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DEATHS
COPLEY MOVLE- On the 11th
March 1958, in Lendon, after a short thep Canon Vyvyna Henry Copley Moyle, in his dat year, Senior Chaplain of Hi John's Cathedral, 1012 to 1929
MUSICAL
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1958.
Ava Gardner Is Now Goya's
China Impressions
(Continued from page 3)
"Women workers have played designed for their
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Who
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NOTICE
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS,
LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders of the Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., will be held at the Registered Office of the Compaty (Second Floor, Telephone House, Des Vooux Road, Central, Hongkong), on Saturday, 16th March, 1968, at 11 a.m., for the of receiving the purpose Report
of of the Board Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st Decem- ber, 1967, to re-elect # Director and to appoint Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 1st March to 15th March, 1958, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
A. SOMMERFELT, Secretary. Hongkong, 22nd Feb; 1958.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
"ELPENOR”
Danaged cargo en ihla-vessel will be murveyed by Mesars Goddard de Dougian at Holt's Wharf from
10, 3:23. on March 15 and 17, 1055, wed
consignees are requested to bays their representatives present during the survey.
BUTTERFIELD & BWIRE Agents,
Hongkong. Martij 13, 1000,
JAL
NEW TRANS PACIFIC
DC-7C
SERVICE FROM
APRIL 1ST 1958
JAPAN AIR LINES
"We have special cars allocat ed to those women workers who ale mothers
thut 80
.their children can be taken to nursery. or school in the morning and brought back home at night. Before the liberation, if a woman had chlidren it was Im possible for her to work.”
Newsman
Answer
He bald that the obvious
for nnswer was
equipment designers to work on the land and see precisely what wanted, and this was now being done,
was
"My aching bones convinve me that there is an urgent need for machines that can save the colossal wastage of labour in
My business la China natural-pensant farming," he added feel- ly kept me to the cltles, but I ingly. did visit a village about 40 miles
The
peasants #re Just ns
| outride Shunghai, and there I closely organised an a community talked to Chung Chia-chih, a 30- basis as city dwellers, mostly in year-old newspaperman who, co-operatives,
They arc 110W though married to a journalist being drawn into the rectifica- with two small cons, volunteered tion. campuign, the system by to do a two-year stint as a farm which everyone in the com- worker.
munity is invited to make public personal criticisms and sugges- tions.
This volunteer progranine is part of the government's effort
**In many
TO increase agricultural pro- The campaign is being earrled duction, check the driti to the out step by step," a high Com- cities, and take culture and the munist told me. state's philosophy, to the country. villages the peasants are debat- It is alded by organisations ing: "shall we go on towards who release
of socialism or not?" B percentage
1 recently their staff for such work, making visited three villages and my up their
pay while they are impression was that socialism is away on this work of national bring consolidateti
The pen- service. The volunteers are sont understanding of this is given spectacular send-offs with more intimate that I thought. bards and masa demonstrations,
Volunteering for work in the Dying Class country is known colloquially as
"Eving up the bill." The peasants While I was in Shanghai I unet are said welcome city workers in his luxurious home, set fu viewing the exodus to the land | magnificent gardens, one of the class of Chinese demonstration of the Im- dying portance of agriculture.
capitalists, Australian bara It also
gives the experts a David Kwok, who studied at chance to get first-hand know- New Bedford, Mass., from 1939 and whose many ledge of agricultural problems. to 1927
Owner.
Is
Duchess Of Alba
By JACK SCHEMEIL
Rome, March 13.
EVERYONE in Rome wants to know it. Will Hollywood's sculptural Ava Gardner pose in the nude for the film "The Naked Maja" which is about a famed nude painting by the immortal Spanish artist Goya?
And if she does--who will
be allowed on the set during shooting of the scene?
The pross department of
Will She Pose
the Titanus Film Company In The
-which will start shooting this month-expects a flood of telephone calls from newamen, photographers and television cameramen asking for priority to record the historic scene,
But tite callors would do better to save their money. No one will be allowed there except the experts, techulclars and performers essential to duction of that scene.
pro-
"You can be sure if that scene Is shot that the pet will be hormetically sealed," a spokes- man for Titanus said.
