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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 6, 1939.

Week's Release

from Silence Vow

ALLOWED TO TALK EVEN TO WOMEN MONKS who are pledged to silence have just had the strange experience of being free, for a whole week, to talk as much as they pleased--to women, as well as to men.

They are Cistercians of tors will be permitted within the the Abbey of Mount Stery itself, for the first time since it was established, more than Bernard, deep in the seclu-100 years ago. sion of Charnwood Forest,. Leicestershire.

"ENJOYED IT"

Helped Plan Empire Radio

TWO men little known to the} present generation died re- both... did work cently. Yet which brought great, benefits to the public.

The frut was Sir Henry Normun, Laged 80; of "Chiddingfold, Surrey. Futher Inlbot, sub-Prior, who Sir Henry, former Liberal M.P. may, In the absence of the Prior.and Assistant Pastmaster-General, Recently the monks com-talk to anyone, said:

became chairman of the Imperial pleted the building of their ab-. "The monks undoubtedly, enjoyed Wireless Telegraphy Committee, bey church with stone they the opportunity of speaking and which drew up a complete wireless quarried on their own catale. think the publle enjoyed it none the scheme for the British Empire.

less. Peuple, you know, have leas To make the event the Lord Ab that we are mther queer, partly be- It was during these developments bol, the Rt. Rev. Malachy Brasil, Cause of this stence among our-that the British Broadcasting Com-i opened the church for public inspec-selves. They discovered, perhaps pany was formed in 1822.

alon.

50,000 VISITORS

More than 50,000 people came from all parts of the country, and were shown over the church by a number of monks who had worked on It alnce the foundations were tald in

1035.

with some surprise, that the monks.Sir Henry was a native of Leices were very natural and very humanter and was educated in France, Ger- and the conversation was very pica-many, and the United States. rant on both sides.

for our part we found the pubileultation for the preservation of the Niagara Falls was successful, that very responsive and appreciated their the State of New York was induced interest. They behaved reverently-to purchase them. even those of them who frankly con-

His eldest son, Mr. Henry Nigel St. Later the doors were again shut fessed that they had no religion at Valery Norman, aged 42, of Rutland- on the world and its volces, at the nii. monks returned to their normal "It is unlikely that the priests at court, Knightsbridge, S.W.,. succeeds to the title. He 15 chairman of Air- the Inonastery will have another routine and to silence.

When the church is consecrated opportunity of breaking their silence work, Ltd., Heston. (In a year's time, It is haped) visi- for a very long time,"

Fritz Kulin, left, ra-called German-American Bund Fuchrer, under arrest in New York on charges of theft of $14,548 of Bund's funds. He was arrested In Krumsville, Pa., after vanishing from New York, but was returned.

The second man was Mr. Reginald Courtney Welch, aged 87, originator of the Aldershot Tattoo, Principal of the Army College, Heath End, near Aldershoi, since 1893,

Mr. Welch suggested the Tatton to Sir John French, then G.O.C. Alder- shot:

G.P.O. Has No Surplus Funds

Postmaster- }

Major Tryon, the General, referred to "the public's wrong Impression that the Post Office have large surplus funds" when he spoke at a dinner of the Head Fast- masters Association at Bournemouth | recently,

Revives Custom

Bome aloft in his sedia sostatoria, here is Popo Plus XII as

he took over Rome's cathedral church, Basilica of St. John Lateran. Ceremony marked revival of custom unused for 93 years, since, Pope Pius IX.

She Made 100 Hollywood.

IS

Stars Work for Her

a woman likely to buy a dress which she sces displayed on a wax model, stiff, ungainly, and without any of the grace of the real woman it is supposed to represent?

"People think," he said. "that they Post Office make un annual profil of some £12,000,000. As a matter of

Her answer was "No." Her solution was to make shop- fact we have only been able for the

window mannequins more natural in appearance. Inst two years to maintain our xed | contribution to the Exchequer of So she set up business as ai £10.750,000 by drawing on our re-maker of mannequins in her serve, the Post Ofen Fund.

Thinking over that question has put Mrs. Corn Scovil on the road to making a fortune.

"The recent wage increases award-

own city. Chicago.

Of fashion trends he said: "Perky sailor and Breton hats are coming into fashion very much, but there'll always be a good market for | turbans and those little novelty hats. should see enore vells especially with the big artificial silk spots in them. They're Big stores welcomed the new man-firtatious.

Now Mrs. Scovil's factory nequins.

"Colours? Well, bluck of course, makes 3,000 lovely "women" every but there's a tendency to use more year, and she recently went to Lon-browns and greens, and the shade don to sell her idea.

ed to the staff by the Arbitration Tri-

She made lifelike models of This winter bunal will cost over £2,000,000 this financial year, and consequence famous people, among them more than ever,

in there will not be suficient left in the than 100 Hollywood stars. fund at the end of this year to enable us to pay our fxed contribution to the Exchequer in full."

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"PLASTIC" MODELS

She suid:

"All women dramatise themselves. So, as "they"gaze "Into" shop" windows, they see ammselves in the gowns on display.

*And what woman who isn't a

| candidate for a lunatic asylum would Identify herself with a mannequini that looked like nothing ever on fund

that's been sweeping the States in the past three weeks lins been 'Stop' red, from the 'Stop' colutir in traffle flights,"

French Liner

Ablaze

Marscilles,

or sea, or give no Indication of being THE whole of the Marsellica able to move with grace or beauty? THE

I have therefore copied real' women, fire brigade, backed by a whose 'physical charm and attractive- harbour fire-float, were called out ness are widely acknowledges,

"My models are plastic and can be bent or turned at will to any natural

when fire flared up in the Mes- sageries Maritimea liner Andro Lebon (13,682 tons), lying in the docks here recently.

pose,"

Another visitor to London is Mr. Abraham del Monte, Amerien's lend- The outbreak occurred in the stern ing maker of women's hats. One of hold, but within an hour it had been his three fuctorles turns out 1,600 got under control, hats a day.

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Epstein's Adam-3 Tons of Graven Ugliness

EPSTEIN'S "Genesis," which was called misshapen, repul

sive, uncouth, gross, disgusting, when she startled Lon- don in 1931, now has a mate.

The same sculptor's "Adam," shown privately at the Lel- cester Galleries recently, and thereafter to be on public view, atands 7ft. Sin, in height, weighs three tons, and is ugly on the same enormous scale..

Epstein, it appears, hopes] legs do suggest the spiritual nspira- kind epitomised in its that the figure "will help others tons of our to a conception of Adam in the first representative; but the lumber- ing execution destroys the appeal of Garden of Eden"-I feel sorry the attitude.

for those others who can find If Adam looked like that, then the no better prompting in their Garden of Eden cannot have boasted: own imagination.

more gracious plants than prickly desert cacti.

Queen Mary Dislikes Jazz

LONDON.

Darwin brought a large part of hu- manity to think of, the Grat men ası in kind of anthropoid ape, but even Darwin, were be alive, would recoll from. Epstein's vision `made concrete. Adam was perhaps to some extent bestial, but did, he have 'this' coarle glant's tabular face and squat," imus- cle-bound; anatomically incongruous body?"No. Even though bes-dance music. Shortly before she laid tul, he surely was a fire specimen the foundation stone of the new St. of animal symmetry, for even autor Helier Hospital at Surrey, a pro- le has balance and rightness, and gramme of music for the ceremony was sent for her approval. She Thé áttitude deserves" praise: the intimated that she did not like ||-up-turned-- features, the drawn-up modern music, and particularly jazz.

arms and forward movement of the She said she preferred light opera.

Queen Mary does not lice modern

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