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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1950.

QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

AIR-CONDITIONED AIR-CONDITIONED,

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

„195 And Boas WITH RES......RIOS AMO ROAR MOTTE MEN RIDE AND ROAR WITH REDI.

RED SKELTON IS THE YELLOW CAB MAN

There's a laugh a minute in M-G+M's joy ride !!!!

GLORIA DE HAVEN

a not wheels!

"IF DEMOCRACY EVER GETS

ON ITS FEET HERE IT WON'T

BE OUR FAULT¡EH. MATE?"

Nice day Lots have another strife

No helping the nation i that means helping Socialist

Toa

Le and to

lyom

with

WALTER

SLEZAK

EDWARD

ARNOLD

JAMES GLEASON

RIDE AND ROAR WITH WEST, LOR AND MOAR WITH REGIATE AND HOOK WITH RED!.

✯ NEXT QUEEN'S

MGM's Big Technicolor Musicall

"3 LITTLE WORDS"

Fred Astaire • Red Skelton

ROXY

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CHANGE ✯

ALHAMBRA

The Funniest Picture in 10 Years! "ADAM'S RIB" Spencer TRACY.

Katharine HEPBURN

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SHOWING TO-DAY

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Theatre

BROADWAY: 5 Shows

At 12.00 Noon, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

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FROM

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SHOWING

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SAKER AT 2.30, 5.30.

7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Cathay

FIRST SHOWING IN HONGKONG

WAN WAH'S GREATEST PRODUCTION

“THE DEVILS” W

A Mandarin Picture

•

Starring NAM MA SHECK YUE *

MORNING

SHOW

PAT FAN CHOW

"THIRD STROKE"

An U.S.S.R. Production

Letterheads

Personal

BLIMP BROTHERS' PATRIOTISM

STEWART GRAY, Editor of the

OPENING ME 4). BRITISH STEEL

Copyright in all countries.)

World Copyright. By arrangement with Dolly Herald.

She's a State-trained houseworker'

--that's officialese for 'maid”

* An office Job ΟΙ Д kitchen cirver? Nearly one million girls in liritain threw up domestic service between 1930 and the end of the war for more con- genial jobs at an office desk or a factory bench,

Now the Ministry of Labour `is spending more Um £100,000 A year to help bring girls Into domestle work.

The first thousand State-trained houseworkern are out eating their living. Here is the story of one.

M

OST people would cali 22-year-old Kathleen Briggs a domestic servant.

Her

I working in one home dia not nult her alic could Joln's the Institute's daily houseworker service, now running in a dozen towns, and get paid 25, G. an hour.

this dian

But among the half million domestic servants In country there are

fewer 1,200 diploma holders like Kathleen.

Each one's skill has cost the taxpayers from £100 to £210. Before Kathleen went 10 Leeds she has spent six monLis living

ut a training centre, During that time she was paid 19% a week.

How was she trained?

For 20 hours the learned how. to settle down and get along minicably with a faintly. Sixty hours went on dral-hid and home nursing, 185 on daily (Such thing as how to clean fluers, make beds. to lay

Ares, spring-cleons, keep away moths, mend fuses, handle-

sweepers, front, eight-roomed carpet detached house on the out- skirts of Leeds.

housework. housewife-employer pays her 22 59. a week live in and help with the

chores in an

frigerators....)

*

She learned how to cool and shopping in 90 hours; how

te deal with the uniry from But Kathleen does not bogwash to fine blouses in 60 call herself a domestic ser- hours.

Lowing:

vant. She is a "trained She spent another 46 hours houseworker." The framed with neccles yellow parchment on her machines. bed-sitting room wall is her passing-out diploma from the National

Instituto

Then she went out to work no student in a culairban home for four months,

At the end of that time Kathleen touk ten-long test at the training centre and went

Site does not envy her four home with a diploma. Helder sister their horthand-

Hongkong Telegraph, has Houseworkers. just revisited England for the first time after 15 years.

with some interesting observations of the months, siys "I wouldn't dream Klier trained houseworkers returns after six months

LAND EVER

RUMBLING,

that

THAT IS GRUMBLING

of

offering! a

Everybody In England, today.

FOR

typing Jals in the City, Kathleen, who has held this post for 18

of leaving unless, of course, I Get m reied,"

'Pleased'

and

week seem

ATHLEEN BRIGGS

this I have met pleased with their work. The She wears a smart turquoist employers seem

pleased with blue cotton dres, with beige them, too. collar and cuffs, wrap-over front,

chirt top, neat breast pocket. It

is the houseworkers' " uniform.

H

Mother says....

