1949-04-23 — Page 10

ke 10

R

INEST DEVELOPING

& ENLARGING

YOU CAN RELY ON

影脚单

EXCURSIONS

TO

JAPAN

INCLUSIVE RATE

$2,200

ALEXANDER BLDG., H.K.

OR

Only Valid Passport

Necessary

2, NATHAN ED., K'LOON The Best in the Colony Also dealers of all kinds of CAMERAS & FILMS.

NEWLY ARRIVED!

"ALLISON" "BENTLEY"

AND

"KEMBLE" PIANOS

Beautiful Tone and

Attractive Designs. spection Cordially Invited, KING'S MUSIC CO. 5, Chiu Lung Street Telephone: 30439

〔爽耳级)耳肚路

香港牌代理益林公司

SONOTONE

FOR BETTER

HEARING

Carri

Ed. Lamb & Co.

Ream The Kne Chay ittés.

12 Queen's Road, C. Tel 23146.

Co.

Hee Lang La

22.HATHAN RO TEEN/NIFIK HANGHAI LADIES' TAILOR.

atest variety of ready-made

RESSES, LINGERIES, ETC.

for Summer PRICES $25 UP.

Inspection welcome. Orders taken.

"KIA ORA”

Fruit Juice Cordiala

Varieties:

Orange, Lemon, Limo.

Special Favourites:

50/50, Passion

Fruit Juice,

Tropical Fruit Cup.

WEEKLY SERVICE

For Particulars & details

consult-.

CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE

THE BIGGEST & LEADING TRAVEL AGENCY IN CHINA

KAI MING BUILDING,

(First Floor)

4, Queen's Rood, C.

Tel. 21820 & 31116.

SERVICE TO OFFER

DON

NEW YORK, FRIDAY This is the last Diary from America for some weeks. I wall home on Friday.

There is plenty to write home about.

The

the

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1049.

IDDON'S JEAN DO

DIARY

Since the New York Star cons | we carry off the top film honours big men hare button up consuming the ed publication after

It will be unfor £2,300,000 which could not keep their wallets. It twinking, the blight has spread, tunate if the custom of Academy

Fancy salaries and swollen ex- Awards is dropped. pense accounts are out,. This is The run-of-the-mill employees industry the entertalument the gloomy truth, and we had in In one tremendous year

stepped right better face it, because an Ameri-here are disgusted with the ac- United States has

financially strapped

the American Alm

big out in front, and is even begin-en

and tion of hing to glory in world leadership struggling is not going to scatter companies. The newspaper cri- snowflakes over tics say they have never seen Jong

like affair with Great dollars

hand-out. such poor sportsmanship. Britain has now become roman-everyone seeking a

It is just too bad Britain cun- Many important Americans, In- lenarriage. There has rarely

cluding Mr. Churchill's greatest not win once in a while without been happier pal

an exhibition of bad manners of Ernest Bevin and Dean Ache-friend, Bernard Baruch, think the on walk hand-in-hand, bearing United States will have to trim this sort.

The money Involved-a on each other, applauded by the her expenditure and re-examine

to avoid und blessed by her resources

folnx £25,000 years peanuts wedding

quests

broke herself.

Hollywood's standards. Winston Churchill.

Mr. Churchill's visit, and Mr. A perpetual honeymoon is pro- mised, and abuse heaped on the Bevin's too, in a lesser way, have Russin-confused by given this country a stimulant couple by the confeiti and seeing red at the and put over Britam-they are range blossom-is merely help our two best salesmen-but other Countries Jexy endowed with ing to seal the betrothal

the But no bells

statesmen are going to find the ring, over American home remittances reduced. Funtion on the front.

Last spring there was R MOP- Ing boom. The Unitest

States

Legs Again

The taxi-drivers thought they

are

mere

hy

send

|LEFTIST MP SAYS:

BRITAIN WON'T FIGHT UNDER LABOUR PARTY

Paris, April 21.

Britain will navor go to war while she has a Labour Government, Mr. Konni Zilliacus, Labour Mom- ber of Parliament, told 1,500 Communist and loft wing delegatos here today. Representatives of 59 nations at the second session of the "World Peace Conference” here apploud- ed loudly when Mr. Zilliacus said: "I do not believe that any Government in Britain can take our people into a war within the next few years and after that it will be too late."

that the

con-

M. Álexander Fodeev, author | Germany, Greece, the Near aud Perhaps Olivier should

the Pacific back his Oscar. Obviously, the and leader of the Russian dele- the Middle East,

not betalands, China and Japan, be sold, notation, said he does tycoons of Hollywood do

The existence of these bases lieve a war is imminent. War

14 want him to have it.

menace to world peace, he is most Hollywood has become a reality for

to- claimed. The truth

'said. producers fear our artistry and morrow, he

A new M. Fadcev added craftsmanship

superior

to armaments race has begun in atomie bomb can not be theles

And everything the film

many Western European coun-sidered a defensive weapon. critics here say supports that

He attacked the Atlantic Pact tries and in the United States. view.

