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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1987.
John Luff Looks At Japan's TV MAIL THE ONE BIG OBSTACLE
Is That Sets Can't Be Massproduced
BEFOR
television
PEFORE dealing with ml, there was the Televi- sión, Wickering out its pro- the official report ramune, In a word, Japan is put out by Japan TV-minded, Television Service, I There was the usual row in
Up, The Nippon Television should like to give a
the papers about programmes. Co. (NTV). While I was there, the GI was to write to the general impression of stupid enou
papers suggesting that the pro- LIKE BEAVERS Tess cultured forms of enter saw things grammes I
A new start was made after nationa
notworkt. the war, und in February 1953, And fast on their heels is com- the first regular servico began.. merical television, In August of the same year, commencin telov lalors started
how myself.
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WANTED KNOWN
ME NAU, formerly of Whiteaway's Farthing Department is now ii -charge of our Househoki Tailoring Department and Home Acesatory and Gif Shop, Duval Ltd., Garden Road.
Mus
I noticed that wherever
had no
general interest and then went on to offer gratuitous advice on how the Japan Broadcasting Cor- poration should run its service. The indignonl replies to his letter
Editorial received no treatment, and in the main, Television Service had develop Every eller sold thin: Japan
ed from a well organised plän
Tele. vision. In any town of any aize, the Television was pointed out to you. Shops which is working towards a were crammed with Tele- definite object. vision sets that seemed well made, and certainly gave good service.
1940 PLAN
I now propose to tell you of that object, and how far it has developed.
The present coverage of TV in Japan is about 50% of the total households in Japan, and the number of mubscribing viewers are registered ni about 300,000 Recent figures show an average monthly
about 14,000.
Increase of
My comunent is: the price of the set is far beyond the reach of the working closs which ac- counts for the low figure, 300,000 subscribing members.
be
1 know that Japanese techni- clans - are working like beavers I noticed that the prices con-
nying to discover a set that pared with the prices of sets in
van mass-produced. That England. For instance,
good
In fact, is a universal problem, table model retafled at 70,000
und is the reason colour Yen: £70. Prices range up- Initial research in the nid Television is being held up both wards from that figure proving of Television by NHK began in the States and England. that you cannot cut down on a June, 1930. Such promtes was Television set and give quality. made that it was calculated that While the subscribers lag be- In that market, at any rate, the Olymple games due to inke hind, the Japan Broadcasting GIFTS HAVE you the electioet Available at Japan is shoddy Imitator. place in Tokyo, 1940, should be Corporation is going ahead with Ikival's Home Accessory and Gift Whether you went for a glass televised. The war mocked. Its five year plan begun in 1957 Shop, 33 Garden Road," Hongkong?
to give the whole country a of beer, a cup of ten, a mack, that plan on the head.
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from
BEHIND THE CURTAIN’
'On The
Lighter Side It's
The Duller Side
a timely conimentary of political and economie activities both in Japan and other countries, NIK state that their object In compiling the cultural pro- is to make "every possible effort grammu, emphasis is placed on towards arivancement of national the native sense of artistle culture and
welfare." beauty. public They prepared to leave the
tainment to commercial TV.
Now this is perfectly true us I will show when I make a brie! comment on the programmes 1
saw.
The weekly programmes are Broadcast twice a day Mondays to Fridays; from 11.30 a.m. to 1.10 p.m. Rod from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
In
SURVEYS
The entertainment was of the highest order, und entirely Japanese in presentation from their own famous Culture groupe.
No attempt was mado to descend to the vulgar, There was quite a blt of Western classical wie this pro- gromno.
Being on holiday, I was able to look at cine or two of the the entertainment pro- morning
for programmes. "high gramme
dignity" and
women. These dealt with cook- "healthy entertainment is the ing, preparing economical dishes. and housework, things of that object.
sort.
Public opinion is courted, from
and to this end, NHK conducts surveys three times covering nil TV viewers Ja Japan,
VERY GOOD
Sundays
On Saturdays and remote pick-ups of entertala- rent, cultural, and sport, events, are televised giving about eight hours viewing on both Satur. day and Sunday.
П
year,
• The broadcast schedule shows
VULGAR
On the other hand, I found The programme ratlo of the commerciui television rather weekly programme to be alloted vulger. Its programmes were as follows, News-27%, culture full of violent episodes of crime and
education-38%, enter- und decadence. It was the tainment-35%.
other face of Japan, but I As I say it, and as för na 1. notleg" the techagera lapped ̧Ït
understand, they are up, and were as rocknroll emiry could working toward the objects as our kids. above. I thought the educa-
sum up. I would By, ΤΟ broadcasts particularly good. I saw a PT Closs give a Jopan Broadensting Corporation first rate performance under an has set its programme and de- of red its object, and is well on excellent teacher, a
But Disney puppet show story with the way to achieving it.
it has got to get that set to suit a moral, music lessons, und
the worker. illustrated talks Japanese the pocket of
On History.
