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Women
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed for Lois Lreds.
Lois Leeds tells you what to wear for sports events,
NEW HAT!
For the sports events of this sea- son you will dress more than ever before. Beautiful, sofi tweeds
are lure again and new hat by a famous stylist, called the Sporta Classics, is of Steel-Gray wool. It has a high, dimpled crown, banded
In Brown wool.
Be smart, wear a hat. Don't
K
to the games with your best beau. Wearing
scarf on your head, Tunt's
in bad taste!
protective
A on
And don't forget, your makeup for wind and whether, good foundation, well blended your skin before your face powder. And a parade under
anet
is necessary.
your
our lipstick.
Now for
Fitne
answers—
questions
"Dear Lois Leeds-My buir les so badly in crisp, windy weather. What can du?-MISSY."
I
Apply a little ointment on
your
hair. Do it this way. Put the oint- ment on the palms of your hands irst, then stroke your hair from the roots to the ends. You will then
trave a protective film and a nice kdose, tox, and your hair will stay
"Ther Love Leeds-I weigh petrids.
16
I am 5 feet, 44 Inches tall.
Minute Makeo
GABRIELLE
Heat a little cosmetic oil. Apply It to the thront with gentle upward strokes. Leave it on until reuly to make up. Bot of the surplus ofl. Apply powder with an upsweep of your pust. Add pearls--and your throat will look as young as you AREI
SIDE GLANCES
THE HONGKONG .TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 26, 1947.
Shipping Companies. Feel Confident Of Airline Competition
By JACK SMYTH
Reuter's Correspondent
In postwar planning, the shipping companies of the natlons operating passenger Iners on the-North Atlantic route-principally Britain and the United States, Canada and France do not fear competition from the world's airlines. They consider that most pleasure seekers will continue to prefer to make the sea trip part of their holi- day.
of DUMBBELLS
Priority in both men and materials has been given to speed up the reconversion Britain's trans-Atlantic liners. The aim, apparently, is not so much to meet competition either from the air or from the ship- ping of other companies, but to national carn dollars for the exchequer.
Competition will not become
ruling factor while the demand no
far exceeds supply as it is
to do for several years.
likely
In the big ship class, Britain -his
a substantial lendi.
The 85,600-ton Queen Elizabeth, already in service on the Southamp- ton-New York route, will be join- ed in March by the 35,000-ton
troop carrying.
Do you think I could wear a sweater Mauretania, after reconversion from nicely-T. M. C."
Yes, a sweater should be right for you but you could And something which is more
Battering!
"Dear Lois Leeds-1 am going
›
a college town. It is three hours ride from my home. First the game and then a big party and a
dinner duner in the entry. What should I wear? I am 17 years old and I ant
tall-B. G."
A plaid wool suit with'n sweater bicuse, fell hat and a top coat. You could slip a blouse' In your fag party in the evening. and change the sweater before the like plaid, then
If you don't [I corduroy would be equally smart,
SPRING STRIPES
Looking ahead to the bright weather, here's a dress suitable for pracieally any age or figure A Barville ncdel, sketched by Virginia, It has a rat Kilet. walster top and easy impressed pleats in the skirt. It is made in A material; is below eetling price.
COPR, SHE RY NEA HERVICE, MA, T, M. RES, UĻA, PAT, DIF, 11
By Galbraith
12-26
"Couldn't you just let me smear enough lipstick on my face so the fellows won't think Itapend my evenings at the "library?"!
851/t
The 10,000-ton Queen Mary will reappear on the same route In the early summer and later in the year the Caronia, the sistership ut the Mauretania, will be launched.
Against these MARths the 27,000-m United States has the America, which will be followed by the 22,000-1ou Washington and the 18,000-ton John Ericssen.
Tit
In the top class of trans-Atlantic travel France has only the 43,000
which will ton 11 de France, be ready for service until late in the year, and the ex-German liner which Europa, renamed Libertie. sank in Le Havre harbor on De- breaking cember last year after her moorings in a gale."
