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SPECIAL

17-21 CLUB_MAILBOX

EAR Thomas

Please tell me where I can buy

DeGreenfields, "Biology, and other new songs. I've tried

pretty hard to buy them, but without success. Some of the record shops didn't even know the names, and said these records were too new and hadn't arrived yet, I hope you can answer queries in the Chlua Mail 17-21 Club Mailbag at your convenience,

Hilda Sung, Hongkong.

Well, what about it Ted?

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AM in receipt of the credit card you sent me on the 19th inst. Thank you for sending me the card. Could you be so kind as to send me a copy of the China Mail in which my contribution,

"Youths of Today" was published? I missed the issue. I enclose 30 cents (pustage) for the paper-Robert Leigh, Hongkong.

Coples of the paper you refer to, Robert, are on sale at the counter of the South China Morning Post ground floor offices. Stamps are not acceptable in payment, and we'll return them to you if you come in,

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WOULD be grateful if you could kindly send me the editionį of the China Mail dated April 16, 1960, to the above address," 1 enclose 50 cents in stamps to cover cost and postage. Thank you--Ahmed H. Ahmed, Hongkong.

Sorry, Ahmed, but please read the letter above.

Reel Corner

KATE

O'REILLY

¡N the right it-the-latest-portrait-of-Elvis Presley-who-

the righted to show business after finishing his

service with the U.S. Army.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28.

SECTION

The Robot

I

maths master

..IT CAN TEACH, BUT IT CAN'T GIVE YOU THE CANE

SAY chaps-heard the latest? The maths. master is on his way out. It's the talk of the Sixth. We're going to be taught by a ROBOT.

The schoolboy's dream came heren that advances in logical

INS an- sequence can be taught. true last week with the nouncement that the fast robot sins are put on to 35 man. itim teacher is, to be demonstrated first and projected on to the in London soon.

screen from inside."

Besides teaching mathe- Nate for mimbers: The robot lessons or cannot see you, chewing sweets. maties, it can give golf, bridge, repairing a car, dr and does not punish. operating machinery.

Exhibition

But the makers say:

"It is not cur idea to

remove, the

master. from the classroom

Pupils learn by push button, merely to

The lesson

take the drudgery

is arst shown-in out of his work and allow him in to concentrate on other things."

logical stages-on a screen

the centre of the four-foot Visual square steel "teacher." questions follow with a cholec of answers,

If the student is right. the machine flashes "Correct" and moves on to the next lesson.

ir wrong, it hints way and refers him back to the question

The roll will be on view at the instrument,

and Automation, exhibit5.1 at Olympia.

A spokesman for the manu- facturers said: "Large classes can take part, but it is ideal for groups of about sight. Any

-MEMBERSHIP-

Fill this in and send it to the China Mail, 1-3 Wyndham Street, Hongkong.

"Namo

Age Occupation Address

She's a winner!

ERE is pretty Chan Pui-ylu, the 20-year-old HE

member of the 17-21 Club who won the recent World Refugee Year Poster Contest sponsored by this Club and the Sunday Post-Herald Companions' Club. She is pictured receiving an envelope containing $75 from Miss Madge Newcombe, Secretary of the Hong- (77-21 Club kong Council of Social Service. Photographer).

Meet the members!

EDMUND, C. K. CHAN, 19, student, 30 Inland Lot, Shek-0, Hongkong.

ALBERT CHEUNG, 18, student, 41 Mody 8th floor, Kowloon.

Can you guess

LOOKED once, and looked again and still wait but Elvis said no, he was not in didn't believe. my eyes. The Elvis did not have to

the German girl and he long for a lucky break. He was love

resemblence was amazing, invited by Frank Sinatra appear in the latter's spectacular At any rate, she is in Germany He was short and slightly T. V. show a fortnight ago. For and Elvis is back in the States, built. He had big black eyes

to were just good friends.

a six-minute glimpse, Elvis was and no word has come through and crinkly hair and had I paid HK$752,000 or almost about the corresponding even. HK$120,000 a minute!.

Elvis was given a great send-not known better, I would off in Germany. You probably have sworn

man

was

that the That is money, if you like, know they made him a sergeant who stood before me and although the Income Tax before he left, and his officers Sammy Davis Jnr, the great. people will dig into it, Elvis is and fellow sergeants joined in American negro entertainer,

still left very comfortable.

All the time Elvis was in the Army he still earned big money; His records went on selling, and his royalties mounted up. His

the fun wishing him goodbye.

The Alm studios say they are thinking of making a film based upon Presley's life in Germany, but nothing has come of it yet.

But Chandran Ruinamı diş- pelted all Fit dipuots te momin, he spoke to me. Unlike Davis who is an extrovert and

films were still shown, and his Meanwhile, he has already has a reputation for being a big

carned an enormous sum of

fast talker, and a real huma money for one brief T. V. ap-dynamo on stage, Chunarun is pearance, so Elvis might prefer quiet and fairly reserved, with that to the more arduous flim

à fine sense of humour - und

He flew into town recently

NOTES ON NOTES

"The trend now, is towards

Shek-O

his name

By CARL MYATT

recording artists which include the Everly Brothers, Connie Stevens and Marty Palch, had already made them one of the top companies in the industry.

