Mona Lisa Lowered To Eye Level
By SALLY SWING Parin Art-lovers now can gaze into the eyes of the Mona Lisa without get- ting kinks in their necks, thanks to some changes at the world's most famous museum, the Louvre.
Madeleine Guynet, assistant curator of the 157-year-old and public demand had led the museum to lower to is war eye-level
museum,
all
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"People ero of a painting." she said, "We had to lower Mona Lisa foot to satisfy all the latters, telephone calle and demands which have flooded my offices." GIS "When the American poured
want to look into the
Into Paris, the Moun
after third
the
Lisa came
flies Bergers and Pigalle in popularity," the reported,
EASIER TO FIND
At first, however, GIS had
trouble Andling the
Formin merchant's
wife
with her mysterious smide, -be-
.
use in France the is known
"La Joconde!
In preparation for the tourist on, divretors of the Louvre
decided the dim gilt halls of ancient palace should be "modernized, that the 4.000 half as 7:40(23 pictures and sculptures could be seen evely.
more
Now a touring no Puiger has
tu stump through
markle ha
14.
favorite pleturt,
miller of his
"We have re- rranged all the pictures in the
Italians wing.
att the
in another and all the
arti 1 works
Titl streat kathered in the section." Min.. Cuvnet expluned
"We have painted walls a le beige or gray, and cut onl all side windows, so that now lich filters thigh the of, etummating glare."
FEET STILL HURT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1950. TULIP・ TIME IN NEW YORK
MORE than 50 children' take part in the annual
A COLONIAL GOVERNOR ON tuky festival dance held
THE WEST END STAGE
By JOAN ERSKINE
"You will never get a perfect Governor
LONDON, May 25.
unless you breed one, or make up a composite," said one of the characters in a play about a Colonial Governor which opened in the West End last night.
11
n
n
*t
"When you get high enough,
else," he is comforted.
in New York by St Mark's Church in the Bouwerle. All wear authentic Dutch costumes and wooden shoes imported for the. occasion. Peler Stuyves- York's first unt, New governor, is buried in the church. (Acme).
MARATHON PIANIST'S RECORD
Auckland, N. Z. Jim! Montecino claims that when I
Teen-Age Gangs' Nightly Battles
By Frederick Cook
NEW YORK.
The Green Avenue Stompers, the Nits, the Slicksters, Ebony Dukes, Rockets, Lightnings and Beavers are on the warpath again in New York.
Bible Of Songland Slanguage
Jazz is no longer jazz, but "crew cut" in the current "language" of the popular song publishing business.
However, a long-hair is still a long-hair.
Or so claims Arnuld Shaw in
f11
Similar gange, with thou-to break up a battle that was raging over an Area of ㄡˇˇ sands of schoolchildren as blocks in Brooklyn, one boy secret members, are spread was dying on the pavement and Ing terror in parts of every dozen lind been injured. major American city.
another fight between rival gangs-over n
visit by Teen-nge gangsters have bene Bang member to a girl come a major problem. Social relend who lived in the terri- service-workers and advocates
tory of another-ona boy was of "progressive" education shot dead. pooh-pooh the matter as being nothing more than youthful Police report that the gangs, high spirits.
growing bolder, are now In- vading houses.
But polleemer,
worried
by
the lawlessness exhibited during Police have records of more New York's large-scale "school than 60 youth gang organisa- children's rebellion," point outtions, of whom more than 40 that at least 11 of the young lure regarded
"anti-social" gangsters have been killed,
und potential breeding grounds for a future Al Capone,
DRUG ADDICTS
Almost
a booklet titled "The Lingu of battles with knives, razors. Tin-Pan Alley."
Despite the title, Shaw claims the term "Tin-Pan Al- ley" is largely out of date." "The 'alley' is no longer New York landmark," he sald. "It is now a broad highway stretching from Radio City in New York... to Radio City in Hollywood. with an important; nerve centre in Chicago."
SOME NEW TERMS
Here, according to Shaw, are a few of the 228 new termng writera used by "publishers, and pluggers" in the popular music field:
Break Open-To make a bid for popularily,
Cloudville-Used
to suggest
that someone is not accomplish- ing anything.
Con-Used
jective,
45 43
noun, ad- and verb, with refer- erce to the technique of persun- sive selling and promotion.
Bug-To be annoying, Fracture-To overwhelm
Eighty-eighter-A pianist.
minhtly there are
home-marle
knuckle- guns, usters and broken bottles.
