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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1950.

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JOSEPH COTTEN VALLI ORSON WELLES TREVOR HOWARD

on Carol Reedì latest production

"The Third Man”

HAND ON A STORY BY CARMAN GENE

Frades and gerché » CAROL REED

How

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"Geargic-run and tell master the gentleman has called for the tithes."

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London Express Service

talk

your

"There are three steps to

be taken in launching and

shaping a conversation... Today's writer names them. In this last article of the series-designed to help those who become shy or speechless in a crowd-an accomplished author and broadcaster shows the way to easy and interest- ing conversation,

remem-

EARS ago I

ber asking Osbert Sit- well, already ¡L #1 Olympian figure, how to overcome one's shyness on entering a crowded room.

I also remember his reply. "You should always take care to enter the room Lackwards, waving to an in the imaginary friend hall. That will help break the social ice."

I

the

Don't

try

this!

says

DJ

[REPORTING THE U.S. SCENE

ONE RING A DAY

By C.V.R.

Thompson

NEW YORK. And the reason for both

TAROM now on the postman has not

reactions is, that Washington

practised what it will ring only once.

preaches Bbout equal right Postmaster-General Jesso for whites and Neuroeg.

Donaldson, once a postman On the staff of the National himself, has ordered mail Labour Relations Board, A deliveries to be cut to one a Government agency, thorn

brilliant 1 day in all residentin dia, worked tricts.

lawyer, Ruth Weyand.

womnu

In reply to charges that this Last year Miss Weyand Kot is taking this land of progress married. Her husband, Leslie back to the "pony express" Perry, is a Negro.. Now Miles

Donaldson says he Weyand has been sacked.

Alr cannot help it.

Congrest will not let him charge more for letters, and it will not vote him any more money.

And the Post Offico is losing nearly £300,000,000 a year.

Nearly 10,000 postmen will lose their jobs.

The order for her dismissal was issued by Robert Denton, general counsel to the board.

M Denham, a man 1233- popular with labour becauŁO of his alleged hostility toward all ubions, gave a simple ex- planation for his action. "For the good of the service," he Kait.

doughter, Margaret, wrote

THEY ARE angry In Harlem,

and they are tiltering in PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S the "Gone With The Wind" country, down in the South. a magazine article to defend her right to sing for a living. Answering charges thot Aho wan trading on her father's position, she replied: "If I were doing that I could casily

wagg

I once tried to enter a 100m backwards, waving to an Imaginary Miend,

Godfrey Winn

the stone?

That later on, other newcomers to the

in

Sketch by ROBB

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or three times no much as I expect to earn this

war." Her income is call- mated to be between £20,000 and £25,000 a year.

FFICIALS of UNO have nounced that kdver.. pers will be permitted to "The trouble with the Germans sponsor brandcaste ot UNO Is that they have only been proceedings. One stipulation- laught how to stand to attention, the adversements must be never how to stand at ease.” dignifled.

crusaders are

It was an ephram, but it was ANTI-NOISE also a profound truth, spoken boasting that they have without malige. That is impor- almost driven one rhampton tant. Many people, In trying to nolce-maker from New York-- carry conversation on their the street musician. There are shoulders, mistake acid asides only six left, according to the for the caustic astringency of League for Less Noise, real wit and Intelligence,

You may secure a few cheap laughs for a short time, but your clrcle of real friends will not increase.

But the longue confesses i has made little headway with n more modern menhee-the man who loves to toot his car horn.

til August. CORRY, nothing

That is

what I heard ut Summing up, I am going to every shipping company in New advocate something that may York. Already every ship to seum at first sound to be a social Britain and the Channel porta error, I am going lo urge that is

that is jammed. And from now till no one should mind being sunimer's end bookings are up Judged an egoist from their con-nearly 45 percent, on last year, versation: Far better that, Dan which was itself a good year. A reputation fac producing It In

that the possible I just boring bromides about

Ulic recort in the lush year of 1929 weather.

may be broken this season. 1920, 350,000 Americans went omlt the state abroad and left nearly £70,- health but, otherwise, 060,000 worth of dollars in most conversational gaps can be Europe.

By all means,

of your

successfully bridged by truthful

reference to

your problems of lying, your

In

bave your aspirations, [TWO NEW YORKERS

niready had their holiday

experiences that will find echoes in Europe. They are two spine-

at once in the receiver's mind.

Fascinating

ter sisters, both over 85, who for the past ten years have lived off rellet.

Tired of living in a elty Anợ”

defence is may sound all right on the slage mess arrived, often lads much HE subjects that we know provided for them, they spent

but...

I tried it once, and all that happened was that nearly broke my ankle. In my nervousness I had failed to observe that there were three steps leading down

where into the room party was being held.

Do you share? SINCE then I have learned from much practical and sometimes bitter experience that there are always three steps that have to be taken in launching, in shaping, exclaim loudly how much will strike someone in exactly At 2.30, 5.15. conversation when we find

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WARNER BROS'.

"FLYING FORTRESS"

ourselves among strangers, alone and momentarily at a

loss.

It may be that you share that the major my view source of happiness in life springs from the art of com-

munication.

if you have five minutes. perhaps you would care

the theory that in life the done with best form of

younger than myself who from toujours l'altaque, (With,

nerves made the initial mistake *most about, especially our perhaps, R few French Personally, after much trial by of pretending to be tremendous enthusiasm for some specialised the winter in Paris and Swi.zer. diolo pavings and phrases thrown in to prove error, I am convinced that it is old salts. It got them nowhere. knowledge, are likely to turn us and paying for their passage

Into nucli. more interesting (170) from

money they made with nectile that any work. your utter sophistication).

chance companions Jammed against a wall, humbly, that one is floundering They had got off to a bad sturt effort we may try to mike, in a room

... and haven't you seen that however painstaking, with and would be grateful for any

die DUSINESS MAN Elmer Bobst same process occur a hundred cuss more general, Impersonal urges men of middle age to strange faces, you should support from anyone.

times in Civvy Street?

subjects that happen to be out-taken up from women and dye turn to your neighbour and

side our range of cunselousTIESS.

their hair. Not from vanity, but

crowded

fur bolter to go to the other Silenes soon engulfed them, qxtremo and admit frankly.

