Storlet Lola Albright, in has becn Hollywood,
novel title by awarded. a the Gagwriters Institute. They've nominated her the girl who can put any old grouch into อ beiter humour, and she's
Eot a silver cup to prove it.
Sunless days bad for hay-fever
A doctor
who spends much;
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1950.
THE ROYAL FAMILY
-accessories.
before the fact!
LONDON.
HOSE charming accessories before the fact, the Royal Family, won't be able to listen and dance to certain American songs any more because the companies which own the copyrights are finally taking legal action.
Pacific" tight.
Papers
ROBERT MUSEL
tells of the dilemma of bandicaders, who face a Royal Com mand
on one hand and a lawsuit on
the other.
valuable domestic silverware In London this 70-year-old Baroness Lady Burton, a baro-
The royal family is not But in music trade
was printed a lotter ELLING alone to blame for a situa- recently
from the bandleader of the tion in which many fashion Bagatelle Club, walch Princess month: ahle bandlenders have been Margaret frequents, promising Burton. driven to various under-never to play, the South Pacificne in her own right, married banded dodges to obtain the renga again and to pay tomores in 1932 Major W.E. Mches.
Sugar magnale Lord Lyle, for any infringement of copy- absent because of its from music of such restricted
the Society of Individualist= ns "South scores
Juteheen to Sir Farnel Bonn, and "Kiss Me Kate."
Esot Bournemouth redvering from a revere chill.
Models in motion
WAX
women's garments in thou windows, are now being madɔ with hidden cledrie trolors 10 But the pity of the West End way the arina and waist.
1 accompany
poll musie is belog lavished only on the
who bandleaders --
face the the next step? gilemma of a Royal Command
THEIR DILEMMA
has been Society in general
Technically the prople who demanding the latest American
prad bandleaders Into ploying slow tubes. And the smartest? banned music
models, share the gut night clubs have been heeding afthough no one has ever clari-
-
he requests-even thougle fed the point before the law. Alegal for this music to be play- ed until the copyright Owners) release it.
TUNES GET STALE
Chappells and its subsidiaries, much of the which control musical
and revuc comedy muste coming here from Amer)-i ca, don't want the musfe played nafil the shows themselves open bric for fear the tunes will be state even before the Arst cur- | ||3 koy 1,
They had a baltie to prevent
of his time Aying his privatee score of "Annie Get Your plane thinks he has hit on the Sun" and "Oklahoma" from ason why hay-fever sufferers this fate, and sent out frequent warmers to bandleaders about
Kate,"
fuel worse in damp weather. "South Pacific" and "Is Me
Dr Herman Heise has made pallen tests at various level and In all kinds of weather during fights around the Milwaukee
orea.
He puts a sticky slide on the outside of his plane and checks the pakten cefter veter n microscope after he lands.
Bu
un the other.
NOT
Himmler thought biggest counterfeit plot on record which would have had
up the
WRECKED
BRITAIN
to display HEINRICH Himmler, Adolf Hitler's police chief, almost pulled off the biggest counterfeit plot on record. Had it succeeded, it might have wreck ed Britain's currency during World War II.
cleme one hand and awsuit Your private property Jong ago. London Transport
extended the tube to Newbury Park Land adjoining the old LNER station was taken to make a new and safer appro ch fem the road.
Now there la notice there: "This forecourt Is private property."
Fish made
this stamp
that aparate A FISHERMAN runs into the handlender to do? The King sea and easts his net. Fish and Queen like the Cols For-are so plentiful e entehes them ter score for "Kis- Mo Karin shallow water, without a bout. This is one of the exciting and have requested such
fing new et of numbers as "Faithful In My scenes in a Fashion?"
mps from Barbados Belfish kular-cane colony hi the West
nales.
10
Here to what he has learned: Princess Margaret likes "Most polten particles rise inner to the songs from "South the atmosphere to a height of ace"-"One Enchanted Even-bados in more than a mile in the dayliming" is a favourite of hers. but are cloa: to the earthin early morning hours."
But the
all railways and′′ belonging to them are now the public's property,
"Yes" sy London Trans- port. "But paining purpose of the notice is to distingith the forecourt from the puble fool-
the
it is to local authority. prevent unlawful trespass."
The plot was spoiled just in time by the Allied march notes found their way around the world and are still Into Germany. Even so, some of the forged pound sterling turning up, five years later.
MAKING
BANK
Himmler hit upon the forgery scheme us the bel means of
A providing pound notes for
EASY
ON THE EYE
By JAMES B. SCOTT
Germany's renta and at the ramo time breaking Britain' currency.
Italian infantrymen march past the review- ing stand оп Rome's Via Del Impero during the fourth anniversary of Italy's becoming, a 15,000 men republic. More than
of country's armed
the forces and police participated in the parade which celebrated the event.
