1938-10-07 — Page 3

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

IN LONDON TO-DAY are two women who got fan mails. but that is where the similarity ends.

Women Criticise Jungle Dress

Miss Edith Head gets Hollywood's most insulting. fan mail because many women object to the dresses she designs for film stars.

Miss Head-who is on a flying visit to London-la responsible alike for Dorothy Lamour's skim- piest sarong and Claudette Colbert's most ravishing chiffon creation.

She said: "Women movie fans don't know the first thing about clothes, and haven't the sense to find

"My job is to dress stars for the parts they are playing. It women would realise that, they wouldn't be so darned rude,

in

"IN THE MONEY"

"Whenever there is a stenographer

1n-

a picture letters pour hundreds a dny. They any: "I'm a stenog, and you can't dress like that

on twenty dollars a week.'

"Of course you can't, but women forget that the stenog. Is supposed to be the boss's 'sweelle' and therefore In the money.

"Dorothy Lamour's sarongs have caused me all the trouble that ever happened. Thousands of letters They came, all from women.

don

sald: You ought to be sacked. You

know your job." "Everybody who had ever seen a South Sea Island wrote to say that there was too much sarong, and didn't I know that the girls wore a sarong round their tummies and only a smile up above? Sure I did, and to did the censor."

TALES ARE GIVEN

HAPPY ENDINGS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7,

Both fan mails are large, One claims hors to be the most insulting, the other the most appreciative.

HER AUDIENCES ALL FALL ASLEEP

MRS. IRENE WICKER Children call her "Singing Lady”.

In Gaol Chess

Games

Judge In Gaol

She Talks About Fairies

Fresh from the land of make-believe, starry-eyed. Irene Wicker came to London and told her real-life fairy story.

Once upon a time she was tucking up her chubby, two-year-old son Charlie in his cot in their Chicago flat, and, just before the Sandman came, he whispered: "Mummy, tell me about the gingerbread fairies."

Softly, in a husky, half-crooning, Little papoore must go to sleep told tale of Hansel and Gretel, tell- From your coal black hair to your ing it as if every word were true.

copper toes.

And long before the witch was push-You must not let your eyelids peep

his

ed into the oven, Charlle had joined two-months-old baby sister Nancy in dreamland.

Perhaps the Queen of the Fairies was listening. for next day Mrs. Wicker was asked if she could tell

fairy story on the radio.

5,000,000 LISTEN

Twice every night, four nights a week, for eight years she has sent young America happily to sleep with her falry stories,

say

her

Beyond your funny, shiny nose.

So all the Indians in the tribe came to call that little Indian boy Copper Toes.

**

*

One evening, just na the stars were beginning to shine, he was playing with his bow and arrow. His big sister, White Swan, came toward the big fire outside the wigwams. Little Copper Toes run lowards her.

"Please, oh please, White Swan, Her fan mail is greater than won't you tell a story to little Cop- any

film star gets.

Delighted per Tocs?" studios

is "A story, audience

Copper Toes?" sald 5,000,000 children every night. White Swan. "What shall it be?" Mrs. Wicker neither knows nor "Oh, about the sun and the moon cares; her stories are told for two and the stars," said Copper Toes. young people only-Charlle and Nancy.

I met Mrs. Wieker at the Savoy. This is her secret!-

"Tell the story simply, so that the Put children see it in pictures. your heart into it, and mean every word.

"I have music to help me. I sing, But it's sincerity that puts it over."

The children write to her as "The Singing Lady."

All her stories have a happy end-,

witch ing. The

in Hansel and Gretel never gets pushed into the

"So you wonder about the stars, do you?" said White Swan. "Would you like to know how the Wooshoo Indians have always believed the stars came to be?"

"Tell me that story" said Copper Toes.

**

*

And the soft caressing voice goes on and on until... "and that's how the sun and the moon and the stora came to be," said White Swan.

oven; she is turned into gingerbread. SNORES

The wolf does not gobble up Red Riding Hood's er; he shuts her up in the

Says Mrs. Wicker: "I don't be-

A Former High Court Empire champion, doctors, bankers, lieve any American child really be- judge has been paying fre- and business men.

quent visits to Parkhurst Prison, in the Isle of Wight,

And at one match the banker was playing against the master forger.

to play chess with a repriev-the barred windows of a recreation

ed murderer.

The judge, Sir Cecil Walsh, K.C. formerly of Allahabad, is a member of the Island Chess team, which has met the prison team, the Autolycan

Club, in several tournaments.

The tournaments take place behind) room with only the chaplain or an offelal supervisor.

NO WARDERS Warders are absent during the their play, the convicts being on humour not to exploit the privilege.

Visitors agree that the games with the convicts have been conducted! with a courtesy one only expects in

At the last tourney in the gaol the "Autolycans" were represented by:

Three reprieved murderers, a mos- ter forger, street bandits, and one of big tournament games. the Dartmoor mutineers.

Heves in fairies, but they love to hear about them."

L. V. DODDS.

Copper Toes

This is how Mrs. Wicker tella her fairy storice:—

Once upon a time, inany, many years ago, there was a little Indian Only the drab grey cluth and num- boy. His name was Copper Toes, players have his mother used to sing a funny little

song to him:

In addition to Sir Cecil, the visit-bered arms have betrayed to which because, when he was a tiny baby,

Ing Island team has included Sir team the individual George

Alon

Thomas,

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Ile walked into a house near Grasse and had just discovered 150 francs in the room of the cook, Noemi, when Noemt her- self arrived.

Sylvestro hid himself under the bed. Noemi retired.

But His

The burglar thought that he would walt until abe went to sleep and then creep out it was he who fell asleep. loud snores terrified Noemi, who rashed out on to the staircase calling for help. Sylvestre was arrested.

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