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Sitting
ERE again are Mrs
Er-rerm-er and
Mrs
Urm-er-rer, who cau never remember people's names, at a political meet- ling.
Ob. Diere you are,
.... Mrs Er-rerin-er.
on
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London Express Service
Fence.....
Mrs E NATHANIEL GUBBINO
So glad you've come to swell the ranks
of the True Blues,
If only they'd leave a guy But it's a awell job, sugar, And the money's good. And Thanic you, Mra Un
• Mira alone.
I know. dear. That mann some day I may get promotion Urm-i-rer. That's exactly what
to a double bed. ger again, I suppose?
With you al that brisy little woman, Airs
Just when you're dropping my side, sweetie pie. Of course, Nerm-cr-t£1, said when I met off in he comes
with his great Tomorrow you'll quit and find
her selling something for sonic- thing or other outside the front at feel. shaking the room and a man's job. A job which keeps
Taking temperatures and askin' you awake all day, you great
door.
doin' and don't lazy bun, how you're know what all.
He's
but nothing driver, dear. One of these days
Bave-
Oh, no. That's not Mrs Rerm- I shall to straight to his ome-
er-ter. *That's Mrs. Ms and
give
him a piece of my Her-ren, She's selling mind.
Only this morning he said home knitted tea cosies for can
to nibals, or rather to buy Bibles he hoped I'd get Turnbago
durned blankets for cannibals, in the work would cure it. archipelago.
the about
noble
thing seo
Fo
this
as the vicar said, especially Why, Al, the man's nothing cl chiblains hanging but a criminal, wishing sick- in the evid.
Who's that nest on folks. He ought to be -very large woman who was prosecuted or something.
invited to specially
occupy twe And just when you're hav- seals to keep out two hecklers in the swellest dreams he has
Oh, that's Mrs.
nee Wes, is to come in and ask some fool Um-cr-rer-et. whose glands questions or turn off the heat to have run amok according to Dr sce if it wakes you. Ret-term-er-rer.
I think you're mistaken, Mrs Er-terin-er. That was MIX Min.
e-rer, who changed her doctor
You have many swell dreams, because he advised her to stop Al, while you're working? entins: cakes in the cafe instead Some are prelty swell
prescribing injections and
special
cersets under the Na-s, Seme ain't.
What are the swell tional Health. Who is the chief
about?
Leaker tonight?
I believe It's Str Charles
Way, sometimes I kick the winning goal In a footba!!
Urm-er yes, it's Sir Charles game. Somethines I'm having
Urm-er-urm something who was
Forward glance
Nye Devan wante to ahtime the population
that big houses and little houses or in the same street and chap who wear cape and mufflers can mix freely with inp Who wear bowler hats And carry roited Umbrellas.
Herbert Barrison, hoping the Festival Gardens in Itatietea Park will be kept Open alter the Fratival of Britain is over. saldi, 1 want people to be happy. I want to hear people sing.
IT
is 11 p.m.
in No Quality street in the summer of 1960, The chap who wears his rolled
the
Bowler Hat opens his study window to plead
with
nearest Cap and Alufer.
the
FIRST GIRL
IN SLACKS
THIS
By PETER DAVIS
hcr
is the centenary The result Was Immediate. of
of
This was one
before the days the
of paper patterns, of course, but strangest yet most. Mrs B. was snowed under with controversial garments ever letters . asking how worn. Just 100 years have "hygienie costume" was macie. passed since Amelia
Throughout the States, women Bloomer gave the world braved public ridiculo and hor newest look-a fashion private scoldings by turning that only Grandmamma their underwear into overwear. (and perhaps Grandpapa) remembers.
In our age of panties, scantles and winpiest beachwear, we have almost forgotten the dreamy-eyed girl who shocked her generation by showing her pantalettes and gave har name to a whispered nether
known garment 'bloomers.'
One town formed a Bloomer Institute. From an obscure wife and editor, the Bloomer Dress made brunette Amelia A national Agure.
