Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 9, 1940,
HAIL SMILING MORNI
"I feel so fit this morning I could tackle a very fierce mag- cating tiger."
"Try tackling some of those esti- mates you should have finished yesterday,"
"Now, David. No bitterness. It is a very beautiful morning. Let us cast aside our mundane tasks and hearken to the pipes of Pan. If I were a poet, David. . .' "You're not. You're a very buy consulting engineer.”
."
"Come, come, Mr. Scrooge. Is there no spark of sentiment in that finty old heart?
"Flinty old fiddlesticks. Look here, David, what is biting you today?"
"Well ---- as a matter of fact I went to a party last night. The foaming beakers were knocked back with speed and precision. I had a whale of a time.” "H'm- you look frash mouth • anyway."
"That is the climax of my story, Somebody gave me the up about Gimlets. You know Rose's Lime Juice being a therapeutic agent-anticipating hangovers ----- and so on. And it works 1-
“H'm. Must make a note of that Rose's Lime Juice. Confound! I've written it on the plans for the nate reservoir !'
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GIRL FRIDAY
One of the finest films with a newspaper background to have emerged from the Holly- wood studios is "His Girl Friday," an entertaining, rapid-firing comedy romance of an editor and bis ex-wife and best reporter.
Northwest Mounties Filmed In Technicolour
| The film, now showing at the King's Theatre, is a mad, merry ce whirl of swift-paced action and racy comedy that leaps ahead with every foot of film and does not leave the spectator much Lime for other thoughts. It cer-
Gone With
The Wind
tainly maintains the reputation Has
which Columbia has gained for turning out hits like "Mr. Deeds
Long
Goes to Town" and "You Can't Local Run
Take it With You."
BERTIE the Blaster
IS GOEBBELS' NEW STAR
AS HAW-HAW SLIPS
LORD "HAW-HAW GERMANY'S EX-PUBLIC ENTERTAINER NO. 1, HAS SUFFERED THE FATE OF ALL COMEDIANS HE HAS LOST HIS WHO HARP TOO LONG ON THE THEME, NO. 1 POSITION TO A NEW “STAR."
Bortio's is a twice-nightly turn. Ho speaks from the "Workers' Challenge Station-one of four new Gorman offorts at propaganda in English. AND HE SWEARS.
THE CRIMSON COCKNEY
Haw-How has lost his public because he couldn't keep up hla original suave and amusing sarcasm. · Nowadays he often drops Into tiresome, nervous hysteria. Bertie hopes to recapture your attention by Rabelaisian abuse of the British leaders.
Lined up with Bertie the Blaster and his Workers' Challenge Station in this new "English-speaking" propaganda' drive, are:- (1) The "British Broadcasting Station"-a dull affair, chiefly recognisable by its rendering of "God Save the King played out of tune.
(2) The Christian Peace Movement"which extracts odd. bits from the Gospels to demonstrate that Britain is wicked, and must be punished, while the hope of the world is exclusively vested in Hitler.
(8). "Radio Caledonia"--which is Goebbels's plan to divide the Scots from the British effect. It assumes that the gentle Scot has neither common sense nor business acumen. It tries to persuade him that If he sticks to Britain he will be doomed to perpetual poverty and the loss of every bawbco he has saved,
breptiles," "Fat lousy sods,”
Nothing to Him up. And our leaders are "Fat All these efforts arc as and "Dirty skunks" to say nothing compared with the nothing of "Rotten scarndrola." Crimson Cockney, His talk lasts R.A.F. planes are so rotten about 10 minutes. Unfortunate that pilots are afraid to go up ly there is a shortage of in the air.
material, so that the second talk Bertie has no use for the is a repetition of the first. capitalists, who have (he says) Bertie the Blaster has a more lod us to defeat. Nor for Mr. than Jack Warner habit of drop- Churchill, who has promised ping aspirates and consonants that London shall be in "ro- on the lines of "Ee adden orter wins." Nor (he says) for the a ettit,"
"Naasis." His politics are a wondrous Bertie uses fewer adjectives essence of all the caricatures of of a colourful character on soap-box oratory over presented. nights when he is not speaking
Sophisticated people make of personalities. small radio parties to listen to him. These are the sort of people who support "daring" Bertie the Blaster is careful revues in London's "intimate" in his call sign to rally only theatres.
workers in Britain and North- Working men won't have ern Ireland. Apparently he does much of Bertie, because they not care what happens to the don't like dirty language in oppressed workers of Eire. Or, front of the "Missus and kids." perhaps, the Germans do not #want complications with Mr. de
Tough on
"Herb
Valera.
Careful!
"Mr. B Morrison has been Oh, I almost forgot. When opening his marth," says the you demonstrate in Downing-. Effective technicolour cn.
The story revolves round the "Gone With the Wind," which Crimson Cocimey. "Ee has street don't mind the coppers. The British "crard" won't stand hances the spectacular effects of efforts of Walter Burns (Cary had its local premiere on the been miking a grite offensive.
"The only b--- offensive he for them using their sticks. forest and canyon in "Heart of Grant) to get back the services first night of the recent black- the North," a story of the ex-of his former sob sister spouse, out, has been drawing good mikes is against the workin'- The bosses will run like rats.
Anyway, why should a few ploits of the Royal. Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. The Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Rus- audiences to the Queen's and clarss."
