Women
This Space Every Day
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Claire Trevor for Lois Leeds.
Lohn Leeds tells you the tricks which make it possible to use her ideas.
"DEAR LOIS LEEDS"
"Dear. Lois Leeds--Do you think that a pot, fluity hairdo is mart now?-LILA,“
Yes, and show you a picture (áboro) of Clare Trevor, Whin inverlein Jnt such a bairdo. Claire is now appearing in RKO-Radio's pie- ture. "Deadlier Thon The Male."
"Dear Lois Leeds My hair f novina), txcrept for the ends, which are always dry and ugly. What di STH SL917---A. JI,"
Put all araosat of ointment on your fingertins, then rub the ends of your nate with the ombment. Magnaglog – the scalp will aid stimulating cireul han and in anak- ing the hair and the tealp healthier.
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shoes.
Copper-Red lipstick and rouge are certainly Indiented here.
"Dear Lois Leeds-My checks have deep plts from a skin alimenti but am so white that I need rouge. What's the best procedure? T.TT."
Ukra enke makeup, then apply your face powder. Then a dusting of dry compact powder and just a hule powder patted over the rouge I lead it w
1937. Shape. Still In State
Of Flux
The Victor Stiebel collection am a rent | Was exhibited in London in bute February, and the frank ndmis. sion was made by the designers that the 1947 hape is still in a state of flux but that they were certain its final form would be "duid and feminine" in contrast to the war angularity,
"Dear Lois Leed redhead, with white skin and freckica. Would you have a forest green or ጊ dark bown sult fur Spring?
-NAN K." think that the Green would be perfeel! Acorn it with Brown ac cessories, such as bag. gloves and
Minute Makeup 4 GABRIELLE
*
An ally scalp may be your curse --but there is no curse without a euro! Hollywood stars swear by the old-fashioned salt cure. Rub com- mon salt on the scalp, then the up your hair in a bandenu: Next morn- ing brush lika mad! Then shampoo, Resulta shiny head of hair.
SIDE GLANCES
Features of the collection, which was viewed by a large group of fashion experts, were:
SUITS. A minimum of paddlog in the shoulders. Waists neat with pocket detall highlighting the hips. Costs and skirts a fraction longer. Most striking colours-olive pepper- ed with white and a smoke-brown cont with butter-yellow kiri,
H
DAY DRESSES. Further deve- lopment of the tulip skirt, a simpler draping giving slim silhouette. One dress had a short bolero, and another-n-huge-tunic billowing from a tiny waist. Materials include the first French printed rayona since the war-white mixed with yellow and black mixed with honey.
DINNER DRESSES. Slim crepe, driped, swathed and slit for walk- ing, Diaphanous chilton with full straight falling dance skirts or large Affairs In elaborate stift French brocade and damach.
EVENING DRESSES. Large swirling aldris. One item in orchid slipper sath has unbrella pockets in the skirt, and amethyst embroi dery outlines the flowers on the diaphragm. The dress is veiled with n black Ince coat.
In
Belts are narrower and buttons smaller, Billinery is mostly tailored shapes.-United Press.
By Galbraith
"We must be nice to your father-he's predicting a depression, and if it doesn't happen, he'll be in the dumpa?"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1947, i
Russia Streamlining
Its Government
Russin has begun to slash its administrative spending and streamline its government. The objective is two-fold: to reduce expenditure and, by combing out unnecessary personnel, swell the number of workers available for in- dustry, commerce and agriculture.
This intention, and ils scope, was first outlined during a re-
cent meeting of the Supremo New Mountains
Soviet by the Minister of Finance, Arseni Zverev, and
echoed during the three-day Formed East
session by other ministers and deputies.
The ministries and administru- tions must economise most strictly In spending money on the admink- trative apparatus," Zverev Bald.
Of Caspian Sea
New mountains are being "However, still can be seen that formed on one of the most rest- non-productive expenses are made, especially far the upkenp of less and remote parts of «wollen network of supply nnd Belling oflices, of various
world's surface, factory representations, ete.
the
Mountains are wrinkles on "Serious attention must be given the face of the world. Unlike to the abolition of unnecessary in- stitutions and organisations, to the the wrinkles on a human face. correction of the structure and they are a sign of youth, not staffs, and to maximum economy in administrative expenses."
