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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1947.
This Space Every Day
Women
BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
Posed for Lois Leeds.
Americ hairstylists are lagging for behind "My conclusion is that foreign
rent
ones and these UNO
the most women Bre
convincing
Foreign hair stylists far behind American hair specialists.
MAN'S EYE VIEW!
I find that the average American girl Says Victor Vito, a famous hair-who comes into my shop asks unly dresser, "By request I designed u
for average courtesy and basic hair- series of hairdos for a very inter-styles that will hold their lines after nation! assortment
A br
brisk brushing. She has It over of women
other countries In that working on the UNO stan and women of other
the whole thing somewhat this doesn't phase her, because she into the wind and even venturing revelation. Compared 10 American women.
understands her balr and known it seemed that these visitors are every bit as intel-
how to care for it as well as I do, ligent, nitractive and dressed. The starting contrast was smartly in the deplorable condition of their hate and their Inck of skill in styling
lundling
it. Their hairdos
These stylists are still de- seemed at least four years behind for an era that is
past and those of American women, polating who might be swayed by their im
for the very rich, The only ones that America need no practical concoctions are ladies up the truth Jonger look to other countries for the hothouse variety or those who of styles in hair.
hook on to anything at all that's The French and Belgian went in for lavish pompadours, curls
new. 11 chhe average American aud
and wanted me to give wise about her hair of late and it is woman, never, She's gotten far too them more of the same, The Danish the hairdressers girl had long hair.
Rome. tips from her!" nx dict the English girl, whose hair had dry and breaking ends. The Brazilian permanent was
vas frizzy and tartared into the most ornate of constructions. All of these women were united by their common distrust of hairdressers and took a particularly dim view of allowing anybody to cut their hair. They seemed to have visions of being sculped.
swirls
shape or Imaginat Padly eut withoul
girl's
......
who should
take
Have you a hat flair?
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"Key Money" Racket DUMBBELLS! Follows Shanghai
Resident To Cemetery.
By EDDIE CRIGHTON
(Associated Press Correspondent)
SHANGHAI Shanghai's acute housing shortage affects the dead as well as the llving. But it is cheaper to live here than to die here, and there is no escaping the key-money racket-It follows one even to the grave.
Undertakers in Shanghai say, The parents, however, patisfac- that most people here prefer to torily solved their
problem by be buried in the city's most took up the matter
writing to their Congressman. who the highest well-known cemetery, located quarters with the result of a whop- opposite the Bubbling Well, Ping discount in the bill." which has long lost its effervescence, possibly due to its proximity to the graveyard. Cholee locations in that cemetery have long been "reserved" by people who now are reluctant to give them
up.
wonder
Cost Of Dying Unfrozen Congressmen to write to, and those Shanghallanders, who have no pay has been frozen by a government edlet since last February, why the government does not freeze the high-cost-of-dying index along with the high-cost-of-living index.
Today an "austere" "funeral- nothing lavish-will set one back In Shanghai, For
A reservation is an option taken about US$4,000 by payment of a certain sum. Some most wage earners in Shanghal this of these reservations have bean is an astronomical sum and is of mode as far back as 1818, and their course, one expense which they will holders are still walking around. try to avoid paying as long
For a certain amount of "key possible. money" some holders can be induced to sell their locations.
·;
as
To qualify for burial at Bubbling Motors Fit Into
Well, one has to be a resident of the former International Settlement of Shanghai for a certain length of Ume. And he must be a holder of one of those greatly-sought "reservations."
Full Payment
Holding a reservation, however, does not mean outright ownership. It simply means one is privileged to that particular spot reserved: Pay- ment in full is made when the owner dies,
The amount varies according to the currency in circulation at time of his decease. During the Japanese ecoupation of Shanghai, for example. the purchase price could only be
notes.
paid In puppet Central Reserve Bank
Apart from the trouble in finding accommodation, the problem of the high-cost-of-dying itself is one that frequently causes a Shanghailander to hasten the arcival of his final days through worry.
