OMNESIM
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1950.
Testing
New House Of Commons
A
DAME KATHERINE RETIRES
Known to hundreds of RAF men who were treated in the Servico's hospitals at home and abroad, Dame Katherine Watt, chiof nursing adviser to the Ministry of Health, in retiring.
She joined the Ministry, During the past year. Dame in 1939, when she was up- Katherine has acted as a "pur- pointed principal
sing nbassador" paying visits to Syria, the Lebanon, Iran.
matron
became first
She was the
first nurse to
BACKSTAGE VIEW
OF BRITISH TELEVISION SHOW
By Joan Erskine
London, Sept. 8.
The Radio Industry Council have chosen to hold their seventeenthi national radio show this week at Birmingham. There, hundreds of over- seas visitors are thrilled daily by television and radio revelations in a field of industry in which Britain keeps a pre-eminent place.
Thousands of radio sets, extra performances daily espe- all
are cially for exhibition visitors, and and shiny, new
surely зп Innovation was 碴 playing merrily on the stand which cold the autographs gaily decorated stands, but of television "stars" strangely enough, the noise Is not overpowering. It is only slightly reminiscent of Tin Pan Alley.
Television Bola ATO every-
The Control Room is the cen- tre of the technical orrange-
Glant
British Air
Freighter
BECAUSE of the international outlook, the 11th annual display of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors at Farnborough recently may be the last for some time. Included in the 50 types of planes on view was the Blackburn Universal The fuselage Freighter (above), second only in size to the Brabazon airliner.
can hold a single-deck bus.
ments for the Exhibition, and London
And
through large windows resident and guest announcers could be been in action. A "Request" where, many with black screens, programme of records asked for
put on the Intest development in by visitors wa viewing. These make daylight the latest advances in radio and viewing easier by lucing electronics could be seen. flections on the face of the Cathode Ray Tube.
Every large stand has its own! tiny television theatre, where programmes can be seen on two or three different sized screens,
SHORT FILMS
The television equipment is either vision designed to relay
from the Radio Show sinalo
broadcast by Studio or signals the BBC from Sutton Coldfield via an and Alexandra Palace, aerial array on the roof of the Exhibition building. The short
Diary:
RELUCTANT RECRUIT
HOUSE OF
LORDS
TO
That reluctant recruit to the Upper House, Lord Hailsham, has the full support of his wife in disapproval of the hereditary principle. Says Lady Hailsham firmly: "I am not one of those whose sole interest is in In the sheltered gloom of the
position. I am not interested in the title, would far rather see my hus- Hall of Television, no less than
band retain his scat in the Commons." 65 glowing television eyes flicker
He has just bought a || The women chortised "Yes.” furlously at the steady stream as shown simultaneously on
Until his father's death racing.
startled. Nickles, of onlookers. Here are large all TV sels are reproduced by
Lord young dog. Rally Call, daughter Mr weeks The system is some
ago and small screens, light and lrn scanner.
will cost ylu a er Laughing Lackey, one of the jokingly: "It onlyHailshami the electronic,
was Mr Quintin Mick the Miller strain. dark
dollar an entirely all showing ones,
aplece for my church Identical picture, Outside, moving paris being those asso-Hogg, MP for Oxford City.
fund if you do.". To his con there are television sets stripped clated with drawing the Alm
sternation they accepted. of their outer covering, looking through the scanner. somewhat defenceless, or housed so that perspex cabinets, their inner workings can be scen clearly.
in
His request
for legislation
to enable him to stay in the Commons has been refused by Mr Attice.
Bald
Rally Call looks like being a good investment. She has now
The mmbarrassed parson won all four races in which she has run.
submitted to 200 kisace, col. Niven describes himself as "alerted 200: dallars, spont' half keen White City man," says his an hour getting rid of lip wife I crazy on greyhound silck,
Mrs
Long-playing records were on show, and one firm say the de- mand for players for exceeds the supply at present. An Interest- Lady Hailsham says it is imrncing.
Nickels, 6. Pin.. with CLEAR AND STEADY ing fact is that this firm has possible for ner husband jus to
been supplying the
But he has not yet seen fully black wavy hair, blue eyes, has United United give up his title. "So he must
been marrica five years. Projection television
is the Staten with these records for the go to the Lords before anything Cell. She was bought for him Nickels is amused by his New
Known as Micro- can be done.”
by the Nivens' friend Lady Orr- most interesting development | past year.
York exploits. "Good for him," they are un- to be noted.
