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RICHARD Inegaskis
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„OPENING TO-MORROW. •
C CRANKSER in CECIL B, DEMILLE'S
THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL
NICOLOR with Laraino DAY:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1947.
Politics in Paradise!
To get them in the mood
IT'S ALL DONE TO A BACKGROUND OF FILM FANS AND FIREWORKS, RUM AND RUMBA
HE
narrow streets Havana echo with the specially olamorous.horna sleek proces- mounted on a sion of the latest Imported American high-powered cars. Havanians flock to the cinemas. Just now it is Laurence Olivier in "Enrique V." and "Simpatico Jaimie Mason" in "El Hombre on Gris." A casino flourishes.
crowds women
men-bet feverishly heavily on the Jai-Alai gamea -the Spanish version of rac- kets, played at jet-propulsion speed in a 220ft, floodlit court
The
with
R. M. MacCOLL
flies to a hospital in Cuba, whore 1,000 delegates from 63 notions completo the operation thoy bogan in Switzerland during the summor of this year...
ASKED
id now for the business in hand
Geneva blunder
goes into its last
HAVANA.
the
Cuban
official where I might find LMr Arthur Bottomley, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade und chief of the British delegation to the Inter- national Trade Organisation's charter conference.
act...
of The medley of races you see in a Havana street, ranging from Congo ebony through to white, is parchment furlously and excitingly re- produced in music. The cur- rent, smash-hit for dancers is "Penicillinn" (Penicillin), in which a fow bars from Mon-
"Senor Bottomley is in the delssohn's Wedding March make an appearance,
hospital," he replied. "I'm sorry But even in musle politica lurk in to hear that," I said. "Which
Cuba. Except at one strictly specified fiestus each year, hospital?" "Orthopaedic Hos- also drawn
The main job of this Havana con- the Government has banned the pitul, senor." "Was he in
conga taxi smash ?" "I do not know."
(attended by 03 untions, ferenco African deep-throated
"Well, what about Mr D... compared with the 18 which turned drum, main Instrument of Cuban
D. Clark, the public relations up in Geneva) is to ratify this charter. was thought to be a little too officer ?" "Also in the Ortho- if this is done there must then fol-
wholo low another year or so
BR
long curved basket
Inced to the player's right hand.
Bling Scarlet-bereted bookies
into betting slips, tucked sliced-off tennis balls, at bet- tors in the top galleries and boxes.
And if sugar, cigars, and rum are big business, so is the rumba. Last year Ameri- cans paid one famous mass instructor in the United States £3,500,000 to learn how to wiggle correctly-and the vogue is growing.
orchestra.
or two
useful for tapping out messages in
Д
popping of fireworks day and. "Heavens!
An
epklemic?"
ડૉ.
While those tarlif agreements were being worked out in Switzerland last summer, the draft charter of an In- ternational Trade Organisation was
"Leave out that 'prior approval clause and you'd make the charter just a joke," said ono delegate fol- 'lowing Clayton's own line.
Number Two-sung is Russia and her six missing satellites. Some of the nalighs nt ivann are all out for stiff penalties"ovon #orictions against Russia and Co., even not though their only offctice is Joining the club.
And snag No. 3 is the question of voting power. The small countries think it would be a good idea for voting to be on a one-country-une- vote basis,
size of country no ob ject. Britain, and America say that will not do. "Is this democracy?" counter the small countries, "Does the poor, feeble man get one vote, and the rich, powerful iman get 207" Mr Clayton contracts his white docs this. It really eyebrows at of indivi- say, Liberia is to be as powerful in seem a bit absurd that the vole of
And yet.... the world's commercial councils as that of, say, America.
America Take Cuba again,
hos.
Jungle telegraphese in the back paedic Hospital. The
British delegation is in hospl- dun ratilleations by parliaments and
congresses all over the world. country at Umes of tension, Except for constant exuberant tal?"
Ten sovereign nations are not at and some of her "satellites." Several times Estados Unidos-all in the hos three countries usually classed as found that would shoulder oven Cuba.
satellites Czechoslovakia, Poland-are here.
night, Havana seemin "Also the delegation of the Javana. Seven of these aro Russia been hoping hard that some other
Next rear there is
election in
Π
The tenants
the conference committees sitting pltal. Mexico-in the hospital, in the rooms of the Capitol Canada-in the hospital." Building have had their delibera- tions disturbed by jeeps circling the streets outside playing am- plifted gramophone records boost- ing this or that candidate, "Bit of a nuisance, you know," said an English official. "Nothing like that in Geneva." And now we'll face the conference
NOVELTIES-CAMES
THE
NEW ROULETTE
351-
itself.
