The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 29

The M. Herald Women's Section, My 26, 1960 (ESIltt-dlgdl "MsDn PARISIENNE CtuUe to uHMf (CDniips" MASSES OF BEADS AT THE NECK SIMPLE UNADORNED necklines on this year's coats, dresses, and suits give a fillip to beads. Masses of them the more the smarter are being used to fill in the bare neck look of low-cut clothes. They cascade ia crystal ii tkU Muter ji I 1 Jit-y Sail into summer on 4 O'a popular out LONDON, May 25 Aa elegant soignee Paj-isienne who taught Londoa bow to cat fish aad who haa made the humble Upper fashionable In Mayfair is Madame Simone Baraagaud-Prunier. A third generation of a Keenint un so famoui mcthodi ind menus used in the Paris restaurant.

After iu opening. Madam Prunier stayed on to look after the London aide of the business, leaving her husband in charge in Paris, class liner. STRATHNAVER' departs Sydney 29th July, for a 14-day Sunshine Cruise to Suva, Hayman Island (Whitsunday Passage), Brisbane, Sydney. Single cabin available. great family of French res- reputation was not easy.

To London has been her home falls of all or seven rows on tailored suits. They MXFS trass It 5. nestle at the throat In cool, chalky white, broken up with clusters of flowered beads on dresses, and nuke bibs of huge ft tauf atcurs; she is one of begin with there were the ever since, apart from the: shrewdest business- usual cries after the take- monthly visits to Paris for women in France, England, over: "It won't be the same board meetings, or family and probably Europe. any more." And then came like marriages, chris- She is a Chevalier of the Wa" Street crash and its tenings or confirmation. Legion of Honour and by repercussions.

(She has a 9-year-old grand- virtue of her, amazing busi- Having coped with those daughter.) Bess" 'sense, is an adviser to problems Madame Prunier After the war she brought the; French equivalent of and her -husband went on her ton Claude over to the-Board of Trade and the to open new oyster parks London to learn the busi-British Ministry of Labour, that were necessary to ness. She is immaculately a regular supply Claude spent some time at wiy Tratvef Affit Si' A pearl bubbles for cock, tail suits. nmnutn tifitra Dozens of rows of tiny beads, in china or imitation silver, make thick. groomed, wears her blond or. lma speciansea nsn hair in a easily dlsne- Joe Lyons as well as her own restaurant, and now manages "Le Her artist daughter Fran- managed style ana retains chunky chokers for knit wear.

her slim figure bv restricting 4J I herself to small helpings and fkU? VISIT coise, who paints under the having regular "sessions" at name "Toune," is also em- a beauty salon. She went off in search of braced by "La Maison." She This handsome woman crawfish in Portugal and has designed many of the with calculating yet kindly found them. When Russian menu covers for the Lon-brown eyes has been head caviare prices soared she don restaurant, including of the Prunier establishments sought out new sources in the famous one which since 1952. "La Maison," as Rumania. It is chaactcris- marked the Coronation, she affectionately calls the tic of her tenacity that when Apart from the restaurant auiiinii 3 The French- business, is her whole me.

a. 1 She has recounted the! V' 1 woman who 1 mnrim the. history of "Pruniers" with great feeling and understanding in her book (appropriately called "La tracing its origin back to her grandfather. Alfred Prunier. who ran away from his peasant background at the age of.

13. made his way to Paris and later married Catherine, the housekeeper to one of Russian royal families living in BUSINESS PROSPERED humble kipper fashionable in May air Mme. Sim-one Barna-gaud Prunier. She is the third of French family of famous restaurateurs. Lett: 71 fl i in ii The front room oj La With his knowledge of wines and seafoods oysters particularly and her connections combined with experience in running first-class cuisines, business prospered at the original restaurant in Rue Duphot.

Their son. Emile. added a second restaurant "Le Trak- Maison Prunier, in St. James' Street, ton don. ir in inc nvenue vitiur Hup mcse too ianea sne went on in niayiair, otner aspects ot wholesale Cleveland wine found time to pursue any Madame Prunier was scarcn again until she fin- the Prunier establishments Company and later the re- spare time interests in her only 19 when she married ally found a small port in have been brought to Eng-tail Prunier Wines Limited, charming London flat with one.

of her fathers em-the Caspian Sea. land. Linking public-spirited- Her restaurant is open its elegant Louis XVI furni-ria0tVnandnto BaXald- he did from right through t0 ture. Pruijier). expand across the Channel: sne na ven encour- ate theatre supper time, and "Oh, but 1 do," smiled Barely three years later.

She came to London, and agement to the herring fish- we)( jncludes a retail de- Madame Prunier from be-wk-n Pmit- Hi-H ik vnunn ma industry and in 1939 in- How's your -V JrMC2 KOOKAPACITY? fY coup ound stiTuted the annual Prunier wnere dark-rimmed spec- sole proprietors of two awarded annually are on aI rady tacles. "I rest myself very famous restaurants, a fishing meyers, established "Pru- the trawler making the best cooked or suitably prepared well. I entertain a little. I fleetf fishing reserves and Mayfair with catch. for cooking at home.

love reading. 1 spend almost oyster parks. exactly the same layout. She has founded the Supervising the restaurant all of Sunday in bed. Once alone, not to mention its a week I go to my beauty many allied facets like the salon for a hairdo, mani A PLAYWRIGHT'S COLLECTION Everv'body loves Kookas the milk chocolate cream sandwich biscuit bars covered with oyster beds and vineyards, cure and a massage it is is a full-time job.

