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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940.
TEEN
Editorial
A Happy New Year
This will soon be the new greeting, as Christmas now, with all its joy and inerriment, fades into the past.
the
Passing along with it is year 1948, embracing all the hap- piness we have enjoyed, all the woes we have suffered, all the Bugeesses we have achieved and all the failures. We have experi- enced,
We look forward to the New Year and welcome up we did the old. Even now, looking into the diary of the days gone by we plan our future days hoping to nvold the pitfalls which the pages of recent history refuse t let us forget.
se
We met out our list of resolu- tions and compare them wit
We ones made Just year.
we have kept แน those which have escaped perhaps by our own careless o undisciplied Bying
the number
17
But we do not care, We a solve agtits, For Bus istey
your And what we $ finished yesterday, there is stil tomorow to which the worl can be dour. That is what fa- ture Time is for,
New Year resolutions are Kong other things i muce attention
than merely writing them down,
is given them.
But if
these resulating.
すぐ
made for the purpose of helping us to a more tidy method
ing, there is still a better and easier way, And in the words a great man, it goes something of like this: "I have no fixed sel of rules to govern my road. Life Is much too complex. I merely by my best to do good each day And better the next. And in this way, I live my days with rensemable ease.**
And again. "Principles must be flexible to be helpful"
leave you then as 1948 closes,
Personality
Luba. Skvorzov
Luba Skvorzov is 17 years of She won born in Harbin.
nge.
Manchuria, on May 20, 1931,
The year following her birth, Luba moved with her family to Shanghai where they stayed un- Hong Kong. tit 1938, when they arrived
In
Luba attended the Kowloon Junior School until war put a temporary cnd tu her early schooling and brought her family
back to Shanghai,
was not the
They returned once again the
J 1945. Colony Inte this
to
travelling.
Seven
end of months
But her
ago,
Luba
Any A work.
LUBA
the.
accompanied her parents pleasure trip round Arriving un the Pielfle const of the Unlied! States, Luba inotor <ur tou:
went ja
through the American continent to the Atlantic seaboard.
The next place of her visit wns England. From there she erassed the Channel' and began pi a European motor tour which trok her to many places in the Continent including Swit- zerland, Belgium and France.
She returned to England to be- ein on free voyage haine via the
hut not until I have wished you} Mediterraneas through Suez. it most sincere HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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BETTY BETZ COMING HERE
The Topics have been reliably informed that the Fairy Quoon of American toen agers, Batty Betz, is arriving in the Colony soon, on a world
tour,
from hlan
PLATTER SUSIE CHATTER ·
Dinah Shora
Victor's Au mah Share Mumbai Grands, is smartly maus up win a toured pic lire of the rover and sight Apt 205 gva exutiškiem of the "vQJY«t- voand・ “Banger's singular s.yle. Sennin lies; Samwoody Loves Bo; luues in the vigt.;
how Come You Lo Me Like You Do, Aloneysuckle Hose My Man; hmoke Gels in Yoûr Eyes 100 Mau About Him,, Sad withou Him, low Can I Br ind With- ut Him Blues
Nach His Own.
Recommendations
"Never mind the dramintic en- trance... they're playing ohess!"
Competition
Winners of the last competition ar. Wdo Tax-chung, ($6) 17, Laing Fung Street, ard fi., North Hong Kong and Ernest Parlophonie deserves
special Point,
Alarcon (54), 22 Parkes Street, antion stur: Gene Krupa's Blue rd libor, Kowloon, Anythun Fantasy PL 1 mrd 2 (reissue). This record is moss The prizen will be in the mat entirely devoted to an exhibition today: of Kupas arumming.
Duke Elangton's:
Now The
This week's competition will be Black and 18 rintasy; Riding another essay. Write and let us A Line Avie, mangema kuze, know about your holiday exper- It was about this time that shemus in blue.
the Lest two iences. As tefore, began her present occupation.
Sinted Buzey aly Melancho- will be published in the Topics. Being extremely talented with y supy; Lonesome Road, her drawings
Un inc xitetchings,
Apollo The prizes will be $6, and $4, Betty started selling her line. Tabu,
recured for the two best essays seni în. drawing on teen agers to fashlon Caravan and Darcown Sirutior A mad youth periodicals.
Answers to the last competition DR. Caravan is a gem in wen
e Barnet crew blows good and are: Rita Silva, Bolita Beraha, humourous George Marshall, Vern Lee and Darktown is
Gaston d'Aquino.
11
and
Charle
the Own
Baruot
Yes, my curling Daughter, has been reprinted, Lacked by ran ine reale ripe. The origin, isque of Unventer sold over 201 You's Copies, ATM released are: De Do Nice to Come home 10, The fame of this remarkable income, when she was still in her und 1. What 4 1 "Do; I Can'
Let Suurted, personality has spread through teens.
