Are You Sure?
Answers on Page 10
would in Deltain 1. Where you Le sure to find a Dollar-
Clack- Stirling, Boston, manan, Rochester, Portland, Bedford?
2. If you were given a zither
mig!
You
Slide down it, eat it like ice cream, be taken for a ride, pet a tune out of it?
3. The first flcensed brewers in England were....
Knights, ca-soldiers, aquires, women, monks?
4. What is this man doing?" The answer's very pointed,
5. One of these M.P.s is a barber-
laire, Daggar, Titterinátán, Shorp, Wigy. Klaten?
would
03
letter
addressed
Hollow, Tarrytown,
to
New York,
Lhasa, Dublin, Lisbon, Mexico City, Madrid?
7. In wheh countries are these people famoji
De Valera, Bustamante, Tildy, Vargas?
8. One of the races run at Newmarket takes Its
from a Russian prince. Whleli As 117
9. A bob major 19 a Florin, retired company com- mander, peal of bells, style of hair dress?
of Samson's
10. The secret great strength lay in his
Arms, legs, hair, blood, heart, ZA?
Why Hollywood Marriages Fail
The failure of muringes.
many Hollywood Quinn, Anthony
Le traced
Mexican-tom star, can directly to boredom.
Qulin, who comes from Chihumun City, believes mare couples should work together.
have no time "Then they would to become bored," he says..
Quinn has been married for 10 years a long time in Hollywood-to Katherine De Mille, daughter of the director, Cecil B. De Mille. He und his wife appeared together in his Latest picture.--Associated Press,
THE HONGKONG TÈLEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1947.
Teaching The Languages & Cultures Of The East
that By L. E. SESSEL
The School provides instruction in some 50 langunges and in the his- tory, law, religion and customs of the countries concerned, During the war, the School undertook censor- ship in no fewer than 102 different languages and dini
diniecia.
HOW OLD IS
OLD BAILEY?
The prison had of been there since the 12th century,
rebuilt
money 1420 by bequeathed for the
by purpose
It was decided that
£00,000.
9
DANCER WHOS
DID NOT
GET DIZZY
He is Ted Shawn who, 27
From this time on public execu- years ago, willed himself from tions took place a paralytic's bed to qutside, the prison. America's great leader of male
-Crowds of some
become
A man who has fascinated end of five years and a further T is being increasingly re-
Red Indiana, Dervishes, In- 226,000 at the end of 10 years. Britain cognised in
dians, Burmest; Japanese and With regard to objective (b) it is 'people whose business it is.
proposed that the two specialised
rebuilding every State in America,; with to fill political and commercial
London schools should expand theThe first Old Bailey was built
In 1589 as a sessions house ad was the only cure, and a new prison his dancing is now in Australia, posts abroad should be grounded they heard on the Japanese wireless, provision of short introductory cour-
and sessions house were built by translated res for those engaged in trade, I joining the infamous Newgate the Corporation at A cost of and may visit the Far East. in the language and culture of and Japanese Interpreters
dustry, Ariance and for others such Prison in London. the country to which they are what was written
as missionarico. accredited. Up to a point the
Reviewing the Scarborough Com- nequisition of this knowledge
the House Lords in the June discussion which before leaving England has been
mission Report in
dla- made possible during the last
evoked the satisfactory Government being
Lord Halley, the 30 years the important. Anglo-
Atatement,
Indian Civil Ser tinguished Iranian Oil Company,
educational Institution vant and formem
Director of the stance, has taken advantage of of a similar character is the School at African Survey, whose autharl- the opportunities for their of Slavonic Studies, founded in 1918, tative book on the subject was which deals with the language and
unpublished in 1938, pointed out that young men to learn Persian be
the matter of Oriental, Rusala, Poland, Czechoslová hitherto fore going oversens-but there
Klar
Tugoslavia and 'Hungury. Afriena and other studies might is scope for development which Roya: Sorety of Arts examination
perhaps
been viewed as the the British Government is pre- statistics show there has been a not- need for
ying certain adminis- able Increase in the number of prople trative requirements, or certain pared to encourage.'
studying Russian since the outbreak nendenie interests.
But, he said, the matter must now of World War II.
be viewed from an entirely different.
Report points out, angle, For, as the the rising tide of nationalism in the
for in-
An Inter-Department Commission of Inquiry, with outside educational experts under the chairmanship of the Earl of Scarborough, was an- pointed by the Governmeal in 1944
The other
life
of
Uncommon Languages Both the Schools are part of the
Dick Wittington, the Lord Mayor.
Conditions in- were filthy
side
and from time to time epidemies of typhus would sweep through the prison
10 survey existing facilities for the University of London. There is also East renders it necessary to build the Great Fire bul
study of Oriental,
East
times 30,000 came dancing. Now in his middle to watch them.
