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"THE PHINX "MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1857.
Interesting
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MEN'S HAIR-DO "TEMPLE"
MARLON BRANDO
That forward fringe,
CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE
London.
Ал early bird Ganta Cinus Was aprdading Christmas choor In A 'London departmant store last week when in stalked Q disgruntled young
customer.
The
kicked small boy Father Christezza
the on thin,
"That's for last Christ- mas" ha muttered, and walked out.--United Press.
Houses, But
No Shops
Barlin.
became Shopping has problem for
residents of large, Ropeing
now
projects.
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Often there are no sicr snar projects with hundreds of apartments.
Many project residents, there- fore, have to shop near their Jobs and carry their purchases home with thein.
The rearon for the shortage is that the hopslag projects are J. Eg HoveraniZKU funds hut sores are not.
Therefore no stores are bulkt along with the houses.-United Press
Paris.
has created a new mode for just
COULD you picture men. And Cooper is J BOOMS
Alm
one of several big-name mam clients.
Gary Cooper, the lanky Peter Ustinov, Jean aud Unca they have had hero of so many Wes- Cocteau, David Niven, Mar- | styling they come again. terms, sitting under a lon Brando, and ever former hair-drier, complete with French Premier, Mendes
hair net?
France, all go there.
And not one of looks shamefaced, just look smug.
Unbelievable? Well, to day I can reveal that this HAS happened in a Parla hair-dressing salon which *******
DAVID NIVEN
So typical English.
Long Hair
them They
an
For 25%, 2 time and appointment booked in advance, the men ellents of all nationall- ties have a shampoo, a restyling cut, a friulion massage, and sel.
They arrive at the rate of
160 to 200 a day at the salon in the Rue St Honore, run by Michel Gremillon, som of A French im producer.
It was he who originally cut Marion Brando's hair with that forward fringe that became n kind of cult among youths all over the world.
In whatever way Michel cuts er arranges a client's hair, it is always short. "Long hair for men is a back number every where in the world except in
AN EXPENSIVE Fagiand," he said today.
FIVE MINUTES
London.
Five minutes cost a Lon.
don biscuit company 21,217 last week.
The
company turned
nine
mail children loose in Hamley's London's largest toy store, and told them they could have all they could lay their hands on in nine werd Eve minutes." The winners
of
competition organised by the MacDonald Biscuit Company and a woman's magazine.
SCAVENGER
Was who
Champion scavenger Richard Doyle, severi, amasted 2270 worth of toys. His haul included a 245 con- struction kit and a set of minia- lure golf clubs,
All the children missed the however-♫ £20 prize catch, electric racing car. United Press.
THE ZANY TAX,
CHINSTRAPS,
AND NABARRO
London.
CHINSTRAPS for correcting double chins
are subject to 90 per cent purchase tax, while such things as wrist and, ankle supports are tax-free.
fael
toothbrush
This
from the other zany Beachcomberist world of the only 30 per cent?
racka
pay
X cfficine was brought to light last weeke by ntr Gerald WHY do domestle mirrors pay BO рет cent
Nabarro, the Tory MP forwhite those for cage birds as Kidderminster,
by the
Chancellor,
playthings are exempt?
He launched a four-month- long campaign against purchase WHY do small prams pay 30 per cent while tax by tabing 53 questions to
with the handle 331⁄2 be answered in the Commong those
Me Petar inches above the ground
nothing?
mouse-traps, The last question comes on WHY cannot March 25 just before Mr
rat traps, and fly- Thorneycroft maices up his mind twitters be freed of their 30 per about the next Budget,
cont tax?
Thorneycroft,
"But I have many English clients
who come regularly
PETER USTINOV Long, short, long
AN 'ODE
TO A SPUTNIK
London.
Moscow radio today broadcast in English án "Ode to a Sputnik" sent in by an unnamed resident of New York.
Sample verses include:
Little sputnik flying high In the earth's surround.
Ing sky,
Can you tell me from up
there
If the earth still looks AT
nair?
Lonely sputnik tiny toy, You're
object "to
enjoy, Sending down
dainty boop,
your
Stepping up my thrilled
heurt's boat.