· CHINESE PLAYS IN
NEW YORK
"An Evening in Cathay," a Chinese play presented by the Chinese Cultural Theatre group from Shanghai on a tour of the United States, is playing to capacity houses in New York, where, according to the New York World-Telegram, "mem- bers of China's aristocracy meet New York's "400","
The production, which is under the auspices of the American Bureau for Medical Ak and the United Council for Clvitian Relief, is spon- sored by the China Soclety of America."
Brooks Atkinson, writing in the New York "Times," has thin to say about the production;
To raise money in Amerien for medical aid to stricken China, a group of young Chinese from Shang- hal came to this country last Sep- timber with n portfolio of dances, songs, instrumental music and scenes.
age. Water and wind gradually, from classical plays. Within twa weeks of Zverev's wash them away and so, general- announcement, the dismissal of 1.ly speaking, the smoothest land M. Sintin, Vice-Minister
of Tech-is also the oldest.
nical Cultures for the entire USSR, pointed to the sincerity of the in tentions.
posts.
The
Seriousness Emphasised
periousness of
The highest part of the work is the tonkler plateau of Tibet avenging more than 10,000 Icet above sea level, studded with peaks so high thai,many have never been climbed, and so remote they often are unnamed.
The Ministry of State Control's Investigators found that Slatin, in- stead of reducing his department's expenditure, hnd hired 46 more persons and, to prevent liquidation of led posts, had promoted 10 į
On one end, the great Himalayan persons from low-paid to high-paid highlands curve south to form the Įmonatain barrier between India and WIN this emphasised by Pravda's reference China. To the west they slope off into an inextricable tangle of rangen to it as "deceit of the state."
In Northwest India, Afghanistan, editorialisert Pravda
the that
Turkestan and Sinktians. government's economy plants were meeting 34ith
"inerless 'and bureatieralic resistance" on the part of some department heads who were "helping un raure sectors, depart- nent uriministrations and SUIT- rounding themselves with a mass of ansitants, sreretaries, typists,
"The swelling of the administra- tive apparatus complicates the work of the apparatus. itself and makes
chirmay ant
said expensive! Penvida
t
Bad Examples
It had pointed out earlier that "to increase the personnel of Industry and the mumiier of workers who are directly producing things of m3- terial value, it is necessary to by to decrease the personnal of service. multiplying socialist work. In this is one of the bit reserves for
Himalayas Still Growing
It is a youthful area, geologically speakler, "and the Himalayas, with all their branches and prom, are ļa growing, folding, making more
mountains,
But mountain maling, a gentoglead procey, is a process in which result are shown in millions of years. It [eccates so slowly that changes in ter
rain dun to earth-folding have never
been recorded a history, and the only manifestation which makes headline are growing pains-earthquakes,
Now a Russian report from the
Natural Rock Dam
desert of Bet-pak-dalal in Kazakha- [stan, a huge territory cast of the Caspian Sea, gays that for the Best tine actual folding of rock Into mbuntains was noted in a compara The newspaper cited! hely bad
as partien-tively short time, since 1,900. examples the Com- missariat of Post and Telegraph's retention for more than a year after the war of a strictly wartime de-
A new range of hills has risen partment which ate up 2,500,000 nerass the desert, the Soviet report
unnecessary expenses, said.
It said that the hills were and the Moscow building trusts, rising so rapidly that future ridges which did not reduce their staff of
could already be traced. 1,010 persons, although their allot- ted work was cut by half-United Press.
roubles in
In three places, the report said, the hills have cut across the long Chur River, Rowing wes, out of the great Pamir lake called Issyk-kul. A natural rock dam Jas been
BABS HUTTON'S formed.
MARRIAGE
REPORTED OFF
Russian engineers plan two arti- ficial dums, one 192 feet and one 866 feet long, to connect with the natural "dam."""Together" the system" will forin
"Most of them are talented amateurs; their performing lacks the stately and imposing perfection of the best professional work. But the art they are altempting is one of the supreme arts of the world.
are
agaku.
