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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 20, 1940.

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Film: "It's a Wonderful World" Stars: James Stewart, Clan.

dette Colbert.

Verdict: Delightful Comedy.

It's

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Crazy comedy once comes into its own in this mad- cap M.-G.-M. extravaganza. The story gaily pokes a tongue at us, but in situation, characterisa- tion, dialogue and direction, the entertainment is on safe ground, and there will be few patrons who do not respond to its sheer irresponsibility..

James Stewart is a host in himself, nnd he takes full ad- vantage of a role which scorns soulful romance, but which per- mits him to register delightfully as a man baited almost to the loss of reason, by an

earnest poetess with a yearning to be helpful.

Stewart's role Is of Guy Johnson, a private detective who stunds to col- fect a huge sum If he can deliver the, innocent Willie Heyward from "the chair." He himself in sentenced as an necessory but he contrives to escape from a couple of mutton- hended detectiven-Only to meet worse fate in the person of ultra- romantic poetess, Izłwina Corday.

It is the over-helpful Edwina who lands him in all sorts of scrapes In his quest for the real killer, a quest,

WONDERFUL WORLD

which eventually takes him to the Film: spot where the latter lins a date with his inamorata, and where further Stars: rtuzy goings-on resull- in Guy's capture of his promised reward- eash and the girl.

"Espionage Agent,"

legal powers to prevent such sabotage,

Joel McCrea, Brenda and the duty of preventing it there- fore falls on an individual here (Mr. Marshall,

Joel McCrea) whose wife (Misa in the past been forced by Nuzi agents to gather

Verdict: Reasonable adventure Brenda Marshall) has

fitur.

This is a reasonably exciting film of adventure, and also of

Information for them.

Ben Hecht's screen play is made of fast-moving detail, in which the tiltings of the earnest Edwina and the conded Guy play outstanding parts. The latter's eiforis to shake off this

The couple proceed to Geneva and determined female, make for real hllerity. It is an entertainment rich some interest as showing Amerinister group of agents-American are soon Involved with an extremely in ready laughter.

ieun opinion about present events Notably, we recall the scene where in Europe.

actors are undoubted masters of the Edwina "saves" Guy by masquerading |

art of representing sinister Germans as his wife, and where the Cops! It professes to describe the pre--who plot in comfort wille pretend- and lend the disguised here a fiver!ns taken by Americans to avoiding to be members of a society for

the sabotage of American industries the propagation of peace.

actually pose for n photo with them.

Co-starred with the

honours

anquished

James Stewart, who carries off the by German agents which occurred in The climax may be rather crude as the hapless Guy, is the last War, and the netlon occurs and hurried, and the hera seems to Claudette Colbert, in smaller parts just before the outbreak of this war. have made Insufficient preparations ure Guy Kibbee, Frances Drake, Ernest Trucx, Edgar Kennedy and Nat Pendleton.

According to the film the Americans for success, but the film contains. have at the present time no adequate many spirited adventures.

'Strides Ahead'

WHY DO YOU READ?

Now that the war has been fully joined and that we have a summer of the severest crisis and shock in front of us, reading becomes more important by far than it has ever been.. Since the war began I have read on Ing. She is a great deal, more real

n Slinkespeare play every than Hitler.

act of

morning before getting up. That

sounds priggish enough, but in actual IVEI; has been writing novels for fact it has been a delightful and ex-thirty years. I see that his pub- citing experience,, and I am never lishers quote me ag saying that he is going to drop it again.

HOWEVER, my business. here is to

recommend new, books, and I have been reading two novels tirat

novcia

very good novelist. I said that 20 years ago, I repeat it, unabashed,

to-day.

ject.

his gentleness. Only in his best His faults He" in the direction of have taken me altogether away from novels, such as Justice of the Peace Hitler. These two -different that

are 80 and A Wilderness of Monkeys. does reader of this page he come to real grips with his sub- | will, I am afraid, like them both; they are so different that we can understand from them some of the diMculties that human beings face on tradition, but the very excellence when they try to keep their foothold of his prose leads to a kind of water- on a sunil cinder-star without push-colour faintness. On the other hand, Ing one another off.

he has an excellent eye to a character,

He writes beautifully in the Steven-

Mr. Sadler's novel is called Fanny a fire historical perspective, a nar-

Starlight, Mr. Niven's Mine In-rative vitality., heritance. Mr. Sadier and Mr. Niven are romantics,

Michael Sadler may consider with satisfaction that he his secured what many greater novelfalt have failed to secure namely, a niche. He would not pretend to be a great novelist- and he cannot be one ever. for he is a ghost.

