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THE WRY POSTER CONTEST
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TINNERS of the big cash-prizo contest, sponsored jointly by the 17-21 Club and tho Sunday Port-Herald Companions' Club, will be announced next week.
The entries, many of them of a very high, almost pro- fessional standard of work, are being judged now. The contest was for the bost design of a poster for the World Rofugee Year, and prisos valued at a total of $150 will be awarded for the best three contributions selected by the WRY appool organisers.
The first prize will be $75, socand $50 and third $25. The winning postors will be reproduced and featured during
the WRY special oppoal wook this month., The appeal! olm to call on the public to support the fund with whatever they can afford.
The best occupation
best occupation is no occupation. Of course, The paying that I am baring myself to a storm
of abuse and gasps of horror from some worthy people on my complete lack of ambition, sense of duty and a whole lot of other things.
Perhaps you are prepared 19.
Look at the office side of life.
bear me out, and sa ash why After slaying allfetime for think m occupation The Best t so-and-so, you fually occupation, I would then slate arrive AL speech-stage; you the very obvious. Is there any have a flery oratory all prepared. thing more exasperating. more Ten to one, you regret having demoralising than to be called wasted the time you spent to from one's afternoon nap at the compose and rehearse it as you shade of a whispering tree, are still at thuc crumb of a job within easy rench of some leed drink, to mow the lawn, or fix some of the hundred and one thingurujigs of the house- bold realm, whitch somehow tr other, always need fixing?
you would resi unless you received that raise you were going le curmand for.
Payday
Then pleture yourself, cordly
Puyday. You sit there finger- buried in your electric blanket
your i strictly in the envelope, theekelrie bit immaterial). Warm, relaxed, in blood, snickering a little,
beki
a burglar downstairs," sweetly, she announces, dropping it like
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1960.
SECTION
17-21 CLUB MAILBOX
AM sure a lot of members have some excellent subjects on which we can start a debate, so will you please ask them to lead of? I'll try to think of something too. Helen Chan, Hongkong.
Well what about it members?
READ Carl Myatt's column, “Notes on Notes”, religiously every weekend and i think it's the best recurd review and music column I have scen pet in Hongkong. But there is only one criticism why does he not tell us of some of the local classical concerts that take place now and again? I am a keen amateur musician (violin), and although I love just and pop music, I also appreciate some of the lighter classics,--Jackte Swain, Hongkong,
On behalf of Mr Myatt, Jackic, we thank you for your cumpliment. flowever, Mr Myoti is primarily a œlilo of Jāzz music, and does not feel quaillied to comment un ciumi. cal records or concert,
WHATEVER happened to Anne Bustick's "Distoy Side"?
I haven't seen it in the 17-21 Club page for some time now. 1 trust you will not allow this section of your excellent supplement for Hongkong'a younger generation to lapse. Many of my friends and I read what she has to say every Saturday. -Mi Fania, Hongkong.
Sorry Mishu, but we have had to stop Miss Bastlok's colam bu her departure for the United Kiurdom.
Meet the members!
WILLIAM KAM-CHUEN LAMB, 19, clerk. 15 Kwan Chung Street, second floor, Kowloon,
PISHU SHAMDAS, 20, student, P.O. Box 840, Hongkong.
BOBBY LIE, 16, student, 36 Kimberley Street, 2nd floor, KOWLOON.
JULIA MARTINEZ, 18. student, 98 Parkes Street, 2nd floor, Kowloon,
kong.
life's Your
You're just drifting of to mind's floating happily around that blessed thing called clum that tackle you saw at Jones'. ber. Out of the bile comes Then his secretary comes up to says swoolly, loo sweetie's voice, "Dear, I think you ani
you think, "For there's
smirks the boss baby," and
retrieve that tackle fiver and drop in your and a whole lot of other te and you Try succeed,
can bet you sonicthing wrong, it seems.
a bricklayer, calmly, precisely, uni unceremoniously.
Pipe
Or, coming home from especially trying day al office.
you and smelly pipe and
B
luxuries.
You
JACKIE SWAIN, 101 Maodonnell Road, 3rd floor, long-
Teenagers
YOU teenagers are getting
Yo
to be
tant people there's
but
t sald tt once the fil
It suy
again no the good-eli occupation is the best occupa- dog- tion-teredit card to Joarpline your chewed slippers waiting - Lam, Kowloon Tong), vitingly by the fire, complete You miss with a can of boor,
plty Sho
the cue, and, silly with what they call marital bliss, your unmarried buddies! kidles up and somehow you And yourself the worse for it. You even uncover the generous streak you had never suspected was in you,
Vive L'amour!