Riots Occurred
CLERGYMEN preached against
und
Печ
Dlcomerlam from the pulpits and quoted from scriptures prove it sinful. Anu-bicomer rlots occurred in New York, as Mrs Bloomer appeared on lec- ture platforms to I>TOVC that Like Mrs Beeton of cook- trousers. temperance book fame, Mrs Bloomer is universal suffrage went to- one of history's
Unmentionables forgotten gether.
through the air. Mr Bloomer women. She hoped to sec left home he actually
moved all her sex enjoying the to Council Bluffs, Iowa, 300 convenience of slacks. Yet miles from the nearest railway she was born
Movement as long ago but the Bloomer
went from strength to strength, as 1818 and endured 17 average girlhood for those days loaded down with six
stifly starched petticoats under skirts that swept the ground.
Hot Revolt
I say, don't you think it's a bit THOUGH this warm dis-
late for this sort of thing?
El?
I mean I can't
in London, Victorian society was shocked by women who.
llyde Parkc Paraded
J
Uloomers, distributing pamph- lets, Women, they yelled, had been unpaid streetsweeporn' long. enough. Revolt Revolt! Lec- tures which were held at the Soho Theatre, however, ended In "rowdy bantering and coarse remarks."
Punch caricatured the move- ment with sketches of
comfort brewed hot re- volt, Mrs B. was a feminist, Bloomerists smoking long cigars fashion designer. and sporting canes, Heavy-
not
A coucenate
with all this noire going on. 1 Married to a struggling hunded jokes showed bloomer- have some work to do.
Work? You?
young American lawyer and clad girls proposing to shy and.
she fought for skifted mon. Of course, it's a different kind publisher,
rights for of work. I mean I don't work property with my hands.
women...and only work with is ands.
Ark at im, boys. He don't
toffee nosed old woman,
Nor doer acidentally for their
to wear trousers,
I shall be obliged you will not refer to my wife as a toffee nose old woman.
Who can't sail er ands with the warhin? Mr Bowler At. Who pits my old woman to scrub er floors Mrs Bowler At. Who can't polish er own front door andle? Old tofee nosed Mrs Dowler At.
New Version in- right
ONDON, in fact, laughed: bloomers off, but the Paris. But when she saw a daring dress designers bore thein in article in a local paper suggest- mind. Three years later, the Ling
pantaloons glamorous Empress Eugenie ap- ankle-length with a covering skirt to the peared with a new version of knees, she
enthusiastically en- Amelia's idea-aniowy, ruled dored the idea as hygiene and pantolettes peeping coyly
from sensible. Then her cousin, her beffbboned crinoline. In Elizabeth, came back from a cascades of lace, the style Bow Near East trip wearing that through France, was adopted in very costume in Turkish style. England
in
Headstrong Elizabeth Smith Miller displayed her dress Washington during her father's my May I emind you that
term in Congress. She flaunted wife is in bed trying to get some
it in the streets. She was the sleep?
Arst Western girl in trousers. Listen, boys. Old Toffre Nost Like 1950's Gorgeous Cycle, in is trying to get a bit of sleep fact. 1850's Lovely Lizzle after a long day doin mucet
laluly started something. What about a Fanny Adams. lullaby for old Mrs Toffee Nose, buys?"
umbrella to catch the 8.15 every If you don't go away I shall morning is working at some be oblige to telephone for the
police. papers in his study.
A fultahy for old Airs Tofer Now, boys. Altogether, boys
1
Outside, chapa in mufflers who have
capa and been to, the festival and several other places, are singing "Sweet Adeline,”
so lucky to get his knighthood dinner with President Truman, straight an worki putting him
before he was divorced and alfairs. And sometimes I'in ca
hounded out of his club for run- Palm Beach, lying in the Sun ning of with a club waitress. with some of the cutest litle
Really? I thought it was Sir William.... Sir Willium some-
with his can run
As I'm looking after an old Sco
dames in America.
Why nol, AI?
Rull out the barrel...
--(London Express Service)
Mrs
America.
And crossed
ta:
But Mrs Bloomer had given up the battle. Reconciled to her husband, she was wearing ነገ crinoline with heavy under. skirts-and more below--and the thought white pantaloons H ccr- somewhat shocking. Yet bloomers came round again in the cycle of fashion.
who
for...
Bloomer promptly
It is on record that in 1894; emerged in public in her own "kki trousers" with n ruffle at 76-year-old Amelia glupeed out the ankle. In her paper. "The of her window at a girl Lily,"
which shr warned WAS wearing. women of the dangers of strong eyeiing. drink and poor husbands, the Brst told the public of the new dress.
blooters
"Dear met" she said. "What is the world coming to"
Mussolini's Subway Goes Nowhere
ROME has the craziest
underground railway.
murals,
By DANIEL F. GILMORE
cemeteries, temples,
remnant
Peters-in-Chains.
the
basilica:
Fulit in 442 A.D. to house the chains said to have been work
Do you ever see me on Palmi thloss-urm-something who had Beach, A?
