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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 23, 1941

By Walt Disney

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World Rights Rrud

By BESSIE HACKETT

The idea for that smash- hit play, "The Women,' really came from a man- for it was through her husband's curiosity about what women, talk about when they get together, relates Clare Boothe, that she wrote the play in which not a single man appears and which paints ર. satirical picture of

Women,

Pressed for the story behind the play, Miss Boothe, who is touring China with her publisher- husband, Henry Luce, said the play was really horn at a dinner party she and her husband

A man gave

attended. As women are wont to do. Mrs Luce drifted off to powder her nose and met several friends doing the same thing. They started talk- ing about this and that— while Mr Luce paced impatiently outside.

As

When his wife finally emerged he demanded, husbands are wont to do. what kept her in the powder room so long, and when she replied that she'd been talking to friends, he asked what on earth they found to talk about.

"Then I really started to think over what we'd talked about," Mrs Luce relates, "and when I mentioned a few of the things to my husband, he suid he couldn't believe that women could spend so much time on such discussions."'

Luce was called away from home the week-end following the party and his wife set to work writing "The Women." She started with the scene in the powder room, which, be- came the last scene in the finished play.

"As each scene was com pleted," she recalls, "I thought about working u man into it somewhere, but he didn't fit in and when the play was finished, no one was more surprised than I that it was entirely an all-woman play."

The whole play was written in three days and, with tho exception of a few changes in the last scene, was produced exactly as it was written then.

Mrs Luce has just finished a new play which will be pro- duced in the autumn, probably with Raymond Massey in the leading role. It's called "The

TOMOBILE JUNK YARD

Claire Boothe the idea for

Claire Boothie photographed out- side the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank on her way to lunchess at the American Club here recently. Above is a scene from the Metro-, Goldwyn-Mayer film production of

"The Women,"

Yohimbe Tree," the Yohimbe being a tree of love in Haiti.

Moving picture audiences soon will be able to see more of Miss Boothe's work on the screen, for she has just sold her newest Broadway hit, "Margin for Error," to Ernst Lubitsch. Sam Levine, who played the leading chiracter on the stage, will interpret the same role on the screen. All- other Clare Boothe play just bought by Hollywood is "The Wedding Day," which has never been produced on the stage. It's a story about any- body's wedding day and all that goes on In connection with a wedding.

Dinner parties seem to be lucky occasions for Miss Boothe, for it was at one of them that she got her job on the staff of "Vogue" maga- zine. Seated next to Conde Nast, Miss Boothe chirped that she would like to work on his magazine, and the

THE WOMEN'

publisher blithely said sure. come around the next morn- ing.

When Miss Boothe showed up at the "Vogue" office, she learned that Nast was out of town, but she informed the editor that he had already given her a job. The editor assigned her to a desk and Miss Boothe feels sure that when Nast returned he was rather surprised to find sho had taken him up on his offer.

Miss Boothe wrote fashion articles for "Vogue" only about two months. Drifting. into the adjoining "Vanity Fair" office one day she dis- covered a vacancy in one of the cditorships and Was promptly hired when she said

she'd like to switch over to

"Vanity. Fair." Miss Boothe remained with "Vanity Fair" for several years, resigning as managing editor to devote her time to writing plays.

From her years as a fashion editor and her instinctive knowledge of style, Miss Boothe has evolved two rules for well-dressed woman. First, never to be the most conspicuously dressed woman at gathering (excepting professional people, such as actresses, etc.), and secondly, never to look as though all one's clothes are completely

new.

Descriptions of Miss Boothe's beauty and charm have not been exaggerated. She has a lovely pink and white complexion, large blue eyes, and soft, wavy, honey- coloured hair which fairly radiates sunlight. Her friend- ly smile puts strangers at their casc And she has a

OPERA BEAUTY'S ROMANCE

war

stopped Hella

from

HELLA TORROS, beautiful young opera star whose wed. The ding to an American millionaire was stopped on religious grounds, appearing at the Metropolitan Opera hha found, romance again with a Canadian major whom she met House, Now York, where she was to in a British garrison theatre.

meet Ellis Loeb, millionaire banker. "Can I help you the handsome officer asked her as she They wanted to marry, but her Thoy Brst met in a Milan hotel, stood in the stage wings waiting to entertain troops. "No, family objected as they were of thanks. There's nothing you can do," she replied.

And different creeds. that's how it all began.

"Then, on the eve of the war, I "He has done something for stockbroker. He returned with the was due to leave for America. When stay me, though he brought mo Conndian Expeditionary Force to war broke out I decided to happiness," she told reporters, fight for his country, and was a hero, Miss Terros continued.

'Blue eyed, with brown hair, and Dunkirk. He never talks about his 23-inch hips-6 feat five of loveliricss "All through my porformance I experiences, though,

-Hella is appearing in the new Lon- knew he was standing at the side

...

of the stage watching me. I kept "Now he makes me sing for him don Coliseum revue Strike up the

hoping he wouldn't go away!

"Born: In: Britain, he want Canada as a Ind, and became

all the time. The other evening 1 Music,

to songs in a row Just for him, and, hen ar aldre

sat down at the pleno and sang illkyn

A he asked for in encare!"INSTAKALLEN AVAINNOTE

charming knack of including others in her conversation, generalising many of her with flattering "we" instead of constantly using the pronoun “L”

answers

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Miss Roothe disclaimed any plans for continuing her "poli- lical career following her campaigning for Willkie last y car. "I have no such plans at all, if you mean becoming a political commentator," she explained. "For one thing, I think it's humanly impossible for one person to say three really smart things, in one week."

Questioned regarding the talk some months ago about her proposed reply to Anne Lindbergh's "The Wave of the Future," Miss Boothe replied, "There's no answer to Anne Lindbergh. The only answer to her must be made in netion. not writing." Miss Boothe does plun, however, to write a book following this trip to the Far East-probably some- thing on the order of her "European Spring."

WALT DISNEY 2-

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SOLLUM'S

Part in War MYSTERY

SOLLUM, which has played

an important part in the Middle East campaign, was little known to many people until recently. Yet it was this outpost which was the cause of a famous shipping mystery in the last war.

English shipping circles are recalling that marine under- writers in 1915 paid a loss on a little steamer, the Niggem, which was bound from Alex- andria for Barcelonu.

The vessel was posted as missing because nothing was heard of her for several months.

While the ship was lost the fate of her crow was a my story. Eventually, with the captain, they arrived at Alex- andria and reported that the vessel had foundered six days after leaving port.

They took to the ship's boats and landed at Sollum. which was then a mere pin point on the map, .consisting of a few huts.

Missing Mariners Were

'With Senuaai

There they fell in with a band of Senussi, the nomai tribe against which the Duke of Westminster led an expedi tion Inter in the war.

At the time of the ship- wreck, however, these Arabs were comparatively friendly, and while the British seamen were kept prisoners they were treated kindly.

Eventually the Arabs made "contnet with another chief; who had the crew sent to Alexandria under escort.

The case, according to a

had shipping expert,

two points of interest.

It was one of the few known Instances in which the loss of a Vessel "posted as missing," has been established later as due to a specific casualty; and the life in surance company with which the captain was insured had paid the amount due on his policy.

It is understood that the insur- ance company agreed to let mal- ters stand as they were, so that the captain was one of the few people who lived to spend the money due at his death.

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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR

-$37,000

in 1941 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hongkong, ogainat which the Income to date is $14,000 only,

In order to continue is work, The Society ap- pents for the balance of

$10,000 before the close of the Anancial year on October.

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The number of children assisted last year was 0.100.

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