LEE Theatre
AIR-CONDITIONED, OZONIZED AND WARM,
(Take Any Eastbound Tram or Routo No. 5 Bus) SHOWING TO-DAY
4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
SWIFT LOVE AND ROARING! ACTION IN UNTAMED ALASKA!
Directed by HENRY-
HATHAWAY, who gue you "Lives of a Bengal Lancar" and "Souls at Sea"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1950.
What happens to an evening when a man does not understand
THE MIND of a WOMAN
1
(2)
SPAWN of the
NORTH
GEORGE RAFT
HENRY FONDA - DOROTHY LAMOUR
A Peronnant future with
Akim Temiroff · Jahn Barrymore-lynns Overman
Skydeł by Bowry Badmany ↑ Fradued by diberi kewto
TO-MORROW
HIEN THE DUDE COES WEST YOU'RE GO WILDY
Have!
GOLD!
badmen!
GALS!
GUNS!
HOLD UP.
LAUGHS]
INDIANS!
bandits!
DUDE GOES WEST
EDDE ALBERT SALE STORM N
Paper with JAMES DULATOR - KUTE TARNIJ • RMREST BELJOD - JANTER Westdu!
LIBERTY ·
NEXT CHANGE
MAURICE DEKOBRA'S
Horill-crammed drama of the for East!
ERIC VON STROHEIM
in
GAMBLING WELL
ud Sessue HAYAKAWA Mireille BALIN
Perdued by JEAN DELLANOY.
A
All his fault-the solo entry
'Crawfie' Popular
_By_C_V. R. Thompson
NEW YORK.
MILLION more Americans will be reading those inside the Palace stories of Princesses Elizabeth and Magaret written by governess Mrs G. M. "Crawfe" Ruthlay,
I told that the biggest book-of-the- month club in the US. has signed a contract to circulate them in book form,
Palac
£15,000
or 50 nickname. It
for also
to
Th's means another "Crawile"-her means that the total of Americans trading how In future Queen is raised will go up
0,000,000, What surprises the U.S. magazine which 19
"Crawite's" publish ng
reminiscences in
month- ly instalments is that Americans have develop ed a big appetite for news of the Royal Family. Not even the hypercritical Middle West
has complained of the space given to them.
That is newsworthy, for Americans are taught in schools not to like kings or quecia. Often in the past they have shown they learned this lesson well.
Perhaps "Crawfe's" efforts have something to do with the change?
WALL
JALL STREET rumour: The £ may be devalued again before the year is out.
PLANE BUILDERS in the U.S.
will get no subsidy to try to overtake Britain's jet airliner lead. Warned that Britain might take civil air supremacy awy from the US. Secretary for Alr Mr Stuart Symington said: I
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HONGKONG.might be desirable for the U.S.
SHOWING
KINGS
TO-DAY
BUD
to develop pir transport, but I doubt that i la a necessity at
At 2.30, 5.15, this time.
7.20 & 9,30
LOU
p.m.
ABBOTT and COSTELLO MEET the KILLER. BORIS KARLOFF"
“A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE Screenplay by HUGH WEDLOCK, HOWARD SKYDER and JOHN CRANT Directed by CHARLES T. BARTON • Produced by ROBERT ARTHUR
Also Latest Paramount News
SHOWING TO-DAY
Cathay
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30
p.m.
PLEASE NOTE CHANCE OF TIME
THE ORSAYKEY STORY THE VERBY EVER TOLET
ADVENTURE. EXCITEMENT.. SPECTACLE,
HOWARD HAWKS GREAT PRODUCTION
RED RIVER
JOHN WAYNE MONTGOMERY CUFT
ALTEN BEZDAN - JOANNE DRU
BET LAKES, SELTSANJEM ÁTLAND
ARY 2
BIG JEWEL HAULS recently
D have
convinced New York police that
a tipster from the night clubs is telling the burglari when the well-to-do are having a night out.
QUNSHINE
RESORTS DIL having their worst season
to
bv
It
... the wrong floware
ends
... dithering about tho farewall
... worrying her about wine
on
How to get to Macy's*
by TREVOR EVANS
Britons were thinking of bashing in on the American love of British plum puddings, they ought to be told now that what sells for 75. over there has be made and delivered-for 38, 4d.
That is one of the shocks in a book published Britain's Dollar Exports Board, its theme: How to Crack Open the Amèrican Market-and no punches pulled
It denotes the end of last summer's misty- eyed enthusiasm, when the notion grow up that was simple for a manufacturing nation like Britain lo
pull In the dollars. The Dollar Board-an
independent hody
readed by Sir Cecil Welr-makes no secrets of
the 1050 outlook.
