1949-04-07 — Page 4

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HAPPY LANDINGS

BLANDINGS! But you're really going to have your hands full.

CARY AND MYRNA'S LOVE NEST!

CARY

DORE SCHARY presents

MYRNA

MELVYH

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949.

"Dad, will you write a letter

to

the papers? Fred's just heard the first cuckoo-and GOT it?”

How can these wives

THEN a broken pledge

a

broken

means heart, there is enuse

for anger. I write in unger now because I have seen the Heartbreak Houses which indict far better than statis-

GRANT LOY DOUGLAS in the men who promised

In

MR. BLANDINGS

ASKOWS *DAILY: 2,0 5.

SUNDAY

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MGM

BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE

Produced and written for the screen by Norman Panema and Melvin Frank Directed by H.C. Potter

As RKO Radia Productios

OUR TOWN BOOKING Office has temporarily moved to WILLING DISPENSARY No. 30 Dos Voeux Rd., C.

Queen's

R KO RADIO

At 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

a Date with JUDY

WALLACE BEERY JANE POWELL ELIZABETH TAYLOR CARMEN MIRANDA XAVIER CUGAT ROBERT STACK

ADDED ATTRACTION

ALL-ENGLAND BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS SINGLES FINAL

Dave Frooman (U.S.) vs Ooi Teik-hock (Malaya) DOUBLES FINAL

D. Freeman (U.S.). T. H. Doi (Malaya)

-YE

W. Rogork

(U.S.)

S. K. Tooh (Malaya)

CENTRAL

270, QUEEN'S RD, CENTRAL.

PHONE 25720.

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

A miracle of production achievement!

homes to the homeless.

by

stay

proud?

HAROLD BRETT

who is touring Britain to investigate the real home needs of the people. His first report gives no reason for cheering-but it points a moral which could gladden the people in search of somewhere, to live.

Mr Ernest Bevin Was right in 1945 when he said we needed to build four to five million new houses and pull down any amount of Camasi wretched slum property "in very quick time."

It is wrong-wrong and un-

Just that the biggest and most cager class of home-seekers should have no place on the waiting-lists at all.

CARIBBEAN ISLANDERS GET

LECTURE FROM BRITAIN

£20,000

rhythm in their bones -but that's

T

not music

by JAMES LEASOR

Kingston, BRITISH Council Buns cat up

THE British Council is morg money. The so-called. spending £20,000 a year 070 films, with three projectors Central Film Organisation has

in Jamaica giving lectures

on the appreciation of art, and recorded recitals of

to screen them.

But the films are not all well chosen. Tho British taxpayer treats his Jamalean cousins to

mudrigals and virgluml some curious pictures. music. But most of the Villagers who spend thelr

in

people in this lovely land days, hawking ve chickens to can neither read nor write, gullible American tourists aro "Looking nt Birds." Of the 1,250,000

shown Simple folk Hving in in shacies Jamnica only 5,500 are high up in the Blue Mountains: [registered readers of the are shown "Tennie how to Im-

Ibraries to which the Bri- prove your Game."

Council has promised the lonely places of Jamaica

tish

People whose homes are

to give £7,000 a year for tramp mites barefoot to see, in the next ten years.

some village' hall, "Washing--* time at the 200,"

In his Arsi-floor ofice in Kingston, grey-haired Martin Then thero is music. The Blake, farmer schoolmaster, Jamalcans have a vițul musical and chief of the Council here, culture of their own. But- the told me of his travelling art British Council feels that they exhibitions.

lack "musical appreciation." So

the

music officer, Scots-born Set of 20 paintings are sent Thomas Murray gives talks on- out on tour. They are hung on the great Continental com~ the walls of any village school posers. that has wall space to spire. Then, after, ten days or a fort- Says he: "The people and moved night, they are

taken down musical so long as the musle in on to their next rhythmical, But not when it resting place.

comes to music as an art. It would be hard to stage an opera

aro

£300 British Council

He did not mention the aver- liere, or a chamber music re- are conditions in these vilinga cital." schools. Children ro packed Two Newly-weds do in often 100 to a cines. They scholarships go to Jamaicans have all their time fully this year. One man, 20-year- not count

absorbed in trying to pick up old Noel Vaz, has just returned the rudiments of reading and here after spending two years BESİBETESENCONTRE:BRUMMEDİNİ

LAST year there were 450,005 writing.

nt London's Old Vic Theatrical marriages in Britain-000,-

School. Now the British Coun- alter as it never was in the days 000 newly-weds. For months

To one audience of school

elt

calary as home when the soldiers used it, the and years they have

children, aged been

about 12, the pays him his Mr Charles Key, with his with a shared kitchen, a squat- sideboard was polished, and the thinking and talking homes, but

producer. So far, he has pro- Bellish Council art officer duced one Christmas pan- wooden threshold of the door in the officloi reckoning

lectured on "Why Art?" To tomime, "Beauty and the was whitened just like a

homes needed they do not count.

unother school, he spoke on the Beast." He hopes to singo doorstep.

