HANDSOME, RICH, FAMOUS
-and can cook too!
By Eve Perrick
In Suite 858 at the Savoy Hotel-a pair of pencli-brocaded rooms which have also in their day housed, among others, Mr Errol Flynn-is the man who changed my life.
Seventeen years ago (u the film "Dancing Lady") he advised Joan Crawford never to wear bows on her shoes, Struck then I have stuck resolutely, in spite of fashion's changes and smart SRICS talk, to plain pumps.
The man who brought tuch Influence to bear on footwear is Mr Franchot Tone.
The other
Tone, now aged 44, with day Mr
the kind of looks one hears described by one woman to another as "mady attractive, said he hoped that one line of didègue from à film he And forgotten had not made life too uncomfortable.
I said I had been very glad to get such advice from the son of one of Amerien's Social Register families for the price (then about is, I think) of a seat in the local cinema, Mr Tone winced a little.
It is that playboy-turned-nctor role he has been trying to dodge for the past 10 years.
STIFF-UPPER-LIP EFFORTS
He arrived in Hollywood from the New York stage some time during the early thirtles. He did
a couple of sitt-upper-lip efforts—including the
me atsail the Bengal Lancers--
Then changed into white tie and talis for a reemingly unend-
jag series of slick cutedies. In 567
his let ure moments he tooks.
Said Mr Tone. "I got a little fvent of three tilan, I don't think they were bad, but I always cheme to be gaying the same Jar the sitting."
Su
1038, art after .in divorce bom a Crawfered, Franchot left Hollywood. Be has Fen back once or twice samé ; then, between Itradway shows. Now, financially independent --he inherited from his grand... father in 1945 a large sum of money.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1950.
Stalin Did Not Hide His Fear
Bit by bit, interesting details omitted from: official reports issued after important wartime con- ferences are coming out. At the Yalta mecting of the Big Three, for instance, much good copy evidently went to waste.
Some of it has been? When making hands with rescued by Field Marshal members of the visiting claffe, Lord ("Jumbo) Wilson of hand he held, but at the man of he looked, not at the man whose Libya, who was there and whose hand he had just let go. has written about it in his
There was a ludicrous scene in memoirs. "Eight Years the Livadia Polace, after the Overseas," just published business of the group photo- by Hutchinson,
He was particularly interested in Stalin. He dll not expect to And the "beloved" Soviet tender Go openly fearful of assassination In his own country.
He records that when Stalin left his villa to visit Churchill, all traffle was turned off the road and the guard at the chateau were doubled.
"ENGLISHMEN NOW DRESS
TERRIBLY"-PARIS TAILOR
Paris, Apr. 26. England has fallen behind the times in men's fashions, a leading Paris tailor said today. "Englishmen today dress terribly." was the way Gaston Waltener, fashionable Fauborg St Honore tailor, summed it up.
"London is 25 years be- behind," he said. "In one of Tune, to be 1.000 000 he has my new suits with large avne into film production.
shoulders, free swinging With Bunge Meredith as thumb-length jacket, and poether, director, and actor he slacks, a man is at his case. Pas already made one pielie ile's éhic Ho matter where called "The Man on the Eiffel) "Tower."
He in in London to sell it and telk about the one to come-- adapantion of the Gerald Kerth ravel, "Song of the Flen," Tour, himself, agawura in both.
What sort of pari tibes a tear-millimaire petor who he broken away from Super cvilisel reles in other people'a alis pivis for hituself?
he goes.
"Englishmen come all the way from London to be tied by me. Why? Because I give Every man,
matter what Chape he is, a silhouette."
were
Wallener's sentiments chood by chubby Joseph Camps, Clamps Elyseca Taylor.
"English tailoring is dead." te sad. "Today Paris and New "Well," replies the faun-face! charmer in the raily 1 York are leading the field.
A
Mack satin dressing-gown: "In "The trouble with London is The Eiffel Tower one 7 plage, that they stick to tradition, the psychopathic villain. For man wants to show his muscles. the Kerth picture I'm tanking; | He
itale fantasy- aboish Ce character
thestruetly masculine of cour drunken lawyer."
and this he hds only 1 Paris." -{London Express Service) Camps features a grey tweed
HE
want
PROVED HIS POINT
AFTER Jack Berch requested radio listeners to send old Christmas cards to Mrs Edward Russell in Rich- mond, Quebec, she received almost 5,000,000 of them. Here, Berch and Mrs Russell stand in front of part of 20 tons of cards which will make scrapbooks for the leper colonies in South Africa. (Acme).
مده طلاء
K. O. CANNON
suit with lid silk taffeta cut. That is the very end of lining, ruffy and collar,.
elepatice." tounging about." hi* pad.
"Splendid for gardening and
A
"The cuffs Directoire reuod, with a N- inch silt to show the lininit. On length the street the cuffs come down. But at dinaver you show of the silk."
me
Waltener wore an orange- Arena and grey plaid parts trockel with Mediterranean blue, Blacks. The jacket was thunb}
appeared to bes Levert sizes to big.
