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SHOWING TO-DAY

HONG KONG

KING'S ALHAMBRA EMPIRE MAJESTIC

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Please Note Change of Times At 2.30 — 5.00- 7.20 and 9.40 p.m.

The incomparable

A

Chaplin in a

new dramatic role!

CHARLES CHAPLIN in his HUMAN DRAMA

Limelight,

an inspiring story

of love, laughter and tears

co-starring

CLAIRE BLOOM SYDNEY CHAPLIN

with

- Nigel Bruce, Norman Lloyd, Duster Keaton, Marjorie Bennett. and for the Ballet, Andre Bglevsky and Melisa Hayden. Produced, written and directed by CHARLES CHAPLIN Released thru United Artists

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TO-DAY DONCESS

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1958.

Chaplin's Son Grows Beard SOMETHING NEW IN AUCTIONS

This bearded man

Chaplin, Is Sidney great Charlie Chaplin, seen as he takes

alm

Kon of the In park

the

"Somewhere in the World", which is being made

at Villefranche-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera, Hla co-star. Kirk Douglas, is seen looking en, — Express Photo,

Bomber' Harris To

Make His

Canada?

Home In

Scratching Your Head Might Cost A Million

New York, Jan. 20,

They assemble regularly in the ballroom of the Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas. But ho sweet music wells out from the orchestra's platform and the 300 or so soberly dressed businessmen who crowd the floor on certain days have certainly not come to jive.

On the contrary, they are attending one of the most exciting and unusual auctions in the world, held annually at this well-known Western hotel.

The size of some of their bids indicates the seriousness

of the occasion. The auctioner

-George Apple, a jewel sales 100 Children To

man when not wielding the hammer-is usually able to work up at least a few of the offers to tho million-dollar mark.

one

And even then, he will prob- ably not be satisfied: "Come on gentlement Who'll give million, ten? Thank you, that gentleman in the Stetson; at

onc million, ten: and now twenty and again thirty; one million, thirty; I'm closing at one million thirty; for the last tinie,

at one million.

thirty tho

dollars; hhve you all done? Right: Bold!"

A tap of the mallet closes another deal that will mean

the

1827- writing of

cheque.

This scene, soon again to be re-enacted in 1953, is the nual, disposal of oil leases land belonging to the Universi

ty of Texas.

RELY ON LUCK

An-

on

on

These leases are granted five-year terms, and each year thore that have expired are put up for auction again. Success- ful bidders pay annual rents of one dollar per acre, plus royal- ties of one-eighth the value of any oil they may produce.

And "may" is the operative Sir Arthur “Bomber" Harris, fiery wartime word, for many leases relate to Jand on which oil has not yet chief of RAF Bomber Command, who retired to been fount South Africa when the war ended and was belatedly honoured with a baronetcy in the New assign their own geologists and

London, Jan. 20.

sch

core bidding for

the oil companies

Year Honours List, has now left South Africa for to

make intensive!

good but still has no intention of returning to in England.

He was in Vancouver when the news came through about his baronetcy. If he can find suitable job in Canada he will stay there.

a

surveys of the land and assuro them-

selves that at least the under- ground rock strata is of a type that could contain all.

Have Test From "Topsy"

4

London, Jan. 20. Оле hundred Bristol youngsters will be intro- duced Lo Topsy. mechanical mind-reader. during the year. Topsy is shott for toposcope.

team DI scientists will study the results of the machine as 11 records the working of the child- ren's minds.

be

One Investigation wilt Into the causes of juvenile delinquency.

Topay reproduces a plan of the brain on a acreen A: section of the brain

even-

works, green face up the screen heightens in colour.

Bolentists hope, tually, to be able to judge how ideas actually in the braits.

form

Gigantic

Housing Drive In W. Germany

Boan, Jan. 20. Western Germany plans

But they must still rely on good fortune supplementing ex- to complete 400,000" "well- pert scientifle multiance. One ing units" this year in her company last year bid nearly $2 great housing drive which "Bombor" Harris is reported | bitter controversy, much of million to secure the lease of a to have left South Africa be- which razed in secret while the four-square-mile tract and then is leading all countries in cause "Dr. Malon, the Premier, wer was on. With Britain's the first bore hole proved Europe. and the Scuth African bomber force. Harris did much "dry"

have True, they may Nationalists had got him down." to hammer the Germans to de- better luck before their dve- And why did he leave Eng- teat. But the row began over year lease expires, but at the land?. His departure followed the question: "Should we have moment, they are heavily in

bombed the German elties so the red". herd?"

The Cocker Still Most

Popular Dog

ONE DAY In Britain

.ONLY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. RETURN ENGAGEMENT BY POPULAR REQUEST

ALL TRUE UNDERWATER WONDER SHOW!

Marine monsters in a world of fabulous beauty-and sudden terrorat

SOL LESSER presents

Under the Red Sea

Paisuntiphed wa un kopection by HANS HASS

LOTTIE BERE

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Final Showing To-day: 2.30-—5,30—7.30 & 9.30 p.m. BEHIND THE MOULDERING WALLS A HUMAN MONSTER WAITS! ........ With the lust for murder in his evil heart....and the kiss of death on his bloodless

lips!

