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GORDON SCOTS ANTHON (KRYLE - LAKA, SKJE - WALL JACORIES - BEAN CONRAI KY VELLA GAME),

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STANLEY BAKER GUY ROLFE

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Screenplay by Peter Newman based on his bit play

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THE LOCAL SLANT

By Elizabeth Fox

She's The Most Sophisticated

Artiste In Town

And

Queen Victoria Made Preserved Ginger

Popular In England

The story of ginger is an old and fascinating, one. It all began with a food hawker who sold sweetmeats in the streets of Canton. He sud- denly had the idea of preserving ginger and presenting it to the people in a new form.

In the days when Queen Vic-, "When preserved ginger be- toria was sili a young gh. y came so peputar," he weld, Chi the hawker risked some of many factories sprang up until his capital in his new Idea and they were all under selling cach was pleased when it becanie a

other to corner the market. The Preserved ginger was FUCCESS. tasted by more and more people prios pank lower and lower and eventually made its way until it was clear that something across the reas England. I would have to be done to save proved popular and when Queen the industry." Victoria sampled it, prenounced that she liked it and ordered it to be served as a dessert at all banquets, ginger future Sinto

had really come to stay.

This was the ginger that one asciates with lovely porrcinia Jars, but ginger in its raw state has a far more anclent begin- ning. The plant has been cul- tlvated in China since the dawn

It was coborot time in one of the Kowloon nightclubs. The lights went up and the chotter hushed and into the spotlight on the dancefloor swept Gory Scott who was to entertain us for the next 25 minutes. ontertain us sho most certainly did.

Dressed in

met Igo Fischer and a lightly-ting ¦ I flame-coloured

frocks decided to team up," explained of history. brocade

we've been to- with a big net Ashtall, she woke Gery, "and everyone up with a bary and alter five mhutes of her nynamic single faces were twice as cheerful.

of

With a decided twinkle in her Igo eye and accompanied by Fischer at the plato, Gery put nice-but- oner a number f naughty

the Nocl Koruts Coward type, amid gales of Jaughter from the audience who quickly caught on to he nobl of this vivacious personality.

GREAT TALENT

Miss Srot is one of the best cabaret artistes to have appear- ed in the Colony for many months and she's undoubtedly i the most sophistleated with great deal of talent including a good singing volec.

n

Earlier on in the day we'd bad tea together and 1 found Miss Scott & natural and frienl- ly person.

With her rather exotic pinky-blondy

very: - and Jovely bright blue eyes, Gery teld me that she'd started singing professionally in 1945) as a band singer, under such Beaters as Na! Temple, Harry Roy. Vie Lewis and Harry Gold. "It was while working with a band in Germany thai

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we

gether ever since doing the same sort of acl,"

GERY SCOTT

Charming Leo with his crew-eul looks like an Ameri- Cop but is in fact German and halls from Munich, Ho

CURIOSITY

The peoples living in the walled cities along the banks of the Yellow River were creative folk and skilled at producing appetising food. Out of curiosity

At that time Mr D Tat Chee was the managing part- ner at the Chy Loong factory which is the oldest one of them all, the one started by Ly Chl the aweel meal vendor. Mr U convinced the other "factories that the drawer to their problems was to form a nyndicate and safeguard their Imutual interests. This they dhi and with great success,

Mr showed me around the Chy Loong factory where the ginger is preserved by very Simple processes.

In a huge open-floored build- ing, Mr U led the way between

Packing gingor in porcelain fancy jars.

sal At the next door able they led the

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JIM RECERENCE

thizome of the enormous vats and wouder GRAND OPENING ON FRIDAY, 4th SEPT.

during tea and it was about ginger plant, Zingiber officiale, where the ginger les soaking.

halt an hour before he came over and Joined us as he sald he was terrified of reporters-a colicious and unusual fzyour

he to their cooking. especially female ones, Kald,

Rust, to give it Its Latin name, and they found that 1 imparted

BORN IN INDIA Guy was bom in India where her father was in the Govern- ment. Eduented in England she j travelled backwards anch

for! wards many times bolw.con Europe and the Middle fort. Her

parents never approved et her rarter anc! were always vory much against It,

"But I wouldn't change it," "Like everyone else she said. doing other jobs I got paid for I love mine but that's not all. doing it and would be heart broken if I had to do anything

else."

own

She designs alt ber dresses for her net and buys

them The material and has made up wherever she happens

10 b at the lime.

ENERGY

ounce

As time passed the cultivation

explained that the rhizomes are fit of all scraped and shaped into various siz0$ and qualllies and then Yookid in brine. It's then washed with

of ginger became a profitable many changes of water and

busine: 3 and many spleng country.

plantations cooked by steam in large coup.

Up over the fertile per bowls. The workers, mobily women, squatting of a low tobie on the floor in the blackt clothing, punch the roots which fook exactly like 20 unny peeled potatoes, In order that the sugar can penetrate. Lastly comes a long bath in the ruger preserve and Anally the ginger is packed into either wooden barrels for bulk cargo or else into the porcelain jars.

In the second century B. C. Ssu-ma Ch'len, one of the great Chinese historians," wrote of the turge estates of aloer and their wealthy owners rivailing the feudal jords.

INVASION

Hordes of Northern Nomads the land in the th invaded century A.D. and the scene was changed. Cities were destroyed and There

floods werd

ind famine. Deforestation and erosion played their part and it was not until a mass migration to the delta of the Pearl River That they were around Cantau able to replant their ginger crop the ground and plantations once more flourished and prospered..

on

suitable

With three shows a night

I went blong to talk to Mr and each one different to suit That particular nightclub U Tat Chee who now controls Gery puts every

of the Hongkong Preserved Ginger energy into each act with the Distributers, result that, "Eng absolutely &nished at the

of the the evening. I sleep during day,"

leaven When she

Ilong- kour. Gery in off to Formosa, Okinawa, prea and Japan and she then kopes to go to Amerira. "After that-well I don't know. Having spent seven years in Germany Tvo) grown very fond of it and one day hope to settle, down in Wiesbaden,

When she and Igo left me they were off to see a doctor-

AV 2,80, 8.30, 7.30 4 (2.30 pm, Gery had bronchitis. "Oh, I

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shall mill have to sing," she said with a smile, "four shows to- night ap we're on TV, ns well," Anyone else would have re- tired to bed with the biggest bottle of cough mixture they could find Tong appo- but not Gery Scott,

That's show taminess for you, I oss.

The Jars themselves are made in Klang Si In Norths China where porcelain has been made for hundreds of years.

After our little luur round the works, with the sharp kany smell of the ginger making both cough and splutter, Mr U sat me down at a little marble- ect with piekle topped table forks and little bowls of cry stallized and wel ginger and cups of China leo,

So I had my first Laste of wint is one of the oldest and largest industries of Hongkong.

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