World maps reveal the growth and sak it is clear to every man Again we are getting a magni- of a huge this of military bases blocs are dividing the world into of Round mind that Auch

from England. "Quartet"-a two- hour feature film of four separate stories all by Somerset Maugham --has been a gigantle success.

termined defenders

of

редса and their feeling about war la summarisad by

of group 2,000 women of Paris, "We do not wan tanks but ngricultural machines. We do [not want war stocks. Give us

back our soNE"

A mesange was read from the painter, Henri Matisse, aged 79," regretting his absence from the Congress because of liness.

A Bishop of the Hungarion_Re- formed Church, M. Albert Ber- czyk, spoke of the International polemies ruled by the case of the Archbishop of Hungary' (Car dinol Mindszenty),

A

"Disgust For War"

"As a Bishop Berczyk, sald: member of the Church and as a good patriot 1 wish to express to the Protestant States of Nor- them Europe my sincero grati- tudo becaule they have recog- nised from the beginning that hin (Mindzenty's ense WAS

nal politics."

M. Ilyn Ehronburg. Russlan commenta- writer and political tor, said he and his

Eko colleagues would

nothing better than to shake hands with the Americans in the knowledge that they are going to live to gether in peace.

was pereled happily on the peak could tie up New York by with jernt Press. The latest product pussing through Greenland, Ice-opposing groups of countries, that matter only of Hungarian inter-

the bright drawing their cabs from The of prosperity, and

They have not. duze American sky was the limit. streets.

New York has taken the taxi Today even the Government act-

It has been reits there is a recession which trike in its strale, it insists will not turn into a te- pression, but is merely a neede corrective and levelling-out.

Unemployment

Unem

3,500,000 - Twice

110W that of

totals Just

April.

per

ber

Helad sades are down #1

prices 5 cent, wholesaler rent, seed prices 8 per cent, and general Consumer prices 3 pet ront

20

that were All the goa Jurel to A1 motor-cars and re-

a much plesanter place to live. In these past few days.

A lot of luxi-riders have re-} disrovered their legs or settled for the subway and buses.

There has been Bitte violence, i and 1 expect most cab-drivers back on the streets any day now th their original del £2 3s, a or £2 15s, a night minimum

-ansatisfied.

New York and Amerien under the threat of

depression still

DENNIS & CO., LTD.frigerators, furniture abel tele- prospermus,

vision sets, carpets and kitchen

sloves--can be desi utrite lush

Cust

(White Anta Extermination Dept-)

Offers torvice In White Ants Treatment. Just make a call on the telephone and our Technlolan will be at your service for Frase Inspection.

TELO: '32913 4 33324.

AIR CONDITION

០៨

WE JOSUE OF

MING

STUDIO

室影機明英新

224X

Fine Gratis Develooing, Printing

and Enlarging for your dim.

20 QUEEN'S ROAD.. C. TEL. 173

OPPOSITE QUEEN'S THEATRE

SHOW

"FIT FOR A KING"

A 16mm sound full-length

feature starring

Joe E. Brown

in your own HOME, SCHOOL, CLUB, etc.

10

Sole Agenta:

ENNIS & CO., LTD.

Bink BIJE.

Wank STARLITE Queen's FILMS

Read Centrál

CHEAP SALE

TOMATIC CAMERA 3.5 oned

MERA

LIGHTERS....

LERCOPE ◊ × 20, made in USA.

$100,

39

$90.

sa Expert Repairing Service.

AH MONG STORE

Corner of Stanley and

'Agullar 61.

RAMOPHONE & RECORDS MUSIC & MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Law Jim Kee Music Co.

77, Des Voeux Rond, C

Tel. 33830*

ac-

Leading current Ameri- nu & British magazines Iways in stock and sold tomoxingly low prices. TANDING orders opted; satisfactory ver- we guaranteed Com lete list on request, STERNATIONAJ LOOK SERVICE

2. Des Vorur Rid '

Tol. 33035.

HUNDREDS OF

CARPETS

All Sizes-All Qualities

CARPET INDUSTRIES

63. Austin Rd.

KOWLOON.

