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Lady Luck
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Sitting on the
CCORDING, to reports the. British Government re a little worried about its publicity department,
This may be the fault of the
publicity department, but ia more likely the fnult of tho Government.
This is the first Government to despise the personal publicity which the more widely read newspapers are so eager publish and which bas endeared statesmen of the past to the simple-minded clectorate.
10.
Will the Government allow their Uncle Nat to help them in this tnutter?
He
He is not asking for a jub. Bnds the writing of this piece quite enough for a bone-lazy man.
Fence
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
Pipes are associated in the public The lesson to be learned from this mind with honesty, though it is is that the right kind of publicity hurd to see the connection. They will have its effect even on news: nre aim associated with peace
of papermen, who are supposed to be which mind.
reassures nervous so hard-bolled. people in difficult times.
The Cabinet's loving Uncle asks Mr Attice smokes a pipe, though again: "What has happened to the few people know it. His Uncle Nat Downing-street cat?" would arrange that he was never photographed without one.
The Sweep
46\JELL,” said the Sweep. "ow are you gettin along these appy days?"
"All riplet," I said.
But he is willing to offer his ser- Uncle Joe Stalln also smokes
lo vices free
members of the pipe, a fact which made him popú- Cabinet providing they will take far even with people who thought his advice without question on a Communists sncrificed their junts at subject, which, after all, is their the full moon. Uncle's profession.
Next in Importance are foggies Members of the Government and kiddies. It Is generally be
"And so you ought," said the must first of all realise
nothing Sweep "considerin you're probably people want to be constantly assur- wrong will ឆ man who loves enjoyin the thest standard of livin ed that public #gures are human. doggles and kiddies.
in the world."
that
the lieved that there can be
Deep down In the subconscious Therefore, under their Uncle mind of the masses there lurks #Nat's publicity scheme, all members suspleion that anybody who has of the Cabinet must have one or the rol on in the world has done it by other, preferably both. a trick and may be an ape or a white Zomble for all they know.
Therefore, members of the Cabinet will have to be humanised whether they like it or nut.
Their wives and familles will have to be dragged into the limelight and in front of the cameras.
Those who are too old to have any, more kiddies must have doggies. Moreover, the public must know all about the doggles-nomes, ages, sex and tricks,
We shall want to know how the A Food Minister's wife gets on
with
the rations, if she waits in queuts and what she does with state bread.
n
BVIOUSLY, here would be
wonderful opportunity for Mrs Strachey to say In un interview that there was to stale bread in her
house and deliver a short homly on bread wastage.
an
ND
about the cal at
wha! Downing-street?
Mr Churchill was one of the few Prime Ministers who won all hearts, but the hard heart of Mr Aneurin Bevan without. the aid of pipes or doggies. But he had a cigar and a cat.
During the war a story was told about Mr Churchill and the cat at
Downing-street.
Mrs Attlee's Uncle Nat is sorry
According to the story, the butler who usually fed the cat was out, to tell her that she would have to
Mr Churchill was in bed. There be dragged into it, too.
was a raid on But in the middle One of her predecessors was
of sil this and all the other things excellent conk, and the newspapers at the time were full of little para- on his mind, the Prime Minister got Graphs about the Prime Minister's out of bed to give the cat its sup- Ukes and disilkes in food, and the per. special dish.
her by
Me Churchill's 'Uncle, Nut (if he cooked hands, which would cause him to
may make so bold) has never agreed break up R Cabinet meeting with Him on political matters, quicker than anything and send him though luy was his Uncle's wor hero, hare-ing into the Downing-street
kitchen to take a sniff.
own
Mrs Atilee would have to be pre- sented to the public as somebody who spends most of her day peering Into saucepans, concocting little do- licacies, strictly on the ration, and driving the cook crazy.
Pipes arc also important in publicity designed to make men popular.
and stilt is.
But because
of his
robustious hatred of the Nazis, because he call- ed Hitler "Corporal Hiller" and Mussolini "that tattered lackey," and because, with the burden of a world war on his shoulders, he remember- ed a little cat was hungry, no word ngainst him will ever be written berc.
"Me?" I said.
"Yes, you," said the Sweep. "And me, too, accordin to one of the cads of the Government.”
"Well," I said,
"When I read, that in the papers," soid the Sweep, "you could ave knocked me down with a steam am-
stone Iner. Cor
the crows, I always thought they was a bit bet- ter örf in America," "So did 1," I said.