Fanny is an astonishing encounter with a figure from Vauxhall, from

HIS present novel tells the story of the Colony of 1812 which, under the protection of Hudson's Bay Com- many, settled down in Canada after terrible hardships and dificulties.

People may say that we have had of late too many historical stories of this kind. Niven, however, has a way of his own.

You feel, as you read, that you are

the putious of Leicester-square 1850 In excellent company. When the he whispers in our ear-or, rather, book is Antahed you want to keep Fanny whispers. And she is charm-Niven at your side.

SCHOOLBOY HOWLERS.

MUCH that is topical is to be found was a wall built to keep the Germans

MU

in the humour of the schoolboy howler. In many cases this can be traced to the similarity in sound be tween two words or phrases as in, "the Equator is a Maginot Line round the middle of the earth," or "the Anzacs are a race of South American

‚savages."

out of Russla."

The inciics of the Finns are also recalled by "guerellia warfare means up to their monkey tricks"

The quotation. "Pax in bello" has been rendered, freedom from in- digestion," and one youth, who per- haps had been reading of Mr. Hore- to say, "the Minister of War is the are Bellshu's resignation, came forward

clergyman who preaches soldiers in the barracks,"

This ceems also to account for the required for a special constable?" question, "What qualifications rerelving the answer.

and for the statement. "Before being Any respectable man is illegible," captain of his ship he had worked as an amlable seaman."

the

endless German propaganda speeches, Antther, perhaps bored hearing of sympathetically reminds us that in the United States, "people are put to death by elocution."

Even those still able to visit the

Highlands at night. He is called the of all was given by the boy who,

there is a man Highlands may not be aware that

who watches the But perhaps the most subtle touch Black Watch."

writing of the school's old boys, in an added point to many bowlers. that did not go to the war married, Recent events seem to have given an essay on the war, sald:-Those Two such are, "What is the Soviet? but the stronger ones got up a What the middle classes call their Rugby football team.""" napkins." and the partition of Poland

ASK ME ANOTHER

By HUBERT PHILLIPS (1) Six English provincial towns have a population of over 400,000. Which are they?

(2) In what famous novels do the following characters appear? (a) Becky Sharp, (b) Sidney Carton, (c) Mr. Collins, (d) Clara Middleton, (c) Margaret Sclileget.

(3) Denne (a). halberd,

halcyon

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(e) halitus, (d)

halogen, (e) halyard

(4) (a) Whose was "the face that

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launched a thousand ships"? was what we asked the artist to

(b) Who was her husband? (e) Illustrate and this is what he did. Who was the

brother of her

husband? (d) And who was the

wife of the last-named, who murdered him?

(5) of what "Orders of Chivalry"

SOLUTIONS

are the following the respec-chester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol.

(1) Birmingham, Liverpool, Man-

live multoes? (a). Quis separa-

bit? (b) Tria juncta in

uno, (2) (a) Vanity Fair," (b) "A

(e) Nemo me impune lacrasli, Tale of Two Cities," (c) "Pride and

(6) Which country held the Davis Prejudice, (d) "The Cup (lawn tennis) from 1920 "Howard's End."

to 1026 inclusive, and which from 1947 to 1931 Inclusive?

A

an

Egoist," (e)

(3) (a) A kind of battle-axe, (b) (7) Here are three inore episodes The kingfisher, (e) A vapour, (d) An trom Shakespeare's plays: (a) element which forms a salt in cor- bination with a metal, (e) A rope woman, disguised as advocate, pleads in court for used in hoisting salls, etc. the life of her lover's friend. (4) (a) Helen of Troy, (b) A hund-to-hand fight takes Menelaus, (c) Agamemnon?, place in an open grave.

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Guides' Fine

/ Effort Acknowledgment: Of War Contribution

A cable from the Chief Commis- aloner of the Girl Guides Association received in the Colony reads;

"Congratulations, delighted, magni-

met them the other duy, playing on ficent gift. Chief Commissioner." the beach of a village in North Wales

three healthy children who have ceipt of £182.10.0, which was the This enble was acknowledging re- been evacuated from Landon,

Hongkong Girl Guides Association's They, together with their parents, contribution to the fund for two air are the owners of the bombed rall ambulances way of 'Sylt.

and a motor Ulfeboat. Comnilaioner, Mrs. T. H. King, The cable was received by the Colony

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