THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1950.
MM Theatre.
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SPINE-CHILLING THRILLS.
16
...in the forbidden jungles at the bottom of the sea!
FATHOMS DEEP
Filmed in Vivid
ANSCO COLORI
with
starring
ARTHUR LAKE-LON CHANEY LLOYD BRIDGES ERIC FELDARY
TAMIS CHANDLER - JOHN GUALEN IAN MacDONALD
ALSO LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS FOOTBALL TOURNAMENTS
1. England Wins The World Cup Trip to
Rio.
2. F.A. Cup Final
ARSENAL VS.
LIVERPOOL
LEE THEATRE
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, MAY 18th & 19th, At 9:30 P.M.
ON THE STAGE — PIETRO MASCAGNI'S
"'CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA”
presented by
THE CHORAL GROUP
Flas
£50
Will be given by the Daily Exper
For the Best Dressed Wonders: Dardde Gater
"On Sunday
Easter Hats
"Someone'll have to give me a hundred pounds before, I'll ro within 50 miles of Hyde Park Corner with them in those hats.”
THE KING CHOSE
London Exorem Service
A LOVE
SONG FOR HIS WEDDING
I despatch "from Wonder of the royals buzzing swarms
Speed king
red
studded
crown
for
the
kram.
in
King commendation - young few But Siam's 18,000,000 enthu BANGKOK. tance is visible on the horizon.
Bangkok has its daily gimpse minutes instead of for the usual riastle monerchists are due for Phumiphon will leave behind sud, perhaps even a serious, him a Prime Minister who has I were to add to this
room, too, es- two hours of the ceremonies.
almost discovery
before the defeated three attempted coups Foreign ambassadors and a
Di those Iluminations in the last two years. Moreover, officials, land" I would have a king's of emert
Frldhist
he has been the winner of tives Wer invited to recep. Weary of. authority for it the patriarchs, and historical pro- few senior diplomats and their effect
lions after the two ceremonies. The news
has not yet been the only two successful coups 22-year-old local experts in ashy
part 18-years. thority of
publicised to the Siamese, but His name is Phibun Song- ruler. born in Brooklyn, 3-litre sports coupe.
and Sirikit, in Phumphon
the bride's even while the final formalities
means "Lord of which entional costumen brought up in Switzerland,
gold brocade, of the coronation and the wed- War. In the past fortnight he of blue and
the thecinding plans were being mapped, has obtained from king promoted to the throne of
was re- household LWAYS behind him is an knelt before Siam by the assassination
A
uf frame year-obi
Queen the royal
serving a pastage in French royal decrees which are in fact blank cheques for power greater 2.4313! carnea of his brother, and now
crashing Sawang Vadhana, in her private firer from Shugapore to Europe n he has ever held, deggerately 11: young
love, police,
shy about the end of May. their Jeep gears to try to keep patice.
From [I
shell conch
blend # 17-year-old up. Top speed clocked by His
Great God ou My sprinkled holy water, Majesty
on their heads, 16 mples. and with her finger dabbed there dots of pertinen sundalwood paste on their foreheads.
maa
married
princess.
This city of. coups,
CONDUCTOR: MAESTRO ELISIO GUALD! pium, politics, and
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"THE
DHAVILLAND MALE
JOAN
LESLIE ANIMAL
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Bruce Bennett in
Virginia Mayo * "Smart Girls Don't Talk"
།
ONLY QUEENS
500 temples, where gold and waloured.por- celain spires shimmer attained it blazing trople sky, and each hot breath of wind stirs
thousands of gold-tongued little temple bells, is a fan- tasy enough at any tine.
But to King Phul- phon (pronounced Poom-ec-pone) Adul det. the young stranger from Europe,
werks of centuries-old
facing nearly two
choice
to be
and wed, the uf land" for his
can have more than al romantle meaning,
But
he picked
1
KING PHUMIPHON (pronounced Poom-ce-pone)
the word lead. King
Phumiphon
in
himself in a love song he has Bangkok so far is 91 miles an
written to his bride, Princess hour. Sirikit Kittiyalton- slow blues
trandtrusther,
C.V.R. Thompson
W
Brewster's
millions could boost jets
THE U.S. Congress in- tends to see what it can do to prevent Britain from dominating the world's jet airliner markets.
For months America's planë makers have been saying they can soon overhaul Britain's lend with the Comet-1 only Washington will foot the bill.
