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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1937.

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Reginald Dixon.

9103-A Sailboat in the Moonlight-F.T.....Jay Wilbur's Orch.

Ton Pretty Girls-F.T.

9104-The greatest mistake in my life-Waltz

In an Old Cathedral Town-F.T.

Sweet Heartache-F.T.

Wilbur's Orch,

9109-In a little French Casino.... Primo Scala Accordian Band,

Will you remember. ("Maytime").

DANGEROUS

INCIDENTS.

course

probably

Shirley Temple

earns 20 times

much as

as

Mr. Eden

HAD a sinking feeling when I opened the mail

recently and saw a bunch of Shirley Temple pictures airmailed from the coast.

made

Suddenly a thing was clear to me aud I could see a Ivista down the years.

Shirley temple as a baby in "little miss marker."

Shirley Temple is a little girl in "Stowaway."

Shirley Temple as a BIT BIG- GER girl in "Wen Willie Win- kie."

There's no end to it.

actress the world has known.

me.

Bartholomew goca up to Mr.. Mander and puts his hand on his shoulder and says, "Work- ing, old man7"

1 have the same worry on my mind that John Knox had when he wrote about his monstrous regiment of women. I have a feeling that I am being marched on by battalions of child pro-- digles.

IT in clear that there is

an uneasiness abroad: about the whole thing. A few months ago n London news edi- tor instructed his Now York correspondent to investigate a credible rumour that Shirley Temple is really a dwarf, aged- ever forty-five.

And last week I was reading a You see? It's baffling. I am silly but most serious article in a having my manners dictated to weekly by a writer who is con- I am forced to sit by and vinced that the child is nothing watch a new generation growing but a mininture Mae West.

Both these I regard as signs up with manners ready made for them by a kid who climbs all of a fear complex among the over Trevor Wignall, shows him adult classes; as desperate, in- reargurd actions doesn't know voluntary

against the onslaught of the children,

her rabbits and she's famous.

I have

a friend called Mr. THE question of conduct

is made more sharply Budgeon who works in the City, provocative by the delightful and every time he sees me he decline in adult manners, on the says, "Can you tell me

Shirley Temple carns ten times. screen of recent years.

Even Mr. Colman is willing

Frederic

March

why

as much as Anthony Eden?" As

SHIRLEY TEMPLE, AS A SCHOOLGIRL IN "REBECCA

these days to admit the possi- though I was responsible.

I always have to buy him o OF SUNNYBROOK FARM."

bility that he might be a ead. I

drink and explain that Shirley SHIRLEY TEMPLE IS

saw a new picture of his on Tues- Temple earns TWENTY times as PLAYING INGENUE LEAD IN

day afternoon in which he had much as Anthony Eden because SOME. JANET GAYNOR OPUS

to say to Madeleine Carroll these

more than twenty times as many IN 1940.

magnificent words:-- SHIRLEY

people want to see hor, and that TEMPLE RE. as Mr. Wells believes, but by a

"Don't look now, or I may for wherens Mr. Eden's job is very VIVING KNOCKABOUT MA- pacific and exalted collection of It seems that Japanese sailorsTRIMONY (Myrna Loy style) peoples all practising an

ex- get that I am supposed to be a difficult and he makes some mis- landed at Blackhead Point on

IN 1945.....

aggerated form

takes, Miss Templo's is com- of Oriental king!" Saturday night. The Hongkong

I think there's a nice homey paratively simple, and she makes the I have a courtesy and looking on

touch about that. And like, none. He is still suspicious. 9105-Too Marvelous for words-F.T.......Jay Wilbur's Orch. Government has sent to London feeling I shall fetch up in some bright side of things.

report on the matter, and in due television cinema, when I am And little Shirley Temple will too, to see pictures where Mr. But while I sympathise with

there will

is clipping his alarm, my greater concern very old, to find Shirley Temple, he queen-empress of the lot. come from the British Gov- looking like Beryl Mercer, play- Never once on the screen have Carole Lombard on the jaw, or is with the millions of children ernment

fitting protest

While undue ng "Over the Hill" and going I seen this plump young woman Myrna Loy turns heel over tip throughout the world who all for this breach. importance must not be attach to the workhouse with a better asked to do anything that merit- tilted nose with a lot of Christ- want to be like Shirley Temple, mum. Anything may happen to ed to the episode, as it is grace than any workhouse was ed a hairbrush or a harsh word, mas parcels..

Nor, it seems, is it any different Pictures like that make me them.

Last term, my son (rising feel my manners aren't so bad very likely that the Japanese ever gone to before.

