THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1949.
KING'S
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.15,
7.20 AND 9.30 P.M.
A DOUBLE ATTRACTION
ON THE SCREEN
She gave him the BEST Two-tims he ever had...!
DIANA
ROBERT
BARRYMORE CUMMINGS
Between Us Girls
KAY FRANCIS
John BOLES Andy DEVINE
Walter Callait Ethel Griffles Gulan Williams
Produced and Directed by HENRY KOSTER
Screen Play, Myles Conolly « Trump Boardmen
Adapted by John Jecokrý Jacques They
Based on "he Fruit Vert" by Regia Gigneur and Associate Producer, PHILLIP P. KARLSTEIN A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
- ON THE STAGE ———————————
HARRY FLEMMING
Presents
LORITA
LAURICE
SONGS IN ARABIC,
FRENCH, PERSIAN AND ENGLISH
TO-DAY
ONLY
An
ARABIAN AND WESTERN
DANCE -TAP---
CONCA
Unforgettable
Thrith!
品
At 2.30, 5.15,
Queen's 7.15 6.9.15 pm.
JARTHUR RANK
OLD LOW'S ALMANACK
PROPHECIES FOR. 1949
British pictures go back to start again at the point (circa 1902) after which, according to the orifics, they took The wrong Turning.
are
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Sitting on the
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bore." said The Devil to
the dead clubman,
"I say," said the dead club- man, "you can't talk to me like that, you know."
"As president. of the biggest and best club either in this world or the one you have re- cently left," said The Devil, “I can say what I like to any mem- ber."
Fence
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
"Your resignation is
accepted."
I can
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FINAL İNSTALMENT:
EISENHOWER WAS MY BOSS
By KAY SUMMERSBY
T this time, General, Eisenhower had no idea of the spectacular acclaim awaiting him in London, Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Prague, Brussels, Washington, Luxembourg, Belfast, Warsaw, Moscow....half the world.:
To celebrate the victory, he simply wanted to see for the first time in three years--a good, light show,
A sudden invitation to appear before the British Cabinet provided the perfect opportunity. Arrangements were made for the long-awaited theatre party, with tickets to "Strike a New Note." General Bradley was invited along as a special guest, as well as Jimmy Gault and I. Happily, the General's son John was in Rheims for a few days' leave from the First Infantry Division, and able to join his father in this social excursion.
The festive air began on the flight over to England. General Eisenhower and I won 100- franca in a bridge game with General Bradley, and Jimmy.
and
toffee apples and hokey-pokey men: of grobby bags of acid drops hot potato men: of real cockneys in bel-bottomed trousers dancing the the cockney folk dance outside public-houses with their Dinahs In and ostrich high-buttoned boots feathers.
wns
a
To the ten-year-old it world full of women wearing leg- heavy o'-mutton sleeves and hats
with dead birds; of rich aunts slum-
Jimmy ran into difficulties with Customs officials at Northolt air- feld. They questioned his frank cham- declaration of 18 bottles of pagne. But when he explained. "It's for General Elsenhower's V-E party," the authorities stalled and turned their backs.
We all had linch at Telegrapha Cottage and a champagne bullet that night in General Bradley's suite at Dorchester Hotel. General the Eisenhower had thoughtfully Invite cd my mother and Tony Porter a WREN friend, Mrs Gault, and Sir Louis and Lady Gregg.
All of us remarked that our host, resplendent in a tallöred summer uniform, looked boyishly happy.
Big Ovation
ming in our front parlour, smelling THEN he appeared in the box at
of cau-de-Cologne and lifting their W the Prince of Wales Theatre, the
veils to drink ten: of muffin mea entire audience rose to its feet and with their handbells and
mun
"Look here," said the dead club- man, "it really fan't good enough. I was a member of at the best clubs sald The Devil, prodding him with you're in one of your moods, "what trays on their heads; of eager but-almost shouted the roof off with
a red-hot fork. "O you go. Fer- in London and New York-and in niost cases an honorary
member haps you will meet Mr Shakespear because of my entertainment value, and some other funny ex-members." even though I say it myself."
K
"You tel a good story with wit, charni, and "perfect timing," suld The Devil. "You are also ́n Arst- class mimic."
"I was always considered good at that," said the dead mar.
rather -club-
"It is a great gift," said The De- another vil, pouring whisky into champapie while the clubman's back was turned. "But, of course, though highly entertaining, it is
parrots gift you share with monkeys."
The wild winds of the limbo clubman in giant caught the dead arms and he went howling Into the dark.
In a safe
hotel
"WELL,
here
We arc
YY Muriel."
"Here we are."
"All right, Muriel. about food?"
"I've brought up a menu."
"I don't mean food for today,
future. food for the there any salmon rivers?
mica
"Yes."
"And wild deer?"
