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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1952.
RADIO HONGKONG MR MENON DID NOT HAVE CAVIARE
PROGRAMMES NOT AVAILABLE
Because of the sudden death of His Majesty King George VI, many last minute alterations have been made to the programmes of Radio Hongkong for the coming week, and the station has been unable to supply the usual detalls for this page. However, the dally pro- graming schedule will appear throughout the week as usun!
The BBC's General Oversens programmes are also
not available.
Until the day following the funeral of the late King, the station will continue to broadcast programmes of a more serious mature— most of these consisting of classical or semi-classical muste.
These include the talk by cellel, and there will therefore. Feut. General Sir Otto Lund, be no commentaries
X.C.B. D.S.O. Commissioner over the week-end.
-Chief of St. John's Ambu-
lance Brigade, who is on *
visit to the, Colony.
Tonight
on sport
Request programmes normally
nt 8.15 he will tell listeners broadcast for the Forces in the something of the work of the Brigade.
•
In Ralo Hongkong
Prom
ON Saturday and afternoons Sunday will come at the ustunl times this week-end.
Concert at 8.43 tomorrow night the main work, is Symphony No, 5th Minor, Opis 15, by Dvorak-"The New World casting-Compton Mackenzie, the played by the Danish State Or- Symphony Broadening
conhueled by Nientar chestra Muito,
discuss
THE
RED ARMY MEN
GO TO BELGRAVIA
In "Lanson Forum" at 9.30 on Monday evening, four people with great experience of broad- Puthor and playright; Mrs Mary Agnes
Hamilton and Harold Nicolson, both one-time -
Rumanian Minister. Mr It was Rumunia's night in The. ernors of the BBC; and ?!
ICON
CIOROIU. broad- Grisewood, Controlic of the the diplomatic world in NICOLAE
shouldered and sturdy, and his Third Programme -
London. With caviare and dark and handsome, wife, re whether ratio should cater
the Rumanian gelyed their guests in a room the intellectual anority, faking vodka, us an example the BBC Third Legation celebrated their hung with tapestry, paintings
National country's playing Programme. are
Day, and photograph was of And evening.
Several hundred guests filled Pauker, Rumania's formidable Mozart's Sonata in C Major, K. 301,
two floors of their elegant women politician. Flanking her Highland cattle and sombre- building at No. 1, Belgrave were two large paintings-of Square.
eyed sheep.
London Exorda service)
Moya ile, violin, and Mark
the -leisleriaan, plano, are
recitalists ut 8.15 on Thursday
They
for
Under the chairmanship Bobrt McKenzie, a Canadian Two works by Haydn have who is lecturing at the London Economics, the of heen chosen for the programe School
is subject to expert "Composer of the Week" this "Third"
It was the seveníti anniversary are criticism from all angles. The they evening at 9.30: Sonata No. 40 in E Fat, and upshot of discussion confirmed of "the liberation of Rumania the victorious Soviet has more by than justified Its aim
Fascist dictatorship by the Pat ruttural
the riotic Popular Fotees," as invitation put it.
simulation.
though,
Trlo in G Major. The planit that the Prog in to provide Army and the overthrow of the In this recording of the Sonat. is Denis Matthews, and in the Trio the pianist is Cortat, the violinist Thibaud, cellist Carals.
the
like my other rail pour faults it suffers from occasional in planning-of which some are inherent in the very nature of All Football fixtures for today the Third Programme and others
are at least answeruble, and tomorrow have
been
Can-
Empire Scrap From Korea May Be Sent To Britain
Britain's metal famine, may be eased by supplies of scrap seat back frum Korca, Bruss shell cases have already been returned, and a new scheme has been pre- pared to intensify collection of the war scrap.
be economical.
Many guests were diplomais from the Soviet Embassy いず Dress East European countries.
followed no rigid party line: weed Jackets of Dyerlive checks jostled the wide red-and-
officers.
One
BRITAIN
+
LEADS ATOM
EXPORTS
gold epaulettes of Soviet Army Britain's atom "factory" has at Harwell (Berks) There wox strong repre-mashed all previous records tentation of British Communists,
A
led by Mr HARRY POLLITT in the production and ex- and Mr PALME DUTT, There port of atom-ray metals, say were some Socialists, inn, the Ministry of Supply.
luding Lord STRABOLGI and
Mr SIDNEY SILVERMAN. MP for Nelson and Colne.
FOUR BUFFETS
And Brita!
world leads th in the export by air of these radio-active Isotopes, which Bre being used in hospitals, factories and universities in 25 countries.
