The Voice Of The Young V.C.
The voice of a 17-year-old lad who gave a false ago to Join the Army and in 1915! won the V.C. in France, is to be heard again by Lon- don schoolchildren.
One of
was
E
the "Junk Shop" pleanings of gramophone records winch Mr H. Treiense played at a Fulham Gramophone Circle recital
ot recently recruiting speeen made in 1945. it one of the earliest examples of
recorded for pro- speech
purposes. The voice of Corporal Edward! 60 ime,
paguita
a thurt
Dwyer, V.C., of
* Fuller boy,
Me Trelease an now pre-
to Fulham sented the recort
Council and it will be given a place of honour in the Central Library, where in 1918 & bronze plaque bought by schoolchildren To commuteintrate was unveiled
Dwyer's bravery,
Dwyre, as a private in the 154 Surrey Ronk- sent, won the V.C, on April 20, mounted the parapet 15113
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dr trerel dissenyek a hetvy attack with On the same day he
left the trich, to under heavy tre, fer base age wounted com-
war send home lo recov.T from hi wout and while in England he made the rerarding. If later returned to France and was killed in action.
EARL IN A CHAIN
GANG
Exciting and sometimes undignified episodes in the life of the Earl of Cardigan, i titular descendant of the
commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava,
told for the first time in
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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1950.
Peaceful U.N./Vista ··
IN contrast to the heated discussions of the Security Council meeting at Lake Success is this peaceful view of the new UN building in New York, as seen from Welfare Island. About 80 percent of the work has been completed on the 39-storey Secretariat building and the sprawling meeting hall, and the first
limited occupancy will begin this month. (Acme)
LONDON
DIARY:
SINATRA
SANG
FOR PRINCESS
SONG
A MARGARET
OUT
OUT OF
OF CASH
THEY DRIVE CARS
GIRLS RAN Margaret Mitchell -NOW Wore Pants
Margaret Mitchell wore pants when she was a little girl and played baseball with the boys, a pen portrait of the author of "Gone With the Wind" reveals.
Her brother, Stephens Mit- chelf, writes about the famous novelist lu a special issue of the Alunta Ilistorical Bulletin. blished by the Atlanta - torical Society. Miks Mitchell
будн
fatally injured by n motorist on August 11, 1949,
of
Mitchell's, rerclicctions 1tre chikhood of his young sister recall several ineflents in "GWTW," which may have been Mitchell's hpired by Miss town life.
Readern of the novel, and the the motion millions who saw pieture, know the great tragedy for Thett Butler in the death his daughter, Bennie Blue, after a fall from a pony. Miss Mitchell herself, her brother faid, fell from #horse when he was 11 and "her leg was badily injure and her face was CLL,"
SAW GREAT FIRE
A later Cali, when she wit resulted in internal injuries sol forced her to give up horse- back riding.
As a teen-ager, she watched a great fire which burned out a section of Atlanta four blocks wide and 15 long. in which old family located the were home and 11 others owned by grandmother. Mitchell's Mand The disaster was described as the worst to Airike Atlanta Race the city was burned by Yankee troeps, a scené vividly portrayed "Gone With the
Wind
Mitchell said that when his old, she was standing near the grate in the parlour when dress caught fire. It was put Fout with difcully,"
her
PRINCESS MARGARET went to a party given by Mrs Geoffrey Russell, the wife of Lord Ampthill's heir, at her lovely home in Egerton Terrace. S. W. It was a wet night, but the Russells had transformed theirter was "aree or four years garden into a covered ballroom, edged by floodlit flower beds.
The Princess. who wore Bis written by the End and a full-skirted gown of pink was there in
of his satin with trailing roses at the waist, had first dined at by Mr Tom Dunkirk, his tong trek through a party given
NOW
entitled book
Walked Alone."
account
contain 11 cape from the Germans after
It
(2) One man, an America.
near sky-blue,
France, imprisonment in Spain. Egerton and Mr Billy Wall-Euties have
and eventual répatriation,
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120.
deali
Now she has a pin-up pie- ture of Monty in his tur dying Jacket. which he dedicates to
My Hollywood ngent."
"Thereafter until he was vid enough to go to school," he ald, rer mother dressed her pants, as it she were a little boy."
Virginia has a Scots mother, has spent most of her life In
Shr England,
tall nd twenties, her late
liner sufl.
HEIRESS TO MILLIONS
uiter heavy TVEN
bren paid, stender, in
The boyish influence of the Miss Gladys Yule will be
likes tennis, skiing, water thes may have helped her Her mother. Lord Cardin, who was then
and riding. She has develop into a sports lover, Second star guest of Captain wealthy woman. in subaltern the R.AS.C.,
won cups for tennis and broke end she played baseball with of widowhood. endure the utinest dixonfert, and Mrs Hussell was Frank Lady Yule, who died recently king
from her swimming record at 14.
