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CHINA MAIL

HE'S SEARCHING HK

FOR A NEW

BROADWAY STAR

By A STAFF REPORTER

If the Chinese humorist is better than his Japanese counterpart, we are likely to have someone amongst us making the headlines in à Broad- way show in the near future,

An American producer who

flew in from Tokyo this mom-

ing said that The Japanese he interviewed, lacked humour

and warmth he thought neces- nary for a stage play he plans to produce in Ameries.

Mr J. S. Seldnian has no name for the play as yet, but he søkel it would be some sort of AdiON revue.

Chaplin?

He, however, is not here safe- ly to scout--non-speaking Chortle Chopin, He wants Aslen talent of all types ranging from dancers. singers, acrobats, magicians, hagglers to beautiful girls when he will eat in pro- duction numbers backed Aslan settings

Minimum salary per week a $750 (a minimum unĒTI Tale! per performET,

Mr Seidman har soiletted the help of tup show business

people here in his aim to ind right performers for his

the

play.

He intends to secure a group of about 60 performers. All of whom would be on a "run of the play" contract. u contract which lasts as long as the show minimum በቡ routh,

una

maximum two years.

Passage to and, from America

will be "bome by him.

The Tour

10

Sun

The troupe Is expected tour Los Angeles, Francisco, Las Vegan, Chleaga, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphin tu "break" in," before playing at their ultimate destination--

Broadway in New York.

Mir

Seidman is The sole financler of the show. He has been connected with 63 singe plays up to the present, 47

of which were specesses.

"My Fair Lady" which 15 now running in New York and London is one of his successes.

This

porticuius Plas niready bee running for three years. He expects it tu Mirelch to seven,

irus the

For his director for the Asian revue. Mr Seldman has in mind The celebrated Danny Mann, the

Mr Seidma

RAF TO

"LIGHT UP"

KOWLOON

The RAF is going to Right up Kowloon in a spectacular

this way evening.

Today is November 5. And the RAF IN going to ulserve Guy Fawkes day by setting light to a huge bonfire at Kai Tak. On top will be an effigy of Guy Fawkes.

Group Captain R. A. S. Disney, the Com manding Officer, wil Are the first rocket promptly at 6.30. A lirework display will follow. The display will be held at the RAF Marine Crufi section.

A barbecue will later be provided for all RAF

children.

Skirts

Skirts

Tweeds,

man respɔnstbie for "Tea House of the August Moon".

Before leaving for the Philip- pines, the second lex of tita outheas. Asian scouting tour, de Broadway producer will meet members of the local flm world. He does not expect his perfor mers to speak Engilah, but states topt performers would have to have at least some of the win -

ag ways with audience.

A Hobby

The theatre was farmerly Looby with Mr Selaman, he esseritially a senior partner in we certated public accounting him of Seldman and Seidman, with 10 offices throughout the United States.

Mr Seidman was, during the wat, a special assistant to U.S. Navy Secretary James Forrestal, and rose to the rank of Captain. He has also served as consultant to the Congress on budgets and Lecounting.

Takes are his spectulty and vexudes appearing frequently be- ore the Congress to make re- commendations on improvement of tax laws on behalf of the American Institute of Certed Public

the Accountants, and New York Board of Trade, he has written four books on taxes. He also is a regular contributor so the tax columns of the New

York Times.

He is as extensive traveller atid last year spent 2 months behind the Iron Curtain study- ng book-keeping and accounting methods of the Soviet Union.

He expecta to stay in Hong- kong for ten days and then go to the Philippines.

London, Nov. 4. Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, Bri- ush Colonial Secretary, "cald to-

desire for day Chut no

union with the Yemen existed among tribes in the Aden Protectorate,

10t

He told a Labour questioner In the House of Commons here

suggestion that any United Nations or other inde- i pendent body should make inz- quiries about union witha the Yemen would be strongly re sented by the protectorate tribes. Reuter.

Skirts...

Flannels.

Tartans

and smooth Orlon mixtures!

ALL STYLES

ALL SIZES

ALL COLOURS

at

Paquerettes!

16a Des Voeux Road C.

Tel. 21-157

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1958.

Lorries For For

SHEAFFERS

Skrip

Cambodia

Are Gift From Chou

Demand For Low-Cost Housing Continues

Many new flats have remained unsold long after

Ton four-ton "Liberation"

lorries, the gift of Premier. Chou En-fai to the Premier | of Cambodia, Prince Norodan Sihanouk, arriv- ed in Hongkong by train from Manchuria yesterday afternoon.

