Bones And Scraps Go Down U.S. Drains

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 53, 14 February 1949, Page 8

Bones And Scraps Go Down U.S. Drains

Sir Ralph Richardson, one of Britain’s brightest stars of both stage and screen, was interviewed recently in the 8.8.C.’s Overseas Service on his return from making a film in Hollywood. He spoke of his admiration for the people with whom he worked and went on to describe his delight in lesser things in America, such as the gadgets in American homes, which were excitingly new to him. There was a machine for electrocuting flies and a 1 garbage disposer in the house he lived in. A seemingly magic contrivance which Sir Ralph described for listeners’ benefit, saying: “The drain in the sink is twice as large as the average English sink hole and everything is put into it—bones, scraps, cartons, anything you can imagine, and a thing under the sink grinds everything up into powder. You can turn on the tap, and wash it ’ all away as liquid—no mess, no smell, no flies—nothing.* “When I expressed surprise they said, ‘Well, what do you do with your chop bones in England?’ I said, ‘Sir, in England, we eat our chop bones for supper’.”