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FILMS

Film: Blackmail.

Saturday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

July 27, 1940.

MAGAZINE

Stars: Edward G. Robin-

son, Ruth Hussey.`

Verdict: Exciting melo-

drama.

-Alhambra, Queen's

LITTLE CAESAR is back in-

THE chain gang clanks its ugly way on to the screen again in Blackmail. This is as boisterous a piece of melodrama Hollywood has put to- gether for a while.

as

It has Edward G. Robinson as a man earning a hazardous but respectable livelihood put- ting out fires at oil wella.. Into his life creeps a black- mailer who had known him years before, when he had escaped from a chain gang after a false conviction.

The blackmailer squeezes a for- iune out of his old nequaintance and then cynically sends him back to the chain gang. It does not end that perhaps there, of cource, but is enough to be going on with.

All this is rich material for the ot Mr. superabundant energy Robinson, and he tears through it with great gusto.

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"Blackmail," however, is not just an exciting mixture of great fires, breath- and screaming taking escapes,

cars;

there is a good deal of shrewd character drawing and bright dia- ogue amidst all the alarms and

logue

excursions.

Ruth Hussey plays heroine, and there is an impressive study from Gene Lockhart as the blackmailer. of cunning, a revolting mixture

cynicism, and half-wittedness.

Film: Beware Spooks. Star: Joe E. Brown. Verdict: Good slapstick.

--King's

A Joe E. Brown adventure is always expected to provide a line- of clowning with plenty of clenn up comedy in the knockabout manner, culminating in an unusual sequence rich in Ingenious action and. sur- prises and "Beware Spooks!" is no exception to this formula.

Instead of getting his girl, how- ever, Joe starts the fun with the girl safely. wed but the honeymoon and regain

Ruth Hussey and Edward C. Robinson star in "Blackmail".

BLACKMAIL

Guide To

The Shows

TO-DAY

KING'S: "Beware Spooks." QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:

"Man from Dakota,"

ORIENTAL: "Illegal

Traffic."

MAJESTIC: "Stardust."

TO-MORROW QUEEN'S and ALITAMBRA: "Blackmail"

ORIENTAL: "Raffles," MAJESTIC: "Wines of the

Navy,

KINGS: "A child is Born."

mouthed breezy zelf is attractively supported by Mary Carlisle, with, Clarence Kolb an effective Com- missioner.

Film: Turnabout. Store: Adolphe Menjou. Carole

Landis, Verdict: Delightful Nonsense,

-King's

The hilarious plot of "Turn- about" concerns the high jinks pra- duced when Mrs. Willows and her husband exchange sexes. The wife intu her husband's oversize shoes and, experiments with the problems faced by the male por tion of humanity. The husband. becomes a fashionable soclely ma- tron and flutters about at cock-

the pants-terally.

is rudely Interrupted by his mail parties while his wife wears

trition to make Commissioner by the respect the

of catching the criminal set at large by his own stupidity. Joe often has a "key" action to indicate when something is

is about to happen and this time it squint that displays when he is fear, disuppearing only ready for the fray. When, in the finalc, with the honeymoon t about to cominence, Joe squints once more, it is obviously the cue tor the lost fade-out!

Joe E. Brown as his usual wide-

PUZZLE

Word Teasers

HOW'S to-day?

your

vocabulary

The following 10 pairs of words all have 3 letters in common. Your job is to fill in the blank spaces to make 20 different words that fit the definitions listed below. No. 1 at the left, for example, is POPULAR. Now go on from there. ----LAR 1. RAL-- ---LAR- 2. - RAL.. --LAR-- 3. -- RAL--

-LAR-

LAR..

LAR-

4.

--LAR --- -77

.-'LAR... 8.

LAR- ----LAR 10,

LEFT

1. Widely ad-

mired

2. Engage in a

frolle

3. Expand.. 4. A

small,

shrill, trum- pet.

G. Fentrics

6. Theft

7. Flattery

RAL-

RAL --RAL

Confusion and chaps ensue. The husband's partners cannat

BRIDGE

New Problem

Spades are trumps. South feads and North-South must win four of the five tricks.

