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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 19, 1940,

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The Private Lives of-

Elizabeth

FILM: "Elizabeth & Essex",

STARS:

Flynn.

Bette Davis, Errol

VERDICT: Outstanding.

ERE IS a film that

HE

will leave you brenth- less, both for its remarka- ble Technicolour-perhaps the best ever seen on the screen-and for the bean- 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 fur- bulent romance of the famous Queen and her courtier. Ba- sex, his downfall and execu tion.

Errol Flynn is a fitting courtier, and the supporting cast, which includes Olivia de

Donald! Havilland,

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 to- night, which will be attended by Lady Northeole, and at which the Band of the 1st. Bat- talion. The Middlesex Regi- ment. will render the over- tures. Miss Barbarn Gilmar will also give two numbers from the stage.

To-night's gała 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 as randshow prices will also go to the B.W.O.F., which should benefit substan- tially from the five day showing.

and

Esser

FILM: "Comet Over Broadway"

STARS:

Inn Kay Franels,

Ilunter.

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 decidentally killed by her husband and the fm goes on to show how the wife becomes herself a famous star in the process of making enough money to sveure her husband's freedom from pri-

son.

I theme somewhat out of the cominon rut and though some of the situations are conventional in their emotional tug, the net entertainment has much to com-

end it.

Kay Francis Is ably supported by John Litel as her husband, Tan Ffuntes as a Broadway producer and Sybil Jason as the growing- up daughter.

FILM: Canses"

"When To-morrow

STARS: Irene Dunne, Churle Boyer.

VERDICT: For Boyer fans.

THIS is 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 Boyeg a famous plantst. They meet and are improbably drawn to each other. They attend a strike meeting, go out yachting

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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

as usual'!"

SPOTTING THE RANK

Instructor Officers

There

aro differentiated from officers of the Executive branch by light blue cloth be- twoon the gold stripes on the cuffs of jackets and the shoul- ders of greatcosts.

Whon War began there wore exactly 100 Instructor Officers on the active list, of whom 34

temporary WORD Instructor Lieutenants. Por- manent ranks comprised four Instructor Captains. 41 In- structor Commanders, 16 Instructor Lioutonant-Com- manders and five Instructor Lieutenants. Senior of thems all is Instructor Captain A. E. Hall, who holds the appoint- ment

the of Director of

Education Department of the Admiralty.

Normally only big ships carry Instructor Officers. They are responsible for the training in certain subjects of the midshipmon on board, as well as for the polishing up. educationally, of lower deck candidates for advancement,

A senior Instructor Officer, either an Instructor Captain or Instructor Commander, is carried in certain fleet flag- ships for duty as Fleet Advisor

Others Education,

on the staffs of tho Commander-in-Chief at the Home ports, with the official status of Port Education Officer.

on

borne

aro

WHAT'S ON

TO-DAY

ORIENTAL: "When To-mor- row Comes"

KING'S: "Comet Over Broad- why"

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 of Elizabeth and Essex"

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

ORIENTAL

row Comes",

"When To-mor

get caught in a thunderstorm and from hurrienne to ३३ escape church.

The film fades out with a wist- ful look on the waitress's face and the indientles that these two wil the const is meet again when zomehow clear.

The two stars give competent performances. Irene Dunne sings ance In addition, and the capable director has arranged is so that there is no artificiality attached to the staging of the song. no men achievement.

THE

Which is

IN

IN the Money: Mickey Rooney, Statisticians estim- ate that this young man earned for his employers dur- ing 1939 the staggering sum world £0,000,000 from

of

cinemas,

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

Rooney's end of this Jackpot is announced at £200 a week, with

it

£2,000 bonus per · picture- which makes his salary £22,000 a your at nineteen.

to

tenis

Time

with this reports that

ranch, money he has acquired a arnechorsi, a twelve-room home. nineteen radios, a jazz band, two dogs, the Junior singles championship

the

Pacille South-west (though I guess he had wardrobe sweat for that), like Clark Gable, two cars, a hide- away apartment in Beverly Hills,

team. Football

coloured valet, a collection of pipes, a golf score in the 80's, a guitar, a saxophone, TWO planos, a kiss from Hetle Davis. a broken leg, eighty chickens, three turkeys, six canar- ies and a parrot.z.

a

#

So

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

There ARE no stokers in the Navy

are no more

Tstokers in the Royal Navy."

Stokers, as such, are a vanish- Ing race. Stoker Arnold may be down in the Navy List as a stoker, but neither he nor any of his col lengues do any stoking.

