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1950 WORKERS TO BE SUPPLIED MITHREATS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.

"Fit 'om up with seats according to regulations and what do you go!? A sit-down striko bocause they don't like the colour of the upholstery."

London Express Bervico

CAN YOU NAME 25

GREAT

...or even

LWAYS zestful for a

Woman

WOMEN

12?

Today thousands of children- nt one time potential cripples for life owe their straight

'A LOVELY SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD'

S

The inspiration,

light, and life

of an artist

by PETER DACRE

HE will always be re- £1,000 for Preston's muni-

membered

"The cipal art gallery. Another, Girl in the Yellow in black, is at Dunder. Dress." In the painting by What WAS this woman her husband, James Gunn, her face seemed to hold all

the dignity and beauty in

the world.

like, who through the genius of her husband will be admired as long us paint clings to canvas 7

When it appeared in 1944 it caught the public's heart- "For me," says James the most strings. Pauline Gunn was Gunn, "she was

paintable called "the modern Mona eminently

and Lisa."

beautiful woman I have Now she will be painted over known. There was no more. In the worda of something clusive about her D. B. Wyndham Lewis, who which I was always striving wrote a tribute to her, "a to get. I never got it. gay and lovely spirit has "I was once asked

secret returned to God."

the of Pauline in Yellow Dresa." I said it Was war weariness and

the

Fame unheeded clothing coupons the dress

was rather voluminous, you these simple know. I knew it had some words is the story of a thing, but I still don't know

limbs to her, Like Bister Eliza BEHIND

beth Kenny, the nurse from the Australian bush who developed

world prestige.

new treatment for the after-noble, beautiful woman who what it is." Others list film-nth of infantile paralysis, she never realised the fame she stars. Runners-up are Betty has a vision of childhood. Grable and Olivia de Havilland, growing up strong und benuit had won and who struggled the only two women in movies ful earning more than £50,000 a

three

I include mit there women on my list of 12. the others? In this article, so i

to hide the secret of an in- curable illness.

'Pauline to the Yellow Dress*

nearest approach to the would turn cart-wheels on the

the lawn to a beautiful woman,, accret of Pauline Gunn.

without losing her high spirits. The eyes, the curve of

clusive smile Picture stays

or the many Pauline IN the dining room of the

the bought

Gunn

the brows and the faint "She looked the perfect

are all cap picture either in Claridges or digging potatoes at her Scottish tured. Mr Gunn has been home on the Solway Firth." offered big sums for it but She wit be remembered also he says he will never part for her rapier-like wit.

with it.

Asi

And paintings by James

Gunns' house at Hamp

girl she mixed with n bright James Gunn painted his literary group which Included the public has seen twelve. stend is another painting. Do women still shine in the

in over 30. "Pauline far, I have mentioned

Yellow "Venetian Souvenir," which wife once before he married Wyndham Lewis, J. B. Morton theatre?

the past, such

Dress"

for the family thinks is the her in 1929. All the other (Beachcomber) Edward Shanks,

and Hilaire Belloc, whom actresses Sarah Bernhardt Who would you choose?

145 and Eleanora Duse were great in

sittings were done between got to know intimately. -rounds of housework and the grand tradition. Who runks

"She had the trick of discon-

of great year, debating points, mem- gifts. But when she bers of the Women's went to the royal palace for Overseas Press Club in New her investiture as Minister York recently agreed to in a shabby grey sweater draw up a check-list of the and sports skirt, one could world's 25 greatest women, not but draw comparisons as intending to publish profiles with another woman who Gertrude

selections in a once ruled Rumania, the of their forthcoming book.

glamorous red-haired Magda Lupescu, now wife of ex- King Carol.

Dorothy Thompson has been cited to write about Mrs Elennor

Mme

their

modern equivalent? Lawrence? Yvette Guilbert? Tallulah Bankhead? Lynn Fontanne?

