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IF SHE

WERE

YOURS

COULD

"YOU

FORGIVE

ANN SHERIDAN LEW AYRES ZACHARY

SCOTT

THE UNFAITHFUL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1948.

BY THE

WAY by Beachcomber

THE dark eyes of the three

he

Perains were round with wonder as they listened to Mr Colin Velvette telling them about the ballet' in 'which hoped they would appear.

lie began, "Ekehu----," and "Just

time. checked himself h

The stene.” he said, "is a forest glade, the bittertios es The queen of naleep. Enter a hunter" "Tilly- hol cried Ashura. "Tintavy cried Knzbulalı. "Foxy, foxy cried cried Rizamughah. They were all anxious to show that they understood. "The hunter, proceeded Velvette,

the sleeping queen, and adjusts. His bow and arrow. The Persians ex- changed Incredulous grins. "It is fun," gate Ashura, "lot of fun! “This hunter is stalking booterflies and mooths with his bownnnrrow, ho yes, bravo him!" Ekchulah

"JUST as he is about to shool,"

continued the choreographo- nane, the Flower Chorus enters." The Persians gaped. "They

Blir- round the queen, protecting her, and the hunter cannot shoot." "Hath he

GRILLING THE COOK.

F

NEW YORK. UP FOR INQUIRY in Congress TROM-now-on-bureaucrats In Washington's Agricul- Lure Department will tell Amerien's housewives how to do their jobs.

They will not only advise them what food to buy but they will tell them how much of the family budget they should spend on food.

Sald the spokesman who, for obvious reasons, chose anonymity: What we need la'a little more business dministration In the kitchen.

ROOD INTENTIONS lie behind

.

na army order for 101,172 peeth! chalis fur officers.

direc- HOLLYWOOD telephone Il tory has twice the number of psycho-inlysts it had last year, TT 18 TYPICAL of America that America's richest young man. Winthrop Rockefeller, has n cont eaner for a father-in-law. And it is also typical for that coal miner to say of his daughter's marriage Into the Rockefeller clan, "Too much money is good for Eva, but not good for me."

IRVING' BERLIN bat just Anished The a new song, colled "It's "Lonely

In the White House."

...WALTEIL WINCHELL suggests that Orville

By C.V.R. Thompson

I records and lyses the time you take to answer the questions. And from that it can be dediced

whether you are dynamic or slip, shod. It also shows up any in- vilnations to interrupt, argue, do- minate, or submit.

BARBARA CARTLAND, the

British novelist, is engaged in a whirlwind campaign to persunde New York publishers to buy he novels because "Britain needs the dollars and I need the money.".

LOONEY'S ego, A bruised by his visit to Britain. is restored by the reviews of his new alm, "Killer McCoy.".

ARTIFICIAL A made at an

MICKEY

Russian Cost for one ton. £30. Ordinary cost, £2 68. BAITAIN-IS-FINISHED TALK 18 cropping up, nghini: Walter Lippindon, the columnist, hos started it. ite says that even with full Marshall pin aid "the great Equidation" of the British Empire cannot be averted.. But he nddis that if any people can meet this test the British people will, moet it. HENRY WALLACE will nn-

nounce the election programino by which he seeks the Presidency. as champion of the common- man -from Miami! sulle costing £25 u day. BOB FELLER: top-ranking baseball pitcher, will get £10 for every ball he pitches this season,

Uils nonsense, of course. -For Wright's Kitty Hawk-first plane factory in Hanford, Washington HE' WORD bas gone out to all":

Washington does not believe all these

stick. lower prices will Particularly, meat prices.

ONE HOUSEWIFE, 22-year-old. ONE

Mrs Ruth Berben, of Chleage, is using the Gandhi principle in a une-Woman fight to bring prices down still того. Nothing but bread and milk for her for three weeks.

no loga," asked Kaziulah, "where- WHAT ARE the young men with to hunt this booterfly?" "No. no and women of England say dogs," sald Velvetle Flower Valse is played-you know, Minister now making his pre- Wing? Is there a future Cabinet "We not know

patiently.