All submarines are electrically driven, so there are no res 10 tend; neither are there any more coal-burning ships in the Navy. The men who tend the all fires in H.M. ships now wear white over- alls, and, instead of heaving shovels of cool into blazing fur- naces, just turn on a tap which re gulates the oil Jets,

STOKING has become 11 kitt- glove job, and it is almost the same in the Merchant Service now, ns well as in the Navy.

The advent of oil fuel has done

with AWRY

coul-burning ships steam more rapidly even than

tell supplanted salt. Less than years ago there was hardly an oil- burning malibuat on the London- Australia run,

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

TOWNS Hike Grays, Tilbury, and Grovescud have been badly by the vanishing of stokers from the seas. Almost since the Arst steamer crossed the Atlantic these inwns, with Liverpool, have' supplied the best steam-inukers

flot.

Oil fuel Was a heaven-suit blessing to the Royal Navy. Of

who ficers and men

served in 11.3. Ships when they burnt coal shudder it you mention those days to them now, days of which the new

of sailormen generation

know nothing,

Never again wil a brawhy. hálf-stoker rattle a shovel down in the bowels of a Royal Navy ship and come off watch looking like black man. Even the ma- tramp steamers Jurity of new nowadays enjoy the luxury of oll fuel.

NOEL MONKS,

FRANCE TODAY

TWOD

THE walls of the dead and

WORDS THAT

empty city of Strasbourg MATTER

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

Elsewhere.

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

The Frenchman knows 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 are two words, salut public-publle safety-which play a very important part at such times. They explain the readiness with which the Frenchman downs tools and takes up arms.

And also the readiness with which he puts into cold storage all the advantages gained after years of sectal strug- gls

In the great Rennult works at Auteul the men, not so long ago, were giving the lend 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 00 bours for the same pay at a time when the cost of living is leaping like 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 Hitler were to win.

There is now, after six months af stalemate, a growing interest in the maintenance or restoration of elvil liberties..

M. Daladier recognised it ten days ago by his sudden unnounce- ment that the Press censorship, except for purely military matters, was to be abolished. The abolition certainly is not

for premature, there were absurdities which al- most mude une doubt the united determination of the French to win the war.

only speakers actually mandated talke may by a recognised group part in debates on such important matters as the Budget.

Some 45 of them formed another group, theoretically open to mem- bers of any political party, bet in fact consisting only of ex-Com- this Existence of munists. The group was recognised by M. Herriol, Presiden of the Chamber.

durable

On October I the group sent a letter to M. Herriot urging that if. The Government has returned to as was then expected, Hitler mode the sensible doctrine proclaimed by a pence offer, and if it was sup- M. Clemenceau in his Ministerial purted by the Soviet Union, the declaration of November 19, 1017. offer should not be prejudged by "We have paid too high a price for attacks in the Press, but should our liberties," he said then, "10 be discussed in Parliament, to see cede anything of

whether them beyond

"1 Just and taking care to prevent the spread- peace" which safeguarded the in- ing of news or inflammatory state- dependence of France was not poss

sible. ments which might help the enemy. ... In times of war, as in times of peace, freedom is exercised under the personal responsibility of the writer. Once you go beyond that rule everything becomes arbitrary or anarchical."

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

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

Thereupon the members of the and m- arrested

Kroup

were

prisoned. The right-wing Cagou- lards, whose treachery included the smuggling of arms believed to come from Germany, were given. In the Sante special treatment

the Communists, prison whereas including one man who is blind and one who lost both legs and roughly score of others who had fought

By Vernon Bartlett

solved political party", and, al- though there are probably fewer people in France than here who find excuses for the close relations between Stalin and Hitler, the con- duct 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 dynolsan and courage of the Communist leaders in their factories in the struggle for a shorter working day ond who are 130W for the first time reading Marx and other expounders of a doctrine which has landed these local leaders in gaol,

the Соп- On September 20 munist Party, with more than 70 members of Parliament, was dis- solved.

The members were presumably still free to sit in the Chamber, but they have no power unless they belong to a recognised group. Thus

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

The answer to that is that France is now nt war. But the leaders of the Cagoulards, despite their plots to overthrow the Third Republic with Germon help, are restored to

Influence positions of

and M. Calloux, in his same prison dur- Ing the inst war, was accorded the special treatment reserved for poli- tient prisoners.

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

If it is held in camera France, one fears, will have lost a battle on the home front. And it one) may Judge by the Press since the removed, la n censorship was battle which the Government might so easily win.

Lbrary, Supreme Court

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$35,000

in 1940 to meet the increasing needs of sick und 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 1039 may be obtained from:

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