Twelve years ago, a writer of my acquaintance std 13 other women as 'world tops. He in- Grela Carbo, Mrne Roosevelt. Further, one must add to this cluded

Litvinoy, the notorious Countess the pale, frall- Pearl Buck should surely women's list

Edda Ciano, Curic-Jolllot,

Hungary's Mme. Horthy and even dumpy Frau deal with Madame Ching looking

Scholtz-Klink, leader of the Kal-shek, who may yet

Hitler's maidens. But where come to new prominence in

are they now? Were women the Far East. Even at 83,

achievements notching higher

than Queen Mary is an obvious

they are choice as one of the greatest women of Britain.

But who next?

a

By EDWARD

G. GRANT

in the today?

1030'D

FEW HEADLINES

THERE are

now no women Ayers at stratosphere levels, none attempting 800 mph speed

records or

was

Whatever became of-?

CHAPMAN PINCHER this week takes over a now-famous Saturday Telegraph feature

THEN an American

W professor announced

FOR EXAMPLE, the

cho

looking after her two child-certing the pompous by making

ren Chloe und Paul.

some preposterous reply with "Acting as my husband's the loveliest of smiles," saya model is part of my job," Wyndham Lewis. she once said. She had a

natural grace.

"As in the When she talked yellow dress picture," saya

her husband,

"she always

someone mentioned

dropped into the right pose W man in Marecilies who had

immediately."

bitten of his girl friend's chr“ But she was something she quipped: "My dear, the cork

ho

One gadget was a huge bent more than a paintable wo of man who takes two bites a tube designed to shoot a high-man. Wyndham Lewis one cherie."

It would speed "plug" of air,

wrote: "Pauline Gunn was Of a popular noveltst she onco break inch-thick boards at a

to me Long and remarked: "He seems range of 223 yards, but when like a flame. tried against low flying Allied painful illness could not perfectly marvellous until

storts thinking," aircraft it proved useless.

quench B guiety which The second gadget-the brain sprang

When a friend said of a rich and equally from

rude titled person: "It's timor chlid of on Australlan called courage and intelligence, somebody put him in his pince," Dr Zippermeyer was built to natural as breathing, re- the replied: "If he had one." project miniature tornadoes at mote from malice, rejoicing acroplanes.

in absurdity, and in expres she said: "Poor

When i went off it was exsion, hitting the gold with pected to start up a fast-moving effortless ease."

whirlpool of air which would cuck the wings off bombers.

Bul

Dr Zippermeyer managed_to produce some whirlpools, EQ. planes came down.

Groundnut wool

Never Faded

Drawing up their 25, the newswomen have found it difficult to decide between

that he had adopted Wilhelmirun and Juliana,

today's marathon a baby chimpanzee and was long-distance flights. Surveying respectively the retired and reigning Queens of the daughter of the discoverer of the arts, there seem to be ne bringing it up under exactly as his In Netherlands.

who has herself found women composers of the calibm the same conditions Britain, radium,

new methods of artificially pro- of Dame Ethet Smythe, no young ten-months-old son just to needless to Bay, it is

women artists to emulate Dame ucing radio-activity and I a invidious to discuss the world scientist in her own right. Laura Knight. In the wide field see how they compared men- of literature, one stilt 1ists tally, it made big news. Queen or Princess Eliza-

Rebecca West and perhaps That was 19 years ago. beth. Perhaps Princess

There is also the indomitable Elizabeth Bowen. Who else of Margaret may rank as

Dalay Bates, now in her 68th truly front rank? protagonist of the future. year. Nearly 60 years' have passed sinco she first visited Australia for her health and Reviewing

in became women

interested

the W sport, the ladies unanimous aborigines. Living alone with In a tent in the desert, re- ly selected the redoubtabic in their tribal customs and man's

Blankers Koen, dialects, protecting them against they still reflect bathing beauties

Faithfully holder of three Olympic the complexities of civiliation,

mid

Ciris, glamour records.

which ranks her models Taling * quick she did work

My inquiries show that the manta a year after the experi- and secretaries,

But the insuperable I found that experiment have sprint through diplomacy, with such figures Is Florence

ar.d mothers. Feminism, in professor Dr W. N. Kellogg, of ment Elizabeth Fry

University, drawback that an ape's intelli gone so well that a £2,000,000 of the director of the Royal Institution, gives another bullt near has been fact, they notched up the remark Nightingale and

look a

step backwardFlorida

rence stops developing when 1-factory among the great. women of

to start able Mmc.

producing instanco:- when it falled to stop." Alexandra

to keep the experi- is about three years old would Dumfries history.

managed

have prevented it

getting the "wool" next spring. Kollontay, who became the

nent going for nine months.

through Yale anyway. first woman ambassador in history when, at 72, she was appointed Soviet sador to Sweden.