He has already applied for win, is quartered at the GRA | she says. Mrs Nickels was It gives an un- groove records,
in the recording la writ of summons to the kennels, near Barnet.
tho clear
Naval Intelligence during Velievably
vteady breakable, and and
Niven hopes to see her run soldiers
33-1/3 revolutions a Lonis,
war, lo now secretary to Mr picture on a large flat screen, speed is
kink
of the usual Lord Hailsham is not giving soon.
John Maude, KC MP. from the Welsh and Scots by
Will he back Rally Call? Yes.
Her be played up the fight, though. He will
husband is priest-in- oplicul system. 78. They Guards became "Members, engined use of a precision- minute, in place
with a lighter weight pick-up seek to introduce a Bill in the But Niven is a moderate backer charge at St. Mary's. He was of Parliament" for one day able to a cathode-ray tube set Although the price is compar-
end much finer needle than the Lurds
"Two-shilling stakes only for recently when they tested or similar size, it is sull too high ordinary variety
"The Lords themselves have me," he says. "I am not a bet-naval chaplain in the war. It Is now a simple matter to decried their own conalitutioning man. It's a mug's game." the scating, heating and for the average buyer,
have a gramophone adapted for on this point of automalle ac acoustics of the new House
With projection television, their use, or a
QUICKER BY BICYCLE pick up with ccssim," says Lady Hailsham.
FOUR hundred
at
other head.
have to
car. He is I
FUTURE OF THE TIVOLI
What is going to happen to the Tivoll, in the Strand?
Rank.
It
of Commons by occupying there is practically no distortion detachable hend is used, so that "I feel very strongly about it." Four yearz asto Mr Ernest belongs to Sir Montague Bur- the Chamber. Above: the at all, whereas with the curved by altering the speed, either. Before her marriage aix years soldiers arriving the screen of the tube type, viewern type of record can be played, ago she was Miss Mary Martin, Murules, Tory MP for Wallasey, ton, the multiple taller.
3. Left: The must be at an angle et 45 demerely by replacing with the niece of Lady Townshend. Nowdered a new House in buses.
Purchase price for it. So he has adopted bought it free-hold from Mr she has three children. The waiting Guardsmen left their bootses to see comfortably.
Decca showed the
the most ex-
eldert, aged five, is heir to the humbler form of transport, Mr was in the region of £200,000. Information is that Sir Mon- Murples travels about London outside the House and pensive instrument at the show,
title.
on a bleycle.
tague is thinking of turning the changed to slippers before cafe the "Knightsbridge" and
He is 24, says he finds a bicy-Tivoli into a tailors shop with going in.
cie quicker and more convenient mices above, He already has than a car in Central London; a shop next door.
It will be some time before but not as dignified,
this project materialises,
50 BOY ENVOYS,RETURN
many
ADVANTAGES
yet they
death
of his
'All Bombing May Be Immoral'
any
high enough price, there were But the most appealing gad Mr Astor he was making good
A 35-year-old
Secretary
the
left
Kenslugton
holiday of our lives,"
the
The boys were laden with
As £000. I WON
LORD ASTOR'S FIGHT custing almost
are very ex- a whole sym- pensive, but as a massive affair, incorporating
Lord Hailsham is not the fire radio and television equipment, phony is recorded on one 12-inch
or five arlas on
a single peer to want to stay in the and built in the French Empire dise
The second Lon! style. On another, the screen slle, the advantages are obvious. Cemmons,
The other day he arrived at a rises and descends automatically From the end of this month, Selborne and the second Lord club in Pall Mall to be guest of
firm with with the opening and closing of another
ugents in Coleridge made the same re-honour at a luncheon. Marples different equntries is queat.
The 50 boys who went to the cabinet lid.
starting really large sales
Greatest stir was in 1019. Mroked forward to a pleasant oc-
casion. But the club porter cee. Canada as gucats of Mr Garfield Small sels on castors, which offensive. Work I out for Waldorf
Amor, Tory MP for him dismount from his cycle, Weston, the Canadian biscuit could be moved casily 10 yourself-ten 12-inch records Plymouth, succeeded to the viз-
#rected Marples briskly,
klag, have arrive home again. part of the room, will play for 22 minutes each. county on
You're here to deliver a mes-Like the 50 Canadian boys who of nd neat folding doors which hid A radiogram can be
for father. The new Lord Astor
GUCC
I suppose?" he said.
Same to England as guesta
host, they the same
had the screen when not in use, hours with a supply of records not only wanted to remain in
For " were two sensible Ideas,
in place,
CLERICAL KISSES all say they.. the Commons, but wished to As divest himself of the title. Atom bombing and large-handsome pieces of furniture in scale ordinary bombing are truc period style, combining get In the sboW was a new
become Parlia both immoral, if the suffer-television and radiograms. One, simple two-way Intercommuni- s hud
small sideboard, calion set that can be used 25 Ministry of Food.
mentary ing inflicted is out of the as large as a
If one unit is was in perfect Queen Anne style. In baby alarm.
