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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
ARE YOU SURE
The "Telegraph" 'Brains Test
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Answers are on Page Three
1. Where did these people land in
Britain:
(u) Julius Caesar
(b) William the Conqueror
(e) Duke of Mountouth
(d) William of Orange
(c) Bonnie Princs Charite
() Merlot
2. Who Brst
tine
(a) Led the Jews into Paterline
(b) Took the Jews out of Pales-
(e) Sent the Jews back to Pates- tine
(d) Announced the Jewish Na- ional Home in Palestine
3. Are there more white people or coloured people. In the U.S.A.?
4. What is the origin est words:→→
Nazi
Bolshevik
5. Rentify these
Fascist
(4) Mathes of the Gracchi
Mother of Parliaments
(c) Mother Shipton
(d) Mother of pearl
(e) Motherwell
(D) Motherwort
the
6. Oscar Wilde wrote "The In
portance of Being Ernest" Is that right?
7. Of these African rivers Which flows into-(a) Atlantic, (b) Indian Deran, fel) Mediterranean--
Congo Niger
Zamben
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Dienre quebralety?
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By what N
(a) God Save The Idlug
(b) Rute Britannia
(c) See The Conquering Hero Comes
(d) Wedding March
(e) Funeral March
(1) God Bless The Prince of
Wales
12. Who is entitled to fly the;-
(a) White Ensign
(b) Red Ensign
(e) Blue Enaign
13. Has Franco held his Victory Parade yet;-
Yes
No
14. Queen Anne's Bounty is a fund established for the benefit of
Old acrvants of the Court Veteran soldiers
Walows of famous men
Children of oficers killed in battle Wern-out horses
Poorly paid clergu
15. Lord Merrivile, the julge hadled recently test to he
Acorn
Wild
Marshall-Hall
Curtis Bennett
Henry Duke
Henry Dickens.
16. To what it is Westminster Abbey dedicated?
17.
Which of these birds are sum-
mer migrants: ---
Starlaga
Skrifts
Linarts Goldfinches
Which of these saw a railway
Swallows
Murting
1.
1.
Orange River
train
Nelson
PLASTYN
the
NK
Wordsworth
We-lington
Tallenrand
Napoleon Buron
Wilton
the Great President Julius Coar 21. The late Sir Philip Sassoon was member of Parliament for:
Canterbury Dover
Hythe
22. Into which
tributaries flow:--
(a) Warwick-
shire Avon (b) Cherwell (c) Tevlut
Afliforà Hastinga
Fantbourne
rivers do these
(d) Wyc
(e) Wey
(1) Missouri
23. In which play or opera do ધર્મ છે. These songs occur
(1) "The last 70s of summer" (b) "With a key and a ho and a
mon
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the maiden of (e) "Here's to bashful fifteen"
(d) "Scenes that are brightest"
a pair of sparkling (e) "Take
What is the English equivalent of the German tities:-
(d) Herr von
2.1.
fo) Count
(b) Haron
25. Who was the author of
(a) "Gane with the Wind"
"Anthony Adverse"
(e) "Constant Nymph"
(d) "Jew Suss**
te "The Citadel"
(f) "Good Companions"
we have
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26. Which of these are countries. whoe frontiers Reed:-
Jugo-Slavia
I'tand
Emeet Lithuania
Carcho-Slovakia Grerer 27. Can you eat Kohlrabi? 26.
What, where, and when was
12. Which one of these is said to the Highest recorded temperature have visited Britain:
Mand
St. Peter
Joseph of
the
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St John
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numbers Staven ve Theis sterk
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Nicodemus Pilate
Arimathea Caiaphas ·
International Law was found-
Greita
Mackalone
Pope Gregory Erasmus
(a) England 20.
(b) The world
Who was the first President of The United States?
30. Who worshipped: ---
(el Isla
(b) Rimmión
fei Baal
(d) Odin
(e) Minerva
(1) Goddess
of Reason
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3-MINUTE DRAMA IN A GARDEN
WHISFERS:
Let's ask that nice Mr Peters to play tennis again. "He looks so fed up, poor man...
WHISPERS: Who wouldn't be with that dull looking wife
of his
WHISPERS:
Come on, let's ask him.
I don't suppose. she'll mind
MR. PETERS! We want another man for a mixed doubles. Will you join us?
