1938-08-20 — Page 11

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1938

Girls and Boys' Corner

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Dear Kiddles,

coin.

I received many entries for last week's "Find the Flower Name" pelttian. Quite of number of you were not right, but others sad, apparently, even read the rules properly. They Rave me names of boys, girls, famous wamen and men-in_fact, anything but the names of flowers. So please, will you read the rules of a competition very carefully in future.

The brize-winners this week are:- Trixie * (aged 131%). 381, Prince Edward Road;

D. G. Colman (nged Dis)" 1. Crescent:

Dorset

David Arche (nged 0%), St. Stephen's College, Stanley.

Coupons have been sent to Trixie, D. G. Colman and David, I want you to bring these coupons to the "Hongkong Tele- raph" olices where they will be ex- changed for thosey prizes,

Specially

commended for excellent work are the following:.

Waller

Seniors:

While Pamela LI. Kenneth Hegerty, Eric Ho,, Mary Grace Asche, Claire Lim. Tatry Morales, Aures

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ENGINEERING

DESIGN

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OPERATING ECONOMY

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CLUER-DOWN

1 Girl's name

2 Write one's riamo

Hrench for "and"

4 Automobile Association (ali.)

Airge onward

6 Barrel

7 Container for hot or cold liquida.

Female

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17 Finished

10 * simple person

29.xtracted from wells

SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS

NOW YOU KNOW

Answer from Page 2

1. Mineral.

2. Octuplets.

3. Crisises should be crises.

4. South America,

6. Stalky and Co,

6. Regions of caim.

A unit of force.

30 inches.

9, 22.

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1000.

11. Egbert.

12. Dame Enld Lyons.

13. Prince of Greece..

14. 110 yards long, 75 yards wide. 15. Libera).

10. One-sixth of a gallon.

17. Four times bigger.

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Bird.

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20. Ten.

21.00 degrees.

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23. Seven half-full bottles

24. Disonant-should be disson-

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25. An nito..

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Puzzle Corner Answers

Cryptogram: It has been proved famous cryptographers that letters of any language than others more often

certain

13 Chopper

13 Sphere

10 Once the Emperor of Rome

appear do..

Word Diamond: R. red, below, renewal, relegated, dowager, wa- ter, Ler, D.

Letter Juggling: Pilots, spollt.

In- How Wide? 4 feet, D 6-7

ches.

27 Anger

24 Dragoon Guards (ob.)

23 Point of compras

Marnh

Patricia

Marques, Belly Becker, Buen Mo-tak, H. Vas, George Hudson, Leo Barton.

Intermediate: Roy Coombs, Ronald Long. Tommy Li, Robert Newinan. Fern El, Dorotty Dawson, Rose Elis (thank you for the drawing of "Sleepy"), John Barton, B. A. L. Bux, Corrinne Hong Sling, 5. A. K. Bux. Patricia James.

Juniors: P. Wont.

are going to This week, kiddies, we have a competition which I know you will all like. I want you all to try the cross-word competition Riven above. I want the Juniors to try this competition, too. Even if you cannot get all the words,

in as many as you can and send in your entry,

Entries Risould be rent to Uncle Eddle, c/n "Hongkong Telegraph", before 4 p.m. Wednesday, Three prizes will be un given-one for the best in each Section.

Good wishes, kiddies,

Uncle Eddie

Fun With Antonyms: Free- confined; amicable-hostile; ener- getic-wearled; frank-deceitful;

showy-modest; generous scl-

fish; genuine-artificial; obtainable -Inaccessible;, doleful-cheerful; graceful-clumsy.

for

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR Playfair. having heard Dum- bell's story, at once examined the latter's cigarette packagė fingerprints. By great good luck he thin procured unchallengeable evidence that Hoddesty had been on the train.

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BY GENERAL MOTORS

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEEK-END SECTION

At the Cinema-with P. L. Mannock

RAKE-OFF,

£9,000,000 A Year

·OLLYWOOD interests are

friendlier for

the to British studio than they be. When the Government first thought of pro-

flims tecting hume-made

from crushing competition, Curl Loem- mle, the veteran producer, told us bluntly that he was not going to lose any of his foreign market without a struggle.

