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• THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1956.
För Grace Kelli's Weddin
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Inter ustig
PLAN TO' CORRECT
CALENDAR ERROR:
'NO MORE
FEB 29s FOR NEXT 40 YRS'
Duffalo.
A Presbyterian minister wants to cut out February: 29 for the next 10 years.
be the easient wondh way, he said last week, to tel the catch up with our way- want calendar, which is running Just mute to inst.
Ti
if February 29 were abolish- ed it the year 2000 AD) the sus and the calendar would be bark in step
Rev
Such a scheme b being ad- vorated in scientific erries by Warren George the Walker. Walden Presbyterian
15 Wh
He is 750 cademiar
PL
minister
C' student of the
of
Nvery adronomer knows that fitenda is unperfect
Win
et up by dullur Cursue revised vents Pilos aprel
somewhat Ly Pope Gregory XH 1582 The Pope and to top 10 days out of the calendar
to
it back in line with the
omical year.
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From London: A Young Man Just Out Frou Of Pilson Decides to Play Sala.
Businan As Usual But With A Difference.
New York: Salvador. Datt
Ploos A Novel Contribution To Tho Festivities Which Will Accompany The Rainier Grace Kelly Wedding.
Plan Bake The World's Biggest Apple Plo Today.
From Buffalo: A Calendar Enthusiast From Hobart: Tasmanians Τα
Suggests Removing February 29
From The Calendar For 40 Years.
Giant Apple Pieļ
Llobart,
Twenty cooks will bake The world's biggest apple ple, weighing about three- quarters of a ton, for the Buon Valley Apple Festival
southern
Tasmania
"
today.
Aboni ra pected
will eat it.
16,009 visitors, at the festival,
#211
The pie rotti have expanse of 325 square feet. Tazmanta's apple-groen sati sdistrict wilt supply 1,000
pounda of apples to inside.
ard the pic-crust will take 500 pounds of flour and 200 punds of angor.-China Mall Special.
'Chameleon'
Too Many Leap Years Trout Ends
Pure Ma natural point.
netranonenliy
when the year i Should begin qul Mr Walker.
J
th rit ]**w«I'Hut
Sistely
Buffalo Astronomsebi
Right now
need to atsak Badter adjusthorní of
To get our calender to begur at The time of the winter rubla e,
The shortest day of the year."
"I'm put it simply, we have. indulging autheters with too many leap years. en't keep up with us
The sun We can
#! back in step with the
Anonni year if we just omat all Trap years for the next 40 years
31 Walker believes if the United Nations accepted Ins it would not stir up resistance anywhere. proposals for calendar reform
Other
Call Girl Man () Back On The Job
But This Time-"I'm Going Straight”
London.
An "escort bureau” operator just released from an 18-month gaol term for operating a call-girl racket hung up signs in Soho last week, announcing he is "back in business."
But not "business as usual." Mark Langtry, the 25-year-old businessman, told reporters there'll be "no call girls this time."
"It'll all be strictly legal" yours," he said. "But I've got, the 300 girls who worked for tom before his conviction, he he said as he reopened his intention of going back
This time I'm running | said. pris n. escort business using the my escort business well within
roster of girls Scot- the law. Irel Yard submitted as evidence against him two years ago.
publicised his
*I've gol all my Pow materials," he said, flourishing a ale of girta' nomes and addresses re!"Now it's just a matter of tele- When the girls near from me I'm sure they'll come flocking buck."
His Careersumption of operations by phoning,
Wellington. Turvey, the "chameleon" trout
of Taniwha Springs,
Fours
Rotorus. died ut the age of nearly SIX He was insured at Lloyds for £100 "against the risks of mortality, excluding death from war riols or earthquake.“
renting
space windows in Soho.
in
Pleaded Guilty
shop
Langtry's notices went 10 alongside poster-card advertise- ments for "Artists Models," "Massage Parlours and other shody enterprises.
Harvey During his lifetime
The youthful businessman was entertained thousands of visitors | freed last month after serving who watched him change colour 18 months in Maidstone Gaol on when fed.
hege of "Uving off immoral cornings." He pleaded guilty.
the
Normally he was redidish- brown from the mouth to dorsal in, where he abruptly have made little headway in the changed colour to temon-green.
Most of or elsewhere
UN
the objections are made on re-
İlgious grounds.
"Bul Walker,
said Mr
no
leap year,"
fortunately Ingrained relellonship to any re-
gbat." U. He Press.
Palice raided the "escort GET- viee" which Langtry ran from a seedy Soho office in 1934. They charged that some of the girls When ted or unset Harvey's on his books were call girls.
