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MICKEY MOUSE-THE WORLD'S GREATEST

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Suppose, not unreasonably, that Mickey books to a third of the cineman in the United States- about 7,000-and at a figure, at its lowest, of £1 a booking, then he takes in America about £5,000 a inonth, er £1,750 a week!

This excludes the enormous sums he earns in various other countries throughout the world.

It has been estimated that one Mickey cartoon, representing week's work on the part of Walt Disney and his co-draughtsmen. brings in sum, in world rights, -of £150,000!

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Disury began work as a strip cartoourist on a Kansas newspaper at the age of 17. He describes his invention of the world-famed mouse as follows:

"I thought the public would like a little animal that sort of satirin ed the fads and foibles of all of us-the silly things that we do every day and laugh at the other fellow for doing!

"The real secret of Mickey Mouse's success is that he is never consciously funny. He's always BO dead serious about the things he -doing-even as you and I

Mickey in Rabearsals. Disney is one of the most bril- linnt directors and editors of sound cartoons in the world. But after three years with his menagerie of quoor beasts he considers that the public could do with some new épedimena.

Each new figure added to the stock company will be rehearsed by the Disney staff of "animators," as they are called, before being wel comed into the Mickey mouse-trap

The "animators" I should “ex- plain, are the technical men who

FINANCES

OF COUNTY

CRICKET

YORKSHIRE'S SUCCESS

MANY CLUBS IN POOR

POSITION

It is too soon yet to obtain a complete statement of profit and loss, but judging by the messages received from the club officials it may be said that the situation is inspiring more optimism than persi

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1932.

It was too much to expect that counties which had been crippled hy the misfortunes of previous'sKum- mers should have made up su dicient leeway, when tht fine weather hr rived, to complete the season with a financial balance on the right side, But the visit of the Indian team has helped considerably to reduce the losses. I understand that only Derbyshire, Essex, Glamorgan, and Leicestershire had indifferent gates during their fixtures with All-Indin, and that in two of these cases the wasther was a spoil-sport, writes "White Willow" in the Daily Telegraph.

Essex Lost £1,000,

gates amounted to £8,348, an in- crease on last season's figures of more than £1,000.

Lancashire have suffered backy through the prevailing industrial; depression, and several schemes of improvement are to be considered during the winter. Somerset will show a profit, but it is disappoint- ing to learn that Sussex, the run- not-up in the Championship, ex pect to do no better than just balance their accounts,"

RAISED AFTER 18 YEARS

DOVER'S FIRST SUCCESS IN SCHEME TO CLEAR HARBOUR

SUNKEN-BLOCKSHIP.

feet of water close to the end of the Lavonia, which was sunk in 40 Admiralty Pier, has been going on since May last year. She was a vessel of 4,000 tons, and before an she was cut into four sections with attempt could be made to raise her acetylene bumers, worked by ro lays of divers. She was also clear- ed of sand ballast, which WAS pumped out and dumped into the channel.

London, Aug. 31. After being sunk at the western entrance to Dorez Harbour for 18 years, part of ons of the two blockships used as a boom defence during the war The County cricket season of 1932

According to prosent expectations was raised yesterday.

The two ships were the Spanish is over, and the time has come for

"there is not likely to be any pro-Prince and the Lavonia. Work on the inevitable reckoning. Seldom has it been approached with such

Bit. The bad weather in May and the absence of home matches in anxiety as that which prevails this

Juns placed the club in a serious yehr among the first-class' counties.

position; but it was retrieved The changed conditions under which

Essex, Glamorgan, and Derby-through an excellent Hastings weck, the championship game is played abire have unfortunately had a loan which brought in £1.700, followed have made it necessary that account

year generally, although by dras-by success at Eastbourne, where books should be scrutinised astig economies Essex managed to £800 was taken, and at Hové, " earnestly as the scoreboard...

