1938-09-03 — Page 11

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1938

Girls and Boys" Corner

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RAIL TO A TIGER'S HOME PART 10 A SNARE LAMP TO A PART OF THE HAND READ TO EXPENSIVE. KALE TO A POND REAP TO A TASTY FRUIT LATE TO A STORY SACK TO A BARREL GEAR TO ANGER

NAME

ADDRESS

Dear Kles,

This entry is all my own work;

Lots of entries again this week, kiddiey, very well and most of them were

Noise at handled. Unfortunately, younger entrants sent in paintings wisch And obviously not been done by them but by some elder person. That is pel the correct way to try for a prize in these competitions. I want to see how clever you are. not somebody else,

The prize winners is week are:- To Hu-chan (aged 113, 115, Robinsän Rond, longkong:

Evelyn Lane (aged 9), 11ox No. 11: Mabeth Hope (aged 5591, 2, Salwan Terrace, Quarry Bay.

Coupons have been sent to 1o Shuk- chun, Evelyn and Mabeth which I want "Harkong Tele- them to bring to the graph" oflees. The coupons will then be exchange for money prizes.

Specially commended

work are the followitt

fur

excellent

Seniors: Anne Thu. Eva Grady, Vicky Moss, Madsen Svend. Yeune Kit-wa. Taist Versoona, Beryl Goldenberg, Trang Ta

nini, Charles Clark, Amalia Sales, Claude Hollands.

Cl Hameedas Doris Moy, Arculli, Celeste Guterres, T. iigis, Mary Asche, Ingmar Eriksen, Hazel Sclater, Audrey Barton, Stephen Mose, M., Pereira, May A. Cheung, Mansoor Alt. Jean Grady.

Ho Man-chan. Andrey Ablong

Intermediate:

Norinan Wald.

Ann Patricia Thompson, Nosemary Labrum,

Violetta Coombs, Tatelela Dimberline, Remedios, Dorks

Kung. Chan. Peter Susan, Reta Millett, 14t Poynt 1 Po-chiu.

Rodrigues Sheita Teresinha

Woo, Teresa Souza, Hong Yequeira, Umberto Mese, W. Darion. Richrdo da La Thelma Organ, Rinse Ellis. Neville 1a, Margaret Venables, 1. Moordeen,

NEW

ENGINEERING DESIGN 1

NEW

OPERATING ECONOMY.

NEW

SILENT OPERATION

NEW

NEW

ACE.........

V.

Julle Patricia

Ingrato. Osmund,

Constantin Bonhol, ingstats,

Martha Lewis, Cynibis Silva,

Mahall Juniors: Pat Clarke, Gerald David Asche, Sik Yut-fa, Maran Bux, I' Wong, Sylvia Figueiredo, Irmgart Soltau.

This week, kiddies, I want the Seniors whitst to try one type of competition,

the Intermediates and Juniors tackle an other kind.

Senior Competition: Write a slary, not more than 200 words, on "How I would pend $100. Make the story an interest- ing as you can, write clearly possible and send your entry to Uncle Fadte, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph." Wyndham Street. Wednesday.

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In termediates and Juniors: This week. I want you in try a new word-charging teni, Take the four letters in each ward shown in the above diagram and rear. rance then Inlo Another word which answers the che on the "indicator.

turned the first word can be expired," which 18

tail Kram." Change the other nine words in the same way and print then rally in the spaces opposite, in ink or pencil. Then in the name, age and address coupon and Gend to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hongkong Telegraphy" before 4 pm, on Wednesday,

Beat of huck, kiddies.

Into

Evelyn Lane: Your coupon was sent to x No. 403 and returned to me on the same day, Will you, therefore, ceme fa the "Hongkong Télegraph" offleé for your coupon.

Uncle Exidia

G& FRIGIDAIRE

ONLY BY GENERAL MOTOS

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

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At the Cinema-with P. L. Mannock.

