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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1949.

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WHAT A FLYING YEAR-AND NOW HERE IS THE JET VISCOUNT'

..

The pranksters

oust Bing Crosby

NEW YORK

THE seal which was sent over the other day by an American broadcast- ing company to swim the Channel seems to have caused some commotion in Britain and Franco.

I don't know why. To us who listen to the American radio theao days, such stunts are as commonplace as a fugue on the Third Programme.

We have been brought to a state of constantly expect- ing the unexpected. At any moment the phone may ring und a man with a whinny- ing hugh will ask if it's all right to deliver the llon cub we ordered.

THIS

ASTONISHING NEW YORK

„by.

C. V. R. THOMPSON

an American

radlo these days. Jack Benny is not at the top of the Hit Parade any more. Nor Is Bob Hope. Eddio Cantor has had to brcome a quizmaster. Even the venerable Bing Crosby Is slipping.

The only shows which can compete with the stuntmen arc whodunits. On the four majar American networks at least 37 murders are committed every week,

They

The reason for all this la TV. The commercial radio companies spent their treasure and their Ingenuity developing TV. They have done a remarkable job.

In one year, the number of sets in usc hos grown

from 1,000,000 to 2,500,000. And our protestations

have developed their own stars, that

order

of even if many

them were we didn't

A He will get one doliar

stors that Hollywood and radio Bon cuh will be on each of the 361 minutes wheth

has discarded. the air and

There is tho 18 compensa- the seal clipped off the Channel

ono and only tion we will bo given a record, or about £125.

Milton Berle, This stunt cost Mr

a comedian who Edwards chance to guess-for £800 about £1,000. He

slump on Broadway сло afford causes

night because prize money the laughing that. A soap firm pays

him every Tuesday man's identity (probably £3,300 a week for his show and people won't leave

for the privilege of interrupting night of his programme. Danny Kaye).

it every few minutes with n

Home the

Borja Karlo Is a No. 1 hit

dunits too.

Money tells

TV

for all its strides donesn't yet pay, It is not expected to do so for

Or Lana Turner may rumba tune extolluf soap flakes, this reason because TV has who- suddenly call from Holly-

Me Edwards specialises J wood and offer, in the hear-

what radio calls "audience ing of

26,000,000 participation" shows. SOTHO

Not long listeners, £17,000 if we will go he tnduced one listener to

under a hen every per- RUT just name a film from which sit

on the D of forence for 13 weeks few sample lines

promise that he would get £350 dialogue were taken.

If the hen dropped an cg on If We aro foolhardy him-which it didn't. enough to visit a broadcast- ing studio anything can happen. Just as it did to Burt Kennedy.

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Mr Edwards has no monopoly on lunacy. called Art Linkletter who makes his steners look foolish to prove his claim that people are funny.

There is also a man

One of his listeners recently

made Mr Linkletter look pretty She was an nitrac-

up to five years,

Forty passengers. Wing-span 14ft. Range 1,000 miles, Cruising speed 316 miles per hour.

By BASIL CARDEW

THAT 4 wonderful year for Britain's aircraft industry.

standing future airliners for Since July last year the the world: The 30-passenger Viscount, with her four Comet, a pure jet plane, and Rolls-Royce Dart propeller- now the propeller-jet Via- turbine engines, hâa flown count.

200 hours over a distance of 50,000 miles.

There is the first flight of What do we know about the 500 miles per hour do the Viscount? It is a smaller Havilland Comet jet air- sister of the Comet, although liner... sky debut of Bri. made by a different private On the Milton Berle show, fo: stol's 100-passenger Bra- firm. Instance "talent" alone costs bazon weighing 130 tons

£9,000 week, which is £3,000 first flight of the 650 miles more than the entire expense for per hour Supermarine 510, a top radio programme with u possible audience of 90,000,000 the newest jet fighter...and against TV's 25,000,000.

the first public appearance

Outstanding

100 to be built

came with

In this time sho has made 320 take-offs and landings. This was intensive flying on a prototype, and she THE COMET will fly at through her tests Whisked away

the At- glory, So the radio companies must of twin-jet bomber the Can-35,000 feet across

Inatic, distanco 3,000 Lo fight to keep radio profitable in berrn, built by the English

The result? At least 100 4,000 miles. order to pay TV's bills. RECENTLY, Kennedy

Electric Company-planes

aro, to be built-10 for went to broadcast funny too.