Normandie A Dead LosA
Blue
The Normandie has become a dead loss following the fire in New York harbour. Among the other prewar leaders, the German Her Bremen, which, for a time held the Riband of the Atlantic for speed, is a bombet out hulk at Homburg, while the $1,000-ton Italian liner Rex, which also held the Blue Riband, was severely damaged by
fire at Trieste in 1945.
Holland's 30.000-tún
Niede Amsterdam, is at preseht being re- conditioned, but to date has
yet reappearance been given for her on the Atlantie route.
وان
↑¦
FREGISTERED US.
I THINK YOU
HAD BETTER BOARD ELSEWHERE!
PATENT OFFICE
YES, I
OFTEN HAD MUCH BETTER
WINDOW ON THE WORLD
Johannesburg-More than 2,600 natives have applied for entrance to Lovedale College, South Africa's only negro university, but only, 200 vacancles are available, emphasising
the people's ngitailon about lack of higher educational fucilles. Both Finance Minister Hofmeyr and A. L.. Barnes, official adviser to Gen. Smuts at UNO, have pubflely un- nounced an extension of the fran- chise for cokured people In the Union is essential.
SCENE—WRONG WEAPON RIGHT
in
House
ind
Pearl Fishers" wps. at the Toulon Opero baritone Ferdinand
Lagarde of Paris was featured. The apers reaches in climax when Zurga, the Viritone, after delivering the lovers Ledia and Nudir trom
savages, makes n Kipreme sacriflee by plunging a dagger into his heart. Someone passed the stur #1 rent dagger, and in the course of action he plunged it several inches Into his breast. He screamed with anguish and blood spurted from the wound, He was carried off stage to hospital. The audience applauded-thinking the acting most realistle.
NO SCOTCH AND HODAT Long Beach, Cal:---New cinema electric signal notify ustierettes when patrons approach, and blowers waf air conditioning through up- holstery of the seats.
JAP CLERK BACK
Singapore: Singapore Munici- ∙pally has reappointed its Arst Japanese clerk, Johnny Ong. He has joined the Water Department al £8 per month.
Ong
was interned in Indi-during the war.
ROUGHING IT?
Geneva: The Maharajal uf
SECRET BOAT Baroda, richest man in the world,
TO FIND OUT
rived at Geneva
recently from India
In his personal 30 seater plane. He wns accompanied by a suite of 32 persons, and on entire storey of the St. Moritz most fashionable hotel, the Palace, was reserved for him. A
the regular train from Geneva to Zurich.
SEA SECRETS speutal falon each was attached to
A 55-foot vessel, the Silver Scout, which Was recently launched at Granton, near Leith, is to carry out experiments with the Scottish fishing fleet which will bring big changes to herring industry.
the
be
The Silver Scout, which will completed in the spring, is the first of two "secret" fishing boats to be used for toenting shoals of herring,
se xploring new fishing grounds, and testing new gear.
Both will no probably fish with Scottish fleet during the Summer,
the
The Silver Scout has been specially designed for the Herring Industry Board as the result of extensive ex periments which were started before the war and have now been resumed. Mass, Production Two models underwent exhaustive the National Physical La- tests nt baratory at Teddington to discover designs for an
economical diesel- driven drifter which could be built on mass production lines,
ter
Meanwhile, fares all round will continue to be high, but even na!
The Silver Scout is the first of passengers will be diflcult to сорь with us there are now thousands She will be followed by a second deif- these two vessels' to go into service. the waiting lists. They are mostly European refugees wishing to go and lines.
of slightly different dimensions the United States to visit relatives and relatives of European girls who Throughout the summer scientists, have married American servicemen. shipbuilders, and naval architects On the other side of the Atlantie will collect date on the performance requests for passenger bookings are and the running costs of each vessel. |-bing - swelled-by--American-service.... On the outcome of these_tests -de- Frien anxious to visit Europe and pends the standard design on which renew friendship formed while they Britain's new herring fleets to be were serving there during the war.
bused,
Dutch Gift Of
Flowers
:
Usefulness Of
RUSSIAN co-ops Moscow:---Twenty co-operative atores,
selling. foodstuffs, shoes, goods at hardware, and household
12 to 20 percent below those price in commercial stores run by the have been opened In government, Moscow. These co-operatives are doing 000,000 business daily, or about exchange rates.
roubles
worth £42,000 t
NEW RAT TRAP Johannesburg:—A local shop- keeper had trouble with rats in his store.
