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NANCY
GO ON!-- GOILS DON'T KNOW HOW TO BUILD A SNOWMAN !
IS THAT SO?--- WELL I BET I'M
BETTER THAN
YOU!
LET'S HAVE A RACE --- AND SEE WHO BUILDS ONE THE QUICKEST!--- THE LOSER BUYS
SODAS!
O.K.!
1906 by kimi tad Évitero Brudlaala.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By Ernie
I'M FINISHED!
February 1, 1940.
Bushmiller
MAKE MINE CHOCOLATE!
NIE BUSH
NINOTCHKA
From The Novel By
MELCHIOR NENGYEL
Adaptation By LEBBEUS MITCHELL
POWELLS WINTER
SALE
of MEN'S WEAR
NOW ON
BARGAINS GALORE
William Powell
LTD.
10 Ice House Street
in OVERCOATS
SUITS PULLOVERS
UNDERWEAR SHOES and SOCKS
REVELATION
The three agents of the Moscow, Board of Trade, sent to Paris to sell the court jewels of the former Grand Duchess Swana, having got into difficulties when Swana's lover, Count Leon d'Algout, obtained an injunction against their sale or removal, the Cammissar of the Board of Trade, sent as a Special Envoy. Nina Yakushova. Count d'Algout meets her on a safety island in the street, and is fascinated by her.
COUNT Leon
d'Algout, frivolity against you. As basic started in fascination material you might not be bad. but you are the unfortunate product of a doomed culture. I
after the retreating Russian girl.
Her fair hair, the beauty of her face, the sweetness
feel sorry for you.”
It was growing dark and the lights of the city were turned panse of Paris.
of her month-well, heon, sparkling over the wide ex-
couldn't just let her go of his life like that.
out,
She was going to the Eiffel Tower-well, he would follow her. She was of a very technical turn of mind: he went into the Hotel Clarence and bought a guide arrived at the tower ahead of her.
When he saw her, she was asking questions of an at- tendant.
"Can you tell me the exact width of the foundation on
which the piers are resting? And the depth?”
"You don't have to worry. The thing is safe," said the attendant.
"I am not afraid. I want
to know."
"What a city!" he exclaimed, and pointed out to her various
points of interest. He dropped
frame in the slot of a telescope. "And now its greatest attrac- tion, the most wonderful spot in all Paris. . .. Yes, here it is. Look.. What do you see?"
“1 ser i bonse that looks like all the other houses. What's remarka-
fe about it"
"It's not the structure, but the spirit that dwells within. There are three rooms and a kitchenette dedicated to hospitality."
"So that's your house?"
"Well, let's say I live in it. Such
a pleasant place all kinds of com fort, casy to reach-"
SHA
"You are something we do not
"That's the way clocks work." ¡be in need of you. You must an- interrupt have in Russia. That is why I be "Love is not so simple. Why do awer." ed, straight from lieve in the future of my coun-doves bill and coo? Why do flowers He left her and picked up the the shoukler: "Doen try."
open their petale 7 Oh, Ninotchka, receiver. that
"Hicho.
Yest.
I'm sorry, mean you
myself.surely you feel some slight symp want 'me to there?"
He thought be
hod offended her,
"You pronounce my name incor- ectly. It's Ni-notchka."
*
army.
"I begin to believe in it o It still frighten me a little, but ittom of the divine passion-a strange but I couldn't make it. I ran into
from the heaviness in your limbs, n burning a friend fascinates me, Ninotchkaa.”
of the lips that is not thirst," What? The deal Ja off! Are you "You are vory talkative," she crazy, Buljanoff.. . A special en- said
voy has arrived? That's better. "Ninotchka, do you like me just kissed her. "Was that talkative "me" ...
He took her in his arms and i . Oh, she doesn't want to see Well, I'll get in touch "No, that WIS
restful. Do it with her
myself. What's her "The general appearance is not again."
name? . Spell it.
Yaku. "Now, I didn't say that either. distasteful. The whites of " He stopped reading Naturally, nothing would plese me eyes are clear.
Heavens. these Russian Your cornea is ex-
Yakushova. and tipped his hat. "I hope more."
Icellent.” you'll forgive me, but I-"
Leon advanced, redding understand me, from his book: "The foun- "Then you don't want me to goļa little?" dation is 141 yards square
there."
Then why don't we go? You might be an interesting subject of
"I will do my best," he promised in deep delight.
