1938-02-15 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938.

For every

Festive occasion

Pyeris

mixes:

BEST with good spirits

Sparkling Mineral

Pyeri

THE SPARKLING MINERAL WATER

Musical Instruments

of

The Finest Quality

We regularly stock a wide range of

VIOLINS... GUITARS

UKULELES

PIANO ACCORDIANS

BANJOS... MANDOLINES.

York Building

etc. etc.

by makers of repute.

Strings, Reeds & Fittings

in great variety.

HOME DELIVERY

of

The STARS still take the

your 1938

T

THE "VERY IDEA"

NICKEL

ROAD TO RENO GET YOU

HE heavy scent of roses sprayed on on me as Jeanette MacDonald walked down the aisle of the Wil-

By

Vauxhall shire Methodist Church in Hollywood on Walter Wyndham

If you are going home on leave, her way to meet Gene Raymond at the

this must interest you.

altar.

+

IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT

By Ed. Kelly, "Buck"

CIRCULATION of subsi- diary coins in Hongkong Behind me two women whispered as she professional lives to converge. While Botte was has increased by nearly You can arrange to stop ashore passed, "Wonder if it'll last." They waited to making £600 a week at the Warner studios, her $500,000 since last Septem-

"Ah husband Harmon Nelson was taking £40 a week ber. at homo and drive away In your see whether Gene kissed her. Ho did.

they gasped, and I knew they felt it would last. as a solo pianist and crooner in a modest saloon awn Vauxhall.

It was just as it happens on the screen-all on Hollywood Boulevard. We assist you in this connection of it: the colour, the scent, the music, the smil-

One night I was with Nelson when a rich without any trouble or complica- ing bride, the flushed bridegroom, the church customer sent him a dollar tip for singing! Who'd tion to yourself... delivered richly garnished with flowers.

lip a famous film star's husband if he knew it to you at home and subsequently Hollywood loves a big wedding. It is so like Fact is, the customer didn't know it. in Hongkong.

Catalogue & Full Particulary from

Hongkong Hotel Garage

Stubbs Rd.

Phone 27778/9.

IN MEMORIAM

ABBAS.-A. H. Abbas wito passed away on 14th February, 1937 The blow was great, the shock

severe,

We little thought his death so

Пеле.

Only those that have lost can tell The sorrow of parting without Inserted by his wife and children.

farewell,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, FEnawany 15, 1938.

ASSET WORTH PRESERVING

the last delicious reel of those screen romances it turns out of its huge film factories.

65 Por Cont. Fail

THAT'S the trouble. So many of the Hollywood stars fall under the spell of their own screen magle; go into married life with the feeling that it is all mapped out just as though it were in a film script. When they find It isn't, they weep, or buy tickets for Reno.

I estimate that not less than 65 per cent. of the marriages which unite actor and actress fail dismally. Among actresses marrying film direc- tors or producers, about 30 per cent. fail to stay married, while those actors and actresses who marry completely outside. of films present Holly wood with less than 20 per cent. of its total divorce headlines.

The

Habit. reason

The habit of making believe. If you were asked every day to give vent to emotions you cauldn't really feel, don't you think you might soon begin to confuse reality and unreality?

And this si where the Holly- |wood "gossips" come in to prey for the overwrought imagination

of married stars.

Two of the latest pictures of (above) BETTE DAVIS, who "not

potag

to to

allow yossip 10 ruin our home," and (left) GIN- CER HOCENS-"na divorce has fol- Ioined the parting between her and Lew Ayres."

Our Interest in this increase

in currency is purely literary.

It is estimated that if the coins were placed end on end along Des Voeux Road, three Scotsmen and about a thousand coolics would be killed in the riots. It would serve them riot.

It is also estimated that if the Treasury were to stack all the ten- cent coins one on top of each other on the cricket club ground, the Treasury would display a deptor- able lack of cents.

The new coinage is Bald to be proof against counterfoiters.

This proves that prosperity is not around the coiner.

Only one crude ense of counter- feiting has been detected since the coins were issued.

The man will doubtless receive a stiff Rentence, which will teach him not to metal with nickel in future.

Telephone officials in Hongkong do not like the now coins because they won't go into the Blot chines. So they have to spend slots of money buying new slots.

However, they should be pleased with the new currency, because thousands of counterfeit cupra- nickel colus were put into their slot machines.

