1948-01-14 — Page 2

ADVANCE BOOKING OFFICE.

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL BOOKING HOURS:

11.00 a.m, to 5.30 p.m. Dally.

PROUDLY PRESENTS THE MOST TALKED OF CHINESE

PICTURE OF ALL TIME!

COMMENCING TO-DAY!

"THE TEARS OF YANGTZE”

DIALOGUE IN MANDARIN

PLEASE NOTE THE ARRANGEMENT & TIMES:

FIRST PART

"EIGHT WAR-TORN

YEARS"

SECOND PART

"THE DAWN"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1948.

To

DAILY AT 2.30 & 7.15 P.M,

DAILY AT 5.00 & 9.30 P.M.

CENTRAL

EATRE

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.

Two-fisted divers go into action!

A Columbia Picture

SHOWING."

! TO-DAY

CHESTER

MORRIS

VICTOR

MLAGLEN

Two tough Romeos go

after the galsi

ROUGH, TOUGH and READY" ||

with JEAN ROGERS - VEDA AKN BORG HOBERT WILLIAMS

Origins Screen Play by Edward T. Lowe Produced by ****. ALEXIS THURN-TAXIS Directed by DEL LORD

At 2.30, 5.20,

MAJESTIC 720 9.20 pm

&

LANDING IN ENEMY TERRITORY... AND A WOMAN'S ARMS!

Wife takes a

STARNING pranoh

BENNETT TONE

66

ALLYN JOSLYN,

Flyer

VELA COLUMBIA PICTURE

COMMENCING FRIDAY MICKEY ROONEY in

NATIONAL VELVET ”

TO-DAY

ONLY

IN TECHNICOLOR

Cathai

MARK HELUNGER presents:

Sonny TUFTS *Ann BLYTH

SWELL GUY

At 2.30,

7.20 & 9.20

Ruth WARRICK

WILLIAM GARGAN » THOMAS GOMEZ » LELRY HASH • JOHN LITEL

TO-MORROW

•

Déborah KERR

SABU

"More stealing than ever this season — they'd have your blooming trousers if you didn't watch 'em."

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting

This is the third of the illuminating series of articles on the Enslavement of Man by Women. Children and Dogs. As it is mainly against doggies, dog worshippers are advised to skip the whole thing.

B

EFORE Ľ could write another line a letter writ- ten by a doggie called Wuffles and carried in the month of another doggie called Snuffles was delivered nt the house.

'There was a nose mark in the right-hand corner of the envelope to serve as a stamp: and paw marks all over the letter which indicated it was a round robin.

Snuffles gave three jolly barks after he had left it on the mat.

This was the letter:-

HELL'S 100 YARDS

slithered out of the shadows, his bluo cape swinging, and murmured:

.ROBERT MUSEL visits the, tough-

ost tho

stractin world

compare notes, arrange nefari- ous deals and, for practice, try to swindle one another.

Before, the war they used to live

"Monsieur has a passport?" Monsieur handed over his passport and looked down on one of the most incredible sights along the Old Fort of this force In n rabbit warren-like district city. But during the occupation so many German soldiers were far-

possible for a man who likes to observe his fellow man.

I was standing at the top of roted or had their throats cut there the narrow, curving Rue Des that the Wehrmacht ordered the Chapellers toughest street in entire half-mile of houses blown the world to those who claim up.

to know about such things. Not a matter of patriolista, mind

Rue Des Chapeliers is short you. The denizens of the "Hell's Hundred Yards," some But the Germans complained about Vieux Port are loyal only to themselves.

the brothels or the

call it. From curb to curb it in the prices In filled from dawn to dusk and fixed wheels and dice in the gam- beyond with a milling throng of bling heils or the watered-down the cut-throats and outcasts of oplum in the dives. many nations.

MONSIEUR TAKES A CHANCE

All colours and all sizes and

costumes-Arabs, Grecks, "Monsieur is indiscreet," cald the Italians, Spaniards, Corsicans, the shock of my passport photo. gendarme, recovering gallantly from Africans they discuss projects, "To go into Rue Des Chapeliers is

not advisable."

on the Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

1

women

squawk for

When Idle - something they always got it, su, in practically no time, the civilised world was crawling with cuddly

out at night.

Big Doggies

IT was not long before fashionable women tired of little doggies and took to big doggies.

Monsieur, having been similarly warned by the American consul, shrugged, wrapped his raincoat a ittle more tightly, clamped his right elbow against the wallet in his Inside Jacket pocket and started down the hill.

the

Almost as though there had been signal! "a sucker has arrived" -heads began to turn towards me. A burnoosed Arab made the first plich, shrewdly assessing that I was guarding a wallet. barmaid

Ite

Before the startled could move the big doggle had at my arm ostensibly to draw my dragged the Uttle man, muttering, through the other door into the sircet.