Black Castle

Storring RICHARD GREENE-BORIS KARLOFF

STEPHEN MCNALLY PAULA CORDAY-LON CHANEY

London, Jan. 20. What is the most popular dog in Britain? Judging by the entries for Cruft's Dog Show next month it is still the cocker spaniel,, which heads a list of 5,860 dogs with a total of 375.

For the authorities, who the revenues thus obtained to At the end of the war, all the subsidise State-supported higher other top lenders of Britain's education, it is a lucrative busi- wat services were rewardedness, with peerages. "Bomber" Hartla Annual rents ami royalties rat nothing. He went angry and disillusioned.

away, total around $12 million, white the 20 loase auctions held to riate have netted another $142

A HUMORIST

Harris' had taken over mullion. Bomber Command in February, 1042 when it was a relatively ineffective force. He binsted

It is not a bad business for efficiency into his squadrons and the auctioneer, either. Success groups. He directed the expan-ful bidders add sion of the force, And finally, he knocked the German indus-

SERIES OF FEUDS

Reason for this housing boom not hard to find.

So far, the Germans are con-

can

tributis neither equipment nor mali power to Western defence: provide a leady flow of essen- Thus the Ruhr industries tal housing materials without production regard for an arms propranune.

A call-up for a 500,000 strong and German army, air force

it navy is also as far away, as was when the plan was agreed two years ago, and so there 19 no drain on the working popu- lation for this purpose.

Altogether 700,000 workers are now employed in the hous- one-per-cent ing drive and 1,200,000 homes

his housing

five million to their winning bids as

man

some

trial potential into a heap or fee, and when dealing in mil people have been built in the

Hon dollar offers, even one-per-last three years, rubble.

cent makes a handsome

cost pay-

The plan for 1853 will £400,000,000, of which meni,

Auctioneer Apple has made a £420,000,000 is guaranteed by He poked his ferce ginger name as a humorist as well as private building organisations

Arat-class

assistance government with the and. moustache into every corner of a his command. And he drove his mallet.

schemes. crews hard, drove them into

FREE ENTERPRISE Last year, when bidding was casualties which might have near the inillion mark, he spot-

Main aspects of the German broken the heart of a lesser ted one oil man-well-imown programme are:

All buliding is on a tree man and the spirit of a force for his reluctance to pay real- less inspiringly led.

ly steep prices for all leases crprise basis;

2. Construction deals largely All the time he kept up absent-mindedly raise his hand

Since with flats and also covers the series of feuds with anybody to scratch his head.

of banbod out who

stood in his way or seemed raised hand is also the sign of

an offered bid, the auctioncern likely to stand in his way,

"Bomber" Harrie went promptly called

"Steady, out:

Germany, nlready fulminating in South Africa and

Johni you're just about to spend Western of the progrese made,

to maintain over obliged forthright book a million bucks. then wrote which kept plenty of Sorca The other nearly dislocated miillon ecfugees, will have

crosted open and

new his shoulder through the force find in all four million u few The boxers in this year's show ones as well.

with which he snatched down "dwelling units" before

one has a home. number_102—a phenomenal rise Now he has moved to his armi

This task-the flow of

For some

years the cockers have held the top position unchallenged by other breeds, But this year they are not so far ahead.

There are 321 Alsatians, 200 Pekinese, 108 Labradors, 19 golden retrievers and 181 poodles. Last year there were 421 cockers and 270 Alsatians.

on

in popularity. In 1934 only one Canada with no wish to returts boxer was registered in this to either England or South country. There were 400 owned Africa.

In 1945 and 10 times as many in

1951.

GREAT STRIDES

Another

For

ten

to

now

every-

-0.1

fugees still averages some 600 a day-will take twelve or oven

a tough man, he is extra-HMS Kenya At Haifa more years to complete. ordinarily sensitive. He quar

relled with many people In England-and

not

oven

in

120-

cur progress to Haifa, Jpn. 20, date," Federal Economie Minis- Ludwig Erhard has sald, The British cruiser, Kenya, ter

hiero today on an "not to faise romanticism baronetcy makes him forget. arrived ding that has made But he will be remembered in unofficial, three-day visit and was social matters but to our great strides in popularity in a

with a saluto from ahead, down-to-earth economje few years is the Corgi-largely tille, for he has a son who welcomed

Israeli shore batteries-Reuter, policy" because of Royal patronage, becomes heir to the baronetcy. There are 174 in the Cruft's Show this year.

The no bark doga-the Basenjis are no longer novelty. There are 24 In the show, They are making a re- putation as good house dogs.

Loncllest dogs in the show will bo a German wire-haired pointer and a Germmt long- hatred pointer, both the only ones in their class.

Total of dogs on show in 20 fewer than

Dora inst year. which earn dollars and other foreign currency for Britain

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