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KING'S PRINCESS

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CECILB.DEMILLE'S

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

CITARLION

YUL

AMNE

IDWARD G

HESTON BRYNNER BAXTER ROBINSON

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OLERA JOHN

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KIHA

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SAZULĪ BAINSTCY ———— JYNN FARROW — JESSE, LASSE, Je-am a mi sama sema JOHN FARROW

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M-G-M's Story of an Interrupted Hönsymoon! Deborah Kerr Rossano Brazzi Maurice Chevalier

-Count Your

Blessings

in Cinamašence and METROCOLCH

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

HELD OVER

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KAMENCO CHIS LOCATION

IN THE HAYSTACK

DEBAIE

P

TONY

REYNOLDS RANDALL

PAUL DOUGLAS

"The Mating Game

FRED CLARK. CompAndSTROCOLOR

To-maitow! "D. DILEMMA"

★

HELD OVER TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 9.30 F.M.

SUSAN HAYWARD' SHE SHOULD NEVER HAVE TAKEN THEY ESTRANGER IN SHE SHOULD NEVER. CHAVE TAKEN THE S1NÁNGER'S LOVE!

UMAN QESESSED

STEPHEN BOYD

- Tó-Morrow ---

"TOM THUMII”

(In Color)

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1959.

HE LOCAL

SLANT

By Elizabeth Fox

SHOPPING IN HONGKONG

IS TOO GOOD

"GOODS are so cheap here that I feel I've got

to buy things just because of that," said Neel Radcliffe Ford. "One goes for years having no particular desire or need for an object and then you see things like linen and cameras here at such low prices that you can't resist them."

NOEL FORD

STATE

>cles T

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• Opening To-morrow # Ting Hao • Liu En Thia

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BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!

TO-MORROW MORNING BHOW

At 18.30 p.m. ་ ་ 'FURT LANCASTER M "THE PLANE. AND THE ARROW"

In a much travelled life si

now Has very-haired Net enough teacloths al home to fast the family for about 50

yours.

WHITEY NEVER MADE A MILLION

YES-you might say that Whitey Smith had something to do with it. Before he introduced the Charleston to the bobbed-haired Chinese society women in Shanghai, just one side slit for cheong- Bams was the order of the day. But the move- ionts of the dance made it necessary to have two.

So say Whitey Smith anyway. Who is Whitey Smith7 Born in Denmark hir real name is Sven Eric Heinrich Schmidt,

Was

The Schmidt family immf- grated to San Francisco. Father Schmidt who

a cabinet Imaker, went first sending for Muna Schmidt and their three sons In 1000.

When the family boarded the trata from New York for Call- furnia. Mama Schmidt knew just one English word and that was "burger." She would bundle the boys out of the train into the depot restaurant, cross her hands on her luns, look the walter in the eye and say, "ham-o-or-ghers.",

Hamburgers

out

I

of American sailors fram się destroyer Perry pulled

of any joint was left with a stack of unpaid chits a ville løn, Toonths later 1..want to Manila on a transport ship. "A typhoon bit as approach- ing Hongkong and we couldn't go ashore in the Colony. I had already made plans for a visi

low h and was feeling very spirits, when suddenly ameone the told, me, the commander of

roc destroyer Perry wanted to me. I went up on clock and the destroyer was lying next to us.

"The examider waved and

through a megaphane, shouted

Whitey, how much do I own you?" Of course I'd forgotten, but they threw an empty tomato- can backwards and forw.rob unill the fast seaman who owed me money had selded up. It was luck. I lernt Inter that they'd only been paid 20 minutes pro-

So hamburgers they ate for practically the entire trip. Bu the the they reached the West Chart the all wished that Mama had learnt xume ollierviously!" worda.

1t

Whitey settled down in Mantia, married a Russian girl wit he'd known for some time and opened the Metro Garden. they prospered, and just when overy-

thing was set for success Pearl pro-Harbour was blusled and Manila

golf was at war.

Whitey grew up on the streets the family of Oakland where moved to after the San Fran- cisco earthquake when were almost buried alive. He has been in turn

caddy,

ball pool radio

-

fessional boxer, newsboy, racker, nouncer, salomas, promoter and sol- dier. He was dub-

bed Whitey by î nowsboy pal be- case of his white- blonde hair.

In 1822 Whitey was climbing

into

a career ac drum- mer and band lend

Buck home is in Australiner in California. A night club owner in where Noel and his wife and

offered three children live in Sydney. Shanghai There he plays a great deal of him a job and he roll and has a handicap of took it. He landed elight,

In the middle of the heelle night life of tacy most extrava- gen und fabulous city of Asia.

