Women
This Space Every Day
BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
Poaed by Gladys Swarthout for Lois Lerds
Charm and Personality may be cultivated by any Lexi
STAR SHINE!
Lovely Gladys Swarthout, leading inezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan charming Opera Company, has a personality. She lives in a huge with the apartmen in New York Est River just below her windows, She is surrounded by her own "at- colourful-pictures. mosphere." bric-a-brac. bibelots and other treasures collected during her tours.
When Gladys Swarthout sings her favourite roll of "Carmen" she be- comes the lazy typy, warmed by not the sum. She is "Carmen," Gladys Swarthout, and that is es netly as it should bet
She reflects her own Star She in her enthusiasm, her interest in what other people have to say, spent a very interesting hour with hier recently and It was remarkable
to see how the combines her career with her hume-making and, as
en the case, she loves her home Wat must go away on long tours!
Juves
Wort
colours and
clothes
Her clothes are sample and she which are cut on simple lines. Her hair is a soft Brown, brushed and brushed until it shines, and is cut in # deep page-boy whirl. It is crisp and full of vitality, as is the woman herself.
Minule Makeyo
GABRIELLE
Hats are now wearing "bustle" bows in the back. So, match your new hat with, a "bustle" bow on your dress. This idea "pepa up" any banle dress and makes a "creation" out of a last year's dressi
SIDE GLANCES
|
woman, says
Luis
You can, no matter what sort of work you do, radiate your own per- sonality.
yourself with Merround colours which reflect your own in- cultivate an dividuality. You can interest in others. You can also be interested in yourself but not to the exclusion of all else.
can pollsh
up your Star Shine and radiate your own Per- aunality! Why not?
You
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1947.
DUTCH IN BATAVIA LIVE AGAIN IN PREWAR AIR
Batavia, Sept. 4.-With stubborn Dutch completeness, this colonial capital has been transformed into its prewar appearance as a bit of transplanted Holland, since "police action" against the Republic of Indonesia began on July
20.
There is almost no sign now that for nearly two years this was the only city in Asia where a revolutionary nationalist gov- ernment
and
publienn-registered automobiles were contiscated within 24 hours after the Dutch struck at 10 p.m. on July 20. Dutch Complaint
• In the Harmonie Club, stoli a European Dutch burghers drink their fiery colonial administration func-gin, talking with eager enthusiasm victories against tioned side by side with sur- of Dutch military prisingly little administrative armed, Ill-organized Republicans. And they complain with open bitter- friction.
thai
the United Nations cense Are order cannot work out in prae- ice and has had no other effect than to keep them from completing a job well begun.
For the Dutch, good old days seem to be back again. The Dulch flag Alles over Radio Jogjakarta and over the Republican Posi Omice. Tele- phone operatorn pul through your call only when you ask for "Mcester" or "Weltevresten," "They curlly don't understand and cut you off if you absentmindedly ask for exchanges by Indonesian moms-used in the past two years without question.
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com
There is no visible sign of the Re- public left here. Yet inside count less small humes, the Republic still lives. Mo
Moments after the Repub
a military Hicans broadenst munique or a speech, foreign cor- respondents here are handed type
Without telephones On the streets, you see only mill-written copies. tary vehicles and civilian ent with ur motor transport, former Republi licence plates beginning with the
can information oficials, who still lelle "B." The Indonesian "X" hold allegiance to Jogjakarta, pedal
All plates have disappeared.
e-about on bicycles to carry out their
former duties.
DISPOSAL OF
CHEMICAL AMMUNITION
Two ships recently left Bri- tish ports carrying a total of nearly 19.000 tons of chemical warfare ammunition, to be sunk in deep water with their, dan- gerous cargoes.
One was the Empire merly the German Lene
Kirsten Miles, which had over 8.000 tons on board, and the Leighton, a former Lamport and Holt line ship, which had over 10,000 tons.
In their homes, from early morn- ing until well after the inidnight curfew, you see them assembled in;; intense little groups around the
radio.
DUMBBELLS
REGISTERED US. MAN OF
I WANT SOME TOOTHPASTE
MY TOOTH CAME LOOSE.
SECRET ATOM TEST CENTRE
Young Republicans They are young, most of them- students, professional men, teachers. The common people, the coolies, street vendors and peasants seem to care little who controls the govern-
A Pacific mystery island- nent. After 350 years of European rule, only seven percent of them can sealed off from the world's read and write. They are
are more in-prying eyes-is envisaged terested in the price of rice than the America's main secret proving price of freedom, whether it be ground for the latest atomic derived through their own leaders or introduced gradualis The Dutch weapons.
they plan to do.
way th
To those who know them well, the Republicans admit their government has had many fallings, but with Asiatic calm they say that whatever ABR the result of the United Nations de
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A man who knew
The project would give top-drawer American personnel a tiny portion of the globe where super-secret wea-
outsiders. by elrance of observance pons could be tested with a minimum the research-testing Plans for
were revealed almost in- some day they will have afcentre
a slagte sentence The Loading the Empire Lark had been forts--perhaps in five years, per- buried in a report of the Federal
Atomic Commission. It said: a long and diflcult process, as the haps In 20.
Commission Energy But these feelings are expressed Atomle ammunition had to be conveyed to
and the landing point from various parts only to a few foreigners mostly establishink proving grounds in the of Britain, and work was consider-Americans and Brijish whom they Pacific for outine experiments have known for a long time.
tests of atomic weapons." ably delayed by
Persons us to the atomie pro- severe weather, have Film producers in the United Further delays were caused by the To the newcomer, Batavia seems
gromme sal-the tests would be: #eakers containerspek umut the shost of the old East anything
have completely turned back the
"routine." These Kingdom are now adopting the discovery method of shooting exteriors from which gas was escaping.
the native India Company might well be sources insisted that
determina- on the spot whenever a subject
standing behind the chairs at the behind the project was a The enable
much 115
a proving ground not calls for il. Influenced ammunition as possible to be dis- Harmonie Club, chuckling as each tion to provide a
to foreign
observers or to probably by the achievements posed of, these ships were stripped bottle grin or pilsner Ucor 15 open
Interested American "spectators."
