1938-12-14 — Page 23

Jane's up to her grin in trouble again .. more ways thán ́aver!

Jane Withers ALWAYS IN TROUBLE

JEAN ROGERS

ARTHUR TREACHER

ROBERT KELLARD

EDDIE COLLINS ANDREW TOMBES NANA BRYANT JOAN WOODBURY Directed by Joseph Kandlay A 206 Cory-Fan Fituro

FRIDAY. ALHAMBRA

The JUNGLE Picture of a Thousand Thrills!

BOOLOO

COLIN TAPLEY

JAYNE REGAN

made by CLYDE E. ELLIOTT, director of "Bring "Bu Buck'Alive' and 'Devil Tg="

Wednesday HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BOHO BOYS IN Skipper Jackson's Crypt Dream

About A Schooner

Twenty men and a woman in the crypt of St. Martin- in-the-Fields recently, most of them shabby and ill- dressed, all practically penniless. .

They had been gathered from the ranks of London's theatro queue performers by one of themselves, Skipper Roy Jackson.

Ho is rehearsing them for a stage show to be called "Busker- Lania" and later in the day they were told by Mr. Harry Dennis, the West End agent, who watched their show, that they would be booked to appear at the leading London cinemas.

Skipper Jackson, ex-public hall in Britala: Charlie Roy, who at still dances and schoolboy, has been shipwrecked 175 years of age four times, two years ago lost. (would you believe it?) is a contor. his own schooner in a gale off

tionist.

the Welsh coast, and came down known on every racecourse in the Banjo Charlie and his Dog Stein, to dramatic elocution in the gut-country, and a wonderful young ter.

pianist, Arnold Pemberton, who wan In law student for some years.

He has been a lon-tamer and a preacher in America. Listen to him;

All going with brave verve and swing and vitality as if no one had

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“I searched the publle houses and la care in the world. the theatre queues for nine weeks choosing the best gutter performers for my show, and here they are. The Rev. Pat McCormick allowed us

Well, give them a hand.

"It is an attempt to lift ourselves

the free use of the cryp' to mout of the gutter and we are doing licarse."

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Now for "Buskertaniu." First the Busketeers Jazz Band. Twelve performers, many of them one time stars. Ask how they came to the gutter.

"Oh, foreign competition, decline of the music-holl, illness..

Reg Alvis is musical director, mon famous as a musical director not long ago, but earning his living as

busker now,

They tap the time with their burst shues. Someone in frayed trousers does a few steps. The Boho Boys, who have seen better days, whip themselves into a rousing frenzy of banjo, playing, and the cornettist is

n "hot" miturvel.

STARVING; NOT STARRING Then comes the Golden Voiced Soprano, a quiet little woman who whispered her story and asked that her name should not be published. Once of the London Opera ollu and Daly's Theatre and now ringing In the streets for the sake of her boy who is nerons the world and belleves his mother is still starring Instead of nearly starving,

Poole and French, comedy singers, dancers and paper tearers who have topped the bill at almost every music

COME

for your men friends:

TO

1 without a penny capital," said the Skipper.

To keep body and soul together while they are rehearsing they dis- perse to "work" the matinee queues and the evening queues, or they would not cat. This means tramping the West End twice a day and patiently waiting your turn, for there is no breaking in among the queue enter- tainers who have a strict code of their own.

There are so many of them now that to get first turn outside a popular thentre the gutter per- formers are on the scene as early on

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To finish with a secret. Skipper another If the Buskertania turns out well they will buy her and then Good-bye to the gutter perform- ances!

Jackson has his eye on schooner.

Harbour Bridge Pays

December 14, 1938.

BUSKERTANIA

UFS

Reactionary campaign against former 1: 'dent Benes is developing in Czechoslovakia, with demands for confiscation of his property. Friends defend him. He is shown with Mrs. Benes at Puiney, England, whence they fled.

Bride of the 'WOMEN GET

Season

Taken III

Miss Molly Bishop, bride- to-be in London's most spectacular wedding of the year, is ill in a nursing home, and her marriage, for which the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester re- turned from Kenya, was recently postponed.

and

Miss Bishop-fashion artisi portrait painter caught a chill during

ME WRONG'

-Says Gary

Mr. Gary Cooper, £75,000-a-year Alm star, now in London with his wife, humorously complained: "Women get me wrong. I'm Robert Taylor."

Ic

the

mob

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of

that thinks chricking women which pursued him when he arrived at Paddington was only there for fun.

I don't think they really wanted to see what I looked ike," he added.

"They get me all wrong; I'm just an ordinary quiet guy."

a visit with her bridegroom, Lord He confessed that in "Mr. Deeds George Scott, to the Scottish home Comes To Town" he never really of his brother, the Duke of played his tuba. The tunes This city's world-famous harbour Buccleuch, it Drumlanrig.

played by someone else und recorded.

Sydney.

bridge which cost $50,000,000 showed

an earning curplus of $287,072 last Nenrly

invitations 1,000

were

were

"I did try to blow the thing," hr

making some awful noises."

year after meeting interest on the issued for her wedding at St. Mar- original cost, slaking fund on the unrets, Westminster. S.W., on admitted, "but only succeeded in loan, depreciation cosis and all others. 'November 28,

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