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SLEEP MARTHA VICKERS DOROTHY MALONE HOWARD HAWKS
TO-MORROW
ANDREW
Sensations
TODAY
of 1946
Starring
ELEANOR POWELL
with
Dennis O'KEEFE-W. C. FIELDS C. Aubray SMITH - Sophie TUCKER Eugene PALLETTE- David LICHINE 'Oerothy DONEGAN • TE■ CHRISTIANES WOODY HERMAN AND-HAND CAB'CALLOWAY AND BAND
Produces and Directed by ANDREW STONE Original story by Frederick Jackian Screenplay by Dayatky Braneit Koloured through United Artists
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RIDING HEADLONG INTO ACTION! Zorro, the masked terror of the plains, braves the vengeance of a gang of ruthless killers in 2 episodes of spectacular action,
ZORRO'S
FIGHTING LEGION
REED
SHEILA
HADLEY DARCY
SHOWING
TO-DAY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1947.
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting on the
THINK it was Lord Byron who would never sce at
beautiful woman cat. On Occasions, when he was lucky enough to make the acquaint- ance of a beautiful woman, ho would never ask. her to dinner or even offer her a biscuit in his presence.
If she had a hearty appelite, as beautiful women often have, suppose he. sent, her down to the cook to be stuffed accretly in the kitchen. Or maybe he just let her
•
Fence
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
Well, that, children, is why I never go to public eatings-now 11 la also one of the reasons (politicians may be glad to hear) why I shall never
tearing bo in Parliament, people to pieces with all the mean things I can think of but can never
Bay.
Business lunch
ANOTHER form of gastronomic
is the business Between two chapa..
lunch.
Why people want to talk about, business when they're eating or eat
young man will tell you, they are Years ag7, when I was silly enough starve. Writers ore notoriously, superior creatures, dainty, immacu- to allend these functions, my when they're talking about business.
callous men.
late, incapable of grossness in word, stomach would thought or act.
"
turn over
brought this
up?
sight of the soup. 4
Lord Byron was
few human acts
How does the young man retain ho sees the these illusions when
at the. is an unsolved mystery to 'mc.
It in probably one of the main caunes of dyspepsin among business Why have I Because I think
Why the soup? Because the types who try to deceive each other right. There are more offensive to watch than the beautiful eyes narrow at the sight serving of the soup was the begin. and digest their food at the same It is meant to be a softening-up of food and watches them glaze and ning of the ordeal. It was the first stare into the middle distance while act in the grisly drama everybody process to put over a deal, when the the strong (but beautiful) jows champ and chew?
act of eating.
me
that walter
told ance A watching jaws champing for 12 hours a day made him nervous and depressed and haunted his dreams. If a walter can feel like that it is not remarkable that a sensitive man like Lord, Byron was distressed by the apecinelo of beauty making a beast of itself.
*
★
Yet where does a man meet a When he woman most? At meals.
takes her to her he is courting restaurants, watching her chew and
swallow night after night while he,
立し
Then
Victorian girls retained the illusion before marriage by eating and wiches in their bedrooms before they came down to dinner. they pretended to be shocked at the gentlemen's large appellies. It was only after marriage that the gentle wine men knew what little pigs they were.
say
time.
1
liver,
aro
POCKET CARTOON
"Pardon me, but I really must plough (hla' bit now.
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber knew so well-soup, Osh, entree, guest (who is also the victim)
unwary, but is usually but another Bweet, savoury, speech."
small step towards the hardening of URPORTING to be a Senior Pending Officer (Grade 1) When the fish arrived Tum would something inside you-the
I arteries or whatever organs be turning faster. What should
affected by anxiety of imperfect from the Ministry of Agricul Σ had to speak? if asked
ture and Fisheries, Mr Horatio digestion. .a little
People who take you to a business Fidge called at the Embassy
refused to it never nothing to say. Perhaps would help? Bui
lunch are fast eaters. They can Theatre and
are away. He said he was there to talk rapidly while they did. Take the Ash away, walter.
arrived, Tum chewing and swallowing without measure Miss Genine Graham, When the entree
appearing to suffer any still.
who is playing the part of a faster would be turning
mermaid in the play "Miranda." Brandishing a tape-measure. Mr The girl of today does not bother Maybe I'd think
"If the lady and/or Fidga declared: to hide her natural appetite, and rather clever after another gloss of
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of something
Also
incon-
venience.
