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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 10, 1940.

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By Walt Disney

RUE DU TRESOR BIDEWALK CAFE

WALT DISNEY

Jane Austen's Immortal Novel on the Screen BRITAIN

RESUME

Two rich London bachelors, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley, arrive with the latter's sister to take up residence at the Netherfield Park Estate in Meryton Village. Since mar- riage is a girl's only career in the 1800's, Mrs. Bennet, mother of five marriageable daugh- ters--Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Lydia and Kitty is in a turmoil of excitement, Despite Mr. Bennet's protest, she campaigns vigorously to win the bachelors for Elizabeth and beautiful Jane. Jane and Bingley fall in love at first sight; but Darcy's arrogant pride pre- judices Elizabeth against

him. She is further in- censed when he deliberately anube Mr. Wickham, friend of her sister Lydia. Miss Bingley invites Jane to visit her.

Chapter Two

TARGET PRACTICE

The great and fateful day when

witty

strained to follow his instructions. "That's right," he approved. "Now Rhoot."

Elizabeth let go the arrow.

I landed in the very heart of

the target.

"A Bull's Eye!" he cried.

Without pausing. Elizabeth pick-

ed up a second arrow and. shot it to split the first one.

Darey stored incredulously from her to the target, then loughed with delight.

"Next me I talk to a young lady about archery, I won't be sa .. patronizing," he promised. "Thank

you for the lesson."

Elizabeth, disarmed by his friendliness, smiled warmly at him.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Adapted from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

by

GERTRUDE GELBIN

he set his heart on Elizabeth. Mrs. Bennet, determined that one of her daughters should marry him in order to keep the estate within the family, was in a fever of joy--until Elizabeth declared with finality that if she died unmarried, she'd never be Mrs. Collins.

Mr.

Charlotte Lucos, ber dearest friend, came to her rescue. Collins,

of Charding himself the object

Elizabeth

concern, promptly forgot

Charlotte was lovely, he decided; a bit old-on the late twentyish side-practically uspinster-but a lovely girl

drowned this Mrs. Bennet

de-

feat in the glow of Bingley's con-

attentions tinued

to Jäne-at-

Jane was to visit Miss Bingley-at-tentions climaxed by the garden

Netherfield Park, dawned gray, cold and weighted with rain clouds. The weather afforded Mrs. Bennet

brilliant idea.

"Jane shall ride over on horse- back Then, if it rains, she won't be able to come home after dinner. They'll have to keep her for the night and there's really like wet

weather for engagements/7 did she remain

So, on

only

horseback went Jane;

not for the night,

she slayed for the week. Her ex- cold resulted posure to the rain

in a that confined her to bed at Nether- feld

And, Park. if streaming eyes, nose, sneezes and wheezes are not the things of which romance is made, Charles Bingley totally unaware of it.

red

party honouring her complete re- covery.

It was a splendid party! Mrs.

"Thank you for taking it so well. Most men would have been of- fended.

"Miss Elizabeth,” he said, sud- j denly serious, "would you mind telling me why you're so determin- ed to offend me?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Dorcy. But play-

Tricks ori Ing on people is one of my besciting sins.'

Her evasion was not lost on him. "Well may I ask how long you've been practising archery?" ho asked pleasantly

"Since I was six," she laughed. "And what else have you been doing

since you were six?" "Oh, nothing in particular. Liv

good ing Laughing. I laugh a deal, you know.

His glance was frankly admir- ing.

should imagine." "It's none of my business, course," she smiled, "but I should didn't say, Mr.

Bennet could have hoped for no- laugh carey, that you

thing finer! Mr. Bingley had eyes for no one except June!

It proved once and for all, that was right in her cumpaign. she Would Jane be basking in the glow it Mrs. of Bingley's admiration Bennet had listened to her hus- band? In the future, worthy. hiding behind a mass of unintel- ligible tomes and treatises, had better leave such matters to hert

that

So great was her delight in

Bingley sermed

Red nose or no, he was enchanted with

her, visiting the sick roctn at every opportunity. His delight was as nothing compared to Mrs.

Bennel's

"Mr. Bennet!" she cried to her husband as she poured their break- fast coffee. "I've just received nole from Mr. Bingley. Hn asks permission to give a garden party and ball for Jane just as soon as sho's well." She sighed. "Such a huppy iden af mine to send her off in the rain!"

Mr. Bennet emerged from be- hind his copy of the Times.

"But to Jane must go all the credit for having caught the cold, my dear," he observed sarcastically.

Certainly, Bingley hoped Jane's visit would go on forever, Bul Mrs. Bennet, a general marshalling forces for victory, recalled Jane for the one reason that would whet Bingley's jealousy, helighten · his ardour and good him into a de claration.-

She placed a rival in his path. Cousin Collins, the clergyman to whom

the Bennet estate was en- inlled, arrived for a visit. Eilzabeth was dispatched to fetch Jane under the pretext that her sister must meet the male and marriage- able relative who was the Bennet house guest.

