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THE

"CHINA "MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

1930.

TO-DAY

ONLY

Queen's

(AT 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

LASTNUK KAME ORGANIZATION PATIENTS.

JEREMY SPENSER.

KATHLEEN BYRON

GUY ROLFE

PRELUDE TO FAME

OPENS

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The Egyal Philharmonic Orchestra

A TWO CITIES FILM

M-G-M's Now Technicolor Flostal

TO-MORROW "TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS"

Kathryn GRAYSON

AIR-CONDITIONED

Mario LANZA David NIVEN

ROXY Adventure

HERE'S

Starting

LON

McCALLISTER

1

OPENING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 &

9.30 P.M.

THAT HURLS A CHALLENGE ACROSS THE SCREENI

BOB Son of Battle

TECHNICOLOR!

➡ PEGGY ANN GARNER - EDMUND GWENN • REGINALD OWEN Drected by LOUIS KING • Produced by ROBERT BASSLER

ROXY

arfectly Air-Conditionsd

Joseph

COTTEN

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Action Hitl

BROADWAY

NEXT CHANGE

Linda

Cornell Joff DARNELL CHANDLER WILDE

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in

"TWO FLAGS WEST" A 20th Century-Fox Picture

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Tako Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus

Final Showing To-day: 2.30-5.30-7.30 & 9.30 p.m. Big Blaxa of Warner Excitement Picturo!

BRIGHT LEAF COOPER BACAL MEAL

SPECIAL FOR TO-MORROW: "INSPECTOR GENERAL”

4 SHOWS

TO-DAY

Cathay

!

Lawrence Rejected Bank Post

อง a

"go-

Lord Rennell, at the an- nual dinner of the Charter- ed Institute of Secretaries in London, read a letter ho had received between" from T. E. Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia) de- offer by the clining an Governor of the Bank of England, Mr Montagu Nor- man, as he

then

was, in

November 1934, to become secretary of the Bank,

"tho

Lawrenco, who knew that in the following February RAF would to on its way without me, wrote: "I shall lost without

feel unutterably

bluc covering.

my

Twelvo

years it has been, of engrossing work with a

very

happy com- panionship for the off duty Forty-six I am and hours never yet had a whole week of leisure. What will for ever' feel like, and can I use it all?" After referring to the cottage

at Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset, into which he was about to move, Lawrence added: "Now to

That business,

enclosed message ought to have been instantly dealt with by a plain Will you please 'Yes' or 'No.' say 'No' for me, but not a plain No. Make it coloured 'No.' Explain that I have a (If only I have chance

the guts to take it) of next year possessing all my time,"

Lord Rennell explained. that the late Lord Norman thought, as some of those present might think, that a man possessing Lawrence's qualities would have well filled the post. Had ho accepted the offer they might have had him as their president that evening.

DEVICE WILL HEAR FISH

CLEARING THE AIR OF "SPIRITS'

With the smoke almost blinding them and the noise shattering their ear- drums, about 50 members of the Christmas Shooting Society fire their ancient blunderbusses near Berchtesgaden, Germány. They are supposed to be clearing the air of "evil spirits” for the Yule season.

THE COL. AND THE

SERVED NEARLY 100

By J. W. Taylor

PTE.

YRS.

BOYS AND

A Wonderful House Indeed

-The Worm Could Add a Room Just By Eating-

By MAX TRELL DLINKY Mole was entertain-

Br

ing a group of his friends in his underground apartment (it was under the roots of the old Apple Treo), and the talk turned to the different kind of houses that folks lived in.

"Of course," Blinky himself wald as he looked around and smiled at Kourt and Hanld, the Shadows with the turned- about names, who were sitting with all the other company

Tond, Willy

andl Beetle, and Glive the Snail, and two or three pill-bugs, doodle-bugs and earthworms-

Blackclo

"of course, Knarf and Hanid,

I'm not talking about the

regular houses that people live Willy and Glivo were having an

in. I don't mean houses with

roofa and walls and windows

ATSISDÉ

and doors and furnaces and who was dressed in a long wallpaper and carpets and brown pair of overalis with pictures on the walls. I mean one leg, started to speak. "I creatures houses-houses Ike had a drlena dnco-??

