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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. 'WEDNESDAY, JULY

1986.

VAIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

SHOWING TO-DAY

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ANNA NEAGLE and Sir CEDRIC HARDWICKE

EWETH FAN

UNITED

LES TARCAST

Guyn

ALSO WALT DISNEY'S

“CAMPING OUT"

NEXT CHANCE 20th Century FOX

A MICKEY MOUSE CARTOON

THE DIONNE. QUINTUPLETS in "THE COUNTRY DOCTOR"

QULLA

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The First Cantonese Picture Made in Hollywood

HEARTACHE

with MISS WAY KIM FONG

TO-MORROW

Cary GRANT and BENNETT

She got confidential with a con-man and fell in love with a copl...She looked too pretty to be dangerous... but love loosened her tongue and Park Avonuo's biggest rackot gotŝa shako upl

BIG BROWN EYES

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WALTER PIDGEON LLOYD NOLAN ALAN BAXTER A WALTER WANGER Praduesion

A Paramount Picture

The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of. .No. 6 Queen's Road Central.

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

ENGLISH GIRL'S FATE ALHAMBRA

IN BELGRADE MYSTERY

OF 20,000

HUSBANDS

Visit Against Father's VANISHED

Wish: Sister Lost For 20 Years

Belgrade, June 21, 7

A FATHER'S romantic dash across Europe to Belgrade to find

his lost daughter-the culminating point of a 20 years" search—is recalled by the death here from pneumonia, of her sister, Miss Mary Argurios, a Southend school tencher, 'aged 22, who came out here a few months ago to give English lessons.

Added poignancy is given to the tragedy by the fact that her father was opposed to her going to Belgrade, and had followed her here to persuade her to return home.

Her father. Mr. George Argurios, a Greek whó became a unturalised British subject before the Great War, and her:

mother, who came from Wales,

took her to Athens in 1912 when

she was three months old, and THERE'S

the child was lost in the con-

fusion of the first Balkan War.

Mr. Argurios devoted his life.

MONEY IN A

to looking for her, and when he FALLEN LEAF

EVERY YEAR 20,000 MARRIED MEN IN BRITAIN WALK OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SIMPLY VANISH,

And the most COMMON renson for these strange disappearances is a boyhood tust for adventure that lins never quite died in their hearts.

Here is just one example:--

A Birmingham woman aweke in the early hours one morning to find her husband almost completely dress-

·

WENT TO Brazil "Where are you going?" she asked hlm in amazement,

" He replied, "I'll be back soon, and [left the house. She Ims pever seen

him rince.

To-day. In tiny cattle town in the wild west of Benzil, behind * bar known is Joen! inhabitants a "the found her in October 1932 In the!

Englishqun's place," is that dreamy- care of a Mr. Savitch, former newspaper proprietor, who had. Fallen autumn leaves have a com-yod Birmingham man, dispensing adopted her from an orphanage, mercial value, after all. Bacchus warm beer and enna. she could not speak a word of Marsh, a town in the Australian English.

State of Victoria which hitherto has carefully swept. stacked and; SECRET ENGAGEMENT · barnt them have discovered this, Although Mr. Savitch begged her to find are exporting them to Ger- sboy with him in Belgrade, she_resraany, burned with her father to England!

A consignment of 200 bags; larges. and lived at Southend for nearly ally of elm and pricot leaves has just

year.

Then it transpired that she had left, says Anatrul News, I ap- been secretly engagest to a clerk in Pars that they are to be used in Belgrade, Mr. Slavko Grbitch, and the manufacture of * certain she returned to marry him three years chemical in Germany, It is all a

(closely guarded secret.

ago.

JEERS MAKE A TRIBE GIVE

CANNIBALISM

SIR

UP

HUBERT

MURRAY, Governor of Papua ever since Australia took it over in 1906, has arrived in London for ju holiday.

In a few weeks he will be sail- ing again for Papua, in spite of This 74 years, for he intends governing there for the remain- der of his life.

