1947-07-24 — Page 2

Lee Theatre

·ADVANCE. BOOKING OFFICE

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LAST 4 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 F.M.

MICHAEL

J. ARTHUR RANK

presents

DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S

Another Success Sinco "REBECCA"

REDGRAVE

VALERIE

HOBSON

FLORA

ROBSON

""in Daphne du Mauriert

The Years Between

ALSO LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS NO. L 10. Air Speed Record in U.S.A.; Wimbledon Battles Continuo; Royal Shows at Norwich and Windsor: Brussels Film Festival, etc,

Starring SABU

TO-MORROW

ALEXANDER KORDA prosents

THE DRUM

-IN. TECHNICOLOR

ALHAMBRA CENTRAL

:

PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL TIMES:

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1947,

TWRON

TRAGICUÍMEDY

Soviet Collaboration

FINAL PERFORMANCE

idvsyriens in au covkartea) i

All of a sudden

WILLIAM HICKEY

Edgar Wallace Country

F

ROM his West India Dock headquarters, deep in the heart of the Edgar Wallace country, Chief Police Officer W. H. SIM- MONS directs the detection of crime on London's 11 docks.

--

Patrolling a wharfside bent 166 miles in length, his 500 Port of London Authority police- men guard 4,000 acres of land and water, ships: and sheds, crews and cargoes.." It may (or may not) comfort amokers to learn that $198,000,000, worth of tobacco alone is in his care.

While I drove round this rich territory with Mr Simmons, he explained that, although they are clamping down on the bad boys with mount- Ing success, pilferage provides his big headache.

To sneak stolen property, through any dock gates is about as easy as smuggling a double- deckor. bis. Into Westminster Abboy. Consequently, most offenders are seamen who broach cargoes, stowing away what they steal and selling the stuff at overseas ports.

Last quarter the P. L. A. investigated 268 cases. Their hands fell arrestingly on 226 shoulders, recovering nearly 70 per cent, of the loot.

As I left the docks and walked through Pennyfields, the chopsuey belt looked dreary and unromantic. Down Mandarin-street not a man- darin stirred.

Trust the people

The Trust the People" exhibition Mr GODFREY'

lunchtime audience of 23, which within ten minutes swell- ed to 31, including one girl announcer, one commission-

aire, one duty nurse in case of accidents, and myself.

A NICHOLSON, IDry M.P. for Farnham, addressed a

people have stopped

SPENDING

by BERNARD HARRIS

entertain-

"But the fact that most of us have less to spend on goods 'and services we can do withoft--not wholly a bad thing.

So now spending on ment and non-casentials has to be met by many instanocs from cur- THE postwar spending Skegness did reasonably well in its rent earnings.

boom in which hundreds large hotels and boarding-houses,

And though wage rates are but there were many spare bedrooms

It means that prices will inevitably of millions of pounds in the small places. Some failed to tending upwards, the cost of essen- come down and that we can look AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. have been poured out on enter- attract a single quest.

tals is rising even faster and leaving forward to a return to the good old tainment, holidays and non-

Great Yarmouth, with its hotels course, is not borne out by the real value for money..

smaller surplus each week. This of days when we demanded, and gol, essentials is beginning to col-

two-thirds full, tells of a growing official cost of living index, Thut lapse.

tendency to grumble at high prices" Index has apparently become in-

especially. In those restaurants capable of movem:ul, and no People who were flush with where a high tea for a family of pays any attention to it any more. money a year ago are confess- five costs father a pound note and a ing now that they "cannot tip.

But there is no doubt about the rise in the real cost of living. afford present prices."

TO-DAY

ONLY

Warner Bros

tell the story of his reckless life,

"his romantic love,

bis xluging laughter...in

THE

g

ADVENTURES

OF

MARK TWAIN

FREDRIC MARCH-ALEXIS SMITH DONALD CRISP

ALAN HALE

also C. Aubrey Smith John Carradino • Bill Hanry Robert Barrat Walter Hampden Jovca Reynolds. Directed by IRVING RAPPER

To-morrow

at the ALHAMBRA

"THE VIRGINIAN”

at the CENTRAL

"WHISPERING

SHADOW"

Brian DONLEVY

Bola. LUCOSI

IN TECHNICOLOR

Joel MCCREA

ORIENTAL

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY: 230—5.207.30-9.30 P.M.

