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AND

"WITHOUT RESERVATIONS"

*

Starring CLAUDETT COLBERT JOHN WAYNE AN RKO RADIO PICTURE

OPENS TO-MORROW (ONE DAY ONLY)

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1947.

We've been thinking about your parrot, Grandma. Supposing we can't get

Thinking Aloud

WAS reading about how Mr Justice Barnard had to tell a Mr Woolfenden that he wasn't divorced after all, as he had thought himself to be, but was still married to the first Mrs. Woolfenden.

It was, I suppose, a month or so after the absolute that they began appearing together again. We beam- *ed. They played their little games, Bercely contested each other at darts, interrupted each other's best stories just like in the old days.

Said one brimming young matron one day: "I'll bet you two chicks'll

turkey."

until

The land for Men of Free Enterprise

by JAMES COOPER

TORONTO. .every motorisi gats windscreens wiped and ell, water, and tyres checked while the tanks are filled." Next door is n branch bank from Toronto oponed just a year ago. Now, silm, youthful-looking mana- ger W. B. Butcher has seven clerks handling 2.000 accounts all higher thin the national average savings of

F you doubt that Canada. is now in the midst of its biggest boom, talk to Lan cnshire-born Jack Townsend. 50-year-old foreman builder, who in three years has helped to turn the cabbage patches on the outskirts of Toronto into a boomtown as big as his native Darwen.

Bank returns, exports, statis- street, but says tics and employment figures Jeweller John Swerk, who came show there is a boom bigger from Poland 33 years ago, saya, .15 months, than a gold rush or discovery after being open for

"Doing quite nicely, thanks."

Bride's shop

of oil.

Ho can't discuss the accounts of.

started the 20, shopkeepers who business along boomtown's maln they are holding

their own.

In East York : Industrialists say there is Lastcomer is war bride, Mrs. not a single business not doing Tomlinson,

03 who,

Jacqueline ja bigger volume of trade than Wright, of Salisbury-rond, Bromley,

ever and that present prosperi. Kent, martled a Canadian soliller..

She opened a milliner's a little ty is more widespread und permanent than in the heydays while back ago and pays £6 48. a

week for drone-room shop.. before the first world war.

She was told that this was the Canadian What that means in the lives wrong time to open, as

of ordinary people is best shown women now need hoods, not hats, first. In what is happening in East for the winter. But in the

week she made a small profit, and York, typical of any suburb on in the second week had cleared the outskirts of any major overheads by the Wednesday. Canadian city.

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clear

The rest of the week was Six-foot Townsend, who has profit from selling hats that ranged still the Lanenshire accent of 10 £3 5. for furlined feathered 24 years ago, will tell you that creations that would cost £6 Gs. in

England. in three years a circle three.

20 times price

j It is wicked, I know, to do such a thing. But, I feel that Van Meer-quarters of a mile. in radius

I could and only one native East Keren was unduly tempted by the from the corner of O'Connor- snobbishness

and

gullibility of the drive and Donlands-road that Yorker John Barton, whose father average modern art fancier.

once held a handful of market built a wooden house alongside what It probably cost about £250, and Any living painter will tell you gardeners has mushroomed in- was a mud track 40 years ago.

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could have been bought for that any that he cannot sell

Where Joe Paston hood cabbages time before the boom, but it now brick houses somebody starts a fad for his work. to a community of 35,000.

between they are building stands months ago I could start one myself, here in this column, and make a fine proft: out of it. But there. I wouldn't today two rival grocery shops facing and chromium shops.

diagonally across cross-roads.

Syndicates have offered 20 times know what to do with the money.

Free enterprise is racing to build the orignal price, but John is not 2-storey buildings, each about 40 selling. by 17 yards, under the

Canada has a surplus of £140,- 000,000 for the first seven months of inch of snow and nine degrees of this financial year. Big Income-tax frost, men are laying bricks along cuts are expected in the spring, cuts, which averaged 29 per cent.

There were 102,000 jobs going at the last returns and 92,000 workless, Sixty thousand more were at work Fifty yards away Townsend is WENT to the theatre the other supervising the building of a thou- last month, giving a record total of workers, averaging 42.3 This should 5,000,000

Irk night, and when Patricia Burke sand-seater cinema, appeared first to play Katherine in have been built in five months, but hours a week at 45. an hour.

the Toronto alone 700 British men im-

migrants found work in October. The Taming of the Shrew a few there are not enough mon for enthusiasts in the nudience clapped jobs. Townsend pays $5. d.

