THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1950.
FLIES TO MEET THE PROFESSOR WHO SAYS:-
TAKE 14 FACES-AND MIX
THE SAME GIRL?
OR TRIPLETS...?
OR JUST SISTERS? The answer is in the next enfun (right) and it will surprise sun.
The result
is BEAUTY every time
T
STOCKHOLAI.
HESE three faces provide intriguing Jew insight into man's ideals of feminine beauty. They offer an ex- planation of why same wonen-like HELEN OF TROY. LADY HAMILTON, and LILY LANGTRY-create a world. wille sensation with their looks.
They may also explain why the grealest artists like RAPHAEL, BOTTICELLI, and GAINSBOROUGH gave their portraits of women an ageless, ethereal quality which the average man instinctively admires as supremely beauti- Lul.
PICTURE No. 1 was made by super- imposing photographie negatives of four- teen 21-year-old girls chosen at random by DR DAVID KATZ. professor of psychology at Stockholm University. The professor painstakingly matched the pictures for size, feature by feature, to of obtain a perfect blend the 14 fuces.
PICTURE No. 2 was made th the same way from photographs of 14 quite diferent girls.
PICTURE No. 3 was made i blend of 14 others.
further difference.
THEM
BODDOD
FOLLOW THE TRAIL FROM PICTURE No. 1 TO PICTURE No. 14...
to
THE NUMBERED faces are photo- graphs of 17-year-old girls with no claira outstanding beauty. The pictures marked by leliers are composite photo- praphs made by carefully blending the girls features
FACES NOS. 1 AND 2, when blended.
Katz believes that great artists
gave picture A. Faces Nos. 1, 2, and 3, sohen blended, gave picture B, and so on. Picture M is a Viend of all 14 photographs. THE AVERAGE FACE" changes very little after picture G, although the 11 are photographs superimposed on markedip different.
C.V.R. Thompson
A lulu for Mr Lengel
New York
Any sizable batch of 21-year-
These pictures are made up This suggest that the number old girls yields almost exactly
of Swedish of pictures needed to yield at the same average face whoever
have the ability to abstract from from photographs
But in his laboratory average face may provide a carries out the blending of the pictures. 65-year-old Professor the mass of the people the aver girls.
About 14 pictures age face, which embodies the here Katz showed me the results reientific yardsielc for compar
he has ng the uniformity of different Katz claims.
drove up Fifth Avenue erence of beauty. Maybe we ofrinlar experiments
in the first London taxi rederi 10 produce are
Superimposing automatically admire such a face carried out with Italian, Finnish, races. The greater the number
to ply for hire in this city. average face. more pictures on it makes no because we inainctively recog- Danish, and rome English girls, of pletures required the more
mixed race is likely to be. se it as something basic in
AND A RESULT?
Katz has tried out the tech-It was harrowing. hatan nature.
nique on groupN children of Driver Louis Lengel, a The average faces for each all
The results look like typiend New York "hack," ages.
ntbum girls reason that women who happen white hation differ slightly, but family
wanted to impress hoth face is to have such features are univer- they resemble one another to a showing one person growing up.
degeer which ridicules Hitler's ally idoliseel.
The dapper, white-haired pru-passengers and other taxi- And they are fessor is now working with drivers. To test the theory that the trial theories,
cast in the classically photographs of murderers and
Watch it take this bump, female face is basically beautiful
beautiful mould.
to track lown inieves
the he said proudly, heading Katz tried out the composite-
Profesor Katz finds Unt with overage criminal face. picture technique on groups of
nations, like the From what I have seen here girls specially selected for their less uniform
The result-as this Halians, more pictures-up to today the odds are it will turn plainess,
pictures show-was 20-have to be used to produce cut look like a Greek god.
an average face, strip of always beautiful.
The really astonishing result of the experiments is the fact that however plain the may be, their average cheaps beautiful
THE TEST
Every woman has some facet beauty. These feminine fare's blend in a composite ricle concelling out all ordiness and yielding a face of the tradi- tona! Madonna-like type.
Why is
a baby
so much
London. 7OULD you like to
hear how that new car of ours is getting 017 You any remember that last week I reported how astonished my wife and i were when a ztork in the
traie suddenly de motor
livered it and said it was
ONTS.
KALE
We'd ordered it go long aga that we'd forgotten all about
for children Kame !?
thanks to Now instead. thoughtlessner, we've got both. two boys, the There are the
and is Vanguard baby girl, namel Desire.
As most parents low you
older
have to be
the
careful to prevent
becoming children Jealous of the care and atten-
tion given to a new arrival.