Poor Mr. Bingley reacted to the news in the manner hoped for. While he did not quite doclare

· himself, fils attentions to and cons cern for Jane reached a pealt that infuriated his sister and

sent Darcy's eyebrows on the rise.

Cousin Collins proved to be a scruping, bowing, obnoxious, 'soli» Important bore. At first meeting,

and

and

Jane that she closed her eyes to the mad caperings of Kitty Lydia who flirted out- rageously with uniformed oflcers; that she lost sight of pedantic Mary's woeful shortcomings as a beauty: that she even forgot to scold Elizabeth for being as coolly aloof as her father.

on

None of the day's drams was lost Elizabeth. She sought refuge from her mother's ecstasy, from Mary's stupidity, from Lydia's and Kitty's boisterousness, on the arch- ery held. As she made her way to the stand of bows and arrows, Darcy greeted her.

"Would you

like a litle target practice?" he asked pleasantly.

"Yes," she replied, somewhat taken aback by lils friendly man-

ner.

"Are you a good shat with the bow, Mr. Darcy?"

"Tolerable," he answered. "Only tolerable?" she questioned mlschievously.

"Well," he expanded, "It's a fine old sport and one in which even become pro- a young lady con Acient."

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"So I've heard," she said gravely. "A short range, of course," he added. "And with a light bow."

He fitted an arrow and took

what a bad shot!" he said in annoyance as the arrow missed the forget und landed in the side of the knoll beyond. He handed her the bow. Would you like to try it?"

She nodded, an impish · smile lighting her face,

"Place the bow in the left hand," he instructed sententiously. "And the arrow goes like this—and these two Angers. 8o. Naw-left strnight. · Stand sidewise and nim

arm

of

you

Miss Bingley joined them. "Hello," Darey

greeted. "Miss Elizabeth was just saying she

don't laugh enough." thinks I

Caroline eyed Elizabeth frigidly. "I should be very

sorry if laughed more than you do, Mr. Darcy.

is something so un- There is refined about excessive laughter." "If you want to be really re- Elizabeth countered, "you- fined," 've

got to be dead. There's no- body so dignified and distinguished as a mummy. And now, Mr. Dar- cy, may I ask you a question? What would be your opinion of a man who had everything-birth, breeding, wealth, charm-and yet who refused to accept an introduc- tlon to another man who was poor and of no

consequence."

Dorey flushed. "I

would form no opinion until I knew the cir- cumstances of the particular case," he replied coldly. "And now, it you will excuse me, I shall retrieve the arrows."

Elizabeth watched thoughtfully.

him

"Miss Eliza," observed Mics Bingley. "May 1 warn you not to take George Wickham too serious-

know I referred

to Mr. Wickham?" Elizabeth asked In astonishment. "You know that Mr. Darcy refused to meet him?"

You

"Of course. And I know, too, that he goes about saying Mr. Darcy has used him 1. While I'm Ignorant of the particulars. I know what Mr. Wickham says is not true.

"Indeed!". Elizabeth's tone was "Personally, I find Mr. Wick- ley.

a very pleasant, accomplished gentleman.'

"Gentlemant exclaimed

Miss Bingley. "I'm afraid he must have neglected to tell you that he's the Bon of Mr. Darcy's late steward."

ham a

"Mr. Wickham gave me that in- formation, Misa Bingley, And to me, a gentleman is one who has honour, generosity, truthfulness- whether he be of low or high de- scent." She faced Darcy angrily! as the latter approached, thear- rows in hand. "Mr. Darcy! Miss

at the bull's-eye," Ke... : paused, ~Bingley would like a lesson in

taking in the picture of her as she

archery." She turned to Caroline.

DELIVERS

THE GOODS

An excellent idea of how British manufacturers áre carrying on in the midst of enemy bombings, and how successfully oversens orders are being fulfilled, is given in a letter, writ- ten in early October, from a Home manufacturer to a local British firm.

The letter, which is repro- duced here, will enable readers to form an impression of the present conduct of business in Britain. Commercial firms in the Colony may also be in- terested in the advice given regarding cabling procedure and the regulations in respect of the recently-imposed Pur- chase Tax.

