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SHOWING

TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

THE MOST IMPORTANT PICTURE OF THE YEAR!

Here it is!

The one great picture that had to comic out of all the courage in the world today!

Joker Steinbeck's

THE MOON DOWN

IS

MÓN SIN CEDRIC NÀROWIČKE • HENRY FRANTIŠ

LEN-F COLB • PORRIS BOWDON MARGALET WYCHIELT » WILLIAM POST, JE Directed by loving Pichal a Preduced ong Wiestan fer the Scranty Nurmptly dedic

CENTRAL & ALFAMBAN

DARY AT 25* 5o 7 &97 PM. DAILY AT 2oo 50o 780890PM.

COMMENCING TO-DAY

HIGH-POWERED MYSTERY MELODRAMA!

SUPER-SCREEN EXCITEMENT!

AN EXCITING ADVEN-

TURE IN TERROR AND

DESPERATE ROMANCE!

GARFIELD

FIELD O'HARA

ORIENTAL

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30–5.15—7.30—9.30 P.M. ACTION-CRASHING!

ADVENTURE THAT SMASHES

AT THE VERY HEART OF A NAZI SPY-RING!

THRILL AGAINST THRILLI

A UPON DANGER!

TAMPICO

Marring EDWARD G. ROBINSON

with LYNN BARI. VICTOR MILAÇİLEN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1946. UNO FLOOR SHOW

THE UN BROTHERS IN THEIR NEW

PEACE ACT

Truman, Bobby-Soxers And Other

American Oddities

JOHN

by-

HOLT

writing from New York

HAVE been at some pains in Iyour

your behalf to discover the truth about the supposed

of British

pictures

success

Mercury, Danny Kaye. It was an affair of great secrecy and exclte- ment, and I tell it would have been casier for me to get a box for the "diamond horseshoe" on the opening night of the Met.

I was told that Mr Kaye had just flown in from Chicago, where his share of a fortnight's takings had" added up to £20.500. His little nugget from the night's work to come was to be £5,000.

WO-HQ-DE-OH-DYA-DA-OH

soon as the young man appeared

throughout America and beg to AS so the stage it was plain he was

report as follows.

Big British films have seared a remarkable "succes d'estime” and rate high in the lists for snob appeal.

They have had fantastically good Press reviews from critics, wearled by long sight of Miss Rita Hay- worth's good intentions. They rate on Broadway just as a good French film rates at the Academy or Curzon in London.

Most successful of all has been "Brief Encounter," which has been running at a little theatre for 36 weeks to steady support.

"Henry V," although not yet so successful, is the darling of the in- telligentsia and should run on in- definitely.

"Caesar and Cleopatra" started with a ne bang on the big drum, but adverse word-of-mouth criticism

has steadily been sapping its vigour, and its future is now doubtful,

Surprise hit is a modest affair we call "Western Approaches,” known

here as The Raider. In the brittle and sexy garishness of Times-squore this little tale of endeavour shines

Commencing To-morrow: “THEY GOT ME COVERED" indeed like a good deed.

S STAR S

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THEATRE

COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT

Presents

BLANCHE LITTLER'S COMPANY

IN

TEN MINUTE ALIBI

A Thriller in Three Acts

By

ANTHONY ARMSTRONG

NIGHTLY AT 7.30 P.M.

BOOKING HOURS: 12 p.m.-2 p.m.

4 p.m.-6.30 p.m.

Telophone: 58335.

Seats Booked by Telephone Will Be Kept Up to 6.30 p.m. Only.

TO-DAY &

TOMORROW MAJESTIC

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M

Hilarious Rounion of the "LADY EVE" Stars!

Barbara STANWYCK

Honry FONDA

in Wosloy Ruggles'

"YOU BELONG TO ME"

A. Columbia Picture

NEXT CHANGE: "DR JEKYLL & MR. HYDE"

CATHAY

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. MICKEY'S NEWEST IS HIS BEST!

MICKEY ROONEY FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW in

A YANK AT ETON

with: EDMUND GWENN

* IAN HUNTER

An M-G-M Picture

The question, of course, arises Is this SUCCCES earning us any dollars? I'm afraid very few. Costs of distribution and explaltation here; are so high that there are only scrapings of the honeypot left for us.

