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HOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2:30, -5.15.

QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

THE DIC MUSICAL! ON THE SCREEN AT LASTI

M-C-M's

“ANNIE GET YOUR GUN”

TECHNICOLOR

BETTY HUTTON HOWARD KEEL

IRVING BERLIN, • impoers më ila namgu, sepa "Longratulatiewe M-6-31 £0% the best juð ræet. Masterring a stage musica? to che

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Khas Kaart Jet s then tot e Tetr

LEE Theatre

AIR CONDITIONED, OZONIZED AND WARM.

Le Bar Beat

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY

4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Romance Between Teacher And Pupil

It Could Happen In Any School!

www.

(ANYM NA PALJENI

MU ZETTERLING HUGH WILLIAMS MAROGI GRAHAME PETULA CLARK

THE ROMANTIC AGE,

LEE MAJESTIC

CONDITIONED

ONIZED AND WAS

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

LOVER...

PIRATE...

HERO... KIKOI

TECHNICOLOA

COLUMBIA PICTURES presenta

LAST OF THE BUCCANEERS

starflar

with

PAUL HENREID. JACK CAKIE

KULIN BOOTH «MARY AKOCILSON-Wittum for the Screen by Rubert & Fan1 • Produced by Sow Katzman - Diacled by Lew Landıra

BERTY

THEATRE

FINAL TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

HATTER'S

CASTLE

ROBERT NEWTON DEBORAH KERR EMLYN WILLIAMS JAMES MASON

"EHID STAMP-TAYLOR

BEATRICE VARLEV HEWRY OSCARS

ADDED ATTRACTION

"LADY

TAKES

BIGGEST HOLIDAY RUSH

aro ex-

The biggest Continental holiday rush since before the war is on. While thou- sands of visitors pected to pour into Britain for the Festival, thousands of Britons will be going out to Belgium, Normandy, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.

Travel agoncico gay Wielr booldngs for the Continent aro double Inst year's already figure at this time.

agencica These

are able to offer cheaper holidays abroad this year because of conces- gions by British and Continental railways.

Charges

for the special

trairs which ngencies charter of holiday-makers

for groups oups

have been cut from 20 percent

to 40 percent,

A fortnight in

Switzerland

which cost £40 last year will

cost £12 less this year.

It may be the travel agen-!·

cies best season ever.

Most popular

Austria,

choice 19

But thousands have booked

at for Switzerland Easter, in May and in October. There are many inquiries for Germany, but accommodation on the Rhine is limited.

BOAC TO USE

JETS SOON

Before the end of the year BOAC and DEA passenters some routes may be flying on

Preparations

in jet airliners. are

now being made

Iwo corporations

by the 10 change

over to the new aircraft, which will include the Comet

Viscount,

and

Orst

The Comel, Britain's pure-jet airliner, will start ex- BOAC flying for

Airport next the the autumn, production models on the

perimenta!

ut

London

month, By

first of 14

Pedestrians take to plank walks to cross the famous St Mark's Square after high tides sent canal waters over their banks in Venice, Italy. More than a foot of water flooded the square, closing shops, and giving gondoliers an unexpected rush of business. (Acme).

Comet Goes

Trip

On Cairo This Year

THIS year should see Britain take the world lead in putting jet airliners into regular passenger service. Before January is out Comet No. 3 will be flying; next month British Overseas Airways are to get their first Comet to try out over their routes.

Towards the end of the There three "skippers," Cap- tain M.R. Alderson, Captain A. the first passenger M. Majendie, and Captain E. E

y car

should be in operation

They each carry carrying 500 m.p.h. four Rodicy, have already flown the

Cairo route.

will Comet several times under the airliner six miles take off from London Air- direction of Group Captain John

Cunningham, de Havilland's | port for Cairo..

chief test pilot.

40 passengers, cruise at nearly jet-engined 600 mph, and fly high.

13

ob run

OLIVIERS

General Tin's Tall Tale

-It Was About the First Long-Nocked Girafféan

By MAX TRELL

"Dm I over

tell you," Bald Generni Tin. the soldier, to Knarf and Honid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, "about the poor little giraffe with the long noci?"

Knart and Hania first looked at each other, then looked at General Tin. "But, General. dear," said Hanid, "all giraffes have long necks!"

That's why they're giraffeal'' sald Knart. "If they had short necks they'd be something else." General Tin smiled and nod- But this was ded. "True, true.

all very long ago, before giraffes The giraffe's band reached up las

had long necks. You wouldn' have

recognised them at all You really would have thought they were another kind of on- mai; something like a big goat. But let me tell you about this one poor little giraffe who had a long neck."

the trees.