keep their losses down to £1,000 and

Kent on Right Side. Glamorgan to £1,900. Derbyshire

Kent, who had a share in the saved themselves through two-ap- peals for public hid which were Sussex recovers, will definitely successful. Northamptonshire, too, come out, on the right side. It is made a public appeal; and this, I interesting to note that although so hear," was sufficiently successful to many of their matches were com

ploted in two days, the loss of a ensure another season's play." This, of course, may be dus in

Glamorgan had welcome evidence third day gate has done no serious several instances to sheer relief that during late August, that cricket is damage, third-day gates being neg the dire prophecies which were desired in the county after all.ligible unless the position of the broadcast carlier in the season have Three weeks ago the position was so game in exceptional.

When the counties have completed not been fulfilled. Even the most serious that the suggestion was) badly-hit clubs, such as Glamorgan-made that the club should relin their financial budgets the immedit to her across the harbour. shire, Derbyshire, and Warwick quish its first-class status. But the ate task will be to discover, how shiro, have survived a deplorable home matches which followed were to balance them of keep them bal

surprisingly well patronised, and i beginning that was mainly due to the deficit on the season's work anced. All sorts and conditions of an abnormal spell of bad weather, amounted to no more than half of reforms are likely to be advocated, but in my conversations up and affecting the more prosperous as what had been feared

down the country with officials and well.

Yorkshire's own financial success players I feel certain that any has been assured ever since the cam-tampering with the game itself, any paign got properly going. The attempted brightening" of play, gures already announced officially would have no support from those must turn less fortunate counties, who are intimately concerned with green with envy. Their total net cricket.

mixm,

For example, not only were the Essex "gates" ruined in nine out of thirteen matches, but Yorkshire were prevented from playing cricket on clevon days in succession.

THE

TESTING A LOOKING- GLASS

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When purchasing a mirror it is get one with advisable thick glass, as it gives a better and clearer reflection. Many CUS- tomer, however while paying a first- class price has had a second-class article foisted upon him. Here is a simple but infallible test for tel-

Yorkshire's Increased Gates.

CHILDREN'S CORNER

BY

UNCLE JACK

ENERGY

How many of you are going to

draw Mickey on thousands ofling the depth of a mirror. Ho play a fast running game to-day,

sheets of paper before the cartoon is set in motion by the camera. Each cartoon runs for eight minutes and requires 5,000 drawings.

HOKO FOR MANCHURIA

INTENSIVE ESPIONAGE

SYSTEM.

or go for a long walk. If you are, you know that afterwards you will

the edge of a coin against the glass and note the space between the coin and its reflection. That space is feel tired,and be glad to sit still. as the thickness of the What happens to your body to

make il tired?

the same glass,

A COBWEB

A fairy shawl it seems to be, A lovely lacy thing to see,

The Hocki says that the Manchu kue Government contemplates in- Clinging, winging, swinging in the troducing what is called the hoko

tree, ..

systems for the maintanance of peace | And if I did not know, I'd say, and order in the territory. With this ebject in view, the authorities A fairy going by to day,... concerned are studying the opora In huste to keep a socred tryat, tion and the results of the opera-Had left her wrap o fsilken twist tion of this system in Formos8 and Kwantung proviuce (Japanese leased territory),

According to the Tokyo paper, the hoko Rystem was introduced in 1899, or three years after the island felt into Japaneso possession, while in Kwantung province it has been in operation since it was leased by Japan

Upon our trea

Yet well 1 know that web of lace

Is more than wrap for fairy grace; And though it looke so frail, and

scents,

As if the filament of dreams,

You have been using your mus éles, stretching and contracting them na you moved, and in conse- quence they become tired or fati gued. You will find it a much big- ger effort to leave your comfortable chair after your day's exeroise than before it. This shows that tired, muscles take longer to answer the

| mosanges that your nerves bring to them, or, to put it another way, they are not exicted by the nerve messages so crsity

Two things have happened. You

DO YOU KNOW

་

That Meyerbeer, the com power of "Le Prophete, suf- fored all his life with ato- mach pains, and his music sounds that way.

