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Irving Berli
BLUE SKIES
Technicolor
Bing Crosby
Fred Astaire Caulfield
Lyks and Musle by Irving Berlin
Produced by Sul C. Sagal
Billy De Wolfe
Oka San Juan,
Directed by Stuart Beliser - A Feromeunt Picture
• OPENING TO-MORROW
QUEEN'S
Sho had him put in a full day's
work-AT NIGHT!
Rosalind RUSSELL
Fred MacMURRAY
"TAKE A LETTER,
,
DARLING"
ALHAMBRA
"ENEMY OF
WOMEN"
(The Private Life of
A Paramount Picture
Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels)
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1948.
NOT A REAL GHOST –JUST THE BOYS DRESSED UP AGAIN
The weather
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America Today:
WOMEN PLAN REVOLUTION
By C. V. R. Thompson
NEW YORK. HE American woman, already the most
pampered on earth, is still not satisfied.
THE
It is not enough that her kitchen work hans.
·been cut, almost to nothing by gadgets which do her washing, ironing, cooking, and oven her dishes.
الحمر
Sho wants to abolish the kitchen altogether.. In militant speeches at a Washington feminist rally women called for a domestic rovplution, 'Just na sweeping as the industrial revolution, to end for all time women's subservience to man.
"The American home," sald Edith Stern, a career woman. "Is obsolete. It is the only part of the whole American economy where one per- son has to do everything.
"The endless procession of chores is utterly distracting and unnecessary. The mechanical gadget is just the old-fashioned spinning wheel in modern dress,"
Her solution-meals should be prepared in a common kitchen and delivered when wanted through dumb-waiters.
THE WAR between men and women was also being fought out in a suburban New York high school. Boys, objecting to the growing
puts a smile
on the face of Britain
Early crops, healthier people, and
by
a song from the chiff-chaff
GWYN LEWIS
LONDON, Mar. 15.
UR unpredictable, maligned climate has in the past five months showered benefits on the people of these istes far beyond the dreams of our super-planners. The mildest and shortest winter for many years has been followed by spring weather a fortnight earlier than the official date.
Of all the good things bestowed by these mild months, the best is an improvement in our health.
Influenza, a winter scourge, claimed only 349 lives, as-against-1,118-last year-During a normal winter in- fluenza deaths average 100 a week; they averaged only 20
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The number of pneumonia victims dropped from 6,436 to 3.748.
Deaths of children in the first twelve months of life dropped from 4,709 to 3.191. Babies born dead numbered only 1.829 compared with 2.224 the preceding winter.
Child diseases were much less prevalent. Menalos cast fell from 69,072 to just under 18,000.
Deaths from all ailments
totalled only 41,598
being pulled. in Lon-
Hickory, dickory ... The butterfly on the clock. It flow Into house ne Barnehurst, Kent, ar the end of last summer, and has stayed there ever dace. Now, newly alrred, it feels the Call of the Open... Seed firms are not more than a dozen rights
of frost.
don and the principal towns, dealing with a rush of orders, There were 59,407 in the winter of 1946-47.
The Ministry of Health makes this guarded comment: "It is -still-too early-to-strike a balance sheet, but so far the credit side stands high."
In the country farmers speak of cows already yielding extra milk, of corn crops "high enough to hide a hare."
Farmers' thanks Farmers, observing the large number of twins born to their sheep, give thunks and say, “It- is our blessed weather."
In Carmarthen a ewe created
a record by giving birth to five, lambs.
Hens are. laying at full strength weeks earlier than usual. Not for ten seasons
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March 31st.
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| busy.
And in the trees and hedges tho birds ure nesting and moting.
The chiff-chaff has arrived in parts of southern England-the first of our migratory birds, three weeks ahead of schedule. Primroses and-a-host-of other spring flowers are in bloom five weeks too soon.
Spring greens and salads are gladdening the housewife. New potatoes are. being imported. Qutdoor rhubarb is already
Wonderful Winter
What does an analysis of this wondertul winter show?
The Ministry of Fuel says that there were Inore consumers "of coal.
popularity of the New Look among their favourite girls, Appeared in Prince Albert clothes they had bought from a pawnshop and threatened to stay that way until the girls go modern again.
BECAUSE of the price alide it now £7 158. to feed a New York family of five each week,-in- stead of CB 15s. a month ago. VOUNGSTERS IN LOVE usually build castles in the sky, but Quotas were more generous, teen-agers Linda Estabrook and Ed- Arrears in delivery were made ward Cramer looted them. According good.
to New York police, who arrested It is also believed that the them, they rode the elevated trains housewife is finishing this winter looking for likely penthouses, usual- with more coal in the cellar thony homes of the wealthy, to rob. last year.
They had planned to marry, and Cramer said he had bought a wed- ding ring for £00. The police asked him to produce it. He said: Somebody stole t
Neither men not women appear to be in any great hurry to buy new spring clothes.