Yet

Dividends up

Longer job

And this led me to thinking be getting married again one day 8 ALFRED KINSEY, of Indian 90 days. Today in one

soon.'

about the odd uses to which our matrimonial courts are sonte-

"No. Never," said Mayzie quickly, times put, and this led me to

"Hush, childte," sald Willie, giving thinking about Mayzic and

her a look, Willie.

And then the other night they Mayzie and Willie were lazy must have decided that there was no point in keeping a mystery any longer, and they told me (guessing that I would tell everybody else).

They found they couldn't afford to be married any longer.

"THE UPTURNED GLASS" and ally.

with JAMES MASON

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY

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It's his Most Romantic role!

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HERMAN BRIX

A REPUBLIC SERIAL

ALSO

"THE ROYAL WEDDING "

They

their

to

Holl

out

spent nine years finding that half the husband of America are unfaithful to their wives. finding out weren't

I wonder how long he would take side smudge pols-outdoor oilstoves following this year's

that the other

Taking sides

halt

Two stern young men sitting behind me shushed quite loudly.

that prevent mortar from freezing.

£19 a week

they

an

Fake.

A can buy

Now the law can't touch old-game of "Hooray For Our. Side!" and four in the basement, gara their best season for 40 years with---

them.

пет.

They

weren't

significant. They didn't amount anything. The only thing you could shy for them,

hour for carpenters, 8s. for brick- It was a simple case of arithmetic. being a sentimentalist, was that they

Dividends froin Canadian com- were irrevocably and foolishly in Put their salaries together and they

Now why should one man dis-layers. He says, "Thit is more than love. They

You ran slap into surtax. Divide them

much panics totalled £3,800,000 for No- "home." were

their and they could both claim

approve when another claps? The £19 a week-four times as

to as we got for building the Palladium vember, compared with £2,000,000 couldn't touch them.

income 1ax point of any stage playing is

in 1046 and £1,000,000 in 1945. most of spent

lowances and enjoy the excite the audience to some sort of at- Darwen."

Farmers in three prairie provinces ample leisure and

His manager, squat, cigar-smoking benefits of a much better emotion. If it is spontaneous then their ampie funds In

Jack Dunham, who runs the estate have repaid £3,500,000 in mort.. through

PAYE code number. They it is splendid. giggling their way

had simply decided to pool The shushers are contesaing that ofce, gets 60 callers and 300 letters gages, an average of £150 a mort- fe and thinking up small

their earnings after tax they would be happier at home daily from people seeking houses.

and fewer For £1,875

Despite bad weather fnds to play with, such es

had been pald. And to do reading the script. even collecting left shoes, eve

this they had submitted

But the best theatre is the one in Colonial style parched bungalow" crops increased prices have raised number bus tickets white

themselves to the full which the audience plays the old, with five rooms on the ground floor for Income by 10.5 percent.

East-coast shermen are having -horses,-and-50..on... Came

rigmarole of the law. the war. Willie, one of

and lawns. There is no shame but rather a adolescent those huge,

fishing fleet, catching the One of his rivals is J. G. Price, the sardine warmth in the clapping and

day-an all-time looking men you find as

hissing. And the performances, both who finishes a house in a fortnight 1,000,000 in a curates in slum districts or

for of classics and of new plays, are and can offer occupation in 10 to 12 record. One crew of three men sold

Season 2,500 hogshead this skiing at Kitzbuhel, drove

surely enlivened by the taking of weeks. an MTB furiously up and

sides.

At another corner Gerry Barclay £9,375.

The Bank of Nova Scotia an- down the Channel..

I would not disapprove of the has a petrol station. There are 800

for nounces today a profit of £500,000. clapping of the other man's favourite. petrol stations in Toronto-one

every 750

peopic.

The national £125,000 higher than last year. The But I might hiss.

average of one car for seven people Imperial Bank profit of £300,000 Is much higher in bopmlown.

was up by £35,000.

companies

pald Mining

have Barclay, who serves 500 motorists General Smuts A turned to Mr

£10 Churchill. He a day, pays six men each

a £450,000 this year compared with In the summer he has had £300,000 in 1940. ID you see what our Erb Mor- said: "But surely, this takes us weck.

Sald 100 customers an hour.

Newsprint is expected to reach a rison told them down Lambeth back to the Middle Ages?"

around him: Beenuse of competition from record this year of more than 4,000,- glancing way, where he was born, when they Churchill,

stations 100 yards on either side, 000 tons. of gave hlm the freedom the "There are all the ages here." borough? He told them how much 1 thought for a long time that it he loved the tramps who sleep out was this business of carning a living nights on the Embankment and how that irked the both of them. They much he sympathised with

them had told me all the money was gone. when welfare officers came along to and Yet I could not feel

sorry for chivvy them into institutions them, for they both were working clean and scrub them up generally. in good jobs which probably

They were legally divorced. They are single persons for tax purposes.

