women
This Spaco Evory Day
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Joan Caulfield for Lois Leeds. Outdoor sports put "roses in your cheeks” and Stor Shine in
your eyes!
Joan Caul- Paramount's
STAR SHINE
All-American firi Beld, who appears $1 picture, "The Skies, Joan passes up night clubs and goes in for sports. This is very good idea for you and you and YOU, even though you don't suony California and you live in sunny aren't in the movies! Sports to suit your life and your climate, will put you in that glamorous glet group- All-American!
It's Back! Black taffeta, which makes such a lovely rustle, is back
inshion again.
Lovely Irene
jr
Dunne has a bustle-back Black taf- fet for a dinner dress. Here's an idea for you!
Green Is New! A Deep Emornid Green, such as was popular in the Victorian ern, is very, very "new!" Ginny Simms wears a print with an Emerald Green buckground. The
skirt is draped in the new and flat- sering-to-your gure fashion. Ginny wears Black accessorios and Scarlet ips and fingertips,
Hats! A famous blomie star has a big Black satin cartwheel to wear with Black afternoon dresses. It is draped with sequin-spangled tulle and you and YOU would look won- derful in such a hat!
Minule Makeo 4 GABRIELLE
If you want Eye, Glamour, try using a very little' Brown cream ayeshadow on your eyes. Smooth It up toward the eyebrows. Usc this eyeshadow cream on the eyelids instead of mascara. Brush your eyebrows with all to give them a gleam. If the lashes are very Black, use Black ayalash cream Instead of Brown oya. shadow for the lashes.
SIDE
GLANCES
Another hut in the collection of this star is a Butterscotch (sounds good!) velvet sailor, with ☐ pulled crown banded in Gold ribbon,
Teen-er! Teen Age Anita Gordon, out on a "very special songstress, date" wo a Black wool coat fashioned in doring-skirt style, with little, high, round collar. She wore Pink Roses on a little Black hat and Pink gloves and, no doubl---Pink lipstick!
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GAY NOTE
White rada Rowers, mounted
on horsehair, top the crown and edge the brim of a navy blus fell model.
BALINESE TOUCH
By Dorothy Roe
The Balinese influence is strong in the collection of Joset Walker, of the house of David Goodstein, showing next summer's styles In January zero weather in New York recently for the benefit of the visiting tushlon
press.
Miss Walker, who looks something
like a movie glamour girl herself,
goes in for Batik Balinese prints in surong styles for bench wear, and vrles these with dramaile back gammon and checkerboard prints for strictly play suits.
Her series of pure silk Shantung dresses and sults are done in jewel colours, handled with a discreet and well-bred touch, with style news in double pocket-flap treatments, new square necklines and rounded shoulder Ines-Associated Press.
By Galbraith
"The grades aren't so low that Dad will cut off my allow (amos, and not high enough to make me unpopular with my
friends--a perfect report card!”—
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, - 1947.
MOVE TO LEGALISE DUMB-BELLS
TEST-TUBE BABIES
The Swedish Medical Board is pushing through Parlin- ment a proposal to legalise test-tube bables. The action has been met with considerable comment,.
As a matter of fact, there is
no law in Sweden listing test LANCASHIRE
tube babies as filogal. There is į
just no law of any kind regar-
and medical leaders have decided
ding this unusual experiment NEWSLETTER now that they want the entire By a Special Correspondent
thing on a legal basis before they continue in their work.
There in terrific Interest in Sweden toward the medical profession's ex periments in artiẞcial insemination, not only by would-be mothers, but also by industrialists and government Leaders
Sweden in in a bad way as regards her population. Easily able to up port twice the present number of 8,000,000, the Swedes are so busy they haven't time to increase their popu- talion.
Weather in Lancashire has been much milder of late and the coal situation is easier, so much so that most mills and foundries are back to normal working. It must be said, however, that the shortage while it lasted has had on the very adverse effect drive for exports which was well under way.
No Time For Babies
Beer, also is in better supply, though there are suggestions that in That is true. So great is the deview of the demands of barmen and mand of industry upon Inbour that barmaids for improved conditions both men and women are working the price of beer may be raised So many women are labouring out- Kide the home that many do not present vault prices are mild one shilling a plnt, bitter 1/1d. Mild have time to have babies.
maintains its pre-budget, or rather pre-last-cut quality, but there is a lot of grousing among the bitter,
drinkers.
Therefore, Industry and govern- iment ure inclined to think that test tube babies for single women who missed marriage would be just the thing.
The
ILL HAVE A DOZEN
OYSTERS)
SORRY, WE'RE ALL OUT
OF SHELL FISH 'CEPT EGGS
ATOM WILL
NOT SMASH
THE WORLD
There is an element in the earth which will prevent the world from being blown to hits by an atomic explosion. These reassuring words were told to a correspondent by Raymond Gre goire, 40-year-old lecturer at the. world-famous Paris Institute of Radium.
He explained that the element, Boron, which is found everywhere In the earth, is a severely limiting fac- ator to a cosrale explosion by its slow-
ing effect on atomle fission.