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber ·
A two minutes past seven stood one at care ther
rope, with electric thermometers in
Professor Deridergast up
their hands, making
of a
thick
calculations. hand
1
prouched the Moonbeam; he Mr Roy Hoplite put his left
and eyes, counted 42, was dressed in a grey suit, and before his
writing on frequently paused to acknow- Jolted down. a nole
there crowd watched The the pad.
activities with cheerful ledge, with lifted hat,
mysterious cheers of the watchers,
insolence, occasionally shouting rude the five pioneers Two minutes later he, was joined remarks. Then
But country-any other country-can be
羅
Finland, small portion of the Marshal Plan
It would make' responsibilities. things look so much more attractive. to Congress if one would.
10
The ITO charter will purport draw up a gigantic set of Marquis of the Queensberry rules to enable nations of the world to trade with The one another in thoroughly
gentle- NURE enough, they were.
None of those be- hospital, due to a certain matter manly fashion. of Internal Cuban politics, has been low-the-belt tariffs from now on.
forlorn standing.
and patientless And look out for those dastardly Em- completed two years pire Preference rabbit punches. since it was
What this charter will do Inter- ago.
"Now it is triumphantly tenanted.. national amity, and how, or if, it Mr Bottomley dictates his letters will work when once the harsh laws from the handsome operation
of economies and standards of living theatre, Mr William Clayton, of the
United States, composes radio ad- are in question, Is anybody's guess,
dresses in the head matron's room.
All very antiseptic and brave now worldish, if it were not for the tired old-worldish faces from Geneva,
The snags
LREADY there are some ominous What are they up to now? What snags taking shape. One of the their biggest has been produced nt brings 1,000 delegates and secretariats 3,000 miles westward to Havana by host Cuba. Cuba, like the world's rumba headquarters.... Indla, is desperately anxious to bulld out of senso?
up her fledgling industries.
But hers, if you except tobacco, is economy. Cuba knows a one-crop perfectly well that one of these days the demand for her sugar will slac- ken. She wants insurance against that day.
The compere THIS is the last act of the Geneva tragedy, Mr Clayton has emerged from semi-retirement to compere it. He is, unfortunately, the man more than any other responsible for the smashing of Empire Preferences at Geneva.
Cuba wants to reserve the right to be able to put up import restric- tons (tariffs, that is, but tariffs is a tactlens word to use here) without "prior approval."
TEST YOUR TASTES IN
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
don't like practical 4.
presents. Wrong. True,
Sweets are too transllory glit.Wrong.
a
A
There were wistful glances at the Argentine. Then someone had bright-Iden. Why not get a sugar contribution from Cuba? But Senn-
boss, had all the tor Jose Casanova, the local sugar they were all "No. The future too uncertain."
answers,
The new baby
And 15
WHOEVER 1 right about the YY fulure, the fact is that for the present Cuba is doing very nicely. Her last year's sugar crop netted her £150,000,000 worth of those seatco American dollars.
By January 14 next his con- ference must be over. (The Cubans
with the have indicated
greatest politeness that they will need their capital again by then). Mr Ciny- ton will know by that date whether he has triumphed once more, and whether his latest baby is as bounc→ ing as its European elder brother.
But bouncing or not. It will get Just across the best of treatment. the street from the Hospital Ortho- paedic is yet another hospital-the "Maternidad."
• Check theac
present- giving axioma-true or false. Then mark yourself up on the: answers. Maximum possible; score is 90. Over 76 is excel- lent; 60-75, good; 40-60 1. Women
40—better. fair; under women like it to be implied that But if you've taken every effort shuffle your Christmas gifts. they are fairytale princesses, but "to give mother a thrill, take they also remember the times.. care she doesn't re-donate them keep the peace in two rooms In So, if you have sent newly wed to some more deserving case when her mother-in-law's house. Her Cousin Kate a door-mat for the you're not looking. You should husband might chuckle when he and a coal scuttle, you have thought of that, and so can hears his two boisterous boys
..18 only recore
pedestal, ... shook it from ita Certain way of earning a halo
hall
Score
A
re-
but approve
square aluminium saucepan la to pnek up a decorative, box and mother-in-law wouldn't
of the mess on the carpet. Such
cal in cooker space, scores ......8 lives alone down the road! She'll A woman prefers to choose
for Mother, that will be economi- give them to the old lady who choice would only mean......
