Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 1, 1939.
NEW NURSES SIGN, ONE A MINUTE
The new drive for auxiliary jin a bakery shop, but she has always nurses. brought hundreds of wanted to be a nurse and said so applicants-charwomen, vicars' to the committee's reception clerk.
That was fine, the clerk told her. wives, shop girls, women of After her auxiliary course, she can leisure to the point of putting continue training with the Red their names on the pink forms Cross or the St. John Ambulance
if she wants to, recently.
Susie Farnham, aged twenty-two, More than 200 registered at the Red Cross headquarters in Gros- pretty but businesslike, and Betty venor-crescent, S.W., and at lunch Kirk, fged twenty, went to Romnev ume they were signing up at the House at their lunch hour. They
wk together in an electrical en rate of one a minute at Romney House,
Westminster, offices of the Ricers' office, and they want to take Central Emergency Committel for their clusseu and hospital training Nursing
"What can we call ourselves-not; Wrens or Wancs, but what?" Geral- dine Foster, who works in Victoria- street, asked at Romney House.
"Why not nuracles?" asked her companion, Mary Woods. She works
Trade Unionism In Sport
SYDNEY, N.S.W-Trade unionsın has entered the field of sport at Broken Hill mining city in the far
weat of New South Wales. The
together.
Study Marriage
iversity
Barrier Industrial Counell has de- EAST MIDDI
eley, Cal.
student Uni-
clared boycott of cricket grounds small key which lock unless the matches are umpired by box of the door of the members of the Cricket Umpires here was been in use 103
Postmaster Bert G. Peck, iis pres Association.
The
Kodian and the 11th since the office established, has been on the for 42 years so, far and prizes
Bridegrooms Fight
Damage estimated at $10,000 occurred in a half hour's fire at the Rival bridegrooms challenged ench | New York World's Fair glass cen other to a lathi fight at Jhansi cetre, when huge mirrors and other cently. The police stopped the fight!
and the court is being asked to decide glass objects were shattered. Mayor whom the girl shall marry. Police La Guardia, left, and Bernard pickets have been placed in front of Baruch, back to camera, were spec-
house. where bath marriage
the
| parties are encamped.
tators.
Hongkong Telegraph Attempt To Lift Ban On
NINTH ANNUAL
ATEUR
PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June - September,
1939
CASH $250
$250 PRIZES
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph ")
F
Russia's Anti-Nazi Film
AN attempt was made recently to find out why the Russian anti-Nazi film, "Professor Mamlock," has been banned by the British Board of Film Censors.
Miss Elsie Cohen, who wants to exhibit the film at the Academy Cinema, had an interview with Mr. Brooke Wilking son, secretary of the Board..
Blind Prophet Rules Village
MORCOTT Rutland).
CYRIL HOLMES, a blind man,
VOLUNTARY, BUT-
While the censorship in Britain is a voluntary one, imposed by the trade itself, in consultation with the Home Office, the Board's decisions acquire legal significance from the acceptance of its rulings by cincing licensing authorities.
Such neceptance is a condition to which the licensees have to agree in
writing.
the
we were to show a lm for
rules this Rutland village of Morcott and its 335 people which the Censor has refused u advises farmers on their cattle certificate." Miss Cohen said, "within a few hours a gentleman would come and their crops, housewives on
along, han
hand us a paper and pull the running of their homes and down our shutters." the raising of their families- In certain cases the L.C.C. and because many of the villagers other authorities will grant special certificates after a film, banned by believe that he can see into the the Censor, has been seen by mem future.
bera of the licensing committee.
TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 He said recently there would
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29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.
THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST
AND SECOND BEST
ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
Prizes will be allotted as follows:
SECTION ONE:
For Story-Telling Pictures.
1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
SECTION TWO:
General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc, Tat. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd, $10. SECTION THREE:
Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies.
1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd $10.
The following Rules will govern the Competition
1The Competition is confined ex
clusively
amateur photo graphers, Z-No employee or member of any Firm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete. 3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors pending in what are adjudged to be the best photo grophe In each Bection. Each antry must be accompanied by 'form? which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and - which must posted on back of entry.. -The right to publish any or all the of the entries is reserved, to Hongkong, Telegraph.
be
SECTION FOUR:
Still Life and Table-Top Studies.
1st. $30. 2nd. $15, 3rd. $10.
SECTION FIVE:
Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years,
2nd. $10. 3rd. $5.
1st. $15.
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-All photograplu entered' must have been taken in tila Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions "aro ineligible. G-No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, cr damage to entries. -All entries to be
lilier - black. sepla, or toned pictures, and muat be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible. -Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white. No pleture to entered in more 'than'ono Section. 10 Mounts to be only white
cream, and, except in the Children's Section, muust be of one
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AND PASTE IT
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into in connection with the Com petition.
12-Entries in the Children's Section
must beke the entrant's name, ago and addrer an tite entry form, counter-signed by a parent.... 13.-Members of the Staffs of the Hangkang Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete, 14.--The_decisions of the Judges sho11
be final
35-At the conclusion of the Com-;
petition, entries will be returned to competitors on appllcation at· the Telegraph offices within seven dayı...
