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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 19, 1940.

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The Private Lives of

Elizabeth

FILM: "Elizabeth & Essex".

STANS: Bette Davis, Erial

Flynn.

VERDICT: Outstanding.

TERE IS a film that

HE

will leave you breath- less, both for its remarka- ble Technicolour-perhaps the best ever seen on the screen-and for the beau- ty of its acting.

Bette Davis, thrice win- ner of the coveted Aca- demy award, gives one of the best performances of her carcer. Her per formance as the "virgin" Queen is striking.

The film recounts the tur- bulent romance of the famous Queen and her courtier, Es- sex, his downfall and execu tion.

Errol Flynn is a fitting courtier, and the supporting enst, which includes Ólivin de Havilland, Donald Crisp. Alan Hall and Henry Stephen- son, are excellent.

Hongkong will get its first glimpse of the film. if it wishes, at a charity gala tu- night, which will be attended by Lady Northcote, und at which the Band of the 1st. Bat- talion. The Middlesex Regi- ment, will runder the over- tures. Miss Barbara Gilmar will also give two numbers from the stage.

To-night's gala premiere is in aid of the British War Organisa- tion Fund.

"The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" is to be road-shown as from to-morrow. But the extra

you'll pay AN roudshow prices will also go to the B.W.O.F.. which should benefit substan- tally from the five day showing.

and

Esser

FILM: "Comet Over Broadway** STARS: Kay Franels, Inn Hunter.

VERDICT: Uncommon theme.

KAY Francis is seen in this film as a small-town wife with stage ambitions. She is flat- tered by the attentions of a visiting famous actor.

He is accidentally killed by fier husband and the flim goes on to show how the wife becomes herself a famous star in the process of making enough money to secure her husband's freedom from pri-

sou

It is a theme somewhat out of the commn rut and though same of the situations are conventional In their emotional tug, the net entertainment has much to com- mend it.

Kay Francts is ably supported by John Litel as her husband, Inn Hunter as a Broadway producer and Sybil Jason as the growing- uja daughter.

FILM: Comes"

STARS: Irene Dunne, Charle Boyer.

"When. To-morrow

VERDICT: For Boyer fans.

THIS is a simple film deal- ing with the mere encounter of two unfortunate lovers, one of whom has a lunatic wife whose lucid moments are very

rare.

Irene Dunne is a waitress and Charles Boyer a famous plonist. They meet and are improbably drawn to each other. They attend n strike meeting, go out yachting

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Dep. 1229 35 Valued Posture Arsènesia, Fe

By Lichty

"—and would you put on: 'Alterations going on inside

as usual'?'

SPOTTING THE RANK

Instructor Officers

Those aro differentiated from officers of the Executive branch by light blue cloth bo- tween the gold stripes on the cuffs of jackets and the shoul- des of greatcoats.

When

war bogan there worn exactly 100 Instructor Officers on the active list, of whom 34 were temporary Instructor Lioutenants,

Per- manent ranks comprised four Instructor Captains. 41 lo structor Commandors, 16 Instructor Lieutenant-Com- manders and five Instructor Lieutenants. Senior of them all is Instructor Captain A. E. Hall, who holds the appoint-

Director

the

ment

of

of

Education Dopartment of the Admiralty.

Normally only big ships carry Instructor Officer. They are responsible for the training in certain subjects of the midshipmen on board, as well as for the polishing up, educationally, of lower deck candidatos for. advancamant.

A senior Instructor Officer, either an Instructor Captain or Instructor Commander, is carried in certain flect flag- ships for duty as Fleet Advisor on Education. Others are borne on the staffs of the Commanders-in-Chief at the Homo ports, with the official status of Port Education Officer.

WHAT'S ON

TO-DAY

ORIENTAL: "When To-mor- row Comes**

KING'S: "Comet Over Broad- W23-"

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA : "Everything's on Ice"-

KING'S 9.30 p.m.: Special Premiere of "Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex".

