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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949.

SHOWING TO-DAY Introducing

KINGS LEE

Air-Conditioned

At 2.30. 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Wanster Bros: wEW THEKE

ON THE ENTERTAINMENT SKYJ

IGHTER SQUADRON

The Flying Flat of the Air Force?

TECHNICOLOR

THE DEBUTANTES

OF 1949

Big year for 584 excited girls

by CHARLES GRAVES

London, May 8, 1

HIS season there are 684 official debutantes, that is to say, girls between the ages of 17 and 19, who will be attending the Presentation Parties at Buckingham Palace on May 18 and 19.

Judging by the Queen Char- lotte's Ball this last week and pre-views at hunt balls and small dances, the prettiest are' Miss Sally Ann Vivian-the ash blonde daughter of Lord

EDMOND O'BRIEN ROBERT STACK - JOHN RODNEY RAOUL WALSH and

*

TOM DANDREA · HENRY HULL SETON & MILLER in lotto Make a Mala

· ADDED ATTRACTIONS BUGS BUNNY SPECIAL

KING'S "BUCCANEER BUNNY"

TO-DAY

:ONLY.

LEE

"ACROBATIC BUNNY"

In Technicolor

Lady Vivian-Lady Caroline Blackwood, Miss Margaret Ann Ducane, and the Bowes-Lyon twins, 17- year-old nieces of the Queen.

For all the debutantes this year the removal of clothing coupons has been just as exciting as it has been ex-

At 2.30, 5.15. pensive for their parents.

QUEEN'S 7.20 & 9.30

LAUGHI LAUGHI

P.M.

LAUGH! LAUGHI LAUGHI

· The most hilarious picture in 10 yearși

THE RIDE OES WILL

*** OPENING TO-MORROW

J. ARTHUR RANKS

AN

presents

“SARABAND FOR DEAD LOVERS"

Colour by ..TECHNICOLOR

NGN

Starring

Stewart Granger Jean Groonwood Flora Robson

CENTRAL-

270, QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL, PHONE 25720. TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. TALING STUDIO.

ALASTAIR SIM JACK'WARNER VALERIE WHITE

AND THE BLOOD & THUNDER CBOYS

HUE & CRY

RIENTAL

Final Showing To-day: 2.30---5,207.30. 9.30 P.M. "A VERY,(INTERESTING SPY PICTURE!

It was a legal impossi- bility for girls presented in 1946, 1947, and 1948: to have all the clothes they wanted.

Even now, for many of their parents it is a financial impos-. ribility,

A glance at the prices of any of the smart Mayfair dress- makers shows that the lowest price for dinner frocks 'and ball jayna is about 60 guincas.

Many parents, therefore, uro going to the less exclusive shops and buying celling-price dresses. Even then they cannot escape the fact that evening shoes cost. six guincas or so, that white gloves cost about the same, and still are that pretty-pretties pudly expensive like hats and Ascut frocks..

True the temporary cessation

of Courts saves parents the cost.

of Prince of Wales feathers and veling (six guineas), and trains (about 20 guineas), but the cost

-

· BALLY - ANN VIVIAN,-

an ash blonde, daughter of

Lord and Lady Vivian"

of a dance or bailis nearly fore they start the drudgery of doubled.

earning a living and thinking about PAY.E.

PATRICIA BOWES-LYON and (right) her twin sister Mary, nieces of the Queen

there is the third cook at the Dank of England, overal alc receptionists, one or two inter- proters, nurses in teaching hos- pitals, several secretaries to such urgunisations as the Church Council,

.

. Some girls look for jobs with publishers, others work in cir- culating libraries, still others

take landscape gardening, phy-

My Side

of Life

THE

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

COLUMN

tenants of

been

grounds, -- Britain's 4,000, years ago have offiefifily known as Pit Dwellers. Scientists pictured frightened families huddling in these holes at night for warmth.

Now Childe talls me the holes were not homes but pig-stiez.