Nor, under our law, is it any sin to live in sin Odd week-ends Willie would come. Particularly if you happen to be in to town and they would share a love. Yet I wonder. They say it up

Berkeley. They was the money that made the rift. Jolly time at the remained throughout the war quite But perhaps the rift came first.... crazily in love.

Come the pence. Meeting Mayzie and Willie in civvy clothes was a bit of a sadness. There was an air about them still, but a faded air. They fell into little glumnesses.

Going too far?

a

Living past

the Abbey,

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

WAGGLING PARVA.

Mimsie Slopcorner

hip

numbers." Dr Smart-Allick sald, when interviewed: "We have S the five eminent men A

cheering lately benefited from the settlement Although it has now been fairly reached the small rounded NOBODY who saw the

throngs which had waited seven of several big debts. Many of our in £3,000 a year and more between

present door of the rocket, there was

to start unconventional businesses, them. Mayzle was secretary to one well established that this

contretemps. Sir Archer hours in the streets to greet Mimsie parents, who had borrowed from me to prison, of those new publishers; Willie had Administration is not too much in

on their release. new a job of man-management-they call

Personnel Director-at n Morrison goes too far.

for a freedom to sleep attempted to squeeze through doubt that this kind of thing makes discovered,

people work harder, and therefore openings for enterprise." cosmetics factory on the Great West pleading

is not first.

increases our exports. Councillor Rond...

under the stars. And that

Since there was no room, current Socialist doctrine.

cach Touchdown went so far as to say, Contemporary thought drew. back, and as Professor Trowie in a speech, that even if the chance

between forward stepped

them of seeing the Slopcorner girl In- THE news that a seaside town may on the pier, with duced

bo, without music men to absent themselves cach made a second attempt,

result that all three became from their work, "the corresponding unless the Council agrees to a union

favour of the bathtub I think Mr.

For he is Tatham and Mr Hoplite each Slopcorner as Miss Whalement con and subsequently went

one

Yet the glumnesses continued, and Iriend overheard morning a

them talking, accidentally on pur pose, at the local.

Willie was saying "Well there's

only one way out.

I must say they fooled us.

Temptation

tha

TANS VAN MEERGEREN, a Dutch aged in the opening. Professor gain in moral more than counter-clared shop, has called attention to

painter, is awaiting sentence on

the question of Opera, It is pointed out that many great singers do not belong to a union at all. The same

should the famous 17th Century painter free, but was unable to withdraw it. Narkover fees down again.

be of is truc composers. It The Doctor himself, realising the First thuy disappeared. Then, Vermeer.

altogether-concerts, opera Willle would come in, sullen and a All the experts in court were Indignity of such a muddle at the SCHOLASTIC circles are puzzled possible to do away with reactionary little tipsy alone. Then Mayzie agreed that 20th Century Von Meer-last

Meer last moment, pushed his head into by the news that Dr Smart music

mass and was unable to Allick has once again lowered the and composition-by making It com- pulsory for all singers and. com- well-known would

come in see Willie in our geren painted as well

Century extricate it. Mechanies finally suc fees at Narkover. A

said: "How can we pocers to belong to one union. For company, and ostentatiously walk slightly better than, 27th

lo Vermeer. By putting the old ceeded in pulling the men tree, and headmaster out again. It was no surprise anybody at all to hear they were master's signature to his work, how-all five fell, over backwards. They compete with him? Either ho must "music that is not primarily ideo

getting £50,000 getting a divorce.

ever, ho wps

athen entered the rocket more cau- be overcharging on extrus, or else logical la Inoficient,"

tiously, one by one.

the thing is a mere bluff, to Increase leader said recently. .canvas instead of £50.

a charge of painting some pictures Dendergast laughingly thrust in his balanced the loss in mon-hours. and passing them off as the work of hand, to pull one of his comrades

It all went through smoothly,

NANCY. Filling Up on Health

YOU LOOK KINDA

PALE TODAY,

NANCY

IT'S DIS CITY AIR

WHAT YOU NEED

IS SOME GOOD COUNTRY AIR FOR A CHANGE

By Ernie Bushmillor

CITY. BOUNDARY

LINE

as a union

SUSHMILLER

SNIFF

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DOT

When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist!

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