At The Premiere
AT the London first night of "The Black Rose”—Mr Herbert Morrison talks to film star Susan Shaw. (London Express Service)
TALKED
BOMBS
WITH AMERICANS
Sir John Hodsoll, 56-year-old Director General of Civil Defence Training, the man responsible for the teach- ing of the thousands who it is hoped will join the anti-atom defence corps, has opened the now term at his specialist college at Sunningdale, Berkshire.
SHIP WITH
4
He has just returned home from America, where he has been exchanging views on civil defence with
UNDERWATER United States exports.
FINS
"The Americans look to us a den for guidance," great sat.
C
"It is natural that in n coun-
fall things are rather a bonb moge difficult to get organised,
Unicen fins they rotatery where they have never had below the waterline - may ваус Irish Channel from sea- passengers sickness during rough wonther.
They are being led to one
of two new Irish Mall vessels.
If they are satisfactory in the
But America is tackling the problem wholeheartedly, and we can expect many more Ameri- rans over here to our staff col- ege to learn what W'e arc doing."
"OL course, neither Brutus
Irish Sen, which has strong nor the United States has ex- Cross-currents, the second shipperiensed atom warfare, so we.
will be given under-water Ans
They are expected to keep the higgest roll down to three degrees.
next
A nes "by-Wrath-to-Paris" hip, the St Germain. to be built in Denmark, summer, she will be the largest world, passenger ferry in the carrying 500. Passengers, board- ing trains 1x London, will be
Channel at
16
do not know exactly what would happen,
on both sides of the Atlanite to the number of vechire casualties from atom bombs con- siderably.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1950.
HERE THEY ARE-LONDON'S NEW GIRL QUADS MAN WHO
ZOO EXPECTS H
1951 RECORD
London Zoo officials are considering plans for the entertainment and comfort of next year's Fes- tival of Britain visitors, who may well eclipse the Zoo's 1946 attendance record of 2,745,183,
Prefer
20ish they'd stop playino
Perpetuum mobile /
MORE EGGS 'BY RADIO'
aug- even
Hours of opening, cater ing arrangements, mented car-parka, flood-lighting of the Gardens (not seen at the Zoo since prowar daya), are all being studied.
"We want to put on as good a show L possible," Mr G, 8, Cansditle, the superintendent ald. **Wo should like to im- prove the collection in the Gir- dena arid at Whipsnade, so as to malce it representative of. all
the world. countries ir doubt if much more can be done in that direction-tha collection bigger and better already
12
Than it has ever been.
But I
"There are, however, a num- ber of other things which can The world's first radio-be done to Increase the comfort will be equipped automatic cafe. of our visitors. There
{discussed at a meeting of the teria for
has been hens
Zoo Council later this month. perfected At Canterbury,
"Ono Is the question of a Kent.
larger car-park. At present the car park is stretched to capacity, "The ralio maker
But we cannot enlarge it, as the ly better," said an
area i Crown land. However the Brm which made
with
Use co-operation of the This is what the 204 bens, police and the Royal Parks occupying the Liging battery, authorities, we hope to obtain cach one in a separate steel Increased facilities next year. nesh page, will find happening A Chem-
in
the trene official of it,
Ꮧ
1 is niready certain toti much of the Outer Circle, for instance, will be used for addi- tional
il parking. un
MASI, or corn, will appear
front of each cage in
electrically driven trollry that: takes 75 minutes to pass the length of the battery.
WATER aut GRIT will follow.
RADIO, with control_attached| to time switch, will play ... and.
EGGS they luy under its soothing influence will roll down i a sloping mesh, safely out pr Beneli.
BRITANNIA GREETING IN FLOWERS
St
"Another question down for for discussion is a new method of admitting visitors to the Gardens, to avoid long queues, For some time past we havo felt that the turn-stlig system is antiquated."
PLANES TO SAVE EROSION
British farmers whose
being
attacked
land
by soil erosion, may call up
air support by which bombs) of super-phosphate and other fertilisers will be
plough.
In orcas either In-
THE CUSTODIANS: Staff-midwife Waddell and student nurse Janet Baigent watch over the quads Marle, Pat, Frances, Edna in their Incubatora. (London
· Express Servico)
SADLER'S WELLS RECEIVED
'LIKE CARUSO IN N.Y.