"Recently they have concluded a
af highly prosperous engagement five days in New York and thinking of coming back "The sums of money they are send- ing home, however, hardly measure the esteem they are winning in the
early
of thousands of Americans. For an art that is thoroughly native, s Chinese theatre art is, ex-
the presses the character of a people more directly and vividly than Ideas, Elatistics of trade or Information about national affairs."
Theatre Bears
Go On Strike
Obviously ignorant of the age-old theatrical custom' that. "the show must go on," three bears, engaged "to do a trick cycling
Theatre in Bolton, Lancashire, uct at the Grand
went on strike during a recent performance, and dragged their trainer and his assistant across the stage.
When the
tims came for the act the bears shambled up to the foot- lights, exchanged dubio:5 glances with the orchestra, half-hartedly did two tricks, and then went Into a conference.
Their trainer tugged at their short chafus, but the only reaction of the bears was to drag him around the stage,
The act was abandoned, and the police have banned further appear- anets, fearing that the bears might Ret loose among the audience and cause a panic. According their trainer, the animals were disturbed by the footlights and the achestra.
a reservoir 15 miles long, eight miles OLYMPIC SOCCER
wide, and will supply water for irri- galing 124,000 nefes of desert. United Press.
34-year-old Burma Yen Debt
Princess Catherine Trubetsko told a French news agency corrispondent in Nice that her son, aetor, Prince Igor Trubetskoi, had no ftcut'en of marrying Barbara Itution,
Woolworth $20,000,000 heiress and reputed to be the richest woman in the world, states Rester.
The Prince and heiress have both
Muddle
The Government of Durma is
bren spending the winter holiday at facing pressing demands for St Moritz, Switzerland, and banns
of the marriage were published al some formula under which debts the beginning of February.
It was reported thaith wedding and been postponed pending the ar rival from Paris of Barbara's certi- ficate of divorce from her third b band, the film star Cary Grant. She Is 35 and has been married three tiracy.
PROGRAMME
The long summer evenings of the first week of the 1948 Olympics will be used for the soccer print'naries, with the semi-finals to be played in the Olymple Stadium on August 11, 12 and 13,
Eliminating rounds starting from
July 30 will be played on London's many football grounds.
Italy won the championship at the occupation may be settled fairly. contracted during the Japanese 1934 OlymplesAssociated Press,
The Anti-Fascist People's Frerdom
Lese pointed out in a petition to STRANGE CARGO
the Government that at the time of Japan's fall 100 Japanese rupees had the value. one British rupte, The British promptly demonetised Japanese
currency when they re-
Seeks To Rouse ccupied Burma.
Women
The AFPFL contends the courts have no precedinis to guide them. In the settlement of disputed financial
transactions involving the Japanese rupce, and that it would be unfair Lady Astor has retired from to require set!t-afdebt of Parliament, but still ns belli- 100 Jepose rupees by the pay
of 100 British rupees. gorent as ever, she sought to tiht rally Britain's women to save
The league also has asked the, the country from disaster.
government to declaro`that debts uni pold since the foll of Japan because of this mixup are free of interest for the period since war's end.
Speaking at n meeting" of the Ladies' Golf Union, Lady Astor said: | "If the wom:n of Great Britain don't stand firm and keep the old country from racking, then God help it,
"Not a word against the men- they have ruled the world for 2,000 years.
Women have, only had
hand in it for 20 to 30 yours.
During Japanese occupation the Japanese rupee alone was legal ten" der
a A statement of policy is expected
from the government soon...
"By the looks of some of our „fices, we' won't be here to see the end of had to put on my 'glad
14
rags to-day to look young and beau-BCOF'S ONE YEAR
Uful?"—United Press.
Warning Against Osaka Dialect
The Tokyo metropolitan police re- cently issued this warning
IN JAPAN
The Britial Commonwealth' Oc- cupation Forces celebrated the first anniversary of their establishment of their headquarters at Kure, Japan, on February 20.