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THE FILE

HAVE always advocated Like revivals of good films. good books and plays. they stand a second sampling.

Besides, one of the eternal curses of the screen has always been that pictures, however meritorious, are here to-day and gone the week after next, as a rule,

Therefore I applaud the present temporary tamine of new subjects, so far as it lets us see again most of the outstanding productions of 1931-1935.

These reissues are doing sur- prisingly well. Phil Hyunia, lend ing London showman, tells me that six-year-old "Scarface" is making treble its original money.

A

LL the same, an ski film in a chest. not to many; and I cannot praise the studio sultats who, nt such a ne ns this, are busy planot; so many" remaken of former ms.

I find it difficult to feel any svitly. for instance, when I hear of brand- new versions of such stale subjects

1ron Mus 111 “Man

The Cimusturk." If Were Kung." The Four Feathers" and "Birth of a

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Puzzle Corner Answers Cryptogram: For pleasant pas time try solving cryptograms- Puzzledom's aristocrals.

Use 'Em Again: Apple sauce, Letter Changing: Whole, shole, shote, shots, sools, sorts, turts, harts; halts, halls, balle,

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aulve.

What Number?: 4

Poems and Their

Authors:

Little Boy Blue-Field; Thmatop-| sis-Bryant; Man With the Hoe- Markham; Barefoot Boy-Wilt- Ler; Abou

Adhem-Bunt; The Raven-Poe: L'Envol-Kipl- ing: Psalm of Life-Longfellow;

Solitude Columbus-Miller;

Wilcox.

Ben

Nation." The elnetna demands novelty, not nostalgia. We want plots with sur prises, newly written by screen authors. Nearly all the remakes of the last year or two have been box-office Gurely utera 15 flops," anyway. plenty of fresh material?

Here and There

ABOLD LLOYD is seriously con aidering making his next picture in Eugland.

Bam Jaffe, who played the Lama in "Lost Horizon," is enst for the tillo- role of Gunga Di" for which Victor. McLaglen, Jonu Fontaine, Dougins Fairbanks, Jun, and Cary Grant have already been cast.

Tyrone Power will play the nams- part in a new version of "Monsieur Beaucaire."

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are at work in "Sweethearts."

"The Four Feathers" has begun at Denham, witli John Clements, Ralph Richardson and June Duprez

Anna Neagle inade scenes in tha quadrangle of Buckingham Palace this week for "Sixty Glorious Years."

Walter Huston is to play Abraham Lincoln in a new blographical picture of the fumous Presidrat.

Bette Davis is completing "The Shaters," with Errol Flynn as leading

NOW YOU KNOW

Answers from Page 2 1.An explosive. -Cutting hair. 3-Is larger. 4. Is gloomy. 5.--A polson.

6-One Stale. 7.-Sulphur.

(N.S.W.).

a-Opera. 9-Light red. 10-Football star. 11.-Killing of person to relieve

incurable pain. 12-Netherlands,

13.--Leg.

14.-Nerves.

15-2,000 and 2100.

-Steering of the course. 17.-Xylophone.

18 -Indefinite power. 10.-First.

20-Flowers in the spring.

21. Mr. Hyde.

22. Treading on your wicket.

23.-Lying down.

24 Despise him,

25,--A vein.

Laurel and Hardy in Swiss Mis," their neto musical produc- tion. See critic-

ism belate.

Latest Films

Woman Against Woman SPARS: Herbert Marshall, Virginia

Bruce. Marriage Charade.

THE screen positively awarins with

weak-kneed husbands these days, probably because women, who form audience majorities, love to see male ascendancy punctured.

Here La Herbert Marshall again, that willi but perfeel-mannered,

demeanour more spineless pained even than is demanded by the role of a man who quits flighty little tyrant rather than correct her.

He turne from brunette Mary Astor to blon le Virginia Bruce, and there follow the usual embarrassments and lot of glutinous sentiment over a chaill.

Domesile crises are well handled. but the story gets nowhere in parti cular.

