1940-04-03 — Page 3

Wednesday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 3, 1940.

| MAGAZINE PAGE

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 patróns of the Gripps will say farewell to two of the most popular stars to | havo visited the Colony this season and will, at the same time, welcome back an old favourite team.

WHAT'S ON

QUEEN'S: "The

Day the

Bookies Wept." ALHAMBRA: "The Secret of

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

land."

KING'S "Musie in my Heart.” "Hawniinn

MAJESTIC:

Nights."

Fredric and Sandra Hartnell, who have shown Hongkong the

a good deal of ingenuity with his real meaning of Swing, are clos- usual artistle ideas to make the stage ing their senson at the Gripps in ing possible in such limited space. order to fulfil an engagement

Rehearsals are proceeding apace, with the Oriental Theatre, and ant the cast includes Sunny Hole, will make their last appearance Claude Burgess, Shelish Mackinley

James on Saturday night.

Whitham, Beryl Fair, Roberts, San Pringle, Auguste Hoff-

Lanky, droll Dave Harvey, accom- meister,

Olive Green, Andrew panied by the Dyer Sisters, arrive

Mackinlay, Anne Dowbiggin, Gelston from Manila on Friday and will ap. Gilmore, Peggy Chubb and Amedee Dear in conjunction with the Hart de Boysson. Once again the A.D.C's nella for a second season at the production is in aid of the British Gripps.

War Organisation Fund.

They need Gripps patrons.

Introduction

tu

On Saturday night each team win present four actu, making a total of eight numbers of a calibre that is well up to leading metropolitan standard.

It will be one of the biggest |cabaret, nights witnessed in Hong-

kong.

*

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

In the selection of this play the A, D. C. has been guided by ever - creasing requests from the public for "something to really laugh at

at With that in mind the Committee could scarcely have made a better choice as many people recently returned to the Colony, who saw the play in London, will readily testify. Tony Draws a Horse," according to last advlees re-

celved, 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 deplet lite and things as he eces them, or whether those glits should be curbed by convention. Tony

tra aged eight years, has a natural gift

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

*

ON this occasion the China Flect Club Theatre's stage will be taxed to its utmost as the play requires three Reis. These have been designed by

Broadway's most recent and successful plays.

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

*

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.

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

Shirley Temple and Deanna Durban have slipped.

* * *

11

HOLLYWOOD is town teeming with beautiful in- genues, marble-chiselled juve. niles, low-priced vintage wines. and half-priced bedroom M.G.M. is annoyed with the

suites."-Groucho Marx, writ- National Brondensting Coming in. Variety. 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,

that

Garbo's studio (M.G.M.) refused, pointing out Garbo recently gave £1,000 to the Finnish Relief Fund.

*

Anyway, she has turned down offers of £4,000 10 appear on the American radio.

*

* 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,-

000,

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

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

mag.

*

"GONE With the Wind" is due soon; now-which reminds me that a skit on the search for that picture's star is about to be made,

It's called "Kiss the Boys

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

WIT

GRIN AND

BEAR IT

By Lichty

114,

"Right now she's at the curious stage-yesterday she wanted to know what in the world I saw in her father!"

IN WARSHIPS' BADGES

EVERY British warship has

un official symbol, in the shape of the budge 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 mval wit.

Until the end of the lust war, these badges had no offelal sane- tion; they came into existence more or less haphazardly. When a ship was commissioned, her commander coud, if he so desired, have badge made in the naval dockyard or aboard. There was no AI- miralty ruling of any kind on the matter.

But when, during the last war, ships were pouring out from the shipyards, things began to happen. The Naval wite set to work. One of the first humorous badges was that which graced the destroyer

H.M.S.

Tormentor. The badge showed a large fleul Another war- ship, H.M.S. Vanity, had a badge depicting a beautiful mermaid_ad....... 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- zied many Naval men until the Ficet was regaled with the inside story.

•

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

Ex-Stoker Stubbington

has a word

Ex

X LEADING STOKER Francis George Stubbing-

ton 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

an been-

sion, far different from the Altmark rescue exploit, when Scandinavian country put a dif ferent construction on "neutrality** und saved the lives of British sallors.

