1947-07-16 — Page 2

SHOWING

..TO-DAY

QUEEN S

YOUTH...VS.

A KILLER-MOB!

Candeliontil

Universal Presents

Tho

AD AL.

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

River bang

Stanley

Gloria Jean

John Quaten

Bill Goodwin Keefe Brasselle Sheldon Leonard Gus Schilling

Vince Barnett

Produce and Directed by CHARLES DAVID (Seraumplay by LESur Chartens 'Adepigtlen by DWIGHT V.VASCOCI Frum the therp "Zalay Tula Murues" by CHARLES DAVID ma✔ HUGH GRAY.

ADDED ATTRACTION.

"SOVIET'S NEIGHBOR

MARCH - CZECHOSLOVAKIA "

TIME

A timely pictorial on problems that are facing the Czechs to-day and the.. influence of the Russians whose border covers most of Czechoslovakia?.

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NELSON

WHEN TIMES SQUARE WAS

FULL OF INDIANS

• LITTLE OLD NEW YORK WAS FULL OF FUN

EDDY

CHARLES

CONSTANCE.

GOBURN DOWLING

Knickerbocker Holiday

• HARRY 108 BICNN'S Production of the

Brooduty Music

amal Laugh Success

by Maxwell Anderisa

with ERNEST COSSART - Shelley Winter - Johnny "Star" Davis" and Kors Wall Otto Kruger Percy Kilbride Chester Conklin Fritz Feld CARMEN AMAYA and Her Company Released the UNITED ARTISTS

IDALUPINO

ma

TO-MORROW

in WARNERS'

THE MAN LOVE!

ROBERT ALDAIL

ANDREA KING

BRUCE BENNETT

Directed by RAQUL WALSH ERIND

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30—5.20—7.30-9.30 P.M.

By Sca, Land and Air!..........with Knifo, Gun and Fearless Hearts!..for Country, Freodem and the Women they LOVE!

COMMANDOS STRIKE AT DAWN

STARRING PAUL MUNI

ANNA LEE-LILLIAN GISH

A LESTER COWAN PRODUCTION

A COLUMSIA PICTURE

NEXT CHANGE: “OUT LAW”

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on the Fence

SUPPOSÈ I am one of the few men in the country who is never certain if Gordon Ri-... chards is a jockey or a golfer; one of the few who never knows even the names of the horses running in the Derby, let alone the winner; and probably the only man in the country who has lived within walking dis tance of Epsom racecourse for 17 years and never been there on a race day..

Yet, apart from 'owners, jockeys, trainers and ricing correspondents, I suppose I am asked more ques- tons about this absurd race thin any man in the British Isles.

la

+

I say "absurd race" because it

race in the the one

year which grips the entire nation by the throat and says: "For a week about you shall triak and talk nothing but the Derby."

uther

All the great problems of the day are shelved while grown men elther asic each other or tell each what is going to win us if they were capable of forseeing future events. it is as if everybody, everywhere. of the few had gone mad instead who'go mad on normal rare days.

WHY am I asked all these ques Wtion about the

Derby? Well, brothers and aisters, It is because I am connected with a newspaper. So far as the racing enthusiast is concerned, all newspapers are pro- fic duced entirely for his benellt. Judges them; not by their opinions their but by on political matters. opinions on horses.

Vital news about world affairs menn nothing to him. He inter- ested only in news about horses and Jockey s.

Even The

ratlier

sometimes Times is bought for Its

on racing Views than its views on current

events,

man I once met a purple-faced

and Latin who thought the Greek

the quotations in

correspondence columns were probably disguised racing tips.

[HEREFORE, if you are connected

THE

In any way, with a newspaper, it

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

If you tell them all these facts are either being they think you sly, holding back vital knowledge, or that you are being profone that is, irying to be funny about sacred things.

of

It

you say: "If everybody

newspapers. knew connected with

certain the winner. for every race, they would all be mil lionaires and all bookmakers would be paupers, you will be fortunate they put it down to a touch of the sun and nothing worse.

of

songs louder than anybody else, andr pay for mere than anybody els while cynical manager leuks on and marks warm down for sack os good. for nothing, unreliable spendthrift showing off with paltry plitanee.

hten wife, who has worked fingers, to bone trying to make ends meet, and never goes anywhern like cas manager's wife, who.is lady Rotarian, will end up in gutter.

