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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 21, 1940.

ENTERTAINMENT SECTION

BUCK BENNY RIDES AGAIN

Film: Buck Benny Rides Again.

Star: Buck Bonny.

Verdict: Good for Benny fans.

-Queen's, Alhambra.

THE burlesque heroics of Jack Benny and the cheeky humour of his stooge, Rochester, pro- vide pleasant entertainment here, though the frequent allusions to the Benny-Allen feud will doubtless remain a sealed book to Britons.

It is the rusty-voiced spaces, while Rochester puts over a couple of song and dance acts which Rochester, indeed, who sup- emphasis his considerable versatili-

anvers present some ucut acrobatica in an Indian number, and Andy De-

plies most of the laughs, ty On the suretsele side, the Abbott with the blandly wise-crack- ing Benny a good second in a mixture of song, dance, comedy and Wild West skit.

vine and Virginta Dale make effective

tribution.

Film: Daytime Wife. Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Wendy

Benny gets a crush on Ellers Drew, mumber of a sister trib. and because of her weakness for Cough guys, go to the length Barrie.

in Vendict: Bright marital of taking over 4 Nevada, where whe hns an mix-up. engagement.

ranch

There he hires sundry tough to

H beaten im and bawled out by bim,

It is A

Buck Benny - he doesn't seem happy to ride again.

eventually healed and marital differences patch- frankly non-moral insistent employers, but

accepts dinner dute with him, un, ed up.

mildly ----King's affair of flirtation and backchat, aware that her husband 15 to be Scoring pleasantly on its

naughty situation, the film has the er sy In a commendable attempt genially disarmed by its comedy present, complete with Kitty.

At the party, there are plqunut advantage of Tyrone Power's on ILM but this does not deceive Ellen, who to discover what it is that bid, and entertaining

complications born of subtle morital grace in the role of Ken, the sun vily in her turn engages a couple of real

the and

Attructive Bruny secretaries have that wives polished philandering punctuated mouendoes, there coming to a head of Warren William on the philander-

when the quartette finish

at ng Bernard, up had men to stuge a hold-up is able to capture these tags and haven't, our Mrs. Norton be- by urbane material characterisa Bernard's pent-house.

the femininity of Linda Darnell in the latter's wife maken

Wendy Barrie EX appearance, leading roles, with a secretary herself, tions.

the smaller part uf affair what more simple than for Jane effective Ken Norton is having an only to make the age-old dis

Binnie Barnes weighs in with 18 and therefore an adequate chaperone WG- with his secretary. Kitty, so dane to point out that she is Mrs. Norton, Kitty.

wisecrack or two, and characteristic covery of what

Cer- Bernard Dexter men's husbands have that Noston akes an exploratory job with for Kitty and Bernard?

The end comes with a mild boul of comedy is to hand from Joan Davis plutlandeter her own hasn't!

inly she warns how to ferwe with slopatick

emerges a very real hete

In addition to the Beony «Rochra-

tesailies, the comedy is more robust

fy served by the skittish gun-gly

and fistleiffs of the not very with a woolly West

Being

11

a Darlesque

registers are speciality dity of the open

comes

other

HUNGARY

by DOUGLAS REED

EVER since Hitler annexed Austria over two years ago, Hungary has been like the patient in the dentist's waiting-room, expecting every moment to hear: "Next, please." easy prey, yet has been spared.

prey

MY INJUR

Tenure

She was an

out

his

(2) Hungary controls * long cuups by the Fifth Columis,

Quisling method, by making use of

his friends inside means to pocket

the country he

In Hungary he has a stronger Fifth Culumn, probably, than in any other Country

There at

very

many

people in Hungary. German and

Thanggarian, who would open the door

If you add up these ilve the weander

IN

things, Hungary has

been spared long, But there is

one factor to be set off against the five factors i have listed, and it may be the very reason why Hungary has bren spared Its name is Mussolini, The Roman Umpire has claims of Europe, and JEN 4:11 sh Southern

One

גני

eks just what they are

Etherist

the Dalmatlan coast of

say which, as he claims, was

jaygrased to Italy bad not given tu

her after the last wat

Hungry does not belong to "the Balkans But Hungary has long een the proclaimed protege of Italy. That right mean that Mussolini has

That would explain why Hungary

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pact

in un-

Wos

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Jui which wounds are as 11 goofy secretary.

