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COLONY'S

BIGGEST

CABARET SHOW

AN ALMOST continuous revue of cabaret numbers is promised by the Manage- ment of the Hongkong Hotel for next Saturday night, when patrons of the Gripps will say farewell to two of the most popular stars to have visited the Colony this season and will, at the same time, welcome back an old favourite team.

Fredric and Sandra Hartnell, who have shown Hongkong the

WHAT'S ON

QUEEN'S: "The

Bookles Wept."

Day the

ALHAMBRA: "The Secret of

a Treasure Island." ORIENTAL: "Fire Over Eng-

land."

KING'S "Music in my Heart." MAJESTIC: "Hawaiian

Nights."

good deal of ingenuity with his real meaning of Swing, are clos- usual artistle ideas to make the stag- ing their season at the Gripps in ing possible in such limited space. order to fulfil an engagement Rehearsals are proceeding apace, with the Oriental Theatre, and and the cast includes Sunny Hole, will make their lust appearance Claude Burgess, Shellah Mackinley

JUICY on Saturday night.

Whitham, Beryl Fair, J. Roberts, Sau Pringle, Auguste Hoff- Olive Green, Andrew Lanky, droll Dave Harvey, accom- melater. panied by the Dyer Sisters, arrive Mackinlay, Anne Dowbiggin, Gelaton From Manila on Friday and will ap- Gilmore, Pegity Chubb and Amedee Once again the A.D.C'a pear in conjunction with the far- de Boysson.

the production is in aid of the British nells for a Gripps.

War Organisation Fund.

at second season

They need no Gripps patrons.

introduction

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On Saturday night each team will present four acts, making a total of eight numbers of a calibre that in well up to leading metropolitan standard.

It will be one of the biggest cabaret nights winessed in Hong-

KODX.

THE Hongkong Amateur Dra- matic Club, now in its 96th year, will present Lesley Storm's light comedy "Tony Draws a Horse" at the China Fleet Club to- morrow night.

In the selection of this play the A. D. C. has been guided by ever in- creasing requests from the public for "soinetliing really laugh at!' With that in mind the Committee could

scarcely have made a better choler as many people recently returned to the Colony, who saw the play in Lotion, will readily testify. "Tony Draws a Horse," according to last advices re- ceived, is still running at the Comedy Theatre and by this time must have exceeded 300 performances.

The theme perhaps, gives modern parents something to think about; Inasmuch as it deals with the pro- blem as to whether a child should be allowed to express his natural gifts freely, and depict life and things as he sees them, or whether those gifts should be curbed by convention. Tony, aged eight years, has

a natural gift for drawing; but, to the con- ventional mind at any rate, his regard for biological exactitude causes some embarrassment. His parents ench hold opposite views regarding his up- bringing and Tony is the unconscious cause of a lot of trouble!

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On this occasion the China Fleet Club Theatre's stage will be taxed to Its utmost as the play requires three sels. These have been designed by

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M.G.M. is annoyed with the National Brondeasting Com- pany of America.

The radio company announc- ed it would give £1,000 to the Finnish Red Cross if Garbo appeared in one of their pro- grammes.

Garbo's studio

(M.G.M.)

refused, pointing out that Garbo recently gave £1,000 to the Finnish Relief Fund.

Anyway, she has turned down offers of £4,000 to appear on the American radio.

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* * SPEAKING of money, RKO- Radio spent more than any other Hollywood studio in 1939 buying the film rights of books and plays. They wrote out cheques amounting to £11,- 090.

Which reminds me that the highest price ever paid for the film rights of anything was the £400,000 that M.G.M. puid for "Ben Hur."

At the box office it tookt 2,250,000, including nearly £1,000,000 from foreign cine- mas..

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"GONE With the Wind" is. due soon now-which reminds me that a skit on the search

to be made. for that picture's star is about

It's called "Kiss the Boys

Mr. W. A, Cornell, who has combined Good-bye," and has been one of

Broadway's most recent and successful plays.

Clare Boothe, author of "The Women," wrote it.

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I HEAR via America that there is a great boom in beer and the cinema in Germany just now, because everything else is either rationed or too expensive.

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NEWS from Australia says and that Mickey Rooney George Formby are about the two biggest favourites down under.

Shirley Temple and Deanna Durban, have slipped.

HOLLYWOOD is a town teeming with beautiful, in- genues, marble-chiselled juve- niles, low-priced vintage wines, and half-priced bedroom suites."--Groucho Marx, writ- ing in Variety.

April 3, 1940.

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WIT IN WARSHIPS' BADGES RUMOURS

EVERY British warship has

an official symbol, in the shape of the badge bestowed upon her by the Admiralty; that badge is to the warship what colours are to a regi- ment. All the history of these badges reveals ingenuity, of- 'ficialdom-and naval wil.

Unt the end of the last war, these badges had no offein! sane- tlon; they came into existence more or less haphazardly. When a ship was commissioned, her commander could, if he so desired, have a badge made in the naval dockyard or aboard. There Was no Ad- miralty ruling of any kind on the mutter.

