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April 19, 1940.
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The Private Lives of
Elizabeth
FBM: "Elizabeth & Ever".
STARS: Bette Davis, Errol
Flynn.
VERDICT: Outstanding.
ERE IS a film that
HERE
will leave you breath- less, both for its remarka- ble Technicolour-perhaps the best ever seen on the screen-and for the beau- ty of its acting.
Bette Davis, thrice win- ner of the coveted Aca- demy award, gives one of the best performances of her career. Her per- formance as the "virgin" Queen is striking,
The film recounts the tur- bulent romance of the famous Queen and her courtier. Es- sex, his downfall and execu- tion.
Errol Flynn is a fitting courtier, and the supporting enst, which includes Olivia de Havilland, Donald' Crisp. Alan Hall and Henry Stephen- son, are excellent.
Hongkong will get its first glimpse of the 6lm, if it
wishes, at a charity gala to- night, which will be attended by Lady Northcote, and at which the Band of the 1st. But- talion. The Middlesex Regi- ment, will render the over- tures. Miss Barbara Gilmar will also give two numbers from the stage.
To-night's gala première is in aid of the British War Organisa tion Fund.
"The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" is to be road-shown as from to-morrow. But the extra roadshow prices you'll pay as will also go to the B.W.O.F.. which should benefit substan- tinlly from the five day showing.
and
Esser
FILM: "Comet Over Broadway" STARS: Kay Francis, Jan Hunter.
VERDICT: Uncommon theme.
KAY Francis is seen in this film as a small-town wife with stage ambitions. She is flat- tered by the attentions of a visiting famous actor.
He is accidentally killed by her husband and the film toes on to show how the wife becomes herself a famous star the process of making enough money to secure her husband's. freedoni from pri- ron.
It is a theme somewhat out of the common rut and though some of the altusilons are conventional in their emotional tug. the net entertalament has much to com- 21 it.
WHAT'S ON
TO-DAY
ORIENTAL: "When To-mor- row Comes"
KING'S: "Comet Over Broad-
Kay Franels is ably supported by John Litet as her husband. Inn Hunter as
way" a Broadway producer and Sybil Jason as the growing- up daughter.
FILM: Comes"
STARS: Irene Dunne, Chal Royer,
"When To-morrow
VERDICT: For Bayer fans.
THIS is a simple film deal- ing with the mere encounter of two unfortunate lovers, one of whom has a lunatic wife whose lucid moments are very
rare.
Irene Dunne is a waitress and Charles Boyer a famous pianist. They meet and are improbably drawn to each other. They attend a strike meeting, go out yachting
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
a Rao Mode BEAUTY SHOP
JEEPN, DREAMLIL TIESIA POVEYAR
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"--and would you put on: 'Alterations going on inside
as usual'!"
SPOTTING THE RANK
это
Instructor Officers
differentiated
These from officers of the Executive branch by light blua cloth be tween the gold stripes on the cuffs of jackets and the shoul- ders of greatcoats.
When war began there were exactly 100 Instructor Officers on the activo list, of whom 34 wero temporary Instructor Lieutenants, Par- manont ranks comprised four Instructor Captains, 41 In- structor Commandert, 16 Instructor Lieutenant-Com- mandors and fivo Instructor Lieutenants. Senior of them all is Instructor Captain A. E. Hall, who holds the appoint-
of Director
ment
Education Department of the Admiralty.
Normally only big ships carry Instructor Officers. They are responsible for the training in cortain subjects of the midshipmon on board, as well as for the polishing up. educationally, of lower dock candidates for advancement.
A senior Instructor Officer, sither an Instructor Captain or Instructor Commander, is carried in certain flest flag- ships for duty as Float Adviser оп Education,
Others are borne on the staffs of the Commanders-in-Chìof at the Home ports, with the official status of Port Education Officer. of the
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA; "Everything's on Ice"
KING'S 9.30 p.m.: Special Premiere of "Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex".