Alhambra Theatres, where it is So Mr. Morrison, "who thinks "b" old men dictate to you picture follows "His Girl Fri-sell) in order to cover the one being shown. The film has been he is a grite Napoleon," is to be because they have a bank
last assignment-the hanging held over for another week, and thrown in the Thames.
balance? day" at the King's,
of Earl Williams (John Qualen) the next change at these Factories are going up in That's Bertie the Blaster, the It takes some time for the for the slaying of a policeman. theatres will be on Saturday smoke. Docks are being b'd Crimson Cockney. story to get into stride, but once there it proceeds vigorously to a Hildy, however, is supposed to next,,when "Beau Geste" will be finish. There are thrills in entrain that very night-to-be the picture.
the bride of insurance plenty for those who like their come film entertainment with a strong salesman Bruce Baldwin (Ralph punch, and the characteristic | Bellammy). gun-play and fisticuffs are given considerable fillip by the natural colour..
The film has been four years In
This remarkable novel by Margaret Mitchell, a former fen. turo writer on the "Atlantic Sunday Journal," has sold over She has decided to give up two and a half million copies. newspaper work for good, but The film rights were purchased Burns manages to get her in- when the story was still in Man-getting in the Mountie terested in the hanging by a manuscript form by David O. tradition is the theme. Ser-ruse. Once she takes up the Selznick, the Hollywood produ geant Alan Baker sets out to story, Hildy becomes strictly the cer, who realised the possibili- capture the killer of a comrade reporter, and forgets the man that it was a first novel by a ties of the story despite the fact shot in the looting of a cargo who is waiting to marry her. boat by desperadoes. And the The complications develop when comparatively unknown writer. Sergeant does it, in time to bring the culprit back to the she discovers that Burns has the making, much of the time taken fort to prove the innocence of been up to his old tricks. By up
this time, however, her report and has cost something like $4,000,-
800. the heroine's father.
er's blood is so keenly excited One of the greatest difficulties that Selznick encountered was to find an Dick Foran makes a hand- that she cannot but carry on.
actress to play the leading part, some, dashing Mountie hero,
He could not dis- The greater part of the fun Scarlett O'Tinra. with Gloria Dickson registering
cover the type amongst Hollywood filial anxiety in the role of the comes from the snappy dialogue players, and sent scouts all over the distressed girl. Allan Jenkinsf Burns and Hildy und from United States and Canada to try and keeps up a vein of genial hu-he hard-boiled conversation of secure for him one that really suited mour, which makes the picture the press room. The background the character. The search was un-
of a newspaper office is well re disappointment,
successful, test after test proved a more onjoyable.
until one day the produced, even to the lack of producer's brother brought a guest to ash trays, and mayors, elcriffs the studio in the person of Vivien Leigh, who had a good reputation in England as an actress but was quite unknown In America.
.:
good satirical dig.
Nazis Reveal and electors all come in for, a
Italian Coal
Shortage
A Berlin countermand to an
order by the German army of oc
Ben Hecht and Charles Mac Arthur, two veteran Chicago newspapermen, wrote the story, Howard Hawks directed.
with historical research work,
Selznick took one look at her and ordered an immediate. technicolour test, The part of Scarlett O'Hara was there and then decided. Any-
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who has seen the picture will agree that it was a happy choice.
cupation in Prague, which re- Small Boy and Silver Cornet
veals Italy's urgent need of coal,
became known when the Czecho
slovakian Foreign Offico in Lon
MR. BENN was the bandmaster in a neighbouring
don Issued the following state village to Egremont, Cumberland. He had a lovely állver
ment:
"The General Staff of the German cornet.
army of occupation in Pras e, on the
longings, including a much-chertak- ́ed trumpet, ha: used to play "in, s focal dance band and which : was
request of the German army com-
When Mr. Benn died, a ten-He escaped from the vessel - In mand, in Slovakia, has ordered the State Railway of the protectorate of year-old schoolboy, youngest his vent and shoria All bis-be- Bohemia and Moravia to supply member of Egremont Town several hundreds of trucks In order to Band, was given permission to hasten
completion of the new play with the band at his strategie high road leading west Funeral.:
from ta through Slovakia. That was twelve years ago. But
After, objections had been made
by the Czech authorlifes cance
his dearest possession, were i the bottom of the Atlantid
At the week-end Blacksmith_Todd railways the Berlin Mrs. Benn remembered the little boy received a letter, from Mrs. Benn,
order given in the band gereeld
authorities, and told Recently the boy now a black widow of the bandmaster.
by the military, the o
the latter, that deliveries of Silesian smith in the Royal Navy, returned He called on her and was given and Bohemian coal to liaty, for which to his native town, survivor from the silver cornet which Mrs Behn the Czech trunks are penda
May the torpedoed transport vessel Mo had freanured since her hubband
in Hamed All KI-Kebir.
no tocoum MAVIC
Rhymes
About
Town
TRANCE UNDER A HAIR DRIER
I bask in a little world alone, Deaf to the boisterous telephone, No strident snatches of conversation Can puncture my lonely cerebration. Not even engines en route to a fire Can pierce the privacy of the drier. It foars as loud as a storm on the ocean And shuts out all but its own commation.
-MARGARET FISHBACK
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