Party conversation

·MY husband 'says if we are living proper home instend of plasty: A on the same rations the poor rather than give worm bonus 50 lived on befere the war, what did that wife could have proper seaside the bar breed on? hallday in proper hotel with dainty. tean served in loungo overy after future we shall have to give up pro- If we want to win any fights in the

with ladies' band playing fessional boxing and take to pro- Blue Danube, and proper dinner fessional homicide on the American

night every with wine on table, alg- model"

ngan

gardly employing worm

sclence sien

alving

cheap

"It's odd that although America relic

largely on Negroes for their motorcoach ride and packet of sporting victorice, they seem anxious

lale sandwiches as if he were

tô lynch them on the slightest pro- child out on Sunday school trent vocation.* or, worse still common workman

Carling, one doesn't swem at a on factory cuting.

ratly. One perspires."

worm

POCKET CARTOON

*There, NOW will you believe, we've cone 100 deep!!"

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

C

~HA kang-tu, kang so pi cha. So runs one of the oldest Chinese proverbs.' Controversy

"Margaret's father says as the world line up is now vodka versus as to its precise meaning need and whisky we ought to keep our stocks not detain us. who have no sug-

in the country."

gestions to offer. Starlight and Slime

Of caurse, wife realises R is véry. FOR a man who hates racing, who kind of condescending manager to

considers it to be the most futile travel with slave

all human activities, the two bring himself down to slave worm's hardest things to bear during Derby, level by singing silly songs. Week are the foolish faces of horses If worm doesn't mind being patro- peering at you from the front pages

of newspapers and the people who nised by common manager who was hand you dirty little slips of paper, one office boy himself, it is not in the furtive manner of a comedy wife's business." spy handing over State documents.

All wife can say is that if worm

"My husband says that the war's that two powerful nations, believing greatest miracle, after Dunkirk, was in roughly the same thing, tried to exterminate each other,"

The Inst time this happened to had more gu's and initiative, and had 6 greatest postwar miracle is me I read the scrawled name cn been last out of office instead of first, the slip of paper, gave it back, and and had fakes trouble to study firm's caid pompously:-

business instend of spending spare time ogling blonde barmaids in low taverns and squandering fortune on why worm filends, worm might have been manager himself, patronising slave worms and leading choruses,

"I am not interested in this. I am

mere interested in something

Im- you think of portant. What do Pakistan?"

"It ain't running," they said.

"I told you he knew something." they sald.

N

IMBLESBY MANOR had been "restored" by Farragae. It was

to

he who had put the stained glass windows la the Georgian wing, the haw Brenda's husband lives, thatch on the garage roof, and tho despite her awful canking."

the Victorian Doric pillars above "In Wall-street they sing "There'll porch. But it was when she saw Always Be An England to lend now comfortable her mother was in money to."

tite spacious rooms that Lynette "Margaret's father says that as bext to consider sacrificing herself British and American naval and to a lump or money, rarragos. herself that military

is being Also, she admitted equipment

would be standardised, so should the whisky luxury even with Farragoe, wou Wife wouldn't mind I worm had stocks of both

be better tona lite in ledging-housCA. countries outings in dignified way, like gas standerdised.",

And Farragor saw her wavering, ond manager, who is head of Rotarians

The biggest deal ar. "The people who complain most took his time.

come off shortly. and travels in reserved first-clasa” of tired are those toho don't his lite was to

Then he could relax, and become a with rajiwaz conci

gentleman, with riding country,

"And theyre the people who are country always going to die if they don't breechts and a whip. Meanwhile he at the idea of Nimblesby sink in: and daygaler were have a holiday."

until moder both damaing how nice it would be

gas-heads of Ing."

"Artful basket," they said. Let's make sure," they said.

Instead of having sandwiches and I left them feverishly glaring down the columns of the racing beer on road, gas manager has pro

per lunch in train with brandy and cigars afterwards, and proper dhuner in big hotel where he makes witty speeches against Government.

news.