The lorries ore painted green in colour. the tyres are mado in China.

completion while on the other hand, the de-Loading of the vehicles---

mand for low-cost housing is still unsatisfied,

a real estate authority said this morning.

On account

of pronteering Leong, instructed by Messrs C. uperations, prices of new houses Y. Kwan und Co; Mr Geraki are sú very high. Those to, instructed by Messrs M. above $30.000 per lat, generally K. Lam and Co; Mr D. L. of u better type, had a very Holland-Roberts of Messrs. Hast- quiet market, and over fifty perings and Co. and Mr P, Chan of

unor lessrs Lau, Chan and Ko. cent of them remained cupled, said the authority.

The hearing is continuing.

On the contrary, the Chinese: type tenement houses were very much in demand.

The authority said he had learned from close friends that many tenants affected by ex- emption pooled their financial strength after receiving com- pensation.

Joint Plan

Exemption For 1868 Building

stored in the open at the Police Pier on to barges bogon this morning.

IRAQ LEADER

HELD

GRAVE

RISK OF

FIRE

Magistrate's Warning-

Tho gravo risk of fire at this

timo of

its year and

From the Files

25

years ACO

The statutory first meeting joj creditora vas held at Bankruptcy Buildings - after the failure of Captain Brico Bairnsfather, described as a journalist. Ungocured liabili tion toore over inore than £14,000 including a 29,380- tax claim. Before the war was over his play "The Better

'Ole" roas produced. Later

"Old Bill, MP 108 dlso produord which was a failure from a financial standpoint, and he lost the monoy invested.

☆

on

SENSATIONAL disclosures are suggested by the re- ported disappearance from the Government gun- Green powder depot Island of FL71. enormous quantity of explosives. Coincident with this alleged discovery, the Police authorities have been called

upon to trace the where- abouts of Mr Angel Julian, officer-in-charge of the Depot who is said to be missing.

The case is under investiga- tion but sufficient has been elicited to indicate that a large number of cases of dynamite stored at the Depot on account of one of the two principal im- porting arms are involved.

The exact number has hitherto not been determined, | but the quantity is fixed at a minimum of 200 cases by the firm concerned,

*

The death has occurred in London

Admiral of

Sir Alexander Duff, late Coni- mander-in-Chief of the China Station and one of Britain's foremost naval officers.

★ The serious consequences wore FROM the SCMP's stressed by Kowloon "Twenty - five Years Magistrato, Mr B. V. Ago" column: "A Hankow Rhodes this morning whon paper recently quoted an ho finod a merchant $500 authentic instance of 2

for

storing. dangerous passenger by the Trans- goods without a licence.

Siberian route doing the between London

were

Mr. Rhodes said there had been several fires recently not journey only causing flaancial loss and and Hankow in sixteen days Cairo, Nov. 4.

damage to property, but result- and four hours. This was Bagdad Radio, monitored ing in the loss of lives.

hore, said tonight that In enforcing restrictions deal by the new route, and the Colonet Salam

ing with storage of dangerous passenger declared that in Arif, goods, omcera of formor Iraqi Deputy Prime Brigade were doing their duty arrangements

the Fire every respect the travelling Minister and

excel- recently to preserve life and property lent. appointed Ambassador to from fire. Bonn, had been arrested

The defendant,, Fung Shu-Shanghot contemporary states "A commentator, writing to a prising Mr Derek Cona, for plotting against the

ming of Sun Trading Company, that the record up till this case, President, Mr John G.

486 Un Chau Street, ground was held by a friend of his who. stato and would stand

floor, admitted storing a large mode the distance between the O'Donnell, and Mr among

Lo trial.

quantity of highly inflammable Hongkong and Shanghat Bank Koon-kan, this morning| The Radio said that Colonel chemicals there,

in London and the Shanghai returned from recommended an appliça- Arif had

hls

The goods, which included Club in 18 days,” tion for axemption of No. Bonn post without permission hydrogen peroxide, sulphuric 77 Wing Lok Street which had tried to undermine the acid, nitric acid, bleaching.

Security of the State, is to make way for a new

powder and sodium cyanide, were confiscated. six-storoyed building.

"Often they jointly buy up A Tenancy Tribunal com* Chinese-type tenement houses

Hat by fat, share the instalment payments of purchase prices and

also there the Anta themselves," he said.

