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SID FIELD
GRETA GYNT TESSIE O'SHEA PETULA CLARK-
introducing
KAY KENDALL
EN IN LONDON TOWN DOZEN AND ONE
BEAUTIES
Ayran ang Main DE TOMPING KURRE AND THAT VAN MİUSIN
Ausene Probes MLLIAM COLLER IN
Dungen be tagavan
TO-MORROW
When my beautiful Gristle crint met in terror I heard
it here in Americar
6,000 miles away. How the day of reckoning
is at hand. You may
squiron and leg
for mercy and may
you are sorry... Buite nothing can see you.
A COLUMBIA
PAUL LUKAS
address
Unknown
MADY
PICTURE From the burbialling book and Trader's Digest story, by Kreumann Taylor_ Produced and Directed by WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES
ORIENTAL
SHOWING TO-DAY:
2.30mm5.207.20~~~9.20 P.M. HERE'S THEIR STORY!....SO STUNNINGLY TIMELY, SO MIGHTILY MAGNIFICENT, SO UNFORGETTABLY STIRRING IT IS DESTINED TO LIVE FOREVER!
ERROL FLYNN
in his most important production, WARNERS' SMASH OF SMASHES!
BJECINE BURMA!
WILLIAM PRINCE · JAMES BROWN - DICK ERDMAN -
„TARZAN FACESI
HIS FIERCEST
FOE!
CHEER as Boy and Cheetah out.
wit. Tarzan's
TARZANS DESERT MYSTERY
STAPANE
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER HANCY KELLY • JOKANY SHEFFIELD Produced by 501 LISSEN » Deodhod By WILLIAM FRIGE
OPENING FRIDA Y
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1947.
IN
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting on the
her. brightly lit nest the Other Sparrow, wearing her green moss house frock, reclined on her little settee before a twinkling fire in the tiny grate.
Lipstick from her benk stain- ed the cigarette end she had and picked up in the garden was now holding in her claw: Miniature cocktail glasses were Het on a table by her side. She expecting the Sparrow when he banged on the front door and entered.
was
"My gorgeous atomic bomb," said, the Sparrow. "My lovely piece of nuclear fission."
"I don't remember being dropped on the Japanese sold the Other Sparrote.
"You should have been," said the Sparrow, "you would have defented them without bloodshed. That's how you defeated me."
"If you don't wipe those claws on the mat before you hop on to htt new carpet," anid the Other Spar- raw, there may be a little blood- shed thrawon $8,"
п
"Which
is my glass?" asked the Sparrow as he sat down beside her.
"Take your choice," said the Other Sparrow, "they're all full."
Fence
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
"Not if we got near the cocktail bar," said the Other Sparrow,
"That's an idea, too," sakd the Sparrow. "They usually spill plenty, especially in rough weather. Boy. how a couple of drops of champagne would freshen me up."
"You're fresh cuough as it is,” sold the Other Sparrote,
think ro?" askel "Do yout
the Sparrow, putting his claw round her waist. "Won't you come?"
ed
by self-indulgence an the memory of 10,000 dismal dawns when breakfast was impossible and living through the day stenfad im- probable.
I see that the little Negru girl drinks eight bottles of beer a day. If she can do this at the ge eight without a stomach, I tremble of to think what she might de at 48 with a stomach.
All things considered, I think It Is Just as well that her stomach was
"Maybe, some day," said the Other never born. Its fate might have Sparrow.
"Not next trip?"
"It's time ferr supper," said the Other Sparrow. "Worma fricasse, wornis a la morte ar worms a le mai- son
"Anything those claws touch will be delicious," Auld the Sparrow,
pecking at her before she escaped from. him and hopped into her little
kitchen.
"Lovely," said the Sparrow, swal Letter to a stomach
lowing one cocktail and picking up another. "How would you like to go to America with. me?"
"I once went to Brighton with a wolf in sparrow's clothing," said the Other Sparrow.
"But this
is serious," said
The
Sparrow.
"Sa was
this," said the Other Sparrow. "*1 had to fly into the police station for protection."
AY Dear Stomach.
ΜΥ
An
of
May I bring to your notice the case of Peggy Ann Elkerson,
Kiri, negro
was eight-year-old Washington, DC. who without a stomach?
been worse than mine.
Hoping these notes will be of some value and Interest,
I remain, Str,
Faithfully, Your Stomach.
The sex war
THERE you 'go again. Women can
never do right, can they?" "No, they can't."
"I'd like to know what you'd have done without one
woman for start."
"Some women have better things books to du. Some women write and plave, and some are doctors and lawyers."
"They're never as good as men." "How, do you know they're never as good an men?"
"Because I happen to know they're not. Do you know the weight of a, woman's brain?"
+
I
I don't go round weighing people's bralis,"
"Have you ever heard of a woman composer?"
"Because I haven't heard of one that doesn't mean there's never been one."
"Well, there hasn't, anyway.. And what about women poets?"
"Well, what about them?" "There have never been any inz
them." the top class. That's what about
"That's because they've never had time to write poetry."
