1947-10-25 — Page 4

The 'boys' can't wait to cash in on a dress

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by LEONARD HUNTER

THE guard has been doubled at No. 26, Bruton- street, Mayfair, W: Watchful ex-detectives are now on duty in pairs day and night, and "live" pads under the thick-piled green carpets are ready to go off at the slightest touch by an intruder. A six-foot-tall, uniformed commissionaire carefully inspects all callers.

The extra precautions have been taken after an unsuccess- ful attempt to obtain-by bribery and amateur shop- Jureaking the designs of Prin cess Elizabeth's wedding gown.

Mr Norman Hartnell, today The most barassed, dress de- signer in the West End, is guardian-in-chief of his own secret designs. His orders are that he must allow no details to be published until nearer the royal wedding day. November

20.

Since brides-to-be in Britain and the United States would

'give anything to know what the Princess will wear, many

are

asking: "Why is all

secrecy necessary 7*

'ANY BRIDE...

'Oress is 3 times as heavy as this soldier's kit '-U.S. the wedding dress dimensions fore this cast in the American peers were correct. Princess Elizabeth, as a tride. would have to carry lewis, of clothing. It works out like this :—

Mr Hartnell, who is in his "early

This is almost three times the weight

of the equipment carried by a soldier lu full marching order.

and

newspapers about the length weight of the materials that will be used in the gown.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1947.

DAB

AND FLOUNDER

DEMPLOYMENT AGENCY.

Sefton

藏

Delmer's

by Walter

PARIS: I'd say

UNESCO here is

the paradise for pretentious misfits

NEWSMAP

MERICANS are com-

She is allowed eight packets plaining that Unesco of duty-free cigarettes a week, --short for United one bottle of duty-free spirits a Nations Educational, fortnight. If she lived outside Scientific and Cultural Organi-' Paris-or could make believe |sation-bas too many British she lived outside Paris--she

on its staff,

could, in addition to all this, draw a travel allowance for her fares,

Dead Fish For Flies

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ostensibly in order to visit his rela- tives there.

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BBC Overseas Shortwave Programmes

SUNDAY, OCT. 26

6.00 FORCES FAVOURITER 6.30 THE RICHARD TAUNER

GRAMME.

Guest artist: Lizbeth Welib.

1.00 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, 7,15 WOMEN'S TALK.

7.30 SUNDAY SERVICE. *

11.00 RADIO NEWSREEL

11.15 ONE DAY IN LUXEMBOURO", by Madwesia Sedźwiek and C. Gordon no-lever. Music specially composed by

Dennta Arundell.

SATURDAY, NOV. 1

6.00 AS SEEN VROM SCOTLAND.

4.13 COLONIAL QUESTIONS. 0.38 MUSIC WHHE YOU WORK,

from St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, | 1,80 TALK ON MUSIC The Symphony.

conducted by the Rev. Austen Williams

8.00 T NEWS,

8.15 Tommy Handley in ITMA'

8.3 COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE. 0.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.

95 SWEET BERENADE.

Pelor Yorke and his Concert Orchestra. 10.00 THE NEWSL 10.15 HOME PLASH.

10.45

| The Slow Movement," an illustrated talk

by Lentte Orrey.

1.30 RADIO RITYTHM CLUN,

3.00 THE NEWB,

4.15 NATIONAL SPORTSNEEL,

8,45 'SING WITH SAMY.

0.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERA.

9.15 RADIO NEWSREEL..

0.30 MERRY-GO-ROUND. MELODIES,

holla stewart THANKS YOU FOR 10,00 THE NEWS. YOUR LETTERS,

11.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.

10.19 FELIX KING.

His plans, and his Orchestra,

11.is Gracie Fields in ‘GRACIE'S WORK 10,45 Interlude.

ING PARTY".

12.00 I'eople's Palace, London.

MONDAY, OCT. 27

4.00 OBSERVATION POST.

Introduced by Richard Bennett.

6.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK.

7.00 WORLD OF WORK.

735 JAN SAVITT.

and his Top-flatters (gmmoshone recorda}

7.30 PORTING JRCOND.

8.00 THE NEWA.

.13 FORCES FAVOURITES.

9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,

3.15 VARIETY CALLS THE TUNE.

BH Variely Oreliestra.

10.00 THE NEWS.

10.35 NAVY MIXTURE.

10.45 PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. 11.00 RADIO NEWSRKEL. 11.35 MERRY-GO-ROUND.

TUESDAY, OCT. 28

6.00 WELSH HALF-HOUR, 6.30 MURIC WHILE YOU WORK, 7,00 PLAIN ENGLISH.

"You faithfully'.