•

It seems that the old, drab story of sooty-faced "generals"

ley Mrs Mops has taken a brighter wist.

Jut said to Mrs Marjorie Spikes, chief oilleer at the houseworkers' highly polished West End headquarters housewives be accept

"Win

2.U willing to the Institute's

terma

of

houseworkers

EK mother, who used to wear a black print dress, white apron and cap when she was in The general Impression left service" as a girl, fells her: "1 Entertainments are at pre-

A well dressed, because every- ig that England, without being wouldn't have held my post for when there are thousands

the slightest bit aware of it, has a day if cherished prerogative ably their highest-ever level.

I had dressed like State trained of the Englishman, is with the London and leading body can afford to be. More

Jifterf ever the much-criticised utility

of herself out

the you."

looking for posts?" provincial watres

The former sli doldrums and is at last begin-

altache for still the most popular pas- wealth

cleverly-written forments have been and

rewards of produced are a boon, for they are made ning to reap the brilliantly

But when Kathleen's mother

women's affairs at Washington time in the Old Country- plays,

the was a homemaid there was no

said: "I don't think we shal musicals, and lavishly present- from food materials nt prices self-imposed musterity and

resolute tackling and it's not taxed!

no free State ed ice and roller-skating shows which at every pocket.

of dimeultsev: ni shortage,

all Over have any trouble oblems. English which leave similar Hellywood You find your

that." training for domestic work.

There was no fustitute, now man at home grumbling versions in the shade.

three

years

ears old and backed by Despite nationalisation, pub- everything anet about

Government £113,900- functioning

--year he services are nothing with disarming in midly and efficiently,

Frant, to tell housewives: "You But it is the improved stan- partiality.

dard of living among the poorer classes which is so striking to

It is still the surest sign that he is thoroughly enjoying him- wouldn't willingly #self

change his state of life for any tung olse.

ntac

the

the visitor.

Not So Slummy

HERE are numerous manifes

tations of these new and rough Every high living standards.

or

To the visitor, whelber be Englishman returning be an home after a long absence, somebody seeing the place for the first time, one of the most impressive features in town and country are the magnificently tended house gardens.

All the pride and affection of an Englishman for his home are embodied in these neat. trim and gay little gardens, and their colourfulness are a never- ring source of delight to the ere and the senses.

Better Than Most

England

are

On the crest

MEANWHILE, not one house. our touseworkers Mwife in a thousand who can

afford to pay for domestic help has ever seen one of there Staic. trained girls corne walking up the path.

LIVERY visitor éan see for may employ

himself that

in only if you agree 10 our either ruined nor facing ruina- standarda sl wages atul Col-

tillions" fiem.

The people, it is true,

13-hour Kathleen works

She gets a fortuight's still bearing heavy burdens, the week, reverest being harrh direct and holiday with pay (three weeks With at least 1,500,000 wives indirect taxation.

when the has held her diploma still eager to get some help in Anil. as is customary,

"But general living standards for live years).

the home, nearly any domestic vernment of the day is the

are undeniably high, and despite

She gets time off for all servant who can hold a wiping- principal target of his

their crumbling and groaning, public holidays, one day a half up cloth can pick her post, ests nod caustic wit.

Even the London Flums

it is doubtful whelber any the Englidiman-at-home Is-tree each week. thing that fails to so just right

Tant

on the wall. clit tema self-defined not look anything like so slum country in the world has better tains a cheery cove, and the according to vardstick of the average Eng- my. Broken

windows stuffed main and subsidiary roads than genuinely discontented with his means comfortable living con- dations for her in the home of an man-at-home is the fault of with old newspapers are hard thore in England today, making lot.

to find toray, Clenn and gaily motoring a real joy mid suding And for holiday-making, easy-to-get-on-with housewife the government.

coloured curtains help in give a just that touch of satisfaction to Englandi remains as good as any. Her fxed minimum wages are And you are solemnly Now Look to the pre-war dilapide delightful pursuit of "secing where else in the world, and £ 15. 64, a week (30s, more 1

to believe. within 24 Fected

slated and overcrowded tene- the countryside."

better than most other places. living out). vos of your arrival, that the late

noments and there is a general air country is med: that it

of prosperity iti the meanest

longer enjoys any prestige

areas.

do

Ap-

as

of

abroad; that the nation nos

Television nerials are Leen turned into a conglomera-

their thousands, 10 and tion of knaves

rogues pearing whose prime function in life is from the roofs of cottages to "do somebody down"; at well as the chimney slacks labour refuses to give an instons. And television sets

Dot

THE PRINCE ASTONISHED

NEW YORK.

honest day's work; that tax- are not yet cheap £30 is about WORKERS in that part 1lon is making life unbearable, the lowest priced, and models

Catalogue Of Woes

und

office

is hurled at the visitor from all And when it comes to taking sides, and although some of it the annual holidays, there are Js utter nonsense. the average few signs of cheeseparing. Englishman-at-home

Balanced Diet

cans

It system,

The tiplama girls are riding iu On B wave, With Hig taxpayers plying each one of like a £200 them something

und-off.