The

sald Rizamughan sence felt in local affairs, in Stalkily. "The Flower Velse la play local discussion groups, in

ed" persisted Velvette, "and here

# could form thought you three colourful background of seesaw, ek chulah. The foinl word! How the three cheered, and shouted "Manure, ho yes!" unt a high executive ́allelul poked his bend in and asked

If there were a Farmers' Convention

in progress.

Obviously

7 was told by a talkative rabbit

That the conjurer's trick would

fall flat,

If he carried, in place of the top-

Ter,

university debates, in "mock parliaments"?

Warwick Charlton recently set out on a tour of inquiry.

arc

to fly should be piloted home to 11.S.. from London's Science Museum by Lady Astor.

WITH ITS LOVE for machinery Amarien has protezed a ma- chine to interview job applicants. You still answer questions from your prospective bass, but it is the machine, and not the boss, which decides your fate.

I'M

of

GOLD has been atomic energy

Bul this offers no cheap way to build up gold reserves,

It can be trade only out of platinum, which is more costly than gold.

unions that it would be better not to strike for this year's pay increase demands or they will soon- be fighting against wage cuts' in- 'stend of for ficreases.

TO AMERICANS with German HOW HOLLYWOOD makes

Bamca, 1 New York food parcels Arm is sending postcards guaranteeing delivery of con! briquettes by ale express to any zone of Germany, Including the

LOOKING FOR

11

nim from a best seller, accord- ing to comedian Ileury Morgan: It takes a good book about n bad girl, and turns it into a bad film about a good giri.

MEN WHO

WILL BE FAMOUS IN 1958

fre in them.

OXFORD.

and

© By Warwick Charlton

HAVE been visiting the cagleis He will report and azzcus

the Oxford Union. Tho meetings at which young men. Oxford term was ended,

This may be because the average sure, look to see if there is a Com-1 some hundreds and women hold forth, the

of young men age of the university student la munist under their beds before they are entering the world outside and four years higher than it used to be van sleep at night. We need more young men and women who

striving to make a place for them- before the war. Ninety percent, of men prepared to give their own in- worked either in uniform or selves, at the bench during the war

But here they seem to have no them have returned from the wars, sicilicon! lives for the good of the But you would expect that the nation. What Is this folly ok And why not? What experienen of and who

war would have thinking that progress is the pre- now training

Is the matter with our political par- sharpened their minds and their rogative of the few who are politi- themselves for high respon- tles and their lenders? Cannot tongues. Apparently it has nol. cally enlightened?" A littic round wickerwork hat,

sibilities.

the Socialists. Tories, Liberals or I am not the only one who In passing

He will be on the look-out even the Communista spark up this plores their lacic of spirit. Somo -And others

magallicent tinder? been reading an article for talent, for the right man HAVE

leading members of the those quaint, one of

society fold me that though there THEI

HERE are other young men I or the right woman-the peo- Union because this society has was something lacking they did not met who give some hope for fashioned "progressives," who think

the ple with a future. He will weaned many of the great men of know what it was.

the future. Tony Crosland for in- world's problems. But this enthu- report their views and say Union they had a trial canter, and Oxford Mall that bigger aircraft will solve

Britain. On the debating Boor of the Mr. John Owen, reporter on the stance the 20-year-old ex-parachute He thinks that what he thinks of them. They those who showed up well usually Union debates for 20 siast koes farther.

has attended officer, is also a former president of not only must aircraft be bigger, but

years, told the Union. they must go higher and faster, just can be Tory, Liberal, Socialist, became famous men.

me: "The young men who are up The society's officers usually wear an they did in those exclling boys' Communist, or any other ist-

give now seem to be debasing the ca talis but Crosland did not "on pria-

but of a stories 20 years ago in the days be the search is for the good, the fore we find learned by personal experience all the benents to civilisa-strong, the able. tion of the "conquest of the air."

old-

Here is his first report.

chose to nitend the Oxford

The Union, therefore, should you a preview

of tomorrow, frankly, from what I have here, tomorrow looks like pretty dull.

of

the

who

There a university education.

e was a time when they came up here pl

He is a doctrinaire Socialist, and

being to learn how to live, but now they it is certain he will soon be sitting.

