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JAPAN NEWSLETTER
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1959.
By David Gordon
Princess Suga Will Become Just "Mrs"
Tokyo.
The engagement of Princess Suga to Hisanaga Shimazu, descendant of a feudal family appears to have boon another case of "the person of my choice," similar to Prince Akihito's when he over-rode traditions by choos- ing a commonor for his bride.
They Take
Their
Politics
Seriously
By NORAH KINGSWOOD
the
NLY
British could have thought
·Upon marriage, the pretty and vivacious Princess will lose her Imperial status to become plain Mrs Shimazu, wife of a bank clerk whose present salary is but Y13,000 (£13) per month. She Will most likely be deep appreciation of Occidental
music has taken root,
granted the maximum "over ance" allowance of Y15,000,000 from a special fund set up for the purpose.
Her two elder sters who nise married former nobility, received only half of this sun probably because their husbands were reasonably affluent.
With the post-war abolition of the House of Peers and the stripping away of titles and ranks, Japan's Imperial Prinersses were left no choice about marrying "commoners" ather than marrying into foreign royalty or nobility.
There had been some mild speculation that Princess Suga may have taken this stephd she had the chance,
She had been deliberately
Tube talay Tyr sizes available from anything so unlikely cented the opportunity of travel as the self-governing abroad despite the fact that invitations had been extended to federal
State
of her. Northern Ireland. It is unique.
OFFICIAL NOTICE
Proposal to ebange a
Skip's name.
1. ROBERT ERNEST SKELSON of 23, South Bay
Ulster (pop. 1,400,000) sends 12 MPs to Westminster and voles 5 Into its own Parliament at Startani.
Less than six months ago, the Household Agency was np- proached through a European Embassy, requesting that Suga be the guest of the Royal Princess of that country at it proposed "Princesses Party" Westminster is still affection where would be gathered most Road, Hong Kong, hereby Intely referred to es The Im! Europe's young give notice that in ense pería: Parliament." She alone is beauties. quence of change of owner-responsible for all laws govern It was turned down flat-bit ing defence, currency, Customs with two utterly stupid reasons Arr} Exelse. The Parliament legtstates for the
Storment proffered. rest.
strip of the yachi, I have applied to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation under Sections 17 of the Merchant Shipping Art, 1994, in respeel of the sailing ship "Roosaka" of HONG KONG REGISTRY Official Number 196802 Gross tonn 2.21 fons Register tonnage 18 Jogts. beretofore owned by Professor Francis E. Stock of the University of Hong Kung for permission to change lur name 10 KYLLIKKI" and to have her registered in the new mine at the Port of HONG KONG an owned by
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Although the Unionists (Con- ott majority at Stormont, their |servatives) have always har a legislation has followed Beltain very closely.
Two-thirds of the people of Northern Trotand
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Irish,
nure
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Further, the Japanese show n natural talent ns Instrumentalists tid by sheer weight of numbers clone, must be already con- sidered the biggest country where muslę là concerned,
Visiting conductors are invnri- Phly frankly delighted in work- hug with Japanese orchestras, while concert artista are touched and faltered by the responses of Japanese audiences.
ownl com-
The Osaka
Festival Rext month plays host to such cele- brities as Igor Stravinsky who will conduct the fine NHK Sym- phony Orchesita ર
pro- of his Kramme positions, Andres Segovia who will give solo reeltals and play Orchestra. Valery Klinov the with the Konsul Symphony Russian violin virtuoso, Marisa Regules the Argentinian planiste
LOUIS JOURDAN and EVA GABOR dine at the Yabulous Maxim's in a scene from the
screen's greatest musican) "Girl,"
GIGI IS THE SCREEN'S
Salesman TOP SPECTACLE
Designed
His Own
GIGI, the very latest in screen musical comedy,
In
comes to the Hoover and Gala today.
on
Kowloon, the Gala of Offenbach
the spree, theatre, the last word in rather than the music hall technical efficiency, is de- rhythm of My Fair Lady.
