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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1947.

H.M. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

“I think this one looks rather suspicious!'

PAUL HOLT

NOWADAYS, STAR-WORSHIP IS MORE LIKE REVENGE

TMM. ROBERT TAYLOR got

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a black eye, and his wife, Barbara Stanwyck, was carried into the foyer in a half- fainting condition when they went to the pictures together the other night.

Was this love? Tradition says it was, I'm not sure.

Tradition says that Mr and Mrs Taylor have so many followers who

irresistibly drawn to them admiration that they need protection wherever they go. Tradition' re- quires Mr Taylor to turn the other eye 10 the sweet Amiter: Miss

Sir Clutha MacKenzie, who lost his sight in the 1914-1918 war, has submitted to the Nanking Government proposals for im- proving the lot of China's 2,000,000 blind

BLIND BRITON'S PLAN

FOR CHINA'S SIGHTLESS

ETTER and "brighter" "Bare in store for China's two million blind as a result of the investigations and recommendations of the noted British blind welfare worker,

Next Change! “THE MUMMY'S CURSE” Sir Clutha MacKenzie.

CATHAY

ESWANCHAL ROAD WANCHATS,

After

thorough six-weeks' survey-which took him to various ur the country--Sir Clutha, -GRAND OPENING TO-DAY— Į purts

who lost his own eyes in the first World War, sulanitted proposals to AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & ~ ~* P.M. | the Chinese Government which, if fully carried out, would considerably PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE of TIME

improve the lat of the nation's blind and enable most of them to over- come the idleness and poverty to which they have hitherto been con- demned.

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The Outlaw

introducing

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Jack BUETEL Thomas MITCHELL

Waltor HUSTON

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Ziegfeld Follies

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It is learned that his report to the Nanking authorities recommends a simple plan, advocating a concentra- tijan

of effort

the teaching blind practical inancial younger trada in oder to afford then the opportunites of earning part or whole of their living. Particular at- tention is sald to have been, paid to the rehabilitation of blind "Chinese

Soldiers.

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DURING Sir Clutha Mackenzie's tour of China, he was particular- ly impressed with the resourceful ness and potential capacities of the Chinese blind and also with the s cessful achievements of many, both as graduates from modern schools and those trained under the old so- cial order.

was his impression that given wider opportunities large numbers of the two million blind in China would become busy, active

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-ni-useful-citizens..

Sir Clutha also expressed the opinion that 75 percent of the nation's two million blind would never have Frist their sight It they had been given proper medical care in time and taught to maintain น high hygienic standard.

Some of the other conclusions reached by Sir Clutha MacKenzie in Uite course of his survey, during which he personally visited dark and dirty alleways and slum areas to Interview blind people of all classes.

were:

Rupert & the New Pal--3

The search for buttercups (301 successful, so Rupert and Bill requi to the fence to tell George what they mean to do. Near & wooden past standa a hamper with nothing in m except straw, and to their surpris the tortoise is trying to get into "I wish I could jushp." way? „Ģeorge. *1 want to go to sleep in that straw." He seems to have torgotten all about load, think Rupert, wonder if he is o heavy for me to lift into the hamper. And he steps through thi

WHEN

"ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

NANCY No Use for That

MISS RITZ HAS TO GO. OUT OF TOWN FOR A WEEK ---- SO LITTLE NANCY IS COMING TO

STAY WITH US

BY THOMAS aldegUER

ucrmations of

preple in China are fortune-telling, at a central body established which

• The chief

story-telling and labour not requir

ing muscular strength.

Stanwyck to grin with ecstaty when- the last day, a frightened servant ever her hair la pulled.

Where would they be, tradition asks, were it not for these shrill cohorts? Where would their inillen be, their lovely homes and their eventuni privacy?

The truth is that the great per sonalities of the modern enterinin- ment world owe nothing, nothing at They owe their fame to the quiet

to such privileged folk

all,

ruxsterers,

who regularly seek the same seat inside the theaire week by week.

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Eldressed her

**Gnacdiges Fraulein." Sedately phe replied: "You may safely address me as Frau Hiller now."

Those were her last words. At three o'clock that aftemoon she went and lay down on the sofa with her bridegroom. While he shot himself through the mouth, she took poison. They were burned together in petrol,

It is an axiom of society that.'a woman will pay high for her Wines," I wonder how many women would pay the price of Eva Braun.

Oh, well.

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You do not see the fevered hooll- for Kans there. It would be dull them. They could not sit atli that long. They lack the power of con- centration tu' follow a story, even a

and simple as, the A India-For nie, beautiful pre-

story as allly

average im parade.

DVT:

Blue Mountains, South

perty, including twoscars; complete-

They Bdget for the chase; thele ly furnished; ervants available; febrile eyes are dark and a little good climate; gölt, flshing, kuni-

mad, and their small throats achc ing .......

from some recent shrill brying, soon. to be repeated.

And the passion they feel for the star they seele is not love, it is nearer hate.

to .. They seek

destroy

Own success, in revenge for their dull lives.

