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TO-DAY KINGS

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LADD

..DEEP IN MURDER IN THE MYSTERIOUS ORIENT DEEPER IN LOVE WITH TWO EXOTIC WOMEN!

One girl is out to get him with her tips...ong' with a gun. Byt a gang of sinister Oriental billers are out to get him finti

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WILLIAM

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JACK RAINE

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TO-MORROW!

"

HUMORESQUE “

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THE ROMANTIC ENCHANTIC MUSICAL THAT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL SO YOUNG!

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Three Little Girls in Blue

TECHNICOLORIN!

June Haver George Montgomery Vivian Blaine - Celeste Holm Vera-Ellen Frank Latimore

Directed by BRUCE HUMBERSTONE Produced by MACK GORDON

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 9.20 p.m.

MAJESTIC

The dancest

She Sings!

VANES

JOHNSON WILLIAMS BALL WYNN IGIN: Easy to Wed TECHNICOLOR

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DRAMA, THRILLS, SUSPENSE AND ROMANCE!

Michael REDGRAVE

"THE MAN

Jean KENT in

WITHIN "

In TECHNICOLOR

+

Joan GREENWOOD

with Richard ATTENBOROUGH

NEXT CHANCE

1

PARA'S THREE BIG GUNS OF FUN!

Bing CROSBY Batty HUTTON Sonny TUFTS in

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1948.

C. V. R. THOMPSON flies out to the city they call 'The Slipping Beauty'

1-in-3

out of

Zhowing

nu our Owl WORK

work in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD. or a large part of its profit for Pidgeon, and the umpteenth remake ODAY one out of every a year.

three people employed in. Now other countries cannot. Hollywood six months ago afford dollars for films, and this is either on the dule or living year's loss from abroad is off savings.

estimated at £25,000,000, As if For many years they have that weren't enough, the Holly earned good and regular money wood moguls have just learned from the Hollywood goldmines. from their distributors that the Yet today there are only 487 home market, their only remain, actors and actresses with studio ing source of profit, is falling off. contracts, and of them 125 hold Box-office takings are 20 per- the official rating of "star.” cent down so far this year, The rert and there Be Even in the film eit v 3,500-re earning half, per: chain of cinemas is finding haps a quarter, of what they necessary to tempt er tomor earned up to six months ago. in by offering then free dancing Some of them are earning legsons or a rule ticket for

A Frnd new ear. nothing. Except for the 46 week They draw from the do'e, many would he homeless, even hungry And with them in the jublen queue nr 12,000 cars pentres, painters, electricians, and engineers.

Running Out

Panic Moves

one.

31

which conkel fer shattering ---A

hoss,

of "The Three. Musketeers”—instead of the usual eight to ten.

Even M.G.M.'s

Louls D. ami ✔conomies Mayer, has made

racing stable. has liquitlated his this studio, which in normal times make 55 super-colossal epics every year, has cut this year's fatal to 13. not making pictures, and by ruch reonomies as

sals and a ban on filming scenes the Anished pletures, M.G.M. hope 10 save

which aren't used in

1. 1,500,000,

wholesale its-

Artist Hodnung

AVE TO SUPPORT 50 WIFES & 277 CHILDRENS

hopes they pan take

a joke..

Hoffnung

UNFAIR

SUPER SWIMMING POO FOR HIRE

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

Potatoes

Put On Pounds

By John Rainey

If you want to put on weight, cat mashed potatoes-"ent ints of 'em."

I'retty Jacqueline Jean Ben-- son, 12, of Chicago, saya that's her secret and she has doubled and redoubled her weight mord times than anyone else in the world.

.

Jacqueline weighed only 12 born ounces when she was three months prematurely on January 14, 1936. She was the smallest baby ever to survive. according to the records of the American Medical Society.

On her twelfth birthday, sho re- pounds on the Bathroom gistered

more than 105 times

her original weight.

