Bald Heads Strut Stuff In Berlin
Smooth domes fairly glis- | tened in the morning sun. It would have been a para- dise for n qunek peddler of "sure-fire" hair restorer.
It was a gathering in Berlin of the hairless elan, Germany'a baldent bald-headed
men and
one woman.
More than 500 persons had polishest their pates for the occasion. Many cast aside thej toupees they hind worn for
з'елга
The baldles
were seeking a top prize of 1,000 D-marks plus a movie career.
They came from East Ger- annny ng well an West. The "Iron Curtain" failed to halt several who slipped quielly into Berlin
10 Blow their barren
applicants
tops.
Contestants were
answering want ad in Berlin newspapers. The CCC Movie Co, issued call for 250 bald
heads to participate
it is making.
Blm
The studio became an occan of shiny
Dates when the as- sembinge bade their judges in
resounding
chortin
JL
"good
morning" and lifted their hats and cups. -
CARESSING TOUCH
The would-be stars then lined
up for inspection. They led by a board of movie exéentives and netresses who made sure by close semtiny that the patea artificial real and not
were
products.
One grup of elderly bald heads gathered, around the, po- pular actress, Ólga Tschechiswa. to get a carvesting touch from her soft hands as the newsreel cameras and still photographers recorded the-scene,
The stag porty abruplly furn- el into a male-female competi tion when a stern-luoking intle old lady appeared. The tiny
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1950.
ROSIE GOES AFTER
HER
America's Biggest Postwar Headache
By. Frederick Cook
NEW YORK.
STORY
The huge synthetic rubber factories America built in wartime, when the Japanese cut off Malayan supplies of the real thing, have developed
patch of white fuzz on her head into one of the biggest postwar headaches for this country.
face and
was a strange contrast to her carefully make-up good grooming.
The selecting board agreed after a hurried discussion not to make the sad reminders of onte beautiful curls a barrier to the old lady's way into the 15ovie feld. She got a part.
POPULATION INCREASE
Plan,
or 플로스트
Since the middle of 1947, | finding dollars under the Mar- and sleep
with m BAN beside leaders of the tyre and rub shall
have to them and they are getting tired ber industries, top Army
cut U.S. buying still more. Or-or it. They can't take it any
Shall the factories close, brasshats and Government
throwing thousands out experts have been deep in
work? discussions about do with them.
what to
more."
of
If the answer to that is Yes,
-can
FACTORIES SOLD
The majority of America's synthetic capacity is still either producing or in stand-by condi-
tion,
can the Truman advisers The discussions are still golug weather the trade union storm? on. And no solation is in sight
Far more importantly, The problem America faces America be sure that in a is this:
Effective capacity of the U.S. future war her rubber supplies hindustry is said to be 800,000 will not again be cut all? Is fons annually, enough to keep a risk she dare take?
the country going if non-essen- tal uses were trimmed away.
Shait the factories be kept going, holding down the amount Canada should have a poof natural rubber America im- lation of 14,000,000 by 1951, the
poris? Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Estimates.
At the present rate treast, about 10,000 every three
FEWER DOLLARS
of in-
If ther
is Yes, that answer
earn fewer dollars thai Heans
noothy, Canaria's population means we would be about 14,183,000 by in Mulaya. And June 1, 1951, the Bureau said. the US, taxpayer has to go on
PERFECT
ANGLED BACK REST
„B" SLOPE
CHAIR?
THIS chair is the result of a three-year investigation by Swedish doctors who used X-rays, electric machines and all the contrivances of modern science to find the perfect sitting support. The sharply canted, low-slung seat prevents pressure of the chair edge on the thigh blood vessels-a common cause of leg fatigue. The angled back gives full spinal sup- port.-(London Express Service).
K. O. CANNON
WAKE UP, MAM ZELLE WHISPAIRE | EET EES YOUR FAVOURITE
WAITER, I THINK.
There are more than millions in Government-owned factories involved.
£233
'SELL THEM'
Of this total, the present Inw demands that 600,000 capacity be kept either in use or ready to produce within 90 days. Eighteen Government
fac The criginal
tals tories have post war
already been sold, resulted in the 1948 Rubber at about a third of their original Act, which runs only until cost. Five others, declared sur- June 30 this year,
no buyers
synthetic claim that
In
mid-January President Truman cought to end the deadlock with a plan to sell the factories to private industry "ps Toon as possible" and to accompany the deal with re- gulations and restrictions aimed fat preventing a price war be- tween natural rubber and syn- thelle.
But his
close adviser,
Mr
J. R. Steelman, has admittel: "No permusent or long-range Lolution to many of the prob- lems has been found."
STATE MONOPOLY OR
Tied up with the dilemma in which Washington tinds itself are issues which cannot brushed aside, like Governmen: Lownership of a monopoly or
private enterprise.
Al stake, too, are the 9,400,- 000 neres of rubber trees owned and cultivated by America's friends ourselves, the and the French.
