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ALL THE ADVENTURES A MAN CAN LIVE--HE LIVES!

BURT LANCASTER-VIRGINIA MAYO

pachecaning echoed het al during warnetched by

TECHNICOLOR

FLAME ARROW

AND: THE

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STAR

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EMENTATY WARNERUNDE

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DANNY KAYE

Shoots the works in ''

Inspector General

6Warner Bros: All-time Comedy Kayo!

WALTER SLEZAK

Mwaka Mits

JUCA

suck

Songs! Dancing! Such Funt

ip

Technicolor

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Crisis In Men's Clothes

"Dressing for

the occa-

sion" is going to be the theme of a men's clothing campaign in 1951, according to an article in the Decem- ber issue of Style for Mon.

It says there is a "crisis in men's clothes" which is not dva basically to purchase tax or high wool prices but to the slovenly, aloppy, and untidy clothes stan- dards of Englishmen.

Ono reason for this, the writer says, is "a reaction against uni- forms and a

to 'cockr

a snook" or re

Titin

Ls particularly

have

unfor-

tunate at a time when "British women

nover looked marter and better dressed." Women, he is convinced, would welcome a revival of smartness in men.

The article deprecates the wearing of aannel trousers and sweaters on theatrical first nights, and asks: "In the trade ou to accept this appalling national carelessness? We can fight and defeat it it we act with a clear sense of our immediate objective. This is to get men Interested in clothes. Considera- tlon of "the finer points of style" must come later,

RECORD IN

•

BRITISH CAR PRODUCTION

British motor production JERRY WALD HENRY KOSTER and exports continue to rise. Statistics, issued by NEXT CHANGE (3rd JAN.)

the Society of Motor Manu- facturers and Traders show that motor vehicle output in October reached a weekly average of 11,350 cars a record figure-and 5,470 commercial vehicles.

BETTE DAVIS

PAUL LUKAS

in "WATCH ON THE RHINE"

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• FIRST SHOWING IN HONGKONG

"NEW CZECHOSLAVIA”

IN GLORIOUS COLOR - MANDARIN VERSION AN U.S.S.R. SUPER PRODUCTION

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This compares with a week- ly average in September of 9,908 cars and 4,897 commercial vehicles. For the nine months from Jan. 1 to Sept.

NO SNAPS IN THE ALBUM SHOW GRANDMA LOOKING LIKE THIS

Dress rehearsal for Chelsea Arta Ball by Croydon Art School students. Their show was a skit on the last 100 years of fashion.. Left to right are Rita Diamond (1851 Bustle), Rosemary Jacob (Naughty Nineties), Wendy (London Crosley (Bustle Girl), Ann Disbury and Esme Ketley (Suffragettes).

Express Service).

SMALLEST POLICE FORCE

AWAITS NEW

By J. W. Taylor

POSTING

The smallest police force in the world is likely to get a new posting

30 the in the near future. It comprises two sergeants, and eight constables sup-

weekly figures were 0,904 cors

BOYS AND

MAGAZINE

A Bull That Was Named Horace

-Ho Belonged to Punch's Grandfather-

By MAX TRELL

VES," Mr Punch was say-

"YES

ing to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, "you may talk all you like about Ilona and tigers and other wild ani- mals, But the wildest animal

over know was Horace." "Horace?" said Hanid.

"Who was Horace?" asked Knart.

Mr Punch smiled. "Horace was a bull. He was black with white spots, Не belonged to my grandfather. He lived in n big feld behind my. frand- father's house. There Was high fence around Horaco's feld. That was to keep Horace from taking a walk outside his field. I always felt BOTTY Ho ran

Horace, In the meadow,

zallroad

on the for Horace because he couldn't tracks," replied Mr Punch, “and ever leave his field. Finally I walled for the locomotive to spoke to my grandfather about come up. I yanked on the rope letting Horace out. But grand- around Horace's neck with all father said no."

my might. But it did no good. I couldn't get Horace tracks."

"Why?" asked Knart.

Vory Bad Tamper "Grandfather

sold Horaco had, a very bad temper. He was sure that If Horace got

off the

"And what happened?"

