Lice Theatre
ADVANCE BOoking OfficeE-
ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, QUEEN'S · ROAD, CENTRAL.
BOOKING HOURS:
11.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Dally.
SHOWING, TO-DAY AT 2,30; 5.10, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.
CHARLES
R ROGERS
DICIONES
PAUL
MUNI
ANNE
BAXTER
CLAUDE
RAINS Angel On My Shoulder
SHOWING
TO-DAY
Released the United Aulists
QUEENS
WHAT A BUT WEL DO
TO GIT THOSE...
THE
STRANGE
STORY
OF EDDIE KAGLE- the man
they couldn't Keep down
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1948.
"Can we persuado you to have another half-dozen for your friends?"
ROYALTY'S
at 2.30, 5.15,
7.15 & 9.15 p.m. 1. WHERE IT
Three Little Girls in Blue
KEDUNG. YOUR MANI
Sund
THETRE ALL IN
TECHNICOLOR, Too!
20
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ALHAMBRA THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY.
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
PASTEUR
'ZOLA' ...and now
"The
PRIME MINISTER
A WARKEN BROS, Meturn Starring
JOHN GIELGUD - DIANA WYNYARD
ŠNE VELA VIETE - OWINI NAKES+ PAY COMPTOM » Borna Pup by Shaban) tingm and Proche 115ame T-Pin Much Flames - Froland of Tobing her Praliné Zárated by THOROLD DICKINSON
AT
OPENS "LAST OF THE REDMEN" TO-MORROW!
IN WONDERFUL COLOR
ORIENTAL
Commencing To-Day: 2.30–5.15—7.20—9.20 p.m.
SPECTACULAR
OUTSTANDING
EXCITING
PERFECT
M-G-M
Fresh and delightful!
A warm, hearted delight!
Will delight the hoart ! Bound to appoal to all !
· GREAT HEART-DRAMAJ
*** The TECHNICOLOR Trumph!
NATIONAL VELVET
A CLARENCE BROWN Production MICKEY ROONEY
starring
SHOWING
TO-DAY
and a great
can!
MAJESTIC
AT 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 & 9,20. p.m. Paramount proudly presents the story of every woman's two great loves!
Olivia DeHavilland.⠀ To Each His Own".
MET ANDERSON AND CURVIN BALL GOODWE
MITCHELL LEISEN
COMMENCING SUNDAY
· GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION.
PRODUCTION
“BLACK NARCISSUS”
IN TECHNICOLOR
AND 2 Bed
"THE ROYAL WEDDING"
IN FULL TECHNICOLOR:.
THE
COMES FROM...
When
MONEY
his
of
At last-they've
in
called the boffins
again
T
HE men whose skill produced the planes and the tank and the' robot gadgets
which won the war are to go
into action in the fac tories again. That i
SIX SCIENTISTS GET DOWN TO A 'COATS-OFF'BEAT THE CRISIS PLAN
from it. Belentials say that only 20 percent of the heat given off by copl burned in factories and household fires is used. The rest is. wasled because of inefficient design of machinery and Bis-genlès.
ΤΟ INCREASE steel pro- duction by using oxygen
Ens Instead of nie in blast furnaces. A method of making liquid oxygen cheaply has just been devised and is ready to be, exploited.
TO FIND new usenfor, robots in industry. As.
a
dis-
result of wartime coveries olnetronte devices
control
are nvallable which can machines more efficiently than men, They think and act with the speed of light.
ΤΟ
USE Industrini by- products which are
now
being wasted. For example, good quality concreto can be. made from the waste-slag of iron litters the
what Mr Herbert Morri- by Chapman Pincher foundries which noir
son meant when he un-' nounced the setting-up
country..
The salvage drive will be stopped up. Old straw, waste rags, and old timber will be used to make syn- thetle building materials.
TO EXTEND the use fluorescent lamps-the long glass tubes which give brighter light than ordinary
of
of a high-powered industrial and Industrial Research Department General Staff of Britain's top- are in the team. flight boffin.