Core of the whole is national defence,
Dutch
plus, have yet.
found
of Backera rubber programme the new "cold rubber scheme (in which it is processed al deptrees Fahrenheit,
EX
ROSE Mallory, a reporter in Miami, Florida, holds on after big wave caused her to lose her balance as she stepped from a small boat onto a ladder. She was accom- panying a census-taker to a lighthouse for a news story (Acme),
FESTIVAL OF ARTS PLANNED
of
Plans for a Festival the Arts, as an integral part of the Festival of Britain 1951, are being built up on a framework of the festivals! which are already regular amual events
BROADWAY'S ALL-TIME HIT IS HARD TO SEE
NEW YORK.
The next time a friend returns from America and say he has seen "South Pacific," look at him with a new respect. This is a far narder trick to perform than to get an invitation to the White House.
Hundreds of thousands of
But that was not enough to
New Yorkers have not hint at the deluge of dollars to
come.
managed it yet. And of
Advance bookings, now run over £493.800. This la those who have, a large unique for Broadway for any proportion only got in by show over a year old. paying as much us £20 for a single ticket.
A very few single seats, not In good positions, can be bought for-August rhatineca. But all reats are gone for September
South Pacife is the all-time bli for Broadway. A musical December. featuring Mary Martin and the Metropollten Opera's Ezio Pinza,
It is based on a slim volume of toles of the war in the tropics by James Michener.
TOP PRICE, 50.
Black market men are stil holding out until curtain time
The story: What happens for £20 a ticket. Then, at the when a altre from Arkansastast moment, you might get one falls in love with a French plnn- for £15, or even £10. fer and is angulthed on learning he has a couple of half-caste I you could children.
She marries him, of course, but only after he has volun- Heered for a dangerous mission behind Japanese lines.
GAY MUSIC
ret a
ticket
through regular channels the of 50s. top price would be in the region
Original cost of putting on the show was £87,500. Every week sitice it has grossed £18,025.
The 700,6-13 people The seilings, beautiful. The got in during the first year pald remembered. usic, tuneful, gay and easily £931,770,
who
MARY MARTIN In South Pacific,
But that was just what the just over a year
When "South Paellic" opened theatre Kot. So high
n pro- ago, advance portion of the tickets had been sales were better than average. bought "under the counter" that They totalled £178,500,
the total was very much higher.
Guarded Bank With Gun And Bugle
By J. W. TAYLOR
The Mayor Returns To Town
NEW YORK. Back at work from his third holiday of the year,
Mayor William O'Dwyer
found he had become the
Comedian
They have just been celebrating the bicentenary of the Ship Bank, Glasgow, now merged in the Union Bank subject of New York's most of Scotland, and at the same time recalling the achieve- popular jokes. ments and eccentricities in the world of banking and finance of Robin Carrick, who entered the Ship Bank as an who lies to Florida in between Godfrey, apprentico three years after it was formed in 1750 with broadcasts, told listeners that the backing of the tobacco lords of Glasgow,
during the week-end he had' found there "something seldoma
This callow youth began Mount Vernon country
house
Arthur
And Bob Hope said the new form for the mayor of New was a top-lut, cutaway coat, and a suitcaso.
York
in different with the tough job of "pro- garden into a money-spinning sten i New York"--the mayor. parts of the United King-tecting the bank treasure plot. In the summer he drove dom.
In the office in a during the night, armed by two plough horres and laden a carriage drawn with a gun and sleeping in with vegetables which he sold to #box-bed in
local greengrocers. After the telling the eter. The oldest of them all room, with a hugle, beside chcel chums, he had his house
once entertaining old grammur keeper return to the grocer for discount all the unconsumed
Each of there has over the years developed its own char-
the
cheese.
to a
bonk were interested.
The
charity in
WORRIES WAITING
are
ta
is the Three Choirs Festival him to sound the alarm."
Another comedian, Armic Ro- sen, quipped that it was concern which will, in 1951, be held for the 224th time. For more than The growth of trade between
over Increased fares-"not the two centuries the choirs of the the Clyde and America and other
subway fares, but three
farcz English
of foreign parts brought prosperity calledrals Worcester,
There was, however, a wealthy Florida" which had brought Gloucester Hereford have
and to the bank. It come, too, to Mr Julin M'quham who would film Lack to town. with the most famous singers and it was not long before he when he
been combining Robin, who was a born banker, tave none of Robin's meanness and musicians of the day to occupied the managerial chair.
grudgingly promised two
guineas mount an unsual exposition of
which the wealthy eltents of the
On his desk the mayor found He was the guiding force of church music in one or
or another
the "Ship." which attained a re ham told Robin that since he strikes
to worry him M'liqu- plenty
Two of the three cathedrals. the
cord of almost unbroken prosperi could only afford two gulness he strike In the 18th century
David
threatening-n lift Currick, one of the greatest of unclal mud trade crises as dici
13. weathering
several
he should remove his con-
and an underground English actors, produced the first few others. In 1830 the Shikderable account to A strike.