"So Baby Giraffe didn't seem to mind having such a long neck. But Popa and Mamma Giraffe stayed up nights trying to think of some way to make his neck grow short again. But nothing they could

Long Nocks Knarf and Hanld now said there was they were very eager to hear thinks of except, perhaps, to tie this story. It had seemed to a knot in his neck, which won't them that giraffes always had any good because it made him long necks. They both begged feel tight and choky. And so his the General to go on.

neck kept growing longer and "Well," began General Tin, longer, stretching up higher and "here was this family of giraffes higher until he could easily -Papa and Momma and Baby over the tops of fairly good- Giraffe all living with several sized trees. Indeed, it began to other families of giraffes hun- be dimcult for him to get his dreds of miles from our house, head down in the grass, for he in a country where there was had to spread his forelegs far lots of room and hardly anyone apart and lower his head slowly to bother them except now and to keep his balance. then hungry lion or an even hungrier tiger.

If a lion or a

happy.

High Up

"They were all very

"But because his head was so tiger came after.

high up, Baby Giraffe began very them, they all ran off

being able to spy Hons and swiftly. But the most important

any of the thing was that there was plenty igers long before

*** others did. That seemed like a of juicy green grass to gruze on.

Papa There were no fences, no stone very handy thing. His

and Momma began saying, walls, no ditches, no zoos, no Well, maybe it isn't quite as hunters just lots of grass and awful as we thought.

But it

nouig else to do but to move

H does look queer!' with their heads deep in it and their teeth going chop- "And then

really terrible

It didn't rain But one day thing happened. chop and Momma as they ate.

Giraffe for weeks and weeks Papa

and noticed something strange hap- months and months. All the

RETURN TO pening to Baby. His neck was grass

ENGLAND

for

dried

were

where

up. There Was growing longer than the rest of nothing for the giraffes to eat him.

any of the giraffes, that He suddenly "Of Course," General Tin said, is, except Baby The Viscount, a four-engine

plans

leaves of BEA's

are to start Present airliner,

The one they will get for their

"this"

was really very worrisome discovered that the jet-prop

the Comet operations to Cairo, and trials is the second of the two

green, for It will

for Papa and Momma. It wasn't the trees remained choice.

to Calcutta ordered for experimental work Sir Laurence Olivier and

roots of the trees longer shuttle services to the then extend them

that Baby's sweaters or shirts the and to by the Ministry of Supply. It'

him any deep or collars didn't at

the ground under Continent, cruising a 300 mph. and then to Australia

Examples of jet age travel South Africa, a BOAC spokes- is equipped with test apparatus. his wife, actress Vivien to London

more, or that they had to stand there was still water. And with Leigh, returned

on a step-ladder to put, on his his long neck he had no trouble London: from

Australia by man said.

Comet No. 3, which is to fly

They landed at hat. He didn't wear any of those whatever reaching them recently. Comet

me" said (Present in 40 hours,

At their headquarters at this month, is actually the first

that was so BOAC's time 32 days by Constellation); Brentford,

special of the BQAC order, and

things. after Tilbury from a French cargo

envied him thing

that he began the other giraffes Paris

50 minutes by Viscount Comet light of three pilots are its flight trials by de Havillands, vessel, the Wyoming, after

and then! And how grateful they (Now 100 minutes journey); making their plans to take over will be delivered to the corpora-

1 five-week voyage from New York eight hours by the Comet next month and to tien in the summer, followed by Comet

(Now 17 hours by begin the tests that will go on others. Stratocruiser).

HO

for several months.

A British Crossword

17 118

120

25

13

Puzzle

13

14

TO-MORROW

A BATH”

"FIERY PHOENIX” LA

A Chinese Picture in Mandarin Dialogue

MAJESTIC 7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

ACROSS

1 Base of a column.

4 Bedeck.

7 Unbroken,

a Throw out.

10 Military station.

12 Omen.

15 Tapestry.

16 Card stake.

17 CAM

17 Glut

19 Send.

18

1 Royal lady.

Stow away.

5 Fit one into another.

û Notract.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

BIODERT and RAYMOND HAKIM,

LARAINE DAY DANE CLARK FRANCHOT TONE

AT 2.30, 5.20,

Without Honor

AGNES MODREHEAD BRUCE BENNETT

"ADDED! LATEST WARNER PATHE NEWS.

NEXT CHANGE! ........ PAUL HENREID

in "LAST of the BUCCANEERS”

Color by Technicolor

COMING! “PATRICK THE GREAT"

21

20 Ssited.

23 Sights intentionally.

24 Gibberish....

California.

The

so me,TM

"Dear

General Tin,

worrisome was looking so odd-so gawky clumsy. When he ran or played were to Baby when he plucked and let them the green looves. Lag with the other little giraffes, Olivier has shaved of the

he always looked as though he fell on the ground for the others Already the two prototype moustache he wore there for a were about to topple over. But to pick up! No orie made fun of

him Не Down Comets have

more than film. The voyage was “a per-

or other he didn't,

any more oh no!" fost as 520 hours.

