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MYRNA LOY ON WIVES

It's one thing to be a wile- and quite another thing being a {"perfect wife' on the screen," said alm star Myrna Loy during her rush visit to London,

Myrna, who has been married three years to producer. Arthur "Hornblow, junior, la celebrated as (the screen "perfect wife" of Thin 3 Man William Powell...

"Give and take is her recipe for happy marriage.

"I do not see why marriage should fall because husband and wife are both working," she said. I think it is a very good thing.

I wouldn't know what to do with myself all day."

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“Babies?” she queried. “Well, I Want to go on working in pictures "for" some time yet, „you know, so I shall probably be too busy to think about them for a while."

The studios gave her only month's holiday...

"I have been trying to visit as many places in Europe as possible, and my head's in such a whirl now."I hardly know where I am.” she said.

Myrna and her husband sailed for

SOCIAL

MONDAY, JULY 17, 1939.

WOMEN'S PAGE SWIM TIME IN THE TROPICS

"London's fine? I wish we.. could stay longer to see every- thing."

BREAKFAST IN

the United States in the Norman BED, BY ORDER

Idie.

Her next picture will be The Return of the Thin Man," with

William Powell...

"I don't think I shall ever get tired of my Thin Man" roles," she said.

Compulsory Rest For Housewives

BELILIOS SCHOOL EXHIBITION OF HANDWORK

UNIQUE PATTERNS

DISPLAYED

The students of the Bellos Public School held their first handwork exhibition for the public on their school premises on Saturday morning.

. The one hundred and more visi- tors were amazed and intrigued at

CHINESE ARTIST'S SHOW

Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, former Chinese Ambassador to Japan and now acting chairman of... the National Relief Commds- slon, opened an exhibition of paintings and designs by Miss Liang Pro-tse at St. John's Cathedral. Hall on Saturday. The collection is a large one. and covers a wide range of sub- lects. Miss Idang, who is director of the Chinese Industrial Art

WOMAN NOVELISTS

SUICIDE

FIGHTING "AN

OBSESSION

A woman novelist's "obsession that her young daughter would be taken away from her was re- ferred to at an inquest at Maid-

Agnes Winch, 43, of stone, Kent, on Mrs. Marie Elspeth

West Farleigh, near Maidstone.

the Crofts,

Better known as Evelyn Winch, author of "The Girl and a “Flat,” short

the unique patterns of educational and industrial work carried out by Centre, display's a very good grasp and many other novels and

:

of

art essentials.

to

organ of the human body, not only been sold prior to Saturday, the

but won a prize.

stories, Mrs. Winch was found shot at her home.

balance of mind

A verdict of suicide while the was disturbed

was recorded.

Her husband, Lt-Col. A. B. Winch, said that one particular his wife had been writing heavily type of book' hit the market, and

This had affected her nerves for the past six or seven

health.

Upset By Crisis

years.

and

means of handiwork,

Not all the The botany exhibition drew a pictures are interesting, but there great deal of attention. This ex-are many that command respect. hibit was segregated from the

Miss Liang's forte seems to be others and portrayed the various ufe studies, of which there is a plants, flowers, insects, sea life and ane selection.

The object of the exhibition. shells.

The various maps worked in em- which continues to-day, is broidery were accurate and ex-raise funds for the rellef and

mely well done And the cotton-wool exhibit de-who are refugees in the Colony training of industrial art workers pleting the process of the digestive More than half the pictures had surprised each and every visitor purchasers including Mr. Hst

JShih-ying, Mr. Aw Boon-haw, Mr., he September crisis upset her. MODELS OF PERFECTION Tu Yu-sheng, Mr. Wong Hslao- and she was also obsessed by an After a week-end in brilliant

The usual handcraft of needle-lal. Miss Hu Mu-lan, Sir Robert extraordinary fear that her little When I am making other pic-English weather. which de- tures I always feel that I can go lighted them, the 1.000 delegates work, knifted garments, embroi-Ho Tung and Prof. Hsu Ti-shan.ir was going to be taken

'from her. back to being the 'perfect screen of the Associated Country Women dery, etc. worked by the students

Dr. Luk Chuen Hauen, Diploma,ap to this week, but after a long This state of mind continued wire."

of the World settled down for the their leisure hours were models International Conference at the

perfection and Individual Government Medical College. Then conversation with ber married Friends House, Euston-road. N.w.thought, many new variations of tsin.

daughter she came to the conclu- VAREZZZ under the presidency of Mrs. Al-the usual style garments being sign medical certificates of

sion, that she was wrong in "her the purpose ideas and wished to

go into Ordi-

mental home. He thought that the strain of overcoming this ob- session was, too much for her.