The spokesman could not say whether Miss Gardner would pose in the
nude or a stand-in
have lo whether
Nude
For The
'Naked Maja?'
the job.
In either case it was
bound to attract the greatest attention among Alm experla.
The titillating question WAS raised by a company announce- itled "The Naked Maja" ment that the alm would be and tell the story of one of legend's most rapturous love stories.
Ava will portray the fascinal- Alba whose ing Duchess of would do torrid love affair with Goya,
China Mail. Entertainment · Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Short Cut To Hell" Robert
Ivera in a drama.
STAR & METROPOLE: "Slaughter On 10th Ave." Richard Egan and Jan Sterling in New York's waterfront war.
ROXY & BROADWAY: "Peyton Place." Lana Turner and Hope Lange in a strong small town drama.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The Pride And The
Passion,"
Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren in a technicolour drama. ALHAMBRA: "An Affair To Remember." Cary
Grant and Deborah Kerr. CAPITOL: "Across The Bridge." Rod Steiger in
u drama. RITZ: "Jeanne Eagels."
Kim Novak and Jeff
Chandler in a drama. ORIENTAL: "Band Of Angels." Clark Gable and
Yvonne DeCarlo.
MAJESTIC: "Sweet Smell Of Success." caster and Tony Curtis in a drama.
Burt Lan-
HANDBOOK OF
THE BBC-1958
The foreword of the BBC Handbook 1958 (published on November 30, 1957, price five shilings), says: "The BBC Board of Governors welcomes public interest in how the BBC is run, and what it is doing and aiming
#
In
played by Anthony Franciose, | scandalised and thrilled the Jato 10th century.
The illio of the film was taken from Goya's famous nude paint- Ing for which the Duchors, greatest lady in Spain of her day, is supposed to have posed.
But there is an Identical version of the notorious painting -except that in this one the Indy
portrayed Was fully dressed.
For doendos
experts have
Bo he told his wife he would go round to Goyn's studio the next day. Realising the effect the sight of his nude wife would have on the Duke, Goys worked all night to make painting for the Duke-dressed.
a second
And that was how the Duke admired the fully robod figure of his wife to be known as the robod Maja, At least that's bow legend tells the story.
And it does not say whether the duke ever did see the Maja pondered over what explanation Desnuda, aor what his reactions to give for the existence of the were. two paintings. The most romantic one is that painted the robed Maja to save
is skin.
Gara
no
Today the question was longer did the Duke of Alba know about his wife's ride portrait. It was did producer Geftredo Lombardo tell Ava she might have to pose in the nude and did she accept?
The duchess had told her husband she was posing for a portaal by Gaya, But she hadn't told him it was in the nude.
One day the Duke decided to take a look at hơi Goya'a work Ho had probably progressed. become suspicious of the length of time Gays was taking to will be that in Spain in May finish his work.
|
From the Files
25
years -AGO-
DSPITE
continued koovy. dumping of Japariese cement in the Colony, the Green Island Cement Company's works resumed operations on Wednes day (March__0). Interviewed yesterday, Mr Allan Keith, Secretary of the company, cald Groen Island Cement prices had been cut down to bedrock to meet the intense competition. revived to a Business had certain extent end fresh orders hud come in. It had, therefore. been decided to start one kiln on and this step was taken Wednesday. The company's staff
is now working full time.
The film, expected to cont $3,000,000, will be directed by Henry Koster. Work will start at the Farnesina studios horo this month
At the meeting of the Hơng- kong Rotary Club next Tuesday (March 14) the speaker will be Mr G. B. Gigord-Hull, Resident Water Engineer, Shing Mun
Scheme, Works Construction Exterior scenes
Subject: A few observations on dams.
United Press),
Monorail System Abandoned
In Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Mar. 13.