A programme by W. Gordan abunt the formint felter, with warnings about offlelni ‘Jargon".

2.15 BAND PARADE. 1.05 THE NEWS,

Duncalf

Boing

8.15 UC WELSH ORCHESTRA, Conductor: Mansel Thaman Trefor Junca (tenor)

8.45 FREDRIC BAYCO,

(theatre orERA),

9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS. D.15 ROMANCE IN RHYTUM.

Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra.

10.00 THE NEWA.

GUARDS.

30.13 BAND OF THE ROYAL HORSE

Conductor: Majer A. J. Thornburrow. 10.45 TALKING POINT. $1.00

LADIO NEWSREEL. 11.15 VARIETY HAND-BOX.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29

0.00 FLL PLAY TO YOU.

Alec Drew (bass), Ostar Grasse (vlutin),

4.30 MIURIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 BCIENCE AND DAILY LIFES 7.15 GRAND ROTEL.

And that is where the count. former lender of the Hitler Youth,

ace fighter-pilot, and a great- and staroid Crumbs (theatre organt. grandson of Bismarck, comes in-lo- and colonels nether with the generals of the "National Committee."

I am told that during his stay in Germany he has been seeing not only his relatives but Soviet

high-ups, German political leaders, and former conservatives.

Albert Sandler and the Palin Court Or chestra.

10,45 SATURDAY SPORT, . Including commentaries

Facing: Dawkins Memorial Sisken. Huret Park: Association Football: Manchentor 'Cily v. Portamouth, commentatur, Kenneth Wol Etonholme.

JESTS

AND JEERS

Blessed are the poor, for they lose nothing through regalsitioning.

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There are many here who are men of few words, but they keep re- peating them.

Girls make a lot of fuss

over swenters at this season, but with many of them It is much ndo uver nothing.

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The worst thing about history is that every time it repeats itself prices to up.

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Overheard at this bar:

"She's the kind of girl who likes to whisper sweet nothing doings in your ear."

Friends of mine, however, whose business it is to know these things, claim that the count's visit is not pri- vate hut political. It is part of the now being extensive

preparations innde by the Russlans for the nex

in German history, which Unesco's British director

chapter opens in November when the Ble general, Dr Julian Huxley, they

the German Four meet to discuss No doubt an organisation settlement-and fail to achieve it yet say, has found jobs for 163 British and only 47 Americans. stimulating and co-ordinating once more, This, they protest, is unfair, the scientific and academic re-

One of these plans is the setting German Government in the because Britain subscribes only search of the world could serve up of Goyds, satin and Göyds. «k, approx. 14 percent of Unesco's £1.750,- a useful purpose. And Huxley Russian zone. This Government wilf on paper have vastly greater powers setb.: Embroidery, 100th. Vell. Sub.000 a year revenue, while the and his American deputy Walter and independence than are enjoyed the forties," gave his answer.

(this is the weight or’Queen Mary's vell. United States subscribes 44 Laves are capable men. But by the German administration in "The reat resson," he said, "Is that which is has been suggeard the Priores percent. is Princess Elizabeth's own wish will wear); Coronel, Gib.; Shors, Gloves,

the vagueness of 'Unesco's "cul- joint British-U.S. zones. It will con- that no one should see her gown be etc., b. TOTAL WEIGHT, 18516.

I can sympathise with the tural" objectives and the rich centrate on making a strong national- ist apural to Germans throughout fore her wedding day--and it is also

Americans.

ness of its financial resources Germany. laid dow

down by Buckitutham Palace.

During my stay in Paris, the make it a powerful attraction "It is very natural, I'm sure. I be

European headquarters of for a different type. lieve any girl, even in the humblest walk of Bẹ, wishes to keep her

Unesco, I heard details of wedding dress secret until her

Unesco salaries, living allow- friends are able to see it on the day

ances and duties. A job with

To that happy gang of pre- of the ceremony.”

Unesco is certainly one of the tentious dilettantes which some Mr Hartnell wishes the secrecy "Some," says Mr Hartney, I absolutely sensational. Some because

good things in a wicked world. how manage to creep in to all such calculated that between 501b. no

and A gay young Englishwoman I State subsidised culture bodies, problems when he was a £3-a-week 701b. weight of material will be used. know who wanted to stay on in Unesco is like dead fish for dress designer.