Langtry, they charges sized colours reversed. He remained In this state for a few minutes
customer within U II and then
tu, seconds slowly returned
and knew whether to normal-China Mait Special.
Rive alm + straightforward) rudurt for an evening's theatre- going or a prostitute.
Former HK Sailor
In Mercy Flight To Wife's
Bedside
malo
*Enforced Holiday*
He announced his return in signs which said; "Mark Langtry 15 back in business after an enforced holiday. He is re- organising
business his escort and welcomes the return of his old clientele. He is also seeking office accommodation
(And It's All On The Royal Navy) West End area."
London.
In
the
Police admitted at Langtry's trial that 90 per cent of his business was "on the level". Must of the 500 girls
his
on
The Royal Navy is paying the £300 air fare of a 21-year-old sailor to fly to his wife's bedside in Newles, they said, were clerks, Zealand.
He is Christopher Laidlaw of Edinburgh who was in Hongkong last year IIMS Newcastle.
Next week
011
his auburn. Imired. 21-year-old wife, Ruth, is to have a serious uperation to heart valve
remove
1
®n{ pat nylon one in its place As he pucked his kit in Ports- inouth Barracks last week. Christopher was nailor with six years' service. He had three more years to rerve. When he boarded his plane et London Airport last week he was civilian.
"The
The Git, Scotsman said:
Navy has made me a debtor of honour....I serve my last three years In the New Zea lond Navy, only when I know that Ruth is well.
of
"They accepted my word
honour that I would no algn=' ing, no forms to fill in."
Confident
He spoke quietly about Ruth: "She is to have a very re operation, but the surgeon has done
I before successfully, We are confident it will be all Fight!!
As he "killed time" In a Forces club Chris told how he found out that the Royal Navy can Do "a very human Service," Ho
met Ruth good-looking farmer's daughter-six months ogo, at Dunedin, New Zealand. He was one of the crew of the cruiser IIMS Newcastle. The cruiser sailed on to Welling- ton Ruth followed; Ave duya Jaber Chris proposed.
He said: "I knew we чето Icaving New Zealand In 3
parents in
Edinburgh.
stead, there was n cable. Ruth was dangerously $41. A.B. Laidlaw asked the Navy to transfer him to the New Żea- land Navy. They sent him on
or
Langtry said he picked up his Ales from a relative who kept them while he was in gol. The les contain forms fled in by
|
'Not THAT Kind'
Each form has detalls of the girts figure, measureratuts, hair, complexion and hobbies. Only at- Langtry knows the moral tudes of the applienots.
"Of course, I shan't be [T ploying THAT kind of girl any more," he said. "In future I employ only respectable shall' girls."-United Press.
CHIVALRY DEAD?-THEN READ THIS
Tangier.
A chivalrous pickpocket who rubbed a young American women tourist of her purse, returned her passport by dropping it in a letter-box.
return
fle kept her money, and her Havre to New York in the liner Liberte,
tleket from Le
The tourist, who called briefly, at Tangier in the Italian trans-Atlantic #ner, Conde Blanetiano, was
unable to replace the passport as short nițier, and rt-embarked with- out it.
I was forwarded, on to her by the United States Embassy,China Mail Special.
Thames Monster: Photos
Were No Help To Experts
London.
Photographs of the Thames "sen monster" taken by
the a visiting American botanist failed to clear up mystery of the creature.
The "monster" way Arst i
Hie snapped some pictures, spotted on last month by people quickly developed them and strolling along the Thames near showed them to experts at the the Houses of Parliament. They Natural History Museum. telephoned police.
4
stenographers and shopgirls On Fab, 20 an American "It might be an umbrella if making a few extra pounds abotanist, Mr Herbert Floyd was it were not so large," one of In-week by escorting out of town studying thistles In a meadow them said, “It does not look
businessmen and other lonely along the Thames at Marlow, 25 Ike a mammal,”
theatre males on harmless
miles above the city, when he spotted the creature,
Another said it "looks like a dinner dates.
thoroughly waterlogged model of a dimetrodon, a reptile ex- tinct for about 300,000,000 years, There are models in University Museum and that sort of place."
It was the other 10 per cent, spccial leave with his parents, they said, that brought about the police raid and subsequent charges.
