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LILLI PALMER

ALBERT LIEVEN

CEDRIC HARDWICKE -

GLADYS, COOPER

"

in

STEFAN ZWEIG'S FAMOUS NOVEL

BEWARE

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Directed by Maurico Levy

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 26, 1947.

Sitting on the Fence:

OLD MOORE

LOOKS INTO

JANUARY will be cold, wet

snowy, muddy and miserable. Almost every day there will be a warning about the shortage of fuel. Almost overy other day somebody will estimate the world stocks of bread grains and give different figures every time.

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FEBRUARY will be cold, wet

GUBBINS 1947

Huddled up in his tattered robe, which he can't replace because all new robes are now for export only, and staring fixedly into his coal- less fireplace, NATHANIEL GUBBINS was able to see the whole dismal future, and wrote down for you last Wednesday his dark pro- phecies for the next five years. While in the 'same mood, he also made the accompanying detailed predictions for this year.

The derby, if it is run in May It will be run in a blizzard. It will

foggy, snowy, muddy and miscrable. Almost every day there will be reports of egg By now there will be hardly ships coming from Canada, but any coal in Britain at all. very few people in Britain will will be a terrible month for get any eggs.

Warnings about fuel short- Stalin, who will be fitter than everybody except Uncle Joe nges will become so monotonous usun!. that nobody will take any notice.

Koffidroff.

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run in June. Somebody will then also be run in a blizzard if it is

should be run at Christmas, when write to the papers suggesting that it

the weather is better.

There will be another report that Tincle Joe Stalin is dead. The next day there will be a picture of him boxing

Ayitli Molotov. awful month for all but Joe.

Another

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Owing to £1 fishermen's strike, dockers' strike and transpært strike,| most people will live on sardines,

After an unconfirmed report of Uncle Jou Stalin's funeral, Uncle Joe will announce that he is swimming| the Channel In August, -

AUGUST will have one une day.

The rest will be wet and cold. reporters will be in the Dog and On the fine day farmers and food

be the best harvest in history. All Duck telling each other that it will

in The Dog and Duel: telling each the rest of the month they will be ofter it will be the worst harvest in history.

There will be the usual

PRIL will frightening reports of

be blowy, new Asshy, mushy

know,

There will also be warnings of and thoroughly atomic weapons designed to damnable.

hard winter to came, with no coal There will be a series blow everybody up in five of clever articles in Pravde on this

no milk, and certainly no eggs. We shall also be told that seconds and the usual reports subject. They will be called "Can that Uncle Joe Stalin has drop-

the British Empire

people in survive?" and JUNE will be slushy, mushy. Europe are worse off than us, and ed off the hooks. He will turn will be signed by an uss called Peter muggy and bluggy. About this Old Moore Gubbins will offer the

Ume out to be fitter than ever.

everybody will have About this time there will be on The usual dreary nonsense about the wind about the harvest,

eggs he hasn't got to starving Al-] The only consolation about

banians. February will be that it is the body in the world will get it but published, and Sir Waldron Smithers that Uncle Joe Stalin Is einking he

influenza epidemic. Almost every world bread grain stocks

will bo Following an unconfirmed repark shortest month in the year. Uncle Joe Stalin, who will run ten Otherwise it will be a month of times round the Kremlin

will say again that Bread rationing will offer to fight Bruce Wendeock. wasn't necessary. hell for overybody but Uncle morning to keep ft. An awful month

for everybody but Joe. Joe Stalin..

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every

MARCH will be cold, wet, Ay will be colder than Christ-

MAY

blowy, snowy, and hardly bearable. Gales will stop all fishing, so there will be no fish. There will be no eggs because more and more egg ships will be sailing from Canada.

133 with sharp frosts and heavy snowstorm at Whitsun. The papers will be full of stories about going bankrupt. They will be the ruined fruit crops and fruit farmers game fruit farmers who go bankrupt

every year.

up

Uncle Joe Stalin will announce that he is taking part in Olymple Games.

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the next CEPTEMBER will have two fine days. The rest will be wet or misty. As farmers and food reporters will still TULY will be wet and chilly. Farm know if it's going to be the best or be in The Dog and Duck they won't 'ers will still be in The Dog and They will tell each other till closing Duck, So will the food

worst harvest in islory. reporter. time that it will be the worst har. Uncle Joe Stalin's funeral he will Following an unconarmed report of vest in history.

offer to fight Joe Louis,

WILLIAM HICKEY

Oxford Don

NEWEST champion of West- minster women is Oxford's Professor GILBERT MURRAY who is even older than Don Qui- xote, but just as delightful and equally courageous.