Swiss Miss

STARS: Laurel and Hardy. Slapstick

comedy.

AFTER a year's hostility and separa-

lion, Stan and Oliver made it up, and this is their first offering since the recunctations,

After aceing il, I can advance no ob fection to their separating again, or even retiring-on their hot-so-hardy kurcis

For some years now crilles have been overkind to this pair, who have been getting steadily less and less funny.

This halling Alpine horseplay, with its painful pauses, decked with an al- most unendurable romantic relief, Icit me numb with boredom.

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR

Solution

The Japanese artist "Fujoyada" way Playfair's own invention. He had thus obtained conclusive proof) of the conspiracy between his two suspects.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

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PATTERN PICTURES

Long shadows, with the sun as a ready-made spotlight-and the potted flower is twice as interesting. Don't overlook the pattern in the floor grooves.

Out in the country, try picturing DATTERNS maxo fasclanting ple: 1

tures, and they are all around scenes through wheds of farm you-ahadow patterns, ornamental equipment-for instance, "frame" a ironwork, window grilles, railings, landscape ihrough the tall wheel of wheels, stacks of lumber, piles of a hay rake. The spokes and rim of drala ulo-ovon groups of people in the wheel giro patters Interest. In town, pleture shadow patterns on a a formal arrangement.

Include a definita-pattern in your brick sidowalk or strost. The shad. `picturos, and they will have an un-ows giyo ono kind of pattern Infor est, and the paltorn of the paying usual, different". quality.

adds another.

Whon you go to the beach look for patterns in sand ripples and the shadows cant by bosch grass. Climb

When a now house is going up- betoro the roof and weatherboard.

a high bank or diving tower, and ing are put on-there are pattern shoot down on your crowd when chances in the framing and roof tim they are sanning, themselves in a

cirela or formal arrangement liko bers. Get inside, point the canern the spokes of a whool which gives upward, and picture workmon on the roof. Look for pictures, too, in pattern interest to the picture.

Tako poluron of scenes through the steelwork of bridges and tros- things, such as ornamental Iron-ttes, and in the criss-crors paitorna work. The outlines form patterns of wires and cross-beams at the top which make tho acones moro lutor of telephono polos.

It's fun to hunt patterne, and they asting, Picture a tonnis player through the not or racket-or let add now Interest to your pictures, him hold the racket so that tile eun Keep your eye open for them, and casts an Interesting crles-cross snap any that look good. shadow pattern on his face.

John van Guilder,

Women Are Like That STARS: Kay Francis. Pat O'Brien.

Domestic Dramn.

JILTED at the altar-that's what the women love to see, especially when it's mug would-be bridegroom.

Kay Fraucis, alluring and enigmatic. throws over her boss in favour of Mr O'Brien, the ace anlesman of the frin. And a poor fish he turns out to be.

Promoted a year later, he gets jealous of his wife's success, and starts a pro- longed drinking habit. but a good tell- oft by Miss Francis on a semi-public occasion brings out the Good in ilim- you know the old stum.

Lots of argument, most of it a little vngue, about the rights of women, and plenty of scoring of men as a whole, ill up a lot of the running time.

Yet it is an entertaining picture, with 'rome witty hangover scenes and good! Thurston Hall, Melville dialogue Cooper and Ralph Forbes are com- mendable.

Backbone of the whole thing is Kay. Francis, with her poise, finesse, clothes and general assurance. Why she should Lake the O'Brien back beats me.

General Releases JACKIE COOPER, How practically adult, plays a slum lnd led into bad company in Boy of the Streets.

A latterly Irish-American home is convincing without being edifying. very Maureen O'Connor amateurish heroine, and there is n general air of 1912 about the produc- tion.

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The popular juvenile. Jane Withers, exercises her gifts and precocity in breczy and agreeable Checkers, A Turt comedy, mercifully enlivened by You Stuart Erwin and Una Merkel. will be staggered to find that a home, by winning a race, brings happiness to everybody who deserves it.

