Liverpool Daily Post (Merseyside ed.) from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 14

14 Liverpool Daily Post Friday September 16 1666 Magazine in miniature Viyien Tomlinson Mr Stewarts great mistakes prices go uo so fast that parcel weighing machines have long since given up any attempt to have prices and eights property panted on Our morning post is now delivered almost two hours l'ter than it was three four years ago and so mrnv pos' cards to us nave miscarried that I now have to warn my correspondents not to use them Birthday cards are rot eo'ive-cd at all ai the weekend now hut we are not charged less for the privilege of non-delivery Iniquitous SET Electricity ana gas bids have been creeping up foi several veers without oom-p improvements while nhone bills have shot uo and almost every other number von rng is a "nr? one or unobtainable real cause for compaint but where will that take you? Precisely nowhere Then there is toe iniquitous SET tax which regards housewives ai luxury services when thev emVov domestics If tne Cabinet wives just took their husbands at then word and ceased to be producers forthwith I predict that the government would topple after a month No more cooked meals no cakes no cunning little souffles no hard work out in to disguise the fact that your main ingredient originally came out of 3 tin Mr Wilson would get no more knitted fair-isles for golf no more cooked kippers for breakfast I estimate that SET will cost the average middle-class and Drofessional housewife between fifteen and a dodoH week unavoidably which compares ill with an unnecessary shilling tacked on to some branded item that you can avoid buying if you so wish are letters of complaint to government departments and feel tnat they could probably save themselves more money by redeploying their own time than by complaining about aoe Bloggs's tinned peaches in the supermarket We have to use them Mr third maior mistake is to overlook the fact that often the price increases that cause housewives the most irritation and inconvenience are those perpetrated by the Govera-ment and a fat lot of good it is complaining about them With no to face government departments and nationalised industries can go on charging us higher and higher prices for worse and worse services smug in the assurance that we have to use them 7 he postal services worse annually and the ENGLISH OPERA GROUP: Acis And A pastoral scene from Liberation from illusion RACE-GOING IN THE RAIN Freeze-conscious housewives obediently keeping an eve on prices will find little to report I from the fruit and vegetable counters in central Liverpool Whatever may be happening to tinned goods and other manufactured foodstuffs greengrocery prices are normal for the time of year and with some bargains to be had Apples are good at the moment although the best of them Golden Delicious are dear at over 2s a pound and cooking apples are not as cheap as might be But English Worcester dessert apples are Is 6d a pound English plums range from Is 3d to 2s 3d and there are some damsons at Is 6d the same price as William pears Citrus fruit prices are unchanged and there is still a great variety of melons available ranging from large Ogens at 10s 6d to small honeydew at 4s or less Very small punnets of strawberries are on offer at 4s each and there are plenty of cheap grapes still some at less than 2s a pound Among new items at present available are purple figs at Is 6d each and Chinese gooseberries at 9d apiece Pineapples are 17s 6d each Of the more staple items tomatoes continue plentiful and fairly reasonable with even the local grown down to Is 9d a pound and other varieties cheaper Lettuce prices start at 8d and most of the salad foods are still Heavy showers and spasmodic sunshine greeted racegoers at vhe second day of Chester Races yesterday Another awkward day for the feminine problem of what to wear Boots came out in their dozens very sensibly and mackintoshes and gay So now our splendidly original Government wants us to write and tell it when we encounter price increases that appear unduly high urges Mr Stewart obviously labouring under the impression that he is introducing a completely new idea to the womanhood He is a bold man to tnT to teach his grandmother to suck eggs women have been shopping around for generations ever since a mediaeval market could offer the housewife two similar objects for two different prices The only women who shop around are flighty young teenagers who buy on impulse lazy sluttish women and wives with a chip on their shoulder bent on spiting their husbands by spending all their money None of these is going to pay a scrap of attention to well-meant exhortations Surely Mr Stewart your grand- i mother a flighty teenager? That is Mr Stewart's first big mistake His second is to assume that the time is unimportant It takes time to snoop around looking for price increases: it takes more time to