This Space Every Day
Women
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Pored by Janis Page for Lots Leeds.
Lois Leeds gives you news of Spring makeup and styles!
STAR SHINE!
uses a
For that clean-cut p outling Jonia Page
long-stemmed brush. She tips it with lipstick and does an outline, then she "dis.la" with short up and down strokes with the brush. Janis is now playing in the Warner Bros. picture, The Time, The Place and The Girl."
Hair and Hat! Thelma Altman, stor. famnus Metropolitan Opera wears an upswept hairdo to comple- ment her int of velling and
buds, worn tipped forward. Hair and Hat must go together say the designers and the stare!
and
Glours! This coming Spring will see i-v-n-g gloves short sleeves. Your, gloves must match your necessaries, your hat or your pstick: A lovely fashion and very flattering to Arms and the Woman!
Makeup Fashion! The makeup fashions for this Spring ure especial- ly delicate and beautiful. Powders are in the softest skin tones, make- up that is just a "blush" for the checks and a "rose" for the mouth. So, be sure to choose pretty things for the Spring and pretty makeup to harmonize.
Hair Tips! Marie Clark, the nur stylist for the stars in the picture. *The Best Years of Our Lives"—~ Wright and Myrna Loy, Teresa Virginia Mayo-hos this to .say about colffure fashions for the com- ing year. "The page-boy, bob is as
Minali Makrys 4 GABRIELLE
A
Be one of those rare, women who are on timel Nation your Minutes and you will be on time. A Minute to cleanse your skin, a Minute to atimulate with skin freshener. Minute to blend your powder base, Minute to powder your face. A Minute for an inspection of the job, You can dreas by the clock and be a Minute Woman!
SIDE GLANCES
obsolete ns, the gasoline stamp. This season it's chic to be shorn.
She contends that the hair lengths and the skirt lengths are travelling in opposite directions-hair shorter and akirts longer. And since the longer skirt is evidently here to stay for a white, shorter bobs will be essential to Smart Greaming!
FLOWERS
VEILING, FEATHERS
By Dorothy. Russell
that bloom in the The chapeaux
could be Gilbert and spring-tra-la Sullivan's song this year.
Flowers and velling, bows and
THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1947.
ACQUIRED FOR NATION
"
Cotehele House, near Plymouth, reputed to be one of the oldest houses in continuous occupation in England and one of the best preserved mediaeval mansions In the West Country, has been acquired by the Nation from Lord Mount Edgetube who is leaving in the house a rare collection of late Stuart and early The house Georgian furniture on loan to the National Trust.
dates from the twelfth century or earlier
A Correspondent At Large In Moscow
By R. H. SHACKFORD
I was the first press correspondent to arrive in Moscow for the Foreign Ministers' meeting and had a chance to wander around and see a bit of the city before the conference started. I was torn in interest between the city, its art, people, customs, and the sight of Muscovites "scrubbing" the city like a mother does her child in preparation for the arrival of com- pany.
this, Lenin and Stalin
Major, impressions at time of the year are the great cold, high prices, and-like most other European capitals shortages of nearly everything --housing, food, transportation, materials and labour.
Moscow is probably the most overcrowded city in the whole world, with long queues day and night for buses and tremendous crowds push-
Into marble-lined stations. ing
I flew in by plane from Stockholm, changing to a Soviet plane at Hel- Used the stan- pilots sinkl. Soviet dard dying procedure, but did not pay any heed to safety belts. Lug- seats. The Customs officer at Lenin- gage was mostly placed in vacant
feathers are back in the millinery running with vengeance. You'll be peeking under, over and side Ways at public functions now, try-grad was the most ing to get around those hats,
Brims are up in front, curled or sweeping at the sides, lurge and small..
They range from cartwheel und the new cape-stye shapes, to marquis and peek-a-boo bonnets.
There are some Napoleon cornet brims, lots of cup and sailor shapes and picture hats. There are toques and juliette caps for evening wear, as well as saris and mantillas.
courteous and
apologetic I have ever encountered. The Customs hardly looked at the luggage, and required the opening of only one piece, without Inspecting anything.
DUMBBELLS
AEGISTERED ILS)
DID YOU DO ALL YOU COULD TO
AVOID THE ACCIDENT
PATENT OFFICE
OH.YES!
I SHUT MY EYES AND SCREAMED AS LOUD! AS I COULD
WINDOW ON THE WORLD
THUNDERBOLT
Lusaka, Rhodesia:-Lightning struck a herd of 70 cattle near here and killed 62 animais outright, also impaling a native herder on the horms of one of them.
"ROMMEL'S" TOMBSTONE Brussels: One of Monty's faithful companions from Normandy, to the Baltic was a spaniel he called "Ron- mel" The dog died during the cam- paign and was buried in the grounds of a country house at Zonhoven. Someone removed the tombstone, but the local population will defray the cost of a new one.
pretty.