A coloured face fannel and plastic toilet bag for
Mary
2.
low with pleasure
a glow
Sister come. So, too.
But
10
for weeks to 7
her own cosmetics—Yes. would harassed
If fortune has favoured 'you .5 probationer-nurse Cousin Joan.
with Aunt Margaret's special pow- Both gifts sco
12 der and
then foundation cream, Women, never say
"No" 10
your vigil in the confec- you can score if You tionery store could perfume-Partly right.
But it you are. donating a no- must be careful how you distri nothing better than
lipstick, you bute the stored-up. treasures of false-toothed Grandma, then four name
chest, or the your beauty
plain score. is.. ittle bottles you snapped Don't mix your types,
by Sir Archer Tatham and Profes prepared to get into the rocket. sor Alban Trowie, both of whom Little Bo-Pest,
surprised. at their cordial seemed
louder.
cheer AD-DY, why do the Un-i-ons, try reception. At 7.5 a
mean. theto force ev-er-y war-ker to join arnolinced the approach of
them? Docter himself, la carnest conversa tion with Mr Hopilte. The Doctor,
long noticed, wore a was
green everall and abstracted. He paused 10
For ond reason, to stop out-aid- ers wor-king hard-er than the mem-
straw. hat and senk vers of the Un-i-on.
to the men who were, leading the
and then
But, dad-dy, sure-ly there in
na
produce caramels for
powder or
up.
5.
Picture
.Ni.. record
Far safer to give 拉 compact frames are popular Designs are limited, but this will with Service or ex-Service carn you for group photos.-Wrong. open- Ex-Chief Wren Pam wants to pathetic imagination, and meant.7
8.
Bath luxuries: STOF BUTI please.-Right.
to
A bottle of "Orchid" for air. Mary, and the "Woodland Bau-
Suc, cecapo now and, again from Sar- for quet".
sophisticated
vice ..Nii
associations. A large frame Better do a quick change-over Lavender water for teen-age Sister Poggy is the proper intro- duction to beauty's path, and will 10
score you.
Sheepskin pulfa indicate sym
to establish her fellow-decoders But do bo careful. Lilac-scented will score you only *********** bath salts
A more Individual frame to
tako
office.
to give Uncle Tom's.
staff zure knowledge of his.
that pleture of her/him in civvies whereabouts wouldn't do last yene will gain you...? .7
...NA
But any kind of toilet soap But top marks go for giving the would ring the bell for every face-
Junior Miss
washing member of the family; surround for her latest and Bearo heart-throb. Count:
10
3. Handkerchiefs are a safe bet. flim-struck turned harm in do-ing more work that
-Not alway They should, claborato last of the stores,he body of the some-ona. else. I thought we all had
be in the luxury class.
alertly and rocket with n small silver gayel. to work our hard-est, at the pre-ont Ironical applause #reeled this time.
hat.
which changed
Last preparations
+5
C
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witeit
10%
Jowellary is always acclaimin cd-Right, Providing-yom ree Only. If you have chosen squares 6 Flowers are extravagant and
not in keeping with. these member her- type.. heavy with lace for overworked Yes, but, well-you see-oh, be manoeuvre,
Aquamarines, for an monogramed set times.-Wrong. Aunt Winnio, a Iaughter when the. Doctor fell over quiet, boy,
florists' Crowds, round
cream-skimmed! places haired for Brother Bob; and a head-scarf stanchion-wire and crushed his
size for yourself can you score. prove how flower-hungry we are, mean
HORVY, chunky necklaces for But if you have run out of Flatter Mother with a pot of duf-
Sister Julic,
who time
fodils, and score
......10 diminutive Imagination, patience, and
better way of und can And no
itke doesn't like: cows or games, would Remember Father would score: Garden seeds for next spring's be wrong, How
spending money, then your would
stands at....****
...Nil digging and score another 10 But if the cheque, book, can.
jewalita von get from.
carefully before in stralued, sufficiently, a: Howover, Elizabeth has, used: But think up all her stock then credit your- vesting in that lovely pink eyein jacket spray, would please all ages self with
THE Doctor then dipped his finger. in a dish of honey, held it up to test the wind, and lioked it with evident satisfaction. Professor Den- dergast erected a tiny steel triangle, and lay down, full length to look at aamall.cloud through it Sir Ar- chor Tatham and Professor Trowte
NANCY That's That
SLUGGO 15
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