1950-08-02 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1950.

Students Make Bed Før ✅ Prince

STUDENTS of the Royal College of Arts are busy making a bed which Princess Elizabeth has agreed to accept as a christening present for Prince Charles. The design, made in accordance with the Princess' wishes und chosen from a number submitted in a competition, has been placed on view in London. Picture shows The student designer, Mr Frank Gullie, with his model of the infant Prince's

(Central Press).

hed.

Hard

India Fights Against Heavy Odds

Nearly three years of independence finds India far behind in its planned social and economic improvements, but optimistic of the future. Foreign residents, however, make gloomy predictions, some even fore- casting chaos within two years.

Indin was hit with a blizzard of troubles when it took its first toddling steps as a democracy on August 15, 1947. An estimated 11,000,000 of its people becarņe homeless refugees during the Punjab riots in which more than 1,000,000 Hindlus and Moslems diedl the violent deaths of a religious war.

LONDON DIARY:

Lips Like The Morning Dew On Poppies

Mario Cabre, Spanish film actor, bullfighter and poct, is looking for a publisher. He wants to publish the love poems he wrote to actress Ava Gardner when they were filming together in Spain in the spring.

Mia Gardner has denied reports of a love affair be tween her and Mario. Cabre, however, is proud of his poems, has translated them into English.

dur

1-ubficly al Institute. diplomats and

to rend them

with

Sir Joshua Reynolds bought it in 1786. He was very pleased 'great purchase," which he and was "reckoned Bernini's greatest work." He paid £735 and hoped to sell for £1,000; but he never did.

was

After his death his executors old the sculpture for £500. the Spanish For time it was outside a Two Innred Chelsea house, then it im personalities moved to a house in Arlington have been invited to come and Street. In 1900 the group went 10 Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire.

listen. Ava Gardner is not one of them.

n

Reads one pory: "Your lips are like morning: dew on Luppies, your hair like trasure chest of spun cold." SIMENON'S HONEYMOON Honeymooning in Connecticut are the Belgium detective writer :Georgs Simenon, author of 300 1 novels and 1500 short stories,

and his second wife.

The Victoria and Albert are) ed to have the work.now. T in the only large-scale group; by Bernini bu any museum) Cutside Italy.

FUTURISTIC TAILOR Visling Londan recently was French Inilor Gaston Waltener,

whose work has been described.

a "Tabulous ensemble of non- exolicism." Vo

Simenon's first marriage. which took place in Bellinzonformist In 1923. ended in a divorce at me Reno, Nevada, in June.

for the fourth congress Next the International Federation

nt Master Tailors.

were represented., But, among the 100 tallors attending the congress, there was no greater Evolutionary That Waltener. He is the man who puts his

customers into coloured evening clothes, white help.

Prince

Of "Wide

Boys" Bad News For Film Actresses

LOOKING, every inch a spiv, Arthur (Prince of the "Wido Boys") English has, since making his debut at the Windmill Theatre, London's home of non-stop variety, taken over the part of resident comedian In the BBC's "Variety Bandbox" show.

Press).

(Central

CROPS MAY GROW

IN THE SAHARA

day be married 1 Dengge Eleven European countries Dommel, aged 30, from Oltawa. For four years she had been his assistant; pst and research he its her "my Girl Friday,

Under the divorce termis, Simenon was given castely of the sun. Mare. But the Strat

Irs Simenon Was given Waltener, 43, has a shop in "reas ble rights of visitation, the Faubourg St

ovided the lives within ihrer Paris. I have never been tulo Jules of her ex-huisland, who

shall pay the cost

fluence," says Mr T. R. Hewitt, more. transport And moving

of the National she gehol4 effects if

clects cretary

Federation of Merchant Tallors, to follow him from one dømlede

another."

Mainla

Thousands of these refugees has it deprived India of much any dangerous degree. are still on government relief, nerded cipital gools but it igiance and stupidity are cust- and coricultural production in has also inflated prices on hard- ing Indian taxpayers far more this "bread basket" of India is to-get American drups and than its dishonest officials, still far belov normal.

necessities.

