1947-08-11 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1947.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

'SONGS!

"Smilin' Through"

"It's A Long,

AIR-CONDITIONED

•

DAILY AT 2.30

5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

A STORY so. BEAUTIFUL... IT HAD TO BE SET

TO MUSICI ...The glorious voice of JeanetfoMacDonald gives new meaning to this great- est of all love storlosť

The magle of Technicolor anriches its archantmonti ·

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Prasante

JEANETTE

BRIAN

MacDONALD AHERNE

Smilin' Through

Long Trail IN BRILLIANT TECHNICOLOR

*Drink To Me.Only

With Thine Eye Gene RAYMOND - Ian HUNTER

--many morat

A FRANK BORZAGE Production ADDED: LATEST METRO-NEWS.

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DAILY AT 21o 50o 720 & 920 DM- CALLY AT 2# 5!* 7!* & 9!*PM

SHOWING TO-DAY

ONE

:

She's up to her lips in love again..!

Because

of Hion

STANLEY RIDGES DONALD MEEK HELEN BRODERICK

Screenplay by Edmund Beloin⚫ Original Story by Edmund Beloin and Sig Herzig

Directed by RICHARD WALLACE • Produced by FELIX JACKSON

Assocale Producer Howard Chrislio

NEXT CHANGE THIS YEAR'S BIG DRAMA!

BONDAGE

NEW WARNER

WORUND GWENN

JANIS FAIGE

MUSIC BY ERIC WOFGANG •

starring ELEANOR

PARKE

PAUL

HENREID

ALEXIS

SCREEN PLAY BY CATHERINE TO EDMUND GOULDING

ORIENTAL

Showing To-day: 2.30—5:20—7.30-9.30 p.m. M-G-M' HEART-STRINGING ADVENTURE!...The Stirring drama of those rugged, romantic PT mon!

MEGM

THEY WERE EXPENDABLE ROBERT MONTGOMERY JOHN WAYNE

M-G-M

ICTURE

DONNA REED

Next Change: "along came ‘JONES!"'

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Summer in London: inaldo tho Prize Bloom tent at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Microphones Don't Make Singers

By ROBERT RICHARDS

United Press Staff Correspondent

ETTING, the girl who think

Imitate her."

first started "knocking them ing nothing but attempting to dead" back in the 1920's, says she believes the old times were easier un singers. Sho's glad lovely although that she hit the Big Time in from behind her teeth, which always

1927-and not 1947.

Ruth, who sell looks young and sho's in her late forilca, rald her own. voice camo

has given her an advantage many singers.

over

They didn't have the micro- phone then," she explained. A voice teacher told то that "You simply had to stand and because of this my vocal always

deliver. Not too many people leaped out of the audience just ahead of the instruments in the could do that, especially in orchestra. Falks could always hear

large theatre. It cut the com- me," she said.

petition. Nowadays, with the the inike, all the, girls have :same volume.

:

"And we were individualists the We didn't want to be like each other Helen Morgan sat on top of her plano пук Bang. She

wonderful. WIN Well, I let Helen love that. I didn't try to copy her. Neither did others. But now if one good singing style appears, it seems to me, all the other girls Jump on the bandwagon.

the's "Take Jo Stafford. I think very good. So do her competitors.

FOR FOUR DAYS THIS PAGE WILL PROBE A

POST-WAR GRUMBLE

Nothing

in Life for You?

YOU THINK NOT? VERY WELL-JUST. READ ON

There is a challenge here for the restless--- a new horizon for those who feel there is a brake on ambition. RALPH CHAMPION met these five men who know the worth of enterprise.

The man with a boat

The man with a mine

Williams Next morning IONEL suam."

hurried off to the Coul Commis- WIL LIAMS is a claim to 21 atres. Then he laid out

Huth made her first big hit in 1927 In the Zielfeld Follles, She earned between US$150,000 and US$200,- 000 a year and made such songs as "Shine. On Harvest Moon" and Ten Cents a Dance" popular.

