1939-07-06 — Page 2

Monks

End

from Silence Vow

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

a

Week's

Release

July 6, 1939.

Revives Custom

Helped Plan Empire Radio

ALLOWED TO TALK EVEN TO WOMEN

MONK

ONKS 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 torn will be permitted within the the Abbey of Mount St. monastery itself, for the first time since I was established, more than Bernard, deep in the seclu- 100 years ago. sion of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire.

“ENJOYED IT'

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

The Arat was Sir Henry Norman, aged 80, of Chiddingfold, Surrey. Father Inlbot, sub-Prior, who Str Henry, former Liberal. M.P. may, In the absence of the Prior, and Assistant Postmuster-General, talk to anyone, naid:

became chairman of the Imperia Wireless Telegraphy Committee, which drew up a complete wireless scheme for the British Empire.

Recently the monks com- pleted the building of their ab- "The monks undoubtedly enjoyed bey church with stone they the opportunity of speaking and I think the pubile enjoyed it none, the quarried on their own estate.

To make the event the Lord Ab that we are rather queer, parity be

less, People, you know, have Ideas

It was duing these developinents bot, the RL. Rev. Malachy Bras, cause of this silence among our-that the British Broadensting Com- opened the church for public Inspec-selves. They discovered, perlumps any was formed In 1923.

tlen,

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 since the foundations were laid in

with some surprise, that the monks Sir Henry was a native of Leices- were very natural and very human. ter and was educated in France, Ger- and the conversation was very plea-many, and the United States. His sant un both sides.

agitation for the preservation of the "For our part we found the publle Niagara Falls was so successful that very responsive and appreciated their the State of New York was Induced interest. They behaved reverently to purchase them. even those of theen who frankly con- fessed that they had no religion at all.

"11 is unlikely that the priests at monastery will have another When the church is consecrated opportunity of breaking their silence Cu a year's time, It is hoped) vill-for a very long time."

1935.

Later the doors were again shut on the world and Its volees, and the monks returned to their normal routine-ard to silence.

the

para Puenter,

Fritz Kuhn, left, so-called Gray theft of $14,548 of Bund's under arrest in Naustda in Kramsville, Pa., after vanishing from -find-York, but was returned.

His eldest son, Mr. Henry Nigel St. Valery Norman, aged 42, of Rutland- court, Knightsbridge, S.W., succeeds to the title. He is chairman of Air- work, Ltd., Reston,

The second man was Mr. Reginald Courtney Welch, aged 87, originator of the Aldershot Tattoo, Principal of the Army College, Heath End, near Aldershot, since 1895.

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

shot.

G.P.O. Has No Surplus Funds

Major

Tryon, the

Postmaster- General, referred to "the public's wrong impression that the Post Office: have large surplus funds" when he spoke at n dlaner of the Head Post- masters' Association at Bournemouth rucontiy.

Borne aloft in his sedla sestatorla, here is Pope Pius XII as

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

She Made 100 Hollywood

Stars Work for Her

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

Thinking over that question has put Mrs. Cora Scovil on the rond to making a fortune.

Her answer was "No." Her solution was to make skop- window mannequins more natural in appearance.

"People think," he said, "that the! Post Onice make an annual profit of som £12,000,000. As a matter of fact we have only been able for the last two years to maintain our fixed) contribution to the Exchequer · of| So she set up business as a £10,759,000 by drawing on our remaker of mannequins in her serve, the Post Office Fund.

121-

consequence

own elty, Chicago,

of fashion trends he said: "Parky sailor and Breton hats are coming into fashion very much, but kaepen almaja be a goud num Nết 10r urbans and those little novelty hats, should see more vells than ever, especially with the big artificial silk spots in them. They're dirtatious,

"The recent wage increases award-] ed to the fun boter

She made lifelike models of This winter cost over £4,000,000 this bunal

unnel year, and in

fanovi people, among them more there will fint be sufficient left in the than 100 Hollywood stars." fund at the end of this year to enable us to pay our fixed contribution to the Exchequer in full."

