1950-07-18 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1950.

BURKES LANDED GENTRY

COMING OUT AGAIN..

Snob appeal

makes them fight to get in

By GERALDINE HILL

LONDON.

VILLA in a side-pocket of

piloting.

And right — a close-ups.

THEIR family seat may be a tripper's paradise ufurbird 11. Donald Campbell,

but Britons are busy polishing up their an- cestral trees in readiness for a new pedigree hook.

More than 4,500 British families hope to get their names and mottoes inside the red and gold) pages of "Burkes Landed Gentry"- swark pub- lication outlining the history of any British family of social note.

The book will be published in the autumn.

Marbler

1

MATTHEW LaMERE, 13, a

American native

Indian boy from Great Falls, Mont., is shown practising for the 26th annual Na. tional Marbles tourney in

Asbury Park, N. J.

Short Quirks

Not Much Celebration

Mr and Mrs. William Bartow ;

urtes, 89 and

hively,

celebrated

wedding

85

how-

their anniversary in pital beds, huth suffering ho fractured hips.

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Blinking Doesn't Pay

A British family can get into the book provided it owns more than five hun- dred acres of land or ean trace its pedigree at least 125 years.

to

" is left entirely to th decide who is eligible and who

THEY

ARE TAME IN THE WEST

By CLAIRE COX THE wild, wild west is tame that getting NO

horse meing has be come respectable.

even

Is ant" said Leslie Pira, mariag-their prize

ing editor of the 124-year old publication,

Time was when two Kun- match would toting ranchers

stock ponies in a race sind do any thing short of shooting each other Nothing was barred.

1) win mot even

Ping heads a claff of 15 who the we of dope, and individual are busy checking, and restaken were as high is $10,000. checking family trees for

That sort the But not any Biore.

when the first time since "Burkes Landed of thing went ost Centry was Just published in custom-built 10-alton he came 10. The Thes are strictly on *the level,

with women even

of Jorkeys riding some

the

1937.

montt

1:si alx In the they have malled letters to British than 30,000 more

their families asking for pedigrees.

fu amazing how every Budichman wants to by a Nor- Conquerer mel every Sentanan a Robert Bruce" saal I'lite,

il

NOT MORE THAN 12

"There are not more than 12 British families living who can trace themselves back in direct line to William The Co- ructor in the eleventh century- but there are thesunds whe think they can" the gynaelogy expert sald."

ITLE:

*They're

WIZARD' HAS FIRST

TRIP IN 28 YEARS

THE OPERA STAR SAYS

Calories?

never heard

of them

By GAY PAULEY

AN opera star may get by

LONDON DIARY

IJOLLYWOOD fim hero, in high places. I can recollect Cornci Wilde, new Into no occasion when the Insurance London with his phitl num company have had to pay. blondie wife, actie:s Patricia

PRO not wanted Knight. Both tre to make

PPLAUD the good sense of The Wildes brought a great the borough councillors of stack of luggage. Cornel had Brentford and Chiswick,

Alus.

a dozen sulteasen, is equipped They have decided to dis- for all weather. Illa wife hing peace with a public relations two complete summer and officer. winter wardrobes.

Tory members of the counelt,

For flying the Abantic she led by Alderman 11. S. Howard, wore a dark grey pin-striped outvoted a Socialist proposal to tailored suit with a large pearl 81 the vacant post. choker necklace, Above her Alderinan Howard estimates buck kid shoes was л Kold a PRO and his staff would cost unitie cluin, quarter.. incl the borough between £4,000 thick. Her black bowler hat | bnd £5,000 a year-an extra 2d. was trimmed with a long, pale on the rates. bige feather and a large pink View of the Tory councillors Is that the newspapers give the council ali the publicity thut s view I commend to other boroughs and to Sir Stafford Cripps

rose.

Kippers-by request ecessary. Thin

The Wildes are here for a fortnight, Mrs Wilite will be

| sight - seeing not buying

ntiques before flying on Vienia.

were realistic. From the

to

я л

Ponnics for Bevan?