Chandran leaves shortly for Japan, ben on to Hawadi and back to California.

FRANE

:*

TRANK Sinajra, generally re- garded as one of the world's greatest entertainers, arrives in Hongkong on Tuesday.

His visit is drouded in secrecy, but this volatile, tempertinental; brillant singer actor is rumoured to be ace companied by his old friend" and associate song-writer my van Heusen.

THE CAREER CORNER

By DAVID

LAN

THE operating

theatre

virtually swims in 3 transparent sea of blue. Sun light, filtered through the blue window panes, bounces back from the light blue ceiling, the light blue walls, and the light blue mosaic floor until it fills the room, with a deluge of azure,

In the centre, a shadow- less lamp is on. Under it

Hongkong's

Florence

Nightingales

and around an operating night duty from 8.30 p.m. 14. table stands

operating gloves..

She has half a day off every

a group of ram. men and women dressed in

and week and ten days annual leave. white caps, masks

What makes a girl interested gowns, their hands in in this profession?

Says Juanita, 'I like the work The surgeon is busy in which you can devote your sterilising the patient's heart and energy to people who abdomen, then covering it are badly in need of your help. "The happiest moment comes with sterile towels and when you see a patient restored sheet.

to normal health after all your care and nursing,

The anaesthetic takes effect and the operation is underway. The surgeon whipere to the nurse, Juanita Lut. She picks out a knife from a mobile Road, sterile table and passes it un to the doctor who makes the first

Kyman hare runs the gamut of mida ranging from ballads, Latin

On MGM 3527. rhythms and show tunes, to jazz

incision.

"Also the work is mobile and varied, much different from office jobs"

It requires infinite patience,

says the beautiful angel in white, "For you must ber that you are the patient's

The air grows tense, for the general helper." operation-an exploraeoar labarotomy-is being carried.

Duties

remem

out on an old woman to see Over in Netnersole Hospital,. what is wrong in her abdomen, pente Miss Fing sodag-do 10:4 Juanita must see to it that urteer te as scadent nuco when the surgeon has cut open for itie bénèns" or 17-21 'CHUD the wound, a self-retaining to members. tractor is applied to keep the wound open----

Hours

There are well over a hundred Instruments.

When the operation is on, it

"ine training course takes four-years. For the first inree. months, you study nursing and medical subjects after which you combine study with pray- Lice in a hospital,"

As she works in the surgical

fis full of excitement for Juanita. ward, she has to clean the rooms "I have no time to think," she as well as the patients' every says,

day, changing the bedding for. eyes look them.

All the time, my

doctor,

TLE fourth album by the

She accompanies the famous Clebanoff strings, on at the wound, my ears alert for the Mercury label, should find the surgeon's Instructions and sister and senior nurse op their favour with lot of you record my bands busy handling the dally rounds of the ward

She attends to the patient's "bug" who go in for the lighter instruments or mapping blood

doctor's dressing and diet. On variety of muslo.

oil the patient's body." Clébanoff here has selected songs In half an hour, the operation instructions, she also gives in- from the Aims and recorded_them

the. 10-s own baritable style. Times comes to an end. Juanita passes jections and medicines.

After an operation, doctor include "An Alfalt To Remember", cal-gut for "Separate Tables Love Is A Many stitch the wound, and then she watches the pattet until he Splendoured Thing" and "All The

passes nylon thread or clips for wakes up.

Then she must notice the Waycr

him to close the skin on, the outside.

parent's complexion, pulse, Finally, she helps dress the temperature, respiration, blood patient's abdomen.

pressure and whether the Before an operation she has wound is bleeding. to prepare sterile tables for in-

On Mercury SR 60162.

NUMMER is upon us now, And soon the daily exodus to the beaches will begin.

to

Training

sho

publicity agents made sure that he was not forgotten.

While he was serving in Ger-

Unconfirmed sources report he is many with a tank regiment, he was able, because of the con- work, for a while at any rate. he is not an American although

coming from Japan. Others say he is

I therefore thought it most appro-struments, anaesthetics, doctors! siderable forlyne he had earned, He will, of course,

What is the purpose of his visit?

Next she puts all her observa- to lead a fairly luxurious life for public appearances such as the States.

as the he is currently living in the modern jazz," he said, weds flying in dircelly from Hawaii,

1954 through to late 1959, rock No one knows. Many believe it is to rate of this time to bring to your caps, masks and gowns.

Juanita is a staff nurse at St tions on record' and chart Bẹ- a soldier.

kind he made in Chicago be-

was definitely the get away from the urley-burley of attention a new album of Hawaiian and roll

the George Wyle chorus and of When not on exercises, he fore he joined up. There, he

chestra.

the surgical ward as well as in the patient's condition into a lived in a hotel, his people were wore a suit of real gold thread, on his way buck

Wyle here has succeeded in cap- the operating theatre. his able to stay with him, so that and his show was one

report book for the next RIBO turing the magle of Hawall in bla of the native Ceylon. He is currently ugly sister' role is picking up

Like many other nurses, she to take over. which hints of the usun "roughing it" of the biggest hits ever.