Fanny

Ambas-

EXOTIC EVA

In

But who else?

CABINET RANK

CHEWING over this intriguing controversy. some 4,000 women's clubs have drawn up

nearly all different. Some unpredictable and even mention Freya Stark, fore- embarrassing Eva Peron, the most desert

THEN there is the exotic, their own lists and they aro

tho

Now reader J. I. Eagle wants to know what hap- More than 30 years after pened. "Did the human in- women gained the vote,

medical and scientific fant finish up as America's leading discoveries are still made in a leading steeplejack and did through chimp get newspapers the

time, Yale?" he asks.

fashion wives

world. If inirror

Dur

war?

Stole

But perhaps Aonit of tho

a female called The chimp, truly Freat

this women of

in baby was dressed modern age earn few headlines. GUD, They are seldom photographed, clothes, slept in a bed, used the rarely trapped at the micro- same toys and ale practically the phone. They are great, yet un-same food as Donald, the baby the boy. She got precisely known,

came instruction and the same amount of affection.

explorer. DR

cabaret singer who captured Cochran, a girl with as many Others Include Jacqueline

FOUGHT EVIL

Yang,

and married President Juan nying records in the USA Peron of the Argentine and, Amy Johnson once had in where, for five years, no new-

Throughout the experiment

Of a pessimistic acquaintance ke Peter Pan groaned up.""

darling-just

"One always

She turned out the perfect spontaneous descriptions. of those women who seem to be bending over a bunch of Easter lifes," she once said.

gives you a shock like a bunch of electric violets."

FOR four years she hid her And again: "She's modest, bub

Illness from all but her closest friends. Just before her death, when she was in boy who was to grow ⋅ †IKE seven readers who have

she entertain written in, I had lost sight great pain, up with an ape... of the wonderful synthetic wooled guests with sparkle and

which

from gaiety.

Mrs F. N. Andrade, wife

Is it true ?

ANOTHER scientific

project a great stir which caused when it was announced and has hardly been heard of since was

scientists mnda

groundnuts.

Like her bumour, her gen- I erosity wis spontaneous. anyone admired her possessions such as a painting she would be Hable to take it off the wall and give it to him.

Admired

THIS was the Paulina, Gunn "After a very serious bout of. I her friends knew. Thero Using only the waste left illness she insisted on coming to

were countless other moro after the margarine fat has a party of mine. She was a distant admirers, othe-man been extracted from the gay usual, Nobody ever who wrote from Preston: "I go groundnuts, the factory

will knew.

to see her every werk.” eventually make 10,000 tons of wool moth-resistant synthetic

"Life was champagne to her, She always

livened every year..

up any gathering."

Her

nover keauty Wher Mra Andrade's met her, he said: "She beats all now the girl."

The ticking man

MY.

The manufacturers are antis- wife The professor and his

Sir Oliver Lodge's arrangement fled they can market it at about price of sheep's worked in shifts to record the for proving the truth of spiri- a quarter the

They are oven satisfied Marian

for activities of both babies con- tualism by communicating with wool.

they can get the groundnuts. from #nuously from 7 am to 0.30 his friends after he was dead. Instance, graduated a Peking medieal college P.m. every day.

Sir Oliver, a brilliant scientist as and was sent to

village n not content to be merely Britain. Agreed. 'Jacky' has born baby had ever lived. She the chimp was generally in ad- who died in 1940, left a sealed vance of the child both physi- envelope with the Society for Mrs President, seized the probably nown faster than any discovered that the local mid-eally and mentally. When they Psychical Research, helm of press and radio net has been

played together Gun was nearly works and boosted herself She once crushed

packed will thrills. ments by plunging them into the always the leader, Donald the

in dames at soll, into carth laden with into the power plug behind 300 in.p.l. She has streaked on tetunus gerins. It brought home Ion 12,000-mile junkets over to her the terrible inct that the throne.