Thimbles
80
Midget electric motors, small that two will fit into a thimble, and alloys to withstand the temperatures and stresses of jet-propelled aircraft engines, are among the wartime develop- ments to be shown at the Bri- tish Industries Fair in London and Birmingham from May & to May 16.
The miniature motors, known as "electrotors," come in four sizes, the smallest three-sixteenths of un inch in diameter and weighing less than
128th of an ounce. It requires only alfa voit and has a speed of 2,000 revolutions per minute."
Heat resistant alloys for gas tur- bine blades used in jet-propelled aircraft, which established a speed record of 016 miles an hour, also will be shown. These are an en- chro-
Last summer the parents in the United States of an UNRRA seaman who died in Shanghal waters got tirely new range of nickel bill from a firm of Shanghal under-mium alloys. takers which in itself almost made
Plastics also will be pro-
them near-customers of their local Textiles will comprise the largest The millinery trade are look-undertaker a bill for US$5,000. for section of the fair and will feature
embalming and the cost of shipment ons.
States.
ing for new ideas and talent, and "That the United States now leads any woman who has a flair for in hairstyling is nothing for
our turning odd pieces of material stylists to feel smug about. progress is due entirely to American
This into what looks like a high- women who battled colturists
priced model hat has an assured years, until they won their point financial future. simple and effective haircombs that tle in with their active way of life.
Mimate Buckeys
GABRIELLE
for
Long, long gloves are making hand and arms look so smart! Red ones, matched to your lips: Blus ones, matched to your eyes and Greanes to your accessaries. Any way you do it, long gloves will give you that Elegant Lady look!
SIDE GLANCES
your living out of hots:
There are four ways of making
1-To organise a workroom in the wholesale trade:
Ho into the retail end of
in ? SY, by getting a job in a big
To become 3-To
a designer: in this case you need to be able to sketch. and should take fashion drawing at evening classes;
4-When you know something about costing and the technical use of materials to open your own shop, where you will probably do all the | designing and a lot of the making-.
up.
How do you start? For any girl over 18, and older women, the best plan is to take a year's course at Hammersmith Technical School for women. The
course Costs
12 rather more if you live out of London.
In the meantime, go to evening classes locally, learn how to make up your own designs in muslin, and get a job as a sales assistant eller In a hat shop or the millinery depart- ment of a large store.
Another way of earning while you learn is to take an apprenticeship in | n wholesale house. To becoupe a
fully qualifled milliner
this way You will takes three to four years. probably not be paid more than £1 a week to start, but when you work up to be a copyist you carn between £3 and £4 a week, and twice that when you are fully qualified.
COMA, 1947 BY NIA BERFICE, NEL V. M, KEC. I, M. PĀT, ON,
Joanna Chase.
of the body back to the United minently featured.-Associated Press,
Income Figure
Put At £10
The chief wage earner in 92 percent of British homes makes not more than £10 a week.
The Bourd of Trade Journal showed that gure in n sample survey made by the Government in May to July 1945 of 11,276 homes in England and Wales.
The statistics were weighed against the nation's population estimates of December 1044 to give estimated statistics for the country as a whole.
The survey is based solely on the weekly wage rate of the chief wage earner in the family, and does not take into account the total weekly income of the household.--Associated Presi
NEW SAWDUST
PLASTIC
HAVE YOU GOTA GOLF - CLUB SHAPED LIKE A FERRET? MY BALL. DISAPPEARED INTO A
RABBIT HOLE
Jap Navy
а
Turns Into
Scrap Heap
The Imperial Navy which Japan sent out on the high sens to challenge the might of the world is now junk.
ut
All that remains of its 350,000 tons fighting ships, once the third greatest feet in the world, is a group of partly scrapped hulks arid some scrap metal. The demolition 1st abauit at the half-way mark, it hns been disclosed officially.
pected to be salvaged from the fleet, headquarters of the United States naval forces in the Far East suld, 1.000 tons have been salvaged since the scrapping began last April.
