1939-02-27 — Page 39

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 27, 1939.

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MYSTERY OF BRITISH

FILM STUDIOS EMPIRE

THILE three new British films are packing cinemas

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up and down the country, British studio floors are

only 10 per cent, active. Why is this?

Biggest success of the year

честия

NEWS

AUSTRALIA

to be "The Citadel," Woman's Record As FLOUR EXCISE TAX

which was Acen by 130,000 people at the Empire, Leicester- square, W., in one week.

PYGMALION' RECORD

This audience would keep a West End play going for more than five

moniku.

"Glay Clorious Years," genewilly released recently, is taking on the average 35 per cent. more than "Victoria the Great." It has been booked solid for four and five weeks by many halls.

"Pygmalion" bing broken box-omee at ifastings, Brighton, records Coventry, Chesterfield and Luton. The largest hall in Sydney, N.S.W., has booked it for a three months

Fun.

Yet to-day only eight films are be- Ing made on the 80 Iritish studio Hoors, as against the peak figure of 30 in 1938.

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This paradoxical prosperity striking. The answer is simply one

of nanor.

CITY IS SHY

Ground Engineer

THE honour of being the only woman in Queensland to kokt the cerificate of a ground engineer, be- longs to Mrs. G. R. Bell, who recently arrived in Brisbane with her husband, who is Queensland Traffic Manager of Airlines of Australia.

OPPOSED

SYDNEY.

A strong ogitation has developed in Socialist circles against the Gov- ernment's imposition of an Excise fax on flour to finance the subsidy to wheat growers. There is to be u local consumption price of 48. Bd. a bushel.

Australia only

Whent Ut! air-liaison ofleer with the R.A.A.F. total

When Squadron-Leader Bell was amounts to about one-third of the in London 10 years ago, his wife, who price is now the equivalent only of production, and the overseas hus always been intensely interested 15. 10d, a bushel. As was inevitable, in aeroplanes, trained for her cert-bakers have had to pass on the flour fente with the de Haviland Company tax to the bread consumer by in- in Stag Lane,

creasing the price by 19. a 2lb. loat. Labour admits that the wheat- grower must be helped, but contends

general taxation revenue.

"It didn't seem to me particu- larly clover," said Mrs. Bell, when talking of tier

Award. "My number was 444, which shows that 443 other people had obtained rerificates before me." Born in Tasmania, Mrs. Bell han spent a lot of time abroad, and next to acroplanes, riding is her chief bobby. She has one daughter, aged 13.

A GREAT HELP

this should be

be done out of

Physical Education Chief—Mr. Gordon Young, until recently Dirce- for of Physical Education at the YM.C.A. in London, has arrived to become the first Director of Physical Education to the New South Wales Government.

JAMAICA

the CENSUS TO BE TAKEN

NEXT YEAR

With her qualifications, Mrs. Bell should be of great help to aviation section of the Women's De- fence Legion, of which Mrs. E. F. Finlay is in charge, and in which

Kingston. Mrs. Bell hag shown her Interest by The Legislative Council recently commenting to take charge of the decided to take a census of the island transport section.

next year at a cost of £25,000. In

The "Em," official mouthpiece of cinema showmen, declares bluntly:

The City's confidence has been sadly shaken. Nevertheless, it is adopting the attitude of a nun who, having been caught by a a share-pusher, re- Altmugh the section is yet in its 1031 a request for a census was re- fuses to deni

with the Stock Ex-Infancy, plans are being formulated fected by the Council on the ground change. Having bought gold bricks, for training and drill, and Mrs Bell of economy.

to provide her volunteers with

MAURITIUS gold mines."

driving as 1939 will probably see a change in convoy driving, and the backing of British films. Instead?

it will not admit the existence of;ities for driving heavy vehicles.

LAND SETTLEMENT FOR UNEMPLOYED

body.

Women of any age from 17--50 are) of Bnancing productions costing acceptable as volunteers, if they can £100,000 on the doubtful gamble of drive a car, a lor bent, or a motor the United States market, pictures. costing from £25,000 to £40,000 will Cycle, ride a horse or a bicycle, know be encouraged. At least 3 Alms of anything about mechanles, or would this grade are already planned by accept positions as cleaners or order- Midlands district

Plea

Mr. Michael Balcon at Ealing. Mr. Walter Mycroft at Elstree, and Mr. Edward Black at the Gainsborough studies.

BABIES IN COLD

STORAGE!

Sydney,

Unwunl measures were taken save the lives of ve bables collapsed during a heat wave Grimtb, NB.W.

Indian Bride Runs Away

Port Louis. The Government recently began new land settlement plan in

High enthusiasm greeted French Premier Edouard Daladler as he arrived in Bizerta, Tunislu, to inspect France's Mareth line of fortifications between French North Africa and Italian Libya. Here he is welcomed by Tunisian children.

For 80 Years He

Lived In The Dark

COMBE HAY-(near Bath, Somerset).

AFTER living in terror of daylight for eighty years, Mr.

George Edward Smart, Lord of the Manor of Combe Hay, was carried by villagers to Combe Hay church just after dusk recently to lie in his coffin before the altar in the darkness he loved.

When he was nine years old, hist eyes were injured while he was at aplag with sehnal vind. Ever the since

then daylight, or anything white, caused agony in his eyir.

to relieve 17-

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employment in the sugar cann plantations in the northern western parts of the island. The drought this year has caused henvy destruction of cane,

The unemployed began a murch on the capital, asking for a dole or work, but were stopped by the police.