TO-MORROW
KING'S: "Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex"
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Everything's on Ice"
ORIENTAL: “When To-mor- row Comes".
get caught in a thunderstorm and escape from burricane to a church.
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The An fodes out with a wist- ful look on the waitress's face and the indication that these two will meet again when the coast Is somehow clear.
The two stars give competent performances. Irene Dunne' sings once in addition, and the capable director has arranged it so that there is no articlality attached to the staging of the song. Which is
no mean achievement,
THE THE
IN the Money: Mickey Rooney. Statisticians estim- ate that this young man earned for his employers dur- ing 1939 the staggering sum of £6,000,000 from world cinemas.
Not even Shirley Temple, not even Snow White, could do this.
Rooney's end of this Jackpot is announced at £200 a week, with
£2,000
picture- bonus per which makes his salary £22,000 o year at nineteen.
Time reports that with this money he has acquired a ranch. a racehorse, a twelve-room home, nineteen radios, a jazz band, two dogs, the Junior singles tennis championship
the of
Pacifie South-west (though I guess he had
a wardrob to sweat for that), a
Clark Gable, two cars, a like -away apartment in Beverly Hills, a football team, a coloured valet, a collection of pipes, a golf score. in the 80's, a gultar, a saxophone, two planos, a kiss from Bette Davis,
broken leg. 1
eighty chickens, three turkeys, six canar- les and a parrot.
a hide-
So busy is Rooney nowadays that he sends lisa, old-time vaudeville "hooter" Joe Yule, out in one of the ears to collect ils "date" for the evening,
There
ARE no
stokers in the Navy
THERE
HERE are no more stokers in the Royal
Navy,"
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Stokers, as such, are a vanish- ing race. Stoker Arnold may be down in the Navy List us a stoker, but neither he nor any of his col- leagues do any stoking.
All submarines are electrically driven, so there ure no fires to tend; neither are there any more coal-burning ships in the Navy, The men who lend the oll fires in H.M. ships now wear white over- tills, and, Instead of heaving shovels of coal into blazing fur- naces, just turn on a tap which re- gulates the oil jets.
STOKING has become a kid- glove job and is almost the sarne in the Merchant Service now, as well us in the Navy,
ships steam
The advent of ail fuel has done awny with coal-burning more rapidly even than supplanted sall. Less than ten years ago there was hardly an oil- burning mailboat on the London- Australia run.
The old Mauretanin carried 200 stokers when she burnt coal. The new one has 20 boiler-room at- tendants. But (1 must add this) the Transatlantic record Maure- tania No. I set up when her speed. depended on the calibre of her stokers stood for 13 years,
TOWNS like Grays, Tilbury, and Gravesend have been badly hit
by the vanishing of stokers from the seas. Almost since the first steamer crossed the Atlantic these towns, with Liverpool, have supplied the best steam-makers afloat.
Oil fuel was
heaven-sent blessing to the Royal Navy. Of- served In Acers and men who. H.M. ships when they burnt coal shudder if you mention those days. to them now, days of which the new
of sallormen generation know nothing.
1 browny, Never again will half-stoker rattle a shovel down
in the bowels of a Royal Navy ship and come off watch looking like a black man. Even the ma- jority of new tramp steamers nowadays enjoy the luxury of oil. fuel.
NOEL MONKS,
IN FRANCE TODAY
TWO
THE walls of the dead and empty city of Strasbourg
are still plastered with notices over six months old calling Frenchmen to arms.
Elsewhere, Inter decrees have covered that momentous summons, but this frontier city, emptied of human life al- most as suddenly and as dras- tically as Pompeii centuries ago, serves to remind one of the mood of France at the out- break of war,
The Frenchman knows that from the moment of his mobi- lisation everything about his life becomes utterly abnormal. His pay, in most cases, drops to less than twopence a day, with entirely inadequate al- lowances
for his wife and children. His one ambition is to get the business over quick- ly.
