1950-06-15 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG ELI

THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1950.

INTER - MURAL

CO - OPERATION

A GROUP of artists in New York is shown putting the finishing touches on some the of the murals that were hung in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor on

occasion of the big Artists' Equity ball. (Acme)

LONDONER'S

DIARY:

DUKE OF WINDSOR MAKES

FORTUNE FROM MEMOIRS

.

Royal Tournament Is 50 Not Out

A display given 72 years ago by members of the Volunteers on Wimbledon Common was the gorm from which sprang the Royal Tournament, that unique spectacle of pageantry, music and precision, whose Jubilee edition was opened by Their Majesties the King and Queen in the exhibition building of Earl's Court, London, on Juno 7.

So successful had been a sea landing and blowing up muskets. It was not until 1781, nearly two and a half centuries the original show that in an enemy bridge.

Even the circus would have after the granting of its Char- 1880 it was established as a round it hard to produce anter. that the Company began to permanent institution, run event as thrilling or an faultless-tain some of its members as

executed As this,

with Runners, privately by Volunteer off-y

Yes, the Royal Tournament is and maching

Kuna cers at first, at the Royal mortars

once again a winner, with some Agricultural Hall in Isling-ing hoisted up to the cilt top 700 performer in the Attest after the men in record time.

ton. But the Regular Army A toplen! note was introduced possible condition and all move carried out with clock- soon took it over, and it by the appearance of a "minis-s

work precision-almost. For it ter who Bikes to accompany was perhaps some of the minor Was "The Royal Military Tournament" until 1905, troops on active operations irregularities which gave the

bowler-hatted, brief-cased little when the Royal Navy joined Bgure in black coat and striped trousers who "ropes down" with the best of them.

in.

I States dollars--the equivalent of £180,000 out of the publication of s

MUSICAL RIDE

T is estimated that the Duke of Windsor has made about 500,000 United ceremonial

his memoirs. There will be more money to come to him when the swallow-tailed memoirs appear in book form.

NEWCOMERS

with

greatest pleasure: the matelot

ART LOVERS

shown at the French Artists' Exhibition at the Grand

France, opened the exhibition. (Acme)

"I will keep TWO French policemen admire one of the statues being people alive Palace in Paris. M. Vincent Auriol, President of

until they are 120"

NEW YORK.

years Dr

of

New Jersey,

owners expeet two storeys to street level. But Royal Navy's Reld gun compett management, and in the opera- has been trying to find thei

The puper's

pulling power ot the the

memoirs will more than offset any sale that might be lost prough the increased price.

When publication of the Duke's memoirs starts in the Sydney Sunday Tele- graph, the price of the paper will be raised from 4d. to

£600,000 SAFE Gd. There are three other

MOST blg new office build in Sydney. Mo Sunday papers

ings now changing London all selling at 4d.

skyline are for Government But in Holborn a private group have started work on an that a 10 eight-storey block cost £600,000.

The bullding La for Chancery Lane Safe Deposit. Licences issued So for cover

The Telegraph, an Australian paper, was Consolidated Press started after war began in 1939. It now has the biggest Sunday circulation in Australia-around 540,000 copies.

Cr3.

ANNIVERSARY WALTZ

the

CROWN Princess Martha of Norway dances with H. E. Stokke, Lord Mayor of Oslo, during a banquet in the City Hall. The occasion marked the 900th anniversary of the Norwegian capital. (Acme)

K. O. CANNON

A...SEJT ISN'T; THE

·HUMAN BLOODHOUND

HSPECTON inpocar

DRILL CONTRAST

He thinks

His Flying Saucer

Is 36 Years Old

Mr George Tilghman Richards, 67-year-old air piònedr and lccturor, believes that when the acronautical section of the South Kensington Science Museum opens this month it will reveal the secret of the "flying saucer."

who fell into the "chasm", the parachutist who found himself suspended in mid-air, and the When the Royal Air Forco

two lads of the Gordon Boys' completed the Service picture

School who tripped over their after World War One, its name

papier mache horses in a mock was again altered to include all Newcomers lo the Tourna- cavalry ride. Probably because Transit is comforting for mere mortals three Services, but as this was ment were the Animal

of the Royal to realise that there superb per- loo long and unwieldy it was pert Company

Corps,

whose formers are human after all and given the brief designation it Army Service

trick-riding bears today.

included

tent-not machines. lances and During all these years, it has pegging, run the Camut of historical swords, and a jumping exhibi- pageantry, spectacular horse-tion In which one of the horse- manchip, teamwork and drill men took his mount through a and weapon fighting--but it has frame of blazing straw, also kept itself abreast of the It is not always

realked in total these days of almost times.

