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SHOWING

TO-DAY

MINK'S

AIR-CONDITIONED *

GUARANTEE This is absolutely thoir biggest and funniest comedy in years! Howl at the hilarious roller- coaster sconal Watch for

the Surprise Guest Stars! Whistle those hit tunesi Ten grand ontortálnments

rolled into onäl

BUD ABBOTT

LOU COSTELLO

IN HOLLYWOOD

with

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

AN

M-G-M

PICTURE

Frances RAFFERTY Robert STANTON

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· JEAN PORTER - WARNER ANDERSON -"RAGS" RAGLAND - MIKE MAZURKI

ADVANCE BOOKING OFFICE

-ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL. BOOKING HOURS: 11.00 à.m. to 5.30 p.m. Daily

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

JOAN CRAWFORD THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNER OF 1946, IN HER GREATEST ROLE SINCE "MILDRED PIERCE"

JOAN

MELVYN

Metro

Mat

PROTVAS

CRAWFORD DOUGLAS A WOMANS FACE

CONRAD

REGINALD

VEIDT OWEN

TO-MORROW.

ALEXANDER KORDA presents SABU in

RUDYARD KIPLING'S

ELEPHANT BOY

1,000 ELEPHANTS!

1,000 THRILLS!

ORIENTAL

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

THE MOST EXCITING ROMANCE THE SCREEN HAS SEEN!

THE WONDER PICTURE OF THE YEAR!]

Next Change:

SHOWING

'TO-DAY

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD

"MY GAL SAL”

MAJESTIC

·HE LOVED SWORDS. .AND GUNS.

AND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN!

At 2.30, 5.20,

7,20 & 9.20 p.m.

COLONEL BLIMP ”.

A LUSTY LIFETIME OF LOVE AND

ADVENTURE IN LAVISH

TECHNICOLOR

Next Change: “DESPERADOS”

IN, TECHNICOLOR

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28; 1947.

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A DATE in THE CIRCUS

ICCADILLY CIRCUS covers half an acre of ground.

It is the most famous ralf-acre in the world-and one of the busiest. Every day 48,000 véhicles drive through it: 27 bus and conch routes cross the Clybus, and the driver of a 13 bus passes through sight times in 24 hours. Every West End taxi driver traverses t at least six times on his shift.

It takes six Eros has come back to Piccadilly Circus

minutes

to

walk round the Circus at a normal pace},

the most famous half-acre in the world

15 minutes if you're win- dow-gazing. To cross the Circus takes 180 steps; to circle It 520..

Here are the salient dates in the history of the half-uere;'

The first rond which ran through Piccadilly Circus was built by the Romans in A.D.300. A hay market was established there in the year 1500; when a windmill stood to the north of the Circus. In 1623 Robert Higgins, a tailor, who had made A fortune out of a piece of feminine apparel called a "pic- cadille," built himself a big house near what is now Sack- ville-street and called it Picca- From dilly Hall.

his house Piccadilly got its name.

Much of the area was rebuilt in 1670 after the Great Fire. In 1764 the houses were num bered for the first time. When Nash built Regent-street, be- tween 1813 and 1821; the Circus

29 Regent was first known. circus and the name Piccadilly Circus dates from 1880.

The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain was unveiled on June

London's favourite meeting place. There are rely fewer than 50) people walting round th's entrance. Many a message for "Mrs Smith waiting on the steps" comes through to the store switchboard.

29, 1893, and was much abused aluminated by whirling red, white

by the critics.

£500,000 JOB

out,

the 14 electric

Above: The Circus in the 'Nineties, Below: Eros kad a new string filled to his bow before being restored to his famuus perch in The Circus.

LETTER FROM AMERICA

Now-Flying Beetles

WASHINGTON

Sleeping

By Day, Working

At Night

By A Medical Correspondent

So far the deep physiolo- gical and social implica- tions of the plan for staggered hours in industry, do not ap- pear to have been realised..

If you are to change the eating and alcoping habits of 18,000,000 people, then indeed you are starting a minor social revolution.

The human animal, lke the majority of living things, is designed to keep awake for about 16 hours in the day and sleep for eight hours at night.

So, whatever may be said, working at night for a long time is physiologically unsound.

Indeed, the creatures who work by night and sleep by day are almost all predatory ones, who live by preying on others.

We know that it is possible to sleep during the day, but this is an acquired art. In the best circumstances It is never so refreshing.

LESS EFFICIENCY Prolonged night work is bound to result in less efficiency and reduced output.

Thus, when slaggering hours,

there

should be three periods of work- a.m. to 2 pm, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., 10 p.m. to & a.m.-and the personnel should be moved from one to another.

The longest spell should be a

be found to market them elther here month. A fortnight would be bot-

ter. In my profession I have and

or to the famished people of Europe,

The farmers, however, did nurses duty for the Government paid them the subsidy price. And it is now trying to secure the production of different crops on New England potato pat- ches.

some who will have no other. They

PRICES SOAR

have usually had no family ties.

.

