1940-11-29 — Page 11

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 29, 1940:

By Walt Disney

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MAGAZINE

Septuagenarians

Giddiest

Are

By ROBERT MUSEL

Ilony Konyccany Thury and Joe E. Howard have passed the biblical three score and ten by several years, but in- stead of parking by a reside with slippers handy, both of them are dancing every night in night clubs and having quite a time for themselves.

"Momma" Thury-as they call her is a cinch to pull some jitterbug stuff not long before dawn breaks over New York's spires, and about the same time Joe will break into the nostalgic songs of the Mauve Decade. He gets as much a kick out of it as "Momma" gets out of truckin' "A-Tisket to the tune of A-Tasket."

This would be simply scan- dalous in the case of an or dinary grandmother and grandfather, but "Momma” Thury and Joe Howard are in a special class. They are the oldest night club entertainers in the metropolis and both still rate as topnotch performers, 60 years after their debuts.

"Momma" Thury is the star of Zimmerman's Hungaria, one of the largest clubs in town, and the management says she can head-line the show as long as she lives. She is 75 now and expects to reach 100 if the supply of Hungar- ian goulash which she says is responsible-for-her-vigour,

holds.out.

She is a jolly lady with a face comparatively unlined and a voice which quavers only at long intervals. She will cheerfully admit her voice

is not as robust as it was, say in 1914, when she played the male role of Prince Danillo in "The Merry Widow" with Franz Lehar conducting the performance. That was. In Vienna.

Nor does she pretend to be as agile as she was when she

DUKE OF KENT AT TIME BOMB EXPLOSION

A time bomb was exploded within 80 yards of a car in which the Duke of Kent was touring bombed areas of South-West London' recently.

The duke's car was travelling along a road and came to a roped barrier bearing the notlee "Danger, unex- ploded bomb." The car stopped, and almost at the same moment the bomb went off. There was a loud report and rubble shot up from the front garden of a house a short distance up the road. Two seconds later # shower of stone and earth fell on the Duke's car.

Shook Hands

When the shower had subsided the Duke got out of the car, People who had assembled at the noise of the explosion crowded round hira and a number of women shook him by the hand,' --

after

in

The Duke walked to the place where the bomb had exploded and spoke to men of a Royal Engineers bomb disposal squad. A sergeant told him that the bomb had lain the garden for some time. They had been unable to move it and had

*teking caused it to explode precautions to see that it should do no damage dealt sampl

The bomb left a crater about 4ft. deep and 10ft across. All the win- dows in the house adjoining the garden were broken, but thir, the Duke' was told was the result of other bombing,

The actual explosion had caused no damage e

was a reigning beauty in Hun- gary. She recalls wistfully how perfumes and hats were. named after her, how royalty toasted her in the capitals of Europe and how King Alexander of Serbia became her patron-in a nice way. She came here a generation ago.

"Momma" Thury works until 4 a.m., but she still gets the breakfast for her husband

B toolmaker and three children, the oldest of whom is 42. She has been smoking for 50 years and has never, she says, had more than four or five hours sleep a day.

Joe Howard skips from night club to night club with- out having to worry about an' engagement. He is a hand- some figure with snow white hair, a smooth face and a voice not much the worse for time, according to veteran critics. Jos glosses over his seven

This Story Comes From Ireland

Called to a patient living on a mountain farm near the Ulster-Eire border, a doctor had to take a carpen- ter with him.

the

woman

On an earlier visit the doctor had prescribed that

Д patient, weighing 17 stone, should be given a hot bath and put to bed.

There was no bath in the house, so the patient took her bath in a churn into which warm water was poured,

became She wedged.

Hence the second-and frantic-call to the doctor and the carpenter, who re- moved the churn hoops to cnable

the embarrassed patient to be released.

marriages the last one only Jahnny Thinks

a couple of years`ago-as in- cidental to his career. Give him a spotlight, an opera cape, a allk hat and a cane and he is happy.

о have arrived safely, I don't like the man's face. I like the woman's Lace, but p'raps she'll look better in the morning. I like the dog's face best. Love from Johnny."

Howard has written hun- dreds of songs, some of them spanking hits, ond his. specialty now is to sing his own product. He wrote "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" and "Goodbye My Lady-Ogilvio, Director-General of_the_ Love."

