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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1950.-

Hollywood Stars Money Problems

By Frederick Cook

Now York.

For many people in Hollywood unemployment now is disastrous. It affects about 40 percent of the film colony, and applics, not only to actors and actresses, but to rank and file tech- nicians.

Women Golfers Shorts Worry

In

Him

New York.

A man who says he doesn't want to look at a pair of feminino legs, no matter how shapely, should get. ready to dofend his position. A. B. Corwin is ready. He doesn't like to see women playing golf in shorts. What's more, A THING you've never he doesn't think it's good for their golf game, seen before and are not likely to

Corwin sec again

jsn't

worried playing in brief, shorts. Their about his own two-headed giraffe.

golf score.core cards proved they weren't The sight of feminine legamentally annoyed by glances at

their chapely legs, just s he's lining up aj

Corvin

the wrole him, ເ ! doesn't rattle

Bauer sistors a letter of mild reproach He's worried about the girls, and sent them each one of the Curol Crawford golf dresses be designed,

Or is it that the camera- man is up to his zoo.

time tricks?

(London

Express Service),

Camping Is Popular

Nearly 200,000 people Britain sp

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their Whitsun

holidays under canvas, That is

You 12 never permit woman to be mentally annoyid in any way if she's playing golt," he explained. "It's a con- centration #sme, 1 a woman secs pouple staring at her legs, It will distract her."

NOT ENOUGH ROOM

Besides, Corwin Saya brief

He's stubbornly slicking to opinions about women and their proper goling attire. But with much gures in the Bauer sisters have, he's afraid other women may get ideas about glamour on the links,

"I

that happens, people.

the estimate of the Secretary of storts don't give girls room to won't be watching the Kame Ple Campling Club of Great ry necossary equipment, any inore, they'll be watching restala, Me V. H. Pegler, over-

ters be slighet.-United Press,

Corwin

Ind in the last few weeks fatter by profession, and is

reza mam2-|

golfer in his spare time. For family five years he bun working i

by a ngh of new met vas

Camping in now

fan" he says. "The enthusiana de poject that combles Violence Meets

only business with hobby, It was this year I impr

the idea of living in the open polt dress, the perfect dress

e during the hellboys app-caling for a wonigi who takes a man- Tawang nt a bit, but likest Lore: tad more, but the cost is

growing factor.

Tu fet and dylike,

"Some idea of the growl!! This was genot to be Curwin's popularity of camping in generad į bágy season, The dress, complete can be gauged from the record with a zipper side pocket to

Con-, mold coin pure or compact, »cline:]}, Cf Thê, chu pared with last year alone, wej base! back pocket to hold! ere already close on 2.000 rem cigarettes and sore card, and hers up ven o early in thef ample arma votan for long trwis,

win ready.

Consol

GALLERIES DELIGHTED

Violence

art

Fewer big names signed up on long-term contracts than ever before. By March 31, only 315 players were in the happy position of not caring much whether the studio sent for them or

not, because the pay cheque came through the letter-box just the same.

was a drop This from the total n year earlier.

In Hollywood, of course, it is the thing to do to blame Britalá fot wilfully withholding money earned by American pictures,

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FLY JET AND SEE THE MAP

DII Comets in the making.

INDIAN BEATEN TO DEATH

FOR GIVING AWAY QUININE

NEW YORK.

By James, Stuart

ÈLONDON

The second Comet jet hir- liner

is nearly finished and should' bb having Its firat airtest in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, Comet No. 1, the world's first jet-propelled airliner, which has been fly- ing since last July, has returned from Its tropical tosts in the Sudan.

These Arst two Comets off the production line at the Hat- flekł wórka of the Do Hovil- Innd Aircraft Co are not destined for actual airline work. They are the test proto- types ordered by the Ministry

Supply.

of

But work on the fleet of 14

which are being bought by the British Overseas Airways Cor- pération is going well"- nhiend, mid BOAC should be

recolving the first early next year.