PARIS FINDS HOPE WRITTEN

ON THE SAUCER

By SAM WHITE

WITH the approaching spring Party can be a national asset in

in Paris come a variety of some ways.

!

other items of good news-like Finally, to round off the rosy the reappearance of price-tag- prospects cómes oflicial assur- ged saucers in the cafes, for ance that only a major social example.

upheaval or failure of Marshall aid can prevent full French Every peace-lime visitor re- recovery by 1949 members the piles of saucers Coul, a major problem ever he accumulated on his cafe table since the war, is now so plenti- as he sat drinking. They served ful that France has more of it the double purpose of indicating than she can transport. This,, the number of drinks consumed combined with rising production, and the price of each.

leads economists to conclude For the last few years, how that industrial recovery can be ever, with prices mounting expected in the

next few almost daily, cafe proprietors months. grew tired of obliterating old prices and repainting new ones

IT'S SO EASY TO CRY SHAME!

WARNER

on their saucers, and the prac- tice gradually stopped.

SENSATION! EVE ARDEN

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On the debit side

PARIS PAVEMENT Aperitifs for two.

both manufac

prices were satisfactory

seem toʻregard this solely as a place in the House of Commons.

to get qualifications to earn a living. Ile was by far the best speaker I

"In all my 20 years I have never listened to but he would do better known such a spiritless lot, I would if he did not rovel so much in get- not give fourpence for any of them."

ting laughs.

The tradition

WHAT was I looking for?

He says: "The Union is Tory bo- 'cause the young men who belong to it do not recall the two million un- einployed before the war, depressed

"When the country voted the

wanted to meet young men areas and Munich. who would follow in the tradition of Labour Government in they remem- Gladstone, Curzon, Birkenhead, Archbishops

bered these things, and it was these

Lang and Temple, big issues that caused thers to vote

Lord Tweedsmuir, and the scurca

of other great men associated with the way they did. the society.

15

is not

This House

a mirror of what the country outside thinks.

I expected to and some of the When Harold Macmillan came here brashness and temerity of

Arch-

bishop Tate of Canterbury, who and suld that the Labour Party had was, on one occasion, fined £1 for no overall plan and the Conserva-

lives had one,

his

were remarks "persisting in an attempt to address

instead taken seriously

of being the society after several times being

laughed at." called to order."

There are three other young men to have

I think the trouble is that they, I met who seemed to me

In the past

six

have no faith.

vitality and ideas. I think you will years we have tumbled most of our hear more of them, so you might as

Idols. Now we look around

at

the debris and we see only ruins, well meet them now,

We have to build ngain. have to find

new faith.

Mr. Brown is 21

Wc

蟲

Rudi Weisweiller, 24-year-old Austrian, lled with his parents from Nazi persecution in 1938. He says: "I must pay tribute to the greatness For two years

of this democracy.

back in circulation. Does, that and probably five of its biggest hold-ups has revealed that gangsters to be a politicien is a sin," Brown tonewood Benn,

End of a gold rush

French

newspapers

have

of use

car-

to say about that."

also the name of An-

a young. in the Fleet

ernment were

as an enemy allen I worked in a turer and buyer,

OR the first time for many years munitions factory and then, stil! an raised to ensure

FOR the Union has a strong Tory enemy allen, I came to Oxford, and majority. The president and all was elected an officer of the Union Spring in Paris this year will book results.

the officers of the Union are Torles. while the war was still on.

"In this country there is truly free be marred, however, by the dis-

wcok Police and gangsters are engaging The brightest star in

Ralaxy

discussion and a man is treated in- urins race-with Now, almost as though the appearance of several famous in an

the lutter was 21-year-old Ronald Brown.

dividually on his own merits. When The Champa maintaining a comfortable and in In his farewell speech on

10 Austria Government had decreed the boulevard cafes.

I will have A series of daylight molen that "This House is sure that I go back lo contrary, saucers are suddenly Elysees is especially hard hit, creating lend.

are so well mean a return of confidence and and most famous cafes will shut velicinen area and that few attacked the politicians and the un- tho

In addition, while petrol rationing inspiring undergraduates of today. Socialist who served

He

used well, clearly, spoke a new faith in the stability of down in the next few weeks.

