THE HONGKONG 'TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2016,
THE VIRTUES OF WHISKY.
Sistinguisheth three sortes thereof - Simplex, Composita. Perfectissima. Beying Moderately taken, sayeth be it sloweth age. it strengtheneth youth; it helpeth Sigestion: it cutteth fleume: itabandoneth melancholie: it relisheth the harte: -- it lighteneth the mynd; it quickeneth the spirites: it cureth the hydropsie; it healeth the strangury: it pounceth the Stone; it repelleth gravel. it puffeth away ventositie: it. kepyth and preserveth the bed from whyrlyng- the eyes from Sazelying the tongue from lispyng the mouthe from
- snafflying- the teethe from chatteryng- the throte from ratlyng - the weasan from stieflyng - the stomach from womblyng - the harte from swellyng - the bellie from wirtching the guts from rumbling the hands from shivering- the sinoews from shrinkyng - the veynes from crumplyng the bones from akyng - the marrow from Soakynge and trulie it is a soveraign Liquor if it be orderlie taken."
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ENTERTAINMENT PAGE
Mae West- missionary
Mão West, Victor McLaglen in “KLONDIKE ANNIE”
-QUEEN'S-
IN one of the hippier moments
of this sex-saga, Mne stands before the mission house har- monium and says "Play, Henry."
This is what she sings:-
"Well, I'm talking to all of you
borflies
Whe rerel and wallner in
HiN.
My mermge comea to posi straight
from the heart,
And not from whinky and
gin.
Your philosophy comes out
bottles,
of
Bum lan made you ita
slave,
They'll in kick you out of the
gretter
And into a hurflies grave.",
And +f Course, the bardened Alaskan miners sob at her inta- cent gendness and stop wallowing in sin and shut down the saloon. This is after Mae has stabbed the man who kept her, won the skipper's heart, change clashes with a dend mission worker on the way over and is carrying on with a young police-
MATE
If the spertnele of Mao putting nettlement work on a paying basis with a swing chorus of bearded missionaries is your idea of fun, then by all means take Aunt Fanny along with you. There is very little else that need offend her.
BAD, BAD GIRL
It is the same old Mae, more matronly, than ever, eyeing her men up and down, trying gamely to live up to her reputation as the Duchess of Double-Entendre, but somehow her risky lines seem as dated as her hip- weaving walk.
It is no use my xaying that Mue is a bad had girl or anything else about this film. Perpiu will always
to see for themselves,
conscience,
But there
nro Rome things she will not stand, and when her Chinese "protector" threatens to rouge her eyes, she remonstrates by slipping a knife in his back.
Helped by another admirer, she gets aboard a ship bound for Nome, Alaska,
'Tthe captain, MeLaglen, looks at her once and is certain that his roving eye, need rove no longer, ing prettily (in spite of the ntten- tions of the Film Censore) until Alaskan souls comer aboard. woman missionary bound to
The little shipboard romance is nail-
Enve
Mira
Her simple piety, toughes West. The reformation has begun and, colling herself up in her bunk, she says, "They're terrible cold the sheets that only one sleeps under.”
Having put her hand the plough, Miss West decides to break up the night-life of the gold town. She the anleon rounis up the miners, girls, the gamblers and the drunkards and drives them into the mission hall.
There she croons to them:
PLEASE, ZBW! REAL
·EADER recently wrote, asked "What "the devil are ZBW doing about better programme", or something to that effect.
In-
Let's haven Brainwave Corner on this page. stead of complaining, suggest ideas for programmes.
Brainwave for next Thursday: Jacques Thibauld, famed French violinist, posaca through Hong- Kong. He hasn't time to make personal appearaner, although he tants to do so. A live-wire or- ganiser tò ZBW should jump at opportunity. There'd be no harm in trying.
Braincave No. 2: Programmes by the Misses Dorla and Alleen Woods, singers of no mean talent. Is there any reason why ZBW won't give these locals opportun- itp to broadcast?
Last Braimente: More "pep" in announcing.
