4
SHOWING
AT 2.30, 5.15,
TO-DAY
QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA 7.20.9.30
P.M.
A PERFECT
THE 12TH BIG DAY DON'T MISS IT!]
HIT IN COLOR BY
THE BIGGEST MUSICAL
TECHNICOLOR M-G-M's
"ANNIE GET YOUR GUN" BETTY HUTTON
DIEOGGING HAND HOWARD KEEL
GOLDEN YOKED AEROWIN
-IRVING BERLIN SONGS
QUEEN'S
ALHAMBRA
NEXT CHANGE •
• TO-MORROW •
The Scotland Yard in Action! M-G-M's New Thriller....
"SIDE STREET"
Farley Granger-Cathy O'Donnell
"THE BLUE LAMP"
Jack Warner-Jimmy Hanicy
Browns! Thickens!
Seasons!
RICH TASTY GRAVY IN ONE EASY PROCESS
Tasty mess dlokes are easily prepared when there's packet of Bisto on hand. Bista greatly improves all soups, stews, meat pies, etc. II makes rich brown gravy in a mament No kitchen should be without a packet of Disto.
Made in England by Cerebos Lid., London,
RISTO
DIOIG
RUGS SPECIAL PRICES
on
OLD STOCKS
peking art rug co.
221A Nathan Road, KOWLOON.
Tol. 59049
Sleep away
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1951.
Henry VI founded Eton College in 1440. Now its old The Cloisters- soen hero -- are buildings need repair,
crumbling. Buttresses have decayed.
ROWLAND
The tuck shop by the bridge has now been bought by
the school stores, but it keeps its name over the door. Eton's
term; the sock shop.
FLY
the miles as
you
You will find your berth on the S.A.S. D.C-6 roomy and comfortable --oven for two persons. The soft,
springy mattress induces sound." sleep and you will arrivo
at your destination well rested.
Book your SAS. steeping accommodation to Europo or North and South America through Thoresens or your usual travel agents.
SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM
1: THORESEN & CO. LTD
New Brain needs a cold tonic
ETON
WANTS A MILLION
E
TON COLLEGE, found- cluding a knowledge of Latin
Fees for
ה
King's Scholar
ed by Henry VI in and Greek. 1440, is appealing to never exceed £195 a year. its old boys for £1,000,000
rc-
There are also 10 boys at
to restore its ancient build- Elon now under the Fleming scheme for taking boys from ings, modernise and
ordinary primary schools. Under build certain of the boys' this scheme the fees are paid rebuild and by the local county education house B, modernise its schoolrooms authorities. Elon would be will- and build a swimming bath, ing to take more Fleming boys, bul, so far, only Dorset and when licences can be obtain- Hartfordshire have been willing to pay the fees for boys who ed.
reach the necessary standard.
Many people think that Elon, recognised as one of the mast is expensive public schools®, richly endowed. It costs £308 a year in fees, plus £10 a year compulsory games fee plus £21 entrance fee.
King's Scholars
80 mastors
The Old Elonians also have a scheme for providing help for boys whose fathers or grand- fathers went to Eton, if their fathers have been killed in the war or are otherwise unable to pay for their sons education."
a re- it is
Bton was founded as ligious institution, and educa- tion then consisted mainly of the Classics.
Fow also realise that
poor boy possible for a clever
to go to Elon either at very re- duced fees or free.
Now there are 80 masters and A large part of the income every subject is taught, includ- and investing science, mathematics from the estates and
the Foundation is modern languages. monts of taken up by the maintenance and education who are Scholars.
of these boys, principal King's 0.5 known
go back to King's Scholars the days when the school was first founded and comprised a Provost, 11 Fellows. Head Mas- ter, Lower Master and 70 poor scholars. Other boys from out- side were admitted and known as Oppidans, meaning a on the foundation student not who boarded in the town.
were
Now the Oppidans comprise most of the school, numbering 1080, and board in 25 Houses College. The adjoining the
live in the King's Scholars College.
