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} THE CHINA. MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1959.
LOCA
SLANT
The Man Who
Lives On Shadows:
His Silhouettes
Take 45 Seconds
By DAVID LAN
Yip Fook-lam lives on shadows.
SUSIE'S RED
CARPET TRIPS
TO HONGKONG
By JOANNE BLAIR "Goodbye averybody! See you soon!” colled Mrs Susie Gross to the group of smiling women as they disappeared through the departure gate at Kai Tak.
The women, all members of Susie's Red Carpet Tour, grinned and waved.
Later, Susto put hor foot up in her hotel saom and relaxed. It was the ninth tour to Hongkong that she had arranged in the past yent.
Success dates back two years ago when this attractive 59-year-old American widow went to live in Okinawa with her daughter and son-in-law, a captain in the US. Air Force.
Second Trip Successful
Realising the need for Army and Air Force wives to act away from the narrow confines of the Island, Suale began bý -chartering a plazzo and isking 50 women to Taipei. A second trip to Japan proved en sticcessful that he decided to include Hongkong in the itinerary.
The tour la row so effectively organised that she can bring approximately 25 women from Okinawa to Hongkong on an eight- day trip for US$205.70 Including the air farn
Ono
"The women adore coming to Hongkong." remarked Susic, and so do I even though I've made so many trips here." She can think of only two Improvements to the Colony. is to have English-speaking pollcontent posted at either end of the ferry to save them hunting up "red taba" and the other concerns The small taxis which will only take ibres passengers.
"It's pyschologica),” says Suzie. "Tourists nearly always fravel in two or fours. But never in threes."
So far, Susie's travelling schemes have been profitiess but she is hoping to alter that shortly.
Bubbles With
Enthusiasm
It would be hard to find a woman who is happier in her Job. Bhe fast bubbles over with sniðuxlasm when she discusses platus for business expanalon,
"But not forever," she exclaims. "When I reach old age
I'm going to return to my farm in Lonoke, Arkansas, alt in my
In exactly 45 seconds, he made a silhouette rocking chair and give lectures."
And
of a man's head out of a piece of black flannel paper.
he bas been cutting | corners, He is for the contours. thousands of them for a living. As he puts it: "Who in the world
has a sharp nose after all?"
Thirty-three-year-old sil- hovelle artist Yip works only four and half hours a day to
just
nuchh
as-or
carn
AN
rather more than many white collar workers in Hongkong.
With a pair of scissors and u bundle of fannel paper costing a few cents each. Yip earns over $400 a month.
He works his way through his clients at the rate of one every 45 seconds,
He Wanders
He doesn't like customers wenring hats and glosses. The two items take him an extra 15 seconda to cut at no extra charge.
bwn
He learned his
by studying his thedow and cul- ting his
Image countless limes.
art
His speed then was two to
"On what and to whom?" I enquired.
"Oh, on anything at all and to whomever will listen!"
ORGANISING
A FLAG DAY
three minutes a piece. By the Strolling through Victoria or Kowloon next Saturday
end of 10 days, he was ready for przelice In the public places,
looks
like the subject depends on the
Whether a silhouette
number of characteristics t possesses. The more the belter. Three Sizes
morning, the Hongkong citizen will notice pairs of school children standing on the street corners.
Tha rattle of their tin boxes will draw his attention to the cardboard sign. "St James Settlement" he'll road and dip into his pocket for same coins. A clank of metul, a tag fastened to his lapel and he'll pass on his way.
are
It's 10 to that he'll know fold to be on the job promptly to what organisation he's made Silhouettes are cui in three his donation
st o'clock in the morning. but the chances The sizes; tho
final arran ente big size measuring are practically nil that heʻli | tho Like a gipsy Yip wanders Ave and half inches by three have any idea of the planningquires 16 of these situated
depots, The Colony re- from place to place, mostly from inches selling at a dollar that went into placing cud strategic one end of Nathan Road to the piece, the medium one, two and vassers on the street for four
hours.
Yip Fook-lam at work. The silhouette artist, is shown completing a profile for a customer cut out of black flannel paper. Time taken for the job-45 seconds not.--China Mail Photo.
uther and from Western District haif to Wanchal,
There are only four artists in the trade, two in Canton and two in Hongkong.
Over R cup of coffee, Yip told me, about his art.
"It's no art at all but butchery," he said. "But don't murder your client by cutting at the throat immediately.
However, ona person who knows only too well Kr
J. C. McDouall, chairwoman of the Flag Day committee for St James Settlement.
"The frat dificulty," says Mrs McDounll, "iles in getting a flag day at all. There are only 12 fing days plus Poppy Day per year, no it's not as pasy aa one might think."
Once acquired though, ii in an indication thaă the organi- Kallon in question is well worth pubilo support. Behind the scenes, small armles of volunteer workers
|
al
positions where the children return their boxos. Each depot is alaffed with four People-two Chinese, and Europeans.
Ends Midday
Iwo
The collection ends at midday. Not a newcomer to this sort
of work, Mrs McDouall speaks very highly of the generosity of Hongkong people.
"They've always helped; in the past," she said, "and 1 know they'll support us. Four hundred thousand dollars may sound like o great drol of money but we badly need it for
sel about to address and stamp a permanent settlement house.”
appeal letters, organise boxes and print cards, fings and letter heads. In this case, the St James Bettlement printing shợp went into action in order to help keep costs down.
Appeal Letters
Just under 3,000 appeal letters were sent throughout the Colony.
Co-ordinated with this gelivity is the Appeal made to schools
for canvassers. All schools in any way connected with the organisation (in this case the Anglican Church) are approach- ed and asked to support the drive.
Monastery
Now School
Kallipong,
N.W.. India, May 18. The Chinese have converted Tibet's largest monastery -- Drepung, near Lhasa into a
school where. Tibetan children are receiving Communist educa- tion, a Drepuna monk suld here today.
The monk said only 3,000 of the monastery'a 8,000 monka were still in the building which
Inches by one and· half inches at 50 cents each and the
Mrs McDouall feels very small size, one and half inches strongly that these youngsters he escaped on April 3, square, at 30 cents each. The should be encouraged to help last two are the most popular. out. Often, she says, there is The othurs had either es
not enough support.
caped or beun arrested. The Actually 1,500 children are monastery' itself was hit three needed for full canvassing work, or four times during the fighting Mrs McDouali has managed to in Lhasa but was not badly get 1,300,
damaged.
For sharp contrast, silhouettes in black or maroon are mounted on white cards.
They are good for decora- tlon, gifts, mailing to friends, "Divide la profile up into bookmarks, under a desk glass three parts: his forehead, his or on a wall
nose, his lips and chin. Observe his characteristics as far AB ro:sible and size up their pro- portions.
the
"Then starling from chest, with nimble Angers, steady hands, and grim deler- mination, your cut right along his Adam's Apple, taco, fore head, hair up to the nape,"
"Notice the concave and con- vex lines and memoriso the characteristics in the right pro- portions us you cut along. You won't be far wrong," he added.
Two, Schools
·There "are two schools of silhouetio artists so far as Yip know: those cutting round corners and thom quilling sharp
POP-Time log
IF YOU DON'T NEED ME ANY
MORE "THIS MORNING,
The children, by law, matkaš The monk sold tha Chinese not be under 18 years of age. | had burned down Kundeling They are all afven insirker and Chomeling monasteries.—- lique' on how to osuties Sad Reuter
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