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LAST FOUR SHOWS TO-DAY AT 230, 5.00, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

All the

WARNER BOGART CANTOR DAVIS de HAVILLAND-FLYNN GARFIELD

Thank Your Lucky Stars

STARS are

in

LESLIE LUPINO-MOROAN SHERIDAN SHORE SMITH?

GEORGE TOBIAD - JACK CARSON ALAN HALE COWARD EVERETT HORTON 5. Z. SAKALL HATTIE MCDANIEL-SPIKE JONES LITY FLICKERS - DAVID BUILEN Screen Play by Norman Panama & Matvin Frank and Jamal V. Kam From an Original Story by Everett Freeman and Arthur Schwartz BY PUBLIC REQUEST ! SHOWING TO-MORROW

Four great dramatic stars in that great dramatic sensation!

IDA LU DE

PAUL HENREID GREENSTRE

DEVOTION

WARNER HIT!

HANCY COLEMAN ARTHUR KERZEEN-DAUC WAY MARILY VICIOR TRACER CINES PERKHARDT)

ALHAMBRA

with ALAH CURTIS

LON CHANEY

KENT TAYLOR NOAH BEERY, Jr. MARTHA O'DRISCOLL JESS BARKER THOMAS GOMEZ

JOHN LITEL

TO-DAY ONLY

2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20 P.M.

DALTONS RIDE

AGAIN

TO-MORROW

SPIDER T

STGEL BRUCE MAN

DENNIS HQTY VERNON DOWNING MARY GORDON and GALE SONDERGAARD

as the Spider Wang

S STARS

THEATRE

EHONG KONG STAGE CLUB

pros

ROPE

Hipilfer In three accs

ATRICK HAMILTON

PRODUCED BY DESMOND, SCOTT

MON MARCH 3 SAT MARCH &

AT 730 PM.

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4 p.m.-6.30 p.m.

TELEPHONE: 58335

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A ROMANTIC COMEDY LOADED WITH LAUGHTER!

Deanna

Charles

DURBIN LAUGHTON

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ROBERT, CUMMINGS

SHOWING

TO-DAY.

It Started with Eve

KURY NOSED PROPULITR

· Margaret Tallichet Guy Kikb

MAJESTIC

At 2.30, 5.20

7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

IT'S A BLAZING TECHNIColor cavalcADE

A BRIGHT LIGHT, SPECTACLE OF AMERICA'S RECKLESS AGE!

'INCENDIARY BLONDE”

IN TECHNICOLOR

Starring: BETTY HUTTON

ARTURO DE CORDOVA * CHARLES RUGGLES

A Paramount Super-Production

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1947.

ALL THIS happened in the BIG FREEZE

MAIDSTONE man found

his false teeth frozon in a cup of ice. Having no fire, he took the cup to work, where he procured warmth and teeth.

The cast of "Love Is My Reason,”, comedy at Torquay Pavilion, offered to play to an audience of senen. one night. The audience went home.

Twenty thousand egge should have been put into the Incubator at Wood- bull Spa, Lines, for hatching

three weeks, but the cold made the epp infertile.

Bread had to be dumped on the ouisktris of Wix,_near Clacton, and villagers dug out to it

A

Boys to rescue SUPPLIES expedition set out from a boarding school at Otterden, Kent, which had been isolated for five days. Senior boys built sledges and managed to reach the village store two miles away.

POCKET CARTOON

"I shall be a little late, dear. I'in tied up at the office."

DON'T PAMPER

YOUR DOG

By CLAIRE COX

Man is in danger of becoming dog's worst enemy, dar fawier Clarence M. Olsun believes. He ald too many people are spoiling their pets by not disciplining the

enough,

sation formed

Olson is head of the dog food; company and president of American National Dog Week, Inc., in organi-

20 years

ago to stimulate the civic virtues of dogs. He said too many canines grow up to be anti-social because they have been pampered too much.

That's why tings jump on people, lear up the

Many unusual things have been reported during the severe winter in the British Islos. Here are some out-of-the-way facts gleaned from early February papers.

