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ENTERTAINMENT PAGE

This is the time when shows are planning their big drive. Below Entertainment Page tells you what's coming- THIS AUTUMN in Shows, Films, Theatre

Hongkong Hotel, Gloucester Promise Keen Rivalry

BY "FIRST NIGHT”

HONGKONG Rocialites will put on their best bibs and tuckers

October 3 for ceremonious banishment of summer and wel- come to winter.

Saturday before Double Tenth has been decided upan by both Hongkong Hotel and Gloucester as date for galas which will com- mence 1936-3 season.

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LOUCESTER Management have booked Knili's famous Hawalan Trou- badours, with Queenie, the Ilawalian Song Bird, as ackled attraction to maiden opening of new Ballroom.

Visit the top floor of the Gloucester nfter end of current month and you

un won't know it. Cumbersome, alghtly pillars which prevented dar cing in past have been removed, old' dining room has been extended to in- clude almost entire eighth floor, and renovators are working wonders,

Yesterday, wandering into Itongkong Hotel for my usual 11 am. mug of beer, I met an old Hongkong favourite who announced his inten- tion of giving Hongkong audiences chance of seeing some more of his wizardry next week.

SHOWS

WORTH

SEEING

Here is an- olher of those week-ends of superlative en- tertainment that

come all too seldom. "Show at Beat."

Queen's, AI- hambra. โป top-nofcit must- cal, as good as any Jou've

sten. George Arlins Es in his first British film "The Iron Duke," at the Re- King's.

paper of this views on other

isaute of the "Telegraph."

SCREEN CHIEFS HAVE SPENT £3,000,000

BY "FIRST NIGHT"

TONGKONG Movie magnates who suffer with resignation during the months of June, July, August and September from their own pet delusion that nobody in this Colony goes to the cinema in these blazing, torrid months are planning a three- million-pound drive for your autumn film enter- tainment.

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From M.-G.-M. during next winter come million-and-a-half pound pale, the twenty-reol, three-hour "Great Ziegfeld" and the Norma Shearer- Leslie Howard "Romeo and Juliet."

'DIETRICH'S LATEST

United Artists are giving us Marlene Dietrich in a £450,000 spectacle, "The Garden of Allah," and a £200,000 Goldwyn effort, "Dodsworth."

Katharine Hepburn and Kay Francis will bring us history as Mary of Scotland and Florence Nightingale.

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This serves to once again introduce A new dance floor has been lald none other than Max Malini, mogl down in centre of room. You'll enjoy clan de luxe who, 24 years ago, im- dancing on it to music provided by pressed Hongkong newshawks Ko

musicians, much that they presented him with a told that on embarrassingly orchestra of Russinn

watch and choin. When whelming quantity of talent is offer

starts a ing to show Hungkong's pubile that Shanghal was combed to secure ser- gold vices of best Russian talent available Hongkong newspaperman

Committee In city where Russion musicians can fund to give guid watches to visiting it's suficiently up to the marks to face give beans to compatriots in the land knights of the green room, they must the footlights. Audition

have something about them.

met most of the newcomers Thursday of their birth.

Max specialises in tricks-especial- night, will announce east Inter.

to support Gloucester Managemeni, anxious

This Page is all out- for you to visit Ballroom on opening ly card tricks. During our friendly wonders little talk over a steln of H.B. and a night to see for yourself wrought by renovators, announce bottle of Coco Cola (Max drank the Philharmonic's latest venture, which

elgar. At first I thought the in many years. that no cover charge will be made for C.C.) yesterday he did amazing things it thinks is one of the best cholees October 3, despite high-class attrac- with tions. Incidentally, you'll be able to B.B. must have been O.P. dance until 3 a.m.

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AVENING dress is compulsory for posh oftair scheduled for same night at Hongtong Hotel, when famed Root Garden will open for 1936-37 season.

