1939-11-22 — Page 15

Hollywood Economy

ALARMED by probable heavy losses in markets outside the United Biales, Hollywood is likely to cut down its film production budget at once by 25 per cent. At least 20 pictures due to start this month have beca postponed indefinitely. Among them is Charlo Chaplin's "The Dietátor," In which Chaplin was to have sailrised Illier.

The Brilish Empire provides 30 per cent. of Hollywood's revenue --about £10,000,000 a year. Some 580 feature films now planned are likely to be reduced to 400 at the most,

Courageous Orphans

Start Now Life

You Must Be Proud Of Your Father

PLYMOUTH-Four chil- dren of one of the men who died in the aircraft carrier Courageous have had to go into a Dr. Barnardo's home because their mother can no

longer afford to keep them. How The Navy

The children--two

sets of

blond boy twins aged three and six-were admitted to the Ply mouth branch of the home after their mother explained that their father, Chief Stoker Petty Officer

Fights

The U-Boats

William Joseph Jones, had been Hilly to the eye the Navy

ĮȚERE are pictures that bring "killed by a German submarine." | ceaseless tratch which is bringing The boys were told that they, the U-bout mestaen to m end. should be proud of their father and

not forget him. Their mother kissed

They were taken aboard a

them and then signed papers sur-destroyer on escort duty, rendering them.

You ser the officer of the watch

She has been told that her pension causing the sea for any sign of will be £2 45. week. She ins eight children. The two eldest boys, a submarine's periscope, making aged fourteen and fifteen, have just sure at the same time that his ship Hot Jobs as errand boys and kehonpa its position. daughter, aged twenty, was married

n fortnight ago. There is aged eleven months.

1 baby

Bills Paid Representatives of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust culled on Mra. Jones, and she told them that on her reduced money she' could no longer afford to keep the twins. She was told that the trust would pay her out- standing bills of £2 10s. for the doctor and the electric light account. Then the children were taken away,

The two elder boys, Alan and Peter, were asleep but in another ward the smaller twins. Robert and David, were awake. They cannot yet grasp that their father has been Killed in the war.

on

Mr. Jones said: "It was a wrench to let them no, but I had to. My husband said good-bye to them. the Friday before we heard he wa dead. I had a telegram, then this Jutter from the Admiralty."

The letter was printed, with flanke filled in in ink. It was dated September 27, and said: "Madam,

I regret to have to inform you that in consequence of the death of your husband, William 3. Jones, the Navy Allotment, and... Marriage. Allowance. in course of payment to you ceases with the instalment due on Septem ber 14,

"An allowance equal to the rate of the marriage allowance in Issue. together with an allotment at the alipulated qualifying rate for mar- rlage allowance, which in your case 13 21s n week, will be pak for a perlod

of thirteen notification of death.

weeks

after

The total allowance of 50s, a week ccase, payable in this respect will therefore, with the payment due on December 14. Any over-payment occurring on the 21st or 28th Septem- ber will be adjusted by reducing the payments made subsequently.

"I have accordingly to request that you will return to this departmenfi the Navy Order Book(s) in

your possession in the enclosed envelope in order that the necessary alteration may be made. 1 un, Madam, Your Obedient Servant; Director of Navy Accounts."

You see the navigation officer taking a bearing.

And you see also, in the picture below, how the crew relax in off- duty moments-eith a smile and A kolig.

£1,000

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 22, 1939.

O.D. Gallagher, London's Star War Reporter, Says-

WEST

THE WAR (MAGINOF) PROVES

DIFFICULT TO FIND

SHORT

By O. D. GALLAGHER

With the R.A.F., Somewhere in France.

O you remember my telling you yesterday

Dthat the far out here were short of smokes?" Well, they're short of films, too.

The No. 1 padre went to work, and got to- gether a small travelling projector and screens, and arranged halls, everything. He wrote to dis-, tributors in London, asked the rent of films.

