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A GRIPPING STORY OF YOUTH IN THE TOILS OF THE UNDERWORLD!
Yung Hwa prosents
"LITTLE
SHRIMP"
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"THE
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Starring:
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12
ANNE ZIEGLER WEBSTER BOOTH
FELIX AYLMER
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"THE STORY-
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IN MANDARIN DIALOGUE. ———-—-—-—-—-—---
Starring LI LI WHA TAI CHIN
小魚誓海
FISHERMAN'S HONOUR
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WALT DISNEY'S LATEST TECHNICOLOR CARTOON
MICKEY'S DELAYED DATE”
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY DECEMBER 15, 1949.
ROBA
"Now if only Vera hadn't read about the necessity for Britain to produce more food.
San Marino Pins Its Faith On A Spinning Wheel
SAN MARINO.
HE⚫ world's oldest and THE
tinient republic is gum- bling on ita future by taking Its problems of dwindling revenues and rising costa to the gaming table.
Surrounded by non-Red Italy, the little Communist-
The spin of the wheel at San Marino casino pro- duces mingled expressions. customers from over the Italian border.
on
-(London Kaprun Sarvica)
DARTMOOR GOES
D
By
GAY
Tullett
ARTMOOR PRISON, grey fortress which houses the toughest criminals in Britain, is going-gay.
Education has come to this dreaded gaol, and with it a brass band. `
Once a week, under the tutelage of ex- bandmaster Carthew of the Royal Marines, 12 convicts meet in the chapel for practice.
Most of the players are novices and many of the instruments are old and worn.": Ono trombone was made 60 years ago.
Other convicts never hear the band, for
the chapel is in an isolated block.
But every night they get an idea of the bandsmon's progress, for they listen to the musicians at practice in their cells.
Round the four floors of the yellow- painted, gallerised buildings echoes music - where, until recently, no noise was allow-
ed.
By gusto he made
a fortune-
(AND WITH GUSTO HE SPENT THE LOT)
TOM WALLS lived the lives of five men and spent the income of ten. He must have earned more than half a million
from pounds
films, the theatre, and from racing. But during recent years he confessed he WAS going broke.
Ho brought to our time a refreshing breath of the Regency * ad Elizabethan days. At the height of his pre-war fame and fortune- when his film contract alone brought him in £35,000 a year his day began at six o'clock in the morning with
a gallop on the Downs.
A
It ended in the small hours in the West End of London.
TOM Kirby WALLS died, at 66, at Ewell, Surrey. His tucky number-13, the number of letters in his name, and in ADTI) the Filth his Derby ronner. *Tons of Money? Ird to the successful Aldwych turrek
How could one explain costs and the schedules to a spirit so blithe and go freet
He spent his money as fast as
he earned it, and his friends
During the making of one of those films, he learned that his son, "young Tom," who was his greatest friend, had got himself into a scrape in the RAF. An
In one block the compah of "the euphonium brage from
cell, followed by a few brassy scales from a lively trombone, Two floors down the cymbal player bangs happly in time
of his own.
Dwellers in another Block'
listen to the shrill note of the tenor horn, accompanied by the soft tone of a clarinet. inmates
Across the quadrangle the
hear the fute, the big ner and the alde drum,
of another building drum,
ameer from
the other one of Services had made an uncompli- mentary remark about actors. There wns BR exchange of words
and, finally, of blows. THE band is practising to play Tom junior packed a useful
"Christians Awake" at punch.
There was 0 considerable rumpus over the incident, and Tom Walls eyed his son stern- ly:-
Christmas.
For the lucky 18 with in- struments the hours from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. when they are free to be at their nolsiest, are. the happlest of the day. But This fellow that you-er for 200 others who are study- dealt with, Tom-what ago man|ing concentration is dealt. was he?"
For the convicts of Dartmoor Inking education
Young Tom reported that the other officer was his junior by a few years.
are now
seriously.
Men behind a new scheme
"And what-er-size of a chap which has the blessing of the Devon Education authorities was he, Tom?"
from pre eight schoolmasters Reluctantly, young Tom men-the nearest towns and villages.. tianed that the other officer was a bigger fellow. This was all Tom Walls wanted to know.
"Good boy, Tom," he said, "good boyt"
Big moment
NOM once told me that The greatest moment in
They go to the gaol on Mon- week and teach for an hour day, Wednesday or Friday each
English, maths, art, engineering There are classes in French,
and accountancy. For 15 illit erates in the gnol, thoro is B. special course,
tu
On "class nights the students are paraded and marched their. classrooms--th pleaseni. chiange from solitary cells.. They alt at new, single desks.
foresaw difficult times ahead for his full and successful life was
Then he was offered a accing his son win the Military A prison officer site close by.
three months. If the pupil is
The son of a small builder in Northampton he become in turn a London policeman, a concert party pierrot, an amateur jockey him. in Australin,
career in Gold Cup on his own horse. actor-mann- new and profitable an
tribute Perhaps the finest ger, a film star, an all-round Hollywood. It was tempting, sportsman, a farmer and the but Tom dealt with it in a paid to Tom Wolls was by Sir Michael Balcon, who produced
ACH course is to last about. Derby winner, characteristic manner.
many of his films. The two
will move to- He cabled the movie moguls men
anen always fought furiously satisfactory he
in- there that he could not accept over professional matters. "I the next stage and finally, the part because he had a horse always came to his office with to the "alth form. running in the Derby so would my lawyer," said Tom
Any man who slacks is sent they please postpone the film "because I knew damned well hack to his cell. until after the race? Ironically, he have his there." But the plenty of volunteers ready the horse, Markab, had to be two men had a high regard for inke his place. scratched from the race.
owner April the Fifth.
of
Blithe and free
mon could have play- Nomen could have more naturally or with more gusto.
sven
Ambition
once
There are to
By far the most popular class each other.
is the band. There are already When Tom was ming in more than 100-on-the-list-wait- Cornwall, Balcon had his young ing for instruction, and the alm
to form the Prison Mtary short while. Dartmoor. o win the Derby for the son Jonathan staying with the 15, eventually, I second time was Tom Winty for a bort Balcon Band.
scheme. First reports of the Walls's dearest ambition-but cald to me thoughtfully: "I he had to give up his horses, with Jonathan could have spent by prison officers say that "al- his farm, his servants.
