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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 17, 1949.
"MASTER
NIU-NIU"
•
Storring CHING YIH SHENG YANG
WEI YUH PING
A STORY OF MOTHERHOOD PINCHED TO THE
HEARTS OF EVERY HUMAN BEING
A CHINESE PIcture in manDARIN DIALOGUE.
TO-DAY at 9.30 P.M. ONLY
AT KING'S THEATRE
THE
ACTION, ROMANCE, THRILLS AS DEPICTED
IN THE CREATEST OF PORTUGUESE
FILMS
CAMOENS"
Antonio VILAR as
Camoons
Seo NATERCIA Camoons' dream love Leonor, what unrequited love does, Soo BEATRIZ da Silva in hoto
ORIENTAL
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Technicolor MIRACLE
OF ENTERTAINMENT I
COLUMBIA PICTURES prezenti
ATHOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
KEYES - SILVERS - TEABEKS
CORNEL WILDE
"WHY SHOULD I HELP? A FELLOW'S GOT TO THINK OF HIMSELF"
'FOR THE SERVICES
NEWS FROM HOME
THEY'RE ALL BACK:
IT
in 35 years since the int Battery Warwickshire Royal Horse Artillery frat went over- This has been commem- morated by a re-unton dinner of members of the Battery
peas.
Warwick.
ARCHERS BEAT COLFERS:
A Preliminary "fact-finding"
test has been held as prelude to a serious match be- tween local golters and archers over the Bexhill Golf Course. The test was won by the draw ot a bow. in the coming
maich between teams of nine, the bowmen will lose a stroke if an arrow
World Copyright, ↑ Dy errangement with Evening Standard.
Yes, Mr. Schulberg, I like the films of
your era
M
PARIS.
Y sympathics are with Mr B. P. Schulberg, Holly- wood pioneer, ex-boss (at £200,000 a year) of Paramount Studios-the man who, at 57, now can't get a job in Alms.
♫
Just how big a dept we owe these "old sweats" in the movie ganne was arummed home to me once more as, in
tiny Paris cinema, I saw again an old, old film. And solemnly I now declare it to be one of the best of its kind ever made.
"Gunga 1938.
Title: lands in a bunker, tree
A target 10 in, by 4|Vintage: or hedge. in. on the green will represent.
hole, and
fall arrow must A within one bow's length to count a BOOTY,
from
by R. M. Ma¤COLL
B. P. SCHULBERG
now.
80
SITTING ON THE FENCE
by... NATHANIEL GUBBINS
THE best news of recent weeks is the official decision. to extend the Christmas holidays one day.
Another day at Christmas,
Another day of rest; Another day of Jollity
To cheer the parting guest; Another day of laughter
At funny uncle's gags, Another day to shout-hoorny
And share your Christing
La
Ariother day for turkey,
Hla bones so white and bare; Another 'day carve him uUD
Till all that's left Ia hole; Another day for Christmas
cako
And funny paper caps, Another day for charity
And more good will
perhaps.
AP
Add water
PART from big business and bubble gum, New York la known chiefly to the outside world as a place where women are kept as peta.
Gadgets do all their household work. Up till now nothing but n tin-opener and an electric stove were required to produce a meal,
ER
A report from New York says that even the tin-opener is out
Dehydrated
vegetables and
Black Watch from marching headlong into an ambush.
Comedy? A pleasant scene of date. where McLaglen
clo- puta phant medicine into the punch- bowl at the sergeants' dance, soups are bought in envelopes, meaning to eliminate Rrival,
sauces in cubes, chipped beef in the insufferable Higginbotham.
All the hostes And
Hittle packels. then, of course, should drop in to watch the needs are a few cups of water proceedings and ask for a drink and a hot oven.
but the colonell
who
"This," says the report, "gives for some minor act of insubor- her more time to entertain her
And when Grant is guoled
dination, the answer is simple
ed
quests with thoughtful conver-
*
It certainly does. Like this:--- "Oh. darling, what do you think of the world situation?”
[After Sir Henry Newbolt]
Drake he's in his swivel chair
a thousand miles atoay (Capten art the typin there
below?)
Stung atween the memos and
the filing cabinaya
An dreamin orl the time" of
Plymouth Hoe; Yarder
tooth the Island, we're a-goin on the racke And you're a-fillin forma in
down below.
The shore lights are flashin an
the night tide dashin, But you cannot see en plainly da you saw em long ago.
Drake he was a Devon man -
and ruled the Devon scas. (Capten art the tritin there
below?)
A-pushin of a pen along and
takin of your case nstead of steerin straight for
Plymouth Hoc.
Throw them papers overboard,
chuck em in the wes, Stuff em in the locker doin
below.
If the tax men walt in Devon, then we'll send 'em all to heaven
And drown em in the Channel as we drowned em long ago.
In the train
❝TELL, what are they saying
in Fleet-street?” "About what?" "Black Monday, of What's going to happen?"