HARLIE SUET met the

difficulty, in the approved That's bureauèratic fashion. with forin S.N. 20.4.b. 290/ n N/ 336.926489.W.L. ^ 636/94/1.214, The Persians filled it in thus:

1. Have you mute any previous return of uncontrolled waste pro- ducts under section 631 of Jorm

No Offence THEY hope to save another million

and a half by (1) giving up carth-N.S.63182. One blank we desire quake, scenes, luxurious banquets, for secsow, ho yes tettel nil

such costly flosa, (2) by using custunes and gets more thun Gnce, and (3) by makin stars and directors to the same work in three-quarters of the time.

Quite stretchonly there J greal

between the producers and the eitems they control--bus set the multi-millionaire bigwhts panicking Their frantic eronomics are Inst ghost 31 turning Holly your inta

town.

next

2. Was your previous application for permit to return the gross waste products countersigned by a fent officer

s duaestion ene.

Some answer to

3. Dave you a trence from the

.

If she had increased her weight from a more usual roportionately start of seven pounds, she now would weigh 735 pounds.

Used To Be Little

"I know I used to be real little." she said. "But now I'm almost as big as the very biggest girl my nge to our rehnol.

of "And I'm bigger than a lot them."

Jacqueline's mother, Mrs Lester It. brown-eyed Benson, sald the little girl really likes those polatoes."

"She's come a long way from the We say eyedropper of milk she used to get in Send us the hospital," Mrs Denson said,

They kept her in an incubator for Tour and

balf months and the noven pounds when they weighed inally brought her home."

Jacqueline has a brother, Lexter,

eight, who weighed Tr.. ned normal six and a half pounds birth.

be la-

A this, plus a Hollywood alivorce divorce the Goverment is seeking consideration in The few new | Board of Disposals?

films for the sensibilities of the roW

adrener. Plonk sir, you say board. all-important American

the new version of "The Three Plak of disposals if such Musketeers." for instance, there will ridge of Government.

FIL

4. What not be any Cardinal Richelieu.

percentage of waste reason is that the Holly THE

will became a Government official,"

covered by your stirptus waste per- "right

like wood goldmines are running

nol Catholles

mit,

of personnel? . . per tinit The vast stúdios écho from their beeatedinnt as Amid Amerien's ́mptiness.

villain. At this mat only seeing

One plank we desire for seesaw, bo fast. 41121 xreateal boom, America's third

Hollywood, nevertheless, refuses

5. State nature of woste pro- largest industry-Hollywood-- that is the lowest total in 14 years, to believe once and for all thut "thes, for personnel use,

One studie. R.K.O., isn't making tax situation" will not improve.

durts.

One plank for seesaw The most popular found enormous consolation in a single picture.

that

London that an obscure topical wisecrack is

Howard report from

6. State

of application. purpose Seesaw, O Minister. Hughes, the milliounire fler, who is Haywards Heath elnema has closed trying to buy the studio "will never down for lack of American films, Hollywood solemnly-1 be able to get it off the ground."

the won't be long now." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,

But says someone cynically--and kingpin of the studios, Is making

pictureA~~~ A comedy there may be more truth in this- Carson and Walter Hollywood is the Shipping Beauty. with Greer

has become a depressed in- dustry,

Main but not the only cause is what is called in polite circles of "the tax situation." That.

the loss of the course, means British market which in 1946 brought Hollywood £17,000,000,

F

pictures are being made,

only two

'Paper doyleys

Says

under the buns at tea'

14 girls make the ship just like home

OURTEEN merebant sailor girls skipped nimbly down. the gangway of the 6300ion wheat carrying motor ship La Cordillera on to the King George Dork at Hall a fortnight ago and dispersed to their homes all over Britain on a few days leave.

They had just completed five-menthe voyage which bad talom um via Montreal to Sydney, Australia, and back by way of the Cape. That ngh no monkeys or parrate fro foreign parts. But every part hud nylons in her ditty box Now they are being given time to kiss their families good-bye before sailing again, this time to Brazil, where their ship will pick up a cargo of rice for the Far East.

from EVELYN IRONS

In the galley, bord on ite with shining sicel sinks and on the three electric cookers. other with

Betty Fitch, of seven-oals, (Kent).

ex-Wrens petty

please.