It is perhaps, for the ne
?
like a car!
BERNARD. WICKSTEED
solves the riddle on the first day out
In our case it was the other There's nothing you can tell
way round.
I'd no with for anyone to ree
Photographa
(London Express Service)
Is The Dock Strike A Dress Rehearsal?
By TREVOR EVANS
1
London, Apr. 25. was an odd phrase THAT
mule to Mr Isaacs Parliament about the Ton- don deck strike. He raid: The only question at issue in entirely trade union with which the maller. public are not concerned.'
The Mintcnding, Mr fasen. trinic are concerned about the of this effect of a deel strike
are intere:ted in They
when I gazed at the cow nfno knobs her dashboard won- dering what they did.
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| Hold tight, he yelled, while! demonstrating efficiently how much more easily the Austin can turn than the sleek yellow monsters to which New Yorkers are ac- customed.
"It's a lalu," said Mr Lengel. "It drives like a baby carriage. My only beef is that the driver's seat is a bit cramped. But the passengers about it."
crazy
There is another hazard--the comments of the other "hacks" Typical "taunts "Does it come with a tin opener" What's it run on-milk!"
before a "disciplinary board,"
But if tests are successful, which consisted of rank-and-file London taxis will soon become
only with more
Owners onion rules, not with conditions would like to buy plenty of
the dock.
EXPELLED DICKENS was asked:
wendy
on
them.
familiar here.
from the
of the
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"Sidney Suchman, who in- "Wilported the first one, said: "Being you give an undertalding that four-and-a-half feet shorter than rales ours, they take up less room and you will obverve union
cost £200 less. Up to now run- et constitutionally s He replied: "It depends on ning costs are nearly half ours.
"And because il pets pinces circumstances of the time. He was expelled. He appeal more quickly because of its size, link Artin he was acked we do more business. I nilar question and gave they're here to stay."
lis appeal
MOST unpopular man of the Mday by maltreat her ears or jeer knowing how the strike started, inalar reply. So
how It can be stopped, how rejected.
Weeks before his appeal was
in New York was Dr these annual outhuists can be
whether the herd, the Port Workers De-Wallace Howell, a scientist paid eliminated, inc
to make artificial Committee threatened) £30 a day
"sentences" on rain. He flew up into the clouds ouble if the rather like authorities--whoever they are feres Driving her
when are doing their best to stop the Dickens at his mates were not with a planetu of dry ice one next ny the city living in a posh hotel
quashed. Obviously they were night-and
SHOW. with The public would be alarmed rearing. Indeed, you've spent all your life in a present strike.
werd was covered they Everything
disclaimed the credit or blom, You press one button certalu fears about the pre araci
up some-sent strike are justified.
Dickens and his mates heard It would have snowed anyway, Mr Arthur Deakin believes it wipers is a Communist dress rehearsal on Tuesday night that their he said. couple of
for a biger upheaval. The appeals had been turned downDEFORE retiring
ho The strike started next morning. Atomle Energy Commission appear.
The strike leaders whipped up
In Virginia, a cattle farm relations with What goes on in the kitchen, real trouble will
and thanks, if our
this to say or engine, you've no idea,
deteriorate further, if resentment against the union, Isto
its committee, and Lewis Strauss had
19 It
not a machinery, you feel it would be wrong to Russia
arms have to be loaded or un-
Mr Deakin All these would about the bomb:
can let off in firecracker you ask.
at the same her to loaded. Next we introduced
your hand, but Mr Deakin is not alone in his have been all right if the ver- the family in a series of short belief. It is shared by meinber diet had gone the other way.
Do the strike committee want time it is not something that of the Cabinet and by such a
to "break" the union? No. Not will blow a chunk out drives round the houses.
The front
yet, anyway. They suggested world, or wipe out all life. once apparent.
Villot
dock-workers of
(CHOOLTEACHERS were in- to Desire at once. They treated gether with string.
the sentences
shall whether THE THREE MEN
vited by the Philadelphia two children to fight without Every little noise they make, (41. 9ins) is wide enough for thority as Lord Citrine. her as a new toy,
This, mark you Board of Education to 10 to the Communists have land or not. They decided her doors were every splutter and groan ha disturbing the driver and if the TF true,
by the union baby's cries become loo loud
school themselves, made to swing on, her roof to meaning. You know at once tying on the
every reason to feel faicly to be conducted when the wire
with their present they have been attacking!
