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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948.
PHOTOSTRIP SERIAL-No. 22
HOW A HOLLYWOOD STAR IS BORN *
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.00,
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SPENCER KATHARINE
TRACY HEPBURN
ROBERT
MELVYN
WALKER DOUGLAS
camera pans at the Variety Club all-star show of shows, it in scen that sweet little Catherine Brown is right in there with all the stars. As the Variety Girl, she has .now arrived!
Kay Mand, Cass Daley, William Holden and Joi Caulfield shine in the show of shows. As the niccry-go-round goes round. star after star comes into camera'view. There goes Veronica Lake on a while borne. The merry-go-round continues revolve. Finally, it comes to a stop. Then all the
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed for Lois Lords.
Send your questions to Lois Leeds.
"DEAR LOIS LEEDS"
"Dear Lois Leeds--How Jong! ould a bioch wuol dress be? It is simple but dressed up with jewelled buttuna. 1 am 30.-T. E
Fourteen inches from the floor is the newest "longer" skirt length for women of average height.
"Dear Lois Leeds 1
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The new Dark Tones In stockings tend to slenderize the leg. With. longer skirts, dark hose and simple shann, every woman will And that
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dresses? They are about sixteen inches from the floor when I have on my fats.
I am eighteen years okl.--T, G,"
Flats and at-heeled shoes do not
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stars step forward toward the audience as they line up on the stage for the ble finale-names like Lake, Ladd, Lancaster, Scott. Hope. Crosby, Lamour, stage at Cooper, Caulfield-all these stars on the the same time with more to come. "The Blonde”
YORKSHIRE NEWSLETTER
where is she? She has faded out of the picture in favour of the Variety Club's own Catherine Brown. She's there with the stars at right, and in the spotlight.
(To be continued tomorrow)
Miners Go All Out To Achieve Record
By B. C. Dunthorne
In the first full year of nationalisation of the coal industry, Yorkshire niners narrowly missed their 1917 target with a grand total was' 38,400,000 tons raised, a million tons more than in 1946.
The miners knew just before Uteboats and alreraft, and vitamin Christmas they had to make an chocolate for Far East men, prisoner of war parcels and the American all-out spurt 10 achieve the forces. More than 9,000,000 tius of, figures set them, and in "bull" dried eggs were packed in the cream week (the week governing the department; 2,500,000 tins of house- Christmas pay packet) records hold milk, and more than 4,000,000 went by the board right and -tank mine fuses were dispatched. In addition, the firm housed 300 left. South
Yorkshire, alone clerks of the R.A.PC., and the carit- raised more than 747,000 tona box mill was a main supply depot. in that week, and the aren was for the R.A.S.C. only 180,000 tons short of its final target. Every effort was made to reach it, many miners giving up the Inst Saturday of the the year to put in a special extra shift. The miners celc- brated Christmas with a feeling of a task well done.
coalfickls.
It was felt |
from having
The Mayor of Hull opened a wooden Church on January 16 to replace the Danish Church destroyed by bombs
wht. The new church has been sent from Denmark.
Pit Worker To Actor
Henry Moxon, who was a 22-year- fold pit worker just over a year ago,
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In Yorkshire. however, there was to appear at the Strand Theatre, undoubtedly some feeling about the London, in Noel Coward's "Family"
He was released from By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY way In which the National Coal Portrait."
his work
electrician ship of the Board figures decide the champion Manvers Main Colliery on medical TODAY'S hand looks impossible, went from amateur doesn't it? Yet I have a letter that a better method of deciding the rounds, and
nt Mexborough devised tramaties
to the from W. II. Weber of Clarksburg, leading coufflehi should be than the one which, at the moment. Dramatic Art. He will be playing hand actunity was denit in
London Academy of Musle and¦ president of the West Virginia
Bridge Association,
that certifying prechuties Yorkshire go, well with the longer skirts. Ifven an outside chance. This does with Fay Complon, Betty And No Conte lo wenr them don't not seem fair to the Yorkshirerunn Strand.