Dick, you're always running away toj those girls next door! You never consider me lately,
I might as well
not exist for all
the notice you
take of
me
AT THE DOCTORS
This tiredness makes me feel so desperate. doctor. Why I even wake tired!
For heaven's sake, Gwen. don't be difficult. If you weren't always complaining of tiredness these days
invite you, they'd
too!
Well, Mrs. Peters. your trouble sounds like Night Starvation. You see, even during
sleep you go on. using up energy in heartbeats, breathing and other automatic actions. Unless energy is replaced during sleep, no wonder you wake tired, feel and look run-down and 'nervy! I advise
Horlicks for that
DICK'S GAY
LAUGHTER FROM NEXT DOOR WAS
LIKE TORTURE TO NERVY RUN-DOWN GWEN-SHE RUSHED INDOORS TO ESCAPE IT
HORLICKS FOR GWEN EVERY NIGHT-HER HEALTH IMPROVED AS WONDERFULLY
ind
darling
Why of course,
Shall we,
THINKS:
FORTNIGHT LATER – THE TENNIS CLUB
I hope you're coming to the club dance,
Mrs. Peters
Oh, yes Gwen,
do!
KO
Pick?
HOW
MLICH MORE ATTRACTIVE GWEN LOOKS SINCE SHE'S BEEN TAKING
HORLICKS
Puzzle Corner
To-day, a bit of nonsense rhyme in cryptic form:
SYAD YCB ZBXXPJZ · DQK- CXBC, NKJZBC ZCKL XQB JPZQXD.
LBYXQBO'D ZCKLPJZ OKN. SBC; OKFB! XHCJ KJ XQB NPZQXD!
A "Tuesday" Puzzle Definitions are given below
for words to be filled in horizon-
tally. When completed, the first letters, reading downward will give you-phonetically-what the puzzle was designed to do:
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1939.
The
crazy song
vogue is in again
Here's n new sing-him-to-sleep S
WITCH on the radio, lis-
number. It's called "Mutiny in the ten to any band, and you Nursery, and goes like this: hear the same tune. "Jeepers Creepers, where ja get.those peepers?”
Ask what on earth it means and they will say they haven't the foggiest, but they sing it just the same.
craze
Every now and then, for no particular reason, there comes n
for
The crazy Bongs. sillier they are, the more obscure their message, the more the public take them to their heart. We're in the middle of one of those crazes now.
One Title, two little, three lttle
jliter-bugs;
Four little, Ave little, six little
Jitter-bugs; Seven little, eight tittle, nine little
filter-bugs;
Ten little jitter-bug boys.... It then works its way back to "one little Jitter-bug girl," and that leads us to the vital point:
There's muling in the nursery, There's mutiny in the nursery, 'Cos Mother Goose Is on the loose, Her kids are singing out,
If little precious Isn't asleep, after this then his mother's no crooner.
Let's go back a month or two, Remember this?
In the springtime, the only pretty
ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a
je ding, ding:
Sweet lovers love the spring.
•
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•
Autolycus had #scarcely more Intelligible variation the hey
on
nonino theme:
When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the dory over the
dale
We'll end with the song that brings down "Twelfth Night's" cur- Lain:
When that I reas and a little tiny
boy,
With hep, ho, the wind and the
ralu,
A foolish thing was but a toy.
For the rain it raineth every day. --Perheepers Creepers" isn't- 10 crazy afler all,
Footnote on figures:—
Life of a song hit is usually from three to six months, including about
1, Those who type. 2, Under-
Fiat Foot Floogie with a flow flow: If you or I had written Flat Foot Floogle with a flop flow; ground holes. 3. Shakes. 4.
Flat Foot Floogle with a flow fo Puzzles. 5, Long-drawn-out "Jeepers Creepers" it would
Floy flow, flou fou, fou flou. speeches. 6, Treciess plains, 7, A | probably have been returned
with a stiff note. The publishers tasket, I lost my yellow basket.
And then, of course, A' fisket, a' day of the week,
I admit
have they wouldn't
I've bern
discussing the psychology thought much of it in manu-of this song business with some of its sentiment makes the big money, script. But the song was writ shrewd men. Why, I asked, does ten and built up in America, the public plump for "Little Old and they seem to have a special Lady because of its nivete of word and sentiment, and hall the crazy flair there for lyrical experi- songs for the opposite reason? ment. So it came here a ready- made hit.