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

for

It was in the night of August. 18, 1916, that the British subingrine E.13, hending

the Baltic. grounded near the Danish Island of Saltholm, between Malmo and Copenhagen.

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

They soon found out: and Dr. Goebbels in is

fulminationa against the men of HM.S. Cossack will not want to remember what men of the German Navy did on that August morning twenty-four years ago.

But Franels Stubbington rement- hers Ho was thirty-three then, Now, at Afty-seven, he is employed in the building trade. He told me the story in a little parlour in Portsmouth, the town of ships.

for it..

...THE EPIC OF

E.13 IS A STORY GOEBBELS DOES NOT WANT TO REMEMBER

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

inote

That was what any reasonable man would have thought. We were a helpless vessel in neutral waters.

"Suddenly two

German destroyers turned

ol, up. One them, holsted a signal and before we had time to rend it he opened Ure on us.

"He came right in to point- blank range. We got a laste of his concentrated Are. Pretty soon there were wounded men lying all uver our deck.... It was boiling hot on account of the fires the German shells started Insile the submarine.

"Our commander ahouted, 'Every man for himself. Get away from these swine."

"So we jumped into the water. "What happened then is still a nightmare to me. The Germans begun Ushly shrapnel and machine- guns. They fired at us in the

water..

"I heard my shipmates shout as they were hit. It was hell.

"The Germans were murdering s. They were like madminen.

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

un bullets.

The Germans didn't dare to fre on a neutral ship. So they steamed away.

"Those Danes had some pluck. "They lowered their bouts and rescued us.

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

"I never forget the bravery of that Danish commander and his crew-nor how kind the Danish people were whlic we were in- terned,"

That is the story Francis Stub- bington told me to his parlour. The Oficial History of the fast war tells it, too. in different worda. 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 waa] a hopeless wreck on n neutral shore. For a cumula- tion of legality it would surely be hard to match in the aruals of modern warfare,"

Well, that is one way of saying It. Ex-Leading Stoker Stubbing- ton had just one word for it.

Murder.

-Crown Copyright.

The badge of H.M.S. Furious

ship; seeing the badge, he asked for an explanation of its origin. He was told that when she was corn- missioned for service one sailor

Spotting The Rank

SUB-LIEUTENANT or COMMISSIONED

WARRANT OFFICER

The rank of Sub-Licuten- ant, corresponding to Licu- tenant in the Army, was devised by Earl St. Vincent whon First Lord of the

1802 Admiralty in measure of relief to the overcrowded ranks of mid- shipmon.

a

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

When the war bogan there were on the active list 320 officers of the rank of besidos Sub - Ligutenant, ncarly 200 acting Sub- Licutonants. The former had all passed their ex- aminations for the rank of Lieutenant, but the latter. were in process of passing them.

In a battleship or cruisor carrying midshipmen, a Sub- Lloutenant rules over thom as Prosidont of the Gun- room Moss. Sub-Lieuten- ants also torvo as junior in watchkeeping officers destroyers, submarines and other small ships.

Commissioned Warrant Officers wear a stripe cor-

Bernard Hall responding to that of a Sub-

Lieutenant.

asked a shipmate what the word "onslaught" meant. The reply was

"a so-and-so rush," and the badge

was conceived there and then.

A Red-Taped Sloth THEN came two final incidents which oficialdom could nol ignore. When H.M.S. Hebe Wis commissioned, she sported a badge showing a blonde barmaid drawing brer. That was Incident No. 1, In- eident No. 2 concerned H.M.S. Whitehall, a vessel about to be cominissioned. The

rumour дов round that her badge was to be the finest ever devised a large sloth led up in miles of red tape! Or 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 a ship's war honour form a composite whole, the honours up- 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 five sides; those of auxiliary vessels in diamond-shaped outline; and those ut destroyers inside a shield.

In the larger vessels the badge is Axed at the fore-end of the quar- ler deck. Small ships, such as destroyers, can have the budge displayed elsewhere. The des- troyer H.M.S. Boreas, for example, has a badge In front of the budge. It shows a face with the cheeks puffed out and blowing hard, this representing Borens, or the North Wind.

