HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
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You
Sure?
The "Hongkong Telegraph" Brains Test
(Answers are on Pago 3)
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The number of steam turbines
In the Queen Mary 38:- 6—8—10—35-10-20
2. The statue of a Queen of Eng- Iand in front of St. Paul's Cathedral is that of:
Elizabeth
Anne
Victoria
Mary Tudor Boadicea
3. On which of these dates are
the National Festivals of (a) France,
(b) U.S.A.:-
June
July 14
4. Cudets for
Marine are trained
Victory
President
Conway
July 4
June 14
the
Mercantile
in the:-
Warspite
Worcester
Pembroke
5. The district round one of these towns is called the "Soke":-
Southampton
Ely
Cheater
Peterborough
Northampton Norwich
6. One of these is the name of
hunt:-
Beaver Bevir
Belvoir Beevor
7. Name the British statesman, now dead, who was permanently crippled by a form of spinal dis-
case.
16. Á stamp on a birth certincaté
costa:--
6d.
31. Od.
2.. Gd.
Id. 244.
17. The Court of Arelies tries dis- putes affecting:
Weights and measures Shipping
Precedence at Court Ecclesiastical Law and discipline
in the Province of Canterbury Oxford University
The Port of London
18. Which of these is a diver's water-tight sull?
Scapula
Schaphander
Riyadoon Patella
19. Can you cash a British postal order in Elte:-
20.
Yet,
No.
Which of the following would you describe as a "vizer"?
Part of a helmet. A Turkish high officer. An endorsement on a pass- port. A short lace clonk.
21. Which narcotics?
Hemlock
Henhanc
Tobacco
of the following are
Aconite Camphor Digitalta
22. In Britain and most Co- wife changes tinental nations the composers
her surname on marriage to that of her husband.. Do you know of one country where she retains 17
of These 8. Which wrote a suite of music for one n Shakespeare's plays:-
Schumann
Schubert
Meyerbeer i
Mendelssohn
Brahms
Bach
0. Which blossoms Arst:-
Appic
Cherry
Pear
Almond
Orange
Peach
whose 10. The town of Bray,
the bailtid, nune is celebrated by "The Vicar of Bray," stands on one of the following rivers:
of?
Avon Esk Thames
Dee
Severn Orwell
11. What does "gavlare" consist
12: Where was Charlie Chaplin born?
Cumberwell, London
Whalley Range, Manchester
Erdington, Birmingham
Brooklyn, New York
13 Why Is
the stork
usually
associated with the birth of a child?
14. In whose reign was Bucking-
ham Palace built?
15. The chief magistrate of
Scots town is the:---
Ballic
Mayor President
Lord Advocate
Provost
Convener
33. A person versed in lingulstic selence is known as a
Philatelist
Philologist
Philomath Phlebotomist
24. What Is, the name for a rope ladder with wooden rungs used by pilots?
The desire of a person prone to philoprožeritiveness is lo-
Raise a family. Cross the road safety. Live near the fire station, Become a detection, Take part i
B.B.C. sprtling bee." Live the life of a hermit.
26. Would you say calypse" Wis
CITI
"про
A horse race. When the moon crosses the path of the sun. A re- velation. A moral fable.
27 Select the Three Musketeers from the following:
D'Artagnan
Sydury Carlun
Porthos
Athos
Sancho Panza Aramis
Stanley Ortherls Benedick
28. Where is Broadmoor, the in- stitute for the criminally insane?
Devon
Berkshire
Iste of Wight
Yorkshire Staffordshire Buckinghamshire
WOMEN DREAM MORE
DRE
VIVIDLY!
REAMS of women are more vivid and varied than those of men, but men are more subject to embarrassing dreams. This was brought to light by Dr. Charles Discreus, of the University of Cincinnati, U.S.A., after experimenting with 200 students, ranging from the age of Men got of easier in the matter
|-of-nightmares. Fifty_per_cent_of_ Fifty-five per cent of the women the women reported nightmares, but reported hearing music in their only 25 per cent. of the men. dreams, while only 20 per cent. of the men answered "Yes" to the same question.
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While 75 per cent, of the men experienced thirst in dreams, only 33 per cent, of the women did likewise.
In miswer to the question: "Do you ever henr shricks in your dreams?" 65 per cent. women answered "Yes," but less than 30 per cent, of the men.
