THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1950.
BURKES LANDED GENTRY
COMING OUT AGAIN..
Snob appeal
makes them fight to get in
By GERALDINE HILL
LONDON.
VILLA in a side-pocket of
piloting.
And right — a close-ups.
THEIR family seat may be a tripper's paradise ufurbird 11. Donald Campbell,
but Britons are busy polishing up their an- cestral trees in readiness for a new pedigree hook.
More than 4,500 British families hope to get their names and mottoes inside the red and gold) pages of "Burkes Landed Gentry"- swark pub- lication outlining the history of any British family of social note.
The book will be published in the autumn.
Marbler
1
MATTHEW LaMERE, 13, a
American native
Indian boy from Great Falls, Mont., is shown practising for the 26th annual Na. tional Marbles tourney in
Asbury Park, N. J.
Short Quirks
Not Much Celebration
Mr and Mrs. William Bartow ;
urtes, 89 and
hively,
celebrated
wedding
85
how-
their anniversary in pital beds, huth suffering ho fractured hips.
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EX
Blinking Doesn't Pay
A British family can get into the book provided it owns more than five hun- dred acres of land or ean trace its pedigree at least 125 years.
to
" is left entirely to th decide who is eligible and who
THEY
ARE TAME IN THE WEST
By CLAIRE COX THE wild, wild west is tame that getting NO
horse meing has be come respectable.
even
Is ant" said Leslie Pira, mariag-their prize
ing editor of the 124-year old publication,
Time was when two Kun- match would toting ranchers
stock ponies in a race sind do any thing short of shooting each other Nothing was barred.
1) win mot even
Ping heads a claff of 15 who the we of dope, and individual are busy checking, and restaken were as high is $10,000. checking family trees for
That sort the But not any Biore.
when the first time since "Burkes Landed of thing went ost Centry was Just published in custom-built 10-alton he came 10. The Thes are strictly on *the level,
with women even
of Jorkeys riding some
the
1937.
montt
1:si alx In the they have malled letters to British than 30,000 more
their families asking for pedigrees.
fu amazing how every Budichman wants to by a Nor- Conquerer mel every Sentanan a Robert Bruce" saal I'lite,
il
NOT MORE THAN 12
"There are not more than 12 British families living who can trace themselves back in direct line to William The Co- ructor in the eleventh century- but there are thesunds whe think they can" the gynaelogy expert sald."
ITLE:
*They're
WIZARD' HAS FIRST
TRIP IN 28 YEARS
THE OPERA STAR SAYS
Calories?
never heard
of them
By GAY PAULEY
AN opera star may get by
LONDON DIARY
IJOLLYWOOD fim hero, in high places. I can recollect Cornci Wilde, new Into no occasion when the Insurance London with his phitl num company have had to pay. blondie wife, actie:s Patricia
PRO not wanted Knight. Both tre to make
PPLAUD the good sense of The Wildes brought a great the borough councillors of stack of luggage. Cornel had Brentford and Chiswick,
Alus.
a dozen sulteasen, is equipped They have decided to dis- for all weather. Illa wife hing peace with a public relations two complete summer and officer. winter wardrobes.
Tory members of the counelt,
For flying the Abantic she led by Alderman 11. S. Howard, wore a dark grey pin-striped outvoted a Socialist proposal to tailored suit with a large pearl 81 the vacant post. choker necklace, Above her Alderinan Howard estimates buck kid shoes was л Kold a PRO and his staff would cost unitie cluin, quarter.. incl the borough between £4,000 thick. Her black bowler hat | bnd £5,000 a year-an extra 2d. was trimmed with a long, pale on the rates. bige feather and a large pink View of the Tory councillors Is that the newspapers give the council ali the publicity thut s view I commend to other boroughs and to Sir Stafford Cripps
rose.
Kippers-by request ecessary. Thin
The Wildes are here for a fortnight, Mrs Wilite will be
| sight - seeing not buying
ntiques before flying on Vienia.
were realistic. From the
to
я л
Ponnics for Bevan?