Oak for Sturdy

MANY of the present badges are

obvious from the ship's name. That "ofl-sunk" atreraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, has a badge which shows Noah's Ark sur- mounted by Д crown. H.MS. Bruce

sports

a badge depicting a spider mounted on i St. Andrew's Cross. The badge of HS. Roc- ket shows the ancient steam en- gine of that name. HMS. Sesarne, as most of us will appreciate, has a badge which simply displays a key.

When H.M.S. Sterling Was Her named, a mistake was made. name should

have been Stirling, after the Scottish town, when she would probably have sported badge of the town's arms. But Sterling she remained, and the badge designed for her shows the familiar sign..

01

All classical allusions are care- fully

followed. The badge H.M.S. Cyclops shows a single eye strik- on a background of flame, ing reference to Greek mythology, Polyphemus, the most famous of the Cyclops, was a one-eyed giant whose single eye was put out with u blazing stake by OdyssCUB.

The badge of HMS. Sturdy shows a British onk, and that of H.M.S. Vallant a fighting cock. Another badge which all Londoners will appreciate is that of HM.S. ch. It shows an hour glass Greenwich. above a star, so combining Green- wich Mean Time with the work Li the astronomers of Greenwich

Observatory.

Badges may not have the long tradition of Army colours, but they are now so firmly established that anyone who speaks slightingly of

· them does so at his own perill ·

Ď. J. M.

Ubruary, Supreme Court

PUT THIS NEW COLOUR-THRILL ON

YOUR LIPS!

Lundews, transparent South Sea Celour...the mest glomereus rede ever put into dipaliek

Same Lipuick reds actually

repet a man ochers he thinks are becoming...but sheco are diva critain rede that resily make hle heart beat fast with desire for possession of their wearer, These are the five exciting South Sea rede found la TATTOO Lip. stick purposely selected from all colours because of their strange pawer to enchant, Try it your self...and see! You'll also dis- cover that TATTOD is the most lastingly indelible Upstick you bavo over used, and that it actually makes your lips softer, mother, ohio mudrinora luscious! See those áve excting colours at your favourite store. There are variousshes at pricesto&tray purse. CORAL..EXOTIC..NATURAL. PASTEL..HAWAILAN

TATTOO

YOUR LIPS 02/20

For your compiele beauty treatment, use Tattoo Powder, Rouge and Mascara (Cream with brush) Sole Distributor:

Auw Pit Seng's Trading Co., Ltd.,

Hongkong.

MACAO RUMOURS

No Interference By Japanese

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

BANKS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Innorporated by Royal Charter 1853 Paid-up Capital ..... ****** £3,000,000 Reserva Liability of Proprietors £3,000,000 Ieserva Fund

***** £3,000,000

HEAD_OFFICEM-LONDON. 58 Bishopsgate, E. C.l. Sub-Agencies In London: 117/123, Leadenhai) Street, K.UJ.

Wast. Ind, tiranch:", 14/16, Cockspur Street, S.W.L Kanduster Branch:

42, Mosley Street, Manchester, 2.

AUSNCIES AND DRANCIIBA:

Harbin

Hongkong

Sitinwan Sourabaya

Alor Star

Hangoon

Amritsar

Balgon

Bangkok

Ipoh

Bearing

Halavin

tatto

Keterban

Bumbay

Karachi

Shanghai

Calcutta

Kiang

Hingapore

Agencies:

Kobe

Clive Street Kuain

Taifile PlacO

Lumpur

Taiping

Tankow

Kuching

Mindras

Tlentin Tongkats

Manila

(Khuket)

Medan.

Telnatio

New York

Yokohama

Pelping

(Peking)

Conton Cawnpate Cebu Colombo

Delni Ralphang

ifamburg

Penang

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Buddress "tranangled.

CURRENT

ACCOUNTS. opened and FIXED DEPosits received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Cur- rencice at rates which will be quoted on appatention,

BAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtainable on application. The Bank's Read Once in London undertakes Executer & fruston business, and claims recovery of British Incumb Fax overpaid, on terms which may bro ascertained at any of it Agencies and Brunchies.