In fact, there was considerable resentment that any country ex- cept the U.S.A. should dare to ex- press itself nationally

the screen, as it did in 1terature and art.

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All that is changed. Recently Am- the popular United States bassador, Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, whom I first met when he was a Alim chief himself, made une of the few statesmanlike specches heard at a cinema function.

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SAID Mr. Kennedy: "The Brillah in- dustry should receive nil the encour- agement possible. The American industry takes a lot of money out of the country and should do the best that could be done for the industry here."

He also declared what few people realise that every Hollywood com- pany remains solvent because of the so paid to it annually 50.000.000 by the British public.

"It would be terrible if anything happened to the British Industry that they could trace ir the slightest degree to lack of co-operation on the part of Americans."

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THIS common-Zenso view is refresh

ing as well as logical. Already it is being expressed in a practical way.

Hollywood is to-day spending some £1,000,000 a year on netually making British ms. This will certainly not dindinisiz.

Hollywood can make Alms more cheaply this side. The huge United Artists combiné has just decided to manke als Technicolour subjects even short ones, in England.

General Releases AFTER a long illness, W. C. Fields

return to regnie us with his blus- ter and mutterings in The Big Broad- cast of 1938, a very untidy but on the whole satisfying plece of nonsense.

Mr. Fields is still a figure of genuine fun as he lles from golf course to a

liner, muddies t up an Adantle race and

becomes a

es a genial nuisance.

A ship's concert includes an operatie snack by Kirsten Flagstad, apropos of nothing: and Ben Blue, Martha Raye, Gruen Bradley and Darathy Lamour are conthiually on hand.

More elementary humour, but put over with some originality of situation, is See lee, in which George Formby is very, very busy and good in songs and slapstick at the rink.

My criminal side has often fancied. hiding-loot and collecting it after serv- The Wrong Road, ing my sentence. however, has finally deelded me against

it

Richard Cromwell and Helen Mack And it is simply asking for trouble. Lionel Atwill plays a kindly detective.

Fellow-lodgers who wed to save rent always have my sympathy, and James Dann and Whitney Bourne. in Living on Love, are no exceptions. A bright plcture, this, with good comedy parts.

STAR

OF

FIRST

AID FOR FANS

THE

THE BUCCANEER. — Spectacular defeat of the British in 1812 by Fredric March. TRIAL OF PORTIA MERRIMAN.-- Frieda Inescourt, clever Eng- lish actress, in court-room crises.

THANK EVANS-Easily the most bolsterous of the breezy Max Millerdramas.

YOU AND ME.-George Raft and Sylvia Sydney demonstrating thal crime is bad busines3. JOY OF LIVING.Romantic alco- holiday of Irene Dunne and the younger Fairbanks. Here and There GARY COOPER is to star with

"The in

Last Andrea Leeds Frontier," set in the Philippine Islands,

Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al Jolson) han begun "The Clean-up" with Chester Morris and Bruce Cabot.

Bette Davis is making "The Sisters," with Anita Louise and Ian Hunter.

Sam Goldwyn is planning to chat Merle Oberon, Fredric March, and Herbert Marshall in story of the origin of Scotland Yard,

Marcel Ierbler. Parts producer, is to make King Edward VII the central figura

of a story of 1901-1910,

Bing Crosby, completing "Bing. You Sinners," will follow up with "Paris Honeymoon," his herolie being Fran- Clska Gaal

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

Telling the Vacation Story

FOROUND

THECINE

Keep a full record of your vacation tour, Including information pictures as well as scenics and "fun" pictures. Use the camera for reminders such as this—it's quicker than a notebook, and much better.

THIS is the season for vacation quence with the other pictures, pro- tours, and overy auch tour in-vido valuable information for tho ciudes many pictures, both of your friends who see your album, and vacation group and of the scenes bolp keep your own memory frosh.

The camera is especially useful, YOU TIBIL

Thero tour pictures should tell a for preserving long historical in- complete story of your vacation trip. scriptions. It is much quicker than They should outline the route, show using a notebook, and pictures of the type of road and country, over unusual markers (such as the one night stops, the points of interont above) ars far superior to a mere and historical spots you visited. notebook text.

