THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, ipad.
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From The Side-Lines
BY FIRST NIGHT. TO-NIGHT is big night at
both H.K.H. and Glou cester, with new stars mak- ing bows to local socialites at both places for first time.
Eula and Belz, who did not arrive until Thursday morning. hopped straight into rehearsals in the afternoon, are all "hot" up now for their debut in the Roof Garden.
Walcked these two dead Importer sing yesterday inns does ther morning, and consider them some- One of thing really out of the bag.
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their numbers, the Karadır!", probably one of the men artishe terpsiclirean movements
Hongkong.
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The grand comple have been Tump- ing around 1 times since they a baile danrinit graduated as
They were acarletny in the State:
Wallpnon eir- on the fomnes J C call in Austruha, played probent Parts in "No, No Nannette", "Student Prince et, type of play which this page maps or al 1 ilan Society will tackle in near future
On this first visit to the Far East, Bob and Eula think this part of the Coding 0172 41 world "nur", are long May in order to get "properly
DY th Judging Beqainted populuity in Steanghai, where the contract with the Park hotel wa twice-extender, they will te here well after Christma
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E. G. SMITH-WRIGHT Modded Murder Intu A Brilliant Play
farther a Pedder Strent, the Glou- cester I concentratimus Dancers Extraorduury as the main attraction, bas balled Cormen uk Conrad as $15 Not having yet wi- latest maktul. part their act, I can say thing further on that they come to long-
regadation kend with envious
Tije dancers. Pireultin Master of Ceremonier Mice Cougar. who at mater his law, will enters tain you with songs and putter,
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PRELIMINARY diffleute reord-
ne cadet having been mentir- west. Thamonde in well into its (Devrmbare trade for fortles Bub and Bertie Hellman, who will
16-19 probction of "Aliut of the also be there Saturday night le greet old friends, have entered theu ord Maintalus, is shaping so well that month at the Roof Garden, Bak this Puge has no hesitation in stat- if they've established reuselves 19ing, even at this early stage. that
The wizar
this is going to be one of the best Hongkong or kerps.
With shows they have even jant on. dry at the plates has certainly en deared there heblues.
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rf Garden exception of three last minute after- thans, cast is as predicted by this Page last September. Ni Valen- Jure, originally enst us Vittoria, will
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GLOUCESTER Hotel, which becne Arugela, while Marlovie Kick,
Its new Hallrum with such a flourish less than three months ago, does not intend to lose de grip in the future, Like their friend the enemy
WIN
who
originally understudying Vittoria, will take this role, C. W.
Pole mises Eshop has leading
Silver Lamé
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Two Big
Galas Set For To-Night
Full cast will be: Baldasorre
General Malvin
Beppo
Carlo
Andrea
Tonia
Crumpet
Angela
Vittoria
Teresa
C. W. Bishop
II. M. Coekte
R. M. Renten
P. Wilson
JEEVES
Will Be Played
By The Screen's
Greatest Butler
P. C. Frost THE rudest minn in Hollywood
J. C. M. Grenham
Vic Labrum Nina Valentfar Marjorie Kidd Anne Winter
Especially praiseworthy this year la Philharmonie's concentration un ballets and dance sequences, where they have been nuderably weak In past. In capable hands of George Goncharoff, who is undoubtedly the the Jouding laneing instructor in Colony and who, I hear, is giving his services voluntarily to the Pill- harmonic, the chorus is rapidly shape ing up to professions) standards.
Pleased with the way
the Rev. Cyril Brown is bringinit forth all Wat is best from embarrassing sur- phs of talent. Philharmonte, I hear, ire planning to produce yet another play before the end of the present
Lemon,
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ORCHIDS to Nigel Waymouth and
The AD.C. for their rendering of "Night Mast Pall" For the benefit of the exoterir public this is the approved siste of eulogy as used by the American newspaper columnists). Having seen Emlyn Williams, star- author, in Dan's part in London straled along last Wednesday to the China Fleet Club, huff hoping that 19 wak heed. They the more's the pity for weren't; ADC. But the lit that tame 10
pleën. sheer remained to
Smith- Wright has made a nice job of a tricky piece of drama, but a Way- mouth he's got gond material. Next comes Fay Crossman who sheriflern her good looks for a fine character part. There is better acting in this than "Lovers',Leap," but don't rome after 9.15 or you'll miss Gelston Gilmore's classy canten of the Lord Chief Justice. A.D.C. should stop those tardy hounds who spoiled Wednesday, Gilmore's opening Thursday and Friday.
comprising all the new pastel shades
-ANOTHER SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED.
THIS FINE
AND POPULAR
MATERIAL:
IS MOST EFFECTIVE,
is also its best hutler.
Arthur Veary Treacher has now hulle in something like 400 films: he has waited at table on
so many stars that his temper is frayed. his serves on edge, and his appreciation of pqui fund seri- audy blighted.
That is why he is rule. No man has a
more downright honesty about the Blm city.
I have sat on a pet there net heard him make retourks which mode me shiver with emunerassment.