Letter Juggling Two different 7-letter words may be formed from the 7 let- ters given below. Use all letters in each word:
AEGNRST
How Much?
Ah, said the shrewd men, it's the tune that matters. And then they went and complicated the issue "Jeepers Creepers" is the name of by saying that, of course, the lyric a horse in an American film called | was a science to be solemnly studied. "Going Places." The horse won't budge until he hears д cerlain
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serenade. And "Jeepers Creepers" The dichard will tell you the crazy in the name of the serenade. It is song is all part of the new de- also, I believe, Middle Western generacy. "Now, in my day. way of saying.
"Holy smoke!" or he'll say, In his day! Ask him f "Well, I'm hanged!"
he remembers Lots Collins singing
50 dance band broadcasts. Simple with chirpy, crazy exceptions like
more than 500,000 copies (normul the "Lambeth Walk," which hus sold Bmt of a big hit salej, und is sull reillag
Cecil Wilson
School Examination
YOU have to know quite a number of things if you
A man wishes to invest part of $12,000 at 5 per cent., and the rest at 4 per cent., so that Have you heard that ather song of "Ta-ta-ra-boom-de-ny,"
Go back farther still. Even Shake- he may pbtain an income of the moment, "Hold Tight"?. The
speare had his moments of what in are 13 years of age and want $500. How much must he in-words of "Jeepers Creepers are
Elizabethan Limes passed for seat to shine at Stowe School, in Look logical by comparison. vest at each of the rates named? thist
Fun With Antonyms And, today, words and their antonyms to be paired off:
What, me? Yes I'd love
to!
poilers
wominifu
A
typtoal
angelaży
35
obedient
resonant
a
obscure
Internal
5
astantive
furtulent
G
оред
insignificant
17 Putrard
*vident
4 supreme
Javiens
blockad
abnormal
IN THE HALL MIRROR SHE CAUGHT
RIGHT OF HERSELF!
6 WEEKS LATER
GOSH, I DO LOOK
OLD AND DRAWN THESE PAYS. CANT BLAME DICK, REALLY, DH, IF ONLY I COULD SHAKE OFF THESE NERVES AND TIREDNESS.
I WONDER IF ITD BE ANY GOOD SEEING THE DOCTOR
Gwen, you look marvellous, these days-such a sparkle
in your eyes
DO YOU WAKE TIRED,
FEEL AND LOOK • RUN-DOWN AND`NERVY,
TP to, take Horlicks, cupful regularly last thing at night. You'll wake.refreshed every morning. In a few weeks you'll get all your vitailly, "drive" and self-confidence back. Get Horlicks to-day, Horlicks Is best when made in the specia? mixer obtainable at all good stores
HORLICKS
GUARDS AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION
9 PURCECat
artistio
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(Answers Appear on Page 3)
BRIDGE PROBLEM
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Diamonds are trumps. South lends and North-South have to win five of the six tricks.
Solutions by first post Tuesday to Bridge Problem, "Hongkong [Telegraph," Wyndham Street.
SOLUTION OF LAST WEEK'S PROBLEM
at
Hold tight, hold tight:
Hold tight, hold tight, soo-ra-de-
ack-a-sa-ki; Want some sen-food, mama;
Shrimps and rice, they're very
nice....
Do you know what that means?
But it sells. The publishers don't.
FOR
Recollect how Touchstone had to
adnit: "There was no great mutier | Buckinghamshire. in the ditty" after the pages had sung at him:
it was a lover and his lass
With a hey, and a ho, and a key
τοπικό,
That o'er the green corn field did
pass
NEWS ABOUT MUSIC
Opera In An English Garden
THOR some years the Howard IT is with reason that one
family, of Loughton, in Essex, have given performances of opera in English in the gar- den of their house. In 1935 they played Handel's "Xerxes" and in 1937 Alessandro Scar latti's "Triumph of Virtue."
speaks of the Loughton opera performances as a family affair. In the past I seem to remember at least half a dozen Howards in the cast, and this With year, it was the same. them this family had a body of friends headed by the producer Geoffrey Dunn and the conduc-
This is the kind of occurrence that makes one realise thetor Iris Lemare.
of vitality
non-professional music-making in England. People of a pessimistic turn of mind. are continually suggesting that the state of music in this coun- try is poverty-stricken.
