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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ·
· 6, 1954,
Beauty Queens Must Have Common Sense
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By FRANK LESLIE
IERE'S big money in leaves a little more to the inviting the crowds to compare
it for the stars, heart- imagination, Freak for the failures.
It's a life of luxury for the successful,
"also rans."
By RENE MacCOLL
B
round
of
wishing
the barred beauties with the winner of bil show?" And, "Judges, too, have tastes said, another of the beauty quean, no one is forced to bo- in bathing, dress. Scantles come a professional "In fact despairing penury for the are best where the judges, only one giri in a thousand or most of them, are film makes anything out of it." shu or stage, stars men, of and soon
kaid. "The rest are falures Well, either, there was sDITIĆ-
drop-out, Since the Second World course → of 85 or over. If they had never thrown up their thing ill-contrived about my op-
War, some. three dozen there's a single woman jobs." proach or else the local burghers had one and all received bad
young women have carved among the judges, I pre- news from their, respective stock-
out new careers for them- fer an orthodox bathing brokers only that morning. Total
selves as beauty queens, in costume. MacColl take, after an aflemoon lety of the house. Ether that, England, in France and of honest
the Atlantic shillings,
peari Italy, across wearing triple-ow
and occasionally in Austra- parleurmaids,n. But scores more have
ECAUSE my wife is collector.
recuperating from
brisk little
of pneumonia I have just found myself east in the unlooked- for-rule of beggar.
How come? Because my wife, in a moment of folly, had undertaken to go the rounds collecting money at people's front doors on be- half of some praiseworthy charity.
endeavour seven
Of course, liko Kucs raclag Chataway, 1 kept varying tho pace. I tried the breezy man- or the winning smile, the touch
of pathos
There was the off-hand style, With the sittle Woman "A little something? Would abed and the
Even the authori- deadline for you cure?"
iative stuff: "I have only just handing in the collected
returned from the Far East, and swag fast approaching, who i can assure you personally that complete the foot ine conditions in which they slogging tank? Aha-three ve.... Nowhere is where it Kusnes! Ever-helpful Mag- all got me.
was to
Coll, they call him.
St
F
went And
med
You ever fal The
Lesson One
i refresher course in the vagalle ol humani sintury, expecially these facela concerning euphilly and the purationes, CHIN hesitatingly rivommizəd « 1 this stunt of dyen-La-time toppil beg- botter ging.
I
The boulwerk which 1 inbertied for my dogged activites les just off Sloane Square A fairly pros- neighbourlod, ji books, think that the
purous and you misplat territory could contain
Tairish
POCKET CARTOON [8, OSBERT LANCASTER
CONTIE ARRIVALS
What! No Yurter! No
Under-Secretaryship | And the dock strike unsettled! Then what have you been doing since I went away?
was for me un verie TERE
fascinatiop In Anding wit what sort of an excuse would be remited Tu by the boure- For that was Lesson Number One which emerged from my tail,
Almost nobody guld outright that they were not interested, could not be bothered, or plabr could not afford R. Nearly the entre bunch
painstakingly
sought refuge in the laboured
excuse,
now.
whet
fort
husband...
10,
加
or else periourmolds have taken
necklaces.
"The Circus"
the
Some of the fallunes In Brihaselde beauty contests
slay on in the resorts working as hotel receptionists or even as kitchen maidle. Опа of the fallures, working at a boarding- house on the East Coast, said: "I thought i was good looking. the thrown up worthwhile jobs "Young
I suppose I was, still am, in an men like
ordinary
sort of way. I threw to chase success, only to novelty effect. work
Two years up a good job to go on tour In British homes. Germans, Ausfind there is always some ago I chose a strapless two- with the circus." And thero trians. Sciendinaviana, French, kalians, and (I think) n Port other girl just a bit more piece costume
| beautiful.
Talking of Lesion Number Two was revelation
the extent to which foreign girls now
were gueNC
among those who came to the dear.
who said:
מניני
For the successful,
the
a
to impress are hundreds more girls like me. them. Last year, I wore a shadow."
I chased a pot of gold and found. one of the first one-piece costumes seen in beauty It was, however, a British beauty queen businças 18
One reason for the failure of competitions since the war, so many girls is that the stand- but I'd ke big business. S.me of the It was a great success where ords of beauty appear to change good every few months. Girls whose male those of the "Miss America"
measuremen a corresponded with and stage "Mrs America" winners a year stand a or two ago would not chance next year, if the result mem- of the "Miss Universe" ·contest
servant girl atraid they're out,
--and did.
in
to contribute romethius myself" professionals England the judges included a make £1.000 a year simply proportion of young by walking on to judging cinema, radio and
stars."