James Bartlett

THEM

hey ♫ communications what delegates to a Texas con- flashlights, emergency ference of an organisation call- rations, and picks and shovels ed The United Baldhead of

By C. V.R. Thompson

for rescue work.

are

10

America were pretty girls.

told by thirco

of New York known as range up to £150,

the garment district were Yet

ON Inbourers

PARADE: A sergeant workers, artisans as well as the astonished the other day to

major will no longer be required well-to-do, ote dally, and infind out that a prince had

treat recruits politely, the THE FIRST VOLUNTEER to no longer worrying army sald. Not because there is sign up na a New York air-raid ALL this, and plenty more of vastly increasing number, buy-taken a job among them.

They had thought that Eze about a picture they saw in their sighting be done, but, ex- wärden is a banker's wife, Mrs the same sort of despondency in their television sels.

Roth. She did the always called Jazzy-was just newspapers the other day. Re- plained an official, because the Lydia de another Negro,

in men like to brag later leased by the Communists

on of same job in Chelsea all through But Louis

of Korea,

they the Bloom, boss

show how much it purported to

punishment

London blitz. Her new the smali

If training is made too task: To prepare Zone One in factory where Eze columns of American prisoners took.

the heart of New York's May- worked, made an announcement: of-war being led to camps be easy for them they resent it. Eze's real name is Ezewunwa hind the lines.

fair, against the dangers of the Na- Lloyd

HOLLYWOOD'S censors have atom bomb. Anyanwu Ogueri, and he is heir to the spiritual and political bray, of Dallas, Texas, produced agreed to allow producer David a film with leader of 7,000,000 Nigerians. a copy of the pleture which he Selznick to release

OLD SCHOOL TIEH are be was the title "Ladies From Hell"-as 1944. I In a cosy Long Island fint had kept since Ezewanwa explained why he did inken near Noncy in France, and long as he makes it clear in ad- coming so popular in the US. of the National it. Saki he: "I wanted to learn the prisoners" were liberated vertisements that the fille refers that omelats what it was like to do common people whom the Red Cross had to the Argyll and Sutherland Fanners Union announced to. Highlanders regiment and not to day that their Inbouter members labour. Rulers don't realise how fitted out with G. 1. uniforms.

will much the common man works.

have the union's crost on 3. picture.

feminine characters in the will soon have ore. C5- There would be fewer riots and

forest green background.

The trouble

becomes aggrieved if any doubt is rast upon his catalogue of woes,

of course, that Brilons have for so long lived FOR example, the waitress in very close to

to troubles and have

the Regent Palace Hotel had to bear such a succession who, without a trace of self-con- of hardships that they are un retousness, disclosed that she able today to appreciate the was flying to the Continent for vast improvements In living her holiday-something which conditions which, to the visitor, would have been far beyond are immediately visible.

her means ten years ago. Food, for instance,

The people of England,

18 months ago it was

is today

But ex-Sergeant

THE FIRST New Yorker to hut a minor problem, where, pecially the children, look fewer

revolutions If those in build an atom-bomb shelter is a

CONFESSION from America's a sorry healthier today than ever be- power understood and felt the former Russian prince, Serge

one of No. 1 nirman, General Hoyt fore, nud in this respect aus-sympathy that one is sure to Obolensky. Owner of and terity has proved to be on as- have it one works oneself. Work the city's best hotels, he an- Vandenberg: "Air fost,

nounced that he has completed never win a war by itself." on ret, for i has enforced A is hard." schedule, comfortabic, and by balanced diet and eliminated

two storeys below ground level

BALD MEN are more mator coaches, comparatively wasteful gorging on Blu

THE FACTS: "Thanks to an n hide-away for the staff and

pular with women. That cheap.

questionable food value.

cx-GI's good memory, Ameri-gicsts.

trin for every housewife. Travel facilities rondl rail are excellent;

Of

or

SEVEN schoolchildren Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, risk- ed their lives the other

clay to enter their burning

zcliool.

Baver

power can

po- What they

is Their schoolbooks.

wanted

to

A Frank Footer

By Ernie Bushmiller

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