It is simply this question. of in her off-duty moments, were not aware that they were

Let us

consult Mr. Trevor after all. But Shirley Temple nine) came home from boarding

school with a good report. invading neutral territory, it manners that scares me. I find

I leave this young woman's films Wignall, who is a middle-aged pictures make me feel low. must be pointed out that more feeling like a tramp, feeling I bachelor, a Celt and sentimental,

was scared; the enemy was clos- caution would be advisable the part of naval landing parties haven't any crease to my trou. What sort of n-kid did you find

tholomew makes me ed. in the Hongkong area. An ex-ers, feeling that I beat my wife. her, when you saw her in Holly-

feel low, too. And lower still, "Do you like Shirley Temple?"

this I asked him, very casually. Joe Peterson, tremely delicate sitution might And I have stopped beating my wood?

The naturallest kind of a kid, with the suspicion that very easily be created by such wife.

says Trevor. She treated me Shirley Temple thing may not mistakes, particularly if an arm-

a con- Ginger Rogers," said my son. THE manners of this just as any kid would treat an be a phenomenon, but

Thank heaven for that. bachelor. Held are 80 good elderly

my spiracy.

Master a British police or military haven't a doubt they are going hand, climbed all over me, gave

Bartholomew now patrol. The status of the

to have a huge effect on the next me a kiss, took me out to see the carns £19,000 a year. Japanese under such circum-

rabbits and didn't seem to have And I was roading yesterday generation. stances would be somewhat

-We-shall-look-around-us-in-the-slightest idea that she is how he was at a party and saw dubious. It must be presumed 1950 and find a world, not pec- world-famous. If she has any that brilliant London actor, Miles that they would be arrested; and pled by roving hordes of bandits, such iden, she's the greatest Mander, sitting around. So Mr. it is entirely likely that they

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ed party came into collision with

would deeply resent any such action by the British authorities, One cannot help feeling that al- though Hongkong people will pot experience any tremendous indignation at this incident, the Japanese themselves would un- derstand a storm of protest and complaint. If British

seamen were to land on Formosa their presence would undeniably create the gravest of complications. When it is remembered with what jealousy Japan guards her territory and the adjacent wa- ters, particularly those areas in the vicinity of fortifications, it would not be misunderstood if an apology and explanation were! proferred even before the inevit- able protest is delivered.

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This Chart Shows the Dangerous Years Marriage

HREE new Divorce Court judges are to be appointed to deal with divorces resulting from the A. P. Herbert Marriage Act, which comes force on January 1.

In connection with the attacks on British vessels in the Yangtse River, in one instance at least the Japanese have explained that the action of the gunnera was "a mistake." They have not indicated whether the aircraft which three times attacked two which will strain gravely the re- This chart shows which are gunbonts were aware that their Iations between Japan and the targets were

Divorce arrears have been piling up for some time. There are 2,000 cases to be heard at the Law Courts this term.-

British men-of-

In England and Wales we have more than 5,000 marriages dissolved a year-as compared with 350,000 marriages. So you see that as things stand the chance that your marriage will end in failure is about 1.4 per cent.

the danger years for married

war, but it seems incredible that major powers with interests in couples.

the Far East.

answer.

been

Of the dissolutions-

41 per cent. take place after

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the airmen should have

1 per cent. take place after It may be advanced by the ignorant of the fact. Explann- tions of all these incidents will Japanese that they had warned the marringe has lasted less than be made in due course, but in the all neutrals and neutral shipping two years.

11 per cent, take place" after meantime British lives are into move as far as possible from danger and the question of what the zone of the fighting around the marriage has lasted between

and that in con- two and five years. steps should be taken to remedy Nanking,

.33 per cent. take place after the situation presses for an sequence the Japanese Goyern-

The British Navy's ment cannot be held responsible the marriage has lasted between response to future attacks by for the error in judgment of its five and ten years. aircraft will be immediate, officers In-the-field. That does The ships will open fire. Per-not alter the ugly appearance of haps if one of the attackers such incidents as those involving Is put out of action by British the Panay and H.M.S. Ladybird. give rise to the suspicion that the The attacks on these vessels while the official intentions of the effect of making Japanese were too deliberate to be called Japanese are above question, the no foreign actions of certain officers are airmen more cautions. No re-"accidents." While petition of the Panay tragedy in Government is going to make a dubious to say the least. The to its recklessness of Individuals, if it required to bring home to all great fuss over damage prlies the terrible danger to property which is obviously un-is not downright and deliberate ich noutrals are exposed in avoidable, repeated attacks will hostility, has already caused in- the Yangtae and the possibility undoubtedly bring some form of cidents which might very easily

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