THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1949.
●SHOWING TO-DAYS introduces
KINGS ⋆ LEE GET HIM OUT OF THIS!
Air-Conditioned
At 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 &
9.30 P.M.
܂
WARNER BROS: NEW, THRILA
At 2.30, 5.15. 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
IN THE ENTERTAINMENT SKYJ
CHEER SQUADRON
The Flying Fist of the Air Force!
EDMOND O'BRIEN
TECHNIC
STACK JOHN RODNEY ✩ RAOUL WALSH
TOL D'AMOREA HENRY HULL SETON & MİLLER "Ademas pratique he Mart Bustin. He then
ADDED ATTRACTIONS
BUGS BUNNY SPECIAL
KING'S
"BUCCANEER BUNNY"
In Technicolor!
And LATEST PARAMOUNT
NEWS
LEE
"ACROBATIC BUNNY"
In Technicolor!
SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 11,30 A.M. ONLY
KING'S
One of the Top Musical Comedy Hit of the World "THE STORY OF SIBERIAN LAND"
In Gorgeous Color In Russian Dialogue' with English Sub-titlo
LEE
The Royal Command Performance Film JOHN MILLS
In
tho
"SCOTT of
ANTARCTIC Color By Technicolor
AT REDUCED PRICES
ROXY
CAUSEWAY BAY
Tal, 28626
"TOWN BOORING OFFICE: & QUEEN'S BO, CA
A GRAND COMBINATION FOR A HILARIOUS TIMEI Ann and Gary together-and in love -in the wonderful comedy by loo McCarey, who made "THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S" and "GOING MY WAY"!
RAINBOW PRODUCTIONS, INC. presents
SHOWING TO-DAY
'AT. 2.30, 5.00, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
GARY COOPER ANN SHERIDAN
in LEO McCAREY'S GOOD
SAM
WIN RAY COLLINS
· EDMUND LOWE - VAN LORING - CLINTON SUNDDERN Strandvend und Diacted by LEO McCAREY • Screenplay by Kan Englund
[
ADDED!!! Latest FOX Movietone News:
Last of Evacuees fico Shanghai as the Rods close in. Reds move to and Berlin blockade,
Egypt excavates buried treasure of Ancient Kinge otc, THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND
JORDAN RD,
KOWLOON
TEL.1" 64133
LIBERTY
2.MINS, FROM
THE YAUMATI
VERKY
Final Show's To-day At 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
A MIGHTY SURPRISING DRAMA WITH ACTION!
WILLIAM HARTNELL
MURDER
REVERSE
Maybe that schoolboy had something when he said the trouble with Dick Barton is that he gets cut of his scrapes too easily....Today GILES spot- lights the father of his famous family in an all-time high for tight corners-and says: Get Him Out of This! Dont's take it as more than a curtain- raiser for TOMORROW
LTCH
LEAD
No. 1
when the problem becomes more reasonable, and the Telegraph presents Get Him Out of Thin-No. 2
ERNEST DUDLEY
by
(the Armchair Detectival
It is a new-style brain-teaser-which challenges all those who like to say "Nothing is impossible."
HONGKONG FACING
O it begins all over BY
again. On Hongkong's Peak, in town, or over
EMILY
HAHN
IT
In
PEOPLE AGAIN
the war. But Hongkong is not the vicinity, and because their
There
aro
prae-
mado un exclusively of these money is worth more in the clans. She Is a great mass of city. in Kowloon, people listen to
poorer people, mixed in blood There are refugees who fled the radio and read about
and tradition, and consequently to Hongkong before the war hit themselves in the paper.
confused in motive.
the East. There are other recent Like all Eastern seaports, she refugees, who are slipping In Then they go about their
has д Iarge daily business, which is q
population of now in spite of all the govern- Eurasians, or mixed-bloods. ment can do to avoid over- combination of work and That is the sort of thing we have been brought up according
These people, play. To the observer, em- used
though they crowding to admire
the Commun- phasis seems to be on the Asiatics, without thinking any true natives of the colony. After before, and now there are many the to
pattern, are
there were Communists play.
European could share capacity to endure and recover. Chinese
their Hongkong became British, more, making ready for what- Hongkong has changed Especially, we would have said settle there, but their full-blood time comes, when they get their came in thousands, to ever they have to do when the since 1941. Some offices these Belush could not do it, descendants still consider them- orders. have been moved; some they had lived in softening ni China.
because
for years before that selves first and foremost natives Generally speaking, Chin- houses have been repaired luxur They were too easy- and refurnished. At the going, too conscious of their parties a few faces are power and as wo bave been missing. But life isn't very corrupts
fold ad nauseam, power always different.