One of the oldest shops is the elgar bus'nees of S. Van Raalte and Sons, which has been in Piccadilly Circus for 19 years. Almost next door, the jeweller's business of Saul and Lawrence

goes back nearly a century. The two big dials above the shop-one a barometer and one a clock are world landmarks, and at night they used to be

PERSONALLY F have not and blue lights.

seen any flying saucers. tube That was In the days when And I shall remain sceptical The first underground

blowed station in Piccadilly Circus Piccadilly Circus by night

For it had 10 street about their existence until I In 1925 the with light.

Which brings us to life in the came in 1906.

lamps as well as a great many elec- actually handle one.

home, where the father will be With some hundreds of thou- controversial fountain was retric signs, moved and the site was used

To-day only nine of the lamps sands of others I wish that an

arriving home hungry and tired about u a.m. ? for the underground's service are dimly. It, and

But while the Department of Agri- shaft-18ft. in diameter and signs around the Cireus are backed other and very real flying

to the invasion. was just

This is one more burden another culture wants fewer potatoes it: 92ft. deep.

atmospheric hallucination. We, would like to see a lot more malze housewife. It dislocates her routine have been armed to the teeth this year. Maize is the chief cattle and interrupts her handling of the

children. 1000. for protecting our property from a winged army of flying levelled maize crops in many

Floods and heavy rains have

t and sent prices souring. beetles.

If you stagger working hours The Japanese fulled to get a Already Secretary of

then you must stagger shopping foothold on the west coast Clinton Anderson has been compell- during the war,

cancel licences for the export hours.

Also, if the husband stays up in of nearly seven million bushels and to substitute wheat and barley.. the morning and goes to bed about He Is worried, for without an 1 or 2 p.m. he will be asleep just abundance of cheap maize cost of when the children come home and.

next want to play. living will rise, even higher winter in America.

You can, of course blackout the farmers

ners again feed cattle and bedrooms, but If you do it is on wheat, we can expect mest achieved at the expense of fresh air. hop to continue to soar and steaks All the resources of the United prices to

Daytimo noises are apt to disturb. become juxuries on workers' Some

can overcome them casily, States Government have been mobi- will

not dinner tables. sed, but the invaders have

just as many people can sleep in a But wheat prospects are still good. train-but many more cannot been repellrd.

They are living literally of the Everything points to all existing re It depends a great deal

ond they gan in strength and cords being beaten in America, degree of fatigue. People exhausted numbers with every yard of soll they which is good news for Europe after an air raid have slept through "Where harvests may be 10 per cent mother, but this sleep of exhaustion These beetles from Japan are below last year.

19 not the healthy sleep. and brown-incketed, black-bellied,

-Arthur Wobb naturally tired. have voracious appetites for lender shoots. They have caused millions

It costs about £1,000 a year to rent space on the front of a bullding for a large electric sign. The sign Half costs about £2,000, bought on hire-maintenance terms, A noxi- illuminated sign costs between £50 £100, according to size and and a deciric name signs position, over

shops cost from £50 upwards, a large cinema d'eplay sign would cost as much as £3,000.

The present Piccadilly Circus tube station was opened in 1928. It costs £500,000, and it to years 'took 150 men four

make it--without any inter- or ference either, to surface underground traffic. Originally It takes £10,000 a year to keep

the police on duty in the Circus. it had an annual traffic of one,

Traffic in Piccadilly Circus used to and a half million passengers. cccupy nine policemen full-time. Today 32,000,000 pars through But on November 15, 1937, 20,000 each year, and the station can worth of robot vehicle

took over command, To-day there handle 50,000,000 a year.

nine cets of traffic lights. During the rush hour two trains o

Circus has station through the

every Surprisingly, Piccadilly Pass minnie. The normal dally servlees one of the lowest accident records is 1000 trains, from 5:40 am until-In London....

12.36 .m.

controls"

But their agents-the flying beetles are now devastating the Eastern States. They are wiping out the greenest and most fertile spots.

THE GIRLS

Zanart.

The most familiar personalit'es of are the three flower

Eleven" escalatore the greatest number in any London tube station are constantly at work carrying 180,000 passengers up and down the Circus They travel

Under

3s. is an · average

JUST A FEW

and gardens since they drat gov foothold in America twelve years

one.

100ft: a minute. 8ft, "girls," Polly-avho has sold flowers down to the Baker-street line and here for my they mine up of pounds worth of damage to farms Wet of take up their 102ft. down to the Piccadilly Une.

special Act of Parliament, positions each day. In the good old days they would sell you a spray no rent is paid for the tube station.

Surface rents round Piccadilly, for Od. Today

in price. Circus are some of the highest

The old shoe-shine boys, London. Even

a tiny one-roomed

rze polished your boots prewar at every £20 a week. A shop costs

large shop with basement and overhead comer of the Circus for 4d., have office costs £7,000 a year. Ground now become four oitish landlords of most of the property are the charge is 6d.

wito

men

and

There are 18 newspaper sellers

Then just a few sneaked in with a consignment of plants imported from the land of the Mikado by a New England horticulturist.

their hideouts an summer

the Commissioners of Crown Lands, dotted round the Cireus; there are countryside leaving fields The LCC own the north block of bookstalls and postcard and

Circus from Glasshouse-street

the

to the corner past the London map seller. Pavillon. No rent is paid for the readways, but leclinically the sail to the centre of the Circus belongs to the ground landlord.