"That's because you are stil used to the comervative look, which cramps a man," be said, "Look at the loose cut over the cheat. Magnificent,"
For the man who likes pac- kets, Camps has a waterproof pocket for fountain
13, a passport pocket, 12 cigarette lighter pocket and a date-bookc pocket--in addition to the usud from his body.
ones.
He stretched it out a foot
"You Just don't feel
my
Both Walterner and Campa clothes on you at all," Waltener
that they take many commented-United Press. leade from New York anci
admitted
California,
"But we don't swallow every- thing," Camps said.
Waltener, With displayed frilled shirts, purple evening pants and a. turepinize tuxedo at his last fashion show, frowned on hand-painted or elcked shirts.
"Terrible!" he said.
"And I nise tell my clients never, never wear their shirt hanging
EXPERTS SEEK 100-YEAR-OLD STONE SECRET
The secret of making Coade stone, lost for 100 years, may soon be known again. Samples of the stone have been found on
the Festival of Britain site at Waterloo,
L
The stone,
synthetic material more durable thnu granite, WAS made between 1760 and 1800 to a secret for- mula at the stone factory owned by Elizabeth Conde.
Pieces of the bite stone are still in place on many build- ings built a century or more ngo, but experts could not dis- cover from: them Tow the artificial stone was made.
The exact date when Mrs Conde died and the secret wng lost is uncertain, but the fue- tory moved Euston about 1827 and the stone went out of use within a few years.
clearing
the
Contractors site of the old factory on the South Bank uncovered a pit in which the materials, stone and clay, were ground.
Scientists, working with the LCC historical records section, are now analysing the samples found. They hope to discover what other materials
Were mixed with the stone and clay before it was baked.
HEALTHY
Jane
LOVELY Billie Nelson of Los Angeles is the 1950 California "Swim for Health Girl." Shown in New York, curvaceous Billle will re- present her state in the national finals for the
15th annual Swim for Health Week. (Acme.)
A NEW ADVENTURE-WITH WHISPER
HR.H.O. CANNON?.. TELEGRAM FOR YOU,SIR..
-REPLY PAID.
graphs was over.
BULGING POCKETS
"When Stalin got up to move across" (to the conference room), "he was immediately surrounded by five or six broad-backed off- cers wearing what appeared like colonel's badges, dressed in white tunics and knee-breeches, their pockets bulging with automatics.
"Their huddle round Stalin re- minded one of that of a football team around one of their side where pants had been forn off
him in that manner he wan es- corted into the conference room."
or
As Commander of Urish Allied Force: operating In Middle East and Mediterranean countries that belonged to non- belligerent defeated Allies, Wilson has much light to shed on some obscure theatres of the war,
or
FOLLOWING THE FASHION
Extra Half-hour For Americans
Americans who arrive at Southampton this summer will find they have half an hour, maybe an hour, longer than they bargained for in which to sco Britain.
Southampton docks handle 60 percent of the American
truing at Waterloo to cut down the time it takes for tourists to leave the liners at Southampton
His problems were peculiar and little understood by politi-tourist traffic. This year and arrive in London. clans or public at home.
DISCORD
New
record number of tourists
The biggest speed-up in the is expected.
Handling of passengers wifl come when the new £750,000 methods of baggage glass-and-concrete docks
will speed is expected to be ready at the inspection, minal is completed here.
fer- It by at least end of July.
It will mean a speedier and more comfortable
reception with refreshment rooms, wait- ing lounges and more telephone klusk
General De Gaulle's grudging handling. Customs co-operation, the discord between and train despatch Vicly and Free French in Syria, landing procedure the Egyptians' uncertain attitude, half an hour. political chaus In Greece, the Mihailovich-Tito fem all Rail experts are discussing
these led to incidents now den- cribed fully for the first time,
Wilson had been advised by one authority that the Vichy French in Syria could be "per- unde" to stop resisting after a little face-saving lighting.
Free
Instead of that, the French were greeted with a blast of Invective, followed, in some cases, by bullets."
the speedier reception.
of boat
PERFECT HOLIDAY HOSTESS
Sydney-Australians are The Free French, at the start, receiving from an Italian made good progress, but their travel firm a leaflet design- headquarters, on the first nighted to induce them to take a
in the must conspicuous house
in a village, "by the cars asem- 24,000-mile holiday there. ble round it, looked more like a wetting party."
bombed.
Describing a new "Hostess
The place was service," it says:
M.O.I. CRITICISED
30
First, cabin and tourist classes will come all the lines together 10 pass through Customs and Immigration
Baggage will be brought off by conveyor belt, taken to the Customs hall, and then on to the wailing trains on the ground Boor.
A double railway track under the terminal will carry off best traing at 15-minute intervals.