But Willy and Glive and

the one I'm living in now."

the

"I like your house, Blinky," Blackle Beetle and "the" pull- Hanld sald promptly. "It's un- buga and doódió-bugs didn't der the ground and it gets a seem very interested, in“ what little damp,

wanted to say, I suppose, in the the earthworm rain. But it has nico big rooms "I had a good friend once » and lots of them!"

the carthworm started again Lot of Work

in a louder voice, "He had a "Blinky built it all himself," very pretty house in an apple- Willy Toad said. "There's lot of work to building a house,

Had A Friend Now take me, even a little' one.

Knart and Hanid and Blinky for instance, I don't even bother Mole all shouted for everyone! living in a house. I find’my-'to be quiet. "Listen to thinl self a nice vacant_toadstool" in "Knart "kaid. Earthworm had a place where the flea and the a friend once who lived in- mosquitoes come. And that's aide an apple." my hottse!"

"Yes," said the worm, "this "Sheer laziness" grumbled friend of mine's house was in- Gilve the Small. "Toads are the side an apple. Or, to be more laziest creatures in the world!" exnet, the house was the apple "Now just a minute!" said and my friend-he was a worm Willy, starting to get indignant, like myself only a good deal 10" may

be too lazy to build smaller-lived inside the apple. myself a house, but it doesn't He had a door and a window take me all week to walk in his apple-house.

"And across the road, like it does apple hung from a branch of [you!"

the apple-tree. You can't Glive the Small paid no at- imagine a prettier, more airy. tention to this remark. He was more. pleasant little house in to everyone calling at the whole wide world. The

He didn't mind what anyone morning and the afternoon te any sing right at his doorstep. believe We were When the wind blew, the house talicing about housen,“ Give swayed like a swing. But when began again.

"I don't care to it rained, not a "drop of rain. boast or anything like that came inside. But the best But when it comes to having a thing about my friend's apple- It is housed in a box not much Private Carter, who is General J. M. L. Grover (TA)-escaped and were at no small house-well built house was this. He could cat

light enough to carry just the wallal" When it is switched on fisher- the oldest serving soldier in presented him with a silver liberty for three months.

They were recaptured and room enough for mo-there's no

"What!" cried everyone, men get a constantly changing the British Army, was re- tankard and an illuminated eventually released by the house like my house!"

"Yeshe could cat the walls, "picture" of underwater condi-cently honoured when the address. Four former com-Americans in April 1945. A "I don't like the idea much and the floor and the celling, tions up to 120 fathoms.

whole Regiment paraded at manding officers of the Re-year later Colonel Watson went of carrying my own house too, for that matter. The Shoals of fish show as a heavy the barracks whilst Major giment were on parade to to BAOR as a staff officer and along with me," Blackie Beella moment he felt hungry, ng black smudge on the screen.

was sent home to start the 4th said.

"A house is something nibbled a dinner not only East Yorks. Regt (TA) the you come to, not something his own house but out of hi following year.

that comes with you."

own houset And the more he "Besides," put in Willy, nibbled, the more room be His decorations include the "you can't ever go out of your made for himself. You should

the house.

have seen the parlour he made

himself or "Yes, Glive, you're always et for

perhaps I should зар dining-room----just "Anything wrong with that?" by eating!" No one said much your house you're glad to be They knew that no one they unowered Glive. "If you like after the earthworm finished. knew had a house 'as' wonder-

Inshore shermen may soon

be getting better, catches by

The Army is to lose two veterans who between them have had nearly 100 years of service. They are Lieutenant-Colonel Quartermastered George Hedley Watson, of Hull, who has retired after 43 years' service,tention to how slow he was, birds used to come in the new British echo-sounder has and Private A. ("Old Nick" to his friends) Carter, of Copthorne Bar- sald about his slowness

isracks, Shrewsbury, who, the Army says, must retire next January, when sence of herring, sprats he will have completed 50 years' service with the King's Shropshire Light

Infantry.

sound.

After 18 months' research, a

been produced which, St claimed, will detect the pre- pilchards.

от

The instrument costs £310. I

larger than a biscuit tin.

12

A British

Crossword

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At 2.30, 5.30,

7.30 9.30 P.M.