Sixty dozen bolites of frozen beer Au oficer from Portland barracks burst at Weymouth. No meat or did the troops shopping by a milk were available at Southfleet; there being no bus. A mon at Grave- near Gravesend, for days, but when send aki-ed nine miles to a teork, the first lorry got through I made Children were taught aki-big at Gil- for the villaro pub and replenished lingham by a German prisoner. beer supplies.

Radiators burst and flooded Blr-

Nearly 50 families left their pre- mingham cathedral, services being fabricated houses in Torquay, there being no water and little electricity. cancelled.

Princetown, beleaguered for three days, was "relieved" when a G.W.R. snow plough reached it in a blizzard after a 13-hour battle,

Two stallholders instead of the usual 50 turned out at Aylesbury market. One stall opened for oranges at Melton Mowbray,

FIREMEN'S ' CLOTHES FROZE WHILE FIGHTING A FIRE AT WYE (KENT) POST OFFICE.

Miniature icebergs appeared in the Medway. frazon las deep for the Arst me in. 20 years. The Rivera i Severn and Avon froze; ice on the von at Evesham being as Ustek.

*

Frazen canals stopped coat deli- veries to the General Electric Co.'n work at Witton. Birmingham. Teo

thousand men were sent home.

▸

A thousand civil servants ni Car- dif-Ministers of National Insurance, Inland Revenue and Land-were too cold to work and had a half-day uff..

A heat wave tuxide four War With It came supplies of meat, Memorial houses at Lydney, Glos, jed potatoes, brend, groceries, and three to an investigation when the Wülfe Primroses and snowdropa bloomed days' newspapers.

of two houses began to glow. The in West Wales.

Said Mr L ́A/S, Cullum, Yelver- fire brigade found that ashes had ton stationmaster. "We were deter-been used tiau Construction of mined to get through, and we have," concrete blocks and were kinoulder- It is hoped that ordinary trains Ing. Temperature, is now down to will running so that business men norutal. can rench Plymouth,

Frozen railway carriage doors were hammered and levered at Banbury to let passengers out,

Coldest place on two nights, More- ton-in-the-Marsh. A stallholder roht so many surplus Navy "duffle" coats at 5, that the streets appeared to be

Tuli of munks.

Clear your 'fronts' UNDER local by-laws, house- holders at Worthing must clear the snow from the fronts of their houses, and the council sent round a loud-speaker van just to remind them.

A, road plough elvared the WILZ between Princetown and Tavistock to allow the mail through.

32-hr. puddings

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1

A boy arrived at a Selsted, Kent, school at 10.45 a.m. carrying a shovel, hoping dng his way from home three; mlica awap.

4.

雏

Perey Lambert, 60, postman, left

miles to deliver letters at Thixendale,

PUDDINGS for seven schools bicycle at home and walked 20

ut Maidenhead took 32 Yorks. hours to cook owing to weak gas.. pressure. Children got biscuits and rustard,

Maidenheat's fuel office was cold that the overseer took a taxi and rowed a friend's oil stove.

This Newshawk Sighs For Hongkong

By ROBERT CLURMAN

United Press Staff Correspondent

Hongkong is the only city in the Far East where a man, meaning an unaccredited civilian, can get light on Scotch and still have taxi fare home.

Singapore is the only city a stug of Scotch or bottle of good where he is likely to find the Dutch beer is 60 and 30 cents taxi. Batavia is the only one respectively. where he might find the home. In Shanghai, with or without benefit of Scotch, he'll find California oranges selling for less than orang rals:d ten miles away,

In Batavia a little over a month ano, food prices in Dutch gullders wire ten times prices in Republi- can guilders, but the "oficial" rate was one for one. The next week

you couldn't buy anything with elther Surrency, and the Chinese were busily issuing counterfelt Republi- cun notes without even attempting to imitato the genuine bills because nobody knew what the genuine bills looked like anyway.

Eighteen months after the Japa- nese surrender, there isn't a major

Hongkong as he picks himself off the One is apt to think longingly of flair after glancing at his first Shanghai dinner check. An average meal for one may cost $20 U.S.

Shanghai shops are filled with goods but prices look like the US. war budget, and even after 20 minutes spent converting them into American dollars, they are still stag. gering.

