1950-08-04 — Page 2

Auxiliary

Airmen

WHAGING away from their peacetime jobs and lives at North Weald, Essex, former wartime aces of the Royal Air Force are shown dying in formation. The fiers keep their fingers used to the touch of the con- trals by week-end flying and manalog a complete group of auxiliary squadrons 20 strung. Planes are Jet De

Havilland Vampires. (Acme).

GIRL'S SPEECH CAUSES WORRY

(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)

London, July 24.

The speech of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Lon- don has startled the country. It has brought home sharply to politicians, educationists, and parents alike the danger of widespread, insidious Communist pro- paganda among Britain's youth.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950.

LONDON DIARY:

Anonymous

Writer

Attacks Housewives

Who is the anonymous writer who attacks working housewives in a preface to the new edition of Crockford's clerical directory? He says the growing practice of married women going out to work has caused a "general demoralisation" in home life.

And he aulds: "The ob- that most of it is spent on ject is to secure what is cigarettes, 'the pictures,' and

MEN COOK probably described as spend various forms of gambling."

BETTER THAN WOMEN

The queen of the kitchen: shoukl give up her crown to the king, according to a pair of wonten food experts f Boston.

An cooks, men are superior to [women, agreed Mrs. Marjorie | Child Husted, home" economist, and Miss Allee Easton, who directed a baked bena supper for 10,000 chering Busion's Jubilee.

"Men put more effort into preparing a meal than do their wives pod mothers, and come through with л there artistic culinary performance," They

uid.

Resed thali The

Imurels men take their cooking

more seriously and devote to cooking family

more meals,

women

time

"I give them a greater ap- preciation of every day living," Mrs Husted said. "It'll give their wives a chance to relax octa- slonally aid, since men natural- ly are good cooks, an occasional tint with the skillet will provide A man with a new outlet for its talents."

U.S. Bombers In Britain

London, Aug. 3. American bombers. based in The occasion of the girl's Britain have been brought up to has been The speech

meeting in con- the full strength of three groups described as "a piece of tech was a Communist literature and nection with the British Peace provided for by the agreement Committee Campalgo-part of n.ade in 1948, an American Air like **24 quotation from an International campaign that Force spokesman disclosed here Pravda." Investigations are had its beginnings in Stockholm uday.

Communist alrely taking place at the and deplored school to which the girl spited.

belongs.

There is no present intention to increase the United States Air Force bomber strength in tri- Juin above three groups, the spokesman saiti.

A representative of the Soviet Union was among the speakers Members of Parliament are at the London meeting, and to taking up the matter and der him the schoolgirl in question The Prime Minister, Mr Cle- mantling fullest pavestigation of dread this message, whichment Altlee, gaid reetutly that

for British how

children are the asked him to take back to there were about 10.000 Amer- being subjected to this move on the schoolchildren of the Soviet

the part of Vonsnumerista.

SHOWING UP

BOOK VANDALISM

Univm We, the school ritudents of Britain, do not want another war. We would refuse to have ything to do with a war of Postresion against the Soviet Traf

DID NOT KNOW After the meeting the girl tuid le did not know the reeet- hg ind anything to do with Communists, and denied she had By ciation with Communist | Loosirations.

De Lundred and fly pupils A display of "character" : books portraying several lit by school; she told the meet- types of individuals who had tied the prace peti tion which is being circulated

| .

check out material has been throughout the world. Another

pupil, set up at the Baylor Univer- | 450

The anddeel, had stard at a bnya' school, ale in London. The

sity library in Texas.

ju the Centring the display

International Youth great bh; book that isn't here.""

Council declares that 143,009 Made of a transparent material,

book carries the children in Britain, have a lead-

the phantom guiation:

"This book

ing part in the collection sgnatures. for peace petitions

has been stolen Tast November, it is recalled.

al

To steal a book is to deprive the National Congress of the users of the book for days. Communist Parly claimed weeks, months, years or forever: Liverpool that 2,000 teachers in The thirf is inconsiderate and

Hah were Communists. selfish, frresponsible and, ol course, dir honest.”

Another book, its cover badly torn, in scribed as being the work of a back breaker,"

"Good ways to break the back of bucks are to keep your place with a pencil or to throw your book at it roommate," an accom- į panying sign reada

CONCEITED

There is no suggestion that British children ore beltu: saturater will "Comumirm, but

aceelies uch as that from art of 15 have aroused wide- spread worry.

DANGER IGNORED

The former Education Minister, Mr R. A. Butler, raid today: "It

a cave of this kind were brought to my notice officially, I would

reinant that

The exhibit also contains one mediately book,

an

to

its pages marred with inspector visit the school onelcelona is and pencilled mar-make a full report of the cir

ginal comment.