assemble paper pen envelope and stamp and write a letter and housewives are busier than ever these days Most of them too have experience of just how Leslie in the camei trousers suit ber 28 the own company start their new year with Samuel Beckett's Happy Days On Monday and Tuesday October 3 and 4 at Liverpool Cathedral they perform Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners The Playhouse reopens on Wednesday October 26 with Jdhn Galsworthy's A Family Man It is a matter of theatrical history that the good old Shakespeare Theatre of Liverpool which suffered a fire and has now had a £175000 face -lift and restoration re-opens next Tuesday The Robley Group Ltd are not running it as a theatre-club as formerly It will have three levels of eating and drinking There will also be dancing But it will continue to provide cabaret of high calibre The artists for the reopening will be Roy Castle Derek Deae and The Caribbean Flames a two men and a girl trio of lithe limbo dancers Roy aged 34 hails from Huddersfield He began entertaining when 15 and has recently got back from America His triumph in the Royal Variety Show of 1958 Is freshly remembered He is familiar on television alike comedian singer instrumentalist and compere Derek Dene too has appeared on television in the Palladium Billy Cotton and Frankie Vaughan Shows and in BBC Club Night THEATRE NOTES BY SYDNEY JEFFERY Snow White and the Prince her lover Kenny Baker as Dopey heads the dwarfs Jackie Oldfield manufactures mirth as the Lord Chamber-lain the greatest of ice comedians Van Buren and Greta are the royal magicians On Sunday September 25 two Empire evening concerts will be given by The Rolling Stones The bill will include Ike and Tina Turner The Yardbirds and others On Sunday evening October 2 The Merseyside Evangelistic Campaign opens and will occupy the Empire for a full month covering in all five Sundays Dr Eric Hutchings the eh i evangelist has just arrived back from America At the Everyman from next Wednesday to Saturday Sarah Churchill and playwright Hugh Hastings join forces in their miscellany entitled A Matter of Choice Settings and design are by Lobo Nocho On Wednesday Septem High fashion for low temperatures If the winds blow as cold all winter as they did in Colwyn Bay yesterday then the fashion-conscious will be among the most smart on record For when Woods of Colwyn Bay presented their autumn and winter fashions the accent was on warmth and co-ordination Sheepskins suedes and leathers were partnered to mix and match sweaters and skirts and this was followed up by the co-ordinated look with garments which could be bought separately making endless permutations slacks jacket waistcoat skirt and shift dress all in To-day and to-morrow afford at the Royal Court Liverpool last chances to see A Present for the Past by John Hailstone with the remarkable multiple setting by Hutchinson Scott of a London basement flat Renee Asherson portrays the girl who lives under a complete illusion concerning her dead lover David Knight appears as the mysterious stranger ruthless yet salutary who opens her eyes and liberates her loyalties There is skilful acting by Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies baroness) Wendy Hiller her daughter) Hazel Hughes (droll veteran maid) and Mark Dignam (old wine-making friend) Next week offers a rare treat in the visit of the youthful English Opera Group from the Covent Garden Opera House The inclusion of two Benjamin Britten works enhances the interest of the occasion Of these the first on Monday and Wednesday will be The Rape of Lucretia The text by Ronald Duncan is based on Andre Viol de Located at Rome five centuries BC it depicts how the proud remorseless Prince Tarquinius rides to the peaceful home of the chaste sleeping Lucretia it is a story related also by Chaucer Gower and Shakespeare during the absence of her adoring husband Collatinus and forces himself upon her In despair at her sorrow and her own shame she stabs herself Yet it is a lyrical piece enacted within a framework musical and dramatic provided by a male and a female chorus Prominent in the theme are attendant and nurse Lucia and Bianca Edward Downes will conduct and the singers will be Robert Tear Jack Trons Rae Woodland Jeffrey Neilson Taylor David Kelly Peter Leeming Janet a ker Janet Edmunds and Nell Hall The action is confined to the crime but this incident led to the insurrection in which the Tarquins were expelled from Rome The other Britten piece on Friday and twice on Saturday will be The Opera John ballad opera of London in 1728 with the ladies of the town asd gentlemen of the road The contemporary tunes were originally assembled by Pepusch Everybody knows the vivid group of Macheath the highwayman PoHy Peachum and her parents Lockit the gaoler and his daughter Lucy just as fetching as Polly In various versions it has remained perpetually popular Norman Del Mar will conduct and