1937-12-10 — Page 8

THE CHINA

"SOMETHING TO REMEMBER"

the symphony music.

Cinderella had a fairy god that tops mother Aladdin owned a lamp. aire Baba had the open sesame" and "This is

and the sec Deanna Durbin Pat Cardwell Deanna Durbin has a magic voice ond millionaire automatically Adolphe Menjou John Cardwell Cinderella, AH Baba and Aladdin drawls, "What have they done in Alice Brady Mrs. Frost were figments of the imagination. Washington now?” And for sheer Eugene Pallette I. G. Frost But there's nothing unreal about pictorial climax, the rag-tag sym- Mischa Auer

Michael Miss Durbin. As she will show to- phony orchestra grouped around Billy Gilbert Garage Owner morrow night when she opens at the stair of the maestro's home is Alma Kruger Mrs Tyler the Queen's Theatre in cleverly something to remember.. A with LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI con- named “100 Men and a Girl" German film about a symphony or ducting Lohengrin, Second Liszt No more need said about this chestra won a prize a year ago; Rhapsody, Tschaikowsky Birth film than has already been said by Hollywood's entry is an infinitely Symphony, Mozart's "Alleluja" and Meyer Levin, the famous cynic better story, as well as a better Verdi's "La Traviata”

mema-critic of Esquire" who,

for once, has found a picture which he can applaud. He writes:

"My idea of a musical film Joe Pasternak, first guide of Deanna Durbin, has done a beautiful job in developing her. She's really the personification of pure, adolescent joy. Stokowsky is a very real figure in the film The theme is highly worthy; the story is original, and adroitly built up. Considering the setting among unemployed musi- cians, the tone of the entire place is extraordinarily gay. And it's not. fluff. For one-line satire, it is dif ficult to think of a movie scene

THE

BE

WORLD GOES BY

By "ULYSSES"

REAKFAST with Montgomery tenarians recently questioned by is perhaps a little more sordid scientists out there, the majority than breakfast with anyone else. Ismoked like chimneys and drank

He comes downstairs all curled up like fish,

like a question mark, and even if "In the opinion

you-say "Good morning" he asks very few of these

scientists,

pass the

"Why?" He puzzles his way to a butter, please very few of these paper, wreathes it like a garland men had much hope of a halo. They round the coffee-pot, stares at the had mostly lived pretty fully while headlines, tooks ignorant and they hasn't the decency to remain so. "Good lord?" he says, munching his toast.

st

"broad says Montgomery.

otsare without a Montgomery at your breakfast table, and have. a husband, try some of these Maurice Dekobra quotations on him. "There are no unfaithful women. There are only women whom men have failed"

་་་

That's queer! Hey, you, come out of your porridge and tell me something..

"Why," asks Montgomery, "why do all centenarians come from the "Man, with his colossal conceit, Balkans?

imagines that he can improvise "You can't open a newspaper love without any special prepara without a Balkan pensioner on tion, whereas it is an exact science page five. Don't Yugoslavians ever that demands a long apprentice- die***

ship and preparation.”

Wearily you explain.

"The heart of a woman is a car- "It is an established scientific buretter, and, unfortunately, there fact," you point out patiently, are far too many men who accele "that in Serbia. Bulgaria and rate at the wrong moment.” Yugoslavia men live longer than anywhere else in Europe.

"There are more than a thousand registered centenarians in Yugo slavia alone, and over 4,000 in the Balkan Peninsula altogether.""

"Why?" asks Montgomery. "Well," you say, "their main nournishment is yoghurt, and such vegetables as peas and beans. Not much meat That may be partly the

t certainly isn't an to volu abstinence Of a hundred ce

There is great similitude be tween love and electricity. The first flirtation is like the spark.. Marriage is the electric meter, and divorce the short circuit.”

A good lover is not only a great artist in his love-making, but he knows also when to keep silent.”

This gives your husband a nice chance for an opening.

If he doesn't say something to you after the last quotation, you reabse he's just as dumb as you

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1937.

CHINESE CONFIRM CROSSING OF YANGTSZE AT KIANGYIN Troops Concentrating To Cover Pukow Zone

FOREIGN ESTIMATE

OF SITUATION

Hankow, To-day.