Price was high, but money was produced. Then the distributors worked things out, found. that the Army Post Office would need about five for six days to send films out here, and the same | time to send them back, · ·

And the Alm distributors said: "Nix. Not worth it. Sorry."

So the R.A.F. can't go to the pictures. Thoy could, of course, go to the war, but anywhere west of the Maginot Line this war is the most difficult thing in the world to find. I have been through country that still wears the scars of the last one, and what is there to be seen?

Hurdly anything you

MAGINOT GUNS CAN HIT TANK AT 3 MILES

:

wouldn't

have found la peace time, except for the numbers of men in the uniforms of the armies and air forces of Britain and France.

More War in King's Lynn

In fact, there' are fewer signs of war life in places I've seen hero than in, tay, King's Lynn.

If you could suddenly dump somo

of these French villegera in London or Manchester they would be startled by the war preparations which part of your everyday life

aro

Almost the only precaution you share

these wiw!!

pear-front-line villagers is the black-out. - And earlier closing, Sucks is the Influence jof the RAF. In one village, that astonished cafe proprietors have to open and close as if they were under DORA

܂

Here's one reason why it's hard to And this war, Everybody is out to beat enemy agents. They are help- ing to blow up a fog as thick an`a pea-souper,

Invisible, R.A.F

I was taken along to-day with some colleagues to see one of the many RAF, stations that are scattered all over France. The place wo saw covers several hundred acres of ground, yet it is completely hidden,

Io the biggest, most remarkable job of camouflaging I've ever seen. Why, you could take a photograph of this bomber station and send it to Nazl air boss Goering and he would see no more than a stretch of French countryside with the marks of autumn on it.

Close up I saw some of our best |bombers no well hidden that when IN THE MAGINOT LINE. une was started up and the pro- HAD sucking pig for lunch to-day, ninety-peller few round, some one said: nine feet underground in a fortress on the "Look at that tree warming up!" Maginot Line. Yesterday at nightfall I watched right across the airfield. They are There are roads of steel grating poilus eating brend spread with garlic sausage a runways that can never get bogged rain and soft red mud sprinkled me in one of the when winter rains come. The un- first outposts of Gamelinland-the German ter- seen bombers will be able to take off in any weather, But even these ritory these men have captured for France. steel roads are invisible from the

It was warm in the concrete corridor, and the air. rooms of the Maginot Line. There was a com- The airfield's radio station is fortable smell of pine disinfectant, and steam invisible, too. It's inside one of a from the food, and coffee bubbling in the soldiers' score of haystacks that dot the electric kitchen.

landscape, and it's the only one that is not a genuine stack. The belligerent troops, who call themselves So big to this invisible bomber shellfish, wore neat, clean uniforms, something station that the plones can take oft like our battle dress. But war still means mudin pitch darkness. The pilots know they will have got their planes off to front-line soldiers.

ON

·

TOPS,

I CALL

IT!

Riding high in spirits is natural to children who Dao CASTORIA. No need to urge them to tako a laxative. They know CASTORIA, la pleasant in tasto. Know, also, that it fa mild and effective on their systems. Makes them feel fit and satisfied... as though they were sitting on top of the world! Mothers share this feeling of pride in CAS- TORIA because it is safe, effective. In millions of homes it is used at the first sign of a coated tongue, an upset stomach or when a cold is developing,

Get acquainted with CASTORIA, the laxative prepared especially for children. Buy a bottle tow day. Keep it in YOUR home,

CASTORIA

THE CHILDREN'S LAXATIVE -

XCASTORIA,

PLEASE! OR NOTHING!",

The ideal laxative for children from baby- hood to 11 years. Custoria quickly and gently stim- wiateş senzitivo bowalà and corrects upset stomach.

Many doses in unch Sažila, Unn as needed. It kespa.

Here's Luck!