It is more than likely that you

the same predicament as your-

Stripcy is glad

Desperate

to

All in one

the

business against hiring older mcn. The

THE MAN President Truman

wants to make ambassador

I have just returned from because there is a prejudice in you loutke parties, adding self: inoreover, if there is one IND, you can custly get off sitting up all night on the wa

younger he looks, even more nggressively that better start to a

M conversation

to a false start, and fall hire Downs, talking to a shep- you can't think why you than a compliment, it is a cry

down on the third step through herd in his hut, How fascinating the better chance a man has of have come.

from the heart for information, no fault of your own. A woman he was on his own subject of landing a job.. for help.

friend of mine on one accusion lambing, now in full spate.

NOUGH BRITAIN-HATERS Even if you avoid the

arding that conversation with

cannot be found in New likely gaffe that you are

That night passed as quickly York to please Matthew Troy, her neighbour at a public dinner addressing a close relation

as a train journey once between was very sticky, decided

fish visitors to be picketed. Ho wilt of your hostess, you achieve PROVED this to myself once desperate measures. If you would Liverpool and London, when the the judge who arrange for Bro In any case, nothing, in my opinion, by when, like a multitude of other particularly interested you...

and for always in the war, tell me, she began, what subjects man opposite me,

quick-silver expression and the sad the other day he had to cut such tactics, except to prove recruits. I found mysek pitch-

bubbling voice, never drew breath down the number of pickets for to once

more that the forked into some very unfamiliar His reply, however, was some- while he poured forth to me all Sir Basil Brooke, Northern Ire- examine those three steps.

British Motor Show could bo strongest motivating force situations,

thing of a surprise. "Madam, his very pronat impressions land's Prime Minister, so that the I am chiefly interested in two of the life of a conductor, and THE FIRST one is the of the human race lies in

pleketed. For instance, there was my subjects, Birth control and acro- the world of musle, effort you make yourself the mechanism of

self- first night on board H. M. S. plane parts." It was a fair and and what an effort it can defence.

Cumberland as a very ordinary truthful answer. The husband of I was a "rog," and De Marie Stops, he was also

† to Britain is trying to resign from be-to open your mouth and,

And what a fool it can make overwhelmingly aware of it. As a distinguished aeronautic ex-

was Malcolm Sargent, and his Government job. James say something that doen of one! For obviously your I sat down on the extreme edge pert.

by the time we reached Bruce, aged 57, a successful busi- not sound too silly for chance neighbour is only too con of a bench in Mess 15, my ne

scious of why you are there be home, I tentatively addressed the prisingly, no small talk on either up

But my friend had, not sur- Euston I was completely caughtness man, started public life as in his enthusiasm, his ambassador to the Argentine. Ho THE SECOND is to per- vnley have been invited to oldest face in sight, a face like subject, and I have often won- warmth, and his unself-con-was criticised

for being too fre: foed and drink, and, a map of a thousand voyages.

with the Argentine sunde the person you have for more

dered since how the best convér- relousness, the three steps in one friendly Important, in your

Then Truman mado salonalist I have the eternally-re- addressed to reply in a man- indicu hope of making at least kitbag, whether

ever met, brave leap. Morcover, I learned dictator. breast burns

I asked where I was to put my Rebecen West, would have coped a lesson that day I have never him director of the Atlantic ner that will encourage one new friend.

there was any with the situation and navigated forgotten. hope of my Anding a "the third step,

For in that other Irrevocable and not destroy all chances

billet" for my hammock. I made of further conversation.

it very clear to him that I was Most authors fail to live up to journey, are we not ali pilgrims

through the

art of com-want to THE THIRD is to pro-

certain he know all the answers, their reputation for sparkiing munication on earth, are seeking businesses. Truman is expect- KWHY not ndmit that? Why while I knew none. The dialogue in real ceed from this tentative W

life. Rebecca the same way, home? My owned to let him go. If Ambassador pretend? Of course, you technique worked (and it is a West is an exception. Reading answer to that question mark is Douglas resigns Bruce is still in start into the smooth and

may be at that stage of golf- perfectly legitimate one). That her superh "The Meaning of to member something that Slå line for the London job. stimulating rhythm of

was a development where you feel the three-badge stripey

de Treason" the other day, I re- Field wrote a month before hoVERYONE from Washington'

the first time we died: "It is better to be pleasant well-balanced dialogue. beat introduction is to ask your lighted to show off in front of called how

And the worst was met, between

the wars, che Now there are two views nearest companion for an olive, his mates.

than smart” described a recent visit to Ger- about the first step. Some and then exclaim brightly that over.

and 13 But I saw the reverse of those many,

pro exclaimed people cling stubbornly to ike a love-affair: what is to be tactles put into motion when, phetically:----

words.

cause

you

Help, please

always think an olive

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Yes, much better.

-(London Express Service)

Pact arms programme,

Bruce has told Truman he

get back

to his 12

:

to Moscow will now have to

talk louder to gain American nå- tention. The baseball season has opened.

By Ernie Bushmiller

A CAPTAIN. ALWAYS

GOES DOWN

WITH HIS

SHIP

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DOT

When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist!

SURE KILL

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