FOR ALL PROPERTY AND LAND MATTERS consult

STALEY REALTY CO.,

118, Queen's Building.

SAFKIL RAT BAIT

kills rats surely and slowly enough to allow them to get away from building or return to burrows before dying.

Salesmen

are bustling

The bright spring weather has bunt the people, and Fifth-avenue is a parade. Most wotuen are merely window shop- but sales are getting rid of out-of-cate grodik.

Some merchants are expert- with bottl acruss-the-

about The country with sleek samples. tall talk. Smalt priers, and long Living costs last perjods to pay. month took the biggest tumble menting

In nine years, They called me board price seythe slashes, selling

men's suits and overcoats origin Cassandra andt flesh-creeper

£1 for £2 when reported the trend iwly priced £7 to mentle ago. Today the ere less unkind

F. each.

Queues Out

The luxury business is worst The recession has also largely 1:41 of all. The red silk and wiped but the queue, You rare- velvet have vanished from the have to queue any swank restaurants, and few per-smything- exempt

14

11 for

deprall

le bother now to book a table, money at the bank or pay you

Spots Shuttered income tax. The best night clubs are only licking over, and inferior have shutter.

Uni

Chocolate and liquor sales are

down by half from last year.

The New York publican who Arst offered heer at five cents

with his re-election plans.

Mayor O'Dwyer is preoccupied

He did take time off the other day to say New York had be come the fashion centre of the worki

Perhaps has. The women have certainly blossomed out for (38.) a glass has so many comspring with flowered bonnets and

that

he is contemplating slick suits. petitors throwing in hard-boiled eggs to pint-drinkers.

Free lunches -cheese and crackers, sardlines. Sausages, pickles, and onions—are renp-

Women's clothes have the lowest price-range since · 1941- from 43 5s, to 13 15s., and they wil got even cheaper.

While fears multiply like rab-

pearing in the cheaper bars bits, the women are sul defer- particularly the waterfiant hung-mined to dress well. outs.

The Job-huntres are having a tough time, and are taking most anything that is offered.

Even in the Daily Mail's sanal New York office we have had procession of callers looking for work.

My own profession the most acute sufferers,

among

More Alibis

Hollywood's producers are stilti treching alibis and excuses for withdrawing their financial sup- port of the

Academy Awards.

Of course, the decision was in Be way the result of pipe over the Opears going to Britain and American publishing costs have Sir Laurence Olivier this year. Kone up 70 per cent since the The charge is incredible, fantas- war, and many newspapers and fic, unjust, uncalled for, Sp magazines are fighting to keep they say. alive. Hundreds of are out of work.

Journalists

AMERICAN STEEL TYPEWRITER TABLE FOR ALL-PURPOSE AT LOWEST PRICE.

CATHAY TRADING

CO.

316 BANK

OF CANTON BUILDING

RUGS.

TEL: 31676.

All kinds and various sizes" af Tientsin chemical washed and Peking arf rugs, Wholesale

retail at lowest price, GOOD YEAR RUG CO.

Room 208 1st Floor

6 Ifankosy Ioad, Kowloon. Tel. 58982.

in gardening, why not protect: your plants from chewing and sucking insects by using

WONDER SPRAY

Conc. 1-400

Tested and approved by leading greenhouse operators

All now is it seems more than a evinckleure that just as

FAITH SHOES ARE THE BEST

Repairs

Done Ily

Experts.

Orders Taken. FAITH SHOE FACTORY 20, Wyndham Street,

Tel. 28533

LOW PRICE!

Calculators, Typewriters Carbons & Ribbons Repairing Service

The World Typewriter Co. 48, Wellington St., Tel: 20506

"SPEED" 10% DDT INSECTICIDE POWDER

kliis roaches, waterbugs, ants, black carpet beatles, bedbugs floas, lice, silverfish.

Obtain

. 1-lb. canniator

Easy to use just follow the and growers all over U.S.A. from your drugstores today or directions printed от ⚫ the package.

To be used in conjunction direct from with an Atomical" Sprayer.

··

On safe in mil⋅ Drug Staros

RELY - CHEMICALS

Bele Distributors

ST«L': 25615.

Obtainable from

RELY CHEMICALS, 500 -National Bank Bldg.