Pakistan

Oetting all the shortcom India's bighteni difeult is ing and disappointments of the Then came devaluation of the

save Inition rovernment, there is one The partition which pushed already food. riving prices to all time highs,

"the majority of the increpable fact-it has made an economic cold apicultural areas, forcing India Indla a far happier country for I started

Everywhere you go re- to spend an estimated 250,000,- Indintas,

hope amongst its

war with Pakistan, which and rupees yearly for imported there is n pride in its achieve-

fused

te

the

Trade

devaluate. hetween

countries foodstuffs. The government had meals, and two virtually stopped, and thousands hoped to be self-sustolla by people for a better future.

of

Indians normally employed 1950. The

111 processing Pakistan-grvn 1951.

jafe and cotton were jobtus.

new gool is late

TOO MUCH SPENDING

More woes have coing with the trowth

I definitely a Kovernment

They of the people.

argue about fl, juzike it, curse It and take up active interest by it.

The government is sincerely

Honore In

The Sahara was not always a

desert, and the

a tailor's shop of such magni- United Nations thinks it can grow crops there once.

her

of

399

house.

"

in 47 A.D. found

Actress Audrey Totter had to wait until she was east-in afla in which she's the. only woman player to dis- cover a little known fact about the ratio between tho sexes in filmland.

"Next time you to to tho show, add up the men and women in the east and compare the tuumbers," she said, "and you'll get a surprise.

"The men cutnumber women four and five to one."

the

Mian Tolier sold she was not exactly nglow with a Columbus- Ilke elation over her discovery. It adds up to bad news for actresses.

Her role in "Under the Gun"

o the lone woman in screen credits a fine for her this time, but

Or love it. What woman wouldn't? But I can't help re cognising that it's part of a situation making it tougher in the long run for the distní side of the acting business." Audrey Iumented.

Actually, though, she doesn't binne Hollywood for this dis- crimination, even though writers Farob bily could corrnet it if they made a conscious effort.

SAME ELSEWHERE

"It's just that Hollywood iz reflecting a situation that exists enerally in Hterature ond drama," he ad. "I suppose it's because until recently all interesting things were done by

men.

"Because of that, writers got In the habit of sticking close to men's affairs in their works. Women may be emancipated but the pencil pushers haven't heard about it.

"Seribes can't stay in the dark ages forever. With women be- coming increasingly aclive and successful in business, politics and the professions, they're

literary to got more

bound

"So

We'

! Ritchie Calder, UN food answered, "from the valley of "11 is like a woman's fashion official, has studied the ruins the Ouir," a wadhi near the attention,

make way, you actors, netresses are out to get our of ancient Carthage to find mountains of Morocco. Suetonius

Paulinus, Cashion parnden, employing out where the Carthaginians elephants, lions, panthers and place in the lens.

"But until we do, I hope I'm good-looking girls to hold the drilled their wells and grew reptiles there.

nnds of his men models. "This their crops.

lucky enough to get nothing but Calder found nothing but roles like my present one. AN

it will not those

Wallener

started

men's

In recent years Simenon has travelled widely, dividing his time between Canada, Florida, Arizona, Callfornia and New York.

He and his bride are expectedt gives men poise and confidence," to call for

Je explains, Europe within a

What does Waltener week or two, taking Mare with

of Savile Row? them for a holiday. Mrs Simenon will

The first

America.

remain in

think

be-

men

"There

is no doubt that the naked.desert, "but

what population of

Agricul-attention!" is now be so much longer." Tunisia was at least twice what fural developments now Here is his it is today, Calder said in the ginning there will bring back judgment: "London tailors do

New Statesmen and Nutton. into production. 60,000 acres of

rich it," he said.

Nomads were most to blame?

very but they do not creats fashion: they just make suits."

uicely for Englishmen,

Gre

DISHONOURED

Not

BOUGHT BY SIR JOSHUA

One of the Victoria and

most Albert Museum's

Im- of recent portant acquisitions years goes on view soon: a large marbl: group by the greatest Commusaist Increased govemment expen-

of all Baroque sculptora, terrorism, Indian Communists ditures are another liability. trying its best to make India

Bernint armit one objective—the aver- India lies become one of the better place for Indians.