B. A. CAMIDOR,

Manager.

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.

Head Ofce-13. Gracechurch Street,

_Loudon, B.C,5.

Authored Capital Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund and Rest

BANKERS:

£3,000,000

1,000,000

1,050.000

-1,252,970

The Bank of Enginad & Midland

Tinak, Ltd, BRANCHES

Bangkok

Bambay

Jalan Kuanian

-Calcutta

Colombo

Delhi

Salle

Kandy

Karachi

Kota Bharu Kuala Lipis

Ifongkong Kuala Lumpur

Flowrah

Ipoh

:--

Madras

Kuala Trongcanu

New York Penanst Rangoon Shanghal

Simla

Singapore

and

HONGKONG DEANCHI Every description of Banking Exchange Business tronaneled

TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSKI UNDERTAKEN. Inlereal nilowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits at Rates that may be ascertamed on application.

D. BENSON,

Manager.

GALLANTRY AWARUS

London, Apr. 2.

Two 10-year-old girls saw their Many Refugees Leave

fathers decornted by the King at Buckingham Palace this morning Macao, Apr. 1.

relatives when, for the first time, Finding in Maeso no means of live were admitted to the ceremony of in- hood, many of the Chinese village vestiture. Fifty relatives watched 37 refugee: are

Kradually

passing men and one woman receive decora- through the Barrier Gate In the tions. effort to return to their work in the rlee Belds. These

officers

The men included two rently poured into Menuste de receiving awards in connection with

before

the R.A.F. rald the Japanese occupation of Chung-Wireless

on Sylt-British shan.

is reliably learned, how- ever, that of the 200 persons a day gineering parties are doing the sur- who are making the trek homeward,

not a few are being turned buck by veying work. - the Japanese militia who have set The Japanese garrison in Chung- reduced to 1,000 up their authority in the area. The san have been reason being given for their retu Most of them are at Shekid, Hengmal, Japanese and 2,000 puppet troops. is that the Japanese are selecting Shulam, Chaugkapin, Taiwangpt. persons for work on the arable land Tongkawan, Heungchow, and Tsin and those considered unit are not

being given

permission to return.

The Kee Kwan motor buses have not resumed

The Japanese commander in Kong- their hourly service moon and Sunwul hus been trans from Macao-to Shekki and, in conferred to Chungchan.. requence, the journey of the villagers Due to raing during the past te 19 being

construction of an aero days, the conducted On Our Own Correspondent,

drome in Tongkawan by the Japan ese has been delayed.

Japanese Garrison

foot-

Macao, Apr. 2.

According to a report, the northern shore of Kamchuktan, on the West

A highway connecting Shuntak River west of Shuntale district, was and Chúngshan is being prepared by occupied by the Japanese on March the Japanese authorities and en-28.—Wah Kiu Yat Po,

A Variety Programme

BY

PARLOPHONE FAVOURITES

F1614-Somewhere in France with you .....Leslie Hutchinson.

I'll remember, F1810-Entente Cordinte

Little Boy Bubbles, F1012-Rustle of apring

FI011-Samun

Invitation to the waltz.

Whistler and his dog. F1649-Favourlies in Rhythm

F1470-Prelly Ilitle Quaker girl

My. Best goodnight, F1467-Song of India Nola.

¥1468-Mood Indigo

Narcissus. F1400-Lost chord

Sullivan Memories. F1511-Wish me good luck

Jack Trump" Doyle and His Aces of Rhythm. ..Robinson Cleaver. Organ,

Patricia Rossborough, Plano. ..Victor Sylvester's Itarmony

Music.

.Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye Two Planos, Bans and Drums. ..Organ, Dance Band and Mc.

Victor Sylvester's Harmony Music.

.Joc

Shots.

Daniels and His Hot

.H. Robinson Clenver. Organ.

....Organ, Dance Band and Mc.

Goodnight my darling goodnight.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

MARINA HOUSE,

10, QUEEN'S ROAD C.

THE

PHONE 24040,

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL:

HOTELS.

LIMITED

In association with the Grand, Hotel, des Wagons Lits, Poking