Ten years ago she decided to re- re. Married to Myrl Alderman, her accompanist of many years,' she settled down on an eight-nere farm in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Then last spring she returned to the bright lights for three weeks at the Copacabana in New York. Recently she opened her "Ruth Etting Show" on the radio.

"Just couldn't stay away," she confessed. "When I went into a theatre and heard the orchestra warming up it was just too much for

me,"

BY THE

WAY

soners with £100 to register his by Beachcomber

business-a

market

huve

THE question has naturally

arisen: "How about a

.for

miner. He £200 on second-hand trams, rails. has a wife, and pit props. three children-and a cottage at

A few weeks later Lionel Wil-fight between Stan Trivett and Tryman, Mon.

Not an easy lams, colllery owner, opened hisne Baksi?" I learn, indirect- thing for a miner to hecome a

for his coally, that Baksi does not take coalowner, but that is what this assured at a local gas works.. Trivett seriously, Nobody, does.

5-year-old enthusiast has done.

If he had wanted to play safe That is the whole reason He has found. adventure Willams could

continued his startling list of victories.

Trivett's next fight is with Dan UNDER THE GROUND.

Els one-man plt. With a weekly Tremendo, the Giggleswick Whirl- output of 20 tons he would have wind, Tremendo is a giant of six Lionel stened to local gossip, made a good living and his scam foot five, and weighs, when stripped studled old maps. Each afternoon,

would have lasted

by Customs men, eighteen stone nine. He is so fat that only fighters with after eight hours underground, he

Be saw the

the longest reach can hit anything went prospecting on the are hill-

but his belly. And that is like hit- side near his home-seeking hidden more quickly,

ling the Great Wall of China with a treasure

heither mallet, Well, Stan packs two the novels

"black then enll diamonds,"

fellme,

to more coal has four now

way Ho working full-time, and hopes 10 Install con-cutting zither-mallets, machinery to exhaust the seams Then one day in June last year- even greater speed. after months of searching -Williams

Williams found his adventure burst Into his cottage and shouted to at little cost, ulmest on his dodr his wife: "Dorls, I have found the step.

The man who bought a lorry

The first year he drove IF mining is not your choice another firm.

of a career listen to the vic- London to Southend, to Brighton to his "toast rack" up and down from tory of "The Guv." He found Harlings, to Margate.. -1-R-S-T-Rother-to-the quay-and-210, his adventure ON-THE-ROAD,-

meet $16. sometimes $25 Peter credited to his sales account. Irwin Clark, who found

adventure ON THE SEA.

Clark, aged 29, wanted to join

the R.A.F.. A car crash robbed him of a leg, part use of an arm and his chance to fly.

So Peter, who had never been to sea before, became a fisher-

man.

In the Old Bell and Standard inns at picturesque Rye, Sussex, he learned from local boatmen where the wrecks were lying in the bay. They told him where to expect mines--and fish, ·

were

Soon Clark, decided to take another risk and add to his fleet, despite the alarming price rises under which £250 boats became worth £1,000. still more additions.

Then,

By 1945 One Man in a Boat had become A busincas--the Rye Bay Trawler Co.

There were, breakdowns.

Sore

How to solve the

housing problem

THE SUREestion that women should be called up again is one way of solving the housing problem. If the

fathers, mothers, grandmothers, 25%

and uncles are out at work all the children aither at school or work, and the babies in a communal nursery, there will

bo no further torian survival. But what about the need of home life. that absurd Vic- cals und 'dogs? They hust be na- tionalised-and-moved-to-

Communul Animal Centres. The Government "The Guv." known to outsiders days he would not curn enough to but not his staff, as Mr Robert Mars- pay for his petrol. Often he would could casily take over a few hotels or country houses for them. Con- den, is the driving force behind the work all night on repairs to be ready

