1947-05-26 — Page 2

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• flirtatious princess

Gray, soucy comedy

...to the queen's

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handsome bellboy

ROBERT WALKER

HEDY LAMARR

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CENTURY FOX

PICTURE

JUNE ALLYSON

Her Highness and the Bellboy

with

'CARL ESMOND - AGNES MOOREHEAD TR ADDED: Latest METRO-NEWS

GIỚI

QUEEN S

THE ACTION'S TOUGH! THE LOVE IS ROUGH!

JOAN

YWIAN

PIGGY AND

RAFT - BENNETT - BLAINE - GARNER

At 2.30, 5.15,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1947.

THE BEST-LOVED

WOMAN IN BRITAIN

HE old

Ttoque, lady in the daughter's strength. "A girl

back of a high Daim- ler, brings a glow to the hearts of Londoners wher- ever she

moves among thom.

It is hard to believe that Queen Mary is in her eightieth year.

Since last autumn, she has visited several exhibi- tions (ranging from Orien- tal ceramies to architec- ture). She has heard Gigli 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. sing at Covent Garden, and seen Vivien Leigh in "The Skin of Our Teeth." She has attended the gala pre- mieres of more than one film, and been to the movies in a suburban cinema:

NOB HILI in Technicolor!

OPENING TO-MORROW

`LOVE'S NO GAMBLE.....THE WAY SHE PLAYS!

ROBERT YOUNG-BARBARA HALE FRANK MORGAN

Lady Luck

JAMES GLEASON

DON RICE - HARRY DAVENPORT

LEE THEATRE

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"Afire with the happiness

of love because, across Ine sea, his brother holds. beautiful girl in his arms

THE

CORSICAN

BROTHERS

Alexandre Dumas' probes strange:

conciousness, you'd dore not admit

Starring

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.

RUTH WARRICK

with

AKIM TAMIROFF

Directed by GREGORY RATOFF

Released thru UNITED

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BEST ENTERTAINMENT FOR HOLIDAYS!

A PICTURE SO GREAT THAT YOU HEARD ABOUT!

"...now I'

do what

I please,

when I

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COLOMBE HELUSIE prasieša

RITA HAYWORTH

Gilda

GLENN FORD

GEORGE MACHERØY JOSEPH CALLEJA

Savoyle la Marga Pranal

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 NOON "SNOW WHITE & SEVEN DWARFS" in TECHNICOLOR

"

"to learn obedience and attend her lessons and to grow, with out many parties and late hours, which take the freshness of girlhood away."

'opidemic.

during an influenza Princesa May went into seclu- sion, and lived in the South of France for some months.

On her return, however, it became known that she was

often with Prince George, now hoir-presumptive to the throne. Eventually, in 1893, the engage- ment was announced.

As Duchess

as Princess of York and later

of the heir-presumptive had to, fit into a pattern

of life far- more rigid than before.

George V spoke of her when he addressed his first Privy Council after, the Coronation in 1910. "I have in my dear wife one who will be a constant help-

May Teck grew up shy and carnesi, but with a compelling beauty of her own.. There was not time to pine for more meet."

The Queen Mother, who celebrates hor 80th birthday today, is still one of the most active women in the Empire. At right is a picture of Her Majesty taken recently when she attended the premiere of "School for Secrets" at the Odeon in London. This tribute to a great lady and

a very human personality is by

CHARLES WINTOUR

parties, even if they were miss

Right faithfully did the

ed, For about this time, Queen stand by him during his

Princess May became aware of long, and at times anxious, sonally knitting over 100

of her governesses.

In addition she has the severe gaps in her educa- reign. carried out several other tion left after the best efforts public engagements, includ- ing a two-hour visit to the Tower of London.

IF few people of Queen Mary's age would attempt such an Active programme, certainly none would be able to fulfil it with such unflagging interest and unfailing dignity of bear- ing.

It is strange to recall that, as a girl, the health of young "May Teck" gave considerable

concern to her family.

One of these, ጊ Alsatian known

several years.