ENTRY-FORM-
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be no war. So the villagers said, "No"ARP for us it is Just a waste of time."
:
HE SAID 'NO WAR'
NEW PARLOPHONE
112042. Volees of Spring. Waltz
Autumn Murmurs. Waltz; 12032. Goin' Places. Rhythm Stylo,
Doin' Things.
Kisses In The Dark. Serenade. Kiss Serenade.
RECORDS.
....Orchestra Mascolto.
. Jos Venull & Ed, Lang.
.Frederic Hipymann ́& His Orch.
„Frankle Trumbauer & Ula Orell.
R2625. Futuristic Rhythm. Rhythm Style,
12028, Third Waltz Medley. (Robrecht.)..........Orchestra Mascotte.
R2030
Get Happy.
F2020. My Dream Tango.
Tango.
By The Black Sea. Tango.
„George Boulanger & His Orch.
F1389,
March of the Herald.
F1300.
Baby's Sweetheart.
Veleta.
... Sons of the Brave.
F1387. Jolly Brothers.
...Phulp Green & His Orch,
.Victor Silvester's Harmony Music.
F1300. Park Parade. Sequence Dance. (with Dance Instruction.)
St. Bernard Waltz.
Victor Silvester & Ills Ballroom Orch.
F1305. Tutti Frutti......Joe Daniels & His Hot Bhols In “Druminasileks".
Mutiny In The Nursery. CFT.
ETC., ETC.. ETC.
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In September too Cyril - Hulmes Rowland, Mr. T. Mr. H. maintain the following genuine Duro products:
said there would be no war. Some
of the villagers thought that this Hector,
others time
wrong. But was relied on him and sald, "There's no
Mr.
J
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THE MEN WHO DECIDE The consultative committee of the British Board-of-Film-Censors--is composed of Mr. J. Brooka, Wilkin- son, Mr. M. H. Davis, J.P, Licut- Colonel Sir Cecil Levita, Mr. H. W. Skinner, Mr. H. S
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Three men and two women, whose In Ruiland for women's national service, told a meeting about Cyril's names are not disclosed omcially, extraordinary Influence on the vil-perform the actual examinations of Ingers.
films, in addition to a woman and a man who read scenarios. Expenses " was only with the greatest of the department are met entirely inculty they were mude to realise that the best safeguard, by the fees pold.
At the moment Hollywood is mak- against war was to be prepared." ing a film, under "hush-hush" con- she said.
ditions, called "Confessions of a Nazi Cyril's mother said: "We have Spy with Edward G. Robinson In
of the leading part. and many astonishing instances | his clairvoyance,
It is not the practice to submit "Several society folk drive over, to what are known as 10mm. Alms for see him when they are spending the smaller screens to the Censor This week-end in the country. Some means that they cannot be displayed people come from Hallerton, a good in the ordinary cinemas and that any way, bway, to ask him to find a young question arising out of their public woman friend who was missing from exhibition is a matter for the loend
authority.
home.
"And
"They brought a comb she had used, and Cyril held it in his hand, Then he said, 'She is living now, but will be dead widen you her. That will be within the next and within twenty-four hours, two miles of her home.
A man with asthma will find her, not the police
or yourselves.'
HE WAS RIGHT
"Next day the body was found one and a half miles from her home
Auto Tour Turns Into Hike
HOLYOKE, Mass.-Roger Bour- bannais has returned from an 8,000- mile trip around the country. He left with practically nothing but a dilapidated motor car which broke down. at Meredith, Va., forcing him
by a man who was taking a walk in to hike and hitch-hike from there on. the fresh air for the benefit of als asthmat
Cyril Holmes looks like a student. He wears tinted glasses, and usually sits bolt upright in his chair, grip- ping the arms, his head nodding as though in thought.
int
To those who spoke with him over their beer parlour
Views Clash On Durability
DAVENPORT, In: A washing
Golfing Wife Takes Control
the back machine company is puzzling over n of the Blue Bell in the housewife's complaint. "I would like narrow main street of Morcott he to know what you are going to do talked of the international situation, about the washer you sold me," she
ench
wrote. It washes all right, but one Slowly, as though weighing
leg rusted off." I bought the washer, word, he, sald
This crisis will definitely blow in 1920," over. There will be another to- wards the latter part of this year."" He said: "When I was a small boy found myself with the convic- flon that certain things would happen In the future. When I saw these
Pasadena, Cal.. things come to pass I knew I had à gift. Myla
sight has been taken from Mrs. Lucille Frederick-has-ei- but in
pinco I have second sight.”.
inblished who ly who in the family, Cyril has been blind since an opera at least when it comes to golf,, Play Uon when he was twelve months old. Ing against her husband, she made d Kia Is, twenty-four, the son of the hole-in-one while her husband was keeper of the Blue Bella tiny stone obliged to make two shots for the lan built nearly 300 yentaḥago,? par hola
me,
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