The crowd of guests had four They large buffets to choose from. The scheme has not yet bien and bringing it home.
50 PER CENT UP ungonuced because the question will not bother with the then-Etch was heavily stocked with
Nine thousand Isotopes- of how much scrap each country rands of tins sent with food and raviare, leed cakes, vine leaves gets is a matter for, les piler supplies It would not stuffed with minced meat, and
cheese straws. Pockets of gold-various metals "coked" in the tional agreement.
uppėd
give of radio-active-rays- the tables. An officlul of the British Iran Rumanian cigarettes lay Harwell atomic pile until they Some English guests (dgeted wore produced in 1951, 50 per little over their Rumanian set higher than in the previous ("Is this vodku?" "No, It's slivovitz."
The U.S.A. have the major elain, und South Korea wanki to keep rome of the metal.
Briain will probably, receive serop from supplies set by this and other Empire countries.
The War Oflice will be rose pansible for collecting the metal
and Steel Corporation said "Our ground forces in Korea are not a such that we can expect a very drinks. large ambunt of verap."
A second scheme being con- sidered is lo qubbim textiles and return them to Britain London Express Service.
New Star From
NE
i
perhaps it's one of those resinated drinks they have."
Anyhow. It tastes faintly of Faster all."1
year.
High Commissioner of India Krishna Menon'says no thank you to caviare at the Rumanian party in London.
Postcard From Moscow
camg Teans
Ushers In Togas For 'Quo Vadis?
Two squads of brawny ushers In. Roman togaa helped up
the safety cur
tains at London's Ritz "and" Carlton cinemas --And un- leashed the biggest motion. „picture of all time upon a far-from-unsuspecting pub-
lle.
"Quo Vadia" Town.
had come to
ils
and cast
Do we have to go over Vital statistles again? All right. It was made in Rome by Hollywood company £2,500,000, It has a cast of. 32- 105 human beings and 608 animals including 68 ilóns, 200 doves, two cheetahs, and bull,
2
Awo and, three- It lasts for quafter hours. The censor has given an X certifkate because there are a lot of crunellings on red the sound-track and many stalns in the Sand when Ilons are let loose among Christians.
the
the
to
What you obviously want know from me is whether this Dk travail was worth, wille.
stars Robert M.G.M.
(plus Trylor, Peter Ustinov. Deborah Kerr. Leo Genn, and half the er Rome)'bour only
cn,
EDITORË, PRZEZ BERVICE, INC..
269.
"These books I've read between the time my wife
'saya “I'm ready” and we go.”
Jean Kent Helps To
Find The
Killer
She has made other movies "This is such a rough
playing a roguish picture," said Jean Kont as and is now
ghost in a new Elstree picture she watched Mark Stevens Castle In The Air" "But the just didn't come and John Bentley dashing musicnis through office doors, leav-ang," she tells me,
Now this odd state of affairs
It to be remedied. Noxt. month
e a mouse of u picture? { inga trail of scattered
askine acut chairs and equally scattered she starts work on a new musi Well,
cal thriller called Trend "Quo Vadis." Am 1 pro Que or fellow-actors behind them.
and cun Que?
Bentley-the Softly." Stovens
Paul Tomple-were
Adapted from a radio serial supposed to be on the track of called "The Show Must Go On," a murderer In "The Lost Hours". it is set in on old and mys at Isleworth.
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I'm for it-and no quibble, I think everyone che ho really likes films wil! feel the same, You leave your artistic in The ekakroom standards when you go to see it, though. BALDERDASH
preon's
MAKE IT TOUGH"
"Come
furious London theatre, and
Miss Dalnton will have plenty
of singing and dancing to do as it a chorus girl who becomes the on. boys, make tough," ordered director David star of the show when the lead- an ing lady is murdered. Most of Macdonald who has been
In thick-enr thrills the picture will be made an expent Aince his "This Man Is News" location in a London theatre.
---FASTER THAN BOUND
The Russians are sending out postcards decorated with the portrait of A. S. Popov to radio amateurs in Britain. ttle in The Belain. But underneath Peñav's, "picture the Rylans print the words: Inventor of radio, May 7, 1805, This was a year before Marconi came to London to give his first public, works itself up, with trim- Fect cales and cymbal clashes, to demonstrations.
What promises to be a gigantic In London, Mr S.M. Eisenstein, Noman orgy, general manager of an English
In ports it is pure balderdash, There are
times whic "Que Vadis" pretends that
Д It is desky moving sermon of sim-series,
le faith and
ien t seems silly.
