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By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Dorothy Zamour for Lois Leeds. Individual styles and Hollywood notes can be adapted by you!
STAR SHINEI
pockets lined with shocking pink. A Block straw off-the-face sailor, Dorothy Lamour, Paramount Ple-Banded with shocking pink chiffon, tures star, wears a band of pearls which ended in a puff at the side. around her loosely arranged hair- Black calf accessories completed her de. It is a charming style for home costume, with a very feminine housecoat.
Colour Notes! Who's good in colour? A Hollywood designer likes the subtle shades, the monotones and the Dramatic effects created, not by colour, but by lack of colour. Gray, so popular this season, is a
favourite.
An afternoon suit worn by Claire Trevor, al küs "Borno Kli" 1 of Dave-Gray tissue wool, cut on basque lines; the skirt und steeves very tuli, a row or wiy suf-buttons With marching up the Jacke front. accessories in Gray, pumps of Gray suede and a small t nat with a White veil,
dined at the Beverly Hills Club in an Emerald-Green crepe suit, with
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1947,
BERNARD SHAW WOULD LIKE SHOWING QUEEN'S
TO LIVE 100 YEARS MORE
BY RUSSELL LANDSTROM
George Bernard Shaw, who was 91 years old last Saturday, believes that his chances of survival as a great man are pretty good, but he would like an- other 100 years or so to clinch literary immortality.
Sidestepping formal questions on the plen' that his time
is short and worth good money-the greatest wit of the age said with mock resignation: "I have nothing to say that I have not already written. Read my books and leave me to die in peace."
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By no means so withered and on. But new question his standing decrepit as he often makes out, the greatest prese dramatist of the bearded, still flery and playhis time, or deny the force of his pemonality which as a close friend ful Shaw fancies that he has said, has dominated his age as Vol- withdrawn into a kind of retire- taire's did in the eighteenth century. ment, referring inquiring-news- papermen to his voluminous works and to the judgment of his best qualified contemporaries on them.
Groat Mon
A London newspaper recently. asked balf a dozen men and women
five of them celebrities and the other a representative man-in-the- Fostoring the illusion that he should street to nominate 10 Agures who be removed from his correspondents would still be talked about in 100 All but:que" placed "active list as extinct," Shaw res years' time. minda questioners of a passage In Shaw well on the top of the list.
Asiei for his own view, Shaw his new posteript to one of his
like- greatest plays, "Back to Methuselah," said that the "great man" most reissued a year ago in the world's ly to live in history is Jean Sibelius, Classics Ilbrary by the Oxford Uni-the Finnish composer, adding: “Great versity Press: ·
painters end composers may live on, but as for the political gentle "Physically, I am failing; my man Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, senses, my locomotive powers, my Field Marshal Jan Smuts and others, memory Επι decaying at a rate who have been listed on some panels which threatens to make a struld-- would be rash to include them. brug of me if I persist in living; yet I don't know and nobody else knows my mind atiti feels capable of either.". growth, for my curiosity is keener than ever.
Shaw wald then, and has repeated since, that he would not make a list of any "great men" who might
be remembered 100 or more years'
DUMB-BELLS
ARGISTERED US.
WHAT WAS YOUR GOOD DEED FOR TODAY?
J
PATENT OFFICE
MA HAR ONLY ONE- DOSE OF CASTOR AOIL SO I LET. MY BROTHER HAVE IT!
PILOT KEEPS PROMISE TO
RESISTERS
"You're coming back to stay
hence. There I nond anybody could give, which would be woody with me some time," Flight- Cina Janes, lovely socialite singer.if the life force would give me a reading. Some people undertake to/Lieut. Dennis Hornsey promised do it. But then there's no question, the 25 French and Belgian civi- him 400 however, foolish, that somebody will lians who smuggled not attempt to answer.
miles to the Pyrenees after his Halifax had been shot down.
puff siceves that reached their widest point at the elbow, where they were tight band which caught with a
Goes Marching On "My soul goes marching on; and, body as durable as my mind, and I knew better how to feed and lodge and dress and behave, I might begin a political career as a junior civil servant and evolve into a capable cabinet minister in another hundred years or 50."