Noel has engaged in three widely differing careers during his 30 years. From the

army,

un-

in Ahms, to a chemical company

There be three big jumps. After barked on a series ture leaving school he joined the 4th of ups and downs In Australian Battalion and served | his life of a band In many parts of the world. He teader. One of the then transferred to the Indian night clubs he Army and fought in Burma worked in, caller until the end of the war, with the Ok Carlton, the Queen's Royal Regt, which had one of the first

in formed

1001 for

nir conditioncu, Catherine of Braganza.

ever. In the middle of the dance floor sunrounded by *

was

Whitoy Smith And His Book

DIDN'T BACK IT "You know," sald the Aus-picket fence wore a dozen or more tralian,

once a large blocks of lee. An overhead "there, was

the lec-cooled al home called fun distributed horse

won nine air around the dancers. Braguuza and it

races out of 12 and I never Kot around to backing it once. might have made my fortune if I had."

Folded Up

The Smithe knew that trouble was on the horizon and they had Invested their capital la dia- monds, While evading the Japs on the island, Helen buried the diamonds in on a hillside, placed a rock against a bamboo shoot and notched Be trunk. they returned to The Old Carlton folded up Years later After the war Noel spent and Whiley then opened with eventually find the place with the rock now embedded in the His band at the Majestic, year in Siam repatriating troops

criminals, CROTMOUS, sewly bulit ball branches and the notches thirty and servening war

the trunk. But they ምዕርታቱ! 10 England to and then went

with lush carpets and feet up fountains playing. IL was recovered their treasure. allend a school of future war-

here that he introduced the fare tarlies, Then came

After being interned in Mallo Western style dancing to the during the

Whiley und retrenchment of the Army and to

Chinese in order to fill the Helen stayed on, there and are rvicare. So he went boek

tabivs. Australia and took a degree in

now running the Town Tavern, beronomies.

a restaurant and cocktail lounge. le Joined MGM making educational films on the rella,

here combining a They are duction and distribution side there was

view to opening antil last year. The New Zea- who was always hanging around holiday with a

Ilis a second business in Hongkong. land company for MGM went with a hard luck story.

Whitey has set down his life out of business so Noel is now name was Mickey O'Brien who

a book which he's working as advertising and ex- later became the man without story in

"I Didn't Make A por! manager for an Insecticide

has also written fum.

At one night club, the Cinde- Whitey remembers that bent-nosed fellow

war

Fertiliser King

a country who went backwards entitled und forwards on the ferry from 3llion" end Hongkong to Macso making the some short stories, The chief analyst in the same daily trip for years. He became he was Arms Brigadier H. B. Tuylor quite a celebrity until

allowed to board 1 who was a well known pure finally In Chani where h10" Inslated freighter bound for “? the following

the Janeiro, principles of the Geneva Con- vention by, the enemy.

PROSPECTS

of

Rio de

To Hong- which : keng"

has recently been made here is the story of Mickey O'Brien.

"Ferry The Alm

At the Cinderella Club "I'm in Hongkong looking Whiley promoted his own radio Inlo the prospects of the station. After being refused any

market and

insecticide

One of the ways he never made his million was when he thought he'd be the FerAllaer King of the Philippines. A friend persuaded him to join forecs and make fertiliser out that of all the water les

river dally Avated down the

They

on their way to the sea. the time on the British radio station Possibllllies of establishing known as XCBL, he got hold of he told a transmitler, moved the bath- me, "but I shan't have a clear tub out of the bathroom-and in- idea of the picture until the stalled his own station.

manufacture here,"

GO

This transmission proved whole trip is falshed, but the potentiallies are very good." popular that XCBL threatened to cancel their ocntracts because Weil-probably you-kaw no one listened them. They were-

As much about insecticides as too busy tuning in to the bath- In the end XCBL I do so we won't get too tech-room stalion. nteal, However one tip about paid Whitey to close and broad keeping one's house clear of cast for them hutsad. Insects which Noel stressed, is

Whitey has made many friends that regular spraying with the pad met many people during his different sprays for each type life and has a fund of stories to of insect will do wonders, tolt,

were looking for a certain something in thein to be the key ingredient in their fertili- ser. It wasn't there. Then they tried yellow adobe stone and carted a truck load back town. It wasn't there either. They finally found what they were looking for in on echolup bat cave in the mountains. Unfortunately, having at last really located his militon. Whitey discovered that the USA had just ‚pre- sented the Philippine furmters with two suploads of free The next port of call for When the Japanese invaded

commercial fertkliger. China 112 1937," Whiteu Noel is Shgapore and then on

Whitey just couldn't compete to Boruce and maybe Thailand. related, "A whole crowd with fren fertiliser.

POP-A Nasty Bach TEKS

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THAT'S

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TO-MORROW: SUSAN HAYWARD in

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