Hier husband's first thoughtsNING HUNDRED people went

to Queen Charlotte's Birth- - air-day Ball at Grosvenor House the on May 10. Tickets were £2 ordered 10. each, so the organisers re-

crived to total of £2,250,

Dort he telephoned to

Savor Hotel and

food here."

"I hope you have plenty of Who gets in money, now

he said. "I have A that

Queen Charlotte's 15 a State hospital?

with a falsetto note but breakfast. not with a false torso, opera singer Marie Powers says.targe oppetite."

1 report that Comel Wilde Profit from the ball is about Ming Powers, whose torso is WAA well satisfled with als

£800 this year. This is about far from being falsetto. makes

'special request" breakfast: £100

more than last year; but a professional plea

the grape for

Trailt, kippers and it is £1,200 short of the pre- lumpners the and some other orange juice.

war average, epera singers wear.

Mrs Wide had bacon and Look at the figures of the eggs. great toomen singers," she said,

could nit "Why, you

on their bosoma.'

That's why she never diets, al- though her in a constant batu to keep the pounds whittled within reason.

Ball black market

HERE were 1,800 prople at THER

Out of the £2,250 takings, the organisers had to pay the Hotel 1 38, d., a head (total: about £1.057), Other expenses them: £140 for dance bond; consumed about £300, Among charity ball at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshi

£24 55. for cabaret; £25 for heine of

1001. cake (cut into 200 the Duke and Duchess of

pleees). Stationery, printing, Marlborough, Ticketp

| poslane, took many pounds. "If I diet," she explains, "the

33. each until the end

Before July 1010, when the frst thing affected by it is not

£4 45, after that. State took vacal May, and

over, the Birthday ix my my waistline

All were sold by the beginning Ball was one of many netivities chords. Those I can't afford of June. have acting up. So I just cal

by

hospital's Demand for tickets continued, appeals deparment. Now, hos- then work off # black market for them nitals cannot themselves appeal extra pounds. Calories?

began to operate. Between

£for funds: Never heard of 'em."

8. and £10. 10%, was

beingganised by asked for a ticket.

Friends.

factOR 28 years Leo Villa has worked with the Campbell team in its attempts to shatter world records on land and water.

all I want and so hobest, in

that horse racing has become fun for

family. the whole eluding the horses.

Come Sumley morning. ma parks a box lunch, the family loaded into the station wagon, i

rad the pile ranch

home cheated out of a day of oul- ching rest, is put On 4 trailer and hosted to the track, on a ranch outside Tucson,

I

But he has never been, in a racing car trial nor in a speedboat test.

he

Weight's Her Secret

Until last week. Then over smooth Coniston Water in the Lake district Leo sped in Bluebird II. at 110 the miles per hour.

In a

in tiny space

thel cockpit Leo squatted watch-

ing the instruments as This stamp is

bont shot over the water,

ן!

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ushure

he

ANOTHER DERBY

the "Churchill Whed visited Downs" of Arizona during a grinned rather sheepishly said: stopover on the sangural flight "I thoroughly enjoyed à‚“

Donald Campbell, son of the Pine sand many hard-pressed of American Airlines' new $110

Malem. piloted couch late Sir

the to transcontinental Britons had watten in

bom!, Said he: "Leo must be Ese part

in the book although service.

wizard, he has done something hugh taxes had forced them t sell their lands and throw open their family mansions to public.

alr

desert,

Here on the

ranchers

enctus-studded

the

"One old man told us Sir Ieft Stafford Cripps had

II.

him with twelve verey. was in the hook before the war and had a good record

put him we have again," Pine Bald.

KO

In

יקניין?

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to to this beat--I don't know what celablish an annual sweepstakes jit is and improved its stability as ble as the Kentucky Derby, famazingly. the 'reakness and the Belmont Sinker.