Lieut-Gen John Northcott was ap- pointed the list Commander of the British Occupation Forces. To-day, Northcott is Governor of Now South Wales, Australia,
Beware of anyone speaking with tlie Osalca dialect. One hundred men and women pickpockets have Just moved from Osaka because their facos became too well-known; A week prior to the appointment, Don't let fine clothes fool you. Bo- the first Brillsh,' Indian, Australian ware of the Osaka dialect."
{"mÅsson | and, New Zealand troops landed in elated Press.
Japan.
FOR RAF
In the course of a training flight, a Halifax of RAF Transport Com- mand has flown 2,000 pounds of second-land, clothing and blankets to the people of Hamburg, in Germany, The clothing was collected from re- sidents of Sheffield and district by the Bishop of Sheffield, the Rt Rev Leslie Hunter, who had asked the RAF Station at Dishforth, Yorks, to assist him in delivering it quickly to the people of Hamburg.
Rupert and Minky
While Rupen and the conjurer watch, Ninky, anddenly. bounces jewibu" and "the cat, who is already nervous, leaps away 'in m'flash, "That prove it," enes the com Jurer. **There' must de' magic in the donkey, but it is not good magic. It works alone and doesn't wait lone Award of command.”. All at once s
SHOWING
TO-DAY
* KINGS
AT 2.30, 5.00)
7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
A THOUSAND THRILLS THE SCREEN HAS NEVER
-SEEN BEFORE!
Cecil B. DeMille's greatest!
REAP THE
WIND
{Chadas
ADDED: Special British Paramount News !
SHOWING
TO-DAY
QUEEN'S
At 2.30, 5.15.
7.15 & 9.15 p.in.
· FOR THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE AND THE LAUGH OF
ALL TIME SEE DANNY KAYE IN
TECHNICOLOR
"gay!
glittering!
glamorous!
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
DANNY KAYE THE KID FROM
BROOKLYN
Virginia MAYO - VERA-ELLEN The GOLDWYN GIRLS
WALTER ABEL - EVÉ ARDEN - STEVE COCKRAN
FAY BUMTER • LIONEL STANDER
MELTELE KABLLO From a Derenite de CHYER JONER, FRANK Puliza se kremsen COMELL Tender a Pen Sy Like 150? ass MARET CLONE
NEXT CHANGE
THE NEW DICK POWELL IN A NEW TERRIFIC ADVENTURE.
* CORNERED “
with Walter SLEZAK
Michelino CHEIREL
CENTRAL
.5 SHOWS DAILY
At 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.
BY POPULAR DEMAND!
TO-DAY ONLY
SPANISH
Roaring Saga
starring
of the Seven Seas!
...In Glorious TECHNICOLOR
PAK HENREID - MARCH' O'HARA = Warm SLEZAK.
Brande Prodenie SORUN BELOW) + Justin PodNE GUTEN JUNE Done by MAN FORZADE - Ross she te vector women) sink and Hart A, Monika
be
- TO-MORROW
OLIA sol
"THE MASTER RACE“
Jibuto
Jolo detonant
AHAY
WANCHAL PRADkunne bla
SHOWING TO-DAY-
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
M-G-M's WONDERFUL, TUNEFUL, WILD WEST MUSICAL!
Judy GARLAND in THE
HARVEY GIRLS
in
TECHNICOLOR
With John HODIAK. Ray BOLGER
ANOTHER PAPER CONVERTED
new voice is, heard and Tigerlily After 185 years, the Loudon the only London newspaper running
smiling face appesta. Htution Rupert,” she saYS. *Your mummy -finish donkey and you bring him eb show me, yes? You' no expect him to jump, no? Msplay: trick i
•Harpe
ALL RIGHT# 'KESKOVED.
London, Mur. 2. Victuatiers, leaves the atald'. "Times'
Morning Advertiser, has decided to only advertisements on its page ono
with all the rows inside.
print news on its front page.
The Advertiser was
The decision of the Advertiser, organ of the Society of Lleensed | 1794—Associated Press.
founded, in