Promiss MÚ my fittin
upiters,
his
Never, never to interfere With old santa and
deer
Flying through the
atmosphere,
Pay
Say hullo to mother
witch
About those chinstraps: he WHY cannot "hearth com-
wants to know why they cannot be tax-free. And the ente goes for "eaps for protecting cars, at present chargeable an item
of haberdashery."
'Free' eyelashes
Now Hard die sonde mure of tho Nabarro questions, Firsi, on behalf of feminine
charm.
WHY do eyelash curlers pay
which
panion stands Incorporate a trivel" be freed of tax-like trivets, false hobs, and hearth stools?
Beards, blinds
Now if you are not loo benused, here are a coupla puzzle Benchcomber
normally 00 per cent tax while WHY are blinds eyebrow combis pay only 30 per
taxed (30 per cent) inted with a cent and false eyelashes pay unless they are nothing?
circular peephole not less than WHY do most hair curlers three inches in diameter"?
pay 50 per cent but WHY are false beards and
uso with heat only
moustaches laxed at 30 per cent except reach
of sch bottles of liquid hale
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shaped and
those for 30 per cent?
WHY do
00 per cont when stockings
luxuriant
As'uhú rides by on her
switchi
And
to that proverbial cow Jumping o'er the moon
somehow.
you ride our mosies
And
our
wildest fantasies. Life takes an wider
vlaw,
Riding through the heavens with you
United Frets.
Pork For Inmates
Of Biblical Zoo
':
Jerusalem.
stocking make-up pay moustaches la separately waved The meat-eating inmates of separately the Biblical Zoo here; enjoyed a themsely p
a backing only 8 per cent threaded to
to be peric dinner last week because WHY
blunt-ended gummed to the face"?
some of the city's shopkeepers hatpice and those Fatty three-year-old broke an ancient Jewish law.
City authorities - confiscated with a hand ligger than a half-Nabarro whose inch pay parolaser t when moustacho is all his own is a (about 70 pounds) or pork from sharp-ended sh mall-ended company director.
the shops. Then deputy Mayor He said last week: This Rahaman Kalanter and several ones do not!!
purchase lax flea the hands of offelals went to the Zoo to food For the family our manufacturers, behind their the wolves, Inopards; and Hone. :
Britainia backed.
the only Jerks ard Korbidden (to: ext Now livih new simtir ques- | country with sucia an archale pork, and under: a by-law, Motio
whale system.
butellers in the Holy Clly arờ family:
it will save the. country forbidden, to: soil 1,
But, alontar reported the
for
'-
WHY do toothbrush Holder money i ew: abolish this tax
that are "potworină, toyKiamat atlaistuta, pimple tuzen= }, animals, “ater it with delight."--
the user" pay 90 per utht wheth "aver or SHAN EN
United Press).
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fur
Take Peter Ustury, Instance, I cut that zonas vd
hair short and he likes it
"But as soon as he goes back to England his hair grows again and we have to start right from the beglaning.
Niven,
"My great despair by David You cannot separate ha from his typical English personality, It is his Unde mark-so bis hair has to stuy In the English style. But ho Is the only onel
"Nearly all male film sidrs have to dye their hair," said Michel. "IE 19 the fault of colour Alms. The natural colour nearly always has to be brightened."
VASTATOR
Bald Men
Bina
Alec Guinness and Crushy have been fo the salon
100
"But you cartnot do much for bad men," said Michel, "except eut what hair they have very shett,"
Flin detor Louis Jourdan Lag his hair cut in tough style; counteract the handsome r pularity of his fentures,
French star Jean Matals, wito is only 30, has natural white hair which has to be freshly dyed for each film.
What about the Yul Brynner buld-head style?
All right for him, says Michel, because he has an extraordin arily arresting face.
1
Woman's Cut
Scissors are not often used in
temple of male beauty. All
the hair is cut while it i wet with a razor.
"I style the hair in the same way as a short cut for women," sala Michel. "It aims to give a shape to the head whlie counter- of acting any trregularity feature."
And he added thoughtfully: "After all, you know, most men
vain every bit
are
women
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GARY COOPER The same for Kim,
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