Hier husband's first thoughtsNING HUNDRED people went
to Queen Charlotte's Birth- - air-day Ball at Grosvenor House the on May 10. Tickets were £2 ordered 10. each, so the organisers re-
crived to total of £2,250,
Dort he telephoned to
Savor Hotel and
food here."
"I hope you have plenty of Who gets in money, now
he said. "I have A that
Queen Charlotte's 15 a State hospital?
with a falsetto note but breakfast. not with a false torso, opera singer Marie Powers says.targe oppetite."
1 report that Comel Wilde Profit from the ball is about Ming Powers, whose torso is WAA well satisfled with als
£800 this year. This is about far from being falsetto. makes
'special request" breakfast: £100
more than last year; but a professional plea
the grape for
Trailt, kippers and it is £1,200 short of the pre- lumpners the and some other orange juice.
war average, epera singers wear.
Mrs Wide had bacon and Look at the figures of the eggs. great toomen singers," she said,
could nit "Why, you
on their bosoma.'
That's why she never diets, al- though her in a constant batu to keep the pounds whittled within reason.
Ball black market
HERE were 1,800 prople at THER
Out of the £2,250 takings, the organisers had to pay the Hotel 1 38, d., a head (total: about £1.057), Other expenses them: £140 for dance bond; consumed about £300, Among charity ball at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshi
£24 55. for cabaret; £25 for heine of
1001. cake (cut into 200 the Duke and Duchess of
pleees). Stationery, printing, Marlborough, Ticketp
| poslane, took many pounds. "If I diet," she explains, "the
33. each until the end
Before July 1010, when the frst thing affected by it is not
£4 45, after that. State took vacal May, and
over, the Birthday ix my my waistline
All were sold by the beginning Ball was one of many netivities chords. Those I can't afford of June. have acting up. So I just cal
by
hospital's Demand for tickets continued, appeals deparment. Now, hos- then work off # black market for them nitals cannot themselves appeal extra pounds. Calories?
began to operate. Between
£for funds: Never heard of 'em."
8. and £10. 10%, was
beingganised by asked for a ticket.
Friends.
factOR 28 years Leo Villa has worked with the Campbell team in its attempts to shatter world records on land and water.
all I want and so hobest, in
that horse racing has become fun for
family. the whole eluding the horses.
Come Sumley morning. ma parks a box lunch, the family loaded into the station wagon, i
rad the pile ranch
home cheated out of a day of oul- ching rest, is put On 4 trailer and hosted to the track, on a ranch outside Tucson,
I
But he has never been, in a racing car trial nor in a speedboat test.
he
Weight's Her Secret
Until last week. Then over smooth Coniston Water in the Lake district Leo sped in Bluebird II. at 110 the miles per hour.
In a
in tiny space
thel cockpit Leo squatted watch-
ing the instruments as This stamp is
bont shot over the water,
ן!
**
ushure
he
ANOTHER DERBY
the "Churchill Whed visited Downs" of Arizona during a grinned rather sheepishly said: stopover on the sangural flight "I thoroughly enjoyed à‚“
Donald Campbell, son of the Pine sand many hard-pressed of American Airlines' new $110
Malem. piloted couch late Sir
the to transcontinental Britons had watten in
bom!, Said he: "Leo must be Ese part
in the book although service.
wizard, he has done something hugh taxes had forced them t sell their lands and throw open their family mansions to public.
alr
desert,
Here on the
ranchers
enctus-studded
the
"One old man told us Sir Ieft Stafford Cripps had
II.
him with twelve verey. was in the hook before the war and had a good record
put him we have again," Pine Bald.
KO
In
יקניין?
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to to this beat--I don't know what celablish an annual sweepstakes jit is and improved its stability as ble as the Kentucky Derby, famazingly. the 'reakness and the Belmont Sinker.