"No idea."
"Get along with you.
course.
You Flent-street boys know all about it. Fewer cigarettes, I suppose?”
"I don't know,"
"They
ration.
cut the basic petrol
if you ask me.”
"I didn't ask you."
"And whom something on the purchase tax. I wouldn't be star- prised if there wasn't compulsory saving."
"Wouldn't you?"
"Just like Russla." "Yes."
"Then they'll pinch your Post Ofee savings."
"I haven't any."
"They did it lost time they
were in power, didn't they?"
HT
don't remember.”
"That'll make the "My dear, what do YOU
working think?"
man sit up. His own Govern-
What's the country,
"Oh well, what with these ment, too. Chinese going Communist and coming to, that's what I want jo the British always complaining know. about something, I just don't
"Do know what to think."
"No, that's what I always say, You just don't know what to think."
you?"
Tax, tax, tex. And they talk about patriotiem."
"Do they?"
---get Flossto the elephant One heave from Flossie and the sation on the affairs of the day." gael crumbles to dust...
Pathos?
All stops are pull- out when Colonel Love Folloquises over
Din's corpsc. Din." The sergeanta three were They even bring Kipling in on played by none other than our the ach, a amali, imicker- old friends I
Victor McLaglen, bockered figure, am something
of an the
wearing П former British
heavy golfing cap.
Ho raises his cap amateur authority about weight boxer, Cary Grant, reverently at the sight of the films. I started going at Bristol's kin to Hollywood, Din remains. the age of four, and I have and Douglas Fairbanks jun
Better man ... | MUCKY-LANE:
The three were at the top devoured celluloid at the of their form. And all were JUST let me see that stuff
J two or three ban- ten years JUDDERSFIELD Council were rate of
younger than they you were writing again, Mr I faced with the matter ofiqueta a week ever since.
(Who isn't?) So Journalist," mys Love hoarse- pathway
broczy, repairing the
nonchalant,
17. Kipling
honde over his Catterson to Hall Bower on the I've seen them all, good completely incredible,
copy. Love Intones a couple outskirts of the town when and awful. I .aw the great
of verses of the "you're a bet- Whenever they left or cn- ter
"Then there's this Tito always someone suggested it was time films of the carly Italian tered the
man than I am" material. causing trouble. Is he a Japanese British cantonments "Not bad at in India, several companies of simply, handing it back.
be says or something, dear?” "Quo Vadis?" and whelming reply was that the school.
"Tito sounds like a Japanese the Black Watch, apparently pathway had for ages been "Cabiria.**
They make Din a posthumous name." in full dress uniform,
turned known na Mucky-Lano and was
farm ove corporal. And then, fadaye, the hex defeated them who was steal the only real 1
We're remember bursting out to present likely to continue to be 50 with
those Scotties," murmurs Cary laughter over the known for many more genera-antice of a French comedian
ing over the battlefeld, wear- and then they cause trouble." to Doug,
ing full-dress uniform, salut- But up North, the Thugs are ing snappily, and then pointing place there's trouble some place "If there isn't trouble in some called Max Linder when running wild, Worshipping down at
corporal's else. You just don't know what Chaplin WES
The evil goddess Kali, still an un-
the stripes» • Thugs are led by their weird
to think." known youngster in Lon emperor, played by Edouardo wards into the night, lost in niner, dear?"
The children emerged after- Another cocktail before din- of 7.000 pelple watched the don's East End variety.
] Cuccianeill
happy daze. "Gee, those Bri- Isle of Thanet ploughing match recall with
"Thanks, dear. As I say, you Ush worn terrific guys," said just didn't know what to think.” my son.
to change the name. The over-
tiona
LAND GIRL'S WIN:
FARROW
... A record crowd
affection Bul and 30-year-old Land Girl Hart, Fatty Arbuckle, and Doris Scoft win four prizes and Mr and Mrs John Bunny. beat 12 ploughmen in OTLO tractor class.
Commencing To-morrow; "Mr. Peabody & The Mermaid" | BIG MONEY BOYS:
SHOWING MAJESTIC
TO-DAY
SPECIAL TIMES:
SHOWING TO-DAY
at
AT 2.15, 4.45., 7.15 & 9.40 P.M.
THE DEATHLESS DRAMA
OF THOSE FEARLESS FEW ...WHO DREW THE MAP OF AMERICA ACROSS THE WILDERNESS ... IN LINES OF THEIR OWN BLOOD
GARY
GOOPER GODDARD'
(cil B. DeMdles.
UNCONQUERED
Calor by TECHNICOLOR,
HOWANO DA SILVA - BORIS KARLOFF - CECIL KELLAWAY - WARD BOND
HELD OVER
TO-DAY
Cathay
are äfter
back
crop
A snake pit
So bond a respectful ear, built-in snake-pit
THE Thug Emperor has
all
his
If someone hasn't already
you
"Last resort of the blackguard, isn't it?)||
"Who it said
Hotime nf Commons was Chuy Fawkes?"
