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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1948.

DOES NOT CARE FOR MONEY, FAME OR LOVE

London, October 22. Moira Shearer is a lovely 22-year-old redhead who is unlike any other lovaly 22-year-old redhead in the world.

nome

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licity she receives in.out proportion to her actual ability as a dancer:

Film producers shower her path with contracts like golden flower petals. Miss Shearer says she couldn't care less. Playwrights proffer scripts; in! and guarantee her king-size 1ghts, Miss Shearer says she is not interested.

trans-Atlantic Over the

tele phone, apoplectic murle mar. nutes growl hard Currency figures that sound like a new Marshall Plan. "I am not in

terested in money,” Shearer.

hays Miss

A ravishing redhead who does not care for tame or fortune... Is there romance brewing in this strange attitude? "I have no time for boy friends," said Miss Shearer very firmly,

over.

Miss Shearer is a ballet dancer who became a film stor night with her first pleture, "Red Shoes". Advance reports from New York, where the flim had is American premiere this week, indicate equally enthusiastic (eption.

was

No More Pictures "I didn't think very much of the pleture at least, my part lo It." sadel Miss Shearer.") too tired when they filmed the duncing sequences. And I won't make any more pictures.”

Producers Michel. Powell and

Enerle Pressburger hnd to spend months talking her In making the film in the first place. They could have under- sto i she were a ballet star. mit at the time she was donelg the lesser roles with the Sadlers Wells company.

Even today she is not a star} of the ballet and she la soma. what nettled because the pub

TRADE MARK

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TENNENTS LIGHT BEER

"I've still got a long way to go hefore I am the finest doncer technically," said this astonishing Joung lady.

The other day she turned down a contract for 15 times her pre- sent salary

With ጀን ነገሮች fortune пн romance ruled out, Miss Shearer was asked what interested her. Fixing the interviewer with azure eyes the size of tyre rims. she said: "Work. Just work."— | United Press,

Priorities For Use Of Isotopes!

An.

London, October 24. The Ministry of Supply nouner today the establishment of a committee to deelde priorities in nilocating radio-active and slable Isotopes for scientific, medical and industrial research.

The committee's chairman will he Sir John D. Cockroft, Director of the Ministry's Atomic Energy at Har- Research Establishment well, Berkshire.

FRANZ LEHAR DIES AFTER FIVE WEEKS' ILLNESS

Ylonna, October 24. Franz Lohar, the Austrian composer of "The Morry Widow" and other successful operettas, diea today at his home in Bad lucki, naar Satzburg, aged 78.

He had been critically I for the last five weeks and bis brother and alater were with him when he died. His body will Ho in state in the Stadtpark Church of'Bad Ischl, which today went into mourning for its most famous Freeman,

He was recently presented with the Freedom of the town. He told the Mayor that he intended to leave his villa, where many of his works were composed, to the town to be, kept as Grand Lebar Museum and one-tenth of his catale for its upkeep.

With over 70,000 performances all over the world, his *peretta The

Merry Widow" held a world record for musical play until beaton by Lahar's other great success "Land, of miles," which opened with Richard Tauber at Drury Lane, London, in 1931,

Jovial, immaculately dressed, Lehær had the appearance of a well-to-do businessman. His hobbles were playing billiards and furnishing flats. At one time, he had live flats with 14 planos.

Lehar came of a Moravian peasant family. He composed his first song when alx and later studied the violin at Prague Musical Academy. When the composer Dvorak saw two of his conatas, he advised the young Lehar give up the violin and become a composer.

Franz wanted

ds to immediately but was dissuaded by his father. His advice to budding composers was "sent your. self comfortably at your deak. · Listen to the stillness of the night and let your pencil dance sver the paper. Start at mid- right, finish et dawn, sleep until lunch-time and then try it out on the piano."

He married Bophle Parkes, a Viennese who was described as the organising genius behind his life. She died last year. They had no children-Reuter.

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Pondicherry, October 24,

Six persons were injured, one of them seriously, to- between Communists and day in clashos French Socialists as French Indians want to the polls for Municipal oloctions. The six werd taken to hospital.

the scene

formed at a public meeting on Friday to deal with the altuation. An official of Mahajana Sabha c'escribed the outbreak In Mahe in a "pontaneous rising of the people against the unprovoked aggression of the French au- thorities.** Governor Charles Baron, Com-

Meanwhile the French India government has re- ceived a communique from Paris announcing that the French government does not recognise "any decision which might have been imposed on the population of Mahe.' The communique added that the incidents in Mahe originat- Į ed from "external hooligans' whose activities have constant- ly been painted out .to the Delhi Kovernment since last August."

(Make was ported riots last week when rationer

India, 1 for French. several thousand persons were blamed the disorders in Mahe unid to have crossed into thend unrest in other French Indin Municipality from India to stage

on external pressure in pre-election demonstrations.) connection with municipal elec- 'The Municipal elections in tions which had been arranged French India today will be fol- for yesterday in Malte, Pondi- lowed by a plebiscite un the cherry, Korikol and Yannos. incorporation of the French terri- Governor Baron assailed par- tory into the Indla Union.

thetics of thờ thularly the Elsewhere in French Indin the Inlin

Party, Congress sircets of towns and villages favours union of French

deserted. People were with the staying indoors to avoid election Press.

kumishes.

were

of re-

The mayor and six councillors

of the French India city of Mahe

on the Mainbar coast have resign. el from the Municipal Council, reports from Calicut said yester- digy.

Union Demanded

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Many Huks Surrender

Press

Manila, October 24.

from various. reports points in Central Luzon Indicated. ladlang in Mahe have challeng-that numbers of Huks, singly or ed French rule in demonstrations in small groups, were surrender- 09 the Cemanding union of French India, ing to the authorities

sith the Dominion of India.

Its all-out A government press

the dissidents. Fresch cruiser has been ordered campaign against

The other members will re- As Lord Nuffield at Grosvenor House, London yes-

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con- Indus- xisting of University and

of the new models now in full production. irini representatives.--Reuter

This is the first occasion in

to Pondicherry, capital of the Reports said the Huk fighters The simultaneous changeover rattered French settlements in were becoming increasingly de- the history of the British to ve new models approaches Ind motor car industry that such the magnitude of the switch from

moralised due to lack of food, The Calicut reports said four and captured Huks told of com world-wide simultaneous cov-

war to pencetime production of members of the French India As-rades dying of hunger in erage has been achieved.

three years ago, necessitating the sembly who favour the me ger mountain hideouta.

with the Dominion have resign- Seven Pampanga Huke, machinery, ed. The French have five settle- cluding a squadron In addition to those in transit installation of new

commander, there are already more than njige, tools, presses and the adopments

In all In Indio They surrendered during the week. thousand cars awaiting packing | ilon of improved production cover about 106 square miles and end, while three Huks surren before starting on their desirable methods in the Oxford, Birming- have a total population of 323. dered In Nueva Ecija four Huks currency-earning voyages.

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Bulacan, were captured French administration At least eight Huks were slain of Mahe virtually has collapsed. | in weekend encounters in Central' Accounts from Tallicherry, in Luzon.

the Mahe area, said a combined It was reliably Jearned that Committed of the Sociallot Huks who surrendered were being Party and the Mahajana Sabha released after being disarmed, (oro-member Hindu Party) was! United Press.

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