A
His stare
can knock
down vase
EMPIR
CABLES
Let Anger Day be Wash Day
JOHANNESTURG. Fivo thousand police, with Slen guns and tear-ges bombs, mounted
on radio trucks, clood by in South Atrien's cities when coloured workers began their
Day of Anger."
Troops and naval detachments, hidden in barracks and waco- houses, were ready of the feared flash points of the 21-four strike on the Rand and in Dur ban.
A call tad gone aul to 2,000,- 000 worker to refuse to do any work for white employers, in protest and mounting for 13 Rited In Rand May Day riots.
They of "postiolent an- Ke also protests against two Actr newly rushed through Parliament: the "Ghetto Law." which segregates black, brown, and white populations, and the an-Communist "Gesial Law," Justice Minister C. I. Swart promised:
"Police will protect People of all races who wish to work."
White women and children were alvjstd_ta siny at bomb behind barred doors, the women to do their own Monday wash- Ing.
Chilly chinchillas SYDNEY-Frank Hoberts, of Sydney, left seven pairs chinchillas in England the day war began.
ת
ok
Now he wants to bring fem to Australia to start £60 fur-breeding farm. But the Gov- crnment says: "No. Your chia- chilas might wreck the £250 million Snowy River hydro electric scheme."
with rabbits."
to Lol erosion,
Says C.T. Ashton, Agricultural MAN who apparently Department official!!
They He assembled 14 of the best
was able to knock down mint cscape and choose to live on Just the vegetation that engravera and printers
an object such as a vase by would lend among Nazi Germany's slave labourers staring at it is being sought change the Snowy River water- and put them to wark engraving by research workers who shod, and imperit the power plates exactly matching British path adjoining which is under A energetic 61-year-old £5 to £100 notes duplicatia lost trace of him during the scheme. Looke what happened
business
man whose water-marked note paper und war. schooling went only as for preparing matching iniis as the sixth grade is busy ($100,000,000 Altoge her giving banks. around the worth of are country a face-lifting. THOUSAND fland on a spec.al mailing list of the Board of Tv de. They have asked, for nation each die the official reissors are used on inport re;
Two
TWO
Wasto?
printed.
The man Is a German and £200,000,000 lives somewhere
(ime) were pound notes
that nt
Embarrassing
Descendants of a pair of tab- bits brought out by a Dutch- Australia £120 near Munlehman now cost but the experimenters sid they million a year. were reluctant to make public h's name for tear the publicity SYDNEY: Britain's touring Him:Cr plamed to drop might frighten him away from Rugby League team was almost them
OVCE London from urther sindy.
embarrassed when Australian planes to flood the capital Seth in Paris and supporter Francis Newman with. worthless paper money.
In
were interested in presented them with a huge the mon before the war and in bunch
chrysanthemumis, Before he could carry out he both places he was nole, they Francis was really embarrassed plan, selling
American, British Soviet troops
when the magistrate later ned him £7 for picking them from Germany,
a public park.
marched
sy, on several occasions to dis- Intoulace an object placed well out
Joseph Bernard Gander's first- profession contact with banks was 38 years ago when he began peddling tellers' cages, lobby desks and other bank fixtures. One Lun lon me have seri me the late 17ants received While making his
the
Mersing ands, Gander got some Import from Branch. One din with cheese,
with cruto bi peradors which wouldn't wear to a cave in Austris, then de-normally rapid breathing.
The plant was moved hasti'ye is reach by geing into a the other
nort of trance mark.d by stroyed along with most of the] atmosphere was forged nots in an attempt to tions were taken at the time to all wrong in those days," he re-keep the plot secret, calls. "People thought the pre- sident of a bank was doing them
It is the first set from Dar
The new dola-riy currency, This was introduced in several West Indies lands armes. the publife to unify exchange rates and so ave blandiy claimed to have speed trade."
d.co..knowledge of the play- of the restricted music-
Up to now
He said the run warına the nir -during the day and as the warn alr spirals upward. the pollen portfeles are drawn away from when the Royal Famity were-ish colonis's re The earth.
the requesters.
America,
Part-set of rix costs is. fil. nways worth buying.--J. A. A.
Here
We
Come
"A typical examine of Gov- ornment, waste," comment the perfumery "We are A Company."
1.
--London Express Service)
Eight selected King's Scouts give out with an exuberant farewell to a bagpipe accompaniment before salling from Southampton, England. They were en route to the U.S. to represent Brilain nt the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scout movem ut in America. The camp is being staged at historic
Valley Forge, Fa, and 50,000 American Scouts are attending.
K. O. CANNON
| DON'T DENY IT,
LITTLE CATS
| JIGNOR; 1 ANDWY HAVE DIG EARS.
