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April 10, 1940.
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ANOTHER BIG GALA ON SATURDAY
THE REMARKABLE
gala night at the Hongkong Hotel last
Saturday night, attended by one of the largest crowds seen at the Gripps this season, is to be re- peated next Saturday..
In response to popular 'demand, the Management. of the Hongkong Hotel has arranged with Fredric and Sandra Hartnell, who concluded their
season
last Saturday, to appear again at the Gripps again prior to their departure for Shanghai.
The Hartnells will appear. on Friday and Saturday night in conjunction with_popular Dave Harvey and the Dyer Slaters, who opened their re- turn season in Hongkong Inst Saturday after over three months in Manila,
Both teams are now active- ly rehearsing several new .numbers for next Saturday's gala which, it is hoped, will be on an even greater scale than last Saturday.
The two teams will combine for some of their numbers.
"Daveve", the horse who has created à riot since he cantered on to the Grill Room floor on Saturday night, will also be there, to affect his hilarious nudlence in much the same way as he (or is it she?) up- pears to affect him-herself after attempting to take the hurdle,
The Hartnells are rehearsing o` new "war" number which will un- doubtedly prove popular. I'll not let you into the secret, but I can assure you that If's real novelty for llongkong,
While the Hartnells have trans- ferred to the Oriental Theatre, Dave Harvey and Phil and Eve Dyer are welcoming old friends in the Gripps for the rest of this week. Next Friday and Saturday, in which the two teams combine, will be positively the last appearances of the Hartnells, the Management of the Hongkong Hotel announced to-day, in advising early-reserva- tions.
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"TONY drew à Horse" was undoubtedly one of the most auccessful plays ever pre- sented by the Amateur Dramatic Society which, I un- derstand, has had several requests from unhappy “cus- tomers" who were unable to obtain beata on Saturday night to stage a revival,
It's hardly likely, however, that the AD.C. will accede to the re- quests. The players have had a hard season, and the props' have been dismantled, so the Committee will decide, probably, to call it a day until October, when they'll tako rehearsals for the Centenary
production. Year
The peculiar Hongkong men- tility that makes people want to
Philharmonic
and
ste Datent for only on
other local
The
last night was well to the fore with aws a Horse." Wednes- house was medidere, scores had to be turned away on Satur- day.
Yet, usually, the players are mbre on their toes on opening night, when they usually give their best performances.
1 hit a form of mobbery that makes Saturday night the only hight in Iongkongt
WE are the Robbers of the Woods. Any time's Kissing Time. Can you still hear those words from the war- time London of 1916 and on- wards?
Well, you will hear them again you're going home on leave this year. "Chu Chưa Chow" là tạ come back to London. Barring hitches as its backers warily, say, If all goes well, Chu, Chin Chow" will be back at His Majes- ty's Theatre
May-at in
the theatre where it ran for live years,
1016-1021, the longest run known
to
any theatre in the world, 2,230 performances. The bulle
bully actor, Oscar Asche, stuck in Manchester on a rainy afternoon, started to play the called it a "pantomime" at first) and finished it within three weeks. brought him in £200,000. Fiva year later he was in the bank- ruptcy court, and he died in 1936 a poor man.
It
Will the London of 1940 tåke, to
WHAT'S ON
KING'S: "The Honeymoon'a Over."
QUEEN'S: "Tarzan Finds a
Son."
MAJESTIC:
-Fame."
"Flight to
ORIENTAL: “Going Pinċes" Alhambra: "Renegade Trail."
the greatest popular success of the last war?
The people behind this revival feel optimistic. "The public still goes to see Gilbert and Sullivan, doesn't 117"
They plan a lavish production. They are Arm in their intention to be faithful to the original produc- tion of Oscar Asche,
they are
The only concession likely to make to modernity is to speed the whole thing up. "The public to-day likes things faster.". The slow, dignified Javanese dane- ing (do you remember It?) will be replaced by "something more dynamic."
Otherwise, this "Chu Chin Chow" is to be "word for word."
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SOON to be seen in Hongkong is a two-reel comedy subject which has created a sensation in America.
"You Nazty Spy" is the title and
It is the first picture from Holly- wood to have as its entire theme, the satirising of the Hitler-Goer- ing-Goebbels dictatorship. Burlca-
quing these notorieties "Three Stooges."
the
This topical comedy has proved such an outstanding box-omec success In America that Columbin intend to go all out on a big and to treat publicity campaign "You Nazty Spy" as In the same category as a tip-top feature sub- ject,
Hollywood
BY the way...... still photographers, at their annual ball, chose twenty-year-old model their perfect Arling Brandes as glamour girl. She came
nearest their photogenie perfection, which they report to be the cheeks and nose, of Linda Darnell, the mouth and chin of Oomph girl Ann Sherl- dan. What d'you think?
Tom' Mix planis a screen come back as a father in serial "The Red Rider."
* * * DIANA LEWIS'S only job in pletures until she married Bill Powell was to pose as a statue. Now she's Mrs. Powell, M.-G.-M. has given her a part-In Eddie Cantar's "Four.Little Mothers."
Not even "Pygmalion" got re- sults like that.
By the way,
the great Frank Capra has broken' away from: Columbia Pictures after many years and will "free-lance.” His Brat Dim is "The Life and Death of John Doe" for Warner Brothers. Gary Cooper will bgain lie the Copro hero. When Flora Robson Has finished being Queen Elizabeth for Errol Flynn in "The Sea Hawk" she'll go to Broadway to appear in the St. James' thriller, "Ladies in Retire- ment."