At London's famed Institute of. Archeology he has rECON- structed what recent excavation has proved to be tho genuine homes of Pit Dwellers.

They were mostly profab- sized, detached log-cablňa: ado... quately heated and ælted at aj sanitary distance from the rties.

BIRD DRILL

CAMFRINGE Cergy- man Edward Armstrong has cunailsed his collecting in-

ORCING a naturally left- allnet into gathering, detalls of

handed child to bo right-handed CAN cause birds.

1

the solemn ceremonies carried out by courting andresting stuttering. That bellaf is no Now, in his fact-packed "Bird Aresido fablo.

Display and Behaviour (Lind- Evidence: The percentage of say Drummond, 211.), he shows left-handed people in mental they all serve some social, pur hospitals in three times higher The Disneyesque, postures of than among the general popula- penguins enable wife to distin- Why this should be is ex- guish husband among a score of

other

white-waistronted wad- plained in U.S. Professor Nor- diers. bert Wiener's latest researches.*

tion.

: pose,

Though the right and left The precision drill of the buff- halves of our brains look alike, backed heron as it takes over one half does nearly all the its turn of nest-duty cuts down work. In right-handed people egg breakages. the-loft--half... predominates It The follow-my-leader dances the other way round in left- tratted by turkeys cement barn-

yard society. And so on. handers..

When the right half of the Mr. Armstrong tees a lesion brain chances to be boss the from man in all thir: "Human would be hoppler it niost effelent nerve chains con- society trolling finger-movements link thodern trends were less to- up with the left hand long be.. wards the social organisation of for a child reaches school age. sects and more towards the

If such a child in forced into community life of birds."

But I am doubtful about the right-handedness the dormant side of the brain has to be human application of one other. roused.

observation: "A woodpecker on

This alone makes writing being disturbed threw chips out dimeult But real danger arises of the nest entrance."

because the nerve centres con-

irolling speech and reading- which

mit remain

closely

linked with the writing control

Most messages

slotherapy, and debutante daughters an allow-two halves must go by round

with speech and writing likely to get involved in traffle Janis, and stuttering" resulta."

The

OVERCOAT

IDEA OF THE WEEK:

are

By selling the irritating- centres--stay based in the op- ly small seeds of lettuce, carrots, posile half.

and other plants in a pra-sized between the form Americar. recdimen

saving their customers hours of music,

Four of the ance to cover the cost of their about routes because there are backaching chores.

few direct connections.

seeds can be planted Monkey Club girls clothes.

"So the processes associated singly instead of being shaken have just acquir.

are out of the packet, and to spaced ed their LRA.M.

nord no thinning..... and ARCM.

that they Each reed is coated with chemicals which give it bulk and help it to germinate..

BAR NOTES

DISCOURAGING News drinkers.. Comics from Belgian botanist. G. E.

has found"

that herb from

The more intelligent ones give them perhaps £30 for the whole Few attempt of the Season to cover their bus nowadays to get fares, taxicabs; manicures (but on the stage or to not perms), tooth-paste, gloves, enter beauty par movies, but themselves pay for lours.

any purchases of dresses, hats, No doubt

the silk stockings, and the like, mothers of the de-

by

THE CUT-OUT

*

for

EVERY TIME a giraffo stops to drink it should get the world's worst headache. For all the blood, which a mo- ment before was coursing to the Real bottle parties? Permis-2011, summit suddenly rushes Funke, who butantes this year

wormwood-the neck-long to the head. feel a Httle sorry sible only if accompanied

The anatomical twist which which absinthe is made drips other pants makoa life tolerable for the so much poison that graffe has just been discover- cannot grow near it.." ed-by London Zoo pathologist ENCOURAGING news is that cirrhosting the liver, for which, Dr E. E. Rewall.

absinthe as well as whilty haz often been blamed. no longer rates as a drinking hazard.

for their daughters

when

they think

parents,

Lucky

of the gay twen iles

when

they themselves came out

night club.

