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A MECHANICAL TURN INDICATOR, BOYS- M' OWN INVENTION!
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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SEE, NOW INSTEAD OF PUTTIN' OUT MUH HAND, I PULL, THIS---
£400,000 British Film Programme Starts
CINEMA-GOERS FOur Big Pictures PAY AN- Will Be Made
This Summer
ENJOYMENT TAX
CIGARETTES
FOR
THE
TROOPS
PATRONS of the State cinema, Bydenham, SE are paying
a voluntary "enjoyment tax" of one penny every time they go to the plotures.
The proceeds-averaging £25 a week--are belag asel to send cigarettes and comforts to the troops La France.
For every shilling raised through the "enjoyment tax," the management of the cinema con- tributes a penny.
"We are sending about 100 cigarettes + weck to every #oldler whose name is handed In mid the manager.
By A FILM CORRESPONDENT
A BRITISH film-making programme which may cost between £400,000 and £500,000 was announced recently by David Rose, managing director of Paramount in this country, who has returned recently from America.
Four important films are to be produced this summer for world-distribution, and Mr. Rose says his company will not stint money in pursuit of the best possible results. One rather disconcerting feature in Paramount's new plans is that Charles Laughton, much publicised some time ago as the prospective wonderful butler, will not now be in the screen version of Barrie's "The Admirable Crichton.":
Displaying The Wounded
GERMAN soldiers who were severely wounded in the Polish war, many of them with one arm or one leg, were sent out in the streets to help in the weekly l'arty collections.
As the German public is getting more and, more resentful of these frequent collections, "new attractions" are offered by the Nazla every week.
One wounded' soldier was brought before the microphone to relato how he lost an arm.
OUR PRESS AND GERMANY
(Continued from Page 6.) views-and-to secure his-authority to send me a statement showing with some preelslon what he has in his mind
(a) As to the mutters which, for his part, he would propose should be discussed, and (b) What proposals he could ou
thorise me to put forward for the purpose of estabilshing that confidence which muat necessarily be a preliminary to any settlement acceptable to public opinion here and else where.
I
Brother of
Brenda Paul
Makes Scene
The brother of Brenda Deun Paul caused a scene by leaping into the dock at West London after the magistrate, Mr. Paul Benacts, V.C., had refused to grant his sister bail on
Instead, Cary Grant, who wants very much to play the part, will have It if his other commitments allow. Madeleine Carroll will probably be in this..
It is hoped to bring Laurence Oli- vier back from America to be the Lucciot of an adventure romance! based on the story of the Knights of the Round Table. In that case vivien Leigh is likely to play Guine vere.
A Now Mr. Deeds
In a third picture, called "What! Ho!" which is about a young Ameri- can of British ancestry (a kind of Mr. Deeds, explains Mr. Rose), Bob H pe, the British-born Hollywood star, is mentioned for the central part.
A fourth picture around the career of Barney Barnate may have Anton Walbrook as Barney-which suggests either the glamourising of him or the unglamourising of the good-looking -M.-Walbrook.--.
March 19, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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HOLLAND GUARDS HER FRONTIERS
If Holland wants to maintain her neutrality she must keep a strong guard on her many frontlers in order to forestall any Blitzkrieg.
Hor fortifications, which, together with the well-known water dofonces, protect the country, are manned day and night.
Note the Photo shows a cloverly camouflaged and hidden command post in the dunes.
soldier on top. Domei.
Clark Gable Has Pay Raised
To £1,000 A Week By Studio
By PAUL HOLT
LUCKIEST MAŃ in the world is Clark Gable, film star.
In California, where the sun is shining, his boss, Louis Burt Mayer, sent for him and told Mr. Rose is being followed to Eng him that he was tearing up his land by his wife and baby. His is
fold contract, worth £800 a week, the first baby to be given a permit to travel here from Amerlen in war- and giving him a new one at time.
£1.000 A WEEK FOR THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS.
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
charge of attempted false pretences, Brenda Dean Paul (20) was re- tanded in custody for a week, charged with attempting to obtain by
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official false pretences I pair of sliver- You will, of course, realise that backed hair-brushes, valued at £4 Summary issued yesterday enys:
The pace set last week lias slacken- Gd.. from ཐ Kensington store, I feel the matter should be pursued 17s. further: and to that end I think it Addressing Mr. Bennett, Miss Pauled off to-day, but from the trade re- might be best if I had something said: "If I am remanded in custody ported it would seem buyers are Sellers korenine "re indifferent to more definite so that I can take the I shall lose the allowance which my nibbling at efforts to lower prices. next step. Belleve me, if this van father makes me. I can arrange to be arranged, I shall pursue the go into St. Stephen's Hospital, and Ithese blandishments. mattor with all the enthusiasm and will undertake to remain there for
the week." energy at my command.
