18 FEBRUARY 1955, Page 8

plains the whole business. was THE ITALIAN STATE TOURIST DEPARTMENT

has put out a list attractions to lure us to San Remo, Alassio, Bordighera, a proudly heralded as 'The Defiling of the Ancient Carriages, other resorts on the 'Riviera of Flowers.' Folk Lore' is f' lowed by 'Events,' which in turn yields to 'Fashionable Even What all this promises I do not know, but, remembering h tricky Italian-into-English can be in the hands of the tots people, I find the uncertainty adding to the pleasures of anti pation. I can well remember an item during a Sicilian festival a tumultuous progress of film stars in fiacres, which WWI had Pray Peor emit gest' and avos coin the the tits peel READERS of this notebook may like to know that Strix retur COn to our columns next week, when he will take over from Si V