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Jane's up to her grin in trouble again

more ways than ever!

Jane Withers ALWAYS IN TROUBLE

JEAN ROGERS ARTHUR TREACHER

ROBERT KELLARD EDDIE COLLINS ANDREW TOMBES NANA BRYANT JOAN WOODBURY Directed by Joseph Sensley A 2016 Contury-Fee Pictur

FRIDAY. LHAMBRA

10 JUNGLE Picture a Thousand Thrills!

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COLIN EY JAYNE IN

made LYDE E. ELLIOTT, director nd Bring Back Alive' and 'Devil Tique"

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Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 14, 1938.

BUSKERTANIA

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 theatre queue performers by one of themselves, Skipper Roy Jackson.

He is rehearsing them for a stage show to be called "Busker- tania," and inter 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 cinémas,

Skipper Jackson, ex-public hall in Britain; Charlie Ray, who at all dancer and schoolboy, has been shipwrecked 175 years of use four times, two years ago lost (would you believe it?) is a contor

tlonial. his own schooner in a gale off

Banjo Charlie and his Dog Stella, the Welsh coast, and came down known on every racecourse in the to dramatic elocution in the gut-country, and a wonderful young pianist, Arnold Pemberton, who was ter.

ile has been a lion-turner and a Listen to him: preacher in America.

1 searched the public houses and the theatre queues for nine weeks choosing the best gutter performers for my show. and here they are. The Rev. Pai McCormick allowed us he free use of the crypt to re- hearse."

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Now for "Buskertanin."

First the Busketeers Juzz Bond. Twelve performers, many of them one time stars, Ask how they came to the guiter.

"Oh, foreign competition, decline of the music-hall, lness..

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Reg Alvis is musical director, a man famous as a musical director no! ong ago, but earning his living as a busker now.

They top the time with their burst dives. Someone in frayed trousers does a few steps. The Boho Boys, who have Buen better days, whip themselves into a rousing frenzy of ban peng, and the cornettist in

marvel.

Then

STARVING; NOT STARRING

comes the Golden Voiced Soprano, a

a quiet little woman who whispered her story and asked that her une should not be published. Once of the London Opera oHuse and Daly's Theatre and now singing in the streets for the sake of her boy who is ncross the world and believes his mother is still starring instead of nearly starving.

la

a law student for some years.

All gelng with brave verve and swing and vitality us if no one hal

care in the world.

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Well, give them a hand.

"It is an attempt to Hf ourselves out of the gutter and we are doing it 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 eat. This means tramping the West End twice a day and patiently wasting your turn, for there is no breaking in among the queue ente tainers who have a strict code of dieir own.

There are so many of them now that to get Arsl turn outside a theatre the gutter per- popular farmers are on the scene as early as 7.1.

To finish with a secret. Skipper Jackson has his eye on another schooner. If the Buskertanin turns out well they will buy her and then Good-bye to the gutter perform- unces!

Harbour Bridge Pays

Sydney.

UFS

'dent Benes la Reactionary campaign against former F: developing in Czechoslovakia, with demands for confiscation of his properly. Friends defend him. He is shown with Mrs. Behes at Putney, England, whence they fled.

Bride of the 'WOMEN GET

Season

Taken Ill

Miss Molly Bishop, bridé- 10-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, recently postponed.

was

Miss Bishop-fashion artist and portrait painter caught a chill during visit with her bridegroom, Lord George Scott, to the Scottish home

brother, of his

the

Duke uf Buccleuch, at Drumlanrig.

Nenrly

This city's world-famons harbour bridge which cost $50,000,000 showed an carning surplus of $287,072 inst

1,000 invitations were Poole and French, comedy singers, year after meeting interest the issued for her wedding at St. Mar-

the garets, Westminster, S.W.. dancers and paper icarers who have criginal cost, sinising fund an topped the bill at almost every muslefoan, depreciation costs and all others. 'November 28.

COME

for your men friends:

TO

DI

AT S

ME WRONG'

-Says Gary

Mr. Gary Cooper, £75,000-a-your

im star, now in London with hist wife. humorously complained: "Women get mc wrong. I'm Robert Taylor,"

He

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of

thinks that the

mob shricking 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 like," he added. They get me all wrong; I'm just on ordinary quiet guy."

He confessed that in "Mr. Deeds

never Comes To Town" he played is tuba. The played by someone else and recorded.

tunes

really

were

"I did try to blow the thing," he admitted, "but only succeeded in making some awful noises."

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