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HK STUDIO'S BIG ORDER FOR WAXWORK FIGURES

To make 60 Hollywood film stars for U.S. museum

An American who, has sign- ed, a contract scally considers the Celeny the principal place" for this type of product.

studio."

in he

There is a new industry cause they had a very small in Hongkong which Mr Parkinson was just about Hongkong people have to give up hope when a letter every reason to be mercial

from the United States com-

attache's oflee proud of.

Hongkang suggested that contact Mr Yung.

Contact Was 'made and a

order for sample

a life-size Agure t Mr Chorias Chase, of the silent screen daya fame,

placed WILS

with. Mr Yung.

"When the wax gure ar- rived 111 Hollywood." Mr Parkinson said, "I was con- vinced Hongkong was capable of fulfilling the type of work I want."

The American is Mr Allen Parkinson, Preddent of a wax mus. scheduled to be open ed a Hollywood on January 1, 1062.

M Parkinson Rew to Hong- kong over the weekend to sign the contract, with Mr Muson 2. C. Yung, Maraging Director of Hongkong Chemical Industries Lid.

Keystone Cops

Tez contract calls for

Mr Yung's special studio, Wafisin, to make an initial amount of 60

life-size

Agures wax

of

wax

Mr Parkinson added that this was because he had found the wax figure of Mr Chase as one "with personality which `only artists of the highest qualified tton can produce,"

"I now consider Hongkong the principal place for ordering Ufe. celebrities of the motion pre- size wax figures," Mr Parkinson ture industry.

declared.

According to Mr Parkinson, the wax figures include well- Jonown nollon picture

and actresses in

Meticulous He 9014, "the Chinese are meticulous

actors famous

chronological order, beginning from the days work. of the Keystone Cops.

for their

"Take, for example, the hair The idea of the museum, Mr on the head of Charles Chase, Parkinson said, was to "rusur- sach hair was put in one at a rect the whole era of the movie time. Industry with silent screen in particular be

the era of the causo that is one of the most fabulous eras."

Mr Parkinson

а

said that he ot the idea of establishing Hollywood Wax Musaum spect living in motion picture

celebrities during visit he paid to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London a year and a half ago.

son recalled.

think only the Chinese have a very rare fo. of art also." the patience in do this which is

How do Mr Yung and his or tists make the wax figure?

By

movie stars, past and present."

Mr Parkinson said,

Mr. Williams, however, did. not have any photograph of Miss Theda Bara, known in the silent zeroen days as "Screen Yamp." Mr Parkinson hoped that someone in the world would come up with at least one photo- graph of her because he would like to. Include le in ไม่ inuscum.

Mr Yung said the local studio could produce one full-size wax figure in every 10 days.

The man responsible for the actual production fy Mr Sun Howe, a one-time motion picture. art director from Shanghai and a well-known interior decorator specialising in Chinese decor.

The dresses

The clothing which go along with each figure are not made by Wafista, however.

Miss Jessie Chen, of Golden House, is responsible for all the dresses to be wom by "female" wax Ogures.

Mr Parkinson said that all wax gures made in Hongkong will be shipped to Hollywood by Jet, and first class too."

Apart from the figures them~ selves, there will also be replica settings made of wax and other materials to be set up in the three-storeyed muscum' on Sun- set Boulevard,

Each setting depicts a scene in a motion picture in which the motion picture, celebrity is noted for.

PETER SUM

Mr. Parkinson

"I went through the musson and recognised leas than 10 people whose wax images were As Mr Yung explained it on display there." Mr Parkin- first there must be photographs, revealed the day he had left

For instance, lots of photographs of the sub- Hollywood a 26-year-old Rolls ject his left and right profiles, Royce which he had purchased front view, back view and so in London arrived in Hollywood Mr Parkinson sald that at on; second, there

must be t first he thought the workshop complete list of the subject's after being reconditioned tn

England, statistics such

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"The Rolls will have a wax

Von Stronhelm chaufeur's seat and

Agures of Miss Gloria Swanson in the

of Madame Tussaud's Wax physical Museum could supply him with weight, height, measurements, figure of Eric Agurea of motlon

picture colours of hair and eyes and so celebrities.

on; third, there must be on "But they told me they only photograph from a scene in a mcke wax figures for their motion picture from which re- own ure," Mr Parkinson cald, pllens of the subject and his His next move was to write surrounding and, yes, even the letters to Bli the American clothing he

Wears сап commercial attaches outside of copied, the United States.

