American column
Tallulah may be
aid envoy
By NEWELL ROGERS
NEW YORK.
PROADWAY watilh Misa
come
Its
Washington.
Bankhead
to be-
ambasador to
Her mission would be to get a "Marshall plan" for Broad- way, which shows signs of be coming a distressed area.
Actors' Equity reports that 75 percent of its members are up- employed.
Twenty-five current slows average a net proat of £759 to
£000 a week. This will
be enough to give 14 of 10 new shows their Investment backc
But only eight are given a chance to make money.
Ancl
34 Hopa have cont their backers £750,000. What
wants from
Broadway
Washington Is -£250,000- a-year theatre subsidy,
She
Daughter of a senator, Miss Bankhead L a personal friend of President Truman. campaigned for his election, and eat in his box on Inauguration Day.
But she is starring in n Broad- way show, "Private Lives of the Moneyimakers."
And she is determined to push her £290,0 gamoges against a shampoo itaker for using Toltulich" in an adver- isement Jingle over the radio without her permission.
CAPTAIN HARRY BUTCHER, Eisenhower's warthne alde, divides enerals into two einsses We mea." who give credit to sub-ordinates (Elsen- hower, Alexander, Bradley); and "I met." with egoism "oth degree" (Montgomery, MacArthur, Patton).
MINERS' LEADER
John L.
Lewis, counselled by his I'ress aken not to Ihr comment" ni
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1949
"Morning, gentlemen! I see you've all got the Budget week'. feeling."
Can the professional
class survive?
now
VERY household in Britain's professional class is
being forced to go without. It is scraping its standard life bit by bit.
of good life, a life of wide hort- zons. Now look at the SITIC family today. The civil ser-
What form the sacrifice, vant has risen in his profes- takes depensts on the indivi- slon, and the family's gross - dual.
They still live In Hampstead the come is £2,234. civil servant may do with in the same house.
domestic help and
g
Ilut now--because two ser- save for the school bills. In vants cost at least £300 a year, Chelsea the every
go and without servants from the Press now rours "No utterance."
wife may question
that
this be
out to work. In Hindheal eight-roomed house cannot As in Battersea Monday properly run and heated-two Boors have been converted Into
A MERICAN SHAVIANS, may now be wash day, A cheered! by
a report G.B.S. will visit the U.S. this summer, health permitting, are warned in a new book about the master of Shaw's declaration;
"I can't stand Shavinns."
TEEN-AGE schoolgirls
TEEN
suburban Mamaroneck up- prove sex education
To get an idea of what this struggle meus in actual £.s.d. I have obtain- ed four budgets, typical of ret the expenditure of families £2,234. Net income, after in the upper income levels come-tax, superannuation
mit of the professional class.
boys do not watch the films with
them. But the boys say they would rather have father tell them the facts of life.
THE SOCIAL, REGISTER, the
By
RUTH BOWLEY
KEEPING,
cleaning.
laundry,
21 self-contained flat and sub-
let.
Thele grass income, plus the from the flat. totals
In-
ductions, C1,538. This is they budgeter for 1948:
de- how
HOUSE
£ 20
30 0 0
45
Q
}
5. d.
papers, 0 "
REPAIRS RENEWALS, carpet,
cleaning
( food, chemist, windows. garden,
wages)
240 .0 0 7 7.0
14 10
laundry.
TELEPHONE
eleaning. materials,
DOCTORS, DENTIST SCHOOL
32 360 0
HOUSE
0 CLOTHES (child)
2 10. 12 18
0
3 0 0
To measure the fall that has already taken place in MORTGAGE the standard of living 1 RATES
these budgets HEATING compare
US. blue book of blue with a typical one of 1927. FOOD, bloods, has become evercrowded | All these budgets are far with 47,000 names. So now i new Alane of Society lists only 500 sucial eligibles.
from the margin of exis- tence (even a 68 percent rise in prices does not re- duce the 22,000 a year man to penury). But compare
Red Ensign life of £1,000 in 1937 with
fleet grows
for
£2,000 in 1948 then there was scope and leisure the intellectual life; HOW there is not much over for Riv-
BRITAIN How his more ships the little more than
than before the war. Lloyd's ing."
a tonnage of Register shown over 18 million-133,000 higher than in 1939.