Half a dozen culs did no good. He bought a baby python for £ and lets it out each night. No miore rate.
DIONNE QUINTUPLETS Corbell, Ons: The Dienne Quin- tuplets, now 12 years old, received a New Year's apostolle blessing from Pope Pius. The message frein Rome thanked the Quits for their "touch- act of self-denial" last May when they sent all their birthday
the Pope for gifts to
distribution among starving children of Europe. MAGISTRATE REGRETS Capetown:-After sending a driver charged with drunkenness to prison for two months, Magistrate እዥr. It. B. Erlsnk told him that he regretted his inability to do as in Moscow and have him shot. The driver drove on the wrong side of a road, coll
collided with. anal overturned another eat, then drove off without stopping
"FLABBY CHURCHMANSHIP" Singapore:David Rosenthudi, Archdeacon of Singapore, formerly of Hongkong in commenting on Singa- pore's 10,000 church-going pupula- tian, bitterly criticised
delinquent who are
responsible for "flabby churchmanship.” He cited exunples of countes marrying in church but who were usincere and irregular in attendance. He said They came to harch to get married because they Bite picturesque robes, organ muste, bells and Gothic arches which they cannot get at the Register Onice."
DISMEMBERED Warsaw-Polish
found the police in red, white and blue colours By means of its coin-operated bead and aims of a middle-aged man
stuffed in a
A suitcase at Poznan and and in the shape of the Nether-stamp-golling machines, the Past
a body and less crammed in a similar lands flag.
Oce in Britain endeavours to bag at Danzig, several hundred miles provide #1 convenient time-away. There is no cute yet to the
service
murderer or the motive. The man range before his assassin dismember- pparently had been shot close rue he
One thousand hyacinth bulbs will bloom at the West Point Military Academy, New
York,
Stamp-Selling Machines
The bulbs were
the saving given to
continuously United States Government by 57 throughout the day and night. Dutch women to be planted in the shape of their Hag as an expression During the 12 months of 1946, of gratitude and a reminder of the the sale of postage stamps by coun-the 16,000 machines available friendship between the two tries. The War Department chose to the public reached the huge figures of 178,000,000 penny The weineri, who were detained stamps and 151,000,000 half- by the Germans at Wolfratshausen, penny stamps. hear the Dachau concentration camp, were liberated on May 1. 145, by General Alexander Putch's U. S. Seventh Army.—United Press.
West Point for the site.
Contracts For
Britain
Five cugineering firms-two ure Scots-have scared notable succesa for British industry by obtaining contracts totalling" about £500,000 for plant for the construction of a huge, hydro- electric dam in Portugal,
The work has been given to Bri- tain in the face of keen competition from Arms in America, Franco, Belgium and Switzerland.
The firms were selected as being pre-eminent in their own line. Biggest shore of the contract goes to Measrs John M. Henderson and Co., Ltd., Aberdeen, who will supply aerial cableways and excavators to the value of £200,000. It is the firm's biggest single order, involving work equivalent to nearly six months" output from the works.
An order for cranes. valued at over £50,000, goes to Butlers Lid., of Glasgow, Aerial ropewnys will provided by Brilsk Ropeway Engineering Co., London, and batch- ing plant by Blaw-Knox Ltd.....
be
EGG TARGET
For
war, the
100,000,000 eggs in 1947 of which n Warsaw: Poland plans to export large share will go to Britain. the first time since the country also plans to export sweets to Britain this year as well as bacon, furniture and 2,000 tons of potato starch.