On this year's vacation tour, try Otton водо these plotures aro neglected, and in consequence the to keep a comprehensivo pleturo story, Itemember that if you miss a. tour story seems incomplete.

One of the important.potnis in plature your record may not be com making a tour record complete is to plete. A half-made record is bettor picture the historical markors, than none, but a full one, that really signs, place names, road markers, foils the vacuilon story, providos for and similar "Idonunication points" nemorton that are far richor and you paas. These plotures, placed in more satisfying. your vacation album in proper so-l

John van Guilder.

WEEK

VIRGINIA

BRUCE Was

described by Ziegfeld as the most beautiful natural blonde in America. She left his chorus to marry John Gubert; has one daughter, Susan Ann.

Original name Briggs; now 37, toffe of director J. Wailer Rubin. Small im parts until "Society Doctor,"

ade," "Murder Män," recently "Bad Man of Brimstone"; currently in "Yellow Jack," just Anished" Woman Against Woman" with Herbert Mar- shall.

LATEST

FILMS

Yellow Jack

STARS: Robert Montgomery, Virginia

Bruce. Medical melodrama.

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"ILLAIN of this story is half- an-inch long, and looks very sinister in close-ups. He is the mosquito that carries germs of yellow fever and swells the death- role in Cuba round about 1807.

Inspired by fact, the tale is one of heroism in the ranks of Uncle Sam's Army Medical Corps.

While the bands play "Good-bye Dolly Gray," the perplexed doctors, Leaded by Lewis Stone, night the Scourge, and Robert Montgomery twice volunteers for experimental infection.

Much of the narrative consists of moist, lolling soldiers in isolation sheds, but we are spared harrowing scenes, and Mr. Montgomery, with a credulablo Irish brogue, is comely and assured.

Virginia Bruce has not an arduous rola as a pretty nurse. A sincerely produced record of unsung heroism, with excellent acling from everybody and relief by Buddy Ebsen, Andy Devino and Charles Coburn.

The Thirteen

STARS: ALL-Russian. Miltary melo

drama.

SOVIET productions to-day are often

free from that fanatical propa ganda of yore, This is a litle epic in its way, a sort of "Lost Patrol.""

Twelve soldiers and an officer's wife hold out against a murderous Tartar brigand horde in the Turkestan desert. until the rellef party finds only one left,

It is done with stark realism and there is sheer beauty in the wonderful shots of sand formations under the wind.

No Parking

STAR: Gordon Harker.

comedy.

Crook

ACONIC and bland by turns, Gor. don Harker plays Gordon Harker again with immense success.

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down-and-out opener of car doors he gets mistaken for an eminent crook by rival gangs of thieves,

In smart clothes he carries things of and only Jibs when asked to murder o rich man at a country house.

There is some amusing tension over a letter to intercepted, and good work from Leslie Perrins, Frank Stan- more, Charles Carson and attractive Irene Ware.

But the Anni surprise deflates the plovs plausiblity with regrettable sud. dennças.

Revivals

best

The

THERE must be still plenty of people

who never saw two of the British productions ever made, Private Life of Henry VIIL" and H. G. Wells' “Things to Come.”

A little judicious trimming has improved them both.

As for the four-year-old "Design for Living." I still stoutly main- tain that it has the best dialogue ever done for the screen.

Only a few words of the original Noel Coward remain; Ben Hecht and Charlie Macarthur rewrote the Whole thing. Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins brilliant, and the faintly Immoral climax will readily be forgiven by everybody.

"Marry In-

arc

New York. "Marry in haste and repent at leisure" will not apply to the State of New York in future,

The blood test Inw signed by Governor Lehman in April, and similar to that operating in eight other States, comes into force, It provides that no person can obtain a marriage licence without produc-

medical ing a

certificate proving that he or she is free from a cer- tain disease.

Ал result, in future runaway in up-State towns will be Throughout tho Stato men and women have been Blocking to the marriage bureaux seeking permis- alon to marry before the test is en-. forced. Saturdays have been the busiest days, and at Brooklyn one Saturday there was a 300 per cent. incrcose in applications compared with a year ago.

