HOME DELIVERY
For every
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1938.
Pyeris
mixes
BEST with good spirits
Sparkling Mineral
Pyert
THE SPARKLING MINERAL WATER
HITS FROM THE NEW REX
RECORDS
9137
So Rare-Fox, Trot
Billy Cotton's Orchestra
You're here, You're there-F.T...Billy Colton's Orchestra
9185 The Valeta
Lily of Laguna-Barn. Dance
9141 On the Avenue--Selection
Billy Merrin's Band ..Billy Merrin's Band ..Jay Wilbur's Band
9146 My Cabin of Dreams--F.T....Dick Robertson's Orchestra
9148
Till the Clock strikes three-F.T.
Dixon Hits No. 16 9152 Yours and Mine-FIT.
For You Quick Step
9156 Sandy's Happy Home
9157
Sweet Adelina
A Little bit of Heaven
Dick Robertson's Orchestra
..Reginald Dixon Brian Lawrence's Orchestra Brian Lawrence's Orchestra
Sandy Powell
.Joc Peterson
-Joe Peterson
9161 Gipsy Violin
The Organ, the Monkey and me
.Gracie Fields .Gracie Fields
9153 Moon at Scal
So Rare
9167
Six Hits of the Day No. 14...Primo Scala Accordian
Complete Supplements sent on request.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
York Building
BREWERY
UB
success
Introduced
AMBER ALE
DEFINITELY
A
WINTER
BEVERAGE
OBTAINABLE
UB
of
The STARS still take the
THE "VERY IDEA"
NICKEL
ROAD TO RENO GET YOU
HE heavy scent of roses sprayed on →→
your 1938
TH
Vauxhall
on me as Jeanette MacDonald walked down the aisle of the Wil- shire Methodist Church in Hollywood on
If you are going home on leave, her way to meet Gene Raymond at the
this must interest you.
You can arrange to step ashore at home and drive away in your
own Vauxhall.
altar.
By
Walter Wyndham
IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT
By Ed. Kelly, "Buck"
CIR
IRCULATION of subsi-
མི་སྤཡ་H}llཆltubmlnel4+l»»l{ diary coins in Hongkong by nearly Behind me two women whispered as she professional lives to converge. While Bette was has increased passed, "Wonder if it'll last." They waited to making £500 a week at the Warner studios, her $500,000 since last Septem- see whether Gene kissed her. He did. "Ah husband Harmon Nelson was taking £40 a week ber. they gasped, and I knew they felt it would last. as a solo pianist and crooner in a modest saloon
It was just as it happens on the screen-all on Hollywood Boulevard, We assist you in this connection of it the colour, the scent, the music, the amil- without any trouble or complica-ing bride, the flushed bridegroom, the church customer sent him a dollar tip for singing! Who'd tion to yourself... delivered richly garnished with flowers. to you at home and subsequently Hollywood loves a big wedding. It is no like tip a famous film star's husband if he knew it along Des Voeux Rond, three in Hongkong.
Catalogue & Full Particulara from
Hongkong Hotel Garage
Phone 27778/9.
Stubbs Rd.
IN MEMORIAM
ABBAS-A. II. Abbas who passed away on 14th February, 1937. The blow was great, the shock
severe,
We Ittle thought his death so
near,
Only those that have lost can tell The sorrow of parting without
farewell.
inserted by his wife and children.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1938.
ASSET WORTH PRESERVING
the last delicious reel of those, screen romances it turns out of its huge film factorics.
65 Por Cent. Fail
THAT'S the trouble. So many of the Hollywood stars, fall under the spell of their own screen magic; go into married life with
the feeling that it is all mapped out just as though it were in a film script. When they find it isn't, they weep, or buy tickets for Reno.
I estimate that not less than 65 per cent. of the marriages which unite actor and actress fail dismally. Among actresses marrying film direc tors or producers, about 30 per cent. fail to stay married, while those actors and actresses who marry completely outside of films present Holly- wood with less than 20 per cent. of its total divorce headlines.
The reason Habit. The habit of making believe. If you were asked every day to give Vent to emotions you cauidn't really feel, don't you think you might
confuse soon begin to reality and unreality?
And this si where the Holly- wood "gossips" come in to prey on the overwrought imagination · of married stars.
Ginger Rogers told me how happy she und Law Ayres were when they first married. She
"LEW
One night I was with Nelson when a rich
Fact is, the customer didn't know it.
mo,
Two of the latest pictures of BEITE (above) DAVIS, acho is not going ta
gossip our home, (left) GIN-
allow
ruin and
GER ROGERS—“no divorce has fol lowed the parting between her and Leu Aures."
a
Our interest in this increase
in currency is purely literary,
It is estimated that “if the coins were placed end on end
Scotsmen and about a thousand coolics would be killed in the riots. It would serve them riot.