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Nil

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5

8

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♦ NO

& 5 SOLUTION

South leads club five, which is ruffed with North's trump three. Norli returns diamond queen, which East ruffs and South over- ruffa. South

leads trump now (heart) seven (no other lead will serve), and, whether West covers. or plays under, the lead is forced Into, East's hand and that is the only trick which the defence can win.

DRINK

---RAL-The

-- RAL--

- RAL- RAL RIGHT

1. Rocovers

2. Instructor

who uses lip; -language

3. Announces

4. Sacred tune,

zung in unl

Bon

5. Unimagina-

Live

6. Generous

7. A

Rem

precious

8. A direaso8. Virtuously

D. Assert posl 9. A contection

Estively?

10. Sportive.

M107A state cap-

itality.

HUSBAND'S No. 4 FRIEND

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Ica

to

understand the sudden feminity of their associate who manages chuse all sorts of damage to the prestige of the firm and, to lose it most of its valuable clientele. Back home, the same sort of thing hop-

somewhat pens for the

masculine- Jocking Indy of the house is hardly profielent with the servants and no match for the correct social life.

How the story winds up provides the picture with a surprise-filed climax.

Film: The Man from Dakoja,

Stars:

Wallace

Howard.

Verdict:

Beery,

John

Civil War drame.

-Alhambra, Queen's THIS is the story of two Union soldiers, Wallace Beery and John Howard, who escape from a Con- federate prison camp during the Civil War, and their attempt to make their way back to the Union with Dolores lines. They meet up Del Rio, which is a very pretty meeting up indeed, and they get possession of a a military map which Is of the utmost importance Grant's army. The eventual de livery of the map makes Beery a hero and unites John and Dolores. formula The story is strictly hokum, but strangely enough, it more than holds your interest. and Beery Dolores is beautiful,"

which is than usual. miga Ices something.

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TWO NEW SHORTS Two films forwarded by the Minis- try of Information will be screened at the King's Theatre to-day, "Drums in the Desert" deals with the Anzac troops in the Middle EastKings Men with the services in England.

STAMPS

BIRD POST

Birds have a fascination for both the young juniors as well as the older juniors, and with the com- ing of spring the birds return to us bringing thoughts of flowers and but soft summer days. If we glance through our stamp album we and many beautiful birds chat- ting to us from all parts of the world,

shall never forget the coming of the Kookaburra bird one day in a packet of stamps. The bird appears on the stamps of Aus tealia, and the merry twinkle in his eye makes you want to join him in one of his catchy laughs. The Australians call him the Bushman's or Settler's Clock because his foud, raucous volée rings out at certain hours during the day near the Bushman's hut. The beautiful Lyre-bird is also pletured on the stamps of Au

Australia,

'her

New Zealand pictures ont stamps the funny little kiwi, a bird without wings and no distinct_tail feathers, also the beautiful fan- tall and the tul or parson bird, The bula or sacred birds and the kea and kuka or hawk-bluted par- rots are likewise pictured on New Zenland stamps.

The American eagle appears on stumps of the United States,

Some other Interesting birds plc- tured on, postage stamps are the Wideawake tern, of Ascension Island; the flamingoes, of the Ba- hamas; the Booby birds, of the DI Cayman Islands; the condor, Chile; the gannets, of Peru: the. wild goose, of Chimi, the king

pen- of Falkland Islands; the guin, -spoonbilis, of Franch Morocco;, the of Guatemala; the mythi- cal Phoenix bird, of Japan and

the

'Manchukuo, Kenya: Ton-

the Argus

ganyiki and

of Labuan; the egret pheasant, and plantain eater, of Liberia, the Bird of Paradise, of New Guinea and Papua, and the gompaw, of South West Africa.

There are many more birds pic- tured on stomps and each has a delightful story for you to learn as you collect these fasues and ba÷; come Lamillur' with the names of the birds and their habits.

PAGE

BOOKS

A Chinese

Childhood

**A Chinese By Chiang Yee. 15%. not.)

Childhood."

(Methuen,

Here is a book which in the peaceful stillness of its atmo- sphere may well bring re freshment to many in these harassed days. For its peace Is the peace of accepted tragedy, the peace of resigna- tion.

