PARIS INNOVATION
QUESTIONS TO OMNISCIENCE
SPECIAL 'PHONE SERVICE
(Received November 22, 9.30 a.m.)
LONDON, November 21
By a coincidence, simultaneously with a doctor's letter to "The Times" suggesting that telephone subscribers be permitted to dial an SOS for fire and other emergency calls comes an announcement from Paris that ■ subscribers can call SVP (suggestive of the contraction R.S.V.P.) and get information from a special department on any topic ranging from the size of the Budget deficit, or the nearest doctor, to train and steamer time-tables, or, if guests arrive unannounced at dinner time, it will order food and wine for the embarrassed housewife or instead book her a table at a restaurant and even tell her the table d'hote price.
This innovation, which costs a franc per question, says "The Times" editorially, provides one more good reason for going to Paris just to put a question to omniscience.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 11
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148PARIS INNOVATION Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 11
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