By FREDERICK COOK
New York,
NEVER FORGETS
If you want to know who was the first man to fly the Channel or about any otlier big avont during the last 60 years, ask Tom Fronch, 62- your-old driver of a Metro- politan Lino train. As a check Tom refers to the 20- volume collection of nowe paper cuttings and diarioa he keeps. in his home at Brecon Road, Hammer- amith, W
:
Tomi, who 153 called the "memory man" by his col- leagues, began his collection in 1897 with a description of Blondin crossing Niagara on a Eight-rope.
"I WIK 10 when I was taken to Ealing on my father's shoulders to Bec Blondin'a - funeral." Tom French said.
In another volume you will And pictures of the "Gorgeous Gussle" of 1900, a Mrs Sterry, In the latest tennis Duta-a tong-sleeved white jackel with high collar, skirt down to the ankles and black shoes and stockings.
LONDON-BRIGHTON Another page shows, Mistin- Eucti, one-time sweetheart of France and now reputed to be over 80, smiling for photo- graphers on the day she insured her legs for £25,000.
Tom has not only kept news-
I paper cuttings of world events and famous personalities. Since he was a boy he has written a day-to-day diary of his
e in beautiful script.
i te
!record
events.
Own
also has a 50-year-old of important sporting
Tom is a keen walker, and ing six times completed the London to Brighton walk in 24 hours.
"I
keep myself fit these lays by eyelling
say's.
But he does
that his bleycle
to work," be
not tell you
is as old as
his memories—a renovated 1805
model.
The Barman
Four thousand American social leaders who packed into the plush- Has Seen carpeted Metropolitan Opera House here in a 94-degrees temperature, 35. Countries completely forgot themselves as the curtain fell on the opening perform ance of the Sadler's Wells ballet. They behaved as though they were in Madison Square Garden,
TWIN DAUGHTERS
When the ships pass dropped.
The with
farmer could direel down the Channel "Where we are best able to
operations from the ground, help them is by pointing out the Festival of Britain visitors by radio,
the from the Continent or the This system may become an mistakes we made before last war so that they can save enstern Commonwealth important factor in fighting soil Ume by avoiding then.
countries, they will see on When she is completed "I believe we can take steps the cliffs at St. Margaret's pressible to, or difcult for, the
Bay, near Dover, the sym-
Thirty-two-year-old Aus It may bring new areas under
tralian-born Fred Cahill→→→→ bol of Britannia in flowers. cultivation. The bombs would
called be dropped from 400ft.
"Digger" by his Margaret's Bay people Reports of recent experiments Rising to their feet, they New York summer for a chance The company are not due at friends-hadn't been out of regard their town as the gate-by the Bristol Auroplane Co. yelled.
Oklahoma until stamped, clapped, to stand.
November 28. Australia when he was 22. way to England.
and others are under considera-whistled and slapped
As lucky ticket holders went Yet all tickets have long sinco They que That it is the tion.
in, black marketeers button- been sold, and the black market Now he has visited 35 coun- nearest spot to the Continent, 40 TONS DROPPED another on the back.
holed them with offers up to is flourishing, Philadelphia istries. and is up to them lo greet
£10 for tickets costing £3.completely sold out, Buston, the visitors by ship. and nero- The land chosen for one Into the ale went the pro- 17.-the top price. There were which won't see the company Ke is back behind the bar at plane with a symbol
which with of the experiment is formed by Cap-rammes
they few sales.
before the middle of January, London Airport after a holiday reatness of Britain.
G. L Bennett-Evans at had been fanning themselves,
has only a few tlekets left,
which took him through Den- alleries, "All the people here are in Plyntiramon, on the borders of From all five
Into box office for the first
In San Francisco there is mark, Sweden, and Finland to the scheme," said Mr H. G. Cardiganshire and Montgomery- from the famed Diamond Horse-night alone some $14,000 (about Lines, chairmun of Dover Ruralļshire, near the
more money in hand for ad-Rovaneni, on the edge of the of the shoe,
But this fluttered £4,000) had poured. programmes
vance sales than was taken al-Arctic Clicle. Council,
was only a fraction of the his- down into the orchestra.
together
hit by the mash "The symbol of Britannia It is used for grazing sheep!
tory-making volume of money
Then he went by bus. to will be 100
Oklahoma during its entire run villages in Lapland, 350 miles rolling into” Uil, feet long and 70 and Welsh black cattle," and is
ther $100,000, feet broad. It will be on a part very hilly.
