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New Toga For Every Banquet

Two thousand years ago: in ancient Rome, it was the men who peeked mournfully inta atuffed closets and). snapped, "I haven't a thing to wear."

The ladies, who were stuck in the Roman days with Q11 white housecoat apiece, havo been getting even with them ever since,

A costume expert for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, who delved for months into the old Kurno wardrobe, raid a Roman gentic- 37112 would not

of think wearing the same old en twice. Iv nreded a new helmet and 100% for every tote banquet

r triumphal procision.

And he would spend hours nrranging the feather I hat helmet just 50, or fashioning new and Intricate folds Inte which in toga could be draped

"Every man of stature had # valet, usually a hostage cap- tured in the wars," Herschel who do not have a first name,

bind reported.

also dress form made to his mea surements,

"

h

SOLUTION NEEDED "Every night it was the duly of the valet to drape the nex dny's toga opbout this form. They ward a specin) solution 10 sark the material in it would keep it:. druzie Next day it fell right in place when the mastel put it on."

Herschel designed 10,250 costumes for the epie "Que Vadia" using 52,400 yaris ot 'Chere were 0.000 material, pule of sandals, cone fur-lined,

12,000

of plects

jewellery 1,500

copied from antiques,

helimits of bars

water bollen for soldiers.

2,500

The costumes and materini till two large warehouses at the Cinecitta studios ITL

Itou, where the film is being pro- duced.

men

"

rake is

10

hope the film will make clothes-conscious upain," Herichel said worriedly. least I hope men. with the Ieman idea of havica! their Individual body forms, their clothes can be kept neat and pressed at night."

doczn't hold

any hope, however, that women to inch to one housecoat.

"THE • HONGKONG TELEGRAFE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1950.

Floating Ice

SHE MOTHERS

LEOPARD

2

CUBS

Livingstone, N. Rhodesia,

Two leopard cubs were suckled for three weeks, with her own baby, by a pygmy woman living in the bush near here. The cubs were found with the woman by the safari party who shot their mother.

ribe to which The leader of the party. The pynny,

its woman belonged are ti Major Gustav Teilge, said

adle. They say any a few that they were shooting with Gonthis at eny one place,

wander in the Kalahari

After

Lin thought that

Cream

Girl

Main BOATERS on the River, in Frankfurt, Ger- many, are pleasantly sur- prised by something new in river scenery. An ice cream goiulola which caters to floating CUB- tomers is a welcome

Annabella Attends

novation for Frankfurt Tyrone Play

citizens, Above, the pretty captain of the craft passes out ice cream to a float-

ing customer.

(Acme),

NEWS IN THE AIR:

Man Who Tried Out Captured Enemy Planes

The pilot who tested aeroplanes we captured from the Germans during the war so that the RAF should know all about them has just been appointed to command the RAF in Cyprus.

He is 47-year-old Group Captain A. H. Wheeler, who since the war has been prominent in British air racing. He goes to Cyprus with the acting rank of Air Commodore.

Air

For the last 20 months, Wing Commander John Cherry,

Commodore Wheeler London lawyer. as been in charge of ex- erimental lying at the

with TIVEN Airenft Establish- port-button" warfare in a

Royal

*

*

the Americans,

ment. Furniorogh, wheraton way off. In A pungent the latest military aircraft, one of the leading avin- editorial recently, Aviation

ire tried out.

Ition marazines in the United

He held the same job for tw, States, said: year during the wur when, "The general public imprens besides dying new British types, Erinn ... seems to be that push- he tried out the captured enemy Įtaften sterfare is around

itcraft.

*

One man sets - Amie tell me they have recently beca

out to sail 15,000 miles

with Roberts."

to 100

"Mr

the

corner. Despite five years since

the war and a hundred million

dellars, it isn't even on paper!" Why was it that America was still dring German V-2 rockets

tents"

The United States did got have in being any service- tested or rervice-accepted mis-

paper.

She's New

...

SHE'S Piper Laurie and she's lived in Hollywood since she was a little girl Apparently she made her mark on movieland - be- cause she'll shortly be xeen in a fentured role in

·lier

very first picture,

(Acme).

Colorado Denies Its Potato

S. Hislop, British DR. G.

European Airways research scientist, incloers that in three and a half year 87 DEA ah liners have been hit by lightning, But the "bark" of lightning was worse than its "bite," he sles of any type or range.

"What we do have are assort- rald.

Radio equipmeat is most oftened and sundry tea vhleles or affected, though minor damage limited quantities of missiles

to the aero. that could, with me consumin frequently occurs

re-work, plane self.

become operational. An automatic arthing device But we do not have any missiles In London recently on her being developed to protect the with warheads that are yet on bacis," paya the way from New Yok to VHF radio sels on BEA's air-a stand-by Madrid was French film star liners.