Of the 105,000 tons of steel ex-
Thirty-one ships are being scrap- ped in 17 Japanese ports. Nine. ships, still operable at the time of the surrender, were used in repatria- tion and only recently were releaseil for scrapping. One converted rier still a being used in tion service. All operable
repatria shilps
will be scrapped by the end of this year. No completion date has been set
car-
for the scrapping of heavily damaged ships, since they no longer constitute a war potential.
Drydocking Needed
damaged ships lle aground or par- Struck by American ralds, 22 tlally sunk in Japanese ports. That means that after the superstructure has been removed, the hull must be patched and pumped out sufficiently to enable the ship to font into dry- doek before it can be scrapped com- pletely. To date, two hulls have been scrapped completely and work on an additional
seven should be finished within two months.
Japanese civilian scrapping Arms, paid by the Japanese government, are dismantling the ships as schedul- Salvaged
and non-military equipment is
dustries.
A new sawdust plastic has beened by allied command. created at the University of Now Hampshire which has many uses home
turned over to the Japanese and promises to solve the problem due ministry for use in civilian in- of salvaging sawdust and wood shavings in fumber operations.
At Kure, once the world's largest naval base,
three battleships
carriers, three and six cruisers, heavily damaged and
uil beached the harbour, are fast becoming shells in of their former might. Among them is the battleship Haruna, once reported sunte off Luzon, und the battleships Ise and Hyuga, both participants in the attack on Peari Harbour.-
The new product, made by com- bining green sawdust with resin us a binder, is expected to use every bit of wood waste now lost in the forests when trees are cut down.
It is a low-cost, mass-production product. It can be put in a mould, shaped into whatever 'article is de- sired, heat-treated-and- painted exactly like wood
Another Cure For
New Drug
Formula To End principal vein of the liver, often a
ona
Two Minneapolis physicians have reported that the drug streptomycin has proved effective in treating pylephlebitis, described as a usually fatal Inflammation on the Inside of the
complication of gangrenous appen- dix.
In
case, where penicillin treatments had been tried without Improvement, streptomycin was tried Tooth worries may be alleviat-with apparent success-Associated ed, according to a Texas dental instructor, who told a group of Gulf Coast dentists about his new formula designed to end
Tooth Decay
By Galbraith tooth decay,
"We're taking up a collection to help our economies, pro- fossor pay up some back bills and get away from his
financial worries!
Dr. Barnhardt Gottlieb of Dallas, Instructor in dental pathology and dental research at Baylor University explained methods in impregnating teeth with a silvor nitrate formula to prevent decay.
Dr.
"Dental cares are gone," Gottlich explained. "There is nothing patented and anyone can use it by Impregnating a tooth with this com- mon chemical. Tooth decay can be eliminated or halted."--United Press,
Weakened By Queues
Pres.
These carriers are being scrapped at Sasebo and two more at Osaka. Other scrapping ports Include Nogasaki, Maizuri, Ominato, Beppu and Yokolipmn. United Press.
"Hiya Toots" Is
A Good Start
I E. Willis Jones of Chicago has his way, people writing to strangers simply will start off by saying Mr Jones or Mrs Smith, without any prefatory term of cridearment. He has opened his campaign by organis- ing The Society for Abolishing 'Dear in Business Letters."
Londoners Will Celebrate
Radio's 50th Birthday
Wireless telegraphy's 50th anniversary in Britain will soon be celebrated. There will be a dinner at Guildhall on May 21.
Marconi's station at Alum Bay, Isle
It was in July 1897 that the On June 3, 1998, Lord Kelvin sent Wireless Telegraph and Signal the first paid wireless message from Company, which later became of Wight, to Bournemouth on the Marconi's Wireless Telegraph mainland." |Company, was set up in London,
and wireless became a mercial proposition.
com-
This was the culmination of 'ex- periments carried out by Marconi in England which had éxtended over a
year.