"And did all the other giraffes fect rest," he and his wife said.

their necks Only three

other passengers the others. And in a race, he then try to make on board. The Oliviers always

stick his long?" Hanid asked, "And how managed to taught them Canasta, won small head way out, so that he would did they all get long?" But

come in first with his head even General Tin didn't seem

Or IL though the rest of him was far hear what Hanid said.

could be that he didn't know! behind.

REUNION OF 24 DIV

When survivors of the British 24th Division-it was raised at the beginning of the first World

Korea.

were

sums

They also played shume- board, read books and wrote

letters.

30 PIECES

War and disbanded immediately Between them the Oliviers after-held their annual reunion hod 30 ploces of luggage. Iu in London recently, it was de-drive to London Miss Leigh cided to send a message to the wore a full-sleeved mink coct American 24th Division In ever a black barathea suit; slie had gold earrings, black dutch Major-general Sir John Cap bonnet and low-heeled shoes,

Sir Laurence is 09, and the only per, who

wore a canary surviving former GOC, sent sweater under a brass-buttoned congratulations to the American navy yachting jacket, and grey force with n replica of the flannelst

added a to these he divisional emblem.

wine knitted scarf, biscuit tweed fagian coat.

Buck has come a reply from Major-general John H. Church, of the commanding general American division: "I am having your letter published to entire division." He, Lao, closes his unit's shoulder flash,

the

en-

Regretfully, they left on board stowed cream kitten which away when the Oliviers joined the ship at San Pedro, Cali-

Oliviers' fornia,

The

own Siamese cat wis at Tilbury to

The British 24th produced meet them. two of the best-known literary

works of the 1914-18 war. Both WHAT WOULD YOU READ? Gilbert Frankau (author of

"Peter Jackson,

25 Show in.

26 Beautiful.

(nuthor were in it,

DOWN

flint.

Puzzle.

11

Preface.

12

13 Ravel.

14 Trend,

18 Makes reparation.

22 Pudding ingredient.

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Parallel, 8 Tar- tan, Inimical, 11 Lemonade, 12 Mere, 13 Debar, 18 Relax, 19 Omen, 22 Dismount, 24 Prétence, 20 Annexe, 20 MIltant, Down: Stole, 2 Cramp, 3 Painter, 4 Anna, 5 Acme, 6 Lackey, 7 Lulled, 10 Ideal, 14 Begin, 15 Raiment, 18 Pompom, 17 Re- veal, 20 Mused, 21 Steel, 22 Dett, 23 Scan.

FERD NAND

of "Journey's

End")

Cigar Mer- What books would you choood chant") and R. C. Sherriff to read on a five-weeks' trip?

Both the Oliviera read the complete works of hard-drinking Fitz- American author Scott Gerald, who died nearly 10

Vivien

Leigh also read a volume of short plays by Ten- Williams, nessee ("Streetcar") and several by James Bridle.

Her husband read through a pile of play scripts that "hnd been accumulating for months.

ROYAL SCOTS years ago, aged 44.

FAMILY

William Paterson, of Peniculk, 23 and a half Scotland, served years with the 2nd battalion, The Royal Scots in many parts of the

world. He and his wife have often thought of revisiting the places where their children were born.

Quetta, ,1931: David, Bagshai, India, 1936; Brian, Penicuik, 1930.

eight Ismaila, Egypt, 1927; Margaret,

Cairo, 1028;

Shella, Tientsin, Should they do so, it will China, 1830; Martin, mean them having to go half- Baluchistan. way round the world. Here is the Paterson birthday Ust:

Craig, born at Peniculk, 1923; John, Colchester, 1923; Emma,

Trying for Sighs

рна

John le centre-half-back with Hibernian Football Club.

By Mik

Bomed to run just as

Rupert's Autumn Primrose-

"This my grandfather," says Mary as she introduces Rupert. The old gentleman sits down and looks keenly at Rupen. "And what is

ittle bear doing here?" he asks. This gives Rupert a chance to tell his story and explain why he came. So you want some primroses do ...? says the old man. Well.

there are plenty here, and you can have them all. It's worrying us to

Those xe them in the autumn. plane can't stand so much flower

Somebody is playing tricks ing. with my garden, but who it is and how he's doing it I can't imagine." "This is exciting!" cries Rupert,

1 moving away, "May I look round and see if I can find any clues ?** ALL RIGHTA SKAKAVED

SIDE GLANCES

#1-23

By Galbraith

CÒFIL 1999 MY NGA BERVICE, ING. T. I REGL LA I PAT. OFF.

"Weather bureau? Any blizzards coming?". I need 'new. ahoas terribly, but I'd like to put them off a week, and "get a permanent!".

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