#
And I recall with pleasure the
the young woman who did not look platforms in front of particularly prosperous, and who crowds at seaside resorts. not only give no something in the United Staten the This girl is herself but gave her 1ttle girl
much
of "the circus" — a La any guide. are mi prizes
higher, ber extra sixpence to give 19
for in- group of big-money beauty They both antled and wished "Miss Universe", me well and were charming and atance ---
in contest prizewinners who won her U. natural about it. A change from the embarrassed [any tales gve told at most of the doors,
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113
MA
1
California, and with it spend the entire summer film contract worth £85 a and week, a £1,000 sports car, a complete wardrobe and a Jewel-studded watch.
Most Beautiful
Of course, the girls who win the big prizes tell their Iless fortunate eisters there
is rather more to it E mains
than
walking across the platform and flashing a smile or two at the judges' stand.
More To It
autumn in Britain touring seaside resorts and In 1951, both "Mirs America In tho entering competitions. This and "Mrs America",
contesta famous United States year, the "circus" girls got at Salt Lake City, boasted waist away, as usual, with most measurements of 24 inches, busts of the 250,000-£80,000 offer- of 38 inches and 36 inches ed, in addition to Bundry around the hips. But this year's "Miss Universe" has a bust of dresses, rings, bracelets 33 inches, a waist of 22 inches 35 Inches round the and stockings awarded in and is Home of the bigger con- hips. tests.
A. Business
INCIDENTALLY, to Judge from my little round, if every In London decided hourtholder As the purport of my visit to have his door bell seen to dawned, their expressions would right away thers
would bc change. A look, part sheepish, enough work to kuep a flock of part plaintive, part ingratiating, electriciens busy for a week. would slide into place. Then never dreamed that would come the excuses. "I'm
could be content to people ofrold I can't go all the way along with đxi bells out Di upstahy again for my bag just action.
Could
Lume back "Oh,
of those which were that 15
Many are 'tle envelopes ure
nom helly L working order had Iture
to be pampered in their trang I couldn't make them out. Well, I shall have to consult my
my little eccentricities. You would
In a card beside the bell send contests at British seaside expect the local girls, the mill would like
"Press hard | resorts in two summers girls aid the shop giris on holi- but we tend to a great many 1ng something like. chartklas already,"
A popular London revne pre- My on right side of bell only or else summed up requirements as day to compéte with the girls
who make a business out of fers chorus girls with busts of rheumatism is very bad, and I won't hear."
follows: "A good figure and w beauty
The contests must go and lie gown."
between 36 and 30 inches, hips enter-
of 23 คด experience a pretty face, exceedingly tainments manager
one of 38 inches and waists of A welcome exception was
Quite in educatim.
And from good deportment; common famous resort says: "The post Inches. pleasant young man who sald ow on I know my limitations
Common sense? or sense."
tion was reached here that only In that held at lerat. **1'in engagingly:
the
But if the beauty girl of to only
Seven
seven girls on holiday entered dny is slimmer than "Mias 1934" "Yes," said this queen of lodger mom down in the base- shillings!
for the biggest competition of beauty. ment, old boy, and frankly I'm
"In many
com- the searon because it was com- she still has a long way to go to The Anching touch was when bust just now."
be compared with the girls of knowledge that the p 1763. Costumes of the I conveyed this modest yield, petitions it is left to the mon
early were here. It has eighteenth with the money my wife had girls themselves to
select fessionals
century examined been ellected before the fell to their
suggested we should bar for displays at Bath were found we the
professionals, the des grated receiving bank. are told it must be a swim- are difculties in the way." to have been made for When he saw what
I bore the suit and that is all. Some re- teller groaned.
One of the professional only girls clim enough to wear "More of the wratched le So are some judges. I dress main
sorts are gayer than others. beauty queens summed up the them were still at school-and
difficulties with: We in the Junior gradest
down well at some resorts; to look at. The crowds like to Henceforth MacColl is sticking others don't like them, so I red. What would this manager see us. Suppose we were bar- Faith and Hope.
-(London Express Service). chocse something which say if we put on a rival show.
The most beautiful girls today pre slimmer generally than be fore the Second World War, ac- cording to the results of most of the world's big beauty com- petitions.
Here, for instance, But things are becoming a bit are the measurements of a giri chosen As 'Britain's For instance, a
for the "circus" who was Scols girl moro difcult who
"Modern Eve" 20 years ago; won five big-money the resorts
girls. Organisers at some of
29 say it is unfair to Burt 36 inches; walst
Inches; hips 37 Inches.