Sir George Schuster represents the cotton Industry, Birmingham Pro- For months these scientists for university scientists.
fessor Solly Zuckerman will speak have told the Government: Mr Hugh Weeks and Mr Robert electric bulbs, and use less than half "Without extra manpower or Hall will give on-the-spot decisions the power. If fluorescent lighting fuck we could give you the vital for Cripps's Economic Planning became general in all factories and
20 percent increased production union delegates are to be appoint- tons of coal a year.
Board, Industrialists and trade houses Britain would save 2,000,000
you
need by stepping up ed. efficiency and cutting down waste,"
who
WHERE IT
Now they have got the GOES TO.........chance to take their coats off and prove their claims by work- THE King and Queen have THE King's money is free
annual income an
Income
noting with the men at the bench. of
tax. It hns £410,000 a year.
The new Committee on Industrial This is a
always been so. direct grant paid by Parliament Queen Victoria,
great-grandmother, Productivity is led by a man
learned of the already has one of the most respon- from the revenue of the Crown publie outery over "the crippling sible jobs outside Parliament. He is lands. In return for this rate of Income tax at 7d, in the E Sir Henry Tizard, chief selente
adviser to the Ministry of Defence. guaranteed £410,000, the King she decided as an example to
tax. agrees to forgo any further
HIS TEAM money out of this Crown property.
This bargain was first struck by the businesslike George III. In 1760 he handed over lands producing £89,000 a year which were his personal property. Then it was a good bargain, for the King. Today, with the Crown lands showing a big profit, it is a better bargain for the country. Last year £920.000 of this profit wont to the Exchequer.
This is the balance simplest form:-
sheet in its
King and
pay
This was cancelled for George: V. and the present King, but other members of the Royal Family are still taxed,
TO
EXPLOIT
revolu-
6 tionary British discovery in
car
now. could
Panels have been set up for the
the iron Immediate Investigation of the dif
industry #1 ferent production
method of making cast iron processes belog used in all major industries,
which is almost as strong as steel. Maes production would mean that Industrialists will be called in to the motor
Industry, to choose help the commitice
the restricted by steel shortage, most economical methods. Science work full out. and industry together will then night
Shortly teams of boins will be to get them adopted generally.
The panel hetided by Sir William back in the factories, working with Stanier is to work out ways of at the men at the machines. It is a tacking production problems by the combination which solved one crisis. system of operational research de- The scientists are confident it can do vised by scientists during the war. it again. This was used to firid out the
TOP BOFFIN: Red-haired- Army's needs in battle and
to going groy-Sir Henry Tizard, aged satisfy them quickly.
61, was a pilot in the 1014-18 war. These are the main targets for the He is n witty speaker, a lover of the
Top war-time boffins will assist him. Tani production expert Sir Claude Gibb, Sir William Stanler, boffins: A select committee before the war one-time scientific
the
analysed the Privy Purse expendl- Ministry of Supply and Nobel
adviser to
ture like this:-
prize-winner Sir Edward Appleton, HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES: In-chief of the Government's scientific cluding the upkeep of Buckingham Palace £12,532 year)), Windsor dringham (£4,378), Balmoral (£1.793), San- (£3,071), Gardens cont £9,140 and laundry £3,392,
Fuel and light bill, £12,354, Telephones, £1,573, Liveries, £4,440, and news- papers, £20.
Apart from personal household expenses the upkeep of the Royal Mews requires £21,213. Fodder for! Allowance for the
the state horses costs £2,034 and Queen; £410,000.
shocing them costs £398. Upkeep Allowance for other members of of the carriages in
ong year
to
the Royal Family (including Prin- £1,000 and motor cars £2,725. Re- CC58 Elizabeth's pre-marriage newal of upholstery was £259. £15,000 allowance), £120,000.