China's infant mortality mountains, sen and jungle.

rate Was the worst In the world, merely because 400,000 mid. wives lacked all knowledge of hygiene and sterilisation,

In Chile, too, an amazing

other

woman wive. Her life wive sterilised their

Would you place her among and dynamic grandmother, the 25 world leading Indles? twice a widow, heads the world's first

all-female

Admitted, there is Mrs Sarup Ambassador in political party. At the next Pandit, India's

woman to elections, Maria de la Cruz Washington, second

gain Cabinet rank in the world. may become the first woman Ten

she sat in a years ago ever to be elected a national prison cell. Today she is the president and must surely foremost, spokeswoman of her mark world history,

nation.

once

instru-

imitator.

Apo Boaten

TIE ape put up the better per Tformance intelligence tests. which the experiments in

In

Anal readers'-request in- The scientists in charge of

quiry was into the Strange the experiment were forbidden Care of the Ticking Man which

to open the envelope until some happened way back in 1938., reputable person came forward with a trustworthy claim to According to newspaper cul- Mr Edward have received a message from tings 19-year-old Sir Oliver revealing what is in Franklin of Coventry suddenly the envelope. Opening the en- developed a ticking noise in his velope would then show if the cars. It was so loud that others claim were true.

could hear it. "People sitting near me in the cinema think I

am carrying a time-bomb." he

A sajlow bespectacled little subject sat behind a wire zerren In the Society's view no womon, she has devoted her and had to manipulate a hoe, to trustworthy claim hap yet told reporters. Doctors were life to the establishment of drag

an apple within reach, been made. So after 10 years bumed by the noise but could schools of rnidwifery. Each Gua was always brighter. The the envelope remains unopened, do nothing to stop it. student was an apostle taking chimp seldom spilled her food spoon, but Donald the new methods to more distant when using regions. In her lifetime, Marian often turned his spoon upside- Yang has stamped out an an-down when putting it into his cient evil.

mouth.

Blow me down!

who

Now at 31 Mr Franklin is still ticking as loudly as ever and si avolds going to the ple- But the doctors are no Yet again-who else?

WHAT became of the crop of tures. In Rumania Communist

lenger baffled by the cause. prewar Inventors Professor Kellogg summed up Д strikes

in Again, in a back street Anna Pauker

Mary Pickford, harsh note as the world's

the London, Mrs Estrid Dane has the ape's ability by saying that claimed they could bring down They cay he has a slight ner- 10 when it was one year old it had bombers just by blowing air at vous defect in the throat which palato vibrate, first woman Foreign Minis- World's sweetheart, relains her devoted her life similarly

place, I submit, na the foremost saving deformed children.the mental power of at least e

rapidly. ter. Plumplsh, unattrac woman movie magnate,

amining documents only recent- Some Thirty years ago, her small son one-year-old child, the laity them, a render asks. After ex-ikos his soft

a four-year-old, and they brought off the secret list I was born with crooked ankles, of oven tive, born in a slum, she of the women's clubs

up the tubes case for

cars and keeps dreas Surgeons gave him splints and strength of an eight-year-old, and that two of the inventors tending to ta a teacher, turned make out a became

designer Bchlaparell and con- irons. Then Mrs Dano discovered Donald at 20 is now doing managed to interent the German him licking over. political agitator and spent metic expert Helena Rubinstein, a series of exercises which cured exceptionally well as a medical Army sufficiently to get their

She is by reason

Lstudent. of their fame and him,

Gua died of pneu. gndgets built and tested.

-[London Express Service) years in prison.

This echoes

Looking at the "Venetian Souvenir" painting a few days after her death, James Gud faded. said simply: "She was my in- son spiration. Life is ended for mar But I must thank God for lending me such a wonderfuḥ person,"

"Unlike so

many women," says Mrs Andrade, "she cliengedt from a gay boisterous girl who

CUSTURS PRESS TERVIKE, INC THUIVA YORK

-(London Express.Service)

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