At the moment, he feels, however,
Feeling Woll
Several of Shaw friends say finished off with small bows.
that if he were to draw up any such list, Professor Albert Einstein pro- series of bows formed a jobot under
izably would be on it, and perhaps skirt was designed with back full- the simple Peter Pan collar and the
Mahatma Gandhi. And, they add; nesi. A halo hat of Brown silk that "I am no more fit to rule mil his own name doubtless would not
be excluded. roses and a Brown crepò envelope Hond of men than is a boy of
twelve." bag completed the outfit.
For You! All of these Hollywood a bit Dramatic but you styles are can adapt them to your own style. Gray again, Mist-Gray this time, Colour combinations and accessory is used for another Claire Trevor ideas may be used by anyone, thus sult of gabardine. Slim, simple, enhancing your Star Shine! straight, the suit jacket has one large revere inpping over to create a high, anug neckline.
An original touch, the shoulder-bag, made of the sult fabric, fits the shoulder like glove, or to be more correct, ikke an epau- lot, and it is trimmed with bold Golden naltheads.
QUEST FOR GARDEN
OF EDEN
Hollywood Fashion Notes! Betty Hulton scen lunching in Hollywood In va Black salt with interesting sleeve detail Tho, sleaves were bal- loon push-ups, striped in, shocking Pink." Tho suit had a turtle-neck On the "awan song" expedition crepe blouse of shocking pink to add of his lifetime search for buried colour interest. The facket was history, 72-year-old Professor short, with a slight peplum, with
John Garstang, archacologist from Liverpool, found a legen- dary Garden of Eden..
GABRIELLO
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challenge Some of his admirers
quarrel with his political views, certain of his opinions on economics, and and flaws in the tapestry of his philosphy, based in large part uponI carlier theories of creative evalu-
THEY DEFIED THE KEMPEITAI
They nodded, smiling, but did not belleve him.
But recently the 18 men and nine women who risked death to save him and 238 British airmen went to Rich- mond Town Hall,
There Mr Hornsey; now back with his wife and two children at Bal- moral Mansions, Twickenham, was waiting to greet them..
Though frail and at times un- steady on his thin legs, Shaw mys he is "very well" and still able to withstand the shocks of life. When asked whether he would undertake
trip 1
For the Mayor of Richmond had New York to see the to
open- ing of Maurice Evans' production of arranged with the Richmond branch "Man and Superman" in the autumn of the RAF Association to give the personal, on-the- underground group, "the Jolly good or perhaps take scene hand in reported Hollywood time" Mr Hornsey had promised. versions of some of his plays, Shaw replied: "No more travelling for me. 1 am irremovable-fixed at Ayot St. Lawrence"
Not understanding a word that was
(Continued from Taze 2)
sald but nodding cheerfully at every- one was a 01-year-old Frenchman, islanders joyfully, but still in secret, For years Shaw has lived in his Florentine Gorgorized, of St Jean de Luz, who received the O.B.E. for visited them. The pathetic scene in big house in that picturesque little taking Hornsey and every man res which these people for the first time town in Hertfordshire, occasionally turd by the "Comete Line" safely saw statuca of Christ and the Vir visiting London where he maintains out of France,
described in a letter on apartment. gin Mary is written by Father Barnard Pailtgen to Father Girard of Yokohama.
his
It is the village of Mersin, on the M:diterranean coust of Southern were insane. Shouted one of them in less than
Turkey, dating back 0,000 years,
Arab legend has always averred that the Garden of Eden was on this site.
Professor Garstang and his helpers found by excavallon
that pottery, ploughing, communal life and a love of the arts existed there 6,000 years before Christ.
in
He said that he intends to stay alive at least until he is 100, and for scoffing would like to be Saint Mary?' I led them to the altar. Man, he aeasons, dwelling upon a "All of them asked me 'Where is around for much longer than that. They knelt in front of Saint Mary, favourite theme, cannot hope do praying so hard and crying so loudly
anything like intellectual that I wondered for a while if they
150 years, Although he B. vegetarian, tectotaller and non-smoker, he does noi attribute his long le to This scene, took place 310 years abstemiousness, anserting: "Mankind A diet of But the islanders' joy was short-can live on anything. lived. Government troops arrested large cigars and plenty of them all, and for seven years, they is no bar to old age and eminence were detained until five top-ranking Japanese government emissaries re-
Look! Jesus Christ is in her arms!'
after the visit of Xavier.