"A number of replies reach- ed me,"

Mr Parkinson said, "but they all got a wrong im pression. They

"i thought wanted gurings. I was looking for full life-size wax. Ogures."

be

C

with

veteran

(Photo shows; Mr Sun Howe, the artist and Mr Mason 2. C. Yung, left and right respectively, together

Chase full-size wax figure of Mr Charles

motion picture star).

the

POLICE INSPECTOR ALLEGEDLY PAID

MORE THAN $10,000

A witness at the driving texts conspiracy trial said today he had paid a policoi inspector between $10,000 and $15,000 while the inspector was officiating at the writton driving examination.

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The witness, Young Man-soy holding a ruler or a pencil or said he had paid Tse Het, one of winding a watch, as they Ell-

didate who had been given ans. the accused, $100 for every can-tered, the examination hall.

Yeung said he had kept wers to the examination in cords in relation to the written advance.

tests and produced four

small candidates were sometimes sup-

Yeung also revealed that the books in court.

He said they contained the plied with wrong answers to names of driving instructors and a list of provisional delving one or more..questions...

Ilcence numbers.

The case.

Identification

and William Holden in the back "This was 80 scat, a scene originated in the Packinson said... movie 'Sunset Boulevard'," Mr.

Waẞsta studia is now making the life-size wax figure of Mr

BTISWIS of Harold Lloyd, the veteran mo-

tion pleture comedian,

To collect photographs molien celebrities dating way back as early as 1908 wasn't an easy job for Mr Parkinson.

But, luckily he came across a

were

Dre pro

before Judge B. J. Je Lawrence Leong is appearing continuing. the candidates for Lung Chu-wing and Yien Par Yu and Mr John would not get all the answers Swaine represent Chan Kwok-kwal right and get 100 per cent for and Mr Leo D'Almada, EC. and M their examination," Yeung sald. Swaine are defending The Hel

Mr Dermot Rea-and Mir Howard Yeung also told the court how Hobson, Crown Counsel, candidates who had paid for secutkag

identified. He said that originally his sister- Mr Yung thinks that in about į in-law-- would take a piece of 10 days time Mr Harold Lloyd paper to Tse Hei with the nums- will be ready for shipment,

bers of the candidates' pro- visional driving licences on it. Tse had suggested that "Wait until Mr Lloyd sees would be better if the candi: this," Mr Paridinson said, "I'm dates who had paid entered the sure he will be tickled pink." examination hall either first or Others 'on the list include At last. It was agreed they should Jolson, Misa Colleen Moore, Miss|enter Inst, he, said. Mac

Tickled pink man in Hollywood who used to

Then, he received an offer work with the show business from a Mexican Arm which newspaper, Variety.

Mr Parkinson thought was not Whitney Williams had more capable of doing the job "be- than 25,000 photographs

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Murray, Stan Laurel, Yeung said his sister-in-law, Oliver Hardy and many others Cheng Chol-ha, only passed ori whom as Mr Parkinson puts it the list to Too Hel three or four

After that he found another person named Li Shek who worked in police head- quarters to pass on the informa→ tion.

recall,"

Cyclist who

swerved in front of car, fined

A collision nearly occurred between two core in Wan- chai when a 14-year-old cyclist cut in front of

car.

At that time they were not using a list of "leerica" numbers but had the candidates going in last.

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management visits HK

Carol Lawson, and her fiance, James Giscoyne mako « happy picture at Kal Tak airport this morning.

Carul and James, who is in the Army in Hongkong, are, to be married shortly.,

My Carol flow into, Hongkong, this morning with; two other girls, Joan Simon, who is to marry Trooper Brian Shaw of 17/21 Lancers and Elizabeth Garrett, who is to marry Major Allstals," Rose, Officer Commanding 'the "7th 'Duke of Edin- burgh's Own Gurkha Rifles.

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From the Files

25

years

AGO

March 1936.

the

summing up evidence heard in the. inquiry into the circum- stances attending the death of eight people killed in the disastrous collapse of four houses at Woosung-street in February, coroner, Mr Q. A. A. Macfadyen ́said at Kowloon Magistracy yester- day: "This would seem to be a caso where nobody can be said to have assumed the responsibility for seeing that the tenants had in fact removed before the de- molition began and there has obviously been neglect somewhere to carry

out this important precaution; but I do not think there is sufficient evidence on which you can properly find that any person is guilty of that degree of negligence which I have termed criminal

negligence.'

The jury retired and after deliberating for ten minutes returned with a verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to anyone.

They added a rider to the effect that more care should be taken in the demolition' of that type of building.