News About Moviedom
MUSIC
SWINDON, known to most
people as the chief, loco
News
Not Renewing HOLLYWOOD was surprised
and waggon works of the G.W.R., may one day become
when MGM falled to renew equally famous as the head- quarters of one of the mostUna Merkel's contract. successful and energetic ama- teur operas in the country.
Since 1930 the College Mu- sical Society there have pro- duced six operas by Rimsky- Korsakov and one each by Humperdinck and Borodin.
One of the screen's most popular comediennes, Una has excellent per- been giving formances in MGM pictures for the past seven years, and is also personally one of the most po [pular film personalities in
Hollywood.
The whole thing was carried
On her last day at the studio, through (and extraordinarily
electricians, prop. boys, hair- well) by local talent, scenery,
soloists, dressers, and wardrobe girls costumes, chorus,
plus poured into her dressing-room, orchestra, everything training, rehearsal and pro-bearing small gifts. duction. This kind of activity
is heartening to come across.
AT
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T the Baden-Baden Festi- val at the end of March a concert of British music in soti down for April 1. Precise de tails of the programme have not as yet been settled, but have been given, to understand that choral and orchestral works by Vaughan Williama, Bax, Bliss, Britten and Ireland are being considered, as well! as a group of Tudor madrigals.
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Of all the strange operas ever written; "Wozzeck," by the Austrian
composer Alban
died two Berg, who years ago, is the strangest. It has never been seen on the stage in England and
our
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Profers Strip-Tease Act GYPSY ROSE LEE, strip
tease,dancer, and formerly America's highest paid burles
who has been que artist, appearing in pictures as Louise Hovick, is losing interest in her film career. “
When she was working at 20th Century-Fox, the studio tried to make the public forget her days as a strip-tease dancer in burlesque houses, and to build her up as 'a dramatic ac tresa.
Now, however, she has gone on a personal appearance tour, for which she is using her old name, and is reverting to the "atrip" net which won her fame in New York.
chances of seeing it are small, Anglicising Freddie
for it is too costly for Sadier's Wells and too modern for Covent Garden.
on
Three excerpts from this re- markable score were recently the programme of the B.B.C. Symphony Concert on Wednesday. I should not wish to mislead
my readers
into imagining that this is quickly attractive music. At the same time I should fail them if 1 did not draw their attention to what may one day be considered the finest music of its cra.
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THE news that a symphony by Bax, a pianoforte con- cert by Bliss and a violin concerto by Walton have beent commissioned by the British Council for performance this year at the New York Fair will be commented upon in more detail as soon as I have been able to get some know- ledge of the actual scores.
S.G.
GOLD SITE PARK
San Francisco,
A movement has been started to make a state park out of the site where James W. Marshall first dis- covered gold in California 07 years
BECAUSE Freddie Bartholo
mew's studio feels he is becoming too Americanised, and is losing his English accent, Freddie has had to part with the American tutor with whom he has studied since coming to {Hollywood.
The studio has hired Captain John Cooper, former British army officer, to take over Fred- die's education. Cooper is ac- companying the boy star on his personal appearance tour in or der to improve his accent before he starts work on "Kim."
CHESS PLAYERS WOULDN'T STOP
WHILE winners in the Hastings & international chess congress were be ing handed their prizes recently, six of the 130 entrants sat in silence in an adjacent room behind locked doors so that no sound should disturb them.
They had failed to Anish in time. for the prize-giving, so they grimly fought out their games away from the crowd.
As expected, 21-year-old L. Szubo, the Budapest bank clerk, who was eless prodigy at 14, won the tourna-
inent.
Dr. Euwe was second, and Dr. Lan- and Fire tied for third und dau fourth. Szabo may give one or two exhibitions of simultaneous chess in England before going on to Holland.
He is the youngest player ever to
ngo, The sile will comprise six acres, take, unshared, the premier award.
YOUNG Bank Assistant Promoted
CASMI
when he got rid of NIGHT STARVATION
I HAD EARLY TEA HALF
AN HOUR AGO. I MUST
GET UP WISH I DIDN'T
FEEL SO DONE UP IN THE"),
MORNINGS I'M GOOD
FOR NOTHING
ALL DAY.
LOOK HERE YOUNG MAN, YOU'RE LATE AGAIN THIS MORNING, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU LATELY? YOU WERE ONE OF OUR PROMISING
YOUNG MEN ONCE!
