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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1948.
WOMANSENSE
A DAY AT ASCOT.... with the Princesses
ENE we ice beauty and fashion at close range as enthusiastic
Hrucegoers arrived at Ascot for the big event.
There was a shower just before the King and Queen arrived with the Princesses. The Queen was in n gown of cyclamen, Princess Elizabeth in yellow, and Princess Margaret-they are ple tured below-word pale blue. The crowd was a first-day record.
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Don't overlook sachets. They are Kipling wrote that smells are surer a blessing to the girl who has to than sights or sounds to make your keep a weather eye on the beauty heart string crack. He was thinking budget. Carnation is a lovely spley of old fashioned gardens, no doubt, fragrance. Mimosa attractive, so is sweetly florotied odours
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She Loves
Freedom
She Loves France
She Declares War On
Editorial Writers
BY PATRICIA CLARY
TOLLYWOOD ---- Madeleine - ""This man, writing in the paper
own war on editorial writers.'
Cross
recon-
Miss Carroll spent six years in Europe as a Red worker in war and in struction. Nobody can tell her now, she says, that because she's also..an actress she lacks political intelligence.
actors and *ACH in
"Nobody wants tresses to take any interest politien," she said. "I say that all Americans and 1 mean all-ought to take an intense personal interest national politics and world politics as well."
in
BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE
The Scarecrow Had Company
THIS
Can You Fly
-Some Sparrows Built a Nest in His Hat-
K
By MAX TRELL
is a story
that Christopher. Cricket told to Knart and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned- around names. He told it to themA late at night while they were all sitting in the play room, and every- one else in the house was fast asleep.
"As you know," "Christopher""sald,"
low players off as political dumb-has been feeling sorry for Jack bells. Who does he think he is?"
Miss Carroll knows her qualid cations as a citizen. They include. years on the fighting fronta of North Africa, Italy, France and Germany, taking care of American wounded. She held the hand many a dying soldier and cheered many another back to health.
of
She also holds a degree from the Paris Sorbonne and taught school before she became an actress.
She Defends
"I think actors are the natural victims of peope like this writer who
cracks EO wise about who should be permitted to think and discuss," she said.
Scarecrow because he was so lonely. Jack stands in the middle of the but the lille green stalks of the cornfeld, with nothing around him
growing corn.
The reason
Jack stands in the
Jack Scarecrow's job was to keep the crowe away.
cornfleld," Christopher Cricket went do not eat the farmer's corn. Well. on, "is to see to it that the crows
the crows don't like him at all; thoy sit on the fence, glaring at him, but they will not come any closer. And so ago, two sparrows flew into the nelther will anyone else."
cornfleld and perched on Jack's "Why won't they?" asked Knurf. shoulder. Jack heard one of the sparrows saying to the other: "Yes, dear, this is just, the right place!" And then, for the next few days, Jack heard them working busily.
Plenty 'Of Friends
Building Something
A Kite?
ITE fishing isn't modern Idea 'Aristotle says that more than 2000 years ago people engaged in kito ishingi They attached their lines to the cord of a kite in order to-drop-bait far away from the boat. The kite was also supposed to. prevent the big ones from getting: nway.
The natives. in the South Sea islands still carry on this kito dah ing. There is also record of a kito being used hundreds of years. BEO by Korean general to carry
a line across a river so that the first cable for a bridge' could, be drawn across an idea which was also used by, western engineers al a much later date.
Kites Used in
Ancient Coremonias
Kites
were ured in religious ceremonies in 400 B.C., wher Archytas of Tarentum ∙is sald to have invented the first air-borne contraptions. ris of New Zealand still use Song as part of a rituál which they sail a kite.
P
of these The Mao-
Kite
during
To boys and girls, kite dying is
we
"That's what I wondered," replied What touched off Miss Carroll's
Christopher. Cricket. "You'd think storm was a New York newspaper'
that Jack Scarecrow would have editorial expressing a low opinion
plenty of friends even though the of movie star political setivity. The
"Why not single out doctors, crows didn't like him. Oh, the but
"They seemed to be building some- just a sport. We make them, or political Intelligence of movie stars, dentists, scientists? Their work does terflies and the grasshoppers and log on top of the old hat that he wo buy them and then It sald, was "very, very low." not lead them to specialization оп now and then a fow potato-bugs was wearing. He couldn't see exact them. We practise to see how we
Mias
Carroll got her half-irish international topics of common in- would pay him a short visit during ly what they were doing because, as can help the wind to propel it up temper up when someone showed ferest either.
the day. You'd see them perched on everyone knows, a scarecrow can't her the editorial on the set of her
his shoulder or standing on the stem ever take off his hat. But then the now picture, James Nasser's "An out a segment of our people and kept in
"Anyone who deliberately picks of the corncob pipe that he always wonderful thing happened! Innocent Afair."
holds it up to public ridicule and smoked).
(but never
"Suddenly, just last night as, Jack reproach is striking at the roots
was getting ready to be as lonely as of our political system," she charg "No, it wasn't the days that he always was, he heard four little "It's so unfair," she spullered.
ed. "Our system is founded on the bothered poor. Jacks but the long, peeps. They sounded to him like four "Actors and actresses are.
right-rather, the duty to discuss lonely nights. There wasn't Just as
voices calling! Jack! Jack! Jack! profound, as a class,
affairs. Our ns editorial Public
constitution
Jack!" writers
guarantees the, right."
Says It's Unfair
This is an election year. I am an American citizen, although born
"And I'll tell you something else," Mias Carroll, paused for breath. in Britain of an Irish father and the said. "In my opinion the political a French mother. I love France. Intelligence of actors as I've known I love freedom and the institutions them stacks up flatteringly bcaldo for which we Americans fought. that of politicions themselves.".
Jack
his mouth
any-
·
thing he wouldn't have done to have heard some friendly voices near him when everything was dark. But that Hanld wanted to know..
"Where did the peeps come from?" didn't seem possible at all-not for
"They came" answered Christa- "Then," said Christopher Cricket, rows. Their nest was
pher, "from four little baby spár- suddenly smiling, "a very strange Jack's old hat. And so, from now on; In the top of thing happened. One day, a week or Jack won't be lonely any more."
and up, we try to help keep ours there longer than the others. It may be fun to make our own kites instead of idling
away the summer holidays. Or may be we start 1 kile-flying contest. In these windy- summer days.
(To Be Continued)
Rupert's Island Adventure- 26.
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The old professor looks at Rupert curiously as he scrambles down from the window sill and runa back to whers large sheets of the Special papar ate hanging up to dry. You say that water cannot get through this stuff of yours.", crica the little bear. Why shouldn't we make a paper boit just big enough for me?
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