TO-MORROW

KING'S: "Private Lives Elizabeth and Essex"

of

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA : "Everything's on lee"

ORIENTAL: "When To-mar- row Comes".

get caught in a thunderstorm and

from estupe

hurricane to 30 church.

The im fades out with a wist- ful look on the waitress's face and the indication that these two will meet again when the coast somehow clear.

The two stars give competent performances. Irene Dunne sings once in addition, and the capable director bas arranged it so that there is no artificinity attached to the staging of the song.

no

mean achievement.

THE

Which is

IN

IN the Money: Mickey Rooney. Statisticians extini- ale that this young man earned for his employers dur- ing 1939 the staggering sum ot £6,000,000 from world cinemas.

Not even Shirley Temple, not even Snow White, could do this.

Rooney's end of this jackpot Is arounced at £200 a week, with A £2,000 bonus per picture- which makes his salary £22,000 a year at nineteen.

Time

that reports

Lets with

rach, money he has acquired i a racehorse, a titelve-room hume, nineteen radios, a jazz band, two dogs, the junior singles tennis championship of the Pacific South-west (though I guess he had to sweat for thot), a wardrobe like Clark Gable, two cars, a bike- away apartment in Beverly Hills, team, a coloured valet. a football a collection of pipes, a

golf score in the 80's, & guitar, a saxophone, two

kiss from Bette pianos, a Davis,

broken

leg. eighty chickens, three turkeys, six comar- ies and a parrot.

So

nowadays busy Is Rooney that he sends his pa, old-time vaudeville "hooter" Joe Yule, out in one of the ears to collect his "date" for the evening.

There

ARE n o stokers in the Navy

¿THERE are no more stokers in the Royal

Navy."

Stokers, as such, are a vanish- ing ruce, Stoker Arnold may be down in the Navy List as ʼn stöker. but neither he nor any of his col- leagues to any stoking.

All submarines are electrically

driven, so there are no fres to tend; neither are there any more coul-burning ships in the Navy, The men who tend the oll fires in H.M. ships now wear white over- alls, and, instead of heaving shovels of coul into blazing fur- naces, just turn on a tap which re- gulates the oil Jets..

STOKING has become it kld- glove job, and it is almost the same in the Merchant Service now, as well as in the Navy.

The advent of oll fuel has done awny with cout-burning ships more rapidly even than steam supplanted salt. Less than ten years ago there was hardly an oll- burning mallbont on the Landon- Australia run.

The old Mauretania carried 200 stokers when she burnt coal. The new one is 20 boiler-room al- tendants. But I must add this) the Transatlantic record Maure- tania No. 1 set up when her speed depended on the calibre of her stokers stood for 15 years,

TOWNS like Grays, Tilbury, and Gravesend have been badly hit by the vanishing of stokers- trom the seas. Almost since the Arst steamer crossed the Atlantic these towns, with Liverpool, have supplied the best steam-makers afloat..

Beers

Oil fuel WIN

heaven-sent blessing to the Royal Navy. Of-

and

served in men who H.M. ships when they burnt coal shudder if you mention those days lo them now, days of which the new generation of saBormen know nothing.

Never

will again

brawny, half-stokter rattle a shovel down in the bowels of a Royal Navy ship and come off watch looking like a black man. Even the ma- jority of new tramp steamers nowadays enjoy the luxury of oil fuel.

NOEL MONKS.

FRANCE TODAY

TWO

THE walls of the dead and

THE

WORDS THAT

empty city of Strasbourg MATTER

are still plastered with notices over six-months old calling Frenchmen to arms.

decrees Elsewhere, later have covered that momentous stimmons, but this frontier city, emptied of human life al- most as suddenly and as dras- tically as Pompeii centuries. ago, serves to remind one of the mood of France at the out- break of war.

The Frenchman knowa, that from the moment of his mobi- lisation everything about his life becomes utterly abnormal. His pay, in most cases, drops to less than twopence a day, with entirely inadequate al- lowances - for his wife and children. His one ambition is to get the business over quick- ly.

There arc iwo words. salut public-public safety-which play very important part at such times. They explain the readiness with which the Frenchman downs tools and takes up arena. And also the readiness with which he puts into cold storage all the advantages gained after years of social strug- Rle.

