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Gracious
THE bulk of the American demand, apart from altar candles, I learned - was for
ta·ble illumination. They ap- pear to be going in for gracious living.
At any rate, a large demand for decorative table candles exists in America. It is in this field that Mr. McCormick hopes to do business.
Rathborne's commissioned an Irish artist, Mr. Patrick Scott, to create a series of designs to decorate their export product. The finished articles are squat, rectangular wax blocks de-
corated on each side with " Christmassy " motifs, some black, some coloured.
Highest
NATURALLY, the demand is highest around that festive time. But there is a year-round design with a solar decoration. One and all, they look very attractive.
Mr. McCormick has preceded on his American trip by a giant candle measuring six feet long and weighing one hundred and one pounds. This outsize taper burn steadily for over a month if left unquenched.
The complexities of interna- tional trade arc illustrated by the following statistics: the candle cost about two pounds to manufacture, over sixty po u n d s to dispatch. For- tunately it is not being ottered for sale. Its purpose is to light Mr. McCormick's way, so to speak.
It is not Intended for the
From left: Messrs. L. Morrissey, Managing Director, Coras Trachtala; H. E. McCormick, Managing Director, Rathborne, Ltd.; Patrick Scott, Designer, and
Wm. Kearney, Secretary, Rathborne, Ltd.
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ceremony at strategical points and times during Mr. McCor· mick's tour It will strikingly demonstrate that when it
into song. The Widow Quinn is \ not behindhand with a few bars, and even the crusty Old Mahon abuses his violent son to the sound
dining table.
But lit with due
a, I thought, was
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FRANI(
Americ
like bringing coals to a New-
castle that had dispensed oomes to manufaoturing of the piano, the harp and the
with coal. Boulder Dam, candles nobody can Tennessee Valley Authority rr.andle to lteland. and all that.
But Mr. H. E. McCormick, Managing Director of John G. Rathborne, is setting out
for the States with courage
high and heart aglow. His lmission, to sell candles. This, I felt, was worth looking into. In America, it seems, as soon Ias something becomes unneces-
sary people begin to look for it. That's the way it is with
candles. Twelve million pounds' .worth are sold annually in the i United States, Mr. McCormick · says. And Rathborne's captured"
nearly twenty w o r t h o f t h a t l a s t
liold a
flute; also the violin. It is the first time I heard Synge sung.
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year.
By Candlelight
The contemporary thing to be: it would seem, is to be olde-worlde. So much I gathered yesterday from Mr. Eimar McCormick, managing
r- director of John G. Rathbone, the Dublin candle manufacturers. Mr.
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a.t 22 Dawson Street spent jover a year in South Afrd.ca,
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McCormick leaves Dublin on Friday for a three-weeks' tour of the U.S.A. and Canada to sell- not mi1lion-candle-power atomic lighting -but the old single-candle-power candle that our great-grandfathers used when they were first looking into Homer's Homer, before Chap- man was even heard of.
"The candle trade in North , America is worth £12,000,000 a year," said f\1r. McCormick. "Most of it goes on candles manufactured in the States, but since we first explored the market, with the help of C6ras Trach,tala, we've built our American exports up to the £20,000 a year mark.
Up-to-Date
This year Mr. McCormick is con-
centrating on a sales-line called (heaven help us!) "Parti-Lite." It is rough1y the same design as the things that used to be known as night-lights when Mr. Milne's Christopher Robin and myself were both of an age to be afraid of things that went bump in the night. Now, however, Mr. Patrick Scott has designed some very contemporary overcoats for the candles, showing a Santa Claus under automation, as well as some more traditional designs. All of them, I'm told, will go down like melting candles in the States, where hostesses want to get as far away as possible from the latest thing in artificial lighting.
Speaking of ye olde-wor!dinpss, it is interesting to know that the first Rathborne set up his first candle- maker's establishment in the City of Dublin in the year 1488. Remark- able though it may seem, it is only a generatio11 ago since the last Rath-
then worked hiis way round the EVENING PRESS_ Tui<sDAY, APRIL 23, 1957 world on Norwegian tankers
and much worse, then fO<r the
last months learned the lSafari ••• coffee-bar business in England.
borne left the family firm.
W H IL E
The "Sa!ari" group of dir€<:· tors has connections with thTee of the leading rugby clubs in
we were
back from Kerry last night
And the two of us met at McGrath, is a captain
the reason- the opening of the· of Old Belvedere Rugby Club.
driving
for a very special reason, a
D.K.W. with Pat Scott at the town, for Nick Corrigan and wheel was dlrtving back from ·his colleague N. Delaney are West Cork- for the same ex-St. Mary's and Lansdowne reason. while the third director, Mr'.
new "Safari" Coffee House at the top Of Dawson Street.
Anothۥr new coffee house? you may say,
The three young men of Dawson Street speak the .same language, for once upon a time they played together with London Lril!lh and shared the same digs. The . " Sia.fart " Is
Yes, and we were surprised
too. This one is young- young
in its ownership (there art> unusual, and you ought to
three yO'Ullg men in partner· ship, Nick Corrigan 1JJ the manager); young in decot (African theme, with Michael Scott as de.signer) ; and young dn its patrons.
As a matter of fact, every rugby club in town was repre- sented a,t the operung last night; and here were the blazers and club tdes of thP whole city,
"What tie Is that you are wearing ? " we asked the 27• year-old manager, Nick Corri- gan.
"It's a South African tde," he sai,d, and that opened up a whole story.
For this large and gentle yoong man behind the oounter
call.
This is the poster put out to advertise the International Theatre Festival to be held in Dublin in connection with this year's Tostal. Companies from several countries will participat;e in the festival, the first ever to be held in Dublin. The post.er, available in various sizes, was designed by Patrick Scott.
POSTER BOOSTS lnuBLIN
DRAMA SEASON