SLIPPERY SIMONE
Parks: Simone ls 19, blonde and She is also a clever bick- pocket. Not long ago she was ar- the hotel on rested at a luxury
Riviers when a porter noticed she returned late each evening with dirty hands. Since then she has slipped police guards three times-giving them more trouble than a burdened
many
everything in the subway was very plush. Trains were quloter, stations cleaner than any of New York's
Gorki Street stores all have new It is the chief window displays.
Gastronome shopping Number
food shop in Moscow-startles even the eyes, of
of criminal. an American with the great varieties
SNAKE NURSERY of fruit, cheese, meats, canned foods,
liquors. dairy products, wines and
Johannesburg:-Because so But prices can of Libby's pine-
bottle people have been bitten by snakes apple Juice was 70 roubles,
this year, a special snake farm is of vodka 80 roubles and 90 roubles. It is a "commercial" store where no
being started in Natal to provide but are needed,
more venom for making antl-snake- where prices are much higher than
It will have breeding ration coupons
bile serum. stores where ration coupons are re-
hatchery, 1 cafes. a
nursery for quired. The Soviet can buy in either If he is willing to pay the higher young reptiles and a special pond for price. Gastronome Number
One breeding frogs for food. was jampacked with people and the ment counter was just a
mass of pushing customers.
Check Your Coat the In- On arrival in Moscow, small
I learned the mandatory way to tourist (Soviet Tourist Bureau) took
before entering charge, arranging room, ration cou- check one's coat
But even so the many places. I wanted some tea pons for meals. etc. visitor is in for many surprises, while waiting for baggage at the alt- Inside the temperature was unusual experiences, language dim- port. culties, shocks
low enough to see one's breath, but at high costs and
I was firmly told, no check coat no laughs.
tea...
They are made of “everything can imagine-not only straw you and felt, but urgandie, feathers, materiais that match veiling: dresses, lace and sequins. .
sister, swanky Legroux
Paris milliners, combine straw and felt in a
Strect Sconos
MOUNTIES MISSED Montreal:-Once the Mounties did
their not get
man. The federal public accounts reveal a write-off of valued at 2,500 yards of gabardine
The Red £1,400 stolen in 1945, · Coats went after the thief-but they missed.
the
CANADIAN IMMIGRATION Ottawa:-Canada will open Soviet Army chorus at Tschaikow-
dians in Britain and Europe as soon The following are the highlightsky Hall, a beautiful elliptical hall door to married relatives of Cana
comfortable with dons in Ivory of my Orst days in Moscow from my
available and are as ships chairs. A capacity audience which diary:
warmed up most to light, humorous housing crisis is solved-bat Tuesday Breakfast at the Metro-ngs. A hundred singers, 75 in the pole room for 13 roubles 60, Ome
the
pra-
large yelaw halo, with of the face telle with sour erain, dark bread / orchestra and about 50 dancers. The 1. Pably not before 1948, Immigration
fall brim and deep straw crown. At the back, a long goose feather sticks out slant-ways,
Yellow Orchids For Trim
An attractive colour scheme is achieved by covering the crown of a large oatmeal felt with brown veling. A spray of yellow orchids adorns the front,
In many of the
-efficinly-state. performance more than fulfilled my and a large bun, wo large slices of peo butter, two pieces of Swiss cheese, to the fact that the audience booed heese, expectations, but I couldn't get used
a pot of tea Hundreds of work when it was pleased and the gal- men were busy carly
renovating Jeryltes cheered for encores.-United hotel, installing new light Axtures, Press. carpets, plumbing, paint and repair- ing revolving door entrance. Women were pasting paper around windows to keep out the wind.
The
In hour's walk in Sverdlov, Menazh and Red Squares. hundreds of men and women removing snow, wider-brimmed men direct operations and operate bats, side dents occur, giving snow machines while the women grate to the free contours. A large shovel snow into trucks
men black straw has dents on either were shovelling snow off the rools side emphasised
I tried to get by side-velling of the Kremlin tled in a bow on the crown.
into Lenin's tomb but was stopped Flat and shallow crowns are also
by an excited guard who finally closed and popular. A honey coloured picture conveyed that it was hat, worn slant-wise, has a round wrote on a piece of paper, "503. pork-ple crown. This is trimmed 15" with a water-green velvet band- United Pris:.
- DORI, 1687 BY NEK BEWICT, DO, T, NE KETE U. 3. PAT, OFF.
The people look cold despite heavy. coats, fur caps, shawls and felt knee boots, and after an hour's walk I realised how the cold penetrates
By Galbraith with caviar, soup, turkey, potatoes.
The only thing-I can suggest is that you take them to some other studio and have a movie made of thom!"
A rationed luncheon at 46 roubles cake and coffee. This was at the foreign press table of the Metropole Hotel. No unrationed mcals yet but prices are high.