GREAT SPY PICTURE ABOUT A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, LEADING TWO MEN TO UNPREDICTABLE ADVENTURE!

GEORGE BRENT ILONA MASSEY

in "INTERNATIONAL LADY"

COMMENCING TO-MORROW:

SHOWING TO-DAY

Vivian

BLAINE

“BUFFALO BILL".

BÚKY SOUND comfortable sHATE

Cathay

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

SHE'S THE DOLL FACE THAT'S A PERFECT REVELATION!

Donnis

Carmon

Porry O'KEEFE 'MIRANDA COMO

"DOLL FACE"

A 20th Century-Fox Picture.

More evidence

ene

More than 80 items of food have their weekly allowance leaves A 15,000 visitors to Brighton, some fallen.

Housewives are finding that

LTHOUGH conferences brought gone up in price this year, compared With barely half a dozen that have little or nothing over for spend- of its larger hotels were not even half ing on luxuries.

full. Many

Lately at our local fair the batler- ed piece of inplate on the centre- pole cf the "dodgem" track 'rend, Two shillings a car, e shilling a pey son,"

Among other things. Mr Nichol- 1-son told

us that (1) under So. clalism we were suffering from man- agerial tyranny; (2) in the 19th cen tury world peace was kept by the British Navy; (3) wo-were loved by all the peoples we ruled throughout the world.

This last statement was promptly challenged by 18-year-old AN- THONY BARCLAY, a Hertfordshiro Iaudworker of superior education: who had hitch-hiked to London. Asked Barclay: "What about the Endlens?"

Another enemy sniper present was youthful RUTH EADE. of St ̃ Hugh's College, Oxford, who com- mented tartly that the speaker had hardly given a Batisfactory exposition of Tory policy, had he?

Loolding rather pained, poor Mr Nicholson explained that all he had been trying to do was say a few polite words to boost the exhibition along.

Over-Reach

IN a current poster-design.com-

petition for young art-school students and fostered by the Travel Ats:ciation, one 2nd prize winner, ROBERT HARDING,” illustrates an attractive view of Swanage, with the message below: "Visit Britain's countryside by Green Line."

That was the price that had al- As young Robert propeses having ways been charged since the war in amanth's holiday in France with evening peak hours.

his £25 prize it seems a pity to spoil But instead of the usual jostling It by pointing out that Swanage la crowd there were few people about|| 130 miles away from London, and and three of the cars were idle. quito inaccessible by Green Line Here are a few that are making bigger inrcads into the housewife's crossed the frack and reversed the

As I watched, the man in charge coach,

-And he never talks purse: Coffee, tea, cocoa, jam, treacle, tinplate so that it read, "One shilling condensed milk, oatmeal, dried fruit, a cur, sixpence per way of incet-Data publ

a person,"

Mr

restaurants were Jeft with stocks of food on their hands. First evidence of this re- emergence of what the econo-

Bournemouth also comes evidence of unwillingness to pay the mists call "consumer resistance-ery high prices charged in some of

CHICO MARY at a pubile luncheon: "Give me a has come in

Utility sheets and towels and ing "consumer resistance." a sharp drop in the luxury hotels which were bought household textiles ore

There is plano, a wig and okay-I'll entertain cinema box-office receipts. by speculators and opened up

costing 20 ely to be a lot more of it over the you. But a speech? In our family 10 to 60 percent more, Inoltum and ming months. cash in on last year's big boom.

only Hurpo makes the speeches," The average drop over the

carpet prices have been raised. country is reckoned at 15 per visitors at Whitsun, compared why because their chocolate and Torquay attracted only 4,000 The children want more pocket cent, and looks like becoming. 10,000 to 12,000 a year ago. Some belled sweets are costing more, even more pronounced.

· of the smaller hotels with 20 to 40 Theatres are in no better, bedrooms had only four or Ave shape, and the fashionable night guests aplece, clubs report deserted dance floors for the first time since the blitz.

Hotel shock

Motorists will soon pay 20 percent. thore for car insurance, and

are

already paying more for petrol, more

for repairs.