Everything depends on that.
The news
are tional programmes very good, for a staff of local news cameramen are employed to take on-the-spot items which are quickly relayed over the whole system.
A point, they stress is a tea- ture called News Focus which is
kind
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ITS
PROBLEM OF WOMEN
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WEDNRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 Malaya, Indonesia, Austrália, Norw Zealand.
HAWAIL, USA, Canada, 8 pm.
Korea, 6.puzk Macao, 6 pm.
by Burface
THURSDAY, OCTOBER
Peking.
By Air Shanghal
Kunratng, Hothow, 7 kan.
Thalland, aim.
Japan, 10 am
Hankow,
Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand,
Ceylon, India,
Pakira
Africa, Great Britain & Europe. I p.m.
Philypines, 3 pm Indo-China, zinok 2 p. USA, 0 pm.
By Surface
Chins, People's Repubilo, Yaan. Korei 4.m,
Indo-China, Thailand, Noon. Macao, a p.m. soso, p.m.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 by Air
Thailand, Burma, India, 8 min. Cambodia, Ceylon, 8 am,
Formoes, Jopen, Okinawa, Korea, Noon.
Guam Hawall, USA, 2 Philippines, Australia,
land, pm.
New
aliand, India, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain, muurope. 0 p.m.
Formoss, 0 p.m.
Canada, & pm,
•1.30 P.
By Surface
China, People's Repubila, 7 min Macso. 2 p.mi,
Japan, Hawaity USA, C. & S. America, 3 p.m.
Macao, 6 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCTonka s
By surface
China, Pooplah Stopübild. ↑ Om FOTOCA, 11 am.
Maceo, p.m.
North Borneo, Rabhui,
p.m.
Italy, France. (Natherland, Cher- many, Parcely direct), 2 pm,”
Indoneria, 3 pan.
Malays Ceylon,
Adeo, Miadie East. Great Britain and Europe, 1
b.in.
Australia, New Zealand; *«p.m., China, People's Republic, d'p.. Macao, 6 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCTOB
By Surface
Macao, 1 pin.
ordered that all brothel owners Taipei, Oct. 1.
There have been some mov The still frightened looking ane night and prostitutes should register toward helping the gris. The girl left the brothel Prostitution still
within three months.
Talpel Municipal Assistance and when it was visited by Institute The deadline passed with less Guidance Service Institute for director, Mrs Wang Wa Ching- flourishes openly on For-
such attempt, hsian. But she had already had mosa along with the than 100 girls and only a hand- Women is one
ful of brothels registered.
but as yet a not too successful live customers that night. age-old custom of Chín-: There are no official figures, one.
Mrs Wang says the current ese farmers selling their are 250 red light houses and The city government has laws "are not sufficient to com
cabal such a serious social problem direct and Europe, 11 . daughters,
more than 2,000 giris working spent about US$30,000
in this city of fablishing the Os prostitutes
Institute nimed as prostitution." The Nationalist Government 835,000 population.
at taking in prostitutes and The houses operate so open- "foster" daughters to train for
but it is estimated that there
room 210, Hong Kong and After having visited some of the European Communist bloc countries, “Mr Murray Lane, himself a showman, has come to the conclusion that "show business is but progress has been ly that in suburban Talpet you useful professions.
ht à sull's pace.
Friday 4th October, 1967. Telephone Nos. 20111 and 26226.
NOTICE
Dodwell & Co., Ltd., agents
no business" behind the Iron Curtain.
He is referring to the lighter side of entertainment, of course, such us cabarets, revues and the like.
And he is in a good position to pass judgment. For not only also a representative of Bill-
board, and a number of other
United States publications fell- Ing Americans all they want to know about show business;
for Lloyd Triestino, announces he a "fumatic comed lory" but that all Grey Wharf Passes for m.v. "Asia" and "Victoria" previously issued are now declared Bull and vold. Persons wishing to go aboard "Asia" arriving 26th October and sailing 29th October, can obtain the new
m.v.
Besides, Mr Lane travels ex- of material tensively in quest for his columns.
Czechoslovakia, he said, is the most advanced country amon the satellites
of its bechtise type of pass from Dodwell's pre-war industrial development, Passenger Omer, 16. Chater
Here, be sald, apurt from Road, Hong Kong.
opuras, ballets. and serious
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Hongkong, October 1, 1937.
by John Prettejohn
theatre, there was no place for the lighter side of the show business
There was an attempt to pur on something like a French re- yue occasionally, he admitted. but because
of the luck of material for costumes and set- tinga, and also because of icon-
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES tmi by the Ministry of Culture ---
AUTOLYCUS"
Damaged cargo ex this vessel will be,mirveyed by Mesta. Paulien & Doys-Dary at Holt's Wharf from 1 xq, bà Bètaber 4 kiudi 5, 1937. And rozsignees are requested to have tbele representatives present during the survey.