SORRY, SIR, BUT I'M NOT FEELING WELL. I'M ALWAYS
TIRED AND... .. I SUPPOSE I'D BETTER
SEE THE
DOCTOR
If
2
AT THE DOCTORS TIRED, WHEN YOU WAKE UP NO ENERGY, ALL DAY~ LOOKS LIKE A CASE OF NIGHT STARVATION, ENERGY IS STILL USED UP DURING SLED YOU MUST REGAIN IT. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND HORLICKS, REGULARY LAST THING AT NIGHT
SATURDAY,
MARCH
4
1939.
I'M FAT-
AND WHY NOT?
been
HERE have funny songs about fat girls and jokes about them, too. But now they are in the news as the girls the fashion experts fancy to wear their new designs this spring and summer.
Behind locked doors in hush, hush fashion salons, plump lttle mannequins with the rollicking gait of puppies are walking up and down the polished floors of grand rooms, showing how to put the right swagger in a kilted skirt.
That's good news to me, for I am one of the plump kind, and if 1 know my women friends, It's good news to them, too, for in spite of
wi everything that has been said and done to get all women as silm as bean poles, 75 per cent, of them are still as fat as butter.
So that now we are about to bo Inunched
fashion's latest favourites, let's talk freely.
To begin with, we plump and fat women have not starved ourselves or dieted.. We've eaten three good meals a day-when we could get them and we've kept our tempers and our sense of humour.
Personally, I'm all for the fat
-girl.
Of course, I don't mean the girl
who is soft she has to travel in the goods van, being too fat to sit Nor do In an ordinary carriage.
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I mean the girl who is so fat she sits. at home and cries her eyes out be- cause she hasn't got a boy friend.
Buch a fat girl wants, and de- serves, all the sympathy she can for she is the girl they write get, the comic songs about and pillory on the music-hall stage.
The nicest women I have ever met, bar one, were plump, and some of them were fat.
Three years ago, when the "got- slim-quick" crazo was at its craziest height in London and all the big towns-not to mention rural villages the went to Life Isle of Skye, When I got off the ferry that took me across the Kyles of Lochalsh, I walked up the main street and knocked at cottage doors, asking for a bed for the night. Flump, rosy-checked Skye women came to the door to give me a welcome. They walked with
swing to their hips and they had the full-bosomed look of generous motherhood.
They were the most beautiful Women I had seen for months.
Mary Campbell, six feet tall, with Jet black hair, indigo blue eyes, and the complexion of a peach, and the curves of a beautiful galleon riding out to sea, took me into her cottage -and-gave me tear
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She queened It in her klichen, and as she walked down to the Jetty the eyes of the English gentry followed her in such boid admira tion that Jimmle, her husband, was inclined to take offence.
"Take no notice," I told him. "They are amazed to see such natural beauty in a woman. There is very little of it left in the places where they come from."
Aye," said Jimmie, winking a
-To-day's Thought- EVERY generation lauglis at the old fashions, but foliows religiously the new,
-II. D. THOREAU.
BRIDGE PROBLEM
This Week's Problem No. 97
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by Rebecca Gordon
"Ah bellove that's blue eye at me. trud, for some of their womenfolk are shrimpit weo things, yet their men sceni tae hac enough money ta feed them."
There is a lot of unhappiness in the world because somebody one day decided that the best-looking woman is a thin woman.
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Personally, I blame the fashion people who made clothes ke told shirts for pea-poda and women they had to get into them or bo
fashioned and classed as old-
Many a hitherto happy home has. been made, miserable by this. folly, for it has affected men and women in two ways.
Elther the foolish wife suffered the tortures of the
in damined
her efforts to get thin or li ahe didn't her foolish young husband. tingged her and refused to take her out to the staff dinner becauso
he thought she was too fat.
If the fashion people hadn't poked their noses in, women would have been content to be the way God made them and their hus- bands would have been tent to see them thus,
con-
Not so long ago my husband told me I was putting on weight.
"You must watch your weight, my girl," he said to me.
What did I do?
I talked sense and made it clear
that if three
simple meals a day were making me fat there was noth- ing I could do about it but get fat and that so long as I was well and cheerful what was the .matter with being fat
anyway?
Being a sensible man he agreed it wasn't sa
CHESS PROBLEMS
Black
Nos. 87-88 Problem No. 87
5 Places
White
7 Pieces White to play and mate in two.
Black
Problem No. 88
4 Pieces
While
White three,
5 Pieces
to play and mate in
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS No. 03 19-K13 No. 60 1. «QKIC K-KA
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important after all. Does it matter whether a woman's plump or thin so long as she is a jolly person to know?