&cription of animals would ba £100.000 Venture Transport (Hen- for 9 m. trip to the sea.

strongly resisted, writes my ferret don) Ltd., which owns 48 vehicles.

correspondent, Coriolanus 11, He won Lap One that summer. With nationalisation threatening to tane down part business, what does he do?

of his charabane But, with winter, there were no trips Unexpected answer

He

to the ara; no work for the "toast arders some more vehicles and pre- rack." He took another chance and pares to extend within the limits of bought an old lorry. With this he hauled ten tons of coal dally and eamed enough by spring to buy a

the Act,

He works 15 hours a day Just us secund coach. he did back in 1924, when he found- ed his business with one £400 charabanc.

The capital

his boyhood friend, Chris Bate-

That year he was joined by wages he saved

man, aged 29, with a Viking beard-just demobilised.

They had good weeks; they had bad. Difficulties mounted— . and were surmounted.

Then, in a £150 open boat, bought with his savings, he be Because they could not get came a fisherman the hard way. their marine engines repaired He discovered the pain salt casily they opened their own water can cause to unaccus- workshop. That was the start tomed hands; the discomfort of of their second business---- trawling in rough een.

Strand Motors.

Once he went overboard with Clark and Bateman found his trawl. But he also landed their adventure without much fish. Day after day his craft money and without travelling chugged up the winding River: Tar.

That's how he started. The rest was just hard work, and the will to came from tips and get something out of life in exchange

while driving for for what he was puiting In.

ERE is a story that has pleased me greatly. The Mayor of # French town was being conducted round New York. When he was shown the view from the top of the and asked Empire State Building what he thought of it, he sold, "It reminds me of sex." "Why?" asked

the astonished umetals. Every- thing." said the Frenchman wistfully,

"reminds me of sex."

The man and the atom Fuct

HIRTY. travel magazines fired his ambition. THI

THREE They told how a party of Mexican catliemen found sumples of the YEAR-OLD

treasure and lost their lives in the Leonard earch. Larkin, of Winnington-road, Enfield, Middlesex, is a Atomic Age.

From old maps, scientific papers

man of the and the musty archives in London museums; Larkin has drawn up his route to Destination X.

of

Lesnard, who is married and has Experts have tried in vain to three children, hus sold up his home dismuruge him. His is certainly the and is off to Mexico on the trail of most speculative piece of enterprise pitchblendethe mala orc

reported here, uranium, wanted by every nation But it is the element of chance, hamessed to the spirit of adventure; interested in atomic research.

His acut is booked on, a New York: which makes all these ordinary ur liner; he is sinking his last £700 people feck: There 15 something in In the venture. Reports in old life FOR ME,

TOMORROW: Bernard Wicksteed answers the people "who think adventure can only hoppen somewhere a long way off."

NANCY

Reverse English

LOOK AT THE

MAJESTIC

At 2.30, 5.20,

BOY FISHING.

'7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

M-G-M'■ MARVELLOUS LOVE STORY WITH MUSIC!

Kathryn GRAYSON Juno ALLYSON

In

TWO SISTERS from BOSTON

Lauritz MELCHIOR Emmy DURANTE

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

"

-EHNIL BUSHMILLERMA

HA-HA-HA- THAT BOY

ISN'T FISHING---

By Ernie Buskmiller

IT LOOKS MORE.

LIKE THAT FISH IS BOYING

Sawing away at its toll.

(Gossip column.) NLY scarcity of firewood cun ex- cuse this act of vandalism," said

a lending critic, but a double saw for the 'cello is rather overdoing it." When Scampi sawed his violin

in half,

It made the lowbrows in the

audience laugh;

The highbrows, hating this itt-

mannered din,

Cried, "Woodnian, woodman,

spare that violin!"

Frodnose: Did they not search him before he came on the stage? Myself: Yes. Under by-law.387. But he carried the saw openly, and. said it was a new kind of bow. The offelals were satisfied.

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