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THE GREAT WALL SUPER PRODUCTIONI "PEASANT TAKES A WIFE"

Dialogue in Mandarin

NEXT CHANGE: AN U.S.S.R. SUPER PRODUCTIONI

1 Feast

ACROSS

28 Distributed 29 Nented

5 Reprobation

Metric measure Spasmodic

10. Diminish

11 Mediterranean island

12 Fing

Willow

18 Grlevo at

18 Shuns

- in Mandarin

20 Fight

"THE SON OF A REGIMENT”

Dialogue

22 Worry

25

29: Discovers

Lariat

20 Festival 27 Spirit

DOWN

1 Ia enough

3 Servant

3. Mineral salt Expanded

5 Speakers

• Adulterate

7 Loosen

14 Repeats

16 Replaced

16 Sympathy

17 Well-bred

10 Slave

21 Hunt

24 Auction

Puzzle

05

TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD.--Across: 3 Dram, 7 Major, 8 Elan, 0 Flaw, 10 Epicuro, 12 Siam, 15 Opera, 18 Erso, 19 Llama, 21 Trade, 22 Fied, 23 Talon, 20 Omen, 20 Retinue, 80 Anew, 31 Ring, 32 Knead, 33 Sham: Down: 1 Happy, 2 Concord, 4 Ruler, 5 Mews, 0 Gala, 0 Free, 11 Upsot, 19 Load 14 Moat, 10 Allof, 17 Otto, 18 Ense, 20 Leniezt,~ 22′ Flow, 24 Arena, 25 Rural, 27 Main, 29 Nagn. “

FERDINAND

salute him.

"Old Nick" had his drs! ceremonial parade at the ddath

morc.

of Queen Victoria and served in Military Cross and three wars. In another two Territorial Decoration with has three years Carter, model soldier and four bars, and he pride of the barracks, could add mentions in despatches to his home," said Hanid. another good conduct stripe to

credit. Two of his daughters the ten already on his left sleeve were formerly in the WAAF and and start a third row of medals a third is now at Burniston at home" on his tunic front with two Barracks, Scarborough, with the more for long service and good WRAC.

conduct.

- His close-cropped white hair

bristles when you mention his

pending retirement. "That's what they call it," he grunts, "but it strikes me I'm kind o'

Tramps' King

being chucked out. I'm as it Goes Home

as a Addle."

Soon he will be plain Mr

Carter and will reside in a room Tramping the roads of Brl-

in the shadow of the barracks |tain again after a year's Con- to spend the rest of his days.tinental tour is Fred Husbands, At night he will call in turn at self-styled King of Tramps, the four locals for his foaming nightcap dead at his usual time so that the landlords know the

hour the instant he walks in.

IN TWO WARS

Lieutenant Colonel Watson served in two world wars and

was taken prisoner by Rommel in North Africa. After serving

It is a somewhat different Mr Husbands, however, for he now calls himself Frederick G.

| Kendall-Husbands, World PU- grim No. 1. and sports a red beard.

Before he left Britain he walked 150,000 miles sinco

in the 1914 war in France, when 1930. He wrote "Tramps' he was commissioned in the field Charter," advocating new legis- and became a captain, he relation for the men of the roads, turned to England.

Later he and sent it to the Minister of rejoined the Army as a private Health, in the 4th East Yorkshires and

While abroad he took · to,

was again commissioned, finally writing poetry. In Rome he rising to lieutenant-colonel

quartermaster-one of thres in claims to have had a personal the British Army in 1947.

audience with the Pope 03-A result of which bo`la now a missionary among the tramps of Britain.

He was at Dunkirk, later went to, the Middle East, and in 1842 was captured by Rommel at Gazala. Within Ave minutes of

"I left Dover · with :36, shill- being made prisoner, he and an-ings in my pocket at the end 'other officer were Interviewed of 1049," he said. "I walked by Rommel, who asked them 12,000 miles in Europe and can several questions.

now speak fluent Italian, What I want now is a place of silence

He was transferred to Italy where I can write in peace. whero ho and two brother shall possibly have to go to Ire officers Major Huddleston and land to find it. My book will Major Field, both now serving bo called 'Tramping Through

the 4th East Yorkshires Britain Under Socialin

in

Extinguished Service

By Mik

1

Here one of the earthworms, ful as that!

Rupert's Autumn · Primrose-5

Rupert and Edward are thrilled at going to the Fair with their new Friends. The gentleman pays for everything and "the 'Bide it leads the way as they go on the switch. back and the dodgems and the helenakelter and the roundabouts and throw at coconuts and skittles.

At last they stop for bugs and ices. and the gentleman smiles. time for us to go now." he says, but you can stay for a while it you like, so here's a shilling for each of you to have some more fun by yourselves. Mind you don't get into any mischief." And next mirute the two pals are alone. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

A GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS

- A JOY FOR YEARS

.TO COME ...

A CARPET FROM

CARPET INDUSTRIES

65 AUSTEN de fej (MI VYAN

10-20

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