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The girl who danced in the side-show laughed at the high pressure press agent. But he was
a master of bunk and
The
ballyhoo. Before night- fall she was famous!
"Brighteyes, the earth's arts fo greased with banana oil. With your figure and my brain, we'll By high!".
HALF NAKED TRUTH
A million-laugh-power romance...exposing the startling publicity tricks of the man who made stars in a day,
With
LUPE VELEZ LEE TRACY
Eugene Pollante,FrankMorgun Direction and Dialog by Gregory
La Cava, Suggested by the book, Phantom Fame," by David| Freedman. David O. Selznick! executive producer
FIERY "LUPE"
Sings & Dances.
Seo Her at Her
Best!
NEXT CHANGE
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1933.
LEGION QUARREL properly placed before them by DEATH IN INDIA
WITH MINISTRY
PRINCE OF WALES
· INTERVENES
“MUST BE ENTIRELY
NON-POLITICAL"
your Executivo, and this has ways been done, in the past.
"The aims and objects of the WILD ANIMALS TAKE Legion are clearly laid down in the charter to which I have just referred, and successive Govern. monts have done their best to help those nime and objects.
"I give you one message for this year to the Legion. We must close our ranks even still more and help this country through the depressed and very difficult times through which we are now DASS- ing,"
The Prince of Wales, in addres sing the British Legion Conference Int the Queen's Hall referred to the recent friction between the Minis-
Earlier in his speech the Prince try of Pensions and the Legion referred to the pensions awarded to over certain criticisms which ap-needy ex-Servicemen out of the peared in the Legion "Journal." fund called after him.
He said:
There was a great outburst of "I regret that there has been cheering when he declared that lately some criticism of the work "the fund was not formed to help of a Government Department. No the ratepayers," and that "the real Department is fool-proof. There idea of these pensions is to enable may have been one or two isolated these men not to exist only, but to mistakes, but I am thankful to exist in moderate comfort." know one fact, and that is that the Department in question and particu- larly the Minister in charge, has the welfare of every ex-Service man very much at heart (Applause.)
"I do not hesitate to say that the ex-Service men of this coun try have more reason to thank successive Governments than those of any other country that fought in the Great War. PENSIONS AND MEANS TEST.
"If the Legion is to be efficient and have the influence that it must have, I must adhere always to one of the most Important clauses in Its charter, that it must be entire ly non-political. Hear hear.)
i
TERRIBLE TOLL
Nagpur.
How human beings are destroy- ed by India's wild creatures is vividly brought home by official figures just issued for the Central Provinces.
During the past year:
43 people were killed by tigers. 17 people were killed by
leopards:
36 people were killed by wolves.
and bears, and
1.199 people died from snake
bites,
Deaths due to anake bites are said to have Increased.-Reuter.
to mako
the country or Empire than was to be found in the British Legion. The cheering had its origin in They had no intention of being the fact that certain public assis drawn into party politica. tance committees, in operating the
They intended
such Means Test, take ex-Servicemen's pensions into account when fixing) submissions as they thought de the amount of unemployment pay. sirable to Parliament, and to Go
vernment Departments soberly and ASSURANCE TO PRINCE. with due sense of their responsiblll- Major-General Sir Frederick ties. If, in their discussions, some Maurice, President of the Legion, of them might appear to the sen- the said that the Princo had referred to sitive occasionally to exceed a regrettable incident which had bounds of fair comment, he could Jalready been dealt with at the assure his Royal Highness there
Conference.
1
In the discussion he thought it had been made absolutely clear that the Legion had no intention of in- dulging in personalities.
was behind that no political motive and no lack of appreciation of the ancrifices which their country had made in these hard times and was making for ex-Sorvico men.
Such expressions were simply and "This does not mean that Govern.
His Royal Highness was well solely due to depths of feeling for ment Department concerned will not aware that the King had a no more the hardships and difficulties listen to any considered request loyal body of men and women in those with whom they had served.
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ULTIMATE RETURN TO FORMER STÅNDARD
London, July 4. A Government apokesman in the House of Commons to-day reiterat.
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In reply to a questionor, ho noted that a large volume of busi- cas opinion in Great Britain felt that an attempt to stabilise the moans or exchango without first ed that the return to the gold ensuring that there was an ade- standard was Great Britain's quate volume of trade, would be ultimate objectivo when the a reversal of the proper proper conditions were assured. cedure and harmful to the nation's "But declared Mr..Ifore- commercial Interests, Reuter,
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HARRY GREEN, GEORGE ROBEY, BILLY CARYLL, IAN HUNTER, MAURICE EVANS.
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