Joiner children. and becking Sumatra. He sang a duzen songs, after 22 years wearing: ckcloth
Marinherited £9,000,000 Princess down in rat-infested barn eluting Cat
Loved Jule merchant husband. "if 1 France, in peasant clothier mal gars Un request).
You." from
"Carousel" The If the estate is still of coin- unshaven, he was once given a
Princess
Sinatra talked staff car by a Geiman ether for some lift in
15 minutes. major.
He left at about 2 on, but the
The Chancellor, Sir Stafford ¦ the Irincess stayed till four. When be was crizelug
familiar will be On Cripps, was held by the
Despite i Fashion notes: (1) Pyrneen he
in dealing with the Erin for refined to the constant Spaniards. They
propaganda
estate, As Solicitor-General, į nearly believe that such a "ragamumin" short evening dresses,
20 years ago, he opposed un English Earl. They every· woman -
The i wore a ground-
Yule. or appeal by Lady shaved hin head and put him length frock, nustly made
Crown won its claim that Yule! into a chain gang labour quad.yande and yards of tulle.
was aonicited in England, not India, and about £8,000,000 - riched the Treasury.
Wild
Fan In The Water
TWO members of England's younger set keep cool fun are Jack
in an open air street bath. Having Sheldon, seven months, and his older playmate, Stephen Constantine, 10 months. (Acme)
K. O. CANNON
TO THE HOSPITAL. I WANT YOU TO HAVE A TALK;
WITH ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE DOME GANGt
„AND WHERE ARE YOU%
TAKING ME NOW?....
I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD
IDEA NOW JUST WHO IS RUNNING THIS DOPE | RACKET, BUT I WANY {YOU TO TALK TO PETE HOLLIS DEFORE I SAY WHOM I BUSPECT. WHERE DOLD THIS (GANO OPERATE ?.
parable size, the Treasury will! take three-quarters of it.
JT1
Miss Yule has £4,000 a year
her own right from
English eslate of her
1 tathes.
At 47 she has had much ex-
For perience of management.
some years she has helped her mother. She has an office with two secretaries in the grounds of 1ntstead House, her mother's home at St Albans,
Miss Yule is not expected in change her way of life. She loves the country, pursues her hobby of breeding prize Jersey jani Aberdeen-Angus cattle, bas fume of the finest Jersey herds in
Dritain.
She dresses in country clothes, uses cosmeties sparingly,
lives frugally.
Among friends
charms, can be
he iss good mixer.
She takes on occasional cock-
tail.
MONTY'S
'AGENT'
smile used
tandmark
IL whose wide
to be a London
A SOPRANO WITH
FIVE-FOOT HAIR
NJOYING
Greatest Air Race Scheduled
In 1963 will be held what i
on ski-ing at Oslo, al
AUSTRALIANS Sheila anally I skil i and
commercial artist, and Jean
Keast, 23, and Penny Mc-
10d.
with
Shella hitch-hiked ол Allo
Garrity, 22, both journalists. Continent, and Joan explored
England, Scotland and (left to right) are in busi Continent,
ness--they are London's
tied
and
who lef. Australia
#
"We didn't want to be newest chauffense service.
down to a routine job, They met two months agoldenly we had this idea of They had run out of each tour driving other people's cars for
Europe and Britain.
theta, Penny told me. Penny, is likely to be the greatest- Į your sito, hitch-hiked around Looking for reasonably priced She then took a white shirts to go with their ever international air race Scandinavın.
blue driving uniform, from England to Christ. Join a enego ship.
After two trips to Kirkenca's rettisd for boys, shirts, which church, New Zealand, in the Aretle Circle she spent her were cheer.”
Basra, Calcutta, Singapore, and a point on the East Coast of Australia.
The creat in part of the celebrations of the centenary of Canterbury Province, uf which Christchurch capital,
the is
There will be two sections i the race-the Transport sretion. and the Speed section, Both will te handicap
Hie events, and first prize in each section will be a cashi award of £10,000,
with a total of £30,000 of prize
all told. Thin is double
money all
the money offered for the great Melbourne Air Race of 1934 which drew 21 entrants from
"WC
Hollywood Nosy About Noses
The nosa, which a now best seller says is man's most intoresting, important and varied feature,, is also interest- ing., important and varied in Hollywood.
Many a male Dr Harold M. Holden has
sigr's succe been helped by what ix about the humans written
known as a Roman nose. Richard seven countries, and three times nose in "physiology, psycho-Conte is one example. Another the amount offered for the logy, art, drama and folk- Gregory Peck,
Johannesburg race of 1936.
HANDICAP FORMULA
lore."