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

HE Eugenies Society

TH

and the London County Council between them have, psychologi- cally speaking, spilt a tubful.

Here are pomo, words from a sur- vey recently published: "Of the variance exhibited by measurements of the hypothetical factor underlying ail cognitive testa, ono hulf at the very least is nttributable to nature as distinct from nurture." And a Iendier writer, commenting on this goblet of spuddergrass, says: "He is probably conservative in his view." My advice to all who feel the Berce worm of paychology gnawing at their vitals is to go on measuring hypothe- tical factors until the cows come. home and trample the whole thing into the byre.

More progressive thought

the

It is more important that healthy (especially the young) ahould be kept well than that the desperately sick should have C miserable existence prolonged by a few months.

HOPE the Ministry of Health will appreciate this support, especially us it comes from a B.Sc.

Whales at pasture

T having been decided that whale- meat is as delicious as beef, I hope the Ministry of Agriculture, in their capacity as the Ministry of Fisheries, wi sco that our farmers breed whales Instead of cattle, thus utilising flooded land, and giving employment to those how-ali longshoremen. But note that a cook, in an unguarded

must soak it in vinegar water.

scarves for the officers of her regiment, the Queen's Own. THE nation remembers her

There was hardly a cottager volatile work for the sick and Madame wounded during the first world in the neighbourhood of Bad- Bricka, helped the Princess to war, her devoted nursing at the minton whom she did not visit, moment, has said that if your bit of undertake a long courso of bedside of George V., and the without notice and without roust whale tastes of cod-liver oil you study, in which she read steadi- unparalleled dignity and good ceremony. And in her spare ly for six hours a day for sense with which she faced the time, such as it was, she work. In passing

Abdication crisis. During darked in the woods, wielding a HAV

JAVING watched an America f The future Queen paid such days her courage and steadfast

m more closely than usual I to the conclusion that attention to the blue books on bearing gave comfort to all who double-handed saw, with one of have come

her four devoted despatch 'American flims are execrable, not sweated labour in the London were troubled.

riders at the other end. slums that years later her

merely because the stories are stupid, but because the people in knowledge of social conditions

them do not act. They ser certain through a number of motions, and utter astonished the wives of Socialist

stock phrases, always in the same Ministers.

way. Watch any American film. You will know what is going to be said, and how it will be said. I belleve

In the second world war she made the West Country her

particular province. She visited TO-DAY Queen Mary is the

most loved numberless war factories, stop markable woman in Britain.

and most re- IN 1891, at the age of 24, the ping to give lifts to GIs, land

Princess became engaged to girls and factory hands along Surely If any public servant The vivacious and talented Prince Edward, the Duke of the way. She led her own deserves some relaxation, it is Duchess of Teck laid down a Clarence. Tragedy followed. working party which produced that great lady and very human strict regime to conserve her Within a month the Duke died 432 articles for the troops, per- personality.

Japan's secret societies are breaking

【APAN'S dangerous secret

societies are astir again.

out again

BY RICHARD HUGHES

Nazi

neur

Emperor of the

the honourable birth of the Party at Munich.... In the future there will be a great wor Officially dissolved on sur- roughly sets the same pretty pat- tack on Kikunum! to their loyalty States and Britain. The Tenno will between "tussia--and--the-United render by MacArthur decree, tern for these three societies.

to "the Master" and to their wor- again reign they promptly went under- It has already been responsible ship of the Emperor and Japan, world." ground, clutching much of their for two attempted knife assassina. They carried "Greater East Asia" The strength of these bodies. secret funds.

tions. The Identity of the two in- badges and their society's cultural

and other similar secret societies tended victimis lustructive.

motto, they festified, was: Strong which still remain plotting under- One, was Katsumi Kikanumi, the bodies produce strong thoughts." ground-lies in their ineradicable tough, able Red boss of the Congress The police thoughtfully locked and essentially Japanese fanaticism, of Industrial Organisations, Japan's them up and investigated

