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DARRYL F. ZANUCK'S PRODUCTION OF

THE RAINS CAME

Myrna

by LOUIS BROMFIELD

A 20th Century-foa pierwow głorzing

Tyrone

George

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Directed CLARENCE BROWN

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THE GREATEST ADVENTURE KNOWN TO MAN !

Three years in the mok- Ing! Filmed in the actual African localel 1939's best motion pletural

Urantieth Century-for prezants Darryl F. Zanuck's Production of

STANLEY and LIVINGSTONE

· Crük ile greatest outing quit avar ovenblad 22:43

SPENCER TRACY NANCY KELLY RICHARD GREENE

WALTER BRENNAN - CHIARETS KÖNCIEN – SIN CEDRIC

HARDWKKE • MENŠČKY HYLL : HENRY TRAVERS

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“THERE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN

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Monday,

-HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

March 18, 1940.

1940-Biggest Song

Hit

was

Inspired by

Mozart, born in-1756

By GUY RAMSEY

THE SONG VINTAGE of 1939-10 will rank with that of 1912-13—which saw the birth of ragtime—as one of the "great" years of popular music. Not for many seasons has there been such a crop of catchy tunes.

Leading music publishers were recently asked the reason.

One held the view that such "great" seasons "just happened"; a second, that the war itself had given a fillip to popular songs; a third that the black-out had made people stay at home, listen to the radio or the gramophone, and play the plano, and thus become more "music- conscious"; a fourth that music in a corrective to war depression.

THE "SMASH" ITS Eight music publishers were can- vassed, and their "smash" include:

hits

Why Does My Heart Go Boom? Goodbye, Sally,

There'll Always be an England. Eighteenth Century

Drawing-room.

Somewhere in France.

Bella Bambina (new).

Wish Me Luck.

Till the Lights of London Shine

Again,

Schatteniny Day.

We'll Meet Again.

Cheerioh! I'll Be Seeing You.

They Can't Black-Out the Moon. Franklin D. Roosevell Jones.

In addition, there are two "old" favourites still going strong: "Hong

Nazi Its

Derby to Have Name Nazified

GERMANY, like

BERLIN.

almost every

Reason

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NORMA

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SHEARER CRAWFORD

ROSALIND RUSSELL

The Women

WEDNESDAY

A Paramount Picture

3

DJULY 1,30-11

country in the world where horses column and race, has "The Derby" among its half

a

of classics.

'CRIMES' !

An issue of Voelkischer Beobachter,

out the Washing on the Siegfried leading Nazi newspaper, announces

Line" and "South of the Border?

BASED ON SONATA

"One need not delve further into

jthat Hitler is going to It concludes:***

change the name because the history books to understand why The top song of the moment is "Eighteenth Century Drawing Room," "the bloodstained history of we do not wish to see the name of which started life as an instrumental the British earls of Derby of ponents of an English policy piece only; It is based on

makes the name unsuitable According to the musical Press the for a Nazi horse-race."

Words were added later. Mozart Sonata.

order after that is "Somewhere in France" and "We'll Meet Again."

Eight of the best-sellers have some thing to do with the war: although name of them du not mention it ex-

pllcity, the sense of parting is im- plicit in the sentiment,

The German Derby has been run

every summer at Hamburg for sixty years. The new Nazified name of the classic is not yet chosen.

the

rapine, blood and murder, and the land-grabbing of the lords of Derby perpetuated as designation of a German horse-race."-British United Press.

**First Derby was run at Epsom in 1780. Its orign is disputed. One ver- sion says that it did not get its name

To support the change the Voel- from the twelfth Earl of Derby, as is kischer Beobachter gives a list of generally supposed, but from Derby- According to one expert, it is the crimes committed by the Derby haven. In the Isle of Man, where il tune that makes the song for more family running to one and a half was run for 153 years before being; than the words.

coluning.

transferred to Epsom Downs.

Well, if that's how you feel...!

THE

THE RAF. pilot had run out of

petrol and it was getting dark. Hej made a diMcult landing on the sandy beach of what he thought was an uninhabited Island,

As the plane pulled up, a man op- peared and in truculent Scottish sald: "Are you a German?"

"No," said the airman, "I belong to the air base

at"

"You're not Scottish?"

"No," said the pilot, "I really be long to Capetown.

The Scot inquired exhaustively into the pilot's bona-fides, and de- manded papers to support his state-¦ ments

-At-last, when the pilot sald-some- thing about "I'd like to shoot all the

Germans," the Scot was satisfied.

"I that's how you feel, you've landed in the right place. Come and have a cup of tea," said he.

Spy Jailed For Life

CASABLANCA-Fritz Schubert, a German, was sentenced to life impri- sonment by a military tribunal in Casablanca recently for espionage.— Exchange.

LATE NEWS

PETITION AGAINST PRINCESS

PRINCESS HARRIETT RADZIWILL, who is related by marriage to the ex-Kalser, was the subject of a bankruptcy notice in the "London Gazette":

In the notice she was described as lately of Grosvenor House, Parklane, “but whose present address the petitioning creditors are unable to ascertain." The petition will be heard at the High Court on May 23.

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WEDNESDAY

BIG IN STARS! DYNAMIC IN ACTION ! BREATH-TAKING IN THRILLS ! COMEDY GALORE !

H. G. Wolia' Fantastic Sonsation INVISIBLE MAN Gloria Stuart - Claudo Rains

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IAN HAY COMEDY European Y.M.C.A. To

Present Housemaster

"Housemaster," the comedy of

Scottish Freemasonry At

Union Church ·

Divine Service, under the auspices

Youth which is to be presented by the of the Scottish Freemasonry in European Y.M.C.A. Amateur Drama-Hongkong and South China,

was

We Club this month bears in every held in the Hongkong Union - Church scene the unmistakable Imprint of yesterday. Hongkong

Bro, the Rev. K. MacKenzie Dow,

Ian Hay's master hand. No one is more conversant than he with school ufe, while his knowlege of the thea-Senior Grand Chaplain of the Scot- tish Constitution, offlsisted, and at tre ensures that the play develops the organ was Bro. G. E. Longyear. with dramalle and humorous effect.

Present were the Hon. Mr. C. G. Ian Hay's comedy concerns itself Alabaster, Rt. Wor. Grand Master of with the clash of Ideas between the the English Constitution and *Rt. loyal and conscientious Housemaster, Wor. J. C. Ferguson, District Grand Charles Donkin, and the Headmaster

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