Mra Laidlaw
and on his return to barracks wold him:
"We are not transferring you. Instand, you can have your decharge, but you are' on your
week. Ruth's father gave u hombur to compleie your
1 wonderful wedding -- in double quick time. We had 'alx days' Honeymont, VE
In the Country
Once more the cruiser sailed
service when you get over your trouble. The air leket ir
on the Navy, but after thal
Sald Chria: “I'll do, my three
you're on your own
away and the ship's company year. When its over, it
flaw home, from, Singapore,
Buth was to have followed her
dairy-fazfning at the fool of
walior, frisbench to LIVE WILL AI" (Ather for more
"Within The Law'
"My hal! I said to myself, This is one of those things you ace at 8 o'clock in the morning. But it was still there when I ran to the bank. There were ripples round the fin as though the fish was 25 or 30 feet long."
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Mr Floyd, 2 graduate of Langtry said today he knew It was moving along in mid-Ohio State University who he was running a risk in start-stream at a steady 132. knots making private studies in Bri- ing operations again.
with a in sticking four or five tain, did not confirm the reports feet out of the water, He said of less cabin observers who said "If I'm arrested and found his first impression was that it It had "big, red eyes."United guilty again, I could get four was a Cullfornia sailfish.
From
Press.
A trip to build
March 31 st
every
seat a
Slumberette
White Rhinos And
All That
-by Dali
1
New York. Salvador Dali said he plans to costume an entire ballet in white rhinocero's
RO X V. BRUNWAY
TOM EWELL
SHEREE
horns as a "gorgeous parade NORTH
of chasity," heralding the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier.
Tho ballet is to be created Monte for performance at the Carlo Opera House in the gala weck before the Apri 19 wedding. Its bockers dold the
Iden cart from Rainier's mother, Princess Antoinette.
The rhinoceros' horn motif. however, came solely from the
who surrealistic
once netfat
watch welined to the meking face. Dali now fcela that
"Ithinocerosism will catch the Boul out of
time." The
of horn
the white thinoceros is the successor to the horn of the unicorn and is... like ts ancestor in the Middle Akcs-the gymbel of chasity," the mustechlood Dali sald
SALVADOR DALI
be "Nothing could
# better symbol for such 12 nóble eccasion us this princely wedding.
"Every dancer will be clad in e costume having the form of the horn of the white rhinoceros. It will bo
like # gorgeous parade of chosity."
The Bronx Zoo said Dalt was of his casel if he thought the unicorn was the ancestor of the white rhino.
ort-
The unicorn was 2 purely imaginary creature and thero- foro couldn't leave any spring," a Zoo spokesman said. "The white rhinoceros is a prosaic, living rnimal, though rare. It is found wild in Aftica In 2003 in Europe and and Atrict."
Rhinocerosque!
Dall was not troubled by such zoological considerations.
"Our century has been called' at times the age of communism, the rge of capitalism, the age of anxiety and the age of jazz," he enid, “but If you look beneath that the surface you realise this
is the age of the white rhinoceros,
This ballet will be just offe stage of this new rhinocerosque art, I am going to develop. It in painting, too, Cubisms was but an error."-United, Prem.,
SHOWING TODAY
2.30. 9.30. 7.30 & 9.30 F.M.. THE LAUGHING H-BOMB! -
THE
LIEUTENANT
WORE
SKIRTS
COLINE BY DELATE
CINEMASCOPE®
esting RITA MORENO
it the wonder of High, Fidelity.
TO-MORROW
ROXY; At 12,00 Noon Jane Russell Marilyn Monroe
in
"GENTLEMEN PREFER
BLONDES"
In Technicofar
STEREOPHONIG SOUND
MORNING SHOW BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m.
A SELECTED PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
Presented by
20th Century-Fox
Reduced Admission
Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 CH. Broadway: $1.20 & 70 Ch.
The Festival of the Arts.
THE MASQUERS
(University of Hong Kong)}
present
COMUS
By JOHN MILTON 1634. preceded by
THE SECULAR MASQUE
By JOHN DRYDEN, 1700. TUESDAY, 2016 MARCH AT 8.30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, 21st MARCH AT 9.00 PM. SPECIAL SCHOOLS' PERFORMANCE WEDNESDAY, 2111 MARCH AT 5.30 P.M.
WAH YAN COLLEGE H.K. Tickets NOW available at Moutries and the Union Office, University of H.K. Prices: $6.00, $3.50, $2.00. Schools' performance: $2.00.
KAI-TAK PLAYERS
present
"THE WHITE SHEEP OF THE FAMILY"
by
L. DU GARD PEACH & ʻIAN HAY,
at the
Y.M.C.A., KOWLOON "21st & 22nd MARCH 1956. ·
at 8.30 p.. Tickets from Moutrie's or Y.M.C.A.
(Hong Kong or Kowloon).
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