Britain owns 22.4 percent of the world's ships, and is still building more than half of the new one.
Arterien
percent, with 18 million tons more than before the war. But 114 mil- lion tons are laid up.
owns 33
New York officials report that North Atlantic cargo ships are salling half empty.
Cunard White Star say the slump is - sonni.
THE CIVIL SERVANT
Here is how a civil servant. tus wife and two children lived on a joint set income of £1,142 in 1937,
after in-
20 0
LIFE INSURANCE
0 CLOTHES (husband)
12_130
CLOTHES (wife) HOLIDAY CLUB. other
23 0 0 FRACTAINING
chemist, papers, dry cleaning, flowers. garden, windows. 300 WAGES (daily help), 60 REPAIRS, RE-
NEWALS TELEPHONE_ DOCTOR, DENTIST SCHOOL (2 boys at
public school) CLOTHES, FARES
(boys) CLUBS (husband) CLOTHES (husband) POCKET MONEY
sub-
POCKET MONEY meals 500 $ 0 (husband)
out. fores, drinks, amusements, etc. POCKET MONEY (wife), hair, fares, postage, etc.
0 (husband) 200
MONEY
wife) (Clothes for self, children, hair, travel, meals out, etc.)
HOLIDAYS
taining nul, books,
clubs, presents
REPAIRS
TELEPHONE
TODAY THE SUBJECT IS,
Sonicthing of everything -art, history, science- in the life of one man
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
H
1.
AVE 'you ever dreamed of being the most marvel- lous person on earth? Someone who could do everything better than anyone else?
If you
If you took up painting you'd turn out the most- talked-about pictures in the history of art. went in for anatomy your discoveries would astonish the doctora.
Astronomy physics, geology, mechanics, botany, zoology? To your brilliant mind they'd all be equally clear and you'd un-
cover hidden secrets of the universe never
revealed to mankind before. And you'd carry off your talent with the utmost charm.
Games? Feats of strength? Naturally you'd excel at them all. And good looks? 'Yes, you'd have them, too.
WHY PICK on Leonardo da Vinal? Well, one purposo Is to arouse Interest first in great people, then in ther neblevements --- and through them to illuminate the times und places in which they lived.
A KNOWLEDGE of Leonardo
· helps to explain boil the
·Ignorance of the Dark 'Ages before him and the revival of learning that followed.
HE WAB the last of the great "know-alls"but it was only becauso everyone else knew no little that he was able to allno In so many directions.
WITH THE growth of know- ledge came the age of special- Isallon, (80 that now it i aimeat impossible for a sinslo man to dominate more than one branch of knowledge.
He outdid dreams of Walter
Walter Mitty, in the wildest dreams of his secret life, never thought himself so wonderful And, yet, such a man really bus exintect.
the
[As Danny Kayo)
in the film
dreams thom Mitty!
draven and Imagine they can little of it once that they cut a door right through tha middle, see the difference.
stab- and Napoleon's soldiers To make his painting moro bed their horses against it. natural the young artist began
Yet critics say that this half- to study nature. He dissected vanished, bashed-about ghost of human bodies (an unheard-of a picture is still one of the and awful thing to do in those masterpieces of the world.. days) and, as a consequence,
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 1519), who was all these things, was the son of a young lawyer and a peasant girl. His parents weren't married, but in those the blood.
the circulation discovered
of
days, luckily that wasn't con- Before that people did not sidered the child's fault.
married someone else, know that blood came back to father
the heart for redistribution. and as she was unable to have children herself she took over They thought it was absorbed by the tissues, like water on an young Leonardo.
irrigated farm.
had
Supposing she had dozens of children of her own? Then the boy might have. stayed with his mather and
0 grown up a former, and we
150
0
enter-
130
@
01
20 0
0
10 0
£1,000 0
Discoveries
would possibly never have T interplay of light and
heard of him.
That smile
NOTHER is the portrait of Mona Lisa, now in the
took him about four years to Louvre Gallery, Paris. That one finish, too, and to keep the sitter happy he had music played to her while she posed. Her name has become a world-famous cliche to describe a women's cmile.