The

The letter from an eight-year- old boy evacuated from London to a farm in Somerset, 150 miles away was quoted by Mr. F. W.

B.E.C.

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Traitors' Visit To Hitler

From A Dutch

Correspondent

The Dutch Nazi leader, Mussert, had a conference with Hitler recently. The Reich Commissioner for the occupied the Netherlands, of Seyss-Inquart, the Reich Com- missioner for Norway, Ter- Dutch and several boven, Nazis, including the leading Dutch Quisling, Rost yan Ton- ningen, were also present.

According to the Amster- dam Telegraaf, which has switched over completely to the German point of view, Mussert suggested that Hol- land should be declared an in- dependent Nazi State along the lines proposed for. Nor- way. This tallies with the presence at the conference of Terboven, who, it is 'under- stood, suggested that Mussert should form a new Dutch one- party Government.

In exchange for this honour Mussert promised to put down the strong opposition against the Germans and against a Nazi regime in Holland, pro- vided that he had a sufficiently strong German backing.

It is clear that stubborn re- sistance of the Dutch against their foreign overlords is caus- ing Berlin much worry. The chief aim of the conference with Hitler was to try to find a way to overcome the defiance. of German rule, and it was thought that a

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Last July a Flying Fortress, with four engines of only 850 h.p, each, How the 2,500 miles from California to Now York at an average speed of 263 m.p.h., at heights between 20,000 and 33,000ft-awkward heights for anti-aircraft guns.

Now it is equipped with four engines each developing more than 1,000 h.p., and its top speed is well in excess of 300 m.p.h.

Accommodation is so-generous that the pilot and crew can change positions quickly and in comfort-a vital point in view of possible casu alties.

The full crew consists of two pilots, a wireless operator, a naviga- tor, and five machine-gunners, three of whom are also bomb-aimers."

The latest type carries: nearly 7 tons, of bomba, and ammunition ■ distance of 4,000 miles-facts of enormous importanco when it Fildered that our present long-distance

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Dutch Nazi regime, under German control of course, might be a compromise accept- able to the Dutch people.

But, apart from the fact that the Dutch have shown over and over again their antipathy towards their Fas- cist compatriots, the unity in Dutch Fascist ranks is none too strong. Rost van Ton- ningen, formerly secretary of the movement, has superseded Mussert as the driving power, and neither the official Nazl leader nor his special friends have been much in the fore- ground.

Jealousy and intrigue aro main not confined, to the Dutch. Nazi party. Some Fus- cists hare formed a group called the "National Front," which issues a daily news- paper called Netherland Jour- nal. This organ is strongly opposed to the National Jour- nal of Mussert's party and publishes articles declaring that "the Netherlands people cannot accept Mussert's party, because it is too Germanised and does not take into account the character and mentality of the Dutch people.”

· Even the German daily published in Holland, Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden, recently printed an article admitting the aversion of tho Dutch people for a totalitarian regime..

"What is the attitude of the Dutch towards the great 'New Deal'?" the writer ask- ed. His reply was: "Let us admit openly that most of them take up a definitely negative and anti-German at- titude. The Netherlands were always politically and spiritu- ally split up, but they were, except for a small number, united in their friendship for England, and therefore in their enmity towards Ger- 'many. No one listens to broadcast news reports, unless it is some prohibited trans- mission. No one reads news- papers. The excuse is that what is said and written nowadays can no longer be believed."

GUESTS HAVE FUN AS WAITERS STRIKE

Guests at the Manila Hotel were treated to an impromptu buffet party recently. when walters, bellboys and roamboys walked out, without warning.

The trouble apparently arose from the decision of the manage- ment to transfer a waiter, bo- langing to. the Manila Hotel Employes Association, to the Mayon Hotel, in Legaspi, which is managed by the Manila Hotel. The waiter refused to go and succeeded in inducing his fellow workorn to quit work.

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Employees were hastily recruited from various departments and made. jo don walters and bellboys unl forms, reinforcing the number of those who remained on their jobs.

Some of the kitchen help also out, slowing the dining room. walked servico

But the guests had somewhat, fun serving themselves from a huge buffet table set in the middle of the Fiesta Pavilion

guests took it all in good part The guests and some even joked with Howard M. Cavender, managing director of the hotel, about having these":"/lm=" promptu: affairs oftener,

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