THE
THE Lamport and Holt liner, Voltair, now laid up in the Mersey, recently discharged into tho muddy wetera
the Langton Dock 300 bottles of chcellent beer left over from the summer eruising season. As the beer would not keep its good quality until the next season, the company were taced with the alternative of either Landing it at considerable loca owing to the heavy duty payable or else dumping it into the dock. They chose the latter, and a week or
overboard under the #trict custom officer. supervision of One inclined to pity those whose job it was to watch such good refreshment being wasted on a few miserable fish!
THE Mayor of Sao Paulo, Senhor Adhemar de two later it was quietly empiled
Barros has decided that the city's plans for a rapid transport system will have to wait.
He has announced that he is "and that the public has to walt now studying proposals from interminably for transport. I
the have decided use bus ger various privato is for use of more omnibuses as a tem- vicca on an experimental basis. porary measure to ease the The lines will be run by the pri
vate Arms themselves und these situation.
Captain J.
J.
Blankert, master of the ss Thibadak, was Hon. Commander Hole, at the Marine
$10
by
the
Court yesterday for Pauline
In 1965, the municipal author) are ready to start almost Im-
iined I have authorised a medately. ties called for tenders for the irial for 00 to 180 days, let us construction of a rapid frantee if this works out and can port network covering about 03 help to do AWBY with the flies. The plan finally chosen queues."
was that submitted by the Alweg Corporation, of Cologne, in West Germany, and consisted of underground, surface and over- head lines.
Criticism
At the time there Was core siderable criticism of the methods used in asking for tenders.
Later, Alweg was reported to have refused to finance the pro- ject because it was afraid that the City Council could not repay them. But it was never officially stated whether the plan had been dropped or not,
da
Now, Senhor Adhemar Barros, on returning from a trip to Europe where he made a point of studying the systems there, stated that he found the French system too costly and the Alweg system still not approved, | even lo Europe.
Disappointed
07
used the steam whistle of his vessel for a purpose other than navigation on Tuesday morning. Eventually, it is felt, Sao Paulo The Captain admitted the will have to have some kind of | charge, and sold that he used "meiro". But it is also believed the whistle to salute the captain that plans will have to be laid of another steamer, carefully and long in advance. The question of finances is stil the greatest problem to bo overcame-China Mail Special.
RADIO
Hongkong
Gambler
port: 9. zime
and
Ju
REDIFFUSION
0,30,
Zwww and
WHALEN
ABIGAIL writes in the Woman's World: Ladies, you do not drink enough In spite of all the advice you read.- Why go and buy grease in Jara and cleanse your skin and apparatus to mould your armB, when acientific drinking would givo you a complexion and a skin to shame
cosmotics and supple proportioned limbs?......Ong glass on rising, another round. about 11 o'clock and yet another just before bed. Surely you can manage three glasses a day?
SCREEN
-k
in
signal. Popularity Poll presented by 6.30. Asian Clut 4, Time Ted Thomas; 0:30, “Junior Pheo 30 minutes for towagers intrudiced Report, 7. Time Signal. The News by Deborah Kuribati; a56 Weather
The Alice Memorial and 710, Commentary: Als Information Desk: 720. Mu leal Interface with Affiliated Hospitals Pound day the Boston Pops Orchestra coud, by was observed on Friday and, Arthur Fiedler, 120, Xavier Quest proped great success. The and his orcherie with Abba Lene In the Shanghal area the interests include the Wing On
"In Paris," he said, "I rode and thora; 8, Chill Parker household stores, medical peasants werd greatly dis Textle Manufacturing Com-
just over four miles in an | Shelly Bim in "A Cam for Ur supplies and invalid comforta, satisfied with. the activities of pany.
underground trolleybus running
Monele by Ernest Dudley Part 11 together with the gifts money on pneumatic tyres at
(1173)
of the regional department of al-
because I say "dying class"
Carmen Cavallaro at the piano; us, which were received,
reduce culture, and asked what the while they are still drawing
the astonishing rate. The ears are Britain Stags Trevisoup Zola Volo materially agricultural experts, who kept dividends from their business,
comfortable and roomy and they or Weather Rapenditure necessary during the giving them advice, sowed and this is only a temporary arrange
to myself: mave noiselessly, but I thought fome News en Britain: Dear, and tha
stay of the cropped on the streets of Shang- ment.
