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Friday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 20, 1939.

Film Expert Finds Business

So Bad He

Thousands are Like Him

EDDIE NEWMAN, Bri-

tish film stunt artist, came out of hospital re- cently anxious to earn en- ough money to pay off his debts and buy a turkey for his friends.

He was to jump into a tank of water and earn be- tween £50 and £100 in the film "Relief of Lucknow.".

Now the film is banned at the request of the India Office, and Eddie Newman would fare badly if he did not know some German Jowish refugees who live atj Swiss Cottage and will take him' in.

There are ten thousand like! Eddie.

Extras, stunt men, camera- men, electricians, carpenters, plasterers are out of work.

A month ago 60 per cent. of the workers on the books of the Association of Cine-Technicians, mostly skilled cameramen, were that out

work. Now of percentage had risen to eighty.

There are only three films in actual production in British studios to-day. There could be seventy.

WOMAN FINDS STONE-AGE BEASTS

Miss Dorothy Garrod, the ar chaeologisi, told the Society of Antiquarles recently of her dis coveries in a Bulgarian cave near Drenovo,

She found remains of a woolly rhluoceros 100,000 years old, and many traces of cave hyena and eave bear,

"The country must have been overrun by cave hears." she said, "The people ate them."

P.C.s Want To Retire Earlier

POLICEMAN'S period of service should be limited to twenty-six years, instead of thirty, suggests the Police Federation.

This proposat is being considerca by the Home Offee.

Introduction of the thirty-year system in 1921, followed by thei opening of the lendon potter rot-l lege, has done much to produce) grievances, it is hinted.

And that has resulted in a short- age of recruit?.

The thirty-years system has been largely responsible for the recent stagnation in promotion.

SELLING THEIR CAMERAS Not one of the 1,500 members of the Film Artists' Association has earned a living out of the industry in the past year. They are film extras. Those who have private incomes and rela- improve promotion prospects. tives still call for work. The

Many officers have been able 1

than Afteer hold a rank for more years, and thus block the way

rest havo disappeared.

others.

for

A return to the old system would

At Paddington Baths last month Duchess Robbed Of

Sash Fisher, Belilsh recording artist,

the man who handled the sound for

"Pygmalion," British film hit of the

Gems At Fair

Sells

Kittens

Jewish Refugees

UFS

First contingent of Jewish children exiled from Germany arrives at the Dovercourt Bay holiday camp at Harwich, England, to be housed there for about a month, until absorbed by British families. They are between 10 and 17.

Role

Baby's

Will Be

RICE PUDDING

IS "OFF"

Rice pudding is "off" in Pem- brake Foot Law Institutions.

The war in China has doubled the price of rice.

The medical officer of Pembroke- khire recommends sago or lapioen

year, was selling kittens to help the THE Duchess of Roxburghe as "good substitutes."

stmas budget.

Christmas

reported to Scotland Yard

hers are selling their cameras recently the disappearance of a for anything they will fetch.

were jewel cigarette casket from her Eight assistant directors

wanted for one day's work to handle stall at the New Horticultural

a big crowd. They could not be got Hall, Westminster, during the

in the time an their telephones had "Merry Market" held in aid of been cut off.

Robert Pittard,

former

theatre

manager, now film exten, says that

he has worked four days out of the last 314. To get these four days at £1 a day he made 240 personal calls and Afty-seven telephone calls,

He travelled 1,743 miles to the

agency and back and his expenses were £8 138, while his earnings were £4 11. 6d.

Says Rosa Abrohoms (lve days' wark): "I don't know what I should do without my brother-in-law, but you can't go on for ever taking things from others.

Islington at in "I have a room 49. 6d, a week, I have to walk to the West End. Sunday in the only day I eat more, when I go to my sister.

"I manage meat for my dog. I boll it; he has the ment and I hove the water it is boiled in."

HONGKONG BRIDE

the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, W. C.

diamonds.

It was safe during the afternoon, but when the market was closing for the night it was discovered that

Arrears In Civil Actions

Cuses set down

for

London.

as Christ Secret

Parents Say: 'Must Never

A

Be Told!'

.

BABY boy from a hum-1 ble London home will never be told that he played the part of the Infant Christ in a film called "The Prince of Peace."

