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MGM Her Highness

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A ROYAL COMMAND TO LOVE!

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By the authors of "Mutiny on the Beunty'

CLAUDE BAINS MICHELE MORGAN PHILIP DORN SYDNEY GREENSTREET HELMUT DANTIHE · PETER LORRE· GEO. TOBIAS A HAL B. WALLIS PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CURTIZ

ORIENTAL

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Rita Hayworth in “GILDA”

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1947.

The British

must be nice

to strangers

By SPIKE HUGHES

London, May 10.

T seems that the Govern. ment hopes to attract 250,000 tourists to Britain this year.

The fact that the Cabinet followed this hope with another one that no tourists would visit us in 1947 is beside the point.

Back of its mind the Govern- ment hopes that this year, next year or some time a quarter of a million foreigners will bring about £25,000,000 into the country.

This will enable us, no doubt, to buy back some of our wagons from abroad, and get a little coal from Newenalle now and again.

scenes

In order to publicise holidaying in Britain half a million elegant photographs of British

are sent abroad as posters. There are pletures of Warwick Castle, of Ox- ford colleges, of Beefeaters. rau know the kind of thing-Britain as a dream-world of loveliness and richness.

Those extras- THESE pictures tell only half the story. Where are the posters showing a typical menu of a typical English country hotel? Where Is there an example given of the typi- cal English hotel bill with its my sterious extran which include a sum for the use of nn electric are to warm your bedroom?

Where are publicised those wel- coming Instructions which threaten that no breakfasts will be served in the bedroom?

In short, where is the Truth About England as a Playground told?

a particular. brand, of 'chocolate sho lised to get before the war. Yes,

was being made again, but re- been sold; but if madnine would call grettably the month's ration had again in. ten days?

Madame called again in ten days; the chocolate

was there, carefully wrapped up and put on one side. because, as the shopkeeper explain- ed, madame was a foreigner and had not seen this chocolate for seven years.

Hollow laugh

TRANSLATE that little Incident

Into English for'a moment, Can't you hear the sarcastic dialogue, the hollow laughter, the angry resent- ment against "the foreigner" and his Ignorance of local conditions?

Don't tell me that the Swiss have

everything we haven't got. But they do possess something we could easily have a sense of civility and a.pride in hospitality.

POCKET CARTOON

Gais

THREE of us sat round my

gas-fire talking after din-

ner. Not politics. We have known each other too long for that: but talking impersonal-. ly about the British crisis, as if we were shareholders in a bust- ness which had hit trouble.

As u araco the British are far from ill-mannered and inhospitable. Ask any American, French ог Dutch

There was Willam, who is a small soldier who met a British family employer of labour: George, who is during the war. Unfortunately, a skilled artisan; and myself, repre- British good manners and hospitalisenting, I suppose, the salaried, pro- ty do not yet seem to extend to the

tourist in bulk.

Coming to material things, what can we offer the tourist when he gets here? Even today we can and him deiicious and unique food; but if Dr Summersicil has her way an a food governess all he will get is watery cabbage, plastic cheese, and a lot of swill described in French translations of Ministry of Food re- cipes.

fessional class. It would have been better if we had had a'farm labourer' with us and a miner, but you can't. have everything.

We talked about work and what makes people work,

The Arst reason was easy,' We all worked to get food, clothes und shelter for ourselves and our de- pendants.

Now food, clothes and shelter of a sort are not hard to come by now. The devotion of Dr Summerski!adays. "high and stable level" of to her cheese is typical of the tourist employment Is Government-guar- problem that faces us. Not because unteed, although nobody has had to I would rather live in London than Nanny Edith thinks all good English take the Government up on that us anywhere in the world. But I would cheese is made only by, and for, yet. hate to visit England as n tourist. rich members of the Opposition, but Pretty pictures are all very well, because this mental attitude towards but the

while un normal food is dangerous. truth is that Englishman's home may be his castle, Frumpminster's Castle Hotel is not like anybody's home.

If the Government is serious about its tourist trade (and it must be. since £238,300 has been spent on this Visit Britain campaign), it must

ilon in the art of catering for

The charm of Switzerland is not the luxury it offers but the normali- y you find there, which we have all forgotten. It should not be an in- superable difficulty for us to relearn our forgotten normality.

RECIPE ! you

arc An

hotel

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

THE Strabismus No-Way I was four." In order, apparently,

In being hotly debated by teams somebody else writes to me; "I am of experts, using large-scale I was 50.

four, and have ridden a bicykle since models of the metropolis..

My only reason for getting in- One expert, so like a turbot that volved in this is because I like to two fishmongers fought over him, give both sides of a question. cach Arying to throw him on to the Why not?

slab with the other fish, until policeman Intervened, pointing out DE

that fich don't wear hats-this ox-

EAR Sir,

glow

Surely a better poslion than pert said yesterday that one point Waterco Bridge can be found for is not at all clear. While the vehicles the maramoth statue of Mr Strachey. marked from A to M are not going if it were erected on the Oval along the streets numbered from one Gas Tank it would be seen further to fifty on allernate days between away, and the satinage skin in the 9.30 and 10.30 azn., what is happen. right hand, illuminated from within, ing to the vehicles marked from N would

against the pleasantly to 2, if they are in the same pone, night sky for dwellers

wellers Surrey. and not allowed to use any street? And cou

could not an Will everything remain motionless? come from

statue, erected on Oh, I say, look here!