If Britons want to sell 1: breakfast sel for the
Bver
a W
admiring someone also
chilly doorstep
7E'VE all heard so
much about the pay- chological approach
by EVE PERRICK
for so long now, isn't it tape if a corsage is to be worn).
woman's П
16
about time that men learned to use it on a first date?
It's so easy-just remember
mind that essentially practical, but that she has a taste for funcy trin-
FIRST of all he's. Bald; "Let's meet somewhere for a drink."
mings.
That men she must maite a
Now the poor girl, not wishing
business
about
choosing the right vintage, and showing off about correct temperatures, and
30 0.
HE REMARKS on tho heat-looking weman in the room-and
she isn't the one he brought.
fo appear ungrateful, must carry the darn things all evening, like a duchess at a
hospital fete.
A woman hates having an- (Note: A winan likes little other woman pointed out to her
urprises but one flower sent to as the winner of a private and her home in advance, so that she unofficial beauty contest. It's can fix it properly, it worth two hot, feminine envy-just pure in cellophane on a restaurant fable)
logic.
(Note: if a tuan has asked her HE'S SAID: "Where shall
Ko? ** She doesn't out for the evening, she thinks, solo entry In a strange bar and know his income grow with reason, that he must have
store.
"Try to pick out the right-sedilery- niale on a stoot, while the other.: (Note: A gonian likes to be the centre of attraction-but not the dead centre).
we
He
THE NEVELS have not she guesses wildly probably found her attractive). wrongly) and spends a miser-
been a great success. able evening wondering if he is Days Ruodnight, promires ong lunchless for the rest of vaguely to telephone, but she
knows he will" not. Then the wine wolter, with The woman a well aware that Nice gesture long list, has entered.
things have not Kone right, and FLOWERS Ne se l'entd: What-would-you-nin Will-induce her In-Ro
UE'S
but his
BOUGHT
wrong shape, and colour.
size.
They're too big to be stuck In
1er hair, and the wrong shade to
the week.
like?**
Again
(Note: A woman is not really "ut with this misunderstanding a gull-dager, and she knows male pain. But please, gentle- hemen, leave the brush-off to her.
She'll do idiomatically. go with her dress (which any little about wine-tasting as
Nu! Br our wanher dar, way is a strapless which needs the use of adhe ive randig shot racourage is
1045enline that
--London Express Servics)
RUTH BOWLEY writes about the way modern parents manage in this servantless age
The newest business-
.fit
baby-sitting
John has been offered the spare room for the duration.
Farmilica take it in turns to "it" at each other's houses, bringing their children to sleep there while one set of parents
allows parents
or turn the
into a dat
No rent is
have a
VEN the most devoted 1030's but few domestic agencies Goes to the cinema or theatre,
When space could have coped with a deinand parents wish Home- for reliable women, devoted to now let off a bed-stling-room times for an evening children, 10 "sit in" from 6.30- to a baby-minder attic or basement together away from 11 p.m. at a moment's notice.
solely for her usa, their children. It was easy
Now one agency in Kensington asked. But there is a baby- enough for middle class has over 100 baby-minders on minder always at hand. war its staft, ready to go anywhere households before the
no longer London and the.
of the job. Many when over a million ser- in
baby-minders families find that ex-soldiers and vants "sut in" automatically
ex-noval ratings make excellent And there six days a week and trusty come from all walks of life.
Charges vary. One agency parent-substitutes. limit a minimum of two seems no
to the age. nannies could be engaged
70 over
and for as little as £52 a year. houts, charging 3s 6d the first Grandmothers
of 14 aro pressed hour and 2. 6d. for each sub- school girls Today there are roughly only Lequent hour. The fees are paid into service. 400.000 servants to be shared direct to the agency and part of
The suburbs.
Instata on
inner momen
Between 12 million fainills or the money goes towards office In the Country
households. A young husband expenses.
soon
These baby minders
from London charges
WAY learn that his baby de- are the direct employees of the prives him of much of his wife's agency. Travelling expenses are A drop. Опе chilling and companionship.
always extra, and a meal sixpence an hour is the accepted
Americans are prepared to spend, then they will have to sell Smaller Families
make it, ship it, and pay the duty out of £2.83.