But Eton romains one of the seals of classical Boys still give In Latin and Greck, The
for the programme modernisation of the 25 Boys' Houses, including the complete rebuilding of two Houses at an estimated cost of £100,000 each, likely to cost about £600,000,
the The rebuilding
of Science Schools is estimated to need about £100,000 and in ad- dition many other schoolrooms require modernisation involving further expenditure.
Crumbling away
The now swimming bath will cost about C00,000 and large needed for the At Eton today King's Scholars sums will be are distinguished not only by restoration of the ancient build- their brains they are reckoned ings, including the refacing of weat wall of the College other extensive stonework repcloisters, which
The anetent
to be among the cleverest boys the of their age in Britain-but by Chapel and their uniform.
Over the traditional tail coat and striped trousers they wear a black gown similar to that worn by a schoolmaster.
The Fleming boys
Every year about 12 King's Scholars are admitted to Eton, They take a competitive examination which is open to any British boy who has reach- ed his twelfth but not passed his fourteenth birthday. The boys must have reached a cer- tain standard of education, in-
Harrpio tops Eton with fees of esis a year plus 13 gamas fee, for special sub- with extra facs jects.
Entrance fee for Harrow se
21.
are part of the original College building, are crumbling away and many buttresses have de- cayed Death watch beetle bas
red in many been discovered
supporting
the
the
ancient beams original buildings.
of
There is little about Eton which agrees with the popular
conception of a boys' school
Story by. VIVIED
BATCHELOR
Pictures
by H. v.
DREES
Eton Jacket over striped trousers: the uniform of the smaller Etonlans. Bays of the Choir School also dress like this. They number about 30.
This is the hat shop at Elon. Before the war all boys wore silk hats. Now they are not compulsory. Most go haliess.
but
There are no dormitories. just after six, and supper is at which was badly damaged in the war and is crumbling with has his own bed eight
own choir. The Every boy
house is
Since the war most boys start age has its
in choirboys are not Etonians,
the Choir School 4 housemaster their school life at Eton
suits. As boys belong to controlled by sitting room. Each
the College. boys with and a matron, who is known as second-hand a "Dame" and called Ma'am by outgrow their suits or leave the which is held in There is no school school their tall conte and strip- About 30 young the boys.
Boys have their ed trousers go into a common good voices go there. They wear pool to be handed on to new- a short Eton jacket over striped instead of the tail coat. dining hall.
trous London Express Service) meals in their houses.
Breakfast is just after eight. comers.
ahopel Lunch is not until 1.45. Tea Is
GALLERY OF
EEDS of gallantry and Deanship over
nearly a century are record-
The 15th century
SEA HEROES
By TREVOR BLORE
Portugal,
Norway, Iceland,
and the Argentine.
Even more
recently is the case of men of As- the Icelandic Life-Saving "Bessie" sociation who climbed down a their risking горов, which was sinking in the Baltic cli
of the ed in six large volumes kept knocked unconscious. King the British schooner
trawier Kingdom followit United of today in a small office of a George VI on the recom- after being in collision with a lives to save the crew
Britain's Russian ship. The
wrecked in terrible Spanish fishermen Dhoon, two of Transport, year
risking tall, modern building in the mendation.
weather on the Icelandic coast. head Minister
save six heart of Lordon,
men Four 62 gallantry medals were quarters of Britain's Minis- awarded him the Bronze got similar medals for
clinging to the hull of the Bri- awarded to the leaders of this. for gallantry in their lives to
rescue. tish schooner Elizabeth Lewe- try of Transport. There, in Medal
of the lyn which capsized
So runs the record, telling of the copper-plate writing of saving life ut sea.
which men often At the other end of the Spanish coast in heavy seas.
deeds in civil servants long since
own lives a century
sacrificed their PARIS.-A huge electronic
the dead, or in the caligraphy of record, nearly
In these records one of the save others Such a one was 19 "brain," believed to
of its kind in clerks of today, are stories ago, is an entry telling of
6 years old Kenneth John Wil- died in stories concerns
вод
of London, who
boat- the world, has just been built of some of the heroes of the the award of silver medals greatest and most dramatic sea
saving of some 800 souls aboard 1949 trying to save the since 1856-simple, to 17 Irishmen who went to reccue
of the petrol tanker for the Government by a team sen of Manchester engineers.
at turno which, with 581 passen-
From CHAPSIAN PINCHEIR
most
advanced
be
to
ALL
straightforward accounts of the rescue of the sailing the United Kingdom liner Vol- Warius who had been over-
disclosed by Pro- gallantry by men of many ship Emerald, wrecked
the nations, from the Argentine Queenstown, off Southern
to Iceland, from India to Ireland in 1856.
