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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

*June 17, 1939.

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NINTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC

COMPETITION

June-September, 1939 CASH PRIZES

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(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph")

TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250

4.

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Princesses Tube Journey

Princess Elizabeth und Princess Margaret went for their first ride on the London Underground recently, and used an escalator for the Arst timo,

Attended by Lady Helen Graham, one of the Queen's Indles-in-waiting, and their governess, Misy Crawford, they drove from Buckingham Palace to St. James's Park Station. "and entered the station unrecognised.

Trinecas Margaret watched with close interest as pennies were dropped into a ticket machine and penny tickets come out. She carried only her own ticket at Arst, but later asked if she could hold all four, and she walked up to the ticket collector proudly to have them snipped.

The party entered a third-class smoking carriage on an Inner Circle train, and the Princesses sat opposite each other, regarding their surround- ings with Ilvely Interest.

DOWN THE ESCALATOR

At Charing Cross, where they changed, came the Princesses' biggest thrill the escalator. Princess Eliza- beth stepped on correctly with the left foot first, but Princess Margaret, rather more excited, put out the wrong foot, and laughed as she re- galted her balance,

A north-bound train came in as they reached the platform, and the Princesses watched the opening of the automatic doors. They sat skle by-side on the way to Tottenham Court-road station, and when the train stopped at Strand and Lalcester- square Princess Elizabeth the names for her sister,

At Tottenham Court-rond Princesses rode up the first escalator but ran up the second.

read out

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On the way out, Princess Margaret gave up the tickets, which she had been clutching tightly.

Emerging Into New Oxford-street, the Princesses paid a surprise visit to the Y.W.C.A. In Great Russell- street, where they took tea at the "Help-yourself” cüfeteria,

INSPECTOR RAN AFTER THEM

They returned by tube and district trains. At Charing Cross the party changed into a first-class carriage, and Princesa Margoret seemed to be fascinated by the route-nap on the ceiling.

St. James's Park Station. Prin- cess Margaret retained the tickets as they went out, and Insp. W. Winch an after the party to recover the tickets.

He suid afterwards that he would keep the tickets if the company would allow him.

Suzy And Tommy- Fly To Town

SUZY and Tommy, twin darlings of Vienna's artistle world, were re- united to their father at Croydon re- cently,

Their father, Dr. Richter, had been forced to leave Australia because he

·was a-Jew. Their mother, Hermi Berka, had been begged by the Nazio

stay.

to

29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION,

IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

Prizes will be allotted as follows:

SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pictures,

1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

SECTION TWO:

General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc. 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION THREE:

Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies.

Ist. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1The Competition is confined ex-

Amateur

piloto- etusively to graphers.

-No employee or member of any firm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete.

3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Section." Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and" which ''must be pasted on Back of entry. 4-The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Itongkong Telegraph.

·SECTION FOUR:

Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

SECTION FIVE:

Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years.

1st. $15,

RULES

5-All photographs entered muat have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already" entered in other Competitions are ineligible. -No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries.

-Ail entries to be either black, nepla, or loned pictures, and must be mounted. Coloured. photo- graphe are ineligible, 8-Pictures submitted in sepia tones Bhould be accompanied by a smaller print in black and whlie, -No picture to entered in mero

"then" one Section, 10-Mounts to be only white or

cream. and, except

tho Children's Section, must be of ano

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE IT:

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY.

SECTION "NAME

ADDRESS DATE

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Znd. $10. 3rd. $5.

of the following sizes:-10x12, 10x20. 11-No correspondence, will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.

12-Entries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, age and address on the entry form, counter-signed by a parent. 13.-Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong: Telegraph and tim South China Morning Post are not. permitted to compete. 14.-The decisions of the Judges shali-

be final.

16-At the conclusiou at the Com

petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph ofßees within soven days.

ENTRY FORM.

Plenic, usa block letters and “pasto 'this on back of each Entry, K. entered In Children's. Section, parent, please counteral here,

For Herma Berka has been for 30 years since she was five years old- a particularly bright star of the Vienna ballet.. On the right you see her with the twins after their arrival by aeroplane,

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"They asked me to stay," said Her- ma Berka, "because my ancestry, rooted in Vienna, can stand up even to Adolf Hitler's. Nuremburg laws. But my place is with my husband and my children.

"My husband is now perfecting his English and preparing for the medical examinations which he has to undergo. In a few months' tima he hopes to begin practising here as dentist, and then we shall start life anew where we left off in Vienna.

"Shall

I ever dance again? Heaven Hermo hummed the tune. knowg." of the "Blue Danube," which she danced in old Imperial Vienna and later again when harassed little post- war Austria tried to forget her worries with the tunes of Johann

Strauss,

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Suzy, brunette, and Tommy, blond, are otherwise very much alike. They have Inherited the rhythm which s In their mother's blood, and are al- ready busy, trying their first dancing slops.

Veteran Secretary Gives Tips

CLEVELAND, O. Miss Emma S. Vogelsang belleves that for a woman to be a successful secretary, sho must be faithful and conscientious and must do her job as if it were her own business. Miss Vogelsang speaks with authority. She has been secretary to the same executive for 44 years.

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