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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1987.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 14, 1937.

DANGEROUS INCIDENTS

It seems that Japanese sailors landed at Blackhead Point on Saturday night. The Hongkong Government has sent to London

course there will

Miss Shirley Temple

earns

20 times

as much 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.

Suddenly a thing was made clear to me and I could see a vista down the years.

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

Shirley Temple as a little girl in "Stowaway."

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

SHIRLEY TEMPLE AS A SCHOOLGIRL IN "REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM.”

SHIRLEY TEMPLE IS PLAYING INGENUE LEAD IN [SOME JANET GAYNOR OPUS

IN 1940.

cinema, when I am

actresa known.

tho world has

Bartholomew goes

up

to Mr..

Mander and puts his hand on his shoulder and says, "Work- ing, old man?"

I 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 nm being marched on by battalions of child pro- digien.

IT is clear that there is an uneasiness abroad about the whole thing. A fow months ago a London news edi- tor instructed this New 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 balling. I am silly but most serious article in a having my manners dictated to weekly by a writer who is con- me. I am forced to sit by and vinced that the child is nothing watch a new generation growing but a miniature Mao 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- her rabbits and doesn't know voluntary reargurd actions: she's famous.

against the onslaught of the children. I have

E

THE question of conduct

a friend called Mr. 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 why screen of recent years.

Shirley Temple earns ten times Even Mr. Colman is willing as much as Anthony Eden?" As these days to admit

though I was responsible. the possi

I always have to buy him a bility that he might be a cad. I

drink and explain that Shirley saw a new picture of his on Tues- day afternoon in which he had, Temple earns TWENTY times as to say to Madeleine Carroll these much as Anthony Eden because more than twenty times as many SHIRLEY TEMPLE RE as Mr. Wells believes, but by a magnificent, words:----

"Don't look now, or I may for whereas Mr. Eden's job is very people want to see her, and that TRIMONY (Myrna Loy style) peoples all practising al VIVING KNOCKABOUT MA- pacific and exalted collection of IN 1945.....

ex get that I am supposed to be a difficult and he makes some mis- aggerated form of Oriental king!"

takes, Miss Temple's is com There's no end to it. I have a courtesy and looking on the I think there's a nice homey paratively simple, and she makes a report on the matter, and in due feeling I shall fetch up in some bright side of things.

touch about that. And I like, none. He is still suspicious. television probably

And little Shirley Temple will too, to see pictures where Mr. But while I sympathise with Frederic March is clipping his alarm, my greater concern 9109——In a little French Casino....Primo Scala Accordian come from the British Gov-very old, to find Shirley Temple, be queen-empress of the lot.

looking like Beryl Mercer, play- Never once on the screen have Carole Lombard on the jaw, or is with the millions of children ernment il fitting protest Will you remember (“Maytime"),

for this breach. While undue ing "Over the Hill" and going I seen this plump young woman Myrna Loy turns heel over tip- throughout the world who all 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, 9110-The Merry-Go-Raund broke down

ed to the episode, as it is grace than any workhouse was ed a hairbrush or a harsh word. mas parcels,

mum. Anything may happen to Where are you?

Primo Scala Accordian Band. very likely that the Japanese ever gone to before.

Nor, it seems, is it any different Pictures like that make me them. were not aware that they were It is simply this question of in her off-duty moments.

feel my manners aren't so bad Last term, my son (rising 9112—Melodies of 'the Month. No. 6 ......... Len Green. invading neutral territory, it manners that scares me.

Let us consult Mr. Trevor after all. But Shirley Temple nine) came home from boarding must be pointed out that more leave this young woman's films Wignall, who is a middle-aged pictures make me feel low, school with a good report. I 9128--Moon at Soa-Fox Trot

Billy Catton's Orch.caution would be advisable

feeling like a tramp, feeling I bachelor, a Celt and sentimental. on

was scared; the enemy was clos- the part of naval landing parties haven't any crease to my trou- What sort of a kid did you find

MASTER Freddie Bar- ing in on me. I counter-attack- in the Hongkong area. An ex-

sers, feeling that I beat my wife. her, when you saw her in Holly-

tholomew makes me ed. Joe Peterson, tremely delicate sitution might And I have stopped beating my wood?

feel low, too. And lower still, "Do you like Shirley Temple?" very casily be created by such

The naturallest kind of a kid, with the suspicion that this I asked him, very casually. mistakes, particularly if an arm-

says Trevor. She treated me Shirley Temple thing may not "No; she's too fat. I prefer THE manners of this just as any kid would treat an be ed party came into collision with

n phenomenon, but a con- Ginger Rogers," said my son. British police or military haven't a doubt they are going hand, climbed all over me, gave

child are so good I elderly bachelor. Held my spiracy.

Thank heaven for that. patrol. The status of the

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

generation. stances would be somewhat

rabbits and didn't seem to have And I was reading yesterday We shall look around us in the slightest idea dubious. It must be presumed 1950 and find a world, not peo- world-famous. If she has any that brilliant London actor, Miles that she is how he was at a party and saw that they would be arrested; and

pled by roving hordes of bandits, such idea, she's the greatest Mander, sitting around. So Mr.

Let us be sweethearts over again,

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Road.t is entirely likely that they would deeply resent any such action by the British authorities. One cannot help feeling that al- though Hongkong people will not 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 in Marriage

THREE new Divorce Court judges are to be appointed to deal with divorces resulting from

into

are

the A. P. Herbert Marriage Act, which comes force on January 1.

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

the Far East.

in fallure is about 1.4 per cent.

This chart shows which are the danger years for married couples.

Of the dissolutions-

on British vessels in the Yangtse River, in one instance at least the Japanese have explained that

In England and Wales we have more than 5,000 marriages the action of the gunners was

dissolved a year-as compared with 350,000 marriages. So you "a mistake." They have not indicated whether the aircraft see that as things stand the chance that your marriage will end which three times attacked two which will strain gravely the re- gunboats were aware that their

lations between Japan and the targets were British men-of- war, but it seems incredible that major powers with interests in the airmen should have been ignorant of the fact. Explana- It may be advanced by the 1 per cent, take place after tions of all these incidents will Japanese that they had warned the marriage has lasted less than be made in due course, but in the all neutrals and neutral shipping two years. meantime British lives are into move as far as possible from 11 per cent, take place after danger and the question of what the zone of the fighting around the marriage has lasted between steps should be taken to remedy Nanking, and that in con- two and five years. the situation presses for an sequence the Japanese Govern-i 33 per cent. take place after answer. The British Navy's ment cannot be held responsible the marriage has insted 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 41 per cent. take place after The ships will open fire. Por-not alter the ugly appearance of (Continued on Page 4.) 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 gunnera It will have 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 airmen more cautions. No re-"accidents.". While no foreign actions of certain officers are petition of the Panay tragedy is Government is going to make a dubious to say the least. The required to bring home to all great fuss over damage to its recklessness of individuals, if it mrties the terrible danger to property which is obviously un-le not downright and deliberate vlich neutrals are exposed in avoidable, repeated-attacks will hostility, has already caused in- the Yangtse and the possibility undoubtedly bring some form of eldents which might very castly

repercussions retallation and are bound to be interpreted as acts of war. of international

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