"I suppose so."
I
Arc
or-
"I shouldn't be vague about it. Muriel. If the worst happens
destroyed dinary supplies may be and you may be glad of venison, at last, Have you seen the head walter?"
"Not yet."
"If this hotel isn't safe from atom
place a bombs I don't know what and will be safe."
"Nor do 1."
"How far are we away from Lon-
"Now you're being sarky," said don?" the dead clubman.
"It is also a gift which causes a great deal of embarrassment to the victim should he overhear it." sald The Devil.
"About five or six hundred miles, I think."
"Five or six hundred miles, think. Why don't you know certain? A hundred miles
"I suppose it might"
you
for
might
"Well, go and see him at once. and tell him we don't like fish un- less it's salmon or turbot."
"Very well."
"And, Mudel." "Year"!
"Give him this balf-crown and tell him there'll be another next week if he looks after us."
by the Government to "ask your dad" about conditions of the past, when Socialism was in its in- fancy and even Liberals were garded as traitors.
"You should worry about a thing make all the difference if anything YOUNG people have been advised like that," said the dead clubman. happened." "You of all people. Besides, the victim never recognises himself."
"Doesn't he?" asked The Devil. "Morcover," said the dead club man, “It's not casy to be funny with-
"I told you to find the best hotel in the Western Highlands as for away from London as possible and
Why not ask your Uncle Nat?
TO-
un-English abandon. They cheered, whistled, stomped, and applauded until, bowing to cries of "Speech!"" he leaned on the rail and signalled for quiet.
chers shouting "Buy, buy, buy outside their gas-lit shops, and of men af hungry, haggard marching through the streets plenty singing:
banda
We got no work to do-00-00,
We're all starved out,
Poor labouring men,
of
We got no work to do. The ten-year-old has remembered the words and music all his life.
At the council school some of the boys. Including your Uncle, were well-clad, wel-shod, and well-fed.
Many of the others had no over- conks in winter, wore their big
without stockings, brother's boots carried their lunch of bread and lard In their pockets, and often show- the title cold behinds through holes in their breeches. There were no free school meals in 1904.
The General spoke briefly, em- We got no work to do-00-00-00,Phasising his delight at being back in England. "It's nice," he grinned. "to be back in a country where I can almost speak the language!"
Our next stop was Ciro's. The General said he might be criticised for stealing a little personal fun.
his but he didn't care; this was first night out, and he had waited a long time for it. Ho clung tightly 10 that mood throughout the evening,
ali dancing impartially with women, completely free from any thought of the war just over or the peace just beginning. He glowed "For when the orchestra played He's a Jolly Good Fellow."
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That night was the one ilme his entire war career when I ever saw General Elsenhower completely relaxed, thoroughly enjoying him- And so self, without a care or a wrinkle of worry, The other people, blcas their English hearts," sensed his maximum Church feelings and gave him a
ho Most of tho time pince-nez of pret
arched
another was
customer, and although happier than most.
He and John exchanged meaning- ful looks when the band played an "One Dozen Elsenhower request, Roses." It was a heartfelt tribute to
But education was free. was religious instruction. Although it was not school. a clergyman, his cruelly pinching his high, nose, would sometimes come miff us over (we all smelled of wet liquorice all-sorts, serge, string. and bread pudding), and he was generally held responsible for our up in two ranks, like ittle soldiers: to squeak out a hymn of praise in our cockney irebles:-
7:15-G-9.15 p.mout being unkind to "somebody," you don't even know "how far it is: Your Uncle was about ten year morning parades when we were lined Mrs Eisenhower, expressing a wish
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"That may be true," sald The De- vil, "but you're sometimes unkind without being very funny."
a
"You have just said that I am first-class mimic and tell a story with wit, charm, and perfect tim
said the
dead clubman. "Be ing," (air."
Your stories are very old," sain The Devil.
new when I "They were down," said the dead clubman.
"Not new to us," said The Devil. "Július Caesar heard that one you told this morning more than 2,000 years ago. He says even then was a bit ropey."
came
Are there any hotels further away?"
further "There are some
north and some on the Islands."
"Why didn't you book at one of those?
"Because they're not first hotels."
old when the Russo-Japanese war started, and was being educated at
a London County Council school:
It would have given him great class pleasure to repeat the popular old fable of this period (how he drank shoes champagne out of actresses' for at Romano's, but as he was for ton to be bothered by erolle young sublimations of this kind, you must be content with the simple fact that time he spent most of his spare "Don't put on airs, Muriel. You playing marbles in the gutter or be
the demand ing a dangerous little pest in I know perfectly well you
"Oh, I see. Not good enough my Indy Muriel I suppose?" "It doesn't matter to me."
the best of everything like mast kitchen baking chestnuts into cou-
"But they all like my imitations," people said the dead clubman.