This

money.

was definitely phoney

A ton-cent coin is the most valu-

Ginger Rogers told me how happy she and Law Ayres were when they first married. She wore green and the gossips loudly declared- Bette never appeared at that saloon. Nelsonable issued in Hongkong. For it Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto while the service in the Little Church of the never visited her at the studio. Both declined; you can buy a round of drinks in

even ask for your autograph. proposes to ask at to-day's Flowers was still in progress "unlucky to wear to talk about their married life to anyone and the hotels, and the "boys" vill

Bette, by a clause in her contract, forbade any! .they'll never get on." meeting of the Urban Council Whether Ginger and Lew heard them or not, mention of her real life romance in her film) certain pertinent questions re- it was not long before Hollywood broke down publicity. lating to the destruction of their romance.

Hongkong's all-too-scanty wood- land. It is impossible to apply to our dwarfed little trees so

green.

We are now coin down to the Gloucester to test this statement. As the coiner says: "There may be a wave of prosperity, but bad dimes are sure to come again.

Notes to you.

"Three months after we married," she told 44 me, a gossip merchant came to see me and asked Smart Parties

point blank whether I didn't think we could whip "EW decided to have a shot at film up a story of threatened divorce.

Don't forget that, although "I told him we didn't intend to read 2 there is a silver lining to the direction, which meant his beginning

cloruls, you'll get your feet wet distinguished a term as forest all over again, while I happened to be doing scenario based on our private lives, and we were

not going to allow either professional gossip or if we don't put our backs to the wheel and pull. A man on or timberland, and the hearts of specially well," Ginger told me.

"I had to give more time to the studios than professional jealousy to ruin our home."

When-Franchot-Tone -was-filming "Danger-sterling salary must think of the ex-penee and the lbs. will" "fake S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. poets are not so apt to bleed Lew cared for, but then again he hated inviti-

when they observe coolies, with tions to smart parties reaching him through me ous" with Bette Davis, he happened to be plan-

care of themaclues. as a kind of Ginger Rogers escort you Bette what to do to beat the Hollywood gossips.

ning his marriage to Joan Crawford. He asked or without permission, howing...

know. He didn't want to feel he was becoming away the branches and gashing known as Mr. Ginger Rogers. Who can blame Bette's advice was "Yes, if you can, and in any be kept sweet on the lines of the

"Shall we get married secretly?" he asked. the trunks. But these small him or any man ?” trees are just as important to The significance and pathos of her story are case never discuss your marriage or the marriage everyday-film story.

"That's why it's safest and Hongkong as any towering pine owed their parting, and when Ginger built her

underlined by the fact that no divorce has fol- relationship with anyone." Neither Franchot

nor Joan ever do so.

best if only one is in films, and or fir or cedar to lands fortun-new home on Beverly Crest, Lew built his on & of marriage, not because they do not know their said. "Conversation

Some big Hollywood stars are frankly scared the other in something else," she at home ate enough to possess them. The mountain which could overlook it. And in his own hearts, but because they do know Hollywood then gets away from the fictions necessity of preserving these bachelor suite is a wall which can be mechanically with its pernicious tongue-waggers and its fenr- of the movies, at least once in a trees has been stressed too of removed to make it into a double apartment just ful jealousies. any time it might be wanted.

UB

CHANG

Introduced with success

AMBER ALE

DEFINITELY

A

WINTER BEVERAGE.

FOBTAINABLE.

UB

Chater Road

་ན་རྒྱལ་་ད་

MIN HANDY CARTONS OF ONE DOZ PINTS

COUNT

THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

ten to require repetition or ex-

planation here. Suffice it to say that they are very necessary

for the maintenance of adequate

while."

Barbara Stanwyck has hesitated because of Claudette seems, in fact, to His Dollar Tip

It. Clark Gable said to me: "A man cannot be have summed up the situation. himself and live the life of a film star at the same It is the art of taking life as it BETTE DAVIS and her husband saw so time."

comes instead of trying go make many Hollywood marriages ruined by Claudette Colbert, married to Doctor Joel a screen play out of it which

"?

water supplies and preventing gossips that they resolved never to permit their Pressman, told me one day that marriage couldn't baffles Hollywood.

soil erosion.

ito

wood-cutters from time to time,

and from this source the Colony SHORT ARTICLE ON

obtains considerable revenue.

wood-cutters to re-plant the areas which they are denuding, and it is suggested that ar rangement should be made with ton, Who or what is the dead-

H the contractors to carry out re- that they afforestation and should be instructed to protect the small new growth which has no market value.