Books By Roger Pippett HARK TO THE HURRICANE

N

INE years ago Richard

Hughes gave us that un- forgettable story of party of children who spent six delirious months as the guests of a band of pirates, A High Wind in Jamaica,

The wind a higher still in his now novel, In Haxard (Clintto and Windus, 7. C.). A November hurricano howls through the tale at two hundred miles an hour, blowing the funnel clean out of the cargo bont Archimedes and terrifying her antall crew.

On the second day the hatches go. and the mato, Buxton, is sent to sectiro them.

Clinging to a doorway, he looked out...

Yes, it was actually possible to see the gaps in the air through which a man might insinuate his body, working his way towards the opon hatch In a minute or two he wen thera, crouched under the leg of the coaming, and as cach volume of spray went below he winced as if it fell on his own nerves....

*He was prolected from the wind- but the next sen which broke over the rail would carry him away with it, for it would pour down this sloping deck like Niagara. There could be no hope of holding on.

Even if he tied himself with a rope, the aea would batter him against the iron like at egg. And it might come any minute.

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"The hatches had gone overboard, but the tarpaulin, curiously, hnd not It was pressed on the deck in a heap.. Just as Buxton turned to creep away It hit it leapt up like a black wall.

down and him and knocked ilm

the covered him, flattening him to deck under its stiff weight.

Then the sea came. It burst over the rail-Cod knows how many tons. It roared down the deck, a fathom deep. Its weight nearly crushed Buxton under the torpaulin-the tarred canvas body ko n mould. auddenly Atting Then away to leeward over the other rail, and the ship staggered and rose.

"Buxton, under the tarpaulin, was not only saved alive: he was almost

dry.

"He crawled out, crushed and stupid, carelessly.... The wind took him lika gravity and flung him to the centro- castle, where he crashed into the door from which he had started."

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could A long quotation. But only I give you the amazing sense of actu- ality that distinguishes this book. As you read, you are there with Buxton, clinging to that hideously heaving deck.

And, just as the dog-tired, desperate crew has moments of sleepwalking at the height of the storm, Mr. Hughes fakes time off now and then to discuss barometers and the Beaufort Scale and icar and religion and Chinese Com- munism and a score of other things. Which only makes that wind howl lauder when you get back into it.

"The days of Conrad's Typhoon are past: the days when hurricanes pounced on shipping as unexpectedly es act on mlee, For one thing, the miec know more than they used to know of the cal's anatomy, of the rules which govern its motion-and, in addi- Hon to that, the cat has been bellett."

No doubt, yet this hurricane nearly shook the ship to pleces before 11 let her go. I finished In Hazard several hours ago. But I can still feel those lenp- ing boards under my feet. A magnift- cent yarn. What an experience-and what an escapol

R.P.

Pig Is Steeplechaser

Tyringham, Mass Ward McCarthy, local farmer, says he has a pig which can clear a four- foot fence with all the aplomb of a veteran steeplechase jumper,

"I'M GLAD I MET YOU HUISE, TO THAME YOU FOR YOUR ADVICE"

"Not at all, Mrs. Hill. I can't bear to see kiddies poorly and miserable when I know that all they need is a dose of 'Call fornia Syrup of Figs' to relieve their bowels and clear their systems.

"What a load off your mind it must be to see them so full of fun and energy again, and with such a lovely color in their cheeks. Always hungry too, aren't they?'

That's the beauty of California Syrup of Figs. it not only keeps the bowels regular but it tones up the digestion and creates a healthy

appetifornia Syrup of Figs' is never harsh, never gripes and never weak- ens, like concentrated purgatives. I always fpet there's a risk in taking them, whereas 'California Syrup of natural laxative is Figs being absolutely safe.

"I strongly recommend you to get the children into the routine of taking a weekly dose of 'California Syrup of Figs. It will ward off colds and in- fections and act as a splendid tonic for the system. Speaking from experi ence, California Syrup of Figa is just as good for adults, especially those who are not too robust.”

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California

Syrup of Figs"

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