1950-04-18 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950.

PASTURE-ISED POLICEMAN

FOR 12 years Snippy, the police horse, and his boss, policeman Emmett Hanley, have stopped by the Argonne School in San Francisco, to greet the youngsters. Then, by

RICHARD TODD MEETS

IN HOLLYWOOD

AND BURSTS THEIR FAVOURITE BUBBLE

R

By Frederick Cook

NEW YORK.

ICHARD Todd, sailing for London and home soon after making his first picture in America, is taking with him some definite ideas on Hollywood. The place is only a village, he says. People talk too much, especially about other people and their private affairs. The gossip columnists are a daily hazard.

a British) are

The weather is wonderful, | difference between but all the stories about studio and an American.” turning out masterpieces in half the time we take just is not true.

"One rets to work at the same time as in England," he roid. "Making-up takes just as fiming moves long and tho

along at the same speed

"From the actor's point of vlow, there isn't the slightest

POWDER-PUFF

turns, Snippy gave 15 to 20 of them a ride to the corner and back. Shown giving FOWLS AND

his last ride to his young admirers, the 18-year-old Snippy has been retired to a form

in the country, (Acme).

Common

Quackery Is

In Psychoanalysis

Almost anyone can hang out a shingle as a psychoanalyst, says the chief of psychiatry at one of San Francisco's top hospitals, and the trouble is, too many do.

COLOURED

An Australian woman is

fowls! breeding coloured which look like powder. puffs.

woman

The

Mrs Edith Rivers, breeds the fowls, which belong to the Sikke breed, in black, blue, partridge, and fold.

coloured ones.

Reider es- the American Psychiatric Asso, advised her to "dress up and Dr Norman

searching Melbourne She is night." She did,

ΤΟΣ coloured Adelaide timated at a meeting of the clation, and the American Board stay out all

husband beat her und

silkies to add to her brood to Mental Health Society that of Neurology and Psychiatry.

produce a fowl with a gay red plumage.

And her severely.

PSYCHIATRIST HELPS

Todd found it was all too easy to "put one's foot in "

sensitive, and with tho slightest touch on the bit they know what to do and do it- and how

"I'd often wondered how the

But what

in Hollywood. "The place man racing into town did that 1a dismount at full gallop. I've Just an overgrown village," he had to learn. said. "Too many people know amazed me was the way, in about which the horse itself is trained and talk far too much other people's business,

to come to

stop the a full feels the

ridern "If one makes the slightest moment he

weight lifted off the saddle. faux pas it is seized on by some In England, if you tried to die- mount that wny, the horse would keep right on going-- and you'd end up in a heap with some broken bones."

CLAIRE LUCE

*

Irish-

CAR TROUBLE

Two things did bother Todd and his wife the absence of a Good cup of tea and the way in which restaurants and shops maintain parking men to jump Into your car the moment you arrive nad drive it round the back for you.

atre Win worried me a lot et

sald Todd.

odd. "I'd hate to have a

stranger drive my British car. Here, of course, they are all standardised, you can handle one, you can handle them all. After a while, I got used to it."

PERIL

Judy Holliday will figure among the Oscars one day.

Scalping Started By White Men

Charley Grounds, a Seminole Indian, has asked the U.S. Congress to remove from its halls a picturo of an Indian Grounds insisted that it was not scalping a white man. truo; that the white man started the scalping.

have received

FROM BROADWAY—

Accordingly, the Associa Competition was keen and TUDY Holliday, whose court- tion for Indian Affairs, Inc., premiums went as high as £100 for one scalp. The English room scene was the hit of made a review of the history prices were higher than those of West End return postponed

the flm "Adam's Rib," is to be of scalping. Its researchers the French, Frederick said. spread abroad. starred in a movie version of checked Smithsonian In- One Hannah Dartin, he said, There are a few white silkles columnist and in Australia, but. so far Mira If you deny it, you make "Dorn Yesterday," the comedy Rivers has not found any other worse. If you don't, everybody in which she was one of last stitution publications as far was reputed to

belleves it!"

year's outstanding Broadway back as 1910 and 1906 and 50 from her colony officials successes, Here is a girl who said "that scalping was not for "bringing la with her own two hands the scalpa of two In his first Hollywood picture, will be figuring among the

general among American Indian men, two women and Lightning Strikes Twice, with Oscars one day.

