Women
This Space Every Day.
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Dorothy Lammer for Lots Leeds,
Here's help for those who suffer (som dry hair.
DRY HAIR
An cgg shampoo does wonders in improving the condition of dry hair.
using rattail enmb for curl med
WDYCN.
This home treatment IN B
for faded. bleached or streaky hair,
Add one egg to a cupful of mapless ¦ brightener-upper shuropeo and rub the mixture into the scalp. Wrap the hair in hot towels. Leave on for about an hour, then remove the towels and massage the scalp. Wrap your hend in hot towel again and leave for five minutes. Remove towels and mag- sage the scalp arsin.
Now. wet the hair with joke. worm water and use half of your shampoo solution, working it into the scalp. Use cool or lukewarm water for thorough rinsing, other- wine the egg might curdle. After rinsing, repeat the whole process using the other half of the
egg
shampoo. Finish with a lukewarm rinse and genile drying with warm towels,
Massage a tiny bit of colourless special ointment into the scalp.
**1" the
Brush, comb anil
Minili Makcyzo
4 GABRIELLE
hair,
For hair that staya lovely you must brush briskly every night and morning. Wash regularly and ar range in a becoming fashion. Choose a style that is for YOU as well as for fashion
SIDE GLANCES
reat
over-
ber, however, that this process won'i work unless you tire a liquid soap- less shampna because a soapless shampoo will rinse out in lukewarm water, which is required.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1947.
British Theatre Public GREEK BORDER Remembers Ellen Terry
In the story of the British stage, to-day-February
27, 1947-will stand out as the day on which was com memorated the centenary of Ellen Terry.
Plans for the day included a commemoration service in tho
Church of St Paul's, Covont Gar- LANCASHIRE
den, known to Londoners and to theatrical visitors to Britain as "the Actors' Church.”
COMMISSION
Accompanied By
Photographers
Omeint United Nations cameraman Cave-Chinn and Atili photographer Marcus Chamudes, who are recording
NEWSLETTER the investigations of the United
Ellen Terry, loved by the pub. lic from her first appearance as By n little golden-haired child to the time she was a silver-haired old Indy still possessed of the famous Terry charm and beauty,
Nations Balkan Commission, A Special Correspondent have a tough assignment in the mountainous frontier country At the time of writing many that lies on the Yugo-Slav, towns and villages are cut off Albanian and Bulgarian borders is a legend in the British by huge drifts of snow, but by of Greece. In places, the terri- an extraordinary freak Man-tory can be travelled only by chester, for instance, has dry pack mule. streets while within 10 miles of the centre of the city towns and
theatre.
Born of theatrical parents. she
played before Queen Victoria und the Prince Consort at the age of seven ። the boy Mamillus In Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tate." | villages are snowbound.
After that there followed several years of playing child roles. By
German prisoners of war and the time she was 14 fame was hern. Polish troops are at the moment At the age of 18 she first appeared hard at work trying to clear the appterite the famous actor
Henry Irving, playing Katherine to his main roads between Lancashire Petruchio In "The Taming of the and Yorkshire. Shrew."
Cotton centres are keenly interus- ted in a mission which is shortly to leave to visit camps of displaced per- sons in Austrin and Italy. The mis- sion representative of the Board of Trade and the Cotton Board, will investigate the possibilities of re-
A few years later begun
the tientrical association with him which lasted for no many years, and brought much brillance to the British stage. At the beginning of that association, Ellen win at the height of her dazzling golden-haired beauty.cruiting, displaced Her voice was thrilling, her charm bewitching.
Failure of Memory
and the theatre soon closed. Ellen went back to acting.
persons for the
cotton industry. Women and girls are particularly wanted, but it is not the task of the mission to bring back workers. Its task is purely one of investigation.
In 1903, Ellen went into pruduc- tion, putting on The Vikings,
Some 200 men and women re Bon Gordon Craig.cruits to the colton spinning indus- stated by her Remem-
who hath become a noted Reenery
try have already passed through the designer. But the costs were heavy Government's training centre at the Belgrave (No. 1) mill, Honeywell- inne, Oldham, which has just been Meially opened by Mr George Isaacs, Minister of Labour and Na- tional Service. This the largest Government training centre so far established in the country and its setting-up involved extensive altera- Bons to the mill. Including a re- arrangement of the whale layout of the machinery.
you have been having your hat bleached er dyed, think well before you decide to discontinue this
On the Aftieth anniversary of her stage debut she appeared in "Much Ado About Nothing." In 1907 she toured the United States in Show's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," But allure of memory now made it
impossible The growing-out stage is very
hard to take, but you can wear a wrapped turban until natural colour has returned.