This represents 329,000,000 crum- pleted transactions of a total mono- tary value of over £1,000,000.
WALL TREASURE These Agures are a testimony to
Park-In a modest room where the usefulness and
A pocr old woman had lived for popularity of the stamp-selling machines. the years, a builder repairing the house existence of which has doubtless near Dijon found a treasure trove saved the situation" for many on In a wall consisting of gold and silver otherwise stamp-less Individual in- coin of the Louis XV period. The tent on posting a letter after the gold coins welsh three pounds and Post Once counter has been closed.
Kupert and Ninky-15
The Toy Scout does as Rupert has asked, and landa gently "near the spot where Edward Trunk had first seen him. "And now, what are you going to do queries the Scout. After you've been to your cottage. will you come back with me? Santa Claus in jolly interested in that cloth denkey of yours, and he's keen to find out how it work. Shalf I come here to fetch you tomorrow?" "No." says Rupert, "I think Ninky's secret is in Nuswood. 1 keep him here at present,"
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
the silver coins eight pounds." Apart from their historic value, the gold coins are worth over £1,000,
PENTHOUSE COACH
St. Louis The first penthouse
coach has gone into cer passenger vice on a mid-west railway. Some- thing like the blister on a bomber, the dome on the coach's roof scots 24 passengers. At night, with only dim floor lights on, they get an eerle feeling of floating through space.
FILMS AT SCOUT JAMBOREE
For the first time alms are to take their part omong the entertainments at a World Scout Jamboree,
At the Jamboree to be held in France next August-the first World Jamboree for 10 years-there will be Ave cinemas showing documentary and educative films and films on scouting. Enchi' cinema holds 500 people
The British Commonwealth' con- tingent to the Jamboree will be led by the Chief-Scout, Lord · Rowallan,
QUEEN'S
'SHOWING TO-DAY..
AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.
Samuel Goldwyn
* prometa
A Wonderful Merry-Go-Round
of Girls, Laughs and Love!
Danny Kaye
"THE
KID FROM BROOKLYN"
in Technicolor
with
VIRGINIA MAYO VERA-ELLEN
Waltor ABEL Evo ARDEN THE GOLDWYN
GIRLS Roloased thru..
R.K.O. Radio Pictures
CENTRAL
5 SHOWS DAILY.
At 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.
it's a ber!
CARY GRANT Mr Lucky
IN
Produced by Danid Hempstead
Directed by H. G. Potter
Screen Muy by Filton Halmes & Adilan Scen
LARAINE DAY
CRŽALYS KYCVEDIO - GLANTS COOPER -ALAN CARFEET-BRİT STEPSEKDAN
LEE THEATRE
TOWN BOOKING OFFICE →→
W, UAKING & CO. ALEXANDRA BLDG. GR. FL. BETWEEN 11.00 AM. AND 5.00 P.M. DAILY
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.10, 7.10 & 9.15 P.M.
IDA. LUPINO
DENNIS MORGAN *JOAN LESLIE..
A WARNER BROS. PICTURE
A GREAT
Picture!
The Hard Way
* JACK CARSON · GLADYS GEORGE - FAYE EMERSON
Directed by VINCENT SHERMAN « Borest Pity by Daniel Fuchs and Pater Viertas
ALHAMBRA
-TO-DAY
ONLY
2.30.5.20, 7.20 & 9:20 p.m.
THE STAMPEDE KILLER!”
OUTCAST BOY...**.
OUTLAW HORSE
UNIVERSAL
WILDA BEAUTY
BERREN'S
KOWEST
INNER SANCTUM
with
DON PORTER LOIS COLLIER JACQUELINE 01 WAY GEORGE CLEVELAND and Wild Beauty
TO-MORROW
MYSTERY NE
LON CHANEY
FROZEN GHOST
EVELYN ANKERS · ELENA VERDUGO MARTIN KOSLICK DOUGLASS DUMBRILLE MILBURN STONE