Now Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, who has always been terrided of British competition, will ask his colleagues. to do that.
A Repubilean, usually attack- ing President Truman for spend-
too ing
much Government money, Brewster will propose a £35,000,000 "itty" to cover the costs of developing a jet liner better than Britain's
to
He is not altogether hopeful If that he will get so much,
will compromise necessary, he for n subsidy of £4,500,000.
This, he promises, will go n long way toward helping manu- facturers convert enough Strotocrulser ned Skymasters for luto turbo-prop planes testing.
Brewster's chief ally will be Senator Edwin Johnson, Colorado, who like Britain about as much as he likes Holly- wood-not at all.
*
of
WELL, "the Communist issue" is here to slay at least until after the General Election this
autumn. The unexpected result in the Florida election maket sure of that
Senator Claude Pepper, who has been a Congressman for 14 years, was thoroughly beaten in his race for re-election by 36- year-old George Sminthers, whose chief battle-cry was at Pep-
Wilhin three weeks from the day when he croword himself and gave his Brat onler from
FOOTNOTE: 1 sm finger has been too friendly with the Octagonal Figwood Throne, beneath the Royal Nine-Tiered this despatch from Bangkok's Communists. State Umbrella-Trust me and palatial modern post-office by They both signed the regi- be al caseite king and his candlelight because the powered he Republicans, out for a ter, presented #heir exclu young queen, his plan with its has failed agala.
three-day
sively
with royal gues
electric organ altachment, hl silver charette case each-and saxophone and his red roadster that ww all. Next day will all be on their way back they left to
n spend honeymoon at the king's palace to Switzerland. en the Gulf of Slam, the Kid 'Lord of war' Kanawong - –the
"Far from Worry Palace. It is not even
on the phone' to Bangkok..
THEN he goes Lack to a and where he can enjoy
Mind you, this lack of royal
did
stop his favourite sports of ski-ing demonstration
not
he will Bangkok having a very royal aid ler-skating-ami
Ru, of course, on his doctors' re two weeks of celebration,
Beenuse his campaign succeed- majorily in Congress, will step there accusation that
.or Gold leaf and parcelalu map-up their
tre ton many Communists, for the renovation plies temples
limitable, but, pro-Communists in the Truman
Government. say the Siamese with gracious charm Bangkok's war-damaged, will not weary power-station be repaired before 1952.
arc
Sydney Smith
--(Landene Express Service)
AVERY
NEW YORKER Jft talking about the wen her. It has drizzled or pouted every day The sun hag for fortnight. never been out for more than o few minutes at a ne.
+
Sitting on the
Btill
MERICAN visitors are complaining about English re- serve, though one giri ad-
called "Dream of Love, Dream But there is a sadly darkermits that, after a couple of to this wonderlund 18ydrinks, Englishmen are no
of You."
you
side
reserved than any-
It is Dangkok's own song hit The king's doctors say that the more
concussion and da- body else. today. In all the city's poludest effects of
nightclubs cosmopolitan
mage to his left eye caused by can dance to the royal sumber a car smash in Switzerland 10 take another nearly all of any night. In fact, if you want to it all, you have months ago, will to-while the crooners whisper iwo to three years to clear up, huskily this royal lyric:-
"In
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TO-DAY LIBERTY
fer-Conditionth,
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
kligdom
ו וזר
of
Tri/
just
dreama
the dreans, You are my queen. Please don't Iet 7/13
dream,
make Please come tru¿¢* ----- In Wonderland." If you do not dance to its one-well, there are tye other royal song-hits on every dange programme from "Blue Day" to "Rainfall." All of them filed in the Fine Arts Depart-
ment of Bangkok's National
Museuin.
Dewy-eyed
the slashed doctors The elaborate traditional ceremonies The ank of the marriage coronation by more than half,
No state drive through Bang- kok, no ceremonial process(ugr Grand in the blaxing sun, to Processions of the State Barges.
No Elephant
H
JUNDREDS
of royal barg- men rehearsed in vain the delicate navigation of Bangkok's feeming canals by the Tiger!
Barkes Barges, the Monkey
Drum Line, the
Tills Fort of thing in cafeting of especially in Bangkok dur
Great
ing the smouldering solar month Barges, the Burges of Trumpets
of Taurus. with the astrologers and Conches, and
the Gold
and casters of horoscopes work- Royal Barges of the line. ing heavy overtime to prove that the stars are nuspleinus for marriage.
crowned The
who king.