There are two words, salut public-publle safely--which play a very important part at such times. They explain the readiness with which the Frenchman downs tools and takes up arms. And also the readiness with which he puts into cold storage all the advantages gained after years of social strug- gle.
In the great Renault works at Auteuil the men, not so long ago, were giving the lead to the whole of France in the demand for a 40- hour week. Those of them who remain after mobilisation has swept the factory are working 00 hours for the same pay at a time when the cost of living is leaping like the temperature chart of an in- fluenza victim.
over
They do it because of those two words, salut public, and because they have a fairly clear idea of what would happen to them and their country if tier were to win.
There is now, after six months of stalcinate, a growing interest In the maintenance or restoration of civil liberties,
WORDS THAT MATTER
M.
Daladier recognised it len days ago by his sudden announce- ment that the Press censorship, except for purely military matters, was to be abolished. The abolition for certainly
is not premature: there were absurdities which al- most made one doubt the united determination of the French to win the war.
The Government has returned to the sensible doctrine proclaimed by M. Clemenceau in his Ministerial declaration of November 10, 1917. "We have paid too high a price for our liberties," he sold then, "to ccde anything of them beyond taking care to prevent the spread- ing of news or inflammatory state- ments which might help the enemy. . In times
war, as in times of peace, freedom is exercised under the personal responsibility of the writer.
take
only speakers actually mandated by a recognised group may part in debates on such importuni mutters as the Budget.
Some 45 of them formed another group, theoretically open to mem- bers of any political party, but in fact consisting only of ex-Com- munists. The existence of this group was recognised by M. Herriot, President of the Chumber.
On October 1 the group sent a letter to M. Herriot urging that if, us was then expected, Hitler made a peace bffer, and if it was sup- ported by the Soviet Union, the uffer should not be prejudged by attacks in the Press, but should be discussed in Parliament, to see whether 11:1 just and durable pence" which safeguarded the in- dependence of France was not pos- sible.
lards, Once you go beyond that rule everything becomes arbitrary ur anarchical,"
France is now on the eve of much severer test of her liberties.
Next week will begin the trial of the Communist depulles on the charge of "reconstituting e cils-
Thereupon the members of the im- group were arrested and prisoned. The right-wing Cagou- included whose treachery the smuggling of arms belleved to come from Germany, were given special treatment in the Sante prison whereas the Communists, including one man who is blind and one who lost both legs and roughly a score of others who had fought
By Vernon Bartlett
solved political party", and, al- though there are probably fewer people in France than here who ind excuses for the close relations between Stalin and lililer, the con- duct of the trial may be one of the bly everits of the war.
There
are many thousands of French workmen who are grateful to the dynamism and courage of the Communist lenders in their factorles in the struggle for a shorter working day and who are for the first time reading 110w Marx and other expounders of a doctrine which has landed these local leaders in guol.
On September 26 the Com munist Party, with more than 70 members of Parliament, was dis- solved.
The membera were presumably still free to sit in the Chamber, but they have no power unless they belong to a recognised group. Thus
In the last war. were at first treat- ed as common criminals.
The answer to that is that France is now at war. But the leaders of the Cogoulards, despite their plots to overthrow the Third Republie with German help, are restored to positions of influence and M. Callaux, in his same prison dur- ing the last war, was accorded the special treatment reserved for poll- tical
still
prisoners;
The case of the Communists is sub judice, but they have been attacked as traitors by M. Duladier In the Chamber, and there is a re- port that the triol, when it does begin
gin will take place behind closed doors.
If it is hell in 'camera Frarce. one fears, will have lost a battle on the home front. And if one may judge by the Press since tho censorship was removed, it is n battle which the Government might so easily win.
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THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The Society asks for
$35,000
in 1940 to meet the Increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hong Kong, against which the Income to date is $12,000 only. In order to continue its work, the Boclety appeals for the balance of $23,000 before the close of the financial year on 31st October. A copy of the Annual Report for 1939 may be obtained from:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, CA.
c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & Q. Building
Mr, KWOK CHAN,
c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine,
Hong Kong.
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