"You wonder just DENNY
how Intelligent prople who say
stumbled
accidentally onto the cn-
those days,
mighty impor-
around
that 19.
By
town
4c-
cording to the broadcasting
stations anyway.
obviously
The directive has gone out — "Concentrate on the kids" (pardon the word. but cccording to those big cigar- chewing men who make such vital decisions, anyone under the age of 30 is "a kki") — and that is exactly what the stations are doing.
And this is what they have senteyed thus for:
JONES
Publicity!
JONES
BAR
THE CAREER CORNER
By DAVID
LAN
(Credit card to Casey Sung, Hongkong.}
CONTENTMËNT
YOUNG sigh, und
YOUNG girls' do sigh and wonder why
They'd love to be eighteen, you see, Each ono a full-grown lann I But I would like to ride a bike
And be carefree again;
To start anew, with troubles tow
What fun Life would be then ! Yot God is fair; He gave a share
Of youth and age to all; 'Tis foolish, then, to think of how
I'd act, if I wore small, There's joy in store at each one's door
Throughout Life's twisting way; Why do we not accept our lot
And be content oach day?
-(Credit card to Linda Ann Wu, Hongkong).
are VIPs nowadays
NOTES
on
NOTES
Carl Myatt
Altogether an
exciting redon Carroli orchestra. Carol. the Mer- eury Recording Director has ax which the musicians obviously en fembled
sold 17-piece band, for joyed recording, and which should this sessiork and recorded a mixed please many fans of the Lalin beat. beg of tuner ranging from the ever
On Liberty LST 7109. Popular Adine" Pretty Boby pad Would You Like To Take A Walk," to the Carroll original. "Let's Dance agades" which felden- tally is the fifth of the bun. Everything from the popular alow foxtrot of grandma's me to the cha. the of yourtune.
On Mercury, MG 20470.
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OR
leaving Kenton,
ho
"BEAUTY is
an Blu-
alan," said chic and
petite Mimi Won, a beau- Hcian who has learned her profession straight from Hollywood and has recently set up an exclusive salon, perched high inside a sky- scraper overlooking the har- bour.
"And every woman can be beautiful," she declared.
But how?
"The secret lies in beasty culture" the major concern of
a beautician.
Every woman
can
be
beautiful, she says
To make her point clear for experience, I've found that the members of the 17-21 Club, Mimi people have come to look uport
not only described the ways which a Hongkong beautician helps make a woman fashion centre but beautiful:
60
d
also as
a
beauty centre."
She attributed this to the fact
• A course on "make-down" instead of "make-up" for that Hongkong girls look more manners evening, daytime, photography or youthful, polished in other circumstances "Often the and charming in their question is too much rather than flattering cheongsama!" too little!"
However, she said, Hongkong
figure-
• Figure Improvement - girls are not in the least com- via exercise, dieling, and reduc- placent. "They are beauly-con- ing machines.
scious. This is where beauty culture comes in. They take w skin it with gusto."
•
Skin-care- how teen
agers may protect their from achie or other blemishes, how mature women can their skin supple and young, beautician's career in the Colony. what cosmetics to use and
And the flekt is not crowded. You for....
can couTL them on the Hair-care and hair-style fingers of one hand. Elizabeth -No suit Individual faces and Arden, Salon D'Or (which is by how up set the hair.
That members, of course, keep augurs well for the future of a
Wardrobe planning
Use
on various occasions
good colour sche
• Accessories
tips
Deportment
Helena Rubinstein), Max Factor, for Simone Institut de Beaute which
with Is Lancome, the Silhouette School of Modelling and Mimi's Cen-
on tre.
earrings, handbags, bhoes, ker- She pointed out, however, that chiefs, jewellery and so on.... Hongkong still needs a compre-
sérise.
from which students may learn always with matching colque hensive school for beauty culture
Use of perfume - io\ex- the trade.
•
and to "Apart from America and press your personally sult the occasion.
Europe, the nearest place where how to young girls may learn the pro- walk up and down stairs, in an Iession is Japan where the big- out of cars, how to stand, how gest school boasts an enrolment to sit, how to get in and out of of 800," she said.