Others have suggested so

The count should have no di- much Paris got an influential friend might material for the train that while the to

flies. For it provides them with

of his own men "recommend”

culty in finding her for Princess at

approached the altar the

the ideal refuge from the un- social sphere to associate themselves bridesmaids holding

the project, which may be still be outside the Abbey."

[got it--and can go on enjoying ponsibilities of everyday com- backed up by the formation of Few people will know all the herself.

big new bourgeois nationalist party secrets of the royal designs. There

petitive life. She draws will be probably

23,000 francs

Unesco's culture of pro-Russian orientation. of only Mr Hart-

Soviet Objective nell's fitter who has been with him (417 185.) a month basic salary

hunters, is their own pro- for 20 of the 25 years in which he free of income tax like all

paganda men tell us to ask There always has been strong sup- has been established as a dress de- Unesco salaries-plus 13,000 24,000 questions in 12 different port in post-1918 Germany for on siguer in London-and perhaps not francs (227)

alliance with Soviet a mouth living more than half a dozen dressmakers allowance,

countries,

that calculate

army was particularly strong in de- who will carry out the work.

Europe needs 150,000,000 pen- munding it. Many of them are de members of the staff, draws to propose a bird sanctuary be

In addition she, like the other eils and 70,000,000 notebooks, manding it again today Government Pricatley's popular book "The Good Comed me the same thing. I've refused "But as the day of the royal wed-special food supplies, because, established in Heligoland, to ding grows nenter Captain George of course, Unesco staff cannot travel and inspect and talk and be expected to do their arduous lecture, and to make the world would be married before the date. of moustached manager. expects to work on the ordinary rations of

Unesco-conscious. the French, Half a pound of

is-one-of-these extras-

were

sut

necessary. worries him. Life

had

But this, he says, is what happen if the secrets of the wedding dress leaked out:--

royal

"are have

An astute American mass-produc- till bu otelde the train would secretarial post in Unesco. She pleasant harshnesses and res- with

tion house

could

easily make £25,000 or more out of copies of the

gown,

A proper copies would take to time to make, cheap "mockupa" would be rushed through the produc- tion rooms, and displayed at every corner shop.

£50 COPIES

Rival dressmakers could rush up replicas costing £50 or more, and hire them out at £10 a time,

Grts all over Britain and Amurien Mitchison,

the royal wedding in "exact

LAST LAP

Hartnell's black

cupies sleep on the office floor as a final

guard.

to

of the royal wedding dress,"

have The Princess's wedding dress will fresh Normandy butter a week horses, who then "report progress" to Alpendy fantastic guesses been maile by some of the American De defended to the last stitch

Thinking Aloud

What shall we do with this quarrelsome brat?

P

EACE is two years old. A Do they have to die to win

mewling child. Self- our appreciation? conscious, fretful and full. Harry the Mole

I HAVE received the follow-

of arch protestations of inno-

cence.

A quarrelsome child. chip-on-the-shoulder

tions, become personal Confidential Secretary or Companion to author or similar person,

Hurry up, young man. They'l have you in a factory before know.

Animal kingdom

You have

you

been warned. .The surely Invading animals are

ing letter from a Drone, Englund.

J. C. de W. D. Teeth-Preityman

Half Moon St. W. 1.

A brat, always up to little sneaking acts of hate and spite. A rue- ful child, gazing sadly down at the teddy bear she threw in H. 1. Mole Esq., temper from her pram. (Stoop, Sir, I like your insolence, writing. kind passerby, to give the child to the P.M. Chups like you are go. back her toy and see the little ing to got us nowhere dast, believe me. You have to horror throw it down again!)

'days.

in reply to one printed here

A turtle seen off the Mull of Kin- holiday- from my favourite Spiv. Harry tyre. A shark followed

makers flating off Eastbourne. Air- the Mole:

inva- planes mobilised to fight an sion of white butterflies in Devon and Cornwall. A rabbit bit a judge at Southampton Horticultural Show. These are but the outriders of the Invasion to come,

When It is over one of Whe

vill liono

change pinces

Nelson with

in Trafalgar-square. All dogs have their heads collaborating shaved for with Man.

There Will not, I under- stand, be much cruelty shown to the Inhabitants. for animals are far more But humane than men.