Recently he was carried

"They refused to accept any kind of fee.

"One thing they insisted upon- that the child should remain anony- mous. He will not be told even when he grows up.

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BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS SEXTETTE.

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DIANA MILLER (PERSONALITY GIRL),

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Introducing-Gracle Fietās. Sandy Powell, Billy Colton, etc.

9427-How Can Thank You. (Little Miss Broadway),

Be Optomistic. (Little Miss Broadway).

IRENE PRICE (THE ENGLISH "SHIRLEY TEMPLE”). ...SANDY POWELL.

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to the studio, where the greatest enre was taken to safeguard his eyes from the arc-lights,

"Ha behaviour was perfect. He

men caught that smile,"

"The Prince of Peace" was com~ the Shepherd's picted recently at Bush Studios.

in his mother's arms to be child has been brought by his mother baptised at St. Saviour's trial nine Church, Paddington.

The Rev. Rupert Shiner, the The casket was valued at £25 months ago are among the 1,500 civil and had a gold clip studded with netions which will face King's Bench Vicar, noticed how beautiful was never known to cry. In one of Judges in the New Year. Ways and and ethereal the baby looked the scenes he smiled. The camera- means of clearing off the heavy ur-

"This is the child we have been rears are being considered. More with his fair hair and blue eyes. then half the King's Bench judges

from the Law looking for." he said quietly. are usually away Courts travelling the assize circuits. He obtained the parents' consent) The old Bailey makes calls on the to the child appearing in "The time of other judges. The result is Prince of Peace," which has been that there are seldom more than! seven or eight judges sitting in the based on a story by Mrs. Lois Shiner,

ne his wife. with King's High Court to deal Bench cases. Two extra judges ure kely to be appointed. In the Divorce Division about 650 uits were carried over when the courts

someone had removed it.

"Penny Bloods" For

Schoolboys

boy

London.

rose.

Pastor Publishes

Sermons

Mr. L. A. G. Strong believes that small boys should be allowed to read what they liked, when they liked, and supports his theory by quoting Mr. Merton Holland Brown, general the case of a of eight whe aut-

A manager of Thornycroft (Singapore) fered from night mures. psycho- Lid., and Mrs. Henrielis Claire Shaw, logist to whom the boy was taken Lis were married at the Singapore Re-prescribed "Penny Bloods" as gistry recently. The bridegroom Is side of the boy's nature was not find-First Unitralan Church of Cleveland, well-known in Singapore yachting ing adequate expression. On being has published a series of Inspirational the sermons called "Religion Says You circles, and his bride comes from allowed to read, these books, Itongkong.

Cnn."

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'nightmares stopped.

Cleveland, O.

---

The

baby. of-the name youngcal "star" at the age of three weeks to play in a British Alm, will remain a secret for alí Ume,

their

Cameramen were silent as they Almed scenes portraying scenes of the Manger, the Adoration, the Massacre of the Innocents at the command of Herod, and the flight into Egypt. Mr. Donald Carter, the director, had the "cets" modelled on Master" paintings.

"Old

Massed choirs herald the appear-

"When they agreed that baby son should play the Infant ances of the Infant Christ and the Christ, they did so only because they Angels. Pamela Kellino (nee Ostrer) thought the film would do some good plays the part of the Virgin Mary. in the world." Mrs. Shiner suid,

The fim has

been made Gaumont-British Instructional conjunction with the Cinema Chris- tian Council and the Religious Film Society.

Rev. Dilworth Lupton, pastor of the Poster Advertising

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The annual prize awarded to Mr. Alan Curwell, a student at the L.C.C. Central School of Arts and Crafly, for the best poster selected for general display in 1939. The poster portrays, more or the New York World's Fair 1039 less, a very simple house (red) with have been named, it is announced by windows (white) having binds Grover A. Whalen, President of the (green) which appear to be eyes in Fair. "Petticoat Lane"

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Learn about lightning courtship in the story of a diary deb who turned. detective—and turned the whole police force upside down!

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See what a group of society girls do to the crime of the year!

Picture

Barbara in a totally dif- ferent role

and Henry more romantic

than.everi

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