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SIGNORINA: 1
IT BEST FOR ME
TO COME WITH
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YOU TOMORROW. THIS ALONE-
THE PLANE!
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MIND!
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
AH, BUT I DO MIND
1 COME! TILL NOON
TOAIDAROW THEN.
BUONA NOTT{
CONFOUND ALL WOMENĮ I GET WHISPER OUT OF
THE WAY AND IGATS NANOTHER ONE-IN
APY LINK!
iz parisions about banks and their
dll.
"The bank
a big favour if he let them talk
to ham for a ninute.
G
labourers who had
Hinunter executed most of Intr said the banks--with the stave their gloomy, forbidding appear-workel in the plant. Some es- aure that seemed to tell the cus
caped or were libented by the teiner, "Transact your lines allies, however, and told the and get out"--were 'way off the story. beam.
Business Grows
Although elaborate preenu-
ensure that there was no fraud. the Brillan
experimenters, members of a private study troup, call they wanted to re- peat the tests with the most modern electronic detection quipment.
BLOCKED BY RAYS
In one prewar instance
in
of
Migrant record
CANBERRA.—Australia
nounced a
in-
record immigration or 91,500 people in the last six months, most of them produc- ion-drive workers from Britain.
R
THE SPEAKERS COOLED OFF
The burenu for the combating Paris un Infra-red ray feld was DICH Riemenschneider found of faldtentions, branch of set up between the man and the way to cool off six panel the internation price commis-ohjeet he was trying to dieptree, sperkers who talked too long. son with ha.quanters at Tu Although he did not rccred The panc! WON nswering The young.
foresighted "busi-i Hague, bas bec assigned the in mucking it down or moving questions at a convention here, res man decided some changes task of trying to remove the it instruments showed he had Each member was taking ive to wire in order. Arcordingly, he so-called iamler
noles achieved ʼn maked disturbane. 10 minutes to answer to each organised the Bank Building from circulation.
in The Infra-red ray field,
question.
The audienco became nd Equipment Corporation of Anton
Adler, head of the That, I was decided, could restive. America here and Ventually bureat, says that the notes are have begn, cowed by some force Riemenschneider ordered had come 400 persons working sent into has bureau by police "exteriorted" or pylted out by bowl of ice cubes and gave each for him. They Included en-
from all over the world. Mostly be man.
spenker a cubr to hold while' gineers, decorators,, salesmen, they como from Europe. ke French, physlela were deeply spenking. The average speaking construction men, cl, acsald, but some fler back from interested but the man time dropped to one minute, countants, ♫ public relations as far away as Argentina and claimed the experiments were
ཎྜts a variation of an old staff, a sculptor, a muralist and
Australia.
wearing him cut and went back Egyptian custom," Bald Ile- wood and marble workers;
"Heaven knows how many to Germany. He was plaguing menschneider. The Egyptians milions are sail in circulation," to return when the war broke made speakers
stand on he said.
legt.
Then Gander began a ration, welde tour, selling bankers on his idta of a "new look" for banks; no need of a "homey," cheer- tut pince of business with real customer appeal.
Ji Bank Building and Equipment Corporation began remodelling what Gander terms the "orcat, marble barns--- home and buggy banks.”
Now with rome 2,100 banks either built or remodelled by his Arm, Gander has figured prom!- nently in much of the bank 10 United
construction
Skies.
A Gander-built project doesn't tolerate such bank building standbys as bars, heavy chan deliers, Greek temple-like ex- teriors (ho uses as little marble and bronze as is possible), high ceilings, dimly-lit tellers' enges and cuspidort.
Bars Removed
A Pana, Ill., teller once com- plained to Gander that the bars around his cage made him feel depressed. Now Gander's banks have the tellers working behind counters that reach 13 inches at the top. The teller conducts his business with the customer thiough class windows instead of bars.
By carefatly blending eye- pleasing colour schemes with brightly-lighted interior layouts, Gander says his banks have a "Hving room atmosphere. Nor are the bank rexecutives cloist ered in-drab, 'secluded quarters 4040 any more. Gander has them working in mcdemised, air- conditioned offices out In the open where they readily can be Geen and contacted by the public.
Gander says. bis "new 'look" project has mot with "almost 'universal, acclaim since the war because "bankers are learning at just that cheerful quarters are not only desirable, but are a competitivo necesalty.” 20
put.
Moving From No-Man's Land
SECTOR
Д
one
Shopkeepers in Berlin carry away their showcases and other belongings after the Soviet Sector police announced they would have to leath or gel East:si: Berlin permission to stay. Jurisdletken of the building in the background ha been disputed sincs' the city'split fato cast and west sectors, nas it is located on the city's dividing line.