Film star Audrey
The Inte W.C. Fields sometimes Totter thinks he missed a
said much of his success rested bet by not writing also on the misshapen Irish potato about the human nose in that stick out on his face. Britain's Royal Aero Club Hollywood. will make the race arunge- iments as far as Singapore, and
to the Club's falis
in a said.
noses have even
romance, "ney
Bob Hope would never trade blu ski-nose trademark for ม But a lot of do traile Beses, und
Mke new one, either, felt meeople
"Sometimes race committee i fsured the unenviable. task of Totter working out a handicap fornu Claudette Colbert had a cold in that's another part of the Holly- In which will be acceptable to the nose one day and went to all plots, whether of jet or pis sec tun engined machines.
wood nose story.
mutual
a nose specialist. Their concern with noses led
* Movie
aspirants keep Holly- ta romance, and they're still wood and Beverly Hills doctors busy taking off old noses and The internationally respected married."
putting on pretiter Aero Club handicapper, Fred At least. one man in Holly-favourite type is the Rowarth, who has been doing woodJimmy Durante-buih i straight. nose of aedium size. this cot 01 hing for 28 years career on his nose. X is (including the Melbourne and
ments.
DICH.
The ruler-
Mu The lightly turned-up femi-
nose with flaring nostriis.
Johannesburg Air Racea) in important to him he has had ine
insured.
Hike Marlene Dietrich's, is high- charge of this trickiest of all A uose famed in literature.ly acceptable, 100. jobs, and helping him is a team ftyrano de Bergerac's, is the sub- of experts from Britain's various {ject of a new film. A dist
"I'd say that Hollywood is scientifle and research establish-guished composer, Dmitri Cium-More concerned about noses and about the noster about noses than any kin, in writing music
coinmunity He says the music will other
aft earth," KEC. Two of Britain's airline chiefs, miell."
Mina Tolter said. I'eter Masefield
British European Airways Corporation at Whitney Straight of Briti Overseas Airwaya Corporation have already armouriced entries, In the Transport section, DEA will compete with Viscount jet propeller 40-seat liner, while the DOAC entry is likely to be
four-jet Comet.
Long Wave' Weather Forecasts
"I have never been to a hair- A new sightseeing
is blonde, hazel-eyed Virgin E and shopping in London dresser since I started growing
Kelley. She was a model just before the war for a 106th-paste
poster.
Now she is a Hollywond sin Luctress, is in London on holiday.
it i1 years ogo," Gays Miss She washes her hair after singing in her first Thebom. Glyndebourne season is in a basin, rinses it in the bath. American mezzo-soprano "Combing out the tangies is the most dificul!," she explains. Blanche Thebom,
Washing and drying fakes 214 Miss Thebom, tall, green-eyed, hours. On a journey to New York has a stympeller figure than mest last November, Virginia was in- opera singers. Bul it is hec Unlil Glyndebourne, MARI
that Field Marshal | chining dark hole troduced Montgomery. She became In-attracted most publicity. icrested in his scheme of sum- The loveliest locks an Broad- European way, as they have been called, children, promised to help raise measure 51. 3. and reach her
ankles. money.
iner
conps
10:
a
method for fore- casting typhoons and hurrl- canes more accurately und more in advance has been developed for use in U.S. Air Force and naval air weather stations.
The 'lory wave" method will make it possible for ships and į planes as well as land groups to Andinke earlier precautions against
approaching storms.
kas Thebomn
had never work |hat-an-slage or off.
she can dres
her hair to many ways that she has only onre needed a wi
Usually she braids it in one ihlck plait and calls it round her head. Her "pride and Joy": a collection of more than 100 combs and ornaments for it. In this picture she wears delicate
hauve lilac sprays and tortoiseshell combs.
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME, REBELS
'WE SUSPECT BETWEEN
– VEHICE AND NOME..
WE THINK THE DOPE IS BROUGHT IN BY SWAY OF VENICE AND DISTRIBUTED FROM MOME...
HERE'S THE HOSPITAL..CNE MOMENT..BAD NEWS, I THINK, THERE'S WHISPER AND SHE'S CRYING.. GORSIO, I THINK 3WE'RE TOO LATE!.
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The new method also will allow more accurnie predictions fot hurricane patha
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The cystem was developed by University of Chicago meteoro logists working on the base of Anding by Herbert Richt, twosociate professor of meteorology ai the university. For the first time, temperature zone readings of air pressure, temperature and wind movements from three to Ave miles up in the atmosphere will be applied by forecasters on a large scale.
In the evening the wears many exotle tehions. She pins 14 huge curved comb at the back, and plies it with fresh flowers. She has an antique Chinese figure on horseback, bought in London, which the will nount on a comb.
The forecasters said they have found a close relationship bo tween, tropical hurricanes and wouther in the temperate zonea. For her New York fint, which she ebores with her mother, Starling shortly, weather dala Miss Thebom is searching for from all over the northern old Dutch pletures. In her hemisphere will be collected and early itiruts, she is still | ura- went to armed forces forecasting married...
stations In Guam and Miami,
Twins
And Twins
ALL beauties, these two sets of twins! Jean and Joan Corbett, twin sisters, each hooked identical seven. pound twin bass while fishing near Las Vegas, Nevada. The girls named the fish, Minnie and Jinnje, (Acme)