"Impossible claim **
Twice as many consignments as in 1950 were down all over the world, from Israel to Brazil, Finland to Nigeria and even to the United States, Britain's ex-valve company, felts how he at
tended a lecture In Moscow "in 1901.
port rival.
"Kiss Me Kate" Chorus.
ano
Popov was asked for his views on newspaper reports that Marconi had spanned the At-
brier
has
-
top
lantic by radio. He replied that Marconi's claim was impossible; could be done only by build Ing a tower on each side of the Aflantic. So high that the radio waves could travel directly from
to top. I doubt if the
Russians
hast about this incident in the carcer of the plorieer..
LONDON, Jun. 31. Baht of Mr Hayes, replied, "Of begun a highly promising West Garden (except for
Christmas those
Season) of
End career rare course."
He technique is said to have opened after two years, chances that
Segret of her alacrity turn
onthence
thut, WIS
while sms.hing of Max Bygraves Any biblicul play would be
music- chorus girl into a star over- dancing in the chorus she had quiet,
button-boling in marked centras to casual,
the hall und musten comedy, but night has just come the one more than dream of tak style. He possesses much
Gärden ing the lead; she had learned same easy chann and the happy now that the Winter way of "Paddy" Larner, the part.
nack in his caricatures at is associated with the Arts Wigan girl whom patrons A money-back offer Was elguretty addicts of hitting oft Theatre Club a series of per- of the
the London Coliseum mude 19 tho
which formances of interest audience, but there little absurdities
be without would scarcely have everyone slayed lo Ce how are seen every day noticed in the third row of the new star shaped. She was being really noticed.
word-perfect. Now she is tak- dancera in Kiss Me, Kate.
enly multiple cur ain ing not
portunity came when not only
The American
leading lady.
Helena Bliss (who unexpected-
The 40-minute except was
understudy. Helen Jutsen (in been made by Leslie Randall,
the from Cinderella, starring Derek
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discerning play-goer may More Intricate
expected there.
Problems posed by the
The First-Born is written in Mr Fry's impressive modern
Te public are taking longer to poetic style. The narrative more suited to the subject, per- solve.
Gut
Misa Larner, now only 19, calls and banks of bouquets but
Sa complicated, by the way must have been a Girl Scout, cumpliments from eclieagues have been the issues between haps, than the action is to the for alio owes her break to liv- and management--and a
That is the opinion of the con- the BBC and the principal players, but Alec Clines, "in, on stats of London's chain of 75 ing up to her stage carter tract from Jack Hylton,
union of The entertalument
performance, motto: Be prepared. The op-
brings Citizens Advice Bureaux, who worst that the first direct T Inspired
thegreat qualities of relay, to viewers has only lite
average of 6,000 queries each Ichder of the A different but not less un. Jy been laid ch from a London Mases as religious and political finding the answers to an
oppressed week. y lost her voice) but her expeetud kind of stage hit has theatre-Princes.
Hebrews, whie the hypocrisy A headquarters offelal of the of the scheming Pharoah is well London Council of Social Ser- reflected by Mary Dignam. vice, who hospital with car trouble) were who owes his debut in
administer the unable to appear,
Vindm's fumzus Revudeville Roy. Even the size of the In-
Mr Fry contrives the deser-Bureaux, sold: a vile audience-300 (less than tien of the nephew of Moses
"Many The second bit of bad news to his skill as compere in
of the wartime prob- of music third of the theatre's capac to the Egyptians, among whom lems for which the centres were reached Tommy Hayes ut the cicvision version
ty)-was limited by agreement he becomes a victim hall
of the originally set up, could often be. Coliseurn not more than half an hour before, the curtain,
rese quickly? solved sometimes in a this act was seen by Mr Van They included some children last dread plague. The Was
from orphanages. que
tion of this, together with the matter of minutes. ndat Damm, owner of ens. Windmill,
foster-brother,"Today, we hts
find that many whg, turns down more would- As the chorus girls arrived be.. stars than any other prü
Pharoah's son, is most marked of the questions submitted to dach was asked point-blank: lucer in London. He sees.
Troubles in ancient-as dls on the prophet, but it is usare intricate, and requing Will you take the lead?" niany, that he had forgotten tinct from modern Egypt weakness of the play, that the much more time, thought and There were no volunteers-un- living zeen--and rejected Mr are dramatised in Christopher effect of an extra-biblica de careful handling. Many aro
turned. til Paddy Larner
Sent up-Randall.