Hampstead Heath? The hat of this It's not truc about the schooltle second statue, could be Illuminated complex. Among others, there was or perhaps he could hold aloft a.herman who was fullback for glowing umbrella.

England before the war,

(Correspondence column.) Nothing to do with me

THE other day somebody wrote to THE

a Sunday paper to say, "I um 86, and have ridden a bicycle since

another

sny, of Mr Mar Mon tach

Yra. faithfully,

Tail-piące TW

Pro Bono Publico.

Two more gems from menus:

Le pressed beef. Fish gateau.

THE

Between the £8-a-week man and the comfort of £1,000 a year lies the gap that mocks ambition

GAP

By J. E. SEWELL

There is nobody in Britain who can truthfully say that he is willing to George and his wife live with their Sometimes they go to the dogs and work (anywhere, at any kind of in-laws. She is a pet, but they still drop or make a pound on the night. work) yet is denied food, clothes and feel overcrowded. George would be

George is not tempted greatly to shelter for lack of opportunity to willing to spend two or three pounds work harder to be able to spend earn money to buy them,

A FLAT? NO THE secondary reasons for working

were more important. What made us all work a Hitle harder than we needed to maintain our own plan- dards of food, clothes and shelter?

We found that we were all ready

a week in rent for a home of his more on these delights, at the rate own. Instead of the 25s, which is his nf 118. cash for à pound's worth of

work. fair "klek-in" on the rent of his

wife's parents' house.

begin a course of thorough educa- As a friend

But if he wants a home of his own lourists-starting with the hotel bootblack, finishing with the hotel

as a Londoner he will have to start thinking about semi-furnished flats proprietor, and adding a special leeever, treat the tourist as you supplementary night-school curri- would trea: a friend you have in-

at £5 and 20 a week or unfurnished culum for shopkeepers,

vited to n meal. If you musi to work harder than nced be to Hats on short leases, with a fow Particularly shopkeepers, I have a apologise for the sauce made of enrich our living and our

leisure, hundred pounds to be paid. for cur- friend called Bert, a South African, varnish and diremper, apologise William the Employer was prepared lains, carpets and fittings. The Gap who fought with the Eighth Army with a smile, and invest in an to worry a bit more, buzz around a beats him. through Africa and Italy.

eight-ling boltle of Algerian bit more, fl up more forms. George Before he returned home he came wine,

the Artisan was ready to give more which wil} make all the

Wc switched to talking about to England, and Hiced us well enough difference to your sauces for the time to exercising his skill. I was

clothes. George looked all right. prepared to do a bit of both.

But there was one volce less But he was wearing a utility suit and In short, behave as if you were enthusiastic than the others over that knew it. It had cost him about £8. pleased, not bored, to see tourists, proposition. It was George's, And William's suit cost him £35 last year, and use a little 'imagination to ex- that

were---oll "was how we discoverer The Mine cost £28. These - ploit cur famous Brish quality Gan.

London prices. the gift of improvisation.

to want to come back. His work as N dentist, to his great delight, has brought him to Britain again for six months.

The other dny Bert thought the only way to deal with the cigarette problem was to ask outright for what he wanted, He went into a shop and asked for 20 cigarettes by name. "Youll have to take what you can

was the reply. Oh, well, what can I get?" "Nothing"

Bert tells this story with Immense Joy. He thinks it is such superbly good dialogue. I am afraid it only made me feel ashamed, because I

next six weeks.

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MEMORIES? AH!

THEN we let our memories wander, William and I, to the days when we were young. Willium married on £0 a week-but, of course, he need- ed a car for the business.

wasn't

I married on £10 a week, and furnished at Harrods (convenient terma) and Woolworths (cash down). It

too bad, and. kept the little car and ita successors (cách time rather bigger) till 1940. William still has a car-he needs I have none and

it for the business. will have none while prices stay

where they are.

George is younger than either of Не us. He married during the war. It comes somewhere between £400 George would have liked a better has no home, no car-and not the Mackerel, I am told, are 'suckers

a year and £1,000 a year. The way suit than the one he was wearing faintest prospect of getting either for for spear's, even tired, war-weary,

things are at the moment, it is well could have paid for it, too, in the years to come. Children? He has worth while to work harder and old days. But once you look nutside so little to offer them. peace-dopressed sprats. And an in-

earn more money up to about £8 a telligent aprat will catch

the utility ranges you can't get much bigger week. Above £20 a week it is also value under £20. The Gap beats mackerel Khan all the pretty pic- worth while. In between, the rungs him. fures and posters of Beautiful of the ladder are missing. Britain.