Grand Palace required at the It is no wonder that Bang ceremony. The royal regalia kok's younger set; from remote was not carried in procession. royal princesser to shop girin The king, who was to crown no less lovely, is dithering in u
himself, was only allowed by rather dewy-eyed daze. No one la doing much work, and no his doctors to wear his 10-inch TO-DAY perceptible roup of any impor- high 12-16, gold and diazsond-
FINAL
THOSE "YOUNG and GAY" GIRLS ARE BACK... Having 'Twice the FUN 79
with Twico us
Many Moni
week die es i
Our Hearts Were Growing
Up"
NANCY
Feathered Frenzies
BIRDS ARE THE NICEST THINGS
THEY GET ALONG
SO WELL TOGETHER
IN THE ZOO
TOUCANS
a Lotklon club after years' absence.
. That is to say, about vivacious as a couple of Eng- drink explorers having a
Ima
34
One has been to the Polet the other to Africa
North Central
"Been fr**
"Pole."
North or South?"
"North."
"Shoot any bears?”
"Couple."
"Cold there?"
"Blt parky.
"Bags of ice." "Snow?"
"Baits of snow." "Oh."
"You been far?" "Central Africa." "Shoot any lions?" "Coupe."
ut the
there?" "Bl stuffy." "Natives?" "Days of Natives."
"Women?"
Fence....by
O
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
La Belle Dame
Sans Output
Union
And presently her small voice
caid:
"I love thee true."
I set her on my motor-bike,
And through the woods drove
1 day long. sideways she would lean and sing
or
And
"In C Soviet there Es no mystical obscure treatment of love, much as decadent eosinopo- Han poets are. We sing of how a young mun falls in love with a girl because of her big industrial output.."
Soviet
Doct Stephan
Petrovly.
(After John Keats). what can all thee.
hand,
Factory
Alone and palely toltering? The never-ending belt is still
And no wheels gins.
A factory rung.
She found me roots of
sweet,
relish
Abil sandwiches her mother
made,
And through her trembling lipa
sald "I
Can't make the grade."
She took me to her ellin grot, And told me us she went full
Gore,
boilers some girls made last year, But I male four."
And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely toltering
Though never-ending belts are
2411
And no wheels sing.
Cold war
"On April 25, when
degrees
frost of several were registered in Britain, the temperature in Moscow
degrees." over 70 wan From the News. TOR
the information of Sir
Faldron Smithers this only
fer
Britain,
over
the first indication of a gigantic Russian plot to trans
to their weather
When they talk about a cold war they mean a cold war.
Russian scientists have not how to by- discovered only
ass the east wind round Mos- pass
hite
velocity:
they
cow and Leningrad so that it Britain with Kreater hove also harnessed millions of whales to towards tha drag icebergs British Ises, leaving their nor thern ports ice free.
Sir If
Waldron doesn't be lieve me, what about the 100 refugee whales who committed
Scottish
life of slavery!
me
And
Eutelde on a rather than live
what about the
And there I dreamed-Ah! bear, suffering from
Worbetide,
coust
polar
sunstroke. aircraft
who piloted his own A girl who can't make bollers through the Iron Curtain and crash landed at London Air- six Can't be a bride. peasant'a
"Six
what can ail thes, factory hand,
Sa baggard and
SD
Whe-
begone?
And
The quota's met, the
shelves
there she whispered nsleep,
are ful,
And the foreman's gone.
Not
I met a lady in the chop,
beautiful-a
"Bags of "ay.**
look here, I
child.
ller
hair was
"Sorry, old man. Bad show." "Not a bit, old man.*
empped, cheeks were smudged, And her eyes were wild.
her
"Interestin evenin?"
fuss."
"Ruther.
Good-night, old I made a gazland for her head Of nuts and bolts and shav-
inge, too, "Goodnight, old man."
Who
cried "La Beile Sans Output Must come with us."
Dame
man."
By Ernie Bushmiller
surs
POM?
по It's
use
semi-ometal And there I saw pale commis- circles saying he's in love with Brumas's mother. Will M.1.5 Who cried "No use to make & deny that he has given valuable
Information?
BALD SPOTS!
If they don't want to look silly, they'd better not
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