They can even stuff their mouths and talk with bread and soup
being in a highly emotional condi- does not care how terrible the looks wine. But I knew I'd forget-it the through that. I suppose It must be fish concerned can be passed through
tion, chokes every mouthful. Farely are appetites Women's affected by emotion, unless it is the emotion of anger.
him home
*
with her mouth full. But she gets
married just the same, which proves moment I was on that the biological urge will over the entree away, waiter, come anything.
my feet. Take
the result of long training.
★
con For myself I can talk or I ent. I can't do both at the same time.
10
By Tuni
the time the sweet would be going flat how many heaven knows minute.
arrived
out
rovs
If you don't agree, don't bother to write in.
All the same, I think marringes, When she takes
the first act of would be happier and last longer if meet the folks
men and women ate separately hospitality is a family meat.
taking their food luto cornem ke is, cating again, animals and growling as they tore So there'she What is even worse, there is father at their meat. eating, and mother eating and may- be several brothers and sisters all chewing steadily, with grease and crumbs round their mouths and all man watching the nervous young picking at his plate.
When she finally traps him into marriage he will watch her chewing a day and and swallowing twice three times on Sundays for the rest of his life, barring accidents.
Men Eating
ANYTHING BUT GENTLE woman render, you will immedi- "What about men atoly scream, eating?"
the average woman.
Anyway, men are expected to be beasts
with insatiable appetites, Women are rather disappointed if they are not.
Public eating
a size 4a child's wooden hoop without oldes, then under touching the. Article 20 Section 14 (c) sub-section have been never 745, she should landed and must be thrown back."
Next week, Mr Fidge proposes to who is If during a meal, anybody says visit Miss Barbara Shaw, anything which requires an answer playing the part of a mermaid in the at I put down the knife and
swallow what I am chewing, sigh play, "A Fish in the Family," heavily at the interruption and give Smiling through.' the pest my full attention:
fork,
of
women'
1
the children Elass of wine 1
I always hope this will shame O
queueing outside his shop, After, another
almost him into silence. But it never does. would think of something
1 I knew would He goes on talking and eating and butcher has provided a couple of brillant. But
drinking and has often finished his wings. This is undoubtedly what is lunch, before have got through the known as a swing in the right direc- tion, but does it go hall for enough? never put it over..
No, no, no. Retailers must calor for If he is my host I have to pass there must aim is a circular the mothers, too, The Ideal at soup and pass
ET me waste a little more space on the subject of eating and
I could put it over I wrote il soup. down. Yes, I knew all those tricks.. annoy everybody.
Mass eating at public lunches and But I could never put it over if up the dinners is pleasant function for said it. 1 would never time it pro-thing else if he goes en talking.
away, the sweet all but the waiters and nervous perly. Take people who have to make a speech water. afterwards.
savoury
And you can take the Even those who have to listen to the speeches do not suffer so much away too. Tumi has seized up. as the cringing introvert who is forced to his feet by jolly sadists full of food and wine.
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More diten than not I was never
up every-whi
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So, you can see, a business lunch is another thing I avoid, unless it is urgent business, Then I usually have a sandwich first, Ike the Vic- torian girls.
centre sh shop built into the
you know a merry-go-round; where the steam organ usually is. In- stead of standing for an hour first on one foot, and then for an hour on the other, customers would be comfor tably seated on galloping ostriches, while the fishmonger served them as way they whirled past him. In this queues could be kept constantly on the move, with no one being served You might ask, "Does the man
course, out of turn. They would, of eat at all? The answer is "Cer- tantly," and in a big way, if he gets continue to bring their own under.
Back answers to the chance.
comes
at
A
Correspondents
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Well, I know they look pretty
Of course, it's all right for the terrible too, but then they are not supposed to be beautiful, though extrovert. There is nothing he loves naked to insite a speech at all. But
observers of the so much as the sound of his own astute many
forced by the fear of making one had ruined the voice and an audience
This chance usually human race consider that
there is no- breakfast time, when average man is better looking than courtesy to listen to every platitude. a lovelyflunch, or dinner.
As we all know, the difficulty is to
How Tum would have enjoyed body to interrupt with idiot ques-
"Only - a Working - Girl," old Cheltenham: If you have has it all if he had been left in peace, tlens and Tum is not worried by, But for the Introvert who persuade him to sit down.
of work, Even either agreed to make a speech or, How he would have opened his any discussion what is worse, may be called upon
Tum turning over. He is probably to brighten your gym frock, cut it into strips and paste it crosswise whisper of the word work will set mink coat put by it will do splendidly more frightened of that than any-(from left to right) and quite a tiny thing.
snippet will make a most durable
for false 女
moustache
your little brother.