こ

Rents jumping

The man

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

tits

HE man who asked permis, than they usually are. Looking out' his own land, and was told to to my surprise, an ostrich pecking sipping at my milk-bottle, I saw, oat dried egg-dust instead, had at the card-board cap. obviously not made use of the

Vrs. faithfully,

Countryman. Games for long nights

Newquay, Rumping because of stiff in Suet

DENTS many houses and flats

10,000

and

registration

4

From Ilfracombe comes an unusuu complahit, "Last summer, a wal- tress said, "the demobs were giving me half-crown lips. This year 3d. is about the limit.".

Visitors to hotels in Falmouth and St. Íves numbered only

multiple most convincing 60 percent. of last year BUT the

their creases in rates. Uncontrolled flat

scheme: signs of a growing hard-panding power was estimated at and house prices are soaring.

Under this he would have, applied upness" come from the senside only 50 percent.

And. despite trenuous efforts at in duplicate (back and forth) for resorts, where the contraction Some places were luckier. Forth eronomy, Chancellor Dalton's heavy a permit. On receiving the appli- in spending has shocked hotel saw, South Wales resort of

clgarette cation back; he would have sent in people, had 50,000 day trippers and increase in tobacco

down). Then owners and caterers, who were 6,000 weekly visitors thanks in part pending only curtaling luxury two more (up and

rach would have been sent to and looking for a repetition of last to the higher earnings in the neigh-pending in other directions. !

with fro singly, until three were year's lavish outpouring of bouring coal valleys.

Another Influence affecting a wide

Myself: "Yes," The Inaccuracy cash.

Preatyn and Rhyl also had few section of the population is that the him and one with the Department. complaints, and Southport benefitted days of "easy money on the Stock branded, and when

have; makes the game more entrancing would then For the first time in years some of from the

sent, conferences held in its Exchange are almost gone. the gut is being knocked off Black-

Bled for refere, ce, while the other The wrong dynasty pool's "golden mile."

back from the two came

other

Suspected of being a receiver people to be returned on receipt of the original two pending decision, of stolen gods....

have

(Morning paper). before the board, for reference to the interim the corner," said the short-sighted

regional authority's Inspection officers, after

hotels.

་

This Whitsun there were no queues for strawberry ices at 2s. 6d, each ora

cash

Loss half a pound of cherries at is. 6d. PUT on balance the evidence is over Spending by holidaymakers is whelming. Despite near-record estimated to have dropped by 30 per- deposits in the banks and enormous, cent.

The hotels, packed out last pent-up spending power, in aecumu. year, wer

were lo more than

half fated savings, there is much less cash

full.

about,.

One of the main reasons for this change is

that a

the Government had opened. 3.10

3,400,000 savings bank accounts for demobbed men was posted the £200,000,

was deposited in them.

Since the crack in the markets last autumn the average speculator has no longer been able to count on making capital profit.

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come

What is it that has 240 wheels and won't fit into a cable-station wait- Ing-room?

84 tricycles Produse: 82, surely.

almost automatic The case would the registration will have that Chinese idolin

consultation with the central panel woman in the antique shop, of experts. And so on.

"That, madam, is the propfietor,") vouchsafed the assistant,

Scarborough reports a strong ob- Jection by visitors when they learn ed that £2 a day was being asked for quite ordinary hotel accommoda- tion.

From Bridlington corne

reports of visitors protesting nt beingMuch of that money has been cent. of the visitors were imiddle- charged 23. Gd-sometimes even pant, some of in selling up homes, aged or elderly. The town's, or-EAR Sir, more for a fish and a chip tea that some of it simply in having a good ganizers asked, "Where are the cost 18. Bd. during the winter... time."

Some of them, indeed, are now knowing what it is to make a loss, and that salutary experience is responsible for a considerable but It gives me great pleasure to be idning-up of pockets.

at last, áble to give... a Conerbto Hardest hit by the drying up of anstance of how the scheme works surplus sponding money are the in practico. fun to win Your Churu Do

NANCY

The More, the Merrier

OOPS-

THAT MEANS

I DROPPED WE'RE GOING

A FORK

TO HAVE

COMPANY

At Torquay this Whitsun 80 per- Twitter twitter

youngaters?!!

mado

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The recent Inclement Weather

many birds more friendly, lessons).

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