The Commission was mum on the Britain's documentary of anything at all superfluous, and opened In prewar atmosphere-As- of
location for the project concerned. the school, they believe in authen all useful equipment was salvaged, sociated Press.
Scutting charges were fitted and
One pogalbility appeared to be new US. mandated 1stands of Marinhas, Marshalls and Carolines
group Many islands of this virtually uninhabited.
nf
chemical
Navy. in con-
to
of
ticity. Recently they have sealed by the Royal Transport FREE MUSIC
sent production units to all junction with parts of the world, with results techulent officers. These charges that they have contributed were arranged so that they could be touched off electrically by the mos- largely to the international
ters from boots at sale distances rise of the British film.
from the ships.
LIBRARY
but
the
are
tested
Ru
Now Deadly Weapons The Commission's second binnnuși
that Music lovers. students and repert made clear
major They are making full se, too, of
12 Ships Already Sunk
atomic programme professional musicians all over portion of the Britain's lovely countryside, her
new and more deadly atomic weapons rosts and her varied scenery, and These two ships bring the total of the United Kingdom will short-would be devoted to development of the photographle possibilities are vessels so far used for this purposely have a free library service at least until such time as Con- Indidated by the places where the since September 1945 to 12. A total at their disposal as a result of tress approves n. world control plan exteriors are being made.
of 72,330 tons elemical ammunition
the creation of the Central acceptable to United Nations inem- Brighton, Sussex, is the back- has been disposed of by this methed.
Plans were made for the Thorpe Music Library.
Presumably, it is these anticipated ground for two new pictures-one
This scheme has been made pus developments that would be in the Columbia-British
Bay to take the place of the Empire production
Lark at Barry in start the leading of ble by the generous gift of Mrs in the Paelle. One hint already has The First Gentman." adopted
Winfred Christle-Moor, from the stage play.
a further 2,323 tons.
who gave been given to Congress by Glenn, L. £10,000 for the purpose as a Murtin, aircraft manulacturer. The centre--of-operations the Animunition-with-which these memorial to her husband, -
Emanuck told:
Senate committee recently famous Brighton Pavilion buift by ships have been loaded was in the Mour, distinguished
composer
and that work was proceeding on a dead-. the Prince Regent. The Cineguild hands of the Service departments and inventer of the two-iterboard plano. ty atomic cloud. unit has found its ideal location spot was at dumps in different parts of With this fund as a nucleus, certain
w
The US. Army, too, has hinted at in Derbyshire where at a 16th cen- the United Kingdom. It could not be gifts have already been received, new-type "Buck Rogers" weapons, tury manor house, Wootton Lodge, disposed of by burning or neutrali
the late Edwin and the library of
also The Commission's robert scenes are being shot for "Blanche ini
sing and it would have constituted Evans has been acquired on generous stated that: Fury," a murder drama based on a menace had it been dumped over terms Westminster City Council has continuing at a rate fixed by Pre-
from his widow.
1. Production of atomic bombs is beard, as the poisonous contents Scotland recently played its part would have escaped. resulting in offered to house and administer this sident Truman, upon the advice of in providing background material for damage to #shing grounds. It might Central Music Library in the p-the armed forces.
3. The Commission means 10 winter scenes for "Anna Karenina" even have proved a danger to ships mises in Charing Cross Road which
they have recently nequired, and maintain and increase the present the Alexander Korda Alm starring or a menace on the seashore, Vivien Leigh. Sir Ralph Richardson In order to ensure that it would which will be opened in the late pre-eminence of the United States autumn as a Music Lending Library, in atomic weapons," until "appro- Scotland, too, provided background bees sunk, it had to be landed into comprising the 25,000 items which priate machinery has been establish
the Westminstered to ensure that this activity can be already in material for the lavish Technicolour ships which were battened down Library, together with the newly-relaxed without endangering, national
picture "Bonnic Prince and scuttled. This work was under-formed Central Music Library. The security." Charlie" for which a unit of Lon- taken by the Sea Transport Division. City
3. Internal atomic security Chunell has undertaken this don Film Productions is now con- of the Ministry of Transport.
rvire for musle until such time asgulations have been reviewed Linuing work at Shepperton Studios.
1 music centre. comp: sing concert effectiveness, und changes for ha, library and all serv'eis. can be "greater security" of atomle secrets
have been made.-United Press. -
Joseph Shearing's book.
and Kieron Moore.
erind
nel return to the surface once it had
By Galbraith CHECK YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
1. Name the theatre in London. built in 1589, where the plays of Shakespeare, Ben Johnson and con- temporary playwrights were pro- duced.
.2,
What is the difference between high and low humidity?
3. Is the island of Guam north
or south of the equator?
4. Name the
Uunished Symposer of
5. What' type of boat originally used in a regatto?,
(Answers on Page 1
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. BOTTACCHI
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him.
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"Well, son, my only advice to a newly married man is to atlok to your decisions--that is, after you've asked your wifo's advice!".
White, & pieces.
White to play and mate in two.
Solution to yostorilay's. problem:
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cartoonist. (3)
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2. A word of ittto account to ra
that which is pungent. (5)
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ing to sailors. (7)
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5. in a way thero's a limit to tan,
3. Who would have thought that
be had the makings of a god.
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15. This tie a two-aided. (3)
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