Sir Hubert, who is the elder brother of Prefessor Gilbert Mur- ray, has become almost as famous for his anecdotes of Papua as for This thirty years of peaceful -government-

TAX COLLECTORS WELCOMED He explained how he introduced system of taxation into the country that actually made the tax-collector A welcome visitor.

"All the native taxes," he said, "go into a fund which is expended on services for the native population. The tax is assessed on the man's ability to produce saleable goods Natives living in good coconut, Innd near the const might be taxed up to £1 a hond. Others, in, the interior. we might consider too poor lo tax at al.

"Then comes the trouble. The native who is not taxed demands bitterly to know why His neigh- bour. he complains, pays tax, and be as good 25 his neighbour. He must pay tax tou!"

ts

Besides being the Governor, Sir Hubert is alan bite o of the two judges. administer the Queensland

They criminal code, with variations to fil local conditions. If a man commits a crime, he is punished roughly ac cording to his standard of civilisation.! A murderer from a remote village, i understanding nothing of the white ninn's

ende, would probably receive a sentence of only six months*

$112- prisonment. A murderer from a big town, who know what he was doing, would be severely punished, perhaps Instinctions like that are

aré es- sential, Sir lubert said, "in a country that varies in its civilisation. The text of the system's efficiency is that, in all my thirty years in Papun, only two or three convicted mur derers have ever repented their crime."

HEAD-HUNTING. Head-hunting, once the national sport of Papus, still persists in the remoter districts, and is

treated an

the erlino of murder.

Murder is inextricably mixed up with old tribal customs. Often it can be prevented by ridicule, to which the natives are amazingly res ponsive. They cannot bear to he laughed at, and Sir Hubert has done much to wi

out cannibalism by Retting a tribe of non-cannibals to Jeer and laugh nt a

a cannibal tribe "Look at him, he cats human flesh," one native will joor at another, and thone jeurs are

than al-

. In

most give up the custom.

12? more the cannibal to

Sorcery, which is

docs

Caus it so often leada

practised

by the natives, is ble, not be cause in itself "It harm, bat be

to murder. The natives believe that all death is due

to Jorcery, and one village

cons table, a native himself, once

arrested the village sorcerer because two car Flers had been eaten by a crocodile.

These native constabios are highly efficient, and very brave. One of

Even to-day he cannot say Just what made him throw up every. thing in order to run a little rum shup in Matto firosso. He was married and appy-until he anw an advert which spoke of Rio de Janeiro, Molje Video, and Buenos Aires.

That night he vanished. Probably 10,000 of this year'u vanished husbands just drifted away from home to adventure.

ASTAIRE FOR LONDON

Hollywood, June 21. Fred Astairs is going to Lontion ¦ for a six months' holiday.

He has informed his studio that them, in a small party exploring now he is in need of a holiday and that territory, when faced by thousanda he intends to leave for London as of possibly hostile tribesmen, remark-] soon as the film on which he is airily: "What matter if they do now engaged has been completed.. tight. We are ten."

LYING REPORTS

Ocensionally, however, their zeal

goes a little too far.

"Owing to the natives' propensity for dashing in and reporting false; murders," said Sir Hubert, we have

His contract calls for only two pictures a year, and gives him the option of deciding when to make them.-United Prèsa.

of the spears might hanged.

had to make it a crime to sprend n policemen, that I had to pay and feed fying report. One village constable and clothe those policemen, and that came to see me, and said, "The mis- any had been killed, the thrower have been sionary in our village told

told everybody In church that there was a big fire somewhere that would burn up every

oddy-who-didnt-come-to-church, came to see you about it first, but suppose I should have arrested him

lying report.

"Then they burst into tears, and told the interpreter that they would rather be hanged anyway, because if they could not throw spears at police. en there was no joy left in life for stories that seem funny to them.. other people are now commonplace to

for

#reading

י,

me, and often I do not appreciate | 1. “That seemed such an ordinary their humour. Some time ago I was statement to make that for a long trying natives who had thrown spears) time I did not realise there was any nt n patrol of polles,

it thing funny in at all. Being

"1 explained to them that they Governor of Papua ruins one's sense really inust not throw spears at of Humour.”

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MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN ERIC LINDEN

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