It is, indeed,
This was
F. C. Williams, dessor Manchester University scientist who designed it, at an inter-
robot U.S.A. national conference an
gallery of heroes. machines in Paris.
The "brain" is 80 feet long, seven feet high, turd contains
1
from
fire while on a voyage gers and a crew of 93, caught come by Rotterdam to Canada
in
opera-
cffor: were
fumes. Wilson was awarded
posthumous
Medal.
the 1013.
reserved. while two to tell prized Albert Medal, It takes some 20 pages
V to British subjects, Vol- other members of tho lanker's the story of the blazing Lurno, wallowing in huge seas, Another early entry hints, in out of control for facic of steam. crew, a dockhand and a pump-
out this One of the latest names the formal, official language, of is of live nations raced to man, were awarded the George
the
carry rescue to 1 difficult and dangerous 3,500 radio valves. It thinks to be recorded in the book a pathetle story. Dated 1800
For this gallant vested for Elsie Mary Clements, tlon.
of David daughter so fast that it can obey 3,000,- is that of an Australian, records that £30 has been in-
Britain's Ministry of Trans- orphan
nearly 200 silver medals
watch Chief Officer William John
Who 000 orders in one hour.
on the coastguard
port is always awarded, 68 to Germans, 40 to he
Frenchmen, for heroes of the sea who help when
went Americans, 33 to It can add up a column of 500 Bunnoy, of the Changsha, Clements, a
rest to to save British seamen, so that honour- England, British seamen, numbers in the time you take who risked his life to rescue lost his life
five Chinese fishermen from down the cliffs near Salcombe, 20 to Russian and the
they may be suitably Devon, In Southern
of to say the word "addition."
ed. Experts assess the degree full out, the "brain" When
a waterlogged boat in a to try to rescue some, wrecked
rescuer and who continuous
the risk taken by
a suitabla recommend geta so hot that a
of a ren alr blast has to be blown storm off the China coast. French
years one finds the story Twice he went over the side clinging to a reck in the midst through to keep it cool,
rescue by an Icelander, follow reward, after which the Minis- The Government fipanced of his ship in a bowline to of heavy seas,
In the records of 1011 in the ed immediately by the record fer of Transport in empowered, Algerian under the Merchant Shipping the project because the "brain" drag the shermen to safe-
of the master of the of gallantry of an Again and again he story
and five In 1943, for instance, the Gov- Aol, to recommend to the King recognition of of his crew who were awarded ernment of the United King- the award of gallantry medals,
recognised the ar himself give design and other defence was battered against the Swedish ship Nereus
Was the silver medal for gallantry dom suitably
Spain, a deed of gallantry or fine sea- of men of ship's side, until it
from bravery thought that he must be for rescuing four
101
will be of great value worlding out details of aircraft ty.
search problems.
-(London Express Service)
POP
YOU WEIGH
JUST AS MUCH THAT WAY POP!
I KNOW THAT-ADIOT!
scumen
mica
wero
'Moving down
through
Balanced diet
BUT ITS THE ONLY. WAY I CAN SEE
HOW MUCH
1 WEIGH
21
manship with a gift of barome- ters
binoculars, silver
cigarette
boxes or cases, or a presents- tlon of diver plate, the Inst Lestmily
..to the officer of a shlo
carried out a rescue.
commanding.
Which bas
For gallantry at sea British the George subject may win Cross, the Albert Medal-now porthiamously... awarded only
the the George Medal, Gallantry Medal, British piro awards or the King
mendation:
Sca
Generally
for
of
altver
lessor chees, the Minister
Transport they rivo binoculars, or a cash hword with letter of oppreciation, Or even jurta, latter of ap
of the preciation in the name Government of the United Kingdom.s