Shawn looks like an
fifties,
In 1834 an Act | uthlete of 30.
of Parliament in-
stituted the Gen-
Just before the war he had
n
frol Criminal team of athletes at the Denishawn Court as it in to dance school in the hills of Massa- day.
chusetts, and had trained them to dancing perfection, when all of them went into the army..
The last public execution
took
place at Newgate in 1801.
In 1903 it was
*LEARNED SECRET,
Both the gool and sessions house were destroyed in
Once Shawp few hundreds of u certain amount of teaching in un-
Conditions
pulled down and miles in North Africa pursuing the and common languages, from a Western up a new relationship on the foun-were quickly re-
dation of mutual interest in our res-built,
Ouled European standpoint.. at Oxford and pettive ways of life and thought and in the gaol got worse, and in 1750 the present court built. "Old Bai- fabulous dancing tribes of
other Cambridge and
universities.
people ley, as the Central Criminal Court Nails. When he saw them he was tour judges and 30 other in our cultural achievements. CA but nothing has been done to
In Britain, it will be seen, these died after a particularly bad typhus is popularly known, is taken from not as impressed as he had expect- The Commission's comprehensive but
far.
epidemic.
the street in which it stands, all these studies so
ed, but on his way back he saw ordinate repurt, dealing with countries rom The Scarborough report addresses facts are being boldly faced.
about seven-eighths of the
itself this aspect. Do of the globe-all Asia, all
regards as principal objectives Afrien
(regions both within and
European and Africon
culture and to make
lons for future expansion.
without the British Commonwealth); tradition comparable in quafi and FROM HERE AND THERE:
all
90
thr:
DOLLARIUM
TREMENS
,
SECRET JEST
names and produce witnesses who will test'fy they have seen persons prominent in Hollywood at Commit- ist meinvent or probe's pure pose: "To prevent Communists in the event of another depression, stirring
quality and
the Eastern
us continuity with those of the major Europe lying between Rus-
(b) the sia and the enstern borders of Swe humanities and sciences,
provision of appropriate training for den, Germany, Austria and Italy- was recently published. It has been careers in the countries concerned. develop- nee:pled in principle, by the Go- and (c) satisfaction and
New York-With an export trade seatront benches and arrest those Nixon said: "We intend to name
who don't pay to sit. vernment, and action on some of its ment of the growing interest in the
public of £5,000,000,000 a year nearly 11 regions among the general proposals has already been taken.
In the last respect it favours the percent of her total production- Two Schools
establishment of an Oriental Centre already falling off because of Brlilsh two in London as a symbol and focus and European cuts, America is now There have far been socialised Institutions, both located of endeavour to promote knowledge ged with cuts from South America. Eastern The dollar balances amassed there in London, in the particular field on and understanding of the
war are being rapidly during the countries. which the Commission has reported.
Among the recommendations are exhausted. One is the School of Oriental Stu
WITCHE LAWS dies, founded in 1910. which last that funds should be made available sesalon had over 1,000 students. At by the State to finance 195 post-
Johannesburg-Northern Rhodesia later date it extended its opera- graduate studentships in the course tions, and is now known the of the next five years, ie, 100 for may amend its witchcraft legistation to enable any native to accuse, ab- School of Oriental and African Oriental areas, 45 for Slavonic and Studies.
50 for African, the latter to include other of being a witch or wizard. 30 in non-linguistic subjects such as Under the present law, natives were The School was able lo render 30 in
afraid to lay information and instead history, geography, economics.
QS
80-
or
Mevlevi Dervishes in Tripoli,
Shown Iarned their secret of
whirling without becoming dizzy, created 镥 dance in which he
spins like a top for four and a half minules.
At the end of It Shawn walks out
to take his bow with a right-angle turn to prove his stability.
Always
tickler for detail, Shawn studied styled Japanese dancing with Japan's greatest actor, Koshiro Matsume
lockouta, The law is up people through this important of Momili Gari and played the duni
Wellington New Zealand trade unions are to be compelled, by law to hold secret ballots before staging
strikes based on a theory that mest strikes are engineered by militant minori- ties.
CANADA FAIR
medium."
When Shawn danced the legend roles of Lady Sarashima and an old JIM CROW LAW
style Japanese demon, the Japanese were so pleased with the six-foot Washington.-America's South Is American's performance they made
Ottawa-More- than 300 manufac- Worried that its Jim Crow law. special outsize fans and dress orná-
"Which forcibly · segregates blacksments for him.
great assistance to the nation during logy, anthropology, and ethnology: killed the witch doctors themselves. Fair to be held in Toronto from May
inc
Lack of Teachers
a
The
from whites, will be thrown out as result of a Virginia court decision.
decision: a Negro pastor, the
BURNED HIS WIG
The Japanese had never made their demon look real, according to Ceylon he found # Shawn smok-making apparatus which he took home for a New York perform-
ance.