the principals will include Edith Coates Maureen Kenetch Sheila Rex Catherine Wilson Graham Allum (of West Derby to play the Beggar) Harold Blackburn Bryan Drake and John Wearing On Tuesday and Thursday we shall have a doublebill Acis And Galatea and The Impresario After the Tuesday show the Bluecoat Arts Forum are holding their gala night for the cast the Lord Mayor (Alderman Herbert Allen) and a large Merseyside concourse The pastoral and Galatea concerns the love for Acis who is eventually crushed by a rock wielded by the one-eyed giant Polyphemus It has had important revivals this year in Sweden and Versailles James Lockhart will i conduct and the principals i will be Elizabeth Harwood Duncan Robertson Victor Godfrey and Bernard Dickerson Miss Harwood sprang into world prominence last year through a bit of bother in Melbourne Australia Wearing tailored slacks she was refused lunch at a noted hotel the Southern Cross though she had worn slacks in hotels in most of the capitals of Britain and Europe The Impresario is a comedy of two prima donnas claiming the same part acted by Jenifer Eddy and Margaret Price The" impresario (Kenneth i Macdonald) has the dilemma of deciding which shall have it The week of September 26 brings Lady Winder- Fan the Oscar Wilde social comedy revived by that noted son of Merseyside Anthony Quayle Juliet Mills will appear in the title-role The notorious Mrs Erlynne who saves her rainhats came along for the ride Toe Duchesss of Westminster who watched her husband's horse Minera romp home in the 330 was wearing a tweed suit in aquamarine with matching beret in quilted silk Lady tweed coat was of a semi-fitted style in tan and she teamed with it a swathed cap in blue Paisley cloth Mrs Harry Walton whose by MARGARET WILLIAMS hard-wearing yet glamorous cord velvet There were a lot of the new autumnal reds hinting that fashion is going to be bright and cheerful despite the weather and the credit squeeze an abundance of the new camels jazzed up slick in suits and young and casual in trouser suits and particularly dashing in suits with their own matching peak cap Suits which were not absolutely plainly tailored i had fur trimmed jackets the fur following the new trend in that it was flat and flattering Hats were luxurious jobs in fur 1 inter bretons in velour and multi coloured feathers draped velvet off-the-face1 berets in gorgeous jewel colours and satin and velvet cloches ideal for winter weddings and cocktail parties For those' wanting glamour-plus with warmth there were young-idea furs three-quarter length musquash flank a Persian paw jacket with a pastel mink collar and casuallooking ranch mink jackets Carrying the luxurious look into evening wear silk and satin cocktail dresses had lavish bead embroidery and there was a Regency look about long chiffon evening dresses all in fabulously gay colours A show stealer was a tangerine and black dress the skirt in dashing tangerine satin and the top in black velvet with its own black velvet long coat for hat extra warmth And talking of warmth that is just where we came in ivini Tomlinson reports horse Haraneae quite so lucky in the same race was wearing a dress and jacket of winter whte basket weave wool trimmed at the collar with white fur Her sister-in-law Miss Ellen Walton chose a jersey wool suit in brown checks with a hat of fine straw set on silk Mrs Norman beige tweed suit was teamed with dark brown beret-style hat and Mrs Edmund Noons wore a classic grey worsted suit with blye patterned cap Short Courreges style boots in white were worn by Mrs Eric Cousins with her midnight blue coat and velvet stitched hat Mrs McAlpine was wearing cinnamon shaded tweeds and a perky shot silk rainproof hat in brown and green An attractive outfit of navy blue fitted coat with silk scarf-hat in white and royal blue was worn by a visitor from Shropshire Miss Judy Leighton Another lively choice was red PVC mackintosh and Robin Hood hat worn by Miss Patricia Holden from Middlesex at the moment staying with friends in Cheshire Omar Sharif as Zhivago ELIZABETH HARWOOD A bit of bother JACKIE OLDFIELD SQUARE LIVERPOOL 1 ROYal 6060 The Lord Chamberlain Crosby and GAUMONT Wallasey: Cary Grant plays an English industrialist who dons running shorts to play Cupid in Walk When he arrives in Tokio to find ail hotels booked up for the Olympic Games he lodges at the apartment of the pretty fiancee (Samantha Eggar) of a pompous consular official His efforts to foster romance between the girl and a young athlete (Jim Hutton) are hampered by the interference of the indignant official and a Russian security agent spying for spies Also Walt The Tattoed Police Your child's shoes Do they fit correctly? 3911-5211 4 width fitting in Black Smooth Sid Aha 11-94 Brown Water Buffalo Grain Dark Brown 2-94 Lyn weaiiu a blue cnilton beaded evening dress ODEON: Against a 0 colourful 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