Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 18, 1940,
WEEK-END PARTY
An up-to-the- minute quiz
ARE YOU up to date with your news? Can you remember important facts you've read recently in your "Telegraph?"
Give yourself one hour and some serious thought to solve this 20-question, not-so-easy quiz. Maximum marks possible
-50
1. What week of the war are we in? -(2 marks.)
2. What Dominion recently lust its Prime Minister? (2 marks,)
3. Who won the.
Lincoln Handicap? (2
marks.)
4. What In mous
Rugby player recently died in an air crash?
(2 marks.)
5.
What
world-
In
famous art exhibition shortly London (2 marks)
opened
0. What is the name
of the Indian found
guilty of murdering
Sir Michael O'Dwyer? -
(2 marks.)
7. Who else was in-
Jured on this occasion? *
(2 marks each.)
8.
Who is Australia's first Minis. ter to the U.S.A.? (3 marks.)
did rounde many .9. How Johnny Paychek fast in his recent fight against Joe Louis? (4 marks.). 10. When M. Pansikivi, referred. to Peter the Great, what was M. Molotov's retort? (3 marks.)
British
11. What
scored its
success
second
recently by
submarine spectacular
sinking
ກ
German cruiser? (2 marks.)
12. Who is the French Minister
for War? (3 marks.)
13. At which prison in England there a riot recently?
was
inarks.)
(2
artlelo of famous . 14. What French food has been suppressed on economy groundst (2 marks.)
19. Was the Bont-race rowed this year-and If so, who won? (1 murk.)
16. What Dominion troops have recently been stationed in Egypt? (2 marks.)
17. Naine the London tanker believed to have sunk a U-boat off Trinidad? (3 marks.)
a new kind of ANSWERS
memory test-
TICKLE UP your memory. Allow yourself five minutes for concentrated examination of the following list. Bury your head in your hands-keep still-try to Then visualise the objects, and the number of objects. cover up the list and answer the questions that follow.
-a game to try out your ingenuity-
you have pens, prepare to use them now-for we are about, to play the Blot Game,
But first; a warning to housewives:-play this game in the centre_ of the room, well away from the walls-particularly cream walls. I don't want to wreck your homes.
Take a plece of paper-make a good fat ink biet in the middle-- then (while still wet) fold the paper in the exact centre of the blot and press. Other players in the game do the same thing-cach, on opening his paper, revealing a grotesque, shapeless smudge.
Each player now announces: "I am going to turn my blot into a man skipping" or "a Russian soldier" or "Mac West" or "Marie" Then, with pen or --or "Hitler" or anything or anybody they like.
pencil, they set to work and add the necessary embellishments. Time limit-ten minutes. And the funniest sketch wins,
Above are some cramples. See if you can better them. -And A New-
Bridge-Baffler
THE other night we played a hand
like this:
North:
18. What was the first unit of the Territorial Army to bave entered No Man's Land? (3 marks.) 5. A.
19 They have celebrated a cen-ễn tenary two days late. Whose-
and why? (2 marks.)
20, When was Britain's Budget
day this year? (2 marks)
(Answers below.)
South: .[ Tax:
S...
B. D. ĐìRoz
C. v. {C. A.
West:
8. J 1000
5.***.
1.9.
p. 31008
C. x.
Clubs are trumps.--South led and made five tricks. How? See Column Three.
LIST
1 Blue hat.
3 red pencils.
lonely uncle
thimble.
O trained seals.
2 old brown boots.
1 packet of needles.
2 becs.
boby sleeping in
1. mauve chemise.
4 ties.
2 broken hammers.
17 rusty nails.
apple trees;
1 long black glove. QUESTIONS
1. How many broken articles are mentioned?
2.
3.
What poople are mentioned? What colour is the chemise? 4. How many toys are mention-
ed?
5. What articles mentioned come out of a sewing basket?
6. What animals are mentioned?--- .. How many red pencils were mentioned?
8. How often is the word black mentioned?
9. How often is the word yellow mentioned?
10. How many colours are inen- iloned?
11. What clothes are mentioned? 12. How many nails are men- tioned?
SCORING
Look up the answers-score 10 for correct answers, 0 for mistakes. 60 shows fine powers of observation and a particularly good memory, 40. is average. Under 40-your memory is below par
RECORDS
Perfect nick for the week-end party are two Decca discs of The idea will probably singe grandina's Shakespearian swing. eye-brows, but before long it is likely the old rocking chair will be going in rhythm. Four tunes-"O Mistress Mine "Sigh No More. Ladies," "Lover and his Lass," and "Blow; Blow, Thou Winter. Windare done by Rob Crosby and his Bob Cata. The singer is called Marlon Mann, but she sounds like Connie Boswell to me. The labels are tastefully inscribed thus-"Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" (Arthur Young, William Shakespeare). P. I.
(To Questions Bolow)
1. Remembering that your dress is a simple but sophisticated sort: of garment, the hat, you should choose is No. G. Because; by a
process of elimination, No. I is
over amart for that type of dress;
2, on the other hand, is altogether too sporty and governerty. 3 is again a bit over-dressed for such a plain frock 4 ...there's not much wrong with 4, but it night look rather heavy with a..light woatien frock. You'd have to be startlingly decorative yourself to wear such a plain little hat as 5 with such a plain-necked dress. But - nice sensible sailor with a good line but no frills is just the thing.