But when, during the last war,

ships were pouring out from the shipyards, things began to happen, The Naval wits set to work.

One of the first humorous badges was that which graced the destroyer

H.M.S.

badge Tormentor. The showed a large flea! Another war- ship, IIMS. Vanity, had a badge

-Crown Copyright.

The badge of H.M.S. Furious

ship; seeing the badge, he asked for He an explanation of its origin. was told that when she was com-

missioned for service one sailor

depicting a beautiful mermaid ad-Spotting -The Rank

miring herself in a hand mirror.

But perhaps best-known of all in Naval circles was the badge of H.M.S. Onslaught. It consisted solely of a bulrush. The idea puz- zled many Naval men until the Fleet was regated with the inside story.

A very exalted and much gold- braided officer came to inspect the

Ex-Stoker Stubbington

a word for it

has

- LEADING STOKER Francis George Stubbing-

ten hurried to his home in Shakespeare - road, Ports- mouth, to read a speech by Mr. Churchill.

When he read what Mr. Chur- chill said about "one-sided neu- trality" he remembered #n occa- alon, for uulterent from the

Altmark rescue exploit, when a Scandintvian country put a dif- ferent construction on "neutrality": and saved the lives of British Enllors.

Denmark was that country; ex- Leading Stoker Stubbington Wus one of those sailors His story is the Epic of the E.13.

It was in the night of August 10, 1015, that the British submarine E13. houding for the Baltic, grounded near the Danish island of Sultholm, between Malmo and Copenhagen.

As the tried unsuccessfully to free their craft, the crew of the submarine, under Lieut.-Comman- der Geoffrey Layton, wondered what daybreak would bring

They soon found out: and Dr. Goebbels in his fulminations against the men of II.M.S. Cossack will not want to remember what men of the German Navy did an that August morning twenty-four years ago.

But Francis Stubbington remem- bers He was. thirty-three then, Now, at Afty-seven, ho la employed

....THE EPIC OF E.13" IS A STORY. GOEBBELS DOES NOT WANT TO REMEMBER

"Three Danish warships-small graft they were--anchored near us. And up came a German destroyer, Well, that's that, we thought: "We took it for granted we should be rescued and interned.

That was what any reasonable man would have thought. We were a helpless vessel in neutral waters. "Suddenly two more German destroyers turned

One up. them hoisted a signol-and before we had time to read it he opened fire on us,

right

of

"He came

in to point- blank range. We got n taste of bis concentrated Are. Pretty coon there were wounded men lying ull over our deck.... It was boiling hot on recount of the fires the German shells started inside the submarine.

"Our conunander shouted, "Every

for himself. Get away from these swine."

"So we jumped into the water, "What happened then is still a ulghtusare to me. The Germans

In the building trade. He told me, began using shrapnel and machine-

the story in his little parlour in. guns. They fired nt us In the

Portsmouth, the town of shilps.

tvater,

"I heard my shipuintes shout as they were bli. It was hell.

"The Cermons were murdering us. They were like madmen.

"But while the shooting was still going on, one of the Danish ships steamed right in between us und the German destroyer. They made themselves a screen to save as from the shrapnel and machine-

un bullets.

"The Germans didn't dare to Gre

on !! neutral ship., So they steamed way.

Those Dunes had some pluck. "They lowered their bonts and rescued us.

"There were just fteen of us left-out of thirty.

"I'll never forget the bravery Di that Danish commander and his crew-nor how kind the Danish people were while We were in- terned,"

That is the story Francis Stub- bington told me in his parlour. The Official History of the Inst war tells it, too, in different words. This is what the History says:

"The outrage was perpetrated in cold blood, by men well under the control of their officers, when (the E.13 was] n hopeless wreck on a neutral shore. For a cumula- tion of legality it would surely be hard to match. In the nunal of modern warfare,"

it.

Well, Uint is one way of saying Ex-Lending Stoker Stubbing- ton had just one word for it.

Murder.

SUB-LIEUTENANT or COMMISSIONED

WARRANT OFFICER

The rank of Sub-Licuten- ant, corresponding to Lieu. tenant in the Army, was devised by Earl St. Vincont of the when First Lord Admiralty in 1802 as a measure of relief to the overcrowded ranks of mid- shipmen.

It soon died out again,. and was not revived until 1861. Previously, officers of this rank had been termed Mastor's Mates, or simply Mates in the case of those who did not belong to the navigating branch.

When the war began there word on the active list 320 officers of the rank of besides Sub Lieutonant, nearly 200 acting Sub- Lioutonants. The formor had all passed their ex- aminations for the rank of Lieutenant, but the latter were in process of passing thom.

asked a shipmate what the word "onslaught" meant. The reply was "n so-and-so rush," and the badge

was conceived there and then.

