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In Hong Kong

1959: Patsy Toh Yat-lung, an 18-year-old pianist from Hong Kong, won the Commonwealth Award for 1959 at the final concert of the Music Festival of Commonwealth Youth in London.

1962: W H Kwan, father of film actress Nancy Kwan, said he knew nothing about a Vienna newspaper reporting his daughter was secretly engaged to Academy Award-winning actor Maximillian Schell. Kwan was in the Austrian Tyrol filming The Great Attraction with American crooner Pat Boone.

1964: Advertisement: The Highball Nightclub presents direct from Paris 'seven fascinating stars. Pretty, shapely, seductive, all of whom were once . . . Male!!'

1977: Capital Artists announced the first Hong Kong appearance by Sergio Mendes and Brazil '77 at the Lee Theatre on April 30.

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