Air Arm and worked at Transport prices? With almost superati- -Britons who consider their has reduced the police to patrolling gestures and made little

on bicycles, the gangsters career notes. Already he seems sure of House during the election. Ho is aged 22 and determined on a politi- tious awe Parisians are saying own airways mismanaged might about

American in high-powered

himself. that it does....

like to know what a really sick cars with an apparently unlimited

he follows the tradition of men cal career. aircraft industry looks like. A supply of petrol

who have been president of the He saya of himself: "But first.

must get rid of the stigma of being- report just issued on France's "Chicago-sur-Seine" Is the name Union he will be famous in 1950,

In his farewell speech he wore his intellectual. The world wants prac- In any case, there are several nationalised aircraft industry several

tical men." tails and a red more substantial pointers to reveals that of five types pro- given to Paris in their campaigns father's

nation given to him by his sister. better times than the mere re- duced since the war one was for a better-equipped police force.

He made his

his arst important speech appearance of the saucers. From found unadaptable for military And to close

when he opposed Dr. Edith Summer

State Medi- country districts come reports use, a second was grounded for that following one of the mildest elaborate modifications and re- Checking over my files, I find that cal Service. Dr

But knock him down and up he for presl- winters of the century, this vision, a third because of de- one out of every three stories zent

from Parls last year carried some comes again. He stood year's harvest will be a bumper fects of construction, a fourth reference to the black market. What dency of the Union three times, was was found unusable, and a fifth vild foreign correspondents write about defeated twice and elected the third

time by a

a Conservative majority. For the first time in years has had so many accidents that before the war?

Mr Ronald Brown saya. There peasants are expressing fears nobody now will fly it.

"We are far too serious,

who that their golden era of super- In addition, during the reign "Avez-vous le nloulouque?" Which, are too many people. work directed and rationed out of them. high prices may at last be end of a Communist Air Minister, of course, is French for "Have you regularly from ten to six and exist hope in time that the

the New Louk?”

college on

food and cocoa, Instead... ing.

the will return, otherwise we are going the number of employees was

brilliant we are producing the to get public men as flat and un- Many French directors and film of the Heartening news comes too almost doubled in an effort to stars, hard-hit by the crisis in ing me vision, safe, sound administrators. them offered to me when all the ere, and instead of the man interesting as the lemonade one of from Washington-that France ensure a loyal Communist French filth industry, are emigrating of vision,

hns We are becoming a factory where penking was over.. is to get the lion's share of IIS, following among aircraft work- to Britat. Georges Guetary

signed contracts

Alma stolid. for three

over-serious students Interim ald, and all before cra.

following his success In "Bless the working to become narrow bureau- | March 31. This might seem to The industry, however, did Bride." and Simone Simon is leaving crats. They are so politically

Indicato that a big Communist make a "profit.”

As the Gov-for London shortly.

minded that sorte of them, I am

one.

NANCY Unbecoming a Man of His Position

SLUGGO'S SO PROUD SINCE HE'S 'IN THE ADVERTISING

BUSINESS

DINE AT

THE

NIFTO

CAFE

French fashion writers are making:

OH, SLUGGO ----

I JUST SIGNED UP A NEW CLIENT

DINE AT THE 'NIFTO

CAFE

DING AT

THE NIPTO

DEAT

AT

JOE'S

AUTOS FOR

HIRE

akill and spoke merskill won.

By Ernie Bushmiller

DIS IS HOOMILIATIN'

[ USE "WHAMO'

TO GET

RID OF TERMITES

are

Dispiriting

HERE you have some young tren who should win fame by 1058. But what of the rest?

I did not meet them all, but enough of them. They sat, sheep- like, listening to the speeches of the bright young men.

Perhaps the men back from tho are they have had it coupon- ware left their vitality behind them.

1

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