HATS, SHOES Looking over the Circus there are

ed to

Stains

Agriculture

DAY DISTURBANCES

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

ECPLE

must crazy about time:

be

to sear

search

on the

of the

TO

latest

to rescue

going shows the young: Bach disembarking.... Not a at Vigo, where he meets Lola Montez

and

falls in love with her. He Customs

which keeps on writing oratorios Today they have spread out over day passes but the

several gigantic Lola hates. She wishes him

to a score of states, emerging from officers make

write a fugue for her old mother, comes. hauls of watches. They swoop down on the

watches who does occasional laundry for the Freen One way of smuggling

down the bare of would be to stagger

family of the Marquis de Cascafuel y young shoots and rose-bushes and gangway and into the Customs shed Faruca, The son of the Marquis het falls in love with Lola when, ho with an enormous grandfather clock grapevines in ribbons.

Bach's latest Armed with DDT bombs I have on your back. The officials would hears her playing already accounted for several thou be so delighted with this capture fugue, so Bach goes back to Bavaria,

forget might surd dead, but relaforcements are that they

Ludwig you and gets King arriving to continue the attacks on for smaller timepieces. And that Lela from the Spaniard. The King my garden over the bidles of their brings us to the story of Tristan falls in love with her, and out of Arst-line troops.

Bernard.

stair- his sorrow Bach writes some found the who So when I have sent this dispatch ease of his flat blocked by a man greatest work. The closing

on his shows Mozart 'moved clock I shall return to a bitter fight to with a grandfather

wear a. Bach plays, three of preserve American soll from Japan- back. "Why can't you ese Invaders.

wrist-watch like everybody else? choral pieces. sald the French wit. PDT may not be the last word Marginal note

FT is reported that when the guests FLANAGAN could rose at a Washington banquet, to in the battle against the Japanese bectle but it was used against the MR.BUD

hardly have thought of a more drink a toast, the air was filled with Colorado beetle so auccessfully that

absurd situation than that of the a tearing sound. Senators and de- the potatoes which the Colorado Manchester workers who, by going puties had stuck, to the newly- beetles would have eaten for to listen to on M.P. telling them to painted chairs, and when they resc outfitter, i sweet shop, 2 jewellera, Monselzrieur, seats 300 and more than hing had to be destroyed at great work harder. "lost 3.550 production thoir) breeches ripped. It would expense by the United States Go hours" and had part of their wages have been worse if they had lidd to verament...

stopped. That will teach them to disperse with the chairs still stickc This year the potato crop was listen to politicians.

ing to them. Men of sang-frold and

dun.ps-hundreds of yards long

"that "nothing" unusual had occurred.

the of six restaurants in the Circus the Criterion is the oldest it opened in 1873. The Moneo pened a year later. A few weeks rgo Mr Monico sold the properly to Tavistock Restaurants, Ltd. (backed by the Expresa Dalry Co.). for reputed £600,000.

Swan The Pavilion, inte

and 2 hotels, 6 restaurants, I mack bar,

Edgar's, is

celebrated meeting 1 theatre, 2 cinemas. 2 Insuranos

place in the Circus. Its ground offices,

chartered Botlektors, 2 accountants, 2 shoe shops, 1 barber, lease expires in 1950 and it is then 2 delicatessen stores, 1 tobacconists scheduled to be pulled down under town planning so that the Circus may 2 public-houses, 4 chemists, 1 lingerie be enlarged. Bhop

store, 2 large

leather The two news. theatres are at 1 book- accessory shops, 1 hatter, maker, I inviable meader, 1 man's opposite sides of the Circus. The

3,000 banks,

1 cigar shop, 3 debeative people, pass through each day. cative The Eros, with 180 seats, is the agencies, 4 film omees,

orchestra mallet

news theatre in the country, offices, a furrier, an engraving con, but 15,000 people visit it cach week. pany, a fashion house, men's tollet. There are 34 telephone kiosks in

several small accessory shop, and miscellaneous offices, 24 shaps and the Underground station, as well us two shops and three tobacco klöska. offices..

2

1

26 ongest of the shops is the big The Circus has one pillar box and

one police box.

Eileen Ascroft

store of Swan and Edgar. The steps to the main entrance are probably

NANCY "Atom Boy, Sluggo

'DIS OLD BOILER GIVES ME AN..

IDEA

HEH HEH

POTATO CROP

no-

n

Not quite clear

of his

sconc to tears as his Schubler

third larger than 1 and groShe Wanted A Fugue" experience would have pretended

ten feet high-vere abandoned all HE ilm people cannot keep away But really during men would have.

from the over New England. They were even-

Ilves of composers. taken off their waistcoats and re- tually sprayed so as to make then Someone has discovered that Bach placed them under their shirts, os once in the Bavarian Navy, though the whole occurrence were a uneatable and then ploughed back was into the land because no way could | The film, "She Wanted A Fugue," premeditated ritual:

-JULY-9

By Ernie Bushmiller

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