Reports from Chinese quarters confirm that the Japanese have crossed the Yangtse in the Kiangyin area and are now advancing towards Nanking on the northern bank of the river.

It is believed here, therefore, that the Japan- ese may later attempt to encompass Nanking from the north as well, although it is pointed out that the Japanese have not yet cleared the river by any manner of means.

TEXT OF GEN MATSUI'S ULTIMATUM

Shanghai, To-day.

Chinese reports state that the Chinese are n now concentrating troops north of the Yangise in or- der to prevent encirclement of the city from the north.

Task of these troops will be to bring any Japanese advance on Pukow, opposite Nanking on the Yangtse, to a standstill, or, failing that, to secure Chinese retirement towards the north.

NANKING CHOICE

SNOW ON ARAGON WARFRONT

Barcelona, To-day.

upper Aragon front a standstill owing to

On other fronts, bitte weather has slowed down activities, though air rada. by bo ported.

LARGE SCALE

DOG-FIGHT OVER NANCHANG

Tokyo, To-day.

LIFE STORY

CAN NOW BE REVEALED WITH IMPUNITY

Yesterday

ntained

to

Population

Bill tabled by mister

of the measure, Sir Kings-

ley Wood.

Complaints

were made in the second reading debate last week that the Bill had been drafted too loosely and the Minister of Health

proposes to delete the provision au-

A major air battle took place thorising questions on any other Foreign military observers here yesterday over Nanchang, capital matter with respect to which it is

are convinced that the Chinese will

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prefer to retire from Nanking at of Kiangsi, where Chiang Kai-shek desirable to obtain the last minute, instead of risking is reported to be staying for the

present.

General Matsui's ulti-loss of the large body of troops there through capture by remain- matum to Nanking reads

ing in the city until its encirclement A Japanese bombing making a raid on the is complete: as follows:

The General commanding Nan- engaged by "Japanese forces exceeding

king, Tang Sheng-chi, who enjoys fighting planes before they 1,000,000 (!) having occupied the the reputation of being a clever the town. entire area south of the Yangtse, strategist, is said to have declared According to Japanese have now completely surrounded that Nanking can hold out easily at which are as Nanking.

least for another five days.

Chinese plan the ground

drome was”

"The anticipated hostilities will It is declared that General Chiang and another 20 bid no good to anyone but harm Kai-shek entrusted him with com alone.

mand of Nanking on condition that "Nanking, the old capital, has un-

the capital was defended to til lately been the seat of the last. Trans-Ocean Chinese Government, and it abounds.

in historic remains and beauty spots, such as the mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty and the Chungshan mausoleum.

"Indeed, it is the keystone of Oriental civilisation.

·HORRORS OF WAR

"Harsh and relentless towards those who resist, Japanese troops; are kind and generous to non-com- batants, and Chinese troops who en- tertain no enmity to Japan.

"The Japanese army earnestly de- sires to protect Oriental culture.

"If your forces desire to continue hostilities, Nanking cannot but wit ness the horrors of war, with at- tendant destruction of age-old cul- tural relics and nullification of the constructive efforts of the past ger- eration.

"Therefore, 1, as commander-in- chief of Japanese forces in Central China, advise you to surrender Nan- king without resistanc

NOON TO-DAY

Your answer to this advice must our outposts on the

noon-on-Der

be

Kuyung highway

10.

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HEAVY LOSSES:

Hankow, To-day.

the

It is reliably learned here that the Japanese navy suffer. ed heavy casualties in men while the Kiangyin boom was being forced, as the operation was carried out under heavy fre from Chinese land bat- teries.-Trans-Ocean.j

desired

mation

now practically

statistical in-

fon on the which it is

to secure reliable

of the mother, the

usual, 16 riage, and the

rates, is

the age

Bhot down the mother has had by her present destroyed on for former husbands.

The information

Japanese losses in the battle, fically made privileged so th significantly are not reported

cannot be disclosed for use in legal

Japanese bombers carried another raid on the arsenal at Kunghsien, in. Honan, yesterday.

The newspapers give prominence Chinese reports on the Nanchang to the modification accepted by the raid says that only two of the Government as the result of Com- raiding planes got through and mons criticism and describe it as a they drepped their bombs on the good example of the working of

WWE indiscriminately.

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