MURRAY LANE
a show-
טון
quite apart from the foel that li lacked a sense of fun it was a stay here, Mr Múrzzy Lane cr- poor imitation,
ticised the "labour laws" that Public entertainment, in the control ylsits of overseas artists form of TV performances in performing in Honikonit. restaurants was 'nit and be sold. He explained that that although he had seen TV man would have to obtain per
in some housetops, be mission from the Police Berials
fiest did not see a set.
before he could come to per Shopkeepers would invariably for here. •And that was tell him with a smile "all sold good for the entertainment side out" whenever he inquired of culture of any country.. about TV sets.
If Hongkong was to become a One day he saw o tim being tourist centre, shot buaineks shot. And the equipment they was one of the things to attract used reminded him of the days tourists and the authorities when siloot pictures were. the should relax this control to en
Before be left Hongong on without atat having to obiadh à able visiting artists to entertali SUNDAY POST HERALD | Monday for Japan after a week's "worker's permit,"
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Hupt ong, October 2, 1937.
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Space for aommercial
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For the BOUTH CHINÁ
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QUEMOY DEFENDER SWIMS TO MAINLAND
Tokyo, Oct. 2. Former acting platoon leader MORNING POST and the A Nationalist Chinese soldier on Quemoy. CHINA MAIL, 48 hours ] stationed
the aff-shore Before data of publication.tland of Quemoy, ayam across
It said Chen was warmly Amoy Bay on Monday to give welcomed by Red Army unitë Special Annbursements himself up to the Communists on the best and given medioal and Classified Advertit reported today,
the New Chion News Agyment, Krut dis vroumen dis Abe 'manta, ka unilat? -
The Agency identified ika water, pills Dory: čičtin
Sheng-il, a élőér Recessities United
is making an effort to end both
And, for tho
Kako of troop orale, the Nationalist Armý encoutages prostitutions on its offshore Islands of Mats and Quemoy.
Earnings
evirn
by ROBERT BROWN
can
stop at the local police station and get directions to the nearest brothel,
Government-operated brothels
There has been a sharp de- employ several "hundred girls cline in the number of families ranging in age from 18 to 20.
selling their daughters but the They
Faster Daughters Association about US$40
here estimates there have been (HK$240) per month and spend
girls sold throughout -127,000 four months At a time on the Fosmosa offshore
during the last five islands where Thou- years. sands of Nationalist troops are stationed without their families
Not all of them become pro- Enlisted men pay about stitutes. Many are sold 10 CHK1.50 an hour. But ofleers, families who want to mise them whose monthly salary is be as their own children. Others tween HK$30 and HK$80, nay about HK$8.
The girls receive a medical check-up each week,
Sharp Contrast
This contrasts sharply with the intent of 4, provincial Gov- enument law passed inst year calling for an end to prostia- ilon on Formosa within three years.
become
end FÖTVENÍK
still others are put to work in cafés by their new "parents,"
They are sold for prices ranking from about UB912 for babies to around US$200 for girls of age 15,-
Some Moves
Some girls have been sold The provincial government while still being fed by their let implementation of the law mothers
to Individual cities, but there
has not been much enthusiasm These girls are known here so for
as either "adopted" or "foster" Here in the capital, the Talpel daughters descriptions carried police set off two areas where over from the Japanese pecupa- brothels
may operate 'and lion of Formosa,
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
ROXY and BROADWAY: "An Affair To Remem
ber'': Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in a love affair.
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: “Attila": Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, A coloured spectacular film showing the Huns devastating Western Europe. HOOVER and LIBERTY: “The Little Hut": · Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, and David Niven shipwrecked on an island.
KING'S and PRINCESS: “Animal Farm": A re- issue of the George Orwell clasic in cartoon form..
STAR and METROPOLE: "The Night Runner": Drama with a mental patient, starring Ray Darton and Colleen Miller
Opened for almost a year, the Institute has taken in only ave girls although it has room for 200.
"After all," she says, "ibe key to breaking porostitution. 19 education. We must instil tho knowlodze that 1 wrong."
Some Steps
The 47-year-old Formbead- there born social worker says have been some concrete stopa taken
the by
Nationalist Government to end prosütü- tion, the mie of daughters and the practices of taking con-
One of the girls there is en 18-year-old foster daughter who has worked as a prostitute for cubines. three years.
She earned about HK3000 a month although girls in some of the fancier establishments caro as high as HK$1,800 a month.
"But the current law still fa not sufficient to combat such a serious problem as prostitu-
*tion," she mid-Unitki Press.