A Loud Noiso

"Horace and the locomotive

out of his deid he would cause met," Mr Punch said in a sað a lot of troubic, like pushing voice. "There was a loud noise. things over, and making peo I shut my eyes. When Хорсп- plo climb up trees to gel out ed them again, Horace was of his way, and bellowing and my side and the locomotive roaring and snorting up and was lying at the bottom of the down the town. I said I was hill. I

hill. I certainly felt sorry for suro Horace would behave that

that locomotive Horace. you

had pushed sec, Grandfather said, well, Then we went into town. I tled a strong rope around first thing Horace did Horace's neck and held on to knock down several lamp- Horace with all my might, and posts and telephone poles. He kept him away from China did it accidentally. They hap- shops, in that case it would be men he chased

to be in his way.

man all around

all right to tako Horace for a little walk."

it too hard.

The

was to

Д

the

police- block.

to бау

Knart was about to ask why Horace only wanted Horace had to be kept

away

hello 10 him,

but

the police-

from Chinn shops. But Mr man didn't understand hun. Punch took a deep breath and Then

went on.

Horace felt D little thirsty, so

into he went

asked for a

1

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and

"That afternoon I got a good drug-store stout rope, opened the gate to glass of water. Everybody ran Horace's field and went in.

out of

of the drug-store. That was Horace was eating some grass

Horace

didn't into the

at the

other end of the field.ouse Ho

He looked up when he saw me through the door. He went in coming but he didn't say any through the window. thing. He didn't snort, or rour, worst

thing of all happen or bellow,

when Horace passed the anything.

He when

was alled and let me shop.

or Just stood there

They have a distinctive uniform of

and 5,020 commercial vehicles. plied by the General and Municipal Workers' Union to keep law and

October exports were highest in

of

shipment

of

530 vehicles sent abroad were worth £6,200,000, word

Interests

of

the industry's his-order at Billingsgate Fish Market. tory for the value any their own and carry truncheons. single monthly

As far back as 1947. it was Billingsgate even has its own commercial vehicles. The 13,- This fish mart, the most

During the ancient market belonging to agreed in principle that in the poets who compose and print the satisfactory | the Cockney verses which ap- of that ex- the Corporation of London development 30,780 cars were

part of pear on the stout paper bags agricultural and pivot of Britain's fish the City in which it was situated, hanging in the fish shops. This

business has been carried should be moved. the market new record supplies, has long caused A more recent alternative, not for a century by the Hancock

that a family. and chaos be entirely rejected, was

be built at the Sep- congestion tember and 0,356 as the cause of its close proximity quay should. average monthly production for to the traffic streams in the the Arst nine months of

London Bridge area. year.

month

ported.

Production of tractors reached a in October with 280-against 10,871

total of 11,-

for

the

A British

Crossword Puzzle

123

24

26

ACROSS

3 Incarcerate.

8 Mask.

9 Place of residence

11 Tormented.

12 Artifice.

13 Evil spirit.

18 Appointments.

19

A songbird.

22

Helped

24 Entire.

25 Disclose,

20 Rebate.

1 Revises.

2 Sting.

DOWN

3 Prevailed upon.

4 African mixed race.

5 Incursion.

6 Mettic.

'Required.

10

Earn

14 Dance.

16 Mila

16 Gentle

17 Vagrants.

20 Scatter.

21 Confuse.

23 Volco

23 Overwhelm

SATURDAY'S' CROSSWORD: Across-3 Seraphic, 7 Overt, B Eclipses, 10 Propel, 19 Secedes, 15 Fice, 17 Violent, 18 Wastroi, 20 Aye, 21 Refutes, 20 Nature, 27 Dissects, 20 Trito, 20 Resolves. Down Roamps, 2 Modoc, 3 Steed, 4 Acid, B Hustle, 6 Coa- set, 0 Clever, 11 Repay, 12 Felta, 14 Silent, 15 Flout, 16 Enter, 18 Warder, 19 Senees, 22 Fasts, 23 Tulip, 24 Sewer, 25 Poel.

FERDINAND

market.

Most favoured solution at the mament is to move it to a new site in North London. This is kely to be near King's Cross and

which Euston Stations, handle most of London's fish supplies.