EWO

BEER

ENJOY THIS VARIETY PROGRAMME

BY

RADIO'S FAVOURITE ARTISTES

ON

New Symphony Orch. Light "Opera Company

Peter Dawson. Light Opera: Company. Paul Robeson & Orch:

We walked out of France yesterday up what the ground long before they reach last spring was a lovers' lane. Two officers sat the end of the field in any direction. at a little folding table, drinking red wine from

Gathered Turnips billy cans. Their men were crunching crusty At this station to-day a French sandwiches.

farmer was gathering his turnips Two men in a narrow trench watched beside that were growing over a part of the machine guns pointing out over no-man's land. airfield. Bombers were being warm-

HIS. MASTER'S VOICE RECORDS It had been dug through tree roots, and we looked ed up out of sight all around him.

All around are anti-aircraft posta into Germany through branches to repulse low-flying attacks. They C1980-Nalla, Waltz, (Dellbies) from which the leaves were fall-Jare manned day and night.

C2000-Medley, of Leslie Stuart Songs C2097A Lover in Damascus ............ Ing.. A black cow scratched it-

You may wonder how the gunners C2220 White Horse Inn. Vocal Gems self against the French barbed distinguish between friendly and C2287-Negro Spiritual Medley wire,

enemy alreraft, as both are daubed C2325-Flower of Hawall. Marek Weber & Orch, with Comedy Harmonists. Loading Strings.

with splotches of drab paint to C2610-Rhapsody in Blue |camoudage them. The reason the C2703 Fifty Years of Song One of the two pollus crawled gunners don't open up on our planes C2888-The Riddle Scene into a dug-out, lay down to sleep. is because of a complicated signal- | C2851-The King Steps Out, Vocal Gems "Englishman," he yawned, "if you ling arrangement which they are C2861-Jealousy see the general tell him I need some expected to go through If they come C2808 Our Greatest Successus

janywhere near an airfield. si pylamas."

The lieutenant led us away. They If a machine doesn't go through had tied string from tree to tree so these secret motionswell, it's just that every man could get without as you would imagine. They shoot fights to His lighting post.

There has not yet been a report French gun suddenly opened fire of absent-mindedness by any Allled behind us. We had seen

them plats. curlier, stubby-looking things, so eleverly camoudaged that they are invisible at five yards.

Chief Stoker Potty Officer Jones was due to retire from the Navy in February. "We were hoping things would be easier then," said Mrs. Jones. "He would have had his pen-

MR. JOHN DARBY, of Hillmorton, near Rugby, is ston then, and could have joined the Navy again. Ho had five three of which he got in the Navy in £1,000 short after his deal in horses with the War Office, £100 on cach the last war, and one for long service, Brigadier-General Sir Ernest, lost an average of

Makina, M.P., is to ask a ques-horse."

WAR OFFICE DEAL

and he was expeeling

medals,

little extra

pension on account of them.

"So, for the first time, we should tion about it in the House of

not have had to struggle to make Commons. -ends meet."...

Glands Made Young Vigour Renewed Without-Operation

If you

you faal oid before your time or suftar from nerve, brain and physical weakn you will find saw happiness pad health in Which Yew 'etores youthful vigour and than sind operations: It is a simple bome Ustment in tablat lecovered by en American Devon and way to take, but the newest and most pow erful invigourstor, knows, to potenés. Ty skula direcly on your slandi, Royyys, and Vital organs, bulida nam, pars.blood, ma

•Work Fant that you ann des and reşi new body power and vigour in it to to wors Decakes of sin hefural neilon en glands an IRRITAR, YOur brain. power, memorY, SIÊ Payment oftan improva amkaINKIY,

And this amazing new stand and vigour irectorar, called VisƑabe, is guaranteed. 14

has been tested upå in Amines and les provedly themente

an American medical disoovisi: wyguloker

The question says Mr. Darby had

IDEAL DIET

13 horses, which cost him on FOR DIGESTIVE

requisitioned by ati Impressment

officer for £780.