Doggies everywhere

THE

it.)

Although

palled attention, actually to give an ac- complice a chance at my pocket.

"Zomting to zell?" he whispered. I shook him on and

WAS

Bur- rounded by a knot of Italians. This was in front of a hotel front painted

who

It

E situation now is that big and gorish blue and it occurred to me. little doggies, ilke big and little suddenly how very like a scene from women, dominate the social scene Hollywood's idea of the Casbah in wherever it is lald. (See the Brat Morocco all this was. article of this series if you can find

THEY SWARM AROUND they were

The Italians wanted to sell mo always

liko Then, at some time in history around on his honeymoon, slept in brought into pubs on Sunday morn something-looked

picture it might have been the era of the his wife's bed, bit his ankles when ing for a

biscuit and a bile at postcards. I shook my head and enggie appeared. King Charles spantel-the little he came home, and had to be taken under the control of men and there-portunist, a bulky Jamaican

another doggle's behind, they were bounced off then into another op-

fore behaved. it many have been, was

reasonably good English This little doggie, whatever breed Later, little doggies invaded every

Said In Now that women are all over the that he knew a certain Alm house so cuddly, so scrumptious, so yum-

so wully, class of society, and

men except the happy working-man,

enslaved alt pubs and hotels, so are their badly showing certain Olms, yum that all the idle women of the who stood no nonsense from women, glasses and fighting in corners.

behaved doggles, Heklig round; The three gendarmes at the top of the street had been watching my world set up a great squawk to own children. or dogn,

They also travel

in public tortuous progress anxiously. Two one.

vehicles and are slek in trains. of the three stationed at the bottom

They go visiting without

moved into being of the street now Invited, stopping all conversation vaguely in my direction.

When because they must be noticed.

Anally shook myself Women call them silly names clear at the bottom a gendarme and make fools of them and expect | sauntered alongside. I told him I'd everybody to share their admiration seen tougher places--just to alart for the unhappy, unhealthy doggie conversation. Therefore, the dog-breeders, with they have degraded and debouched. Local pride stirred within him. an eye on profits, grew them bigger and bigger, and soon

young men who knocked at the doors of boudoirs were attacked by enormous savago beasts as big as donkeys.

Again the young There were little doggies with but again old Mother Well, thanks, doggies, for long ears that touched the ground; the doggles won. thinking I am wonderful.

hair hanging over doggies with wish I could think the same of their eyes so that you couldn't read you.

their beautiful thoughts and they couldn't see where they were going pop-eyed doggies with practically no long-nosed doggies with After reading your letter, I noses:

practically eyes, doggies that think even less of you. I have were so wuffly at both

ends that never had any time for you didn't know which end you were Bycophants.

looking at; tiny, spindle-legged Why couldn't you hit back whole by big doggles, who thought doggies which were swallowed with a few insults? Then I 5.20,might have admired you, even they were insects.

p.m.

ARTHUR RANK presents David FARR Flora ROBSON in

“BLACK NARCISSUS ”

IN TECHNICOLOR

ALHAMBRANDTHEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY ÁT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

Terry Randal-Don Stannard

Albert Sandler and his

Palm Court Orchestra

I'LL TURN TO YOU

Harry Welchman-Ann Codrington, George Morrilt

Irene tande Ellis Saving

Introducing, Nicolette Roeg

SANDY MACPHERSON

SYLVIA WELLING CHOIR OF THE WELSH GUARDS The LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Soloist - JOHN MгHUGH

RELEASED THRU' INTERNATIONAL FILMS

WATCH "My Favorite Brunette"

* ☆

Admirable and Adored Sir, We, the undersigned, have little doggles. heard that you are again writing against 'doga next week, and wish to say that we forgive you in advance. What ever you may think or write against us,

we shall always think you are wonderful.

*

✩

*

I

There were Pekingese, which the Chinese used to cat for their Sun- day dinner, and were amazed that anybody should want them for any other purpose.

по

if I couldn't love you.

All these horrid little doggies

the were interbred with From this you must not infer producing even more horrible e idea at that. I dislike all doggies. There doggles, with the most

successful are some doggies I like.

I like very quiet doggles who never

and startling results.

like tile night- bark, never bite and

Little doggies,

were soon the inseparable mares, hardly ever move. Jn fact, companions of all the fashionable almost dead doggies.

women of Europe and later America. But I put you very high on Unlike the big, healthy, hard the list of public nuisances, working doggles who hunted and noisy, nosey, fussy, inquisitive, minded sheep, these little doggies did rather like the more objection- not sleep in the yard. able members of the human ruce.