HAN SU-YIN BACKS
Rectification Drive.
Peking, Oct. 2.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 By Busines China, People'a itapunits, 1_201 Malaya
Ceylon Great (Netherlands. · Germany,
Indo-China, Thailand, Noop. Micso 2 pm.
Forth, I pan.
Belisle, Parcels
Japan, Hawali, US.A., C. & S. Americe, a p.m.
Maeno, & gitu.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER S
By SurfacS. China, People's Itapublic, 1 kin Indonesia, 1_a...
PE Africa, S. Africa, Noon, Mocno, 1 pm.
Indo-China, 3 p.m.
Място, в р..
RADIO Hongkong
5.30 p.m, "Women Only”. A week- ly magazine introduced by Wendy Ваграга Colbourne, compiled by Lawrence and Murray Leavitt; 0. Time Signal Programme Summary 0.00. Lucky Dip-Listeners' RequeYÉR, presented by Margherita, 7. String Song. Max Juffs_and_his orchestra (BBLTS): 7.30, Time for Jazz with Robin Day: 100, Weather Report: B, Time Signal. The New BOD, Commentary: 8.16. Opera and Dallol; 8.45, Wednesday 1hostre, M Mabel" by R. C. Sherriff, by Wilfred Grantham (BBCTS); 36.15. Th Week's Comppeer_ **** fterloz; 10.45, David: Carroll and, his
Authoress Han Su-yin left Peking this morning by plane Dance Orchestra: 10.58, Weather Re-
for Canton on her way back to Singapore.
Han Su-yin told the Preis that she had come to visit her family and was planning to return for a certain length of time in Chinn next year.
She, added she was much im- pressed by what she had seen during her short stay in China this time.
The movement against righlists and deviationist intellectuals was a "perfectly logical one" she said and she "approved:
fully the Chinese Clovernment for the present policy pursued in the political and intellectual fields."
Music: 31.30,
port: 1. Time Signal. Radio News Reel; Ikis, Goodnight Close DowTI.
REDIFFUSION
She said that there was no dia- satisfaction among intellectuals and that the regime was fully backed by 10 per cent of the ( 4. Tan For Two: - 4.30, Birict- population inside Chlon.
3
Wednesday_ Cooont:
This is the third trip of Han Su-Ray 30, Wednesday Requests —
vin to China since the Com munist révolution look over,
-France-Presse.
Instrumenta): 0. Children's Cater - Presented by Auntie
Presented by Betty! ́8, Melachrino Mucale des Birthday Mailbox: 450, Dick, Jurgen's show; CONSTA Miracle In Bobo; 7. Personality Parado--Sophie Tucker: 7.10, The Shep Yielda, shows. 7.30, Eddle Fustior with Axel Stordahl's Orche- stra; 7,48, The Story, of Jane Armit- Age: 1,,Timo Bigual and the Nawa; 3.Weather port Announce mobile and Iuerlude; 1.15. The tops popular nude 0.00. Diamond Mule Show: 9, ducting Archie: The Golden Dullardy; · 10, Orchestra Tropicala; 18: 10,30 of the pro- Night, Stand: 21pate With Breaza- kumine includes: Marchand, 1130, Prelude to Malanght: "Under the Double Eagle”: mkiight, "God Save The Queen. J. F. Wagner. Overture Closs. Down. #nicha"
Richard Wagner.
First Winter Season Prom
In contribution to the Hongkong The remainder
Festival of Arts, the Hong" kong Concert Orchestra will present ita first Winter Bea- son Promenade Concert next Sunday, at the Ritz, com mencing at 9 pm. As usual the orchestra, will be con- ducted by a resident "bon- ductor Victor Ardy and la by Fred Carpta
There are two new features In---
cluded in the programme, one, a gulbar solo, composed and arranged by Fred, Carpio accompanied by .......kie, brother Tom Carply, and "ÓT CHEFITI... wad the second one, the OK chestra will, Limontories «ÁRULE. Into a largs danoe orchesten, mirallerin patterns, to -EXERAIS - PHILL-WHIRLARKE
Jack: Phyne dazke
"A Fantasie of Liszt, Rhop- sodica Including extrants froth the secded, fisked, niith and fourtoith Rhapsodies.
TELEVISION
A selection of Brahms "Ma
‚§. pin. · Children's Houz garlah Dances, which file toodata, Ly Puppe clusio
dirt, webond, fourth, arth, sixth and polari tokhth
#hbdo
darices.. Munde tron
· Shows. ・・・ Mhich; "Anobože „Awelch” by Chis: Zirmiori. -`mari), ⠀ featuring Tom Cuplo and his banjo, niso the Bailon Hornpipe. featuring Ray Alatoon and his plecole.
Doorg will be open frois 2A
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