Davies and Mega Jenkins at the rubber bridge game at the Elks Club lengthen your skirts, You would
In Clarksburg, on Sept. 8, 1947. who has reen targets in his conlfeld only look "forlorn"!
constantly relent because of the high
Buy Thompson, whe Thickleton About once a year I receive a telter Aium BriGA
giving me a hand with 13 of one aignsweight enangan, putput achieved.
inting trie
Roverto sult. Several years ago I published Italian, Pruet, 24 Harring, un Prazumn
a hand in which all four hands were They Have No Pub
16, for the European dd.
dealt 13 in a suit. Miss Annice Baker, niere of the it is hopen fnr 15th Anniversary clerk to
Rotherham Borough and with Mint-Jacous, ut Now present. I m tall and like very West Riding Magistrates, opened the | Samart things. What do
you sue- New Year by Biking her first court Williams, Üle noluve. rest MRS. HOLM."
ns a Magistrate's Clerk.
"Dear Lois Leeds have gray hair. My husband wants to give me Jewellery
የኒ necklace of Gray
Jagger Green, a Yorkshire village,
pearls of three strands or a set of has no pub, so its population decided! Silver neck chains, with bracelets to
match,
"Dear Los Leeds Should I keep on_my_long_gloves-at-my-son'w dig reception in his bride's home - BEWILDERED MOM Don't be "bewildered! Relax and enjoy the party.
Wear your gloves, but when you vat or drink reinve ! Start
Simple Isn't it
that it was time the tack of facilities: for liquid refreshment on a communal basis was alterest. It has raised £400 and hopes to open a social club this year.
The Great Yorkshire Show is not to be revived this year, for the Rtoyar Show is to be held at York. However, plans are already under way for the 1949 show, which it has been decided will be held at Lurel, Wakefield.
Mr., J. Crossland of Wath-on-! Dearne, has been appointed hend- master of Flaxley Road, Selby, m I succession to Mr G.D. Watkins, wh|
"Dear Lois Leeds-My sister, It is leaving shortly to take up years old, is to be maid of honour at education appointment in Ceylon.
my at-home wedding. I am wearing | white Jare with a veil. What should
she wear?}},"
with
War Work Record
One of the best kept secrets of the
Pale Blue lace would be lovely! war relating to the part played A wreath of fresh flowers,
food production by lot. long streamers of satin ribbon, unition and Her bouquet should be small an Rowntree's Cocon Works, at York, simple. If the wedding is in the late has just been revealed in a brochure. foll she should wear a Gold-coloured The
was turned gum department taffelt and a Brown velvet poke are lanyards
into a fuse-filing factory and made. bunnet.
and exploder bags. The chocolate moulding department produced iron rations for ships, rafts,
By Galbraith
COPK, 1947 BY KRA BERTICE, ING. T. M, KRO. U. 1. PAT, DET,
21-17
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Solution to yesterday's problem:
JQKR8, K-Rið; 2, Q-RS und 3, Q--KRI, or QRI mates.
Rupert and, the Big Bang-29
Bingo gazes the last of the quibs.
"Good gracious,” he says. two of the three I gave you must have been of the wrong soft. How careless of nie. This one would go off with a bang, too." "But tell. me, where did you buy them ?" in- sists Rupert. Bingo grins, didn't," he says. "I made them myself!” The little bear stares int imazement. "Is that what the schoolmaster meant when he said You were learning science ?" he crier. Well-er-no, not exactly,” 14ya Bingo doubtfully.
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The bluding on this haud is us strange to me at the deal
Few players with the West band would overcall simply with one diamond. East's bit of six diamonds certainly was co-operative. As long as his partner had bid diamonds he was. bol going to bother to show the spande sull
Did North suddenly realize what the distribution was when he bid seven hearts? ·Certainly East ren- lized it when he made the seven spado bid,
North's double and East's redouble
both aro subject to criticism, North should have had some idea of the freak distribution, and East should have known that if South and just one diamond, and if North had just one spade, the seven bid would not be made. A diamond would be trumped.
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