If, as I hope you will, you have "I see it is a most unfortunaté post- an opportunity of discussing this tion to be in, but I cannot accede to important question further with your request," said Mr. Bennelt. the Fuehrer, I trust that you will
my appreciation of
expreas 10 him my
Leapt Into Dock
his recention of me and my desire A young man shouted from the to do anything that I can to furunck of the court: "Can she have
I am her brother." ther the indications of co-operation nil? which he then gave to me.
He repeated the question several
You will realise, I am sure, that times. An Assistant gaoler Inter- it is of the utmost importance that| vened. there should be complete secrecy,
about this matter.
Yours sincerely, (Signed) KEMSLEY.
Dr. Dietrich's Reply
Munich,
August 17, 1930.
Dear Lord Kemalcy,
The young mun leapt into the dock and again made hla request;
Mr. Bennet: You heard me refuse ball.
To the officers he said: "Remove that person."
The young man: You can say it as many times as you like. This is n frame-up. I heard you refure nothing. Shouting "This is a frame-up,” he
I am sorry that as a result of a journey abroad I have not been, was removed struggling. able to write to you sooner.
After your very agreeable visit to Germany and the frank talksj which I had the honour to hold with you on Anglo-German rela- tions, I received with the greatest interest the letter which you
sent!
ine through your colleague. You stated in that letter that mutual confidence is the first condition for friendly co-operation between ptonics, but that unfortunately such confidence did not nt present exist in
your country towards In these circumstances
All the more the fact]
that you, Lord Kemsley, should be
app and
yourself
with Buch en- energy towards the re-establishment of this confidence,
and
should share with me the hope
that by clearing away misrepre
sentation and misunderstandings a
way muy be found to bring our two nations together again.
can best respond to your friendly suggestion by setting myself to ex-
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New Zealand Establishment' Progressing Rapidly
£304,000 in
Mr.
That means Gable's bank,
He gets this reward for consistent service with a twisted smile and D sense of humour, coupled with know- ledge of how to be masculine in ell circunstances on the screen,
His salary goes up while the salary
of every other film star in Hollywood 1oes down.
The big money - carners of the screen for the past two years, have been the freelancen. Claudette Colbert carned £75,000 Inst year, Fredrie
Ronald March
Colman, Charles Boyer have earned £00,000 a year and more, going to the highest bidder. They have made Mr. Gable and the other big contract stars look like penny-a-liners.
But the day, war broke out the salaries of the big free-lances were cut in half. Where they earned
£30,000 for one film, their price is t now £10,000 at the outside,
It is Mr. Gable's turn to amilo.
A four-engined British flying boat of the Royal Air Forco circles ovor the freighter below, giving protection against enemy planes or subs. Convoys of the Coastal Command have flown more than 5,000,000 milos since the war began.
Doctor and Nurses To
CAN YOU Pay £500 To Father
PROVE
YOU'RE MY
Of Poisoned
Boy
DAMAGES totalling £500, of which a doctor is to pay £450 and a hospital sister and a nurse £25 each, were
BROTHER? awarded at Leicester Assizes to the father of a 13-year-
-and the soldier did WHEN Mrs. Flay, of London rond, Calno, Wilts, opened her door the smiling soldier on the The Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, In an interview, sold that it would doorstep said: "Hello, als."
Wellington, Mar, 17.
old boy who died in Leicester General Hospital after being given insecticide.
press to your wide circle of reader EMPIRE AIR SCHEME my own frank and sincere opinions, ¡ Perhaps this may make some small contribution towards the restora tion of confidence. For so long as
Costs were awarded in the damages from Leicester Corporation, such confidence does not exist
Dr. A. W. Abramson, resident medical there can be no object in prepar
officer at the hospital, Sister Jersle The insecticide, it had been Lewis, and Nurse Elleen Mary Brad- ing for conversations of the kind
same proportion.
which you have in mind. That is
stated, as in a tin which had field, rannagers of the hospital staff. the Fuchrer'a vłow also.