Pending arrival of press books, photographs, le is known outside theatrical circles of Bob and Bertie licllman, two

Max, himself a Jew, tells this one against his felbe:

Confer

wanted 10 Jew's

Father flatly murry a

shoot lo threatened refused, Gentile if he persisted in hang- ing around daughter. Jewess and Gentle eloped, Pop went chasing after them with a pop- gun, finally met with them, and

the revolver nt pointed

the

bridegroom. Hungarian Ivory-

ticklers booked to make things go. with a swing in Itoof Garden. But newspapers Imm other Far Eastern centres in which they've played, or are playing, are unusually enthusina- tic, and judging from long kiny-overs they're making, looks as if Hongkong socialites are in for delightful enter- tainment. Bertie, by the way, is no he-man. He's a she!

"I'm going to shoot you," he yelled.

"Before you shoot, how much will you sell that gun for?" ask- ed the Swain.

"How can you kill a man when he talks business?" wailed the Jew,

PHILHARMONIC looks like having You won't have to wait for either the Mountains."

#bumper season for "Mald of Not being a mem-

of above two pro-winter galas fer ber, I can only repeat that I've been entertainment de luxe.

Apropos Animals

THE S.P.C.A. should take up

this matter of the turtle.

It appears that the crew of One of Hongkong's warships caught the turtle out on ore of the islands, and gave it to the chef of the Hongkong Hotel. Thus, the turtle was in the soup, We have always been fond of furtick They make marvellous pots. There is nothing more affectionate than a turtle. Their coat is so warm and if you don't belt them in the face they do you no harm.

We used to collect turtles. We had over 2.000 of them before Mr. Heinz - comment-ed his 57th variety and bought us out. We know each of them by name,

two

When ee called they galloped up In the and ate qut of our hand. case of dead-heat between turtles, they ate out of both hands.

This saved blckefing. Then there were They got in among the turtles.

We had to make separate pens for the turtises and tortles which were the unfortunage outcome.

our

tortoises.

We had ako at mating tortoises with hedgehog, In order to produce tortoise-shell brushes, but this was o failure..

But we had a frightful lot of trouble. There were the tortoises that turned turtle on us.

We feel sorry for the Hongkong Hotel turtie.,

Nursery Rhyme For Nurses

By

EDWARD

KELLY

Six saucy nurses

On a moonlight drive Five said they'd walk home

So that leaves five.

Five fickle nurses

Rotten to the Corps

I blush at what one said to me.

Yes. That leaves four

Four festive nurses

Met the Scottish Company Out upon a roule march.

And then there were three Three thoughtful nurses Feeling ratlier blue One wed an N.C.O.

Now there are two,

Two tittering nurses

Out in search of fun Met a M.G. Trooper Leaving only one.

One, poor, lonely nurse, lads, Something must be done

To bring the peace-strength up,

lads,

Or else there'll be none.

Clawstophobia

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NOTICE they're going to send an Amoy tiger cub to the Whipsnade zoo.

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Which is a crying shame.

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BROADCASTING Committee is go-

Ing to consider suggestions put forward by Telegraph" readers t for meeting, scheduled next September 22. Whether Committes will take action on lines suggested by readers is another question. I can tell you now that possibility of ob taining Blattnerphone is remote, due I was informed re- to its high cost. cently that Committee once asked Government to include $4,000 in estimintes for Blattnerphone ap- paratus and was turned down, Gov- ernment evidently considering this too much money to spend on ap- paratus that would certainly have in- proved ZBW's programmes 100 per cent.

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Fred MacMurray brings on cowboys in "Texas Ranger."

Other autumn attractions from America include Marion Davies In "Hearts Divided," and Grace Moore In "The King Steps Out."

On the British side Korda returns after a longish pause with Charles another Laughton in "Rembrandt", IL G. Wells story, The Man Who Could Work Miracles," and "Elephant Boy."

"Things to Come," the master- piece adaption of 11. G. Wells' fantasy, comes to the King'a on October 3. Gaumont-British

present Jessic Matthews's latest, "It's Love Again," "The Great and Richard Arlen in Barrier."