And don't forget your daily brush- ing and the application of a little ointment every now and then,
CASSEROLE COOKING
Both dishes here given require cooking in low heat, and save fizel.
CARROT CASSEROLE: Three Parrots al teaspoon pepper; clavi; a good płach ground ginger; 1 medium onion; heaped fablespoon ault; 1 tablespoon sugar; 3 polutaes
Grate carrots on a coarse grater. peel-and slice potatoes, or quarter them, sige onion. Mix the vegetables together and put a layer of them in a casserole. Add the salt, sugar. | pepper, ginger and elove.
Put in the rest of the vegetables, eover the casserole, and cook, wit1- out water, for 15 hours in a slow
oven.
for
MILK PUDDINGS are cooked in gentle hent, so.
heat is low?
better children, why not make one while
Rolled oats make a delictus mill pudding-use 11⁄2 in 2 oz. to a pint of milk, soak beforehand in the milk for 1 hour, add a tablespoon of sugar--Deinerura if possible-atid cook for 1 to 2 hours at the bottom of the oven.
A word of warning: Don't try to cook pastry or batters at low heat. Both need a hot oven.
COPA, SOM MY HER SERVICE, MO. Y, M. NEIL ST. H. PAY, OFF.
By Galbraith
**
for her to learn new parks, and in 1925 she appeared on the stage in Britain for the last time.
In the same year she was awarded the highest honour a British woman can nehieve; she was mutie a Dome Grand Cruss of the British Empire, Three years later, ber eyesight and her memory bath having failed her, she died in her country home, still beautiful, still charming to the inst.
Many of the great were ther friends, among them Bernard Shaw. Their copious and entertaining cor- respondence was published after her death. Posterity remains grateful to her first husband, the pre-Raphaelite painter Watts, for his beautiful portraits of his young wife.
TRAINING
BRITAIN'S TEACHERS
|
Manchester City Caunell has de-
Cave-Chinn, who is British born, and former newsreel war corren pondent, in vind to high allitude photography. He filmed the Nanga Pabat expedition in the Himalayas in 1934. As war correspondent, he flew frequently on flying fortress raids over Germany.
Both nien are equipped with heavy fald photograph-developing appara tug to be carried by the mules during the tour.
Negatives of both movie and still pictures will be developed on the spot and a selection flown to London for world-wide distribution.. Precautions are to be takin to pre- vent vital evidence being prejudged before the Commission reports back to the Security Council.
This is the first occasion on which
field in Europe has been covered by United Nations Investigation in the
official photographers.
SUCCESSOR TO
ARIES
"Aries," the world-famous elded to "risk" £30,000 in consui- Lancaster aircraft used by the tants' fees for a scheme to provide Empire Air Navigation School the northwest and southwest
neighbourhood units of the Wythen- of the Royal Air Force on some shave estate with district heating of the most spectacular flights that is, heat and hot water piped from a centre boller house. It is ever undertaken, is to be re- estimated that a complete scheme tired. for the whole of the estate .would rest £137,000 in consultants' fees.
Drastic Eviction
Unofficial squatters in a Nissen hut on a gunsite at Eccles have been evicted in a drastic way. Workmen came and removed the roof,
Councillor Major
This aircraft, chiefly noted for her circumnavigation of the globe and her polar lights, has finished her flying days but she will remain 的 n static instructional alrcraft,
The name and tradition of the "Aries" is. to be carried on by a Hargreaves, modified Lincoln Mark II bomber.