BUY A CAMEL One correspondent who had his car

San Francisco shipped from

to Shanghal says it cost him more to have it transported from the pier on the far side of the Whangpoo River into Shanghai than did to bring it all the way from San Francisco

"on furnitus' lawns, chow city. In the Far East vaguely to-the-pitr.---

commit other misdemeanours, he said.

"People discipline their chlidren, but they pet their dogs," he said. "Misbehaving dogs must be handled us firmly as a small child gels into mischief.

"Despite the inet

proaching normalcy.

NOT TOO BAD

To make a bad situation impos- sible, the largest bills available in China are In denominations of $2,800. Thus, if you are so rash as to get out on a shopping lour, a large mule or a small camel should be standard

money.

*

An average of one person an hour was treated at Rochester Hospital for fractured Umbs.

As a profection a number of Zoo houses were closed, including that of Dicksi, three-ton clèplumt.

Eel a la freeze WATCH on Dungeness beach

was kept for a seasonable delicacy, frozen canger cels. The congers come up for air and are killed by the frost.

Hourvives leaving their taps on to avoid frozen pipes nearly emptied the reservoir at Wade-bridge North Cornwall.

Only man to get inte one snow bound village near Folkestone was the Insurance

both the grocer and baker hnd failed.

man:

DUMB-BELLS

REGISTERED 4.5.1km

MANILA WAS A WONDERFUL PLACE, EVER BEEN THERE?

FISTENT OPEDOT

NO, BUT I'VE EATEN LOTS OF

THEIR.. ICE CREAM

According To Culbertson..

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

The "sacrifice bid" in today's deal led to an excellent result.-

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Fast

A hearts 4 bearts

And trump

tenible

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It required considerable for North to bid four hearts, even As a "save," on his miserable land. Moreover, there was the question of whether East could make his three no trump, with probably only one stopper in the heart suit. However, North had the shrewd suspicion that East held a long null solid club nuit. and since South had not been able to double three no trump, the de- fensive potentialities seemed very hard. It should be observed that trump North was right-three no would have been city against, ang defence.)

hearts doubted West At four

fourth-highest elected to open his spade. East won and, determined to break up the clearly impending cross-rull, returned 2 trump. Dummy's ten won and a diamond was led toward the closed

harid, East put up the nee the might well Lynton and Lynmouth, twin town- | have waited!) and led another

with

jack. slaughter local catile stocks for food. took his partner's ten to lead sure

his ene fracombe, were cut off trump. Winning

Officials were ready to South then led a club. East over-

third trump, which South of

Siulce gales were being watched in won. East Anglia, where floods will be heavy when the thaw sets in.

the

Before ruming a club in dummy declarer made a vital and far- secing play-he cashed the spade Bedford, with 30 degrees of frost king. Then he ruffed a club, ruffed one night, had a lower temperatura spade with his own last trump, than in the cold spells of 1801 and and rulled his remaining club. At squeezed! 1814, when the Great Ouse froze and this point West was there was skating for three weeks. the king-queen-small of diamonds. South's hand was being reduced to

NO CASES OF ABSENTEEISM West had three diamonds to the jack Before playing to the last club lead, OR ILLNESS WERE RECORDED and the high spade. What could he AMONG LAND ARMY GIRLS IN discard? Not the spade. because BEDFORDSHIRE.

the when dummy ruffed the club. spudo ten would be good. So West tingdon Grammar School and the declarer won the last three, futolling Attendance being reduced at Hun- had to throw off a diamond, and usual amount of milik being delivered, tricks with his three good diamonds. |"some"boya"drank"a" "dozen "bottles,“

Aubrey Hammond, Southampton CROSSWORD

Jeweller, sat down to have a tooth. led when the fuel cut stopped the drill.

SPRING

Bodmin hotel landlords had

In Hongkong probably the best of who the lol prices are five times pre- war levels. But Hongkong is a com.