Churlca

01

Filth Column.

THE FUTURE OF GERMANY. Hungary. She had her king

Is Germany a Hopeless Case? by real creator of German nationallem, own parliament, she was a full half the mingling of bloods in Hungary, all the trappings and

in the Austro-Hungarian

For two years her inhabitants have been waiting day Hitler to spare Hungury. and night, some in hope and some in fear, for Hitler's has been spared, and has prospect of advent. Now, her time seems to be coming. It will be a father immunity

But Mussolini tormerly professed miracle if Hungary survives the summer of 1940 without exactly the same interest having German protection conferred upon her in some Ray's next-door neighbour, Austria, and yet did nothing to save Austria. littler's 40- form.

Inder, the applauded Yet, who knows? Until it stretes of the Danube, which Hits nexation of Austria

I think bis interest in Hungary is actually happens, a small chance regard as his river and as a vital

was of antisporting Balkan oll and a strundary oar, which he would be always remains; and in Hungary stalls to Germany.

Once he held teady to abandon

Just ninety-one year's ago, 1849, you must always rockon with the petch of the Danube, he would

for her in- jump from its Hungary was fighting

But two exceptional factors-luck, s

dependence from German rule.

For twenty years Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary, has fought 11 Wish Whe rule of which has so often favoured her, mouth and the Black Sea.

steadly safeguard his country from the threat of invasion. Now (3) Hungary, as I said, is an easy in those days and the

the Admiral, sees Hungary being undermined by Nazi propaganda almost exceptional,

Although her incu are good Vienna, of the Germante Empire of

which he is unable to stop, and which, as he knows, will result in feminine astuteness and intuition offers, her But frontier with Hitler's the Habsburgs.

her ultimate destruction The Austrians could not conquer of her politicians, who are Reich could not be held against such

overwhelming might, and an the Hungarians, and called in Russin

whom they operation with the Hungarian Ger the Hungarium Nazis, with with masters at playing a poor hand

think of Hitler's would mean Hittle more, for well.

Hitler's army, than a Saturday after. Soviets last year--to help them, so work band in hand. These are the mats, preparing the

Hungarian generals admirers of Hitler's methods, the men Before the war, these Barbed Cross Szc- that lack of social leaders--and Count Ludwig These are the reusons why, two noon stroll down the excellent, In that

Germanic terror who maintalo

true-blue Magyar- progress and poverty in Hungary are chenyl, too, years ago, I would have given little ternational motor cond, formerly be- were shot and

at Hitler's were honoured that runs from aged in Hungary.

Kuests for Hungary's eliance of surviving loved of tourists,

Vten to Budapest.

But seventeen years after that the intolerable and must be changed.

They point to the enormous areas great nnnant rallies in Nuremberg. even unto the present moment:-

of Prunsin was already rising (1) She produces an abundance of (4) Hungary has no near friends star

In Budapest, in the great palace of these the peasants the Kings of Hungary on the Danube, foodstuffs, and Hitler needs food in such an anergency. The enemy and that of Vienna altendy waning, of the country still owned by great

beaten by the landlords. In

and sits Admiral Horthy, who has been stadfs, more than ever now that he is of the countries around her, agulast The Austrians were engaged in a major war. Hungary whom she has territorial claims, she Prussians and, to save their empire, have no hope of owing land,

kind alone. Their penury is truly more than twenty years. willingly exports her foodstuffs to could count on ne support from them, gave the Hungarians their indepen- often have to work for payment in regent of the kingless kingdom for

(5) This is the most important of dence.

bitter. Germany, but Hitler prefers to have

He helped to drive away the last Francis Joseph Emperor

who Austria, Hitler likes to #li. inem without payment.

cory

grent play 'King, The Nazis also make Hungary-the or crowned King of

dream of the Magyars was to see that with the poverty of the masses in descended on Hungary by aeroplane the cities and the inordinate wealth in an l-starred attempt to regain -happen-at Budapest.

