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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1950.
ACQUIRED NEW FACE TO FOOL GESTAPO AGENTS
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"For Heaven's sake keep it to yourself, but i gather there's every reason for belicuing that the Russians have bred o tringless chicken /
Into a London hotel bedroom which a woman had just left walked
a pale, thin man with flat-lobed ears and a powerful jaw. A boy, aged nine, stared at him, then went out, found the woman and said: "Mother, a strange man is in our room." She led her son back and broke the news that the stranger was his father.
This was one of the prob-| surgery, lems
To prevent German spies in Winefryde Eleanor
Britain Jearing his secret, she Mary Hutchison had to left their ran and daughter in overcome after plastic sur-their Glasgow home and went Kry altered her husband's to live with him in London un- der an asumed name, changing
face to make him unrecolher own Identity as much as
nimble to the German Gus-she could on the train journey. tapo while he was working
Her husband greeted as a secret agent in France matrited in bandages. in wartime.
Mrn Hotchison told an Inter- viewer she had been married to Jarnes Rey Holt Hutchison for 16 years before his face was altered in 1914.
After serving as a lieutenant-
TRICKED HIS FRIENDS
her
Sald Mrs Hutchison: "When the bandages were removed his face was swollen, bruised and
dreadful.
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NEW FILMS
IN THREE DIMENSIONS
NEW three-dimensional
A movis
made
its appearance in Holly- wood. According to those who have seen films made images look avolded places where with it, the colonel. French speaking might meet people who knew just like life. Hutchison helped to organise theme.
"For weeks I was haunted by Maquls underground resistance when France surrendered In fear that I might give the game away. Each morning when I woke I used to say my new appearance be-name over and over again to razne known to the Gestapo, imprese 11 no my mind before
surgeons gave starling the day." hrm permanent disguise before wws parachuted behind enemy lines in France four days after the Allied Invasion in 1944.
1940.
Because his
THERE'S AN London plastic
AWFUL LOT
OF COFFEE
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BRIDGE FROM NOSE
In three weeks, turgeons had clipped his ears, removed the bridge of his next, straight more,
She would not tell what the asumed name was, even now.
The new discovery is report- make Lana Turher's to
puts curves look curvier, and
focus from the everything in
close-up to the star in the extras in the background.
of
One cameranian, with two Academy awards, Hat Mohr, can estimates that the gadget
producers between 25 In Britain he had to get used | and 30 percent in the cost to being "looked through" by each picture. Less 1ght is airl friends who failed to re- needed,
་་
and stara no lunger have to have chalk marks 10 cognise him.
show them where to sland so they will be in focus. Film will
After his safe return from France she had the problem of explaining hier Tusband's
shots.
A questionnaire circulated moulded a plece of thigh-lone changed appearance to his own not be wasted on
to ble small, round chin, transon and daughter and to
people forming It Into a jutting jaw.
who had known him. She
widely amongst the 2,000 students of Bristol Univer- sity has revealed that the Average abdent. has only seven houra leisure a week. Most of these are spent in drinking coffee,
The secret agents with whom fold them he had been dis-
Into France the figured by a motor accident, he dropped
second time never knew him as his earlier self. As additional precautions, ITutchison were Planes on hts resĥnguri nore and changed his handwriting
Antend
fo
out-of-focus
THE INVENTOR
This was one of the secrets Inventor is a gaunt, balding which Hutchison, now MP for refugee Russian nobleman Glasgow
Central, meant when Stephen Garutso, who developed he told n group of Conservative the lens after 25 years Di Purty-women:----
-work- The quiz was divided Into
"Women whether she thought
are supposed seven categories--the pub, dance he would have fallen in love
gowin but I never found one hall, the Chureb, the company.
with him if he had had his who violated a secret. They are of the opponite rex, coffee,
from the time they close in many more ways than theatre and cinema and answers new face
h schoolchildren,
Mremen." ****** | Butelion sild: "I haven't the Blue-eyed, Bit 9in, Hutchiron still play's squash at 56. He in
The great advantage is sup- fond of horse-riding, writes poetry, has composed operettassed to lie in the fact that only and sings baritone.
lowed that first-year students t spend
more of their spare timeaintest iden.” drinking coffee than doing any- thing else. In the second year
She raid he had obtained her they turn to dancing and the perinizion to love the plastic company of the opposite sex, and
in the third it was back to coffee again-in
before.
biger way than
Ko to
Second-year students Church noire and to the theatre less than they do in the first or
third year.
The quiz
mastera comment: H-Tow
"There are returns showing
curious n!] what certain
kinds of people. never dio. No student after his or her
third
year apparently ever goes to a dance; no engineer ever goes into the har, or out with a girl to the theatre or cinema. No girl of any year or Faculty ever Coes into the barl
"Aman: the Facult'es' heaviest drinkers ar the
students, Hghtest are the gineers who don't drink' ".
IDA NOW
en-
BLACK MARKET FOR BABIES
a. child
Babies are being sold for up to £150 on adoption blackmarket in Britain. The National Children Adoption Association, which claims this, has begun a wide probe into reports.