The name Billingsgate is tra- ditionally believed to be al corruption of Belin's Gate, Belin being the legendary King of the Britons who rebuilt the clty wall and put gate in it,

on

HUNGARIANS MAY NOT RUMBA

Young Hungarians

are

providing the only opening being told by their Com- giving access to London on the munist leaders what, and

south side.

There is little doubt that for nearly two thousand years

fish market has existed on the

what not, to dance. This is

to ensure that "imperialist

cast of London Bridge influence may be driven When building excavations from the social pleasures

site

in the hundreds of tons of

were made in the area

of Hungary."

chells were found. Ex- Guidance in given in the perts decided that they had Hungarian magazine, Cultured been dumped there by

the

to make the founda People. It classifies dances ar Romans tions of one of the earliest follows: landing stages at Billingsgate.

COVERED UP

As the years passed the stalls

Waltz and polka: tional, democratic."

Tango, foxtrot, slow

Tradi

foxtrot

of the fishmongers trading in and English waltz: "Reflectiona the area were superseded by of the capitalist decline which the more permanent structures cannot be classed with American of sheds and shops, and up to dances. They may be danced

12

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bother drug-store

But the

all with plates and dishes and

(as all

und

put the rope around his neck. China shops are)

as a lamb. I and glasses He was a gentle know he was going to behave cups and vases and bowls and himself

jors. Horace just ran in to look

them....G

..Grandfather Was

never

"And did he?" Hanid want at ed to know.

right. Horar

Mr Punch sighed. "It wasn't bave really Horace's fault. It was Punch. just that he didn't know

should

Cut

gone in," alghed, Mr

"When he come how again, everything in the China was. Wc started shop was broken. And all he did

In and strong be walking down the road. All of was just to run

run no around, and a sudden Horace heard some-

right

out

No

one else snorting and roaring.

ing. again. Poor, poor Horace.

I guess he thought it was one over

another bull like himself. But walk ar ook him for another

It

19 Punchi,

"Mr wasn't. It was a locomotive

puffing up the hill with a lot really true?”

this story Knorf demand-

of cara behind it. Poor ed. But all Mr Punch would do Horace!"

"What did he do, Punch?"

was to sigh deeply again and

Mr murmur: "Foor, poor, Uttic

Horacel"

Rupert's Autumn Primrose~13

Inside the cottage Mr. Dear primroses in it she would give the other one to Edward, so I must mares in bewilderment at Rupert's

hurry and look for somt."

What I prize. "Gracious, I've ever seen

Primroses in autumn?

12′′ miles his anything quite like that!" she

Mother. But Rupert has already **Isn't it lovely says the

On the Common a started out, gaps.

little black dog passes him. little bear eagerly. "There wer

**There's only two of them at the Fair so it "Hallo," he thinks must be procious. And the Gipay Jock the Soete. Where can he lady said if I brought it bacle with have been?

ALL RIGHTS REJERVED

a century ago the market was with taste. They cannot fula SIDE GLANCES

still a mass of these. It

Inevitable that business expan-the aims of the workers, but it to fight against sion should cause covered is too early

market to be bullt at a cost, in them.

1874 of

of £270,000.

Of. the

at many curiosities

Modern dances-swing, sazba, Billingsgate quite the most in rumba, conga, boogie-woogieo teresting is the porters hats and the like "are tools of Made by one man, they are

constructed to enable the porters

aggression let loose by the

to carry two hundredweight of bosses of

America against

fish on their heads. Each hat human culture and progress."

made of five pounds of hard leather, 400 brass rivets and 300

nx, the af

complete wax, headgear taking eight hours to be born make. The brim is permanent Communists

"It is insisted that a now, Communist danco culturo must on Soviet lines. The

deprecate

12 is not ly upturned to catch the water tremism: They say

and necessary for Hungarian youth dripping from the boxes, the crown 14 padded with to dance "In overalls and with a special paper, soft but strong, hammer clenched in the hand." daviation." A hat costs a portor £5 10s, This in a "Leftish

must find "happy but its life la from 25 to 80 Dancers years.

medium."

By Mik

By Galbraith

ODEN, VIRS STYRKA DESUDE MÀ. 7. IN MES, VI, NOR, OFK

"Could you givò a sermon about businessman who never take their wivan anywhere?"