Life was unbearable unless hei turned day into night, night into day. He died at the age of eighty-nine.

One of the staff of the Manor House of Combe lay told me to night-

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Every Sun., Wed, & Fri, from Kunming to Chungking A Paris Court recently rejected two applications for a bon on the Alm Every Wed. & Fri..... from Chungking to Changtu and return "Suez" pending legal action. The Every Mon., Wad, & Fri. from Chungking to Kunming

lin is based on a romance woven Evary Wed. & Fr.

from Kunming to Hanoi "Mr. Smart slept all day with his round the builting of the Suez Canal. The application was made by M. New York.

coum chouly shuttered against the The co-operation between 'the new Recently, Arthur Ochiltree, Seol- Labour Department and planters is daylight. As soon as it was dark hu Paul de Lesseps a son of Ford

New York

de Lesseps, the builder of the canal, star. bearing fruit. The Government is wat gel up. He generally listened and the Marquees de Casa Fuerte,

daily transporting men in special to the radio' valil midnight, trains from the wariiess districts to } "Then he would havs his lunch randnephew of Empress Eugenie, the less affected areas where work and go out for a drive in his car be-Who is represented in the film by

Loretta Young. fore returning for hils tea. Just. is still available,

before dawn he would go back to bed."

tish-born

opera

to should have been spending the first whday of his honeymoon,

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On the advice of doctors they were placed in the Griffith Producers' cool stores, where a inoderate temperature was prcially maintained.

Instend, he is wondering where his sweetheart, an exotic Indian under- graduette. Bonnie Bee Berryhill, could be hiding.

tree: "I can't go through with the While he was making dual plong marringe. I have run away." for the marriage. his dancer fled Mr. Ochiltree said: "She is an Their parents sat beside the bibles from New York.

adorable, spoiled brat and a head- sluring a week-end,

A telegram to friends told Ochil- | strong kid, but I still love her."

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Giving the court's decision, Judge Maillefaud declared: "This film. In the beautiful gardens of Combe which has no claim to literary, artistic or historic inerits, contains blundera Hay Monor, where there is a lake and improbable or ingenious incidents Mr. Smart built an Italian gardenesleulated to evoke mirth rather than and a grotto of shelts which were imagination. sent from all over the world.

"It contains no passage likely to The lake, the grotto and the Kar-sully the memory of Eugenie de den he saw only by moonlight. One Montijo and Ferdinand de Lesseps in of his greatest interests was agricul- the mind of the audience. There is, ture, but he could visit agricultural shows only at night, 'long after they had closed, for the day.

He used to go round the cattle tents and other exhibits with

torch.

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therefore, no reason for preventing the exhibition of the alm

"Though forcim, the film very op- portunely recalls that the creation of the Suez Canal was a French work."

His servants had to read to him with them for his generosity. Years anything printed on white paper. ago, in his young days, he made the Though the villagers of Combe Hay manor famous for Its parties and hardly

saw their lord of the inclul gatherings, ever

..always at manor, he was immensely popular night,

"Private Room On Wheels

For Basil And Betty"

CANBERRA,

A profound change in the relation of the sexes had been brought about by the intention of the automobile, said Professor G. V. Portus, of Adelaide University, to the history section of the Science Congress. Basil could now meet Betty in a private room on wheels, and nobody could say nay, he added.

Snob 'Insult'

To Golf Club

Professor Porius also said: "if you ask a boy to-day who kissed: Hardy, he

probably will answer Laurel." After strongly criticising the old method of leaching history, with its emphasis on the doings of royalty and on wars, he said things

were better now.

The old form of history, about the NEW complaints of "snobbery" by private lives of royalty, he described members of Hastings Downs Golf as "snob history."

Club towards artisan members were "When the former Kaiser, now] made at Hastings Town Council cutting trees at Doorn, was saying 20 inveting recently.

years ago that he was God's vice- The Council was again considering the proposal to grant £100 a year to no modern king but an Elector of regent on earth, you heard speaking the club. The proposal was carried Hanover 400 years ago," said Pro-

by 24 voles to 11.

Councillor Riddle, who mode

charges of snobbery at the council's

fessor Portus.

He added that economics now

Just meeting, quoted from the letter, dominated history to a considerable

extent. which was written by an artisan

The

head of the elvic administra. member:

"The other day some of our chaps on section of the Department of the were playing when four so-called Interior, Mr. C. S. Daley, said he re- gentlemen cut in. Just as an artisan gretted the absence of an historical was taking his shot one of the gentle-background In Australia compared men sald: 'We are allowed to play with other divisions of the world.

With through you.'

a knowledge of Australian history and its storied enterprise, land. Browning's question could be and

substituting Australia for Eng- repeated: "Here and here did Aus- trálta help nie: How can I help Australia?-say," and in purposeful action find the satisfactory answer,

"ONLY ARTISANS" "The artisan sald: We are set but you have cut in, and so lose your tight to the course. The gentlemen refused, saying 'You are only artisan members; you are not of the same standing as us."

"As for the matches they (the full, members) claim to have played with for showing the public what snobs us, we liave had one since the club, 00 per cent, of the golf club are." has been formed. We don'l approach| Councilor Goldman said: "As one them for a guine because of Rule 10, of the snobs referred to in that letter! which states that no artisan member which Councilor Riddle, by means is permitted to play with a member best known to himself, has und sent of the parent club except by invita- to himself, I protest on behalf of 200 tion of the latter.

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