These nutes are: constances, the resum of "conceited landedness.“

big Culanci Tuttoa 13eamish, M.P., who has been making a special study of Commulan in relation

Mmis-

Such mutations indicate the

reader bebeves "the author to education, is considering

a dope but I'm an expert,” the display declares.

questioning the present

A badly dog-cured book bears son, about

the comment That, "the

ter of Education, Mr G. Tomlin- the siguing of the petition, by school

slow pence 30 pages often leaves a book The Daily Graphic, which de- looking like a cotton Held after votes its main editorlid comment the

boll weevils have got the schoolgirl's speceh, says Brough with it."

that while Communisin is beling Title of "canest" library altacked in the trades union character is reserved for indivi- | movement and in important civil dunts who tear sections out of service departments, "the danger books or magazines.

to youth is ignored."

reader who stops every 20 or children.

K. 0. CANNON

| BIONOR CANNON

IS AFRAID OF THE

FAT LITTLE SIGNOM)

STUART ?...

I CANT DO MOAN

THAN HAARM YOU. NOW I'VE GOT TO

BE GOING..

POON HR IS

Ran

arinen and here.-Renter,

180 alreaft

Ing-money, and we suspect

Starlet

Editor of

Crockford's, Mojor E. W. Potson Newmum, will not disclose the name of the writer of this diatrible. "I cannot," ho Anid. "I have instructions 10 soy nothing about, the writer,”

Major Newinan was asked: "Do you not think it in n bad to print such criticism thing by an unknown willer?"

Newman: "I would ke to help you, but I cannot."

Crockford's is published by Oxford University Press. Snyr "nofficial of the Church nt England:

"It has no Church authority. It will be unfor- funte if anyone imagines that preface represents the view of the Church,"

the

The Archbishop of Canter- bury's

chaplah underlines this

view.

There is little doubt that the preface is the work of a high dignitary of the Church. Who- ever he is. he should have the Courage of his convictions, Anonymous tirades cio the Church no good.

CO-OPS IN THE DEAL Co-op moncy is behind the scheme to knock down the Galety Theatre and build in its place a great office block for the Indian Government. The Co- operative Insurance Society are interested in the enterprise to the extent of £120,600.

The new block of offlees, eight storeys high, will cost around

half a million. The lease has been varied. The Indian Gov- ernment will hold it for 100 years.

WILL IT BE READY? Can the Festival of Britala be ready in time for its open- nk next year? Leaders of the exhibition display industry have Brave doubts about it.

Ilere is the view of Mr Leon Goodman. for cight President of the Association Display Producers:

Many

firma

Male

Cheesecake

AFTER winning the title of "Miss USA, in LOS Angeles, Evelyn Lovequlst, 19, and the winner of the tille of "Mister U.S.A." Armand Tanny, 28, display their charm, muscle and trophies. The contest was held before a crowd of 1,50) people, mostly females who wanted male cheesecake. (Acme).

VISCOUNT

LOSES

MING HORSE

While three members of Viscount Allendale's family were asleep on the floor above, a Chinese green jado figuro

Glamour Is That Inner Something

Glamour has little to do with physical beauty, film director George Cukor says. The most glamorous woman ho ever knew was Mario Dressler.

In his 17 years in movies, Cukor has directed such beauty queena Greta Garbo, · Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. The juren of them all, ho rays, was

e Inte Miss Dressler.

"When I knew her sha $75 derly, anything but stream- bed, and her face bore .the Ines which are the marks of living" he said. She wasn't

autiful when

played omedy with Weber and Fields the beginning of the century.

N

Who won't beautiful when she starred with Charlie Chaplin in Willie's Punctured Romance,' ho wasn't a beauty when she broke flm box ofice records

ster.

"But she had true glamour,

e power to interest and be rovocative, to away people and make them laugh and cry 'and brill when and how Nie wished."

Currently, Cukor is directing dollywood's newest addition the glomaug ranks, Judy Holli- day, a petite blonde. The film the adaptation of the Broad- way hit, "ior Yesterday,"

MORE THAN SKIN DEEP

Mia Holiday, an the herself admits, is no raving beauty.

"That bas little to do with the fact that che in factually glamor- ous," Cukor said." "Glamour rings from character, artistry and the ability to project emo- Clonal tension. It has little to do with beauty, for glamour is more than skin drep."

The great stars Cukor has directed, Including Tallulah Bankhead, Katharine Hepburn, Norma Shearer, Paulette God- dard, Joan Fontaine and others, are all beautiful. But he says

at in not all.

"It's easy to find hundreds of girls who have faces and bodies

of a recumbent horse was stolon from the drawing-foom at look as if they've been of his home in Hyde Park Street, Bayswater. London. The Cukor said. "But put most of skotched by George Petty,"

of figure, insured for £2,000, is 92in long by 6in in height. them on the stage or screen and

have 30 Festival work on band. Even

STARLET Cecile Aubry, shown at a New York beach, wears a two-piece

if they start now I doubt if

opened black lastex swim suite Festival can

time; and alght shift and with accents of plaid cut-ouble time will greatly in- ton at the bra, the waist crease the estimates,"

under brief skirt. and

(Acme).

Going

Up!

THERE'S no summertime heat in Switzerland, especi- ally when looking across at the majestic Matterhorn, 14,701 feet high, From Zermatt, in the Valaisan Alps, this two-seat chairlift takes visitors smoothly „along a gleei cable to skytop points where they can laugh at torrid temperatures. (Aeme).