Dream Car signed to receive a film
such as Gigi, and show it and with all the width Johannesburg.
depth of a modern stage.
pl the Vienna State Opera Mr E. W. Mendelsohn, a Group.
The Festival Hall itself is a modern wonder and a prime example of Japanese architec-
ural merit.
The Festival will undoubtedly rack one day with Edinburgh, Salzburg, Bayreuth mud other regal famous musical venues when
dull bureaucracy gives {t chance.
The first reason was that it was "nut yet the time for her
travel overseas," Eut the giveaway came with the second
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The sole reason so litila prior publicity ran be given for this evcut which would duubtedly prove great draw for music-lovers. is that the Finance Ministry takes such an Interminable time to ap. prove arrangements for Invil- Ing guest artists.
which qualified the first, and besides Prince Yosti! has been abroad yet."
Prince Yoshi is an extremely ikeable and lively little fellow solidly British than the English,(just scraping over 5 feet and the Welsh and the Seo's, The 16 pounds), who is go personal-
Worse still, even though the remaining third, s Catholic,
ly close to Sun-chan' that he organizers are qullo certain that profess to wail union with Eire, Would suffer no real or faneted everything will be well, they not for Socialism or Toryismim on a
Electors go to the poll to vele oss of face it she did precede dare not advertise a single pro- but for or against partition world.
venture to the outer gramme until the ministerial This alone is the vital issue.
chops have been stamped onto
The Northern
But the tedious Household the Innumerable forms,
the outmoded
A foreign airline got 18 serious-minded and level-head- Agency cleaves
fingers "men first" principle.
severely burned last through the years had a happy
As Prince Yoshi is now the year through jumping the gun knack of adopting the best of only child of the Emperor yet on Japanese officialdom. British legislation and Ignoring to arrange for marriage, the Any objection to the pro-he wors. This is best seers
of inossibility
His Mujesty posed chmure of name mixt Their atitude to the Education dicting, grows considerably
stranger. be out to the REGISTRAR Art of 1944. They massed theirs
The in 1947.
Emperor is a shy unl OP SHIPPING HE HONG KONG within SEVEN daya
They let the Grammar schools studious man who feels that his retain their preparatory depart-tirement from the scene would From the appearance of this ments, allowed puplis who fall- remove the lust vestiges of the "uld Japan" and pave the way, advertisement.
ed their 11-plus exam to stay on as fee payers, and paid the for n genuine
701",
Dated at HONG KONG the 1st day of March, 1959.
K. E. SKELSON,
Scle Owner).
CANADA.
jul than the Southerners, have
"fresh start"
fees of those who passed in-slong the temperntic Hines In-
stead of taking over the schools sisted upon by the occupation.
There is even open talk that and running them.
Different
TODAY most Grammar schools
Akihite may be the last Emperor
All verbal and most mechani- cul approval for a particular
been hud
granted service except for one final chop,
However, the airline started advertising its proposed service on the strength of what had gone before.
To show its "strength" for not having been "honoured" correct-
Johannesburg car sales- man, is the owner of "the most beautiful sports car in South Africn.”
Mr Mendelsohni, should know, for, before designing his own drenin ear, be examined prac- ikeally every available sports car on the market,
-
"I first decided to build a car to my own specifications in 1950, Mr Mendelsohn said.
"I was in that year that I picked up a 1938 2-litre side- valve Jaguar engine with chassis for £100,
"That engino end chassis to- day form the basis of my car.
Monster
" realised that I could not do the job
Mr o my own," Mendelsohn said, "so I took it
lo un Italian firm to have the aluminium body bullt. That took 18 months and 100 working hours."
The car is a lòng, low, sleek monster
ваул capable,
Mr Mendelsohn, of 110 m.ph. and more. It is finished in "Brilish racing green."'
The cost to Mr Mendelsohn? About £1,100, so far — “and- worth every penny of it."— Reuter.