After school, one may either a room, aven how to hold a handbag or cup or glass for that work as a demonstrator or re- bly cosmetic presentative of a
• Basic eliquette polters house, or a consultant, lecturer, u salon, or head a on conversation, entertainment, or set up laying of a table and introdue modelling school or school of charm, or even go into the tonensic modelling how to manufacturing side of the busi
matter....
album for TUNALLY
relaxing, for your quieter moods. This one is by one of the world's foremost exponents of the guitar, Laurindo Almeida. Almeida who hails from Sao HOMETHING new, and its the Paulo, Brazil, first came to the frenzied, exciting musto af United States in 1947 and im I have i trem
mediately joinert Stan Kenton's wear fashion to the best ad- ness. very reliable Jack
"At least, you can be a won- Costanzo and his KrOUD.
vantage. sources that the popular Rum Costanza li wan who
derful housewife." Mimi giggled. supplied band. pus Time" suries wil soon be the colourful Lalin rhythms to
The list After
Besides the hoppiness in meet- Nick Kendall has grossed entirely different name. Sounds
going on television under on the power-packed Stan Kenton branched off on his own, per-
ing people, a successful beau- The list could run on and on. iclas often earns more than she band and the compact, yel with - his "Hi Fl Club" OVCE
we have always ncoded in this trip in those carly day.
Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood tackles, a Commercial Station.
woman from every Bowl. On this album-Gullar angle with one aim in mind
She charges $20 for a facial town.
massage, $20 to $09 for a bridal Recital Laurindo Almeida so that she looks demonstrates fully his remark-
her best in make-up, $25 to $300 for a hat
do er special style....multiply able technique and ability with
And to fulfill the mission, this
by the number of clienta popular Mimi's charm-beauty centre fet per day or month and you will This album "Bongo Tevez", was re- tunes ranging from corded live at the Garden of Allah, a melodies such as "Adios" and
tuzes a row of six illuminated get a rough ideal Lo favourite Hollywood alghtclub which wa Palomas-
the mone esters to the likes of the Monroes and classical "Waltz from Serenade Dve Mansfields
For Strings" stid "Serenade My favourites: "Bongo Fever." Espagnole." sweet and Lovely Cha
Com, Cha" and "Birk's Works".
On Coral CRL (7080.
marriage is a full-time job are.tire course of John's secre total of over 5,000 members like fun. Live shows are what swinging Nat "King" Cole jage forming at classical concerts at Suffice it to say that a beautician can spend.
·MEMBERSHIP,
Fif this in and sond
it to the Chino
love affair when he came across a sheaf of letters in his drawer, and noticed the sequence of the salutations:
Dear Mr Chan,
John dear,
Dearest John.
My wonderful Johnny,
My dearest, darilng one,
1-3 Wyndham
Mail. Streat,
Dear John,
Hongkong.
Name
Ago
Occupation Address
My wonderful Johnny, Dearest John,
John dear.
Dear John,
Dear Mr Chan,.
Ron Russ is going great Kuns with his "Ten to Twenty Club" over Rediffusion, and has gathered into the fold nearly 3,000 members in less firpe months.
•
than THERE'S something old and something new in the way of recorda for you this week.
Something "old" is another to the "Let's Dance" series of the David
Tod Thomas has no "Club" on Radio H. K., but his "Hit Parade" publisher workly on this page in still very popular with the younger set.
frenzied
Now joining the
at getting the raco
YOUR RET listening public, 15 (young)
Credit card to Linda Ann Wu Belly Souza. She goes on the alr
Drunk? Mo? I'm shober as a judge, Officer. Ank my wife here!
(Credit card to Majlů Gafoor).
at Radio Hongkong every week. with
a programme entitled “Air Freight Records for this series are being specially flown to Hongkong that's what Betty (says anyway. This UTUZTAINE should appeal to the younger sel so listen in.
And now nows of a great new contest being sponsored by Rediffusion and organised by that oss KAN,
With
the "Ten To Twenty Club virtually establishing their Ueadquartofs at the Now Flix Hotel (and awimruning pool) for the summer. Ron has come up with the ides of staging a Rock And Rolf Marathon in the ballroom, of the hotel' There will be brises, prisés and prises I am askured. Entries will be Invited LTL
Ed If you can dance, have plenty of stamina and can Mut a couple of days off from work (7), you can get into trainḥst
now.
Suggestions for ·building stamina and strengthening logi | Make a couple of softick up and dawn the Punk a évubio, of tires day. That should do it but rood. Oh, ant don't' forget to Live your perigér with you. Fur this Whitest, you both have to be in good lapu.
By
Now Costanzo is on his own and "walling" se mighilly as ever.