'How can we con- Clamica) Requesta presented "by Hospital wish to thank all the What the Chinese Communista |
to do." hat. They complained that the
template at the moment anything inter-Unit Team
Aleen Dekker 15, Boxing Army churches, schools and firma as
Championships experts werc directing the did was to assess the value of
Ilke this in Sao Paulo, when we commentators: Ted Thor The Handbook goes
well as individuals who con- long on tape' will before long be farmers from city blocks. Their business, and then agree to
cannot even get the dollars to John Wallace 1830, Take fi from tributed so generously. way towards protest was recognised and the pay five per cent annual Interest
meeting this playing un important part in Import machinery and tractors Edwarda
here with Blok Bentley, Jimmy interest. The latest department is now situated in on that valuation for a period of series of BBC Handbooks--the the Engineering Section indicates services?" And I noted that the broadcast) 10c, Weather Report: the news programmes. A fint in urgently needed for municipal (BCTS) (Repent of lad Tumday's the country.
suven years to the former first' WBS
published in 1928 that BBC technical experts are French system is not much
11. Time Bigoal. Radio News Reel; 14.15, Goodnight Muse; hid, 200
Grld writes gives a picture of the complexity pressing Education
"When dividends ccose that of Britain's national broadcast-development.
forward with this dearer than the German one," Down.
Listeners' Clubi A report will be the end of the Chinese ing organisation.
from Warsaw states that a wire- Chung and his companions capitalet," said Kwok, a devout
He
Music lovers have long been
less enthusiast who died there estimated teach the peasants to read and resbyterian,
One table of figures chows offered rich fare on BBC sound
5.30 recently left a request in his 3. p.m. Marion). Matineej there were about write, and give lectures on
400,000 that the cost of television broad-radio programmes-one-third of
Strike Up The Band To will that his liels should put capitalists in China, though casting increased from
The Mayor Also went to For Two: 4:30. Musical A.D.C. his crystal set in his coffin, ox various subjects, including
£2,615 the combined output was music Cologne to contact representa with the Letter "D" 3. Collar's carphones to his head and that were one-man per hour in 1958 lo £3,250 per in byglene. In return they acquire many of themn
the past year and imowledge of the peasants and
hour in 1957. Sound broadcast- Handbook
the tives of the Alweg Corporation Coma The Little Ellver-Man" -A reports that
the local authorities Kwok Bald he and his fellowing costs also went
BBC I wanted to gain a personal im- Flay by E. Lands Tapirull Based on
be ap land problems which are closely
up-from Television is
proached for bringing pression of the system from my 5.30, Friday Requests-Presented by
afraditional Tale From
penralssion to Alsace: related to the success of indus-capitalists had had their doubts £40 per hour in 1988 to £575 music to a new audience.
crect an aortal ou his grave. Own about the government's ability to in 1957.
observation trialisation.
and stabilise business, but claimed
perience," he said. "But I con- Serenade: Birthday Mailbag, Full-scale operas on television fers to considerable disappoint. Band Cell: 63, The Story Of AUDIENCE
seen on the average by ment. The cars are too small for Fatin Allego; 7, Tinio žignal" and Around 4,000,000 people, Bullet Bao Paulo and do not eppour to
kho Nowa; F20, Weather Fornour), There was a ble in the bogey; Anmolincementa and 'Interlude: 755, programmes on BBC Television Referring to the big audience are ever more popular
Dool competition on the old be as efficient as I bad supposed. Comers Mature: 230, Mantovass and
Memories: 745 Honey Jambar and course at Fanling over the although his Orchestra: 5, Personality Parso seek-end. A. T. Lay (6) and audience of Apart from this, comed
Handbook points about 6,000,000. our co-operation and coeling, the
Murray; Bin, The Tops In L. Goldman (14) both returnog we have beca
experimental stage, the monorail granted a gut that in January 1958 there
„prošented by Nick
scores of one down and divide 10 million reasonable period to readjust will still be some
system is criticised all over Koda: "839, The Lawrence Wate
Bow, Cata. Continental; 9.30, the pool. There were 20 entries: ourselves to the knowledgejagulls who have radio but not
Europe. Let us await the on Boxing Cosminstery-On The Faltogether, On the new coured thai in the Bar inture we television receivers in their
come of trials, the first of which Of The Land Forocs Inter-Unit Team competition was cancelled owing is now being made in Hamburg. Sloan, hirese irgedoses From The to insufficient entries.