Wrong form, actually

a

Ca

nt

Jacqueline, a sixth grade school- girl sakl she would like to be a nurse when she grows up. She also would like to live, on the Benson's 240-acre farm near Streator, Illinois.

"We go out

every there almost weekend and in the summer time," ale sais collect the eggs, and I

ON reading all this bilge, C. Suet can milk a cow, too.. Not very good

Esq., laid his fore-finger along though.

"Daddy's a printer and he goes to his upper lip and breathed noisily down his nose. At that moment the farm on weekends. Maybe Miss Clutter came slinking in, could be a nurse and do that too." Bicked her cigarette ash into Suct's glass of water, and said, in a shrill draw?. "Sorry and all that, you've given Mr Arnltage's forms about his stinking old factory to And out these people, actually." she walked with the form. For

"How

want of something to say, Suet said, "That was Miss Cluffer." greatly we care, ho yest" said Ashura sarcastically.

Take it quietly the rtup's baker.

ilce, Baker: "1 bake 20th. of our RE horse-bubbles visible?

A was the dog-fancier who for 62 pasrentes

to make leaves

Who

Proud Of Her Health

Jacqueline is proud of her health. "I don't get slek much," she brag- ed. "Hardly nail. And I helped take care of my brother when he

the measels and the mumps." She giggled and added. "after he taught them frian me."

Katherine Gallagher, the St Anne's Hospital nurse who coured for Jae- queline during her fight for survival her 12 years ago, still remembers birthday,

"She sent me a nice new purse led his year." Jacqueline said. "I'

and crew every day-and It's white, the freightage clerk's hat with bluing to carry it with the new cont

men? Was Mrs. Nofaneu

the with the hood that mama and daddy Romanian aboard at the time?

gave me."

Boer, too."

Cock

Cooking for 50 sailors and a

there special boot chalk for Jacqueline curled her hair for the Jozen pursevgers is easy for Chlefį

Finchley, Auctioneers? These are some of the big family party. It will be a Dorothy Reed, of who got the meals for four and questions which will not be answer-erial dinner with fer cream cake

Things mist not be and lots of marhed 'potatoes.—United

Press.

Cams that number in the Wrens, today. where he was a petty officer conk,ruslied. Men, she rage, don't eft-much more. than girls at ea, but they ent plents. Typical menu she quoted was the

the ship i them. They are clean, they crew's evening meal as

croutes, steak and work hard, they keep my cabin ducked-diver spotless like the woman's onions with potatoes and fresh fruit, touch about the ship. flowers on the table it every port."

with

favourlic

WHO HAS

HAS CLEANED UP THE SILVER?

No claim was made that the women Proude art 1 met on board was cooks teed less inish ingredient:

By JOHN DEANE POTTER But they dict a wall. fair girl trom Bexleyheath than men sen cook db.

uniform Say modestly that they are less waste-

LONDON. they cannot give customers change." wearing sparkling white

can be used is

Selfridge's as a specimen overalls, Alma Nickalis, who boasted; ful. Nothing that

HE big banks began at the To this thrown overboard now,

THE "I'm the skipper's tiger?"

end of January a drive to shortage before Christmas, but It

big store-reply: "There was Asked for the men's recipe, Dorothy Reed reeled off the round up the £1,000,000 in silver seems to us to be all right now. We Ingredients of a plum duff for 50 which has vanished from cir- are not boarding silver, but if the bank didn't give us our usual allot- live pounds white flour, two pounds

ment we should be in the soup."

* ✩ * OINS which have disappeared are. mostly dated between 1920 and (cupro-nlekol coins contain no silver.

