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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1950.

"LADY PRECIOUS STREAM”

ON LONDON TELEVISION

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

VOTE

“Onice douth, madam, may i remind you that Mis Déro mrth's baby is not an electoral issue in this constituency.”

By Our Own Correspondent

London, Mar. 9.-A traditional Chinese theatre appeared in Lon- don for one night only this week, when the television studios at Alexandra Palace were disguised by tall screens designed from Chinese models. The old Chinese play, "Lady Precious Stream," translated and adapted by S. I. Hsiung, was televised.

How good or how bad the jaee, take un active part in entrance. Sometimes they chat confidentially into one, and then play is, according to Chinese the performance. atandards, or how free the John Glyn-Jones, a sensitive ge on to the next one to de-

ver nuather Ilne. producer, bas [adaptation, are points that and Intelligent

from this trade-

pale beside the obvious en- departed

tional method, save to use affairs, heavily embroidered

while re-

ns thi

The costumes were gorgeous tertainment value of "Ladyle Chinese decor as back- with glittering gold thread, Half Precious Stream." To ground to help the viewer the cast were made up, complete with shining black wigs and Western eyes this play is imagine himself in China. amusing, gay and light-

The two property men would slanting eyes. The other half hearted. They are fascinated, have to be seen to be believed. were still in the process of lay- Loo, by

anding it applied. Apparently the the fact that in They wore blue trouxera accord with Chinese conven-Chinese type shirts, hanging to television experts like to have tlon. the stage is not realis-their knees, thick white rocks, the actors made up

brown toes, and battered old thearsal is in progress. tic, there is no scenery, and felt hats. They provided chairs allows them to experiment withi

the make-up, and see which will the property men, whom the and cushions for the netors, held sult the cameras best. audience pretends not Lo up cloth battlements, solemnly presented Precious Stream with

basket as she tripped on, and IMPORTANT banded n cup of tea to an actor who had just made a long: tiring speech. And if an actor wonted to die nu heroic death he threw himself dramatically down, in the sure knowledge that the two property men would be there to catch him as he fell

Harwell's First Year Results

Dotails of the first year's work with the larger of the two piles at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, have been released by the British Ministry of Supply.

LONG CAST

FUNCTION

very

"I'm enjoying_all_this much," said Hugh Morton in a bland voice. He looked out of the Chinese place among all

gures, as he wore only a dark grey lounge mult. Ils was

most important function, how- ever, for he bore the title

Honourable Reader"

and had

NEWS IN PICTURES

STRIPES THAT STRIP - Strip off the striped skirt and you have a swim suit. This cotton seersucker com- bination features A strapless, one-piece suit 1 skirt with An elasticised waistband to ensure perfect fit.

the job of explaining to the viewin what happens to the The Joug cast, hended by Clive Merton as Wang Yun, the characters during the intervnis the Prime Minister: Rosalyn Boul-and wint sort of scenery

to repre- as the

Princess of the properties are meant The pile was first started uranium cartridge-a cylin-ter

cent. Isich Ping- up on July 3, 1948. After drical uranium rod encased Western Regions;

and "Imagine" he said, waving an eight

floor in tests, production of radio- a higher temperature than stream herself, portrayed by covered with the finest carpets, isotopes began on February those now neod.

Joan Painter, spent the entire

and that Elken afternoon and part of the even-loverhead."

months

of

played by kule the Gardener, initial in aluminium--able to resist Peter Coke; and Lady Precious airy hand, "that the

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ennopies are 28, 1949. Since then, the

He beckoned, "You Metallurgy and Engineering leted, the improved cartridges

When design tests are coming rehearsing in the studios, know, of course," he added con- the scene is Divisions at Harwell have will be loaded into the pile,

To the uninitiated, a rehearsal dentially, "that

Tu always exactly the same as it was be developed an improved making possible a considerable in Alexandra Polnce

fore." energy

uf avail-something Increase in the

na experience. uble, and enabling the scope at There always seems to be an

The plays rank among the experimental work to be ex-untiecessary conglomeration of tended. The pile being used wires and cables,

technicians most popular television features, Find this one will be repented un for three main purposes: radio- and producers, microphones and Sunday for the children. isotope production; studies of leameras, voices and hangers-un, effects of neutrons and Karma The producer sits in

sinolt CX- materials, and rays on

glass room about 20 feet from

A DYING TRADE

periments in nucleur physics

and neutron diffraction,

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purposes,

Of all the odd characters in the studio, We had most

the fooг, where he sees theympathy for the technician who

rehearsal as it will appear to the had been detailed to strike a television viewers in the even-large gong, suspended from the ing. By the use of microphones ceiling, to indicate the end of a he calls out instructions to the scene. His eyes were fixed on a netor.

girl who stood near the actors.