Lending London shops are doing little business.
Women say that
costumes and couts are better coupon value than dresses, which can be worn only
on sunny days.
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PEAUTIFUL NEW UNIFORMS for America's Air Force being held up by Chief-of-Staff General Carl Spaatz. The cap, would use feathers
to designate rank- swift's wings for a pilot-officer, a Popular colours
falcon's wings for a wing-comman der, and so on up. But Sportz, who Deftant reds and other vivid would have to wear two eagle's colours are more popular than wings, expressed his refusal, in motel shades. A woman explained, language he picked up. in Britain, to "Delicately coloured fabrics spend go around looking like a bird- too much time at the cleaners."
snatcher just expelled from the
Мел stood outside o Piccadilly Save Our Feathered Friends Society. hat shop staring al-bui nol
buying-bright scarlet velours.PINION: Columnist Earl Wilson However, the shop manager said
thinks Joe Louls' English tour Imperturbably.
Is a novelty because it is the first "Once they stared time an American has gone to Eng- at bright green hats, but they land to show off his due. wear plenty of them now.
"We have not sold a scarlet hat TEALTH; Sales
yet
nar are our 'rose' and old is in demand." gold huts doing well, but pale blue
of aspirin in. America are up 400 percent.
~PORTS: At 31 Ted Atkinson has
Water authorities watching
become the champion U.S. Our average rainfall was seven shrinking reservoir levels are jockey of all time. On 10,215 Inches.
five and a half inches the normal.
is worrying about drought.
mounts he has won 1,683 firsts, 1,479 The greater port of the country seconds and 1,204 thirds, collecting But it was á dull
winter. We has been without rain for nearly £1,250,844 for his employers and Mean temperature throughout whereas the usual average_Is_140
had only 120 hours of sun three weeks. was 42.9 degrees, against an hours. average of 40.9 and 34.3 last Maybe the reduced sunshine
winter.
explains why there were no great consumption
rate, domestle enal con- i
Snow fell on six days. Last in the home.
Seenemies in coal
winter we had 32 days of it. At any
It froze all day on only two sumption during the winter was days, there were 21 freezing 10,050,000, tons
11,073,000 tons, compared with
the previous far days a year ago. There were colder winter.
A camellia in bloom at Kew. April usually sees such
beauty, but this picture was sken fast week.
NANCY Somebody Else Is Going to Get Tanned
OH, MRS. SPUTTER-- LI BROKE THE BULB
IN MR, SPUTTER'S
READING
LAMP
BETTER PUT
IN A NEW BULB BEFORE HE COMES
HOME
BY
£25,000 a year for himself.
THE WAY
by Beachcomber
и
ONE of those earnest ruffians being so mu pl they hot banged
whose hard, high, mirthless Egainst our plank. laughter is like a cold bath in this oncolcabulility, please?" "Never simple game, ho yes, and what is winter has suggested that the mind," said Velvette. "Just play it moment you say you feel happy. as a game; with music, of course." you are happy...
"No! music, thanks," said Ashura. Auto-suggestion, as the stock- "My dear fellows," sald Velvette, |broker sald when the actress stroked "you can't expect a bullet audience his new mammoth car, and said shyly, to watch silent see-saw. "We was "How lovely it must be, Mr. Carson, not caring,"
sald Rizamughan, to own one of those."! The ruman's they watch." "Hall of them may idea la so false,
and,
go home,' moreover, One feels you've got the wrong added Ashura grandly. so nauseating, that the pen refuses den, its office. The nib jibs. The ink
Velvette.
one,
actu-er-definitely," sald
turns sour, and far away in a leafy where the tiny beer-crest heralds the approach of spring with Let the schoolmen settle it ̈
a cascade of allvern melody, some- body's old mother smiles through her THE mention of tin always
tears in one of those off-the-head hats which reveal, the line of the forehead.
Elchu-
re-
minds me of that question which has been so hotly debated for co many years, and never settled satis- factorily. Which would you rather be, a man with a small hat and tin whiskers or a man with a tin hat
HAVING decided to give the and small whiskers? The more you
three Persians another chance, think about it, the more difficult it Mr Colin Velvette devised a kind becomes to make up your mind. of Interlude which would leave them Both would need so much explaining the stage to themselves, "You re- to people.
he said, "the Incalcula
balty of things" "Do we?" replied. A hint to dandies
Ashura
Bulkily. "The ups and
downs. The motion of the sco-suw A stickler for rigid convention
is symbolleni of life with its
changes
The last devotee of the anat)
and chances." The three exchanged Has suggested tin trousers, to go glances.
"10 Mohnger,"
sald
with Karbulah, "ast, time we WAR of
By Ernie Bushmiller
I HOPE I CAN FIND
ONE
B
BUSHILLER WHO PUT A SUN-LAMP.
BULB IN MY ·
READING LAMP ?
The little round; wickerwork hat.
As Sm-0-0-0-oth
as black Velvet!
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