my weekly exercise. And Nevertheless Madame every year I take a holiday Prunier manages to find in the sun somewhere. I time to judge cookery com- thrive in the sun. It makes OF PLAYS Cadbury's famous Dairy Milk Chocolate. petitions, convene gourmet me feel so alive and ener-meetings, give lectures, getic." "IT IS QUITE CADBURY'S TWIN BARS IN EVERY PACK FOR ONLY mate lours, similar 10 me it makes one wonder at one she made to U.S.A.

last this remarkable woman's year, in search of. new capabilities if she moved her recipes. desk from the cool greyness In view of all this it of London to the sunny seemed rather pointless to climes of somewhere like EK2400 ask Madame Prunier if she Majorca, for example. DIFFICULT for Australian actors to talk their own language, after being trained on Art of Speech and educated English." says Miss Eunice Hanger, lecturer in English at the University of Queensland, who is at present in Sydney. They either overdo it, get a 'Dad.

and Dave' note, or use what some people call 'educated Australian' and which I don't believe really exists. But they find it difficult to catch the rhythms and subtle overtones which are really the Australian speech, and which our playwrights are now beginning to catch in their plays." Miss Hanger should know what our playwrights are doing at the moment because for the last 1 8 months I'm' 1 I MISS EUNICE HANGER Australian plays. sne nas been building up a library of Australian plays -1 'k-'-x- viw. -T-iTi77rW4rVBtWar -r5; in manuscript at the Fryer wno had ever written a play how they will say everything Memorial Library in the before must have written at else they have to say in the uettina aionawifh tno umvcrs.iy 01 vnMana. least one more hoping the play.

I- III -Authenticity is not furnitiim vou have "But I felt that it was not enough. You need imasina always the best plays that tion as well. And many of were being produced. And these manuscripts are using would like to see no way, to get along. i.w.-jaffj -I Mllll i Today's furniture ii fl amateur theatre, mine these verv nara 10 Ine usirai'n speecn imag-Shm a rSeS shl Produ an Aus" inatively.

You feel it's right lavf "No? nS on nVr! "lay- when V011 hear Vet vou one ASstraliln Sla a "Until lately most Austra- have th, pleasurt i and shock vear but each one present- l'an plays were being of surprise as the dialogue ins two or three It's the written with large casts and continues, because you niflv wav to hiiiid nn an many scene changes, but this could not have guessed in Sence for claw and and 1 feel il advance how would tomEomfZnwdZ" be quite possible for be said. With stock dialogue Xpirs 'sx-1 youve Australian language and repertory from the manu- before. sc" started my collection by CROWDED In English, srialilbg in ZSTlSSi "rnf LIVING i.r inviting authors to send me their manuscrints. If thev Among the manuscripts in exciting So go gazing-Tfi the" shops are crowded just now with the most brilliant new furnishing ideas have any value. I have them Miss Hanger's play library DI-- copied for the library and is "A Man Is A Moun- ArfvUnrv Rnard he author, tain." by Kevin McNamara.

'The 1 rust also helped me a Sydney writer. This is for bright practical Jiving ih veniMnth me a of People set in a substandard house 5ii Jt rrt rfr J-. who had entries to one in Macdonaldtown and deals EE" IL! of their competitions, and I with overcrowded living. -that will make your hBita olavwrol 10 ptopit- David Another, by John Holliday. Ein'i vfml utile Inland play.

'Heirs of the is about a whole set of zany Pad (now renamed character, in a N.S.W. town, says Miss tl Km T.hont in lmae lhe t-lay I was mining JSi. i- one I received after this. Hanger. nemo ana your nearr ni( kniit amar -ssj-cj inr The Strange Black r- radio nlavs aiven her by the Creatures." by John Naish.

5- 4 ft. co ZINC 1 1 1 A BC- AVAILABLE It aha aaultM ImirtvltifA alCIUS, 4 producer Norman McVicar follow up -Another of his. The Paul n.virf i.a: i.v other pliv competitions Davis is set in a vVwlsM''atf' i -V "'w Cirttrrrtsi "Imaae in the Clay the 'nct' nut ''ve nM nad mucn machine-age dictatorship currant production at the lh Pople who world of the future." says Pocket Playhouse. This was ruii them. Miss Hanger.

"He has very third prize-winner in the The manuscripts In her cleverly solved tha speech competition won by The collection are available to problem tei by future age Slaughter of St. Teresa's students and university by using form of patterned Day" and Is lha third Air-ropl lo miliiders on versa, trslian play he Pocket has applkation to Mim Hanger. Anoihsr In lhe library, reaenled in ahoul 21 One day she hopes una nf Shadow of It mnmhi, hr sludenls will ute lhm Vklmian, II, Wll as malarial for a Ihetis. khe lis, Ihll Is ahoul fruit If fill If IIIrN herself Is pi king un book faimsrs living on land thai avn'sn ITUkVIm anoul lhe ay Autlulun sistluslly kilns Inks msr lF dianta thanms, in tshivh Ox his Hinis hi snI in iilsd ID Mis a ill iniul long ttlisvli pmN slrivf Ini. Ami 'WmM uiiaub' fiimt m( Ihmii wiihmil Imm Wsi jT 1 fiiimii PIMUM iihfJ Amlisllsa sUii Oil! Ml Ids SUIIIHI IIHHII liiMH A It llM uhiij I 'I'iM a mm a.

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