"To say nothink of Australia and Canada and them there litle
old Argentines," said the Sweep.
"That's right, I`said,
"And what about them thero little old Swiss?" asited the Sweep. "Cor strike a light. I always thought of them as yodellin and eatin their eads orf and makin cuckoo clocks in their spare time."
"Me, too,” I said,
"Accordin to the papers," sald tho Sweep, "hero's a quarter of a mil- llon families in New York without a bath."
"Fancy," I said.
to
to
"I most of them appen to Negros you wouldn't notice much, sald the Sweep, "but it ain't the sort of thing you'd expect in the richest country in the world"
"You certainly wouldn't,” I said.
"You can't say you'aven't got bath," said the Sweep.
.
"No, I can't," I said.
"Even if it as been froze up for a
couple of weeks with no cuke make, the water ot."
-"That's right," "I said.
to
you nat-
"So don't let me car terin about emigration," cald (12 Sweep.
"I ain't." I said,
"You can Ko further and faro worse."
"You can."
"And besides," said the
"the country needs a bit of out of you.'
"You, too," I said,
Sweep,
work
your
"Though I don't suppose little bit of typin would elp much in the export drive.
I said.
POCKET CARTOON.
0000 ng of
0050
MARC
"Excuse, me~~have you
a step ladder?"
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
URTHER details of the Strabismus No-Way Traffic Plan have been announced.
Truffle moving from east to west in Oxford-street between 5 an p.m. on alternate Tucodays will have to go backwards, in order to allow a constant flow between Edgware-road
and Hyde Park Corner. Plecadilly "Nor your little bit of sweepin. Circus will be widened and recon- structed the lines of the Hampton Court maze. It will be reserved ex- "Before we glt personal like | M
for vehicles what they do in Parliament," said the with no urgent need to go anywhere.
clusively on Mondays Sweep, "you'd better ave one for the
By keeping them busy here, road.
northbound traffle in the Haymarket, will be able to go round by Balham,
Chelsen, Battersea,
Bayswater,
"Thank you." I salı,
"The skin orf, the Sweep.
the
your nose." said Kensington, back to Bayswater, back
to Kensington, Knightsbridge, and so through the Park to Paddington and Baker-street.
"The skin cri· yourn.". I sald
Letter from a cuckoo
pears
Miss Nutrition Intake
THE Balderdash Board has ruled DEAR Sir,-As your column that the title National Nutrition
to he reat mainly by Intake Queen
Ik reserved for the choice of the Ministry of Food. Girls chosen by local bodies are to be called Miss Nutrition Intake, Uni. forms are being designed for them, and they will be empowered to enter any house without a want, in or
animals and birds, may I trespass on your valuable space to deny a rumour and utter a warning?
It is being said that, beenuse food Аге housing
major
81111
"And now I suppose they'ro just and makin cuckoo clocks," sald the problems in Britain, patriotic cue Sweep "because you wouldn't do kous have agreed to change their dor to give their autographs.
habits so that they may not be an much yodellin on our rations."
embarrassment to other birds In The charma · of music these dificult times.
"You certainly wouldn't.” I said "Cor suffering wars," Gold the started yodellin an a breakfast of a couple of Sweep, "it
Į
As one in touch with Influentint on toast I reckon I'd choke meself." there's is no truth whatever in this sardines cuckoo circles, may I say that
"Same ere," I cald.
all"
Sweep,
statement?
cuckoos,
IT
is being said daily that England is becoming fonder and fonder of cord, and most people will be able good music. Play a gramophone re to tell you what is on the other side. I can therefore assume that'I
am ful
ful-
"St," said the Sweep, "you live and leara."
Sir, this is an age when many "You do." .said,
ancient privileges are going by the filling a long-felt want by opening that a correspondence course, to teach "The Government may be right board, but I can assure you
more people how to play. Nothing makes about
standard of livin alter the privileges of our
ancient than the drolt de seigneur, the home cirelo more cheerful than a little amateur playing, no matter will not be among them.. “Maybe," I said.
what the instrument. How often "For instance," said the
As we continue to regard the one hears the words, "I do wish my "I ain't everybody iri America buliding of nests as a labour proper husband could give us a bit of Wagner what's a millionaire."
ly assigned to the lower orders, the on the flute during those long winter females of our specles will con- evenings," or "If only my wife could tinue to lay their eggs in other birds play Beethoven on the violin, it might nests as their ancestors did before keep the children quiet, and stop them, using the occupants of such granny Jabbering nests as the servants they were Langtry." brought up to bę
“I know it ain't,” I said.
