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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1959.
THE LOCAL SLANT
By ELIZABETH FOX
The Day Is Not 152 American
Long Enough For Le Comte
FOR someone who is interested in old jade and porcelain, Hongkong must be the ideal place for a visit.
Dorothy Malone
To Marry
By ANDREW SLOAN Dorothy Malons, Hollywood actress with a liking for English grammar, arrived here the other day after completing her part in a movie being made in
Japon.
But the movie, The Last Voyage," provided Dorothy with some of her worst moments int her screen career.
Dovethy Yesterday
fald me about the pact she had to play in the film, which coneras mainly, The The liner le de. France. ship was hired for a fantastic sum of money from the Japanese shipyard who had bought her for
scrap.
The im crow
systematically
blow up and "sink" the big liner. ling her with water, setting off dynamite and starting Ares.
During one of these scenes, herself trapped Dorothy found under a pile of debris and jar-
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ture in the region of 120 degrees the netress began to get worried and she felt the ship being sunk. I was really frightened. I didn't know whether I would get burned to death, dec. irocuted or go down with the ship," she said recalling those anxious moments.
DISCOURAGED
Born in Dallas, Texas, the 5 feet 6 inches blonde, salū sho should be in the Colony for about a week to 10 days, and “but I am going to try stretch that to two weeks ar more."
.Just such П person is Cute Henri de la Briere who fre- quently comes here on bus- ness in the course of his travels.
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Women
Invade HK
YOU may have seen a number of American women in Hongkong last week, with pale green tickets pinned to them inscribed "GFWÜ”.
They are all members of the biggest group ever to arrive in the Colony and are a 182-strong contingent of the General Ped ertion of Women's Clubs. A charming and friendly man,
They were here on a Henri works for a very dis- tinguished house of French visit as part of a world tour to perfumiers and obviously foster better understanding and ihoroughly enjoys his occupa-friendship between women of all tlon which takes him all over nations.
18 Leading the group the world""To Cuba, India, New York," said Henri, toChloe Gifford, the President vi name but a few, "and I'm off the Federation and a truly re-
markable woman, to Tokyo on Thursday." Atthough born in France
near Valenciennes., Henri now makes his home in London.
Joined RAF .". when the war began, he found that there wasn't much doing In the French Air Force so he Juined the RAF. One of his ctations was in Syrin
"We have quite a family conf.cc- tion with Syria and Lebanon," he caid. "My great grand- father went out bere in 1858 and spent 50 years there
Henri de la Briere
thor:
Political Science
Misa
Borr In Lexington, Ken- tucky, Mias Gilford studied political science and sociology, earned a law degres and has a long record of church and community service, complet- Ing jobs with the same energy and emeleney with which she bogian them and topping it all the han
keen sense of
humour.
MISS C. GIFFORD
the
on
fur as Manila, where s GFWC is holding the first General Federation Astatic Con- vention which will be the key point of the tour.
Only 50 will continue to become Juvenile court judge, but due to round the world to places such Jordan, Lebanon, India, her youth, received little en-s
and Francs. couragement when she was nd-Pakistan, Austria mitted to the Kentucky Bur in For these members, the journey is going to set them back some
She wanted
1026.
Waiting List
At the University of Ken- HK$18,000, lucky Miss Gifford taught poll- lical selence and along with this she helped in the Extension
She Department.
proved have a magie hard in this work and it was from there that her interest in extension was pro- jected nationwide.
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"There
of people
was a waldur Hist wanting to come."
Miss Gifford remarked,
In conclusion, she said, "We
As a vice-president of the want to learn from other landia GFWC, she was asked to re- what people are doing in fields of health, education and wol- ruit 100,000 πριν members.
to
add 20 new clubs in each state Tare. To make person to per- scn contacts. If all women in and 10 new members in each established club. She there all countries got together we'd have ▸ better world. You upon embarked on a coust
know-women arg extremely coast recruitment project and building railways and the during the course of it, travelled port of Beirut. My grand- to each of the 50 states in father
Joined him and my America. mother used to spend her school holidays with them and then, of course I was there as well."
Anecdotes
powerful. We don't want war, we want peace
with friends everywhere."