"In view of the fact that these horses represent the capital of Mr. Derby's business and that requisition-

DISTURBANCES

The big problem with sufferers

ing is ruin to his prospects, why has from gastritis or other digestive on disturbances is how to avoid pressure been brought to bear

him by the Department to induce pala and discomfort when eating. him not to bring the matter before The Inflamed stomach walls are the county court" the question conso sensitive that solid foods can not be retained. Even liquid Hoavy Losses

foods are often vomited.

tinuca...

Mr. Darby, who deals in hunters, Yet the patient must get quick Bald: "Fortunately, when the buyer come, some of my best show horses new strength into his body *****Doctors and nurses have found were away. Y

"I told him the prices I had paid that Horlicka is retained in the

for those he selected, but he told me stomach when other foods are The reason is that he was not allowed to pay more than rejected.

£60 cách, but I could appeal to the Horlicks i socasy to digest, county court if I was not satised. At the same time it rebuilds the -chamjais – kirs. On VISTAMISTUS: your -shamlet today, Pus it to the last (as the

Simprovement in a from Taken"My case was down for hearing exhausted body, and restores ful betting watch laws-plekt DAYS, code ↑

The posidley sourant than it was fine and foot 10 to fizyonda younger, at -money back an return of SMĚLY PŘESLEW:

►and, the guarantee

last Thursday, but the court author

ties, asked me to accept an adjourn

ment for a month, because they had

strength and stamina.

Keep Horlicks ready at hand.

so many cases of a similar nature to It is delicious to taste. Your

store sells Horlicks,

A protente zupujeme "A friend of mine who has had 23 horses commandeered talls mé he has

·

Around one of the batteries a little "plne wood" had been made by sticking Christmas trees in the ground.

the

it down.

EARLY FILM

COMIC DIES

FORD STERLING, one of the early comedians of the screen, died recently in Hollywood. He was 55.

Before entering films Sterling was n'circus clown and later a cartoonist jon a Chicago nowspaper,

His most recent successes included

The little commander of the for Iress took us through steel doors down a concreto- corridor. There are "Don't spit" notices on the walls. It is manned by 550 shellfish.”

We had to climb 172 steps to the

He was associated with Charlie observation, post, where an officer Chaplin and the late Mobel Normand shumed in a circle, his eyes against in several productions. the porlscope, Just like a submarine commander. When an order comes *For the Love of Mike," "Gentlemen through on the underground: tele-Prefer Blondes," and "Sally.” phone exchanges, guina rise from earth and hurl shells over Germany.

I saw one turret going into ac-: tion. From the fire-control rooms, Alled with graduated maps, photo-

The officer said: "This turret can. graphs and mathematical

tables, numbers flashed to the turret on a fire oighty shells in three minutes. clock face.

Our fire is no nocuraté that I could Tho

*great * turret," "balanced guarantee to hit a tank at three against a 300-ton stool counter-miles! weight, was raised by alectrletty. Two hundred feet underground n The gunners want through: "the man who once cooked in the kitchens movements of loading: ani Bring of the Savoy Hotel, London; stirred a without seeing their objective, cauldron of mashed potatoes,; ** *

protected by seventeen feet of steel and concrete,

C2010 Artistes Life.

Eight Pinnos. Terence. Casey, Organ. Leslie Henson & Fred Emney. ....Light Opera Company. Boston Promenade Orch. .Cicely Courtneidge & Jack Hulbert. Boston Promenade Orchi

(Strauss) SATSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

MARINA HOUSE 19, QUEEN'S ROAD C.

PHONE 24518.

Swan, Culbertson & Fritz

Investment Bankers, and Brokers

Members of New York Cotton Exchange

Chicago Board of Trade

Winnipeg. Grain Exchange

Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc. Montreal Now York Coffee and Sugar Exchange Manila Stock Exchange

Hongkong Shinrebrokers Association

Shanghai, Stock Exchango

SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA and BUENOS AIRES

"Cable" "Address:* Swan

Maskt

Page 15Page 16