The 10th amal speed trials
Not record
"The man was to a record attempt. We shall do that in
nt St
'Tin
cust of
the
own
so the ball is or
an Association of
now
Quern Charlotte's is grouped with the Chelsea
Friends serve the
contralto now
London's new church Money for research starring Broadway hit opera HE Queen went to Chelsea "The Conrul** won't give OIR in lay the foundation stone spital for Wonen, so the As- with her exnet weight.
o! Columba's Church secution of "Just say I weigh youthful-Sentland in Pont Street. iy," she said.
church, blitzed งา People guess her at around May 1941. was the garrison
rhino of the London Scottish 5000 proni Regiment, of which the Queernance The singer keeps it from cois Colonel-in-Chief, For this ing higher with an exercise re-reason, net because she is her- at Queen Charlotte's, for which zimen that'd have ment women elf a Scot, the Queen taking pay. And it will be used to the Ministry of Health refuse to flat on their backs from exclose interest in the rebuilding.
150.
haustion,
In two. Each hospital will get a share of the Birthday Bail's
This money will be used to independent research
Finally, the new euch will provide flowers, books, periodi-
cals.
Christmas delicacles and have n restaurant; there will
"luxuries" in be a meeting ball with dance her
than the cinema
Projector and slage: and there will lan n Cock
Any
the day
weather
her indoor, favourable you'll see Central Park, pedalling bicycle at a fast clip. She keeps lower with lifts
In her dressing! room for Bul
in our honour quick spine whenever she feels and
and world championship quar-works-when the new pro- PARACHUTES opened
ter are being run now,
But they're not going to do ; with thoroughbreds. That's sy to the dungaree-glad who roll
About one Thesand familiesmulionaire spatenton
Imely stock that's
will not be eligible for re-entry their own cigarettes. "They're
this year's "Landed Gen ry. using the lang of them have died, other gen here since 1800 and never are untranyable and soins have and bu replaced by
bothered to answer automobile.
Pine tetters.
SNOB APPEAL
the
peller is realy"
into il roller
greater *cbundance
Welfare State permits.
How many people who go to Queen Charlotte's ball realise their money 1,065 to Siate. Gaiety roundabout
the carved white Port- Queen stone which le like one.
was setting in position signal-owned hospitals? Or walk
midtowed the start of only part of the in Manhattan
rink and building.
TF the Chiety Theatre la pull- there's Miss Powers whirling! Liceties given so for cover the blue sky over Crete along with a collection of tech miy
ed down and replaced by the 80B-seat huil: tiny fees, what happens to the will take one and a half to two London County Council plan for London Erpress Service) and the German attack be- gan. For 12 days the in-
years, will cost £70000 total estimate of £150,000. vaders were held by British Empire and Greek troops in
Wimbledon rain Jone of the war's most des-
perate battles.
Insult to "The Few'
#
now
per
No Idle Moments
Each week also she crowds in
a little lee skating, swimming,
Just 312 cuse
of the
insure
large tralle roundabout at the approaches to Waterloo Bridge?
Pla
the
In County of London
it appears na Island, at the corner of the and Aldwych, would
towling, fencing and gymnasiumIMULEDON, see of many naps
compizainity does not work. She's up at six every Then a tow of reinforcements | morning and ta
notice at L Strand uff walking to East rain.
money would be push the roadway right over TIRER Sears ago the Southern gave the Germans ruccess. Mest church before most people hare afeded 17
Railway made an imagina of the Allies escaped.
lul their orange juice. She's a refunded if there was no play. The Galety site. This plan is
is argued, there is no
In abeyance, but still stands Now Greece honours the men devout Catholic and
attend, it
Point in insuring against rain. es future policy, ve gesture in honour of The
They
Lupine Lane, who has been wite fought for her Bamed
with this mass daily.
The lawn tenals champion-
trying to restore the blitzed locomotive the Battle-lamp adorned with the Bogs of design of
New
PUR exercise ships are
jointly by the class. of-Britain
The toeo- ritam, Australia, and
theatre, tells me he was oscured club and
when he first bought the Quiety orange trees of the day she gets a massage, lawn Tennis Association-
that the olives were named after crack Zealand, and an outline at the hasn't done its job, at the end all-Englanci
scheme roundabout IAF squadrons and men who Island where
Tie Joint organisation Lake
only four or five fatne 10
blossom again on the battledleki.