* ** Annabella. She arrived in lime to lunch with her70. 360-1 Fighter Control Unit,

NN Royal Auxiihry Air Force.!

at the Dorchester.

"ermpletely inundated" with re- Fertilts That night Annabella went Was it the fighting in Koren?

friends

[

"No," they sald, "we Brked. Frather hone that it has been' Her mer husband, Tyrone inspired by our poster campalga Power, is star of the play. in Londory's Tube stations"

"We are sim great friends The squadron one of the In a 32ft, yawl and meet quite often," she said many FCU's who would man

"He may be giving a party for Britain's

plotting the high,

rader and Somewhere on

stations in the event of war, are Japensity: new bedquarters "No romance in told them that

They Jend

They are havlat their summer The

air now," she states. had taken pH on me hunt animals for

training of Madlerham Hrallı Looking year on thin her Suffolk,

from for a fortalght etal and, as she was the only wear clothes made from

--39-Anabela arrived in August 26. Commanding offeer, ioursg mother in the village, with a tw bend

decided to feed them hered. The woman may hays thought

London in a simple grey buen Pound Sterling. Washington, Sept. 7.

Adrian She was

6, trimmed with black, san- 1 for herit

The man, Mr her pristige te n barst to The Congress of Industratie, and when the parly, be men' for ding kerhot malgr Hayler, a New Zealander, had dals of black and white, and a

Term"..ame entire saned in

net trinl

Lvng te

that Organisations

yawi lying in the AL cinder.depoort Veterinary

Devon,

several sert for Nistarch Station, near Proprii, estuary,

13y. to hep her hair mated today that corpora- tok the ents with them,

There the co WI wined it War

Ph ne bave months while he gained experi-, Her only jewellery: sute: tion profits were "piling upon to tinned drink milk They begin the part of lungs ener in ber ux,

14 bruecht

matching at the record rate of wearly lar. now enang wall

children' bent brought up by:

He is taking with him on late. $23,000,000,000 a year" in

opes at the ske, but we have dret up to Gibraltar,

Fim Madrid, whers se v. never heard of it happening in

only 40tly Buished her latest m

London, Sept. 7, | aallons of water, 40 ab of tinned

British Commonwealth! ant famit ind tilb, of fresh potatoes to go to Venice for the finance Ministers will check towed Europe with potato bu 1ant onions

CORPORATION

PROFITS

the second half of 1950.

The CIO predicare that war mobiliaden would push these!

This even higher,

'The public tion estimated

1 1959 prulit: muy

a Kalahari pygmy guide. willy

they had killed the, ut tert. orders, the guide told them they hart moved et beenuse The deer water holes had that she had just had cube,

dried up.

thn They are truch smallerm a search was made.

natives of Southern

:: native wenn ein ta. Afren A woman's height cubs in turta with her baby. nerally about four 1.

'BOOST TO PRESTIGE

Later the pyny led them to

a village, here they found utter The

wit

TOOK PITY ON THEM*

The

wehun

Kiven

Copra Market

m!

ful,

a primitive life,

New York, September 7. The Natural Hetory Muum, Copa

for emply shipments South Kensington, Jan recor

and at seve at entw of monkge and a SAD bu asked, but s

by dort wektud www P

by West! Afrienn weÐ I nil. November Cutunit

But this the france | 18 reported of catvorous animals was quoted at

is a 2ft., nine-ton- Three times murried, Anna- yawl, with one man aboard bella says she bot zu plans to Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, attempting to sail 15,000 miles from Britain to New Zealand.

18 MONTHS' TRIP

He e Aimates that the trip wiki km 18 months,

be sub $240 and one-half the huther than,1,posten, the 1939 total, and more, thus in twice as hi,it in during the peak hoelivery. wartine year of 1914.—United (centa and D.cember delivery at bgint reured by 1 humanen in a yacht, and his calling

Prest

| 17 cents.-United Press,

nother.

Sabres Moar

Off Together

Until last year he had never

tu

AAPKAMA pu

restival "Don Juan" way to be shown there.

Egypt-India Trade Pact

CHECK-UP

ON

at

Bugs

Infest Russia

Colorado's potato growers scoff at Russian reports that beetles from their fields are depriving the Soviets of a staplo food. They said thato are not onough potato bootles in Colorado to harm ono farm, let alone the collectivo farms of Russia.

"Besides." entomologist has yellow and black stripes on C. R. Jones of Fort Collins is wing_covers."