When the Comets go inta pårsinger service, ordinary travellers will be able to get views of the earth which high-flying bomber and fighter

A multi-million-dollar industry grew from a US$40 purchase of seed. That romantic story from the South Pacific is being recalled since the so far been limited to United States of Indonesia joined the world's independent nations.

crolly, even though mularly was recognised as great world killer and then, as how, was

ravaging much of Africa and

Finally, Ledger

solu

crews.

PANORAMA.

The story began in South Manuel knew the penalty was America about a century death for removing the seed. Pleanwhite television in keep

The earliest use of quinine

For example, once when the In people at home. And go when Charles Ledger, an was in 1638 when the Countess

Comet was flying above 30,000ft. où a clear day, Group Captain trader, surreptl-or Chinchon-hence the name India. though Hollywood tries hard to English

John Cunningham, its pilot, and play this down-there are the tlously got seeds of the cin- and, wife of the Governor. of

one the rest of the test crew were many mediocre Glms.

chonn tree, the

of Peru was cured of an attack gource

of fever by its administration. pound to the Dutch for US$40 able to see the whole of the More and more people con- quinine.

for trial on their Java planta-area from Start Point, Devon, fine their chema visits to the Through his obedient -- Indian Ledger, belloving his fortune tons. When the seed proved to the Wash, lying below them

Manuc) "ari" theatres showing British, servant,

Icantauahl, made, returned with the itself, he was to receive more, a single panorama, French and Italian production Lexiger obtained 14 pounds of treasure to hiự native England. By 1000, the seed WILE Another line, when the aero- All over America the big chains the coveted „prize, although But his reports were received j stablished and Ledger was plane was High above watch gloomily as the weekly

Riven US$200. A few years Channel, the sen woked little later, "take" Sirinks.

he was given US$480, more than a river.

Looking and In 1897. the Motherlanda out of the windows on one Indian Government gave him sile they could sco Dover, the to annual pension of US$400. whole of Kent and a good deal Essex, Glid when they NEW USES

erosted

Kangway and locked out of the other win-

WORRIES OF FLYNN

Hardly a week passes without vome spotlight being Brown on the pivate predicament of stars.

Even Errol Flynn, long $100,000-a-year man [approxi mately £33,000, at prezent rates! has his worries. He says he uwes the Government nearly £50,000 in back inxes, recks rellef In the Los Angeles courts from £10,000-a-year alimony to his former wife, Lili Damita, fake webring

and the £180 a month paid to up a cock-night at

ex-wife Nora Eddington for thei the point of a machine-gun and "uped with more than £10,369 support of his two daughters, They also took the trousers of married to Nora Eddington, and

spectators' money. Dick Haymes, who is now

whose crooning, kramophone men watching battling oos ters in a 'pli war Henderson, Į reenris and fim parts net hlm Kentucky,

Several hundred thousand dollars a year, owes the Goyern- ment £10,000 in taxes, it war alleged In a court suit.

Six bandits moms held

of 1:

"In the coming weeks,

victim said a gunman Lembers me planning camphingi

hreatened to shoot oft one of expeditions to Corsica. the And what happened? The his Angers to get a diamond ring Dalian Dolomites a! the two glamour girls of the golfing, which he could not remove. Italian Lakes, followed by visits touson. Alice and Marlenn; One, hanht also carrie·l a lull- to Andorra and the Pyrthees." | Bauer, delighted galleries by | whip.

SEA-GOING

ROLLER

COASTER

SOMETHING now in water fun Is this huge, inflated plastic wheel, being tried out at Cypress Gardens, Florida. It can be used as a float for diving and sun bathing, or as a competitive wheel for ducking friendly rivals trying to climb on from

opposite sides. (Acmo).

K. O. CANNON

".. OF COURSE MADAME ZUCCI, ALL"

THE PAPERS SAY IT WAS SUICIDE-

BUT THE POLICE ARE STILL

BERKIPNO INQUIRIES+4+]

ABOUT WHOKI

UNEMPLOYMENT PAY

For thousands of the run- of-lite-mill studio workers all there is to live on is their unem- ployment Insurance pay,` until that runs out.