Tol. 28865. --~-

RELY CHEMICALS:

Sola Distributors

Hoồm 506 National Bank Bldg.

and, Britain,

Portugal, Spain,

such blocs bave a military char- netor and that, from the moment of their creation, the war hos entered its preparatory already phase,

Russian

The New York newspapers say Rudicals and Reds are back in that we have taken the lead in power in American Alm studios. original flim presentation, Holly- And those who opposed the

Dofonders Of Peaco wood just

Its pinkos are being punished. mutters under

Adolphe

the Menjou, one of breath.

M. Fadecv concluded with an

all over "It is difficult to suppress the Our old enemy Ben Hecht is most violent erities of the Left-appeal to intellectuals

and the met; in business and is adapting Wingers, has not been given a the world to unite against the voice of the people,

voices of the people are crying months in any grade | warmongers. "Edge

Doom." a best-selling part for

Madame Eugenie Cotton.

"We for peace." he Enid. Re of film despite his versatility and book here, for the screen.

disgust for war member not to see R.

French scientist and Prealdent animated by akili.

of the International. Democra- We have sought peace su dearly Belvilles

Footnote; of the Despite the

Eng- Oh! to be in

tic Federation of Women, cald that we want keep IL" Congressional Committee on Un-lund, not because the recession is American

are the most do- Reuter. Activities,

that women Tol 2

of here, but because April's there.

Por

I NEVER BOTHER

WITH THE SPEEDOMETER

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WHAT DOES THIS QUEEN LOOK LIKE? WHERE IS SHE?

10.13

I KNOW NO ONE

WHO EVER SAW HER-BUT SHES EVERY PLACE!

• KIRBY

GOOD-BYE NOW, MR. KIRBY...I JUST PACK...T'S BEEN A LOVELY VOYAGE..

AND YOU'VE

EEEN SO

NICE •

DECK

CHIMB

I WAS IN A HOUSE ONCE. A MAN SPOKE HER NAME IN JEST? THE ROOF FELL IN !*

NOT AT ALL! I HOPE TO SEE YOU

ON THE

JOHNNY HAZARD

NO SENSE REHASHING THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF FERN FROST! NOT A PESSINIST... BUT I KNOW

WHEN I'M LICKED/

CHINA MAIL PHOTOGRAPHS

AVAILABLE -

FOR INSPECTION AT

•

CHINA

MAIL OFFICES

WINDSOR HOUSE

LOOK, MKS FROCT...ITE NONE OF MY BUSINESS. BUT WHY DON'T YOU STOP MELTING

IN SELF-PITY AND...

·JANE`

I JUST GO BY THE

POLICEMENS FACES

R.CIMPREJ

to

ате

The limit

yog

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

'I'VE KNOWN OTHERS WHO REFUSED TO OBEY HER. THEY DIDN'T LIVE LONG!"

DID YOUR RUSE

WORK, GIRT

PERHAPS TOO WELL, DES.... THERE WAS BRANDY IN

THE CASK!

AH, THE SUPERIOR MALS ANIMAL SPEAKS... ALLOW ME TO ACQUAINT YOU WITH SOME

FACTS, GIR FIRST 1 I AM

MRS. FROST...

SIR TIMOTHY GAYBOY

WAS A VERY RICH

HUM-AND HE HAS

LEFT EVERYTHING TO YOU!

YOU WILL HAVE A PINE COUNTRY HUM, A TOWN HOUSE, A STRUNG]

OF RACE HORSES, A YACHT, AND—HUM— INTERESTS IN MANY "THRIVING COMPANIES!

IF NO ONE. 1SEES HEA, HOW DOES SHE GIVE ORDERS?

-THROUGH HER

NIGHT RIDERS! THEY'RE ALMOST AS FEARFUL AS SHE IS GET OUT

WHILE YOU CAN?!

By ALEX RAYMOND THEN WE'VE FAILED YOH, I WOULDN'T SAY THAT TO SPOT THE BANDAR EXACTLY, I MUST SEND A RADIOGRAM TO OUR RUBIES, SIR!

FRIENDS ASHORE...

By FRANK ROBBINS

OF MORE ACCURATELY,

I WAS BUT I DON'T

WEAR A WIDOW CORROW ON MY SLEEVE, 'CAUSE I DON'T WANT

ANYBODY PITY/

BUT I CAN'T

HMMM, GORRY... BUT I'M STILL LISTENING FOR & SOME MORS OF THOSE FACTS/

UNDERSTAND IT, MR FUSTY!) HUM - DEAR LADY" | SOWER~PUSSE,

IT'S EMBARRASSING TD GET ALL THIS FROM,

SOMEBODY ONE HAS

NEVER MET!

YOU NEED NOT-Y LADY AGATHA

THERE IS NO OTHER CLAIMANT

SIRI