1003
"Time to write poetry. You talk about writing poetry as if it like writing a letter."
"Well, I don't'zuppose there's much difference. My mother always sald my letters ought to go in n book.
about And what
women magis-, trates?"
"That's a nier one to bring up, 1 must say."
POCKET CARTOON
Bany Andy
I'M
GLAD I'M NOT OUT. THERE) IN ALL THAT WET MUD
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
MAN who had read a lot
A about the latest form of beastliness. the "Mushroom Liquor Men," went into a shop and asked for a bottle of the. new mushroom liquor.
He was given a bottle labelled Old English Vintage Tokay. Made From the Finest Fresh Fruit Julee.
The price was £5 10s. for a bottle. The man said, "ut this Ten't the new
"Well, what's wrong with women mushroom stuff, is it?" Two assis magistrates?"
fants exchanged a look, “Ah," sald one, "you want this-It has a mush- room basis."
And he landed the customer a bottle labelled: Finest Old Tawny
English Burgundy, Made From Grapes Grown On The Pre- mises. The price was CB 15s. for.
half battle,
"There's nothing wrong with them except that women have to sense of justice, that's all."
next
that sense
a
"I suppose you'll say
of justice?"
"There's no need to use bad gunge,"
"If you mean yourself, I'd have Blondy Judge Jeffrey's had a done very nicely."
"Doing all your own cooking and born sorting all your own laundry, I sup-
pose?"
She is healthy, happy, has a large appetite and drinks eight bottles of beer a day.
In view of the starting statement of a London doctor, commenting on the case, "that a stomach Isn't real- considered necessary, your opinion on this matter would greatly appreciated.
"You know what I mean," said the ly Sparrow.
"I certainly do," said the Sparrow.
"I'm Bred of this country," the Sparrow.
"Tired of anything else?" the Other Sparrow,
to mention "We agreed not wife," said the Sparrow.
Other
Dear Sir,
sald
"That's not bad
lan- Can it be so serious?
Bloody Woman
FROM Messrs Fullermere, Fuller-
language. That! mere and Upchurch to Mr Po- "Everybody knows that men cook was his nume. 1 thought you were tato:....We are therefore instructed
so clever at history."
by our ellent to inform you that beller than women. Otherwise they
lenai pmceedings will be taken, un- wouldn't employ chefs in the best "All I can say is that if
less a full apology is forthcoming.... hotels. And as for sorting laundry, Judge Jegreys had been u
From Messra Dith, Guffray and he'd have been a darn sight...."
Dith to Mr Poleto:...We are there- anp fool could do that."
fore Instructed by our ellent to in- "Careful."
form you that legal proceedings will be taken, unless a full apology is forthcoming....
be
"Perhaps you'd like to make fool of yourself now?"
Д
"All right, all right.”
Yours faithfully.
"I happen to have something bet- ter to do,"
N. Gubbins,
In reply to your undated letter, I have to inform you that the case of nlready asked Perry Ann Elkerson had
As I considered been noted by me. a communication from you on this ny inatter inevitable, I am able to for
ward, by return of post, the follow- ing observationst -
"So we did," said the Other Spar- ruit.. "Is she still wearing those funny hats?"
"Since bread rationing," said the Sparrow, there's hardly crumb to be pleked up anywhere."
"Stop me if I crack a pag about cake crumbs, won't you?" said the Other Sparrow.
"We could fly down to Southamp- ton," said the Sparrow.
it
may be true
that
Although tomchs are not necessary to life,
any more than ears and noses are necessary to life. I would say that stomachs, like eats and noses and all other organs of the normal human body, are necessary to the full en- joyment of life.
"All right, yourself."
WILLIAM HICKEY
Buying & Selling
..In Geneva 250 delegates were dis- cussing trade and making it sound dull. But to most people buping and, selling was still as fascinating as
OPOT, LANKA
Mr. Potato and Mr. Poteto
"SEE no reason," writes Mr Po- teto, "why a gentleman (to give him the benefit of a rather large doubt) with a name like Potato should gratuitously pour, contempt on me, merely because my name is Poteto
Mr. Potato seeks to shield offensive an
behind the manner absurd irrelevancy of some medieval gardener or other, Ranulf Potato. Insolence Is no argument, nor will vile abuse from a low scoundrel make me lose my temper. There are law courts to deal with such foul cam- paigns of defamation. Let Mr Po- tuto take, the hint,"
K
Five-foot wide beds, once made to specin order, are not made at all demand nowadays now. Double beds (five dockets) are in about equal with twin beds (three dockets each). More people would certainly buy EX-FARMER: Down in Sussex the twin beds," says a large furnishing
✡ ✡ local auctioneers still hoped that be firm, if they could afford that extra fure it is auctioned somebody might docket."
