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Seventeen-year-old Antoinette Rozario sides with popular disc
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FAN-CLUB
FAKERS OF HONGKONG
WHAT is a fan-club? I tried looking it
up in the dictionary. I found "fan,” I found "club," but I couldn't find "fan- club." Anyhow, from what I know, a fan- club is an organisation of people who idolise a person who, in most cases, is a movie star or singer. (People belonging to these clubs are in most cases sane and have names like John Smith and Mary Brown).
However, fan-clubs in Hongkong are entirely different things altogether! Here we have fan- clubs for bikinis, circuses, pickles, rainbows, ugly boys, pretty girls, and so on.
I detest fan-clubs! In fact members of which are really I imagine most people do. I and truly teenagers (that don't belong to any fan-club, lovable lot), and not people in none of my friends do either, need of psychiatrists' help. and I do think it's time some-
one said something about them.
I like a fan-club that is When a popular movie comes PRO-ELVIS or PRO-PAT and along almost immediately a few is satisfied to stop at that and "fan-clubs" spring up
named not go a step further to be pro- or vice-versa. after it. Every single solitary Elvis-anti-Pat request programme on the air is monopolised by these so called "fan-clubs"—the members of which have stupid, phoney, mcronic names.
During the last few years thousands of Elvises, Rickys and Fabians have appeared, followed by numerous Pats, Neils. Pauls, several variations of Sandra Dee, that is, Sandra Tse, Lee, Mee, She, Alexandra, Sandra, and Cassandra.
Be yourself
Just leave others to enjoy what they think is enjoyable they'll leave you alone.
Silly thing
and
songs.
Another silly thing is a strictly Elvis fan-club requesting Paul Anka or Neil Sedaka What's the use of the fan-club then? They might as well have 2 "Presley, Boone, Francis, Sedaka, Anka, Armstrong etc. fan-club" or something.
I can still remember when I used to switch on the radio to hear songs from John to Jean, Teenagers, why don't you just
James to Jane. There actually be yourselves? We won't love
was more music than talking, you any better even if your and messages (if there were any, name was Jonathan Fitzgerald at all) were brief. Horatio Feeblebottle III!!!
Don't get me wrong though. But nowadays what do we I have absolutely nothing hear? Non-existent people re- against honest-to-goodness fan- questing tunes clubs in honour of a movie star, existent
for their non- friends, accompanying not his songs or his movies, the each request with a lengthy and
MEMBERS-DO YOU SHAVE?
How to get rid of that growth
TOST of the Club's masculine members--and some
MOST of the Club's masculierebene who don't make
their living in circuses-will agree that shaving is a frightful bore.
Day after day (and sometimes
Something really hirsute with twice a day if we go to a com- friends may be plagued pulsory party) we look at the that awful problem of unusual- same old face in the mirror and ly luxuriant growth in the nose lather it round exactly the same or ears making them look like I would advise that area in the same precise way. dragons.
I we are addicted to electric rather than approach the prob-
down ''the "Tem ́ ́in" shaving,
we mow
a defeatist manner. should think methods of removal would give them
stubble over the same acreage: these friends
Well, to relieve all this trouble, of here are some permutations and which
combinations that can make 'back their self respect withou: this nasty old business of shav- making them prick
ing delight.
a
real
adventure
UNUSUAL
their girl and friends every time they sniffed the perfume behind their ears.
Ал unusual but Interesting are.
which variation
not
Abnormal nose or ears hairs
best
thres removed by perhaps does methods: 1) Singeing with a immediately present itself candle or a blow-lamp; 2) ́up-
to most members' minds is to rooting with a pair of pliers.or
3) to the electric pincers;
Gripping the smartly
fix the razor light Switch and move the face offending hairs in a over the razor instead of the closed door and briskly walking razor over the face.
away from it.
Another is to shave whilst
If you are one of those un- sipping one's morning coffee
fortunate chaps with a really though a straw, or with the pre- breakfast banana protruding blue chin, it is far better not to at all Just let the from one's lips. If one sports shave #moustache this can be tricky jungle flourish and grow. 19: operation and care must be no use fighting the impossible.
• Exorcised otherwise the banana may be served.
Credit card to
Ahmed, Hongkong.
4. H.
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JOIN THE RAVISHING BEAUTIES FAN CLUB TODAY!
-Credit card to Antoinette Rozario, Kowloon.
lot of postcards to show the folks when they go on leave.
So how about it? Let's do
romantic message to a long list hunters' Club... blah... they would have a wonderful of people.
blah!!" Switch on the radio on Satur- And so on. day, and we hear...."Now we
I'm fed up-and I'll bet my have a request going out from bottom dollar that the deejays away with all these bikinis, Darling Centipede to Maroon want to put an end to this as romantica backyards, üzly girls, Fairy, and from Elvis Wong of much as everyone else.
the loyal Pat Boone fan-club to Someone. It says here 'Please listen to the words carefully' (phooey!)
"Going out from Sedaka Chan
Post-cards
to darling Linda Loo; Here's So why don't they limt re- a pocketful of rainbows going quests to postcards? This will out to all the members of the. save their time, give them really originally, truly loyal, something pleasant to look at,' Elvis Fan-club from the Head- give us more songs and, besides,
Cliff Richard, famous British "pop"-ringer."
Credit card to Roy Foy, Hongkong.
TN
handsome boys,
darling amoebas and rainbows and just seifle, for the few-the very few -genuine fan-clubs,
-Credit card to Antoinette
Rozario, Kowloon.
The 17-21 Club's five rules
✪ Membership in the 17-21 Club is open to all within that age group. Contributions and all ac- tivities of the Club will be limited to members only,
• Contributions may consist of anything that is publishable articles, letters, stories, photo- graphs, drawings, verses. But only the best will be printed.
All contributions MUST be original.
• Written contributions should not consist of more than 350 words, photographs and draw- ings will only be accopt- ed in black-and-white.
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