In some
Drug
adiflction by high areas streets uçu school boys and girls ls blamed unsafe. No adult who wishes for many atbreaks of violence, to stay out of trouble will go nut the most dougerotus gnuga, for an evening stroll in a Brook kay the police, are those who lyn cr Bronx park after dark, are embroiled in a vendetta
Tefore, the police were ablo with some other gang.
STRIPES
Battles between the Nils und the Stompers have been going on for many months,
The typical New York gang has a "president" and an or- ganisation of vice-presidents,** eath in charge of some special nelivity, such 23 intelligence, provision of weapons, planning of strategy, obtaining of dope or drink,
-(London Express Service)
Puppets In
The News
Puppetry is again in the theatre news from Britain. 21 coincidence, two have companies popular
ог
By
"His Excellency," star-with a useless police force, and ring Eric Portman, is a play the usual amount of corruption. you can always blame someone that presents a problem, .His Execlicnry Is not abashed
"I may not have carned my and attempts to answer it.v his opulent surroundings.
is serious political He talks to the workers and medals" says the G.O.C. drily to
Police, "but at! The only complaint Louvre It directors have not been able | drama.
The problem is they like It: but in his anxiety the Chief of to eliminate is utrum fort,"
the naval dockyard, where a re-
There is n joyous reene when Although marble floors have that which faces a "self-Improve working conditions in least I didn't invent them?"
presicces made" man who rises to the cent strike enused his wond. bren
downfall. replaced by
he rushes at the HE arrests the Vice-Admiral, of Colonial cor's
The who
is unco-operative in the bull ne rubber-mat long was tried and position
Ente, His trek like
and in the end he he played the pinno non-stop be overwhelmed. A comedian extreme, hater abandoned,
Governor.
scheme to raise wages to n
hours and 45"fractures" an audience. "Spretators cheered the reft cushioned rubber which allowed
The play it compact,
It bbcent level by Introxtucing income shocks his staff by recommend-
lowered ing the rascally Chief of Police for 176 make up the tnx to
for
" stop at minutes he established a un M.D.E walk
without about
serves at last one of the unities | rubsidies in a good one. iu tta
But it getting sore feel." stu caid, "but
that of place. It gets in alye defeated by the machinations nothing to get things straight world record. floor th rubber composition
dins at the Trics, and gentle of the Prime Minister, and by here," says His Excellency, bad WILS
bes at the Socialists,
his own refusal to take advier favouring
from others. He finishes with tetrilte on his hands, and has no an alternative but to call at the
military untrol--an action com- pletely arainal his principles.
The next day he determines nererme the situation by allowing the men to boli a meet- ' in the dockyard, which hodi
by the Admirale orders. To do this, he puts the Adpurl unde portent, anul 1
All ents the meeting himatel
These are the uds succesfully. bare bones of the pint.
held humility and for the paintings,
blished!
La
It had to be
the Socialists, the Christ's manage to be fair Mona Lisa is now on display both side a-sin itself qu'te
of a long hall achievement. the centre reparing on a crushed rayberry velvet wall.
Brichy, the play The warm-caten rubbed got frame shows off hard-heatied Yorkshire man, an the pale greens and grays of unsstev dope, who the
advantage. proit my to
portrait United Press.
SHAPELY
1
of
Concerts
#M
rise to responsibilty of Salvo, an island
SHEPHERDESS
STARLET Plper Laurie, while on location near. Hollywood for a new plcture, got an extra job. When her studio acquired a flock of 300 sheep to nibble the grass as a fire hazard precaution, Piper offered to look after them, Of course, the camerama
was around. (Acme)
K.
CANNON
BUT DON'T LET ZUČCI WORITY YOU..... IF HE HADN'T SHOT
HIMSELF, BOŘE ONE FLARİ
•
WOULD HAVE DONE IT! Q
SOPAY I CAN'T HELP
YOU ́ MORE.
TOPICAL QUESTION
The price is nothing more than i
is
An evening of "His Excel- leney" should make a vivid bus- man's holiday for Colonial ser- vants on leave,
Hiccupped Because Of Love
Fish Hous in His Pocket- An expression Suggesting that The 45-year-old New Zealand-omebody is not too free with er sat at a piano in Auckand's his money. Trocadero cabaret and played for seven days. Ile ate three meals a day, supplemented by bowls of soup and cups of tea, as he played thousands of tunes and request numbers.
10
WHAT A CORNBALL IS
Cornball-Berisive teria used
designate
who somebody
"The Brst day was the hard-doesn't know his business, st." Montecine said. "The night, who doesn't want to co-operate passed quicidy, but the days Fanged." Atrer six days his feet du swell unch and ankles bestan
is were cut in dre sites of his Carpet slipwes.
with you.
.
Curve-A plug promised but at delivered.