Champiqeships. Commentator: Zoek capitalists of China wifi no home (In addition, there are
O.E.C. theoretical point of view I was 1030 Music Band for the Peel Cup. longer depend
But, la aty event, from Foron Cadium 10.34, Doug C1 Marton (all square) quatiged disappointed."
Coriolapeta arid his 'Grebentos: 11. Duty With Dreamland; 11.30. Probade TO 255001gb1; E3 Mkinigts "God love Another
The quesos Close Down TELEVISION
concerns.
The peasants, living off the that this had been done and u land, form about 80 per vent }
successful joint state-private system had been
Brc
of the population, They have enterprise a yearly wage of about 10 worked out in many fields. which
"The government has wel. that depends on sound broad-reach an average
is about the nation- average for a Chinese
wide
worker. Chung Chia-chin lives in a clerk from Deasant's house with
a government department who niso volunteered. They sleep in the kitchen behind a curtala, and are up at 0 a.m. for on hour's work before breakfast of rice gruel.
Lunch is usually
vegetables
and rice with the mata meal in
or fish.
UNDERLINES
C
--Bon
with
Kendall
must admit that it is stilì in on Munte
argument
against
LONDON-A 22.3 million
is being Iasmebod
perties and over a seven-year | Corporation's basic aims and criol Section helps writers to continues to be described here toone; 610, Puppet Theatre; 0.50, which is, forming a Lancashire.
Bui
The fact on dividends, 5 million children in the television drama script sections that sound and but will be remunerated on radio only homes).
scrutinise between 500 and 700 our contribution to manage-
Describing the recent changes scripts each month underlines ment on the basis of our work in the pattern of rudió pro- the endless byager of broadcast- "Crities can say that what the government has done is to assesses, the Handbook repeats ing "Nothing of value is like-either on underground or over- the evening often including meat arbitrarity the values of pro-making those alterations, the mitice," says the Handbook, de- the length of time it would take the BBC's assurance that inly to ba written by a Com- herd rapid transport systems de
Chung said that when he was period pay roughly ane-third of policy remain unchanged.
scribing how the Television to build. Meanwhile, São Paulo A reporter specialising in com- that value in dividends. mercial and economic nows in these amets come from explolia- The Handbook shows how, meet the special demanda of us the world's fastest growing
city, with an Shanghal, he wrote numerous dos of the workers, and the subject to the requirements of writing for television.
over increasing articles saying that the peasants settlement,
need for Immedinte action on in the view of the BBC Charter, the Corpora
One of the most impressive public transport. were opposed to mechanicallon, Chinese capitalists, is a fair and to enjoys complete ladepen tables in the Handhobic Usta but since he had lived, with reasonable one.
dence i tho day to day
The Mayor agreed that the them his whole “thinking had Some of my friends in the operations of sound and televi- throughout the world which re-queuer of people waiting to wo changed,
United Statos, England and slon broadcasting, an indeca ularly rebroadcast BBC or to and from work on Sao Paulo's "I have discovered by prue- Hongkong will probably say that the preparation of programmes broadcasting organisation in the overcrowded bus system, aro | then you arba kaş KA MUNTA Matribe. 904), dyestutis, (ole, à ensiralis dence which applies equally to eas programmes. No other antiquated tram. system"; getid for overesos audiences.
world can show a similer der Filocking, -Looking ahead, BBC News stee of acceptance by oversess I have noted that the quees Division forecasts that pictures) listeners,
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1len) experience that one of the am Communist capitalist. reasons why the peasants are But I believe what I have dous opposed to mechanisation is Chatile right in the new Ching, "num Implements pro pot sullebly Reuter,
fewer than 50 countries
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Textile Co-operative Society, 1.3), “OLODERNE,
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