TO-NIGHT'S BIG EVENT

FAREWELL

TO THE

MARCUS SHOW

AT

THE

9.30 p.m.

QUEEN'S

Prosenting

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Big stores welcomed the new man-

nequins. Now Mrs. Scovil's factory "Colours? Well, black of course, makes 3,000 tovely "women" every but there's a tendency to use more year, and she recently went to Lon-browns and greens, and the shinde don to sell her idea.

"PLASTIC MODELS

She said:

"All women dramatise themselves. So, as they gaze into shup windows, they see themselves_in_the gowns on display.

"And what woman who isn't n candidate for a lunatle asylum would Identify herself with mannequin that looked like nothing ever on land

thal's been sweeping the States In the pust three weeks hus been 'Stop' rod; from the 'Stop' colour in traffic lights."

French Liner Ablaze

Marseilles.

or sea, or gave no indication of being THE whole of the Marseilles able to move with grace or benuly? I have therefore copled real woinen wluse physical charm and attræetive ness are widely acknowledged,

"My models are plastic and can be

bent or turned of will to any natural

Dose,"

fire brigade, backed by n harbour fire-float, were called out when fire flared up in the Mes- sageries Maritimes liner Andre

| Lebon (13,682 tons), lying in the

Another visitor to London is Mr. docks here recently. Abraham del Monte, America's lead- The outbreak occurred in the stern ing maker of women's hats. One of hold, but within an hour it had been his three Incluries turns out 1,800 got under control. hats a day.

VEILS ARE "IN"

ready rival the Paris houses

for

The Ore is believed to have been started by a blow-pipe overheating a steel plate. This set fire to a farpau-

ship's laundry.

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To achieve such individuality once was expensive because it not only involves furniture, rugs and draperies but walls and ceilings as well. However, in the past few years archillects and interior deco- rators have developed several methods of personalizing walls and ceilings without spending a great deal of money.

They have discovered, for exam- ple, that one of the simplest, most effective ways to individualizo a room or an entire house to to use Oclotex cane fibre insulating board for interior finish.

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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 1981, now has a mate.

The same sculptor's "Adam," shown privately at the Lei- cester Galleries recently, and thereafter to be on public view, stands 7ft. 3in. In height, weighs thrée tons, and is ugly on the same enormous scale.

Epstein, it appears, hopes legs do suggest the spiritual aspira- that the figure will help others tons of our kind epitomised in its to a conception of Adam in the Arst 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.

gracious plants

more desert enct),

than prickly

Queen Mary Dislikes Jazz

LONDON.

Darwin brought a large part of hu- manity to think of the first man as jo kind of anthropoid ape, but even Darwin, were he alive, would recall from Epstoln's vision' made, concrete. Adam was perhaps to some extent bestial, but did he have this coarse giant's tabular face and squat, mus- cle-bound, anatomically-incongruous body? No... Even though bes- dance music. Shortly before she told al, he surely was a fine specimen the foundation stone of the new St. of animal symmetry, for even n gorll- Helier Hospital at Surrey, a pro- gramme of music for the ceremony In has balance and "rightness."

was sent for her approval. She The attitude deserves praise: the intimated that she did nol like up-turned features, the drawn-up modern musle, and particularly jazz. anna and forward movement of the She said she preferred light opera.

Queen Mary, does not like modern

degrees.

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You're As Pretty As A Picture..

Sweetest Song In The World.

A-Tinkot A-Taskot..

I Love To Whistle.

I Must See Annis To-Night.

My Own.

If It Rainu-Who Cares !

Any Broken Hoarts To Mend?

The 7-15 To Dreamland.

Whon The Circus Camo To Town.

Stop Boatin' 'Round The Mulberry Bush....

When They Played The Polka.

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