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In olden times sthe-worship was

a gracious thing. Students would undo the traces of the horse draw-

cd.

Oh, well, it was good while it last-

ADVT.: Young man, paid on Fri- day, broke on Wednesday, would like to meet another young man, paid on Thursday, brøke on Tuesday, with a view to mutual loans.

And it might work, too..

ing the great diva's carriage and MISS

pull themselves, to mark her triumph and their, adoration. blind for the blind must be co-ordinated,

Schoolgirls would write to their star asking for a will see that all the services u blind" signed pleture. One of my dearest community needs are brought gru-girl friends developed at school such that she number of schools for the young, emmanities for adults and a "well- founded blind welfare organisation for both."

The centuries-old family system of China is caring for a great number of sightless people.

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China is in the same stage as In- dia as far us welfare work for the blind is concerned.

Small schools and homes for the hind have been established by mis-

sions O" philanthropic societies-

usually scattered and unassociated as well is 11-supported by the Govern ment and pe=ple. They are fighting a long, uphill battle against the eld traditional way in which the blind have lived and been regarded.

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the days of gallant "IESE are

pioneering," said Sir Clubo. There are many disappointments,

but there are also brilliant successes.

Sir Clutha diso recommended ver- talu reforms in the 40 odd schoots

into existence-such as [

Given such facilities, the sightiess would, in his opinion, be able in time to work for society in independent occupations or In employment in common with those blessed with sight.

To reach such a stage, however, Sir Clutha said, would require the combined efforts of the Governmen! and the Chinese people,

"In every country there will be a day when the government will be interested in this important social "And China is entering this

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problem, he Chinese people |

an appeal to on the

crush for Clive Brook wrote repeatedly. Finally, a signed picture came and she waited for a week on pink and woolly clouds. Then there followed another picture

but this time the signature was different.

Age-old lag

PAULETTE GODDARD,

11 wearing a white lumbskin coat, sat in the Press faunch following the Bont-race.

No wonder Oxford lagged behind.

Show husbands

the

YOUNG min, summoned other day for smacking s wife's face, gave as his exouse his baldness. Soon after their marriage all his hair had fallen out and his brkle had refused to be seen any married more with him until it grew agali. Ten years after, newly was the magic

still strong. Iler This exasperated him. husband took her to the lion house at the Zoo, but there was Mr Brook. and she never saw a lon.

One other night I saw her stand agape with awe at a first night us Mr Brock passed by. She says she would be too shy to meet him. She would most certainly be too shy to black his eye.

He should have mown that mast young wives look upon their hus- bands as prizes. The tenderer pas- for the slon-that dear affection way his watch-chain wobbles on his Paunch, the way his poor feet turn out when he walks-comes much, much later.

A young husband is something to be shown off, and young husbands should never forget it.

This modern adoration has some-

worship- Just the same, it I had been the thing murky in it. The

than lo bald one I think 1 should have pers seek to harm rather

want Butter. They

to lear their smacked her good and hard, itfol down, they want to get at him or his reputation.

eve of his return to England, ir Cluthy MacKenzie said that the bes: help they could give to the blind was to

vas to make use of their ser for the blind at present existing in vlees, and he urged them to trans- China. In these institutions only the fer their alms giving from the blind

One of the greatest trials of life Braille system has been hitherto themselves to the schools and work-

As

sightless Chinese,

hese, shops which could expend the money in Hollywood today is the malicious

bring would

more young woman who will ring up a however, do not know English, the in ways that typewriter, which normally aids the lasting, gounder and more digni- star's wife to whisper she just saw

her husband with another woman. blind develop their independence, ed results.

to achlove the cantat be used greatest results as in Western coun- tiles.

used.

most

LTE described as amazing the zango of cemfort available to the blind

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Stale-mates

TE Kremlin

refuses to allow Russian wives of Britons who spent the war years in Moscow to come to England. Since it is equally unlikely that their husbands will be allowed to re-enter Russia these un- fortunate young women may now

system of today as a result of the develop- | themselves from under-graduette regard themselves as steppe widows,

printing hause has ever been esta-

For hermore, no Braille blished in China. This he regards as ahundicap to the promotion of the welfare of the Blind in this coun- try.

ment of social work for the sight

less.

professors,

Many blind, he sald, had become managers, musicians, writers, research scientists, Secre

In Moscow the wives of the tenors disconnect the phone

protect

who ring constantly to say that their delight has Just presented them with an unofficial baby.

would like to make it quite elear Str. Chutha MacKenzie is known lartes and telephone operators In

that I do not condemn the gentle to have emphasised in his report spite of their handicap. Typewriters, schoolgirl who stands at stage doors that the future struggle of the bilind Braille and talking books is recent with an autograph book in her hands, in China, to advance beyond their

Invented ly

jointly by St Dunstan's

Nar the genuine amateur of art who present condition-in which they of England and the Medical Founda

favourite writes endlessly to her are taken care of by philanthropie tion for the Blind of New York were about a point of performance. These workers and depend on puble rims but some of the numerous equipment are the good heart of appreciation.

wilt necessarily involve a compre- through the employment of which

is the professionals, who will hensive programine.

rell, not swop, blind people could approximate to

IL signabere, He is reported to have advocated a normal way of existence,. Str gloot to penetrate a performer's ori-

scattered voluntary schools Clum revealed.

that

BY

word

THE WAY

by Beachcomber

Came from

the rockets

will

vacy.