Everything
that
Leonardo
sbado fascinated Leonardo so much that he took up the learned and thought out for him- Vinci is just outside Florence, study of opties and the workings self he put down on paper in his in Italy, and Leonardo went to of the human eye, discovering grabbed mirror writing. Some- the local school, where he was more secrets. The law of per- times his points were illustrated artists vivid that a spective led him to geometry, by sketches 50 o taught nhout as
at them. He was child would get nt kindergar ord geometry to mathematics still marvel
So he didn't owe and so on to astonomy.
always intending-when he had the time to arrange them Everything he put his mind to some order. But he never did led to some new problem.
much
In this family the profes-ten today. sional-class standerd of living his genius to his schooling. is maintained in many ways. He must have been a mad- Foreign visitors are often en-dening child to educate because with his left hand tertained, mostly at restaurants; he wrote the professor goes abroad to
backwards. The only way you attend international
writing is rend his ferences, not at his own
look at it in a mirror. pense; there is leisure and
for work: peace
money for books and club subscriptions.
con-
can
But the eldest child goes to an elementary school, When he if older he will go on to a fer- paying school.
His wife prefers to
9
toin
His angel
IS father apprenticed
to
to
have the time. So he died at 67, honoured as a great painter with The books sald that the sun nu unfortunate habit of doodling scribbling meaningless moved round the earth, Leonardo and satisfied himself that it was the phrases on paper.
Wos
and distributed Because of the
other way round. But in those
His collection of notes, hun- days of ignorance there was nobody who would have believed dreds of pages of them, him if he had told them, So he split up, sold, just made a note on a sheet of over Europe.
doesn't drawings in them they were Aim paper that "the sun
cle.
artist but not much more.
In some way scores of sheets
Others are
a craftsman to learn move" and went on la something looked on as souvenirs of a great painting, sculpture, and handi-
The story is that when Iis most famous picture, "The escape crafts. 7 domesticity and helps to main- he was still a boy he painted Last Supper." painted on the came into the possession of the 18 15
the standard of living by one of the angels in a picture wall of a convent church in Kings of England, and are still
was one of the fastest at Windsor Castle. herself. being done by his master, and Milan. sulary for 22 0
0 curning a
professor's did it so well that the poor works he ever did. It took only in the British Museum and the Before the war, B
But he used the Victoria and Albert income alone would have pro- man gave up in despair and four years.
wrong kind of backing for the
Only in the last half-century a vided for n private school and never touched a brush again.
That picture is still in exis- paint, and within half a century have people holding them up Qdomestic service; but not now.
show howtence, in Florence. It has been it was peeling off. These budgets
to mirrors-begun to study them forretouched by so many people 21 15 limited life is especially
The remains are still there, closely, and found that this gifted Leonardo's but in the intervening centuries painter, who seldom finished of cooking, 30_3_6_shopping for the wife; Job and angel and the other figures is they have been painted over and anything he began, was the in- 11 10 6 home for the husband. 11ouses not-as marked-as-it-inust have restored so many times that ventor of the parachute, the been at one time. All the same little of the original remalis, helicopter-nirscrew, -the- smoku. are shabby, women weary, meni
tourists go to look at it in Some of the monks thought so stack, the conical ride bullet, the bored.
32 0 o the women. Living is a routine in the last 500 years that the.
200 0 0
30 # D
It 20 20
9 U
0 BO
0
£1,480
0
0.0
30
11
(Fares. meals out, drinks, tobnico.
an Income So out of presents, etc.)
0 £2,250 there is at present CLOTHES (wife)
boarding margin for MONEY POCKET
(wife) 58 00 fees, no other saving but insurance, 510 money for hoir. (Cigarettes,
the
ilui- sident mulds. Only cosmetics, fares,
mum is spent an clothing, very meals, etc.)
of
no
school lito
nes
100
0
two
Not joint inrome come tax and superannuation HOLIDAYS deductions £1142.
Σ
s. d.
MORTGAGE RATES
150
0 0
25 0 0
36 0 0
cleaning
HEATING
FOOD
Froight War On
Frederick Ellis writes: unknown group is backing a price war which is costing ship- owners upwards of £750,000 n month on the India-Europe run. The battle started when Dulch shipowners walked out of the International pool controlling the WAGES run, and blasted mates. The pool | CAR compaules have fixed a knock-REPAIRS, out rate of £1 a ton for cargo, compared with £5 10s, a few weeks ago.