Which is as well, If you think about it, because those formidable and independent dames

nat likely to relish the role of damsels in distress.

are

The professor finds it strange that there is no woman in the British de-, legation to the United Nations As sembly, thinks something should be The most daring Shrick and Shudder shock sensation ever brought done for them, for he is sure that "it to the Screen! Too unthinkable to realize.

cannot be due to any lack of com- ..too horrific petent women among the Govern- to grasp....yot overy terrible bit of it THE SHOCK TRUTH!ment supporters."

Now I wonder if he is right about that?

MOST discreetly and in carefully MR

academic terms I asked the pro- fessor who was his girl friend.

Boris KARLOFF

-------In Robert Louis -

Stevenson's

The BODY

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Norma TALMADGE - Conrad

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Quixote

A chuckle was the annver, with the ripe wisdom of 80 years in ten years he was able to start his and vised to do, worked hard and saved.

better not go any further," then add- Professor Marrny thought "he had own grocery store,

Then, like everybody else in Beau- ed, but still giving no names, that he mont, he got interested in oll. Three "could recommend half a dozen." ther young hopefuls came into the grocery trude hut bored for oil in- rumour is

that Str stead. EDMUND CRANE will get £3,000,000 cath as part-payment for the bicycle business which he started with a capital of £25. He still owns it and is sole shareholder.

VITY

If true. City elders agree that this will be Britain's biggest cash deal, but is sull

20,750,000 cash paid for Phelan's long way behind the Gmcary Store in Beaumont, Texas. PHELAN, saw him last in London

used used in know JOHN HENRY Just before the war. He went to Beaumont as a lud when the oil rush started over 40 years ago, had hardly ings." enough money to pay for his lodg

He got a job as a grocer's boy and, as all would-be millionaires are ad-

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

THE habit of referring to the She gazed at me and not at her arias, duets, etc., in operas boolt, and as I moved away she was as "numbers" is growing. How definitely too sweet of you, actually."

gasping.

“-nh. Mr Novello, it's

ductors make their appearance, Here and there shouting to the

long will it be before comic con-

orchestra to

whnse AMAN

off

"Take it away!" and turning to steam when he sits down was

head gives the

audience to tell them, told by the magistrate that this is "Folks, get un carful of this!" quite common in commercial ciretes and even getting "the boys" to Mrs Callow, of Redruth, Corn- join Mimi or Marguerite or Lo brother which said, "Like the ceil wall, received a telegram from her hengrin in the singing

ing." Thinking this was a code, she Ziggy Zighofer's Yachting Aen- sent it to the Admiralty, who re- lans in a rendition of the Pil- plled, "Plustered."....Seen in Car- grims' Chorus. Or why not let se four crows on a carrot...

Arthur Numpey, holder of world's down a screen at the back of the record for pleking the teeth of mice, ucbce... A glass horse Zins in lant cabbage during a rainstorm in

JUDY GARLAND in "HARVEY GIRL" stage with the words of the

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"HEARTBREAK HOUSE

A PLAY IN THREE ACTS

By

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songs on It, for instance in the Barber of Seville

"Now then, all together, and I want to hear the ladies this time... "Bonar vasey poko far.. Not at all

MR. NOVELLO!

At the sound of the musical' volce. I turned, and confronted a pretty girl.

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"Mr Ivor Novella?" she said., "How did you guess?" I asked.

with boxing gloves on, fell from n

house in Chopstow, turned up on height, stolen from a varnish ware- drum in the Theatre Royal, Birming- ham....Mr Edward Trant, 123 years old, has never seen a ferret. Lunar Interlude

WHEN we are all able to fly to

the moon, international rival- ries will be forgotten, crass nationa- lism will cease, and friendship be- tween nations will take the place of hostility,

rivalry, and suspicion. Selence will lead the world to happy "I am sorry to be a bore, but pastures, where the obscurantism of If I could have your autograph, ..?",

With pleasure," said I. And in to the dawn of the new age

a reactionary, epochs, will give way. the proffered album I wrote in a power, bold hand.. "Your true friend. J. B. security,

prosperity, peace, and Morton,"

(Professor J. M. P. Gatacre.}

NANCY

Made to Order

THAT. NEW FAMILY

UP D' STREET

OUGHTA BUY IT

I FOUND DIS, OLD BENT LAMP--- MAYBE WE CAN

SELL IT

WHO'O

BUY A

BENT

LAMP?

of

The four partners kept the business between them, never formed a com- pany, never told a thare,

בתם

of sale

When

died, they millionaires all-and the Phelan's Grocery Store was the second largest cash deal in history, of United States business.

the

OCTOBER will be wet and miser-

able from beginning to end. There will be floods and gales and therefore no fish.

