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THE "HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. MONDAY APRIL

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

The Story of

Irene Dunne and Cary Grant

in LLO MCCAREY'S Producting of

"THE AWFUL TRUTH”

Adapted From The Screen Play by VINA DELMAR Based On A Story by ARTHUR RICHMAN Serializati98 by ALBERT DUTTY

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

Chapter One

"Your more."

Jerry Warriner riffled a red and blue chip from his pile and tossed them into the pot. “I'll see you," be maid,

five and here are ten

"Aces_full," said George, showing his cards.

Jerry grinned. ""Tala't enough, my good man. Four little ladies hero insist 'tain't enough,”

"I give up," Goorgo complained.

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"Oh!" Lucy fluiteṛod from Jerry's arma, "You know Armand Lovalle, don't you. Armand and I have bad the most terrible time. His car broke down last night -- this morn- ing, rather a million miles from nowhere and we had to slay the night at the most unspeakable Inn you ever saw, It was dreadful. We were coming home from the Junior

| Prom and ---.

"And will you forgive my nulo mobile's imperfect performance?" Armand asked,

"Of course,"

* haven't won a hand from you could you help that wald. "How

now is three, four days.”

gay, that reminds me, What time 1 17 Jorry naked.

Dava Martin reached back, lifted; the curtain and fooded the room with sunlight. Ha looked at his watch.

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"'m afraid we'll have to be go- ing. Jerry, Franke said.

"We're having an early dinner and then we're off to the theatre,"

Armand was waiting for Lucy and Jerry in the living room when they had said goodbye to their guests. "The next time I take your wife out, Mr. Warriner," he said, "I hope"

"Ten-thirty-five," he announced, "and a lovely day it is, too."

"Oh-oh," Jerry shook his head. *Time for me to pick up my mag- "I hope you buy a new car" Jer bles and go home like a good little ry cut in. "Or also I'll loan you

hoy. I'm due back from, Floridamine. By the way, are you hungry?" this afternoon."

A few minutes later Jerry strode Into the locker room of his athletle club, stripped quickly and stretched out on the massage tabin,

"Turn on the sun lamp, Hank,” he called to the attendant, "and give me all it's got Tve got to got a leep Florida tan and I've got to got it in the next throo hours. Olva her the gun"

Frank Randall, another member

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"Why, yes. I'm starved," Armand beamed.

"Then why not run out and eat a bite?" Jorry suggested pointedly,

Lavalis stared at Jerry. "Mr. Warriner, what have I done?" he asked.

That's what I'm going to find out," Jerry replied grimly.

"Why, Jerry, you can't bolteve—," Lucy broke in.

"We'll discuss it in privato,” Jers

of the club, paused beside Jerryry said, "That is, if Mr. Levalle re- "Hello, Jorry" he said. "Bay, you look awfully pale for a guy who Just had a wook in Florida.“

Jerry grinned at him. "You know," he said, "that's what I thought, too.”

"Oh — hol I gat it. You didn't Eo to Florida at all. Putting one uver on the wife ch?"

members where wo keep our door." Levalle bowed stiffly and last. Jerry turned to Lucy.

"Now, what have you to say for yourself?" he domatided.

Lucy sighed. "You know, I know you were going to say just that," she said. Then she began to speak, patiently -- nå a mother explains

Jerry frowned. "No I'm not," he instated. "Not the way you mean, įñonicthing in the simplest terma to nnyhow. It's just that -- well, don't la child. "Armand was invited to the

"Armand and I had to stay all night at an ins.” (Posed by Gary Grant, frone Duane and Alexander D'Arcy.

Junior Prom. He invited me to go along. I went because I could think of nothing worse to do. Coming

you ever got days when you want to walk out of your office and look up the kind of people you used to chase around with before you were married?"

"But when you feel like going on a tear," Frank said, "why don't you tako Lucy with you?"

Jerry shook his head, "No. Lucy wouldn't like my old gang: Sho's not much of a mixer, you know. Sho's particular who she knows, hardly over takes a drink she's

so darn proper. She'd think, they were pretty rough."

Frank shook his head. "You're a fool I ever naw one. You have the most perfect wife any man overi had and

I know it Jerry Interruptad. "Lucy's perfect, Too perfect. Her behavior is always correct, her per- fection unquestioned." Jerry alghed. Sometimes I wish she'd bo

little human for a change." Frank laughed. "Til remember -that,” he said.

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homo, the car broke down. We stay-. ed over night at an lan. This moro- ing, when a garage opened, the car was repaired and here I am."

Jerry shook his head. "That isn't funny" he said. "If you had any sonse you'd see that our marriage Is tooiering on the edge of a cliff. And you treat it lightly!"

Lucy shook her head in mock sorrow, "It's enough to destroy one's faith, isn't it?" she nakod.