There
to be 30 ake
Customs officers,
more
WITH spring styles being. shown, even the Armed Forces are getting fashion conscious. Sergeant Frank Hall, of Washington, D.C., models dainty, special ski boots with spiked metal clamps used by troops in Defence Dept. photo from mountain climbing. (U.S.
Acme.)
BRITAIN'S CHANCE
TO LEAD
Atomic engines to gener- ate electricity from uranium are to be built at the new atom research station being set up on the huge wartime airfield ut Aldermaston, Berks.
The first "pilal" powerplants should be running within two to four years,
This means that Britain now has a good chance of beating America in the race to produce Industrial atom power.
The V. S.
Government has recently withdrawn
many
America Takes scientists from power projects
Reprisals
to
to work on the hydrogen bomb. 'Our hostess is young and
Britain hag nice-looking. No more nged of
agreed not manufacture atomle year old,
weapons Washington, she has a good
Apr. 20. The The atom crudition, a nice uspect and United States has demanded on specially
engine will run enriched uranium plavalcal
constitution resisting the closing of the New York fuel. A brilliant technical Rumanian Com-advance made at the Harwell, Berks, atom station will enable
Closed-Shop On
Wilson is very contemptuous, of the work of our Ministry of particularly to the long travel-office of the Information in Americn.
ling efforts in autopullaan. mercial Attache.
"During travel on the bur The State Department On his appointment to Wash she behaves
sald them to operate at extremely like a landlady, that the New York office was high temperatures. The great ington in 1945 as Chief of the offers British Forces Staff Mission he and sweets contained in the barection
tea, liqueurs, concerned largely with the col-heat developed will be used to beverages
of prepaid says: "I was astonished at -and frigo.
Customs drive electrle generators, duties on packages to Rumania. iny publielty in the States con- "On arrival to hotels, she In a note delivered to the ceming what we had done, and treats with kind firmness, with Rumanion Legation in Washing- were dug, in the war, in such a the manager for the assignment
yesterday, the United deplorable state."
"She t able to It was not known, for instance, herself in secretary (typewriter) State Department announced the
transform
ing of the office weeks. that we even had a warship in the Pacille, although we had a for the businessman,
Paris, Apr. 20-Tho head of in delivery in Bucharest British task force engaged in the the tourists
fourth player' on bridge for of a note
today the Paris Mosque today forbade Okinawa operations.
who don't admit demand that the
rejeeling Humania's all Moslem priests in the Faria to spent a
night without to Information Services in Bucha-Hillyer and Princess
United States arca to marry Vincent Leo -(London Express Service) play cards."
Fatima of rest should be closed.-Reuter. Iran. United Press.
of rooms.
من
State, demanded the final clos- Moslem Wedding
within two Simultaneously the
HOLLYWOOD IS BACKING A £90,000,000 ALL-AMERICA SALES SWOOP
GABLE
Hair Jolton
COLMAN
Necktie
It sells in scores of thousands: the Hopalong Camidy Quint made famous by young America's screen and radio hero, Bill Boyd.
DIETRICH
Hair.do
GRABLE Blocs
Glamour?-Just follow that film face
What
From FREDERICK COOK: New York,
pistola and spurs, cowboy hats and guns realistle enough to scare any old lady,
Indicative of the impact of Wild West stars on the boys' outditing Industry: is a recent
fre the faces, perfume of the sort that makes issue of a trade paper listing Hedy Lamar's admirers awoon.already rufficient "Hollywood
A campaign like none seen items" to All 57 pages. before is about to be launched.
say
figures and names of Holly wood's top stars worth in hard cash? Not less than £90,000,000 this year,
The American small boy now Name licensing, as Hollywood sleeps. in. Heensed the sales experts-who are calls it, began in a small way bearing the
pyjamas, name and pleture. planning to lure that sum good many years ago. It was of his cowboy star horo. out of the pockets of the not too popular for a time. But
now the stars and their employ- Me buying public by "tying up" ers are co-operating.
wames, if at all, with Hoppily leansed soap again bearing his all kinds of products with joining in the parade are all of hero's portrait. The soap dish. one or other of the big film America's big department and and towel are licensed, too. The
chain stores, personalities.
as well as the food he cats, the clothes he mammoth mall order arms. wears, the fountain pen he has In his pocket-all are licensed from Hollywood.
Tho sales talk will be. bulli around
the slogan *Bc Far out in front of all the The Post Office telecommuni- glamorous!" Thé 'ordinary man rest in point of numbers will be catlons system
in Britain in will be urged to use the same items labelled with the Identity volves the maintenance of near-hair lotion as Clark Gable, wear of one or other of the Walt ly 20 million miles of wire, the tie favoured by Honald Col-Dishey characters
which 24 million ACO man. The ordinary women will underground and nearly two be told to wear shoes like million miles are overbend. Grable's, a bair-do like Dietrich,
of
A close second will be the Hopalong Camidy, rigouls for youngsterschaps and holsters,
And of course the radio and television shows that keep him from his homework all feature cidents in the lives of his heroes. (with sales talk) drihatic inv
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