:

Diary of a worm

TXCITED worm arrives home and

is no use telling. these madmen that tells wife generous employers you hardly know a racehorse from a kangaroo; that you have never read a printed line about racing in all your life; that you have never been to a race meeting except two occasions once when you were under and a reporter

had to RO

were you protest; and once when dragged to

n Hollywood one by comedian who also believed that 'everybody must be interested racing.

in

.

S worm could never hope to be

Ahead of Rotarians, or head of any

all I want to do is come home."

"When I have a holiday abroad,

Back to the dear old vegetable to live there-without the, owner. soup and canned spaghetti in meat.

A dissenting voice sauce."

And dried eggs and dehydrated THE following letter appears spuds."

TE feinen länder of effort, the men now. The younger ones are braceplug setters and wirers.

"You only get courtesy from older weekly trade lournal of the internal positively insulting."

"It's the age of the common mun,

in City are inking warm and witty office worm friends for motor coach ride to sta. All food provided, thing, and could never make speech without going red in lace and malt. says worm. Jolly manager will lead the fool of himself, it is probably choruses on road, and four stops will be made, there and back for just as well that vorm is content If worm can manage nothing else no doubt sex-mad worm will manage. str.” Oh, so this is how generous eme ployer is treating slave worm, is it? to sit next to youngest typist Rather than pay worm proper boy's, conch; and no doubt warm will drink pillance so that wife could live in more than anybody else, sing vulgar,

other refreshments.

with his Int

HYKOMARU IS WORLD'S CHAMPION CORMORANT

By MILES W. VAUGHN

in

double

Official comment

VDCS out

2n

being shown this letter a high. -official-st-the Ministry Buboie- blowing commented thus: writer confuses the duplicates re-

Tho

Bla

...This four-way registration is isn't it?"

only our old friend two-way regla

No some tration under another name. "My husband says that

who criticise Governments unit of multiple registration can be people haven't enough brains to run a coffee said to be increased so long as the

registration

in ""Margaret's father says that in the duplicate, prior to the same being whisky versus vodka war distilleries returned, either in acts of two ur The use of two sets of two will be more important than muni- jour. tion factories"

papers, provided they are duplicat ed, is inercly an expedient designed to facilitate the efficient functioning The "EASIDE places are going to be of the old two-way system.

hell this year because every-unit of multiple registration remains

identical. body has holidays with pay." "When the ex-idle rich go abroad and say England's finished what they really mean ta that they're finished." "It would be much better if they stayed abroad as nobody wants them here."

"If Brenda's cooking gets much ceived with those tent cut. Under worse her husband's going to get the two-way system (bele job in a circus as a professional fast-forth), there was no corresponding This first postwar exhibition at- Each bird has a brass ring around; ing miqu." YKOMARU, world's cham-

up and down procedure. It is not ot the boltom of his "Margaret's father says the first correct to say that the double regis- pion fishing cormorant, traeled thousands of quests, including his neck popped from the depths of many American soldiers, who slood enormous gullet, which is capable of move in the whisky versus, vodka tration goes out in duplicate, since

our barley is expicity on concrete parapets along both sides holding a quart or more. The birds war will be to destroy

Jald down that the Brst two papers the of the river rapids or sat in house- are controlled by strings which the crop the Nagara river into

cannot be issued "When we're prosperous again I alone, even in duplicate, unless the light pattern of glant boats along the river.

a

Asherman holds in his right hand and torch of flaming pine knots and

Fishing is done only in the dark manipulates to keep the birds work. suppose ull those who have left the other two have been sent back. It disgorged a full 18 ounces of of the moon and conditions

ing under water as the fishing pro- country will come crawling back." is to clear this bottleneck that the up were gresses. Most fishermen can handle i "Margaret's father wants under- and down procedure was introduc- assorted brook trout from his ident this night, since the sky was ant more than four or five cormo-ground distilleries now."

a wicker overcast and there were

occasional rants. capacious gullet into

was 25 It basket on the bottom of our sam- rain showers. As soon

dark.

boatmen at the

head

of the pan.