Daddy-O-Frlend, buddy. Freeby-One who 13 his
Silence-A
Montecing chain-smoked 250 charoties daily during his ender-band out.
powerful
catervals
.
il ned
ext-ne-Colonne
of Half-Hour
Because of the worry of ameling calls to tht sleep. At plan that never came through. dramatised intent, but love affair, a middle-aged spensed on his face,
a temiet muren, Can an estuentet mm, he has rheom
| to power, cope adequately with
a tub requiring let, impartiality nd d'olomaer, nu well be deter- and meet mination
business man hiccupped five
to six times a minute after he
E hiccupping until he was as-
Perman's portrayal of the York-
כלייר
1
-hireman
the wight cual ties. but be refunde to dentree, could not be bettered.
Have Ball-Have a pood time,
Ht fect were to swollen when that unded marathen
Hot Stove-Mast crass form cres: busi- in operation. And he kept he had to be cured to a entet, at inducement in a
ness, in short, an open bribe. where he slept for 18 hours.
"He take a hot stove." Munterino said he intends to aured his love affair would visit the United States sometime Third Rui-Plugger's term bill.- be settled.
this year to
or any challenge marathon for resturant pitumst there.
Called Press.
Reporting the ce in the There r ne elde jegjes teurrent issue of the British The play Medical Journal, De Neville confuse the audience. mover swiftly and smoothly to Murray, of Landon, the
itt
cloc
caused There were maer | patient mong the audace who thought
:t
considerable perplexity.
A 10
De ending somewhat trite. Pos-ginical examination failed eibly they wonki hove prefered show the cause of the patient's
to see the Governor rent home hiccups. A cork between the in dictrace!
The play has an exerllent cast.
teeth lid t work, neither did
hypnosis produce any result.
un-
of
The military and enval com-
At last a drug revealed the manders, the secretaries. Lieut- Governor and A.D.C. look as if trouble. "For some years," says they might reasonably be pas-Dr Murray, he had been sible. The dining is fresh and ser considerable pressure
addi- witty, and Erie Portman sus-work and strain, and, in tains a Yorkshire necent from tion, had become involved in a
Juve affair with start to finish.
one of his business associates, unknown Surrounded by a mass of ret to his wife and family." tone, H.E. muses: "If I could
only accomplish one tenth of He had been leading a double what I thought these on topfe in two separate homes, in should have done years ago, I'd an atmosphere "traught with be happy."
guilt, frustration and anxiety."
JOYOUS SCENE
"We were fortunate to have the aid of an intelligent, sym- pathetic and practical
whom the patient
nurse, Was
WAS
"You were in such a hurry to from get storted, you didn't even stop able to gain much comfort and to look where you were going, understanding. When he
his
would be worries commenta the Lieut-Governor told nc'dly.
settled, the hiccups stopped."
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
WELL AT LEAST WS KNOW TWO NEW THINGS – ONE- ZUCCI HAS A LOVELY-TO-İ LOOK-AT WIDOW...AND BRAD MITCHELL KNOWS HEA! NOW WELL,
WONDER.
[WELL, MA.SKERLOCK
HOLMES -DID HE HELP, ¿YOU WITHOUT EKNOWING I† 2
QUICK, DIAL, GET
MALAMS ZUCCI
BRAD! I TOLD YOU NOT TO PHONE ME UNLESS IT WAS UNGENT,, CANNOH?.. NB.. WHOEVER IS ME?,,
TYRES
THIS wimsuit, which hugs the curves, is shirred for flattery at the bodice and is cuffed in black l the top and bottom. The two-tone stripes run up and down the front. (Acme)
CAUSE FIRE
IN
into
turned Hans Christian
stories Andersen marionette plays. 1
of the
Under the auspices Hampstead (London) Artista' Council. John Wright's Marionettes have successfully presented a full-length version of "The Little Mermaid," while the Laurey Puppet Company produced equally success- fully-Honor Laurey's version of The Tinder Box." in pre- paration for the seaside season opening at Broadstairs, Kent,
June 20.
has
Increasing attention is belug palel to the educational side of puppetry, as was evident from the interest aroused by the festival puppet plays staged recently in London by the Educational Puppetry
Asocia-
on, and the tour of schools in which the Laureys have been engaging under the sponsorship of the Education Committee of Rotflighamshire.
A the Daneshill Training College, Nottinghamshire, by the way, four-day course on attended puppetry has been by many of the county's teachers.
BROOKLYN
THICK black clouds of smok on fire.
Firemen and" bya
from a Brooklyn junk yard, where stacks of ökl motor suffered almost as much, if not more, from the smell as
(Aciño).
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