"father" of the Padiham District Council, who has an unbroken record The
modlications
which
have
of 33 years' service on the Council, been carried out on the Lincoin, has itimated to the local Labour
of
and
party tu. Be does not intend to which is to be known as "Arles II," seek re-election at the next annual
upper include the removal of the elections. A native of the town, he turret and the Atting of a second has been chairman of the Counell, astrodame, the fitment of three 500 four times. He started work 60 gallon fuel tanks in the bomb bay years alto as a butcher's boy and and the replacing of the nose then learned to weave.
tail turrets by fairings. Sound There is no fear that Britain's ¦
be pro- proofing and seats are to educational reforms will be ham, county, as elsewhere, are now ex
Licensed victuallers throughout the
vided in the fuselage so that on long-distance flights crew members pered by lack of well-trained | periencing the threatened cut of 50 may be as coiniortable as possible. first-class teachers, said Mr D.Percent in their supplies, so we nie
All armour plating
and gunnery K. Hardman Parliamentary again up against the problem
equipment will be removed and which houses will be open on which there will be no camouflage paint. Secretary to the Ministry of days in the week, and the spectacle Education, when he opened an of "tourists" descending on
"Aries II" will appear as a metal the Emergency Training College in local and consuming meagre finished aircraft, and with Wandsworth, London, recently.is rostly amazing, taking everything sunie 4,700 statule miles in still alr its in- supply available for the regulars. It creased tankoge giving it a range of *We are," he pointed nut. ""well into consideration, that there is so it will be well able to carry on the ahead with
little rousing. Cigarettes, too, are long-range Training teachers under the Emer-
alan in very short supply.
begun by "Aries I". Kenty Training Scheme. In January 1946, we had 1,000 students training in six colleges. Now have over 9,000 training in 38 colleges."
programume
01
Work is also on hand on other colleges to bring the total number to well over 12,000,
Every kind of building Es being used to house the colleges, from a j ducat castle in Northumberland to
house un unemployed man's
In London. Serving camps, industrial hostels," private houses, former schools and old hospitals have also been pressed into service.
Mr Hardman also sold that this
were
one's
flying research
FIRE BOMB KNOWLEDGE
TO LESSEN FIRE RISK
work
The British Government has announced the setting up of a Fire Research Board. This will be a combined effort of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Re- search and of the Fire Offices Committee, an organisation of the insurance companies.
scheme was not the only source of A Fire Research Station will spreading of fire from an incendiary expansion for Britain's teaching establishment. There
WOR other be jointly established, and the bomb watched. As a result, reforms in view-county colleges, cust shared. It is estimated bombs were developed which were the exising of the leaving age to 10. that the capital cost will be capable of spreading fire very much and reducing the size of classes. A £75,000 to £100,000, and the an
mare quickly. ever increasing teacher force would
A number of foam extinguishers nual running cost, some £50,000. were also devised, and experiments be needed.
Rescarch will be carried out in- curried out to determine the tem to methods of preventing fires, peratures reached in tires in
dif- fire fighting, fire resistance of ferent types of building.
All this knowledge will now be saving and risks to ships, air-operative effort between Govern- "Slipstream", edited by S/Ldr. B. craft and special industrial ment arid industry. Itnymond and David Langdon, hazards.
RAF Anthology buildings and materials, life put to peaceful use in this new co-
which was published by Messrs Eyre
and Spottiswoode on February 10
•
In conjunction with the Board
is an anthology of some of the best there is to be a Fire Protection As- stories and articles,・・ which have oppeared during the late war in the "Itoyal Air Force, Journal."
sucfalen, through which the public DUMB-BELLS
property owners, Industrialists and Some of the contributions are others, will be kept fully informed written by well-known writers who of all measures necessary to reduce served in the Royal Air Force the risks of fire. The setting up of others are by airmen and airwomen work that was done in Britain dur
the Board is a
a continuation of much who have never before appeared in ing the war, particularly by the Fire print. The bulk of the contents are now made available
of the Ministry the first Research Division time, as the "Journal" was restricted of Home Security,
for
for official use only during the war.
The material presents an Intrigu
Among other activities was the
ing and Inumate pleture of service construction of groups of buildings life in all parts of the world. The of German and Japanese type, which book is well illustrated and includes were then burned
down, rebullt,
war.
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"We've gone away over our budgot-wo'll have to cash in'a couple of new car deposits!!
a number of photographs, selected burned down again, and so on until as being some of the best official the most effective forms of incen- Royal Air Force photographs of the lary attacks on enemy types were
discovered. The proceeds from the sale of the
There was also an "Incendiary book will go to the Royal Ale Force Bomb Collage," which was furnish- Benevolent Fund which has done, od with standard furniture which and is doing, so much to help those could be burnt out and then re who served their country so woll. placed. Here the process of the
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