Jost Instean, Fry's mosale, play, The First velopment is large'y And, to the amazement and de Bonfall was engaged and has Born, with which the Winter, the autlence.
to
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malinee performance,
the
FERD NAND
for
Caught In The Middle
a
Deborah Kerr, the pure Christian maid, has been dolled up as a sweetment for that virile zoldier Marcus Vinicius.
The boys obliged with a spot of business involving a re- volver and a desic-lamp used sa a cosh.
Miss Kent,
Taking off from Shepperton on separate attempts fo fly faster and than, sound: Nigel Patrick her own scenes John Justin, hath of whom play finished for the day, looked as test pilots In David Lean's "The if she would like to get in the Sound Burrier." scrap Herself.
I'm Beat
Just the girl stands about saying,
There
100
am!
evil, other murder ” she told then
is rather more
masks
Helmets and oxygen covered most of their faces to they had to do their acting with Peter Ustinov as the
eyes alone.hr ascivious Nero, is licking his
Mine look like a couple of thick lips in the background. that, however, in her rolo da busy fist In on
aquarium," His sluitishwife, her bands the young
woman who help Juslin told me. caressing her two tamo Mr Stevens to find that killer. cheetahs, is snapping her teeth. Stevens, still suffering from Justin, really wasp test pilot.
Clark-bang go the cymbals, a core head after a fall, in a during the wor. Cr. ezme the dancing girls, And previous fight scene, has had what does it look like?
Dark haired 33-year-old
"But only in a mild sort, of plenty of movis scraps in way he explained. Fastest he
HOW do British screen in a Spitara.
Why, nothing but a rehearsal Hollywood. at the Muddlecombe Hippo- drame of a touring company of tough tactics the Folies Bergerexcept rain-scoms
The girls tho Kdor everything
corts.
But there, are other moments that are something to see.
quicker.
440
compare
with
dew in those days was 350 mph
Hollywood variety? It is of the plane in "The
.a
Barrier is not revealed, We get them over bin mund travels at 080 mgh at
'great heights, Holywood they come.. times do a fight scene ten or times, Stevens, sald. When Nero decides to set fire twelve
Roing it ready burns. When We polished off the one you the Christians are flung to the have just seen in a couple of -
there is lions
♫ smet! of butchery
When the Buddy Baer, as
gentle Christian glant, lights a ball he really takes the horns of the almal head on, and wrestles,
the air. in
SPECTACLE..
These scones you will remem her as terrific spectacle, together with the lovely colour shots of the packed arena.
'takes,"
COULD SING AND DANCE
Back in the spring of 1950 a fair-haired Scola girl named
For some of the flying somes camera crew was based at Hurn aerodrome for six weeks aiming. the Vickers super- marine Swift, one of the world's fastere jet Bghter, as the zoom- and dived 20,000 feet above ground.
Temperature was 80 degrees Patricia Dainton made a hit in below. ftezing and Icicles form-
"The Dancing Years."
Mr Lean
promises some She could ping. She dance, and if the had been
thilling air sequences and, un- Holywood discovery, she would like most flying pletures, this have made at least two mere one looks like being just as in- muslens since the Novella pic. teresting when it stays on the is concerned with
on Eirirce film of Ivor Novello's masks.
ed on the technicians' oxygen
ture.
could
a
bear a star. bullding
The acting? Well, I thought Ustinov looked too much like a
koala rother
cuddly sickened on too much chocolate
Nero:
The full ballyhoo...
on dellate and personal."-London creams, to portray the evil of
Expresa Serviço, .....
He should have looked like a monster, but seemed more like a lamb And there were times when bis final scenes smelt of ham, too.
By Mik
"Dine,
BAKAN
Reserv
Leo Genn played the cynical Petronius, and, with lovely Italian Marina Berti, stole the best amali scene in "Quo Vadis" as ho committed suicide, while writing a contemptuous message. to the emperor he loathed.
The "message really sums up the ploture, too. ***I don't mind what you do to the people so long as you do not bore them.
Oto Vadir" "bores, whez 'it
Αμερική. poiria morala spectacle scenes What a ploture ferilor cariñQUOkq!
-EZONARD MOSLEY
Lotion Express Servichi
the
which the faaber-
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Much of it is
effect haphazard business e it is this has been a non-danc- thun-ound attempts have on
for ing year-and-d-halt Miss the pilots' wives - played by Dainton so far as films were Ann Todd and Dinah Sheridan.
-ROY. NASH concerned.....
Moutries
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