Best Food Shop
Wednesday Visited Melro station, Sverdlov Square, with its marble sides crowded even at mid-morning. I was struck by statuary, along the entrances, sports figures and ones of
Rupert & the New Pal-24
Ruperi sure, George, or tor- toise, that it is quite safe .z go in and that he and Bill willprotect him. So the little party moves - along the tide of the road. George ta thrilled by everything he atta, but their progress is very, very slow, and at length Rupert and Dili pop and face each other. "This isn't going to be much of an outing," whispers the little bear. "At this speed it will take us all afternoon to reach the end of the haige. We must think of some way to show George, more of the world this
that."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
CROSSWORD
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drop. (71
25. The inner ctreio of dorst save
lopen. (7)
Down
1. Thorns asd a way of writice it
soems. (0)
2. A citizen of the New England
Htates of America, (6)
d. In the P.O.. it comes from a
negativa, (D) --
Cause of many tears. [5]
B. Ya olden days. (4)
6. Bee 1 Across
E It's a amnaji rodent, (75
10. Military cloak, that sounds like
thanks to a poet, tuj
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10. Plowing and ebbing periodically,
(5)
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prociated by listeners, 18. 03.
lot about in past years, (4) -
7. In a way, Harold and 1 combine 21 To be round this would be a
to great. (4),
P. Preposition. (2) -
felony, (3)
2. Away for a change. 18)
10. If it follows mon you may › gety:
wise oogkol, (8)-
11. Tones change for a start. (5))"
13 Evidence of car bresting here.19
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joeltais, "14 Zer 95,
45, Peony;:26, humy; a7; fnow.
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19. she la vall known to Express 12. Borlies: 24. Aurláka 16, Luntik
readers. 10).
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IT'S AN ILL WIND Melbourne:-A Chinese bosun of a British ship was murdered, in a car recently and British born Mrs Isabel Luck rend of a man on the ship of the dead oriental called Reavely. She That was her maiden name. phoned the ship and found her bro- ther whom she hadn't seen for 25 years. Now he will move to Austra- In with four daughters.
are toa
YANKEE GADGETS
car molor New York:-While
busy to manufacturers change car designs, they are making up in gadgets. One car has an elec- trie razor which plugs into the cigarette lighter outlet. Another has a whistle which goes off to remind the driver his hand brake is still on. window has colourful Another awnings to keep out the sun.
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TRUTH DRUG
EVIDENCE
ADMITTED
Truth drug evidence was "ad-
HEIGHT OF SOMETHING allam:-Florida is famous for its advertising of sunny days. One big gives its entire newspaper even Issue
arrive. away it raindrops.
and ice came to the mitted" recently,, probably for When snow famed winter resort recently, they the first time in a British civil publicised the fact that "Even winter court, by Mr Justice Denning in the King's Bench Division-al- though he questioned its relia- bility.
spends the winter in Florida,"
MORE JEEP HISTORY. Rotterdamn: For the Arst time in its. history, Marken, famous islet in the Zuider Zec, much frequented by tourists, saw a motor car in lis nar- row streets when an American officar drove his jeep over ice from Volendam and with skiiful marioeuvring-managed to make a tour through the small village.
JUMPED INTO GAOL Osto: Charles Hoff, former world's record holder of the pole vaul, has been sentenced to nine years' impri- sorument for collaboration.
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CLEANING UP BERLIN'S BLACK MARKET
Anti-black market spies are operating on a wide scale in an effort to curb Berlin's lucrative black markets, says Associated Press.
As a result the black marketeers have become more secretive and careful.
Emency of truth drugs has been Police raids on suspected black. claimed for many years. They be market centres are common. Flying came prominent when American quads move through Berlin's res scientists at a crime detection labora-taurants and stores, checking prices, tory experimented with them in and consenting illegal goods, 1031,
The anti-black market system is There
are several kinds-pen- called the "Offee for Coutrol of has offices throughout thotel, hyoscine hydra-bromide, and Trade." It sodium amytal. All produce a drow- Berlin, where the pubile may report sy effect, similar to the Intoxication violations. caused by about six tots of gin.
Goods worth more than 1,000,000- The patient experiences the con-marks are confiscated each month.. Feldmaterials. vary from dition known as twilight sleep. Ho The Icels happy, and has an urge to talk. tinued herring to bolla of woollen His determination not to give away cloth Berlin: A selected number German boys, whose past is untain- secrets is broken down, and he 'an- ted by the Hitler Youth Movement, Wes questions freely. Because of may this your attend schools in Eng his sleepy state it is usually neces land to learn the democratle work-sary to shout in lils ear: A ings of British youth organisations
first band.
YOUTH EFFORT
of
On waking he often remembers nothlog of the questions. The con-- dition can usually be prodticed for about an hour at'à time. Some users
claim that patients tell 00 per cent of the truth' under the drug.
-FOTASII DEPOSIT Regina:-Potash, essential for fer- lisers and explosives, has been
abundance found in
for the Bra time in Canada, 100 miles north of p Saskatoon. The discovery is of the
Court-martial use
**Deelin's pallas chief has introduced those. caught forced labour; for cperating illegally. They are usually put to work cleaning up Berlin's vast reins.
that they had been, Injected with truth drugs, but this was never. substantiated.
In August 1945 a Canadian soldier, Private Paxton, was cleared after.
„In the famous Soviet trials of 1937, || truth-drug evidence of being absent same relative International impor-when most of the prisoners made do without leave for 203 days, at a
tailed confessions, many believed court-martial In Thursley, Surrey,
tance as uranium.