how not to look like, school- satisfied climb on. and her cushions to
FIRST VICTORY
teachers Courses at the "chorm exercise. bounce on. They tried to signal bouret has worked loose, and you can drown them with the
that dud plug in the
AYBE this is a dress re-school" this summer will teach After all, this strike started cylinder has
only
to do their hair counter-preparations. fashions, how had to be brought in yesterday. demands And it has been done on whip Mr Deakin is right to demand glamorously, and how to speak He so that their pupils want to ping up indignation over three the end of the strike.
zines for distribution to Service withhold recognition listen to them. expelled from the right to "martyrs." HE great day came and the unlon, not only for the part they from unofficial leadership. THE
He may have been right to PUTTER AND CHEESE, which Camps in the New Territories played in leading last year's
up to
Please communicate with:--- house was astir at dawn strike, but for refusing to pro have stood aloof from strikers Washington bought must be hard on the nerves of But Desire is
delegations to his office for two prevent a price collapse, will soon a new-born car. She may be too shy to say a word, so it is Everything was packed.
The strike could end today it days, although the strike leaders be given away free to people The dressed. family model
(three seats to hard to get to know what she children were washed and fed mise future good behaviour.
the three men, Ted Dickens, were quick to misconstrue this living on relief. Total Govern- ment stocks: 100 million lb, of so silent that
Beri front and three at the back, wants,
Constable, and
as indifference to the duckers, starting farmed out and the milk stop Harry but we are worried how long when you
Press the
Constitutionally correct though butter, 20,000,000lb. of cheese. Saunders, gave an undertaking sort stand this she
ot button you have to slen with ped.
your hand to your car to hear The gas was turned off and that they would do what is ex- Mr Deakin has bean, the tem-
D family.
We ali pected from all other good trado porary victory has gone to the CHOW BUSINESS: Broadway says anyone who lands a
Note. If Donors wish to hand We want her to like us, be it she's breathing.
unionists-oboy union rules, strike leaders.
books in personally they can do Mr Deakin and his officers London Music-hall contract gett For mile after mile she sails the back door locked, cause we've quite taken to her.
her a wife calls
sweet along without rattle or squeak, piled into the ear. The neigh honour union agreements.
bours looked out and cheered, My
Union chiefs regard Ted Dle have got to find a way of pin- their "knighthood." thing and, as a prewar motorist It makes people
1. Despatch Once, the AWFUL THING kens as the key man. He 13 aning a slur on a docker's man though she is 57 and worth so at the following places:- Thon
Party Communist
executive hood if he strikes on the flim £3,000,000, Mary Pickford is who has never paid more than background
a new out
Railway Station. car before, I think We wonder. What can be going happened. Father couldn't find member. He is chairman of one slest excuse. Today the docker starting
Milton Berle, £70 for a
the petrol coupons.
radio star. on in her engine or mind?
feels that slur if he remains at TV star, is out to break hisa Kowloon Tong Club. of its transport committees. a little dear.
It's the same us it is with
top It work. It's the first brand-new car
How did all this begin? First of all ho went back into they cry you robables. When
That is the key to today's own endurance record. He will we've ever bad, and the
Ten Our think they are dying and when the house to search for them appears that some dockers nik-
thousand of try, to stay before the cameras s.. Kowloon Hospital, General sponsiblilty is frightening.
a non-stop
Ofice. other cars were all broken in they are silent you think they alone while the family stayed to the union's "protection" from situation."
Dickens, Con- the men on sirike today would for 221⁄2 hours in As the minutes trouble-makers, In the car,
appeal for funds for In fact, are -dead,
were rather, be it work. before we got them.
For the first few miles of went by they left . one by one, stable, and
(London Express Service) research. were brought her life I nursed Desire alone.. (Conta. en Page 13, Col, B),
to play "Colonel Bogey" on the front horn.
in morse with her lamps, and wher
KYX 2
sooled up
*agan.
up It's possible to bulld beautiful companionship with this. A like articulate cars Journey in one is a joint ad-
dlo.
scored 10 Everything OK, with Desire so we laid plans for a real journoy,
16
KYX 2
mus sort of thing is all right venture, and you never get
with Trowup cars, built ventur
ahe'
can
were Amper of.. them BOSIVO broken up.
She's
too young or
with
OUT
feel to
awkurd.
and
cat
7tha
Was
and learn
last Wednesday. Troops Mhearsal after all It to, it them how to buy the latest
named.
Saunders
-They
on
Al-
career as
cancer
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QUESTIONS YOU must be
able to
ANSWER IN
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DAY
Can
you answer them
N NOW?
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