In the great Renault works at Auteuil the men, not so long ago, were giving the lead to the whole of France in the demand for a 40- hour week. Those of them who remain after mobilisation has swept over the factory are working 60 hours for the same pay at a time when the cost of living is lenphg Ike the temperature chart of an in- fluenza victim.

They do it because of those two words, salut public, and because they have a fairly clear idea of what would happen to them and their country If diltler were to win.

There is now, after six months of stalemate, a growing Interest in the maintenance or restoration of civil liberties.

3.

Daladier recognised it ten days ago by his sudden announce- ment that the Press censorship, except for purely militory mallers, was to be abolished. The abolition certainly is not premature, for there were

absurdities which al- most made one doubt the snited determination of the French to win the war.

The Government has returned to the sensible duetrine procinimed by M. Clemenceau in Mis Ministerial theclaration of November 10, 1917. "We have paid too high n. price for nur Uberties," he said then, 上を見る cede anything of them beyond taking care to prevent the spread- ing of news or inflammatory state- ments which might help the enemy.

In times of war, in times of pence, freedom is exercised under the personal responsibility of the writer. Once you go beyond that rule everything becomes arbitrary o anarchical."

France is now on the eve of much severer test her liberties.

Next week will begin the trial of the Communist deputies on the charge of "reconstituting a dis-

only speakers actually mundated by recognised group may take part in debates on such important matters as the Budget,

Some 4 of them formed another group, theoretically open to mem- bers of any politieul party, but in fact consisting only of ex-Com- munists. The existence of this group was recognised by M. Herriot,

President of the Chamber,

On October 1 the group sent in letter to M. Herrlut urging that If, as was then expected, Hitler made a pence offer, and It was sup- ported by the Soviet Union, the offer should not be prejudged by

alincks in. the Press, but should

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be discussed in Parliament, to see whether Just and durable pener" which safeguarded the in- dependence of France was tot pos- sible.

Thereupon the members of the group were arrested and Im- prisoned. The right-wing Cagou- lords, whose trenchery Included the smuggling of arms believed to cone from Germany, were given. special treatment in the Sante prison whereas the Communists, including one man, who is blind and one who lost both legs and roughly n score of others who had fought

By Vernon Bartlett

solved pollllenl - party", and, al- though there are probably fewer people in France then here who And excuses for the close relations between Stalls and Her, the con- duel of the trial may be one of the big events of the war.

There are many thousands of French workmen who are grateful to the dynamism and courage of the Cominunist lenders in their factories in the struggle for a shorter working day and who are now for the Arst time reading Marx and other expounders of a doctrine which has landed these luen tenders in gaol,

On September 26 the Com- munist Party, with more than 70 members of Parliament, was die- solved,

The members were presumably sill free to sit in the Chamber, byt they have no power unless they belong to a recognised group. Thun

in the last war, were at first treat- ed as common criminals.

The answer to that in that France Is now at war. But the leaders of the Cagoulards, despite their plots to overthrow the Third Republic with German help, are restored to positions of Influence und M. Callaux, in his same prison dur- ing the last war, was accorded the special treatment reserved for poll- tical prisoners.

The case of the Communists is still sub fulice, but they have been attacked as traitors by M. Daladier in the Chamber, and there is a re- port that the trial, when it does begin will take place behind closed doors.

It is held in camera France, one fears, will have lost a bottlo un the home front. And if one may judge by the Press aluce the. censorship was removed, it is n battle which the Government might to cally win,

Clary, Soprong Gouth

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THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION of childREN ·

The Society asks for

$35,000

in 1040 to meet the Increasing needs of slek and destitute children in Hong Kong, against which the Income to date is $12,000 only. In order to continue Its work, the Society appeals for the balance of $23,000 before the close of the financial year on 31st October. A copy of the Annual Report for 1939 may be obtained from:

Mr. A. MCKELLAR, C.A.

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & O. Building

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine,

Hong Kong.

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