The Kroup, representing throw of the Nehru government greatest bureaucracies in the efforts are often clumsy, and Neptune and Glaucus, was covenants. Sorac covenanters world. Dupllentior of authority is most rigantic undertakings "ommissioned in 1022 by a and in Mciency, tre universal, may enty produce infer. Panairal well disciplined, There Is

government progress is being made.-United (beside a pond in his garden in armeri and

to become corruption and fraud, but not in Press. canter

Home, martyrs. the Communists have been wrecking trains, guerilla...” raiding villages, disrupting com munications and incitiu: Jabour strife at every opportunity.

TA violence.

alo

of

the French

Sahara,

Gandhi Memorial

Suggested but enrdinal who wanted it to stand

THE FLYING ARROW MAN

water supplies could be found

Royal Englucers" in

and all that

Burma Towr. Retaken

ters, it was officially stated here

Qulelal sources

today.

Yunnan,

NAKED DESERT NOW Supporting evidence was the for the desert, Calder claimed. burn the sparse, desert case of 17annibal's elephants. They "Where did they come from?" bushes to make tea, and the marej

but torrential rains crode the Many nationalised hospitals Calder asked. are facing a new difficully. Men Col, Quenard, military gover- nose soil.

Rangoon, Aug. 1. Burmese and women who made covenants) nor

Government forcer ANCIENT CISTERN FOUND have retaken the township of to pay giipulated nimounts to the voluntary

Tekllet, in Hengtung State. hospitals euch year

Calder thought a short cut to from Chinese Nationalist deser- honouring

through bave made no payment since

archaeology -- "if the State took over the hospitals

archaeologists would turn their

sources said that the attention from palaces and.. township was one of the several two years ago,

Nairobi, Aug. 1. Donations

be useful about cisterns." mndc

places seized by between 3,000 under

Kakasaneb Kalelkar, former covenants are of double value associate of Mahatma

an enormous and 4,000 deserters Ho, discoverd

who had Gandhi, cistern, "a system of man-made crossed over. from to the hospitals. For the hospi- cuggested here 10day that an caverns (2,000 years old), more into. Burmese territory and en- tals can claim back the income- Institute for higher eduen ion impressive tax paid on fliese amounts by should be

the chlove-trenched themselves in the hills... established in Eastment of the the donors. But to enable the Africa

as a memorinl hospitals

to the headquarters shelter nearby. Burmese forces had for some to get this tax. the Indian leader. Besides suffering from strikes

Calder warned, however, that time been engaged in dislodging and shortages of raw materials,

the assignment of actionor must covenant

once men determined to inter- the intruders and driving them Mr Kalelkar, who left for once same payment Indians industry needs new honse amagazine

commodation to the corps of the

Addis Ababa by air with the fere with the flow of the desert back across the border, the the least seven years. aboard correspondents machinery and equipment to some interesting stories of "found out I must be get- Amethyst, Rich got the captain's Thus a gift that costs

the industrialist Kamainarayan Bajaj and cultivate the land, they sources acided.

Burmese troops met stiff re- Wayne Richardson, their ting old (mnybe it was the 50 bed. On the headboard was a donor £5 a year is worth about after a two-month tour of East have got to go on Interfering."

African territories, said that he Old desert civilisations had sistance" when they attacked in China) white plaque with black letters 7 10s to the hospital. is hesitant about investing in correspondent in Hongkong pounds he gained

had been impressed by the been lost through neglect or one of their encampments lost until early this yar.

when they transferred us from rending: "Queen Elizabeth slept

nomad invasion,

The

deserters and modern week. the Jamaica to the Amethyst in here June 9,

RESENTMENT

growing desire among all races 1045"

in East Africa to see the other's man's struggle would have to ousted and were whalebont Rich related. 'I "Somehow, when

State the corres-

hospitals are not a popular figure in Wayne.

be ceaseless.-United Press. point of view.-Reuter. was hanging

for funds. Hongkong during

on to that rope pondents left the vessel there allowed to appeal the time he

hands and to was a pencilled addition to the They surmount this deully apent here, gained the George ladder with my

It rend: I lnque.

'50 did by forming associations Award of the the whaleboat with my toes.

Richardson, 1940,"

friends of the hospitals. Appeals: ure made by the associations.