A Red-Taped Sloth THEN came two final incidents.

which officinidon could not Ignore. When H.M.S. Hebe

was commissioned, she sported u badge showing a blonde barmaid drawing beer. That was Incident No. 1, In- cident No. 2 concerned H.M.S. Whitehall,

vessel about to be commissioned. The

rumour got round that her badge was to be the Anest ever devised-a large sloth tied up in miles of red tape! Of- ficialdom hastily decided that the time had come to call a halt,

So the whole question of badges was

reviewed. When the wor ended all ships remaining on the Navy List were allowed to keep their badges, provided they were considered suitable, Those that were unsuitable were changed and the design and Issue of all badges were regularised.

Nowadays, the badges and details of ship's war honours form a composite whole, the honours -ap--- pearing on a scroll below the badge and hours of capital ships appear inside a large circular scroll; those of cruisers in a design with Ave sides; those of auxiliary vessels in dtumond-shaped outline; and those of destroyers inside a shield. In the larger vessels the badge is fixed at the fore-end of the quar. deck. Small ships, such as destroyers, can have the badge displayed clsewhere. The des- troyer II.M.S, Boreas, for example, has a badge in front of the badge. It shows a face with the cheeks puffed out and blowing hard, this representing Boreas, or the North Wind.

fer

MAN

Oak for Sturdy

[ANY of the present badges are

obvious from the ship's name. That "oft-sunk" airgraft carrier HMS. Ark Royal, has a badge which

klows Noah's Ark sur- mounted by a crown. HMS. Bruce sports a badge depleting spider mounted on a St. Andrew's Cross. The badge of H.M.S, Roc- ket shows the ancient steam en- gine of that name. HM.S. Sesame, as most of us will appreciate, has a badge which simply displays n key.

When H.M.S. Sterling Was numed, a mistake was made. Her name should have been Stirling after the Scottish town, when she would probably have sported badge of the town's arms. But the and Sterling she remained, badge designed for her shows the familiar sign.

อ

All classical allusions are care- fully followed. The

badge of H.M.S. Cyclops shows a single eye on a background of dame, a strik- ing reference tp Greek mythology. Polyphemus, the most furious of the Cyclops, was a one-eyed giant whose single eye was put out with a blazing stake by Odysseus.

The badge of II.MS, Sturdy shows a British oak, and that of H.M.S. Vallant a fighting cock. Another budge which all Londoners will appreciate is that of H.M.S. Greenwich. It shows an hour glass above a star, no combining Green- wich Mean Time with the work of

astronomers of Greenwich

In a battleship or cruiser carrying midshipmon, a Sub- Lieutenant rules over them as President of the Gun room Mesa. Sub-Licuton- ants also sarvo as junior watchkeeping

the officors in destroyers, submarinos and other small ships.

Commissioned Warrant Officers wear a stripe cor-

Bernard Hall responding to that of a Sub-

Licutonant:

Observatury.

Badges may not have the long tradition of Army colours, but they are now so firmly established that anyone who speaks slightingly,of thêm does no at his own peril!.

D. J. BL.

No Interference By Japanese

The Portuguese Government has Issued an official statement through the acting Portuguese Consul-Gene- ral In Hongkong, Mr. F. P. de V. Soares, repudiating press reports that the Japanese have interfered in Macao affairs.

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GALLANTRY AWARLS

London, Apr. 2,

Two 10-year-old girls saw their fathers decorated by the King of |Buckingham Palace this morning Macao, Apr. 1.

when, for the first time, relatives Finding in Macno no means of live-were admitted to the ceremony of in- lihood, many of the Chinese village vestiture. Fifty relatives watched 37 refugees are gradually passing men and one woman receive decora- through the Barrier Gate in the tions,

effort to return to their work in the rice fields. These

The men included two officers country folic re-receiving awards in connection with ruid on Sylt.-British

cently poured into Macao Just

the Japanese occupation

of R.A.F.

shan. It

200

Wireless.

19 rellably learned, ever, that of the

persons day who are making the trek homeward, Rineering parties are doing the sur- not a few are being turned back by veying work. the Japanese

The Japanese garrison in Chung- mitia who have set shan have

been reduced to 1,000 up their authority in the area. The Japanese and 2,000 puppet troops. reason being given for their return

that the Japanese are selecting Most of them are at Shekki, Hengmi, persons for work on the arable land Tengkawan, Heungchow, and Tsin- Siulam, Changkapin, Talwangpu and those considered unit are not

sh31. being given permiston to return. The Kee Kwan motor busts have moon and Sunwul has been trans- The Japanese commander in Kong- not resumed their hourly serviceferred-to-Chungshan, "from" Macao "to" Shekk! "and, in con-

Duo to rains during the past ten sequence, the journey of the villagers days, the construction of an

belnit conducted on

nero-

Our Own Correspondent, fodrome in Tongkawan by the Japan-

Japanese Garrison

ese has been delayed.

According to a report, the northern Macao, Apr. 2. shore of Kamchuktan, on the West connecting Shuntake River west of Shuntak district, wus and Chungshan is being prepared by occupied by the Japanese on March the Japanese nuthorities and en-128.-Wah Kiw Yat Po.

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