They slept on the silken coverlets in the boudoirs, eating rich, indigesti ble food, taking no exercise, and

*

*

"Never," he said. Then ho FC- lated the following example of the Well doggies, I hope you have way, the mind of a habitue enjoyed this

of the Rue Des Chopellers works. Although I am no dog worship- In 1034, King Alexander per, I wouldn't treat you as badly Yugoslavin was assassinated in the men protested, as dog worshippers treat you. In street two blocks away. In discuss- Nature and other words, I wouldn't make a ing it that night one member of a

fool of you.

gang of Corsicans sald enviously:

"Imagine killing.. king-that would be worth a fortune,"

So, Instead of having a little doggie

But don't take this as an indi- on their honeymoon, a little doggie cation that I want a doggle of my they could get into a corner and OWNL siap, the unhappy young men had

I'don't want any of you or any these enormous doggies to make the thing to do with you. huppiest time of their lives miser- able-enormous doggles, who could set them into a corner and eat them alive if they folt Uke it.

invaded every class of suciety.

As before, the big doggies soon

The devil-with-the-- money," snapped the gang lender, "think of | the "prestige!"—United Press,

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

They were kept in tiny flats where they knocked

on, everything over if they turned round.

MANY no doubt wonder with our exports must ndersanding, that such authority about the almost about was to produce more goods

that the only way to bring this They terrorised small suburbs, which never seemed big enough for unknown and very nearly un- for export. This, he said, would re- them, and frequently went mad heard-of African territory of quire hard work from those engaged through boredom and lack of Ahahaland.

in producing goods for export. exercise.

Let me at once admit that as a

Make your own botter carefree youngster -I joined the Moreover, these very big doggles Grabcheese Expedition, the object were usually owned by the wives of which was to investigate reports of very small men, who were terri-that a herd of white pigmy warthogs fied of them.

had been seen going down to

*

*

I remember standing alone one

at either end.

top

double

foner

outer

casing

casing

water-hole in the Bula desert We

Back

(

Centre

Frent

of the

thought they might be a remnant great herds which migrate: tury, and were seen by Carfax and

Africa in the eighteenth cen-

This handy baller can be Attes together in four minutes.

t

chariot-race

If you could talk half as well burying their hot, unhealthy. noses evening at a bar in Fleet-street, as you write, I feel a Montgomery-Hirst. It was in Watall, tell a lot of extremely unfunny not destroying

one romance afler

capital of Ahahaland, that I ob- stories.

another by snarling and yapping st

served ostriches pecking the corks Down to their last ⠀ Nevertheless, the

charge every young man who called with a As I stood there thinking of my out of the whisky bottles which the against you this week is not beating heart and a bunch of flowers, sing, the door on my right flew open whiskyman left every morning at one of being a public nuisance.

and a doggie na big as a small horse the Residency back-door. It was about this time that the bounded in.

FILM about Germany today la Well? It is the charge of being one of enslavement

of man by doggies

to be made in Germany becauso the enslavers of modern man. began.

OME, let us play the market, I the building. of bomb-damage will give an Argentine railway scenery in Hollywood would cost to, anybody who can tell me why £250,000. Gone are the days when the new gilt-edged issue of 3 per-

built Shubohr

the Pyramids, the As they flashed by, I saw the cent Corporation stock bonds begins Sphinx, the Nile one hand and fumble in his pocket to 31,791, missing out fifty-four tiny man let go chain two-minute dream-sequence in

for change. And I heard him" shoutnumbers in between. "Hall a bitter, please."

Little Doggies

★

to

At the end of his chain there was a tiny, breathless man, clinging on with both his little hands.

At first men refused to tolerate NCE upon a time dogates were give them

them, but as women refused used only for hunting and sheep- and the little doggies won.

up old Mother Nature rinding. They were big, hearty, healthy doggles, doing a useful job, When a man married into happy in their work and sleeping fashionable world he also married a Ecundly at night in the yard.

little doggle: who followed him him have it.

NANCY Not. Quite Awake

the

ERNIE BUSHMIL

Suel's Statement

for

the grant day, when Hogwasch, mis- "Flame of Minnesote." Gone, also,

reading "Copra" for "Cobra" in the script, had 500 cobras flown by air

But the big doggie wouldn't letHARLIE SUET sald that if he to the studio in a fleet of specially

atood for Plothwick it would be constructed 'planes.

By Ernie Bushmiller

ZILCH'S

HARDWARE

са

HELP

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DOT

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

SURE KILL

SOLE AGENTS NAN KANG CO, UNION BLOG I M.