"A lot of our supporters are breaking their covenants," one association secretary tells me. "Some of them write to say they resent States interference and are stopping for that reason; the majority just stop and say nothing."

replace its patched and outworn plants. New capital, however,

India.

FOREIGNERS UNEASY

The Associated

Polk Memorial

Press famous dash down the Yangise contains last summer.

Says the report:

from the

Many foreign business homes. U.S. Overseas Press Clubs for almost fell into the sea.' particularly British, feel their his dispatches d days in India are numbered.brandtsen ship Flying Arrow, The butter-manage and more which efficient foreign companies make

the

was

Nationalist

shot up by 7 warship at

the

difficult for competition Indian organisations. European houth of the Yangise early this business men feel it will only be car

a matter of time until the Richarelson and other news- elamour for "restrictions on men kept a three-week death foreign business" is watch on General Pershing at a

acknowledged by New Delhi.

Turson munsing home in 1936. The competition over the stery

The curtailment of dollari was kern. imports by 25 percent of 10418 purchasen has hurt. Not only

To stand for Holborn

1፡4135

Conservative

One of my competitors Wat waking good progress with a young telephone operator In trying to sew up the lines," Richardson recalled.

"Hee aunt asked me about him, and I warned her not to

JOLBORN and 5. Pancras let her niece have anything to Association do with him as I understood he ndopted Colonel L. H. had a wife and three children. Gluckstein, KC, us

their new The poor bloke was single." prospective Parliamentary can.

the

lidate. He is 52, Wils MP Bis adventures aboard. for East Noltingham from 1031 Flying Arrow and in Tsingtao to 1045.

have been reported throughout the world. Buy before that he Holborn and St. Pancras is had quite a time on board HMS held by Socialist Dr S. W. Jamnica when she went out to Jeger; his majority: 1230, meet IIMS Amelhyst after the

K. O. CANNON

AH! THERE'S COUNT DEL FALCO AND HIS DAUGHTER. THAT SAVES ME GOING UP: TO THE CASTLE...

WHY, SIGNOM CANKON! SIT DOWN AND DRINK WITH US..

SORAV,COUNTIIVE NO TIME TO WASTE WANT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT A MAN. NAMED STUANT.....

IT'S IMPORTANT!.........

"It

WAYNE (Flying Arrow) Richardson, on the left, receives the George Polk Memorial Award at an Overseas Press Club élaner.

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

THEN WHY NOT ASK HIM YOURSELF. SIGNOR? MR.CANNON – MB.STURAT!!

WE'VE MET GEFONE, I BELIEVE! WOULD YOU LIKE MY WHOLE LIFE-STORY,CANNON? WHERE SHALL I BEGIN?...

to make

for

at

of

The number of new covenants mbile siące nationalisation is small.

PITY THE PATIENTS Money pald under One covenants is chiefly used to provide hospital amenities and comforts not allowed by the State. So are noney received from King Edward's Hospital Fund, and Ands raised by sucti charitable functions as Queen Charlotte's Birthday Ball.

Without such charities, patients

Stote hospitali

would

in

have

ט

grim time. Why should they have to de- pend on charity?

The Hawks meet TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY Cambridge and ex-Cam- bridge sportsmen were at the Hawks Club dinner at Gros- venor House on the last day of the Oxford v. Cambridge cricket match. Guest of honour was Lord Bruce of Melbourrie, 1004 rowing Blue.

The Hawks Is onc of the most exclusive of univeralty clubs. Only Blues are eligible for membership.

President is G. II. G. Doggari, holder of the record number of Ove Blues; he is Cambridge cricket captain, played for Eng- land against the West Indies in the first two Tests. ...Earl Mounthalten was in the chair. He was elected in 1910, same year as the King and the Duke of Gloucester, Alfending | as an honomry member WAS Allo Wakeling, steward of the club for 40 years.

Now

Say

were

now, being

mopped up.-Reuter:

“Ah-”?

WIDEAWAKE, an elephant at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, opens, up for Edward J. Johnson, director of the 200, to examine her mouth. She had just. been given d lubrication job in which animal fat was applied to her hide to take. the place of the nice mud baths she would have if she were back in a jungle, The groash was applied to keep Wideawalke's hide from cracking. ↑ (Adme).