1940-11-29 — Page 3

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 29, 1940,

By Walt Disney

DONALD DUCK

I CANT GET IT STARTED, BOYS).

WE'LL HAFTA BAIL OUT!:

BUT GEE!

WE'RE SCARED!

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YEAH. BUT

WHERE?

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Cor 1940, Walt Dimer Production

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 fireside with slippers handy, both of them are dancing overy 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' to the tune of "A-Tisket 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 ia 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 comparatively unlined. face 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 raped barrier bearing the notice "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 rand Two seconds later u shower of stona and earth fell on the Duke's car.

Shook Hande

When the shower had subsided the Duke go out of the car. People who had assembled at the noise of the explosion crowded round him and a number of women shook him by the hand

The Duke walked to the place where the bomb had exploded and spoke to men of a Royal Engineers bomb disposal squad. A Bergeant told him that the bomb had fain in the garden for some time. They had been unable move it, and had caused it to explode after taking precautions to see that it should do 'no'damage."-"/

The bomb loft a crater about Aft, dený and 10ft. across. All the win- down in the house adjoining - the "starden" were broken," but this, the Duke was told, was, the result of other bembing,

'The actual explosion had caused no damire

was a reigning beauty in Hun- gary. She recalls wistfully how perfumes and hats were named after her, how royalty toasted her in the capitala 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 -n 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 anow white hair, a smooth face and a voice not much the worse for time, according to veteran critics. Joe 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.

On an earlier visit the doctor had prescribed that the patient, a woman weighing 17 stone, should be given a hot bath and put to bed.

Thore was no bath in the house, so the patient took her bath In a churn into which warm water was poured. She became wedged.

Hence the second-and frantic call to the doctor and the carpenter, who re- moved the churn hoops to enable the embarrassed patient to be released..

marriages the last one only Jahnny Thinks-

Give

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

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

The

"I have arrived safely. I like the man's face. I don't like

but the woman's face, p'raps she'll look better in the murning. I like the dog's face best. Love from Johnny."

This letter from an eight-year- old boy evacuated from London to a farm in Somerset, 150 miles nway was quoted by Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, Director-General of the B.B.C

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Traitors' Visit Το Hitler

From A Dutch Correspondent.

The Dutch Nazi leader, Mussert, had a conference with Hitler recently. The Reich Commissioner for the occupied of the Netherlands, Seyss-Inquart, the Reich Com- missioner for Norway, Ter- boven, and several Dutch Nazis, including the leading Dutch Quisling, Rost van 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- Jand should be declared an in- dependent Naz! 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.

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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 deflance of German rule, and it was thought that-a- nominally-

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Dutch Nazi regime, under German control of course, might be a compromiso 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 Nazi leader nor his special friends have been much in the fore- ground.

Jealousy and intrigue are not confined to the main Dutch Nazi party. Some Fas- cists have 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 the 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 thair 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 nowadaya 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 roomboys walked out without warning.

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

Employees were hastily recruited from various departments and made to dan waiters' and bellboys' tuni- of forms, reinforcing the number those who remained on their jobs,

Aino Some of the kitchen help walked alowing the dining room service somewhat, but the guests had fun serving themselves from a huge buffet table sut in middle of the Fiesta Pavillon,

The guests look it all in good part and · some, even joked with Howard [M. Cavender, managing director of the hotel, about having these Ita- promptu affairs pfteners.

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