A packet of five Gillette twin-blade razors cost me $1.12 at the grocery store, Jewel, in Caringbah. A packet of the same five blades was earlier priced on sale at Woolworths’ for $1.35.
I entered a chemist’s shop in this same suburb to ask for four Tek multi-soft toothbrushes, only to have the gentleman hand me four Nada toothbrushes at a cost of forty-odd cents more for each of them. It wasn’t until I protested that I had asked for the cheaper Tek toothbrushes that I actually received them.
However, all was not plain sailing for he then tried to charge me $1.80 when the correct price was $1.08. I corrected him and he assured me that they were innocent mistakes.
“The Mike Walsh Show” is on Channel Nine from noon. Hollywood actor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, is a guest on the programme. Another edition of “Medical Center” screens from two o’clock and, at three, on Channel Seven, in “Mannix”, the private investigator of that name is shot and then hunted by a thuggish group of children.
Tonight, at the Caringbah Drive-in, “Battle Of Midway” and “The Big Bus” are being screened. The former features a long list of stars which includes Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Cliff Robertson, Pat Morita and Robert Ito. The latter: Stockard Channing and Joe Bologna.
Meanwhile, at home, “This Day Tonight”, at half past seven, is followed, at 8.00 and also on Channel Two, by “Holiday” which takes the viewer to Surfers Paradise; on a hunting trip by raft, some sixty-five kilometres from Lake Taupo on New Zealand’s North Island; and lastly to Hayman Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
At 8.30, on Channel Seven, Bill Collins introduced the motion picture, “The Salzburg Connection” (1972), starring Barry “Petrocelli” Newman, Anna Karina and Karen Jensen.
The Chinese Art Exhibition is on display in town at present. It has been Children’s Day at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.