MAN'S DEADLIEST ENEMY

ITOW would you answer the ques-1 SPREAD BY RATS

llest enemy of munkind?

EATEN AWAY

But to go back to Dr. Basto's questions, which indicate the proper civic spirit and his prac-But it is not the practice of the! tical interest in the welfare of the community, it is only fair point out that the present Director of the Botanical and Forestry Department arrived in

When a case of plague occurs in In Ceylon and other tropical coun- Various answers would be given, any town Hongkong only recently, and in

or village in Ceylon or tries the white ant or termite is a the very midst of the epidemic

but the true one is the insect world. India, the authorities surround the deadly menace. These insects des- Insects are the most deadly menace place with fence of corrugated iroy many people and property iron, buried about three feet in the worth thousands of pounds every of timber-thieving. It is to be

to the human race.

Think for a moment of the Tactae eaving the stricken aren. The rats, lows eating every piece of wood they ground, "Why?. To prevent the rats year. They swarm in the bunga- hoped that he will be given an

dy, the name applied to any of the|lea opportunity to explain to Dr.

eight species of glossina, a genus of or really the flens on them, are the can find. It would be good business on African blood-sucking insect, only carriers of the pingite. As the rats These termites always work in the Basto precisely what steps the

the Government's part to en- alightly larger than the house fly. dle, the feas leave their bodies and dark and bulic tiny earth tunnels to human beings, and ED the everywhere to reach the wood work. authorities are taking to end the courage as far as possible the although not found in the Sahara or plague spreads,

Tsetse flies are restricted to Africa, BO

One day the bungalow collapses, and destruction of Hongkong's wood- planting of seeds on all unpro- veld country of the extreme south.

The farmers in Egypt and Africa all the beams are found to have been. land. The recent absence of ductive land, and along property This fly is entirely responsible for have many deadly enemios, but the completely eaten hollow by the pests.

deadly

disease "sleeping slit- deadliest mennee to their crops is Outside, all looked well, until the prosecutions of timber thieves

highways. ness," and around the shores of the the locust. These locusts, at certain crash came,

These termites cat everything, docs not necessarily mean that People who enjoy rambling over great Atricun fakes, in Uganda, and times of the year, suddenly appear

the hills and into out-of-the-the Congo, many native villages and on the horizon, a vast claud, even carpets, matting, clothes and wood, their dopredations have ceased

the sun, and filing the und It Is almost impossible to keep way corners would probably be been completely blotted out, all air with the hum of their wings. anything from their ravages. Now or that they have even dimin only too pleased to assist in such owing to this small insect, the tsetse

ity.

They descend on the forms and that so much jungle in Ceylon has ished to any extent. It may work. Farmers and owners of

feed, and when they rise to continue been cleared and wood is scarce in be that they are merely more cattle should be warned that trying

Selenco has spent great sums in their devastating night, not a blade many parts of the island, this pest to exterminate this insect of grass or a leaf of a free la visible. has begun to eat the tea bushes (un- derground, of course), and unless caullous. It is very certain grass firea may kill new tres land cure this terrible disease but 80 The white: Jandscape is one something la dona, one can quite

desert, and the inhabitants are faced that they have not abandoned growth and should be carefully for the fly is victorious.

Then think of the flea. In India | with storvalion and death.

well Imagine that the industry will guarded. It is certain that an the plague, caused entirely by the So numerous their raids entirely.

are these terrible be totally destroyed by these small

Insects. enlightened public will do every bite of the flea, is calculated, accord insects that trains meeting a swarn

The boll weevil has destroyed vast It is the custom here to thing possible to assist in the ling to Professor Lebroy, to have des- of locusta aro often unable to pro siretches of land in America, onver

prosorvation of Hongkong'stroyed eight million persons, and ceed owing to the millions of their

many cities and districts: havo be bodies clogging up the wheels; and under the cultivation of cotton. In lense certain large timbered trees, which, after all, are public come derelict, all owing to this tiny so making them slip on die lines, pile of all science can do, these 'areas in the New Territories to 'property.

insect.

bringing the train to a standstill.

(Continued on Pago 8.).

boundaries and

lowns and their inhabitants have darkening