Brainwave To Beat The Heatwave
By “FIRST NIGHT"
DEPULSE Bay Lido has un- doubtedly filled a long-felt Beach summer want in Colony. rendezvous. where there's al- ways a breeze, no matter how humid it is in town, has become increasingly popular both for bathing parties and dinner dances. Latter especially are well pat- ronised on Saturday and Wednes- day nights. Many socialites com- bine dinner dance and bathing: there's nothing like a swim affer a dance. Floodlighting, at night adds materially to attractiveness of Lido Lady's surroundings.
"MARCH OF TIME" WILL SOON
MARCH INTO HONGKONG.
*TYXCLUSIVELY forecast by this Page, "Time" Magazine's famous "March of
Time" Peries of news reviews are coming to Hongkong.
Series will be shown regularly on local screens, will form part of pro- grommes distributed by RKO-Radio, who are handling series throughout world.
Critics everywhere have raved about this series, say that they are best review of world-happenings ever. filmed, Producers seek, by re-enacting actual happenings sometimes in studios, more often on the spot-le give sequence that shows every world-shaking episode of history from beginning to end,
In addition to film, Hongkong will receive visit next month from a “March of Time" producing unit, under supervision of Mr. Charles Herbert. Unil is et pre- sent in Shanghai, making scenes for a "March of Time" of Sino-Japanese trouble, Visit to Hongkong will probably be to "cover" civil war between North and South and
and possibly Washington Treaty review, upon waleli one of "March of Time" units have been working for some time.
RKO-Radio have considerably pepped up their "shorts", a thing this Page has consistently advocated for all distributers. In addition to "March of Time", RKO-Radio have tied up with Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony series, will in future distribute these. Incidentally, Disney has made a full length colour-cartoon feature for RKO-Radio, will be shown here next summer under title "Snow White."
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A & one of patrons of Lido throuchout mum- mer "First Night" Can vouch for at- trnctiveness of ar- rangement where- by volt can hire Calzine
do which works out at anly $1 per head for party of.
BY for whole day. in- cludes two dressing rooms, showers, nicely equipped verandah,
with "boy" in atendance, Rates are propar- tionately lower for lesser perlods than full day and, of course, there's al- Why the private cubicles, providing suficient room for three or four, at total cost of $1 per
day.
RON. COLMAN PLANS HONGKONG cries for faster and
HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
year. At present she working with
yot faster mail: schedules to Europe.
Fast mall services have robbed us of opportunity of hearling master. violinist Jacques Thibauld, due here next week, scurrying on to Shanghai
31. Thibaud arrives here at daylight
day.
without pause.
Mae wrote the original story, the RONALD COLMAN and busy at the Studin during the Pit serven play and the dialogue and also Benita Hume will prob- Fred Astaire on " Won't Dance", one good song for herself "I'm an Occidental Woman in 111
Oriental ably appear together in a mule by Jerome Kern. RKO Thursday, departs at 4 pan, samo
Radio recently cancelled her old con- Mond for Love."
Original intention was to give `re- "Julius Caesar."
tráel and signed a new one, for her eltal in Roof Garden of Hongkong exclusive services for another vestel ou Thursday night. Short stay- Colman has promised to write years, at a greatly increased salary-over precludes this, local managers won over the "Informer, Luckily, his autobiography as soon as his She will henceforth make two, pic do not consider idea of holding after many of the mission-hall scenes are screen career is through. fantastic enough to be funny.
McLaglen is good as usual, but has little chance to show the men he
decide to retire soon.
tures a year with Astaire, and possi- He may by two in which she will star solo, He's fifty- "I Won't Dance" release in Hongkong Mae West, snuggling her
not yet arranged for, but will prob raunil Victor McLaren in the anal ane, though you wouldn't guess ably be seen here towards the latter
part of the year. scene says, "Bull, you ain't no all it. painting, but you're a fascinating
Armis
inonatur.
McLaglen's fattened! nese and
age
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thick ears will be giving him film con- CHIRLEY TEMPLE will be co-co- tracts long after most of the fashion-
co-co-co-starred with the Dionne PKO-RADIO considers "Mary of able Greek profiles have faded from quintuplets in their next picture.