The Hit Parade
TED THOMAS
IT'S
T'S lonely at the tẹp, they used to say
of the old time movie idols, and if the publicity blurbs are to bo believed then the same thing is true of the stars of the popu- Jar muzle world.
Take
Johnny young Maisle, the only pop singer around today `fit to `ssouma the mantle of the spoing Binaire. The world át hlu feat you might think, but la 147 in kn. Intárvlaw at Big dán Franɛléos homa ka I reported as having said thức bạn tại, and can get şairi. Come to Hang- kong, Johnny, you'll have trouble fighting them off!
As predicted laat viosk, Elvie has rushed brak to the top of the Ten Twenty with "Stusk On You", and replaced the 'bmgth" "hit
Ding Dong Bona"."
1. Btuck On You -- Elvis Presloy ・・・・
2. Ding Dong Song - Taul Chin
3.
Deborah - The Criokota
4. Gleepy Lagoòn --- The Platters
5. Why Frankis Avalon
J.
House of Bamboo - kari Qrant
7. Teen Angel - Mark Dinning
2.
Too Proud Johnny Nash
Theme from A Summer Place - Laroy Holmes
10. Mona Lisa --- Conway Twitty
11. You're My Dalay-darah Vaughan
12.
Baby Dinah Washington and Brock Benton
13. As Time Goes By Johnny Nash
Welcome New Lavers —– Páť Boona
14.
15. Adam and Eva Paul Anka
16. NeatłopaBteve Lawrence
17.
Amapola Tony Williamin -
18. Young at Heart Cha Cha Tommy Thomas-
19. Making Love - Floyd Robinson
20. Love min, my love Dikk” MérİN ·
Mabopan,” by the Crickets might have' arbily, heon at the Number Ope spot by how had it not bêòn for the oulstühling subsENG of the two rekorda ocdüipy Ing: "drat'and wecand place, Qumainly 10% sold though poples to pince it up there In any but recóra poļi.
*
Conway Twitty's. "Mana Liep" in in the pharts for the first time this week. Not my lđều of the whY this old stundară anoutd ba sing Pujols has a bateri on sha Net Valu - varmien
but tota of prople like it anough to buy and glys it top Swenty ratifib;
"Taan Angel" ham shakt at lakat one pucant, brid Justifiably to fr'my opinion. Bui là the Hit Parada" we ara' obliged to play the Twenty borde with the best nálad, whi·aven't¥lku®x record that we don't part)- Dularly approve, than it has to be included. No doubt with the resulting publialty EK Will Hill Wyen ketler, bui - Alegre no lattéral.
every way.
a full-length couch, a number of carns $400 a month to start with, mirrors along a free-form table, Abroad, a qualified beautician chairs and an array of gadgets while the experts in the field which no mere man could ever command astronomical figures! understand...
And some of the most succem- Then there are volumes upon ful ones have built up cosmetle
of volumes
textbooks
and empires, made fortunes, and on specialised magazines the turned themselves into legendary
involved various subjects
in figures in the world of beauty beauty culture enough to fill Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth four-year Arden, Richard Hudnut, Coty,
the curricula Di college course.
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Schiaparelli, Lancome, As if there were not impres- Madame Chanel. stve enough, Mimi put me to a feat on the reducing machines at her centre.
She turned on the current and the Relax-A-Cushion on my belly started vibrating, advancing my need for supper.
Then who told me to lie on the full-length Relax-A-Lounge and switched on. By now I had doubto that man Was the stronger sex For in half a minute, I was shaken down from tip to toe.
of
I jumped clear for fear being reduced to a skeleton,
Mimi kuops two centres - one in Djakarta" and one in Hong- kont
in America or Europe, Mimi | sahil, banuty has become big
business.
"Parents send their daughters to mich schools to put polish on their educations. Big companies sind glifa Ugoigh charm schools to smarten them up.
#Airlines rend their hostesses over for final touching-up, · Re- bepilonists, accrolaries, house- wives and In fact girls from all walks of life go in and walk off epenpletely different women.
"Ánd für entrants for the Miss Unware Delly Comers at Long
·Beach, California, A course, in beauty qullugin is in traumt.”
The protosalon """" in the buckling stage 'in Hongkong," optoompooval) { MLind wiki. "Through iny Fur Now!
is your name
Palmer?
Kert
and
PALMER, AN ENGLISH. NAME ONCE MEANT *THE PALM÷BEARING PILGRIM RATURNING FROM THE HOLY LAND" OR A CRUSADER K.
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