That talking pictures are now being produced in sixty- four languages.

That at Boma there were two temples, one dedicated to Virtue, the other to Honour. No way to enter the last but through the first,

That cake will keep for a considerable time if you place a piece of brend in the

in box with it.

.

That Shakespears had a vocabulary of 18,000 words. An average person can get along with 500, but 900, is enough in the rural districts. That watermelon juice in the only fruit juice which won't ferment.

tavern

That the expression "Mind your P's and Q's" originated from the old-time keepers who reminded drink ers Ic remember their Pints and Quarts,

SMLE A WHILE

Home Hus

have used up your supply of ener. "I played golf yesterday for the

and you have accumulated a first time.!! supply of wasto matter, for, every time you move, some of our body

useless waste.

Spun fine by selfin finger chaste,calls are broken down and become Its wispy loveliness had traced, - And hung it there, so we could see A fairy shawl upon a tree.

I know that one did once inspire

with dynamic fire,

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A dreamer So that he built upon that plan... A highway, o'er which fearless

man, Pursuing on his wing-shod feet

Tan households constitute ana ko, and ten ko form one ho, the busi- ness of hoko community being transreted by a group of persons elected from the component ko. The functions to be discharged, by this body are various. They in- clude inquiries into matters reint. ing to population, control of people coming into and going out of the distrist, prevention of natural dis nsters, guard against and search for sandits and robbers, prevention of epidemics, repairs of roads and bridges, and helping the polico in the search for and arrest of there criminals.

As well as feeling tired you will probably feel very hungry, because as you have learned, energy a given to the body, and broken down body cells are repaired by food..

How did you make out " "Vine! Made a home run right; at the start. I batted the ball into the tall grass in left field and ran around the entire coures before they found it."

Aha!

Teachery father had money is in the past tense. Now, If I paid My father has money," what would that be?"

Bright Boy: Prefence."

So, after exercise, the body needs The Other Way Round. food. That is why people whose when you told him you couldn't,

Was your landlord put out

work causes them to use their mus

pay your rent f

work at

a desk, all day, a If you rest your tired muscles.

The form of progress heating feetcles need more food than those who Flung arms of steel into the air, And joining, held her captive. Till stanchioned to each farther

ridge, It is believed that in a cunt Thera swung the first muspension -like-Manchukuo which infested

hy bandits, the formation of groups- bridge, by able-bodied inhabitants in each. Inspired by Frailest wisp of net, hoko for helping the police in their By tiny spider idly set, peace-preservation business will Like cue now shining on our tree,

And like a fairy, shawl to me.. provavory useful. -

No, I was !!!

Action, "We'll leave no stone unturned- they will recover. Food and fresh to find your purse," said the police air, especially oxygen, which is the inspector to the young man from he carried to every part of the body Hm-m-12 exclaimed the young ife giving element in the air will the country, who had just lost his in the blood, and the waste matter man as he strolled down the next will be carried away by the blood. morning and saw-the roadmenders So fatigue will disapprar and at work. They haven't lost much you will be fresh and strong again. time.

purse,

Six nine-inch steel wire ropes were placed under the section to be lifted, which weighed about 1,000 Portsmouth were filled with water tons. Two Admiralty lighters from and sunk at low tide. The wire ropes were fastened to the lighters, and yesterday morning as the tide rose the Harbour Board tug, Lady Dungannon started to pump out Local Enterprise. the water.

Vory slowly the stern of the Lavonia began to lift, and another Dorer tug, Lady Brassey, started

The whole of the work is being carried out under the supervision of Captain J. Iron, the dover har- bourmaster, and yesterday about 50 mon were assisting in the opera. tions.

Originally it was proposed to place the work out to contract, but after tonders had been received from German, Dutch, and British Arms the Dover. Harbour Board decided to save a considerable sum by conducting the operation them sclves.

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