Ninotchka in turn inter-study." rupted with a curt: "Go ahead." She started up the stairway leading to the top of the tower. He followed, reading:
master's hat.
Gaston let them in and took his
"Is this what you call the butler?" asked the Russian.
"Yes.
"Good evening, Comrade," she said to Gaston. "Rut this man is horribly old. You should not make
"Four massive piers of masonry are aunk to a depth of 46 feet on one side of the Seine, and 29% feet on the other side. The girders of interlaced ironwork which him?"
him work."
your
"Tell me you're so expert on things can it be I'm falling in love with you?"
"Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological pro- cess. A lot of nonsense is written and talked about it.”
"What do you use instead?" #incknowledge natural im- pulse common to all,"
"What can I possibly do to en- courage auch an impulse in you?
"You don't have to do a thing. Chemically we are already quite
t
"He takes good care of that." "He looks and. Do
you whip sympathetic." "Na, but the thought makes my stay the structure have an mouth water." inclination of 54 degrees. "The day will come when you Ascending the tower is a stair-will be free," she said to the flab. case of 254. steps!
"Go to bed, little .." He bergasted butler. stopped in consternation as he father. We want to be alone."
As Leon was about, to follow her
realised she was going to climb into the living room,
Guston in- to the top, then resumed hur-formed his master that there had riedly: "and an additional 254 been a number of telephone calls. steps to the very top." She Leon summarily sent him off to was not impressed. "There is bed.
of admission."
THEY talked for hour. Ninotchka the showed him woond in ber shoulder inflicted when she was sergeant Third Cavalry Brigade before
H repeated the kiss and murmured ames.
Ninotchka," "a"thank-you---Ohri
He dropped the receiver and my barbarie
turned to fad Ninotchka putting on Ninotchkan! My im-her
hnt. He took her possible, unroman- "Ninotchka,
tie, statisticall "I must go," she said coldly. glorious, analyt—*** "The telephone is
ringing." she said.
"Oh, let it ring.”
"But one of your friends may
MR. ARITA. REGRETS
British Action In "Japanese Waters"
TO-MORROW
A RUSE
LONDON LETTER
(Continued from Page 4.)
arm.
Townley Lord,, who is 1, and preach- fn in the church in which normally he is a member of the congregation.
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Count Ciano, Golfer
INLIKE his father-in-law, Count Clano, the Italian Foreign Minis-
TOKYO, Feb. 1 (Router) { Referring in the Dict to Anglo- in the Japanese relations, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, said to-day that it was regret, "Let me confess something." he table that a British warship had
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MORALE OF RED TROOPS IN SERIOUS CONDITION
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" HELSINGFORS, Jan. 31 (UP)-The morale of the Rus-
the Finnish front has been seriously im- sian soldiers on puired, according to letters found on prisoners and the dead
Several of these letters were
is neither a vegetacion nor In-in the field. tensively athletic.
But he has recently added golf to
He has become a member of the Acqua Santa course just outside Reme. And he is an enthusiast.
newspapers this morning.
Most are written to wives and Intimato friends,
Give Up Oil
One sald: "This war is not like Poland. It is horrible." afraid to sleep. If we
Another letter safili "We are even MEXICO CITY, Jan. 31 (Reuter). ever have President Cardenas rellerated to. chlidren let us pray for girls only, so day that the oil expropriation must that they will never have to live this stand. horror,"
said. "Never did I dream I could searched the Asama Maru and his recreations, which have been published in the Helsingfors Mexico Won't an elevator included in the price "May I offer you a drink, or feel like this towards a sergeant," had taken off 21 German pissen-limited to fencing and swimming.
something to eat?" he asked her. The clock struck twelve. "It's mid-gers.
"Thank you, I've had all the night-the hour that one-half of NINOTCHKA calories necessary for to-day. if.
"The fact that such Paris is making love to the other
JITS unpre- He plays a round almost every day. continued to What do we do now?"
The hands of the clock klas. j cedented incident should have oc- He takes regular lessons from the curred in our waters is profoundly club professional and he is Improving climb. Leon "We take off our hat and coat," Isn't that wonderful?"
regrettable for our Government hesitated, then he replied, taking her thinga. "We
steadily. well as for the whole nation," started down the make ourselves comfortable for a
said stairs and made most enjoyable evening. We look
Negotiations at present were pru his way to the at each other.
ceeding with the Britlah authorities, and they were doing all they could to steure n satisfactory agreement,
some people suspected that
to
radio,"
aspects you wish
HITLER'S WIRELESS
OFFENSIVE
(Continued from Page 4.)
he
General Was Shot
in
Cool Fellow members say that he will
Addressing a conference of foreign We smile..
play well and that he shows a cool,
correspondents at the National Palace, clovator. He had about some music?"