Currently ended for, the hit Pert and trin, atti a former the world. Her outspoken, self- Blustrated newspaper columns back
Dimana buttons ma atroke champion,
parade is Betty
Down by the composer of reuch the interests arid af might just as quickly be taken a fections of an estimated 10,000,- one of her own fans, but for her
matured good looks. 000 teen agers in the United
She graduated States
school
Indian in Hammond, Some of her popular writings, where she won her swimming which have made "must rending" honours, in the Midwestern Chan among teen
agers, are her two plonships, and resigned as Queen columns. "Betty Betz Bets" and of the Prom. "Look Who's Talking."
She then entered Sarah Law. Her popularity is added to by rence College in Bronxville, New her untring efforts to contact York. every American teen ager. Her
fre numerous: methods
She gives lectures-hvariably livened by her crayon-sketching she fings parties for her swarm of taus and, is always the centre of them, and personally entertains them in her invish penthouse- Enter
she accompanied home-and-general office-combine efforts with some babbysox chil- In New York's East End,
One of her most
chat and her stuff caught on like-ott on ine, Mickey mice.
H.M.V. otters rerty widespread spontaneous combustion. Is the Bally organisations
Box! Angel Club, which is accredited wood star's popularity, an assis-
In five years she had a Holly When Days Done With Carolina
Mon support. A new Conio, with some 20,000 followers.
version of 1 wonder Wnu's kiss- tant, a penthouse and plenty of The aim of this institution is United States currency. Her vun
ma ner Now is backed by When devated to Godt, the Home ant tacts with Hollywood personallt-Wouter is uken at
1s Tonight
Just Memory, "1 The Topics have received a the Family...
Slower number of enquiries as to how les are the
uf American Journalist.
many an
tempu than the original which they can be members of the Teen Most of them are When asked at one
was mnde when Pe.ry was only A Topics of her
for Ted from renders over vocal train" "Coke
10 years of Cookie"
parties Weems,
this I preler
enriter is who cannot qualify to take which she gives to her "angels"
Weemn' version.
part the Children's Herold. when she intended to give up Victor has the same isinger in teen agers and choose some other two lovely old tunes: That Feel- The Teen Age Toples, unlike subjects, she re-ing in the Moonlight ona Thi the the Children's Herald, has no ac- plied "Not until I marry
membership. and End of Time (otherwise known as tun
Only teen have a few of my own." Then as Chopin's Polonaise).
agers, however, are eligible to she after-thought,
added, probably not even then."
that have Among her books been published are The Betty Belz Party Book, Your Manners are Showing, and The Betty Betz Career Book, which is a genera, tipoft for teen agers on how to make successful career,
Detty Betz embarked upon this unique career which is bringing heran estimated $200,000 yearly
et subject is language. She hopes to learn more of French, which she speaks a little, and Spanish.
Ballet is her ambition. Laba vants very much some day to be "really good ballerina, but 1 think that is more of an ideal with me than an ambition."
She enjoys all kinds of music but favours the classics. She regrets that she is unable to play any instrument. She also likes to attend plays and concerts.
In sports,
Luba swims most
and plays hickey but has a real Interest in other games.
POP
LAUNDRY Sır!
TLIRTY SHILLINGS
TO PAY
more mature
in
"And
envy
hei
*the
21
Como
TIT BITS
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Woody Herman on Decca dis- take part in the weekly competi- appoints with medloere efforts on tians. tiva tunes which deserve better crehestrations: This is the Story: Two youth clubs of Catholic of a Starry Night and There I Go. Church parishes-The Rosary Woody s vocD. are weak, The Churchi and St. Teresa's-had first rune has been done much their own Christmas dances, nt- better by both the Dorseys and tended in the most Vaughn Monroe's singing of Catholic teen agers. There 1 Go is still the best plat-
That in short, is the buck ground of one of the most inter-ter of this song. esting personalities alive today.
RATHER
& LOT
ISNT IT
Pop
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN-
KNOCKED FROM HIS BOAT BY PORPOISES. THE DAZED DAVE SEES FISHFACE--
HEY YOU! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
FISHFACE MOVES SILENTLY TOWARDS HIM, BRANDISHING
ANET**
THE WREN
Out of the blue bag
NO! CONSIDERING WE NEVER, SENT THEM ANTIMING
part, by
St. Teresa's club organised a very successful "hobo" party which continued after Midnight mass.
PEN FRIENDS
Esperanca Baptista, c/o Univer- sal Pictures Inc. Manila wishes to correspond with pen friends in Hong Kong.
Her interrals are inovles, danc- ing, sports especially swimming.
Another request for pen friends 'n Hong Kong has been received from Koh Eng Yam c/o Medical College, Singapore.
Interests swimming, dancing and riding.
teanls,
By Lee Falk and Phil Dovie
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