The manufacturer says:- Since we circularised you in July, despite the intensification of the enemy effort against this coun-. try, you will have observed there has been little change in our ability to maintain supplies to your market. The only real dimculty with which we have been con-

has fronted

been the logical diminution in shipping facilities from the Port of London. This, has been more in the however, nature of a

domestle pro

problem, as have been able to of our

in the

In

main

we

made at Rub the "cture of

for export,

to our Lan- our London works. enshire works. Where this was impossible our transport nightly

made the journey from our Lon- don works to the Liverpool docks, and fatterty with equal regularity such

byods have been transferred

to

We mention this impress upon you the comparative ense with which it is possible to cope with

bombings in their present form

In our September ship- your clients have the visible that the business of the

functioning

W continues, that internal

communication smoothly and, as ever, our Mer- chant Fleet continue to operate freely.

their

Propaganda

The foregoing we stress in the hope that, no matter how sight, the propaganda effort of our coun- try may be aided. We feel this necessary, is so frequently do we have evidence that our friends overseas are apt to overlook the obvious and, often through con- cern for this country, lend

lend an ear to the insidious propaganda of Germany, Italy and their sym- What the Axis bave pathisers. been unable

accomplish by deed there, would

in tensification of our to be an

of effort to achieve by imaginative

propaganda, which succeeds with every order we might normally, expect, but, is through prevalling conditions, placed outside the country.

There have been recently lengthy delays in the receipt of overseas messages, which delays we believe are partially due to the Censor ship nuthorities. We have lodged the most energelle protest both with Cable and Wireless, Ltd. and the Export Council, as we believe nothing can shake confidence over-

fallure seas so much as

to receive a reply to any given message with- in a reasonable period,

May we ask you to assist by wording messages as clearly as possible, at least with sufficient

"Follow your teacher's instructions, Miss Bingley, and you'll learn to direct your docts with great ac- curacy."

"Well" cried Miss Bingley as Elizabeth, her head high, marched off, "Of all the insolence and bad manners. Pray, Mr. Darcy, what do you think of her now?"

"I think the handles a bow and arrow superbly," he replied care- lessly, and smiled, after the re- treating Agure el Eilzabeth.

Darcy's pride zeems to be on the ebb but toll Elizabeth overcome har prejudice? Read to-morrow's chapter,

clarity to avoid any doubt on the part of the Censorship authorities? We would further ask you to bear the possibility of delays in mind when anticipating replies.

Purchase Tax

We understand that in collabora- tion with H.M. Government the Dominions have either given as assurance that our Purchase Tax will not be regarded as part of the dutiable value under existing Law, or had agreed to take steps to en- surc that it should be excluded.

When the Purchase Tax is im- posed over here we are according- ly adding the following to the end of Paragraph 4 of the combined Certiflente of Value and Origin-

"This domestic value also in- cludes £......representing Purchase Tax not chargeable

on goods for export."

The full value will then be shown in column declaring current domestic value of the article ship- ped, but duty should only be paid on this amount Jess Purchase Tax.

With the transference of our business from Lendon lo the coun-

try it was impossible to bring with each department those records onc would normally have at hand. Wow actual practice, it was considered the export trade of this country would be so changed that, apart from contracts outstanding at the outbreak of hostilities, no past re- brought to this offer. cords were Prior to the intensification aerial warfare, it was a matter of

chue

to

to refer to pre-war records, but this can no longer be arru

arronged and

the possibility of wasted time. We would ask, therefore, that you bear this feature in mind, and In- stead of referring to pre-war coi- respondence treat questions dating back as something new, passing us -all-pertinent-details-to-enable-a- reply without reference to past re- cords,

nt in n

a journey to our main office where it was necessary

without inconvenience

Bombings

To conclude, we would not wish to create on Impression that the life of this country is quite un- disturbed, but rather that our difficulties are such that they are surmounted.

From the point of the individual, live in hard and unpleasant Many of the staff live in times.

more densely populated arcas, the and the number who have lost their homes and many of their possessions is distressing. Those

breas now appear to be receiving such protection from our barrage that the outer suburbs are getting the bombs.

these

of

The Indiscriminate nature

bombings might be illustrated by a very recent experience during night raid. In an essentially residential area on the

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outskirts of London, a plane dropped probably its full complement

of bombs,

These bombs fell in an aren, the radius of which would be about a quar ter of a mile, the damage being to houses, a block of flats, a public. house and stables. The nearest objective was a bridge, of

possimportance, quite a mile

no

hombings achieved nothing

as affecting our war effort, and miraculously only two people were killed and three treated for minor suffer, injuries,

The stable did eight horses being killed. Close at hand on the same night the wives of two personal friends were killed outright and, in the one case, the second son and only daughter also perished. Remaining members of both families are in hospital,

Food Supplies

Finally, as bearing on current conditions of life in and around London, the storm centre of the moment, It might be added the stables belong to one of our well- known London dairies, and to their credit it can be stated the local

delivery of milk was made at usual hour,

It is in this feature, the main- tenance of food supplies to the public through the various steps taken by our authorities in col- laboration with the sources of supply concerned, that our Dra rangements are the most Impres- alve.

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