Now Play-
HIMALAYAN
RESEARCH
The largest Danish scientific
cx-
pedition ever to study in Asia, led by Dr Henning Heslund-Christensen, will leave in August or September
region on a six-year mission of re- for the Western Himalaya mountain
scorch.
Dr Haslund-Christensen, who He told the Society of Antiquaries turning from abroad in 1872 suggest- ! Ho remains punotitious in
his twice before has led expeditions to ed that to placate the Westera dally babits, rising fairly early as London recently of his findings.
Tibet, Gobi and Manchuria, In mak- As the Professor, not much more
Powers they be released.
rule, retiring before the last suming this announcement said he ex- than five feet tall, mild mannered Far from subduing them, their immer twilight, and filling the hours pected the expedition to result in and berpectacled, lectured, a neatly-prisonment had intensifed their faith between with writing, reading, short making Copenhagen a future centre dressed woman of 67 smiled at him.
and they worshipped openly, In strolls and regular afternoon naps of scientific knowledge and research She was Mrs Garstang. his com- 1889 Emperor Meill's new Constitu- He expects to have a new play per concerning the interior of Asia. panion and helper.
tion gave them at last the right to formed at the famous Malvern Fes- Danish scientists did considerable practise Christianity in public.
tival next year. But another, and probably the last, As dond of music as ever, he its work in Asia before the war.
Tadlo
and to gramophone The plan is to establish a base in threat to Kurojima's Christians was tens to the still to come.
records, and in frequent bursts of the Western Himalayas and work from During the Pacific War, Kurojima high spirits himself sings as he has there into the western part of Tibet. possible, another base was used 03 0 radar base in con- long done in private,pants of As soon as
Sometimes an Inti-will be establiated at Pelping, China. operatic arias. junction with Sasebo naval depot. with the soldiers and sailors came male friend is privileged to hear Explorers from these two bases will
"You 3, even then work toward each other, plan-- able Kempeltai (Japan's him, and is told:
no penny whistle,"
ning to cover an area more than 2,000 Gestapo). But the islanders, trun-my voe
miles,-Associated Press. may chioned, and some of them shot, re- Associated Press.
"I pay tribute to the help my good wife has given me." he said."
He described the pottery, the houses, the evidence of farming, and domesticated animals, and the cloth- weaving art that flourished in this village, 20 miles west of Tarsus and straddling the ancient trade route
between East and West
Garden of Eden?" he said. "Per haps, perhaps. One day we know for sure."
By Galbraith
י,
the inevitable
fused to obey the Kempeital order that they abandon Christ and wor-
ship the Emperor of Japan.
With war's end, Christian soldiers
of the Allies landed near them, and once again' the islanders worshipped In 'peace.
Not long ago on Kurojima I visit- ed the little Christian cemetery where there aro 10 crosses on the graves of islanders killed during the war. the grave of one, Gunso (Sgt) Tyoruke Nakamura, I found a sweat Japanese girl at prayer. Trans- Iated for me, her prayer "Father! We pray for those who have gone away and are near you. Pray forgive their sins and lead them to the part of endless life....!
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. A. TANNER
Black, 3 places.
was
Rupert and the Young Imp-32
Going outside the gate Rupert watches Granny Goat's window anxiously. The young Imp scrambles quickly up the creeper and disap pears inside the window-box... For some time nothing happens and then, one after another, green shoots appear over the edge, and within a -few minutes large llowers open out
and point thele" faces to 'the sun.. "It's" perfectly marvellous," gaspe Rupert. "I wonder if Granny Goat watching or if the it asleep." ALL RIGHTS RESROVED,
TO-DAY
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