John Wayne is a strapping fellow and good actor. In Born to the West. he is a first-class cowboy and the story is clear-cut and healthy melodrama.

Rivalry in the United States const- guard nervice, with smugglers makes Racketeers. Sea drama lively Waldon Heyburn, Jean Madden and Warren Hymer get some fun into it,

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FIRST AID FOR FANS

PROFESSOR

BEWARE. Grand antics by that cellu-Lloyd comedian.

BIG BROADCAST OF 1938.-W, C. Fields in an occan-going crazy mixture. TRIAL OF PORTIA MERRIMAN.--- Strong emotional stug with Frieda Inescourt carning stardom.

THE BUCCANEER-Fredric March helping to win the last war between Britabi and the United States.

LOVE AND HISSES.-Musical stage-

with comedy

ruinsome 'and-Press Simone Simon and Walter Winchelle bickerings.

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STAR OF THE

"AY FRANCIS (real name Katherine

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Edwina Gibbs), convent-reared, Oklahoma-born, is 32; tall, tiny feet, black-haired, brown-eyed.

Theatre stock trained; broke into films with "Gentlemen of the Press "; notable since in "Raffles,” “One Way Pauage,” "Cynara," "Trouble in Paradise,"" "Confession"; currently in "Women Are Like That."

Married (1) Dwight Davis, at 17; (2) Kenneth McKenna. After two more pictures intends to retire this year and marry Baron Barnikov, Russian. well, and is charming, witty person.

THRILLS

GOOD, sound, murderer's muxim used to be, "Make It look like suicide." Roger Bennion, featured again by Herbert Adams in The Damned Spot (Collins, s. 6d.), seems to have ended all that.

Watch him at work on a bloodstain on a plece of paper or fading with a pencil and a length of string on n Jocked door and pity the poor criminal. Here you have intelligent deduction, recognisable people, brisk action. book worth putting high up on your HAL.

Solve This.

PRETTY well the same apples in a slower tempo to Cyril Hore's Death Is No Sportsman (Faber, 78. Gd.). You have a little more subtlety-I adinire the cunning with which you are allowed to believe you have din. covered by your own skill the worŁ about the murderer-and a straight tip in the title. Give yourself high marks if you solve this.

Swift and Tough

OLD hands will soon tumble to the criminal in The Urgeni Itangman (Coillus, 7. Gd.), in which Peter Choy ney introduces 6ilm Callaghan, suc cessor to and improvement on Lemmy Caution. But that doesn't matter.

This Bum does for Scotland Yard

did for Mason

the what Perry American police; Insults them, double- eroases them, and skips delicately away from the prison gates, leaving Hie murderer delivered into their hands.

Bwill he 18, and tough, 100, until propinquity with the girl witness ho kidnaps does ite end work...

Here's Another

GAVIN HOLT is another-in The Marder (Gollancz,

Theme

WEEK

Best-dressed star; plays bridge

"I CANT ALWAYS BE WATCHING THEM NOW, HURSE. HOW CAN KLEP THEM HEALTHY J"

"You're very wise to ank

that, Mrs. Bartlett. And I'll tell you the way in which you can help them most.

"Make sure of internal cleanliness by giving them a regular weekly dose of California Syrup of Figs. This is specially important with children at the critical age, like yours, who are working hard for their exams. There's nothing pulls them down more than poison in the systemit affects their general health making them liable to catch any infection that's going about.

HIT

experience 'California of Figs does far more than simply cleanse the system. It acis quite naturally, and gently and keeps the digestion healthy and active.

"I and California Syrup of Figs equally good for adults, especially. for women. As a matter of fact, Mrs, Bartlett, I use it myself and recom- mend

you to adopt it for the whole family."

Be sure to get the perutine “California Syrup of Fips.**

"California

Syrup of Figs"

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And Ritry falls just as Bilm does→→→ tor the girl with the money. Perhaps they are tougher than I thought,

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