2. Only a tall, thin giri could get away with a suit like this-and she. couldn't find a better one to show her off. A small woman would look kippy in that pleated skirt, and would be cut in two by the short jacket and different coloured skirt.
3. (a) Just below the waist, (b) falls in front of the neck, (c) on the skirt, (d) round the shoulders, (c) nowhere on a dress-on a hat, (1) front of the bodice, (v) in a skirt scam. (h) neckline,
4. She can shorten the dress a good two inches and the sleeves to above the elbows; wear a wide belt in red to match one of the stripes, and make revers and a border for the hem of the same red, That will cut boin height and stripes.
5. This frock, to look its best, should be made in printed crepe; plain crepe would do. That's the material to take the seaming aud back fullness.
G. You'll know it's a pin-new sult if the jacket is long, the skirt very short; the revers are fairly high, shoulders only just squared; skirt slightly full, with a trifle more fullness at the back (but not a bustle).
7. Mary Johnson is o'smart girl -so she wears a black shirt and a black hat, getting an all-black background to her snappy check jacket. The hat ribbon is red.
8. Not 1. All those frills would look charmingly fresh the first few times-but not after that, Not 2. because those long sleeves and high neck are not just the thing for summer. 3 four dress-in awcet
pea mauve crepe with a cyclamen sash: You can alter the sash whenever you get alck" of it. Whereas when you get sick of the coloured bodice on 4.it would be a big job to change it.
-AND HERE'S A NEW ANGLE ON AN OLD GAME FOR THE LADIES
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"This is the first-hand in a-new- question-and-answer game that,
if you are honest, will give you a good
· check up on your FASHION, HOME
and FAMILY sense. Start playing
to-day by answering these questions.
'OW smart are you-fashionably as well as men- tally? How well up in the rules that go to make good clothes?
→
How clever at picking on the good and bad points in your and other women's clothes? It's not enough to know what you like when you see it; you must know why you like it-and if you are right to like it anyway.
The eight questions here put a spotlight on the fine feathers of fashion; take the feathers out one by one, so to speak. If you can answer them all straight off, then you are very smart indeed; if you can answer only some of them, then you'll learn some pretty But don't cheat and look at the useful points from the others. answers first..
1. If you had a dress like-this-
in almond green wool with four pockets, short sleeves and slightly swing skirt,
which of these six hats would you choose to go with it?
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THE ANSWERS
To Questions Abovo
181st. 2, New Zealand, by. the death
Cumbridge, 16, Australian and New Zealand. 17, El Clervo. 10, The Northamptonshire Regiment,
of Michael Savage. 310, Emile Zola-to enable certato Quartier-Maitre. 4, Prince Obolen-
Ministers to attend. 20, Aprli 23. sky. 6, The Toyal Academy Ex- hibition. 0,Udham Singh. 7, Sir Loula Dane, Lord Letland, Lord Lamington 8, Tchard G. Casey, 0, Not quite two rounds. 10, That
BRIDGE BAFFLEN: South made three aces, one. diamond and pro heart. Went could not prevent this. Had East kept the queen of hearts, caldonyoull would have discorded the 3114 Ursule, 12, Dandid 13*** nine..of hearts and made
Dartmoor., 14, The, roli.. 15, Yes, diamond.
8.. Now that people are wearing evening dress again you have decided to get one new one to cheer up yourself and your friends. Which of these would you, and should you, go for? Why?
2. Here's one of the arnarlest of this season's suits. Look at the swing fram the unpressed pleats in the cherry red wool skirt; look at -the-cilpped.fit in the red and grey and black tweed jacket. Now Just what type of girl could wear this sul-and why? (Answers to be physical, not phychological.)
3. Whereabouts on a dress comes (a) peplum, (b) jabot, (e) flounce, (d) bertha, (e) snood, (1) corsage, (B) gore, (b) decolletage?
Tall, thin Bolty Macgregor hurriedly I'm afrakt) hits striped and red and green
4 bought herself (rather, too
too,
un'
pule blue. Now, facing facts and the criticisms. of oh-so- truthful friends, she realises that it clon- gates her ubsurdly and makes her look tent-like. all too
But she can't afford to buy another dress so Boon. What can the poor girl do?
5.1am looking for "odd little frock" one' I can' wear to the office in the morning but also carry on out to din ner in the evening. I have found`n-pol- tern Ike
with
in central panel front- and back, with a skirt plain in front,
at the back
but cannot decide what material to got for it. Should it be jersey. linen, woollen, corduroy, velvet, sulin, printed or plain crepe? V
6. Mrs. Jones next door comes
out insult you can't res member her wearing before. What points will tell you if it is 1040 and the last fashion word-or metely one of her old suits you don't hpapen to have seen before?
Mary Johnson has a new null; here it is. It· Halé plain black, well- cut skirt; a red-and-› white checked jacket, What colour are her short blouse (yes, we've drawn tho
Jicket · done up to
make it móru dimi
cult), and hat? Ile-
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