"I don't know."
"As for Cripps, I wouldn't trust him. Never trust a vege- tarian, would you?”
"I don't know any."
"Look at Hitler.
1
Munching
A revived this one in Britain Drake's typewriter little takes. Look at Mussolini
(no, a ought to be done, quickly.
Hokum?
in ACCORDING to the news oca
this British,
if you please, when I say real one, crammed with rear-
Yes--but entranc- that this "Gunga Din" is ing cobras, as opposed to some- ing entertainment.
dreary thing top of the
And near the
and psychiatric
who collaborated THE children of Lincolnshire UP THE
which we got for our one and writing the script for villages
You pile.
see. I have a nines these sad days). again.
And, abre-rattling, pro + most very simple rule about of course, he falls into it him- Rudyardesque romp? school lucrative three weeks geb ing movies. They must MOVE, self towards the end.
Ben Hecht the potato
But before that happens→→ I want action, and this film fore the frosts set
One in.
what action! The Thugs sack
-(London Express Service) hundred youngsters from the is about as busy as a one- and burn a town. Hundreds, Market Rasen Modern School armed paperhanger suf- are wantonly killed, including earned over 21,000 between fering from nettle-rash. the outnumbered British gar- them. Tony Perkins and Robin Richardson cach
Anyway, my carned £1. 10a. Some of the children aged earned 10s, a day plecework; wanted others from 1s.. 1d. to 2s. 6d. an
hour.
"SHAMBLES" TEST:
A
captains have so many forms to fill in that they are unable to
full A've their
attention 10 navigation unless the shipping
them with companies supply secretaries.
Sucking oranges. Look at Cripps. Chewing raw carrols. I tell you, it's going to be worse than you think."
"Is It?"
"Good morning." "Good morning."
-{London Express Service)
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
rison. When this intelligence children, is conveyed two
to the colonel at 13 and 12, said they headquarters (Montagu Low!), alm where he strokes his chin thoughtful- "Gunga Din" at a small cinema Fon't English was spoken. I spotted ly. "Hmm," he observes,
quite Bils the look of that specialises in revivals, things." over in Montparnasse.
Thero is a classle rough-and-
NEW YORK of the tax-evading customers to `ing counties, with a total popula. fumble over the rooftops with
BOOTLEGGING IS BACK. the States in which they live. Fairbanks,
tion of something like 13,000,000. McLaglen,
and Not liquor
this time, but Most of these States plan to Grant paragons of ju-jitsu.
send in bills for all the lost taxes. TT was an evening of sheer boxing, and La Savate,
with cigarettes,
In the ever-widening search on
for new income, 38 of the 48 States have at heavy Is
Enles taxes on cigarettes.
But 'eight of the other ten do
lorry load of rubbish arrives Dad, what is...?”
at Wraxall Court, stately
country house near Bristol. The
men who bring it carry it care- Joy. Although, come to some hand-grenade tossing fully into one of the huge rooms think of it, perhaps our neigh the side, and then deliberately throw 15
15 bourg in the nearby seats And, all around. It means more didn't think so. candidates are soon to be select- My children, excited
of course, there Gungo Din himself. Unfor- didn't see on the and tunately, I
R
› ELIGION:—Sald Prezident But they have to get the Lists Truman, an the radio: first. The firms are refusing to "Every problem in the world turn them over. They argue It is could be solved If men would against the Constituilon, which only live by the principles of the bans tariff walls, between one ancient prophets and the Sermon
on the Mount."
State and another.
ed for Bristol University's one- absorbed, kont asking things credit list who played him. not tax them at all and a chain
ot year course for would-be youth Uke "Dad, what is the British He turna In a perfect per- operators is very busy indeed Leaders. Each candidate is told Raj" (They have been over formance as the sad tile In-selling cut-rate smoker by post in turn: "You have been lent a from "
- America only.
six dian water-boy who longed to
DENSUS They It lias become such a big busi-
are making LIDUCATION: So many young- derellet garage. How quickly can months.) Ever try giving a be a soldier like the others, ness that the 38 States estimate sure that next year's census sters org
going to "the" you make it fit for dancing and thumb-nall explanation of the and finally gets kliled while they are losing up to £7,000,000 will show that New York has universities these days that: Hor- games?"" The "shambles" test, as BR.In whispers in a crowded
standing utop the Thugs a year taxca.
outstripped London for the title vard Professor Seymour Harris It is known, ́ lá only one of cinema? Try to avoid. this Golden
Temple heroically So Washington has Just of the world's largest city. For warned recently that soon do the hurdles that candidates have exercise, if you can..
sounding the alarm on a bugiò, brought in a new law. All direct="centus' purposes, the term-Now grees, will cease to be a job-get- Just in time to prevent the post finna must now supply lists York will include 17 neighbour-: Ung asset.
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It was fabulous.
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