another Shakespeare Festival at Strat-Rank was against 120 for standard syn-ford-on-Avon. J
Carrick subscription from
Glasgow
the was soon raised to 30 quiness! Company, and thetic), produces a tyre which | his Shakesperena
Jubilee, as than 1
changed *
the werk 30 percent beder
customers with bills to Glascow that today and Ship Bank, called, Was natural rubber.
be honoured, Carrick was onc Memorial Theatre
Seven years eventually later this was joined with the
to be feared. He always dented grew, with its summer
Union Bank of Scotland, whose the corner of a bill with his crimage of lovers of English coat-of-arms
in hended by n lenn thumb nail so that
that he wouldt of the English three-masted ship in full sail,
know it again. He once handed a bil 20 market to an applican! Besides being banking stating" It's no' convenient.' wizard, Carrick was quite 2 Said the man: "Na, na, il maun or other
Narbody festivals Chelten-personality, and had somewhat be discounted noo.
of a han has established itself as a
reputation for personal will tak' it with that dell's mark miserliness. He turned Lentre where those interested in
his on it." contemporary British mutzie meet A summer. Bath with its
-(London Express Service)
Medals Not
Wanted
rature and theatre.
was
MUSIC IN SUMMER
pit-
About 3,000,000 Wor medals have not yet been Assembly, provides a splendid 'aimed, and response to ting with its Georgian tradi- recent appeals to ex-ion and to Superb 18th cen- Jury architcetur. And over- Service men and women has
Fadowing all is the Inter- been poor.
national Festival of Music and Drauma at Edinburgh, which has Ex-naval men have so far now become a mecca for | made the best answer to appeals ; tourists that they should apply for the world. business decorations. Their applications have been more numerous than those at ex-Anny and RAF men. But they have the ad- ditional lure of prize money, both the money and the medals are made on the same form.
The President's latest report stated fially
that rubber wit "intiispensable,"
Latest figures for the three services show that there have
Yet a trade leader, pointing Fout that Communust revolu- honaries in the Far East were ja grave threat to a steady rub-
her supply, said gloomily: is been 045,000 claims for Navy country cannot really count onated number of claims being prize money and mexinis, esti-
1,000,000.
ashup ton.
from all parts of the
Wales, 100, has its national athering-the Royal National Eisteddfod. This is the primary festiral of all Wales. It is, above all, great social occasion. takes place at a different town each year, und in 1951 it will be held at Llanrwst,
small market town of the Conway Valley in North Wales.
for a
and
The Eisteddfort Insts Royal Air Force ap-
week and is always centred on could plications number 460,000. a pavilion holding some 15,000| Some 915,000 medals have not people, placed in a flekú been claimed. To date 4,931,- surrounded by smaller bulld- 000 Army medals have beenings and tents, in which various! Issued.
meetings and events take place. ;
"The
estates rubber produce over 2,600,000 tons a year, but last year's output was less than 1,500,000.
the real reason is that many of the best estate maŋu-
Aurs are quitting. They eat
About. 4,102,000 men
and women are entitled to medals. Only 1,538,000 have appiled.
A NEW ADVENTURE-WITH WHISPER
MY FAVOURITE WHAT I'VE BEEN DREAMING OF MY FAVOURITE MAN!
K.O.!-OR AM I ONEAMING STILL? YOU GOT MY WINĘ 7-OF COURSE, YOU DID! OH, I'VE 50 MUCH TO TELL
YOU!
SNORES WERE AUCTIONED
Snores, the sound of screech- Ing brakes, the roar of a train tiese were somo of the "noises off" auctioned at a sale equipment from the J, Arthur Rank cartoon studies at Cookham, Berkshire.
The studios, whero David Hand created many cartoon characters, have closed. Among the contents offered for sale
were cameras worth £2,000 cach, editing and sound equip ment, studio lights, acenery and furniture. There were also 300 records of sound effects rang-
ing from a nightingale's Long to the sound of an explosion.
the Fanit merged with
10
To
His police force presented him with two other problems.
Brooklyn turned over what they Bookmakers arrested in sald were receipts for the bribes they had paid to the police for
"protection."
One zealous cop, William Kel- ly, discovered to his horror that he had given a parklag summons to Mrs Eleanor Young, the mayor's mother-in-law.
SYMMETRY IN THE AIR
ZOOMING along over Indian Springs, Nevada, the famed U.S. Air Force team, the Acrojets, demonstrate precision flying at 600 miles an hour for spectators and participants at the second annual Air Force Gurinery Meet. The team is composed of instructors from the USAF jet training centre at Williams Air Force Base. Their total Dying time exceeds 15,000 hours and they have per- formed their aerobatics 35 times at air shows throughout the country. (Acms)..
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