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(from the Long Beach Press Telegram 15 January 1959)
RUM TIME IN MONTREAL
by Earl Wilson
MONTREAL — Outside, the
snarling wind was snap-
ping men's hats off. A couple
of days before it had been 20
below zero.
But inside the rum-warmed
"Kon-Tiki," in a grass skirt,
sat Miss Tina Louise, the red-
haired Hollywood beauty
whom you've also seen on TV.
Blonde little Priscill a Al-
den who does commercials on
the Arthur Godfrey and Dick
Clark TV shows — was also
wearing something 'South Seas-y'
and skimpy.
"I'll- promise, you, we're
goings to see Montreal replaces
Philadelphia and Newark as suburbs
of New York," a fellow was saying.
"You're mixed up," I told him.
"New York's the suburb
of, Philadelphia and Newark
Ask any Philadelphian'
or New Jerseyite."
Steve Crane, Lana Tur-
ner's ex-husband, grinned up
from his pineapple drink. He
had just opened the Kon-
Tiki restaurant, here at the
Sheraton Mount Royal Hotel.
He has a very successful Holly-
wood restaurant called "the
Luau — and the Canadians
feel he'll lure many New
Yorkers up here. It's only an
hour-and-a-half plane ride.
The Beautiful Wife and I
were celebrating our. 23rd
wedding anniversary. We'd
come, up to improve our
French.
There's a daily French
newspaper (which we can't
read), called "Le Dimanche
Matin." Many stores have
both French and English
signs In the windows. Parts
of Montreal are as French
as France—and cheaper.
And the natives speak
such interesting English. Our
driver mentioned that "there
are not too many traffic today"—
and 'when he saw Tina
Louise in her grass skirt, he
commented, "She is wearing
very few pants."
The opening of a Polynesian
restaurant in Canada
is part of the trend. Alaska
certainly will have one. Steve
Crane will open others for
the Sheraton chain. (Who is
this fellow Conrad Hilton,
anyway?)
Rum DRINKS seem to be
mandatory. I heard one man
say to his wife: "Do you
know what you're drinking?"
"Do you have to know?"
she retorted....
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