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February 10, 1940.
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By Ernie Bushmiller
O.K.
1 SAID
NO!
NINOTCHKA
From The Novel By
MELCHIOR LENGYEL
Adaptation By
LEBBEUS MITCHELL
RE-UNION
MOSCOW RE-UNION
NINOTCHKA returned to the room in Moscow she shared with two other girls from watching a parade of soldiers and workers and listening to the blare of radio loud speakers spread- ing Soviet propaganda.
In taking over from other Soviet agents the selling of the former Duchess Swana's court jewels, Ninotchka Yaku- shova falls in love with the Duchess's sweetheart, Count Leon d'Algout. The attraction is mutual and Leon takes her to a night club where Ninotchka and the Duchess have a verbal encounter. Ninotchka sleeps off the effects of the champagne the next morning, and awakes to find the Duchess in her bedroom, The Duchess has the jewels and promises to return them if Ninotchka will take the plane for Moscow that night. Ninotchka agrees. Leon tries to follow her but
is refused a visa. *********
She was weary, but had met Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski and had invited them to her room in the ↑ evening to share an omelet, "Thank you, Anna. `I'll dry it| each to bring an egg. jup here after this."
Anna, one of her room"You know," said Anna, and mates, was just ready to hesitated a moment, "I told you leave for the opera where that Paylor and I are going to she played the cello in the be married when he comes back orchestra. "Didn't you march?" asked Ninotchka, surprised.
"They wouldn't let me, I played a sour note at 'Car- men' and the conductor got excited and yelled 'there's sabotage in the string see-
from the manoeuvres. Would it be asking too much.
T
"Just for the honeymoon." "You can have it for good.
"Sash! Once and for all we're in Moscow!" reprimanded Ninotchka, that?" said Buljanoff at the win- doubt of dow. "Just look out
"Yes, there's no
window and you can see it!"
of this
"Just see how people look
from here,"
Iranoff broke the mood. "Let's forget the future. Let's stop being Bentimental. Let's start that ames let."
"That's right," agreed Rojulski, and took a little box from his pocket. "Here's my egg."
"And here's mine," said Iranoff. untying a handkerchief.,
AFTER a time
an old man op- peared at the door. "Comrade Yuku- shova, here's a let- ter the postman left for you.”
Ninotchka took the letter, glanced at the address, and an expression of stunned, breathless wonder enme over her face.
Buljanoff reached in his pocket. removed his hand empty. "Com- rades, I'm out of the omelet."
"What is it, Ninotchka?" asked "Don't worry," said Ninotchka.her friends, greatly concerned. "Thero will be enough. I saved un |two egun."
"Let's make it a real Parisian omelet," suggested Iranoff..
THEY grouped about the gas "From Leon! How is he? cooker while Ni-Open it! .. How is he? Tell
"It's from Parial" she breathed. "From Paris?" cried Iranoff and Buljano. while Kopalski asked: "A bill?"
"From Leon! A letter Leon!"
from
notchka prepared us!" they implored her, looking the omelet, with over her shoulder. They saw her suggestions of im- hesitate to open it with them looking aginary ingre-on, and walked across the room and dients from her sat down on a small bench, their "ompanions.
faces directed towards her in child- "Let's all it with confitures, des like expectancy.
prunes
des petites fraises des bois de la crerne de Bretagne. "So It blows up that big what they call an omelet surprise." "And the surprise is there's noth- ling in it," mourned Buljanoff.
"We can put some imagination into it, and in the omelet taste the whole of Paris!" said Kopalski.
"Syah!" Warned Iranoff да door opened. It was Gurganov,' and through their open door he observed everything without suying a word. When he had disappeared, “A man ke Iranoit continued: that... all he has to do is to walk past a room and the omelet drops." However, it was an omelet and it didn't drop, and soon the four were sitting around the all but bare
Her face alive with delight, Ni- notchka opened the letter and start- ed to read it. Her delight quickly turned to blankness, She looked nt the second page, laid the letter on the table in abject disappointment.
"Bad news?" asked Iranoff sym- pathetically.
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"They booked. It read: "Ninotch; } +++++++||==|==|==| ka, my darling... Youra, Leon." Everything else had been blacked out. On the second page was the word. "Censored."
MONDAY
ESCAPE
table, eating every last scrap. And Time Bomb
after it had been devoured; the lamp Ninotchka prepared tea in the samo- as lighted and the curtains drawn.
var. When their ten had been
Explodes
Shanghai, Feb. B.
