1938-12-14 — Page 7

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 placed by Joesph Sunday A 2016 Century-Pom Picture

FRIDAY ALHAMBRA

The JUNGLE Picture of a Thousand Thrills!

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Pichte

COLIN TAPLEYA

JAYNE REGAN

made by CLYDE £. ELLIOTT, directo of "Bring 'Em Bock Abve' and 'Devil Tigne'

Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 14; 1938.

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BOHO BOYS IN BUSKERTANIA We try to make it easy

Skipper Crypt

Jackson's

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 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 holt in Britain; Charlie Ray, who at schoolboy, has been shipwrecked 75 years of uge still dances and

tlonlot. four times, two years ago lost (would you believe it?) is a contar- his own schooner in a gale off Banjo Charlle and his Dog Stella, the Welsh coast, and came down known on every racecourse in the to dramatic elocution in the gut-country, and wonderful young planist, Arnold Pemberton, who was ter.

law student for some years. All going with brave verve and swing and vitality as if no one had

care in the world.

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

1 searched the public houses and la 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 crypt to maul of the gutter and we are doing bearse."

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Now for "Buskertania."

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-hull, illness...*.

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

busker now.

Li

It without a penny capital," said the Skipper.

To keep body and roul together while they are rehearsing they dis- perse to "work" the matinee queues and the evening queues, or they would nut cat. This means tramping the West End twice a day and patiently waiting your turn. for there in 195 breaking in among the queue enter- tniners who have a strict code of their own.

2

There are so many of them now that to get first turn outside their burst

the theatre

rutter per- popular They tap the time wit shues. Someone in frayed trousers

formers are on the scene as early as 7 0.13. does a few steps. The Boho Boys,

have who

sven batter days, whip themselves into a rousing frenzy of banto playing, and the cornettist is a "hot" marvel.

STARVING; NOT starring Then comes the Golden Voiced Soprano, a quiet little woman who whispered her story and asked Ut her natne should not be published. oliure Qure of the London Opera

and Daly's Theatre and now singing in the streets fer the sake of her boy who is arross the world und believes bis mother is still starring instead of nearly starving

Posle and French, comedy singers, danvers and paper fearers who have topped the bill ut almost every musle

COME

TO

for your men friends:

To finish with a secret. Skipper on another

Jackson has his cyc schooner. If the Buskertania turns

out well they will buy her and then Good-bye to the gutter perform- ances!

Harbour Bridge Pays

Sydney,

Reactionary campaign against

JUFS

former P. 'dent Bents is developing in Czechoslovakia, wh demands for confiscation of He is shown with Mrs. Benes his property, Frinds defend him.

at Putney, England, whence the y fled.

Bride of the 'WOMEN GET ME WRONG'

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, recently postponed.

was

-Says Gary

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

I'm wrong!.

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of the mub thin! thinks

which pursued chricking women him when he arrived at Packlington 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 an ordinary quiet guy."

Miss Bishop-fashion artist and portrait painter cought a chill during

He confessed at in "Mr. Deeds a visit with her bridegroom, Lord

never really George Scott, to the Scottish home Comes To Town" he Duke his brother,

of played his tuba. The tunes of

the Buccleuch, at Drumlanrig.

Nearly 1,000 invitations

This city's world-famous harbour bridge which cost $50,000,000 showed an earning surplus of $207,972 inst year after meeting interest original cost, sinking fund on the garets,, loan, depreciation costs and all others. November 28.

were

were

played by someone else und recorded.

"I did try to blow the thing," he

on the issued for her wedding at St. Maradmitted, "but only succeeded in

Westminster, S.W..

making some awful noises."

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