Lesson Two
111
NEVERAL people were alleged
by servants, probably truth-
Y
quis
own costume
but
there
fully, to be oul-but I would bet cvelopus," he complained. "What accordingly. A Bikini goes win prizes because we are good
all
of my painfully requied seven shillings that I was told en
someone who was herself the
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London. state of not recognising one People's Republic had pro- "manufacturing a false the factories tend to involve
R Maung Ohn, the or more of their Eastern posed the vote of thanks to
Burmese Ambas colleagues. sador in Moscow, is
a simple, kindly fellow with
Molotov?
It would have been im-
society."
翅
Their trouble, at bottom, Could anyone have listen that they do not have the right
kind of hero to idolise."
an overpowering urge to possible for the United ed? avoid joining his ancestors' States Ambassador to have Nirvana by way of a free asked the
Yet North
Ohn is poor, Mr Korean ride on a hydrogen bomb.
possibly still a little be- Ambassador to pass the wildered.
since the North He hired a
suite in the salt, AWish
Hotel Korean government is "non- Sovietaknya
Now Dr. Stephens Binks may be right. But, if so there in something mighty strange about it all.
turning the samo screw over and over again. And their Jabs in offices involve such
une
exciting things as browing tea and entering the daily sales of nuts and bolts in large black books.
But it is a fair jump from that to carving up the seats in the tube trains and frightening old ladies in cinemas,
Moreover, there is something
Where do Teddy Boys come "Suppose one non-existent from? Climb aboard the London existent"--which makes its government starts dropping underground and, ride out to the other day and invited official representative non- H-bomba on another non- one of those trim, red-brick much more intriguing about the twelve of his diplomatic existent.
suburbs where, thrifty workmen existent government?
have installed themselves
Teddy Boy phenomena. colleagues to dinner-seven
dignity and comfort, and you'll soon find out.
from one side and five from Any schoolboy could have: How on earth is he going the other side of the dispute told Mr Ohn that non- tɔ explain to his ́ancestors which threatens to send all existent persons cannot pass the manner of his coming to off to join our ancestors. So the salt.
be among them?, one might have thought he
was indulging in a simple Likewine dinner table attempt to unite philosophy conversation with
and action."
non-
existent persons 18
notoriously difficult. Had
Most of them
in
Catering to their exotic tastes has become big business, One
aerials back stroat) told us that teenage
nomes, with television.
CUTIO from tallor (an elderly gent in a
and garages sporting elderly "working class” youths is, ona but efficient and well-loved of the nation's biggest spenders. speak of dust is as rara, na an In factories, a youth Can elephant and Inhablianta look sometimes fakó - £10 a week-- as well fed and happy as Me and his cost of living (at home) Pickwick after ** Christmas is low and his responsibilities dinner..
nil.
automobiles ----- homes, where a Razor-Packing Teenagers
in
But next day we heard the Chinego Ambassador from the Ambassadors of blocked the American Am- OVERFLOWING with the If they suffer from some - Down In Oxford Street there Britain, the United States, bassador's view of Mr ▼ milk of social work, Dr deep-sealed psychological herrör, is a barber who specializes and France that it was an Melotov, during the after- Stephens Binks reports that would take a team of crack fantastic Teddy Boy hair styles "untenable situation" which dinner speech, it would have Britain's much-maligned, out where I came from.
ing good psychiatrists to Agure —a crom-between a barrister's wig and a prima donna's clip. wls "either stupid or do been quite impossible to ask, razor packing Teddy Boy is exp
His business is liberato.":
is sa good him to move.
only an unfortunate too young to have been, time. Atas special feature he
They have good jobs. They bartender's just before
closing creature who cannot find a seriously, dusted about by the lacquers the hair, so that you The seven representatives Mr Bohlen would
place in society."/
last war and too young to be don't have to comb it, between of the West said bluntly looked mighty, Milly wri
much upset by the next.
one halecut and the next.. that they had takon just in his report to W
Kolding_forth in front off one look at the guest list ton: Unable toes the assembled superinten True, this is not an age of No doubt there is
is some reason before they "put on (their) Molotov'à, faciál, expression idénta and I matrons of the here But part generations of in the background when a youth costarand „left."
na (view blocked
have not had folich dremes up elaborately and raises non- lon's remand homes, the
finding. plenty of highly-organlah atried actr ths in
Cours
estistent person.
The trouble, of course, iNLANA was that all of the Western Arid suppone
tadors were
learned doctor.
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