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MA. VICTOR MAMAK

Expert on beauty

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I met Mr. Mamak at his office the other day and war fascinated by the remarkable make-up which he exercises, Hö showed me an album of photo- graphs of some of his works, and 1 was amazed at the range of bis experience.

He would take a perfectly or

and within dinary young man half an hour alter his appearance that you would BO completely think Ornculn in stalking the

world ngain. Or he would

take a plain pyoung lady and op- make-up to ply such exquisite her face that in the end you would swear you had seen her an Desdemona in London per- formance of "Othelia."

I found Mr. Manak perfectly groomed and adroit on all mai lers pertaining to art and beauty. He spoke expertly on a num- bel of subjects, but utways veered again to the issue of wo- nanly appearance According to him, there need be no ugly wo- then at all. There are beauty olds at the command of lacles which if properly applied soften all Ihared lane, and enhance poise.

dignity and grace.

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visiting the cabarets, and I must visit

A. cabaret tonight or go crazy."

Half an hour later, an An namite-no different from many passed alert others--carelessly sentries into the ornate chamber of a Salon de Dance, and one Frenchman' was happy because, after months of monotonous in- activity, he could trip the light fantastic once more,

preaches Mr. Mamak'

the that women should bc creed

Ho agrees beautiful at all times. instinctively with the Nawab of Bhopal who once told a gaudy duchess in Mayfair affected, un- fortunately, with what Олецг Wilde deserthed as the remains of a really remarkable ugliness. "I am sorry. Duchess, but I can to visit tur at never nak you Malabur Hill, Only the beautiful are admitted there"

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women pratsing

who presnit nothing to interfere with their right to be beautiful on all or cansions

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to the guillotine, asked the driver if her hair was pesperly arranged

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M. Arvey fe allowed

By The SCRIBE.

in France, where he took his de- green.

In Paris one October afternoon as he walked down the leafy Champs d'Elysees the Day Europe's gayest capital 40 en- thralled him that he refused to board the ship which was due to carry him back to Siam that night.

He remained several months longer and at a dinner party rome time later he met charming Frenchwoman who was later to become his wife.

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New Consul General

Mi Sanga Sikhabod amived in

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NEWS

Shanghai, sald she is happy to represent the Colony as tis Hal.... son officer. She spoke with 'apm) preslation of the contribution Hong Kong has made af sessions:

of the Economla C

Asin and the Far.

Sir Man-kam.” “Lo

Vice-

Chairman at the second session, Miss Hinder said there is now a pr. Chan attended, the third and cbhalderable amount of United fourth sessions. and Mr. R., C.

In the Siamese Leo the fourth, and fifth. The Sukhabuts have two chil-Nations activity

agencies dren, both boys, one of whom, at capital. Many of the

Bhela fateful; she said, for operating there were transferred the interest“ Mr. - Leo had, taken 11, le attending Roydon School.

from, Shanghai, - The Economic | in the work of the Commission,

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A friend of the Stamesa Royal Commission Secretariat has its and paid a tribute to the Gover Family, Mr. Sukhabut sald Bang-offices in Bangkok; the regional nor, Sir Alexander Grantham, for kok has greatly changed kirice the representative of the Director- his great assistance.

school- General of the Food and Agricul- Miss. Hinder was accompanied days when an English

from al Organisation is also stationed on her, recent visit to Hong Kong mistress, coming down

too, are the regional by Miss Viola Smith, who has London, encountered much diffe-there. So, rences in behaviour and outlook headquarters of the United Na- been acting as Trade Promoting

tiona International Children's Consultant in the ECÂFE. that her book about it becama

Emergency Fund.

MIST Smith was formerly the best seller.

two addition, subsidiary United Stater Tråde Commis- MR. HUBERT FRBYN

their aloner and Cónsul in Shànghal. is a lot of

FAO have cosmopoli-bailles of the

Bongkok-the She called on Mr. Keen, the of the Kuomintang in 1940, and, Lanism In Bangkok at present, headquarters

in the light of past Chinese re Rlee Commission Director of Commerce and In- since the capital of Stum has be- International come the capital of the United

Fisheries dustry, and attended the Hong. formers, give an exploratory in- aud the Indo-Pacific

Exhibition dication of what the Communists Natione in the Far East.

Council and it is likely that a Kong Manufacturers' third

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commission: Kowloon. She later discussed may be expected to accomplish

impressions with Govern- and not to accomplish. un forestry and forest products, her

ment officers at the exhibition will come into being in 1950,

Mr. Freyn first came to China, and with Mr. Keon.

1935 as an in September Miss Hinder Buld aho WYDA

change scholar from the Chia-. of the greatly interested to fearn HEN

csa Department of Columbia Uni- Hong formation of a group

versity to Yeaching Univeralty. Kong recently with the object of

He has an MA in Chinese from many interesting residents in

Columbia and a BS in economies hases of international affairs,

from New York University. including the United Nations and

He was born in Prague, then its activities.

Mr.

and went to E. C. Allen, publicity Austria-Hungary, She

hopes it

manager for the Pacific and the United States in 1923. Pro- deni of attention to give a good

Orient Steamship Company fessionally he started out to be the problems which the regional Limited, passed through flops on the

accountant. baxties, particularly those cen- Kong last week on a tour of the tered in Bangkok, are fucing.