A time bomb exploded in the print- ing plant of the Taying Yao Pao, a British registered Chinese evening 'o-day, seriously injuring a Chinese compositor and wrecking part of the printing machinery.
drunk, Buljano strummed the air of "Paris" on a balalaika, and they "And it's great," said Ninotch-gally fell to singing the words of ku. "Think what it was a few the song. "You want thia ?" asked Ni. years ago and what it is now!" Suddenly they broke off. The notchka.
"She's right," Iranoff said door of the room opened and Ni-paper favouring Chaingking, at 4 p.rs. under his breath. "Let's talk notchka's other roommate, a square ourselves into it."
set, unfriendly womou, street car atrode in. happy the conductor in uniform,
playing "The It's my wedding present."
Buljanoff started Volga Boatman." "Oh, Ninotchka! Am I said Buljanoff,
The street car conductor barely tion! I'm in disgrace, so I going to play that cadenza to-ed Kopalski. "The May Day four with a grudging and,
"Can you blame them?" ask-acknowledged the presence of the sat here all by myself and night!”.
And it's to her bed and took off her shoes, NINOTCHKA (spring."
Then she drew the curtain, and had just turned "The same spring we had in they could hear splashing water and
the radio Paria, and just as good," said gargling her throat. with its eternal Ninotchka.
Buljanoff continued to strum on spouting of gov
"Maybe that's the same swal-the balalaika, but they no longer ernment internal low we saw in Paris!" cried song.
played a Beethoven Sonata."
A devilish look came into Anna's eyes.
off
parade is over..
propaganda, Iranoff.
when the door opened and her
"Have you heard the latest they are telling about the Kremlin?" The door to an adjoining room opened, and Anna fell silent, then whispered: "I'll tell you later. That Gar- ganov, you
know scoundrels!" greeted Ninotchka whether he's on his way to warmly. the washroom or to the Secret police."
never
"You should be more care-
ful, Anna."
"And you, too. Since you got back from Paris-"
"But I haven't talked to anyone about Paris!"
expected guests arrived.
"How are you, you three
"Well, we're back home," said Kopalski wryly.
"You know what they say,
my bill."
"IT is, Ninotch- ka!
It is!" cx- claimed Buljano. must have in Parla!
"He been
You can sa it in
his whole attitude!
Ile just picked up
a crumb of our
Bome
went
The plant formerly was occupied by the Ta Kung Pao and later by the Standard, but since both had closed down the plant was taken over re- cently by the Taying Yao Paoi
The compositor lost both, arms, and was also wounded in the neck. There is not much hope he will survive.
The plant was on the French side of Avenue Edward VII.
No arrests have been made so far, United Press.
Girls and Boys' Corner
added Buljanoff sourly, "there's black bread, shook his head and no place like home,'
dropped it?" "Come now, you mustn't talk Parie I bet he couldn't name one
"If you asked him why he left) that way, Comrades. You have good reason," muttered Kopalaki. to adjust yourselves. You must "I should bo a wallow!" re- be brave."
joined Buljanoff. "Right now !! "That's just it. It makes alive," said Iranoff, "and that's Cafe de Paris picking up flakes of "Let's be happy that we're would be sitting in front of the people feel queer." Anna something we owe to Ninotch- French pastry that would melt in went to the cupboard and j ka.” took out a piece of lingerie
"Now, friends, there aro "Let's forget everything things better in life than crumbs of with a Paris label on it, except that we're together, French pastry," said Ninotchka. "when I.passed through the said Ninotchka.
"Yea, agreed Kopalski, "a good laundry yard I saw all the said Kopalski, adopting her
"It's a real Paris reunion," plece of apfel strudel!"
"Wo will get that
we'll get women huddled about this, mood.
everything ...maybe a little bit so I brought it up here. "Look how nicely she's fixed later, but we'll get it. We must be Things like this create a bad the table, all for us," anid Bul-patient. Finally we got spring. didn't wo? And the swaliowa. feeling. All you have to do janoff.
And you will get your apfel strudol, is to wear a pair of silk said Kopalaki. "That's marve
"And your own gas cooker!" too."""
» "And," added Buljanoff, consol- stockings and they suspect lous! Naturally, It's not. the ingly, if it is too late for you, your easy was not at all well done. Very you of counter-revolution.” |Royal suito-"
children will got it."
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