LANDING IN ENGLAND

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 141, 16 May 1929, Page 2

LANDING IN ENGLAND

CAFE KEEPERS BANNED

Surprise has been caused throughout the West-End of London because of an official refusal to allow Gennaro and Umberto Senseverino, two of three Italian brothers who own the Italian restaurant, Gennaro’s, perhaps the best known , cafe in Soho—certainly to colonial visitors —to again land in England. . .... The brothers were informed of the inhibition when they stepped off the gangway at Dover. They- left for Paris, and wrote to the Secretary for State (Sir'William Joynson-Hicks) but received no reply. The youngest brother, Vincenzo, remains in London, managing the business, and is hopeful jsomethinrmay be dono through the Italian Embassy. The brothers spent all. their money, including their father’s bequest, in building the restaurant from one room and a tiny staff, in 1910, to seven dining rooms, two banqueting halls, and a staff of 86. Vincenzo said that even Royalty was included among their patrons. He is completely puzzled over the whole affair, and says: “It must be those private rooms we had upstairs, but they were abolished two years ago.” He added: “Why ehouldn t a party have dinner in a private room, the same as in an hotel? ’ The Home Office remain silent.