"I haven't any talth left in any- one." Jerry snapped,

"Not even in that conscientious person in Miami Beach who mailed your letters to me every day" Lucy asked alyly.

Jerry stored in amazement. “And you've known all the time Why.... didn't you tell me?"

"I thought it was a little game you enjoyed playing." Lucy explain- ad. “And I had a feëling you weren't up to any real devilment,"

"You have a fat chance. She just sits around and wait: for me to Jerry beamed, "You're wonderful, came home. Makes me fool like a Lucy, I'm morty II" then Tat,"

suddenly, Jerry remembered and scowled darkly, "But it's too Inte

any for

Bwoot understanding. You've fixed everything fine. I sug pose you said to yourself BALICO for the goose in sauce for the gan- dar didn't you?"

"Maybe you are one," Frank said, "Anyhow, what about. stopping off at my house when you got through here for a cocktail, The Barnaleys and Viola Ioath are going to be

there."

"I have much batter idea. Let's pick up the gang and bring them nii over to surprise Lucy."

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But Lucy wasn't at home when Jerry and the crowd arrived to sur prise her.

"Cortainly, not" Lucy said ang rlly, "but it's an interesting philoso phy, Jerry, the story I've told you is strictly honest — now let me tell you something more. I wouldn't go on living with you if you were dip- pod in platinum. You're the most "Never mind. She'll probably be contemptible, potty-minded, selfish individual that ever breathed and along before we finish our cock I'm through with you. So go ahead Jerry said. She probably and divorce me. It will be a ran up to her Aunt Fatry's cabin. pleasure!! the usually down if she gets lonely."Divorce you! Are you crazy!

talim,"

At that moment the han door Do you think I'd bring that that opened and Lucy Warriner came musia teacher into court and let in. Tall, slender and graceful, with people see what you preferred to a strikingly vivacious 'Ekos and aimefa 'ready, smilé," "Luay, was decidedly

ornamental especially in the are the phone and dialed a number. "

"Very well then." Lucy oroszió to ning wrap and the clinging she was wearing. She ran to Jerry do it What's the most convenient day for you to be divorced?" abe with open arms, "Darling!" his cried, i asked.

Jerry, took her in bli arms and kissed her, “Oss, It's good to see you,” he said. Then he looked over Lucy's shoulder toward the door,

(To be continued.)

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Those Mythical Russians

Truth About the Great War Hoax

By "AN OLD STAGER"

attention on the North KB, C.B. Let me add that I have focus their never met the Major-General, have Sen. Russlun transports, at a time no personal concem in the pública- when our Channel transports and tion, and have not contributed to it. supplies were only too vulnerable to My criticism is therefore entirely im- attack. The myth spread beyond its partial and honest.

Inventors" most sanguine expecta- tions.

Fear of Reprisals

The German Higher Command

in-

OT having a private warehouse

my disposal, I have had to The main feature of the review la immediately concluded that an In- adopt a strict self-denying ordinance, supposed to be its photographs of vasion of the Fatherland was

tended. They moved large forces regarding books. I have made it my familiar and unfamiliar war scenes, of German troops to various coastal

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the threat.

Gilbertian Situation

hablt not to keep any volumes which as they were then and are now. do not in my opinion include them- contrast is usually startling beyond centres to be in readiness to repel

classica words, and intensely selves among the literary either actually or potentially. But all those who knew them there is an exception to every rule, But what I have found most fos- und the exception to this particular cinating is the authentic and first- one of mine is books about the Great hand story of what actually hap- Then the plot thickened still fur- WGT.

pened in various phases of the ter- ther. Our own Army Intelligence, In a corner of my study are sub- rifle conflict by men who played an

which was of course perfectly stantial shelves containing perhaps intimate part in those phases, fifty or sixty volumes, all of which Take, for instance, the gunner off water-tight, and had no truck at all are War bocks. It is my private con- cer's perfectly true story of the care with the Navy's similar staff, heard viction that there is not a solitary fully arranged battery shoot on the about these ominous German coastal. potential classic amongst the lot, and Western Front, all the most elaborate moves, and jumped at once to the my collection, let me assure you, ty planned details of which were up- thellling conclusion that Germany cmits none which has any real pre- set because Headquarters cancelled uncencu

tension to distinction. All of them the first target. That target was an intended to invade this country! All have merit, some great merit, and enemy headquarters, and the shoot trup movements from this country most are interesting, but not one cancelled because our

WAS

Head- to France were stopped at once, and seems to mo fully adequate to its quarters feared the enemy might re- our home defence forces concen-

when theme. The majority

one

comes to size them up, are quite daltate in kind on them! Or the re- trated at strategic positions in East

ply given by the Headquarters Staff to a battery commander's request

Anglia to be in readiness to meet the appointing.