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

SIGNON CANNOWY

CAPITANO CANNON

SIGNON CANNON!

| GIORGIOI YOU OLD WAR HORSE! HAVENT SCEN YOU SINCE THE 8TH, ANMY DAYS! WHAT ARE YOU NOW?, LAN ADMIRAL?

NO, NO! I AM A CHIEF ON POLICE! No 6000 TO

SEE YOU AFTER ALL THED

YEARS!..

s:rvant called

they wouldn't mean a thing. There are, at the most. The Hon, Wentworth Beau- They lack that inner something

27, Lord or three such mont

Allendaleswirlch I call glamour, "---United my two

One of lest son, sald: "The mald-Press igures in Britnin.

brother my hese, formerly the property michard, 23, who sleeps at the of the late Mr Onear top of the stairs, He went Mr Reginald Lee, president Raphael, is at the Fitz-downstairs and, finding no one

there, dialled 999. Museum,

There was of Exbibi villiam

outer to sign of

door any tion Contractors, agrees

It is black jade. with

laving been forced." Mr Goodman.

Scotland Yard, investigating one in our association Lori ABendale's figure, which the theft, belleves the thief has yet had a contract," says back to the Ming dynasty may attempt to discard the

of the Association

סאהיי

Mr Lee.

The

bridge.

Cam-

Carried Away

A 20-year-old cenorita in

Granda, thrilled with a mat- dor's performance, vaulted ale the ring-a 10 foot jump

Exhibition (A.D. 1308-1644) or possibly figure when he Icams of its trabbest the matador, toisted rudiorities have been warned even cartier, was originally in value. Tyler and Co., surveyers im on her shoulders and trot- of the dangers of delay, but the Summer Palace at Peking.net" adjusters. of Holborn led right round the arena, they don't

seem to want our It was taken to England from Viduet, E.C..

are offering a help"

thing in the 60: by Cien. Gor- reward of £200 for the re The Festival office Loy

don, and on his death was purjovery of the figure. consitlerable

Wentworth Lord

number 2 con- chose

by F.Tr tracts have been placed.

the Beaumont,

prescot Between the display fems ↑ Allendale's grandfather,

the Festival organisera here seeins to be a wide diver- In the Hyde Park Street

and

gence of views.

CATERING TROUBLES

Another problem faces Gerald

Barry, director of Festival: Bnding a firm

the

Mr the

to clo

catering for the exhibition. Some time ago caterers were invited to tender for the Festival restaurants and re- freshment bars. A short th was made. But several caterers) on that list decided not to go on with the proposal,

The

chairman of onc of these catering Brms said they lurned back because the risk { was

too big the time too short; and the operation of the Catering Wages Act odds to the dificulties and hazards.

the

Who, then, will handle catering? All the Festival of Britain people can may is:

is still to be decided.''

HONOUR FROM A QUEEN

the

Mr J. B. Brebner, chief mublic relations officer 10 Transport Commission. adds to Inis collection of decorations.

Queen Juliaan of the Nether- 'ands has made him a Com- wander in the Order of Orange jasmu for his services to the Dach cause during the war,

Brebner's work in

the war

has already brought him French and American honours.. Flict Street men will rejoice "Jock." nt this new hunour for During Lic war, this tali. sliver-haired ace of PROs was hrad of the Ministry of Infor Newk Imation News Division.

men everywhere paid tribule to the efficiency of his organisation, PROFESSOR BURT RETIRING Sir Cyril Burt, professor of Dychology at London Univer- aily since 1931, is retiring. He

07.

But his friends believe he will continue his researches inte individual psychology, so they love given him a calculating machine and a_lypewriter.

Sir Cyril believes in "inlell:- cente tests" for children-bui only in conjunction with scien- fific interviews. He has been

dviser to the War Office

bc

of

EX-

un zonnel selection since 1941.

Il successor at London Uni veraly next Oc'ober will Professor. R. W. fluxsell, -35. the University of Pittsburg. He is well known for his perimenta with animale, "liar been investigating the behaviour of albino rata at a laboratory. in New Beckenham,

house, the figure stood on a

Cholera Deaths In Madras

The 15,000 spectators roared nthuel riesily and 15,000 white hunderchiefs were waved in the renorita's honour,

When three other matadors and a squad of helpers tried to scort her back she waved theni jway and, gr bbing a picador's pike, vaulted back to her pince. The penuritama law student £10 for breaking persons died of cholera in the the law, as spiciators are never is Kurnool district of Madras State supposed to interfere, and pre-

sidetable in the drawing-room acur a papier-mache plaque on which its history was inscribed. The plaque was also taken,

Madras, Aug. 3. Two hundred and twenty-one-was next

A servant, whose roomi over the drawing-room, heard between June I and July 31, Isented with a £500 diamond

was stated here today.-Reuter. Sng by the matador.

a nelso about 1.30 a.m.

Be

Careful,

There!

WHEN Tony, a 4,000-poun) hippopotamus in the Frankfurt Zoo, needed a little work done on his teeth, ko per Frank Eck decided to look into the nikita*. fact, he gave it a very clons examination, one that would be too close for the e

fort of most peoplo. (Açine),