A whining child. The world be on

the beam, these A Drone, sir, is a

owes Peace a living, "Gimme, fellow who can be called gimme, gimme she cries. "I upon by the country in her hour of crisis. To drive didn't ask to be born."

the buses if there's What shall

now.

to their They "report progress" theirs is a super-Waitehall exis tence without any of Whitehall's re- hard sponsibilities, anxieties and -work.

was the In the Middle Ages it Church, the monasteries, and the convents that accommodated well-

connected misfits. Today it is til tural institutions like Unesco. To- wards

the end of the Middle Acts there were many revolts against the Church-largely because of the abuse the holiday boys had made of It.

against 1 see signs of a revolt Unesco,

HAMBURG

Shall we regret these trials?

Do not like the death sen- lences passed by a British tribunal in Hamburg on the fourteen Germans who ex- ecuted the recaptured RAF, escapists from the Sagun prisoner

camp.

These Germans acted on orders. Had they disobeyed their orders they would have been shot them- selves.

по

fact, our

Clearly the trial was intended to buttress the safeguards set up on behalf of prisoners of war by the Geneva

Convention. In present procedure on war crimes, is In danger of sweeping them away.

If there is another war the belli- gerents will not wait until the war is over before they try war criminals.

als we do with strike. To man the guns.

They will try them while the war is being fought. No neutrals will be Peace?

Beller

present

at such trials. There were there should be Smack her soundly and put blood in the streets, sir,

neutrals among the judges at

at. Nuremberg. Homburg-or her down to sleep? Let her than anarchy.

You can

The bawl until she's tired? Then depend on us. All this

I'm afraid we shall all prisoner will be at the mercy of the

enemy Judges. have to turn vegetarian. Peace will grow up resentful, about going to work.

What tool would we. And clrcuses will certainly look a It is obvious that the threat of for Pence needs fussing over e down

be

I coul inne? Gel- bit odd with furriers jumping trial for alleged war crimes will be 'and a doal of mother-love,

to extort information from ting in the chaps way. I should through hoops, bootmakers bounc-used

prisoners, and any other service that Doesn't anybody love Pence, think. No, sir. We may not be ing balls on the ends of their noses,

much use just now, what with the butchers producing the flags of all may be required. please?

fishmongers playing

BERLIN shortage of decent jobs on Throg- nations, and Love is the only thing that morton-street and Dr Dalton's cheap God Save the Seals on little motor will make her grow up nice.

money policy playing hell, with horns, commission man's career, but just And cats, who like their

wait till the trouble comes back, of course, are bound to be That's what we're for, air, and don't quite shockingly lazy about pulting- you forget it. We'll show these State Scholarship chops who's best. Dook- barrow-boys, that's what they are.

Sea you

the barricades old ot

Yrs till the 400 runs dry, J. C. de W. D. Teeth-Prettyman

About heroes EVERYWHERE You go you hear people talking about The Miners. Lazy, good-for- nothing, arrogant. Absenteeism and football pools is all they can do. So people say...

you

man.

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the baby out at night.

own

Never mind. The animals will probably manage much better than we have been doing of late,

About turn

LOCUST is reported to have

A landed in England.

Recently, 104 miners were

Time race killed underground," and "now DVT. Conservative young man," people are saying miners are A 20, wishes,

Now just you turn right round and to enable him to fly right home, my little man, You'll pursue cultural and literary... ambi-, and no pickings.

heroes.

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Prisoner-Count on mystery mission

1 forecast that

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Russin. The

with its nationalist flavour will have western zones as well. And that is a strung appeal for Germans in the

the Soviet objective in forming it. It is the stalking horse by which the whole of Russians hope to unite the Germany under their influence.

Two other interesting sidelights on Soviet policy towards Germany

In Soviet trade statistics and the Suviel accounting,

exports to Sweden from the Sovic zone of Ger- many are treated as Soviet exports. 2-A meeting of the Russian- Socialists and Communists) in Son- sponsored SED party (caalition of dershausen demanded the inclusion of the Soviet zone of Germany in

Soviet Union. the

The Russian-sponsored Berlin newspaper Der Abend commented

that enthusiastically.

"such *un amalgamation would tead very rapidly to the complete collapse of Western capitalism."

Poland would presumably also have to join up or become a new Polish corridor.

LONDON

Our radio policy:

a query

HENEVER I travel abroad “KAJ 1 try to find out whether AAR people are listening to the European service of the B.B.C.

My experience is that few people in France, Belgium, and Holland today listen to our broadcasts in French, Flemish, and Dutch.