mechanisation, that some 100,- 000 animals were used by the British forces mountainous This time, once Again, we had country during World War Two. those popular favourites the

This RASC Company, slation- musical ride of the Householded at Aldershot, is responsible Cavalry wearing their brilijant

training for

mil animal dress of highly transport personnel, including polished cuirasses and helinets drivers, snddiers, farriors, and

with

For wheelwrights. In addition, all

Beven lances and enrrying

Iba regular pennants;

officers Joining the

Thomas S. Gardner, fever thrilling manoeuvres of the Corps are given instruction by

field guns of the King's Troop, this unit in riding and animal East Orange, Royal Horse Artillery; and the

secret of long life. tion of pack animals. the company hope to have the

tlos,

with the matelots hurling before this themselves and their guns over follow-on feences

he almost has it work is completed. Altogether chassis and walls.

now. Ile told me: "Within ten also The Tournament the building will Lake 24 But the modern note

wa duced an Interesting contrast is years 1 expect to be able to Regi- start keeping people alive until A purachute train-dril between the RAF there, too, The Safe Deposit Company is

they are 120." ing display-with

And the some ment, born in 1942, Koing

His experiments so far have private company founded by paratroopers

through

Honourable Achillery Company, or Me B. D.their paces

been made Ота mice, rabbits, all in staces ΟΙ

four hundred the grandfather

from

were rats, and monkeys, but when he simple who are some Cousins, now managing director normal training,

managed to extend the e and chairman.

ground jumps from stepladders are older. The latter

represented by the

Company correct

span of some of them by ten MAGAZINES SLIMMED to learn the

way to of Pikemer and

years they became old suddenly MANY weekly periodicals are land, then from 30-foot high which acts as cloce

pages smaller platforms suspended by cables, the Lord Mayor of London on without a "twilight."

lastly fully-fledged Imp

It Civic occasions. Important than usual. Reason: the ban and

box-

is recruited from members of on overtime imposed by the parachute descents from

balloons high the Veteran Company of the

De Gardner, who is 42, hopes London Society of Compositors. cars of captive

on the roof-vicd

FLAC. who, having served on that by the time he has made Papers printed outside Lon-up

popularity with a Royal Marine the active list, have retained long life possible he will also dan are not affected.

Commando troop making *their connection with the Regi- have discovered how to elimin- Origin

of the dispute

ate the disorders and illnesses the break-down of negotiations perpendicular cliff assault after ment

The Pikeman, wearing breast-of old age, and wages prob

"I'm working." plate and tasses (thigh guards),

he said, "In Tema between the London

and Ave fields of research. Mostly hinck-plate and morion, armed with a 12-foot plite and with vitamins,

"For instance, Vitamin B. a sword, and the Musketeers, Sad

leather Jerkins, and will play a large past in my carrying the loug, heavy musket experiments. It and its rest-uniforms and certain parts of meat products.

Civil War

1 know that two American equipment of period-performed the "postures "Helping are foods of natura

companies were working on the A complicated their fruit and vegetables and, thut

idien. Then they amalgamated, of the pike" and fired

the ΓΟΥΔΙ

system is being installed to on- and the flying saucer was muskels as they most certainly richest of sources,

are heard produced!" did in the Artillery Garden at jelly from honeybee hives,

are distri Finsbury in

clearly Amplifiers those days. No "I am working with blood sure that specches

butext through every part of the plasma, because in the blood is fewer than 33 orders wero

which can help 10 Chamber from floor. to root. needed to load and

an agency fire

as cells renew youth as well musict.

an oak panels, on pillars, desks, which grow old. Serums, too, They are concealed in carvings como into the pleture.

and headrests.'

years.

several

on manpower

Master Printers

and

the London Compositora, One

Was

Association Society poini

of at

issuc 13 the amount whicht Laudon compositors receive

above the provincing rate. When the talks failed, the compositors banned overtime in about 340 belonging to

going

printing houses

ย

to

The London Master Printers,

The dispute arbitration. But the compost- fors disagree with this course and say the overtime bon will continue, for six months

necessary.