Mr Potato writes: "If Mr Poteto's make an offer for VERA LYNN's Wetsuke: Smail Japanese tvory disreputable and disgusting letter is central heated, there- bathroomed charm, worn on cord from the waist, designed to induce me to exchange farmhouse, which the "Forces
Sweet
abuse, he is barking, (like the - giving up after little ROYALIST: The lifetime collection bred mengrel he is) up the wrong Against this it may be argued that, heart" was without certain organs, life would be more than two-years-stuy-Will-of-Dutch-burgomuster-II. de Yong tree. And a fine-law-case-it would casier with fewer minor allments,
seme enthusiast pay perhaps £15.000 Van Beck was up for sale at The make: Poleto versus Potato?" to £17,500 to live in a 22-roomed Hague...nearly 7,000 "royal family" Without B stomach, you would
with Lynn associations? "We photographs and picture postcards, Dr. Rhubarb's corner never have stomach-ache, Without don't think so," any auctioneers. with a make-weight of 12,000 post. teeth, you would never have tooth-ost of the possible buyers are cards of historien buildings.
P. N. writes: My husband is a'doc- nche. But I imagine that without commercial firms seeking offlers."
tor, who objects to smoking. When- stomach or teeth meal in England
BARGAIN HUNTERS:Open again ever he is offered a cigarette, he would be even more unappetising ART-BUYERS: In London Captain
HARRY PARKER (with probably after closing three weeks for "re- pulls out a cigarette-case filled with stocktaking," the thermometers, offers it, and anys, the world's largest collection of organisation and So far as our particular relation- naval and army prints-about 27,000 420-year-old Oxford and University "Try one of these." This makes him "Separate staterooms," said
many enemies. How can I cute him? Other Sparrow.
of which, I presume, is the main ob-pictures) warned art buyers of the Press could still offer in its 1047
Dr Rhubarb says: If everybody in valuing a snogs
a work of art. To catalogue new copies of books pub "They're very big staterooms," said Ject of your letter). I think you show the hazards that are attached shed in the 10th century. Bibllo- to whom he held out his case were
used philes, more
take to searching could have dispensed with my ser- to commercial valuations, a "Valuer's
a thermometer, pretend vices long ago.
accondhand bookshops, could have to light it, and puff at it, and finally Licence' can be bought by anybody at any post offfee on payment of 3 editions from its shelves of, say, throw it away, shouting, "Turkish!" your husband would grow tired of guineas--no examination or know Plutarch's Moralia, B volunes, 1795
(£5)."
his habli. edge is requisite."
"Nothings simpler." Other Sparrow.
said
the
"Hop on board the Queen Eliza beth," said the Sparrow, "and into a stateroom."
the Sparrow.
the
"I'm taking no chances," said the Other Sparrow,
than it is now.
ship is concerned (the
discussions
house
For the past 30 years I have never been used as a stomach proper; that is to say, for the digestion of food and the dispersal of nourishment SHOE SEEKERS: With 350,000 to into the blood stream. I have been 450,000 pairs of shoes due to be im-. "All right," said the Sparrow," used rather as a junction in a one-ported this year, women were look- "separate staterooms."
way traffic stream of cocktalts and ing at some of the first models from half-chewed sandwiches, which have Switzerland. "We shan't be in them long," said been sent down at any time of the France. SIDNEY WILSON, director Czecho Slovakia,
the Other Sparrow.
day or night instead of af regular of a company supplying shoes for intervals.-
about 2,000 stores, says.
We
should bring in one million pairs of shoes for the next four years. Our women You and I would have been better deserve to have more choice." But off if your oesophagus had been general feeling in the shee trade, the connected directly with your duode-, now nearing Its prewar output, was num (as in the case of the ittle different...........“We can still make the Negro girl), cutting me out alto- best shoes and enough of them, if gether and leaving me to lead my the Board of Trade would release the own life in peace.
leather,"
"Why not?" asked the Sparrow.
"People don't like sparrows their staterooms."
112
Then we'll sleep In one of kitchens," said the Sparrow,
"Separate kitchens," Other Sparrow,
suld
the
I
"But they're as big as the Albert I would have become morbid and tisements people were seeking a suppose, like an unwanted child. ADVERTISERS: In classified adver- Hall," said the Sparrow.
distance introspective and, lacking love and
"Wartcharmer, reasonable with care and even notice, would have London" "a double bed over 5ft.
wide:" "a netsuke"*. - Other withered away before my time.
"Think of all the lovely food we 'could ent,” said the Sparrow, "Think how fat we'd get"
The announcement that, Marcoal's.
"I wouldn't take a chance crò to supply a 25 kilowatt frequency modulated broadcasting transmitter you in Olympia," said the to the BBC marks p
Sparrow. significant development
In the history of British broadcasting.
modulation offers requency.
advantages over the present stem, which is known as ampll- tude modulation, the outstanding advantages, of the new system being greatly improved quality and lack of background notic,
first
This new transmiter will be the frequency moduined transmitter to be put into regular service by the
1 RBC.
will be built at the Chelmsford works of the. Marconi company, where 25 years ago the BBC's Arst transmitter, the famous 2L0 of Savoy Hill days, was built.
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