Business with "Uncle at the sign of the three brass bulla" is not what it usect

Hadio-isotopes are being used

As two cameras are in opern-As she raised her arm he struck to be,

for medical, industrial and retion, the actors find dimeully in backwards nonchatantly, mirand: says Pawnbroker

and lost his gong- both in the remembering which one they the Kong. Charles E. Hanson, who is United Kingdom and overseas.

make an attek. closing his business in Hall-Many special irradiations have have to face as they

been carried out, come taking fax and going out to his son several

months. The

material used was the source of Kamina

rays prepared

with IIMS Arethusa, Thi source has since been returned

In Jamaica.

sever

larkest

* 56

When the famillar sign of its for the Navy trials in Miny last,

trade is removed from outside

bis premizes there will be only one pawnbroker's shop left in the town, as compared to 10 into the

Dile and is now the I

his father's days, when the bus-equivalent of no less than 400

ness was etablished in 1980.

trams of radium-which is far more than the total stock

In the old days the shop open-natural radium in Britain.

ed early on Mondays and Tues-

way.

C

Effects of neutrons And

David Lean Turns

To Fact

Fact For Film

David Lean, one of Britain's most interesting film directors, has turned to fact for his latest drama, at the Leicester "Madeleine". recently previewed

Square Theatre, London. after

frradiation, This

those

days for taking in pledges. Every werk the St bedding and gomum radiations on material clothes were pawned and re-are studied by comparing the deemed the following Fridays properties of materials before after wares bad Ixen paid, One! And fruit hawker regularly used to gives Information on materials

und Nearly a hundred years] viving two husbands pown a basket of oranges nt which may be used in other

eniled dying in her bed at the age a Scots girl lunchtime and redeem them ut piles-including

which ago, t be designed produce Madeleine Smith was night.

ar-jof 93, useful

power and knowledge rested in Glasgow on II The film deals with the years After the boom in pawnbrok-of changes in chemical proper- lug following the 1914 war, when ties of materials treated. Many charge of murdering her 1855 to 1857. terminating with Frenchman called the trial and ventilet on July 9, fur coats beeume a popular chemical reactions

can be in lover, pledge, the business gradually duced by nuclear radiations, of Angelier. by arsenien! po1-1857. In broad outline it follows Madeleine's story pretty closely declined, particularly after sun which The Harwell pile pro-soning. Her trial was clearance schemes had got under vides an enormous source.

though, as played by Ann Todd, nine days' wonder and end-she is a quieter, more normal ed in a verdict (admissible figure than the real Madelehe in n Scottish Court) of Not would appear to have been.

Whereupon she Proven.

Mr Lean sketches in her back- returned to obscurity, sur-ground with great accuracy-

her solld, prosperous father (Leslie Banks), meekly echoed by her placid mother (Barbara Everest); her sisters, the

pert Scots maid who is the go-be- Setween

her and

her lover: the lover himself (Ivan Desny) determined to get him- selt

accepted as

ano of the During the past few months family; and the older, gentle Mr pedestrians have unknowingly | Minnoch (Norman Wooland) been helping to test paying sur- who wants to marry her. faces for the South Bank ex- hibition

sheels, clothing,

COMPLEX SOURCE

Mr Hauson has seen a big change in the type of pledges in the pust 10 years. Blankets,

particularly The pile is a complex source shirts, were the favourites in the of radiation with a wide range days; now It is chielly of energy in varying proper- watches 1 jewellery. Anditions in different parts of the thus often

old

he says.

