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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
DONALD DUCK
January 14, 1939.
By Walt Disney
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BRIDEGROOM SUED FOR THE
WEDDING WINE
HE TOLD GUESTS "HAVE A GOOD TIME"
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THEN Mr. Dundas Simpson left Caxton Hall, Westminster, with his bride to catch a 'plane at Croydon for their honeymoon abroad, he left the instruction: "See that everybody has a good time."
Back from his honeymoon, Mr. Simpson, a manufacturing chemist of City-road, Clerkenwell, found that the guests had had a better time than he had anti-i cipated, and the bill, for enter-bottle providing a case of it was taining 48 people was £37 3s. Id.
Mr. Simpson's Instruction that everybody must have a good time was qualified by a further latima- tion to one of his guests to keep an eye on the amount of liquor
con- sumed.
THE LIMIT
And
I further precaution against excess Mr. Simpson Intended to Nimit the to warn the caterer supply.
But that was where he and the enterer, Mr. Archie Tyler, of Petty France, Westminster, could not agree at Clerkenwell County Court re- cently.
Mr. Tyler insisted that no limit had been imposed. He agreed, he said, to supply champagne at 12s. 6d.
taken.
Sir Seymour Hicks In "Peter Pan"
Sir Seymour Hicks is this year's Captain Hook in "Peter Pan," which opened at the London Palladium on Boxing Day.
The line of celebrated actors who have appeared in this part since Gerald du. Maurier created the character in 1904 includes E. Holman Godfrey Tearle, Arthur Clark, Wontner, Henry Ainley, Lyn Hard- ing. Ernest Thesiger, George Curzon. Italph Richardson and Laughlon.
"We Must Return
To Russia"
PARIS.
NEARLY 2.000 officers and nobles of the Russian Court of Czarist daya rathered in Paris recently to pledge loyalty to twenty-one-year-old
Grand
Duke Vladimir, the new Preten- der to the Russian throne.
They cheered the duke as he declared: "We must return to our own country again.**
Earlier he denied to news- spermen that he had any plans to accept the throne of Ukraine under Her's domination.
Charles INDIA FILM
Mr. Simpson's version was that a case of champagne, besides being the
As already nounced, Jean minimum, was to be the maximum. Forbes-Robertson is playing Peter The 48 guests, including some this Christmas for the ninth time. children and As many women as Pamela Standish will be Wendy and men, toasted the bride and bride-Ceelly Byrne plays Mrs. Darling, kroom in 24 bottles of champagne,
2 bottles of brandy, two bottles of
whisky, two of gin, a bottle of Italian in-law, who was out for a good vermouth, two bottles of sherry, and time. 24 bottles of beer.
OLD STAGER
Mr. Simpson sald that he thought WHs definitely unreasonable. this Most of the men present were beer drinkers.
The man he had instructed to
check the drinks was a "staid old stager," but by mistake the checking had been done by his young brather
Judge Earengey found that Mr. Simpson's Instruction to the caterer included no mention of a limit and ordered payment of the balance of the account, £17 11s. 94.
IS BANNED
"THE
Relief of Luck- now," which was
to have been one of the most spectacular British films, was banned recently after the intervention of the India Office.
It is understood that the Mr. Simpson accepted liability and 'official view is that no useful offered to pay at the rate of £5 59. purpose would be served by a month, but added that the bride's, films dealing with the Indian parents would probably pay.
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Mutiny.
The India Office has no power to ban a Alm, but in the case of a ple- ture of this type the official view is usually sought for consideration by the British Board of Film Censors. The scenario was submitted to the India Omes, and the observation: made on it led to the ban.
COSTUMES MADE
Eight hundred players and studio workers were to have been employed on the production, in which M359 Edna Best and Mr. Wilfred Lawson were the stars.
Sets had been built and costumes
made.
Thousands of pounds had been
spent
in preparation,
Plans had been completed to begin photograhy at Walton-on-Thames with Mr. Maurice Elvey as director.
"I am astounded," he said, "I had no idea anyone would object to what was planned as a wholly patriotic picture.
"I understand that the ban is the result of the intervention of the India Omce. The film censors could not have acted on their own at a time when Mr. Alexander Korda is pro- ducing The Your Feathers,' show- ing British and native troops at war in the Sudan,"".
Potash Imports Heavy
Toledo, O.
Great Lakes ports have received more than 20,000 tons of potash from Germany and France this year. The shipments included a cargo to be used on Ohio, Indiana and linols farms for corn and whent land fer-
lizer.
WANTED
VOYAGE
MANILAUGHTER
Is the merry rippling noise made by the lucky jellows who are setting off for a fortnight's leave to Manila and have remembered to bring a case of H. 8. BEER,
LANGHAI
Extension
till 2 á.m.
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JANUARY 14th
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"Well,
it's only a Sore Throat --but be careful and give your child Formamint ht once. Formamint destroys the dan- gerous disease germs in mouth and throat and is more effective than gargles, which only irri- tate the sensitive throat. Be- sidės, most children cannot gargle in the right manner." Give Formamint also to the other members of your family. to prevent them from catching your child's Sore Throat.
Buy a kettle of formamint tablets to-day at your neurom chemist me stera doador.
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