15 by uwulling its exalted stamp Husband Was
the bureau concerned withheld this for another three months,
Ice Cream
cinising the airline considerable Drowned In of Japan when he neeedes to the financial loss ond outright tiron, and the Land of the nuisance.
will
But despite the become u
outrageous Rising Sun
stupidity of Japanese bureau- crats, this particular festival maikt grow as an event of .world Interest and Importance.
are run by their own inde-public.
prudent boards of governors, and pupils who fail the 11-plus have a chance to win State
*
In due time, Japan's classical their way
scholarships at 12-plus and Be this as it may, there is artists will and SendingintainenSaplusque thing-Japan-la-likely abroad too
is interested in buy- -ing
-large very gunities of feather bandeaus, featherpads Hind Paw feathers (not bedding), Airmail offers and samples with colour cards to Cannda Standard Con 360 Craig West
Alontreal Canada.
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I is a happy conipromi. Many of the Northern Irish are of Scottish or North of Eng- ====w.certswitchAMBRES UERY=
a.people altogether different from The Southerners. In Americh they are known as the Scots Irish and have provided 14 Presidents the United States.
Though deeply divided over religious matters, they all down tools on the twelfth of July and holiday, enjoy their national which for many lasts two weeks, This is the day, 268 years ago. when William of Orange defeat- ed James II at the Battle of the Boyne and established the Protestant monarchy throughou!
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34 N
to become before that- AL the moment, overseas recognised
remained at the great interest has centre of Music-un ling and rockabilly level "due to the Type of promoters Apart from the Philippines who can manage to swap musical forms
fonte for Western team of Japanese strip-teasers we acquired for a few grunt-and-groan pro during the years of Spanish wrestlers, getting quick dominance, Japan is the only proval through the provision of country in the Orlent where a a Cadillac to the right man.
where B
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THE recording
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of silence is into the copacious maw of the protest against instrument 'turns to ice. That
ice.
n timely the internal nuise of life is why *550 fow Eskimos are today.
trombonists. Said one selentisi Someone in America. pinced "Even a litle Instruinent tome blank dises in a juke-box, the nute, if played on the sa that people who were driven gets clogged up." Sir Gerald to desperation by the cataract Barry, the famous Porthcawl of music might, by pressing the fluth, once played "Part-pirl- right button and inserting a coin, piri" on on iceberg. "It was liko cajoy a short interval of peace playing an iclcle," he said, when The suggestion that it would be helped down. In Greenland Europe.ecater to have na Juke-box was orchestras smear their instru- Forme, Oxinawa, Japan; Koren, rejected, because
thasa ments with an anti-treezing 0 p.m.
who were sick of the noise were mixture, which is more effective not prepared to face more than und safer than 3ghting little a few minutes without music, fires of twigs under them,
THURSDAY, MARCH 26 By Air Philippines, a p.m.
Cambodia, & p.m
India, Aden, Africa,
p.m.
Lawali, U.3.A.. p.m.
My surfere
Масло, и от
GENERAL HOLIDAY
FRIDAY, MARCH 27 By Air
France, 10 a.m.
Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia, Cay- Biore lon, 10 am.
1 p.m. lingAustralia.
#5, 9 pm.
Laos, pam
even
was
China, People's Republic p.m. The application of this system Welcome to the bank, sir
to radio and television would be Tile friendly easy enough. Gluttons for noise.
atmosphere Vietnam. Cambodia, Pakistan. would enjoy the rumpus all the by the
which is being cultivated
banks after
rudely an Interval of checked the other day. A mai maddening silence, and
a few with
a dented bowler and an New Zeg: minules of
a blank television unrolled umbrella approached screen would not only rest the a grille und shouted to the
but would eyes
allow the cashler:
"Double whisky!" exchange of
words of "We don't sell drink," said the conversation.
cashier. "Well, if you're giving It away, make it a treble," said the man. "This is a bank," anid T what temperature does a the cashier, "What Is?" asked trombone freeze up? Selen- the man with a puzzled frown, tinto bove discovered that in the courtly manager led him. very cold climates the hot out. breath of the player expelled. · London Express Service,
Formigua. " Hawaii, & p.m.
Canada, U.3.A.. O DI
Crna, People's Repubile, a p.m.
ily Burton
a few
Malays Ceylon, India, Pakistan. Refrigerated music
Aden, Egypt, Haly, thahe – vis Bombay, India -vin Karicht, Switzerland via Genoa), Noom
Korea, Noon.