He had given her a revolver when they travelled in Africa, to- gether, and recently she had been carrying it about.

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and a surprise that the pupils could ||people from the country to the

produce such splendid work, they towns.

are deserving of the highest honours.

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Fru Astrid Berg, from Romerike, | Norway, who is in charge of the

handicrafts stali, said.

Miss Phyllis W. Brown, the Head- mistress, addressed the gathering,

"There are not many farms and and this was followed by the dis- cottages in Norway, and agricul-tribution of prizes, tural life is losing many, to the towns. We try to give them bet-

ter conditions--and, of course;

they want wireless!"

PRIZE LIST..

1

Paper-work: Miss Wong Wai-sze,

Miss Wong Tsul-chun, and Miss

She added that there were no Chol Pai-tal. shepherds

in Norway. Instead, Bewing Miss Yan Lal-fong, Miss the sheep are sent to the. "ut-Tse Lin-ching. Misau Wing-mui, mark." cr outer boundaries, where Miss Tse Yee-sung, Ed Miss Lam they graze all the summer.

"The sheep have not even dogs to herd them," she added, "but look after themselves until brought down again to the pen in winter. Young girls the "saeter- Jente"-live in huts on the moun- tains all the summer with the herds and make butter,"

Yu-to.

Geography and History Maya Miss Tam Yin-lam and Miss Wong Chai-yü...

Group-work: Class 8A (Miss Ng Yuk-lan, Miss Fung Puy-yue, Miss Bul Kwok-yui, Miss Leung Mel- wing, and Miss Lui Wal-ying); Class 4A (Miss Luk Hing-chun, The women of Eire also and Miss Lo Kum-su. Miss Wong Wal- that there is an exodus to the kuen. Miss Fung Yu-wah, Miss Wu towns.

Wal-lin, Miss Sung Yin-ching, Miss

Kuen-ying, Miss Cork, Kwan

Chung

Mra, Nina Barrett, of ço.

a B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, Fong-lan, and Miss Cheung Yu-

Wag

stated that in spite of this. Cork the finest country for the country - women's movement, and the women there were the greatest butter-eaters in the world.

"In my own family of three and a mald," she said, "we eat six or seven pounds of butter a week.

BOYS TRAINED TO WASH

DISHES ***

Fru Vilen, of Sweden, who ad- dressed one of the groups into which the conference was divided, said that in Sweden, they had a housewives', association which ar- ranged for women who were over- busy to have rest and recreation. One of the rules was that they must have breakfast in bed, whe- ther they wanted to or not. It

hing).

Botany: Miss Chan Bik-wan and Miss. Wong Chai-yu,

Home-made Article: Miss Yeung Ming-lau and Miss Ho Yim-wa.

Chinese Maps: Miss Tanh Ying- wai,

Chinese Calligraphy: Miss Chan Yeung-sim and Miss Hong Bik- chun.

authorized to the

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LUNCHEON

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Glazed Carrots Spinach Cakes String Beans

Corn Bread " Stewed Fruits

& Cookies Tea

Iced

DINNER

Crab Cocktail Deviled Egg" Balad

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-Coffee-

NEWSETTES

To-day is the birthday

of...the

Mr. George Stancy Kennedy

had been found that this was one Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Commissioner Skipton has been appointed. Chief among over-busy housewives, jor Police.

of the greatest desires and joys

Miss Larsen, Denmark, said that

Assistant to the Becretary for Chinese Affairs.

Miss Margaret Scott Watson,

boys in elementary schools in her The name of Dr. Eugene WIL country were trained with the fred Low, MBBS, (Edin.), D.T.M. girls in cooking and dish-washing, London has been added to the B./B. Certificate of the Instituts

away

Mr. Birkett's Confession

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Mr. Norman Birkett, but for the prescribed obscurity of Divorce Court proceedings, would have been halled as the author of the phrase of the week.