Inside the Circle.
taken across knota.
see no reason why pro- The conches will be run on 10 perly organised and with enough the French rails and go direct rained helpers, the casualties to Paris,
need be more than a fraction of The new ship will have four ❘ those Hiroshima and Na- sels of lines runging through practically tnt viole of her 3801. length.
Above the traite, on the Promenade Deck, there will be
na
a dining saloon
for 25 vars.
in
持
"But it is essential that people know how tɔ take care of them- selves to the best possible ex- tent."
Sir John should know what he Is talking about when it comes to civil defence.
He Best become Interested
of
Last of three stram trawlers | in ARP in 1939 when he was Built
England for the serving in the RAF.
Five years later he was ap Icelandic Government has been
pointed Jaunched
Inspector General Fresh fish will be preserved ARP by the Home Offer.
Tall in "cool"
The ships
and quietly spoken, can come in with fish-meal with an air of authority, he is
father of ready for landing. Plant in the the
seven-year-old trawlers will dry, grill and bag twin daughters on lives at Rich- 25 tons of Ash every 24 hours.
rooms.
Longest
tain
River Wye.
source
one
even
Not since Caruso's time had the Metropolitan seen anything
to
the country as are ulready
For the New York opening i
And "Digger,” whose travels from all people canje
over have taken him from China to America. One plarly flew by Mexico, Lebanon to Poland,
from California, thinks nothing of it. private plane another from Oregon,
Women in chle Parts
BOWTIE
of the downs which slope to- A Bristol Freighter dropped like it.
In New York alone takings wards the sea, and be clearly 40 tons of phosphate,
Jare edging up
the lime and
towani While the crowd reared there $300,000 mark Channel and to aeroplanes, visible to ships passing down nitro-chalk in two days.
was one woman lo a box- As
suon (19 the aeropianc "The site hea
been cleared, came
Throughout lovely Moira sitting next within range it W and little further can be done pleked
Shearer, up by
who does not dance a whole takings walkie-takkio
"I will be going back to Aus- until later-holding a handker- |$1,120,000, and are expected to during the winter. We are equipment. taking expert advice on The The experiment was success. citief to her eyes.
touch 1,900,000, for the complete and wearing diamond tiaras sat italia next year," he said, "ond amung ife-less men in their will not be travelling after tour of 20 weeks. llowers plant. They willful." sald spokesman of the
She was the mother of prima
shirt sleeves carrying their jac- that. of course, be red, white and Bristol Aeroplanc Company. ballerina Margot Fonteyn. All
Sadler's Wells are alreadykets over thel armas. blue."
The aim was accurate."
known as "the million dollar she could say was, "What wonder," and tickets are harder mother would not be proud? to find than for "South Pacide," The people are so kind."
the biggest selling musical in
Road
In
The
World
MEMBERS of an American patrol bring back the body of ons of their men who was killed on the patrol.
A captured North Korean soldier carries the right front handle of the litter. (Acme),
It was standing room only Broadway's annals. up to the absolute legal mit
is overy part of the
opera house.
Creat
Crowds and walted in down- wours of hot rain throughout one of the worst days of the
"Speak Mind"
Training For Drivers
"Speak your mind" training is being given
to London's learner bus drivers to keep up their tradition as the safest In the world.
L-drivers at London Trans- port's Chiswick driving school have a throat mlerophone and two-way udsparker In the driver's cab.
The learners are told to give a commentary on their actions, which is relayed to an instructor at the back..
A London Transport official sold: "This thinking aloud' helps the Instructor to judgo the powers of observation and speed of rosetion of a learner.
in
The inter-com apparatus overcomea the difficulty bus training of the instructor having to sit apart from the driver.
Drivers must speak their thoughts on everything they do ahd-notice from changing- genr and braking to seeing reflections of oncoming traffic in corner. shóp windows at busy June- | Plonk.
"I have been trying to see as Many men came in open-neck many places as possible before shirts and uno even
arrived that. Why?o that I can seo in sandals,
understand shorts and sweat other people, and shirt.
their way of life."
Monkey
LING WONG, the haby, orang-utan at
On
Wheels
öln Park 700 in
all the garb of a modern day Casey Jones as he takes his place engine that pulls the children's trains now running, around
(Acme):