ENGAGEMENT SOON

ONE of last year's prettiest

Miss debutantes, Edmonstone, is to announce her to engagement soon. She is marry Major Rupert Buchanan- Jardine, elder son of Sir "Jock". Burchanan-Jardine

Fiona

He is 27, served in Germany and Italy with the Royal Horse Now he is studying Guards agriculture at

at Cirencester,

io in Miss Edmonstone, August, is tall, fair and blue- eyed. She is the second daugh ter of Mr and Mrs A. C. of Duntreath Suriling. Her mother Bister

of Marshall Fichl, the American newspaper mil Honaire. Her elder sister, Mary, is wife of Sir Charles M'Grigor.

is a

on

Mr and Mrs Edmonstone will give an engagement party June 27. The welding will probably be in London in the autumn.

Sweeping

Un- Was

Henry Jensen, formerly Su cialist mayor of Hobro, Den- mark, suggested he should be employed. His proposal pensioned as now he was wanimously rejected, but the Council

they announced that would offer the dethroned may- or a post as road-sweeper.

ONE-PIECE

20

ROXANNE ROSEDALE, chosen Minnesota's "Swim for Health" Girl, models this nylon stex one- piece swimsuit trimmed with n row of white but- tons and pockets. (Acmo)

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

CARESSE LACROIX VISITED YOUN

| MISIỀU CĂNNON, IT DECIDED ME

THAT YOU WERE WORTH KEEPÍNG. AN EYE ON BA GOOD ENDUSH TO EXPLAIN THAT YOU ARE DOING.REME.

PLAYING AT

DETECTIVES,

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BAMB AS YOU!

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the

pro-

eers,

It

Incidentally, the term "artit- lery" in the Company's original title appiled to "weapons ot volley" such as crossbows and

New Hope For Heart Sufferers

For standing there will be a model of Mr Richards's On "llying saucer," which he worked before the 1914-18 war.

on

The model is of a monoplane which he attempted to perfect into a foolproof circular acro plane which would not stall or sp

"I built the first machine of this nature 30 years ago," said Mr. Richards. "We had to scrap it because tho along. After

Loudspeakers VITAMINS' PART

In found in

STARTS AT 30 "When I am ready to start on

treatment people the

would best be begun when they are about 30 years old.

Are Hidden

wor "came

the war no one

had any finance, and the idea had to be scrapped.

the

"This aircraft, I claim, is original flying. sauce. I that the Amodeanı

that what people sels in

i

When the new House of belleve Commons is used for the have developed the idea, and. first time in October, MPs similar machine. will have to be careful that

"Of course, the speed 'now is any secrets

they may much more than the B5 m.p.h. part to their neighbours are my aircraft could do. Its land- not broadcast to the whole ing speed-was- 30 m.p.h: house.

loudspeaker

5

~Lonam" "Express service)

Philippines Elected Into ICAO

This system of amplification claimed to be the most sin- world. Sound borate in the experts who devised it em- phasise that it does not mean | Manila, June 14-The Philip- 550 loudspeakers all booming pines has been given a seat in

"Every year treatment is de-out together. Amplification will the 21-nation Council of Inter- Aviation Or- be so gonile as merely to raise national Civil Iayed lessens the chance of ex-

the unanimous the voices to comfortable hear-gonisation by tending life."

Ing level in every part of the vote of delegates to the fourth Chamber.

assembly now being held in the Foreign Office Montreal, An official will be placed announced tonight,

where point

he on. the microphone

the £1,000,000

#

con

Dr Gardner has not made any

for appeal which he says is necessary tɔ Successful operations for continue his research, but nat heart disease in adults are group of Americans are talking switch being carried out, for the about establishing a foundation nearest the MP who is speak at the present first time in the history of in New York. surgery, at Guy's Hospital,

London.

A report on six of these suc- cessful operations for valvular disease of the heart is given by Mr H. C. Brock, the heart surgeon, and his colleagues, Dr Charles Baker and Dr Maurice Campbell in the current issue of the British Medical Journal. This is what the Guy's doc tors say about three of the cates.

A woman of 23: She was seven years an invalid, and un- able to

than 100 walk more yards But after the operation she was able to walk up and down two flights of stairs with- out distress. Two weeks after. her discharge from hospital sho could walk half a mile, climb stairs and help in the house.

RECOMMENDED

A nursery governess, aged 38: Eight months after her operation. she was doing & full day's work: without distress, and was able to put a baby in a

perambula tor three miles.

A man, aged 41: He had been forced to give up, work, vet gine weeks after his operation. He was able to walk in mile without discomfort. He is now Hack at work

The

operation

l

that the now by re commended in litable casos bo- prd they have deteriorated too the, most suitable Adult, they say: But thay, Tesla ilm wrong ito. attempt operatlan + on middle aged patients with grown curdino- wahargement and chronic heart troubung

ing.!

NICE

DISH

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