The revenue from the Crown lands is derived from some unex- pected places. For instance, Albany strect Police Station is built on Crown land. So is most of Regent-
up
Expenses have been going since the staff joined the Civil Ser vants' Union....250 of the 200 cer- vants at Buckingham Palace have formed a branch,
Porters' wages have gode up 35,
street. So is the
Th Holborn Hestau- Gd. a week (they now got £4 1s.};,
T
classics, and a collector of first edl-
TO DOUBLE the value of tlons. of coal. This will be done
increasing the quantity He In one of the three men useful power obtained responsible for the birth of radar.
MEMO FROM
MACY'S
Was
of
3. Have there been com plaints of poor quality, and, if
so, what was their nature? Seven departments have had complaints. Four-curtains, rugs; sportswear and haberdashery have
not.
"Poor Anish and workmanship." complain silverware,
4. Are British manufacturers meeting the style demands of the American buying pubilo? Five paid
YES. Four-curtains, rugs, toys, handkerchiefs-NO.
Toys complained, "Years behind American styling and design."
"British manufacturers are meet- Ing American style demands,"
aftem- ed ching and ginaswaro, "primarily. because they are maiding designa submitted by American buyers."
Daily Express News Analysis Desk conducts an investigation behind the counters of one af
Britain's main export customers
rant, the Carlton Hotel, and His the nine chars, scrubbing at £2 15s. Majesty's Theatre in Haymarket. a week, are being paid more; the
HROUGH the revolving answer alx questions on some In feudal times the king was the chambermaids and other
Britain personal
doors of the world's the £22,008,832 of goods
sent to America Gnal owner of all lands in England. staff get a 13s. rise in wages when
In the past six largest department store
months. He paid the wages and upkeep costs they live in.
went Newell Rogers of the New
Here are their replies in a Memo like any
other landowner. Later, as The King pays no postage. His grew up, the Crown-was-letters go free, and so do his tele York office of the Daily Express trom Macy's: colonies able to claim all the land in
automatic of London. That day he grams, which are given Canada, Newfoundland, Australia priority,
one of 137,000 people who trek- and New Zealand,
Any cheques drawn by the King ked through some of the 168. Gradually, however, these Crown are on the Bank of England or departments which make up rights were whittled down. By the Coutts Dank. He seldom signs them Macy's ten selling floors. time of William and Mary, a 17th himself; they are mostly signed by century Parliament passed the first the Lord Steward of the Household. Here 11,000 shop assistants sell Civil List Act.
Outside his £410,000 Income, the the plek of the world's goods. To- NO, replied six-handkerchiefs, men's gloves and hata; "for quality They voted that certain revenues King is able to claim all treasure day many of them--but not nearly silverware, women's jumpers, men's and type of designs," say haber- and part of the Excise duties, est trove-gold or silver coin, plate or enough-are British goods. Most of sportswear and pullovers, toys, and dashery; "for appearance which mated to yield £700,000 a year bullion. They are usually present- the customers are critical, shrewdly women's and children's gloves." comes from execution of ́a ́design," should be passed to the Crown to ed to museums.
looking at their dollars (this ex- (Doll's house furniture is a top report china and glassware. defray the expenses of the Civil The King owns all whales and cludes the people who bought seller-258, a piece is paid for the
American Service, payment of pensions,
captured in territorial Macy's special offer of mink coats best. Dolla range from £4 to £5). as sturgeon
moniífacturers · well as the cost of the royal house waters... current price for a whale for dogs at £61 10s. each).
Handkerchiefs were
primarily interested in bow hold and the king's personal ex- is more than £1,000, a sturgeon Newell Rogers invited the heads phatic; they underlined "NO" twice. Pieces they turn out in a day, com- penses" or "Privy Purse."
of 11 departments
ments this department. in Macy's to "Better quality linens are not being.
produced."
Customers choose American goods China and glassware qualified the women's gloves; for better
-for lower prices, say curtains and values,
£55.