..

'There was

ones

Doctors have decided that this Is a diot-deßclency disease. Only

wuffer from it.

FIRST PREFABS eight percent. of alcoholics ever A BODY-BLOW to my MARRY LATER

*

whose

He has found that every There were three or

giraffe is supplied with a special four, dances a night, and

luckier debu-vessel through which surplus need, COME of the до there WEA

blood is automatically shunted Uko Sally tantes,

Ann therefore, of going to a

when the head reaches down.. Vivian, have been educated on no conscription, the Continent since the war. which today withdraws most of She has not only learned

civilised smugness has This year only 40 have been already planned, Claridges and Out of the 864 there are prob. the boys between the ages of 18 enough dressmaking to make been swung by spindly Protes

under-sor V. Gordon Childe. and Londonderry House being two ably not more than a couple of and 19% from circulation. The skirts, blouses, of the more popular venues.

dozen who will not be looking debutante's whole cutlook on clothes, but also a modicum of favourite fun is rigging up the for Jobs by the nutumn if they lite was more gay."

typing and shorthand, French, are not already doing so.

Against that, there was much bookbinding, and cookery.

chaperoning. A well-

She also earned automatically inure brought-up girl was sure to be about red and white wines, at accompanied, if not by her has still to learn bridge, which mother, at least by her maid, is part of the education of any who would escort her from dance modern young lady. io dance and then home.

Many of the debutantes went This year the question of to Hatherope Casts in Glouces- chaperoning is somewhat con- tershire; which can be described trovers'al,

as a m'nlature, girls' version of Eton.

£900

dance

DANDS cost twice what they BA

did before the war; so do flowers, food, and drink.

Nine hundred pounds is not an extravagant estimate for a dance of 400 people. with champagne at the price it is, and the sit- down het supper afterwards,

They know that with inet,no- tax at its present level they cannot do affes of the rela act; either they must take part in the dome chores at home or find a job outside.

Heiress typist

MANY of this year's debutove

This enables them to have a

The cost of taking a house for

tantes are taking sectic If a nice young man tele the season has jumped from 50

a week for the torial courses, leaming shorthand phones to ask a debulante if he to 100 guineas parents of those debutantes who and typewriting. (One heiress d'd pot live in London and are with a fortune of £400,000 who may take her to a theatre and lot of girl friends before they

came out last year got herself a on to supper, is he to be allowed come up for the Season. coming up for the season.

Job as typist in the Fereign by the parents to do so without Office, where she is now.) i their presence?

The cost of flats, of course, has doubled or trebled since the War.

One way and another, it will be impossible to launch a de- butants this year for less than

900. And

tory of music and art from the

that is a real utility

18th century until today), music, secretarial courses, and

from

Make-up

⭑

SEX-EXPERT ''Profes» For F. A. E Cfew of

Edinburgh is agitating for later past...

morrisgez Ever since scores of carefully On health and social grounds dug holes were discovered in he puts 25 as the safest age for to have her first man's prehistoric stamping a woman

child. He says: "If the avrage - Norbert Woman expects to live 4 00 CYBERNETICS by Wiener. Chapman and Hall, 18/ the can afford to speri her first- (Cybernetics is a new nama for 25 years equipping herself with the study of control devices of all

the skills and aris of Buing."

-London Expren" (ervice)

types calculating machines, bobois And the human brain.)

Cook's

Fre Cable

U.S.

NEW YORK. SUDDEN but very marked change has

The chairman says" the "com- sireable loss this pany face a year from television opera 11003.

All at once, for no reason NEWS

and more

To do it.In a normal way will now onward interior decoraHEN what about make-up? well as providing the traditional are saying they are now con- grade

price.

+

cost well over £1,300, and to

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What may seem to some

do it on a prewar scale some thing in the neighbourhood £3,000 or £4,000.