The next forty-eight years after of a few people. Anti-Jewish argu-his Hungarian throne, at least, and ments are pre-eminent in their cam-was then removed by a British gun- that-until 1914-were the heyday

boat, afterwards dying in Madeira. her Daign,

All this is complicated further by Since that day, for twenty years, panoply of been kept up in London: Allen & these two traditions diverged before partner

Europe. Many important Budapest by Admiral Horthy, some- the revolution of 1848 into a struggle Empire. Now that Empire has gone, one of the most racially mixed coun- monarchy have THE right answer to the ques of liberalism and humanism against all Germans are united under Prus-mess, the

the menace yarized their names, are in small or Austro-Hungarian fleet, naval aide- victor tion propounded by this title militarism and autocracy. The Int-sian militarism-called Hitlerism to men, though they have now Mag- time Commander-in-Chief of the

large part of German stock, and some de-camp of Francis Joseph, is of primary importance to the ter won. Following on this came the day and once more

But to-day there is a great differ- of these are now feeling Hitler's call over the Red Regime in Hungary.

As I said at the beginning, Hun- would, and Rudolf Olden, for of Bismarcs, who partially satis stands at the door of Hungary.

fied the Liberals by the unification

astute, and In 1849 and after. all Hun- of the blood.

For instance, there was Bela de garion politicians are merly editor of the Berliner of Germany, and the militarists by cnce.

saved But garians were united in the fight for Imredy, formerly Prime Minister, they have

Hungary from To-day, Tageblatt, hare suggests in 200 the increase

this was n reconciliation dearly Hungarian independence.

He was called to power, three years invasion-as distinct from being pagos of German history bought at the sacrifice to democracy, they are not. Hitler's Fifth Column so ago, to suppress National So- quietly absorbed by Germany, which rather simplified that the Ger- Looking at German history since is at work.

cialism and make Hungary safe from will inevitably happen to Hungary

policy they now by the Olden maintains thut Let me show you how it operates. Hitler. man can change his spots, that 1918, Dr.

million in- President Ebert's acceptance of sup-Among Hungary's ten

TO the horror of the men who put pursued, Germany's evolution like that port from the old German army, unbitants are 600,000 Gemmans. Drive him in power, he soon began to show This was, to tie themselves hand of other countries is the result instead of breaking it down and north, cast and west from Budapest admiration of Hitler, to urge restric- and foot to the Axis Powers?

will

Why? amilitary force and you of a variety of economic and creating instead

come to German Lions against the Jews, and land re- other factors, that its evolution based upon another tradition,

Because they know perfectly well en-villages, German townships; places forms. to become

IIe looks Jewish, and when he that if they are obedient to Hiller real where only German is spoken. Be- is as yet incomplete, and that it abled that army

tore Hitler, these were just Ger- started on this tack his opponents and Hitler wins they will get pre- is not inevitable that the tragic master of post-war Germany.

his view Stresemann

manic outcrops. In

might

charged him with being a Jow. He ferential treatment inside Hitler's direction of the past half-ceu-have saved the situation-had more To-day, these are Hitlerist gar- then had his ancestry Investigated Reich, whereas if Britain wins Hun- tury should continue.

support for the newer social forces in risons in Hungary, closely organized and found, sure enough, that he had gary will be liberated, anyway.

great-grand-parent: But But it they were to resist Hiller, Dr. Olden sees German history Germany and Central Europe been National-Socialist communities every Jewish

is known and most of his blood was German! theirs would be the fate of Poland, since the end of the eighteenth forthcoming from the Western Powers member of which

Then there is Major Ferenc Belgium, Holland, Norway and others of the Hungarian and they would sooner suffer the fate century dominated by two tradi-but with his parsing came the end marked and compelled to serve the

the Welmar Republic.

Hitlerist cause. From and by them, Szalasy, leader tions, the military not-nation- The army has been the decisive Hitler is kept informed of every- Nazis (the Barbed Cross movement) of Denmark, knowing full well that alist tradition of Frederick the factor since 1916, whether under thing that passes. Events in Norway He is in prison-but his followers if Britain in the end prevails they They don't want to be under Hitler Great, and the literary tradition Bruening. Schleicher, von Papen, or have shown how great a part such are active and well-organized under will benefit.

Hitler, and the puthor believes that communities may play when the his deputy, Koloman Hubay. Both

but that is how they reason, and of Goethe and Schiller, cosmo- some day the army chiefs may be moment cames for the coup. these men are of German descent.

with come disillusioned and break

Yet even these German outposts are Throughout Hungary the men of from their point of view they are. politan and nonpolitical.

Inot so dangerous for Hungary as the the Barbed Cross are busy, in co- right. United Arst against Napoleon, the their present Fuhrer.

Rodolf Olden.

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