IN THE ORKNEYS AND SUET- that dog is parative oasis. You can buy a steak

WAS man's best friend, man is becoming dinner in Hongkong for the equiva- equipment for carrying the folding LANDS IT

MILD WITH lent of

SPELLS OF ALMOST $2 US. and for $3.50 per dog's worst enemy by falling to make him a good citizen of dog-head you can dine at a lush grill In Batavia, conversely, everything | SUNSHINE, dom."

where a pale pianist linkies Chopin is chrop, but "everything" includes said, from an upholstered dais. If dogs could

Amer ull talk, Olson

known varieties of papayas, they'd probably object to a lot of can cigareties are available on any bananas, mangoes, Dutch gin and thaw the bottles before they could

undoubtedly street camer for 25 cents US. and very little else. don't like the baby. talk they get from their mistresses and the pink) and blue ribbons they have to wear ou important occasions, he said.

things, too. They

Firmness Needed

sell beer.

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THEN Suct had left. Bir By the same, post Suet received Something I read about women's the Department hats gave me hope that at last women will discard these clownish of Export Registration: Dear Sir,

pili-boxes and pimples which perch

"No:dag should be treated harsh- ly or submitted to cruel punish- ment, but you have to be firm with Bubbleblowing suddenly came to Mr Dilvey rang up the them," he said, "Pampering makes life.

and told her to put the whole

a dog unmanageable, both in the Indy with the cold, Miss Twangle home and in the community."

Olson said few. persons train matter of the foghorn containers apply for a licence to manufacture interesting, and gives mystery to a

Foghord

We understand that you wish to craptedly on the forehead. A large hat can make even an ugly face took

hornbills for export. We presume to that this refers

Fort of children's toy, and we therefore beg

Some

Across

1. Lori'a mimo (anaz.), (9) 8. Extending to the whole. 103- 10. Christened. (8)

ii. Put this on a steamer and you'r

An armed attendant in Turkay) (0)

13. Put uttle hen before it and you've got a pompress. (9)

14. Á lancar can be, 10).

16. Won't be rural ruroly. (4)

pretty face. Where are the great what would Chig bn without me pleture-hata of my youth? How

Womea

costumiers and

their dogs do anything but beg to go outdoors and perform a tow before Mr Eaglett of the Export "cute tricks." They should devote Board. their time instead to teaching their Miss Twangle still had her cold, pets to walk on a leash, ait down and as Mr Englett is slightly deat, all to inform you that the regulations often women repeat the nonsensical at the proper time and keep all he gathered was that, according to require that these shall be unpainted, cry: "Women do not dress for men, four feet

on the ground when sarsh-ve-hashoo-000, Mr Divey the unvarnished not more than Dins it but to please themselves." mle he declared. greeting people,

(Coddtuldersb-ve-mersh) diameter, containing no malt glucose, dress to please the "Many people lack the patience Zil-repeat please sugh-hord Bill silicon, rubber, steel, wood, glass, hatters. If the hat people decreed and

to make their special export Heence understanding

He would be concrete, feathers, string, or marine it, they would all wear yellow bow- he added. req-sh-shoo-o-quired. pets good citizens,"

Eaglett glue. If you will give us this as-

the Reers to-morrow, their pets have the run then wrote **They

to Suct to

surance, you can write say that the glanni Commissioner of Toy Fabrics, of the house and beg for food at export of hornhills was a matter who will send you the necessary Jinnah ken the dinner tabic.?

for the Bottleneck. Board, and would

forms for application for licence, But, unfortunately, he added, dog Mr. Suet kindly say whether owners will need a lot of training birds were stuffed or in their natural permit and certificate.. before they start teaching their plate, whether he had a licence for

Yours fallfully. dogs to take their proper place in shooting them, and whether they the community.

were more than Sins in diameter.

Edgar M. Vagwire.

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NANCY La Nancy Twins?

NANCY SAID SHE'D

MEET ME ON DIS CORNER. AT THREE

O'CLOCK

·Mr.

the

Even Mr Jinnah does not End the answer,

(Morning paper).

·WHICH `remark-but, excuse me,

Where comes that Mrs Wowle.

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By Brale Bushmiller

HELP ƒ--- I'M GOIN' CUCKOO

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16, Sulek with the imp dr.- (31 10. Background to the sporran. (H 17. Can you get a leue nato-from it.

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tion (9)

2. Perform; (4) -- 3. Mimia. (4)

4. Is the foreman this or does

manage msen 7 (8)

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You may sate with them, (4)

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