Ал materials, chemist, papers, dry clean- cigarettes, flowers
garden, inundry, cleaning. insurance
At the new price it la estl-
window
එපප
0 11:tle on amusements.
year--just dinner parties last
housework
and contrast
between
1
Devil-May-Care
flier's
a myth
for six with a bird, some South THE belief that RAF
0 African sherry and
wine; cost £5 a time.
the rise in salary there is not much more to live on than In
Algerian combat
crews were fearless daredevils thirsting
An
-SAYS DOCTOR
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
their hands.
They were the
Dr
"He had probably never been so consciously close to death in
writes his life before," Stafford-Clark in the Journal of Mental Science report.
waterwheel, the paddlewheel for boats, breech-louding cannon, the tank, the mincing machine. the swimming belt, the diving sult. and a score of other inven- for tions that people take granted,
His secrets
DORING over his papers rc- search workers found that he had experimented with ex- plosives before there were any real chemists, with steam before Watts, magnetism before Fara- was at this point-if not be-day-and lown planning before fore-that the glamour boys Mr Silkin.
COMMON EXCUSE
usually decided to quit nying.
And they nearly always gave
If he'd only had some source
the same thinly veiled excuse; of power such as the petrol en-
BOOKS.
MAGA- PRE- ZINES. SENTS, CHARITY 10 0
£1,548 13 0
The wife hus lttle energy for action is shattered by a
"I would like to go on flying, but gine he might well have invented left for entertaining or going
it-and he devised a submarine,
What
the tax- out. Housework, shopping. medical report just publish- usually the first to throw in it would not be fair to the crew" the aeroplane he was very near Is left by
The men who genuinely want-but refused to put the details on collector is taken by the boys and fra with the child to school ed.
men who cul to fly, but were really crack-paper because of "the evil nature Air Force paychologist joined the combat crews for the ing up, showed the strain in a of men." public school, and in spite of takes up her day.
who watched aircrews on and glamour. They were letts $13- more subtle way.
Had anyone of learning and alf duty declares that even the telligent and for less impressive most reliable pilots were always in nction than the men who The most certain sign of intelligence studied his papers sudden Immediately after his death, and afraid.
had coldly assessed the dan- break in morale was a ners, udmitted their fear to change in a mun's nature. The arranged them in proper order, It was only by fully realising themselves, and volunteered in noisy, back-sinpping, wizard- the world of science would have Now the wife looks after the the budget of a University pro- what he had taken on that a suite of it.
prang" type on the verge of afbeen given a push forward. nian could stand up to the
crack-up would suddenly be In four years of living and come shy. have two dangers of an air battle-and
The quiet, reserved then go back for more.
flying with fighting Air Force man would escape into a false men of all types, Dr Stafford- jovinilty. Clark discovered that an opera- tional man's morale ebbs and surges in
1937. The rise in prices has
even thrown out the budget by
0 house with the help of a
Though
health
270 0
0
150 0
O a few pounds.
100
0 о
RE-
NEWALS TELEPHONE
15
0
10
0
.0. woman.
DOCTOR, DENTIST
15
D keeping
0
CLUBS (husbånd)
21
20
0
50
U
0 0
mated that ships plying between | SCHOOL (kindergar India and Europe lose more than
trip.
£30,000
MEDICAL STUDENTS,
ONLY
ill wom
"One more exam. and
I'll be able to put up my windscreen "notice?"
'MONEY
ten for 1 boy) CLOTHES (husband) CLOTHES (wife) POCKET
(wife), hairdresser, postage, fares, meals out, pre- Kents, cigarettes POCKET MONEY
(husband)
meals
out, tobacco. drinks, fares, amusements, p08- tage, etc. CLOTHES (children)
HOLIDAYS
HOUSE,
EDUCA-
TION, INSURANCE BOOKS, PRESENTS, CHARITY, ETC.
888 2 888
50
0
a than before
THE PROFESSOR
Now take a third budget-
whose wife has a full- fessor daily time
Job. They her house children,
#1 realdont house. bigger
keeper, and a daily charwoman. Londoners Living. as so many do, in a house with basements and attles, the professor has fet
and
allowance is
the wat, though there are fewer to feed,
taining.
o she has little margin for enter
The only saving is super- annuation. There are no new frocks. The husband makes do on prewar clothes. The car is ▸ Fold.