The result is that they are

THE VISCOUNT will fly R.O.A.C. and B.E.A. Austra- show called "Truth or live girl whom Linkietter offered encouraging a cut-throat battle that put this country well

are in- If she for the public's attention benhead.

at 25,000 feet and carry 40 lia and Canada [Consequencea."

arline convention tween the two mediums they

passengers for 1,000 miles, terested. American And

basses have come over and At the moment this may make good news. The new Vic- When she first emerged asked to fly in her. for lunacy. But, as success inkers Viscount 700 airliner and few 14 months ago only either radio or TV in Amerle has become the first pro- her makers had faith in the is decided by pollsters countly!

heads, it gpeller-jet aircraft in the Viscount. She have only one result.

work to be granted a cer- to be n Cinderella. The publle will get what they tificate of airworthiness. want even if what they want t scals in the Channel.

Own.

to set up

us bride The master of ceremonies, would just go to a Ralph Edwards, asked him of business men and plek out is

husband. weeks to Robert Cummings if he had three

She came back for her en- apare. Almost as 8001 as

gagement arti wedding rings, THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND Kennedy had said "Yes," he her trousseau, her honeymoon the audience's

was off to catch a plane for expenses, and everything else Paris with that seal as a he had

promised. The husband she picked after 3.30, 7.30, fellow-passenger:-

He will be back soon to tell convention was the local boy to Sho us all about it--the broadenst whom she was engaged!

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of the actual swim did not come just took him along to the con- through beenuse of atos-vention with her, pheries-and to collect

ward.

his re- It is men like Edwards and Linkletter who are "big time"

ITALIAN AIR FORCE TO GET

BRITISH JET FIGHTERS

FIGHTER &quadrons of the nro

-(London Express Service)

now comes more

threatened

Said Sir How Kilner, de of Vickers puty chairman Armstrongs Ltd. "And de- valuation of the £ has raised the Viscount's chances in

But airlines cannot afford This means that Britain to Knab # success. And the United States." has produced the two out this liner was a honey.

How You

You Can Cope Those Headaches

practice is familiar glasses.

With

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show that certain gland extracts give, relief in sclected cases.

You can also get a headacho after concussion—particularly if VERY doctor in general inanently, by wearing correct you have not rested for the three weeks that doctors advise, And A. "live" with the patient who means that your intestines are

headache simply a headache may be a late symp- tom in high blood pressure. If comes to him and complains blocked and poisons which this happens the pain is worse of "headaches. There are should be eliminated are on waking and gradually passer many people who take it for absorbed into your system. Your off.

brain cells Bro sensitive to- granted that they will get headaches almost regularly. noxious substances of this sort.

The result is that you Fet a Neither of theso forms of What is a doctor to say to dull. generalised, throbbing headache yiilds at all readily to them? Well, he can now say a headache.

treatment Reports from America and Good deal,

indicate that a, drug known as When the intestines get rid of The most common causes of their toxing the headache soon slonal headaches; while one or prostigmin may help concus- An official announcement of headache are eye-strain and a disappeara. Hence it is important two new drugs have given pro- Anul stages, under which an agreement between the "Ilver" nitack.'

to have a regular bowel acilon, mising results In some cases of Britain's former enemies are to Italian Air Ministry and the de

even if it means taking a saline high blood pressure headache, have De Havilland Vampires, Havilland Aircraft Company, of

aperient every morning. which are

in service in Hatfield, Herts, is likely to be The eye-strain headache 10 France,

due to dumculty in focusing. and Sweden.

This agreement, it is under-Often it comes on after reading Under the peace treaty the

The eyo Italian alr force is restricted to stood, will cover the supply of or going to a cinema.

continually on 350 machines, of which 200 may come British-matie Vampires to muscles being

tension get tired and the patient be fighters and reconnaissance the Italian Air Force and aircraft. Italy is not allowed 19, the Italians to build the Vam- of the head.

"under-Hoeno" arrangement for complains of pain in the front YUNG HWA have any bombers.

fighters na the Italian Pire themselves MASTERPIECE Air Force have at the moment

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outdated-obsolete Italian ftallan air force are to be types,. British Spitfires re-equipped with Brillah jet United States Mustangs. Bghters. Negotiations are in the

Such

ready Norway made any time now,

(London Express Serbien)

NANCY Heads or Tails?

OH, LOOK AT THAT CUTE LIVE FUZZY

DOG

I'LL GO HOME. AND GET HIM.

A DOG BISCUIT

an

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This type of headache 'can be prevented quickly and per

this

The third sort of headache 1 headache, it is nothing to worry On the whole, if you have 'a' migraine, and

is not so about. A visit to the oculist, a easily dealt with.

morning dose of salts or an Migraine may come on at any aspirin will probably cure it. time. It lasts from one to thirte days and. It can be completely crippling. The cause le obscure and treatment has satisfactory. But recent reports

But a headache that persists or recurs regularly requires in- vestigation. been un-

-(Loniton Express Service)

By Ernie Bushmiller

Viscount deliveries to the British State airlines will start early in 1952,

-{London Express Servicef.

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