Most of it he has spent, with Mr. Norman Parkes, in appearing for a husband, petitioner in a defended action. A feature of this, as usual, has been his astute "and" deadly cross-examination of wit- nesses.

He was pressing a domestic tu reveal"

some alleged "'bad language." She hesitated to repeat the words, observing that it went "against her grain" to say them.

Mr. Birkett was relentlessly placating." "Don't

I'm 587 Inquisitive, because I'm not," he said confidentially.

This confession by one of the leading cross-examiners at the Bar caused laughter, in which even Mr. Justice Henn-Collins Joined.

FLOWER SALE RAISES OVER $10,000

Over: 310,000 has already been "received from the flower day sale on the Double Beventh, from differnt organdisations in charge ut the sales. "

The amount was a' record and it is expected that the sun will 60 concerns which have not yet be increased as there are still some

sent "in their collections to the Chinese War Relief Association.

so that later they would be able to Register of Medical Practitioners of Hospital Almoners, has been STAGE STAR

take their share of work in the home.

Under instructions from the

Mrs. Crowley said that in her secretary of State for the Colonies, part of South Australia only, about the Governor has appointed Mr.

a dozen people owned their own Lionel Clegg to be an Assistant farms.

L

Auditor.

""To a great extent she said,

to go into the banks and show the for Sweden 'at Hongkong.

appointed European Lady Almoner

with effect from July 5, 1930

WEDDING AT REGISTRY

AWAITS BABY

Florence Demand, the stage, screen and radio comedienne, is expecting her first baby,

"I don't mind a bit whether it's

Miss Desmond, in private 110

"the farms are owned by the H, E the Governor, under in- banks, who have the farmers instructions from the Secretary of Saturday at the Registry Bupreme it and now I'm going to spend all

The marriage took place ona boy or a girl," she said.

"I'm tremendously pleased about their hands and can sell them up state for the Colonies, has been Court, of No. Li Cheung-wan, mer- when they like. pleased to recognize, Mr. Cedric chant of 4 and my time looking after myself.

"Some of the farmers even have Blaker as honorary Vice-Consul Miss Ma Fung-yee, of No. 382

Lockhart Road.

| Mrs. Charles F. Hughesdon, wife of Mr. T. J. Gould, Deputy Re-

the airman and frisurance broker the things on the list," she added. Delegate to China, arrived in and the witnesses were Mr. Mpart was taken by Miss. Beryl Monsignor Mario Zanin, Apostolic gistrar of Marriages, officiated, did not appear in "Band Watson" "The managers will sometimes say, Kunming

at the London Paladfum, Her No, you have a jelly on this list, plane on Friday. While in the war- chap.

Chungking by Wing-nin and Miss Hong Bust-

Orde and that is a luxury. You must

Announcements knock it off" (Cries of Shamel") time capital, Monsignor Zanin bad

managers their grocery list for the

week and ask if they can buy all

trom

OUR UPS for romance! Mrs. Mead Robins amin a number of Interviews with

Columbia, thought that there was

Chungking leaders,

The following forthcoming mar ringes are announced:

Mr. Anatole Zaltzeff, merchant,

For your complete beauty treat a beginning of a return from the ent use Tattoo Forder. Rouse cities to the land. People were

The Convention between the of No. 110 Austin Road, and Mascara (cream with brush). finding that city life was not quite United Kingdom and Iraq regard Miss Eugenie Zagorsky, of the

Bole Distributor:

ing Legal proceedings in Divi same Address.

KUW FIT SENG'S TRADING

CO, LID. Tour Tour

At The doctor has warned“ me that I must get all the rest I can," said Miss Desmond..

"I hope to appear in another show next spring, for I love the stage and I see no reaso why I shouldn't manshine what they had expected.

motherhood and my career. Young people going on the land and Commercial Matters, which Mr. Chen Yung-ling professor Mias Desmond was formerly the should be given more business was signed at Bagdad on July of engineering, residing at St. wire of Captain Campbell Back, training, he urged. The average 25, 1935, has been extended to John's Hall. Honggong University, the airman, farmer had no idea of business: Hongkong ag from March 28. and Msg Kao T1-hua, tesiding at and was "done all round."

1938

the Chiness YM.C.A.

was killed in an She married Mr.

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