The British Medical Journal, On June 2, 1898, Marconi. having recently reviewing the findings brought his apparatus to England of two Manchester University is invention.
applied-for provisional protection for Professors, aald British women Marconi was received with open who queue for food and perform arms in Britain mainly through the unusual manual work these daya enterprise of Sir William Preece, are developing muscular weak-Engineer-In-Chief of the Post Once, who was one of the early pioneers of wireless In Britain.
ness.
Mercant first experimented he tween a room in the General Post once and the root of a building about 100 yards away,
The Journal said: "Complaints of tingling, burning pain and numbness and coldness in the fingers nowadays are common among middle-aged and elderly women. There seems little Successful with this, he extended doubt that fatigue, unaccustomed his range and demonstrated before manual work and the many hours representatives of the Navy, and spent carrying shopping baskets re- Army on Salisbury
Plain. sult in stony (muscular weakncas) of the shoulder,
ulder, girdle and drooping of fittel, with wireless in the shoulder."
when in 1800 It was damaged by a Such weakness increased during gule it was able to wirotess the fact | and since the war, the Journal said to a stalion on this South Foreland.
Associated Press.
The East Goodwin Wax
12 miles away.
and
Rupert & the New Pal→41
The motor cyclist looks puzzled at Rupert's words, "If you like ta come with me you can look our for that want and so where it goes," He says, "butt wirn you that I must get on with my business and cannat bring you back.' "Yes,
- please take me. begs Rupert, "
get home 'somehow. It's our only "chance.” So he is lifted on to the pillion seat, and in a few minutes his friends Rex and Podgy and Wille see him whizzing through the village. *** Lock," where : can Rupert be of to?" cries Podgy. ALL DIOBTE RESERVED
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·SHOWING TO-DAY- at 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9,30 p.m. WESLEY RUGGLES
TO-DAY
ONLY
LONDON TOWN
TECHNICOLOR
SID FIELD
with
GRETA GYNT TESSIE O'SHEA PETULA CLARK introducing
KAY KENDALL
and the LONDON TOWN "DOZEN AND, ONE" BEAUTIES
Lyrics and Munie by JOHNNY BURKE AND JIMMY VAN HEUSEN
Augociale Pradeter WILLIAM COLLIER INF
Distribution by Eagle-Lion
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At 2.30, 5.15,
7.15.&.9.15 p.m.
IT'S THE GREAT ONCE-A-YEAR MUSICAL!
Rita HAYWORTH
Victor MATURE
“MY GAL SAL"
IN TECHNICOLOR
with john SUTTON •
Carolo LANDIS
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NUS ZERO EQUALS DEATH!
A ZIRO IN THE SIGHTS-
A PRESSURE OF THE THUMB AND ANOTHER JAP HAS BEIN SIGNED ON THE "POTTED LINE” OF LEADU
JOHN WAYNE JOHN CARROLL - ANNA LEE
FLYING TIGERS
•Republic
ORIENTAL
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Rita
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Girl
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Anirby JEROME KERN
IRA GERSHWIN
THE COVER GIRLS
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IN TECHNICOLOR
210 Kawalan - PASI Ešivers Jax Falkenberg
Baru Play b
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MAJESTIC
FRANK SINATRA
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In
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INVITATION TO "The stance of invitations to mis
CHURCHES
alanary churches in the farthest corners of the world shows a wide out reach of the Christian Church and. opportunities to help to cure illa at the present time."
Eighteen missionary churches in distant countries are being invited to Join the World Council of Churches Churches receiving the Invitations, In hopes of further efforts to "evan include the Korean Methodist gelise the whole of human life." Church and churchde in: Indonesia, Charles P. Toft, President of the Java, Samoa And Burma Associated Federal Council of Churches, Sauid? | Press,