Oldham, after all, did not open its The medical profession believes, of public gallery to a party of German courer it is the acceptable way to prisoners of war from a nearby introduce children into the home of a comp, as I tndleated recently was to couple where the husband is sterile | happen. Al the last moment and where children are wanted. member of the Connell threatened, Test tube babies certainly are not it is understood, to make a protest going to solve immediately Sweden's at the meeting if the Germans were population and, incidentally, fabour present, and as it was felt that such problem. But they might minke a lot an embarrassing situation should be of childless persons happy..
nvolded the Commandant was ad- vised to cancel the visit.
Not Instant Success
take
Record Birthrate
This is the altitude of the medical profession us a whole. Says Profes-
That 1940 established the highest sor A. Westman, a leader in test tube baby experiments: "I have found that birthrate for 24 years is matter for childless married women
the Pride not only to the Oldham, medi- tubal ofeer of health but also to the initiative in requesting test
townfolk. Dr T. J. Chalmers Ked- babies. I have learned, too, that die, the M.O.IL, in his annual report
in business and pro- fersions, who never took the time to gives the rate as 18.68 per 1,000 at
the ket nrried, desire children. Artill-
The clal Insemination
previous highest return was ID.03 in 1922. Along- their problem."
side this, Dr. A. I. Barber, of
many women
• the number of births being is the answer 10
added, Park General Hospital,
Dr Per Wetterdal, laboratory upse cintist, said he has experimented with 1200 childless marriages. however, that he and other Swedish physicians have not had the success
in such experiments as the physicians
of America.
"Even today artificial insemination is not an instant success,” he said. "
FOR BALD
on the maternity Agures there, says the most pleasing feature was the extremely low maternal rale. Of the 2,700 women death confined there only one died,
Under the instruction of one of their officers, Sub-Lt. R. Carter, whe was fencing instructor at the Royal Marines Physical Training School Deal during the war, Ashton Sea
struction
GOOD NEWS Cadets are thuroughly enjoying in- In fencing. "It teaches them
mental agility, quickness of сус.
hand and foot" says Mr. Carter. "They are shaping very well, and in about 10 months we should have the mukings of a fencing team ready to take on any comers."
PEOPLE
Officially in the dark" about the
"Bald Head Row," and the desire of Littlemoss parish to be traditional front row of the amalgamuted with the township in orchestra stalls joke at leg the event of the partition of Lime- shows, will go into the discardhurst Rural district, Droylsden is
seeking
and the County Coun-
i if experiments by a Frenchman.hurstation from the Lime-
M. C. Viola. to restore hair are cil. Apparently Littlemoss prefers as successful as he hopes.
union with Droylsden rather than M. Viala belleves that he has dis- with Ashton. Oldham has clalms -covered - an-infallible-method- of
*onTM a portion of the Limehurst area, growing hair on dénuded scalos.
which, the latter Couneli opposes. His formula is the result of 18 Limehurst, however, does not object years' research to find a "sedative" to Woodhouse's preference for the terb
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the "sleeping urban area of Fallsworth. Result of nerves" of the scalp.
talks now proceeding will go to the He advertised for businessman of Boundary Commissioners, "gocel reputation" to try the method free of charge.
Ex-service Women Learn Je Lavigne (45), commercial Ex-service women traveller, of Epinal, France, offered school again at Southport Technical are back at Himself us a human guinea pig and College. Some 20 of them have received two treatments In Viola's | ~!
started A six-months* laboratory.
full-time In shorthand, typing and Lavigne was horrified by the pub-course llelty attending his innocent desire commercial subjects. Their average to recover his youthful head of hair. Age is 23 and most of them were Wrens, ATS, or WAAFa until a few Half-inch Fuzz
weeks ago.
Viola then promised that the
Southport Council love decided identity of any new volunteer would be kept secret, and a Swiss and un that no terraced houses will be buil American stepped forward. They on the Radnor drive and Lytham have been receiving applications of Road housing estates. Only semi- the hair-restoring herb in the pri-detached houses are to go up there. vacy of the inventor's laboratory, The Council also in an effort to help
Both cautiously report the burgeon-focal builders is against the nego ing of a a half-inch fuzz on scalps: hitherto destitute of any growth for iated price practice for house erec
tion, and now will advertise for lenders,
many years,
Gregoire regorded the "end of the world" talk about atom bombs as highly unhealthy, anti-scientifle pro- paganda,
le lamented that progress in atomic research is prejudiced by the Recrecy maintained by competing nations, but pointed out that he possibility of secret experiments at on plosions in remote areas could be advanced stage such as atomic ex- "watched" by sensitive
appamtus located in a neighbouring country.
French Activilles
ed
the
The French activities in nuclear re- search and their complete reorgin- isation were described by Gregoire, massive and poorly dressed, in the historic Radium Institute
found- the late Madame Curic, by This institute is now under direction of her daughter Irene, who married the famous atom-scientist, Frederic Jullot. The latter was the first, in 1939, to discover that the fis- slon of an uranium atom was an ex- plosive one. Juliol Is
Is now working in the High. Commissarial of Atomic Research, set up the French Government after
by the history-making explosion at Hiro- shima, This state institution, which occupies the obsolete Chatillion Fort
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Germans Made ALHAMBRA
Peanut Seller
Negro King
was
The rise and fall of a peanut- seller that (in a nutshell) is the biography of dusky, six-feet tall, Mamadou Kane, who stepped out of the back streets of Paris to become self-crowned King of, the Senegalese negroes, under the German occupation.
