THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY
1950.
EPIC
IAL NEWSFRONT
JUBILATION AND DEJECTION Two Tottenham players (7 and 11) walk away happily after scoring. while the Sheffield United goalkeeper and another defender lle dismally on the ground during a football game at Tottenham.
POINTS FORE AND AFT-Schiaparelil's "House of Cards" silhouette is of red velvet embroidered in rows of coloured sequins, with jacket and skirt cut and wired into points,
OFF THE SET- Dorothy Kirsten, operatic star, wears a net over her hairdo between scenes of her first film, with Bing Crosby, “Mr Music," now being filmed in Hollywood.
NEW LORD MAYOR-Sir Frederick Rowland, Lon- don's new Lord Mayor, greets well-wishers as he drives from the Law Courts in a ceremonial coach after being sworn in.
US. NAVY CHIET Adm. Forrest P. Sher- man, 53, former Mediter- ranenn commander, new US. Chief of Naval Operallons succeeding Adm. Louia Denfeld.
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NEW GERMAN RADIO NETWORK-A new ultra- shortwave transmitter is being constructed near Frankfurt, in line with the new German expansion programme. Broadcasters hope to set up a network of transmitters throughout the three Western zones.
SHE RIDES EVERY MORNING — Gerlic Ogle, one of the few exercise girls on the track, works Blue Camellia under the eye of her trainer. Bernie Rich,
at Fair Grounds, New Orleans.
KED CROSS HEADS-Gen. George Marshall (left), new president of the American Red Cross, chats with Basil O'Connor, former president, at a Washington dinner in the latter's honour.
ENTER,- LAUGHING--Frederick Brisson and his wife, Rosalind Russell, and Gregory Peck and Mrs Peck (1. to r.) arrive in England aboard the Queen Elizabeth for a Royal command performance.
HAS CHRIST ROLE- Anton Preisinger, 37- year-old innkeeper, has been chosen to play the lending role of Christ in 1950 Passion Play at Oberammergau,
'many.
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PLAYING ALL COMERS -E. D. Boguljubow (left), 1949 German chess champion, plays 40 opponents simultaneously during fauls of the German chess championships at Darmstadt.
NUNS SERVE Franciscan nuns serve at the refreshment bar of the Buerger Theatre in Munich, owned by their Order. Proceeds help to rebuild war-damaged Franciscan centres.
NEW SECRETARY — Oscar L. Chapman has been appointed Secretary of the Interior by Presi- dent Truman, succeeding. Julius A. Krug who resigned.
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