1940-02-10 — Page 13

Saturday,

DEANNA DURBIN IS News Guido

NO. 1 1 FAVOURITE :

DEANNA DURBIN is now. the most popular film star in England, according to the returns collected from British einemus by the "Motion Pictura Herald." Curiously, Miss Durbin does not reach the first ten in the American cinema list.

The most popular British star is again George Formby, with Gracie Fields second.

In the United States, 15,000 exhibitors report Mickey Rooney an displacing Shirley Temple as the top attraction.

"Nazi Spy

Best in 39

Shirley Is Third

box-omces, and fifth at those

of

Nazis

NAZI

HONGKONG TELE GRAPH

By Bernard

Moore

Fail Again

February 10, 1940.

SINGAPORE AND THE WAR

· SINGAPORE (UP). — Thou- sands of British troops and Prese attacks on, Ministers met recently in Oslo to dla aviators stationed in Singapore, 8,000 miles from the western Sweden's Foreign Minister, M.cuss the Finnish Invasion. Rickard Sandler have had the The former are Denmark, Norway, front, are basking in the tropi- effect such outside interference Sweden, Finland, Holland and Bel-cal sun to-day, yet envying their frequently achieves.

lum, and they are known as the comrades in the cold and rain "Oslo Powers"" because they signed

main in office.

Dr. Goebbels'

Publle opinion has rallied to his an important trade convention in of France,

1030. The Scandinavian Bupport. All parties in Sweden, Oslo in

For they all want to "have a cut they put It, and cables our Stockholm correspondent, Group consists of Denmark, Norway at Hitler," as Shirley is now third at, the Britis, are now insisting that he should re- Sweden and Finland, und the co-would rather be in the thick of the! operation between them has been fighting in France then guarding this due, in no small measure, to Rickard vital empire outpost, which is the Sandler.

cornerstone. of British defences, in That is one reason why, at this the Far East, the Indian Ocean and eritien) moment in Scandinavian bla- Australasia. tory, he has been signalled out for

All they know about the war is attack. For the Nazis prefer the what they read in the papers. They small countries to remain isolated, envy those who have had thefr

islike

the praverb "Union

baptism of fire and hope that their strength."

turn will come soon.

America where the first four are given ha Mickey Rooney, Tyrong NEW YORK-Disregarding "Gone Power, Spencer Tracy and Clark With the Wind" as too late for con-] Gable. sideration, the National Board of Re-i view

its selection of Announces

All these positions are calculated terms of money-making. The "Contorsions of a Nazi Spy" as the leading 10 in British cinemas are:

Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney,

Robert

Taylor, Shirley Temple, Jeanette Macdonald.

best film of 1930.

Other choices, in order, by vote of the organisation which represents womer's clubs and elvie groups throughout the country:

Spencer Tracy, Erroll George Formby, Nelson Eddy, Cooper,

Dritish Stars

This reaction to latest attempt to stir up trouble in neutral States is all the more signi- fennt because long before the attacks on Sandler began, the question of a reshuffle of the Swedish Cabinet, probably involving the exclusion of M. Sandler, was under consideration.

DAI

In

Group Is Cosmopolitan SWEDEN'S slim, bright-eyed, WHEN the League Assembly meets Among the troops in Singapore Socialist Foreign Minister-he han handled the country's foreign affairs the three Foreign Ministers, M. Koht are men of famous Scots regiments (Norway), M. Munch (Denmark), and in any place where the men of Flynn, with only one short break since 1932 and M. Sandler will not be present, the services meet, can be heard the

Gary.-in un friend of the Nazis."

|nithough the subject of the meeting broad Scotch accents mixed with. is one which closely concerns them. those of Lancashire, Yorkshire and.

the Midlands. Sometimes They are all three famillar figures in the League, lobbies, and normally reveals the presence of a

Cockney. would, attend next week's meeting: but they regard the situation so gravely that they feel they should stay at home.