But in Poland, Rumanla, Yugo- slavis and Bulgaria I found many who listen. In Hungary and Czecho- slovakia raiker fewer, but still a worth-while number. I gather there are also quite a number of listeners in Russia, though I myself met only onc.

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The reason for this popularity of the B.B.C. In the Iron Curtain coun- tries is obvious.

The censorship of all news by, the Government, the circumstance that Host Iron Curtain countries no private person or firm, only political parties

social organisations, Is allowed to own

newspapers, all this. has brought the

newspapers into disrepute.

The public turns to outside sources for its Information.

I would have expected the BB.C. European cervice to take this Into account and reschedule their vices so that the major part of their output goes to those countries where It is wanted most. But 1

that they have retained the proportions of their wartime allocations, when quite correctly the Lulic of the BDC.S output was directed. .to

German- il: ocupled West.

France, Belgium, and Holland The Soviet authorities permitted alone now get 440 minutes a day as him to loave the "camp" outside against 415 minutes for Albanio, Moscow..where he, Feld-Marshal von Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Paulus, and other members of, the Poland, Rumanio, and Yugoslavia all commiilee have boen living, and put together. travel to the Soviet zone of Germany Why?

OUNT

HEINRICH VON EINSIEDEL, prisoner of the Russians and vice-president of Moscow's wartime "Nu- tional Committee for a Free Germany" has been vialling Ger-

many.

8.00 THE NEWK.

1,15 TIP-TOP TUNES.

9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS. 9.15 CAROLE BINGING

D.30 'GREEN FOR DANGER" from the Frank Launder-Sidney Ciliat tim. Episode 6: First Operation". 10.00 THE NEWS.

10.15 LONDON, FORUM, 10.43 THINK ON THESE THINGS. 11.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.

including a short commentary by Hay- mond Glendenning on the Cambridge shire, run of Newmarket). 11.15 MUSIC HALL.

THURSDAY, OCT. 30

6.00 SCOTTISH HALF-HOUR. 6.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 CULTURAL TALK.

Pleasure from Books. A talk about J. 13.,

panions. iustrated by, extracts,

They are trying to prove that some of the Hollywood film people aro Red. Since the British Am cuts, many have also become blue.

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An alarm clock is a device for.. waking a childless household.

Some people have the habit of umphasizing every other word.

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Genlus is the will to turn on your thoughts instead of the radio.

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Overheard in the ten lounge: "Three nights this week he's ask-

1.15 MANCHESTER HIPPODROME DR-on both occasions."

CHESTRA.

8.00 THE NEWS.

8.1

JGE LOSS.

and his Band.

9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,

9.15 CAVAN O'CONNOR,

9.30 ACCORDEON CLUB. 18.00 THE NEWS.

10.15. JAZZ CLUB

10.45 A TALK, 11.00 RADIO NEWSREEL

It is hoped to include a short commen- tary by Raymond Glendenning on the Jockey Club Cup. run at Newsnarket). 11.15 BHC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA.

FRIDAY, OCT. 31

6,90 ULSTER HALF-HOUR, 0.30 Muste WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 CURRENT AFFAIRS. This week's expert and F... sion group lender tackle a tople in the news.

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AT YOUR REQUEST. 8.00 THE NEWS.

3.15 FLOTSAM'S FOLLIES.

1.45. AMERICAN DANCE DANDS. Igramaphone records.

9.00 FROM TUODAY'S PAPERS. 9.15 ON WITH THE MUSIC, 10.00 THE NEWS, 10.15 HAVE A GOP 10.45 PRODUCTION PROSPECT. A talk by William Holt

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SIDE GLANCES ·

Baby's Orange Juice

Delays Holdup

Two bandits who strode into a Central Park West apartment in New York and hold up the occupants looked perplexed when an 11- month-old baby began to cry.

"What's the matter with her?" of the bandits asked, gesturing with his pistol at the baby.

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"It's time for her orange juice," her mother, Mrs Markeeta Fayle. explained. "May I get it for her?” "No," the bandit said. He con- with his companion, then ferred went into the kitchen and squeezed a glass of the fulce. He carefully fed it to the baby, while Mrs Fayič, her husband

mother-in-law

and

looked on.

Then the bandits took towellery and $125 in cash from the Fayles, locked them in a closet and left.

By Galbraith

DSPK, 1946 BY MEA SERVICE, DIG. 2, M.REG. U. 6. PAY, 017.

"I wish Fred wouldn't insist that I quit working-there's nothing I'd rather do, but if I gavo in now I'd fool I was spalling him!"