Thus it is the American custom that all films shall bear their shure of the cost of running the whole theatre circult to which they are booked.

And so many a British film is con- tributing by its earnings to the running cost of some little theatre in Memphis or Milwaukee which it will probably itself never play,

One group of seven British flima,

includes which

"Colonel Blimp," "Henry V.," and "Caesar," and re- presents a capital outlay of not less than £5,000,000, has earned the only In modest sum of £50,000 dollars.

COMMERCIAL RADIO'

THE biggest single phenomenon of THE

this, continent, as is well known

to the world, is commercial, or spon- sored, radio.

of

The manners and modes generation are moulded by the sław, chocolate-brown volces of announcers. What you wear, eat and drink, and what you think are inexorably dictated to you day and night by this means.

It seems that I have come in on this vast and succulent ritual at an awkward moment. The great stars

crotchety,

It was quickly explained to me that he is now earning BO much money that the Government take it all away from him in taxes.

He feels that his, sudden, fierce fame has carried him too swiftly to the point where he is working for nothing, and this is upsetting his digestion.

After the show-of which the nu- dience heard little, for the per- formers put their mouths to the mikes and did not look at the aud!- torium-rows and rows of fierce little girls. wearing what they call "Minnie blouses" embroidered with eimmatures of stars, set up a shril. insistent cry.

These, they told me quickly, and with more trepidation than pride, werg the bobby-soxers.

They held their noise at steam- whistic level until Danny Kaye appeared on the empty stage and promised to sing to them, He began "Minnie the Moocher."

Suddenly, in the middle of the second chorus, the steam-whistle noise began again. "No, no, Danny," the little girls shricked, "you got It wrong. Danny. It goes wo-ho-de- oh-dyn-da-oh,"

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By STRUBE

The stor stopped.

A frightened look came into his eye. "Wo-ho-de- oh-dya-da-oli," he sang.

little girls should love so fiercely a "How add," I thought, "that these stranger they probably only once on the screen."

STEUTTO

one thing only--a lender. There is a tension and an urgency here great ter even thun in Britain in weeks before Winston Church

took

THE GREEN ROOM CLUB

REBORN

BY JOHN SHIPTON

W

TEST END ACTORS are back in their own famous club, the Green Room, in Whitcombe Street, near Inymarket, overlooking the site of their former premires in Lolcester Square, destroyed by bomb in 1940.

When members of the Green Roon were told that the plan for reconstruction and redecoration for the new club had been only partially approved, they decideu so ua the work themselves.

Result? "Working parties" were formed, details being "advertised in The form of

orders on the company club notice board, and an appeal was made for "props," When I visited the club a couple of days before the oficial opening I found famous singo stars busy with hammer and balls. brace and bit, saws and chisels engaged on renovation, with ins of paint, door knobs, nuts and bolts, screws, and rolled-up lengths of carpels scattered in great con.usion.

theQIDNEY MONCICTON, who is play- ing Mr Fitzpatrick in "Skin of up the leadership in the spt.g of the perfect handyman.

our Teeth" at the Piccadilly, looked With his spectacles perched on the end of his hose and pipe clenched between his de tectis, he was painstakingly applying

40.

People seem determined to something to rid themselves of '* state of indecision and a President they do not trust.

a cont of yellow paint to the wail of the roading roon. On uie saira, Clifford Mollison of "Can Can" Was wreathing with 5 a length of carpet--!

pund a shilling which had rolled from his pocket on the mairs-while wearing on his head a gludy band- George "Under the Counter Street, kerchilet, was sweeping up the dust from the uncarpeted stairs.

At a news-reel theatre I saw him making a speech. His manner in rertainly not impressive, but that would hardly explain the gust of eruet taughter that swept the theatre

Jack Hobbs, Bruce Seton, and when he lost his place and looked down at his note to find it again, Anthony Bazelle all in "Worm's Eye View," were struggling with rather And the President has tried so a hefty piece of furniture, and Nigel hard to please the people, He has price controls because he believed that was what people wanted.

Love? Is It Jove?" said the man championed the Jews and taken off ek, recently released from the

next to me, a great radio writer.

might be hate, you know."