United Artists are to increase their

This is how Mr. Silverstone's cutput by fifty per cent.

£2,500,000 will be divided in Britain: London Films, six pictures for £1,- 200,000; British and Dominions, two for £80,000; Trafalgar, two for Cine Alliance. £250,000: British

one for £80,000; Victor Saville, two for for £180,000; Criterion, three for:

£200,000: Erich Pommer, two £300,000; Garrett-Klement, two for. £150.000; Atlante, one for £100,000, and Pall Mall, one for £75,000.

Girls and Boys' Corner

Name

дос

Address

Dear Kiddies,

You certainly gave me a lot of work in looking through all entries for last week's Competition.

Of course, it wasn't very difficult to colour the "Queen

Eileen Andrew, Peter Kimm, Sidney Hollanda, Fred Garcia, Elmo Leon, Cinta Tavares, Teddy Shuster, Ano Marin Santa Clara, S. E. M. Bux, and Peter Coom among the Juniors.

Now, children, there's something quite new for you in this week's Competition, which should give you lots of fun. It's a "Paste e Picture" Competition.

First of all, cut, out the parts of animals shown in the picture and At them together. There are four, ani- muls in all. When you have fitted the pieces together, puste them an a card or piece of paper as neatly As you can."

Uncle Send in your entries Eddic, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph," so on Wednesday.

There will again be two prizes

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I can just imagine the matronly old tigers already there pulllag their striped dressing gowns closer around them as the orphaned Amoy cub is Mary," as the proper colouring as to reach him not later than 4 p.m. taken in to the cage, and animingly for each part of the ship was WE

VE also feel sorry for the (sniffingly-bally good, thot!) usking; laid down in the rules. None one for children from 10 to 14, and.

Nursing Detachment of the "Whose baby are zoo?"

the less, there was quite a lot another for those under. 10. Now, Speaking of tigers reminds us of

We of difference in the entries sent kiddies, do your best to win a prize. Hongkong Volunteers. It must

the time we went to school. be terrible to have to admit that had Tiger which wanted to be in, both in the proper use of they've got inety-nine mem- very much attached to us. Wherever bers.

Which reminds us:

Ten ticklish nurser

we went, the tiger was sure to go. It followed us to school one day (we were always about three laps shead of it) and we sooled it on to the Leacher, who lectured us about

Standing straight in ne The sergeant pinked one in the ribs it.

Now there arq nine.

Nine nifty nurs

Had a heavy date

gleer's meas Now there are eight

One went to the

Elokt exquisite uses

Thought martage would

heaven

But one joined the "infant-fy"

Now there arc even

Seven snuggling "ses

Up to all the trics One developed "19 >,"

Then there war six

"That, children, is a tiger," he sald, clinging tightly to the school beltry.

"Yes, sir", we chorused, from the adjoining roof.

The animal you see before you is somewhat similar to a second- be hand car, in that it cannot travel far without pawa. The skin of the tiger makes an excellent hearth-rug, if the tiger is craptied out of it.

"There is not a great deal of trade done in tigers; hunters usually shoot them and leave them where they lle. Hence the term "Tiger Bler". are very, very fond of Tigers.

We

and crayons and in paints general neatness.

I was glad to receive so entrica from Macno.

many

After carefully examining all the entrics, I have come to the codelu- Section alon that the best Senior effort was that of Margie Xavier (aged 10), 17. Jordan Road, Kowloon. In the Junior Section, the prize is awarded to Korah Farmer (aged 5), 1 Lincoln Road, Kowloon Tong.

Will the winners call at the Tele graph" office for their prizes?

Specially commended for good work are Louise Gomes, Jacqueline Choa, Philip Matthews, Andrew

Tyler, Margaret Choa, Pamela. Ho, N. Mahon Singh, Rennie Vas, Isobel Morrison, Pauline Strange, and Patsy Kotowall, among the Sentors; and

UNCLE EDDIE.

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