Have dinner with her some fout years ago.
policies against several would take Face-value 1.000 drachnue
feet of pavement and would not There locomotives were the
Inne and you'll know what she frontingencies that would Incan ride of the Southern alway. (about 68.): perforation 13
tes when he says, love the cancellation or curtailment wuch the theatre itself. Jnder nationalisation? They by 13 price unized is. 6d.
If the championships. J. A. A.
These include ook dirty, neglected; as it they
such things an Her taste runs to lobster ther- re never cleaned.
(Londos Express Service) midor and rich desserts,
disturbance or death war, civil The
HORSES NOT DELICATE The horses out this way "Most of them write becausaren't delivate he thous in the few GRA
of the nob-appeal. It wou test and far west.
They're do for the neighbours to be ing
what is known as
the
book and not themeve quarter horses-imas that run Pe le
the best when the distance hmile to a Nealeht stretch of Pate paid "families fight like in quarter of a mile, and man! cats and degs to get in Burkes. how they can sto Some evin write attack,ng heir. neighbours" pedig vor tab. most factful."
D
J. C. Bankatmi blinked yes whil driving down If street and next thing he knew; he was in an ambulance. He kit 4 steam rotter unit before le could get out of his car a pickup! truck had piled into the rear of
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Willaz
#
Plenty to Read
DOAK-
Burt Bought a ripy at every magazine 01 sland when his wife gave birtu to a kon in a bospital. The bil came to $13) but BON AUS care. He said he di...n't wont his wife to Het hos ra the hospital.
1,2
3:
Crime Nipped in Bud Recente cuenta waste no time with moon:PARATM, A man was arvested in the act of putting up his litt. The hadn't had a chance tozlar operating wet. He was charged with icit distuling of whiskey.
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Would Tax Babies
Harel banrd Karnal district north of Delhi
We have
Weekdays the racing have to work for their hay.
ponies
Southern Region of British Railways do not deny that these engines tire hardly ever touched with polishlug rag. They admit that some of them may Never have been cleaned since they were sew,
Four excuses.
What
the Southern Berion's explanation? They
say:
There a shortage of engine-cleaner boys.
-Locomotives arc
worked
so hard, there is less time for cleaning as they stand in the
sheds.
3-Engines are rarely clean- ed except when they go in for major overhaul, The Battle- of-Britain class were designed specially to need a minimum of maintenaHQE, This means they have hed no major overhaul, therefore no seaming
4. Under the revised nationa- lised railway colour scheme, like the locomotives,
have
food."
Exclusive
the
Care
For
Marc
to India.
Lane has now sold the guiety
-(London Express Service)
113
fer revenue, the of commissioners
DEBUTANTE for 1950-Mis: Jacquelina Bromley, 18 (left), other with friend from Tanganyika, Miss Anna Knight, as Merchant Scaman Bromley works in a Mayfair antique shop--party for her wat been re-painted. The Battle-of- has asked for permission to levy given by her mother, Mrs Donald Whitaker, at their #fereford Britain class keep
30-cent tax on babies,
Square home.
class
their
old
green colour.
K.
CANNON
T-HO USB, LANNON,,]
| NOT A CHANCE!....)
POLEOIY MEJ
YOU MADMAN}}|
YOU'RE THE ONLY
ONE WITH A PARACHUTE |
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
HOLD TIGHT. [NO PARACHUTESĮ) S'LL¡ BEJ IF |CAN GET.
CARAMELLA..
AND MIND THAT
OPEN DOOM!
WHAT CAN
WE DO?
CONTROL OF HEN...
WHAT A FOOL TO WALK
INTO A TERAP
LIKE THIS?
A TRAP SIONDA?
OF COURSENHOLLIS NEVER INTENDED THAT WE SHOULD METURN FROM THIS TRIP!.. AND MAYBE WE WON'T{}
Four-month-old Marc Ely will never have to worry about finding the family doctor. His parenia: Mir
and Mrs Lloyd Ely, of Los Angeles, Calif., both racevel M.D. degtros frum the University of Southern Califorala: "They mei while nitriding the same anatomy class and were married during their pre- medical
treinlag