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"Honest, lady, we didn't spoil your dinner-ve only work ‘ere,“”.
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
The first girl typists in Britain
by SIDNEY RODIN
THEADS shook in scandalised
disapproval one morning
In Whitehall in the year 1888 when two women, severely dressed in dark blue skirts, black stockings, and white blouses edged with high, stiff collars and long celluloid cuffs, walked timidly into the Inland Revenue Department.
They were the first two "Lady Typewriters" employed by the Government, and among the first score engaged in offices any where in Britain.
Segregated
Civil Service scriveners who feared the female Invasion might cut off their livelihood as copperplate writers hated them.
Higher executives imagined they would "contaminato" the men and took rigorous stops to segregate them..
They were shut apart in a little room and their work fed to them through a hatch.
A typlet of 40 years ago
first person...Moreover, ther are cheap and there is 120- superannuation."
When the Typewriter Trades" Federation met in London re- cently to celebrate its silver jubilee, it was reported that When they went for their pay more than 600,000 women enru they were escorted down the their living by typing in Britain corridors by one male messen- today. ger in front and another be- hind.
And whereas the first. machines were kept under lock.
Yet a few months later Sir and key, to be used only for Algernon West, chairman of the arms it was said "they can experiment by the heads of Board of Inland Revenue, ex- never develop a soul to express. claimed:-
the courtesica and idens of "These typewriting women business"—there are now 1,. quite beat me two to one in 250,000 in use in Britain. writing. They can even turn a letter from the third to the
Sitting on the Fence
Na world that appears to change every five minutes,
it is a relief to find at least one thing which remains the same.
I refer to the lofty contempt of the leader writer of the National Funny Morning Newspaper for everything which does not exact- ly agree with the policy of the National Funny, whatever that may be.
by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
"It has arrived,” he sneered. "It It is vague, pompous, and packed has too many words, too few Ideas.
with jargon."
Except that he does not yell at us in black type to emphasise his points any more, he is still in either n
So different, of course, from the muck sweat of indignation at some leading articles in the National little matter hardly noticed by silly Funny Morning Newspaper. people like us, or in a cold rage at
Lottie's case book
the imbecility of statesmen who
always appear to be too busy with world affairs to take any notice of him.
As a keen student of his work for many years. I always know if he is in a hot or cold mood.
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In a mucle sweat, he refers, with savage sarcasm, to his imaginary eneniles as "these gentry," by which he means they are a lot of council school cous.
In a cold rage, he refers to their "pitiful incompetence" and to their carefully chosen words, written or spoken, as "Jargon," by which he means he could do the job beiter
himself.
Still maintaining his 1933 form. when he was lushing out at every body but Mussolini (who won his approval for running Italian trains
A
T the suggestion of render
fellre tellectual, will, from time to time, advise puzzled cats on social ала domestic problems. The first column - by this brilliant cat appears below.
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My claws are getting blunt through lack of use. The young couple I am living with object
strongly when I try to sharpen my claws on their "new utili
furniture or even
on the legs of the kitchen table, What do you advise?Timid Tom.
I advise you to snap out of this slavlah altitude of mind at once. Who are they to object to their rubbishy furniture being scratched? If they make any more fuss, wait till they are out of the house and tear the stuffing out of it. And smash a few ornaments for good measure.
As
for the legs of the kitchen on time), when he was shouting in table, you have all night to make black type that Haile Selassie, Lion your mark on those, I presume? of Judah, would not be admitted to
Dont let me hear from you again a decent English golf club, he has until you have established your now turned his withering scorn on rights and the place is Iz ruins, the Government Economie Survey for 1040,
Although it seemed a well-written effort to a simple chap like me, it got the National Funny's leader writer into one of his cold rages,
NANCY
HELLO,. PEEWEE
Owing to an unfortunate oc- currence over which I had no control, my society is not accept- able to the she cats of my neigh- bourhood,
Practical Approach
WHAT
DID
YA
GARDEN
BUY ?
GUPPLIES
STUFF FOR MY GARDEN --- IT'S
CALLED PLANT FOOD
PLANT
FOOD
Although considered good looking, with a fine figure, she cats spit at me when I pass, while their boy friends jeer.... As ---- I am of a sociable disposition and would welcome female com- panionship and young society...I And this ostracism hard to bear.
Apart from having a passable appearance, I am also well-man- nered, am not too old, and feet I could give a girl a good time in a restricted way. Do you know of any simple games that would interest the, modern she cat?
Almost a Gentleman.
I am afraid yours is a case which is becoming far too common and while offering you my sympathy, I must insist that you will not allow yourself
to get too morbid about your loneliness.
I often wonder why cats like you don't form local clubs and socials and organise mouse hunts and games ping-pong balis. Surely, this Is butter than silting by the fire and dreaming of what might have been?
with
Henry Mill, who patented the It was an English engineer..
original typewriter in 1714. A man in Manchester made them. for the blind in 1850.