Well, we don't smile then. How
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" unexcitable temperament.
Signor Mul, the newly appointed
he declared that the legality of the COPENHAGEN, Jan. 31 (UP),— to wait for it to
"Is that customůry 7"
Mr. Arita added that although secretary of the Fascist party, has come down and then to fill with
"It helps. I shall turn un the
also talten up golf and has beginner's The Military Correspondent of the expropriation was now unquestion- Japan lessons several times a week at Acqua "Berlinski" reports that the Finns!able. Therefore, suggestions to refer passengers.
[recently in the Catholic weekly, "The
This point of view was discussed Intended to eliminate the rights and Sonta. And it may be to the benent have captured a Russian officer who i the matter to International arbitration She was already at the top!
"I should say this room in 18 by Tablet", which remarked in n short intercals of third powers in China, of the world that both the Bell has "cleared up the fate of General were outside the bounds of possibility. He revealed that Mexico had com- the Japanese Government had re- on set warfare, that thepeatedly stated that it did not desire members of the same course, editorial
und American Ambassadors when he stepped, dumb-founded, 25," she observed.
are Vinogradoff."
Vinogradoff was in charge of the pleted satisfactory arrangements with out of the elevator. She turned "Oh, the typical room of the repercussions of the sinking of the this elimination.
Russian 44th Division, which was France for shipment without inter- {"Grnt Spec" abrond may prove un-
completely wiped out in the dis-ference of merchandise bought him nonchalantly. "You average man--or a little above the expectedly great, because Great Bri- Anti-Comintern Policy.
nstrous rout at Soumussniml last Germany before the war. gave me some valuable informa- average. If there are any special tain had accepted the initial dis-
Boginning At Home
month. to study, junt advantage of telling the truth about look around. I have nothing to lossen
Mr. Arita said that the polley of
The Russian officer has admitted and gmina in
C.O., who takes a fatherly Interest "And thank you for getting concent. Those
A warfare, defence agulist the Comintern' re- are my books, which proved a handicap in neutral mained
in his men, sent for a certain that ho participated in the shooting "We will con- uncharged. me up here," he said, looking in Here am I."
untries during the early months of Unue close relationship with private and gave him a word of ad-ordered a Soviet
by the "purged" "I shall start with you. What the war.
nionition. surprise at the duzzling view.
Powers who are signatories to thes "I've never seen this before. is profession 7"
As weeks and months pass neutrals | Anti-Comintern Pact,
"Times are dificult at home," he High Command as a
defeat. Beautiful, isn't it?".
zuid, "and most of us are trying to "Keoping my body fit, my mind will, it is pointed out, car to see Referring to the Amerienn abroga-end little extra money to our alort. "Yes, it is."
and my landlord appeased. in proper proportion German sink- tion of the treaty of commerce and wives. I notice that you have not DANES FIRE ON
at background of the friendship with Japan, Mr. Arita said done so." "I'm glad Ionw it before be- I'm 35 and weigh 182 pounds stripings against
successful polieing of the sens by that Japan took all mensurce possible "If you think it would help, sir,” coming extinct."
ped."
England and France, as instanced in to protect the rights and interests of was the reply, "I will certainly send
NAZI PLANE one week's happenings recently when third Powers and was trying to con- lier a few shillingo each week. Dut "For mankind not a thing-for ten British and neutral ships were sidor fairly all cases of damage suf- us a matter of fact she is already she said, looking him up and womankind the record is not quite sunk off British consts whereas one fered by the citizens of third Powers swing £3500 EL down. "I do not hold your so blenk,"
thousand came and went safely. as the result of military operations, estate."
tion. Thank you."
"Do not misunderstand me,”
"What do you for mankind?”
Fen
result of his
Turkish Delight Criticised
MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (Reuter)—The Trade Union organ "Trud" maken an attack lay on the Turks Prees, accusing It, of publishing, without evidence, anti-Soviet news much no COPENHAGEN, Jan. 31 (Reuter), reports at Finnish successes and for year from Die-The Danish A. A. batteries opened reacting "with concealed enthusiasm dro on a German plane which was to Mr. Churchill's threats, ngalust sighted three miles from hero.
neutrale."