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
1. Are British goods up to their prewar standard quality"
of
YES, sold five-curtains, rugs and carpets, chino und glassware, men's gloves and hots, haberdashery.
answer!
most em-
"There has been a decrease
5 Why are British foods pre- ferred to equivalent American
goods or vice-versa? "British for workmanship," say
aro
many
in quality which should be correct say, rugs; for faster deliveries re- ed. It British
port jumpers....-' manufacturers lose
thelr
goods will not be demanded in the same quantities in futuro.”~~
2. Have Brillal prices re- mained competitive?
IT is being whispered that C. voice is immediately superimposed ture, saying nothing of his own their reputation for quality,
Suet, Esq. may
stand for on the radio programme. By fick feelings in the matter.
the parents can talk
Yrs truly, Parliament. It now remains to tng a switch
H. Faggott, Town Clerk. bo scen whether. Parliament back to the baby and soothe it.
Broadening animals' minds -- (Morning paper).. will stand for him.
ANIMALS can still travel. There A is always space in planes for boa-constrictors or crocodiles ur warthogs, who are continually movi ZOO to another to ed from one broaden their minds. Before me lies
It is said that he
negative:
6. What ta liked about British goods, and what dis-` Ukéd?
* *
Chiefly high prices are dlaliked. "Fine quality of workmanship" 19 what buyers of curtains, rugs, china, may content The picture is returned
Unanimously, all 11 departments Plothwick as a National Indepen-
answered NO. Prices of British Jumpers, and haberdashery like.
British sportswear provides the dent. The P.T.U. (Progressive Trade DEAR Miss Slopcorner,
goods are too high.: Unionist Party) are making a great
The mayor asks me to say
Only from china and glassware American male with a "feeling of and correct- attempt to win the
fine quality, Juxury scat, and have
slightly modifed came as their that he is afraid the picture you chosen Mr Ivan Rusher
ness.* an account of two lizards who ard "British price lines here have re- candidate. The Liberals will be aste- sent is hardly suitable for hanging being fed on jam after a journey mained competitive but prices are ed to vote for the Conservative in the Town Hall. He was hoping from Loudon to Moscow. It all re-high to the point where many candidate, and will possibly agree, for something less frivolous-per- minds me of the man who sald; people can no if the Conservatives will vote for heps yourself as Boadicea in the "Docs the treat you the Liberal candidate. The So Nether Sickening Pageant of the No Fuch luck," answered his clalists are putting up Mrs. Funn, Ages. He is not himself prudish, but friend.
scene when calling it, "One more link in the IX tons of food stolen," read chain of unbridled strangling our don't see where they get all
and in-
the man from his paper. decency which is The radio can be played lo the fair country in its foul tentacles." food to steal," said the ordinary, way, but if the huby In face of nuch opposition, the "Who?" said the man. should cry or want anything, its mayor decided to rotund the pic them," sald the woman.
with tho ery of "Co-operative Counce the picture arrived, Conversation
made a
Prosperity." Civilisation, 1947
NANCY Her Nose Knows
| NANCY ---WE'RE GOING. TO HAVE CAULIFLOWER
TONIGHT!
IS SUBBER
WHAT DID READY.YED ?-- YOU SAY, I'SURE AB
IS SUBBER: READY YED 7--
NANCY
I'M HUGGRY
HUGGRY
OH;
BOY
♡ -
ko a dog?". chase Britishger, afford to pur-
the
'cus-
THAT'S the Memo, here's up to £100 are' L' moral for the one In thirteen of (Dinuer services not unusual at Macy's, British china all British workers who are mak- is mapped with the counterpart ing goods for export: This.
up of British enthusiasm for nylons). tonter likes' novelty · because '' ho's In the rugs and carpets depart traned that way: quality, with de- "Iment the shanager Bald; ""British sign, because it is, the exception, that floor coverings now stands so high not the rule in 'Amorica. Without, woman that only where scarcity is still a these two the tag "Made in Britain" "Any of factor do they have any chance of will lose its snob appeal which lin-
selling.
gers from prewar days,
By Ernie Bushmiller
I'M SIBBLY WILD, ABOUD CAULIFLOWER-- BUT I HADE TH
SBELL
BALD SPOTS!
Don't let this happen to you!
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