.ure.

dficult

there is it too much of this struc. to say which radiation kind of trade nowadays,

Pawnbroking is a dying trade, produces an observed chemical what would be the effect, or result of changing the energy and Intensity of the rays. Inves- tigations are being conducted to sort out these effects, so thai the results may he appiled in other piles.

Riding To See The Pope

small hole in the concreto and

Paving For Exhibition

frontier at Miltenwald en route atcel shield. These beams are asphalt can be made.

used to study the precise

tween

long

which will be one of Fear of her father prevents For most of the work 011 nuclear Physics experiments, a London's main features in the Madeleine from confessing to a Festival of Britain 1951. The lover, and when he refuses to narrow beam of neutrons

of the testa Countess Ellen von Mohenati,

was to marry her without her father's allowed to escape from

the purpose 5B-year-old German

discover the relative durability consent, the woman,

Prompily accepte centre of tho pile through of the various colours in which Mr Minnoch. Meanwhile rode her horse, Bolla Gisella, entre across the

L'Angelier refuses to return her German-Austrian

letters and threatens to expose Intrigue-and not Although the tests have not their various yet

beca completed the ex-afterwards he dies of arsenical to the Pope during Holy Year. nuclear reactions, such as the hibition designers already know polsoning! process of fission itself, many they will

of have a variely She intends riding her dapple of the details of which are still colours to choose from if they Cinematically "Madeleine" is grey mare all the way, slaying unknown. The results of this deckle that large expanses of jexcellent; its trial scene is exeil- overnight at hostels. She aald: work will also lead to a better the usual grey asphalt would be ing and real, and the audience "The enthusiasm of my mare is knowledge of the forces which tedious. The test surfaces have is left guessing (as was the not so great ng mine--she keeps hold the nucleus together. been laid in London's Liverpoot pubile of the time as to the trying to turn back."

Street.

guilt or Innocence of Its heroine.

to Rome to pay the respects of used

German horse men and women |SUINTAS

characteristics of

K. O. CANNON

WE HAVE PROVED, FAUNCH. THAT CANNION WILL FOLLOW WHISPER - TO THE OPLAVE SHALL WE BAY P BÒ I WILL BAT HIS ORAVA WITH – WNPUISPERİ

YOU THINK HE JÓOWS ABOUT THE BUSINESS.. YOUR BUSINESS. THE RED DOMINO BUSINESS?|

The Riddle of the Red Domino

TE IS UNLIKELY

BUT WE GO

NOT NEED TO

TAKE ANY

CHANCES.

«. MEANWHILE ~ AT WHISPERS FLAT... "LISTEN, WHISPER-PROFILE IS A BLACKMAILER!

YOUR CATHER DISAPPEARED BECAUSE - RE

KNEW TOO MUCH THE RED DOMINO, WAS

A DANGER SMNAL

- SENT TO HIM

A PROSILE.

ROYALLY SERVED-Because the Russians confiscated his US$10,000,000 catato in Hungary after the war, Count Laszlo Paul Esterhazy and his wife, Francesca, went to the U.S. last year. They are shown here serving lunch at a Greek Orthodox camp for underprivileged children in Smithtown, New York, where. they are working as caretakers. The Rev. Thomas Lazarides looks on.

Because the OVER THE WAVES

British battleship, Warspite, has been aground off Penzance, England, for two years, she is being stripped where she is before continuing on to the scrapping yard. Workmen take the only means of transportation available to get to the job-a 200-yards-long cable buoy, strung some 50 feet above the rocks and pounding seas.

as

LAST TRIP-Onlookers wave farewell the 45,000-ton liner Aquitania moves out of the harbour in Southampton on her way to the breakers' yard In the Clyde. The last of the Atlantic Queens of the Twenties, the 35-year-old vessel was honoured by other ships, which holsted farewell signs.

JUST RESTING-It happened during the second postwar Cruft's Internationa): Dog Show in London. These two boxera weren't finiling If a bit interesting, and were much more absorbed in dozing a little than in exhibiting themselves.

FOR SORCERY-Sheer black nylon weaves a magle spell at midnight. This wisp of a night- laco gown has nylon bodice and matching lace, inset on the fall “skift" Narrow strapa tie In a tiny bow at each shoulder.