Macro, 1 pan.
Maco, pm.
China, Peopis's Republic, 6 p.m.
Sydney. A woman whose husband
was smothered by ice cream when ___*______lotrṛ________overturned
***AWANIE NETBOGO-COMPER
Bon by the New South Wales Supreme Court.
Gigl is delightful; Gigi is colourful; Gigi is all that is best of
the modern music ball, brought to films with the added enchantment of Paris in the spring.
Ageless Faun
That agrless faun, Maurice
Π
Chevalier, sets the film going with half-paltor half-cong version of Parls, the parks, and the girls.
Sleep Stops Liquor Craving
Johannesburg.
A JOHANNESBURG doctor is treating alcoholics by making them too drowsy for that final nightcap.
He uses a new type of sleep- Ing tablet with the "kick of a mule"--but no after effects,
This makes his patients yawni at the very Idea of one more tot before bed-ume, They are fast asleep before the cork is half-way out of the bottle.
Until recently doctors coulú use strong sleeping drugs only when alcoholics were being treated in a home or a hospital. The drugs gave them a heavy hangover or had a lingering and unpleasant smell that would up- set fellow workers,
With the new drug a patient can be made to sleep soundly to work the
and go odourless
day,
Strong Urge
Sleeping tablets are used to overcome the sleeplessness and powerful urge to drink that alcoholics suffer when they first stop drinking,
Patients attend a clinic daily for treatment during work- ing hours with the consent of their employers and the mipport of trade unions, The fact that they can keep The story is slight, Oist, charming, fresh Farisian girl is in itself "good medicine," ex- on working during treatment is
being reared by Hermiore Gin- perts on alcoholism report. Kold and Isabel Jeans on the
So for more than 240 sasumption that such a beautiful | alcoholics have been treated girl is wasted on were
with the help of husband successfully when she might be a rich man's the new drug-Reuter. mistress.
CROSSWORD
Producer Arthur Freed, direc- tor Vincente Minnell, determined that Gli should be Almed to
home of her origin, so Paris it is.
NEW FILMS
ANTHONY FULLER
Although
Gigl goes back to the 1890s, Paris stands where it Blood.
The fabulous Maxlar's comes to life in a wonderful musical chorus seene, in which old roue and young coquette halt as Gigi the reluctant coqueita passes by,
Theo
Spectacle
there is the Painis de Glace, the famous ico rink, where couples dressed in the latest Victorian mode colourfully Sintes.
кутае
You are taken on the Bois do Boulogne
for the "Battle of the
Flowers,"
For sheer spectacle, Gigi sur- passes anything yet attempted on the screen.
A
Louis Jourdan, handsome and rich, falls for Gigi's charms, but not sufficiently hard to make him offer marriage.
Furthermore, he hug a mis- tress, Eva Gabor, but she falls from grace when she is caught in the arms of skaling Instructor, Feetle.
3
Q nost amusing
New Fashion
Leslie Caron is absolutely de- lightful as Gigl; aweet, enchant- ing, a kind of naive sophisticate. Holding in one production all that is best in musical comedy and flims, it sets a new fashion in the film musical.
Its music will be played for years to come; its colourful scenes and intriguing episodes will enter the MARAS of the screen.
I saw Glgi, in the new Galn at a kind of dress rehearsal for opening day. The final curtain met with a round of applause, and it is my opinion that the m will be applauded for a long me to come.
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fures a different atmosphere,
Boulevard, the
Maxim's, the Lomond
"Arg Libreid, suca" "J'umas" Mosgrove, the driver of an ice cream lorry, which crashed and overturned 07 Ben mountain in December, 1855,
Mrs Held's husband, Stanicy, passenger in the lorry. Rescuers found his body three hours after the accident burled under Lons of melting ice cream-Reuter.
was
Eiffel Tower, the side stroots, the Seine, the dank le alleys of the Latin Quartier, all invoke a music different from Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
So we get a kind of Second Empire Can-Can effect, a sort
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