One of the Colony's, most popular and energetic public figures, who for many years has played a very large part in the life of Hongkong, the Hon Sir William Edward Leonard Shenton, Unofficial Member of the Legislative and Executive Councils, will Leave for Home on retirement on the P and. O linor Ranchi on April 4.

Sir William, who is the senior partner in the firm of Deacons, solicitors, has "play-

Queen's. Hotel was announced this morning as choice of name for the new hotel at present under construc- tion on the site of the former Queen's Building,

As this name was one of those "The name was originally

given already announced on the direz-

In commemoration of ed a prominent part in the tors' short list, the $1,000 offor Queen Victoria, whose Diamond many phases of the Colony's ed as prize money for sugges- Jubilee had been celebrated in life since his arrival here in tions by the public, will be given the Colony a few years before 1908, and undoubtedly one 'of to local charities.,

the bullding was erected, the most popular honours MH.D. M. Barton, Chpir- man of the Hongkong Land In- "It is happily appropriate for or conferred locally was the vestment and Agehty Company Quy new hotel building which knighthood for Mr Shenton Ltd, sald at the annual meet-will open, and we hope prosper, granted in 1932. ing that the response of the during the reign of our gracious public was gratifying; no less Queen Elizabeth." than 2,704 names were received

and that some of the suggestions wero excóllent.

"In this Colony where we like

and-respect "old traditions,, your Directors Hope that, their ful

POP by Goo

Compensation

"Cominussfóner of Labour.

Sir William came to Hong- kong in 1908 and married Miss Erica Denison, the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Denison, her father being an old arid much respected

chofer will please' the majority, A total of 2,054 claims under resident of Hongkong "and one preserving as it does the name the workmen'e compensation or of the founders of the well which has, for more than half-a-dinance was settled during the known firm of Denison, Ram One of the world's loading century, been associated with last quarter of 1960 states the end Gibbs, architeots, and

„figures....onscientific the site.

civil engineers, management, Col. L. F Urwick, arrived from Australia by Qantas at noon today. He said L Shek would give

Col. Urwick 19, `a founder him a certain secret signal and member of the British Institute he himself would signal the of Management. He has active- students to enter the examino-ly sought in the UK to have the tion hall,

subject of Management acade- Sometimes, Young safd hemically recognised by univer- would get a "last minute candi-sities and Instituted as full- would take the candidate to the

When this happened he time diploma courses. examination hall personally and Col. Urwick will address the

date".

tell Tse Rei.

members

of

the Hongkong In the juvenile court. at He would collect the money tomorrow, at the Hoover Res

| Management Association at 8 pm. Causeway Bay this morning the from the candidates.. or their taurant cyclist pleaded guilty to a driving hetructors, and pay charge of being negligent. Mr $100 to The Hel; $10 "commis-

the offence.

He will penis on manage-

D. Benson fined the boy $2 for ion" to another accused inspec- ment problems. In general and tor, Chan Kwok-kyal,...and. on how they affect Hongkong Inspector R. A. Lee sold last divide the rest between himself particular, Saturday when Detective and the other two accused, The Chairman of the A500¬ Inspector J. P. MacMahon was Lung Chun-wing and his wife clation, Sir Sik-nin Chhu, will driving along Gloucester-road Yuan Pui-hang allas Lung Bo. also address members (and will. with the boy riding on o After a time, he said. Tse Hell outline the steps the blcycle travelling in the same was taken off as invigilating tion will take to help improve dircetion, the boy suddenly officer at the examinations and Elle standarda ng management swerved in front of the in-was replaced by Chan Kwek- in Hongkong. *pector's car hak

The Inspector had to apply

his Irokos Dixi, nartówly avert-

Jewel.

Same system

He said he' adváncód'

Chah

Dissocia-

Col Urwick's greatest effort has been the Improvement of co-operation and liolson, 'amiczak international management bodior.. | The International Committeo

ed a collision with antiher 'car travelling in the opporite direc$3,000, and $100 dollars per con for Selantine Monogement tion. The near side lead lampadalo was deducted from this. (CIOS) has awarded him, with collided with the front wheel When the £9,000 was exhausted a Gold Medal, of the bicycle

The object of the Hongkong No damage was caused And advanced Chin more money. -

1. The mino #ystem of identify- Managemonti Association In to the boy was not, hurt, The inged dites rovna ured, ex- Improves the elvennie and Inspector" then Borted the cept that the candidega would efficiency of management in cycllet.

also have some signal which "de l'Hongkon

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