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The Father Of Modern Cookery

Woburn, Mass. (1755-1814),

Here There and Everywhere

A GREAT DESTRUCTIONIST

All communications intended for BENJAMIN Thompson of North publication should be addressed to was a Tory in the Revolutionary Lord Banbury, whose death, oc- the Editor, and be accompanied by War and settled in England at its cured last month, considered all, the Writer's Name and Address conclusion. He was knighted by nearly all legislation mischie not necessary for insertion, but King George III, and later enterons and acted resolutely on las's guarentee of good faith.

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SECRETS OF SCREEN MAKE-UP

GETTING TO WORK ON

THE STARS

I

FAMOUS EXPERT DISCUSSES

HIS METHODS

(By Gerald Fairbank)

HAVE been a make-up ex-Isay the least they look tired in

pert in moving pictures the morning.

કર્ક

Munich. He was ennobled by the power he was obliged to hold his German Emperor, being created hand, but during the Liberal Ad- a Count of Kumford after the city ministrations of 1906 to 1914, of Rumford (Concord) NH, which however, he was a recognised mas

Heter of the art of Parliamentary, ob- since the late silent film era, We have an eye for colour in Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 17, 1936 was his wife's native town.

struction. was the first physicist to analyze

when Rex Ingram was leasing our work, especially for colour As he had no oratory at hisje film studio in Nice and I pass-under the lens, and we must best. the phenomenon

ed from the ranks of the actors know as much about shading What Price Mixing"? taught the world how to cook and command his range was limited

But he could pour forth a stream to the parlours of the beauti-for our job as Rembrandt did was the first to note the changes_in

of "plausible objections with ex-fiers. Since then I have made for his. Scarcely anyone can nutritive value of foods cooked on In a general discussion of the

30,000 step in front of a camera and a large scale. The science of mo-traordinary volubility, only check-up approximately. relations between the "Heaven-dern cookery has advanced

buted by a curious habit of stuttering people, numerous dogs, cats and look anything but ghastly and born, as Malayan Civil Serhittle since Benjamin Thompson, verbal repetition as his thoughts camels, have turned men tem-liverish unless he is made up.

playfully

have The only artist in my experi- called

who was the first to apply to it encountered any slight obstruction porarily into statues, in Tude circles in that

Įmade men out of monkeys and ence who has not needed make- the insight and method of a scien- his own mind. the country, and

(who shall say?) monkeys out up was Gordon Harker. but general

tist He is the man who abolish- community, the Straits Times

of men and supreme ordeal of why his face, handsome though recently quoted the plaintived the smoky chimney, and sub-

His greatest bour was in 1912 my life have made up a it may be, should be perfectly - our technical and somewhat naive enquiry stituted for it the modern fireplace, voiced by the Resident Council stove and oven. He invented cook when be defeated the Government very handsome snake, but the photogenic

by 22 on a financial resolution in colours of his skin needed ton-term for photographic and ing by steam

connection with the Home Rule ing up for the camera, which yours should not, I cannot say: BUL

operation #as done with a

Special Methods The whole effect of grease-

vants

are

lor of Malacca: "I sometimes wonder how the civil servant is regarded by unofficial in- terests."

+ HIS BIGGEST TRIUMPH

•

It was a susp division, and the paintbrush and 2 certain

edhe pagar pro- MEN DESERVED faces of Liberal Ministers, when amount of fear and trembling paint and ochre powder used on the figures were read out, were! And stars! Yes, I've seen the face is so shaded that they

ceeded, in the course of its! leading article, tell Mr.

to Bryant what the vernacular calls "B mouthful" It analysed the relationship of the governing bureaucracy to the populace at large, eventually deciding that it was something

cast in mortuary marble amid the stars: seen them come and

Psychologists

A FLOGGING

pandemonium which ensued. but that is a little unkind. The merge with one another ever so Magistrate's Stern For a few hours Tory optimists walls of my room are surround-gradually to use a film term,

Censure

fondly hoped that they had dealt ed with their pictures, hun-they "fade in" to one another. the hated bull a death-blow. But dreds of them, so many of them As for eyebrows. I think most

modern worden the Government discovered a way now lifelong friends.

interested in Sentencing two young men exch

beauty: culture know something of escape overnight.

about beautifying their lashes in the nature of a dictatorship. to three months imprisonment The softest place to the late

It must be realised that for with the aid: of peer's heart was for dogs. In the The Straits Times then pointed with hard labour, Mr. Herbert Met-

a shading out that it is quite possible to calfe, the magistrate at Old Street interest of his canine friends he our work we make-up people pencil be an efficient and even a popu- Police Court last month, said to broke his own fast rule and intro-need to be something of psycho For the rest of the face "T ́use

and even logists, lar dictator without being dic-them.

medical my own make-up preparations, duced a private bil tatorial in manner.

"I am satisfied you are a couple But innovations, from death advisers. We know right away varying the mixture to suit the There is ample scope for local of young ruffians, and the only re-duties and super-tax to summer if the star is off colour, and it artist, the intensity of the pic- application in all this, both in gret I have is that I cannot have time, he abhorred. The last he is our job to receive him (or ture required an indoor close- her) early in the morning and up and an outdoor long-shot the abstract question of the re-you thrashed. It would be a good judged an impiety.

poles jensure that he (or she) gues on are

apart-and the lations between the two com-jthing for everybody if you could

to the lot looking fresh as a various highlights picked out munities and in the material be fogged."