Of British performers, the most profitable in British dinanas are tec- koned to be:

But, despite German accusations, his constant policy has been to keep his country strictly to its traditional neutrality.

"Wuthering Heights," "Stage Coach," "Ninotchka," "Young Mr. Lincoln," "Crisin," "Goodbye Mr. Chips," "Mr. Smith Goes to Wash- Ington," "The Roaring Twenties" and

It was he who was largely res- ponsible for the informal agreement "U-boat 29." Foreign language films in order of preference: "Harvest,"

George Formby, Gracle Ficks, by which the "Oslo Powers" declded "Alexander Nevaky," "The End of a | Robert Donut, WI Iny. Anna to pursue a concerted policy in the diplomatic us well as in the economic Day" and "Robert Koch."

Neagle.

Nelds. Commendable performances, not Leslie Howard, Charles Laughton, listed as to preference: James Cag-Gordon Harker, Ralph Blchardson. ney In "The Roaring Twenties," Will Fyfte.

Bette Davis in "Dark Victory" and William Boyd is said to be the big- "The Old Mald," Geraldine Fitz-gest cowboy draw in British chemas, gerald in "Wuthering Heights" and with Gene Autry second..

"Dark Victory," Henry Fonda in "Young Mr. Lincoln," Jean Gabin in "Port of Shadows," Greta Garbo in "Ninotchka," Francis Lederer and Paul Lukas in "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," Thomas Mitchell in "Stage Conch," Laurence Olivier in "Wuthering Heights." Flora Robson in "We Are Not Alone" and Michel Simon in "Port of Shadows" and "The End of a Day."

GERMAN SPY TO DIE

A.

was

CHALONS-SUR-MARNE, German named Wilhelm Maurer, a talfor

Paris, who lived in condemned to death as a spy by the military court at Chalons-sur-Marne.

voice

true

The men of the RAF. come from from all over Great Britain and

the part of

dominions. In

one group of fliers at a recent gathering, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford, Cafe Bavaria, Middlesborough, London, Hull and

Swansea were represented.

So one familiar Geneva sight will be missing. The where journalists and delegates meet, will not see M. Sandler, with hla customary gloss of cold milk, talking the red-check THESE "Oslo Powers" should not julgh politics across be confused with the Scandinavian tablecloths until the small hours of 'Group, three of whose Foreign the morning.

Guns

Stolen

From

Fort

Sold As Junk

ARE the faces of the oflicers of the historic Fort Jay, on Governor's Island, New York Harbour, red! Flve antique cannon -they weigh half a ton apiece-have been stolen from the fort and sold to a junk dealer,

And this is how it was done. A corporal rounded up soldiers, gol them to load the cannon on lorries, assured the military police that all was O.K., and delivered them to a dealer, who paid £35 for the lot.

They were worth, even as old iron, about ten times that sum.

Winter Cruise

FAMOUS CLUB TO BE REBUILT AFTER WAR

Members

of:

LONDON.

of Sir Shenton In the words Thomas, governor and commander- troops and is a' vertluble hornets' in-thlet, Singapore is "crowded with Inesi of alreraft.”

for

Rigorous Training Prescribed And the men. although 80 from the Western Front, are on ac- tive service in virtually every sense undergoing of the word. They are intensified training as part of the hardening process in war time. Some of them are living on rations. Gun practice. and drilling go on continually, the men sweating in cotton drill uniforms while their colleagues In France are trying to keep

in greatcoals and muillers.

After the war It is announced, the famous political meeting place of

Parliament — St, CI Stephen's Club-in the shadow of Big Ben, which is at the present He closed, will be rebullt.

In the meantime Its 700 members have been given, accommodation in other clubs.

Opened in 1870 St. Stephen's was

particularly useful to M.P's because

the division bells always rang in the Club enabling them to hurry along an underground passage to the House in time to vote.

war

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war

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"NOT WINDOWS,

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HOLES./*

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