Indians before the coming six children." Todd plays Ruth Roman, Western rancher of

-AND TO BROADWAY of the white man."

In 1764 Gov. William Perin Spanish descent,

LAIRE Luce, who has been

listed prices the State of Penn- James Mooney in the "Hand-sylvania would pay for scalps. on televi- appearing here He found the hardest part of

of American Indians" They were $134 for each male Those organisations issue cer- the United States, and the unenics to qualifie

Mrs Rivers began breeding the job learning to ride well sion, is postponing her return to book

the Smithsonian'a indian scalp and $50

for the the West End for the starring issued by Later, she got competent coloured fowls as a hobby six

on a Western saddle.

of Ethnology in 1910 number is increasing everyHowever, no certificates are re-

when her husband

scalp of every slain squaw role in a new Broadway play Bureau

sald: quired by law, except for pay-psychiatric help, and was told years ago,

"With a 6k Thread," to

United Press. open day."

her husband who must have a

definite died, and since then has won chiatrists,

had

"One thing It did teach me," this month. She will play the paranoiac symptoms. A charac-the championship at the Bris- medical degree.

of un actress who retires teristic of paranoia is a delusionbane Royal Show with them he said, "I have often thought part Dr Reider's favourite example of persecution, Relder explain every year.

horses badly treated in Western from the stage to marry a doctor alms-I've seen them pulled up but decides after of the current situation way a

so suddenly as to rear back on heart belongs before the foot-ally in Los Angeles sign he once saw.

their haunches and the reins lights. Author Elsa Shelley will It read: "Colonie Irrigations and

jerked with what looked like stage the play. Psychoanalysis."

brutal roughness.

25,000

*'at Jenst

mind- UNCOVERED BY LAW peddlers are practising in

said,

The reason, Dr Reider is that no state licences are re- for mental therapy quired work.

is

No

persons.

ed.

"And the last thing in the world one should do with a paranolae is the arouse his sus-

picions," he said.

Relder admitted that some of the fault Bes with the victims

"They are highly decorative, but lay a normal number of eggs," she said. "The Egg Board accepts the eggs as pullot cigs.

"The fowls' soft feathers are

just the thing for women's hats.

Quackery within the medical profession is practically tal, he pointed out, becau medical

Helder cited another story of practice is carefully defined by Inw. But in the field of psycho-the dangers presented by "self- legal starting, free-wheeling mind- therapy, there

peddlers," A woman's husband had been ignoring her. The who belleve stories that quacks "The silkies don't scratch up

1

by the the gardens, and maku Ideal husband stayed out all night, are "being persecuted and failed to nssume any medical profession." The quacks pets. family responsibilities,

claim, he said, that they have Ilmnesses.- She consulted a self-appointed n cure-all for all

who United Press. consultant"

definition for proper treatment.

The

RESULTS TRAGIC

restilt,"

he said, charlatans. People with no training whatever-even pluan- bers and electricians-are set- ting themselves up as analysts, marriage consultants, psycho- logists, or vocational

Luidance consultants.

"The results of their are tragic," he declared,

Dr Heider "decade

work

that a

predicted would Dass" before legislation necessary to main-

studards established

tain

by

other Professional roticlies would come.

Qualified workers in ปา psychotherapy Beld are strup-

gling with the problem now, he zich,

The organisations of qualified professionals include the Ameri can Association of Paychiatric Social Workers, the American Association

Psychologists,

MONOCLE FOR PARISIANS

More

men

Bre

wearingt

monocles in Park now than

ever before

Optical lens makers say the them for men are wearing show, not for eye defects,

Even young men between 20 and 30 are wearing monocles.

The fashion grew. after monocles reappeared at Paris theatres and the opera for the first Ume since the war,

More kinds of perfume for men are now on sale than ever before..

rringe

TOP

"They rousted."

ary

delicious

when

TELEVISION ACTOR

ACTOR Ralph Bellamy, named as American television's outstanding actor of the year, receives his reward in New York from little Gloria McCann, nine-year-old cardiac Gloria reigned over the first annual patient, as Mrs Wendell Willkle looks on. awards dinner of the U.S. Academy of Radio and Television Best Arts and Sciences,

K. O. CANNON

BON JOUR, 'M'MSELLE WHISPAIRE.