100 0
15 0 0
0
70 D 0
20
0
£1,128
0 0
THE BUSINESS
MAN.
Now inke another 1948 bud- - ret-from a business executive. With his wife and child he
of parins a flat.
The joint net family income
FAITH. IN MAGIC
played SUPERSTITION
part, too, in building up the courage of fliers. Mahy of the crews expressed thele fear in
the
As it was they lay hidden and misunderstood so that men like Newton (1842–1727), Coper- Galileo nicus (1473—1543), Many of these men wept when (1684-1642), and Harvey. a definite way-as Anally they had to tell the anatornist (1570-1857) had to doctor of their secret fight rediscover the secrets which shown in the chart below.
against fear. They often recover- this old man had known about At the start of a tour of 30 ed as soon as they learned that all the time.
the
enemy, other members of their crew
is £1,700; rent from the flat superstitious beliefs an fantastic flights Brainst goes towards paying the rent as the black magie rites of morale rose slightly at Brst were really just as scared, of the whole heuso. This 15 how they budgeted for 1918:
£ 5. d.
RENT, RATES (after allowing for rent of flat) FOOD. cleaning
300
↑
THESIS, postage,
papers,
magazines, laundry, shoe repairs, In-
0 lives in a charming Queen surance
Anne house, lovely to look at, HOUSEKEEPER 160
0 but costly to run. Here, 100, DAILY HELP...
the affles have been turned into HEATING, LIGHT a flat, and sub-let.
£2,250. LIFE
Iiis Kross sitiary lu On this. budget in 1937 the Add to that the net rent of the standarda of the professional fat and deduci Income-tax; the class were maintained, There net income is £1,488. This was money and lolsuro for how he budgeted for 1048: small dinner
the partler, In
there dining-room;
travel; RENT
panelled
were opportunities for
the wife could use her talents – RATES.
outside the house. It was
a HEATING
£ a d.
230' 0 0
04.12.0 70 0 0
ING
ING
INSURANCE, Ruperannua tion payments DOCTOR, Dentist POCKET MONEY
(husband) (Tobac
со £10, drinks
£30, travel,
lunches, clothes
£30)
400
0: 0
50 0 0
100
0 0
160 10
0 0
the because of the novelty and David Staf- excitement.
AFTER A CRASH
•
Where do we go from here? ·
cavago tribes, wrlles Psychologist Dr ford-Clark,
But then it dropped steadily NEVER TO REACH ITS THE report debunks the idea The tough squndran-leader ORIGINAL LEVEL AGAIN,
that a man should always THE BEST way to get an iden who always carried a girl's silk After the 12th or 13th sortie, ny again as soon as possible of Leonardo's versatility in to D stocking really believed it by which time the crew And after a crash. A short rest is browse through his Notebooks. would see him through the flak probably Scen nt lenst on more likely to help him regain These have been edited in two
It was the devil-may-care Bomber crash in dames, a man's his nerve, types who "shot the lines" at morale kad slumped close to the | tio bar counters who were crack-up lovel.
→CRACK-UP LEVEL←
10
Number of combat flights 5
15
.20
26
fat volumes published just before the war, and should be found in The courage of those men who most good reference librarica. survived the critical 12th and The title is "The Notebooks of 13th flights automatically rose Leonardo da Vinel," by Edward' until after the 22nd sortie. Then McCurdy (Jonathan Capo). It began to drop again. Most
men were grounded after 30 Whenover reading anything zorțies.
historical, it is useful to have a copy of H. G. Wells's "Outline of Dr.Stafford-Clark ends with History" at hand. It helps to this tribute:".. so strong was keep a sense of balance. the spirit in Bomber Command:
that it was not uncommon for a⠀ And when you're in London, man-to volunteer for 10 extra there is a study by Leonardo'in trips so that he and his crew Burlington House (where they could finish together if he had hold the Royal Academy) and a joined them with more flights to disputed painting in the Nation-
Al-Gallery.
100:00 THE MORALE CHART.......... drops around 12, 13. his credit than they bad."
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