Your Daily Smile! concept of a "dictatorship" of

daisy and spotless even of dew.by the cemera. I apply lip- It isn't so much a question of rouge with a camel's hair Getting the Becord Straight It was Mary Jane's first day at the star's suffering from a brush; it's more effective than teacher was asking hangover but. of genuine fati-using just a tube One has to school, and the some questions for the records.

gue So may artists in be very careful in the matter "Are you the oldest in your fam-British films have to be made of noses and chins, and here sage from the Straits Times Davis was accused of using in-ny?" leader. substituting “Hong|sulting words and behaviour, of "No," replied the child, mother Kong for "Malaya," might assaulting. P.c. Mayne by biting is quite a bit older than I am." almost have been written here: his thumb and kicking him, and of

Yet in Malaya we have dictator-assaulting

by ship: in outward form as extreme as

In

the dock were Frederick the oficial classes. Conditions James Davis, aged 23, of Globe- in the two Colonies, so far as road, Bethnal Green; and John we can gather, are almost iden-Fountain, aged 24, of Type-street, tical, and the following pas-Bethnal Green.

P.c. Matthews

DRIVER' HURT AT 50 M.P.H.

· Alfred

•

Obliging

With Profits? Father: "What do you want now? it could well be, but in spirit as punching him. Fountain was ac-Haven't I just set up your husband liberal as any in the world... The cused of obstructing P. Smith and in business 7" inherent weakness of our system of also assaulting him

Daughter: "Yes, but Hatiy wants government is that the governing

you to buy him out?” caste, the Malayan Civil Service, is not organically one with the mass of the population. That weakness, in our view, is quite unescapable in the

Peacock, of present phase of Malayan history. but it can

be corrected to a very road, Hornsea, driver of the 3.25 large extent if the M.C.S. will only pm express from King's Cross remember the human factor in ad- to Edinburgh, broke his arm ̄as ministration: if they will remember the train was passing through to chose a familiar analogy how Hitchin, Herts. at 50 mph. rei exasperating it is to an intelligent adult to feel as though he were back cently, through catching it against. at school under an arbitrary bead- the mail bag apparatus at the side

of the line.

master.

There is eminent sound sense in that expression of opinion.

Lausanne

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It is all too true that the tight association It is true "Heaven-born" are inclined to that the racial and national display that "myopic aloof-portions of any heterogeneous ness" which has been discern-community tend to keep within ed in another connection in their OWN social limits, but their relations with the un-isurely there is scope for better official community. We are comingling in such fields not the first to have discovered sport and art, for example. In this. Some genius, in discuss-point of fact the beginnings of ing the point, has already. re-such a movement are already to marked that what is wrong be seen in the Kowloon Foot- with Hong Kong socially is the ball Club, the Victoria Recrea- shape of the place-a series of tion Club and the Working "levels" which have the attri- Artists' Guild. In each of bate of pre-Einstein parallel these three institutions many lines in that they never meet-nationalities meet on terms of or at least, only occasionally.equality for the prosecution of And that, it seems to us, is not their particular interest. This a good thing. No one seriously is a wholesome development, advocates the other extreme: and we only wish that its promiscuous slappings on the principles could be extended back in a sort of super-Rotary more fully to the social, 23 spirit of everlasting love and opposed to the sporting, life of everybody being "jolly good fel the Colony. lows" all together. That is a But this is a remote ideal spectacle too harrowing even while there continue to remain to contemplate. One of the invidious distinctions most cherished privileges of a among the people iman is the right to choose his nationality, such as the British. own friends, and we should be here. Those obstructive the last to suggest that it "levels" need planing out, and should be relinquished But as a beginning there might there is scope for a far more with advantage be a drastic general "mixing" of communi-elimination of that patronising ties in this Colony and less de-attitude which the "Heaven- pendence on watertight com-born" are all too prone to ex- partments confining the various tend to as lesser mortals. Not races and nationalities which all unofficials are ill-mannered make up the general "com-boors, and it is surprising what munity, for social purposes. a large number of really Hong Kong probably holds charming people are to be the record for the number of found among the "elect." We | indívidual clubs. and associa-suggest that any move in the {tions to be found în a compara- desired direction must, (come tively medium-sized communi- from above-not in a grudging ty, Every nationality and and certainly not in a patronis- even every individual districting spirit, but in a little more appears to have its social club, general and friendly toleration fite sporting club and its water of each other's point of view.

of

even one

Assistant: “No, madam, we haven't had any for a long time.”

Manager (overhearing): “Oh, yes, we have it, madam; I will send out to the warehouse and have some brought

CHESTER AREHART SUFFELIKS. PLOGADORE (.

FAMED *27 BITTERS AND

at eight o'clock in the morn-very often shading must be ing, working till six, then dash-used with a vengeance! I have ing into town for a West End not yet, fortunately, had the show lasting till eleven or so. experience of one of my col- Some of them may even do leagues, who used

a liberal cabaret work after that? To amount of shading for the chin of one rather pugnacious young actress. He called that chin

As the lady went out lenghing the (manager demanded:

in for you." (Aside to assistant: the Rock of Gibraltar, and he "Never refuse anything; send out for tried his best to submerge that lit.")

rock. But alas for his fond expectations, when the lady appeared on the screen she did haven'tlso, with a dark beard!

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