Haughty Homes
Now, after endless butling around ltat baconfad halls, usually spittoons. With vipper which Hollywood insists on as regires senting the haughty bones of Eng-
BERTIE'S
HISTORY
Chr
Jeeves, perfect butler of famous P. G. Wodehouse man- about-town here, Bertie Wooster, first appeared-as IL short-story figure at the end of the war.
ane
Since then his adventures have te carned his creator
literary largest of contemporary fortunes.
At our lime P. G. W. earned £400 a werk in Hollywood-for "doing nothing," according to his own version.
Jeeves has been seen on the stage, and is nuw to be filmed, The deal butler will be por
who trayed by Arthur Treacher, has played butlers in approxi- mately 400 American pictures,
land, Treacher has breune a top- Hinc fenture player
have
Century Fox-Twentieth signed him to play Jerves, greatest of Wodehouse characters, in "Thank You, Jeeves."
And Treacher, in his element now that he can assert himself as a star, is baving a grand time insulting everybody,
-—-— D»ma' (--jauspine_taxi-Unis tall. thin, light-volved actor with the bird-like face is objectionable; far from it.
Rudeness is his pose, rather like the emaciated accents affected by so many of the British colony in that
same town.
By Connery
Chappell
THANK YOU,
JEEVES
I wiped the brow,
"Jeeves," I said. "I feel like a lust cirild that has found its
nother."
"Indeed, xir****
"If you don't mimi me calling you a mother?"
"Not at all, sir." "Thank you. Jeeves,“
Sample "f talogue frum Jeeves,"
Jeeves-Wooster
"Thank
Your.
Ten years ago, before the depress sion. Anserwa hail a tiver profess
10 whose members were kiwn as "ralaber,
bees! They wouldt banquets and insult guests,
to alesul
The nennent the guest discovered he was being "ribbed," the rest of the table roured with bughter,
Nice Insults
Su did the victim, after realising that he wasn't footing the bill,
Treacher would have tande the world's best "ribber
It has a genius for hurling insults silvely that people swallow them.
Nearly cleven years, agy be made his last nppearance in England, in Drury Lane show everyone has forgotten, including the backers who lost the usual fortune on $5.
Then, going to the New York stage, he was whisked off to Bollywood, at which tu pours' non-stop string of satrient sallies,
Destined to play the part of the perfectly imperfect Englishman, the type of ass veho only exists in the mind of Kansas City. Treacher has secret dread that people at home will really think he is belling them.
"only do it for the money, you know," he assured me seriously.
So, as Jeeves, this-0ft.-in-loth wears the heaviest of overcons in the height of summer.
that you
2 tried to fell, then don't wear an overcoat in London in July, he moaned, "but it's no use."
Aided
on all-English by
casi which includes Virginia Field. daughter of 12 London K... and 1* David Niven, who either is cr serious
not going to marry Merle Oberum, In case any of you enre, Treacher is now busy preparing the broad vowel for the wide arres
Il Treucher couldn't walk up to un American producer and tell him that the Mayflower made mistake in not going south and thus Painful reproduction preventing #
of species, he wouldn't be happy.
So the Americans, who generally have a sense of humour, like him for
it.
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He is being supervised by Irving Collins, a talented young English- man who, like Treacher, Drury-lane shortly after the war. and who is now one of Hollywood's most stavcessful coinedy directors, Shirley Loves. Him. Unlike Treacher, Collins never in- sults peode: he prefers to play golf. which he does indifferently.
But Treacher, win lives in a house overlooking Hollywood Boulevard, and whis has his Stotel imported from home because "you simply can't drink this local poison, you
know, old man," does not play golf.
I
Jecres "butting" in the "Strand" magazine.
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pastime.
it
an
American
But he has one great distinction. He is Shirley Temple's favourite Dla actor--yari remember them to- gether in "Curly Top."
true.
tw this startling statement is
Shirley admitted the guilty, secret to me herself.
Arthur Treacher has play-
ed 400 butlers. Now to be
Jeeves Jeaves."
in "Thank
You,
I never, in the times I net him, found out exactly what he thought about it all.
lle had known what it was to be broke, and had had the cholee ex- perience of queueing up for chorus jobs at a time when he should have. been playing leads,
Cash Value
Then, in the way it happens, he found himself earning a lot more than he was worth playing parta quite unworthy of hlm.
Although he hates his string of screen butlers, he at least known how many rollk bills they foot,
He had known, too, whel popular- ity meant, for if a vote were taken among the natives Treacher would most popular be the probably Englishman in the town among the featured players.
But one night, as he stared at the sun dipping below Laurel Canyon, the last few flaining the city in minutes of daylight, he turned round and said:
"It pays fantastic money, old chap. But, of course, it really isn't real."
says
Mr. Peppercorn:
E noble aport of sing hauling Exmoor begins
this month, and 1
Just mention it in
CISC sume of you
might have forgot ten, and be planning" some other sort of holiday. The harbourer will have spotted ntag is "werranlable' where a resting and the Luftery will have routed him DIE of his cover.
Tufting a very tiring Job for the Bunismun, I'm told, but I dare say the tug enjoys being chivvied about for a catiple of hours, and, when at last he taken to the open country and nnds the pack and three hundred riders, fresh as paint, waiting for him, he calls it a day and It's generally his last.
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