But those years bo- THE Eurasians are not the tween 1041 and 1945 worked
same, though most of them Now it begins all over cave back to them something lands; it is this very duality-
the mental fat off them and
Have a choice of ancestral again. Maybe it makes you more important than the old which makes them cling to the angry, maybe you want to inheritance of prestige, stand. Though they can claim give them a good shake; but
Today Hongkong Is the only kinship with near
or distant you'll have to admit one community in China, where law Chinese, or British, or Portu-
and order, thing. Whatever else one still prevail, and where indation home. This was evident during as we know them, guese. Hongkong Is their true may think of the British in has not got the bit between its the hostilities, when the mixed- the Far East, they're tough. teeth. Hongkong is still, as she blood soldiers fought magnifi- The Japs, when they was before the war, the goal of cently, with tremendous courage
refugees of every class from all swarmed into Hongkong, over China.
-the courage д man shows only when his homeland is in- followed a carefully planned
vaded. Great numbers of these
programme to destroy Bri- Anybody's Guess
this position?
long-suffer-
their attention
Great Courage
ese are Intensely tical and sentiment as we know It is not part of their philo- sophy, Whatever seems best for his family in the immediato
PARIS REGAINS
HER YOUTH
By SAM WHITE
PARIS. The French sum it up in one
PARIS these days is like mercat est com-
mercial smile
a still beautiful woman merclat est revenu"-The com-
suddenly and again.
has come back
who has
miraculously shed 10 years of her age. The city hna France is now Intrigued by the All this le tough on the spiva.
now almost completely re- mystery of what happens 10 captured its prewar glamour. black marketeers when tho bottom dropa out of the Black
Everyone сап fcol it and Market. sense it, from the most casual tourists to the hard-bitten and What happens to the currency cynical under-privileged mem- touts who once Infested the bera of French society.
boulevards and are now getting a terrible hiding from And It has all happened vitalised frane which is shaping suddenly and as inexplicably as up to the dollar and the pound the early arrival of glorious like a new Carpentier? spring weather.
a TC-
.Some of the widest of wide Conversation everywhere has boys are forced back to humblo taken a reminiscent turn.
paid-by-the-week Jobs.
People will recall that only three months ago the coffee in the bistro next door was ersatz, the beer watery, the shopkeepers unbearable with their arrogance. formation been achieved? Porily
How has
this great trans-
the
There was по milk. no croissants-which the French the result of two bumper had not seen anyway since the harvests, partly because early days of the war-and bound sooner or later to beat Its natural richness of France war there were recurring shortages hinsic market bounds, but main- of butter and ment.
ly because of U.S. dellar ald.
eNow.
по
self-respecting
grocer's shop is without 16 huge mound of butter in the prosperity strictly on tick.
This is prosperity-But it is
window, now croissants can be caten in any cafe, now coffee When Marshall All ends int Is 'real coffee, and the beer 1052 France will be forced to tastes as though it had come stand on its own feet. from a prewar north country French are working
But the brew.
on the principle that nothing succeeda like success.
:
To get milk in your coffee all you have to do is ask for it.
If you aro furry and want cream, then there are Increasing number of cafes which will serve you with that;
too.
ARE
-American novelist Emily Hahn, now living in England with her husband, Major Charles Boxer, former Hongkong staff officer; saw the Japanese invasion. How will Hongkong's Britons and other elements measure up to the new situation resulting from developments in China? She gives her answers in this article
an
boys were wiped out. these future governs-a- Chinese decl--Jack-of-a-nationalistic spirit
A
··coolle
on A
Λ
particular success is a night club in the Rose Rouge which has a floor show per- formed by four men.
"Les Freres Jacques" which is the Tage of Paris.
A success, too, is the French film "Manon". It is an adapta- Uon of "Romeo and Julie!" to- the period of the Occupation.
The Alm has brought great misery to a respectable French family occupying an Imposing house on the outskirts of Paris, which is, depicted in the Alm as a Parisian palace of vice.
Shows you may cheerfully skin. The new Folics Bergeres with an overdressed Josophing Baker and an excruciatingly vulgar seeno in which the theaire is converted Into the Notre Dame cathedral,
~(London Ezyram Sarules)
Poor old Orion
[M.S. ORION, the cruiser
H
the Germans could not. sink in scores of Malta con- voy fights, a dozen bom. bardments and landings and two major invasions, is in the wars again.
The Admiralty has announced that Orion suffered hull damage and flooding of compartments while acting as torget ship. for underwater explosion testi Loch Striven.
in.
She has been, docked for. In- spection and repairs.
An
Admiralty spokesman. said: "It was a very big ex-` plosion.".
"
tish prestige, or, as the
In dealing with these people have been inoculated with
sion. In the West,
most of us may help the British to prevail and active a lady to finish her Poor old Orfon! Too gallant- Chinese call it, "face" How long will she maintain the government departments, pirit of nationalism.
