1946-12-24 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1946.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10,

KINCS

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

EXTRA PERFORMANCES TO-MORROW AND THURSDAY AT 11.30 A.M.

YOU'LL HAVE A NIGHT OF FLAMING ROMANCE"

AMID SCENES OF LAVISH SPLENDOR.

AND ADVENTURE BOLD INTRIGUI AND BLAZING DRAMM

RONALD COLMAN

KISMET

MARLINININKA

DIETRICH

Jentet ULANG · Llwarf AZUOLI

High PERMENT -

Theme BAITS › Bay DAYIMPORT

FACE

ALSO LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS

Jung i

LEE THEATRE

LAST 4 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.10 & ́9.15′′ P.M.

THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

valyn Keyts, Phil Silversk Atele le gens

and CORNEL WILDE

Commencing To-morrow At 12.00, 2.30; 5.10, 7.10 & 9.15 p.m.

SA

Jovo

DANDY!

IT'S A

ERROL FLYNN

and gorgeous

ALEXIS SMITH

WARNER BROS" "GENTLEMAN

what? dish! She's super- delish!

Knockout!

with JACK CARSON ALAN HALE Directed by RAOUL WALSH

- Surres Play by Vincent Lawrence and Horace McCoy - Ensed Upon the Life of James J. Corbett

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

CHETRO COLDWYN MAYER'S honey

of a Musical!

"Never saw

λ man

worried about So

losing his Christmas dinner,"

THE BELLS RING, REJOICE!

All down the ages, the ringing of bells has been the traditional method of summoning people together. And so, at this Christmas season, when the bells call us to rejoice, we look back with L. M. BRAYBROOKE to the origin of the custom, almost as old as Christianity itself.

Gabriella.

*

Hand-bells

still in are

use in are

ZBW Goes

*

All Out This Year

By "Mike"

ZBW is going all out during the coming festive season to give listeners the best radio fare available. They ave marshall- ed nearly all available local talent -in passing, it may be sald that it is very aporting of the per- formers to be giving up their tline for the broadcasts during the holidays besides arranging for the best transcriptions and relays. And that shows com- mendable organisation, 'consider- ing the technical difficulties which the local station is still labouring under.

:

The Christmas programmes *open this evening at 6.30 p. m. with "Music for Christmas," a. BBC arrangement with comments by ZBW's own announcer. This will be followed at 7.30 by a light plano recital from the studio by George Lobb which will Include more Christmas music. At 8 o'clock, a radio play will be broadenst; the le is "The Top of the Tree," and it Is an unsophisticated love story about a Christmas tree,

KING'S MESSAGE

To-morrow, Christmas Day, London relays and transcriptions of Christmas messages from Britain, Empire coun- tries, Europe and our Occupation Forces in Japan will commence at (10 p. m. At 11 p. m., listeners should stand by for the Christmas meenage from a Majesty the King.

On Boxing Day, Betty Drown and Ken Barrel will give, a two-plano recital from the studio, commencing

at 1.15 p. m. At 5.30, there will be The legends and a special Children's Hour, to be

оп

seldom.

TT would be impossible to say; ful; who should devoutly recite some I when bells were first invented, prayer when they heard the sound churches. In Catholic churches, they N romantic narratives attached to followed at 7.30 by Hal Lorenzo.

the bell. SL Michael the

of the mans bells. The ignorant country people After this swing professor comes but it is certain that they have archangel's name is frequently found called the sanctus and again at the credited

are rung at the part

them with supernatural serious music at 0.30 by Harry Ore, an incredibly long pedigree. inscribed. Here is an ancient inscrip-

The Bishop of Nola, Paulinus, tion invoking Gabriel at Althorpe, elevation. In Catholic countries even powers; so, also, did seafaring men who nowadays broadcasts all too has the credit of introducing Lincolnshire: Missi de Coelia nome to-day a hund-bell is rung before the The bells rang out over the stormy priest who is carrying the Host seas to guide ships lo port and wel- them into Christian churches.

through the streets on his way to come the homecomers." There are

NEW YEAR'S EVE Bells of the post-Reformation bear some slek person. It is also used in many stories of submerged bells Long before that, however, they

ZBW which, it is sold, still toll beneath the

has also arranged, o fine had their place In Jewish no Invocation, and, more often than funeral processions.

programme for New Year's Evo. The ceremonies. In the Bible, we not, are called by some secular name.

On Maundy Thursday, all the bells waves when a storm is brewing. read of a golden bell and From the fourteenth to the seven- are rung in Catholle churches at the

There are legends, also, of bells al evening programme will start at 6.30 pomegranate on the robe of the teenth centuries the alphabet is not part of the mass called the 'Gloria in

hour. Then at 7.15 Michael Boder High Priest. Bells were used in tons. The letters are sometimes in more till the 'Gloria in excelsis' on a death or a burial. At Lincoln, in-will give a Chopin recital from the infrequently met with in bell inscrip- excelsis, and then they are heard no leged to have rung by themselves at P. m. with another special children's the religious rites of Cybelo, in reversed order or otherwise inls Holy Saturday, when the bells peal visible bells are said to have tolled at Athens, and in the camp and placed. Encaustic tiles with the al-out in Joyful anticipation of the Re- the burial of the child-martyr, Iugh, studio, followed by another studio

surrection. In France, the children and, according to legend, the Lincoln concert at 8 p. m. garrisons of Greece, and the phabet are also found.

were heard the following are told the bells have gone 1s Rome Minster bells ringing of bells announced the

when they cease to ring on Maunty night of the death of Bishop Crosse Birks Thursday.