An ex-City clerk herself, she ex- plained that her job was to wait at the cuplain's table.

trom

*

fat, three pounds sugar, tour pounds culation. mixed fruit, baking powder and salt

The Bank of England a year ago at daeretion-and eight to 10 fresh held 21,420,983 worth of silver in its vaults. On January 20 there eggs.

£261,510. Most of the

a lough

florins.

Said one bank manager: "We have

tcn

GO

Aged 17 to 43, all ex-Wrens, except the four youngest, these 14 are the spearhead of an ex- periment which

may bring women into the Merchant Navy big way not only as i # stewardesses to tend women passengers, but

as general

I took a quick poll on the worner Wis only stewards, cooks, galley girls Chief Steward Mrs. Margaretta from the crew clustered round the missing money is in half-crowns and 1046. The

Hermion, former galley port-hole. Only objection and cabin girls in passenger- Godefroy

semian, who

A City merchant banker explain- carrying cargo vessels. (I have Wren entering officer at a Fleet Air came from

Arm station, pre-war hotel owner at complained that it took four women been asked to send all our surplus ed: "Silver can be bought for 4s. 6d. not forgotten that a woman, Folkestone, and now buyer of the to de-two or three men's jobs in the silver back to head office."

an ounce today. The post-1920 coins Another reported: "We have had have only 50 percent silver in them, Miss Victorin Drummond, is an ship's stores and ufllcer in charge galley, although he admitted the jub

Cordillern's female crew, was well done. A handful said the little reserve silver for weeks so un- in melted down it would cost engineer-officer of the Merchant of La

made no difference. But less people want it for a special pur- shillings for an ounce of silver." showed me her cabla on the boat women

pose we refuse to give them more The silver shortage-already Navy).

menls were deck with its pink satin quilt and most agreed that the

than five pounds worth." better

being neute that deposits of it are fat its private shower,

cooked, and certainly

The better served than they had

more. reclaimed from old flims-makes it ever

sliver at rates The reel of the women share experienced before in this new ship acute since Christmas.

easy to dispose of above market price. cabins for two, also, on the bout with her wonen "domestles," Wireless This was La Cordillera's deck, also excellently furnished. Officer Hargreaven, from New Brigh- second voyage with women in

ton,, added: "And they iron our shirts But, the chief steward warned, for us loo"

THE Bank of England admit it's news flashes

A man in the Midlands recently the crew, and London shipowner these

very, awkward." Their spokes- drew £1,000 in silver from his bank are not Just luxury cruises ·But the sris got their biggest man hopes that the Treasury state and took it away in sulicases. 11. G. Mann, who started the for which the gris. get paid Tog hand from the Trinity House pilotment the other day announcing no Some Lancashire firms will pay out ideu in two of his vessels is now seeing the world. At sen they work Cautain F. Bousfield, a small, hard-sudden change in the note issue will hundreds of pounds of wages today

10. hours a day, seven days a week. bitten Middlesbrough man who, untilstop people salting away sliver coins. i postal orders. satisfied that it works.

and I began to believe it when 1 in-

.Several big⋅ om- he cane aboard at Dover, had never "We are very low indeed," he says. players are following the lead of the spected the butcher's shop with its met anything. like this In all his "The mint can't produce coins at a Civil Service and paying wages to mighty Joints cut by a girl butcher forty years at son. "I think these forfer rate. and the ship-stumpe store with its girls are strand," he declared, "What; crubbed wood racks and specklessly heals me la getting paper töyleys polished decks.

under the buns at few."

In his, trim cabin as the shin docked. Cantain M. Frame, of South Shields, the ship's master, told me: "I'm pleased with

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Making Rapid Strides Buckwards

HELLO, NANCY--

A

HOW DO YA LIKE.

MY PLAYIN' ?

A

感

-ERNIC BUSHMILER

ALL I CAN SAY IS- YOU SOUND WORSE

EVERY DAY--

shortage has become

stores

Other reports added these sliver

the gearest ten-shilling note...... "The big

have made worse. They are holding more sil- FOOTNOTE: The weight of the ver. in their ts than usual in case missing silver is 117 tons.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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