But it was an American named Remington who put on the market the first commercial machine in 1876.
'Wages of sin'
The keyboard has never changed since then, although experts agrea its rearrangement would make the
worms think there is life in old typist's work much easier country yet. WOWs say we are at bottom of
prosperity.
upward curve to Yet in most other respects the needs of women were the prime consideration. Fol typewriters. Oh, so that's how brilliant econo- brought them into
in mist worm has been spending hundreds. evening, is it? Helping country out Floral decorations appeared ou of financial difficulties by pouring early machines to please them. money over counter of low tavern Typing tables with curly iron legs Ilstening to rubbish spouted by were produced to attract them. cadging worm friends?
In 1080 they were advised in "Practial Typewriting" how to
poll-how
If worm were to ask wite instead straighten type with pliers, anci of intoxicated public-house
to make "a tasty covering ticians, she would tell worm it is from a yard and a half of brown worm's dirty Communist friends and cotton flannel." fellow-traveller worms who оте cause of most of our troubles.
They were recommended to ex- ercise with dumbbells as an antidote Although worm may not himself for too much redentary labour. be Communist, because he ham't For lypewriting exercise they were type "The wages of sin in and a "Clean hands
told
and
enough brains, he has always flirted with Kremlin, and, no doubt, has death" been used by cunning foreign agents, sound conscience." posing KLA hall-fellow-well-met
By 1915, the British Government worms, and buying dupe worms employed 600 girl typists. Now it beer with Red gold, to sprend filthy has 35,000. They can dress as they foreign politics among miserable like provided there is not too much clerks in twopenny-ha'penny office glamour and no excessive make-up," and even in Worm's avenue itself. Though the Treasury's woman super- visor of the Government's 48 typ-
Women won
Of course, wife always knew that ing schools said: "We would express worm, like most puny, undersized surprise at slacks." men, had. Fuchrer complex. No doubt, finttered by cunning agents, worm already fancies himself Commissar of Worm's-avenue, arm-
Women quickly proved faster than ed with revolver and stamping about in big boots
as he did when he at typing. Mr J. G. Hemes, president of the International Typ- joined Home Guard to show off sillying Contest, said: "For ten years be medal ribbons,
Perhaps
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fore this last war a woman always won."
Britain's outstanding typist was Miss Eleanor Mitchell, world cham- jealous worm even himself fancica
To- pløn for fivè successive years. entering gos
Green of Preston, manager's house and ordering gas day she is Mrs manager in name of Arthur Horner Lancs, with a family, to give up best bedroom to filthy Comments Mr Arthur Poteman, If you did this, I feel confident tramps, or ordering gas manager's managing director of Imperial
Jack
of
the she cats of your neighbourhood wife into mines.
Typewriters: "One In every four would have more respect for you and might even admire your gallant munists
Wife has always heard that Cam-typists gets married today."
Postwar girl typists are judged ore all frustrated, un-by the experts to have fallen to a acceptance of a cruci fate.
successful men, and no doubt in- lower level of efficiency. Prycho- I do not know
good-for-nothing of any simple dolent,
worm logists detect these faults; would like to see get-on-or-get-out games likely to interest the modern
Neglect of punctuation-irres- Ahe cat. Nor do I think your good s manager, who is head of ponsibility: striking wrong neigh- manners and gentlemanly appear Rotarians, and whose ville is head bouring keys no sense of detail; unce are likely to get you anywhere. of Rotarians Ladies' Inner Wheel,
abbreviation irregular If you must have young com- brought down to worm's own gutter discretion; missing spaces--no clear
level. panionship,- why not get in with`a
thinking; extra spaces fear, per good family of kittens and play In fact, wife can foresee the time vousness; letters fumbled - OK- simple games with them before they when her own life will be in dan citability; striking right letters over grow up?
ger. When worm is set on world the top of wrong ones instead of domination and there is a picture erasing-desire to cover up weak- of Harry Pollitt hanging over their nesses in the easlest, way. bed, sex-mad worm will then have
But
the
Trades' Typewriter power and opportunity to give wife Federation is less concerned with Worm
arrives away to secret police, have her shot poor typing than will the news that. home late after session with for not dusting Pollitt's picture Burma, now Independent, may order optimistic, ostrich worms in low frame, and rule Kremlin and world | from Britain the first typewriters
Worm says witty ostrich In arms of blonde barmaid.
Diary of a FLUSHED, clated
taverns,
I'M GONNA GET SOME OF THAT PLANT FOOD
worm
ever made with a Burmese keyboard,
By Ernie Bushmiller
WELL --- COME ON, COME ON --- TAKE SOME
BALD SPOTS!
ANIR
PLANT FOOG
Don't let this
happen to you!
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