Technique. and Appreciation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" The lists are full and over-

Art."

in the open air next month, flowing with the big familles.

grent experience of housing, was right in 1940 when he set a target of 600,000 new homes a year.

For the moment the native before them is a

tors' hut, or a rest centre.

I have toured some of the squatters' camps, and seen some of the 20,000 families living in ex-Army huts in Britain. I have

aliced to families in rest centres.

But in the spring sun- shine of 1949 I have seen I took my wife with me because how wrong they were in

women are quicker to assess thinking that Mr Aneurin Bevan would do the build- what it is like to stay at home ing,

most of the day.

rful

And there were well-brushed mats and carpeting-piled un the stone floor "to keep rheu matism out of the feet,"

Sharing a kitchen

means friction

How did these people come to 11 be homeless? Well, somo had arrived. from other towns and found that as strangers their place was at the bottom of the waiting list.

to

Before newcomers can be on

BOOKS

However, good this production may be, only a very few will see it and for fewer will un- derstand it. For it is for above the heads of the ordinary people..

INDUSTRY

the "points" schemes they must WHAT sort of books can the first get married and become a

VV 5.500 registered reader "childless couple." If they want take home from the libraries pile up points they must have to browse over? Mostly, they children in rooms, have violent are paper-backed novels, and a quarrels with their parents, or small spattering of semi-techni- endure tuberculosis among their cal books on motor engineering JAMAICA needs the funda- children.

and dress-making. Bryant, the chief librarian controls his Those are the qualifications 40,000 books from his head which help familles climb the quarters in a disused old houso housing ladder in 1049.

next door to a church.

"We shall persist in building Some of the

meninis of learning before she is ready for these cultural frills. She needs more teachers, more text books, more school- rooms,

Too many boys, and girts

drift

In London alone there are At Norwich the need for still about 370 homeless families homes is 3,000 greater than in rest centres. They live in a it was in 1945. At Bir room or a partitioned part of a mingham, where 10,000 room until a house can be found houses were totally des- for them. Their average slay is with friends and relatives, and new houses," said Mr. Bevan in that were rent out from Eng. leave school at 14 and trayed by bombing, only about a year. 9,980 homes of any kind

had been defeated by the fric- Parliament, "until every family and last year, when the - into dead-end occupations such have so far been provided,

But nearly all had tried living

has a

carller books

being good, brarles were

formed, were quite unsuitable. One. for instance, was "The English More men are in building

tion of life in a shared kitchen. in the country I talked with about a dozen After a year in a squatter camp separate, modern home." At Bristol the demand for of them. All the menfolk and they are finding other causes of

a some of the women have jobs. friction houses increases by 100 week.

They could afford the rent for à house if they could get one For one room and their keep in a rest centre' a family of four has to pay £3 13s. 6d. a week.

Homes put up at jog-trot rate

BRI

One family at the Leicester camp had moved it dustbin a yard or so away from the door. PUT surely that was the cue It is now right in front of the when Mr Bevan took over. door of the hut opposite, and the Today he has more men in the dust blows inside. There is building industry than before

These were

Intended

as hotel boys or wultresses in drive-in cafes.

To talk to such children about

or Vlaminck or Van Abigail," an account of the Renoir social life of English domestic Gogh before they can read and add and subtract. is. write, servants

the through

ages Others were books on architec--madness: ture, on the

Jamaica British country-

is developing 08 a of side, and the history

producer of the great

sugar, bananas and tomatoes. Her re- English inn.

cently acquired tourist industry RITAIN has built 443,000

for a is thriving and growing, Ahead, One man I met was a railway going to be a row up there the war. He has the means to cince homes

has the years are rich

with pro- permanent 1945 and the rate is a leg-trat guard, one of Britain's officials, before long, if I am any judge shift that dustbin from the hut country where Illierney voters door. He

a grip that

In mise. can rive every such

rend posters. To pump highbrow art into of 220,000 a year. Compare the with authority over 500 people of the looks in women's eyes.

woman in a hut a real step to elections cannot Agures with the hopes, and at a time on his train. Of duty, It is wrong-wrong and un- whiten this year.