My theory is that the wrong peo- be allowed not to use certain Ameri- coming German landing. ple have written our War books. can ammuniton because it was 8- It was some time before the truth Nearly everybody of military age was certained that 10 per cent, of the leaked out officially and the story engaged in some capacity in the shells, owing to losing their copper

1914-18 business, and of course the bands in the gun, fell short amongst and never been made public until people with literary leanings, if, as our own troops. The reply was Major-General Swinton's admirable often happened, they mannged to that, if 90 per cent. fell amongst the review told It in full.

survive, wrote a book about it. But Germans, the battery must carry This is a fair sample of the ab- the very last ty

mentality to type of produce a really good book about the

onl

Great War is the literary person. He These are intimate glimpses into sorbing interest with

which this

of whom we hear so much

is much too self-conscious, far too the realities, as apart from the publication is compact, and explains intent on getting his literary effects, mawkish romance, of battle, murder, why, in my opinion, the future his und, above all, entirely too emotion- and sudden death. But what drew torian ally Bamboyant. The right man to me to this subject was a most re- will pass over all the literary War

and, though quite matter books vealing, of fact, and most thrilling, chapter

undertake a War book is a bona-side soldier.

Twenty Years After

to quarry in the authentic

on spies and intelligence. I have matter-of-fact gold mine. The liter- space to deal with only one detail ary

men in buckram will not in-

In this thrilling revelation of the terest posterity. Future students of brains behind the fighting men. the Great War will prefer Major-

Everybody remembers that amaz- General.

Not necessarily 11 professional soldier, but a man with the genuine

ing Russian myth which was the hard-boiled campaigner's outlook and angle of life. Take an instance gossip of the whole country early in in point. Innumerable writers have the war. I suppose there never was published books about the French Foreign Legion. them all, I have no

more startling example of mass

Swinton's plain,

varnished tale.

We-

end hypnosis. Everybody belloved that CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. having read Bitation in say thousands of Russian troops from

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(B).

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mer now (9).

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truthful people firmly The Steamship exploit his superb but absolutely un- self-conscious

document. persuaded themselves that they had human Frederie Martyn was a soldier, with actually seen them with their own

Bringing Cargo from Marseilles experience of the British Army, both eyes. The most circumstantial de

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of .the

on Tuesday, 19th April, 1938. ·

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any sentimental or emotion.

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of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables 20 Part of a forget-me-not: (3), Truth al garnishings, and his straight-

are being landed and stored Into the 21 A time of importance? (8). matter-of-fact recital makes forward,

Godower of the Hongkong Kowloon 25 You should see soldiers still at the twopence-coloured romances of

Suburban residents glimpsed the whart and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- thir (9), at Russian fur capa at train windows. loon, whence delivery may be the literary gents, book like a Christ-

ob 20 A man in the last stage of his mas supplement.

fito (0) What is trus in this particular case Railway porters were seen brushing tained immediately after landing.

up the snow from the Russians All claims must be sent in to me 27 Fighting was his profession (0). la even more true of the books about boola! The exact number of rail- on or before 30th April, 1938, 28 One stage in the production of a the Great War. The long-haired, way station automatte machines they will not be recognized.

photograph (8). temperamental literary blokes dip that were out of order, owing to the

Damaged Packages will be examin- their pens in earthquake and eclipse Russians trying to push kopeks ined by the Company's Surveyors and pile on the agony but for the stead of pennies into the slots, was Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in the moet part they completely fall to cop forthcoming. These are only a few presence of the Consignees at 10.00 ture the true high lights and low of the authentic details that clinched am. on Monday, 28th April, 1938. shades of the Great War. From the the great Russian myth of 1914, point of view of the front-line fight-

Consignees must have a “Revenue

or

ing man, by far the most satisfactory Now let us have the plain un-Officer in attendance when any publication that has been printed Varnished truth. It is almost more dullable goods are examined by the about the 1914-1918 adventure is the fantastic than the myth, PERS Company's Surveyors, and one a illustrated review. "Twenty Years The Russian hoax wits the inver- No Fire Insurance will be effected After which has appeared in week- tion of two naval officers employed by us in any case whatever, ly number edited by the very dia on Admiralty Intelligence In: White- dagulshed; and level-headed soldier- holly: They sorgad the story in or Major-General Bir Ernest, Swinton, der to get the Crimin Admiralty=to.

Arent

Hongkong, 19th April, 1938,

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this (6),

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The typical wine old man (8).

6 Painters in a certain medium 2.

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mencement (8).

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8:Burlish), town traders (9);

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15 Used-by)

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action (6).

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doubt (0),

AND

24 A Sultanate of the Malag, penta-

mula (6).

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