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Women

BEAUTY ARTS

STAR SHINE!

By LOIS LEEDS

Posed by Myrna Loy for Lole Lecds.

Myrna Loy, typleat American type, in an individual when it comes to her crisp, short bob. Myrna wears her hair the same way, come rain or shine, fashion and changes. It is Myrna, so she plays it up by constant hair care. She shampoon her hair with costille and she sets it with the tried-and-true bobby pin style.

To give her Red-Gold hair a glinty sheen Myrna uses a camomile rinse and dried her hair in the sun, and,

of course, there's always sun in Californiai

Inequer to give sparklo to her nolls and keeps her hands soft by using a hand lotion with a lanolin base and by doing no rough "homework"!

Jeanette MacDonnid, all-Ameri- con Beauty, who has such preity her other attractions, feet, besides gives us this "foot note." She and emerses her feet in a bran borax solution and reads while her feet beautify!

Blonde stars are wearing Pewter Gray and with it Black accessories. Gold and Coral head Allets are warn around low chignons or top-of-the- head buns. And every Hollywood stur, sthrle! or just plain girl or This and That for Star Shine! ) woman has a hooded cont! Barbara Stanwyck, another

real Amerlenn type, never uses coloured in pictures. noil varnish except Barbara, a devotee of all things natural, likes her nails short and her .hands well groomed. She uses clear

Minale Malays 4 GABRIELLE

Alany girls who do not wear girdjen would be surprised to find how easy they are to wear and how much they improve the appearance. The average youthful figure does not require anything drastic in girdles-no bones or lacings--but looks much sleeker and neater when controlled by a simple and sensible foundation. Clothes fit better when worn over a girdle, particularly from waist to hips, and they stay In place instead of twisting and forming ugly lines when the body i in motion.

SIDE GLANCES

APRON FRONT

Sido saddic hip

drapery, square-cut neck and a diagonally slashed skirt distinguish, thin Bianca Mosca dinner dress lo stiff red gros craiti.

By Galbraith

"You won't really appreciate the beauty of autumn't!!! you're my age--oniloying the last act of the show and 'hôping it runs on a little longer?”

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1947.

Kiangsi's Rich Soil Now Lies Untended

By JOHN RODERICK

Nanchang. While the rest of war-impoverished China Hungers for land, thousands of acres of un- tended soil are going to seed in Kiangsi Province, close to the rich Chinese rice bowl.

of

The unending Chinese civil houses whose upper portion

and ribs of war, which has scoured Klangs white-washed plaster Province in various forms for exposed timber bear a curious re- semblance to the .homes of the the past 20 years, combined Norman French. with eight years of Japanese despoliation, have depopulated large areas of the province's productive farmland.

J

Vory Young Or Vory Old..

The peasants that a visitor sces along the lynng-Nonchang road. trundling wheelbarrows known all over Chinn for their high-pitched squealt, are alike in two respects. They are either very young or very

The stranger, driving from Iyank to Nanching over the reddish clay milliary road that Chiang Kai-shek built more than 10 years ago to old. drive out the Communists, ts im→ pressed by the hundreds of tracts of innd lying fallow.

This is in the most picturesque -country in China. The hunched hills are famous in Chinese art The twin peaks of towering Kwel- feng Mountain are celebrated in the legends of Taoism, which was horn on its heights.

Thrifty, honcat. hard-working, they make good soldiers.. Thou- sands of able-bodied young mon have been conscripted for the civil war, leaving the fields to the young or the old of the family.

Most of the peasants do not know why the government and the Com- munists are fighting. But, they know that without the manpower in The effect of this natural beauty plant and reap the crops," Klangs! is emphasised by the relative lonell-faces a terrible future.

There are ness of the Inndacape. few people, and none of the walled The effect of the war on the pro- villages and small cities which are vince has not been felt in any appre- landmarks elsewhere. Instead the clable degree yet. There has been farmers live in solidly built stone a rice surplus. Instead of going into the provincial economy, however, it is being shipped straight to Klu- klang for newly arrived Nationalist forces.

HOUSE MADE

OF PAPER

"Next year," said one food au- thority, "the pinch will be felt. It will be a bad year."

: Communist Logacy A house bulit partly of paper stoads

Wisconsin's Klangst is one of the better run to exposed

Perhaps this rigorous weather at the US. Forst provinces in Chinn. Products Laboratory testing grounds stems from the fact that in the early In Madison but do not plan construe- 'thirties it was the site of the Infant tion of your new home with it yet. Chinese Soviet Republic. Under the reforms were instituted on The house, built of pancia of paper Reus, land rethe Wandard of living glued together, is getting the critical was raised. In the subsequent fight-

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Will championships tournament were killed or elected to Laboratory scientists who are seck-thougween Chiang and the Reds, THE winter session of the national ing new approaches to low-cost follow the

Communists on their be held at the Hotel Chelsea in 6.000-mile trek to northwest China. Atlantic City, N. J. One of the THE IMMORTAL ROMANCE OF ENGLAND'S MAN OF DESTINY! This fact alone partly explains the players who, I think, will, make barrenness of the countryside to- good showing at this tournament is

Mrs. Marie Basher of Philadelphia. 66 day.