Anyway, all the happiest women are the ones who took no notice of the young men who tried to tell us that if we were Avo feat four inches tall wo should weigh nine stone two pounds.
You might see them at any staff dinner- where all the men from high executives down to the least important omce boys take their wives and sweethearts to show them off to the others.
The wives come bustling in to wrons dinner like chirpy little with their feathers fluffed out.
comfortable Thoy look day. ittle women who lay a good tablo and know how to cook a good meal,
They look happy and contented. for they don't have to worry about
what's on the menu and what it will do to their Agures.
They are, in fact, the wives and mothers of
England and they are
women
the only really matter.
who
"George never worries whether I'm fat or thin," I heard one plump little wife telling another at such' a dinner the other night.
They both laughed at the very idea that "George" would not love his wife so much if she were fat,
Now they ure the women who matter, for there are millions of them to thousands of the others who
go without their dinners to squeeze into a new dress.
Somebody must have rubbed the mist from the eyes of the fashion dictators, for now they are making their new fashions for "George's wife," and for me and you and the millions like us.
hip, "Hip. Bay We might hurrah." if we really cared about it, but the truth of the matter is
we don't.
We were happy, when we were plump and we were happy when we got fat, and we don't want any- body to be sorry for the fat girl.
Anyway, we know it isn't true when they say "Nobody loves a fat girl." There are still a few million sensible folk who do.
Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
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Letter Division
The 10 letters forming this problem in letter division may be arranged to form a 10-letter word. And the letters, in that order, will stand for the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0. But try solving it arithmetically. first:
EMOI) NPAHCD (ED
NPHNM
AOD
Letter Juggling
Two different 9-letter, words may be formed from the 9 letters given below. Use all 9 lalters in each word:
AEEILRSTY
What Is the Cost?
An advertising sign is shaped like a triangle. Its base is 16 feet long, and it is 10 feet high. What is the cost of painting this sign at a rate of 5 cents à square foot?
Fun With Antonyma More words, and their an- tonyms to be paired off:
berty
diminuit
sailant
boastful 15einers
tricky
-Emportant
bulky
hrifty
impartin
strong
trivin
weaseful
Jacione
Arutafu blaned
M-M- M.: TASTES DELICIOUS, GLAD I BOUGHT
THE MIXER
HORLICKS REGULARLY SOON GAVE HIM NEW VITALITY
Horlicks is best made in the special Horlicks mix- er. Obtainable at all good stores 80 cts. large size and 40 cts: small size.
MONTHS LATER
THEY HAVE PROMOTED HIM I KNOW BECAUSE I SAW A LETTER FROM HEAD OFFICE ON
THE BOSS'S DESK.
I WISH I KNEW HIS SECRET SINCE HE WENT TO SEE HIS DOCTOR HE'S BEEN FULL OF VITALITY.
TAKE
you wake tired,
If you suffer from 'nerves' enervation and that' dreadful feeling of exhaus- tion GUARD AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION
HORLICKS
YOUSLEEP SOUNDLY, WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY
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-Spades are trumps South leads and North-South have to
win 10 of the 11 ricks.
2. BxB
only make his C A and on the
third Club which NORTH will
· Solutions by first post trump with his last trump, Wednesday to "Bridge Pro- EAST will be squeezed. If he blem", "Hongkong Telograph." lets go his HQ, NORTH's H 6 will be good, if EAST lots go SOUTH leads HK followed by Spade, then SOUTH will take H 9 won over by NORTH'S H A. the last two tricks with S Q and NORTH returns a third heart S 7.
SOLUTION TO NO. 98
(Answers Appear on Page 3)
Gold Prospector
Flies
Darwin, Australiò. Modern, streamlined gold prospect-
ing is now done with an airplane and which SOUTH trumps with the Same play if WEST wins the cornera, H. R. Bickman, of Los Angeles, arrived here by a Dutch D J. SOUTH now plays a small first lead of clubs with his CA, airplane, has been engaged by
to make ari
16- Club. If WEST ducks, NORTH NORTH will win the second British company wing with either the CK or the Club and throw back WEST in months' serial-photographic. survey. of Australia and New Guinea in an CJ and returns the D 6 which the lead with a Diamond as effort to locate regions that might be
gold-bearing. WEST has to win.. West can above.
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