WILLIAM HICKEY
JUST DIAL THE SUN
When they grow big our children will throw these servants and their brats out of the nest, as they did
about
Mrs
Music by correspondence..
THE TRIANGLE
at the time of William the Con-THIS monotonous instrument is not
found
I remai Sir,
Yours truly,
A Cuckoo.
quisite shape, and can be played by
un old stair-rod, bent into the re
to jest
on..
always well suited for domestic By making use of atomic READER: General GEORGE MAR- a firstborn, in a pamphlet on "In- queror and before that.
and Fertility." Other As for food, we shall continue to can hang it. It can be made out of music, save as a curiosity. Any child energy we are turning the very SHALL (00), U.S. Secretary of telligence
State, can read four books a day CHURCHILL (" was always bot- or produced by their own labour,
slants on the theory: WINSTON cat what other birds have Solar System into our gas light and often does. Says his secretary:
First born, including their eggs. without the and coke company, as if we had "In the middle of a book he shouts, tom of the class"):
'It's no good, then goes ahead and C. E. M. JOAD: Only child. ITMA: slightest scruple and heedless of any means of a meat-skewer strong telephoned to some helpful
Mrs Bandley's pride and joy No. 2. appeals to so-called patriotism. finishes it,"
knitting-acedle or other rod-like ob agent with an office in the sun SPRAY: Deprived by fuel-cuts of ASSETS: As young men become suck eggs, and I am going to suck it will make a pleasant accompani-
My grandmother taught me
Complete tunes should, not.
not be but, judiciously handled, attempted, itself; we are trying to lay on rubber-stoppers for export bottles, even more valuable to the nation plenty.
ment to a little session of home cham and tap the fury and splendour one London scent-maker
1950 only 295,00D 18-year-olds reports
The will be available compared with
ber music. Its melodious ping, adda of the constellations and high home-market output.
a touch of mystery to what is going factory kept going with the aid of 417,000 in 1930), increasing presure be brought on the Services to galaxies; we have placed one an engine taken from the managing
more civilian trade train- halting foot on the stairway of
director's yacht...."
SIR GODFREY INCE, Min- the stars. B. PRIESTLEY, CRITICS: Particular BBC dislikes Istry of Labour man-power chief, "The Services can- broadcasting recently.
of an ex-BBC
said recently: Lovernor-HAROLD NICOLSON bogus audiences, not expect, to take these valuable PRE-THAW: Entering cold rall- sham sound effects, artificiality of young men from us for 18 months presentation, back-stopping and mu- without offering something in re- way carriage near Leighton tual admiration, subtle self-adver- turn." Buzzard (Beds), RAF officer, tisement, strained comradeship and SNAG: Someone said of Senator wearing electrically heated fly the agonising sprightliness of
lighter programmes.”
Taft: "He has the best mind in ing jacket, plugged into car-
Washington until he makes it up. riage light plug.....Rabbits FIRE: Advising his firemen to cry:. TOUR: After 3,000 miles through
this is the Fire Depart France, Switzerland around Moston (Lines), depriv-Ma'am
and Belgium, ment!" before breaking down the visiting 100 hotels, tourist organiser US. Fire Chief William Fitz- STANLEY MASON praises these
Com-faces,
the
ed of burrows by snowdrifts, dooid says that men in a fro uro countries for their "beiter road sur-".
climbed trees, sat in branches
much in Civvy Street."
moro sunshine, unrationed "It's petrol in Switzerland and Belgium (at little more than 28, a gallon)
years I've
25 feet up....London recruit inore modest than women,
mented London fire oficial: ing office reports best business
different
here: In 20 since, 1940. Recruits
say: They're messing us about never found either men or women and popular brand British cigarettes
to find clothes kcener
than get at 20 for 1s. 4d." away
from the fire. But many more women get trapped than FUN: Highest pay yet for a personal appearance goes to American radio comic JACK BENNY, returning to the average the Broadway BRAINS: "On
vaudeville nt nearly brighter than the first"Psychology makes the boards seem mighty soft second child of a family is a shade £10,000 a week. Comment: "It
Professor Sir CYRIL BURT himself underfool."
CYNIC: Sceno: An ̈hotel just 'men.” outside Pinewood: A woman: "If you want to hold Wardour- street friends never put their friendship to a test.””-
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