It is also estimated that if the Treasury were to stack all the ten- cent coins one on top of each other on the cricket club ground, the Treasury would display a déplor- able lack of cents.
The new coinage is said to be. proof against counterfelters.
This proves that prosperity la not around the coiner.
Only one crude case of counter- feiting has been detected since the coins were issued.
The man will doubtless receive a stiff sentence, which vill teach him not to metal with nickel in future.
Telephone officials in Hongkong do not like the now coins because they won't go into the slot chines. So they have to spend slots of money buying new alots.
ma-
However, they should be pleased with the new currency, because thousands of counterfeit cupra- nickel coins were put into their alot machines.
This was definitely phoney
money.
A ten-cent coin is the most valu-
Don't forget that, although there is a silver lining to the clouds, you'll get your feet wet if we don't put our backs to the -wheel-and-pull A manon atcrling salary must think of the ex-pence and the lbs. will take care of themselves,
wore green and the gossips loudly declared-- Bette never appeared at that saloon. Nelsonable issued in Hongkong. For it Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto while the service in the Little Church of the never visited her at the studio. Both declined you can buy a round of drinka in
even ask for your autograph. proposes to ask at to-day's Flowers was still in progress"unlucky to wear to talk about their married life to anyone and the hotels, and the "boys" will
Bette, by a clause in her contract, forbade any
We are now coin down to the film meeting of the Urban Council green. they'll never get on."
Whether Ginger and Low heard them or not, mention of her real life romance in her
Gloucester to test this statement. certain pertinent questions re-it was not long before Hollywood broke down publicity,
"There "Three months after we married,” she told,
As the coiner says: lating to the destruction of their romance. Vera Lyn
"a gossip merchant came to see me and asked may be a wave of prosperity, but bad dimes are sure to come again.. Smart Parties Hongkong's all-too-scanty wood-
point blank whether I didn't think we could whip} .Vera Lyn
Notes to you. land. It is impossible to apply
decided to have a shot at film up a story of threatened divorce.
"I told him we didn't intend to read Bandto our dwarfed little trees so
direction, which meant his beginning again, while I happened to be doing scenario based on our private lives, and we were distinguished a term as forest 'all over
not going to allow either professional gossip or for timberland, and the hearts of specially well," Ginger told me.
"I had to give more time to the studios than professional-jealousy to ruin our home." poets are not so apt to bleed į Lew cared for, but then again he hated invita- When Franchot Tone was filming "Danger- when they observe coolics, with tions to smart partics reaching him through me ous" with Bette Davis, he happened to be plan-
ns a kind of Ginger Rogers escort you Bette what to do to beat the Hollywood gossips.
ning his marriage to Joan Crawford. He asked or without permission, hewing know. He didn't want to feel he was becoming away the branches and gashing known as Mr. Ginger Rogers. Who can blame Bette's advice was "Yes, if you can, and in any be kept sweet on the lines of the
"Shall we get married secretly ?" he asked. the trunks. But these small him or any man?" trees are just as important to The significance and pathos of her story are case never discuss your marriage or the marriage everyday film story.
"That's why it's safest and underlined by the fact that no divorce has fol- relationship with anyone." Neither Franchot Hongkong as any towering pine lowed their parting, and when Ginger built her nor Joan over do so.
best if only one is in films, and for fir or cedar to lands fortun-new home on Beverly Crest, Lew built his on a of marriage, not because they do not know their said. "Conversation at home Some big Hollywood stars are frankly scared the other in something else," she ate enough to possess them. The mountain which could overlook it. And in his own hearts, but because they do know Hollywood then gets away from the fictions necessity of preserving these bachelor suite is a wall which can be mechanically with its pernicious tongue-waggers and its fear- of the movies, at least once in a trees has been stressed too of- removed to make it into a double apartment just ful jealousies. any time it might be wanted. ten to require repetition or ex- planation here. Sufice it to say that they are very necessary for the maintenance of adequate water supplies and preventing soil erosion.
Chater Road
IN HANDY CARTONS OF ONE DOZ PINTS
COUNT
THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
while."
Barbara Stanwyck has hesitated because of Claudette seems, in fact, to His Dollar Tip
it. Clark Gable said to me: "A man cannot be have summed up the situation. himself and live the life of a film star at the same It is the art of taking life as it BETTE DAVIS and her husband saw so time."
comes instead of trying go make many Hollywood marriages ruined by gossips that they resolved never to permit their Pressman, told me one day that marriage couldn't baffles Hollywood.