POCKET CARTOON

FLAT TO LET

According To Culbertson

(Copyright 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

The contract In 10-day's deal was help from the enemy, supplied the fur out of line, but good, play, and needed tricks.

North, dealer. Neither side vulnerable,

NORTH

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WEST J852 87068

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EAST

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SOUTH

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The bidding:

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It is scarcely necessary to say that South's leap from one spade to six

About this time the newspapers no trump was as "neck-stretching" on and the people will

action as anyone is likely to encoun be discussing will come from. They needn't worry. A good and opposite an original bid, Christmas turkeys and where they ter at the bridge table. South had

The black marketeers will them, anyway.

have but a jump to three no trumm would have been a great deal more logical, with four no trump (not conventional, were not using Blackwood) az the upper Ilmit it South felt like "pushing."

Following en unconfirmed report that Uncle Joe Stalin has shot him since North-South self, he will announce that he hus. become the father of twin,

The

West made the safest-appearing be completely. quli NOVEMBER will

opening lead-his top heart. blacked out by fog. anounced that turkeys are coming finesse.

It will be Jack won and South tried the club West took his king and Ied from the Argentine. Brazil, Uruanother heart, South won this with guay, Yugo-Slavin, Greece, Poland. the queen, then entered dummy with levland, and Luxemberg. But nobody a heart and led the diamond, nine nutritie the black market will get through East. any turkeys.

(As will be seen. South could not afford to eash the Following an unconfirmed report fourth heart, because he was not reasonable that Uncle Juc Stalin has made his prepared to discard from his v

last will and testament, he will an-hand at this point.) nounce his intention of flying non-

PICKLING peaches gave spice to

recent country trip. ed peaches and hot

Americans taught me to like pickl- Though two weeks' ration of bacon bailed ham. saved up to make one rasher must substitute for ham, the combination is still good. sealing the jars took under one hour, son round the world, piloting his blow for his side by covering the

From skinning the peaches to

Easi could have struck a telling

diuinond nine with the ten, but he carelessly played low, and Scuth, in desperate need of four diamond

and to anyone who thinks time ill- own nireräft. spent in organising a little variety into rations, I quote Dr JOHNSON:

Some people have a very foolish way of ret minding, or pretending not to mind what they ent: for

ECEMBER will be freezing: Itį tricks, let the nine ride. When it my DEC part, I mind my belly very studiously will also snow every day but held he took another

diamond and very carefully; for I look upon | Christmas Day, when it will be finenesse, cashed the diamond ace. it that he who does not mind his and hot.

dropping East's king (East had dis- There will be no coal. no carded two diamonds on the hearts) belly will hardly mind anything else.egg, no bacon, no turkeys, no

whisky, no gin, no wine.

But, following an unconfirmed re-

A lot about free food parcel

USTRALIANS have been worry-

to Britain.

They are sent to the Ministry of Food and distributed to those who

borough counells and welfare rocle- need them most through variou ties, Stories have got back that parcels have been sent to the Con- tineat, and Australians have been objecting strongly.

me

So Mr JOIN TULLY. Agent- General for New South Wales, started a full-dress inquiry. He has been to receiving and distributing that he entres, and

glad to tell wag found the organisa

Australia to friends over here have tion 100 per cent efficient.

"If a

fow private parcela

from

gone astray, that is very difficult to is certainly small." check on," he said, "but the number

This year 430,000 cases of fond have been sent free from Australia, 130,000 of them-equivalent to 3,200 tons from his own State of New South Wales.

Tully was, looks like, a farmer. Soon after he got here last Septem- doning rationing. ber Australia was considering aban-

After a quick look round he wrote urgently to Prime Minister JOSEPH CHIFLEY: "Don't drop rationing whatever you do. Britain needs all the food you con send."""

"And 1 know," said Tully, "my letter was one reason why Australia kept her belts tight."

Thanks, cobber

IT'S POIFECT

FOR THEIR QUONSET

HOUSE

and cashed the last diamond. ile then led his spade nino to the sce and cashed the fourth heart-and

best uncle Joe Shin his feet Eest was squeezed! If he gave up breath, Uncle Stalin will offer the spade king declarer's queen would to drink anybody under both on his birthday and on Christ-discard of a club declarer was able the table be good; whereas on East's actual

mas Day.

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to run the rest of his club sult.

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