Scotland" greatest film ever made the screen. He is one of the few
on their lot, and probably will be At that rate you'll drave six kids, strongest contender for the title of fighters who have found that the Bara
aggregate
seventeen, pulling the best picture for 1935. Costing of the ring are assets,
Nobody has asked him, since "The down £50,000 in salaries, Which over a million dollars, with two of the Infermer to be anything but tough, gives one ideas about the bast a greatest stars in pictures-Fredric March and Katharine Hepburn--and bluff, hearty and dumb. And that to retire. must be tough for the public be
directed by one of the industry's "uce" directors, John Ford, "Mary of cate he gets plenty of big jobs.
Scotland" will be the picture to look
PUBLIC FAVOURITE
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to Archie Mayo while he was
AY FRANCIS didn't say a word, forward to, ΚΑ The very qualities which made him directing her in the Florence Night- Reliance Picttires will hereafter fail as a lighter make him a success ingale picture. He didn't say a word the first picture will be "The Robber produce and release through RKO.
and, intellectual slashers like Tunney
as an actor. Killers Bike Dempsey Lo her. The idea? Great artists never have more than the plaudits of should be directed by dumb show. Or the crowd; it takes good-natured and indies 7 Hulking losers like McLaglen to bring
a friendly warmth from the public, fight and Alm
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He has the satisfaction of having JEWS makes films these days. made far more money from Gloss While the Girl Pat was still fil than a world's champion could have ting unrepentant several thousand made from boxing. Ha Hollywood miles away from her hone port, estate, Fairhaven, is a pleasant place, Gaumont-British Scenario writers with ten acres of gardens.
were preparing a script which had
He keeps himself fit in a gymnas- been suggested by the trawler's nd- ium, fitted with every athlelic gadget, ventures.
steam bath, light apparatus, and at
swimming pool. lie has four hunters This is a natural." It is the kind and a private menagerie of two wolf of story which no fiction writer would hounds, an English sheep, dog, have dared to imagine in these days Scottish terrier, two Welsh Corgis, af radio, airplanes and the Queen and a l'ekingese, reé cows, two Mary. But the fact having been goals, five deer, pheasants, quail, established that a tiny trawler can two Mexican ant bears, chickens, lose herself for weeks in the crowded turkeys, ducks, geese and rabbits.
ses, then the Action man car Also hus i wife and a daughter. ahead with a credible narrative. Man un want but little more, un- less he desire to be Mae West's lead- I do not suppose that any novelist ing' man, and McLaglen has Just would have put down on paper auch snezerded to that title.
astonishing adventures as befell the
Lo
"Klondike Annte” shows the tam- crew-of the Bounty, · There are some ing of the wild West. It begins in things no one can expect the public San Francisco Chinatown with Mise to swallow until history ana written Weel strutting us "The Frisco Doll," them. Sabatini would not have dared a woman of controlled curves and easy to make a buccaneer a Governor if ho had not read of Henry Morgan. But, fortified with that knowledge, he made thriller of "Captain Blood," now an excellent film.
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Errol Flynn, adventuring Irishman, and, the star of "Captain Bloed," is having a crick at converting fact into film. He has written a story called "The White Rajah," based on the in- credible adventures of Brooke of Sarawak, and sold it to Warner Brothers.
He is to be the star of his own story Flynn, Olympic boxer, has 2 probably been to Borneo; he known Now Guines, fairly well, having salled round there in his own schooner (and piled her up on a reef).
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To further news has been received
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In regard to Ginger Rogers' trip
to the Orient... She has been kopt very
Barons", starring Edward Arnold, to be followed by "Son of Monte Cristo", with Robert Donnt; "Gunga Dia", an Indian adventure film and several others,
noon recital would meet with public Patronage. So Hongkong loses out."
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What we lose in direction of high- class music we gain in popular type of entertainment. Yola and l'aul, who delighted Gripps patrons eighteen- months ago.
are passing through Colony this week-end."
Hongkong Hotel has arranged for them to give farewell performances in Gripns to-night, with dancing ex- tended until 2 a.m.
Opportunities of seeing first-class cabaret numbers are limited during
are
summer months in Hongkong, so pat- rons should make early reservations, Dancing numbers by Yola and Paul of the top-notch type you shouldn't miss.
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ZW during past two Sundays:
Heat-wave tiffin-time music by
June 27: 1.35 p.m. "When I am Bend, My Dearest".
July 4: 140 p.m. “When I ani Dend, My Dearest".
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