Claudette Colbert, married to Doctor Joel a screen play out of it which
But to go back to Dr. Basto's wood-cutters from time to time, questions, which indicate the
and from this source the Colony SHORT ARTICLE ON
obtains considerable reventie.
MAN'S DEADLIEST ENEMY
EATEN AWAY
proper civic spirit and his prac-But it is not the practice of the tical interest in the welfare of wood-cutters to re-plant. the the community, it is only fair
areas which they are denuding, to point out that the present and it is suggested that an ar Director of the Botanical and rangement should be made with Htion, Who or what is the dead-
would you answer the ques-1 SPREAD BY RATS Forestry Department arrived in the contractors to carry out re-liest enemy of mankind?
When u ense of plague occurs in In Ceylon and other tropical coun- that they Hongkong only recently, and in afforestation and
Various answers would be given, any town or village in Ceylon or tries the white ant or termite is a but the true one is the inacet world. India, the authorities surround the deadly menace. These insects des- the very midst of the epidemic should be instructed to protect insects are the most deadly menace place with a fence of corrugated troy many people and property
Iron, buried about three feet in the worth
every of timber-thieving. It is to be the small new growth which has to the human race.
thousands of pounds no market value,
awarm in the bunga- year. They hoped that he will be given an
fly, the name applied to any of the leaving the stricken area. The rats, opportunity to explain to Dr.
It would be good business on African
eight species of glossina, a genus of or really the fleas, on them, are the can find.
blond-sucking insect, only carriers of the plague. As the rats These termites always work in the Basto precisely what steps the
the Government's part to en- slightly larger than the house fly. die, the fleas leave their bodies and dark and build
tiny earth tunnels beings, and so the everywhere to reach the wood work, authorities are taking to end the courage as far as possible the Tsetse flies are restricted in Africa, o to human although not found in the Sahara or Plague spreads.
One day the bungalow collapses, and destruction of Hongkong's wood-planting of seeds, on all unpro-veld country of the extreme south. The farmers In Egypt, and Africa | all the beums are found to have been. land. The recent absence of ductive land, and along property This fly le entirely responsible for have many deadly enemies, but the completely enten hollow by the pests. the deadly disease "sleeping sick deadliest menace to their crops is Outside, all looked, well, until the and prosecutions of timber thieves boundaries
highways. ncas," and around the shores of the the locust. These locusts, at certain crash
These termites cat does not necessarily mean that People who enjoy rambling over great African lakes, in Uganda, and times of the year, suddenly appear
everything, tho
hills and into out-of-the-towns and their inhabitants have darkening the sun, and Alling the and it is almost impossible to keep the Congo, many native villages and on the horizon, a vast cloud, even carpets, matting, clothes and wood, their depredations have ceased
nnything from their ravages. Now for that they have even dimin. { way corners would probably be been completely blotted out, all air with the hum of their wings.
only too pleased to assist in such owing to this small insect, the tretse
They descend on the farms and that so much jungle in Ceylon has fly. ished to any extent. It may work. Farmers and owners of
feed, and when they rise to continue been cleared and wood is scarce in Selenee has spent great sums in their devastating flight, not a blade many parts of the island, this post be that they are merely more cattle should be warned
that trying
to exterminate this insect of grass or a leaf of a tree is visible; has begun to eat the ten bushes (un- cautious. It is very certain grass fires may kill now tily far the hy is victorious, but so The whole landscape is one vest something is done, one can quite
Inhabitants are faced that they have not abandoned growth and should be carefully fly
Then think of the Res. In India with starvation and death,
well Imagine that the industry will guarded. It is certain that an the plague, caused entirely by the their raids entirely."
So numerous Are these terrible be totally destroyed by these small
insects. enlightened pubile will do every- bile of the flen, is calculated, accord- insects that trains meeting a swarm thing possible to assist in the ing to Professor Lebroy, to have des- of locusts are often unable to pro- The boll weevil has destroyed vast préservation of Hongkong'stroyed eight million persons, and ceed owing to the millions of their stretches of land In America, once trees, which, after all, are pubic many elties and districts have be- bodies clogging up the wheels, and under the cultivation of cotton. In come derellet, all owing to this tiny so making them slip on the lines, aplio of all selenco can do, these property.
insect.
bringing the train to nʻstandsülf.
(Continued on Page 8.) --
Think for a moment of the Tsetse Kround. Why? To prevent the raisows eating every piece of wood; they
It is the custom here to
lease certain large timbered Jarons in the New Territories to
cum, 100