The curfew belt is still to be found

Edgar Allan Poc. must have been They were made of thin plates IN the curlier stages of Christianity

small bells were very populor. Mis-in some parts of rural England. The of hammered

wedge iron,

slonaries would frequently carry one accepted belief in that it was institu- meditating on the part that bells take

The year's varlely favourites will shaped; some of them were very; with which to assemble the people to ted by William the Conqueror, or in in our human destinies when he wrote

These portable 1058. No doubt he brought the cus- his fine poem, The Bella:

be payed from 9,40 till 11 pm. The elaborate and enclosed in rich hear them preach.

bells were held in great veneration. tom with him from Normandy where

Hear the siedges with the bells-station will remain on the ale until and costly cases."

for they were believed to be gifted the Conuro-Jen (to put out the fire

midnight, when the New Year will The first tunable bell known with some miraculous power, and bell) was always rung at dusit, ns it Silver bells!

be brought in with the bella of St swearing by the was all over France, as a wise pre-

What a world of merriment their | Margaret's. Westminster, and Poter was presented to the Abbey of often, Instead of Croyland by the Abbot in 945. gospel, it was customary to swear by caution against fire, casily kindled in

Dawson singing "Auld Lang Syne." huts made of wood and thatch. melody foretells!' Egelric, his successor, added six, these bells. others. One of these bells was; named Bartholomew. That saint was particularly invoked against thunder and lightning, and a relic of his thumb with which, in his lifetime, he used to cross himself, was kept in the Abbey.

Feast of Osiris in Egypt. Ali these bells were hand-bells.

•

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

Responding properly to a takeout

At 2.30, 5.20, PRIOR to the thirteenth century, double requires a special philosophy

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

FOOT FORMARD

LUCILLE BALL HARRY JAMES

AND HIS MUSIC

VELLIAM GAXTONE-VIRGINIA WEIDLERİ

Įtariray Dès * Henry, Walker » Juma Allysan :)

Mandy Bewera • Gloria Datieven » Sock Jordan

CATHAY

EIN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. M-G-M'« MILLION-THRILL MUSICAL HIT I

IWANCHAI ROAD WANCHATUR

"DU BARRY WAS A LADY""

RED SKELTON

IN TECHNICOLOR

**

*Starring:

LUCILLE BALL

•

GENE KELLY

TOMMY, DORSEY and his Orchestra'

the founding of bells, like most of the other arts, was carried out for the most part under the direction of monks and clergy. Beils were often cast within the precincts of religious houses and graveyards, in days when roads were bad and transport almost impossible, In the fourteenth cen- tury, the big bell of St. Albans, called Amphibalus, was recast in the hall of the sacristy. In Huddenham, in the Isle

of Ely, bells were cast within the walls of the church. 'Great Tom' of Lincoln, was recast in the Minster Yard, in 1810.

the

Unfortunately, bells cast in thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were rarely dated; consequently unly n fow were known. The oldest bell known In England is dated 1200, and hangs in St. Chad's Church,' Claughton, Lancashire. In pre- Reformation times, change-ringing was unknown, so the founders sought to produce dignity and grandeur, in This was the tones of their bell effected by using more metal in their rasting. In parish churches in the Middle Ages three bells were most commonly used, while the single bell

was almost, unknown.

FTER

being cast, bells were solemnly blessed. The ignorant people called this ceremony baptian of the bells. and In some Catholic countries even to-day, this consecra- tion is often alluded to as bapilam. The bell is marked by the blahop with water on which salt has been cast. It is dried by the acolytra, and the bishop dips his thumb in the holy oll for tha bell and makes the sign of the Cross on the top of the bell, after which he again marks it with holy oll and chrism. The bell is then censed.

Most bells bear an Inscription; in pre-Reformation timos this ia- scription was often an appeal to zome saint to pray for the people. Fre- the consecration of bells to the faith-

SHOWS TO-MORROW AT 12.30; 2.30, 5.15, 7:15. & 9.15 p.m. quently, Indulgences were granted at

of bidding. Observe to-day's deal.

West, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable,

NORTH

+63

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A532 *A84

WEST

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• KQ 76

EAST

QJ.

10 3 4 2

• J 10 9 8 6783

SOUTH. 4K47.2

QJ

+4

4 KQ 10 0.0 2

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West

North

East J' FAIR

Footh

It was no feat for South to collect three overtricks on his two-club con- tract, merely by exercising restraint

NANCY

about drawing trumps. The favour- able position of the heart King

which was only natural, considering West's opening bid--was the only bit of luck required.

The fault for missing this near- laydown game was, of course, ex- South's. Hls clusively

two-club response to the takeout double was highly unresponsive, considering the strength of his holding! After all, he would have had to bid two clubs with as bad a hand as

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in which the will take part-Molly (mezzo soprano), Geoffry Nathan (baritone), Vic Orr (violin) and Betty Drown (piano). A 9.10, "Helen," a murder play by Donald Rudd, will be broadcast,

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By Ernie Bushmiller

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