Although, they say, we are willing listeners we have given up the more valuable habit of making music for ourselves. I have never agreed with this point of view. Such an accusa- tion of musical laziness is hard to rebut because music made in the home is inevitably a matter which never reaches the public
Climate is the devil in open- air shows. To combat this a theatre was built for use.
Here are questions from a general knowledge paper set for boys of 13 in the Stowe School scholarship entrance examina- tions recently.
Can you answer them? Look at Page 3 for the answers if you are not sure.
(1) What colour. Is a Cardinal's hat?
(2) What Is a chevron?
(3) In what war did Stonewall Jackson become famous?
(4) In what country are Phalun- Hists found?
(5) What do the letters R.S.V.P. mean?
(5) Burgin, Burgos, Burgeon, Bur- Hess, Burgee are a flag, a citizen, a minister, a city, a bud. Which is which? (7)
What beast, bird or fish- (4) nourished the founders of Rome?
(b) quoll "Never More? (c) killed Cleopatra?
(d) argued with Balaam?
(f) walked hand-in-hand with an artificer in woodwork? (8) What is the value of X, if X equals
The number of Musketeers plus the number of fathoms my father Hes plus the number of mops used by the maids plus the number of Buchan's steps?
(0) What nume do you associate with each of the following pairs?
(a) A historical novelist and an Antarctic explorer. per-
The Gluck opera was formed recently also the Scar- latti opera.
(b) An Indian Governor-Gen- eral and a seaside town..
(c) A large island and a large dog.
(Answers on Page 3)
Turkey Boosters Eat Beef
THE Music Festival at Lucerne from August 3 to 29 is an event worth noting. Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Adrian Boult and Fritz Busch are among the conductors, and the choirs of the Sistine Chapel in meeting here to Rome, under Mgr. Lorenzo making the public "native Perosi, and of Strasbourg Cathedral will be heard.
South wins with king of dia-ear. monds, on which North discards
But because one doesn't hear king of clubs. South leads a
Verdi's "Requiem" will be club, which East wins (it would of these things it is sheer wish-
fulfilment to take it for granted given twice under Toscanini; be no advantage to refuse),
A few the Sistine Choir will be heard North discarding a spade. What that they do not go on. ever East now leads, West can of them, like the musical activi- with especial interest when they
ties of the Misses Davies win only two
atsing works by Palestrina and more tricks,
Adrian Boult's North-South winning a club and Gregynog in Wales and of the Victoria. Sir
Howard family in Essex, come programme includes Vaughan spade and two hearts, using to one's notice. They are out Williams's Fantasia on a Theme South's ten of diamonds to throw the lead to West if and ward signs of our inherent by Tallis for Double string Or-
chestra.. when required,
musicality.
This problem proved more difficult than I expected. The chief cause of failure кав за opening solve against proper de- fence. Correct solutions came from: F. F. S., S. P., T. Š. Mc- Carrick, T. P.
Russia's Huge Submarine Fleet
Moscow.
SPEAKING in Moscow recently,
Admiral Kuznetscff, Soviet Commissar for the Navy, said: "The best guarantee against all danger of armed - nitack on the Soviet Union is the growing might of our armed forces on land, sen and in the air.
According
Pravda, Admiral Kuznetsoff, in a Navy Day celebra- tion speech, sald that the Soviet has more submarines than алу other country and more than Germany and Japan combined,
to
A LAY SERMON
IGNETS.
as used by the part to seal others for his Soient jaws, were com- Master.
Has God chosen you to be
monly worn in a ring on the right hand. Unlike our ma dern signets, they bore no de- one of His signets? If so, vice; nothing but an inscrip- there are three things which tion consisting of the owner's you should always bear in The first is that, the name, prefixed by a word mind. which meant "belonging to." wax must be molted before it How striking a figure the will take an impression. You word becomes when we bear must work with the flame of those facts in mind. God tells love. The next concerns the His chosen ser- inscription. Is your zeal to vant that He make converts for a church or will make him an organisation? There Is on God's a signet. What nothing of that does it mean? signet; only. the sign of His That he will be always at instrument. You will be use- God's right hand, ready to His less to seal others unless you use, and that it will be his yourself "belong."
As a signet HAGOAI 1, 23.
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