...

debutante

In spite of conscription; there seems to be quite a number of} Actually to judge by the young men available at dances, The Monkey Club in Pont Street has a number of debu- Milroy after, the Queen Chur

ABOUT - FOOD- tantes among its students who lotts's Ball it would appear that young men who have done their swept across America, aro taking such subjects as do only a very few parents insist time in the Services and are,

therefore, less callow than their that anyone can define, there is America is afflicted by: too much. mestiu sekence, cookery, foreign on any strict chaperonage.

less talk of war. In Washing pork, too many chickens," too- predecessors in the 'twenties, " ton,

G3 as well languages, arts award (the his

among the much wheat. Cheapening prices. Altogether, therefore, the de- people, there is a surge of op have resulted in a fast-rising tide of pigs going to market in bulantes will be having a very umism. The scare is passing.

Americans the Chicago stockyards. -Top-- More pleasant time this Season, as

hogs, worth around per 100 1b, Jäte) Jast: Debutantes, however, are nim ■ Should the

bo reason for having a Season at vinced "all will come right in £7 103.

all.

the end." They are beginning year, now fetch around £15. leased from any studies until allowed to wear rouge or cya-

to believe that Russia wants In the prairie States that are the afternoon, with an becas black?

And if there were no Season Peace, and may even make con- already in deep gloom avit, the sional lecture at midday.

cessions to get it. Even a coming wheat glat, likely to be The answer seems to be that there would be infinitely fewer Truman-Stalin meeting is not the worst ever. Storage, space.

Mpliers circulating The Principal realises that a it la all right for them to wear American

ruled out, if a face-saving is still jammed with, list, year's. people, a first sight, to be a girl who is doing the season will nail varnish, mild rouge. and round this country during the means of arranging ons can be grain, great extravagance is actually not have the energy to study at powder, but nothing more.

worked out. of direct benent to hundreds of

Drink?. The averags workpeople in London-dress- makers salesgirls, manicurists until one or two in the mom tanfe does not really like even ar champagne. It tastes much the and other beauty parlour special- ists, taxicab drivers, car hhe

I gather from her that debu amo to her as cider, and the

would

Just. soon drink

contract bridge teachers, walters, their outlook on ‚Vfo`na' their wine merchants and the liko. brothers at the leading public man cannot afford champagne at of austerity like all the rest of Eamings slumped 45 percent, to judge diamissed the charge.

As for the girls themselves, schools and at the university, 22 or £3. a bottle..

Some parents they are surely entitled to taste Among the many postwar dew Allowances? what little glamour they can be butantes, who have taken jobs, are so misguided as to give their

10 a.m. if she has been, dancing

Ing.

"

next three months,

debu-

す

der skater a vehicle forfa AND TO CLOSE...is “á

tele- the

So spare them your jealousy NEWS ABOUT TELEVISION if you feel any.

-Cost of fast-growing

pedestrian? The question=” has. been blemnly argued in court Especially when you remem-vision is eating into rin ber that after their brief butter proats of the big radio chain in Wasington, where youth fly existence for, three month. It took a ble bite out of the was accused as a pedestrian of first-quarter earnings of the breaking the traffic regulations

(imin: ftorists," dance academies, tabies are almost as serious in wider, she knows that young, they will go back to the coco00 † Columbia Broadcasting Eystem by zig-zagging on skoley) Thaj ̈:

ondon, Express Žerated),

£313,941, or half a crown. common share..

NANCY

Cracked Problem

Ernie Bushmiller

AUNT FRITZI-

MAY I HAVE A

CRACKER ?

·NO--- IT WILL SPOIL.

YOUR DİNNER

CAN-I HAVE THE CRUMBS ́IN THE BOX 4

OKAY-

THE CRUMBS

----(London Express' Semitee)

'WHITE KING' TOILET SOAP for BEAUTY

HITCHCOCK'S

ROBERT DONAT STEPS

MADELEINE CARROLL

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