So it goes on throughout the whole range of consumer
an
some sort is expected.
of
rale in most districts.
fail to make Other agencles charge parents When parents small fee for supplying a ser their own arrangements work, vice, and the parent pays 2s. 6d. they ring up the Incal WVS for
cloth. You must do the lot on less than half the selling the Report of the Royal Com an hour. During this Christmas help. This organisation regarda
oods-gloves, shoes, scarves, toys, and even cood English broad-E problem has ruled
entire paragraph to itself in
is every mission on Population. And don't expect to get by 'o the importer.
modern possible traders (3) Il can
for appoint its own parents' desire in sympathy from the
thar d customers in America. Being representative and agents in the social life
may be one of the time, "Made In Britain" is no longer American market.
factors, making for fan lier
in years because there has been ays the board,
Snow ino winter in the north.
resorts are going bankrupt be- cause there has been no snow.
ever to 5190 monny while at the While
ONLY MAN
Об
that the
agency in London was baby-minding· as part of the fully booked up even though all Home Help Service. As one of its baby-minders were paid doubic Surge
representatives said to me: "We want to help husbands and wives to
torn out tore her. the life of
enough for housewives in (4) It can establish its own familles in the higher income All Classes
Kansas City or St Louis.
bush. British
Croups. sales office on the other side.
In
demand does not come
Baby-minding
communit helps But In
spite of these rervices cal remains to be done.
The American store-owner The last two need a great deal Most parents ask very little. E House, President Truman expects does not regard it as part of of money, but the reward of Fully accepting the responsibili- from the leisured class only, a good deal to have nearly £70,000 in the his business
meet So the British manu- success can be tremendous, I ties of parenthood, they do not The baker's wife in Battersea is To cuole the Population Com- bunk by his term's end in 1952. Coods
n maker have his own people expect to keep the freedom of just as likely to ring up as a mission report"Little has been
Debrett. For people done in Great Britain
ressed need for facturer does the advertising.
it gives them the the honeymoon once the pram wife in over there
afford or the widely expressed He has done it by cutting the
the pushing, and branding.
In the back garden, who can no longer
enabling parents worry of coping with abstruse appears household staff for which he
only for occasional obtain resident malds, but who some means of enabl's and by entertaining rays,
And, brother, if he fails in American Custom codes, where They ask
companionship and out- enjoy little as possible.
any of these. or if he fails to a mere change in the description evenings off in each other's com- want a social life, the baby to have occasional even'ng relict side interests together. Lack of suburbs the the outer keep his delivery dates, it's too of goods can make the difference pany. They are trying to first minder is a god-send.
opportunity for married people not easily solved. problem bad. There are nine or ten between a 50 and a 15 percent. the answer to the problem:
on "Who'll mind the baby?"
occasional evening CRITICISM of Congre:sman
Few baby-minders American producers to take he tax. F. D. Roosevelt jun. by Re-
So complicated are the ro place.
Already a business in baby out to Harpentien or Guildford out
In our evidence, and #ulations that experts have set publican Congressman Clarente,
Some for a two-hour job. Yet suburban ring
we have no doubt of its im- Brown: "You cannot learn the There are four ways in which themselves up in the States as minding has appeared.
the professional women, themselves parents are human, too.
portance in the outlook of young common enough now, in parents/It It is common rules of this House in a night British firm can earn dollars. duty
is o'clock club. You cannot solve any of (1) It can sell to the big Ameri- cheapest way in for your goods, mothers, have started agencies. a suburban Avenue at six
The book is definitely the in London, to supply "sliters-in" the great social and moral prob-can and Canadian buying offers
Such agencies in the evening, to see on anxious dimeulty of the times.
is great scope lem by nocturnal meditation on to Britain ( Names and addresses
coldwater treatment. That to by the hour.
with a portable were unheard of before the war. father loaded
voluntary service.” Sirect." Brown in the booklet.)
cooks, nannies, cot accompanying his wife. They Fifty-second
store Parlour-maids, claimed F. D. R. Jun. had (2) It can sell to an American
Famous American *
the entire below-stalra hierarchy, are going to a cocktail party at answered only 60 of the session's Importor, but its responsibility which sells almost everything.
a neighbour's house and baby ends on delivery of the goods -Londen Express Service) could be engaged fairly in the 120 roll calls.
NANCY
Fine Feathered Friends!
I CERTAINLY HAVE
A WAY WITH BIRDS
THEY'RE JUST CRAZY ABOUT
ME
brokers
refreshing anyway.
to And
HEY--- WHERE
DID THEY
GO?
inRNI
BUSHMILLUM.
By Ernie Bushmiller
will travel to one of the recur
genuine
There
in this field for
There is, indeed.
-London Express Service)
bif
INSECT SPRAY
WITH DOT
When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist! |
SURE KILL
sest asosas NAN KANG COMMA,