (Connecticut) to Bgures jus! out. can only be fairly sure of one sex, Bridgeport

and

PARIS bluntness GUY POL ROGER, heap of a congregation fore

which

even by the cru

Fan

In

or

get

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and bolts"

metal

Express Service),

frst

THE New Yorkers, of bolh

sexes, havo a enteb phrase, which to them signifies all that Is admirable in their way

of life.

They will use it when you remark on the ingenulty of the sugar-shaker which turns It- relf off at exactly the right moment; when you gasp at the elaborate Intricacies (not 미 ways effective but certainly al- ways looking good) of plumbing system.

their

That's

The catch phrase: American know-how.”

But maybe it took Mr John and Miss Brogan to discover the secret of know-why.

-(London Expreza Service)

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