CROSSWORD

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who

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They have no authority for their enthums; they are drunk on power to which they have no title, for they have no loyalty to excuse their pas sion for pursuit their pleasure in the chase.

Life for "lines"

in the way, that pression in the earth, which might | 1 or Merton College, Oxford, in no anxiety is felt by unofficial even serve the aborigines as water- his finely succinct and reasoned book spokesmen out of touch with holes." authoritative quarters.

Nrocket Utopin tour, but "make only a small, that H. R. TREVOR-KOPER, a dụn

Lucky aborigines, with all the lat- The only report worth mention- est scientific inventions to make their ing comes from the Buluwayo Ob- lives fuller and more beautiful! servatory. This report says that at

7.43 (Stockholm time) yesterday Led astray

1 series of flashes was ob in the western sky, at an estimated altitude of 1,137,081 statute

"The Los Days of litler" (Machiltai, JU8. G.) tells many macabre and terrible stories of that despot's Oriental Court, with Its astrologers and plotters.

The strangest of ult is the story of Eva Braun. She did not have to Magistrate: Were you not a silly die. Hitler sent her away to Munich, young girl to trust to the promises but she came back and defled him.

She wanted her marriage lines. miles. These flashes were of a co-

After 12 years with Hitler, an lour which suggested friction in the Girl: Oh, Sir, he took me out and companion, during which time even superstratosphere of a kind likely to treated me to a reconstituted-cgg

the house servants were forbidden be produced by the cleavage of the tea.

Magistrate: Well, in future do not to refer to her, she wanted her post-

of this adventurer?

or his

air by a large foreign body travelistake the sparicle and excitement tion at Court authorised, before 1

ing under rocket-impetus.

wine of

It is felt that the rocket would have of high living for. honest pleasure. was too late. So she came to the reached the moon by now, had it nor confuse the heady

bunker, Hitler alternately out of its course by tremendoun side but more beneficial fare of a blome-barating fury is treachery drowned white and palsied, then black with slips and down-falls.

not been driven (as reported) so far cosmopcihan luxury with. the dulles madness of the Chan-

A kindly thought

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rocket

ISCUSSING the atomic

practice in Australia, a scientist pointed out, with old-world cour feay, to the aborigines who may, get

I CAN'T STAND THAT LITTLE PEST

SH-H-H--- HERE COMES THE LITTLE DARLING NOW

less ife,

New edition of Shelley

FRAGMENT

(Lines Written to a Cherse in

ments of Depression) How slow thou climb'st

י

deal

him.

Hitler married across

her. table in the conference map room. When the bride came to write her Mo-hame she started Eva B-but was checked, crossed out the D and wrote that 'day, irmly "Hitler." Later

By Ernio Bushmiller

AWK TOOT ARF

AWK

MEOW TOOT

ARF WOOF TOOT

ARE

ERNIG BUENMILIEI

HOME

SWEET

HOME

Aerose

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Engrave ɑ, A Exhibits the rose in him, (6) 10 stand-by for the Navy to baro

robin. (3)

11 and 12 Orsile gives it one, bút

he always wanted moro. (U, B) 13. I follow the alternative to this

for a start 13)

15. Take it from tho waist, (3) 16. Olean for a change, (8) 11. Possostita way to sit; (3) 20. End ploco, 3

21 It understaude art (8)

33. The end of any grant. 14) 25. It's a acquired colour. (3) 26. Needs a forgo number to bring (t

up to me acra. (3)

97. See 1 Down.

Down

1 and 27, it's a guard against com-

ington. 19, )"

4. The aamu Jane Lloyd concealed,

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3. Nitzers do praxibly, (7)

4. They are not in serviŁO. (D)

5. Egg. 13

6. It is necessary that you should

to get good crops, (i)

7. Band for a change, ()

8. Adorn (0) 12. See 11 Across.

14. A penny short of waste (3) 17. Direction, 181

19). Picked from na uster range. (8) A solution leached from nahes. (3) WHAL. YOU (Aar wat from a lob ster. (3)

24.

Solution of Friday's puzzle. Across: 2 and 7, Ancient lighty. 4, Onerous: 10, Below: 11, Drag: 12 WAAF, 14, G.O.M.: 1, Fleal; 10, Gib: 17, Trilis; 19, Adorer: 21, Old 23. Nis 24, Ones 25, Secondary Down: 1. Toboggans: 2, Aneroid; 3, Nelumbo;4. Crows; 5, Iowa: Traveller: 7, Boe 2 Across: 9 Udati 13. Pelona 17, Trio: 10, Rein; 20, Ito: 22, Day.

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