They follow the signs of the the Island now is as ridiculous remember that hardly a house an inspector calls on him to seo far that the good, solid, ordinary

candidates-gouts, rama, sheep, as feeding adolescents on cham-

vote in the slums has been touched

the for

them pagne and caviare. And The local councils cannot do bulls-and --except by bombs-since 1939. that he and his wife are keeping folk of Britain, should be living

results are just as lamentable. under this strain.

instead. it, but the builders can. Many thousands of workers the room straight. who lived there have been moved out to remote estates, where late the cows grazed and the corn grew. London shoots them out like rockets into the with the surrounding countles

It's a waste of house. pride

promise of shops and pubs to SQUATTING with his wife and two children in a hut at Leicester was the driver of one

follow.

טל!

RED SCARE RISES IN

HE United States is in

dossier on

its own

THE U.S.

em

here. Nearly all of them came from countries where Russia Is now in control.

The Immigration authorities Washington shall make public completely lost since they camo the middle of one of the say that in the past 18 months its Good houses wide spaces, of the big machines that help to most intensive anti-Red

500 people from Iron Curtain ployees.

have entered countries

tho greens" "ildren are not tromped them Crab open-cast coat. He is well scares known since the last United States under diplomatie bare), curved streets to break pad, proud of his job and of war began. up the length of miles and miles his skill as an engineer. of new ronds. The architects are pleased with their work.

But the local treasurers count the loss on every house bullt, see a new rent collector on the salary roll for every 000 houses, and grow anxious.

Families live in ex-Army huts

How

about the

Every man, woman, and child

privilege.

They have asked that every- one working on atomic research shall be put through an oven closer screen now.

A story has been going round Washington that New York hay

the nation's: got nothing on capital in wire-tapping.

been. They havD

absorbed It is incredible that a good-with the exception of cer- into the United Nations Or-

But the committee is still not workman of that type should not itain omeln! delegates-admitted ganisation and foreign embas-

satisfied. One result is thut The F.D.I.. dentes vigorously have a real home to show you.

into the country now hos to sles in Washington.

every American atomic plant ts that it uses telephone-tapping satisfy the immigration authorl-

surrounded by security, In any except.extreme cases, Many women? ties. THAT they are No!

of them are genuine now

The fact that it admits Plenty of housc pride is Communists, THAT they have diplomatie representatives, but regulations which would leave but

using it at all has started rearo: going to waste in the Nissen not get Communist connections, arnior Immigration officials now a thriller story standing cold.

To get into one now you stories that it has got its eyes- Nuts I saw in the Midlands, and THAT they are not likely to take the view that any person One of them was half a hut, pick up Communist connections coming here offelally, from an, would have to pass an armed on officials suspected to be un-

then a security check, American. once they get into the United Iron Curtain country at least, guard

But rumours and scares are - 20ft. by 18ft., sub-divided with States.

then have your progress regia- is likely to be a spy.

Ag

in a country tered by an electric eye, and to be expected of the general probe, part

as subversivo - regards WHAT the tenants think can- Partitions and curtains into six

Every Government depart schools and colleges are coming lastly you would have to pass which not be judged from a few miniature rooins. Just space for rent strikes. We shall not know a bed and the bicycle in the ment is being investigated for under close scrutiny. The Un- through a final security check anyone who L known to come.

wrong side of

the- people who are thought to have American Activities Committee, in the department you wished from the

men Iron Curtain--or who is known until they have the chance of second bed-room.

Priy connection with Com which President Truman tried to enter. moving to an address of their

The rent: 10s, a week--and i munist agents.

to kill utter last year's scare, There is a good reason for to have had a conversation

Despite all regulations with the wrong, sort of political: electric own choice. If they do, then

shliling-in-the gioi

Elsewhere the F.B.I. is work- row has agents all over the thig will be because they think rent,

and checks, more than 10,000 persons. meler.

ing on clues about people who country.

who havo rates, and bus fare too high, or

that displaced persons They have demanded But the Army stove in the have entered the country in the prices in planned shopping

-VINCENT EVANS. centres too high..

centre is now black and shining the past two years.

the Department of Justico in entered the country have been

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