Its author, 11 Chincse whose family records go back to before the Christian era, has been an exile In England now for several years, and has already given us in other volumes his quaint, yet penetrat- Ing, reflections en English life in pence and war.

lie tells the story of his boyhood, in the temporary house at Klu Klang-The Hall of Foot-paths wns its name which one of his ancestors built for business pur poses some three hundred years ago by the Yangtee river,

his relations More thum fifty of

the hod still, when was young. their special apartments in it, beginning and Grand- with Grandfather mother, and on through uncles, aunts, and in-laws to the numerou children.

each

Naturally a group so large could not maintain harmony, unless each member knew his place; and in

fulfilment fact the accurate

by of the rites of his subordination made the whole of their common religion. Over the life Into

door of entrance the key-- word "happiness" was inscribed, and all would have endorsed the motto which the author's artist father gave his son-"Rushing Is fruitless."

Indeed, to an English reader, 1 cannot but appear that the motives of the life, the activities, the plea aures, the maxime and the re- sponses to them, were all so low in tone that their effectiveness and the joy felt in them may scem mysterious.

QUIZ

So it must be remembered that the foundation of that Jay was never individual, but lay in the prevailing religious unity,

Thus one of Grandmother's deepest satisfactions was to direct, year by year, the polishing and Jacquering of the priceless Tzu Tung coffins, six in number, which had been provided by the fore thought and devotion of her sons. The fact that she was likely jo-be herself the first to need one only naded to the relish to her care.

The same considerations hold all through. The charm of the life is the exquisite organization of its details; the happiness of the mem bers is to play their parts, to enter Into the tradition and taste all its aroma as they do so.

What an English child feels occa sionally and intensely at Christ- mas, for example, a Chinese fell with every kind of modulation and qualification every day of the year. He lived hemused in mazes of age- old ceremony.

Mr. Chiang's descriptions have

gentle poignancy In them a get plous regret the Chinn he know has been ravished; when his coun- try rises again, will those EX- quisite

and loyalties revive with her?

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ARE YOU SURE?

1. Unscramble the following sentence and indicate whether

it is true or false; triangular may hexagonal be rectangular or Pyramids,

2. Is it dangerous to drink milk and eat lobster at the same meal?

3. What is the significance of the word broadloom as ap- plied to a rug?

4. What was the Inst of the ten plagues of Egypt?

5. If the sixth word in the following sentence means with out difficulty, write the fourth word of the sentence in the an- swer space unless the fifth word does not mean vehicle, in which case write the second word of the sentence: The boy road the bicycle casily.

6. What word means both dandruff and anger?

7. Supply the birds' names missing from the following:

flies, Follow the As the Silly as a

8. Lloyds of London writes all forms of insurance policies but one. Which is that?

9. Why do laundries often use blue wrapping paper?.

10. Through what states must you pass, travelling from New York to Chicago by the shortest route?

11.. What was the old raccoon doing by the light of the moon at the Animal Fair?

12. What plece of chinaware might be associated with the Inte President Harding's administration?

13. If you wanted to use pistachio flavouring in a cake you were baking and discovered you were without pistachio bat had chocolate, vanilla, lemon, almond and strawberry, which, of these might you combine to obtain the desired flavour?

14. Aviators, when flying in high altitudes wear electric- ally heated clothing which is wired with batteries. (true, false). 15. Upon which finger of which hand does a man wear a wedding ring when a double ring ceremony has been performed? 16. Indian summer is a period of mild weather which oc- eurs in the autumn of the year. What is squaw winter?

17. What is the meaning of the word mavourneen as in the song title Kathleen, Mavourneen?

18. Is monkey bread baked in a slow or fast oven? 19. Upon what commodities does the United States place export duties?

20. Who were Eng and Chung?

ANSWERS

1. True. Triangles may be triangular, hexagonal or rectangular.

2. Not under ordinary conditions. 3. It indicates width; not quality. 4. Death of the first born. 5. The. 6, Dander. 7. Goose, crow, To prevent linens from turning yellow. swallow. 8. Life insurance. 9.

10, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. 11. Combing his auburn hair, 12. A teapot. (Remember the Teapot Deme: affair?). 13, Vanilla and. almond. 14. True. 15. Fourth, finger of the left hand. 10. The period of cold weather preceding Indian Summer. 17. My darling.: 18. Monkey brend in the fruit of the baobab tres. 10. There are no United States export tariffs. 20, The. Arst Siamese twins.

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