"They all liked Will Shakespear's imitations," said The Devil. "They all liked them but me."
"Fancy old Will Shakespear being
were not born to it. kers. who How have you arranged your moun- talos?"
"Arranged my mountains?"
I
"Before we came here, Muriel, a mimic," said the dead clubman, said I want a hotel on the western "Well, well, well. Why didn't you side of a high mountain so that wo like is imitations?"
have at least something solid be- "He once gave an imitation of tween ourselves and Bussia. Where me." sal
said The Devil, his glittering this mountain?". eyes suddenly becoming points
of
fire, "which was nearly as good as the Imitation you gave of me yea-
morning." terday
"I didn't mean any harm by it," said the dead clubman, going white, did Will Shakespear," said The Devil.
"He was only trying to be funny. So he had to resign."
"Where did he go?" asked the dead clubman.
The
**1*11. show you," said The Devil, opening a great brass door,
0 ess
*
UTSIDE was the whirling black
of the limbo where no moon, no stars shone.
NANCY
"There's one over there," "Is that to the cast of us?" "The sun rises over it." "It's not very high." "It's the highest they've got." "This is no time to be funny, Muriel. But for your wretched Socialist Government we wouldn't be in this mess with Russia." "It would have been the with a Conservative Government."*
we
same
"With a Conservative Government would have blown Russia off the face of the earth by now and all been happy and comfortable."
"Except the Russians, I suppose."
Dumb Like a Fox.
WHAT'S THE CAPITAL
OF BRAZIL.?
PARIO
SLUGGO'S NOT. SO DUMB--
conkers
All good gifts around us Are sent from Eaves above,
So thaink the Lord, Ow think
the Lord,
For aw-aw-awl is love.
she could have been there, too.
General Eisenhower's quiet little. V-E celebration ended about 2.30 in the morning.
H
Victory Month
E was up in time to attend the Cabinet meeting and to lunch
the ten-year-with Mr and Mrs Churchill. We returned to the Continent imme-
Even at that time old wondered what the little bare behinds hind to be thankful for.
Party conversation
diately afterwards.
the
Appropriately, Supreme Head- quarters moved on into Germany so-called "victory month' before of May was over. And most of us found the city of Frankfurt very German and very devastated, just as we had expected.
As the rammer wore on, head- quarters life as we had known
ly
it.
1
"IF 1 were that poor Dr Gallup
simply couldn't hold my head
"Margaret's He remembers that brandy ball up again after Truman's win."
father think were a forthing an ounce, glarneys Russians are driven insane by vodka, (coloured glass marbles) a ha'penny and believes the whole world situa- during the war disappeared entire- each, six ordinary marbles worth 25 tion would change if they switched 15,
To provide the General with cigarette cards on the black market. to whisky."
survived
"Who are the men who put yards little social life, without the obliga- formal society, we, oc-
3 him and few (Tom of cotton wool into aspirin bottles?" tions of
"Of course, he's been educated casionally had
WAC house and intimates over to our 10.000-word entirely by Readers Digest,
dinner and an evening DI knows everything that doesn't mat-for
bridge. Several times a week, he
orders that the Holy Joe lowing doctor's praying to anybody but
General get more exercise.. they must have prayed for a Dewcy
Early in September, we made extreme right wing trip to Austria to see General Clark uletory. An It was a world of horse, trams and America would have caused enough for the first time since Caserta. He
labour trouble to give them a real chance."
nnd a conker which had 100 battles with other
least a 3d. Gem Merry story of Jack, Sam, and Pele, the first grab in the next bag brandy balls.
worth at and Co.). а
and
nf
ter."
.
ter Communists are capable of and I went horseback riding, fol-
buses, hansom enbs and broughams, of allly-locking men in Hile straw hats and big moustaches and sinister- "Some of these American election looking men in top-hats and beards. prophets sound about as clever as who came like the American reporter flowed While champagne water at Romano's, rain water fell over recently and said we were all Ilke rain water on beggars at the dying."
“Margaret's father's idea of world street corners.
and world peare government To the ten-year-old it was world of shiny Bath buns and one world whisky control, with every man bands; of organ-grinders with man and woman having a bottle their, sad-freed litle monkeys;
of day."
û
By Erulo Bushmiller
*** HE GIVES ONE WRONG ANSWER
AND. SHE DOBEN'T)
BOTHER HIM THE REST OF
THE DAY
MASTER
BALD SPOTS!
a
Ike hiked off to and General mountain hunting lodge for, some long-awaited fishing.
On that same trip, WO viited Berchtesgaden. I thought the peca-
noteworthy "when, sion especially atop the mountain, General Elsen- hower spotted a big sign, “Eight's. Nest-Officers Only" His neck and cheeks flamed, but, unlike Patton, he made no scene.
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