Britannia, after all, is a woman,

George reckons on a steady £3 a week at his job. He told us instinctively compared it with an and every wonen knows that old frankly that there was no point in Incident in Switzerland last summer. tag about the quickest way to n earning £10 a week, or even £12,

My wife asked in a Swiss shop for man's heart.

with income tax at 9s.

Some Germans Have All The Food

By JOHN DUERKSEN

Frankfurt, May 21, the village with 500 pounds of pola. THEY Bay there is a food crisis in toes. 100 pounds of barley flour. Germany and that people are five pounds of bacon, three pounds starving, but I have just returned of ham, four pounds of lord, two from a trip with a black marketeer dozen eggs and five pounds of sau who obtained more than 800 pounds sage,

of food from one Bavarian village

in less then two hours.

We'll call him John.

While

government

food

experts In

In addition, we stuffed ourselves the United States and Germany con- with all the ham, sausage, -bread, ferred feverishly this week on how milk and apple cider we could cat to avert a food catastrophe here, I and drink.

Those 620 pounds of precious food asked John reports were true that food had disappeared from the black cost 12 pieces of German-made soap. one pair of new but shoddy women's

matt would you like to have?" shoes, one used dress, one blouse, one

EXTRAS? NO

Why should he bother to try to carn more when everything that he wants is out of reach?

with cach year, of

So we three sat round the gas- fire and thought of The Gap. We FOOD? George lives on his rations saw Britain as a notion of rich and William, most of the time. But when accentuated

and the canteen. So do I and poor, with the division more sharply we lunch out, even if we are feeling shortage. frugal and not. entertaining. the square meal will cost Us., with coffee.. We remembered the days when there was always something needed George who does not like made-up something that could be obtained dishes anyway, cannul often take his by a bit more effort earn a bit wife out to dinner. And another £1 more money. A better car, a botter a week (less 98.) would not make a radio. new chintzes for the sitting- lot of difference. The. Gop beats room.

him. In a dungeon-like cellar, sleepy-

You did not think of £20 a week eyed peasant lads shovelled potatoes Food luxuries? That Mrs in those days. Why, £7 was a good from a pile containing at least two George's business. But George step-up for William. And I shall tons. Remembering a speech by the agrees with her that the extras are always remember my first ligns, as Minister President of Bavaria, who too dear to think about.

a' newspaperman. answered charges of former food hoarding by saying that 90 percent of the quotas had been alled, we asiced the farmer if he had any trouble with the police.

the

:

HOLE? HM!

Is this Gap we found the hole that,

has got to be plugged in cui economic system?

He agreed with me, too, when I pointed out that the subsidised prices of most rationed goods make extras look more unreasonable than they really arc. After all, if you had "Our community police never to pay Dd. for a loaf (as they do in cause, us trouble," said our host in America) instead of 4thd., you might Bavarian

Should Mr Dalton concentrate on dialect. "They know not be so annoyed by sixpenny tan- where their own food comes from."

easing the strain on all whose in-. gerines and pineapples at 10s, Gd.

comes lie between £400 and £1,000? As the groaning car climbed from

But there it la. George's wife Should Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr I am with her--that Strachey bend, all their efforts to naked John and agreed to let me pair of men's used shoes and a pair chughole to chughole on the read out thinks-and

hove to-carn a tot providing many small incentives in accompany him in civilian clothes of work pants, and six cigarettes, the village, John was figuring his George would white he made a "trading trip" into We made our first deals in a farm proft. At black market prices the more than £8 a week before they the shops, to make everybody want

to earn that £1 a week moref the food kingdom of the United house where a stinking manure pit clothes be had traded gave him could afford troop luxuries.

Perhaps that would mean inflation. lay five feet from the front door, potatoes at 80 relchsmarks per 100 Fun? George and his wife listen But how could it, if it meant extra. It was almost 11 p.m. and most smelly geese were in the kitchen and rounds. The Intest quotation in to the radio, which costs them. El a production as well? farmers were in bed when we ar- a red-checked Bavorion hausfrau had hunger-ridden Frankfurt was 800 year for the licence. They go to the William took George home in his rived in a little village near Oxen jus: finished. Ironing with a huge marks, or roughly US$273,-United pictures once a week, and birthdays car, and I went back to the gan-fire. furt. Yet within two hours we left charcoal iron..

are worth a theatre, upper circle. We go on wondering.

States zone-Bavaria.

NANCY

of

Prera.

No Housing Shortage

By Ernie Bushmiller

NOW, I'VE GOT TO

FIGURE OUT A NICE

PLACE TO KEEP

HER

STAGE DOOR

IT'S AN OLD HAT I GOT FROM A MAGICIAN-SHE SHOULD FEEL AT HOME

IN IT

When You Feel Tired and Restless

IT WAS NICE OF AUNT FRITZI TO GIVE ME THIS BUNNY · FOR

EASTER

take

Elliotts Nerve

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