Master their hidden financial resources strongest and most aggressive union Maki-san'a organisation more totalling millions of yen, their easily federation (1,000,000 members). He thoroughly,

maintained tyranny over the real- was stabbed by two young

thuga

their They could not determine its ne- mented Japanese people and who interviewed him in an attempt tual strength but they learned that appeal to vindictive Army

omeers. to dissuado him strike,

many members were former. Army The influence can be seen behind officers, that the Party published strike-breaking and anti-iabour leading Alm propaganda sheet which blackmall- activity and they have a ready-made

and that enemy awaiting them in the fledg

with ling but equally resolute Japanese

In seclusion, they bided their time, distributed their yen among headmen of each society, contacted and enrolled unem ployed young officers as they were discharged from the army, conducted secret meetings, or-

from calling

ganised an underground cadre, The other was linked up with Japan's respec director, who had prepared a docu- ed unwilling adverberating

Already some of them aro rc-

(thut lovely Javanese word) murderous young Army oficera sentatives had their ideological dia-

Dow

war.

secret

table and long-accepted crime mentary picture, "The Tragedy of one committee,

the Em- ring and exploited to the full Japan," which involved the Oriental's traditional weak-peror with the common war gulit of the local gang boss as a vigilante Communist Party.

"protection" money corps, extorted the Japanese people.

from local shopkeepers. ness for secret societies.

Maki-san unsuccessfully ran for

Most significantly, they have all the Diet at the last elections--on the whipped up the old "allegiance to emerging into the open, applying Tho thugs surrendered .as Liberal ticket. He was drinking the Holy Emperor!" battle-cry, with gulle and impudence for reels- "patriots" to the Japanese police in sake the Japanese Liberal Party's which was the main-spring of their tration as "political" or "cultural" the best prewar tradition of the headquarters when his two repre terrorism before and during the bodies,

who, as members of the notorious cussion with Kikanumi.

Occupation counter-intelligence The following bodies,

ex- Black Dragon society, arrogantly An ex-Communist named Gaku officers are watching these plaratively feeling their way back boasted

for the Sano leads the Advance Guard of societies closely, but while they re- responsibility Into the open, can be named definite- Assassination of liberal or anti-war the Democratic League. Il frankly main underground their ramifica-

Becks

to Japanese im- return un resurgent, let nationalistic Japanese statesmen.

tions are hidden and elusive, Japanese secret societies of the

two knifemen who seriously perialism in Asto.

when they emerge arrests worst prewar brand, avowedly con- wounded Kikariuml brought with Sano-san, in a recent encyclical, examinations leave the bamed im- temptuous of

of the strange new con- them

police headquarters to

a declared: "All people are equal um pression of merely lopping off cept of Democracy which the great strong, smooth individual who gave der the Emperor and all people in tentacles of an octopus whore cvit

people are be his name as mass of the Japanese cognise and claimed to be the president of the der the Emperor."

Yasutoshi Maki and Asia should be treated equally un- heart, body and

remain mennee wilderedly Becking to

sceret and unscathed. understand:

Ellie of the New Masses.

As the Tokyo dally, the

Asahi Maki-san explained that the Elite

Shimbun, editorialised with mixed was a properly registered "cultural" A Japanese newspaper exposed metaphor but crystal-clear

mean- soclely. He had been refused per the Kokumin-to, or People's Party, Ang:

"How will the Allied powers mission by the Japatiese Govern, it is demonstrably the old, dissolved regard this germ of Fascism which The Kokumin-to, or People's ment to register as a "political" terrorist organisation, the East Asia shows among our people as secret Party (no relation to the People's society. He was angry about that League,

societies after the democratic Party In the Dlet).

refusal.

Characteristic pubite comment by volution was started one and a half The history and record of the The knifemen called him "the ita leaders: "We must make this Elite of the New Masses

The Shin-el Taishuto, or "Ellte of the New Massés Party."

The Advance Guard of the De mocratic League.

NANCY

And

and

the

SD

there is a list of phrases, with the accompanying gestures, In American studio.

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