In 1939, Kane
Belling peanuts in Paris. In 1911 he so that he convinced the Germans commanded the
CK loyalty
the for three Senegalese troops that years he lived in the lap of luxury. with plenty of servants and dash Himousines So great
was his magnificence that at one time he commanded au- diences with Laval and Petain.
His full came in May, 1846, when he was sentenced to five years' goo1 for being a collaborator.
Wave Cano At Judge Recently Kane, still serving his sentence, appeared before a Para court for the second time to give evidence against M. Luce Banchelin, his former lawyer, and his pretty blonde secretary, Mile. Rose Borce, whom he necuses of embezzlement.
Royal habits die hard, so when Kane,, sill wearing his magnificent orange turban and trimmings, thought justice was not being disposed he waved his cane had
the municipally-him out of court. built
houses. Another 1,003
Bre under construction. Private enter- prise built 34 permanents and other 262 are under construction.
Viola has not yel made sweeping claims for his discovery. He is con-
While on the subject of housing. Adent of success, but he will con- it is interesting to note that Man tinue the experimental applications chester still leads 120 great cities on his subjects until the hair really in the housing race. Returns up to sprouts, gion of the Bald" to beat a path to his door.
that
Then he expects the world's "Le- November 30 show that Manchester in his de. The judge ordered-
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Manchester Redevelopment Manchester Corporation; have an- nounced their intention to 'clear up and redevelop nearly seven peres of land In the centre of the city. The by Deansgate, Victoria area bounded Street, Ca
Cathedral Yard, . Cathedral Street,
Street,
Corporation Street Cannon Str
Cromford
Market Court, Mrs Mary Sheldon Lyon, de- Street scendant of a pioneer American Street, and buildings to the north Barton Square and Barton Arcade blitzed site family, bequeathed the residue were Included in ie
OF SISTER
of her US$600,000 estate to two priority list issued some months ago. Interested property owners have two organisations maintained. by months in which to register their Father Divino, the negro cult names with the Council, leader.
Mrs Lyon, who was 85 when she died on October 10, left her brother only $500.
Ho is fighting the will ground that it is a frolulent docu- ment, obtained as a result of p. con-
* spiracy.
on
the
The brother was in charge of the American Red Cross in North Africa
during the war, ka!
The late Mrs Lyon left her, negro maid, Patience Budd, $2,500, a Päe- kard car, clothing, jewellery, house hold furniture and a four-poster an- tique bed.
First woman in Britain to start Newman. of Liverpool. She already her own airline is Mra. Eugenie
has one aireraft, and expects to have another in February. Her ambition is to operate services in ma parta
many of the world. · Her first trip will be 2,300 miles to Johannesburg
with of Man man and lils wife and child, Ave passengers, who include an Isto cach of whom will.
pay a fare of. 2225 for the trip. Mrs. Newman has travelled the world, bos worked in the United States and been- a broadenster in New York.
"King" Kane made a very un-regal exit, shouting at the top of his voice: I go with my head high and say: Vive La, Franco-anyway."
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The Toy Scout goes straight to she office of Santa Claus and explaini why he has brought Ruperti "Hooray, there's my Ninky 1” cries Rupert suddenly as he catches sight "Hulio. of his cloth donkey. Rupert," says the old gentleman genially, "Does this queer creature. belong to you? What's it made of? How does it work? The Toy Scout tells me that it jumps, but, though I'va poked it and prodded it, it won't move at all for me.” “I can't tell "you much," saya Raptit. “Hi docan't seem to work to any rules
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"THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES“
BIG TAXES BLAMED FOR JEWELLERY BACK MARKET
The black market in jewels, which is crippling the British Jewellery trade, gains its encouragement from the imposition of a 100 percent purchase tax," according to a Board of Trade report.
The tax, the report states, not
In this way sliver ore, salen are
only restricts sales to foreign being affected by the anomaly in visitors, but also draws skilled the rule of tax on luxury goods. workers away from established firms...
These werkers set up on their own and make diamond engagement rings and other pieces of high-grade Jewellery which they disposo of for cash in', a manner' which does not, iuffer the purchase, tax.
An unprecedented boom is likely In the American
and the British manufacturers,
to coger meet this, want to firm'a' contrái Body to plan future developments.
Frices, Boar
trade,
Black market workers, the Envosti- gators report, may be getting good money,
but they ore frequently working under conditions
which make production ineficient and are entirely unhealthy.
is also a temptation among to tmnaoi onsh without making proper book
entries
With purchase tax, and thin ins creased
cost
of production and dis- tribulion, an oeticle which before the war could be bought for £100 now costs £600.
A silver tenset is taxed-100 per cent, while a stainless steel tenset. costing as much, or more, is free of tax.
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It's the Great
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GARY COOPER THE PRIDE OF
THE YANKEES
·SAM WOOD
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