rapids began releasing hundreds of It was a good catch and Hyko- tiny wooden candle boats.}

which

At a signial, the bonts are retensed maru, who is just getting back into bobbed down the

the and start a mad dash down stream strido after years of war-time semi centre of the river and formed with a tremendous beating of wooden. Idleness, turned to his moster with moving series of lights like glant drums, which aid in attracting the released smirk

of self-approval, and pre- Aroflies extending as far as one could fish. The cormorants are pared to be put back into the water sce. Simultaneously, fireworks dis- directly under the torches and Im-

The occasion was a revival after plays, were started.

mediately start scooping up. the five years of war, of one of the

trout. world's

A well trained bird will Half an hour later the six cor- morant fishing hoats moved into swallowing trout until his gullet is position at the head of the rapids full and the tail of the last fish is

a

oldest sports-cormorant fishing, which ranks

with

falconry

as an exhibition of man's ability to train a wild creature to do. his hunt- Ing for him.

Hykumaru, 21 years old and

in

current in

FLARES LIGHTED.

DRUM BEATING

keep

and boatmen girted their flares,urtuting from the cormorant's the prime of life, belongs to a man which are used to attract the ampli mouth. The birds scize the Ash at who himself is a champion, Kanli brook trout called "ayu," The-fares Ut orgtes and then quickly jubble and Yamashite, hend of a family which are large iron baskets at the end of them in their serated billa tor 17 generations has belonged to polo extending at right angles from sworow them head first.

the boat-a narrut caught by a cormorant Is the Nagara village guild of cormo- the bow of rant fishermen, former purveyors to pirogue-like cano: some 40 feet lonpposed to be of vastly superior

The baskets are flied with favour to one caught Japan's imperial household.

HANDLES 12 AT ONCE

are replenished— pine knots and

moment the cormorant seizes him. Yamashita is 64. He is the only frequently to provide a great ball because the fish la killed the man in the world who can handle f fame which is reflected on the nannt death is supposed to

the superlor favour. 12 trained cormorants at a time, and water. likes to recall how he demonstrated his ski at the San Francisco Fait in 1935.

When the boats are in position, fykomaru cormorant masters, barefoot,

With

in a net

ied."

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- Vácross

or

3 and 11 Down. They will need

villago next year, 17, 6)

a

causo

•

50

caught more than tight black silk turbans, black shirts, trout during a single run down the Cormorant fishing is a chief tourist and grass skirts much like those of rapids. The catch weighed about

vblued attraction of the town of Gifu, which an Hawallan hula dancer, take their eighty pounds and wis

the position and

hunting 1,500 yen or about sprawls along both, banks of

remove the

US$30 United swift-running Nagara River.

hirds from wicker cagzs.

Press,

NANCY Cubby Tabby

IS. DAT

YER

NEW

CAT

YEP-- I FOUND HER OVER BY THE TACK · FACTORY.

SO I CALL HER

*TACKSY."

TACK FACTORY

OH.. TACKSY

WRNIC

at

8. A pulpit for the reading of the

gospol. (4)

19. Paroxyani of pain. (41

19. Continent."(6)

21. A spile cane, spot 187 (4) 23. Throo-quarters of It may bloc

·but how women long for 15, (4) 24. The heart of all codes. (3) 25. Am all backwards for 10. (8) 20. The aprt of shot that may prove

negative. (4)

Down ...

Rain provides you with one. (9) To the algoalles she follows, the

time

4. Motro

5.

to

long curved. Turkish dagger.

O. It has been described na agita-

tion of the mind, (7)

7. It provides you with the tides

sin. (0)

9. In conto places there is a colour

on. (3)

11.

ae Auros,

10. Hedge aparrows. (8)

10. 10, has provided many un artist

with suppor5)-[D)

22: How the Tank would onllven ?

20. Intention (3) G

(3)

12. The decima; Dart of a logarithm, 24. No return away from the of. (3)

you must decide which way, tho - maina sat. (0)

13. What a feature it is, (3)

14. to slayed when four lets tha

diyan. (3)

Acknowlodge., 1937

ti ar adverb it means gindty, (4) Bhoot for a changu,

UWIA World are

By Ernie Bushmiller,

GUESS I'LL HAVE

TO PICK A NEW

NAME

sure

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