She is a qulet, unassuming woman

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housing,

Known as sandwich panels,

the construction material was originated in World War II for high speed aircraft. The panels consist of

One of the chief results of Red who has done considerable travelling core, made of large sheets

or corrule was a later solicitude, by theto various tournaments during the paper treated with rugated kraft

Lew Nationalists for the peasantry thus

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resin. and glued together, and covers) exposed to Red "reforms." Nanke past year and won quite a of thin metal, plywood or veneer, concentrated on good government Now, with the nationals right in

and ma

made a liberal approach to the her own back yard, she will play against mary players former. To one portion of Klangst, with und

inet before. Mrs. Chiang sent his eldest son, Chiang whom she has Ching-kuo, whose leadership was on Basher won the Philadelphia what is generally described as "en-pair championship with Charles H. Goren this year, and at that time I lightened lines."

admired her elever hundung of the bidding on today's hand.

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The panels are four feet by eight feet and are so light in weight that they can be handled by one man. They nre joined together into frameless house, saving materials and labour in assembling joints, studs and rafters and other parts of the conventional frame house, accord- ing to the Forest Products Research experts.-Associated Press.

DIETRICH BACK IN HOLLYWOOD

open

Repopulation of the abandoned

Over one heart, Mrs. Basher farmsteads is a difficult problem for two reasons. One is the unwilling (West) chose to bid two cubs, figur- ness of the Chinese former, excepting to come in on a lower round of under pressure, to quit the land he bidding with the spade suit. Much and his forebears have cultivated for to her surprise, however, her partner. centuries. The second is the lack of bld spades. When South bid four on

transportation.

Hurdling The Barrior

trump, which was the Blackwood convention asking for nces, Mra. Basher deckied to stay out of the blding for one round, first, to find out The Cheklang-Xiangst callway, now many

aces North hud, which is being rebuilt, is expected to second, to avoid inviting the oppon- Marlene Dietrich has returned to help in hurdling the second barrier.cuts to take a sacrifice. Hollywood from France to resume when it is completed, probably next When North showed no aces with her Hollywood career with one vi three starring roles in the picture "A Year, the means of moving into the Foreign Affair". which Producer Charles Brackett and Director Billy

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Miss DietrichTM will' American Congresswoman investigat ing the morale of American troops in Berlin.

region will be at-hand.

the five-club bid, and Eust doubled, Mr. Basher was positive that her Over partner had the ace of clubs.

ve hearts, she went to six spades. South to bid seven hearts, as they It would have paid North and

would have gone

down only two

it is unlikely, though, even with the advent of the railway.. that many of China's farmers will up- root themselves from some other section to move into the Kinngsi area, unless a specific plan. is put tricks. However, South doubled six forward by the government.

spades and eaven was made because

So far, such a plan has not been of the heart opening. The contract offered. One

could have been held to six if South oficial has suggested

En route home from France. Miss that the answer might be supplied had cashed the ace of diamonds. Dietrich stopped in New York City by the very civil war which has for the opening of "Golden Earrings, helped to decimate the province. the picture in which she returned to

sky, "offer "Why not," this man asks,

the screen, opposite Ray Milland, land and inducements to the thou- following her long, wartime service sands of civil war refugees who are of entertalning troops in foreign

now crowding the big Chinese cities

| lands.-Assoclated Press.

of Peiping, Tentsin, Tsingtao and Shangha17"

Check Your Knowledge

1. Where is the Bridge of Sighs?

2. Who gave away more..money

This is an idea sa bold that it will than anyone in the history of the have to be met with an equal world?

BUILT CHURCH IN amount of official imagination. Whe- 3. What was the biblical name of

GRATITUDE

Herman Meints. 'celery grower of Comstock, Michigan, felt so thankful for the sale return of his four solis from militay service a year ago that he decided to build a church.

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Without previous bullding perience, Meints single-handedly erected a neat cement block struc- ture, which he called the Comstock Bible Church. A congregation grew.

Meints preached the first sermon, conducts four services a week as -oroamed-elder-and- --uses-his-own trucks to take children to Sunday school.

CHESS PROBLEM

By A. È. ELWORTHY

Black, 8 piecce.

White, 11 placea,

White to play and mate in two. probation to Saturday's

1,0 Kir, any} 2, Q, or Ks-(d!k ch'or dbf'ch)"mates,

ther it is grasped or not may deler-Babylonia? mine whether Klangsi, and similar 4. From what is rayon made? regions elsewhere in China, are re- L What was the pseudonym of

or remain neglected.Mary Ann Evans? populated

(Answers on Page 4) Associated Press.

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Out in the road the little friends look at each other. **The master must have sharp ears," muiters Algy. "I didn't mean him to hear what I was saying. Anyway. I don't know what science means.. either. Why didn't he explain ?” - Just... then-Lingo,--tha-- brainy - pupr passes them, running the other way. Bill and Algy, silil feeling peevith, don't pay any attention, but Rupert turns round. "The master asked us to help Dingo," he thinks. **I*il follow and see what I can do."

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