Between Britain and CommU — They herded the whites into body's guess, but there can bo
have followed a polley which Chinese were Just beginning to Britain.
but the nism, some of them will chouse she is ending her days usefully Tt la any the natives
carcer rusting in retirement, Althy little waterfront hotels no doubt that another test is and which was certainly, to say aggravated
consider unjust, be nationalistic when the war will have
Whether their choice as a target ship before going to and told the Chinese to look coming. When it arrives, what I do not mention the social affect the British in Hongkong? the Japanese attacks the Hong- any influence ro- the least, tactless.
China's chronic mains to be ECOM.
the shipbreakers, at their former rulers and will happen to the
troubles. How will this fact
Before Pearl Harbour and laugh.
of the colour-bar; in honects
"Razor Ship" Then they put the British inhabitants?
offic'al circles it is not supposed The Chinese Communists will to exist, though of course it where he is driven. He may not of seeing themselves described "razor ship" because of one of British into concentration certainly turn
the Usually
goca kong Delish got awfully tired She became known as the camps and forgot them, or sooner or later to his little out- docs. It is the unequal salary put up much of a struggio as "dancing half-starved them, for four post of the Empire they hate. More than the matter of dis- struggle against the years.
volcano." the strangest adventures in the. which enragon the Eurasians against the Communists. He did They are no doubt getting tired Mediterranean war... Even non-Communist Chinese According to the bave often declared that they crimination in a social sense.
Japanese, of it again, Yes, they go to When the Germans launched Colonel Blimps at home. want Hongkong back. What is
but he considered the Japs partics; yes, they live well; yes,
their mixed-blood elerk, for foreigners. On the other hand, they are behaving much as they Orion was the first targets. As radio-controlled bomb, British "face" suffered a going to happen?
example, or a hospital official, he may still feel that his best did in pre-Pearl Harbour days, the fearsome death-blow at that time and There
is paid a small salary; usually bet is the British Government. It is once agala the custom to shadowed
new weapon aro many
The non-whites
possible there is a top limit beyond The fact that many
the will never be resuscitated, answers,
twisting and Chinese wear evening dress for a Satur turning cruiser, Orion's officers But I wonder.
Hongkong may play a
which he can never go. When workers are running to Hong day night's dinner and dancing switched large
their part in the next upset. What is to Hongkong and starting in at th's attitude exists in strength..
he sees Englishmen coming out kong
electric for safety indicates that at The Gripps." their state of mind?
the hope that the In this really to ridiculous? bomb's delicate radio, equip- There have been many errors
three times his in the policy of past
highery INCE the Japanese surren-
possible pay he natur-
Isn't it a good sign? On a Volcano ·
Most ofment would jam. govern ally feels resentful. To be told
these people have been through Later the
produced: Admiralty der, Hongkong has made dealings with the local people, cheaper than an Englishman Hongkong more than a cen- They
ments of Hongkong in their that this is fair as he can live THE British have been
the mill, and they ought to counter to the bomb. Broad- a miraculous recovery. The and the present government is because he is used to living tury. On the whole they have always did hang on, and until
in know what they are doing, it incorporated the principle
are hanging on. British awarmed out of pri- the heir to some of these mis- cheaper. does not allay his done well by the people, even they
They of the buzzing electric razor.
Sister ship to the famous Bon camp, and many of takes.
pushed off by Ajax, built at Devonport in wrath. them, after years of suffer- sistently honoured
True, the British have con-
As for the Chinese it is im te people's point of view, stronger force then they have 1932, Orion taught at Taranto,
which is grimly critical. ing and malnutrition, went wealthy Chinese families of the whole, they are not a homo- complained and before the
big. possible to discuss them as
yet encountered, they always Matapan, and Crete. She bom Tho Chincid have always will.
barded Pantellaria, was flagship straight back to work, to the colony. They have treated them geneous body in Hongkong. Japanese interim they longest
for the landings at Anzio, the enormous task of rebuilding, exceptions there taipans showed cal workers who are there sim- many of them have now chang-
Besides, if you live on a vol- liberation of Greece, the in- with, respect, and with few There are ordinary non-politi- to be rid of the British, but no what in there to do, but vasion of Southern France the colony..
staunch loyally to Britain during ply because they were born in ed their minds. Thus their very -(London Express Service),
Enormous Task
the
dance?
are
on
tuzors in
London Exprets Betvice):
ADDED: LATEST 20th CENTURY FOX NEWS
- TO-MORROW ---
THE UNTAMED BREED
AKANE BRUTO%
FIND PSTAS
FIRST TIME SHOWING IN HONGKUNG
NANCY
Taking. No Chances
WHY DO GAS TRUCKS ALWAYS
HAVE A CHAIN · DANGLING
OFF THE BACK ?
GASOLINE.
By Ernie Bushmiller
THAT'S TO PREVENT AN EXPLOSION
GOTTA GO TO. TH' STORE-
WHAT'S
THAT?
SEE YA LATER
A CAN OF FLUID FOR MY
UNCLE'S LIGHTER
bif
INSECT SPRAY
WITH DOY
When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist
SURE KILL
POLARINI NAN KANG CO.
א