"As compared with the second quarter of this year, the number of applications for exemption is now on the wane temporarily," ho said.

in

The Egyptian Government- controlled Middle East Nows In reply to another question.

A fine of $400 was also im- Agency said that on his return posed on Slu Che-ing, of Tal the authority said it seemed Miss Wong Lal-king, and Mr lo Bagdad quite a vogue for landlords to Wong Chung-kai, ster

Colonel Arif im Hing Chemical Industries, 81 and mediately called on Brigadier Hau Wong Road, ground floor, finance their redevelopment brother, and co-owners of No. Abdul Karim ai Kassem, schemes by mortgaging.

the for a similar offence 77, applied through Mr P. T. Prime Minister. "They often mortgage one Yu of Zimmern and Co. scheme to finance another scheme Mr Rudy "rang Lau.

Colonel the

Arit arrived which they might mortgage fur-archlicet, testified that the Munich, South Germany, by air ther just to Anance stili, another existing building, three-storeyed from Bagdad on October 12. scheme. It's a sort of chala Chinese-type house. was, in a From Munich he travelled to action. But this docs not generally dilapidated condition Brussels on October 14, necessarily mean that they have

on account of ago which he apparently to visit the World no other resources in hand. It's

estimated at about 10 years. Fair. just that they prefer it that way," the authority sald,

Agreement On Compensation

Compensation based upon 316 per square foot is being offered to tenants of Nos. 102-104, Queen's Road Eaal and Nos 40-65 Leo Tung Street, Mr Leslie Wright and during exemption proceedings this morning.

He sold the time required for He was then said to be takingi demolition and erection of the a private holiday, visiting two new building would Do ten or three European countries, monuis and cost would be before taking up duties in Bonn about $160,000.

Surrendered

The new building as penned has surrendered five feet and nine inches of its ground for the rear scavenger, Jano,

about three-weeks later,

One of the leaders of the Fraul revolution last July, Colonel Arif was removed from his posts as Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister "at his own request," according to the army, Observers said, however, that The new premises will pro- the move was a check on him vide a shop on the ground floor for his outspoken criticism of while the upper floors will be the West used for domestic purposes.

A communique by the Iraql He added that the tenants

High Com- Misa Wong Lal-hing testined Armed Forces were belog rather difficult but that the value of the existing mand, broadenst Ly the that negotiations were proceed-property was

Radio anid $110,000 on the Baghdad

that ing

Aref would shortly .be Me J. IL G. Way, Tenancy She said she had a deposit tried for action against the Tribunal President, with Mr in Kong Ning Bank speelically security of the state, adding: R. G. Adams and Mr Huo for the redevelopment project. "Interests of the people

tribunal Pao-tral sitting na

She owns another property at security of the Republle are niembers, heard 'evidence · of No. 23 Granville load. profiter of business tenants of

marktet

the structure which it is pro. Compensation

posed to replace by a modern

12-storey block costing $700,000, Both properties

and

above tha Interests of in- dividuais."

Aref, who was at ong time also Deputy Minister of the

were of Interior, was relloved of his

Mr Chow Loung, the ap-under mortgage at present, she functions last September when pllent is represented by Mr added.

;he was appointed Ambrandor Wright upon Who Instruction The opposing tenant, theto Federal German, Ho took

of Mr I. E. Moore of Meerts Yue Lang Dank, represented over his now job after a meet- Dentons.

by Mr P. C. Woo, instructed by ing with General Abdel Karim Tenntag, opposing app]i- || Mr Brook Bernacchi, had Kassem when he sinted there callous are represented by Mr agreed løysettle for $34,000 in was no dispute between them, Patrick Yu and Mr Lawrence compensation.

Kleuter and France-Presse,

His goods, which included caustic soda, bleaching powder, methylated spirit and thinner, were Ukewise confiscated.

The SCMP published photo- graphs of three chlidren, One wns Pamela Rickards, daughter of Mr and Mrs O.S.N. Rickards of Kowloon. Another was Allen Prior, barn in Hongkong, the

son of Mr and Mrs J. T. Prior. The third was John Mackie, son of Dr and Mrs J. B. Mackie, who was also born in Hongkong.

This Funny World

Almahiom

"I'm glad school ta opon again...Now we'll have' a whole term to look forward to another vacationl". " Printed and published by Taranes Gordon, NEWLANDA PRANCE for and on behalf of Bouth China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndam, Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.

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