Far East on behalf of his firm.

HIN to the

Before coming to Hong Kong Mr. Sukhabut was attached to the Ministry of Commerce,

was Secretary last post Foreign Trade Department. assignment in Hong Kong wil keep him here for three years.

Uno in the Far East

Mi Eleonor Binder, United Kingdom Liaison Ofcer with the United Nations and specialised agencies in the For Est, paid a short visit to Hong Kong last week.

A distinguished social worker, she has been qut Enst since 1923. For many years before the war Mi Sakhabat then toured the | she was Director of the Indus- Continent.

she

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will

She intends to keep the new organisation-known as the In- ternational Study Group-fully informed, by sending documents and publications of the work of all these international organisa» tions.

On World tour for P & O

He is visiting P&O branches all over the world to rehabilitate publicity work which, since the war, has fallen into comparative decline,

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Bring in Yanching at the time of the student movement of 1935- 6, he took part in the demon- strutions and went with the biudents on their

propagandu tour, through the villages and towns. One of his main tasks in to The result was his first book contact the world presa, and to "Prelude To War, The Chinese

& offices Jo all shipping Student Rebellion of 1935-8." She understands Hong Kong put P visiting Switzerland. | trial and Social División of the

oitica сп will be represented at the meel-

modern footing as He then became editor of The where Shimese kings traditionally | Shanghai Municipal Council. At

of

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for regards photographs

"Chioa Venice, present she is based in Bangkok.

Journal." in Shanghai, zeeve #eur education.

ganisations with relations with;} hancement of the line's merits. suceceding Mr. Arthur Sowerby, Dege two centuries ago | where she is also acting as lini- Whist

Mr. Allen belloves that cor- and joined the International De- ng this the lagoon und

Kun offer for the long Kong

ndvertising campaigns rect the Economile

are pariment of, the Chinese Minis- Government with Commission for Asia and the FRE East (ECAPE).

The Colous best werk to represent ; therw the Krugdom of Simms fuisalsynsbolically wedded the gondolt- city with the Adriatic, and Len- General here

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before

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Hollington K. Tong in Hong Kong, Chungking and New York. After Pearl Harbour he served in the American Army Intelli- gence, then for a brief time in the Offro of War Information. Ho returned to China in March -1946 with UNRRĄ,

His research ₤15 Fulbright scholar was done at the St. John's University and Lingnax Univers sity,

For the actual writing of his new book he retired to a' moun- Lain village not far from 'Taipeh, where he spent Dearly half a year. He expects to finish the MS here in Hong Kong, beforn returning to the United States.

Farewell to China

primne of

}

One may well expect the older MR. E. C. ALLEN

generation to say farewell for He spent three days in Hong

ever to a China changing beyond Kong

their knowing, but there is al- before flying to Tokyo. Ways a bit of a pang when cae Singapore, Penang, Calcutta, hears of men in the From Japan he will be going to their life going away for good. Madras Colombo, Bombay, Mr. Ivor House, of Liddell Bros. Karachi, and Port Said. He hopes & Co, has left Hong Kong for return to London by the end Australia, where he will rejoin of "February, ami

his wife who is staying with her Unmarried, Mr. Allen ia an mother, Mrs. Lancelot Gülés, in Australian. "Before the war he Albany, West Australia. worked for the MacDonald, Mr. House was the son of the Hamilton

Limited Company

former Commander House, R.N. who were the P & 0, British (retired), who

notable India agents in Australia. Dur- Agure for years along the Yang- Ing the war he served with the

tse and especially in Hankow. Royal Australian Navy, and as Ivor was a leading Jockey be- soon as he was demobiilsed be

tofe the war in, Tientsin, and hay sailed for England where

also ridden elsewhere in China. joined

¡More recently he had for- saken the pleasures and perils of riding in horse races for the

theiride and Orient

manager.

he

a

Vigilance, industry and cor-

was a

rect publicity will have a lot to quieter joys of bird-watching, do in the future with the main-at which he was quite an, expert. tenance of Britain's. position in maritime traffic, Mr. Allen said.

Fulbright scholar in Hong Kong

A Fulbright research scholar, Mr. Hubert Freyn, came to Hong Hong last week to complete a book tentatively entitled America, Communism, and The Chinese Mind."

the

Some years ago he married Mar- Jorlo Giles, daughter

of the former British Consul-General In China, Mr. Lancelot Giles and Mrs. Giles. Mr. Giles

himself was a son of the famous "Die- tionary" Giles. Mrs. Giles returned tq Shanghaf after the war to do welfare work, and has now retired In Albany.

Miss Marger Greenop, who has Just come to Hong Kong' from Southern Rhodesia, has joined the "China Mall" and "Sunday" "the - Herald" advertising department.

the Miss Greenop, who is

The central theme Western impact on the Chinese mind, with chaphasis on American rold and the perform=

'ance

of the American returned daughter of Mrz, G. ML. Dickin student. The book, will give a son, intends to stay in the Colony. clear-cut answer to the debacle permanently.

BOVRIL

the appetising flavour of beef

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Bovtil' In cooking the most of: ather: 'adds a tastiness there'

Bovril sandwiches were "delicious-and-so

economical to maki

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