He believed the Russian pest aid, "the Colorado potato it be the flea beetle, "which hef the won't bree fastumps like a flea and lays its enousch 10 turn into 20 e in the soil around the

EXPORTS Country-wide menace." The lato," ur the oft-shelled

the this

the

the Unite

"In Colorado, we don't even nother to pray our plants," one

int

11 dismired .5 "honey" etle, which "in late-coloured a very pronounced Kumin

charges and has propaganda

States had neck."

But it's all very unlikely,” "Even they arc up on gronds they export to win unt the continent's crop. Jones mali,

other rare now." Russia at a secret conference i "It takes more than 10 of them cat un pl nu" Jones 5214, beginning here on Septem-hure are no laboratoriza ber 18.

this country capable of breeding

of beetles i munt They wil also review

would be necessary." confined

Sterling-Dollar position at Cairo, Sept. 7.

Fest since Eryn and India tiday guadoceting-the Then while in the Second a trade pact riding for the one which took place at your

Britain evaluer Gurba Rifle he was a major exchance of 14.000 tons of jute before --he bought a 10-ton sloop, He for 6000 tons of rice and vac) Announcing the conference lived in her during the water titling Egypt to buy any quantis today, the Board of Trade

blr Hara'd mouths, and taught himself uavity of jute en the free market President,

The Egyptian Inulion.

the Ministes would the Maller ork that Supply, Mr Mohammed Nura review the pretress mode Last June he resigned from Farhat Bey, signed the pact for Commonwealth co-operation In the Army, decided to sad to his Egypt and the Indian Am-trade and would consider mat hard-shelled bug of nomeland. He told the sloop bagrader. Dr All Ashgar Fyzce, ters of financial and economie pe about a morter of us

knowledge

tim:bics.

WAB

cause it had no engine, and signed for India.--Reuter. ought the yawl, using the last Jhus savings.

THROUGH RED SEA

The Yawl, named Sheila H, was built in 1911. She has an Jap. engine, galt main sail and

Bermuda mizzen.

Her route from Gibraltar will se through the Mediterranean and the Red Sea to Ceyion, In- dia, Singapore, Dutch East In- 1.es, and Australip.

"Whether I can do it or not is another matter," he said be Tore he left.

FOUR breast, North American F-86 Sabres of the U.S. 81st Figher-Interceptor Wing at Larson Air Force Base at Moses Lake Washington, roar into the air in formation, leaving black trails of exhaust. Only rarely do four of these jets take off together. (Acme).

Old Enough To Know Better

San Rafael, Calif., Sept. 7. John Albright. 81, or Valley, California, will continue 10 pay $25 for a thing hirence.

In his naturalisation

hearing totoy, Superor Judge Edward Kuller

"Just asked Albright, why do you want to become a

zen?"

Albright, a native of Canada, replied that he liked to go fi

. He added that he had to pay $25 for a fishing Ticonco s In alien, while as an America

etizen he would pay only $2.

Qu¢{jv Butler denied Huzenship-United Press.

$1100

ONION

MIX AMIGA

BONE

་

polley-Reuter.

Scanning

the

Korean

REMEDY SUCCESTED

Jones sid that in his ex- 1913 Colorado perience, since

as not had an outbreak serious ugh to warrnal control men-

MAYBE ANOTHER BUG

The entomologist and growers

TIST the Rural stores, rest apparently had identified "con The Colorado other bug"

Colorado beetle is u an oval

1 Inch in length," Jones said. "It

Skies

AN American anti-aircraft gun crew keeps a sharp lookout for enemy planes at an airstrip closs to the fighting lines in South Korea. (Acme).

However. If the Russlang want 0 km the ptsd, he avocated liquid solution tr dust com- and containing five percent JDT

"That will clean the Colorado etie from any plato plant in 24 hours," he said.

With a twinkle, he also re- ciled nn carller method Advertised in the early 1900's a asure-fire, one-dollar potato- Lug killer .. guaranteed to

ve resulte"

Susceptible farmers who sent two

in their dollar received Aquare

blocks of wood and an

Instruction sheet. The instruc- tion! sheet advised:

"Place the potato becite on eno block of wood and clap the other block sinartly atop the first. This is guaranteed to kill the beetle."

FOUR-DAY CONFERENCE ON RICE

Singapore, Sept. 7.

A conference of delegates from rice Importing 'coun→ trics, called by the British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asin, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, ended its four- day session here today.

The

conference, which

VIS

pleially described as "informal,” devoted itself to "en exchange of information on

VARIOUS

aspects of the rice situation."

The -offelal - announcement on the conclusion of the talks sald that "questions of price allocation and rationing were pulside the scope of the meet-

The conference was altended [by delegates from Hongkong, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, the Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Pakistan, Sarawak and Singapore as well-në by obser vers from Australia, and the | United States---leuter)