Arthur, Fulham: ""Towser" is And, oh, there is another occ slon. Picking in the larder before certainly an old pet name for your bedtime.
to make a fool of himself to amuse arms to every course, mumbling in Whereas women are not supposed the sadists, public lunches and din his deep, soit voice: "More, walter, to be beasts at all. As any callow ners are gastronomic hell.
more."
THERE'S LIFE AMIDST THE GRIM RUINS OF WARSAW
war.
Whatever may be in store. for them politically, the Poles are digging Into their heritage of grim stark ruins with an obvious will to rebuild and struggle for a future.
By
JOHN LLOYD
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young lad to choose for you, and. we can well imagine your embarrass. If people would do more of this ment when she insists on slapping---- they would find it the most enjoy-her knee and whistling when she able meat of the day.
At one time Sally the Cat and 1 did it regularly ill we were dis covered and sent to bed without
sonnel, newspapermen and
a few supper. visitors. Its accommoration is dingy and inadequate. «
Ices topped with heaps of whipped
cream.
I still do it when I'm alone in the house and shall continue to do
In its dining room, however, the it whenever I have a chance. waiter himself suggests ham and And I recommend it to women eggs and he brings three eggs, not who don't want to be seen chewing. and buses have glass windows one. It is a far cry from London. They will keep those illusions going On the surface at least, War- nguin, traffic policemen wear In Warsaw the walter serves thick a little longer. saw bustles with life. Dents neat white coats, and most steaks, abundant vegetables and richi are being driven into the ap- pedestrians are well dressed. palling mass of wreckage, the Rebuilding is going on
There is no doubt that prices are restaurants supply abundant
in Berlin, shocking, judging by the relation of than more noticeably
destruction and excollent food; there are where
came home to of the zlaty to foreign currency and with a vengeance. Warsaw's Polish salary levels. The average many small private shops sell- roost
is amall
ine worker cauid not possibly afford to ing on a free market, and retrieved portion peuple make merry in spite of lation to the enormous mass of trade in the free shops or cat in the rubble, but it defnitely shows the awful surroundings.
positive effort.
run
much
the Avenues
free
arc
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are ar- restaurants. There rangements for the workers to pur- under state The ruins loom in grotesque On one side of the area of greatest chose at lower prices
control, but of course this does not attitudes as far as the eye can destruction
and Jerozo give them the leeway to live as do Kee. To really understand, one General Sikorskiego
side,
stand- must visit and look for himself. limskie. They from a wide thorough those with money to spend.
still fare and
The stores and restaurants line torm since the
to keep They are awe-inspiring testi-
ing a relative
too numerous, however,
follows imonials of human brutality. of buildings is
Uberally punctuated
open, on transit alone. It with ruins looks out ovation, or that a portion of the resident rules Rut two years after-one- with
desolation. complete
On do have money to spend. The ques- storey concrete buildings fringe the other alde of the street stond ton of whether the privately many of the areas of desola- one of the world's findst rallway
surroundings callely. Rores will survive inde- tion, housing shops that display stations, It and its
is one of considerable do- crazy bate,
Many think
will be they everything from furs to elec. are now fields of rubble or
forced out of business, gradually_at trical gadgets and from art skeletons.
enterprises, But
лош, work to hams, roast chickens On the Avenue Jepozolimskie, least, by state
facing the ruins, stands the hotel there is enough hope and liquors, Modest brick build that was bpared by the Germaus enough rambling
spirit or sheer
going. Át 2.30, 5.20, ings are cropping out in the because they were using it and necessity, to keep, them
residential sections. Street cars which now shelters diplomatic per- Associated Press.
A Republic SERIAL
Cathay
7.30 9.30 p.m.
ONE OF THE ACTION HIGHLIGHTS FROM ALEXANDER KORDA'S TECHNICOLOR SPECTACLE!
ALEXANDER KORDA'S
THE FOUR FEATHERS
with John CLEMENTS Ralph RICHARDSON
Juno DUPREZ
C. Aubrey SMITH
NANCY
zone
Gob Job
AW-- YOU'
HAVE
YOU
YEP--HE'S WORKING
CAN'T
SEEN
BELIEVE
SLUGGO
ON A GOVERNMENT
THOSE
JOB DOWN
MY CARD: SAYS I'M GONNA LAND A GOVERNMENT.
JOB
YOUR [FORTUNE **
CARDS
JENNIE BUSHMILLÁMA
THE STREET
.or
in
und
wants to attract your attention crowded tea parties. Wo suggest you put a stop to this silly business of rolling over on the hearthrug
dying for your king" It may amuse her, but, as we see it. It gela you no- where.
mw M OTTO
Laugh and the world laughs with you-write this column
and you laugh alone
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