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AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. LESLIE HOWARD TAKES A NEW STAR IN HIS ARMS His great career is climaxed... her' great career la started", In this worldly drama of a famous man beckoned from home by a girl's golden beauty.
LESLIE HOWARD
INTERMezzo
A Love Story
INTRODUCING
INGRID BERGMAN
Also Special British Newsreel
Specially brought out by British Ministry of Information, Hong Kong.
Consists of:-
Description of Hitler's mistake
British Air-force
Monoca-French H. Q. & Ceremony Parade
Soldiers sent to Norway
English and Welsh Soccer Match
Melbourne-Red Cross and Air Force Parades
Etc., Etc., Etc.
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 4, 1940.
PHONE CENSORS' TOWER OF BABEL
When the Ministry of Information Barristers, big game hunters, au- revealed the story of the R.A.F. ven-thors, artists, University professors— geance raids at Sylt, Room 43 at the even last war secret service agents--- Ministry became a modern Tower of all combine to censor British news for Babel-for this is the room where foreign publication. foreign journalists put over their copy to their far distant offices.
In this long telephone-flanked room, a row of serious men and women are bowed over desks, listening intently the through headphones. They are censors checking every word of the conversations, although many of the correspondents are gabbling away their news as fast as speech can be uttered.
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This news has already been cen- sored, and if a correspondent adds to his story, or says anything out of place, the censor immediately interrupts.
Every one of these telephone censora -seventeen men and seven women- are fully conversant with at least four languages, although most of them can make sense of at least nine.
600 CALLS A WEEK
One of the censors, in civil life a professional linguist, who worked for Scotland, Yard's special branch, the War Office and Law Courts-can make sense of fifty-nine different languages.
An auburn-haired 22-year-old Oxford "graduette" studied short- hand in Switzerland, and although she is writing shorthand in Room 48 in Dutch, German, and French, she can't do it in English.
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Upwards of 600 calls a week handled according to the importance of the Ministry's information. Each call averages ten minutes.
It is estimated that a quarter of a million words are pouring out to and foreign capitals every week three hundred thousand flow In.
As a curious example of news value, the number of words sent out on the "Unity Mitford Story" equalled those on the Graf Spee.
On the first day of war, there was only one telephone box available for foreign journalists, and on that warm summer day, censor, translator, and correspondent were all tightly squeez- ed inside together. To-day, Room 43 provides adequate amenities for ten journalists at a time.
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THE STORY OF
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starring DON AMECHE
TO-MORROW
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NORMA
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ROSALIND RUSSELL
The Women
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· PAULETTE GODDARD „PHYLLIS POVAH- JOAN FONTAINE ÷VIRGINIA WEIDLER
LUCFLE-WATSON.
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They Changed Places And Almost Changed A Million Lives....... In a Single Night of Adventure, The World Will Forever. Remember L
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ERROL FLYNN CLAUDE RAINS HENRY STEPHENSON BARTON MALANE MAUCH TWINS
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Music by Brich Walls
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“THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES” Climaxes his amazing career with startling impersonations.
TAMIROFF
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