And so any all of us,
anodotas Quarrel Solved
While doing this, she
many which she says tho wiil put in a book sometime. Miss Gifford, who happliy ximits to being stylishly, stout, recalled an episode that took place in Indianapolis;
gathered in the It was after the war that Henri She has only been
decided to live in England. Colony for a little over a day
"I've been away from France and a half, but has seen enough
"After too long," he told me. to realise that she can easily
you've travelled a lot you get go broke trying to save her
a different ontlook on a place. money, Dorothy plans to tell
You see.. It's like living in her friends in America, "Save
a country villare always and your pennies and come on over
then one day you climb the to Hongkong."
"But I wish Hongkung wasn't
hl nearby and looking down America, 3
suddenly it doesn't seem so far away from
the same village." think that has discouraged quite A few travellers," she said.
I asked Dorothy if she liked being a star or not, and the replied, "Well it has its ad- vontages and its drawbacks, you know. I have to work long hours and put in a lot of hard work when working on a movie. But I love to travel.
"When we travel, we travel under real and glamorous circumstances. The nice thing bout it is to arrive somewhere and the prople Jutow you. That
stranger, you don't feel like a
GENERAL RULE
"As a general rule, Dorothy does not worry about her health, but when she hears about a disease "for the next 10 minutes I have all the symptoms and quite convince marie)) that I have . Then it's all over DNA I forget about it."
Asked what she would like to do if she could stort again, she replied. "Well I'm a little like a cat. I've always wanted nine lives and I would do everything different each timu." ~~~~Dorothy""an"Öxar award-win-
The latest Dr Konrad
Bonn, June 23. quarrel between Adenauer, West
German Chancellor and his de puly, Economic Minister Pro- fessor Larvig Erhard, was re- "I was guest at a luncheon solved today, the West German where sizes 10 and
were news agency DPA sald tonight. showing off the latest fashions, Reuter, Not a woman in the room could have squeezed Info
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Always Flies these numbers. I had to leave
Wherever he goes, Henri ins to the
room, and as 1 threaded fly and he's now crossed the my way between the tables" a Atlantie 20 times. Once he woman looked
up and said, cancelled a fight to Baght Now here comes something and afterwards discovered that I can wear! It was too that if he'd gone, he would late to make a detour, so I had have arrived the day revolu- to pass the woman. As I did. Lion broke out,
| she grabbed my arm and asked, with the usual tuggage prov-How much for that number?" lem, he would sometimes pre- didn't want to disappoint her fer going by sea. "It's all very so I sald, $89.95 and kept go- well," he cald, pufing away Ing." na mutinour
cigar, "I get
interested in carpets in Iran, Miss Gifford has yet found time In her work for the GFWC, Jate here and antiques some- where else but when 話
down comes
to
to belong to various honorary and inw sororities Packing educational everything, where am I going and is a member of 16 national and state boards and com- to put it all?”
No Incidents
When he has time, he aderes millees!
salling and is a real huntin',
and fishin
shootin' type. Actually I'm not 0 sure about the fishin' part, but he told me that he loved shoot- Jug, rough shooting and once very nearly, went on a ger hunt
with
maharajah friend In India, but unfor- tunately that didn't come off.
Too Short
Д
ner for her performance in "Life is too short,” said Henri
"Written on the Wind," said her most satisfying performance was in the Alm "Battle Cry." "I have made so many movies
that I have stopped bothering 10 count them, because some years I do only one, and I can remember one year I completed eight of them,"
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If she had not been discovered In college in Dallas by a talent scout, Dorothy said she would have liked to be a nurse, housewife or an English teacher, u even a dress designer.
SPECIAL LICENCE Well now the secret is oal, Dorothy kid actor Juoques Bergerac have applied to the Marriage Registry in Hong- kony, confirming the remÒMETR that have boon-firing around town, oven before they had arrived in the Colony, They have applied for a special licence to the Governor, allow. tag them to marry within the normal period. I learned too. although the couple declined to make any comment yesterday, that there was a possibility of a church wedding.
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So far, having already visited Hawaii, Honoluku, and Japan, their present trip has gone off very smoothly with no incidents or hitches,
"Everyone, wherever we'vo stopped has been mast kind and hospitable," Miss Gifford told
"Of course," she said, "a "I never som To finish,the
tour like this, with such a large day thinking-well, I've done group, needs a great deal of everything I wanted to do preparation and organisation. today," However, he hopes it's hard work but it's fun!"
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to come back to Hongkong in the Chinese New Year, perhaps he will have time to finish them, things left undone on this vialt.
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