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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 28, 1940.
MAGAZINE PAGE
ENTERTAINMENTS
THEY'RE "BOOMPS
“BOOMPS A DAISÝ”
in Swing Time!
That is the latest novel- ty. introduced to Hong- kong by the Hartnells, Prince and Princess of Swing who are appearing nightly in the Grill Room of the Hongkong Hotel.
The old Boomps," which was introduced here by Dave Harvey, has already swept the Colony,
All the stopir are done to swing- time.
Two "clap hands" instead of one, tiva "knees", a boonip, a semi- polka swivel and the bow complete the first movement. The old waltz is replaced by the "truck", and the dance is completed.
There
Is very little difference, to the old-style "Boompa actually, A Daisy", but that difference peps up the dance to an extraordinary It has to be seen-and, degree. more
important, to be danced-to- be appreciated.
During this week, the Hartnells are demonstrating both the swing "Boomps Daisy" and "Knees Up. Mother Brown", the novelty dance which they introduced inst week.
I have Just been reading the latest papers from Home about the way in which "Knees Up, Mother Brown" is sweeping the country. It was introduced In London on December 12, so Hongkong is well up-to-date.
You'll recall that the dance was illustrated on this page
picnerdny.
Inst
Fredric and Sandra Hartnell stive four numbers at the Grips this week in addition to the demonstra- tions of the two novelty numbers which, incidentally, have proved
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WHAT'S ON
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
"The Empress Dowager" (Chinese film). KING'S: "Hell's Kitchen." MAJESTIC: "Hell Divers." ORIENTAL: "Hawaiiani
Nights."
so popular that there has been no hesitation on the part of spectators in joining In.
They announce a change of pro-. gramine for Saturday night, when the Management of the Hongkong Hotel announces a 2 p.n. gula.
The highly successful sea- son of the Hartnells is drawing to a close at the Gripps.
Usually, the Hongkong dance reason niso draws in a close come- the end of where around about March
But I have some good news for patrons. of the Gripps.
Dave Harvey and Uie Dyer Slaters, one of the most success- ful teams to visit this Colony, are returning for another short season which will commence on Saturday, April 5.
Since leaving Hongkong, they have played a prolonged season in Manila.
return to
Hurycy planned to India atter completing a few weeks in_Manila,
But he has been as popular in the Phillipines capital as he was in Hongkong and has extended his season to such an extent that plans have hid to be altered.
The management of the Hong- kong Hotel have received many
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THE BRITISH War Organisation Fund should benefit materially from the ADC.'s production of "Topy Drawn Horse", which орен
at the China Fleet Club Theatre for a four-night sengon on Wednesday next week.
The cast includes Sunny Hole, Claude Burgess, Sheilah Mackin- lay, James Whitham, Beryl Fair, J. Roberts, Sam Pringle, Auguste Hoffmeister, Olive Green, Andrew Mackinlay, Anne Dowblagan, Gels-
Lort Gilmore, PCHRY Chubb and
Amedee de Boysson.
Tony Draws a Horse" is still running In London at the Comedy Theatre, where it opened over aix months ago. The play is by Lesley Storm.
Incidentally, Hongkong'a A.D.C. shortly celebrates its cen- tenary-in four years lime, to be exact. It was formed three years after Hongkong became a British Colony.
MOTORING
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"We must first be sure what we feel is really love, Elwyn- not merely a deficiency of hormones A to D."
LEARN TO DRIVE
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ported and the seat so adjusted that both; clutch "and brake pedals can be fully depressed without loss of body leverage at the hips. Hold the steering wheel rim lightly with both hands just below the centre, keeping the wrists supple and the hands ready on the Instant to grip firmly in emergency,
Never slump back
in the seal It limits the range of vision and slows down physical re- sponses to road conditions. Control
by two or three fingers of one hand on the wheel is inadequate at any time.' Be com- foriable, but alert
The top-and › bot- tom grip limits steerläg control and should never be adopted. This driver could not make a right-hand
turn without altering the position of both hands
Spotting the Rank
MIDSHIPMAN
A Midshipman is not a commissioned officer, but an officer under training, and is officially classed as a "subordinate officer."
Both Midshipmen and Naval Cadets wear buttons instead of stripes on their cuffs.
distin- They are guished from each other by the white patches officially known as "turnbacks," worn by Midshipmen on the coat lapols.
Unkind (and doubtless unfrug) tradition has it
buttons that the
word placed on the cuffs to pre- vent these youthful officers from using a cuff in lieu of a handkerchief! Probably the samo tradition is the origin of the nickname "Snotty," by which the Midshipman is universally known aflost,
is
Midshipmon are carried only in big ships, though it to "lend" customary them for two ΟΙ three months at a time to do- stroyers in order that they may gain useful experience in this class of vessel.
Actually the form "Mid- shipmon" dates from Eliza- bothan times, but it was then applied to a certain type of rating whose sta- tion in action was amid- ships.
Beating the Censor
L
ETTERS coming out of Germany are supposed to be strictly consored. Most of them are, but import-. ant items of nows still trickle through to the outside world, the writers often using the simplent devices to fool the
eensor.
Here are a few typical and genuine examples:
When Hitler upset thousands of Baltic Germans by ordering them to return to tho Relch, some of them invented ingenious devices to cheat the Nazi censor.
One of the repatriated Balts, for instance, extremely unhappy in his, now German home, wrote to his brother in Riga, Latvia:-
Everything is very nico here, but I suggest you postpone your departure, for Germany until after
Jan's wedding." referred to in this
Jan, the girl lottor, was only two years old Another repatriated Ball tried à similar method to convey to friends at home the true state of things
Nazi Germany. ixx
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"We have not neon bur · old friend Mr. Sviestas alice Wo arrivod."
Sviestas is the Lettish word for
bulter. But the German censor did not know that, "
British newspaper
correspon- · dents some time ago tried to get through to their newspapers the news that one of the Nazi leaders was seriously ill:---
"He has been visited by six Harley-street men," they wired to London.. The Nazi censor, who was anxious not to let anything leak out about this liners, passed the message. He did not know enough about London to understand what
for "Harley-street" stands England.
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Last year Jewish familles in Gormany were constantly writing to friends abroad; "My poor hus- band (or son, or brother) has had to go on holiday....
It took us a long time to find out why the holiday-makers wero 'D unhappy. In the end we realised that the "hollday ' was really a spell in a concentration camp..
"
an In one Cerman area
eX-- schoolteacher was made a Nazi censor. People who wanted to send messages abroad know his weak- ness for correcting apolling mis- takes in every letter which passed through his bands.
Bo the writers made a series of spelling mistakes. In their letters.
and belleve it or not the school- teacher-censor concentrated #0 much on correcting them that he never bothered about the meaning of the messages.
Much of my nows from Germany used to be written in the hand of & six or seven-year-old boy. Censora nover bother to read children's letters,
There was a time when every Berlin
thrilling carried paper atorica about the exploits of two criminal brothers by the name of Bass.
A week later flames shot up from the Berlin Reichstag building. The Nazis accuset the Communists of
But firing the Reichstag.
WO know that the Nazis themselves were the real culprits. I wired to.
Editor in Vienna:-
Brothers Bass fired Relchstag." He understood me and our paper next day carried a huge headling: 9.A. and 8.9. (Brownshirts and Black Guards) Gred the Reich... · stag."
Wo had beaten the censor suc- cessfully, for he would never have dared to pass a bald message con- taining such an accusation.
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