The
Monja Danischewsky
---(London Express Service).
noticeable
They have hopes of good re- sults from this big experiment In gool treatment.
He trained his own horses,, farmed his own land, directed his own films, chose his own casts. He could not bear to de Icgato authority. Ho bought the family joint of meat. Tom Walls was the despair of stage managers and film p.o-
more time with Tom Walls; ready there is a ducers for he fixed his own Regency buck found himself what a fine influence on a boy change in the spirit of the pri
soners." Lime-table.
Ilving in Austerity Britain, that is."
For years there were no film Then his contract expired, It In return for its concession, was not renewed. "They think offers. Then he made a come- controlled nation of San the "Kursal" operators have I'm difficult to work with," he back in several expertly obser Marino has started a gam- agreed to build
a new casino at 100 bling casino in the hope of valued
million lire complained to me. "Why?" '(about' $180,000), a new 150- making up the loss of cus- room hotel for its clients, and toms duties which Italy nor to repair the two main roads mally collected and paid to leading from the capital to
Italy, the republic.
San Marinese using labour and local materials.
But the "Kursal's" chief
at the
moment, was authorised to convert the Italian Industrialists and upper Titano
inding named after cines, aro
obstacles theatre,
the Italian-San mountain on which sits, at
Over the protests of the Catholic party minority in this country of 12,000,
a syndicate clients
tho
share of the take will make up its customs losses.
墀
the
ved character parts.
C.V.R. Thompson
NEW YORK. OSTERS went up re-
Marina Pcently all over Bur-
1.
American
~London Express Kervice)
Reports The Scene
I
only token calls on thern, Whor Mr Cameron Cobbold gets here
this month, he will spend most of his time in Washington
WEALTHY James Powell, a 74-year-old Illinois business man decided to give away his £150,000 fortune while he was
made
the capital of San' Marino, frontier. There, finance policu With roulette wheels and other have established control points lington, the usually sleepy or course he is not seeking hammer of Thor, a hero of Horse
the job, they say. That would mythology. At first glance it: games in full cry on the main to check documents of travel- capital of Vermont State. floor and erstwhile stage, San lers with an eye to tax re-
be bad politics, Bad politics, looks like a swastike.
Within an hour the police, Morino hopes ita 50 percent turns.
On them was General Dwight, too, for him to show his hand Each bus or car passing into Elsenhower's picture, ar i under so soon and give the Opposition, Army officials, and a newspaper
his friends.” He gave the tiny republic is examined it this slogan: "First in war, presumably President Truman, had dozens of telephone calls still alive to see how happy t
.to esking thom
run "those away the last of it last month. at a leisurely pace, because, first in peace, and first in the three years to knock him down.
The verdict: Burlington Is a Nazis" out to sea again,
He has just died. casino operators claim,
the heart of humanity.".
British to delay arrival FOR a millon re (about Italians want
Thus started the now "ike for little too early.
BOOM business for
TUST out is the new edition of US$1500)
the at the gaming tables. All this, monthly,
tram sports cars has caused one the Social Register, the little they A
charge, is an effort by President" boom; just where it "TRIKING syndicate rents the theatre.
Wilmington, New York dealer to decide to black book which has sodalites blazing noon sign, "Kursal" rival casinos in Italy to kill started latime.
i trembling every autumn. That' On the face of it, the general's Delaware, called off their strike open a second showroom. their operation.
most of his because its editors decide announces Its presence--found-
annual customers would come from the which of them still belong and frowned ing fathers
on the the rivals succeed in put reply seesos to end this boom, for five hours one day recamily, cause he thought
Their
being wealthy set he opened his first which shall be dropped. word casino in deference to ting the new Kursal" out of just as he ended the last one.
parade was Said he: "I will repeat what I Christrans Christian Democrats. In business, the average. San Mar side some 100 persons, chiefly inese will have lost but not have been saying all along. I am held, and they wanted to make Duo on Park-avenue, But the San Marineso who picked up through direct gambling. Na-not seeking a political position it easy for the children to watch row one will go after the flashy
of doing their new trade at neighbour- tives are forbidden admittance and I have no intention In Italy's casinos at San Remo to the games..
the
and Venice, operate the games.
For 500 lire (less than $1) the
visitor can come Inside and
try his luck.
Leo Stoecker ~(London Express Service)
NANCY
The Final Blow
FRESH
GUY
50,"
bus workers in
and
reason: The
Be
This year's most sensational banishment is Mary Ellingt kon, Broadway."
Berlin, beautiful young daughter; ; bankers of song-writer Irving Berlin NEW YORKERS have not for. WWALL-STREETS
Christmas." () AI gotten. A ship from Ice have been told that for the "White"
Alone). Reason: her narringe- the company's flag, bearing the the Bank of England will pay was dissolved,
experts in N But politician reading in between the lines, are
the land tied up in harbour. It flew first time a visiting Governor of not counting him out on basis of the statement.
By Ernie Bushmiller
TSK TSK
I'LL BE GLAD WHEN
LA:GET HOME.
SOAP, THAT SPELLS:
BEAUTY
Princess
KAALTA KATA stan
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