Ho breathed demoniacal ire over
tures and producers of different countries so far have applied for space at the first International Trade
World War II. Ax example,
an
31 to June 12 next year. More than Rev. William Simmons, was awarded the students Bat
HOUSE FROBLEM
£6 damages against a bus company be distri- 100,000 invitatione are to after Pearl Harbour the. War Office 1 is proposed
to six- take from three should
buted in Sep'ember to buyers and for Insisting upon removing him pressed the School to give intensive
not less
Rotterdam-Mr van Oostrom of
and from the front. or "whites only," courses, of which courses in Japanese to numbers of year
Rotterdam, spent a buying organisations abroad. Spon- part of the bus, to the back. Gouda, near members of
than one-third should be spent in fighting services.
Government, the countries to which their studies year negoliating for a new home. sored by the Canadian But it was not possible in the time
FREEDOM FOR SPIES On receipt of a permit he loaded the fair is the first ever to be hald disposal-Lord Harlech.
are related. at their Chairman of the School's governing
his possessions on a van and drove in the North American continent.
OLL STRIKE
Stockholm. Spics working in the the audience with great success unt!! to the new house, only to discover body, told the House of Lords in
Rame American that it was already inhabited by
prospectors who Swedish capital can look forward the smouldering Singhalese gadget June 1947--to teach the language to
family with just as good a permit have
been boring OVCE several to a spell of undisturbed work. The set Aro his wig. runny, so they were taught phone-
as his. He turned the van and drove for about a year have at last, squad, threatens to strike for higher дегез the lower Po Swedish police, including the spy
Shawn back. In the meantime however, valley
and his wife, Ruth St his old home was also legally been struck oil at a great depth,
wages. Stockholm is once more the Denis, toured the Orient, dancing big spy centre it was during the and studying through Japan, China, pied,
world war, states Mr Aften Tidnin-Slam, Java, Burma and India. In gen in its story of four Baltle refu-America they became so adept at on undefined spy Indian tribal dances that even the
Indians were delighted.
One of the great difficulties at pre- gent is the lack of qualified teachers, and it is expected that in due course these post-graduates' may qualify to All the gap and occupy Junior academie posts.
les.
We taught them," he said, "to listen in to instruments and to be
A very rough estimate of the ad-
LAND OF THE FREE able to write down what they heard phonetically and spell it in their own ditional amount of expenditure that
might New York. Allautic City is plan- way. They were then able to go the universities would need out to Burmn and write down what be of the order of £225,000 at the ning to place parking meters on, all
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"SIXT FLOOR? Y'WANT "TI
TOURT... WIYA'T Y'SAY
AN WHAT'S MORE,
YOU BIG,
FAT
THERE'S NO SICA
"THING AS A TOIGIL" OF GARLIC ... WONT HAVE IT IN THIS HOUSEL
RED HUNT
Hollywood—Advance agent for a Congressional investigation of the geen detained
capitul. Congressman Robert charges. men.
"Declarations
BU KEMP STARKETT,
IF YOU CAN'T GET ANYTHING BUT CROONERS, STÁLE JOKES, COMMERCIAL JINGLES
AND STUDIO BEDLAM WE'LL DO WITHOUT
RADIO ?"/
THEY SAY HOT WEATHER MAKES SOME ·
FOLKS DECLARE THEIR INDEPENDENCE:
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER".
Ledger Sundicate
"ITT A MODERNE !
IN TEN YEARS
IT'LL BE
WORTH AVE
SOME LÅDS MAKE THEIR MOST FORCEFUL DECLARATIONS AT A GOOD, CAFE DISTANCE.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL HOW FAR A [NORMALLY PEACEFUL MAN WILL GO WHEN HE'S PROPERLY PROVOKED.
"ITS TIME YOU LEARNED
THAT MAY SHIRTS, ARE MY CHIRTO...GET YOURSELF SOME
FEMALE
CLOTIES AND
LEAVE ALY THINGS ALONE!
NOTHING MUCH EVER COMES OF TRESE DECLARATIONS, WE SUSPECT; NOT EVEN PEACE AND QUIET...
(*1. DON'T CARE IF ITS WORTII A MILLION
RIGHT NOW... FI HAD TO LOOK AT THAT THING FOR LONG I'D HAVE THE DITS: OUT IT GOES OR
DO
WE'LL BET THIS DECLARATIONS EFFECTS WON'T LAST MUCH LONGER THAN ME SOUND OF IT.
IT'S TIME TO DECLARE YOURSELF IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS... AND DON'T OPEN THE DOOR, RICHARD UNTIL AFTER THEY WASH UP.