It has been going nowhere
The line starts at the termi- by Et. Peter. Here the 20-foot- arthritis and ran off
Why, no, honey, I think it's a for 11 years, hay cost Rman sewers, etc., be destroy- nal station right next to the wide tunnel burrows to its. you nutse. That is, if
known fact that a well
man U.S.$17,000,000 so far and ed, The Italian Government 50-foot-high
of deepest, 54 feet under the sur very for with arthritis,
don't dream about his wife. It) Well, we shall soon And out ain't natural.
will cost another heartily agreed on the premise Rome's eldest ruin, the forti fuco.
cm-callons
A Roman sewer and part of of Servius Tullus U.S.$6,000,000 before it is that more men could be
an ancient forum with stabler ployed that way than if modern built in 578 B.C. finished in 1952.
for charlot steeds mechanical methods were used.
A lengthy delay was caused in this area. With a group of Italian en- It will be the only subway here when workers ron into gincers, this correspondent with its own private museum- nuother part of the came wall walked through the damp, at the main station-to house underground. torch-lit tubes of the city's the precious finds uncovered seren-mile "Metropolitana,"
1ish lady, Mrs MacEce-er-Ferm.
Well, sugar, dreams ain't ee, who is stone deaf but likes to real, are they? And you can't keep in touch, I hope you'll par- say a wife ain't real. No muʼum, don me if I leave you now Mrs Not on your life.
Er
Er
Mrs Urm-eT-TCT.
Granted as soon is asked Mrs
Mra Er-term-ur.
Earn while
you sleep
Manufacturers of electrically heated Blankets in America are employing men to sleep in luxury bects for eight hours a day while their temperatures are taken and olher reactions noted.
TAD a ring day, dear?
Is there any special drenm girl you see All
on Palm Beach,
I say there is.
4 sweetheart?
curls. Houcy
bells,
And a voice like tinkling tilling bells.. You'll hand tomorrow, AL.
Aw,
If it is ever finished it with ben beautiful subway with
and stream pacious stations
And is sheined trains. Soft brown:
coloured eyes. Mussolini ordered it started a lot of little in 1939 to link athen non-
Yeah.
in your notice held.
don't get steamed
during its construction,
is concerned, it has none.
were found
Next stop is the Colosseum, Archaeologists called a halt the largest theatre in the and the wall had to be com- world although built 1,870 years Finally, as far as potential use pletely suspended in a special aga. The tunnel carefully skirts Eteel sling before work could the massive arena's foundations continue. The wall is still hang and squeezes under the trium- Ing in its cradle 30 feet under- phal Arch of Constantine, erect-
from below, ed in 312 A.D. to mark ground, visible
the Invisible from the street.
spot where Emperor Constan- On they went, making de tine declared
in favour other nvold
ruins. Christianity. meanwhile collecting a muscurri- The trains will continue - at load of vases,
mpanies, a scheduled 02 miles per hour to kettles, spears, sewers, and even under the site of the Circus the wreckage of an old Roman Maximus between the Aventine house of prostitution, complete and Palatine hills where Roman on with eye-catching murals. emperors watched charlot races The route continues up and a thousand years ago.-United
left, to down, right and
St. Press,
It runs from the new term Little existent station with an inter- nal station through some of the
Intional fair that
was most populated reglans of the tours to never
city and ends nowhere-at the incompleted, weed-grown site Most of the route was hand where Mussolin planned Hardly n wink of sleep.
Archacologists about a dream, sugar. A man's carved.
who holin world fair in 1042. through the Was the same yesterday, entitled to dreamt
sandy about any crawled
subsoll with excavators would But for the student with #t He ain't
to dream not allow blasting entitled
steam underground guide, the trip shovels lesi about a hussy like that.
precious mosales, fascinating.
HA
It
And
have
you go on like this.
You'll thing. the day before.
a nervous breakdown
up
OF
is
urns,
of
By Ernie Bushmiller
Sweet Victory
LET'S PLAY · TICK-TACK-TOE--
I WIN
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