KAYE...he once played In Hongkong with the

Marcus Show.

When Kaye had escaped from the stage, 1 passed among the bobby- scrs. They have the bodies and clothes of children, and the voices

of children,

But their faces are the faces of hard, middle-aged women, and their eyes are the eyes of sour spinsters. They move

like in little jerks, marionettes. I moved away pro- foundly frightened.

But they didn't. They wanted strength, not concessions. The re- sult is that Palestine has at no time heen an issue.

The odd thing is that this revolt against a man occurs at a time when there is no obvicus rival waiting to move into the White House.

Eagerly, almost frantically, voters are peering into the faces of the rising politicians without discerning the look of greatness they hungry for.

neat find out of a stubborn looking piece of wood.

had just finished making a

Frederic Benley, Edmund the anxious eyes of Secretary Mazor Donlevy, and Alan Laurance, under.

Wigram Money, were menuouVTINE a piano into position. And all the

Henry irvipt

du me Maurier, and Squire Dineroft, former inenbers of the Green Room, seemed to nod their approval from the walls.

CO with furniture which had been are so stored in Adam Street, bits and

Little Tom Dewey is known to desire the White House in 1948, but, although he commands the respect of his followers, the country does not warm to him.

Nor is the idealistic Henry Wol- lace favoured. People regard him affectionately as something of crackpot. Indeed, the political scene Is empty, There is not even scoundrel in sight.

CANINE POKER PLAYER

picces from their own homes, and manual labour provided by them- selves with the bare minimum of material sanctioned by the Nunistry of Labour, the Green Room members aro

back in harness and settling down to civilian life.

Most of them were in the Forces during the war. In March, 1939, for example, a good percentage, joined the First County of London battalion of the Home Guard. They eluded Hugh Williams, John Gillespie (later Killed at Tobruk), Nigel Patrick, and Atan Laurance. Their adju

J0jutant Secre.ary Muney, an old soldier IRLINE hostesses grounded by himself. When they joined the Army the strike are filling in their hey were sent to Octu ogether and The Cunimissioned in the 60th Royal Ride time as baby watchers lawnmower which keeps the grass Corps, and it is claimed that along tidy at Flushing Meadow, where the with other members they held all UNO delegates have been meeting, ranks from colonel down to private. is pulled by a Jeep.

The Green Room Club was founded

1859 by actor

members of

the int poker. A bystander marvelled club of their own. First premises Three •men and a dog were play- Garrick Club who fell the need for

at the dog's cleverness,

"I don't were in Russell Square, then think he's so smart," said the owner. Leicester Square, where they stayed This great country is profoundly "Every time he gets a good hand he 40 years, until it was demoilshed by disturbed and unhappy from lack of wags his tafl."

the bomb in 1940.

THE PRESIDENT AMERICA went to the polls with profound disapproval of an act of mind made up to register her fate the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

The declarer in to-day's den! passed up a finesse that would have been a safety play, and chose an- other finesse that really hurt when it lost!

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been

quite apparent, South cashed the nce and king of hearts, obviously

dire suit.

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shock, and perliaps it rattled. South so much that he could not concen- trate on ways and means of re- covering his position. Actually, if he had cashed the other spade tricks, West would have been highly em- barrassed for discards. He had thrown two spades on the diamonds; now he would have to give up a heart or blank the club kiry, and iri either case could be made to yield the fulfilling trick. South; however, chose to discard a club on the heart queen, then to take the club unesse. Down onel

South was something less than dis- Needless to say, the final contract criminating in his choice of finessest was sound-as a matter of fact a Letting the heart ten ride through grand slam required nothing more West would have been a pafely play, than the substitution of the heart whereas the club finesse was an out-

right gamble.

of commercial radio have reached a jack for the heart ten or nine, Dosition where, one word more of raise for the products that pay them would make their voices crack.

So they are turning backward somersaults to insult their spONSOFE -presumably working on the prin-. ciple that you remember'an' 'Insult Jonger than you remember a com- pliment.

Leaders in this new game are the famous Fred Allen and a newcomer called Henry Morgan, but it won't bo long before they are all at it.

·T tremble in think of the effects to come. Probably before the year is ut we shall have the whole Ameri- an nation ke they do

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