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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE TO MEMBERS

THIRD EXTRA RACE MEETING Saturday, 13th March, 1948.

The First Well will be runr at 1.30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m.

also

Through numbers (10 Races-$20) may be obtained at the Office of the Treasurers, lat floor, Exchange Ballding, tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the last raça na well na those for the "Lantao Handicap" to be run at the Whitsun Meeting in May, 1948. The latter may also be purchased at the Club's Branch Office, No. 382 Nathan Road, Kowloon,

MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members and guests are reminded that they and their Ladles MUST wear their badges PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED throughout the Mestlig.

*: NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Room, at 110 including tax are obtainable through the Secretary upon the written or personal introduction of a Member. such Member, to be responsible for all chita eto. Badges to Members"- Enclosure will NOT be salo' at the

COURSE.

The Treasurers. Compradore Office will close at 11 am. ́ and the Secretary's Office at 11:45 am. Both Offices at 151 floor, Exeliange Ballding.

„A limited number of üiffins will be obtainable at the Club Houry, provided, they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27818),

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NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE, SLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.

| PUBLIC-ENCLOSURE,

The price of admission to the Fubila. Enclosure is $1 Including tax for, all persons including Indies, and is pay- able at the Gate.

Bookmakers, Tie Tac men, ele. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Clah during the Race Meeting, SAN

Befreshments will be" oħtalmable, in the - Kortaurant in the Fabile Enclosure-tomaksu, M

RENA SERVANTS' FASSER- "Berrante" papers: Will be farned, to): Při ONLY who are requeried to distributa sha and, to endorse. their names on the ? pan MASO 279:310s permitted (Inithe, Hamber

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1948.

CINEMA WORLD

THE CHAMPION MOVIE FAN

Nineteen-Year-Old Wins Magazine Competition

catapulted into fame with her for a whirl

unhesitatingly spoke in summer camps along the A pretty, 19-year-old New at Manhattan's 'American Aca-'f Rogers York bookkeeper, whose know-demy of Dramatic Arte, how-out for Bette Davis, Rosalind east coast, to which she also ledge of Hollywood and the ever, the concluded that hor Russell, Ingrid Bergman, Greer attributed her uncanny ability movies amounted to what she ability lay in some other field, Garson and Deborah Kerr. to judge the merit of any the performance of particular film showing at hor saw twice a week off her neigh and she turned toward a busi- When

Now her drosm bourhood screens, on Wednes-ness carcer. day found herself suddenly of one day going to Hollywood these or any other film player neighbourhood theatre.

particularly have impressed When it was suggested that, around the film

dramatic her, she has gone to see them with her looks and in that picture again, in order training and background, she to make a thorough study of might not be allowed to return from Hollywood to her job in their technique.

New York, her eyes lit up for a moment before subsiding Into their normally serious keenness. "I think I'm a better critic," she laughed.

No Worries

The staff of Motion Picture have assured her she needn't worry

selection by Motion Picture studios has been dramatically Magazine an America's Cham realized.

"The only trouble now is," she pion Movie Fant

As ย result. Mian Arlyne remarked when informed of Rogers, of 360 Cabrini Blvd.. her victory in the contest, "that New York 33, has begun I haven't a thing to wear!" mound of Manhattan's smart shops and beauty salons in pre- paration for her departure, on the Santa Fe "Chief" for Holly

about that, however. wood, the romantic trip which in her grand prize for topping She will be completely outfitted more than ten thousand of before her departure for the the nation's film fans who sub- west coast, and, once in Holly. mitted entries in the contest. wood, she will be taken on a In announcing Miss Rogers' tour of the film capitale beauty name in the April issue of Mo-and fashion centres, and will be tion Picture, as winner of the given an opportunity, to inspect contest to And the country's the studios, watch pictures in foremost fan, Maxwell Hamil- the making and meat many of ton, editor, was quick to point the famous stars aho has but out that the competition was dreamed about up until now. not based merely on the num her of pictures seen, or in fact un any of the typical standards by which film fans are known.

A Judge

"We felt America's champion movie fan should be first and foremost a person who is able] to judge films critically," Mr. Hamilton said. "For that reu- son, the winner was zolected on the basis of her ability to judge

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At the same time, Atwator Kent, famous party giver of the screen colony, has indicated a desire to have Miss Roberts að his guest at one of Hollywood's typical parties, and again she will have the oppor- tunity to rub' ahoulders with the great and near great of her favourite type of entertainment.

Also, while she le in Holly. wood, Misu Rogers will appear on many coast-to-coast radio feature film by the same programmen, will be Interviewęd Ktandards by which profos by the press and will be accord. Kional critics do it. Miss Ro-ed the same treatment custom-

close WAS 50 Kera

to the arily shown a visiting celebrity. critics in her ratings, she al- Throughout her stay, she will most could be one of them." he escorted by one of the city's most eligible cinema young male stars.

Asked her favourites among the film stars she has seen, Miss

A movie fan all her life. Mias Rogers at one time even enter Lained the Idea of becoming an actress herself. After a year

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THE SWORDSMAN.-At they King's Larry Parks and Ellen Drew in a fast-moving story based upon a Scottish clan feud. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.. At the Queen's-A re-issue of an outstanding picture, with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton as the principals. One of Laughton's most im pressive filma. DARK-PASSAGE—At_the_Lee.

Spectacular crime thriller. Lauren Bacall plays opposite Humphrey Bogart and en- hances her reputation. THUNDER ROCK-At the Al- hambra.--Michael Rodgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason and Lilli Palmer-enough to guarantee a worthwhile pie- fure-Itisin fact, superbly acted. TWO-MAN SUBMARINE. — At the Central-Wartime melo- drama. NOBODY LIVES FOREVER-

At the Star.-Gangster guna blaze, with John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald, HOLIDAY IN MEXICO---At the to Majestic. They did go Moxics for this one.

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