Casanova Was Among The Timid
Secretary Mrs D. C. Plum- mor said: "Babies are being bought and sold in this country like ordinary merchandise.
Associated Press of America, which Investigated the lens, re- ports that cowboys almost gal- top out into the audience in two Western movies made with it.
the ordinary theatre screen Is required to show bus made with the lens. Characters on the screen not only appear life-like, but the audience can see just as well from the extreme side
they
the can from
Seats centre,
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CONSCRIPT
FIGHTERS
LAUDED
Brigadier T. W. R. HM,, who fought terrorism in Malaya until he recently re- "A baby ny fetches up to turned to England to take 80 and a baby girt up to £150. charge of Normanton Bar- "We have no doubt that is, racks, at Derby, paid strik-| and equally deplorable adoptioning tribute to the efficiency and determined heroism of
practices, are common In Bri-
A club for timid people tain." had opened in Paris.
Mrs Plummer sald her Asso-the British conscripts in the But
ciations had sent a report on jungles of Malaya, when he the president, Andre Kras-pevate adoptions to the Home addressed the Nottingham- sowsky, was too shy to me.
The Association was urging shire Branch and speak meet the Press
legal checks on private adop-scas League. tions, at present unrestricted.
IS IN THE CASH about it.
Ida Lupino has proved that little pictures can make big money.
Her independent film. "Not Wanted," daling with unwerf mothers, cort her £65,000, has grossed in the US, a'one almost £450,000 in trter five month,
Her reed woman, "Never Fear,"
the story of a dancer stricken with polio, cost £70,- 000.
Producer Howard Hughes has given her n deal for three films, so Ida won't have to raise her -own production money.
Said he, through a bashful fair secretary, who spoke throurth a half-opened dear: "You'll find
of the Over-
He said he was of the opinion EMOTIONAL WOMEN that the National Serviceman today was "every "Young mothers who have rent abroad
nursing it as good as and, perhaps even out about our aims in our pros-bebten in steend-rate
the homes often have peclus."
babies better than, his grandfather in
1914 and his father in 1939. snatched away fro
from them. "They are taken only a few "I have
from no mandate birth and hours after
before the powers-that-be," he added, the mothers have realised they "and I am not trying to put have given birth.
The pamphlet told Hirnid people that they should not be shy about joining the club as sotne of the wockt's learing men and women had been chronleally timid, at least in the earlier part of their lives.
The list included Christopher Columbus, Victor Hugo, the great lovers, Don Juan and Casanova, Napoleon, Catherine the Great, Clemenceau. Tito, Sacha Gultry
have
Guch
over propaganda on their be- "Matrons in there places hond half. I am telling you just to people not what I myself feel about these over the bables checked as suitable adopters. young lads now facing up "They include women who magnificently to terrible condi been refuged children by tions in the jungles of Malays.
rociclica mille adoption as ours."
"I want to express my intense She suld most of the women | admiration for these National were middle-aged and often in Servicemen. They feel that the an excitable emotional condition. The Club des Timides, open to
work that they are doing is sexes f all ages, willi
GIVEN IN PUB
neither understood nor appre- "I know of a young provide a library whose chief
woman ciated by arinchair critics here six-months-old at home.
scen But I have the spot profits in works will be concerned with who gave her
to a a percentage
them at work. I have had overcoming timidity, publish s baby away on directions," she said.
ro-weman she met in a pub. uven newspaper, giving minence to the views of limid people and
"We made Not Wanted' at the height of the Hellywoodt 1inancial depression, when hanks wouldn't lend an inde- both pendent producer a dine. To organise dances for timid people,
get money we had to contract
out a
1y
of
own "However we'll still do pret-
well out of it ourselves. By ourselves, Ida means her self and her husband, Collier Young.
Gossips are still trying to separate this pair, "but it won't work,"
Ida. "We have RBYX our lights like anyone else but, At the moment, they're all business, not domestic, battles,"
"These mic ores who have lived life of solitude may find among our timid club members, the soul mate for whom he or
he has so long sought."
"The woman who took the them under my command and I child and been turned down by know they are doing a very good nur Association foster mother."
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suitable job.
doing that for "These lads are now Mrs Plumner said every child avaliable for ndop-things In. Malayan jungles that tion in Britain nearly 300 couples | Regular soldiers did in the wanted it.
Only 12 of 190 couples were jungles of Burma during the war and are doing them just as grounds of age, health and financial position. well."
The club's headquarters are in the same building as the French suitable Association of Bulldog Breeders.
K. O. CANNON
IN THIS IS THE LAST CRSEK ADAD, STIRRUPS WE SHOULD GOON BE...
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SEEING THEMSELVES The three survivors of the five marines and one sallor who raised the flag on Iwojima seo a statue of the scene in New York. figures will be cast in bronze and placed by the Potomac River, near Alexandria, Virginia. The scene was made famous by a news photograph.
GERMAN 'FOOLS' HOLD CARNIVAL - Masked Rottenburg representatives parade at Radolfzell, Lake Constance, in the annual pre-Lenten "fools" carnival
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