Inbelled ***Liquorice Mr. Justice Oliver, earlier in the
no Mrs. Flay, suspicious of a hoax, been May I ask you to read my article soon be possible to provide all air
hearing, found there was. and-ns arranged to send me the training for 800 men annually, leave said nothing. "Don't you know me?" Powder." promised English article so that ing about 2,200 annually to complete said the soldier, "I'm your brother
"Labelling of the tin as liquorion against Leicester Corporation.
Mr. Justice Oliver said that the training in Canada.
Harry. Horry Trowbridge. I joined
powder, and putting it in the medicine We may both examine the two and When the system was in full opern-up in Canada and here I am.”
dangerous thing sister and the nurse had been most unloyal to each other. There had shortly publish them?
tion just over 3 000 trainers could be Still Mrs, Flay did not belleve him. cupboard, was Yours, etc.,
been negligence on their part, dealt with in New Zealand at any Her brother Harry had gone to said Mr. Justice Oliver.
-Like Loaded Bomb: !!
The judgo said he had reached the (Signed) O. DIETRICH.
given time.
Canada in 1923, but she had not
"It was like a loaded bomb, which conclusion that Dr. Abronson feil Eleven hundred men were waiting seen him since. not send my article to him and why to be posted in the Air Training "Can you prove you are Harry?" some day would go off and injure short of the standard of care required my papers did not print his article. Unlia, while 2,000 were swailing she asked-and not until the soldier someone."
The action was brought by Willam "I hope it will not affect his posl- allowed into the house.
Hibbitt, the father, who claimed tion," he added"
Dr. Dietrich has orked 'why I did
I have, I think, given him a complete Interview by the Selection Board had produced his pay card was he It therefore seems to me that I answer to the questions.
Reuter,
of him.
As A. B. Bromfield held on to the porthole he said :- 'I'VE GOT A CUSHY BILLET
BIRMINGHAM.
ABLE SEAMAN SID- NEY GEORGE BROM- FIELD grinned when he saw the "Daily Express" front page.
He looked at the picture of the sailor, balanced like a human By on the bow of the sinking destroyer Grenville.
"Yes, that's me," he chuckled, "and, blameyl it wasn't half coldi What you can't see in the picture is that I've got one bare foot.
When
the sea came withing up reckoned I should be joining It any moment. So, to give myself a better chance, I kicked off my left aca boot.
"That foot got cold, so I decided that if I was going to be drowned I'd drown in comfort, with the other boot on.
Sitting at the fireside in the home of his brother, sipping a cup of tea, 'his twenty-six-year-old seaman laughed as he told of his adven- ture. It was only when he spoke of the death of his comrades that tho grin faded.
saw them go," he said. "I allthering down the side of the
I closed my eyes for a mo- ment, and when I opened them I could see my mates being sucked down In the whirlpool.
"I was fighting for life myself, but the sight of those lads going I'll never forget."
Suddenly The Ship Began To List Bromfeld said the ship sank on Friday soon after noon,
"I had just come off watch, after being up all night," he said, "and was snugly bunked down when the
At explosion happened.
Arst thought we were dropping a few depth charges, and turned over to have another snooze.
"But suddenly the ship started to list over. My mates ran towards the gangway. I sat up, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, and decided The hatchway for me!'
"When
got on deck there was a terrific list, and I wondered what to do. You see," he explained naively, "I couldn't swim, and that made It a bil dimcult.
"I decided I'd hold on to nny- thing solid so long as there was anything solid to hold on to. As the ship listed, I squatted on the seat of my pants and slithered with her, trying to keep on even keel. "But there was a sudden plunge, and
I found myself in
water
tho
holding on to one of the, porthole bars. By using there as a sort of ladder I swung myself from port- hole to porthole until I reached the top one. Then I knew I could
uld go no further, so that was where I stayed. "While I was clinging there I saw two ships circling round trying to pick up survivors. Two lifeboats- bath seemed to be overloaded- passed me, but nobody answered my
few hundred yards away 1. saw a Corley float with about it. The twenty men clinging to whole sea beneath me was dotted with the bobbing heads of sallors swimming for their lives,"
Bromfield said that when he had been balancing himself about half an hour on the porthole he was so cold that it seemed impossible to hang on any longer, and he didn't care if he didn't, He went on:
"But when I thought of those poor devils swimming about I told myself, You've got a cushy billet, you have what are you grumbling about?
"Then came the most heartening heard. It won' sound I've over the voice of our captain, Captain in the water himself, Creary, cheering his men."
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