WHAT KIND of a woman owns a French club in Lon- don? She is half Russian and half English, has a Welsh

ame —- Olwen Vaughan and was raised by a French wom- an. Here Miss Vaughan stands at the bar of her Petit Club

Francals and recalls the days when she opened the club in 1940 to French refugees who had fled Nazi domination.

London's Club Francais Retains Aura Of France

By ALAN WALKER IDNDON l(.‘lT'wBastille Day

is a French holiday but there’s

street-dancing in London too. It's at its bubbliest outside Le

Petit Club Francais which 01-

wen \‘aughan opened in 1940

tor bewildered French refugees;

who had fled Nazi occupation. Today the little club with its

flux-de-lis signboard preserves ‘

lie aura of France that Miss

Milan and her volunteer 35-.

sistants injected 24 years ago. A fa cat named Sascha snores softly on the stairs be- neath Toulouse-Lautrec posters and impressionist paintings. Bottles with French labels line the bar whose zinc top and wine-barrel supports also come from across the Channel. The food is French too. Tight rationing rules longed Miss Vaughan during the war but. cunning early»

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'tnnrnmg skirmishes produced results and the club managed to provide cheap and tasty cooking along with com~ . panionship. reading material jand the slot machine.

Bombs tell all around MO St. James Flare club but there was no direct hit.

in I942 Americans discovered the club and writers from Can- ada and the United States make

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Charlottetown, [’11.].

:ber. ‘ ‘Schulberg were there.

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up many of the 1.000 members! 18 The Gmrdhn. Charlottetown. Mon Sept. 28, 1984. toda

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CELEBRITIES CAME Miss Vaughan remembers Er» nest Hemingway and D Thomas with a permanent cig- arette stuck to his lower lip. Elia Kazan. A. J. Liebling, Wil- liam Saroyan. Arthur Miller. ‘John Steinbeck. James Thur- ’ Shaw and Budd

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“if all our present memba's‘ come at once. we'll be in trou-g Lble." Miss Vaugha‘ said with ‘a hearty chuckle "On Bastillei rnay the seams nearly burst."

About 30 people usually show: 50 for din-. Miss Vaughan doesn't do1

i'all the cooking any more but

she got up at 6 am. on the day she was interviewed “beg cause there w s a big Scotch. .salmon to grill and i felt like

‘ doing it '

Despite her Welsh name. ‘Miss Vaughan in half Russian‘ ‘and half English. A French woman raised her and made

'her egthusiastic for all things

Frenc

There is less French spoken: in the club now than in the oldl war days but Miss Vaughan'a' is still as good as ever. She‘ recalled some trouble with

By JOSEPH MacSWEEN LONDON tCP) — Voters are getting a touch of Canadian-

;style wooing here and there in

he campaign for the Oct. 15 British election.

Rafael Harman Tuck. 54, former professor at University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and at McGill in Montreal. in Labor candidate in Watford. a suburban London constituency now held by the Conservatives by a narrow margin.

“I lean a bit on the tech- niques I picked up in the Sas- katchewan election of 1944,

when I fought for the CCF." Tuck said in an interview Thursday.

A professor of law and polit- ical science. Tuck. who left Canada in 1947. is one of sev- eral Canadian-connected candi-

Idntes in the current campaign.

lNominations close Oct. 5. l At least two candidates. bothr

women. were born in Canada—

but are fighting on opposing

1‘ sides.

BORN IN NATAL. B.C.

Veteran campaigner M r s.I Verdun Peri. 48, is once againt representing the Liberals in the} Berkshire constituency ofi Abingdon. Site was defeat in! the last election in 1959. S . was born in Natal, B.C. l

Miss Joan Lester. 33, born ini Victoria but brought up in Brit-i ain. is ' hope in Westt Lewisham. a London riding} Miss Lestor's English parents; returned to Britain when she; was five years of age. l

Two British newspaper men! who worked for varying periods.

British Electors Given Taste Of Canadian-Style Campaign

associated with the Rouyn Not- anda press as editor and also with the Oshawa Tune’ s-Gautte and the Northern News, Kirk- land Lake.

Eric Lubbock. 35-year-old star in Liberal rank: since he de~ feated Tory and Labor oppo- nents in a 1962 byelection. is once again contesting Outing-

. L , who spent his boyhood years in Toronto dur- ing the Second World War. said his education at Upper Canada College has proved of “tremen- dous value."

GRADUATE 0!" hime

Other Liberal candidates of special Canadian interest in- clude Mrs. Agnes Scott. run-

ning in Reigate. Surrey. She ’

went to Canada as a (Mild and later was active in Toronto and Hamilton advertising circles.

Dni Rees. candidate in Oswes-sas a major in the war-tune (:7. try, Shro'ishire. is a grain/e nadian army.

of McGul. ' Tories 'in this category in- QUEBEC PAYS claw 1M? Tweed‘muir- dwgh' MONTREAL tCP)—Jean~Lun

ter-in-law of a former CanaVan‘ governor-general. a candidatel in Aberdeen, and Cmdr. E. M.i Donaldson. who served in thel Canadian navy during the war.

Pepin. Liberal member of Pars liament for Drummondville-Aré thabasca. said Saturday Quebec taxpayers will pe" close to two- tliirds of the coat of the 1961

“5.1””! 1'! “new”. 00‘“ Montreal world's fair “'l‘h' taunt Selkirk “‘1 Peebles‘lpoint that I am making is sin: 1' born Sir Edwin

oronto , - . . Leather. who held Somersetlag that our feuow'cmzen’ m

North for the Tories. is not run- ning in this demo“- lown contribution is not out 0!

For Labor. Malcolm Mac-inroportion with the economic Pherson. defending. Stirlingibenefits that they will derive and Fodktltk, Scotland. servedtfrom it." Mr. Pepin said.

other provinces of Canad may not fully realize that thei.

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"I couldn't understand them. It seemed as though they were .speaking a very old French." Miss Vaughan makes mem- lbers work around the club. feeling that hired hands bring unwanted formality. She tends

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bar herself and enforces rules with an iron .

For example, there is a jar on the bar. “Anybody who

swears too much has got to put money in there," Miss Vaughan said.

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