YOUR COFFEE AND

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THIS WEEK A NEW ADVENTURE WITH WHISPER

WHAT A HEAVENLY VIEW OF D'AZURI

ONLY ONE THING MISSING-YO MAKE MY HOLIDAY PICTURA

PERFECT

WOSTALK OF ANGELS!

1. THIENTAPHITO

-DA'HIRE 199 THIS, PAPER, WHATE * HE BEEN LIN TOT WINNING BONÉE:

KARTY MOTON RACE'DA SOMITIS:

"I have now found out thes Western pontes are trained for sudden response. Their mouths

Charleston Craze Won't Last Long

The revival of the Charleston won't last long, Gene Kelly predicts. The ог to next dance to zoom ballroom floors will be thei waltz.

Kelly says it will be danced, even by bobby-soxers, Just the After o way grandpa did it. spell with the waltz, you can expect a smooth, gliding ball- Toom clance, modern and romantic,

"I'm against the Charleston,” said Kelly, who is at least the second best dancer in America. He claims Fred Astair is best.

Take

a woman like Judy, Garland, wearing a beautiful gown with her hair stylishly ar- ranged. How long could she' look like that dancing the Charleston?

**That's a donce for short skiris and shorter hair.

It's a sign of postwar times now, like It was in the Roaring Twenties, but it won't last 'once the novelty wears off.

CALLS IT UGLY

"Actually it's an ugly dance- toes turned in and knees knock- Ing. On a small floor, people can't help but kick each other. And in a few bars of music, they're drenched in perspiration. It really belongs in a naalum instead of a

ballroom, He'll be

when the waltz comes

wick, he added. | It's a sharp contrast to the rC- volt against form and beauty which ho Eald marks the Charleston..

enough

Kelly, who knows about different dances to ba choreographer in his current picture, "Bummer Block," suld you can get the best line on future dance trends by noting what kind of musle in populer. "A few years ago musical groups came north from Mexico and Bouth America, and before we knew it we all were doing the rhumba and the samba," he said, "We liked their music, we had to learn how to dance to it

we knew what music. would make the biggest hit five years from now,wo'd know. what type of dancing we'd be doing then MTOZ VINEAL SER

limited aren

to

LIMITED AT FIRST all that her "Scalping was confined origin-

North Amerien

in the castern United States and the lower St. Lawrence region. It was absen! from New England and much of the Atlantic Coast region, and was unknown until compara tively recent times throughout the whole interior and plaina area. It was not found on the

-London Express ServiOR.

NYLON SHOPPING

Todd and wife in Hollywood,

JANE TO FILL OWN

CURVES

Howard Hughes is plan-

Pacific coast or the Canadian ning The Jane Russell Story,

northwest."

"Scalping in its commonly

1-

a true biography which will star Jane herself.

18

known form was inrgely the re

This will be the first-time in. sult of the influence of white people," Georg Fredericl wrote theatrical history that any star In the Smithsonian annual re-has played her own life.

Hughts believes

there port in 1010, "They introduced firearms, which Increased the plenty of drama in Jano's back- fatalities in a conflict; brought ground-as a dentist's assistant; of a censorship the steel knife, facilitating the as the centro tuking of the scalp, and finally storm in her first film "The Outlaw;" and as the wife of offered scalp premiums."

famous professional footballer Frederici said the New Eng- Bob Waterfield,

In spite of the fact that her land Puritans in 1837 were the first to

for career thrives on glamour and offer premiums

Jane

rently native heads and later scalps. publicity,

und

The French offered premiumns homespun girl who prefers pic- as well as nies to night clubs, and who for white onemles Indian scalps.

goes regularly to church,

A STAR IN HIS OWN RIGHT

TAKE letter! And that's just what Heinte II, a year-old chimpanzee in a Chiengo

J At Mut) he thinks-ha-im, and he's writing on a televis

fanimáis, Hétals 15 satur in his own right