The 10th amal speed trials

Not record

"The man was to a record attempt. We shall do that in

nt St

'Tin

cust of

the

own

so the ball is or

an Association of

now

Quern Charlotte's is grouped with the Chelsea

Friends serve the

contralto now

London's new church Money for research starring Broadway hit opera HE Queen went to Chelsea "The Conrul** won't give OIR in lay the foundation stone spital for Wonen, so the As- with her exnet weight.

o! Columba's Church secution of "Just say I weigh youthful-Sentland in Pont Street. iy," she said.

church, blitzed งา People guess her at around May 1941. was the garrison

rhino of the London Scottish 5000 proni Regiment, of which the Queernance The singer keeps it from cois Colonel-in-Chief, For this ing higher with an exercise re-reason, net because she is her- at Queen Charlotte's, for which zimen that'd have ment women elf a Scot, the Queen taking pay. And it will be used to the Ministry of Health refuse to flat on their backs from exclose interest in the rebuilding.

150.

haustion,

In two. Each hospital will get a share of the Birthday Bail's

This money will be used to independent research

Finally, the new euch will provide flowers, books, periodi-

cals.

Christmas delicacles and have n restaurant; there will

"luxuries" in be a meeting ball with dance her

than the cinema

Projector and slage: and there will lan n Cock

Any

the day

weather

her indoor, favourable you'll see Central Park, pedalling bicycle at a fast clip. She keeps lower with lifts

In her dressing! room for Bul

in our honour quick spine whenever she feels and

and world championship quar-works-when the new pro- PARACHUTES opened

ter are being run now,

But they're not going to do ; with thoroughbreds. That's sy to the dungaree-glad who roll

About one Thesand familiesmulionaire spatenton

Imely stock that's

will not be eligible for re-entry their own cigarettes. "They're

this year's "Landed Gen ry. using the lang of them have died, other gen here since 1800 and never are untranyable and soins have and bu replaced by

bothered to answer automobile.

Pine tetters.

SNOB APPEAL

the

peller is realy"

into il roller

greater *cbundance

Welfare State permits.

How many people who go to Queen Charlotte's ball realise their money 1,065 to Siate. Gaiety roundabout

the carved white Port- Queen stone which le like one.

was setting in position signal-owned hospitals? Or walk

midtowed the start of only part of the in Manhattan

rink and building.

TF the Chiety Theatre la pull- there's Miss Powers whirling! Liceties given so for cover the blue sky over Crete along with a collection of tech miy

ed down and replaced by the 80B-seat huil: tiny fees, what happens to the will take one and a half to two London County Council plan for London Erpress Service) and the German attack be- gan. For 12 days the in-

years, will cost £70000 total estimate of £150,000. vaders were held by British Empire and Greek troops in

Wimbledon rain Jone of the war's most des-

perate battles.

Insult to "The Few'

#

now

per

No Idle Moments

Each week also she crowds in

a little lee skating, swimming,

Just 312 cuse

of the

insure

large tralle roundabout at the approaches to Waterloo Bridge?

Pla

the

In County of London

it appears na Island, at the corner of the and Aldwych, would

towling, fencing and gymnasiumIMULEDON, see of many naps

compizainity does not work. She's up at six every Then a tow of reinforcements | morning and ta

notice at L Strand uff walking to East rain.

money would be push the roadway right over TIRER Sears ago the Southern gave the Germans ruccess. Mest church before most people hare afeded 17

Railway made an imagina of the Allies escaped.

lul their orange juice. She's a refunded if there was no play. The Galety site. This plan is

is argued, there is no

In abeyance, but still stands Now Greece honours the men devout Catholic and

attend, it

Point in insuring against rain. es future policy, ve gesture in honour of The

They

Lupine Lane, who has been wite fought for her Bamed

with this mass daily.

The lawn tenals champion-

trying to restore the blitzed locomotive the Battle-lamp adorned with the Bogs of design of

New

PUR exercise ships are

jointly by the class. of-Britain

The toeo- ritam, Australia, and

theatre, tells me he was oscured club and

when he first bought the Quiety orange trees of the day she gets a massage, lawn Tennis Association-

that the olives were named after crack Zealand, and an outline at the hasn't done its job, at the end all-Englanci

scheme roundabout IAF squadrons and men who Island where

Tie Joint organisation Lake

only four or five fatne 10

blossom again on the battledleki.