His request, too, was refused, military advantage, says
put near the
child's cot and
Lord Astor has never ceased Professor R. E. Pelerls, SECTION FOR LAYMAN the other In the living room,
Immediate warning can be eb to attack the hereditary prinel- of Birmingham University,
ipple us applied to Parliament. the baby cries. All sorts of paraphernalia are tained Atomic on
His wife won his place in in President of the
television acrlals Whether they will devise 1 Scientists" Association, in brought down to ground level: method by the Atomic Scientists Nows. giant valves next to miniature agonised faced is flashed on to television screen is On- ones; neat portable radio sets tie He declares: "The use of any with sliding flaps to cover the other matter for unhappy con- weapon in war may be in-dial glass (some boasting a tiny jecture! moral if it causes more sultering telescopic aerint); sets looking than is absolutely necessary, We like tweed or tartan handbags, would regard the use of athers resembling clocks; whole machine-gun as immoral ogolust rets of radio and television an umained population,
tables made of steel and plastic; and
which magnifying lens **Many people believe that make a 9-inch television screen
bombing,' i.c. the appear like n 12-inch one. 'strategie large-scale generat bombing of. cities, is Immoral because It A delightful section for the
was devoted
to pro-
....
show
Programme, A litle radio pro- paganda was whispered in the
PARTICULAR TROUBLE cars of those who listened in.
for the Emergency Medical India, Pakistan and Cey-causes mostly civilian casualties, laymen Service. In 1941, a staff on, and carried out an extend- and because of the destruction grammes. Earphones hung down of professional nursing oflied tour of Egypt, Australia and or peace-time assels, which lead from the ceiling, ticketed Light, cers was appointed at the New Zealand.
to chaos and distress long after Home, Midland Region, or Third Ministry and Dame
The fighting has ceased. Katherine holder of the newly-created visit these countries by invita-
Come and Have a Go!" invited This is a question of degree, visitom to speak into a micro- post of Chief Nursing Offi-tion in an official capacity. The
object of these tours was not All wars Lause some civiltenphone and have their voice play- unty to attend nursing con-
294* | casualties and cause insunge back to them, her appointment as Chief ferences but also to exchange distress: but
if one were to A long queue of people show- Nursing Adviser in 1948. ideas with nursing, medical and justify raids on cities, It could ed how anxious the public were other colleagues, on nursingnly be on the grounds that they to prove their capabilities as an. und hospital work in general help to end the war quickly, neuncers. and particularly the new developments in Britain.
cer.
This she held until
CONSUL NAMED
IN TRIAL
London, Seja. 24.
A former British Consul and
the present Vice-Consul at
recent This might be true cometimes;] The GPO showed some of
SERVICES REWARDED
The
King's
Victory
but where the nim of the bomb-the "nekrvoni" equipment to be ing is to break the morale of used the extension of tele- the population, its effect may vision on a nation-wide scale, eften be the very reverse, and had a model house equipped with good, bad, and average "All this goes for large-scale aerials, and suppressors, show- raids with ordinary bombs asing how interference can a Dame of the British Empire well as for atom bombs. Both climinated.
it the certainly immoral Last year she was awarded the suffering inflicted
10 the
Honours" List in June 1945 umomiced that she was created
for her services
to
nursing.
ΑΓΕ
Katowice were named at a spy Florence Nightingale Medal of proportion
trial there of the region's for the International Red Cross.
iner raltway chief, according to
Π
Warsaw Radlá report IC-
colved in London today.
Dame Katherine received her Western at #eneral training Infirmary, Glasgow, and her The report alleged that midwifery training at Middle- Borislaw Olenski, said to have sex Hospital, London. confessed to spying for Bri-
war.
out of zuilitary
RAF STAND
be
Sir
clergyman, the Rev. John souvenirs and gifts. A Cana- Nickels,
industrials gavo cach a of St Mary's Church, dlan The Boltons, has been selling liver dollar as a memento. And kisses in Amerlen. He is there they have collected a number of raising funds for his church.
putographed baseballs.
Claude Mr Nickels, in a broadcast Field Marshal from New York, described life | Auchinleck led the British
blitz se feel-group. the London
"The trip has been o when he fuished grand experience," ho каута NIVEN'S GREYHOUND women in the audience: "Isn't impression in Canada." So did
Wouldn't you ilke the Canadian boys here.
which baby's the Commons, became the Brstingly that
woman MP to take her seat. the woman chairman sald to The boys created an excellent
Film
has taken
actor David Niven he terrific?
to grysound to kiss him?"