DIANIST Dick Hyman

music.

Miss Pang Yuen-kel, another Army did not apply to Elvis.

employed by Warner Brothers Tremendously. Artists like C

tuner, are du "Blue Hawall" either straight duty from 7.30 student nurse working in the hall be Pictures and Warner Brothers Tjader, Stan Getz and Shorty PNS disc for MGM romance, beauty and colour. The works on three shifts by furn There was some talk of his you may be sure we shall be record now in well for Rogers play nightly to packed easy-to-listen to album which "Lovely Huda Hande" "Sweet Lilan am, to 1 pm, or broken duty general medical ward, and out-

etc but they are tunes you can from 7.30 am to 12 am, falling in love with a frauline, hearing about it.

we attended the same school West Coast audiences in light-

should please all tastes.

and patient's department finds the never really tire of

Un Imperial LP 9100,

then from 4 pm to 8p. or work more busy.

Whatever he decides

JO THE CYNIC

(Credit card to)

hine E. Law, Kowloon)

California

1ogether.

He too

and rall America.

10 Burbank, Craze, But modern jazz, which the entertainment world -- to relax mume presented for your pleasure by Paul's Hospital. She works in fore going off, she puts down after visiting has in the past had to play the and to do some shopping.

cunfirmed that

clubs and in theatres." rock Warner Brothers records, he

relatively is on the decline in said, was

company, but their collection of

The Hit

By TED THOMAS JUDGING by

the

in

coverago given by other periodicals the Colony there would seem to be a very wide interest indeed in the Hit Parade and the listing of the tunes and order of records in

popularity.

I am often questioned as to where the various jour- nals acquire the figures, on which they base their "Hit Parades" which often bear little relationship to the true state of affairs.

can only answer this by explaining to you the way that Radio Hongkong's Hit Parade is calculated..

Each week the leading record agents in Hongkong submit a list of their 20 best selling, "pop" singles adding the numbers sold.⠀ From these various lists a final list is worked out by "PIECING""""ING="record-saliing most coples at the top and so on, down to record num- ber 20.

has cut

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an

As the album title "After Six" suggests, it's music for your cock- tall hour (not that many of you will be permitted the luxury of having, cocktails of such a tender age).

Parade

1. Stuck on You Elvis Presley

2. Why Frankie Avalon -

3. Ding Dong Song Teal Chin

4. House of Bamboo Earl Grant

5. BabyBrook Benton and Dinah Washington

6. Adam and Eve Paul Anka

7. Deborah The Crickete

8. The Old Lamplighter - The Browns

9. Love Me, My Love Dean Martin

10, Forever Ruby Murray

11. Young at Heart Cha Ché — Tommy, Thomas

12. Making love - Floyd Robinjag“?”

13. Theme from a Bummer Placo - Eontains Blsters

14. Running Bear Johnny Proston

15, Too Proud-Johnny Näsh

16. Amapola Tony Willame

17. Seven Little Girlz Sitting In the Back Seat

18. Trieste Paglicolo Teddy Randazzo.

19. Teen Angel Mark Dinning

20. Welcome New Lovers Pat Boone

After trying many dif ferent ways to arrive, at a satisfactory way of pro- ducing the Top Twenty, this spome to be the most suoceEnful,

Avens

Twenty when the teenagers get their hands on it.

(UTEEN Angel" has that arewell look at slips on down the laddar the 20 best sellers. Could be that the Fuse WEIL" for nothing. The public can redkily he depended on to buy the sort of records that "Cathy Clown is now in presure to for them, Into Hongkong It almost que "volding thi certainty for

1STER number pro and two in the British and American respectively, the Everly

good

young

No wonder she's

alive!

(Credit

Nories may work in as many the wards as there are in hospital. For examples," there are surgical, medical, children's, gynaecological, T.B. and mater nity wands besides operating theatres and out atient's depart- mont,

At the end of the first year, the student nurse must sit for the preliminary examination At the end of the third year, she will sit for the final.

They fourth year is devoted to the study of midwifery, Four hospitals offer nursing training in Hongkong:

They are:

general

Queers Mary Hospital (with Kowloon Hospital Affiliaz.

Tung Wah Hospitals (threo hospitals), eng Hongkong Sanatorium and Hospital and

Nethersale Hospital,

Teun Yuk Hospital offers two year course in mid wifery

Candidates must have finish- ed high school Before being al- lowed to take

examination

And subjects such as

chemistry, mathematics,

languages are prenti

Said a matron in u þig: houp

tal, “urses are in greet demand

Hongkong

Iri

hospitals are always

with paidenta

And," member,

population la the

slide in even

angels 16%

stere of their

whe