Have dinner with her some fout years ago.

policies against several would take Face-value 1.000 drachnue

feet of pavement and would not There locomotives were the

Inne and you'll know what she frontingencies that would Incan ride of the Southern alway. (about 68.): perforation 13

tes when he says, love the cancellation or curtailment wuch the theatre itself. Jnder nationalisation? They by 13 price unized is. 6d.

If the championships. J. A. A.

These include ook dirty, neglected; as it they

such things an Her taste runs to lobster ther- re never cleaned.

(Londos Express Service) midor and rich desserts,

disturbance or death war, civil The

HORSES NOT DELICATE The horses out this way "Most of them write becausaren't delivate he thous in the few GRA

of the nob-appeal. It wou test and far west.

They're do for the neighbours to be ing

what is known as

the

book and not themeve quarter horses-imas that run Pe le

the best when the distance hmile to a Nealeht stretch of Pate paid "families fight like in quarter of a mile, and man! cats and degs to get in Burkes. how they can sto Some evin write attack,ng heir. neighbours" pedig vor tab. most factful."

D

J. C. Bankatmi blinked yes whil driving down If street and next thing he knew; he was in an ambulance. He kit 4 steam rotter unit before le could get out of his car a pickup! truck had piled into the rear of

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Willaz

#

Plenty to Read

DOAK-

Burt Bought a ripy at every magazine 01 sland when his wife gave birtu to a kon in a bospital. The bil came to $13) but BON AUS care. He said he di...n't wont his wife to Het hos ra the hospital.

1,2

3:

Crime Nipped in Bud Recente cuenta waste no time with moon:PARATM, A man was arvested in the act of putting up his litt. The hadn't had a chance tozlar operating wet. He was charged with icit distuling of whiskey.

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Would Tax Babies

Harel banrd Karnal district north of Delhi

We have

Weekdays the racing have to work for their hay.

ponies

Southern Region of British Railways do not deny that these engines tire hardly ever touched with polishlug rag. They admit that some of them may Never have been cleaned since they were sew,

Four excuses.

What

the Southern Berion's explanation? They

say:

There a shortage of engine-cleaner boys.

-Locomotives arc

worked

so hard, there is less time for cleaning as they stand in the

sheds.

3-Engines are rarely clean- ed except when they go in for major overhaul, The Battle- of-Britain class were designed specially to need a minimum of maintenaHQE, This means they have hed no major overhaul, therefore no seaming

4. Under the revised nationa- lised railway colour scheme, like the locomotives,

have

food."

Exclusive

the

Care

For

Marc

to India.

Lane has now sold the guiety

-(London Express Service)

113

fer revenue, the of commissioners

DEBUTANTE for 1950-Mis: Jacquelina Bromley, 18 (left), other with friend from Tanganyika, Miss Anna Knight, as Merchant Scaman Bromley works in a Mayfair antique shop--party for her wat been re-painted. The Battle-of- has asked for permission to levy given by her mother, Mrs Donald Whitaker, at their #fereford Britain class keep

30-cent tax on babies,

Square home.

class

their

old

green colour.

K.

CANNON

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POLEOIY MEJ

YOU MADMAN}}|

YOU'RE THE ONLY

ONE WITH A PARACHUTE |

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

HOLD TIGHT. [NO PARACHUTESĮ) S'LL¡ BEJ IF |CAN GET.

CARAMELLA..

AND MIND THAT

OPEN DOOM!

WHAT CAN

WE DO?

CONTROL OF HEN...

WHAT A FOOL TO WALK

INTO A TERAP

LIKE THIS?

A TRAP SIONDA?

OF COURSENHOLLIS NEVER INTENDED THAT WE SHOULD METURN FROM THIS TRIP!.. AND MAYBE WE WON'T{}

Four-month-old Marc Ely will never have to worry about finding the family doctor. His parenia: Mir

and Mrs Lloyd Ely, of Los Angeles, Calif., both racevel M.D. degtros frum the University of Southern Califorala: "They mei while nitriding the same anatomy class and were married during their pre- medical

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