Some of the more far-sighted top-line stars Arc how

coni-

tulating Geneelver that they sow this deining, and made their nines while the going was good. The business enterprises they Trought, or started with savings from their fat pay envelopes, are now payinut.

Brian Arne. the former 31itish stor, is one of these.

He is OWBOY of one of the biggest vineyards in the Call- fernia desert.

Esther Williams is In the restaurant business, in the San Fumando Valley. Character- actor Leo23 Ames owng a car

ales agency in Hollywood.

George Montgomery, Dinab Shore's husband, runs a Front- able furniture factory.

Maureen O'Hara owns a dress -- shop, catering to business girls with moderate incomes. Gall Patrick as an exclusive 18- fants' wear establishment in fashionable Beverly Hills.

Even little Margaret O'Brien, lew out of films for a while, will collect about £30,000 u year for several more years as 1 result of her commercial arrangements.

STILL POPULAR

Some of the old-timers have staged successful come-backs, Gloria Swanson's performance in "Sunset Boulevard" surpasses most of the paris that won her Jame thirty years ago.

Mae Murray, star of the silent Jereen in the early twenties, is packing o night club on the Sunset Strip, dancing the Merry Widow waltz that made her famous,

-London kxpress service)

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

.... ABOUT MANY PEOPLE! HULLOT DON'T I KNOW THAT FACE?.

YOU MAY M'SIEU, HE DID SEVERAL

BUSINESS DEALS WITH MY HUSBAND... HIS NAME 18 MITCHELL -BRAD MITCHELS A

BUT 1., 3 HARDLY KNOW |HIM – REALLYŮ) DON'T

SHIPBOARD SOUVENIR

ACYOR Michael O'Shea and his actress wife, Virginia Mayo, examine his smallpox vaccination on arrival in New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth. They were among the 1,200 persons vaccinated at sea because of the outbreak of the disease in Scotland. Miss Mayo got hers in the thigh. (Acme).

the

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Fune Magazine Gaid dows, Boulogne and the whole recently the seed was worth French coast as far as the nt least $3,000,000 but "more Seine Estuary stretched below. like $10,000,000 and it may yet

be

conservative to say $50,000,-

000,"

London Express Service)

FIRST CASE OF KIND

The number of lives saved through a reduction in the cost of quinine is esilmated to run indo many millions. Even today, with 'matoria decreasing. medical scientists are said to be feling now uses for quinine, particularly in the treatment of muscle

and claim sidered in cramps, its popularity s a cold cure Archibald Young Clark, remains constant,

who has been fined £5 and But Manuel, the Indian seras had his licence ondorsed vant who supplied this Bitt of

An appen is being con- the

case of

Tife and health to the world, at Dundes for being drunk never lived to know it. He while in charge of a Jorry returned to his native village (driven by a learner → his In South America, where he

601. It was the first case

was gaoled and beaten to death

for betraying the secret of his of its kind in Britain. people, so the saga goes.-United |

Sheriff Cullen said Press.

the question at issue was whether Clark. while supervising his con's driving, was "in charge"

NEW JEEP

of the vehlele when so drunk as to be incapable of "having

A British version of the proper control" of it. American Jeep has been Mr Justice Hilbery said that designed by the Ministry it was a supervisor's, duty to of Supply for the Services. so done to prevent the driver do whatever could reasonably First models have been acting unskilfully. bullt by Nuffield Mechanisa-or in a dangerous manner. To

this lions.

extent he was

carelessly.

to par-

ticipate in the driving, four-cy-

The vehicle has a linder engine, developing 80 Although these observations horsepower, and a five-speed were not directly binding in a *ynchromesh gvur-box. The Scottish court, they were. the ine is screened to avoid ra-only "tnes, and apparently had

Interference.

te.n unelmilenged

There are two questions to

for.

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be weica." continued the

Sivuill

te control

"Kad Clark a. duty the driving of the

patnen? If so, was he there- by - charge of the vehicle The te

er was driving?"

ugh! the answer to

Je

both should

Live.

be in the affirma-

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