Film Tribute To British
Soldier
and
Mr Weston's warm-hearted. Imaginative scheme has proved
a thorough-going success.
TORQUAY'S "BALMY" CONFERENCE.
Torquay boasts of its balmy air, but it is soon to
house
an
even "balmier" conference. Delegates from 10 countries' will meet on September 28 to consider the "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade."
The object of their meeting is of free to extend the range trade, and the American State Department declares that. their efforts will "widon the area of international co-operation and deepen it in degree."
time the State At the came
worried Department reassures
in the United A British Army river have made him second to none, most striking, with the troops, manufacturers
and presents him as a citi- | alert, suspicious and sensitive,States.
"There is no real cause," the patrol in Malaya, ready
rustling cur- in his sense of the respon- pushing through Zan
or Department ayers, for concern at a moment'sibilities rin for action
of freedom, soidler tains of green undergrowin advantage.
The BAF stand, with a large notice, watching the trea- in his acceptance of the dis-threading their course through that American domestic indus- model airfield, allowed us to
river vapours, ferreting trics might be injured by reduc- "The particular trouble of the listen in to conversations becherous forest walls an cipline of duty, but at all times the
and tracking man of the world.
the Communist tion in American tarifts because; is that it lends
(1) No reduction will be made li pilot tween
and groundstaff, either sido-a sceno from
bandit nests, atom bomb
self so cally to this kind of with
realistic some
aircraft
an advisory group representing the short documentary In order to bring back this Glyen an atom bomb and noises. An illuminated sign at
picture of the Bri- During the filming in Mulaya, American Government Depart methods of delivery, it is only the back gave the name of the film, "Men of the World," authentie
unit was ambushed by ments considers it will injure clomestic industry. (11) Film Unit, headed by Director bandits, too easy to have it dropped on aircraft responsible for the parti- which is now being shown tish Army oversens, the Crown the
its cameraman, some a elty just in the general hope cular olse, and there wero in 3.000 cinemas" through-Ronald Stark, an ox-Paratroop Teddy Catford, Was zeverely Even if some serious injury. re- that this will weaken the enemy. examples of the latest radio-
sulted from some tariff negotin- Major, look their camerus to wounded. tain, received from Mr George) During the First World War, in the ease of such a decision telephone and radar equipment, out the United Kingdom.
tion, there is an "Suct Malia, Tripoli,
escape clause Elvin Scott, the Vice-Consul, aahe served at home and abroad
used to prevent film also shows that which can bo the pore
Malaya.
Tite The finest large exhibits were With all eyes tumed to
They and promise of false popen to in the Queen Alexandra's im-
our troops photographed troops manning with Jelsure as on duty, the further 'serious damage." cape abroad if discovered.
a complete television studio and Fac perial Military Nursing Ser-
is a timely the guns of the George Cress troops make the best of what If this is the spirit in which vice Reserve. In early January "After all, the police in this a control room. For the arst Korea, this film
under training
the life offers, and there are brief the conferante is being she joined Princess
could look | kibuto to the ubiquitous Bri- Laland, 1910,
country stil, go unarmed "bu- time the public Olenski was alleged to have.
soldier,
desert Libyan
Bun, limpses Pluss-panelled walls tigh
of polo and romance proached, it might as well" be whose commit-blaring furnished the former Consul, Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing cause of the feeling that if they through
enrried weapons they might and see and hear all the back-ments have been greater than standing guard over the Suez In Malta, the NAAFI club and abandoned. Beldom has a Clays
department ́ ̈fn "any: John Herbert Dickinson. Service, of which she
from 1930- use them under Matron-la-Chief
efforts that.......go to the ever stress where | staro
before since the end of Canal, and in action under the shopping in a market in Tripoll, ernment
track racing at Fayid, hation issued 25 cynical a direc Information, including
and clamany heat dark would not be making of a television or broad- World War II. It demonstrates leaden rain the 1938. While in the Services, violence
Alley and 'Change maps, of Polish industry,
in Singa- tivo, says a correspodent in- Bri- and that cast programme. Apart from hom qualities
of the Malayan Jungles. of steadiness,
tain. armed forces and the railway| Dame Katherine served in RAF absolutely necessary,
all-day rehearsals, there are two | endurance and control which The latter всепов яго the pore. system--Reuter,
hospitals at home and overseas. this would be immoral."
Mr
with
WAS
lies the malk atom bomb,
danger of the
East and
Singo