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TWO people very much in the public eye at the moment
are associated in a new picture called "The Shop Around the Corner,"
One is Ernst Lubitsch, who directed Greta Garbo in the spurk- Hng "Ninotchka." The other Is James Stewart, the lanky young deputy sheriff, who makes all the difference to the Marlene Dietrich character in "Desiry Rides Again," From what hear of "The Shop Around the Corner" it appears that Lubitsch has combined his wit in direction with rather more senti- ment that is customary. As lead- ing lady he has the gifted Mar- garet Sullavan. With Miss Sul- lavan and Mr. Stewart tugging at our heart-stringa tlic resulta should be good.
She is a shop girl, he a clerk. They write letters which endear them to one another, each being Ignorant who the correspondent is; but at the same time each dislikes the other in person very much.
The reason, it seems, is that the giri, having read that the best sirens capture their prey by annoying them, has been trying the method on the young man. The plot sounds slender but its treat- ment, they say, is full of charm and humour,
This remarkable
W
WAR
*THAT of Hitler? What will he do next? These ques- tions were on the tongues of most Americans when I left the United States a week ago, and here in England these same questions
seem
even
more urgent.
The answer is so clear to me after studying Hitler's astrology and numerology charts that I feel compelled
to say something that is not too picasant.
I believe England is headed to- ward war against Hitler prob
ably this autumn.
[As everybody knows, Britain de- clared war on Germany on September 3, 1930-elz months after these words were worlt- ten!1
•
But Hitler, the man of destiny, is doomed.
He who himself has followed the concerted advice of exceedingly skilful astrologers will face in the end a
a fate he cannot maboeuvre.
By conniving with these as- trological advisers he chose the "best dates for his marches on Austria and Czecho-slovakia,
But the price of these victories
is more than he can pay.
For Hiller has the planet Saturn In the tenth house of his hibro- scape.
This is the sign of overwhelming ambition, the sign of authority and success for a while.
But it also means eventual re- pudiation and unmitigated defent those who let that ambition
For
control them.
3.
I have said that Hitler strikės at
moment advised by his astrol-·
ogers.
cold
On the first of next September the transiting Saturn, the green planet we see in the sky, will be conjunct with the position of Hitler's
Sun nt birth in his house of war.
His progressed Saturn is squar- ing, and will continue to square. h radical Mars, the planet which rules and is in his house of war.
The FIRST SIX MONTHS
1939-40
MEN
BRITISH AND FRENCH LOSSES
Including Killed, Missing and Prisoners
1914-15
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"My cost's simply a fright, and I know very well you could pay for one by simply dashing off a now text-book!"
PROPHESY
Was written on
April 6 last year
by
MARGARET BOOTH,
an American
Astrologist
And there are numerous other astrological indications that the situation will be anything but for- tuitous,
However, 1 do not believe he will be able to halt his ambillon.
The position of Saturn on Sep- tember 1, 1939, is Interesting in view of the bombing of War- sow on the morning of that day bu Hitler.
When will Hitler de defeated? I am not going to make pleasant predictions for the sake of making this page cheerful reading.
the I béllave
Bellich people know prefer to
the plain, un- varnaled truth rather than to be lulled by false promises and false prophets.
IT IS MY BELIEF THAT THE COMING WAR WILL NOT BE SHORT.
Hitler's numerology immediate period table shows a big break up for him, but not until early in 1043.
Many views have been extended as to the duration of the war. Nearest official reckoning might be based on Cabinet's Septem- her decision to plan for three- year war.]
Untu 1943 Hitler will continue be the to
adored Jender of the Nazis.
His worries will be great, but let us not deceive ourselves, until that
time he will continue to have a vast following (and the Gestapo with silence all voices to the con- trary).
All the talk. about Hitler 'being assassinated is without base for his horoscope indicates that he will live to be repudiated.
There is no such simple way out for him as sudden death.
It is not
possible,
will seem
The war to come strange in many ways, with un- expected alliances and interrelitent attempla toward peace.
for
Hitler will not have bargained
out
and out England as an
would prefer to enemy, and he handle her with his diplomatic cunning.
his Perhaps astrologers have told him that, war with England would be unlucky.
[As the Blue Book has shown, Hitler, even up to the last week In August, never expected that he would emerge from his Polish adventure at war with Britain. An alliance that stag- gered the world by its unez- pectedness was that of Berlin with Moscow. Currently;TM Mr.- Sumner Welles is on a mission in Europe which is alleged to have a peace atm)
Early in 1940 Hitler's martial tendencies may again get the bet- tor of his judgment.
In March he may tako a new offensive before the middle of that month.
The only thing likely to check him would be his plans for a peace move in April.
the
In April, 1940, we may see him attempting to impersonate dove of
peace.
It is a role in which he will look as innocent as a cat with a canary feather protruding from her mouth. for within this coming year he will have added conspicuous atrocities to his record,
D
UN
general.
It will be a time for England to beware as Hiller is more danger- ous
a diplomat than as However, the ultimate fate of Hitler is sealed. Saturn is closing in on him and seeking revenge for his misuse of power.
Hitler, the man of destiny, is doomed. And it is my belief that he will fall early' in 194$.
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